#Roger Hallam

[lizardyoga]

Nominated Kleenex

The world seems to be going from bad to worse right now, what with the horror that is unfolding in the Middle East. I cannot comprehend Hamas’s actions; surely they must have known there would be a furious and disproportionate response from Israel. But the government’s (and media) response has also been disproportionate, showing very little sympathy for the Palestinian people or recognition that…

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#Act in accordance with your core values #Naomi Klein Doppelgangers #Roger Hallam #This Changes Everything

[nextwavefutures]

Breaking the law in response to climate change

Stopping the fossil fuel industry is an environmental imperative. The question is how. New post on the next wave about the Chris Packham documentary on Channel 4.

(Chris Packham, ‘Is is time to break the law?’. Image: Channel 4) The Marxist cultural critic Raymond Williams once described TV as “flow”. He was writing in the days when you had to watch everything live, as it was broadcast, before even VCR was invented, and obviously we don’t watch TV like that so much any more. (Even though we use the word ‘streaming’). But there is a deeper truth all the…

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#Andreas Malm #Channel 4 #Chris Packham #Just Stop Oil #Roger Hallam

[gfsolar]

The only way we stop global warming, climate change, civilizational extinction, whatever you wish to call it, is to overthrow all of the governments in the world and to replace all of them with a single climate solutions-focused world government.

I have a plan for how to do this.

If you would like to help me accomplish the implementation of my bold plan, please join my upcoming zoom meeting to find out I think how we're going to solve this crisis that affects us all and how we're going to save the world for all of humanity.

We've got future generations to save. Let's not sit around on our asses and dawdle and squander our time. Daydreams and wishful thinking do not save the world. Only human action does.

Zoom meeting link coming in the next week. If you want it, please subscribe to this blog. Thank you!

(This video above was a great lead-in to my own spiel about my own upcoming zoom meeting, but I am not personally affiliated with nor endorsed by Extinction Rebellion and/or Roger Hallam et. al.)

#solarpunk #climate emergency #climate solutions #roger hallam #extinction rebellion #climate change #climate crisis #invitation #upcoming zoom meeting #Youtube

[unsaltedsinner]

Well, it is 1487.

#gifs #the black adder #Rowan Atkinson #leslie sands #paul brooke #ron cook #patrick malahide #john hallam #roger sloman #john barrard #john rapley #joyce grant #carolyn colquhoun

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have Antony and Cleopatra 1972

#Antony and Cleopatra #Charlton Heston #Hildegard Neil #Eric Porter #John Castle #Fernando Rey #Juan Luis Galiardo #Carmen Sevilla #Freddie Jones #Enrique Alba #Peter Arne #Luis Barboo #Fernando Bilbao #Warren Clarke #Roger Delgado #Julian Glover #Sancho Gracia #Garrick Hagon #John Hallam #Jane Lapotaire #Joe Melia #Monica Peterson #Emiliano Redondo #Aldo Sambrell #Douglas Wilmer #Richard Johnson #Sergio Krumbel #José Manuel Martín #Manolo Otero #Juan Manuel Torres Gómez

[downthetubes]

Preorders open for “David Wright's Carol Day: Jack Slingsby”

Specialist publisher Slingsby Bros, Ink! has opened preorders for David Wright’s Carol Day: Jack Slingsby, solely through The Book Palace, based in the UK. Edited by Roger Clark, Chris Killackey and Guy Mills, Jack Slingsby is a companion volume to the first, huge Carol Day book, Lance Hallam, released earlier this year. Carol Day is a fashion model, elegant and sophisticated in a world of…

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#Adventure Comics #Brian Bolland #Carol Day #Chris Killackey #David Roach #David Wright #downthetubes News #Guy Mills #Raymond Little #Roger Clark #Slingsby Bros Ink!

[sataniccapitalist]

Act Now or Billions Will Die

The climate crisis is here. It's now confirmed that billions of people are living in areas that will be uninhabitable in the next decades. That means mass migration and death like we've never seen it before. It's time for scientists to come together and set the record straight. No more euphemisms of "concern" - this is the real deal. It's a catastrophe.

In this Just Stop Oil call I was joined by top climate and social scientists. Click these timestamps to hear us speak.

00:00 Intro by Cimate Scientist

03:06 Sir David King

13:52 Prof. Hayley Fowler

23:53 Roger Hallam

32:00 Open Discussion

For Roger's latest updates and to support his work, sign up to his email list at 👉https://rogerhallam.com/#/portal/signup

You'll get a free copy of his book, Common Sense for the 21st Century, and his film, The Troublemaker.

#climate action #climate justice #post capitalism #degrowth

[female-malice]

I like the idea of female separatism. There should always be a place for it in the women's liberation movement.

But in the ecological justice movement, separatism was ineffective. Or, at least, the ecological separatism that resembles feminist separatism. Leaving society and practicing ecological justice away from society. Building homesteads and farms in the woods that exist in harmony with their ecosystem. Those are great places to build. But they did nothing to stop the ecological crisis we're in now. If you want to hear more about all that, read about Roger Hallam and his carrot farming woes.

In the fight for ecologic justice, there is a desperate need for an entirely new social and economic structure. Something that barely resembles our current society. A completely different thing. Separate, even. But not geographically separate. Not a separate group of people. The same people in the same geography. We have to stay in place, build the separate society all together, and decide the current social system is irrelevant.

And while we're doing that, the permaculture problem-solving experience from all those eco-separatists will be very useful. That's it, basically. That's what the separatism will end up being useful for. Teaching skills and ideas to the new society.

And maybe that's how we need to approach female separatism. Maybe it's not the center of the feminist movement. But it is extremely useful for skill-building of all kinds. And skill-building is very very important for female liberation. Maybe we can all agree that girls everywhere should have a right to public education free from males. Maybe that should be the focus of the separatism movement.

#cc

[thammit]

Reframe the debate.

[thedreadvampy]

idk man sometimes I'm just so so so so angry that I was so consistently treated as a sexual object as a teenager (by people my own age and by adult men) and so consistently judged in terms of my looks and performed sexual availability and now that's affected. everything. about how I see myself and how I expect to be seen. and I find it so difficult to believe or understand that people might like me as a human person. or that it's possible for people to find me attractive AND unrelatedly like me for my personality or ways of thinking or interests and not just. like me instrumentally.

like sometimes my partners or my friends will compliment my looks or something I do for them and even though I KNOW VERY WELL that they like ME the HUMAN PERSON for NON-INSTRUMENTAL REASONS there's always a little gremlin in my brain that's like see? this is the reason they like you. because you are sexually appealing or because you're useful. those are the valuable things.

like lately my partners have been very effusive about my looks. and they are correct I am extremely hot and pretty and cool. I also feel p good about how I look lately. it's just weird that my brain is like ah. you are pretty. solved the mystery. that means that's the only reason people like you.

no brain that's stupid. that's not what that means. it's not an either/or situation a person can be attractive AND useful AND likeable for many other entirely unrelated reasons. the fact that my partner likes that I look great in fishnets doesn't. undermine or counter the fact that they like that I make stupid jokes about Tim Curry and give impassioned monologues about art criticism. the fact that my friend appreciates that I make time to check in on them when they're ill doesn't mean they don't like me for my extended Roger Hallam bits. I don't know why my brain thinks I have to pick a singular reason. I like other people for a billion different reasons. but I can only conceptualise myself as a one dimensional character in other people's lives and I resent that a bunch. fuck you, people who made me feel that way. fuck you for making me feel like a prop in someone's misogynistic-ass understanding of themself. fuck you for spending like a decade of my life encouraging me to think the only way someone could find me attractive or valuable was by ignoring every part of me that wasn't about them. it is taking SO MUCH WORK to let people love me properly and to not feel terrified of people I care about finding me beautiful or attractive or useful because that would mean I'd have to be ONLY those things for them to love me. that's just not true.

idk I can't sleep and my therapist is sick this week so my brain is whirring. but twice this week my partners have made a comment about finding me sexy and I've caught myself reacting by trying to shut down every other part of myself. because if they find me sexy it MUST mean that all they want from me is Be Sexy. and that's not just untrue it's also wildly unfair on them, people who I KNOW aren't that shallow and are interested in me as a messy weirdo who is their friend as well as a Sexy Lady. like they don't want me to shut down all the Insufficiently Sexy Personality Traits! they did not ask for that! I think my partners are beautiful and sexy and I ALSO think they're fun and weird and interesting and complicated and emotionally important and those things. aren't in conflict with each other AT ALL. so I genuinely don't know why my brain thinks they can't possibly coexist when it comes to me.

but on some level it's like. somebody acknowledges that they find me sexy or useful and the paranoid bit of me is like AHA. I KNEW IT. THAT'S WHAT THIS WAS ALWAYS ABOUT THE REST IS LIES.

bc tbh when I was like. 14-20 let's be honest that was the case the majority of the time. like my experience is that people will pretend to be your friend for months or years and then turn around and pull the ACTUALLY I HAVE CONCEPTUALISED YOU AS MY DREAM GIRLFRIEND shit and if you refuse to be sexually available or useful then the friendship. was never real. and that's been so much the majority of my friendships and relationships through very formative years and now it's just SCARY like if someone expresses that type of attraction I'm like AHA THE MASK IS OFF THE TRUE MOTIVES REVEALED.

even though I know. I KNOW. that this isn't true and I have real friendships and real relationships now.

(also btw you know the most frustrating part is like. I'm not even that hot. like I'm for sure a smokeshow for a very specific set of tastes (gay) and I'm p confident about how I look like. big titties pretty face great skin cool aesthetic. solid 8. but I'm not exactly startlingly oh my god how are you real beautiful. I'm normal person pretty. and yet somehow. for like a solid decade of my life it feels like 90% of relationships I had were built around my looks and value as a sexual object. that's lame as fuck that's not even top 10 in Things That Are Cool About Me I don't think. but when very explicitly the things that were valued about you in your formative years were sex appeal and capacity for emotional load bearing it's really hard. To genuinely actually believe the other stuff matters or is anything other than something people tolerate to get to the good stuff (sexy big titty goth gf who will let you unload your feelings on her and be your 3am shoulder to cry on))

the point is its very bad for your long term self esteem or ability to accept extremely good and normal compliments (like 'i, the person you're fucking, find you beautiful and attractive and like having sex with you') to be a manic pixie dream girl for all of your formative years. don't let them do it to you 😘

#red said #ohhhhhhhhh it's a 3am trauma dump time to sing the 3am trauma song!!!!!! #hey uhhhh sam i know you read my blog sometimes probably don't. read this. ty.

[tearsinthemist]

“I speak to and I receive a lot of emails from young people that are really struggling,” she says. “They don’t even know whether to go to college or university, because they don’t feel like they have a future. There are a lot of people in a pretty dark place for this.”

“There’s a potential of a sort of paralysis or inaction,” says Ritchie. “If the feeling is that we’re doomed, then there’s nothing we can do.”

[deepdrearn]

Ze zullen het wegwuiven. Het zal allemaal wel meevallen.

‘Dat is hetzelfde als tegen de dokter zeggen: u zegt dat ik kanker heb en chemotherapie nodig heb, maar ik geloof er niets van dus ik ga gewoon verder met mijn leven. We gaan nu over de 2 graden opwarming heen, en dat betekent dat een miljard mensen zullen sterven.’

Interview with Roger Hallam in De Volkskrant, December 21st 2023

[metamoonshots]

[ad_1] Embattled debt traders just like the look of 5% Treasury yields as they weigh the risk-versus-reward scales for the world’s greatest bond market. The rise in yields to ranges final seen earlier than the monetary disaster displays a run of stable information, with the US economic system rising final quarter on the quickest tempo since 2021. And a rising tide of Treasury debt issuance, in the meantime, has prompted the return of a optimistic threat premium for proudly owning longer-dated bonds. For all of the ache within the bond market — and a few merchants are betting there’s extra to come back — the notes look much more engaging to long-term patrons as soon as Treasury yields are operating at 5%-or-higher. These ranges nudge them nearer to the Federal Reserve’s present policy-rate ceiling of 5.5%, permitting patrons to lock in elevated earnings earlier than officers ultimately embark on any easing cycle.  “The arithmetic begins to maneuver in your favor after having been out of your favor for a really very long time,” mentioned Stephen Bartolini, a fixed-income portfolio supervisor at T. Rowe Value. “It takes quite a bit bigger improve now to wipe out complete return over a 12-month horizon since you’re getting yield.” Patrons emerged Thursday, spurring a drop of some 10 foundation factors throughout the Treasury curve as one other spherical of disappointing earnings brought about equities to slip. The ten-year yield was little modified at 4.85% on Friday in Asia, about 16 foundation factors beneath the 16-year excessive touched on Monday. Traders are in want of a silver lining as they nurse wounds from the worst selloff seen for Treasuries in additional than 4 a long time. The Bloomberg US Treasury Index has dropped since a string of regional financial institution failures fanned expectations of a credit score crunch and recession in early April. The yield on 10-year notes, meantime, has soared to above 5% this week from a 3.25% April low.  Amy Xie Patrick, head of earnings methods at Pendal Group in Sydney, mentioned she’s bullish on bonds given their present yields. There’s not a lot of a case for inflation and financial development to re-accelerate, indicating “that the ‘smooth touchdown’ is behind us,” she mentioned. Treasury fixed-rate coupons round 5% additionally present traders with the very best supply of bond earnings since 2007, serving to the debt to compete in opposition to payments and equities. Additionally they make a portfolio extra resilient in durations of tolerating market ache in threat belongings. Vanguard Asset Administration has been a latest purchaser of five- to 10-year Treasuries, mentioned Roger Hallam, international head of charges on the agency — with plans to “add extra if yields rise additional.” “At these ranges of yields your threat/reward is significantly better,” Hallam mentioned. The stomach of the yield curve — bonds maturing between 5 and 10 years — “will profit most within the preliminary phases of any financial weak point.” A good quirk of bond math is that higher-coupon bonds are much less delicate to cost adjustments, a dynamic often called length. Low-coupon bonds, in contrast, are way more delicate to costs, and the present bond rout dates from August 2020, when the 10-year yield was a paltry 0.5%. The benchmark yield subsequently elevated ten-fold, leaving traders nicely educated in regards to the adversarial influence of length. However that threat has been lowered as long-dated coupons settle within the 5% zip code, illustrated by the chance/reward profile of the $40 billion iShares 20+ Yr Treasury Bond ETF. Whereas the exchange-traded fund, identified by its ticker TLT, has slumped 50% from its 2020 peak, yields above 5% are attracting inflows. At present ranges, a long-end yield decline of 0.5% is predicted to ship a double digit worth acquire for the TLT, whereas a 50-basis level rise in yields would trigger a worth drop of solely round 1% over a 12 month interval. 

“If the 30-year rallies 100 foundation factors, you’re making 20%,” mentioned T. Rowe’s Bartolini. “And if the 5 12 months rallies 100 foundation factors, you’re making 4%.” Bartolini mentioned the agency prefers proudly owning Treasuries with a maturity of 5 years or much less because the Fed indicators it’s close to the height of its rate-hiking cycle. Even so, elevated Treasury provide might nonetheless shove 10- and 30-year yields larger because the market wants “to create an incentive for these bonds to be distributed and the motivation to make that occur is larger yields,” he mentioned. A renewed push to larger yields beckons over the approaching week, with central financial institution conferences on the calendar for the Fed and the Financial institution of Japan. Traders can even look ahead to the most recent US month-to-month employment report, together with a a lot anticipated replace from the Treasury about its quarterly borrowing wants.  “The normalization of the bond market is what we're seeing proper now,” mentioned Anthony Saglimbene, chief market strategist at Ameriprise Monetary. The agency is telling monetary advisers and purchasers to begin transferring their money into bonds because the Fed wraps up its tightening cycle and inflation ebbs. “The longer charges keep at these ranges the larger the refinancing stress for shoppers and small companies.” [ad_2]

[unsaltedsinner]

A more amusing method.

#gifs #the black adder #Rowan Atkinson #patrick allen #mick walter #paul brooke #john hallam #patrick malahide #roger sloman

[roberttheduke]

This F**king Crisis | Roger Hallam | Green Gathering, Chepstow, Wales | ...

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[qu-film-history-to-1968]

A Blast from the Past of My Childhood - Julia Merolle (Resubmit)

     The most impactful film I watched as a child was Shrek 2. This movie came out a year after I was born but because my parents had the DVD for it, I would watch it on repeat constantly. It was my favorite movie and probably still is one of my favorite movies of all time. In my opinion, it was better than the first Shrek and was a perfect sequel. It also inspired me to go into film, especially because of Far Far Away replicating Hollywood. I knew that I wanted to go into film and movie making in order to make something like this one day. From the soundtrack, to the characters, I can positively say that it is in my top 10 favorite movies.

     When rewatching the film this week, it’s different from what I remembered because I noticed that there are a lot of adult jokes that I missed as a kid. From the big bad wolf, to the catnip drug mention, to the scene with Pinocchio’s underwear where he can’t stop lying, is definitely a lot of things that flew over my head as a kid. In addition to these crude jokes, there is also a lot of pop culture references that I didn’t get when I was a kid besides Far Far Away being Hollywood. I noticed that in the scene where Shrek becomes human and goes to downtown Far Far Away, there are a lot of brand names that are actual brands in real life, yet they are changed to be a parody in a medieval type of version.

     This shows me that individual memories aren’t as reliable about preserving information, especially with so many years in between. Documentary reconstructions, kind of like the movie reviews that were written during the time that the movie came out, are more accurate than my memory when I was a child. For example, Roger Ebert wrote about Shrek 2, saying, "Shrek was so original in its animation and such an outpouring of creative imagination that it blindsided us; Shrek 2 is wonderful in its own way, but more earthbound. It's more fun to see Shrek slay a dragon than to watch him meeting his new in-laws.” (Roger Ebert) This quote from the review relates to the first movie instead of the sequel, which does have a bit more adventure and action in it, however there is a really big scene at the end of Shrek 2 involving Mongo, a giant-scale version and brother of Gingy, the gingerbread man. Another review by James Berardinelli of “Reel Views” states that “Shrek 2 is populated with clever and amusing sequences, parodies, and pop references.” This is something that I stated earlier when rewatching the film as an adult and how I missed these references as a child, since a lot of them were in the background. Lastly, around the time that Shrek 2 came out, which was in May of 2004, I remember my parents talking about a tornado in Nebraska at the same time. A quote from On This Day states, “The U.S. town of Hallam, Nebraska, is wiped out by a powerful F4 tornado that broke a width record at an astounding 2.5 miles wide.” This is a historical event that was personal to me because at the time I remember my parents being worried since we had a family member out in Nebraska traveling for work who was luckily okay. Another event that I do not remember happening as I was really young, was that according to On This Day in May of 2004, “Massachusetts becomes the first U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage.” This event isn’t really personal to me because I don’t remember this happening, but it was a major turning point for the country.

     In conclusion, it might be important to do historical work like this, both as individuals and collectively so that we don’t misinterpret things that happened a long time ago because the human memory isn’t so reliable. It is better to use documents from that time, like the movie reviews that came out at the time of Shrek 2, rather than my memory of watching the movie when I was a child. This also relates to historical events, which again happened around the same time but the reason I only know of one is because it related to me on a family level. 

Bibliography

Berardinelli, James. “Shrek 2.” Reelviews Movie Reviews, 19 May 2004, www.reelviews.net/reelviews/shrek-2. 

Ebert, Roger. “Shrek 2 Movie Review & Film Summary (2004): Roger Ebert.” Movie Review & Film Summary (2004) | Roger Ebert, www.rogerebert.com/reviews/shrek-2-2004. Accessed 4 Sept. 2023. 

“Historical Events in May 2004.” OnThisDay.Com, 1 May 1970, www.onthisday.com/events/date/2004/may.

#submission