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Re: What are you watching?

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THE PRIDE OF THE GERMAN NAVY: Frigate Hessen - Combat Drill in the Atlantic | WELT Documentary



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Post by Catoptric » Thu Sep 11, 2025 7:18 am

Roy Cohn shows up in this


Earlier I posted a video that documented models being sexually exploited and kept in something like a boarding house in France, where coked out photographers would barge in on them in the shower (since the bathroom had no locks on it. . .) In that video, Epstein name was mentioned in connection to the modeling world of the rapist dude. I might have posted the video elsewhere and am trying to find it, though it was basically an news investigation where someone familiar with the story was talking about how no one took them serious and followed up with it until a decade later, after the model agency dude was already carrying on as usual.

And Roy Cohn was a weirdo pedophile apparently (I think even Trump had some payout to a teen boy, among other things.)

Trump’s mentor: another sociopathic paedophile child-trafficker in the mix; from Roy Cohn to Epstein and Maxwell.
https://villagemagazine.ie/trumps-mento ... -de-burca/

Yes, Donald Trump Was Accused of Raping a 13 Year Old, But This Lawsuit Has Little Chance of Succeeding (though no mention of a boy, a list had shown a reference to something)
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/ye ... ucceeding/

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Might be worth checking out (though a documentary, 'Where's My Roy Cohn?' might be better if just wanting to find out about his background) (and several projects on him are discussed here: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 28062.html )

The Apprentice (Ali Abbasi, 2024)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8368368/



Angels in America (Mike Nichols, 2003) Al Pacino as Roy Cohn, Meryl Streep* (Tony Kushner play)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318997/episodes/

Angels in America (Ep 1-6) (Mike Nichols, 2003)
Ep 1 Millennium Approaches Bad News https://ok.ru/video/6447135001338
Ep 2 Millennium Approaches In Vitro https://ok.ru/video/6447135066874
Ep 3 Millennium Approaches The Messenger https://ok.ru/video/6452767427322
Ep 4 Perestroika Stop Moving https://ok.ru/video/6452767492858
Ep 5 Perestroika Beyond Nelly https://ok.ru/video/6459146242810
Ep 6 Perestroika Heaven, I'm in Heaven https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x890rgs

*Meryl Streep is a character that’s a combination of a Hannah Pitt who is actually Ethel Rosenberg (the woman who along with her cousin were executed directly as a result of Roy Cohn seeking the death penalty, for what he knew to be false allegations of them being Russian spies who divulged nuclear arms secrets (when it was WELL KNOWN that during the Manhattan Project, that quite a few divulged such secrets of how to make such weapons.) (Some dialogue from the miniseries: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318997/ch ... /nm0000658 )

Family of Ethel Rosenberg say US document proves she was no Soviet spy
https://www.rfc.org/2024-exonerate-ethe ... es-she-was

That earlier article about him roaming the streets and fucking teenage boys mentions it, so it seems to have been floating around that even the US kangaroo court at the time were just doing a witch hunt, thanks in part to Joe McCarthy.


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Good summary


Netanyahu and Trump both posted social media messages within a minute of each other, as if they just got off a phone call and had it ready to post as soon as they heard the "good news." Trump would be seen within a day at a basketball game singing to YMCA, with his hands up in the air, all the while claiming to mourn someone he thought of like a son.

And I just looked this up:
Radar was turned off mid-flight?
Provo Airport private Jet owned by Darek Maxfield (of Chabad Lubavitch, Utah)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/public-safety ... r-AA1Mncre


If their was a much bigger reason to shut down Epstein, due to collusion with foreign governments, this could explain why Democrats would have avoided releasing the documents, as well as to protect certain aspects of how our government operates behind the scenes. Charlie Kirk would have been at risk of "opening the floodgates," and much of it seems like how the CIA makes "hits."







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I'm not sure what to make of this guy (he kind of seems like a level-headed schizophrenic who can't differentiate from reality, or who may just be fabricating a story narrative to get free dinner?) He also could just be a really manipulative psychopath and the interviewer would never know it.



Isn't it illegal for parent's to kick their kids out before 18?




A moto could be: "I didn't choose the van life; the van life chose me."


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Re: What are you watching?

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When Celebrities Humble Disrespectful YouTubers

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Re: What are you watching?

Post by Catoptric » Sun Sep 14, 2025 8:00 pm

Why It Sucks to Be a Brothel Boy (in Qing Dynasty) by Bernard


Another one


It seems the animation was inspired by the more historically appropriate version of this:


The Ming Dynasty Concubines: A Life of Abuse, Torture and Murder for Thousands of Women
https://www.ancient-origins.net/history ... men-007965


Korean films, most will need subtitles, though they are easy to find.
https://archive.org/details/1987-when-t ... .AM%5D.mp4

The Little Forest film had a Japanese version that came out as a 2 part film in 2014, 2015, and is based on a manga.






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Tarnation (Jonathan Caouette, 2003 Docu with commentary) Schizophrenic mother (it also turns out to have a bunch of super gay stuff)
https://ok.ru/video/4427066313398

Has Spanish subtitles (though I'll possibly split the audio track from it to match it up with the above UPDATE: a delay of 1 second matches perfectly, and the above video is better quality and not cropped.)


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Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog, 1992)​ Kuwait (oil) docu https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104706/?ref_=tturv_ov_bk



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The Charlie Kirk episode of South Park is either being removed or censored/partially removed, though the original airing should be here (I've yet to watch it.) You will need to download it for the audio to play, since the codecs aren't compatible with the website.

https://onedrive.live.com/?redeem=aHR0c ... =name&sd=1




34:00 on the discussion of Israel, has anyone ever wondered why Trump uses the acronym MAGA? Krav Maga is the martial arts of Israel that translates as "Contact Combat," and strangely, when Kirk's death was announced both Netanyahu and Trump were posting condolences within a minute of each other. Kirk was lamenting what he perceived as Israeli money destroying the West, while talking about how Netanyahu MUST HAVE allowed October 7th to happen and their was plenty of reason to be suspicious of how the attacks were carried out, but even still Egypt relayed 3 days before it happened that they should be on the lookout for such an attack, with some estimates that Israeli expected, or even funded Hamas itself (sometimes this happens without such organizations knowing they are setup.)

Aside from Netanyahu admitting to providing weapons for clans within Gaza, their was supposedly an intelligence think tank that claims Netanyahu was behind Hamas itself. The motto of Mossad is "By Way of Deception."


Let’s Not Forget Who Charlie Kirk Really Was
https://www.thenation.com/article/socie ... n-tragedy/


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This is proof enough to me:

Labubu demon being removed by a person who calls themselves a Christian, practicing what looks like voodoo.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNTJ128t ... d3czdsbjZu


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A somewhat forgotten claymation (though possibly because only so much can be made from the plot.)

The PJs (1999-2002) Eddie Murphy (Will Vinton Studios)




A fanmade spoof of Zelda CD-I game (in addition to other ones https://archive.org/details/@mocha_moonpie796

Link And The Hyrule Gang (unknownartiste1 aka MechaWeegee91) 13 ep




Spider-Man: The Animated Series (Complete 1994 Series)





Completely forgot about this series.

Talk Soup (1991-2002 E! Series) Mostly 1997-1999 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106149/
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Re: What are you watching?

Post by aether » Sat Sep 20, 2025 11:05 am

Fading Legends: How Hollywood's Aging Stars Are Being Replaced by the Next Generation




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Brown Shirts, definitely checks out (most likely it was someone who was open-carrying and was prepared to use the weapon on whomever they thought was shooting.)

I did see a video purporting that the left side of the building facing Charlie was someone on a rooftop, though I believe it was from someone using the front facing of a cell phone, which mirrors the video (to where they happened to accidentally record the right-side building where Taylor Robinson was supposed to be) even though it is very clear the left-side facing of Charlie's neck was shot (which would most likely have created an exit wound and probably have shown the trajectory of the bullet, though no mention of this shows up in forensics, and they are currently paving over that part of the ground. . . Which is REALLY WEIRD.) Someone was purporting that they were paving over the area to remove evidence like blood samples (assuming it was all staged and that his body was removed via a trap door. . . Come to think of it, no one ever shows his body being removed into an ambulance, and within 5 minutes of the body being taken from under the canopy, some dude in a gray shirt was removing what looked to be a memory card from a camera; however, he was probably part of the Turning Point organization.

That old guy that people think was a decoy was in the news and prosecuted with having child porn on his cell phone, so he was some weird MAGA cultist. . . (that's the hallmark of MAGA is pederasty.)

People are pointing out that a trap door looking opening in the ground is visible, which shows up in recordings of that area, but I haven't found much info on what that was; though it very much is part of that ground area Kirk was sitting at.

Some kind of "crazy" stuff is brought up in this:
https://www.threads.com/@alex.nick.jung ... zQkIon9QfQ
https://rumble.com/user/alexlunaviewer?e9s=src_v1_cbl


Aside from the odd possibility that the "Victorian" romance love letter confession was faked, their seems to be a possibility he was framed. I am kind of convinced Taylor Robinson was screwing the Twigg. . . person's manhole, and some aspects of this reminds me of Dog Day Afternoon movie, based on a real story of a crime committed for the sake of promoting the manhole thingy.

This isn't about the manhole:




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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_van_speaker_scam
https://www.crimes-of-persuasion.com/Cr ... -scams.htm

I bought some around 2006 claiming to be about $2000, and I thought it was weird they were offering to sell one speaker by itself. I think I ended up giving them $2-300 for a set. They actually sound decent, and are called Skyline 900SL (though it seems people realize it was a scam when they sell them as a set for $70.) I also already knew about the scam where they claim to have had an extra set of the inventory where they "just wanted to offload it" though figured I would give them a try because they looked cool.

If you are keeping volume up on them they are great for movies and have great bass. This seemed to have been more common at a time when people would routinely get into large sound systems instead of relying on the built-in audio from TVS (since TV sound quality has improved a lot more.)

At around the same time many audio shops were starting to close up and they would have similar outlandish looking systems that seemed expensive because they took an unorthodox approach to sound, and typically you find out that that cool speaker wire that has an odd plasticky looking core coated in metal and some wire strands, that are no better than regular copper wire.

So is it really that much of a scam compared to the regular market, where you often find that brand names are using the same manufacturers and just slap their label on things?

It also reminds me of working at a catering function (first one my parents had me working for where it was most likely illegal for me to work around liquor) around 1998, where the owner of the function had us go through the garage where he pointed out some speakers he was hiding away from the guests (since it was mostly a rave) and said it was worth around $16,000. I'm sure the sound quality would have been nice to hear, though I wonder if people could really tell the difference with some other sound systems.

And then I recall also buying some frozen steaks that were questionable (though I thought at the time they still seemed decent, such as porterhouse cuts.) I started wondering about the possibility they were beef that was skirting legality, such as cattle that had become infected and needed to be given antibiotics, which for the dairy industry can be a death sentence, but they also can't sell it for human consumption.

It's definitely not listed on this:

https://www.mashed.com/621794/mail-orde ... t-to-best/


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Parallels to Epstein's death?



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I noticed this same thing with George Lucas' creative arc, which was largely dependent on the people around him to keep him optimal (and which modern movie making has drifted away from.)

Of course a lot of bad movies have always been made, but it seems especially pronounced with things like streaming services disrupting the ideal process for movie making. Even during Francis Coppola's earlier works he was also severely limited, in ways that kept him on his toes, but which seems to have also compelled him to take certain risks that ultimately created a superior film.

Now it seems as if you "can" take risks but you have a far more constricted approach to the story where very little risks are permitted, as you will just be working against the bureaucracy and because it's so formulaic (based on "proven formulas" for generating attention in the media hellscape that people gravitate towards, since they are all dumb consumers) that their is no way in hell you would dare disagree with them since they are all "experts" with the cashflow, since so much accumulation of organizations have rendered any outsiders or indie films obsolete. Nothing like the creative output of past decades has even come close to what is being made now, as what passes for "creative" is usually some redundant repeat of past success.

An example of "why" this might be the case is that a lot of controversial shit was being produced that honestly tried to be a little too close to the taboo they were illustrating. Some low budget films that were able to make their way into cinemas are probably only going to profit if they can get into a streaming service (so all those low budget movie theaters that are vanishing, probably aren't able to take any risks anyways, but they sure as heck are going to ignore a film that isn't being noticed because "why should they?"


https://ok.ru/video/7754662087410


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I kind of ignored this Michael Fassbender version of Steve Jobs (an have yet to watch the Ashton Kutcher one) though it actually does look pretty good:


Alternatively, a documentary

Steve Jobs The Man in the Machine (Alex Gibney, 2015)
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Re: What are you watching?

Post by Catoptric » Wed Sep 24, 2025 5:46 am

Gimme Danger (Jim Jarmusch, 2016) The Stooges, Iggy Pop (Jim Osterberg)


Filmography of Jim Jarmusch


Some have foreign subtitles (hence why I posted the first video which doesn't.) The MKV is Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai.

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Terry Gilliam, 2009) Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Christopher Plummer, Verne Troyer, Andrew Garfield, Lily Cole, Tom Waits, Colin Farrell



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Driller Killer (Abel Ferrara, 1979)
https://archive.org/details/DrillerKill ... belFerrera

Many Archive videos say it's uncut but that would have to be 101 minutes, and none of them are (or they are and have the frame rate altered or it's cropped weird.)

They even uploaded it to here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Driller_Killer

This one might actually be a censored/blurred uncut version and it's on youtube. . . Though it's probably just an altered frame rate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwGwCguw-fo

This 100% is the pre-release uncut version, and the most noticeable thing was in the lesbian shower scene, after it finishes in the original, it cuts away to various short clips (including one that shows a guy putting on lipstick and then starting to brush his teeth in a suggestive manner,) it returns back to the shower scene to continue. These were mostly censored and many of the uncut versions mistakenly believed that just a portion of those scenes was the uncut version, when the 96 minute versions are the original theatrical release.
https://ok.ru/video/3020031265516



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The only decent copy I've found without watermarks, in addition to long forgotten episodes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adven ... e_%26_Pete

The Adventures of Pete and Pete (1989 shorts, 1991-1996 Series) with 20th anniversary interviews and follow-up
https://archive.org/details/the_adventu ... _and_pete/


It seems it was always up on here for the last 3 years. . .
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... emLah29ojA



Hey Dude 1989-1992 series (mentioned by one of the Pete and Pete actors as being one of their favorites, and probably as forgotten as their series.)
https://archive.org/details/hey-dude_202211/Season+1/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096610/

Not sure I want to save it, but it does seem like it will be impossible to find again in any decent quality (though it does seem like they actually did a legitimate release on DVD, as opposed to Pete and Pete which appears to have resorted to piracy of online content to make it available.)

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An idiot from Oklahoma drove to Dallas and climbed on top of this Immigration Attorney's 2 story building, and shot into a parking lot at an ICE facility, shooting 3 and killing 2 migrants. He seemed to blindly shoot and wrote "anti-ice" on an unspent shell casing.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/vnhXebRnbWiH8v4F9





Charlie Kirk seems to have been shot from the back?




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The Greatest Beer Run (2022) film is based on a real story.



More videos
https://www.thebeerlantern.com/the-grea ... -run-ever/

The movie kind of does a poor job accurately representing what was happening (I believe in the above video he claims he was living in an apartment, so the movie seems to suggest he was still living with his stepfather,) and it seems to take creative license with protests and him being there to provoke them and seem patriotic (not purely wanting to improve morale under crappy conditions that supposedly killed off 28 people in their town that he knew/recognized.)

Though at times people such as Journalists will be protected in military units, usually if someone was documenting what was happening, they are part of the military itself, and this would have put him at extreme risk. It was however a different time period and people would often make up a story that couldn't easily be looked up and proven, so they would just go along with what they were told (which incidentally, every person on his beer run were claimed to be a step-brother that lost their father.) The movie could do a better job emphasizing the charade, which is partly why it wasn't well reviewed; and it wasn't so much the source material wasn't good enough to make a movie.


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I tended to overlook Scorseses film until I realized who was acting in it (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000995/)

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore 1974
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071115/

At 1hr 30 minutes it has a discussion of the show which would continued on for 9 seasons averaging about 24 episodes per year, which astonished me. . .) I only realized it existed when wondering who was acting in the role of the child actor (not the Jodie Foster intro, rather the son who showed a decent intelligence in his role but would almost never act again and was completely forgotten as an actor, and supposedly was in the first/pilot episode of a sitcom which was completely out of touch with the movie. . . With absolutely zero intent on focusing on the character from the movie, and was more likely just extracting as much profits as they could from however much the movie was recognized at the time.

Alice 1976-1985 TV sitcom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYGRwbxfbcU
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073955/

The movie has vastly different aesthetics and approach to story, even if this was what was generally expected for sitcoms of the 70s. It only seemed vaguely inspired with about the only comparison being the Mel actor reprising his character, and the uniforms being the same. The windows of the diner in the movie could practically be considered a character in themselves which made the diner feel alive and connected to reality, whereas the stage set with closed off blinds created a hermetic environment that almost seemed as surreal as Ellen Burstyn later acting role in Requiem for a Dream when she was disassociating from reality and only had a television to give her any view of life outside her apartment.


I was able to find the filming location to a movie, which only shows the address on the website, but clearly doesn't seem to be getting used anymore. In the movie, the gated entryway was closed off, but so did the small curved windows appear to be bricked off, and recently it seems someone broke in through that window that didn't have bars on it. The area around it is interesting to contrast with, such as some old power lines overhead that seem to be from the earliest days of electricity.

(address at the bottom of the website, which is where the child actor was given music lessons and was interacting with another kid whose mom does tricks at a Ramada Inn during the day; hence very different from the sitcom. . .)

https://chicagomusicstore.com/
https://maps.app.goo.gl/W4ea2ypBNTDuUBei9

Theirs also some made up book mentioned in the trivia, and info about the Actress who won an Oscar.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071115/tr ... =tr3263707


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This would require switching to the 3rd channel for English audio to replace the Russian or whatever it is, and a subtitle is available but doesn't cover the Work Print sections of the video; not that it really needs it. It pretty much extends the original 1hr 29m theatrical release and adds the Uncut and WP to around 1hr 50m, (though I would suggest just watching the official release, since it pretty much summarized the workprint portion in a more coherent manner, without seeming redundant. The WP just makes it awkward, though does introduce a few portions that were omitted, mostly dealing with showing some of the violence (probably due to censorship.)

The Punisher (Maximum Penalty Edit) (Mark Goldblatt, 1989) Dolph Lundgren
https://archive.org/details/the-punishe ... nalty-edit

Alternatively, the original
https://archive.org/details/the-punisher-1989_202108

The fan edit uploader has other movie versions (an extended fan edit of a fan edit for (Evil Dead 3) Army of Darkness, as well as Manhunter (original Red Dragon) and Johnny Mnemonic.
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Post by Catoptric » Sun Sep 28, 2025 3:16 am

I was looking over a Night Auditor job for Robert Bigelow's Budget Suites motels, and kind of knew it most likely comprised of dealing with drug addicted felons and prostitutes, with the possibility of finding a dead body. It's mentioned numerous times in reviews, along with someone who used the same website in reference to being a ranch hand, where they alleged he is a psychopath who asks them to do illegal stuff (though not exactly what.) It seems like they just exploit and lie to people while taking advantage of their living situation, where people have little option other than to live there; in what are basically slumlord motels that are run into the ground.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bigelow
https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Budge ... nguage=eng

Dark, Paranormal Experiences Prompted Robert Bigelow to Sell Skinwalker Ranch
https://www.distractify.com/p/why-bigel ... lker-ranch

I started wondering if he just lies about everything with Skinwalker Ranch (and the guy who bought the property from him is just "going along with the charade" and yet I kind of know some aspects of what they are saying is true (that weird stuff happens and their seems to be some paranormal aspects to it.) Incidentally in that Glassdoor page it seems to suggest that they were suing Bigelow over their request for them to do illegal stuff, and perhaps a lawsuit compelled him to sell it off when he did (around 2023?)



The device the bearded guy is referring to is a biofeedback device they purport to use detect paranormal phenomenon.
https://loosheslabs.com/mupas-devices/mupas-mini
Booklet: https://issuu.com/jimsegala/docs/mupas_ ... EoAT3_NTU1

He goes onto further explain it



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I kind of imagined the "Buffalo Bill" character in Silence of the Lambs, being a type of "Skinwalker."

Forbidden Love The Unashamed Stories Of Lesbian Lives (Lynne Fernie, 1992)



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Also, the creator of the Kreosan (radioactive) urbex Youtube channel was arrested inside a house in Fukushima's exclusion zone. They only just released an english version of an older video, though most of the news is outside of their channel.



The other guy (Vadim Vadimycha) was also arrested and had uploaded an update by his friend.


Some were mentioning, Japan might even keep them locked up for 10 years?

Here was their most recent Patreon post from August 29, where it appears they were alluding to going into Fukushima (it's blurred out, but the photos look similar to that area.)

https://www.patreon.com/kreosan

Some footage of their arrest:
https://antikor.ua/en/articles/793942-j ... s_fukusima

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The interview around 20:00 describes the aristocratic concubine culture of Oiran as being an influence (not to be confused with Geisha, though it might at first appear similar (hence some confusion might be based around this)
https://www.youcouldtravel.com/travel-b ... vs-geisha/ )

Personally I believe otaku's are to blame. . .

Though post-Tokugawa, early Edo Japan, certainly can't be considered entirely innocent. Even though it was still looked down upon, a significant occurrence of "collateral damage" from prostitution was responsible for the "throwaway temples."

Sex Work during the Tokugawa Eralocked
https://oxfordre.com/asianhistory/displ ... MHoDLqQiAY

The Throw Away Temple – Dumping Ground of the Yoshiwara Prostitutes.
https://rekishinihon.com/2015/02/06/the ... ostitutes/

Another followup mentions the things in the above video


Chinese Slums and what they refer to as red light districts




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Italian film Director.



Attack of the Killer Tomatoes series



The Big Feast (La Grande Bouffe) (Marco Ferreri, 1973) Marcello Mastroianni
https://ok.ru/video/1289151646281

Is a movie that Robert Downey Jr was brought as a child to see by his father Sr (as mentioned in their movie biopic, 'Sr,' they made together.)


Santa Sangre (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1989)
https://ok.ru/video/264097630973

Roger Ebert review: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/grea ... angre-1989

Satyricon (Federico Fellini, 1969)
Bad subs: https://ok.ru/video/1737762540088
Best video (bad AI-translated CC option) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTtYLD23xnI
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ICE agents injured a journalist at an NYC courthouse, adding to a disturbing trend
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/lates ... rcna234984


Trump's white nationalism and technofascist gentrification agenda.


I'm not sure if I posted this here before, though it's a common theme with the 2024 election (that it was most likely rigged, but any interference seems to be unable to be detected, even if the indications of fraudulent vote manipulation are very evident.)


Fairly good insight of the absurdity



An update on the urbex explorers in Fukushima


It's as if they filmed a "Jiu Jitsu" movie. . . "grossing less than $100,000 against a budget of $25 million,"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiu_Jitsu_(film)

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The Ascent (Larissa Shepitko, 1977 Ukr-Rus)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0791899/

A better quality one
https://ok.ru/video/1671746620014


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Very much a forgotten comedy sci-fi (though which seems to have a cult fan base.) Many consider it Dennis Hopper's worst movie but even around this time he was so blitzed that he could hardly remember his lines (such as in Blue Velvet when Dean Stockwell had to adlib the song he performs since Dennis Hopper couldn't remember the song, which ultimately worked out better.)

The American Way (aka Raiders of the Storm) (Maurice Phillips, 1986) Dennis Hopper, Ozzy Osbourne
https://ok.ru/video/2028349885055

That intro about a mind control missions being performed over Vietnam are missing from 'The American Way,' titled version of this film, as seen at the 30-50 second mark:
https://youtu.be/IByAfvl3270?t=29

The poster for Riders of the Storm shows, "they came from the past to save the future" while The American Way shows a plane dropping bombs, a bible, TV, music, and guns down below, right over a White House or political looking building (suggesting how we conduct diplomacy.)



Alternatively are some Crowdsourced acted versions of well-known films like Indiana Jones.
https://archive.org/search?query=creato ... owdsourced

For those times when "we have Indiana Jones at home" just doesn't have the same effect.
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