Blue Nile

The seed round was $2 million from an excellent Seattle local founder, Mark Radar, who's been a huge mentor for us.

He's founder of Zulily and Blue Nile, was also on the board of Chewy.

We weren't looking to raise actually the first $2 million.

We were trying to figure out how can we guarantee the buyers and be certain that these buyers, if they fail, the lenders can step in because we were looking to get them to you know, look at our buyer's qualifications and say that the buyers are good to go.

And I don't know where to get them.

I think Blue Nile has some.

But I'm like, I need to try them in my ears.

Yeah.

Margins on diamonds were already slim when I entered into this business in 2005.

Diamonds were commoditized before e-tailers, before Blue Nile, before LabGrom.

This was inevitable.

It is also, in my opinion, exposed how very rare actual talented and competent salespeople are in this industry.

And Turkey, because I think the Zionists are actually going to go for Egypt.

by causing probably massive floods and droughts which can easily be done they built a dam and they called the GERD dam in Ethiopia and that dam is amazing you could use that dam in hydraulic warfare to take out the dams in Sudan down the Nile, because the Gurd Dam is on the Blue Nile.

The Nile that we think of in Egypt actually consists mostly of two different rivers, the White Nile and the Blue Nile.

Most of the river in the Nile that goes by the pyramids in that area is from the Blue Nile, and that's where the Gurd Dam is built, and now they want to build several more dams up there.

But if you release the reservoir from the Gurd Dam, you'll probably overwhelm all of the dams in Sudan.

And you'll have all those reservoirs to take out Aswan, right, if Lake Nasser is full enough.

95% of Egypt's water comes from the Nile.

And 95% or so of the people live next to the Nile, very close to it.

Along this stretch of the river were several cataracts, shallow rocky passages where stones and boulders broke the surface of the water, making navigation difficult and sometimes impossible.

Nubia extended southward toward the point where the Blue Nile and the White Nile meet.

These two rivers are the main tributaries of the Nile, and their confluence is near Khartoum, the capital of modern Sudan.

Egyptian civilizations developed in Upper and Lower Egypt in no small part because of the geography and climate.

At Khartoum, the single channel in which the river flowed divides, and two other streams are opened up in a southerly direction, each of them apparently equal in volume to the main stream.

Which is the true Nile? Is it the Blue Nile, which seems to come down from the distant mountains? Or is it the White Nile, which has traversed the immense plains of equatorial Africa? The old Egyptians never knew.

The river kept the secret of its source from them as obstinately as it withheld it from us until a few years ago.

Vainly did their victorious armies follow the Nile for months together as they pursued the tribes who dwelt upon its banks, only to find it as wide, as full, as irresistible in its progress as ever.

Neither I, nor the many people living with me, ever felt the slightest inconvenience from it.

Happily, this green Nile does not last long, but generally flows away in three or four days, and is only the forerunner of the real flood.

The melting of the snows and the excessive spring rains having suddenly swollen the torrents which rise in the central plateau of Abyssinia, the Blue Nile, into which they flow, rolls so impetuously towards the plain that, when its waters reach Khartoum in the middle of May, they refuse to mingle with those of the White Nile, and do not use their peculiar color before reaching the neighborhood of Abu Hamad, three hundred miles below.

From that time the height of the Nile increases rapidly day by day.

If you control the Nile River, you're going to control Egypt.

And so the Nile River is mostly composed of two rivers, which is the White Nile and the Blue Nile.

The Blue Nile provides roughly 85% of the water that goes into the Nile that we think of, the one that goes by the pyramids, right? So that's the Nile that is, you know, Egypt.

But the Blue Nile The Gurg Dam controls the water from the Blue Nile, which is most of the water that ends up in Sudan and Egypt, right? So in the Greater Israel Project, you'll see that Sudan and Egypt are places that they want.

And so that's right on the greater Israel map.

And so putting the GERD, now the GERD dam comes with a huge information board saying that, you know, it was built on the funds of local, it was just organic and a bunch of schoolchildren in Ethiopia.

At Khartoum, the single channel in which the river flowed divides, and two other streams are opened up in a southerly direction, each of them apparently equal in volume to the main stream.

Which is the true Nile? Is it the Blue Nile, which seems to come down from the distant mountains? Or is it the White Nile, which has traversed the immense plains of equatorial Africa? The old Egyptians never knew.

The river kept the secret of its source from them as obstinately as it withheld it from us until a few years ago.

Vainly did their victorious armies follow the Nile for months together as they pursued the tribes who dwelt upon its banks, only to find it as wide, as full, as irresistible in its progress as ever.

Neither I nor the many people living with me ever felt the slightest inconvenience from it.

Happily, this green Nile does not last long, but generally flows away in three or four days, and is only the forerunner of the real flood.

The melting of the snows and the excessive spring rains having suddenly swollen the torrents which rise in the central plateau of Abyssinia, the Blue Nile, into which they flow, rolls so impetuously towards the plain that, when its waters reach Khartoum in the middle of May, they refuse to mingle with those of the White Nile, and do not use their peculiar color before reaching the neighborhood of Abu Hamad, three hundred miles below.

From that time the height of the Nile increases rapidly day by day.

You know, likewise, we should talk about Ethiopia someday in the future.

in in sudan and egypt but anyway you want to talk about iran but it's all directly related but hydraulic warfare is one of the major forms of warfare and hydraulic warfare i think you'll start seeing that more and more in fact 24 hours before this happened i had put a post on my sub stack about hydraulic warfare just 24 hours and uh hydraulic warfare you know for instance you could cause a cascade from Ethiopia down through Sudan and down through Egypt, take out Aswan, and you would basically devastate Egypt with just controlling the headwaters up on the Blue Nile in Ethiopia.

You could actually just devastate Egypt and take it out as a country, actually.

It would be, I think, non-functional.

It might take a few years, but... between mechanisms of flood and drought, flood and drought, flood and drought, which you could do by controlling those headwaters.

About 85% of the water from the Nile that goes to Egypt comes from the Blue Nile.

The other 15% mostly comes from the White Nile.

And anyway, you take out all the dams in Sudan, which is, keep in mind, Sudan and Egypt are part of the Greater Israel Project.

We have seen that there was an ancient tradition reported by Herodotus that the Nile trended off to the west and became there the river Niger.

while still earlier there was an impression that part of it at any rate wandered eastward and some way joined on to the same source as the tigris and euphrates at least that seems to be the suggestion in the biblical account of paradise whatever the reason the greatest uncertainty existed as to the actual course of the river and to discover the source of the nile was for many centuries the standing expression for performing the impossible in seventeen sixty eight james bruce a scottish gentleman of position set out with a determination of solving this mystery a determination which he had made in early youth and carried out with characteristic pertinacity he had acquired a certain amount of knowledge of arabic and acquaintance with african customs as consul at algiers he went up the nile as far as farsunt and then crossed the desert to the red sea went over to jeddah from which he took ship from messau and began his search for the sources of the nile in abyssinia he visited the ruins of axum the former capital and in the neighbourhood of that place saw the incident with which his travels have always been associated in which a couple of rump-stakes were extracted from a cow while alive the wound sewn up and the animal driven on farther here guided by some galahs he worked his way up the blue nile to the three fountains which he declared to be the true sources of the nile and identified with the three mysterious lakes in the old maps from there he worked his way down the nile reaching cairo in Of course, what he had discovered was merely the source of the Blue Nile, and even this had been previously visited by a Portuguese traveler named Pais.

But the interesting adventures which he experienced, and the interesting style in which he told them, aroused universal attention, which was perhaps increased by the fact that his journey was undertaken purely from love of adventure and discovery.

the year seventeen sixty eight is distinguished by the two journeys of james cook and james bruce both of them expressly for purposes of geographical discovery and thus inaugurating the era of what may be called scientific exploration ten years later an association was formed named the african association expressly intended to explore the unknown parts of africa and the first geographical society called into existence in seventeen ninety five mungo park was dispatched by the association to the west coast he started from the gambia and after many adventures in which he was captured by the moors arrived at the banks of the niger which he traced along its middle course but failed to reach as far as timbuctoo He made a second attempt in 1805, hoping by sailing down the Niger to prove its identity with a river known at its mouth as the Congo, but he was forced to return and died at Busa without having determined the remaining course of the Niger.