@on the cusp
Have always loved the Coasters, even when they were the Robins.
be well and have a good one
I need more coffee to get rollin', but wanted to start with this:
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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
...of Emmanuel Todd's work for a few months. I read the article at the link. I tend to agree with many of his observations, particularly those that are factual. I think his observations about Protestant religion and technology are off base. As is his inference that the nihilism is the third stage of a decline of a moral and cultural ethic that Protestantism represented, for example promoting a work ethic and the value of education.
Nihilism is a concomitant of racism and imperialism. It's that simple, nihilism in this respect, accompanied so called protestant morality. Of course, it accompanied Catholicism as well. The nihilism of excessive greed and lust for power is the concomitant of the gross inequality in the US, the associated tax structure, the attack on government and educational institutions, the insane unending wars, the hollowing out of the economy, etc. Trump doesn't represent a revolution, although he may be symbolic of US collapse, he is the pretense of revolution, the flailing theater of panic and reaction. I agree with Todd it's too late to reindustrialize.
I think the declining number of engineering graduates in relative terms was based on a class system, that refused to pay for the effort, and in lieu of that promoted a false claim, that eventually you're participation in the free market would lead to an eventual compensation for the massive investment in time and effort required. In addition was the opportunity cost of becoming an engineer, especially in the academic stage of one's life, where study of other areas are neglected as a practical matter. Liberal arts and Fine arts on the other hand produced a proximate aesthetic or cultural reward, even though, the financial rewards were essentially non-existent.
The actual pay of engineers at a critical stage of industrial competition in the world just as the Japanese and German competition was becoming fierce and presenting the "free trade" challenge, just wasn't worth the effort. This reflected the generally exploitative nature of the US class structure, which didn't really value, education at all, but only claimed it did. The attitude today seems to be if we need people to study science, medicine, or engineering, we'll just import them. This is just another kind of labor arbitrage.
We are in the middle of what will soon be called, or perhaps is already being called, a Trump revolution, a revolution of Trumpism. But this is really a standard historical phenomenon – it is absolutely classic that a revolution should come after a military defeat.
'Course, Trump is merely laying the ground for a revolution, one which has been brewing since the Biden genocide...
Got out early to mow the trail system and road edges. Been trying to mow an hour or two every morning until I get the jungle tamed. More rain due this weekend, but I'm not complaining.
As to searches, even Duck Duck Go seems compromised. I always get MSM sites on any topic. No Duran, Corbett, Jimmy, nor the judge unless I add their site directly. You have to go to trusted sites and look for yourself....like la58 MoA link above. Automatic Earth has been down since Sunday. He may be ill. He was having health issues.
Garden is doing well, spending afternoons processing and freezing. Plus I've got the road in good shape after 12" of rain in May. So I'm feeling pretty good about going into summer despite being out of town for two weeks.
Hope you find what you're searching for, and thanks for the OT!
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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
which restrict our views all seem to fall into
the same algorithm. Duck was refreshing for
while. Qwant was OK at first. Now, if I want something
of a more meaningful sort, Yandex seems to work well.
Personally, will avoid Google at any cost.
Glad to hear you are getting on top of the landscape.
Got out early to mow the trail system and road edges. Been trying to mow an hour or two every morning until I get the jungle tamed. More rain due this weekend, but I'm not complaining.
As to searches, even Duck Duck Go seems compromised. I always get MSM sites on any topic. No Duran, Corbett, Jimmy, nor the judge unless I add their site directly. You have to go to trusted sites and look for yourself....like la58 MoA link above. Automatic Earth has been down since Sunday. He may be ill. He was having health issues.
Garden is doing well, spending afternoons processing and freezing. Plus I've got the road in good shape after 12" of rain in May. So I'm feeling pretty good about going into summer despite being out of town for two weeks.
Hope you find what you're searching for, and thanks for the OT!
DK and Dem Underground are the same as here except they are Dem party supporting.
The thing with the drones and the aircraft has to be causing consternation amongst the defence billion dollar industry. Hundreds of billion industry I should say. For the cost of an F 35 you could buy 50,000 drones. It didn't cripple the Russian ability to deliver rockets on Kiev but I'm sure it stung. They aren't making more of those aircraft.
Just sold some stock. Time to hunker down a little. Building a tiny house which is fun. Concrete block foundation of late. I knew nothing about block laying, at least the wall is less than 4' high.
@ban nock
.
once the foundation is properly set.
Compared to rock with my skill level.
Amazes me how the foundations have held up
so well after almost 300 years.
Good luck
or those that are free anyway.
DK and Dem Underground are the same as here except they are Dem party supporting.
The thing with the drones and the aircraft has to be causing consternation amongst the defence billion dollar industry. Hundreds of billion industry I should say. For the cost of an F 35 you could buy 50,000 drones. It didn't cripple the Russian ability to deliver rockets on Kiev but I'm sure it stung. They aren't making more of those aircraft.
Just sold some stock. Time to hunker down a little. Building a tiny house which is fun. Concrete block foundation of late. I knew nothing about block laying, at least the wall is less than 4' high.
America’s fighter fleet—the smallest in modern Air Force history—lacks the numbers needed to both protect the homeland and secure the skies abroad. While no one questions that fighters have a vital role in homeland defense, the trouble is that we simply don’t have enough of them. Neither the defense budget nor the $150 billion reconciliation package include plans for multi-year aircraft procurement.
A lot of the article focuses on the money that we'll be wasting on Trump's Golden Condom Boondoggle, which will definitely be going the way of Ronzo's Star Wars eventually. I suspect that we'll have ceased to exist as a nation-state before even the first bits of it are off the drawing board, as we are blitzed by asymmetrical warfare with cheap drones. But some of the information about our actual capabilities, or the lack of them, is useful information.
I could care less about securing the skies abroad. What we will need isn't F-35s, or even newer 294675th-gen fighters at a trillion dollars a pop: we will need a bunch of old, slow Cessna 172s, with 12-ga shotguns loaded with birdshot under the wings, to do area denial in the middle of drone swarms...
@usefewersyllables
.
as to why the current empire tries to control
the friendly skies of other nations? Dunno but
space is the place if they want domination. It is
now a communications and ET domain. Ask Musk.
America’s fighter fleet—the smallest in modern Air Force history—lacks the numbers needed to both protect the homeland and secure the skies abroad. While no one questions that fighters have a vital role in homeland defense, the trouble is that we simply don’t have enough of them. Neither the defense budget nor the $150 billion reconciliation package include plans for multi-year aircraft procurement.
A lot of the article focuses on the money that we'll be wasting on Trump's Golden Condom Boondoggle, which will definitely be going the way of Ronzo's Star Wars eventually. I suspect that we'll have ceased to exist as a nation-state before even the first bits of it are off the drawing board, as we are blitzed by asymmetrical warfare with cheap drones. But some of the information about our actual capabilities, or the lack of them, is useful information.
I could care less about securing the skies abroad. What we will need isn't F-35s, or even newer 294675th-gen fighters at a trillion dollars a pop: we will need a bunch of old, slow Cessna 172s, with 12-ga shotguns loaded with birdshot under the wings, to do area denial in the middle of drone swarms...
We are so busy "projecting power", and acting as the world's Big Brother, that the vast majority of our active tactical forces are located elsewhere. No joy.
#7
.
as to why the current empire tries to control
the friendly skies of other nations? Dunno but
space is the place if they want domination. It is
now a communications and ET domain. Ask Musk.
one layer after another for decades, to no avail. Talk about doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result!
And then comes a Congress critter’s brutal eructation that stopped me cold: “We’re all going to die.” Eureka!
That’s it! My sticky wicket; that which I have been unable to make sense of, nor to accept.
Perhaps if I can abandon my urge to try to ‘make sense of’ this apparently obvious reality, and instead focus on accepting the inevitability of my pending expiration date, I might find a different result and be able to get on with enjoying what’s left of my life; with joyful abandon and gratitude.
Me thinks it is worth a try.
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“The story around the world gives a silent testimony:
— The Beresovka mammoth, frozen in mud, with buttercups in his mouth…..”
@ovals49
.
Passed that rubicon awhile back.
Once passed expectations, the way ahead
is relatively straight forward.
Cheers
one layer after another for decades, to no avail. Talk about doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result!
And then comes a Congress critter’s brutal eructation that stopped me cold: “We’re all going to die.” Eureka!
That’s it! My sticky wicket; that which I have been unable to make sense of, nor to accept.
Perhaps if I can abandon my urge to try to ‘make sense of’ this apparently obvious reality, and instead focus on accepting the inevitability of my pending expiration date, I might find a different result and be able to get on with enjoying what’s left of my life; with joyful abandon and gratitude.
US Army Hits Annual Recruitment Goals 4 Months Early
Army leadership framed the achievement as a “turning point” in overcoming recent recruitment struggles, attributing the surge to a “renewed sense of patriotism and purpose among America’s youth.”
Sure, that's one way to look at it. However, the other way is to realize that there are no jobs, nor will there be, and the entire purpose of higher education has been deprecated- why go to college if everything will be done by AI?
Our last remaining export product is "wholesale death", so the only remaining growth area in employment terms is "cannon fodder".
Somehow, I have a hard time seeing this as a positive development. However, if population reduction is the goal, we're definitely doing the right things here lately.
US Army Hits Annual Recruitment Goals 4 Months Early
Army leadership framed the achievement as a “turning point” in overcoming recent recruitment struggles, attributing the surge to a “renewed sense of patriotism and purpose among America’s youth.”
Sure, that's one way to look at it. However, the other way is to realize that there are no jobs, nor will there be, and the entire purpose of higher education has been deprecated- why go to college if everything will be done by AI?
Our last remaining export product is "wholesale death", so the only remaining growth area in employment terms is "cannon fodder".
Somehow, I have a hard time seeing this as a positive development. However, if population reduction is the goal, we're definitely doing the right things here lately.
"just something", one is, no doubt, really searching for Tathegate, and, regarding said search, some Zen master once opined that it is akin to riding an ox in search of an ox.
I highly reccommend a deep and thoughtful dive into Lewis Carrol's The Hunting of The Snark (An Agony in Eight Fits) which I have perused repeatedly in my psycho wanderings. A written copy may be found here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43909/the-hunting-of-the-snark. In searching for that, ironically enough, I found a link to a recitation thereof which I've never listened to, but perehaps might over lunch, if I get lunch today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F_Cd4sKMo8
It is, of course, about being, and, ends, oddly enough, with nothingness, while pre-dating Sartre's work by quite some time.
be well and have a good one
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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Lee’s victory also poses hard questions for Washington.
For three years, the U.S. treated Yoon as a loyal ally—escalating tensions with North Korea, expanding trilateral military drills with Japan, and subordinating Korean sovereignty to U.S. strategic goals. Western media echoed this line, describing Korea’s political crisis with words like “chaos” and “instability” while downplaying the real threat: tanks deployed against unarmed civilians by a U.S.-backed strongman. Even after Lee’s election, outlets like The New York Times, BBC, and CNN continue to distort the narrative. Instead of recognizing the world’s most disciplined mass democratic movement, they ask whether Lee will “pivot” away from Washington—as if Korea’s purpose were to serve U.S. interests.
This framing is not only condescending—it’s dangerous.
As journalist Tim Shorrock has long noted, U.S. media erases Korea’s democracy movement from history. “Division,” in this context, is not a cultural condition. It is the result of resistance to authoritarianism—led by Korea’s ordinary citizens.
A vicious slander of South Korea's hard-won democracy from the Yellow Peril militarists in the MAGA White House. Koreans won't forget this cruel innuendo, fueled by anti-China MAGA fanatics like @GordonGChang, who is cowardly hiding his views on the election on X today. pic.twitter.com/Z6I9lGoXkD
The increasing censorship around the Israeli genocide has been ramping up since 10/7. Pro Palestinian protesters are called Hamas sympathizers and next anti Zionist is called antisemitism.
After the 2 Jews were killed the statement free Palestine is the new Heil Hitler and now we have the attack on Jews being called attacks on Zionists. Pffft!
Being anti genocide means that it is not acceptable to genocide any people. Period. How long until pro Palestinian protesters are charged with terrorism like it is in Europe? Not long I’m sure. Rubio wants to make it impossible for foreign students to leave the country if they have said anything critical of Israel. Isn’t that tyranny?
Does the Boulder attack make any sense? And why are the attacks being done now after 20 months and not during the 20 months of the genocide?
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The message echoes from Gaza back to the US. “Starving people is fine.”
US Embassy Tells Americans Be Prepared To 'Take Cover' As Kyiv Braces For 'Shock & Awe' Attack
The US Embassy in Kyiv has issued a new Wednesday heightened security alert due to "continued risk of significant air attacks" by Russia on Ukraine.
Morons are governing America. When this retaliation comes, I somehow doubt that it will come in the form, or at the time, that they are expecting. And now,
Hegseth Orders Gay-Rights Icon's Name Erased From Navy Ship In Epic Pride-Month Troll
You can't even make this dreck up: nobody would believe it.
On edit: the original link would appear to have been cancelled- when I went to check it this morning, it was gone. I've corrected it above with a new link.
Let's see how long it takes for this one to get cancelled.
Comments
Gotta be out there somewhere
Good morning
Are we there yet?
Zionism is a social disease
I thought Bono found what he was looking for
when he became George W.'s buddy and pal:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bono-george-w-bush-world-a...
"It's time for a revolution, but probably not in the terms that people imagine it" -- Frank Zappa
Good morning, Cap'n!
I need more coffee to get rollin', but wanted to start with this:
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Searching for that second cup of java
.
Thanks for the tunage.
This may help getting the percolator going.
Zionism is a social disease
Good morning otc. Wonderful choice. Great morning song.
Have always loved the Coasters, even when they were the Robins.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Every time I hear it,
I remember how my Dad just got the biggest kick out of that tune.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
I found this link
over at MoA. It's a long read about the fall of the USSR and He's take on what's going to bring the fall of the US. https://emmanueltodd.substack.com/p/diverging-populisms
Have seen the associations
.
betwixt the USSR and USSA collapse.
Critical mass? Hope more wake up.
Zionism is a social disease
I've been listening to Jeff Rich's discussions
...of Emmanuel Todd's work for a few months. I read the article at the link. I tend to agree with many of his observations, particularly those that are factual. I think his observations about Protestant religion and technology are off base. As is his inference that the nihilism is the third stage of a decline of a moral and cultural ethic that Protestantism represented, for example promoting a work ethic and the value of education.
Nihilism is a concomitant of racism and imperialism. It's that simple, nihilism in this respect, accompanied so called protestant morality. Of course, it accompanied Catholicism as well. The nihilism of excessive greed and lust for power is the concomitant of the gross inequality in the US, the associated tax structure, the attack on government and educational institutions, the insane unending wars, the hollowing out of the economy, etc. Trump doesn't represent a revolution, although he may be symbolic of US collapse, he is the pretense of revolution, the flailing theater of panic and reaction. I agree with Todd it's too late to reindustrialize.
I think the declining number of engineering graduates in relative terms was based on a class system, that refused to pay for the effort, and in lieu of that promoted a false claim, that eventually you're participation in the free market would lead to an eventual compensation for the massive investment in time and effort required. In addition was the opportunity cost of becoming an engineer, especially in the academic stage of one's life, where study of other areas are neglected as a practical matter. Liberal arts and Fine arts on the other hand produced a proximate aesthetic or cultural reward, even though, the financial rewards were essentially non-existent.
The actual pay of engineers at a critical stage of industrial competition in the world just as the Japanese and German competition was becoming fierce and presenting the "free trade" challenge, just wasn't worth the effort. This reflected the generally exploitative nature of the US class structure, which didn't really value, education at all, but only claimed it did. The attitude today seems to be if we need people to study science, medicine, or engineering, we'll just import them. This is just another kind of labor arbitrage.
語必忠信 行必正直
Todd argues:
'Course, Trump is merely laying the ground for a revolution, one which has been brewing since the Biden genocide...
"It's time for a revolution, but probably not in the terms that people imagine it" -- Frank Zappa
Good moning...
Got out early to mow the trail system and road edges. Been trying to mow an hour or two every morning until I get the jungle tamed. More rain due this weekend, but I'm not complaining.
As to searches, even Duck Duck Go seems compromised. I always get MSM sites on any topic. No Duran, Corbett, Jimmy, nor the judge unless I add their site directly. You have to go to trusted sites and look for yourself....like la58 MoA link above. Automatic Earth has been down since Sunday. He may be ill. He was having health issues.
Garden is doing well, spending afternoons processing and freezing. Plus I've got the road in good shape after 12" of rain in May. So I'm feeling pretty good about going into summer despite being out of town for two weeks.
Hope you find what you're searching for, and thanks for the OT!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
The digital engines
which restrict our views all seem to fall into
the same algorithm. Duck was refreshing for
while. Qwant was OK at first. Now, if I want something
of a more meaningful sort, Yandex seems to work well.
Personally, will avoid Google at any cost.
Glad to hear you are getting on top of the landscape.
Zionism is a social disease
I've been reading substacks more and more
or those that are free anyway.
DK and Dem Underground are the same as here except they are Dem party supporting.
The thing with the drones and the aircraft has to be causing consternation amongst the defence billion dollar industry. Hundreds of billion industry I should say. For the cost of an F 35 you could buy 50,000 drones. It didn't cripple the Russian ability to deliver rockets on Kiev but I'm sure it stung. They aren't making more of those aircraft.
Just sold some stock. Time to hunker down a little. Building a tiny house which is fun. Concrete block foundation of late. I knew nothing about block laying, at least the wall is less than 4' high.
It
Block work goes pretty fast
.
once the foundation is properly set.
Compared to rock with my skill level.
Amazes me how the foundations have held up
so well after almost 300 years.
Good luck
Zionism is a social disease
I searched my funny files
'I believe you're looking for this'
'Searching for the right answer'
MAGA
Morons
Are
Governing
America
In today's cheery news,
there's this chestnut:
https://archive.ph/ZrIiD
A lot of the article focuses on the money that we'll be wasting on Trump's Golden Condom Boondoggle, which will definitely be going the way of Ronzo's Star Wars eventually. I suspect that we'll have ceased to exist as a nation-state before even the first bits of it are off the drawing board, as we are blitzed by asymmetrical warfare with cheap drones. But some of the information about our actual capabilities, or the lack of them, is useful information.
I could care less about securing the skies abroad. What we will need isn't F-35s, or even newer 294675th-gen fighters at a trillion dollars a pop: we will need a bunch of old, slow Cessna 172s, with 12-ga shotguns loaded with birdshot under the wings, to do area denial in the middle of drone swarms...
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Which begs the question
.
as to why the current empire tries to control
the friendly skies of other nations? Dunno but
space is the place if they want domination. It is
now a communications and ET domain. Ask Musk.
Zionism is a social disease
Absolutely right.
We are so busy "projecting power", and acting as the world's Big Brother, that the vast majority of our active tactical forces are located elsewhere. No joy.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
I’ve been peeling the truth onion
one layer after another for decades, to no avail. Talk about doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result!
And then comes a Congress critter’s brutal eructation that stopped me cold: “We’re all going to die.” Eureka!
That’s it! My sticky wicket; that which I have been unable to make sense of, nor to accept.
Perhaps if I can abandon my urge to try to ‘make sense of’ this apparently obvious reality, and instead focus on accepting the inevitability of my pending expiration date, I might find a different result and be able to get on with enjoying what’s left of my life; with joyful abandon and gratitude.
Me thinks it is worth a try.
“The story around the world gives a silent testimony:
— The Beresovka mammoth, frozen in mud, with buttercups in his mouth…..”
The Adam and Eve Story, Chan Thomas 1963
Totally agree
.
Passed that rubicon awhile back.
Once passed expectations, the way ahead
is relatively straight forward.
Cheers
Zionism is a social disease
And we have
this one as well:
https://archive.ph/xc6je
Sure, that's one way to look at it. However, the other way is to realize that there are no jobs, nor will there be, and the entire purpose of higher education has been deprecated- why go to college if everything will be done by AI?
Our last remaining export product is "wholesale death", so the only remaining growth area in employment terms is "cannon fodder".
Somehow, I have a hard time seeing this as a positive development. However, if population reduction is the goal, we're definitely doing the right things here lately.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Perhaps if todays youth consider
.
'the trades' as a viable path forward
they may have a better future?
Less debt anyway. Dirty work pays.
Zionism is a social disease
Good morning Cap'n Q. Thanks for the OT. When searching for
"just something", one is, no doubt, really searching for Tathegate, and, regarding said search, some Zen master once opined that it is akin to riding an ox in search of an ox.
I highly reccommend a deep and thoughtful dive into Lewis Carrol's The Hunting of The Snark (An Agony in Eight Fits) which I have perused repeatedly in my psycho wanderings. A written copy may be found here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43909/the-hunting-of-the-snark. In searching for that, ironically enough, I found a link to a recitation thereof which I've never listened to, but perehaps might over lunch, if I get lunch today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F_Cd4sKMo8
It is, of course, about being, and, ends, oddly enough, with nothingness, while pre-dating Sartre's work by quite some time.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
She's searching for it
Simone Chun
Korea’s Democratic Revolution of Light: A Mandate for Sovereignty and Justice
Thanks for the OT Q!
How do you translate 此地无银三百两 into English?
Amusing folk story. "Nothing to see here folks."
Douglas Edelman rose from owning a bar in Kyrgyzstan to winning $7 billion in defense contracts
語必忠信 行必正直
I agree with Sabby
.
The increasing censorship around the Israeli genocide has been ramping up since 10/7. Pro Palestinian protesters are called Hamas sympathizers and next anti Zionist is called antisemitism.
After the 2 Jews were killed the statement free Palestine is the new Heil Hitler and now we have the attack on Jews being called attacks on Zionists. Pffft!
Being anti genocide means that it is not acceptable to genocide any people. Period. How long until pro Palestinian protesters are charged with terrorism like it is in Europe? Not long I’m sure. Rubio wants to make it impossible for foreign students to leave the country if they have said anything critical of Israel. Isn’t that tyranny?
Does the Boulder attack make any sense? And why are the attacks being done now after 20 months and not during the 20 months of the genocide?
The message echoes from Gaza back to the US. “Starving people is fine.”
Really? You don't say!
Who could possibly have foreseen such a thing.
https://archive.ph/h5olT
Morons are governing America. When this retaliation comes, I somehow doubt that it will come in the form, or at the time, that they are expecting. And now,
we wait.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
And, as a final
digit-to-the-sky, this comes out at the end of the day:
https://archive.ph/xVcCQ
You can't even make this dreck up: nobody would believe it.
On edit: the original link would appear to have been cancelled- when I went to check it this morning, it was gone. I've corrected it above with a new link.
Let's see how long it takes for this one to get cancelled.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.