The Imperial Collapse Playbook

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https://www.tmz.com/photos/2020/09/22/celebrity-vote-register-instagram-photos/

The article says "A-listers" and I had to scroll a bit to find one! Yeah, let's wear a mask and underwear to raise awareness!! Freaks.

I didn't know Heidi Klum is an American citizen. I guess she applied for it so she could vote for Obama! lol These rich people just get a new citizenship with ease or what? Makes me feel silly about poor immigrants and their status in America.

Isaac Asimov, naturalized American citizen
Alexander Graham Bell, naturalized American citizen
Nikola Tesla, naturalized American citizen
Albert Einstein, naturalized American citizen
Enrico Fermi, naturalized American citizen
Zbigniew Brzezinski, naturalized American citizen
Henry Kissinger, naturalized American citizen

Heidi Klum, naturalized American citizen

That's quite the list she belongs to. lol I'm also surprised at the amount of athletes. I can't believe Dan Akyroyd and Lorne Michaels were/are Canadians!

 

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I do admit, Marlon Brando's Sacheen Littlefeather protest is exemplary.

“I suppose they were booing at me as I interrupted their fantasy with a little reality” -Marlon Brando

Here is Clint Eastwood making a joke about it! I guess some things never change!

What's changed is how lame Hollywood protests are. It's not so much as Hollywood but the audience don't care much for it. Legend has it that what made Will Smith slap was his frustration with how lame Hollywood protests are.

Why am I posting this? Because Hollywood is a big part of the empire.

Bridging the Pacific gap: Hollywood in post-WWII Japan

Bridging the Pacific gap: Hollywood in post-WWII Japan

Hiroshi Kitamura discusses his new book "Screening Enlightenment."

www.wm.edu

Asia can make its own movies now. America is no longer special.

To me it seems like the culture has resulted to people like Tom Cruise and Lady Gaga showing up in Tokyo once a year to stack Yen. I feel like the empire has sucked enough money out of Asia already. Enough!

 

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On July 28, 1949, a group of men quietly gathered at Shōchiku studio for a closed screening. It was the day to view the rushes of Murderer (Satsujinki), an extended court story about a man’s suspected killing of his wife. Present in the dim room were three company representatives, three legal experts (one Japanese, two American), and two censors from MacArthur’s Civil Information and Education Section, which routinely monitored the content of the movies. The CIE censors had taken great interest in this production, as they believed that it could introduce “democratic court procedures” and “enlighten . . .

Some things never change

The problem of history’s (and collective memory’s) corruptibility is exacerbated by the absorption of these altered narratives by societies living under the aegis of those making the histories. Why there is such little resistance by people exposed to politically modified histories is a topic for debate, but most scholars seem to agree that “in creating collective memories, societies are not bound by the same rules of evidence that discipline historians.” Kansteiner identifies “a troubling disregard for proof” as a cause for the seemingly indiscriminate acceptance of historical representations among societies. What results from such a combination of historical manipulation and unchecked absorption might resemble the dystopian picture painted by George Orwell in his famous novel 1984, where the State reveled in the blind adherence to the myth-histories it propagated. The occupation of Japan had just begun to ease its restrictions on Japanese media outlets and allow for open communication about the war in 1949, the same year Orwell’s novel was published. The formal occupation of Japan, which would continue for another three years was likely the most cogent example of what Orwell had warned the world of.

For some odd reason it reminded me of this

lol freedom and democracy

[I keep forgetting that strong adherents of democracy has said that democracy doesn't mean 'everyone is involved' -- no way they say -- democracy is reserved for the rich and those with credentials. So I ask, can we at least get more meritocracy? Getting rich by showing cleavage isn't a merit.]

 

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I do admit, Marlon Brando's Sacheen Littlefeather protest is exemplary.

“I suppose they were booing at me as I interrupted their fantasy with a little reality” -Marlon Brando

Perhaps at this moment you are saying to yourself what the hell has all this got to do with the Academy Awards? Why is this woman standing up here, ruining our evening, invading our lives with things that don’t concern us, and that we don’t care about? Wasting our time and money and intruding in our homes.

I think the answer to those unspoken questions is that the motion picture community has been as responsible as any for degrading the Indian people and making a mockery of his character, describing his as savage, hostile and evil. It’s hard enough for children to grow up in this world. When children watch television, and they watch films, and when they see their race depicted as they are in films, their minds become injured in ways we can never know.

Recently there have been a few faltering steps to correct this situation, but too faltering and too few, so I, as a member in this profession, do not feel that I can as a citizen of the United States accept an award here tonight. I think awards in this country at this time are inappropriate to be received or given until the condition of the American Indian people [of the world] is drastically altered. If we are not our brother’s keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.

from 1973 -- some things never change. RIP Hollywood, it was super nice knowing ya. Hats off, really.

 

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LOL

Hollywood in a nutshell LMAO

 

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The US will stop providing $4 billion in annual military assistance to Israel starting next year, President Donald Trump has said.

“We give them more than anybody else, and they no longer need it. We’ve been doing it for years. I’ve been doing it, but Israel is a very thriving country. They don’t need it,” Trump said in a phone interview with Fox. “We made a deal months ago that we’re stopping,” he said, adding that Washington would “keep it going” if West Jerusalem still needed assistance.

Translation: We'll just bomb the middle east for them instead.

The president acknowledged that his decision has a political dimension. “The left uses the $4 billion payment that everybody knows about… as a signal of unfairness, and we can’t allow that to happen,” Trump said. “Why should we suffer the slings from lunatics like an El-Sayed when they don’t need it? It’s a bad... talking point.”

Translation: El-Sayed is sort of an anti-zionist. That's literally like antisemitism and we don't do that here in America.

El-Sayed explained why he supported sending American military aid to Ukraine in its war against Russia but opposes sending aid to Israel as it fights Hamas and other armed groups in the region.

“In Ukraine, you’re talking about attacks from a leader of a neighboring sovereign country, who clearly violated international law in attempting to breach the sovereignty of the Ukrainian public,” El-Sayed said in an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press.

Translation: The shitshow must go on!

 

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Sure, congrats to El-Sayed for being the first Muslim senator and that sounds like democracy considering Michigan has something like 6th largest Muslim population in America.

He hasn't voted for anything, he's just been talking, so I can certainly give him the benefit of the doubt.

I just think he belongs to a groupthink that produces people like Sean Penn

Penn gave one of his Oscar statuettes to Ukrainian President Zelensky during his visit to the country in 2022

Penn explained his thinking behind giving one of his Oscars to Zelensky in the wake of the Academy’s decision not to let Zelensky speak at the 2022 ceremony.

“I thought, well, f---, you know? I’ll give them to Ukraine. They can be melted down to bullets they can shoot at the Russians."

Having a puppet president speak at the Oscars is lame. Sean Penn is lamer!

I've been inching closer and closer to understanding the Russophobia for years. I've still got miles to go but I think somebody on El-Sayed intelligence level cannot possibly believe that America is protecting democracy in Ukraine. That's an outrageous claim!

 

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Having a puppet president speak at the Oscars is lame.

By Tarik Cyril Amar : a historian and expert on international politics. He has a BA in Modern History from Oxford University, an MSc in International History from the LSE, and a PhD in History from Princeton University. He has held scholarships at the Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and directed the Center for Urban History in Lviv, Ukraine. Originally from Germany, he has lived in the UK, Ukraine, Poland, the USA, and Turkey.

Ukraine’s hidden torture system is the West’s shame too

A scandal near Kiev has exposed forced conscription, extortion and torture – now watch Western backers look the other way

In Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, a fresh scandal has erupted. And while the Zelensky regime has a long and imposing record of spectacular misdeeds, this one has a quality all of its own.

For what has happened in the town of Petropavlovskaya Borshchagovka, effectively a suburb of the capital, brings together several of the most cruel, venal, and unscrupulous practices of EU-NATO Europe’s favorite gangster regime: mass kidnapping its subjects as military slaves for a Western proxy war against Russia, turning the same operation into a vicious extortion scheme, and using brutal violence – including torture and murder – to make it all go round.

None of this is news, all of this has long been known to anyone willing to listen to actual ordinary Ukrainians, the ones sacrificed en masse to an insane Western attempt to take down Russia via Ukraine. But then, neither Western mainstream public intellectuals nor media are interested in what these real Ukrainians suffer.

That complicity was on display as if under a magnifying glass, when a US citizen, the critical blogger and journalist Gonzalo Lira was tortured to death – in classical Zelensky-regime fashion – to both make an example and fleece him. The case was buried. Indeed, Lira could have been saved easily, if the American authorities who knew of his fate had intervened

The Zelensky regime’s impunity is stunning. Not quite yet Israel-level but getting there. And as with Israel, the reason for this abysmal situation is a toxic mix of – very bad – geopolitics and moral and intellectual perversion. For years, Western establishments, from public war propagandists such as Timothy Snyder who has even helped collect money for an Azov unit, to politicians have obfuscated the truth about the West’s favorite client regime, its violence at home and its best friends on the Nazi-level far right.

Western publics have been brainwashed not only with Russophobia but with a systematic campaign of lies and omissions to embellish Zelensky and his vicious regime. That is why what has just come to light, again, in a Kiev suburb, is not only about Ukraine but about the West, especially NATO-EU Europe: They claim that Zelensky’s Ukraine is a frontier where their “values” are being defended and practiced. I, for one, have come to believe them.

And the values in question are those of thieves, torturers, and murderers who betray their own people to enrich and empower themselves. Like Gaza, where the same ‘exemplary’ Europeans are complicit in an Israeli genocide, Zelensky’s Ukraine reveals the truth about this version of ‘Europe.’

Ukraine’s hidden torture system is the West’s shame too

A scandal near Kiev has exposed forced conscription, extortion and torture – now watch Western backers look the other way

rt-english.com

 

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The machine gun bunker in Saving Private Ryan? Fake.

I've read about the water cooled machine guns and how soldiers would sometimes use their own urine instead of water!! Can you imagine the stench while murdering people? Dang.

So, the Russians beat the Nazis -- nevermind that.

I'm really offended that the midterm election is being called the "Blue Tsunami"

Some estimates say 8 million horses, mules and donkeys died in WW1. That's so sad.

During the 1932–1933 Holodomor, starving Ukrainians resorted to eating unconventional items like boiled leather from boots and shoes to survive.

I no longer want to hear US soldiers complaining about paper cuts they get while bombing Iran. Sheesh.

Isn't it time to disconnect our grocery stores off the internet?

One thing I truly wish is that Michael Jackson had the same plastic surgeon as Tom Cruise.

You know they say it's not a one time thing. Once you lift your face, you gotta keep lifting it again and again.

I'm so glad people don't like Elon Musk now - we were headed for disaster with his brain chips. Maybe good for disabled people but for me playing video games with my mind sounds lame.

Just to let everyone know, I don't play video games anymore -- they're boring.

So, I just read that popular candies have arsenic in them. More reason to boycott Halloween? Nah, it's already in our water.

Recently, people in NYC have been arrested for entering manholes! I'm pretty sure people have been living down there for over a hundred years!

All these leaders of foreign countries commenting on the US midterm election like it matters! Ha! I saw a Japanese politician refusing to comment on the matter and I was like "heck yeah!" -- but later I digressed and concluded that he's been told to do so by ghost of General MacArthur.

Remember, when the west speaks of human rights, it's just noise.

Please, don't cut a hole in your window screen so you can fit a phone charger through it to play music on the patio. The sounds of birds are fine for me.

Every time I watch House Hunters and see Americans trying to buy a house in Europe I get embarrassed.

I'm certain there's more to it with the recent cyberattacks than mere "hackers from North Korea" !!

One time I heard that the Rosewell UFO crashed from a lightening strike and I thought it was complete bullshit.

Whoever these E.T.s are visiting Earth, they must be some kind of freaks and outcasts from their native planet! But hey, it riles up the kids. Mars this, moon that.

Forget Hallow Earth, we're moving on to Hallow Moon. Hallowed be thy name. Through the valley of shadow of death Halloween my ass. Lame.

Dressing up as a homeless person? Bad. Dressing up as white trash? Okay. Dressing up as a black person? Cultural appropriation! Dressing up as Trump? Funny as hell!

Grown adults stealing a bowl full of candy from doorsteps? Shameful. I say, hey it's your arsenic!

Cyanide in apple seeds? God's way of saying "hey don't eat that, you'll run out of apples"

Scientist: No, the apples that didn't produce cyanide in its seeds went extinct.

Me: Word.

Have you seen photos of watermelons before human intervention? That crap looks weird.

I heard bananas are genetic clones.

My neighbor gave me a wal mart brand cola and was like "it's so much cheaper than regular coke" -- it also taste like cough syrup.

Long ago, I was at a mall and a Pepsi employee had set up a table with two cups. He wanted me to pick the better tasting cola out the two and I kept picking Coca Cola. He refused to budge and kept telling me to pick and pick again like I was playing some kind of subway magic trick for money.

Eating blowfish? The thrill really isn't there because the processing plant takes out the toxic part and vacuum seals the eatable parts!

If you live in the midwest, don't go to a sushi restaurant and ask "what's fresh?" like a douchebag who failed geography -- the answer is nothing.

I can for sure give up on diamonds of Botswana but I'm never giving up on cocoa from Ghana!

You know what William Wallace said - they may take our wives by they'll never take our television!

I feel sorry for the graphic designers that produce crappy recycled art. A.I. can do all that now and I'm in the same boat bros.

My latest diagnosis - pizza delivery disorder. The pizza's always showing up at the wrong door.

Sure, I give a chance to these feminist articles I see online but as soon as I see the word "patriarchy" I close the tab and move on to the next.

Have you ever worn a red Polo shirt to Target? It's a freaking disaster.

Now when I go to Target, all I see is red shirt zombies scanning crap for curbside pick-ups. They don't even acknowledge me. It's the sign of the times.

I'm so worried about these people who can't even drive safely on ground getting excited for flying cars.

I wish global warming would speed up so I can be an armchair archeologist in Antarctica!

Have you ever tried eating a day old Olive Garden breadstick? I think I'd get more nutrition from chewing tree barks.

Sometimes I have so little motivation to cook but I refuse to eat out because I can't afford it, and I've worked in a kitchen, I know what goes on back there!

You know if the trillionaires tries to escape the destruction of Earth and into space, we're gonna drag them down like Titanic passengers and give them a whole new meaning to "Down to Earth". Chea chea

 

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Throwback Thursday

Bill Clinton presents ''Lincoln'' - Golden Globes 2013

Spielberg showing his man crush on Clinton - an accused rapist and a serial sex abuser. Hollywood giving him a standing ovation.

I wonder how the public would react to such thing today.

I suppose some would be fine with it. He's a Democrat and Hollywood also loves Roman Polanski.

The director in the booth cutting to a shot of Diddy! LOL That director knew!