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sarchasm's JournalSPOILER ALERT - 'Don't Look Up' post credits scene
Of course he did! The future of humanity. Forget the dinner scene, this is the scene that made me cry.
A 1997 Wired Article Predicting '10 Things That Could Go Wrong In The 21st Century'
I'd like to remain positive but ....
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https://twitter.com/hieronymus_burp/status/1461782628223365128
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– Tensions between China and the US escalate into a new Cold War — bordering on a hot one.
– New technologies turn out to be a bust. They simply don't bring the expected productivity increases or the big economic boosts,
– Russia devolves into a kleptocracy run by a mafia or retreats into quasi-communist nationalism that threatens Europe.
– Europe's integration process grinds to a halt. Eastern and Western Europe can't finesse a reunification, and even the European Unification process breaks down.
– Major ecological crisis causes a global climate change that, among other things, disrupts the food supply - causing big price increases everywhere and sporadic famines.
– Major rise in crime and terrorism forces the world to pull back in fear. People who constantly feel they could be blown up or ripped off are not in the mood to reach out and open up.
– The cumulative escalation in pollution causes a dramatic increase in cancer, which overwhelms the ill-prepared health system.
– Energy prices go through the roof. Convulsions in the Middle East disrupt the oil supply, and alternative energy sources fail to materialize.
– An uncontrollable plague - a modern-day influenza epidemic or its equivalent takes off like wildfire, killing upward of 200 million people.
– A social and cultural backlash stops progress dead in its tracks, human beings need to choose to move forward. They just may not...
DOWD: If you can't depend on a common set of facts and truth, you don't have a democracy...
https://twitter.com/DeadlineWH/status/1471993750759034885?s=20Jamie Raskin! - the Guns Over People party (GOP) lol!
Fundraising email from Mr. Raskin! Love me some Jamie Raskin!
It may have already been here on DU, but this is the first I've seen this brilliant use of the GQP moniker.
Judge orders two lawyers who filed suit challenging 2020 election to pay hefty fees:
Source: Washington Post
A federal judge has ordered two Colorado lawyers who filed a lawsuit late last year challenging the 2020 election results to pay nearly $187,000 to defray the legal fees of groups they sued, arguing that the hefty penalty was proper to deter others from using frivolous suits to undermine the democratic system.
“As officers of the Court, these attorneys have a higher duty and calling that requires meaningful investigation before prematurely repeating in court pleadings unverified and uninvestigated defamatory rumors that strike at the heart of our democratic system and were used by others to foment a violent insurrection that threatened our system of government,” wrote Magistrate Judge N. Reid Neureiter.
“They are experienced lawyers who should have known better. They need to take responsibility for their misconduct,” he wrote.
The two lawyers, Gary D. Fielder and Ernest John Walker, filed the case in December 2020 as a class action on behalf of 160 million American voters, alleging there was a complicated plot to steal the election from President Donald Trump and give the victory to Joe Biden.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/they-need-to-take-responsibility-federal-judge-orders-hefty-fees-assessed-against-two-lawyers-who-filed-suit-challenging-2020-election/2021/11/22/b7ff5392-4be7-11ec-b0b0-766bbbe79347_story.html?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR298gi5jrFUl9saiBpX3ruRuE86L3gS_Yfcm8xvgNKLzIbb4CqSeWe-k8Y
[Read the judge’s order]
More, please.
Bob Dylan, Clydie King - ABRAHAM, MARTIN AND JOHN
11/22 memorial... (sorry for the re-direct, but this one's hard to find)
Bob Dylan & Clydie King sing ABRAHAM, MARTIN AND JOHN
G.O.P. Donors Back Manchin and Sinema as They Reshape Biden's Agenda
Source: New York Times
WASHINGTON — Over the summer, as he was working to scale back President Biden’s domestic agenda, Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia traveled to an $18 million mansion in Dallas for a fund-raiser that attracted Republican and corporate donors who have cheered on his efforts.
In September, Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, who along with Mr. Manchin has been a major impediment to the White House’s efforts to pass its package of social and climate policy, stopped by the same home to raise money from a similar cast of donors for her campaign coffers.
Even as Ms. Sinema and Mr. Manchin, both Democrats, have drawn fire from the left for their efforts to shrink and reshape Mr. Biden’s proposals, they have won growing financial support from conservative-leaning donors and business executives in a striking display of how party affiliation can prove secondary to special interests and ideological motivations when the stakes are high enough.
Ms. Sinema is winning more financial backing from Wall Street and constituencies on the right in large part for her opposition to raising personal and corporate income tax rates. Mr. Manchin has attracted new Republican-leaning donors as he has fought against much of his own party to scale back the size of Mr. Biden’s legislation and limit new social welfare components.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/21/us/politics/manchin-sinema-republican-donors.html
Your DINOS are showing... seems the GQP's still tryna drive this bus.
Amy Helm - Breathing
Amy Helm Composer, Primary Artist
JT Nero Composer
Josh Kaufman Guitar (Electric), Producer, Tambourine
Michael Libramento Bass, Congas, Organ
Tony Mason Drums, Percussion
Phil Cook Piano
Jordan McLean Trumpet
Stuart Bogie Sax (Tenor)
Lee Collins Congas
D. James Goodwin. Engineer
Connor Milton Engineer
Ranky Tanky - Freedom
Freedom (Music by Ranky Tanky and CL Baxter, Lyrics by Quiana Parler & Clay Ross)
Writers: John Clayton Ross (ASCAP), Kevin Maurice Hamilton (ASCAP), Quiana Parler (BMI), Charlton Singleton (BMI), Quentin E. Baxter (ASCAP), Calvin Lamont Baxter (ASCAP)
For more info: http://www.rankytanky.com
Jon Batiste - Cry
Jon Batiste Composer, Piano, Primary Artist, Producer, Vocals, Wurlitzer
Russell Elevado Mixing, Recording
Steve Jordan Drums
Emily King Vocals (Background)
Michelle Mancini Mastering Engineer
Steve McEwan Composer, Guitar (Acoustic)
Robert Randolph Guitar (Steel)
Cory Wong Guitar (Electric)
Sam Yahel Organ
Music video by Jon Batiste performing CRY (Lyric Video). A Verve Records release; © 2021 Naht Jona, LLC, under exclusive license to Verve Label Group, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
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