This world is just a canvas to our imagination. Everything you can imagine is real. .....It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.......What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.
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And then, in my youth, I encountered Monty Python and the realisation hit me like a rockfall on an unsuspecting mountaineer... my brain hurts.
And for that I am deeply grateful to this day... if you take yourself too seriously, you will never be taken seriously... we are all individuals, I am not!
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Yep- it's pretty simple.
The Israeli Minister of Defence has announced the commencement of a new phase of hostilities.
Explosions of walkie-talkies have been reported in Lebanon, resulting in casualties.
Israel has described this as a new phase of the war. Following the detonation of pagers on Tuesday, further explosions occurred in Lebanon. It would appear that walkie-talkies were the source of the explosion. As was the case the previous day, numerous members of the pro-Iranian Hezbollah were reportedly affected, according to information provided by Lebanese security sources.
What is the number of victims? The Lebanese Ministry of Health has thus far reported 14 fatalities and 450 injuries resulting from the walkie-talkie explosions. However, it is possible that the number of victims may continue to rise overnight.
In a dramatic turn of events, the Israeli attack on Hezbollah fighters has left everyone on the edge of their seats.
The manufacturer of the communication devices has stepped forward to deny any responsibility, adding another layer of intrigue to this fast-developing story.
New paper more or less
Now the next stage of escalation management, to really provoke a war that will drag the whole region down with it, only needs one more drop.
What Israel has done here is unprecedented and will probably be used in the future as a measure by anyone who wants to get rid of unwanted people.
It is an unprecedented breach of the blueprint that manifests power.
They could have detonated the pagers at night when all the people they were targeting were asleep. After all, people keep their telephones, or in this case pagers, within reach by their beds.
But no, that would not have been the message Israel wanted to send. A dead man in bed at night is just too unspectacular. It has to be a public show of force, a manifestation of horror, we'll get you and the population should see it!
The inhuman military strategists are not interested in innocent victims. This is accepted as a matter of course to show that they are well fortified and will stop at nothing to show it.
Unfortunately, the sword has two edges: violence begets counter-violence, and by the same means.
Every Israeli citizen in the world is now a target, every embassy, every Israeli company and institution. It used to be local, but now it is everywhere, because it was a manifesto in front of the world.
Israeli institutions have always been at risk, but now these actions have created a new security challenge for everyone involved.
Hats off. With Gaza and this affair, Israel has done itself no favours. It's a Pyrrhic victory if things go badly.
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Instead of defusing the conflict, the Israeli government is doing everything it can to create clear camps so that each nation will have to decide which side it is on when the real fighting begins in the Middle East and the Mediterranean.
What they are doing in Gaza is impressively inhumane and will create hatred for generations.
It may have once been good against evil, but it is no longer good when those who consider themselves good can use the means of evil, you can assume that the difference no longer exists.
Hatred and revenge will be the harvest, not security and freedom.
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حماك الله من كراهيتك
שאלוהים ישמור עליך משנאתך
We hope you find it in your heart to forgive and forget.
Joan Crawford photographed by George Hurrell.
One of the most incredible beauties of Old Hollywood, she brought a presence to the silver screen that was like nothing the world had seen before. From her first steps onto a movie set in the 1920s to her final performance in 1970, she was a force to be reckoned with. With an Oscar win for her leading role in Mildred Pierce and over 100 acting credits to her name, it's no wonder the Joan Crawford legend is as legendary as ever!
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I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.
Joan Crawford
I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.
Joan Crawford
I am just too much.
Joan Crawford
Perfection is sometimes also the death of the crass anarchy of creativity.
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The journey from the roots to today also reflects the technical possibilities and the evolution of viewing habits of ever new groups of viewers, ultimately a great development but also a loss.
But that is always in the eye of the spectator.
Animation cels from The Simpsons, back when they were still nice and ugly, and part of the Tracy Ullman Show. Circa 1987.
The incredible Michaela DePrince, a gifted ballet dancer who performed with Beyoncé, was hailed as a rising star! The incredible Michaela Mabinty DePrince, who came to the United States from an orphanage in war-torn Sierra Leone and performed on some of the world's greatest stages, has sadly passed away at the age of 29. Her family released a statement on the dancer's Instagram page, expressing their grief and admiration. 'Michaela touched so many lives around the world, including ours', her family said in a statement.
When the rescue team and local police found the camp, it had been abandoned for days. There was no fire and even the gas cooker was cold.
The crime scene photo of the camp showed that all the hikers' belongings were still there and untouched, ruling out the possibility of robbery and murder.
The state troopers and their rescue team colleagues searched the area for clues and found two gruesome scenarios that they never talked about or forgot.
The case was never solved, two of the state troopers died shortly afterwards under mysterious circumstances, the entire rescue team disappeared during the second search, with only one being found in a completely distraught state not far from the camp.
It is unfortunate that the case ultimately remained without further consequences and has not been discussed further to this day....
The investigation files were under lock and key until a month ago, when two young journalists discovered them by chance.
The file, which has never been solved, bears the title of a puzzle, but no further information would be helpful at this time.... nothing more.
Now, after all this time, we report on what really happened and how it might have happened.
The present day: two young journalists get out of an old jeep in a car park outside a mental hospital, both looking towards the main building of the large complex.
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A solo set up on the Continental Divide Trail.
Colorado
1977
Somehow fitting, evolutionarily our brains are still designed to recognise danger in order to ensure our survival. This is precisely the problem of the present in social networks: so many supposed false dangers are created in social media that our Stone Age brain is completely overwhelmed by them when we give in to fear.
Fear turns off our minds and that's good for the culture of excitement to generate clicks.
At some point, our perception has nothing to do with reality.
We just briefly mention Springfield and the blunt lie that pets are food for American immigrants.
Unfiltered, unchecked and created for the sole purpose of generating fear and attention.
Just be a bit more than a stone-age brain!
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Sometimes all you really need is someone to sit under the tree tops with you.
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And maybe one more pink drink to make the end of the summer a little more bearable.
With ‘Taxi Driver,’ I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn’t me.
(Jodie Foster)
This is truly a very beautiful homage to a great actor who has had a remarkable career in both film and theatre.
Thank you for the hours you have captivated us in worlds of imagination and forgetting the present for a short time.
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Thank you......
Regardless of the underlying motivation, the presence of a coherent and unambiguous message is inherently beneficial. The ability to adhere to a clearly defined set of principles is a valuable asset in any context. I extend my best wishes for a fulfilling and prosperous life, regardless of the specific tenets you choose to uphold.
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Life is the self-fulfilment of dreams that are copyrighted without you knowing it.
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Has he answered a question, no, has he published his healthcare plans announced since 2016, no, ......, does he know anything about Project 2025, if he could have read that in the meantime to say, that's really not what I stand for, no, but going out and throwing around some percentage figures to say he's won, that always works, he'll know that straight away,
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By the way, from now on, hearing fifth-hand accounts counts as a full background investigation of facts plus what you saw on TV as true!
I always knew Dracula existed, I saw it on TV, and I speak horse Ed
.... all true..... Or didn't all the migrants from Europe eat the bison of the indigenous people who lived in America?
By the way, everything that is published on any social platform is true, ...., and what is written is also true.
We are already looking forward to the time when our civilisation has gone down the drain and another civilisation digs up 'Lord of the Rings'.
As I said, everything is true, education and facts, key figures and all the other nonsense from science are no longer needed when the citizens are stupid and uneducated or simply so greedy for power that they ignore all the facts or don't want to understand them.
Rumours are enough!
In a bold move, someone goes into a televised debate where important questions are asked in order to take a stand and raise their political profile. And the results are in!
Oh my goodness, I heard the craziest thing! Apparently, there are rumours that pets in Springfield are being eaten by immigrants.
Can you believe it? I'm sure there's no truth to it, but it's pretty wild! And delicious dog on toats on roast sauce topped with cheese, sorry my immigrants roots.
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The rest of the debate was pretty interesting, too. The Republican candidate was pretty evasive when asked about it, saying, "I don't know anything about it," and "I'm not answering that question." It was like he was just telling some random stuff that had been running around in his head!
Why answering questions was always possible without a general summary: I have your plan for everything, but I can't tell you or make it public yet, you have to vote for me first!
That as a business plan and every bank and every investor would throw you out!
And on the other side, we had the Vice-President Harris, who was just so eloquent! The whole debate was pretty intense, but the summary of it is enough to give you the gist of what happened.
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And now the debate .......
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‘In a convent, the mother superior was dying. The other nuns wanted to offer her something to drink. But the mother superior refused a glass of water. Now they tried a glass of milk, with the same result. A nun then suggested adding a little whiskey to the milk, perhaps that would help. The dying woman actually drank the glass. Shortly afterwards, she was approaching death and her subordinates asked her what her last wish was. She replied: ‘Whatever you do, never sell this cow’.’
Now her groom* has recounted a hilarious joke that Elizabeth II told him during a ride with her beloved pony Emma.
New of today 09/11/25
*Well, does the man have to market his podcast now, or is he back to being the groom of Emma, the late Queen's favourite pony?
In the Rosebud podcast, Terry Pendry tells how the Queen, now 96 and frail, could not resist riding her favourite pony, Emma.
Well you old and frail normal citizens, if you can afford a place in a nursing home at all, always dream of how the super rich nice queen paid by the people was put frail by the nice staff on her favourite pony Emma while you lie in bed and nobody comes round to take you to the toilet.
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What a beautiful performance while you wet yourself.
At least it touched me deeply, but please not a bit ... the lambs are always given the illusion of participation, even though they are only kept in line with nice sentimental stories of the royals.
Hats off to the best marketing with a deceased queen.
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Let's put it nicely, we are pro-royalist unless of course we are not of blue blood ourselves with the appropriate privilege.
NFL star in handcuffs:
It remains to be seen what the consequences of the incident will be for the players involved.
Shortly before the start of the NFL season, superstar Tyreek Hill was temporarily taken into custody as part of a traffic stop. As a result, the pass receiver and his team were asked to take a critical stance towards the player. The police justify their actions.
The police had previously released video footage from bodycams documenting the stop. The published video footage shows Hill sitting in a black sports car. A police officer approaches his vehicle and Hill hands the officer something through the lowered window. The window is then rolled up again.
The police officer then asks him to lower the window again, but Hill does not do so. Another police officer then forcefully opened the driver's door, whereupon Hill was pulled out of the vehicle and pinned to the ground. An officer pressed his knee into Hill's back, whereupon he was handcuffed.
‘I still don't know what happened,’ Hill said after the NFL opener against the Jacksonville Jaguars (20-17) and criticised: ’What if I wasn't Tyreek Hill? God knows what those officials would have done.’
The Dolphins wrote in their statement that this was ‘a reminder’ that ‘not every situation like this ends peacefully, and we are grateful that it did in this one.’
There are ‘some officers who confuse their responsibility and dedication with misguided power’, it continued: ‘We commend the MDPD (Miami Dade Police Department, ed.) for taking the proper and necessary action and releasing this footage so quickly, but also urge them to take equally swift and decisive action against the officers who behaved so abhorrently.’
Hill uncooperative according to police
No, Power abuse in its purist form.
It's interesting how many cops turned up on the tray for a normal traffic stop!
Any non-POC citizen would have had no problem getting into his car and the traffic stop would not have happened, this is structural racism!
The black man with the big fat car fits the image of police officers abusing their power.
Throw them out, they have no place in the police force, at most as security guards in a shopping centre car park.
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Of course, first investigate properly and then throw them out, that's just our opinion, then jobs will open up for more capable people with a greater sense of responsibility and the appropriate de-escalation skills.
Cops on Steroids?
Is that the problem? It's interesting when a professional athlete looks like an untrained citizen against a normal patrolman, isn't it?
I can only puke for the steroid pumped up cops with their bullshit core spirit.
Do a test on steroids with one of them - I bet you'll be surprised.
What a great, rich lady! She was lucky enough to receive a little state support.
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We would absolutely be grinning from ear to ear if the state were to give us so much money.
The British royal family is seen as an integral part of established class society and its continued existence is supported by an annual state subsidy. It is believed that without this financial support, the royal family would not be able to maintain their lifestyle.
What a load of bullshit.... they even have a voice in the house of lords when it comes to taxing the royal family. Full insight into the potential legislation beforehand.... fuck is that cool, or course with veto right.
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What the British pay for their monarchy.
Profits from leasing land
The more complicated calculation looks somewhat different. This is because King Charles III has other income than just the direct state grants. He has income from the Duchy of Lancaster. These are profits from the leasing of land and other property. The Duchy yields around £20 million a year. The royal family also owns the Duchy of Cornwall, which also generates profits of a similar amount that are distributed to Prince William. A special feature for the King: he does not have to pay any taxes, i.e. neither income tax nor capital gains tax or even inheritance tax. Since 1993, however, the Queen has paid taxes on a voluntary basis.
The ‘Republic’ organisation, which campaigns for an end to the monarchy and for an elected head of state, presents a completely different account. In 2017, the pressure group presented a report in which the authors came to the conclusion that the royal family costs taxpayers £345 million (393 million euros) per year. The calculation also includes the costs of securing the royals and the properties. It also includes the costs of buildings that are owned by the state but used by the royal family, for example.
Monarchs.
Estimated assets of two billion euros
In recent weeks, there has been widespread reporting on the King's wealth. The Guardian newspaper has worked with a team of reporters and wealth specialists to calculate how much Charles III owns. According to the report, the king has 1.8 billion pounds (2.05 billion euros). He owns a fleet of 23 cars, numerous works of art, very valuable jewellery, horses and shares in companies. The family owns Balmoral Castle in Scotland as well as the seat in Sandringham and the Duchy of Lancaster. There are no official figures. The palace did not comment on the estimates, but called the figures ‘a creative mix of speculation, assumptions and inaccuracy’.
In the debate about the king's finances and the costs of the monarchy, one thing stands out above all else: There is a lack of transparency
In the 2024 financial year, which ended on 31 March of that year, the British royal family received state remuneration of around £86.3 million. This means that state remuneration remained constant compared to the previous year.
All the king's wealth
Charles III inherits a considerable fortune from his mother - tax-free. The royal family owns entire duchies, lucrative roads and dilapidated palaces.
The operating costs for the British monarchy are primarily met by the Crown Estate, the management company for the royal estates. These are the properties that belong to the monarchy as an institution and not to the monarch personally - and which make a tidy profit.
These include, for example, estates and properties such as the entire high-priced Regent Street in the heart of London, but also offshore wind farms off the coast, collections of paintings and shopping centres. The total value of the Estate's assets is estimated at more than 15 billion pounds, the equivalent of more than 17 billion euros.
More money for a dilapidated palace
Normally, 15 per cent of Crown Estate profits go to the monarch, which is usually the equivalent of around 50 million euros a year. This is used to finance staff, travel and palace maintenance - as well as facilities that the monarch supports. This 15 per cent rate was increased to 25 per cent in 2017 - which currently amounts to almost 100 million euros. A hefty, temporary supplement to renovate Buckingham Palace.
If the British government's report on the state of the palace is to be believed, the palace is now a shambles: in some of the 775 rooms, buckets are reportedly already being used to catch the drips from the ceiling. For 60 years, too little has been done in terms of maintenance, and now the craftsmen have to get to work, for ten years and around 430 million euros - financed by the Crown Estate. The electrics are outdated, the heating urgently needs to be replaced, as does the pipework, otherwise there is a serious risk of fire and water, says the government.
King Charles III owns a total of 92 properties - and they are extremely valuable
How much is too much?
According to Forbes, King Charles III's property portfolio now consists of 7 palaces, 10 castles, 12 houses, 56 holiday homes and 14 ancient ruins - which also have a high value. However, as the media rightly emphasise, he does not own the properties directly. They belong to the Crown Estate, the Duchy of Lancaster and the Duchy of Cornwall and are administered by the Crown. However, four estates are owned by two trusts that the Regent established when he was still Prince. Two of these estates are in Rome, the others in the United Kingdom.
One might be forgiven for questioning the collective intelligence of a people who would choose to engage in such an activity.
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Today marks the second anniversary of the death of Queen Elizabeth II -September 8th 2024.
Two years ago (on September 8th 2022), The late Queen died around 3pm at Balmoral Castle in Scotland.
You are incredibly missed. Thank you for everything Ma'am!
The living wear the dead for display. This assertion is profound in its simplicity. When viewed in isolation, the garments appear to have no intrinsic meaning. However, when considered within the context of cultural traditions, their significance becomes evident.
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Death is important in many cultures except in modern society where it has degenerated into a nice fashion item.
Kimono (Kosode), Japan, 1840-1860
Those who inform themselves are in a position to make good decisions!
Those who vote have a voice, don't let them take it away from you.
One voice is silent, but a million is not!
Register and vote, those who say you only have to vote once and never again are just trying to silence you!
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Democracy needs citizens to strengthen it, and that means having a voice. VOTE
The interesting thing is that nobody is allowed to forge your passport or ID card and it is illegal to steal your identity, but you are not granted data sovereignty.
So we don't have the right to see all the data of everyone here, for example the boss of Toyota, their movements, their driving behaviour and so on. .... was a joke, which of course was also meant for the tech industry.
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If you had the choice, it would be nice to have the choice to sell your data yourself, or simply not make it usable and therefore not sell it.
No, you don't have data sovereignty, it's the gold of the present and the future to make us look at even more crap. To make us a tailor-made offer in our data bubbles.
You're driving on the motorway and suddenly your smartphone, controlled by the car and other factors, tells you to drive out of here because there's exactly the food you like so much, or you get a crappy insurance rate because your car has transmitted your driving behaviour to the insurance company.
The data octopuses create professional behavioural profiles and you really have the illusion of being free when you are so predictable and predictable. The wolves know what the sheep are doing and even make money from them without pulling the wool over their eyes.
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It needs to be established internationally at the UN that personal data belongs to the individual and that you have to ask them if they want to sell it.
I don't know of any company that would give up their data if they didn't have to, and it's just data!
They all cast about for customer data, citizens.... in order to be able to calculate them in the good case they just want to sell something in the bad case they use your behaviour against you..... social scoring in China this is how you control sheep that could become dangerous to the wolf.
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The best thing is that almost the app we use sucks our data and we even voluntarily allow this because we are simply too lazy to read the small print and to configure the rights accordingly, which said, no, only technically necessary data nothing more.
Let's summarise this briefly, because in reality it's unlikely that children who go to school are operated on, at least we don't know of any school in the world that has a full surgery room where gender reassignment surgery is carried out.
But that's not all, since when can a school decide which gender a child gets only if it goes to the same school. What law gives the school the right to do this and who decides - the English teacher or the PE teacher or all the dice?
This bloke has such a gossip that it hurts.
He's not a horror writer, he's running for president of the United States.....
Three boys once went to school and came home as girls...... fuck that's the complete brain fuck of a crazy old red haired man who should be playing golf at home.
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If you're really still a fan of him, you should voluntarily commit yourself to a mental hospital.
Here's the matching song:
Imagine the poor Jimmy's, where have all their bollocks gone?
Oh, poor Jimmy. Don't go to school today then your balls go away.
There's a scalpel waiting for you and your balls are history.
My little Deer.....
His parents said, "We love you, poor Jimmy," but it was too late.
His balls were already in the Waste!
Where have all the balls gone from all the poor Jimmy's?
The are in the Waste.....
Sounds live a bad Taste.
Jimmys balls in the Waste...
Sounds live a bad Taste....
Oh schubib oh lala la now the balls are in the Waste..
Oh poor Jimmy you call yourself Loré now how can it end like this?
Sounds live a bad Taste....
Oh schubib oh lala la never look back to the Waste....
mod song .... poor jimmy
This is the sickness that is Donald Trump. The prolific liar. The gaslighter. The traitor to this country.
He knows he's going to lose this election.
He's laying the groundwork for voter intimidation, election chaos, and claims of election interference.
This is so transparently dishonest.
Today and tomorrow and the next day after that will be the same deceptive narrative.
Haven't we all had enough of this man and his psychopathy?
Trump and his continued Transgender surgery lies:
“Can you imagine you're a parent and your son leaves the house and you say, Jimmy, I love you so much. Go have a good day in school and your son comes back with a brutal operation.”
If this is what you believe you are as sick as he is.
Trump’s own campaign could not find a single example of this “school secretly sends child for gender-affirming surgery without parental consent” thing having ever happened anywhere in the US. Experts say it has not and could not. It’s a lie.