School of Seven Bells - Sempiternal / Amaranth

“... poison in your ear ...”

Original Noise

Sometimes Advertising Doesn't Suck

I Have this Album ... Somewhere

In a Box ... Hiding Under My Desk or in a Closet ... Or Something

a1)	B.E.F.	Groove Thang
2)	Devo	Going Under
3)	D.A.F	Der MussolinI!
4)	Fingerprintz (2)	The Beat Escape
5)	Heaven 17	Soul Warfare
b1)	Simple Minds	Love Song
2)	Magazine	The Great Man's Secrets
3)	Japan	The Art Of Parties
4)	The Human League	Do Or Die Dub (Special Edit) n/a

Methods Of Dance | Virgin | Vinyl, LP, Compilation | UK | 1981 | Electronic | New Wave, Synth-pop

Punctuating Wittgentstein's Poker

References Pervading a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers

9	Stephen Toulmin - TheUses of Argument
22	Marjorie Perloff - Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary
60	GeorgeEdward Moore - Principia Ethica
66	"...Liberal cabinet minister Charles Masterman, who created Britain's World War I propaganda unit."
74	Adolf Loos, architect
75	Lev Bronstein, aka: Trotsky
78	Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations
81	"The Wittgenstein house was one of the preeminentmusical salons in the city [Vienna] of Mahler ♫, Schoenberg ♫, Webern ♫. Berg ♫,and of course, Brahms ♫."
82	"...Richard Strauss ♫ played duets with Ludwig's brother Paul, a concert pianistwho lost his right arm in the First World War and for whom,in 1931, Ravel ♫ wrote his Piano Concert in D for the Left Hand. (Paul rejected a work for the left hand he had commissioned from Prokofiev♫: 'I do not understand a note of it and I shall not play it.' Prokofiev retorted that, musically, Paul belonged in the last century.)"
83	"The painter Gustav Klimt called [Wittgenstein's father Karl] 'the minister of fine art' ... "
	Thomas Bernard - Wittgenstein's Nephew
86	Paul Engelmann, architect, Stonborough House

해일 비너스

beon-yeog ?

Clazziquai Project W (Where The Story Ends) W & Whale BoA

Books Ain't Everything

I learned that Loreen had won the Eurovision thing late this past Saturday night because I needed the Wikipedia homepage URL wherein her arresting visage was found. That was my first mistake. Wikipedia's front door aggregator always sends me off on wildly inapposite diversions, impeding my ever expanding course of much delayed study. My second mistake was stumbling down YouTube's advertising rat-hole to reconnoiter toute cette agitation.

Clicking on Loreen's vaguely war-painted face here will lead you to a play list I assembled as a testament to the depressing waste of time spent vainly searching for something—anything!—that wasn't a complete bouillante pile de merde. Yeah, more than a hour skipping through mindlessly saccharine and unnecessarily sexualized third-rate cabaret acts incongruously plodding across some multi-euro(FAIL!) stage in ... Azerbaijan? ... really?  That Azerbaijan?

Trackshittaz. Austrian. I guess they don't suck that much. Alles klar, Herr Kommissar. Chah!

MrEclipse.com
h/t Steve Clemons
@ The Atlantic

I needed restitution, though retribution was foremost amid my now meandering, wantonly unguided mentation. Clearly 40°25′N 49°50′E wasn't working. Serendipity swept her brightly colored Chima to 37°35′N 127°0′E making good my foray into the nominally brain crushing vapidity of the billion dollar(FAIL!) narcissist network, thankfully eclipsing all the “sexy sexy sugar” in Central Asia. (Azerbaijan. Europe. Azerbaijan. WTF?)

Funny Story #1

This all amounts to what I can at present best describe as "Yet Another Object Lesson In Why I try Not To Pay Attention To (Almost) Anything Everybody Is Talking About," a subject ranging from Mad Men—likely a worthwhile diversion—to Hunger Games, Game of Thrones, or any gaming of vampires, werewolves and ghosts ... id est: occult. Life is all about choices. Are you happy with yours?

Standing On The Top

“That funk is here to stay, oh (We understand it)”

The Power Of Politics

Clearly, the richest would not be drawn to politics if politics did not offer them additional power above and beyond that which they had already acquired through financial or other professional success. Winning (or seizing) political office, or having the ability to influence political decisions, or having a base of political support directly empowers individuals. The source of the power is multifold. It is the power of the institutions that one has leadership within. It is the power of allocating the resources and setting the agenda for those institutions. It is the power to influence the creation of new laws and regulations, which offer the ability actually to institutionalize key ideas. It is the power of the history and national identity associated with those institutions. It is the power that comes from having quantifiable support among the people of a country or region. Government service is seen as legitimizing, as service to the community, with high posts also seen as the capstone of a career (although they often provide additional access and networks that can offer further opportunities for profit post-government). This leads directly to many top business leaders taking massive pay cuts to work in government.

Burdensome White Dude

“Whitey On The Moon”

[Cecil] Rhodes schemed and behaved like a politician, not a merchant. He acted with the ruthlessness and calculated brutality of a mediaeval warlord. He was a brilliant manipulator and, some would argue, swindler, his actions made noteworthy by his audacity. The legends and myths surrounding him are legion. He bought newspaper companies, both secretly and openly, because of his conviction that “the press rules the minds of men.” He has been accused of pressuring doctors to suppress information concerning a smallpox epidemic among the African labour force of his diamond mines, believing that this information would disrupt production because labourers would steer clear of the region; and it would, of course, cost money to pay for inoculations—money he did not want to spend.

Ydyʼát Wwynd

meshuga!

You tell me that it's evolution

Well, you know

The conservative often has a sharp sense of the complexity of revolution: not desiring change, he prefers to emphasize its difficulties, whereas the reformer is enticed into a faith that the intensity of desire is a measure of its social effect. Yet just because no reform is in itself a revolution, we must not jump to the assurance that no revolution can be accomplished. True as it is that great changes are imperceptible, it is no less true that they are constantly taking place. Moreover, for the very reason that human life changes its quality so slowly, the panic over political proposals is childish.
p. 139 (or 275)

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So long as the poor are docile in their poverty, the rest of us are only too willing to satisfy our consciences by pitying them. But when the downtrodden gather into a threat as they did at Lawrence[, Massachusetts], when they show that they have no stake in civilization and consequently no respect for its institutions, when the object of pity becomes the avenger of its own miseries, then the middle-class public begins to look at the problem more intelligently.

You say you got a real solution

Eh bien, vous savez ...

Yes, the incentives given to business and investment leaders to motivate them to work harder and trigger growth benefit all. But are the incentives really market incentives, predicated on unfettered economic interaction, or has the system been fine-tuned to disproportionately benefit those who lead organizations, make investment decisions, and run boardrooms? It is true that governments have been unable to do much of what they should to improve the welfare of their people, and in a vast number of cases markets have done much more. But is creating a false choice between governments and markets, as so many politicians have done, productive or practical when neither can do the job of creating a thriving or just society alone?

Un Autre Couple Historique

Traduction?

When a natural system reaches the point of criticality and collapses through a phase transition, it goes through a simplification process that results in greatly reduced systemic scale, which also reduces the risk of another megaevent. This is not true in all man-made complex systems. Government intervention in the form of bailouts and money printing can temporarily arrest the cascade of failures. Yet it cannot make the risk go away. The risk is latent in the system, waiting for the next destabilizing event.

One solution to the problem of risk that comes from allowing a system to grow to a megascale is to make the system smaller, which is called descaling. This is why a mountain ski patrol throws dynamite on unstable slopes before skiing starts for the day. It is reducing avalanche danger by descaling, or simplifying, the snow mass. In global finance today, the opposite is happening. The financial ski patrol of central bankers is shoveling more snow onto the mountain. The financial system is now larger and more concentrated than immediately prior to the beginning of the market collapse in 2007.
p. 211

James Rickards - Currency Wars

The Evolution of Small Things: “aye-aye ... ”

and then there's this

Weimar Couture

& Capital (Offense) Accounting

Google searches here, photo credits after the break*

“The Corporate
Psychopaths Theory of the
Global Financial Crisis”
- Clive R. Boddy

Lest anyone mistake an association of RT's Capital Account and its stunningly perspicacious and intrepid host Lauren Lyster with this rogue's gallery due to their proximity herewith, DON'T.

As the embedded clip demonstrates from its edit point (24+ minutes into the video) I could not be in broader agreement with Ms. Lyster and company's appraisal of the current state of financial and political malfeasance and corruption at play in our benighted land.

Watch the whole video. Watch Capital Account every weekday night. It's a brilliant brick of reason and reportage tossed at the heads of those shown (above) here. The paper linked below the video is, also, more than a little apropos.

Doll Steak

Test Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeat !

Physical Graffiti

“Oil Fuel Gold GDP S&P House”

	Series		Oil Fuel Gold GDP S-P House Physical Graffiti	(Scale) Size		Period	ƒ(x)
1	OILPRICE		Spot Oil Price: West Texas Intermediate	5	Solid	M	Chg, $/brl
2	IQ11110		Export (End Use): Fuel oil	3	Solid	M	% Chg fYA
3	U6RATENSA		Total unemployed, plus *	3	Solid	M	Index (scV 100 fcp)‡
4	GVZCLS		CBOE Gold ETF Volatility Index	1	Solid	D, , cl	Chg fYA, %
5	IQ12260		Export (End Use): Nonmonetary gold	3	Solid	M	% Chg fYA
6	GDP		Gross Domestic Product, 1 Decimal	4	Solid	Q	% Chg fYA
7	SP500		S&P 500 Index	1	Solid	D	% Chg fYA
8	USSTHPI		House Price Index for the United States	4	Solid	Q	Index (scV 100 fcp)‡
9	SP500 / OILPRICE		S&P 500 / OILPRICE	3	Dotted	M	Index / ($/brl)
10	MSPNHSUS / OILPRICE		Median Sales Price for New Houses / OILPRICE †	3	Dotted	M	x / 1000

* all marginally attached workers plus total employed part time for economic reasons
‡ (scale value to 100 for chosen period = Recession Trough Nov 1, 2011
† us$1,000

Sticky When Wet

The Flesh Is Willing, And The Spirit Has A Stiffie

Affiliate Cash Snipers All

I was poking around the blogger dashboard and following some of the links under traffic sources to this site. I can only dimly imagine why Loser's Review has shown up where it has, but some links are plainly and painfully just part of a larger marketing ploy. I listened to the tremendously slick pitch for one of them, initially in the forlorn hope of finding something if not quirky than at least brazenly disturbing.  No such luck.

Monetary Adventures

“You LOT! – (£ ¥ € $ ?) – Don't stop. Give it all you got.”

Makes The World Go Round

Only a moderate amount of transformation here. A simple “register” shift to four of the six currency pairs in this chart helps extricate them from the other busy squiggles.  Four of the data sets are making repeat appearances and will likely serve as a thematic backdrop for future work in varying degrees. They are: Spot Oil Price, Effective (ha! – that's rich) Federal Funds Rate, Gross Domestic Product and the Unemployment rate ... as measured by the Fed anyway.

There's a lot of noise in the Fed's data, and not just from the measurements. The Bureau Of Labor Statistics and The Federal Reserve have been working together for more than twenty years to over-analyze and under-report the inflation that anyone with a checkbook and a pulse confronts when dropping gelt. Seriously, they don't “shop” like the rest of us.

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Її кулаки або її сиськи

femen.org

Вибачте за (ймовірно) дерьмово переклад, але Google Translate все у мене.

Хоробрість не починає описувати те, що ці молоді жінки підтримувати в обличчя невігластво, глузування, і атаки - яєчники стали, мабуть.

Я закоханий в ці «дівчатка», але не з причин, ви можете собі дозволити. Вони удар по основам людської культурної обізнаності в найглибших і арешт способом можна собі уявити, і на службі позачасовий ідеї. У той час як звільнення жінок може виявитися центральною темою свого агітпропу проявляється тілесний, це не повинно зайняти надто багато просвітлення визнати, що сили гноблення і дискримінації роботу, щоб нас розділити і звільнити нас від нас самих. Свобода для всіх жінок є свобода для всього людства. Я приведу Google Translate посилання для народних туди і назад. (Крім того, музика у верхньому лівому кутку.)