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Monday, April 10, 2023

MISE EN SCÈNE (JEU EUROPÉEN)

 




Mise en scène
Pero no de Monsieur
Ni de Fräulein


La escuela sigue pesando sobre mí con mucha más intensidad que el ejército

(Pasados los setenta II)

“Retuvo aquellas palabras literalmente, sin entenderlas, pero fueron madurando en su memoria. He aquí una peculiaridad de su talento: en su conciencia podían sembrarse palabras como semillas que tardan años o décadas en germinar.

-Señor comandante-oyó decir Wolfram al doctor-. No hay por qué temer un brote epiléptico; aunque el caso de su hijo presente algunas similitudes con la epilepsia, podemos descartarla. Se trata más bien de ausencias en estado puro, sin duda extraordinariamente intensas. Sospecho que guardan relación con un desarrollo intelectual de una intensidad igualmente extraordinaria. En este sentido podría interpretarse incluso como un indicio favorable, si bien debemos actuar con cautela. Sea como fuere, señor comandante, puedo tranquilizarle al respecto, aunque sin garantías absolutas: nos las vemos con una crisis transitoria que, ojalá sea así, encontrará una conclusión favorable.

Y Wolfram oyó responder a su padre:

-Señor doctor, no sé cómo agradecérselo. Nos habíamos temido algo más grave; sin embargo, no bajaremos la guardia. Solo me preocupa mi traslado, esta vez a China, al batallón de marina. Wolfram se mudará a casa de sus abuelos, donde no me cabe duda de que estará en buenas manos, sobre todo si usted sigue prestándonos su apoyo y sus consejos. No debemos perder la esperanza, aunque naturalmente no podemos estar detrás de él cada vez que suba las escaleras”

(…)

Pero entonces, como si se hubiera roto un dique, algo inaudito fluyó en él con la fuerza de un torrente. Se puso de pie y dijo (antes de que otros presentaran sus acusaciones):

-Señor profesor, ¿tiene uno al menos el derecho a defenderse?

Y cuando Corax le miró como a un monstruo marino, continuó:

-¿Debo defenderme como Cicerón o como Sócrates?-Y sin esperar la respuesta añadió-: Comenzaré con Cicerón, por lo tanto jurídicamente, y he de lamentar que al entrar en esta clase no fuera informado sobre qué debía hacer o dejar de hacer aquí. Así se me escapó que Werner (el hijo del fabricante) pertenecía, por decirlo de alguna manera, a una especie natural protegida. Por otra parte, yo considera antipedagógica su protección: cuando se tiene un padre tan rico, conviene rodearse de masajistas y maestros de esgrima. Incluso el puñetazo que le he propinado en las costillas le vendrá bien.

Y ahora le toca el turno a los otros: confieso que los he zurrado sin motivo alguno, y no me queda más remedio que disculparme.

Mientras esa fuerza inaudita fluía en su interior, Wolfram había ido avanzando poco a poco y se había vuelto hacia la clase; entonces se subió al pupitre. Corax hizo un ademán con el brazo como si quisiera impedirlo, pero fue en vano. Wolfram prosiguió:

-Ahora en mi defensa apelo a Sócrates, y por una buena razón. Sócrates se cuenta entre mis visitantes nocturnos, aunque él no pretenda socratizarme. Nada más ajeno a su naturaleza.

-Al oír esto, el doctor Corax alzó la mano con un gesto de desagrado, como si no lo entendiera o no quisiera entenderlo.

“Sócrates llega y se sienta a mi lado. Me pregunta: “¿Qué estás leyendo?. Esto ya me resulta desagradable. Mi abuelo también insiste en esta e suplementaria. Y además me obliga a trazarla con una cerda.

Yo le respondo: “Leo a Karl May”. Sócrates dice: “Eso es excelente; cada pueblo tiene a su Heracles. Con el tiempo, cae en decadencia; antaño era Siegfried, hoy es Old Shatterhand. Pero siempre hay alguno esperando su turno”

Así es como converso con Sócrates. Pero eso no quiere decir que nuestro tutor no le caiga bien. Sólo que lo considera una nulidad como pedagogo.

En la clase reinaba el silencio; Corax ni siquiera se había movido. Wolfram recogió sus libros y salió para siempre. Su padre le mandó a Arosa, porque para colmo, había cogido una pulmonía. Se desconoce su posterior destino”


“En el fondo quien ha perdido las dos últimas guerras mundiales ha sido el europeo.¿Le tocará sufrir el destino inverso de un personaje mítico: Saturno devorado por sus hijos”


(Ernst Jünger)

LAS GRANDES TRANSFORMACIONES SON MUDAS (FRANCIA, INGLATERRA, RUSIA ...EUROPA)

 

Napoleón sintió que Europa era algo especial, y como su demonio era la organización, que es a la política lo que la construcción es al pensamiento o al arte, había pensado - al ver que las 2 únicas potencias racionales en Europa debían ser Francia y Rusia por su situación y su carácter medio, e insinuando que Inglaterra no podía ser sino eternamente opuesta a Europa porque inevitablemente se interesa por lo que es contrario a Europa, y se desinteresa al máximo por lo que es capital para aquélla-había pensado en destruir a la potencia inglesa y a continuación , con una visión más amplia, en abrir un mundo que sería el actual, unificando toda Europa occidental bajo una administración única y con la ayuda de todas las personas diligentes e inteligentes- siendo las fronteras de ese gigantesco lugar controladas por una continua zona militar cada vez más extendida hacia el oriente y transformando, con un tipo de organización militar elemental, con la mezcla de razas, dentro y fuera del ejército, las tierras devoradas sin parar y organizadas poco a poco en una ladera suave hasta París. (1897-1900. Tabulae meae Tentationem- Codex Quartus, I, 192)

Europa está poblada de arcos de triunfo simultáneos cuya suma es nula.

Pero la suma de los monumentos a los muertos no lo es.

(1927, v 27, XII,133)

Este lunes-3 de septiembre- despertamos en guerra.

Acomodación de los seres, de las sensibilidades- de las lógicas- de las imágenes.

El hombre el enemigo del género humano.

-Me pregunto si todo esto - Europa- no acabará en una demencia o un reblandecimiento general .

"CUANDO SUENE LA SEÑAL" - será exactamente... el fin de un Mundo. (1939. Sin título, XXII, 551)

Alemania practica la guerra total, que consiste en hacer uso de la fuerza, sin otras restricciones que aquellas cuyo seguimiento se ve aconsejado, de manera imperativa por el objeto deseado.

(1940. Rueil-Paris-Dinard I, XXIII,279)

La libertad no ha triunfado.

La autoridad no ha triunfado. (1942. Lut.1011.42 "tickets", XXVI, 656)

He visto a los "antimilitaristas" convertirse , al cabo de cinco años, en fanáticos de la "bandera"...

Pero todos esos fenómenos-paradojas no significan más que "política", y nos enseñan   que  la política es la maniobra de lo más por lo menos, del número inmenso por el número pequeño, de lo real por las imágenes y palabras,-

es decir que se trata de una mecánica de modificaciones .

(1944. Sin título, XXIX, 105)

Europa ha terminado su carrera. Ver el mapa del mundo. 1945-1815=130

(1945. Turning Point, XXIX, 798)

PAUL VALÉRY (Cuadernos (1894-1945). Edición de Andrés Sánchez Robayna)

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 es cada vez más nuestro paisaje

(José María Ripalda, Filosofía en tiempo de descuento, página 24)



La visión de Valéry en sus Cuadernos ¿continúa reflejando hoy la trayectoria de la terminación de la carrera de Europa?

Sí, hasta el punto de que hoy Europa solo es el apéndice bélico de la parte más pequeña (lo menos) de Estados Unidos para eliminar a una Rusia que constituye la última parte de Europa que debería ser engullida.

E Inglaterra solo sigue interesada en lo que es contrario a lo que queda de Europa y a Rusia.

Por eso resulta especialmente significativo el reproche del político Verhofstadt a Hungría, que es, en esto, por el contrario, la única verdaderamente europea que se resiste a la terminación de la carrera que Valéry anticipó



Q.e.d.

Thursday, April 06, 2023

GOOD FRIDAY (7-04-2023 (ARE YOU STRONGER THAN A TREE?)+ABRIL 1951)

 










Diario 04-Nov-1852

Debo estar bastante a la intemperie para tener la experiencia de la completa realidad, como un estabilizador para el pensamiento y sentimiento. La salud requiere esta relajación, esta vida sin objetivo. Esta vida en el presente. Deja a un hombre pensar en la casa lo que quiera de la Naturaleza, será todavía un novato a la intemperie. Me guardo a la intemperie por todo lo que de mineral, vegetal y animal hay en mí.
HDT

(Traducción Guillermo Ruiz)


“Pasa, pero queda impreso. Una protesta  no es principalmente un sacrificio hecho en aras de cierto futuro alternativo, más justo; una protesta  constituye una redención inconsecuente, insignificante de algo del presente El problema reside  en cómo seguir viviendo con el adjetivo inconsecuente repetido una y otra vez (…) Acercarse cada vez más a lo que se está redimiendo del presente en los corazones de quienes rechazan la lógica del presente (…) La narrativa es otra manera de hacer que los momentos sean indelebles, pues cuando uno lee una historia o lee un relato, éstos detienen el curso unilineal del tiempo y hacen que el adjetivo inconsecuente pierda su significado.
Antes de morir en el gulag, Ösip Mandelstam decía precisamente esto: “Para Dante, el tiempo es el contenido de la historia percibido como un solo acto sincrónico. Y, a la inversa, el objetivo de la historia es mantener el tiempo unido, a fin de que todos seamos hermanos y camaradas en la misma búsqueda y conquista del tiempo”.

(…)

Cuando un relato nos impresiona o nos conmueve, engendra algo que deviene, o puede devenir, una parte esencial de nosotros, y esa parte, ya sea pequeña o muy extensa, es, por así decirlo, la descendencia del relato, su retoño (…) es como si la corriente sanguínea del relato leído se uniera a la corriente sanguínea de la propia vida. Contribuye a nuestro devenir aquello que devenimos y seguiremos deviniendo.
Sin ninguna de las complicaciones y conflictos de los lazos familiares, esas historias que nos dan forma son nuestros antepasados, unos antepasados fortuitos, casuales, muy distintos de los biológicos.”


(John Berger, El cuaderno de Bento, traducción de Pilar Vázquez)
 
 
La belleza es un síntoma de que todo va bien, un indicio de que la incertidumbre no es una amenaza.

Jorge Wagensberg
 
La belleza es una prueba moral
HDT
 
ARE YOU STRONGER THAN A TREE?
 
 
 
 

Tuesday, April 04, 2023

WANTED MAN (DYLAN & CASH)

WANTED MAN (DYLAN & CASH)

 

 

 

Wanted man in California, 

Wanted man in Buffalo 

Wanted man in Kansas City, 

Wanted man in Ohio 

Wanted man in Mississippi,

 Wanted man in ol' Cheyenne 

Wherever you might look tonight you might see this wanted man 

I might be in Colorado, Or Georgia by the sea 

Working for some man who may not know at all who I might be 

If you ever see me coming and if you know who I am 

Don't you breathe it to nobody 'cause you know I'm on the lamb 

Wanted man by Lucy Watson, 

Wanted man by Jeannie Brown 

Wanted man by Nellie Johnson, 

Wanted man in this next town 

I've had all that I wanted of a lot of things 

I've had And a lot more than I needed of some things that turned out bad 

I got sidetracked in El Paso, 

Stopped to get myself a map 

Went the wrong way in Pleura 

with Juanita on my lap 

And I went to sleep in Shreveport, 

Woke up in Abilene 

Wonderin' why the hell I'm wanted at some town half way in between 

Wanted man in Albuquerque, 

Wanted man in Syracuse 

Wanted man in Tallahassee, 

Wanted man in Baton Rouge 

There's somebody set to grab me 

Anywhere that I might be 

And wherever you might look tonight You might get a glimpse of me

 Wanted man in California, 

Wanted man in Buffalo 

Wanted man in Kansas City, 

Wanted man in Ohio 

Wanted man in Mississippi, 

Wanted man in ol' Cheyenne 

Wherever you might look tonight you might see this wanted man


 

THE WHEEL ( WENDELL BERRY & CAROLINE SHAW)


LA RUEDA-THE WHEEL

Para Robert Penn Warren

Con los primeros acordes del violín 

los que danzan se levantan de sus asientos

El baile comienza tomando forma

en la gente, cuando las parejas se unen,

y otras parejas se unen a las parejas, su movimiento

juntos aligerando sus pies.

Se mueven en el círculo antiguo

de la danza.La danza y la canción 

se llaman recíprocamente.Pronto

son una- traídas en un único 

rapto, de forma que incluso la noche

tiene claridad, y el tiempo

es la rueda que trae la luz alrededor.

En este rapto, los muertos regresan.

El pesar está ausente de ellos.

Ellos son luz. Ellos caminan

en los pasos de los vivos

y vuelven con ellos en la danza

en el dulce enclave

de la canción, e imperecedera

es la rueda que trae la canción alrededor.

 

WB (traducción Guillermo G. Ruiz)

 

 THE WHEEL

At the first strokes of the fiddle bow
the dancers rise from their seats.
The dance begins to shape itself
in the crowd, as couples join,
and couples join couples, their movement
together lightening their feet.
They move in the ancient circle
of the dance. The dance and the song
call each other into being. Soon
they are one — rapt in a single
rapture, so that even the night
has its clarity, and time
is the wheel that brings it round.

In this rapture the dead return.
Sorrow is gone from them.
They are light. They step
into the steps of the living
and turn with them in the dance
in the sweet enclosure
of the song, and timeless
is the wheel that brings it round.

 

 

 

FROM "EASY MONEY" TO " A CASHLESS SOCIETY"



 

There is no good reason, economic or otherwise, to wish forthe “recovery” and continuation of the economy we have had.There is no reason, really, to expect it to recover and continue, for it has depended too much on fantasy. An economy cannot “grow” forever on limited resources. Energy and food cannot stay cheap forever. We cannot continue forever as a tax-dependent people who do not wish to pay taxes. Delusion and the future cannot serve forever as collateral. An untrustworthy economy dependent on trust cannot beguile the people’s trust forever.


The old props have been kicked away. The days when wecould be safely crazy are over. Our airborne economy has turned into a deadfall, and we have got to jack it down. The problem is that all of us are under it, and so we have got to jack it down with the least possible suffering to our land and people.

I don’t know how this is to be done, and I am inclined to doubt that anybody does. You can’t very skillfully jack something down if you didn’t know what you were doing when you jacked it up.

 

But we have got to begin by treating our land with the practical and effective love that alone deserves the name of patriotism.From now on, if we would like to continue here, our use of our land will have to be ruled by the principles of stewardship and thrift, using as the indispensable measure not monetary profit or industrial efficiency or professional success but ecological health.

 

WENDELL BERRY is a writer and farmer living in Kentucky

 

This article first appeared in The Progressive (September 2009)

Nuestra economía en el aire se ha transformado en una caída mortal, y nos disponemos a traerla debajo. El problema es que todos estamos bajo ella, y así tenemos que traerla debajo con el menor sufrimiento posible para nuestra tierra y nuestra gente. No sé cómo puede hacerse, y me inclino a pensar que nadie lo sabe. No puedes confiadamente traer algo abajo si no supiste qué hacías cuando lo elevaste.

(WB)

 

"Much has been said about American slavery, but I think that we do not even yet realize what slavery is. If I were seriously to propose to Congress to make mankind into sausages, I have no doubt that most of the members would smile at my proposition, and if any believed me to be in earnest, they would think that I proposed something much worse than Congress had ever done. But if any of them will tell me that to make a man into a sausage would be much worse — would be any worse — than to make him into a slave — than it was to enact the Fugitive Slave Law, I will accuse him of foolishness, of intellectual incapacity, of making a distinction without a difference. The one is just as sensible a proposition as the other.

(…)

The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it, for the purity and courage which are immortal. 

Slavery and servility have produced no sweet-scented flower annually, to charm the senses of men, for they have no real life: they are merely a decaying and a death, offensive to all healthy nostrils. We do not complain that they live, but that they do not get buried. Let the living bury them: even they are good for manure."


Slavery in Massachusetts
 
by Henry David Thoreau


ThoreauTransforms His Journal into “Slavery in Massachusetts”

I think the real lesson Thoreau intended is not his life-style; not even his two-year prescription for cure. It is his attitude. And of this, as the Editors of Time remind us, Walt Whitman's portrait is the best: "Thoreau's lawlessness -- his dissent -- his going his own absolute road let hell blaze all it chooses". This, I think, has been a distinguishing mark of the American character, ever present in its folklore, its politics, its classical and popular art, even in what Americans admire of other cultures -- just watch, if not, Hallmark's production of Merlin."

Notes on the "Complemental Verse" 

by René Pinet (Bahia, Mexico)



Monday, April 03, 2023

TRANSICIONES DE LOS IMPERIOS : ADAM SMITH EN PEKÍN (2007+2023 (II))

Giovanni Arrighi, David Harvey, and Joel Andreas on Arrighi's Adam Smith in Beijing 

Publication date 2008 

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Topics china, US, politics, economics 

 Is US power in decline? What are we to make of the rise of China? 

Will a possible equalization of North-South relations herald a more brutal capitalism or a better world? 

Giovanni Arrighi, Joel Andreas, and David Harvey give their perspectives in this forum, for a discussion of Arrighi's 2007 book Adam Smith in Beijing (Verso). 

The event, filmed in Baltimore, MD, in March of 2008, was organized by the Red Emma's collective. 

Discussants:

 Giovanni Arrighi is professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. His books include The Long Twentieth Century (1994), Chaos and Governance in the World System (w/ Beverly Silver, 1999), and Adam Smith in Beijing (2007). 

Joel Andreas is professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author and cartoonist of Addicted to War: Why the US Can't Kick Militarism (2004). 

David Harvey is is professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center at City University of New York. His many books include Spaces of Hope (2000), The New Imperialism (2003), A Brief History of Neoliberalism (2005), and Limits to Capital (new ed, 2007). 

 Addeddate 2008-04-16 00:21:04 

 


 

RAY DALIO: TRANSICIONES DE LOS IMPERIOS (ADAM SMITH EN PEKIN (2007+2023))

ADAM SMITH EN PEKIN: ORIGENES Y FUNDAMENTOS ECONOMICOS DEL SIGLO XXI 

 


Con la deuda pública surgió un sistema de crédito internacional que a menudo oculta una de las fuentes de acumulación primitiva en tal o cual país.Así, las infamias del sistema de rapiña veneciano constituyeron una de las bases secretas de la riqueza capitalista de Holanda, a la que Venecia prestó en su decadencia grandes sumas de dinero.Lo mismo sucedió con Holanda e Inglaterra.A principios del siglo XVIII […] Holanda había dejado de ser el país industrial y comercial dominante.Uno de sus principales negocios [se convirtió] en el préstamo de enormes cantidades de capital, especialmente a su gran rival Inglaterra.Lo mismo está sucediendo hoy día entre Inglaterra y Estados Unidos”

Karl Marx

(El Capital vol.I)

Giovanni Arrighi es profesor en la Univeridad Johns Hopkins y autor de importantes libros de economía histórica.El aquí reseñado ha sido publicado por ediciones Akal en el año 2007, en traducción de Juanmari Madariaga.

“Adam Smith en Pekín” pretende ser, como indica su subtítulo, un libro sobre “los orígenes y fundamentos económicos del siglo XXI”.

El libro aborda la “gran divergencia” histórica y económica de Oriente y Occidente desde los orígenes y consolidación de la revolución industrial capitalista hasta su clausura en el relativamente reciente resurgimiento económico de China y los paises emergentes de Asia.

Como obra de historia económica y de economía histórica pretende proporcionar no solo una explicación de las diferentes fases del capitalismo y del desplazamiento de los sucesivos “centros” de la economía-mundo, sino también las líneas de tendencia del desplazamiento en curso, coincidente con la crisis de hegemonía económica, social, política y militar de los Estados Unidos de América.

Arrighi analiza profusamente esas crisis “señal”, que vincula, estrechamente, no solo a sus causaS económicas sino a las derrotas militares en Vietnam e Irak, así como al “Proyecto para un Nuevo Siglo Americano” de Bush (hijo).Con visión certera, el autor lo da por cancelado históricamente antes de la derrota “republicana” y de la elección de Obama como nuevo Presidente.

 

Lo más interesante del libro en el momento actual es la vinculación de la crisis económica –todavía no detonada cuando el libro se entregó a la imprenta (Marzo de 2007)- al desplazamiento del centro de la economía-mundo a China y Asia y a la financiación del déficit exterior y fiscal de Estados Unidos por China y otros paises con enormes reservas de dólares.Se reproduce así –aunque de forma invertida-, el patrón histórico menciondo por Marx en relación con la deuda pública de los sucesivos centros de la economía capitalista.

Sobre este diagnóstico, fundado en evidencias exhaustivas, parece que no hay grandes diferencias entre los economistas e historiadoes mejor informados.Sí las hay, sin embargo, frente a los “economistas y políticos ahistoricistas”,que ni siquiera han detectado la crisis de enormes proporciones que se estaba gestando y que incluso la han negado repetidamente una vez desencadenada.

La crisis financiera internacional actual se incribe, sin dificultades, en el análisis de más largo alcance de Arrighi y plantearía, desde su perspectiva, un interrogante crucial sobre el mantenimiento del “centro financiero internacional” y sobre las posibles líneas de desarrollo posteriores a la “quiebra de Wall Street”.Esta será, sin duda, una de las mayores transformaciones derivadas de la crisis en curso.

En el ámbito político, el multilateralismo parece inevitable, pero la situación arroja enormes incertidumbres sobre las vías de resolución de la crisis de hegemonía, considerando que el anterior desplazamiento histórico del centro de la economía-mundo de Gran Bretaña a Estados Unidos solo tuvo lugar después de dos guerras mundiales.China no parece, según Arrighi, interesada en ninguna confrontación, pero los equilibrios mundiales son y serán sumamente precarios, y los conflictos bélicos no pueden excluirse.

Se trata de cosa simples, como la de la superevivencia colectiva de los países.Este es un aspecto no considerado explícitamente por Arrighi: cada vez es más difícil ejercer positivamente el poder en el ámbito de los Estados-Nación cuando estos empeoran continuamente su posición relativa en el sistema mundo capitalista.Las crisis de entreguerras también son el antecedente histórico pertinente.Los Estados –Nación pueden “quebrar” y desaparecer o degenerar hacia formas dictatoriales.Las ideologías pueden negar este problema, disimularlo o utilizarlo en provecho propio, pero no evitarlo en beneficio de las mayorías socialmente productivas.A este espectáculo asistimos, dolorosamente, casi todos los días.

Sunday, April 02, 2023

EL FIN DE LA POLÍTICA ESTADOUNIDENSE (TOM LUONGO, 1-04-2023)

 

 

 


 

So, the Democrats and their Davos benefactors have finally done it. They have finally found something they can indict President Donald Trump on. Apparently 34 somethings, which makes for great headlines.

The usual suspects have been thrown their chum — both TDS patients and MAGAtards. The social media war is now in full swing. And, frankly, it couldn’t be more tiresome.

A few get why this is so inane but most are focused (or being focused) on the wrong thing, as always.

Jonathan Turley has a good rundown of the questionable legality of this case. But, again, while he’s not wrong to focus on that and the shady politics, he also misses the larger implications of this indictment.

This is a case so legally tenuous that even the Federal Government, famous for being able to convict a ham sandwich, wouldn’t touch it with a 10-foot pole.

Because indicting Trump for any of these petty things is nothing less than the end of politics and a declaration of civil war.

Davos through the Democrats have been running a culture war for decades to stamp out the past. It is quite Leninist. Turley and others have focused on it’s ‘just not done’ to indict a President, especially something as irrelevant as paying hush money to Stormy Daniels.

But, ‘just not done’ is exactly the thing being indicted here, not Trump. Trump is just the fulcrum on which all of this rests.

This is just the politics of envy taken to its ultimate conclusion. Racism, sexism, ageism, transphobia, LGBTQT+BBQ Sauce rights are all the same political position. They are all about tearing down the old institutional order.

It’s been going on for generations, invading male spaces like Augusta National, forcing female reporters in locker rooms, endlessly arguing the wage gap between men and women.

Of course, these same people can no longer even define the women whose rights they fight for.

Is the latest term ‘people who menstruate,’ or is that just so last week?

I thought I was supposed to still wear my mask in my electric car to fight for the rights of Ukrainian men to get pregnant while fighting for freedumb from Putler!

So forgive me if I’m a little confused.

This is a perspective that reduces society to whatever we did before was wrong. Progress in the minds of religious puritan Progressives is a never-ending battle against sin. Yesterday is forever evil while Tomorrow holds the promise of heaven on earth.

In the South we just call these people Yankees and go back to eating our barbeque and playing with our kids.

That sin is stratification as a result of rewarding merit. But what is merit to people who view all profit as exploitation?

You can answer that however you wish, but by their actions it’s clear they believe merit is stealing.

This is why “you didn’t build that,” you “basket of deplorables.’ Anything you have earned can and should be taken from you for wrongthink.

And that’s what’s at the heart of this Trump indictment. Trump is the distillation of everything they need to tear down to validate their envy. He’s white, male, politically connected, a little corrupt, very cheesy and the antithesis of what middle-class bicoastal midwits believe they should be.

Successful.

They hate Trump not because he’s successful but because our society allowed for him to become successful.

To the progressive midwit, any society that allows a man like Donald Trump to rise like he did needs to be destroyed.

Is it really any different than the teenager who rebels to become an atheist because s/h/ze finally asked how can a god allow such evil in the world to exist if he has the power to stop it?

Did I mention these people have the epistemology of weevils?

Again, in the South we say, “Some people just need killin'” Well, to the puritan mind, “Some societies just need killin’.”

That’s why Trump’s indictment signals the end of politics as we believed it operated. The key word there was ‘believed.’ We are dealing with people who see those that disagree with them as irredeemable.

You voted for Trump? Twice? Burn in hell you fascist!

It’s the only time most of these people want guns to exist.

Civilization rests on the fantasy that there is a shared acceptance of the rules on which it operates. Americans are both immensely cynical and naïve about politics in this sense. We all know politicians are lying when their lips are moving but we also believe in the myth that the American system of justice will get the right answer often enough to keep the lights on.

Today that’s a very big assumption.

The End of Clausewitz

Carl von Clausewitz is very famous for saying that war is politics by other means. He’s so famous for it that he’s become a part of speech, Clausewitzian. It’s a short-hand for this idea.

I’ve come to the conclusion that the greatest writers are ones who achieve this, dare I say it, merit badge. So, today this indictment of Trump is at once, Phildickian, Kafkaesque, Clausewitzian and Hitlerian.

Phildickian because it feels like we live in some alternate America.

Kafkaesque because Trump is being indicted for a crime we can barely define.

Hitlerian because its clearly tyrannical to shut down political opponents

And Clausewitzian because the indictment isn’t about politics but a much broader war.

Davos is at war with humanity through undermining the institutions of civilization itself. They will not be stopped in their quest to secure global control over humanity. They have stoked an animus against Trump in the minds of people like Nancy Pelosi that can only end in fire and violence.

They know that the 2024 election is where all their dreams come together. They need another Davosian quisling in the White House to counter what’s happening with the Federal Reserve’s hawkish policy.

Davos has control over the political and monetary policies of Europe. It lost political control over the UK and got it back and will reverse Brexit. That’s brought the Bank of England back in line. However, it is very clear at this point they do not control the Fed.

So, they have political control until January 2025 in the US, but do not have monetary control over the Fed until 2026, when Powell’s second term is done. This is the window for US patriots to win this civil war before it even begins in earnest.

Powell’s tight monetary policy will be the Democrats’ main talking point for 2024. “The GOP and the Fed are the reason you are broke. They cost you your job, the dream of a new house.” We need more free money to help the poor.

If you think you’re sick of Elizabeth Warren now, just wait.

I have to hand it to these guys, they’ve turned the libertarians into their biggest water carriers by turning “End the Fed” into a strategic asset on the battlefield. With neither monetary nor political control over the US, there can be no 21st century version of V-E Day. It’s bad enough that the Global South has rebelled.

Davos knows this is it for them. 2024 in the US or bust. George Soros said as much at Munich this year. This is why Trump needs to be indicted even though the case is legally illiterate.

Look, the conservative commentators who think that indicting Trump will only improve his chances of winning the election are wrong. It doesn’t matter that he can run for office from jail.

Do you think a GOP run by Cocaine Mitch McConnell will have the balls to defy their Uniparty paymasters and nominate Donald Trump from prison?

Trump will not be allowed to run.

Because of all the words spilled about this so far only Martin Armstrong has come close to the truth of what the real strategy is.

Bragg will most likely seek a Gag Order in addition to a denial of bail, which no matter how ruthless the judge, will probably realize he cannot deny bail to a former President. Still, they will most likely put a Gag Order on Trump, and that way they can throw him in jail even indefinitely as they did to me using Civil Contempt of Court which is not a crime. If they charge him with Criminal Contempt, then he gets a trial by jury. Under Civil Contempt, you have ZERO rights and no right to a trial.

If this was coming from anyone other than Martin Armstrong I would dismiss it out of hand. Maybe Marty is being paranoid. I hope he is.

In your heart of hearts do you really think that? I don’t. Because this is being driven by people who everyday maneuver the world into a potential nuclear exchange with Russia over its right to exist as a country.

Tell me, after everything you’ve seen them do over COVID-19, they wouldn’t relish the opportunity to put a gag order on Trump.

It’s the only thing still animating most of these walking dead in D.C. for fuck’s sake.

Armstrong continues:

They kept me in prison on Civil Contempt from 2000 to 2007. I was released ONLY because I got to the Supreme Court and they ordered the government to explain how I could be held for 7 years without anything on statute 28 USC 1826 which had a maximum of 18 months. To avoid having to answer, they suddenly released me.

So forget the payment to a Porn Star

They can now gag trump, restrict his movements, and harass him to PREVENT him from running in 2024. They will listen to every word he says and are just going to wait to be able to throw him in prison on Civil Contempt indefinitely with ZERO Constitutional Rights. Welcome to the REAL America. They call it a “protective order” to protect the Government and Bragg as you are stripped of ALL your First Amendment rights.

Now, for Trump, if Bragg tried to pull this, his case would be fast-tracked publicly up to the Supreme Court. And then it gets interesting. Do you think Trump would be exonerated with this court? Under these circumstances? The current pressure?

Or do you expect them to do what they did with the election, refuse to hear the case because of ‘a lack of standing’ like they did over the 2020 election, when they clearly had the authority to hear the cases.

Last I checked John Roberts was still in charge up there.

Eighteen months ago I was thankful for all of Davos’ insane over-reactions, pathetic narratives, and unsustainable lies. While I don’t believe Davos is redeemable I still hold out hope that there are enough of in the right positions who are to just say no when the times comes.

With each loss on the battlefield of public opinion and in the policy room Davos has doubled down rather than backed down. Theirs is the Way of the Psychopath not the Warrior.

Their Eurodollar system is dying on the SOFR vine.

So, don’t discount this indictment to Trump. To them this is still their best path to victory.

The fear of a second Trump term is real, not because Trump is so great but because they can’t control him and he’s got a chip on his shoulder the size of Florida’s budget surplus.

Marty is right. They will play this all the way out. They have no other choice if they want to win this war they’ve started to validate their view of themselves as gods among mere men.

Regardless of the outcome of Trump’s ‘legal troubles,’ the real victory will be having destroyed what’s left of what was truly beautiful, a government (in theory) subservient to the people.

This is what we have to focus on preserving as their acolytes burn the libraries and erase the memory of our sins they can’t bear to face like adults.

 

 


Saturday, April 01, 2023

LOS PAPELES DEL HUÉRFANO (2): WE WILL HOLD YOU-TO THE HANDS-TO THE GODS (26-03-2023+1-04-2023)





But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not 

To the Gods, by W.S. Merwin 

Cuándo dejasteis 

de decirnos 

lo que podíamos creer 

cuándo distéis aquel paso 

solo uno 

por delante

de todo eso 

cuándo abandonasteis 

cada uno de los relatos 

sobre vosotros, uno tras otro 

y cualquier cosa 

que imaginamos haber sabido

 de vosotros

quién fue la luz 

que comienza 

y todas las oscuridades

al mismo tiempo 

y las voces en ellas 

gritando una llamada 

y la contestación enorme 

ni viniendo ni yendo 

sino demasiado rápida para ser oída 

permitirnos creer 

los nombres para vosotros 

dondequiera que los escuchemos 

permitirnos creer las historias 

cómo la muerte vino para quedarse 

cómo surgió la luz 

como el principio comenzó 

permitirnos creer 

todo eso 

entonces permitirnos creer 

que nosotros os inventamos

y que ya no más creímos en vosotros 

y que fuisteis solo historias 

que no creímos 

vosotros sin 

momento para el comienzo 

ni lugar para el fin 

un paso por delante

de todo eso 

escuchadnos 

esperad 

creed en nosotros 

- from Present Company, Copper Canyon Press (traducción Guillermo G. Ruiz)

Friday, March 31, 2023

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Total reserves in months of imports - China International Monetary Fund, International Financial Statistics and data files.  

 


Total reserves minus gold (current US$) - China International Monetary Fund, International Financial Statistics and data files.  

 

Net foreign assets (current LCU) - China International Monetary Fund, International Financial Statistics and data files.

Thursday, March 30, 2023

PEDRO SANCHEZ, XI YINPING, YAN LIANKE Y LA "MEMORIA HISTÓRICA" ("THE LITTLE FULCRUM OF TRUTH")

Sobre escritura, memoria, historia y ciencia, leído hoy las palabras del escritor chino Yan Lianke a sus alumnos.Y que resultan aplicables a cualquier país -y época- y a lo que sus escritores (Claudio Rodríguez Fer aquí) han recordado y mantenido vivo: 

Who erased our memories and wiped them clean?! 

 

 



Forgetful people are, in essence, dirt in the fields and on the roads. Grooves on the sole of a shoe can step on them in whichever way they please. 

Forgetful people are, in essence, woodblocks and planks that have cut ties with the tree that gave them life. Saws and axes are in full control of what they become in the future. 

If reporters do not report what they witness, and authors do not write about their memories and feelings; if the people in society who can talk and know how to talk are always recounting, reading, and proclaiming in pure lyrical political correctness, who can tell us what it means to live on this earth as flesh and blood? 

Imagine this: the author Fang Fang did not exist in today’s Wuhan. She did not keep records or pen down her personal memories and feelings. Neither were there tens of thousands of people who were like Fang Fang and would send out loud cries for help via their mobile phones. What would we have heard? What would we have seen? 

Flesh and blood, body and soul are gone. All is well, and the little fulcrum of truth that could lift the world is lost. As such, history becomes a collection of legends, of lost and imagined stories, that are baseless and unfounded. From this perspective then, how important it is that we can remember, and possess our own memories that are neither revised nor erased. It is the least amount of certainty and evidence that we can provide when we speak a little truth. 

 Memories cannot change the world, but it gives us a genuine heart. 

If there comes another Great Leap Forward someday and people revert to using backyard furnaces, it can at least convince us that sand will not turn into iron, and one mu [a unit of measurement, approximately 667 sqm] of yield will not weigh 100,000 catties. We will at least know that this is the most basic common sense, and not some miracle of consciousness producing matter, or air creating food. If there’s another Cultural Revolution of some sort, we’ll at least be able to guarantee that we will not land our parents in prison or on the guillotine. 

Because of this, I hope that each of you, and all of us who’ve experienced the catastrophic Covid-19 will become people who remember; people who derive memories from memory. 

Writing poems after the Auschwitz concentration camp period was indeed barbaric, but it is even more barbaric if we simply choose to forget it in words, in conversations and in memories—it is indeed much more barbaric and horrifying. 

If we can’t be a whistle-blower like Li Wenliang, then let us at least be someone who hears that whistle. If we can’t speak out loudly, then let us be whisperers. If we can’t be whisperers, then let us be silent people who have memories. Having experienced the start, onslaught, and spread of Covid-19, let us be the people who silently step aside when the crowd unites to sing a victory song after the battle is won—the people who have graves in their hearts, with memories etched in them; the people who remember and can someday pass on these memories to our future generations. 

YAN LIANKE 

(Existe una traducción al español publicada en Babelia el 21 de Marzo de 2020)