(just a thought)
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-04 19:02:00 UTC
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photos_and_videos/TimelinePhotos_43196237263/31914214_10156333355707264_2216759469029720064_o_10156333355697264.jpg Waqas AhmadWhy the undo-European languages have no script of their own?
Except Hindustani languagesMay 04, 2018 7:35pmIvar DiederikNorthern and central Europa had runes. And in the south there were the precursors of Greek and Roman scripts.
But in the rainy north, using paper to write on was not really practical until the invention of glass windows (which allow one to regulate humidity in buildings). So it took a while before people switched from telling stories by the hearth, to writing them down.
Also, it took a sufficient development of architecture to free sufficient numbers of men to become fulltime writers (like the Christian monks were). This could commence sooner in the Fertile Crescent, i.e. around the Semitic people, and in fertile valleys like those of the first Vedic civlizations.May 05, 2018 4:10amColin HigginsDidn’t Classical Persian use an ancient script? (Farsi now uses Arabic characters). That is an Indo-European languageMay 05, 2018 10:59amWaqas AhmadColin Higgins thanksMay 05, 2018 11:00amColin HigginsWaqas Ahmad it isn’t as old as the Indo-Aryan languages though, so yes, those were some of the first to use a formal writing systemMay 05, 2018 11:03amWaqas AhmadColin Higgins I thought only Hindi and related languages have preserved their script .all indo-european languages have adopt semitic scriptMay 05, 2018 11:04amWaqas AhmadColin HigginsMay 05, 2018 11:05amCurt Doolittle@[656410309:2048:Ivar Diederik] runes post-date greek and roman, and appear only after about 100ad. As far as I know there were only two inventions of writing: sumer in 3100, and ‘mesoamerica’ in around 300ad. all other writing systems evolved from the sumerian and the general idea was spread rapidly by trade.
Numbers (tallying) predate writing by a long shot – they’ve been used for at least 40k years.
proto-writing (symbols) exist back into the neolithic. The origin of viking script, which was (I think) originally for woodcarving) ceremonial purposes, is in response to awareness of writing elsewhere, even though the script does look like a form of proto-writing. Wood carving needs and clay scribing needs, and pen-needs, are very different production costs, and this explains the differences in the scripts.May 05, 2018 11:37amGintas KamaitisWhat is the source of this graph? No data should be taken at face value without the ability to verify its source.May 05, 2018 11:51amGöran DahlAll Hindustani languages use scripts derived from Semitic ones.May 06, 2018 7:09amGabriel YbarraFree Radicals long overdue for some antioxidants.May 06, 2018 2:51pm
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-04 18:57:00 UTC
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Investment is a fact. Possession is contingent. Property is what the strong agre
Investment is a fact.
Possession is contingent.
Property is what the strong agree it is.
Property rights are what the strong are willing to insure.
Be the strong.
It all begins with the militia.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-04 18:53:00 UTC
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Against Those Who Counter Signal Revolt: —“What you mean is that you are proje
Against Those Who Counter Signal Revolt:
—“What you mean is that you are projecting, and you’re a coward. Plenty of us revel in these opportunities. The way you get people involved is to take from them. you take from them by removing their futures, opportunities, property, people, home, relationships, and most of all ‘certainty’. Humans have very little idea how much of their illusion of self confidence and control is dependent upon regularity over which they have no control. if you knew anything about civil war and revolution you would know that. To get people involved in a revolution, you take from them. Even if its only their sense of predictability.”—
The herd will run from the pack.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-04 18:48:00 UTC
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“Seems like China is going to be 1984 and the West is going to be Brave New Worl
—-“Seems like China is going to be 1984 and the West is going to be Brave New World. The future looks pretty screwed unless something radical is done.”—- Philip Saunders
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-04 18:23:00 UTC
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THE COMING “UNPLEASANTNESS” (REVOLTS) —“Given the current accelerating rate of
THE COMING “UNPLEASANTNESS” (REVOLTS)
—“Given the current accelerating rate of ideological and racial polarization, how likely is it in America that the country will enter an era of large-scale sectarian violence at some point in this century?”— A Friend
by Curt Doolittle, The Propertarian Institute, Kiev, Ukraine
I’ve stated since 2006 that we would have a violent revolution between 2020 and 2025. I stated that the economy would fail by 2008 (it did) would not recover until at least ‘14 (I was right), that would peak its recovery in ‘17/18 (I was right) and that the next correction would coincide with demographic, political, and economic collapse, at the very same moment that american military and political power would be impossible to sustain the remains of the british empire we inherited at the war’s end. (I will be correct.) I know this because of economics, demographics, the conflict of civilizations, and the great power struggles that result.
The entire suite of socialist experiments worldwide across the 20th century have failed, and so the right (classical liberal rule of law) would have won if not for immigration overwhelming the country via the six massive-immigration-cities. However, since the left was successful in achieving through third world immigration and the destruction of the nuclear family what they could not achieve through their ideas, the only solution to intolerable conflict is separation.
Both Communist-Antifa/BLM/Soros and the Nationalist-Right Coalitions were very close to starting a war after the Trump victory overturned the left’s belief in victory, and had Charlottesville been slightly more violent such that the Right wingers defended themselves with the rather vast arsenal they had with them, it would have started there. But all that occurred in the aftermath has been the elimination of the nazi symbolism from the hard right, and the down-funding of BLM/Antifa by Soros, who has instead switched to funding the anti-gun movement to achieve the same ends.
What’s occurring right now is that the Trump administration is serving as a sufficient proxy for violence. The right’s current plan is to wait until the left attempts to prosecute Trump for (correctly) attempting to shut down. The left is waiting for their long awaited win.
Meanwhile the very few adults left in positions of power understand that any misstep by either side will result in the bloodiest civil war in human history. And I say that having a very clear understanding of how fragile our prosperity is, and how easy it is to fall into all against all fighting for food and water.
We are going to have some sort of civil war, the outcome of which I suspect will be devolution of central powers to the states or regions, since this is the only means of preserving the military, retirement, and medical services, while cities, states, and regions determine their cultures, norms, and values. The principle change is that laws on permissible behavior and therefore citizenship will fragment into the old european model. After which the european experiment will follow suit.
I know, this ‘reformation’ will occur, because I’m going to make certain of it. And I’m going to make certain of it for the simple reason that the civil war will happen and a random outcome after millions are dead and the world descends into war, is far worse than an agreeable settlement.
Curt Doolittle
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-04 18:10:00 UTC
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answer to Given the current accelerating rate of ideological and racial polariza
https://t.co/9OOQ4i9FxKMy answer to Given the current accelerating rate of ideological and racial polarization, how likely is it in America that the country will enter an era of large-scale sectarian violence at some point in this century? https://t.co/9OOQ4i9FxK
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-04 18:09:00 UTC
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answer to Given the current accelerating rate of ideological and racial polariza
https://t.co/9OOQ4i9FxKMy answer to Given the current accelerating rate of ideological and racial polarization, how likely is it in America that the country will enter an era of large-scale sectarian violence at some point in this century?
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-04 18:09:00 UTC
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WE WIN EITHER WAY You don’t understand. The reason to spend so much time on the
WE WIN EITHER WAY
You don’t understand. The reason to spend so much time on the philosophy, the law, the new constitution, its applications, the arguments, training others to conduct those arguments, is to prevent them from lying about our intentions and demands.
There is nothing more profoundly moral than voluntary reciprocity. And if they use force to suppress it they invalidate their entire justification for governing.
We’re going to win.
We win either way.
They will acquiesce or there will be nothing left to govern. Because all sides are armed, and committed.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-04 17:24:00 UTC
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HOW RUSSIANS GOT YANUKOVYCH OUT OF UKRAINE (I thought he was on the presidential
HOW RUSSIANS GOT YANUKOVYCH OUT OF UKRAINE
(I thought he was on the presidential plane I was tracking to Dubai. But apparently the plane was loaded with money, gold, and valuables – as a distraction. He had a private helicopter pad in the city center. )
“Yanukovych used Russia’s aircraft to flee from Ukraine”
(today)
The man tells court Yanukovych and his guards landed at a military airfield in Crimea on the morning of February 23.
Ex-President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, who is being accused of committing treason, used Russian aircraft to move across Ukraine and then flee from country.
The judicial panel of Kyiv’s Obolon district court, which is considering the Yanukovych case, has completed the interrogation of Dmytro Ivantsov, a witness of defense, who is a former guard of the former president and who accompanied Yanukovych and fled with the latter to Russia, according to an UNIAN correspondent.
It should be noted that the testimony of the witness generally coincided with that given by his colleagues who had already testified in the Yanukovych case.
In particular, Ivantsov said that late on February 22, 2014, when Yanukovych and his guards were riding from Donetsk to Melitopol, they transferred to three military helicopters in the vicinity of Melitopol. After flying about 20 minutes, they landed at a military airfield, where they got aboard an AN-26 plane and flew to Crimea. Presiding judge Vladyslav Devyatko asked Ivantsov to specify the helicopters and the airfield. The latter confirmed that the helicopters were Russian. However, he did not specify the airfield.
In addition, Ivantsov said that on the morning of February 23, Yanukovych and his guards landed at a military airfield in Crimea and went to a resort facility near Yalta.
According to the witness, when they found out that Valentyn Nalyvaichenko (Chief of the SBU Security Service of Ukraine from February 24, 2014 to June 18, 2015), Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, and, allegedly, some armed men were looking for Yanukovych in Crimea, they moved to another facility under the guard of the Marine Corps of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet.
The witness also said that after the ex-president along with his guards had moved to the Kosacha (Cossack) bay in Sevastopol, Yanukovych proposed to the Department officers that they continue guarding him. Some of them agreed and fled to Russia with Yanukovych.
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On 21 February, President Yanukovych signed a compromise deal with opposition leaders. It promised constitutional changes to restore certain powers to Parliament and called for early elections to be held by December.
Despite the agreement, thousands continued to protest in central Kiev, and the demonstrators took full control of the city’s government district: the parliament building, the president’s administration quarters, the cabinet, and the Interior Ministry. On 21 February, an impeachment bill was introduced in Parliament. On the same day, Yanukovych left for Kharkiv to attend a summit of southeastern regions, according to media reports.
On 22 February, the protesters were reported to be in control of Kiev, and Yanukovych was said to have fled the capital for eastern Ukraine. The parliament, or Verkhovna Rada, voted 328–0 in favour of impeaching Yanukovych and scheduled new presidential elections for 25 May.
Parliament named its speaker, Oleksandr Turchynov, as interim president on 23 February. A warrant for the arrest of Yanukovych was issued by the new government on 24 February. Over the next few days, Russian nationalist politicians and activists organised rallies in Crimea and urged Russia to help defend the region from advancing “fascists” from the rest of Ukraine.
On 28 February, Yanukovych attended a press conference in southern Russia and answered questions from mostly Russian reporters. He said that the early presidential elections scheduled for late May were illegal and that he “would not be participating in them”. He also said that while the 21 February agreement could have calmed the situation, the opposition had not agreed to it.
On 1 March, Russia’s parliament approved a request from President Vladimir Putin to deploy Russian troops to Ukraine.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-04 17:14:00 UTC