A frightening testament to disenfranchisement and male fragility, a new virus is spreading through the crowd of Trump backers at a dangerous pace and ferocity that references belief in a conspiracy theory of “bakers and breadcrumbs” positing that the very stable genius is signalling to his adoring throngs of an impending revival and counter-coup against the establishment.
An anonymous source—with a special Department of Energy Q-class clearance required for work with the movement of nuclear weapons and waste but no member of the Deep State—has through this special patteran revealed that the on-going and multi-pronged investigations against Trump and associates are a red-herring and the Justice Department is really going after the Clinton-Obama cabal—for reasons. This iteration is similar to the idea that Obama was a Muslim from Kenya and not a duly-elected president—a narrative that Trump himself helped to promote and while not explicitly endorsing the views of QAnon has neither disavowed them and has emboldened their attacks on die Lรผgenpresse, a disdain that will result in more casualties to reporters and the truth. We’re bound to be subjected to more and more of this pained idiocy as Trump has pledged to dedicate his time in full to more Nuremberg rallies to Republican party candidates up for re-election during the mid-term vote in November. Most of QAnon’s intelligence focuses on recent history and easily disproven framing of scenarios but the group is attempting to establish the pedigree of vast and addled narratives by claiming the responsibility for the sinking of the Titanic with its manifest of wealthy globalists who were opposed the creation of the US Federal Reserve Bank. Or something.
Friday, 3 August 2018
q continuum
squandered opportunity
The World Climate Conference held in Geneva in February of 1979 accrued the collective will of some fifty nations and the public and scientific consensus that climate change was a real and imminent threat to the survival of human kind and for the next decade, it seemed that we were on the cusp of effecting real and permanent change and the that the course towards global catastrophe was not inevitable.
During this decisive time, however, a group of determined scientists failed to convince and influence the requisite governmental participation and policy—which yielded to business interests and unchecked capitalism. The New York Times presents a truly compelling, long-format, multi-media essay comprised of interviews and anecdotes that helps one to appreciate how close science came to saving the environment and ourselves from what we can now only to defer as long-term disaster and negotiating what we’re willing to sacrifice since we’ve pivoted past any better outcomes. This narrative on the wilful abrogation of leadership is not to exhaust nor to resign the rest of us to our impending doom but rather demonstrate that the future will not look like the past and that we are all stingy with our imagination and rallies us all to be aware of the consequences of our choices. The warnings are not new. Though we may be on course for disaster and have remained at the same bearing, we are not beyond redemption.
double exposure
Via Everlasting Blรถrt, we are introduced to the portfolio of the pioneering and intrepid Margaret Bourke-White (*1904 – †1971), LIFE magazine’s first female staff photographer and the first accredited female photojournalist, covering World War II and its aftermath, including the liberation of concentration camps—prompting her to pen an autobiography (one of several) as a way to reconcile the horrors that she had witnessed.
First recognised for her architectural and industrial photography at a time when people seriously doubted that a woman had the constitution to enter a steel mill to take pictures much less work in one, Bouke-White became the only foreign reporter invited to document Josef Stalin’s implementation of his first five-year plan (1928 – 1932). Bouke-White was equally renowned for the calibre of her coverage of the partition of India and Pakistan, producing some memorable and iconic images that brought this conflict to the rest of the world. Friend and colleague Alfred Eisenstaedt credited Bouke-White’s success not merely to her uncanny knack to being in the right place at the right time (a talent to be sure) but to her belief that no photograph was unimportant. Incredibly, Bouke-White went on to establish the first photo laboratory at the magazine, which had previously outsourced its work.
