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Tuesday 12 June 2018

tunnel | Robinson Jeffers: Cawdor dreams of slaughtering his herd | pants snagged on windmill at summit

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San Francisco, May 2012 | by alapan.com

San Francisco, May 2012: photo by John Agoncillo, 24 February 2016

San Francisco, May 2012 | by alapan.com

 San Francisco, May 2012: photo by John Agoncillo, 24 February 2016

San Francisco, May 2012 | by alapan.com

 San Francisco, May 2012: photo by John Agoncillo, 24 February 2016

Oakland, California 1997 | by Dave Glass . foto

 Oakland, California 1997 | Loaner car, self portrait, Oakland, California. Photo taken in 1997.: photo by Dave Glass, 2003

Oakland, California 1997 | by Dave Glass . foto

 Oakland, California 1997 | Loaner car, self portrait, Oakland, California. Photo taken in 1997.: photo by Dave Glass, 2003

Oakland, California 1997 | by Dave Glass . foto

 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)

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)

Dark alley | by ADMurr

Man & Dog, Concord 2017 | by alapan.com

 Man and Dog, Concord 2017: photo by John Agoncillo, 28 September 2017

Man & Dog, Concord 2017 | by alapan.com

  Man and Dog, Concord 2017: photo by John Agoncillo, 28 September 2017

Man & Dog, Concord 2017 | by alapan.com

Man and Dog, Concord 2017: photo by John Agoncillo, 28 September 2017

DSC03878 | by sotblindphot

DSC03878 | by sotblindphot

DSC03878 | by sotblindphot

@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 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



@realDonaldTrump and 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


#India An 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 | by Piti Amraranga

Untitled: photo by Piti Dui, 27 April 2017

Untitled | by Piti Amraranga

Untitled: photo by Piti Dui, 27 April 2017

Untitled | by Piti Amraranga

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):
"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 



#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

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