South Korean paper claims Kim Hyok-chol has been killed and senior negotiator Kim Yong-chol subjected to forced labour
TRUMPLAND, May 31
And you wonder why
I love this guy
and moreover why
he loves me?
His folks for him
are glad to die
just as mine would for me.
(If I set them the task
and had someone ask.)
True blood brothers
are we, Kim and me.
True blood brothers are we.
Nothing can shame us.
We are both famous.
Those who dare blame us
are ignoramuses.
I get inspired
when I say, “You're fired!”
Kim follows suit
and actually shoots.
What now should I say
to Bolton and Pompeo?
“If you two can't deliver
some real diplo clout,
I'll have you shot
and taken out!?”
Bannon described Trump Organization as 'criminal enterprise', Michael Wolff book claims
Former White House adviser says financial investigations will take down president in sequel to Fire and Fury
The former White House adviser Steve Bannon
has described the Trump Organization as a criminal entity and predicted
that investigations into the president’s finances will lead to his
political downfall, when he is revealed to be “not the billionaire he
said he was, just another scumbag”.
The startling remarks are contained in Siege: Trump Under Fire, the
author Michael Wolff’s forthcoming account of the second year of the
Trump administration.
Scientists say surge of radiation led to lightning causing forest fires, making adaptation vital
It was the evolutionary leap that defined the species: while other
apes ambled around on all fours, the ancestors of humans rose up on two
legs and, from that lofty position, went on to conquer the world.
The benefits of standing tall in the African savannah are broadly
nailed down, but what prompted our distant forebears to walk upright is
far from clear. Now, in a radical proposal, US scientists point to a cosmic
intervention: protohumans had a helping hand from a flurry of exploding
stars, they say.
Decision to speed delivery of 22 deals worth $8 billion; opponents decry administration’s move
WASHINGTON—The Trump administration on Friday invoked a rarely used
provision of American arms control laws to sidestep Congress and
authorize billions of dollars in weapons sales to Middle East allies,
angering U.S. lawmakers who characterized the decision as an abuse of
power.
MYWAY, May 25
This “rule of law” shit. . .
What the fuck's that about?
The way to do things
is personal clout.
My dad and Roy Cohn
both taught me and thought
there are no rules
that cannot be bought
out or ignored
or gotten round
if you bluster enough
a way can be found.
Eagles are regal.
Eagles are TRUMPs.
Rules are for seagulls
who eat trash at dumps.
Loser winged rats.
bird democrats.
(With a small “d”,
fuck democracy.)
President rules out infrastructure deal while investigations continue; lawmakers of both parties expect legislation to move ahead
WASHINGTON—President Trump said he wouldn’t work with Democrats while investigations of him continue and abruptly ended a meeting with the party’s leaders Wednesday, casting fresh doubt on a divided Washington’s ability to complete big-ticket legislation in the next 18 months.
TRUMPLAND, May 23 Everything I have ever done, I have done on my own. Clearly, I don't need anyone. I'm taking my ball and going home. When I was a babe, just a newborn, I said, “Ma, leave me alone! Filling my diapie is the best fun. I'm taking my ball and going home!” Later in school I made my own rules. I knew what I was doin'. If some teacher or kid did not like what I did, I took my ball and went home. Then as a teen, I might have been mean due to testosterone. When some little flirt would not lift her skirt, I did it myself and went “home”. I excelled at college sharing the knowledge for which my big brain is known. After four years impressing my “peers”, I took my degree and went home. There was a war which I found bor-ing! but I had some spurs on a bone. My daddy concocted a note with a doctor, and the draft board told me, “Go home.” In Manhattan, I built many businesses. (Daddy Fred gave me a loan.) I was god-awful — even unlawful — and felt completely at home. I did deals to get rich as a son of a bitch and learned lotsa stuff off Roy Cohn, who, by the way, taught me to say, “Do it my way or go home.” Speaking of Roy, I was not his goy-boy. In those things he left me alone. To this very day I say, “He wasn't gay. And anyway, my balls were my own.” With every wife, I married for life. (Unless she turned into a crone.) When they got old, I heard they were told, “Mr. Trump is sending you home.” I lived in a tower, had plenty of power. . . but I wanted a throne. Though hesitant, I became president making the White House my home. I do not fancy dealing with Nancy and hate it when Chuck starts to drone. And both of 'em stall on building my wall, so I'm taking my ball. . .going home. There will come the day my gravestone will say, “He was not a John Gotti clone. He caused a panic, being Satanic, 'til the devil welcomed him home.”
Do Christians view The Handmaid's Tale as an instruction manual?
As true as apocalypses foretold in Daniel*? Do they think Dems Babaloney magicians, hell-bent on infringing their buying munitions, replacing sacred and holy traditions with secular, liberal Satanic positions? For if they do, it would be a shame and would give Christian religion a very bad name. Which one could say — had one the nerve — would be something exceeding well-earned and deserved. (Though, to be fair — maybe waffle a smidgen — the same can be said of every religion.) ———————————— *Also see: New World Encyclopedia
Sixteen thousand tons of Bethlehem Steel collapsed in a matter of seconds Sunday as a demolition crew imploded Martin Tower, the defunct steel maker's former world headquarters.
Crowds gathered to watch the demolition of the area's tallest building, a 21-story monolith that opened at the height of Bethlehem Steel's power and profitability but had stood vacant for a dozen years after America's second-largest steel maker went out of business.
The implosion, which took 16 seconds, created a thick plume of dust that lingered for several minutes.
Tyler Kent, whose father worked at Bethlehem Steel for 46 years and raised 11 children, said his “heart stopped” as he watched the building fall. His father and other relatives took pride in working at the industrial behemoth that armed the U.S. military and helped shape skylines across the country.
“To see it come down brought a tear to my eye. I didn't think it was going to affect me emotionally like it did, but I just can't imagine it's gone. It's so sad,” said Kent, who could see the tower from his house.
RUSTVILLE, May 20
(with a nod to T. S. Eliot)
The jobs were long gone
now the headquarters too
is reduced to a pile of rubble.
Steel, glass, concrete
are no more substantial
than an Internet bubble.
Follow men who are hollow men,
that is the way the world has to end
with BOTH a bang and a whimper.
A sad simple fact made sadder and simpler.
Several financial moves by legal entities controlled by Donald Trump and Jared Kushner between 2016 and 2017 triggered suspicious activity alerts inside Deutsche Bank, a major lender to the Trump family, according to a report in the New York Times.
Suspicious activity reports were prepared for filing with the US treasury for investigation as possible federal financial crimes. According to the Times, bank executives overruled the employees and did not alert the government.
KLEPTOCRACY CITY, May 20
Add Donald to Deutsch Bank
plus Russian “unknowns”,
what do you get —
a GAME OF LOANS:
laundering cash
for Vlad's oligarchs.
(Where, when we need you,
are you Karl Marx?)
Instead of due diligence,
doing their fullest,
Trump's Deutsch Bank pallies
played Sergeant Schultz.
White House hails ‘exceptional character’ of conservative figure who left prison in 2012
WASHINGTON—President Trump pardoned a former media baron and onetime business partner convicted of fraud and obstruction of justice charges, as well as a former Republican leader in the California Legislature imprisoned for corruption.
In granting a pardon Wednesday to Lord Conrad Black, Mr. Trump cited “broad support from many high-profile individuals who have vigorously vouched for his exceptional character,” the White House said in a statement.
My pardon power can free anyone I choose.
No matter how they reek of crime and slime and ooze.
Conrad's my pal because we did a business deal.
That we're corrupt is just part of our appeal.
He wrote a book that says I'm a real good guy.
I have not read it but they tell me it's no lie.
I see Dems shake their heads and maybe more will run
against me now that I'm having fun.
I look inside myself and see I'm Conrad Black.
So like Roy Cohn taught me I go on the attack.
I know my friends on FOX will say, “Okay, relax.
That Black's a real big crook is just a pointless fact.”
Let Dems sip green tea and hold their pinkies up.
Let them subpoena me. Voters love me. I'm corrupt.
I took a good hard look at the eclipsing sun
and I can pardon me when impeachment comes.
My pardon power can free crooks like Conrad Black.
The Constitution's just a piece of antique bric-a-brac.
Just as with women I say, “Now take off your clothes.”
The country's over now. That's the way it goes.
I want to see Conrad free, Conrad back
Black is white, that's my goal
I want to see democracy, blotted out from the sky
I want to see it painted, painted, painted, painted black
Yeah
In combating this increase in racism, there are two primary aspects to consider. The first is that the very idea of “race” is a lie: as the American Society of Human Genetics, the largest professional organization of scientists in the field, explained in an essay:
“The science of genetics demonstrates that humans cannot be divided into biologically distinct subcategories”; and it “challenges the traditional concept of different races of humans as biologically separate and distinct. This is validated by many decades of research.” In other words, “race itself is a social construct,” with no biological basis.
So, while ethnicity is real, and there are indeed minor differences between ethnic groups, there is no such thing as “race”—only racism
BESTOFALLPOSSIBLE WORLDS, May 15
It's not about “race”.
It's not about nation.
It's not about faith.
Nor social station.
It's not about lingo.
It's not about culture.
This ain't animal husbandry
v. crop agriculture.
Those are mere
flags of convenience —
concepts
concocted
explaining our meanness.
Why we
prefer,
given
our druthers,
to, if
we can,
smother the other.
This human propensity
to draw the inference,
“OUR ways are normal.
YOUR ways are different.”
We don't sweat the small stuff
which we can't distinguish.
But things looming large,
we strive to extinguish.
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King James Version (KJV) 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. 29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
An Ohio cinema has removed ‘Gish’
from its name due to her role in notorious 1915 film The Birth of a
Nation. Cultural myopia – or proof of newly enlightened times?
DW Griffith’s 1915 film epic is still
dangerous, perhaps increasingly so. The movie, which prompted
protests from the NAACP and cinema riots on its release, praises the
Ku Klux Klan and contains deeply offensive representations of African
Americans in the years following the civil war. It was held
responsible for a surge in KKK membership and has always had a toxic
reputation, while being lauded for its technique.
MOVIELAND, May 10
When D. W. Griffith gave us TheBirth Of A Nation
it was seen as and, rightly, deemed a sensation.
In black and white, his skillful directorial hand
celebrates hate and the Ku Klux Klan.
(Am I alone in finding that name
silly, illiterate and exceedingly lame?)
Anyway, as I had started to say
this flick was a hit back in its day,
way before anyone would call attention
to what is, at least, its extreme condescension.
(Well, it is actually more propaganda,
pandering slander from a racist grandstander.)
This “classic” agitprop still is deployed
to make down-market whites more paranoid,
assuring they never get to a place
where they can see there are no races.
Therefore a #MAGA conflagration
climaxing in The Death Of A Nation? We have a leader who is such a jerk, he'll likely lead us in this full circle.
