Yearly Archives: 2013

Forbidden knowledge, World politics

For Those Who Are Interested In Truth

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I have always been interested in the Truth. Since I was a little, you could see me trying to watch behind the puppet show just to see who is actually pulling the strings. So here is something related to that:

In a time of universal deceit –
telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell

Living in fairytale land is easy.

The art of denial is ruling human consciousness and that is understandable for those who do not want a clear idea of the future. Most people are actually terrible at foreseeing the future allowing it to come up from behind. We have our own little realities to deal with as well as the collective reality of our culture and civilization, which crosses national boundaries after decades of globalization.

The future is hurling itself at us like a high speed express train.

The truth of the future is a combination of outside factors like Nature, which are mostly out of our control. Add to that our own skills of perception and creativity leading to our own personal life manifestation.

And then there is the collective, which is dominated by the rich and powerful and what they are willing into existence for themselves at the expense of everyone else.

What seems to spook people now is the possibility
that everybody in charge of everything is a
fraud or a crook. Legitimacy has left the system.
James Howard Kuntsler

The first and most basic answer to the world’s problems is the truth. Not subjective relative truth but truth itself.

All solutions to all problems lie in the truth of the problem. In the truth is the solution. Without the truth we are lost, swimming in a sea of contradictions and arguments. Without truth we have untruths, lies, deception, and a sea of pain.

The absolute nature of truth is distasteful to those who embrace the subjective nature of perception. For most objectivity actually ceases to exist. Objective truths exist independent of our subjective natures and our opinions and beliefs about things.

We can believe whatever we want and as passionately as we please but believing something is so does not necessarily make it so, though it is true that lies become truth to people who believe in the absolute truth of their beliefs.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error,
and another to put him in possession of truth.
John Locke

If you are a person of truth and you hear the truth it kind of excites you.

With everyone else it disturbs them plenty because they are self-righteously set in their ways, stubborn, inflexible, selfish, and unwilling to change. Such people want to get rid of anyone who proclaims the truth because any such truth becomes like a thorn in their side, a thorn to be pulled and discarded with distaste.

The truth, if we are not living it, is almost unbearable to hear.

All the world’s religions are in conflict with the collective for by their very nature they tend to create separations not one whole sense of humanity.

Krishnamurti once said,

“To love anything beautiful in a country is normal and natural, but when that love is used by exploiters in their own interest it is called nationalism.

Nationalism is fanned into imperialism, and then the stronger people divide and exploit the weaker, with the Bible in one hand and a bayonet in the other. The world is dominated by the spirit of cunning, ruthless exploitation, from which war must ensue.

This spirit of nationalism is the greatest stupidity.”

The Future Truth is Here Already

The spirit of war on earth at this time is the most basic evil on our planet.

In today’s world with nuclear weapons almost everywhere we are playing Russian roulette in the Middle East especially in Syria where it seems WWIII has already started with foreign powers increasingly being drawn in.

“Deleveraging Everywhere,” said Stifel Nicolaus.

“No one knows how it will end but we do know this; it all comes at once,” says Peter Kenny, chief market strategist at Knight Capital.

If the Federal Reserve does not intervene soon and allows the bond bubble, which it has deliberately created, to burst, we are going to see unprecedented carnage in the world.

Last week, the yield on 5 year U.S. Treasuries rose by an astounding 37 percent. 

That was the largest increase in 50 years and if this keeps up it will be taps for the world economy and for most people who depend on the system for their bearings.

“Global financial markets are now in a very perilous state, and there is a much higher than normal chance of a crash.

Bernanke’s recent statement revealed just how large a role speculation had played in the prices of nearly everything, and now there is a mad dash for cash taking place all over the world. The early stage of any liquidity crisis is a mad dash for cash, especially by all of the leveraged speculators.

Anything that can be sold is sold. As I scan the various markets, all I can find is selling.

Stocks, commodities, and equities are all being shed at a rapid pace, and that’s the first clue that we are not experiencing sector rotation or other artful portfolio-dodging designed to move out of one asset class into another (say, from equities into bonds).

The increasing number of flashing indicators warning that a 2008-style – but worse – sell-off is arriving. We say “worse” because this time it looks like it will be accompanied by a vicious cycle of rising interest rates.

Plus, governments and central banks have used up all of their major options already. There are no more white knights to hope for,” writes Chris Martenson.

John Rubino writes,

“They’ve been playing with fire for such a long time, trying to balance incompatible goals of low interest rates, stable currencies and accelerating growth, that for a while they almost believed that they would get away with it, that the laws of economics could be bent to their will forever.

Now they see that this was hubris, that their sense of control was just an illusion bought with credit on a scale so large that the numbers had become meaningless.”

The Economic Collapse Blog writes,

“Do you want to know the primary reason why rapidly rising interest rates could take down the entire global financial system?

Most people might think that it would be because the U.S. government would have to pay much more interest on the national debt. And yes, if the average rate of interest on U.S. government debt rose to just 6 percent (and it has actually been much higher in the past), the federal government would be paying out about a trillion dollars a year just in interest on the national debt.

But that isn’t it. Nor does the primary reason have to do with the fact that rapidly rising interest rates would impose massive losses on bond investors.

At this point, it is being projected that if U.S. bond yields rise by an average of 3 percentage points, it will cause investors to lose a trillion dollars. Yes, that is a 1 with 12 zeroes after it ($1,000,000,000,000). But that is not the number one danger posed by rapidly rising interest rates either.

Rather, the number one reason why rapidly rising interest rates could cause the entire global financial system to crash is because there are more than 441 TRILLION dollars’ worth of interest rate derivatives sitting out there.

This number comes directly from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) – the central bank of central banks. In other words, more than $441,000,000,000,000 has been bet on the movement of interest rates.”

Preparation might appear to be a waste of time at this point but lack of preparation could be more costly.

It’s ridiculous to think that our political leaders will guide the world economies through the upcoming hard times. What they will do is aggravate the hard times ahead by following policies that benefit the political and financial elite at the expense of the middle class and the poorer classes.

When the going gets rough it is love not governments that will get us through.

In the case of our current reality governments are not even going to be able to take care of themselves though they will try till the bitter end. The survival instinct runs deep in the psychology of governments even though they operate with suicidal objectives and sadist tendencies.

Sounds crazy because it is!

I think control is going to slip through everyone’s hands and for at least a time anarchy will rule or the army will rule. Historians will love what is coming for they will be able to write about it endlessly.

Just try to image all the bank cash machines in the world stopping and start imagining from there. Like the science fiction movie ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’ things could grind to a halt quite quickly.

We are vulnerable as the present system/definition of money collapses taking away huge portions of the world’s real economy with it.

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Forbidden geology, Forbidden knowledge

Klaus Dona The Secret History Of The Human Race

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I have always been interested about the history of human race. So if you want some different view of human origins you should check out Klaus Dona’s website and the excellent work he has done. Here is a small article:

The bible wants us to believe that the history of mankind dates back to 6,000 years. Klaus Dona proves otherwise. Question everything!

Being a specialist in culture and art exhibitions he organized since 1991 over 30 cultural exhibitions in Austria, Japan and Korea. His attention was automatically drawn to a phenomenon called ‘Ooparts’ – out of place artifacts. These artifacts should not exist according to current science. Klaus Dona has been researching these type of artifacts for over a decade and, after a long preparation, he decided to set up an exhibition of 470 of these (Ooparts) pieces called ”Unsolved Mysteries”. The artifacts are from different places such as Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Mexico and many other countries. He has been able to display such artifacts – a feat no one had been able to achieve since museums bury these in their basements to avoid raising uncomfortable questions. A large portion of the pieces are scattered around the world and held in secret private collections. Klaus Dona has been able to research more than 3500 pieces, which have no logical explanation!

His Ooparts exhibition was a big success in Vienna, after it travelled to Switzerland, Berlin and Seoul. Being physical pieces, they are irrefutable evidence and difficult to reject. All through his search for unexplained archaeological artifacts the answer has always been: we are not alone, more so, we’ve never been.

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>> Here’s Kalus Dona’s website

Mysteries, Secret sites

Mystery places: Eternal Silence (sculpture)

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This mystery place has a sculpture, which is very haunting and we don’t know what it is about. So here is a Eternal Silence:

According to folklore looking into the eyes of the statue will give the viewer a vision of their own death.
Location: Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
Built: 1909
Built by: Jules Bercham
Architectural style: Art Nouveau
Sculptor: Lorado Taft
Governing body: Graceland Cemetery
Part of: Graceland Cemetery (#00001628)
Added to NRHP: January 18, 2001

Eternal Silence, alternatively known as the Dexter Graves Monument or the Statue of Death,[1] is a monument in Chicago’sGraceland Cemetery. It is a bronze sculpture set on and backdropped by black granite. It was created by American sculptor Lorado Taft in 1909.

History

Eternal Silence is a monument in Graceland Cemetery to Dexter Graves, who led a group of thirteen families who moved to Chicago from Ohio in 1831.[2] He died in 1844, and the monument was commissioned from sculptor Lorado Taft in 1909 by Graves’ son Henry Graves.[3] In Ada Bartlett Taft’s 1946 Lorado Taft; Sculptor and Citizen, it was listed as one of his most important works.[4] Images of Eternal Silence have been used in other artworks, including works by Claes Oldenburg.[4] One folktale claims that if an unsuspecting viewer were to look into the eyes of Eternal Silence’s hooded figure, the viewer would be shown a vision of his or her own death.[1]

Design

Hooded bronze figure

Eternal Silence has been called “eerie”,[3] “somber”,[3] “grim-looking”,[5] “mysterious”,[6] and “haunting”.[6] The bronze figure, based on traditional depictions of the Grim Reaper, is set against a black granite base and stands ten feet tall upon that base.[3] The black granite provides contrast for the bronze statue, which is heavily oxidized because of its age.[3][7] The hooded figure was influenced by Taft’s own “ideas on death and silence”.[4] Historically speaking, the figure in Eternal Silence is related to the sculpted funeral procession around the tomb of Philip the Bold in Dijon, France and the Adams Memorial by Augustus Saint-Gaudens in Washington, D.C.[4] The statue is considered famous and has been noted as Graceland Cemetery’s most “unforgettable” monument.[1][3][7] The monument was designed by Taft and cast by Jules Bercham.[8][9] On its base, Taft inscribed the north side with his signature; the south side is inscribed with Am. Art Bronze Foundry J. Bercham -Chicago-.[3] The monument falls within Art Nouveau style.[4]

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Here is something about the sculptor Lorado Taft:

Lorado Taft.jpg
Born April 29, 1860
Elmwood, Illinois
Died October 30, 1936 (aged 76)
Chicago, Illinois
Nationality American
Field Sculpture

Lorado Zadoc Taft (April 29, 1860 – October 30, 1936) was an American sculptor, writer and educator. Taft was born in Elmwood, Illinois in 1860 and died in his home studio in Chicago in 1936.[1]

Early years and education

After being homeschooled by his parents, Taft earned his bachelor’s degree (1879) and master’s degree (1880) from the University of Illinois where his father was a professor of geology.[2] The same year he left for Paris to study sculpture, he continued to maintain his connections with the university in Urbana and his sculpture of Alma Mater at Urbana has come to symbolize something significant.[citation needed]

In Paris, Taft attended the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts from 1880 to 1883, where he studied with Augustin Dumont, Jean-Marie Bonnassieux and Jules Thomas. His record there was outstanding; he was cited as “top man” in his studio and twice exhibited at the Salon. Upon returning to the United States in 1886 he settled in Chicago. He taught at the Art Institute of Chicago, a post he was to remain at until 1929. In addition to work in clay and plaster, Taft taught his students marble carving, and had them work on group projects. He also lectured at the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois.[3]

In 1892, while the art community of Chicago was preparing for the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, chief architect Daniel Burnham expressed concern to Taft that the sculptural adornments to the buildings might not be finished on time. Taft asked if he could employ some of his female students as assistants (it was not socially accepted for women to work as sculptors at that time) for the Horticultural Building, Burnham responded with the classic reply, “Hire anyone, even white rabbits if they’ll do the work.” From that arose a group of talented women sculptors who were to retain the name “the White Rabbits.” These included Enid Yandell, Carol Brooks MacNeil, Bessie Potter Vonnoh, Janet Scudder, and Julia Bracken. Later another former successful student who emigrated to Canada, Frances Loring, noted that Taft used his students’ talents to further his own career, a not uncommon observation by students regarding their teachers. In general, history has given Taft credit for helping to advance the status of women as sculptors.

In 1898, Taft was a founding member of the Eagle’s Nest Art Colony in the small town of Oregon, Illinois. Taft designed the Columbus Fountain at Union Station in Washington, D.C., in collaboration with Daniel Burnham.

Later years

In 1903 Taft published The History of American Sculpture, the first survey of the subject. In some settings, Taft is perhaps better known for his published writings than for his sculpture. The revised 1925 version of this text was to remain the standard reference on this subject until Wayne Craven published “Sculpture in America” in 1968. Taft also wrote Modern Tendencies in Sculpture (1921).

As Taft grew older, his eloquent speaking skills and compelling writing led him, along with Frederick Ruckstull, to the forefront of sculpture’s conservative ranks, where he often served as a spokesperson against the modern and abstract trends which developed in sculpture during his lifetime. Taft’s frequent lecture tours for the Chautauqua also gave him a broad, popular celebrity status in this period.

In 1921, Taft published Modern Tendencies in Sculpture, a compilation of his lectures given at the Art Institute of Chicago. The book continues to be regarded as an excellent survey of American sculpture in the early years of the 20th century; and it offered a distinct perspective on the development of European sculpture at that time.

Taft was a member of the National Academy of Design, the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters; he headed the National Sculpture Society in the 1920s and served on the Board of Art Advisors of Illinois. He received numerous awards, prizes, and honorary degrees, served on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts from 1925 to 1929, and was an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects. His papers reside in collections at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, the University of Illinois, and the Art Institute of Chicago.[4].

Taft was active until the end of his life. The week before he died, he attended the Quincy, Illinois dedication ceremonies for his sculpture celebrating the Lincoln-Douglas debates.[1]

He left unfinished a vast work to be called the “Fountain of Creation” which he planned to place at the opposite end of the Chicago Midway from the “Fountain of Time.”[5] Parts of this work were donated to the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and are now at the library and Foellinger Auditorium. The University named a dormitory and a street in Taft’s honor.[6]

Sculptor’s body of work

Lorado Taft was a member of the National Sculpture Society and exhibited at both their 1923 and 1929 shows. Today Taft is best remembered for his various fountains.

Following more than a dozen years of work, Taft’s Fountain of Time was unveiled at the west end of Chicago’s Midway Plaisance in 1922. Based on poet Austin Dobson‘s lines – “Time goes, you say? Ah no, Alas, time stays, we go.” – the fountain shows a cloaked figure of time observing the stream of humanity flowing past.

Pioneer & Patriot Groups for the Louisiana State Capitol Building

The last major commission that Taft was to complete in his life was two groups for the front entrance to the Louisiana State Capitol Building, dedicated in 1932.

Here’s a YouTube mini document about Taft’s statues:

 

 

So here you have a nice little mystery place called “Eternal Silence”. Check it out if you live nearby.