“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
Pablo Picasso
Several unresolved tensions points exist from the World War II creating undercurrents in today's relationships. Sorting through many of the the twist and turns was author Sterling Seagrave. His work is referenced by many other authors on Asia.
It's another Friday. That means it's time to post your photos.
A few flowers to help liven up the room.
As of this morning, a leftist candidate in Honduras (of all places) has a real chance to win the coming election. That candidate is Xiomara Castro de Zelaya, the wife of the former president that was ousted in the U.S.-backed 2009 coup.
Netflix To Launch WikiLeaks Smear Job Three Days Before Assange Court Date
Netflix will begin streaming a brazen hatchet job on WikiLeaks for its US subscribers on October 24th, just 3 days prior to a significant court date in Assange's extradition case.https://t.co/XUvvgqxwpV
— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) October 14, 2021
Today I will show you how the NY Daily News is covering the SS numbers. The Daily News is an entirely Big Corp, GOP, Capitalism operation.
First quote, "It's an abrupt break from a long lull that saw COLA averaging just 1.65% a year over the past 10 years."
True, but if you add in the 5 previous years when there was no COLA that 1.65% would be a great deal lower.
Captain’s Log, Stardate 10132021:
“To see the blue color whip by, and now you’re staring into blackness. That’s the thing. This covering of blue is this sheet, this blanket, this comforter of blue that we have around us. We think ‘oh, that’s blue sky,’ and suddenly you shoot through it, like you whip a sheet off you when you’re asleep, and you’re looking into blackness—into black ugliness. And you look down, there’s the blue down there, and the black up there, and there is Mother Earth and comfort, and—is there death? Is that the way death is? It was so moving to me. This experience, it was something unbelievable. It’s one thing to say ‘oh the sky, and it’s fragile’—but it’s all true. This pillow, this soft blue. Look at the beauty of that color. And it’s so thin, and you’re through it in an instant. Suddenly you’re through the blue and you’re into black, what you see is black, and what you see down there is light, and that’s the difference. And not to have this? What you’ve given me is the most profound experience I can imagine. I am so filled with emotion about what just happened. It’s extraordinary. I hope I never recover from this. I hope that I can maintain what I feel now. I don’t want to lose it. I can’t even begin to express. . . what I would love to do is to communicate, as much as possible, the jeopardy. The moment you see the vulnerability of everything. It’s so small. This air, which is keeping us alive, is thinner than your skin. It’s a sliver; it’s immeasurably small when you think in terms of the universe. It’s negligible, this air. It’s so thin. Everybody in the world needs to do this. Everybody in the world needs to See.”
—William Shatner
