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“The oldest extant Hydra narrative appears in Hesiod’s Theogony, while the oldest images of the monster are found on a pair of bronze fibulae dating to c. 700 BCE. In both these sources, the main motifs of the Hydra myth are already present: a multi-headed serpent that is slain by Heracles and Iolaus…. the monster’s capacity to regenerate lost…[Read more]

“The Hydra had many parallels in ancient Near Eastern religions. In particular, Sumerian, Babylonian, and Assyrian mythology celebrated the deeds of the war and hunting god Ninurta, whom the Angrim credited with slaying 11 monsters on an expedition to the mountains, including a seven-headed serpent (possibly identical with the Mushmahhu) and…[Read more]

“Eurystheus sent Heracles to slay the Hydra, which Hera had raised just to slay Heracles. Upon reaching the swamp near Lake Lerna, where the Hydra dwelt, Heracles covered his mouth and nose with a cloth to protect himself from the poisonous fumes. He shot flaming arrows into the Hydra’s lair, the spring of Amymone, a deep cave from which it…[Read more]

So if McCain is the Hydra, who’s playing Hercules and Iolaus? 😉

This article fails to mention the word “opium”.

Remember this from the IMF? Two out of the three “targets” are included:
“Deutsche Bank is also a major source of systemic risk in the global financial system. The net contribution to global systemic risk is captured by the difference between the outward spillover to the system from the bank and the inward spillover to the bank from the system b…[Read more]

Since the Team Saudi spat seems to be aligned with some particular US and Israeli interests (getting their hands on world’s largest, but Iran-Qatar, owned/controlled gas field: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pars/North_Dome_Gas-Condensate_field), perhaps this spat can be viewed as part of the ongoing economic war of one US deep state…[Read more]

And here, an article on the “boom” in US natural gas sector: http://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/Natural-Gas-Prices-Poised-To-Rise-As-Exports-Boom.html

Curiouser and curiouser – see second paragraph quoted below from an RT story:
“In a joint ceremony with a local honor guard, Chinese troops last week opened their new naval base in Djibouti, a tiny nation in East Africa which already leases land to several facilities of foreign militaries. The Chinese troops are stationed right next to the…[Read more]

Well Mrs. T. accelerated the process of eliminating actual making of things of Britain to replace it with the financial “industry” – a process that the British oligarchies are rather timidly seeking ways to reverse as the population slips into poverty and conflict…

If I remember correctly.. nah..IM 1979 baby. . My births heralded the Thatchabeast .. He probably wants a return to UK being driven by US interests.. Back in the good ol’ days where Pinochet was heralded as a friend to England.. (probably for saving the Nazi’s hiding out in Argentina when the Mossad turned up in Bariloche…)

Might be interesting enough to be made mandatory for all Americans.. Get out into the world, meet new people and find out how much damage has been done.

This long article raises lots of questions and rightly goes into the issue of the extreme violence of the Japanese occupation. Which raises the question of so many cultural affinities between Japan and Korea which most people in those countries are reluctant to discuss because of the old problem of “losing face”. Anyway this type of article…[Read more]

Lots and lots and lots of times.. I thought it was a moderator somewhere not liking what I was saying.. 🙂
The worst one I had disappear was a huge post I wrote that took over 4 hours of research.. I sighed.. heroically.. and went and made more coffee..I didnt write the comment again..

Happened once or twice 😉