What are you watching?

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I never believed the conspiracies about Kubrick, though have noticed some evident underlying narrative (kind of the zeitgeist of Kubrick's thinking.) It gets to a point where the conspiracy becomes mocked or encouraged, similar to the Beatles and the various conspiracies, where they kind of troll the fanbase.


Traumnovelle (Wolfgang Glück, 1969) Book by Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931) 1926


Book - Traumnovelle aka Dream Story (1926) Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931)

(NEEDLESS TO SAY THIS GUY IS A COMPLETE BULLSHITTER)


Reminds me of the cringey "authenticity" of most psychopaths.


And yet the UFO cults don't like to call it out when they see it and perpetuate the bullshit reputation they are known for.

This guy on the other hand might truly believe what he's talking about. Initially, I was considering how genuine he seemed. Still, I can't help but think he is either "not all there" or is purposefully vague about the descriptions not to make sense of something he purports to experience. It's one of those things where you "KNOW" what you are going to say and can give insight into the perspective and experience; such as explaining the layout of the room and the living situation, and how something is evidently out of the ordinary, but instead, he comes across as either a bad story-teller or he lacks metacognitive awareness. The fact he doesn't elaborate on his experience in comparison to what we normally consider of alien abduction claims/stories/fabrications, just makes it seem like he might be doing this for attention and to perhaps get on the usual bandwagon that most of the "UFO grifter circuit" is known for (and I say this as someone that 100% believes in UFO/UAP experiences and have documented them,) even if I consider certain aspects kind of "ring true" for the nature of the experiences, any of which could just be due to someone reading up and becoming familiar with the usual hallmarks (all of which could actually be caused by someone disassociating as this guy could have been doing if he really believes his story.)

And very shortly into the video it becomes evident he is 100% a bull monkey. . .






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Django (Sergio Corbucci, 1966) Franco Nero


Django Unchained is available as well (though both links will likely not be active after a while. . .)


In 1966 another Django movie called 'A Few Dollars for Django' (1966) directed by León Klimovsky, Enzo G. Castellari, and screen written by two different people was released, which differed starkly, and had a different main actor.



Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi, 1962) Tatsuya Nakadai
https://m.ok.ru/video/1989997628012

I was wondering why the recent Takashi Miike film was so boring, and realized that the original is probably far better. I would rather watch a variation of the 47 Ronin than his films (at least I would find it more interesting.) Though here:

Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (Takashi Miike, 2011)
https://youtu.be/9C_jWktlLCc



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Urga aka Close to Eden (part 1 and 2 - 2 hrs) (Nikita Mikhalkov, 1992)

"Goumbo (Bayaertu), a young Mongolian, herds sheep with his wife, Pagma (Badema), on their picturesque land. It's a sleepy, simple existence until a Russian truck driver named Sergei (Vlodimir Gostukhin) falls asleep at the wheel and crashes outside their home. Goumbo takes him in, slaughters a sheep for their dinner, and even has his daughter play accordion for their entertainment. Meanwhile, Sergei amuses his hosts with tales from his life in the city."

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/close_to_eden

Part 1
http://ok.ru/video/2014241032812

Part 2
http://ok.ru/video/2014250011244

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The Tree of Wooden Clogs - Part I (1978, Ermanno Olmi) 3 hrs
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8o6rsf

Part 2
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8o6sju

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_tr ... oden_clogs

"The Tree of Wooden Clogs is a 1978 film by Ermanno Olmi that depicts the lives of four peasant families in 19th-century Italy. The film is a powerful example of Italian neorealism, a film movement that emphasized the harsh realities of life for the working class"

"On a northern Italian farm in the late 19th century, a group of sharecroppers eke out a threadbare existence. A priest advises Batisti (Luigi Ornaghi) and his wife, Batistina (Francesca Moriggi), that their young son, Minec (Omar Brignoli), should be formally educated, so they sacrifice his help in the fields and send him to school. When Minec's wooden shoe breaks one day, Batisti--in an act of desperation--puts the family's future at risk to replace the clog."


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A Time for Drunken Horses (Bahman Ghobadi, 2000)




"The youngest of a destitute Kurdish family has a terminal illness, and his young siblings struggle to pay for a life-saving operation. In desperation, the eldest sister agrees to marry an Iraqi willing to care for the boy. At the border exchange, however, the family of the man rejects the sick boy, putting the siblings in a harrowing race against time."


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Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... And Spring (2003, Ki-duk Kim)
http://ok.ru/video/2014188866156

"A young Buddhist apprentice is mentored by an aging monk (Oh Yeong-su) at a secluded monastery in the Korean wilderness. As a teenager, the apprentice (Seo Jae-kyeong) encounters a girl who arrives at the monastery seeking assistance with her health. Over the course of a few days, the boy is tempted away from his spiritual existence into a sexual relationship. He leaves the monastery to follow the girl into a modern way of life he has never known and is unprepared for."



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WTF is this?

Popi (Arthur Hiller, 1969) Alan Arkin

Full movie - https://vk.com/video-160511258_456239023


Another strange one (but interesting, because it reflects the diversity of some foreign countries which isn't all that apparent sometimes.)

The Drifting Classroom 1987 漂流教室 Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8o6prj

Pretty strange (and funny. . . such as the earthquake. . .) at parts, and I think of the Adventures of Kim Jong Un, episode with him at a school, and how they depict American retro school culture interacting with Asians.



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Kotoko (Shinya Tsukamoto, 2011) Yuko Nakamura, Cocco
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1842532/
https://www.effedupmovies.com/kotoko-2011/
Alt https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8ibl8y

"When a single mother suffers a nervous breakdown, she is suspected of child abuse and her child is taken away. Her mental suffering escalates as she succumbs to her darkest fantasies."


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Lilya 4-Ever (Lukas Moodysson, 2002) Oksana Akinshina (American dreams. . .)
https://www.effedupmovies.com/lilya-4-ever-2002/



Gummo (Harmony Korine, 1997) Jacob Reynolds, Chloe Sevigny, Jacob Sewell (Urban rot)
https://www.effedupmovies.com/gummo-1997/



Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Mark Herman, 2008) (Concentration Camp)
https://www.effedupmovies.com/boy-in-th ... amas-2008/


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Snake Girls, Spirals and Slit-Mouthed Killers: a History of Twisted Manga Adaptions
https://www.arrowfilms.com/blog/feature ... adaptions/

Discusses:
Flower of Flesh and Blood (Hideshi Hino, 1985)
The Guyver (Screaming Mad George and Steve Wang, 1991)
Uzumaki (Higuchinsky, 2000)
Ichi The Killer (Takashi Miike, 2001)
Oldboy (Park Chan-wook, 2003)
Tokyo Tribe (Sion Sono, 2014)
Tezuka’s Barbara (Macoto Tezka, 2019)

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The "Tree of Life" in Kaballah might just be a medieval fabrication (and I'm surprised when looking into the new Final Fantasy 7 Remake the topic of Sephiroth has never been brought into question as it might apply to the thematic elements; I've yet to buy the new remake (Intergrad, and now Rebirth is coming out for PC.) I'm a little pissed at how vapid things seem.




Christiane F. (Uli Edel, 1981) David Bowie, Natja Brunckhorst (Felscherinow)
https://www.effedupmovies.com/christiane-f-1981/


Ninth Configuration (William Peter Blatty, 1980) Stacy Keach
https://www.effedupmovies.com/ninth-configuration-1980/


Human Centipede 1-3
https://www.effedupmovies.com/the-human ... -sequence/
https://www.effedupmovies.com/human-cen ... sion-2015/
https://www.effedupmovies.com/human-cen ... ence-2015/

Long video about North Korean entertainment



South Korea is pretty messed up as well (to some extent the corruption of power will exist in both communist as well as capitalist systems.)




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I was watching a video of people exploring the now abandoned (and being destroyed) Sears headquarters in Chicago, which was acquired by a datacenter headquarter in Dallas, who claims to be redeveloping the Sears building complex (which was one of the largest in the world) by mostly repurposing materials. Just Google:

Sears headquarters in Hoffman Estates, Illinois



Then I came across other areas of Chicago being acquired by different tech companies who are also sucking up all the neighborhoods with billions of dollars in investments



Looking into it further:
"The number of data centers in Greater Chicago shot up nearly 20% between 2020 and 2022, according to research firm Mangum Economics. It said over $4 billion has been invested in data centers since 2020 with an additional $4 billion in investments announced.Dec 13, 2024"



Also Pizzagate in Germany (Cafe Pinocchio) etc . "Poison Dwarf"

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Elon Musk to Slash $2 Trillion from the U.S. Budget to Replace Economists with Technicians
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technolo ... r-AA1xsWww


Vivek the fraud steps down from his position:

A book that might be relevant:
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires (2016) Jane Mayer


Ray Dalio (multi-billionaire Hedge Fund Manager) youtube page
https://www.youtube.com/@principlesbyraydalio


Mises Institute (Austrian School of Economics promoters - ergo Ron Paul, Murray Rothbard)
https://www.youtube.com/@misesmedia

Playing with Fire - Money, Banking, and the Federal Res (Mises Inst) 2024


Radio Rothbard: Playing With Fire and Its Critics
https://mises.org/podcasts/radio-rothba ... ts-critics

Money as Debt (Paul Grignon series from 2006-11)


https://www.youtube.com/@FD_Finance






MMT?
The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy (2020) Stephanie Kelton
Modern Money Theory: A Primer on Macroeconomics for Sovereign Monetary Systems (2012) L. Randall Wray

The Deficit Myth: a review
https://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.co ... eview.html


To me, MMT seems like a tone-deaf understanding of checks and balances akin to propaganda, promoting people to kiss the asses of the billionaire class, because people to too stupid to have any grasp of entropy.

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Only Fools and Horses (1981-2003)
https://archive.org/details/fav-shane576

The Missing Christmas specials:

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S07E07 and 8. Miami Twice (1991 Ch Sp) Amer Dream - To Be In England


S07E09. Mother Nature's Son (1992 Christmas Special)


S07E10. Fatal Extraction (1993 Christmas Special)
https://m.ok.ru/video/2469937023515

Of all places, that was the only one I saw. . . Even the DVD are near impossible to find of these, though I did come across a few in some box collections from the UK on Ebay.

I came across a documentary about the series Christmas specials in the search:

Only Fools and Horses: Christmas with the Trotters
https://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/x939li

Frasier had collaborated with the series actor, Nicholas Lyndhurst, and Paramount decided not to renew the Season a 3rd time.
Article -- Only Fools and Horse star dealt crushing blow as new series axed
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/tv/only-foo ... t-34521960

Article -- Only Fools and Horses fans furious as iconic show is slapped with trigger warning
https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-ra ... 1737484230

I assumed they are being "cancelled," and that's the reason, or was it just a coincidence? The same thing happened with League of Gentlemen, and Father Ted (and I'm sure others series creators, even retroactively.)


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An almost "untouched/unchanged" Victorian French mansion. Probably abandoned at the end of the 70s from all indications, with some indications of pre-2014 water bottles lying around. Someone had to have been getting rid of some of the moldy wall paper, and likely would have swept some parts of it. The wooden beds were either removed or moved to various parts of the building.


Also, plenty of videos are covering Trumps psychotic behavior and what fucked up shit he is doing already.



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Vanderbilt 'The Breakers' $500 million "Summer Cottage" which is more valuable than the Carnegie 'Biltmore' estate ($5 million when it was built, apx $183 million today.)






I remember reading about the basis for this house.




Château du Champ de Bataille in Normandy, France
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2t ... e_Bataille
"In 1650 Alexandre de Créquy-Bernieulle (1628–1703) was arrested and exiled to the provinces by Cardinal Mazarin. He built the Château du Champ-de-Bataille between 1653 and 1665. After the arrest the château was the home of the "de Merendonque" family. During the French Revolution, the château was stormed and the furniture was sold throughout France."

A better one:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2t ... e-Bataille

Créquy family (doesn't mention Alexandre?)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cr%C3%A9quy_family


https://thisisversaillesmadame.blogspot ... requy.html

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Alexandre was the eldest of seven children of which only one had children - and that was not Alexandre but his sister, Renée, who had married Gabriel de Mailloc. Alexandre had inherited all the titles of his father which included the counties of Créquy-Bernieulles and Cléry as well as the barony of Combon.

Marie Maignard was a member of the noblesse de robe as her father was the President of the Parliament in Normandy. The couple had no children, so the title went to Renée's son: Gabriel-René de Mailloc. This also meant that it officially exited the Créquy-family, as Gabriel-René went by his father's name.

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Pretty neat:
Yumuzhai (鱼木寨), a historic Tujia stronghold located on the border of Hubei and Chongqing



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This guy is a complete nutcase:
Ammon Hillman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammon_Hillman

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A longer (and more distracted) video about a similar concept of supply and demand (in which it assumes that a communist system would be more restrained ("hypothetically.")



Undeniably it does seem that the last grasping at straws is leading to a quiet whisper of, "just let this happen!"



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I've been seeing some pretty crazy homes that people are buying in Japan, two of which go back to the early edo era (this first one is claimed to be 1400s? ? ? Muromachi era?)



Website about the place (the video is actually a few years old now and I'm wondering about the katanas she found and needs a $5,000 polishing treatment in order to estimate their value in order to preserve them as historical artifacts to be preserved, as otherwise they get destroyed.) Japan has always had extremely strict rules in regards to weapons.
https://www.sasuichi.org/


This other house (different "American") was just recently acquired and has a shrine attached to it, and sat abandoned after the 18th generation died off (and or whomever might be related just wanted nothing to do with it. Since it wasn't too far from Fukushima, it's possible people moved towards Tokyo and forgot about it, as it's been a rural area.)



A bog on the subject:
https://daveostory.com/writing-fiction- ... resources/

I suspect social media from foreigners might actually help save and preserve these structures, as it's taking on a new trend of people wanting to move to Japan, but I wonder about the economic situation and how often people might actually use these as an AirBNB (since it seems more like a fad as people move away from more trendy approaches to travel, if they can even afford to; ergo the first videos. . .) Though English speakers might be in demand for certain business goals, I doubt they are entirely desirable, unless properties like these are considered acceptable (as many abandoned structures costs a significant amount to restore to become habitable, such as the above video with the Goeman bathtub, fire pit, and slightly more modern but still practically camping out with a cast iron stove. The outside exterior buildings have crumbling mud exteriors, and other structures that appear to have been removed by the time the guy toured the property, which he eventually buys recently after that video from a year ago.)


Aussie in Japan
https://www.youtube.com/@ChaniJapan

Most are older, or academics (probably on the spectrum, usually. . .)

But also, I was often hearing about how xenophobic Japan is, though that doesn't seem to be the case for smaller towns that have a decline in population and want to maintain it (unusual though, is that the second video has an evidently Aussie Japanese person who was fluent in both, that worked for the city, which is not uncommon if they want to attract foreign tourism or residents.) Thailand is popular as well, especially for the elderly because they don't treat people like shit (unlike the US which is a complete fucking joke for healthcare and human decency, which isn't just a recent phenomenon. Conversely you could look at movies like Ikiru as a similar comparison to the phenomenon, so perhaps it's not always the case, and it might also explain why such houses that reflect historic Japanese customs might seem to clash badly with modernization (as demonstrated by Chinas historic traditions being dismantled, usually by a megalomaniac taking over regional powers.)




A common theme are social reject (or basically Hikikomori, which is becoming a global problem, and might make such people gravitate to Japan)

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Paul Verhoeven Sci-Fis (Robocop, Total Recall, Starship Troopers) which can't really be called a trilogy since they aren't connected


I was surprised by how much Arnold Schwarzenegger was key to getting Total Recall made, and it was a pretty interesting thing to hear about.


This might leave more of an impression than Blade Runner's soundtrack.

Terminator Collection by Brad Fiedel et al (1984)




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The Whitest Kids U'Know - The Civil War On Drugs (2012) Trevor Moore, Sam Brown, Zach Cregger



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A movie documentary about an couple that did an art heist in 1985 of a famous De Kooning "Lady Ochre," and very likely did more than one based on what is assumed about their occupations and income, with a lifestyle at odds with it.

The Thief Collector
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YymF0ex-xs

14:00 For a wannabe artist, he sure has a funny mustache as a disguise. . .

Interesting looking book at 1:05:00 which is out of print and pretty rare evidently (it's always odd when you find books written by people that commit horrible crimes, and it kind of reveals something about their personality.) The thing I find kind of weird is he was using what looked like a Polaroid camera for those images, which seems a bit strange (even if given the tech he was using, they weren't too bad.)

The Cup and The Lip Exotic Tales (2011) H Jerome and Rita Alter

You could sort of say they did some "alterations" to the paintings, and it probably wasn't their only theft, as they would have probably tried to hide the painting and only attempt to steal ones that weren't of such a high profile in the news.

As the video goes on I kind of relate to taking photos of artifacts, as I do something similar but have absolutely zero interest in acquiring art (though I do have old museum posters as well as small brutalist sculptures that would never be shown in a museum because they are just kind of weird.)

The fact they were donating this stuff to offload it may also explain how people seem to be finding very old antiques (like ancient Roman bust sculptures and similar antiques) that end up in thrift stores (though of course you can also find such things on Ebay which also opens up another topic of how accountable the antique markets are to preserving things or not acquiring artifacts from graves, etc. )

Another weird thing is you have the opposite of this and that includes those that fake historic artifacts (such as one artist that claims many meso-American artifacts pretending to be from a little known culture are actually ones he created, though due to so few representations exist of their culture, many people wrongly believed they were authentic, and I suspect I've seen a few in museums, as even when he reported these as they would show up in museums, they would remain on display) or pretend to pass things off as famous painters by imitating their technique (and similar stuff has happened with wine which people mistake for authentic Thomas Jefferson 1800 vintage or something, etc)

Though as you continue with it, a much darker reality become evident, in that the book was a confessional about homicide and burying a migrant workers body in a septic tank (which in reviews of the book on Amazon, people assumed was fiction. . . It wasn't.


The only option are ebooks:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-cu ... 1103909217



And a pretty good explanation of what is found that comprised the main story of the above documentary:

New FBI clues reveal more about the mysterious couple who had a stolen de Kooning painting
https://www.azcentral.com/in-depth/news ... 195231001/

and some new artifacts discovered at the home (it's assumed they hired migrants and may have concealed art behind the house walls, though most of it was out in the open, and they seemed to offload a lot of it when traveling to Europe at a time when little was noticed of such activity without TWA.

More mystery - California writer finds two more stolen works in estate of now-famous Cliff couple
https://www.scdailypress.com/2024/03/15 ... ff-couple/



Another one that might be the same topic (though is an actual movie about an unsolved incident in Boston in the 1990s?) which apparently is suspected of being the same H. Jerome and Rita Alter, and is referred to as the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft and believed to be valued at $500 million amongst 13 works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_ ... seum_theft

Which includes the theft of a Rembrandt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Storm ... of_Galilee

Art Thief (2024)





A documentary about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Johnston

The Devil And Daniel Johnston (2005)




Books of his illustrations
Daniel Johnston (2009)
Daniel Johnston Space Ducks - An Infinite Comic Book of Musical Greatness

Pretty whacky.

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At Eternity's Gate (Julian Schnabel, 2018) Willem Dafoe, Oscar Isaac
https://www.namasha.com/v/lSrAqP3j/%D8% ... ity_s_Gate


Loving Vincent (Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman, 2017)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OClIfLs4J4

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Psionics ("weapons") and aliens? I think he does things for attention.


Among the commenters is 'Pot Smokers Bible' who claims they are a telepath https://www.youtube.com/@potsmokersbible4313



Government proposed UAP policy


UFOs and Intelligence: A Timeline. By George M. Eberhart (an updated article I need to download)
https://www.academia.edu/43868466/UFOs_ ... M_Eberhart


At 93, William Shatner Reveals What Really Happened on the Star Trek Set









NAPOLEON (Yves Simoneau, 2002) miniseries (6 Hours, which is about the average for most Napoleon movies, yet somehow people only complain when Ridley's movie exceeds 2:30, as even that seems too long for some. What's also annoying is Ridley's Directors Cut was exclusive to Apple TV so only pirated copies exist, and the Russian websites have nothing but dubbed versions.)
https://archive.org/details/Napoleon2002Complete

Some criticism and comparison to the 1927 Napoleon which is 5 hours (and a suggestion, that Ridley's movie should have been a TV/Streaming miniseries)
https://screenrant.com/napoleon-movie-r ... e-failure/


Trump parallels the narcissism of Napoleon



Baudica Queen of War 2023 (is really bad)
https://vk.com/video-216573605_456239996






Looking into an underwater anomalies referred to as Sycamore Knoll off of Malibu, CA.



I've looked into this anomolie (which you would think is just some random plate tectonic and weather erosion phenomenon) but apparently a lot of people are collaborating the claim that lights are seen coming from it.

It should be in the range of depth referred as the "twilight zone" (not referring to the TV show) where it is too dark but also get's too deep to properly explore (and I wouldn't be surprised if the unusual shape produces a lot of current motion that interfere with exploration, as it probably caused the device to become severed from the boat, in this video:




My guess is tectonic activity could be creating a bunch of negative ions, that produce ball lightning phenomenon, though I also wouldn't ignore the possibility that perhaps an alien intelligence might conceal themselves in various parts of the ocean (as it would be a bit like going into deep space, and perhaps they would just obscure themselves in the water, as is often reported?)

Google search pulls up this:

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Sycamore Knoll is a submerged, flat-topped mesa-like structure off the coast of Malibu, California. It's been the subject of speculation that it's an alien base.
Location:
About 10 km south-southeast of Point Mugu
About 20 km west of Point Dume
Features:
A 90-meter deep, 10 square kilometer bathymetric high
A wave-planed platform
A terrace package that corresponds to the Last Glacial Maximum
Significance:
Sycamore Knoll is an unusual submerged structure that has been the subject of speculation that it's an alien base
The Anacapa-Dume Fault (ADF) system at Sycamore Knoll has been investigated for thrust tectonics
The offshore faults west of Point Dume are part of a regional fault system that extends from near Los Angeles to the northern Channel Islands
Earthquake hazard:
The fault system is considered a potential earthquake hazard to nearby Los Angeles

Android (1982) Starring Klaus Kinski

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083557/



Sovereign wealth (slush) fund might have been inspired from the Reapers?





Ironically, even prior to reading the username of the video creator (which I'm sure isn't connected,) I was thinking of the Reapers when Donald Trump announced his 'Sovereign Wealth Fund,' (a system that governments with large surpluses utilize to invest in the stock market with the intent to benefit the government and it's people) which will mostly likely function like private equity firm that does a slash and burn (and grab) of whatever businesses they control, which incidentally some governments have been known to use and get arrested for pocketing the money, especially since the US government has run a cycle of debt while giving tax breaks of tens of billions per year to the largest companies.


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Master Mason initiation
https://www.facebook.com/10006976042349 ... 8313561544


The comments seem accurate (though I don't know if all Shriners drink from a human skull, it does seem to be a common factor in the 19th century cults and secret societies such s the Skull and Bones at Yale.) To some extent these might go back to he 18th century with the Hellfire Club, which Ben Franklin had been attending who also had human remains found in one of the places he shared with someone with a background in medical science (so perhaps they were just studying anatomy with donated human remains, but it seems they opted out of not burying them properly?)

Most of it just seems symbolic, and it really comes down to how people try to rationalize their own particular version of "altruism," since too often it almost seems that people don't always act in their own best interest, but are incapable of realizing it (which includes those who do think in terms of antiquity where society was often rewarded for sociopathic behavior only so far as it was necessary, and which society has tried to do away with (but it's always inescapable that someone will elevate themselves to positions of power where they destroy everything in their path.)

When you really think about what the initiation ceremony suggests, is that those who are initiating the Master Mason are doing so from the perspective of the non-initiatied, but also in the tradition of the Templars who knew that when fighting in the Holy Land that they would be tortured under duress, and so the ceremony reflected the mistreatment they would receive (but also perhaps gave false confessions since they would be tortured) which wasn't too different from the Salem Witch Trials (in which people would rather expedite their death than give false confessions that would harm others or would go against their belief system, since many were probably dissociating from all the trauma.)


Famous British Historian Claims Benjamin Franklin Was A British Spy
https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/fc/ ... nklin.html


Why the Knights Templar Gave False Confessions of Depravity
https://www.history.com/news/knights-te ... ns-torture


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The company behind Neon Genesis Evangelion that would become Gainex named itself Daicon films after a convention (named after the convention in Osaka; had they been making the video in another city it would have taken on a different name.

Since this wasn't necessarily for profit and was more of a fan based video, and was about animation in general, they could get away with putting a bunch of copyrighted intellectual property.

A decent short film (showing the first that the group did in Daicon 3, which go onto a 12 person group which matured in style.)


Backstory


Haven't watched yet but might later



Another opening anime at a convention called Uracon III (1984 in Kanazawa) which is kind of rare, and likely inspired from the above. It almost looks like the Bubble Bobble character two years before it would have came out on NES (and though other ports exist, they were mostly contemporary to it.)


It's kind of odd because they didn't use voiceovers.

Some more Japanese convention stuff (it kind of died off around the game crash of 1984)
https://archive.org/details/@kmeuh


Time Tunnel https://archive.org/details/the-time-tunnel

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Probably bullshit but I'm not 100% sure (Looking into some of the people he's referring to who did write books that align with 1947 physics and things that "could have been" reverse engineering.)



When the fuck does a Green Beret go to Area-51 and see something like 'Offworld Technology' on a sign, without any fucking clearance to be revealed such things? ? ? Makes no fucking sense (and at the very least if he was near it, it would be so compartmentalized that only those whose explicitly knew what something was referring to, would actually have a hint, and couldn't tell anyone (akin to how North Korea refers to their fake currency lab as 'Room 39' or Japan had it's wacked out "Scientist/Doctor" in 'Unit 731' which doesn't leave a lot to the imagination unless you knew the backstory.

Bullshit


Talks of psi.

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Perhaps Lady Liberty is doing the "Roman salute?"




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I was going over a book after questioning the absurdity of Trump's DEI hire who claims to be getting people from the Warren Commission to review the classified documents (no matter that they are dead. . .) Just as bullshitters who claimed to be connected to the JFK assassination also claimed to have witnessed a UFO incident, named Fred Crisman, who was investigated by someone I know named Edd Jeffords which was mentioned in a book titled, along the lines of 'JFK & UFO' Maury Island (2011) Kenn Thomas

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I suspect the documents that are still classified, are classified because they were misdirections of investigation, or people generally are too dumb to understand that they were irrelevant (and possibly misguided attempts at finding out the real culprits,) when more than likely it was just some kook named Oswald who was clearly guilty.
Just as there are some people on Youtube who claim they witnessed JFK's autopsy, who are probably grifters.
I knew someone (who is now dead; Edd Jeffords 1945–2002) who would later become an Assistant Attorney General of Texas in Austin, who investigated someone named Fred Crisman who claimed to be connected to the assassination who would actually write a book which was referencing him in an encounter (where he was subpoenaed,) in a book called JFK and UFO by Kenn Thomas. It amounted to a dubious individual who wanted to draw attention to themselves to sell books and go on the grifter bandwagon that people were doing in the 1970s.
I don't deny that more than one shooter might have been present and perhaps what happened was evidence tied to Oswald was being purposely left to keep the narrative what they wanted to be consistent (such as, was the Carcano rifle bullet intentionally left on a random stretcher or were people confused about how they were handling JFK as he was being brought in, which allowed for the bullet to be left there? Or perhaps the bullet fell out and someone picked it up and afterwards it was assumed that such a bullet wasn't the kind that would spread upon being fired or impacted, if it was designed for penetrating armor,) as otherwise people wouldn't find closure, much as they probably wouldn't be familiar with human psychology and why witnesses could easily mistake someone like Oswald shooting Officer Tibbit and thought more than one person was involved in that, just as they also believed the acoustics of the grassy knoll implied another shooter behind the fence, just as the glass from the limousine was missing practically as soon as JFK was still at the hospital in a coma, doesn't necessarily imply they were trying to hide the trajectory or that someone wasn't actually investigating it for forensics. I don't disbelieve the possibility that foul play was involved to some extent but people really do underestimate the competence of people within government (just as they put WAY TOO MUCH trust in those who acquire money through deception and fraud and think they are good at "handling money" when it involves other people and not themselves and their coterie.)
Ironically, Trump went to Russia and came back home and might even have Mafia ties, so it's kind of "funny" that he shares more similarities to Oswald. . .

While mentioning Trumps similarities to Oswald in the above spoiler, check out the book:
- House of Trump, House of Putin (Russian Mafia ties) 2018 Craig Unger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Crisman

Apparently, Fred Crisman isn't forgotten and I discovered an animation from 2023:

Fred Crisman: Cave of The Space Nazis!




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On The Silver Globe (Andrzej Żuławski, 1988) with hardcoded English subtitles

Best quality (CC needs to be turned on)
https://m.ok.ru/video/3230049962682
Matroska file with subtitles (better quality?) https://archive.org/details/na.srebrnym ... .-264-welp

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093593/

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Book:
Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success (2024) Russ Buettner
Other books:
- Too Much and Never Enough - How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man (2020) Mary L Trump (his niece)
- House of Trump, House of Putin. The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia (2018) Craig Unger

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