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Riot in Portland on anniversary of George Floyd's murder.
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
REVEALED: Ex-girlfriend of light yard rail employee who shot nine dead during union meeting before killing himself says he had bipolar disorder and another claimed he raped her and had alcohol-filled mood swings
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/27/2021 06:27 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Cassidy's spoke with NBC Bay Area, claiming he suffered from mental health issues.

A person "claiming" to be his ex GF - told NBC Bay Area that she and Cassidy dated for six months back in 2009 after meeting on Match.com. ".


Some basic math 2021 - 2009 = 12 years ago

With Official court documents of attempted RAPE, Restraining orders due to violent behavior and etc... All dating back to <2008 or 13+ years ago.

QUESTIONS:

YET, He was still hired?

PLUS, in California a Gun BAN state, he purchased and owned a firearm?

I guess in California a violent Mentally Ill person has a right to work in Public Service positions and areas. Especially in positions that could lead to the deaths and seriously injuries of the public?

Why does it seem states that have strong ANTI-GUN laws seem have more mass shootings than right to carry states?

Is it because the shooter(s) feel safer knowing he/she/it might be the only one in the room violating the law?

Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/27/2021 8:23 Comments || Top||

#2  It's dangerous to be in a union again.
Posted by: Glenmore || 05/27/2021 9:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Is it because the shooter(s) feel safer knowing he/she/it might be the only one in the room violating the law?

No one gives a f*ck about the law. Not even those who practice it.
Posted by: badanov || 05/27/2021 11:20 Comments || Top||

#4  If they barred the mentally ill from government jobs in California, the politician's couldn't get their relatives any sinecures.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 05/27/2021 12:42 Comments || Top||


Cops investigate gang-rape claim in Central Park
[NYPOST] Cops are investigating claims that a 19-year-old man was sexually assaulted in Central Park early Wednesday, police said.

The alleged victim told cops he was walking inside the park just before 1 a.m., at West 77th Street and West Drive, when he saw five men sitting on a park bench, police sources said.

The men then got up and followed the alleged victim, he told cops. He said he fell and was sexually assaulted by two of the men.
"They wore MAGA hats, carried bleach and a tiny noose, ya know? For my Jussie"
The alleged victim said the five male suspects, all about 30 years old, ran off after the incident.

The victim crossed paths with police as he left the park and did not report what had happened, according to police sources.

But he soon came across transit cops and first said that he was robbed — before later claiming that he was raped, the sources said.

Posted by: Fred || 05/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "The location is a Gay cruising spot, according to police sources".
Posted by: Unosh Hupinelet8756 || 05/27/2021 8:20 Comments || Top||

#2  You are correct there, UH8756.

During the daytime, that is somewhat noticeable.

At 1-AM when this gentleman was strolling through, that's about all it is (well, that and a target-rich environment for muggers).
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 05/27/2021 10:47 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Chicago unveils new foot chase policy following fatal police shootings of Adam Toledo, 13, and Anthony Alvarez, 21: Cops are BANNED from giving chase for minor traffic violations and must not separate from partners
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/27/2021 06:18 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  By any prudent cost/benefit analysis, given the Minneapolis conundrum, any foot pursuit that might result in any hazardous outcome for the perp unless involving imminent violence to others would be considered foolhardy. When in doubt, don't, and use the obvious uncertainty of outcome as an excuse. Voila. the SFPD outcome, armed report writers in a mobile office. Welcome to the 3rd world citizen!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/27/2021 19:15 Comments || Top||


Confirmation of first female Army secretary approved, then rescinded, by Senate
[FoxNews] The Senate approved the confirmation of Christine Wormuth as Army secretary by unanimous consent Thursday – after a strange reversal of an earlier confirmation Wednesday.

The first unanimous consent approval came Wednesday, but then Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., asked to reverse that decision. He didn't immediately elaborate on the move.

"As in executive session, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate vitiate the previous action on Executive Calendar 135," Schumer said on the Senate floor.

The Democrat deleted a tweet he had posted, hailing Wormuth's confirmation, Defense News reported.

After the Senate convened at 10 a.m. ET Thursday, Wormuth was again confirmed by unanimous consent, meaning she was approved without a senator objecting, avoiding a formal roll call vote.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/27/2021 06:12 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/27/2021 12:51 Comments || Top||

#2  ...or (you may have issues with them, but their ad is better as well)
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/27/2021 13:01 Comments || Top||

#3  I like the Ukrainian ad best. It is gritty and captures that whole essence of necessity so well.

Here's one of ours. Sung and edited by college kids, it was chosen as a recruitment ad for universities and even awarded by the MoD.



I am, I am, I am here.
The fire that burns forever.
Velocity no one can stop.
A height no one can touch.
I am. I am. I am here.
As long as I live.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/27/2021 13:43 Comments || Top||

#4  #2 I don't have issues with them - Russian speakers of Donbass have issues with them. I just find it interesting that most of these Ukrainian Nationalists speak Russian instead of Ukrainian.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/27/2021 14:38 Comments || Top||

#5  And most of use speak 'English'. :)
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/27/2021 15:38 Comments || Top||

#6  And most of use speak 'English'

???
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/27/2021 15:42 Comments || Top||

#7  Use guys allegedly speak English, you mean...
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 05/27/2021 15:45 Comments || Top||

#8  No comprendo.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/27/2021 15:49 Comments || Top||

#9  youse
Posted by: JHH || 05/27/2021 15:52 Comments || Top||

#10  "us"

"youse" is of the Hollyweird gangster dialect
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/27/2021 16:50 Comments || Top||

#11  ^😊
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/27/2021 17:07 Comments || Top||

#12  Also better than current USA.

Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/27/2021 17:24 Comments || Top||

#13  My Dad knew some people in the Venezuelan Armed Forces and respected them a lot, although that was Pre Chavez (tm).

(Although he didn't try to join the forces, like he did the Turkish Army...)
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 05/27/2021 17:28 Comments || Top||


High Cost Of Los Angeles Homeless Camp Raises Eyebrows And Questions
Posted by: KBK || 05/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  2600 per paved 10x10 ft tent space per month. Only in CA can you find this kind of corruption linked to plain stupidity. This is more than the rent for a 1 bedroom apartment with utilities.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/27/2021 13:06 Comments || Top||

#2  bonus

its from NPR
Posted by: Lord Garth || 05/27/2021 13:41 Comments || Top||

#3  The photo at the link looks like they're just sectioning off someone's parking lot for this usage.

Somebody's 'cousin' is getting rich.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 05/27/2021 16:07 Comments || Top||


Suicide rates increased in US by 30% for black people and 16% for Asians over last 5 years - and rate for African-American youth rose by HALF
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • A new study looked at suicide rates in the U.S. from 2014 to 2019 among different racial and ethnic groups

  • Rates spiked by 30% for black Americans and 16% for Asians/Pacific Islanders over the five-year period compared to 10% for white people

  • Among males between ages 15 and 24, rates soared by 47% for African-Americans and 40% for Asians in comparison with 20% for Caucasians

  • Overall rates among white Americans are still higher than among blacks at 17.6 per 100,000 compared to 7.4 per 100,000
    ...a point the headline ignores completely...
  • Experts say they don't know why rates are rising, but attribute it to factors including economic burdens and lack of mental health services for minorities
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Rates spiked by 30% for black Americans

Include suicide by cop and it'd be 50% at least.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/27/2021 2:29 Comments || Top||

#2  The whole Western Civilization is suiciding.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/27/2021 2:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Lemme guess: they demand moar whites suicide...for Equity™
Posted by: Frank G || 05/27/2021 6:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Experts say they don't know why rates are rising
Trump caused it, of course.
Posted by: Glenmore || 05/27/2021 9:30 Comments || Top||

#5  about 40k suicides last year in USA

about 80k drug overdose deaths last year in USA, probably about 20-40k were either suicide or oblivious of the possibility of death
Posted by: Lord Garth || 05/27/2021 12:20 Comments || Top||

#6  I'm guessing they believed Obama's lies and then things just got worse under his administration.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 05/27/2021 13:48 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Tucker Carlson Blasts Fauci, WHO, For Lying About Coronavirus Lab Leak For A Year (video)
[Summit] Outspoken host Tucker Carlson outlined Monday how the possibility of a lab leak causing the coronavirus outbreak was dismissed and lied about for over a year by those directing the pandemic response, and is only now emerging as a serious prospect because of the persistence of those who refused to be silenced.

"Pretty much every sane person acknowledges at this point that the government of China likely caused the single worst man-made disaster in human history," Carlson noted, citing the release of a US intelligence document acknowledging that workers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were hospitalised in November 2019.

The host noted that Anthony Fauci has admitted that he had no idea about the revelations, even though they were first brought to light in January, and rumours about the workers getting sick have been known for over a year.

"Fauci’s own employers, the U.S. government, publicly released compelling evidence that the virus that he has devoted his life to fighting, did not come from food, but instead escaped from the very bio lab that Tony Fauci has sent American tax dollars to fund," Carlson announced.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/27/2021 03:54 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Please leave the doddering old fool alone! Do we no longer like doddering old fools? He's being paid to 'move out and draw fire, create and perpetuate distraction. Fauci has been quite successful for over a year.

The Deep State memory hole managers are hard at work here. Good feather merchant Fauci is simply sustaining the false narrative. Would anyone rather have dangerous research such as this conducted at a DOE lab here in the States? Of course not. Ethics and legality of BIO weapon aside, outsourcing was the logical choice.

Move along please, it's for your own good.


Posted by: Besoeker || 05/27/2021 4:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Would anyone rather have dangerous research such as this conducted at a DOE lab here in the States?

No, no! Certainly not! We'd rather have that bio-weapon in the hands of our enemy!
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/27/2021 13:58 Comments || Top||


More than 20,000 people are homeless and 40 still missing in the aftermath of a volcanic eruption in eastern Congo that killed dozens and continues to cause strong earthquakes in the nearby city of Goma
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Amazon Gobbles Up MGM in $8.45 Billion Acquisition

[BREITBART] Amazon is officially acquiring the legendary Hollywood studio MGM in a blockbuster billion deal that will boost the Silicon Valley giant’s already sizable presence in Hollywood and give a competitive edge to its Prime Video streaming service.
Brilliant move in a time when people don't go to the movies anymore.
In an announcement Wednesday morning, Amazon and MGM said they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Amazon will acquire MGM for a purchase price of $8.45 billion. The deal is still subject to regulatory approval.

MGM had reportedly been valued at $5.5 billion late last year.

"Amazon will help preserve MGM’s heritage and catalog of films, and provide customers with greater access to these existing works," the companies said. "Through this acquisition, Amazon would empower MGM to continue to do what they do best: great storytelling."

The MGM library contains such popular titles as the James Bond movies, the Rocky and Creed movies, The Silence of the Lambs, Raging Bull, Basic Instinct, and the Legally Blonde movies. MGM also owns numerous movies from the golden age of Hollywood.

The MGM library also contains 17,000 TV shows. The surfeit of content will help Prime Video compete in the increasingly crowded streaming entertainment field, where Netflix, Disney+, and HBO Max are battling for dominance.

"The real financial value behind this deal is the treasure trove of [intellectual property] in the deep catalog that we plan to reimagine and develop together with MGM’s talented team," said Mike Hopkins, senior vice president of Prime Video and Amazon Studios, in a statement.

"It’s very exciting and provides so many opportunities for high-quality storytelling."

Amazon’s acquisition will help the Jeff Bezos company cement its status as a major Hollywood player. Amazon Studios is currently in production for a TV series inspired by The Lord of the Rings that is reportedly costing a whopping $465 million to make.

The MGM deal is Amazon’s second largest acquisition, following its purchase of Whole Foods in 2017 for $13.7 billion.

Posted by: Fred || 05/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's not for movies in theaters. It's for content on Amazon Prime. I won't be watching.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/27/2021 16:43 Comments || Top||

#2  so many opportunities for high-quality storytelling

The real financial value ... is the treasure trove of [intellectual property] in the deep catalog that we plan to reimagine and develop together

Woke renditions coming? Rocky will be a trans-sexual punching women?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/27/2021 16:52 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
GA. Governor Bans VAX Proof Requirements
[AugustaChronicle] Gov. Brian Kemp says public agencies in Georgia can't require people to prove they have been vaccinated against COVID-19, a step his administration says ultimately means no agency can require anyone to receive the vaccination.

The Republican governor issued an executive order May 25 banning vaccine passports and saying state immunization records can't be shared with any private company aiming to create such a record.

“While I continue to urge all Georgians to get vaccinated so we continue our momentum in putting the COVID-19 pandemic in the rearview, vaccination is a personal decision between each citizen and a medical professional — not state government,” Kemp said in a statement.

Kemp is running for reelection in 2022 and has been taking steps to shore up support among Republican voters still restive over claims that Kemp didn’t do enough to overturn Biden’s victory in Georgia. A number of Republican-led states have moved to ban vaccine passports, even though they are not in widespread use in the U.S.

Kemp earlier sent a letter to the state Board of Education urging members to ban public schools from certain teachings about race.

The order on May 25 also says no vaccine passport can be required for entry into Georgia, a move that could block any airline or bus line from using them.

It's unclear how far the rules go. Hall said he wasn't sure if the move would ban prisons, mental hospitals or juvenile justice facilities from asking whether inmates or patients had been vaccinated. The state must provide medical care for residents of such facilities.

It also wasn't immediately clear if the order bans the state Department of Public Health from including an entry for COVID-19 vaccines on the standard immunization record that pediatricians provide to parents enrolling children in child care or school.

Kemp did say that public employers could make different rules for vaccinated and unvaccinated employees, but must take the worker's word for whether they have received shots protecting against COVID-19, and couldn't require any proof.

Unlike many of Kemp's other orders related to COVID-19, it's permanent and doesn't expire when the health care state of emergency that provides sweeping powers to Kemp runs out.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  At least some entity wants to be HIPAA compliant.
Posted by: Clem || 05/27/2021 0:05 Comments || Top||

#2 

I posted this for 2 reasons

1. To show GA has a Governor thinking of the bigger picture. The RIGHT of the uninfected to Travel freely without a Communist style Inter-District Travel PASS document and the right to self determination.

2. PLUS. How a USA TODAY now OWNED local paper attempts to spin/mix RACISM into everything a Republican does that conflict the greater Socialist-Democrat Population Control Agenda.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/27/2021 8:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Great Governor !
He Understands Proof....
if any 'bug' can get through this, you don't need VAX proof.
Posted by: Flomorong Glosh8358 || 05/27/2021 19:15 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Dozens missing after Nigeria river boat sinks with 160 onboard
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] Betcha I know where they went.
Posted by: Fred || 05/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Belarus leader says detained journalist was plotting 'bloody rebellion'
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Wednesday a journalist pulled off a plane that was forced to land in Minsk had been plotting a rebellion,
...that’d be Roman Protasevich...
and he accused the West of waging a hybrid war against him.

In his first public remarks since a Belarusian warplane intercepted a Ryanair flight on Sunday between European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
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Posted by: Fred || 05/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Bloody rebellion...he's not BLM/Antifa, is he?
Posted by: Clem || 05/27/2021 0:09 Comments || Top||


#3  ^Are he & Erdogan pals?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/27/2021 6:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Migrants rushing to get into White Russia? Come on, Alex.
Posted by: Clem || 05/27/2021 7:52 Comments || Top||


Belarus accuses France of ''air piracy'' after re-routing of plane, says foreign ministry
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats


Putin recommends Covid 19 vaccine remain voluntary
Direct translation of the article
[REGNUM] Vaccination against coronavirus infection should remain voluntary, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting on economic issues on May 26 .

Follow the developments in the broadcast: " Coronavirus in Russia is a difficult situation, get vaccinated sooner "

"In my opinion, it is impractical and impossible to introduce compulsory vaccination, " the head of state said.

He noted that citizens themselves need to realize the need for vaccination and understand the danger they may face.

“This is especially true for older people,” Putin said.

At the same time, the president pointed out that in Russia the necessary conditions have been created for the vaccination to be safe.

According to the president, the coronavirus epidemic has revealed the main task of the authorities - to protect people.


Posted by: badanov || 05/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Roman Protasevich speaks on his service in Azov Regiment
by Aleksandr Kots
Kots is a Russian military journalist who writes and is a photographer for Komsomol Pravda
[KP]
“It happened on March 22,” says a fighter with the call sign “Kim” about his injury. - During a change in position on the right flank of the front line in the village of Shirokino, I came under fire from an enemy mortar battery, as a result of which I received a shrapnel wound in the chest. However, thanks to the professionalism of military doctors, I was back in the ranks a month later. "

The interview in the Belarusian edition “Nasha Niva” is illustrated with a photograph of a soldier with a worn-out face. But today the same photograph was distributed without retouching. On it - Roman Protasevich himself. In uniform and with weapons. If a month after being wounded he was back in line, it means that in May we were in the same place.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: badanov || 05/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:


China-Japan-Koreas
China has slammed the US for “spreading conspiracy theories and disinformation” following Washington’s latest push to wage a new probe into the origins of the coronavirus
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  FDA authorizes antibody treatment for COVID-19
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/27/2021 2:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Australian state of Victoria enters 7-day lockdown
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/27/2021 2:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Can't someone explain the meaning of 'head fake' to the Chinese ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/27/2021 3:11 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm sure Biden already cleared it with Xi that the US inquiry wasn't going anywhere substantive. The Chinese know and play theater, too.

This is just Zhao's 'Stage Time'.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 05/27/2021 8:14 Comments || Top||

#5  = The Bidens' payback to their CCP business partners. Making good on the multimillion $ debt
Posted by: Omolusing Phinter2881 || 05/27/2021 8:17 Comments || Top||


US issues COVID don't travel alert for Japan.
[Twitter-Bloomberg]
Posted by: 3dc || 05/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Fifth Column
Hollywood Is Running Out of Villains
[Foreign Affairs - Aug 2020] Fear of Authoritarian Regimes Is Pushing the Film Industry to Self-Censor
Twitter comment on same today:
Hollywood’s self-censorship is no passing fad, writes Kal Raustiala. U.S. film studios hesitate to criticize authoritarian regimes for fear of losing market access or drawing cyberattacks—and American soft power suffers as a result
What sets the United States apart from the rest of the world is and has always been its soft power. The Soviets may have equaled the Americans in nuclear capability, but they could never rival the appeal of the “American way of life.” And even as China tries to spread its culture across the globe, its rise tends to inspire more trepidation than admiration.

Many ingredients combine to give U.S. soft power its strength and reach, but entertainment and culture have always been central to the mix. Film and television have shaped how the world sees the United States—and how it perceives the country’s adversaries. Yet that unique advantage seems to be slipping away. When it comes to some of the great questions of global power politics today, Hollywood has become remarkably timid. On some issues, it has gone silent altogether.

The most glaring example is the growing wariness of U.S. studios to do anything that might imperil their standing with the Chinese government. China’s box office is as large as the American one, so Hollywood sanitizes or censors what China doesn't like...
Posted by: 3dc || 05/27/2021 05:36 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  So, we'll be seeing more Terminator reboots...
and musicals.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/27/2021 5:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Next Hollywood villain will be a white Christian American who supports Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Posted by: Airandee || 05/27/2021 6:47 Comments || Top||

#3  ^Why not a Zionist settler?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/27/2021 7:47 Comments || Top||

#4  /\ They tend to start successful small businesses. This clearly violates the current wealthy oligarch model, but you knew that.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/27/2021 7:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Hollywood running out of villans? Hardly. There's Trump...LTG Flynn..."insurrectionists"...Proud Boys...GOPers in general.
Posted by: Clem || 05/27/2021 7:54 Comments || Top||

#6  Hollywood long ago made white Englishmen, Russians and nordics generally their Ur-villains
Posted by: Tarzan Hupinert8604 || 05/27/2021 7:55 Comments || Top||

#7  Bring back Blofeld!
Posted by: Raj || 05/27/2021 9:22 Comments || Top||

#8  I suspect an international cabal of white folk (some with vaguely German/Jewish names) fighting against globalism (and socialism) would make the ideal Hollywood villains. Give such a group a name like Spectre or Trumpster and you're ready to go.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 05/27/2021 10:31 Comments || Top||

#9  If America asked them to censor there would be angry denunciations and outraged speeches at the Oscars.

China didn't even ask them. They did it themselves. The word for this is finlandization. The only way they get outraged is if you point it out to them.
Posted by: Sheger Thromotch7944 || 05/27/2021 10:50 Comments || Top||

#10  No they aren't. They just refuse to use the villians filling up hollywood studios and their masters the CCP.

Posted by: DarthVader || 05/27/2021 10:54 Comments || Top||

#11  No more Wakandan criminal masterminds?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/27/2021 11:38 Comments || Top||

#12  The bleak Hollywood masterpiece that attacked 'fake news'
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/27/2021 12:02 Comments || Top||

#13  ^ Another more recent one was 'Richard Jewell' by Eastwood. It explored the typical feeb mentality too. I really liked how it was made.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/27/2021 12:41 Comments || Top||

#14  I suspect an international cabal of white folk (some with vaguely German/Jewish names) fighting against globalism (and socialism) would make the ideal Hollywood villains.

Sum of All Fears - the movie.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/27/2021 13:35 Comments || Top||

#15  So, we'll be seeing more Terminator reboots...
and musicals.


Predator: The Musical was kind of good, or at least clever.

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Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/27/2021 14:04 Comments || Top||

#16  Hollywood will have to hire a new batch of way-out script writers with attitude, if they are going to survive...perhaps
Posted by: Pancho Scourge of the Chinese2750 || 05/27/2021 17:24 Comments || Top||

#17  Hollywood isn't interested in telling stories, because good stories require risk. Risk is what makes a story compelling. Hollywood is going to perceived market share; trying to appeal to everyone makes a generic story. Its why there is so much re-treading, or as it is called in Jean Claude Van Johnson, re-imagining, such as the last 3 Star Wars movies being re-imaginings of the original trilogy.

Compounding Hollywood's appeal is actors/actresses/(actrex? wtfc) chosen by Woke Boxes before talent, appeal, or even typecast.

There are still good storytellers out there. I laughed my ass off all the way through Psycho Goreman. I asked the guy next to me to pinch me in case I was dreaming.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/27/2021 18:07 Comments || Top||

#18  ^
I've done some thinking about what you just wrote...
I think you are on to something here.
Retread Stories make money, creativity is risk, why bother with new ideas, it makes your headache.

Posted by: Flomorong Glosh8358 || 05/27/2021 19:03 Comments || Top||


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Florida Becomes 23rd State to End $300 Unemployment Benefit Boost to Ease Business Hiring Woes
Despite Democrat and President Joe Biden’s administration’s efforts, Republicans are letting the American economy return to normal — in Republican states, at least.
[EpochNews] Florida officials announced an end to the $300 weekly federal pandemic unemployment compensation supplement on May 24, making the Sunshine State the 23rd state to opt out of the jobless boost in a bid to encourage people to get back to work amid a labor shortage and a booming economy.

The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO), the state’s employment agency, made the announcement in a release, with people no longer eligible to receive the $300 weekly supplemental Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation payment starting June 27.

While Florida is ending the $300 supplement, it is maintaining its participation in other federal unemployment programs—such as the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation, and Mixed Earners Unemployment Compensation—which expire in September. An early end may be in store for Florida’s participation in these programs, too, the employment agency suggested, as officials "carefully" monitor job posting and industry hiring trends.

The decision to withdraw from the jobless boost was in part prompted by April labor market data, which showed that total private-sector employment in Florida increased by 18,800 jobs, with nearly half a million job postings available in the state for job seekers.

"Florida’s economy has bounced back tremendously with over 460,000 jobs available throughout our state and the strongest economic conditions in the nation," Dane Eagle, DEO secretary, said in a statement. "Florida’s employers are also seeing employment growth, as more Floridians, including some who completely left the workforce, are now eagerly reentering the workforce.

With the move, Florida joins 22 other Republican-led states in dropping the $300 weekly federal jobless benefit boost sometime this summer—all in a bid to encourage employment amid sky-high levels of job openings and business hiring woes.

Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming all plan to end the $300 boost, while 19 of the states also plan to opt out of the other federal unemployment benefit programs.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Some former restaurant employees took jobs in other industries and have no intention of returning to the restaurant industry.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 05/27/2021 11:36 Comments || Top||

#2 
Yea, like the waitress/bartender from NYC, signed up for an election, got elected to the US House of Representatives, makes outlandish statements, hangs with 3 other female loons in the same occupation. Makes up stories out of thin air, has an imagination of a bottomless pit of shit, and has now admitted to being in therapy. She ain't going back to the waitress job...
Posted by: Bill Spawn of the Ostrogoths9027 || 05/27/2021 23:19 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Pakistan: 'Islamization' of education draws criticism
[DW] Pakistain's government is all set to implement a uniform education system across the country, which critics fear could increase Islamization of schools and universities.
Goody. No doubt that’ll work out well.
The first phase of the implementation involves primary school students in the first through fifth grades. The plan mandates the students to read the entire Koran with translation, learn Islamic prayers and memorize a number of hadith (words, actions and approval of the Prophet Muhammad).

It also stipulates that every school and college must employ a pair of certified Hafiz (a person who has memorized the Koran) and Qari (a Koran reciter) to teach these subjects.

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Posted by: trailing wife || 05/27/2021 01:54 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  I fully support this. People in pakistan are forgetting their great cultural legacy. They are the torch bearers of Islam in the world. What face will they show to Allan if they fail to keep alive the wisdom and knowledge of Islamic science, islamic geography, islamic civics? These are all great things. Think of the increased potential of their human resource when they focus on these essential truths and minimize the syllabi borrowed from kaffir western societies.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/27/2021 2:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Why with any luck, in a few years they may hurl across the border and make war upon the heathen Afghans.
Posted by: Cesare || 05/27/2021 17:15 Comments || Top||

#3  2028 School Agenda: Islam, Ignorance, Islam, Starvation, Islam, Hate...
Posted by: Frank G || 05/27/2021 19:30 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Satellite operator Viasat is calling for a stop to all SpaceX Starlink launches until a thorough review of the environmental effects of the rapidly growing megaconstellation has been carried out
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Because SpaceX providing real quality high speed low latency service blows ViaSat's business model straight to hell!
Posted by: 3dc || 05/27/2021 1:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Viasat is toast. When you switch from fighting your competition with engineers to fighting with lawyers, it's a sign you've lost.
Posted by: SteveS || 05/27/2021 3:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Competition is a marvelous thing. Problem is, there's a definite upper limit to how many LEO satellites there is room for up there.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/27/2021 10:02 Comments || Top||

#4  He who lives by the sword dies by the sword.

Elon Musk has made lots of money assisting the bullshit environmentalism destruction of other industries. If it hurts him...
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 05/27/2021 12:39 Comments || Top||



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