..and China continues to foot the bill.

R.I.S

According to 1 Maccabees, during the Battle of Beth-zechariah, Eleazar identified an War elephant that carried, so he presumed, the Seleucid King Antiochus V, due to the special armor the elephant wore. He decided to endanger his life and attacked the elephant thrusting a spear into his belly. The elephant collapsed upon him, dead, thus killing him also. Despite this heroic effort, the smaller Jewish army was defeated in the battle. Josephus wrote that Eleazar, though killing many of the enemy soldiers, did not gain any real effect besides the name he made for himself. Another version of this story appears on the scroll of Antiochus, in which it is told that Eleazar was stamped by a horde of elephants.

• THE WORLD IS FLAT

VIRGO

PISCES

ARIES

Fightin it’s such a struggle and I got so far Got so far to go Don’t want to except no answers But I ain’t got nothing Got nothing to show It’s such a struggle but I gotta do it By myself Can’t except no logic so I gotta do it By myself Such a lonely path but I can’t turn my back Can’t turn my back right now See I got a role to play And I gotta fill it, gotta fill it somehow I set myself on this path and now Now it’s just too late I’d put it all aside but you see this madness Just won’t wait Talk nice things but I see I’m really I’m really overflowing with hate I’m talkin, I’m talkin but I never seem to motivate The answers you say they’re outta reach But first you gotta learn and then only can you teach You say I’m insecure but ain’t you scared of death Cause everyone’s grabbing, holding for their final breath

R.I.P. RAYBEEZ

AH POOK ‘THE DESTROYER’

8.9Mt, Eniwetok, 28.Jun.1958

ADJUSTMENTS BY JASPER WATTS

The origin of the city’s name is unknown, with several theories already circulating in Antiquity; the most likely is derived from Greek language Ρώμη meaning braveness, courage; probably the connection is with a root *rum-, “teat”, with possible reference to the totem wolf (Latin lupa, a word also meaning “prostitute”) that adopted and suckled the cognately-named twins Romulus and Remus. Romulus and Remus are believed to come from the people of Lavinium. Romulus killed Remus and founded Rome. While Romulus would seem to be an eponymous founder legend (the name means “Little Roman”), Remus derives from the Proto-Indo-European myth of the slain twin-god (Germanic Ymir, and Indo-Iranian Yama). The Basque scholar Manuel de Larramendi thought that the origin could be related to the Basque language word orma (modern Basque horma), “wall”.

In the past few decades further progress in the Etruscan language and the archaeology of Italy made the above theories less likely, and made more definitive hypotheses possible. We know now that Etruscan was spoken from what became Rhaetia in the Alps through Etruria to include Latium all the way south to Capua. The Italic tribes intruded into Latium from a core Italic region in the central mountains, into which they had moved from the east coast. Regardless of the circumstances of Rome’s founding, its original population was certainly a combination of Etruscan and Italic elements, with the Etruscan predominating. Gradually Italic infiltration increased to a flood and overwhelmed the Etruscans; that is, the Etruscan population within and outside Rome assimilated to Italic.

Etruscan gives us the word Rumach, “from Rome”, from which Ruma can be extracted. Its further etymology, as is that of most Etruscan words, remains unknown. That it might mean “teat” is pure speculation. Its later mythological associations cast doubt upon that meaning; after all, none of the original settlers was raised by wolves, and the founders were unlikely to have been familiar with this myth about themselves. The name, Tiberius, may well contain the name of the Tiber. It is believed now to be from an Etruscan name, Thefarie, in which case Tiber would be from *Thefar.

The most telling evidence comes from the people themselves. In the expression, Senatus populusque Romanus, “populus” is of Etruscan origin. The place name, Populonia, is from Etruscan Pupluna or Fufluna. Related to populus is the typical Roman praenomen (personal name) of Publius, from Puplie.

Indeed the whole history of early Rome is the story of the struggle between the original families and the newcomers. The praenomina of those families give them away as Etruscan in origin; for example, Gaius, deriving from Cai. It was used by the Julian gens among others. We do not have a derivation of Julus, the mythical founder of the gens, but he is supposed to have been Etruscan. The Etruscans also had a word for gentes, which was lautun. It is not known if this is the origin of Latins, but the etymologizing of most such words pertaining to early Rome has been difficult and resistive, which is likely to mean that they are not Indo-European.

UNABOMBER MANIFESTO PUBLISHED

On this day in 1995, a manifesto by the Unabomber, an anti-technology
terrorist, is published by The New York Times and Washington Post in
the hope that someone will recognize the person who, for 17 years, had
been sending homemade bombs through the mail that had killed and
maimed innocent people around the United States. After reading the
manifesto, David Kaczynski linked the writing style to that of his
older brother Ted, who was later convicted of the attacks and
sentenced to life in prison without parole. All told, the Unabomber
was responsible for murdering three people and injuring another 23.

Theodore John Kaczynski was born May 22, 1942, in Evergreen Park,
Illinois, a Chicago suburb. As a student, he excelled at math,
graduated from Harvard and received a Ph.D. in math from the
University of Michigan. In 1967, he got a teaching job at the
University of California at Berkeley, but quit two years later. In
1971, Kaczynski purchased some property in Lincoln, Montana, with his
brother. There, the future Unabomber built a small, secluded cabin
where he lived off the land as a recluse from the late 1970s until his
arrest on April 3, 1996.

In May 1978, an unmailed package was found in a University of
Illinois, Chicago, parking lot; a security guard was later injured
when he opened the package. The following year, another bomb exploded
at Northwestern University, in Evanston, Illinois, injuring one
person. In November of that same year, 12 people on an American
Airlines flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., were treated for
smoke inhalation when a bomb in a mailbag aboard the plane caught
fire. Investigators eventually linked the three incidents, as the
bombings continued and spread around the country. In December 1985,
the owner of a computer store in Sacramento, California, was killed by
a bomb filled with nail fragments. After a similar explosion in Salt
Lake City two years later, investigators got their first eyewitness
description of the bomber after someone reported seeing a man in
aviator sunglasses and a hooded sweatshirt at the scene of the crime.
In April 1995, The New York Times received a letter from the Unabomber
stating that the killings would stop if the paper printed a
35,000-word manifesto. In September of that year, the Times and the
Post complied, and David Kaczynski eventually recognized his brother
Ted’s writing as that of the Unabomber and contacted the FBI.

In January 1998, Kaczynski agreed to a plea bargain with the government and was sentenced to life in prison.

THE UNABOMBER MANIFESTO 

Tools For War

Farrakhan semetic death raids
Black man wants jews on a plate
Fascist religions, noxious parades
Turning racism into charades
Evil minds are learning
Constantly churning
A negative approach
Burying your hopes

Tools for war
Chemical Gore
Rich control, sympathy for the poor

Kill or be killed ways
All to your dismay
Terrorists in action
World unsatisfaction
That’s the way they want it to be
You know that things ain’t easy
But you can hold your breath until you’re blue in the face
You want to take my life
Draft me; abduct me
What does all this mean?
How can I even the score?
Tools for war

Now I’ll have to suffer
Say goodbye to mother
Pay your last respects
Cause I have no regrets

That’s the way they want it to be
You know that things aint easy
The button is red
So let it be said
In a matter of time
We’ll all be dead