City of God (2002) is a terrific film. Now HBO is doing a miniseries sequel set 20 years after. From the trailer it looks like they're doing that thing again where they do a garbage followup to a cult classic. Its a shame because we have been in dire need of favela kino.
The Lion’s Gate opens tomorrow 8/8. This also lines up with the heliacal rise of Sirius in Washington D.C. A very important event to some occultists. Ancient Egyptians based their calendar on this event.
The constellation it is a key in, Orion’s Belt, is represented in the street grid of DC, and just as the axis of the ancient Egyptian temple of Isis at Dendera was oriented to the rising point of Sirius on the eastern horizon, the angle of Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House to the Capitol building is oriented to the rising point of Sirius. Looking down Pennsylvania Avenue, you can see Sirius rise over the Capitol. An event also represented in the star-spangled headdress on the statue on top of the Dome.
The constellation it is a key in, Orion’s Belt, is represented in the street grid of DC, and just as the axis of the ancient Egyptian temple of Isis at Dendera was oriented to the rising point of Sirius on the eastern horizon, the angle of Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House to the Capitol building is oriented to the rising point of Sirius. Looking down Pennsylvania Avenue, you can see Sirius rise over the Capitol. An event also represented in the star-spangled headdress on the statue on top of the Dome.
Nothing really torches a brand’s credibility with customers like firehosing them with a constant stream of emails. Retail should avoid sending more than two emails per month. Content creators no more than once per week. SMS never.
Virginia is leading the way in election security thanks to Governor Youngkin and grassroots activists like @ProjectVirginia who put a plan into action to clean up elections in Virginia. This election could very well hinge on the Old Dominion.
Here’s Tim Walz giving a 9/11 anniversary speech where he claimed to have “stood one night in the dark of night at Bagram Air Base in Iraq” and watched an American soldier’s body be loaded onto a plane.
Bagram is in Afghanistan, not Iraq. Walz didn’t deploy to either.
Source: Official Minnesota Government website: lrl.mn.gov/docs/2023/mand…
Bagram is in Afghanistan, not Iraq. Walz didn’t deploy to either.
Source: Official Minnesota Government website: lrl.mn.gov/docs/2023/mand…
How poetic is it that the first name and middle initial of Kamala Harris’ daddy is “Donald J.”?
Sr. Presidente @nayibbukele, muchas gracias por el regalo de @BeanofFire café, I can’t wait to try it ☕️
Since I work outside in the sun now I am eating a lot of hard italian cheeses. You know those crystals in parmigiano and piave? Those are tyrosine crystals. Tyrosine is an amino acid your body uses as a substrate to make melanin and dopamine, along with phenylalanine, which parmigiano is also a rich food source of. Tyrosine can be synthesized from phenylalanine it’s true, but I love cheese.
For context, current Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin was down 9 points at this point in the race in 2021. Biden was polling 8 points ahead of where he finished. Democrats are often greatly overestimated in VA polls, partly because it’s hard to model what rural VA will do.
This was The Pirate Bay response 20 years ago to a Dreamworks copyright complaint, note this particular line:
“As you may or may not be aware, Sweden is not a state in the United States of America. Sweden is a country in northern Europe. Unless you figured it out by now, US law does not apply here. For your information, no Swedish law is being violated.”
That was still somewhat true 20 years ago. European countries still retain a measure of sovereignty, even though they were under the US defense umbrella. The French and the Germans were in particular more than comfortable with openly defying and insulting President Bush.
This relationship was changed pretty dramatically in the Obama era. There is no longer a pretension of sovereignty in Europe, the U.S. government openly calls the shots. It used to be that people could flee serious crimes in the US by going to France (see Polanski, Roman). That doesn’t work anymore. Now the US State Department can tell the French government to arrest a French citizen on our behalf, and they will do it.
Make no mistake, this isn’t “France falling to totalitarian censorship” — it’s just another day in the American Empire. The era of infotech having a special dispensation of liberty is drawing to an end. It is joining the ranks of every other regulated industry. it is not just governments that are cracking down on this either, normal people are getting fed up with the constant disruption emanating from Silicon Valley. I think in the not too distant future we’ll see assassinations of some of the more irritating tech founders.
“As you may or may not be aware, Sweden is not a state in the United States of America. Sweden is a country in northern Europe. Unless you figured it out by now, US law does not apply here. For your information, no Swedish law is being violated.”
That was still somewhat true 20 years ago. European countries still retain a measure of sovereignty, even though they were under the US defense umbrella. The French and the Germans were in particular more than comfortable with openly defying and insulting President Bush.
This relationship was changed pretty dramatically in the Obama era. There is no longer a pretension of sovereignty in Europe, the U.S. government openly calls the shots. It used to be that people could flee serious crimes in the US by going to France (see Polanski, Roman). That doesn’t work anymore. Now the US State Department can tell the French government to arrest a French citizen on our behalf, and they will do it.
Make no mistake, this isn’t “France falling to totalitarian censorship” — it’s just another day in the American Empire. The era of infotech having a special dispensation of liberty is drawing to an end. It is joining the ranks of every other regulated industry. it is not just governments that are cracking down on this either, normal people are getting fed up with the constant disruption emanating from Silicon Valley. I think in the not too distant future we’ll see assassinations of some of the more irritating tech founders.