The Weekly Watch
Light and Dark
This Wednesday is the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere, the shortest day and longest night of the year. The sun has made it's march south, and now pauses before it climbs back up in the sky. Days will grow longer in the endless cycle of light and dark. Tonight is the start of Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights that lasts for eight days and nights in honor of a 2,000-year-old miracle in which light won out over darkness.
Humans use light and dark to mark time, and have for thousands of years. Lunar calendars were probably used first because the lunar cycle is visible most nights. The Jewish calendar is a combination of solar and lunar, and that's why the dates of Hanukkah change from year to year.
The Hebrew calendar, which governs the dates of Hanukkah and every other Jewish holiday, is meant to keep in sync with the seasons that are created by Earth's orbit around the sun—but it also factors in the moon, with the beginning date of each new month in ancient times based on actual observations of the crescent moon.
Inconveniently, the moon's phases don't line up precisely with Earth's path around the sun: One lunar cycle takes 29.5 days, meaning that about 12.3 of them fit within a solar year. So the Hebrew calendar draws on the same basic principle as the leap day we add every four years to February — but instead of adding a day every four years, it adds a full lunar month to seven out of every 19 years. That adjustment keeps the calendar aligned with both celestial bodies, which in turn means that winter months always fall during the winter.
These lunar phases are as they appear from Earth. It seems odd after the full moon to see the moon lit side as being away from the sun. I keep track of the moon remembering the phases spell DOC. D is at first quarter, O is full, and C is the waning crescent moon.
However, the lunar cycle almost defines a month (moonth) (29.5 days) and each quarter is about a week. The moon provided an easy means of tracking time. Each month had a differently named moon staying in phase with the solar year
Full Moon names date back to Native Americans, of what is now the northern and eastern United States. The tribes kept track of the seasons by giving distinctive names to each recurring full Moon. Their names were applied to the entire month in which each occurred. There was some variation in the Moon names, but in general, the same ones were current throughout the Algonquin tribes from New England to Lake Superior. European settlers followed that custom and created some of their own names. Since the lunar month is only 29 days long on the average, the full Moon dates shift from year to year.
Here is the Farmers Almanac's list of the full Moon names:
• Full Wolf Moon - January Amid the cold and deep snows of midwinter, the wolf packs howled hungrily outside Indian villages. Thus, the name for January's full Moon. Sometimes it was also referred to as the Old Moon, or the Moon After Yule. Some called it the Full Snow Moon, but most tribes applied that name to the next Moon.
• Full Snow Moon - February Since the heaviest snow usually falls during this month, native tribes of the north and east most often called February's full Moon the Full Snow Moon. Some tribes also referred to this Moon as the Full Hunger Moon, since harsh weather conditions in their areas made hunting very difficult.
• Full Worm - March Moon As the temperature begins to warm and the ground begins to thaw, earthworm casts appear, heralding the return of the robins. The more northern tribes knew this Moon as the Full Crow Moon, when the cawing of crows signaled the end of winter; or the Full Crust Moon, because the snow cover becomes crusted from thawing by day and freezing at night. The Full Sap Moon, marking the time of tapping maple trees, is another variation. To the settlers, it was also known as the Lenten Moon, and was considered to be the last full Moon of winter.
• Full Pink Moon - April This name came from the herb moss pink, or wild ground phlox, which is one of the earliest widespread flowers of the spring. Other names for this month's celestial body include the Full Sprouting Grass Moon, the Egg Moon, and among coastal tribes the Full Fish Moon, because this was the time that the shad swam upstream to spawn.
• Full Flower Moon - May In most areas, flowers are abundant everywhere during this time. Thus, the name of this Moon. Other names include the Full Corn Planting Moon, or the Milk Moon.
• Full Strawberry Moon - June This name was universal to every Algonquin tribe. However, in Europe they called it the Rose Moon. Also because the relatively short season for harvesting strawberries comes each year during the month of June . . . so the full Moon that occurs during that month was christened for the strawberry!
• The Full Buck Moon - July July is normally the month when the new antlers of buck deer push out of their foreheads in coatings of velvety fur. It was also often called the Full Thunder Moon, for the reason that thunderstorms are most frequent during this time. Another name for this month's Moon was the Full Hay Moon.
• Full Sturgeon Moon - August The fishing tribes are given credit for the naming of this Moon, since sturgeon, a large fish of the Great Lakes and other major bodies of water, were most readily caught during this month. A few tribes knew it as the Full Red Moon because, as the Moon rises, it appears reddish through any sultry haze. It was also called the Green Corn Moon or Grain Moon.
• Full Harvest Moon - September This is the full Moon that occurs closest to the autumn equinox. In two years out of three, the Harvest Moon comes in September, but in some years it occurs in October. At the peak of harvest, farmers can work late into the night by the light of this Moon. Usually the full Moon rises an average of 50 minutes later each night, but for the few nights around the Harvest Moon, the Moon seems to rise at nearly the same time each night: just 25 to 30 minutes later across the U.S., and only 10 to 20 minutes later for much of Canada and Europe. Corn, pumpkins, squash, beans, and wild rice the chief Indian staples are now ready for gathering.
• Full Hunter's Moon - October With the leaves falling and the deer fattened, it is time to hunt. Since the fields have been reaped, hunters can easily see fox and the animals which have come out to glean.
• Full Beaver Moon - November This was the time to set beaver traps before the swamps froze, to ensure a supply of warm winter furs. Another interpretation suggests that the name Full Beaver Moon comes from the fact that the beavers are now actively preparing for winter. It is sometimes also referred to as the Frosty Moon.
• The Full Cold Moon; or the Full Long Nights Moon - December During this month the winter cold fastens its grip, and nights are at their longest and darkest. It is also sometimes called the Moon before Yule. The term Long Night Moon is a doubly appropriate name because the midwinter night is indeed long, and because the Moon is above the horizon for a long time. The midwinter full Moon has a high trajectory across the sky because it is opposite a low Sun.
Solar Time
Many suggest agriculture was the driving force to encourage the use of the sun to keep track of time. But recognition of the solstice reaches far back in time, perhaps before agriculture. Understanding it is the tilt of the Earth's axis create seasons is a newer concept.
Early neolithic structures were designed to define the solstice. Stonehenge is perhaps the most famous but there are many structures which indicate the solstice which are much older.
Did you know that near Stonehenge was a woodhenge? The term henge refers to the ditch around the structure.
On Orkney a tomb, Maeshowe (1 hour), sits in the midst of several neolithic sites. It has a single 27 foot long stone along the entrance that aligns with the sun on the winter solstice.
It is similar to the tomb at Newgrange, which also aligns with the winter solstice sunrise. (5 min)
And many much smaller Irish tombs align with the solstice.
Native Americans were also time keepers. The Maya would orient their buildings to reveal the seasons with the changing sunlight.
Here's a recently (1970's) discovered calendar at Chaco Canyon
And here's another in nearby Mancos Canyon
So we as a species have been focused on light and dark as a universal time piece for a long time and across many cultures.
Astronomers use Sidereal Time.
In the time it takes the Earth to spin once about its axis, it also moves along its orbit by over 2.5 million kilometers. Because Earth has moved, the sun will not appear in the same part of the sky at the end of that rotation. To end up facing the sun again, the Earth has to rotate for another four minutes.
In other words, a solar day is how long it takes Earth to rotate once – and then some. A sidereal day – 23 hours 56 minutes and 4.1 seconds – is the amount of time needed to complete one rotation.
In this system, the stars always appear at the same place in the sky at the same time each sidereal day.
Humans seem to have cared about time for most of our existence, but perhaps we obsess too much about time.
I know what time it is now...News Time. Some stories are dark, some light, most are twilight gray. So, here a mixture of what I learned this week.
Let's start with the dark underbelly of US shadow government as Whitney Web explains to Jimmy the nefarious activities and wide range of the CIA.
The Mafia, CIA & Jeffrey Epstein Worked TOGETHER To Traffic Minors (47 min)
There is much more to the Jeffrey Epstein case than an island for sex trafficking, flight logs and a suspicious “suicide.” As journalist Whitney Webb unravels in her two-volume “One Nation Under Blackmail” series, ties between the CIA, organized crime, international arms dealers and sex traffickers date back to before World War II and the Epstein connection merely represents the latest chapter in an unbelievably sordid, many-tentacled tale of money, sex, violence, power and blackmail. Jimmy and Whitney discuss the historical connection between the military, the CIA and organized crime as well as Epstein’s ties to Bill Clinton, Bill Gates and Victoria’s Secret founder Les Wexner, among many other miscreants and malefactors.
The mafia branch of our government as I call them. I don't see how the US can save itself without dissolving the CIA, FBI, DHS, security state.
Larry Johnson was a CIA agent. George Szamuely and Peter Lavelle sat down for another one of our regular long conversations with military and intelligence analyst Larry Johnson. The 1.5 hour discussion was, as always, fascinating and highly illuminating.
Scott Ritter talked with the Judge a couple of times this week. Scott Ritter - Ukraine Russia War Latest 12/16/22 (33 min)
Ukraine's Minister of Defence believes Russia is preparing major offensive in February
and..
Russia Targets Kyiv with More Drones (20 min)
Napolitano also spoke with Col Douglas McGregor (23 min)
U.S. gives Ukraine OK to drone strike Russia
Moscow has data confirming US’, Poland’s involvement in terror attacks in Russia
In an almost 3 hour conversation that had many insights Alex, Alexander, Brian and Gonzalo analyze the current situation in Ukraine and beyond.
Zelensky's three step peace plan w/Brian Berletic from The New Atlas and Gonzalo Lira
Moving on to other parts of the world, The Duran hosted historian Matt Ehret.
Multipolar future for Africa & the Middle East with Matthew Ehret (2 hours)
Here's a recent article by Matt.
Xi Jinping’s Visit to Saudi Arabia and the overthrow of Atlanticism
Biden Opens Africa Summit With Sanctioning African Leaders
The goal of sanctions is behavior change...yeah right. They will backfire and we can't seem to learn.
As we've discussed over the last few weeks, we are witnessing a massive swing in the balance of power. Xi and MBS meeting and their massive agreements point the way. Alex and Alexander also tackle that topic this week. China & Saudi Arabia, massive realignment. A new power rises in the Middle East (25 min)
Pepe Escobar has similar thoughts...
Xi Jinping has made an offer difficult for the Arabian Peninsula to ignore: China will be guaranteed buyers of your oil and gas, but we will pay in yuan.
More from Pepe...
News From the NATOstan-Imposed Meat Grinder
Somewhere in her private pantheon, Pallas Athena, Goddess of Geopolitics, is immensely enjoying the show.
Mark Sleboda explains how this has led the US to have a scorched earth policy for Taiwan.
The US' Scorched Earth Policy for Taiwan 6 min
In the wake of a new Pentagon assessment that Chinese military strength has grown such that the US can no longer defeat China in a battle over Taiwan, the US is seriously considering a scorched earth policy to deny Taiwan's critical semiconductor manufacturing industry to China if it attempts to assert its sovereignty over the island by force.
https://marksleboda.substack.com/p/the-us-scorched-earth-policy-for
Here at home in the US, the Twitter Files occupy much of the air play.
Russell Brand had Matt on his show this week.
The Twitter Files with Matt Taibbi, who has been releasing internal documents from before Elon Musk purchased Twitter. Here Matt reveals what we need to know about these revelations.
14 min
Jimmy weighs in on the shitlib outrage when MSM reporters are banned from twitter.
Liberals LIVID After Elon Musk Bans Them From Twitter For Doxxing! (27 min)
It turns out that bringing free speech back to Twitter is not something that can be done as easily as forking over $44 billion. At least that’s what Elon Musk is discovering as he has been criticized for wielding Twitter’s ban button to kick a number of liberal journalists off the platform for alleged “doxxing” – specifically that they linked to a page dedicated to sharing the location and movements of Musk’s private jet. Note that many of these selfsame journalists applauded Twitter’s previous bans of right-wing figures. Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss the remarkable about face effected by these former fans of Twitter’s censorship measures.
I want to wrap up the news with a couple of pieces about how we have been misled by big pharma.
First from two of my favorite doctors, Ken Berry and Aseem Malhotra.
Big-pharma captured Evidence-Based Medicine with Dr Aseem Malhotra (56 min)
Dr Aseem Malhotra is an NHS trained Consultant Cardiologist, and President of The Public Health Collaboration. He is an internationally renowned expert in the prevention, diagnosis and management of heart disease.
And finally a short 7.5 min clip. One the biggest ongoing SCAMS in Western Medicine.
Big Business and Industry runs rings around everyone...over and over again.
I wish those of you who celebrate the holiday to have a meaningful gathering with family and friends. To me that's the joy of the holidays.
I think it is our nature to make things dark or light when in reality things are much more subtle. There's good and bad in all things and in all of us. Seeing the light in the dark makes the smallest of flames seem bright. Have a great Sunday. As always I look forward to your thoughts and comments below.
Comments
good Sunday morning
lot's of juice to filter here
many thanks!
inspires me to build something for the WE OT.
Happy Hanukkah and World Cup final.
Go Argentina!
question everything
Good morning...
Cold weather has found us in the SE. Looks like plenty of snow in the NE and west. Looks like next Xmas weekend will remain below freezing .... coldest spell we've had in years.
I plan to have a fire on Wed. to bring back the sun...just for fun. High on Wed is 48 so should be doable. Hope you and yours are staying warm. I sure feel for the EU citizens suffering because of self serving bureaucrats.
Take care!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
wow ... so much to read for three Sundays ...
which moon to choose, when you feel in love with someone?
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When you're in love...
...any moon will do. However if you pick this moonth (the cold moon), you might end up like Hank Williams with a cold, cold heart.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQmzp-NA5PM&t=4s]
Sending you warm wishes for a great holiday season!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
thank you so much for giving me a warmer heart
in these cold days. It seems especially needed here in our region, it is not only cold, but brutally cold hearted. I wished every body would be treated so warmly with the beautiful song(s) you and all my friends on this site offer us daily. This is site is truly a resue plank I would never loose my grip on.
Wishing all the best, especially for your garden work. As I said, if someone can't find anything to love here on c99p, he just doesn't haven't found the right 'lookout' yet.
Be happy and eat something nice for Christmas.
In case I disappear before Christmas, have all a good time with family and friends and music. It is the best thing out there to have.
Merry festivities in your homes from here to over there.
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Easy!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
oh, so sweet and 'schmusy' (something you like to cuddle with)
Thank you, on the cusp. You have a romantic heart and it always makes me smile and laugh. I imagine you will dance with the love of your life to this song while you watch carefully that the Chistmas candles dont burn down the house. We used to have real wax christmas clandles on our trees, but I think it was not allowed to have those, when I still was at your side of the Atlantic. Tough luck.
Be merry and with much love to all those, you just desperateöy need tp love.
Have a merry one.
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We have danced many times to the tune, mimi.
There is no shortage of love in our house. And it extends to our friends, extends to strangers.
The world needs more of it.
Stay warm as best you can.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
How about one of these mimi?
[video:https://youtu.be/v0fy1HeJv80]
[video:https://youtu.be/MiY5auB3OWg]
Great stuff!
Hadn't thought of those in many years.
Take good care, chica!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Janis, really I never liked Elvis, but this one is an exception
thank you mucho.
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Good morning Lookout and thanks for the WW and OT
Oddly enough, tomorrow is also the first day of Hannukah. How can this be? Some calendars, like the one I used to prepare tomorrow's OT show the first day of Hannukah as being the first daytime during which it is Hannukah, or some similar idea. Since Hannukah starts at sundown, it starts a day before the "workday" or daytime period during which it is Hannukah.
source: https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/chanukah
OTOH, I'm a goy and hence without full understanding; it's not my book nor my calendar.
Also, the Maya calendar, as I recall from a long ago extremely deep dive, not only accounted for solar and lunar but some of the other celestial cycles too, I just forget which.
Time for me to read more and listen to the music
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
I'm no expert either...
...but the sentiment remains the same for celebrants to have a happy Hanukkah. I guess this evening marks the first of the celebration and tomorrow is the first day?
Edit to add:
So for the Jewish calendar all days begin at nightfall and end the next day at nightfall including holidays. So I changed the intro from today to tonight.
The Maya do have but lunar and solar aspects. Additionally Chaco Canyon's structures also track the moon as well as the sun.
https://thebotanicaljourney.com/blogs/the-botanical-journey/chaco-canyon...
I'm fascinated by the antiquity of humans obsession with time and the heavens.
Hope all is well on the left coast, and there's good weather out your way.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
South Korean demos over the weekend
I had posted this image of a Korean "sadangpae" traveling musical troupe in another thread earlier. The traditional folk dance and music group often perform near the spring and autumn equinox and were originally associated with village farming schedules and still are as far as I know.
I was watching Balgan Agae the independent journalist who has a youtube channel since Friday night because he covers the democracy movement in South Korea. There was a small demo Friday night on Itaewonno (Itaewon road) on the approach to the former US (and before that Japanese) military garrison where the current South Korean Presidential office had moved. The relatively small group of family survivors from the Oct. 29 "Halloween" Itaewon disaster wanted to present their petition to the President's Office there on the military base. ( I doubt if the president was there Friday evening. He works 9 to 5 or less if he is hungover, he was probably out boozing it up already). The number of mobile police units assembled to block their way to the former Ministry of National Defense Building where President Yoon's Office is located was substantially larger than the number of grieving family members in the demonstration.
I was struck by this because this kind of police mobilization is exactly what led to the "crush disaster" in Itaewon on Oct. 29. Protection of the public has been displaced in priority to protection of Yoon and his core cadre. Kim Jong-tae, a respected journalist, who appears often on OhMyNews and other media commented on the aggregation of police power around Yoon and his internal government clique, and compared it unfavorably of course, to the personal body guard of both the former dictator of South Korea, Park Chung-hee, and current dictator Kim Jong-un in North Korea. I'm sure the presidential staff are well aware of the potential of this unresolved grievance against government incompetence to trigger the beginning of the end of his government. Kim Jong-tae also commented at length yesterday on the disappearance of freedom of expression in South Korea under Yoon's administration, and the formation of a staff in the Presidential Office whose sole purpose is to control and persecute those who dare to criticize him, his reactionary policies, his family's corruption, and so on. The office staff replicates the office of information and policy that existed during Yoon's unethical tenure as Prosecutor General whose purpose was similar, to prosecute political opponents and "rouge journalists" promulgating "fake news" about him and his corrupt colleagues and family members.
In any case, the group of Itaewon disaster family survivors dispersed after pleading with the three walls composed of hundreds of police, to move aside, failed. In contrast to this overwhelming police deployment to block the peaceful demonstration of family survivors, a much larger demonstration, a so called candlelight movement demonstration in opposition to the Yoon Seok-yeol government took place Saturday, December 17, as scheduled. This demonstration is recorded by time lapse photography as it proceeded from the Samgakchi assembly point (also near Yongsan) and marched toward Seoul station. This is the video below. I noticed that the short video roll is duplicated (perhaps with differing camera angles at the mid point, so there are two time lapse portrayals of the march toward Gangwhamun plaza. It was hard to assess the numbers, the cold weather, the government crackdown on union leaders and activists, and the holiday approaching probably limited it to a relatively small size.
There were two interesting cultural points about the demo. The first is that a traditional sadangpae musical and dance group opened the event at the assembly point. They were dressed however in winter coats, scarves, hat, gloves and contemporary attire. The second, that a traditional flag, a large white flag, had an old Korean expression on it, attributed to scholar Jeong Do-jeon during the revolution that overthrew the Goryeo dynasty and replaced it with the Chosun (Lee) Dynasty about six centuries earlier, it basically said, the people are the rulers. Jeon was ultimately executed for advocating this radical premise.
The story of the relationship of Jeong and General Lee, the founder of Chosun, is portrayed dramatically in historical Kdrama series Six Flying Dragons and has been retold in other series.
(edited for typos, misspelling, etc.)
語必忠信 行必正直
Many thanks for the Korean update!
Sounds like western values have infected the country. I like Neil Oliver's comment, "They didn't take 1984 as a warning. They used it as a plan."
Control the narrative and suppress the people with militarized police. The protest seemed pretty large by US standards, but maybe small based on the past Korean protests.
The dancers remind me of British Morris dance in terms of honoring seasons. These Morris men and women were performing on the Ashdown Forest in East Sussex on Mayday morning. The Koreans look far more athletic in their dancing.
Thanks again for the report on the complex politics of S. Korea... a nice addition to the WW.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Relatively small
...by South Korean standards is right. They hope to ultimately get a million people to show up. The demos are regularly scheduled on the weekends. I hesitate to guess this one's size. I have to give credit to my better half who has helped me over the years, interpret raw video when I don't recognize the locations, and also has helped me with translation issues over many years.
I forgot to point out that entertainment, folk music, rock, and songs written for political purposes are part of the agenda during the demonstrations. The demonstrators participate in the musical performances singing along when they hear the words. I haven't heard this kind of political music in the US in a long time, but I'm somewhat disengaged from the US music scene and don't consider myself well informed on this.
Thanks for Morris dancing video. We watch a lot of rural venue homemade videos about life in China, Southeast Asia, other Eurasian regions, and Europe, and I'm always struck by the things all groups of people and cultures have in common rather than their differences.
Thanks for your encouragement.
語必忠信 行必正直
You right about the lack of antiwar music today
Where are the Pete Seegar's, Bob Dylan's, and Phil Ochs of this generation?
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rVTBCtYjoY]
The music and dance sound like the way to have a protest. Again thanks for the reports.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Well, the estate of Woody Guthrie
reached out to Celtic Punk stalwarts Dropkick Murphys, and gifted them 20 sets of never-before-heard lyrics from his notebooks to put to new music. So there will soon be two new albums of Guthrie works delivered with the signature DKM protest style. So there’s something new, anyway. “This Machine Still Kills Fascists”…
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
I heard about that...
...and look forward to it.
Glad to hear all's well with the new knee. Looks like snow out west...I was thinking that's where you are.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
We’re in the one part of the west
that hasn’t received any real snow yet, down here south of Denver on the Palmer Divide. We’ve snuck through the gaps between storms, so far, which is fine with me. Now that we’re in this apartment, I’m out of the snow-shoveling business, which is also fine with me. We have an inch or two coming in midweek, just to be scenic for Christmas, but not enough to represent a hazard to navigation…
Our turn will be coming in March and April. And by then, I should be healed up enough to maybe even enjoy it a little…
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
"Waiting for the world to change" according to
one song that got a lot of airtime.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
War on humanity…or on we humans
The only reason the sociopathic PTB are waging the war against us is because they have been doing it for some time and we have just gone along with their plans. Time is running out for us to tell them that we don’t want what they are planning and to stand up and tell them to F off.
Looks like the rail workers are just going to accept the crappy deal congress told them to accept and more workers will lose even more the next time they want decent working conditions. Japan bus drivers are on strike but instead of not working they just aren’t accepting fares. It’s illegal to do that in England but what if they did it anyway?
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
That's a masterful Neil Oliver piece...
Rail workers in the UK have taken notice...
Thousands of UK’s rail workers strike over below-inflation pay
Of course things are worse in Britain (and the EU) than the US.
Thanks for the clip!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Hola todos. Just stumbled across this on boing boing -
seems highly appropriate for this time of the year:
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Hadn't heard that version
I like to sing that one too, but John's version is just hard to top.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfwGkplB_sY]
Evidently he wrote it based on one (or some) of his postal customers along his route.
Thanks for posting.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
With all the weird events taking place 1 after another
Sage Hana has been revisiting the 9/11 evidence. Here’s her latest on the plane that didn’t hit the pentagon. The link takes you to her website if you want to see what else she has to say on this and various Covid scams.
The Plane Does not Fit in that Hole
Where is the wreckage? Or the videos…didn’t the fbi take all videos from the area? And this area is the most protected air space in the world! Planes were in the air for over 90 minutes and no jets were scrambled because they were already doing drills for that event….?
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
Not to mention building 7
So much suspicious about it, just like JFK, MLK, RFK, Seth Rich, etc. Deep state misdeeds.
Engineers and architects for 911 truth have loads of info
Pilots for 911 truth have a perspective.
Seems it's lies all my life from Vietnam to Iraq to Ukraine to COVID. The common thread? To my mind fearporn propaganda and misinformation.
Thanks for link, clip, and meme.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
To add to the mix of cts,
I put off watching the Carlson video on Fox News about the surprise doc dump on the JFK assassination investigation. I now click on the video and I see only a 3 minute video of some goofy game.
sigh...
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Here's a couple...
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCFr6aR61f8]
5 min... and
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAiRmhXvJHs]
7.5 min
but the one that gets into the weeds to my mind is this one
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oVpt_I9iQQ&t=67m]
Hope all is well in Texas!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Kids were out of school on that day here in Texas.
I watched him get shot in real time. My family never got over it.
Thanks for the videos.
Must watch now.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
The day JFK was killed we got out of school early
...and living in Atlanta at the time of MLK's murder, we got out of school for the funeral where they had a mule drawn wagon as I recall.
Enjoy the music. We just played a set this pm.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Short Summary of Every Jewish Holiday:
"They tried to kill us, we won, let's eat."
Funny how the fuel-economy trick is what gets all the press among goyim; Hanukkah was about winning a war for independence.
I remember reading some story somewhere (I don't know exactly where or when it was, but presumably America, certainly no longer ago than 60 years at most and probably much more recently) about a Jewish woman who was invited by her kid's elementary-school class to tell everyone else about Hanukkah. The mother told the story (still pretty short and simplified) about winning the war, which shocked the (obviously goyish) teacher, who tried to get her to say, 'What? No, it was about a nice miracle with candles, right?'
Judaism is secretly one of the Old-Time Religions, with at least as much in common with pre-Christian "paganism" as with other (to nudge a little Islam in here) "Peoples of the Book" - and as Aleister Crowley once said, "Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life."
I think you may enjoy the gift I long-since picked out for my father (who as I may have mentioned before, is a physicist and engineer) this year:
Speaking of Which: When I was about 3-4, my father would read to me an age-appropriate book about the Hanukkah story: Judah Who Always Said, NO! The cover alone might be considered badass enough:
Despite knowing what the book wanted my opinion to be, when it got to the part about polytheism versus monotheism, I knew then and there that the former looked and sounded way more fun and interesting (but from there leads a story for, perhaps, another day).
In any case, I think it still has a lesson or two for us all - because talk about "contrarian"!
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!
Yeah ...old time religion
Pete sings it...
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdhKa_giaq4]
Oh, give me that old time religion
Give me that old time religion
Give me that old time religion
It's good enough for me.
Let us pray with Aphrodite,
Let us pray with Aphrodite,
She wears that see-through nightie,
And it's good enough for me.
We will pray with Zarathustra,
We'll pray just like we use ta,
I'm a Zarathustra booster,
And it's good enough for me.
We will pray with those Egyptians,
Build pyramids to put our crypts in,
Cover subways with inscriptions,
And it's good enough for me.
We will pray with those old druids,
They drink fermented fluids,
Waltzing naked though the woo-ids,
And it's good enough for me.
Hare Krishna, He must laugh on
To see me dressed in saffron
With my hair that's only half on
And it's good enough for me.
I will rise at early morning,
When my Lord gives me the warning,
That the solar age is dawning,
And that's good enough for me.
Thanks for the Hanukkah perspective and the visit!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
There are LOTS more verses :-)
Here's one for The Dose:
Let us go and worship Hermes
With his staff entwined with wormies,
For he'll keep away the germies
And that's good enough for me!
And the one nobody can rhyme:
I can't rhyme Ahura-Mazda,
Can't rhyme Ahura-Mazda,
So "Orange, orange, orange"
And that's good enough for me!
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
yes, I think there's like 1000 verses...
http://www.paganlibrary.com/music_poetry/real_old_religion.php
Cover about every God you can think of.
Thanks for the extra verses!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Hi moonbat
It's nice that you and your father support each others individuality.
’No’ is quite a universal answer from a two-year-old or older, regardless of religion.
Thank you for this quote - "Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.”
Your comment made me flash on Mort Sahl. I found this on youtube ...
[video:https://youtu.be/vobupy1K_2s]
Yeah, heard/read that before
In the joke-book I read it in, it was the Pope VS the Chief Rabbi of Israel.
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!
I would like to see the neocons rationalize this tweet.
Unfortunately they won't have to.
They won't address it...
arrogance and ignorance reigns supreme. Thanks for the tweet. Dotcom nails it again.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
I wonder if Biden will speak out about this???
Now who are the war criminals?
Not Russia, Russia, Russia... they are not the ones shelling civilians and nuclear facilities.
The narrative must not be questioned.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
I have planned a short, 5 day escape
to Galveston. Any holiday that closes down courthouses and sends the judges out of court rooms is a glorious one for me.
It will be freezing overnight there Thursday and Friday, but will be an average 6 degrees colder here at home. Before we go, we will shut off the water at the meter, empty the lines. We will set the thermostat in the sixties here at home, give protection to indoor plants, and extra protection to the plumping pipes.
Stepping out at night into 23 deg. is so much better than 17 deg., amirite?
I am gonna dig in to some of the excellent articles and videos you have brought to us today.
Thanks for all you do, friend!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
have a great holiday...
Friday it's low 20's for highs and low teens as a low. Stays below freezing Sat too, but gets a bit above freezing Sunday on Xmas. We drained our outdoor plumbing a few weeks ago during the first cold spell. This is going to be as cold as we've been in years over Xmas weekend.
Y'all have fun and stay warm!
Edit to add
I need to add antifreeze to the old tractor.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
We have a plan to go see an excellent local
rock band Thursday night. Seems they have both an indoor and outdoor seating arrangement. A 3 minute drive from our condo rental. A Friday stroll along the Strand will require layers! There is supposed to be a very good c & w venue with live music there. My client who was helping us steer towards the cool stuff said his restaurant/live music venue only played hip hop, so he knew his competitors would win out with our business. That was damn gracious of him! We will at least stop in for a visit and a drink.
Our Christmas will not be white. Just damn cold. Well, frost is good for the soil.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
signing out for the night...
dark at 4 pm these days here. I'm ready for the light to start coming back!
You might enjoy this solstice song...
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W4KDMMbnLk]
Winter Solstice Song (5.5 min)
"See" you tomorrow!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”