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Bitcoin: 'The Most Dangerous Technological Project Since The Internet Itself'
From launch.is "Bitcoin is a P2P currency that could topple governments, destabilize economies and create uncontrollable global bazaars for contraband."Continue reading Bitcoin: 'The Most Dangerous...
View ArticleFor auction: Severed head of genital disease saint (1)
"Severed head of genital disease saint for sale in Ireland" reads the headline in the Belfast Telegraph - A decapitated head, said to be that of St Vitalis of Assisi, the patron saint of genital...
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Curious Georgia: A Curious Little Funky
Archaeological batshttery, mumbo jumbo misinformation and outright lunacy based on fringe interpretations of a couple of websites and five minutes research by ill informed amateur web 'journalists'?...
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Dacianos: Fables for Another Time
Quantum Suicide is a scientific thought experiment. The scientist sits in front of a gun that is set up to either trigger or misfire, depending on the decay of a radioactive atom. With each run of the...
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Spiderman found face down in Amsterdam canal, dead
By Pieter van de Park Amsterdam, June 22nd 2011 -- Authorities are investigating after well-known superhero Spiderman was found face down in an Amsterdam Canal this morning. A man, yet to be named,...
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Polar Bears are from Ireland. Yes.
Everything and everyone is Irish in the end - and now it turns out the that great-great-great-etc grandmother of today's polar bears were in fact from Ireland. This is not some desperate attempt by...
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The Lion and Unicorn Amnesty: A Plea for the Safe Return of England
Guest writer Oliver Bayliss, gives us his unique take on the London and UK riots which have engulfed the country for the last four days.Continue reading The Lion and Unicorn Amnesty: A Plea for the...
View ArticleIrish man dies from Spontaneous Human Combustion
According to the The Irish Independent and The Irish Times, coroner Dr Kieran McLoughlin has found that a 76-year old Galway man, Michael Faherty, died of Spontaneous Human Combustion (SHC) - the first...
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A Book of Migrations by Rebecca Solnit - photography by Dave Walsh
In all my years as a writer, I've written many book reviews. But I've never before reviewed a book that uses one of my photographs as its cover. I'm talking about The Book of Migrations: Some Passages...
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The Cold Edge: Polar Photography by Dave Walsh
From davewalshphoto.com: There comes a time in a photographer's life when (s)he finally gets to announce the Big News; a first major solo exhibition. It's unnerving, exciting, heartening, and...
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Book: The Cold Edge
To celebrate the launch of the Cold Edge exhibition of my polar photography in Dublin, on September 13, I've worked with friend and poet Duncan Cleary to create a 60-page eponymous book, The Cold...
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Actually Listening to Your Record Collection (nearly)
I decided to appreciate what I own. Or else what's the point of owning anything? So I have listened to almost every album in my record collection, CDs and LPs - over 500 of them, casually working...
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Who Shot JFK?
Here at Blather Sub-aqua HQ in the ice-caverns of Crete, we are watchful of the time, and are therefore very much cognisant of the forthcoming 50th anniversary of the assassination of US President...
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The Kennedy Conspiracy
This week, I present one of the best general books on the assassination, The Kennedy Conspiracy by Anthony Summers. The title does not 'reflect a set view by the author' (p. ix). It remains...
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Reasonable Doubt (part one)
The other great general book about the JFK assassination is Reasonable Doubt by Henry Hurt. First published in 1986, this is the Owl Book Edition of '87. Unfortunately it's never been updated. It's...
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Reasonable Doubt (part two)
Last week we were some way into showing how Henry Hurt's Reasonable Doubt shows that Oswald did not commit murder beyond a reasonable doubt. Let doubt be our guide as we proceed...Continue reading...
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Who's Who in the JFK Assassination
This wonderful idea for a book was realized in 1993, for the 30th anniversary: Who's Who in the JFK Assassination, An A-to-Z Encyclopedia, by Michael Benson, with the subtitle Information on More than...
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Deep Politics and the Death of JFK
'There is no danger of a deep state out of control in some way,' said William Hague, the UK's Foreign Secretary in June 2013, speaking about the Edward Snowden revelations. 'Which must be the first...
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Deep Politics II: Oswald, Mexico, and Cuba (part one)
There are mind-bending Oswald mysteries in Mexico! Peter Dale Scott's Deep Politics II The New Revelations in U.S. Government Files 1994-1995 Essays on Oswald, Mexico, and Cuba (1995) (3rd edn. 2003)...
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Deep Politics II: Oswald, Mexico, and Cuba (part two)
'Mystery Man' Oswald in Mexico! Directly continuing from the last entry in this series, the reference book to hand is still Deep Politics II The New Revelations in U.S. Government Files 1994-1995...
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Oswald and the CIA (part one)
There are many mysteries about Oswald, beyond the JFK assassination - his defection, redefection, New Orleans, Mexico, etc. - and no-one seems to clear up mysteries like these better than John Newman,...
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Oswald and the CIA (part two)
Continuing directly from the last entry, we examine more of John Newman's trawl through the declassified files in his book Oswald and the CIA (2008 edition). Government interest in Lee Harvey Oswald...
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Marina and Ruth
Today, 18 October, is Lee Harvey Oswald's birthday. He would have been 74 today (JFK would be 96). At the time of his 24th birthday, in 1963, his wife Marina and their 20-month-old daughter June were...
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Oswald and the CIA (part three)
Once again this blog turns to John Newman's Oswald and the CIA (2008 edition) for evidence from the vast depths of US government files. In this way, pre-assassination documents can throw light on Lee...
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Wilderness of Mirrors
There is another backdrop to Oswald's defection and redefection, and the Kennedy assassination, and that's the bleeding edge of the Cold War, with secret agents from Western and Eastern power blocs...
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Perils of Dominance
Many years ago now, the film JFK sparked the debate about whether Kennedy would have sent troops (combat troops) into Vietnam or not. Had he lived, would JFK have refused to do what Johnson did? Did...
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JFK and the Unspeakable
'Did the U.S. Military Plan a Nuclear First Strike for 1963?' is the title of an article by James Galbraith (son of John Kenneth Galbraith, JFK's ambassador to India), published in American Prospect...
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Z-∞
Rosemary Willis, a girl of ten, in a red skirt and a white, hooded top, runs on the grass alongside the limousine, filmed by Abraham Zapruder. At frame 190 of the film (Z-190), she slows down, and as...
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Emanuel Vigeland Mausoleum
This image of the mausoleum is the main one from the Emanuel Vigeland Museum website. This has already been written about in this blog, back in 2006, but it happens that last year I wrote a piece...
View ArticleComing Soon! The Blather re-launch!
It's been a long time coming. But the sweaty hands of the Chief Blatherskites are busy preparing a new Blather, to belatedly. mark our 18th birthday. Stay tuned.
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