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This is what job interviews were like for Boomers, before they sent 90,000 factories and 50 million middle class jobs overseas to China, and then imported 150 million foreign workers.
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WEIRD SCENES IN THE HOUSE OF SAUD: Did you know that Bandar Bush’s brother Faisal bin Musaid was an LSD dealer in Boulder, Colorado who was arrested in 1969, six years before he assassinated the Israel-opposed King Faisal? And not only that, but the massive commissions Khashoggi was receiving from defense companies at the time may have been one of the thorns in the side of a traditionalist faction in the Saudi royal clan that possibly incited a thwarted Saudi armed forces coup attempt that preceded the young Faisal’s assassination of the absolute monarch?
While burning out of various colleges in Cali before finally landing in Boulder, where he seemingly became an LSD dealer, Faisal dated a blonde actress and future auctioneer named Christine Shurma, btw, who attested that the attack was very uncharacteristic of the Faisal she’d known. 👀
In my new article, I unpack evidence showing Epstein’s abiding connections to major Iran-Contra players. For starters, ex Ambassador to the US & head of Saudi Intel Prince Bandar bin Sultan, who conduited $32 mil of off-the-books monies to the Contras on the Reagan admin’s behalf
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In the 50s they tried to wind down the reservation system and put the indians in mainstream society either actually owning their land or with the proceeds from sales of it, 750,000 of them made it out, their elders freaked out about losing their welfare cattle and LBJ ended it
Ive spent some time in Indian Country doing rock work.
It was highly enlightening and I recommend it to everyone.
It varies by tribe of course, but those reservations are...sick...in a way that's hard to comprehend without seeing it up close.
About a third of Navajo, for example, live without electricity and bubonic plague is a problem among them due to prairie dog infestations.
Part of this is due to the...frankly ridiculous...tribal reservation system which basically bans investment.
The tribal land system makes ordinary private investment extremely difficult or impractical on most reservation land (because it cannot be readily foreclosed on or alienated, banks and investors will not treat it as normal collateral blocking standard mortgages, construction loans, and business financing.)
Same is true with fractionalized ownership, which raises transaction costs to absurd levels by preventing typical inheritance to force interests be passed to all heirs as undivided fractional shares.
Progressives also use the immense amount of federal control over these areas to "protect" the individuals living there from anything approaching opportunities.
These are real, but fixable, problems. But itd take a decade for reforms to pay off and theyd be resisted by the folks theyd most help
But a major factor is cultural...and the deep seated desire among the American Indian population to blame literally anything on "broken treaties."
I personally observed somebody their blaming his own alcoholism and the fact that many young people left on the treaty system, while becoming riotusly angry at the thought of losing "his" land by enabling sale.
The socially approved plague of being able to blame any and all problems on "the white man" is a cultural disaster in these communities. Its the least productive possible attitude to hold...and its quite common.
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Harvard PhD Geneticist Amy Bishop used a 9mm handgun to shoot half the biology dept at UAH in Huntsville Al back in 2010 but lets talk about what else is interesting about her 1/
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just saw it, took notes, will have a dispatch out on it: and this film is James Angleton level masterclass in misdirection, artifice, manipulation — the wildest thing is it achieves the greatest trick : it makes you forget the blood, where it went, who built a database from it
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An old ape named Shift finds a dead lion's skin floating in a pool. He sits down with a needle and thick thread, and every time a bird flies over, he stops sewing and waits for it to pass. He knows exactly what he's making, and he doesn't want anyone in the sky to see it.
C.S. Lewis wrote that scene in 1956, in the last Narnia book. It's the one most of us never got to as kids. I only read it a few years ago.
When his friend Puzzle the donkey comes back from market, Shift ties the skin onto him and tells him to stand in the shadows. Then he tells the whole of Narnia that Aslan has come back.
Lewis tells you how it works. No one who had ever seen a real lion would have been taken in for a moment. It only works from far away, at night, by firelight, with the donkey kept quiet while the ape does all the talking.
Puzzle gets scared and says what if the real Aslan comes. Shift laughs and says Aslan never turns up nowadays. Right then there's a crack of thunder and the ground shakes under them. Puzzle says it's a warning. Shift says yes, it's a sign, and it means Aslan approves.
Now Gerwig's Aslan has Bowie's face and Meryl Streep's voice. The lion who sang a whole world into being in The Magician's Nephew, the voice so deep it shook the ground, talks like someone else now.
Shift did the same thing. He kept the lion's face and changed who was talking.
Lewis is gentle with the donkey, and I want to be too. Puzzle isn't evil. He's tired and trusting, and someone he believed kept telling him he wasn't clever enough to judge for himself. Lewis saves his anger for the ape with the needle.
A dad told me he was reading that first chapter to his kids and had to put the book down, because it read like these Hollywood headlines.
Pick up the real books. Read all seven out loud, every night, until your kids know that voice. A child who has heard the real lion can't be sold a donkey in a skin.
C.S. Lewis’ family has issued an official statement supporting Greta Gerwig’s Narnia and praising her lifelong passion for the books. bit.ly/4Buu39d
ALT C.S. Lewis’ Family Officially Addresses Greta Gerwig’s ‘Narnia’ Movie
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The only surviving step-son is Douglas Gresham and he has been diagnosed with dementia since 2024. Persons with diminish capacity cannot consent. wheaton.edu/academics/acad…
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When you read mid century authors (like Tom Wolfe) writing about the Boomers, they all invariably point out “huh, these kids keep talking about peace love and understanding but really they’re just very selfish.” I have a lot of affinity for those authors these days.
“I’m old. I’ve paid my home off,” said Ray Warner, a 72-year-old Akron resident. “Why would I pay property tax?”
Across the country, homeowners are asking the same question and revolting against property taxes at a scale not seen in a half century.
politico.com/news/magazine/2…
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Your universe has no meaning to them. They will not try to understand. They will make a fire with your 1st edition Charizard.
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The key part of this story:
The guys who did this were executed.
Immediately and without remorse.
Prison cells built during the Spanish Civil War were designed as “psycho-technical” torture chambers inspired by the work of surrealist painter Salvador Dali and abstract artists Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee, among others.
The Military Information Service of the Spanish Republican Army contracted Alphonse Laurencic, a French citizen of Slovenian heritage to design the cells, meant to hold known or suspected Nationalists who were aligned with General Franco’s fascist forces. Laurencic was an artist, musician, and architect as well as an anarchist and member of the National Confederation of Workers.
The cells were built inside Catholic churches by forced laborers who first stripping out all religious iconography before construction. The jails were called ‘Chekas’ in honor of the original Soviet secret police organization because the USSR was providing support to the Republican government at the time. At least three Chekas were built between 1937 and 1939, in the Santa Úrsula convent in Valencia and the churches on Vallmajor and Zaragoza streets in Barcelona.
The tiny beds were tilted at 20-degree angles so that prisoners would slide off onto the floor if they ever fell asleep, and some rooms had a very high, angled chair which was impossible to sit on. The floors themselves were covered with a random pattern of standing bricks meant to keep the prisoner from walking or lying down. Green and red flashing lights would wear them down mentally, and the walls were painted with geometric patterns intended to provoke dizziness and visual discomfort.
Prisoners could also hear an amplified metronome which moved at varying speeds and were kept within sight of a clock that ran too fast, all to further disorient them.
After General Franco’s forces claimed victory over the Republicans, the new government put Laurencic on trial in front of a military tribunal, and he was executed in 1939. His work on the prison cells was largely unknown for more than 60 years, until art historian Jose Milicua uncovered a document summarizing Laurencic’s trial.
#spain #civilwar #surrealism #modernism #bauhaus
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>listening to old Art Bell open line shows
>guy calls in saying he’s a vampire hunter
>Art gets a self proclaimed vampire that calls in
>he three way connects them on the air
>they both start arguing about how they’d kill each other
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We can't deport him! He'll be killed in his home country.
The home country: We have a warrant out for him for 39 forcible rapes of young boys.
You hear that? They're going to kill him for being LGBTQ.
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Historians will look back at the last 150 years see the 2 day weekend, the 8-hour workday and the post-Covid shift to remote and hybrid work as part of the same long story.
Modern workers carving out a little more room for lives of their own.
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"They will be tired, they will be cold"
Uhh, no - they'll have all of their needs met and still burn it all down.
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This is far beyond what a police action can tackle, and there is no national will to shoot them.
The #1 mistake that governments make in low intensity conflict, by far, it’s not even close, is waiting too long to act.
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One wonders why Satanism emerged basically entirely within America. It may have some roots abroad, but it is unmistakably homebrew
To those dotards who would whine about say, Freemasonry building america, or the kabbalists, etc, the question remains
Ashley Pardo (the mother shown below) “bought ammunition, magazines & tactical gear for her son, who had expressed a desire to carry out “acts of mass violence” at Jeremiah Rhodes Middle School.”
The Process ideology persists today in many pervasive ways.
ksat.com/news/local/2025/05/…
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Ashley Pardo (the mother shown below) “bought ammunition, magazines & tactical gear for her son, who had expressed a desire to carry out “acts of mass violence” at Jeremiah Rhodes Middle School.”
The Process ideology persists today in many pervasive ways.
ksat.com/news/local/2025/05/…
