Debt Rattle September 29 2019
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[See the full post at: Debt Rattle September 29 2019]I was intrigued by Raddum’s work; so I looked around and found;
http://www.fredrikraddum.no/
Worth a look if…“As the late great British satirist Michael Wharton, who wrote under the nom de plume Peter Simple liked to say – the wilder the fantasy, the more rapidly it was bound to ‘collapse” into the realm which we naively and inaccurately describe as “reality.”
Not only a delicious quote as is, but it also applies to civilization itself, which has functioned for many decades as wild fantasy bound to collapse into a reality bearing little resemblance to the wild fantasy.
“I increasingly suspect Hillary will emerge.”
Inspires me to quote from another wild fantasy, The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle:
“Creatures of night, brought to light.”
Hillary as Mommy Fortuna, Trump as the Harpy. In the book, the harpy eats Mommy Fortuna.
As for the real world and the plights we face, Schmendrick the Magician said to Mommy Fortuna, replying to her remark that she would have fed the harpy Schmendrick’s liver if it would help her keep the harpy in her power:
“Real magic can never be made by offering someone else’s liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.”
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Snowden started smelling rotten to me early on. He gets ample face time in the press where Assange doesn’t.
Snowden smells like another “limited hangout”, i.e., a little prick.
Interesting fact: the bot profilers of the internet think I’m a rabid right-wing Libertarian.
That’s because, I suppose, they can’t think outside of labeled categories. Real persons, with genuine independent thoughts and conclusions, seem to baffle them.
“It’s a rare man who is taken for what he truly is.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last UnicornI cannot find the truth.
There are too many tools that are used to shade the truth.
People from all over the world leave their unlivable conditions in hope of finding asylum and a better life.
I cannot understand why people cannot see the truth about the USA. Why don’t they leave once they have experienced an unlivable condition.
Is it that easy to “brainwash” a person? Does the truth matter?I’m going to make your life more confusing.
Go and read all of the following.
Then
Read the comments.
Come back and tell me if any of those comments has changed your opinion of what is the truth.
Where is the truth? Will it matter, if we know the truth?Economy of color use in Paul’s painting reduced to a minimum. Result vibrant portrait similar to ones find on wall frescoes in Pompeii, where work has to be quickly executed due to technique.
Lesser sculptor would had made that man looking stiff as a park bench. Raddum was able to create that, what I call “arrested movement” ( I do not know English terminology), which is to say that we have feeling that body is about to slump even further. Most likely he used a model suspended by the hook from the rafters. Bird, I think is nothing more than a “quirk” to create cognitive dissonance in our head and have us intrigued into the work, akin to flashy attention lights used in commerce.
Commenting on the rest would have been like echo chamber.I think I know what Scott Adams means : Trump is America’s last chance.
He is not part of the elite, he is not part of the Deep State, he is too rich to bribe, and he is not easy to intimidate. It is not likely that such an aberration will be allowed to happen again.
Social Media is now joining with government, the media, the military, big business and national security to form a ‘Death Star’ against the freedom of Americans and [they hope] the World.
Trump is the last chance to stop the completion of this ‘Death Star’!
“Trump is the last chance to stop the completion of this ‘Death Star’!”
Fat chance. How do people get to the point of believing this? Misplaced hope probably. Trump is moving along the project of complete technical totalitarianism somewhere between a little slower to a bit faster than any of the other white house occupants. Start by looking at his relationship to Peter Thiel, pre-crime tech and go from there.
I’m not an investigative journalist.
If you are looking for the truth.
If you feel that its important for you to know the truth.Then
Before you decide to make up your mind
you must take the time to read the following ….Basically, the new Russiagate charges to replace Trump by Pence, Ukrainegate (as those charges were presented by the CIA ‘whistleblower’ on August 12th and published on September 26th), represent all of the Democratic Party’s billionaires, and many of the Republican Party’s ones, as well. It’s the pinnacle of the Obama-versus-Trump feud, because it represents the Democratic Party’s position on what was Obama’s top international achievement — his conquest (via a coup) against Ukraine. Trump refuses to condemn Obama’s coup against Ukraine, but if he cared about the truth, he would, and the worst that could happen to him then would be that, for once in his life, he’d be fighting for truth, and not just for himself. Apparently, that’s too big a leap for him to take.
What’s especially pathetic in all of this is that whenever the U.S. Government overthrows and destroys a country, it’s trumpeted as reflecting America’s standing-up for rule-of-law and opposition to corruption, and for support of democracy and protection of human rights; but whenever Russia or a nation that’s friendly toward Russia resists control by the U.S. and its allies, it’s portrayed as being a dictatorship and an opponent of democracy and of human rights. So, go figure.
Maybe you are interested in some other background info
We are only a bunch of amazed rif-raf observing/looking through a peep hole at what the elites are doing.
https://nypost.com/2018/03/15/inside-the-shady-private-equity-firm-run-by-kerry-and-bidens-kids/
But with whom their sons cut lucrative deals while the elder two were steering the ship of state is more of a surprise.
What Hunter Biden, the son of America’s vice president, and Christopher Heinz, the stepson of the chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (later to be secretary of state), were creating was an international private equity firm. It was anchored by the Heinz family alternative investment fund, Rosemont Capital. The new firm would be populated by political loyalists and positioned to strike profitable deals overseas with foreign governments and officials with whom the US government was negotiating.
Hunter Biden, Vice President Joe Biden’s youngest son, had gone through a series of jobs since graduating from Yale Law School in 1996, including the hedge-fund business.I got to stop looking into that pep-hole that is available on the web.
Next thing …. I’ll be suspecting all the reporters of creating fake news.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/08/27/john-kerry-son-email-hunter-biden/
Former Secretary of State John Kerry’s son reportedly cut ties with Hunter Biden over the lawyer’s Ukrainian oil deal in 2014
“Apparently Devon and Hunter both joined the board of Burisma and a press release went out today,” Heinz wrote on May 13, 2014, hours after Biden’s appointment to the board was made public, according to the Washington Examiner.
Biden stepped down from the board before his father began his presidential campaign in 2019, while Archer is currently under trial for a Ponzi scheme unrelated to Burisma business.Burisma Holdings was the focus of a “U.K. money laundering probe,” the Examiner reported. The company paid $3.4 million in 2014 and 2015 to Rosemont Seneca Bohai LLC, according to financial data cited in The New York Times.
“I cant speak why they decided to, but there was no investment by our firm in their company,” he said.
Heinz’s spokesperson told the Examiner he was not involved in any Burisma dealings and has not been associated with Rosemont Seneca Partners since 2015. He did not respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.http://www.johndayblog.com/2019/09/eternally-vigilant.html
(Please look at the picture of our Garden Guardian in the peach tree this morning, stayed all day)Sun Yat Sen was one of the great historical figures of the 20th century, but we Americans never heard much about him.
His acolytes were lesser and more egotistical, Mao and Chiang Kai-shek.
Eleni sent this article with some quotes from Master Sun about the British Empire, considering it as a whole entity, not considering where the core will-to-power might lie, which directed that empire.
Where does that will-to-power reside now?
It seems mobile and transnational, like money, come to think of it…
“The British are as cunning as the fox and as changeable as the weather and they are not ashamed of themselves… Britain seeks friendship only with those which can render her services, and when her friends are too weak to be of any use to her, they must be sacrificed in her interests. Britain’s tender regard for her friends is like the delicate care usually shown by farmers in the rearing of silkworms; after all the silk has been drawn from the cocoons, they are destroyed by fire or used as food for fish. The present friends of Britain are no more than silkworms.”
“The key policy of England is to attack the strongest enemy with the help of the weaker countries and join the weakened enemy in checking the growth of a 3rd country. The British foreign policy has remained basically unchanged for two centuries.”
“When England befriends another country, the purpose is not to maintain a cordial friendship for the sake of friendship but to utilize that country as a tool to fight a third country. When an enemy has been shorn of his power, he is turned into a friend, and the friend who has become strong, into an enemy. England always remains in a commanding position; she makes other countries fight her wars and she herself reaps the fruits of victory.”Sun Yat-sen’s Advice to Young Revolutionaries: Don’t Be Imperial Stooges
Yemeni Houthis claim to have killed 500 Saudi (mostly mercenary) troops and captured 2000, along with Saudi officers (Those will include lower royal family, most likely.) This operation was an ambush inside Saudi Arabia, letting the Saudi forces run into an ambush, cutting them off, then hammering them from all sides. This is a reported majority of the Saudi army.
The House of Saud has had nothing to say yet about these claims…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/29/houthis-claim-killed-hundreds-saudi-soldiers-captured-thousands
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/09/yemen-houthi-rebels-release-saudi-attack-video-190929130644121.htmlRegarding this (an article someone above provided):
Yemen’s Houthi rebels release Saudi attack video
guess who’s got their excuses to ‘protect’ Saudi Arabia by occupying it?
I wonder how they’ll dance the public into supporting renewed conscription into the armed forces?
Love your analysis but with one caveat: I personally identify with the crow motif as an ambiguous deployment of the crow, symbol of death in most cultures, employed in this case as a force lifting a struggling/dying man up.
Maybe from mortal death or, to be momentarily metaphysical, *through* death as in on to the next plane of reality.
Like maybe an afterlife.
Good call boscohorowitz and you may have a point. I did not recognize bird as a crow. I was impressed with masterful depiction of ease and resiliency of the bird carrying lead heavy body.
I cannot understand why people cannot see the truth about the USA. Why don’t they leave once they have experienced an unlivable condition.
zerosumAs you may recall; some of us have… 😉
Well, I’ve developed a deep personal relationship with some neighborhood crows (Gomez and Morticia). They were a critical part of me avoiding the worst effects of a major suicidal depression awhile back (now safely behind me as the issues driving it have mostly been resolved). So I had an uncommon perspective on that aspect of the sculpture, which I agree seems uncommonly fine.
Just the basic weight/mass/balance configuration, the, um, optical center of gravity, of the thing, amazes me. He doesn’t just look like he’s being pulled up; he *feels* like he’s being pulled up.
The crow in Native American culture is a messenger; not a symbol of death.
Corvids are my favorite birds; geniuses of the Aves family…
The link is a video, that is just a stunning example of crow’s intelligence.http://whatintheworld-icarus.blogspot.com/2014/02/this-is-einstein-of-corvids-crows_6.html
“I cannot understand why people cannot see the truth about the USA. Why don’t they leave once they have experienced an unlivable condition.”
Goldfish in a fishbowl don’t know they’re in water until they attempt to escape their glass prison, whereupon they realize they don’t know how to live outside the bowl. Freedom, to a domesticated goldfish, generally happens via a horrendous exit via a flushed toilet bowl. If they survive that far, well, they just might make it. But they’ll tend to yearn for the Invisible Hand that, they were taught by too many Economy 101 pinheads, delivers the fish food manna from above on a regular schedule. (Not to mention the risk of choking on this over-taxed metaphor.)
Conditioned creatures tend to remain conditioned. It is only with great effort and often much suffering that people remove enough of their conditioning to understand how deeply conditioned they are in the first place.
USA citizens are as deeply conditioned as your average North Korean citizen — and on a less credible basis. As bad as things can be in NK, their self-obsession with defense has a solid historical basis, especially after the USA bombed them to jonesingtons in the early 50s.
“Corvids are my favorite birds; geniuses of the Aves family…”
Aye. I’ve been studying on them a bunch, and incorporating them into a novel I’m working on.
I see crows as one of the species most likely to fill the niche humans have filled until now, one soon likely to become a void.
Roaches, rats, crows, with crows being the evolve-as-much-by-culture-as-by-natural-selection successor to hominid cultural evolution. We’ve had our run. We’ve obviously blown it. Oh, humans will almost certainly survive, but civilization is toast.
Our great-grandchildren will probably wear animal skins and use dried fish as a barter medium.
Aye. I’ve been studying on them a bunch, and incorporating them into a novel I’m working on.
boscohorowitzThen you might want to watch the video @ my link above (it’s my blog)…
CROWS
I used to walk up through a local park to an adult education college. Normally there were 50 to 100 crows scattered round the top of the park.
One day I was hungry and bought a sandwich to eat on the way home. As I walked down the park ALL of the crows followed me! Very intimidating! They all maintained the same distance from me – they didn’t crowd round.
It did work as I threw the remains of the sandwich down but did not look to see what happened to it.!
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