i'm clearly not going to get this finished by the end of the night. i haven't started.

rather, i'm going to gorge myself, shower and then focus very strictly on finishing everything up over the next couple of days.

i would go after adam schiff on his finances.

he comes off as some kind of jerry falwell type figure, where he's preaching the gospel during the day, and taking it in the ass every night.

when somebody files their contributions with $720,000 from "retired  people", the third most in congress, that should probably raise some red flags about him hiding the identity of his backers.

i mean, he can't be that popular with the old folks.

https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/recips.php?ind=W06%20%20&cycle=2020&recipdetail=H&Mem=Y&sortorder=U

$40,000 from the defense industry, huh.

https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/pacs?cid=N00009585&cycle=2020

i really haven't been paying attention to this stuff recently, i've been immersed in my art, i just happened to tune in here recently because i was wondering where i'd go to keep loosely informed now that the real news has imploded (it seems like everybody's moved over to here), and, crikey, schiff has gone and brought back the john birch society...

i think any sane person would recognize the absolute absurdity of this rant. but, i've tuned out of this for a reason - this is the reason - so it's particularly surreal to get a mouthful of it out of the blue, like somebody left some rat droppings in your bag of skittles. yikes. 

and, maybe the fact that i've been so completely disinterested in this for so long gives me some clarity in reaction, as well, in the face of pretty much everybody's neuroticism, one way or the other. like, i've been under a self-imposed blackout on this. this is completely fresh to me. 

my immediate thoughts are that i'm walking into a debate, one that may be closing, on what america's make believe enemy ought to be. what schiff seems to be doing is appropriating a lot of the arguments that you heard during the war on terrorism and reapplying them towards russia. these weren't really cold war arguments, either, they were specific to islamic extremism. so, for example, you never heard anyone argue that you had to fight the soviets in vietnam so you didn't have to fight them at berkeley - that's an argument that you heard from the likes of ann coulter, as applied to iraq. i'm sure - certain - that there are direct quotes from ann coulter, where she argued in favour of the iraq war by suggesting that if you don't fight them in the middle east, they'll come to america, and she was really just channeling byzantine military strategy in the region when she was saying that - it's a barbarian management strategy. likewise, the wounded animal analogy is something that i've actually applied myself, i think far more accurately, to isis. 

why is schiff speaking in these precise terms? well, it seems scripted - these are talking points. there seems to be a conscious intent, here, to shift the focus of american military aggression out of the middle east and back towards russia, and that's just the tip of this long standing debate around who it is that america should be flailing against - the russians or the muslims. to an extent, it's a question of if we're at war with eurasia or eastasia, right. it's perhaps naive to expect this to resolve itself, but it's a definite faultline that exists in the power elite. 

i'm actually wondering if schiff is basically being lobbied by the saudis, though.

i mean, there's two layers to this. there's a legitimate strategic dialogue, and honest questions around how america should be directing it's military resources, and this is healthy. but, if this is essentially a struggle between the russians and the saudis for influence in washington, the reality is that the russians just don't lobby the way the saudis do. a lot of these people are essentially just being bought off with arab blood money, and paid to recite what are ridiculous lines, with the intent to shift the dialogue. this might be the reason he's using the precise language he's using. this is speculation...

what i think is more than speculation is that he is very consciously attempting to appropriate the language from the war on terrorism and reutilize it against the russians, and that this is happening in the context of this broader strategic debate. and, that should make everybody think carefully about the path they're being led down....

i think most people would concede that it was just a matter of time before peter mackay took a serious run at the prime minister's office, and, unlike scheer, he's an opponent that trudeau needs to take seriously.

just winning a dozen seats in the maritimes alone could shift the balance of power, and mackay will do better in urban canada than scheer did. it's very far out, but i'd have to give them equal chances, at a great distance.

what is peter mackay? well, the irony is that he's in many ways the mirror reflection of justin trudeau - he's a spoiled rich kid from an old money lineage that doesn't really deserve anything he has, and would have never gotten to where he is in life had he not been born into it. he's an aristocrat. and, he's not very bright.

the difference is just that mackay has been around for twice as long, so he gives off the impression of having worked his way up. and, he has held a few cabinet positions, sure.

he would be indiscernible from justin trudeau, in the sense that he'd be doing what he's told, and that's a new normal that's sunk in that should really be resisted. say what you will about harper, but at least he was his own man. he was a Strong Leader, after all. going back from harper, canada actually has a tradition of independent-minded leaders. if there's one thing we should avoid, it's replacing trudeau with another pawn....

is trudeau a failed experiment? see, i'd argue he is. his puppet masters might have a different argument. perspective is key.

but, my single request to the conservative party is to pick somebody who is in charge of their own itinerary, so to speak, because it's not clear that the country can survive another government full of corporate puppets that just do what they're told.

so, you'll no doubt hear all kinds of terrible things about peter mackay from the usual partisan sources, and it's less that it's not true, and more that it's largely the same thing we have now. there will be some minor differences on the margins regarding social issues, but he's not a rabid social conservative (and trudeau's not really all that liberal, either). they're basically the same on economics and basically the same on foreign policy, because they're basically told the same things by what are basically the same people.

the more important question may be whether trudeau wants to move on. if he does, peter mackay will be a perfectly acceptable establishment replacement, and they'll be happy to ease him in.

but, i hope the conservative party picks somebody that demonstrates a deeper level of independent thinking and, frankly, has a deeper level of intellect.

to the canadian parliament, including the canadian senate,

please conduct a thorough and careful review of the new free trade legislation, and ensure that enough debate is carried forward that any issues can be identified before it is too late.

you may also want to take note of the inevitability of an election within the next 12-24 months.

thanks.

i left them a message.

i'll try again very early in the morning and several times over the day tomorrow....

i'm going to try to get these liner notes for inri015 done before midnight first, and then get a start on the motion afterwards.

so, the first task was to figure out what the deal with this factum from the windsor police was.

they're basically claiming that, because they didn't make the decision, they shouldn't be named on the case. they're asking for the case to be dismissed against them.

i've had some discussion regarding this with them, and they seem to be entirely disinterested in discourse. i've sent them arguments, and all they've been done is repeat themselves. they are now repeating themselves again on the factum.

but, their position is ridiculous; the windsor police are both the authors and the subject of the report, and consequently must be named as respondents because they are central to the topic at hand.

but, what i'm concerned about is them using it as a stalling tactic. they could show up and claim they didn't prepare because they were expecting a dismissal. they are otherwise providing no legal argument. the tactic here appears to be to create a distraction, and hope they can avoid the issue.

i'm not playing that game.

i have two useful precedents.

this is an example of a similar case (up to a difference in scale), where the cops are named as defendants on a judicial review:
https://www.canlii.org/en/on/onscdc/doc/2019/2019onsc180/2019onsc180.html?searchUrlHash=AAAAAQAYInBvbGljZSByZXZpZXcgZGlyZWN0b3IiAAAAAAE&resultIndex=2

and, this case discusses the issue at some length:
https://www.canlii.org/en/on/onscdc/doc/2016/2016onsc5824/2016onsc5824.html?searchUrlHash=AAAAAQAkImluZGVwZW5kZW50IHBvbGljZSByZXZpZXcgZGlyZWN0b3IiAAAAAAE&resultIndex=29

Beyond the decision maker, it is generally understood that all persons who participated in the administrative hearing under review should be named as respondents.

again: their position is beyond wrong, it's incomprehensible. they wrote the damned report!

as it turns out, there's a part in the statute that lets me file a motion to ask for clarification on the issue.

so, i am going to do that in the next few days, and they will need to react appropriately. if the court lets them off then that's fine, but i've done my due diligence. if the court orders that they take part, they'll need to prepare for an actual defence...

i need to call toronto, now.

the desktop is still up, btw.

so, i'm ruling out the hard drive....which i knew....

i have to be thorough in testing this, though. i have to give it more time.

it still might be a short in the electricity. but, we'll see what a usb keyboard fixes and what it doesn't.

i wanted to shower this morning, but my stomach wouldn't allow it and i passed out instead.

i need to focus on the court stuff first.

again: i don't think there's any evidence that iran is building a bomb, and i don't think that's a left/right issue. it's an empirical question. you don't figure this out by citing bakunin (or adam smith), you figure it out by consulting the people doing the work on the ground, and they're all absolutely adamant: there's no evidence of any weapons program.

i'm not interested in conspiracy theories that rely on covert israeli intelligence, either. the motives behind these conspiracy theories are crystal clear.

so, no - iran does not appear to be building a bomb.

but, i don't actually think this is a choice, like it is here in canada. up in canada, we have reactors online. we sold the technology to india, actually. we really could build them if we wanted to, and really don't want to.

i think the actual reason that iran isn't enriching is that they wouldn't have a fucking clue what to do with the enriched product - it's reflective of how primitive their technological capacity actually is. they might not even be able to store it. their "nuclear program" is really more of a propaganda ploy to stick it to the empire, and try and demonstrate that the revolution has made them powerful. with allah's help, they will control the atom! but, it's just a line of complete bullshit. the west buys into it because it props up the military-industrial complex and keeps an enemy lined up, but iran would be lucky to get a bomb built before 2200. science doesn't tend to do well under totalitarian theocratic rule; that's a general pattern in history. iran doesn't have an actual fucking clue - it's a backwards society, with retarded levels of innovation due to the theocracy snubbing everything out. they kill or imprison all of the smart people.

the saudis are in a similar scenario. they keep buying these advanced weapons systems, and it looks really scary, but the fact is that they need to hire an american military planner to turn any of it on. yes, it's irresponsible to sell this shit to these crazy religious nutcases. but, the sobering reality is that they don't have a fucking clue how to use any of it.

so, i don't want to even have this debate.

but, i wouldn't want to have it, anyways. if iran was enriching, i would actually support their right to do that, in principle. i don't think the empire has any particular authority to come in and say "stop doing this". and, they clearly have some reason to need to defend themselves.

so, they aren't doing it, and i would support their right to do it if they were.

but, i'd still like to overthrow the government there, because it's still particularly brutal, wmds or not, and i'm willing to be pragmatic about finding creative ways to take the mullahs out. if this is how you do it....

this is what happens when you wake up and realize the left has been co-opted by the traditionalist right. so-called left-wing voices are all of a sudden pushing some kind of religiously motivated opposition to war on moral principles, rather than agitating for revolutionary overthrow of capitalist states. it's exactly what the bourgeoisie always dreamed of. and, they're willing to stand with the worst abusers of human rights on the planet. it's positively orwellian. truly.

i don't like aligning with the right, and need to be clear what my differences in operating philosophy are with them. i'm not particularly concerned about wmds in iran at all, actually. but, i have no patience with these groups that stand with the mullahs and the sheikhs by hiding behind these flimsy anti-colonial theories, that are really just rebranded, if somewhat inverted, orientalism.

i'm disenfranchised; the left, overall, is. i know it....

when your stomach has shrunken so much that you feel like you're going to burst after your first appetizer....

ok.

are we done here for the night?

i think we are.

i need to eat...and then i need to organize all of this loose data, before i get on to inri015.

that's all of the uploading for tonight.

i will need to reconstruct the music blog when i get to the general cleanup, but the general & dtk blogs are updated.

the facebook pages are updated for the night.

so, what's left to do is download the packages from bandcamp and cross-reference them to make sure they're correct.

the pdf conversion via microsoft's cloud seems to be flawless, even over 1500 page documents. google's conversion is terrible. so is adobe's. everybody should take note of that. but, i'm anal...i will bitwise compare in notepad++ and carefully sort through line by line to make sure it's lined up...

my desktop is still running. it doesn't have a soundcard, though. i stripped everything out when i was fighting with the interference patterns.

i will need to prioritize the court stuff when i wake up tomorrow, but i'm hoping i can accomplish the following posting schedule:

1) inri015 by the end of the day on the 27th (today). i'm looking at about 125 pages, but a lot of it is overlap with inri000-inri002.

2) inri021 by the end of the day on the 28th. it's also 125 pages, but it's the same overlap.

3) inri022 by the end of the day on the 29th.

4) inri023 by the end of the day on the 30th.

and, i will then need to do a february look ahead before i can get to finishing january, 2014. in fact, i could maybe start on that this week.

the factum from the oiprd will be here by the 31st.

i *am* going to want to try to load the laptop some time this week.

the liner notes for inri029 have been augmented by 4 pages, and the video for inertia has been added.

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/warning

the liner notes for inri028 have been augmented by 2 pages, as well.

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/pop-music-a-tribute-to-carbon-dioxide

the liner notes for inri027 have been augmented by two pages.

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/gene-os-a-soundtrack-for-an-italian-breakfast-cereal

the liner notes for inri016 have been increased by one post from dec, 2013.

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/eat-my-fuck

this has now been updated as well, but the update is a single line in each of the documents, to stamp the release as 'jam001', and will not be noted further.

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inrisampled

first liner note release for inri002

i've released a dozen different things with the title "inricycled", making it more of a concept than a release. it's not just the material i'm recycling, now, it's the idea of recycling material.

i hope this is the final iteration. the difference, here, is that i'm trying to isolate segments of songs that people interested in my more recent compositions would find interesting. these fragments aren't entirely void of lyrics, but they're very minimal. they're also quite short.

i've retitled most of the tracks to get a feel of what the music sounds like and/or what i was thinking as i was writing it.

the material in this volume is taken from the following cassette demos, , inri000 and inri001:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inri-cassette-demo-1 (1996)
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inri-cassette-demo-2 (1997)

this is the best possible absolute starting point for my musical material.

written and recorded over 1996 and 1997. digitally remastered, sequenced and mildly modified in the fall of 2013. released dec 11, 2013. finalized as lp000 on july 3, 2016. first liner note release added on jan 26, 2020. i consider this my unofficial zeroth record. as always, please use headphones.

this release also includes a printable jewel case insert and will also eventually include a comprehensive package of journal entries from all phases of production (1997, 2013-2020). as of jan 26, 2020, the release includes a 106 page booklet in doc, pdf & html, with an html5 audio & video frontend, that includes journal entries from the remastering process over sept-dec, 2013, as well as the video for inertia, from dec, 2013 .

credits

released July 1, 1997

j - guitars, effects, bass, drums, vocals, keyboards, tapes, found sounds, metronomes, digital wave editing, production.

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inricycled