Your BBC cartoon is bitterly true. I generally check the lies by earphones/radio daily, and the focus on trivial is SOP, as is emotion…The government re-transmits BBC “nuz) as a “public service” sort of thing.

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Coincidental, it seems, to fascist and nazi character is sexual perversion and homoerotic iconography…the general idea being that it’s not mere coincidence, but a vivid manifestation of a pathogenesis in progress. Burroughs and N Lunch…and naturally Visconti’s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Damned_(1969_film) …and we may glimpse an American theme in Scorpio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpio_Rising_(film) …………. K Anger, in another story, tells of the Great James Dean of American movie iconography…and yeah…the whole pervert scene in Hollywood. I always thought the head shots were campy.

It’s no great insight to say “pathogenesis”, is it?

I suffered in discomfort through part of Damned… and Rising.  The folks from Essen and Manchester’s book on the family – manifestly pirates and crazy. It’s interesting what did not get bombed, eh? I think Visconti’s thesis is convincing. I was very impressed.

Meantime a wonder-place> Dzungarian Gate and Herodotus’ mythical Hyperboreans…

https://thecradle.co/article-view/25429/the-sultan-20-will-heavily-tilt-east

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzungarian_Gate#References

No doubt that the fascists will, having heard of the Hyperboreans, now bomb them…Arctic “Ford” excursion on the job. Yes, they’re navigationally impaired, but they’re ever so exceptionally inclusive of fools…lighthouses better move outtadaway!

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Italian bees are nice and even-tempered.

Best!

Noting that the feelings of betrayal sometimes manifest in irrational form. Such is the way of men and women, and a driver of events that’s dangerously difficult, sometimes.

The old, and somewhat imaginary California of Steinbeck’s youth – well there were still some left-overs. I agree with him about not deserving the Nobel, but I also enjoy his prose for its easy moral seas. His lexicon and my own milk-tongue fit happily. Mother knew people that knew John socially, and said that the man was not very pleasant to engage with, but if so, he’s very easy to read.

Criticism> https://libres.uncg.edu/ir/asu/f/Bradbury_Mark_2007_The_Moon_Is_Down.pdf

Text> https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.115885/2015.115885.John-Steinbeck-The-Moon-Is-Down_djvu.txt

It’s a white propaganda sketch, really, of morality and contrasts. Full of tasty bits. “The people? The people can do nothing, they’re disarmed”…and And Hunter said grimly, “It might be any one of
five men. I got all five.” He went on musingly, “It’s
so easy to wreck a dynamo if you know how. Just
short it and it wrecks itself” He said, “The light ought ought
to be on any time now.”

(note the foreshadowing dual meaning, “light”. Old John was too innocent to see the war properly, but he sure teased out the singularities of Change and moral stress. The sketch was done for OSS, btw)

The psyop in the political-emotional realm inside US against these imaginary “far right whateverers” would presumably be used to make matters even worse…look at the poor people locked up for visiting by police invitation “the People’s House”, no habeas…no right even to life…”just short it and it wrecks itself”, and it has done. And now they’re trying to stop Time… “strong delusion, that they should believe a lie. ” (Paul) or the good old standby> Quos Jupiter perdere vtult prius dementat.

Nice day to garden…

Best! P

Mr b @ MOA addresses AI from an evidently well-informed view>

https://archive.ph/qThI4  “‘Artificial Intelligence’ Is (Mostly) Glorified Pattern Recognition”

Nifty essay.

Maybe it’s crazy to try to use AI for violence, for controlling gadgets and gizmos, oh! Wait! The are crazy…

Best! P

One chance to get it right…”We just don’t know… it is so hair-raising our moment in time. There’s gonna be only one chance to get it right, and defuse it, and prevent the crazed from activating Samson Options in their spiteful agony. I really wish our diplomats well. They will really need to thread the Eye of the Needle.”

Me too. The switch-bounce model – a bit like Mod #1 Type #1 test that has to work on the first shot, it can fry a little, but it has to work.

Respecting bad luck, “Missiles of Okinawa”  ie Sampson may not occur as option, but as fubar or rat-phuck.

The fella with the dead car, his father is older than I, and lonely. 4 years in Vietnam war running an M-60 from a Huey. Entirely unsophisticated save by Time’s lessons. He sees the condition almost clearly, and despairs for the Future of the US, as the US, in his eye, has disappeared already…  Couldn’t care less about Russia, sees Putin as a leader he wishes the US had. He’s near to death. And almost content, awaiting his release. The car belongs to his son. They’re both just at the doorstep, so to say. You know what he saw. He accepts the betrayal with resignation, but doesn’t forget. He can’t..

Note Turner and Moldova invite extended to nazito to c’mon in and git that ammo…rather risible. Indeed, c’mon in the water’s fine, let us see just how deep…how is that tar baby anyway… The wisdom of cultures always brings a smile. Is that paint wet? Right. Phuckaroundandfindout 101, active freshman exercise.

In Kosovo rodeo 101st Airborne seen amongst the “piece-keepers”, one fella anyway. They say the Bondstealbase is a site for special pharmaceutical contraband…money on the table? When not?

Simplicius has a long post with much substance, and weight.

Indeed, let’s keep the dialogue in buoyant stability (fun>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacentric_height)  A useful model for dialogue, rather, imho!

Best! P

AHH, My Brother! Bless his memory. Thanks.

Yes, probably, guerrilla for a time. However g war requires outside support to endure, which limits it. The young are certainly primed for violence. All my life the Western media and films have flogged direct violence as the best method and first choice to “resolve” conflict, and now the people are sick and drugged, and exchanged .22 zipguns for nice .40 or 9mm automatics. It’s quite to be expected that they shoot one another so readily. Proper safety and sober rules ? It is prohibited to teach these things about guns to the young.

The losses so far exceed the ability to pay for them that it’s obvious that the asset to be forfeited isn’t going to be gold or taxed wealth, as there won’t be. As Hudson says, debts that can’t be paid, are not paid.

The idea of dissolution of a State in law had not really occurred to me. Such a process would presumably involve the auction block liquidation of assets: “…What am I bid for a classic old timey minuteman XS22-A nuclear rocket, complete with silo and bomb?”  “How much for Alaska?” Oh, that’s already gone… Successor states do not automatically bear the debts of previous states, but generally affirm them. It’s an optional matter. In the example of the US, I expect, the debts would devolve in apportionment to the surviving States, according to population by the last census. Each State might either dissolve or not, but I do not think that they’d have to affirm the debts to be burdened by them.

The OBOR project scheme includes rail under Bering S and N_S dual lines through North and South America…though that portion can’t yet be built. The implications are obvious. Some portions of land may be contaminated by the war, surveyors may have to lay out new routes.

Noting that the war sets the scenes for the Peace, if the war is properly pursued.

People who can leave ruins, tend to leave the ruins. The very old and very young cling to the wreckage.

Speaking of States> amusing short Ruski comedy> https://twitter.com/i/status/1663491047836508160  The audience is in this example, and generally, what interests me – what they find to be of focused character. I like the bit about the broken pipe!

To-day I expect to sweat fixing the neighbor’s car…poor fella…his bowels are devouring themselves…bag and some ragged surgery…peritonitis, and minus 50 pounds in a month. It’s a mitzvah thing. help the sick. Probably a waste of time, but necessary to help anyway. Nice guy too, and he was quite fit a few months ago, and he has no significant “bad habits”, as we might put it. The “medical system” here eats people for money, much of the time. My WAG is contaminated food and water, as in farm chemicals and sugars, and natural variation – some people get sick before  others of course. Maybe the jibbiejabs too, I didn’t ask… It doesn’t matter. He’s way over his head in process. I see many people much younger than I who are chronically ill, ruined. And it seems generally environmental, people get sick and die in accord with how they live.

So, AHH, your Father was seriously on the lamb? Three continents! Very good! I did once date a Roma girl who was wanted by Interpol, but that was trivial. She was a genuine (small time smuggler) rogue, youthful misadventure an’ all of that stuff. I applaud your dear Father!

Enough rambling. Best! P

Still considering Moral Question. I’m fairly satisfied about criminal aspect = zero on the part of the people who were taken for a ride. But that doesn’t really satisfy the bigger questions in the situation, not in my view. Perhaps that matter moves toward tort law and into diplomatic and political forms, procedures to come.

S&G question there was no tort, simply crime.

But the questions of debt and toutious responsibility> Thoughts.

Most Jewish Law has to do not with crime, but torts. Private wrongs. This is where we get “eye for eye, tooth for tooth”…it’s not cruelty, it’s apportionment, proportionality, balance.  This underlies the 51% rule, btw.

If a State plans a war of aggression and…(Nurembeg et sec..) and that State wages such a war and causes damage to others, that State may be held to account for reparations, damages… Just as Moshe would have to build a new barn for David if Moshe had destroyed said barn, but it would depend on whether the fire was accidental, mitigating circumstances, etc…

US Law, which would continue to function, we presume, grants the Federal State the right to tax both consumption (liquor, etc) for the purpose of raising revenue and direct tax that must be apportioned – arguments run to apportionment according to Congressional representation. Interesting the “Federalist Papers (Hamilton I think, #41?) strongly implies that no taxation is permitted for purposes other than revenue. (Noting that this promise is not kept, try buying a machine gun, and cigarettes are taxed to discourage smoking, etc.)

Following this path permits the US to tax the people for the purpose of paying damages levied upon the State in Treaty Law.

Après la guerre, il y aura un règlement des dettes. If anybody in the US has anything at all.

Anyway, the responsibility is born by the State or its successor, and that body is capable unlimited direct taxation, so long as it’s apportioned according to Law. Losing wars is a fair lesson as to why one ought to avoid them, somebody gets whupped.  Better to do fair business and drink together, of course, but pirates are pirates as scorpion is scorpion, or sociopaths are to sociopaths…etc.

The “allies” would have their own levies, I imagine, and do what they too would be obliged to do, tax, pay…

The US may be obliged to “pay” with Alaska…in part, tere’s the Fort and the River too, and they may have to give back northern Mexico…and gitmo, btw,

We shall see. Best! P