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Post by Catoptric » Mon Mar 24, 2025 1:08 pm

Seance on a Wet Afternoon (Bryan Forbes, 1964) Richard Attenborough
https://www.youtube.com/@GobekliTepe5000
They have some other movies including music that looks interesting (Brian Eno, etc.)
https://www.youtube.com/@GobekliTepe5000/videos

This one looks like a Mondo insect documentary?

The Hellstrom Chronicle (Ed Spiegel, Walon Green, 1971)


I was initially looking at the movies Richard Attenborough made (Chaplin from 1992 would have been his second to last one (which he followed up with Anthony Hawkins in a slightly strange one called Shadowlands, and it was kind of crazy he did both movies back to back while his films were overshadowed by his role in Jurassic Park) with a budget of $30 million and a box office of $10 million. . . though he was fairly competent at directing, and he wouldn't be the first to make a longer film that seemed to not pace it correctly with the storyboarding.) I watched the movie when it came out and still have a pretty good memory of it (and was following up on it when looking at other movies besides 'Streets of Fire' from 1984, which starred Diane Lane (it also stares Willem Dafoe, which seemed kind of odd with him as a villain, but it was a predictably cheesy film, so it kin of worked) which is when I got side-tracked. I have a tendency to kind of have such movies on a "back burner" and take forever to get around to watching it with the correct mindset.

Chaplin (Richard Attenborough, 1992) Robert Downey Jr, Diane Lane, Aykroyd, Hopkins
https://vk.com/video-51506472_456240789


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I'm mostly following up on anime films (but as usual, I can't just watch a foreign film of any sort that doesn't have dub, as I will constantly pause it while needing to read the screen. . .)

Space Adventure Cobra series (which I've only seen as a Sega CD game, but thought it looked interesting)

and

Hades Project Zeorymer (which I believe strongly inspired the Xenogears game more than any other; but then again the game borrowed heavily from many different sources for inspiration.)

On a similar note I'm finally getting around to Bubblegum Crisis (and only encountered Bubblegum Crash which was a sequel.)

As usual, it's easier to claim something and never actually do it. . . I think I've been trying to finish the South Park series and am about half way through, and each time I start to fall asleep or keep it off screen and paused. . . So I might need to distract myself from much of this in order to resume it.


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I still believe this is a real thing; with some caveats.

3 1/2 hrs (and possibly the best documentary on the topic of pedos in government)
(Pizzagate) The Big Picture Of Child Trafficking Pizzagate And Beyond by Renegade Films
https://odysee.com/@I-Rabbi-T:3/The-Big ... -Beyond:6a

This guy legitimately seemed to have lost his marbles, though he did have some interesting videos (though I'm not completely sure this is one of them.)

Mouthy Buddha Pedo Gate 2020 Part 2 'Tom Hanks' Documentary [14.08.2020]
https://rumble.com/vy49jh-mouthy-buddha ... .2020.html

Direct link: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/mouthybuddha/

Most of these people are crazy
Mostly pedo (wacko conspiracy theory, though worth studying up on) stuff: https://rumble.com/user/KimOsboel


I think with Google Chrome Rumble doesn't play unless you possibly log in, though I would us F12 and ctrl+f and mp4 to find the video to open in a new window (which also allows downloading.)

It comes to light more when you question what the heck Isaac Kappy was posting of children in what looked like some kind of alter in the middle of a room, which appeared to be a "spa" (though what a weird fucking spa, and I tend to wonder if the dude was supposed to get naked in the middle of it and get water splashed onto them from 3-4 year olds; and who the fuck other than a pedo would want that?)

And yet all of the Politicians having an evident sex-fiend connection suggests a bigger picture with politics (even Putin had a video out in the early 2000s suggesting that it showed him with a kid.) And then you get what seems to be legitimate former KGB who claims Trump was recruited as an easily corruptible stooge of the then USSR, and played out exactly as expected. It seems reminiscent of how a head of CIA becomes President and how Putin kind of echoes that trajectory of potential ties to possible conspiracy such as JFK.)

Also, after these documentaries came out all of the really weird crap regarding pizza seemed to disappear on social media (so all the weirdos with their weird posts and symbolism they talk about in these videos. And you also wonder about the 'Aristocrats' comedy sketch, and people like Bob Saget involved in America's Funniest Home Videos (who incidentally is smiling and laughing not as if from a dark comedy, but rather because he gravitates towards the kind of weird humor in public, apparently, just as if talking about it on Howard Stern regarding more "normal" adults?)

Normally I would consider it just people being stupid and paranoid (and yes, a lot of people are just straight-up bullshitters, but this isn't entirely one of those. If you condition people and hypernormalize certain behaviors, they are more easily conditioned to go along with being taken advantage of, while also making reference to some of the more lurid aspects of society.

Just because people no longer notice the more gruesome aspects of society (because it get's filtered away from them,) doesn't mean it no longer exists.


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Found a new website similar to Effedupmovies (which was down for a little while and came back online.)
https://www.film1k.com/category/horror/



Kimjongilia The Flower of Kim Jong Il (2011) Green Garnet Prod




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After he was freed, his interview strikes me as someone that was far too close to the location, and is the only one that would have matched the description of the person that walked down into the basement, having returned to the door that was unlocked by the woman's daughter (thinking he was a friend of the women in the household, as he had just prior been there) and even communicates in response to the actions of what the girl remembered in an Unsolved Memory episode (S1, E3) which had an update circa 1990s mentioning his name (which is why I'm here now following up with it, as he did get released. . .)

The way he blinks his eyes in response to his being accused, while describing his innocence in both this prior interview, and after being freed, suggest someone who was seen as a "bad man" by the family even prior to being accused. . . And which his affect seems very blank (and he reminds me of the character Hannibal Lector. . . A psychopath's expressionless affect, which seems very familiar to people that I notice to be confabulators. . . They are they kind that show such an absence of emotion that people are convinced they are either telling the truth--thus perceived as innocent--or are convinced by their elaborate details that they would have their patience tested if they attempted to unravel the deception, because they person will steer away from acknowledging the true victims or the people whose reputations are being screwed over just to prop themselves up.)

He probably isn't innocent, though I will admit this situation was pretty unusual, and it wouldn't be the first time people connected to the Police departments are prone to criminal behavior.






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In comparison to DOGE, Calvin Coolidge may have inadvertently caused the Great Depression (reducing government and deregulations would basically be the part not mentioned by this Economist.)







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The Boondocks (Aaron McGruder, 2005-2014) S1-4
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... F_2SU-LhDU

Some of Season 3 can be found here (as it's missing, though also when downloading as a zip file, it will skip over larger files due to virus scanning prompts)
https://m.wcostream.tv/anime/boondocks

Better quality can be found here, but it's missing episodes as well (and though the show looks good, I'm not sure it warrants larger file sizes exceeding 1 gig.)
https://archive.org/details/@buffering101

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373732/


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More series that appear to be complete

Bob's Burgers (TV Series 2011– ) - IMDb
https://m.wcostream.tv/anime/bob-s-burgers
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1561755/

BoJack Horseman (TV Series 2014–2020)
https://m.wcostream.tv/anime/bojack-horseman
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3398228/
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Re: What are you watching?

Post by Catoptric » Wed Mar 26, 2025 2:46 am




Nikola Tesla being mentioned in the first video undermines itself, as he is exactly how they describe Tesla here (and as I was posting the below link, I realize he repeats the same crap about Tesla being this super genius not made for this world; and he wasn't. . . If anything he was a charlatan that was an attention whore, just like Elon, who incidentally had another con job that used Nikola as the name for his company, and he was doing what Theranos did--and by that I imply ABSOLUTELY NOTHING--just to keep the grift train going. Elon would not have even been a name people remember if he wasn't getting his $40 billion in subsidies while pretending to give a shit about the envioronment. . . Only when it benefits him. Tesla lied and deceived people so he would remain in the spotlight, not unlike Barnum who had Tom Thumb bail him out, and when Tesla couldn't get money he resorted to making the owner of his hotel afraid to peak into his room, as it could cause some devastating Scalar (dethray) device to go off; or something to that extent.)

Debunking the Tesla Myth:
https://edisontechcenter.org/tesladebunked.html






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The creator of the game had uploaded it to Internet Archive (to spite the owners that booted the team and had some leave in rebellion) though it can now be found on Google Drive (the Mega upload decryption key doesn't work, which I'm glad I found out before it would have downloaded (as it used to in the past.)

https://www.tumblr.com/doccywhomst/707149251735666688


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Sega Meganet (Genesis internet browser for exclusive games) emulator
https://www.giantbomb.com/sega-meganet/3015-7697/games/

BBS Door games
https://www.mobygames.com/group/6091/bbs-door-games/

Look for an actual emulator, but I believe it might require going "old school."
A Playlist of someone doing a "Tournament" over various "realms" in a game I remember, called Legend of the Red Dragon (by LORD) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpkvifM ... R9JgvL1KyV

So apparently you have to buy a license to be able to host a BBS game, and this is one of them:
Barren Realms Elite - https://www.johndaileysoftware.com/prod ... ealmselite
Dungeon Master is one I recall - https://www.johndaileysoftware.com/prod ... geonmaster

I still need to look into it, but snapshots are probably sufficient.

Another link to animes
https://www.wcoforever.net/subbed-anime-list



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Detective Conan aka Case Closed (1996)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0131179/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_Closed

The American adaptation only lasted for 130 episodes, but the series went on for 30 years (1110 episodes. . . but I've seen worse with series being made in a few years with 50m-1hr each episode, which doesn't bode well for production quality,) and for some reason the Japanese episodes seem really different. I think I recall this being broadcasted on TV but it seemed to "kiddie-ish" and so I ignored it. It was planned to air alongside Sailor Moon (when such a series was kind of ignored past the first season; and I'm still not sure it doesn't actually seem more gay to watch that as a male when Dragon ball Z was starting to get recognized, but also the transition sequences and opening and closing credits comprised the vast majority of the animation. . . And the story never made any sense even when you watch the entire season, and then they rename the show for each season as though to rebrand it so you think it might actually be a completely different show concept.) The only reason I even watched it was because I thought I might learn more about Japanese customs and culture, but it was so off-the rail that I wasn't sure which universe it was supposed to comprise of.

The entire anime with subs is pretty rare to come by (or rather, what seems to exists is extremely organized but error-filled, and missing episodes. It seems to be at about 1151 episodes, and has 27 movies, and many OVA and Specials, interspersed with other stuff. I find it unusual to, that it has some missing episodes that are also missing from many other sources, and when you do find the episode, people have stopped seeding it for some reason. . .
https://archive.org/details/detective-c ... meDao+.mp4

And good like finding the season equivalent to the episode numbers. . . Though this will help: https://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Anime#Episodes

It also seems to indicate the movies also fill-in for the episodes?

Remastered up to about 500 episodes


The person who posted it I suspect to be autistic. . . They have nothing but train themes, including Galaxy Express 999, and some other stuff (all very badly organized and mismanaged, and the Conan anime will be a nightmare because the number for the episodes is not functional; and as usually I try to make sense of how the story arcs work together, along with any major shifts in story development; not to mention how different some of the dubs are, depending on whose releasing the series to foreign audiences which can easily make or break the series.) It's kind of surprising how widely different some of the localizations are. . . FF6 or FF7 were tamed down quite a bit, and they would have come across pretty lewd already, and then they went fully kiddie crap with Kingdom Farts.

This does seem like an interesting show (though again, I ignored it when it came out for some reason, probably because the show began when games like FF7 came out, and I was scrambling to find SNES rpg games that I never had the chance to play, or sought out new RPG games, not realizing how rare it was to find some of them when I did (because the vast majority of games are somewhat lacking.)





It has some recent adaptations:

Case Closed: Zero's Tea Time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_Clos ... s_Tea_Time




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Mission: Yozakura Family (2024)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31131310/
The anime is here hiding behind Galaxy Express 999 vids. . .
https://archive.org/details/mission-yak ... railer.mp4



Also,

Ramen Fighter Miki (2006) aka Muteki Kanban Musume which initially made me think it was a another cooking anime show.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1262009/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muteki_Kanban_Musume




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Supposedly this horse had been debunked (though that's just people saying crap they probably have no understanding of.)



If it's just memorization, it could be attributed to the Cognitive tradeoff hypothesis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive ... hypothesis

The horse:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beautiful_Jim_Key


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A bunch of animes in ISO form (Mount ISO; though their might be some other options. Apparently WinRar can extract. Alternatively people like to burn them, though it seems more absurd now days.)
https://archive.org/details/@anime_treasures

I also have an 8 volumes DVD set of of Maison Ikkoku which is becoming really rare to get ahold of, but it is ultimately better to find MKV format with dual-audio, than use VOB which seems to be cut up and designed differently.


Some very easily overlooked stuff was difficult to find (specifically trying to get this prelude OAV, could only be found here, in addition to a live-action video series from 2007-8 which has English hard coded in subtitles, which I managed to find in the process.

It's easier to click on the files list https://archive.org/details/ukokkinosiam

I've not checked what language the series is in, though believe they are all subtitled (and the English dub versions are rare, though can be found, and really add to the series (the subtitles give the characters a different personality.)

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I think this are OVA of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, but the info is kind of lacking.


Some of the scenes match this "Episode 8 OVA" despite it being the first episode of 6. The series itself is fairly big though never really was noticed until around the time Sega Dreamcast came out (and maybe I just overlooked it the whole time?)
https://archive.org/details/08.-the-foo ... art-1-1993

It says the series started in 1993, yet the episodes are all from 2000 and onward (so maybe it really was mostly just a videogame that was turned into a longer series? Similar to how HeMan was a toy that was turned into an anime series?)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0248119
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Re: What are you watching?

Post by Catoptric » Sun Mar 30, 2025 2:56 am

Suspected INTP



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The Tale of (Genji Monogatori) by Murasaki Shikibu, (c.973–c.1014)

The Tale of Genji (Gisaburō Sugii, 1987) Anime (which goes up to about chapter 12 (of many chapters.)
https://archive.org/details/The_Tale_of_Genji_1987

Audiobook:


Book:
https://archive.org/details/Genji_201802/mode/2up

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1001 Nights" (Yoshitaka Amano, 1998) Mike Smith (AI Upscale 4K)






(Poli-Culture Propaganda) Soft Power (Joseph Nye, 2005)

Modern History of Japan - Tokugawa to Present by Andrew Gordon
https://archive.org/download/japan-film ... org%29.pdf


Chindogu: The Unuseless Inventions of Kenji Kawakami
https://www.tofugu.com/japan/chindogu-j ... nventions/

Some books titled

99 Unuseless Japanese inventions - Chindogu (1998) Dan Papia
Bumper Book of Unuseless Japanese Inventions (2004)
(101, 99 More) Big Bento Box of Unuseless Japanese Inventions (2005)



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Nazis with terrorist tattoos in support of Israel and our Fuhrer. . . .
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=650886024469663





(4/1/2025). . . Congressional Hearing on JFK assassination with Oliver Stone, and a book off to the right of his left shoulder (probably a random person with no affiliation to Oliver, and probably not aware how much such behavior is the very sort of thing that leads to more conspiracy-mindedness from those who probably don't know any better,) is 'The Unspoken Kennedy Truth' (Laurent Guyénot, 2021) which is a Zionist conspiracy, with a cover showing Ben Gurion and LBJ off to the side of a picture of JFK, RFK, Oswald, Sirhan Sirhan (who if you listen to his interviews, it's obvious he was just really pissed and thought RFK was going to negatively impact the Palestinians (hence probably not a Jewish conspiracy as Ben Gurion wouldn't want him dead, amirite?)

A video by the author:

Israel And The Assassinations Of The Kennedy Brothers by Laurent Guyénot (same year as that book was published, and I tried to get that book on the usual websites, though his other prior ones have a very similar approach to conspiracy and are easily found.


The book is highly rated on Amazon, but that's because it "scratches the itch" for those seeking selective bias in their conspiracy-crack addiction.
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Post by Catoptric » Wed Apr 02, 2025 12:07 pm

Gonin (The Five) (Takashi Ishii, 1995) Director's Cut
Better quality though it will need the subtitle file from the main video since they put Portuguese subs in the MKV (I will need to edit the file to add English) :
https://archive.org/details/gonin.-1995 ... ace_202208


More movies
https://archive.org/details/@azzerty89p


https://archive.org/details/@rex_delacroix
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Post by Catoptric » Wed Apr 02, 2025 12:20 pm

Because of a system glitch (and reposting a duplicate of part of the next one,) I'll post newer revisions here:



The most known 'Police Story' film in the US released as Supercop (the third in the series.) A shorter version that was released and dubbed was 'Police Force,' (1hr 27m) and I'm not sure if the full 1hr 40 minute was ever fully dubbed. The second film might not have been released here unless it was an obscure subtitled film.





A bunch more kung fu films
https://archive.org/details/@konstantin ... ris?page=3

Other Asian themes series mostly
https://archive.org/details/@ultragoji2




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Keoma (Enzo G. Castellari, 1976) Franco Nero
This video doesn't have English subs, so either download the small version to find one, or the Matroska (10 gig file) should have an English sub.
https://archive.org/details/keoma.-1976 ... 4.-dts-fgt
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Post by Catoptric » Wed Apr 02, 2025 12:20 pm

A better quality theatrical release is on ok ru (or vk) and can be downloaded with pastedownload.

Pulp Fiction Recut (chronological order)
https://video.liberta.vip/w/oazhEfHTgJDpP4r4eAKLCN

The movie would have been closer to 3 hours long (from about 2 hr 30 min)



Several films are recut, including one that Tarantino wrote (apart from Reservoir Dogs, he was mostly known for writting scripts and seemed to constantly pissed with how his films were cut differently from his script. Incidentally this is one of the reasons Fritz Lang never watched his own film, Metropolis, because the production company altered how it was shown.)

https://archive.org/details/@agent_sam_stanley

Films are:
- True Romance (Tony Scott, 1993) 132m from 119m Quentin Tarantino Cut
- Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch, 1992) 195m from 135m Blue Rose Cut (adds The Missing Pieces scenes)
-> Basically it restructures the original and also adds an additional movie portion released separately, in a way that some consider more ideal for the story.
- The Vanishing (George Slulzer, 1993) 80m Re-Cut from 110m (Agent Sam Stanley)
- Sinister (Scott Derrickson, 2012) 90m Re-Cut from 110m (Agent Sam Stanley)


Two other fan edits that were made with the release of The Missing Pieces, which seems to include a few more pieces as they extend 3 hours of two movies, and add 15-26 minutes of other scenes. . .

Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me - Q2 (3hr 26 min fan edit) (David Lynch, 1992) scenes from Missing Pieces


Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me - Garmonbozia (fan edit) (David Lynch, 1992)
https://archive.org/details/fwwm_garmonbozia

(The above is just a slightly crapper version that can be found in the Agent Sam Stanley archive link, which has a 7 gig MKV format, and is has some cuts to shorten it. These are boring films that I felt compelled to speed up and skip portions, and even still the portions I was watching were more nutty and clashed with the intended realism they tried to convey at times when the characters tried to seem normal.)

And

Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)


I had only ever completed Eraser head and Elephant Man, and I also always put the Dune movie on the backburner (I find that I can only ever fully watch a movie if I know all the details the movie should demonstrate in the story, and consider most of the allure of his movies to be in how badly he manages to make the story cohesive. It's not atypical though, because many Directors are more focused on characters rather than story, and how it's intended to seem "interesting," which neither makes it more believable or appealing.


A crazy amount of films are here also:
https://archive.org/details/ivanhoe-195 ... sanders.ia



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Neil Breen (and one Stephen Segal called Above the Law) movies:
Twisted Pair, Pass Thru, Double Down, Fateful Findings
https://archive.org/details/@propanedrive

Obvious they have a fetish for bad movies.


Also, a lot of these:

https://archive.org/details/@analog_video_shop?page=4

You can find the full movie here (it's the dwarf movie) along with a Trey Parker film that goes by Cannibal the Musical.
https://archive.org/details/@vektroid


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Full movie (English is spoken though it goes by the Italian La Chiesa)
https://archive.org/details/t.-c.-1989
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Re: What are you watching?

Post by Catoptric » Fri Apr 04, 2025 4:52 pm

Conspirators of Pleasure
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspirators_of_Pleasure

Mostly nonverbal







Other videos by them are decent:

Ghost jobs ruined the labor market
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG102Dh2k9k

Why Entry Level Jobs No Longer Exist
https://youtu.be/p-GsJQS-eUw



Random:
https://archive.org/details/@lagranrevolucion
https://archive.org/details/@wkk643?page=4


Rififi from 1955 is one of the best movies involving crime (a bank heist film) and likely influenced numerous other Directors.



The basic file in that is pretty good, and I managed to create a MKV file using that mp4 and srt (MKVTooNix works well once I zoomed out on the program and noticed the bottom portion has buttons to add the mp4 and then srt, and then pushed 'Start Multiplexing' though for about 30 seconds I was trying to make sense of it.)


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Rocco and His Brothers (Luchino Visconti, 1960)


Has subtitles



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All the Bruce Lee movies (after creating MKV with found subtitles from the smaller files, I returned for the Matroska download.)



Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1980)




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Dr Russell Razzaque gives a pretty good explanation of how Trump's upbringing plays into his actions (and it's because he "feels" his particular brand of truth irrespective of facts that he convinces himself, that he chooses to disregard reality in favor of his need for control, in order to feel validated.)

I kind of wonder, if Trump started thinking he was Batman and that the tariffs he imposed on an island filled with nothing but penguins, that he was really opposing his arch-nemesis the Penguin? Incidentally he must have been propped in front of a TV screen airing a syndicated broadcast of a new TV show, and after slipping off into sleep, his reality has been permanently shattered; a few golf trips to distract himself of what he was supposed to do, and he automatically realizes he squandered too much money on things he should have been accountable for (like not spending it on gratifying his hubris with his pretending to be physically active, because pretending to be an effective leader and actually being effective are two different things.)

You can see parallels to Bush Jnr as he says, "now watch my swing," and in some weird way it's just imitating their daddy figure, which is more about pretend and imaginary approval, indifferent to circumstances (that other people's problems they themselves create by their own actions, are irrespective of their locus of prioritization and ego-proxy.

And yes, Gabor Mate is an advocate for psychotherapists to discuss trauma whether we are aware of it or not, because a child's mind (or those who keep their mental and emotional development repressed in metacognitive awareness) will not always understand how to rationalize events in a way that can not impose a sense of isolation or being neglected, etc. Personally I believe that the way an animal's behavior changes when around certain caregivers, and how someone is able to give acknowledgement to an animal in a way that is conducive to their health and well-being (beyond basic feeding) tends to show how they developing coping mechanisms and a reward basis for engagement with the world around them (akin to learned-helpesness and beginning to behave like a trained monkey instead of an autonomous individual or animal that feels heard.)

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Posting on social media and someone commenting, "it's and agenda" and my response is:
"To some extent yes, but I don't think he's playing into a larger role other than a self-serving one (one where those who he props up will pander to his need for validation.) Some similarities to how Hitler became the Muppet of the Nazi party."

A conspiracy theory of Trump is made in response
Spoiler
Show
Trumpstien is Chabad converted to Judaism two years ago, he's Black Nobility bloodline, House of Orange and Knight of Malta Plantagenet bloodline. America is a Queen's colony Corporation, every American President since Washington was related to King George including Obama except for Bidon, the top Rabbi's have crowned him the Messiah, one of Reagans executive orders was that Noahide Law supercedes and the Constitution is suspended in time of Marshall law or Civil war, ... Albert Pike 3 world wars.. 'Phoenix out of the ashes' the 4th Industrial Revolution depopulation.
My response:
I kind of know what you are getting at and to some extent it does make me wonder if things are scripted, sort of like the Simpson's episode with Trump going down an escalator mirroring the episode, which I assume he was aware of and wanted to play into the conspiracy narrative, or how a TV show, 'Orange is the New Black,' came out just after he was running for President and was replacing Obama's term, while also being about "felons" in prison while giving an entertaining vibe, or that his fake orange-tan is so evident (though I believe he was trying to imitate the appeal that JFK had over Nixon, when JFK had a health disorder that gave him a more "bronzed" and athletic or youthful look despite him being very unhealthy and needing constant medical attention, which nevertheless isn't how the TV interviews made him look.)

For some time I was more prone to look for hidden meaning and alternative beliefs (but it became more evident that people will use these ideas while feeling rewarded, while also feeling listened to, when so much of society just doesn't make any sense (and likely never will.) It's kind of like how my last name was believed to convey some secret of my ancestry (and I interacted with someone who has my same surname who adopted the title of 'Baronet' despite no legitimate acknowledgement of this alleged title, as if he just photoshopped his head onto an image of Napoleon and claimed it represented them.) and it became a common trope from ancestry to pretend they were nobles (though these were ancestors that lived rather poor during the 1800s who were basically incapable of tracing their ancestry before the 1800s, or kept no records of it, most likely because it didn't align with what they wanted to believe.) My maternal side can be traced back to the very earliest of the continent's history.

In a way I believe people seek answers where not much information can be gleaned from what is available. It's akin to knowing things about kabballah and occultism, and opening a floodgate for the first time by thinking that everything is connected; but the reality is too often far more chaotic and misleading, much as you can find the vast majority of all politicians who have intergenerational wealth from slavery, too often running the political landscape (much as the founding of the nation feared having the average person voting without some electoral college to keep things in favor of what they want; the entire founding of the US was based on usually more affluent aristocratic families that didn't want to have taxes imposed on them, and who generally have attempted to cling to power over a long period of time, enough to where they would even prefer to keep someone in power who ultimately has their financial interest maintained.

Most of it's an illusion of control, maintained to keep people from doubting that their society is mislead, all the while private interest groups then scoop up whatever is extracted from the debris created from the detritus of the population."
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Post by Catoptric » Sun Apr 06, 2025 11:07 am



She mentions: FASAB-F56

FASAB Statement 56: Understanding New Government Financial Accounting Loopholes
https://home.solari.com/fasab-statement ... loopholes/

An article from 2018 that describes the $21 trillion deficit, but it seems it was coauthored by Catherine Fitts (which she doesn't mention being part of the study she's referencing, and now I'm thinking this is entirely a bullshit claim, similar to Trump's financial advisor who emails himself statements claiming he has a source confirming his tariff policy. . . The Author, Peter Navarro who in 2011, wrote a book called, 'Death by China' is completely fabricated, and he used the same pseudonym palindrome of his name repeatedly in other books he wrote, and I wouldn't be surprised if more bullshit is behind all the nonsense claims.

Is Our Government Intentionally Hiding $21 Trillion In Spending?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kotlikoff/ ... -spending/

Originally my comments posted below were in reference to some pro-tRump and fElon Fox news bullshit (where the imbecile sharing it was using the acronym TDS, etc like the usually mindless fuck that would tell people who took offense to all protestors of being called a Boomer at rallies (when I'm sure the younger crowd in the audience don't count, probably because they have to actually work their shitty jobs.)
Spoiler
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These were the videos:
20 minute long Fox turd:


Fucker Carlson
Even in Trumps first term, what he was trying to accomplish with tariffs had the opposite effect (wanting to increase GDP to spending ratio when the ultimate result was a decrease in money in GDP) while the stock market had irrational exhuberance (no different than what happened before the Great Depression, which had tariffs increased, which only exaggerated the debt and increased the existing problem that was on the tail-end of the Gilded Age.)

I've posted a bit on this thinking, but I might be even more biased (the people that are protesting know what they support; "patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel," and "a true patriot will support their country even when the government is opposed to it," are aphorisms that work.)

Though you make no mention of it, I also find it a bit ironic that most Trump supporters mention Soros as the enemy, when the very Treasury Secretery worked alongside Soros, and is a protege.

While it should also be pointed out, the tariffs are incurred upon by the consumers, and are normally used strategically (kind of like an embargo or to dissentivize consumer spending habits.) This is crony capitalism intended to curry favor with plutocrats who are the only ones who will benefit (and if you look at Argentinas politics, the same direction they took is not having the intended effects, and only negatively impacts economic growth, because it destroys the interior economy (so if "economic growth" means not looking at the collateral damage, because everyones been (metaphorically) marched off to camps and gold extracted feom their teeth, and are hidden away from public view, they don't need to be made aware of the ghettos springing up around them.

Parallels to Haiti:
That kind of corruption is unique to all politics, and when you consider "saving money" it also shouldn't extend to those who have the most to gain from it.

For one, conflict of interest:
Musk publicly stated he would not show conflict of interest with Doge, and even though he clearly had self-interest in mind--his actions were intentional to disrupt the very clear corruption and threat imposed by financial institutions--and ensuring the public was not put in harms way. Given that Cybertruck is considered 17 times more deadly than the Ford Pinto, it's safe to say he had a conflict of interest in what he did with Doge.

Trump knowingly gave subsidies to corporations that are already profiting greatly and admits this during public hearings, which to me is a conflict of interest with those he props up and vice versa, while also going on golf trips and paying Doge $8 million daily equally, including showing conflict of interest in using Mar-a-Lago as the staging ground for his own wasteful spending (and profiting from people being charged to stay there) where they are known to continue to dismantle things which ultimately favors his own business interests (such as Musk not being accountable for $1.4 billion in Tesla, who also shows conflict of interest that would have been prevented from happening, when he used his own companies to bail himself out with Twitter/X.)

So while discussing similarities to Haiti, not long ago was the issue with USAID being dismantled and $500 million worth of food going to waste. It might have been resolved, but usually the kinds of measures being taken are not to save anyone but themselves.




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In many ways, corruption is very likely endemic to governments, and in addition to the $2.3 trillion that Donald Rumsfeld talked about the day before 9/11, a lot of sketchy stuff happened, including prior knowledge of when the event would happen.


9-11 Conspiracy Solved - Names, Connections And Details Exposed (2012 circulating from different accounts online)


The video discusses that even the planes on 9/11 might have been chosen specifically because many boarding it were in the defense department and were being "replaced," basically. If true, what Trump is doing with the departments is not too different apart from people not being killed. Whether it's just "connecting" random misinformed conclusions, or it was a lot more organized and calculated, and those who took part in it might even have tons of offshore money that still hasn't been accounted for. Such money can also be used to prop up the stock market in order to manipulate it in a desired direction, which may also factor into who got bailed out during 2008 because they were essential to maintaining the illusion that fraud wasn't going on.
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Post by Catoptric » Sun Apr 06, 2025 4:26 pm

Forensic Files (1996-2011) which I seem to have forgotten about
https://archive.org/details/forensic-files-collection

Episodes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_F ... s_episodes

Missing Forensic Files Episodes from Archive.org (some of which were blocked by IP on YT)
S5E6 "Memories" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnCbg66Tse0
S7E6 "A Bite Out of Crime" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKfvX6w0dO0
S7E31 "The Sniffing Revenge" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDae_W1sz90
S8E38 "Honor thy Father" https://youtu.be/xcesFectxuo
S10E42 "Enemy Within" https://www.facebook.com/ForensicFilesg ... 5767255475
S14E18 "Auto-Motive" https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1536141690286603

Missing Special Episodes
2 Eight Men Out https://archive.org/details/forensic-fi ... re-episode
3 See No Evil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd8Ru_cIgKo
4 The Buddhist Monk Murders https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbCs0dijTfA
6 The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping: Investigation Reopened https://archive.org/details/06-the-lind ... re-episode



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Southland Tales (Richard Kelly, 2006) Cannes Cut (has prequel comics, but the prequel videos (Part 1-3) should also be in this upload, and I suggest watching them before the movie, which happens to be the longer version of a 2 1/2 film)



Comics:
Southland Tales: The Prequel Saga (complete I - III)
https://archive.org/details/southland-t ... 20Diverge/


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The NeverEnding Story (Neue Constantin, 1984) Extended German Cut (English audio)






Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart (Stéphane Berla, Mathias Malzieu, 2013) Dionysos band


They made an album and published an illustrated book in 2006, though updated it around the time the movie came out in 3D.
La Mécanique du Cœur Instrumentals Dionysos band (by Mathias Malzieu)



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AUF WIEDERSEHEN, PET (S1-4, 1983-1986, 2002-4)
Individual episodes (larger files) https://archive.org/download/classic-br ... %2C%20Pet/
Full series in one video plus specials https://archive.org/details/@carsdvd05

The first link has a bunch more British series if you click back on it, though it would be easier to find alternatives and just use it as a reference point (and aside from these ones, their are many more that are pretty highly rated.)
Direct list - https://archive.org/download/classic-british-tv-pack


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A really kooky 1970s Japanese series (use CC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiketsu_Zubat

complete: https://archive.org/details/kaiketsu-zubat-


Another:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inazuman
https://archive.org/details/inazuman-


A paraplegic superhero. . .
https://archive.org/details/gand-d-





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You can find TV series scattered throughout some listings, but also search the page for the Red Peony (Gambler or Villain when released in the USA) and has 8 movies total in the series.
https://archive.org/details/@ultragoji2 ... ers&page=3

The Red Peony Gambler series is similar to Zatoichi, as they go around and try to solve things or help people.

Some of the TV shows in 'Mystery Solvers' are:
Trick (2000) which also had a movie that came out in 2014 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303558/
The Locked Room https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2284143/
Cutie Honey They Live https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1119377/episodes/

I suspect the Red Peony Gambler also inspired this movie

Female Yakuza Tale: Inquisition and Torture (1973)




Not sure I want to watch these, though worth checking


Dr Who (2005-2022)
https://archive.org/details/doctor-who_202407


Tomorrow People (1970's Sci-Fi that is targeted to children)



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Some animations (Tadahito Mochinaga, Jiri Trnka)
https://archive.org/details/@robinesse32

The 3 part series can be found with english subs in one video on Youtube.

Other animators worth looking into
John and Faith Hubley 1956-1973 (prologue for Watership Down was his last project)
Ralph Bakshi


A banned anti-Communist animation (with live-action sequences) based on a play

Mystery-Bouffe (David Cherkassky, 1969) (Play by Vladimir Mayakovsky 1918-1921)
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Post by Catoptric » Fri Apr 11, 2025 11:12 pm

Malcolm McDowell aged pretty quick within a decade after A Clockwork Orange. This was a "made for TV" movie, and it wasn't until the Star Trek movie, that he was mostly doing TV acting gigs, including an episode of Tales from the Crypt (which admittedly was a decent series, though pretty much forgotten today.

Gulag (Roger Young, 1985) David Keith, Malcolm McDowell




A really rare book (in two volumes, and I can only find the first one) that was only published once in English, about a Gulag escapee, was made into a Georgian TV show that stretches on for 7 1/2 hours.

Data Tutashkhia - Chabua Amiredjibi (1921-2013)

Has subtitles (which can be translated as well as downloaded though I doubt anyone will bother watching it; it is kind of unusual.)






Also, Game of Thrones S2-7, along with the first season the uploader posted, though I believe they all have Arabic subtitles hardcode (in an freaking MKV no less, when they could have just added a subtitle file, but they also added some big dumb ass watermark on the top corner. . .) An alternative was found but it's about 350 gigs total (though does include the last season.)
https://archive.org/details/fares1_GOT

I never cared to watch past Season 1, and Season 8 would have come out after these were uploaded, though only the first 3 episodes seem to be worthwhile (and it seems as though once that season came out, people pretty much ignored GOT (A song of Ice and Fire,) though GRR Martin has yet to publish the final (7th) book, The Winds of Winter.

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

That also is supposed to follow after a 6th book, that has fake reviews and 14,000 ratings, dating back to 2012 when GOT TV series was just starting out. . . And people comment on the insanity of the GOT fanbase. . .

https://www.goodreads.com/series/43790- ... e-and-fire


Further reading, I started wondering if GRR Martin planned to have other people continue to finish his books and potentially continue on indefinately, such as what happened with Tom Clancy and Robert Ludlum (and of course sometimes a pseudonym will be used for book series, where no actual such name is used for a real person, though the series creator is a well-known secret, though that is not the case here) and he responded that he (or his wife) wouldn't let anyone publish his works during their lifetimes, though that it might be possible they would after he dies (and perhaps he will allow it in his will with intellectual property.)


https://fandomwire.com/i-dont-think-my- ... ter-delay/


I'm surprised their wasn't a clause when Game of Thrones the series was created, stipulating he was supposed to complete it during the making of it, though apparently not.)



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This is pretty insane. . . The cases of the people murdered no only indicates what shitty people exist in the world, but also the onlookers, and crackhead Police.





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I was forgetting that a sequel (prequel) for GOT came out, but was a bit surprised to also discover that the LOTR Ring of Power series cost $450 million more to produce, and is generally crap.

This review is very tongue-in-cheek.

A followup:


Compare that with this:
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