Biji biji!

I’m a fan of the documentaries of Adam Curtis on Bernays, but merely educating people about the history of Propaganda/Public Relations/Advertising provides no useful skills for liberating yourself from harmful thinking patterns that benefit the rich and powerful. Merely knowing about it does not immunize you from it, and worse, may give you false confidence.

A good place to start to understand how propaganda works in a modern nation is understanding the propaganda model. A good documentary about this is Manufacturing Consent.

Protons orbit a nucleus now?

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Worse. Wisconsin domain’d a bunch of people off their land and spent a billion dollars of state money, and Foxconn still nope’d the fuck out.

Does invidious work for you? https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=gYwqpx6lp_s

Long live roof ninja!

The Untouchables Union Station shootout scene was inspired by the Odessa Steps Massacre scene in Battleship Potemkin, making the 33 1/3 scene a parody of one of the oldest tropes in film-making.

Who’s laughing now whilst holding The Orb?

Chinese billionaires

According to the Hurun Global Rich List 2023, China housed the highest number of billionaires worldwide in 2023. In detail, there were 969 billionaires living in China. By comparison, 691 billionaires resided in the United States. India, Germany, and the United Kingdom were also the homes of a significant number of billionaires that year.

Chinese income inequality

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Israeli think tank lays out a blueprint for the complete ethnic cleansing of Gaza

An Israeli think tank with ties to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a report on October 17 promoting the “unique and rare opportunity” for the “relocation and final settlement of the entire Gaza population.”