my notifications here have not been working for a couple of weeks; ever since linking alby started to go haywire
i do not know of course if rfk jr knows the little story i shared but if not sy is still publishing still connected, so just an fyi
re: journalists being on payroll.
i will finish a story i began earlier.
my grandmother—whose photos i posted recently—called the hotel room of her husband one time, her second, thus my step-grandfather not my biological one, and guess who picked up the phone?
sy hersh.
why did sy hersh pick up the phone?
because he had been given my step-grandfather’s hotel room.
oh! it musta been some kind of a mixup.
which hotel was this?
the ambassador hotel in l.a.
when did this happen?
oh i dunno precisely, but definitely early june, 1968.
why was my step-grandfather there?
well, he happened to be the california campaign coordinator for rfk’s presidential campaign.
me myself i’ve never managed a campaign but political campaigns are very much about the media, and when and where the candidate encounters the media which is often at entrances and EXITS.
therefore, i would assume, and this is all merely an assumption, that the california campaign coordinator would have written down, perhaps, the precise schedule of his candidate’s movements including where, how, and via which exit he would depart. again, this is all merely conjecture.
thus, if one desired to find out such information which could be used either innocently or nefariously, perhaps *somehow* being assigned to a hotel room that was clearly already occupied by the california campaign coordinator — otherwise why would my grandmother have phoned there, hotel rooms are usually assigned at check-in — might be rather convenient.
sy himself acknowledged this hotel mixup happened at a dinner party recalling my step-grandfather as well so this confirms to me it is a true occurence not just family lore.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nuPzPQl_uFc&t=1610s
QUIET ROOMS & CLEAN SHEETS
what are we to make of the pelicot case? i get that most of you are bros who care more about crypto tycoons & social media ceos getting unfairly arrested, and i get that advocacy.
those are the cases you speak up about, because you do not have to feel ashamed.
but bros, those of you — because let’s face it, some of you, just like pelicot, have been raped & perhaps drugged by men posing in your lives as caretakers, family members, priests, teachers & of course, mentors — who experienced this & know about it:
IT IS TIME FOR YOU TO SPEAK UP ALONGSIDE WOMEN.
i remember growing up we were taught rape was something that happened late at night on a gravelly street with a struggle & and that we should never shout “rape” because no one would come.
we were told to shout “FIRE!” to bring people out.
but what about all these quiet rapes, in quiet rooms, these soft rapes in soft places, these clean rapes in clean sheets?
🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥
all those silent witnesses who could not say anything then but can say something now…
#asknostr
“In court, expert psychiatrist Laurent Layet, who interviewed 20 of the accused – including Pelicot three times – said they could not be described as “ordinary men…because that would be tantamount to saying that all men are capable of such acts.””
“The 50 men [arrested out of ~ 80] aged between 26 and 73 at the time of their arrest, include a councillor, a journalist, a former police officer, a prison guard, a soldier, a firefighter and a civil servant. Many were the couple’s neighbours in Mazan and had no previous criminal records.“
if a democratically elected candidate runs unopposed i.e. not against another democratic candidate and “wins” is s/he actually democratically elected?
both times donald drumpf ran he ran essentially unopposed as neither candidate he ran against was the nominee by the democratic electorate. first time the candidate was bernie who was blocked and this time there was none.
not at all concerned about the independence of the Federal Reserve—concerned about its raison d'être; not gonna get us trapped in that cagey construction.
congress has the power to abolish the fed—let the free market decide interest rates.
“Wisdom found no place where she might dwell; then a dwelling-place was assigned her in the heavens;
Wisdom went forth to make her dwelling among the children of men, and found no dwelling-place:
Wisdom returned to her place, and took her seat among the angels.
And unrighteousness went forth from her chambers: whom she sought not she found, and dwelt with them, as rain in a desert and dew on a thirsty land.”
-enoch 42
the two party system represents a schizophrenia of the social body—each side thrusting on the other the rejected part of themselves.
“A disorder that affects a person's ability to think, feel, and behave clearly. The exact cause of schizophrenia isn't known, but a combination of genetics, environment, and altered brain chemistry and structure may play a role.
Schizophrenia is characterized by thoughts or experiences that seem out of touch with reality, disorganized speech or behavior, and decreased participation in daily activities. Difficulty with concentration and memory may also be present.”
kinda awkward to watch how caucasians fracture themselves over the adopted and now mainstreamed word “woke” a term which black americans came up with & used with a more layered meaning back in the day. now it is pretty much a dead, politicized word.
i read a book called “the georgetown women’s social club.” the wives in DC politics held dinners & social gatherings that both political parties attended. can be good or bad depending on your view but that culture is over in DC. my point tho is that those spaces for normal conversation were created by women who had the time and resources to design them. and such spaces are necessary among all levels of society. it is the sort of “work” that women have done that was not valued & is lost.
SVers love to say it is not about the idea but the EXECUTION. but who can execute the idea? the ones with money & connections. so they hoover & act like they don’t by saying it is “all about the execution.”
looks like linda avey who pitched the idea *maybe* should have been in a leadership position —
https://fortune.com/2024/10/17/23andme-what-happened-stock-board-resigns-anne-wojcicki/
“star girl” moniker refers to a statue (replica) at one sansome street—i noticed only after i chose it here that it references revelation 12, The Woman and the Dragon: “A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.”
i was born on the cross street about a 15 minutes drive up the road. https://image.nostr.build/fbe94e93b2dce963486f5f3c3bd4ffae14408bac791beb91cd5853f37500f495.jpg
Shooting Blanks—
“Our sperm is too dead to colonize planet Earth (too much competition) so let’s colonize a dead planet, Mars (no competition). Victory!
—Not Elon Musk
“Do you think we could get Christopher Murray on to tell those guys lining up to screw a passed out grandma that it’s not good for our population growth? Oh he thinks they are doing that because their sperm is dead? Makes sense. Nix that.”
—Not Joe Rogan
“What are you saying—that if we publicly apologize for eliminating children at those indigenous federal schools it might bring back the sperm count?
—Not Joe Biden
“I get the strategy to eliminate their children, that worked in the USA, so we’ll do it but is that going to help our sperm count? I mean, once they are gone aren’t we just going to have to immigrate them back?”
—Definitely Not Mileikowsky/Netanyahu
“So much sperm. Everywhere you look just sperm, the most glorious sperm you’ve ever…never seen sperm like this…when I’m President.”
—Transcript from Sperm Bankruptcy Proceedings
Disclaimer: the above constitutes satire and is under no circumstance an assertion of zygote potential for any person with similar name/s or their constituents or followers. Please refer to Isaiah 54:3 KJV for further edification.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cLFXENSYquY&pp=ygUdY2hyaXN0b3BoZXIgbXVycmF5IHBvcHVsYXRpb24%3D
The 64 Arts of The Kama Sutra:
1. Singing
2. Playing a musical instrument
3. Dancing
4. A combination of singing, using musical instruments and dancing
5. Writing and drawing
6. The art of tattooing
7. Adorning an idol with flowers
8. The art of spreading flowers on a bed or on the ground
9. Coloring fabrics, nail and body with colors from plants
10. Fixing colored glass tiles on floor
11. The art of making a bed
12. Producing music by striking glasses of water
13. The art of storing water in reservoirs
14. The art of picture making and decorating
15. Making rosaries, necklaces, garlands
16. Tying turbans
17. Stage playing
18. The art of making ear ornaments
19. The art of making perfumes
20. Proper care of jewels, decorations and ornaments
21. Magic (sorcery)
22. Manual skills
23. Cooking (culinary skills)
24. Making combination drinks and flavored drinks i.e.– lemonades, sherbet etc
25. Tailoring and sewing
26. Making handicrafts e.g.– parrots, flowers etc. from thread
27. Skills to solve riddles, puzzles and covert speeches
28. The skill of Antakshari (a singing game were one must start with the letter with which other person’s song ended)
29. The skill of imitating natural sounds
30. Reading, chanting and intoning
31. Mastering tongue twisters
32. Skills at martial arts (the skills to use sword, stick, bow and arrow)
33. Skill to reach logical conclusions based on given facts
34. Carpentry
35. Architecture
36. Knowledge about gold, silver and gems
37. Chemistry (knowledge of properties of materials)
38. The art of coloring jewels or beads
39. Knowledge of mines
40. Gardening
41. The art of cock fighting (getting cocks, quail or rams to fight and make the fowl/animal victorious)
42. Teaching parrots or starlings to talk
43. Applying perfumes on body and hair
44. Understanding of code language
45. Spoonerism (purposefully interchanging position of letters of words while speaking)
46. Knowledge of languages
47. Knowledge of making flower chariots
48. Knowledge of making mystical graphics, spells and charms and ways to avoid spells
49. Mental exercises
50. Composing poems
51. Knowledge of dictionaries and vocabulary
52. The art of impersonation
53. Impersonation of materials i.e.– make common things appear like fine rare substances (make cotton appear to be silk)
54. Knowledge of gambling
55. Using mantras (enchantments) to to obtain possessions
56. Skills in sports and games
57. The art of social conduct, paying respect and sending compliments
58. Knowledge of war, arms and army deployment
59. Knowledge of gymnastics
60. The skills of knowing a person’s real character from his conduct
61. The skill of reading and composing verses
62. The skills of enjoying arithmetic puzzles
63. Making artificial flowers
64. Making images with clay
If you want to understand world history a first step is to know often when a book is documented — for example: The Book of Enoch The Ethiopian but many, many others — as having been translated from the Greek or Hebrew into Ge’ez the truth is the original was in Ge’ez and later it was translated into Greek or Hebrew or whatever.
Everything flows into place from understanding that truth. So: the three “religions” of Judaism, Christianity & Islam actually make no sense. Who were Christians before Christ? Why is Judaism named for Judah and not Jacob? Where does Islam fit in since the same places and stories overlap?
Two of these “religions” are in a mutually destructive war that will weaken both to possible irrelevance and the third is in a steady decline of bankruptcy also heading toward irrelevance. I believe out of the weakening of these three constructs all of whom based their identities on stories and histories they laid claim to which were not theirs, or rather, cast themselves as main characters when they were the side players, the truth will gradually emerge & order restored.
#dreams
secret admirer:
a couple nights ago i had a dream that a man—don’t know who—gave me a gold bracelet and gold ring. i was not sure i should accept them.
in last night’s dream a clear box with little boxes inside appeared on my writing desk which contained among other tiny things a diamond ring and diamond studded earrings.
not sure from who again. i don’t recall dreaming of jewellery before. the diamonds were rather large & the gold bracelet and ring quite thick & weighty.
i remember coming across this view back in my research days and being shocked but it is a clear, cold truth.
everyone should by now understand that women & children in palestine are not collateral damage in the search for “terrorists”—they are the intended targets.
israeli leadership regrets not doing full on “clearing” in 1948 and are playing catch up; this historian said the quiet part out loud. to me, genocide is a desperate survival tactic for the weak not the strong.
benny morris: “if he was already engaged in expulsion, maybe he should have done a complete job. I know that this stuns the Arabs and the liberals and the politically correct types. But my feeling is that this place would be quieter and know less suffering if the matter had been resolved once and for all. If Ben-Gurion had carried out a large expulsion and cleaned the whole country - the whole Land of Israel, as far as the Jordan River. It may yet turn out that this was his fatal mistake. If he had carried out a full expulsion - rather than a partial one - he would have stabilized the State of Israel for generations... Even the great American democracy could not have been created without the annihilation of the Indians. There are cases in which the overall, final good justifies harsh and cruel acts that are committed in the course of history.”
—haaretz interview, 1/8/2004, by ari shavit, “survival of the fittest”
recent high levels of solar activity *may* have effected B12 levels negatively (i felt it) — this study was done only on men; i would guess women are even more sensitive to it given risk of iron deficiency & anemia are higher for women & lack of B vitamins can be a cause. *i am not a doc*
“Reduced levels of B12 vitamin or folate affect the production of red blood cells that can evolve to anemia and to detrimental impact on the nervous system health. In periods of intense solar activity, solar ionizing radiation such as UVB and UVC, X-rays, gamma and solar energetic particles are emitted from the Sun, reaching the Earth systems, modifying the homeostasis of the living beings which may include detrimental B12 and folate oscillations.”
“In addition, recent studies have shown that the general population has similar adverse health symptoms related to solar activity oscillations to those observed in astronauts, although less acute and intense. Similarly, B-complex deficiencies have been observed in astronauts. The adverse impact of space weather radiation exposures on B-complex levels in astronauts is also linked to a decrease in mitogen proliferation that reduces immune-inflammatory cells such as Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells (PBMCs) and lymphocytes (type of white blood cells), and thus weakens the immunological system.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-56916-3#ref-CR34
when did nuance become such a scarce intellectual resource?
why is it no longer possible for so many people to mentally hold in mind competing assertions like “humans do cause climate change” AND “not all climate change is caused by humans.”
or:
“not all exhaust trails from planes are chemtrails” does not exclude that “some trails from planes are chemtrails.”
why is everything either/or?
#nuance
yes & books now being just background props.
alby never works for me; can you please try again? do i need the alby hub channel? just tried to run a zap.army for the zap thingy.
so…florida about to get hit by an epic storm and politicians are arguing about who is taking whose phone call.
and journalists are reporting it.
reminder: we are all on our own.
7:13 - 8:09 —> how an algorithm for fixing rental prices operates as a cartel: “software eats the world” starts to seem like monopolizing competition & fixing prices.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SGfN1kdMpc4
just an fyi to the techbros trying to turn likes into tips and zaps and saying it helps artists & journalists etc: the history of tipping in the U.S. is tied to slavery and keeping certain classes and races of people economically SUBORDINATE.
#zaps #sats #bitcoin
‘TIPPING IN THE U.S. IS ROOTED IN RACISM
Tipping has not always been a common practice in the United States. Before the Civil War, tipping was frowned upon: it was viewed by many as an aristocratic, European practice that was incompatible with American democracy. After the Civil War, however, many restaurants and rail operators embraced tipping
because it allowed them to “hire” newly freed slaves without having to pay them—they would be forced to work for tips alone.
An early 20th century southern journalist recounted being uncomfortable tipping White working people. As he observed in 1902, “one expects … Negroes [to] take tips … it is a token of their inferiority. But to give money to a White man was embarrassing to me.” Tipping was designed to keep African Americans in an economically and socially subordinate position.’
https://civilrightsdocs.info/pdf/minimumwage/History-Tipped-Minimum-Wage.pdf
the drapers got me to actually post a video on tiktok.
and detangle my knotty curls.
“a new dawn a new day a new life for me…and it’s…” 🎵 🎶
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTFS3YwLc/
“climate change” has got to be the world’s most redundant phrase.
since when did climate ever stay the same? when did you ever go outside and see clouds stuck in one position? even swimming in a river or on a forest stroll you feel subtle or dramatic temperature changes…
“sahara is six times wetter than it should be” — who decides “should?”?— the sahara is turning green BUT “this is no cause for celebration” — i’ll decide what to celebrate, thank you very much.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CjFBWNU-GE4
i know this guy (caucasian persuasion) who goes around calling himself the spanish version of his name to intentionally give off i-am-ambiguously-ethnic vibes a la rachel dolezal so would calling said person by their “real” name be considered “deadnaming” or should we come up with a new word for this phenom such as….what?
whitenaming? what does it mean to try to pass as non-euro ethnic or “colored”? should we care? not care? this seems to be “a thing.”
#asknostr
Dear FBI, check out the US Dept. of Ag for your next raid:
“The revelations demonstrate how industry advocates have established a “private social network” to counter resistance to pesticides and genetically modified (GM) crops in Africa, Europe and other parts of the world, while also denigrating organic and other alternative farming methods.
More than 30 current government officials are on the membership list, most of whom are from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/26/government-funded-social-network-attacking-pesticide-critics
i see it a bit differently. if you are a victim having the sinful acts acknowledged rather than being further dehumanized via denial and gaslighting is meaningful. the truth feels good. even better than just an apology: reparations.
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