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America’s Collusion with Her Enemies.1

James F. Gauss, Ph.D. February 5, 2024 The following is excerpted from the author’s book, Revelation 18 and the Fate of America (2021 Edition). It all started here. While on the campaign trail on March 9, 1992, Democratic presidential candidate, William Clinton, professed that he was adamantly against granting China Most Favored Nation (MFN) status. However, only seven months after Clinton…

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#Biden & America collapse #Biden & China #Biden China collusion #Biden vs. Trump #China&039;s Favored Nation status #Clinton and China Collusion #Cox Report #People&039;s Republic of China #President Obama #Presidential Politics

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what-thisiscrazzzy · 7 months

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Here’s an explanation of why the marvel shows have been less than great

The Hollywood Reporter:

The article goes into further detail about what is happening with Daredevil, the issues faced on the past shows and other things. I’d suggest looking into this if you’re interested but the basics are:

Marvel is returning to a more traditional way of making tv after facing numerous issues and is reworking Daredevil: Born Again

I think if you’ve been disappointed with marvel recently then this may be your answer

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luckydiorxoxo · 3 months

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#the hollywood reporter #mptf #black hollywood #melanin #laverne cox #danielle brooks

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sinnamonscouture · 2 years

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Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Hiddleston, Michael Keaton, Brian Cox, Oscar Isaac and Quincy Isaiah Covers The Hollywood Reporter, June 2022

#Samuel L. Jackson Tom Hiddleston Michael Keaton Brian Cox Oscar Isaac and Quincy Isaiah Covers The Hollywood Reporter June 2022 #fashion #style #model #beauty #black model #black fashion #actor #samuel l jackson #tom hiddelson #micheal keaton #brian cox #oscar issac smut #Quincy Isaiah #the hollywood reporter

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my weird fictional parasocial relationship with the succession characters is getting so bad I saw some pictures of kieran as a small child and started sobbing like... that's the kid that logan roy was beating how could he

#succession #roman roy #im so sorry #if i see brian cox irl i would go bjork attacking that reporter #kieran culkin

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“You Went to Therapy for That?”: Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Keaton, Oscar Isaac and the THR Drama Actor Roundtable

Tom Hiddleston, Brian Cox and Quincy Isaiah also open up about insane fan requests, keeping boundaries and the opportunity and anxiety of Marvel: "Just the level of embarrassment that it would be, once you throw on a cape."

BECAUSE IT'S LONG, READ THE WHOLE ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ON HOLLYWOOD REPORTER >>

Oscar Isaac has just flown in from New York, where the Scenes From a Marriage and Moon Knight star was enjoying some much-deserved time off, and Succession’s Brian Cox will soon head to Miami for a documentary shoot. Loki’s Tom Hiddleston is about to go back into production, and The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey’s Samuel L. Jackson has just wrapped a film shoot. But for a few hours on a Sunday in late May, six of Hollywood’s leading men — an esteemed group that also included Dopesick’s Michael Keaton and Winning Time breakout Quincy Isaiah — convened in Los Angeles for The Hollywood Reporter’s Drama Actor Emmy Roundtable. The conversation whipped from deeply funny to deadly serious, as the sextet doled out a mix of stories and advice.

Let’s start easy: When a fan comes up to you on the street, what do they typically recognize you from, and what do they usually say?

OSCAR ISAAC On the plane here, I felt a little letter fall on my seat and then someone walked away. I looked at it and it was in this blue highlighter with the little moon on it for the Moon Knight show that I’d just done. It was like, “My mother would’ve disowned me if I didn’t say something, as a person of color, about how much it means to me that you’re out there doing these things.” It was really sweet.

SAMUEL L. JACKSON You were on a regular plane with other people?

ISAAC Oh, yeah. I mean (nods to Jackson), one day … (Laughter.)

MICHAEL KEATON What a nice thing for somebody to lay that on you. Have you ever done that? If I see somebody I like, other actors, I’ll slide them [a note]. I’ll know a thing someone did and I’ll say, “Killed me. Unbelievable,” and then I’ll just [vanish]. I don’t want to be around when they read it. I’ve done it a few times because people have done it [to me], and you feel so grateful. Also, I think you tell people, man. If you see somebody do something great, just tell them.

Who have you done that to?

(Jackson lifts up his hand, points to himself and smiles.)

KEATON I think Maggie Gyllenhaal was the last one.

ISAAC But it is nice, just to give something and not be asking for anything.

KEATON Right. A woman came up to me the other day and she was so cool about Dopesick. She was on her way out and she just stopped and said, “Thanks for doing that.” Boom. End of it.

TOM HIDDLESTON Well, I’ll say this, Quincy and Oscar, I don’t know how you guys feel, but sitting with you three gents (to Keaton, Jackson and Cox), I grew up watching you, so it’s an honor to be at the same table.

BRIAN COX I grew up watching Sam.

JACKSON It’s easy to do. I do way too much.

KEATON And I haven’t grown up yet.

COX My thing [since Succession began] is people ask me to tell them to fuck off all the time.

BECAUSE IT'S LONG, READ THE WHOLE ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ON HOLLYWOOD REPORTER >>

#tom hiddleston #loki #loki series #the essex serpent #interview #article #the hollywood reporter #oscar isaac #michael keaton #samuel l jackson #brian cox

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Quincy Isaiah, Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Hiddleston, Oscar Isaac, Brian Cox and Michael Keaton by Chrisean Rose for The Hollywood Reporter, June 2022

#quincy isaiah #samuel l. jackson #tom hiddleston #oscar isaac #brian cox #michael keaton #chrisean rose #the hollywood reporter

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 9 months

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In a development that should give hope to all Americans, a group of Montana youth secured a court victory that invalidated a state law prohibiting the consideration of climate effects in the approval process for new energy projects. The victory is a watershed moment, even though the ruling is narrow. The Montana constitution guarantees its citizens the right to a “clean and healthful environment.” Prohibiting the consideration of climate effects of new energy projects is plainly antagonistic to that guarantee. A state court judge correctly granted judgment in favor of the young people of Montana. See Washington Post, Judge rules in favor of Montana youths in landmark climate decision.

The decision faces ongoing opposition from Montana’s attorney general, who called the decision “absurd” and promised an appeal that will end up in the Montana Supreme Court. No matter. The dam has broken and the victory by sixteen young citizens of Montana will inspire hundreds (or thousands) of additional suits. Some of those suits will succeed, encouraging more such suits. Fossil fuel lobbyists have ruled supreme in state legislatures for more than a century. The victory today is a very small step forward, but it is significant, nonetheless. It is particularly impactful because the plaintiffs were youths ranging in age from 5 to 22 years old.

The Montana litigation is part of a global litigation strategy to challenge climate change. The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School has published a report on climate change litigation across the world. See Global Climate Litigation Report | 2023 Review. Amidst the noise of the Trump indictment watch, good things are happening in the background.

[Robert B. Hubbell newsletter]

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In 1972, after a century of mining, ranching, and farming had taken a toll on Montana, voters in that state added to their constitution an amendment saying that “[t]he state and each person shall maintain and improve a clean and healthful environment in Montana for present and future generations,” and that the state legislature must make rules to prevent the degradation of the environment.

In March 2020 the nonprofit public interest law firm Our Children’s Trust filed a lawsuit on behalf of sixteen young Montana residents, arguing that the state’s support for coal, oil, and gas violated their constitutional rights because it created the pollution fueling climate change, thus depriving them of their right to a healthy environment. They pointed to a Montana law forbidding the state and its agents from taking the impact of greenhouse gas emissions or climate change into consideration in their environmental reviews, as well as the state’s fossil fuel–based state energy policy.

That lawsuit is named Held v. Montana after the oldest plaintiff, Rikki Held, whose family’s 7,000-acre ranch was threatened by a dwindling water supply, and both the state and a number of officers of Montana. The state of Montana contested the lawsuit by denying that the burning of fossil fuels causes climate change—despite the scientific consensus that it does—and denied that Montana has experienced changing weather patterns. Through a spokesperson, the governor said: “We must focus on American innovation and ingenuity, not costly, expansive government mandates, to address our changing climate.”

Today, U.S. District Court Judge Kathy Seeley found for the young Montana residents, agreeing that they have “experienced past and ongoing injuries resulting from the State’s failure to consider [greenhouse gas emissions] and climate change, including injuries to their physical and mental health, homes and property, recreational, spiritual, and aesthetic interests, tribal and cultural traditions, economic security, and happiness.” She found that their “injuries will grow increasingly severe and irreversible without science-based actions to address climate change.”

The plaintiffs sought an acknowledgement of the relationship of fossil fuels to climate change and a declaration that the state’s support for fossil fuel industries is unconstitutional. Such a declaration would create a foundation for other lawsuits in other states.

[Heather Cox Richardson :: Letters From An American]

#climate change #climate science #Robert b. Hubbell Newsletter #Montana litigation #clean and healthful environment #Global Climate Litigation Report #Heather Cox Richardson #Letters from An American

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uhlikzsuzsanna · 2 years

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Charlie Cox On Bringing 'Daredevil' Back, Fan Reactions, Possible Show Cameos & More | D23 Expo (2022. 09. 11)

Charlie Cox opens up about the fans bringing 'Daredevil' back and the fan's reaction to him on stage, he also mentioned that he'd love it if Tatiana Maslany or Tom Hiddleston could make a cameo in the new series.

#Charlie Cox #Daredevil #D23 Expo #interview #2022. 09. 11 #The Hollywood Reporter #yt #Youtube

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BABE! WE HAVE NEW COX CONTENT

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CkRD50MDoyt/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

(I HOPE THIS IS THE RIGHT LINK)

OMG ANGEL I SAW AND I AM UN FUCKING WELL THE AMOUNT OF TIMES I HAVE WATCHED THAT IS UNHEALTHY

I cannot be normal about him like he makes me so fucking feral and there’s nothing I can do but succumb to it and let it consume me and let him take over my life 🙃

I could write a fucking dissertation about this video my god

ALSO I LOVE THAT YOU THINK OF ME WHEN YOU SEE NEW CHARLIE CONTENT ILY SM BABES ❤️

#i’ll never be normal about charlie cox I simply cannot #seriously put him as the cause of death on my autopsy report #charlie cox #matt murdock #daredevil #daredevil born again

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lonesomedreamereccentriclover · 2 years

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Happy Birthday Nicholas Braun!

#Nicholas Braun #actor #celeb birthdays #fashion photography #town and country #The Hollywood Reporter #red carpet fashion #Succession #Brian Cox #Matthew Macfadyen #Sarah Snook #Jeremy Strong

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denimbex1986 · 2 years

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‘...Do the rest of you remember the project from which you went from anonymous to recognizable, and were you prepared for it?

HIDDLESTON For me, all the answers so far are Loki. That’s what people come up to me in the street and [reference], and absolutely that was the thing that changed everything.

What do they say when they do?

HIDDLESTON Oh, there was a hilarious one. I was walking the dog one Wednesday in a park in London. It was the summer after Avengers: Infinity War came out, and a group of school kids were playing nearby and there were heads turning, and I thought, “OK, well, they’ve seen the movie.” And then as they were walking away, I heard this shout: “Loki!” I was like, “Yep. Hi, that’s me.” “Are you really dead?” I was like, what an extraordinary existential question to be asked on a Wednesday morning. Am I really dead? Well, not right now.

...Tom, I wanted to get back to the original question about your comfort level when Marvel approached you about making a Loki series. What assurances did you need?

HIDDLESTON Having played Loki for six movies, doing the show, it was a risk in a way, like what you (to Isaac) were saying. I was like, “I just don’t want to break it.” But also, there was this extraordinary opportunity to break him open, take him away from all the things that people knew he was associated with, away from his brother, away from his father, away from his home, and put him through this kind of Kafkaesque nightmare where he’s confronted with all his cycles of terrible, destructive behavior. And to show this very together, controlled character who’s always thinking 10 steps ahead as completely vulnerable and full of doubt, and then build him back up through the story, was an amazing gift.

ISAIAH Do you approach each character the same? Like, a lot of you have played superheroes, is [the approach] different at all?

HIDDLESTON If you stood outside it for too long and thought about what it looks like in the world, I find it just too terrifying. You just ground it in what you know. So, when I first started playing Loki, I was like, “OK, he’s a son. I know what that is. He’s a brother. I know what that is. He’s got all this internal kind of pain but he’s masking it with something. I know what that is.” You find your own way through it. You build the mask, as it were, and then you fill the mask with life...’

#Tom Hiddleston #Michael Keaton #Oscar Issac #Samuel L. Jackson #Brian Cox #Quincy Isaiah #The Hollywood Reporter #Scenes From A Marriage #Moon Knight #Loki #dopesick #Winning Time #The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey #Succession

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Tennessean trans man David Scott Ryan III transitioned in 1949, around age 26. He became a pastor in 1955 while passing as cis and preached throughout Arkansas and Oklahoma for years. Narratives like David's narratives don't often end well, but David successfully fought to live as a man! Here's his story:

Born in rural Oklahoma on 9/22/1923, David privately transitioned in 1949 before marrying his first known wife, chaplain Margie. He then married another woman named Gwyn after leaving Margie in 1953. He later married a third wife, Glenda, in 1960.

David was outed after his 1961 bigamy arrest. It's unclear if his bigamy was accidental or even real. Gwyn filed for divorce in March 1960 before he married Glenda in June, but documents do not show if the divorce was completed. Glenda filed the bigamy complaint herself for unknown reasons. Was it jealousy? Was David outed? Was she feeling neglected? Glenda did not speak with reporters.

David was far from the first trans man arrested for marrying a woman. Yet, the courts did not know what to do with him. The judge dismissed his case after 4 months of jail and he stayed out of the news for a decade.

There are countless cases like David Ryan in the mid-20th century- trans people who make the news for a few weeks before fading into history. However, thanks to new archive technology, we can trace David's story further. He re-married a woman named May Louise and they divorced in 1971. He then married for a 5th and final time to high school teacher Imogene Cox in 1975. He took up jobs at a construction equipment site and Walmart in Evansville, Indiana over the following decades.

David passed in 2002 from heart disease at age 78. The mortician must have insisted on using an "F" for David despite "M" appearing on his other documents (why?). Local news reported that David loved to play instruments and paint. 50 years after transitioning, he still worked with the church.

#trans #transgender #history #lgbtq

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playitagin · 11 months

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1999 –The Cox Report

United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report which details China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades.

#May.25.1999 #The Cox Report #China's nuclear espionage #history today

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egnaroo · 1 year

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PHILADELPHIA Eagles Jordan Davis, hurt his ankle what can supporters hope for the rest of the 2022 season from him?

With an ankle injury, Philadelphia Eagles rookie defensive tackle Jordan Davis was unable to participate in Sunday’s 35-13 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers. According to an ESPN league source, Davis was first diagnosed with a high ankle sprain. Until Davis has an MRI on Monday morning, it won’t be possible to determine the extent of the damage. After being knocked to the ground by offensive…

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Vice surrenders

I'm on tour with my new novel The Bezzle! Catch me TONIGHT in LA with Adam Conover at Vroman's, then on MONDAY in Seattle with Neal Stephenson, then Portland, Phoenix and more!

Vice died the way it lived: being suckered in by smarter predators, even as it trained its own predatory instincts on those more credulous than its own supremely gullible leadership. RIP, we hardly knew ye.

For those of you who don't know, Vice was a Canadian media success story. It was founded by a motley clique of hipsters, one of whom – founder of the Proud Boys – has since grown to be one of the world's great fascism influencers. Another perfected the art of getting young people to work "for exposure" even as he built a massive, highly lucrative media empire on their free labor:

https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/vice-oral-history/

Eventually, Vice transitioned to a string of progressively worsening corporate owners, each more dishonest, predatory – and gullible – than the last. The company was one of the most enthusiastic marks for Facebook's infamous "pivot to video" – in which Mark Zuckerberg destroyed half the media industry by tricking them into thinking that the public was clamoring for video content, based on fraudulent viewing numbers:

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

Vice went all-in on video, spending hundreds of millions to finance Zuckerberg's doomed attempt to conquer Youtube. But unlike other the rubes who got zucked, Vice found greater fools to scam, convincing giant, slow-moving meidia companies that the best way to get in on the Next Big Thing was to shower them with vast sums of string-free money:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viceland_(Canadian_TV_channel)

And yet, at every turn, through a succession of increasingly incompetent owners who bought the stumbling, declining Vice at fire-sale prices and then proceeded to hack away at the wages and tools its journalists depended on while paying executives salaries so high that they beggared the imagination, Vice's reporters continued to turn out stellar material.

This went on literally until the last moment. The memorial posted by 404 Media rounds up a selection of major stories Vice's beleaguered, precarious writers produced even as Vice's vulture capitalist leadership were pulling the rug out from under them:

https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-vices-legacy-and-the-idea-that-the-internet-is-forever/

True to form, those private equity scumbags locked all those workers out of the company's CMS without notice – and then forgot to lock down the podcasting back-end. That allowed a group of Vice veterans – Matthew Gault, Emily Lipstein, Anna Merlan, Tim Marchman and Mack Lamoureux – to gather for a totally unauthorized, tell-all session that they pushed out on an official Vice channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKT4OtDEJRA

It's a hell of a listen. Not only do these Vice veterans have lots of fascinating history to recount, but they also describe the conditions under which those blockbuster stories of Vice's final days were produced. As the "visionary leaders" of the company paid themselves millions, they halted payments to key suppliers, from Lexisnexis to the interview transcription service the writers depended on. Writers paid out of pocket to search PACER court records.

Not only did Vice's reporters do incredible work under terrible and worsening circumstances, but the Vice writers who got out ahead of the total collapse are also doing incredible work. 404 Media is a writer-owned investigative news publisher founded by four Vice escapees – Samantha Cole, Jason Koebler, Emanuel Maiberg and Joseph Cox, which is both producing incredible work and sustaining the writers who founded it:

https://www.404media.co/

All of which leads to an inescapable conclusion: whatever problems Vice had, they didn't include "writers don't do productive work" and also didn't include "that work isn't economically viable*. Whatever problems Vice had, they weren't problems with Vice's workers – it was a problem with Vice's bosses.

Which makes Vice's final, ignominious punishment at the hands of those bosses even more brutal, stupid and inexcusable. According to the leaked memos emanating from the company's investors and their millionaire C-suite toadies, the business's new strategy is abandoning their website in order to publish on social media.

This is…I mean, this,..

This is…

Wow.

I mean, wow.

The thing is, the social media business model is a giant rug-pull. They're not even bothering to hide their playbook anymore. For social media, the game is to encourage media companies to become reliant on third parties to reach their audiences. Once that reliance is established, the companies turn down – or even halt – the ability of those media companies to reach their audience altogether. Then, they charge the media companies to reach their audiences:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/06/save-news-we-need-end-end-web

Now, this wasn't always quite so obvious. Back when Vice was falling for Facebook's "pivot to video," it wasn't completely obvious that the long con was to take your audience hostage and ransom them back to you. But deliberately organizing your business to be reliant on social media barons today? It's like trusting your money to Sam Bankman-Fried…in 2024.

If there was ever a moment when the obvious, catastrophic, imminent risk of trusting Big Tech intermediaries to sit between you and your customers or audience, it was now. This is not the moment to be "social first." This is the moment for POSSE (Post Own Site, Share Everywhere), a strategy that sees social media as a strategy for bringing readers to channels that you control:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/19/now-we-are-two/#two-much-posse

Predicting that a social media platform will rug the media companies that depend on it today doesn't take a Sun Tzu – as cunning strategies go, the hamfisted tactics of FB, Twitter and Tiktok make gambits like "Lucy and the football" look like von Clausewitz.

The most bonkers part of this strategy is that it's coming from private equity bosses, who laud themselves as the great strategists of the 21st century, whose claim on so much of our global capital and resources is derived from their brilliant insight, which allows them to buy "distressed assets" like Vice, "restructure" them to find "efficiencies" and sell them on.

The reality is that PE goons – like other financiers – are basically herding animals. Everyone's hit on the tactic of buying up beloved media companies – from the 150-year-old Popular Science to modern publications like CNet – and then filling them with spammy garbage in the hopes that Google will fail to notice and continue to award them pride-of-place on search results pages:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/21/im-feeling-unlucky/#not-up-to-the-task

The fact that these billionaire brain-geniuses can't figure out how to "turn around" a site whose workers a) produce brilliant, popular, successful work; and b) depart to found successful firms that commercialize that work tells you everything about their ability to spot "a good business opportunity."

PE – like other mafiosi – only have one business-plan, the "bust out," where you invade a business that produces useful things, force them to pay your chosen suppliers sky-high fees for things they don't need, extract massive fees for your "management" and then walk away from the collapse:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/02/plunderers/#farben

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/24/anti-posse/#when-you-absolutely-positively-dont-give-a-solitary-single-fuck

#pluralistic #vice #motherboard #posse #apps #enshittification #media #chumboxes #botshit #bust outs #news bailouts

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