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    Piet Mondriaan Trafalgar Square 1939-43   • Trump Cheers As Michael Moore Blasts ‘Frail’ Mueller (AFP) • Donald Trump Vetoes Bills Prohibiting Ar
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle July 25 2019]

    #48766
    V. Arnold
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    But the biggest takeaway from the hearing must be that Mueller didn’t write his own report, something that became glaringly obvious when he didn’t know what Fusion GPS was. Mueller has just been the face of an investigation that was conducted by others. He is the supposed hero who’s ideal as the front for such a thing. But the thing is hollow and empty.

    Yes. I caught that and even at 74, my memory is still spot on; especially for the things I, myself, wrote…
    Pathetic…the lot of it…
    Yesterday I said hopeless; today, it’s beyond even that…
    I jumped ship in 2003; but the god’s know I love North America; its beauty rivals any continent on this gorgeous blue orb; but stupid human politics are destroying it all……….

    #48767
    V. Arnold
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    Oh, and poor little Eppy was found semi-conscious in a fetal position on the floor of his cell…
    Sounds like a bad acting job to get sympathy for his barbaric, pathetic, violation, of our societies most precious mores and norms…
    May he rot a very slow death…

    And while I’m at it: Britain also had a wide ranging scandle involving major pedophilia and other such debauchery; reminds me of our ancesters from over yonder.
    Same stock if you care to go back a paltry 300 years ago or more; Hey Boris! Are we related?
    God’s be good! Say it ain’t sooooo……….

    #48770
    NooBoob
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    Apocalypse Now and the Joys of Predatory Socialism
    Just because your house flooded after the forest fire and before a tornado hit it, doesn’t mean you can blame it on climate change. It’s the stupidest artificial distinction I ever heard of. The latest one is the drive by big pharma to use climate fear to boost medication profits. The drive to over-medicate kids started in earnest in the 90s.

    Those kids are now in their 30s, and they have no baseline reference to how fucked up they are. When I was a kid, our parents didn’t drug us, they relied on good ol’ physical and mental abuse. When I was a kid, we were taught to believe in things that aren’t true. Nowadays, we teach adults these things.

    Life has taught me 2 things; never come between a gardener and their favorite flower, and “progressives” are some of the most abusive pricks on earth. Rednecks I understand because that’s just naked bullying, but progressives dress their bullying up in virtuous drag. Look at today’s virtuous war pigs mourning saint Mueller. who’s only purview he can remember is not to exonerate Trump. It’s the modern day version of a pope not blessing a king, or when the kings and priests of ancient Egypt fought for power. It’s one brain-dead dinosaur not blessing another. These are the useless idiots running our world.

    https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.WOWdY8Skxa3ThQTel1DW-wAAAA&pid=Api&P=0&w=300&h=300

    Here is the 1996 cover of Newsweek. It’s fucking disgusting. It’s like grooming kids for rape. Those kids now dress up in blackface and beat the shit out of whitey. All this is done by virtue of being right, self-righteously so. It’s the right man’s burden. It’s good to be god. All virtue is twisted into evil around boardroom tables. I remember being told it was my fault that 6 women tried to kill me, by a gay predator social worker, The worst social predators are shrinks. I remember one telling me he had the power to lock me up and rape me.

    Lawyers are the worst because they’ll do anything for money. Presidential hopeful, Michael Avenatti held a press conference the other day, and only CNN showed up. The room was empty, except for the CNN microphone on the podium. CNN wanted him to be president, he’s now charged with stealing money from wheelchair bound old ladies.

    Physicists are telling us they’ve seen the mathematical mind of god, because they’re bat-shit crazy. I stared at a clock for 10 minutes once high on acid, and I couldn’t tell what time it was, was it 10 to 2, or 2 to 10? Never do math on acid. Priests tell us god talks to them, and not your kid. There was an orphanage in Italy for deaf-dumb kids that was run by pedo priests.

    Virtue and predators fit like a fist in ass. Tight. This virtuous predator is as old as Nanook the Eskimo.

    Watch out where the huskies go and don’t you eat that yellow snow. — Frank Zappa.

    We live in a make believe world of wealth and power based on hard credit and debt. Money is the guiding social construct we made up in 1913. The banks have been fucking us for more than 100 years.

    Socialism is a word beta males have been using to get laid, for over 100 years. There’s 4 billion people who don’t give a fuck about socialism. There are also 4 billion flights per years. 20% of those flights are socialists. It will take 50 years to educate the world about the joyous wonders of socialism. Socialism is the stuff of predatory college campuses. It’s predatory capitalism in socialist drag.

    We have to reduce emissions 50% in 10 years. Virtuous predatory socialists like Bernie Sanders and AOC will not be able to do that — and no — they’re not the first step, unless we got another 100 years. Politics cannot reduce emissions 50% worldwide. Only money can do that. Religion sure as fuck won’t do it, and neither will feminist gayism. When I see nazi rednecks and femi-nazi fags dancing in the streets, then I’ll believe they have a chance.

    As far as I’m concerned, everybody is gay and racist, they just don’t know it yet. Being a gay socialist feminist is just a cop out, an educated privilege used to hide our predatory lust for power. This pedatary lust for power subverts our freedoms. The men with the guns watch the kids go down into the mines of Africa, so we can tweet faux outrage. We are not going to fly to mars on unicorns. Renewable energy is only increasing 1% per decade. Grow the fuck up and get real.

    The only way money can fix everything in 10 years is if we make it 100% private and open. Modern day crowdfunding can do what governments used to do — if there’s no motive to get rich. This is a chicken and egg argument, no egg — no chicken. Why do I so insanely make this argument daily? Because I’m not the crazy one, you are. How else could you read this? 🙂

    Despite all my rage, I’m still just a rat in a cage — Smashing Pumpkins

    #48772
    zerosum
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    Win, Win
    No boots on the ground
    Not involved

    Simple trade, oil money for guns

    • Donald Trump Vetoes Bills Prohibiting Arms Sales To Saudi Arabia (AP)
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    ” …. Tesla is different. it has never generated an annual profit…”

    ” …. Then there is Boeing.
    it has $5 billion more in liabilities than in assets…..
    Boeing is still producing 42 of its 737 jets a month and plans to boost that rate to 57 next year. But if there are further setbacks, Muilenberg said: “We might need to consider possible further rate reductions or other options including a temporary shutdown of the Max production.””

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    • Mnuchin Says Amazon ‘Destroyed’ US Retail Sector (R.)
    dhuuuuu
    Propaganda – Some people want their cake and want to eat it.
    Gov. should stay out of the way of capitalism
    Socialism is bad
    Free army

    Wake up.
    This is the way the system is suppose to work.
    “…. big U.S. technology firms engage in anticompetitive practices …. concerns raised about “search, social media, and some retail services online” – an apparent reference to Google, Amazon, Facebook, and potentially Apple. ….”
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    @ NooBoob
    Correction
    The system has been built by the capitalists who are rich and powerful.
    The social/economic system is operating as it was designed by the elites.

    Apocalypse Now and the Joys of Predatory Socialism
    Capitalism

    #48773
    zerosum
    Participant

    Read something that is not fake

    http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2019/07/its-not-just-news-thats-fake.html

    Despite all the craftsmanship, though, fake is still fake. And today virtually everything is fake, a con designed to trick or distract the marks (us) from the looting, plundering and predation of those running the con for their own self-interest.

    #48775
    anticlimactic
    Participant

    AMAZON

    Amazon famously grew turnover by not bothering to make a profit. [although recently its’ cloud services have done so] Any other retailer is at a disadvantage as they do need to make a profit.

    It would seem that the only way to compete against Amazon is to start a company selling goods at a loss. There are numerous examples of companies which have no prospect of making profits but which gain high valuations, so this should not be an issue. Investors subsidising consumers with no chance of recouping their money is common nowadays.

    #48776
    John Day
    Participant

    Overextended,

    i feel the stress more acutely, which comes in waves these days. I’m sensitive, and I don’t ignore or deny what I feel. I see signs that people all around are stressed, in how they drive, in how they walk on the streets, in how some of them bicycle. You are probably seeing people at work and family showing signs of stress.
    How many are getting better? I don’t see much of that.
    I believe that a big part of the problem is that the post-WW-2 global economy is terminally ill, due to massive untreated parasitism and a bad diet. The good food got eaten long ago. here is the GDP graph from Shadowstats, which uses the “old” measure of GDP, instead of the revision (which looks much better).
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    How does one person adapt to this, whether only feeling it, or feeling and seeing it, as we do?
    The most common form of adaptation to stress in mammals is to work harder and faster at the same things as before, until exhaustion.
    I think we are seeing that in the strident polarized politics, with so many positions being intellectually dishonest in one way or another, but “rallying the troops to the call”.
    Social Justice Warriors vs Climate Denying Racists…
    Everybody has to eat, and that’s where I see problems arising.
    In America, people need to drive places, because that’s what has been built for 75 years, roadways. People need a safe place to live, electricity, clean water, working sewers and some gas for the stove and water heater.
    Rents and taxes are high, so people camp under overpasses and pan-handle.
    Bonded debt, voted for and spent for our lifetimes presents cities and states with high and growing fixed costs, which raise rents on everybody except the urban-hunter-gatherers, who also have a hard and stressful life. Rapes, beatings and robberies make it hard to sleep, say my patients.
    Everything we were promised, and borrowed from, for so long, was predicated upon perpetual growth on what seemed like a really huge world in the 1960s.
    We are approaching the limits, which shows as real economy stagnating (GDP graph above), air and water pollution, necessities of life more expensive, good coal being gone, fracking losing money, and polluting wildly…
    There is the feeling of wanting to push it away, to erect some defenses, to rise above the suffering, because WE deserve better.
    WE are not the culprits.
    I and you still have to adapt ahead of the crunch. WE who have studied this a bit will be called upon to serve those who have not.
    I get to try to serve people daily. Some people fall through all of the cracks, as medical and social welfare bureaucracies put up walls against them. This sounds harsh, and it is. Bureaucracies get squeezed tighter and tighter, but they cannot shrink with shrinking resources, because compliance demands need to be met. Services must be cut. Bureaucrats cannot really attempt much in the way of actual solutions, because experiments draw responsibility and risk. That’s how to lose your job. Nobody can risk that these days.
    Some of us are old enough to remember work teams and personal responsibility and the satisfaction of success being a reward.
    Failed attempts were less threatening, too.
    Currently, i am spending many hours each day in meditation, compassion meditation, with, not “for” one of my patients, who is a massive fountain of anguish, for so many reasons. She is panicked, needs oxygen constantly due to years of smoking, has PTSD and probably bipolar disorder, lives alone and cannot keep care attendants, who don’t get much pay, and have their own problems and disabilities, personality disorders and criminality. EMS and the police usually want to help, but some are bullies, and she is a harsh and personally threatened judge. Meals on Wheels volunteers can’t handle her, so that stopped, but she can’t drive anywhere, has very little money, and no family…
    You may have skipped down a little in self-defense, and that is my point.
    Each of us, and our systems, churches and bureaucracies want to “solve problems”. We feel the resources shrinking and the wolf at the door, even if we don’t see it in our country yet. We don’t have to worry about Iraq, Venezuela, Iran, Greece, Turkey, Ukraine, etc. Right?
    It isn’t going to happen here.
    Except, it is so far along here, already, that denial is really hard to sustain any more.
    It’s not America at work, or middle-class-America under threat. There is no “America” as we grew up knowing.
    The middle class was defined by job security and open participation, even more than income level. there was a comfort to the roles.
    That’s gone, even for the folks between 85% and 95% of income, who are living the externalities of what was “middle class”.
    I’m there. I feel the stress before the snap. When will it snap?
    If everybody reflexively pushes away from the zombie approaching, isn’t the path to a solution embracing the zombie?
    Well, it is hard, thankless and feels endless.
    Also, nobody else even wants to try to understand, so it is lonely and merely tolerated if you do all your other work and stay late, and so on.
    I’m fortunate, and this starts to be whining (How I detest that!).
    We are now used to having information and guidance from the internet. We can look things up, but we can’t look up the solution to going forward with less, in a system predicated on exponential growth forever, which has long ago failed.
    The solution that I see is the same as in a dream, where something inescapable is about to kill you, like hitting the ground after a long fall.
    I wake up, then. Can we wake up together?
    Is “Universal Mind” a spiritual internet to provide us with the answers we need, without parasitic-selfish-interest pop-up ads?

    Just Askin’
    http://www.johndayblog.com/2019/07/strain.html

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