Open thread 11/3/23
YouTube keeps recommending these acrobatic gymnastics videos, and I keep being gobsmacked by them:
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YouTube keeps recommending these acrobatic gymnastics videos, and I keep being gobsmacked by them:
And I keep enjoying them. Glad you do this.
All of this.
As it’s open thread story time:
When I was running my troop, we got the opportunity to see The Mongolian Circus. Very entertaining and pretty remarkable.
One such remarkable was their strong man and they did not exaggerate. Part of his routine was manhandling an obvious telephone pole. Hopefully detarred. The guy was built like a fire hydrant.
The last thing he did was to hold that pole balanced across his shoulders while 5,4,3,2,1 other performers bounded, vaulted and climbed up on him in a pyramid.
That’s a pole and 15 people on this guy’s shoulders. Then, of course, he started rotating with all aboard.
They then dramatically debarked as well.
The rest of the circus was just as impressive, especially the 10+ galloping horse riders.
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Holy smokes. (re gymnastics vid)
Strong and graceful, very impressive.
Those are awesome!
RE: UFOs—ARRO plays the game
As I’ve written here before, the U.S. government/DOD has been aware of and studying UFOs since at least as far back as the beginning of WWII, when pilots—apparently of all nations–started to notice “Foo fighters”–white orbs which often paced and maneuvered around their aircraft.
Then, over the next eight decades there were a number of what were, in reality, debunking efforts, via a number of different publicly established committees which were supposedly objectively evaluating UFOs but which were, in fact, intended to tamp down public interest in UFOs, to tell the public that UFOs were illusory, with the implication that those who saw and reported such things were either mistaken, deluded, publicity seekers or, perhaps, even crazy.
Meanwhile, all the while, from the occasional FOIA’d government document, it seems as if the government has been very concerned about, collecting information on, studying, and even interacting with UFOs.
In 80 or so years you can accumulate a hell of a lot of data on UFOs.
According to the legislation which created ARRO, every government agency which has information on UFOs was supposed to make that information available to AARO. (However, whistleblower David Grusch says that AARO was never “read into” the extremely secret, deeply buried crash retrieval and reverse engineering programs which he discovered existed.)
A year plus after AARO was created it has now, finally, put up a website where current or former government or contractor employees can inform AARO of any information they may have on UFOs, or about UFO programs which they have knowledge of, or have worked on.
P.S.–Some people who have first hand knowledge of these buried, secret UFO crash retrieval and reverse engineering programs have said that they have gone to AARO with this information, yet, DOD and AARO and its head, Dr. Shaun Kirkpatrick, keep saying that they have found “no credible information” that UFOs are of extraterrestrial origin.
I also note that one of ARRO’s missions was to set up rapid response teams, which were to conduct on site investigations of apparent UFO activities.
There have been reports in the past that ARRO has been very understaffed, and I wonder if any such rapid response teams have ever been established, or have gone out and done any on site investigations?
I’ve listened to parts of several of Dana Loesch’s shows in the last few weeks. To say she gives a spirited defense of Israel is an understatement. However one point she hits repeatedly is that Palestine is an invented word by the emperor Hadrian to denote this area after the Romans defeated the Jews 2,000 years ago and he meant it as a derogatory, even mocking term. This seems to me to be not an important point and is just semantics. However I’m asking anyone reading this if this really is an important distinction. My knowledge of the history of this area is limited.
Wish I would have known and seen the Circus while I was in Mongolia.
We saw Acrobats while in China. They were amazing too.
Now the administration is starting to show their true intentions after 4 weeks of “supporting” Israel. Pressure for a ceasefire. Fortunately, Israel told them to pound sand.
https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/israel-hamas-war-november-3
Snow On Pines,
Perhaps you should set up a blog or Substack site on this subject?
House PASSES Israel Stand Alone Bill For Emergency Aid
Bravo! Your move, Chuck/Mitch.
chazzand:
I agree that it’s just a detail, although its point is that the “Palestinian people” is a recent invention.
For the second time I have seen the allegation that slavery either started in Rome or that it started with the Africans selling slaves to Rome.
Serious ignorance.
The last place I saw such comment, I listed a number of empires that predated Rome and asked if there were no slaves in those empires.
The state of history education is absolutely appalling in this country.
Stuart Varney was going on this morning on Fox Business about the growing split among Democrats over the Hamas war. Presidential candidate Rep. Dean Phillips had a hard time in a Democrat gathering in New Hampshire over his support for Israel. People were shouting for a ceasefire.
Song is preferable to dance.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bzIVYyVNUY
Jon Baker, you would think these idiots would do a 5 second web search.
From Wikipedia
“ The Code of Ur-Nammu, the oldest known surviving law code, written c. 2100 – 2050 BCE, includes laws relating to slaves during the Third Dynasty of Ur in Sumerian Mesopotamia. It states that a slave that marries cannot be forced to leave the household and that the bounty for returning a slave who has escaped the city is two shekels.[2] It reveals that there were at least two major social strata at the time: those free and those enslaved.”
The young women in that video display a truly amazing level of both grace and strength.
Other events are commanding our attention for now. But old events seen in greater detail are popping up.
One such story of J6 is Ray Epps and the recent, very minor wristslap sentence he was given following his obsequious testimony to the Pelosi House Committee investigating J6. And now “Lara Logan Releases Footage of Ray Epps Whispering They Need to ‘Storm the Capitol’ “ surfaces:
Video compilation – https://rumble.com/v3ti5lb-lara-logan-releases-footage-of-ray-epps-whispering-they-need-to-storm-the-c.html
How did Epps repeat the Trump=insurrectionist story-line adopted by the Ruling Class Propagandists before the riot even occurred? An informed guess? Or uninformed?
SEE minute 15. Lara leaves her video with a cliffhanger after 18 minutes, promising a new video to drop next week.
IrishOtter49–Thanks for the suggestion, but I looked at Substack and, it’s not for me.
I am content to comment anonymously here, and hope that my frequent comments on the subject of UFOs does not annoy too many other commenters.
That is the reason I start my posts on the subject line RE: UFO, which I assume allows those who are totally uninterested in this subject to just pass on by, and go on to the next comment.
Over the years here I have commented on a wide range of subjects.
It just happens that I’ve come to the conclusion that–based on the observations–the hard “data” that our military and others have observed about UFOs and their performance–they are a very real and enormously game changing phenomena which–in my estimation–among the myriad of other important and urgent issues of the day–we are paying far too little attention to and, in addition, that we risk having our attention deliberately diverted away from, as it has been for the last 70 or 80 years.
The reality of UFOs (recently admitted to by our government), is that they are demonstrating technology far, far more advanced than any nation on Earth currently possesses (although observing what UFOs can do is giving some of the few scientists who are paying attention to this phenomena hints about how they do it. As someone has said, once you know that something can be done, you are halfway there, towards being able to find out how to do it yourself).
Logically this extremely highly advanced technology means that UFOs are very likely to be operated or directed by some Non Human Intelligence (NHI) and/or an Alien created AI (thus the Senate passed UAP amendment sponsored by Senator Schumer and other Senators to 2024 NDAA legislation currently being considered by Congress, which so prominently refers to NHIs), and when this is admitted, and truly realized, this will change everything; we will be in a radically different and enormously expanded world.
Far too many of us are walking around, heads down, looking at what’s happening on the ground, when we need to be looking up, at what is happening in the sky.
Thus, my continual posts on this subject.
I could be wrong about all this, but I obviously don’t think so.
Perhaps this Word History of Philistine, from https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Philistine, will be of interest. I apologize for the length.
}}}YouTube keeps recommending these acrobatic gymnastics videos, and I keep being gobsmacked by them
So you’re watching them… Didn’t you note a day or two back that YT’s algorithm notes what you’ve watched and tries to give you more of the same? 😀
It’s not bad. That kind of thing is done all the time in cheerleading competitions, though. You should hunt up a few of those. 😛 Don’t get me wrong, it’s impressive as eph, but it’s not all that surprising that they can do it.
OBloody:
I noticed the recommendation algorithm many years ago. I may only have written about it recently, though.
I’ve also watched many cheerleading videos courtesy of YouTube, and I’ve never seen anything to rival this video, especially in an all-female performance. It’s usually one man holding up one woman, or even many men, and with all-female competition the female base is never one person, as in this video, but rather it’s many women on the bottom.
In contrast, this video features one female with one female on top of her and then another female on top of that. That is what makes this so impressive – the astounding strength. And cheerleaders don’t even begin to have this flexibility – especially the back flexibility of the smaller girl. Nor do they have the intricate poses (one arm or one leg) on which the whole edifice is sometimes balanced.
John Solomon has the scoop on important FISA surveillance changes designed to finally protect American’s civil liberties.
This redress will correct holes from The Patriot Act that the Deep Stae has driven SWAT trucks through. House Judiciary chairman James Jordan spills the beans on these matters in Solomon’s weekly podcast on Friday night.
Passage of these reforms in the House is expected before the end of the year. Jordan reports to support for these changes is bipartisan.
MORE FROM JustTheNews:
House Judiciary Committee Republicans are pressing ahead with sweeping reforms to the government’s FISA surveillance powers that among other things would would prohibit the FBI from searching through Americans’ phone records without a court-approved warrant.
The effort is on track to be wrapped up by the end of the year when several Patriot Act powers expire. Republicans and Democrats are coming together on this matter in rare bipartisan cooperation, lawmakers told Just the News.
“We’ve got, I think, strong agreement amongst members of the Intel Committee and members of the Judiciary Committee. And frankly some Democrats as well, that there needs to be stronger penalties if you abuse the system,” Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, told the “Just the News, No Noise” television show in an interview aired Friday night.
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/house-gop-crafting-major-fisa-reform-block-snooping-americans-phone-records