CATASTROPHISTS: THE VULCANS TABLE OF CONTENTS |
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And The Ship Sails On,
directed by Federico Fellini -- Mouth of the Mountain Vignette
Libby was a
Vulcan,* one of the Bush team hard-liners, along with former Deputy
Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice,
who helped the President cram for foreign policy debates during the 2000
campaign and who had argued for years that the U.S. should depose Iraqi
leader Saddam Hussein and bring democracy and stability to the Middle
East. [* The group gave itself the nickname the Vulcans, for the Roman god
of fire. For more details, see Rise of the Vulcans, by James Mann.] ***
Explosives
are a mixture of fuel and oxygen. Thousands of years ago, the Chinese
discovered that a mixture of charcoal, sulphur and potassium nitrate burns
at a rapid rate. Sulphur and charcoal are the fuel and potassium nitrate
provides the oxygen. The Chinese used this mixture for fireworks.
Eventually, it was also used as gunpowder and bombs. Potassium nitrate is
a fertilizer. Our ancestors found
it in caves. It's produced by bacteria as they decompose organic
material. Sulphur can be found near volcanoes. This mixture is
still used in fuses and fireworks. But the military has switched to a more
destructive explosive in which oxygen is attached directly to the
hydrocarbon molecule. Nitroglycerin and TNT are examples. *** [Thierry Meyssan
of Reseau Voltaire of Paris] reported that his research team attempted to
determine what network might have been behind the 9/11 attacks. His prime
suspect was a group he called the "special forces underground," a
terrorist network associated with US-controlled stay-behind networks of
the Gladio type which in his opinion maintained close ties to Bin Laden
among others. ***
Ptah, the Vulcan of the Egyptians Catholic
traditionalist Patrick Buchanan showed some awareness of this same
restlessness and desire for new conflicts among the neocons during the
1999-2000 presidential campaign, when he commented that he was alarmed by
the clique around candidate G. W. Bush -- a reference to the neocon group
that pretentiously and ignorantly called itself the "Vulcans." In a
speech about foreign policy, Buchanan noted that he had worked with some
of these neocons in previous administrations, and that he now found them
consumed by nostalgia for the Cold War, and therefore very likely to
pursue "conflict," "intervention," "confrontation," and "bullying."
Vulcan, or Hephaestos, was of course the Graeco-Roman god of volcanoes,
fire, and the smithy. He was married to Venus, but she betrayed him in
favor of Mars, the god of war. So Vulcan was a cuckold of Mars, as our
ignorant and pretentious Vulcans seem to have forgotten. ***
Several stories tell that
Hephaestus, unhappy in marriage, turned his attention to Athena, who also
spurned him. In fact, he fell in love with her the moment he released her
from Zeus' head, and again when she came to his forge, seeking for him to
make for her a spear. When he tried to initiate intercourse, Athena
rejected him, and he spilled his seed upon her leg. As she fled, his sperm
fell on the earth, and resulted in the birth of Erichtonius, who was
initially carried in Gaia's womb.
Athena Scorning the Advances of Hephaestus by Paris Bordone ***
There is a play to-night before the
king; ***
That face of his I do remember well; ***
Ay, Greek; and that shall be divulged well ***
If on the other hand -- though it's
blasphemy even to mention it, and I devoutly hope that such a thing will
never happen to make the point -- if you were to despoil the head of even
the most beautiful of women of its hair and rob her face of its natural
adornment, though she had come down from heaven, though she had been born
from the sea and reared among the waves, I say though she were Venus
herself, escorted by her choir of all the Graces and the whole tribe of
Cupids, wearing her cestus, fragrant with cinnamon and dripping with
perfumes -- if she were bald, not even her Vulcan would love her. ***
'On Friday and Saturday nights,' Coleman remembers, 'my
friend Walton Kimbrough and me went cruising in his '53 Mercury, parking
at Pig Trail Inn, elbows out the window, listening to Dave Roddy on the
radio, sipping cherry Cokes and eating Bar-B-Cues. We'd cruise up Red
Mountain, beneath the bare bottom of Vulcan Statue, past WYDE radio
and into five points south, giving the royal digit salute to every blue
Ramsey High jacket we saw. ***
Vulcan Park is home to the world's
largest cast iron statue and features spectacular panoramic views of
Birmingham. Located atop Red Mountain, Vulcan Park tells the story of
Birmingham's past, present and promise for the future. Vulcan, the Roman
god of fire and forge, was originally built in 1904 and has stood as a
symbol of Birmingham for over 100 years. A 10-acre urban green space
surrounds the 56' high statue and observation balcony that sits upon a
124' pedestal. ***
Post World War II Motorcycle
Models ***
Agni is a Hindu
deity. The word agni is Sanskrit for "fire" (noun), cognate with Latin
ignis Ignite. In Hinduism, he is a deva, second only to Indra in the power and
importance attributed to him in Vedic mythology. He is Indra's twin, and
therefore a son of Dyaus Pita and Prthivi. He has ten mothers, or ten
sisters, or ten maidservants, who represent the ten fingers of the man who
lights the fire. He has two parents: these represent the two sticks which,
when rubbed together swiftly, create fire (called a fire drill). In Hindu
art, Agni is represented as red and two-faced (sometimes covered with
butter), suggesting both his destructive and beneficent qualities, and
with black eyes and hair, three legs and seven arms. He rides a ram, or a
chariot pulled by goats or, more rarely, parrots. Seven rays of light
emanate from his body. ***
Agni Yoga, also called the "Teaching of
Living Ethics" or (in Russian) the Zhivaya Etica, is an esoteric teaching
founded by the Russian painter Nicholas Roerich (Nikolai Konstantinovitch
Rerikh) and his highly adept empathic wife, Helena Roerich (Elena Ivanovna
Rerikh). Inspired by the Vedic traditions,as well as by Buddhism and
writings of H.P. BlavatskyTheosophical, the Roerichs published the "Agni
Yoga" series of books, with contents inspired by the Mahatmas, or Masters
of the Great White Brotherhood from their stronghold in the Himalayas,
Shambhala. Agni means "fire" in Sanskrit, and is the name of a Vedic
deity. As used by the Roerichs, it refers to a spiritual fire within the
heart, or psychic energy, which is seen as the main force on which all of
life is based, and may and should be refined and cultivated. ***
Agni mantra
helps you to become hot, sexy, attractive, it brings fire in all what you
do. When your inner fire is on and burning well, it means you have energy
and it shows as good health, beauty and a bright, sparkling personality.
Since energy equivalent to money, the more energy you have, the more money
you can make, so Agni mantra brings you wealth. Recite this mantra for
purification of mind and prana, to burn fat and toxins in your body and to
clear your vision, or any time you need more fire in your life. ***
Agni
In May
1989, India test-fired its first intermediate-range ballistic missile, the
Agni. It is a two-stage missile with the first stage using the first-stage
solid-fuel booster motor of the SLV-3 satellite launch vehicle. This
marked the first time that India had used directly a component of its
civilian space research program for military purposes. ***
The "Salon des Vulcan." In it was a
fauteuil of a strange form. The moment one sat in it, one was snuck
a heavy blow. The person sank backwards with outstretched legs,
which were fastened to the sides. This chair was a discovery of Sire
de Fronsac, son of the Duke of Richelieu, and served him as a faithful aid
to seduction. The Salon des Vulcan was so situated that the crying
and wailing could not be heard outside the room. This mechanization
of vice will also be found in de Sade's writings. ***
Several of Allen Jones's prints, sculptures
and paintings explore the tension between male and female. These two
fused figures express the Jungian notion that truly creative art
requires both feminine and masculine characteristics. It can thus be read
as a metaphorical self-portrait of Jones's own artistic quest. The
overtly erotic female imagery is characteristic of much of Jones's later
work, such as 'Chair' (in the Tate), which is a lifesize sculpture of a
woman sado-masochistically bound to form a seat. *** The Vulcan greeting is based upon a blessing gesture used by the kohanim (koe-hah-NEEM) during the worship service. The kohanim are the genealogical descendants of the Jewish priests who served in the Jerusalem Temple. Modern Jews no longer have priests leading services as in ancient times, nor do we have animal sacrifices anymore. (Yes, people really do ask about that!) The sacrificial system ended with the destruction of the Temple by the Romans in the year 70. C.E. However, a remnant of the Temple service lives on in the "kohane blessing" ritual (duchenen in Yiddish) that is performed on certain holy days. The actual blessing is done with both arms held horizontally in front, at shoulder level, with hands touching, to form the Hebrew letter "shin." This stands for the Hebrew word for "Shaddai", meaning "Almighty [God]." Contrary to urban legend, Nimoy was not
violating any Jewish taboos by using this gesture on Star Trek, especially
since he modified it from the original version. I, for one, think it's
absolutely wonderful that something so authentically Jewish has become
universally recognized as a greeting of peace. More than anything
else in Trekdom, the Vulcan salute says to me, "Here there be Jews." ***
Black Gobi, by Nicholas Roerich
The fourth week
was, to be frank about it, definitely bizarre. Canvera discoursed at
length on the lost civilization that once existed in the Gobi Desert and
denounced those, such as Brion Gysin, who believed it had destroyed itself
in atomic war. Rather, he asserted, it had been obliterated when the
Illuminati arrived from the planet Vulcan in flying saucers. "Remember
the Alamo" was now replaced by "Remember Carcosa," Canvera having
discerned that both Ambrose Bierce and H. P. Lovecraft were describing
this tragic Gobian society in their fiction. The hippies were again
delighted — this was the funky kind of trip that had originally made
Canvera a mock folk hero among them — and they especially appreciated
his call for the U.S. to abandon the next moon shot and launch a punitive
expedition to Vulcan both to wipe out Illuminism at its source and to
avenge poor Carcosa. The WHORE regulars, however, were again upset; all
that concern with Carcosa struck them as creeping one-worldism. *** At 11:45 Ingolstadt time the
loudspeakers and the sign over the stage announced the American Medical
Association. After a ten-minute ovation, the four strange-eyed, ash-blond
young people began to play their most popular song, "Age of Bavaria." (In
Los Angeles the Mercalli scale on the UCLA seismograph jumped abruptly to
grade 1. "Gonna be a little disturbance," Dr. Vulcan Troll said calmly,
noting the rise. Grade 1 wasn't serious.) ***
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Although Charter
is not a financial behemoth, with the total value of all its outstanding
common stock under half a billion, it has one important stockholder whose
personal finances dwarf those of our tiny burg. The largest holder
of Charter stock is Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who has acquired
29,165,526 shares. Allen's interest in Charter is as current as his
rumored romance with former Countess von Bismarck Laura Harring. He
is a mighty chieftain of the business world who invests seven and esight-figure
sums in various companies through Vulcan Securities, a private
investment house dedicated entirely to investing Allen's money.
Like all investment houses, Vulcan pays big salaries to MBAs and CAPs to
produce intensive financial reports on prospective investments.
Strange Days on Planet Earth, by National Geographic, Vulcan Productions, Narrated by Edward Norton Vulcan Productions, by Vulcan Productions Team
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