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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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The carpet is open... and the rain has begun pic.twitter.com/DlYgZgITQC
— Kyle Buchanan (@kylebuchanan) February 9, 2020
The intra-Palestinian meeting in Moscow has precedent
— Hanna Notte (@HannaNotte) February 29, 2024
Russia's hosted such meetings in the past, most recently Feb 2019
Russia has long lamented the US' "monopolization" of the peace process & tried to carve out a niche for itself: mediating among the disunited Palestinians/2
Here's what I told them: https://halginsberg.com/vote-for-jill-stein-again/
Controversial Brazil law curbing Indigenous rights comes into force https://t.co/pCoDg05irX
— Gareth Harris (@garethharr) December 28, 2023
Location: U.S. Embassy and residential compounds
Events: Heavy gunfire is occuring around the area of the U.S. Embassy and residential compounds adjacent to the Trutier area of Tabarre. All Embassy personnel have been instructed to remain indoors and shelter-in-place until further notice. All others should avoid the area.
Actions to take:
- Avoid the area;
- Avoid demonstrations and any large gatherings of people;
- Do not attempt to drive through roadblocks; and
- If you encounter a roadblock, turn around and get to a safe area.
By The Editorial Board @ Bloomberg.com, December 8, 2023
A mass expulsion of Afghan migrants could destabilize the region and fuel radicalization. The West should pressure Islamabad to change course.
All eyes on #Chad right now
Chad has two internet trunks coming into the country: One from the Red Sea via Sudan; the other from Cameroon. Not possible for the totality of the country's internet network to be shut unless done centrally. A lot of rumors swirling; few facts. https://t.co/N6bDJZ2ixO
BREAKING: Three loss prevention employees in Macy’s across the street from Philadelphia City Hall stabbed, one of them has died from stab wounds, @PhillyPolice sources tell me. Police converged on the store as the three workers were rushed to Jefferson Hospital. pic.twitter.com/4U1eKycL4W
Former US Ambassador Arrested, Charged With Working As Secret Agent For Cuba https://t.co/LDwo4ZJI1K
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) December 4, 2023
[Chapter I news is HERE, Oct. 7 til today]
You don’t get it.
— George Deek (@GeorgeDeek) December 2, 2023
It’s not about an UNRWA teacher who held an Israeli kid hostage in his house.
It’s all about how for 75 years you have destroyed the future of generations of Palestinians, including my family.
My cousins in Arab countries are still not citizens - not even the… https://t.co/nv6anubGhc
Note 'Community Notes' attached to UNWRA's statement.
Imperialism for me but not for thee?
It's wild that Venezuela is now holding a vote on whether 2/3 of Guyana actually belongs to them! Analysts suggest that Modoru may want military action to pump up his sinking popularity.
Could we have a war in South America?!?
"The people who live in Essequibo are largely… pic.twitter.com/QvMEjkkgwy
The lack of a cohesive delegation has allowed attention-seeking lawmakers to act on their own.
McCarthy: “You have [Rep. Matt] Gaetz, who belongs in jail…”
Gaetz: “Tough words from a guy who sucker punches people in the back. The only assault I committed was against Kevin’s fragile ego.”https://t.co/LctPuz6Pcf
By Martinn Pengelly in Washington DC for TheGuardian.com, Nov. 30
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tells Ryan Grim life in Congress ‘completely transformed’ after Democratic leader stepped down
"Both the AU and the intl community place more weight on whether elections are held than whether they are free and fair. Sanctions/expulsions occur when there is a coup but not necessarily when elections are rigged or if an “institutional coup” occurs." https://t.co/m9dNimJP0D
— Cameron Hudson (@_hudsonc) November 28, 2023
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Better spread than a Bloomberg rally for the elites!
by artappraiser on Sun, 02/09/2020 - 4:41pm
You art scene types, always there for the free eats (and wine, of course)
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 02/09/2020 - 5:09pm
interesting pre-emptive thread of tweets:
by artappraiser on Sun, 02/09/2020 - 4:38pm
He's gonna get in trouble if he keeps talking like that - he's acting as if he were white! Where's the resentment and grief? I don't buy it
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 02/09/2020 - 4:42pm
When #OscarsSoWhite became a meme, 94% of voters were white and 77% were white males.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2016/02/02/oscars-academy-award-nominations-diversity/79645542/
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 02/09/2020 - 9:26pm
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 02/09/2020 - 10:16pm
"Hollywood" really is part of a conspiracy?!
by artappraiser on Sun, 02/09/2020 - 9:26pm
From Steve Martin and Chris Rock at the Oscars
https://www.thedailybeast.com/chris-rock-and-steve-martin-roast-oscars-for-hiding-black-actors-and-female-directors?ref=home
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 02/09/2020 - 9:43pm
And
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hair-love-2020-oscars-matthew-a-cherry-crown-act_n_5e40b117c5b6f1f57f13a221
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 02/09/2020 - 10:05pm
The Academy voted for globalism.
Next they need to change their name to the International Academy of Motion Picture Sciences.
Now where's that Star Trek translator?
by artappraiser on Sun, 02/09/2020 - 11:20pm
Still, plenty room on the dais for complaints
I wonder if Rocketman's happy or mad.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 02/09/2020 - 11:41pm
Watching the whole show, that comes away as bullshit whining to me. As many of the presenters stressed the feminist issues and many of the men winning did as well! It was like consciousness raising time for the white men, kinder gentler, apologize for the patriarchy and your white privilege, thank the native americans for the land we're working on, all that kinda stuff. And the female filmmaker accepting her award for Learning to Skate in a Warzone (If You're A Girl) bested Hillary herself talking about how all the little girls of the world need to take that ramp no matter who's trying to stop ya!
Then there was this
I believe she got a standing ovation for being a woman. It was quite emotional. As was her acceptance speech, which was very touching and encouraging of women speaking out and demanding recognition for themselves as persons with something to say, whenever they feel the music, or some such.
Preceded by this, they gave the award, they didn't know who it was going to:
Furthermore, macho guys were not rewarded, they sat on their hands (i.e. Quentin). One might think River Phoenix getting the best actor reward would be triumphantly male, but instead he went on and on about respecting all other forms of life on earth, about stopping abusing all kinds of people and things for one's own good, including a riff about how we rip baby cows from their mothers and eat them, ignore the pain and grief we've caused and have the nerve to put mother cow's milk in our coffee and cereal....
by artappraiser on Mon, 02/10/2020 - 12:28am
PLUS, it was two Korean women who accepted the best picture award, I presume they were the producers? The men didn't talk. The one who spoke English treated the director like she was patting him on the head for a job well done, favorite son.
(Not to mention the best picture award was given by Jane Fonda, a woman, alone, not two men as I recall as typical.)
The whole best picture award was really an amazing scene to watch, quite the show in itself. Here's the video, it is really worth a watch. There's quite a bit of hysterical joy at the announcement from the audience, I think the members were sort of shocked and extremely pleased that the vote had ended up that way, that they finally broke through the American thing. The second woman accepting got it "I think something historic has happened":
by artappraiser on Mon, 02/10/2020 - 12:53am
Vox couldn't resist the continued diversity complaints despite factoids like:
Not a fan of The Irishman, and when I watched Parasite within minutes felt impressed how fresh it felt (no traditional say gangster fare like Old Boy or schtick like Crazy Rich Asians)
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 02/10/2020 - 2:22am
I note that among many other globalist-oriented awards and speeches, in categories like Best Picture and Best Director, the Best Documentary award was also globalist, backed by a globalist former president:
Also see Barack and Michelle Obama React to Their Netflix Doc Winning a 2020 Oscar
@ Entertainment Tonight By 7:23 PM PST, February 9, 2020
"Hollywood" really is the enemy of Bannonism.
by artappraiser on Sun, 02/09/2020 - 11:44pm
On the winner in the other documentary category:
by artappraiser on Mon, 02/10/2020 - 12:03am
Heartbreaking.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 02/10/2020 - 2:29am
Must admit it did come to mind watching the big shew: presenting the ultimate of the female as an aesthetic adornment meant to give pleasure. I don't think anything wrong of it, as I adored playing with my Barbie doll. But this shew plays up separate gender roles bigly and most very much are glad to play that part as well: men in black because they're too busy running the world, women as glorious butterflies to make it all worthwhile. That's why we watch, that's why the red carpet. Don't like it, don't get on it, don't take that freebie acres-of-silk gown with sequins and the diamonds from the jeweler to go with
by artappraiser on Mon, 02/10/2020 - 4:48pm
From UCLA's Hollywood Diversity Report
https://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/oscars-diversity/
by rmrd0000 on Mon, 02/10/2020 - 6:35pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 02/11/2020 - 12:34am
In a Post-‘Parasite’ World, What Happens Next?
Can the film’s big Oscar win change Hollywood, or will things go back to business as usual?
by Kyle Buchanan @ NYTimes.com, Feb. 14
by artappraiser on Sat, 02/15/2020 - 6:42pm
Parasite *is* business as usual, much as Brokeback Mountain, Avatar and Gandhi, and Sex, Lies & Videotape were business as usual - Hollywood sometimes cheers the outliers, sometimes backs the mundane. I'd look up Slumdog Millionaire, but doesn't matter - it either grabbed their interest or didn't, the M.O. stays much the same. Meanwhile, superhero franchises have largely taken over the industry, which largely worries me.Netflix and HBO are becoming as predictable as the studio system as well.
But perhaps we should put Hollywood on a diet and quota system, for our own good...
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 02/16/2020 - 5:31am
Drumpf apparently only figured out now that there was a globalist message here and that he should be using it as a MAGA culture wars meme:
Maybe someone on Fox said something on topic as an aside?
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/20/2020 - 9:03pm
Film critic Donald Trump reaches into his racist, rat-chewed box of Froot Loops to mock ‘Parasite’ and Brad Pitt
By Vinay Menon Entertainment Columnist @ Toronto Star, Feb. 21
love his snark but the photo illus. they chose is prime too. Ladies and gentleman, the president of the United States and new partner of Beavis and Butthead:
by artappraiser on Fri, 02/21/2020 - 10:18pm
Can we get 1939's "Gone With The Wind" back?
by rmrd0000 on Fri, 02/21/2020 - 11:45pm
I've got to say that to me this is perfect example of how you hunt for bias verification about racism in each and every story, no matter what it's about. Trump could have just as easily said "can't we get 'Lawrence of Arabia' back?" or "can't we get 'Dr. Zhivago' back?" and then others with different confirmation bias than yours could do their thing just as myopically. Missing what's important.
The big picture message here: Hollywood came out against Bannonism, against Make America Great Again, for globalism and against nationalism and tribalism. There are open to quirky individualist works of genius no matter where they come from, no longer rah rah p.r. for the big American studio picture. And the members were surprised and proud that a majority ot them had come out and voted that way.
It is remarkable and important culture change. And Trump instinctively knows that. He knows that it's culture wars stuff and he's lost this battle (I dare say Ronald Reagan of SAG would too.) And you're missing the import by fixating on the fact that he used as an example of a movie from 1939 that revisionists have issues with, when it's not 1939 anymore and Trump probably was just picking a epic movie out of thin air. HE'S NOT THAT SMART, for chrissakes, and I'd certainly be willing to bet the last time he watched Gone with the Wind was: never. I seriously doubt he knows what the story of "Gone with the Wind" is.
by artappraiser on Sat, 02/22/2020 - 12:20am
An article in the WaPo addressed Trump's statement that you seem to be willing to dismiss.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/02/21/trump-gone-with-the-wind-historians/
This is not about confirmation bias. I responded to what Trump actually said. He did not pick the movie out of thin air.
You miss the big picture by ignoring the fact that there is an ongoing discussion about lack of diversity at the Academy Awards.
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 02/23/2020 - 7:29pm
I don't buy it that Trump intended that, it's in the minds of paranoid beholders. Which happens naturally because he is already known as a racist, it's part of the circus. If all one thinks about is racism, and nothing else, one looks for things that confirm that bias just like the nuts who search for evidence of the Deep State plot in every bit of news they see. But I disagree with the deconstruction, I think it's paranoid and inaccurate. I think it was intended as a preference for old timey big epics about western civilization by American studios, i.e. MAGA. That's "racist" enough for many, but not enough for you few who seem to be obsessed with code for Trump secret project of restoration of the Confederacy.
by artappraiser on Sun, 02/23/2020 - 11:36pm
Dick can Dyke for Prez?
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 02/22/2020 - 1:09am
But "Hollywood" still conveniently gets right what witness tampering is and isn't.
by artappraiser on Sat, 02/22/2020 - 12:01am
Trump meant the Pentageli scene the judge wouldn't allow in trial. Stone didn't bring in Randy Credico's brother, so it wasn't intimidation.
https://youtu.be/eUjjzwIrebQ
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 02/22/2020 - 12:53am
One quite simply excellent and beautifyl result: globalism, cross-cultural fertility in action:
by artappraiser on Sun, 02/23/2020 - 7:00pm