peace, love, Art

"In the 11th century, chronicler Adam of Bremen recorded in a scholion of his Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum that a statue of Thor, whom Adam describes as "mightiest", sat enthroned in the Temple at Uppsala (located in Gamla Uppsala, Sweden) flanked by Wodan (Odin) and "Fricco". Regarding Odin, Adam defines him as "frenzy" (Wodan, id est furor) and says that he "rules war and gives people strength against the enemy" and that the people of the temple depict him as wearing armor, "as our people depict Mars". 

According to Adam, the people of Uppsala had appointed priests (gothi) to each of the gods, who were to offer up sacrifices (blót), and in times of war sacrifices were made to images of Odin."

(blotgodi.)

beautiful painting by Natalie, 1999.

happy solstice 2017. peace, love, and Art.

world is watching democracy fight back with passive direct action

Stats from the past month and today, showing how "Russia" has quit scanning this blog after I called it out by posting stats showing heavy traffic during the fraud election season of 2016. Very telling. My intuition was correct.

Also, of interest to Surreal: look at how one can connect with the world by merely sharing content online. One doesn't need to bodily transport in expensive jet airplanes to engage in other cultures. I am obscure, but not without intent.

FDR, International Platform Association, Jack Anderson, free speech

https://www.scribd.com/document/156116014/IPA-Retrospective-By-Eleanor-H-Whitehead
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Anderson_(columnist)

"Among his exposés was reporting the Nixon administration's investigation and harassment of John Lennon during its fight to deport Lennon, the Israeli search for fugitive ex-Nazi officials in South America, and the savings and loan crisis. He revealed the history of a CIA plot to assassinate Fidel Castro,[2] and was credited for breaking the story of the Iran–Contra affair under President Reagan. "
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Anderson feuded with FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover in the 1950s, when he exposed the scope of the Mafia, a threat that Hoover had long downplayed. Hoover's retaliation and continual harassment lasted into the 1970s.[6] Hoover once described Anderson as "lower than the regurgitated filth of vultures."[7]
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"Anderson told his staff, "Let's do to Hoover what he does to others."[8] Anderson had his people go through Hoover's garbage, a tactic that the FBI used in its surveillance of political dissidents. Anderson's revelations about Hoover tipped the attitudes of the public and the press toward the FBI director"

Reagan letter to International Platform Association 1984

https://www.scribd.com/document/156116014/IPA-Retrospective-By-Eleanor-H-Whitehead