Debt Rattle September 17 2020
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René Magritte Sixteenth of September 1956 • CDC: US Should Have Enough Vaccine To Return To Regular Life By Q3 2021 (CNBC) • Trump Admin Shuts
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle September 17 2020]René Magritte Sixteenth of September 1956
The Magritte today; wonderful; impossible? Didn’t Magritte just show it was possible?
The most amazing thing about art is…the art…
…and Magritte offers it again and again and again…
…the magic, the unexpected, the lack of limits/boundaries…
…that’s what art does; again and again and again, ad infinitum………………
…an imagination unbounded and flying in the infinite…I’m obviously one day late with the Magritte, but I only found it this morning. Yes, he had his own ways of looking at the world
I’m obviously one day late with the Magritte, but I only found it this morning.
Having done a little research on that date; the 16th; it, in itself, doesn’t seem to be that important…
I just, very much, like that painting… 🙂@V.Arnold:
The guy who sent me the aplle-banana plants has Nam Wa, and says that and Orinoco do well for him. He’s in Texas, and same climate zone, so I’ll buy some. I’ve got lady finger banana plants coming from Flor-i-duh, too.
Thanks for the advice.immunity and/or impunity: exemption or freedom from punishment, harm, or loss.
The media has been shown, by their own actions, to be everything but an honest, impartial broker of news.
It is impossible to believe what they tell us without a grain of salt.
Why can the news media people tell lies to the FBI and not get any jail time?
( eg. There was no Russian collusion.
Also, Assange reports were false)FBI Lied to the Senate About the Steele Dossier. Graham Says, ‘Somebody Needs to Go to Jail’
Further reading …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Estate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_EstateThis article succinctly represents CRT’s strengths and flaws: https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/on-the-use-and-abuse-of-critical
https://www.johndayblog.com/2020/09/drone-this-guy.html
(Pictured on blog at recent sunset in Yoakum, with workshop nearing completion, and avocado trees)
CIA Intercepts Suggest U.S. Lied About Biological Weapon Use During Its War On Korea
During the early 1950s War on Korea the U.S. used biological weapons against North Korea and China. Bombs designed to spread leaflets were filled with plague infested rats and dropped on Korean towns. Various infecting insects were released. Leaflets were contaminated with smallpox and then distributed. Several local epidemics were caused by these attacks.
The program was a continuation of one which a special unit of the Imperial Japanese Army had developed during the second world war. Unit 731 and its leaders were not indicted for the war crimes they had committed during the war but integrated into the U.S. biological warfare program.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2020/09/cia-intercepts-suggest-us-lied-about-biological-weapon-use-during-its-war-on-korea.html#morePlease let me point out again that numerous nations had bioweapons labs working on highly pathogenic chimeric strains of coronavirus, and even sharing research and funding. The US and Canada were at least neck-and-neck with China, if not ahead. Lab? Yes. Who released it? Dunno…
“I Am The Target”: Silenced Chinese Virologist Tells Tucker COVID-19 Intentionally Released, CCP Trying To ‘Disappear’ Her
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/i-am-target-silenced-chinese-virologist-tells-tucker-covid-19-intentionally-released-ccpCharles Hugh Smith explains the 4-D demise of what the US economy has mutated into.
…denormalization is an extinction event for much of our high-cost, high-complexity, heavily regulated economy. Subsidizing high costs doesn’t stop the dominoes from falling, as subsidies are not a substitute for the virtuous cycle of re-investment.
The Fed’s project of lowering the cost of capital to zero doesn’t generate this virtuous cycle; all it does is encourage socially useless speculative predation. Collapse isn’t “impossible,” it’s unavoidable.
The basic idea is that all the structures of the “normal” economy only function at full capacity, as costs have moved higher, unproductive complexity has increased and our ability to pay these higher costs is based on ever-expanding debt.
As a result, “normal” became extremely fragile and binary: it’s either fully funded at full capacity or it collapses. The structures of everyday life (to use Braudel’s apt phrase) are incapable of downsizing to 70% of their previous complexity and cost, much less 50%.
There won’t be any “new normal” because the system has become too rigid, ossified, over-regulated and controlled by entrenched interests and elites. It is incapable of reducing complexity and cost, and bailouts via borrowed money are stopgaps, not actual solutions.
Decomplexification is a mouthful, and everyone inside the machine knows the impossibility of paring organizational complexity. Everyone who is a stakeholder in the status quo (which is virtually every employee, manager, etc.) will fight to keep the status quo intact as is, for fear that any re-organization might imperil their livelihood or security. This is entirely understandable, of course.
Modern life is inherently complex. Democracy is complex and cumbersome because having a bunch of stakeholders all competing for public resources and advocating for a bigger slice of the pie is inherently messy. There must be oversight and feedback to minimize the possibility of one clique gaining complete power.
Long global supply chains are inherently complex. Managing ever-increasing regulations is inherently complex. And so on.
When the money runs out or loses its purchasing power, all sorts of complexity that were previously viewed as essential crumble to dust. We’re witnessing the early stages of this in real time in healthcare and education: overly complex and costly systems are breaking down not just from the challenges of the pandemic but because they’re structurally incapable of adapting or evolving beyond pseudo-reforms and policy tweaks.
https://www.oftwominds.com/blogsept20/four-Ds9-20.htmlIt’s going to take a very long time to get every American vaccinated, unless they sneak it by those of us who reject it. Are mandatory vaccines which are rushed and carry no liability for the makers okay with everyone?
Anywhere there’s something fetid,
Mr. Brennan seems well vetted.
When other rodents would have scurried,
Brennan stays- that’s got me worried.This is all anyone needs to know about our situation:
“A CREDIBILITY TRAP IS WHEN THE MANAGERIAL FUNCTIONS OF A SOCIETY HAVE BEEN SUFFICIENTLY COMPROMISED BY CORRUPTION SO THAT THE LEADERSHIP AND THE PROFESSIONAL CLASS CANNOT REFORM, OR EVEN HONESTLY ADMIT AND ADDRESS, THE PROBLEMS OF THE CORRUPTED SYSTEM WITHOUT IMPLICATING A BROAD SWATH OF A POWERFUL ELITE, INCLUDING THEMSELVES.
THE MONEYED INTERESTS AND THEIR ENABLERS TOLERATE THE CORRUPTION BECAUSE THEY HAVE PROFITED FROM IT, AND WOULD LIKE TO CONTINUE TO DO SO. DISCIPLINE AND SILENCE IS MAINTAINED BY VARIOUS FORMS OF SOFT FINANCIAL REWARDS AND CAREER AND SOCIAL COERCION.”
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Smith and Jesse: Withdraw your consent. They are not credible, so refuse any attempt to invest your money in their stolen casino. So leave Wall Street and Tesla. Do not hold risk that rests on long supply chains and distant trusts. So don’t hold accounts in Chase and HSBC, don’t buy groceries on Amazon. Don’t compete for public resources, since from that short description I can only guess that means “you’re taking your neighbor’s money,” and how will that cause goodwill? I don’t want to compete for anything: I want to work and create, and therefore use my creations as my own.
If it’s binary and “efficiency is the enemy of resiliency”, so that it runs full-tilt downhill or not at all, then you know with perfect certainty it will soon collapse. Good news: that’s a rock-solid trade fortunes are made of. It’s better to know, which we can, and it’s better to be certain, which we are. So he’s given you list: do your part. This is all going away. It’s the 49-year Jubilee they’ve all been discussing, denying, forestalling, because it must happen and it must be.
@V.Arnold:
The guy who sent me the aplle-banana plants has Nam Wa, and says that and Orinoco do well for him.Wow, that’s great. I’m still getting over the fact they (nam wah) can be grown in the U.S. 😉
Bananas are a plant that keeps on giving: its leaves have many uses (wrapping food for later use, cooking food wrapped in them, etc.). Also as a replacement for plastic wrap/waxed paper for food prep on a table top.
The banana flower is delicious when used in various Thai dishes and my favorite; fried banana flower mixed with chillis and various spices/ingredients. I don’t have a recipe (we buy them at the markets), but if you know any Thai’s they may be able to get a recipe for you.
We just now cut down a bunch of our first nam wah…got 8 clusters… 🙂
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