Sunday, October 31, 2010

Of Masks and Masquerades Parvati Roma BAILE DE MÁSCARAS

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BAILE DE MÁSCARAS - GUILHERME ARANTES - (1977)
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Guilherme Arantes (São Paulo, 28 de julho de 1953) é um cantor e compositor brasileiro. Começou sua carreira como tecladista e vocalista da banda Moto Perpétuo - grupo de rock progressivo dos anos 70. História "Sou um pouco de tudo", diz Guilherme Arantes, "e o que mais me inspira é o amor, de...
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    • Russ Bennett Is this related to your new Facebook profile picture. What is the meaning or tradition of the masks?
      Saturday at 11:25pm ·
    • Russ Bennett Do you guys have halloween?

      It is one Holiday where Amuricans can dress up as whatever character they wnat and not get hauled off to a mental institution.
      Saturday at 11:28pm ·

    • Parvati Roma
      Sorry I've taken so long to reply, Russ - so much I'd like to say on both topics I could fill a book!
      First, on Halloween - here it's All Souls, day of commemoration of the dead, especially own-family ones : the Italian tradition is for fami...lies to visit, clean and tend the graves of ancestors and relatives - huge bouquets of flowers especially chrysanthemums are placed in vases by/on the graves, the cemeteries are thronged with people, florists stalls and trucks selling flowers massed at the entrances - and there's also a tradition of making special biscuits/sweets somehow connected with/said to resemble bones. No big tradition of fearsome-evil-spooks wandering in the streets but there is a belief that on all souls' night one's own ancestral ghosts may pop in for a visit so in some places food gets left out for them. The American scary-ghosts custom is beginning to find some followers here (via movies etc) being treated as a fun-type excuse to dress up, carneval style - kiddies' fancy-dress parties being held in the afternoon, teenagers' ones at night in homes or clubs - downside being way too many made-in-China witches costumes and plastic pumkins for my taste plus I hope it won't distort the traditional custom's message of love-and-caring-through-the-generations extending across the Great Life-Death Divide! :/??
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    • Parvati Roma
      P.S. Some great music around for Halloween as Day of the Dead/Death! One of my FB friends - very-nice-intelligent-thoughtful variety - posted a link to a haunting American folksong, I replied with two songs I particularly like from the Ita...lian tradition, then "saved" the exchange on a blogpage so it's eay to find and share:
      http://darkmirrortexts.blogspot.com/2010/10/alas-we-must-die-songs-for-halloween.html      See More
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    • Parvati Roma
      Interestingly, it's the celtic world's Samhain tradition that explains why masks are worn on this date in the anglo-world.
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samhain
      The Latin world's mask-wearing traditions on display in Mardi Gras processions ar...e of different origin - not directly spook-connected, complex with fascinatingly deep and intertwined roots plus all kinds of metaphysical sleight-of-hand so IMHO they deserve a new thread to themselves - especially as Italy is the Mask-traditions capital of the Eurosphere just as China is that of the Sinosphere ... will be back! ;)See More

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Alas-we-must-die songs for halloween

Peter Lynch another version for halloween itself, as sung in "songcatcher"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyxE4rDEb6M

song catcher oh death
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    • Parvati Roma
      Loved it! In return, two lovely songs on the inexorability of death from the Italian tradition:
      1) Passacaglia della Vita - also known as "Homo fugit velut umbra" (Man flees like a shadow..) by Stefano Landi, sung by the Neopolitan-English t...enor Marco Beasley accompanied by Christina Pluhar's ensemble "l'Arpeggiata"
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpAxBZSXW28&feature=related
      Quick attempt at a resumé-translation:
      "Oh, how wrong to believe our years never end, alas we must die ! Life's but a dream so sweet it may seem but brief are its joys, alas we must die! No medicine saves no boldness deflects some die playing the harp some fall as they dance .. alas we must die, alas we must die" etcetc.
      More info here:
      http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/rd3n
      ...
      No mention of hellfire-fears though, mood more like Hadrians' sad little ode to his soul? http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/65865.html      See More
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    • Parvati Roma
      Here's the second song I promised, same source: Lucia Galleazzi singing "Ah vita bella" -
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZvjq6Iu5fI
      Quick summary: first lament-part sings about "a sudden shadow has fallen like darkness at midday, all light ...around me has vanished and I don't know why ..." Then the song becomes an increasingly frantic tarantella : "I used to like eating sausages but can't do that any more... I used to like making love but can't do that any more... I used to like wine and picnics I used to love dancing too - ah beautiful life where have you gone, ah beautiful life where have you gone... I used to like watching the sun as it sank into the sea - ah beautiful life why won't you return, ah beautiful life why won't you return?"
      .......
      P.S. Yet again, this song seems to reflect the survival in the Latin world of the greco-latin vision of Hades as a place of despondent shades rather than a roasting-pit?      See More
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Saturday, October 16, 2010

Ledeen

  •  Maryam Shareaholic LOL!! you gotta listen to Iran's Chalabi addressing a pro-Israeli group in Rome.
    Amir Fakhravar in Rome-October 7, 2010
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    Iranians, Mullahs and Israel, October 7, 2010, By Amir A. Fakhravar Enmity with Israel has been one of the hallmarks of the Islamic Republic since its inception.In August 1979, the year of the revolution, Khomeini named the last Friday of the month of Ramadan as Guds day and called on "the Muslims ...
     
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    Parvati Roma
    Some Italian-side background on the Rome-hosted event where Fakhravar made his speech.
    http://fiammanirenstein.com/articoli.asp?Categoria=5&Id=2439
    reads like a NeoCon Atlanticist telephone directory!
    This meetup generated considerable controversy here, it's so extreme the Jewish community itself was divided, to its credit.
    Note: the blog's author Fiamma Nirenstein is Italy's very-own Neocon-Zionist Atlanticist pasionaria - ick.
    ..............
    Background on the unsavory Italian connections of Fakhravar's supporter Michael Ledeen: in addition to Ledeen's role in the Billygate, Irangate and Nigergate thingies he's reported to have wayback P2 ties (P2 = Propaganda Due clandestine masonic lodge = major Italian deep-state doodah, "Gladio" sister-organisation), was bosom pal of a snake called Francesco Pazienza who was directly involved "at least" in diverting police investigation of the 1980 Bologna Station fascist terrorist-bombing which killed 85 people maimed and injured hundreds more, and in the "bulgarian connecton" disinfo campaign re Ali Agca's shooting of Pope JPII in 1981...
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_1980_Bologna_bombing
    http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=francesco_pazienza_1
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Pazienza
    ... in the wake of which Ledeen was declared a "persona non grata" in Italy but since his P2 stablemates n' SISMI spookfriends took power he flies back and forth like a shuttlecock. I-personally view Ledeen as heavily personally-involved in "strategy of tension" terrorism plottings and intrigues in Italy, would like to see that bastard pay for his crimes "in kind" but little residual hope left in "terrestrial" justice ... :( * sigh *    See More
    Wednesday at 12:49am ·
    Parvati Roma
    Further interesting Ledeen sightings in Italy in preparation for the US invasion of Iraq - note presence of Chalabi + Ghorbanifar + SCIRI/ISCI + (as-per Italians) IRGC spooks too, all hand in hand at the time:
    "...The meetings called in Rome... assemble the representatives of all the teams: Michael A. Ledeen of the American Enterprise Institute, Larry Franklin and Harold Rhode of the Office of Special Plans, the colonels of the Iraqi National Congress and in addition, the Iraqi Shi’ites of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) and of course, the Guardians of the Revolution. All these actors gathered in Rome. Wouldn’t you say that’s interesting? ..."
    http://nuralcubicle.blogspot.com/2005_10_01_archive.html    See More
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    Mary Woodward ‎'pure tu conosci propaganda due, Parvati? lol. I knew of Ledeen's P2 connections, but I'd never read anything relating him to the stazione bombing.
    Wednesday at 1:13am ·
  • Mary Woodward As for the photo, was that taken in 'jail'? lol
    Wednesday at 1:23am ·
  • Parvati Roma
    How could anyone in Italy NOT know p2???? Ah believe it or not we now have a "P3" aka P2-recycled ... grrrr. Re Bologna, Ledeen was close-close with Pazienza in the late 70s - early 80s, at the time he was the most active "American connection" for Italian creepy-crawlies on what the Italians call the "oltranzismo atlantico" = atlanticist extremism = far-right US adventurists + mossad side. MAJOR piss-off about the Bologna massacre is although it's clear enough who did it, still don't know quite WHY nor who commissioned it? Nastiest suspicion on Italian judicial side is that it was a "distraction"/warning re investigating the immediately-preceding Itavia crash (NATO missile, btw) which is linked in its turn to Italy's "too close" spook-ties to Libya. But doubt whether true-truth will ever be officialized :(See More
    Wednesday at 1:28am ·
  • Mary Woodward I had thought that P2 was kind of a secret, that only 'conspiraphiles' acknowledged.

    You mean you know EXACTLY who did it?
    Wednesday at 1:31am ·
  • Parvati Roma http://www.blogfromitaly.com/italy-one-p2-p3/
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerolinee_Itavia_Flight_870#Official_investigation
    Wednesday at 1:42am ·
  • Parvati Roma
    ‎"I had thought that P2 was kind of a secret, that only 'conspiraphiles' acknowledged."
    Huh? Strange - "transatlantic" embarassment = disinfo conspiracy-of-silence?? Here it's very much part of Italy's contemporary history - it was investigated and officially-outlawed back in 1982, its head Licio Gelli was sentenced in 1987 for financing right-wing terrorism... amongst other things.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licio_Gelli#The_1981_raid_.26_the_P2_list
    Judicial evidence against the P2 it is weighty but higher-court complicities often intervene to mitigate sentences.
    Big political spats here are on interpretation: not re existence but re just how actively/wittingly the thingy's membership-as-a-whole was involved in a) coup plots b) relative far-right terrorism including false-flags to prepare for military coup (alternate version: manipulate fascist loony-bombers with bad-faith promises of a military coup that would bring their beloved Junio Valerio Borghese to power... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golpe_Borghese ) and relative perversions n' diversion of investigations.    See More
    Wednesday at 2:04am ·
  • Parvati Roma
    Re Bologna massacre "whodunnit" : official verdict - with which I agree, having read various books that go through the evidence in detail - is that the material perpetrators were the Rome-based "Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari " /"Terza Posizio...ne" hyper-extremist fascist gang consisting of Giusva Fioravanti, Francesca Mambro, Gilberto Cavallini, Luigi Ciavardini et al with Magliana-gang + SISMI tie-ins.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclei_Armati_Rivoluzionari#1980_Bologna_massacre    See More
    Wednesday at 2:12am ·
  • Parvati Roma
    Re Bologna: Ledeen's stable-mate Pazienza was personally responsible for/involved in setting up the diversion-of-investigations finding of SAME EXPLOSIVE (T4+dynamite) as Bologna station massacre plus various other thingies including weapon...s and air-tickets on a train (operation "terrore sui treni") a few months later with aim of faking a RAF tie-in (clincher re Pazienza's own direct involvement was the argentinian newspaper some of the thingies were wrapped in). Ledeen too was directly involved in that diversion scheme, he officially "pre-announced" it on 9th Jan. 1981 as CIA-connection - together with Pazienza and SISMI general Santovito - six months after the massacre following a joint trip to France. Pazienza + SISMI-friends then arranged for the "pre-announced" goodies to be placed and found on a train in Bologna on 13th Jan. 1981, SISMI-fakery of the find judicially revealed by serial cop-confessions in 1984 and subsequently and duly-sentenced in 1987. Note: if that particular explosive was AVAILABLE to Pazienza+cute lil' SISMI-friends, logic would kinda-indicate the same "quarters" supplied it for the Bologna massacre too?
    ............
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