China Warship> In my wild days, for a time, I lived aboard a 6 ton steel river-boat, displacement hull with a strong V8, and quite comfy. After some hull modifications she was a formidable and reactive maneuverable craft, and I became fairly adept at motorboat riverain maters. ( it was possible to turn her 180 without losing way, without changing vector, thus backing against prop thrust) And rules of the road…actually went to school and passed the courses and exams. Thus the video of the overtaking maneuver was a great pleasure. I put myself in ship C and ran the maneuver as though I’d had the con. C starboard overtaking N port, N became forced to reduce speed or ram. N chickened out. C did not. Technically, legalistically, C was at fault, iirc the Rules. Noting that the rules are not relevant to the encounter. (and recalling that in wild days I myself have done similar, for similar reasons to richguy boats… a big middle finger…riverainpolitics. And I have heard stories of people brandishing weapons afloat…) Stuff happens. Next time maybe no more Misterniceguy…

Best! Hot day a’comin’ an’ the old feller needs to get busy in the coolness. P

“Morinin’ Friends –

It’s a feature of symposium that new things come “poof!”, they were not, and then they are, so to say. Thus > …honest labour will for sure cure his insanity! The same goes for the entire western power elite... drags up thought about health and work, as in FxD/T work, possibly with axe or shovel.

If The Great Boris had been humbled and made strong by honest labour, would he be Boris? Among the convicts-to-be>  Bringt Arbeit Klarheit im Arbeitslager? Und Scham?

I’d like to have the agenda for Paris triparte meeting 12 June, the little fella and Olaf all round the Pole, so to say. Rubric “Plan R, Final”, no doubt. Anyway, ah got me a bad feelin’ about it.

I liked the bear cartoon. Thanks. Not knowing how to take still frames from old films, I don’t…but if I did…well great stills in a bad film that’s actually good- George Raft badly cast, London deserted, 1952 “I’ll Get You”…

Best! P

Western tools of Statecraft…(Very Droll!)………..the crime scene is endless and everywhere…reading on counter-rotating propellers and this came up>  “In 1957, British RAF Shackletons participated heavily during Jebel Akhdar War in Oman to expand the territory of the Sultanate, which was a de facto British colony, in order to gain access to oil wells in the interior parts of Oman. The RAF made 1,635 raids, dropping 1,094 tons and firing 900 rockets at the interior of Oman between July and December 1958 targeting insurgents, mountain top villages, water channels and crops in a war that remained under low profile.” Shameless, eh? Bald murder of helpless people to steal their stuff. There’s a name for that.

(the Shackleson used CR props…very sexy way to murder people.)

Mrs P dug-out from the soil red onions to-day.

serachterm > “die linke keine bomber uber unseren kopfen” (which is from a poster Sara W sent) Big demonstration. Meantime in, perhaps, memory of Otto John, the German Feds plan to “outlaw” AfD…which may give a bit of a boost to Die Linke. Grossman wrote to the plight of the German left, what’s left of it. All very nice of course. I’ll wait for the film.

Best! P

“They pissed away the work and inheritance of 500 years.”  Yes, but they have done this ever since, as Hudson tells us, the West become oligarchic, er “democratic”…the essence of which is compound interest and the lack of jubilee, if I understand his thesis. This may be the third cycle, maybe, depending on how one sees it. Probably the nastiest too.

“Most of the Global South has unblocked internet (and opened minds which can learn) and is watching rapt in real time. What is really dying on the Novorossiyan steppe is not the hapless remnants of the Ukies, but the West’s martial reputation…” [and vestige of moral reputation]

Yes, and not only to the South. In West the realization spreads and takes form according to, mostly, propaganda…but dismay is spreading…a factor that may become a feedback with “k>1” so to say. As I said, my generation was present at the (re)creation (n2.0) and has the fate of being also present at the destruction (n=0). A nice symmetric period, axial, in a sense. Perhaps it was appropriate that we studied the Roman and Greek, especially the Roman…so we would know what to expect.  Happily, I probably won’t miss it, it being I suppose the sacking…whatever that may look like…some say it’s happening now and I take their points. Where’s the border? Schrodinger’s border…look and it goes poof! Ducktestsack? Weeellll. Speaking of Latin and Change, I can easily recite the US pledge of allegiance in Latin… Oh how we were seduced…well, it worked for awhile.

Howard K. Smith, who was in Berlin until December of ’41 and had then fluent German, tells of Goebbels on  der (?) Volksempfänger screaming  einmalig in der geschichte! about the glorious nazi victories. Charming how we have these echos from the future uttered by the devils themselves. Of course, Brother, that future is now…and indeed einmalig in der geschichte! eh? (Smith was helpful, btw, in clearing up some questions about v. Luckner, whom Smith did not know, but frequently saw in Berlin…just during the period that the canon claims otherwise.)

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It does seem that Lady Vickie’s bigbigplan was/is to blow the dam and grab the NPP complex as hostage or indeed blow the NPP.

The little voice says that there may now be explosions in centers of command and control.

A tentative assumption is the the Russian intel people knew the plan. And the prospect was obvious, so the fellas will adapt. https://youtu.be/Kp1I55f-iHk (MilSummaryCh) describes the dam as a two level structure. Only the top portion is ruptured, he says. Vickie’s gloriousplan is probably already fubar, maybe kaputski…

Best! P

Mac Sweeney on Western Myth was quite fine, save for the unsupported last 4 para. Well, #4 was alright, mostly the 3 preceding para.

My understanding of the History dove-tails to hers. And my understanding of the present “values” runs to the values of The Damned and worse. I think at the end she’s paying service to a crowd. Viewing in realpolitik, so to say. Pretending, or maybe not. The academy can be brutal…one reason for existence is political control, of course.

She says> “…contemporary Western values such as liberal democracy, the rule of law, and equality of human rights; undeniably rooted in imperialism and white supremacy…”

I have not seen any Liberal Democracy for a long time, nor rule of law, etc…and I don’t see how, if these are bad, either mala in se or mala prohibita (due to unsupported claim of “roots”), it matters. Anyway, what’s wrong with rule of law and equality of rights? And how are these “bad”, is this some sort of “values racism”..”.like I didn’t like your daddy and I don’t care if you saved a kid from drowning, I still don’t like you”?

“If we want to…” and “What should we…” when referring to the West is just plain delusional, as it assumes political power is held by her class and cohort. It ain’t.

Now then, I do not assume that the Western Myth, whatever odd set of beliefs that may be, is not changing, an’ fast…partly, mostly, due to propaganda, like always. Partly due to technical gizmos…I’d include the campy dress-up under rubric “propaganda”…everywhere the icons burn…but it has nothing to do with “we need”. Rather otherwise…Du wirst die Käfer essen, so to say. Goebbels claimed he could make people believe just about anything.

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Hudson was superb. I’ll shall save pennies to buy the relevant tome. ($31+ buckies) I myself, you may imagine, eschew Augustine…Hudson gives the old fella a good take-down. I liked that. Schadenfreude, shame on me. Father and I would have had a disagreement about Augustine, something to discuss at any chance meeting…arm wrestling at “Abe’s Place” over bourbon and beers… Father took the Anglican view, aheemmm. They say I take after Mother…probably so, as that was a nutty family ‘way back. Heretics, Quakers, though Pop was of a Quaker line too. Anyway the Hudson interview with Ben Norton was thrilling.

Best! P

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