OH, WELCOME
Friday, July 31, 2009
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Embrace the virtual without thinking
ignore the images of the operating rooms
where the desperate humans
get arms chopped off, replaced with cyborg limbs,
forget that the machine is cancer,
or that a mini-black hole could be coming
forget that the economy is collapsing from the top,
that too much damage has been done for this not
to be a sure catastrophe.
Keep not demanding answers.
Don't let your thoughts stray too far,
don't let them conceive of things larger than you.
Forget that those windows and balconies are fake,
live the Disney architecture, live the car,
live the Internet, live the non-fate.
A VIEW OF KUZNETSK
Kuznetsk is one of those Soviet towns that was built by American engineers, like Magnitogorsk. I feel as if this picture came straight out of a dream of an alien planet.
GIRLS AS YOUNG AS 8
Friday, July 24, 2009
"I'm just another one of the prophets that went to jail for the Gospel," Alamo called to reporters as he was escorted to a waiting U.S. marshal's vehicle.CLICK
THE PANDEMIC
"Because so many more people are expected to catch the new flu, the number of deaths over two years could range from 90,000 to several hundred thousand, the CDC calculated."
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554,000
That was the number of new jobless claims for the week ending July 18.
I love how the government and the media hastens to tell everyone that the number is "distorted" by heavy layoffs in the auto industry. This reflects the government's general view that the auto industry and the people who work in it no longer exist; their plight is a lingering nuisance that unfortunately "distorts" data. We can't have that. Not now, when the "recession" is over, the recovery is underway and we're going to 15,000 on the Dow. People need to get in line.
(NOTE: The United States is in the beginnings of a Great Depression. There will be no lasting recovery.)
GIVE THANKS
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Thanks to the League of Nationsfor the universal color code on the streetlights
red
green
yellow
VANISHING POINTS, HAZY INFINITY
Monday, July 20, 2009
Things are revealed as great betrayals, power structures become alarmingly naked, utopias glimmer in distant valleys, automobiles kicking up dust, circling roundabouts
in Moscow Idaho for eternity.
Knowledge of our civilization's complicity
with the Soviets and Nazis,
knowledge of industrialism's ideological totality,
is enough to drive one insane
to distrust, in this present age,
all of reality.
I WENT FISHING IN GOOGLE BOOKS
And came up with this crystal, a book about the American influences on the Soviet Union. So apparently our culture was adored, baseball was briefly made into the national sport of Russia, and 100s of American companies realized the First Five-Year Plan for Stalin. That last point is considerabe, as Stalin's most oft-used architect, Albert Kahn, was also the foremost architect of America - known as the builder of Detroit.
During the First Five-Year-Plan, Kahn built 521 factories for Stalin, a merciless number. The communists paid massive commissions, and by 1933, after only three years of work, Kahn had taken in triple his revenues of the past thirty years in America.
A lot more on this bizarre historical episode in the coming days.
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INTERESTING HITLER QUOTE
"There is today one state," wrote Hitler, "in which at least weak beginnings toward a better conception [of immigration] are noticeable. Of course, it is not our model German Republic, but the United States."
Hitler was an admirer of America's eugenics establishment, which was a combination of capital from the Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations and crackpot racial ideologies of autonomous Anglo-Saxon occults in California. Thousands of innocent people were forcibly sterilized under eugenics programs. Euthanasia and "gas chambers'" were proposed by American eugenicists as "solutions."
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Here's more of Hitler lauding the United States:
"I have studied with great interest," he told a fellow Nazi, "the laws of several American states concerning prevention of reproduction by people whose progeny would, in all probability, be of no value or be injurious to the racial stock."
"THE GREAT AMERICAN STREETCAR SCANDAL"
This would be a good time to point out that the electric streetcar was non-polluting.
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THE OTHER MOON LANDING
As America readies confetti and party hats for the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, it's worth remembering the 50th anniversary of the actual, first-ever moon landing.
That would be the touch down of Luna 2, a Soviet space probe that looks like a sea urchin with most of its quills removed.
Much like the Soviet Union itself, the thing crashed. But it did manage to leave a plaque -- and two balls.
It blows my mind that the first human civilization to fly into space and onto the moon was totalitarian communist. That fact will be true forever.
What's more, both the Soviet and American space programs relied on Nazi scientists and the Third Reich's invention of the rocket.
Totalitarianism enabled and pioneered all space travel.
INCOMING TELEGRAPH FROM THE THIRTIES
Friday, July 17, 2009
BOTH HITLER AND STALIN INTRODUCE OUTRIGHT TOTALITARIANISM IN THE THIRTIES STOP ON THE PRETEXT OF AN ANTI-TERROR CRACKDOWN STOP
15%
That's the unemployment rate in Michigan today.
But the state has so many lighthouses that I'm sure it will be fine.
MARRIOTT BOMBING IN JAKARTA
Don't mind me, I'm just walking through the lobby with my wheely...
Here's the latest BBC story on the bombings.
The terrorists have a grudge against the Marriott. In 2003, they detonated a bomb at the same hotel in Jakarta, killing 12.
In 2008, they took a truck bomb to the Marriot in Islamabad.
EMINENTLY ILLOGICAL, CAPTAIN
Spock would not approve of this reasoning from Vice-President Biden. Here he is speaking - garrulously as usual - at a townhall meeting on the health care bill:
"We’re going to go bankrupt as a nation,” Biden said.
“Now, people when I say that look at me and say, ‘What are you talking about, Joe? You’re telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?’” Biden said. “The answer is yes, that's what I’m telling you.”
But Biden isn't wrong. Understand that this is the logic of the entire global economic system. The debt must be expanded to prevent it from collapsing. The bubbles must be blown bigger to stop them popping. Artificial inflation must be ignited to keep prices from ever ticking down.
You can be certain of one thing. It won't end well.
As for a new government health care system, which Biden was talking about, I believe it's an absolute necessity. The current mostly private system is increasingly exorbitant for those included in it, and useless for the dozens of millions excluded.
But with the TARP slush fund and the bailouts and the endless Fed borrowing, leveraging and money-printing having robbed the country of its last iota of real assets, how can a new health care system be built? How will any of the important projects of the future, like space travel and sustainable energy, be afforded? They won't be.
INTERESTING MUSSOULINI QUOTE
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
"At this stage, supercapitalism finds its inspiration and its justification in a utopia: the utopia of unlimited consumption. Supercapitalism's ideal is the standardization of the human race from the cradle to the grave. Supercapitalism wants all babies to be born exactly the same length so that the cradles can be standardized and all children persuaded to like the same toys. It wants all men to don the very same uniform, to read the same book, to have the same tastes in films, and to desire the same so-called labor-saving devices. This is not the result of caprice. It inheres in the logic of events, for only thus can supercapitalism make its plans." Benito Mussolini, 14 November 1933.
TWO BAVARIAN CULTS
Sunday, July 12, 2009
The Illuminati existed. Flashback to Bavaria, 1776: The movement was made up of freethinkers, as an offshoot of the Enlightenment, which writers at the time believed was a conspiracy to infiltrate and overthrow the governments of many European states.
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Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Illuminati, was a Freemason who had as his goal "a New World Order, which meant the abolition of all monarchical governments and religions." He was important enough to be addressed by Thomas Jefferson, who wrote:
As Weishaupt lived under the tyranny of a despot and priests, he knew that caution was necessary even in spreading information, and the principles of pure morality. This has given an air of mystery to his views, was the foundation of his banishment.... If Weishaupt had written here, where no secrecy is necessary in our endeavors to render men wise and virtuous, he would not have thought of any secret machinery for that purpose.
Just like Jefferson, Weishaupt was a Deist. He said: "I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome. I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States. I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati."
Then there's the Thule Society, another secret cult formed in Bavaria around 1918, during the short life of the breakaway Bavarian Soviet Republic. Here's the council-state's stark flag:
The Thule Society, being anti-Enlightenment, was the Illuminati's ideological opposite. It met in Munich's Four Seasons hotel and attempted a couple of coups against the Bavarian Soviet Republic.
It espoused beliefs in an ancient Aryan race (possibly from Plato's Atlantis) and the Hollow Earth. It had intimate contact with Madame Blavatsky, the founder of Theosophy - an eerie brand of mysticism popular worldwide at the time.
Note the swastika in the Thule seal:
In 1919, the Thule Society fused right-wing factions into the German Workers' Party. Adolf Hitler joined and renamed it the Nazi Party a year later.
QUICK OPINION
The press needs to back off of Obama a little bit. He's getting more flack than George Bush ever did.
GOING TO VEGAS
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Will return on Sunday. Expect sporadic posting. Incidentally, don't you miss the days of neon and brick buildings and industrial-age cars?
GHATE
The G8 meet in a bathtub
their decisions are soap sud;
when they adjourn the club
nothing whatsoever has been done.
LP
Power is a warm bubble
or rosy echoes in space
from a musical star,
or the veins in a leaf
a thrust in fencing,
a well-handled car -
when power is noble,
it is a people's pooled love.
Today, places of power
the world over
are pits of tar
and blood.
THE ACCIDENTAL 9/11
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
64 years ago to the month, a B-25 bomber flew into the Empire State Building during heavy fog, killing 14 people - and generating a world record...
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AND NOW THE HEREAFTER
Monday, July 06, 2009
White as snowwhat a lovely full moon
with omens to show
How dare I entertain superstition
I should banish this apocalyptic blather
Let me see clearly for once
into the now,
and not the hereafter.
HAIKU FOUND ON THE INTERNETS
Food stamps and NASCAR
Bread and circuses for all
Is it Rome again?
-author unknown
A GREAT(ER) DEPRESSION
Sunday, July 05, 2009
Courtesy Mish, I bring you the "Railfax Rail Carloading Report" of June 27, 2009. These are the latest stats on the volume of goods on the railroads. The declines are quite frightening... For example, freight in metals has declined 50% since 2007.
"THE PNEUMATIC CARRIAGE"
Friday, July 03, 2009
The world's first subway under Broadway, NYC, ran on compressed air. It was a gigantic pneumatic tube. And in 1870, it worked perfectly. 
