Quote

"Some party hack decreed that the people

had lost the government's confidence

and could only regain it with redoubled effort.

If that is the case, would it not be be simpler,

If the government simply dissolved the people

And elected another?"

Bertolt Brecht ("The Solution" "Die Lösung" (c. 1953), as translated in Brecht on Brecht : An Improvisation (1967) by George Tabori, p. 17)

RIP and Infected

Beirut https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Beirut_explosions https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-06/satellite-images-reveal-extent-of-damage-from-beirut-blast/12529112?nw=0

Lebanese Government finally resigns https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-53722909

The Trump Flu https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

FSA currently running at around 1000 deaths a day ... https://covid19.pemandu.org/United States.html https://rt.live

Frances Allen https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/08/technology/frances-allen-dead.html?partner=fuckyou

The bassist from Mi-Sex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Martin_(musician) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mi-Sex

The previous General Secretary of the Vietnamese Communist Party https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lê_Khả_Phiêu

Brent Scowcroft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent_Scowcroft https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/longtime-presidential-adviser-brent-scowcroft-dies-95-n1236140

Eric Bentley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Bentley https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/theater/eric-bentley-dead.html

Follow-Up

Dan Andrews has RSF (resting sad face)

Mask protesters and sovcits https://www.newsweek.com/anti-lockdown-anti-mask-protesters-are-getting-arrested-australia-1523611

Whatever happened to Fraser Anning? https://twitter.com/WhistlingWhist/status/1292790280555393024?s=20 https://twitter.com/Bigbunny72/status/1292954392623079424?s=20 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraser_Anning https://junkee.com/fraser-anning-bankrupt/247177 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-21/fraser-anning-travel-records-subpoenaed/11724880

The CoVid Commission

Biden's not quite Green New Deal https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/20/joe-biden-has-endorsed-the-green-new-deal-in-all-but-name https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/biden-pitches-to-progressives-with-2-9-climate-plan-20200715-p55c3h.html

US Trash https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/09/politics/mount-rushmore-trump-south-dakota/index.html https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/10/trump-gettysburg-republican-national-convention-nomination

Things

100 years of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Sevres

Svyatlana

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusyn_language

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/10/belarus-opposition-candidate-rejects-election-result-protests-svetlana-tikhanovskaya-lukashenko

Uncle Vlad sez https://www.rt.com/news/497551-lukashenko-wins-belarus-presidential-election/

Kyiv sez https://www.kyivpost.com/multimedia/photo/belarusians-vote-protest-rigged-elections-outside-embassy-in-kyiv-photos

More unrest https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53731514 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/10/its-outrageous-belarus-election-result-sparks-night-of-defiance-and-violence

No more internet for you https://www.wired.com/story/belarus-internet-outage-election/

Moar cybers https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/aug/06/peter-dutton-confirms-australia-could-spy-on-its-own-citizens-under-cybersecurity-plan

Stacks

Tax the fuckers. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/jeff-bezos-elon-musk-would-pay-tens-of-billions-each-under-this-whopping-one-time-tax-proposal-11596764292

Tiktok https://esportsobserver.com/tencent-market-valuation-drops-54b/

Games (specifically excluding Chess)

Not sporting. https://sg.news.yahoo.com/jakobsen-coma-tour-poland-crash-branded-criminal-act-215932983--spt.html

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