Wednesday, October 21, 2026

next five cds are...

antonio carlos jobim - stone flower (1970) 
billy cobham - spectrum (1973)
claude debussy - la mer / nocturnes (1905/1900)
do make say think - winter hymn secret hymn country hymn (2003)
gustav holst - the planets / ralph vaughn williams - tallis fantasia (1918/1919)
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i mother earth - scenery and fish (1996)
man or astroman? - experiment zero (1996)
mike oldfield - ommadawn (1975)
ministry - the mind is a terrible thing to taste (1989)
my blood valentine - loveless (1991)
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pelican - city of echoes (2007)
pink floyd - the piper at the gates of dawn (1967)
pink floyd - atom heart mother (1970)
pink floyd - meddle (1972)
plateau - iceolator (2002)
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sister machine gun - metropolis (1997)
skinny puppy - cleanse, fold and manipulate (1987)
sonic youth - sister (1987)
spiral beach - ball (2007)
ssris - effeminate godzilla-sized windchimes (2010)

those are just the first ten 15 20 cds out of the boxes. i'll be updating in groups of five as they come out and onto the shelves

blogger music lists for existing cds (rebuilds):
discogs list (first 100 of many more to come): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nNhi2Z4vRr0hEP5OiK-6xxZP1G_b9OBW/view

the music web - starting with miles davis - is going to have a new page at the deathtokoalas blog. the point is that i want to use the timeline feature so it's likely to lose the scrolling aspect. or i might design a new blog for it. 
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i mean, how many fucking times?
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we should open a direct flight from trudeau to de gaulle called the ass-saving express.
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france's ass will in the end be saved so many times, that it will become the state with three buttocks - one for each save.
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“This is by no means a workers’ party [La France insoumise party]. His electorate is not the proletariat. These are not the people who get up at six every morning and spend two hours on public transport. His electorate is the uneducated.”

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what is the difference between melenchon's "citizen revoluton" and the "volkisch movement" underlying the rise of nazism?

not much, from what i can see.

the racial argument has only been slightly updated, but not substantively modified.

there's a lot of ignorance, especially in america, about what nazism actually was. americans think nazism was essentially the kkk, which is not even remotely close. if you actually understand nazism, and i've read more about it than i wish i had, you should see massive red flags in france, right now.

the difference between france and north america is only one of scale. there are more of them in france. we need to make sure that that doesn't happen here.

france will probably have to surrender, and we will probably need to save france's ass yet again.

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this article explains why melenchon is not a marxist but it doesn't go as far as i would, in calling him what he actually is, which is a reactionary and a fascist.

i need to put this down, now.

it's up to france to figure this out. i do not like marine le pen's republican conservatism, and i don't like melenchon's reactionary fascism. if the choice ahead of france is between the right (le pen) and the far right (melenchon), it's in for some pain. and i don't mean some bread. it may have to endure some suffering.

what is clear enough is the failure of neo-liberalism and the need to realize it in building an alternative to capitalism, but that doesn't lie in mobilizing the most right-wing elements of french society (the muslim extremists) just because organizing the proletariat is too hard to do, in the year 2026. it may get even harder in the upcoming decades, but melenchon is not offering any more of an escape than lenin or trotsky or stalin did.

france is a pretty advanced capitalist society and, like the united states and canada, it may in the end not even require a revolution to get to communism, it may just require an end point of pulling the plug on it. 

but i can't and don't support this in theory and can't and don't support it in practice. it's not a left. it's a far right, and it threatens extreme harm.
 
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white liberalism is in denial. it was warned this would happen, both by the left and the right, and now that it is happening, it can't accept the consequences of it's actions over the last several decades.

they were supposed to assimilate. 

they were supposed to be just like us.

the liberals didn't listen - just like they didn't listen when the left and right warned them about hitler. just give the migrants a bit more space. they'll eventually want to fit in.

...and now we have a huge problem and we're going to have to address it and it may require a lot of violence.
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i don't agree with the language in this article. i would call melenchon a right-wing reactionary, and argue he's building a fascist, brownshirt army of lumpenproletariat soldiers, many of them children or very young, to attempt to seize power with. he's been largely rejected by france's actual left as a phony, a fraud.

but he's telling you this shit himself. nobody made it up. these words are directly from him. they're his. the evidence is incontrovertible.

read this. carefully.

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i'm an empiricist.

the reason i do this is to criticize false narratives and draw attention to facts instead.

don't gaslight me by trying to argue it's about inflation, or there's no proof it's tied to muslim radicalism.

i'll throw it right back at you.

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conversely, the white kids are waving signs that say nothing at all, things like "liberty, egality, fraternity" or "mai 1968" or "gen z est agis". that just says "i'm young and rebellious and trying to be cool", in addition to "i paid attention in history class". which is good, don't get me wrong. american kids don't pay attention in history class. but it's not "i can't afford to feed my kids and am going to feed them you instead". in fact, these kids seem to be pretty well taken care of, from the looks of things.

the union members are just chanting union slogans.

the actual agitators are very clear and the evidence is very clear: this is about cultural identity. it's about anger at feeling alienated, due to a combination of discrimination and not wanting to fit in. there's an underlying issue of a failure of integration, of poverty, of opportunistic criminal networks and of a fake left trying to take advantage of a lumpenproletariat generated by bad immigration policies. it's anger at the society, anger at secularism, anger at liberalism and a desire to burn it all down and assert a theocracy. it's not acting rationally because it's not rational.

that's what the evidence says.

you can see it and understand it or choose willful blindness instead but don't turn the tables around. don't tell me there's no evidence of migrant anger in the riots and blame it on inflation. there's no evidence for that. that's bullshit; it turns the facts and the evidence on it's head.
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i haven't seen a single sign anywhere in footage of protests in france complaining about fuel prices, inflation, food costs or anything of the sort. this is a pseudo-marxist analysis by the liberal press, that is an attempt to distract from what the rioters are actually saying, and which is entirely without any sort of evidentiary basis at all. it is 100% theory and 0% empiricism.

any cursory analysis of the evidence indicates it's obviously a false theory.

nobody is making up the idea that the immigrants are angry about palestine. they're telling us that, by holding up signs, by waiving flags and by chanting slogans. that's what the actual evidence does say. 

never forget that we live in the era of orwell.
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in a recent news conference, macron has explained that he is on a mission to the middle east to return with sufficient amounts of fossil fuels for the muslim protesters in france to set the remaining schools in france on fire with. macron explained his position to reporters:

i listened to the muslim demonstrators, and what they told me is that they are worried that there's not enough fuel left to burn the rest of the schools and city halls in france down with. they didn't know how they were going to burn the remaining schools down if they ran out of fuel.

decreases in the cost of fuel caused by increasing supply should reduce soaring expenses involved with acts of arson, which are rising faster than the cost of food due to the war in iran.
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i certainly hope that the new premier of quebec has enough self-respect for himself and enough respect for the office to take a shower and wash the e-coli off his face before he shows up to work.

he looks like a hobo on the street.

...or that he just crawled out of his mom's basement, where he still lives.
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the bad news is i slept all day.

the good news is i feel better than i have in a while.

for the second time in as many years, the culprit was clearly the vinegar-based hot sauce. i am not removing my hot sauce from my diet. but i need to make sure they can't get in here again.

the only reason i went out this summer was to fix some holes on the side of the house. they're that obsessed and that pathetic - i give them a series of disconnected 20 minute opportunities over an isolated two hour time frame in a six month window and they took it. it suggests constant obsessive stalking.

when i set up cameras in the last place they got shut off remotely several times. i made adjustments and have a very detailed and complex system ready to run, but i wanted to understand where to set it up first. that will be something i will do soon.

that might mean i'm back to eating more regularly, too, which should hopefully get my energy back up

ugh.

i'm going to get something to eat (again), then try to finish the updates for the couple of cds i was cataloging, get the aluminum up, finish cleaning, etc. i need to be able to stay awake to get over the hump.

but my weight is back to normal so i suspect it will be no more than a few days before i'm back to normal, too, if i can keep them from getting back in.
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musk's visible level of autism makes it unlikely that he would lie. musk's problem is he's too honest.

it looks like they don't actually know what happened, and are blaming each other.

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this is important to take note of.

it's a reminder that technology is always a tool used by humans and that technology is never good or bad itself. bad human behaviour is always bad human behaviour.

we build technology for it's positive benefits, not for it's negative uses. we need to be open-eyed about potential negative uses of technology and be proactive about getting there first, but we should never seek to criminalize technology.

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yeah.

this is not political unrest. the unions are trying to make it about political unrest, and to some extent i'm on their side, but it's just not. this is organized crime.

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ways to enforce a more aggressive assimilation of muslims into canadian society would include the following

- reduced immigration by returning to a more rigorous application of the points system, that is by returning to an increase in immigration standards. our standards were lowered to increase the number of religious migrants, starting with jason kenney's overhaul of the system, which was intended to bring in more conservative voters from conservative muslim societies, which was then continued and expanded by trudeau, who was trying to prevent a recession caused by poor domestic spending decisions by increasing gdp via brute force and was basically ignorant as to the voting tendencies of religious migrants from conservative societies (they aren't liberals). total bans on immigration from specific origin points, as the united states has done, are not a useful policy option, but immigrants from conservative or religious cultures need to be more aggressively screened and better selected for.
- total reductions in refugees from muslim countries. we were just flying them in at one point. that's horrible.
- faster refugee processing to get rejected applicants out faster
- stronger border restrictions to stop them from getting in illegally in the first place
- more spending on education with a greater focus on assimilation as an intentional policy choice
- a country wide adoption of quebec's laicite laws at the federal level and locally in more provinces to better enforce state concepts of secularism and make sure muslims aren't being misled about the state's position on assimilation
- more realistic advertising to potential immigrants, that does not broadcast that canada is a paradise for muslim migrants, but stresses that it is a secular society with secular laws and that it expects migrants will properly assimilate upon arrival.

france does not just have an issue with assimilation, which is partly a result of it's colonial heritage, but it also has a problem with illegal migration. 

many governments in europe are realizing that france is a landing point for dangerous immigrants that threatens their own security. even the labour government in the uk is reacting by trying to restrict outflows of migrants across the english channel. 

it's a political issue in the united states, but it's not a left-right issue in europe, or not in the same way. americans (and canadians) should avoided projecting our own political biases into the european discourses.

they have a very serious problem on their hands and they need to take serious steps to address it. it's important that serious french political actors adopt serious policies to address this serious problem.

macron is himself a lame duck and little that he says moving forward should be taken seriously. he has no ability to do anything at this point and should arguably even resign to make way for a more serious successor.
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concerns about france's failure to successfully assimilate it's muslim migrant population, which is quite large, are not new and should present lessons to canada. we should adjust before it happens here and make sure we do no let the situation get out of hand, like they have.
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right, so this is the jobs bill that the government needed to write to generate demand to maintain a steel industry in canada, which is an intelligent response to the layoffs, rather than the stupid response of threatening to sue the company for reacting to an absence of demand by laying off workers until demand recovers. 

i would still rather offshore the steel mills, but upgrading them is a necessary condition to keep them from being shut down for environmental reasons, regardless of concerns about local demand.

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the evidence that a bad immigration policy and insufficient assimilation policy that needs to be substantively revised is a primary cause of the situation is abundantly clear.

however, there is no evidence at all that these protests have anything to do with the "cost of living", whatever that even means. that's an entirely imagined motivation made up of out of full cloth by the liberal media, which is not a reliable source of information, and frequently just makes things up out of thin air. it's really an attempt to project the idea that riots in france are similar to riots in the united states, with no evidence to support the comparison, in order to meet market demand for media that says as much, generated by airheaded liberal media consumers.

macron's stupid comments about the situation should be generating headlines that say "stupid liberals resurrect the ghost of chamberlain to tie obviously immigrant-generated french riots to economic cost of living protests, without providing supporting evidence."

what's going on in france right now is clearly tied to gang violence and organized crime by right-wing extremists imported from the middle east. these are not protests at all, let alone legitimate protests. unions and fake left political actors have tried to co-opt the gang violence, make it about their issues rather than the issues being articulated by the gangs and then direct it towards the state (in a poor implementation of dubiously valid fringe left-wing theory; that is, theories on the fringe of the left), but there's no evidence that they've been successful in doing so. they're still just chanting "free palestine" and carrying out organized, mass theft operations, even after the unions tried and apparently failed to intervene. 

nobody's interested in rebuilding the schools. there's no spontaneous group of vigilantes escorting kids to class. there's no bake sales or lemonade stands - or gofundme sites - to raise money for classroom materials. there's just entitled kids smashing windows to steal iphones and nikes, and mysterious thugs swooping in after to load stolen merchandise on to waiting trucks.

the proper state response is to deploy police to fight the gangs and mafia elements disturbing the peace and to correct the narrative to one supported by empirical facts, not to continue to parrot one that is made up out of thin air to support political projections by fake leftists that want to lie to people in an attempt to win an election.

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