Click the link here to take you to the Index Magazine archive. Jamie Reid's longstanding practice as an artist sits firmly within a tradition of English radical dissent that would include, for example, William Blake, Wat Tyler and Gerrard Winstanley. Like them, the work of dissent must offer, out of necessity, other social and spiritual models and Reid's practice is no exception.
When to that is added all the real estate, property, stocks and shares abroad, then the staggering accumulation of the wealth of the Catholic church becomes so formidable as to defy any rational assessment.â (...) âThe Catholic church is the biggest financial power, wealth accumulator and property owner in existence. She is a greater possessor of material riches than any other single institution, corporation, bank, giant trust, government or state of the whole globe. â The pope, as the visible ruler of this immense amassment of wealth, is consequently the richest individual of the twentieth century.
This is the largest gold nugget ever found, The Welcome Stranger Nugget. largest gold nugget ever found-The Welcome Stranger Gold Nugget. The largest gold Nugget ever found, The Welcome Stranger Nugget weighed 2200 Ounces/71 kilograms, worth a whopping 4 million dollars with the gold price as it is today. A replica has been made of this nugget based on the photograph above and several paintings that were done before the nugget was smelted down â.