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Friday, December 30, 2022

FINANCE AND POLITICS (GODFATHER III)


"Let me be your friend. Even the strongest man needs friends."

"I'm flattered. But you're a man of finance and politics, Don Lucchesi, these are things I don't understand." 

"You understand guns? Finance is a gun. Politics, is knowing when to pull the trigger."

―Licio Lucchesi and Vincent Mancini




Thursday, December 29, 2022

KARL KRAUS: TITANIC EUROPA (2022)

 












Allí donde ellos la #vida a la #mentira subyugaban 
revolucionario era yo. 
Allí donde ellos #Libertad como frase utilizaban 
reaccionario era yo. 

Wednesday, December 28, 2022

JONAS MEKAS,WALDEN,1969 (EXCERPT (II))

JONAS MEKAS,WALDEN,1969 (EXCERPT)




Jonas Mekas - Walden (Excerpt) from Re:Voir Video on Vimeo.

Agárrate deprisa a tu más indefinido sueño del despertar. El polvo verde sobre los muros es un vegetal organizado; la atmósfera tiene su flora y fauna flotando en ella; ¿y pensaremos nosotros que los sueños no son sino polvo y cenizas, que son siempre pensamientos desintegrados y fragmentados, y no polvo de pensamiento juntándose en su estándar con música,-sistemas que comienzan a organizarse?

HDT
Carta a H.G.O.Blake
27 de febrero de 1853

Me sentía del mismo modo escuchando la música de Cage. Mi propia vida parecía más clara, la vi bajo una nueva luz. Esa es la potencia secreta de toda obra de arte verdadera, en vez de esclavizarnos, en vez de encerrarnos en un sueño, despierta nuestro verdadero ser, nos expande y nos hace libres. Eso es lo que la música de Cage me produjo.

Jonas Mekas (Cuaderno de los sesenta. Escritos 1958-2010, Sobre John Cage, 2 de enero de 1965)

Sólo lo inesperado satisface plenamente
NGD

Tuesday, December 27, 2022

DIARIO 3 DE FEBRERO DE 2013-27 DE DICIEMBRE 2022

DIARIO 3 DE FEBRERO DE 2013


Alguien es estrechado y abrazado en sueños no porque así lo desea sino porque es querido por quien lo envuelve con su abrazo ¿Por qué sorprende tanto esta verdad sencilla de un sueño, por qué otorga a nuestra realidad independiente de nosotros un valor siempre nuevo?¿Por qué no es posible engañarse acerca de ello?

Persigue, mantente, gira y gira alrededor de tu vida como un perro alrededor del carro de su dueño. Conoce tu propio hueso, róelo, entiérralo, desentiérralo y róelo todavía. No seas demasiado moral. Puedes sentirte defraudado de la vida por ello. Aspira por encima de la moralidad. No seas simplemente bueno, se bueno para algo. Todas las fábulas tienen su moraleja, pero el inocente disfruta la historia.

No dejes que nada se interponga entre tú y la luz.

HDT
Carta a Blake, 27 de Marzo de 1848

(traducciones Guillermo Ruiz)

Sunday, December 25, 2022

ET LUX AETERNA ( Y ELLA, TESTARUDA, REPETÍA)

ET LUX AETERNA




"Y ella , testaruda, repetía: 

(...) 

No tengo ningún linaje 

Sólo el del sol y la fábula"

("Poema sin héroe")

Saturday, December 24, 2022

NATALE: OUR GIFT OUTRIGHT (2022)

NATALE: OUR GIFT OUTRIGHT 

 UNA DISCIPLINA 
 
Vuélvete hacia el holocausto, se aproxima 
 A cada lado, no hay otro lugar
 Para volver. Amaneciendo en tus venas 
 Está la luz del estallido 
 Que imprimirá tu sombra en la roca 
 En una última desesperada muestra 
 Para sobrevivirte en la oscuridad. 
 El hombre ha puesto su historia a dormir 
 En la máquina de lo necesario.Vuela 
 Sobre sus sueños en la noche, 
 En un refugio que brilla. Mirar en el fuego 
 Y ser consumido con la desesperanza humana, Y
 permanecer sereno, y esperar. Y entonces ver 
 Ir el mundo en el trabajo paciente 
 De las estaciones, trenzando la canción del pájaro 
 Sobre sí misma como para una boda, y sentir 
 Tu corazón latir en la mañana 
 Como un joven viajero, argumentando el mundo 
 Desde el beso de una joven guapa. 
 Es la disciplina del tiempo pensar 
 En la muerte de todo lo vivo, y vivir aún. 

 WB (from "Openings") 
 (traducción Guillermo Ruiz) 

 1 DE ENERO DE 1965 

 And suddenly you’ll realize that you 
 yourself are a gift outright. 

 (Translated from the Russian by the author) 

 La última estrofa del poema es un tributo de Brodsky a Robert Frost por medio de su poema: 

 The Gift Outright 
 By Robert Frost 

 The land was ours before we were the land’s. 
 She was our land more than a hundred years 
 Before we were her people. 
She was ours In Massachusetts, in Virginia, 
 But we were England’s, still colonials, 
 Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, 
 Possessed by what we now no more possessed. 
 Something we were withholding made us weak 
 Until we found out that it was ourselves 
 We were withholding from our land of living, 
 And forthwith found salvation in surrender. 
 Such as we were we gave ourselves outright 
 (The deed of gift was many deeds of war) 
 To the land vaguely realizing westward, 
 But still unstoried, artless, unenhanced, 
 Such as she was, such as she would become. 

 ("1 de enero de 1965" y "The gift outright", primera vez aquí el 31 de diciembre de 2014)



Thursday, December 22, 2022

NEW SOVEREIGN AND ACCELERATION OF HISTORY (19-02-2019+22-02-2022)

 

"SOVEREIGN IS HE WHO DECIDES ON THE EXCEPTION"

 

 

CARL SCHMITT (POLITICAL THEOLOGY)

SOBERANO ES EL QUE DECIDE SOBRE LA EXCEPCIÓN. LA EXCEPCIÓN ES UNA ACELERACIÓN.  SOBERANO ES EL QUE DECIDE SOBRE LA ACELERACIÓN MEDIANTE LA EXCEPCIÓN


Monday, December 19, 2022

SAM DILLEMANS AND OTHERS AT LEUVEN: GOODBYE TO ALL THAT? (9-12-2022+19-12-2022)

 

Bertrand Russell, who was beyond the age of liability for military service but an ardent pacifist (a rare combination), turned sharply on me one afternoon and said " Tell me, if a company of men of yor regiment were brought along to break a strike of munition makers and the munition makers refused to submitt, would you order the men to fire?" I said: " Yes, if everything else failed. It would be no worse than shooting Germans, really." He was surprised and asked. " Would your men obey you?" "Of course they would", I said; "they loathe munition makers and would be only too glad of a chance to shoot a few. They think that they're all skrim-shankers"."But they realize that the war's all wicked nonsense?" "Yes, as well as I do". He could not undersad my attitude.

(Robert Graves, Goodbye to all that, page 309)




The first world war was a kind of cultural suicide that destroyed Europe’s eminence. Europe’s leaders sleepwalked – in the phrase of historian Christopher Clark – into a conflict which none of them would have entered had they foreseen the world at war’s end in 1918. In the previous decades, they had expressed their rivalries by creating two sets of alliances whose strategies had become linked by their respective schedules for mobilisation. As a result, in 1914, the murder of the Austrian Crown Prince in Sarajevo, Bosnia by a Serb nationalist was allowed to escalate into a general war that began when Germany executed its all-purpose plan to defeat France by attacking neutral Belgium at the other end of Europe.

 

The nations of Europe, insufficiently familiar with how technology had enhanced their respective military forces, proceeded to inflict unprecedented devastation on one another. In August 1916, after two years of war and millions in casualties, the principal combatants in the West (Britain, France and Germany) began to explore prospects for ending the carnage. In the East, rivals Austria and Russia had extended comparable feelers. Because no conceivable compromise could justify the sacrifices already incurred and because no one wanted to convey an impression of weakness, the various leaders hesitated to initiate a formal peace process. Hence they sought American mediation. Explorations by Colonel Edward House, President Woodrow Wilson’s personal emissary, revealed that a peace based on the modified status quo ante was within reach. However, Wilson, while willing and eventually eager to undertake mediation, delayed until after the presidential election in November. By then the British Somme offensive and the German Verdun offensive had added another two million casualties.

 

(...)

 

The Great War went on for two more years and claimed millions more victims, irretrievably damaging Europe’s established equilibrium. Germany and Russia were rent by revolution; the Austro-Hungarian state disappeared from the map. France had been bled white. Britain had sacrificed a significant share of its young generation and of its economic capacities to the requirements of victory. The punitive Treaty of Versailles that ended the war proved far more fragile than the structure it replaced.

 

Does the world today find itself at a comparable turning point in Ukraine as winter imposes a pause on large-scale military operations there?

 

(...)

 

The preferred outcome for some is a Russia rendered impotent by the war. I disagree. For all its propensity to violence, Russia has made decisive contributions to the global equilibrium and to the balance of power for over half a millennium. Its historical role should not be degraded. Russia’s military setbacks have not eliminated its global nuclear reach, enabling it to threaten escalation in Ukraine. Even if this capability is diminished, the dissolution of Russia or destroying its ability for strategic policy could turn its territory encompassing 11 time zones into a contested vacuum. Its competing societies might decide to settle their disputes by violence. Other countries might seek to expand their claims by force. All these dangers would be compounded by the presence of thousands of nuclear weapons which make Russia one of the world’s two largest nuclear powers.

 

(...)

 

 Henry Kissinger

 

 

How to avoid another world war



  “At the end was the european who lost the last two worldwide wars. Should her bear the inverse fate of a mythic character: Saturn devoured by their sons?”

Ernst Jünger

 


 

 


Sunday, December 18, 2022

IT IS WHAT IT IS, AND IT´S MURDER MOST FOUL: CONSPIRACY THEORIES

POETS MAY BE BORN AND SING IN OUR DAY, IN THE PRESIDENCY OF DONALD J. TRUMP



They killed him once and they killed him twice

Killed him like a human sacrifice

The day that they killed him, someone said to me, "Son

the age of the Antichrist has just only begun"

Air Force One comin' in through the gate

Johnson sworn in at 2:38

Let me know when you decide to throw in the towel

It is what it is, and it's murder most foul

(...)

Play "Marching Through Georgia" and "Dumbarton's Drums"

Play darkness and death will come when it comes

Play "Love Me or leave Me" by the Great Bud Powell

Play "The Blood-Stained Banner, Play "Murder Most Foul"


Bob Dylan, (Roough and Rowdy ways, Murder Most Foul, Columbia 2020)




Saturday, December 17, 2022

VOLVIENDO: TODO LO QUE SE HAGA SIN FE (21-12-2014+16-12-2022 (II); ARE YOU READY THIS TIME?)

TODO LO QUE SE HAGA SIN FE

 

 

Volviendo

Yendo demasiado rápido para mí mismo perdí
Más de lo que pienso que puedo recordar

Casi cada cosa, parece algunas veces,
Y aun así hay circunstancias que regresan

En las que no reparé cuando estuvieron
Donde las podría haber alcanzado y tocado

Esta mañana el negro perro pastor Belga
Todavía joven mirando y diciendo

¿Estás preparado esta vez?

William S. Merwin (traducción Guillermo Ruiz) 




"Como Walden, Bhagavad Gita es una escritura con dieciocho partes; empieza con el héroe desesperado ante la acción que le espera y termina con su comprensión y resolución, en particular con su comprensión de la doctrina (en la que la imagen del campo y el conocedor del campo es central) de que el camino del conocimiento y el camino del trabajo son uno y el mismo, lo que le permite emprender la acción que le corresponde y llevar su ejército contra un ejército de su linaje"

( Stanley Cavell, Los sentidos de Walden)

(Primera vez aquí el 2 de junio de 2012)


Que cada uno se salve por sí mismo y no se rebaje por debajo de sí. Porque en verdad uno mismo es su propio amigo y también su propio enemigo

Bhagavad Gita VI, 5

Es preferible cumplir el propio deber aun con defectos que cumplir bien el deber ajeno. La muerte incluso es preferible mientras se realiza el deber propio a (la vida en) un deber ajeno lleno de temores

BG III, 35

Solo tienes derecho al acto y no a sus frutos. Nunca consideres que eres la causa de los frutos de tu acción ni caigas en la inacción

BG II, 46

(traducción Consuelo Martín)

Lo que en un principio nos parece como un cáliz de sufrimiento termina convirtiéndose en el vino de la inmortalidad. Y a esto se le llama placer puro: es la dicha que resurge cuando se obtiene la visión clara del Espíritu.

BG XVIII, 37

(traducción Julio Pardilla)

El camino te ha elegido-
Sé agradecido

TURNING
Going too fast for myself I missed
more than I think I can remember


almost everything it seems sometimes
and yet there are chances that come back


that I did not notice when they stood
where I could have reached out and touched them


this morning the black Belgian shepherd dog
still young looking up and saying


Are you ready this time
–W. S. Merwin, from his book The Moon Before Morning

Do not trouble,Make yourself quite at home. And, above all, do not be ashamed of yourself, for that is at the root of it all.

Lo que  te parece malo de ti crecerá más puro por el mero hecho de tu observación. Evita el miedo, también, aunque el miedo es solamente la consecuencia de cada clase de falsedad.
 

Tuesday, December 13, 2022

POR QUÉ DEBERÍA DUDARSE QUE EL COVID-19 SEA UN SUCESO NATURAL (12-07-2020+12-12-2022)

POR QUÉ DEBERÍA DUDARSE QUE EL COVID-19 SEA UN SUCESO NATURAL

 

 


 

Forensic Analysis of Novel SARS2r-CoV Identified in Game Animal Datasets in China Shows Evolutionary Relationship to Pangolin GX CoV Clade and Apparent Genetic Experimentation

1
Independent Bioinformatics Researcher, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
2
Biology Department, University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras, San Juan, PR 00925, USA
3
Independent Genetics Researcher, Sydney, NSW 2120, Australia
4
Youthereum Genetics Inc., Toronto, ON L4J 8G9, Canada
5
Atossa Therapeutics, Inc., Seattle, WA 98104, USA
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Appl. Microbiol. 2022, 2(4), 882-904; https://doi.org/10.3390/applmicrobiol2040068
Received: 10 October 2022 / Revised: 31 October 2022 / Accepted: 1 November 2022 / Published: 7 November 2022

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Microbiome in Ecosystem 2.0)

 

Abstract

Pangolins are the only animals other than bats proposed to have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 related coronaviruses (SARS2r-CoVs) prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, we examine the novel SARS2r-CoV we previously identified in game animal metatranscriptomic datasets sequenced by the Nanjing Agricultural University in 2022, and find that sections of the partial genome phylogenetically group with Guangxi pangolin CoVs (GX PCoVs), while the full RdRp sequence groups with bat-SL-CoVZC45. While the novel SARS2r-CoV is found in 6 pangolin datasets, it is also found in 10 additional NGS datasets from 5 separate mammalian species and is likely related to contamination by a laboratory researched virus. Absence of bat mitochondrial sequences from the datasets, the fragmentary nature of the virus sequence and the presence of a partial sequence of a cloning vector attached to a SARS2r-CoV read suggests that it has been cloned. We find that NGS datasets containing the novel SARS2r-CoV are contaminated with significant Homo sapiens genetic material, and numerous viruses not associated with the host animals sampled. We further identify the dominant human haplogroup of the contaminating H. sapiens genetic material to be F1c1a1, which is of East Asian provenance. The association of this novel SARS2r-CoV with both bat CoV and the GX PCoV clades is an important step towards identifying the origin of the GX PCoVs.
 
 
 

 

Sunday, December 11, 2022

6-12-2020+6-12-2022: ADVERTENCIA DE LOS PANADEROS Y PAN DE MI COMPAÑERO

 

 

 

"JUEGO DE UNA OCUPACIÓN LIBRE DESPROVISTA DE TODO INTERÉS INMEDIATO Y DE TODA UTILIDAD, ESENCIALMENTE SUPERFICIAL Y QUE SIN EMBARGO POR ESTE MOVIMIENTO DE SUPERFICIE ES CAPAZ DE ABSORBER TODO EL SER" 

BLANCHOT (Jose María Ripalda, Filosofía en tiempo de descuento o de Hegel a la velocidad de la luz (2022))

EL LUGAR DE LA FILOSOFÍA EN LA POLIS NO ME PARECE SER EL AYUNTAMIENTO, SINO MÁS BIEN LOS PARQUES Y JARDINES. HACE VIVIBLE LA CIUDAD, PERO NI LA DIRIGE NI LA CONSTITUYE. ESO SÍ, SU AUSENCIA ES UN SIGNO DE DESGRACIA

(José María Ripalda, Ob. cit.)

Obedece, pero piensa, decía Kant. Nos queda la filosofía. Pero. ¿es que obedecer y pensar son posibles a la vez?

(...)

La guerra es el abismo que tira de la Humanidad, la plasmación totalizadora del democrático belli omnium, aunque tratemos de situarla en las anécdotas de los telediarios. Y la ruina montium rd cada vez más nuestro paisaje

(José María Ripalda, Ob. cit.)

 


 

Saturday, December 03, 2022

RAUL GUERRA GARRIDO

 





“Porque puede que algo así le ocurriera a Henry David Thoreau para decidirse por Walden: “Bajo un gobierno que encarcela injustamente a cualquiera, el verdadero lugar de un hombre justo está en una prisión”.Pero se decidió por una cómoda utopía ajena al mundanal ruido, algo casi tan bucólico como lo de Siddharta de Herman Hesse (así hacen dos), ese fácil recogimiento entre árboles silenciosos y suaves colinas. Una huída, el desafío es reconocerse y reconstruirse a uno mismo frente al ruido y la furia de la cotidianidad hostil. Una impertinencia, el insistir en la asunción del riesgo” (página 250).
En esto yerra el autor. Thoreau no huye ni huyó de nada, tampoco del esclavismo de su época. Simplemente siguió su camino : “keep on your own track then”.Que por cierto es un tema recurrente del citado libro.

Thoreau se pronuncia “thorough” sin huída (“there is no way out but through”):

“If you go to Concord today, you can hear people pronounce Thoreau's name as he and his family almost certainly did--they put the accent on the first syllable, and the "o" is short, so it sounds like "thorough." The current pronunciation in Thoreau's hometown is significant: the community has remained essentially residential since Thoreau's time, and the longtime residents are likely to have learned their pronunciation from those who learned it from those who knew the family.
Another piece of evidence is the fact that one of Thoreau's correspondents, Daniel Ricketson, sometimes addressed him in letters as "Mr. Thorough" or "Mr. Thoroughly Good," apparently playing on the pronunciation as an indication of character.”

Es posible citar a Thoreau en desagravio (aunque no lo necesita) usando los tres principios de la termodinámica traducidos por el autor del libro (página 201):


“Primer principio: Usted no puede empatar”

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity (Walden, page 11)



“Segundo principio: Usted no puede ganar”

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. (Walden, page 82)



“Tercer principio: Usted no puede abandonar el juego”

I do not propose to write an ode to dejection but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up (Walden, cita inicial)


“¿Vale?”


He says the best way out is always through.

And I agree to that, or in so far

As that I can see no way out but through—


“El dice que el mejor camino de salida es siempre a través

Y yo estoy de acuerdo en ello, en la medida,

Que no puedo ver ningún camino de salida que no sea a través”



Sí es rigurosamente aplicable a Thoreau la definición de soledad del libro (página 19):


“pertinaz presencia del carácter”



Tributo al pasado.



28 de Diciembre de 2012 (Día de los Santos Inocentes)

Tuesday, November 29, 2022

CIENCIAS Y RELIGIONES (MASANORI FUKUSHIMA: LA CIENCIA Y EL CAPITALISMO COMO RELIGIÓN INTRAMUNDANA)

 

Le professeur émérite à l'université de Kyoto dit ses 4 vérités au Ministère de la Santé

 "La moitié des décès suite à la vaccination sont dus à des lésions cardiovasculaires et cardiaques" 

 "Vous ignorez la science, la médecine et laissez les soins s'effondrer! C'est un désastre..."

 "Vous dépensez des milliards pour le vaccin et forcez les gens à se l'injecter"

 "(Vos scientifiques) ne sont pas des scientifiques, mais des fossoyeurs de la science qui s'arrangent avec la vérité, avec un mépris total pour la science et la médecine!"

Masanori Fukushima, Japanese physician, biochemist, oncologist, medical educator. Named One of Outstanding Young Persons of the World, Junior Chamber Internat, 1986. Member Japanese Cancer Association (Prize award 1985), American Association for Cancer Research, American Society Clinical Oncology.

Background

Fukushima, Masanori was born on November 30, 1948 in Nagoya, Japan. Son of Jiro and Saeko Fukushima.

Education

Doctor of Medicine, Nagoya University, 1973; Doctor of Philosophy, Kyoto University, Japan, 1979.

Career

Assistant professor School Medicine Hamamatsu (Japan) University, 1976-1978. Section head Aichi Cancer Center, Nagoya, 1978-2000. Professor Kyoto University Graduate School Medicine, Japan, since 2000.

Visiting assistant professor Baylor College Medicine, Houston, 1980-1981.

Membership

Member Japanese Cancer Association (Prize award 1985), American Association for Cancer Research, American Society Clinical Oncology.