Necessary & sufficient.

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Table Lands, Gros Morne:


Refugee camps - Yida in South-Sudan & Dadaab in Kenya:



These are among the heroes, the saints:
Brigette DePape is making TV spots for SHD.ca (Shit Harper Did); Tim DeChristopher is at Harvard becoming a preacher; Marina Silva is fighting on.

If it depended on the Public Electoral Ministry ... it would be difficult for me to roll up this network.

Where is my ... Net? What Net?
They used their bureaucracy to stop Marina's party being incorporated because they are VERY afraid of her - even competing with the (also new) Solidariedade 77. Her party was to be called 'Rede Sustentibilidade' / 'Sustainability Network' - plays on words here with 'rede' which also means 'hammock' & 'net'. But Regi seems to have it backwards (or the translation may be incorrect) - it is exactly the masters of the TSE (Tribunal Superior Eleitoral) who want it rolled up; and Sponholz titles his effort 'Marina Silva's fear' - except she doesn't seem afraid to me. Are the purveyors of humour joining the unkind right? Oh no!


Anyone interested in her fate - and everyone should be - might read this interview (translated into English yet!) in The Economist recently: An interview with Marina Silva - Almost out of time September 30 2013.

Yvo de Boer & Thomas Pynchon are among the saints & heroes too:
At least Yvo de Boer had the decency to weep. Thomas Pynchon doesn't like to have his picture taken - but he is sort of visible in Tullio Crali's painting; 'present' you could say.

Look, I left a trace!

Finally after a lifetime of failure I am getting somewhere.
Oh No! Not again! Sonofabitch ... Toing!   HA HA HA!
And people ask themselves about the meaning of life ... it's so obvious.



 
The two most powerful men in the world ...

... turn out to be Tigger & Pooh.

 

First I take off the mask of 'intellectual guy', then 'aware young person', ...
... now I take off 'sensible person' and the other - 'I'm secure' ... and quick as a wink!
Now let's see how I am and ... ARGHHHHHHH!

It was in his face that this was going to happen.

 

Where are we going? Where is life taking us?

Don't complain. We're hitching.

 

Definitely not a pushover. Lesbians (or girls willing to pretend) reduce the stress of expectations for impotent old men.

 

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Bottom lines:

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The ONLY questions worth asking, the elementary rudiments:

What actions are necessary & sufficient to stop the madness? and,
How do we set about accomplishing them?

Oh ... and within (not a day more than) two years.
That would be ... immediately, today, NOW! (Eh?)

Anything else at this point is ... busy work.

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Object Lesson - Marina Silva, October 4 to 7:
I cobbled up a small collection of English articles: Marina Silva & 2014 election in Brazil (the plot thickens).

Object Lesson - Leona Aglukkaq & Samson Jorah, Survival of the Fittest:
"All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth." The k-k-Canadian Environment Ministry has become such a joke that an airhead such as Leona Aglukkaq is simply the perfect person to lead it - one wants to break into Gilbert & Sullivan ... or at least into Farley Mowat: Survival of the Fittest, Samson Jorah & Leona Aglukkaq, a short clip of Samson Jorah as Mike in 'Never Cry Wolf' - the audio is screwed up somehow and I can't see how to fix it (?).

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The specific Gilbert & Sullivan I am thinking of is "For she is the very model of a bobble headed minister!"

With people such as these leading us we are fucked. By the time they are changed out - if indeed they are trashed in 2015 which is unlikely, and in favour of what? Mulcair? Justin Trudeau? - it will be too late.

Now THAT could be called a rock and a hard place.

Relatively of course - being k-k-Canada - there's lots worse elsewhere.

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Timeless Pot Pourri.

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Grigoris Lambrakis' banner reads: ΕΛΛΑΣ / GREECE. Urging peace which never came. So ... what to do on the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr's 'I have a dream' speech in Washington on this day in 1963? Well ... there's lots worse than watch Costa Gavras' Z; a good copy still up at IsoHunt and all. Or ... if you like it soft & murky, try Obama at the Let Freedom Ring Ceremony ... watch his eyes.

 
'Government'

“The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing.” (Jean Baptiste Colbert, mid 1600's)

 

No point in calling the technician: the apocalypse is in the whole street.


[Apologies for trying to touch it up.]

Always a sucker for a spiral:



Mama, is the love you feel for me unconditional? / Certainly!
As long as you are obedient, do everything I ask you, don't argue with me, don't doubt what I tell you, don't talk back, don't challenge me ...

I already know what I'm getting her for Mother's Day! a dictionary!

 

Hey man, what parents feel towards children is unconditional!
Are you serious? / Yes, this is exactly what they say.

Father, ... is the indifference you feel for me unconditional?

 

Head torso & limbs $50

 




 






Proselytizing is a bad habit ... but ...

THE TIMELESS WAY A building or a town will only be alive to the extent that it is governed by the timeless way. 1. It is a process which brings order out of nothing but ourselves; it cannot be attained, but it will happen of its own accord, if we will only let it. THE QUALITY To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. 2. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named. 3. The search which we make for this quality, in our own lives, is the central search of any person, and the crux of any individual person's story. It is the search for those moments and situations when we are most alive. 4. In order to define this quality in buildings and in towns, we must begin by understanding that every place is given its character by certain patterns of events that keep on happening there. 5. These patterns of events are always interlocked with certain geometric patterns in the space. Indeed, as we shall see, each building and each town is ultimately made out of these patterns in the space, and out of nothing else: they are the atoms and the molecules from which a building or a town is made. [From Chris Alexander, 'The Timeless Way of Building' 1979; there are some pdfs at BookOS (but really, it is better to get the book itself - at the library since it has become very expensive over the years).]

 
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