Tenth Annual Noble Prize In Jurisprudence (October 20, 2025)

Posted in Law, Noble Prize in Jurisprudence on October 20, 2025 by e-commentary.org

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K          “A prize dedicated to acknowledging and celebrating the work of someone who or some organization that really knows something about jurisprudence and the impact of courts, judges, lawyers and police on the lives and livelihood of ordinary citizens.  Someone who lives the conviction that men and women should establish and respect some norms and standards that are promulgated clearly to all and enforced equally in favor of and against all.”

J          “Someone who advances the Rule of Law and stuff like that.”

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J          “This is my year.  This is the year.  The recipients of the tenth annual Noble Prize In Jurisprudence . . . are those members of the judiciary who are confronting and challenging the illegal and unconstitutional machinations of the current President and King.  Some the actions and decisions are admittedly petty and personal, yet there is a tide of illegality that must be resisted.  The courts may be the last bulwark.”

K          “My reservation is that the same judges engaged in Lawfare and ideological attacks.  They first turned the courts into an ideological war zone and now must confront some of their targets who are now in power and have made them their targets.  However, I will accede to a general nod to the judges that is also a nod to the elusive rule of law.”

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[See the e-commentary at Ninth Annual Noble Prize In Jurisprudence (October 21, 2024), Eighth Annual Noble Prize In Jurisprudence (October 23, 2023), Seventh Annual Noble Prize In Jurisprudence (October 17, 2022), Sixth Annual Noble Prize In Jurisprudence (October 18, 2021), Fifth Annual Noble Prize In Jurisprudence (October 19, 2020), Fourth Annual Noble Prize In Jurisprudence (October 21, 2019), Third Annual Noble Prize In Jurisprudence (October 15, 2018), Second Annual Noble Prize In Jurisprudence (October 16, 2017), First Annual Noble Prize In Jurisprudence (October 17, 2016) and Award Deadlines (Livelines?) (July 25, 2016).]

Bumper stickers of the week:

Give civil rights and civil liberties a chance

Make Civil Liberties Great Again

Rediscover the Constitution

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Tenth Annual Noble Prize In Eco-nomics (October 13, 2025)

Posted in Economics, Noble Prize in Eco-nomics on October 13, 2025 by e-commentary.org

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K          “An award acknowledging and celebrating the work of someone on the planet who really knows something about eco-nomics.  Eco-nomics is about making and sharing; e-con-omics is about taking and stealing.”

J          “The Noble Prize in Eco-nomics is a delightful and playful replacement for the discredited and misnamed ‘Nobel’ Prize in Voodoo E-con-omics.  You get what you reward.  You need to reward what you want to get.  Who gets it this year?”

K          “The recipient of the tenth annual Noble Prize In Eco-nomics is . . . David Rogers Webb, the author of The Great Taking book and documentary who discusses ‘the taking of collateral (all of it), the end game of the current globally synchronous debt accumulation super cycle.  This scheme is being executed by long-planned, intelligent design, the audacity and scope of which is difficult for the mind to encompass.  Included are all financial assets and bank deposits, all stocks and bonds; and hence, all underlying property of all public corporations, including all inventories, plant and equipment; land, mineral deposits, inventions and intellectual property.  Privately owned personal and real property financed with any amount of debt will likewise be taken, as will the assets of privately owned businesses which have been financed with debt.  If even partially successful, this will be the greatest conquest and subjugation in world history.’  His work provides the clearest vision into the Great Scam that is our current nightmarish political and economic landscape.”

J          “I second the award.  We are allowed to play with our money and our lives until it is inconvenient for the Owners.  We are all slaves now.”

. . .

K          “The Swedes will reward someone who is promoting and advancing our conquest and subjugation.”

J          “That is their job.”

. . .

[See the e-commentary at Ninth Annual Noble Prize In Eco-nomics (October 14, 2024), Eighth Annual Noble Prize In Eco-nomics (October 16, 2023), Seventh Annual Noble Prize In Eco-nomics (October 10, 2022), Sixth Annual Noble Prize In Eco-nomics (October 11, 2021), Fifth Annual Noble Prize In Eco-nomics (October 12, 2020), Fourth Annual Noble Prize In Eco-nomics (October 14, 2019), Third Annual Noble Prize In Eco-nomics (October 8, 2018), Second Annual Noble Prize In Eco-nomics (October 9, 2017), First Annual Noble Prize In Eco-nomics (October 10, 2016), Announcing The First Annual Noble Prize In Eco-nomics (May 2, 2016), Award Deadlines (Livelines?) (July 25, 2016), From e-con-omics to eco-nomics? (August 1, 2011) and Skip the Nobel in Economics (October 6, 2009).]

Bumper stickers of the week:

We are all slaves now.

What is this book about?

“It is about the taking of collateral (all of it), the end game of the current globally synchronous debt accumulation super cycle.  This scheme is being executed by long-planned, intelligent design, the audacity and scope of which is difficult for the mind to encompass.  Included are all financial assets and bank deposits, all stocks and bonds; and hence, all underlying property of all public corporations, including all inventories, plant and equipment; land, mineral deposits, inventions and intellectual property.  Privately owned personal and real property financed with any amount of debt will likewise be taken, as will the assets of privately owned businesses which have been financed with debt.  If even partially successful, this will be the greatest conquest and subjugation in world history.”

Make eco-nomics great again.

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First Monday In October (October 6, 2025)

Posted in First Monday In October, Law, Supreme Court on October 6, 2025 by e-commentary.org

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J          “This term, the Supremes must squire the disputes between Trump and the lower courts and reign in the King.  The Court may not be capable of providing a review of all the policy decisions designed to swarm and overwhelm the system.”

K          “The power of the Presidency has expanded in starts and fits since the Lincoln Administration.  While in power, neither party has done much voluntarily to restrain the Executive.  Now the guard rails of self-restraint are gone.”

J          “On its best day, the Supreme Court’s power is incomplete if not inadequate.”

. . .

K          “This is also our opportunity to render a verdict on the legal system.  The whole system could be indicted and convicted of incompetence on a good day and willful venality on a typical day.  Someone is profoundly disappointed.”

. . . 

J          “Here be dragons.”

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[See the e-commentary at First Monday In October:  Dos-à-dos (October 7, 2024), First Monday (October 4, 2021) and First Monday And “Patient One” (October 5, 2020) and other years.]

Bumper sticker of the week:

“But liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near-war footing.  Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.”  Aldous Huxley

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Was “Flip Flop” Once A Four Letter Word? Distract, Diffuse, Demoralize, Delay, Deny And Defy (September 29, 2025)

Posted in Trump on September 29, 2025 by e-commentary.org

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J          “He knows who owns him.  He is dancing accordingly.  When he is told to ‘flip,’ he flips; when he is told to ‘flop,’ he flops.”

K          “Should he really be seen as a marionette who is only responding to strings.”

. . . 

K          “Despite the smoke screens, he is committed to continuing the war in the Ukraine, to expanding the war in the Middle East and to starting a war in Venezuela over oil.”

J          “The confusion is calculated and overwhelms and enervates the opposition.”

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J          “Distract, diffuse, demoralize, delay, deny and defy.”

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Bumper sticker of the week:

Distract, diffuse, demoralize, delay, deny and defy

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Fall Falls Today.  Oh, And Happy Autumnal Equinox! (September 22, 2025)

Posted in Equinox on September 22, 2025 by e-commentary.org

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K          “The colors are the clue.  The lime leaves are transitioning into lemon leaves to give us one more clue that change is coming.”

J          “The leaves are leaving us.  Out here, some are turning tea- and tannin-colored before dropping and departing.  It is coming quickly. ”

. . .

K          “Evergreen trees are such an enduring and enriching inspiration.  Always the same.  Always there.  Always standing resolute.  The Great Arborist came up with a diverse palette.”

J           “Cutting one down for Christmas is always trying.  Burning a dead one is a funeral pyre for the tree.  Yet that is the cycle.”

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K          “The four cardinal dates in a year are somewhat akin to the four cardinal points on the compass.  Markers that demarcate.  Each date pushes me to make a quarterly review of the past activities and the next quarter’s possibilities.  Four more chances to make and break New Year’s Resolves.”

J          “I hope the next quarter does not also pass in a few weeks.  Everything is moving and changing too quickly.”

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[See “10 Classic Autumn Poems Everyone Should Read” by Dr Oliver Tearle with Loughborough University in www.interestingliterature.com.]

[See the e-commentary at The Economic Equinox:  Half Light; Half Dark? (September 25, 2023).]

Bumper sticker of the week:

“Now the leaves are falling fast” “Autumn Song” by W. H. Auden

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Charlie Kirk:  Assassination As A Public Policy Tool (September 15, 2025)

Posted in Culture, Politics, Society on September 15, 2025 by e-commentary.org

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K          “When you distill the chatter, he was either the messiah or the monster.  A legend or a loser.  That is the choice in America today.”

J          “A monster and a loser.  This is America today.” 

. . .

K          “Reminds me of the obstreperous shouting match between those who pilloried Julian Assange, Bradley Manning and Ed Snowden as ‘traitors’ and those who praised them as ‘patriots’ some disputes ago.”

J          “Traitors.  However, some of the information should have been made public.”

. . .

K          “A lot of Democrats openly cheered and smirked.”

J          “Everyone is on edge.  Everyone is edgy.”

. . .

K          “The clear and central message of the profoundly public statement that is an assassination is that no one is above the Owners.  Amid the dross and dregs he spouted, Kirk was challenging some powerful interests who are not amused.”

J          “I would not completely deny that Kirk was pushing some issues that brought him up on radar and placed him in the cross hairs.  Yet his overall messaging was repellant and repugnant.”

. . .

K          “Those in power are keen to get the folks with the pitch forks to turn on the folks with the burning torches.  That clever strategy is frighteningly effective.”

J          “We are strategically cleaved by the big players.”

. . .

J          “The chasm is unbridgeable.”

K          “The chasm is a gorge, but it is not gorgeous.”

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J          “Stay tuned.”

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[See the e-commentary at Assassination As A Public Policy Tool.  Oh, And Hope You Had A Happy Bastille Day! (July 15, 2024), November 23, 1963; Three Score Years Later (November 27, 2023), ?There Is No Peaceful Resolution?  Oh, And Happy Bastille Day! (July 10, 2023), The Shot Heard Round The U.S. Of A.  Oh, And Happy Saint Nicholas Day! (December 9, 2024) and Hero or Traitor? (June 10, 2013).]

Bumper sticker of the week:

“The tragedy of modern war is that the young men [and women] die fighting each other – instead of their real enemies back home in their capitals.”  Edward Abbey

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The War President Forfeits Nobel Peace Prize During Nobel Season.  Oh, And Happy Patriot Day! (September 8, 2025)

Posted in Nobel Prize, Peace Prize Nobel, Trump, War on September 8, 2025 by e-commentary.org

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K          “I have been so reluctantly tolerant of and conditionally apologetic for him in a desperate move to believe that someone can do something.  The Department of War.  He could not possibly come up with a more bone-headed and regressive name and notion.”

J          “He could and will come up with more bone-headed and regressive names and notions.  That is what he does. That is all he can do.”

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K          “I hope the Norwegians are not sycophantic.”

J          “Why would they not be?  They too want access to power.”

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[See the e-commentary at Department Of War . . . Or Defense . . . Or Offense?  Oh, And Happy Peace Day! (September 16, 2019) and Joint Base State-War (JBS-W) (April 25, 2022).]

Bumper sticker of the week:

Give war a chance

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Laboring Day.  Plumbers and Electricians Day?  Oh, And Happy Labor Day! (September 1, 2025)

Posted in Labor Day on September 1, 2025 by e-commentary.org

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J          “Will there be anyone actually laboring in the next decade?”

K          “AI cannot fix a leaky pipe.”

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J          “Plumbers and Electricians Day?”

K          “It is not likely to evolve into Lawyers and Accountants Day.”

. . .

[See the e-commentary over the years around Labor Day at Oh, And Happy Labor Day! (September 2, 2024), Workers And Builders Day.  Oh, And Happy Labor Day! (September 4, 2023), Labor Day (September 5, 2022), Covid-19 PanICdemic/Plague: What Is A [Labor Day] Weekend? (September 7, 2020), Laboring Day (September 2, 2019), Labor Day.  Oh, And Happy Labor Day! (September 3, 2018)  and Doctorin’ And Lawyerin’ And Laborin’ (September 5, 2011).]

Bumper sticker of the week:

Labor on happily

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Noise Over Signal (August 25, 2025)

Posted in Politics, Society on August 25, 2025 by e-commentary.org

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K          “We are all being fooled.  Again.  Everything is deliberate noise and distorted signal.  Nothing is real.”

J          “The Three-Card Monte show has metastasized into Twenty-Three-Card Monte shows.  No one is playing 5D chess.  Everyone is playing 5D distortion and deception.”

. . .

K          “We are not 5 by 5.  We are 5 by 0.  We are Loud.  We are Unclear.”

J          “We are under duress and in distress.  We need to raise 2-flags to signal our plight.”

. . .

J          “But no one cares.”

K          “No one is capable of caring.”

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[See the e-commentary on noise and signal at Covid-19 PanICdemic/Plague:  Rioters / Protestors:  Too Much Noise / Too Little Signal (June 8, 2020) and The Donny And Elon Show.  Oh, And Happy Friday The 13th! (June 9, 2025) and on who we have become at On Friendship Today:  Flat, Fried, Frayed, Frazzled, Frozen, Fractured, Fissured, Fatigued, Finished?  Oh, And Happy Thanksgiving! (November 20, 2023), Edward Hopper:  The Mirror For Our Age (January 22, 2024) and “Everything Is A Fight Today.” Please répondez s’il vous plaît. Oh, And Happy Solstice! (June 17, 2024) and many, many, many other pieces.]

Bumper stickers of the week:

Soldier on?

Who cares?

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The Thrilla In Alaska (August 18, 2025)

Posted in Russia, World War III on August 18, 2025 by e-commentary.org

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K          “So what happened?”

J          “Not sure.  Not sure that we are intended to know what happened. If anything happened.”

. . .

K          “The last person he sees has the most impact on his latest whim.  That is considered by some to be a bit disconcerting.”

J          “Looks like he meets with the Europeans and Zelensky today.”

K          “Then who does he talk to next before spouting some incoherent drivel?”

. . .

J          “Stay tuned.”

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