Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778): On the Downfall of the Human Race...

As long as men were content with their rustic huts, as long as they limited themselves to making clothes of animal skins sewn together with thorns or fish bones, to adorning themselves with feathers and shells, pointing their bodies in various colours, improving or embellishing their bows and arrows, using sharp-edged stones as tools for making fishing boats and crude musical instruments, in short, as long as they limited themselves to artefacts that could be made by one person and to arts that did no need the co-operation of several hands, they were as free, healthy, good and happy as their nature permitted them to be and they continued to enjoy the pleasures of independent intercourse with one another. But as soon as one man needed another´s help, as soon as one man realised that it was useful to have enough provisions for two, equality disappeared, property came into being, work became necessary and wast forests were changed into smiling fields which was watered with the sweat of men´s brows and in which slavery and poverty soon germinated and grew with the crops. Metallurgy and agriculture were the two arts whose invention produced this great revolution. To the poet it is gold and silver, but to the philosopher it is iron and grain that made men civilised and brought the downfall of the human race. -Discourse of the Origin of Inequality.

WOMAN IN POLITICAL EVOLUTION (An Historical Survey and a Plea for Woman Suffrage; Joseph McCabe, 1909)

THE FOUR-DIMENSIONAL CUBE AND THE GRAND ARCHE (Paris)

The architect of the Grande Arche, Johann Otto von Spreckelsen, built a small cube inside a larger cube and joined up the corners of the two cubes to create a hypercube with its 16 corners.

How many edges does a four-dimensional cube have?

Each corner has four edges emerging from it, one in each direction. There are 16 corners in the hypercube. So that looks like 4 x 16 = 64. But actually you've counted each edge twice: once as an edge emerging from the point at one end and also as an edge emerging from the point at the other end of the edge. So the total number of edges in the four/dimensional cube is (16 x 4) / 2 = 32.

The Photon Belt (2012 - 4000 A.D.)

DESCARTES: The Passions of the Soul

And because one of the principal parts of wisdom is to know in what way and for what cause each person ought to esteem or despise himself, I shall here try to place on record my opinion on the matter. I only remark in us one thing which might give us good reason to esteem ourselves, to wit, the use of our free will and the empire which we possess over our wishes. Because it is for those actions alone which depende on this free will that we may, with reason, be praised or blamed; and this in a certain measure renders us like God in making us masters of ourselves, provided that we do not, through remissness, lose the rights which He give us.

Those who are generous in this way are naturally impelled to do great things and at the same time to udnertake nothing of which they do not feel themselves capable. And because they do not hold anything important than to do good to other men and to disdain their individual interests, they are for this reason always perfectly courteous, affable and obliging towards everyone. And along with that, they are entirely masters of their passions, particularly of the desires, of jealousy and envy, because there is nothing the acquisition of which does not depende on them, which they think of sufficient worth to merit being much sought after; they are likewise free of hatred to other men because they hold all in esteem; and to fear, because the confidence which they have in their virtue assures them; and finally of anger, because, esteeming very little all those things that depend on others, they never give so much advantage to their enemies as to recognise that they are hurt by them.

PHILOSOPHY: Heraclitus (c. 576 - c. 480 B.C.) - King of the Riddle

Heraclitus (c. 576 - c. 480 B.C.)


"Poor wretches, why does it surprise you to see me play with these little children? Is not more worthwhile for me to do this, than to be party to your mismanagement of the affairs of the Republic?"

"Strife is the father of all things, the ruler of all beings. No god made this world of ours, since it has always been, is and will always be, like an ever-living fire, kindling in measurements and being extinguished in measures."

Demonstration at Sussex University Against Linguistics Department Being Axed (The Argus, 28.02.09)

As a former C.O.G.S. student, I´m both proud and sad to be publishing this note. SAY NO TO THE AXE!!

Save Linguistics @ Sussex

More than 100 students and staff demonstrated outside a university to protest against a department being axed.

Last week the University of Sussex announced it would be cutting it linguistics courses which have been regarded as some of the best in the country.

Yesterday, dismayed students, staff and Students´ Union officials stuck red tape across their mouths to symbolise the lack of consultation by university management who announced the cuts despite not taking the decision through any of the formal university commitees.

(...) The campaign has agined support from universities around the world, the NUS and intellectuals such as Noam Chomsky.

Dan Higgins, the University of Sussex Students´ Union spokeman, said: "Instead of cutting linguistics, the university should be investing in it, supporting the brilliant tutors that they have on those courses and continuing to enable students to study what they want to study."

-Pictures by James Paulley. The Argus, 28.03.09

Inner Earth and Admiral Byrd

Hollow Earth

The Earth´s Energy Gates

PHOTOGRAPHY: The 1953 Mount Everest British Expedition (Video)

FREE TIBET (Video)

The Thinking Chimp: How to Help (National Geographic)

We may be closer to the apes than we think—when we think. Scientists at the Living Links Center, part of Emory University's Yerkes National Primate Research Center near Atlanta, Georgia, study human evolution and the relation between primate and human behavior by observing resident colonies of chimpanzees, capuchin monkeys, and other primates. Recent research includes work on gestures and language as well as selfishness versus altruism in chimpanzees. " 'Living Links' is a play on 'missing links,' since the center works with the closest living relatives of us humans," says Frans de Waal, the center's director. "We want to see how similar we are, but also how different." For more information go to emory.edu/living_links.

GOOGLE EARTH: +33° 12' 22.60", -103° 35' 5.35" - New Mexico? (Abovetopsecret.com)

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ASTRONOMY: A Galactic Collision (Cosmiclog. Com; 17.03.09)

NASA / JPL-Caltech / STScI / ESA

Nothing draws a crowd like a spectacular crash - whether it's a NASCAR auto race or a galactic collision. Over the past month, Internet users voted for a cosmic smash-up as their favorite target for a future close-up from the Hubble Space Telescope, and this week you can feast your eyes on two fantastic images of galaxies in gridlock.

The first "train wreck" comes from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. This is a biggie: Two huge galaxies, each anchored by a central black hole that's millions of times as massive as the sun, are moving toward an imminent pile-up. Exactly how imminent? Millions of years after the scene captured in this image - a time span that's a mereblink of the eye on the cosmic scale.

"One of the most exciting things about the image is that this object is unique," Stephanie Bush of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, says in a news release about the observations. "Merging is a quick process, especially when you get to the train wreck that is happening. There just aren't many galactic mergers at this stage in the nearby universe."

Spitzer's image of NGC 6240, which is 400 million light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus, highlights the bursts of infrared radiation as the dust and gas from the two galaxies slam together. All that pressure creates new generations of hot stars, blazing away in infrared wavelengths even though the radiation in visible wavelengths is obscured by dust clouds. Because of this phenomenon, these starry swirls are known as luminous infrared galaxies.

In the news release, the Spitzer science team point to the streams of stars being ripped off the galaxies - "tidal tails" that extend into space in all directions. And this is just the warmup act: Bush and her colleagues expect the galactic black holes to hit head-on. That would upgrade NGC 6240's status to that of an ultra-luminous infrared galaxy, thousands of times as bright in infrared as our own Milky Way.

The Microchipped Generation (D. I. 1994)

ASTRONOMY: Photos of the Moon (Alfonso S. T., March 2009)

(*) The following photographs were taken from Madrid (Spain) this week by my dear brother-in-law Alfonso S. T.

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Best wishes for peace profound for everyone.

Daniel.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: Baby Blue Whale Caught on Film Underwater (VIDEO; March 4, 2009)

MAIL: Lost America & Canada's Seal Slaughter (Jpolinya, 09 March 2009)

(*) Extra thanks to my dearest friend jpolinya for this mail!!

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How would you like it, if being whacked hard over the head was a 'sport'!?

http://artagoni.pblogs.gr/2009/03/422087.html

ARTICLE 19 OF THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regarless of frontiers.

ARTICLE 13 OF THE CONVENTION ON THE RIGHT OF THE CHILD

ARTICLE 13 OF THE CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD:

(1) The child shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally (spoken), in writing or inprint, in the form of art, or through any other media of the child´s choice.

(2) The exercise of this right may be subject to certain restrictions, but these shall only be such as are provided by law and are necessary (a) for respect of the rights or reputations of others or (b) for the protection of national security or public order, or of public health or morals.

FREEDOM OF SPEECH: Australia Art that Shocks (Melbourne, 1996)

Melbourne city council asked an Aboriginal artist called Ray Thomas to produce works in honour of the history of his people, but in January 1996 withdrew five of them for being too shocking. One, intended for the Supreme Court building, showed an Aboriginal´s head pierced by the Sword of Justice. The artist felt this reflected the long history of injustice and discrimination suffered by the Aboriginal people at the hands of the Europeans settlers. The Chief Justice of the State of Victoria complained that it was unsuitable as it did not show respect for the rule of law.

First Tongue: An Ancient Global Language (Mondovista.com)

[Above: Colorado wall originally enhanced with aluminum powder on location but here enhanced with white in Photoshop to reveal shapes. 37-44'58.91"N 103-28'48.96"W]

In the last part of the 20th century, a handful of archaeologists discovered a collection of symbols carved in stone as petroglyphs that appeared to be writing. Initial dating of these symbols showed that they were made over an extended period time, beginning around 1700 BC, and located on as many as five continents.

This unique collection of symbols was first examined in the Negev desert of Israel by Dr. James Harris, a brilliant archaeologist from Brigham Young University. He identified the symbols as an alphabet in the proto-Canaanite language which he successfully translated by using old-Hebrew phonetic sounds.

The earliest examples of this writing were first described as graffiti left by workers of a turquoise mine. Later, excellent examples were found in a mining site that collapsed and remained intact from around 1500 BC, established by carbon-14 dating of wooden beams used to support the tunnels. This discovery was called "Old Negev" by Harris because of its location in the Israeli desert.

In the late 1990's, William McGlone, an amateur archaeologist and retired space engineer, discovered the same collection of symbols carved in heavily patinated stones surrounding the Southeast Colorado town of La Junta. Dating of the patina corresponded to the same era as the writing found in Harkarkom in Israel. McGlone documented the locations of this writing before his untimely death in 1998. Prior to this, he gave many of his maps and notes to Gary Vey, editor of Viewzone. Vey was able, with the help of Dr. Harris, to successfully translate many of these old petroglyphs and developed a computer program to do this in the field.
In 1999, Viewzone visited and photographed the petroglyphs in Colorado and posted them on the internet for comments. [right: Original image from Colorado enhanced to show details. 37-38'12.59"N 103-35'12.88"W.]

Within a few years, images of similar petroglyphs were sent to Vey by archaeologists and historians from many global locations. This included a huge, refined collection of writing from the Republic of Yemen, at the site of the newly discovered palace of the Queen of Sheba. Vey was immediately invited to visit the museums and archaeological sites in Yemen and photographed as well as translated many of the older stone and bronze artifacts.

The writing in Colorado and Yemen spoke of some event, possibly related to the Sun, which was prophesied to change human civilization. Subsequent translations of sites in Oklahoma, Australia and South America have added more details about this future event; however, the present report is meant to describe and illustrate this ancient writing system, which we are calling "first tongue." It is similar to proto-Canaanite but, because it seems to pre-date the Canaanites, the use of "First Tongue" is preferred.

In the years following the Viewzone Yemen Expedition, in 2001, Vey has worked closely with historian and linguist, John McGovern, who resides in Australia. McGovern has collected examples of FT from around the globe and has been able to reconstruct the esoteric, religious and cultural systems that motivated these early authors. He describes a highly developed understanding of deity and the cosmos that inspired these ancient texts.

Do these mysterious stones mark the site of the Garden of Eden? (Tom Cox, Daily Mail, 05th March 2009)

In late 1994, archaeologist Klaus Schmidt came to the site of Gobekli Tepe (eastern Turkey) to begin his excavations. As he puts it: 'As soon as I got there and saw the stones, I knew that if I didn't walk away immediately I would be here for the rest of my life.' And what he has uncovered is astonishing. Archaeologists worldwide are in rare agreement on the site's importance. 'Gobekli Tepe changes everything,' says Ian Hodder, at Stanford University.

David Lewis-Williams, professor of archaeology at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, says: 'Gobekli Tepe is the most important archaeological site in the world.' Some go even further and say the site and its implications are incredible. As Reading University professor Steve Mithen says: 'Gobekli Tepe is too extraordinary for my mind to understand.'

So what is it that has energised and astounded the sober world of academia?
The site of Gobekli Tepe is simple enough to describe. The oblong stones, unearthed by the shepherd, turned out to be the flat tops of awesome, T-shaped megaliths. Imagine carved and slender versions of the stones of Avebury or Stonehenge.

Most of these standing stones are inscribed with bizarre and delicate images - mainly of boars and ducks, of hunting and game. Sinuous serpents are another common motif. Some of the megaliths show crayfish or lions. The stones seem to represent human forms - some have stylised 'arms', which angle down the sides. Functionally, the site appears to be a temple, or ritual site, like the stone circles of Western Europe.

To date, 45 of these stones have been dug out - they are arranged in circles from five to ten yards across - but there are indications that much more is to come. Geomagnetic surveys imply that there are hundreds more standing stones, just waiting to be excavated.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1157784/Do-mysterious-stones-mark-site-Garden-Eden.html

THERE'S NOTHING WE CAN DO?... TELL THAT TO THE WOMEN OF LIBERIA (David Icke Newsletter; 6th March 2009‏)

This time I shall agree with Mr. Icke:

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All those who say nothing can be done about what is happening globally today need to look at what these women achieved. Here was a small, unarmed and apparently powerless group faced with the extraordinary challenge of stopping a war between rival factions who had become so dehumanised by year after year of rape and mass murder that they were daily engaging in the most unspeakable atrocities.


But here was first one or two women, then a few more who joined with them initially, inspiring a whole national movement of non-violent, non-cooperation which forced these moronic men to the peace table by the sheer power of their refusal to accept nothing less than that.

This is how the apparent 'miracle' was achieved:

1.) They said 'enough' - and meant it.
2.) They were not going to take 'no' for an answer, no matter how long it took or what sacrifice that entailed.


Crucially, there was a third element, also. They brought women together of different faiths and tribal loyalties behind the common goal of peace and freedom for all.' It proved, as it always does, to be an unstoppable combination.

http://www.davidicke.com

The BNP Mining a Rich Seam in our Former Coalfields (Mark Seddon, The Independent, U.K., 03.03.09)

Newark in Nottinghamshire likes to claim that it is the birthplace of British democracy. It was here that the English Civil War climaxed, and that King Charles was handed over to the Scottish Army, and to eventual execution.

This small, attractive market town also stood at the edge of a more recent conflict that began 25 years ago this week. The miners' strike was at its most bitter in the old Nottinghamshire coalfield, as working and striking miners turned on each other. And today, Newark find itself at the centre of yet another conflict, as unemployed construction workers, some draped in the Union Flag, march to the sound of an altogether different drum.

I watched last week as a few hundred wended their way with their home-made banners to the old market square, protesting that contractors at a local power station had bought their own workers with them – and that local workers need not apply. Their progress through the town was marked by cries from shoppers of "Foreigners out!" The joint leader of the Unite union, Derek Simpson, took to the podium to reject this call and others like it, but to many of the unemployed workers gathered before him, he seemed as remote as the Labour Party they have traditionally voted for in these parts. He was heckled loudly. Many are on the cusp, if not of actually voting for the British National Party, then believing that their union is powerless and that the Government is no longer interested in their plight.

This is fertile territory for the far right. The BNP is on the march too and aiming to make big gains in the European elections in June. The East Midlands, which includes the old coalfield, is one of their main target areas. The senior Labour MEP and veteran anti-fascist campaigner Glyn Ford believes that the BNP could win up to half a dozen Euro seats and that it is possible that only the north-east and south-west of England could be without a BNP MEP after election night. His grim prognosis is echoed by other MPs in the East Midlands, who believe that the collapse in support for the UK Independence Party will see more votes heading towards the hard Right.

Back in the 1990s, and for very different reasons, the Green Party finally broke the mould, winning Euro-seats. And a quarter of a century on it is easy to see how the BNP is honing its appeal to disillusioned Labour voters. The BNP like to present itself as something like the old worker friendly Labour Party, and then it throws in added xenophobia and racism. Their demand for "British jobs for British workers" is designed to appeal to marching unemployed construction workers who can't find work at the new Staythorpe Power station near Newark. It is a potent, if dangerous message, and the Westminster political class suddenly seems at a loss as to know what to do about it.

To the north of Newark, former mining towns such as Ollerton have never fully recovered from the jobs haemorrhage of that time. A mining workforce of tens of thousands has been reduced to a couple of thousand men at Thoresby and Welbeck collieries, although there are hopes that the mothballed pit at Harworth might soon be re-opened.

Back in 1984, the bulk of Nottinghamshire's miners refused to go on strike without a ballot, and the dispute staggered on for a whole year before collapsing in recrimination. Margaret Thatcher's reward for the working miners was pit closure after pit closure, and the service jobs that have replaced them are disappearing as rapidly as they came.

Elsewhere – in the north-east, for instance – jobs are disappearing at four times the rate they are in London and the South East. Many of these jobs were in any event non-unionised, and with the sharp decline of the traditional industries and the tight-knit communities that went with them, old tribal ties to the Labour Party in particular, were already in decline. Under the twin phenomena of global recession and New Labour old loyalties are fast disappearing.

Politics abhors a vacuum. Back in the 1970s, the far-right National Front began to make inroads in the inner city as unemployment grew under a Labour Government. Now the BNP tries to portray a more moderate image, and now also the organisations that help see off the far right back then, are much, much weaker. Last week, the BNP took a previously safe Labour council seat in Sevenoaks, Kent. That, and what may be about to happen in June, should be a wake-up call.

Mark Seddon is a former member of Labour's National Executive Committee and a former editor of 'Tribune'.

HUMANS HAVE ALREADY BEEN CLONED (Russ Kick; You Are Being Lied To, Disinformation Company Ltd. 2003)

It´s now routine to see new stories about various mammals being cloned. Almost always, these reports mention that this "bring us one step closer to cloning humans, " "human clones are right around the corner, " and other clichés. What every last one of these insightful stories fails to mention is this: Humans have already been cloned.

The real cloning took place in 1995, although it wasn´t revealed until mid-November 1998. Unbelievably, only a few small newspaper stories weakly revealed one of the most important biotechnology developments of all time. In fact, it´s probably one of the most important developments in the history of science and technology, period.

Working under the auspices of the private company Advanced Cell Technology and using the facilities of the University of Massachussetts at Amhest, scientists James Robl and Jose Cibelli created a human clone. They took cells from Cibelli´s leg and cheek, put them alongside a cow´s ovum with the genetic material stripped out, and added a jolt of electricity. One of Cibelli´s cells fused with the cow´s ovum, which acted as though it had been fertilized, and the cells began dividing. This is the same process used to create Dolly, the famous cloned sheep from Scotland, only this was done before Dolly was created.

http://www.advancedcell.com/

So what happened to the clone? The scientists destroyed it when it reached the 32-cell stage. In other words, the zygote had already gone through five divisions and was on its way to becoming a human being.