@dystopian

this is the path of the solar eclipse in US tomorrow
looking at the ground is a cool idea!

you folks in Oregon may see the show, if the sky is clearish

Hi all, Hey OtC!

Hope all is well out there. No bombs here yet.

Big Junior Brown fan here, he is an awesome guitarist. Too cool you get to go see him! Good on ya!

My plans are to look around on the ground under trees for the eclipse. Some of you might think that does not make sense, for the eclipse is up in the sky. One of the most amazing things I ever saw was thousands of eclipses on the ground. Little tiny eclipses, everywhere, tons of them, it looked like a scene from Fantasia. And I was walking through it.

Surely most of you know about the shoebox type eclipse viewer with the pinhole to project an image of the eclipse. So, take all your dough, and tomorrow at the right time be ready. What you need is a leafy tree canopy. The sort where lots of bolt of light come through the holes and gaps between the leaves to hit the ground. Not too late for this in the south much of the country. Deciduous trees work best, Maples for instance are excellent. Anything with a good thick canopy cover, but which is not solid.

When the eclipse hits, each one of those bolts of sun will be a projection of the eclipse on the ground. There can be hundreds under a single tree. Walk under a well treed area and there are thousands wherever you look, eclipses, all over the ground. It really looks cool. I saw it 5 or so years ago here when I was guiding some folks birding.

That was in breeding season. All the birds went quiet from the cacophony of territorial singing during the peak. And then went through another round of vigorous dawn-chorus type singing when it ended.

Hope Junior does "Hung It Up" for y'all!

Everyone have a great weekend, and eclipse.

Eclipse

@snoopydawg

From Hersh.

Benjamin Netanyahu “is finished,” as his decision to allow a group of Orthodox settlers to celebrate Sukkot in the West Bank last week was ill-timed, given the growing tensions between Jews and Palestinians in the region, an Israeli source told Seymour Hersh. On October 6 a group of Jewish settlers were reported to have clashed with local Palestinians in Huwara, a village in the northern part of the West Bank, which resulted in the death of a 19-year-old Arab man. Israeli settlers in the West Bank required “extraordinary protection” over the upsurge in violence. So, Netanyahu gave a nod to local Israeli military authorities to order two of the three Army battalions that controlled the border with Gaza to shift their focus to the Sukkot festival. Given that each battalion comprised about 800 soldiers, 1,600 were sent to shield the Orthodox Jews.

“That left only eight hundred soldiers to be responsible for guarding the 51-kilometer border between the Gaza Strip and southern Israel,” Hersh’s interlocutor said. “That meant the Israeli citizens in the south were left without an Israeli military presence for ten to twelve hours. They were left to fend for themselves.” Thus, unsurprisingly, the diminished IDF contingent was overrun by Hamas militants on October 7, while Israeli civilians were left unprotected. Hersh’s sources called the Saturday attack “the great military failure in Israeli history.” He noted that a previous surprise attack on Israel by Egypt and Syria in 1973 claimed the lives of soldiers, while this time peaceful civilians suffered. “Last Saturday twenty-two settlements in the south were under control of Hamas for hours, and they went house to house slaughtering women and children,” the insider said.

Ill timed or on purpose after Egypt told Israel that Hamas was planning something big? Kinda like when our Air Force left the most restricted air space in the country unprotected when the 19 men with box cutters flew planes into 2 buildings and destroying 3 of them. And the Dick Cheney refused to let them deal with the abducted planes because they were doing a conveniently timed drill.

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The Daily Show aired this segment on the Israel-Palestine conflict NINE years ago. pic.twitter.com/TfqI2qjp7w

— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) October 11, 2023

The ending is brilliant.

Bibi is giving the Palestinians 24 to evacuate Gaza before he flattens even more of it. Just a bit more ethnic cleansing because once they leave he won’t allow them to come back. How many war crimes has he committed in just 7 days?

Sadly today Putin said that Israel has a right to self defense. Of course they do. But genocide has nothing to do with self defense and no apartheid country should be allowed to claim that right. 1,500 Palestinians have been killed, not died since Israel has started their bombing campaign. I’m thinking that over 100,000 civilians will be killed before this is over. Biden, Blinken and Austin have given their permission for Israel to do whatever the hell it wants.

And remember when Trump got his Abrams Accord done it closed off any avenue to a 2 state solution. Tell me how the Hamas attacks were unprovoked.

BTW the reason why Hamas was able to attack where they did was because Israel had moved most of its defenses out of the area so they could protect the people who were involved in the Al-Alsa mosque activities. I can’t remember where I read that. I’ll try to find it again.

@lotlizard

but it’s not only those in power who are doing it, but the people who have bitched about censorship for the last 3 years are now joining in and anyone who supports Palestinian rights are being dawg piled and by the now ex free speech people and told to shut up. And to lose their jobs and positions and everything else they were once against. It’s amazing how quick the script flips depending on the topic.

https://off-guardian.org/2023/10/11/israel-hamas-war-another-excuse-to-s...

And:
Bernie Sanders, on tour promoting his latest book, is fêted as a charismatic celebrity in Berlin:

https://taz.de/Bernie-Sanders-in-Berlin/%215966354/

† one possibility to get a translation:   https://www.translator.eu