From the #Kurds & #Taiwan to #Afghanistan, #Somaliland & #Ukraine, the pattern is clear: U.S. allies are #expendable. @mrubin1971 argues that #Aligning with #Washington has become a strategic mistake.
https://saxafimedia.com/allying-with-the-united-states-is-a-big-mistake/
Krugman: I don't know if you've seen it, but there's this point in ‘Oppenheimer’ where’s he’s dealing with General Groves, who pretends to be a dumb general, but is actually not. And he suddenly realizes, ‘you didn't hire me despite my communist connections. You hired me because of them, because that means that you can get rid of me whenever you want.’
https://www.crisesnotes.com/musk-in-your-computers-paul-krugman-interviews-nathan-tankus/
#HR #hacking #files #service #sysAdmin #administration #government #DOGE #payments #paymentSystem #money
Notes on the Crises pivoted on February 1st into around the clock coverage of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025. Today is Day Thirty Read Part 0, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11,
#CINEMA "Mickey 17" : La Comédie Sci-Fi de Bong Joon Ho et Robert Pattinson est reportée
Attendue par les #fans du réalisateur sud-coréen #BongJoonHo, la comédie de science-fiction #Mickey17 verra finalement le jour au #printemps #2025. En tête d'affiche, #RobertPattinson incarne un "#expendable" dont les répliques sont vouées à mourir pour coloniser une #planète #glacée. Toutes les #infos sur ActuaNews....
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Important thoughts & reflections, thank you.
For me, it was the dismantling of meaningful societal responses to covid that opened my eyes.
The system regards each of us as expendable, and it wants us to know that we are expendable. Our bodies are not meant to be protected. If my body crumbles, all the productive skills supported by it will vanish to, but no matter. I can be replaced. The cost of replacing me is priced in. Be ready to be replaced.
Six people are missing and presumed dead after a 984-foot cargo ship hit the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, causing the bridge’s collapse early Tuesday morning. All six have been identified as immigrant construction workers originally hailing from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. Maryland Governor Wes Moore said the crew on the ship was able to issue an emergency mayday call before colliding with the bridge, which allowed authorities to stop incoming traffic and prevent more casualties. However, reports say the workers already on the bridge were not given similar warnings. “The question we should be asking about is why the folks on that bridge … had no direct line to emergency dispatch when they are clearly working in a potentially hazardous environment,” says journalist Maximillian Alvarez, the editor-in-chief of the Baltimore-based organization The Real News Network, who has been closely following the story and how it has affected immigrant and working-class communities. “What does this story actually show us? That immigrants are filling our potholes at night so that we can have a smooth drive to work in the morning,” Alvarez says. “I hope people can see this and see the humanity in us.”
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7111yecBq4RAnphJurx9QW?si=VhFgC3rORTKZmd8_DY6Hxw
Ninety For Chill: The #Podcast w/@CatBusRuss: 3M #Movie Marathon: Men of War, Black Mask 2, Stone Cold, Batman: Death in the Family
An #Expendable #prequel, mutant #wrestling, @lancehenriksen’s #biker gang.
Mercs, Masked Vigilantes, & #motorcycles.
Is “Men of War” is the #DolphLundgren origin story for the #expendables?
#galgadot #movies #FilmTwitter #thursdayvibes #cinemastodon #cinema #podcasting #film
Listen to this episode from Ninety For Chill: The Podcast with CatBusRuss on Spotify. Hopefully everyone has had a great start to 2024. With all the festivities, finding a guest was going to be next to impossible, so CatBusRuss got a week off to relax. Or did he? These festive times means most people have little time, so our host had to make up for this with an action movie binge. This will be the closest to an Illinois Central College hosted B-Fest. that we think you can find. Russ wanted to clear out some of the cheap and/or hard to find DVDs from his queue. From his past two February trips up to Evanston, he thinks he has come up with a quadruple feature that would make the Northwestern programmers proud. Not all of the flicks discussed will make the cut. If you want to learn more about Chris Jericho, stick around to the end for an "Android Apocalypse" review. In an attempt to get you ready for the CG chaos of "Black Mask 2: City of Masks", our host did revisit the 1996(9) Jet Li feature, "Black Mask". The final line up of four fun-filled films is Ivan Drago vs Kano (95) in the mercenary tale, "Men of War", the mutant-pro-wrestling allegory, "Black Mask 2", Brian Bosworth vs. Lance Henriksen in biker porn, "Stone Cold", and the choose your own adventure, DC Animated Feature "Batman: Death in the Family". Imagine how that can turn an audience on each other. All of the features can be found streaming (provided you want to spend $12.99 for BM2). The only way right now to watch "Stone Cold" is currently on Pluto TV via "Rifftrax". Here's hoping Bill, Kevin, and Mike's transfer is as good as my blu-ray.
@SailorDisco My #biologicalfamily chose to side with a #Transphobic #family #member who threatened to keep his #daughter from attending a #family #event if I was allowed to attend; they acceded to his wishes and asked me not to come at the last minute.
By deciding to align with #hate, they effectively severed our #FamilyTies on that day. Since they made their stance perfectly clear — I was #expendable — I have not spoken to any of them since.
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