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    Leonardo da Vinci The madonna of the carnation1478-80   • Donald Trump, Nancy Pelosi Warfare Hits New Level (USA Today) • AG Barr Puts Former Int
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    #47520
    Dr. D
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    “Donald Trump, Nancy Pelosi Warfare Hits New Level (USA Today)”

    Part of the circus, to prevent nearly everything from being done, no jobs, no roads, no water. Thanks! I’m sure your voters will love that in 2020. Anyway, Pelosi literally said in her after-meeting press conference, “I have no idea why Donald chose to take a pass on this opportunity for the American people.”

    No idea. Really. Because he told you in the meeting, then walked directly from that meeting, into a national, world-wide press conference, and told everybody why he took a pass. Lord, give me patience.

    Totally expected. However, not an election-winner, I don’t think. Citizens are not going to like to hear that a fire hose of money on their 18% unemployment rate was stopped because they wanted their 4th of 5th do-over.

    “Avenatti Indicted for Defrauding Stormy Daniels, Extorting Nike (ABC)”

    Remember: this is Presidential material according to CNN. His only problem is he stole a million not a billion. And he hasn’t killed anyone (we know of). To be an approved President, you need lots of practice, a trail of bodies, and repeat “beautiful bombs, beautiful bombs.” Then you’re the President. Remember, CNN?

    “On cable news, Trump’s decision to take action was nothing short of heroic.

    CNN’s Fareed Zakaria said Friday morning that “Donald Trump became President of the United States” the moment the bombs started dropping.”

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cable-news-trump-syria-war-monger_n_58e79d17e4b05413bfe238eb

    Ah, so proud! Our proudest day since Grenada!

    “Credit-Card Charge-Offs Rise Across Banking System (WS)”

    Because the economy is so great, perhaps the greatest, ever! With tent cities, no fresh water, and 18% unemployment.

    “The Truth about US Inequality (Colombo)”

    This is simple: we have non-stop government-protected monopolies. Cue Mussolini quote… So the solution to a problem created by non-stop government protected monopolies is? Of course, more government, taking more money, and handing it to more people, as if that’s not how we got here. Because THIS time, THIS time for the first time, they won’t hand it to the lobbists and their billionaire handlers. How about: competition will devour theses guys like pirranas, because they’re TERRIBLE.

    “Xi Calls Trade War “New Long March” (R.)”

    In the sense of they are preparing to mobilize for war with us if something doesn’t change fast. But if the U.S. is working feverishly to control their oil supplies in Iran and Venezuela to forestall that war, maybe they ARE in that hurry. Of course, if they didn’t plan to attack someday, the oil control wouldn’t be a problem so long as it isn’t cut off. Since they just mobilized the PR wing and public opinion, what does that say?

    “Panasonic, Toshiba Join Firms Stepping Away From Huawei (AFP)”

    Apparently Huawei wiretapping the planet was a key part of their plan, because that’s when they threw the tantrum. Thanks! Now we know. Your cooperation was appreciated.

    “UK Government to Lodge Complaint over UN’s Austerity Report (G.)”

    May is ending at the end of May. Now I understand why they waited! The pun was just too good.

    #47521
    Polder Dweller
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    Renaissance paintings can be so rewarding, especially Da Vinci, because of all the symbolism packed into them.

    Somehow my eye is more drawn to the Madonna’s brooch than to the carnation. It is basically in the shape of the vesica piscis. The stone is black so it could be a very dark sapphire, jet or obsidian and I would suggest that this blackness symbolizes the void.

    The carnation, blood red and a symbol of perfection, although held out in front of her, seems also to emanate from the brooch, from the void. Even so, the rather well-fed baby Jesus although apparently reaching for the carnation, has his gaze elsewhere, namely the viewer of the painting.

    The neckline of her dress mirrors that of the brooch leaving us in no doubt that this is the symbol of the divine feminine. The baby Jesus, with his gaze and expression seems to be beseeching us to grasp this point.

    A fascinating painting, thank you for posting it.

    #47522

    Polder,

    My view: that’s one ugly baby, how out of proportion is he?

    #47523
    Polder Dweller
    Participant

    Well, I did call him “well fed”, but you’re absolutely right, he’s significantly out of proportion and there must be some meaning there. After all Da Vinci was an accomplished artist, so he will have done that for a reason. Hmmm….

    #47524

    After all Da Vinci was an accomplished artist

    Oh, much more than that. He practically gave us anatomy single handedly. Spent a crazy amount of time in morgues on his drawings of muscles etc.

    That makes the Lord baby even creepier; he knew better than anyone. That said, it IS an early Leonardo.

    #47525
    John Day
    Participant

    http://www.johndayblog.com/2019/05/financial-asphyxiation.html
    Jim Hightower was Texas Commissioner of Agriculture, an elected office, from 1983 to 1991. He presents here, the past and current American history of choking farmers to death and suicide.
    The current result of the average farm losing money for the past 5 years happens due to political and market arrangements, which give farmers no say in what they are paid for what they produce, but large financial firms, trading commodities, can rig prices every day. Seed and pesticide companies have ramped up their prices, and put farms out of business if they don’t cooperate. US farm policy since Nixon/Kissinger/Earl Butz has been to “get big or get out”, and to only support massive corporate players like Monsanto and Cargill. This puts all the farmers in the world at the “mercy” of these weaponized multinational corporations. Their interests are to dominate as part of the financial-capitalism-war-machine.
    Thanks for the link, Ray. (God bless me, I’ve got the “black dirt” in Yoakum!)
    In Democratic Promise, Larry Goodwyn’s definitive history of America’s 19th century Populist Movement, he describes the migration of hundreds of thousands of abjectly poor Southern farmers into Texas in the 1870s and ’80s. They were escaping the scurrilous “company-store” system of crop lending that predatory financiers had imposed on the rural South, trapping farmers in perpetual peonage. The people’s only way out of oppressive debt was literally to abandon their farms and flee the state. Family after family loaded their meager belongings onto horse-drawn wagons, nailed a “Gone to Texas” note to their cabin doors, and headed west, seeking land and some sort of positive future.
    But the rich blackland prairie of East Texas was out of their financial reach, so their caravans pushed into the sparsely populated west-central region, ending up on the thin dirt of the Edwards Plateau.

    The devastation of farm country is biting us all on the butt

    How to Thrive in the Next Economy, John Thackara’s preface to the upcoming Chinese Edition
    ​ ​A cultural disconnection between the man-made world and the biosphere lies behind the grave challenges we face today. We either don’t think about rivers, soils, and biodiversity at all – or we treat them as resources whose only purpose is to feed the economy. This ‘metabolic rift’ – between the living world, and the economic one – leaves us starved of meaning and purpose. We have to heal this damaging gap.
    ​ ​This book is about the design of connections between places, communities, and nature. Drawing on a lifetime of travel in search of real-world alternatives that work, I describe the practical ways in which living economies thrive in myriad local contexts. When connected together, I argue, these projects tell a new ‘leave things better’ story of value, and therefore of growth. Growth, in this new story, means soils, biodiversity and watersheds getting healthier, and communities more resilient.

    How To Thrive In the Next Economy: Preface to the Chinese edition

    ​The chlorofluorocarbon-cheat emitters have been located!​
    After much speculation, the whereabouts and magnitude of these harmful emissions has been confirmed in scientific research. As earlier reporting in The New York Times had already suggested, they seem to be coming from the northeast coast of mainland China…
    These violations are likely going unreported because even though CFC-11 is illegal, it is also one of the cheapest ways to produce new foam insulation in refrigerators and buildings.
    After tracking down documents and international sources, journalists at The New York Times and independent investigators discovered that in some factories in China, illegal CFC use has been slipping through the cracks for years…
    Gathering atmospheric observations from locations in South Korea and Japan, the researchers compared global monitoring data and atmospheric chemical movements to figure out whether these emissions came from eastern Asia – the area most suspected as the source of CFC-11…
    China currently produces about one-third of the world’s polyurethane foam, and the emissions so far may only represent a fraction of what has already been manufactured. The rest of the CFC-11 may still be trapped inside a slowly-emitting foam bank, and the only way to know for sure is to find the ones responsible.
    https://www.sciencealert.com/it-s-official-scientists-know-where-all-those-ozone-damaging-chemicals-are-really-coming-from

    #47526
    PlanetaryCitizen
    Participant

    I’m pretty sure you’ll like this. Reminded me of some things I’d forgotten.

    18 Ways Julian Assange Changed the World

    As to the baby being out of proportion…clearly you never saw my nephew at that age 🙂

    #47527
    zerosum
    Participant

    “the Lord baby even creepier ….”
    The baby is the wrong color – white.

    What happened to the Italian med color?

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    Trump and Nancy are distracting everyone from the news that is going to affect everyone.

    https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/time-window-closing-for-midwestern-corn-farmers-amid-persistent-wet-weather/70008306

    Workers stand atop a mountain of flood-damaged corn seed at the Bartlett grain elevator in Hamburg, Iowa, Friday, May 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

    https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news

    Gulf of Mexico warrants a close eye for tropical development around start of hurricane season

    #47528
    seychelles
    Participant

    What a story.

    All attorneys are goniffs until proven otherwise and should in general be approached like the plague. In your initial “free” consultation, always wear a wire for potential future use to document their responses to your inquiries about your maximum financial exposure in the interaction and if they have malpractice coverage and will keep it in force for the duration of your dealings with them. Be sure to take some kind of a disinfectant shower when you get back home.

    #47530

    Assange hit with 17 new accusations under the Espionage Act. It’s just too much, guys, we can’t let them do it, because it’s our own voices that are being cut down and silenced.

    #47531
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    Assange hit with 17 new accusations under the Espionage Act. It’s just too much, guys, we can’t let them do it, because it’s our own voices that are being cut down and silenced.

    175 years in prison? How is that not a death sentence…
    The fascisti have finally surfaced, confident they have won.

    #47532
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    The jurors on the Grand Jury surely didn’t hear the full story, their indictments against Assange only required a simple majority, and they were only voting on whether there was “probable cause” or not. Getting convictions at an actual trial will be much more difficult, since the jurors get to hear both sides of the story, and a guilty verdict requires a unanimous verdict and the more stringent criteria of “beyond reasonable doubt”.

    I hope that the Assange fights each and every charge, and prevails in front of a jury (if the prosecutors dare take it that far).

    #47533
    zerosum
    Participant

    Main Stream Media (TV) are taking Assange’s side for journalistic freedom.

    The truth hurts.

    The guilty parties, (drone attack), were not convicted and if they had been, they probably would have been included in the planned pardon by Trump.

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