Green Party Candidate Jill Stein on Bernie, Hillary & a “Green New Deal”...

Both Democratic and Republican parties are each split. Both parties have appreciably co opted by oligarchs. Time may be ripe for a new presidential party.

Visit Poland - 10 Things That Will SHOCK You About Poland

First  look,

THE LITTLE PEOPLE

Great! The little people in the U.S.! Heartland history and culture. Tell us your little people stories.

10 Things You Didn't Know About Ukraine

A problem? Check out more of the history. Sounds like someone does not like the Ukraine. The pictures tell another story. Stalin did not Love the Ukraine.

Ancient Underground Cities - What Happened to Ancient Human Civilization...

We have more of value to learn about our distant past.

Was Dorothy Kilgallen Murdered Before Revealing Who Killed JFK?

Women may develop interesting attitudes by learning about Dorothy Kilgallen.  Protect your representatives.

History and archeology of Colombia video

We ought to do better than this. Still it is Colombia.

Geography Now! Colombia

With an "O"

"Mago" and the Phoenicians

Phoenicians                

                They had certainly heard of Atlantis, but that fabled land had disappeared thousands of years before the Phoenician posted themselves near the Pillars of Hercules. Those same pillars may once have been called the Pillars of Atlas or even the Gates of Atlas. They certainly guarded  the way to the great Atlantic sea and to the isle beyond the western isle. 

Those Phoenicians were a knowledgeable people who we might now begin to call Carthaginians. The knew much of trade and of navigation. They also knew of mining, metallurgy, language writing, warfare on land and sea. They knew that the islands not far beyond the Pillars not only contained gold, silver, and tin, but also contained men experience in mining and metalworking. They may even have known of the little people there who aided in the extraction of those precious metals from beneath the earth.

Carthage and the Carthaginians

                The name and title of Mago was very well known among those Carthaginian Phoenicians. I have found the use of the title among them as early as 750 BC. You my find that it was used much earlier. I do find strong evidence  that they were carrying on regular trade with Western Isles 500 and 400 BC.

The Magonids were a political dynasty of Carthage from about 550 to
340 BC. The dynasty began with Mago I, under whom Carthage became preeminent among the Phoenician colonies  in the western Mediterranean.  Under the Magonids the Carthaginian Empire expanded to include Spain, Sardinia, Libya, and erhas Sicily. Diodorus and Herodotus tell us Of the Magonids better than do most Romans.

Mago

                There was a Mago II and then a Mago III who led Carthaginians. There also seems to have been a Mago who commanded, or navigated for, the trading fleet which connected the Western Isles to the Mediterranean. You may know, or have guessed, that the isle beyond the western isle is now called Ireland. 

                It might have been Mago, that knowledgeable shipmaster, who impressed an early Sheehan and led him, or her, to adopt the name Mago for their son.  My Irish great grandfather had the name Mago William Sheehan. That is the source of the name Mago Bill for this blog.

                So, Mago Bill has a history.







by Richard sheehan
for Mago Bill

A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 - by Isao Hashimoto

If this is not your responsibility, whose responsibility is it?  Have we decided on suicide?

Noam Chomsky - How Do We Fight Back?

Learn, educate yourself, teach, organize, act. Learn of the successful actions of earlier movements. Consider your passions.

KKK In The Far West

The doings of the Klan in the 1920s in the western U.S.

The Ku Klux Klan  became one of the most influential movements in modern American history.

Have you ever considered the doings of Klan chapters in places like Anaheim, Denver, Salt Lake, and El Paso or in Eugene, Oregon?

See if you can find the book  Invisible Empire of the West by Shawn Lay.

Have you ever considered why a Southerner of the post Civil War South might have considered The Reconstruction a redestruction?

Have you ever asked for the meaning of "Ku Klux" in Ku Klux Klan?
Me neither Well perhaps just a little, just now.

Reich: How Unequal Can America Get?

Snap. Good luck, Political action may be your safest and most productive option.

They cut rocks like butter. Inca 'Quarry' is mindblowing!

What was going on in the stone ages? What IS going on?  Let's ask the questions. Stone age peoples seem to have technologies more elegant than ours.

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What was going on in the stone age?? It is time to ask sme questions and to consider answers.

Nick Hanauer answers audience questions - BBC HARDtalk

Change in the USA

Nick Hanauer Interview with Cenk Uygur On The Young Turks

Lets get political enough to do our part in taking care of our country and nation.

Another Early Mago

Yes, this is related to my Irish great grandfather Mago William Sheehan.

Another early Mago was Mago Barca of the late third century BCE. He was Hannibal's brother and a Carthaginian general. He was also the youngest son of Hamilcar Barca of the Barcids. 

The Balearic Islands seem to have an Irish connection of some sort. On Menorca Mago Barca lent his name to the city still called Port Mahon. Does not Mahon seem to have a bit of an Irish ring? The typical Mahon egg sauce that has conquered the word is known as mayonnaise! Isn't there a mayo something  something or other on "the old sod?"

I believe that there is a book about this Mago that you may enjoy reading it's by David Anthony Durham,   Pride of Carthage


by Richard Sheehan
for Mago Bill

Sonic Geometry: The Language of Frequency and Form

Take what seems good and leave the rest. There is some good info here.

Sonic Geometry 2 : Communicating with the Universe in 432hz

We have a lot to learn. We also benefit by remembering not to believe all we read. Might be good to believe some of it.

CULTURE OF COLOMBIA

Sweet Sound of Southern Archeology - Robert Sepehr

Southern US Pre-Columbian archaeology and recent folklore.

Wireless wake-up call | Jeromy Johnson | TEDxBerkeley

Wireless health effects.
We have a lot to learn. Do we need to find a safer place to live?  We are effected. What are the effects? Are the effects truly dangerous?

How to turn protest into powerful change - Eric Liu

We can make protest a wider learning experience. The alternatives are nearly infinite. It takes talk and decision to make the important moves beyond protest. Build  a series of early wins.

Charlie Rose Part 3: Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer about their new book.

Not a bad starting question.

Who truly are the job creators. Have not our economists been interested in demand. Thank you Mr. Rose.  I feel our cosmos more truly.