The Gods of Olympus Are Not Too Big to Fail

The Babylonian Idols, the Roman Pantheon, et al. ...all centered around priestly control of the captives shackled through a false belief in their magical power. It is the worship of monetary power today that empowers the hereditary elite to destroy country after country. Breaking that illusion will come one way or another. Either their self destruction ends in a tragedy or comedy for humanity.

Thank You, Neil Farage.

"Just who the hell do you think you people are. You are very, very dangerous people indeed: your obsession with creating this European state means that you are happy to destroy democracy, you appear to be happy with millions and millions of people to be unemployed and to be poor."

Have You No Sense of Decency, Mr President?

Two headlines from today's news media:

"Doctors say Medicare cuts force painful decision about elderly patients"

"Barack Obama to Barbara Walters: 'Extraordinarily proud' of health care reform"

What is any thinking citizen of this nation to conclude?

Prince Philip Must Be Chewing the Rug Over This...

"Hamburger disease, a debilitating form of food poisoning, may be a thing of the past. New findings from an international research collaboration conducted by the French National Institute for Agronomic Research (INRA), involving the Université de Montréal are the first to show how the contaminating E.coli bacterium is able to survive in the competitive environment of a cow's intestine by scavenging specific food sources."

Great news for the hoi polloi. One less disease into which Prince Philip might desire to be reincarnated.

Scanopticon

I think we need body and brain scanners from space to track all humans, robots, plant, and animal life. Then and only then, will we achieve a modicum of security. We are after all dealing with an irrational enemy, so we must be just as irrational ourselves in order to defeat them. It just stands to unreason.

Apparently Obama Is Now A Condiment

Why did Obama, according to an ABC article,  say the following:“It means some adjustments for China, so we understand that this not solved overnight. But it needs to be dealt with and I’m condiment it can be,” he said, “All of us need to avoid actions that perpetrate imbalances and give countries an undue advantage over one another.”
Does he now believe he is a bottle of ketchup, or perhaps he is a teapot?

Obama panel probes stimulus waste -- at Ritz Carlton

I ask you, who better to identify fraud and abuse than these obviously expert practitioners in their chosen field?

New Study Proves that Utter Nonsense is Still Profitable

This just in from the Isle of  Laputa:

"Study finds the mind is a frequent, but not happy, wanderer

November 11, 2010

People spend 46.9 percent of their waking hours thinking about something other than what they're doing, and this mind-wandering typically makes them unhappy. So says a study that used an iPhone web app to gather 250,000 data points on subjects' thoughts, feelings, and actions as they went about their lives."

I am certainly unhappy that such utter piffle masquerading as science is being funded at all. Why don't we set up an academy of naval gazing instead? Oh, pardon me, I forgot about string theory...

Deficit Commission Tripe

What sort of hellish parallel universe are we in when the same Congress and President that approved a still ongoing multi trillion dollar bailout of Wall Street criminals now turns around and tries to sell us this boatload of tripe? (With my apologies to tripe.)

George W. Bush praises President Obama's Afghanistan surge

And it is for this reason (as well as Obama's catering to Wall Street with continuing bailouts) that so much of the American populace viscerally abhors Obama. Indeed, in essence, they are but two peas in a pod.

NGOs and Haiti

Al Jazeera's Imtiaz Tyab, reporting from the capital, Port-au-Prince, on Sunday, said Haiti's minister of health had claimed that NGOs were exaggerating the spread of the disease.

"He [the minister] went on to suggest that he thought it was a way for them to attract more donations to fund cholera projects or projects to fight cholera.

"Haiti has for a very long time had a very complex relationship with the NGO's. In fact, there are more NGOs operating out of Haiti than anywhere else in the world per capita.

"These NGOs have an astounding amount of money and have also spent a lot of money here but many Haitians say that they have very little to show for it."

While I would heartily agree that NGOs (No Good Organizations?) are notorious the world over as at best a self serving racket and at worst the racist operatives of a neocolonialist scheme of keeping the so-called third world deliberately undeveloped and starving, I would not take the threat of not only cholera but far worse pandemics arising out of the living hell that is today's Haiti. That this is a deliberate policy of promotion of UN and global financier's making there can be no doubt. The same Obama administration that is carrying out what amounts to nothing other than a false flag protection racket for the heroin trade in Afghanistan, (recently lavishly admired by none other than George W. Bush) to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars, has refused to lift a finger to save Haiti. It is of a piece with the same logic that has Bernanke doing everything to save the cancerous bubble of speculative debt at the expense of the world's population...

George W. ...In Memoriam

Poor, poor Bush...Sorely hurt by the rapper Kanye's imputation that he doesn't care about black people! Not true! He doesn't care about people... period. He's a Bush. Shouldn't that be obvious to any sentient being among us? If it is not dear readers, please educate yourselves. For the truth is-- the whole Bush family are nothing other than Hitler lovers... And Hitler loved only Gaia, just like his crazed ecofascist spawn, balmy Prince Charles, son of Nazi Prince Phillip.Oh what a family! Isn't history fun?

Obama's Deconstruction

My question is what happens to Obama's brain when he goes off his teleprompter? The other day on the Daily Show, Jon Stewart famously joked about his "Heckuva job" remark. "You don't really want to use that phrase, dude." Professor Obama then nervously explicated that this had been an intentional pun. In what parallel universe, except Obama's, does his mealy mouthed defense (in imitation of his equally loathed predecessor) of Larry Summers' execrable record as a towel boy for Wall Street have even the faintest resemblance to a pun?

More Sordid Political Tales

One of today's blog headlines from Isikoff is striking "Democrats blast GOP 'front groups,' but use them too"
Once again we see that both parties are composed of sniveling, dastardly ne'er-do-wells. To see what is behind all this, just imagine to yourself what is the common thread here. It should be quite obvious to those thinking clearly that both these "parties" have an abject lust for quite filthy lucre--the people and the nation be damned!

More "Quant" Arrant Nonsense

A typically hubristic paper makes its way upon the scene on the arXiv today with the sententiously ponderous title of  "Replicating financial market dynamics with a simple self-organized critical lattice model." Now I am not going to attempt to put you to sleep with any quotes from this latest mathematical excrescence, dear reader. Suffice it to say that this is more of the same gobbledygook that gave the world the equivalent of a financial venereal disease known as derivative securities. The object of which is to perform a looting of the physical economy via computerized trading, etc. 

The whole risible facade of this sham "chaos quantum field gauge group dilation theory" falls apart at once when you simply consider that it has been the space program which has caused the bringing forth into being of whole new classes of products benefiting society. That this is not some random happenstance only some quant idiot savant might try to pretend otherwise. But of course, while there are sheep to be fleeced, such shenanigans will continue apace...

Genomic Organization Proven To be Non-Random

As the recurring theme here attests, it is the author's delight to put the purveyors of a-causal randomness to flight. It is with great joy that I welcome some recent research on nucleic acid three dimensional structure of yeast that does just that. I quote some relevant excerpts below. But please read the entire contents for details.

Eukaryotic genomes are non-randomly organized in the nucleus. It is becoming clear that intra-nuclear positions of genomic loci are influenced by various nuclear processes including transcription, replication and repair... It has recently been suggested that transcription factors are involved in the association of genes with these transcription factories. However, how transcription factories function remains unclear, partly because they have been studied in complex mammalian cells. Studying the factories in a model organism with a much simpler genome can facilitate understanding of the role of transcription factories with regard to transcriptional regulation.

Today's Polished Musicians

These days performance of classical music is all surface. Techniques to enhance gymnast-like mechanical abilities abound. There is no sense that beauty is anything other than mere effect. Even the idea of substance is relegated at most to some arbitrary outpouring of supposedly intense emotion...Can it be that that same art that produced the Ninth Symphony dedicated to Schiller's call for a universal brotherhood of mankind has now become so trivialized and debased? Wagner inflicted his hateful compositions upon the world a century and a half ago...I'm afraid the musical world has never recovered.

The Truth About the Fraudulent U.S. Political System: Cholera in Haiti

Dear fellow citizens, let me put this question to you: would it have made one scintilla of difference whether republicans or democrats were in power when the humanitarian crisis in Haiti called upon this once great nation of ours to act to prevent what is now a cholera epidemic? The criminal fraud of international finance's derivative securities prompted our politicians to dump trillions of dollars in these same criminals' pockets due to the oft repeated rubric of "too big to fail." What can we say about the eminently preventable unfolding tragedy in Haiti but that our government's shamefully wicked policy in reality is "too poor to matter."

The Lunatics Continue to Bay

Today's march of folly comes to us from a member of a "think tank" called the Hoover Institute. This from that same illustrious Stanford university that houses a promoter of Nazi ideologue "philosopher" brainwasher Ernst Mally . One Peter Berkowitz opines thusly in the Wall Street Journal:




"Highly educated people say the darndest things, these days particularly about the tea party movement. Vast numbers of other highly educated people read and hear these dubious pronouncements, smile knowingly, and nod their heads in agreement. University educations and advanced degrees notwithstanding, they lack a basic understanding of the contours of American constitutional government."




Here’s a fact about Alexander Hamilton's federalism that needs to be understood today by the clueless cranks on the so called left and right. In his report to Congress as Secretary of the Treasury on the subject of manufactures, Hamilton openly and unambiguously attacks by name Adam Smith! The reason we are currently reeling in the midst of economic hell is that we have allowed an unfettered, oligarchical clique of private financiers to loot this once great agro-industrial economy. The Heritage Foundation right hails this as a free trade race to the bottom capitalism a la Adam Smith. The environmentalist left abhors Hamilton’s correct understanding that technologically progressive manufacturing is the real source of wealth. The irony is that China, with its investment in high speed rail and water projects, is functioning much closer to what Hamilton’s economic genius was about. So much for the meaningless debate of left versus right in our hallowed halls of academia. Both their roads equally lead to hell…

The Only Unquenchable Appetite

It never fails to be a source of amusement when psychologists stumble upon some half truth in their investigations and then declare that they have made a discovery. When in fact, if they had even a smattering of classical training in the history of philosophy, they would recognize the absurdity of their claims.

Take the case reported by experimental psychologists at Stanford that study doesn't need to be interrupted by a break, because they conclude that will power to concentrate is not a limited resource. It has been accepted since the time that Plato wrote his Symposium, that the principle of the power of the intellect is driven by the unending and universal desire to produce good for humanity's future. But, since we, in our modernist, existentalist's cesspits of institutional "learning," have foolishly tossed aside all such wisdom in favor of utter and fraudulent nonsense, we seem to have quite lost our moorings. And go blindly flailing about like some chaos theorist's delusion.


From De Pace Fidei, Nicholas of Cusa 1453


"We recognize that in ourselves there is a certain appetite which is
called spirit because of the motion present in it. Moreover, we recognize
that the explanation for this motion is the Good, for by reason
of the Good the appetite is moved. Accordingly, we see that by
its own power the Good attracts our spirit and that the only reason
the Good is desired is because it is the Good. Therefore, the end of
our desire is the Good. And our spirit cannot have its appetite for the
Good from anywhere other than from the Good. Therefore, the Good
is the Creator of our spirit—creating us for the attainment of  itself-
and is both our spirit’s Beginning and its End. Hence, our spirit
is not at rest except in its Beginning. And because our intellectual
spirit is not that very Good which it desires (because that Good is not
present in our spirit; for if it were present in the intellect, it would be
the intellect, just as in our knowledge the known is our knowledge),
the intellect does not know what that Good is. Therefore, the intellectual
spirit by nature desires to understand that Good. For although
that Good cannot be lacking to anything that is—since to be is something
good—nevertheless, unless the intellect understands the Good,
it will be deprived of it and will not be able to be at rest."