This pulls my heart apart from so many directions:
sheepdog-spain-slaughterhouse-flock
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Sunday, October 13, 2019
Tidy Music, Elegant Women
Erik Satie Pieces Froid
(cold pieces)
I. Tunes to Make You Run Away 00:00
(cold pieces)
I. Tunes to Make You Run Away 00:00
In a very unusual manner 03:39
Simply 05:28 Invitingly
II. Crooked Dances 09:03
Give it a good look 10:44
Go on 12:09 Again
Bonus Ravel:
Shrinking Shares
https://www.rt.com/business/470837-putin-investment-saudi-opec/
No wonder we're sending troops over there. Once Russia sets up its own oil complex and fortifies it with superior Russian weapons/defense systems, USA becomes an isolated, shrinking continent in the northern hemisphere.
Also:
rosatom-opens-a-branch-in-saudi-arabia/
No wonder we're sending troops over there. Once Russia sets up its own oil complex and fortifies it with superior Russian weapons/defense systems, USA becomes an isolated, shrinking continent in the northern hemisphere.
Also:
rosatom-opens-a-branch-in-saudi-arabia/
Friday, October 11, 2019
A World of Paradox
God, they say, is the best thing Man ever invented. They are right.
Life, which includes Man, is the best thing God ever invented, they say. They are right.
Life, which includes Man, is the best thing God ever invented, they say. They are right.
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Sadly, for recent generations beginning with the Boomers, the old Gods have been deposed. Oh, they'll come back, gods do that, it's what makes them gods, after all.
But for now, our culture really has only Obie Wan the Father, Luke Skywalker His Son, and the Force, the Holy Spirit within us all although many purists hold to older creeds like Star Trek, the first TV Space Western on LSD. Gods coming back into vogue more and more are the Great Brown Earth Gods, the gods who answer to prayers chanted with drums into the ground to the center of Mother Earth. It's rhythmic, it's proto-sexual, urgent, real, not ethereal or wistful like cathedral choirs, voices filtered through stained-glass eardrums... it's got a good beat that's easy to dance to: |
Thursday, October 10, 2019
So. Who's Next?
There are times when pert near global anthems of prophetic freedom, so over-used to sell cars or whatnot that they've become hopelessly cliche' except as oldies'r'us, re-enflame with the truth they sang then now come about fully to pass:
Baba O'Reilly
We Got Fooled Again
...and again, and again, and again... with a good beat that's easy to dance to.
"We'll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
The men who spurred us on
Sit in judgment of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song"
Baba O'Reilly
We Got Fooled Again
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...and again, and again, and again... with a good beat that's easy to dance to.
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"We'll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
The men who spurred us on
Sit in judgment of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song"
Man in the Wilderness
Me in the Pend O'Reille County Mountains circa October '16. I lived there, some kind of homelessness, for about 3 months, smelled like about 700 years. Hot baths are the shiznits, y'all.
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A Few Words on Trump
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For all of Trump's mental health issues, there is this that should be considered: yes, the man has fucked up. A LOT. His business failures are legendary. Nonetheless, he rose through the media stream to become a TV star and now, President of the USA (increasingly identical professions).
He has learned from at least some of his mistakes.
Most of his opposers haven't. They've been successful where Trump hasn't, and tend to think they're bulletproof. They lack the kind of hard-earned wisdom that comes from fucking up as badly and brazenly as Trump has (and boy, has he fucked up!).
These wealthy senators and CEOs think their asses are covered. They have their millions and billions. They have their fortified compounds. They forget that should those fortified compounds become necessary, the chains of command and influence that allowed them to build those compounds and hire minion security forces, will disintegrate. The guys with the guns hired to protect them will turn on their masters when cashing a paycheck is not what's most important, but who has the most food/water/fuel/guns will rule the day. Who needs the fat man with all that (now worthless) money?
Trump, having lied, cheated, swindled, and stolen so often from so many, knows something about this. Trump, having been virtually reared by psychopathic evil geniuses like Roy Cohn (look him up; he makes Jeffrey Epstein sound kinda nice), doesn't trust anyone and no one trusts him except a select few -- and for only so long. He knows this. He knows he survives by being a moving target. This is part of why he contradicts himself so much. Some of it is runaway NPD ( Narcissistic_personality_disorder ), but some of it is hard-learned wisdom, evil but accurate wisdom.
Trump knows this: if he triggers a nuclear war, having an underground bunker 330 feet below will do him little good.
2) Playing golf sucks on Astroturf 300 feet underground with at most a 50' ceiling. (see image below)
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3) Once underground, his power is useless. He's no longer commander-in-chief, he's Old Bloated Asshole in the Way. He uses valuable resources, drinkable water, food, K-Y Jelly, that his younger, stronger, militarily trained minions want for themselves.
This notion that Trump is some madman liable to trigger Armageddon and must therefore be impeached, is madness. Trump is a madman, yes. He is morally despicable, yes.
But he is not so stupid as, say, Joe Biden or Lindsey Graham or Nancy Pelosi or Nikki Haley. He's fucked up SO much, and hung around with so many sleazy purveyors of blackmail and violence, he knows that he and his global golf resorts want peace not nuclear war. He fucked up so badly in America and Europe he had to go to seriously severe Kazakhstani gangsters and Putin inner circle heavies to continue sleazing his way through his own increasingly not-so-inept folly, folly now proving incredibly powerful in its understanding of the human capacity for, well, folly. And behold, a TV star becomes our president. His discussions of, uh, "terms" with said Russo-Central Asian gangstergarchs/oligangsters/oil kings introduced him, surely, to the Knowledge of What Baseball Bats Can Do to You. He wouldn't last a minute on Harlem streets, but he has incredible street savvy on the gilded pathways his money and now office let him walk. He knows he can get his ass kicked in the Hilton as easy as in Dogtown. Trump, we can be assured, has been humiliated by people who know how to humiliate those who seek what they have.
One learns from such humiliation.
Hence him being virtually the only politician/talking head in Washington, D.C., who makes nicey-nice with Putin, possessor of the world's most formidable nuclear arsenal and globally superior weapons delivery/defense systems. He is the King of Russia, and Trump, crazy and deceitful as Trump is, is not going to cross him.
We need not fear Trump. We need only fear ourselves. To do that, we have to look in the mirror and probe within our selves, our minds, our souls, our hearts.
Yeah, right. Hey, what's on Netflix?
I AM the Slime! I AM!!!!
I am gross and perverted
I'm obsessed 'n deranged
I have existed for years
But very little has changed
I am the tool of the Government
And industry too
For I am destined to rule
And regulate you
I may be vile and pernicious
But you can't look away
I make you think
I'm delicious
With the stuff that I say
I am the best you can get
Have you guessed me yet?
I am the slime oozin' out
From your TV set
You will obey me while I lead you
And eat the garbage that I feed you
Until the day that we don't need you
Don't go for help...no one will heed you
Your mind is totally controlled
It has been stuffed into my mold
And you will do as you are told
Until the rights to you are sold
That's right, folks..
Don't touch that dial
Well, I am the slime from your video
Oozin' along on your livin'room floor
I am the slime from your video
Can't stop the slime, people, look at me go
The Internet? Facebook? Twitter? That's just TV you can talk to, avoiding the need to talk to other people in person.
Whew. I feel dirty. I need a warm shower. Maestro, please turn on the bubble machine. Anna one anna two anna Evwee Bodee Ah Wuv Woo
Know you got to run,
Know you got to hide
Still there is a great life
Lingerin' deep within your eyes.
Open up, open up, baby let me in.
You expect for me to love you
When you hate yourself, my friend.
Everybody, I love you
Everybody, I do
Though your heart is in anger
I need your love to get through
When I tell you I love you
You can believe that it's true
Everybody, I love you
Everybody, I do.
Whew. I feel dirty. I need a warm shower. Maestro, please turn on the bubble machine. Anna one anna two anna Evwee Bodee Ah Wuv Woo
Know you got to run,
Know you got to hide
Still there is a great life
Lingerin' deep within your eyes.
Open up, open up, baby let me in.
You expect for me to love you
When you hate yourself, my friend.
Everybody, I love you
Everybody, I do
Though your heart is in anger
I need your love to get through
When I tell you I love you
You can believe that it's true
Everybody, I love you
Everybody, I do.
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
a simple piece of Kalecki analysis that is NOT taught in economics classes, and hence NOT used in central banks or think-tanks, and thus NOT recognised in most market research:
Banks create debt (and hence broad money-supply) via lending. If that lending goes to productive investment the stock of money and goods are matched and there is no inflation and there is no long-term increase in debt to GDP. If the productivity growth from the new enterprise is fairly split between profits (for further investment) and wages (for consumption) then the growth cycle continues without a long-term increase in debt to GDP.
However, if businesses push down wages for profit–via globalisation–then consumption growth can only be sustained by borrowing, and debt to GDP trends up: when it hits a peak, growth permanently slows. At that point, businesses have no need to borrow – or if they do it is to speculate on financial assets and not invest in productive business. Growth slows further, and the cycle breaks down structurally. Governments have to then invest more and/or force wages higher. [YOU ARE HERE].
Central banks lowering rates merely sees housing and/or equity bubbles running on fumes. Each hiking cycle is replaced by an easing where we see lower highs and lower lows until we go negative – which is de facto debt default. And/or we do QE, which the Bank for International Settlement recently agreed does not flow to the real economy, but pours more liquidity into asset markets, making the rich richer. Unless QE allows governments more room for fiscal spending – which is de facto debt default. [YOU ARE HERE]
Banks create debt (and hence broad money-supply) via lending. If that lending goes to productive investment the stock of money and goods are matched and there is no inflation and there is no long-term increase in debt to GDP. If the productivity growth from the new enterprise is fairly split between profits (for further investment) and wages (for consumption) then the growth cycle continues without a long-term increase in debt to GDP.
However, if businesses push down wages for profit–via globalisation–then consumption growth can only be sustained by borrowing, and debt to GDP trends up: when it hits a peak, growth permanently slows. At that point, businesses have no need to borrow – or if they do it is to speculate on financial assets and not invest in productive business. Growth slows further, and the cycle breaks down structurally. Governments have to then invest more and/or force wages higher. [YOU ARE HERE].
Central banks lowering rates merely sees housing and/or equity bubbles running on fumes. Each hiking cycle is replaced by an easing where we see lower highs and lower lows until we go negative – which is de facto debt default. And/or we do QE, which the Bank for International Settlement recently agreed does not flow to the real economy, but pours more liquidity into asset markets, making the rich richer. Unless QE allows governments more room for fiscal spending – which is de facto debt default. [YOU ARE HERE]
‘We went to war under false, now disproven premise’: Trump calls US wars in ME ‘worst decision’ ever
Trump says contradictory things so frequently it's chronic, but he has spoken this basic notion consistently since way back.
And why not? Everyone knows it was a sham deal and a bad idea, even those who still support it. (People can say one thing, do another, and believe a third with amazing ease.)
"War on Terror (aka Middle East) Bad", say Trump.
I kin haz cheetos now?
Curious to see what kind of legs this brings.
One thing reliable about Trump is that, given no way out (he's stuck in the Oval Orifice), he will aim for the most glory he can without personally suffering. While the milindustrial complex attacks him through both the Democratic and Republican parties, the people are totally on board.
Trump, having spent many years in the White House, surely knows that, in every war game scenario the Pentagon has projected between the USA military and the heavily-armed USA populace, the military loses.
It's not just that we have an awful lot of guns, but that we have way more people than military... and they have nowhere to go.
They'll fight, discover what a paper tiger our military is, and there you are.
I don't think he's wanting to foment revolution, but he wants the assholes pushing him around to know that he holds the (please forgive me) Trump card. He's every bit the asshole they are, and crazy in just the right way to understand the ridiculously self-absorbed/self-indulgent narcissistic, practically sociopathic political mindset of most Americans.
We'll probably blow up a shit-ton of Saudi Arabia after trying and failing to successfully occupy it, while Russia probably sits back and lets us so long as we confine it to Saudi military and oil targets and don't create too vast a refugee issue, in which case Russia might use some of their latest weaponry and fully humiliate us before the world.
Which would be good so long as the loony Dominionists in the Pentagon don't try to start Armageddon, something they would do with or without Trump's permission if it were done during the thick fog of war, making it very hard for Trump to say it wasn't his fault or that he didn't authorize it.
And why not? Everyone knows it was a sham deal and a bad idea, even those who still support it. (People can say one thing, do another, and believe a third with amazing ease.)
"War on Terror (aka Middle East) Bad", say Trump.
I kin haz cheetos now?
Curious to see what kind of legs this brings.
One thing reliable about Trump is that, given no way out (he's stuck in the Oval Orifice), he will aim for the most glory he can without personally suffering. While the milindustrial complex attacks him through both the Democratic and Republican parties, the people are totally on board.
Trump, having spent many years in the White House, surely knows that, in every war game scenario the Pentagon has projected between the USA military and the heavily-armed USA populace, the military loses.
It's not just that we have an awful lot of guns, but that we have way more people than military... and they have nowhere to go.
They'll fight, discover what a paper tiger our military is, and there you are.
I don't think he's wanting to foment revolution, but he wants the assholes pushing him around to know that he holds the (please forgive me) Trump card. He's every bit the asshole they are, and crazy in just the right way to understand the ridiculously self-absorbed/self-indulgent narcissistic, practically sociopathic political mindset of most Americans.
We'll probably blow up a shit-ton of Saudi Arabia after trying and failing to successfully occupy it, while Russia probably sits back and lets us so long as we confine it to Saudi military and oil targets and don't create too vast a refugee issue, in which case Russia might use some of their latest weaponry and fully humiliate us before the world.
Which would be good so long as the loony Dominionists in the Pentagon don't try to start Armageddon, something they would do with or without Trump's permission if it were done during the thick fog of war, making it very hard for Trump to say it wasn't his fault or that he didn't authorize it.
Space X
Stalled in Space
"With NASA’s contract with Russia about to run out without a replacement spaceship ready, the US space agency is leaning on SpaceX to hurry up and deliver. CEO Elon Musk says everything is on schedule – but is it?
"Since the Space Shuttle program was scrapped in 2011, NASA has had no crewed spaceship capability, having to pay Roscosmos $80 million a seat to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station. SpaceX and Boeing were both contracted to develop a domestic alternative, but both the Crew Dragon and the Starliner have yet to get beyond the testing stage."
"With NASA’s contract with Russia about to run out without a replacement spaceship ready, the US space agency is leaning on SpaceX to hurry up and deliver. CEO Elon Musk says everything is on schedule – but is it?
"Since the Space Shuttle program was scrapped in 2011, NASA has had no crewed spaceship capability, having to pay Roscosmos $80 million a seat to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station. SpaceX and Boeing were both contracted to develop a domestic alternative, but both the Crew Dragon and the Starliner have yet to get beyond the testing stage."
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Anyone who reads this blog (I suppose it happens once a month or so;) ) must wonder why I mostly post news from RT. They probably are inclined to think I'm a Russian troll or something.
I think the above illustrates why.
For comparison, 50-100 years ago, all the intelligentsia around the world read major USA newspapers because it was obvious that USA was the up-and-coming power to deal with, and what happened here was important.
That's no longer true. That, to grossly oversimplify, is why I mostly turn to RT for daily news. Although I do read mainstream USA news every day, it is so blatantly false at worst and crudely misleading at best that it's like, well, it's like reading Sputnik or Pravda back in the 50s when the Soviets ran all the news.
USA, the new Soviet Russia. Russia, the new USA. FLip-flop... but nonetheless, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Now that Russia has achieved, in the eyes of the other nations, global dominance relative to the USA, RT is starting to flex its more overt propaganda muscles and loading more BS than before.
Still, the truth mostly favors Russia, which is why RT isn't afraid to tell the truth, which is why I trust it far more than any major USA news source.
Walking on the Moon
I think the above illustrates why.
For comparison, 50-100 years ago, all the intelligentsia around the world read major USA newspapers because it was obvious that USA was the up-and-coming power to deal with, and what happened here was important.
That's no longer true. That, to grossly oversimplify, is why I mostly turn to RT for daily news. Although I do read mainstream USA news every day, it is so blatantly false at worst and crudely misleading at best that it's like, well, it's like reading Sputnik or Pravda back in the 50s when the Soviets ran all the news.
USA, the new Soviet Russia. Russia, the new USA. FLip-flop... but nonetheless, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Now that Russia has achieved, in the eyes of the other nations, global dominance relative to the USA, RT is starting to flex its more overt propaganda muscles and loading more BS than before.
Still, the truth mostly favors Russia, which is why RT isn't afraid to tell the truth, which is why I trust it far more than any major USA news source.
Walking on the Moon
Line of Least Resistance
Isn't That So?
Didn't He know what He was doin
Putting eyes into my head?
If He didn't want me watching women
He'd a-left my eyeballs dead
Isn't that so?
Isn't that so?
You've got to go where your heart says go
Isn't that so?
Didn't He know what He was doin
When He made the magic vine
His own Son got a reputation
Turning water into wine
Isn't that so?
Isn't that so?
You've got to go where your heart says go
Isn't that so?
Line of least resistance lead me on, lead me on
Line of least resistance lead me on
Didn't He know what He was doin
When He divided high and low
You got to bury the seed in the dirt my friend
If you want the thing to grow
Isn't that so?
Isn't that so?
You've got to go where your heart says go
Isn't that so?
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Point-CounterPoint-MetaPoint
A real dialog by virtual persons at The Automatic Earth , purveyor of composite global news and vintage Renaissance<>Modern Art
a) “If the US leaves the Kurds alone to be cannon fodder for Erdogan, it will deeply regret it. No-one counting on US support will ever trust it again.”
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b) “Nonsense. The Anglos have betrayed and double-crossed everybody they ever met on every treaty they ever signed.”
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c) "But, until recently, USA could make offers other polities “couldn’t refuse”. It was a form of trust. Reliable blackmail, so to speak. Like the relationship that used to exist between USA and Saudi Arabia. Now, USA can’t even make offers that can’t be refused. In fact, it’s getting to the point where it can’t even make offers that are taken seriously."
a) “If the US leaves the Kurds alone to be cannon fodder for Erdogan, it will deeply regret it. No-one counting on US support will ever trust it again.”
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b) “Nonsense. The Anglos have betrayed and double-crossed everybody they ever met on every treaty they ever signed.”
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c) "But, until recently, USA could make offers other polities “couldn’t refuse”. It was a form of trust. Reliable blackmail, so to speak. Like the relationship that used to exist between USA and Saudi Arabia. Now, USA can’t even make offers that can’t be refused. In fact, it’s getting to the point where it can’t even make offers that are taken seriously."
Sunday, October 6, 2019
Good Question
"It poses a question: do the American authorities have no wish to normalize the dialogue, contrary to their statements, or are they unable to control the actions of national security services?"
Is US national security going rogue? Moscow outraged after FBI detains Russian lawmaker at New York airport
Is US national security going rogue? Moscow outraged after FBI detains Russian lawmaker at New York airport
Biopic
Close enough to my life story to pass ID check at a bar:
Little Know It All (iz click-to-play, jah?)
I'm the kid that no one knows
I live a life I never chose
But these thoughts in my mind
Are my own, my own
I'm face to face with the unknown
My scary movie will be shown
I've got one evil mind
Of my own, of my own
We take from one another
And never stop to wonder
How it feels from the other side
Well nothing lasts forever
When stupid turns to clever
Why are you surprised?
Little know it all
Ten bucks in my hand
Little know it all
Don't cry I understand
I'm a target of the smart
They've got ambition I've got heart
Analysed and tagged
Before I start
So tell me
Who can I respect
I feel a leash around my neck
I find out there's shame
In the game
We take from one another
And never stop to wonder
How it feels from the other side
Well nothing lasts forever
When stupid turns to clever
Why are you surprised?
And I feel like
I'm caught outside the box
And I feel like
I'm sleeping when I'm not
We take from one another
And never stop to wonder
How it feels from the other side
Well nothing lasts forever
When stupid turns to clever
Why are you surprised?
Little know it all
Ten bucks in my hand
Little know it all
Don't cry I understand
Little know it all
Ten bucks in my hand
Don't cry I understand
You'll never know it all
Little Know It All (iz click-to-play, jah?)
I'm the kid that no one knows
I live a life I never chose
But these thoughts in my mind
Are my own, my own
I'm face to face with the unknown
My scary movie will be shown
I've got one evil mind
Of my own, of my own
We take from one another
And never stop to wonder
How it feels from the other side
Well nothing lasts forever
When stupid turns to clever
Why are you surprised?
Little know it all
Ten bucks in my hand
Little know it all
Don't cry I understand
I'm a target of the smart
They've got ambition I've got heart
Analysed and tagged
Before I start
So tell me
Who can I respect
I feel a leash around my neck
I find out there's shame
In the game
We take from one another
And never stop to wonder
How it feels from the other side
Well nothing lasts forever
When stupid turns to clever
Why are you surprised?
And I feel like
I'm caught outside the box
And I feel like
I'm sleeping when I'm not
We take from one another
And never stop to wonder
How it feels from the other side
Well nothing lasts forever
When stupid turns to clever
Why are you surprised?
Little know it all
Ten bucks in my hand
Little know it all
Don't cry I understand
Little know it all
Ten bucks in my hand
Don't cry I understand
You'll never know it all
( Iggy Pop )
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Saturday, October 5, 2019
Something That Appears To Be Working
ocean-cleanup-project-successfully-catches-plastic-in-the-great-pacific-garbage-patch.html
“After beginning this journey seven years ago, this first year of testing in the unforgivable environment of the high seas strongly indicates that our vision is attainable and that the beginning of our mission to rid the ocean of plastic garbage, which has accumulated for decades, is within our sights,” said Boyan Slat.
“Our team has remained steadfast in its determination to solve immense technical challenges to arrive at this point. Though we still have much more work to do, I am eternally grateful for the team’s commitment and dedication to the mission and look forward to continuing to the next phase of development.”
Big Bang Theory
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Hmmm... puts on his tinfoil conspiracy fedora... a false flag attributed to Saudi Arabia of sufficiently large and, shall we say, vulgar atrocity would "justify" a shock'n'awe against Saudi Arabia of enormous scale.
The one thing that USA military can still do is toss a zillion cruise missiles and such against adversaries not yet equipped with superior Russian defense weaponry.
The USA populace would probably buy it but the rest of the world, hardly. The atrocities involved would piss off the entire Middle East since most ME nations have significant numbers of their citizens working and living in Saudi Arabia, but that doesn't mean they'd retaliate, for while the USA military has become mostly a paper teddy bear, we are a nuclear armed-to-the-gills polity with a perilously corrupt tyrant class that smokes the Book of Revelations in a Jesus bong and seems to believe that Pyrrhic victory -- or defeat -- are what God wants in order to know when to come down and fix things.
Like they're Roman centurions working the signal tower that let's Caesar know the barbarians have breached the Wall.
So, crazy as it sounds, and oy, it sounds crazy, it's par for the course with the likes of Pence and people who make Jeffrey Epstein seem like a nice enough chaperone for your daughter.
As if running out of oil, topsoil, and drinkable water, losing half the animal species of 100s of millions of years' evolutionary lineage, breeding a generation of superpowerful pathogens by turning miracle drugs into major money makers rather than let the actual doctors run the show and govern the use of antibiotics prudently.
Oh yeah, we're working hard to turn Antarctica into the only habitable place on the planet.
So, hey, let's have a big old war on top of it all.
You read it here first, folks, and even if you didn't, it's better than reading it here last.
And so we move Closer To The Truth.
Friday, October 4, 2019
El Forko Tostada
Russia Makes Euro default Oil Sales Currency
Well, that's about it. While momentum will carry the petrodollar quite a bit further (or so most people I know who understand this stuff tell me, and I like the logics they use), this puts a fork in it as the world's primary reserve currency, and that puts a fork in us.
All our trillions will come to buy only billions and then maybe even merely millions.
Gonna be bad when the wave truly crests. Could be soon, could be a few years out. I'd start buying and filling large gas containers.
Among many primary facets of global economics the USA has been blithely violating, is that when yours is the trusted global currency, you *don't* use it as a weapon. How would you like your credit union telling you that you can't shop at Safeway, only at Wal-Mart?
Well, that's about it. While momentum will carry the petrodollar quite a bit further (or so most people I know who understand this stuff tell me, and I like the logics they use), this puts a fork in it as the world's primary reserve currency, and that puts a fork in us.
All our trillions will come to buy only billions and then maybe even merely millions.
Gonna be bad when the wave truly crests. Could be soon, could be a few years out. I'd start buying and filling large gas containers.
Among many primary facets of global economics the USA has been blithely violating, is that when yours is the trusted global currency, you *don't* use it as a weapon. How would you like your credit union telling you that you can't shop at Safeway, only at Wal-Mart?
Casual Miles
Bitches Brew rehearsals
As usual, I find Miles' outtakes and rehearsals from this era much better than the offical albums. Never cared for Bitches Brew, love the rehearsals and unreleased material from that time.
For example:
Water on the Pond
As usual, I find Miles' outtakes and rehearsals from this era much better than the offical albums. Never cared for Bitches Brew, love the rehearsals and unreleased material from that time.
For example:
Water on the Pond
Thursday, October 3, 2019
Expendable Victims
vladimir-putin-condemns-saudi-oil-attacks-but-defends-iran
Oh, I'm sure Putin's being hypocritical here: any increase in global oil prices is good for a fossil fuel powerhouse like Russia. He just has to say something sympathetic to appease Saudi Arabia, which is bigger and more important than poor little Yemen.
I admire Putin as a statesman mostly because he is one of the very few sane ones out there. He isn't an imperialist; he doesn't want wars of aggression; Russia is plenty big enough to satisfy itself and Vlad.
But Yemenis are, after all, dispensable in the scheme of things
Game Changer
three-saudi-brigades-annihilated-in-devastating-houthi-offensive-in-saudi-arabia/
Me sez we'll be occupying Saudi Arabia soon.
Rock the Casbah
Me sez we'll be occupying Saudi Arabia soon.
Rock the Casbah
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
She is kind, but emotions should not control this issue
Putin Speaks About Greta Thunberg
I am normally a major Putin fan. One of the very few, virtually the only, sane national leader currently in office. A pragmatic realist who works hard to prevent nuclear war as USA collapses into its own rhetoric.
But here he shows that Big Oil is Big Oil, and won't tolerate the truth being spoken. Russia is very much Big Oil.
Vlad, and the rest of you Big Boys: Greta speaks true: the kids won't forgive you, and you or your successors will find themselves dealing with vast angry mobs looking just to stay alive. It will be... difficult.
This is not to say that I think anything will be changed for the better regarding energy/climate issues. Greta can condemn, Putin can patronize, but the clock keeps on ticking. The time to have made the transition was when Carter was in office, and indeed, that was his main priority. Carter was a farmboy from Georgia and understood the basic connection to earth, water, and fuel that is the basis of survival and civilization. I read much of Carter's The Global 2000 Report to the President in the early 1980s while Reagan tore down solar panels from the White House roof. He knew what was coming and wanted to fix things while we could. Kinda late now.
(cues the orchestra) Whatchya Gonna Do When the Well Runs Dry?
What you gonna do
When the sun don't shine no more
What you gonna do
When the moon don't climb no more
What you gonna do
When the tears won't fall no more
What you gonna do
When the sun don't shine no more
Head on down to the world again
Find your pride in the face of sin
What you gonna do
When the sun don't shine no more
I am normally a major Putin fan. One of the very few, virtually the only, sane national leader currently in office. A pragmatic realist who works hard to prevent nuclear war as USA collapses into its own rhetoric.
But here he shows that Big Oil is Big Oil, and won't tolerate the truth being spoken. Russia is very much Big Oil.
Vlad, and the rest of you Big Boys: Greta speaks true: the kids won't forgive you, and you or your successors will find themselves dealing with vast angry mobs looking just to stay alive. It will be... difficult.
This is not to say that I think anything will be changed for the better regarding energy/climate issues. Greta can condemn, Putin can patronize, but the clock keeps on ticking. The time to have made the transition was when Carter was in office, and indeed, that was his main priority. Carter was a farmboy from Georgia and understood the basic connection to earth, water, and fuel that is the basis of survival and civilization. I read much of Carter's The Global 2000 Report to the President in the early 1980s while Reagan tore down solar panels from the White House roof. He knew what was coming and wanted to fix things while we could. Kinda late now.
(cues the orchestra) Whatchya Gonna Do When the Well Runs Dry?
What you gonna do
When the sun don't shine no more
What you gonna do
When the moon don't climb no more
What you gonna do
When the tears won't fall no more
What you gonna do
When the sun don't shine no more
Head on down to the world again
Find your pride in the face of sin
What you gonna do
When the sun don't shine no more
Beautiful Losers
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| Snub-nosed monkey mourns dying mate |
He who would lead must follow. For as soon as people realize you are leading, they will no longer follow, even if they say they are following you, anoint you as messiah, and ponder every word you say.
Before we ate the "altering apple" (thanx Joni Mitchell for that perfect trope) God led us without our knowing it. Afterward, we thought we knew Who God Is, and followed our delusions of divinity via our new found Knowledge of Good and Evil (as if). But we have to believe in something. It's how we're wired. Even I do. Passionately. With all my mind, heart, body, and soul, even though I am the closest thing to a true Diogenesian cynic that I can recall meeting other than, perhaps, the Mystery Man in the 1974 Shelby GT Ford Mustang convertible who saved my life around midnight in June of 1975 and drove us for 5 five hours at 140 mph nonstop, except for a gas stop, over eastern Colorado's and northern Kansas' rolling plains. (Yes, it's a true story: that's why it's so hard to believe.)
Listen to the losers among us. They follow us. Watchful, concerned, knowing they can't save us but still trying to rescue a few of us here and there from our ferocious follies, maybe even themselves:
(music, maestro) Love's Missing
She's thinking about something we all need
All need
Clock's ticking, not giving her room to breathe
To breathe
Love's screaming
Love's missing
Love's screaming, so quietly and in pain
Love's absent, it's failing her once again, again
Love's screaming
Love's screaming
Dark future, she just needs someone to say
To say
"I love you", before she gets pushed away
Love's absent
Love's absent
The center won't hold me in
Love's absent
And she cannot touch a friend
A friend
She's breathing, and that isn't gonna help
No help
Clock's ticking, it's bad when she's by herself
Herself
Love's breathing
Love's missing
Love's screaming
Screaming
( Iggy Pop )
I know a young woman who lost her husband yesterday to One of Those Things. Several children lost their father.
It happens every day.
Someone near you.
Who Are They?
Where are they? What can be done? Go find them and find out.
Follow.
It happens every day.
Someone near you.
Who Are They?
Where are they? What can be done? Go find them and find out.
Follow.
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