2018/12/19 23:00:01
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… Giza Pyramid Talk …
Raising Granite Beams over the King’s Chamber in the Great Pyramid of Khufu at Giza.
The largest of these beams has dimensions of 1.3m x 1.8m and is 8m long.
Its estimated weight is approximately 60 tonnes or 60,000kg.
In the last Cafe,
/moveable-feast-cafe-2018-12-16/#comment-596192
I addressed the transit of these eight metre long granite beams, being pulleyed up one side of the Great Pyramid over one hundred ‘krossai’ … steps … tiers … platforms to halfway the vertical height of The Great Pyramid which is floor level of The King’s Chamber.
JJ has asked how were these granite beams raised from the floor of the King’s Chamber and placed above.
Consider how a see-saw rocks up and down … it is a Class One Lever. Mark a centre point on the ganite beam and from that centre, just either side of that point insert hardwood plank packing timbers or pieces of flat granite.
Each time the beam is rocked one way add packing material … then rock the other way and add to that side. This process takes time but the beam is slowly but surely being raised and finally reaches its destination height.
The convergence issue is very important, which is blending the documentations of Ezekiel and Herodotus toward proof of construction method, as required by universities worldwide.
@ JJ … take note of the use of bronze cramps … page 34 of “Raising Stone 1” … this one known method as to how Pyramid blocks could be secured in various locations where a heavy load may cause tipping of placed blocks. The two million blocks of sandstone which make up the bulk of The Great Pyramid average out to about one metre, side length cubes and this allowed for mass-production. Mass production techniques were known to Giza Pyramid construction engineers, long before Henry Ford built his motor cars using mass-production techniques, which some claim Henry Ford invented.
How one might conclude the origin of the great pyramid, when it has an unknown purpose, and history, is strange. That structure is said to be unique, with all other pyramids being rather imperfect copies. Furthermore, other pyramids have known purpose, which correlates to their uncounted cousins; while the great one is unknown until now — despite small mention of the cult of demon sorcerers who frequented it. That it was made from cast ‘earthcrete’ is well substantiated; and not blocks. That it is in all proportion, quite nearly mind-blowing to understand whollistically, demonstrates certain aspects, which places it beyond our ken. If you were to conclude that it was built on the same principles as the ‘coral castle’, I wouldn’t contradict. If you said that Lord Adam built it because he wished to remind us of Paradise, again, I wouldn’t quibble. But, to say it is a Lincoln Log of engineering, as spied by Ezekiel, defies even my imagination (and that of Plato, no less).
Centuries ago all sorts of mythologies developed about Khufu’s pyramid. Despite clear evidence of defective and discontinued earlier pyramids, an architectural friend of mine believes the real Pyramid engineers were extra-terrestrials, an opinion apparently held within his Lodge.
Needless to say, my schoolmate is resistant to discoveries in the last decades of named purchasing agents, busily preparing daily expense accounts of journeys to acquire copper in the Sinai for chisels, Lapis Lazuli from Afghanistan for ornaments and such, all neatly written on preserved ancient Papyrus. These accounts also tell us which of Khufu’s sons managed personnel, prices, invoices and timing of deliveries over the 20 years it took to build the great pyramid without interruption.
No less fascinating is the evolution of engineering ideas, theology and consequent projects of Khufu’s son, Jedefre. Aware that the pyramid base requires many more stones that the upper part, Jedefre built the base of his more-affordable pyramid on a limestone hill and sheathed the base in red granite. It goes without saying, once Jedefre noticed the usefulness of limestone outcrops, he had one near Khufu’s pyramid carved into a huge Sphinx — a figure which came to represent the Egyptian nation within 1,000 years — and with whom Tuthmosis IV, the Dreamer Pharaoh, communicated shortly before the arrival of Joseph-son-of-Jacob.
Jedefre also developed a theological notion that Pharaoh was to accompany and defend the Sun (Re) as it passed through the underworld of night. So Jedefre dug a long ditch covered with granite slabs, adjacent to the Khufu pyramid, and buried a huge boat for his dad’s nightly patrols.
Regarding the lifting of the granite Royal Chamber ceiling slabs, attention is now focused on a steep corridor, deep within Khufu’s pyramid, for which there was formerly no clear function. The steep corridor is now deemed the upward path of these ceiling slabs.
Just an observation…”see/saw” is familiar to many wrights today – and it is obvious that this technique places a tensile moment in statics which can and often does in combination with the kinetic transients that bumping adds, can result in the lifted object either bending or fracturing. In example for granite? (and sandstone etc)
See:
https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/compression-tension-strength-d_1352.html
As we see there, the subject material in quo “G” is given as 4.8 MPa. Almost as strong as trap-rock, and among the highest strength of the then realistically available material.
This buttresses Paul’s argument. G makes fairly sound beams too – better that concrete, much better.
It is interesting also that sandstone is given as 2.1 MPa… They would have had to treat sandstone very cautiously – as his rotation theory seems to support.
Another observation…in the relevant modern trade-craft one almost never places a massive heavy object on a hard surface without “cribbing” or “softeners” (the terminology changes from particular trade to another, but the principle is the same). The physics is now as then…whether it’s a 100 ton turbine shell of cast steel, or a punch press, beams, big flat rock, or even a unit of lumber. The practical effect is that the cribbing does at least these important things:
1) the cribs deform to tend to reduce skew strains in the primary object and deformation of it. Things are never quite flat, not the floor, not the object. For this reason boats are often supported on half-crushed oil drums – the heavy bits crush their drums accordion like more than the lighter bits. Rocks? Wood…with “just right” er…”crush-ability”.
2) bump shock, transient kinetic forces are far less – minimizing both latent compression strain and, more importantly, tensile strain. (tensile strain is how hard stuff breaks, mostly)
3) there is always some water around, even dissolved in rock, as well as the humans expelling all sorts of vapor form water (and liquid!)… Keeping air flow under the object tends to preserve homogeneous dispersion of dissolved H2O in said object, thus minimizing latent strain that sometimes develops from heterogeneous dispersion inside the rock (or whatever).
4) until an object is in final locus it is very convenient to be able to “get under it” so the crew can jack – in placing cribs it’s quite ordinary to check for rocking, see/saw, etc. It’s so natural in the example of 4.8MPa Granite that any even half-competent construction crew would discover see/saw naturally – I would say probably the first day. The length-thick ratio for each material would have been researched by the local boffins the day after they broke a block…and guide-line given to crew-bosses.
5) green wood/wet wood cribs shrink as they dry – which is a handy way to get those last bits out…if there’s time…if there’s time and the correct setup the cribs simply fall out on their own.
I have done all these operations myself many times, as have all my union brother wrights. (though at 70+ I would be immediately fired on account of age if I went out on a job, I do things the same way around our modest digs – nothing much more than jacking a 40 foot seagoing container – which, yes, I (all by myself) placed at “locus zero/zero/zero” (elevation/ and Cartesian position).
Here’s data on cast irons…interesting to compare to Granite… http://anvilfire.com/article.php?bodyName=/FAQs/cast_iron.htm
>I said before that I think Paul’s nailed it. I still do. Especially given the tensile strengths in question.
Best to all. p
Near the end of the Café prir to this one vot tak features a call for a boycott of Israel by Ron Unz.
I don’t know how to boycott their products because I don’t know any which I use, besides their airport security.
Oh, I forgot the major Khazarain export: Mind Control!
Evidently Ron Unz IS jewish, therefore people who think all jews are all the same….are victims of some derivative of the same fear porn as is peddled world wide about not angering their “god” of fear.
I could be wrong of course, but a former Russian Jew, now converted to Orthodox Christianity, Israel Shamir seems to know Ron personally, from the tenor of his latest article, and so I will risk sticking my neck out on the UNZ issue, since I know comparatively little or nothing about the man.
Here’s where I read between the lines to draw my conclusions above:
http://www.israelshamir.com/article/unz-goes-nuclear/
It ends thusly:
“Still, there is a free will; everyone can choose one’s own way. Nobody born in the Jewish family has to stick with Jews. The best of Jews, from Christ Apostles to Joseph Brodsky and Ron Unz always escaped it to join the people.”
One can just peacefully do the thing. Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions work. Just don’t buy anything from Israel or the West Bank Israeli companies. Its festive season – for things for the season, one buys things like dates, or say seeds like sesame. Just ask, is this an Israeli product, because they hide it. And without aggro, ask for an alternative that is not from Israel. This is something simple everyone can do.
http://bdslist.org/full-list/
Good list but then missing there are the big Jewish owned companies whose owners give tons of money to the West Bank settlers like Starbucks.
Try to boycot Central banks, Rockerfeller and Goldmann Sachs. Life gets complicated yes.
I don’t think a lot of israeli products reasch the usa, most of their exports going to europe. In fact the only israeli product in the usa I can think of is that Dead Sea mud scam sold to goys in the malls – not exactly the sort of thing i shop for. :-D .
What i make it a point to boycott is companies that i know are zionazi, if i can use a practical alternative. And this is something I’ve been doing since the 1990s.
There is a list on the BDS site here http://bdslist.org/full-list/
Dead Sea Mud scam is only a scam if you can’t walk to the beach (without being shot) and scoop a bucket fir yerself. That said, Lake Manitou Mud (also salts, creams, and lotions) from, Little Manitou, Saskatchewen, is as good or better than life risking Apartheid mud. The lake is Canada’s Dead Sea, a great place to relax and heal.
If Ron Unz or Israel Shamir really want to make a difference they simply can do so by starting to distinguish between ordinary Jews and Jewish Mafia assets. Ordinary Jews are as disenfranchised as goys, Jewish Mafia assets are, well, criminals.
It is that simple. The rest is Jewish Mafia disinformation. Like here:
“Nobody born in the Jewish family has to stick with Jews.” A quite ridiculous sentence. Shamir meant to say:
“Nobody born Jewish – if that is even possible – has to work for the mafia.” I guess, we all agree with that. : )
Agree. I was born into a Jewish family, all 4 grandparents from former Russian empire, mostly Lithuania, Belarus, from what I can tell. First thing to go, when I was 16, was belief in a guy in the sky who is in control and telling us what to do or not. The quantum physics model, mirrored in Taoist and Buddhist thinking makes more sense.
Next was the ‘us poor Jews’ thing. I went to a Jewish zionist summer camp for 11 years and after awhile the whole ‘we are the only victims’ didn’t ring true. Many people have been persecuted or outright destroyed ask any Native American. I met a couple of Israelis whose arrogance was not appealing.
And then with the internet, the whole history became much clearer. However, regarding your point, I met on young Jew a couple of years ago, who said he wish there was a Jewish conspiracy because then he could get some of the loot. Fact is, most Jews are, like most Americans, clueless about who the real rulers are and who benefits from the rulers’ toxic narrative. However, many still haven’t figured this out enough to escape the Matrix.
Have no fear! Go to http://www.unz.com and check out the extensive archives. Ron Unz is a Jew and is not afraid to uncover, at length, the dark side of Jewish “history”, dark side of Judaism and the the hard truth about Israel and Zionism.
His articles are long and carefully researched. From my viewpoint, he’s a hero.
The Unz Review often runs articles by The Saker.
… Giza Pyramid Talk …
Raising Granite Beams over the King’s Chamber in the Great Pyramid of Khufu at Giza.
The largest of these beams has dimensions of 1.3m x 1.8m and is 8m long.
Its estimated weight is approximately 60 tonnes or 60,000kg.
How “Stonehenge” Was Built?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYQBDhkBfr0
Please say which dimension is which, Paul. I mean yes, length is horizontal, but is the vertical 1.3 m or 1.8 ?
I was interested because I would calculate tensile stress statics and estimate how much transient bumping by an Nth crew the rock would tolerate. eg inter alia how far could they drop one end…without breaking the beam. Screwups happen… Essentially safety factors.
The dimensions seem pretty conservative to my gut, but the maths define reality in engineering.
… parrhesiastes, I will need to find a reliable reference for what you ask.
From memory these relieving beams are under end to end compression and are placed opposite to how one would erect a beam for vertical plane load carrying against gravity.
One of the granite relieving beams has developed cracking … is failing.
Ezekiel Chapter 1 is translated at http://www.haitheory.com
… this, combined with Herodotus, if accepted will bring closure to the construction method.
(the readings are very easy and sensible, … just need a few coffee breaks)
http://www.louistalboys.com/giza_pyramid/10-2/the-kings-chamber/
Now, it makes sense to me, after a coffee, the beams, relieving the side walls of the chamber have to resist gravity … so certainly I would place them all as beams are placed to resist gravity as they have their very own load … granite is dense and heavy.
The illustration is excellent.
Paul (and all) @ https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/beam-stress-deflection-d_1312.html see beam calculation
You can run the ap for any dimension-set you like. The tensile strengths I already gave, and are at the same site.
I observe that sandstones are pretty weak..and thus would have (as we see) near-cubic dimensions, while long beams would be made from the much stronger granite.
best.
p
Rampless Pyramid Construction – haitheory.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVG7mzJUZa4
The Documented Ancient Construction Method of The Great Pyramid
https://saker.community/product/raising-stone-1-paul-hais-racks-and-pinions-theory/
(become educated and know what you are talking about … 50% of this book sale goes to The Saker)
Except: the Great pyramid isn’t likely made from cut and placed blocks at all, but rather cast blocks, ie, formed in situ; Plato, the father of philosophy, with full polymathic versatility, painted his own cosmic portraits of Ezekiel’s vision — albeit, somewhat more fantastically — was he merely speaking hyperbole? when after all, it wasn’t the heavens of heavens, but rather the stones of the Nile. How poorly then, did Herodotus misconstrue, to mislead a mind so broad.
The cast blocks thing is interesting. I remember reading about the Romans using a form of concrete, particularly in viaducts, that used seawater (I believe) as a binding agent as it strengthened over time, outlasting our modern concretes. Volcanic material, dust or powder was also an ingredient.
Engineering generally goes over my head but I like knowing how things work in practice and reality.
Roman concrete…very labor-intensive, and still to this day about as good a concrete as has even been created. It is not poured, but tampered in thin compressed layers…
http://www.romanconcrete.com/index.htm / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_concrete
Boffins study it to this day…http://www.romanconcrete.com/docs/spillway/spillway.htm
Since we live not too far from volcanoes ourselves, I design, one day, to collect a 100 kg or so of the cool stuff and try making some old-timey concrete, sorta…
2 versions both relevant.
The Rolling Stones – Paint It, Black (Official Lyric Video)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O4irXQhgMqg
Text on screen.
“Paint It Black” Eric Burdon & The Animals 1967
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4oLMt9D66fI
“hmm, aahhhh
i see a red door and i want to paint it black
no colors in my life, you better turn them black
i see them walking by dressed in their colorful clothes
my happiness de?
no more will my grey sea turn a deeper blue
i cannot foresee this thing happening to you
no
i see people walking by dressed their summer clothes
i see them strolling by, my happiness ?
turn it black
yeah yeah yeah yeah
i said i know baby
everything is black i know
since you been gone
eveything is black before my eyes
baby eh
everything is black i know
turn to me
and help me see again baby
help me walk once more
and help me talk again, walk again
stand up like a man baby
since you been gone, gone
there is no color in my life baby
its turning so very very ? black
humph, i walk down the street
and i see a line of cars
maybe blue, maybe brown, maybe green
but their turning black
before my very eyes
and you could not know
what its like when your whole world is black
when everything you see and touch
turns so very very black hmm
oh baby now
i need you by my side
bring some color into my life
once again
i even tripped down and fell
didn’t see no colors anymore baby
bad, bad scene
and i have to tell you baby
no more will my grey sea go turn a deeper blue
i cannot foresee this thing ever happening to you
no
i see people walking by me
they’re all going in different directions
i see them strolling by and my heart splinters like a flame
turning black baby
turning black i know
everything
since you’ve been gone is turning black, turning black, turning black, turning black, turning black
yeah yeah yeah yeah, baby
oh lord, oh babe, whoa lord, help me see again, baby
help me walk, talk, walk stand up like a man i know
need you standing by my side
because i’m blind and i cannot see
color blind
i’m color blind
paint everything so black
go ahead and paint it black baby
everyhing is black black, black, its turning black i know
need some color in my life…”
Both versions work. A rare example of artistic synergy.
Total _Toska
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iR3sAj0k3Xc
“I don’t speak Russian, so take this with a grain of salt.
I first learned the word toska online. It was in the middle of a list of words with no English equivalents. I was intrigued; I took a screenshot. Since then, I’ve seen it in a few books. One told me that toska represents such a deep, wordless sadness that no non-Russian can truly understand its meaning.
Maybe that’s the case. Let’s do what I always do, enter the internet for help.
“Toska – noun /ˈtō-skə/ – Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness.
“No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom.”
Toska is, in my mind, a state of absolute spiritual distress. It has shades of existential torment, and always that sharp feeling of total emptiness that accompanies the worst misery. I want to run far away, but every inch of me is heavy and tired, tired, tired. The weariness dogs every step I take.
Melancholia is a good word. Depression, maybe. Anhedonia, or the inability to get pleasure from normally enjoyable things, covers some of it.
English is a frustratingly limited tongue.
For example, where in Spanish my aunt and uncle are mis tios, there is no single English word for that couple.
So let’s look at other languages.
There’s mono no aware,
a Japanese word for the particular sadness and sensitivity regarding the passage of time and the transience of life.
Dépit, in French, is that itching fury you get when you’re disappointed by something little.
Koev halev, in Hebrew, is a particular kind of empathy where watching the suffering of others causes physical pain.
Japanese again. Hi Fun Kou Gai is a righteous fury, frustration, and despair over a situation that is terrible and cannot be changed.
Lebensmüde is German for being tired of life and entering a deep, physical state of not caring.
Mutterseelinallein is also German. It’s a horrible kind of loneliness, the feeling of abandonment by everyone you love. It literally means that your mother’s soul has left you.
Natsukashii, another Japanese word, represents a sort of sad nostalgia, remembering that which will never come again.
Here’s a really untranslatable one, from Portugese. It may even be synonym for toska. Saudade is this deep, soul rending sadness mixed with longing.
Tante is a Chinese word for perpetual anxiety.
Weltschmerz. German. Literally translates to world-pain. Depression caused by believing your problems to be caused by the world itself and its unfairness.
Xinteng is a Chinese word that means feeling such empathy for others that it physically hurts.
Viraag. Hindi. The sameness or desperation caused by being away from those you love.”
心 疼
xīn téng … literally heart 心 … pain 疼 … empathy
two words combine to form a new word.
头 疼
tóu téng … literally head 头 … pain 疼 … headache.
two words combine to form a new word.
(thanks vot tak … you caused me to study … much appreciated)
“Tante is a Chinese word for perpetual anxiety.”
… here is 忐忑 in song …
TanTe: 2011 爆紅神曲「忐忑」
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fogC8xUDVFw
two words 忐忑 over one’s heart … 忐 and under one’s heart 忑
meaning “on and off” / “up and down” feelings of the heart … anxiety.
Placido Domingo – Tosca – E lucevan le stelle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxdiJ74AL5Y
Va, pensiero (Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves) – Giuseppe Verdi: Nabucco – Kendlinger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XttF0vg0MGo
Yesterday I read the interview with Sergei Lavrov, a very interesting reading which I recommend to everyone here in this blog. That interview inspired me to write a poem :
Show me the Path
by ioan
Hour by hour and day by day
The shadow envelopes the earth,
No place is hidden, neither safe
For every mother who gives birth
The man though, with its wild ideas
Is challenging the day and night,
Pursuing all within its power
To serve the darkness in its might
The signs and warnings from the nature
Have no effect, the world is round,
One lives in fear, the other is well
Nothing has changed in all around
Behind the pressure which is growing
Are burning flames and icy stones,
A silent battle behind the veils
A war for peace, a war for thrones
Another year is going past
Another year will follow suit,
Show me the glimpse, the end of tunnel
Show me the light, that Eden fruit
Show me the path by man created
Which leads the way out of dark,
Leaving death and sufferings behind
And I will cease to bite and bark…
Heart, brain and mind under the northern hemisphere currently are within Sagittarius’ realm of insight, who’s getting use of it?
https://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2018/12/fire-on-three-levels-resonating-with.html
Dear mundo, if you are so kind and translate this poem into English :
Geist und Ewigkeit
von ioan
Ich fliege leise mit dem Wind
Wie tausend Schwalben in September
Verlasse bald mein Haus, mein Blind
Die alle immer fremder werden
Der Geist will wissen noch warum,
Warum bin ich so weit gekommen,
Warum hat alles mit der Zeit zu tun
Und alles werden bald verloren?
Die Sterne wissen, doch sie schweigen
Sie tanzen leise, weit und breit
Die Seelen lachen oder weinen
Nur der Geist ist nicht bereit
Für die lange Ewigkeit…
That’s a beautiful poem!
My German through terrible is good enough to read and enjoy it.
Thanks!
(yes, the universe, the stars know, they say, but we cannot…for life itself is transient and in constant flux… That poem expresses something to me that I hammered out in metaphysics with terrible effort, but does this to easy perfection)
I assume “Lind” might in English be changed for a term like “sweet”… But await a competent translation.
“Lind” means Bear ( just a thought association from me, with the body – a bit funny) Otherwise I’m glad you like it, thank you !
well, after so much fun : lind means in this case lamb-like ( and this is serious. forgive my childish joke ! I did it because I wrote this poem after reading Lavorv’s interview – therfore the Bear )
We shall have more fun when a real German will translate it (mundo ?) I’m just a mixture who lives in central-eastern Eu.
I’m glad for any wise child in the cosmic vineyard.
I loved Lavrov’s interview so much, it’s such a bright
modest commmon sense in this man, he awoke me
2013 with his taking the wind out of the sails of
the warmongers.
Thanks.
My Oxford Duden Dictionary does not give for “Lind” the noun word “Bear”. As adjective maybe “mild” or “gentle” , and of course as a noun “Lime” is what Oxford tells us.
But the German I know is terrible – so I suppose “Lind” is a colloquial usage… Always stuff to learn. I have nearly zero colloquial German. I am as a senile child with this beautiful language, so “bear” with me ;) please.
I enjoy RT German channel and old DDR films on YT…so much lost! And with that loss the US went nuts…as Silard (and I too, as a teen-aged “Roule”) , forecast would happen.)
Many of my school-mates were Ashkenazi Jews, (“Yekkes” is the pejorative), so Yiddish and German were around me, but I did not study…pity!
Did OK in Latin though…
“Lind/Bear” > I shall keep this. Thanks again!
cheers parrhesiastes ! funny day for me isn’t it ? usually I write poems in a note-book, now I opened my note-book and find out the following : ” Verlasse bald mein Haus, mein Blind ” there we are !
Funny, funny, funny things may happen….am I on the good old road to dementia ???? seems to me a bit early…fun, fun, fun..
In terms of meaning, semantic value, I’d take a liberal and licensed view and say that’s “get outa my house blind man!” – as the crackers in Texas put it to Mexico, one supposes… Not very polite, but it could be…be a jocular and humorous thing to say. It seems to me “hard”. “Just Business, pal”, but fair.
Interesting that this seems to be, more or less, what the Syrian/Russian achievements has “said” to Imperial Expeditions… One imagines the Oracle might have said this at Delphi to…Xerxes perhaps?
(NB “Cracker” is a mildly pejorative referent to white middle and lower class members, often “racists” (and often not!) in the US Southern (Federally occupied) States.
Not of course word for word. Just my take on the meaning.
But I do not grasp the intended values…alas!
What’s the “tone” of the note-book entry, please…?
My notebook is a paper notebook, a simple, ordinary one. The House means the body, the Blind is the mind, which is blinded in his house : I fly slowly with the wind, like thousand swallows in september, leaving soon my home, my blind, they (which) become more and more strange (alien) (to me).
thanks for the key to the ‘blind’
‘Get out of my house blind man’ (Oracle to Xerxes)
welcome living spirit
“Cracker” in the Old South during the slavery times referred to the man with the whip and the sound it made; CRACK! A whip makes the crack sound as the tip breaks the sound barrier of approximately 1100 feet per second. The small end of the whip does this as the main body is jerked back. It can cut flesh. The crack of a bullet in combat or pulling targets in the pits on a rifle range is the same if it is over 1100 FPS.
That makes more sense… So perhaps the translated “Lind” in poem might be something like I took… as one might say “my sweetie”…
I fell for the joke, and it was fun.
Thanks.
p
It’s this bright a week …
ioan, paraegorio …
wir sind wilde sanfte alte Kinder
we are gently wild old childs
just sowing seeds for coming generations
silent circle of the old souls, doing their job
at the edge of the camp
well ioan, your thread is a substantialisation of the brightness
of these two weeks , Mundo told of
Firstly I’m touched by a soul, knowing only my words,
saying Mundo, please try, matter is:
My English after 6 years in school, and one week in London 60 years ago, was reborn with the “tectonic shift under Wall St.” of 2008, intensified with Novorossia 2014 and then the Saker, but only is a writen one lacking English -speaking folks in my current mandala.
Ok, my pleasure:
ioan on December 20, 2018 · at 6:40 am EST/EDT
Dear mundo, if you are so kind and translate this poem into English :
Geist und Ewigkeit
von ioan
Ich fliege leise mit dem Wind
Wie tausend Schwalben in September
Verlasse bald mein Haus, mein Blind
Die alle immer fremder werden
Der Geist will wissen noch warum,
Warum bin ich so weit gekommen,
Warum hat alles mit der Zeit zu tun
Und alles werden bald verloren?
Die Sterne wissen, doch sie schweigen
Sie tanzen leise, weit und breit
Die Seelen lachen oder weinen
Nur der Geist ist nicht bereit
Für die lange Ewigkeit…
Spirit and forever
from iaon
Silently drifting with the wind
Like thousands of swallows in September
Soon leaving my house I’m
leaving my blind
Increasingly strange to remember
Spirit still asking the question, why
Why did it promote me so far
Why is it and must be all stuff of time
Getting lost too soon off par
Knowing Stars keep their silence
Quietly dancing far and wide
Souls are laughing or they whine
But the spirit is not enough bright
For the long journey into ‘ Ewigkeit’
(foreverness)
“lind” , linde Lüfte, to me are balmy breezes
Cheers you crazy poets
parrhesiastes, dear old child
“I suppose “Lind” is a colloquial usage”
no, it’s not, it has been forgotten it’s out of use, maybe only in amateur-poems
to a sweetheart.
Like you, the other way round, I lack colloquial English, but the writen one I like it more and more, experiencing, that the language-spirit oftener does’nt allow me to translate my German blog into English, I then have to compose the ‘diary’ entirely new and it uses to be a third in length compared to the German one. It’s a loss and a gain, I’m lucky to have that experience.
By the way, ‘ parrhesiastes’ , are they the condoning ones?
Good to have you in the cafe.
Actually my dear father-in-law, a great man, was known as “Bear” within our family, as a term of endearment.
He was in the Pacific, and a survivor of the Island Campaigns including Okinawa, and an Heroic Man.
Withal, Bear and Sweetie have nearly the same meaning ’round here…in fact.
‘for life itself is transient and in constant flux…’
true in the sense of Cancer and Pisces, but in Scorpio
the flux crystallizes, and these crystals carry the code of life
im my astrological view
Thank you for the translation – which is excellent – always a great joy to read your words and have an exchange of thoughts with you. Die alte freunde sind wie alte bäume, mit tiefe würzeln – the old friends are like old trees, with deep roots.
The Macedonian “drevno” – ‘ancient’ in English, comes from “drvo” or tree. Giant old trees – we can just imagine to what ages they must have lived – were a marker symbolising ‘eternal’, ‘ancient’ etc. and so the name of one became the name of something else symbolically. In contrast to man’s fleeting moments those trees would have been truly eternal.
btw, ioan, i always took ‘Lind’, from your usage of it ( I wasnt familiar with it until you used it in yr verse) to be ancient trees/forests, which is kinda close to your ‘bear’.
Nice photo: Capricorn from the heights but looking downward.
UNO: The Face of the World Dictatorship – Gerhard Wisnewski
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-onnJOpFqA
AfD Has Merkel really said that? Spectacular action*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuopQDSdLhY&t=926s
You can change the videos’ subtitles to English
*Dr Udo Ulfkotte’s book: “Journalists for Hire”
https://www.amazon.de/Journalists-Hire-How-Buys-News/dp/1944505474
A deafening silence on the cafe on the announced withdrawal from Syria of US forces.
Power has shifted in the USA
It’s time to recognise what President Trump is doing and get behind him.
It’s time to wake up your families and friends.
It’s time for recognition by a contributor to this site.
Anyone?
American forces will not leave Syria. Trump will be overridden. Don’t get your hopes up – though I admit I was pleased when I heard the news. But then I realized – if Trump says he’s going to do something or wants something done, that is a far way from anything actually happening. So sad.
No deafening silence. Last Cafe had it up already.
All serious commenters and jump-the-gun analysts do not trust this move and suspect there is something behind it. Putin said this morning in his marathon speech that the US has said this before and they currently do not see signs of any withdrawal.
France has stated that they will stay and fight (yes, I know!)
Why and why now is the big question, and what is behind that.
Each piece of news that I read stated that the State Dept staff is being withdrawn immediately. So, if those kinds get moved out of the way, well …..
What does it mean that the ‘campaign will continue.’
I guess we’ve learned here that we wait a bit, to see if the words and the actions actually come together somewhere. If in this case the words and actions match, then I say Thank the Heavens!
One of the lessons I learned – by watching the world politics, the grand chess – is to wait. I just jumped a few times in early conclusions which, after a while had to be dropped. How will be this time ? we have to be patient, the order for withdrawal is indeed a big deal, if implemented as we think it will. There is another move, in the market right now, initiated by the fed. Are both moves co-related somehow or they are independent ? question and questions. The Iranians are to have urgent talks with Turkey, related to the US announcement, the French have spoken also their opinion, Britain did the same and Germany too (dissatisfaction) The global market has shown again their dependence on the US, they gone down relentlessly after Dow-Jones,following the Rhythm. Trump and his guard have a great virtual panorama over entire world of economics today, regardless of who speaks what in its internal sphere of the matter, the proof is there to see for everyone – in the markets. And who rules this world if not Money ? And who influences this world if not those who have the Money ? …and Trump is a business man, one of them, who knows how to deal and here lies the “Unknown Trump” who did like to dance with different “partners”, therefore the questions around him.
ioan is always so calm and pragmatic. But me? I feel a rant coming on. OK; so say this withdrawal is what it says it is — just say. Does one really dance around and thank the illegal occupier for leaving? Or do you wait till the occupier leaves, give him a swift kick on the seating area to send him well on his way, and then and only then start dancing your own dance? Perhaps its this pesky internal warrior spirit that I have to contend with lol!
I like your rants amarynth, they have always something to offer.
There is no talk of the removal of Special Forces which are part of the black ops funded by the 21Trillion dollars “missing” from the Pentagon budget among other things. The CIA has its forces there and so do various branches of military intelligence. There is no talk of ending bombing raids nor a cessation of aid to the Kurds.
The State Department has always spoken with forked tongue and acted accordingly and pretended that one hand did not know what the other was doing.
When the Looneylandia offers to rebuild Raqqa which it broke then I will believe in its good intentions . Until then I have only one big statement: “Yawn”.
Trump is massaging his “base” which is totally opposed to troops–their kids and neighbors– as soldiers in foreign countries.
Which demographic groups supporting Trump are against US military intervention abroad? The Republican Party has always had a strong populist representation among military families. Is that the group opposing foreign military adventures? That seems odd to me. It may be true but does it not represent a “mutiny” against their assigned mission? I’d be interested in more details. If it’s true it would seem to call into question the long term effectiveness of US military intervention.
I want to Enter the Great Pyramid Debate and match wits with Chris and Paul in one of the Inner Secret Hidden Chambers of Human Or ET History, inside the Great Pyramid.
(How all these shafts and rooms were pulled off is also on my growing list of Never to Be Completed Homework…..as they are said to generate some kind of cosmic energy …which I could use a little of, these days….to put some kind of dent in all these unknowns
One Great Debater “carried” Christ (“pher”) and the Other Made His New Religion for his Roman Masters and His Own Glory and Successful Fraud, according to Eric Zuesse. But that plaintiff charge needn’t bring Hai low. Another Dead Debater not present here.except in books, asserts that the position of the Great Pile of Blocks (or Rocks) on the 30th Parallell is what is Key, coupled with being precisely on The Same Line as The Temple of Apollo at Baalbek……and the Peak of Mt Ararat….which you would appreciate if you were coming in for a landing….from the 12th Planet. That fourth triangular face I imagine facing NNE toward Ararat,
Because the Jury Is Still Out (or “hung” ) on Zeusse’s “court-admissable forensic evidence” and in any case I don’t take an opposing face position to the others: I stake out a Fourth Debating Position underlying Plato and Paul and The Carrier of Christ at the Square Base of their Cosmically Oriented Triangular Faces…enduring the crushing weight of all evidence from engineering (that I can grasp) to the Mystery of the Teenage Jesus’ attaining Christ Consciousness in Egypt…that is only a rumor I overheard.
That’s HeavyWeight Competition!
In this epic endeavor, completely overmatched, I eagerly anticipate Utter Defeat and Humiliation….and Endless Learning!
I finished Paul Hai’s Raising Stones Book a day or two ago, so my Brain Lobes are ready to roll!
not quite Bro, you have to read all the slides that make up my translation of Ezekiel Chapter 1.
Then I want you to blend Ezekiel with Herodotus … convergence … closure.
What took me a year with much luck along the way, you can read within one hour.
… Bro, you have to read to get your monies worth ;-)
I started this Cafe because JJ is overly enthusiastic … all good.
Those big lifts are interesting but once the convergence is acknowledged then that’s it.
There is another method other than “see-saw” to lift the granite beams, but I will let our Cafe engineers ponder what that may be … and it’s really simple, quicker and safer than “see-saw” lifting. ( think steps … platforms … tiers and pulleys … again )
There is an enduring story of the ‘Teenage Jesus’, being closely allied with fishermen and so shipping, spending his missing 12 years studying with Druids in Ireland or Anglesey in Wales. Or that he alternatively fetched up in India and studied there. The shipping routes from the ME to the tin mines in Cornwall are well acknowledged with artefacts from much earlier than the relevant time, so evidence of shipping and trading to and from all parts of the world definitely pre-dates his time of birth.
Joseph of Arimathea (a relative) was also supposed to be quite a traveller/trader who fetched up on these shores–but to my mind he could just as easily have fetched up anywhere else, being a sailor.
Against that you have to weigh the cash producing value of relics and well-polished myths to the monasteries which had to support themselves—– so had a vested interest in a good story that glorified (by proxy) the homeland and gave strength and hope to the ordinary people.
This cafe’s Weight Lifting sessions and discussion are quite interesting indeed.
A Psalm to add to the equation…
Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle.
Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory.
Not enough black humor in his teachings, so Ireland was likely not somewhere he spent much, if any time. My kid (studying Aisian history) tells me the Japanese say he was there during his missing time frame, and Japan ‘had’ a large Christian following till Sammy flattened the two biggest Christian Cities. Now who controlled the US nuclear program and why in the name of ‘god’ would they kill a bunch of christian Japanese instead of Imperial ones? Hmmm……..dead Jesus freaks, cuo bono?
They had plans for the Imperial ones, used them in Korea after Japan surrendered and intended their use in China.
No black humour in that scenario at all, but Koreans can generally match the Irish at finding something to laugh at.
Take a look here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holger_Kersten
This author wrote some books about Jesus regarding the unknown years. It may be interesting for some, at least to dig for different views. I read the book “Jesus lived in India” still back in the 80’s in socialist Romania. I found it interesting, almost plausible at that time.
I didn’t read the books but did pick up on the theories swirling about. Who can say for sure about anything so distant in time?
I mentioned Arimathea as part of the story was that he accompanied ‘Teenage Jesus’ as a guide on his travels and planted his staff (a sort of walking stick) in Glastonbury. It grew into a thorn tree, prickly like a holly tree, and a very ancient tree still grows on the site.
But its Glastonbury, full of sacred wells, the Tor and other mystical sites, including Arthur’s supposed sleeping place under the hill, waiting for England’s hour of need so he can save us, the once and future king. Camelot is supposed to be situated nearby in the Gloucester levels, a swamp or water meadows, long since drained.
Tourists flock there and the cash registers sing kerching! kerching!
For me it is very interesting and a bit unhinged (crazy) at the same time. I like the stories anyway.
My first history lessons, in my father’s arms, were stories about Alfred…
I did the same for my son.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alfred-king-of-Wessex
I have read somewhere that in modern times, early Victorian I think – his grave was destroyed in the excavations for a prison…they found a lead coffin and all the stuff…taken for salvage and lost, one presumes.
Shall we take this destruction as an omen?
Does Heaven appreciate literary style? Of course!
One imagines Macbeth is a “Hit in Heaven” these days, as the gods watch people try to stop Time, again!
Jesus at Glastonbury? Would not surprise me at all.
And the story featured in Blake’s poem ‘Jerusalem,’ often sung as a hymn:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54684/jerusalem-and-did-those-feet-in-ancient-time
A commenter elsewhere remarks that this is the right sort of patriotism,
‘Blake noting that the England he lived in was a hellscape of abuse and exploitation and that the people should rise to build their Jerusalem rather than blindly accepting it as good simply because they lived there. A belief in people.’
The waterfront bar and whore-house is the telegraph station news store. Now, and then. You wanna spy on a navy? A merchant marine? Open a waterfront establishment…
In those days (and today) that’s where the truth comes to the ear… It’s working class solidarity…but as Papa Hemingway said, you do need as “BS detector”
I see the historical Jesus as a fairly typical Jew of this class, exceptional because he was the guy around which coalesced a “supersaturated” corruption — that how revolutions happen – phase change – a bit like we see in any revolution… In this instance Rome, after many decades, finally co-opted the revolution and created feudalism, which stopped, it for a time…
Did Jesus hang around drunks and waterfront whores? Of course. And he heard from sailors their stories. Maybe he shipped out an walked the turf of Cornwall and saw the tin mines. Why not?
Most sailors were in those days (officers too) very young. Boys, really.
Studying the History of the “cold war”…
Lavrov recently said that of all the US presidents he would like to speak with it is Truman that interests him… I would say the interesting thing is how Truman got to replace Wallace…and assume Lavrov would ask that question himself.
This Stalin speech http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1947-2/cold-war/cold-war-texts/stalin-election-speech/ was seen in many “clubs”, including very decent clubs, of the US establishment, as “Declaration of WW3” (Wm. O. Douglass said this).
I do not see the speech that way at all. Stalin knew stuff that the “clubs” did not know, about the “allies”…most of that stuff is now public..like the plans to liquidate USSR via a-bombs…but there are literally tons of documents Beria and Joe saw…
What say y’all?
According to Marshall Zhukov, in his memoire, Uncle Joe had been caught on the back foot (surprised) by Adolf’s invasion and then took two years to mechanise the army to the point of being able to mount a viable defence. According to Z again, who was a career soldier from the ranks in the Tsarist army, this was due to his not listening to his very capable generals who had tried to warn and prepare him and decimating their ranks for political reasons during the 30’s purges.
A one-man band has a very limited repertoire.
Z himself was seen as a rival to Uncle (who could brook no competition by all accounts) and was banished to the boonies, accused of trying to start a personality cult of his own (the irony! he had the earned respect of his men)—- this after masterminding the successful war effort. I am quite surprised that Z managed to survive Uncle at all, but he did and enjoyed his retirement before he died in his bed as the peasant he was always happy to remain.
So I guess that the experience with Adolf and the carnage that ensued made Stalin, rightly, a lot less confident in his supposed allies even before the A bomb was tested as a display of power for his benefit. I think he knew it was coming, definitely, and that he had somehow to deal with the threat, but I don’t think he was threatening war himself.
Yes, Zhukov said that. He was correct. And yes, Zhukov was popular and this caused Stalin to go after Comrade Z… Who himself had, for example, looted guns he’d kept as war souvenirs, so when they searched his digs… Yes, all true. ..
But in ’46 Joe and Beria were reading intelligence materials from a vast (and unofficially permitted by FDR ?) spying network, both above and below board, inside the US and UK…He knew, for example, that the US sought to prevent the USSR from getting atomic materials, U ore, and designed to maintain a sole control of “the bomb”. He knew that some elements of the US sought to attack the USSR with A-bombs, he knew that the UK examined the feasibility of turning the defeated German Army into an allied force to invade USSR ….
and so on.
Joe was saying what he knew, not what he suspected.
These facts are public, but ignored in “the west”, as they do not fit the myth…
Yes, the Barbarossa attack caught him unprepared…but the speech in ’46 was motivated by facts, not mere suspicions alone.
It is interesting to observe that to-day all the several primary powers are capitalist…and as Joe said,
: “The point is that the uneven development of capitalist countries usually leads, in the course of time, to a sharp disturbance of the equilibrium within the world system of capitalism, and that group of capitalist countries regards itself as being less securely provides with raw materials and markets usually attempts to change the situation and to redistribute “spheres of influence” in its own favor — by employing armed force. As a result of this, the capitalist world is split into two hostile camps, and war breaks out between them.”
Well, here we are…just as Joe predicted…even though he did not imagine Russia would have become capitalist…the principle still operates.
The american “withdrawal” from Syria is a big surprise. I initially thought it was an exaggeration of a troop positioning adjustment. I’m skeptical still. A few quick thoughts on this as I am pressed for time.
Will the americans simply be replaced with nato and various “coalition” troops? Will american special forces and cia types remain, commanding a renewed terrorist proxy offensive? What was agreed to by turkey and the usa in meets this last week (rumours of also gulen to be extradited)?
Will this pullout be counterbalanced by increased u.s. troop deployments elsewhere? Such as near Iran, Venezuela and Nicaragua, in Africa?
Reaction to the pullout news is revealing. In the usa, both neocons and “liberals” are having tantrums. Essentially, these are colonial extensions of israeli politics with neocons representing likud and related, and “liberals” israeli labor and related. This means the main political forces within israel and their external zionazi support network are against this pullout. Or at least want to project that view, if psywar.
If one has a genuine understanding of the present situation, one should be able to make reasonably accurate predictions. Else there is no point, anyone can say anything.
This guy says the withdrawal will facilitate a prearranged attack on Israel which will provoke an overwhelming response by Israel. His sources say the armaments etc have already been put in place and are nearly ready to go. He has more or less staked his cred on this so should be interesting.
We shall see.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhtMnI7qkH4
We will go home because we go broke’ – Ron Paul on US troops withdrawal from Syria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhsiSLKkle8
Valentin Vasilescu @ Voltaire opines at length in re the possible “exit” of the “Glorious Army of West” from their illegal positions…
In part (my bad French translation) “The US Air Force will be defeated if it faces the Syrian Arab Army, which now has Russian anti-aircraft equipment, the best in the world. It has no choice but to leave before humiliation.”
Reminds me of the Persian defeat at Salamis…
l’intégralité de l’essai en français : http://www.voltairenet.org/article204426.html
Very interesting read in that link you posted. There are military details which, according to the author, are closely related to the decision of US withdrawal, recommended for those interested. Thank you parrhesiastes for the link !
You’re very welcome. Glad you too found it valuable. I suspect “withdrawal” precedes attack by other means.
I have thoughts about the implications…stuff like this story is to be found in V Klemperer’s Diaries from W2…and this makes me suspect that the actual frank and honest way to describe a “US withdrawal” from Syria might be this “US undertakes massive re-alignment of expeditionary forces”.
Soooo,,, “US undertakes massive re-alignment of expeditionary forces”. What does this imply?The soldiers don’t cease to exist, they go somewhere and get re-assigned. But more deeply, I ask: “What, if any, change in Policy attends this “withdrawal”? And: “Is there evidence that the “withdrawal” is attendant to a change in Strategy rather than Policy?
Does the Goal stay the same, but the strategy changes?
So one may suspect. One reason to expect this lies with the heterogeneous political structure – feuding clubs – in “the western partners”. Several “parties” exist that have the option of creating Gladio and worse events…gas…all sorts of awful things that would tend to ruin any intended Peace…
It’s structural…like Grandpa Karl said. Stalin said much the same…
Stalin: It would be wrong to think that the Second World War broke out accidentally, or as a result of blunders committed by certain statesmen, although blunders were certainly committed. As a matter of fact, the war broke out as the inevitable result of the development of world economic and political forces on the basis of present-day monopolistic capitalism. Marxists have more than once stated that the capitalist system of world economy contains the elements of a general crisis and military conflicts, that, in view of that, the development of world capitalism in our times does not proceed smoothly and evenly, but through crises and catastrophic wars. The point is that the uneven development of capitalist countries usually leads, in the course of time, to a sharp disturbance of the equilibrium within the world system of capitalism, and that group of capitalist countries regards itself as being less securely provides with raw materials and markets usually attempts to change the situation and to redistribute “spheres of influence” in its own favor — by employing armed force. As a result of this, the capitalist world is split into two hostile camps, and war breaks out between them.
(1946 / 09 feb)
best. p
People ask about the name > (from wiki) The Parrhesiastes is the person who says everything. Thus, as an example, in his discourse “On the Embassy,” Demosthenes says: It is necessary to speak with parrhesia, without holding back at anything without concealing anything.
Seemed appropriate…been this way all my life – it’s cost me, too.
Yeah, and this is the place where you can say it freely…not just you but many, including me. The costs of barking in the real life is yet another story, I think each of us has its own experiences – if they could be written in books…
The same piece in English:
http://www.voltairenet.org/en
Meyssan has a lot of translation options in a bar at the very top
In 3 hours 43 minutes Putin answered 53 journalists – Russia 24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PANvU4XqXVc
Great press conference of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin – Russia 1
Part 1 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9GI7OlLpPQ
Part 2 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XnnfwTIkmA
Part 3 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99F9GRJ1U2Y&t=30s
Part 4 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjw_MgNkMds
Part 5 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smol8R_qbEY
You can change the videos’ subtitles to English
Some laudatory lines inspired by Ioan and Mr. “Not-a-Yes man”
A Yes man-Not!
A warrior diplomat holding firm his post
heads above foes in skills and smarts
speaking reason simply wins our hearts
calmly, steadily without vainglorious boast
Great description in poetic lines tera, thank you for sharing it !
I am surprised that there is no talk about Trump pulling out of Syria.
After the news came out, I sent an email to Trump on the White House website. I thanked him for what he did. I think all patriotic Americans should do likewise.
Now, I am not naive. I know that the deep state may still overrule him on this but at least he deserves a “thank you” for trying.
Mike, what are you talking about. Did you even read this Cafe – or did someone again declare a meme drop and a bunch of meme dumpers are galloping past dumping memes? If not, read this cafe.
Mounting tensions
Strategic cornerstones
Raising hope
Weight on the back foot
Cool indifference
Upstart fools !
Trumperites !
Ras
Time for some humour with a ‘twist’
One Winter’s Eve
on a dark and cold night
in a rundown old town,
on the seventh of the seventh
in the land of the crown
a young man he tried hard
to not stumble and fall –
all those words he had cull’d;
to remember them all
how his heart it did pine
for a woman’s sweet charms,
how he’d dreamed of the day
he would lie in her arms!
there she was at her window
as she was round this time,
his poor blood it did race
as he went for his rhyme…
well she turn’d with her gaze
and that look he loved well –
what’s that godawful racket
and can it be quell’d?
from the shadows there came
her girlfriend at the hop
and that bucket they heaved,
along with the mop!
so he made his way home
with a shocking headache,
with his clothes that were sodden
and a chill ‘in the make’
as he lay in his bed
all alone quite perplexed,
with the moon an idea…
why, next time I’ll just text!
Please permit my indulgence, but with a proper edit, so much better.
one winter’s eve
on a dark and cold night
in a rundown old town
on a seventh of the seventh
in a land of the crown
a young man tried so hard
not to stumble and fall
all those words he’d cull’d
to remember them all
how his heart it did pine
for a woman’s sweet charms
how he dream’d of the day
he would lie in her arms
there she was at her window
as she was round this time
his poor blood it did race
what would happen this time?
well she turn’d with her gaze
and that look he loved well –
what’s that godawful racket
and can it be quell’d?
from the shadows there came
her girlfriend she hopp’d
and that bucket they heaved
all along with the mop!
so he made his way home
with a shocking headache
his clothes all sodden –
a chill in the make
as he lay in his bed
quite alone and perplex’d
came the moon, why
next time I’ll just text!
Dimitar, I’m very glad you are doing your poems so well, they will be better and better !
I’m a little confused. I made what may have been the first comment on this Movable Feast thread, simply asking, “So, Do you think Trump really is pulling out of Syria?”
In never made it to the thread? Was this censored? Makes no sense to me. Hardly a way to encourage future interaction.
Posted above: “The ‘Moveable Feast’ is an open thread where readers can post wide ranging observations, articles, rants, off topic and have animate discussions of the issues of the day.”
Welcome to the cafe, Dean. Sometimes a comment slips away between being posted and making it to the thread. I’d say its a case of this…
Welcome Dean to the Moveable Cafe ! answering to your question : as you may read above, we are talking about this question (among other intermezzo’s) but really, what can be said more about that withdraw ? it is simply to early to have a clear account on that matter. The events are heating up again, a lot of news are coming in : Israel has announced that the tunnels made by Hesbollah from Lebanon is a declaration of war, the US Supreme Court accuses Chinese officials of hacking, stealing data from Us and world-wide businesses, US Defense minister ,Mattis has resigned, Erdogan met Rouhani in Ankara, the oil prices drop sharply nearing 50 US$, etc. The real question is : what is behind this withdrawal ? (if there will be) The cards are hidden for the time being, a matter of time and we shall find out.
From a military point of view……over reached, over stretched, over priced, way over budget, over blown, over the top…………….not happening, over his dead body. The swamp is wide, in some places, deep, and, as all good soldiers know, regardless of what you are doing, your boots, at times, will over flow and take on water. Then when respite permits, you take them off to dry. Draining the ‘swamp’ may never be completely acheivable, but any safety for the little critters that must drink from that swamp is better than being breakfast for some ignorant beastie.
I think you are overreacting. Stuff happens. To jump to the conclusion that it was censored, especially since similar comments were posted, is… jumping to conclusions. And cracks about ‘encouraging future interaction’ are a bit snarky and precious. Report to the mods that your post didn’t go through and leave it at that.
Spirit and Eternity by Ioan ( German native. Hope it helps. Lovely thoughts)
I fly quietly with the wind
like thousand swallows in September.
Leave soon my house, my Blind ( look-out place)
who all always become like strangers…
The spirit still will want to know ..why
why has everything to do with time
and all will be lost soon?
The stars know, but they are silent
They dance quietly, wide and big
The souls laugh or cry
Only the spirit isn’t ready
For the long eternity
Thank you Katrin for your help, please come more often here, you’re always welcome !
the lamb has its meadow
its meadow of yore,
the farmer to open
and close the barn door,
its mother nearby
over baby to pore –
but I have no one
no one to implore
the fish has the sea
the sea to explore,
wandering forever
never reaching the shore,
to float on the surface
or sleep on it’s floor –
but I have no home
no home to explore
the rooster has its throat
its throat undead,
to usher in the day
and wake the farmstead,
a comb and a wattle
to keep the hens wed –
but I have nothing
to give in good stead
the swans have their wings
their wings to fly,
when the time comes
they take to the sky,
a song to sing
when their time is nigh –
but I have no wings
nor can I fly
the horse cools it’s heels
down in the creekbed,
big bushy tail
swatting flies on the head,
some shady grove
that old homestead…
but I have nowhere,
nowhere to lay my head
the rooster has its throat
its throat undead
to usher in the day
and wake the farmstead
a comb and a wattle
and the ‘hens in the shed’ –
but I have nothing
nothing in stead
comb – fleshy growth on top of the rooster’s head
wattle – two oblong fleshy growths hanging at the chin. Bright red is healthy, vital…
Thank you for your nice welcoming words. Wonderful poets and thoughtful people post here.
The word ” lind or linde” is indeed old-fashioned German. It means “gentle with a touch of softness”
Small posts sometimes don’ make it. Sometimes larger ones don’t. It’s the price of having good moderation.
I have a speculative answer for your question in the form of a question:
Did the brief stop-over of the Tu-160 in Venezuela send a message about the threat of a viable civilizational model meeting up with a renascent Bolivarism?
Syrian War Report – Dec. 20, 2018: U.S. Is Withdrawing Troops From Syria
https://southfront.org/syrian-war-report-dec-20-2018-us-is-withdrawing-troops-from-syria/
“On December 19, President Donald Trump once again used Twitter to announce that the US had defeated ISIS and that the US would be withdrawing its troops from Syria.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders confirmed that the US has started returning troops home and transiting to “the next phase of this campaign”. She recalled that “the United States and our allies stand ready to re-engage at all levels to defend American interests whenever necessary, and we will continue to work together to deny radical Islamist terrorists’ territory, funding, support and many means of infiltrating our borders”.
No further details were provided officially. According to media reports, State Department personnel were set to be evacuated from Syria within 24 hours. The alleged timeframe for troops pull-out, there are at least 2,000 US service members, is 60-100 days.
However, taking into account the wording of the statement and the US experience of “troops withdrawal” from Afghanistan and Iraq, it can be expected that the US will reduce the number of personnel deployed on the ground, but will not withdraw fully.
US Special Operations Forces will likely remain on the ground and additional forces of US-linked private military companies will be deployed to “defend American interests”.
The US announcement caused hysteria on social media among opponents of the Damascus government, Russia and Iran as well as among supporters of Kurdish armed groups – the YPG, YPJ and the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The pro-opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) clamed said that the SDF leadership was “shocked” and described the decision as a “stab in the back”.
Aldar Khalil, co-president of the executive body of the Movement for a Democratic Society (TEV-DEM), even came up with the statement that the SDF had never placed their hopes on foreign troops.
The TEV-DEM is a coalition of several Kurdish parties, the most powerful of them is the Democratic Union Party (PYD). Representatives of these parties lead the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC), which is the political wing of the SDF.
It’s interesting to observe how every time when Washington announces a possible withdrawal from Syria the SDF political attitude moves from “the US is our only partner” to “we are ready for negotiations” and then returns back if the withdrawal does not happen.
If the withdrawal really does take place, it will open a window of opportunity for the SDF to negotiate a possible political deal with the Damascus government. On the other hand, if the SDF continues to pursue an anti-Damascus policy and to release unsustainable demands, the group may run out of time and face another Turkish military operation, like has happened in Afrin.”
ioan’s poem once more !
I fly quietly with the wind
As a thousand swans in September
Soon to leave my house, my body
That were all always foreign
The spirit will still know for what
For what have I come so far
Why has everything to do with Time
And all will be soon lost ?
The stars know, in their silence
They dance softly, far and wide
The Souls laugh or weep
Only the spirit is not ready
For eternity everlasting…
The Spirit and the Eternity are always One, and Spirit we all carry through Life from the first wondrous intake of breath to the very last. Why the stars are silent and the spirit unprepared, each person has to learn on the way.
Ras
Someone on some other thread remarked that ‘god’ is not in us, we are in ‘god’, which I hold to be an obvious truth, also.
Our problems start with thinking, the categorisation of everything for use or profit, good/evil, the mental walls constructed, which are then taken for reality rather than the man-made constructs that they always are, which have no existence in reality.
Its a long slow process taking down the walls, particularly if you like staying reasonably sane and having a life while doing it, and we do need to think in this world that we have constructed, so new walls are going up all the time.
Its a Sysiphean task, which is why it must be personally chosen, (and personally resolved, if possible) not imposed on anyone, though lots of takers fall into it on the way to somewhere else as it is fascinating. Trust, and trustworthiness, which is in very short supply, is vital to the undertaking, hence the long time frames.
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Sisyphean+task
There was a chap, Alfred Kozybski, wrote some interesting stuff in ‘Science and Sanity’ around a century ago about thinking and the knots it can tie us into. His most famous phrase : ‘the map is not the territory.’
@Ras
“Why the stars are silent and the spirit unprepared, each person has to learn on the way.” that is. A man can listen to others advise and teachings, at the end, it is the own experience who shall decide the outcome of its own spiritual evolution – a lengthy but necessary process, as one minion said very well.
My first question was: ‘How long will this take?’
And the answer: ‘Your whole life.’
Still sounds good to me.
how long will this take… there is no end to it… only extended or short periods known as sleep…
We have seen how the Injustices against General Michael Flynn were Exacerbated by a judge who seemed that he did not know certain Facts, regarding that matter, and Americans have their Opinions as to Why, or if it was All an Act, and they think that the President’s Lawyers may Recommend that General Michael Flynn be Pardoned Immediately, because of the Slander against him by judge Sullivan, which Would Greatly Hinder his ability to Receive a Fair Trial, and judge Sullivan may have heard that there are Americans who have heard of the American Shadow Regime, and of their Swamp Puppets.
There Could be some Americans who think that it Could have been Vice President George Bush the first, as the Secret, Yet Real President of America who Initially Appointed judge Sullivan to the District of Columbia Superior Court, even though the Official Story from those who Lie whenever they Need to, or whenever they Want to, is that it Allegedly was the Actor and Resident of the White House, Ronald Reagan, who initially appointed judge Sullivan to the District of Columbia Superior Court in 1994, and who was then named to the District Appeals Court by President George Bush the first, of American Shadow Regime fame, and who was then appointed to the Federal Bench by President Bill Clinton of Swamp Puppet fame, and so there are Americans Wondering if judge Sullivan is of the Bush and Clinton Swamp Dynastic Dictatorships, because both appointed him to different positions, and perhaps judge Sullivan Also Knows other People who are some of the Swamp Puppet creatures, if the American Shadow Regime Puppet Masters allowed them to identify themselves as such to him, and that because of these things, then it is Necessary to briefly Examine the background to this matter, which is the following.
There are Americans who think that Ronald Reagan was Not the Real President of America, but that Vice President George Bush the first was the Real President of America at that time.
We Know that the father of President George Bush the first, Prescott Bush, was an Investment Banker and an American Senator, and that this gave him the Influence and the Connections for his descendants to be Presidents, in a Dynastic Dictatorship, because Prescott Bush was Very Closely Associated with the American Shadow Regime.
The Office of Presidency was obtained by his son President George Bush the first, who was Also a Director of the CIA, and that was before he became the official Vice President and then after that, he became the Official President, and the Office of the Presidency was Also obtained with his grandson President George Bush the second, and so I think that Vice President George Bush the first was the Secret but Real President of America during the ‘Reagan Administration’, and that Ronald Reagan was an Actor who Knew his lines that were given to him by the American Shadow Regime, who were using Vice President George Bush the first to pass those lines and written notes on to the Professional Actor, and Pretend president, Ronald Reagan who may have also used a teleprompter.
We Know that Ronald Reagan was a Hollywood Actor, and where it is Correctly Claimed that there is Money, and there is Filming Equipment in Hollywood, and so any Reagan appointed judges or other appointees, are More Likely to be George Bush the first Appointments who are used Dishonestly Only Sparingly as Obvious Shadow Regime judges, or other Obvious Shadow Regime appointees for when the Shadow Regime Needs them, and General Michael Flynn was recently in front of a Court that was presided over by what is referred to as a Reagan appointed judge, but there Could be Americans who think that he Could be a Vice President George Bush the first and Shadow Regime appointed judge, who may have heard of a George Bush the first Film Set, and who Knew that Ronald Reagan was Much Better than he was for getting Votes to make ‘Vice’ President George Bush the first, the Secret, Yet Real President of America, using a Pretend president Ronald Reagan.
There are Many Americans who think judge Sullivan Should act Honourably now after this Injustice to General Michael Flynn, because of what they Perceive to be his Disgraceful Deviation in Proper Legal Conduct, and Precedents that he set with the Dismissal of Senator Ted Stevens corruption Allegations, yet one Senator is Not that important to the American Shadow Regime as they can Bribe or Blackmail others, but there is Only one President, and the American Shadow Regime wants to Undemocratically Control the Elected President, and I mentioned that the American Shadow Regime allows for what appears to be Honourable Conduct, and where their Puppet would be Instructed/Ordered to Deviate when it is Needed or Instructed, so as to minimize Raising Suspicions or Questions, and there are Americans who think that this occurred with how judge Sullivan Presided over the Ted Stevens matter, compared to General Michael Flynn, and that he Should Self Impeach himself for either Deliberately Lying or for Laziness as to his Profession, and for judge Sullivan Self Impeachment means for him to Retire from being a judge, who Knows that Ronald Reagan Knew that in Hollywood there is Money that Could be used for Bribery, and where there is Filming Equipment, and the proposed future Attorney General could also have been compromised or puppetized by a possible Bush/Reagan Film Set Situation, because President George Bush the first was a Director of the CIA, who have miniature Recording and Filming Devices, and there are Americans wondering how much does the former Attorney General who Recused himself from his duties, and who resigned after the Election, and how much does he owe his Career to the George Bush the first/Reagan Situation.
There are Americans who think that what they see as Highly Unusual actions from what Should be and Probably is a More Learned judge, is Perceived by some as the judge wanting to Improperly and Knowingly assist the Illegal, Bribed, and Corrupt Mueller ‘investigation’, with Unethically trying to give it more time to try to invent Lies in order to continue to Embezzle American Taxpayers’ Money, because if there was Russian Collusion in the 2016 Election, then it would have been mentioned in the 2018 Election.
We Know that judge Sullivan has been following the Situation with the Illegal, Bribed, and Corrupt Mueller ‘investigation’.
It is Highly Likely that judge Sullivan Knows that after the Illegal, Bribed and Corrupt Mueller ‘investigation’ had Embezzled 20 Million Dollars from the Hard Working American Taxpayers, that Mueller then Visited the Manhattan Madam, with the Support of the Bill Clinton type of Male Democrats, to Allegedly investigate Alleged collusion, but Many Americans have a different opinion to what is claimed by Mueller, and the Bill Clinton type of Male Democrats.
This is Why there are Americans who think that the Acting Attorney General Should ask Mueller to show all or any of the evidence that he may have found regarding Alleged collision between any foreign Country or Countries, and with any of the 2 Major Political Parties in the 2016 Election, and if Mueller does Not say that there is Much Evidence that Britain and the Democrats Colluded in the 2016 American Election, then the Acting Attorney General Should Appoint a Special Counsel, to Investigate the Mueller Team, that will have to step aside during that Investigation, so as to be better placed to Cooperate with and Not to disrupt the New Investigation, Including how much the British Funnelled into the Clinton Campaign, because the British are far more Effective with Election tactics with hundreds of years of having Elections, and who Understand their former Colony Much Better than what Russia does, and the British Could Donate to the Clinton Foundation for the Election, and yet the Democrats lost the 2016 Election, and it was because Hillary Clinton Cheated Senator Sanders for nominee for Presidential Candidate, and that because of these Facts, then the Illegal, Bribed, and Corrupt Mueller ‘investigation’ has No justification, for ‘investigating’ a Known Hoax that Alleges that the President colluded with Russia to win the 2016 Election, and that the Special Counsel Should present his work to the American People.
It has been said that the Mueller ‘investigation’ is under investigation for Corrupt and Illegal practices, and People have thought that it is better for them Not to cooperate with the Mueller Team and the FBI who have Shown that they are Willing to use Illegal and Unethical tactics to Slander and set up Innocent People, and so some People will Plead the Fifth Amendment to Every question, and say that Mueller Should try to Prove his suspicions, and that they will Spend only the minimum, on Lawyers if it ever goes to Court, because they Perceive that Mueller is acting as a Corrupt Criminal, and this is Why there are Many Americans who think that Presidential Pardons Should be given to as Many People who have been Unjustly caught up in this Travesty of Justice that has been a Stain on America’s Democracy.
The Wikileaks twitter feed as well as the twitter feed for the legal team for Julian Assange was turned off for a bit, but there was an outcry and it is now on again.
BREAKING: UN issues statement demanding UK immediately cease trying to arrest Julian Assange
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1076097591593652225
https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=24042&LangID=E
There were also rumors that Julian would be ‘snatched’ over this Christmas period.
Hopefully to be snatched oops rescued by FSB…that would be one in the eye for Skripals affair….I wonder if FSB actually know where they are….betchya been working on that….?
Whipping therapy cures depression and suicide crises
https://zen.yandex.ru/media/pravdareport/whipping-therapy-cures-depression-and-suicide-crises-5b87a748c1ccb200a9cfcf75?from=channel
”The whipping therapy becomes much more efficient when a patients receives the punishment from a person of the opposite sex. The effect is astounding: the patient starts seeing only bright colors in the surrounding world, the heartache disappears, although it will take a certain time for the buttocks to heal, of course,” Sergei Speransky told the Izvestia newspaper.
A bit tongue-in-cheek, I think, given away by the suggestion at the end of re-introducing the rack, but there is some well-known common sense to the theory.
Simply put, as a layperson, overwhelming the pain receptors in the brain that relate to one area of the body will divert attention from the pain receptors dealing with a different area. Perception is all and, hey presto! depression vanishes.
Similar effects for similar reasons can be obtained by putting oneself in life-threatening situations where the rush of naturally occurring chemically-induced fear in the body then produces a resulting life-affirming euphoria at surviving (if one manages that) so not to be tried at home, folks. No guarantees in this life.
Fear is a healthy response and ineradicable anyway (those almost instantaneous chemicals again) so best put to good use.
Regular exercise does just as good a job on depression as re-introducing the rack, with less risk of fatalities.
https://history.howstuffworks.com/10-medieval-torture-devices3.htm
And depression is in psychological terms believed to be repressed anger, repressed because of a real fear of retaliation perhaps?
Excerpt from article linked below-worth a read on the insanity of the anti-Russian “justice” system in the US as it prosecuted and persecuted Maria Butina-it was an outrage and a disgrace to “western values”:
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/12/jacob-hornberger/the-disgrace-of-maria-butinas-prosecution/
“But my hunch also is that she finally realized that she couldn’t take a chance. Being 30-years-old and facing the possibility of spending the next 30 years in jail in an American jail would not be very attractive. Pleading out to a failure-to-register charge, with a sentence probably equal to the time she has served in jail, would seem to be the prudent thing to do, especially given the attorney’s fees that could be saved.
Of course, Butina shouldn’t have been charged with anything. First, she clearly wasn’t a spy. Second, her prosecution stems from the severe anti-Russia animus of the U.S. national-security establishment that stretches back to its Cold War need for an official enemy to justify its ever-growing expenditures and largess. And third, there shouldn’t even be a foreign-agent registration law, at least not in a country that purports to be based on freedom of speech.
It’s also a disgrace the way that feds have treated Butina in captivity. For months they have kept her in solitary confinement, which is a form of severe mental torture. That might well be another factor in her decision to plead guilty to the failure-to-register charge. People will often say or do anything to stop torture, especially if there is a good chance of a light jail sentence and of ending the torture by being deported home.”
So if Porkbelly really plans on attacking the Donbas Dec 24th, including NATO navel blockade of Aznov, as per current Bulgarian rumor, is that why all US personel are being removed from Syria and Afghanistanc asap?
“Mystery of Stonehenge cylinders has been solved! Stone ‘drums’ found in a child’s grave were used as an ancient tape measure to plan out the building of the great monument
By Victoria Bell For Mailonline
11:26, 21 Dec 2018, updated 16:56, 21 Dec 2018
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Experts now suggest that pots were actually a tape measure used in Stone Age
Cylinders with intricate patterns were found 130 years ago in child’s grave
Drums were a ‘standard measurement’ used to plan out the ancient stone circles
Wrapping string around each pot revealed they were mathematically related
Ancient cylinders which have baffled experts for more than a hundred years since they were discovered were used for measuring, archaeologists have claimed.
The unique 4,000-year-old Folkton drums date from the Neolithic period and were found in a child’s grave in 1889.
Since their discovery, the pots – which are covered in intricate carvings – have been studied by generations of experts who struggled to find what they were used for.
Now researchers claim that were used as a ‘standard measurement’ to plan out the stone circles built by our Stone Age ancestors around 5,000 years ago.
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Archaeologists are now suggesting that the 4,000-year-old cylinders, found in a child’s grave in 1889 were actually a tape measure used during the Stone age +7
Archaeologists are now suggesting that the 4,000-year-old cylinders, found in a child’s grave in 1889 were actually a tape measure used during the Stone age
Generations of archaeologists have studied the drums and its carvings to try and understand what they were used for and now believe they were a form of measuring tape +7
Generations of archaeologists have studied the drums and its carvings to try and understand what they were used for and now believe they were a form of measuring tape
Professor Mike Parker Pearson, from University College London, and Professor Andrew Chamberlain, from Manchester University, calculated the pots’ circumference.
When they came to think about the different perimeters of the cylinders, they found that by wrapping string around each pot, the results all came roughly to a multiple of 0.322 metres –
Professor Chamberlain claims that this distance is a Stone Age measurement standard, which he has dubbed a ‘long foot’.
They say that our ancient ancestors could have used the method to create the concentric circles at Stonehenge.
The patterned pots were found buried in an infant’s grave, dating back to between 2600 and 2000 BC, by an archaeologist 130 years ago.
Stonehenge is a centre of ancient Britain and the best-known prehistoric monument in Europe. Experts are now claiming that the cylindrical pots were a ‘standard measurement’ used to plan out the stone circles at Stonehenge, built by our ancient ancestors +7
Stonehenge is a centre of ancient Britain and the best-known prehistoric monument in Europe. Experts are now claiming that the cylindrical pots were a ‘standard measurement’ used to plan out the stone circles at Stonehenge, built by our ancient ancestors
Generations of experts have studied the drums and its carvings and motifs to try and understand what they were used for, most presuming they were decorative.
They were unlike any other artefacts found in Britain until the recent discovery of an undecorated chalk ‘drum’ in a pit in Lavant, Sussex, England.
However, Professors Chamberlain and Pearson claimed they were astonished to find that if you wrap a string around all of the cylinders a number of times they got the measurement of 3.22 metres long.
Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England, two miles west of Amesbury. It consists of a ring of standing stones, with each standing stone around 13 feet high, seven feet wide and weighing around 25 tons +7
Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England, two miles west of Amesbury. It consists of a ring of standing stones, with each standing stone around 13 feet high, seven feet wide and weighing around 25 tons
For the largest cylinder, they found that if you wrap cord around it seven times, the measurement was ten long foot (3.22m).
If you wrap it eight times around the medium-sized one it or ten times around the smallest and it is still ten long foot (3.22m).
The pot found later in Lavant, which was presumably made by a different craftsman, also fitted the relation.
Professor Chamberlain believes that the drums were used as a portable means of defining length, by wrapping string around the cylinders or perhaps by rolling them.
He said that although their findings won’t be accepted by all archaeologists, he believes that the conclusion is much more likely than what is currently thought; that they built the stone lintels without the use of measuring tools.
‘Think about the stones used in Stonehenge. Some came from far away’, Professor Chamberlain said.
‘I don’t think they were stupid enough to bring those stones all the way to the site, try them, and find they were too short.’
The findings are reported in the British Journal for the History of Mathematics.
WHO BUILT STONEHENGE?
Stonehenge was built thousands of years before machinery was invented.
The heavy rocks weigh upwards of several tonnes each.
Some of the stones are believed to have originated from a quarry in Wales, some 140 miles (225km) away from the Wiltshire monument.
To do this would have required a high degree of ingenuity, and experts believe the ancient engineers used a pulley system over a shifting conveyor-belt of logs.
Historians now think that the ring of stones was built in several different stages, with the first completed around 5,000 years ago by Neolithic Britons who used primitive tools, possibly made from deer antlers.
Modern scientists now widely believe that Stonehenge was created by several different tribes over time.
After the Neolithic Britons – likely natives of the British Isles – started the construction, it was continued centuries later by their descendants.
Over time, the descendants developed a more communal way of life and better tools which helped in the erection of the stones.
Bones, tools and other artefacts found on the site seem to support this hypothesis…”
For anyone interested …check out the geometry theory according to John Michell….plus the rheories by Alexander Thom and his megalithic yard regarding sacred sites too……there are a series of curious carved stone found elsewheres that are claimed to depict the Pythagorean solids also if you wrap a cord around rhem…..
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Prof. Chamberpot’s ‘long foot’, is terribly close to the so called Scot Foot. A difference of only five hundredths of a Celtic foot! Who are these experts; I think his degree is really in political scientology — at least hes not openly admitting himself a “space-alien’s did it” groupie; but I’m sure he is.
Craig Murrays report on developing Integrity Initiative scandal in the UK in special relation to Skirpal incident
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/12/british-government-covert-anti-russian-propaganda-and-the-skripal-case/
In depth report on the same naming journalists and list of people involved in direct campaign to institute misinformation about Russia in the UK
http://syriapropagandamedia.org/working-papers/briefing-note-on-the-integrity-initiative
Article by one of the members or hirelings of Integrity initiative. these people obviously being paid to make this stuff up. embarrassing in its naivité
https://www.kyivpost.com/article/opinion/op-ed/glen-grant-ukraine-can-build-army-beat-putin.html?cn-reloaded=1
The ‘Snipers’ Massacre’ on the Maidan in Ukraine first in depth academic report on Maiden massacre very interesting
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2658245
report on the downloadable pdf link
It appears that the British are as bad as anyone out there, working with known Nazis in Kiev and holocaust deniers in the Baltics. The above report by syriapropagandamedia covers all of this and more, a long read but illuminating.
And not a peep about any of this in the news outlets, just one ‘rogue’ drone, reeking of red herring, shutting down Gatwick airport for three consecutive days now and no-one, out of all our formidably expensive security apparatus, can do anything about it?
If one looks at the collective history of the ‘British’ few are able to match the crimes/deeds of this bloodthirsty lot.
Its the Imperial mindset in general I think, always brutal by definition. But Britain’s stranglehold was in place longer than most, so rather more opportunity for malfeasance.
Almost Two Thirds of Americans Don’t Know that Torture Makes Us LESS SAFE
https://www.onenewspage.com/n/Markets/759lhgaba/Almost-Two-Thirds-of-Americans-Don-Know.htm
Napolean Bonaparte wrote in 1798:
“The barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished.
It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile.
The poor wretches say anything that comes into their mind and what they think the interrogator wishes to know.”
Just trigger’d an old memory, Paul…of course it’s true that victims blabber whatever…and also that bosses know this…and that’s what torture does…it creates confession..that’s the goal. facts have of course no relevace…torture is a political terror brought home to one focus…one person. It’s terrorism in Schwerpunkt.
But the memory?
I searched using term: “hanged pows at leavenworth u boat getting fritz to talk” to see what documents might turn up… (I got the story man to man at a Army elint base, all quite legally, many years ago, from a retired Sargent pal)
here: http://www.executedtoday.com/2017/08/25/1945-seven-german-pows/
The true story behind this is that the US created the circumstances for the honest POW’s to kill the informer(s) it happened more than once) – Created the circumstances and thus the crimes and then extracted “probable” perpetrators from the general population of the camp(s).
These men were subject to torture, curated by Leon Jaworski (of Watergate fame later on) in order to extract confessions.
The rational for this was to create a quid pro quo against nazi plans to try bomber crews for war crimes (bombing cities is of course a war crime)…the US would hold the condemned, some probably innocent in fact of any crime, men as hostages.
After the war these hostages became a liability, as they say…and were hanged in an elevator shaft in secret, and buried without military honors in unmarked graves, in secret.
This was the topic of a film on German TV some years ago- a film promoted by my old pals’ research – reams of FOIA documents which I have seen and read (most of) my years ago.
They did clean up the graves after the Germans did the TV show…
UK Police Arrest 2 Suspects Over Drone Incident at Gatwick Airport
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201812221070917067-uk-gatwick-airport-police-arrests/
“The Sussex Police said Saturday they have made two arrests in their probe into the “criminal use of drones” that has resulted in the suspension of flights at Gatwick Airport.”
RE: “OK, one of you sign this confession about how you were operating under direct orders from the Russian FSB, and the other sign this confession about you’re taking orders from the Iranian government. After you have done so we will talk sentencing.”
I think they missed the opportunity to have ‘found’ the drones came laced with Novichok and an internal note stating “if found, please return to the Kremlin”.
The Novichok saga has gone a little cold and must need warming up, no?
THE BEAUTIFUL MOSCOW METRO | English
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX7tYSyCcFo
Welcome to the most beautiful and most accessible museum in Moscow – the Metro.
The Moscow Metro is one of the busiest underground systems in the world with a daily
ridership of over 9 million people. The Moscow Metro is the world record-holder for
on-time departures and arrivals.
American in SHOCK from the Moscow metro !!! | English subtitles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uiY82wwtTU
Utterly fabulous, built as the Peoples’s Palace, I think Lenin said.
Well worth a trip.
http://syriapropagandamedia.org/working-papers/briefing-note-on-the-integrity-initiative
Further investigations.?..plus Craig Murray has an article up at the moment too…….
… Giza Pyramid Talk … The Log Book of Inspector Merer …
The logbook was written in hieroglyphic letters on pieces of papyri. Its author was an inspector named Merer, who was “in charge of a team of about 200 men,” archaeologists Pierre Tallet and Gregory Marouard wrote in an article published in 2014 in the journal Near Eastern Archaeology.
“Over a period of several months, [the logbook] reports — in [the] form of a timetable with two columns per day — many operations related to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Khufu at Giza and the work at the limestone quarries on the opposite bank of the Nile,” Tallet and Marouard wrote.
Merer recorded the logs in the 27th year of Khufu’s reign. His records say that the Great Pyramid was near completion, with much of the remaining work focusing on the construction of the limestone casing that covered the outside of the pyramid, Tallet and Marouard wrote.
The limestone used in this casing, according to the logbook, was quarried at Tura near modern-day Cairo, and was brought to the pyramid site by boat along the Nile River and a system of canals. One boat trip between Tura and the pyramid site took four days to complete, the logbook notes.
Extracted from …
https://www.livescience.com/55439-ancient-logbook-on-great-pyramid-unveiled.html
My notes … the sandstone block quarries are known and located, as are the sources for various types of granite. Pulley lobe timber was Lebanese Cedar, sourced from Lebanon.
Josephus
As for the rest, it would be tedious to name them; I will therefore only endeavor to give an account of those that proceeded from Seth. Now this Seth, when he was brought up, and came to those years in which he could discern what was good, became a virtuous man; and as he was himself of an excellent character, so did he leave children behind him who imitated his virtues.All these proved to be of good dispositions. They also inhabited the same country without dissensions, and in a happy condition, without any misfortunes falling upon them, till they died. They also were the inventors of that peculiar sort of wisdom which is concerned with the heavenly bodies, and their order. And that their inventions might not be lost before they were sufficiently known, upon Adam’s prediction that the world was to be destroyed at one time by the force of fire, and at another time by the violence and quantity of water, they made two pillars, the one of brick, the other of stone: they inscribed their discoveries on them both, that in case the pillar of brick should be destroyed by the flood, the pillar of stone might remain, and exhibit those discoveries to mankind; and also inform them that there was another pillar of brick erected by them. Now this remains in the land of Siriad to this day.
The Great pyramid, or pillar of Enoch the Sethite, is a ‘one-off’; and although the great, ninety-nine percent majority, insist it was built by space aliens, and or Khufu, there is no substantiated evidence for this. None.
So, somebody has to start :-)
I wish you all the best over the upcoming holiday season that started for me last evening with a wonderfully bright moon shining light on the clouds around it on the night of solstice. If you have a specific spiritual tradition that you follow, please do it well :-) .. prayers are welcome. In our very balmy tropical winter, we will be eating Sushi for Christmas day. The idea is not the Sushi, but more everyone around the table taking a turn at creating their own piece of delicacy with much music, laughter and gemütlichkeit.
May we have at least a brief moment of Joy to the World and may nobody go shooting others.
Thank you….very best wishes for everyone whatever your circumstances here who was…is…and shall be a commentator….even just a reader…. for truth…compassion…justice….peace.
It’s still a week to receive unexpected insights. To me today contained the
unexpected clearness of the Donald’s order and the spinning wheels of Sun’s cosmos.
Coming generations will savour the unextinctable truth of the heavens, like this one:
https://mundanestagebuch.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-trickster-and-donalds-lap.html
Pyramid Scheme Cafe!
The kind of Cafe I just hate to miss,
Paul still going around with Chris!
“Herodotus? Fake News! Enoch’s
The One. Levers, pulleys and blocks?
Fraud! Listen close: My guys did it!
I can prove it. So we’ll take the credit.
Paul takes the jab, prescribes slides,
Confident still in where Truth resides!
Trump withdraws but the raped still
Just can’t believe it. (You know the drill!)
Now, I don’t know ’bout Cheops or Khufu
Enoch, Enlil, Enki or the very first Jew
Blocks or Rocks, Mad Dogs or Mattis,
I’ll shut up before I become non-gratis.
But I got a Chess Plus Vests Plus French Accordion Music video for y’all and since it is 17 days since D 5 still on the Left Coast, let’s Puzzle Out How it All Fits Together. Vive La France!
https://youtu.be/fQJg-Aadk7I
What’s your position?
What pieces do YOU hold.
Study D 5.
Was Flynn weakness or a Gambit, a kind of Knight Sacrifice?
Is it all An Orangutan Trap, or is Mikey gonna hits us with some Q Rap??
There! I just barely got it in
Before turning into a pumpkin…..
On the necessity of ‘beings’ from outerspace: meddling in terrestrial affairs generally; and as the progenitors of the evolutionary principle; and therefore, as the effective architects of the human genus; and as ambivalent directors of this, their progeny: as incomprehensible altruists; as tasking enslavers; as whimsical sadists.
It was understood that the force of time, and the inevitability of chance, determined and consequented all Life. The proof — although not needed — was simply material existence, as it is. Nothing else, except the ease with which understood cosmological development, perfectly refuted all prior understanding. Moderns stood fearlessly above, looking down at all earlier genera as pure degenerates, as proto-promethean underlings; as men who fear what is not. So, the world was, for a short season, self-satisfied. And then . . .
Genetics. Molecular biology. The revolution of the future dawned, and quickly came to a head. How, to explain, that Life is based on written code; symbols, forming a molecular biological text? How, to explain, a living machine that reads and writes this text; and not one machine only, but millions in sympathetic unison — Us, we ourselves, our living organism, this body. Within each cell, data coded, uncoded; fundamentally vast, and essential life-processes, teaming to one purpose; yet, what is the purpose, what is the driver, what the ultimate cause? Not text? Text is no cause, and data is data only; even college types can figure that out, sometimes.
Aliens. There must be beings beyond, who built this life-machine network; running it off-world, as some hyper-planetary experiment in insane madness! Only advanced aliens, program, and build molecular machines; machines that then think about their programming; with pathological ennui. Now, it is irrefutable that these unmentionable entities did this thing, we exist, we are proof; aliens did it to us. And, soon, soon. Soon they will come and tell us why; why we must honor their wisdom with our obeisances; and why we they will save us from ourselves. Granting us their promise: Unlimited freedom and an easy descending slope; all the way down.
In another context, “it’s turtles all the way down.”
May the whole world celebrate Christmas for two weeks this year.