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Open thread 10/21/23 — 17 Comments

  1. I agree with this.

    “Most if not all of Gazan society has collaborated with Hamas over nearly two decades to turn that polity into the most hellish place on Earth, with a culture that is utterly dominated by Jew-hatred. . . . Gazan “civilians,” assuming there are any, need to experience the full wrath of Israel’s revenge. . . . Israel must kill everyone who is associated with Hamas in any way, so that that organization will never rise again. But the first order of business should be revenge against the Gazans who for years have been working to exterminate Israel’s Jews. And it should begin now.”

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  3. WAY-cool Cohen number. Thanks.

    In ’68, returning alone from my first European trip, I was in a JFK fastfood restaurant carrying a melodica I’d bought in Geneva. The restaurant was over-crowded. A very large black woman had a baby who was crying and screaming to everyone’s discomfort. An extremely pretty woman, dressed rather oddly, like an Indian squaw, with a long, long ponytail, came up to the woman, got permission, and took the baby in her arms. Almost instantly it settled down; some patrons applauded. Then she spotted me with my melodica, came over, and asked me if I could play it. Yes, I said. Would I play it for her? Well…alright. So we left the restaurant, found an out-of-the-way nook, and I played Greensleeves for her. She said she was Canadian, an actress, and had a husband named Peter Ustinov. Did I know him? Yes. She spoke almost reverentially of his gifts, but made it clear that being married to him could be far from easy, as in somewhat suffocating. She asked whether I knew the Leonard Cohen song, ‘Suzanne’. Yes. She said she was a friend of his, and that he had written it for her. Some yrs ago I looked that up, and it turned out, oddly, not to be true — the actual ‘Suzanne’ was ID’d, and wasn’t my Suzanne. Nevertheless, I also learned and saw that the woman who asked me to play indeed had been married to peerless, polyglot Peter. And man, she was one good-looking woman. I was 21. Fun!

    If you’ve never listened to An Audience With Peter Ustinov, do yourself a favor.

  4. Note for Neo: two of today’s threads are being spammed with work-from-home schemes by someone named Alla (won’t mention what that pseudonym reminds me of).

  5. @ Le Mot Juste – I have a melodica, which is quite fun to play. Picture a tube letting you blow into the melody keyboard of an accordion, sounding like a mega-upsized harmonica.
    https://instruments.fandom.com/wiki/Melodica

    Music old and new.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_PzG_qbn8U
    “Bach Cello Suite 1 on Wooden Melodica – circular breathing”
    (Circular breathing is also required for playing the didgeridoo. I gave up trying to learn to play that instrument some years ago.)

    https://happymag.tv/melodica/
    “8 iconic tracks that showcase the melodica in all its glory”

    I would love to have met Ustinov, so I will try to track down that Audience (drop a link here if you have one).

  6. RE: The drip, drip, drip of UFO Disclosure

    In the very detailed and comprehensive Schumer UAP Amendment to the 2024 NDAA there is discussion of a “Controlled Disclosure Campaign Plan” for revealing UAP information, and I believe that what we are currently seeing in operation is just such a slow—drip, drip, drip—form of disclosure, one of whose main conduits is the DOD’s Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review (DOPSA), which allowed AF and IC whistleblower David Grusch to allege and outline—in TV interviews, and under oath to Congress–a rogue, deeply buried, highly classified and secret, several decade’s long government and aerospace contractor program of UFO crash retrieval, and reverse engineering, coupled with a parallel disinformation campaign.

    Then, we have the new, October 2023 book titled, “Inside the U.S. Government Covert UFO Program: Initial Revelations,” co-authored by Dr. Colm A. Kelleher, George Knapp, and Dr. James T. Lacatski–who was in charge of the DIA’s AAWSAP UFO research program—in which DOPSA allowed him to recount a 2011 (so, 12 years ago) Capitol Hill conversation with a Senator, and agency Under Secretary, in what sounds like a SCIF, in which Lacatski told them that the U.S. was in possession of a craft of unknown origin, and had been able to get access to inside the craft, saying further that,

    “‘This craft had a streamlined configuration suitable for aerodynamic flight but no intakes, exhaust, wings, or control surfaces. In fact, it appeared not to have an engine, fuel tanks, or fuel.

    And Lacatski asked: What was the purpose of this craft? Was it a life-support craft useful only for atmospheric reentry or what? If it was a spacecraft, then how did it operate?’ “*

    One wonders what startling new additional information about UFOs DOPSA will allow Lou Elizondo to reveal in his forthcoming book.

    * See the first page of Chapter 9 of “Inside the U.S. Government Covert UFO Program: Initial Revelations” at https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Government-Covert-UFO-Program-ebook/dp/B0CKLZ2NLR

  7. RE: What counts as useful Data in UFO research?

    While scientists (for instance, like those at NASA) insist that to apply the “scientific method” to the UAP/UFP phenomenon they require repeatable incidents, this approach makes what I believe to be a mistake by ignoring individual observations as not being useful.

    I would argue, for instance, that the apparently vast quantity of world-wide observations of the UFO phenomena over many decades is in itself a piece of useful data and, moreover, that individual observations of UFOs, and the incidents related to them, can be evaluated to eliminate misidentifications of prosaic items, leaving a valuable residue to be subjected to more attention and analysis.

    According to the new October 2023 book by co-authors Dr. James T. Lacatski, Dr Colm A. Kelleher and George Knapp, titled, “Inside the U.S. Government Covert UFO Program: Initial Revelations,” the searchable but as yet not publicly available “Data Warehouse” created (apparently by Jacques Vallee) by AAWSAP/BASS is the largest database of “scrubbed” UFO data–60 years of world-wide data about “advanced aerial technology maneuvers” ever assembled. *

    If this is so, what hasn’t AARO, for instance, or any other organization interested in researching UFOs, paid attention to, or apparently said anything about acquiring, accessing, and finding some way to use this data?

    * See https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Government-Covert-UFO-Program-ebook/dp/B0CKLZ2NLR

  8. Open Thread Sunday: Russo-Ukraine war

    Game changers in Ukraine – Evaluating ATACMS, Lancet & systems that changed the war (or didn’t) – Perun

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z630Rt1mTs

    Timestamps
    00:00:00 — Game Changers
    00:01:30 — What Am I Talking About?
    00:02:17 — Understanding “Game Changers”
    00:08:41 — Javelin (and Other ATGMS)
    00:15:50 — HIMARS, GMLRS & TOS-1A
    00:26:34 — ATACMS
    00:39:58 — the Lancet
    00:49:58 — Leopards & Terminators
    01:00:47 — Reflecting on “Game Changers”
    01:03:07 — Conclusion
    01:04:22 — Channel Update

  9. And a tremendous blow to journalism:
    The courageous Turkish journalist Burak Bekdil killed in an auto accident.
    “Mourning Burak Bekdil”—
    https://www.meforum.org/65061/mourning-burak-bekdil
    Key grafs:
    ‘ The Middle East Forum sadly reports the unexpected death yesterday of Burak Bekdil. A Turkish journalist…he died from injuries sustained in a traffic accident.

    ‘ Born in Ankara in 1966, Bekdil worked for twenty-nine years at Hürriyet, a leading Turkish daily newspaper, until his firing for fearless coverage of Turkey’s Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s anti-Western, anti-Israel, and pro-Russian actions. He also covered Turkey for Defense News since 1997, was previously Ankara bureau chief for Dow Jones Newswires and CNBC-e TV, and wrote for the Gatestone Institute…..

    ‘ Bekdil’s final reporting exposed the mendacity and cynicism of Erdogan’s initial calls for mutual restraint from Israelis and Gazans in the aftermath of the October 7 Hamas massacre of 1,400 Israelis. In a two-part series…he quoted copiously from Turkey’s top newspapers and news stations and Erdogan himself to demonstrate that Erdogan’s “fanatical anti-Israel legacy” had “poisoned an already xenophobic society.” Israel, said Erdogan, is “behaving like a [terrorist] organization, not like a state.” In like spirit, media outlets claimed that “Zionists targeted journalists.”….

    ‘ Such unvarnished reporting would make Bekdil stand out anywhere. In Turkey, which has imprisoned the most journalists of any country, it signaled remarkable bravery and truth-telling. He will be sorely missed….’

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