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    Dorothea Lange Negro woman carrying shoes home from church Mississippi Delta July 1936   • Bolivian President Morales Announces His Resignation (
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    #51211
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    Dorothea Lange Negro woman carrying shoes home from church Mississippi Delta July 1936

    Poignant, to say the least…
    But probably common given the time and place…

    The Elk shot is one in a million…

    #51213

    In Baron Munchhausen, there is a deer with a tree growing out of its head.

    #51214
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Yes, if you had those heels you definitely wouldn’t want to walk home. See her stockings as well. Is that Dorothy’s car? She left the door open.

    “The OAS has seen its opening and gone for it.”

    You have to cut off the money. Only honest money can restrain this.

    And our old friend, their hero, “’It’s not the people who vote that count, it’s the people who count the votes.” –Uncle Joe. The other one.

    “I resign so that Mesa and Camacho do not continue to persecute, kidnap and mistreat my ministers”

    I’m sorry, so you think if you SURRENDER they’re going to be just, honest, and non-violent? You country will improve when kidnappers and felons are in charge instead of you? Ah, but surrendering is nice. Fighting is mean.

    “Kelly and Tillerson confided in me that when they resisted the president, they weren’t being insubordinate, they were trying to save the country,” Haley wrote, according to the Post.”

    This is common in all administrations, all nations, all bureaucracies. However, the question is how much, how far? Because as I say each day: it is still wrong. We elected one guy to be the boss, not the other ones. Now his own Cabinet is HIS choice, much more latitude than the unelected Deep State, but still. Sounds like he should fire them. Oh wait: he did. Next question: why isn’t Haley lying? Not about Rex and Kelly, but about herself and everything else? She’s an adult; she has a mouth. She’s laid eyes on Washington D.C. To me that’s cause to believe she’s lying.

    By the way, you notice how “Secretary of State” Kushner, like the pals of “Anonymous”, was kept running around like a moron getting nothing done, while keeping the Israeli lobby off his back.

    “Pelosi is less of a convert than a collaborator in the House impeachment effort”

    From yesterday, pre-trial taints the prospective real trial. Also Pelosi wants to rig the 2020 election, not do her duty under the law to follow the procedure of law. So there’s no real way for us to know which. Maybe she’s doing one and tells each side she’s doing the other, and when it doesn’t work, she’ll still have option two and three available. I mean, isn’t that what politicians, or all of us, do? Keep some moves in play?

    I don’t know what this writer would be suggesting otherwise. That Pelosi is a secret Republican and wants Trump to win and then arrest her? No, that she wants him wounded to lose the election because there’s no plausible impeachment makes the most sense. In other words: political election tampering. Unfortunately, it’s technically legal, as Hamilton feared.

    “Democratic concerns that Trump leveraged $400 million in military aid to pressure Zelensky to publicly open an investigation”

    Because it’s written it’s a lie, or in this case framing. Physically, that sentence is true. However, the reporter knows that the “concerns” Democrats have are false. Trump cannot leverage a fact Ukraine is unaware of, it would be legal if he did, and Ukraine had long since already opened that investigation on their own, back in March.

    Is it crappy? Sure. But if you don’t want to be investigated don’t create overwhelming probable cause. Like getting your son, who doesn’t know Russian, Ukrainian, gas, or European law into a $50,000/mo. job a day after you take over, then brag on camera about having his investigator removed. I can’t help you if you do things like that: it’s a red flag factory. Unless, as is argued here, not only can we not investigate ANY candidate, so they may rape and pillage at will, but any FAMILY of any candidate, ANYWHERE in the world, leaving God-knows-how-many hundreds, thousands of Congressional and other attaches open roaming felons with international diplomatic immunity.

    But what am I saying? As insiders they all have immunity anyway, you’re just not supposed to ADMIT it.
    Now who doesn’t have immunity? The policemen, the whistleblowers and the reporters. In They’re jailed and removed at will. #OppositeLand indeed.

    “police have started shooting protesters with live ammo, so let’s talk stocks.”

    Or as we call it here in America: Monday. Probably another effective mass shooting in another weekend in Chicago, Baltimore. No press. No one cares. But wait: I thought their skin color? You care so, so much! Nope. Not if you’re in THOSE districts. It would make our-side-right-or-wrong look bad. Shhh. Maybe they’re not really dead, just sleepy. …Just kidding, I don’t give a #$%& if they’re dead in my district. They’ve been overseeing their constant deaths by the thousands since 1960 and they ain’t gonna stop now for no Republicans.

    Just like Jo Swinson laughed and said she didn’t give a #$@& about men dying in her district. Still, that’s an improvement over Macron: he’s shooting them himself.

    Can we all just be citizens equally under the law? With rules and due process? You know, like we said in 1215?

    Not if everyone lays down and surrenders. Speak up. #You’reNext.

    #51215
    zerosum
    Participant

    What happens when nobody follows the order, “CHARGE”

    What happens when nobody follows the order, “VOTE”

    A COMMAND NEEDS FOLLOWERS TO FOLLOW

    #51216
    anticlimactic
    Participant

    HONG KONG

    Not quite sure what the protestors hope to achieve. Democracy was not part of the British rule and will not be part of the Chinese rule. China will not give Hong Kong independence. After more than 150 years of interference from European countries this is the last vestige.

    I assume the expectation of those orchestrating these protests is that China will be forced to interfere, and I am sure governments already have a list of punitive measures should it do so.

    I feel it is to China’s advantage to do nothing. By crippling the economy of Hong Kong the protestors may make Hong Kong a worse place to live than China, so when the colony is absorbed into China it will be a step up and not a step down.

    #51217
    Professorlocknload
    Participant

    “The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.”
    Will Rogers

    #51218

    Professor,

    It’s been ages! Or at least it feels that way…

    #51219
    zerosum
    Participant

    RESET THE CLOCK
    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-oil-discovery-idUSKBN1XL14D
    Oilfield discovered in Iran is second biggest in the country: oil minister

    #51220

    anti,

    China is nowhere without Hong Kong, not at this point in time. They need the finance hub and have nothing to replace it with. They keep up appearances etc., but have no solution. The only place where yuan can trade for dollars (and that’s very simplified) is Hong Kong. China without Hong Kong is America without Wall Street and London without the City. But yeah, at the same time they can’t afford the protesters to win. So, just keep smiling.

    #51221
    zerosum
    Participant

    News media made a mountain
    https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2862238-don-cherry-fired-by-sportsnet-after-making-anti-immigrant-comments
    Don Cherry Fired by Sportsnet After Making Anti-Immigrant Comments
    Timothy Rapp
    November 11, 2019

    The one who should be fired is the “boss” who sent the interviewer and the camera person out on the street to ask non-hockey fans, who did not see the comment to get negative responses and then to put those comment on air.

    #51222

    Wow, Don Cherry, yeah let’s rant about him. Like that’s going to change the man. He’s a simpleton goofball who kept hockey popular in Canada for decades. They should thank him on their bare knees and let his last/past generation stupidity slip. No-one ever hired him for his intelligence, or delicacy or good manners. If Don Cherry would have been 30-40 years younger (he’s 85 now), he would have been big in Vegas.

    #51223
    John Day
    Participant

    Hi Ilargi,

    I think this is the third time you have used that picture, and the lady who might be the same one, who has never been out of (Georgia?) and has a withered hand got at least 2 showings.

    Just sayin…

    #51224
    John Day
    Participant

    http://www.johndayblog.com/2019/11/relating-ideas.html
    The conclusion is obvious. The details are important to understand our human context.
    ​ ​In terms of population numbers, few species can compare to the success of humans. Though much attention on population size focuses on the past 200 years, humans were incredibly successful even before the industrial revolution, populating all of the world’s environments with more than a billion people. Kramer uses her research on Maya agriculturalists of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and the Savanna Pumé hunter-gatherers of Venezuela to illustrate how cooperative childrearing increases the number of children that mothers can successfully raise and—in environments where beneficial—even speed up maturation and childbearing. Kramer argues that intergenerational cooperation, meaning that adults help support children, but children also share food and many other resources with their parents and other siblings, is at the center of humans’ demographic success. “Together our diet and life history, coupled with an ability to cooperate, made us really good at getting food on the table, reproducing, and surviving,” Kramer writes.
    ​ ​During her time with the Maya, Kramer constructed a demographic model that considered how much household members consume, as the family grows and matures across a mother’s reproductive career, balanced against how much a mother, father, and their children contribute. She found that Maya children contributed a substantial amount of work to the family’s survival, with those aged 7-14 spending on average 2 to 5 hours working each day, and children aged 15-18 spending as much as their parents, about 6.5 hours a day. Labor type varied, with younger children doing much of the childcare, older children and fathers fill in much of the day-today cost of growing and processing food and running the household. “If mothers and juveniles did not cooperate, mothers could support far fewer children over their reproductive careers,” Kramer writes. “It is the strength of intergenerational cooperation that allows parents to raise more children than they would otherwise be able to on their efforts alone.”
    https://phys.org/news/2019-11-human-population-ability-cooperate.html

    I’m Watching My Students Become Soldiers in Our Endless Wars
    At West Point, Graduation Day felt more like a tragedy than a triumph.
    ​ ​My greatest fear, I said, was that their budding young lives might closely track my own journey of disillusionment, emotional trauma, divorce, and moral injury. The thought that they would soon serve in the same pointless, horrifying wars, I told them, made me “want to puke in a trash bin.” The clock struck 1600 (4 pm), class time was up, yet not a single one of those stunned cadets—unsure undoubtedly of what to make of a superior officer’s streaming tears—moved for the door. I assured them that it was okay to leave, hugged each of them as they finally exited, and soon found myself disconcertingly alone. So I erased my chalkboards and also left.
    https://www.thenation.com/article/afghanistan-army-west-point/

    ​”It can’t happen here”…​
    ​ ​Where did all the time go? Thirty years ago this week the Berlin Wall fell. Then Soviet chairman Mikhail Gorbachev freed the Baltic states and allowed divided Germany to reunite. It was a geopolitical earthquake of historic proportions – and a major miracle of our times.
    ​ ​The once mighty Soviet Union had become exhausted by its long military/economic/political struggle to keep up with the much wealthier United States and its rich allies. Moscow had 40,000 tanks, but its economic infrastructure, crippled by Marxist ideology, was an empty shell.
    ​ ​A senior KGB general in Moscow told me that, a decade earlier, the renowned Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov had warned the Politburo that failure by Soviet industry to account for deprecation to modernize and replace outdated equipment would provoke a major crisis by 1990. This is exactly what happened.
    ​ ​By 1990, Soviet industry was broken down, outdated or rusted away. The Kremlin could no longer maintain the Soviet welfare state with its free medicine and education, long holidays, vacation spas, early pensions and unaffordable military spending. Arms alone may have accounted for over 40% of Moscow’s budget.

    MIRACLE IN BERLIN

    #51225
    John Day
    Participant

    And I am at fault for posting tht article about human cooperation here, which I found very useful. Since cooperation between generations has helped us be healthy families, and have more and healthier children, is not everything being done in society today, to atomize us and make each of us a separate automaton, answerable to a computer, a form of birth control and destruction of humanity.
    Is our current society not a form of genocide?
    Who will replace us?

    #51226
    zerosum
    Participant

    Don Cherry is real character. Archie Bunker is a TV character.
    Are the TV stations going to continue re-runs of Archie Bunker.

    #51227
    sumac.carol
    Participant

    Zerosum I detest that Don Cherry has been doing the bidding of the military industrial complex- highlighting in each hockey game the men (I don’t recall him highlighting women but I might have missed that) in uniform. There is no reason to be discussing soldiers in the middle of a hockey game other than to assist in the efforts of militarizing Canadian society.

    #51228
    zerosum
    Participant

    Don Cherry is real character.
    (Everyone on TV must ACT.)

    #51229
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    “Together our diet and life history, coupled with an ability to cooperate, made us really good at getting food on the table, reproducing, and surviving,” Kramer writes.”

    Same is true of crows, btw. What is “successful species” anyway? We live one individual at a time, we creatures of Terra. If a single death is a tragedy but a million deaths is a statistic, how does that apply to a single life versus a growing population?

    We believe in these aggregate abstracts, like: commonwealth, progress, (insert favorite whatever). We don’t know what they are.

    Currently, we live twice as long as neolithics, and experience much less pain and illness. But we consume 100-200 times more resources than they did to do so while destroying, as John Day noted, the cooperative basis for existing even at a neolithic level.

    #51236
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Looking again I wonder if that’s her house in the picture and the church driveway is right behind us where the car pulled out. Because, “walking home”. To suburbanites, makes it sound like she’s got 10 miles to go. But that’s literally impossible: all these places were walking distance if for no other reason than the town structure was established on the basis of men and horses through the last 5 generations, 100 years. The church would be with the one room schoolhouse. That is, climbing a tree, it would be within sight. And climbing the right tree, so would the next town. A mile? Certainly not 5 miles, that would take an hour. You could walk down for a Nehi and the post office in 5 miles, but not every day. A world like this, the Model T makes more sense: the road and the vehicle, the person and infrastructure are two halves of a whole.

    This is why you can’t have the wheel on your llama cart in Peru: to have the wheel, you need a road. To have a road, you need the labor. To have the labor, you need a slave. To have the slave, you need an army and summary executions. But going the other way, once you create a roving army, the other inventions will instantly follow.

    But as Kunstler points out, we would need to rework the greatest waste and misallocation of infrastructure in the history of the planet in order to return our societies back to human scale. Walking distance. Where a bike or a golf cart is as far and as much as most need to go.

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