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    Odilon Redon The winged man (The fallen angel) 1880   • Pound Worth Just 85 Euro Cents At UK Airports (Ind.) • Boris Johnson Refuses To Meet EU L
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle July 30 2019]

    #48880
    V. Arnold
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    Odilon Redon The winged man (The fallen angel) 1880; can’t hold a candle to Odilon Redon’s charcoal, Fallen angel 1872, IMO.
    An absolute genius use of charcoal and paper; again, in my opinion.
    I came back again and again to see it…

    #48881
    Dr. D
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    Sammy

    #48883
    Dr. D
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    “It would mean the complete breakdown of political relations”

    Oh, stuff and nonsense. Nations are essentially immortal. What’s the EU going to do? Sulk forever? They won’t even be around as they presently exist in 10 years, maybe 3. They are THE major British trading partner, both directions. So VW is going to stop selling cars to their major market and Siemens is going to stop selling Euro-standard electric grid, collapsing the EU in spite? NO. WAY. These guys had a world war that ended in nukes and the invasion of the entire eastern bloc and were still talking to each other just a year or two later. The British royalty had THEIR OWN COUSINS EXECUTED, like what, three times, including exterminating every Romanov who had any remaining claims to Russian gold held in London and they’re still talking. Oh but if one trade deal gets rough, they’re going to erect a 1,000 foot wall in the English (now ‘Le Pond’ aka the non-English) Channel? Baloney. Does anyone read history and engage? Get a grip.

    “Boris Johnson’s new Brexit chief wants to scrap Theresa May’s commitment to protect British workers’ rights, and has suggested Brexit is an opportunity to escape the EU’s “heavy labour market regulation”,

    If I’m not mistaken, that is his political right, for which he will have to get Parliamentary support. Absolutely normal stuff, happens every time there is a leadership change. The real Trojan Horse is to create 100,000 regulations a year, mostly non-British, because you can’t undo them fast enough, or at all. We still have laws about horses in the streets and subsidies for the use of oak barrels. The government makes – intentionally – winners and losers to the highest bidder. That’s the whole point, or rather side-effect of government: they win, we lose. Now everyone who paid their Minister to (illegally) win is going to fight tooth and nail to hold their (illegal, socialist) advantage. Thus there are always MORE laws and never less, and like Tainter’s ever-increasing investment in complex bankrupting infrastructure, government has to collapse before the tired, old, useless, obstructing laws get swept away. Why? Because you won’t let Johnson do it the easy way. Instead Britain loses their world empire one idiotic rule at a time and is still getting ever-smaller and poorer to this very day. Congratulations, you’ve struck gold. More government, more regulation, more helping until we all die of help.

    “Now, there is just suspicion that we’ve reached the limits of borrowing”

    We have, but foreign government have been rejecting our bond auctions for years, and they’re just printing $21 Trillion in the back door “Exchange Stabilization Fund” and buying it. Totally legal, totally legal to hide it under FASAB elimination. That’s why it requires the currency to be rejected, and therefore the SWIFT system to be evaded and destroyed, all of which happens more each day. Doesn’t matter though. We were never going to pay it. Ever. Not since 1978. We were always going to default and we’re going to default now. So “Print all you want! We’ll spend more.” Remember “Welcome to the New World Currency: 2018” Economist, 1989? They had the exit completely planned by then, exactly on date, 40 years, and we’ve just borrowed time the last year, as well-known. The world is converting, just like they have to, just like they should, just like they planned, and if they’re too slow, just like we’ll MAKE them with embargoes and offronts.

    Yes, limits of borrowing. What limits? In time, maybe, but not in price. It could reach $40 or $100 Trillion and probably will, because we’re not leaving this ship until there’s a new one to go to.

    “Fake Cash, Fake Accounting: China Regulators Halt 46 IPOs, Bond Offerings (WS)”

    For a change, the opposite of us. When Arthur Andersen accounted Enron CORRECTLY, Boy Scout Mr. Mueller shut them down and bankrupted them for daring. Later, when S&P attempted the same thing with USTreasury ratings, they were warned and backed off immediately. We don’t do truth here; you could end up locked in an embassy or something.

    “Capital One: Information of Over 100 Million People in US, Canada Hacked (R.)”

    But I’ve got an answer! MORE governments, MORE computers! And definitely, DEFINITELY more monopolies that pay 5% fines on their crimes like Facebook did.

    “India was among the countries whose style of living would use up less than a whole Earth each year if practiced globally, which also has to do with [massive, widespread] poverty”

    I’m sure everyone will go for that! Especially the Greenies. They can, and few even have, attempting living small, and they bailed out of the commune back-to-the-land life and go back to the city in just a year or two, 1,000x faster than the rural folks who grew up with it. But it’s okay, they’re going to stay in San Francisco and command all the poverty they don’t like for themselves onto those non-humans in Flyoverland! Because that’s love and caring! About the planet, and animals ‘natch, not the humans who are beneath animals and must be killed for the love and goodness of all.

    Non-cynical point: Waste = GDP. Non-waste = Non-GDP, and worldwide economic and social collapse, which will immediately include starvation and war. And you ain’t seen nothin’ for environmental destruction until you try (force) that.

    Syr

    This the environment you’re looking for? This is the earth winning and humans losing! Please discuss how you will transition while keeping GDP/Debt in mind.

    “The scariest thing about climate change is what it will make us do to each other.”

    We know absolutely nothing about what happened to the Mound Builders, or to some extent, the Mayan/Incans. Essentially, they walked away from civilization and back into the mountains, much as the Romans did, and are still there today. Would that be bad? Why? Because you’re a bunch of journalists and scholars who prefer and defend the injustices and environmental devastation of cities? Why don’t YOU leave then? An off-grid cotter in Wales is just over the hill. St. Kilda is still there. When the height of the Mound builders and Aztecs were bloodthirsty mass-child-murderers, much as we are today, why would you mourn their complete destruction back to the sense and order of the Shawnee?

    “The archaeological record shows traces of the desperation and bloodshed: skeletons with bound hands, pits full of strangled young women…. It must have been a very exciting place to live.”

    Indeed.

    “desperation and bloodshed that almost always accompany great upheavals”

    Except the Aztecs and several meso-Americans did this all day long without any upheaval. Europe did this just 70 years ago without any climate change, actually for no plausible reason at all. The Zeta cartel is doing this today just for business profits. Care to modify your premises?

    “This shift was likely associated with shifting temperature patterns in the ocean that affected the jet stream, pulling cool air down from the Arctic and displacing rainfall patterns.”

    The guys who can’t make an accurate climate model given 30 years and 1,000 supercomputers claim to know how the jet stream moved in 1400. They don’t know what the jet stream will do next week. You know what really destroyed the Ohio? Hubris. And unfounded belief in their own era’s priests of science. Why not? Isn’t that what kills all cultures?

    P.S., if they hadn’t noticed, the Ohio is a R I V E R, one of the largest in the United States, and is a place that rains all the time on the finest farmland on earth. Dry in Ohio would be comfortably wet anywhere else. Other places worldwide indeed chose to irrigate, which was another option, so I’m going to be skeptical of this essentially unfounded claim for which we have virtually no evidence, just like everything else about the Mound Builders. How about this: The Mound priests of Mound science and the Mound News Network were completely discredited and Jeffrey Mound was found to have been killing thousands of women and children with their hands bound all protected and participated in by the Mound Ruling Class. The people tied them to trees and walked away, lighting a match and let the civilization collapse behind them as all it deserved, going back to living in huts and finally becoming “civilized”: civil, orderly, non-murdering men. Just men without high-rises and digital watches. Why not? About as much evidence for my story as for theirs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mound_Builders

    “The various cultures collectively termed “Mound Builders” were inhabitants of North America who, during a 5,000-year period…” AYFKM. 5,000 years and 2,000 miles apart and we call them the same people? Yes, those city-building Babylonian peoples from Copenhagen… In addition, the plausible culture and habits of mound building still existed in 1600 when the Spanish visited. They were still there, still doing the same thing. So when did they collapse, exactly? They’re still here today.

    #48885
    zerosum
    Participant

    Every artists who did a portrait of their versions of angels had a hard time with portraying sexuality.

    #48886
    zerosum
    Participant

    http://www.spaceweather.com/

    HOLES IN THE SUN’S ATMOSPHERE: Earth is about to be strobed by three streams of solar wind–each flowing from a hole the sun’s atmosphere. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory photographed the gaseous spigots on July 29th:

    These are “coronal holes”–places where the sun’s magnetic field peels back and allows solar wind to escape. Coronal holes look dark in extreme ultraviolet images of the sun because glowing-hot plasma normally contained there is missing.
    The first of the streams is expected to arrive on Aug 1st, followed by two more in rapid succession on Aug. 4th. Polar geomagnetic unrest and possibly some minor magnetic storms are possible on those dates. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras, especially in the southern hemisphere where winter darkness favors visibility.

    #48887

    I, for one, appreciate Dr. D.’s Red Bull ads.

    They should hire him.

    #48888

    No. 1 story on Zero Hedge is Paul Joseph Watson’s “Epstein In Danger Of Being Murdered By “Powerful People” Before His Trial”. And I’m thinking: didn’t I already write that almost two weeks ago? So what’s newsworthy about it? A victim’s lawyer saying it? Anybody at all could have said it from at least the moment he was arrested. So should I write the same story again, different words, slightly different angle? See, I think not. But it would be click bait…

    #48891
    John Day
    Participant

    http://www.johndayblog.com/2019/07/democrats-bust-loose.html
    I don’t have much for you. I think Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders respect each other and will be respectful, not divisive. Buttigieg may try to come up with something new. He’s pretty much a Ken Doll. Beto is an expired Ken Doll. Marianne Williamson is described in the second story as a potential left-wing Trump. I like that. I looked at about 15 minutes of her candidacy announcement. Not bad at all, but I don’t have a lot of time for videos. Anyway, I’m rooting for Williamson, who has a lot of snap in front of crowds, and has had the ability to impress and mentor a lot of rich, smart people, to do the Trump-of-Love thing and shake up the proceedings tonight.

    The line-up”
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2019/jul/30/democratic-debates-2019-live-news-tonight-bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren-buttigieg-o-rourke-latest

    Closer zoom on Williamson and Love candidacy.
    https://www.theguardian.com/global/2019/jul/30/marianne-williamson-can-love-beat-trump-in-the-2020-presidential-elections

    Caitlin Johnstone took a closer look at Williamson, since anybody who gets that much snide press must be worth hearing out.

    Eight Thoughts On Marianne Williamson

    Here is her announcement of candidacy for the presidency, all 43 minutes, of which the first 15 is ok by me,

    #48894
    John Day
    Participant

    OK, the last 16 minutes or so is what’s happenin’. It’s different. It’s disruptive of the politicl model, maybe even more than Trump. There is stuff that rubs me wrong, but the message of moral change being the core, and jumping past the current paradigms, as has been done several times in American history, and measuring up to our moral calling, is compelling. She goes populist demagogue in the last 10 minutes, and her voice cracks, and she just uses that to her advantage. She calls the baby boomers to their moment in history. Right-on! She’s got guts.
    I’d like to see her debate Kamala Harris, who is very tough, but shallower.

    #48895
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    John Day
    I listened to it; all of it…
    About half way through, Obama came to mind; my contempt for that SOB knows no bounds. And yes; that’s how bloody cynical I’ve become…
    The most I can muster at this point is: we’ll see…………
    Thanks for the video…

    #48903
    democritus
    Participant

    It isn’t normal to quote the exchange rate at an airport. But this is the
    Independent, a pro-remain campaign newsletter for the gullible and fearful.

    “Brussels must stand up for its member state, Ireland.”. Actually the UK is a
    member state too. And article 50 is EU law. Who does the EU represent? Well
    bankers, corporations, commissioners. I can’t think of anyone else.

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