Hey kids,
Delphi here, lettin’ ya’ll know that I’m going to be startig a radio talk show on The Global Reality Network on Saturdays at 4-5pm. This coming Saturday, January 16th, is the first episode.
SO LISTEN UP!!
I’ll be mostly examining esoteric literature and poetry, ancient civilizations, and mythology, but in doing so I’d like YOUR HELP on topics that YOU want to learn about. I will also take emails with dreams or other experiences that you would like me to help you interpret or comprehend better. Emails can be sent to: thedelphireport@gmail.com
Thank you in advance for any feedback you might take time out to give. Reading suggestions, music suggestions, and topic suggestions are all up for grabs, guys, so take advantage of this! Let’s start a revolution of the mind, body, and soul!
For nearly a century, archeologists have routinely used aerial photographs as a key tool for discoveries and investigations. In western Europe, the discovery through aerial reconnaissance of tens of thousands of previously unknown sites has transformed the way the past is interpreted and explained. In discussions of archeology, aerial views are often far more informative than ground photographs because the aerial views show the whole site within its geographical and environmental context, and they often show patterns too subtle or confusing to be recognizable on the ground.
Amid the patchwork of Google Earth’s satellite imagery, 15 to 20 percent of the Arabian Peninsula is covered at resolutions high enough to show archeological structures.
Above: Amid the patchwork of Google Earth’s satellite imagery, 15 to 20 percent of the Arabian Peninsula is covered at resolutions high enough to show archeological structures. Below: Google Earth’s ability to tilt the viewing angle provides oblique views like those from an aircraft. The dark lines are the remains of stone walls barely visible on the ground (bottom). Animals may have been driven into this “barbed arrow” structure; the rounded “hides” at the points may have given cover to hunters.
Animals may have been driven into this “barbed arrow” structure; the rounded “hides” at the points may have given cover to hunters.
In the Middle East as a whole, there is a growing awareness of the value of this technique, particularly given the volume and complexity of remains and the need to balance preservation with rapid industrial development. Jordan has instituted and supports a program of aerial archeology, to which I have contributed. Recently, however, archeologists have begun to use the satellite imagery publicly available since the launch
Motherfucking chode popping
harbingers of dispair and devolution,
you bitches are going
DOWN.
We are not your vaccination test monkeys,
your sympathetic petri dishes,
your lay-down-now-this-won’t-hurt
push pin dolls who drink the milk
that does nobody any good,
(especially those bloated Monsanto cows
with utters reaching to China)
We are not your anti-bacterial
insanitation device,
We are not your hospitals where
our poorest go to die–
And we are not your swine flu.
Is that shit even real?
Do you know ANYONE who has it?
When was the last time you looked in the mirror
and didn’t try and pronounce yourself diseased?
When was the last time you didn’t take ANYTHING
to feel good, to feel normal, to feel healthy?
When did you get off without the blue pill?
When will they cure female impotence, by the way?
Maybe it’ll be the day when they stop raping
our bodies for good nutrients,
our earth for resources,
our children for their creativity,
our animals for their lack of tear ducts
and inability to scream,
our mothers for their desire to
but who silently sit and watch their children take the bullet.
You MOTHER-fucking, MOTHER-killing, diseased minds of
impotent old men who wish their cocks were bigger than the heart of the sky,
wish their minds were stronger than the inevitable march of entropy,
wish their goals were as infallible
as the supernova of a hundred billion latent Sun Gods;
You bitches, and I do not mean to insult the pregnant mothers of puppies,
for dogs are better and more genuine than any pretense of humanity
you suppose;
You whores, and I do not mean to insult prostitutes, for fucking for crack and money
is more noble than allowing a Satanic cock up your ass for power, as you have done;
You, you who say your power resides
in policies of disease, manipulations of science, and the perversion of the word “Medicine”;
You do not get my body.
You do not get my mind.
and you, shall never inherit
any earth I walk upon, so long
as the soul in my cunt screams louder
than any bomb, any shot, any death
brought by the silent pill
the syringe
or the gun.
I am no fan of tyranny, but I do think the elections in Iran are the harbingers of a coming destabilization project meant to “save the Iranians” the way we “saved” Iraqis:
Even the American left-wing has endorsed the U.S. government’s propaganda. Writing in The Nation, Robert Dreyfus’s presents the hysterical views of one Iranian dissident as if they are the definitive truth about “the illegitimate election,” terming it “a coup d’etat.”
What is the source of the information for the U.S. media and the American puppet states?
Nothing but the assertions of the defeated candidate, the one America prefers.
However, there is hard evidence to the contrary. An independent, objective poll was conducted in Iran by American pollsters prior to the election. The pollsters, Ken Ballen of the nonprofit Center for Public Opinion and Patrick Doherty of the nonprofit New America Foundation, describe their poll results in the June 15 Washington Post. The polling was funded by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and was conducted in Farsi “by a polling company whose work in the region for ABC News and the BBC has received an Emmy award.”*
The poll results, the only real information we have at this time, indicate that the election results reflect the will of the Iranian voters. Among the extremely interesting information revealed by the poll is the following:
“Many experts are claiming that the margin of victory of incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the result of fraud or manipulation, but our nationwide public opinion survey of Iranians three weeks before the vote showed Ahmadinejad leading by a more than 2 to 1 margin — greater than his actual apparent margin of victory in Friday’s election.
Auspicious, considering Obama’s Middle East talk on June 4, which is the impetus for the majority of this post.
Spare change, loose change, but none we really believe in.
The symbolic act is one which incorporates the literal while evoking the metaphysical. Symbols arguably are more effective, efficient, and can produce longer-lasting control mechanisms than most physical actions. They pervade our advertising, media, and corporate loyalties; they irrefutably control our belief systems, religious and political. I believe Barack Obama is one of our most symbolic presidents yet. As Middle East historian Mark Levine says, “the West, and the US in particular, has a habit of taking symbols too seriously.” Levine is addressing the open-handed goalpost speech and promises made to the Middle East in the early part of Obama’s administration. While it is arguable that merely changing our symbolic vocabulary towards Islamic countries has a strong effect on popular support, it is also reminiscent of a rhetoric echoed by Bzrezinski of all countries facing hegemonic domination:
A mythical historical narrative to justify the case for such a protracted and potentially expanding war is already being articulated. Initially justified by false claims about WMD’s in Iraq, the war is now being redefined as the “decisive ideological struggle” of our time, reminiscent of the earlier collisions with Nazism and Stalinism. In that context, Islamist extremism and al Qaeda are presented as the equivalents of the threat posed by Nazi Germany and then Soviet Russia, and 9/11 as the equivalent of the Pearl Harbor attack which precipitated America’s involvement in World War II.
It is this construction of a new , untouchable narrative that worries me. A narrative of uncorrupted, audacious, and nearly impenetrable “Hope” has established not only a new definition of the empathetic hero, but a new heroic paradigm that, if confronted, will garner exponentially more support from the population than that of a tyrannical fearmonger. The narrative of a turning point, a real “Good Guy” in the driver’s seat, is pervasive; the passivity that previously dulled the so-called “movements” in the past has now been co-opted, branded, and repackaged. And we swallow. And with good reason; Obama and is a genius with words, and words are symbolic resonances at the core of human experience.
I propose we do a side-by-side comparison of his June 4, 2009 Cairo speech to the Muslim world, and his June 4, 2008 speech at the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, for a closer inspection of the symbolic resonance. Interesting that the dates are exactly one year apart.
Stylistically, the two follow a similar tactical rhetoric:
June 08:
I first became familiar with the story of Israel when I was 11 years old. I learned of the long journey and steady determination of the Jewish people to preserve their identity through faith, family and culture. Year after year, century after century, Jews carried on their traditions, and their dream of a homeland, in the face of impossible odds.
June 09:
Part of this conviction is rooted in my own experience. I am a Christian, but my father came from a Kenyan family that includes generations of Muslims. As a boy, I spent several years in Indonesia and heard the call of the azaan at the break of dawn and the fall of dusk. As a young man, I worked in Chicago communities where many found dignity and peace in their Muslim faith.
June 09:
So let there be no doubt: Islam is a part of America. And I believe that America holds within her the truth that regardless of race, religion, or station in life, all of us share common aspirations – to live in peace and security; to get an education and to work with dignity; to love our families, our communities, and our God. These things we share. This is the hope of all humanity
June 08:
Finally, let there be no doubt: I will always keep the threat of military action on the table to defend our security and our ally Israel. Sometimes there are no alternatives to confrontation. But that only makes diplomacy more important. If we must use military force, we are more likely to succeed, and will have far greater support at home and abroad, if we have exhausted our diplomatic efforts.
June 09:
This is a difficult responsibility to embrace. For human history has often been a record of nations and tribes subjugating one another to serve their own interests. Yet in this new age, such attitudes are self-defeating. Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail. So whatever we think of the past, we must not be prisoners of it. Our problems must be dealt with through partnership; progress must be shared.
June 08:
Not when there are still voices that deny the Holocaust. Not when there are terrorist groups and political leaders committed to Israel’s destruction. Not when there are maps across the Middle East that don’t even acknowledge Israel’s existence, and government-funded textbooks filled with hatred toward Jews. Not when there are rockets raining down on Sderot, and Israeli children have to take a deep breath and summon uncommon courage every time they board a bus or walk to school.
June 09:
Palestinians must abandon violence. Resistance through violence and killing is wrong and does not succeed. For centuries, black people in America suffered the lash of the whip as slaves and the humiliation of segregation. But it was not violence that won full and equal rights. It was a peaceful and determined insistence upon the ideals at the center of America’s founding. This same story can be told by people from South Africa to South Asia; from Eastern Europe to Indonesia. It’s a story with a simple truth: that violence is a dead end. It is a sign of neither courage nor power to shoot rockets at sleeping children, or to blow up old women on a bus. That is not how moral authority is claimed; that is how it is surrendered.
June 08:
That is the change we need in our foreign policy. Change that restores American power and influence. Change accompanied by a pledge that I will make known to allies and adversaries alike: that America maintains an unwavering friendship with Israel, and an unshakeable commitment to its security.
June 09:
I know that for many, the face of globalization is contradictory. The Internet and television can bring knowledge and information, but also offensive sexuality and mindless violence. Trade can bring new wealth and opportunities, but also huge disruptions and changing communities. In all nations – including my own – this change can bring fear. Fear that because of modernity we will lose of control over our economic choices, our politics, and most importantly our identities – those things we most cherish about our communities, our families, our traditions, and our faith.
I’m not a fan of the Zahi…wonder if he took him under the Sphinx, into a dark lair where nine extra-dimensional “men” stood around a black monolith, chanting as the monolith projected a holographic video of the Kennedy assassination from an angle NO ONE has ever seen before…
(thank you Bill Hicks)
An Update! The censorship and poor Internet connection of this country has bound me to silence for the past few months. Check out some of the new songs. I’m returning in July, and will be working on the new album for the rest of the summer. It should be out by mid-Fall of 2009, maybe after Ramadan, maybe after Samhain, or maybe after the “We Give Thanks for the Land We Stole, Yay America!” Day in November. Either way, it is coming.
I’ve finished the outline and story for the graphic novel I’m working on with Matthew Warlick, my partner in crime and life and love. Check out our blog, Stolen Skies.net, which once I’m out of the censored zone will be updated MUCH more regularly, especially regarding new finds with the Rock Wall.
And, finally, a note: this year has been pretty much the biggest head-fucking, mind-blowing, and paradigm-awakening trip I’ve ever had. I’ve found radical, kindred souls 7,000 miles away in one of America’s most fascist allies, Saudi Arabia, the last of the true monarchies; despite it’s abuse and perversion of the teachings in this country, I’ve learned about and integrated Islam into my amalgamation of spiritual guides, especially Sufism; and most importantly, I’ve completely and hopelessly given my soul over to Love, in all its varied forms, pains, and ecstasies. So with that, I give you this manifesto. Hopefully it will ring as heartfelt, as it was when I wrote it. Namaste, and Salam alekum.
Manifesto
I desire to see through all things. I pray with the will of the Universe that I may see beyond death, beyond life, beyond good, beyond evil, and that I may understand my Shadow to know that I have nothing left to fear. The reason I write so many “dark” things into my music and my world is because I’m constantly testing them, learning about them, and in doing so, not invoking them as much as I am inspecting them. When I do this I begin to see that it’s all just energy; it’s all a thin veil that is not meant to be chain mail, it’s not meant to be titanium. It’s supposed to be gossamer. There is very little that is all light, that is all darkness.
And in my heart I truly desire to know the depths and heights of Love; this is the mystical teaching of all ages. That Love is death, Love is life, Love is being ripped apart at the seams and then put back together again because it’s the only thing that can be done. When you are truly vulnerable, truly in submission to both Love and the Will of the Universe, the Divine Will that runs through all things, you will be cast deep unto the rocks and ripped apart as a raft would be dashed by a hurricane. You are not the hurricane. You can never be the hurricane. You can be a sail, and catch the wind. You can be a dolphin, and ride the waves. But you cannot be the Force behind all things.
You must work from this place, the heart. That which leads you off course is that which says that Fears are real, that that which you fear is physically manifest and can actually do harm to you. Yes, it can do actual harm to you; you can go crazy, you can channel energies beyond your control and you can bring into existence something much more terrifying than your mother’s Ouija board can. But it is not you. You are not it. You are not the Darkness, and it cannot actually take you physically or mentally.
This is not what I believe, but what has been revealed to me through silence. Through asking. Through coincidence, metaphor, and manifestation. I have come to this place through the work of others who have sought the same path; and though sometimes I have found their work wanting, I know that this is only because they are not on the exact same path I am on. I am on a path unique to all else in existence, as everything in existence is unique unto itself. But we are bonded eternally by the force that unites us beneath our concept of our path, our individuality; we are united by that thing we call God, the Universe, and ultimately, Love. In Love I go and in Love I create, and in Love I shall leave my trace on this world, even as in Love I give my mortal body to the wind.
