http://www.coverthistory.blogspot.com/

Italian poet (and blogger) Piergiorgio Welby, a victim of advanced musclular dystrophy has died at age 60, after being taken off a respirator at his own request. According to this news story he had written this on his blog:

"Dying must be like falling asleep after making love, tired, tranquil with that sense of wonder that pervades everything."

caves & river

price lake sunset

wiseman's bluff

table rock

gorge

26 miles to Lake James

trestle

linville falls

linville before the falls

closer to the water

up the creek

view from the road

wilson creek

hawkwind - welcome to the future

Welcome to the oceans in a labeled can,
Welcome to the dehydrated lands,
Welcome to the self police parade,
Welcome to the neo-golden age,
Welcome to the days you've made

occult reality

"There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven't noticed already."

-Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson, "The Illuminatus Trilogy"

neocon motto

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
- Henry Kissinger

jesse part deux

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
- Quentin Crisp

jesse

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.
- Oscar Wilde

eyes wide shut

“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”
- Ben Franklin

what will you say if your kids ask you, "What did you do to save America??"

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
—Albert Camus

Chertoff sez WWW could be terror training camp in U.S.

Disaffected people living in the United States may develop radical ideologies and potentially violent skills over the Internet and that could present the next major U.S. security threat, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said on Monday.

"We now have a capability of someone to radicalize themselves over the Internet," Chertoff said on the sidelines of a meeting of International Association of the Chiefs of Police.

"They can train themselves over the Internet. They never have to necessarily go to the training camp or speak with anybody else and that diffusion of a combination of hatred and technical skills in things like bomb-making is a dangerous combination," Chertoff said. "Those are the kind of terrorists that we may not be able to detect with spies and satellites."

Chertoff pointed to the July 7, 2005 attacks on London's transit system, which killed 56 people, as an example a home-grown threat.

To help gather intelligence on possible home-grown attackers, Chertoff said Homeland Security would deploy 20 field agents this fiscal year into "intelligence fusion centers," where they would work with local police agencies.

By the end of the next fiscal year, he said the department aims to up that to 35 staffers.

size queens

foley & bush pre-scandal, en fuego

ef em

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -Teddy Roosevelt

via: Covert History

"You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream - the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path."
- Barry Goldwater, 1964

esoteric facism

"Fascism is the supreme expression of religious mysticism," states Wilhelm Reich in The Mass Psychology of Fascism. "It transposes religion from the 'otherworldliness' of the philosophy of suffering to the 'this worldliness' of sadistic murder."

eureka

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
- Carl Jung

http://www.orthodoxcatholicchurch.org/

Let yourself be persecuted but do not persecute others; be crucified but do not crucify others; be insulted but do not insult others; be slandered but do not slander others. Rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep. Such is the sign of purity. Suffer with the sick. Be afflicted with sinners. Exult with those who repent. Be the friend of all. But in your spirit remain alone....Spread your cloak over anyone who falls into sin and shield him. And if you cannot take his fault on yourself and accept punishment in his place, do not destroy his character.
-- St. Isaac of Nineveh

where I get my information

http://rigint.blogspot.com/
http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/
http://kentroversypapers.blogspot.com/
http://www.dirtfiles.com/
http://cryptogon.com/index.html
http://revisionistreview.blogspot.com/
http://www.revisionisthistory.org/news.html
http://idleworm.com/
http://deconsumption.typepad.com/deconsumption/
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanentize_the_eschaton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Voegelin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filioque_clause
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_de_Lubac
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer

buda castle

spooky

deep in the buda castle labyrinth

statuesque

St. Mattyas

fishermen's bastion

view of pest from fishermen's bastion

Mátyás templom

apartments

cave church

view towards pest

purple moustache

ego sum via veritas et vita

"I am the way, the truth, and the life." John 14:6

rotunda ceiling

Szent Istvan Bazilika

train to budapest

Emonska Klet (former monastery cellar)

all seeing eye detail on franciscan church

noticed by April

preseren square

fish fountain

across lake bled

steps I carried April up

inside the island church

i wanted to swim out there

first imprssions of lake bled

glen

fortress

exit

coming out

looking down

church