Cold and wet again, so here's a certain small person enjoying the fire in deepest midwinter.
Time to put on the overcoat and go for a walk.
Keep warm everyone.
That's the title of a fairly philosophical essay at Counterpunch about why rational people are increasingly frustrated by the current forms of "argumentation". Because facts just don't matter any more, as we have seen repeatedly: DNC cheating, Hillary's emails, Syrian gas attacks, Skripal poisoning, Iran agreement withdrawl, accusations of unprovoked Iranian attacks (in the face of 100 self-admitted Israeli attacks on Iranian forces). The facts just don't matter.
If you thought Europe was onboard with Washington's efforts to isolate Russia, think again.
Not surprising, but even so, still disappointing. All content at BAR is listed as Creative Commons, so I’ll bring all of it. ‘Barber’s Sermon on Militarism Reveals Philosophical & Political Limitations of the Poor Peoples Campaign’, Bruce A. Dixon, BAR managing editor, 11 May 2018
Pretty awesome conversation on how the capitalistic system
is broken along with much everything else.
Colorado is getting ahead of the game by cutting the government worker's pension benefits. Wait it gets worse. They are also going to continue hiding the fees that they pay banks to manage the funds. These funds could be as much as $1 Billion Dollars!
Jeremy Corbyn’s personal approval rating has slumped, and the recent local elections were an indecisive wash.
Three months ago the Democrats were going to crush the Republicans.
Today the Democrats' lead is within the margin of error.
Israel has been bombing Syria for years. They've struck both Syrian and Iranian forces at least 100 times.
During all that time, Iran never struck back.
We can all stop worrying. "Bloody" Gina Haspel won't restart the CIA torture program if she becomes CIA director. At least that's what the headlines say.
What do red and blue represent?
Primary colors?
In politics it means DINOs and RINOs, blended together into in one ugly medley. Down the drain with ya! Pick it up and go.
Does anyone else remember how the Democrats' McResistance considers President Trump to be a tyrant and a fascist, and that he must be stopped because of this? A couple months ago Democrats in Congress went out of their way to give this scary guy domestic spying powers that would make Orwell turn over in his grave.
It was a very unusual way to "resist" Trump.
No matter what problem the US is facing, its always the Russians' fault. The Russian Interference (RI) theory, like the aether theory (see NOTE-A), while never supported by evidence, must be assumed as true if one is to publish in the corporate media. Therefore it is baffling, but not surprising, that the despicable John Brennan is being attacked for attacking Donald Trump for being a Russian stooge.
This week is a make-or-break week for NAFTA renegotiations.
If an agreement isn't reached then what will be left is a ‘Zombie NAFTA’.
This post will surprise no one, except my Aunt Alithea, who takes every one at their word and then at their leg. But this brief article is more fun than usual because of the two degenerates pictured in it. I say degenerates because I am assuming that at some remote time the Gruesome Twosome were possessed of morality--though all traces seemed to have vanished.
Kayne the Putin Puppet.
It had to happen sometime.
Kanye's recent coordinations with Trump, along with his use of inflammatory rhetoric and symbols (Confederate Flag) reek of "provokatsiya."
With the rebel's evacuation from Homs province, and the last rebel-held Damascus suburb, Assad's regime is now stable.
We've deployed special forces in Yemen at times to fight al-Qaeda.
That isn't a secret.
We've been assisting the Saudis and UAE with logistics for their horrific war crimes against the Houthis in Yemen.
That also isn't a secret.
But this is news.
I was reading a comment that stuck out to me (not on this site) from a self-described Democrat and "progressive" (which is a dead, co-opted term by neoliberal filth).
“shutting down fossil fuels”
What is the real story here?
Is there any story here at all or is it the nothingburger that some claim?
Outside of the raw data I can find very little professional analysis on the subject.
Anyone have any links to reputable source material on this?
It seems on the surface to Portend something big but I don't know enough about the sealed indictment process to sort conjectures from truths in the little I've been able to find...
Karl Marx has been proven accurate with his predictions on capitalism...
Marx believed the coming crisis would result from contradictions within the capitalist system itself, and predicted that these contradictions would become more and more acute as the capitalist system evolved. Over time, Marx writes, capital takes control over the handcraft production processes and later manufacture where the workers were in control of the work process, centralizing the workers into workshops and factories. Through the process of competing for markets, some firms win and others lose, capital becomes enlarged and centralized; science and technology are consciously used to improve the productivity of the workplace, thus throwing many out of work while creating new jobs in service to the machines. In the process of competing for markets, unsuccessful capitalists fall into the proletariat and all productive labor, worldwide, come ultimately within the capitalist system
...
In addition to the booms and busts of capitalism that swing wider as capitalism evolves there is a constant churning of employment as machines replace men in one industry after another, throwing thousands out of work, thus swamping the labor market and lowering the cost of labor. In all of this the labourers suffer. Mass production, machine technology, and economies of scale will increasingly be applied to all economic activities; unemployment and misery for many men and women results . As capitalism develops the system must necessarily create enormous differences in wealth and power. The social problems it creates in its wake of boom and bust—of unemployment and under employment, of poverty amidst affluence will continue to mount. The vast majority of people will fall into the lower classes; the wealthy will become richer but ever fewer in number.
http://www.faculty.rsu.edu/users/f/felwell/www/Theorists/Essays/Marx5.htm200 years- 5 May 1818
Trump's latest:
"Maybe we need to close up our country".
Where to begin?
