I used to make music. Now retired. Temporarily embarrassed country squire I work my property DIY Not my time to rest @ 74
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Millennials and Gen Z never learned they were meant to rebel against their parents' values.
It is imperative in a post-modern world, otherwise societal rigor mortis takes hold, breeding corruption and decay acceptable to their comfortable parents.
Maybe it's not too late.
“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more.”
This performance of Henry V is from @thebasecreates.
Absolutely spectacular work and words that our world needs right now.
China China China
Russia Russia Russia
Iran Iran Iran
All while the homeland and its people shrivel in neglect
I remember when this hit home for me.
Bill Clinton kept repeating the phrase "The service economy"
Then the talking heads picked up on it with full acceptance.
I spent 35 years building banking systems for banks worldwide, including central banks. I know how banks decide where their money goes.
When you build systems, you have to make them work, so you have to know how they work.
The Basel Committee de-industrialised the countries that adopted its rules. It's that simple: I explain the whole complicated mechanism in my essay. They simply regulated it away because that was the most profitable thing to do. It was implemented in such a systemic global way, and nobody seemed to notice
Capital is what a bank must hold before it can lend, the way a manufacturer or miner must hold supplies before it can sell. No miner doubles their costs to serve one group of customers. But that's what the banking system does to miners and manufacturers. Since 1988, the Basel rules have required banks to hold twice the capital against a factory loan as against a home loan, and under Basel III the gap reaches five times. So banks lend less to industry and more against houses. It should be stopped tomorrow.
Manufacturing's share of GDP fell in ten of the eleven countries I examined. In Australia it fell from 13.7% to 5.4%. Every other country that followed fell as well. The only truly crafty ones were the Koreans, who did a good job of offsetting it.
Regulators were warned in writing that the rule would steer credit, and they adopted it anyway. No parliament voted for it, and it's simply too dumb to keep doing, but we do . Not today; there is no justification. Yet from India, across Europe, across the US, including Australia, sanctions against industrial capacity. Financialization has gone too far it needs to be reviewed .
The charge is manslaughter by gross negligence. The mechanism is proven.
Same Rules, Different Ruins:ctindale.substack.com/p/same…
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European leaders strutted the world stage. They looted their own people to fund foreign wars. They criminalised and threatened any of their dissidents who told them this was the road to Peterloo and the storming of the Bastille…
If you're old enough, you'll remember the troupe 'the credibility gap' in L.A. in 1971. A political comedy sketch outfit performing every day on top-40 radio, KFWB, alongside Zeppelin and The Band.
I was hired to make water-bed frames, a one-man woodworking and assembly line guy. If anything said LA '71, it was waterbeds.
The boys' skit came on in the afternoon - McKean, Harry Shearer, Christopher Guest, and David Lander.
They defined us, and LA, and the time - and kept going in various combinations for the next 55 years, just below the surface of stardom. Michael McKean was Lenny and Squiggy, David St. Hubbins (Spinal Tap), Best in Show, A Mighty Wind.
But here, on Better Call Saul, is where McKean, playing a powerful law-firm founder, finds himself at last with a failing mind, and this scene, it hits hard in so many ways.
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If you're going to attempt to persuade citizens to fight for their nation, you must first ensure that you have established among them a shared national story and the highest levels of social solidarity, trust and cohesion. If you've spent several decades eroding those things, you'll find you're left with a citizenry which feels it has little to fight for. That's basically the difference between Britain in the 20th and 21st centuries.
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In 1996, a Libyan leader put one billion dollars on the table for Black America. Washington made sure it never reached them.
The offer came during Louis Farrakhan's visit to Tripoli in January 1996. Muammar Gaddafi pledged the money to the Nation of Islam for economic development-Black-owned banks, factories, housing, schools, hospitals. Not a loan. Not charity with strings. A gift from an African head of state to the descendants of enslaved Africans.
Farrakhan did everything by the book. He applied to the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control for permission to accept the money. The Clinton administration denied it in August 1996. Libya was a state sponsor of terrorism. Sanctions barred the transaction. Case closed. Thoughts 💭 ⁉️
Wow. Mandy Patinkin no less.
The theater was packed. When it was finished the audience just sat there as the credits rolled. Stillness. You know how rare that is for people to not jump up and start yammering or scrolling or move on to the next thing? There was stillness and awe, gratitude and sorrow and astonishment both with the film and this world we have allowed.
This movie being slammed by reviewers is beyond comprehension. Anyone who is dragging this piece through the mud should get a brain scan or see it again as they must not have been paying attention. This is one of the most daring, original, provocative pieces of art I’ve seen and bravo to every person that laid a hand on it. I’d have given my right arm to be an extra in this movie (I’m right handed).
This craft, like many other things nowadays, feels in peril. The systems at play encourage mass appeal above all else. Digger is a battle cry for art, for waking up, for demanding an actual attention span of your audience and for the miracle of having a point of view. To horrify, delight, wildly surprise repeatedly and inspire us to fight for our world before it’s too late is an incredible accomplishment. Don’t listen to rotten tomatoes. Find an actual person who saw this movie. Listen to them. Tomato tomaaato! Fuck that stupid nonsense percentage bullshit. It’s so dumb. Go see this movie.
Thank you @diggerthemovie !
#diggerthemovie #diggerthemovie #film #art #wow
We better go see this. Don't look at the reviews. We've learned that a lot recently.
Ignore every negative review. And avoid spoilers.
This is an amazing, profound, unforgettable human story—not of America, climate change, Trump, oil, Tom Cruise, liberals, conservatives, modernity, dystopia, or the coming tidal wave and ruinous destruction of AI.
Rather, it is a celebration of the spirit of art and humanity to find meaning even in the darkest times. A wicked, wicked funny film with gorgeous cinematography and virtuoso performances, that should—but could never—win an Oscar for being corny, sarcastic, tragic, hopeful, surprising, novel, and beautiful in scene after scene.
@RealGDT was right: “The film delivers in scale, ambition and reach at a theatrical screen level. Daring, bold and cinematically complex. Decidedly a theatrical experience.”
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What needs to happen now that we know millions have been poisoned by shots?
1. Vaccine makers need to be brought up on charges of fraud and racketeering and their assets taken and given to victims.
2. The 1986 indemnification act needs immediate repeal.
3. The 1982 patent-sharing scam with NIH needs immediate repeal.
4. All mandates must be ended. States that refuse must be litigated into compliance.
5. All tax subsidies in whatever form for the industry must be stopped.
more of how the sausages are made:
You know what I think is so interesting about this? How every shock-value report only comes out of PA despite measles cases across the country and abroad.
So, I spent a few nights looking into anything that would make PA special, and this is what I found-
The largest Merck manufacturing plant is in PA.
Their PAC? Registered in PA.
Who are they? The main producers of the MMR for the U.S.
Josh Shapiro? Receives millions from them and their affiliates.
The company (High Properties) who bought Johnson-Merck’s $14,000,000 factory that shut down? On PA’s development board.
Where? Lancaster, the same town that all 3 medical facilities reported with the cases are in.
The significance of the medical facilities?
Funded by Penn State, which receives millions from Merck every year.
So interesting.
This is just one moment in how the sausages are made in elections USA
Not only are @WearForbidden great media makers..
There are no lies detected here.
