Nuts For Pistachio Nuts !!

 I was wandering through the sun - drenched  streets in Aegina Town on Aegina island today. Aegina is an island which is about 40 minutes by hovercraft from mainland Greece.and it is where I live.
 I try to take a walk everyday, mainly because I enjoy taking a walk !

I was on   my usual route to the  seaside, and after saying my  greetings to the locals I know, I was surprised to see a festival before my eyes.

There it was all over the  promenade- booth after booth  all selling the wonderful Pistachio nut in one form or another.

White - canvassed booths were all along the promenade, with tourists and locals    rambling along looking at the packets of nuts, the drinks made of these nuts, the jars with a paste made of these nuts, even decorations made of these wonderful little nuts.
Greek music was blaring out from loudspeakers, and most people looked cheerful,  the Greeks in particular,  to enjoy a short escape from their everyday worries of sky high bills and their everyday
punishing  regime of calculating what food they can afford to buy, because of the evil austerity measures inflicting on them to keep the E..U elite living a life of luxury.

I have noticed over the last few years, how every festival has got bigger since the crisis, as people are desperate to escape, just for a few hours, from the insanity they have to put up with every day as they run around paying the massive bills, the huge taxes they have to pay, with shrinking wages and pensions.Such a wicked game has been played upon an innocent people.

But here was sunshine and good cheer that people flocked to , to feel a lift in their spirits.

Here was the old Greece; the Greece of fun and laughter that the German politicians seem to hate.
Are they jealous of Greeks's joy of life ?
Well, they can't take that spirit away
They have robbed and looted these people, but they can't take away their spirit or soul.

And then I remembered . This is the Aegina Fistiki Festival that takes place every September on this island.

The 10th Aegina Fistiki Festival takes place on the 13th- 16th September this year.

This was all started in 2008 by a group of people who decided to promote and support the cultivation of the Pistachio nut which is grown in Aegina.

It's a big do. More than 20,000 visitors come.

This little nut is very versatile as it can be used in many ways.

It is used in sweet dishes and savoury ones.

Famous Chefs come here every year and show off their creations.

You can eat;

Pistachio Nougat

Spoon Sweets

Pastry with Syrup.

The celebration is packed with events.

The booths on the seafront sell homemade foods, and crafts and jewellery, lace and small gifts.

Dozens of events from piano and violin recitals around the temple of Aphaia take place.

The whole island including Perdika, Souvala and Agia Marina come alive.

Children love it too as there are creative activities every day such as drawing, crafts, dramatic workshops, cooking and baking lessons.

Pistachio is a fruit, but the outer shell of the fruit is removed and the yellow coloured seed kernel is eaten.

It is very good for your health.

The following information was taken from www. stylegraze.com

1. It helps in reducing bad cholesterol   and increases good cholesterol.

2.It Prevents Heart Disease.

3,It has vitamin A and E and has anti- inflammatory properties.

4.60% of the daily required phosphorous is in a cup  of these nuts.

5.It can prevent type 2 diabetes.

6.It has vitamin B.6. which carries oxygen to the blood.

7.Very good for the nervous system as it contains vitamin B6.

8 .It prevents blindness.

9.Good for the brain.

10.Good for the glands.

11.Good for the skin.

12.Anti- ageing.

13.Prevents cancer.

14. Stimulates hair growth.

Well, first thing tomorrow, I'm off to the seaside to buy a large packets of Pistachio nuts !

Mike Selley.

Top Quotes Of The Year

Here are the best two quotes I have heard this year.

By the way, the picture above was taken by me and is of a beach about five minutes away from where I
live.

I am very blessed to live in the beautiful island of Aegina in Greece. How I ended up living here I do not know, but, thank God, I did.

The beach above is a perfect place for chilling out, forgetting troubles and being in the now. I try and go there everyday to - well, just be.

Here are the two quotes.

1.' Don't worry about old age, it doesn't last long '

Anonymous.

And;

2. ' I spent hours the other day working out how many cigarettes I have smoked and how many alcoholic drinks I have had since I was young, and I came to the conclusion that I should have died three weeks, two hours and twenty seconds before I was born '.
Yellek Imess.

Well, there you are.

Mike Selley.

Death Of The Ego.

Death Of The Ego.

Death Of The Ego Structures.

The Final Madness Of The Collective Ego.

It's ending, the thousands and thousands of years of an Ego dominated world.
And we are the privileged ones who are here to witness this wonderful event that has never taken place before, as far as we know, in the history of our species.
Did we choose to be here now?
I will leave that for you to answer.

The danger is though if it doesn't die it will kill itself.

As Ekhart Tolle has said it is possible there will be two types of humankind in the future; one still with the ego, and the other without, or total destruction of us all.

The Ego has reached its Zenith and this is its last gasp; its final act before the new awareness takes over, if it does take over.

          End          Of          The          Age          Of          The          Ego.

The Ego structures we created are collapsing.
The banks, the global companies, the big pharma fraud are all about to crumble and fall.
The insane money system to keep humanity in slavery is on its last legs; a complete con that has fooled the world for thousands of years, and is now fooling the people like never before.

Everything has become extreme.
The news, the weather, the personalities.
It's ending slowly but surely for those who have eyes to see.
It served its purpose but is now no longer needed.
If it continues to dominate it will destroy everything.

          The          Ego         On        Steroids.

Look at our world leaders; symbols of the Ego at its height.
Trump, Erdogan, Netanyahu spring to mind, but others in the wings like the clown Boris Johnson, Pike(as David Icke calls him  - if you get the joke you must live in the U.K) who is,horror of horrors, the Defence Secretary in the U.K, Macron ( he sure fooled the French ) and all the other black hearted, black suited overpaid crooks in the E.U.

It is like the times we are now living in has turned into a tragic farce.
The U.K making up lies about the Russians saying they poisoned innocents in the U.K.
See my post James Bond and Porton Down which I hope will amuse you.
Israel calling everyone anti semitic  who supports Palestine- a country they are stealing  and the whole world thinks this is normal. And the media supports them.

                          I'm          A          Tree,          But          I         Think          I'm         A       Flower.

Boys saying they want to be girls and girls saying they want to be boys, and Governments saying, ',Sure why not ?' while ignoring the fact that a lot of   teens goes through a bi-sexual phase where they do fancy their own sex, but most grow out of it; it used to be part of growing up.

Boys were born boys and girls were born girls because (thank you nature ) that's what they are.
If anyone is unsure of what sex they are take a look below your belly button.
It really is that simple.
How more crazy will things become ?

      The          Collective          Ego- mind         Causes        Suffering.

Food banks in a highly developed country like the U.K.
Thousands of homeless in the U.K.
Crime at an all time high in the U.K. 100 people were murdered so far in London alone this year.
The Government has cut the number of police on the street. You think they care about us ?

Riots in the streets all over the world because of austerity. There have been thousands in Greece over the last few years, but, surprise, surprise, no one took any notice whatsoever, but got the police to teargas everyone.
And the awful, awful wars that go on and on and on.

               Inequality          On          A          Staggering        Scale.               



The rich getting richer and richer and the poor getting poorer and poorer.
What did the Bible say ?
Those who have shall have more, and those who lack shall lack more or words that mean the same.
Mathew 13.12. '  Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them '.
There is some magic law there for those interested in the law of attraction,
The Ego structures will implode. One such structure as below
Now here is a bold prediction; the E.U will collapse starting with Italy.

          From          Winter          To          Nuclear            Winter ?



People are now seeing for the first time that the world is run by maniacs who have no other interest but to look after themselves.
 So the season is changing.
I'd like to say from Winter to Spring, but I fear that a final chaos has to take place.
All this rubbish about Russia being so evil can only indicate that America wants to get rid of any competition and those two other superpowers-Russia and China -   are in their sights. Oh yes, and Iran
to keep Israel ( the real rulers of the U.S.A ) happy.
Would they care that millions would die ?
No, of course not.

              The          Snake          Bites          Its          Own          Tail.

Here we see the Ego mind at its strongest and it is mad.
If you examine the history of the world it is one long round of insane wars.
But now the collective Ego mind knowing it will die soon is desperate to cling on to power and has lost all reason.
This has echoes from Revelation12.12;
' But terror will come on the earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you in great anger, knowing that he has little time.'
What's the connection with the Ego ?
Ponder on that one.

Mike Selley.

The E. U . Vultures.

The E.U. Vultures.

Germany Took Greece Over.


                     The           E.U.          Vultures          Have          Left          The         Table.

On 21st August 2018 a Tweet from Yanis Varoufakis , former Finance Minister of Greece, said the following.

' .....yesterday Greece entered 32 years of permanent harsh austerity while the World media celebrated
the end of Greek austerity.'

How true. On 20th August 2018 the media cried out that Greece was no longer in bailout.

' The vultures have left the table because there's nothing left to eat.'

          The          Corpse          Of          Greece.

'The  I.M.F. and the Troika and the E. C. B. all fed on the corpse of Greece that they themselves killed'

Max  Keiser.

                         Bailout  -             A               Disaster              For           Greece.
'The bailout was a disaster for Greece'.
Baronons.

 On 20th August  2018 the bailout officially ended , although the loans are not expected to be paid for
ANOTHER HALF CENTURY.

' Many thousands of Greeks will die because of the German conquest.'
Max Keiser.


                Truth         Are          Lies          And          Lies          Are          Truth.
.

I really do wonder how these people ( are they human? ) sleep at night , knowing that they have caused
so much suffering.
So much anguish;
So much poverty;
So much sickness;
So many deaths.
And yet the media worldwide acts like Greece is on the road to recovery.
Just how insane has this world become?
Truth are lies and lies are truth.

Roll          Up.          Roll         Up        For          The         Great          Circus.



Today we have the Great Thesalonaki Circus.
The socialist Prime Minister arrives secretly a day earlier than broadcast to avoid demonstrations against him, with a motorcade like Trump's.
How times have changed.
I remember seeing him arrive in Aegina just before he got elected with no bodyguards at all.
Sold out- yes, I think that's the word.
What promises will be said today.
Oh, what promises of a wonderful world Greece will become.
Will the people believe this time ?
Will they remember ' No more austerity '. ?
Maybe yes, maybe no.
What's the alternative ?
New Democracy ?
Talk about between a rock and a hard place.

Mike Selley