Historic Detroit

While he was best known for his movie palaces, his work wasn't limited to theaters. He also designed Detroit's Olympia Stadium, the former home of the Detroit Red Wings (1927-1987) that sat more than 12,000, as well as the Lafayette

I’m going to do a slightly substantial thread in Sadanand Dhume’s piece for @WSJ because I am quite disturbed at the flex the debate is taking. The problems in the piece go far beyond a debate on how “gentle” the govt has been on the farmers. Thread. 👇🏽

This causation is misrepresented. There’s a history to this. During the Green Revolution Punjab and Haryana moved to the wheat-paddy cultivation cycle from their traditional crops. This was encouraged and as we all know from CBSE textbooks, was done in the national interest.

At that time sustainability wasn’t a watchword but by 1980 a massive decline in the water table was noted. Why? Because paddy required five times more irrigation than wheat. So if you irrigate a wheat crop six times in one season, paddy will require 30 irrigations.

When free electricity was thrown in the mix farmers’ preferences changed. They also started growing longer term maturing paddy, like Pusa 44. Paddy was also planted in May-June with a maturation in October.

Dhume’s piece seems to suggest that paddy cultivation is preferred.

This is incorrect. After the paddy crop is harvested, the areas are brought under wheat cultivation if the farmer has the means to.

Why is this even important? Because of TIMING. This also brings me to the second issue I have with the piece. Stubble burning.

There’s a reason why they coined the term “couch potato”. Excessive TV watching turns you into a potato in time. Research has shown that when you are watching TV, your higher brain regions shut down, and activities shift to the lower brain regions. Your lower brain is set in a

“fight or flight” response mode. In the long run, your higher brain regions experience atrophy due to lack of usage. There have been studies that TV viewing among children leads to lower attention and poorer brain development. TV is like a tune in station, a place where you’re

completely cut off from reality and falsely presented news/ideologies about real world (media/movies)

Watching Netflix series on your laptop all day is no different. Movies/series subconsciously programme the brain by presenting it with a false perception of reality. This is

dangerous because it can warp the very reality you live in. Yes, i use movie clips and tv shows as content, but mostly for information purposes to show you the kind of programming used and what it means.

Watch documentaries on YouTube/Vimeo about real shit. Spend your time

loading your brain with useful knowledge instead of junk thats designed to programme your thoughts. All media, including movies, newspapers, the news, magazines etc, are all owned by just a few corporate entities. This means only a few corporations control the narrative. The

Has there been a moment in modern history where so many people in free societies have believed such damaging lies?
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It’s easy to point to the US, where nearly 90 per cent of people who voted for Donald Trump believe Joe Biden’s election victory was not legitimate.
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But it’s not just the US. In France, a minority of adults are confident that vaccines are safe, which explains why only 40 per cent say they plan to get a Covid-19 shot.
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Meanwhile, across the world, substantial minorities believe that the Covid-19 fatality rate has been “deliberately and greatly exaggerated”.
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How did it come to this? The simplest explanation — to repurpose a phrase from former US Treasury secretary Larry Summers — is: “There are idiots. Look around.”
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Back in 2007, I TAed Dr. Emmanuel Katongole's course on the Rwandan Genocide. Every session, a student would try to argue that the genocide couldn't have happened if only there had been an *authentic* Christianity among the Hutu who killed the Tutsi ...

who were their neighbors as well as fellow Catholics. The slaughters took place in houses, fields, and even churches–shared churches where the murderers attended with the ones they murdered. So was the faith only genuine or authentic for the victims, or ...

was something else going on? The false tribal narrative promoted by the colonial ID cards had a powerful effect on how people imagined themselves. When radio personalities demonized the Tutsi and called for their slaughter, the ID cards were the markers between people...

Not baptism. Not family. Not church membership. An invented idea. But the week before the killings started, these people were in church together. Did the faith stop being authentic? Did grace have an expiration date? No.

But the decision to allow state politics to give meaning to human bodies displaced the Body of Christ in the people's way of imagining themselves. Right now, a lot of people are tempted to think that the insurrectionists would back down if they had *authentic* Christianity,...

White supremacist thinking became nearly extinct as society moved beyond the idea of race and encouraged race neutrality.

The reality is white racism, which was a specific and cultural mindset, inspired a reactionary black identity movement in the 60's and 70's.

10 January 2020 #MAGAanalysis #TheGreat2021Purge

Thou Shalt Not Speak Truth

We begin today's work with a notification I found on @AnnVendersteel's Parler account (under that handle) just now. You'll see, the purge progresses. I quote in full below.

Alright, time to stop ignoring the J6 discourse...

It is necessary to confront the Proud Boys because the Proud Boys are only coming to DC to fight "antifa," and if there are no antifascists there, they will simply assault whoever they determine is "antifa."

Because the Proud Boys are racist, sexist homophobes, this generally ends up being racial, ethnic, or sexual minorities.

This happens and the police allow this to happen. Some form of pushback is necessary.

The Proud Boys exist only to create violence. They are not a drinking club, they are a militant political wing of the Republican Party, and their mission is to generate a cultural notion of right wing immunity.

This is the violent obverse of the same coin that has the Republican Party's other immunities on the reverse: the ability to tamper with elections, engage in financial fraud, ignore the Constitution, and in general participate in corruption.

However, while the Proud Boys must be confronted, we must also recognize that their entire raison d'être is that antifa also shows up to face this confrontation.

THE ABA WOMEN'S RIOT

Are you asking yourself who these women are? Majority of us wouldn't know them because we've been busy learning about Mother Theresa and the Fraudulent story of Mary Slessor.

In the morning of November 18th 1929, A man called "Emereuwa", Upon the directive of his boss okugo the warrant chief in Aba District walked into the compound of a widow called "Nwayereuwa", ordered her for a cencus of all her livestock and household.

The widow, Nwayereuwa knowing the census will determined how much she will be taxed by the British colonial government. She shouted on Emeruewa, "was your widowed mother at home counted?". An angry exchange ensued. Nwayereuwa resentfully rushed down to the town and market square,

consulted other disgruntled women, with palm frond, they mobilised other women. And that marked the beginning of one of the greatest resilience, rebellion and

uprising the British imperial colonial rule ever faced in Nigeria and Africa in general, called "The Aba Women's Riot" otherwise known as, "The Women Who Went To War".

How To Become The Person You've Always Wanted To Be While Gaining EVERYTHING You've Ever Wanted To Gain...

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Kanye has MAGNETIC charisma

People are DRAWN to him

He says, does, and acts, however, he wants.

Everyone WISHES they could act like Kanye, but few can.

In this thread, I'll break down his ULTIMATE persuasion secret, and share with you how to use it in your own life to win

Most people have two selves: I once heard it being called the shell identity.

("I'm Bob the banker".)

This is what everyone knows you as.

A simple shell to mask your SECOND identity...

Your second identity is the person you’ve ALWAYS wanted to be…

When Bob is doing banking stuff he's daydreaming about living on a beach, working online, and banging big booty hoes.

I believe that's who he really is, his true identity.

So I'd call this his TRUE identity.

We all have pictures in our head, movies we run through of who we'd like to be, what we'd like to do and this is who we REALLY are.

Things like social conditioning often imprisoning one's TRUE identity.

Result?

Few ever pull the damn trigger and make it a reality.

Which places have done the best job of protecting people from Covid? A thread.

Best at early action: TAIWAN. Quickly halted flights, quarantined travelers, implemented widespread testing, and quadrupled face mask production within a month. The US now has more cases and deaths every 5 minutes than Taiwan has had to date.

Best at learning from recent epidemics: LIBERIA. Hit hard by Ebola in 2014, Liberia was one of the first countries to screen for Covid at airports and implement comprehensive control measures, including rapid testing, complete contact tracing, and effective quarantine.

Best at crushing the curve: NEW ZEALAND, which began preparing hospitals and border control policies in February, then implemented a countrywide lockdown in late March with the goal of eliminating Covid entirely. Clear, empathetic communication has been essential.

Best location in the US: AMERICAN SAMOA. On high alert after a 2019 measles outbreak, health authorities halted all incoming passenger flights and have managed to prevent any Covid cases.

The Age of the enemy is setting. Slowly and steadily. All of you might not see it now, but it is coming. And not on its own, not without good reason. It happens through our combined effort. We are building this with our own toil, labor and vigor.
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Something big just happened over the North Sea... I DONT KNOW WHAT THOUGH.

I’ll post the air traffic screenshots below in this thread.

It’s certainly NOT what the media reported at 2:42PM as the jets were still on mission at 4:25PM.

Aircraft one NATO

Aircraft two RAF

Aircraft three RAF

Aircraft four RAF