“Far over the misty mountains cold
To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away ere break of day
To seek the pale enchanted gold.

The dwarves of yore made mighty spells,
While hammers fell like ringing bells
In places deep, where dark things sleep,
In hollow halls beneath the fells.

For ancient king and elvish lord
There many a gleaming golden hoard
They shaped and wrought, and light they caught
To hide in gems on hilt of sword.

On silver necklaces they strung
The flowering stars, on crowns they hung
The dragon-fire, in twisted wire
They meshed the light of moon and sun.

Far over the misty mountains cold
To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away, ere break of day,
To claim our long-forgotten gold.

Goblets they carved there for themselves
And harps of gold where no man delves
There lay they long, and many a song
Was sung unheard by men or elves.

The pines were roaring on the height,
The wind was moaning in the night.
The fire was red, it flaming spread
The trees like torches blazed with light.

The bells were ringing in the dale
And men looked up with faces pale
The dragon's ire more fierce than fire
Laid low their towers and houses frail.

The mountain smoked beneath the moon
The dwarves, they heard the tramp of doom.
They fled their hall to dying fall
Beneath his feet, beneath the moon.

Far over the misty mountains grim
To dungeons deep and caverns dim
We must away, ere break of day,
To win our harps and gold from him!” - The Hobbit

City scene from Haarlem, the Netherlands with the Grote St. Bavokerk in the background. Painted by Dutch painter Cornelis Springer, 1800s
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Young Women Need to Hear This

The single most important thing a young woman can do is get married and have children. There is no career, no occupation, and no vocation that can even begin to compete with the importance of bearing the next generation. And even the epitome of the career woman belatedly admits it. DISCUSS ON SG

https://voxday.net/2023/09/22/young-women-need-to-hear-this/

How fast the year has gone. The meme of each month this year

"The important thing is that statistics I’ve seen alleged that only 25% of infrastructure destroyed during last winter’s attacks has been repaired. If true, that would mean Russia could give a killing blow onto the Ukrainian electric grid this coming fall and winter. With decreased weapons shipments, Western funding, etc., that would go a long way towards creating the critical mass by next spring which I described earlier.

"Russia will turn the screws on those clamps and continue its boa constrictor squeeze on Ukraine and all of Europe until internal dissent, unrest, and friction is at a boil. Just watch the video I posted earlier of Schumer quoting Zelensky: “If we don’t get this aid, we’ll lose the war.”

"This is why I don’t think Russia is in a particular rush to effect any sudden rash ‘big arrow offensives’ any time soon. The present attritional tactic is already doing its textbook job, with only minor blips to mar it—like Ukraine’s occasional successes with the Storm Shadows. Apart from that Ukraine has impaled itself on the stakes of Vlad’s Zaporozhye line, as Europe saw fit to impale themselves on Russia’s upraised economic middle finger."

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/zelenskys-terrible-horrible-no-good

The latest exciting episode in the illustrated courtroom drama of biological science versus transgender ideology is now available.

The Wise of Heart brings the Scopes Monkey Trial up to date.

Check it out!
https://wiseofheart.substack.com/p/episode-41-the-end-hate-rally

Let’s chat about censorship.

I uploaded the video to both Odysee and Bastyon, both of which are decentralised platforms.

The German government asked Odysee to censor my video, but Odysee can’t (for the most part, since it’s on the blockchain).

I also don’t monetize my (public) videos, to make it even harder for the authorities.

I have a question.

Do they think that they will win this?

https://jermwarfare.com/conversations/david-cole-auschwitz

Gab, Rumble, Signal, holding out. Nothing censored by Telegram on this channel yet.

Detroit then and now…
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https://news.1rj.ru/str/LauraAbolichannel

In 1945, a group of Soviet school children presented a US Ambassador with a carved US Seal as a gesture of friendship. It hung in his office for seven years before discovering it contained a listening device.

This podcast was excellent. Now I'm going to have to track down the documentary. I have no idea how I missed the drama around it at The University of Texas at Austin while I was a grad student.

"In geology, time is marked by layers of rock deposited atop each other, little by little over time. The thing about the Great Unconformity is that about a billion years of rock appear to be missing between 3 billion-year-old sediment and relatively young, 550-million-year-old stuff sitting directly on top of it.

"Intriguingly, that 550 million-year-date is just a few million years before the Cambrian explosion — the widespread appearance of complex life on Earth."

https://bigthink.com/hard-science/great-unconformity/