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Will a ‘Great Awakening’ prevent an American CIVIL WAR?
Ray Dalio, the founder of Bridgewater Associates, recently predicted America is on the path towards ‘some sort of civil war’ thanks to ‘current financial conditions and irreconcilable differences in desires and values,’ he said.
But there IS a way we can prevent this, Glenn explains: it’s a ‘Great Awakening’ in America, and it may be happening now. The key?
Make sure YOU don’t go off the cliff. Don’t say things you don’t mean, and don’t tolerate the things you know are wrong.
And, most importantly, love one another.
https://youtu.be/3q2fDyiwcUk
City removes mysterious new statue from site of former Dallas Confederate memorial
6:31 PM on Dec 13, 2021 CST — Updated at 4:53 PM on Dec 16, 2021 CST
The artist behind a series of guerilla artworks in downtown Dallas struck again, but the latest work has now been taken down.
The spot where the city of Dallas removed the Confederate memorial in Pioneer Park played host briefly to a new statue this week before it too was taken down.
On Monday, a passerby spotted a human-like figure standing right where the memorial vanished last year. Closer inspection revealed the new artwork to be a strange one. It had the body of a human and the face of a creature out of a Lovecraft novel. It wore a dress, and through a tear in the sleeve you could see suction cups on its body.
In its hand was a dollar coin. Around its head, a halo. And then there was the platform below its feet, a pedestal made of what looked like animal skulls and bones.
How the statue got there is a mystery. Jennifer Scripps, who heads the city’s Office of Arts and Culture, said it’s not a public artwork and “does not belong in the public space.”
The statue looked a whole lot like another unauthorized piece of art that showed up nearby two years ago. In 2019, a sculpture of another Cthulhu-like figure appeared near the Convention Center DART station. The anonymous artist called it a cephalopod, making creatures like squid and octopi its in-laws. The city removed it, saying it was a safety hazard.
A plaque next to the previous statue waxed philosophical about John Neely Bryan and the founding of the city — and called it a “Gift to the City of Dallas from Margaret McDermott.” McDermott’s daughter Mary McDermott Cook told The News she knew nothing about it.
The new sculpture at Pioneer Park had a similar inscription. A plaque called it a portrait of Sarah Horton Cockrell, a 19th-century Dallas businesswoman. It got metaphysical about the birth of the city. And it said the statue is a gift from another prominent, late Dallasite, T. Boone Pickens. Pickens’ estate — surprise! — had never heard of the work.
To put it lightly, “It’s far outside the type of art that Boone would embrace,” said Jay Rosser, Pickens’ longtime chief of staff.
Scripps declined to answer questions Thursday about the removal of the statue and what the city planned to do with it. The earlier statue was taken to a city storage facility after workers spent hours dislodging it from the pavement.
At the top of the plaque for the new statue was the same name the artist used to sign the last work: Solomon.
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https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/visual-arts/2021/12/13/mysterious-statue-appears-on-site-of-former-dallas-confederate-memorial/
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