This journey through strange vibes has no narrative that can be seen to be anchored in the real world of optimism ,good tidings and stuff like that. As on a conveyance set adrift in a sea of turbulence and unease…these actors journey on a driverless stagecoach making a bee-line to the vacuous void, furtively seeking admiration and acknowledgement with their crypto currency of amorality and juiced up rhetoric! Surely a journey of strange vibes!
(Court Painter’s Press Attache AHM made this up in one go and after an ear splitting argument with the algorithm editor, refused to change one word. Also if the actors look like someone you know that’s your problem!)
Excerpt from Guardian Observer article by Douglas Rushkoff Sun 4 Sep 2022
The Silicon Valley escapism – let’s call it The Mindset – encourages its adherents to believe that the winners can somehow leave the rest of us behind.
Never before have our society’s most powerful players assumed that the primary impact of their own conquests would be to render the world itself unliveable for everyone else. Nor have they ever before had the technologies through which to programme their sensibilities into the very fabric of our society. The landscape is alive with algorithms and intelligences actively encouraging these selfish and isolationist outlooks. Those sociopathic enough to embrace them are rewarded with cash and control over the rest of us. It’s a self-reinforcing feedback loop. This is new.
Amplified by digital technologies and the unprecedented wealth disparity they afford, The Mindset allows for the easy externalisation of harm to others, and inspires a corresponding longing for transcendence and separation from the people and places that have been abused.
Instead of just lording over us for ever, however, the billionaires at the top of these virtual pyramids actively seek the endgame. In fact, like the plot of a Marvel blockbuster, the very structure of The Mindsetrequires an endgame. Everything must resolve to a one or a zero, a winner or loser, the saved or the damned. Actual, imminent catastrophes from the climate emergency to mass migrations support the mythology, offering these would-be superheroes the opportunity to play out the finale in their own lifetimes. For The Mindset also includes a faith-based Silicon Valley certainty that they can develop a technology that will somehow break the laws of physics, economics and morality to offer them something even better than a way of saving the world: a means of escape from the apocalypse of their own making.
Court Painter hired out of work acquaintances in a modest attempt to illustrate the roles of what he thinks the super rich life style is all about. Quite convincing I must say!
Danielle Smith leadership contender for UCP seen with pet prairie dog
However…
Alberta Lieutenant-Governor Salma Lakhani says her office would independently evaluate whether a proposed Alberta Sovereignty Act was constitutional before signing it into law.
Her remarks come as Danielle Smith, the perceived front-runner to become the next leader of the United Conservative Party and premier of Alberta, has proposed legislation permitting the province to refuse to enforce federal laws it believes are against Alberta’s best interests.
Lakhani said Thursday her constitutional role is the most important part of her job and that Alberta must follow the rule of law.
Source CBC News September 2,22
Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, Her Honour, the Honourable Salma Lakhani AOE, B.Sc., LLD (hon)
And now we have an UPDATE September 3 to throw into the mix that appeared in September 2 the HUB article by Howard Anglin who was previously Deputy Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Principal Secretary to the Premier of Alberta, Jason Kenney.
Howard Anglin: Alberta’s Lieutenant Governor is risking a perfect storm of unconstitutionality
You can’t correct an unconstitutional Act with an unconstitutional act
In a dispute between two governments, each sovereign in its own sphere, it is not for one of the two disputants—in this case the provincial legislature—to decide which is right.2 Instead it should fall to a third party to arbitrate the dispute, and in our constitutional system that is the judiciary.3 Both Smith’s plan and the Lieutenant Governor’s reaction misunderstand this—the first because she doesn’t like it, the second because she apparently doesn’t understand it.
Court Painter seen with one of the series of paintings entitled Classified Documents
Court Painter was invited to create an intervention project by the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC.
He chose to do a series of multiple paintings entitled Classified Documents which were installed through various galleries. He explained,” I am not usually in favour of creating copies of my own paintings however there was something about the still life subject and image of classified documents that I felt was necessary and urgent as an emphatic artistic statement ; reflecting an aspect of the contemporary ethos in America… Yeah, that’s it!”
Excerpted from THE SIGNAL Current Affairs.Strange World. August 28/22
The New Gold
What’s driving a global rush for critical minerals? Lisa Sachs on the environmental challenges of clean technology.
Lisa Sachs is the director of the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment at Columbia University and the vice-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Mining & Metals.
According to Sachs, cobalt—along with lithium, copper, nickel, and other critical minerals, as they’re called—are essential for building vitally important new technologies, particularly for the kind of products necessary to reduce fossil-fuel consumption and greenhouse-gas emissions.
Critical minerals are the main building blocks of electric-vehicle batteries and potentially key for producing, distributing, and storing clean, renewable energy. And yet, Sachs says, mining these minerals comes with substantial environmental and social costs.
“Mining has always come at environmental and social costs. It’s inherently extractive, whether it’s underground or open-pit. It requires digging up the Earth, disrupting biodiversity, sometimes at substantial and irreversible scales. Mining and processing require enormous amounts of water, and both divert water from other purposes that can be core to livelihoods. Both discharge waste, too, into waterways used for other purposes, including human consumption and agriculture, with potentially devastating consequences—to people and to marine life. Mining and processing are also very energy-intensive. Most energy for mining comes from fossil-fuel sources. More mining and more processing mean more emissions. And mining has historically been implicated in terrible violations of human rights and social disruptions. If a mine is under or near a community, it can mean the displacement of that community, with major consequences for livelihoods and culture. Heritage sites have infamously been cleared to make way for mines.”
Lisa Sachs
Source: National Mining Association – 101 Constitution Ave. NW Suite 500 East – Washington, DC
There are 66 individual minerals that contribute to the typical computer but it should be evident that without many minerals, there would be no computers, or televisions. There are others, in addition to those listed.
Computer Component Monitor
Phosphorescent Coating – Transition Metals:
ZnS – Zinc Sulfide
Ag – Silver Cl – Chlorine Al – Aluminum Cu – Copper
Au – Gold Y2O2S – Yittrium Sulfate Eu – Europium (KF, MgF2): Mn Potasium-Magnesium Floride:
Transhuman Jared Kushner said the ever fashionable Steve Bannon was like a ‘suicide bomber’ who ‘blew up’ during his time in the White House
The lack of personal chemistry between two of the former president’s closest “whisperers” is of little surprise. One is the clean-cut, preppy and pale 40 year-old scion of a New York property empire. The other, at 68, has a rougher appearance and grew up in a working class, Irish Catholic family in Virginia. Each represents an ideological faction vying for the post Trump limelight and eternal life.
Brenda Lucki COM was appointed the 24th commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police on April 16, 2018.
When Joshua Bryson, who represents the family of victims Peter and Joy Bond asked whether 28 months after this mass casualty event, Lucki had appointed her own board of inquiry into the Nova Scotia mass shooting response, which she has the power to do, Lucki said no.
Bryson said it’s disappointing that many things that went wrong during the shooting response still haven’t been formally looked at by the RCMP or included in cadet training.
Donald Trump’s own political action committee, the Save America PAC, will cover most of the costs associated with commissioning portraits of the former president and former first lady Melania Trump to hang in the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG).
According to recent Save American financial disclosures reviewed by Business Insider and the Washington Post, the PAC contributed $650,000 toward the portraits, while another donation of $100,000 from an undisclosed donor will provide the rest of the funds required for the commissions. Save America and other Republican PACs have amplified their fundraising efforts and brought in record sums since the FBI’s 7 August raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and resort in Florida.
The artist has been secretly selected to create the Trumps’ portraits, but his identity has not yet been revealed since Court Painter wants it kept a secret and will circulate a Press Release announcing his commission when he is assured he will get paid in advance. A timeline for the portraits’ creation and unveiling has not been announced but Court Painter has bought a new suit,spats and turtleneck in anticipation.
Court Painter has released just a few former portraits of The Donald & sometimes Melania & other Trump associates to give a taste of what’s to come.
