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Einstein Visits the Hopi Tribe at Grand Canyon, Arizona, in 1922. The feathered bonnet Einstein wears is not characteristic Hopi style (it seems to me) but is simply being exploited as a stereotypical and sensational theatrical prop

Kásskara: Sunken Land of the Hopi Ancestors

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There used to be a fable, commonly imposed as fact on school children in the United States, that in Columbus’s time nearly everyone believed the Earth was flat. Fortunately, this untruth has been quietly abandoned, although some still repeat the mistake by crediting instead the Greeks. History professor Jeffrey Burton Russell notes, for example, that with few exceptions, “No educated person in the history of Western civilization from the third century BC onward believed that the Earth was flat,” a position that improves upon the former and is no doubt true, yet it still betrays a Western bias. It fails to acknowledge that aboriginal and ancient people, spanning far back into the last Ice Age, knew the Earth was spherical. They knew that the nature of creation itself was cyclical (or vorticular). They acknowledged, revered, and cultivated knowledge of universal law, and evidence of their seemingly impossible technical manifestations — the Great Pyramid being among the most widely recognized with many others gaining recognition — lies in ruins around the Earth — the implications largely ignored by experts who can’t adequately explain them within academically accepted contemporary models.

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The article says: “Researchers at the US National Library of Medicine recommend that ‘no selfie zones’ should be introduced at dangerous spots to reduce deaths.”

I disagree with this idea. I think natural selection should be allowed to work unimpeded.

Related:

Danger In Cell Phone La La Land

https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-45745982

https://medium.com/@reinettesenum/the-5g-network-what-you-dont-know-may-kill-you-f4361f46627f

Liquid light. I can scarcely imagine it.

What type of light is “regular” light anyway? I have a hard time seeing it as solid! I’m unsure, from this article, which way we’re moving on the density scale.

What do you think, Sadie? Dan?

First Serious Injury Reported From Hawaiian Volcano Eruption

It surprised me that people are hanging out close enough to the volcano to get hit with a splat of “lava splatter”. Reverence for Pele aside, I suspect I might have vacated earlier.

‘According to the spokeswoman, a homeowner was on a third-floor balcony when he  was hit in the leg by a piece of lava spatter, shattering the limb from his shin to his foot. 

Lava spatter can “weigh as much as a refrigerator and even small pieces of spatter can kill,” Snyder added.’

And, I learned a new term: ‘laze’ (lava+haze):

“The Hawaiian Civil Defense Agency issued warnings for laze, which are clouds of hydrochloric acid laced with fine glass particles that are formed when the lava hits the ocean water. Laze can damage lungs, eyes, and skin.”

hydrochloric acid and glass particles….

When Dan and I lived in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, in the early 1990s, we resided on the top floor of a firetrap building near Love River (a poetic name but there were turds floating in it). The housing was provided by Jordan’s Language School, the “bushiban” (private school) for which we were working.

The apartment came with a TV, a VCR, and a single video tape–Pink Floyd’s The Wall, which I remember seeing… more than a few (hundred) times! No surprise then that The Wall is imprinted quite indelibly in my consciousness. When I was teaching high school English in California, I had not forgotten being in high school myself, nor had I forgotten the lines from Pink Floyd’s The Wall: “Hey! Teacher! Leave those kids alone!”

Shout-out to B. Sadie in Washington!

Ronald Reagan: “Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!”

Donald T-Rump, 2016: “We`re going to build a wall, folks. We`re going to build a wall. That wall will go up so fast, your head will spin”.

 

The Kásskara Series from Nexus Magazine: the Hopi Indians of the North American Southwest

Frankenscience…

Ethics debate as pig brains kept alive without a body
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-43928318

Current “social interaction technology” (like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.) were designed around psychologically recognized principles of addiction according to some of the people involved.

These programs (and video games) are intentionally designed to provide consumers dopamine hits that keep the “users” coming back for more.

Anonymous–This will Change Everything You Know… (2018-2019)

“We live in a world now where it’s easy to confuse truth and popularity. And you can use money to amplify whatever you believe–and get people to believe that what is popular is now truthful, and what is not popular is not truthful.”

“I think that the tools that have been created today are starting to erode the social fabric…”

Chamath Palihapitiya, one of Facebook’s original executives

Many people today may not know that a “Jefferson Airplane” was also the name of a cannabis smoking aid back in The Day–a paper match split, the joint inserted giving a general impression of a fuselage and wings. Cheers!

by Shawn Hamilton, Foreign Policy Journal

The terms “conspiracy theorist” and “conspiracy nut” are used frequently to discredit a perceived adversary using emotional rather than logical appeals. It’s important for the sake of true argument that we define the term “conspiracy” and use it appropriately, not as an ad hominem attack on someone whose point of view we don’t share.

According to my Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary, the word “conspiracy” derives from the Latin “conspirare,” which means literally “to breathe together” in the sense of agreeing to commit a crime. The primary definition is “planning and acting together secretly, especially for a harmful or unlawful purpose, such as murder or treason.”

It was in this sense that Mark Twain astutely observed, “A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public.”

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Also at:

Rethinking Conspiracy

That 75% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and 57% of Americans could not come up with $500 in the case of an emergency. Rich country, poor citizens.

“Kasskara: Sunken Land of the Hopi Ancestors” (#1 in series)

Nexus magazine, Feb/Mar 2016

Earth Cataclysms and Hopi Kachinas: Saviors from Space

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Nexus magazine, August-September 2016

My friend, Kayla Platsis, turned me on to this powerful performance by Michael Meade, a deeply knowledgeable mythologist–and John Densmore, who some will recognize as the drummer for The Doors.  From left to right in the photo above: John Densmore, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, and Jim Morrison. *

In this piece under the title How Your Unique Genius Can Help Heal Nature and Culture, Meade and Densmore  weave myth and music and rhythm into a timely and timeless piece of performance art. It’s really worth seeing and hearing. It’s brilliant!

Hear Meade speak at Stanford University:

*The Doors were an American rock band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, with vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger, and drummer John Densmore.

She has the same glare–that of a pissed off ferret–that I’ve seen sported by Ann Coulter.

This Is How Laura Ingraham Closed Her Republican Convention Speech

God her voice is irritating! (YouTube) And what she says is imbecile!

Diversity

White Privilege

So after tooting some coke she scored from one of Bill’s connections, Hillary Clinton speaks with ballsy bravado about killing someone.

:  Barf Bucket here:

The terms “conspiracy theorist” and “conspiracy nut” are used frequently to discredit a perceived adversary using emotional rather than logical appeals. It’s important for the sake of true argument that we define the term “conspiracy” and use it appropriately, not as an ad hominem attack on someone whose point of view we don’t share.

According to my Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary, the word “conspiracy” derives from the Latin “conspirare,” which means literally “to breathe together” in the sense of agreeing to commit a crime. The primary definition is “planning and acting together secretly, especially for a harmful or unlawful purpose, such as murder or treason.”

It was in this sense that Mark Twain astutely observed, “A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public.”

Complete article here:

http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2014/10/27/rethinking-conspiracy/

Kevin Barrett and Jim Fetzer discuss “Rethinking Conspiracy” on False Flag Weekly News:

http://noliesradio.org/archives/95653 (17:10 into broadcast)

Fran Shure, Psychologist, mentions RC in footnote #13:

http://www1.ae911truth.org/en/news-section/41-articles/930-why-do-good-people-become-silentor-worseabout-911-pt13.html

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/sfpiradio/2014/05/11/be-all-that-you-can-be-with-shawn-hamilton

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Every Saturday morning a few good folks bring food to feed the homeless in Sacramento. One informal group was started several years ago by a woman from Taiwan named Lily who arrived in the US with no education, no ability to speak English, and little money. Life was very hard for her, but Lily eventually became a licensed accupressure therapist and became financially stable, She never forgot how it felt to be poor, however, and started feeding the homeless because of her compassion for people in tough circumstances. I extracted the recording above from an interview I conducted with Darryl Jefferson during the breakfast one Saturday morning. The piece originally aired on KPFA Radio.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/sfpiradio/2014/05/11/be-all-that-you-can-be-with-shawn-hamilton