“Do you wish to find out a person’s weak points? Note the failings he has the quickest eye for in others. They may not be the very failings he is himself conscious of; but they will be their next-door neighbors.”
~ Julius Hare, Guesses at Truth: By Two Brothers -Let’s never do it again sometime
Coronavirus: China’s first confirmed Covid-19 case traced back to November 17
Explainer journalism never lets actual events get in the way of big ideas. Exhibit A: Ezra Klein’s new book Fifth Estate
~ Julius Hare, Guesses at Truth: By Two Brothers -Let’s never do it again sometime
Coronavirus: China’s first confirmed Covid-19 case traced back to November 17
Explainer journalism never lets actual events get in the way of big ideas. Exhibit A: Ezra Klein’s new book Fifth Estate
MICHELLE FAHY. Brothers-in-Arms: the high-rotation revolving door between the Australian government and arms merchants
A disturbing number of Australia’s military personnel, senior
defence and intelligence officials and politicians leave their public
service jobs and walk through the ‘revolving door’ into roles with
weapons-making and security-related corporations. Nowhere is government
and industry more fused than in defence. Michelle Fahy reports.
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Evidence: China Executes Political Prisoners to Harvest Organs.
NIH Research Spends Taxpayer Dollars Frightening Monkeys in Cages.
Writers Room Giri Haji Duty and Shame - Haj - Woods
Giri/Haji is innovative and experimental – stylistically bold split screen elements, recurring metaphorical symbolism, recap sequences which use gritty animation and impersonal narration, and a diverse soundtrack ranging from Japanese pop to 50s swing. There’s even a gunfight which lapses into balletic choreography. It’s risky filmmaking, and what emerges is an excellent, groundbreaking series
“He took [Sora] from me,” Yuto tells Kenzo. “So I decided to take everything from him.”
So far, Yuto’s vengeance dream is coming to fruition — while the streets of Tokyo and London also run red with the blood of countless people who aren’t Fukuhara. The real mystery is whether Eiko can ever forgive her lover for birthing so much havoc into the world.
Whenever I fall at your feet
I'm really close tonight
And I feel like I am moving inside her
I'm lying in the dark
And I think that I'm beginning to know her
Let it go
I'll be there when you call
Whenever I fall at your feet
You let your tears rain down on me
Whenever I touch your slow turning pain
You're hiding from me now
There's something in the way that you're talking
Words don't sound right
I can hear them all moving inside her
Know I'll be waiting when you call
Whenever I fall at your feet
You let your tears rain down on me
Whenever I touch your slow turning pain
The finger of blame has turned upon itself
And I'm more than willing to offer myself
Did you want my presence or need my help
Who knows where that might lead
And I fall
Whenever I fall
...
Like the distant ripples on a pond thrown up by
the stones of fate.
Do you ever think about how everything we do
is an echo of something?
Like how everything we’ve done is going to happen again and everything we’re going to do has already happened somewhere else. And we’re all just... dancing around each other like atoms and we can’t even stroke a hair from our face without it affecting the lives of a billion people. Like how every tiny split-second decision we make can potentially have a vast, profound effect on everyone around us. But maybe it’s all planned. Everything that is going to happen was always going to happen. As if we’re all being moved by this mad conductor. We’ve all been here before. Just one endless round and round. And something we can’t control. All we can do is hang on and hope it sets us down in a better place than it picked us up.
Like how everything we’ve done is going to happen again and everything we’re going to do has already happened somewhere else. And we’re all just... dancing around each other like atoms and we can’t even stroke a hair from our face without it affecting the lives of a billion people. Like how every tiny split-second decision we make can potentially have a vast, profound effect on everyone around us. But maybe it’s all planned. Everything that is going to happen was always going to happen. As if we’re all being moved by this mad conductor. We’ve all been here before. Just one endless round and round. And something we can’t control. All we can do is hang on and hope it sets us down in a better place than it picked us up.
- You are like a candy bar: half sweet and half nuts.
- Your inappropriateness knows no boundaries.
- I’m sorry but I didn’t order a glass of your opinion.
- I’d rather be X than be you.
- I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed person!
- There are 7 trillion nerves in the human body, and you are capable of getting on every one of them.
- If you’re going to be close minded… do you mind being closed mouthed as well?
- Some people are like clouds. When they disappear it’s a brighter day.
- Where’s your off button?
- If I give you a nice big straw will you go suck the fun out of someone else’s day?
Lao-tzu, Plato, and "Parasite" — David Lay Williams (DePaul) brings ancient philosophy to bear on the award-winning movie
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ALAN BOYD.-Spy versus spy as China eyes US bases in Australia.( Asia Times 2.3.2020)
China conducts deepwater surveys near secretive base US and Australian subs and ships use in South China Sea. Continue reading
CAMERON LECKIE. The Real China – Russia Threat
The real threat posed by China and Russia to the Western world is not a military one.
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JOHN MENADUE: The Order of Australia,Chief Justice Gibbs and Justice Murphy.
No wonder we have lost confidence in institutions when even a Governor General and Justices of the High Court act improperly
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We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. Seneca
Nobody can predict the future. You just have to give your all to the relationship you’re in and do your best to take care of your partner, communicate and give them every last drop of love you have. I think one of the most important things in a relationship is caring for your significant other through good times and bad. Nick Cannon
Why should I care when no one else does? For the simple reason that the most critical time to care is when no one else does. Craig D. Lounsbrough
