A new day I never seen before nor will I ever again. Be glad in it.

Good morning, earthlings. I send greetings.

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Today In History

They invented the printing press out on the plain this morning; Constantinople fell in the afternoon. I suppose they’ll discover America tomorrow. What a lot of running around they do. I saw Charles VIII of France (invasion of Italy led by: 1494) picking his nose with one hand and adjusting his wig with the other. Jetter pointed out that this particular period ended with the diet of Worms.

Today's Economists

With the invention of money by the Lydians in the seventh century before Christ the possibility of profit spread, and as soon as there was profit, there were people who wanted to make it, more than they wanted to make anything else. And whenever there is more money to be made from money than from anything else, the energies of the state are likely to be devoted increasingly to the production of money, for which there is no community need, to the exclusion of those commodities that are required for health, physical well-being, and contemplation. Whenever there is more money than products to buy with money, much money will be spent to buy more money. Banking will wax predominant, the number of lawyers and accountants will increase, and the society will become disorganized and weak.

There will be many who flourish in this environment of finance, and a great many more who can go straight to hell.

Profit motive” means very simply: you give less than you take. If you give less than you take, you grow mean and stingy. Everybody suffers. Morality is totally impossible.

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The Greeks are taking their money from the banks, and "at an unprecedented rate." And this is not the first time. In May of 2012 the people Bush II famously called "the Grecians" withdrew 894 million euros in a single day. Between January 2010 and March 2012, the Grecians pulled out of the banks nearly one-third of all the money that had previously resided there.

This is all a good thing. For the money doesn't need to be in the banks. As the banks are not safe.

Once upon a time banks were sold as a safer place to put money than under the mattress at home. But this is no longer true. And the Greeks know it. Which is why with their money they are going to the mattresses. Today, one is more likely to be robbed if their money is in the bank, than if it is at home. The bank may refuse to give you your money when you ask for it, as the banks today threaten in Greece. And even on calmer days, the bank will take your money, and mix it with other people's money, and then go out and commit with it fearsome crimes that will cause human suffering all over the world, meanwhile running up five times more debt than in all the world there is money.

The Greeks were invented before money, and never have they really trusted it. Too, banks are an invention of the Italians, who, from Mummius to Mussolini, have caused the Greeks nothing but trouble.

So all of the money needs to come out of all of the banks, and the banks be put to sleep. The bank buildings can be transformed into housing, and the bankers themselves can turn to something socially useful, like cleaning fish, or laying pipe.

News From The Planet Of The Apes

Serial killers in the United States military say the civilians need to get out of the way and let them lay in a bunch of Big Guns in Eastern Europe and the Baltics. Meanwhile Vlad The Man says he needs to add 40 long-range missiles to Russia's nuclear arsenal. Each says they must do what they must do Because the Other is Bad.

i don't think there are any russians
and there ain't no yanks
just corporate criminals
playing with tanks

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Amnesty International reports that all 50 states, there in the United States, fail to meet global police use-of-force standards. There in them states, says Amnesty's Steven Hawkins, seethes a "shocking lack of fundamental respect for the sanctity of human life."

The United Nations meanwhile reports that some 59.5 million human beings currently are refugees from war. Half of these are children. And contrary to the blubberings of rightbent racist European whiners, these people are not being absorded by Whiteland; Ethiopa and Kenya, for instance, accept far more refugees than does, say, Britain and France.

Yesterday, Friday, June 19, was Juneteenth. This marks the first public celebration of the erasure of black slavery in the United States, which occurred on June 19, 1866 in Texas. Henry Louis Gates writes about it here. He concludes:

Of all Emancipation Day observances, Juneteenth falls closest to the summer solstice (June 21), the longest day of the year, when the sun, at its zenith, defies the darkness in every state, including those once shadowed by slavery. By choosing to celebrate the last place in the South that freedom touched—reflecting the mystical glow of history and lore, memory and myth, as Ralph Ellison evoked in his posthumous novel, Juneteenth—we remember the shining promise of emancipation, along with the bloody path America took by delaying it and deferring fulfillment of those simple, unanticipating words in Gen. Granger’s original order No. 3: that “This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves.”

Dylann Storm Roof (a name guaranteed to fate one to eventually be seated in the back of a police vehicle), he didn't believe in black people, and so he shot some. Besides being a racist rat bastard, Roof is additonally emblematic of that plague terrorizing the Americans that consists of ur-humans living in fear who clutch to their bosoms killing machines. These are the sadsacks with guns. They are a distinct minority among the Americans, but they are loud, and aggressive, and ofttimes stone crazy. And, like Roof, they are disproportionately white, male, and Southern. This white male Southerness is also disproportionate among the serial killers of the United States military. As in Gomer Kyle, the cowardly back-shooter. As in Eddie Routh, the cowardly back-shooter who cowardly back-shot the cowardly back-shooter Gomer Kyle. As in William Calley, whom William Styron described as "banal, stunted in mind and body, colorless, lacking even a native acumen, with an airless, dreary brain devoid of wit." As Styron's own "regular gunnery sergeant, a mortar specialist, who carried in his dungaree pocket two small shriveled dark objects about the size of peach pits. When I asked him what they were he told me they were 'Jap's nuts.' He had removed them with a bayonet from an enemy corpse on Tarawa and had set them out at the end of a dock under the blazing sun where they quickly became dried like prunes. The sergeant was highly regarded in the company and I soon got used to seeing him fondle his keepsakes whenever he got nervous or pissed off, stroking them like worry beads." As in this fellow:

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Ta-Nehisi Coates notes that Roof honored his beloved Confederate flag in the most precisely right way possible: by killing black people.

The Confederate flag’s defenders often claim it represents “heritage not hate.” I agree—the heritage of White Supremacy was not so much birthed by hate as by the impulse toward plunder. Dylann Roof plundered nine different bodies last night, plundered nine different families of an original member, plundered nine different communities of a singular member. An entire people are poorer for his action. The flag that Roof embraced, which many South Carolinians embrace, does not stand in opposition to this act—it endorses it. That the Confederate flag is the symbol of white supremacists is evidenced by the very words of those who birthed it:

"Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth."

This moral truth—“that the negro is not equal to the white man”—is exactly what animated Dylann Roof. More than any individual actor, in recent history, Roof honored his flag in exactly the manner it always demanded—with human sacrifice.

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Finally, kangaroos are left-handed, plastics eat sperm, bees are more valuable to the British economy than the royal family, and Venus is leaking lava.

That's all, folks. Adios till next Saturday.

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