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Re: What are you watching?

Post by Catoptric » Sat Jan 14, 2023 2:35 am





It was a perfect storm of animosity made worse by a government that allowed things to fester (due to upstarts and greedy people who took advantage of a situation to help themselves to the spoils of war; $500 was pretty much the life savings of many people back in that time period, and the fact they would get paid that much to kill someone "legally" was what makes it all the more atrocious.)

It's also important to put some of this into perspective, Abe Lincoln's grandfather was killed by native Indians in the late 1700s, and he seemed to view them in the same way that a Confederate should be killed if they were intent on killing settlers (or people such as Germans who were offered to take over their land.)

An article to read:

President Lincoln reminds us to stand for principle and not for prejudice
https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-right ... d-not-for/

Or
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_L ... ain)#Death

This is free on Epic Games












And now people know why World Wars start in Europe. . .
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Re: What are you watching?

Post by Catoptric » Sat Jan 14, 2023 11:29 pm

I was pretty sure the "Philadelphia Experiment" was just some elaborate sci-fi that took on a popular interest, and the people in this presentation just started expounding on people's gullibility to profit off of it, though I really don't know.

People misinterpret a degaussing procedure as some kind of special secret project, which then got out of hand in people's imagination (a bit like how nuclear radiation "aka weather" test balloons were becoming increasingly associated with other alien-based stories.)
https://www.history.navy.mil/research/l ... iment.html

Moreso it was only corroborated by a known BS artist (according to his family)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Experiment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Meredith_Allen
https://www.de173.com/carlos-miguel-allende-carl-allen/

About 6 hours. . .




But wait, there's more!




Luis Elizondo claims the UAP were believed to be demonic by someone he was working with.
https://nypost.com/2021/04/30/feds-cove ... s-at-risk/















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The Director of this movie's highest-rated film is at 42% approval (based on a serial killer in Texarkana.)
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/town_t ... ed_sundown
Background story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texarkana ... ht_Murders



Start at 2 minutes (and play it at 1.5-2x speed. . . or not at all?)


Jefferson, TX seems to believe a Sasquatch was reported, and if you venture into the woodland area you can see the. . . Locals. . . living out in the woods. The Ozark mountains are spooky enough at night, and during the day you can hear a bunch of the rednecks living in those areas shooting at deer, with no consideration to the possibility they might accidentally shoot people.


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Re: What are you watching?

Post by avolkiteshvara » Sun Jan 15, 2023 1:39 am

White Lotus.

Fun to piece together more subtle parts of the show for hidden narrative.


But is really just a modern rehash of American Beauty and Matrix.

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Re: What are you watching?

Post by Catoptric » Wed Jan 18, 2023 12:54 am



Another Self Portrait (EPK) · Bob Dylan (Official music video)
https://www.facebook.com/bobdylan/video ... 7777980146

I had no idea he made a bunch of songs that were hardly recognized

: The Bootleg Series, Volume 10: Another Self Portrait (1969-1971)
https://www.amazon.com/Another-Self-Por ... merReviews

For some reason, it reminds me of 'Madcap Laughs' even if Bob never lost his mind.

I was looking into the weird quote (the Chief Commander, and holding his end of the bargain) and I tend to agree with this sentiment:

https://qr.ae/prCToD


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Live: Thursday at 3:30 (5:30 PM CST) PM PST:
“Chokepoint Capitalism” Authors Cory Doctorow & Rebecca Giblin in conversation with Brad Stone


Book:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/book ... ca-giblin/

Spoiler
Show
ABOUT CHOKEPOINT CAPITALISM
A call to action for the creative class and labor movement to rally against the power of Big Tech and Big Media

Corporate concentration has breached the stratosphere, as have corporate profits. An ever-expanding constellation of industries are now monopolies (where sellers have excessive power over buyers) or monopsonies (where buyers hold the whip hand over sellers)—or both.

In Chokepoint Capitalism, scholar Rebecca Giblin and writer and activist Cory Doctorow argue we’re in a new era of “chokepoint capitalism,” with exploitative businesses creating insurmountable barriers to competition that enable them to capture value that should rightfully go to others. All workers are weakened by this, but the problem is especially well-illustrated by the plight of creative workers. From Amazon’s use of digital rights management and bundling to radically change the economics of book publishing, to Google and Facebook’s siphoning away of ad revenues from news media, and the Big Three record labels’ use of inordinately long contracts to up their own margins at the cost of artists, chokepoints are everywhere.

By analyzing book publishing and news, live music and music streaming, screenwriting, radio and more, Giblin and Doctorow deftly show how powerful corporations construct “anti-competitive flywheels” designed to lock in users and suppliers, make their markets hostile to new entrants, and then force workers and suppliers to accept unfairly low prices.

In the book’s second half, Giblin and Doctorow then explain how to batter through those chokepoints, with tools ranging from transparency rights to collective action and ownership, radical interoperability, contract terminations, job guarantees, and minimum wages for creative work.

Chokepoint Capitalism is a call to workers of all sectors to unite to help smash these chokepoints and take back the power and profit that’s being heisted away—before it’s too late.


etc

Or



I'm more interested in:

The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism by Clara Mattei


Longer
https://youtu.be/9PyVS0ch9IY


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This seems to be getting delayed perpetually (maybe because no one can see Police the same way as they did in the 1980s?)

Steve Guttenberg fuels the Police Academy reboot rumors again
https://moviehole.net/steve-guttenberg- ... ors-again/



It's easy to forget the series was continued after the 1980s (Mission to Moscow in 1994) and a renewed interest was made of it.

Ranking the Police Academy Movies
https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/rankin ... my-movies/

I swear I've seen most of them, but mostly just remember the "noise guy."

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

Well obviously theirs a lot of other memorable characters/scenes, but it's mostly due to the nature of how Police and Detectives became tropes in movies, much like this film.




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Re: What are you watching?

Post by Catoptric » Thu Jan 19, 2023 6:42 pm








Fast forward to the start of the show






It seems to echo 'Bicycle Thief' (guilty, "not guilty," because of circumstances that compelled his actions.)


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I think the Adam and Eve Story is referring to a Crypto bomb (cryptography,) and posted the documents from the Defense agencies in the 'What are you Reading' thread, when I (think it was the same) watched an excerpt from this. I might be mistaken (since it wasn't apparent he was referencing a book recently published, though it seems to imply pole shifts and the actual documents don't show any indication?




A book mentioned in comments:

Worlds in Collision by Immanuel Velikovsky
https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-474/mode/1up


Update: I came across the document mentioned in the video and incidentally I "rediscovered" it looking over my pdfs, which I had for over a year. This is the file mentioned in the video: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CI ... 0001-8.pdf




Aside from the mouth ticks (I think of Slavoj Žižek and his "coke fiend" nose rubbing) he speaks the truth about how commodifying women's bodies as property to be extracted and recompensed for being squandered by "property violations. . ."





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Re: What are you watching?

Post by Yesterday » Sat Jan 21, 2023 10:41 pm

These two could be Madrigal's distant twin cousins.
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Re: What are you watching?

Post by Catoptric » Sun Jan 22, 2023 5:16 pm



https://archive.org/search?query=subjec ... urosawa%22

I somehow completely glossed over that Kurosawa made a propaganda film:

https://briandanacamp.wordpress.com/201 ... iful-1944/

I had a compilation of his movies and I thought the only ones missing was Yojimbo, Sanjuro Ran and Dodeskaden (aside from some of the movies either didn't play completely or were not with English subtitles.)

Kurosawa has films that will either bore the crap out of you with their delivery, or completely enmesh you in following every bit of it. I suppose the propaganda film was left out because they were selling to American audiences, but also for Kurosawa he felt more like that one Director that was abducted by Kim Jong Un and forced to make movies.


Referenced in the Dreams documentary











This reminds me of Burzynski
https://www.villagenews.com/story/2021/ ... 68427.html

Con job by the looks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burzynski_Clinic

Though is he a cancer quack?
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/stanis ... -practice/

Was he pitting desperate people's fear and hope for a cure against regulatory bodies to defend against accusations of being a quack?
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/stanis ... the-1990s/







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Re: What are you watching?

Post by Yesterday » Tue Jan 24, 2023 8:19 am

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Re: What are you watching?

Post by Catoptric » Tue Jan 24, 2023 6:55 pm




Read it instead:
https://musicbed.com/blog/films/podcast ... iot-rausch



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

Definitely was the basis for Red Dead Redemption 2


Currently playing Witcher 3 (last started it in 2016 and hadn't played it for more than 10 hours) though within the last few days have put in another 30 hours. Some will play the game for close to 200 hours to complete everything on the map.




The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (this is in English)





Next on the list Cowboy Beebop Season 1
streamed directly
https://www.adultswim.com/videos/cowboy ... -feng-shui

All Episodes animated by SHINICHIRO WATANABE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinichir%C5%8D_Watanabe

(Cowboy Beebop in addition to Samurai Champloo, Kids on the Slope, Space Dandy, Terror in Resonance, Carole and Tuesday, Michiko and Hatchin, Lupin the Third,
And movies Mind Game (2004), Macross Plus (OVA and Movie Edition which some would argue are both worth watching, though I would just do the movie.)


Mind Game requires the subtitle file added
https://subdl.com/subtitle/sd31847/mind-game

Alternatively, get a vhs copy of Cowboy Beebop that's 5x the file size (though is a bit like watching Cartoon Network circa 2000?)
https://archive.org/details/sitm1

I should point out the animated series was only ever intended to be 1 season (26 episodes) though it might have continued on initially had the animated version been more easily adapted for merchandise sales (such as model kits for the ship.)

More info:


Netflix (which I have never much cared for) tried to do an actor recreation of the series and possibly continue on into a second season, and this may not be a bad thing... that it didn't continue on further (and potentially ruin something that's considered somewhat iconic?)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1267295/
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Re: What are you watching?

Post by Catoptric » Fri Jan 27, 2023 5:11 am

First episode
Apocalypse: The Second World War - Episode 1: Hitler's Rise to Power
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=314777619583201

Playlist starts at 2->6







More https://archive.org/search?query=Guyver ... sted+Armor

A soporific health conspiracy.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6011454/




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