Linux for years has being one of the best quality server operating systems on the market and there are currently more Linux servers on the web than any other operating system. Over the last couple of years, with distributions like Ubuntu pushing into the desktop market, the Linux desktop has come of age.

I was simply amazed at the native driver support that my Ubuntu desktop offered me. My blue tooth dongle, my Skype phone, my USB wireless device, HSDPA modem, my Ipod Nano and flash disks were all picked up automatically by the system and the correct drivers and applications loaded.

I have never seen an operating system with so much support for all my devices right out of the box. The Linux desktop has come of age and is in almost every aspect, superior to its Windows Vista and Windows XP counterparts.

Instead of paying a lot of money for hardware that struggles with the most basic versions of Vista, rather install Ubuntu and get a quicker, faster... superior desktop.

So I woke up this morning to find a "take down" notice in my email inbox, and to be honestly surprised it did not come from Scientologists. It came from some other bottom feeders... Rich criminal defence lawyers that protect the big money of convicted criminals.

Basically these law firms are very happy to accept the blood money their clients make in exchange for their "services". In my mind evil can only happen when good men (and woman) stand by and do nothing and in the case of a law firm like Schillings Lawyers.... they not only do nothing, they for financial reward, attempt to stifle free speech and those critical of the criminals they defend.

In my case, Schillings Lawyers sent a threatening email to my hosts (The full PDF of what they sent me can be found here: http://newz.co.za/blood_money/stupid_legal_notice.pdf . I have hosted it off site so that my current host (The Planet) can not be held liable for it). However, that said, to quote the important bit:

"We understand that you host the website www.pickledbushman.com (“the
website”) and we write to you in that capacity.
We refer to a recent posting appearing on the Website entitled:
“Arsenal football club bought out with blood money” (“the Posting”). The Posting
reproduces an article originally written by Craig Murray. The Posting can be
found via the link:
http://www.pickledbushman.com/index.php/2007/09/27/arsenal_football_club_bought_out_with_bl
The posting is false, indefensible and grossly defamatory of our client. Our client
views this matter extremely seriously"

A quick point to Schillings Lawyers... "labling something as "private and confidential" does not make it so. I have entered into no such contract with your insidious law firm.

The post they are referring to is one in which I wrote about how Alisher Usmanov (a convicted criminal) purchased Arsenal Football Club with blood money he earned while he allegedly built his cartel on drug money, extortion and other illegal activities.

However, this post is not about how siff the guy is (that was the purpose of my last post), but rather the bottom feeders that crow around his money at your expense. If you would like to find out more information about Alisher Usmanov please read this article by Craig Murray (former ambassador) http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2007/09/alisher_usmanov.html .

The information Schillings Lawyers wanted me to remove was a copy of Craig Murray's post I had added at the end of my writing to give people more information about this shady character.

In response to that, I have had to remove the duplication of Craig Murrays article and have it now hosted in a country that is legally safe for it (and therefore out of the jurestriction of The Planet). I have included links back on the post back to the original article in its entirety.

When I used google to research what Schillings Lawyers have being up to... Google came back with a real lot of responses, and it seems that most bloggers that have reproduced that article by Craig have also being threatened by them.

Matt Warden, a prominent political blogger had this to say

"Schillings, a London Law firm, have closed down several prominent political blogs (case study on dealing with the “internet attacker“) by contacting their webhosts, on behalf the new part owner of Arsenal - Alisher Usmanov.

Mr Usmanov’s lawyers have also sent “cease and desist” type letters to a number of other blogs that dare to mention the fact that he has been criticised, including Arsenal Fan Blogs."

http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/2007/09/21/webhost-removes-bloggerheads-and-other-sites-after-legal-threats/

So it appears an all out attack on freedom of speech has being instigated by Alisher and law firm Schillings Lawyers.

It seems that its not only bloggers who are the victims of Schillings Lawyers. It appears that they attempted to take on one of the most important sites on the Internet today, Wikileaks.org. Wikileaks.org is a website dedicated to getting the truth out. For the leaking of important sensitive documents that almost always incriminate those in positions of power.

An article linked to wikileaks.org has this to say about Schillings:

"Have WikileakS.org successfully faced down the notorious legal firm of London based minor celebrity media spin lawyers Schillings, whose attempts to censor UK political blogs backfired so spectacularly over their rich client Alisher Usmanov''s criminal past ?

They were threatening WikiLeakS.org on behalf of the discredited Northern Rock plc, who managed to have the first run on a bank in the UK in over 140 years, and who, together with the inept handling of the crisis by the Labour government, are costing the UK taxpayer billions of pounds."

Original link

As you can see, Schillings Lawyers appears to be on the rampage in their attempts to silence people critical of their criminal clients. I just had a thought about this. From what I can see based on this information at my disposal... Schillings Lawyers clients that have being mentioned in the news and information I have seen... all appear to be very shady and illegal characters or companies that hide behind their blood money and lawyers. I wonder who the rest of Schillings Lawyers customers are, and I have to wonder if all of them are just as guilty of similar or worse crimes than the ones we know of their clients whos crimes we do know.

To me, if someone had to mention to me that they were represented by Schilling Lawyers the first few thoughts would be, "criminal, lots of blood money, dangerous". As you can see in the original legal PDF document sent to me the names of the partners at this infamous law are:

Rachel Atkins
Gideon Benaim
Rob Christie-Miller
John Kelly
Keith Schilling
Simon Smith

I am writing down those names so that history can remember them for the kind of people they are. They are the architects behind Schillings Lawyers and in my mind... are just as guilty as their clients.

There's an old saying, "No single raindrop believes it is guilty for the flood" Nowhere is this more evident than here.

Ive said what I have wanted to say about Schillings Lawyers and their siff tactics and I would suggest that everyone out there watch what this law firm and what their clients are up to, because they are the smoke that indicates that there is a fire.

On a personal note to Schillings Lawyers... should you send a take down notice to me about this post I will be shutting down my hosting account with The Planet, and I will be moving it to South African hosting which will be completely beyond your control. I will also make sure that all information about what you try do to this site and others is well documented for future generations to see.

More reading:
http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2474&Itemid=81
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Murray
http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/2007/09/21/webhost-removes-bloggerheads-and-other-sites-after-legal-threats/
http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/?p=1467

Hey Beenz, I in response to your last comment. Here is the song I think you are looking for.

It was not too long ago I was speaking to a friend about how awesome it would be to be able to use an application like Google Earth to look around our solar system with.

It seems the guys at Google are way ahead of me. Have a look at how to use the recent version of Google Earth to explore the universe around you.

Click on this link to download the latest version of Google earth for both Linux and Microsoft: http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html

I was busy watching episode 1 of season 10 of South Park called, "The return of chef" when I noticed (very quickly) that there was something different about this episode. The first thing that was out of place was that it featured the South Park character "Chef" who had recently quit the show because of the South Park episode on the cult Scientology called "Trapped in the closet". The next thing I noticed was the analogy between the "Super Adventure Club" featured in 'The return of Chef' and Scientology. The third thing that grabbed my attention was the strange sounding Chef, and it quickly dawned on my that they had spliced various audio recordings and put them together to make it look like Chef was in the episode... however they also made it pretty clear that it was spliced sound.

I am not going to go into too many details about the episode "The return of Chef", but a quick look on wikipedia should bring up any relevant spoiler information you might want to look up. To get a better idea of where I am going with this article I am going to first write about the episode, "Trapped in the closet". In this episode Matt and Trey show what Scientologists actually believe and have a good go at John Travolta and Tom Cruise's alleged homosexual tendencies. It also shows what Scientologists really believe:

Most of you out there may not have watched this episode as the cult Scientology was very very quick to move on it. After the first episode was aired the Scientologists managed to bribe/blackmail *cough* sorry.. bad choice of words... managed to convince a judge to throw the American constitution and the all important right of free speech out the window. The episode was never aired again publicly but luckily the Internet is the one place that free speech truly exists and bootleg copies are very easily available to download.

Since the 1990`s Isaac Hayes the man who is the voice of the South Park character Chef has been involved with episodes that have insulted Jews, Mormons, Christians and just about every other religious group you can think of. When the episode "Trapped in the closet" aired he suddenly found the need to try take the moral high-ground and quit the show, claiming that South Park was to "intolerant and bigoted".... strangely he never felt that way with the other religious groups that were being ragged.

Now at this point I want to clarify the term bigot. Saying, "all religions are terrible and wrong" is not bigotry. Saying, "Your religion is wrong and mine is right" is bigotry. So Isaac Hayes had no problem at all with the South Park episodes that dealt with other religions, but all of a sudden was offended when it involved his own cult religious group. I am sorry Isaac...Matt and Trey are not bigots, like me they are equal opportunity offenders. You sir on the other hand are the real Mccoy.. a bottom of the barrel hypocritical bigot. If you are going on about intolerance, how about your own intolerance? Such as not been able to tolerate that South Park episode?

Now that I have got my opinion out the way of the silly Mr Hayes I am going to move onto the wife beating junkie known as L. Ron Hubbard who started up this stupidity. Where do I start? This guy has such a terrible record it would take an entire book to scratch the surface of his depravity, however I will go through a couple of the highlights just to give you a better perspective on what I mean and how I came to my reasoning, but first, lets talk about the man L. Ron Hubbard.

L. Ron Hubbard was born on the March 13, 1911 in Nebraska and it became clear from an early age that he had some serious problems. He was quickly reconised as a pathological liar and sociopath and when researching his life I felt like I was wading through a pond of scum where I couldn't quite get my footing. There was just so much information to deal with and as I mentioned before, it would take a book to cover it all. So for the sake of saving you time and my website space I am going to give you a couple of highlights.

Its pretty clear that L. Ron Hubbard himself recognised he was not a functional member of society and when he was in still in school he mailed the Veteran's Administration and begged for psychiatric help. He was unable to afford the help and in his letter to the Veteran's Administration he pleaded for free treatment. It can be safely assumed that the rejection for not been treated for free by the Veteran's Administration lead to his misguided hate towards all psychiatrists.

L. Ron Hubbard was a con-artist and a thief. He was arrested several times by both the local law agencies and the FBI for fraud and petty theft while trying to rip people off for his ever growing consumption of dangerous narcotics. It would be a drug habit that he would never throw off for the rest of his life. L. Ron Hubbard was an admitted racist and he often praised the old South African government for its Apartheid policies. If you have a look through his journal you will be able to clearly see his racist tendencies. Here is a quote taken from his personal journal while on a trip to China:

""As a Chinaman can not live up to a thing, he always drags it down." and "They smell of all the baths they didnt [sic] take. The trouble with China is, there are too many chinks here.""

Being a racist, a pathological liar, a thief and a drug junkie was not enough for L. Ron Hubbard, it appears there were still many laws and basic human rights that he still had to break. Ron seemed to have a sincere fetish for the occult and satanism and regularly practiced satanic rights with a "Black Magician" by the name of Jack Parsons.

A couple of years earlier Ron had married a lady by the name of Margaret Grubb but seemed to forget her and his children when he went galavanting around the world. So much so that while staying with Jack Parson and participating in "sex magick" he married Jack`s girlfriend Sara Northup. This bigamous relationship certainly did not last long and rather than file for a divorce he drove Sara to suicide with the use of regular torture and brutal beatings. Sara's divorce papers also accused Hubbard of kidnapping their baby daughter Alexis, and of conducting "systematic torture, beatings, strangulations and scientific torture experiments." It was suggested by the divorce court that Ron stay at a private sanitarium for psychiatric observation and treatment for paranoid schizophrenia.

Nothing I could find on L. Ron Hubbard could lead me to believe he was a decent human being. He lied about everything and to everyone. If he claimed to have a doctorate, my research would who show that he did not even finish university. If he claimed to be a nuclear physicist my research would show that he attended one semester on nuclear physics which he failed.

Its at this point I have to leave the life of L. Ron Hubbard otherwise this article would never come to an end. I just want you to consider this quote from L. Ron Hubbard Jr, "I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." For those of you who do not believe any of the above claims I have made about Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (With a first name like that I can see why he went around calling himself Ron) and think I am making any of it up, I will be supplying a link at the end of this article which contains ORIGNAL court transcripts, police records, navy records and doctor reports all pertaining to Lafayette Ronald Hubbard. Do the research yourself.

So now I would like to get back to Isaac Hayes formerly from South Park. I have to assume that Isaac Hayes left South Park for his respect and belief in Hubbard so I therefore have to assume that Isaac Hayes approves of all of L. Ron Hubbard's actions. Its very strange for me to think that Isaac Hayes ( a black man ) would have so much reverence for someone who clearly thought that anyone who was not a white male was inferior. To drive the point home lets take another quote out of Hubbard's personal journals,

""Unlike the yellow and brown people, the white does not usually believe he can get attention from matter or objects. The yellow and brown believe for the most part ... that rocks, trees, walls, etc., can give them attention" and "...so we see the African tribesman, with his complete contempt for the truth, and his emphasis on brutality and savagery...""

And how about Ron's comment about the forced relocation of black people in South Africa during Apartheid;

"Having viewed slum clearance projects in most major cities of the world may I state that you have conceived and created in the Johannesburg townships what is probably the most impressive and adequate resettlement activity in existence."

Clearly Isaac, you are more dumber than I thought... You do realize you are black and that Hubbard hated your people? I honestly can not imagine what kind of stupid you have to be, to follow the teachings of L. Ron Hubbard. If you want to find the most idiotic and gullible group of people in the world simply head over to your local Scientology office and have a look around. It should be dead easy to convince them to hand over their money if the Scientologists have not taken it all already.

L. Ron Hubbard makes Muhammad the prophet look like Jesus Christ, and I seriously can not respect anyone idiotic enough to follow his teachings. If Isaac Hayes is going to insist on following his current course of action then I can only say, "good riddance to bad rubbish" . There is still so much about Scientology that I want to share with you, and as soon as I have a moment I will write an article about what really goes on behind the Scientological iron curtain. To finish this article off I would just like to say something to Tom Cruise, "Its okay to come out of the closet Tom!"

Links for your own research:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Ron_Hubbard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Hayes
http://www.ronthenut.org/ (contains original court transcripts and FBI files)
http://www.lermanet.com (contains original navy records and police records)

And in the immoral words of Trey Parker and Matt Stone, servants of the dark lord Xenu;

""So, Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for earth has just begun! Temporarily anozinizing our episode will NOT stop us from keeping Thetans forever trapped in your pitiful man-bodies. Curses and drat! You have obstructed us for now, but your feeble bid to save humanity will fail! Hail Xenu!!!""

This animation of the end of the world is just a space filler. I am currently working on a couple more serious articles that require a lot more research so apologies for the lack of recent content.

In the mean time, I hope you enjoy this animation which has a more humorous look at a end of the world scenario.

Online Gaming these days has become massive and it is no longer just for the kids. In fact recent statistics show that the average age of a gamer is 31.

I thought I would show you two video's created with graphics created in game. The first one I am going to show you is a song that was created for the online multiplayer game, Battlefield 2.

The APC song

The next one is a video made in World of Warcraft and is called, "The Internet is for porn"

The Internet if for Pr0n

There are a multitude of others out there and some of them are very funny. As I come across them I will post them here for you to enjoy as well. They are not all music based and some of them have even being turned into a type of series for people to download weekly, such as the famous Halo Red Vs Blue series.

If you have come across any really good ones out there please let us know so I can put them up for people to see.

I came across this youtube clip today of a meeting between two of the Big Five and a very old friend in the Kruger National Park. If you thought that the picture of snake and alligator was strange, wait till you see this video clip as some of the titans of the Bushveld take each other on.

Please note, this clip is 8 minutes long, but well worth the wait.

I came across this movie today while browsing some local forums. Mark "The Knife" Faje does some amazingly daring (stupid) and yet awesome juggling trick in an audition for "America's Got Talent"

I really want to see this guys next performance!

I came across this clip in the local MyADSL forums showing a comparrison between the Linux Ubuntu Beryl desktop look vs that of the new Windows Vista Aero desktop.

As you can see by the video clip, Vista Aero stands no chance against the vastly superior Ubuntu's Beryl desktop. Not only can Beryl degrade itself to look as simple as Aero, Beryl clearly shows that it surpasses Aero in just about everything. With fantastic new concepts for your desktop that are out of this world, there is simply no reason why not to switch to Ubuntu.