by Jean-Jacques COURTEY, Doctor in Economic Geography, Ph. D
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The recent theory of "Ekpyrotics" is based upon the hypothesis of two parallel universes getting away from each other in the fifth dimension.
However their distance is not even a millimeter, but just an atom wide.
Nevertheless, at the end of the process a kind of stepping back along the fifth dimension is predicted by the Ekpyrotics' theoricist Neil Turok, a famous cosmologist born in 1958 in Johannesburg (South Africa).
"Ekpyrotics" is a Greek neologism : it indicates our universe...or universes, if your consider they are at least twins which have split and separated, were born from fire like a phoenix. Through expansion in the space, they furthered a little bit from each other, but in this theory they have to stick back together soon or later, by a spring effect.
Thus both universes have to get in touch again by collision, provoking a huge explosion and a reinitiated expansion through a new Big Bang. And the same phenomenon would happen periodically.
But wait a minute ! If the universes concerned were reversing to the past situation, the initial one, nothing is proving at all there would automatically be an explosion. We could have something totally opposite of a new Bing Bang through implosion-absorption : a "Bang Bing" instead !
A return to unity... to "The Source of Everything" then, would be effectively possible this way. Thus, we would rather call that "an-Ekpyrotics".
Of course, this is an alternative option. Anyway, nothing can prove the solution otherway will happen either.
Theories are just hypothesis build on human logic, till they come true through actual events.
If the return to "The Source" was occuring against all odds, everything existing would instantly vanish and disappear. There would be only a single invisible minute point of black matter remaining : it would replace strangely what was existing before, including all living creatures.
"The Source" (a global word to designate both primal intelligent matter and God, by reference to the religious phenomenon widely considered, and physics unusually), was the key at the beginning of our universe...or universes. And it is remaining so, whatever may occur in a undeterminated length of time : it can be very long, just long or at the opposite quite short and almost immediate, by just following The Source's definitive will. And human beings have strictly no influence on that.
A lot of people wander why nothing happened apparently on December 21st 2012. Is it because all this story was made up...or concerning essentially the Sky and not Earth...or even affected by an unexpected last resort decision ?
Several volcanoes should have entered in eruption normally, and other natural unavoidable events should have followed. But the fact is they didn't happen, a bit as if an allmighty hand was stopping human science and denying or even challenging human logic and understanding.
The quantic waves of those supposed twin universes have to be entangled one day. But mankind might hardly realize what's happening then, as everything would either burst out...or vanish so quickly like the content of a bottle of Champagne !
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Monday, January 21, 2013
The year of Water Snake : will 2013 be over suddenly the year of Platinum ?
by Jean-Jacques COURTEY, Doctor in Economic Geography, Ph. D
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Very soon, on next February 9th, 2013, we will enter the new Chinese year. And it will be the one of the Water Snake.
It means that 2013 cannot be a mediocre year, as this wild and instinctive animal is certainly not.
Normally such a year is considered as good, or even unusually good depending on collective, or more personal data. Thus, it implies to have good stars of course in connection with the house of Snake. Then, it can bring happiness, money, a new successful career or the reawakening of an old one. Globally, it influences a lot war or peace negociations, and even stock exchange sudden variations, but also the marriage fluctuations or conclusions.
It has a very strong effect on theater or cinema, because of the snake's fascination.
At last, food - a lot of food - is always involved as snakes are quite good eaters. They need it for their passionate way of living, and to use their ability for predicting earthquakes or other natural powerful events.
To summarize, with the Water Snake, most people have to get ready for the unexpected, with a huge flow of money involved !
Will the unexpected happen then with the International Monetary System ?
We ask this question because of the public proposal made last year by some Democrat representatives to President Obama, in order to finish off the Debt crisis and the US "fiscal cliff". In spite of the last minute agreement between Democrats and Republicans for the three months starting 2013 roughly, the problem remains effectively unsolved.
So let's study this unique proposal to create several Platinum coins (3, but the principle is more important than the exact number), of an enormous value : 1000 billion dollars each !
This new money or treasure would be physically deposed in the Federal Reserve of America, and its total amount credited to the US Treasure by a line on computer.
Through "financial magick", the first in matter of proficiency, the abyssal American debt could be drastically diminished or even totally erased, according to the flexible and adjustable number of coins. In fact, it's not more difficult to make 15 coins at once, than only 3. And the country would be able to breathe again, by instantly regaining its full power and capaciy of action.
Technically, it's not impossible at all to create "new money" this way. It has a bit something to do with what would have done one character of Walt Disney, Scrooge McDuck ("Uncle Picsou" for the French readers of "Mickey"). So it may look as strange and funny as a Hollywood cartoon.
Apart from that, America could do it far more easily than any country of the European Union, considered as a Nation State.
But this would have inevitably enormous consequences on the International Monetary System, and not only on Platinum mines and all the metals called Platinoids. It would create a new standard or stallion, Platinum with associated Platinoids.
All this would also involve the Space exploitation, as a lot of asteroids passing by Earth contain usually huge quantities of Platinum and Platinoids (Palladium, Rhodium, Iridium, Osmium and Ruthenium).
The name of Platinum is coming from the Spanish word "Platina" (small silver) : it is clearly deriving from "Plata" (silver) in Spanish, when it was discovered in the beginning of XVIth century by the Conquistadors in what has become Colombia (ex- "New Granada").
Even, it took about two centuries for Platinum to be totally recognized as a precious metal - like Gold and Silver -, nowadays this status is fully established. It values presently far more than Silver (31.89 $/ounce on January 18th, 2013 in New York), even the market is not presently favourable because of the paradoxically dropping demand. As a matter of fact Platinum was worth 1 665 $/ounce on the same day, to be compared also to Gold (1 684 $/ounce).
Now, the main producers of Platinum in the world are South Africa, Russia, Canada, the USA and Zimbabwe. So, this list shows clearly that making Platinum a new Stallion would automatically lift up the status of the preceding countries. Russia notably would gain enormously out of it.
As the USA are just number four for Platinum production, it's easy to understand why they hesitate about the "Platinum solution" for the US economy, as proposed by some Democrats.
They are careful with what could provoke a huge change in the world economics and its not wholly known consequences. Of course, the above classment is a bit altered by the fact the biggest Platinum company of South Africa, "Amplats", is Anglo-American in reality as said in the name (Anglo-American Platinum). But South African Platinum and Platinoids mines may be mainly owned also by Chinese investors (like Jinchuan since 2007), as the huge Wesizwe project near Rustenburg - West of Pretoria. The owner is more important than the country of extraction.
At the moment, Amplats is not doing well, due to a recent minors' strike for wages increase and the falling demand in Platinum on the present world market : 14 000 jobs are planned to be cut. So a reawakening of demand, could revive such a company and stimulate the whole industrial sector.
To go further, America is thinking to exploit the enormous quantities of Platinum and Platinoids usually observed on asteroids passing by Earth. Nevertheless, it might not be ready yet, in spite of the recently created company called "Planetary Resources". But it seems promising as 1500 asteroids are in the Earth orbit. The capture of some of those asteroids to push them near the Moon is studied technically. The aim, once we avoided them striking Earth, is to facilitate Platinum and Platinoids extraction mainly.
Thus, the most risky part is not being struck on our planet by those celestial and destructive objects.
Anyway, on that point, Russia again or now equalilly China, which will explore the Moon this year, could become strong competitors for America. But a spatial and industrial cooperation which could also involve some other developped countries is entirely possible, as the needed investments will be enormous.
The financial world is one of the most creative you can imagine : everything has to be reshaped, so then paradoxically the order of things won't change !
Since the Sumerian time and the Ubaidic beginnings, the basis of what is now called "capitalism" remain comparable, even people don't usually realize.
This unique world has got something to do with the theater of life and its divertive effects.
In theater, there is a special effect known under its German denomination, "Verfremdungseffekt" or "distanciation effect". It means that to escape from the hypnotic effect of the story, you need to be able to keep a critical attitude.
This year a drastic reorientation of economics and finance may occur, without people knowing what to do. Yet, unexpected opportunities will definitely arise.
Anyhow at the moment, we have no other choice than trying to discover what is rare, inalterable and ductible in life, like Platinum. Next February 15th, the asteroid "2012-DA-14" will most likely avoid Granada (Spain) on Earth again, and it wouldn't go away into the deep space. So why not trying to capture our new tiny satellite, if our technology allows it ? !
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Very soon, on next February 9th, 2013, we will enter the new Chinese year. And it will be the one of the Water Snake.
It means that 2013 cannot be a mediocre year, as this wild and instinctive animal is certainly not.
Normally such a year is considered as good, or even unusually good depending on collective, or more personal data. Thus, it implies to have good stars of course in connection with the house of Snake. Then, it can bring happiness, money, a new successful career or the reawakening of an old one. Globally, it influences a lot war or peace negociations, and even stock exchange sudden variations, but also the marriage fluctuations or conclusions.
It has a very strong effect on theater or cinema, because of the snake's fascination.
At last, food - a lot of food - is always involved as snakes are quite good eaters. They need it for their passionate way of living, and to use their ability for predicting earthquakes or other natural powerful events.
To summarize, with the Water Snake, most people have to get ready for the unexpected, with a huge flow of money involved !
Will the unexpected happen then with the International Monetary System ?
We ask this question because of the public proposal made last year by some Democrat representatives to President Obama, in order to finish off the Debt crisis and the US "fiscal cliff". In spite of the last minute agreement between Democrats and Republicans for the three months starting 2013 roughly, the problem remains effectively unsolved.
So let's study this unique proposal to create several Platinum coins (3, but the principle is more important than the exact number), of an enormous value : 1000 billion dollars each !
This new money or treasure would be physically deposed in the Federal Reserve of America, and its total amount credited to the US Treasure by a line on computer.
Through "financial magick", the first in matter of proficiency, the abyssal American debt could be drastically diminished or even totally erased, according to the flexible and adjustable number of coins. In fact, it's not more difficult to make 15 coins at once, than only 3. And the country would be able to breathe again, by instantly regaining its full power and capaciy of action.
Technically, it's not impossible at all to create "new money" this way. It has a bit something to do with what would have done one character of Walt Disney, Scrooge McDuck ("Uncle Picsou" for the French readers of "Mickey"). So it may look as strange and funny as a Hollywood cartoon.
Apart from that, America could do it far more easily than any country of the European Union, considered as a Nation State.
But this would have inevitably enormous consequences on the International Monetary System, and not only on Platinum mines and all the metals called Platinoids. It would create a new standard or stallion, Platinum with associated Platinoids.
All this would also involve the Space exploitation, as a lot of asteroids passing by Earth contain usually huge quantities of Platinum and Platinoids (Palladium, Rhodium, Iridium, Osmium and Ruthenium).
The name of Platinum is coming from the Spanish word "Platina" (small silver) : it is clearly deriving from "Plata" (silver) in Spanish, when it was discovered in the beginning of XVIth century by the Conquistadors in what has become Colombia (ex- "New Granada").
Even, it took about two centuries for Platinum to be totally recognized as a precious metal - like Gold and Silver -, nowadays this status is fully established. It values presently far more than Silver (31.89 $/ounce on January 18th, 2013 in New York), even the market is not presently favourable because of the paradoxically dropping demand. As a matter of fact Platinum was worth 1 665 $/ounce on the same day, to be compared also to Gold (1 684 $/ounce).
Now, the main producers of Platinum in the world are South Africa, Russia, Canada, the USA and Zimbabwe. So, this list shows clearly that making Platinum a new Stallion would automatically lift up the status of the preceding countries. Russia notably would gain enormously out of it.
As the USA are just number four for Platinum production, it's easy to understand why they hesitate about the "Platinum solution" for the US economy, as proposed by some Democrats.
They are careful with what could provoke a huge change in the world economics and its not wholly known consequences. Of course, the above classment is a bit altered by the fact the biggest Platinum company of South Africa, "Amplats", is Anglo-American in reality as said in the name (Anglo-American Platinum). But South African Platinum and Platinoids mines may be mainly owned also by Chinese investors (like Jinchuan since 2007), as the huge Wesizwe project near Rustenburg - West of Pretoria. The owner is more important than the country of extraction.
At the moment, Amplats is not doing well, due to a recent minors' strike for wages increase and the falling demand in Platinum on the present world market : 14 000 jobs are planned to be cut. So a reawakening of demand, could revive such a company and stimulate the whole industrial sector.
To go further, America is thinking to exploit the enormous quantities of Platinum and Platinoids usually observed on asteroids passing by Earth. Nevertheless, it might not be ready yet, in spite of the recently created company called "Planetary Resources". But it seems promising as 1500 asteroids are in the Earth orbit. The capture of some of those asteroids to push them near the Moon is studied technically. The aim, once we avoided them striking Earth, is to facilitate Platinum and Platinoids extraction mainly.
Thus, the most risky part is not being struck on our planet by those celestial and destructive objects.
Anyway, on that point, Russia again or now equalilly China, which will explore the Moon this year, could become strong competitors for America. But a spatial and industrial cooperation which could also involve some other developped countries is entirely possible, as the needed investments will be enormous.
The financial world is one of the most creative you can imagine : everything has to be reshaped, so then paradoxically the order of things won't change !
Since the Sumerian time and the Ubaidic beginnings, the basis of what is now called "capitalism" remain comparable, even people don't usually realize.
This unique world has got something to do with the theater of life and its divertive effects.
In theater, there is a special effect known under its German denomination, "Verfremdungseffekt" or "distanciation effect". It means that to escape from the hypnotic effect of the story, you need to be able to keep a critical attitude.
This year a drastic reorientation of economics and finance may occur, without people knowing what to do. Yet, unexpected opportunities will definitely arise.
Anyhow at the moment, we have no other choice than trying to discover what is rare, inalterable and ductible in life, like Platinum. Next February 15th, the asteroid "2012-DA-14" will most likely avoid Granada (Spain) on Earth again, and it wouldn't go away into the deep space. So why not trying to capture our new tiny satellite, if our technology allows it ? !
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
A Vanuatuan comedy : Gumshow, the ex-cannibal, and Ramana, the vegetarian babysitter arrive in Paris !
by Jean-Jacques COURTEY, Doctor in Economic Geography, Ph.D
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As indicated in the title, this is a comedy we are writing for cinema, TV, or theater. So just take it as an amusing fiction !
***
Two cousins are coming to Paris for just a while, Gumshow and Marana.
Gumshow likes to define himself as an ex-cannibal by respect for the great-grandfather who died from typhoid fever, after his last "walking meal" coming from a Western boat. Marana is a babysitter...a vegetarian one : she is always insisting on that point to reassure tourists.
Usually, near Port-Vila, the capital of Vanuatu, she is keeping an eye on Australian tourists' children, to allow their parents participating for fun the traditional "cannibal tour" of this volcanic archipelago.
As a matter of fact, till not so far, this ex-French-British condominium (1906-1980) was still practising cannibal customs with newcomers. Imposed political change and Christian morals, ...but also an autochton will of prevention from deadly Western diseases had almost reason of those ancestral habits. Nevertheless, some cannibals are said to remain on Malekula island.
Anyhow, nowadays a photographic tour seems to have replaced those dreadful customs in this newly independant country (1980), for thrilled tourists from Australia.
Gumshow and Ramana took the plane in Port-Vila for Paris, via Australia. They are looking for adventure and discovery amongst the so-called "civilized people".
They reserved an hotel near "Gare de Lyon", because the name make them think about a lion.
They are smiling at people with delicacy, when they arrive in this Parisian station.
- Ramana is just singing their favorite song :
"Iku oo, iku oo, iku oo !", which means roughly "I caught a fish, I caught a fish, I caught a fish", with the ancestral meaning of prey in Bichlamar.
- Gumshow, smiling at her, is answering :
"Da kwa we oyye, da kwa we oyye, da kwa we oyye !" Me, I caught several !
In the street, they ask a man for the direction of the hotel.
- Amused by seeing their funny bones in the nose, he is answering :
"it's just in front of you, on the other side of the street !"
Ramana who has no lipstick, is noticing the man is staring at her small bony earrings.
- Ramana to the man :
"Thank you very much for helping us. You are quite a nice man, even 'succulent' to speak French !"
- The man, a bit surprised :
"You're welcome !"
- Gumshow, asking him, in the same wave, something else :
"My cousin Ramana is a babysitter and she would like to put an ad.
Do you know where she can do that ?"
- The man :
"Oh, that's quite easy. Just follow me a few steps away to my near bakery."
All of them are entering the bakery.
- The man who is actually the boss is saluting Marie, the cashier :
"Bonjour, Marie !"
- Gumshow and Ramana, are repeating the same thing :
"Bonjour, Marie !"
- Marie :
"Bonjour, Messieurs-Dame !"
- The baker turning to Ramana :
"Please give me your ad ! I'll stick it on this window. I have got a lot of mothers amongst my clients. But, be careful their children are sometimes awful, like little monsters !"
- Gumshow to the baker :
"Don't worry, Ramana knows how to handle them !"
- The baker :
"Really !"
- Ramana to the baker :
"Yes ! Just let me add something on my paper then."
- The baker is reading, while almost laughing :
"You wrote below your phone number : 'Ramana, babysitter for little monsters. After two hours with me, your child or children will be like nice lambs onto you !' And all that for just 30 Euros !'"
- Ramana and Gumshow together :
"Exactly ! Thank you for all, sir. Have a nice day !"
And both of them get out in the street, heading happily to their hotel.....
(to be followed)
Sunday, December 23, 2012
A new "ICE" age : 2012 is extincting in Christian morosity !
by Jean-Jacques COURTEY, Doctor in Economic Geography, Ph.D
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Today it's bitterly cold and freezing in Moscow, which might look normal for Westerners' eyes, except the temperatures of this beginning winter are far too low when compared with the seasonal normal ones. Ice is everywhere with the fateful Boreal lights.
It seems there was no change in 2012 from 2011, but it's not true.
Change is not always sudden, even it looks so ; often it's the striking result of a longer and ignored process.
For instance, the share of the USA in the world GDP (around 70 trillion dollars now), is dropping clearly in front of emerging countries, and singularly China. America is still number one, but China is expected to become earlier than thought initially : the forecasting moved quickly from 2030 to 2020 or even 2015-2017 !
Russia is clearly rising again in this share with Brasil, a bit like Indonesia and Mexico also, the new surprising emerging countries. And India is maintaining an ascending position in front of a Western Europe on minority now on. There is really the end of a world economically, and the emergence of a new unknown paradigm.
While everybody's attention was caught on the village of Bugarach (Aude, France) more than Yucatan (Mexico) till this friday, with its non-event, the American group ICE (Intercontinental Exchange) discretely took the control of NYSE-Euronext. It was bought on thursday for 8.2 billion Dollars (6.2 billion Euros). And this happened in the most total indifference. The main point of the operation was to rise to the third world rank in the market of financial by-products which amounts around 700 trillion dollars - 10 times the world GDP -, by acquiring at the same time Liffe, owned by NYSE-Euronext. The ICE platform of London is then immediately strengthened to be able to face the number one, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing.
On this ground, France with the place of Paris (beside New-York, Brussels, Amsterdam and Lisbon) definitively lost independence or even co-dependence. But as it didn't catch the attention of anybody, there was no resistance. Bugarach tale has been too strong. It was so astonishing to connect artificially this small lost place of French Pyreneas with the Mayas (when it never had anything to do together), that everybody engulfed in it without thinking.
Europe's decay (with a special room for Spain) was more what the revengeful Mayan great priests envisioned. For instance, Spain that some are considering on remission now, is not if you consider about the potential illusion of its funny statistics - a bit similar to the Argentinian ones, which are questioned by IMF.
Christian religion looks exhausted after a 2000 years history, often controversial.
Paulinism and Augustinism can hardly catch the attention of people, with their funny limitations, not coming from Jesus Christ. The founding and translation of a new document from Egypt in 2012, "the Gospel of the wife of Jesus", Maria-Magdalena, seems to passionate only American specialists. And the Church is still in denial that Jesus Christ was calling her "ta-hime", "my wife" in public.
We know from the right beginning, with the Gospel of Saint John (III, 28-29), Jesus was effectively married. But no, this carry-on about the refusal of Jesus' marriage is going on blindly.
It's a bit like if marriage was hiddenly "dirty" for a part of the Church, and it looks so strange and absurd at a time of quarrel in France about the "marriage for everybody" (Gay marriage). But it's true at the same time marriage was conceived as a patrimonial weapon (from the XIth. century, with its definitive prohibition for priests and monks), and a way to control people (to bind them clearly to a land and a lord from the XIIth century, with feudality).
In truth, Jesus himself didn't talk so much about marriage, because his aim was at the opposite to free people.
If you want to defend efficiently the classic institution of marriage for religious purposes, may be it would be better to recognize first the right of Jesus to have married Maria-Magdalena, and to accept his possible descent and its rights. It would be more coherent then.
In meteorology and economics equalilly, scientific data and facts are "stoneheaded", and nothing can change them. People cannot help accepting that, even they don't like it.
About religion, if human beings don't understand much about godly things, it's not astonishing that God is taking mickey out of them and their irrational expectations.
The great lesson of December 21st, 2012, could be that Earth has become very peripheral in his global view, and certainly not - or not any more - a focal point of the universe !
___________________________
Today it's bitterly cold and freezing in Moscow, which might look normal for Westerners' eyes, except the temperatures of this beginning winter are far too low when compared with the seasonal normal ones. Ice is everywhere with the fateful Boreal lights.
It seems there was no change in 2012 from 2011, but it's not true.
Change is not always sudden, even it looks so ; often it's the striking result of a longer and ignored process.
For instance, the share of the USA in the world GDP (around 70 trillion dollars now), is dropping clearly in front of emerging countries, and singularly China. America is still number one, but China is expected to become earlier than thought initially : the forecasting moved quickly from 2030 to 2020 or even 2015-2017 !
Russia is clearly rising again in this share with Brasil, a bit like Indonesia and Mexico also, the new surprising emerging countries. And India is maintaining an ascending position in front of a Western Europe on minority now on. There is really the end of a world economically, and the emergence of a new unknown paradigm.
While everybody's attention was caught on the village of Bugarach (Aude, France) more than Yucatan (Mexico) till this friday, with its non-event, the American group ICE (Intercontinental Exchange) discretely took the control of NYSE-Euronext. It was bought on thursday for 8.2 billion Dollars (6.2 billion Euros). And this happened in the most total indifference. The main point of the operation was to rise to the third world rank in the market of financial by-products which amounts around 700 trillion dollars - 10 times the world GDP -, by acquiring at the same time Liffe, owned by NYSE-Euronext. The ICE platform of London is then immediately strengthened to be able to face the number one, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing.
On this ground, France with the place of Paris (beside New-York, Brussels, Amsterdam and Lisbon) definitively lost independence or even co-dependence. But as it didn't catch the attention of anybody, there was no resistance. Bugarach tale has been too strong. It was so astonishing to connect artificially this small lost place of French Pyreneas with the Mayas (when it never had anything to do together), that everybody engulfed in it without thinking.
Europe's decay (with a special room for Spain) was more what the revengeful Mayan great priests envisioned. For instance, Spain that some are considering on remission now, is not if you consider about the potential illusion of its funny statistics - a bit similar to the Argentinian ones, which are questioned by IMF.
Christian religion looks exhausted after a 2000 years history, often controversial.
Paulinism and Augustinism can hardly catch the attention of people, with their funny limitations, not coming from Jesus Christ. The founding and translation of a new document from Egypt in 2012, "the Gospel of the wife of Jesus", Maria-Magdalena, seems to passionate only American specialists. And the Church is still in denial that Jesus Christ was calling her "ta-hime", "my wife" in public.
We know from the right beginning, with the Gospel of Saint John (III, 28-29), Jesus was effectively married. But no, this carry-on about the refusal of Jesus' marriage is going on blindly.
It's a bit like if marriage was hiddenly "dirty" for a part of the Church, and it looks so strange and absurd at a time of quarrel in France about the "marriage for everybody" (Gay marriage). But it's true at the same time marriage was conceived as a patrimonial weapon (from the XIth. century, with its definitive prohibition for priests and monks), and a way to control people (to bind them clearly to a land and a lord from the XIIth century, with feudality).
In truth, Jesus himself didn't talk so much about marriage, because his aim was at the opposite to free people.
If you want to defend efficiently the classic institution of marriage for religious purposes, may be it would be better to recognize first the right of Jesus to have married Maria-Magdalena, and to accept his possible descent and its rights. It would be more coherent then.
In meteorology and economics equalilly, scientific data and facts are "stoneheaded", and nothing can change them. People cannot help accepting that, even they don't like it.
About religion, if human beings don't understand much about godly things, it's not astonishing that God is taking mickey out of them and their irrational expectations.
The great lesson of December 21st, 2012, could be that Earth has become very peripheral in his global view, and certainly not - or not any more - a focal point of the universe !
Saturday, December 1, 2012
"Katun Cauac" VII : the secret "war" of Mayan Codex, between uncertainty and paradoxical end !
by Jean-Jacques COURTEY, Doctor in Economic Geography, Ph. D
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Presently, there is a funny carry-on in order to demonstrate the Mayas didn't write what they are known to have written for December 21st, 2012, and the day (s) after. In fact, the Aztecs would have done it, as the successors of the Mayas !
It looks a bit like a big joke for secretly frightened specialists. But there is clearly a distinction between Mayan Codex and others, even it's more artificial for the Mexican ones. The fact they are pre-Colombian remains the first criterium, beside the place of origin. In that case, beside Mexico and Guatemala, people should consider also about the ones founded in Honduras and Belize, in tumbs, which have not been translated yet due to their bad condition.
Thus, the above specialists intend to convince themselves the whole story of the end of a world - if not of the world -, is completely impossible. They hardly believe in God, and still less in Gods like the awful and terrible Huracan, coming divinity of the next "Katun" (an important period of roughly twenty years for the Mayas or the Aztecs, in connection with the existing planet Venus, "Xux Ek").
Our everyday life is already full of tempests - precise meaning of "Cauac" -, but no, we are pushed to think paradoxically that nothing huge is happening throughout the world !
Then, only three Mayan Codex are said to be existing amongst strict specialists...if you forget about others : the ones of Madrid, Dresden and Paris. They are not all in a very good condition, and pages are missing especially in the one of Paris which was found in the past...in the dustbin of a Parisian library ! This was already showing an obvious lack of consideration for the Mayas and their writings.
Anyhow, one cannot take for certain that none of those Codex is quoting about December 21st, 2012 as nobody was really able to translate them fully, and without any controversy.
If you consider with attention the Codex of Paris, it's obvious it appears heavily deteriorated and not integral, by way of the bad souvenir of the dustbin mentioned just above.
So even, you deciphered what can be, it's totally impossible to assert with a certainty of 100% what was or not in the missing or deteriorated part, or even what is completely in the remaining numerized 24 pages (especially page 1, 12 or 15). It's just a matter of describing what you see, and not to fall in the "make believe".
Thus, you have to say that you strictly don't know if this book of Mayan prophecies is considering the crucial date of December 21st., 2012, and the period of twenty years (Katun) coming also. Doing opposite would be divination !
For God sake, the Codex of Paris is presently well kept in the "Bibliothèque Nationale de France".
Above that, there is a trick concerning the Codex of Paris, as two Codex in fact were carrying this name in the beginning. Effectively, two are kept in Paris and not one ! And the second one, is actually called "Codex Pérez " after the name of the same ancient owner, to distinguish it from the previous one !
Beyond this entertained confusion, Codex Pérez is the one containing the famous revengeful prophecies of Chilam Balam. And it concerns quite notably December 21st. 2012 (or 23rd for some). It could be considered as an hybrid document (Mayan-Aztec), but nothing is clear about the Aztec percentage of other Codex. Nothing is proving they are 100% Mayan. It was just deducted from their probable datation with carbon 14 (around XIIIth century most admittedly). In fact, there is a margin of error which is about almost one century (83 years).
Anyway, all of them have in common the Mayan calendar, Gods, and numeral system.
How to understand precisely the meaning of the following translated sentence for instance about December 21st. 2012 : "the Lord 7 will overcome the Lord 9 on Earth" ? Was the Great Priest talking about "the Lord 7 Sun", Ah Uuc Kin, who is "the cigar of Katun" ?
It might be the correct interpretation if you take on account the change of era (another "Sun" for the Mayas and the Aztecs), on December 22nd., 2012. The cigar can of course be just a cigar, but equalilly indicating a comet or more basically any kind of long cylinder. By the way, there was one actually, which was filmed on October 25th, 2012 entering at a high speed the crater of Popocateptl (Yucatan, Mexico) !
In fact, the peculiarity of those religious writings is that even translated in our language, they evoluate in another world - a Venusian world, as their Hell included is Venusian.
So it's often extremely difficult to render that for Earthian modern world, but not impossible.
In this Yucatecan-Mayan version, the Great Priest is warning translators to come not to take him for an idiot writing nonsense, by threatening them to go quickly to Hell for any lack of consideration.
This type of malediction was also frequent in Antic civilizations, when you just think about the Egyptian one for instance, with "the wings of death" for the malediction of Toutankhamon.
Is it fear which can explain why the thrilling "Codex Pérez" seems put aside, when it's the twin of the Codex of Paris n°1 ?
Chilam Balam" means exactly "the Jaguar Seer" (in fact Seers, as it was a title shared by several in Yucatan, Mexico). Those seers saw and forecasted accurately the end of the autochthon civilization with the coming of Cortés (1485-1547) on the very day he arrived in Cozumel (April 22nd, 1519). So it would have been hard to believe they couldn't predict anything about December 21st, 2012, the very last day of their Venusian Calendar, and the day (s) after.
The Mayas (and Aztecs) had a cyclic conception of Universe and civilizations. In their humility, they knew all of them, including the condenscending ones, are falling down one day. And who can assert ours - Eastern for them - will not, and certainly not on December 21st, 2012 ? Are there so strong signs it's not already collapsing catastrophically in confusion, mainly because of a blind sillyness ?
So the secret "war" of Mayan Codex, which seem too narrowly listed if you add also the controversial Grolier Codex of New-York to the Pérez one, neither lead anywhere, nor demonstrate anything about the potential inexistence of December 21st. (or 23rd), 2012. And in the case of the end of just a world, it would in that case be lost, putting paradoxically an end to uncertainty !
How to understand for instance the strange reference to the reign of a certain Pochek-Ix-Dzoy on Earth, but near the well of Hell - Venusian Hell -, with his quite astonishing demands, if you consider again the fateful prophecies of Codex Pérez (Codex of Paris n°2) ?
Would that apply to all the "Nunob", the ones not speaking Maya ? Why wouldn't it then ?!
Say the environment was suddenly becoming very shaky or blowy, or both, on the fateful date, with a funny and heavy red sky for instance, it would be possible to get an unusual "coffee-tomato" at a coffee-shop, without having even asked for it - half-jokingly !
It can just be hoped the most powerful forces of Universe will stay rather quiet and not enter in the human scenario, as nobody can beat them. And whatever will happen, this will remain true on December 21st., 2012, December 22nd., 2012, and the day after also !
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
"Katun Cauac" VI : towards the end of a mere utopia, Cartesianism !
by Jean-Jacques COURTEY, Doctor in Economic Geography, Ph. D
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We want to recall first for clarity, that "Katun Cauac" means "the time of tempests". It has to cover the next twenty years roughly, as it is named after a Mayan period of time of this length basically.
It is known that the Mayas chose carefully places to establish in Central America, in order to protect themselves from the power of the God Huracan, Master of winds and fire. Huracan is the one going to be in charge of the world according to their prophecies during "Katun Cauac", which is starting officially on December 22nd, 2012, with its day after also. His name gave "hurricane" in English, and "ouragan" in French.
The four colours of tempests associated (white, yellow-greenish, red or black) seem also to indicate winds' direction and destination, if you take Yucatan (Mexico) or let's say Central America as a conventional center, for their Earthian orientation towards North, South, East or West.
A change of "Katun" is always preceded by the type of events it is announcing. And this is even stronger, when at the same time a change of era - another "Sun" for the Mayas - is also coming simultaneously.
Too cartesian people, who didn't get the wind in the face yet, don't believe in this. But it is not anymore a question of belief.
Still, they intend to say blindly it's not true. And yet everybody is obliged nilling willing to open the eyes, and accept the new reality, even uncomfortable.
Hurricane Sandy in New York and the North-East of the USA, or recent tornadoes and flood in France or elsewhere show clearly there is a huge change at work on Earth.
Strict cartesianists can be strange visionless worshippers of "Goddess reason" : they intend too much to ignore facts and informations, whatever they are worldwide, national or local...only because - may be -, they had the chance to keep the feet still dry.
If you take the French "Journal Officiel" of October 21st, 2012, you can find no less than 31 pages filled of departments, towns or villages in the whole France, showing that natural catastrophes are happening in mass and acceleratedly.
Two very long lists ("texts 8 and 9 upon 34") are covering the year 2012 not ended still and 2011, with the usual impersonal administrative style and without any comment.
Thus, all together there are 31 pages dedicated to the denumbering of natural catastrophes (ground movements whatever they were differential or not, floods and mudslides, plus the earthquake of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence from February 26th till March 25th, 2012).
But no, Cartesians would say nothing is happening at all, denying strong evidences like the candid Pinocchio of Gepetto. They preferred living in their utopic and limited world. But in fact, they won't be anymore able to do it. And this very fact is already destabilizing and unsettling them, behind or now before the screen. Their world and their ready made certainties seem to be trully collapsing.
At the opposite, Christian fundamentalists would exaggerate about it, and take for granted the time of their saving is quickly coming : they decided they are the elected ones and God has almost to obey.
But no, God doesn't obey anybody : he makes people obeying instead and chooses by himself !
And obviously they would quote some sentences of the Bible which evidence on a divine point of view is just "human". Nevertheless, as they are logic, they are preparing carefully their down-to-earth potential survival.
The Bible is first a collection of human writings and an expression of human understanding on God. At the origin, it describes the way priests in Judah kingdom, but coming from Ur in Mesopotamia, were perceiving God "made one" - through Hachem exactly - from the time of King Josias around 620 BC, in order to assert his power. Hachem can be translated as "the one who has got all forces", or more simply "the Name". But it is true the Bible, the New Testament included, is full of prophecies which can be taken as fulfilled or on the way to be yet.
So too rational and cold arguments are just echoing irrational and hot ones.
Whatever shall really happen on December 21st, 2012, another world will be born on December 22th., the day after. And that's the very meaning of "Katun Cauac", the time of colourful tempests !
On September 13th, 2012, the biggest volcano of Guatemala, the Volcan de Fuego - "Volcano of Fire" -, 16 km from Antigua city, erupted over suddenly : we don't know how the descendants of Mayas took it. Did they perceive this as a message from Kukulcan (Quetzalcoatl), the "feathered snake", connect it with Venus calendar and the prophecies of Chilam Balam, or none of them ?
On October 25th, 2012 at 8:45 PM (local hour), on the other side of the border, in Mexico then, there was a funny carry-on with the Popocatepetl, "the smoking mountain". This volcano is the highest summit of the Mexican state (5 465 m), and is situated 55 km southeast of the capital, Mexico city. Normally, it's so active that videocameras are constantly watching at it. So when a funny cylinder 1 km long for 200 m diameter entered at a high speed in its crater on that very evening, the scientific community, already nervous with the countdown of the Mayan prophecy and ready to jump on any unusual event, became over suddenly agitated. But the so-called explanation of a "meteorit" getting into the crater is far to appear valid and convincing, as there wasn't any explosion.
When you pay carefully attention at the recorded images, it looks more like a landing or ...a delivery to us. Anyhow, this shows clearly how much human science can be quickly limited by what is appearing as a basic long tube with a regular shape, after all.
Why not going to Popocatepetl to check, then ?
To be more down to Earth, telluric activity might not spread so quickly all over the world as a great show, as long as huge volcanoes stay strangely quiet when they shouldn't be.
Human beings are easily bored by peaceful Earth and peaceful time, as they are naturally full of agressivity and have an incurable addiction to memorable and thrilling events, including in Aveyron. They may just act in order to avoid getting the opposite.
Whatever happened a very long time ago in Yellowstone for America (700 000 years), in the area of Lake Toba in Indonesia (62 000 years), in the "Atlant Ocean" off Antigua (9 566 years), or in the disappeared legendary continent of "Mu" (may be partly remaining still, through Japan archipelago mainly) at an unknown date, Earth show might go on variously. Yet "Xux Ek", the Mayan wasp-star also called "Venus" nowadays can be mistievous, when its time comes to say somewhere on Earth, "Ya ucu" ("Alas") !
To give a last counter-example to the "cartesianist utopia", Fuji San (Fuji Yama for Westerners) in Japan has presently got a very high magmatic activity : it is said to be quite higher than the one of December 16th., 1707, when it started to erupt till 1708, and caused big casualties. But it didn't burst out at the moment strangely : we read it's 16 times higher, but we don't know how such a number was estimated, so we prefer staying skeptic about this exaggerated measurement. Perhaps, the famous medium Allison Dubois should rather be asked about it. Anyway, this shows again that Cartesianism can't explain everything and may be sometimes not anything !
None of the expected scenarii discretely planned by specialists for December 21st, 2012, might match real occurences, as thrilling suspense is holding on.
And on his side, God could decide to be very cheeky also with the tricky ones who cock snooks at him, by destabilizing over suddenly and deeply their unfair, silly, and unwise cartesian standing to attention, seeming to say : "Get lost, it's you to carry the cross by now, because you are not welcome in the sky !"
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Fumo bianco II : Santa Cecilia in Trastévere !
per Jean-Jacques COURTEY, Dottore in Geografia Economica
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Santa Cecilia in Trastévere in Roma è un sede cardinalice vacante attualmente.
Ha avuto nel passato la sua ora di gloria con Simon di Brion (verso 1210 - 1285), questo francese diventato Papa sotto il nome di Martin IV (1281 - 1285).
Cio' puo' essere un punto importante a sottolineare, rispetto al nostro recente articolo dedicato al "Cardinale Segreto".
Il quartiere del Trastévere è molto animato e illuminato la notte. Si trova degli eccelente ristoranti : possiamo attestare. Ne abbiamo custodito il migliori ricordarsi in iuglio 2004, mentre soggiornavamo più lontano un poco, Via della Conciliazione (a due passi del Vaticano).
Santa Cecilia in Trastévere ha la particolarità di essere annessa direttamente a San Pietro di Roma.
Durante il suo pontificato, Martin IV, il giurista, ha provato a mettere un termine al grande scisma di 1054 tra la Chiesa di Roma e la Chiesa di Oriente (Bizencia). Ma non è giunto, perché gli era contato ed il suo regno fu troppo corto.
Gli anatemi reciproci sono stati sollevati infine nel 1965 da Paolo VI ed il patriarca greco Athenagoras I. Ed il patriarca russo Alexis II è venuto alla Nostra Signora di Parigi nel 2007 per venerare le reliquie della passione del Cristo. Cosi' i rapporti tra le due Chiese sono essi di ordine oecumenico, verso la riconcilazione finale che resta tuttavia a compiere.
Santa Cecilia in Trastévere è un luogo altamente frequentato dai turisti francesi in Roma.
La delicata statua in marmo di Santa Cecilia - in posizione distesa - di Stefano Maderno (1600), li affascina in più alto punto.
Il suo corpo fu ritrovato in 1599 in occasione di perquisizioni archeologiche : miracolosamente era stato conservato intatto centinaia di anni. La commemorazione reiterata del suo martirio fatto della padrona della musica il simbolo del complesso dialogo con gli angeli.
Forse questo dovuto è alla musica celeste che desiderano sentire come Cecilia, quando incontrava un angelo diventato il suo amante divino, segondo "La leggenda dorata" di Iaccopo da Varazze (1260) ?
Del secondo o terzo secolo dove viveva Santa Cecilia nella Roma ancora pagana ai nostri giorni, tante cose hanno cambiato. Tuttavia, c'è al suo riguardo una permanenza attestata delle manifestazioni della fede che puo' sembrare propriamente stupefacente. Fa sempre dei miracoli oggi !
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Santa Cecilia in Trastévere in Roma è un sede cardinalice vacante attualmente.
Ha avuto nel passato la sua ora di gloria con Simon di Brion (verso 1210 - 1285), questo francese diventato Papa sotto il nome di Martin IV (1281 - 1285).
Cio' puo' essere un punto importante a sottolineare, rispetto al nostro recente articolo dedicato al "Cardinale Segreto".
Il quartiere del Trastévere è molto animato e illuminato la notte. Si trova degli eccelente ristoranti : possiamo attestare. Ne abbiamo custodito il migliori ricordarsi in iuglio 2004, mentre soggiornavamo più lontano un poco, Via della Conciliazione (a due passi del Vaticano).
Santa Cecilia in Trastévere ha la particolarità di essere annessa direttamente a San Pietro di Roma.
Durante il suo pontificato, Martin IV, il giurista, ha provato a mettere un termine al grande scisma di 1054 tra la Chiesa di Roma e la Chiesa di Oriente (Bizencia). Ma non è giunto, perché gli era contato ed il suo regno fu troppo corto.
Gli anatemi reciproci sono stati sollevati infine nel 1965 da Paolo VI ed il patriarca greco Athenagoras I. Ed il patriarca russo Alexis II è venuto alla Nostra Signora di Parigi nel 2007 per venerare le reliquie della passione del Cristo. Cosi' i rapporti tra le due Chiese sono essi di ordine oecumenico, verso la riconcilazione finale che resta tuttavia a compiere.
Santa Cecilia in Trastévere è un luogo altamente frequentato dai turisti francesi in Roma.
La delicata statua in marmo di Santa Cecilia - in posizione distesa - di Stefano Maderno (1600), li affascina in più alto punto.
Il suo corpo fu ritrovato in 1599 in occasione di perquisizioni archeologiche : miracolosamente era stato conservato intatto centinaia di anni. La commemorazione reiterata del suo martirio fatto della padrona della musica il simbolo del complesso dialogo con gli angeli.
Forse questo dovuto è alla musica celeste che desiderano sentire come Cecilia, quando incontrava un angelo diventato il suo amante divino, segondo "La leggenda dorata" di Iaccopo da Varazze (1260) ?
Del secondo o terzo secolo dove viveva Santa Cecilia nella Roma ancora pagana ai nostri giorni, tante cose hanno cambiato. Tuttavia, c'è al suo riguardo una permanenza attestata delle manifestazioni della fede che puo' sembrare propriamente stupefacente. Fa sempre dei miracoli oggi !
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