TikTok ups our cultural game with top videos of restocking fridges and a squirrel stuffing nuts into his mouth. The world is clearly bored. newsweek.com/tiktok-top-vid…
Human's Netflixed every free film all the way down to the Bollywoods. All the good movies were kicked to 2022 but we have already seen them in trailers a billion times. Movies are getting boring and predictable. imdb.com/list/ls0997570…
The most popular entertainment was picking fights on the internet with strangers..and reposting silly things that everyone had already reposted. Bernies Mitten's never got a film deal. deseret.com/2021/12/27/228…
Shockingly this scientific study determined that people didn't do a lot of physical activity during Covid lock times. That's a big boon for the entertainment industry..and the diet industry. journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/…
What really happened in 2021? We all got a little less happy about things. But less pessimistic than we were in 2008. Indonesians and Albanians are optimistic, Turks and Bulgarians not so much. gallup-international.com/survey-results…
So as the official survival guy. Here is a list of things to think about in 2022: Did you tell people you loved them and why? Do you see the humor in things? Did you make someone's burden a little easier? Did you take a minute to think? Use every minute on this earth to do good.
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"Trump now disputes being friends with Casablancas. The president’s representatives told the Guardian that he denies it “in the strongest possible terms”. Trump, they said, “hardly knew him, spent very little time with him, and knew very little about him”. theguardian.com/us-news/2020/m…
"And at some point in their lives, Robert Maxwell, Trump, and Epstein all had ties to foreign intelligence agencies, arms dealers, and the sex trade." vanityfair.com/news/2021/01/j…
"Trump Model Management and Trump Management Group LLC, maintained a working relationship with Brunel’s agencies Trump Model Management abruptly closed down after Trump’s inauguration as president."medium.com/@mentificium/f…
"He left Frontier Services in March of this year" FSG stock price actually began to rise 30 days later. asiatimes.com/2021/12/erik-p…
Hybrid warfare is a silly amorphus term used by people with lack of historical perspective of the constant spectrum shifting between conflict and influence. In the case of the Ukraine..there is nothing "hybrid" massed on the border of Ukraine. buzzfeednews.com/article/christ…
For example, the use of "Wagner" or UAE-funded mercenaries in Libya is neither new or completely effective but it is part of a "spoiler" strategy adopted by both nations. The process can be quickly reversed by brutal means. Disposable means disposable. russianpmcs.csis.org
"When (govts) seem incapable of delivering on their promises, this failure can lead to alienation, resignation, distrust and withdrawal among many citizens. It can also trigger demands for authoritarian leaders who promise to cut through messy politics." nytimes.com/2021/12/29/opi…
It's quite educational and frightening to understand how tiny and flickering the concept of democracy is. vox.com/2014/4/22/5636…
Roosevelt's deal with Churchill is one of my favorite moments in history. Thanks to some tricky negotiations, Britain was to lose almost all of their colonial empire to stay alive. archives.gov/education/less…
It's a conspiracy theory and she is not Russian (Haitian/PR) but its about a perfect a story that you could create. newsweek.com/madison-cawtho…
Don't know who did it better... OJ Simpson in the Naked Gun and the Queen or Derek Zoolander trying to kill the Prime Minister of Malaysia. Here is how it works.
What if Explore Talent was that "other CIA" all the TrumpTicks were pitching Donnie? So many tiny aspiring "models" turned TrumpOperatives came from there its making me all tin foiley. spyscape.com/article/spy-in…
Eric Garland brings up the idea that these "type" of people are of perverse interest to the GOP voting base. There is no hard proof to support that but there is something creepy about the obsession with pedophilia in politics. From Nader to Gaetz to Trump.
Joan Didion is gone. She was an iconl in the 60's and much more. Part of the New Journalism where the author was woven into exciting events and/or lifestyles. I think that world is long gone. I bet she encouraged a lot of women to write for magazines. anothermag.com/design-living/…
"New" journalism was just immersive journalism, often pointed at the "young" Truman Capote says he invented it. Tom Wolfe turned it into an art from and Hunter S. Thompson blended fiction with fact to create Gonzo journalism. It's all writing. indiependent.co.uk/new-journalism…
Writers used to keep notes, write letters and often their magazine articles were turned into books or movies. There was an intense focus on what magazines had to say. And the back story of stories. theisolationjournals.com/explore/121-fr…