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Cashew of Pirangi photo.
Aside from the majestic tree, worth noticing is triangular plot right above it. From what I can see given the open paths between the structures, it contains shops and small businesses. Absence of a large parking lot to serve it and very little car accommodations elsewhere on the photo tells me that those people are “preped”, living low key and in better position than “homeless living in the car” that is becoming a feature lifestyle to stay in here..
But………..Boo-hoo, poor slobs living in 15 minute city.From yesterday.
John Day posts X-clip withPfizer completes $43 Billion acquisition of Seagen on Dec.14, 2023 – becomes largest oncology company to treat most TURBO CANCERS caused by mRNA Vaccines – deep dive into the sinister aspects of this very bizarre deal.
Bit after, Veracious Poet comes with:
Maybe there’s hope, after all…
Chick broke with her boyfriend of 5 years, world shattering moment, after finding out that he is a commie!
Hoooh, thanks God!
@John Day
Interesting how our “after-hours” activities, meditation club in your case, “affects” some of our perceptions.
Your recent recommendation to incorporate Tibetan chant into rap beat and now seeing the painted figure as in self-composed meditative stance are small samples.
Not a biggie, just a harmless observation.@John Day
No amount of sunlight can jolt the lady out of state of nothingness and lonely despair. Far away from the “feeling refreshed”, but not because holding cup of coffee or energetic arms stretch, as in some commercials, is missing .If only that simple.
More impressionable than the book it is even more hart-warming than “Scrooge” for this year’s festive season.
The “device” design, with that 50’s mind set, was exactly what I expected.Art today.
Hopper’s masterpiece, treasure trove to study. Characters in the painting are in the waiting room where the hotel clerk is momentarily absent (but look as if forever) and pictorially replaced by the ghostly spot on the wall by the light of non-descriptive e source.
Older, well dressed couple convey unease about them. Gentlemen, while presenting a features of someone from the portrait paintings hanging in the city halls, still looks so “ordinary” in this painting, while wife appears to be tad as sub-servant to him as her body language demonstrates.
Young attractive woman (Hopper’s wife as a model) will spend the night by herself.@John Day – from yesterday.
What I meant was: We are doomed as a country. Individual paths that each of us may take is a different story.
I am fully aware that my thoughts are not congruent with many of those on the TAE panel, but one thing that I am sure of – we all know blatant criminality when we see it. Staunch partisanship blinded my bro-in-law.That X-video clip above; “If the Trump wins……..”
Last night we had family get together. Brother-in-law that came from another state is everything that “good America” is all about – non-cheater business-intelligent, genuinely hard working and deservedly successful.
He’s got just all the vacc- boosters required due to extensive travelling. He voted for Biden-Kamla ticket in 2020, but by now I thought that he must have figured out the error of his judgement. No way. He started to parrot exact the same words as in the video clip. It was restaurant setting to argue, but even in the privacy of home I figured out that he’s lost case.
With tens or even hundreds of thousands like him across the country I realized that we’re doomed.Not sure if somebody had posted this before. Worth of repeating if so.
Scroll down to video link, David Webb’s gift to us.
Humanity is, kind of, circling around the drain hole.Arthur Berman: “Shale Oil and the Slurping Sound”
Could have been, as easily, a giant meteorite hurling toward the Earth.jb-hb: Arthur Berman hates the humanity!
Art today.
Compositional dynamic of the building curve acts a reverse Zoom-in bringing the viewer to inspect the space where nothing extraordinary ever happened. Draft that moved the curtain is the only other presence in the room.@WES – from yesterday.
The Russians were good people trying to survive in a brutally rotten system.
And the system was rotten to the core.True, but that system that you’ve experienced was at the other side of the globe and long gone. I am not downgrading your observation but I may say people many times “see what they like to see”, given that 80’s were special with exceptional anti-Soviet propaganda – rendered in so many movies. Solzhenitsyn, badly needed to aid the frenzy, was “discovered” in that decade, as lack would have it.
What brought that system down, for the most part, was method of employment that was based on quota and ranking in the waiting list in the unemployment office – aka next in line gets the job and seniority status later on while employed.
Key industries were immune to that method – AK47 was not invented by “the first in line”
What I am baffled about most of you is your absolute refusal to recognize huge faults in the system that you live in.
Ever been south of the border? Seen that poverty? Five year old kids in whee hours at the border crossing washing your windshields and selling chewing gums? About to be replicated in here, but please do not tell me that their “communist system” (that you would love to be so, with the glee) is being transferred to our shores.
Can we agree that the system is custom tailored for the psychopaths to ultimately “make it”, not only money-wise but also to become policy makers? Sure there are small mom-and-pop enterprises but their owners drive the “same car as their employees” – to use ultimate unit of measure of human worth so ingrained in the country. What happened to those businesses compared to the big guys during the Covid madness?
System is not only about “my business is good so life is good” but “how can I destroy my competitor?”, and grow for the sake of growth. Entire factories unbolted and moved to third world countries for even more growth.
Somebody’s misfortune is someones gain became prevalent business model. Remember the “real estate bus tours” during the recent housing crash? Occupants were blind to the scattered furniture at the front lawn but had the keen eye on their potential prize. How that can be healthy society?
Society where anywhere where one wants to venture into there is a middle man check point with extended hand, despite “the fact” that we live in a “free market society”?
Society when car salesman calls you his best friend and is taken without cringe.
Dr D’s world is full of rainbow win-win hand shakes and smiles with true merit winning in the angel-singing glory, and yet,
Nikola Tesla ended destitute in a NY hotel room. And many others. How is that possible? Was he “stupid” and not cunning enough?
I could go on….@WES
Garden plots in as another example on “why socialism doesn’t work”.Your “story” is bit of a stretch hinting that majority of people are really lazy – not that some do not exist.
Most likely scenario is that slacker(s) would be scolded by the group. Most of the food if not all comes from those plots
and there is no luxury for fooling around.
Just in case and to “make you happy”, people in the Soviet Union had their own dacha sand plot of land.
Not once, on occasional TV watching, I had seen report that some unused plot of land, here in the US, was cultivated by the neighborhood and all sun burn participants looked rather happy in front of camera.
Also while ago I’ve read somewhere, that any small successful company (approximate quote) “has a proverbial guy who wears brown pants bit short, white sneakers and light blue shirt who does all the key work but is kept unseen while Newsom-like flashy presents the product to the public for double the salary.
How about the “socialism” arrangement between soldiers waiting in the trenches for enemy assault?
Speaking of war, Russian weapon production is not in the private hands but rather a State enterprise.
Even the most hart-warming company success story often starts with: “OK, I am gonna start my dream so the first order of things to find some chumps whom I am gonna pay next to nothing…and continue doing that as long as can” or “I am gonna partner with this guy and figure out how to fuck him up later when things starts to happen…”. All with plenty real life samples and not like your “story”.How the humanity survived all those thousands of years?
Kultsommer: I don’t understand.
That’s what I think too.
You do have admiring audience, so keep writing your nonsense.Sifting through comments on Kunstler’s blog today.
Here is the one by ugly stupid American:
Many many moons ago I was traveling in the Soviet Union. They had bread stores in the USSR. To compare one such to a boulangerie in France would be a mistake, of course, and the name of a bread store in Russia is not near as melifluous as boulangerie; it fact, it sounds more like clearing your throat (seriously).
Some good observations re post-Soviet collapse
They had a lower standard of living, no suburbia. They “fell” from 5 feet, not 35 feet.
Also, without understating the degree of the “disaster” that afflicted Russia and the former USSR in the mid/late 1990s, which was probably as bad or worse than the Great Depression in the US, the “fall” of Soviet Russian citizens was from a much lower point than it would have been for Americans in 1993 or 2023.They had a lower standard of living, no suburbia. They “fell” from 5 feet, not 35 feet.
Dimitry Orlov points out that even after the USSR was destroyed, Russians still had a right to housing (although the mobs took to killing babushkas for their apartments), they still had public transportation, and they still had their dachas to grow food in the summer. We now know from this SMO that the Soviet legacy also provided them with electricity and railroads.
Americans have none of that.
Ponder.
If Dr D had been born in Soviet union he would have been unquestionable apparatchik and promoter of the system. Parroting the theoretical definition of the system is not the debate. That’s what apparatchiks do.
jb-hb. Get of the Marx’s dick.tboc – from yesterday:
“…………..he that knows enough is enough will always have enough”. ………….
Vintage lady with the side glance sly smile while holding the cup of coffee:
That runs contrary to anything that capitalism (that we know it) is all about. But you guys know that already. Right?
@WES – from yesterday’s comment
I know all of that.
The thing is that twat is neither old nor poor.@WES – from yesterday’s comment
I know all of that.
The thing is that twat is neither old nor poor.Art today.
I wish some faint indication of upper spine bones were shown beneath the skin as well as, infamous, two dimples at the left and right of the lower back at the tips of a pelvis bone. Nude looks like inflated doll, albeit with the impressive skin tones done well.From John Day’s link above:
Capitalism Cannot Turn Into Anything But Autocracy
At least somebody had expressed my thoughts exactly, for which, written in much inferior way, I was pelted with the rotten tomatoes for over a decade on various comment forums.
Red‘s link to Alex Jones’ interview with Barry Young and Steve Kirsch.
Interesting how the true hero of Covid story had shown awareness and expressed multiple times full compassion toward the people who against their will had to get “it” to keep their jobs and feed their families.
I pointed that many times, to no avail in my exchange with Mr TVASF. Just as I expected, he, in his last final expression of bravery and as, obviously, “man of means” left the “losers”, whom he berated for over a year, behind and moved to “safe pastures” – receiving standing ovation from the TAE bunch.Kustler’s article paints a grim picture of our current state and is confirmed by the comments.
At the same time we despise sheer BS that is hoisted on us, while in full knowledge that continuation of it provides necessary “livelihood” on so many levels, if you will, for the millions of individuals and families.
Such a cognitive dissonance conundrum is akin to “toxic love” expressed in this underrated masterpiece where seemingly disjointed guitar riffs describe the feeling:
Those leading “Capitalist” systems often blame socialism for the failures which emerge from their own system ignoring common-sense morality, calling that morality “socialism” to justify ignoring it.
I often pointed out how brilliantly working meme was invented to label basic human decency as “socialism” usually with Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot in the mix, just in case. Even, more insulting was that by simply pointing to that fact one is labeled as commie.
Hard “debaters” of this topic completely ignore the fact that systems come and go. We are born into one by sheer chance or lottery of life. Time and location play the role too. Capitalism in the US after the war does not even closely resemble
as what is going on today. Graph that shows huge disparity in productivity and worker’s wages after the 1970’s is not “Soviet propaganda”. Capitalism in South America and other deprived places in the world is only good for the moneyed class.
Socialism collapsed under its own contradictions and can be called as failed experiment. Now….. decades long suffering
that people endured by living under such a system was rewarded after the collapse since “safety net” was built-in all along.
There are all indications that good middle-class life in the advanced West is coming to an end with much wilder outcome
for a majority.@VP #147865
So, Claire Daly, Mick Wallace and, possibly, Jimmy Dore, Max Blumenthal or Arron Matte want to take your freedom away?
Does anybody fucking think before posting?Later on, Matt Taibbi learned that barely foot long creature does not feed on blood, yet visual of his wordsmith creation
is still powerful is as ever in my mind.As for the yesterday’s posted lunar rover riddle:
1. Google Q&A page regarding the topic:People also ask
Can you still see the lunar rover on the Moon?
As cool as it would be to gaze up at the moon and see one of the lunar rovers, it’s just not possible. Unfortunately, there is no telescope on Earth powerful enough to spot any of the objects (that do not exist – my emphasis) that have been left behind. Not even the Hubble could see what’s left on the moon.2. For this video, no comment is necessary:
Hope everybody had great feast last night.
That graph posted by John “hates humanity”, as some may say.
Curve representing human produced garbage, if shown, would shoot up to the Cezanne’s painting above.
All the arguments about CO2, warming/cooling, Left/Right, Dem/Rep, who is the “right” prez….. and the staff that we regularly fight in comment section falls flat in sight of it.That graph posted by John “hates humanity”, as some may say.
Curve representing human produced garbage, if shown, would shoot up to the Cezanne’s painting above.
All the arguments about CO2, warming/cooling, Left/Right, Dem/Rep, who is the “right” prez….. and the staff that we regularly fight in comment section falls flat in sight of it.Louis Vuitton strictly forbids, enforced by heavy fines, unlicensed sale or resale of their bags.
That will teach them looters the lesson.Greg Hunter offers his Friday service to polish David star and trash Iran, without exception, then holds his slice of bread for butter spread.
What an awkward moment when Catherine Austin was the guest while ago, as I recall.Yep, Dr D.
i mixed up the sequences like I often do with the “Girl with dragon tattoo”. . Yep the first one and both heavy volume books.
Since into traditional carpentry skills here is the master.
In the mean time zen story of Alan Watts which goes:
“Lumber was ready and cut under the guidance of master carpenter to be assembled the next day, Jealous competitor sneaked in during the night and cut one foot of some pieces.
Next morning apprentice noticed the cuts and warned the master to which he replied:
I knew that he will do that. Proceed with the erection of structure.Now all the members are cut to size.”11 years is astonishingly short time for a Cathedral
Cathedral building, a main theme at Ken Follett’s masterpiece book “World without end”.
Brick size of the book makes audio version more suitable for busy folks, not to mention that backyard cleaning becomes something to look forward to.Jb – from yesterday
Profits at any cost for a few private hands, jb. Profits at any cost for a few private hands.
As for DR D
I am wrapping up a huge project so can not answer at the moment and clarify/define an enigma called kutsommer.Jb
This is fun!
You:We need to get involved! We must send aid to the USSR! Join the war! ****cOsMiC cOiNcIdEnCe****
Than there is Regan with “Tear down this wall Mr G!” – So we can (finally) join together?
What was the arms race to destroy USSR all about?
Vietnam?
Why Cuba embargo?
Why Venezuela is not popular when under Maduro?
War in North Korea? Even I am at awe that fatso rooster had American president come to his feet to shake hands!
