#Timber Sycamore

[reality-detective]

ALL roads lead to Obummer 👇

Barack Obama commanding The CIA to overthrow governments. A video called "Zeitgeist" referred to them as economic hitmen.

If they do it overseas, they do it here...

Tucker Carlson interview with Jeffrey Sachs “Obama signed an order called Operation Timber Sycamore — you can't find it in the mainstream media because it's not discussed but it was a so called presidential finding that the CIA should work with Turkey, with Saudi Arabia, with others to overthrow the government of Syria. So that was the plan.”

“When we come back to Obama, he started the war with Syria in 2011. I can remember vividly the call that Assad must go” 🤔

[dizzymoods]

the fascists masquerading as commies, the so-called "American Communist Party" aka MAGA Communism is splintering. Danny Shaw (of Midwestern Marx) & John Jackman (aka Molera) detailed a bunch of cult like behavior and demagogic leadership from Infrared Haz & CIA asset Jackson Hinkledink. Kyle Pettis, former navy, was likely entrapping members in illegal arms trafficking to Haiti!?!

Like it was an obvious grift from the get go. & i've said before ACP formed that the major players were using commie aesthetics to launder fascism. & basically every commie on twitter spent a whole bunch of energy ostracizing them from the Palestine Liberation Movement. & some ppl have been on them from the Russian invasion of Ukraine (Hinkle) & Operation Timber Sycamore (Caleb Maupin).

Make no mistake that the ppl leaving or who will jump ship are dangerous. They're looking for another grift. John for example talks about being "cancelled by what passes for the left" & how they made great contributions to Marxist thought in the internet age. Danny has no regrets of joining and participating.

[fatehbaz]

In the district of Garhwal in the Indian Himalayas, at 10,000 feet (3,048 meters) above sea level, forests of sycamore, chestnut, and rhododendron gradually give way to gently sloping grasslands.

Known locally as bugyals (from the Garhwali word bug for soft grasses), these meadows were the favored grazing grounds of communities of trans-Himalayan traders [...]. High-altitude meadows are home to musk deer, moonal pheasants, and a variety of flowers, grasses (such as the scented jambu), medicinal herbs, and roots (jadi butiyan). Garhwali villagers had long used the jadi butiyan of bugyals for household consumption and trade. Customary restrictions [...] made this usage sustainable.

The advent of [...] [colonial and institutional] forestry in the princely state of Tehri-Garhwal (the Tehri Durbar), together with the growth of an urban elite Hindu market for Ayurvedic potions, arguably transformed the social lives of Himalayan herbs. [...]

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Works by upper-caste elites, such as the Maharaja of Gondal’s Aryan Medical Science (1895), claimed an exclusively “Hindu” provenance for the medicinal practices of Ayurveda. The nationalist reinvention of modern Ayurveda generated a market for medicinal herbs dominated by over a dozen firms by 1910. This emergent urban [...] bourgeois market for herbal medicines provides the context for the Tehri Durbar’s arguably unique project to commodify Himalayan herbs. Whereas the British government was reluctant to expand the plantation and manufacture of indigenous drugs, the Durbar established a separate department for the purpose, called the Vanaspati Karyalaya, that worked closely with the Forest Department.

Subordinated to the British government, the Tehri Durbar had begun contracting out vast swathes of pine and deodar forests to timber traders from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. In 1879 the Durbar’s Forest Department [...] restricted peasant access to common resources. Restrictions on the sale and collection of forest produce were put in place between 1878 and 1885, [...] precipitating numerous forest dhandaks (uprisings) as a consequence. Rules governing forest access changed in response to such protests and by 1930 prohibitions on the collection of and trade in medicinal herbs were lifted in certain areas.

The foundation of the Vanaspati Karyalaya prompted the systematization of the Forest Department’s initial efforts to monetize the collection of herbs through taxes, contracts, and tenders. By 1927 the department was working with the Karyalaya to carry out the sale of medicinal herbs, such as Gugal, Mashi, Atis, and Kawri, yielding an income of 18,294 rupees. [...] From the Durbar’s Annual Reports, [...] the Karyalaya’s preparation of Ayurvedic medicines seemed to have commanded “ready sale” primarily in the domestic market. Subsequently, therefore, the Forest Department focused on the overall sale and plantation of herbs while the Karyalaya specialized in the processing of herbs.

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Anticipating an extension of markets “as demand for Himalayan medicines grows,” the Durbar charted a project of mass plantation to overcome the “expense and difficulty of searching for herbs of indigenous growth” that were “scattered among other herb plants and weeds.”

The bugyals of Garhwal were thus classified as “wastelands” from which “practically no income at present can be derived.”

This justified plans for the cultivation of aconites such as kut and atis on a projected area of 2,000 square miles (517,997 hectares) of alpine grassland. In the 1930s, the Durbar initiated the plantation of kut in the Ganga Bhillangana Forest Division, employing trained gardeners as well as “coolie” labor to transplant herbs from nurseries to enclosed meadows. Thus, bugyals hitherto controlled by villagers [...] were gradually being enclosed for herb plantations. The Karyalaya also opened a pharmaceutical works just outside the town of Rishikesh at Muni ki Reti [...]. Graduates of [...] colleges in Delhi and Calcutta [...] were hired for these operations. [...] [T]he Tehri Durbar’s move towards the mass plantation and processing of herbs risked dispossessi[on] [...] as well as eliding local knowledges related to jadi butiyan. 

The story of the Vanaspati Karyalaya arguably suggests how complex cultural associations between the Himalayas and healing were becoming commodified.

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Image, caption, and all text above by: Nivedita Nath. "Histories of Central Himalayan Herbs: Vanaspati Karyalaya in Tehri Princely State c. 1879-1950". Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia (Spring 2020), no. 13. Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. doi dot org/10.52982/rcc/9018 [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me. Presented here for commentary, teaching, criticism purposes.]

[darkmaga-returns]

In a major interview last month with Tucker Carlson, Professor Jeffrey Sachs spelled out in unambiguous terms the nature and reality of the current seismic shifts occurring in the Middle East.

Back in 2018, in a remarkable MSNBC interview, Sachs wrong-footed his interviewers by revealing the US’s covert involvement in the war in Syria. In a debate framed around the question of whether the US should intervene in Syria, Sachs shocked the table of talking heads by informing them it was already intervening via a covert and completely illegal ‘regime change’ operation, called Timber Sycamore, aimed at overthrowing the Syrian government. Finally, a little bit of truth about US policy in Syria had been brought to the attention of MSNBC’s viewers.

In this week’s interview with Tucker, with the world trying to make sense of the rapid collapse of the Syrian government and its takeover by the extremist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), Sachs goes even further. He places events in Syria in the proper context of the post-9/11 ‘global war on terror’ and its associated ‘regime change’ war policy.

Citing Wesley Clark’s famous 2007 claim on Democracy Now, Sachs informs Tucker of the US plan to overthrow seven countries in five years and identifies the targeted countries as Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finally, Iran. Others besides Clark have testified to the existence of such plans while documented communications between British Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George W. Bush in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, in which multiple ‘regime change’ wars were discussed, have been in the public domain since 2016.

[the--jagermeister]

[Ashton shuffles his feet nervously, slowly walking up to Max as he enters Perky's Buds.]

Hey there Max! Um, I don't know if you remember me, I'm the new kid in town! The uh, nerdy prude from Sycamore? Anyways, I was just wondering how you've been! And if you'd like to uh, check out my ask blog sometime?

-Ashton 🌞 (@ask-sycamore-high)

(OOC: New Hatchetfield OC be upon ye! No pressure to respond ofc :))

Uh, and why the hell would I do that? You've got balls even trying to speak to me, Timber Wolf.

[spiralsandd3lusi0n]

[Max seems to be arguing with some girl I'm a Sycamore uniform. The girl seeks incredibly smug, while Max seems frustrated]

"You're a Timber Wolf! You don't get to act like you're better than me!"

"You're cute when you're mad, you know. "

"Shut up!"

@jagermanout /@sycamore-queen-bee

[Daxxy, in her goat form, just hides somewhere and watches.]

[drhoz]

#2685 - Acer pseudoplatanus - Sycamore Maple

AKA false plane-tree, great maple, Scottish maple, mount maple,  mock-plane, or Celtic maple. The generic name and some of the common names refer to the resemblance of the leaves and bark to the Plane, but the two trees are unrelated. The sycamore of the Bible is the fig species Ficus sycomorus.

A large (35m) decidous tree native from France to the Caucasus, but introduced to the British Isles by 1500, and now widely naturalised if not invasive in other parts of Europe, the Americas, Madiera, the Azores, Australia and Aotearoa. Another exotic tree targeted for extirpation in much of the latter.

Acer pseudoplatanus was first described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1753, and is the type species in the maple genus Acer, in the soapberry family Sapindaceae.

The timber is creamy white, and when growing with a wavy pattern used in decorative veneers. The seeds are winged, travel surpringly long distances, and are highly poisonous to horses.

In Scotland, sycamores were once a favoured tree for hangings, because their lower branches rarely broke under the strain.

Queenstown, Aotearoa New Zealand.

[brookston]

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[thedevilinmybrain]

There is nothing. No low growl, not heavy footsteps in the underbrush. It’s just – still. Like the very breath before the cloud erupts in a storm. It’s the only chance Harry knows he has. Curling his hands around the straps of his backpack, he gasps in one quick breath and then runs. Trees fly by him, branches trying to snag on his thin running clothes, his bag, hold him back as Harry tries to make for the line of pine trees he can see before him. Somehow, he just knows he’ll be able to make it there if he just keeps going – keeps fighting. But just as the thought solidifies in his mind, a loud growl echoes loud enough it seems to rattle the very forest floor.  Harry doesn't even get a chance to change directions, doesn't even recognize how close the danger is until that weight - crushing and too hot - slams into his back.

He lands hard in a thick pile of moss and leaves, narrowly missing a thick root from a sycamore tree that the beast yanks him away from at the last moment. Scrambling to get his hands up, Harry tries to crawl away, tries to get some space, but it's futile. The massive body behind completely covers him, thick drool sliding over his bare skin, heavy paws batting at him until the creature finally flips Harry onto his back. Staring down at him is the long snout of a wolf, its lips curled back over long canines, snarling in a low timber that seems to fill the entire woods around them. It's huge, body a staggering two and a half meters with a head that looms over Harry, nearly half a meter itself. Tawny fur extends from its black nose, up over pointed ears and along its furry back, hair that stands on end as the wolf leans in, close enough Harry can feel the hot breath on his face. Even in the dark, Harry can see the gleam of its red eyes, the pupils small and pointed directly into Harry's, watching him closely.

[katenepveu]

Museum for Art in Wood (Part 4)

Part 4 of my posts about visiting the Museum for Art in Wood this weekend.

Here are the works that I categorized as "sculpture" and not anything else. Uh, this is particularly long, sorry?

Spiral Box by Louise Hibbert:

"[My] inspiration has always [come from] a fascination with the natural world, particularly marine life, microscope creatures, plants and fossils, which together offer a fantastic repertoire of imagery. The majority of my work is made form native kiln-dried timbers. Sycamore is my favourite as it has a pale, even grain to act as a blank canvas for my design and a wonderful translucent quality that makes the colours glow."

Smoothing - Turning 03 by Wonjoo Park, made of slumped glass and wood. I love the shape of this.

I like the juxtaposition of these two: La Dama Flamenca by Antonio Prats-Ventos, and Flamenco by Hayley Smith.

I don't know what I expected this to be called, but Perfect Reflection isn't it. Which probably makes it a good title. (By Hap Sakwa.)

I didn't get the face on the other end, sorry. Greenman Vase #1 by Michelle Holzapfel.

Two pieces of furniture with unusual legs: Floor Walker by C.R. (Skip) Johnson and Walking Stool by Neil Donovan.

I would love to know more about The Missing Piece: Negotiator by Betty Scarpino:

And about Tribute by Gael Montgomerie:

And about Out of Africa by Butch Smuts:

Lunar Phases by Nucharin Wangphongsawasd is so striking.

Rocking Bowl by Andrew Gittoes just looks really cool.

I have no idea what this is, as searching the catalog for the number 1306 turns up zero results; but I like it.

I did not see any labels nearby, but fortunately there are not so many tables in their database: this is Re Turned Table by Gord Peteran.

Expose exposed180726 by Cha Jong-Rye; in the official picture they're all facing the same way, but not in the display; does that matter? Who could say? (I mean, presumably the artist; but not this curious visitor.)

Cobble Snail by Arthur Jones has great textures.

The Origin by Matthew Harding has such good balance, literally and figuratively.

Tenants III by Megan McGlynn. The website's picture doesn't quite capture the glow.

Only one more post!

[angelkarafilli]

Hadrian's Wall was built in c. AD 122 on the orders of Emperor Hadrian. Today, the Wall runs across northern England, but when it was built, it was the northern frontier of the Roman province of Britannia. With the exception of a couple of decades in the mid-2nd century AD, Hadrian's Wall was the north-west frontier of the Roman Empire for approximately 300 years. It was built to separate the Romans from the Barbarians¹ and may have been built in response to guerrilla warfare waged by the natives. It was certainly built to secure the border and control the movement of people in and out of the Empire.

The Wall is believed to have taken about six years to complete, although it would continue to change and evolve for decades after completion. Initially, some parts were built from timber and turf and others in stone. Eventually, the entire Wall, from Maia in the west to Segedunum in the east, was built in stone. In front of the Wall, where there were otherwise no natural features for protection such as rivers or cliffs, the Romans dug a deep ditch. Behind the Wall was the Vallum, which was an earthwork that comprised two banks of earth with a deep ditch in between. The Vallum stretched almost the entire length of the Wall, over 70 miles, and probably defined the rear of the Wall-zone.

The height of Hadrian's Wall is difficult to know because so little of it remains. It probably varied depending on the terrain. For example, the Wall as it crossed the high cliffs of the Whin Sill was possibly about 4-4.6 metres high (13-15 feet) and slightly higher—possibly 4.6-5.5 metres (15-18 feet) or more—when it crossed easily traversed terrain.

Hadrian's Wall has been used as a quarry since it was abandoned. Today, only about 10% of the Wall remains, and the sections of wall that have survived stand at a height of just 1-2 metres in most places. However, as recently as the 16th century there was a section of Wall standing 5 metres high (16 feet) near Bowness-on-Solway. Samson Erdeswick records in 1574:

"Begyning abowt a town called Bonus [Bowness-on-Solway] standing vppon the river Sulway now called Eden, and there yet standing of the heyth of 16 fote, for almost a quarter of a myle together, and so along the river syde estwards."

William Camden (16/17th century):

"Within two furlongs of Caervoran, on a pretty high hill the Wall is still standing, fifteen feet in height, and nine in breadth."

Bede (7/8th century):

"It is eight feet in breadth, and twelve in height, in a straight line from east to west, as is still visible to beholders."

These writers lived many centuries after the Roman military abandoned Britain. Even Bede, the earliest reference to the height I have used, was writing some 300 years after the Roman military had left Britain. Thus, the Wall might have lost a few feet in height in places by his day.

With regard to thickness, Hadrian's Wall was up to 3 metres (over 9 feet) thick, but again, it varied. Some sections were about 2.5 metres thick (8 feet), and other sections narrower.

In its day, Hadrian's Wall was an impressive 73-mile-long (80 Roman miles) stone structure with no fewer than 16 large forts, 80 milecastles, and about 160 turrets. It crossed over rivers, hills, and along cliffs, from the west coast to the banks of the River Tyne in the east.

An unbelievable structure that survives from the ancient world.

Location: above Sycamore Gap looking east.

Source:International Man of History/FB page

[reality-detective]

Operation Timber Sycamore 👇

Timber Sycamore was a classified weapons supply and training program run by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and supported by the United Kingdom and some Arab intelligence services, including Saudi intelligence. The aim of the program was to remove Syrian president Bashar al-Assad from power. Launched in 2012 or 2013, it supplied money, weaponry and training to Syrian opposition groups fighting Syrian government forces in the Syrian Civil War. According to US officials, the program was run by the CIA's Special Activities Division and has trained thousands of rebels. President Barack Obama secretly authorized the CIA to begin arming Syria's embattled rebels in 2013. The program became public knowledge in mid-2016. 🤔

[lambda-requests]

whats this?

QUICK INTERMISSION !!!!!!!!!!

ive noticed alot of forest-dwellers coming to the blog!!!! /pos so in honor of that, i made a list of some forest themed neopronouns under the cut that i would like to share with everyone!!!!!

frond/frond/fronds/fronds/frondself

vio(let)/vio(let)/violets/violets/violetself

fern/fern/ferns/ferns/fernself

snap/snap/snaps/snaps/snapself

twig/twig/twigs/twigs/twigself

drift(wood)/drift(wood)/driftwoods/driftwoods/driftwoodself

burr(ow)/burr(ow)/burrows/burrows/burrowself

stump/stump/stumps/stumps/stumpself

drip/drip/drips/drips/dripself

val(ley)/valley/valleys/valleys/valleyself

ti(mber)/tim(ber)/timbers/timbers/timberself

syc(amore)/syc(amore)/sycamores/sycamores/sycamoreself

[arcobalengo]

NUOVOATLANTE

di Alessandro Orsini

Altre storie. Il popolo scende in piazza per rovesciare Macron anziché Putin.

Scoppiata la guerra in Ucraina, l’Italia si è radicalizzata sotto la spinta dei principali quotidiani. Per radicalizzazione, intendo il processo socio-psicologico che spinge un individuo ad abbracciare idee estremiste. L’estremismo di questi quotidiani può essere riassunto in tre idee che forgiano uno schema cognitivo radicale. La prima idea prevede la sconfitta della Russia sul campo a tutti i costi, incluso il rischio dell’escalation nucleare: nessuna diplomazia, soltanto guerra. La seconda idea è che il mondo sia diviso tra le forze del bene e quelle del male. Il criterio per distinguere i due campi è la politica della Casa Bianca. La linea di Biden è sacra e non può essere discussa. Chiunque la critichi finisce in una lista di proscrizione e poi esposto al pubblico ludibrio e all’insulto collettivo. I pacifisti non esistono: esistono soltanto i “pacifinti”. È ciò che nei miei studi chiamo “mentalità a codice binario”. La terza idea estremista è che esistano soltanto due tipi di civiltà: la civiltà superiore dell’Unione Europea e quella inferiore della Russia che non ha niente di attraente. I russi vivono nella miseria e sono prossimi alla bancarotta. Non hanno armi né voglia di combattere perché sono soggiogati da un dittatore che odiano e contro il quale sono pronti a ribellarsi. La vita dei russi è triste e miserabile. I russi sono un popolo fallito, facile da sconfiggere.

Quattro fatti hanno smentito questo schema mentale che, come tutti gli schemi cognitivi estremisti, sopravvive all’evidenza.

Il primo è la crescita del Pil russo.

Il secondo è la vittoria dei russi a Bakhmut, la battaglia più importante della guerra.

Il terzo è la rivolta di Prigozhin: il popolo russo e la sua classe dirigente hanno avuto l’occasione per ribellarsi a Putin, ma si sono stretti intorno a lui.

Il quarto fatto è la rivolta di Parigi. Secondo i principali quotidiani, il popolo sarebbe dovuto scendere in piazza in Russia per rovesciare Putin. Invece, è sceso in piazza in Europa per rovesciare Macron. La rivolta di Parigi è uguale alle rivolte in Tunisia, Egitto, Libia e Siria. Lo stesso odio visto contro Bassar al Assad in Siria appare in Francia contro Macron e Ursula von der Leyen. Con la differenza che in Francia non c’è nessun Paese islamico che fornisca ai ribelli mitragliatori e bombe a mano, come il blocco occidentale ha fatto con i ribelli siriani con il piano segreto della Cia, “Timber Sycamore”, voluto da Biden ai tempi di Obama. Se un blocco islamico facesse alla Francia ciò che il blocco occidentale ha fatto alla Siria, la Francia sarebbe finita e, probabilmente, anche l’Unione Europea. I morti in Francia sarebbero decine di migliaia e la rivolta si estenderebbe quasi certamente ad altri Paesi dell’Unione Europea.

Che cosa possiamo imparare da questi quattro fatti? Sotto il profilo antropologico-culturale, impariamo che la cultura liberale dell’Unione Europea è uguale alla cultura fascista degli anni Trenta sotto tre aspetti. Il primo è la convinzione di essere una civiltà superiore; il secondo è l’aggressività militare secondo cui tutti i problemi si risolvono con le guerre; il terzo è la convinzione di essere imbattibili. Oltre agli elementi culturali, vi sono anche elementi sistemici comuni, tra cui la corsa agli armamenti e una grande potenza revanscista in Europa, la Russia. Con una novità: le testate nucleari in Bielorussia puntate sull’Ucraina.

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Originally published at CovertAction Magazine

On December 8, 2024, Syria’s long-standing ruler Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia after being deposed by Sunni militia forces in what New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman called the “biggest…most game-changing event in the Middle East in the last 45 years.”[1]

Friedman was enthusiastic about the regime change, though Syria’s new head of state, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, had a $10 million bounty placed on his head by the U.S. State Department in 2017 as a wanted terrorist.[2]

The “blazer-wearing revolutionary,” as CNN called him,[3] had been imprisoned from 2006 to 2011 at Abu Ghraib and other U.S. military prisons for supporting al-Qaeda in Iraq.

Colin P. Clarke, a counterterrorism analyst at a security consulting firm in New York was quoted in The New York Times as stating that, under Jolani’s rule, northwest Syria was “a harsh place where critics are silenced, tortured, jailed and disappeared.”[4] Hookahs and music were also banned, as they were under the Taliban in Afghanistan.[5]

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Khám Phá Ý Nghĩa Tên Lâm Trong Tiếng Anh và Những Biệt Danh Hay Cho Tên Này

Tên Lâm là một cái tên rất phổ biến và thân thuộc với người Việt.

Nhưng nhiều người không biết rằng "Lâm" trong tiếng Anh có nghĩa là "Forest".

Đây là một cái tên rất hay, thể hiện được vẻ đẹp, sự bình yên và sức sống của thiên nhiên.

Nếu bạn muốn chọn một biệt danh tiếng Anh cho Lâm, một số gợi ý như "Forrest", "Timber", "Evergreen" hoặc "Woodland" đều rất ấn tượng và độc đáo.

Những cái tên này đều gợi lên hình ảnh về một người với vẻ ngoài mạnh mẽ, bản lĩnh nhưng vẫn mang vẻ bình dị, gần gũi.

Chúng cũng thể hiện được sự tươi mới, năng động và sức sống tràn đầy.

Ngoài ra, bạn cũng có thể sử dụng những biệt danh như "Sequoia" – một loài cây rất to lớn, cao vút, biểu tượng cho sự cao quý và trường t��n.

Hoặc "Sycamore" – một loài cây có bộ lá rộng, xanh tốt quanh năm, đại diện cho sự ổn định và vững chãi.

Tùy vào cá tính và phong cách của bản thân Lâm mà bạn có thể lựa chọn biệt danh phù hợp. - zf1tkk6yzk