#history

girlofthesea@diasporasocial.net

#medical #diseases #history
Photograph: Nurses in San Francisco Sewing Masks. 1918-1919. Influenza Epidemic

CONTAGION - Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c72Pt575fnA

- Fortunately, I saw this movie before Covid hit in 2020. It is astounding! I also read the South China Morning Post. There were early reports of a contagious respiratory disease. A small, red light, the size of a Christmas tree ornament was flashing.
When Covid was in full force, US officials, especially the Center for Disease Control (CDC) totally fucked up. I knew the history of major respiratory diseases in America, and the idiotic anti-masks groups. I refreshed my memory and read about those historical events again. History was repeating itself.
- To the best of my knowledge, I knew what to do, and avoid. I never contracted Covid. The ignorance I experienced during the worst of Covid was everywhere. It was high and wide, even in medical environments, no masks, crowded areas, little to no ventilation. I realized I was in ‘The Land of You’re On Your Own’.
History is going to repeat itself.

brainwavelost@nerdpol.ch

A senior Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) officer, who is the Assistant Chief of Staff at the #NATO Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC), faces court martial, “dismissal with disgrace”, and loss of his military pension for having disagreed with Canadian, American, and British military planners of Ukrainian battlefield operations against Russia. His disagreement was in private, when the officers were asking for his professional assessment, and didn’t like what he told them.

Colonel Robert Kearney was charged by the Canadian military police on April 23. The charge sheet says he faces “five (5) x counts of Conduct Prejudice to the Good Order and Discipline pursuant to section 129 of the National Defence Act.”

The source notes that the first charge against Kearney dated in December 2021 is “interesting as well. That was during the time of NATO preparations to back a Ukrainian offensive into the #Donetsk and #Lugansk republics and into #Russia proper. More than likely, Kearney told his fellow staffers that the operational plan was a hugely dangerous idea. Colonel Kearney was seeing the writing on the wall, how NATO wasn’t at all ready, and he didn’t keep it to himself. By November 2023, when the fifth charge is alleged, he had probably said ‘I told you so’ four times too many.”

source and much more

Above #history, where it leads to can be followed.
I'm curious as to what will happen in the next few months and years.

rhysy@diaspora.glasswings.com

This is something I've been trying to get around to for several monthsbut just haven't had the time : reviewing Rutger Bregman's truly dire "Human Kind". Bregman claims that human beings are innately lovely and that only civilisation, with its whole notion of "private property" leads us astray. His ideal lifestyle choice appear to be to live in the jungle in the lifestyle of an anarcho-communist-hippie-monkey, preferably ones that happen to be caught in a war zone. Yes, really.

A totally mad twat, this one. My review ended up being overly-long because his previous book was very good. I feel the guy does have some good critical thinking skills (he certainly has some good journalistic ones, digging deep beyond the popular reports to figure out what really happened) but he's completely enthralled to his own ideology.

#History
#Sociology

https://decoherency.blogspot.com/2024/05/review-human-kind.html

nadloriot@diaspora.psyco.fr

Retour au Mont Aiguille

En 1492, Antoine de Ville se fait fabriquer 2 kilomètres d'échelles et devient le premier alpiniste de l'Histoire.
In 1492, Antoine de Ville had 2 kilometers of ladders made and became the first mountaineer in history.

https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/grand-est/meurthe-et-moselle/nancy/insolite-en-1492-il-se-fait-fabriquer-2-kilometres-d-echelles-et-devient-le-premier-alpiniste-de-l-histoire-2963246.html

Pour en savoir plus sur cette première ascension, Stéphane Gal, historien à l’Université Grenoble Alpes, a embarqué avec lui les habitants du village voisin de Chichilianne, pour une ascension exceptionnelle. 530 ans plus tard, l’étude a permis de reconstituer les tenues et équipements de l’époque, pour finalement retrouver l’itinéraire qu’Antoine De Ville aurait probablement emprunté dans la paroi. Une aventure humaine et scientifique, documentée par Ludovic Veltz dans son film Retour au mont Aiguille.
To find out more about this first ascent, Stéphane Gal, a historian at Grenoble Alpes University, took the inhabitants of the neighbouring village of Chichilianne with him on an exceptional ascent. 530 years later, the study has enabled us to reconstruct the clothing and equipment of the time, and finally to find the route that Antoine De Ville would probably have taken up the wall. A human and scientific adventure, documented by Ludovic Veltz in his film Retour au mont Aiguille.

Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

https://alpinemag.fr/premiere-ascension-mont-aiguille-prouesse-humaine-innovation-technologique/

https://labexittem.fr/premiere-ascension-du-mont-aiguille-un-film-au-sommet/

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_Aiguille

#alpinisme #mountaineering #escalade #climbing #montAiguille #Vercors #France #histoire #history #film #movie #documentaire #documentary

spektrum@anonsys.net

Wir springen in dieser Folge in den Südpazifik. Genauer: die Chatham Inseln, ein Atoll ungefähr 800 Kilometer östlich von Neuseeland. Dort treffen britische Seefahrer im Jahr 1791 auf die Moriori, ein Volk, das seit Jahrhunderten, abgeschnitten vom Rest der Welt, auf eben jenen Inseln lebt. Wir sprechen in dieser Folge darüber, wie sich die Moriori zu einer pazifistischen Gesellschaft entwickelten und welche katastrophalen Auswirkungen der Kontakt zu Europäern und Maori auf dieses Volk und … 🎙️#geschichtenausdergeschichte #Erzählung #History #richardhemmer #danielmeßner #Kultur
GAG449: Die Wiederentdeckung der Moriori

spektrum@anonsys.net

Wir springen in dieser Folge in den Südpazifik. Genauer: die Chatham Inseln, ein Atoll ungefähr 800 Kilometer östlich von Neuseeland. Dort treffen britische Seefahrer im Jahr 1791 auf die Moriori, ein Volk, das seit Jahrhunderten, abgeschnitten vom Rest der Welt, auf eben jenen Inseln lebt. Wir sprechen in dieser Folge darüber, wie sich die Moriori zu einer pazifistischen Gesellschaft entwickelten und welche katastrophalen Auswirkungen der Kontakt zu Europäern und Maori auf dieses Volk und … 🎙️#geschichtenausdergeschichte #Erzählung #History #richardhemmer #danielmeßner #Kultur
GAG449: Die Wiederentdeckung der Moriori

faab64@diasp.org

Transcript from an interview with Keren Levy, an Israeli real estate agent in 2009:

Keren: They Chose #Hamas to rule them, it's their fault, they got it to where it is now

Reporter: Don't you think it gets worse bombing them?

Keren: No I think that is the only solution, I think they should just clear off all the city, just take it off the ground.

Keren: Yes I'm a little bit #fascist.

Video:
https://youtu.be/Tjw8U0AcH4Q

#History
#Gaza
#Israel