Debt Rattle June 13 2020
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Gustave Doré Dream of the Eagle (Dante’s Purgatory) 1868 • 32 Yemen Doctors Die Of Coronavirus (MEM) • Italian Prosecutors Question PM Conte Fo
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle June 13 2020]Gustave Doré Dream of the Eagle (Dante’s Purgatory) 1868
A stunning engraving; pity the poor soul…and pray; it’s not what awaits us…………
There are many factors involved in the current spate of protests and statue-topplings, but I perceive all of them as a subset of the phenomenon known as anomie. While some people accuse each other of being racists or snowflakes or empire enablers or empire destroyers or… the anomie grows because the foundation that supported social cohesion has evaporated.
Anyone remember John Brown, a key figure in the events precipitating the USA’s infamous Civil War of 1860-65? Anomie.
We feel compelled first to destroy the old, especially because it represents perceived wrongs and dysfunctionalities, before building anew.
I’d already picked the song below for my obligatory song choice before mentioning John Brown. No conscious association between the two. Subconscious cogitation rules. Our brains have more synaptic connections than one could count in a lifetime, but the bit of attention we call ‘conscious thought’ commands, at most per current measurements, a bandwidth of about 50 bits.
The guy you think you are is a moron. The thing that is you is a genius but will have little to do with that moron at the wheel. Who let him drive anyway?
“We’re Not In Kansas”
What did you learn in school today
Did you learn to run when the teachers pray
Did they teach you enough to know the state you’re in
Not enough to get out, not enough to winWhat did you learn at home today
Did you learn to hate in the proper way
Did your liberated parents patronize your friends
Cos they had enough money cos they had the right skinI sat me down and wondered, what kind of place this really is
Well maybe it’s in the parks, maybe it’s in the stores
I know if we’re being honest, it’s in the people
But they’re all caught up in the traffic
Listening to the weatherWell dog, I know we’re not in Kansas — the sky’s all colored wrong
I know we’re not in Kansas — the days are all too long
I sure don’t understand this — that’s what you’re howling for
I know we’re not in Kansas, Kansas anymoreWhat did you learn in your job today
Did you learn to sleep while the boss is away
Did you shut your mouth when he called you down
Cos there’s not much work in that kind of townI wander around thinking, well what kind of place is this
Where they say hey well what did you do in the war
And I ask well hey man well what did you do with the peace
Well we built these real safe weapons, so we could sleep with easeWell dog, I know we’re not in Kansas—the sky’s all colored wrong
I know we’re not in Kansas — the days are all too long
I sure don’t understand this — that’s what you’re howling for
I know we’re not in Kansas, Kansas anymoreWell what kind of place is this
On the wrong side of the rainbow where the twisters never come
And they tore up all the yellow bricks and they sold them to Japan
And still the advertisers tell you, hey, there’s no place like homeWell dog, I know we’re not in Kansas — the sky’s all colored wrong
I know we’re not in Kansas — the days are all too long
I sure don’t understand this — that’s what you’re howling for
I know we’re not in Kansas, Kansas anymoreP.S. THe drummer-for-hire in this video is amazing. Lord of Thunder
I used to sit in my grandparents’ attic looking at the engravings in the Divine Comedy. Dore’s stuff was pretty heavy for a little kid. You have a trove of apt illustrations at your fingertips, Ilargi. Some of them are mighty grim.
I wonder if he has any statues and if they’ve been toppled:
Today, I did a very important chore.
I sprayed the aphids with soapy water to maximize my garden crop.Plea Bargaining
At their core, is a statement by the defendant that they enter the plea “knowingly, voluntarily, and intelligently”, and it is not “forced threatened or coerced in any way”. The court admits coercion is possible by requiring an answer to a coercion question, but it defies reason that a coerced defendant ever admit coercion! That is the purpose of coercion. So it amounts to an institutionalized catch 22, that now threatens General Flynn.
I note that Judge Sullivan’s representative argues:“The Government has engaged in highly irregular conduct to benefit a political ally of the President.”
Irregular conduct, yes, but we know by recent evidentiary releases, that it was the former investigators and prosecutors who committed irregular conduct. And it did not benefit the President. Dropping charges is an act of correcting an injustice.
Instead, Judge Sullivan is maliciously exploits the fallacies of Plea Bargaining(pg 73) by barking up the wrong tree in an act of blatant partiality. One would hope that Sullivan dismisses the case, the misconduct of the former prosecutors is fully explored, and law enacting Plea Bargaining fully rescinded for being fundamentally flawed.Kimo:
It is as plain as daylight that the trial of General Flynn is 100% political.
The courts will continue to try General Flynn as long as there is political runway to continue to do so.
The trial of General Flynn will not stop until the courts run out of political runway.
Once the courts run out of political runway to try General Flynn, then, and only then, will the courts legally end the political trial of General Flynn.
For the courts, the trial of General Flynn has not yet run out of useful political runway.
Now is not the time for the courts to legally end the political trial of General Flynn.
The trial of General Flynn, by the courts, will continue until General Flynn is no longer politically useful.
If Joe Biden gets elected, he will become America’s first virtual President!
Until recently, I didn’t know being virtual, meant living in your basement!
And the only way to leave your basement, is virtually!
For the DNC, the only thing that is important is Hillary’s Life Matters!
Hillary still owns the DNC!
After all, it is still Hillary’s turn.
I suspect Hillary holds Joe Biden’s basement door keys!
So Miss Lindsey Graham is going to finally hold a Senate inquiry!
She is a specialist in never getting to the bottom of anything she investigates!
Oh, look there is a squirrel over there!
The deep state can rest easy, now that Miss Lindsey is on the job!
I find it amusing that the WHO and CDC keep warning about a second wave of Covid-19 if people don’t heed their current warnings!
I seriously doubt anybody is paying any attention to these two organizations anymore.
When the real wolf appeared, they did not cry wolf.
It was politically inconvenient for them, at the time.
Soon, China will conveniently fall off all of the world’s virus charts!
Bosco:
It is amazing how many are not in Kansas!
Alice!
Blowing in the wind!I wonder if Kansas’s greatest export, like Saskatchewan, is not wheat, but people!
I’ve spent all day catching up from working all day Friday, again. http://www.johndayblog.com/2020/06/wallowing-in-outrage.html
A former advisor to Steve Jobs warns that Facebook is “destroying the very fabric of human relationships” by making its users become addicted to anger.
During a question and answer session at the 2020 CogX conference, Joanna Hoffman was asked about the cult of leadership within Silicon Valley.
“As I look at Facebook, for example, I keep thinking are they really that ignorant or is this motivated by something … darker than what appears?” she said.
Hoffman went on to accuse Facebook of “destroying the very fabric of democracy, destroying the very fabric of human relationships and peddling in an addictive drug called anger.”
“You know it’s just like tobacco, it’s no different than the opioids,” she added. “We know anger is addictive, we know we can attract people to our platform and get engagement if we get them pissed off enough. So therefore what, we should capitalize on that each and every time?”Former Advisor to Steve Jobs Says Facebook is “Destroying the Very Fabric of Human Relationships”
Layer after layer of proof-of-origin exists in the genetic code of SARS-CoV-2. It’s a lab creation.
Numerous “gain of function” mechanisms give this virus enhanced infectivity.
COVID-19 virus has properties that have never been found in nature before
https://www.wionews.com/opinions-blogs/covid-19-virus-has-properties-that-have-never-been-found-in-nature-before-304229Will protests spread the coronavirus more than beach parties? Bars are still more effective, I suspect.
Trevor Bedford, a researcher at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, publicly provided his rough estimate on the impact of protests. In a series of tweets, Bedford said he expects the protests to increase the number of infections in the United States by 3 percent to 6 percent per day. At this point in the pandemic, that would likely mean adding more than 10, but less than 100, deaths per day, he estimated.
Complicating matters is the fact that the unique elements of protests—shouting, tear gas, pepper spray, and closely packed jails—will also increase transmission potential, disease modelers say. COVID-19 disproportionately affects people of color.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/ethics/will-protests-increase-spread-covid19-coronavirusDennis Meadows, an original Author of The Limits To Growth, points out that pandemics happen regularly, but the economic system growing exponentially continues to impair resilience of natural support systems (like oceans, forests, soil microbes and our bodies) as resource depletion requires higher production efficiencies. Higher efficiency systems are inherently more fragile to shocks.
Limits to Growth and the COVID-19 epidemicCoronavirus – How A German City Proved That Wearing Masks Works (Note: Germans , YMMV)
On April 6 the German city of Jena with a population of 110,000 people ordered everyone to wear a mask in all publicsettings. The announcement of the order was made a week earlier and was followed by a local awareness campaign – “Jena wears mask!”
No other city in Germany did this at the time. The states of Germany only ordered mandatory mask wearing between April 22 and 26.
For 20 days Jena was different than the rest of the country but experienced the same epidemic. That made it possible to test the effect the mask order had on the number of new cases in Jena...
At the beginning of the pandemic in Germany the synthetic city and Jena had similar developments. But ten days after the announcement of the order and four days after its mandatory implementation the case numbers in Jena dropped away from those of the comparison city.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2020/06/coronavirus-how-a-german-city-proved-that-wearing-masks-works.html#moretroops go home
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/us-withdrew-half-of-its-forces-from-iraq/
US withdrew half of its forces from Iraq
By News Desk -2020-06-12
It is noteworthy to mention that the Iraqi Council of Representatives had voted in January in an extraordinary session in the presence of Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, on a decision obliging the government to work to end the request for assistance submitted to the international coalition led by Washington and end any presence of foreign forces on Iraqi soil.John Day:
Sadly, the WHO, the CDC, and the top Canadian health officials all said together “face masks do not work”!
We know face masks work!
My mask protects you! Your mask protests me!
Sadly, I can only say about 15% of Toronto’s people are currently wearing masks.
The USA must stop making life miserable.
BEIRUT, LEBANON (6:45 P.M.) – On Saturday, more than two thousand oil tanks coming from the Syrian coast, arrived in Al-Qamishli to help the citizens in northeastern Syria.
According to reports, the oil tankers left the Baniyas Refinery in the Tartous Governorate and made their way to the city of Al-Qamishli in the northern part of the Al-Hasakah Governorate.
Zerosum:
Funny that we don’t hear much about Syria these days.
The media says BLM riots are more important.
Not fiction
Two white cop disturb a sleeping black man in his car.
A tussle begins outside the car.Black man wins tussle, takes taser out of white cops hand, (to avoid being tasered), that he was trying to use on him while other cop was trying to hold him down.
Black man decides to run away, to avoid being tasered and is being chased by two white cops.
Black man fires taser backward while running. He misses. The taser is out of range and now unloaded and leaving the running black man with a useless taser.
One white man takes his gun out of his holster, load a shell into firing position, removes safety, while running, aims and fire at black man with useless taser.
Black man is killed.
White cops destroy scene of shooting. Pocket shell casing.Zerosum:
It is very interesting to watch the battle or war, going on between President Trump and the Pentagon.
Trump wants to bring troops home.
The Pentagon does not! Bad for industrial military complex business!
Trump has tried to redefine US interests as economic.
The Pentagon has openly resisted this shift because it reduces the importance of their role.
So, far the Pentagon and the industrial military complex has won most of these battles.
Today they merely inform President Trump “after” they have bombed or droned someone.
Obama did a good job of politicizing the military for the deep state.
It must feel very reassuring as Commander in Chief to tell the military to jump and then to have them tell you “No”! You jump instead!
Not fiction
One white man takes his gun out of his holster, load a shell into firing position, removes safety, while running, aims and fire at black man with useless taser.Zero, just fyi, the police carry their sidearm in what is called “cocked and locked”mode; the shell is already chambered. Safety off (if any) on the draw and fire…
“cocked and locked”mode
Didn’t know. I assumed that everyone followed safe gun practice.
Also, the video shows that after the black man stood up with the taser in his hand, the other cop aimed his taser and the black man decided to turn and run rather than raise his taser and have a shoot out. The cop fired and the wire is visible. The taser must have failed to discharge because we can see both of them running and see the reflection off the wires.
Near the red car, we see the black man fire backward and the white cop move his taser to his left hand and draw his gun with his right hand.
V. Arnold, you posted a year or two ago your birthday. I turned 64 on the 12th, so I remembered that I am almost exactly ten years your junior.
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