THREAD on Strauss’ Epilogue: I promised awhile ago a thread on why one should read Leo Strauss. I’ll probably make a more general thread on that, but 1st, here is one on “An Epilogue”—an essay Strauss wrote for an edited volume called “Essays on the Scientific Study of Politics”

This essay is Strauss’ critique of contemporary political science. Why’s that important for anyone outside the university? Because how we study political phenomena determines how we judge, and ultimately act, on political things.

What Strauss does here is comparable to Schmitt’s Concept of the Political. Schmitt shows how the modern liberal order attempts to conceal and abolish the essence of the political. Strauss shows that it also distorts the study of political things.

First, Strauss describes the old political science, the kind that prevailed from Aristotle to the end of the 19th c. The old pol. sci. (which was not distinguished from political philosophy) was a practical science. It’s purpose was architectonic—to order all other arts.

This pol sci depends on man being a political and rational animal. He is fundamentally different from other animals because he is receptive of praise and shame. He knows, to a greater or lesser degree, something about right and wrong beyond mere self preservation and breeding.

A monolith has appeared December 5th in Colombia, but unlike the others appearing around the world, this one is Gold👑 LETS GO! 😏

It was found in Chia (that means thé godess Moon🌛) Colombia, located in the North of Bogota.

I read about this country and what i have found is that before the spanish conquest of the New World, the belief of the inhabitants of Bogota formed part of the Muisca religion. 🔆

In the practice of their religion, they used a lot of gold. Ritual tools were "covered in gold" 17💧

Eldorado is the name of the tribal chef of the Muisca people. That name come from the spanish "El hombre dorado" The Golden Man🔥

When Nazis Took Manhattan : Code Switch : NPR

Riots erupted between anti-Fascists and Blackshirts (British

The spread of fascism in the 1920s was significantly aided by the fact that liberals and mainstream conservatives failed to take it seriously. Instead, they accommodated and normalised it.

Why we have to cut off the head of fascism again and again.

Seriously. Look at the image.

American Nazis in the 1930s—The German American

In Popular Culture, "jaichand" is Always Portrayed as a Traitor to Hindu Cause.

Truth, as always, is something else.

Jayachandra was Born to Gahadawala King Vijaychandra and Queen Chandralekha.

He was the Grandson of Famed Govindachandra of Kannauj Who levied reverse Jaziya on Moslems.

He was declared Crown Prince (Yuvaraja) in 1168 and Was Crowned as King on 21st of June 1170.

He Ruled over One of The Richest Lands in India at That Time.

Muslim Historians Declare him as " The king of Benares was the Greatest King In India, and Possessed largest Territory"

Indologist A. Fuhrer Found an Inscription in Ayodhya Dated to 1184AD, which Praises King Jayachandra Of Kannauj who Erected a Vaishnava (Ram) Temple at Treta-ke-Thakur In Ayodhya.

Ironically, today He is labeled as Traitor to Hindu cause.

Resembling #Sriyantra, one of the largest Buddhist temple it was built in the 9th century by the #Shailendra_Raj dynasty. It is located in Central Java Indonesia.
It is currently included in # UNESCO Heritage

🕍𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗼𝗯𝘂𝗱𝘂𝗿 or sometimes Barabudur

dating from the 8th and 9th centuries is located close to Muntilan on the island of Java, which is the most visited tourist site in Indonesia. Built during the rule of the Sailendra Dynasty (c. 650-1025 CE). UNESCO designated Borobudur as a World Heritage Site in 1991 CE

following restoration in the 1970s and 1980s CE, and the iconic temple continues to play a powerful role in shaping Indonesian aesthetics, architecture, and cultural identity.

🕍𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗼𝗯𝘂𝗱𝘂𝗿 covers an enormous area, measuring 123 x 123 meters,

It was built in three tiers: a pyramidal base with five concentric square terraces, the trunk of a cone with three circular platforms, and at the top, a monumental stupa. The walls and balustrades are decorated with fine low reliefs, covering a total surface area of 2,500 m2.

The monument is a marvel of design, decorated with 2,672 relief panels and 504 Buddha statues. The architecture and stonework of this temple have no equal. And it was built without using any kind of cement or mortar! The structure is like a set of massive interlocking Lego blocks

European historians use a comparative notion of “balance of probabilities” when claiming knowledge transmission from Europe (Greece) to #India, but insist on the absolute notion of “beyond all reasonable doubt” for reverse transmission from India into #Europe. #decolonisation

They use this double standard to sustain a Eurocentric history writing against their dialogical competitors, even in situations where application of this principle would make a stronger case for East-to-West transmission.

This strategy has been used to perpetuate the racist notion that all knowledge flowed from ancient Europe.

For example, Neugebauer in 1962 used “priority, accessible communication routes and methodological similarities” to prove his belief that the astronomy contained

in the Indian Siddhantas had Greek origins, with Zero direct documentary evidence.

Similarly, Van der Waerden (1976) combined this approach with his much-criticized “hypothesis of common origin,” to claim that Bhaskara II’s work on 'Diophantine equations' originate from

an 'unknown' Greek manuscript that was available to Bhaskara and his students.

Later in 1983, he used the same approach to claim that Aryabhata’s trigonometry was borrowed from the Greeks
on the basis of a 12th CE Arabic version of Ptolemy’s astronomical text called Almagest.

Some thoughts on #OneStruggle stemming from observing arguments between @urbanartshop and those who are offering their rebuttals.

@NotoriousTreyK

Sometimes it seems as though these circles are populated, to a person, by individuals who recognize how terrible and historically

unfortunate WWII was. As @anti_contard recently noted, it is breathtaking to consider how many Whites (and people of all groups) perished in the industrialized carnage of that conflagration. The war’s effects have been vast, from geopolitics to informing the West’s post-1945

mythology (and those have frequently been intertwined). Overwhelmingly, “our guys” correctly point to the war’s awful legacy for our people.

Yet many of the same people who excoriate the crimson harvest of WWII and its consequences seem to be mired in a chauvinistic mindset when

it comes to something like 19th century colonialism. This tends to bubble to the surface as almost guttural riposte to the armies of the Woke, who seek to exploit the darker aspects of the history of European imperialism and colonization to shame and bully Whites. Whites have

become conditioned to fall into two camps today when confronted by these elements, both of which are counterproductive. The first camp is insufferable: Woke or liberal “White Saviorists” to use Matt Parrott’s term, people who typically use their status as the enlightened of their

Beautiful eyes, snuffed out by an Indonesian military bullet. Nothing was done really to bring the shooter to justice.
An eyewitness I interviewed in 1995 described the shooter as having a goatee and wearing a blue scarf, an army provost.
Roger East, murdered but not forgotten.

Roger East was an Australian journalist, murdered 45 years ago today. Trying to report the truth of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor. He took cover in a flat the day of the invasion but was grabbed when he went outside, with his camera and notepad, ready to report. ...

Taken to the small park opposite the Hotel Timor, he was tied to a tree. He wasn’t immediately killed, suggesting some hesitation over killing an Australia journalist. After an hour or so a decision to murder him was made. Were orders forthcoming from General Benny Murdani? ...

Did the General reflect on the words of the Australian ambassador Richard Woolcott from their dinner two nights earlier where they discussed the imminent invasion? Murdani may have developed the confidence there would be no repercussions for killing an Australian journalist. ...

DFAT had already given the Indonesians a list of the Australians remaining in East Timor. This list of people needing safety, ultimately became a ‘death list’. So the Indonesians were looking for Roger East when they invaded, needing to remove this last remaining witness. ...

My thread yesterday about Hitler, his knowing that he would have to be a Christian hypocrite for political advantage, would also need influential Christian leaders to succeed. For Hitler, this was Gerhard Kittel, the German theologian. He proposed extermination of the Jews.

I briefly mentioned Jerry Falwell. Far right conservative activists Ed McAteer and Paul Weyrich we’re regarded as radicals. There group was to change the existing power structure, but they wanted to change what conservative meant. Weyrich was the man with the vision. He was

known as the “evil genius” of the 1980 manifesto “The New Right: We’re Ready to Lead.” They would establish themselves first as the opposition, then the alternative, finally the government. They would weaken existing institutions and eventually destroy them. First they would

maintain a constant barrage of the left, a constant attack on the legitimacy of the left, “we will not give them a moments rest, we will use guerrilla tactics to undermine all legitimacy of the left. Weyrich stated that he wanted a country and voting changed “I don’t want

everybody to vote.” Continuing “As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.” The core of the concerns was the perception that American capitalism was under threat from internal and external enemies. The civil rights

The 1918 -1919 pandemic originated most likely in Kansas, USA. Early March 1918 an outbreak of an unknown illness was recorded in fort Riley, Funston, Kansas. Remember the place and the time.

By late spring/ early summer the illness has spread but was generally mild and almost unnoticed by the public. The US had mobilized troops to join WWI in Europe and a lot of illness spread to a lot of places. For the USA the mortality curve looks something like this

It was the second peak in October that was much more deadly than the first one. An interesting theory is, this was caused by a drug from #Bayer. In 1918 it was heavily advertised and the US Surgeon General recommended a regime of aspirin on 9/15, repeated by the American medical

assocoation on 10/5, for a dosis that we now know is toxic. #Salicylate poisoning is well documented to lead to pulmonary edema and decreased O2 in the blood. The lungs become vulnerable to bacterial pneumonia. #Asperin sales more than doubled in 1918.

Let's jump to the study perfomed in 2008, where our well known Dr #Fauci (CDC,USA and formed head of Covid19 taskforce) was one of the co-authors.They examined autopsy reports, pathological and bacteriological data and concluded the vast

[Thread] Mobile Launch Platforms are some of my favourite pieces of ground support equipment, so here's a closer look at the Saturn V MLPs with some images from the archive.

The first MLP began construction in July of 1963. The first image here is from late 1963 shows the construction areas just north of the VAB site for MLPs 1 & 2. The second image is a closer look at one of the MLPs in early 1964.

These two images from early 1964 show part of the mount mechanisms that would support the MLPs as they were constructed. Just the size of these alone starts to put things in to perspective!

As the first tower began to grow taller in May of 1964, the first Crawler Transporter (Image 3 and foreground of image 2) began to take shape.

A view of the launch platform itself as it was still being built in July of 1964. The launch platform covered an area close to half an acre.

Couldn't sleep throughout the night, and wouldn't want to waste away time on random imaginations, so in my adventure of learning something new every day, I burst into Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazer's fight of 1975 in Manila..

a hell of a great match! But I learned something in the fight and I try to apply it to life's reality.

Muhammad Ali started the fight in his way, throwing punches and jabs at Joe with anger, hoping to knock him out in time due to the mutual hatred they had for each other,

but it never worked. Joe on the other end was just catching the cruise, taking his time to save energy, the round was gone another started, the punches were going and coming in a supplying and demanding manner, it was heating up,

Ali's strategy was cautioned by the referee, after being called to by Joe Frazer's coach, Eddie Futch, how he rests on his opponent's shoulder to catch some breath and then attack.

Still heating up till the second to last round, faces were bruised, blood splashed,

legs were tired, faces were swollen...

Then the lesson👇

THE RISE OF KHALISTANI SLOGANS
In 1980's and early 90's, The demand of Khalistan in Punjab was at peak. B/w 1979 - 1989, 5000 civilians were killed in Punjab by Pro Khalistani Terrorists. In 1990 - 1991, more than 5,058 civilians and hundreds of police personnel were killed.

This was the worst period of voilence in Punjab, Militants and Pakistanis were claiming that Punjab had liberated zones. These zones existed in the regions of Punjab called "MAJHA", which was the worst effected district of Punjab.

On 30 September 1990, around 200 Pro Khalistani Militants attacked BALWINDER SINGH SANDHU'S house and the security provided by State Government ran out of fear. Undaunted, the Sandhu brothers and their wives fought the terrorists with their pistols and sten guns

provided by the Government. The resistance shown by the Sandhu brothers and their family members forced the terrorists to retreat.
Family has displayed courage and bravery of a high order in facing the attack of the terrorists and foiling their repeated murderous attempts.

Mr. BALWINDER SINGH SANDHU & Mr. RANJIT SINGH SANDHU along with their wives Mrs. JAGDISH KAUR & Mrs. BALRAJ KAUR was attacked around 20 times in between 1988 - 1991.

How important are historians in achieving historical reconciliation? [THREAD] #History #historian #politics

1. Reparations agreements are a prominent and relevant example of historians being at the forefront of historical reconciliation. As they often involve monetary gains for one party from the other over memory and victimization.

2. Historians are at the forefront of presenting the state with so-called historical 'ammo' to legitimize the request of reparations. This could however be seen as a source of increased tensions, and could lead to an increase of nationalism and hatred due to negative memories.

3. However, a more definitively positive aspect of historical conciliation can also increasingly be seen due to evidence newly uncovered by historians.

4. For instance, as a result of the publishing of Jan Gross’s Neighbors in 2001, Polish president Kwasniewski issued an apology for the murder of 1,600 Jews who were killed by
their neighbors 60 years earlier in Jedwabne.

#tdih 1951, Paul Robeson submitted a petition (edited by William Patterson) to the U.N. titled, “We Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government Against the Negro People,” signed by almost 100 U.S. intellectuals and activists.

With the Cold War raging, the U.S. gov't maneuvered to prevent the U.N. Commission on Human Rights from formally debating or even considering the charges brought in the petition.

[One of countless examples of the white supremacist goals/purpose of "Cold War" and McCarthyism.]

U.S. corporate media gave scant coverage to the petition or the crimes it documented. The few Gov't officials who commented on the petition described it as “Communist propaganda.” Elsewhere in world [& in US Black press] it was well received & extensively covered in the press.

As the Black Freedom Movement gathered strength in the following years, Cold War geo-politics influenced [and justified to public] Washington's reaction to major events like the sit-ins, Freedom Rides, voting rights organizing, and so on.

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On return to U.S, Patterson's passport was seized, he could no longer speak to foreign audiences. Robeson was prevented from leaving U.S. They & other CRC leaders were harassed & persecuted by FBI & other federal agencies for rest of their lives.

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Exodus 30:17-21 Then the Lord spoke to Moses. He said, “Make a large bronze bowl for washing. Make a bronze stand to put it on. Place the bowl between the Tent of Meeting and the altar. Put water in it. “Aaron and his sons must wash their hands and feet