designobserver | Sometime in the mid-1960s, a junk dealer in Houston, Texas acquired 12
large notebooks that had been thrown out to the curb after a house fire.
Filled with mysterious, double-sided, collaged watercolor drawings, the
journals were eventually discovered at the junk shop in 1969 by art
history student Mary Jane Victor. Victor attended the University of St.
Thomas in Houston, where she worked with art patron Dominique de Menil.
After telling Menil about the books, Menil purchased four of the
notebooks for the (then) hefty sum of $1,500, and included them
immediately in an exhibition at Rice University in Houston. Pete
Navarro, a local graphic artist and mystery enthusiast, upon seeing the
exhibition — eventually acquired the remaining books, studying them
obsessively for more than 15 years. Navarro eventually sold the
remaining books to museums and galleries.
It turns out that the
drawings/watercolors were the work of one Charles August Albert
Dellschau (1830 - 1923). Dellschau was a butcher for most of his life
and only after his retirement in 1899 did he begin his incredible career
as a self-taught artist. He began with three books entitled Recollections
which purported to describe a secret organization called the Sonora
Aero Club. Dellschau described his duties in the club as that of the
draftsman. Within his collaged watercolors were newspaper clippings (he
called them “press blooms”) of early attempts at flight overlapped with
his own fantastic drawings of airships of all kind. Powered by a secret
formula he cryptically referred to as “NB Gas” or “Suppa” — the “aeros”
(as Dellscahu called them) were steampunk like contraptions with
multiple propellers, wheels, viewing decks and secret compartments.
Though highly personal, autobiographical (perhaps!), and idiosyncratic,
these artworks could cross-pollinate with the fiction of Jules Verne, Willy Wonka and the Wizard of Oz.
The works were completed in a furiously creative period from 1899 to
1923, when air travel was still looked at by most people as almost
magical. Newspapers of that period were full of stories about air travel
feats and the acrobatic aerial dogfights of WWI were legend.
Researchers have found no account of a Sonora Aero Club, not in Texas or
California. So was this simply a fantasy-fueled creative exercise by a
retired man smitten with the wonders of flight? There were numerous
accounts of pre-20th century UFOs in the Houston area — so perhaps Mr.
Dellschau had witnessed something that ignited his simmering creative
soul? The best we can do is speculate on the mystery and be thankful for
the Houston junk dealer who saved a piece of art history.
All
works are watercolor, pencil and collage on paper, approx. 17 x 18
inches, Images are from various public and private collections, supplied
by Stephen Romano, Brooklyn, NY. A book on the images is forthcoming at the end of March from Marquand Books/D.A.P.
bibliotecapleyades |As mentioned in the beginning of this book, I have been for
many years interested in the work of George Gurdjieff. A series of
articles written by William Patrick Patterson for Telos Magazine
entitled “Gurdjieff in Egypt” and a subsequent video released by
Patterson with the same title rekindled my interest in Gurdjieff’s
work. In his second book, Meetings With Remarkable Men, Gurdjieff
had stated that he once had seen a map of “pre-sand Egypt” in the
possession of an Armenian monk. This map had stimulated Gurdjieff to
go to Egypt and search for teachings about human origins in ancient
wisdom schools.
Patterson had also been fascinated with Gurdjieff’s travels to Egypt
and had done extensive investigations of his work. Patterson is
convinced that Gurdjieff had seen an image of the Sphinx on the map
of “pre-sand Egypt” and went to Egypt to investigate for himself. Of
course, I contend that if the map was indeed of a “pre-sand Egypt”,
it would have contained the pyramids as well as the Sphinx at
ancient Giza before the current desert conditions. According to
Patterson, Gurdjieff had stated that his teachings had come from a
complete system of “Esoteric Christianity” that originated in
ancient Egypt many thousands of years before the time of Jesus. I
met Patterson at a talk he gave in Denver, Colorado in July of 1999.
Both Patterson and I agreed that Gurdjieff might have come in
contact with the indigenous tradition over 100 years ago, especially
in his extended stay in Ethiopia. Gurdjieff adamantly maintained
that the source of all modern esoteric systems had their origins in
predynastic Egypt, essentially supporting our paradigms of ancient Khemit.
However, Patterson also mentioned other statements of Gurdjieff that
stimulated further investigations on my part. Gurdjieff had stated
in his writings and discussions that he had found inscriptions on
the walls of the Temple of Horus in Edfu, which is in the south of
Egypt, that mentioned the myth of Atlantis. In his articles
Patterson mentioned a book by British Egyptologist E. A. Reymond,
The Origins of the Egyptian Temple, in which translations of the
texts of Edfu were given. Reymond called these inscriptions “The
Building Texts” and claimed they were the myths of the origins of
ancient temple buildings.
I found Reymond’s translations of the Edfu texts to be incoherent
and poorly done and decided to discuss these texts with Abd’El Hakim
in Egypt. On our tour in October of 1999, we went to the Temple of Horus at Edfu and found the inscriptions on the walls ourselves. It
became apparent to us that the texts at Edfu were copies of much
older texts, the temple having been built in the Ptolemaic period
ca. 200 BC, and were discussing events that had taken place in
ancient Khemit many thousands of years before the temple was built.
Gurdjieff had stated that the texts spoke of an advanced people,
whom Reymond referred to by the standard Orthodox translation of the
term Neter, as “Gods” who had come from an island that
had been
destroyed by a flood and had brought their wisdom to the ancient
Khemitians. However, Hakim’s interpretation was vastly different. I
believe the texts are referring to the time of the ancient Ur Nil
over 30,000 years ago when the vastness of the river had turned all
of Northern Africa into a series of large islands.
As the Khemitians
became united, they moved from island to island, erecting temples
and pyramids and creating the ancient Khemitian civilization. Once
again, this became a basis for the future myth of Atlantis. Hakim
was definite that the texts were not referring to a more advanced
non-Khemitian people coming from outside Africa, and teaching the
Khemitians how to build in stone. I propose that the ancient people
followed the river from the south and the west and formed the union
of the 42 tribes in the Land of Osiris, Bu Wizzer, and other ancient
sites in the south, such as Edfu and Abydos.
The texts are therefore
describing the Khemitian’s ascension into higher consciousness,
becoming “one” with the Neters, opening their senses and creating
high civilization. The texts discuss how the “Neters arrived” from
different islands, and began the process of erecting large--scale
edifices in stone. We did not find any references to cataclysms, but
even so, the ancient Khemitians may have “island hopped” until the
42 tribes united and coalesced into a coherent civilization.
There may have been an advanced island civilization in the Atlantic
(or Antarctica, as has been claimed) that perished as a result of
the great cataclysm proposed around 11,500 years ago. But it may
also be that there were large islands in Northern Africa as a result
of the ancient Ur Nil around this same time that were populated by
an advanced civilization of ancient Khemitians. The Myth of Atlantis
may have referred to the entire Global Maritime Culture that existed
in many parts of the world prior to 10,000 years ago, much of which
was almost completely destroyed by cataclysmic events. I believe
ancient Khemit should be included in that mythology.
Ancient Khemitian priests may have entertained Greek travelers with
stories of cataclysms destroying island civilization as an oral
history of the Global Maritime Culture that once existed, knowing
full well that ancient Khemit was part of that past glory, but not
revealing the complete story to the “barbarian” Greeks.
bibliotecapleyades |To comprehend fully the secret information in the Bible, it is
important to understand the extent of the subterranean tunnel system
and associated chamber facilities existing below the surface of the
Pyramid Plateau, for it was there that
major elements of Mystery School teachings developed.
What happened
under the sands thousands of years ago is not reflected in today's
history books, and discoveries made in the last eight decades or so
verify that point.
The Fayum Oasis district, just a few kilometers outside the boundary
of the Memphis Nome, presents a site of unusual interest. It was in
that lush, fertile valley that Pharaohs calling themselves the
"masters of the royal hunts" fished and hunted with the boomerang
(1), Lake Moeris once bordered the Fayum Oasis and on its shores was
the famous Labyrinth, described by Herodotus as "an endless wonder
to me".
The Labyrinth contained 1500 rooms and
an equal number of underground chambers that the Greek historian was
not permitted to inspect, according to Labyrinth priests, "the
passages were baffling and intricate", designed to provide safety
for the numerous scrolls they said were hidden in subterranean
apartments.
That massive complex particularly impressed
Herodotus
and he spoke in awe of the structure:
There I saw twelve palaces regularly disposed, which had
communication with each other, interspersed with terraces and
arranged around twelve halls. It is hard to believe they are the
work of man, The walls are covered with carved figures, and each
court is exquisitely built of white marble and surrounded by a
colonnade. Near the corner where the labyrinth ends, there is a
pyramid, two hundred and forty feet in height, with great carved
figures of animals on it and an underground passage by which it can
be entered. I was told very credibly that underground chambers and
passages connected this pyramid with the pyramids at Memphis.
The pyramids at Memphiswere the pyramids at Giza, for
Giza was
originally called Memphis (see reference, "Giza formerly Memphis" on
Nordan's map from Travels in Egypt and Nubia, 1757, on page 152 of
previous chapter).
Many ancient writers supported Herodotus' record of underground
passages connecting major pyramids, and their evidence casts doubt
on the reliability of traditionally presented Egyptian history. Crantor
(300 BC) stated that there were certain underground pillars
in Egypt that contained a written stone record of pre-history , and
they lined access ways connecting the pyramids.
In his celebrated
study, On the Mysteries, particularly those of the Egyptians, Chaldeans and the Assyrians,
Iamblichus, a fourth-century Syrian
representative of the Alexandrian School of mystical and
philosophical studies, recorded this information about an
entranceway through the body of the Sphinx into the Great Pyramid(2):
This entrance, obstructed in our day by sands and rubbish, may still
be traced between the forelegs of the crouched colossus. It was
formerly closed by a bronze gate whose secret spring could be
operated only by the Magi. It was guarded by public respect, and a
sort of religious fear maintained its inviolability better than
armed protection would have done. In the belly of the Sphinx were
cut out galleries leading to the subterranean part of the Great
Pyramid.
These galleries were so art-fully
crisscrossed along their course to the Pyramid that, in setting
forth into the passage without a guide throughout this network, one
ceasingly and inevitably returned to the starting point.
It was recorded in ancient Sumerian cylinder seals that the secret
abode of
the Anunnaki was,
"an underground place... entered
through a tunnel, its entrance hidden by sand and by what they
call Huwana... his teeth as the teeth of a dragon, his face the
face of a lion".
That remarkable old text, unfortunately
fragmented, added that "He [Huwana] is unable to move forward, nor
is he able to move back", but they crept up on him from behind and
the way to "the secret abode of the Anunnaki" was no longer blocked.
The Sumerian record provided a probable
description of the lion-headed Sphinx at Giza, and if that great
creature was built to guard or obliterate ancient stairways and
lower passages leading to subterranean areas below and around it,
then its symbolism was most appropriate.
Local 19th-century Arab lore maintained that existing under the
Sphinx are secret chambers holding treasures or magical objects.
That belief was bolstered by the writings of the first-century Roman
historian Pliny, who wrote that deep below the Sphinx is concealed
the "tomb of a ruler named Harmakhis that contains great treasure",
and, strangely enough, the Sphinx itself was once called "The Great
Sphinx Harmakhis who mounted guard since the time of the Followers
of Horus".
wikipedia |Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) is a colloquial
term used for an experience characterized by a static-like or tingling
sensation on the skin that typically begins on the scalp and moves down
the back of the neck and upper spine. It has been compared with auditory-tactile synesthesia.[1][2]
ASMR signifies the subjective experience of "low-grade euphoria"
characterised by "a combination of positive feelings and a distinct
static-like tingling sensation on the skin". It is most commonly
triggered by specific acoustic, visual and digital media stimuli, and
less commonly by intentional attentional control.[3][4]
The term "autonomous sensory meridian response" was coined on 25
February 2010 by Jennifer Allen, a cybersecurity professional residing
in New York[5] in the introduction to a Facebook Group she founded entitled the ASMR Group.[6]
Prior to the subsequent social consensus
that led to what is now the ubiquitous adoption of that term, other
names were proposed and discussed at a number of locations including the
Steady Health forum, the Society of Sensationalists Yahoo! Group and
the Unnamed Feeling Blog.
Proposed formal names included "Attention Induced Head Orgasm",
"Attention Induced Euphoria" and "Attention Induced Observant Euphoria",
whilst colloquial terms in usage included "brain massage", "head tingle", "brain tingle", "spine tingle" and "brain orgasm".[7][8][9][10][11][12]
Whilst many colloquial and formal terms used and proposed between 2007 and 2010 included reference to orgasm,
there was during that time a significant majority objection to its use
among those active in online discussions, many of whom have continued to
persist in differentiating the euphoric and relaxing nature of ASMR
from sexual arousal.[13]
However, by 2015, a division had occurred within the ASMR community
over the subject of sexual arousal, with some creating videos
categorized as ASMRotica (ASMR erotica), which are deliberately designed to be sexually stimulating.[14][15]
The initial consensus among the ASMR Community was that the name
should not pose a high risk of the phenomenon being perceived as sexual.
Given that consensus, Allen proposed "autonomous sensory meridian
response". Allen chose the words intending or assuming them to have the
following specific meanings:[16]
Autonomous – spontaneous, self-governing, within or without control
Sensory – pertaining to the senses or sensation
Meridian – signifying a peak, climax, or point of highest development
Response – referring to an experience triggered by something external or internal
Allen verified in a 2016 interview that she purposely selected these
terms because they were more objective, comfortable, and clinical than
alternative terms for the sensation.[17]
Allen explained she selected the word meridian to replace the word
orgasm due to its meaning of point or period of greatest prosperity.
The term "autonomous sensory meridian response" and its initialism
ASMR were adopted by both the community of contributors to online
discussions and those reporting and commentating on the phenomenon.
bibliotecapleyades | We’ve got a lot to cover today and let me give you a rough
approximate outline of the the things that I’d like us to get into.
First, let me ask how many of you have had at least one course or
workshop on hypnosis? Can I see the hands? Wonderful. That makes our
job easier.
Okay. I want to start off by talking a little about trance-training
and the use of hypnotic phenomena with an MPD dissociative-disorder
population, to talk some about unconscious exploration, methods of
doing that, the use of imagery and symbolic imagery techniques for
managing physical symptoms, input overload, things like that. Before
the day’s out, I want to spend some time talking about something I
think has been completely neglected in the field of dissociative
disorder, and that’s talking about methods of profound calming for
automatic hyper-arousal that’s been conditioned in these patients.
We’re going to spend a considerable length of time talking about
age-regression and abreaction in working through a trauma. I’ll show
you with a non-MPD patient -- some of that kind of work -- and then
extrapolate from what I find so similar and different with MPD
cases. Part of that, I would add, by the way, is that I’ve been very
sensitive through the years about taping MPD cases or ritual-abuse
cases, part of it being that some of that feels a little like using
patients and I think that this population has been used enough.
That’s part of the reason, by choice, that I don’t generally
videotape my work.
I also want to talk a bunch about hypnotic relapse-prevention
strategies and post- integration therapy today. Finally, I hope to
find somewhere in our time-frame to spend on hour or so talking
specifically about ritual abuse and about mind-control programming
and brainwashing -- how it’s done, how to get on the inside with
that -- which is a topic that in the past I haven’t been willing to
speak about publicly, have done that in small groups and in
consultations, but recently decided that it was high time that
somebody started doing it. So we’re going to talk about specifics
today.
[Applause]
In Chicago at the first international congress where
ritual abuse
was talked about I can remember thinking, "How strange and
interesting." I can recall many people listening to an example given
that somebody thought was so idiosyncratic and rare, and all the
people coming up after saying, "Gee, you’re treating one, too?
You’re in Seattle"...Well, I’m in Toronto...Well, I’m in
Florida...Well, I’m in Cincinnati." I didn’t know what to think at
that point.
It wasn’t too long after that I found my first ritual-abuse patient
in somebody I was already treating and we hadn’t gotten that deep
yet. Things in that case made me very curious about the use of
mind-control techniques and hypnosis and other brainwashing
techniques. So I started studying brainwashing and some of the
literature in that area and became acquainted with, in fact, one of
the people who’d written one of the better books in that area.
Then I decided to do a survey, and from the ISSMP&D [International
Society for the Study of Multiple Personality and Dissociation]
folks I picked out about a dozen and a half therapists that I though
were seeing more of that than probably anyone else around and I
started surveying them. The interview protocol, that I had. got the
same reaction almost without exception. Those therapists said,
"You’re asking questions I don’t know the answers to. You’re asking
more specific questions than I’ve ever asked my patients." Many of
those same therapists said, "Let me ask those questions and I’ll get
back to you with the answer." Many of them not only got back with
answers, but said, "You’ve got to talk to this patient or these two
patients." I ended up doing hundred of dollars worth of telephone
interviewing.
What I came out of that was a grasp of a variety of brainwashing
methods being used all over the country. I started to hear some
similarities. Whereas I hadn’t known, to begin with, how widespread
things were, I was now getting a feeling that there were a lot of
people reporting some similar things and that there must be some
degree of communication here.
cbsnews | With no formal training in science or engineering, Robert Bigelow
created an aerospace company with scientists and engineers that's
achieved what no one else in the industry has done. His expandable
spacecraft are the first and only alternative to the metal structures
that have housed every astronaut in space for over half a century.
For
Bigelow, it all began with growing up in a time of nuclear tests. As a
young boy, he would watch the skies over Nevada light up with the bursts
of atomic bombs.
Robert Bigelow: Witnessing those explosions in
the 50s and 60s, you weren't aware of the ultimate ramifications of
those kinds of things but there was a real strong feeling of energy and a
secretiveness and so forth and it was cool.
Armstrong: "That's one small step for man…"
Later, he watched Neil Armstrong take the first steps on the moon, a moment in history he said still inspires him.
Robert Bigelow: The approach wasn't lightening fast…
But
on this canyon road just outside Las Vegas, Robert Bigelow's story
takes a turn that some may find, to put it lightly, improbable. He told
us this is where his grandparents had a close encounter with a UFO.
Robert
Bigelow: It really sped up and came right into their face and filled up
the entire windshield of the car. And it took off at a right angle and
shot off into the distance.
Brain item -- AI processing problem...??
would require AI to have the listener's entire life history stored in its memory to determine proper context....??
Your brain fills gaps in your hearing without you realising
No BD. Not an AI processing problem, just an illustration of the mechanical and necessarily error-prone nature of both language and auditory language processing. It's not a Voight-Kampff test and "Context doesn't require a life history". In fact, with the benefit of big data, and centralized cloud storage and processing of hundreds of thousands of utterances and their associated meanings, the probability of an AI making either the sensory or grammatical error is greatly reduced.
...Here's a no-nonsense AI item:
Turns out AI is not sufficiently stupid to allow PC liberals to shove ridiculous egalitarian concepts down its throat.
AI just looks at the *FACTS* and calls it like it sees it....
Machine learning algorithms are picking up deeply ingrained race and
gender prejudices concealed within the patterns of language use,
scientists say
No BD. Unfortunately, you are still trapped in the realm of language and
language constructs your reality. Your language reflects your tendencies - which are racist - and so what FRANK is reflecting back at you is not the truth, merely the truth about you. Fist tap Big Don.
28blackdaysin2017 |If you already recognize that Black gestures, speech, trends, ideas
and attitudes are not exclusive to actual Black Bodies then you are
ready for the concept of BlacOS.
If you already recognize that Not All Black People Are The Same (aka,
I'm not your Monolith,) and that Alain Locke was onto something with his
"New Negro," and that "Black Is Beautiful" was an adjustment in Black
folks' ways of being in the world then you are ready for the concept of
BlacOS. If you understand that any given
instance of Black representation in the media is a complex mixture of
agency, randomness, creative inspiration, hopelessness and straight
coonery then you are ready for the concept of BlacOS.
It's simple: Blackness, however you understand, celebrate or loathe it,
is software: an operating system (OS) to be specific. The job of the OS
is to make the resources of a computing system's hardware and programs
available to the user. Windows. Macintosh. Linux. Be. Android. iOS.
These are all systems that sit on top of a layer of hardware, and make
it possible for you to interact with web browsers, video games, word
processors, screen savers, and spreadsheets. You know, the stuff that
makes the computer usable.
The Trump card is always the most powerful in the deck, it is also the most feared and unpredictable.
Trump is the perfect wrecking ball and that's obviously a YUUUGE part of his mission.
He has wrecked the GOP.
He has wrecked the DNC.
He has wrecked the MSM.
He has exposed the fraudulent election process, phony candidates, fake platforms, fictitious campaigns, and fabricated debates.
You don't get to be a Manhattan real estate mogul without the backing of certain oligarchs. You don't get to participate in the gambling "industry" without the backing of certain oligarchs. With the exception of ancient gambling oligarch Sheldon Adelson, all the known power brokers who brought Trump to the dance back in the day are dead and gone.
So who, exactly is holding the Trump card about to be put in play in the White House?
What are their objectives aside from clearing the decks of all the useless, impotent, and limp-wristed oxygen thieves who've demonstrated a profound inability to equitably govern and to steer the American ship of state onto a course of sustainable profitability?
motherjones | If you believe that the criminal justice system is racially biased, you need to know Heather Mac Donald.
She'll mess with your mind and make you either up your
politico-cultural game or admit you were wrong. What worries me is that
so few on 'our' side can, or bother to, go toe to toe with her. Just
about every one of her pieces is a statistical and analytical
tour-de-force, while we liberals tend too often to mouth liberal pieties
like inside jokes. Just yesterday, I was listening to Angela Davis
address the Commonwealth Club
(sorry. speech not posted) on my car radio. I agreed with nearly
everything she said, but they were dissatisfying lefty bromides, one and
all. Racist criminal justice system. Slavery was bad. War in Iraq. The
crowd whooped and hollered, but where was the beef, the analysis, the
facts? Forgive me Angela, patron saint of the streets, but Mac Donald
would have had you for lunch.
According
to her byline, Mac Donald "is a contributing editor of City Journal and
the John M. Olin Fellow at the Manhattan Institute". She's also among
America's harshest critic of blacks. Harshest and most devastating;
unlike most of the right-wing blovio-sphere, home girl does her
homework. And for her, 2 and 2 always equal black deficiency, whether in
morals, culture or crime. Trouble is, she comes loaded for bear.
I read her religiously—even have a Google alert set up in her
honor—much the same way one looks for dismembered limbs and blood stains
at an accident scene while knowing one shouldn't. One will only get
upset if successful and MacDonald upsets me every time because with
every piece, she sets out to prove that the only problems blacks face
are of their own making.
She doesn't mess around. Her City Journal latest is a devastating
response to the liberal shibboleth that the criminal justice system is
racist and designed to criminalize and incarcerate blacks en masse. No,
says Mac Donald. Black incarceration rates are a simple function of
rampant black crime.
marketwatch | U.S. stock futures unraveled early Friday morning in New York, after
the U.K. declared its intention to end its four-decade relationship with
the European Union after a so-called Brexit vote.
Investors have
been fretting that such an unprecedented decision to leave Europe’s
trading bloc could destabilize the Europe’s fragile union and rattle
markets.
Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average
YMU6, -2.53%
fell as much as 700 points, but losses were paring from that ugly fall.
Most recently, the Dow was down 485 points, or 2.7%, to 17,436. Futures for the S&P 500
ESU6, -3.26%
tumbled 80 points, or 3.7%, to 2,028 and Nasdaq-100 futures
NQU6, -3.24%
cratered 173 points, or 3.9%, to 4,289.
Markets began plunging after U.K. broadcasters BBC and ITV in the early hours of Friday morning local time forecast
that the “leave” campaign had won the Brexit referendum and that the
U.K. will sever its ties with the trading bloc it has been a member of
since 1973.
European stock-market indexes were being punished in the aftermath of the vote, with the Stoxx Europe 600
SXXP, -6.61%
off 8% at 318.81.
But moves in currencies, in particular, the British poundUSDGBP, +6.7519%
were the most pronounced.
Sterling hit a low of $1.3230, a 10% slide from $1.4871 late Thursday in
New York. But it has since pared some of that decline most recently at
$1.3796.
The stunning moves come after global markets rallied,
betting that Britons would vote to reject Brexit, or a British exit from
the EU.
All three U.S. indexes soared into Thursday’s close, with the Dow
DJIA, +1.29%
surging 230.24 points, or 1.3%, to finish at 18,011.07, while the S&P 500
SPX, +1.34%
gained 27.87 points, or 1.3%,
to close at 2,113.32. Meanwhile, the Nasdaq Composite Index
COMP, +1.59%
climbed 76.72 points, or 1.6%, to close at 4,910.04.
Indications
that the “leave” vote has won sets up global markets for the most
volatile and frightening trading day since the market sank last August
on fears about a slowdown in China’s stock market.
I have often thought that our economies should have crashed thru the floor several years back, either because of declining net energy, or the debt burg. Yet, here we are, limping along, with very little blood in the streets...
"Now many people, particularly the economic experts, believed that by the end of 1938 the Nazi economic policies would fail. We all, myself included, underestimated what could be achieved through state power; through pay freezes, through price freezes, through exchange controls, and
though the use of concentration camps. It lasted longer than one would have thought."* - Johannes Zahn, Economist & Banker since 1931, on the situation of a looming, second German hyperinflation due to loans taken out to rearm Germany.
The Nazis - A Warning From History, Episode 3 Part 2
radiolab | There's no scientific metric for measuring a city's personality. But step out on the sidewalk, and you can see and feel it. Two physicists explain one tidy mathematical formula that they believe holds the key to what drives a city. Yet math can't explain most of the human-scale details that make urban life unique. So we head out in search of what the numbers miss, and meet a reluctant city dweller, a man who's walked 700 feet below Manhattan, and a once-thriving community that's slipping away.
Citizenship, Criticism, and Communism
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In the 1940s and ’50s, Americans engaged in an intense debate over the
content of school textbooks, particularly social studies texts. Fears of
communism a...
A Foundation of Joy
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Two years and I've lost count of how many times my eye has been operated
on, either beating the fuck out of the tumor, or reattaching that slippery
eel ...
April Three
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4/3
43
When 1 = A and 26 = Z
March = 43
What day?
4 to the power of 3 is 64
64th day is March 5
My birthday
March also has 5 letters.
4 x 3 = 12
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Return of the Magi
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Lately, the Holy Spirit is in the air. Emotional energy is swirling out of
the earth.I can feel it bubbling up, effervescing and evaporating around
us, s...
New Travels
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Haven’t published on the Blog in quite a while. I at least part have been
immersed in the area of writing books. My focus is on Science Fiction an
Historic...
Covid-19 Preys Upon The Elderly And The Obese
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sciencemag | This spring, after days of flulike symptoms and fever, a man
arrived at the emergency room at the University of Vermont Medical Center.
He ...