On this day each year, the most ancient of the Shinto divinities, the solar goddess Amaterasu, is honored in temples throughout Japan. This day is also sacred to Astraea, the star maiden, a Greek goddess of justice who chose to live among humans. After Pandora's box was opened, Astraea was the last of the gods to abandon the Earth after Donald Trump was elected -- just kidding, she abandoned way before that, but was the last of the gods to abandoned Earth nonetheless.
In 1326 on this day, Zen master Daito Kokushi establishes the Daitokuji temple in Kyoto, Japan. Now the site of one of Japan's most famous Zen gardens, it was particularly significant in the development of the tea ceremony and Zenga painting.
In 1952 the first acknowledgement of pregnancy on American television occurs during the I Love Lucy episode "Lucy Is Enceinte" (the word "pregnant" was not allowed).
Way back in 1854 on this day, Pope Piux IX proclaims the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception, in which Mary, mother of Jesus, was free of Original Sin because he believed it so. No documented evidence was given (not to be confused with the the Immaculate Reception that occurred between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Oakland Raiders at Three Rivers Stadium
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on December 23, 1972.)
"I believe my interest in the occult was born out of a curiosity in the
narratives of cultural outsiders," McVetty explained to The Huffington
Post. "I have always had a mysterious attraction to the worlds these
groups built around secrets, rules and symbols as a way to exist outside
of the mainstream."
These are the words of Occult Artist Joseph McVetty. Here are some of his images:
Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe (baptised 26 February 1564 – 30 May 1593), was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe was the foremost Elizabethantragedian of his day.He greatly influenced William Shakespeare,
who was born in the same year as Marlowe and who rose to become the
pre-eminent Elizabethan playwright after Marlowe's mysterious early
death. Marlowe's plays are known for the use of blank verse and their overreaching protagonists.
A warrant was issued for Marlowe's arrest on 18 May 1593. No reason
was given for it, though it was thought to be connected to allegations
of blasphemy—a manuscript believed to have been written by Marlowe was
said to contain "vile heretical conceipts". On 20 May, he was brought to
the court to attend upon the Privy Council
for questioning. There is no record of their having met that day,
however, and he was commanded to attend upon them each day thereafter
until "licensed to the contrary". Ten days later, he was stabbed to
death by Ingram Frizer. Whether the stabbing was connected to his arrest has never been resolved.
Marlowe was also accused by author Thomas Kyd of being an atheist, which led to questioning before the Privy Council. After all this, Marlowe still argued over a bill at a bar and began stabbing another bar patron who in self-defense turned the knife on Marlowe and killed him. Marlowe was only twenty-nine years old.
Some believe Marlowe was assassinated by a request from the Crown. Others think that Marlowe’s death was faked, and that he is the real author of Shakespeare’s plays. The theory behind this is that Marlowe faked his death, escaped, and hid so he could continue to work under the patronage of Thomas Walsingham.
On this day in 1933, a U.S. federal judge rules that Ulysses, by Irish author James Joyce, is not obscene. The book had been banned immediately in both the United States and England when it came out in 1922. Three years earlier, its serialization in an American review had been cut short by the U.S. Post Office for the same reason. Fortunately, one of Joyce's supporters, Sylvia Beach, owner of the bookstore Shakespeare and Co. in Paris France, published the novel herself. Ulysses, with its radical stream-of-consciousness narrative, deeply influenced the development of the modern novel.
During the ancient Roman festival of Bona Dea, the Good Goddess, the Vestal Virgins conducted the woman's rites, secret ceremonies from which all males were barred.
Homemaking was crafted into a science thanks to the female chemist who was born on this day in 1842. Ellen Henrietta Richards started the home economics movement by demonstrating that the need for balanced nutrition, sanitation, and hygiene practices in the home required basic understanding of simple scientific methods. As an added result, she created a unique profession -- dietitian -- and discovered the naphtha-based dry cleaning process.
Historically speaking, the first human heart transplant happened on this day in 1967 at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. The donor was Denise Darvall, a 25-year-old woman who was fatally injured in a car accident. The patient was a 55-year-old man named Louis Washkansky. Surgeon Christiaan Barnard performed the revolutionary medical operation.
Washkansky was Jewish, while Darvall was Christian. The theological and gender crossover caused less controversy, though, than the fact that her kidneys were donated to a black boy named Jonathan Van Wyck. The cloud of apartheid still hung heavy over South Africa at the time and the racial issues threatened to overshadow the achievements of Dr Barnard.
In 1984 one of the worst industrial disasters in history, a Union-Carbide pesticide plant located in Bhopal, India, leaks a highly toxic cloud of methyl isocyanate into the air. Two thousand people were killed immediately, at least 600,000 were injured, and at least 6,000 have died since.
Union Carbide India, Ltd. built a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India in the late 1970s in an effort to produce pesticides locally to help increase production on local farms, however, sales of pesticide didn't materialize in the numbers hoped for and the plant was soon losing money. In 1979, the factory began to produce large amounts of the highly toxic methyl isocyanate (MIC), because it was a cheaper way to make the pesticide carbaryl. To also cut costs, training and maintenance in the factory were drastically cut back. Workers in the factory complained about the dangerous conditions and warned of possible disasters, but management did not take any action.
On 03.12.1984, the SHO, Hanumangunj Police Station, Bhopal, who observed
people dying around the UCIL plant due to escape of some poisonous
gases from the factory, registered a case suo moto under section 304-A
(causing death by negligence) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). He
arrested five officers of the plant including J.Mukund, the Works Manager and S.P.Choudhary, the production
Manager.
NEW DELHI — More than 25 years after a plume of fatal toxic gas from an
American-owned chemical plant wafted over the slumbering city of Bhopal,
eight former executives of the company’s Indian subsidiary — including
one who has since died — were convicted Monday of negligence. The seven
surviving defendants were sentenced to two years in prison and fined
100,000 rupees, or $2,100.
Finally, as further insult, UCC discontinued operation at its Bhopal plant
following the disaster but failed to clean up the industrial site
completely. The plant continues to leak several toxic chemicals and
heavy metals that have found their way into local aquifers. Dangerously
contaminated water has now been added to the legacy left by the company
for the people of Bhopal.
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Tonight's full moon will bring the
biggest and brightest of the year so far. This is because December 3’s
Full Cold Moon will be the only supermoon of 2017.
Supermoons
happen when a full moon approximately coincides with the moon's
perigee, or a point in its orbit at which it is closest to Earth. This
makes the moon appear up to 14 percent larger and 30 percent brighter
than usual.
The Last Moments of John Brown, by Thomas Hovenden
In 1859, John Brown led a raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry
to start a liberation movement among the slaves there. During the raid,
he seized the armory; seven people were killed, and ten or more were
injured. He intended to arm slaves with weapons from the arsenal, but
the attack failed. Within 36 hours, Brown's men had fled or been killed
or captured by local pro-slavery farmers, militiamen, and U.S. Marines
led by Robert E. Lee. Brown was tried for treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia, the
murder of five men, and inciting a slave insurrection. He was found
guilty on all counts and was hanged. Brown's raid captured the nation's
attention, as Southerners feared it was just the first of many Northern
plots to cause a slave rebellion that might endanger their lives, while Republicans dismissed the notion and claimed they would not interfere with slavery in the South.
David Hunter Strothher (1816-88), was an American journalist who wrote under the pseudonym Porter Crayon for Harper's Monthly. He attended the hanging of John Brown on December 2nd, 1859. Here are his thoughts:
John Brown
He stepped from the wagon with surprising agility and walked hastily toward the scaffold pausing a moment as he passed our group to wave his pinioned arm and bid us good morning. I thought I could observe in this a trace of bravado -- but perhaps I was mistaken, as his natural manner was short, ungainly and hurried. He mounted the steps of the scaffold with the same alacrity and there, as if by previous arrangement, he immediately took off his hat and offered his neck for the halter which was as promptly adjusted by Mr Avis the jailer. A white muslin cap of hood was then drawn over his face and the Sheriff not remembering that his eyes were covered requested him to advance to the platform. The prisoner replied in his usual tone, "You will have to guide me there."
The breeze disturbing the arrangement of the hood, the Sheriff asked his assistant for a pin. Brown raised his hand and directed him to the collar of his coat where several old pins were quilted in. The Sheriff took the pin and completed his work.
Brown was accordingly led forward to the drop, the halter hooked to the beam and the officers supposing that the execution was to follow immediately took leave of him. In doing so, the Sheriff inquired if he did not want a handkerchief to throw as a signal to cut the drop. Brown replied, "No, I don't care; I don't want you to keep me waiting unnecessarily."
Robert E Lee
These were his last words, spoken with that sharp nasal twang peculiar to him, but spoken quietly and civilly without impatience or the slightest apparent emotion. In this position he stood for five minutes or more, while the troops that composed the escort were wheeling into the positions assigned them. I stood within a few paces of him and watched narrowly during these trying moments to see if there was any indication of his giving way. I detected nothing of the sort...
Colonel Smith said to the Sheriff in a low voice, "We are ready."
The civil officers descended from the scaffold. One who stood near me whispered earnestly, "He trembles, his knees are shaking."
"You are mistaken," I replied, "it is the scaffold that shakes under the footsteps of the offficers." The Folio Books of Days, c 2002 Roger Hudson
"Traumatizing" Gallows Sculpture By White Artist Angers Native American Dakota Community
Sam Durant, Scaffold.
Scaffold, first shown at Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany in
2012, is a large wooden structure inspired by the gallows used in seven
famous executions in American history, including the hangings of
abolitionist leader John Brown in 1859 and Iraqi president Saddam
Hussein in 2006. The gallows also resemble those used in the U.S.'s
largest mass execution in 1862 during which 38 Dakota Indians were killed in Mankato.
"I made Scaffold as a learning space for people like me, white
people who have not suffered the effects of a white supremacist society
and who may not consciously know that it exists," he continued. "It has
been my belief that white artists need to address issues of white
supremacy and its institutional manifestations. Whites created the
concept of race and have used it to maintain dominance for centuries,
whites must be involved in its dismantling...."
On this day each year, Tibetan Buddhists make their annual pilgrimage to the world's oldest tree in the place that is now known as Bodh Gaya, India. The sacred tree, planted in 282 BC, is honored with prayers, chants, and flags. It is believed to be an offshoot of the same Bodhi (or Bo) tree that the Buddha sat under when he attained enlightenment.
The true face of the moon is first seen as Galileo Galilei in Padua, Italy, turns his telescope toward it for the first time and makes a drawing to record his discovery. Galileo's revolutionay treatise Starry Messenger, which appeared the following March, showed an astonished public that the moon was a cratered world, a new land to be e
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China Says It Will Land a Probe on The Far Side of The Moon in 2018
In what will be a first for science, China has announced its intention to land a probe on the dark side of the Moon, exploring lunar territory that has never been seen up close by human eyes.
The new mission will see China's Chang'e-4 probe investigate the dark side of the Moon in 2018, according to a report by Xinhua, the state-run news agency. While the dark side of the Moon has been observed from orbit and photographed, it's never been explored by human astronauts nor landed upon by spacecraft.
The dark side is so-called because it always faces away from Earth
due to gravitational forces, with the 'dark' in the name historically
imputing that we can't see or understand it, rather than it actually
being physically dark. But that meaning will become even more
anachronistic soon, with China's mission set to bring us into direct
contact with the Moon's most mysterious territory.
"The Chang'e-4's lander and rover will make a soft landing on the
back side of the Moon, and will carry out in-place and patrolling
surveys," Liu Jizhong, China's lunar exploration chief, told the press.
China's swiftly developing space program initially replicated feats
already achieved by the US and others, but this latest mission provides
growing evidence that in recent years the nation has become serious
about setting records of its own.
"The implementation of the Chang'e-4 mission has helped our country
make the leap from following to leading in the field of lunar
exploration," said Liu.
In Dan Brown’s books, Galileo Galilei is mentioned as one of the
Illuminati, a precursor, the perfect symbol of the supremacy of
scientific ideals over religious obscurantism. Galileo Galilei lived before the birth of the Illuminati and never wrote “Diagramma Veritatis.”
Yes, Galileo Galilei was just a scientist who, among other things, discovered and
proudly asserted that the Earth was revolving around the Sun -- which totally pissed off the Roman Catholic Church.
So friends, as you can see, Galileo wasn't the Illuminati, he was only the Antichrist.
According to Ali Winters and his website "Z3 News End-Time News Before It Happens," President Obama made a pact with the devil on this day in 2015 which caused "the shooting that happened on the same day at a Planned Parenthood Abortion Clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado."
According to Mr. Winters, Obama caused this shooting so he could pass new gun laws!
I couldn't find a photo of Ali Winters, but did find one of Ali Soufan, close enough I'm sure.
Ali Soufan
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On this day in 1868, U.S. general George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on peaceful Cheyenne living along the Washita River in Texas, destroying the village and killing 103 Native Americans.
Stores across the United States report being flooded by sometimes-violent shoppers trying to buy the first demon possessed doll in history.
Cabbage Patch Doll
The dolls were originally invented by a Kentucky artist named Martha Nelson Thomas. Martha first started making them in the early 70s and
would "adopt" them out to family and friends. The dolls eventually
caught the eye of Xavier Roberts, a Georgia man who ran a gift shop.
After Martha denied him permission to sell her dolls, he stole the
design and began making his own versions. Martha never saw a penny.
On November 26, 1095, Pope Urban II issued his famous war cry, "Deus
volt," or "God wills it," thus launching the first of seven major
crusades against Muslims in the Holy Land. Five and a half centuries
later, the Vatican was still beating the war drum -- only this time,
Christians were being urged to kill Christians in the Thirty Years' War,
one of the most destructive conflicts in European history, fought in
the midst of the so-called Enlightenment, when some of history's worst
acts of human depravity were committed.
Like his
predecessor from the Dark Ages, Pope Innocent X considered the war God's
work, and he was thus immensely displeased when relative harmony was
restored to the devastated continent with the Treaty of Westphalia.
Indeed, the Vicar of Christ was so unhappy with the peace compromising
his own interests that on November 26, 1648 -- exactly 553 years after
Urban II's call to slaughter--he issued a blistering condemnation of the
treaty. It was, he declared, "mull, void, invalid, iniquitous, unjust,
damnable, reprobate, inane, empty of meaning and effect for all time"--
just as Jesus would have wanted.
On
November 26th, 1922, Howard Carter breached the front door and peered
through the hole into the antechamber for the first time to
Tutankhamun's tomb. The search for Tuntanklhamun's tomb had been funded
by George Herbert Lord Carnarvon (who's country house, Highclere Castle, serves as the filming location of the hit television series Downton Abbey) an English aristocrat with strong interest in Egyptology.
Among
the huge numbers of gold and priceless artifacts that were discovered
that November 26th, 1922, emerged also the curse which supposedly
threatened to strike down anyone who disturbed the dead pharaoh's tomb. Apparently, at the precise moment that the pharaoh's resting place
was opened, Carnarvon's dog back in England let out a howl and died. Lord Carnarvon himself, who had been present at the opening of the
tomb, suddenly died just weeks later from a mosquito bite. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes and a
great believer in the occult, got involved, publicly stating that he
suspected that a great curse had been unleashed.
Around
this time every year in the Basari villages of Senegal, the young men
are initiated into manhood with elaborate rituals, competitions,
dancing, and feasting. On this day in Nepal, the goddess Gujeswari Jatra is honored by Hindus and Buddhists. The day's activities include
prayers, music, and songs of praise to Gujeswari.
3.2 Million years ago, Lucy died. Her remains were found on this day in 1974. Before Lucy, it was widely believed that hominins evolved big brains
first, and then became bipedal later. Lucy, however, was clearly built
for bipedal walking — an extremely rare adaptation for mammals — and yet
her skull only had space for a brain about the size of a chimpanzee's.
Her cranial capacity was less than 500 cubic centimeters, or roughly
one-third as big as that of a modern human.
What finding Lucy proved to the world was that there were more than one early human species living at the same time with the ever-so-crazy Neanderthals party tribes -- I have my sources -- and in a close geographical proximity too. Combined this finding with the more recent finding in 2011 of even another species, the Australopithecus Deyiremeda, and there can be no doubt that this area of the world was a lab of human test done by none other than... well, as Giorgio A. Tsoukalos would say: Ancient Aliens!
On this date (November 24th) the first copies of Charles Darwin's work, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection was released. The book was a huge success going through some six different editions between 1859 and 1872.
For those who have nothing better to do, you can listen to Darwin's wonderfully, boring-ass book for free, here!
On or around this day each year, the holiday of Thanksgiving is celebrated throughout the United States. The tradition of the Thanksgiving feast began in Plymouth Colony in 1621 with the Pilgrims' celebration of their first year's harvest. In modern times, the festivities generally include parades, footballs games, gluttony, and obsessive shopping... all the spiritual priorities of a nation not thankful for shit.
On 6 September in the year 1620 Julian calendar (16 September in our calendar), the Mayflower set off. Out of its 102 passengers, only about 40 were the pilgrims looking for a new place to worship God in their very special way that had them laughed out of London (like Malvolio in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night).
The word "Pilgrim" comes from the Middle English pelegrim and Old French pelegrin, which both derive from the Latin pereginus, "stranger." And strangers they were. Their beliefs were that if a storm sank the Mayflower, God would save them just as He had provided a whale to save Jonah. Fortunately, before the assistance of a UFO spaceship was needed, they spotted land on 9 November (19 November our calendar).
They had arrived at Cape Cod and weren't safe yet from the dangerous shoals and roaring breakers, but on November 21, 1620 (our time used from now on), they entered the harbor at what is now Provincetown on the tip of the Cape.
Now, here's where the whole conquering Brits gets rather murky, for without any negotiating with the Americans -- who, we'll see were already in the new land -- the 102 visitors agreed to get off the ship before their destination of the mouth of Hudson river -- which had been discovered years earlier by Henry Hudson and was part of the New England claims England had shoved down the Native American's throats, and the land grant they all had in their little pink fingers. In true conquering European form, the 102 passengers (40 of which were considered Saints because they said so) didn't even live up to the land grant they had from the New England council and instead landed where they were and the 41 Saints signed what is now known as the Mayflower Contract, which was an agreement to establish a "Civil body Politic (temporary government)" and to be bound by its laws. "They would enact "just and equal laws for the good of the colony." The binding agreement was modeled on a Separatist Church Covenant and became the basis of government in the colony. Conveniently, it also allowed the minority 41 Saints to elect John Carver as their first Governor.
By December 16th, the squatters had spotted a dozen or so native Americans and posted lookouts on them from the woods. Eventually, the real Americans would fire arrows at the pink-fleshed beings who returned with musket fire which ran the Americans off. The Pilgrims then took their corn back to the ship. A year later, after the Pilgrims had negotiated a peace with Chief Massasoit, they would return the stolen corn in what is now considered the first Thanksgiving.
Not quite the story we were taught in school, but close enough. Actually, it would be 10 years later when the shit really hit the fan for the real Americans, for the Puritans were coming, and their form of Christianity -- which would eventually evolved into the KKK and the current Christian church which measures its faith on how much you hate gays -- would consider the Americans to be savages in the way of Jesus' country.
So, while you are eating your corn and turkey today and praying thanks to baby Jesus, consider the real Americans for once... and how you've took their land much as the UFO Aliens might do to us with universal justifications because we are such hypocrites.
With Prohibition now the law of the land, Congress closed a lingering loophole with the Willis-Campbell Act, which strictly limited the amount of liquor that physicians could prescribe for medical purposes. On November 23, 1921, President Warren G. Harding signed the bill--no doubt with a chuckle, as the man ultimately charged with enforcing Prohibition kept the White House cabinets filled with intoxicating "medicine," always at the ready for the enjoyment of the president and his corrupt, poker-playing pals.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the tart-tongued daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, described one evening as a guest in the Harding White House: "The study was filled with cronies...trays with bottles containing every imaginable brand of whiskey stood about, cards and poker chips ready at hand--a general atmosphere of waistcoats unbuttoned, feet on the desk, and spittoons alongside."
A year after signing the restrictive law, the liquor-swilling president stood before Congress and delivered this breathtakingly hypocritical message: "Let men who are rending the moral fiber of the republic through easy contempt for the prohibition law, because they think it restricts their personal liberty, remember that they set the example and breed a contempt for law which will ultimately destroy the republic."
In the hours after the Kennedy assassination, after Lee Harvey Oswald
shot and killed Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit and was identified as
the president’s assassin, a Secret Service officer named Mike Howard was
dispatched to Oswald’s apartment. Howard found a little green address
book, and on its 17th page under the heading “I WILL KILL” Oswald listed
four men: an FBI agent named James Hosty; a right-wing general, Edwin Walker; and Vice
President Richard Nixon. At the top of the list was the governor of
Texas, John Connally. Through Connally’s name, Oswald had drawn a
dagger, with blood drops dripping downward.
Special Agent Howard turned the address book over to the FBI and,
ultimately, to the Warren Commission. Only some time later did he learn
that the list with its hugely important insight into the killer’s motive
had been torn out of the book.
I
didn’t hear about Howard until after I published my book “The
Accidental Victim” three years ago on the 50th anniversary of the
assassination. In it I argue a circumstantial case that it was Connally,
not John F. Kennedy, who was Oswald’s target in Dallas. It is the story
of a smoldering grudge in which Oswald came to associate Connally with
all the setbacks in his disastrous, hopeless life.
By early 1962, Oswald was disenchanted with
Soviet life and wanted to return home. He was now saddled with a wife,
Marina, and a child, and he knew that someone with a ninth-grade
education, who had spent time in Russia and had an undesirable discharge
on his record, would have few prospects in America.
Oswald
wrote a heartfelt plea to Connally, a fellow Texan and the head of the
Navy Department, the civilian overseer of the Marines. In poignant terms
Oswald asked Connally to redress what was a transparent miscarriage of
justice. What he got back a month later, in February 1962, was a classic
bureaucratic brushoff. The dismissive letter arrived in an envelope
with Connally’s smiling face on the front, bursting from a Texas star
and announcing his bid for the Texas governorship.
In the
months after Oswald’s return to America, his worst fears were realized.
He did, indeed, have serious trouble finding and holding jobs in Texas.
According to the testimony of Russian emigres in Dallas who knew him
during this period, every time his discharge came up in a job interview,
Oswald froze, and his blame of Connally deepened.
Oswald's Green Book
In her
testimony to the Warren Commission, Oswald’s wife, Marina, definitively
named Connally and not Kennedy as her husband’s target. She repeated
this belief in testimony to the U.S. House Select Committee on
Assassinations in 1978. Dallas emigres also testified to Oswald’s
obsession with Connally. Moreover, there was ample testimony that Oswald
bore no animus toward Kennedy. Indeed, he admired JFK’s important
initiatives like the president’s efforts at detente with Russia.
Why was this evidence on motive
ignored and buried in the official investigations? More pointedly, why
is Oswald’s little green book – which I’ve examined in the National
Archives – missing that pivotal page? For many years, in a community
college class he teaches, retired Special Agent Howard has put forward
his view of the assassination: Connally, not Kennedy, was Oswald’s
target.
President Kennedy wasn't the only victim in the Dallas motorcade on
22 Nov 1963. Governor Connally, riding in the "jump seat" ahead of
Kennedy, was also shot. His wounds included an entry wound in the back
near the right shoulder, a broken rib, an exit wound in the chest, a
shattered wrist caused by a bullet entering from the dorsal (back) side,
and a fragment lodged in his thigh.
The Warren Commission, by necessity if there was to be a single
shooter, said that all of these wounds were caused by a single bullet.
Furthermore, this bullet was said to be the same one which had passed
first through JFK. The bullet said to cause all 7 wounds in two men is
Commission Exhibit 399, found on a stretcher in Parkland Hospital in
virtually pristine condition, with apparently no blood or tissue on it.
CE 399 is flattened somewhat, and rifling marks show it clearly had been
fired from the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle at some point. But was it fired
earlier and then planted?
Defenders of the single bullet theory note that a large entrance
wound in Connally's back is evidence of a "tumbling bullet," which could
occur if the bullet first passed through JFK. But critics point out
that the notion of a large entrance wound is incorrect, and is based on
the enlarged debrided wound after surgery. Connally's surgeon Dr. Robert
Shaw measured the long axis of the original elliptical entrance wound
at a much smaller 1.5 centimeters. As Milicent Cranor has pointed out,
this is virtually identical in size and shape to Kennedy's skull
entrance wound as measured at autopsy, and "No one has suggested Kennedy
was hit in the head with a tumbling bullet."
Among the many problems with the single bullet theory and Connally's
wounds in particular, there is also the issue of whether the metal
fragments taken from Connally's wrist and left in his leg could possibly
have come from the nearly intact bullet CE 399. JFK autopsy surgeon
Commander Humes told the Commission "I can't conceive of where they came
from this missile." There is also some doubt about whether the
fragments now in evidence (CE 842) comprise all that was removed from
Governor Connally's wrist.
In Norse tradition, today is the festival of Ydalir, the Valley of the Yews, and falls under the rule of Ullr, whose names means "Brilliant one." Ullr is the god of legal disputes, sacred oaths, hunting, skiing, and winter. Stepson of the god Thor and son of the Earth mother Sif and an unknown father, Ullr is thought to have giant blood.
