Amazingly Rare Parrot Flower from Thailand

This is a flower from Thailand. It is also a protected species and is not allowed to be exported. This will be the only way we will be able to view this flower.

A FLOWER ALL THE WAY FROM THAILAND

THE VERY RARE PARROT FLOWER

Wow, Who but God could make this? 

World Biggest Teapot Monument World Record set by Meitan Tea Museum

At 73.8 meters in height, and featuring a floor area of over 5,000 square meters, this unique teapot museum of Meitan is the world’s biggest teapot-shaped building.

China’s Meitan County is known as the “hometown of Chinese green tea”, and the reputation of Meitan green tea has surpassed national borders, so there was really no better place to build a museum of tea culture. As fascinating as visiting this place may be to tea lovers, we’re more interested in its unique architecture. Shaped like a giant clay teapot, and accompanied by a smaller building shaped like a tea cup, the Meitan tea museum is one of the weirdest looking museums in the world. Seen from a distance, it looks like just a strange teapot sculpture, but as you approach it, the windows give away its true purpose.

With a maximum diameter of 24 meters, and a capacity of 28,360.23 cubic meters, the Meitan tea museum is by far the world’s largest teapot

1. A Vacation to the Moon

Space Adventures provides the opportunity for you to blast off in a Soyuz spacecraft for a circumlunar mission. During the seven-day space flight, which reaches top speeds of 17,000 mph, you'll see stars, the illuminated far side of the moon, and the Earth from 250,000 miles away. Candidates must train for four months alongside Russian cosmonauts at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. Two seats are available for $100 million each.

2. A $1 Million Vacation

A battle is brewing for bragging rights to the most expensive vacation. The Emirates Palace resort in Abu Dhabi announced a Million Dollar Travel package that "incarnates pure opulence."Along with first-class airfare and seven nights at a giant suite at the Palace, the package includes:

Chauffeur-driven Maybach at your disposal daily during your stay in Abu Dhabi.
Daily SPA treatments.
Day trip in private jet to Iran where you'll create your own Persian carpet with the country's most-exclusive and best-renowned hand-maker. Day trip to Bahrain in private jet for "a pearl deep sea experience," with the pearl hand-designed settings.

The Emirates is hoping the trip gets it a slot in the Guinness Book of World Records. But it turns out that Leading Hotels of the World has its own ode to opulence. Its $1 million Around the World in 80 Ways trip, which plays off the storied journey of Phileas Fogg, lets travelers recreate the 19th-century around-the-world fantasy experience with 21st-century comfort and flair.

3. A Vacation With Real Mermaids

At a west Florida intersection, where the 21st century runs headlong into 1947, is a roadside attraction that must be seen to be believed. There are no Disney cartoon characters or underwater mannequins, but living, breathing, bubble-blowing mermaids just an hour drive north of Tampa. Weeki Wachee Springs attracts tourists from around the world, and during its heyday attracted celebrities including Elvis Presley. But in recent times the park has fallen into disrepair and is faced with a few financial and political woes.

Weeki Wachee is a theater built into a natural spring-allowing the audience to walk into an underwater world without getting wet. With today's environmental laws, there will probably never be another place like it in the U.S. Clad in their iridescent Lycra tails, the mermaids perform choreographed routines and stories and are sometimes joined by fish, turtles, and manatees-creatures that some say inspired the original mermaid legends.

4. A Naked Vacation

A fun-but-unscientific poll found out that more Americans are open to the idea of naked vacations, a.k.a. nakations. The poll found that 48 percent of Americans would be willing to bare it all at a nude beach. That's up from 31 percent last year. Why the increased interest in nakations? Are Americans' attitudes about nudity loosening up? Or are travelers simply looking to travel light - so they can avoid the hefty baggage fees now imposed by many airlines?

All you'll need for the week (sunscreen, cap, sunglasses, shoes and toiletries) can fit in a small carry-on that will fit under the seat, avoiding even carry-on bag fees. But saving money on baggage is one thing. But what about the risk of sunburn "down there?" It's a real concern, experts say. In other words, slather it on if you take it all off.

5. A Vacation Where You Can Swim With Pigs

Swimming with dolphins? You can go one better! Visit the paddling porcines in Big Major Cay and jump in for a dip if you're brave enough. They won't bite---well, as long as you don't whisper "BLT" within earshot.

6. A Vacation In A Little People Themed Park

If you've hit up all the SeaWorlds and Wisconsin Dells of the globe, why not take a trip to a make-believe town populated by little people? According to TEA, Asia has the fastest-growing theme-park market-with 77.6 million visitors for Asia's top 15 parks alone. One of the region's biggest recent openings was the 2009 blockbuster debut of Dwarf Empire, a hilltop park in southern China devoted to-and almost entirely staffed by-people under four feet tall. The park also gained worldwide media coverage for employing many of the country's height-challenged, who traditionally have had a hard time finding work. Thanks to the park, many of China's dwarves are now gainfully employed as everything from janitors to crown-wearing empresses.

7. A Trip to Afghanistan

Although it is not considered safe for tourists at the moment, many look forward to being able to visit Afghanistan in the near future. Why? Take a look at some of the remarkable places you would be able to visit and decide for yourself. Would you take a vacation to Afghanistan? Tthe City of Screams, the Minarets of Ghazni, the Blue Mosque – these are just some of the incredible sites of Afghanistan. Astonishing lakes, ancient destroyed cities and breathtaking landscapes may persuade you to think a little differently about this war torn but still spectacular country.

8. A Ghost Tour

While Halloween brings to mind ghosts and goblins, did you know that many ghostly tours are available throughout the year? Florida offers a collection of tours and excursions guaranteed to scare up the need to plan a day trip or weekend getaway. As entertaining as they are informative, ghost tours explore paranormal phenomenon that may have you believing... or not

9. An Underwater Vacation

Talk about an extreme vacation! An Australian adventurer spent two weeks living underwater, riding a bike to generate electricity and using algae to produce oxygen! Breathing air provided by algae soaked in his own urine, "aquanaut" Lloyd Godson spent 12 days living in a yellow steel capsule submerged in a flooded gravel pit.

The 29-year-old's claustrophobic ordeal was intended to shed light on the practical and psychological challenges of living in an alien environment. His temporary home, a 10ft long box, was billed as "the world's first self-sufficient, self-sustaining underwater habitat." Back on dry land, and toasting the success of the experiment with champagne, he admitted to suffering cabin fever.

Amazing Strange City in Greece

Amazing Strange City situated between rocks in Greece

World Cup Soccer's Psychic Octopus Dies

Paul, the oracle octopus who shot to fame in the World Cup this summer for his uncanny ability to predict the results of Germany's soccer matches, has died at his home in Oberhausen at the age of two. English-born Paul made headlines across the globe after he correctly forecast how Germany would fare in seven matches, before his psychic powers were tested again for the final.

After Germany's semi-final defeat, Paul tipped Spain to beat the Netherlands in the final, which prompted one news agency to report he had spurred a jump in demand for Spanish government bonds. Paul's prediction duly came to pass: Spain won. Staff at the Oberhausen Sea Life Center in western Germany said in a statement they were "devastated" to learn of Paul's death when they returned to work on Tuesday.

"He appears to have passed away peacefully during the night, of natural causes, and we are consoled by the knowledge that he enjoyed a good life," said the centre's manager Stefan Porwoll. Before matches, two containers of food were placed in the eight-legged creature's tank, each one bearing the flag of one of the teams about to compete for their chance to become world champions. The container Paul picked first was seen as his pick.

Following the World Cup, a Spanish zoo made a transfer bid for Paul but his German keepers refused to sell. Paul will be kept in cold storage until the center decides how to mark the mollusc's extraordinary life, Porwoll added. "We may decide to give Paul his own small burial plot within our grounds and erect a modest permanent shrine," he said. Paul, who was hatched in Weymouth, England, may yet continue to dazzle the world with predictions from beyond the grave.

A Russian newspaper said in July it had got Paul to predict who would be Russia's next president -- but that the results would be kept secret until the election year of 2012. Sea Life said Paul would live on as the object of a host of commercial enterprises ranging from special clothing lines to mobile phone applications inspired by his fame in Oberhausen, one of Germany's most cash-strapped cities.

Meanwhile, donations made in honor of Paul's achievements would help to fund a planned permanent rescue center for sea turtles on the Greek island of Zakynthos, Sea Life said.

The Pathetic, Willfully Ignorant, Anti-Gold Argument!

I have reprinted the moronic article below, with my comments immediately following (in bold), to help illustrate the "mindset" of the average sheeple towards the sanity of precious metal investing. May God preserve us from these poor, trusting, ignorant sheep for whom the slaughter is soon to come! PS. Be patient. You have to read through their pathetic "attempt" at humor in the first part of the article.

Bed Bugs, Stink Bugs and Gold Bugs – What’s the difference?

October 22, 2010

Evidently Bugs are all the rage today. We have Bed Bugs Infesting New York City, we have Stink Bugs infesting Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and we have Gold Bugs infesting the entire country.

Let’s define Stink Bugs, Generally they look like this vile creature:

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Stink Bugs infest your home, your car and your house. You can’t kill them because they let out a vile smell that is similar to having a skunk bomb your living room. So you have to vacuum them up, or do like what most residents of Pennsylvania do, use a tissue and pick up that thing and drop it in the toilet and flush it down.

These vile animals are not from America, they were imported by Toyota in the 1990′s from Japan, rumour has it that some car salesman in Allentown. PA opened up the Toyota to make a sale… saw those stink bugs sitting there… he killed one one of them… learned why they are called “stink bugs” and then proceeded to swoosh them off rather than killing them so the client didn’t see them (or smell them).

10 years later, the entire North East is infected with them as birds won’t even eat them due to the stench. Sounds like a terrible Zombie movie.

Let’s define Bed Bugs, Generally they look like this vile creature:

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This isn’t a joke. Bed Bugs are vampires. Sink Bugs are terrible because they are highly annoying. Bed Bugs are terrible because they drink human blood. They sneak up on you in the middle of the night and feast on your blood. They live for a year without any food, but they do wait.. and wait they do until you sleep.. they smell the carbon dioxide from your breath and they flock to feast on your blood while you sleep.

They inject a small dosage of anaesthetic so you don’t feel the bite and wake up, then they eat you until they are full.

Wonderful beasts.

They used to be controlled via a pesticide called DDT but it’s been banned due to serious side effects. In other words that “cure” is worst than the Bed Bugs themselves.

Let’s define Gold Bugs, Generally they look like this vile creature:

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This is the worst of the worst. Bed Bugs are vampires, stink bugs are skunks, but Gold Bugs… wow they are an amazing breed.

Many of them believe that the entire economic system is abound to collapse. They are in the process of buying Gold Coins, Guns and Ammo and building their bunker stocked with food clothing. They are storing Gold coins to barter when “cash becomes worthless and the economy collapses”.

They are stocking up on Guns and Ammo because they feel that “they are the only ones prepared for the eventual end of the world” And you can’t forget the daily candle night reading of the Bible.

These people are the definition of Gold Bugs. They do come in many forms. Some of “smarter ones” are “Silver Bugs” because they feel that Gold is too much currency to do daily trades. Others mass in other types of assets. But the strategy is the same, horde up because everyone will be coming to you for product X or Y because you’re the only guy in town with it.

The end result is that these people feel with a mix of hyperinflation, unemployment and total debt in the US it has nowhere to go but bad.

So there you have it people, the three major bugs in the media today, all on one article.

Enjoy the new reality.

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Wow, what a truly ignorant person you are! Worse, you seem to revel in your ignorance! What precisely is your point, I wonder? Gold and silver prices are skyrocketing because the wise people among the world's population know that both precious metals have been valued for 5000 years of civilized history. During times of uncertainty, like today, these metals have served as safe havens for wealth. Just how long do you think the US Dollar will have value before the inevitable hyperinflation takes hold? In 1913 the first Federal Reserve Note (FRN) was issued. Since that time the dollar has lost 97% of it's buying power...and that in a century that could easily be described as the rise and ascendancy of the American Empire! What will the future hold as the country languishes, awash in trillions of dollars of debt and beset by politicians without the courage to either dramatically raise taxes or slash entitlements? May I ask where your investments lie? US Treasuries, money markets, a savings account at you local bank? Good luck with those wonder vehicles :) PS. Thank you, I'm quite happy with my silver investments which are up over 40% this year so far, as measured in US funny money. Seriously, though, do yourself a favor and do a little research before you write an article about a topic you obviously know little about (not counting the stink and bed bug info, of course). Since the Chinese invented paper money 1000 years ago, every single fiat currency has failed eventually! The best thing that can be said of the US Dollar is that it has not failed...yet. However, just give Ben Bernanke and Obama a little more time. Well, he did promise change, didn't he!

Time is running out fast! Hyperinflation seems unavoidable as fiat paper money is being printed as fast as the US presses can run. To protect your wealth and your family, buy gold and silver now from these top companies, APMEX Gold and Silver and Silver American Eagles.

Rick

Is The Silver Boom Over?

Is the silver boom over? Has everyone caught up and overbought the market, like the internet stock boom and the real estate home markets? In a word, no.

My proof for the above claim? Ask your neighbors (or yourself) to identify the large picture above. Give up? Don't feel bad, the vast majority of Americans have never seen one of these things much less owned one of these beautiful coins. Hint: they are one troy ounce of silver and are official US currency denominated as a $1.00 coin. Theoretically, you could spend it to buy a pack of gum at 7-11 or pay your taxes. Of course, you would have to be a complete moron to do so since each coin is currently selling for around $25.00 per, the spot price of silver on 10/08/10 plus a $2.00 per coin premium.

Answer: It's an American Silver Eagle, the most famous and widely collected silver bullion coin in the world minted by the US Mint since 1986. Millions are sold each year, but if you split all the ASE coins previously minted among all US citizens there wouldn't be more than one per person! I ask you, is that overbought? The US Mint has already made $35 billion dollars in worthless base metal quarters for their "State Quarter" program. Now, if that's not an outrageous example of overbought (and overproduced) I just don't know the meaning of the term!

The vast majority of Americans have barely begun to wake up to the value of precious metals like gold and silver again after years of mind-numbing fiat currency (paper money not backed by gold or silver, or indeed, anything...real). Even should everyone suddenly wake up and start to buy silver, the yearly supply of 650 million ounces is only enough for each American to purchase 2 ounces per year for about $45 per citizen (or the cost of a date night movie with popcorn and candy). Of course, if this country-wide buying were to occur it would leave absolutely nothing for industry which is finding more uses for silver everyday from new hybrid car batteries to antibacterial bandages.

I knew the real estate bubble was getting ready to burst when my highly fiscally conservative brother, Mike, started talking about buying houses and fixing them up as an easy route to riches a few years ago just before the bust. So far, despite cajoling him for the last 2 years, I haven't talked him into buying even one ounce of silver. To be fair, however, he's in good company still. Only a fraction of 1% of Americans own any actual physical silver or gold coins, bars, rounds etc. Not much of an "overbought bubble" to my way of thinking! Compare that tiny ownership number to the number of troubled "under water" homeowners who bought houses they couldn't really afford in the last 10 years! In fact, a recent article stated that one home is foreclosed upon every minute of every day! Now that's overbought!

In conclusion, I'm not going to worry about the precious metal bubble bursting until my stick-in-the-mud brother starts stocking up along with all his average American friends on Gold and Silver American Eagles and pre-1965 "junk" 90% silver coinage (dimes, quarters, halves, dollars)! Maybe I should start a newsletter with a subscription fee and call it "My Brother Mike End of Bubble Newsletter". I could make thousands!

Silver and gold still have a long way to go in an uncertain economy, unconscionably high multi-trillion dollar debt, inflation and coming hyperinflation, governmental idiocy, and a world that is growing increasingly sick of our wars, deficit spending, free health care giveaways etc.

Time is running out fast! Hyperinflation seems unavoidable as fiat paper money is being printed as fast as the US presses can run. To protect your wealth and your family, buy gold and silver now from these top companies, APMEX Gold and Silver and Silver American Eagles.


Rick