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Military On The Streets in Santiago de Cali, Colombia

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See  Cali, Colombia  from October 8, 2020 and then  UN Out To Lunch in Cali ,  UN Urging Action in Colombia ,  Terminal Frost  and  La Escuela Del Desencanto . Subscribe to RT on YouTube .

Stephanie Montes - Mnemosyne

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See  SMART - Stephanie Montes Sustainable Mountain Art : In her artistic work, Stephanie Montes’ general approach ranges from the understanding of human being and the relationship with territory, crossed by thematic axes such as memory and resilience. See some more of her work on her website:  https://www.behance.net/stephaniemontes/projects . I was thinking about how I can recover my memories of the journey from La Paz, Bolivia to Tecate, Mexico when I didn't take any photos to speak of, nor didI make any detailed notes, ... Maybe she can help, ... Mnemosyne is a river, after all, like the Cali River. See  Cali, Colombia  and  Sci-Fi Short - Streamline . Subscribe to  Dust . See also  Terminal Frost ,  La Escuela Del Desencanto  and  Sheryl Lee on Happy Endings . I don't know where air travel comes into this, ... see  Simon Mejia - Agua (Sonic Forest)  and  Bomba EstĂ©reo - Agua y Tierra . My idea of flying is terrestrial ...

Cali, Colombia

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I am in Cali and this morning I tried to phone the US Embassy in Bogata but the number was answered by a message saying that I had been connected with a voice-mail service, but that the person on the extension I had dialled had not subscribed to the service. That is kind of unprofessional, for a public-face of an organisation like the US State Department. Just sayin'. Here's the original English version of that poem Fire and Ice by Robert Frost . See also  Lana Del Rey's Never to Heaven .  Can we bring this phase of the art project to a close now, please? This artist is ever so tired and hungry and footsore.

La Escuela Del Desencanto

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  La Escuela Del Desencanto (The School of Disenchantment) by Catalina Jaramillo Quijano currently at Museo La Tertulia, Santiago de Cali, Colombia. This is a beautiful, deeply moving, melancholic work of conceptual art. It consists in a series of related pieces presented in a single room, with a suggested chronology that seemed to me in part fantastical.  The depth of thought is far greater than my fifteen minute visit could do justice to. To appreciate this fully you would need to make half a dozen views of half an hour, interspersed with a few weeks of meditation and quite a bit background research. In a word, it is brilliant. The whole thing sums up very well my very mixed up emotions on leaving Cali. I met Catalina , though at the time I had no idea it was her and she had returned to her home in BogotĂĄ before I learned this. She is every bit as beautiful and and sad as you would expect her to be from seeing this exhibit. That said, there is a current of optimism ...

Luke Christian - By The Candle Light

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Published on YouTube on 13 December 2020 . Subscribe to Luke Christian . I'm here in Tecate, Mexico with him, trying to persuade him to help me wright a Country & Cali ballad about the American Civil War. He's from Alabama. See  Lana Del Rey Votive Candles And Aurora With Graven Images .

Ian Grant's Weather Report

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See  Lori on Antibiotic Resistant Infections . It's a Wednesday! Natalie Merchant - Carnival Subscribe to Natalie Merchant Video . I told Julie Mushet about my crush on Natalie Merchant in 1991, and she heard. See  DMA Cowboys . Then see  Lana Del Rey Missing A Fire Ball . Lana Del Rey's LA to NYC trip: Subscribe to Lana Del Rey . On New York and California States of mind:  Explore Your State  and  Lana Del Rey Being A Complete Madman For Charity . Charlie Grant's Lynchian interview with his sister in the bathtub: Subscribe to Interview Magazine . Julia Fox Reveals Her Deepest Superstitions Subscribe to Interrupt Magazine . For more on interrupt handling systems to fall in love with see  The T.H.E. Multiprogramming System Mk II  in particular EWD123 . Then see  Process Synchronisation by Communication  and then read  EWD12345 . See  Today's Number Is, ...  for a clue  Cali, Colombia  and  Terminal Frost . No...

Patriarchal Cat Art

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Well, I'm not 100% sure what the message is, so you can't be 100% sure what I mean by "Patriarchal", can you? And since I can't even get enough bandwidth to upload photos you'll have to imagine a series of half a dozen stylised polycarbonate statues about ten times life size, each entitled "gata something-or-other", for example "gata fragil" is a cat with a label "fragile" and the "this way up" umbrella symbol used on packaging. And "gata constellada" is a cat which looks like somebody burned something on its head and caused the polycarbonate to melt and run down her face. These are all along the rio Cali in the city center, which, I guess, is where the body of a twenty-three year old girl as found not too long ago, after she was shot dead by some guy.

David Lynch's Weather Report

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Subscribe to David Lynch Theater . Van Morrison And Them - Baby Please Don't Go Subscribe to jarichards99utube . Yesterday I was wondering about the music business in the United States in the fifties. See  David Lynch's Weather Report  and  David Lynch's Weather Report febrero 16, 2022 . Baby Please Don't Go was first released in the UK in 1964 and the US in 1965. Van Morrison interviewed in the Netherlands in 1967. Subscribe to nuttinhere . Van Morrison interviewed by Dick Clark in 1967. Subscribe to Awards Show Network . Bob Harris interviewing Van Morrison on the BBC's The Old Grey Whistle Test in the UK in 1973. Subscribe to woolhall . Van Morrison interviewed at Orphanage San Francisco in July, 1974 Subscribe to Van Morrison on MV. Just trying to find a place to be. See  David Lynch's Weather Report Project mayo 05, 2021 . Some people say that place is not physical, it's just in our mind and we need to look inward and find ourselves and we will see th...

UN Urging Action in Colombia

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Over four hundred people killed since peace treaty signed with FARC, cocaine production up 350% in period 2012-2017. The problem is that there is no international human rights organisation operating on Colombia. Why? Necause the Colombian government (and police and armed forces) are not able to protect the human rights of human rights representatives. Pictures I took in Cali a few months ago:

David Lynch's Weather Report

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Here in Cali, ... There is no food, no coffee and no cigarettes, because everybody is saving up their money and can't give any to wasting bastard street shit like me.

Libya's Refugee Camps

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See  The World's Most Dangerous Journey . See  UN Out To Lunch in Cali, Colombia  and  The World's Most Dangerous Journey .

Shakira - Glamor Halloween

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See  David Lynch's Weather Report  for Halloween 2020, when I was in Turbo, Colombia. The reason I got so annoyed was that I guessed people there were trying to photograph my dick when I changed at the beach. When I was in Cali I met someone who I felt was a friend of Shakira's. She was nice, and she had a daughter, but I never saw her again. See also this video which I called "The Big Picture" in today's Weather Report . For more context, see my October 2020 posts . So was Clayton whatsisname Elizabeth's real boyfriend then? I thought he was a theater prop! It takes two to tango baby! Where the fuck were you!  When I was on my three-day ayahuasca trip carrying dying black men around streets of La Paz it was to get to your fucking gig in Santa Cruz de la Sierra. I was going to be the writer guy and you were going to blast the fucking roof off of that stadium, even if it didn't have one! That was ten fucking years ago perra!  And Gboard just reminded me...

Phoning the British Embassy in BogotĂĄ

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What a joke! Apparently they have to have all their calls directed through London. Hopefully so that somebody can record them. Somebody please listen to the half hour call around 11am Colombian time today Wednesday, October 14th. This call lasted over thirty minutes and was utterly useless. It cost me 4,800 pesos, and I had only 2,500 so I had to spend another two hours begging for the rest of the money to pay for it. That is a disgraceful service to offer people in need of help. This is not rocket science. In every country there should be efficient and effective mechanisms in place for citizens in need of assistance to contact their governments. This is something the UN should have arranged decades ago. See UN Out to Lunch in Cali .

Rachel Blevins, Vanessa Beeley and Grayzone on Moscow Theatre Attack

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See  Suspects Severely Beaten in Russian Jail . From 27 March: See  https://rachelblevins.substack.com/  and support her on Patreon  https://www.patreon.com/rachelblevins Subscribe to Rachel Blevins . Subscribe to Vanessa Beeley and see  https://www.ukcolumn.org/  and  https://beeley.substack.com/p/context-to-crocus-the-us-uk-political . Max Blumenthal and Aaron MatĂ© Subscribe to Grayzone . Telefon (1977) Good grief! See also  Programmed to Kill: The Politics of Serial Murder  by David McGowan. Craig Jardula and Fiorella Isabel Subscribe to The Convo Couch . I didn't know that line "miles to go and promises to keep" was from Robert Frost, ... See  Cali, Colombia  and  Stephanie Montes - Mnemosyne . Subscribe to Leonard Cohen .

St. Vincent on Visionary Women

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See  Cali - Colombia . St. Vincent - Pay Your Way See https://apple.co/3epOfRo

How I live Now

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I thought I'd better give some of the details of my daily life, because some people don't seems to think about what the reality of my situation is. I sleep outside a supermarket that only closes its doors at about 9pm. There are some people who sell fried chicken on the corner and until about 3am there is a constant passage of people arriving on motorbikes and mopeds and shouting and cheering and stuff. There a lot of mosquitoes and I get bitten a lot. At 6:30 they arrive and open the supermarket. I only have 60,000 pesos left of the 100,000 I arrived here with, and if I want to sit on a chair then I have to buy a bottle of coca cola for 1,500 pesos. Otherwise I sit on the side of the street. There are very, very few trees in town and it gets hot as hell during the early afternoon. It is dusty and noisy and I have nobody to talk to. If I want to wash, I can at least walk 1km to the beach and wash in the sea. At this place I use Internet, the woman who runs it can barely disguis...

Nicolas Bras - Seven String Big Bass Box & Drone and Chord Whistle

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Subscribe to Musiques de Nulle Part . Reminds me of this guy I saw in Cali, Colombia: Those rubber 'shoes' were very hard on his hands.

Live Science - Leonardo da Vinci's Ancestry

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... and his posterity too? See  On Communication in Linear Time And Hypertext And The Gospel of Sophia . So it looks like El Cielo of the cistine [sic!😂] chapel is not the limit anymore.  I think I just met one of his descendents. A guy called Versailles Toledo who is from Chiapas. That might explain the murals I mention in my recent untitled post , just before the post mentioning this video. I also just took this photo of Rafael Gonzales, born here in Tecate, B.C., who told me about a spring near here called Agua FrĂ­a , half way from Tecate to Loma Tova , where, a few decades ago, people used to go to have barbecues and stuff, but now he thinks it may be private land. If someone reading this has a Facebook account, please write a link to this post onto his FB page. To see why I took the photo, look at his T-shirt and the horse-shoes and ponder this: Subscribe to BeatrizER and her video(s?) about mathematical logic, ... Sounds like Edith (II) Rix has been online all the t...

Andrea Bocelli and Laura Pausini - Vive Ya

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See  David Lynch's Weather Report Project ,  UN Out To Lunch in Cali  and  David Lynch's Weather Report November 25, 2020 . See Van Morrison - Only a Song  and  Lana Del Rey Talking about Born To Die .

RT America On Israeli Involvement in Colombia

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See  Military On The Streets in Santiago de Cali, Colombia ,  UN Urging Action in Colombia  and  Colombia's Conflict in the National Press . Subscribe to RT America on YouTube . Shir Hever on the Israeli Military Industrial Complex: Subscribe to AcTVism Munich on YouTube . Shir Hever and Haim Bresheeth on the IDF and the Isreali Arms trade. Subscribe to Haim Bresheeth on YouTube . See these Mintpress pieces  Birds of a Fascist Feather: Why Israel Is Aiding Colombia’s Crackdown on Protesters ,  PĂĄjaros de una pluma fascista: por quĂ© Israel estĂĄ ayudando a Colombia a tomar medidas enĂ©rgicas contra los manifestantes  and  New Investigation Reveals Role of Israeli Operatives in Colombia’s «Political Genocide» .