nourishing obscurity

This wasn’t him in the song but it was, if you see what I mean. I never called him “my old man” in my life – I wouldn’t have dared. He’s not remembered by many and all those who knew him have passed on as well. I remember him, on this auspicious day.

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We’re all pretty p***ed with the banksters at the moment and of course, they’re part of a wider malaise involving the globalists who are currently angling for financial breakdown so that the melting pot situation occurs.

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Viewers of this youtube, presented here by JD, are warned that it is about bullfighting, as well as horsemanship.  If you are offended by such things, please skip over to the next post.  Also, the email for the site is top right, should you require it. ……….. The artistry of Pablo Hermoso de Mendoza and [...]

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Chuckles sent an innocuous looking story, with the rejoinder: “What could possibly go wrong?” The genetic code of the germ that caused the Black Death has been reconstructed by scientists for the first time. The researchers extracted DNA fragments of the ancient bacterium from the teeth of medieval corpses found in London. They say the [...]

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8. The “price tag” violence. Haaretz editorial: The authorities must not file this series of attacks on Muslim and Christian holy sites and cemeteries under “criminal offenses against property.” These are security offenses that are liable to turn communities against each other and ignite a huge religious-nationalist fire. The security agencies prepared intensively to extinguish [...]

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I didn’t quite realize how much the techie community detested Steve Jobs and his Mac [plus the rest of it].  But they appear to: RMS, for all his flaws, understands that the stakes in this argument go beyond narrow issues like what computer or smartphone to buy. Human cognition is messy and all sorts of [...]

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From the Holy Roman Empire of the German People, I recommend this: Now here’s a charming bit of musical levity:

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This is total madness: Bonny Reservoir, a much-loved tourist spot in eastern Colorado, is being drained after the state exceeded its allowance under a 1942 agreement with its neighbours on sharing the Republican River. That’s what happens when you have: 1.  Parachutees getting into key positions, people who can only think of their own careers [...]

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Over at OoL at 11:00: Fun in Scotland

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The gentleman shown at left is Cristóbal Colón or Christopher Columbus. The painting is by Alejo Fernández and was painted between1505 and 1536 and hangs in the Sala de los Almirantes, Reales Alcázares de Sevilla. The marriage in 1469 of Fernando II of Aragón to Isabel I of Castilla united the two previously warring kingdoms [...]

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What’s significant about this photo below?  The answer will be given in the post, below the photo, along with the link, at 23:00. Forty five years ago, Deano Risley, who died earlier this year, played a role in a small and peculiar milestone;  his photograph of the then Chancellor of Exchequer Jim Callaghan made photographic history [...]

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At OoL at 07:00: Seems that wherever money and power come together in Belgium the chubby fingers of Dehaene are somewhere around, usually ending in rewarded failure. The bottom line is that there are certain people who should never, ever be put in charge of anything: 1. Global socialists; 2. Parachutees, particularly the female ones [...]

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Like it very much: The large grass velocipede is the brainchild of designers from Oxford Brookes University, who say that the bamboo has the strength of steel but the responsiveness of carbon fibre.

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