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Ridiculous video emerges of wealthy Koch heir — and the internet is dying of laughter
▻https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/ridiculous-video-emerges-of-wealthy-koch-heir-and-the-internet-is-dying-of

▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS7cTJjVZjs

“My father said to me, ‘Wyatt, you can do whatever you want to in life. Just make sure you do it well and do it with passion,” says Koch, who is suing his ex-fiancée for the return of a $180,000 engagement ring. “Every day I got to the office, I enjoy creating the clothes.”

The company’s website describes Koch as “a young man with a taste for bold, authentic new looks,” and he explains what that means to him in the video.

#wtf #USA #nantis

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J – 93 : Nuit de cauchemar, le chat de Laurence, à quatre heures du matin, est venu me vomir dessus, j’ai débord senti une chaleur dégeulasse me couler sur les joues, le long des parois du respirateur, je n’ai pas bien compris ce qu’il se passait et quand je l’ai compris, en retirant mon masque qui me pulse un air qui vient d’un peu plus loin, j’ai été rattrapé par cette odeur putride. Je n’ai eu que le temps de me précipiter aux toilettes pour rendre moi-même. Faut-il que j’aime Laurence pour m’occuper de cette bestiole neurasthénique et que j’ai du respect à revendre pour son père dont c’était la dernière volonté qu’une bonne âme vienne à s’occuper de cette petite chatte tendue comme un arc.

Je suis parvenu à me rendormir et j’ai même domri un peu au-delà de huit heures ce qui n’est pas fréquent pour moi, non seulement les jeunes gens commencent à me céder leur place assise dans le métropolitain mais en plus je comence à faire comme les vraiment vieux qui se lèvent, quoi qu’il arrive, et sans effort, à 6 heures du matin.

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J’ai passé une belle matinée, écoutant le disque de Jacques Démierre, Jonas Kocher Axel Dörner, buvant et me refaisant du café, travaillant dans le garage, dans un premier temps à ce que j’ai fini par décider, une imbrication en spirale des différentes pages bâties sur le mode d’ Ursula , bénissant le dieu des ivrognes de m’avoir fait conserver un suffixe en .html et non .htm comme presque toutes les autres pages du Désordre pour la page index de telle sorte qu’il a été facile de renommer cette dernière en pele-mele.htm et de faire des rechercher/replacer de tous les liens vers cette page index.html dans les nombreux répertoires et sous répertoires des différentes formes Ursula . Avant de déjeuner j’ai pris le temps de transférer et d’importer deux nouveaux fichiers vidéographiques dans le programme de projection pour Apnées , notamment la fameuse séquence de machine à écrire acquise de haute lutte.

Je me suis rapidement cuisiné des filets de cabillaud, j’ai fait une sieste trop rapide à mon goût, je me suis refait un dernier café pour la route et puis j’ai pris le chemin de l’exposition à propos du Bauhaus au Musée des Arts Décoratifs, exposition dont je me faisais toute une joie, laquelle a été douchée avec fracas par une exposition entièrement centrée sur les arts décoratifs — d’un autre côté le nom de l’institution aurait pu me mettre sur la voie — et pas du tout, mais alors pas du tout, sur tout ce que le Bauhaus avait pu réunir d’artistes géniaux, Klee, Moholy Nagy, Albers, etc ... cela m’a toujours amusé comment c’est finalement à l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs que l’on m’aura enseigné (inculqué) cette forme de dégoût viscéral de tout ce qui est décoratif, y compris, finalement, un comble, le Bauhaus . Par jeu tout de même, en dépit d’une foule abondante, j’ai tenté, et généralement échoué, à retrouver de tête les noms des artistes ayant produit les œuvres qui avaient tant intrigué ou plu à intrigué @reka ( ►https://seenthis.net/messages/562127 ). En sortant, considérant que dans l’intervalle de trois quarts d’heure qui a duré ma visite (ma vitesse de circulation dans une exposition est une mesure très juste de mon désintérêt en général, à Arles ma fille Madeleine m’a déjà chronométré dans une exposition de l’oncle Raymond de la qualité française, dix secondes, pas plus), la queue n’a pas beaucoup raccourci, je souris à l’idée qu’arrivant sur les lieux j’ai envoyé un petit message à Julien qui avait décliné mon invitation à aller visiter cette exposition ensemble, lui disant qu’en déclinant il s’évitait une queue longue d’une bonne centaine de mètres, me souhaitant bon courage, espérant pour moi que cette queue en vaudrait la chandelle (merci de l’intention, louable mais pas très performative), je lui avais répondu qu’une seule photographie de Moholy Nagy valait de faire la queue pendant une heure s’il le fallait, et, de fait, dans cette exposition il n’y avait guère que ce petit duo de photographies de Moholy Nagy de même que les deux petits collages de Kurt Kranz qui ont trouvé grâce à mes yeux.

J’ai eu un peu d’étonnement tout de même à regarder la grande carte du rayonnement du Bauhaus dans le monde, relevant ce que je savais à propos de Moholy Nagy à Chicago, souriant à l’idée qu’il avait donc été le professeur de Barbara Crane , cela ne s’invente pas, non, mon étonnement est venu du signalement que le camp d’extermination d’Auschwitz avait été architecturé par un ancien du Bauhaus qui avait apparemment mal fini, un certain Fritz Ertl. J’ai repensé, toutes proportions mal gardées, à ces deux sales cons en première année aux Arts Déco qui étaient des militants du Front National, se destinant donc plus tard, l’un au graphisme des affiches du FN (étant donné le sujet, je ne suis pas certain que les Arts Déco étaient la meilleure filière possible) et l’autre de la bande dessinée de propagande (et là pareil, terrible erreur d’orientation, les Arts Déco étant sans doute le pire endroit qui soit pour en faire tant il y avait du mépris pour cette matière, même par les professeurs d’illustration censés l’enseigner à ceux qui voulaient), je me demande ce qu’ils sont devenus, quittant les Arts Déco après une première année qui avait dû sérieusement les décevoir — je me souviens que l’un d’eux faisait du plat à Daphna ce qui la dégoutait un peu, je la comprends, et ce qu’elle a balayé d’un revers de main en lui expliquant qu’elle était juive, les choses auxquelles on pense en visitant l’exposition décevante du Bauhaus au musée des arts décoratifs.

A la recherche d’un catalogue plus compréhensif que cette exposition de ce que fut le Bauhaus (je me suis rabattu que le livre de Taschen , apparemment bien meilleur de par ses choix éditoriaux, de sa qualité d’impression, de sa maquette et même de son papier, pour la moitié du prix que celui du catalogue de l’exposition, je dis ça je ne dis rien) je me suis dit qu’ils n’avaient pas été bien malins dans la boutique du musée des arts décoratifs à n’avoir pas songé à une petite édition de rien du tout, en bois, du jeu d’échecs de Josef Hartwig, un vendeur m’indiquant qu’en fait si, mais que cela était parti comme des petits pains à la période de Noël, mais qu’en me connectant au site du fabricant, NAEF, je pourrais sans doute en acheter un, et je me disais tiens voilà une petite idée d’un cadeau pour Nathan, un bel objet, Nathan avec lequel il n’est pas toujours facile d’échanger en terme de beauté des choses, mais voilà, de fait, je me suis connecté sur le site du fabricant qui me propose de me soulager de trois cents euros pour un jeu d’échecs qui est parti comme des petits pains au moment des fêtes, ça va, ce n’est pas la crise pour tout le monde et je me demande combien de ces jeux connaissent un peu de vie aujourd’hui dans leurs salons bourgeois où nul doute ils sont remisés sur une table basse, la case noire droite en bas à droite, ce qui est l’indication irréfragable d’une maison dans laquelle on ne connait même pas les règles du jeu, bref on l’aura compris j’étais d’humeur mitigée quand je suis rentré à la maison.

Je me suis fait une tasse de thé et je suis descendu dans le garage tenter de travailler un peu à Apnées , et apprivoiser ma nouvelle table MIDI bien plus réduite que l’ancienne, je me suis un peu énervé en écrasant par maladresse, et par deux fois, la nouvelle configuration acquise de haute lutte avec l’ancienne désormais sans objet, mais ça va. J’ai tenté, pour le moment sans succès, d’acquérir les images vidéos produites par mon appareil-photo en direct pour quelque effet de mise en abyme auquel je pense, mais là aussi ce n’est pas encore acquis, dans le foisonnement de tous les câbles que je garde par devers moi, pas un seul de type HDMI qui aurait sans doute permis l’effet désiré, ce n’est que partie remise, ej vais bien en trouver un qui traine dans une armoire du boulot.

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Je suis remonté dans la cuisine me faire une soupe chinoise que j’ai avalée avec d’épouvantables bruits de succions de ses vermicelles tout en écoutant Lê Quan Nihn avec Michel Doneda, j’ai commencé à lire un peu le livre sur le Bauhaus , dont j’ai compris que c’était effectivement le livre qui manquait à ma compréhension historique de cette école, puis je suis monté au Kosmos pour y voir Neruda de Pablo Larrain. Que j’ai adoré à mon plus étonnante surprise vu comment je trainais des pieds pour y aller.

En allant me coucher, après un peu de lecture à propos de la Guerre du Cameroun, je me suis dit que cela avait été une excellente journée en dépit de son début peu ragoûtant, tout de même se faire vomir dessus dans son sommeil par un chat.

#qui_ca

Bernie Sanders’ Democratic National Convention speech / Boing Boing
▻http://boingboing.net/2016/07/25/bernie-sanders-democratic-na.html

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Thank you. Good evening.

It is an honor to be with you tonight and to be following in the footsteps of Elizabeth Warren, and to be here tonight to thank Michelle Obama for her incredible service to our country. She has made all of us proud.

Let me begin by thanking the hundreds of thousands of Americans who actively participated in our campaign as volunteers. Thank you.

Let me thank the 2 1/2 million Americans who helped fund our campaign with an unprecedented 8 million individual campaign contributions . Anyone know what that average contribution was? That’s right, $27. And let me thank the 13 million Americans who voted for the political revolution, giving us the 1,846 pledged delegates here tonight – 46 percent of the total.

And delegates: Thank you for being here, and for all the work you’ve done. I look forward to your votes during the roll call on Tuesday night.

And let me offer a special thanks to the people of my own state of Vermont who have sustained me and supported me as a mayor, congressman, senator and presidential candidate.

And to my family – my wife Jane, four kids and seven grandchildren –thank you very much for your love and hard work on this campaign.

I understand that many people here in this convention hall and around the country are disappointed about the final results of the nominating process. I think it’s fair to say that no one is more disappointed than I am. But to all of our supporters – here and around the country – I hope you take enormous pride in the historical accomplishments we have achieved.

Together, my friends, we have begun a political revolution to transform America and that revolution – our revolution – continues. Election days come and go. But the struggle of the people to create a government which represents all of us and not just the 1 percent – a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice – that struggle continues. And I look forward to being part of that struggle with you.

Let me be as clear as I can be. This election is not about, and has never been about, Hillary Clinton, or Donald Trump, or Bernie Sanders or any of the other candidates who sought the presidency. This election is not about political gossip. It’s not about polls. It’s not about campaign strategy. It’s not about fundraising. It’s not about all the things that the media spends so much time discussing.

This election is about – and must be about – the needs of the American people and the kind of future we create for our children and grandchildren.

This election is about ending the 40-year decline of our middle class the reality that 47 million men, women and children live in poverty. It is about understanding that if we do not transform our economy, our younger generation will likely have a lower standard of living then their parents.

This election is about ending the grotesque level of income and wealth inequality that we currently experience, the worst it has been since 1928. It is not moral, not acceptable and not sustainable that the top one-tenth of one percent now own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent, or that the top 1 percent in recent years has earned 85 percent of all new income. That is unacceptable. That must change.

This election is about remembering where we were 7 1/2 years ago when President Obama came into office after eight years of Republican trickle-down economics.

The Republicans want us to forget that as a result of the greed, recklessness and illegal behavior on Wall Street, our economy was in the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. Some 800,000 people a month were losing their jobs. We were running up a record-breaking deficit of $1.4 trillion and the world’s financial system was on the verge of collapse.

We have come a long way in the last 7 1/2 years, and I thank President Obama and Vice President Biden for their leadership in pulling us out of that terrible recession.

Yes, we have made progress, but I think we can all agree that much, much more needs to be done.

This election is about which candidate understands the real problems facing this country and has offered real solutions – not just bombast, not just fear-mongering, not just name-calling and divisiveness.

We need leadership in this country which will improve the lives of working families, the children, the elderly, the sick and the poor. We need leadership which brings our people together and makes us stronger – not leadership which insults Latinos, Muslims, women, African-Americans and veterans – and divides us up.

By these measures, any objective observer will conclude that – based on her ideas and her leadership – Hillary Clinton must become the next president of the United States. The choice is not even close.

This election is about a single mom I saw in Nevada who, with tears in her eyes, told me that she was scared to death about the future because she and her young daughter were not making it on the $10.45 an hour she was earning. This election is about that woman and the millions of other workers in this country who are struggling to survive on totally inadequate wages.

Hillary Clinton understands that if someone in this country works 40 hours a week, that person should not be living in poverty. She understands that we must raise the minimum wage to a living wage. And she is determined to create millions of new jobs by rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure – our roads, bridges, water systems and wastewater plants.

But her opponent – Donald Trump – well, he has a very different point of view. He does not support raising the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour – a starvation wage. While Donald Trump believes in huge tax breaks for billionaires, he believes that states should actually have the right to lower the minimum wage below $7.25.

Brothers and sisters, this election is about overturning Citizens United, one of the worst Supreme Court decisions in the history of our country. That decision allows the wealthiest people in America, like the billionaire Koch brothers, to spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying elections and, in the process, undermine American democracy.

Hillary Clinton will nominate justices to the Supreme Court who are prepared to overturn Citizens United and end the movement toward oligarchy in this country. Her Supreme Court appointments will also defend a woman’s right to choose, workers’ rights, the rights of the LGBT community, the needs of minorities and immigrants and the government’s ability to protect our environment.

If you don’t believe that this election is important, if you think you can sit it out, take a moment to think about the Supreme Court justices that Donald Trump would nominate and what that would mean to civil liberties, equal rights and the future of our country.

This election is about the thousands of young people I have met all over this country who have left college deeply in debt, and tragically the many others who cannot afford to go to college. During the primary campaign, Secretary Clinton and I both focused on this issue but with somewhat different approaches. Recently, however, we have come together on a proposal that will revolutionize higher education in America. It will guarantee that the children of any family this country with an annual income of $125,000 a year or less – 83 percent of our population – will be able to go to a public college or university tuition free. That proposal also substantially reduces student debt.

This election is about climate change, the greatest environmental crisis facing our planet, and the need to leave this world in a way that is healthy and habitable for our kids and future generations. Hillary Clinton is listening to the scientists who tell us that – unless we act boldly and transform our energy system in the very near future – there will be more drought, more floods, more acidification of the oceans, more rising sea levels. She understands that when we do that we can create hundreds of thousands of good-paying jobs.

Donald Trump? Well, like most Republicans, he chooses to reject science. He believes that climate change is a “hoax,” no need to address it. Hillary Clinton understands that a president’s job is to worry about future generations, not the short-term profits of the fossil fuel industry.

This campaign is about moving the United States toward universal health care and reducing the number of people who are uninsured or under-insured. Hillary Clinton wants to see that all Americans have the right to choose a public option in their health care exchange. She believes that anyone 55 years or older should be able to opt in to Medicare and she wants to see millions more Americans gain access to primary health care, dental care, mental health counseling and low-cost prescription drugs through a major expansion of community health centers.

And What is Donald Trump’s position on health care? Well, no surprise there. Same old, same old Republican contempt for working families. He wants to abolish the Affordable Care Act, throw 20 million people off of the health insurance they currently have and cut Medicaid for lower-income Americans.

Hillary Clinton also understands that millions of seniors, disabled vets and others are struggling with the outrageously high cost of prescription drugs and the fact that Americans pay the highest prices in the world for the medicine we use. She knows that Medicare must negotiate drug prices with the pharmaceutical industry and that drug companies should not be making billions in profits while one in five Americans are unable to afford the medicine they need. The greed of the drug companies must end.

This election is about the leadership we need to pass comprehensive immigration reform and repair a broken criminal justice system. It’s about making sure that young people in this country are in good schools and at good jobs, not rotting in jail cells. Hillary Clinton understands that we have to invest in education and jobs for our young people, not more jails or incarceration.

In these stressful times for our country, this election must be about bringing our people together, not dividing us up. While Donald Trump is busy insulting one group after another, Hillary Clinton understands that our diversity is one of our greatest strengths. Yes. We become stronger when black and white, Latino, Asian-American, Native American – when all of us – stand together. Yes. We become stronger when men and women, young and old, gay and straight, native born and immigrant fight together to create the kind of country we all know we can become.

It is no secret that Hillary Clinton and I disagree on a number of issues. That’s what this campaign has been about. That’s what democracy is about. But I am happy to tell you that at the Democratic Platform Committee there was a significant coming together between the two campaigns and we produced, by far, the most progressive platform in the history of the Democratic Party. Among many, many other strong provisions, the Democratic Party now calls for breaking up the major financial institutions on Wall Street and the passage of a 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act. It also calls for strong opposition to job-killing free trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
We have got to make sure that the #TPP doesn’t get passed by Cogress during a lame-duck session.

Our job now is to see that platform implemented by a Democratic Senate, a Democratic House and a Hillary Clinton presidency – and I am going to do everything I can to make that happen.

I have known Hillary Clinton for 25 years. I remember her as a great first lady who broke precedent in terms of the role that a first lady was supposed to play as she helped lead the fight for universal health care. I served with her in the United States Senate and know her as a fierce advocate for the rights of children, for the women, and for the disabled.

Hillary Clinton will make an outstanding president and I am proud to stand with her tonight.

Thank you all very much.

#USA #politique

Harry Reid’s attacks on #Koch brothers send GOP donors into the shadows
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/harry-reid-attacks-on-koch-brothers-send-gop-donors-into-the-shadows/2014/05/29/d704d6f0-e6b3-11e3-a86b-362fd5443d19_story.html

Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid’s relentless attacks on the billionaire Koch brothers are having an unforeseen impact: spurring other wealthy Republican donors to give more money to groups that keep their supporters’ names secret.

#corruption #financement

The educational charities that do PR for the rightwing ultra-rich
▻http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/18/charities-pr-rightwing-ultra-rich

A small number of the funders have been exposed by researchers trawling through tax records. They include the billionaire Koch brothers (paying into the two groups through their Knowledge and Progress Fund) and the DeVos family (the billionaire owners of Amway). More significantly, we now know a little more about the recipients. Many describe themselves as free-market or conservative thinktanks.

Among them are the American Enterprise Institute, American Legislative Exchange Council, Hudson Institute, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Reason Foundation, Heritage Foundation, Americans for Prosperity, Mont Pelerin Society and Discovery Institute. All pose as learned societies, earnestly trying to determine the best interests of the public. The exposure of this funding reinforces the claim by David Frum, formerly a fellow of the American Enterprise Institute, that such groups “increasingly function as public relations agencies”.