By: Zbysh Holasa
There is a noticeably increased flow of people using Tourist
and Caravan Parks industries, who are in the so called Baby
Boomer age. Many of them like to call themselves Gray Nomads. I'm
also in that age bracket, but I don't overly love to be called a
Gray Nomad, even if I am one as a matter of fact.
I rather prefer
simple, Nomad, which I consider myself to be, for my love of travel
and nature, but gray, bold or some other age underscoring adjectives
I don't particularly favor. Especially that there are traveling
together many people who prefere this style of life, but are neither
grey, nor bold nor even aged, having been bright beautiful young and
middle aged people, sometime even with their children sharing this
lifestyle.
The industry however noticed the suddenly increased number of these type of traveling people and the
greediest of them very soon rose all their rates real badly, what pushed out of reach of even basic affordability
most of these pensioners, especially those in the lower pension rate
bracket, who really are a majority. Now the very same unscrupulous operators complain of Gray Nomads, because they learned how to avoid the greediest of them like a disease, and camp for free, sometimes in just quite short short distance from those grossly overpriced,
grossly inadequate to their needs and preferences , so called "Caravan
Parks" with their arrogant, pompous pseudo-business operators.
I say here “so called” as they are not at all caravan parks any
more for all the meaning and purposes the caravan park is supposed to
serve. They shouldn't be classified and called Caravan Parks as they are the Caravan Parks no more at all. They are operating completely outside of the caravan park principles.These greedy operators just use such name, but they transformed their
caravan parking places into Cabins. Doing so, with just cabins available,
but none or just very few caravan parking places and proper for passing by caravans amenities they started directly competing with motels and hotels, providing not nearly similar to them quality and value of service, but charging often even higher rates then a hotel or motel. Some of them - the most vocal ones - started actually charging
rates that could put in shame even some 4 or 5 star hotels, but with nothing
to offer in exchange for this brazenly extorted money, except their greed, and arrogant screaming for more control over our hard earned money.
And they cry, rape, they do not want our services!
Force them to come to us! Force them to pay us no matter what! We want their money, and they don't want to come to us!!!
Yes... They are really poor buggers, aren't they? All these greedy, crooked, arrogant, unscrupulous operators. They have such a hard life, don't they? May be we ought to let them rip us off saing nothing, as they wish it to be so?, May be we should let them extort from us our money and say nothing? Not even a word!... May be we ought to lest us get intimidated? That certainly would be a big help to them, wouldn't it be? But, well, some people - like me amongst them - just can't agree with any of that for some reasons to them incomprehensible. May be that strange or so, but I think it isn't right at all...
For the first thing of all. Armed with knowing there are there some greedy
mongrels waiting to rip me and other people off, I think how to secure myself against
it. So I buy a caravan, equip it - often with a lot of
expense of money and labor - with amenities I need so that I don't have
to use the incredible overpriced, inflated “services”, like a power for
example, etc. Why should I, if I got my own amenities, including solar or dual battery system, or both of them combined, an/or generator or wind power, etc?! All I need is only the place to
park my rig, whatever it would be at the given moment, in reasonably peaceful and quiet place and enjoy the nature and life. But now, look what they do?!
They want to make, of all Australia even if given a chance, one gigantic Big Brother controlled so called "National Park". All this controlled by a few with highest greed and power-lust, who are ready to do all in their power to hang on to their power by all means and possibilities. I'm afraid, in the future perspective all this can start looking rather more like one big Concentration Camp, equipped all
around with all possible fences, legal control barriers,
and charging for all these fees higher even than a luxury hotel rates... And who does
it now?
Guessed?
Yes! Our own, elected by us, government. And all these under the disguise of
caring. And they do it openly and with no shred of shame, and in
direct competition with the greediest, most unscrupulous operators
over there, instead of keeping them in check and bring them to the
account of their shameful unscrupulous greed..
Where do we know this from already?! It seems so familiar, doesn't
it?
But... Saying all this, I have to say that I don't mean at all that all Caravan Parks are the same.
Not all are rip offs and greedy operators. In my traveling all over Australia I found many nice quiet places with their very kind, in every way very helpful operators, and with very reasonable rates that everyone would find just fine, with great amenities often for free or offered for reasonable fees in some other places. Those are the people and places worth to mention and I will mention them here often as the help to the fellow traveler, so that one can have their the trip memorable with great stay time and unforgivable experiences. Now I'll say a few words of one of such Good Guys...
One of them is a Lorn Station at Lightning Ridge in NSW.
The Lorn Caravan Park situated at the Lorn Station is situated some 5 km outside the Lightning Ridge in a sort of the valley between ridges. When getting to the town from the highway, you hit the town center, then turn right onto the Opal Street and continue that way straight up, till the sealed road finishes at the Kangaroo Hill with a big Tram on the left. Continue then on that dirt road, till you see the big sign written red on white board informing on the Lorn Caravan Park turn to the right, then continue for 2 km more km till you reach the station.
Sometime there is nobody, as people go around their business and all set-up looks very informal and friendly. Rustic in style, Lorn Caravan Park provides all amenities needed and rates are great, especially for the Gray Nomad type of traveler, or any other rather low budget travelers. There is office building on the left, often closed, but there is a trust box left outside with envelopes to write in your info and put the money into. There are also phone numbers to call to if needed further assistance. There is also always someone camping there, who is orientated in the surroundings, who'll be willing to assist if needed. An owner of this place, Damian, is a very nice and helpful guy who will go out of his way to assist you there. At present it is very likely that a vary friendly Brazilian lady Maria, taking care of the amenities there will give you a short tour of the place and help you with all info needed. there are many interesting things going on all around the town, as Lightning Ridge is an opal mining town, and it happens to be the most valuable opal in the world, the Black Opal. There are also few cabins, if someone wish to get them, but there is a lot of room for even huge rigs, and other Mansions of the Road, but plenty of room for plain tent. If you prefere a bush camping, you are free to go bush around. You can literately experience here the rustic, but wonderful country lifestyle for real. There is great kitchen with everything you need to cook, with working gas stove included in the price. Toalet has two showers with hot and cold water. And I have to mention this too, the hot water here is really hot, not tepid like in many other places with much higher rates, there are two washing machines coin operated doing their job great for 3.00 dollars a wash. The water is from the Station's own water bore, great to drink, and with some great mineral content testing great too. There is also, slightly out of the town a Hot Water Bore. It has the mineral content as all water in Lightning Ridge but with addition of also some sulphates, what make is to be of great balneological (healing water aplications) use. It has healing qualities, and many older people experienced the goodness of the Lightning Ridge's hot water with sulphates, that eases arthritic and rheumatic conditions, amongst many other. Miners of Lightning Ridge use its shower after their work every day, easing their sour muscles and enjoying it every day. And it is for free!...
Here a few words about rates at the Lorn Caravan Park:
Unpowered sites are A$10.00/night or if stay for longer time around A$ 8.00/night.
Powered sites are A$25.00/night or if stay longer time, around A$ 20.00/night.
Cabins are more expensive, at the rate of A$50.00/night, with possibly lower rates if stay over 7 days.
If you'd decide to stay for some months, or even years like many people do here, there are also fully equipped bush houses to rent for longer term, for A$150/week.
And, here is a very useful to all lecture, especially for the young, but also very useful for the not so young any more, who have doubts if it is worth to fight for ones rights and freedom. See in the book how and where our freedom and rights will end if we are too complacent with what politicians do in our own name. This is what already happened in large extend under the Communist System, and this is what our world is heading to if we never react and believe that it will somehow get better just by itself... I strongly believe that to have the courage and the will to say loudly and clearly NO, is our duty towards our own and our children's future, including our rapidly deteriorating freedoms and rights already now.
I highly recommend to all the lecture of George Orwell,s book
titled “1984”, sometimes known also as the “Year 1984”
This book shall show you an incredibly penetrating inside of this man
into the future – our present time and forward – already in the
early 19 century. I highly recommend this lecture to everyone to read
and compare with what happens right now. It is a high time now.
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Monday, 28 October 2013
Lets Do It Together - Doom and Gloom be damned!
By: Zbysh Holasa
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine. --Morris West
The above citation says it just right, and this is what we are about at Universal Life League.
Many people forget in their everyday rush that life has to it a lot more than just worries and upset that we are offered by mass media. There are a lot of beautiful things in the life just waiting to be taken and enjoyed. One only has to notice and have a will to use them. Remember! Not everything enjoyable has to be bought, and expensively paid for, as the mercantile mentality of many people at the power, especially big industry, with their economical and political decision makers, would dearly love to have us to believe whenever only given a chance.
We actually do have choices, we just need to exercise them, or we need to learn how to chose if we do not know how to keep our freedom, rights as individual, physical health and our mental and spiritual faculties in good order.
As the first thing we ought to know this: Doom and Gloom always was, and still, one of the favoured, powerful methods of scaring people out of their wits, to keep them in check all over the world, as long the human history can remember it. You can find many vivid examples of that in the past and present.
The fear, false information, misinformation, outright lie and false promise, are favored, and effective, weapons of the unscrupulous political and economic powers against the poor, underprivileged, undereducated and underdeveloped worldwide. They do not dare to touch, though, the rich and powerful, as they most often represent their own interests, not these of the people who elected them to their positions in an “election” farce and mockery of the so called democratic system.
This is from where come the present politicized Green Movement with its Bog Brother political parties, the so called Ecological Movement, and so on, etc. They all seem to have roots in the hands of the Puppet Masters who created them for their own use to control population - unseen, but very effective even more so because of it.
But, what we can do about it and how!?
A lot actually!...
First of all, though, we shouldn't be giving a damn about anything what they say first, and above all.
Next. Let them cry and shout and talk and till they get hoarse and salivating, and then just simply just tell them. Up yours! And keep going about our own things in life.
This works, as they absolutely hate being not heard and ignored, but most of all they hate and fear to be ignored having been used to the atitudes of slave-like servitude in their own environment.
We need to remember above all, though, that sun shines free and bountiful for us all as it always did, and it does so even for them, the crooked ones, and it always will.
Birds sing as their always did, and water flows from the mountains to the sea as it always did, no matter what the crooks do or think. So why not go closer to the nature, say “bugger you all” to all the manipulators in the world and enjoy our own lives, untroubled about false presences, promises and outright lies by crooked manipulators of all kinds: mass media, crooked politicians, religious zealots, and other kindred crooks, manipulators and similar beings of shadowy manipulation.
If by any chance some of us “waited for the storm” let us be known: either it did already come unnoticed and we could do do anything about it, or it won't ever came at all, or it is just outright lie...
Which is the truth? Who knows! So why bother? Let it all go and rather check if it is really the storm they keep roaring out their throats hoarse about, or rather a breeze, magnified out of proportion even thousandfold by these who have interest in the Doom and Gloom hysteria.
Universal Life League is about bringing the relieve where and when we can, helping our neighbour in need, mainly sharing usefull information to make our lives easier. As we are often based on the virtual environment of Internet, for most our contacts, it is an Internet that brings us all together and related technologies. We wish to bring the ULL community closer together by mutual sharing of knowledge, achievements, tips, tricks and Know How, to make our lives easier.
If you feel like you have something that you would like to share with us, send us message to the Admin's email address: webmaster@esperlando.zzn.com or share your thoughts directly. Tell us what you think by leaving your comments. And finally, do enjoy your own life and sunshine! Stop worrying about things you can not have influence on. Do not worry about some imagined storms, when the beauty and goodness of the nature itself is just around you. Live your own Life, not imagined troubles of those who wish to use you for their own egoistic profits, agendas and ambitions.
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine. --Morris West
The above citation says it just right, and this is what we are about at Universal Life League.
Damn the Doom and Gloom - Life is Beautiful and Generous!
Many people forget in their everyday rush that life has to it a lot more than just worries and upset that we are offered by mass media. There are a lot of beautiful things in the life just waiting to be taken and enjoyed. One only has to notice and have a will to use them. Remember! Not everything enjoyable has to be bought, and expensively paid for, as the mercantile mentality of many people at the power, especially big industry, with their economical and political decision makers, would dearly love to have us to believe whenever only given a chance.
We actually do have choices, we just need to exercise them, or we need to learn how to chose if we do not know how to keep our freedom, rights as individual, physical health and our mental and spiritual faculties in good order.
As the first thing we ought to know this: Doom and Gloom always was, and still, one of the favoured, powerful methods of scaring people out of their wits, to keep them in check all over the world, as long the human history can remember it. You can find many vivid examples of that in the past and present.
The fear, false information, misinformation, outright lie and false promise, are favored, and effective, weapons of the unscrupulous political and economic powers against the poor, underprivileged, undereducated and underdeveloped worldwide. They do not dare to touch, though, the rich and powerful, as they most often represent their own interests, not these of the people who elected them to their positions in an “election” farce and mockery of the so called democratic system.
This is from where come the present politicized Green Movement with its Bog Brother political parties, the so called Ecological Movement, and so on, etc. They all seem to have roots in the hands of the Puppet Masters who created them for their own use to control population - unseen, but very effective even more so because of it.
But, what we can do about it and how!?
A lot actually!...
First of all, though, we shouldn't be giving a damn about anything what they say first, and above all.
Next. Let them cry and shout and talk and till they get hoarse and salivating, and then just simply just tell them. Up yours! And keep going about our own things in life.
This works, as they absolutely hate being not heard and ignored, but most of all they hate and fear to be ignored having been used to the atitudes of slave-like servitude in their own environment.
We need to remember above all, though, that sun shines free and bountiful for us all as it always did, and it does so even for them, the crooked ones, and it always will.
Birds sing as their always did, and water flows from the mountains to the sea as it always did, no matter what the crooks do or think. So why not go closer to the nature, say “bugger you all” to all the manipulators in the world and enjoy our own lives, untroubled about false presences, promises and outright lies by crooked manipulators of all kinds: mass media, crooked politicians, religious zealots, and other kindred crooks, manipulators and similar beings of shadowy manipulation.
If by any chance some of us “waited for the storm” let us be known: either it did already come unnoticed and we could do do anything about it, or it won't ever came at all, or it is just outright lie...
Which is the truth? Who knows! So why bother? Let it all go and rather check if it is really the storm they keep roaring out their throats hoarse about, or rather a breeze, magnified out of proportion even thousandfold by these who have interest in the Doom and Gloom hysteria.
Universal Life League is about bringing the relieve where and when we can, helping our neighbour in need, mainly sharing usefull information to make our lives easier. As we are often based on the virtual environment of Internet, for most our contacts, it is an Internet that brings us all together and related technologies. We wish to bring the ULL community closer together by mutual sharing of knowledge, achievements, tips, tricks and Know How, to make our lives easier.
If you feel like you have something that you would like to share with us, send us message to the Admin's email address: webmaster@esperlando.zzn.com or share your thoughts directly. Tell us what you think by leaving your comments. And finally, do enjoy your own life and sunshine! Stop worrying about things you can not have influence on. Do not worry about some imagined storms, when the beauty and goodness of the nature itself is just around you. Live your own Life, not imagined troubles of those who wish to use you for their own egoistic profits, agendas and ambitions.
Friday, 28 March 2008
Alternative in Renewables and Politics
Already well serving humankind for more than 120 years - since July 1887 - International Language - Esperanto becomes more and more trendy in Europe and worldwide. Many country-members of, European Union, use English for international communications amongst themselves. However, increasingly, more and more voices of EU Parlamentarians are rising up to take up Esperanto as an option for all those who are not happy with their feeling of subjugation of their cultures and languages; subdued, second rated, opressed by the dominance of one or the other of the members of this artificial - as was in its begenings Esperanto itself - conglomeration of independent countries in the European Continent.
More and more people of those countries feel already thretened and extremely uneasy... I myself, having been a Pole, simple con't trust the "nightingale songs of a wolf ready to jump at the first given opportunity", that is threatening again and again. Persecution of my native Poland's culture customs and language is not in the least forgotten, and never shall be, as this is what happened in the still hurting to Polish people, living memory of past experiences of four dis-partitions of Poland and fierce persecutions of Polish people just short time ago. The never forgettable fierce and merciless Polish language, customs and culture persecutions.
At present, in EU, there are also numerous member-countries small and medium in size who are already highly threatened, by aggressive political precedence, dominance and economic and cultural domination, hegemonism and exploitation by foreign country, their culture, laws and politics, even a languages and in addition even totally alien religion, having been tried to be forcefully imposed on them totally against their will
That this aren't some silly, unfounded, unreasonable fears, now anyone can see clearly by observing comparing and analysing what happened in Europe before and what happens right now.
There are already so many examples of hegemony and fight for total control at EU by Germany, that one would have to be blind not to see that clearly without having it spelled out, and these outrageousness happens in particular in relation towards Slavic countries and their people, and there are already present in Europe - and all the time growing - numerous examples of all those unfortunate, and clearly totalitarian in character processes.
All this is outright criminal in the eyes of any decent person, like for example an indisputably illegal in the eyes of an international law, savage dis-partitioning and vivisection of Serbia, attempts of hegemony with the "divide and rule" politics, or the latest, terrible internal war in Ukraine, caused by nothing else but greed of money and power by the alien to this Slavic country powers.
Worst of all is this is, that most of it came, and comes now, direct from UN, and in the name of peace, apparently not to make wars. But they do make war, not peace...
In the light of all of these, the true neutrality of Esperanto as an International Language, seems to be the most ideal solution for international communication, as it is neutral culturally and politically.
Universal Life League
is a three lingual site -also in Esperanto - doing some solid work on developing Info-Bank for funs of Mutual Help in the fields of Alternative Energies, Sustainability and other related fields of interests in Esperanto. The site is three lingual: English, Polish and Esperanto.
Beside topics on alternative energy sources and resources, and their utilization in these languages, you'll find materials on religion, philosophy, politics, creeds, cultures, besides plans, designs, receipts, etc. You can find there some plans one can already use to construct described there projects. I don't say what it is. Best if just go there and see for yourself.
Antill not long time ago. because of the mountain of work with translating, and all the research, I published most projects mainly in Esperanto, as they are already quite easily available to keenly interested researcher in both, English and Polish. Original links to researched sites I always present in every translated to Esperanto post and article, therefore, all interested can follow links to see the original. quite probably already known to some proportion of those interested in these topics.
Advantage of high level of easiness proven by practice, and the the trial of time over 120 years of practical use worldwide, Esperanto's learning and teaching, as the fully phonetic International Language brings to mind the question: Why waste billions upon billions of dollars (or Euros) for incredibly time consuming studies of extremely complex foreign languages like English, German, French, Spanish, Russian or other possibly even more difficult, if there is already in existence an ideal: easy, practical, cheap, neutral solution?
Esperanto belongs to everyone equally and it is just at the hand's reach. Esperanto belongs to the world, equally to everyone in the world, not to any separate nation or culture, right from the time of its birth. It isn't a threat to anyone but benefits everyone.
Wish to get to know more? Visit http://www.wiedy.net Alternatively, check how Esperanto looks and how easy it is to learn even as a self learner go to: http://www.cursodeesperanto.com.br/. It takes just few minutes to download it. - It is genuinely free and with no obligations.
You'll find there downloadable and usable for free, very easy to use software available already in some 28 languages to learn this language as a self learner, without tutor if you feel like it... No pressure, none schedules, no obligations, you learn it as you please... You have, also option to ask for the tutor at that site. Alternatively, if you like The Practice and the Universal Life League - both complementing each other - write me a note for the tutoring help in Esperanto for free. If you'll also have the Skype, I can arrange for you life instruction sessions by these media as well. I can help for speakers of both: English and Polish...
If more intense help would be needed I charge just symbolic fee - but rather in form of accepting as payment help in redacting of The Practice or the Universal Life League to help keeping them both on-line. For all further information write to me putting words "The Practice" in subject to my address: esperioster@gmail.com/
More and more people of those countries feel already thretened and extremely uneasy... I myself, having been a Pole, simple con't trust the "nightingale songs of a wolf ready to jump at the first given opportunity", that is threatening again and again. Persecution of my native Poland's culture customs and language is not in the least forgotten, and never shall be, as this is what happened in the still hurting to Polish people, living memory of past experiences of four dis-partitions of Poland and fierce persecutions of Polish people just short time ago. The never forgettable fierce and merciless Polish language, customs and culture persecutions.
At present, in EU, there are also numerous member-countries small and medium in size who are already highly threatened, by aggressive political precedence, dominance and economic and cultural domination, hegemonism and exploitation by foreign country, their culture, laws and politics, even a languages and in addition even totally alien religion, having been tried to be forcefully imposed on them totally against their will
That this aren't some silly, unfounded, unreasonable fears, now anyone can see clearly by observing comparing and analysing what happened in Europe before and what happens right now.
There are already so many examples of hegemony and fight for total control at EU by Germany, that one would have to be blind not to see that clearly without having it spelled out, and these outrageousness happens in particular in relation towards Slavic countries and their people, and there are already present in Europe - and all the time growing - numerous examples of all those unfortunate, and clearly totalitarian in character processes.
All this is outright criminal in the eyes of any decent person, like for example an indisputably illegal in the eyes of an international law, savage dis-partitioning and vivisection of Serbia, attempts of hegemony with the "divide and rule" politics, or the latest, terrible internal war in Ukraine, caused by nothing else but greed of money and power by the alien to this Slavic country powers.
Worst of all is this is, that most of it came, and comes now, direct from UN, and in the name of peace, apparently not to make wars. But they do make war, not peace...
In the light of all of these, the true neutrality of Esperanto as an International Language, seems to be the most ideal solution for international communication, as it is neutral culturally and politically.
Universal Life League
is a three lingual site -also in Esperanto - doing some solid work on developing Info-Bank for funs of Mutual Help in the fields of Alternative Energies, Sustainability and other related fields of interests in Esperanto. The site is three lingual: English, Polish and Esperanto.
Beside topics on alternative energy sources and resources, and their utilization in these languages, you'll find materials on religion, philosophy, politics, creeds, cultures, besides plans, designs, receipts, etc. You can find there some plans one can already use to construct described there projects. I don't say what it is. Best if just go there and see for yourself.
Antill not long time ago. because of the mountain of work with translating, and all the research, I published most projects mainly in Esperanto, as they are already quite easily available to keenly interested researcher in both, English and Polish. Original links to researched sites I always present in every translated to Esperanto post and article, therefore, all interested can follow links to see the original. quite probably already known to some proportion of those interested in these topics.
Advantage of high level of easiness proven by practice, and the the trial of time over 120 years of practical use worldwide, Esperanto's learning and teaching, as the fully phonetic International Language brings to mind the question: Why waste billions upon billions of dollars (or Euros) for incredibly time consuming studies of extremely complex foreign languages like English, German, French, Spanish, Russian or other possibly even more difficult, if there is already in existence an ideal: easy, practical, cheap, neutral solution?
Esperanto belongs to everyone equally and it is just at the hand's reach. Esperanto belongs to the world, equally to everyone in the world, not to any separate nation or culture, right from the time of its birth. It isn't a threat to anyone but benefits everyone.
Wish to get to know more? Visit http://www.wiedy.net Alternatively, check how Esperanto looks and how easy it is to learn even as a self learner go to: http://www.cursodeesperanto.com.br/. It takes just few minutes to download it. - It is genuinely free and with no obligations.
You'll find there downloadable and usable for free, very easy to use software available already in some 28 languages to learn this language as a self learner, without tutor if you feel like it... No pressure, none schedules, no obligations, you learn it as you please... You have, also option to ask for the tutor at that site. Alternatively, if you like The Practice and the Universal Life League - both complementing each other - write me a note for the tutoring help in Esperanto for free. If you'll also have the Skype, I can arrange for you life instruction sessions by these media as well. I can help for speakers of both: English and Polish...
If more intense help would be needed I charge just symbolic fee - but rather in form of accepting as payment help in redacting of The Practice or the Universal Life League to help keeping them both on-line. For all further information write to me putting words "The Practice" in subject to my address: esperioster@gmail.com/
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