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After the flood in December the later rains
Fell scant, shrewd north wind heeling listless falls
Blew the hills dry; Cawdor discovered his mind
Building conjectural bridges between the drought
And the curse of his deed; he conquered the sick thought,
Another cowardice.
In March when the cows were calving
Came printed news of foot-and-mouth disease
Among the cattle in the north, it had come in
Through San Francisco from Asia. An infected herd
Had been destroyed. Cawdor read and feared nothing,
His herd in the isolation of the coast canyon
Would be the last. Yet he dreamed in the night
That he was slaughtering his herd. A bench was dug
To stand on, in the steep wall of a gully,
He stood there with the sledgehammer and Jesus Acanna
All black on a black horse against the twilight
Drove in the cattle. One swing of the hammer for each
On the peak of the horns, but the white faced heifer
Sidled her head and the blow crushed the horn.
Bawling and slopped with blood down the sleek shoulders,
Plunging among the carcasses . . .. The dream returned
Too many times; the plague increasing in the north
He warned his men to guard the pasture and watch
For strays; the dream ceased; but the hurt heifer
Still troubled his dreams.
Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962): from Cawdor (1928)
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DSC98378: photo by Sotiris Lamprou, 11 June 2018
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@realDonaldTrump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un walk to their first meeting on Sentosa Island in Singapore. @MarkLandler #TrumpKimSummit #TrumpKim: image via Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt, 11 June 2018
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@realDonaldTrump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un meet for the first time on Sentosa Island in Singapore.#Singapore #TrumpKimSummit #TrumpKim: image via Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt, 11 June 2018
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un puts his hand on @realDonaldTrump following a signing ceremony on Sentosa Island in Singapore. Kim Jong-un said. "Today we had a historic meeting and decided to leave the past behind and we are about to make a historic change.": image via Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt, 11 June 2018
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@realDonaldTrump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un take walk following their lunch on Sentosa Island in Singapore. #TrumpKimSummit #TrumpKim: image via Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt, 11 June 2018
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Kim, Trump in countdown to historic summit #AFP Photo Jung Yeon-je: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 11 June 2018
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Singapore's Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan takes a selfie with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un during a visit in Merlion Park in Singapore: Photo Tyrone Siu: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 11 June 2018
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Singapore Minister for Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan takes a selfie with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Jubillee bridge in Singapore. Photo @cmcgrath_photo: image via GettyImagesNews @gettyimagesnews, 11 June 2018, 11 June 2018
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Kim Jong Un strolls through Singapore ahead of historic summit: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 11 June 2018
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Kim Jong Un strolls through Singapore ahead of historic summit: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 11 June 2018
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The Worm has arrived in Singapore. Denis Rodman tells reporters that the meeting should go fairly well but warns the media to not expect too much after one meeting.#TrumpKimSummit: image via David Meyers @davidfmeyers, 11 June 2018 ![]()
Former NBA star #Rodman to head to #Singapore for US-N Korea summit: image via Eli Dror @edrormba, 8 June 2018
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Wait! #Rodman showed up in #Singapore in a #potcoin tshirt. I didn’t expect that from a seasoned diplomat.: image via Glen Jennings @GlenJennings, 11 June 2018
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President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's motorcades travel toward Sentosa in Singapore for the #TrumpKimSummit: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 11 June 2018
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President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's motorcades travel toward Sentosa in Singapore for the #TrumpKimSummit: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 11 June 2018
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President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island in Singapore #TrumpKimSummit Photo Jonathan Ernst: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 11 June 2018
Uh-oh, this is embarrassing. Trump just snagged his pants on a windmill and it carried him all the way round until Kim could free him at the bottom.: tweet via FredDelicious @Fred_Delicious, 11 June 2018
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President Donald Trump shakes hands with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un before their expanded bilateral meeting during the#TrumpKimSummit Photo Jonathan Ernst: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 11 June 2018
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President Donald Trump sits next to North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un before their bilateral meeting during the#TrumpKimSummit Photo Jonathan Ernst: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 11 June 2018
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President Donald Trump shakes hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island in Singapore during the#TrumpKimSummit Photo Jonathan Ernst: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 11 June 2018
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@realDonaldTrump greets North Korean leader Kim Jong-un for the first time on Sentosa Island in Singapore.#Singapore #Trump: image via Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt, 11 June 2018
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BREAKING: Donald Trump shakes hands with Kim Jong-un.: image via Have I Got News For You @haveigotnews, 11 June 2018
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@realDonaldTrump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un meet for the first time on Sentosa Island in Singapore.#Singapore #TrumpKimSummit #TrumpKim: image via Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt, 11 June 2018
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@realDonaldTrump gives a thumbs up to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un during their first meeting on Sentosa Island in #Singapore. #SingaporeMeeting: image via Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt, 11 June 2018
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@realDonaldTrumpand North Korean leader Kim Jong-un during their first meeting on Sentosa Island in Singapore. #SingaporeMeeting #Sentosa #TrumpKimSummit: image via Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt, 11 June 2018
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@realDonaldTrump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un take walk following their lunch on Sentosa Island in Singapore. #TrumpKimSummit #TrumpKim: image via Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt, 11 June 2018
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Trump, Kim sign document committing to the complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula; Pompeo, North Korean official to hold follow-up negotiations. #TrumpKimSummit: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 11 June 2018
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There you have it. Zoom in. #TrumpKimSummit: image via Sumiko Tan @STsumikotan, 11 June 2018
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These are the topics people are talking about ahead of Trump and Kim's historic summit #tictocnews #TrumpKimSummit: image via Tic Toc by Bloomberg @tictoc, 1 June 2018
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#IndiaAn Indian man cools off in a 'baoli' or step-well at the Nizamuddin Dargah in New Delhi Photo @sajjadkmr #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 11 June 2018
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A child plays in a swollen river #heavyrain #Manila Photo @herime23 @AFPphoto: image via Isabelle Wirth @Isa_Wirth_Roux, 11 June 2018
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#North Korea A general view shows the city skyline in Pyongyang Photo @edwardesjones #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 11 June 201
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#South Korea Rehearsal for an expected upcoming Arirang Mass Games event in September in Pyongyang Photo @edwardesjones #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 11 June 2018
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Untitled: photo by Piti Dui, 27 April 2017
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San Francisco, May 2012: photo by John Agoncillo, 24 February 2016
San Francisco, May 2012: photo by John Agoncillo, 24 February 2016
San Francisco, May 2012: photo by John Agoncillo, 24 February 2016
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Oakland, California 1997 | Loaner car, self portrait, Oakland, California. Photo taken in 1997.: photo by Dave Glass, 2003
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Oakland, California 1997 | Loaner car, self portrait, Oakland, California. Photo taken in 1997.: photo by Dave Glass, 2003
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Oakland, California 1997 | Loaner car, self portrait, Oakland, California. Photo taken in 1997.: photo by Dave Glass, 2003
Robinson Jeffers: the hurt heifer (from Cawdor)
Oakland, California 1997 | Loaner car, self portrait, Oakland, California. Photo taken in 1997.: photo by Dave Glass, 2003
Oakland, California 1997 | Loaner car, self portrait, Oakland, California. Photo taken in 1997.: photo by Dave Glass, 2003
Oakland, California 1997 | Loaner car, self portrait, Oakland, California. Photo taken in 1997.: photo by Dave Glass, 2003
After the flood in December the later rains
Fell scant, shrewd north wind heeling listless falls
Blew the hills dry; Cawdor discovered his mind
Building conjectural bridges between the drought
And the curse of his deed; he conquered the sick thought,
Another cowardice.
In March when the cows were calving
Came printed news of foot-and-mouth disease
Among the cattle in the north, it had come in
Through San Francisco from Asia. An infected herd
Had been destroyed. Cawdor read and feared nothing,
His herd in the isolation of the coast canyon
Would be the last. Yet he dreamed in the night
That he was slaughtering his herd. A bench was dug
To stand on, in the steep wall of a gully,
He stood there with the sledgehammer and Jesus Acanna
All black on a black horse against the twilight
Drove in the cattle. One swing of the hammer for each
On the peak of the horns, but the white faced heifer
Sidled her head and the blow crushed the horn.
Bawling and slopped with blood down the sleek shoulders,
Plunging among the carcasses . . .. The dream returned
Too many times; the plague increasing in the north
He warned his men to guard the pasture and watch
For strays; the dream ceased; but the hurt heifer
Still troubled his dreams.
Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962): from Cawdor (1928)
Man and Dog, Concord 2017: photo by John Agoncillo, 28 September 2017
Man and Dog, Concord 2017: photo by John Agoncillo, 28 September 2017
DSC98378: photo by Sotiris Lamprou, 11 June 2018
Here I barely touch upon the problem of the origin of Christianity. The first thing necessary to its solution is this: that Christianity is to be understood only by examining the soil from which it sprung—it is not a reaction against Jewish instincts; it is their inevitable product; it is simply one more step in the awe-inspiring logic of the Jews. In the words of the Saviour, “salvation is of the Jews.”— The second thing to remember is this: that the psychological type of the Galilean is still to be recognized, but it was only in its most degenerate form (which is at once maimed and overladen with foreign features) that it could serve in the manner in which it has been used: as a type of the Saviour of mankind.— John iv, 22. The Jews are the most remarkable people in the history of the world, for when they were confronted with the question, to be or not to be, they chose, with perfectly unearthly deliberation, to be at any price: this price involved a radical falsification of all nature, of all naturalness, of all reality, of the whole inner world, as well as of the outer. They put themselves against all those conditions under which, hitherto, a people had been able to live, or had even been permitted to live; out of themselves they evolved an idea which stood in direct opposition to natural conditions—one by one they distorted religion, civilization, morality, history and psychology until each became a contradiction of its natural significance. We meet with the same phenomenon later on, in an incalculably exaggerated form, but only as a copy: the Christian church, put beside the “people of God,” shows a complete lack of any claim to originality. Precisely for this reason the Jews are the most fateful people in the history of the world: their influence has so falsified the reasoning of mankind in this matter that today the Christian can cherish anti-Semitism without realizing that it is no more than the final consequence of Judaism. In my “Genealogy of Morals” I give the first psychological explanation of the concepts underlying those two antithetical things, a noble morality and a ressentiment morality, the second of which is a mere product of the denial of the former. The Judaeo-Christian moral system belongs to the second division, and in every detail. In order to be able to say Nay to everything representing an ascending evolution of life—that is, to well-being, to power, to beauty, to self-approval—the instincts of ressentiment, here become downright genius, had to invent an other world in which the acceptance of life appeared as the most evil and abominable thing imaginable.
Friedrick Nietzche (1844-1900): from The Antichrist (Der Antichrist): Curse on Christianity, 1888, first published 1895, English version by Henry Louis Mencken, 1918
@realDonaldTrump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un walk to their first meeting on Sentosa Island in Singapore. @MarkLandler #TrumpKimSummit #TrumpKim: image via Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt, 11 June 2018
@realDonaldTrump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un meet for the first time on Sentosa Island in Singapore.#Singapore #TrumpKimSummit #TrumpKim: image via Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt, 11 June 2018
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un puts his hand on @realDonaldTrump following a signing ceremony on Sentosa Island in Singapore. Kim Jong-un said. "Today we had a historic meeting and decided to leave the past behind and we are about to make a historic change.": image via Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt, 11 June 2018
@realDonaldTrump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un take walk following their lunch on Sentosa Island in Singapore. #TrumpKimSummit #TrumpKim: image via Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt, 11 June 2018
Kim, Trump in countdown to historic summit #AFP Photo Jung Yeon-je: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 11 June 2018
Singapore's Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan takes a selfie with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un during a visit in Merlion Park in Singapore: Photo Tyrone Siu: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 11 June 2018
Singapore Minister for Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan takes a selfie with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore. #gettyimagesnews #SingaporeSummit #TrumpKimSummit #NorthKorea: image via Chris McGrath @cmcgrath_photo, 11 June 2018
Singapore Minister for Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan takes a selfie with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Jubillee bridge in Singapore. Photo @cmcgrath_photo: image via GettyImagesNews @gettyimagesnews, 11 June 2018, 11 June 2018
Kim Jong Un strolls through Singapore ahead of historic summit: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 11 June 2018
Kim Jong Un strolls through Singapore ahead of historic summit: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 11 June 2018
The Worm has arrived in Singapore. Denis Rodman tells reporters that the meeting should go fairly well but warns the media to not expect too much after one meeting.#TrumpKimSummit: image via David Meyers @davidfmeyers, 11 June 2018
Former NBA star #Rodman to head to #Singapore for US-N Korea summit: image via Eli Dror @edrormba, 8 June 2018
Wait! #Rodman showed up in #Singapore in a #potcoin tshirt. I didn’t expect that from a seasoned diplomat.: image via Glen Jennings @GlenJennings, 11 June 2018
President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's motorcades travel toward Sentosa in Singapore for the #TrumpKimSummit: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 11 June 2018
President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island in Singapore #TrumpKimSummit Photo Jonathan Ernst: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 11 June 2018
Uh-oh, this is embarrassing. Trump just snagged his pants on a windmill and it carried him all the way round until Kim could free him at the bottom.: tweet via FredDelicious @Fred_Delicious, 11 June 2018
President Donald Trump shakes hands with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un before their expanded bilateral meeting during the#TrumpKimSummit Photo Jonathan Ernst: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 11 June 2018
President Donald Trump sits next to North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un before their bilateral meeting during the#TrumpKimSummit Photo Jonathan Ernst: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 11 June 2018
President Donald Trump shakes hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island in Singapore during the#TrumpKimSummit Photo Jonathan Ernst: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 11 June 2018
@realDonaldTrump greets North Korean leader Kim Jong-un for the first time on Sentosa Island in Singapore.#Singapore #Trump: image via Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt, 11 June 2018
BREAKING: Donald Trump shakes hands with Kim Jong-un.: image via Have I Got News For You @haveigotnews, 11 June 2018
@realDonaldTrump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un meet for the first time on Sentosa Island in Singapore.#Singapore #TrumpKimSummit #TrumpKim: image via Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt, 11 June 2018
@realDonaldTrump gives a thumbs up to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un during their first meeting on Sentosa Island in #Singapore. #SingaporeMeeting: image via Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt, 11 June 2018
@realDonaldTrumpand North Korean leader Kim Jong-un during their first meeting on Sentosa Island in Singapore. #SingaporeMeeting #Sentosa #TrumpKimSummit: image via Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt, 11 June 2018
@realDonaldTrump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un take walk following their lunch on Sentosa Island in Singapore. #TrumpKimSummit #TrumpKim: image via Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt, 11 June 2018
Trump, Kim sign document committing to the complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula; Pompeo, North Korean official to hold follow-up negotiations. #TrumpKimSummit: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 11 June 2018
There you have it. Zoom in. #TrumpKimSummit: image via Sumiko Tan @STsumikotan, 11 June 2018
These are the topics people are talking about ahead of Trump and Kim's historic summit #tictocnews #TrumpKimSummit: image via Tic Toc by Bloomberg @tictoc, 1 June 2018
#IndiaAn Indian man cools off in a 'baoli' or step-well at the Nizamuddin Dargah in New Delhi Photo @sajjadkmr #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 11 June 2018
A child plays in a swollen river #heavyrain #Manila Photo @herime23 @AFPphoto: image via Isabelle Wirth @Isa_Wirth_Roux, 11 June 2018
#North Korea A general view shows the city skyline in Pyongyang Photo @edwardesjones #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 11 June 201
#South Korea Rehearsal for an expected upcoming Arirang Mass Games event in September in Pyongyang Photo @edwardesjones #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 11 June 2018
Untitled: photo by Piti Dui, 27 April 2017
Untitled: photo by Piti Dui, 27 April 2017
Untitled: photo by Piti Dui, 27 April 2017
XYMPHORA: Monday, June 11, 2018
Orderly transfer of power
It looks like Trump's performance at the G-7 was supposed to prove to Kim what a hard ass Trump is, not a guy to be messed with, and everybody else was supposed to play along, until Trump failed to read the room and overdid it.
"After What Trump did to Iran and Canada, why Should N Korea trust Talks with Him?" (Cole). The fact that Bolton was uninvited, and then re-invited, to Singapore is not a good sign.
"Korea, Russia, China: The Neocon-Trump’s Strategy" (Konstantakopoulos). Starts out fine, but gets a little weird at the end.
"In China the SCO Is Conducting a Productive and Civilised Summit While the G7 Is One Big Argument Inside a Political Circus" (Garrie).
"Putin and Xi top the G6+1" (Escobar):
As straight-up insane as it sounds, all the usual Democrat suspects are still spouting their conspiracy theory that everything Trump does is based on his repaying Putin for Putin arranging for him to beat Killary! The paradox is that it appears that the obsession with #Russiagate - an obsession which voters rightly see as a confusion intended to replace actual positive policies for governing - will cost the Democrats the chance to take over enough seats to actually have a chance to remove Trump through impeachment.
Do we dare guess that Trump's weakening of the United States is intentional, like the British effectively turned over control of the world to the US during the Suez crisis? "Trump's Big Picture" (Stryker). The Brits did a deal where their 0.1% would continue to maintain and build upon their massive wealth in return for a certain loss of geopolitical power. American elites could do the same thing in the face of the inevitability of the shift of power to China-Russia. The current bubble in the American economy makes acceptance of weakness difficult, and Trump himself is probably not aware of what he is doing, but an orderly transfer of power would be in everybody's best interests.
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"After What Trump did to Iran and Canada, why Should N Korea trust Talks with Him?" (Cole). The fact that Bolton was uninvited, and then re-invited, to Singapore is not a good sign.
"Korea, Russia, China: The Neocon-Trump’s Strategy" (Konstantakopoulos). Starts out fine, but gets a little weird at the end.
"In China the SCO Is Conducting a Productive and Civilised Summit While the G7 Is One Big Argument Inside a Political Circus" (Garrie).
"Putin and Xi top the G6+1" (Escobar):
"In parallel, diplomats in Brussels confirmed to Asia Times there are insistent rumbles about Trump possibly dreaming of a G3 composed of just US, Russia and China. Trump, after all, personally admires the leadership qualities of both Putin and Xi, while deriding the Kafkaesque EU bureaucratic maze and its weaklings, currently represented by the M3 (Merkel, Macron, May).
In Europe, no one seems to be listening to informed advice, such as provided by Belgian economist Paul de Grauwe, who’s pleading for Frankfurt and Berlin to manage a common debt, without which the EU won’t survive the sovereign crises of individual members.
Trump, for all his dizzying inconsistencies, seems to have understood that the G7 is a Walking Dead, and the heart of the action revolves around China, Russia and India, which not by accident form the hard node of BRICS.
The problem is the US national security strategy, as well as the national defense strategy, advocate no less than Cold War 2.0 against both China and Russia all across Eurasia. All bets are off, however, on who blinks first."Running the entire EU solely for the benefit of German banks isn't working out!
As straight-up insane as it sounds, all the usual Democrat suspects are still spouting their conspiracy theory that everything Trump does is based on his repaying Putin for Putin arranging for him to beat Killary! The paradox is that it appears that the obsession with #Russiagate - an obsession which voters rightly see as a confusion intended to replace actual positive policies for governing - will cost the Democrats the chance to take over enough seats to actually have a chance to remove Trump through impeachment.
Do we dare guess that Trump's weakening of the United States is intentional, like the British effectively turned over control of the world to the US during the Suez crisis? "Trump's Big Picture" (Stryker). The Brits did a deal where their 0.1% would continue to maintain and build upon their massive wealth in return for a certain loss of geopolitical power. American elites could do the same thing in the face of the inevitability of the shift of power to China-Russia. The current bubble in the American economy makes acceptance of weakness difficult, and Trump himself is probably not aware of what he is doing, but an orderly transfer of power would be in everybody's best interests.
A stormy cloud looms at sunset over Bordeaux, photo @nicotucat #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 11 June 2018
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#China A woman pushes her bicycle in the early morning in Shanghai photo @johaynz #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 11 June 2018
A worker vacuums the stage at the spot where President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un are expected to meet and shake hands during the #TrumpKimSummit: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 11 June 2018