I like Crank's supreme dictator idea. Here's my idea. It's stolen from Tom Stoppard. May I? Why thank you, don't mind if I do...
So Bakunin has dissolved his International Brotherhood of Socialist Democrats, and his new organization, the Social-Democratic Alliance, he is in the process of turning into the Geneva sction of Marx's International Working Men's Association... but what Marx doesn't know, is that inside the Alliance is a Secret Alliance!
Bakunin: Marx doesn't know it, but the Alliance is going to be the Trojan horse inside his citadel! I really have a lot of respect for Marx. We are both out to free the working man. But true freedom is spontaneity. To be answerable to authority is demeaning to man's spiritual essence. All discipline is vicious. Our first task will be to destroy authority. There is no second task.
And Herzen, playing the straight man, says: But your... our... enemies in Marx's International number tens of thousands.
And Bakunin's punchline is: This is where my Secret Alliance comes in - a dedicated group of revolutionaries under iron discipline, answerable to my absolute authority ...
I like that.
Well, Herzen is not quite convinced. Then Bakunin begins to ask Herzen for money, which is a running joke throughout the plays, but they are interrupted by Herzen's family... you see his daughter Olga has just arrived from Italy...
Vysparov had sought out Burroughs because of his evident interest in the convergence of sorcery, dreams and fiction. In the immediate postwar years, Vysparov had convened the so-called Cthulhu Club to investigate connections between the fiction of H. P. Lovecraft, mythology, science and magic, and was at stage in the process of formalizing the constitution of Miskatonic Virtual University (MVU), a loose aggregation of non-standard theorists whose work could broadly be said to have ‘Lovecraftian’ connotations. The interest in Lovecraft’s fiction was motivated by its exemplification of the practice of hyperstition, a concept had been elaborated and keenly debated since the inception of the Cthulhu Club. Loosely defined, the coinage refers to 'fictions that make themselves real.'
Extensive underground banking networks running through gold shops, trading companies and money changers, where record keeping procedures are virtually non-existant, and trade takes on the camouflage of coded chit messages, simple telephone transfers and nested systems of coding encrypted for travel in cyberspace. "One Hong Kong police official has stated that he once seized a piece of paper with the picture of an elephant on it that represented the collection receipt for $3 million at a Hong Kong gold shop."43 Hong Kong has neither central bank nor currency exchange controls thus virtually eliminating the possibility of tracing funds entering or leaving Hong Kong. It is a financial secrecy jurisdiction whereby disclosure of data is illegal44 . Drug traffickers, like all good investors prefer to diversify their assets and invest in legit business, concealing the hot link between globetrotting funds and source crimes. A petri dish for breeding commercial war machines. For example: "First cash generated from importations to the US was moved back to Honk Kong, where it was held in a number of bank accounts under false names of individuals or businesses. The bank was BCCI. The approach appears simple. Cash, usually in amounts of approximately US$1million, was taken to a money transmission company in the US. The most often used was a company called Piano, which is known for its Colombian cocaine connections. These amounts were then transferred to Bankers Trust and simply transferred telegraphically to the various Hong Kong BCCI accounts, one of which was sarcastically called Launderland." 45 "Overseas banks, left with piles of small bills, then ship them back to the US in exchange for larger bills. . .[the] consistent increase in US currency repatriated from Hong Kong to the US from 1982 to the first half of 1984 strikingly correlated with the steady increase in Southeast Asian heroin marketed in the US from 1981 to 1983. This volume of smaller-denomination bills exceeds the total volume of all currency transactions with any European country. . .and the flow of US currency from the US to HK is minimal when compared to the reverse flow of US currency from Hong Kong. . ."
I think I survived on as some sort of mutant kos-borg, o.
I heard Tom Morello on Maddow's program earlier and wanted to make sure A. got a "heads up" about it. Tom talks about organizing in an upward manner, as opposed to waiting for some messianic "leader" to organize from the top down. He makes the point that all great civil/human rights achievements came from grassroots-type organization, as opposed to being granted by their government.
"[Between 13:00 and 13:30, activists] noticed that two Israeli Army bulldozers and one tank [had] entered onto Palestinian civilian property near the border and [were] demolishing farmland and other already damaged structures. The military machine was severely threatening near-by homes, so the 3 activists went up onto the roof of one home, and then called for others to come.
"[Between 13:30 and 14:00], I arrived, and one of the three activists in [sic] the house joined me on the ground ... [W]e began to disrupt the work of the bulldozers ... At this point, Rachel and the two other activists joined us ... Rachel and a British activist were wearing jackets that were fluorescent orange and had reflective stripping [sic] ... [Between 14:00 and 15:00], Rachel and two other activists began interfering with the other bulldozer, which was attempting to destroy grass and other plants on what used to be farmland. They stood and sat in its path, and though it would drive very close to them, and even move the earth on which they were sitting, it always stopped in time to avoid injuring them ... [Between 15:00 and 16:00], one bulldozer pushed Will, an American activist, up against a pile of barbed wire. Fortunately, the bulldozer stopped and withdrew just in time to avoid injuring him seriously, but we had to dig him out of the rubble, and unhook his clothing from the wire. The tank approached to see if he was ok. One soldier stuck his head out of the tank to see, and he looked quite shocked and dumbfounded, but said nothing ...
"[Between 16:45 and 17:00], [o]ne bulldozer, serial number 949623, began to work near the house of a physician who is a friend of ours ... Rachel sat down in the pathway of the bulldozer ... [It] continued driving forward headed straight for Rachel. When it got so close that it was moving the earth beneath her, she climbed onto the pile of rubble being pushed by the bulldozer. She got so high onto it that she was at eye-level with the cab of the bulldozer ... Despite this, he continued forward, which pulled her legs into the pile of rubble, and pulled her down out of view of the driver ... We ran towards him, and waved our arms and shouted, one activist with the megaphone. But [he] continued forward, until Rachel was underneath the central section of the bulldozer ... Despite the obviousness of her position, the bulldozer began to reverse, without lifting its blade, and drug [sic] the blade over her body again. He continued to reverse until he was on the boarder [sic] strip, about 100 meters away, and left her crushed body in the sand. Three activists ran to her and began administering first-responder medical treatment ... She said, "My back is broken!" but nothing else ..."
-- Joseph Smith, ISM activist
She was almost exactly one year older than me.
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.
Blessed are they that suffer persecution for justice' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." (from the Gospel according to Matthew)
Fella, I have organized, and I still expect my lifestyle to evaporate. I imagine the climate crisis, which will probably consume the bulk of my adult life, will see to that.
"I've got a cupboard with cans of food, filtered water, And pictures of you and I'm not coming out Until this is all over
The wingnuts in Southern Oregon had bomb shelters and bunkers out on BLM land. We used to find them when we went hunting. Thought they were crackpots back then.
dada, i saw your post about overseas money transfers. check out hawala sometime. its a system where people who don't trust banks transfer funds around the world. turns out that its also a lot faster and more efficient than formal banks. it relys on individual relationships and individuals owing each other money. money never really flows, just an acknowledgement of the debt
ya i can see why peeps like Lush Bimbo get into em.
they make me feel like i'm wading theough setting glue.
got to really watch out for hurting yourself when they stop the pain signals.
the tendency is to forget yer actually hurting and move around like normal.
when they wear off... Oooo baby!
i take em and keep horizontal, sleep or bed rest is the best way get any benefit out of em.
i've had months where i had to take em regular, and that's where they make ya feel like yer wading through glue.
real opium is a completely different kind of pain relief. way less side effects and really effective pain relief. same deal though if you start moving around like normal, you just continue to re-injure yourself.
Be careful. We buried one of my friends who waded too far into the glue. Doesn't take much to over do it. Glad you're taking it easy and resting. Talk atcha another time.
wasn't there something on one of theose msm news shows that said methadone was a real nasty one for up and killing you?
i read sometime back that the best opiate out there is heroin. i think it was in relationship to an experiment british hospitals did with terminally ill patients where they found that heroin in the proper dosage relieved pain without zapping the person so bad that they couldn't function.
its saddening how our christian heritage doesn't let us address effective pain management. its all part of that suffering your way to salvation thing.
I'm fairly unfamiliar with methadone, more familiar with tramadol, oxy's, morphine.
Oxy's scare me worse than any of the rest. Highly addictive, easily fatal. It killed one person I know, and another one O.D.'d and actually flatlined for several minutes. He was resuscitated, but as far as I know, he's still hopelessly addicted. I know several folks who've been addicted to Ultram/Tramadol, and morphine. Ultram was what they gave me for migraines. I never even finished the prescription. Didn't like the way I felt much more than I liked the migraines. Opiates are just not my thing
I'm looking at a ball that Pete Rose inscribed "To Sambo" for a black collector. _________
sam·bo /ˈsæmboʊ/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[sam-boh] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation –noun, plural -bos. Disparaging and Offensive. 1. a black person. 2. a Latin American of black and Indian or mulatto ancestry.
__________
So the guy isn't exactly the brightest or nicest man who has played the game. Although he worked strenuously and was a great player, he isn't a sympathetic figure by any stretch.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 257 of 257[dada's crying into the breasts of catharine the great]
"he called me a fence-sitter"
oh!
i'm sorry, dee
Oh yes, 12hr night...so easily forgotten...those were the good old day, ono..:)
//for their mistreatment//
we don't call it that...
it's more hush money
(sssh)
//ono//
just call me "o"
(oh)
Lol.. I'd like to see a picture of that. (..I think..) :)
just call me "o"
(oh)
March 15, 2007 11:56 PM
"...givin her my "O" face..Oh...Oh..Oh..."
Ever see Office Space?
do you have an imaginary friend, shelly
like, um, what picture?
"I love you zero, my hero....how wonderful you are...."
//Office Space//
mike judge is the man
a picture of:
*
[dada's crying into the breasts of catharine the great]
"he called me a fence-sitter"
*
I like Crank's supreme dictator idea.
Here's my idea. It's stolen from Tom Stoppard. May I? Why thank you, don't mind if I do...
So Bakunin has dissolved his International Brotherhood of Socialist Democrats, and his new organization, the Social-Democratic Alliance, he is in the process of turning into the Geneva sction of Marx's International Working Men's Association...
but what Marx doesn't know, is that inside the Alliance is a Secret Alliance!
Bakunin: Marx doesn't know it, but the Alliance is going to be the Trojan horse inside his citadel! I really have a lot of respect for Marx. We are both out to free the working man. But true freedom is spontaneity. To be answerable to authority is demeaning to man's spiritual essence. All discipline is vicious. Our first task will be to destroy authority. There is no second task.
And Herzen, playing the straight man, says: But your... our... enemies in Marx's International number tens of thousands.
And Bakunin's punchline is: This is where my Secret Alliance comes in - a dedicated group of revolutionaries under iron discipline, answerable to my absolute authority ...
I like that.
Well, Herzen is not quite convinced. Then Bakunin begins to ask Herzen for money, which is a running joke throughout the plays, but they are interrupted by Herzen's family... you see his daughter Olga has just arrived from Italy...
blogger went kooky on me
--But true freedom is spontaneity. To be answerable to authority is demeaning to man's spiritual essence.--
Australia (for me) is Tim Winton.
Best writer on the planet.
Hyperstition
Vysparov had sought out Burroughs because of his evident interest in the convergence of sorcery, dreams and fiction.
In the immediate postwar years, Vysparov had convened the so-called Cthulhu Club to investigate connections between the fiction of H. P. Lovecraft, mythology, science and magic, and was at stage in the process of formalizing the constitution of Miskatonic Virtual University (MVU), a loose aggregation of non-standard theorists whose work could broadly be said to have ‘Lovecraftian’ connotations.
The interest in Lovecraft’s fiction was motivated by its exemplification of the practice of hyperstition, a concept had been elaborated and keenly debated since the inception of the Cthulhu Club. Loosely defined, the coinage refers to 'fictions that make themselves real.'
//Tim Winton//
ok,
heard he can write a good word
F.G.
packed your bags yet
?
//Cthulhu Club. Beginning (in 1949) as a reading group dedicated to the hyperstitious reevaluation of Lovecraftian fiction//
Alice said...
--But true freedom is spontaneity
and she vanished...
No one knows
She comes and goes
just like ruby tuesday
ballroom dancing
9/11 theories that chase tales
bags being packed
hyperstition
plays that materialise out of thin legs
i'm freakin' out
this here's the rubber ducky... looks lark we got our selves a Cthulhu Club!
(is there a way to pronounce that word before club)
shelly and her magic bike
Extensive underground banking networks running through gold shops, trading companies and money changers, where record keeping procedures are virtually non-existant, and trade takes on the camouflage of coded chit messages, simple telephone transfers and nested systems of coding encrypted for travel in cyberspace.
"One Hong Kong police official has stated that he once seized a piece of paper with the picture of an elephant on it that represented the collection receipt for $3 million at a Hong Kong gold shop."43
Hong Kong has neither central bank nor currency exchange controls thus virtually eliminating the possibility of tracing funds entering or leaving Hong Kong. It is a financial secrecy jurisdiction whereby disclosure of data is illegal44 .
Drug traffickers, like all good investors prefer to diversify their assets and invest in legit business, concealing the hot link between globetrotting funds and source crimes. A petri dish for breeding commercial war machines.
For example: "First cash generated from importations to the US was moved back to Honk Kong, where it was held in a number of bank accounts under false names of individuals or businesses. The bank was BCCI. The approach appears simple. Cash, usually in amounts of approximately US$1million, was taken to a money transmission company in the US. The most often used was a company called Piano, which is known for its Colombian cocaine connections. These amounts were then transferred to Bankers Trust and simply transferred telegraphically to the various Hong Kong BCCI accounts, one of which was sarcastically called Launderland." 45
"Overseas banks, left with piles of small bills, then ship them back to the US in exchange for larger bills. . .[the] consistent increase in US currency repatriated from Hong Kong to the US from 1982 to the first half of 1984 strikingly correlated with the steady increase in Southeast Asian heroin marketed in the US from 1981 to 1983. This volume of smaller-denomination bills exceeds the total volume of all currency transactions with any European country. . .and the flow of US currency from the US to HK is minimal when compared to the reverse flow of US currency from Hong Kong. . ."
I should go... heya Fish
night A, ono, everyone
*hee*
it's a small world, dada
i'm collecting pics from google and this comes up:
a unicorn
(from stoppard)
(from the keyword: us)
(this time)
hee
&!
tee
the hong kong banking system is straight out of the pages of burroughs
then again all he did was jot down the seedy aspects of life
(and more power to him)
: )
F.G.
we'll be more than happy to welcome you to australia
("holy-moly, ah'm in texas")
it's great having the blog to myself
it's like there's been a nuclear war
and everyones been vaporised...
except me
the last blogger alive left in cyber-space.
next i have to think of a reason how i survived
eh!
fuck it...
i survived, that's it
ain't no-one alive to hear my interesting story about how i survived anyhow
p.s. i'm cold
(and lonely)
jimmy was right
all along
straight off the bat
i'd like everyone to know something
and that is...
Tom Stoppard IS NOT Spalding Gray
who i always get muddled up with...
Spalding Gray was in one of my favourite movies called true stories
a movie with an amazing cast of characters
(similar to the bloggers here)
it's by david byrne
who plays the most wonderful dead-pan narrator imaginable
(similar to his real life, except more so)
i may not have done alot of reading
and be a half-wit
but i know a fucking good movie when i sees one
i'm cold
(and lonely)
(woo-hoo)
i got the 250th comment
you start talking to yourself
"shut up, catharine... you grow up"
but there is no catharine
no dada
no shell
no fish
there's only me and my keyboard
and the light from my screen...
i'm cold
(and lonely)
there's only the memories to keep me company and warm
"shut up, memories... you grow up"
I think I survived on as some sort of mutant kos-borg, o.
I heard Tom Morello on Maddow's program earlier and wanted to make sure A. got a "heads up" about it. Tom talks about organizing in an upward manner, as opposed to waiting for some messianic "leader" to organize from the top down. He makes the point that all great civil/human rights achievements came from grassroots-type organization, as opposed to being granted by their government.
And from the kollective:
Four years ago:
"[Between 13:00 and 13:30, activists] noticed that two Israeli Army bulldozers and one tank [had] entered onto Palestinian civilian property near the border and [were] demolishing farmland and other already damaged structures. The military machine was severely threatening near-by homes, so the 3 activists went up onto the roof of one home, and then called for others to come.
"[Between 13:30 and 14:00], I arrived, and one of the three activists in [sic] the house joined me on the ground ... [W]e began to disrupt the work of the bulldozers ... At this point, Rachel and the two other activists joined us ... Rachel and a British activist were wearing jackets that were fluorescent orange and had reflective stripping [sic] ... [Between 14:00 and 15:00], Rachel and two other activists began interfering with the other bulldozer, which was attempting to destroy grass and other plants on what used to be farmland. They stood and sat in its path, and though it would drive very close to them, and even move the earth on which they were sitting, it always stopped in time to avoid injuring them ... [Between 15:00 and 16:00], one bulldozer pushed Will, an American activist, up against a pile of barbed wire. Fortunately, the bulldozer stopped and withdrew just in time to avoid injuring him seriously, but we had to dig him out of the rubble, and unhook his clothing from the wire. The tank approached to see if he was ok. One soldier stuck his head out of the tank to see, and he looked quite shocked and dumbfounded, but said nothing ...
"[Between 16:45 and 17:00], [o]ne bulldozer, serial number 949623, began to work near the house of a physician who is a friend of ours ... Rachel sat down in the pathway of the bulldozer ... [It] continued driving forward headed straight for Rachel. When it got so close that it was moving the earth beneath her, she climbed onto the pile of rubble being pushed by the bulldozer. She got so high onto it that she was at eye-level with the cab of the bulldozer ... Despite this, he continued forward, which pulled her legs into the pile of rubble, and pulled her down out of view of the driver ... We ran towards him, and waved our arms and shouted, one activist with the megaphone. But [he] continued forward, until Rachel was underneath the central section of the bulldozer ... Despite the obviousness of her position, the bulldozer began to reverse, without lifting its blade, and drug [sic] the blade over her body again. He continued to reverse until he was on the boarder [sic] strip, about 100 meters away, and left her crushed body in the sand. Three activists ran to her and began administering first-responder medical treatment ... She said, "My back is broken!" but nothing else ..."
-- Joseph Smith, ISM activist
She was almost exactly one year older than me.
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.
Blessed are they that suffer persecution for justice' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
(from the Gospel according to Matthew)
Amen
Organise or have yer life style evaporate...
Fella, I have organized, and I still expect my lifestyle to evaporate. I imagine the climate crisis, which will probably consume the bulk of my adult life, will see to that.
"I've got a cupboard with cans of food, filtered water,
And pictures of you and I'm not coming out
Until this is all over
We Will Become Silhouettes, The Postal Service
Be Still My Heart, The Postal Service
Brand New Colony, The Postal Service
eya WFC!
was just setting up my Porta Schmoopy in the bomb shelter.
The wingnuts in Southern Oregon had bomb shelters and bunkers out on BLM land. We used to find them when we went hunting. Thought they were crackpots back then.
I'm reevaluating that position.
---
Whiskeyclone, Hotel City 1997, Beck
Blackhole, Beck
ya,
i've mostly always liked the pragmatic peeps i've met.
some of the gang are loonies and shitheads both though.
theres always a few.
i had to get up and make a cup of coffee so i could get back to sleep.
oxycontins are weird that way, i finally hurt enough to take a couple of em tonight. at first they keep me awake.
yup! finally getting drowsy.
lights out for me...
Sleep, and know no pain.
Many blessings.
dada, i saw your post about overseas money transfers. check out hawala sometime. its a system where people who don't trust banks transfer funds around the world. turns out that its also a lot faster and more efficient than formal banks. it relys on individual relationships and individuals owing each other money. money never really flows, just an acknowledgement of the debt
ya i can see why peeps like Lush Bimbo get into em.
they make me feel like i'm wading theough setting glue.
got to really watch out for hurting yourself when they stop the pain signals.
the tendency is to forget yer actually hurting and move around like normal.
when they wear off... Oooo baby!
i take em and keep horizontal, sleep or bed rest is the best way get any benefit out of em.
i've had months where i had to take em regular, and that's where they make ya feel like yer wading through glue.
real opium is a completely different kind of pain relief. way less side effects and really effective pain relief. same deal though if you start moving around like normal, you just continue to re-injure yourself.
Cya in the AM, night gang.
just a reminder from the young turks site:
2012 days since 9/11/2001, and Bush still hasn't captured Osama bin Laden.
take it easy jim, sorry to read about your troubles.
Be careful. We buried one of my friends who waded too far into the glue. Doesn't take much to over do it. Glad you're taking it easy and resting. Talk atcha another time.
wasn't there something on one of theose msm news shows that said methadone was a real nasty one for up and killing you?
i read sometime back that the best opiate out there is heroin. i think it was in relationship to an experiment british hospitals did with terminally ill patients where they found that heroin in the proper dosage relieved pain without zapping the person so bad that they couldn't function.
its saddening how our christian heritage doesn't let us address effective pain management. its all part of that suffering your way to salvation thing.
I'm fairly unfamiliar with methadone, more familiar with tramadol, oxy's, morphine.
Oxy's scare me worse than any of the rest. Highly addictive, easily fatal. It killed one person I know, and another one O.D.'d and actually flatlined for several minutes. He was resuscitated, but as far as I know, he's still hopelessly addicted. I know several folks who've been addicted to Ultram/Tramadol, and morphine. Ultram was what they gave me for migraines. I never even finished the prescription. Didn't like the way I felt much more than I liked the migraines. Opiates are just not my thing
I'm looking at a ball that Pete Rose inscribed "To Sambo" for a black collector.
_________
sam·bo /ˈsæmboʊ/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[sam-boh] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun, plural -bos. Disparaging and Offensive. 1. a black person.
2. a Latin American of black and Indian or mulatto ancestry.
__________
So the guy isn't exactly the brightest or nicest man who has played the game. Although he worked strenuously and was a great player, he isn't a sympathetic figure by any stretch.
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