Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Coming February 6, 2024 . . . MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
The intra-Palestinian meeting in Moscow has precedent
— Hanna Notte (@HannaNotte) February 29, 2024
Russia's hosted such meetings in the past, most recently Feb 2019
Russia has long lamented the US' "monopolization" of the peace process & tried to carve out a niche for itself: mediating among the disunited Palestinians/2
Here's what I told them: https://halginsberg.com/vote-for-jill-stein-again/
Controversial Brazil law curbing Indigenous rights comes into force https://t.co/pCoDg05irX
— Gareth Harris (@garethharr) December 28, 2023
Location: U.S. Embassy and residential compounds
Events: Heavy gunfire is occuring around the area of the U.S. Embassy and residential compounds adjacent to the Trutier area of Tabarre. All Embassy personnel have been instructed to remain indoors and shelter-in-place until further notice. All others should avoid the area.
Actions to take:
- Avoid the area;
- Avoid demonstrations and any large gatherings of people;
- Do not attempt to drive through roadblocks; and
- If you encounter a roadblock, turn around and get to a safe area.
By The Editorial Board @ Bloomberg.com, December 8, 2023
A mass expulsion of Afghan migrants could destabilize the region and fuel radicalization. The West should pressure Islamabad to change course.
All eyes on #Chad right now
Chad has two internet trunks coming into the country: One from the Red Sea via Sudan; the other from Cameroon. Not possible for the totality of the country's internet network to be shut unless done centrally. A lot of rumors swirling; few facts. https://t.co/N6bDJZ2ixO
BREAKING: Three loss prevention employees in Macy’s across the street from Philadelphia City Hall stabbed, one of them has died from stab wounds, @PhillyPolice sources tell me. Police converged on the store as the three workers were rushed to Jefferson Hospital. pic.twitter.com/4U1eKycL4W
Former US Ambassador Arrested, Charged With Working As Secret Agent For Cuba https://t.co/LDwo4ZJI1K
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) December 4, 2023
[Chapter I news is HERE, Oct. 7 til today]
You don’t get it.
— George Deek (@GeorgeDeek) December 2, 2023
It’s not about an UNRWA teacher who held an Israeli kid hostage in his house.
It’s all about how for 75 years you have destroyed the future of generations of Palestinians, including my family.
My cousins in Arab countries are still not citizens - not even the… https://t.co/nv6anubGhc
Note 'Community Notes' attached to UNWRA's statement.
Imperialism for me but not for thee?
It's wild that Venezuela is now holding a vote on whether 2/3 of Guyana actually belongs to them! Analysts suggest that Modoru may want military action to pump up his sinking popularity.
Could we have a war in South America?!?
"The people who live in Essequibo are largely… pic.twitter.com/QvMEjkkgwy
The lack of a cohesive delegation has allowed attention-seeking lawmakers to act on their own.
McCarthy: “You have [Rep. Matt] Gaetz, who belongs in jail…”
Gaetz: “Tough words from a guy who sucker punches people in the back. The only assault I committed was against Kevin’s fragile ego.”https://t.co/LctPuz6Pcf
By Martinn Pengelly in Washington DC for TheGuardian.com, Nov. 30
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tells Ryan Grim life in Congress ‘completely transformed’ after Democratic leader stepped down
"Both the AU and the intl community place more weight on whether elections are held than whether they are free and fair. Sanctions/expulsions occur when there is a coup but not necessarily when elections are rigged or if an “institutional coup” occurs." https://t.co/m9dNimJP0D
— Cameron Hudson (@_hudsonc) November 28, 2023
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Comments
Oy! Scary as hell, like the whole house of cards gonna fall again soon.
They have built an economy by convincing consumers that this, this, that and that is the basics of a middle class life. And a huge financial economy to loan the money to do that. And those things provide jobs and growth, but without paying them enough to continue keeping that growth pyramid up.
About a decade ago, I started to notice that one never saw junkers on the road anymore. So much so that people raised to buy and drive junkers, and not be saddled with a car payment, which was considered a luxury, like me and my family, were really looked down on. Like: geez can't you afford a decent car. Rather than: how stupid to pay a loan company for a new car if you aren't flush.
Throw in that rents and/or house payments seem to be at an all time high across the country And that college tuition and loans to pay for it has skyrocketed. Something's got to give.
Some thoughts First being clear that I am not mentioning this to lecture about the morality of living frugally like in the old days. It's just that I don't think people realize enough how expectations have changed, that what hit me, here. It's striking to me as a child of the late 50's and early 60's, that what was defined a middle class then, and so many describe as the golden days we have fallen from, is a false thing, the mythical land of "MAGA".
Here's what that era was really like, this is the basics of middle class back then:
We "grew" a new economy from changing those expectations. Basically by giving the middle class the tools of credit and investment that only the wealthy had access to previously. Without raising the real adjusted amount they were being paid. Nobody talks about "keeping up with the Joneses" anymore, because everyone became a Jones to feed the consumer economy.
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/14/2019 - 6:46pm
Yeah, I always had junkers, once bought one off a student leaving town for $100, block in too tight to change 1 of the sparkplugs, think I drove it 2 years.
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 02/14/2019 - 8:14pm
I had a temp $100 Pinto where the driver's door arm rest was missing so I used a coat hanger to open and shut the door. It also had cut pieces of aluminum sheets replacing rusted out floor. Someone bought it from me when I got something better @ $75. I hope they didn't die in it.The floor thing was very common in the midwest as there was no rust coating that worked invented yet (on purpose maybe--planned obsolescence.) There is a story of Obama in Chicago picking up Michelle in one of floorless models for date, I recall reading that. Actually, as more people found it easier to buy a brand new car, that was part of the movement to more cars per family in the Midwest, as people would keep the junker to drive in the winter, so as not to ruin the new car with the salt exposure. It was your "beater for the winter."
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/14/2019 - 9:25pm
I wanna take you on a kind of inebriational travelogue here
Well, ain't got no spare, you ain't got no jack, you don't give a shit you ain't never coming back. Tom Waits.
My first [car] was a '50 Mercury. The "Black Torpedo". Not the one bellow.-
$50. No external handles, all had been bondo-ed over and everything including window trim was primer flat black. I don't remember how I got in or for that matter how I got out. I remember the trunk lid flopped open when I hit a bump too fast. The three-on-the-tree shifter was still in place but a floor shifter had been incorrectly installed. The pattern was bottom left for first to upper right then down for third so I convinced a few people for a little while that it had a four speed to go with the flat-head eight. Varoom! Pissed my ol' man off when I bought it but he had always said that when you can buy it you can have it so I got to park it at home for a little while.
Let's argue about which is best, Chevy or Plymouth. You go first.
by A Guy Called LULU on Fri, 02/15/2019 - 12:03am
Ah but that does not sound like a "junker," that sounds like a babe magnet out of American Graffiti belonging to John Milner, including the paint job. The mystery of what you were planning to do with it being the attraction. (hot rod?) All the better that dad thought it a junker, without a clue.
I just luv the story of the reverse installation of the stick shift, something about that just appeals to me!
Remembering my Pinto did make me think of how not having working doors on a car at all was once cool, all the best foreign movies had sports cars with no doors and where the guys jumped in and out.
The paint job on your illustration looks like a Butch Brinza candy apple flame job to me, I knew him intimately for a short while in my misspent youth and before I moved on to a 8-yr. relationship with his buddy who bore the nickname "Doctor of the Streets." They were both members of American Graffiti generation, a decade older than me. On Chevy or Plymouth? sadly I have to say that I don't really have an informed opinion, though the Dr. did teach me to say GM cars suck. I was a young woman and we needn't worry our pretty heads about that stuff too much.
(Speaking of Bondo, I learned to use it 4 years ago restoring some rusted metal French doors, via that miracle of giving-away-secrets-of-the-male-brotherhood, YouTube. I did a beautiful job, smooth as silk, was so very proud. And YEAH, now it's all rusted through again.)
by artappraiser on Fri, 02/15/2019 - 1:17am
Ah, but did they explain the mysteries of the Holley 4-barrel and a double overhead camshaft? Not sure how they'd look on a French door, but pretty sure you'd be the first on your block. (Were you the McKenzie Philips type or Laverne & Shirley on roller skates or...?)
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 02/15/2019 - 6:59am
Ah but since 1998 through 2018, the killer is not car payments nor even housing but college costs, medical and child care. And HOSPITALS ARE RIPPING THIS COUNTRY OFF. Yes, I am shouting. They need to be threatened with nationalization or somethin'
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/21/2019 - 5:45pm