Archaeologists in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, north China, have unearthed a tomb decorated with murals depicting scenes of daily life from the Tang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.). Every surface except the floor is covered with murals in exceptional condition, the white, red, yellow, black, green and orange, saturated and vivid as if they’d been painted yesterday. The tomb was first discovered in 2018 during an archaeological survey at the site of road construction. The Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology excavated the site, uncovering a single-chamber brick tomb consisting of a passageway to the tomb door, the entrance, a corridor and the main burial chamber. The entrance, corridor and chamber, including the walls, conical ceiling and the coffin bed, are all decorated with murals. The tomb door is painted with red and yellow-orange swirling botanical designs. On each side of the interior of the door are a pair of men in yellow robes. Archaeologists believe they are guardian figures, protecting the entrance to the tomb. The corridor leading from the door into the burial chamber features another pair of men in yellow robes. Another pair of guardians are just inside the chamber door. The conical ceiling of the chamber above each of the four walls is decorated with fantastical beasts edged by thick red ribbons and florals against a white background. The four walls of the burial chamber are painted with rectangular panels outlined in thick red lines. Inside most of the panels against a white backdrop are individuals standing under tall, stylized trees, a popular Tang-era style called, appropriately, the “figure under the tree” style. The men depicting under the trees in the panels are in different postures and engaging in different activities, but they are consistent in appearance and clothing. Archaeologists believe they likely represent the same individual, namely the tomb’s owner. The repeated depictions of the man may also be allegorical representations of the various virtues of the deceased. Of particular interest to archaeologists are the two large panels adjacent to the guardians on each side of the chamber door. The east wall mural features a mural with multiple scenes of daily life: a man rolling a stone grinder to peel grain shells, a woman working a stone mill, a man making dough balls with an iron pan on a fire, a man stepping on a pestle (a rice pounding tool) with a bamboo basket and a bamboo dustpan next to it, a woman drawing water from a well using a counterweight heavy-lifting device, and lastly, a woman doing the washing elbow-deep in a basin full of water while a large pot steams on the wood-burning stove. The west wall panel depicts a woman in a multicolored gown holding a box in her hands. A man from a non-Han ethnic group in a yellow robe stands behind her, holding a whip and the reins of camels and horses. The panels on either side of these are filled with two elaborate flowering plants. These are rare designs in “figure under the tree” murals. Long Zhen, the director of the Jinyang Ancient City Archaeological Institute, said the artistic style is similar to the paintings in the tomb of Wang Shenzi, who founded the dynastic state of Min (909-945), one of the regions during the Ten Kingdoms period (907-960), which is defined by the fall of the Tang dynasty and the rise of the Song dynasty. Long hypothesised that the same artist may have painted both Wang’s tomb and the newly discovered mural.

Politics President Biden Has a Cold Medicalization comes for electoral politics. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images By my count, at least four major excuses have been offered for President Joe Biden’s astonishingly awful debate performance against the former President Donald Trump.  It has been asserted that the 46th president and (at press time) presumptive Democratic nominee was suffering from some form of rebound jet lag resulting from prior international travel; has not been receiving sufficient sleep during the 18 hours that fall outside of his usual 10 a.m.–4 p.m. workday; was driven to exhaustion by debate prep; and was contending with a case of the common cold. Among these alleged mitigating circumstances, the last claim is being pushed most consistently and aggressively by Team Biden. During her Wednesday briefing, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre talked about Biden like he was a preschooler at home with a runny nose. “You heard from him during the debate—he had a hoarse voice,” Jean-Pierre said of the president. “Many of you reached out to me and my team and some other members of the White House, asking what was going on, and we confirmed that he had a cold.” Oh, and there was more: “Have you had a cold before?” Jean-Pierre asked a Fox News reporter. “Yes, his schedule did have something to do with it—it was the schedule and the cold,” she said. “It’s a cold, guys,” she said.  “He still has a lingering cold,” she said. Stealthily, Jean-Pierre linked Biden’s cold diagnosis merely with his vocal hoarseness—a conceivable symptom of having a cold—but the cold story is obviously meant to cover a multitude of debate sins. Of course, none of this special pleading was trotted out to defend then-President Donald Trump’s poor showing in the first 2020 presidential debate—even though Trump tested positive for Covid-19 just a few days after the debate and his emergent unwellness might have plausibly explained his unsually combative, truculent mood that evening.  In the case of Biden, however, the White House wants the public to believe that the common cold can result in an incredible assortment of “symptoms,” including the propensity to ramble, the tendency to stare with one’s mouth ajar, the temporary belief in the existence of trillionaires, and the possibility of confusing tax policy (or something) with Covid policy (or something). Colds apparently also now cause their victims to not just appear mildly ill but to take on the appearance of the host of Tales from the Crypt. (While watching the debate, my head was ringing with the immortal words of Jamie Lee Curtis in the movie Freaky Friday: “I’m like the Crypt Keeper!”)  Strangely, none of the above-named “symptoms” are identified on the Mayo Clinic’s list of actual common-cold symptoms, which include the more predictable and well-known sore throat, cough, sneezing, and so on. Left unanswered, too, is just how long Biden has had this cold, since his particular suite of “symptoms”—the rambling and the staring and all that—have been apparent for months and even years. We’ve all heard of the mysterious “long Covid,” but what about “long common cold”? Why, then, is the Biden campaign banking its political fortunes on the president’s cold?  In fact, the reason has a certain logic—even a certain devious brilliance—to it. Like everyone else, Team Biden has observed just how neurotic, germophobic, and willing to accept medical explanations for everything many Americans have become in the 21st century. Coming down with a cold is the preferred excuse for skipping school, missing work, fobbing off chores on a spouse, child, or neighbor, not being up to par during a meeting, and watching Netflix all day long. I do not exempt myself from using colds as catch-all excuses for not doing something or going somewhere.  Similarly, the fear of coming down with a cold inspires its own sort of madness, including offering fist-bumps rather than handshakes, compulsively using hand sanitizer, and dodging coughers or sneezers in grocery store aisles.  Since it governs a country mired in such behavior, the White House can hardly be faulted for assuming that Biden’s cold narrative will carry weight with some portion of the public. Team Biden also remembers Covid, when nearly everything that had gone wrong in American life was attributed to “the pandemic.” A store is out of stock of something? It’s the pandemic. An escalator is broken and won’t get fixed for months? It’s the pandemic. A contractor estimates that it will take something like nine years to complete a home-renovation project? It’s the pandemic. And a president can’t put two thoughts together? He has a cold, guys! On the heels of the debate, Biden relayed to Democratic governors that he had gotten a check-up, according to POLITICO. But the check-up was supposedly for the cold itself—as though the president’s problem was nasal congestion rather than cognitive decline! “The exam . . . was brief and did not include any major tests,” the website reported, citing a source familiar with Biden’s schedule. Indeed, presumably the tests administered were along the lines of Say aah. In many ways, this pathetic explanation for Biden’s ongoing mental meltdown is what we deserve. We have come to live our lives in thrall to the power of illnesses, however fleeting and benign. We over-worry about getting sick, and we over-medicate when we do fall ill. We all display a conspicuous lack of hardiness. Is it so surprising, then, that the minders of the leader of the free world would attempt to excuse his incoherence by saying he had the sniffles?  The post President Biden Has a Cold appeared first on The American Conservative.

Philippe Argillier French Billionaire with Archive of Evidence Against NWO Shadow Government - WARNING THIS IS AN OLDER VIDEO August 17th, 2023 - A SHADOW GOVERNMENT BEHIND EVERY GOVERNMENT IN THE WORLD *** THIS ALL SEEMS VERY SUSPICIOUS TO ME - OK. Now I most certainly Do believe that World Governments are being Controlled by a Globalist Cabal. - But no one has Ever Provided Any Proof the the Committee of 300 Even Exists. Now, if that name was changed to Chatham House or the Pilgrims Society it would be much more believable. - And if this Dufis really does have such Proof of all of this, HE IS A FRIGGIN ASSHOLE FOR NOT MAKING IT PUBLIC - The reason I am posting this video is because someone else just posted it without a date. I suspected it was older, and I was right. But I was not aware that he did a recent interview with Stew Peters in August in which he is making new claims. - I WILL LEAVE IT TO YOU TO DECIDE IF HE IS LEGIT, BUT I WOULD ADVISE EXTREME CAUTION - ENOUGH WITH THE TALK. PROVE IT OR SHUT UP.... - Now this has been talked about for a long time. He is big on talk but short on Proving his claims. HE HAS NOT MADE THIS DATA PUBLIC. - Apparently this was the Source of the Pandora/Panama Papers. If so, these documents are indeed legitimate. But they were only released to a select few. Which is Bullshit. I was never able to obtain the Documents myself, or even LEARN WHO IS IMPLICATED. *** Stew Peters interviews .. PHILIPPE ARGILLIER ON SHADOW GOVERNMENTS & THE COMMITTEE OF 300 - Mirror of: - https://www.bitchute.com/video/K5xqBwHUHBWW/ - Original meta: - AweandGrace Awe & Grace 1284 subscribers - Description: - Interviewed by Stew Peters. - THE SHADOW GOVERNMENT: In 2018 it was already decided to remove President Trump from the White House. Trump will never be allowed to win the 2024 Election. The Biden Administration is under the control of the Shadow Government. Facebook owned by U.S. Government. Covid-19 planned. - The Shadow Government is the Committee of 300 and Bill Gates is one of the current members of the Committee of 300 which controls all the affairs of the world except for Russia and China. - The Committee of 300 also controls the Pedophile systems around the world and all the major human trafficking networks which involve 8 million innocent children a year who are raped, tortured and murdered. - There will never be fair elections in the United States and around the world until the Committee of 300 is removed from our society. They will not let President Trump or Robert F. Kennedy Jr. become President of the United States in 2024. - FAIR USE FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES - Mirrored From: More info on: https://twitter.com/SpartaJustice/status/1687208627696754689 - https://annas-archive.org/md5/56fa37b2d655f33bbed32179d3a9212c *** MORE LINKS BELOW - Video and Article - ALLEGED SECRET DATABANKS WITH MARIA ZACK AND PHILIPPE ARGILLIER - October 14, 2021 - https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/alleged-secret-databanks-with-maria-zack-and