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Court Painter & his Press Attache A Hardon MacKay model as stand ins for the corporate captains of industry that are making out like bandits during the scourge of COVID .
The Court Painter studio cannot afford professional models so rest your eyes on these two hunks that exude the well to do vibe with panache!
As you are no doubt aware the business & creative relationship between Press Attache AHM & Court Painter is likened to a finely balanced see saw poised on a fulcrum of hyper sensitivity tuned to the ways of the world.
AHM digs up the subjects for Court Painter to paint and he paints ’em! It’s that simple.
Often the peripatetic AHM must go off on trips to do research and return with new subjects of aesthetic and potential monetizing worth . Seems the recent research trip of the nosy Press Attache has found him deep in a rabbit warren of controversy, conspiracy, conundrum and catch 22. It’s usually thought of as ‘the Void’.
Since he has not come up for air as yet the Court Painter studio is filling his absense by demonstrating the master painter in various anticipatory poses, accompanied by canvases in a state of tabula rasa.
Court Painter threw this one in to see if you are paying attention!
Court Painter has risen to the challenge and rendered both front runners with numerous striking portraits of approximation. Everyone who has viewed them agrees he has captured penetrating similarities to the actual subjects however leave the viewers scratching their heads in wonderment. Court Painter has served the greater purpose of Art once again.
AMERICAN RASPUTIN
Steve Bannon is still scheming. And he’s still a threat to democracy.
JUNE 6, 2022, 6 AM The Atlantic
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You can discern much of Bannon’s mad character and contradictions in these exchanges. The chaos and the focus, the pugnacity and the enthusiasm, the transparency and the industrial-grade bullshit. Also, the mania: logomania, arithmomania, monomania (he’d likely cop to all of these, especially that last one—he’s the first to say that one of the features of his show is “wash rinse repeat”). Garden-variety hypermania (with a generous assist from espressos). And last of all, perhaps above all else, straight-up megalomania, which even those who profess affection for the man can see, though it appears to be a problem only for those who believe, as I do, that he’s attempting to insert a lit bomb into the mouth of American democracy.
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In the struggle to mitigate and adapt to climate breakdown – and all the other entangled crises we face – we are starting to recognise that other ways of knowing and acting on the world, from indigenous knowledge systems to changes in our own consumption and patterns of life, are vital to surviving and thriving on a hotter, wetter and more conflicted planet. We know too that this survival is dependent not only on our own abilities and inventions, but on the survival of the other species we share the planet with. The collapse of biodiversity which is already occurring makes it harder for us to hold back the collapse of whole ecosystems on which we too depend: for the pollination of crops, for disease resistance, for safe and sufficient food, for protection from fires and other natural disasters. We will flourish together, or not at all.
The deep knowledge that is possessed by animals, plants and others – their intelligence, we should begin to say – is another reason why we must preserve and protect them. But more than this: we should be listening to them, learning from them and working with them. The hyperaccumulator plants, for example, show us there are other ways of getting what we need from the planet; they also remind us that there are limits to what we should extract, as to turn them into another agroindustrial resource like soya beans or palm oil would be just as damaging. The knowledge that there are other ways of being intelligent on this planet should force us to reassess the centrality and usefulness of our own. Other worlds are not only possible, they have been growing around us all along.
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Ontario just can’t get enough of those Ford bros!
While the Progressive Conservatives may have won a sweeping victory Thursday night, a large majority of Ontarians decided not to bother heading to the polls.
The province recorded the lowest voter turnout in history during the 2022 election, with just about 43.5 per cent of eligible voters casting a ballot according to preliminary Elections Ontario results.
Of the just over 10.7 million registered voters in the province, this equals just over 4.6 million votes cast.
PCs WON 40.8 % OF THOSE VOTES
According to the preliminary results, Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives won with just over 1.9 million votes
The last time voter turnout was below 50 per cent was in 2011, when just 48 per cent of Ontario residents over the age of 18 voted.
No other time in Ontario history has the voter turnout fallen that low.
Court Painter with his recent Ford Dynasty painting.
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Military should give up control of sexual assault cases permanently: former Supreme Court justice
Military must adapt to a new reality – the women warriors are here to stay,’ says Louise Arbor.
The time has come for the Canadian Armed Forces to permanently give up control of investigations of sexual offences by its members, says a major new report by a former Supreme Court justice.
Concluding more than a year of work, Louise Arbour today released her much-anticipated report on the military’s sexual misconduct crisis. It recommends, among other things, that civilian police and courts handle all sexual assault cases involving allegations against military members.
“As challenging as it is, this organization must demonstrate enough humility to accept external help and open itself to the outside world,” wrote Arbour in the roughly 400-page report.
“Meaningful change will rest on the political will and determination of the civilians who oversee the CAF.”
Military sexual trauma complainants have been demanding for decades that civilians take over sexual misconduct cases, arguing that the Canadian Armed Forces has failed to properly support victims and to thoroughly investigate and prosecute cases.
Images of Canadian women soldiers in Afghanistan from AHM war artist files.
NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION
HOUSTON TEXAS 2022
14 ACRES Of GUNS & GEAR
…as the increasing vitriol of the National Rifle Association (NRA) proved politically effective, some in the gun business realized this messaging could be adopted by the firearms industry to sell more guns. All that was required for success was a dedication to frighteningly dangerous rhetoric and increasingly powerful weaponry. Cultural norms and responsibility would have to go.
Ryan Busse
author of Gunfight: My Battle Against the Industry that Radicalized America
Excerpted from CTV Politics/News May 26/2022
In the wake of a horrific mass shooting at an elementary school in Texas, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has signalled that the Canadian government will be moving ahead on new gun-control measures “in the coming weeks.”
However…
With just a few weeks left in the House of Commons’ spring sitting before MPs take a summer hiatus from debating and passing legislation, and other priority bills already moving through Parliament, should a new gun-control bill be presented in as Trudeau has said “the coming weeks,” it’s unlikely it would pass before the fall.
Between factoring in the time opposition parties would want to study any proposed new legislation, and the time that may be needed to implement any regulations stemming from potential new laws, it could be some time before further updates to Canada’s firearm laws are in effect.
