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@Michael How ironic. I wonder why he made that mistake as I just found this quotation:
http://www.twainquotes.com/Astronomy.html
Hi, Sebastien.
Just a few hours ago, I watched a documentary video about the Roman general Belisarius. It mentioned the volcanic winter and plague of 536 — eight years after Hank’s release from prison. Justinian was crowned co-emperor on 1 April 527,[28][d] and became sole ruler after Justin’s death on 1 August 527.
Concerning Mark Twain,
Think the eclipse bit from “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” by Mark Twain (1889) might work with these superstitious 7th century Islamo-Nazi barbarians?
“Hank wakes up underneath an oak tree, having no idea how he got there. Hank soon encounters the knight Sir Kay. Kay challenges him to a joust, which is quickly lost by the unweaponed, unarmored Hank as he scuttles up a tree. Kay captures Hank and leads him towards Camelot Castle. Upon recognizing that he has traveled back to the 6th century, Hank realizes that he is the de facto smartest person on Earth, and with his knowledge he should soon be running things.
Hank is ridiculed at King Arthur’s court for his strange appearance and dress and is sentenced by them, particularly the magician Merlin, to burn at the stake on 21 June. By a stroke of luck, the date coincides with a historical solar eclipse in 528 of which Hank had learned in his earlier life. In prison, he sends the boy whom he christens Clarence (whose real name is Amyas le Poulet) to inform the king that he will blot out the sun if he is executed. Hank believes it is 20 June; however, it is actually the 21st when he makes his threat, the day that the eclipse will occur at 12:03 p.m. When the king decides to burn him, the eclipse catches Hank by surprise. However, he quickly convinces the people that he caused it. He makes a bargain with the king, is released, and becomes the second most powerful person in the kingdom. (Twain may have drawn inspiration for that part of the story from a historical incident in which Christopher Columbus exploited foreknowledge of a lunar eclipse.)
Hank is given the position of principal minister to the king and is treated by all with the utmost fear and awe. He proclaims that his only income will be taken as a percentage of any increase in the kingdom’s gross national product, from his efforts as Arthur’s chief minister.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Connecticut_Yankee_in_King_Arthur%27s_Court
@ Michael, @Felix, @ Tanna 😀
Hi, Tanna
You’ve done a lot of work, interpreting these eclipses. I haven’t; and this particular day, we have tradesmen coming and going, so I have to be brief.
Off the top of my head, this coming 8 Apr. eclipse is an “answer” to the 14 Oct. ’23 one. The Jewish holiday cycle also has “answering” feasts about these times (Simchat Torah, following the secular New Year, vs. Pesach, following the liturgical New Year). I would guess they are related to one another.
The little astrology I know, comes down to this: Solar eclipses are very exact conjunctions, which signify an acute happening, a coming together; and considering the time of year, a planting. 8 April is, of course, roughly mid-month in the first month of Spring (Duh — Pesach), a time of new beginnings. The Fall ’23 eclipse, of course, was during a time of harvest — and what a harvest! All of the squabbling, disunity etc. in the knesset and IDF. They were all caught flat-footed.
Something new seems to be happening in the US — which, of course, is where the present eclipse will be seen. In particular, it follows the track from the cartels (fentalyl) to the border crisis to the collapsing hell of New York. We certainly could use a fresh start in all those places.
Shalom shalom 🙂
Sebastien,
The total solar eclipse of 8 April, 2024 will be seen throughout North America. The coming solar eclipse 0n 2 October, 2024 will completely miss NA, being seen instead over most of the Pacific Ocean.
The annular solar eclipse of 14 October 2023 (the “Hamas Eclipse?”) was seen over both North and South America. It was total over my home in Oregon, The Harvest Moon preceded it on 4 October. The intervening period was interesting for Israel.
Good for Israel?? GOD is good for Israel; and if not Him, then NOBODY. He makes eclipses;
Michael you know less than little.
Tell what you really know
“One of the consequences of Moses was the Jewish nation. Marx and Trotsky, on the other hand, have given us one revolution after another, all of them destructive and fruitless. Would you like Microsoft’s AGI to choose which one it prefers?”
I only know of one revolution..
October 1917
Ted, Michael & Mr. Zorn, I posted some comments a week or so ago about the eclipse. In my view, the fighting in Israel will be slowdown / till after Ramadan. The Islamist radicals – Hamas will most likely / are calling for a situation on the temple Mount during Ramadan. So, who knows if it will happen. The IDF is keeping their powder dry and watching. Rabbi Efraim Palvanov has a couple of interesting Utubes on the subject of the eclipse.
We are in a leap year. A pregnant year(shenat haibur). Was oct 7th, the conception or the showing of the baby at three months or was it the birth? I don’t know! If it was the 2/3 month showing of the pregnancy, then 6 mos. later we arrive at or near April 8 the eclipse or Pesach. If the conception that takes it further into the year.
The Rabbis teach us that the baby is able to be born after the 6/7 month, but history teaches that a woman has carried as long as a year. Pregnant years in the past happen in the 8th cycle of the 19 year cycle in the heavens. 5708/1948, 5727/1967, 5746/1986, 5765/2005, and now 5784/2024. I can’t tell the future, so I’m actively watching and waiting.
Could we see the birth of this monster in Ramadan and at Pesach or in the month of Nissan. Ramadan begins march 10 ends Monday, April 8. Oct 7 reminds me of the readings of Deut. 16, Amos. 8:4-10, Numb. 29:35-31. Shemini Atzeret the 8th day is a solemn assembly. It is one of the 2 mysterious days in the Jewish calendar and the other is the 7th day of Pesach. In sukkot the reading is Zech 14:1-24. The battle of Gog/Magog. We have traditions that the final battle will begin in Sukkot and another opinion is during Pesach. The torah and the calendar has a bimodal aspect to it, things cycle up in a 6-month pattern. In Sukkot the sacrifices are for the 70 nations, then the 8th day sacrifice is for Israel. Wars are not fought and won in a day nor a week.
Look at your Chumash(stone edition) and note that there is a link Pg. 899, with Shemini Atzeret, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kibbur. In my counting this is not over, there will be lulls in the storm it will wax and wane. I believe there is “fire coming to the father’s house”. I expect we’ll see this war around for months to come. The good news the Sidrah, the Numbers passage falls in, has two mnemonics. One relates to the winning of the land and Israel retaining it and the other points to “pray to me” as Moses and Phineas prayed. It’s time to turn the face to Hashem and he will turn his face toward you. Deut. 30. There’s no time for Fear, All you need is trust( Bittachon) in God(Hashem).
@Michael
OK. 😀
But, is it good for the Jews?
https://www.popsugar.com/smart-living/solar-eclipse-meaning-48798451
Ganz meets with Brits over Bibi’s objection only to be humiliated by them.
https://www.jns.org/british-pm-gantz-hold-unscheduled-london-meeting/
The ADL honored Kushner for the Abraham Accords with Hillary Clinton in attendance and Ifnotnow protesting outside. Will wonders never cease.
https://www.jns.org/adl-conference-honors-jared-kushner-for-role-in-abraham-accords/
Ted, my “eclipse” post here just now has failed to post. Please see if you can find it. Thank you.
ECLIPSE COMING
The total solar eclipse is just over a month away, April 8. It will make first landfall in the home of the Sinaloa drug cartel, cross the Rio Grande (without papers) in Texas, then bus itself to New England. Very symbolic 🙂
Ted,
Is the IDF pause an Israeli issue? Or a domestic US issue. The Democrats are having severe political problems because of pro-HAMAS demonstrators:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H03z2qBlIs
also,
“The Biden Administration continues to apply new sanctions to Israeli individuals and firms as it faces pressure from left-wing activists to take a tougher stance against Israel, lest he lose support in key swing states in the 2024 election.”
— https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/03/05/biden-continues-slapping-sanctions-on-israeli-citizens-not-just-settlers/
I’m not liking this. Israel needs to push forward. Fuck ramadan.
@Michael
. 😀 You’re hired.
@Michael, @Felix Forgot Joseph Smith
Does anuone know why we haven’t started the campaign in Rafah.
Sure, it’s just a series of strange coincidences that opponents of Putin have met their demise by falling out of windows.
The first family are an abomination, along with the entire administration.
Hello, Sebastien,
As a good friend of mine often says, “Don’t give up your day job”.
Lately, the sinking Russian ships (about one per month — vs. their fighter aircraft losses every one or two days) appear on night vision footage from Ukrainian drones. The exploding hulls and flying bodies are color-enhanced, not yellow.
In other matters, I see you and Felix have been discussing the relative merits of revelatory religions vs. “doing it my way”. The latter has become a feature of AGI:
— https://futurism.com/microsoft-copilot-alter-egos
People have been receiving revelations and inspirations for probably tens of thousands of years. It wasn’t until their being inspired to use writing, though, that we have been able to compile this activity and record it for prosperity. The revelation to Moses has been on record for over 3400 years, supported by corroborating witnesses over that whole period. The revelations of Marx and Trotsky, on the other hand, have been with us for less than two hundred. Both revelatory streams have played themselves out in history; as thoughts and speech have consequences.
One of the consequences of Moses was the Jewish nation. Marx and Trotsky, on the other hand, have given us one revolution after another, all of them destructive and fruitless. Would you like Microsoft’s AGI to choose which one it prefers?
@al Communism may not be as evil as Nazism but it ain’t chopped chicken liver, either, as the saying goes. This wonderful poem by Gyula Ilyes speaks volumes:
https://debategraph.org/Details.aspx?nid=123391
@Michael Are they yellow?
I am as I have said, an independent. Mark Robinson is one Republican candidate I want to lose.
Russia is converting its Black Sea Fleet to all submarines!
Here is a video of an apparent surface ship submerging!
https://youtu.be/gJQj4KSmzW0
In other news, Russia is converting its fighter, bomber and AWAACS fleets into ground vehicles.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/02/29/shooting-down-11-russian-jets-in-11-days-ukraine-nudges-the-russian-air-force-closer-to-an-organizational-death-spiral/?sh=529109f514bc
@Laura @Peloni Carlson said he was not favorably impressed by Putin but saw no signs of cult of personality, no statues of Putin.
@Laura
This doesn’t make any sense either. So you believe that Putin is empowered by a Congress which won’t fund his enemies and as a result he kills Navalny who is already defeated, isolated, powerless, voiceless and ignored by everyone, which gives Navalny a victory, power, voice and attention from everyone. Putin is a strategist. This is how he keeps the 16 factions in his nation at bay, by keeping them off balance while vying with their counterpart, all the time leaving Putin controlling them all. He would never have place himself in such a situation which gains him nothing while advancing the interests of all his enemies to spoil the unveiling of his narrative to the West, for which he has been waiting years to tell. Your whole thesis here simply makes no sense at all.
@Sebastien
@Laura
I think describing Carlson as a Putin appologist misdirects the truth about Carlson. He has no interest in Putin any more than he has in the Ukrainians. He simply doesn’t care, and not because it is in eastern Europe where the details of what comes next won’t affect the US, but rather, simply because it is beyond the borders of the US irregardless of the details. This is why he condemns those who have significant interest or concern as to what might happen in Israel. He is not an American Firster which is dependent upon strong allies to uphold US interests around the world. Instead, he is an American Only, an isolationist who doesn’t believe the US has any interests around the world. He scorns internationalism altogether, and I would argue that he would have the US pull its forces from around the world, allow the world to burn as it might, so long as the US is not bothered by whatever anyone does to anyone else. So, while he may sound like a Putin yuppy, he is simply defining the game based on the perception which makes it easiest to ignore the conflict altogether.
Of course, I could be wrong, but I really do not believe that I am.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOaiVFl71uo
@Laura
As if the intelligence agencies who are our only sources of information are always truthful and reliable, right?
Putin is arrogant and feels empowered by the wishy-washy support the west is giving to Ukraine, especially the holdup in our Congress. It also is consistent with several other assassinations he’s carried out recently with critics falling out of windows. Carlson totally sounds like a putin apologist or perhaps embarrassed about being Putin’s useful idiot and trying to downplay his own roll in giving putin the confidence to believe he can assassinate Navalny with impunity. So, he must push the narrative that it couldn’t be putin in order to absolve himself.
Sinema is one of the saner democrats. Of course, sanity in the democrat party is a low bar these days.
@Peloni Yes, actually, he just says it doesn’t make sense for Putin to have done it then unless he’s stupid, which he’s not and say he’ has no idea what happened but to the possibilities suggested by his interviewr he says yes, he used to think the U.S. doesn’t assassinate people in other countries but now he knows it does. It’s toward the beginning. He doesn’t sound like a Putin apologist though.
Victoria Nuland is resigning and Sen. Sinema has dropped her bid for reelection. Notably, with only two people running for AZ senator, it makes the cheating far easier to track.
Two big victories.
@Sebastien
This makes more sense than Putin killing him in the wake of his long awaited PR victory with the Carlson interview. Another potential culprit would be the British, who are completely unhinged over the topic of the Russians. The only issue is whether one might believe that either the US or Britain would have the access inside the Russian prison system. We will likely never know the truth of all of this, but it makes little sense that Putin intentionally shot himself in the foot so publicly with an obvious unforced error with no benefits for him at all. Just my own thoughts of course.
Just started watching this more than 3 hour interview with Carlson about his Putin interview but in the promo clip he suggested the U.S. assassinated Navalny.
https://youtu.be/f_lRdkH_QoY?si=3ibQF33xkVdnQ6KU
@Edgar
@Michael
This is true, but I would argue that this was in fact a very big deal and a very important ruling.
Stating that states can not regulate who is and who is not eligible under the 14th amendment is a very big decision, and more than SCOTUS provided the means by which this could be clarified further to be within the control of the Congress. This provides the public with the means to control this decision, as they control all decisions, by using the power of their vote, presuming that the power of the vote is ever returned to the people.
This issue was a political football, and SCOTUS rarely intercedes in matters which it considers to be politically based. This was the faux excuse which they used to punt on the 2020 election fraud. The problem with their punting was that, as in Bush v Gore, some decision was needed or the country was going to go thru a very bad transition with a govt which was seized rather than elected. They could have made a similar choice here, by ignoring this case and allowing it to run its course without any intervention. The consequence for doing so would have been far less significant than the consequences of their actions following the 2020 election.
Instead, they took the case, heard the arguments, and made a 9-0 ruling on the main issue which deprived individual states the ability to overturn the election outcome based on the decisions of an individual or several individual states. Had SCOTUS acted in with the same sense of responsibility in dealing with the serious election matters in Dec. 2020, we wouldn’t even be discussing the 14th Amendment today, but let’s not digress.
They took a political pipe bomb and removed the responsibility from the individual states and gave it to the federal political body which is the Congress. Should something happen to Speaker Johnson, as you note, things will take a very seriously bad turn, but til this happens, this is a win for Trump. The next issue is whether Trump can be held accountable for actions taken as president. If this comes down indicating that presidents have immunity for presidential actions, this will end the matter entirely. If not, well, keep your eye on Johnson.
SEB-
I just recalled that I have an old friend, the older brother of my closest growing up pal, who was 100 a couple of years ago. HE was an active member of the Rathmines Theatre Group, and I’ve looked at Wiki and seen all that “baby elephant” crap etc. And that O’Hara was also a member there. That’s all PR blurb put there by her family.
“baby elephant”. if true was likely a pet name for her as a 2-3 year old chubby infant. Pretty small stuff for PR. for such a big star, who to me, only had one acting emotion…A temper tantrum. But it made her millions ….
So I’ve emailed him to ask ..I’ll let you know his response.
Hi, Peloni
To what I understand, SCOTUS punted to the US Congress; and the Dems have already started the gears moving to disqualify Donald Trump. The main obstacle to them, it seems, is Mike Johnson. If he can keep the measure off the floor, Trump wins.
I think the Supreme decision has clarified the law, in separating federal and state responsibility for enforsing Section 3 of Arthcle 14. That’s “historic”, in a way, but not a big way. For now, the most important result is that neither CO nor other states (such as IL?) can unilaterally disqualify Trump.
@Tanna
Just for clarity, this is a really quick ruling for SCOTUS. To your point, the ruling was obvious to any rational individual, and given that there were no dissenting votes from SCOTUS, this would seem to be the perspective of the full court, so they could have acted sooner and should have done so and could have done so even without/before the appeal, but as appeals go, this was an extremely quick ruling for SCOTUS.
SCOTUS RULES 9-0 in favor of Donald Trump, reversing Colorado decision to remove Trump from the ballot!
I wonder what is up with the supreme court. They seem to be shy, backward, not able to make quick judgements. They have had weeks or months to rule on this and they wait till the day before Super Tuesday. What’s up with that?
@Michael
It will be historic no matter what they rule. There is no way they keep Trump off the ballot, IMO. They are also making an early ruling remotely which is unusual, and suggests the need to get the ruling out. It is believed that this indicates they will rule for Trump, otherwise, there would be no need for a quick decision.
Peloni,
This could be a historic ruling.
SEB-
I’d say a lot of it is exaggerated, with Irish Blarney to boost her name and character post facto.. No one in had ever heard of her before she won that Dawn competition, I guarantee. .
As for Old FitzSimons, he had some sort of pull with Shamrock Rovers Soccer Club and I’m sure I was introduced to him, and saw him several times. this was in the Rovers bar..
I was a member of a cricket club at age 15, with grounds right across the Rd from Shamrock, and we all had the entre to their bar, after our practices and matches.
They looked after me, being a kid, with a limit of 2 Smithwick’s Ale .
Our club had at least two total alcoholics, who drank so much that they seemed sober. I certainly was surprised when they both told me, then I could see it. John Colleary (who used to be on Wiki but now is not) teetered on his feet from toe to heel. How he kept upright I don’t know.
He was an actor and the husband of a famous Irish Actress and film star.
SEB-
I’d say a lot of it is exaggerated, with Irish Blarney to boost her name and character. No one in had ever heard of her before she won that Dawn competition, I guarantee .
As for Old FitzSimons, he had some sort of pull with Shamrock rovers soccer Club and I’m sure I was introducedto him , and saw him several times. this was in the Bar of Xhamrock Rovers.
I was a member of a cricket club at age 15, with grounds right across the Rd from Shamrock, and we all had the entre to their bar, after our practices and matches.
They looked after me, being a kid, with a limit of 2 Smithwick’s Ale .
Our club had at least two total alcoholics, who drank so much that they seemed sober. I certainly was surprised when they both told me, then I could see it. John Colleary (who used to be on Wiki but now is not) teetered on his feet from toe to heel. How he kept upright I don’t know.
He was an actor and the husband of a famous Irish Actress and film star.
Several officials in the Spokesman Unit of the IDF resigned today. Those included in the resignations are Hagari’s second in command as well as Col. Richard Hecht who became a familiar face in recent months during his daily briefings. There is no comment as to the cause of the resignations and Brig. Gen. Hagari is not among those who have resigned.
OSINTdefender:
SCOTUS ruling on Trump ballot Colorado case is expected tomorrow am.
@Edgar Thank your for the correction. Wikipedia has many other interesting anecdotal details about the film, which I am unfamiliar with, as well as her life and career, including details about her childhood and autobiographical quotes, the latter quite extensive, both of which corroborate what you said, and then some.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_Inn_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_O%27Hara