That public men publish falsehoods
Is nothing new. That America must accept
Like the historical republics corruption and empire
Has been known for years.
Be angry at the sun for setting
If these things anger you. Watch the wheel slope and turn,
They are all bound on the wheel, these people, those warriors.
This republic, Europe, Asia.
Observe them gesticulating,
Observe them going down. The gang serves lies, the passionate
Man plays his part; the cold passion for truth
Hunts in no pack.
You are not Catullus, you know,
To lampoon these crude sketches of Caesar. You are far
From Dante's feet, but even farther from his dirty
Political hatreds.
Let boys want pleasure, and men
Struggle for power, and women perhaps for fame,
And the servile to serve a Leader and the dupes to be duped.
Yours is not theirs.
2022 September 4 dateline San Francisco, CA
Here I write on this medium banned frequently and now censored by algol. 10 years now posting in this World Cafe set at the only train stop in San Francisco that is true Public Access. Reading Novalis this morning before I walk to get a money order to pay rent and pay a bill. Loitering on Substack more and more and delight in 100 flowers blooming. Another place I go to find others thoughts.
Novalis:
Philosophy is the science of self- analysis, through philosophising we begin to perceive that Nature or the outer world is similar to a human being, we find out that we can only begin to comprehend things in the same way in which we know ourselves and those dearest to us. At last we realise the true bond of union between subject and object, and discover that even in our own selves there is an outer world, which stands in the same relation to our inner selves that our outer life bears to the outer world, that the latter are as closely connected as our outer and inner life, and, therefore, we can only comprehend the inner life and soul of Nature by reflection, even as it is only by sensation that our outer life comes in contact with material forces." "The road leads inwards, inwards to the depths of the Ego; the highest task of culture is self mastery of the inner life, so that it may become indeed the true Ego." " We are called to the cultivation of the Earth," he says, " she takes man's impression. Humanity is the higher sense of our planet, the nerve that connects this portion (of the Universe) with a higher world, the Eye that it lifts to Heaven." For Novalis Man is the Mediator between God and Nature. " Nature shall become moral, we are her teachers, her moral tangents, her moral attraction."
Got to thinking listening to news propaganda how beautiful it is in the illusion and read an email asking me to not forward articles hence forth but call instead.
The article was on a Federal Court and Carter Page. The holding was Carter you were spied on and entrapped and set up to be the road in political war using the FBI and CIA. Congress has no law for remedy of the crime by the State. I picked from the Falun-Dafa paper this news article and though the Epoch Times is not the NYT I dare say the NYT reader is quite uninformed. Especially so now after Covid when anything goes.
My old friend is fully vaccinated, his wife and son in high school are as well. A Democrat and a Trump detesting Never Trumper. We are close in age. He is rarely on Social Media and is a writer...still he reads, but I think mainly vetted journals and papers. A modern man always occupying vectors of speed relying on the daily Rough Guide. A conformist non-conformist.
Liber Mirabilis is a collection of Medieval prophecies, first published in 1524. It was translated from Latin to French by Jean de Vatiguerro in 1831. The following anonymous apocalyptic prophecy is drawn from the book:
"All elements will become altered, because it is necessary, that the whole condition of the Centuries becomes changed; Certainly will the Earth at many places be in a dreadful state of collapse and all living things will be swallowed up. Numerous strong Towns and Cities will be shattered and collapse in Earthquakes... The Sea will scream out and raise itself against the whole World. The Air will be dirty and be polluted because of the Grossness and Discord of Men...The air will completely change and because of Pestilence, Illness through it will break out, and will completely spoiled. Men will become like animals from the various new Diseases. They will be overcome and die suddenly. An indescribable plague will break out from a sudden and terrible Famine and will torment Men. It will be such great suffering in the whole World, and there is nowherein the West that this will not find its place. Since the beginning of the World there has been nothing as horrible as this."
Just another day
The United States has long drawn a line between the work of federal employees in public service and the use of such employees for political purposes. The Hatch Act was passed in 1939 to curtail the political activities of civilian federal employees.
The Marine Corps expressly forbids personnel from being used or participating in such political events.
“Active duty members will not engage in partisan political activities, and all military personnel will avoid the inference that their political activities imply or appear to imply DoD sponsorship, approval, or endorsement of a political candidate, campaign, or cause.”
The other services have also drawn a bright line against such appearances. Army officials, for example, stress that their rules bar such involvement because “actual or perceived partisanship could undermine the legitimacy of the military profession and department.”
In Department of Defense Directive 1344.10 the long list of prohibited involvement in political events include:
“Attend partisan political events as an official representative of the Armed Forces, except as a member of a joint Armed Forces color guard at the opening ceremonies of the national conventions of the Republican, Democratic, or other political parties recognized by the Federal Elections Committee or as otherwise authorized by the Secretary concerned.”
These rules also expressly bar the wearing of uniforms at such political speeches: “The wearing of the uniform by Service members … is prohibited … during or in connection with furthering political activities, private employment, or commercial interests, when an inference of official sponsorship … for the activity or interest may be drawn.”.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/semper-sigh-bidens-use-marines-violated-long-standing-federal-policies-and-regulations
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/wheres-outrage-americas-leaders-are-fiddling-while-country-burns