"Something amazing has been discovered in an area of South Africa, about
150 miles inland, west of the port of Maputo. It is the remains of a
huge metropolis that measures, in conservative estimates, about 1500
square miles. It's part of an even larger community that is about 10,000
square miles and appears to have been constructed -- are you ready --
from 160,000 to 200,000 BCE!"
http://www.viewzone.com/adamscalendar.html
Author Weinstein Dissects the Great American (Jewish) Superhero
By Michael Aushenker, Staff Writer, Palisadian Post
2009-11-19
With a stand-up comedian's delivery, Simcha Weinstein, author of 'Up, Up, and Oy
Vey!,' lectured on November 6 at Chabad Jewish Community Center on Sunset and
Monument about the connection between superheroes and their Jewish creators. The
Manchester, England-raised Weinstein, today a Brooklyn resident, came as a guest
of Rabbi Shloime Zacks, Chabad's director of adult education.
After Friday night services and dinner, Weinstein delivered his entertaining
recap of the history of the American comic-book superhero. From the creation of
the first superhero by two Cleveland teenagers in 1938 (Superman) and the trio
behind 1939's Batman (Joker creator Jerry Robinson had met Batman co-creator Bob
Kane on the Borscht Belt circuit at Grossinger's in the Catskills) to Stan Lee
and Jack Kirby, architects of the '60s superhero renaissance known as Marvel
Comics Group (Fantastic Four, The Incredible Hulk, The X-Men) which today rakes
in billions as Hollywood blockbusters, the superhero is an idiom almost
exclusively created by Jewish-Americans as 'assimilation fantasies,' Weinstein
said.
Weinstein used Superman to point out how the character, a Moses-like exile from
the planet Krypton who arrives on Earth and adopts the less-ethnic name Clark
Kent, resembled what Jewish immigrants did upon arriving at Ellis Island (Lee
and Kirby themselves were born Stanley Leiber and Jacob Kurtzberg). Weinstein
joked that even the names 'Superman' and 'Spider-Man' resembled Jewish surnames
such as Silverman and Goldman.
He quoted a passage from Quentin Tarantino's 2004 movie 'Kill Bill Vol. 2' in
which David Carradine's character delivers a monologue on how Superman'whose
birth name is Kal-El (Hebrew for 'voice of God') and whose costume was fashioned
from his Kryptonian blanket'was his real identity while his awkward,
bespectacled alter ego Clark Kent was how this alien viewed us Earthlings.
Weinstein recalled a conversation with Spider-Man co-creator Lee in which the
writer said the signature line he conceived for the origin issue of
'Spider-Man,' 'With great power comes great responsibility,' sounded biblically
influenced.
On November 7 at Chabad JCC, Weinstein followed up his comic-book speech with a
talk about Jewish contributions to American comedy, as derived from his book
'Shtick Shift: Jewish Humor in the 21st Century.'
http://www.palisadespost.com/lifestyles/content.php?id=5311
Otis Carr and the Tesla Anti-Gravity Spacecraft:
How the U.S. Government Suppressed the World's First Civilian Spacecraft
Industry
Michael E. Salla, PhD
In 1955, Otis T. Carr, a protégé of Nikola Tesla began a highly visible public
effort to develop a prototype civilian spacecraft that could be mass produced in
kits and sold to the public. If successful, Carr would have developed the
world's first civilian spacecraft and would have revolutionized the aviation
industry. The vehicle was to be powered by an electric generator drawing
electrical energy from the environment, and would have produced an antigravity
effect for propulsion. Carr claimed to have been taught all he knew about
electromagnetic energy and antigravity principles by the famous Yugoslav
inventor Nikola Tesla. He had resided in a New York hotel where Carr worked part
time while completing his studies. Tesla had publicly stated in 1915 that he
knew how to build an antigravity flying vehicle: "My flying machine will have
neither wings nor propellers. You might see it on the ground, and you would
never guess that it was a flying machine. Yet it will be able to move at will
through the air in any direction with perfect safety."2 Tesla's flying vehicle
would be powered by electrical energy drawn from the earth's atmosphere and
stored in special coils. Frustrated by lack of industry support, Tesla revealed
his radical ideas to the young Carr over a three year period.
Tesla taught Carr how electromagnetic energy could be freely harnessed from the
abundant electrical energy in the atmosphere. The possibility that electrical
energy could be freely acquired without need for expensive power plants,
conductive wires, relay stations, telephone poles and significant power loss,
which challenged conventional power companies. Tesla was told that his radical
ideas would not be funded since J.P. Morgan and other industrialists would not
be able to meter the free electrical energy that could be easily drawn from the
atmosphere. Indeed, Tesla's ideas challenged the foundations of the global
economy and monetary system.
Inspired by the aging Tesla, Carr set about testing Tesla's principles in 1937
when he began creating model spacecraft. Carr eventually became convinced that
he could develop a civilian spacecraft that could travel into the upper
atmosphere, to the moon and even achieve the speed of light. All this could be
achieved by following Tesla's advice of tapping into the electrical energy in
the atmosphere to power the spacecraft, storing such energy in a special
"regenerative coil" for interplanetary flights.
[...]
Carr's operation was closed down by the FBI and other government agencies in a
secret raid involving seven or eight truckloads of armed government personnel.
The FBI told Carr that his project was being closed "because of your threat
to overthrow the monetary system of the United States of America." Indeed,
Carr's successful testing of a civilian spacecraft, had it been allowed to go
ahead, would have revolutionized the energy sector and the aerospace industry.
The conventional energy industry using fossil fuels to generate electric power
and the aviation industry would have become redundant overnight. Large U.S.
corporate interests in the energy sector would have lost their substantial
investments. Lack of corporate profits would throw countless thousands out of
work. The financial effect of a civilian spacecraft industry using electrical
energy from the atmosphere for power would indeed have placed enormous pressure
on the U.S. monetary system possibly causing its collapse.
[...]
http://exopoliticsjournal.com/vol-2/vol-2-1-Salla.pdf