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Grimes." Symphonia IX”(love song to Earth)
I try and try to make you cry
And make you love me
Oh I would say yes
Oh I would say yes
The need to be the best before the need to rest
Oh I would say yes
Oh I would say yes
See, my wait is you
My wait is you
My wait is you
My wait is you
My wait
(To be in a dark side, be in a deep mind)
See, my wait is you
My wait is you
My wait is you
My wait is you
My wait
(To be in a dark side, be in a deep mind)
To make the pain defuse the flame can be trying
But I would say yes, oh I would say yes
So as you fade away alive, I lay dying
Oh I would say yes
Oh I would say!
See, my wait is you
Midday Music Twofer For Millennials
The Beatles. "It's All Too Much"Paul McCartney. "Singalong Junk"
Kurt Vonnegut. Palm Sunday, “Thought of a Free Thinker,” 1976.
Trump Demands Sotomayor, Ginsburg Recuse Themselves from Matters of Personal Interest to Him
Shit dicktaters do -- attack high courts.
Today's game move comes in the dictator context reported by CousinIT: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213015214
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/02/trump-ruth-bader-ginsburg-sonia-sotomayor/?fbclid=IwAR1UTbE1LAh4PZjY4mGvkErGDvsvcjI1thhPzjemURRxIBMo7s3ZZ7vKAvM
President Donald Trump railed against Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Twitter late on Monday, demanding that the two liberal justices recuse themselves from cases involving the president and “Trump-related matters.” The move come shortly after Sotomayor wrote a dissenting opinion effectively accusing her conservative colleagues of granting favors to the president.
“This is a terrible thing to say,” Trump wrote in a pair of tweets that misspelled Ginsburg’s name. “Trying to ‘shame’ some into voting her way? She never criticized Justice Ginsberg [sic] when she called me a ‘faker.’ Both should recuse themselves on all Trump, or Trump-related, matters!”
“It is hard to say what is more troubling: that the Government would seek this extraordinary relief seemingly as a matter of course, or that the Court would grant it,” Sotomayor wrote, one of several lines widely interpreted as a criticism of the conservative wing of the high bench.
“Claiming one emergency after another, the Government has recently sought stays in an unprecedented number of cases, demanding immediate attention and consuming limited Court resources in each. And with each successive application, of course, its cries of urgency ring increasingly hollow,” she continued.
Trump’s demand on Monday, which follows his ongoing attacks and attempts to influence the Justice Department and intelligence agencies after the Senate’s impeachment acquittal, came hours after Axios reported that Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is involved in efforts by right-wing activists to purge individuals deemed as a part of a “Deep State hit-list.”
Non-linear Mind Warfare Enables Mass Control, and Why the Magnitsky Act Helps Stop It
Our "oh dear" defeatist response to "events" has become the central part of a new system of political control -- nonlinear warfare and the sowing of confusion.
In an editorial for the London Review of Books quoted by Curtis, Peter Pomerantsev describes Putin's Russia thus:
In contemporary Russia, unlike the old USSR or present-day North Korea, the stage is constantly changing: the country is a dictatorship in the morning, a democracy at lunch, an oligarchy by suppertime, while, backstage, oil companies are expropriated, journalists killed, billions siphoned away.
Surkov is at the centre of the show, sponsoring nationalist skinheads one moment, backing human rights groups the next. It's a strategy of power based on keeping any opposition there may be constantly confused, a ceaseless shape-shifting that is unstoppable because it's indefinable.
—?Peter Pomerantsev, in "Putin's Rasputin", London Review of Books issue of 20 October 2011[8]
Curtis claims that Trump used a similar strategy to become president of the United States, and hints that Trump's Surkovian origins caused Putin to express his admiration for Trump in Russian media.[97][98]
Vladislove Surkov has boasted that "Russia is playing with the West’s minds", "They don't know how to deal with their own changed consciousness
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladislav_Surkov
Note that this nonlinear warfare is at work as clearly in the U.S. as in Britain.
Bill Browder presents an important voice of Russians, not Russian oligarchs -- Vladimir Kara-Murza-- who explains what the Magnitsky Act means to Russians: why the Act is as obvious and relevant today as it was revolutionary back then -- which is its principle of personal, individual accountability for corruption (hello, Elizabeth Warren) and human rights abuses.
Vladimir Kara-Murza clarifies for US, here, that the brilliance of the Magnitsky Act is that it only punishes the oligarchs, not the Russian people, as old state-sanctioning used to do.
So when 45 says he wants to end sanctions against Russia, what he really means is that he wants to rescind the Magnitsky Act. And we know he'll never name that act.
More Magnitsky Act brilliance: people who, from credible evidence, corruptly acquire their wealth may no longer get visas, own assets, or use the banking services of the countries that pass this legislation (any many have passed versions of the Magnitsky Act). The best way to judge its effectiveness is in the ... absolutely hysterical reaction ... Putin's regime has to this whole ... international justice campaign.
We see through the hypocrisy and double standard built into the very heart of the Putin system of power: the very same oligarchs and senior officials of the Kremlin who abuse, attack, undermine and violate most basic norms of democracy and rule of law in Russia, very much like to enjoy the benefit, the opportunities and the freedoms afforded by the very same principles of democracy and rule of law in the West.
Because it's in the West where Russia's oligarchs
--keep their money,
-- buy their villas in New York,
--keep their wives and their mistresses and
-- educate their children.
It is this feckless, fatass fuck in the WH who has personally enabled Russian crooks to bypass the Magnitsky Act through him personally.
BETTER -- Hezekiah Walker
Even this atheist is feelin' it! Come on, brothers and sisters! Hang tough! We got this!
Update On The Coronavirus
From Facebook -- Slashdot's Post"The rapid, open, and transparent sharing of data on this outbreak is now being threatened by rumors and misinformation around its origins," the scientists, from nine countries, write in a statement published online by The Lancet .
Many posts on social media have singled out the Wuhan Institute of Virology for intense scrutiny because it has a laboratory at the highest security level -- biosafety level 4 -- and its researchers study coronaviruses from bats; speculations have included the possibility that the virus was bioengineered in the lab or that a lab worker was infected while handling a bat.
Researchers from the institute have insisted there is no link between the outbreak and their laboratory. Peter Daszak, president of the EcoHealth Alliance and a cosignatory of the statement, has collaborated with researchers at the Wuhan institute who study bat coronaviruses. "We're in the midst of the social media misinformation age, and these rumors and conspiracy theories have real consequences, including threats of violence that have occurred to our colleagues in China.
https://science.slashdot.org/story/20/02/21/2257228/scientists-condemn-conspiracy-theories-about-origin-of-coronavirus-outbreak?utm_source=feedburnerFaceBook&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29&utm_content=FaceBook&fbclid=IwAR1Z1Zz_dmbSEkuemOYxGSw9QnkvCuJNLTczndsXBYJ5D8wVWI-vmVyR8iw
Wikipedia's update
Red = confirmed cases Blue = suspected cases
Bill Browder On Magnitsky's Love of Rule of Law & How Law Never Rules Corruption W/O Enforcement
Sergei Magnitsky was William Browder's legal surrogate, and later, co-defendant, in Russia.
The Magnitsky Act has become a human rights law to protect capitalists.
Banning Russian adoptions was Putin's retaliation for the Magnitsky Act. How the act sanctioned, then angered Putin himself, is the reason Putin decided to secure his wealth more tightly in the West through the Trump Tower meeting, and get Trump to overturn the Magnitsky Act.
Sounds like a "likely story" of a narcissist, until you understand all autocratic government are rule of men, not laws, and going after Western money, starting with Browder, is personal. Just like Trump sees all attempts to "know" his money as Personal.
Seriously. It's really been all that personal.
Understanding Putin's Russia -- and Putin's attempt to sink Hillary Clinton's campaign to get Trump elected -- helps to understand Trump's network, which says, "I'd rather be Russian than a Democrat." .
Today Putin owns 50% of all Russian oligarchs' wealth, and we in the West and U.S. are back to containment of Putin's criminal regime. I hope.
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