This story has been around for quite a while now but it hasn’t lost its appeal. The guy who made this just wanted to be nice but was told to stop or take out a liability insurance of $25 million (AUD) – can you believe it, that much money to be nice? See what happens, just click the arrow…

The Free Hugs Campaign has reached out to many corners of the globe but human nature tends to make the majority of us understandably withdrawn and wary…

Please enjoy (oh, and set your speakers to a suitable level for your environment – preferably REALLY LOUD!).

And, whether you know us or not, we believe that people come first – click here for more about the Free Hugs Campaign.

What Was I Looking For? If you were wilfing then you may or may not be disappointed to end up here? From one Wilf to another (that’s from Wilfrid to a Wilfer!), you could find a lot worse places to spend a short period of your internet life…

So, what is wilfing? Apparently, it’s short for What Was I Looking For?, a common problem amongst those who set off on a specific task on the internet and find themselves distracted by anything other than their original intention. It’s been suggested in a survey that wilfing is commonplace and up to 2 working days a month are lost through aimless browsing!

So, What Was I Looking For?

As you didn’t know what you were looking for and, as your wilfing has brought you here, please don’t consider it aimless…

Take a read of ‘Where Angels Fear to Dream‘ and let me know if you find what you were looking for!

And if you don’t like that then…

While this may not be where you intended to be but it will certainly keep you occupied while you think what you shouldn’t be doing next!

As I was wilfing about St Ives
I found a man with seven wives
Each wife had seven sacks
Each sack had seven cats
Each cat had seven kits
Kits, cats, sacks, wives
I never worked out how many were going to St Ives…
…still got no idea what I was looking for…
…and, didn’t get a lot of work done either!

© Wilf 2007

There is a man called Wilfrid Downing
Who’d said the future wasn’t bright
He wrote a poem with all his thoughts in
To save the people from their plight

Wilf was right in his future thinking
A Credit Crunch it did arrive!
He holds no grudge with those who doubted
As his book foretold of eventual strife

At London stations you’ll find him standing
Early morning… sun, wind, rain or snow
As commuters pass, all tired and yawning
With a smile and a poem he brings a glow

This Christmas time please read what he’s saying
A story, short, filled with truth and delight
Of how we came to be greedy and selfish
And, what WE can do to put it right!

Read the Money Essay Here

By attacking capitalism one risks attacking too much at once. Whereas, by reforming the money system, we could eliminate 90% of the worst aspects of capitalism by passing one simple Act of Parliament.

No other aspect of capitalism is nearly as important as the money system over which the super-rich have gained almost total control and which they use to milk the economic system.

Bankers exercise an incredible degree of control over the media and they make sure that the money system is not understood or on the agenda for us to discuss. Thus the scale and iniquity of their power remains hidden.

How well hidden you demonstrated when I asked you, as I ask many, many people, if you knew where our money originates. Your answer was exactly the one that any honest person would give. The truth is almost unbelievable to every honest person. I did bet with myself that you would be more likely than most people, to know these facts.

The banks create 97% of UK money and 100% of US money out of thin air, as debts when individuals or companies or the government borrow money, simply by writing a note of that debt in their books. We then give them the right to charge interest! Compound interest indeed!!! If anyone else did that they would be open to criminal charges.

If the banks were forced to function as you and virtually every honest person assumes, most of the reforms that you and I dream of would be achieved.

Best wishes

Ronald Stamper

Read the Money Essay Here

40 years after the capture and summary execution of Che Guevara, his memory is being honoured in a series of commemorative ceremonies.

In Cuba, about 100,000 people are attending a ceremony at his mausoleum in Santa Clara. Other commemorations are being held in Bolivia and Venezuela, where the Argentine-born ‘hero’ was active.

It was in 1967 that Guevara had travelled to Bolivia to help lead an uprising, where he was tracked down by soldiers and killed.

Ernesto Che Guevara was a Latin American Marxist, who has become an iconic image. Critics suggest he was a brutal man who ordered executions of opponents and helped the movement of Cuba towards communism. Whatever the memory he will be long remembered and we simply say RIP.

Click here to view the embedded video.

At the site of a former execution ground in Butovo, hundreds of people attended the ceremony where the 12.5m (41 ft) high cross was installed. At least 20,000 people were killed there by Stalin’s secret police, the NKVD, with the first killings occuring exactly 70 years ago.
Events, organised by religious and human rights groups, marking the 70th anniversary of Stalin’s drive to purge opponents of his regime have been held throughout Russia.

The Siberian pine cross at Butovo, has been erected as a centrepiece to a new memorial to Stalin’s victims. Between 1937 and 1938 executions included about 1000 priests, monks and nuns but no-one knows precisely how many people were buried at the site.

It is not my position in the physical, or ethereal, world to decide on the truth of claims by Norway’s Princess Martha that she has psychic powers and can teach people to communicate with angels but I do believe it may be a little easier to read about them!

In the modern world of money-making and marketing, amazing claims about your business are a surefire way to grab headlines and bring attention to your newest business venture. Although psychic claims can equally as easily find you in a certain type of hospital.

Anyway the Princess is starting a new alternative therapy centre and states that students will learn how to “create miracles” in their lives and harness the powers of their angels, which she describes as “forces that surround us and who are a resource and help in all aspects of our lives”.

We obviously wish the Princess every success in her venture though at £6,000 ($4150; 3,000 euros) for a three year course, you may find it financially beneficial to claim your copy of ‘Where Angels Fear to Dream’. I wonder which of the two Marx would have preferred?

Please read the book and if it inspires you to share your thoughts, then please leave a comment below
or email me at wilf@wilfsangels.co.uk

Hopefully, it will provide you with an opportunity to promote your beliefs and share them for many years and to immortalise your work for future generations.

Also, I hope it will bring a smile to Gail to see your success and bring cheer for a long and (especially) healthy future together.

Happy Birthday for 2007 – the first of many more!

Regards & Best Wishes,

Steve