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New York Times: “Hvaldimir, a beluga whale who had captured the public’s imagination since 2019 after he was spotted wearing a harness seemingly designed for a camera, was found dead on Saturday in Norway, according to a nonprofit that worked to protect the whale.... [Hvaldimir] was wearing a harness that identified it as “equipment” from St. Petersburg. There also appeared to be a camera mount. Some wondered if the whale was on a Russian reconnaissance mission. Russia has never claimed ownership of the whale. If Hvaldimir was a spy, he was an exceptionally friendly one. The whale showed signs of domestication, and was comfortable around people. He remained in busier waters than are typical for belugas....” ~~~

     ~~~ Marie: Oh, Lord, do not let Bobby Kennedy, Jr., near that carcass. ~~~

     ~~~ AP Update: “There’s no evidence that a well-known beluga whale that lived off Norway’s coast and whose harness ignited speculation it was a Russian spy was shot to death last month as claimed by animal rights groups, Norwegian police said Monday.... Police said that the Norwegian Veterinary Institute conducted a preliminary autopsy on the animal, which was become known as 'Hvaldimir,' combining the Norwegian word for whale — hval — and the first name of Russian President Vladimir Putin. 'There are no findings from the autopsy that indicate that Hvaldimir has been shot,' police said in a statement.”

New York Times: Botswana's “President Mokgweetsi Masisi grinned as he lifted the diamond, a 2,492-carat stone that is the biggest diamond unearthed in more than a century and the second-largest ever found, according to the Vancouver-based mining operator Lucara, which owns the mine where it was found. This exceptional discovery could bring back the luster of the natural diamond mining industry, mining companies and experts say. The diamond was discovered in the same relatively small mine in northeastern Botswana that has produced several of the largest such stones in living memory. Such gemstones typically surface as a result of volcanic activity.... The diamond will likely sell in the range of tens of millions of dollars....”

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~~~ Guardian: "On a distant reef 16,000km from Paris, surfer Gabriel Medina has given Olympic viewers one of the most memorable images of the Games yet, with an airborne celebration so well poised it looked too good to be true. The Brazilian took off a thundering wave at Teahupo’o in Tahiti on Monday, emerging from a barrelling section before soaring into the air and appearing to settle on a Pacific cloud, pointing to the sky with biblical serenity, his movements mirrored precisely by his surfboard. The shot was taken by Agence France-Presse photographer Jérôme Brouillet, who said “the conditions were perfect, the waves were taller than we expected”. He took the photo while aboard a boat nearby, capturing the surreal image with such accuracy that at first some suspected Photoshop or AI." 

Washington Post: “'Mary Cassatt at Work' is a large and mostly satisfying exhibition devoted to the career of the great American artist beloved for her sensitive and often sentimental views of family life. The 'at work' in the title of the Philadelphia Museum of Art show references the curators’ interest in Cassatt’s pioneering effort to establish herself as a professional artist within a male-dominated field. Throughout the show, which includes some 130 paintings, pastels, prints and drawings, the wall text and the art on view stresses Cassatt’s fixation on art as a career rather than a pastime.... Mary Cassatt at Work is on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art through Sept. 8. philamuseum.org”

New York Times: “Bob Newhart, who died on Thursday at the age of 94, has been such a beloved giant of popular culture for so long that it’s easy to forget how unlikely it was that he became one of the founding fathers of stand-up comedy. Before basically inventing the hit stand-up special, with the 1960 Grammy-winning album 'The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart' — that doesn’t even count his pay-per-view event broadcast on Canadian television that some cite as the first filmed special — he was a soft-spoken accountant who had never done a set in a nightclub. That he made a classic with so little preparation is one of the great miracles in the history of comedy.... Bob Newhart holds up. In fact, it’s hard to think of a stand-up from that era who is a better argument against the commonplace idea that comedy does not age well.”

Washington Post: “An early Titian masterpiece — once looted by Napolean’s troops and a part of royal collections for centuries — caused a stir when it was stolen from the home of a British marquess in 1995. Seven years later, it was found inside an unassuming white and blue plastic bag at a bus stop in southwest London by an art detective, and returned. This week, the oil painting 'The Rest on the Flight into Egypt' sold for more than $22 million at Christie’s. It was a record for the Renaissance artist, whom museums describe as the greatest painter of 16th-century Venice. Ahead of the sale in April, the auction house billed it as 'the most important work by Titian to come to the auction market in more than a generation.'”

Washington Post: The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., which houses the world's largest collection of Shakespeare material, has undergone a major renovation. "The change to the building is pervasive, both subtle and transformational."

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The Commentariat -- November 4, 2018

Afternoon Update:

CNN Thumps Racist Trumps. Amy Wang of the Washington Post: "CNN ... refused to run an election ad released by ... President Trump earlier this week, a video that featured Luis Bracamontes -- an undocumented immigrant who was convicted in the murder of two California sheriff's deputies -- in an apparent attempt to drum up fears about immigration. 'I guess they only run fake news and won't talk about real threats that don't suit their agenda,' Donald Trump Jr. tweeted, linking to a ... 30-second version of the ad. 'Enjoy. Remember this on Tuesday. #vote #voterepublican' CNN's public relations department promptly fired back..., repeating a statement that the network's reporters had made last week: The ad was racist. 'CNN has made it abundantly clear in its editorial coverage that this ad is racist,' CNN PR tweeted. 'When presented with an opportunity to be paid to take a version of this ad, we declined. Those are the facts.'"

In Desperate Measure, Kemp Abuses His Office. Mark Niesse of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: "Just two days before the election, Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp's office launched an investigation Sunday into the Democratic Party after an alleged attempt to hack the state's voter registration system. Kemp, who is the Republican candidate for governor on Tuesday's ballot, didn't provide any evidence of hacking when his office announced the probe. He faces Democrat Stacey Abrams in the election. The Democratic Party of Georgia called the allegation '100 percent false' and 'an abuse of power by Kemp's office."

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Paul Sonne of the Washington Post: "The total price of President Trump's military deployment to the border, including the cost of National Guard forces that have been there since April, could climb well above $200 million by the end of 2018 and grow significantly if the deployments continue into next year, according to analyst estimates and Pentagon figures.... Although the costs of the border deployments will be a tiny slice of a $716& billion annual defense budget, they arrive as the Trump administration is calling on the Pentagon to cut unnecessary expenditures. The White House recently ordered the Pentagon to slash next year's budget for the military by about $33 billion in response to the largest increase in the federal deficit in six years. Veterans and Democratic lawmakers have complained that Trump is wasting military dollars in a politically motivated stunt ahead of Tuesday's midterm elections, at a time when the Pentagon budget is under pressure." ...

     ... Mrs. Bea McCrabbie: This is, of course, spending millions of your tax dollars to lose millions for the U.S. economy. If we admitted those people seeking asylum, most would become productive members of society & contribute to the economy. One of the side effects of bigotry is economic waste. ...

... Luckily, Our Troops Have "Help." Mary Lee Grant & Nick Miroff of the Washington Post: "Gun-carrying civilian groups and border vigilantes have heard a call to arms in President Trump's warnings about threats to American security posed by caravans of Central American migrants moving through Mexico. They're packing coolers and tents, oiling rifles and tuning up aerial drones, with plans to form caravans of their own and trail American troops to the border.... According to military planning documents obtained by Newsweek, the military is concerned about the arrival of 'unregulated militia members self-deploying to the border in alleged support' of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The assessment estimates that 200 militia members could show up. 'They operate under the guise of citizen patrols,' the report said, while warning of 'incidents of unregulated militias stealing National Guard equipment during deployments.'" (The Newsweek story was linked here earlier this week.) Mrs. McC: What could possibly go wrong? ...

Ben Protess, et al., of the New York Times: "Across the corporate landscape, the Trump administration has presided over a sharp decline in financial penalties against banks and big companies accused of malfeasance, according to analyses of government data and interviews with more than 60 former and current federal officials. The approach mirrors the administration's aggressive deregulatory agenda throughout the federal government.... While career officials in the federal government have continued to investigate wrongdoing at companies large and small, some of the top political appointees under Mr. Trump have led a philosophical shift in governing that favors big business and prioritizes the interests of individual investors."

Fake Diplomacy. Bess Levin of Vanity Fair: "Earlier this week ... reports began to surface that Donald Trump -- who on Monday was ready to slap tariffs on every single Chinese import -- had suddenly reached some kind of breakthrough with Beijing.... Unsurprisingly, markets soared on the news, and all those Trump supporters who've been burned by his tariffs presumably got that warm, cuddly feeling back about the president just four days before the midterms. Except, according to National Economic Council director Larry Kudlow, the whole thing ... is FAKE NEWS! 'There's no massive movement to deal with China,' Kudlow told CNBC on Friday, noting ... little actual progress was made on trade.... He added...'We're not on the cusp of a deal.'" --s ...

     ... Mrs. McCrabbie: Kudlow's remark sounds like the definition of a gaffe. Obviously, old Larry is out of the loop. ...

     ... So Then. Fred Imbert of CNBC: "Equities fell to their lows of the day following Kudlow's comments, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropping more than 200 points. Kudlow's comments come a day after Trump tweeted he had a 'long and very good conversation' with Chinese President Xi Jinping on trade."

There are relatively few Americans voicing their support for ISIS online. But there are millions of racists, anti-Semites, Islamophobes, homophobes and xenophobes who engage in eliminationist rhetoric about the communities of people they fear and hate every day on social media and radio talk shows. -- Michael German of the Brennan Center for Justice ...

... Janet Reitman in the New York Times Magazine: "For two decades, domestic counterterrorism strategy has ignored the rising danger of far-right extremism. In the atmosphere of willful indifference, a virulent movement has grown and metastasized.... White supremacists and other far-right extremists have killed far more people since Sept. 11, 2001, than any other category of domestic extremist. The Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism has reported that 71 percent of the extremist-related fatalities in the United States between 2008 and 2017 were committed by members of the far right or white-supremacist movements. Islamic extremists were responsible for just 26 percent.... These statistics belie the strident rhetoric around 'foreign-born' terrorists that the Trump administration has used to drive its anti-immigration agenda.... Law enforcement seems uninterested in policing the violent far right."...

     ... Mrs. McCrabbie: As you read Reitman's report, you'll see that the rise of white nationalist radicals didn't start with Trump, but he & his administration have made the problem much worse. For a decade, the real reason white domestic terrorists have not been identified, monitored & prosecuted is ... Republicans. Republicans think "white nationalist terrorists" equal "conservatives." Yeah, check the stories linked under Beyond the Beltway.

E. A. Crunden of ThinkProgress: "Information about climate change on the website for the Environmental Protection Agency ... has been missing for over a year, with no indication that plans are in the works to reverse the situation.... A section of the site relating to climate change that has been under an update notice since April 2017 now lacks even that, the Guardian reported this week.... For a lengthy period of time following the inauguration of ... Donald Trump, the page indicated that the section was being updated to reflect the current administration's priorities.... But ... this week that changed, and the page is now completely defunct." --s ...

     ... Mrs. McCrabbie: As someone who has a natural instinct for science, I can assure you that climate change & its Death to Earth effects will go away if you delete it from your Website.

AP & Stella Kim of NBC News: "North Korea has warned it could revive a state policy aimed at strengthening its nuclear arsenal if the United States does not lift economic sanctions against the country.... The North came short of threatening to abandon the ongoing nuclear negotiations with the United States. But it accused Washington of derailing commitments made by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and ... Donald Trump at their June summit in Singapore to work toward a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula, without describing how and when it would occur." ... OR, as New York's Daily Intelligencer put it, "North Korea upset that Trump hasn't kept up his undefined end of fake peace deal."

Election 2018

Trump Stumps Where Chumps Clump. Josh Boak of the AP: "... Donald Trump is in the final stretch of a 44-city blitz for the midterm elections, but the America he's glimpsed from the airport arrivals and his armored limousine is hardly a reflection of the nation as a whole. The president has mostly traveled to counties that are whiter, less educated and have lower incomes than the rest of the United States, according to Census Bureau data. It's a sign that he is seeking to galvanize the same group of voters that helped carry him to victory in 2016."

Florida. Matt Dixon of Politico: "During a Saturday rally for Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis..., Donald Trump's top agriculture official [Sonny Perdue, the former governor of Georgia,] used the term 'cotton-pickin' to describe the importance of Florida's gubernatorial race, which also features Democrat Andrew Gillum, who is running to be Florida's first black governor. 'Public policy matters. Leadership matters,' said ... Sonny Perdue said at a Lakeland rally, according to audio provided by American Bridge. 'And that is why this election is so cotton-pickin' important to the state of Florida. I hope you all don't mess it up.'" Mrs. McC: Perdue meant to say "monkey it up," as DeSantis did the day after his nomination. BTW, these old white boys make racist remarks to their base, because they know their base is racist.

Georgia. Veronica Stracqualursi of CNN: "A white supremacist group that targeted Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum with racist robocalls is now targeting Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams. The prerecorded phone message features a voice impersonating Oprah Winfrey, who was in Georgia on Thursday stumping for Abrams, and contains racist and anti-Semitic rhetoric. The robocall went out to Georgia voters, but it is unclear how many received it.... The group behind the robocall is The Road to Power, a white supremacist and anti-Semitic video podcast hosted by Scott Rhodes of Idaho."

Maine. Like Father, Like Son. Tim Murphy of Mother Jones: "Often when conservative politicians talk about their opposition to large groups of non-white immigrants, they couch it in the rhetoric of 'bad apples.' Saying you're worried about MS-13, for instance, is a more socially acceptable argument than simply saying you don't like Central Americans.... In the tweet ['Angus King is a Fake Independent who votes with Schumer 88% of the time. Angus wants to repopulate Maine with Syrian and Somalian refugees. Support @SenatorBrakey who fights for secure borders and Better Jobs for Maine.' [Donald] Trump [Jr.]isn't offering misplaced fears about, I don't know, Al-Shabaab or something. He's not couching it in anything, there are no dots to connect; he just doesn't want Somalis, full-stop. Having Somalis in your community is bad, on its surface, simply because they're Somalis -- that's it, that's the argument." --s

Montana. "FU45." Kristen Inbody of the Great Falls (Montana) Tribune: "Kevin Crawford of Bozeman and Curtis Roe of Belgrade decided to protest ... Donald Trump's visit Saturday to the Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport in grass. The pair mowed 'FU45' on Roe's land under the landing approach Air Force One would make. The result was lettering 60 feet tall and 150 feet across. Crawford said that seemed like a better approach than protesting at the campaign rally because 'his wingnut base loves nothing more than to think they are pissing off a bunch of liberals who are protesting.'"


E. A. Crunden: "A landmark case brought by a group of young people attempting to force the federal government to take action on climate change will proceed despite efforts from the Trump administration to stop the lawsuit in its tracks. On Friday night, the Supreme Court declined to halt the lawsuit, Juliana vs. United States, after briefly delaying it last month to consider an emergency request from the government." --safari: The fact that this lawsuit even exists is a damning condemnation of the "leave a better future for our children" modern-day fairytale. ...

     ... Mrs. McCrabbie: Related story linked yesterday.

Amoral Markets. Matthew Martin & Dinesh Nair of Bloomberg: "For a moment, Wall Street seemed to be inching away from Saudi Arabia. Now, it's already inching back. A month after the murder of government critic Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, bankers say the rewards of doing business with the oil-rich kingdom far outweigh the risks." --safari: As long as no Wall Streeters get the bone saw, everything's cool. And even if one did, hey, less competition, right? Capitalism is awesome.

Virginia Heffernan in a Los Angeles Times op-ed: "... before [Julian] Assange was known for his romance with the Kremlin, and his shady contacts with scurvy Trumpites like Roger Stone and Donald Trump Jr., he was a punk idol, a hacker god. For years, he seemed like an opener of governments who could disinfect the Earth with the sunlight of his tech virtuosity and his eccentric radiance. But, like many online high-fliers of the aughts, Assange lacked a moral imagination equal to his skills as a technologist.... To hook up with Russian oligarchs and military intelligence to embarrass one American political candidate on behalf of another -- that's... deputizing yourself to an actual authoritarian regime, the kind that a hacker like Assange used to be committed to exposing."

Beyond the Beltway

David Mack, et al., of BuzzFeed News: "The man who shot dead two women at a yoga studio in Tallahassee, Florida, on Friday before killing himself was a far-right extremist and self-proclaimed misogynist who railed against women, black people, and immigrants in a series of online videos and songs. Scott Beierle, 40, was named by Tallahassee Police as the shooter who opened fire inside the Hot Yoga Tallahassee studio, killing two and injuring four other women and a man. Those killed were named as Dr. Nancy Van Vessem, 61, who worked at Florida State University's College of Medicine, and FSU student Maura Binkley, 21.... Police ... noted Beierle had previously been investigated for harassing women.... On a YouTube channel in 2014, Beierle filmed several videos of himself offering extremely racist and misogynistic opinions, in which he called women 'sluts' and 'whores,' and lamented 'the collective treachery' of girls he went to high school with.... He was highly critical of the Obama administration in his 2014 videos. In one video, he said that he resented having to subsidize as a taxpayer 'the casual sex lives of slutty girls through the Affordable Care Act's contraception provisions. In the same video he also criticized 'the invasion of Central American children' in the US that year and said the migrants seeking asylum should be deported on barges."

ABC 7 New York: "Police have made an arrest after disturbing messages of hate were found inside a Brooklyn synagogue Thursday evening, the latest in a string of anti-Semitic incidents across the nation. 26-year-old James Polite is charged with four counts of criminal mischief as a hate crime and making graffiti. Polite has been sent to Woodhull Hospital for psychiatric observation, authorities say."

Steve Sadin of the Chicago Tribune: "A 39-year-old Winthrop Harbor man was arrested Thursday by Highland Park police for allegedly making threatening statements in an Oct. 29 phone call to the Central Avenue Synagogue in Highland Park[, Illinois]. Police say the phone call was placed just two days after 11 people were fatally shot and six others injured during services at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. Dean R. West, of ... Winthrop Harbor, has been charged with a hate crime against a church or synagogue, according to Cynthia Vargas, spokeswoman for the Lake County State's Attorney's office." Mrs. McC: The article is accompanied by a photo (mug shot?) of West, who looks just like what you thought a hate-filled bigot looks like. Obviously, lack of originality is hardly West's worst trait, but it is a trait.

Paighten Harkins of the Salt Lake Tribune: North Ogden, Utah, Mayor Brent "Taylor was killed during an apparent insider attack early Saturday in Kabul[, Afghanistan]. The attacker was immediately killed by Afghan Forces, according to NATO. The Utah National Guard hasn't confirmed Taylor was killed in the attack, but Maj. Gen. Jefferson S. Burton, the adjutant general, in a news release, said: 'My heart breaks for the loss and sacrifice of our soldier, particularly for the family. I wish them all the comfort and courage to face the difficult days ahead.'" Taylor served as a major in the National Guard.

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Nigeria Tweeted Trump Caravan Speech Apparently To Defend Shooting Protesters

“The Nigerian army opened fire last week on protesters [with rocks] killing scores, according to Amnesty International”

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5bde4136e4b09d43e31f7f40

November 4, 2018 | Unregistered CommenterAuntHattie

SNL'S SHEER PANIC over the Caravan with our lovely Laura I. giving us her angle.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/snl-cranks-up-panic-over-the-caravan_us_5bde6c54e4b09d43e31f8953

November 4, 2018 | Unregistered CommenterPD Pepe

The next person on the presidential* hit list is------------Barbra.
Check out this video from her new album. Song is "Don't Lie To Me."
And guess who she's referring to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNrj87Q-4Yk

November 4, 2018 | Unregistered Commenterforrest morris

Here's Capt. Sullenberger (Sully) on MSNBC expressing his views on the state of our country. Listening to him makes one grateful we have people like him in our country.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHRiEjJgjps

November 4, 2018 | Unregistered CommenterPD Pepe

@ Mrs. Mc B. C. Totally agree with your time-change POV. (And thanks for the much needed giggle.)

November 4, 2018 | Unregistered CommenterAuntHattie

Didn't Trump tout his unasked for $50 billion dollar gift to the military just last year? Now he wants them to find $33 billion to cut. This is obviously why he is such a great business man and I am not.

November 4, 2018 | Unregistered CommenterRAS

Looking at Kemps accusation of Democratic hacking by the Abrams campaign in Georgia I can only think that this is a foretaste of what is to come after the elections. The end is farther away than we think and 2020 will begin before 2018 is over.

November 4, 2018 | Unregistered CommenterBobby Lee

One more day to lie through his false teeth.

Monday will be the last day for Trump to toss out desperate lies and fake promises and threats in order to cajole his base, entice moronic undecideds, and inveigle the bovine MSM to repeat, verbatim, his every mendacious assertion.

What will it be? He's all in on the "Migrants are Murderers!" trope. More on that? Sure, prob'ly. "Caravan knocking on the door! Rapists and ISIS murderers will beat our boys to the border, given that they travel at 400 mile per day (on foot). They'll be in Dallas by nightfall, shooting any voters they think look Republican, tearing their faces off , sewing the flesh onto their own heads before it rots and going in to vote DEMYCRAP instead!

On another front, FREE MONEY FOR EVERYONE WHO VOTES FOR ME! Billions will be handed out "the next day" to anyone who shows up to vote Republican!

Also, anyone who shows up to vote Confederate, will have every black mark on their record expunged. This includes the Philly synagogue murderer, the guy in Kentucky who shot those uppity black people in cold blood, and the pipe bomb guy who tried to assassinate two former US presidents. If they vote Republican, all is forgiven and they all get a big house in the country, courtesy of the Orange Monster.

Let's see, what else? Oh, I know. Blacks in southern states will have their voting rights permanently canceled. Immigrants, even legal ones, except those from Russia and other pro-white fascist states, will have their voting rights permanently suspended. They're perfectly free to appeal to the Supreme Court (chortle) but, um, we don't think they'll get very far with that.

White voters whose kids are on the dim side needn't worry about their getting into college. Any minority (especially black, Hispanic, or Mooslim) will be booted to the back 'o the line if these kids need a boost up. No matter if they have a C- average and are going up against an Albert Einstein. If Albert ain't white, he can go fuck himself. Your kid gets in. As long as you vote R.

Finally, any R's who show up to vote and can successfully blackjack a Demycrap or minority looking voter, will get six free years of Fox News, free on cable.

Kemp in Georgia is so frightened he's accusing Democrats of taking a book out is his own playbook and ratfucking the election.

R's everywhere are lying.

Because that's what they do.

November 4, 2018 | Unregistered CommenterAkhilleus

There is now a tsunami of apologists ripping anyone who dares suggest that Trump's lies and hate speech and enticements to violence have had anything to do with the recent spate of murders and murderous attempts by right-wing Trump supporters against Jews and blacks and Trump critics.

Sure, he's got nothing to do with it.

So let me ask you a question.

If, as the Trumpy Apologists are arguing, "bad apples" have been around for many years, why now, all of a sudden, are they all feeling so empowered to put hate rhetoric into action?

Why weren't they this active five, ten, twenty years ago?

Because they never had a president* they felt was on their side urging them to act, letting them know that violence is not just okay, but is required in order to "Make 'merica Great Agin'"

If you want to float an argument, you need to be able to back it up, it needs to withstand even a modicum of criticism.

If you can't, you should just shut up, or stand up to the monster you worship.

But that ain't gonna happen, right?

Once again, it's the fault of those being murdered and beat up and attacked. Those Jews and blacks and Trumpy critics were just asking for it.

November 4, 2018 | Unregistered CommenterAkhilleus
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