Showing posts with label harlem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label harlem. Show all posts
Friday, October 1, 2021
Schumer's Dope-Based Economic Plan: Hyperinflation and No Production
Amazing, will we have a New York and other places in the USA with a productive economy? Diane Sare knows -- or else only Marijuana. Harlem Dudes, we like better the China building model of Railroads.
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Summer Camp with Classical Chorus and Astrolabes
See if you can make the scene, and go to www.ffrcc.org to sign up please... Cmon Harlem dudes... yes, it's in Greenwich village, but you can get on the 1 train to 14th Street and make the scene. Time for your teenager to have summer camp in the city from August 6 to 17.Friday, April 13, 2018
Chinese and African Art in Harlem, Djibril Ngawa
Djibril's bright colors have created a sort of orange and black musical instrument... and perhaps the figure behind it is playing it, around a Chinese letter of calligraphy. In this very abstract work, you can make your own stories up. Show just closed at the Dwyer Art center in Harlem, NY, entrance on West 123rd Street, around the corner from St Nicholas and Frederick Douglas Boulevard.
Monday, March 19, 2018
Non Violence Concert and MLK, post latest school shootings- April 9 NYC
Time for a new student non-violence movement, Harlem and Bronx dudes, especially in the wake of the Parkland Fla mass school shooting. Dangerous times indeed, time for a new SNCC-- student non violent coordinating committee.
On Monday, April 9, at 7 p.m., The Foundation for the Revival of Classical Culture will present a commemoration of the life of Martin Luther King with music and speeches at St. Bartholomew’s Church, 325 Park Avenue, NYC. Artists from the Harlem Opera Company, and the New York City Schiller Institute chorus will perform. Headline artists are Simon Estes, operatic bass-baritone, Roland Carter, composer, and Ed Asner, actor. Performances include: Recitations from the speeches of Martin Luther King, Spirituals, sections of Beethoven's Mass in C Major, and the Lacrimosa from Mozart's Requiem. Roland Carter will conduct his own arrangements.
Bernard Lafayette, the keynote speaker, was a founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and a leading organizer of marches in Selma, Alabama and the March on Washington, DC. He has been a school principal, and taught the principles of non-violence in many settings in the USA and internationally.
In April 9, 1968, 50 years ago, Bernard Lafayette was also at the funeral of Martin Luther King in Atlanta Georgia. This concert is dedicated to celebrating the triumph of Martin Luther King's stand against injustice, even at the cost of his life. “Either we go up together, or we go down together.”
In the words of King,“Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land!”
For more information and to purchase reserve seats tickets call: 718-709-8722 or visit www.ffrcc.org. Reservations recommended. Tickets: $15 reserved seats; $10 suggested donation at door.
Friday, February 9, 2018
Trump and the Stock Market Crash
Hey Harlem and Bronx dudes... crash, correction, it is all related... A choppy wall st... but does it make a difference... :? Are they freakin out that Trump loyalists Devin Nunes and Sen. Grassley are fighting back.... Of course the British are in a total freakout, but what else is new..... Return Chris Steele to his MI6 owners.... time to make him talk. But they won't let him talk in London, cause MI6 "Mother" and the British Foreign office are watching the trials there...
Tuesday, January 9, 2018
Trump- Dont Count on Wall St for Infrastructure
Hey Pres Trump.... Harlem NY dudes telling you the lowdown.... Bronx dudes too.... Wall Street is not going to bail out the economy and never is it going to build infrastructure..... Forget about matching funds let alone 20-80 splits pub-private partnership... not gonna exist.... this is the lowdown from Jason Ross of the larouchepac basement team on the Monday June 8th update.
Lyndon LaRouche has been telling what to do for half a century.... an axiomatic understanding of what you are even measuring in an economy. Economics is about human beings... creativity, development, and infrastructure so these ideas of development can spread. Otherwise it is crash crash crash....#infrastructure +LaRouchePAC Live @realdonaldtrump +The American Patriot That is what it is about ... culture, classical music, infrastructure, education, productivity.... time to understand the future and real human goals.
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Hunter College Food Policy
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Friday, October 13, 2017
Dudes rap on the hiphop silk road
OK Harlem and Bronx dudes... get into the polit poetry, the rap, the hip hop hop, or whateva...
Time to take a ride on the Silk Road....
Time to take a ride on the Silk Road....
For a new economy we gotta be bold
If you wanna win go for the gold...
Where there is a future to be bought and sold.
Yes, folks, with Trump going to Asia and China in November... get your rap togeta, your poetry, whateva...
it's time to get on da road....Last week, the Schiller Institute inaugurated a weekly webcast, to bring to the attention of citizens throughout the world the incredible new dynamic which has been unleashed around China’s Belt-and-Road Initiative (BRI). The BRI is defining a New Paradigm for mankind, which means an end to geopolitics, with its endless wars, its bailouts and bail-ins of bankrupt financial institutions, and its demands for deadly austerity against the vast majority of people. This dynamic, which Mrs. LaRouche characterized as the “Spirit of the Silk Road” represents an opportunity for mankind to achieve a new era of peace, through development.
In less than a month, President Trump will travel to Asia, with visits to China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, and the Philippines. His meeting with President Xi Jinping has the potential to be world historic, building on the positive rapport between the two from their initial meeting in April in Mar-e-Lago.
The forces of the neocon transatlantic oligarchy are engaged in a desperate deployment to prevent this relationship from developing into full collaboration. That is what is behind the “Get Trump” operation and why it must not be allowed to succeed.
For the US and European nations to join the New Silk Road is the only way to escape a new financial crash, which even outgoing German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble is warning about.
TRANSCRIPT
HARLEY SCHLANGER: Hello, I'm Harley Schlanger from the Schiller Institute, and I'd like to welcome you to our weekly webcast with Helga Zepp-LaRouche, who's the founder and chairwoman of the Schiller Institute.
Helga is known around the world as the "Silk Road Lady," for the work that she's done in presenting the ideas of the Silk Road, and developing it to the reality today of the Global Land-Bridge.
In less than a month, Donald Trump, President of the United States, will be making a trip to Asia, which will include stops in many countries, but none as important as his visit to China. It's hoped that he'll be able to build on the personal rapport he's developed with Xi Jinping over the many months since the first meeting they had in Mar-a-Lago, because there's quite a bit at stake with this.
And to get a picture of this unfolding dynamic let me welcome Helga, to speak to you.
HELGA ZEPP-LAROUCHE: Hello. As a matter of fact, this coming trip of President Trump to Asia will be extremely important, because this trip occurs in the context of a very, very dramatic strategic situation. We have all signs that a new financial crash is in the workings, and we can talk about that in a little while; and there is an alternative already in existence, which is the incredibly dynamic Belt and Road Initiative, which has been initiated by China four years ago.
Monday, October 9, 2017
Columbus Poetry- defend Statue
Steer on courageous Sailor,
you won't be the failer...
Now Trump can protect the legacy,
Of the one belt and one road economy.
Hey Harlem NY dudes we're on the road.
It's hard to know but we found the code.
For Columbus and his mission of discovery
Defend his statues and his legacy.
you won't be the failer...
Now Trump can protect the legacy,
Of the one belt and one road economy.
Hey Harlem NY dudes we're on the road.
It's hard to know but we found the code.
For Columbus and his mission of discovery
Defend his statues and his legacy.
There is great political tension surrounding the preparations the Trump Administration is now making for the President's Asia trip November 3-14 and, crucially, his meetings with President Xi of China.
Confrontations with North Korea and with Iran are intensifying and threaten great, potentially immediate dangers.
But the now strengthening national debate over how to get new infrastructure built in America, after the unprotected "natural disasters" of August and September, sets an agenda for Trump with China, which is building major new projects worldwide in its Belt and Road Initiative.
Trump's own public statements and actions in rushing through emergency funds, recommending public funding of infrastructure and writing off Wall Street's unpayable debts in Puerto Rico, have intentionally provoked this debate and built on Americans' desire to unify and rebuild.
China has wanted to participate in this since President Xi invited Barack Obama's administration to join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank; Obama fought it instead. It represents the goals of national common interests, productivity, and connectivity for which China's Belt and Road Initiative was founded in 2013, and first suggested by Lyndon and Helga LaRouche in 1989.
Thursday, October 5, 2017
Poetry China, Trump and the New Silk Road
The silk road is on the move.
time to help Trump get the groove
helga zepp larouche playing it smooth
sometimes to get economics to soothe.
Helga Zepp LaRouche, the Founder and Chairwoman of the Schiller Institute, will inaugurate a weekly English-language webcast
Cmon on with the silk road fast...
To spread what she calls the “New Silk Road Spirit” to the world.
With 60 nations' flags unfurled.
Mrs. LaRouche is one of the most prominent intellectual authors of the concept “The New Silk Road becomes the World Landbridge”.
Looking out on the high ridge.
Since Chinese President Xi Jinping put the New Silk Road, the Belt and Road Initiative, as it is now called on the agenda four years ago
A beautiful winter is coming, so let it snow.
....it is lifting tens of millions out of poverty, and puts an alternative to the dangerous idea of geopolitical division of the world. Known internationally as “the Silk Road Lady,” Mrs. LaRouche is often featured in the Chinese press for analysis on the BRI, and the global strategic situation.
Sunday, August 27, 2017
Columbus statue, and the discovery of America
No, we are not surrendering the Columbus statue in NYC or anywhere. Harlem dudes knowl the story of the Renaissance and the discovery of America.
Columbus and Toscanelli by Ricardo Olvera
One of the most controversial matters relating to the discovery of the Americas relates to the Italian Renaissance. In the scientific seminars held during the Council of Florence, Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli presented his idea of the project. Based upon the scientific information brought by cosmographers, geographers, and experts in the science of navigation gathered there together, the general lines were traced of what would, fifty-three years later, become the "greatest event after Creation," according to one Spanish author-- the discovery of the New World.
The direct connection between the Italian Renaissance and the Spanish exploit is established by the correspondence between Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli and Christopher Columbus. In Toscanelli's letter to Columbus in 1480, and in the ones written by him six years before to Fernao Martins, agent of the Portuguese King Alfonso V, the Florentine scholar urged the Iberian powers-Portugal and Spain-to realize the transatlantic project discussed in Florence, and he laid out for them the map and the scientific information required for its success (SEE Map I). As Fernando Columbus, Christopher's son, reports in his Life of the Admiral, the basis upon which his father founded his project was as follows: A Master Paolo, physician of Master Domenico, a Florentine contemporary to the same Admiral, was the cause in great measure of his undertaking this This article, translated by Rick Sanders, has been excerpted and adapted from "The Discovery of the Americas and the Great Scientific Project of the Renaissance, " which appeared in the Spanish -language magazine Benengeli, Vol. 2, No. 1 (1987). voyage with greater spirit. The fact that the cited Paolo was a friend of Fernao Martins, canon of Lisbon, and that the two were writing letters to each other about the sea voyages made to the country of Guinea during the time of King Alfonso of Portugal, and about what could be done in the westward direction, came to the ears of the Admiral who was most curious about these things. And he hastened to write, by way of one Lorenzo Girardi, a Florentine who was in Lisbon, to the said Master Paolo, about this, and sent to him an armillary sphere, revealing to him his intent. Master Paolo sent him a reply in Latin ....
Later Fernando Columbus transcribes the first letter from Toscanelli to Christopher Columbus: To Christopher Columbus, Paolo, physician, greetIllgs. I see this magnificent and grand desire of yours to see how to get to [the regions] where spices are born, and in reply to your letter I send you a copy of another letter which I wrote some time ago to a friend and familiar of the most serene King of Portugal, before the Castillian war, in reply to another letter which by commision of his Highness was written to me about the said matter; and I send you another such map of sailing, as the one I wrote to him, through which your questions will be satisfied. Toscanelli affixed to the bottom of his letter to Columbus, a copy of the letter which he had sent earlier to Fernao Martins, the canon who operated as an intermediary between the republican networks of Florence, and those republicans who were trying to convince the King of Portugal to put the navigational capacity of that country in the service of this great project. This letter had been directed at awakening the commercial interest of the powerful, painting with vivid colors the fantastic riches of the Far East; and attached to it was the carta de marear or "navigational map," which Columbus never let out of his sight for even a moment, during his first voyage. Did Toscanelli believe that following his navigational plan, the coasts that one would see rise on the horizon would be those of the Orient? Or did he perhaps expect those of a new continent?
One fact makes us suspect the latter: the distance at which Columbus encountered America, and likewise the principal geographic and nautical characteristics of the route, were precisely those of Toscanelli's navigational map. Instead of fantastic palaces covered in gold and the refined civilization of the Orient, Columbus encountered an almost savage continent, in which everything still needed to be done. The prevailing mentality of the courts of Europe at the time, would have made it very difficult to find support for a project involving so much nature and so little art. Either way, Toscanelli and the strategists of the Renaissance succeeded in their plan to mobilize the maritime-commercial powers to an enterprise which the "experts" of the age considered "not income-producing" (just as today, the cost-accountants consider the project of colonizing the Moon and Mars as not "income producing"), and such experts notwithstanding, there was opened up for humanity the most formidable period of development of which we have memory. Are Toscanelli's Letters Genuine? At the Congress of Americanists held in Paris in 1 900, Henry Vignaud, then First Secretary of the American Embassy in France, denied for the first time the authenticity of the famous correspondence between Toscanelli, Martins, and Columbus, in a document which was immediately widely diffused through the press of the day. Over the years since 1 900, the vital and previously wellknown link of Columbus to Toscanelli-and thus, to the Council of Florence-was hidden, and ultimately, forgotten. In essence, Vignaud said that the discovery of the Americas was not the result of any scientific project, but rather of chance. According to Vignaud, Columbus never had any intention of reaching Asia, let alone the New World, but only of reaching one of the islands located west of the Canaries. If by chance Columbus did have any scientific theory, he would not have gotten this from Toscanelli, nor from any of the cosmographers of the Renaissance, but from Ptolemy, Aristotle, and other "authorities" of medieval geography and cosmography. Vignaud based this on his "demonstration" that the 38 letters ofToscanelli to Christopher Columbus, and above all from Toscanelli to Fernao Martins, were apocryphal. In refuting this assertion, the historian Clement Markham argued that [fJew documents of this period are so well certified [as this letter]. Las Casas, an absolutely trustworthy and honest historian, not only furnishes us with a Spanish translation, but informs us that one part of the original, it seems, the navigational map adjoined, was in fact in his possession at the moment of writing. In the Life of the Admiral, by Fernando Columbus, MAP 1. Reconstruction of Toscanelli's map sent to Columbus in 1480. there is included an Italian translation. And one copy of the original version in Latin was found in the Columbus Library in Seville in 1 860, in the frontispiece of a book by Pius II which had belonged to Christopher Columbus, written in the Admiral's own hand. I In a reply to Markham, Vignaud attempted to bolster his claim by arguing that Fernao Martins never existed, and that he was a mere invention, created to explain the inexplicable: the tie between Columbus and Toscanelli-which was impossible according to Vignaud, because Columbus was never in Florence, and Toscanelli never left Italy. , Did Fernao Martins Exist? Ironically, by questioning the existence of Fernao Martins, Vignaud actually helps us to highlight the point of conception of the Renaissance exploration project. For in the work of Cardinal Nicolaus of Cusa entitled Tetralogus de Non Aliud (Tetralogue on the Not-Other), there unfolds a Socratic dialogue between "Nicolaus" and three interlocutors, of whom the main one is Ferdinando Martin Portugaliensi natione, canon of Lisbon, whose full name is Fernao Martins de Roritz (from the town of Roritz in Portugal). The other two are Oanes Andrea Vigerius, or Gian Andrea, from Vigevano in northern Italy; and Petrus Balbus Pisanus, or Pietro Balbi, born in Pisa, a former study companion of Cusa and Toscanelli in Padua. This same Fernao (Martins) of Roritz, relative and private councillor to Alfonso V, would, together with Toscanelli, later sign on Aug. 6, 1464, the last will and testament of Nicolaus of Cusa, as a witness and as his personal doctor; a few days later, he would attend Cusa's funeral. A relative of Fernao Martins also enjoyed the confidence of Cardinal Cusa: Antonio Martins, the bishop of Oporto, born in Chavez, a town near Roritz. It is this Antonio Martins who had accompanied the cardinal's delegation to Constantinople in 1 437, sent by Pope Eugene IV to convince the Emperor and the Patriarch of Constantinople of the need to be present at the Council. Toscanelli also played the role of interlocutor in one of Nicolaus of Cusa's dialogues, on the squaring of the circle, entitled De Arithmeticis Complementis (On Arith metical Complements). Born in 1397, one of the most outstanding participants in the Council of Florence, Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli died at age 88, in 1 482, a decade before the realization of his great project. He had been Cusa's fellow student in Padua, and Cusa dedicated to him, besides the cited book, another one entitled De Geometricis Transmutationibus (On Geometrical Transformations).
Thus we see, contrary to Vignaud, that Nicolaus of Cusa, Toscanelli, and Martins formed a close intellectual circle, whose scientific work was unified in and grew out of the great Florentine Council. One indication of the educational efforts which the leaders of the Renaissance undertook to win over the "best mariners of the world" to their cause, is the fact that Columbus' most treasured book, which he carried with him in his voyages of discovery, was the Historia rerum ubique gestarum (Universal History of Facts and Deeds) of Pope Pius I I-the humanist Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini-in whose frontispiece Columbus himself had copied in his own hand Toscanelli's map. It had been Piccolomini who penned the great lament at the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453: "This is a second death for Homer, a second death for Plato: now where will we be able to find the works of genius of the Greek poets and philosophers?" Pope Pius II died on Aug. 14, 1464, three days after Cardinal Cusa, and the chances of an immediate Christian crusade to liberate Constantinople and free the Mediterranean from Turkish control, were sharply reduced; this thread would be picked up later, through the Reconquest of the Iberian peninsula, brought to a close in 1492 by the same Ferdinand and Isabella who would dispatch Columbus that same year on the greatest military flanking move in history-to bypass the VenetianTurkish stranglehold, and reach the east by the rear, going west across the feared ocean-sea. And thus it was that, after the deaths of Cusa and Pius II, the scientist Toscanelli returned to Florence "to continue his studies, turning his face not to the east, but to the west, thinking about a new route for commerce and for civilization.,,2
NOTES I. Clement R. Markham, Toscanelli and Columbus: A Letter from Clement R. Markham to Henry Vignaud (London: Sands and Company, 1 903). 2. Angel de Altolaguirre y Duvale, Cristobal Colon y Pablo del Pozzo Toscanelli (Madrid: I mprenta de Administracion Militar, 1 903). 39
Columbus and Toscanelli by Ricardo Olvera
One of the most controversial matters relating to the discovery of the Americas relates to the Italian Renaissance. In the scientific seminars held during the Council of Florence, Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli presented his idea of the project. Based upon the scientific information brought by cosmographers, geographers, and experts in the science of navigation gathered there together, the general lines were traced of what would, fifty-three years later, become the "greatest event after Creation," according to one Spanish author-- the discovery of the New World.
The direct connection between the Italian Renaissance and the Spanish exploit is established by the correspondence between Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli and Christopher Columbus. In Toscanelli's letter to Columbus in 1480, and in the ones written by him six years before to Fernao Martins, agent of the Portuguese King Alfonso V, the Florentine scholar urged the Iberian powers-Portugal and Spain-to realize the transatlantic project discussed in Florence, and he laid out for them the map and the scientific information required for its success (SEE Map I). As Fernando Columbus, Christopher's son, reports in his Life of the Admiral, the basis upon which his father founded his project was as follows: A Master Paolo, physician of Master Domenico, a Florentine contemporary to the same Admiral, was the cause in great measure of his undertaking this This article, translated by Rick Sanders, has been excerpted and adapted from "The Discovery of the Americas and the Great Scientific Project of the Renaissance, " which appeared in the Spanish -language magazine Benengeli, Vol. 2, No. 1 (1987). voyage with greater spirit. The fact that the cited Paolo was a friend of Fernao Martins, canon of Lisbon, and that the two were writing letters to each other about the sea voyages made to the country of Guinea during the time of King Alfonso of Portugal, and about what could be done in the westward direction, came to the ears of the Admiral who was most curious about these things. And he hastened to write, by way of one Lorenzo Girardi, a Florentine who was in Lisbon, to the said Master Paolo, about this, and sent to him an armillary sphere, revealing to him his intent. Master Paolo sent him a reply in Latin ....
Later Fernando Columbus transcribes the first letter from Toscanelli to Christopher Columbus: To Christopher Columbus, Paolo, physician, greetIllgs. I see this magnificent and grand desire of yours to see how to get to [the regions] where spices are born, and in reply to your letter I send you a copy of another letter which I wrote some time ago to a friend and familiar of the most serene King of Portugal, before the Castillian war, in reply to another letter which by commision of his Highness was written to me about the said matter; and I send you another such map of sailing, as the one I wrote to him, through which your questions will be satisfied. Toscanelli affixed to the bottom of his letter to Columbus, a copy of the letter which he had sent earlier to Fernao Martins, the canon who operated as an intermediary between the republican networks of Florence, and those republicans who were trying to convince the King of Portugal to put the navigational capacity of that country in the service of this great project. This letter had been directed at awakening the commercial interest of the powerful, painting with vivid colors the fantastic riches of the Far East; and attached to it was the carta de marear or "navigational map," which Columbus never let out of his sight for even a moment, during his first voyage. Did Toscanelli believe that following his navigational plan, the coasts that one would see rise on the horizon would be those of the Orient? Or did he perhaps expect those of a new continent?
One fact makes us suspect the latter: the distance at which Columbus encountered America, and likewise the principal geographic and nautical characteristics of the route, were precisely those of Toscanelli's navigational map. Instead of fantastic palaces covered in gold and the refined civilization of the Orient, Columbus encountered an almost savage continent, in which everything still needed to be done. The prevailing mentality of the courts of Europe at the time, would have made it very difficult to find support for a project involving so much nature and so little art. Either way, Toscanelli and the strategists of the Renaissance succeeded in their plan to mobilize the maritime-commercial powers to an enterprise which the "experts" of the age considered "not income-producing" (just as today, the cost-accountants consider the project of colonizing the Moon and Mars as not "income producing"), and such experts notwithstanding, there was opened up for humanity the most formidable period of development of which we have memory. Are Toscanelli's Letters Genuine? At the Congress of Americanists held in Paris in 1 900, Henry Vignaud, then First Secretary of the American Embassy in France, denied for the first time the authenticity of the famous correspondence between Toscanelli, Martins, and Columbus, in a document which was immediately widely diffused through the press of the day. Over the years since 1 900, the vital and previously wellknown link of Columbus to Toscanelli-and thus, to the Council of Florence-was hidden, and ultimately, forgotten. In essence, Vignaud said that the discovery of the Americas was not the result of any scientific project, but rather of chance. According to Vignaud, Columbus never had any intention of reaching Asia, let alone the New World, but only of reaching one of the islands located west of the Canaries. If by chance Columbus did have any scientific theory, he would not have gotten this from Toscanelli, nor from any of the cosmographers of the Renaissance, but from Ptolemy, Aristotle, and other "authorities" of medieval geography and cosmography. Vignaud based this on his "demonstration" that the 38 letters ofToscanelli to Christopher Columbus, and above all from Toscanelli to Fernao Martins, were apocryphal. In refuting this assertion, the historian Clement Markham argued that [fJew documents of this period are so well certified [as this letter]. Las Casas, an absolutely trustworthy and honest historian, not only furnishes us with a Spanish translation, but informs us that one part of the original, it seems, the navigational map adjoined, was in fact in his possession at the moment of writing. In the Life of the Admiral, by Fernando Columbus, MAP 1. Reconstruction of Toscanelli's map sent to Columbus in 1480. there is included an Italian translation. And one copy of the original version in Latin was found in the Columbus Library in Seville in 1 860, in the frontispiece of a book by Pius II which had belonged to Christopher Columbus, written in the Admiral's own hand. I In a reply to Markham, Vignaud attempted to bolster his claim by arguing that Fernao Martins never existed, and that he was a mere invention, created to explain the inexplicable: the tie between Columbus and Toscanelli-which was impossible according to Vignaud, because Columbus was never in Florence, and Toscanelli never left Italy. , Did Fernao Martins Exist? Ironically, by questioning the existence of Fernao Martins, Vignaud actually helps us to highlight the point of conception of the Renaissance exploration project. For in the work of Cardinal Nicolaus of Cusa entitled Tetralogus de Non Aliud (Tetralogue on the Not-Other), there unfolds a Socratic dialogue between "Nicolaus" and three interlocutors, of whom the main one is Ferdinando Martin Portugaliensi natione, canon of Lisbon, whose full name is Fernao Martins de Roritz (from the town of Roritz in Portugal). The other two are Oanes Andrea Vigerius, or Gian Andrea, from Vigevano in northern Italy; and Petrus Balbus Pisanus, or Pietro Balbi, born in Pisa, a former study companion of Cusa and Toscanelli in Padua. This same Fernao (Martins) of Roritz, relative and private councillor to Alfonso V, would, together with Toscanelli, later sign on Aug. 6, 1464, the last will and testament of Nicolaus of Cusa, as a witness and as his personal doctor; a few days later, he would attend Cusa's funeral. A relative of Fernao Martins also enjoyed the confidence of Cardinal Cusa: Antonio Martins, the bishop of Oporto, born in Chavez, a town near Roritz. It is this Antonio Martins who had accompanied the cardinal's delegation to Constantinople in 1 437, sent by Pope Eugene IV to convince the Emperor and the Patriarch of Constantinople of the need to be present at the Council. Toscanelli also played the role of interlocutor in one of Nicolaus of Cusa's dialogues, on the squaring of the circle, entitled De Arithmeticis Complementis (On Arith metical Complements). Born in 1397, one of the most outstanding participants in the Council of Florence, Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli died at age 88, in 1 482, a decade before the realization of his great project. He had been Cusa's fellow student in Padua, and Cusa dedicated to him, besides the cited book, another one entitled De Geometricis Transmutationibus (On Geometrical Transformations).
Thus we see, contrary to Vignaud, that Nicolaus of Cusa, Toscanelli, and Martins formed a close intellectual circle, whose scientific work was unified in and grew out of the great Florentine Council. One indication of the educational efforts which the leaders of the Renaissance undertook to win over the "best mariners of the world" to their cause, is the fact that Columbus' most treasured book, which he carried with him in his voyages of discovery, was the Historia rerum ubique gestarum (Universal History of Facts and Deeds) of Pope Pius I I-the humanist Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini-in whose frontispiece Columbus himself had copied in his own hand Toscanelli's map. It had been Piccolomini who penned the great lament at the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453: "This is a second death for Homer, a second death for Plato: now where will we be able to find the works of genius of the Greek poets and philosophers?" Pope Pius II died on Aug. 14, 1464, three days after Cardinal Cusa, and the chances of an immediate Christian crusade to liberate Constantinople and free the Mediterranean from Turkish control, were sharply reduced; this thread would be picked up later, through the Reconquest of the Iberian peninsula, brought to a close in 1492 by the same Ferdinand and Isabella who would dispatch Columbus that same year on the greatest military flanking move in history-to bypass the VenetianTurkish stranglehold, and reach the east by the rear, going west across the feared ocean-sea. And thus it was that, after the deaths of Cusa and Pius II, the scientist Toscanelli returned to Florence "to continue his studies, turning his face not to the east, but to the west, thinking about a new route for commerce and for civilization.,,2
NOTES I. Clement R. Markham, Toscanelli and Columbus: A Letter from Clement R. Markham to Henry Vignaud (London: Sands and Company, 1 903). 2. Angel de Altolaguirre y Duvale, Cristobal Colon y Pablo del Pozzo Toscanelli (Madrid: I mprenta de Administracion Militar, 1 903). 39
Trump is still in the fight
The shock of the Trans Atlantic establishment is still so weird and horrible. So watch the video.
Thursday, August 10, 2017
The British Monarchy Hacked Trump
Hey Harlem NY dudes, get the intel, get the groove.
If the Russians didn't do it, the hack, the leak, the subversion of Trump and the election, then who did it??????
If the Russians didn't do it, the hack, the leak, the subversion of Trump and the election, then who did it??????
Petition to President Donald Trump
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20500
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20500
Lyndon LaRouche has stated that with respect to the ongoing fraudulent Russiagate scandal directed at President Trump, “The American people must demand that the ongoing treasonous British coup against the Presidency, and the nation itself, be stopped and the perpetrators prosecuted and imprisoned.” We, the undersigned, agree with that statement and the following:
- The Veterans Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) has presented evidence to President Trump that Russia never hacked the Democratic National Committee. The emails in question were leaked by an insider, not hacked, and were subsequently altered to attribute responsibility to Russia. A new special prosecutor should be appointed to investigate those responsible for perpetrating the resulting hoax which has so damaged and divided our entire nation.
- There is abundant evidence in the record showing that British institutions and agencies conducted a concerted attack on candidate and now President Donald Trump in order to influence and then reverse the U.S. election result. The actions of “former” MI6 agent Christopher Steele and his firm Orbis Business Intelligence—involved in creating false and salacious accusations against the president after being paid over $1,000,000 by supporters of Hillary Clinton—are fruitful targets for investigation, as are actions of GCHQ (the British NSA). If British interference is shown by a new special prosecutor’s investigation, the “special relationship” between the United States and Great Britain should be cancelled in all respects.
In the words of LaRouche, “Cancel the British system. Save the people.” Printable version of petition.
Signed,
Thursday, July 27, 2017
Review of Sylvia Olden Lee Tribute at Carnegie Hall, NYC
On Thursday, June 29, the Foundation for the Revival of Classical Culture put on “Tribute to Sylvia Olden Lee” at Carnegie Hall. Sylvia was an accomplished pianist and voice coach who was the first African American employed as a professional at the NY Metropolitan Opera. This three-hour concert had the hall nearly full with 2000 people, including many high school youth.
Acapella spirituals by Elvira Green and Sheila Harris Jackson opened as they came walking on stage. Then the Schiller Institute chorus followed with soloist Gregory Hopkins in “Lord, I Don’t Feel No-ways Tired,” followed by “Go Down Moses” and “Soon I Will Be Done.” The chorus had a surprising bell-like tone due to the use of the lower tuning of A=432 and great training.
Many singers were from the Harlem Opera Theater. Indira Mahajan, soprano sang “Ritorna vincitor!” (Return victorious) from the opera Aida. What really was incredible then were the scenes from the Verdi opera Don Carlos, with the 79-year-old baritone Simon Estes giving an incredible performance first as Don Carlos; and then as King Phillip, along with Kevin Short as the Grand Inquisitor. Then, Rosa D’Imperio sang the heartbreaking aria from Don Carlos “Toi qui sus le neant.” (You who know the nothingness…).
After the intermission, Robert Sims performed the iconic Schubert song “Who is Sylvia?” accompanied by Jeremy Jordan, who then played the Impromptu Op. 90 No. 3 in G-flat major by Schuber
More spirituals followed with Osceola Davis singing “Guide My Feet,” and Everett Suttle and Frank Mathis singing from the Roland Hayes spiritual song cycle “The Life of Christ.” The dramatic finale had the audience joining in, conducted by Roland Carter, in his arrangement of "Lift Every Voice and Sing.”
What a concert on June 29, Tribute to Sylvia Olden Lee at Carnegie Hall. There were many notables in attendance including Minister Louis Farrakhan, whom Sylvia supported in returning to his classical violin studies and performance. Written tributes in the program ranged from Jessye Norman to Bobby McFerrin. A proclamation from the office of the Mayor of New York Bill de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray declared it Sylvia Olden Lee Day. This was a fitting touch for a beautiful musical evening.
Acapella spirituals by Elvira Green and Sheila Harris Jackson opened as they came walking on stage. Then the Schiller Institute chorus followed with soloist Gregory Hopkins in “Lord, I Don’t Feel No-ways Tired,” followed by “Go Down Moses” and “Soon I Will Be Done.” The chorus had a surprising bell-like tone due to the use of the lower tuning of A=432 and great training.
Many singers were from the Harlem Opera Theater. Indira Mahajan, soprano sang “Ritorna vincitor!” (Return victorious) from the opera Aida. What really was incredible then were the scenes from the Verdi opera Don Carlos, with the 79-year-old baritone Simon Estes giving an incredible performance first as Don Carlos; and then as King Phillip, along with Kevin Short as the Grand Inquisitor. Then, Rosa D’Imperio sang the heartbreaking aria from Don Carlos “Toi qui sus le neant.” (You who know the nothingness…).
After the intermission, Robert Sims performed the iconic Schubert song “Who is Sylvia?” accompanied by Jeremy Jordan, who then played the Impromptu Op. 90 No. 3 in G-flat major by Schuber
More spirituals followed with Osceola Davis singing “Guide My Feet,” and Everett Suttle and Frank Mathis singing from the Roland Hayes spiritual song cycle “The Life of Christ.” The dramatic finale had the audience joining in, conducted by Roland Carter, in his arrangement of "Lift Every Voice and Sing.”
What a concert on June 29, Tribute to Sylvia Olden Lee at Carnegie Hall. There were many notables in attendance including Minister Louis Farrakhan, whom Sylvia supported in returning to his classical violin studies and performance. Written tributes in the program ranged from Jessye Norman to Bobby McFerrin. A proclamation from the office of the Mayor of New York Bill de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray declared it Sylvia Olden Lee Day. This was a fitting touch for a beautiful musical evening.
Monday, March 13, 2017
Harlem NY View of the War Danger
Harlem NY looking at the war danger under the new administration... No boys and girls, just because Obama is out doesn't mean that the nuclear war danger has gone away..... Can Trump handle it??
War Report For Sunday, March 12, 2017
1) US/NATO v. Russia
2) Syria and the War On ISIS
3) Israel v. Iran
War Report For Sunday, March 12, 2017
1) US/NATO v. Russia
2) Syria and the War On ISIS
3) Israel v. Iran
1) US/NATO v. Russia
Two former NATO commanders, Breedlove and Stavridis, argue, in a new report published by RUSI, that NATO needs tot ake steps in the North Atlantic comparable to and in support of the actions it is taking in eastern Europe. “The North Atlantic is NATO’s lifeblood; it is the trans-Atlantic link,” Breedlove wrote in the RUSI report. “After two decades of relative calm, we now see a growing Russian threat to this region. The North Atlantic has become the testing area for Russia’s increasingly sophisticated submarines and aircraft.” Breedlove said that Russia has developed “offensive long-range, high-precision capabilities and is building high-end maritime capabilities that could deny NATO members freedom of maneuver at sea.” The RUSI report, says Stars and Stripes, argues that NATO has overlooked the North Atlantic maritime area, focusing instead on other areas, including Afghanistan, tensions in Ukraine and an alliance effort during the past two and half years to build up land forces along its eastern borders with Russia. “NATO must understand that because the North Atlantic plays an important part in Russian military strategic calculations — as evident in its growing naval and air force laydown — it is essential that the region become more central to NATO’s own planning, deployments and preparations,” Stavridis wrote in his contribution to the report.
To the Russians, this is nothing more than another exercise in NATO fear mongering. "All work is paid for, and this report is no exception. How objective it is and the competency of the person who prepared it is another issue. It's one thing if he has tried to give an objective picture, but if he wanted to spread some fear and think up some stories, that's quite another and it seems to me that in this case, it's most likely the second one," Nikolai Topornin, an associate professor of European Law at the Russian Foreign Ministry's Moscow State Institute of International Relations, told Radio Sputnik, in apparent reference to Breedlove. "The man has simply set himself the task of telling everyone that Russia was violating some kind of strategic standards, is strengthening its military presence, including naval and may constitute some kind of threat," Topornin told Radio Sputnik.
To the Russians, this is nothing more than another exercise in NATO fear mongering. "All work is paid for, and this report is no exception. How objective it is and the competency of the person who prepared it is another issue. It's one thing if he has tried to give an objective picture, but if he wanted to spread some fear and think up some stories, that's quite another and it seems to me that in this case, it's most likely the second one," Nikolai Topornin, an associate professor of European Law at the Russian Foreign Ministry's Moscow State Institute of International Relations, told Radio Sputnik, in apparent reference to Breedlove. "The man has simply set himself the task of telling everyone that Russia was violating some kind of strategic standards, is strengthening its military presence, including naval and may constitute some kind of threat," Topornin told Radio Sputnik.
2) Syria and the War On ISIS
Rex Tillerson will be convening a meeting in Washington on March 22 to discuss the war against ISIS. Russia and Iran, two countries with forces directly engaged against ISIS in Syria won‛t be invited, however. Russian Senator Alexei Pushkov commented that it is quite possible to discuss the fight against Daesh without Russia's participation, but it is impossible to defeat them without Russia. Evgeny Satanovsky, head of the Moscow-based Middle East Institute, however, does note that there is US-Russian military cooperation in Syria, but that Trump doesn‛t want to discuss it because of the domestic political climate in Washington.
Fars News, meanwhile, citing something called Hawar news, reports that things aren‛t going swimmingly between the Turks and their proxies in the FSA. Hawar news quoted informed sources as saying that at least sixty Ankara-backed militants in al-Rai town in Northern Aleppo have dropped ties with the Euphrates Shield Operation over low salary and Turkish Army's indifferences to the promises it made to assist the militants.
And a senior official of the PYD warns that Turkey wants to occupy parts of northern Syria. "The territory that Turkey wants to advance to belongs to the Syrian state. These lands are part of Syria's sovereign system. Attacking these lands means attacking a sovereign state," said Ewwas Eli, responsible for foreign relations of the PYD's branch in Kobani. "Turkey wants to occupy Syria."
Meanwhile, the US State Department has declared Hayyat Tahrir al-Sham in a statement published on Friday. The reasoning is simple. The leader of HTS is Mohammad Al-Julani, commander-in-chief of Jabhat Fateh Al-Sham, which was Jabhat al Nusra, which was Al Qaeda, and therefore should still be considered Al Qaeda. Al Masdar published the US statement in Arabic, but I can‛t find it in English.
Fars News, meanwhile, citing something called Hawar news, reports that things aren‛t going swimmingly between the Turks and their proxies in the FSA. Hawar news quoted informed sources as saying that at least sixty Ankara-backed militants in al-Rai town in Northern Aleppo have dropped ties with the Euphrates Shield Operation over low salary and Turkish Army's indifferences to the promises it made to assist the militants.
And a senior official of the PYD warns that Turkey wants to occupy parts of northern Syria. "The territory that Turkey wants to advance to belongs to the Syrian state. These lands are part of Syria's sovereign system. Attacking these lands means attacking a sovereign state," said Ewwas Eli, responsible for foreign relations of the PYD's branch in Kobani. "Turkey wants to occupy Syria."
Meanwhile, the US State Department has declared Hayyat Tahrir al-Sham in a statement published on Friday. The reasoning is simple. The leader of HTS is Mohammad Al-Julani, commander-in-chief of Jabhat Fateh Al-Sham, which was Jabhat al Nusra, which was Al Qaeda, and therefore should still be considered Al Qaeda. Al Masdar published the US statement in Arabic, but I can‛t find it in English.
3) Israel v. Iran
When Netanyahu was in Moscow, last week, he reportedly told Putin that any truce in Syria should see the departure of Iranian and Iranian-backed militias from the country. “We do not want to see Shia Islamic terrorism led by Iran step in to replace Sunni Islamic terrorism,” Netanyahu told the Russian President. “Iran continues attempts to destroy the Jewish state. They speak of this openly and write this in black and white in their newspapers. According to The Independent and other reports, IRGC militias are on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights in the form of a Shiite paramilitary group called the “Golan Liberation Brigade.” Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba, an Iraqi force backed by Iran, is “ready to take action to liberate Golan” from Israeli occupation, according to spokesman quoted by Iranian state media this week. “I made it clear [ti Putin] that regarding Syria, while Israel is not opposed that there should be an agreement there, we strongly oppose the possibility that Iran and its proxies will be left with a military presence in Syria under such an agreement,” Netanyahu said.
While Iranian-backed militias in Syria could probably cause trouble, it seems unlikely to me that they could come anywhere close to invading and capturing the Israeli occupied part of the Golan Heights. They would get pulverized before they got very far.
While Iranian-backed militias in Syria could probably cause trouble, it seems unlikely to me that they could come anywhere close to invading and capturing the Israeli occupied part of the Golan Heights. They would get pulverized before they got very far.
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