[PH:] “I want to take you through some of these egregious measures that are being inflicted on the population in the name of Public Health. If you’re new to my channel, I encourage you to watch my previous videos where I talk about the whole concept of Public Health, which is quite ludicrous to me because there is Public Sanitation and there’s Public Safety but there’s only individual health. I am not responsible for anyone else’s health and they are not responsible for mine. I see this concept of Public Health and public health laws as a massive grab by the government for you –your body; your ability to move, to travel, to work…
…we have to ‘read between the lies’ as I like to say…”
New York (minute4) [document]: “ ‘Quarantine’ shall mean the physical separation and confinement of an individual or groups of individuals who are reasonably determined by the State Commissioner of Health or local health authority to have been exposed to a highly contagious communicable disease, but who do not show signs or symptoms of such disease, for such time as will prevent transmission…”
Florida (minute11) [document]: “ ‘isolation’ means the separation of an individual who is reasonably believed to be infected with a communicable disease from individuals who are not infected… ‘Quarantine’ means the separation of an individual…believed to have been exposed…but is not yet ill…[ As passed into law, a Florida health officer has the legal right of] ordering an individual to be examined, tested, treated, isolated or quarantined for communicable diseases that…present a severe danger to public health… Individuals who are unable or unwilling to be examined, tested or treated for reasons of health, religion or conscience may be subjected to isolation or quarantine… If the individual poses a danger to the public health…the State Health Officer may use any means necessary to treat the individual… Any order of the [Health] department pursuant to this subsection shall be immediately enforceable by a law enforcement officer…”
Hawaii (minute16) [document] “Additional powers in an emergency…Provide for and require the quarantine or segregation of persons who are affected with or believed to have been exposed to any infectious, communicable or other disease that is, in the governor’s opinion, dangerous to the public health and safety, or persons who are the source of other contamination in any case where, in the governor’s opinion, the existing laws are not adequate to assure public health and safety; provide for the care and treatment of the persons…concerning compulsory immunization programs; provide for the isolation of closing of property which is a source of contamination or is in a dangerous condition in any case where, in the governor’s opinion, existing laws are not adequate… and designate as public nuisances [any] acts, practices, conduct or conditions that are dangerous to public health and safety or to property; authorize that public nuisances be summarily abated and, if need be, that the property may be destroyed by any police officer or authorized person…[Provision to] suspend any law that impedes or tends to impede or be detrimental to the expeditious and efficient execution of…emergency functions, including laws which by this chapter specifically are made applicable to emergency personnel… In the event of disaster or emergency…[the governor may] shut off water mains, gas mains, electric power…and to the extent permitted by or under federal law, suspend electronic media transmission; Direct and control the mandatory evacuation of the civiliam population; Exercise additional emergency functions…to prevent hoarding, waste, or destruction of materials, supplies, commodities, accommodations, facilities and services…[and provides authority to take over operations of such premises and services]”
California [document, effective January 1, 1996] “Upon being informed by a health officer of any contagious, infectious or communicable disease the [Health] department may…if it considers it proper, take possession or control of the body of any living person…”
…and from the beaks and claws of corvids, we get more words, like beaker, billet, hook and hammer.
“Beekes considers the ‘crown’ sense as derived from the formally identical Greek word korōnē ‘crow’ (see raven), which, he says, was used metaphorically ‘of all kinds of curved or hook-formed objects.’ ‘Moreover,’ he writes, ‘the metaphorical use of [korōnē] ‘crow’ is nothing remarkable given the use of its cognates …; the metaphors may have originated from the shape of the beak or the claws of the bird.’ Compare Latin corax ‘crow’ also ‘a hooked engine of war,’ French corbeau ‘raven,’ also ‘cantilever;’ English crowbar, etc.” https://www.etymonline.com/word/crown/
Not many people today would consider a language to be technology, but indeed it has ever been: “In the beginning was the Word,” and from the Word poured forth the creation of the world. To name a thing was to know it and make it real (‘royal’)– to reveal and penetrate the mystery of its being, and as the ancients believed, to assume and use the power of that which is named. And so, by naming and realizing the world around us, a vast technology of assumed power was carried in the language of the people as they roamed and survived, invaded, settled and remembered themselves from time immemorial, or better said, from time’s immeasurable memory. Time itself, as a word—crone or chronology—is a gift from the crows, and by this remembrance the ‘crow’ people have carved an immortal desire to carry the technology of time and make a god of it, Cronos –or Saturn– ruling over this world from even the dark, cold remoteness of space. The Crow of time is a great secret; it sees all, knows all, and if it did not create us, it was nevertheless set upon us as a Great Watchman.
Lord Saturn (Shani)
But, I didn’t start this post to talk about time, except to say that Time is speeding up and maybe that’s good. The end of Time, perhaps, is the end of the Crow people and they are not going without a fight—maybe you are Crow people too, from another flock, and fit for the battle. Crows are everywhere, they say. And in the huge composite of letters we call the English language, crows are also everywhere, lurking in the recesses of ancient words and mythologies among the crags of memory. Those words had no place of origin among the 400,000 and more chosen for the Oxford English Dictionary. The brethren of Oxford decided that the language should begin with Middle English, attempting the task for the first time in 1857. Failing to advance their reckoning, the Oxfordians hired James Murray in 1879 to organize a renewed effort, one that outlived Murray himself and took 49 years to complete to a respectable result of ten volumes and 3 feet of shelf space. https://public.oed.com/history/ Unlike most other letter languages, English continues to grow and abandon its over-heavy past, discarding mind, meme, and meaning on the counting-house floor. But the complexity of English is not your burden unless you choose it. Maybe you and yours were never crows. But if you map your genes among the ancient Mediterranean and Indo- European peoples, chances are deep down you’re a crow. And in your memory, if it speaks English, are crow words.
— corona, coroner, croak, croon, crown, crowd, corn, crop, curve, carriage, crave, raven, ravenous, ravine, rook, rock, cranny, cranium, Capricorn, call, Cornish, caucus, Caucasian…. And many, many more.
The Oxford English, despite expanding their lists, were well aware of not having the last (or the first!) word on crow. Interest in the olde meaning of crow words, and the name ‘Coronis’ in particular, was even then in the 1870s, shared in a London medical society text. They were looking for the original meaning of the Rod of Aesculapius (a.k.a. Aesclepius), the crow-god son of Apollo and Coronis, whose serpentstaff had become their emblem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronis_(mythology)
The image below comes from reference #5 of the Coronis Wikipedia page: ‘Medical Society of London’—
Aesculapius and others like him were …”sprung from an egg”… “where a serpent in an egg is introduced as a true emblem of this deity… the emblem Coronis must sometimes have had a reference to the same. When it is said of Aesculapius…that the heavenly Coronis produced him to the world: this [twofold meaning] could not relate to the raven…yet could have no concern with his second birth, or with his birth at all. Coronis was certainly a name given by the poets and mythologists to a particular machine: the same in which the gods are supposed to have been enclosed and to have suffered a temporary death. Coronis is accordingly said to have been a vessel or float, whose extremities were equally raised and turned up like a crescent… By Coronis is signified a ship which has its two ends bent and turned up… The name was adapted to vessels of this form, from their representing the lunar emblem, the mystical machine Selene. This was the original Coronis and the name was given from a bird of the sea.”
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The bird-of-the-sea who flew with the dragon-headed ships that carried it were once the Raven-painted sails of the Norsmen who set these oracular birds on the shoulders of their highest lord Odin (Woden).
It is another medical fellowship that preserves the ravens of Odin (‘Thought’ and ‘Memory’) as its emblem, the Society of Radiology, which represents the invading technologies of radiation. Like Odin’s birds returning to their master, they bring secrets out of the darkness and ‘prophesy’ to the fates. A modern irony in the symbolic choice of Thought and Memory is that, like a pirate’s corsair (a crow word), these ray-vens steal for themselves the very substance of the names, causing (more crowish) the loss of both.
Here is one of their own with The Supervoltage Story, or how high-energy particle accelerators came into medical use:
“…let us listen to Munin, our messenger of memory, who with Hugin, the messenger of thought, appear on the heraldry of this Society (Fig. 1). It is good, as I said to this Society now some 15 years ago, from time to time to recall the past beyond the memory of many of us so that we may know of how those things which we accept as commonplace came to be…” The Supervoltage Story , 1974 lecture by Milford D. Schulz, MD https://www.ajronline.org/doi/pdf/10.2214/ajr.124.4.540
Taking Dr. Schulz’s advice, “It is good…from time to time to recall the past beyond the memory of many of us so that we may know of how those things which we accept as commonplace came to be”
No one can say where or when the Crow people originated. Perhaps they were remnants of the great floods that created the Mediterranean. Robert Graves, who had a genius for the Welsh bardic tradition, wrote in his 1946 book The White Goddess, that the Greeks called them Pelasgians, or “seafarers,” whom they conquered or assimilated. Like the Indo-European Greeks who came later, the Pelasgians may have also come from the east through Anatolia and Canaan where they established their legacy of Phoenicia and customized their crow into a Phoenix.
“The Pelasgians claimed to be born from the teeth of the cosmic snake Ophion whom the Great Goddess in her character of Eurynome (‘wide rule’) had taken as her lover, thereby initiating the material Creation; but Ophion and Eurynome are Greek renderings of the original names. They may have called themselves Danaans after the same goddess [of Creation]…” p62, The White Goddess.
The ‘wide rule’ of Eurynome, it appears, was a great circle of interconnecting water systems encompassing the whole of Europe’s landmass from the Arctic, to the inland seas of the Steppe, southward to the Mediterranean and out again to the Atlantic—a clockwork of water and time, remade between the shattering cataclysms of destruction that “ate their children and drank their blood.” In those lost days, survival may have required the abilities of serpents and birds, and to them we look again to initiate Creation.
For the first Crow Show of June –Queen of the World, 2022 Platinum Jubilee – this ‘remote’ Tree lighting illuminated a symbolic snake staff of magenta-to-white from Windsor Castle to Buckingham Palace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfL9HebGZz0&t=0s
And what does this display of royal pageantry mean?
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For an up-to-date look at the Jubilee show from the mixed-reality denizens of blockchain and ‘social impact’ investing, Alison McDowell writes, “With the rise of synthetic biology and nano-machines, it seems an appropriate time to reflect on the Hermetic tradition and the propensity of power to attempt to mask black magic rites with feeble trappings of fraudulent divine intent. In my opinion such a dynamic was at work here, broad-based attempts to propagandize the world into believing synthetic is natural and sacred. It has everything to do with England’s traditions of scientifically managed breeding, including Galton and eugenics…” https://wrenchinthegears.com/2022/06/23/magenta-at-dusk-and-the-royal-beacon-of-decarbonization-synthetic-pretenders-part-10/
Tree of Life from T-mobile?
What I see in the logo is a couple of twin cube bits (qubits) floating in alignment with this white T, hanging together on invisible threads –entangled in magenta perpetuity (‘magen’ means ‘king’). The Internet of Bodies and Things, they’re telling us, is a vast phenomenon of quantum computing—a bio-digital convergence that is re-generating the world, re-generating economies, and resetting the scope of human activity. The New Creation story no longer depends on us “coming down from the trees,” which is still a metaphor for human origins, but as shown in the Jubilee, injecting their lit-bit entanglements up the tree. Undeniably, this is a re-versal of our creation story.
The Great Mother of the sea-bird folk has come down to us in myriad forms and symbols but are all representations of the Womb of Creation. She is the Tree of Life, a ‘twin’ creator in Bronze Age conception, and as Robert Graves reveals, the giver of language and letters. In the opening chapters of The White Goddess, Graves expands on the interpretation of a holy riddle called The Battle of the Trees, the ‘battle’ order (and calendar) of an ancient alphabet that conveys sacred knowledge of the Goddess. He also tells us that “the Pelasgians were called Dioi (‘divine’) because they alone of all the Greeks preserved the use of letters after the Deluge” –p226, ibid. In this generic sense of Pelasgians, it was they who spread the practice of writing and symbolizing speech– again. The Hero who fathered them, Phoroneus, was a primordial Prometheus whose ‘phor’ in his name was the ‘fire’ of thought and memory, “and who had for a mother the essential spirit of the very earth of Argos herself, Argia.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoroneus
Argeia, meaning ‘dazzling white,’ is the White Goddess who mated with the titan river-god Inachus in her aspect of an Ash Tree nymph. Phoroneus’s sister Io “became Isis when she reached Egypt” (Graves p232) bringing the Letters (‘oracles’) with her to the Egyptians. A result of this transfer, and others like it, may be seen in the Demotic script https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demotic_(Egyptian) and cuneiform Armana Letters, created in the time of Akhenaton (mid-14th century BCE) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarna_letters
Technology among the settlers of the Mediterranean transitioned in this period to the Iron Age and “ the beginning of the historiographical record…” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Age; from which we learn that Phoroneus became the Kronos of Olympia, a primordial Hero who invented fire, founded the Law, and was celebrated at the Spring Equinox.
“It has not yet been established when people first began worshipping at Olympia. However, archaeological finds show that the area was at least settled from the 3rd millennium B.C. It is also known that the first Sanctuary was the Gainon, which was found at the foot of Kronos hill and was dedicated to Gaia (Earth), the wife of Ouranos (Heaven). That was also, as it is said, the most ancient oracle of Olympia.” https://www.gtp.gr/LocInfo.asp?infoid=49&PrimeCode=EGRGIL10OLYOLY00041&PrimeLevel=10&LocId=60975
“In Greek mythology, Cronus, Cronos, or Kronos (/ˈkroʊnəs/ or /ˈkroʊnɒs/, from Greek: Κρόνος, Krónos) was the leader and youngest of the first generation of Titans, the divine descendants of the primordialGaia (Mother Earth) and Uranus (Father Sky). He overthrew his father and ruled during the mythological Golden Age, until he was overthrown by his own son Zeus and imprisoned in Tartarus” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cronus “Tartarus is both a deity and a place in the underworld. In ancient Orphic sources and in the mystery schools, Tartarus is also the unbounded first-existing entity from which the Light and the cosmos are born… third of the primordial deities, following after Chaos and Gaia… offspring of Aether and Gaia.”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartarus Graves tells us that “Tar” in the Aegean tongue means “west” and “the dying sun… The reduplication tar-tar, meaning the far, far west, has evidently given Tartara, the land of the dead, its name.”—p372, The White Goddess
As Greeks displaced Pelasgians, the descendents of Kronos divided and moved west to ancient Iberia (Portugal and Spain), north to Thrace and Gaul or remained and assimilated, elaborating the pantheon of the sacred Crow from where the goddess Coronis made her match with Apollo, mothering the Asclepiads of therapeutic arts and secrets. “Apollo was not at that time a Sun-god, but an Underworld oracular hero…herdsman to…the Minyan king of Pherae in Thessaly…” –p141, ibid.
“Neptune pursuing Coronis who is changed into a crow,” 1590, by Hendrick Goltzius
“The first Greeks to invade Greece were the Achaeans who broke into Thessaly about 1900 BC; they were patriarchal herdsmen and worshipped an Indo-European male trinity of gods, originally perhaps Mitra, Varuna and Indra… subsequently called Zeus, Poseidon and Hades. Little by little they conquered the whole of Greece and tried to destroy the semi-matriarchal Bronze Age civilization that they found there, but later compromised with it, accepted matrilinear succession and enrolled themselves as sons of the variously named Great Mother… [The] Achaeans who had occupied Argolis now also took the name of Danaans and also became seafarers [p62]… The Aeolian Greeks invaded Thessaly from the north…settled down amicably with the Achaean Danaans and became known as the Minyans [p63]…[And] about 1250 BC a distinction arose between the Achaean Danaans and other less civilized Achaeans…who invaded the Peloponnese, founded a new patriarchal dynasty, repudiated the sovereignty of the Great Goddess and instituted the familiar Olympian pantheon ruled over by Zeus… suggest[ing] religious revolution [that] was at first strongly resisted by the Danaans and Pelasgians… Poseidon the ash[tree]-god and Zeus the oak-god were both once armed with thunderbolts; but when the Achaeans humbled the Aeolians [minyans], Poseidon’s bolt was converted into a trident or fish spear and Zeus reserved the sole right to wield the bolt… The original Danaans may well have come up to the Aegean from Lake Tritonis in Libya… though it is unlikely that they were so called until they reached Syria… We may further identify Danu with the Mother-goddess of the Aegean ‘Danuna,’ a people who about the year 1200 BC, according to contemporary Egyptian inscriptions, invaded Northern Syria in company with…other Eastern Mediterranean peoples. To the Egyptians these were all ‘Peoples of the Sea’…forced by the pressure of the new Indo-European horde to emigrate… ” –p64, The White Goddess.
Robert Graves: “Since the close connexion here suggested between ancient British, Greek, and Hebrew religion will not be easily excepted, I wish to make it immediately clear that I am not a British Israelite… My reading of the case is that at different periods in the second millennium B.C. a confederacy of mercantile tribes, called in Egypt ‘the People of the Sea’, were displaced from the Aegean…[and] that some of these wandered north along already established trade-routes, and eventually reached Britain and Ireland; and that others wandered west…[with] some elements reaching Ireland by way of North Africa and Spain. Still others invaded Syria and Canaan, among them the Philistines who captured the shrine of Hebron in southern Judea from the Edomite clan… These borrowings were eventually harmonized in the Pentateuch with a body of Semitic, Indo-European and Asianic myth which composed the religious traditions of the mixed Israelite confederacy. The connexion then, between the early myths of the Hebrews, Greeks, and the Celts is that [they] were civilized by the same Aegean people…And this is not of merely antiquarian interest, for the popular appeal of modern Catholicism is, despite the patriarchal Trinity and the all-male priesthood, based rather on the Aegean Mother-and-son religious tradition…than on its Aramaean or Indo-European ‘warrior-god’ elements.” –p61, ibid.
Indeed, the Great Mother gives birth to the son who becomes her husband and hero: In ancient Syria she is Asherah (Astarte, Ashteroth), wife of EL, represented as a wooden “pole”, mast, or staff. In Asherah’s icons a ‘tree’ is typically carved on her belly—the word belly deriving from her son(s) Bel, Baal, Belinus—and we would recognize her cognates in the sacred ASH tree: “In Greece the ash was sacred to Poseidon, the second god of the Achaean trinity…”(p176, ibid.)
The brothers of Zeus, Poseidon and Hades, were both eventually given ‘trident’ fish-spears to wield, beginning with the diminution of Poseidon, “and Zeus reserved the sole right to wield the Bolt.” In Greek, the letter ‘Psi’ reveals the fish spear which today is heraldry for Psychology and numerous other applications, for example, denoting ‘pseudo-uracil’ as a form of ribonucleic acid in mRNA. We saw the fish spear Letter earlier in the hands of Lord Saturn the crow. In the lands of letters we see Psi becoming three: U, I, and Y, but in its simplest observation there is a tree with three branches.
“Pseudouridine (abbreviated by the Greek letter psi- Ψ)[1] is an isomer of the nucleosideuridine in which the uracil is attached via a carbon-carbon instead of a nitrogen-carbon glycosidic bond. (In this configuration, uracil is sometimes referred to as ‘pseudouracil’.) Pseudouridine is the most abundant RNA modification in cellular RNA… Ψ is found in the large and small ribosomal subunits of all domains of life and their organelles… When pseudouridine is used in place of uridine in synthetic mRNA, the modified mRNA molecule arouses less response from Toll-like receptors, a part of the human immune system that would otherwise identify the mRNA as unwelcome. This makes pseudouridine useful in mRNA vaccines, including the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. This property of pseudouridine was discovered by Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman in 2005.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudouridine
The team of ‘Kariko-Weissman’ that discovered this stealthy property of pseudouracil in RNA would probably not appreciate me pointing out that their combined names carry the meaning of ‘White Crow’. In birdland today, a white crow or raven is considered a mutation but in origin stories of crows they were all once white until cast into a fire and roasted black.
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The HARBINGER implicit in this message from the crows, coded deeply into our collective consciousness by symbols and myth, is the ongoing subject of this post as Corona the Crow continues. In a tie-in with magenta-to-white of the T-mobile logo, calling it “New Magenta” as they do, one of a few anagrams from New Magenta is “want Ma gene”– a ‘mother’ seed-of-change from the Technocracy.
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In the Mother tongue, ‘charcoal’ is a compound crow word of “carbonaceous material obtained by heating an organic substance, as wood, in the absence of air” (from the Webster’s on my shelf), producing a useful product from the fire that is also called a ‘cherry’, or fruit of the firey wood. On nature’s terms, coals are the harvest of ashes and soot, survivors of holo-causts that can be carried away as seeds of new fires. In the naming of things (‘taxonomy’) we give the cherry-(carbon)-ASH-seed-coals to the family of birds called “Craticus” –the ‘calling’ birds, who in their flight of exodus (‘colare’ in Latin) carry ‘fire’ out into the world. By the fanciful expansion of sacred language ( as in ‘chola’, or ‘cola’) the name (Saint) Nicholas—Santa Claus— conjures a crow visit on one of the most sacred calendar nights of the year—the ‘darkest’ and coldest of days in the north. To the English, he was ‘old King Cole.’ To their ancestors, he was Saturn (Set, Satan, or ‘soot’), Lord Chronos the timekeeper, and his party was called Saturnalia. https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=cole
American schoolchildren have traditionally learned that the Father of the Nation, George Washington, chopped down a cherry tree as a child of six, and though ‘wrong’ in doing so he was reconciled to hisfather by telling the truth. As one of the most celebrated secret-society Freemasons in history, the falsity of this tale is one to reckon with. Children all over it seems are subject to a version of Santa Claus, whether or not he enters by the fireplace, in the great make-believe of being ‘everywhere, all at once’ and knowing what they deserve. Good children get presents in their stockings and bad ones get lumps of coal, perhaps in the old days well aware that it meant violating the catechism of good behavior. Do we give lumps of coal to kids today, or do we give them cell phones for good behavior?—amounting to much the same psychic result of casting them into the fire for remaking:
“ ‘Almost all people of all eras are hypnotics. Their beliefs are induced beliefs. The proper authorities saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and people believed properly.’ –Charles Fort… In a study of mind control and psychological warfare, it is not enough to simply review the latest technology of coercion… Far more dangerous than these appliances is the praxis behind them, the underground current which informs the modern project and this modern era. For life in our modern era is little more than life in an open-air mind control laboratory where a form of human alchemy has emerged to transform the mass of targeted percipients—targeted merely by virtue of their being urban dwellers plugged into the electronic and digital pageantry of the Establishment’s system-of-things.”—pp18-19, Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare, by Michael A. Hoffman II, 2001
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Oracular crow words related to the fire-stone “cherry” are virtually too many to name but in the most singular sense represent the Maidenhead and rites of the Great Mother. We get the words church, chore, cherish, charm, charisma, charade, and chariot; the body (corpus) parts cervix, cortex, cerebrum, cornea, cochlea, coronary and cervical structures and chakras with the practice of body worship (can we say ‘warship’?) in service (Crow for ‘cherry’) to the godhead. https://www.etymonline.com/word/cherry
…and do we not also practice “Psi”-ence in the worship of our god-selves?
“The original notion in the Latin verb probably is “to separate one thing from another, to distinguish,” or else “to incise.” This is related to scindere “to cut, divide” (from PIE root *skei- “to cut, split;” source also of Greek skhizein “to split, rend, cleave,” Gothic skaidan, Old English sceadan “to divide, separate”).” https://www.etymonline.com/word/science
The equivalence of Science from its ancient roots evolved from ‘scythe’ (‘scithe’), ‘sword’, ‘scion’, ‘scier’ and ‘sek’: The Proto-Indo-European (PIE) use of ‘sek’ is suggested in the Hittite word ‘shakk’, or “to know,” and the Lithuanian word ‘isekti’ which means “to engrave, carve,” and rather tellingly associated by sound and spelling to the Old French ‘scier’(’sier’) meaning ‘saw’. “Since the Middle Ages, it was carried by personifications of Time and Death.”https://www.etymonline.com/word/scythe
TIME and DEATH
“Where Does the Grim Reaper Come From? The Grim Reaper is a psychopomp: a creature (in this case, roughly human in form) that guides departed souls to the afterlife. Throughout history, there have been numerous psychopomps, from other human versions to animals, like ravens. Compared to ancient angels of death, the Grim Reaper is a relatively recent addition… It’s thought that the Grim Reaper appeared in around the 14th century when a specific historical…event known as the Black Death or simply “the plague” changed the way the average person viewed death… Additionally, the Grim Reaper is often pictured floating or flying, rather than simply walking. This mimics the ways in which the death gods of eras past got around, including the Valkyries, who hovered above battlefields.” https://www.joincake.com/blog/grim-reaper/
The Coroner
Little imagination appends to our progress in defining TIME and DEATH as a heritage of “cut, slash, and burn” science. Kitchens and washrooms have become our modern laboratories and the domain of skillful ‘cleavers’ (clever) in their arts. A personal joke of mine is to mentally refer to Pierre and Marie Curie and their friends as the Val-Curies, whose contributions to 20th century science can hardly be overstated. Ironically perhaps, “Curie” is straight from the Crow lexicon: “ ‘Cure’…from Old Latin coira-, a noun of unknown origin…[which has evolved to] cura ‘care, concern, trouble,’ or… In reference to fish, pork, etc., ‘prepare for preservation by drying, salting, etc.,’” to which we might add smoking, charring, boiling and canning in our acts of preservation. https://www.etymonline.com/word/cure To this end, the modern model derived from antiquity is to build great labyrinths of stores for bodies and minds; catacombs, cemeteries, hospitals, libraries, and schools, over which bureaucrats, democrats, and aristocrats are called to rule. In medieval times, the great gothic cathedral itself was a ‘curation’ for the body-and-soul of the community. In all these places, we are meant to be secured and safely lost to the outside world to attain a sacred purpose –to be found, in oneself, transformed and completed.
History’s most celebrated labyrinth lies below the palace of Knossos on the island of Crete from where the legend of Theseus and the Minotaur, the bull-headed creature of Minos, was born. In short, Theseus of Athens posed as a sacrificial ‘tribute’ to the powerful Minoans in order to kill the labyrinth-dwelling Minotaur and end the tributary practice of Crete. The word ‘labyrinth’ is generally agreed to derive from ‘labrys’, a ceremonial double-headed axe which “is not a weapon and always accompanies women” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labrys , having its likeliest origin from Labraunda in the Anatolian province of Caria. The eastern Carians may be the oldest settlers of Crete, dating back to 7000BC, and builders of the labyrinth which the palace of Knossus supplanted. The evident ‘T’ shape of the labrys and associated bull—cow mother from the Age of Taurus—identifies a matriarchal culture. As a daughter of the Moon (Pasifae) from Crete, and half-sister to the Minotaur, the goddess Ariadne was carried to the far reaches of Europe where her legacy in Wales became Arianrhod, and her abode in the sky named “Corona Borealis” –as Robert Graves explains, “Arianrhod is one more more aspect of Caridwen, or Cerridwen, the White Goddess of Life-in-Death and Death-in-Life; and to be in the Castle of Arianrhod is to be in a royal purgatory awaiting resurrection. For in primitive European belief it was only kings, chieftains and poets, or magicians, who were privileged to be reborn. Countless other less distinguished souls wandered disconsolately in the icy grounds of the Castle, as yet uncheered by the Christian hope of universal resurrection.” –p98, The White Goddess.
Does this constellation look like a crown? Or a set of horns? Note from the Wikipedia link that “Among the Bedouins, the constellation was known as qaṣʿat al-masākīn (قصعة المساكين), or “the dish/bowl of the poor people”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_Borealis —
As a bowl, cup or cauldron, the Womb of creation is once again the sacred object from which the most valiant servants are recycled and born again. The Bronze Age dispersion of Crow people saw ‘new’ funerary practices brought into central Europe which included cremation and the collection of ashes in urns, considered a cultural innovation called “Urnfield” (13th c.BC) and descriptive of people who made ceremonial use of cauldrons. One of the most famous cauldrons in art history is a first century artifact known as the Gundestrup Cauldron, found in Denmark 1891 and assumed to be originally forged in the Balkans where it once had glass eyes. Gundestrup is an impressive treat for your eyes: On the first panel shown here the goddess and her wheels suggest a Cinderella carriage. The second shows the recycling warriors emerging from the immortal urn on horse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gundestrup_cauldron
“A valkyrie (pronounced “VAL-ker-ee”; Old Norsevalkyrja, plural valkyrjur, “choosers of the fallen”) is a female helping spirit of the god Odin. The modern image of the valkyries as elegant, noble maidens bearing dead heroes to Valhalla is largely accurate for what it is, but a highly selective portrayal that exaggerates their pleasant qualities… As far as we today can tell, the valkyries have always had such characteristics, but in heathen times they were far more sinister. The meaning of their name, “choosers of the slain,” refers not only to their choosing who gains admittance to Valhalla, but also to their choosing who dies in battle… The Saga of the Volsungs compares beholding a valkyrie to “staring into a flame.”…. https://norse-mythology.org/gods-and-creatures/valkyries/
“When her husband was killed [1906] in a road accident just two years after their second daughter was born, Marie was grief-struck. The University of Paris offered her Pierre’s faculty position making Marie the first female professor there… She was determined to get the Radium Institute, which she’d founded, up and running. When World War began, Marie contributed along with the help of her daughter Irene (who would later win a Nobel Prize herself) by setting up radiological centreson the battlefields. As the director of the Red Cross’s Radiology Service, she set up hundreds of radiological units and mobile radiological vehicles just in the first year of the war…” https://thewire.in/science/marie-curies-birth-anniversary-lets-question-social-evils-battled-exist-even-today ;
Pierre Curie was killed by a fast-moving horse-drawn wagon as he stepped off a curb into a rainy Paris street near the Sorbonne in 1906. He was by then distracted and made ill by radiation. His 1903 Nobel legacy speech left us these words: “It is possible to conceive that in criminal hands radium might prove very dangerous, and the question therefore arises whether it be to the advantage of humanity to know the secrets of nature, whether we be sufficiently mature to profit by them, or whether that knowledge may not prove harmful. Take for instance, the discoveries of Nobel—powerful explosives have made it possible for men to achieve admirable things, but they are also a terrible means of destruction in the hands of those great criminals who draw nations into war. I am among those who believe with Nobel that humanity will obtain more good than evil from future discoveries.” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1891197/
In 1995, amid high ceremony and national pride, the Curies were exhumed from their humble churchyard graves and prepared for re-interment in the great Pantheon of Paris. As she was the first woman to teach at the Sorbonne in life, Marie was the first woman at the Pantheon in death. Their radioactive remains lay sealed in lead-lined sarcophaguses, deep in the labyrinthine crypt: “ their remains are quite unique: When they were disinterred from their original resting place, they were so radioactive that they were interred in the Pantheon in inch-thick lead coffins that prevent the radiation from harming those who come to honor them…with radium 226, the most stable isotope of radium that has a half-life of approximately 1,500 years, their remains will stay dangerously radioactive for at least that long.” https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/02/27/marie-curie/?firefox=1 Longer, in fact, if the “times ten” rule-of-thumb for half-lives is applied, this Ave Maria will chirp 15,000 years into the future.
Crypt of the Curies in the Pantheon of Paris
“The Latin Cronos was called Saturn and in his statues he was armed with a pruning-knife crooked like a crow’s bill: probably a rebus on his name. For though the later Greeks liked to think that the name meant chronos, ‘time’, because any very old man was humorously called ‘Cronos’, the more likely derivation is from the same root cron or corn that gives the Greek and Latin words for crow—corone and cornix. The crow was a bird much consulted by augurs and symbolic, in Italy as in Greece, of long life.” –p66, The White Goddess.
“The carrion crow (Corvus corone) is a passerine bird of the family Corvidae and the genus Corvus which is native to western Europe and the eastern Palearctic… and it still bears its original name of Corvus corone.[2] The binomial name is derived from the Latincorvus, “raven”,[3] and Greek κορώνη korōnē, “crow”.[4] The hooded crow, formerly regarded as a subspecies, has been split off as a separate species…and it has been proposed they could have evolved independently in the wetter, maritime regions at the opposite ends of the Eurasian landmass.[5] Along with the hooded crow, the carrion crow occupies a similar ecological niche in Eurasia to the American crow (C. brachyrhynchos) in North America…The plumage of the carrion crow is black with a green or purple sheen, much greener than the gloss of the rook. The bill, legs and feet are also black. It can be distinguished from the common raven by its size… Scientific classification: Animalia; Phylum Chordata; Class Aves; Order Passeriformes; Family Corvidae; Genus Corvus; Species; C. corone…” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrion_crow
aviary (n.)
1570s, from Latin aviarium “place in which birds are kept,” neuter of aviarius “of birds,” from avis “bird,” from PIE root *awi- “bird”…*awi- also might be the source of *wyo, *yyo, Proto-Indo-European words for “egg” …the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit vih, Avestan vish, Latin avis “bird;” Greek aietos “eagle;” Old Church Slavonic aja, Russian jajco, Breton ui, Welsh wy, Greek ōon, Latin ovum, Old Norse egg, Old High German ei, Gothic ada all meaning “egg.” https://www.etymonline.com/word/aviary
The literal root-word meaning of “ave Maria” is bird-of-the-sea:
“In medieval poetry the Virgin Mary was plainly identified with the Muse [Triple Goddess]…in charge of the Cauldron of Cerridwen… The medieval Brigit shared the Muse-ship with…’Mary Gipsy’ or St. Mary of Egypt… This charming Virgin with the blue robe and pearl necklace was the ancient pagan Sea-goddess Marian in transparent disguise… Marian is the merry-maid, as ‘mermaid’ was once written… Every initiate of the Eleusinian Mysteries, which were of Pelasgian origin, went through a love rite with her representative after taking a cauldron bath… The Greeks called her Aphrodite (‘risen from sea foam’)…[and she] can be identified with the Moon-goddess Eurynome [‘wide rule’] whose statue…in Arcadia was a mermaid carved in wood.” –pp393-395, The White Goddess.
A curious turn of language for ‘cauldron’ in Welsh is the word ‘pair’ (or ‘peir’) and a secondary form ‘mair’, both translations for cauldron, according to Graves’s source. Their French homophones ‘pere’ and ‘mere’ describe parents, and interestingly, provide roots to the names Pierre and Marie which could otherwise be associated to ‘rock’ and ‘water’– an elemental pairing of the primal Earth itself. Or herself, as any sea bird would know. Perhaps in this ‘first couple’ of the Paris Pantheon, exhumed for the New Age Millenium, we have a Revelation of the Method that Michael Hoffman describes as the Alchemical Processing of Humanity:
“The occult Cryptocracy processes the Group Mind of the masses through psychodrama. The alchemical and Rosicrucian command dogmas were literary works… The narrative, the plot, the characters and symbolism all constitute the imprinting that is one of the highest functions of cere-mon[y]… There is a dark poetry to ritual…, to twilight language, to the fantastic convergences known as coincidence. Most ‘conspiracy researchers’ miss these. The best investigator –of the occult or of almost anything else—has a child-like sense of curiosity and wonder about seemingly mundane things. John Stilgoe, professor of Landscape History at Harvard University, in his book Outside Lies Magic, writes of the ‘ordinary’ in our lives: ‘The whole concatenation of wild and artificial things, the natural ecosystem as modified by people over the centuries, the built environment layered over layers… becomes the theater that intrigues… fascinates… and above all expands any mind focused on it. Outside lies utterly ordinary space open to any casual explorer willing to find the extraordinary. Outside lies unprogrammed awareness…” –p7, Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare, 2001, Michael A. Hoffman II.
Article by Sir Robert Watson Watt. “Four Supreme Human Freedoms”
[edited] …”the Articles of the Universal Declaration [of Human Rights] primarily delineate a solid foundation of bodily and material securities on which must rest the supreme freedoms of Articles 18, 19, 26 and 27… I go so far as to select from within those Articles which I regard as the keystones of its arch. Article 18 declares that ‘Everyone has the right to freedom of thought –to change his belief—to manifest his belief in teaching, practice—‘, [and] Article 19 declares that ‘Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression –to hold opinions without interferences –to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers’… Article 26 declares that ‘Everyone has the right to education –directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms—to promote understanding, tolerance, and friendship.’ Article 27 [is declared as] freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.’ Article 26 is, in fact, the radical antidote to this disease of restrictive practices…”
For the record, UNCTED, the counter-terrorism directorate, was initiated by a series of resolutions begun in 1998 following the bombing of two US embassies on August 7 (1998) in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam. The UN has a third operating headquarters in Nairobi Kenya, in addition to New York and Geneva.
The CTEDirectorate was put in place as a working committee (CTC) on September 28, 2001 in response to 9-11, following a 5-minute convention to ratify Resolution 1373 and ‘recertified’ on March 26, 2004 which is two weeks after the Madrid train bombings (March 11, 2004) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1065101/
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“The UnitedNations Office at Nairobi, the UN headquarters in Africa, was established by the General Assembly in 1996…” https://www.unon.org/
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“On August 7, 1998, nearly simultaneous bombs blew up in front of the American embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and DaresSalaam, Tanzania. Two hundred and twenty-four people died in the blasts …” https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/east-african-embassy-bombings There’s a handy toggle at this FBI site to compare the damages to Oklahoma City if you’re inclined.
…”The FBI was able to quickly link the attacks to bin Laden’s al Qaida organization. In retaliation, President Clinton ordered airstrikes against sites linked to bin Laden in Sudan and Afghanistan. However, this action failed to kill bin Laden or neutralize al Qaida. In November 1998, the United States indicted bin Ladin and 21 other accomplices for the attacks… [The Clinton Library has] materials regarding Mullah Mohammad Omar, the founder and spiritual leader of the Taliban, and Osama bin Laden. Under Omar’s direction, the Taliban provided sanctuary to al Qaida and its leader Osama bin Laden despite demands by the United Nations Security Council that he be handed over for trial for his involvement in the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings… “ https://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/embassy-bombings
From here, sniff out the mission creeps… It may have something to do with the US Congress rejecting United Nations control over the internet in 2012. The UN has governance over LEO satellites and Tucows (yes, “two cows”, formerly Infonautics) was going big and wireless in 2012. According to wikipedia, Tucows, operating out of Toronto, is “the second-largest domain registrar worldwide” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucows
About the same time in 2012, UN was ratifying its Berlin Space Protocol
*In 2012, the “PROTOCOL TO THE CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL INTERESTS IN MOBILE EQUIPMENT ON MATTERS SPECIFIC TO SPACE ASSETS” or Berlin Space Protocol, aiming at helping bring much-needed financial resources to the New Space community, namely those small start-up companies that have emerged as a result of the booming commercial space sector, was concluded. It constitutes the third protocol to the Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment…”
UNIDROIT –for harmonization and unification of private law—is an independent intergovernmental organization that prepares and convenes contractual agreements. Originally established in Rome 1926 as an advisory group to the League of Nations, UNIDROIT was reorganized in 1940 to continue its work in the present. This ‘group’ will likely prepare agreements and contracts governing satellites.
In December (2-4) 2019, the UN convened to prepare cybersecurity documents as a function of its disarmament protocols, a “first ever” convention of its type, according to this Microsoft doc https://www.un.org/disarmament/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/protecting-people-in-cyberspace-december-2019.pdf however, Microsoft notes that, “Discussions about the role of international law have been part of UN cybersecurity discussions since 1998. In the 2013 GGE (Group of Governmental Experts) report, 15 states’ representatives agreed that (a) international law, including the UN Charter, applies to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT); and (b) applying that law is ‘essential’ to maintaining peace and stability…”
Microsoft, a nongovernmental participant in the Group of Governmental Experts, claims its experience of the ‘threat landscape’ is one in which “We see this firsthand every day where our Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) and other security teams work to analyze trillions of signals to identify…and protect our customers… Our security researchers have been able to observe trends in tactics, techniques, and processes…”
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Background on automated AI surveillance begins in 1971:
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“DARPA’s pioneering research on automatic transcription, translation, and content analysis were major artificial intelligence success stories that changed science fiction into social fact. During a 40 year period, 10 seminal DARPA programs produced breakthrough capabilities that were further improved and widely deployed in popular consumer products… [Those] programs from 1971 through 2011… demonstrate[d] systems that could recognize unrehearsed spontaneous speech from an open population, a task many of us believed was impossible in our lifetime.”
–It began with the research plan known as ‘SUR’ (Speech Understanding Research), leading to a text analysis program in 1991 called TIPSTER.
“Since its beginning in 1991, the TIPSTER Program has sponsored multiple efforts to advance text handling technologies and deploy the resulting advanced capabilities into the workplace. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have jointly funded and managed the program, in close collaboration with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Naval Command Control Ocean Surveillance Center (NCCOSC). A TIPSTER advisory Board was recently formed with members representing users from other Government agencies interested in automated text processing, such as Department of Energy (DOE), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), National Science Foundation (NSF), Treasury Department and other Government agencies.
“The Architecture has been designed to meet a large number of text handling requirements for CIA, DIA, and NSA… However, it meets only those requirements having to do with Document Detection and Information Extraction functions. Requirements for other functions, such as Machine Translation or Optical Character Recognition must be met outside the TIPSTER Architecture.
“As of 1996 several TIPSTER applications were either underway or in the planning process. The most significant of these included PRIDES, ADEPT, NDIC Pilot, and Hookah. The TIPSTER User Interface Toolkit, or TUIT, is a toolkit for producing multilingual text.”
Portal of the Last Judgement, center (2nd) door of the Notre Dame de Paris façade.
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When I first saw the central Portal of the Last Judgement on the face of Notre Dame in Paris, I was looking up from the portal threshold and perceived the ‘scale’ to be the globe with a life-size devil and his minion manipulating the ‘world’ balance. From a higher visual perspective, he is handling the balance of good-and-evil . Notice the devil’s right hand is over the top crosspiece of the scale in front of its right shoulder. From the ground, the demon looks straight down at you as you enter the cathedral.
*Not shown in this picture is the line of pious ‘scholars’ dressed similarly and reading books, coming into the center from the left. The lofty uncommon human figures of the portal all move in one direction—to the right, as you face it.
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A profoundly haunting challenge appears to me in the interpretation of the façade. Built over the course of a hundred years, Notre Dame, like other gothic cathedrals of the era, occupied a central place of power in the emerging civilization of Europe. The Holy Roman Empire under the Church, which established itself as the dominant organizing factor of the Carolingian monarchy begun by Charlemagne, vaunted its victory over the minds of men, and was perhaps at its peak in ‘mid-evil’ times as crusades and inquisitions spread across the civilized landscape. The Portal of the Last Judgement, I take it, is commentary in stone from the builder/designers invoking the inherent evil of institutions of power and ‘knowledge’ –a cautionary tale about human nature ‘set above’ the ordinary and invested with professional rank.
In his book, 1992’s Dumbing Us Down, John Taylor Gatto might call the portal image the wages of mass schooling and institutional networks. The ‘devil’s bargain’ in the network is the apparent lightening of the burden of ‘good.’
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Several times over a Teacher of the Year, Mr. Gatto:
“In the growth of human society, families came first, communities second, and only much later came the institutions set up by the community to serve it… Particularly [now] in the United States, spokesmen for institutional life have demanded a role above and beyond service to family and communities. They have sought to command and prescribe as kings used to do… Institutions, say their political philosophers, are better at creating marching orders for the human race than families are, therefore they should no longer be expected to follow but should lead. Institutional leaders have come to regard themselves as great synthetic fathers to millions of synthetic children, by which I mean to all of us. This theory sees us bound together in some abstract family relationship in which the state is the true mother and father; hence it insists on our first and best loyalty… I want to examine the destructive effects the false claim of institutional prerogative has on both individual and family life… If we return to our original discussion of networks, it will be clear that every one of our national institutions is a place where men, women, and children are isolated according to some limited aspect of their total humanity… [pp60-61]
“If the loss of true community entailed by masquerading in networks is not noticed in time, a condition arises in the victim’s spirit very much like the ‘trout starvation’ that used to strike wilderness explorers whose diet…gradually suffers for want of sufficient nutrients. Networks like schools are not communities, just as school training is not education. By preempting [a majority] percent of the total time of the young, by locking young people up with other young people exactly their own age, by ringing bells to start and stop wprk, by asking people to think about the same thing at the same time in the same way, by grading people the way we grade vegetables—and in a dozen other vile and stupid ways—network schools steal the vitality of communities and replace it with an ugly mechanism. No one survives these places with their humanity intact… [p56]
“It is a fact generally ignored when considering the communal nature of institutional families like schools, large corporations, colleges, armies, hospitals, and government agencies that they are not real communities at all, but networks. Unlike communities, networks…have a very narrow way of allowing people to associate, and that way is always across a short spectrum of one, or at most a few, specific uniformities… [and] in spite of any genuine emotional attractions that might be there, human behavior in network situations often resemble a dramatic act—matching a script produced to meet the demands of a story. And as such, the intimate moments in the networks lack the sustaining value of their counterparts in community. [pp54-55] …A community is a place in which people face each other over time in all their human variety, good parts, bad parts, and all the rest. Such places promote the highest quality of life possible, lives of engagement and participation. This happens in unexpected ways, but it never happens when you’ve spent more than a decade listening to other people talk and trying to do what they tell you to do, trying to please them after the fashion of schools. It makes a real lifelong difference whether you avoid that training or it traps you… People interact on thousands of invisible pathways in a community, and the emotional payoff is correspondingly rich and complex. But networks can only manage a cartoon simulation of community and provide a very limited payoff. [pp56-57]
“You must understand that first and foremost the business [of teaching] I am in is a jobs project and an agency for letting contracts. We [schoolers] cannot afford to save money by reducing the scope of our operation or by diversifying the product we offer, even to help children grow up right. That is the ironlaw of institutional schooling—it is a business, subject neither to normal accounting procedures nor to the rational scalpel of competition… After an adult lifetime spent teaching school, I believe the method of mass-schooling is its only real content. Don’t be fooled into thinking that good curriculum or good equipment or good teachers are the critical determinants of your son’s or daughter’s education. All the pathologies we’ve considered [in the book] come about in large measure because the lessons of school prevent children keeping important appointments with themselves and with their families to learn lessons in self-motivation, perseverance, self-reliance, courage, dignity, and love—and lessons in service to others, too, which are among the key lessons of home and community life… These lessons cannot be learned in schools as they are. School is… a jail sentence… [pp19-21]
“In fact the name ‘community’ hardly applies to the way we interact with each other. We live in networks, not communities, and everyone I know is lonely because of that. School is a major actor in this tragedy, as it is a major actor in the widening gulf among social classes… [and] schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the planet. No one believes anymore that scientists are trained in science classes or politicians in civics classes or poets in English classes. The truth is that schools don’t really teach anything except how to obey orders… and…[despite] thousands of humane, caring people [who] work in schools…the abstract logic of the institution overwhelms their individual contributions… [The] institution is psychopathic; it has no conscience… Schools were designed…to be instruments of the scientific management of a mass population…[and] to produce, through the application of formulas, formulaic human beings whose behavior can be predicted and controlled… It is absurd and anti-life to be part of a system that compels you to…confinement…[and] effectively cuts you off from the immense diversity of life and the synergy of variety; indeed it cuts you off from your own past and future, sealing you in a continuous present…that allows you no privacy and even follows you into the sanctuary of your home demanding that you do its ‘homework’ [pp24-27]
“I want to tell you what the effect on our children is of taking all their time from them…and forcing them to spend it on abstractions… (1)The children I teach are indifferent to the adult world… nobody wants children to grow up these days, least of all the children… (2) The children I teach have almost no curiosity and what little they do have is transitory. They cannot concentrate for very long… (3) The children I teach have a poor sense of the future, of how tomorrow is inextricably linked to today. As I said before, they live in a continuous present, the exact moment they are in is the boundary of their consciousness. (4) The children I teach are ahistorical; they have no sense of how the past has predestinated their own present, limiting their choices, shaping their values and lives. (5) The children I teach are cruel to each other; they lack compassion…laugh at weakness…[and] have contempt for people whose need for help shows too plainly. (6) The children I teach are uneasy with intimacy or candor…because of a lifelong habit of preserving a secret inner self inside a larger outer personality made up of artificial bits and pieces of [borrowed] behavior… [The] disguise wears thin in the presence of intimacy, so intimate relationships have to be avoided. (7) The children I teach are materialistic, following the lead of schoolteachers who materialistically ‘grade everything’… (8) The children I teach are dependent, passive, and timid in the presence of new challenges… frequently masked by surface bravado or by anger or aggressiveness, but underneath is a vacuum without fortitude…. Either schools have caused these pathologies, or television has, or both… There simply isn’t enough other time in the experience of our kids for there to be other significant causes. [pp30-32]
“Genuine reform is possible but it shouldn’t cost anything. More money and more people pumped into this sick institution will only make it sicker. We need to rethink the fundamental premises of schooling and decide what it is we want all children to learn and why. For…[generations] this nation has tried to impose objectives downward from a lofty command center made up of ‘experts,’ a central elite of social engineers. It hasn’t worked. It won’t work. And it is a gross betrayal of the democratic promise that once made [our country] a noble experiment. The Russian attempt to create Plato’s republic in Eastern Europe has exploded before our eyes; our own attempt to impose the same sort of central orthodoxy using the schools as an instrument is also coming apart at the seams, albeit more slowly and painfully. It doesn’t work because its fundamental premises are mechanical, anti-human, and hostile to family life. Lives can be controlled by machine education but they will always fight back with weapons of social pathology; drugs, violence, self-destruction, indifference, and the symptoms I see in the children I teach. [p33]
….”We’ve got to give kids independent time right away because that is the key to self-knowledge, and we must reinvolve them with the real world as fast as possible so that the…time can be spent on something other than abstraction. This is an emergency… Experts in education have never been right; their ‘solutions’ are expensive, self-serving, and always involve further centralization. We’ve seen the results. It’s time for a return to democracy, individuality, and family.” [p38] …I disagree so strongly with the fundamental premise that networks are workable substitutes for families… [that] we shouldn’t be thinking of more school but of less. People who admire our school institution usually admire networking in general…and overlook its negative aspect—that networks, even good ones, drain the vitality from communities…[and] provide mechanical (‘by the numbers’) solutions to human problems, when a slow, organic process of self-awareness, self-discovery, and cooperation is what is required… Aristotle saw, a long time ago, that fully participating in a complex range of human affairs was the only way to become fully human… [p52]
“Networks, however, don’t require the whole person, but only a narrow piece. If you function in a network it asks you to suppress all the parts of yourself except the network-interest part—a highly unnatural act although one you can get used to. In exchange, the network will deliver efficiency in the pursuit of some limited aim. This is in fact a devil’s bargain, since on the promise of some future gain one must surrender the wholeness of one’s present humanity. If you enter into too many of these bargains you will split yourself into many specialized pieces, none of them completely human. And no time is available to reintegrate them. This, ironically, is the destiny of many successful networkers… The fragmentation caused by excessive networking creates diminished humanity, a sense our lives are out of [our own] control because they are.” [p53]. Dumbing Us Down, by John Taylor Gatto, 1992.
The 1997 words of journalist William Greider in ‘One World, Ready or Not’:
“Revolutions, by their nature, do not operate with the consent of the governed. A revolution… is always the work of a radical few who seize power and impose new values and social arrangements on the many. While the process is inescapably anti-democratic…[that] is beside the point. Human history does, on occasion, advance by such decisive breaks from the past—epic transformations that destroy the comfortable old identities and compel people, for better or worse, to adopt new understandings of themselves….
“If the question was put now to everyone, everywhere—do you wish to become a citizen of the world…?—it is safe to assume that most…would answer no, they wish to remain who they are…
“The deepest social meaning of the global…revolution is that people no longer have free choice in this matter of identity. Ready or not, they are already of the world… [and] bound to distant others through the complex strands of commerce and finance reorganizing the globe as a unified marketplace… That is the essential new fact of everyone’s social existence and it is indeed revolutionary: unless one intends to withdraw from modern… life, there is no place to hide from the others… [P]atterns of global interconnectedness are already the dominant reality… The wrenching economic changes will be understood in time as a great new opening in history –an invitation to social invention and human advancement—but only when people learn how to think expansively again about their own ideals.” –pp333-335.
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Global economic forces –a lesson from William Greider
“In military terms, the free-running market has mounted a pincer movement against the modern welfare state and is advancing to disable it. One flank of the attack is formed by debt, the accumulating indebtedness of the wealthiest governments as they are unable to keep up with costs of long-established social commitments. The other flank is capital exit—the flight of firms and investors to other locations when nations fail to shrink the overhead costs that the welfare state imposes on enterprise and labor markets. As these two flanks tighten, each makes the situation worse for the societies under attack, swelling the ranks of dependent citizens and the cost of resistance.
“ Then the market reformers launch their frontal assault: a principled ideological argument that government is itself harmful…[and] that it is the welfare state, not global economic forces, that has degraded their prosperity and social order. Government protections…have robbed many citizens of their productive spirit and interfered with the private economy’s natural abilities to generate wealth. By shrinking government’s role, by hacking back its social guarantees and protective laws, society can free the market to create a better world for all. [p360]
“This…has become the preeminent political issue for the nations of advanced capitalism… Labor and the left are in retreat almost everywhere: commerce and finance predominate in politics and have adapted centralized government to their own uses… [p361] The global market’s imperatives are, in effect, pushing…powerful nations to engineer greater income inequality among their citizens…but nothing like the widening gulf in the United States. American political elites…have embraced the market reformers’ goals with renewed vigor and assume that if the debris of the welfare state can be cleared away, the American economy will flourish again. A terrible potential lurks in these developments, not widely appreciated because it seems so remote: fascism. The collision between society and the free market has the potential to stir a great social disturbance… The leading industrial democracies are confronted now with…the same collision. [p363]. If it is allowed to deepen and harden into political deadlock, the ground is prepared again for…fascism –a popular movement that promises to resolve the stress and conflict by dictatorial fiat, destroying personal freedom and democratic process in exchange for restoring stability and an orderly prosperity.
…”During the tumultuous economic changes on the 1920s, fragmentary fascist movements appeared in every industrial nation, including the United States, mainly among the dispossessed working class or bewildered middle-class traditionalists. When economic collapse enveloped the 1930s, the crisis allowed some of those parties to flourish and seize power, imposing their own deadly bargain on society… ‘Fascism,’ [Karl] Polanyi observed, ‘was a revolutionary tendency directed as much against conservatism as against the competing revolutionary force of socialism’. When enough people feel cornered –confused and powerless, deprived of security and ignored by authorities—some will be drawn into extreme and violent forms of political expression… If Americans are disturbed by the rise of neofascists in Europe, they should understand that most of the Nazi literature ciculating in [Europe]…is mailed from the United States. [p364]
“In [modern] Germany, class resentment was on the rise again, though not always according to the usual stereotypes. The resentments I heard expressed came from people of advanced education and prestigious circumstances. What they resented was the comfortable lifestyle of the German working class. ‘Germans are very spoiled…and we are so lazy and spoiled today, used to a high standard where you get more and more… [Workers] spend a lot of time organizing their holidays… They know what they want and become very individualistic. Most employees feel they are equal to their bosses… Simple work has become too expensive…’ In Frankfurt, the center of German finance, the bankers…put the class problem more explicitly. Germany’s economic problem, they explained, was excessive equality. ‘The price of maintaining equality is too high –we have to allow for more inequality… [The] need is to get the cleaning workers’ wages down and to widen the spread between them. If we do that, we get more employment, less tax burden [from]…financing the unemployed and, therefore, greater growth… How often does a U.S. janitor go for vacation abroad? Not very often, [we] think… Here, everybody goes abroad.’ [p365]
“Class implications aside, these comments were all directed at the economic crisis facing the social market economy…that was modern Germany’s proudest accomplishment. For nearly fifty years German prosperity has been widely shared through a complex system of public and private understandings… Now…under assault –[as] too expensive, too rigid, too centralized—for the relentless arithmetic of price-cost competition in the global marketplace. [p366] As an economic scheme, the social market system had worked wondrously well in a self-contained market…[until] the social bargain was rendered vulnerable once liberalized finance and globalizing production were free of national boundaries. Indeed, the very political mechanisms Germany had created to foster compromise and concensus were now seen as barriers to executing rapid changes… In general, what the [German] reformers wanted was frequently described as the ‘American solution’ to globalization—a much smaller welfare system, deregulation across many fronts but especially in labor laws, a weakening of [unions]…and uniform wage[s], more freedom for employers to hire part-time workers and to modernize business practices.[p369]. The greater flexibility…enabled more job creation… lower unemployment and thus, reduced welfare costs. In particular, the U.S. system of weaker labor-market laws allowed the steady shrinkage of unions, declining real wages, more ‘temp’ jobs without rights or benefits and a much greater spread in incomes between highly educated and less skilled citizens. [But] in America, people were beginning to grasp that these conditions contributed to the social deterioration. In Germany, they were the reform goals. The social market ‘has to be substantially corrected… The state has to have a sound safety net, but it must lower standards, much lower than today and only for those who are unable to care for themselves. It’s not a managerial reform –it’s a conceptual reform…’ [p370]
“Americans, on the whole, [are] ill equipped to think about such matters or to understand how such basic forces as the labor market…and incomes created circumstances beyond an individual’s control. America’s contemporary liberals and conservatives were more alike in this than they recognized… [p380] Conservative reformers hacking away at the government’s various social programs were convinced that the marketplace itself was the best teacher and government got in the way. Liberals believed in remedial intervention –programs that in various ways would clean up the losers and equip them to get back on the ladder… Across the last twenty years [1970s-1990s]…the broad American middle-class was shrinking or else breaking… Home ownership…began declining in 1981… wage erosion and job losses have crept steadily up the ladder –from working poor to…white-collar ranks. These were people who…had done the ‘right things’ expected of them… Yet their prosperity was shrinking…[and] they were perhaps unsure why or who to blame. The future looked explosive. If global economic forces kept advancing as I have described them, another debilitating wave of deindustrialization was in store for America…” [p381]
COVID DNA Dragnet: A brink-of-reality scenario based on what’s already happening, such as contact-tracing, “rogue DNA databases,” and ideas in circulation posing as alternatives to vaccines and chip implants –at least temporarily. DNA dragnets already occur in policing. It doesn’t take a pandemic for this to realize, but the advantage of timing and cooperation is obvious. You would take a test, wouldn’t you—to be cleared for work or travel? As I see it right now, our collective loss of liberties puts us one step away from national COVID dragnets to get everyone in the DNA database networks in the name of Public Health. It can happen with or without your knowledge and consent through the surreptitious collection and storage of DNA as it is widely practiced by law enforcement in the U.S. Police methods regarding DNA have been upheld and re-sanctioned by the Supreme Court. [Maryland, 2012, Chief Justice John G. Roberts issued an order allowing police to continue collecting DNA samples]. Collection methods vary from trash-picking to free dinners, to coerced ‘voluntary’ clearing-of-suspicion and mandatory swabbing on arrest. Methods vary as much as the departments that deploy them. Preface this with facts of “Fabricating DNA Evidence” from digital bioinformatics systems [posted here Aug.2009] and the direst possibilities just start popping –but I won’t imagine those now. Just the facts. On-the-spot COVID tests are coming –police already have spot tests for DNA—useable at building entrances or any convenient or especially inconvenient location. The race is on for getting new, fast, portable and cheap CoV tests to market, such as a CoV ‘breath-alyzer’ from the UK. So– a race for ‘better’ tests? …for the purpose of X@#B&5???? Is the dragnet ON?
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Police methods: ”Rogue DNA databases” are a subject of special scrutiny by law professor Erin E. Murphy in her 2015 book “Inside the Cell, The Dark Side of Forensic DNA” which reviews issues of disrepute in DNA collection in post 9/11 America. The ‘rogues’ operate outside the law, however they are legal and actually contribute information to larger and better governed databases. The collected DNA, overall and everywhere, is subject to the “doctrine of abandonment”, the same criterion used in medical research. Collection-keeping for police uses are, in theory and practice, almost identical to medical uses, and therefore ‘one step away’ which is the ‘legal authority’ that comes with a national emergency waiver.
“Contact tracing apps may complement human contact tracing and add efficiency, but they don’t replace all the things you can do training armies of contact tracers” …“If there is a three-day lag between the test and results, depending on where that person goes, hundreds of people could be exposed — versus if a person is tested and gets the results 15 minutes later, they can begin taking precautions immediately,”… https://health4everyday.com/2020/05/lost-your-job-consider-becoming-a-contact-tracer-cbs-news/
New contact tracers in the U.S., for now, are entry level data processors, building a database for Public Health. Tracers may also soon adopt police search methods, being done elsewhere, from identities drawn from all possible surveillance sources; security cams, cell phones, credit and debit cards, etc.This goes sideways in all directions really fast.
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When pandemic COVID policing and law enforcement merge, Public Health has a vast and instant connectivity for contact tracing:
“Across the country, police departments employ sneak DNA sampling methods without judicial intervention of any kind, and obtain biological material… As the head of one government lab said, ‘When you’ve licked a stamp on your tax return you’ve sent the government a DNA sample.’ …The true scope and extent of sneak sampling practices is not known… [but] in many cases police simply keep surreptitiously gathered samples, adding those DNA profiles to offline or rogue databases that can be searched without restriction. Thus both the data and the databases are shrouded in secrecy… Oddly enough, the law essentially encourages police to act in the sneakiest ways possible, by according the least oversight and protection to DNA samples collected on the sly… [C]urrent law places no limits on the use of the sample. Police can keep those samples indefinitely, test them as they see fit, and store them in their local database for use in future cases—and all without ever notifying any person that DNA has been sampled. The courts that have addressed sneak sampling have almost universally endorsed it as acceptable under the Fourth Amendment… [A comment made after a failed case argument challenging the sneak techniques] reflects, the attitude of courts toward surreptitious sampling appears to be that the precepts of ‘abandonment’ and ‘misplaced trust’ ought to apply down to the molecular level… [pp170-172] …
“[If a person] voluntarily gave over his sample, the police were entitled to use it in any way they saw fit… Rogue databases…have sprung up around the country…[which] can be as simple as Excel spreadsheets or as sophisticated as networked terminals that mimic the national database, CODIS… The New York City database came under fire in 2005 when…litigation revealed that the city maintained a ‘Linkage Database’ that included samples not just from arrestees and suspects, but from crime scene bystanders and Good Samaritan contributors. The lab admitted it had ‘no policy’, procedure or rules for purging profiles from the database, and that there were no restrictions on the database’s permissible use.[p183] Rogue databases also offer the opportunity to store genetic information beyond that contained in the customary national DNA profile… New Mexico maintains a rogue DNA database…shown to be effective at predicting surnames, particularly rare surnames. [p184] The attractiveness of a database that operates outside the law has led genetic entrepreneurs to start offering software that links them all together, creating a…shadowbase…of the federal database. [p185] The goal was to circumvent CODIS, which precluded uploading of samples from persons not charged with crimes or who gave DNA for elimination purposes only. [p186]…To be sure, solving crime is good. But creating a nation of suspects is not.” [p172]
Taking control of your body: Lessons from a cell biologist
“While the Human Genome Project was making headlines, a group of scientists were inaugurating a new, revolutionary field in biology called epigenetics. The science of epigenetics, which literally means ‘control above genetics,’ profoundly changes our understanding of how life is controlled… Genes are not destiny! Environmental influences, including nutrition, stress and emotions, can modify those genes without changing their basic blueprint. And those modifications, epigeneticists have discovered, can be passed on to future generations as surely as DNA blueprints are passed on via the Double Helix.” –p67, Biology of Belief, by Bruce H. Lipton, PhD, 2005
“You may consider yourself an individual, but as a cell biologist I can tell you that you are in truth a cooperative community of approximately 50 trillion single-cell citizens. Almost all of the cells that make up your body are amoeba-like, individual organisms that have evolved a cooperative strategy for their mutual survival. [p27]… I also [make] it clear to my students that each cell is an intelligent being that can survive on its own, as scientists demonstrate when they remove cells from the body and grow them in a culture. [p37] I knew intuitively when I was a child, these smart cells are imbued with intent and purpose; they actively seek environments that support their survival while simultaneously avoiding toxic or hostile ones. Like humans, single cells analyze thousands of stimuli from the microenvironment they inhabit… [and] select appropriate behavioral responses to ensure their survival. Single cells are also capable of learning through these environmental experiences and are able to create cellular memories which they pass on to their offspring.” [p38]
The evolutionary push for ever-bigger communities is simply a reflection of the biological imperative to survive. The more awareness an organism has of its environment, the better its chances for survival. When cells band together [i.e. into higher organisms] they increase their awareness exponentially… A process of cytological specialization enables the cells to form the specific tissues and organs of the body. Over time, this pattern of differentiation, i.e. the distribution of the workload among the members of the community, became embedded in the genes of every cell… significantly increasing the organism’s efficiency and its ability to survive… The efficiency it offered enabled more cells to live on less… The amount of energy conserved…contributes to both an increased survival advantage and a better quality of life. [p40]
But today’s understanding of cooperation in nature goes much deeper than the easily observable ones. ‘Biologists are becoming increasingly aware that animals have coevolved, and continue to coexist with diverse assemblages of microorganisms that are required for normal health and development,’ according to..an article in Science [Ruby, et.al. 2004] The study of these relationships is now a rapidly growing field called ‘Systems Biology.’ …Living organisms, it turns out, actually integrate their cellular communities by sharing their genes… Now scientists realize that genes are shared not only among the individual members of a species, but also among members of different species. The sharing of genetic information via gene transferspeeds up evolution since organisms can acquire ‘learned’ experience from other organisms. [p44] This sharing of information is…nature’s method of enhancing the survival of the biosphere… [and] Now that we are aware of this inter-and-intra-species gene transfer mechanism, the dangers of genetic engineering become apparent. [p45]
“ In reality, the idea that genes control biology is a supposition, which has never been proven and in fact has been undermined by the latest scientific research. Genetic control…has become a metaphor in our society. We want to believe that genetic engineers are the new medical magicians who can cure diseases and while they’re at it create more Einsteins and Mozarts as well. But metaphor does not equate with scientific truth. [H.F.] Nijhout (1992) summarizes the truth: ‘When a gene product is needed, a signal from its environment, not an emergent property of the gene itself, activates expression of that gene.’ In other words, when it comes to genetic control, ‘It’s the environment…’ [p52]…[and] it is the changing of the proteins’ electromagnetic charges that is responsible for their behavior-generating movement, not DNA. [p60]. Geneticists experienced a… shock when, contrary to their expectations of [finding] over 120,000 [human] genes, they found that the entire human genome consists of approximately 25,000 genes. More than eighty percent of the presumed and required DNA does not exist!… The one-gene, one-protein concept was a fundamental tenet of genetic determinism… No longer is it possible to believe that genetic engineers can with relative ease fix all our biological dilemnas. There are simply not enough genes to account for the complexity of human life or human disease. [p63]
“In the chromosome, the DNA forms the core and the [regulatory] proteins cover the DNA like a sleeve. When the genes are covered, their information cannot be ‘read.’ …How do you get that sleeve off? You need an environmental signal to spur the ‘sleeve’ protein to change shape, i.e. detach from the DNA’s double helix, allowing the gene to be read [and copied by the cell]… As a result, the activity of the gene is ‘controlled’ by the presence or absence of the ensleeving proteins which are in turn controlled by environmental signals. [p68] The story of epigenetic control is the story of how environmental signals control the activity of genes… The revised scheme of information flow…in biology starts with an environmental signal, then goes to a regulatory protein and only then goes to DNA, RNA, and the end result, a protein. The science of epigenetics has also made clear that there are two mechanisms by which organisms pass on hereditary information… Studies of protein synthesis reveal that epigenetic [tuning]‘dials’ can create 2,000 or more variations of proteins from the same gene blueprint. [p69]
“We now know that the environmentally influenced fine-tuning…can be passed from generation to generation. A landmark Duke University study published in the August 2003 issue of Molecular and Cellular Biology found that an enriched environment can even override genetic mutations in mice. In the study, scientists looked at the effect of dietary supplements on pregnant mice with the abnormal ‘agouti’ gene. Agouti mice have yellow coats and are extremely obese, which predisposes them to cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer. In the experiment, one group of yellow, obese, agouti mothers received methyl-group rich supplements available in health food stores: folic acid, vitamin B12, betaine and choline. Methyl-rich supplements were chosen because a number of studies have shown that the methyl chemical group is involved with epigenetic modifications. When methyl groups attach to a gene’s DNA, it changes the binding characteristics of regulatory chromosomal proteins. If the proteins bind too tightly to the gene, the protein cannot be removed and the gene cannot be read. Methylating DNA can silence or modify gene activity… The mothers who got the methyl group supplements produced standard, lean, brown mice, even though their offspring had the same agouti gene as their mothers. The agouti mothers who didn’t get the supplements produced yellow pups…which ate much more [and] wound up weighing almost twice as much as their… counterparts… [and were] diabetic while its genetically identical counterpart is healthy. [p72]
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“Living organisms are distinguished from non-living entities by the fact that they move: they are animated. The energy driving their movements is harnessed to do the ‘work’…such as respiration, digestion, and muscle contraction. To understand the nature of life one must first understand how protein ‘machines’ are empowered to move. The final shape, or conformation (the technical term used by biologists), of a protein molecule reflects a balanced state among its electromagnetic charges. However, if the proteins positive and negative charges are altered, the protein backbone will dynamically twist and adjust itself to accommodate the new distribution of charges. [Like charges, as in two negative terminals, will twist apart]. The distribution of electromagnetic charge within a protein can be selectively altered by a number of processes including: the binding of other molecules or chemical groups such as hormones; the enzymatic removal or addition of charged ions; or interference from electromagnetic fields such as those emanating from cell phones. [p56] [It] is the changing of the proteins’ electromagnetic charges that is responsible for their behavior-generating movement, not DNA. [p60]
“[My] nominee for the true brain that controls cellular life [is] the membrane… I refer to it in my lectures as the magical mem-Brain… The true secret of life lies in understanding the elegantly simple biological mechanisms of the magical membrane –the mechanisms by which your body translates environmental signals into behavior… Cell biologists gained insight into the amazing abilities of the cell membrane by studying the most primitive organisms on this planet, the prokaryotes… which include bacteria and other microbes [that] consist only of a cell membrane that envelops a droplet of soupy cytoplasm… A bacterium carries out the basic physiologic processes of life like more complicated cells… They can sense where there is food… they can recognize toxins and predators and purposely employ escape maneuvers to save their lives. In other words, prokaryotes display intelligence! [p76]
“It is important for the cell to allow molecules to break through the [membrane] barrier..[for] life-sustaining food…[and] information… [The] membrane becomes a vital and ingenious mechanism enabling selected nutrients to penetrate the interior of the cell… Phospholipids, one of the two major chemical components of the membrane…are composed of both polar and non-polar molecules…. All the molecules in our universe can be divided into non-polar and polar categories based on the type of chemical bonds that hold their atoms together. The bonds among [electrically charged] polar molecules…behave like magnets, attracting or repelling other charged molecules. Polar molecules include water and things that dissolve in water [hydrophiles]. Non-polar molecules include oil and substances that dissolve in oil [hydrophobes]… The phosphate portion of the molecule is motivated to seek water, while its lipid portion…seeks stability by dissolving in oil. [p80]…Because the [oil] portion of the membrane is non-polar, it does not let positively or negatively charged atoms or molecules pass through it. In effect, this lipid core is an electrical insulator…[but..]Most of the cell’s nutrients consist of charged polar molecules that would not be able to get past the formidable non-polar lipid barrier. Neither could the cell excrete its polarized waste products. [Embedded membrane proteins, called]Integral Membrane Proteins (IMPs),…are composed of a linear backbone assembled from linked amino acids…[where] some are water-loving polar molecules and some are hydrophobic, non-polar molecules…that weaves itself in and out of the [membrane layer]. There are lots of IMPs with lots of different names, but they can be subdivided into two functional classes: receptor proteins and effector proteins… Receptors function as molecular ‘nano-antennas’ tuned to respond to specific environmental signals. Some receptors extend inward…to monitor the internal milieu of the cell. Other[s]…monitor external signals… Receptor ‘antennas’ can also read vibrational energy fields such as light, sound, and radio frequencies. The antennas on these ‘energy’ receptors vibrate like tuning forks. If an energy vibration in the environment resonates with a receptor’s antenna, it will alter the protein’s charge, causing the receptor to change shape.[p83]. [And] because receptors can read energy fields, the notion that only physical molecules can impact cell physiology is outmoded. Biological behavior can be controlled by invisible forces, including thought, as well as it can be controlled by physical molecules like penicillin, a fact that provides the scientific underpinning for pharmaceutical-free energy medicine. [p84]
“When you destroy its membrane, the cell dies just as you would if your brain were removed. Even if you leave the membrane intact, destroying only its receptor proteins, which can easily be done with digestive enzymes in the lab, the cell becomes ‘brain-dead.’ It is comatose because it no longer receives the environmental signals necessary for the operation of the cell. The cell also becomes comatose when the receptor proteins are left intact and its effector proteins are immobilized. To exhibit ‘intelligent’ behavior, cells need a functioning membrane with both receptor (awareness) and effector (action) proteins. These protein complexes are the fundamental units of cellular intelligence. Technically they may be referred to as units of ‘perception.’ …At the cellular level, the story of evolution is largely the story of maximizing the number of basic units of ‘intelligence,’ the membrane’s receptor/effector proteins. Cells become smarter by utilizing their outer membrane surface more efficiently and by expanding the surface area..so that more IMPs could be packed in… the eukaryote is thousands of times bigger than the prokaryote resulting in a tremendous increase in membrane surface area… The end result is more awareness, which translates to greater survivability. [p88]
“In 1985…I was reviewing the mechanics of the membrane trying to get a grasp of how it worked as an information processing system. That is when I experienced a moment of insight…[starting] first with the lollipop-like phospholipid molecules…arranged in the membrane like regimented soldiers on parade in perfect alignment. By definition, a structure whose molecules are arranged in regular, repeated pattern is defined as a crystal. There are two fundamental types of crystals. The crystals that most people are familiar with are hard and resilient minerals… The second kind of crystal has a more fluid structure…Familiar examples of liquid crystals include digital watch faces and laptop computer screens. To better understand the nature of a liquid crystal, let’s go back to those soldiers on parade. When the marching soldiers turn a corner, they maintain their regimented structure… They’re behaving like a flowing liquid, yet they do not lose their crystalline organization. The phospholipid molecules of the membrane behave in a similar fashion. Their fluid crystalline organization allows the membrane to dynamically alter its shape while maintaining its integrity…So in defining this character of the membrane I wrote: ‘The membrane is a liquid crystal.’ Then I started thinking about…a membrane with just phospholipids…[being] a non-conductor. However, when you add IMPs [integral membrane proteins], you realize that the membrane conducts some things across while keeping others out. So I [wrote]…’The membrane is a semiconductor.’ Lastly, I wanted to include…the two most common kinds of IMPs. These are the receptors and a class of effectors called channels because they [change shape and] provide the all-important means for the cell to let in nutrients and let out waste matter. I was about to write..’recptors and channels’ when I realized that a synonym for receptor is the word gate. So instead I completed my description by writing: ‘The membrane contains gates and channels.’ [p90] What hit me right away was… my new computer [with] a copy of a bright red book called ‘Understanding Your Microprocessor’… I grabbed the book and found..a definition of a computer chip that read: ‘A chip is a crystal semiconductor with gates and channels.’…I spent several more intense seconds comparing… biomembranes with silicon semiconductors… when I realized that the identical nature of their definitions… Twelve years later an Australian research consortium…published an article in Nature, which confirmed my hypothesis that the cell membrane is a homologue of a computer chip. [B.A.Cornell, et al. 1997] Cornell and associates successfully turned a biological cell membrane into a digital-readout computer chip. [p91] …The fact that the cell membrane and a computer chip are homologues means that it is both appropriate and instructive to better fathom the workings of a cell by comparing it to a personal computer. The first big-deal insight that comes from such an exercise is that computers and cells are programmable…[and] the programmer lies outside the computer/cell…[It was with a jolt that I realized that the gene-coding nucleus does not program the cell. [p92]
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“[B]ecause of their Newtonian, materialistic bias, conventional researchers have completely ignored the role that energy plays in health and disease. [p102] Biomedical scientists have been particularly confounded because they do not recognize the massive complexity of the intercommunication among the physical parts and the energy fields that make up the whole… Cellular contsituents are woven into a complex web of crosstalk, feeback and feedforward communication loops. A biological dysfunction may arise from a miscommunication along any of the routes of information flow… Once I realized the nature of the complex interactions between matter and energy, I knew that a reductionist, linear (A>B>C>D>E) approach could not even come close to giving us accurate understanding of disease. [p103] When you change the parameters of a protein at one point in such a complex pathway, you inevitably alter the parameters of other proteins at innumerable points within the entangled networks. [p104] When a drug is introduced into the body to treat a malfunction in one protein, that drug inevitably interacts with at least one and possibly many other proteins… [There is] the fact that biological systems are redundant. The same signals or protein molecules [p105] may be simultaneously used in different organs and tissues where they provide for completely different behavioral functions. For example, when a drug is prescribed to correct a dysfunction in a signaling pathway of the heart, that drug is delivered by the blood to the entire body. This ‘cardiac’ medicine can unintentionally disturb the function of the nervous system if the brain also uses components of the targeted signaling pathway…. Multicellular organisms survive with far fewer genes than scientists once thought because the same gene products (protein) are used for a variety of functions. [p106]
“ Hundreds upon hundreds of scientific studies over the last fifty years have consistently revealed that ‘invisible forces’ of the electromagnetic spectrum profoundly impact every facet of biological regulation… [E]nergetic signaling mechanisms such as electromagnetic frequencies are a hundred times more efficient in relaying environmental information than physical signals such as hormones, neurotransmitters, growth factors, etc.[p111] We know that living organisms must receive and interpret environmental signals in order to stay alive. In fact, survival is directly related to the speed and efficiency of signal transfer. The speed of electromagnetic energy signals is 186,000 miles per second, while the speed of a diffusible chemical is considerably less than 1 centimeter per second. Energy signals are 100 times more efficient and infinitely faster than physical chemical signaling. What kind of signaling would your trillion-celled community prefer? Do the math!
…”all organisms, including humans, communicate and read their environment by evaluating energy fields. [p120] The research I discussed…found that energy is a more efficient means of effecting matter than chemicals. [p125] Candace Pert was studying the human brain… In Molecules of Emotion, Pert revealed how her study of information-processing receptors on nerve cell membranes led her to discover that the same ‘neural’ receptors were present on most, if not all, of the body’s cells. Her elegant experiments established that the ‘mind’ was not focused in the head, but was distributed via signal molecules to the whole body. [p132]
“Humans and a number of other higher mammals have evolved a specialized region of the brain associated with thinking, planning, and decision-making called the prefrontal cortex. This portion of the fore-brain is apparently the seat of the ‘self-conscious’ mind processing…it is a newly evolved ‘sense organ’ that observes our own behavior and emotions. [It] also has access to most of the data stored in our long-term memory bank [including cells]… Endowed with the ability to be self-reflective, the self-conscious mind is extremely powerful… We can actively choose how to respond to most envorinmental signals and whether we even want to respond at all. The conscious mind’s capacity to override the sunconscious mind’s preprogrammed behaviors is the foundation of free will. [p134]
“I was excited by my experiments because I believed that they revealed on the single-cell level a truth for multicellular organisms—that the mind (i.e. acting via the central nervous system’s adrenaline) overrides the body (acting via the local histamine signal). I wanted to spell out the implications…in my research paper, but my colleagues almost died from apoplexy at the notion of [a] body-mind connection into a paper about cell biology… because the mind is not an acceptable biological concept. Bioscientists are conventional Newtonians –if it isn’t matter…it doesn’t count. The ‘mind’ is a non-localized energy and therefore is not relevant to materialistic biology. [p137] The placebo effect should be the subject of major, funded research efforts. If medical researchers could figure out how to leverage the placebo effect, they would hand doctors an efficient, energy-based, side effect-free tool to treat disease… The fact that most doctors are not trained to consider the impact of the placebo effect is ironic because some historians make a strong case that the history of medicine is largely the history of the placebo effect… [p138] [including] ‘fake’ surgery. [p139]
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“In multicellular organisms, growth/protection behaviors are controlled by the nervous system. It is the nervous system’s job to monitor environmental signals, interpret them, and organize appropriate behavioral responses… the nervous system acts like the government in organizing the activities of its cellular citizens… The body is actually endowed with two separate protection systems, each vital to the maintenance of life. The first…mobilizes protection against external threats. It is called the HPA axis which stands for the Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis. [p147] When there are no threats, the HPA axis is inactive and growth [cell renewal, respiration, digestion, etc.] flourishes… Once the adrenal alarm is sounded… [the] visceral organs stop doing their life-sustaining work of digestion, absorption, excretion and…production of the body’s energy reserves. Hence the stress response inhibits growth processes and further compromises the body’s survival by interfering with the generation of vital energy reserves. [p148]
“ The body’s second protection system is the immune system which protects us from threats originating under the skin such as those caused by bacteria and viruses… it can consume much of the body’s energy supply. [p149] The HPA system is a brilliant mechanism for handling acute stresses. However…not designed to be continuously activated.[p151] The HPA axis’ effect on the cellular community mirrors the effect of stress on a human population. [p153] [It shifts] the members of the community from a state of growth to a state of protection. [p154] …[S]tress hormones are so effective at curtailing immune system function that doctors provide them to recipients of transplants so that their immune systems wouldn’t reject the foreign tissues…. Activating the HPA axis also interferes with our ability to think clearly… Adrenal stress hormones constrict the blood vessels in the forebrain…[and] repress activity in the…prefrontal cortex…the center of conscious volitional activity… and reasoning. [p150]
“Inhibiting growth processes [which includes natural immunity] is also debilitating in that growth…is required to produce energy. Consequently, a sustained protection response inhibits the creation of life-sustaining energy. The longer you stay in protection, the more you compromise your growth…To fully thrive, we must not only eliminate the stressors but also actively seek joyful, loving, fulfilling lives that stimulate growth processes.” [p147] Biology of Belief, by Bruce H. Lipton, PhD
“From the beginning, there was purpose behind forced schooling…forged out of what a highly centralized corporate economy and system of finance bent on internationalizing itself was thought to need… School was looked upon..as a branch of industry and a tool of governance… By 1917, the major administrative jobs in American schooling were under control of a group referred to in the press of that day as ‘the Education Trust.’ The first meeting of this trust included representatives of Rockefeller, Carnegie, Harvard, Stanford, the University of Chicago, and the National Education Association. The chief end, wrote the British evolutionist Benjamin Kidd in 1918, was to ‘impose on the young the ideal of subordination.’
…”Arthur Calhoun’s 1919 Social History of the Family notified the nation’s academics what was happening. Calhoun declared that the fondest wish of utopian writers was coming true: The child was passing from its family ‘into the custody of community experts.’ He offered a significant forecast, that in time we could expect to see public education ‘designed to check the mating of the unfit.’“
…”The 1920s were a boom period for forced schooling… William Kirkpatrick boasted in Education and the Social Crisis that the whole tradition of rearing the young was being made over by experts.”
“Meanwhile, at the project offices of an important employer of experts, the Rockefeller Foundation, friends were hearing from president Max Mason that a comprehensive national program was underway to allow, in Mason’s words, ‘the control of human behavior.’ This dazzling ambition was announced on April 11, 1933. Schooling figured prominently in the design.
“Rockefeller had been inspired by the work of Eastern European scientist Hermann Muller to invest heavily in genetics. Muller had used X-rays to override genetic law, inducing mutations in fruit flies. This seemed to open the door to the scientific control of life itself. Muller preached that planned breeding would bring mankind to paradise faster than God… Muller would win the Nobel Prize, reduce his proposal to a 1,500-word Geneticists’ Manifesto, and watch with satisfaction as 22 distinguished American and British biologists of the day signed it. The State must prepare to consciously guide human sexual selection, said Muller. School would have to separate worthwhile breeders from those slated for termination…”
“Thirty-odd years later, between 1967 and 1974, teacher training in the US was covertly revamped through coordinated..key state education departments..which in time, impacted every school in America… The Behavioral Science Teacher Education Project identified the future as one ‘in which a small elite’ will control all important matters, one where participatory democracy will largely disappear. Children are made to see through school experiences that their classmates are so cruel and irresponsible, so inadequate..and so ignorant that they need to be controlled and regulated for society’s good. Under such a logical regime, school terror can only be regarded as good advertising…”
–John Taylor Gatto, “Some Lessons From The Underground History of American Education” [pp274-287, Everything You Know Is Wrong, 2002]
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Using falling literacy statistics dating from 1840 and 1940, J.T. Gatto makes his point about the success of educational failure: “…abundant data exist from states like Connecticut and Massachusetts to show that by 1840 the incidence of complex literacy in the United States was between 93 and 100 percent… According to the Connecticut census of 1840, only one citizen out of every 579 was illiterate… By 1940, the literacy figure for all states stood at 96 percent for whites [and] 80 percent for blacks… Six decades later..the National Adult Literacy Survey..say[s] 40 percent of blacks and 17 percent of whites can’t read at all. Put another way [since 1940], black illiteracy doubled and white illiteracy quadrupled… think of this: We spend three to four times as much real money on schooling as we did 60 years ago, but 60 years ago virtually everyone..could read…
“If you have a hard time believing this…meet William Torrey Harris, US Commissioner of Education from 1889 to 1906… Harris standardized our schools and Germanized them… Listen as he speaks in 1906: “Ninety-nine [students] out of a hundred are automata, careful to walk in prescribed paths, careful to follow the prescribed custom. This is not an accident but the result of substantial education, which, scientifically defined, is the subsumption of the individual… The great purpose of school can be realized better in dark, airless, ugly places… It is to master the physical self, to transcend the beauty of nature. School should develop the power to withdraw from the external world.’
…”Since Aristotle, thinkers have understood that work is the vital theater of self-knowledge. Schooling in concert with a controlled workplaceis the most effective way ever devised to foreclose the development of imagination… Hegel was sold to America in large measure by William Torrey Harris who made Hegelianism [the provoking of crises] his lifelong project, and forced schooling its principal instrument in its role as a peerless agent provocateur.
“Harris was inspired by the notion that correctly managed mass schooling would result in a population so dependent on leaders that schism and revolution would be things of the past… The psychological tool was [is] alienation. The trick was to alienate children from themselves so they couldn’t turn inside for strength, to alienate them from their families, religions, cultures, etc. so no countervailing force could intervene…
“Alexander Inglis, author of Principles of Secondary Education..wrote that the new schools were being expressly created to serve a command economy and command society, one in which the controlling coalition would be drawn from important institutional stakeholders in the future. According to Inglis, the first function of schooling is adjustive, establishing fixed habits of reaction to authority. This prepares the young to accept whatever management dictates when they are grown. Second is the diagnostic function. School determines each student’s ‘proper’ social role…to justify the next function, sorting. Individuals are to be trained only so far as their likely destination in the social machine, not one step beyond.
“Conformity is the fourth function. Kids are to be made alike…so future behavior will be predictable, in service to market and political research. Next is the hygenic function…the health of the ‘race’… and last is the propaedutic function, a fancy word meaning that a small fraction of kids will slowly be trained to take over management of the system…
“And there you have the formula: adjustment, diagnosis, sorting, conformity, racial hygiene, and continuity…”
Hermann Joseph Muller (or H. J. Muller) (December 21, 1890 – April 5, 1967) was an Americangeneticist, educator, and Nobel laureate best known for his work on the physiological and genetic effects of radiation (X-ray mutagenesis) as well as his outspoken political beliefs… In 1914, Julian Huxley offered Muller a position at the recently founded William Marsh Rice Institute, now Rice University; he hurried to complete his Ph.D. degree and moved to Houston for the beginning of the 1915-1916 academic year…
…1926 marked the beginning of a series of major breakthroughs. Beginning in November, Muller carried out two experiments with varied doses of X-rays, the second of which used the crossing over suppressor stock (“ClB”) he had found in 1919. A clear, quantitative connection between radiation and lethal mutations quickly emerged. Muller’s discovery created a media sensation after he delivered a paper entitled “The Problem of Genetic Modification” at the Fifth International Congress of Genetics in Berlin; it would make him one of the better known public intellectuals of the early 20th century. By 1928, others had replicated his dramatic results, expanding them to other model organisms such as wasps and maize. In the following years, he began publicizing the likely dangers of radiation exposure in humans…
In September 1932, Muller moved to Berlin to work with the Russian expatriate geneticist Nikolay Timofeeff-Ressovsky, a trip intended as a limited sabbatical stretched into an eight-year, five-country journey. In Berlin, he met two physicists who would later be significant to the biology community: Niels Bohr and Max Delbrück… In 1933, Muller ..moved..to Leningrad… In the USSR, Muller supervised a large and productive lab, and organized work on medical genetics. Most of his work involved further explorations of genetics and radiation. There he completed his eugenics book, Out of the Night, the main ideas of which dated to 1910… ” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Joseph_Muller
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“The ideas Muller laid out for the development of a practical eugenics program differed from those of the American Eugenics Society, particularly his emphasis on ‘positive eugenics’ and the importance of a classless society as a precursor to a eugenics program. ‘Positive eugenics’ was Muller’s theory which promoted the perpetuation of good genes rather than the removal of bad genes from society (‘negative eugenics’).” [Galtonian eugenics was of this ‘positive’ type] Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory archives http://cshlarchives.blogspot.com/2007/12/e.html
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