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Court Painter seen with recently crowned Leader of His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition: Pierre Poilievre

Pierre seen catching the ball

Will Pierre be seen dropping the ball?

Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep. William Shakespeare

Court Painter met a number of times with the United Conservative Party leadership front runner Danielle Smith to consult on a favourable future cultural policy under her potential role as Alberta premier.A series of flattering complementary portraits of Ms. Smith contributed to fruitful discussions and Court Painter received assurances that his bottom line would be protected under the Alberta Sovereignty Act.

There is nothing further to report at this time.

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!)

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The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse | The super-rich | The Guardian Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers and hiring military security to survive a societal collapse they helped create, but like everything they do, it has unintended consequenceswww.theguardian.com

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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 Mindset requires 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)

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 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!”

Mikhail Gorbachev March 2 .1931-August 30.2022

Former President of the Soviet Union

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:

Manganese

(Zn,Cd)S – Zinc Cadmium Sulfate
Zn2SiO4:O4: Mn, As – ZincSilicate, Manganese, Arsenic

Gd2O2S: Tb – Gadolinium Sulfate: Tebrium Y2SiO12:Ce – Yitrium Silicate: Cerium

CRT Glass:

Pb – Lead SiO2

Plastic Case, Keyboard

Thermoplastic – Polypropylene, PVC CaCO2 – additive
TiO2 – White Pigment
Amonium Polyphosphate

Element/Compound

Zn, S

Ag Cl Al Cu

Au
Y
Eu
K, F, Mg, Mn

Cd As

Gd, Tb Ce

Pb Si

Ca Ti P

Mineral Source of Element

Sulfur, Hemmimorphite, Zincite Smithsonite, Franklenite

Ag, Pyrargyrite, Cerargyrite Halite
Bauxite
Chalcopyrite, Boronite, Enargite,

Cuprite, Malachite, Azurite, Chrysocolla, Chalcocite Gold

Alunite, Orthoclase, Nephelite, Leucite, Apophullite; Flourite, Cryolite, Vesuvianite; Lepidolite: Dolomite, Magnesite, Espomite, Spinel, Olivine, Pyrope, Biotite, Talc

Realgar, Orpiment, Niccolite, Cobalite, Arsenopyrite, Tetrahedrite

Monzanite, Orthite

Galena, Cerussite, Anglesite, Pyromorphite Quartz

Calcite, Gypsum, Apatite, Aragonite Rutile, Ilmenite, Titanite
Apetite, Pyromorphite, Wavellite

MINERALS IN TYPICAL COMPUTERS

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Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) Monitors

Pb – Lead
Thin Film Transistors
Ferro Electric Liquid Crystal Indium Tin Oxide

Metal Case

Iron

Flat Screen Plasma Display Monitors

Glass
Pb – Lead
ZnS – Zinc Sulfide Ag – Silver
Cl – Chlorine
Al – Aluminum
Cu – Copper

Au – Gold
Y2O2S – Yittrium Sulfate
Eu – Euopium
(KF, MgF2): Mn Potasium-Magnesium Florite: Manganese

(Zn, Cd) S – Zinc Cadmium Sulfate
Zn2SiO4: Mn, As – ZincSilicate, Manganese, Arsenic

Gd2O2S: Tb – Gadolinium Silicate: Tebrium Y2SiO12: Ce – Yitrium Silicate: Cerium

Printed Circuit Boards, Computer Chips:

Silicon
Cu – Copper

Au – Gold
Ag – Silver Tin
Al – Aluminum

Pb Si Fe Sn In

Fe

Si
Pb Zn, S Ag Cl
Al Cu

Au
Y
Eu
K, F, Mg, Mn

Cd As

Gd, Tb Ce

Si Cu

Au Ag Sn Al

Galena, Cerussite, Anglesite, Pyromorphite Quartz
Hematite
Cassiterite,

Sphalerite (Commonly found with Zinc) Magnetite, Limonite

Quartz
Galena, Cerussite, Anglesite, Pyromorphite
Sulfur, Hemmimorphite, Zincite, Smithsonite, Franklenite Ag, Pyrargyrite, Cerargyrite
Halite
Bauxite
Chalcopyrite, Boronite, Enargite, Cuprite, Malachite, Azurite,

Chryssocolla, Chalcocite Gold

Euxenite
Euxenite
Alunite, Orthoclase, Nephelite, Leucite,

Apophullite; Flourite, Cryolite, Vesuvianite; Lepidolite: Dolomite, Magnesite, Espomite, Spinel, Olivine, Pyrope, Biotite, Talc

Realgar, Orpiment, Niccolite, Cobalite Arsenopyrite, Tetrahedrite

Monzanite, Orthite

Quartz
Chalcopyrite, Boronite, Enargite, Cuprite, Malachite,

Azurite, Chrysocolla, Chalcocite Gold

Ag, Pyrargyrite, Cerargyrite Cassiterite
Bauxite

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.