Debt Rattle May 9 2019
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James Ensor The frightful musicians 1891 • How Julian Assange Changed Journalism (Stefania Maurizi) • Pamela Anderson’s Assange Blanket Conceal
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle May 9 2019]James Ensor The frightful musicians 1891
Really? I love it…
What an incredible painting, especially given its time in the continuum…
Foreshadows much in music’s future…“How Julian Assange Changed Journalism (Stefania Maurizi)”
I disagree. He changed journalism by being a journalist? Let’s not remove the bar altogether.
“nothing to make the government understand how terrible his treatment was”
Oh no. They definitely understood how horrible it was. But they LOVE how horrible it is. Probably have a hor-gasm every time they think about it, and sleep with a happy, baby smile about it at night. Ah, more journalists who believe and love government! Just before they get put in solitary for contempt for the rest of their lives for mildly embarrassing the third son of a second Senator.
…And this is why you LIMIT government. “Government is fire. It is force,” As Washington said, it is VIOLENCE. And when you have a psychopath roaming the earth killing people, like government does, you want him on a very short chain, and pointed only at your enemies. LIMITED GOVERNMENT. That is what it means. With OPEN PROCESS, so we can tell what this maniac is up to.
“Pamela Anderson’s Assange Blanket Conceals the Truth of His Detention (G.)”
Article, because, “The Guardian”. I have no words for how stupid and offensive this is. But I suppose it’s less bad than last time when they completely fabricated a story about him out of whole cloth, via his CIA enemies in Ecuador – wow, what idiotic clowns! Totally implausible, totally disprovable! — and weren’t discredited then either. Because apparently in Britain, they believe anything you post if it’s made of words.
“The talks were so bad that the real surprise is that it took Trump until Sunday to blow up,” the source said.”
Yeah, that became a strange quote when we found out the Chinese – true to all character – are patient and trying to run out the clock by getting up one morning and reversing two years of grueling negotiations. Apparently Trump figured they would pull this, and as the Chinese economy is in very serious trouble right now – what have they, added $20T in debt to keep it floating the last few years? – dropped the tariffs on them that he always wanted to put on in the first place. Why? Because the financial system is going down and we need domestic production for national security. …Oh and a distant second to return jobs to flyoverland before the people burn down S.F. and D.C. So okey-dokey! If they crack they may have to devalue their currency, they can’t get the trade traffic of belt-and-road online fast enough, which is what they’re stalling for.
““he was misled about how easy it would be to replace the socialist strongman,”
Golly gee, Batman, who could see THAT coming? Except me and everyone. So like 100% of the time, the neocons prove themselves miserable failures who really want some foreplay for their real goal: war. And with Trump tied up vs the CIA/DNC right now, he can’t fight both fronts. But that doesn’t mean we have the resources to start a 100,000 man invasion either. And without THAT, the neocon’s failure speaks for itself.
What’s the upshot? Well, looks like Maduro is pushed into Putin’s arms, and Trump and Putin can cut a deal to sort this out, without a war, without a crisis, while discrediting the CIA again and getting them off his back.(just like Syria, including all the shrieking) I mean, they had their chance, right? So who’s fault is it if we cut a deal, make money, and release the country back to Maduro and respect Venezuelan sovereignty now? We’ll see.
“Trump Predicts Dem Investigation Will Drive Him To 2020 Win (Hill)”
Probably true, especially with the counter-investigation timed to go smack into the voting booths. We warned them 1,000 times this was not a winning hand, not to put all your eggs in one basket, and to get a real candidate and real policy like jobs and Medicare for all. Nope. RussiaRussiaRussia. Even now, while Trump is attacking Russia directly, as well as indirectly in Venezuela and Iran. No one notices that Trump would be the #worst Putin puppet evah. #ComeBack.
I did realize last night they are trying to synthesize a Trump campaign. Biden is having health issues, constantly slurring, unable to access his speech center. –No slight to him, he’s an old man! With 5 heart attacks! But why have him out there? Pretend in fake polls he’s stronger than he is? Because they’re running the Buttigeig/Beto “populist upstart” who will galvanize the people against the DNC establishment. …Except they ARE the establishment, it’s painted on. Buttigeig is from Naval Intelligence, the core of the Deep State, and made his bones stealing and bulldozing houses of black and poor folks back in South Bend…to build a casino! Awesome! And get this, this is how you really know – he then charged them for the bulldozing service! Hahahahaha! Does that say ‘man of the people’, or what?
To mimic the reality they think will work, they will then release the best of the PR-generated upstarts, and Biden will go off into the wings. Ta da! You get both the Progressive side, AND the corporate Democrats on one page again. …Except where it’s all made-up, it’s all lies, and people aren’t in the mood right now.
“Democrats Vote to Hold Attorney General Barr in Contempt of Congress (G.)”
This was interesting since Barr was required to release NOTHING to Congress.(Oddly) That was a sheer courtesy. And they don’t care about the report, only removing a prosecutor of their crimes, (hey, isn’t that obstruction??) because the unredacted Mueller report has been available for weeks in a secure room, and no one has gone to read it. They either don’t care what it says, or worse they already know what it says, since Mueller leaked it all along. But whatever, it’s their right, let’s see how it goes.
Meanwhile, jobs for WI, MI, and PA? Medicare for all? Nope. No time for that!
“I kept feeling that the force of antagonism was us – we’re the bad guy. Because humans just are always looking out for themselves.”Yet somehow, for the 20,000 years before centralization. In the places like Native America or !Kung busmen who are not centralized, somehow! Humans still don’t do this. Never, never do this. Because it’s NOT in our nature. We’re lazy, and that’s a GOOD thing. It takes a violent slavemaster to MAKE us behave this way, whipping tirelessly day and night. Who is that slavemaster? Me? You? Nope.
“Only a Third of World’s Great Rivers Remain Free Flowing (G.)”
Don’t worry, the dams in the Missouri are all being wiped out. Nature wins. Yet somwhow we’re mad abouu this? When a bad thing happens, we’re mad, and when the opposite happens we’re mad. We just like being mad and complaining.
“Proposal to Spend 25% of EU Budget on Climate Change (BBC)”
I don’t know what more you could do to say “corruption” and “nepotism.” 25% of ALL things, directly to my friends? Who will use them to pay off cronies and buy votes? All legal? Wow. Solyndra got nothin’ on you.
I disagree. He changed journalism by being a journalist? Let’s not remove the bar altogether.
I disagree with your disagreement. Assange set up the model for sharing leaks anonymously and digitally, “collaborative media partnership” as she calls it. Not doing journalism in and by itself, but building infrastructure. Non-journalists could just as easily have done this, if they’d be smart enough. They likely hate him more for setting up this infrastructure that they’re not sophisticated enough to even touch, than for the leaks themselves. It’s about what could yet be revealed more than what already has been.
As for China, their problem is nobody wants the yuan, their no. 1 problem right now. That is also a huge driver behind the Belt and Road, because that forces countries to accept at least some of it, or, alternatively, to pay China coveted USD for its services, materials and labor. They export oversupply and get paid in what they most desire, by dozens of countries, all the while gathering and squeezing more debtors under their cloak. It’s the exact model Don Fanucci uses in the Godfather II: “Wet My Beak.”
The frightful musicians 1891
Chicken coming home to roost
Black swan on the horizon
Don’t try to hold your breath until you turn blue in the face.
USA – China trade deal is going to take longer to happen and to take effect. (NAFTA is still here.)
American companies are spending millions in an effort to get the new NAFTA ratifiedThe trilateral trade agreement is currently lacking the requisite amount of support from Democrats for it to be put to a vote in the U.S. Congress
http://www.johndayblog.com/2019/05/historical-context.html
(“Watch out for false-flag attack by Israeli submarine on US ship to justify attack on Iran”, sez I.)
But in what appears to be an attempt to show Tehran who’s boss, and that it’s not bluffing, Washington committed to another threatening display of force. Reuters reports that the USS Abraham Lincoln, which had been dispatched to the Mediterranean last week amid worsening tensions with Iran, has passed through the Suez Canal, the first stop in what appears to be a journey into Iranian waters…
Last night, Trump issued a statement affirming that the relationship with Iran is “broken beyond repair” and placed new sanctions on Iran’s industrial metals sector.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-09/aircraft-carrier-abraham-lincoln-passes-through-suez-canal-route-iran-tensions-soarAnn Arbor (Informed Comment) – US secretary of state Mike Pompeo made a surprise four-hour visit to Baghdad on Tuesday in connection to the panic he is trying to trump up, along with US national security adviser and Sheldon Adelson plant John Bolton about Iran supposedly planning to attack US troops in the Middle East.
For his part, Iraqi prime minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said in remarks to the press that Iraq will undertake to ensure the safety of the some 5,000 US troops in Iraq, who are helping the Iraqi army mop up ISIL remnants.
At the same time, Abdul Mahdi insisted that Iraq would not participate in any economic boycott of any country, which is to say that he declined to cooperate with the Trump administration’s attempts to squeeze Iran.
Iraqi sources said after the visit was over that Bolton offered to give Iraq a temporary waiver with regard to its trade ties with Iran. He may as well, since he is unlikely to get much cooperation from Shiite-ruled Iraq in the blockade on Iran.
https://www.juancole.com/2019/05/baghdad-pressure-declines.html“Deal of the Century” gets leaked to Israeli newspaper. It is total capitulation by Palestinians, nothing else. Palestinians have nothing to gain through agreeing to this.
“New Palestine” would not be allowed to form an army but could maintain a police force. Instead, a defence agreement will be signed between Israel and the “New Palestine” in which Israel would defend the new state from any foreign attacks.
Upon signing the agreement, Hamas will hand over all its weapons to Egypt. The movement’s leaders would be compensated and paid salaries by Arab states while a government is established.
Elections are expected to be held within one year of the establishment of the “New Palestine” state.Helen has this historical comparison:
It’s worth looking at what triggered the Pearl Harbor attack, because it is happening again. When Japan refused to pull its forces out of China, the US imposed an oil embargo on Japan, cutting the nation off from 80 percent of its oil supply and leaving it no choice but to seek fuel elsewhere. The closest oil was in then-Dutch Indonesia, but US-controlled Philippines physically barred the way. The US had thus almost guaranteed Japan would have to attack the US, allowing Washington to enter the war with the American people’s approval in order to fight Germany, whom Roosevelt perceived as the “real” enemy.
The US has imposed the strictest sanctions on Iran yet, repealing the last waivers last week in the hope of forcing the country into a similarly suicidal act. Iran has threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz if it is blocked from using the waterway, which sees 20 percent of the world’s oil traffic. US officials have deemed such a move “unacceptable,” suggesting massive retaliation would follow, and a US carrier strike group is on its way to the region, supposedly acting on a “credible threat” that Iran plans to target US interests. Regardless of who fires the first shot – and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif has warned Trump a false flag attack is extremely likely – war with Iran would be the result, and Americans would be cheering it on. The question is not if, but when.
War with Iran wouldn’t benefit the US at all – a 2002 Pentagon wargame simulation has even indicated the US would lose. But Iran is the strongest enemy of Israel left standing, and Trump’s inner circle – like the neocons at PNAC (whose members included John Bolton) – has made it clear where his priorities lie. Just as laying waste to Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Yemen only created an endless supply of enemies for the US while crossing Israel’s regional rivals off the list, attempting to destroy Iran will have devastating repercussions for the US while ensuring no one is left to challenge Israel’s regional dominance. It is no coincidence that the intel suggesting Iran was plotting an attack on American targets in the Middle East – the tip that triggered the deployment of the carrier strike group Abraham Lincoln to the region last month – came from the Mossad, the Israeli intel agency whose motto is “by deception, thou shalt do war.” Israel has been lying about Iran’s ambitions for decades.
http://helenofdestroy.com/index.php/90-when-we-were-the-good-guys-us-keeps-invoking-wwii-to-validate-new-warsDo the rulers/eliites of USA hold grudges against Iran?
Iranian Revolution 1979
The “Canadian Caper”
The Iran–Iraq War was an armed conflict between Iran and Iraq, beginning on 22 September 1980In the mid 70’s I worked on a salmon troller (not trawler) in the North Pacific.
We could already see the negative effects of the hatchery salmon, overseen by the Fish and Wildlife department.
Smaller fish returning years early, including females with eggs.
That was bad enough; now f*#king salmon farms?
With millions of escaped fish interbreeding with wild stock it is indeed the end of the species.
Fresh, wild, salmon are the most delicious fish in the sea and one of the very best for human health.
Actually, that should have been written in the past tense…
I always refuse farmed salmon; always have; tasted, but never eaten, many years ago…John Day
Unlike most Americans (North), I’m very familiar with the true antecedents of the war against Japan.
This has been going on even prior to the false flag sinking of the Maine in Havana harbor.
As Henry Ford aid; “History is bunk.”
I would only qualify that by adding, most history.
I’m reading a very excellent book by Joseph Heller (of Catch 22 fame) which is (so far) ripping history as we mostly know it; not really at all.
That is a scary factoid given media’s constant referral to history; 99% of which is false or inaccurate.
There is virtually no ground to stand upon when it comes to knowledge; every human is purely on their own; no wonder so many are floundering in stormy waters…
Anyhoo, thanks for the post…
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