While a lot is made of the strikes shutting France down during Christmas week, it is interesting to note that it is a reaction to the latest moves by Macron against the working classes. And there are broad swathes of the country not really feeling the strikes at all.
December 16 is day 357 of the Gregorian Calendar year,
Boomtime, The Aftermath 65, 3185 YOLD (Discordian)
And let us not forget 13.0.7.1.18 by the Mayan Long Count
Sanders may be ethnically Jewish, but his rhetoric, voting history and associations have not reflected the values of a friend of Jewish people, but rather, the values of a coddler of anti-Semitic, racist and sexist bullies and villains. pic.twitter.com/WcqoTacYj6
First (boo hoo): recent technical difficulties cost me a whole essay disappearing into cyberspace. Sob. Here we try again.
According to a nationwide survey, nearly three out of four American households believe the country is facing a housing affordability crisis.
CAA protests in Nalbari, Dec. 20
I’ve been thinking of analogies such as Kristallnacht, then after more days of protests and police actions: pogroms. At this point, it’s become impossible for me not to write up, as grotesque as it is. Will the DoJ and Congress sanction the hell out of him and his government, and revoke Genocidaire Modi his American Visa as the GW Bush did? And make it permanent? Ah, but Obomba had let him in again with great fanfare and approbation, hadn’t he? Because: the market of 3.8 billion people for Silicon Valley? And DT loves him! BFFs with virtually conjoined hearts!
It began: ‘India adopts Hindu supremacist citizenship law’, Rohantha De Silva and Keith Jones, 13 December 2019, wsws.org
We are tied to the natural world in ways which we are unaware. Time is an odd concept constantly in flux....sunrise to sunset. As it passes the wheel of the year rolls ever faster...wearing ever smaller and gathering speed as it goes downhill. Perhaps it is our pagan past, but somehow this seems a time of year for reflection...like the god Janus looking forward and backward in time. For now the darkness passes and the light will grow. It is a time to celebrate across religions, cultures, and countries.
Naughty or Nice
It’s Yuletide, and this year I’m invoking one of my least favorite parts of the Christmas mythology.
I think of it as the Nicholas Spy Agency. Santa as the Deep State.
OK I guess I was set off by this piece written last year that popped up when I opened Mozilla. It comes from last year, but the filter misidentified it as recent.
“My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?” ~ Bob Hope
