vote early, vote commie

DHS compiled an intelligence report suggesting hackers linked to the Russian government could have targeted voter-related websites in many states and then leaked a sensational story of Russian attacks on those sites without the qualifications that would have revealed a different story. When state election officials began asking questions, they discovered that the DHS claims were false and, in at least one case, laughable.
    -- Gareth Porter

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Mars

I don't know about you, but I am buying stock in Tesla. Maybe, just maybe, Elon will take us shareholders with him when he leaves for Mars. I envision a massive fleet of Tesla roadsters- a shareholder at the wheel of each one- casting its giant shadow across the surface of Mars as we de-accelerate into orbit.
    -- db desgnr

FutBawl !!!!

Lest we forget, college FB starts this weekend. Let the glorious games begin as millions of proud patriotic Americans stock up on beer and weenies and heroic [support our] troops amass under the goal posts ready to take the field waving "old glory" as the helicopter gunships thunder overhead. Oh, the spectacle!

rip. McCain

John McCain’s legacy represents an unparalleled example of human decency and American service.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, August 27, 2018

McCain did not simply thunder for every major intervention of the post-Cold War era from the Senate floor, while pushing for sanctions and assorted campaigns of subterfuge on the side. He was uniquely ruthless when it came to advancing imperial goals, barnstorming from one conflict zone to another to personally recruit far-right fanatics as American proxies.
    -- Max Blumenthal

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retarded

If a person is somehow able to mathematically chart a course for himself to a distant, freezing planet, having helped mastermind the destruction of his own, we somehow consider this development an achievement milestone, more noteworthy than the realization that capitalism makes us dumb in ways that destroys all potential for survival anywhere. So dumb, in fact, that we are “triggered” by the only word that adequately describes it, rather than the phenomenon itself.
   -- Jennifer Matsui

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a a bondy full concert

fuck reality, we need a parade

It’s begun.  Leading the parade is someone that looks a lot like Hillary, dressed in demure light blue sackcloth. She has to be first; Hillary’s always on his mind, even now, two years after. Besides, everybody hates her these days: the left for losing, the right for winning, and those in between because everybody else does.  She’s bent over, with three lap-tops draped around her neck, struggling to maintain balance.  Behind her, in black pajamas, is Sebastian Gorka with a hickory cane, avidly administering lashes.  If it seems a little Sharia like: lighten up; it’s a celebration!  There’s cheering (Lock Her Up!), and thunderous applause coming from both sides of the avenue.  Off to one side and keeping pace, husband Bill appears to be shaking hands and mingling with the crowd.  Up in his box, the president stands with arms crossed, his head bobbing; grinning from ear to ear.

    -- Vern Loomis

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back to 'reality'

The long awaited Syrian army campaign to liberate Idleb governorate in Syria's northwest is supposed to start shortly after September 7, the date when the Turkish, Russian and Iranian presidents will meet. Strong forces have been put into place and are ready to strike. The Russian fleet in the Mediterranean has been strengthened, new air defense positions were established.
There are signs that al-Qaeda in Syria and similar groups will try to preempt the upcoming attack on them by an offense of their own. The U.S., UK and France prepare for another chemical incident in support of the Jihadi attack. They would strike Syrian government forces and institutions after a new fake incident would be attributed to the Syrian government.

-- Posted by b on August 26, 2018

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cowboys on dope

the blood-spattered bug squash that started WW3?

There's always Korla Plankton
Him 'n me can play the blues
An' then I'll watch him buff that
Tiny ruby that he use
He'll straighten up his turban
An' eject a little ooze
Along a one-celled Hammond Organism
Underneath my shoes
    -- Frank Zappa, Ex-centrifugal Forz

Kim Jung Un Checklist (no order!):

• what is tiny blob sticking out from under DT's shoe?
• nuke Atlanta- CNN retribution?
• man crush- Donald Trump!
• monitor DT twitter full text feed
• confer with Dennis Rodman
• Review with my scientists- NK missile readiness
• Review with my generals- Battle Plan

Have you ever been old?

well, I have.
let me prove it too you.....

goin' bozo

“You’ve got to be crazy. It’s too late to be sane. Too late. You’ve got to go full-tilt bozo ’cause you’re only given a little spark of madness, and if you lose that…you’re nothing. Note, from me to you…Don’t ever lose that, ’cause it keeps you alive.”
    -- Robin Williams

nemesis

“We’re the experiment that the biosphere is running now. A hundred million years ago, it was grassland. Grasslands were a new evolutionary innovation. They changed the planet, changed how the planet worked. Then the planet went on and did things with it. Industrial civilization is the latest experiment. We will keep being a part of that experiment or, with the way that we’re pushing the biosphere, it will just move on without us.”
    -- Adam Frank, Professor of Astrophysics, University of Rochester

...mathematical models for the future of the planet have three trajectories. One is a massive die-off of perhaps 70 percent of the human population and then an uneasy stabilization. The second is complete collapse and extinction. The third is a dramatic reconfiguration of human society to protect the biosphere and make it more diverse and productive not for human beings but for the health of the planet. This would include halting our consumption of fossil fuels, converting to a plant-based diet and dismantling the animal agriculture industry as well as greening deserts and restoring rainforests.
    -- Chris Hedges

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trees

“This is not our world with trees in it. It's a world of trees, where humans have just arrived.” 
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

walkin'

space is the place...

...for Donald Trump

the Trump campaign organization sent out an email asking supporters to choose between six Space Force logos that were depicted. “President Trump wants a Space Force—a groundbreaking endeavor for the future of America and the final frontier,” wrote Brad Parscale, campaign manager of “Donald J. Trump for President, 2020.” “To celebrate President Trump’s huge announcement, our campaign will be selling a new line of gear.” He asked backers pick “your favorite logo.”
    -- Karl Grossman

In very concrete terms Trump’s step towards a Space Force simply connects the dots laid in place by the politer and more articulate administrations came before him as he moves us into a world where space more openly becomes a warfare platform.  But we should expect a culture so deeply embedded in a political economy of warfare and militarization to try and do no less than to extend its militarized vision beyond our atmosphere reaching to militarize the universe.
    -- David Price

is this a great country or what?

In this great country you can buy a six-pack of Big Ditch Brewery's Haymarket American IPA that was canned 8 days ago. Fresh. From the Vat. That is American Exceptionalism and/or Democracy at it's finest. party on.

Ishi’s fire

“No state in the Union surpassed the Golden State in systematically and shamelessly harassing, murdering, and stealing from its native inhabitants”. 
    --Karl Kroeber

“There were productive, expansive grasslands not only along the coasts, in the Central Valley, and in montane meadows but also in the open understories of many woodlands and forests throughout the state that had been perpetuated by Indian burning”. It was the replacement of a mosaic of Indian lifeways and their managed wildlands with the uniformly materialist, rapacious and ecologically ignorant American monoculture with its factory farming, forestry practices, irrigation, industrialization and urban sprawl along with steel and concrete transport corridors that have created the conditions (yes, exacerbated by global warming) for the California conflagrations.

    -- John Davis

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wake up

Eating seeds as a pastime activity
The toxicity of our city, of our city

wake up

what to do next....

Sheldon Wolin, 1922-2015

The elements are in place [for a quasi-fascist takeover]: a weak legislative body, a legal system that is both compliant and repressive, a party system in which one party, whether in opposition or in the majority, is bent upon reconstituting the existing system so as to permanently favor a ruling class of the wealthy, the well-connected and the corporate, while leaving the poorer citizens with a sense of helplessness and political despair, and, at the same time, keeping the middle classes dangling between fear of unemployment and expectations of fantastic rewards once the new economy recovers. That scheme is abetted by a sycophantic and increasingly concentrated media; by the integration of universities with their corporate benefactors; by a propaganda machine institutionalized in well-funded think tanks and conservative foundations; by the increasingly closer cooperation between local police and national law enforcement agencies aimed at identifying terrorists, suspicious aliens and domestic dissidents.

--Sheldon Wolin, May 2003

breakdown

the downward spiral?

Collective human action is required to steer the Earth System away from a potential threshold and stabilize it in a habitable interglacial-like state. Such action entails stewardship of the entire Earth System—biosphere, climate, and societies—and could include decarbonization of the global economy, enhancement of biosphere carbon sinks, behavioral changes, technological innovations, new governance arrangements, and transformed social values.

Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene

no one is paying attention to this

USGCRP, 2017: Climate Science Special Report: A Sustained Assessment Activity of the U.S. Global Change Research Program

lest we forget

....the real goal of an attack on Iran would be to bomb Iran back into a pre-revolutionary era and to punish the Iranian people for supporting the “wrong” regime thus daring to defy the AngloZionist Empire.  The Neocons could use Trump as a “disposable President” who could be blamed for the ensuing chaos and political disaster while accomplishing one of the most important political objectives of Israel: laying waste to Iran.  For the Neocons, this is a win-win situation: if things go well (however unlikely that is), they can take all the credit and still control Trump like a puppet, and if things don’t go well, Iran is in ruins, Trump is blamed for  a stupid and crazy war, and the Clinton gang will be poised to come back to power.

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the train wreck and deep adaptation

“Disruptive impacts from climate change are now inevitable. Geoengineering is likely to be ineffective or counter-productive. Therefore, the mainstream climate policy community now recognizes the need to work much more on adaptation to the effects of climate change… societies will experience disruptions to their basic functioning within less than ten years due to climate stress. Such disruptions include increased levels of malnutrition, starvation, disease, civil conflict and war – and will not avoid affluent nations.”

    -- Jem Bendell, Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy

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oh yeah

last good days

what were the last good days like?
Christy Rodgers

In the morning I drank coffee, black from a blue mug, and stood at the back door in the eastern light. Birdsong peppered the flowering shrubs. There was no sound of cars in the street.

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big sur

Best thing to do is not be false the rocks of the valley have no howl of complaint
And I'm just a sick clown and so is everybody else in Big Sur

sharing

Hear me out. I realize the idea of sharing may seem like a vulgarity to the sophisticated American mind, could rile a few people up. The mere suggestion of sharing without receiving something in return may tempt good capitalists of the world to spit on me in disgust, call me commie filth, and possibly launch a war against me – And maybe I have that coming, but just to play commie’s advocate for a moment I thought I’d address the extremely controversial idea of sharing.
    -- Jason Holland

is-sharing-ethical?

a a bondy