Debt Rattle June 4 2019
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Henri Matisse Still Life with Apples on Pink Cloth 1925 • Repeal the Espionage Act (FFF) • Swedish Court Rejects Request To Detain Julian Assan
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle June 4 2019]I thought maybe my view of this would change through time, but no, I still find it very strange to see all those Brits turn up to protest Trump while their own “leaders” are turning their own country into an utter cesspool. What is it that Trump has done that May and Farage and Boris Johnson haven’t also done, or worse, but at home?
Is it a form of escapism?
I think people feel paralysis and a bad guy is all they can summon to cope with their sense of not being able to impact the ills facing humanity. They instead should stop shopping, start growing their own food and meet the people on their own streets. Then they wouldn’t need the bogey man.
“it can be enforced against anyone in the press”
That’s why this, and many other laws, are completely unconstitutional. But when government wants more power, which is always, judges agree with prosecutors, policemen, congress, and the executive AGAINST YOU, to make anything illegal that’s convient at the time. There are a variety of others, like the 2nd, of course, but the recently exhumed Logan Act comes to mind. Never used since 1799 in the Adams Administration, it intends to keep private citizens (Presently Kerry, Biden, and Obama) from trying to co-negotiate and co-represent the presently-elected U.S. government and thereby hamper all progress from pure self-interested peevishness. As it’s written, however, it prevents all American citizens from talking to anyone who is employed by any foreign government about virtually anything that might be seen as profitable and political. Nevertheless, it’s still hanging around to be used when the government feels like enforcing it against anyone they don’t like, for the once-in-240-years emergency. Or against you, if you happened to exchange words in a cruise ship bar, with an Italian who was once a diplomat.
“The more laws and commands there are, the more thieves and robbers there will be” –Tao te Ching.
But don’t worry: we’ll make more! We make thousands more a year, but that’s nothing: the EU makes ten thousand.
“No man’s life, liberty, or property, are safe while the legislature is in session.” –Gideon J. Tucker
“Swedish Court Rejects Request To Detain Julian Assange (G.)”
Assange breeching the first gauntlet, to be exonerated of his smears in Sweden. Thanks Sweden! Hey, you’re the nation that’s held up for us all to emulate, obeying any oligarch, breaking any law, killing journalists, the people cowering in their rooms rather than do anything about it. Yes, that’s our hero!
Now if only he can live long enough to testify before Congress and hopefully prove his 1st Amendment case. That may, or probably, is the deal DJT is cutting with the Queen right now. The U.K. and MI6 are going to get away with rigging the U.S. election, in return we’ll keep quiet about it and let them save face, while Assange gets to the U.S. to testify about Brennan et co, but also doesn’t counter-attack the murderous British villains who masterminded all this, including Brennan et co. Or so one can propose. There is NO specific evidence and can’t be, or Brennan and the Dark state would kill him if they had to nuke London to do it.
“US Moving Toward Major Antitrust Probe of Tech Giants (R.)”
Ah, it warms to cockles to see these INGSOC maniacs begin to be completely destroyed. At least here. I have no doubt China will have a tyrannical fascist state, and Europe mimicking them, as we see in Article 13, joyfully followed by Macron arresting journalists who mildly embarrass them and barely do their jobs, and Germany, and the U.K, and…
“Tech Stocks Crushed by Potential “Unprecedented, Wide-Ranging Probe” (WS)
As wildly deserved when every 3rd-rate unicorn who never turned a profit is worth more than GM or Ford, and every tech giant out there is worth more than Exxon. Which do you think is more valuable? Heat and light? Or Tweeting?
According to the market, Tweeting, obviously, but that’s what happens when money has no meaning, and there are no free markets worldwide. Ask Powell, that’s his day job.
“Amazon and Facebook Both Want to Read Human Emotions (Kesel)”
The problem is less that they do this, than that – if you know ANYTHING about computers, they will TOTALLY DO IT WRONG. It will break, fail, attack people with facial deformities or ethnic types, it will alert authorities in grade schools (who plan to use this) of the wrong threats, who will then overreact, attack students, and get counter-sued into oblivion. But since every. single. thing. computers do is an utter failure, they’re broken all the time, they lose your money, steal your password, reveal your data, misroute your Square receipts to your ex-husband, falsely book your hotel rooms, crash your plane, break your car and make it burst into flames, clearly we haven’t had enough and the answer is – you guessed it – MORE computers. Because when you hate humanity and all life just. that. much. Any possible way to remove, destroy, annoy, and unemploy humans is a sacred good, even if the world you created for yourself doesn’t work at all, for anyone, computers and cars included, and collapses on itself, bankrupt. Or so my total life experience has demonstrated, at least since Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in 1823.
But don’t worry, just like government, this one time it won’t backfire and it’ll all work out. Trust us.
“Canadian Inquiry Calls Deaths of Indigenous Women ‘Genocide’ (R.)”
Okay, so 1,000 in 30 years? That’s 30 deaths a year in a nation of 30 Million. The murder rate in Canada was 660 last year. That would be 20,000 in 30 years. While noticeably higher than the aggregate population (and meanwhile, they live in some of the toughest neighborhoods) and need remediation, I think what they’ve murdered here is the meaning of the word “genocide.”
“High Likelihood of Human Civilization Coming to an End in 2050 (Nafeez Ahmed)”
Dez guyz. I know what they mean, but it’s hard to believe how small-minded and culturally-oblivious/centrist they are. So…schmarty-guyz, was there no human culture or civilization before the Internet? No cathedrals in the Middle Ages? No aqueducts or instant, ocean-wide galley travel in the Roman era? The Greek era? The Egyptian era? No pyramids? No terra-cotta army in 200BC? No steam-powered robotic automatons and Antikytheria machines in Greece?
Hold my hand and travel further back: No Iliad, no human civilization of men, with kingdoms, laws and rules of hospitality in 1,000BC? No massive writing and astrology in Babylon? We’re now at 3,000 BC.
How about the !Kung bushmen? Not human? Not civilized? Gee, they seem NOT to have invaded 15 nations and killed 2 million people this century, unlike, oh, say, YOUR people. How about the Algonquin, the Mandan — not human, not civilized? They don’t even have roads or ‘houses’, yet their culture would carry on and not even notice the loss of London, New York, Tokyo, and be far better off for it. Wow, the cultural superiority and myopia is breathtaking. If 5 humans exist, there will be human civilization and culture. Because that’s who we are.
What he means is there won’t be Toyotas and Starbucks peppered between unsustainable and temporary suburbias, with useless, invasive, oil-wasting 737s overhead, protected by an army that uses the most oil on the planet and kills the most humans for no reason, all fed by Monsanto that is destroying the most seed species and poisoning the most plants, bugs, and humans while their children are abducted and raped by the ten-thousands by active violence and neglect. THAT’S the civilization he’s worried we will lose. But he’s already lost it, because our “civilization” is ALREADY not civilized. Nor is it any longer “human”. But having no sense of history, culture, biology, or humanity, he can’t tell. Which is pretty much worldwide, no slight to him personally.
“If we are (almost) the only animal with a sense of justice, it is because we also are (almost) the only animal with a sense of cruelty.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Speaking of, clearly Taleb has never seen a cat with a mouse. They have a refined sense of cruelty, just as animals in the wild tear each other apart and eat their fellows, still screaming and breathing. It’s only our human sense of “justice” that makes us NOT be so cruel, and to aspire to something greater and better. A cat won’t. A cougar would as soon fell and eat you as look at you if it can get away with it, as happens in Colorado and the rest of the United States from time to time. You’re not special, but you’ve been so sheltered you think you are. Sheltered by what? The “human civilization” you think we don’t have. We do. And wherever three or more of you meet, he is there.
I absolutely love the Matisse at the top. 1925 is quite late in his career, maybe that’s what it took to make the reds and blues so rich
Finland just vowed to be carbon neutral by 2035. I don’t think they thought that through. But what I find more serious/confusing is that Nafeez Ahmed says human civilization ends by 2050. 15 years after Finland saves the planet. We’re not all reading from the same book
• High Likelihood of Human Civilization Coming to an End in 2050 (Nafeez Ahmed)
Dr. D did a good job of correcting the headline
• High Likelihood of
Human Civilizationour social/economic system Coming to an Endinby 2050 (Nafeez Ahmed)Yesterday is gone.
Tomorrow will not be the same as today.Bugs are dying everywhere.
The surviving bugs are SUPER-BUGSHumans are dying everywhere.
The surviving humans are going to be different from us.You think Humans are special?
Read the truth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gut_flora
Gut flora, or gut microbiota, or gastrointestinal microbiota, is the complex community of microorganisms that live in the digestive tracts of humans and animals, including insects.The microbial composition of the gut microbiota varies across the digestive tract. In the stomach and small intestine, relatively few species of bacteria are generally present.[9][10] The colon, in contrast, contains a densely-populated microbial ecosystem with up to 1012 cells per gram of intestinal content.[9] These bacteria represent between 300 and 1000 different species.[9][10] However, 99% of the bacteria come from about 30 or 40 species.[11] As a consequence of their abundance in the intestine, bacteria also make up to 60% of the dry mass of feces.[12] Fungi, protists, archaea, and viruses are also present in the gut flora, but less is known about their activities
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