This would be a war crime. Obviously. Collective punishment.

Good man.

Finnish President Alexander Stubb,

"Brexit was a colossal mistake"

"I'm too diplomatic to express exactly what I think about those who promoted Brexit"

"It's not only like shooting yourself in the foot"

"It's like amputating your leg without a medical reason for doing it"

When in doubt, pretend linear time works backwards.

Sadly, I can only find it on the vile treaming service owned by Ek.

Inside the Department of War are two wolves:

"We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting."

"How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"

Now we’ve got Conor McGregor with his horse & Andrew Tate with his jewel encrusted bum bag protecting the UAE from Iran…who can we add to the task force?
Big Bad Bob Jenrick & his Cheltenham lads?
Larry Grayson?
Rylan?
Phillip Schofield?
Mad Dog Matt Hancock?
JK Rowling?
Limahl?

Check the new Rod Modell remix of J. S. Zeiter.

Activist/filmmaker Deeyah Kahn's film White Right Meeting the Enemy is available to watch in its entirety in YT.

Not an easy watch. Though an essential one.

Bold and essential stuff.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvt5...

#film #documentary #activism

Good call man. This is fine. Now in the Wishlist. Thank you.

The fragile insecure flower is crying again.

3/3 I thought it was outstanding and worthy of the praise it has received.

This will be in the end-of-year lists for sure.

See it.

2/3 Based on the 2023 video game The Exit 8, this film utterly immersed me!

Absolute credit to director Genki Kawamura who crafts it beautifully.

So many feelings and thoughts as you are watching this thing - existential dread, escape, freedom, daily mundanity, loss of control...I could go on!

1/3 A man trapped in a endless sterile subway passageway sets out to find Exit 8. The rules of his quest are simple: do not overlook anything out of the ordinary. If you discover an anomaly, turn back immediately. If you don’t, carry on. Then leave from Exit 8.

#film #cinema #horror #japan

Are we allowed to get the rest of the Epstein files now?

A large-scale outdoor mural on a building wall in Longmont, Colorado, depicting four women of different ages in a sequence where each is braiding the next person's hair, painted in realistic tones of brown and gold. Artist: Gamma Acosta.

Mural by Gamma Acosta in Longmont — four women braiding each other's hair across generations. Scale and meaning that stops you cold.

Thanks for taking a moment to look.

#Photography #ScottKissPhoto #MuralArt

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

The Daily Telegraph currently owned by a private equity vehicle RedBird IMI - based in the UAE and led by Italian American Gerry Cardinale and Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

Patriotic news. For patriotic people. Who don't want to pay taxes.

A hardcover copy of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America by Brian Goldstone. The black cover features a vertical strip with the title and a photo of Atlanta’s skyline.

After many years of reporting and writing, the day is finally here: THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US is out today.

I poured everything into this book, and I hope it ignites outrage at the fact that so many people in the richest nation on earth have been deprived of one of the most basic human necessities.

3/3 Oscar-nominated for Best International Film. I am still trying to figure out why I loved Sirat! The setting, the story and the score play a part in it. The tonal shift also. It's all about what is lost and somewhat found.

It's one that you just have to see.

Brilliant.

#film #cinéma

2/3 Oscar-nominated for Best International Film.
Hope is fading, but they push through and follow a group of ravers heading to one last party in the desert. As they venture deeper into the burning wilderness, the journey forces them to confront their own limits.

#film #cinéma

1/3 A father and his son arrive at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco. Searching their daughter/sister - who vanished months ago at one of these endless, sleepless parties. Surrounded by electronic music and a raw, unfamiliar sense of freedom, they hand out her photo again and again.

Winner of Best Director and Best Actor in Cannes. Annnnddd, it's not difficult to understand why!

This nourish thriller is absolutely exquisite. The story, the styling, the directing, the acting...it just oozes class.

Just see it.

#film #cinéma

Back to the Oscar nominated entries for Best International Film.

Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to reunite with his son, he travels to Recife during Carnival but soon realizes that the city is not the safe haven he was expecting.

#film #cinéma

How have I never heard of this? From your comments I need to read it. Now.

3/3 The film beautifully captures the fear of being disposable in a system that doesn't care about loyalty or effort and how that fear can push someone toward choices they never would have made otherwise.

As utterly brilliant as it is said to be.

2/3 A dark, brilliantly funny, melodrama from the undisputed master of such things - Park Chan-wook. A visual masterpiece, perfectly executed. No Other Choice is an absolute feast for the eyes, ears and mind.

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1/3 Man-su has been a loyal employee for 25 years, until an abrupt layoff upends his life. Desperate to find work and provide for his family, he concludes the only way to get ahead in such an impossible job market is to take out the competition - literally.

#film #cinema

Suella makes the ultimate sacrifice as she ditches Tories for Reform | John Crace Most of those at Monday’s event had to remind themselves that Braverman hadn’t defected long ago

Lovely hatchet job on the monstrosity that is Suella Braverman. Crace covers it all;
her dishonesty, disloyalty, nastiness, incompetence, her wild vanity… and her deep stupidity.
How dare these utter arses think we’d be persuaded by their swaggering nonsense.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

symbolic compliance
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