by Jean-Jacques COURTEY, Doctor in Economic Geography, Ph. D
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This new article of anticipation has obviously to be connected to the previous ones, as "Just science-fiction" is our mascot series. Here we are plunging still more deeply into fantastic realism.
The first mission "officially" inhabited to be launched by NASA onto Mars is planned for 2030.
We say officially because of the previous ones, which didn't happen officiously in 1962 and 1972, according to what should be known.
So Earthling beings never landed normally on the Red Planet, and no colony was established in the past from 1962. The intertwinning of Earth and Mars was just staying an original idea.
Again, the atmosphere of Mars is not at all liveable for human beings and no crops, and of course no town are existing presently on it. And obviously it is a "true" reality, even you start to scratch the thin orange film delicately stuck on the original pictures of Mars. If you can see finally life, both rural and urban like on Earth, it has to be a stupid error of parallax, of course ! Don't be silly, only the existence of water is now recognized !
In 1957, during the conference of Huntsville (Alabama, USA), three alternatives were defined for Earth future. With the first, nuclear devices had to be blasted in the stratosphere to create holes in order to evacuate heat and increasing pollution, while the second implied the building of a vast network of cities underground to conjure the world demographic explosion and rising pollution as well. The departure of Earth elite for Mars, with an impressive system for the selection of the persons to be saved, was called "Alternative 3" : it meant abandoning the old and quickly decaying planet Earth. And funnily, it never envisioned that people living on Mars were thinking to do exactly the opposite !
That's precisely what we are suggesting with the intertwinning of Earth and Mars.
So the year the Climate Change topic was launched worldwide (1957), getting along with a new promising science, Ecology, a crossed strategy started humorously. And some people of Earth might have already been unexpectedly surprised.
Coming back to the next mission to Mars, it is allowed to wander if there couldn't be a quicker way to go to Mars, than the future vessel "Orion" of "Mars-2030" : nine months to go if the astronauts are lucky enough due to the use of a Moon "push", and between two years and two years and half if they are still more lucky to come back.
As a matter of fact, the other way which is based upon the use of a kind of very secret mantra, may look too magical : just repeating a certain number of times "Oc Aurem Octe..." may seem effectively strange !
About that, you probably didn't notice we didn't write the full sentence. The reason is, we don't really know if it is so inefficient, or if at the opposite one can be actually teleported on Mars by accident without being prepared. As it could be a shocking experience, it's better to be careful, just in case... !
To conclude, another point to take into consideration very soon - in fact now -, with the recent events happening in the Galaxy, is the departure of the Greys from their Martian basis (among others) to Earth, to shelter from Procyon - Orion once again.
With more Greys settling on Earth very quickly, it is obvious that the intertwinning of Earth and Mars could be entering a very new phase. And the results of Cop 21 which has to be held near Paris, very soon also (November 30th - December 11th, 2015), might be of a great help.
Anyhow, the recent issue of Procyon (Orion) having an alliance with the USA, which got the green light about Mars, is certainly interesting. About it, it is quite amusing to realize the future Earthling rocket to reach and colonize "officially" Mars this time, is justly called "Orion" !
A message from Mars would take 12 minutes and half to reach Earth, and the same for an answer : so a simple exchange would need 25 minutes to a minimum and ...patience also. Only the above mantra "Oc Aurem Octe..." could be faster, and ....totally reversible as well with the right bracelet. Good heavens, one thing is sure : the future might not be boring at all for a fancy-free person !
Sunday, November 8, 2015
Monday, October 19, 2015
Catalonia 2015-2017 : from regional elections to the unexpected revival of "Gota Lonna" !
by Jean-Jacques COURTEY, Doctor in Economic Geography, Ph.D
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The results of the regional elections in Catalonia on Sunday, September 27th, 2015, were overwhelming. It's important to know that in 2006, already, a large status of autonomy was recognized to Catalonia by Spain.
Before the ballot, the parties supporting the independence of Catalonia from Spain, attracted the world's attention on this opened will.
And now, they have to show how they are going to do to introduce a process of partition from Spain, which should last at least one year and half.
Catalonia is situated in the North East of Spain, and it has got more than 7.5 million inhabitants for 32 114 km2. Its capital is Barcelona (1.6 million inhabitants), and with 101.6 km2 it is around the size of Paris (105 km2).
When the count of Barcelona married the heiress of Aragon in 1137, Catalonia passed then to the the nascent kingdom of Aragon, which grew thereafter. So there is obviously the shadow weight of this Templar state reappearing on a diffuse way, which was bigger than the present generality of Spain.
Catalonia is situated in the North East of Spain, and it has got more than 7.5 million inhabitants for 32 114 km2. Its capital is Barcelona (1.6 million inhabitants), and with 101.6 km2 it is around the size of Paris (105 km2).
When the count of Barcelona married the heiress of Aragon in 1137, Catalonia passed then to the the nascent kingdom of Aragon, which grew thereafter. So there is obviously the shadow weight of this Templar state reappearing on a diffuse way, which was bigger than the present generality of Spain.
The main point of independence claim is about fiscal redistribution in Spain, accused to take profit from Catalonia's wealth.
Catalonia is presently representing 20% of the Spanish GDP, which is already less than before.
The wealth shift between Barcelona (Catalonia), and Madrid (the capital of Castile and Spain), happened already far before. But there was the world financial crisis of 2008 since.
Presently, Catalonia's wealth is mainly depending on industry and the mass tourism of Costa Brava.
But another important element to take on account is certainly the idea to be culturally different, because of a different language, Catalan, now again in use since the death of the Caudillo Francisco Franco (1892 - 1975), the Nationalist leader.
The wealth shift between Barcelona (Catalonia), and Madrid (the capital of Castile and Spain), happened already far before. But there was the world financial crisis of 2008 since.
Presently, Catalonia's wealth is mainly depending on industry and the mass tourism of Costa Brava.
But another important element to take on account is certainly the idea to be culturally different, because of a different language, Catalan, now again in use since the death of the Caudillo Francisco Franco (1892 - 1975), the Nationalist leader.
As a matter of fact, Catalan was forbidden to use during his dictatorship (1939 - 1975).
The language by itself has got similarities with the proximate "Occitan" of the South of France.
And outsiders are not aware of another important point which has become invisible : the origin of Catalonia's name. It is believed by the inhabitants of this area that it is coming from "Gota Lonna" (extended Gothia up to Barcelona), a deformation of "Gothlandia" and then "Gotia Longa". Gothia is based upon the name of Goths, from the Germanic tribes which took control of this mediterranean region between the end of Roman era and the very beginning of Middle Age. They have been admired for long in this area.
As a matter of fact, the area of Girona and Barcelona was integrated in a bigger land after 412, with the arrival of Wisigoths (Goths of the South). And till 801, it was a part of Septimania or Gothia (with Toulouse, Carcassonne and Narbonne). It was made upon the original "Gaule Narbonnaise" dating from the Romans. It seems the Goths didn't come alone in the South West of France, as some Sarmatians tiny colonies firstly established around Lyon, got along with them till Poitiers area and below also. This was due to a family secret about the hidden descendance of Alexander the Great (356 - 323 BC) in Gaul.
And the division of Gothia's marquisate (or Septimania) in two is dating back to 865 : the county of Narbonne was linked to France, and the county of Barcelona was bound to the marches of Spain, still pertaining to the Carolingian Kings. But the de facto independence of Barcelona from France occurred only in 988, when Capetian Kings replaced Carolingian ones : the count Borell II (947 - 993) didn't pay allegiance to the new French dynasty. It took time to be recognized de jure, but it was finally done on May 11, 1258 by the treaty of Corbeil between the French King Louis IX (1214 - 1270) and the King James Ist of Aragon (1208 - 1276).
Among this, the confuse irruption of "Femen" from Ukraine to France (and the world) since 2008, seems to be a rather funny coincidence...
Sarmatians were an hybrid people which emerged in 320 BC - at the time of Queen Minithya, King Spadines, and "Magog the Goth" as "referee" -, with the fusion of the not so legendary Amazons (which kingdom was covering the North of Anatolia, the South of Russia, and Ukraine) and the free Scythians. And Goths who started to settle in the Black Sea area around 180, overwhelmed them - on an original way - in the beginning of the IIIrd century. So, the Gothic history of Catalonia has indirectly something to see with an hidden mystery of history, which remained under the veil for so long till now.
The language by itself has got similarities with the proximate "Occitan" of the South of France.
And outsiders are not aware of another important point which has become invisible : the origin of Catalonia's name. It is believed by the inhabitants of this area that it is coming from "Gota Lonna" (extended Gothia up to Barcelona), a deformation of "Gothlandia" and then "Gotia Longa". Gothia is based upon the name of Goths, from the Germanic tribes which took control of this mediterranean region between the end of Roman era and the very beginning of Middle Age. They have been admired for long in this area.
As a matter of fact, the area of Girona and Barcelona was integrated in a bigger land after 412, with the arrival of Wisigoths (Goths of the South). And till 801, it was a part of Septimania or Gothia (with Toulouse, Carcassonne and Narbonne). It was made upon the original "Gaule Narbonnaise" dating from the Romans. It seems the Goths didn't come alone in the South West of France, as some Sarmatians tiny colonies firstly established around Lyon, got along with them till Poitiers area and below also. This was due to a family secret about the hidden descendance of Alexander the Great (356 - 323 BC) in Gaul.
And the division of Gothia's marquisate (or Septimania) in two is dating back to 865 : the county of Narbonne was linked to France, and the county of Barcelona was bound to the marches of Spain, still pertaining to the Carolingian Kings. But the de facto independence of Barcelona from France occurred only in 988, when Capetian Kings replaced Carolingian ones : the count Borell II (947 - 993) didn't pay allegiance to the new French dynasty. It took time to be recognized de jure, but it was finally done on May 11, 1258 by the treaty of Corbeil between the French King Louis IX (1214 - 1270) and the King James Ist of Aragon (1208 - 1276).
Among this, the confuse irruption of "Femen" from Ukraine to France (and the world) since 2008, seems to be a rather funny coincidence...
Sarmatians were an hybrid people which emerged in 320 BC - at the time of Queen Minithya, King Spadines, and "Magog the Goth" as "referee" -, with the fusion of the not so legendary Amazons (which kingdom was covering the North of Anatolia, the South of Russia, and Ukraine) and the free Scythians. And Goths who started to settle in the Black Sea area around 180, overwhelmed them - on an original way - in the beginning of the IIIrd century. So, the Gothic history of Catalonia has indirectly something to see with an hidden mystery of history, which remained under the veil for so long till now.
Coming back to modern history, on October 6th, 1934, there was already a proclamation of total autonomy from Madrid by the president of the generality of Catalonia, Lluis Companys , and a general strike, but it failed five days after. However at the time, the point was the denounced fusion of all the Right wing parties through their participation to government, and not independence then.
This was less than two years before the civil war which bursted out between Republicans and Nationalists lead by General Franco (1936 - 1939).
This was less than two years before the civil war which bursted out between Republicans and Nationalists lead by General Franco (1936 - 1939).
There doesn't seem to be any revendication of Barcelona about the French side of Catalonia presently : the department of "Pyrénées Orientales", sometimes called "North Catalonia" yet, and the city of Perpignan. The reason is certainly the treaty of Pyreneas between France and Spain at the time of Louis XIV (1659), and may be also the fact the chain of Pyreneas is forming a natural border between France and Spain.
But the possible dislocation of Spain, could prepare a movement of territorial change in Western Europe, if it didn't stop. Some other areas may want to imitate this novelty, yet ancient.
Of course, that wouldn't really affect EU, as its main policy for the future is a policy of super-regions going over existing states.
About Catalonia, it would just become the 29th state of EU then !
Anyhow, Spain can't accept so easily to lose this rich province, without promptly reacting against the leader of the Convergence Democratic Party of Catalonia.
That's why Artur Mas (born in 1956), the president of Catalonia's generality, supporting this idea of independence has been accused of "civil disobedience" on last September 29th.
As nobody knows how things will evolve, the most unexpected revival could be the one of the previous and once forgotten "Gota Lonna" !
But the possible dislocation of Spain, could prepare a movement of territorial change in Western Europe, if it didn't stop. Some other areas may want to imitate this novelty, yet ancient.
Of course, that wouldn't really affect EU, as its main policy for the future is a policy of super-regions going over existing states.
About Catalonia, it would just become the 29th state of EU then !
Anyhow, Spain can't accept so easily to lose this rich province, without promptly reacting against the leader of the Convergence Democratic Party of Catalonia.
That's why Artur Mas (born in 1956), the president of Catalonia's generality, supporting this idea of independence has been accused of "civil disobedience" on last September 29th.
As nobody knows how things will evolve, the most unexpected revival could be the one of the previous and once forgotten "Gota Lonna" !
Saturday, September 26, 2015
Just science-fiction VI : Declaration of ETs and human Rights !
by Jean-Jacques COURTEY, Doctor in Economic Geography, Ph.D
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Just in a science-fiction point of view of course, the next summit of Le Bourget about Climate (COP 21), near Paris (France), may provoke an adaptation of Earth to change.
One of its main aim is to reduce by 40% the greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere in comparison with 1990, and this by only 2030.
This would make Earth more easily liveable for more intelligent beings.
After the summit "Paris Climate 2015" (November 30th - December 11th, 2015), it might be necessary to organize discretely the coming in number of ETs on Earth, mostly Greys. They are going to shelter on Earth, after abandoning to Procyon their basis of Venus (the one of seven Domes), Mars and the Moon. And Visitors of Procyon (Orion) would probably settle on our planet equally, to watch the Greys - and especially Rigelians, as Zetas are mostly considered as allies by now.
So then, to articulate peacefully the living on Earth, a declaration of common rights has to be ready to live in good intelligence, to try avoiding highly asymmetrical and dangerous confrontations or war. It would be a matter of exceptional wisdom, something unusual and extremely rare on Earth historically...
Let's remember the people of Procyon are the new leaders of the Galactic Federation, towards which Earth would extend then its eventual partnership !
In the galaxy, a lot of clever beings think most human beings are bestial, backward and unintelligent, which makes impossible to establish a clever and harmonious contact. But the Galactic Federation still think on the opposite, that contact is possible in certain ways. And on this point, Procyon and the Greys are agreeing.
A lot of human beings are basically boasters or posers, and the difference of gender has no influence on this. For instance, they don't take much into consideration their extremely high risk to disappear, just because a "Mega signal" would be sent electromagnetically to their very fragile "Cloud". In less than half a second, they may return anytime to Neandertal Age, but they don't mind !
And at the difference of Neandertal men, they are not prepared at all to that !
Anyhow, just in case they choose to be wise or are lead to be willy-nilly most likely, instead of following their predator instinct, a declaration of common rights can be envisioned.
So then, for the time being and to the present date, the declaration of ETs and Human Rights is the following :
" Article 1 : ETs and human beings are equal.
Article 2 : ETs are then granted the same rights as human beings on Earth, and particularly the freedom of speech and lead.
Article 3 : In the measure of possible their obligations are also equal, except some specificities (inborn, metabolic, environmental, spiritual,...), or the accomplishment of biological vital needs to reconstitute and regenerate, would impeach them or make them touched by caducity.
Article 4 : Inter-marriages are allowed if the species are biologically very proximate and compatible, in a way to enrich each other of their difference, and to produce children benefitting from both qualities.
Article 5 : Love and affection are the predominant bases of inter-marriages in order to make them mutually fulfilling and harmonious, and to maintain lasting bonds.
Individuals of both origins are automatically recognized and guaranteed the right to have a normal family life, in all its understated aspects of civil and patrimonial rights with a putative effect.
Article 6 : ETs are granted full access to the human social systems with a working right, and benefits in the Earthling country they are living.
Vice versa, human beings are granted the equivalent in the ETs social systems, and then can also obtain the same benefits from them by reflexivity.
Article 7 : Dual citizenship with full political rights at the age of majority (18) is allowed, to facilitate inter-connection and free move between the civilizations involved.
Article 8 : ETs are recognizing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of December 10th, 1948 (General Assembly of UNO in Paris), and the European Convention on Human Rights of November 4th, 1950 signed in Rome, and by equivalence Earth is recognizing the Principles of Peace and Harmony Maintenance in the Galaxy.
Article 9 : All the rights recognized to human beings by the above Declaration and Convention mentioned in Article 8, are applying equally and automatically, as natural and positive rights to ETs as for Earth.
Article 10 : Children of both origins are entitled to get a comprehensive and free education, in their double original cultures and wherever it is needed, in order to develop fully their original personality and talents.
Equally, the parents of those children are entitled to get a complete and free upgrade, wherever they choose to get it."
Those 10 articles can obviously be completed, according to necessities and further implementations.
They would suppose a certain flexibility in their enforcement, as it would mean mankind to be at the beginning of a new era, and of an incredible re-start marked by a post-Biblical importance.
It would mean then a full revolution for human mind.
And initially, this would be extremely disturbing, or at the opposite funny and even amusing for the ones ready to take it this way. But instead of an announced panic, a very tired mankind might find in this, a new breathing with renovated hopes and expectations. And an incredible enthusiasm might also get along a never seen dynamism on the "New Earth", with a new way to see Cosmos !
Life may appear as sparkling over suddenly, and so full of real magic ! Even Christian religion might benefit of this new creative universe, as it doesn't really contradict it.
And since August 2008 as we quoted before, Vatican recognized that ETs were accessible to the word of Jesus Christ. So everything is ready in a way, to enter the new change of era with a reasoned optimism.
A tremendous expansion of consciousness would obviously occur.
So then, people's mind would certainly have to be light, to adapt such a new world...yet in the same world.
And the elders might not be at all the last ones to agree, encourage, or support such a change - unexpectedly.
Good luck to Earth ! And Good luck to the Galaxy !
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Just in a science-fiction point of view of course, the next summit of Le Bourget about Climate (COP 21), near Paris (France), may provoke an adaptation of Earth to change.
One of its main aim is to reduce by 40% the greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere in comparison with 1990, and this by only 2030.
This would make Earth more easily liveable for more intelligent beings.
After the summit "Paris Climate 2015" (November 30th - December 11th, 2015), it might be necessary to organize discretely the coming in number of ETs on Earth, mostly Greys. They are going to shelter on Earth, after abandoning to Procyon their basis of Venus (the one of seven Domes), Mars and the Moon. And Visitors of Procyon (Orion) would probably settle on our planet equally, to watch the Greys - and especially Rigelians, as Zetas are mostly considered as allies by now.
So then, to articulate peacefully the living on Earth, a declaration of common rights has to be ready to live in good intelligence, to try avoiding highly asymmetrical and dangerous confrontations or war. It would be a matter of exceptional wisdom, something unusual and extremely rare on Earth historically...
Let's remember the people of Procyon are the new leaders of the Galactic Federation, towards which Earth would extend then its eventual partnership !
In the galaxy, a lot of clever beings think most human beings are bestial, backward and unintelligent, which makes impossible to establish a clever and harmonious contact. But the Galactic Federation still think on the opposite, that contact is possible in certain ways. And on this point, Procyon and the Greys are agreeing.
A lot of human beings are basically boasters or posers, and the difference of gender has no influence on this. For instance, they don't take much into consideration their extremely high risk to disappear, just because a "Mega signal" would be sent electromagnetically to their very fragile "Cloud". In less than half a second, they may return anytime to Neandertal Age, but they don't mind !
And at the difference of Neandertal men, they are not prepared at all to that !
Anyhow, just in case they choose to be wise or are lead to be willy-nilly most likely, instead of following their predator instinct, a declaration of common rights can be envisioned.
So then, for the time being and to the present date, the declaration of ETs and Human Rights is the following :
" Article 1 : ETs and human beings are equal.
Article 2 : ETs are then granted the same rights as human beings on Earth, and particularly the freedom of speech and lead.
Article 3 : In the measure of possible their obligations are also equal, except some specificities (inborn, metabolic, environmental, spiritual,...), or the accomplishment of biological vital needs to reconstitute and regenerate, would impeach them or make them touched by caducity.
Article 4 : Inter-marriages are allowed if the species are biologically very proximate and compatible, in a way to enrich each other of their difference, and to produce children benefitting from both qualities.
Article 5 : Love and affection are the predominant bases of inter-marriages in order to make them mutually fulfilling and harmonious, and to maintain lasting bonds.
Individuals of both origins are automatically recognized and guaranteed the right to have a normal family life, in all its understated aspects of civil and patrimonial rights with a putative effect.
Article 6 : ETs are granted full access to the human social systems with a working right, and benefits in the Earthling country they are living.
Vice versa, human beings are granted the equivalent in the ETs social systems, and then can also obtain the same benefits from them by reflexivity.
Article 7 : Dual citizenship with full political rights at the age of majority (18) is allowed, to facilitate inter-connection and free move between the civilizations involved.
Article 8 : ETs are recognizing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of December 10th, 1948 (General Assembly of UNO in Paris), and the European Convention on Human Rights of November 4th, 1950 signed in Rome, and by equivalence Earth is recognizing the Principles of Peace and Harmony Maintenance in the Galaxy.
Article 9 : All the rights recognized to human beings by the above Declaration and Convention mentioned in Article 8, are applying equally and automatically, as natural and positive rights to ETs as for Earth.
Article 10 : Children of both origins are entitled to get a comprehensive and free education, in their double original cultures and wherever it is needed, in order to develop fully their original personality and talents.
Equally, the parents of those children are entitled to get a complete and free upgrade, wherever they choose to get it."
Those 10 articles can obviously be completed, according to necessities and further implementations.
They would suppose a certain flexibility in their enforcement, as it would mean mankind to be at the beginning of a new era, and of an incredible re-start marked by a post-Biblical importance.
It would mean then a full revolution for human mind.
And initially, this would be extremely disturbing, or at the opposite funny and even amusing for the ones ready to take it this way. But instead of an announced panic, a very tired mankind might find in this, a new breathing with renovated hopes and expectations. And an incredible enthusiasm might also get along a never seen dynamism on the "New Earth", with a new way to see Cosmos !
Life may appear as sparkling over suddenly, and so full of real magic ! Even Christian religion might benefit of this new creative universe, as it doesn't really contradict it.
And since August 2008 as we quoted before, Vatican recognized that ETs were accessible to the word of Jesus Christ. So everything is ready in a way, to enter the new change of era with a reasoned optimism.
A tremendous expansion of consciousness would obviously occur.
So then, people's mind would certainly have to be light, to adapt such a new world...yet in the same world.
And the elders might not be at all the last ones to agree, encourage, or support such a change - unexpectedly.
Good luck to Earth ! And Good luck to the Galaxy !
Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Rediscovering famous characters II : the amazing surprises of "Didymos" !
by Jean-Jacques COURTEY, Doctor in Economic Geography, Ph. D
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The character we have chosen this time is very famous in all Christianity, but under a more common name.
Don't worry you know this name very well ! But we want you to guess by yourself !
His mother is extremely famous also, as she is the object of an holy cult for all Roman Catholics : Maria the Virgin !
What ? You may think we are talking about Jesus Christ character, but that's not the case !
Wow, what does that mean ? Is it an enigma you ignored or never realized about Christianity ?
Our character is not Jesus, but "Didymos". And he was an important apostle of Jesus, with a given mission.
So then, his destiny after Christ, was connected to different areas in the world : Edessa (now Sanli Urfa, Turkey), Egypt and Ethiopia, but also Afghanistan, Pakistan, India with his Church founded in Kerala, and an even supposed travel to China, for instance. But he is said to have been seen also amazingly at the opposite of the globe, in ...Central and South America in the boldest hypothesis ! Yet to us, interlinking "Didymos" and "the real Quetzalcóatl's arrival", seems rather extensive as an extrapolation.
Anyhow this "globe-trotter of the faith" was honoured in 1972 by the Pope Paul VI (1963 - 1978), as "Apostle of India", and is celebrated every July 3rd.
And John Paul II reiterated such praise during his reign also (1978 - 2005).
Did you guess who is our character ? It's coming, but you are in doubt because of the above mention of Maria. And it cannot be "brother James" ("frère Jacques" in French), who is celebrated every July 25th !
You think you know his name, but you are totally confused by this weird precision.
To help you, "Didymos" was the apostle of Jesus known for his down-to-earth attitude : he believed only what he was seeing !
And you sometimes may quote him, when you are reluctant in believing something or trusting the real intentions of someone.
In modern time, he is considered as the model of someone difficult to convince, with a mind which is not in the Moon and doesn't like twisty or manipulative people that he was woving to Hell.
Ah, you have got his name on the tip of the tongue now !
Yes, you are right : he was "Thomas" - Jude Thomas more precisely -, now called "Saint Thomas" !
Thomas is coming from "Te' oma", which means in Aramaic language "twin", and was rendered by "Didymos" in the Greek translation of Saint John's Gospel (11:16).
And it was the nickname given by his twin-brother himself, Jesus Christ !
At the difference of Saint Marc, Saint Luke or Saint Matthew, Saint John is voluntarily stressing his cardinal importance towards Jesus. This is due to the peculiarity of his Gospel, which is above all to answer questions, rather than the opposite.
Thomas is notably famous because at the beginning, he didn't want to believe in the resurrection of Jesus. He was so skeptic !
But he totally changed his mind when he saw him alive, and could touch him at the difference of Maria-Magdalena initially !
Some exegetes made obviously hypothesis around those twins, by wandering if they could interchange them ? But they scarcely connected them to the less known of the last secrets of the Knight Templars, which could have more easily explained their strange religious attitude towards Jesus character.
About the latter, this unutterable variant of their secret and their plan to establish a Federated Empire of Templar States from Edessa (Minor Asia), Portugal, Aragon (now a part of Spain), and France to all Western Europe could give a more comprehensive explanation to their fateful destiny.
"Philippe Le Bel" (Philip the Fair), the iron King of France (1285 - 1314) just considered the story of Didymos as anecdotal and politically useful to bring Papacy to Avignon (1309 - 1376), as it gave him power over Vatican in Rome. But at the same time, he didn't want to be erased by the Knight Templars, and he was the fastest to react (from 1307 to 1314). And everybody knows what finally happened !
Anyhow, what we are saying about Didymos is not a total mystery for everybody : it's well known in the Church since the Ist century.
But it is clear that most Catholics aren't aware about such an important detail : two "Christs" otherly seen, and not only one !
Yet, we are not interested in the above secret Medieval controversy.
In truth I tell you : to achieve so much throughout the whole world, twins were certainly necessary as the Lord always works in mysterious ways !
The character we have chosen this time is very famous in all Christianity, but under a more common name.
Don't worry you know this name very well ! But we want you to guess by yourself !
His mother is extremely famous also, as she is the object of an holy cult for all Roman Catholics : Maria the Virgin !
What ? You may think we are talking about Jesus Christ character, but that's not the case !
Wow, what does that mean ? Is it an enigma you ignored or never realized about Christianity ?
Our character is not Jesus, but "Didymos". And he was an important apostle of Jesus, with a given mission.
So then, his destiny after Christ, was connected to different areas in the world : Edessa (now Sanli Urfa, Turkey), Egypt and Ethiopia, but also Afghanistan, Pakistan, India with his Church founded in Kerala, and an even supposed travel to China, for instance. But he is said to have been seen also amazingly at the opposite of the globe, in ...Central and South America in the boldest hypothesis ! Yet to us, interlinking "Didymos" and "the real Quetzalcóatl's arrival", seems rather extensive as an extrapolation.
Anyhow this "globe-trotter of the faith" was honoured in 1972 by the Pope Paul VI (1963 - 1978), as "Apostle of India", and is celebrated every July 3rd.
And John Paul II reiterated such praise during his reign also (1978 - 2005).
Did you guess who is our character ? It's coming, but you are in doubt because of the above mention of Maria. And it cannot be "brother James" ("frère Jacques" in French), who is celebrated every July 25th !
You think you know his name, but you are totally confused by this weird precision.
To help you, "Didymos" was the apostle of Jesus known for his down-to-earth attitude : he believed only what he was seeing !
And you sometimes may quote him, when you are reluctant in believing something or trusting the real intentions of someone.
In modern time, he is considered as the model of someone difficult to convince, with a mind which is not in the Moon and doesn't like twisty or manipulative people that he was woving to Hell.
Ah, you have got his name on the tip of the tongue now !
Yes, you are right : he was "Thomas" - Jude Thomas more precisely -, now called "Saint Thomas" !
Thomas is coming from "Te' oma", which means in Aramaic language "twin", and was rendered by "Didymos" in the Greek translation of Saint John's Gospel (11:16).
And it was the nickname given by his twin-brother himself, Jesus Christ !
At the difference of Saint Marc, Saint Luke or Saint Matthew, Saint John is voluntarily stressing his cardinal importance towards Jesus. This is due to the peculiarity of his Gospel, which is above all to answer questions, rather than the opposite.
Thomas is notably famous because at the beginning, he didn't want to believe in the resurrection of Jesus. He was so skeptic !
But he totally changed his mind when he saw him alive, and could touch him at the difference of Maria-Magdalena initially !
Some exegetes made obviously hypothesis around those twins, by wandering if they could interchange them ? But they scarcely connected them to the less known of the last secrets of the Knight Templars, which could have more easily explained their strange religious attitude towards Jesus character.
About the latter, this unutterable variant of their secret and their plan to establish a Federated Empire of Templar States from Edessa (Minor Asia), Portugal, Aragon (now a part of Spain), and France to all Western Europe could give a more comprehensive explanation to their fateful destiny.
"Philippe Le Bel" (Philip the Fair), the iron King of France (1285 - 1314) just considered the story of Didymos as anecdotal and politically useful to bring Papacy to Avignon (1309 - 1376), as it gave him power over Vatican in Rome. But at the same time, he didn't want to be erased by the Knight Templars, and he was the fastest to react (from 1307 to 1314). And everybody knows what finally happened !
Anyhow, what we are saying about Didymos is not a total mystery for everybody : it's well known in the Church since the Ist century.
But it is clear that most Catholics aren't aware about such an important detail : two "Christs" otherly seen, and not only one !
Yet, we are not interested in the above secret Medieval controversy.
In truth I tell you : to achieve so much throughout the whole world, twins were certainly necessary as the Lord always works in mysterious ways !
Saturday, August 1, 2015
Green Sky over the world : the unutterable Viking power !
by Jean-Jacques COURTEY, Doctor in Economic Geography, Ph. D,
translated and adapted from French by himself
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Very recently, we have spent short holidays in Normandy (France). And when walking along the boats, we saw a fiery animal : it was an impressive black beast, looking like a wolf. Some people thought it was a domesticated one, yet moving free. We crossed this animal who was very peaceful, and watching us kindly. We thought about "Hrolfr", "the renown wolf", which was the Norvegian name of Rollo, first Duke of Normandy. And this gave us the idea to translate and adapt in English one of our first articles written for "Politikè", a blog of Journal "Le Monde" ("Ciel Vert sur le monde : l'indicible puissance Viking !", July 2nd, 2009). Here it is as following.
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Thorstein Bunde Veblen (1857 - 1929), the great economist at the origin of the School of Chicago, could see nowadays the triumph of his ideas. As a matter of fact, his economic theories are finding an overwhelming enforcement over the world. He underlined notably the exploitation of Masses by the "economic villain barons" of the "Leisure class". For him, the human society was basically savage.
One can wander where he found his scouring inspirations ? Perhaps, the key of his provocative writings is coming from his Norvegian, and then Viking origins ("Theory of leisure class",
1899 ; "Theory of enterprise", 1904). This economist who was the only one to have a "fun club", "the Veblen girls", declared : "It's a topic through which I am free to develop my theories, without any risk to be contradicted by facts".
Veblen, as a descendant of Norvegian immigrants, was very proud of his further ancestor Göngu Hrolfr, more famous in France under the name of "Rollon" (Rollo).
Hrolfr (c. 845 - c. 927) was the son of Rogneval, "Jarl" ("Prince") of More og Romsdal, in the Center-West of Norway ... and as it seems the nephew of the King of Norway, "Harald Beautiful Hair".
As he thought his uncle wasn't the right King for his people, he made a "coup d'Etat". But his coup failed.
Princes were not killed at that time, because it was carrying unhappiness. And the Vikings who were very superstitious didn't want to trigger off the anger of God Odin, by offending him. Hrolfr was thus sentenced to life exile, most likely a bit before 876.
So, he had to leave definitively Norway at dawn. The sky was of an extraordinary green colour, greenish to be more precise. This boreal dawn of exile was equalilly the one of a new time, bringing a great change to the history of mankind. Hence, the Viking epic whom he is indissociable, really changed the history of Europe and the world !
Leaving on his drakkar, he hugged the coasts of Denmark and found men to embark with him. He went first to the Orkney islands, in the North of Scotland, to visit his uncle Sigurd ; and then, he took refuge near the King of England, Alfred the Great (c. 849 - 899), who gave him men. After that, with his Anglo-Viking troop, he went to ravage Frise, and the mouth of Rhine and Escaut.
Over there, the kingdom of Franks was reputed to be rich. So then, he got interested in it very quickly. He knew it was weak and badly defended. Paris was effectively known for the strong reputation of flabbiness of its timid soldiers. It wouldn't be so difficult to frighten everybody and to "tax" them after successful "raids". And this would give an occupation to his men in need of new adventures, conquests and amusements.
His companions were already tall, but him he was reaching 2.05 meters for 140 kg.
And as his horse couldn't carry him because of his weight - there was no slimming regime in that so natural epoch - he was walking beside. That's why, he had been nicknamed "Hrolfr the Walker" ("Göngu Hrolfr") : his name of Hrolfr meant itself "the renown wolf" in old Norse.
He was fearless, and persuaded that one day he would take his revenge on destiny, because Thor (the God of War) and Frigg (the Goddess of Love and Beauty) were opening him the path to glory, fortune and conquered love.
And one day, he would find once again love, and on that very day, he would take his time to make himself beautiful for his promised. As a matter of fact, it must be known that Vikings were both brutal at fight and strongly coquettish in matter of masculine seduction.
And often, it's the girlfriend who had to wait one or two hours for them to be ready to get out !
In general, they took ablutions followed by a sauna session, before giving some final little touches to their virile beauty.
According to Dudo of Saint Quentin, Rollo participated the siege of Paris from 885 to 886, where its most fierce defenders died : a commemorative tablet is recalling the names of the most famous of those dead people, along the stairs leading to a crypt in the front of Notre-Dame of Paris.
Around 890, Rollo had become the leader of all the Scandinavians officiating in Neustria, and he had conquered Rouen. Him and his men had their basis on an island of Low Seine, where they were withdrawing after their victorious raids.
It seems that the Franks were able to bribe one of his men : he gave them all the necessary explanations to attack his strategic stronghold by surprise, at night. The latter had to make all the warriors drunk to render them harmless. As planned, Franks surroundered at night the camp of Rollo, while his companions drank too much beer. They were watching those terrible men falling on the floor one after the other, dead drunk. Then the signal of the perfidious and deadly attack was given. And what had to happen...didn't occur !
At the call of Rollo, yet almost dead drunk himself, who blew in his horn, his men stood up over suddenly, and torned to pieces the Parisian forces. The Parisians' trap failed piteously, because they were ignoring the fearsome and hidden power of the "berserker" warrior and the secret of "önd" (a Viking word which gave "onde" in French - "wave").
That's this last and smarting failure convinced the King Charles III the Simple (879 - 929), a Carolingian, to make peace with him through negociation. He was called like that because he was uncomplicated and knew to be loyal, which was very rare in that epoch. This subtle King understood nevertheless all the advantages he could draw from the presence of Northmen, in order to reaffirm his authority and his power upon the Frank lords.
The treaty of Saint Clair-sur-Epte (911), was giving to Rollo all the Low Seine, which he occupied already de facto. Himself was recognizing the authority of the King of France, and becoming Count of Rouen and Duke of Normandy after an un-orthodox homage, but he respected it far better than most Frank lords thereafter.
Negociations came up against the granted territory, because Rollo had ravaged all. And there wasn't even an alive cow remaining. As well, Charles the Simple granted him the right to ransack the North of Brittany, which behave so independantly towards him, between the Risle and the Sea. And Rollo became master of this portion of territory without meeting strong resistance. But this time he preserved cattle, pastures, and peasants. From there is coming the distinction between High and Low Normandy.
He had in France a "frilla" (legal concubine), the daughter of the Count Béranger de Bayeux - a Frank-, who had the nice name of Popa, and could be the origin of the word "poupée" ("puppet") in French.
He spared the life of this fair and slender girl, touched by her gracious and innocent beauty, during the attack and the sacking of Bayeux. She was the only one to have been saved, her father having been less lucky. And several years after, he took Popa who was ravishing him litteraly with her mischievous sweetness as his official wife more danico (according to the Viking customs) : that means he could have several wives.
He was baptized in 912, and took at this occasion the name of his godfather, Robert - the ancestor of the ones who would later succeed the Carolingians, under the name of Capetian Kings.
And in conformity with the treaty of 911, the King gave him his last daughter, Gisela, as an official wife. But as she was only a child, he just looked after her as if she was his own daughter, putting her under the care of the kind Popa.
People took the habit to name Rollo, the "Jarl Robert Ist, the Rich", and not Duke Robert. In fact, he preferred the Viking title of "Prince" ("Jarl") of Northmen to the one of Duke of Normandy, more prosaic. From him, it is also known he punished unpoliteness towards him by sword, and that it was particularly badly advised to come roaming on his territory without any authorization.
Small history retained the sad end on the Old Market Square of Rouen of two jeering Frank knights, who were too free and easy. Everything went swiftly : they lost their head, and never saw again the court of Paris.
From Rollo and the very beautiful Popa, his beloved wife, descended in France the Brion family, which gave a minister of Justice to Saint Louis - who thereafter became also Pope under the name of Martin IV (1281 - 1285) -, and of course William the Conqueror (c. 1028 - 1087).
Great history is showing that the biggest chaos is concealing in itself a powerful hidden order, and that among the possible futures, that's often the less foreseeable which is occurring.
Winning competitions as artificial as useless, never made human creatures champions of cleverness and never gave them any mastery on events. Vikings were at the origin of great empires, like the ex-British empire with its separated American extension - the USA having become more powerful -, or in a forgotten and not enough known way, the Russian empire as well.
Again, it must me known that the word "Rus" (the "Red-haired people", or according to another version, the "oarsmen") was a nickname given to the Vikings, the famous Varangians in the territories which became thereafter "Russia".
Varangians (litteraly "Wolves"), were mainly Swedish, but there was also among them Danish : it was difficult to distinguish them, as they were using a language, which was common to all the Vikings, the old Norse, and were practising the same cults.
On a geopolitical point of view, it is rather amazing to realize that through the Viking inheritage, a map of the balance of our planet between East and West has been finally established. But this balance is changing now and a new equilibrium is still to find.
To this respect, we could quote a Chinese proverb (having its Viking equivalent) : "It is very difficult to find a black cat in a dark room, especially when it has already left it."
The new order of things will settle by itself, proprio motu.
The secret of the World History is not only a research, it is also the rediscovery of an hidden and forgotten face, and the French-Carolingian parable which preceded it, is there to remind it.
"To small shores and small waves, men of weak caliber. Because all men are far to be so wise. Generous and bold, you will live the best, and rarely feel anxiety !" (Havamal, "the sayings of the very high", viatic of wiseness for Vikings).
translated and adapted from French by himself
___________________________
Very recently, we have spent short holidays in Normandy (France). And when walking along the boats, we saw a fiery animal : it was an impressive black beast, looking like a wolf. Some people thought it was a domesticated one, yet moving free. We crossed this animal who was very peaceful, and watching us kindly. We thought about "Hrolfr", "the renown wolf", which was the Norvegian name of Rollo, first Duke of Normandy. And this gave us the idea to translate and adapt in English one of our first articles written for "Politikè", a blog of Journal "Le Monde" ("Ciel Vert sur le monde : l'indicible puissance Viking !", July 2nd, 2009). Here it is as following.
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Thorstein Bunde Veblen (1857 - 1929), the great economist at the origin of the School of Chicago, could see nowadays the triumph of his ideas. As a matter of fact, his economic theories are finding an overwhelming enforcement over the world. He underlined notably the exploitation of Masses by the "economic villain barons" of the "Leisure class". For him, the human society was basically savage.
One can wander where he found his scouring inspirations ? Perhaps, the key of his provocative writings is coming from his Norvegian, and then Viking origins ("Theory of leisure class",
1899 ; "Theory of enterprise", 1904). This economist who was the only one to have a "fun club", "the Veblen girls", declared : "It's a topic through which I am free to develop my theories, without any risk to be contradicted by facts".
Veblen, as a descendant of Norvegian immigrants, was very proud of his further ancestor Göngu Hrolfr, more famous in France under the name of "Rollon" (Rollo).
Hrolfr (c. 845 - c. 927) was the son of Rogneval, "Jarl" ("Prince") of More og Romsdal, in the Center-West of Norway ... and as it seems the nephew of the King of Norway, "Harald Beautiful Hair".
As he thought his uncle wasn't the right King for his people, he made a "coup d'Etat". But his coup failed.
Princes were not killed at that time, because it was carrying unhappiness. And the Vikings who were very superstitious didn't want to trigger off the anger of God Odin, by offending him. Hrolfr was thus sentenced to life exile, most likely a bit before 876.
So, he had to leave definitively Norway at dawn. The sky was of an extraordinary green colour, greenish to be more precise. This boreal dawn of exile was equalilly the one of a new time, bringing a great change to the history of mankind. Hence, the Viking epic whom he is indissociable, really changed the history of Europe and the world !
Leaving on his drakkar, he hugged the coasts of Denmark and found men to embark with him. He went first to the Orkney islands, in the North of Scotland, to visit his uncle Sigurd ; and then, he took refuge near the King of England, Alfred the Great (c. 849 - 899), who gave him men. After that, with his Anglo-Viking troop, he went to ravage Frise, and the mouth of Rhine and Escaut.
Over there, the kingdom of Franks was reputed to be rich. So then, he got interested in it very quickly. He knew it was weak and badly defended. Paris was effectively known for the strong reputation of flabbiness of its timid soldiers. It wouldn't be so difficult to frighten everybody and to "tax" them after successful "raids". And this would give an occupation to his men in need of new adventures, conquests and amusements.
His companions were already tall, but him he was reaching 2.05 meters for 140 kg.
And as his horse couldn't carry him because of his weight - there was no slimming regime in that so natural epoch - he was walking beside. That's why, he had been nicknamed "Hrolfr the Walker" ("Göngu Hrolfr") : his name of Hrolfr meant itself "the renown wolf" in old Norse.
He was fearless, and persuaded that one day he would take his revenge on destiny, because Thor (the God of War) and Frigg (the Goddess of Love and Beauty) were opening him the path to glory, fortune and conquered love.
And one day, he would find once again love, and on that very day, he would take his time to make himself beautiful for his promised. As a matter of fact, it must be known that Vikings were both brutal at fight and strongly coquettish in matter of masculine seduction.
And often, it's the girlfriend who had to wait one or two hours for them to be ready to get out !
In general, they took ablutions followed by a sauna session, before giving some final little touches to their virile beauty.
According to Dudo of Saint Quentin, Rollo participated the siege of Paris from 885 to 886, where its most fierce defenders died : a commemorative tablet is recalling the names of the most famous of those dead people, along the stairs leading to a crypt in the front of Notre-Dame of Paris.
Around 890, Rollo had become the leader of all the Scandinavians officiating in Neustria, and he had conquered Rouen. Him and his men had their basis on an island of Low Seine, where they were withdrawing after their victorious raids.
It seems that the Franks were able to bribe one of his men : he gave them all the necessary explanations to attack his strategic stronghold by surprise, at night. The latter had to make all the warriors drunk to render them harmless. As planned, Franks surroundered at night the camp of Rollo, while his companions drank too much beer. They were watching those terrible men falling on the floor one after the other, dead drunk. Then the signal of the perfidious and deadly attack was given. And what had to happen...didn't occur !
At the call of Rollo, yet almost dead drunk himself, who blew in his horn, his men stood up over suddenly, and torned to pieces the Parisian forces. The Parisians' trap failed piteously, because they were ignoring the fearsome and hidden power of the "berserker" warrior and the secret of "önd" (a Viking word which gave "onde" in French - "wave").
That's this last and smarting failure convinced the King Charles III the Simple (879 - 929), a Carolingian, to make peace with him through negociation. He was called like that because he was uncomplicated and knew to be loyal, which was very rare in that epoch. This subtle King understood nevertheless all the advantages he could draw from the presence of Northmen, in order to reaffirm his authority and his power upon the Frank lords.
The treaty of Saint Clair-sur-Epte (911), was giving to Rollo all the Low Seine, which he occupied already de facto. Himself was recognizing the authority of the King of France, and becoming Count of Rouen and Duke of Normandy after an un-orthodox homage, but he respected it far better than most Frank lords thereafter.
Negociations came up against the granted territory, because Rollo had ravaged all. And there wasn't even an alive cow remaining. As well, Charles the Simple granted him the right to ransack the North of Brittany, which behave so independantly towards him, between the Risle and the Sea. And Rollo became master of this portion of territory without meeting strong resistance. But this time he preserved cattle, pastures, and peasants. From there is coming the distinction between High and Low Normandy.
He had in France a "frilla" (legal concubine), the daughter of the Count Béranger de Bayeux - a Frank-, who had the nice name of Popa, and could be the origin of the word "poupée" ("puppet") in French.
He spared the life of this fair and slender girl, touched by her gracious and innocent beauty, during the attack and the sacking of Bayeux. She was the only one to have been saved, her father having been less lucky. And several years after, he took Popa who was ravishing him litteraly with her mischievous sweetness as his official wife more danico (according to the Viking customs) : that means he could have several wives.
He was baptized in 912, and took at this occasion the name of his godfather, Robert - the ancestor of the ones who would later succeed the Carolingians, under the name of Capetian Kings.
And in conformity with the treaty of 911, the King gave him his last daughter, Gisela, as an official wife. But as she was only a child, he just looked after her as if she was his own daughter, putting her under the care of the kind Popa.
People took the habit to name Rollo, the "Jarl Robert Ist, the Rich", and not Duke Robert. In fact, he preferred the Viking title of "Prince" ("Jarl") of Northmen to the one of Duke of Normandy, more prosaic. From him, it is also known he punished unpoliteness towards him by sword, and that it was particularly badly advised to come roaming on his territory without any authorization.
Small history retained the sad end on the Old Market Square of Rouen of two jeering Frank knights, who were too free and easy. Everything went swiftly : they lost their head, and never saw again the court of Paris.
From Rollo and the very beautiful Popa, his beloved wife, descended in France the Brion family, which gave a minister of Justice to Saint Louis - who thereafter became also Pope under the name of Martin IV (1281 - 1285) -, and of course William the Conqueror (c. 1028 - 1087).
Great history is showing that the biggest chaos is concealing in itself a powerful hidden order, and that among the possible futures, that's often the less foreseeable which is occurring.
Winning competitions as artificial as useless, never made human creatures champions of cleverness and never gave them any mastery on events. Vikings were at the origin of great empires, like the ex-British empire with its separated American extension - the USA having become more powerful -, or in a forgotten and not enough known way, the Russian empire as well.
Again, it must me known that the word "Rus" (the "Red-haired people", or according to another version, the "oarsmen") was a nickname given to the Vikings, the famous Varangians in the territories which became thereafter "Russia".
Varangians (litteraly "Wolves"), were mainly Swedish, but there was also among them Danish : it was difficult to distinguish them, as they were using a language, which was common to all the Vikings, the old Norse, and were practising the same cults.
On a geopolitical point of view, it is rather amazing to realize that through the Viking inheritage, a map of the balance of our planet between East and West has been finally established. But this balance is changing now and a new equilibrium is still to find.
To this respect, we could quote a Chinese proverb (having its Viking equivalent) : "It is very difficult to find a black cat in a dark room, especially when it has already left it."
The new order of things will settle by itself, proprio motu.
The secret of the World History is not only a research, it is also the rediscovery of an hidden and forgotten face, and the French-Carolingian parable which preceded it, is there to remind it.
"To small shores and small waves, men of weak caliber. Because all men are far to be so wise. Generous and bold, you will live the best, and rarely feel anxiety !" (Havamal, "the sayings of the very high", viatic of wiseness for Vikings).
Thursday, July 2, 2015
Space news IX : opening eyes wide shut through a recall of Buzz Aldrin's meeting !
by Jean-Jacques COURTEY, Doctor in Economic Geography, Ph. D
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Twenty-five years ago, I happened to meet "Buzz" Edwin Aldrin (born in 1930) of the mission "Apollo 11", in Amiens (Picardie, France).
He was a guest-astronaut in a conference about the Space Conquest.
Surprisingly, the spectators were not very numerous. And the animator of this event was a bit disappointed when he pointed it out.
He thought that Cosmos might have become too common for many people, who think everything has been discovered, and feel bored to be told they are alone in the vast Universe.
So he invited us to come on the stage to shake hands with the guests representing three countries, under a different way to name them : "astronaut" for America, "cosmonaut" for Russia, and "spationaut" for France.
Buzz Aldrin went himself in my direction and shook my hand friendly, by asking me if I was speaking English. I answered yes and he engaged the conversation.
He told me I could ask him three questions and he will answer them.
I was very happy to hear that, as I never thought we could exchange words together. Thus, it was a wonderful surprise for me.
I told him I was hesitating to ask the first question as I didn't want to annoy him. But he guessed something was puzzling me about the mission of "Apollo 11" (July 16th - 24th, 1969).
I am talking about that because I saw recently "Transformers 3 - Dark of the Moon" (2011), where he was shortly appearing : this gave a special hint to my memory !
Coming back to our encounter, he said I could ask anything to him. Then, I said I wanted to know if the mission was real, as I read funny comments about it ?
He answered yes ! He knew about the fake argument concerning "thermosphere", which according to some funny specialists, would make impossible to travel into the space above 130 miles from Earth, without being burnt by the Sun. And he added such argument is not relevant, and comparable to the one some scientists were making about the impossibility to survive a travel by train above a speed of 20 miles per hour in the XIXth century !
When I wanted to ask him my second question about the definitive absence of life on the Moon, he took me apart, far from any microphone, and said the true problem about the mission was concerning that.
"Really", did I reply ! "And what was the problem then ?"
He said the three members of the team (Michael Collins - born in 1930 in Roma -, Neil Amstrong - 1930 ~ 2012 -, and him) had from the beginning the disagreable sensation to be observed, and not only by NASA or the telespectators of Earth. And this funny impression was confirmed on the Moon, on July 21st, 1969 !
When Amstrong got out of the LEM early on that very day, he pronounced his famous sentence : "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind !" Strangely almost everybody has forgotten he also added, that we came in a peaceful spirit in the name of all mankind ! And then he walked a bit and fell on the metallic carcass of something strange, like the remains of a huge robot.
And suddenly another event still more strange happened : Amstrong heard a silent voice coming from behind and he saw something incredible !
Aldrin took me still further in the corner of the stage and asked me if I was ready ? "Well yes", did I answer with a strong curiosity, "but if you think you better not say don't say it !"
What was incredible was this "very tall blue and diaphanous man of the Moon" talking to Amstrong by telepathy : he explained there was a terrible war on the Moon, which destroyed most "Selenians", who were living underground since. He added they almost completely lost contact with their big satellite,...Earth , after that ! So he thought someone heard at last his "M-signals". As a matter of fact, other ETs, different from them, took control of their planet, where they had a basis on the dark side of the Moon, not to be detected from Earth.
It was a shock for me, because at that time, I really thought it was impossible to live on the Moon.
He said when he himself got out of the LEM a quarter of an hour after, he saw this strange silhouette going away by making leaps on the ground.
I was voiceless. And he added that one day, it will be possible to say what fully happened on July 21st, 1969. Anyhow I told him, personally I wasn't ready yet for that (in 1990). But now it has not anymore any importance, as Earth has just chosen without realizing a radically different future, completely "u-chronic".
About the original film of the mission "Apollo 11", because of some Russian unexpected demands towards the American NASA, I recently heard it has disappeared, and that only copies are remaining.
When I was a child, I really admired equalilly Russia and America for the great dreams they allowed to a so dynamic Earth, just like my father ! We got a TV set (Radiola) to be able to watch the spatial conquest at home !
When I was a child, I really admired equalilly Russia and America for the great dreams they allowed to a so dynamic Earth, just like my father ! We got a TV set (Radiola) to be able to watch the spatial conquest at home !
Anyhow, since "Transformers 3 - the Dark of the Moon", this can be at last narrated. And that's enough for today !
In those hot days just made for ventilators, France is not concentrated on the Moon but on the Sun, and it would wish to have a Baltic climate !
In those hot days just made for ventilators, France is not concentrated on the Moon but on the Sun, and it would wish to have a Baltic climate !
Monday, June 1, 2015
Funny economics : the weird fear of growth in France !
by Jean-Jacques COURTEY, Doctor in Economic Geography, Ph. D
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The last statistics about growth in France over the first quarter 2015 are clear : France knew a growth rate of 0.6% !
Our leaders feel very annoyed by this totally unexpected figure.
And everybody is trying to explain why such a rebound occurred !
With all the contra-cyclic measures taken, this "economic accident" should never have happened !
Nothing was preparing the country to that !
At the opposite of other countries in the world, France cannot be content with growth.
America for instance would be happier to get it, instead of its - 0.7% over the same period.
Our leaders are feeling worried because of the writings of Tocqueville, which are taken as prophetic by anyone who happened to study in "Science Po".
The parents of the French Alexis de Tocqueville (1805 - 1859), were strong royalists at the time of Robespierre (1758 - 1794), and they narrowly avoided guillotine because his dictatorial republic fell down with him. The two volumes of "Democracy in America" (1835 - 1840), written by Tocqueville were followed by another masterpiece among other writings, "The old regime and the revolution" (1856). In the latter, he observed that when things are improving, protest forces intend paradoxically to feel freed.
At the moment in France, almost everybody agrees that our country should reach the target of 1%, or may be 1.5% by the end of the year.
Isn't it a strange calculation ? Normally, if you multiply 0.6 % per four, you obtain 2.4 % in reality !
Oh la la, not this figure ! Oh la la, what a nighmare !
Nobody wishes the people to descend in the streets to manifest, and claim rises and a share in "the growth's fruits", as General de Gaulle (1890 - 1970) would have called them !
Of course, Tocqueville wrote in "The old regime and the revolution" that "the reign of Louis XVI had been the most prosperous of the old monarchy", and that "this very prosperity fastened the revolution". But his fateful Book III, is not the "stick-lightning" of Zeus, which Athena, his preferred daughter, would be playing with for a masked ball or Halloween ! Thus France shouldn't worry so much about growth's increase, as the country doesn't count real revolutionaries, behind usual catchwords just for rhetorical effects.
And there is no need to be so much mesmerized by this surprising rise. It just means our country is refusing to die, and that it has still a capacity of rebound in spite of all the wrong measures taken against Public Spendings (which are representing 57% of the French GDP). To speak clearly, diminishing them of 5% is mechanically reducing our GDP of 2.85 %, and almost impeaching any growth then. So the French present situation is almost miraculous, and obviously very puzzling !
When presently the USA are negociating the TTIP agreement ("Transatlantic Trade and Investment Parnership" ) with EU to stimulate notably growth, the French situation can even appear quite paradoxical. Anyhow France is growing without TTIP at the moment !
Surprisingly, the negociations are going on rapidly, with next talks in the beginning of this summer and then in automn. It's a bit astonishing because of the basic differences of interests on various subjects (agriculture, cultural goods, access to public markets, defence industry, energy possibly, etc.).
Equalilly, it's rather unexpected as the key topics of multinationals' immunity of jurisdiction and the possibility opened to them to claim against states (near the private arbitration court of Washington) for the losses they would record due to the states' regulations - or their changes of rules -, are something very unusual. If finally signed that way, and enforced, it would certainly be a great success for American negociators.
Thus, far from the French funny concerns about the growth rate rising, the future of the world is certainly going to change soon and overnight. And in France, no important TV media is talking about it, when media themselves seem to be included in this historical treaty. The only "disputes' settlement" are between politicians oriented on yesterday, who can't see what will be "the real tomorrow" !
"Ameropa"may surge then over suddenly in a total indifference, when representing almost 46 % of the World GDP !
And coincidentally, depending on the results of the British referendum by 2017 - about staying or not in EU -, UK may not have to apply this potential treaty if leaving !
But let's come back to funny economics, in a country situated over the Moon, "Teethyland" and its "ridicule" !
Say the final French growth rate of 2015 would be 1.8%, everybody should rejoice about it, as it would mean the end of the economic slope for our country !
Without all the unremetting economic counter-measures our country is knowing, France could most likely have 4% rise a year ! So let it have a breathe on its own, and be itself !
It's still below what was observed from 1958 to 1969, at the great epoch of General de Gaulle, as the percentage was oscillating between 5 to 6% a year !
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