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SCENES FROM THE LAST DAY ON PLANET EARTH — CHRIS MAGGIO PHOTO STUDIO

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But the height of our collective madness is the current cancel culture. Its subtexts are “unearned white privilege” and “white supremacy.” In the name of those abominations, mobs tear down statues, destroy careers, censor speech, require veritable oaths, and conduct reeducation training. Stranger still, those alleging “white privilege” are usually themselves quite wealthy, liberal — and white. These elites count on their incestuous networking, silver-spoon upbringings and tony degrees to leverage status, influence, and money in a way undreamed-of by the white working class. Affluent and privileged minorities likewise join the chorus to call for everything from reparations to “reprogramming” Trump voters. In the name of those abominations, mobs tear down statues, destroy careers, censor speech, require veritable oaths, and conduct reeducation training. Stranger still, those alleging “white privilege” are usually themselves quite wealthy, liberal — and white. These elites count on their incestuous networking, silver-spoon upbringings and tony degrees to leverage status, influence, and money in a way undreamed-of by the white working class. Affluent and privileged minorities likewise join the chorus to call for everything from reparations to “reprogramming” Trump voters.

At a Certain Point, Even The Gestapo Had To Stop Cancelling People – Activist Post

The zeitgeist has passed me by – The New Neo I’ve already lost a few friends of my generation, too, although most have stuck by me. For some who are still friends, I feel their increased discomfort around me. I don’t think I’m imagining it. It’s a source of tension and grief for me. And of course, there’s a gulf between the younger generation and me that’s similar. No one in that group has stopped talking to me altogether, but the gap is widening day by day and whatever ways I’ve attempted to bridge the gap, they don’t seem to have altered things significantly.

Discovering WW1 tunnel of death hidden in France for a century –  

“Everyone was calling for water, but it was in vain. Death laughed at its harvest and Death stood guard on the barricade, so nobody could escape. Some raved about rescue, others for water. One comrade lay on the ground next to me and croaked with a breaking voice for someone to load his pistol for him.”

Straw Hat Riot –  Although the initial brawl was broken up by police, the fights continued to escalate the next evening. Gangs of teenagers prowled the streets wielding large sticks, sometimes with a nail driven through the top, looking for pedestrians wearing straw hats and beating those who resisted. One man claimed that his hat was taken and the group who had taken his hat joined a mob of about 1,000 that was snatching hats all along Amsterdam Avenue.[6] Several men were hospitalized from the beatings they received after resisting having their hats taken, and many arrests were made. Police were slow to respond to the riots, although several off-duty police officers found themselves caught up in the brawl when rioters attempted to snatch their hats. Two or three boys were accosted by pedestrians who said that their straw hats had been smashed; the boys were arrested.

Vox Popoli: Seven Kill Tiger comes to life  “The population of the nearest town. It’s mostly Chinese. I think they have a big mining camp up there.”

Thompson shrugged and spread his hands. “It’s hardly a secret that China has been moving into Africa in a big way for the last two decades. They have hundreds of such towns.”

“True, but that only explains why the Chinese were there. It doesn’t explain why most of the cases, and all of the deaths, were African. Only five Chinese were affected and all five recovered. Beyond the basic statistical odds involved, you would think the native population would be more resistant to whatever virus makes its way out of the jungle, not more susceptible to it.”

Thompson frowned. Berens was right. It was an anomaly. And if there was one thing he had learned after 22 years at the Center for Disease Control, it was to pay particular attention to anomalies.

China’s Artificial Intelligence Surveillance State Goes Global – Northwest of Beijing’s Forbidden City, outside the Third Ring Road, the Chinese Academy of Sciences has spent seven decades building a campus of national laboratories. Near its center is the Institute of Automation, a sleek silvery-blue building surrounded by camera-studded poles. The institute is a basic research facility. Its computer scientists inquire into artificial intelligence’s fundamental mysteries. Their more practical innovations—iris recognition, cloud-based speech synthesis—are spun off to Chinese tech giants, AI start-ups, and, in some cases, the People’s Liberation Army.

The ‘shark feeding frenzy’™ analogy is not very flattering to a political movement that characterizes itself as Woke and driven by virtue, but it is an accurate description of the old and unhallowed Communist tradition of denunciations,  the internal process through which the Party could rid itself of ‘corrupt local bosses’ and immoral capitalist backsliders.

The crimes themselves were always the same so-called ˜’moral breakdown,’™ from alcoholism to marital infidelity, corruption, the taking of bribes, and theft of state funds. In this sense, they have above all a routine, indeed, a ‘timeless’™ character. It was the name of the accused that was interesting. The true content of denunciations was to signal who was ‘in’™ and who was ‘out.’™ Its function was not to determine who was virtuous but who was falling out of power.

Mohs Safarikar – Secret Classics In fact, three copies of the Mohs Safarikar were created, of which two are still known to exist today. While one of them is on display in a museum, the second vehicle stood unnoticed for years in a parking lot in Georgia. In 2009, the current owner took care of the wreck and had it extensively restored. Next to other parts this required around 40 yards of Naugahyde and 7,000 stainless steel staples. Now the car is for sale at Hyman Ltd. for US$ 349,500. Not even Bruce Mohs would have ever expected such a high price.

Vox Popoli: President Greenscreen   Actually, forget green screens. I’ve seen Skyrim mods with more realistic 3D animations than these recent Biden videos. This doesn’t looks like deepfaked video to me, it looks more like a 3D animated model with video genlock. At this point, if you still unironically believe Joe Biden is the President of the United States, you’re simply not paying attention.

Dear Sports Illustrated: You. Had. One. Job. Leyna, who is the second trans model to pose for SI Swim, opened up to Good Morning America about her boundary-breaking accomplishment, gushing: ‘I never imagined that I would be born in a time when something like this would happen for someone with my skin tone and for someone with my background.’

Boire du vin en culotte : le nouveau hygge finlandais

Conrad Haas: The 16th Century Rocket Pioneer |  While serving under the Prince, Haas began writing what is now believed to be the earliest known European handbook of rocketry. This work, written in German, whose title translates to “How You Must Make Quite a Nice Rocket That Can Travel (Propel) Itself into the Heights (Heavens),” dealt with pioneering weapons technology including the principle of multistage rockets, preliminary designs for delta-shaped fins and bell-shaped nozzles, as well as different fuel mixtures using liquid fuel.

 


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  • PA Cat March 19, 2021, 1:01 AM

    The History Guy has an interesting 10-minute video on the NYC Straw Hat Riot of 1922, including the sheer variety of different shapes the hats were made in and their average early-twentieth-century price tag of $1.50. Supposedly straw hats started out in the 19th century as children’s hats; then, a style of hat worn by sailors became the model of the straw hat for adult males. Enjoy:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxbVTozEoa0

  • Donald Sensing March 19, 2021, 6:27 AM

    After viewing the final YT vid here, I am starting to think that a few Dem Congress members were right when they said they wanted to remove the authority from Biden to order nuclear strikes.

  • bilejones March 19, 2021, 6:43 AM

    The incomparable James Corbett looks at this, and the wider implications of what he calls The Digital Gulag.
    https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-1624-james-corbett-on-our-digital-gulag/

    As always the immaculately sourced footnotes are well worth a perusal.

  • James ONeil March 19, 2021, 9:36 AM

    Speak 2 languages, you’re bi-lingual, 3, tri-lingual, many, multi-lingual, speak one language, American.

    Google translate does a good job making Boire du vin en culotte : le nouveau hygge finlandais, or Drink alone at home in your underwear etc., readable in Yank.

    I do admit I’m somewhat concerned Gerald saw fit to share this tidbit with us. 😉

  • julie March 19, 2021, 2:30 PM

    We should start using [allegedly] in reference to Biden winning the election.

  • H (science denier) March 19, 2021, 2:43 PM

    There is no evidence to prove that Xiden did win, so…….

  • John the River March 19, 2021, 7:08 PM

    Think I have the complete series DVD set of Banacek downstairs.

    Liked that show. One of several shows based in Boston while I was working there. I got a kick out of how all those detectives pulled up to the crime scene or next suspect and … Wall-ha, a parking spot right in front.

  • ghostsniper March 20, 2021, 4:18 AM

    That $80mil building, didja look at it? Nice site. Now littered with a gaudy perhaps corporate retreat with enormous maintenance bills. Another example of an idiot with more money than brain. If I had $80mil and that piece of dirt….well, I’d still have at least $75mil to fondle, and be happy as a clam.