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The American Dream
All that is needed ... just three minutes of your time. A little more 'political' than the usual People First posts ... George Carlin - Life Is Worth Losing.
| Released | January 10, 2006 |
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| Recorded | November 5, 2005, Beacon Theater, New York City, New York |
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Thirteen Years Ago ... needless to say - nothing has changed, other than more people are aware ... hoping that this will make even more people aware ... and then we do something about it.
Thinking Allowed
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Thinking Allowed
This is a People First post that was originally on the People First domain. It has been moved here as part of my domain consolidation program. It’s a steady and slow WIP as I check each entry, so do please bear with me.- More about People First
- Other People First Posts
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John Steinbeck’s Nobel Prize Speech.
via Brainpickings
For all in the UK - something to make you feel better. This link is cued to start at the right place - 15 seconds. For some reason the embed isn’t taking it.
(Except now it is! Go figure!)
(I really wanted to try the new micro.blog video upload - but looks like ‘Mr Pie’ has a control to stop trimming. Well - specifically, if trimmed … you don’t get to share. Makes sense I guess.
Rutger Bregam talking to Trevor Noah on The Daily Show.
Rutger exemplifies the thinking that The Correspondent will be delivering to the US market from September 30th of this year.
🎵 Damn it … if it’s going to get worm its way into my ear … then it can worm its way into yours.
When i saw this protest outside of Downing Street … I was reminded of this quote …
”The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.”
John D. Rockefeller
If you have a spare 21 minutes and 26 seconds …. spend it here … now .. I don’t know how John Oliver can make something so funny and depressing at the same time - but he does … in spades.
You’ll also learn more about Brexit than you ever expected and it is all spot on.
Well … it looks like Typewriters have ‘gone mainstream’ … in an underground sort of way
Enjoy
Omnifocus, Things, ToDoist, Wunderlist even possibly Bullet Journal users … seems like we might have been thinking about this all wrong.
🎵Jon Lord plays Dave Brubeck - and nothing wrong with that!
I came across it accidentally when I was seeking out Dave’s original - which I have written about - and will be publishing to People First shortly.
Extraordinary: 🔗📼 In a Nutshell
#vimeo
Thinking Aloud
Sometimes it puts it all into perspective. But if we all did it all the time … well, then where would we be?
It’s probably just me - but every time I hear this Apple ad …I am reminded of this Rowan Atkinson TV show.
Eleven, Eleven, Eleven, Eleven
The First World War officially ended 100 years ago today … November 11, 1918. More than 16 million people were killed, 8 million of them ‘civilians’.
And then just 21 years later … WW2 broke out. But that is a different story.
100 years ago today is a fascinating site that gives you a day by day summary of The Great War.
Meanwhile, Yo Yo Ma performing at WWI Armistice Ceremonies:
and The Guardian writing about ‘They Shall Not Grow Old’
WW2 broke out just 21 years after the end of WW1. That’s like a major war ending in 1997 and a second one starting this year.
Here’s hoping (though we probably need to do more than ‘hope’) that WW3 is not just around the corner - because sometimes I wonder. And I think senior world leaders also ask …
“Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism,” the French president said, according to a translation of his remarks. “Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism. By saying our interests first, who cares about the others, we erase what a nation holds dearest, what gives it life, what makes it great and what is essential: its moral values.”
President Emmanuel Macron
Trump continues to be a global disgrace, and increasingly a major threat to world peace and stability.
Here’s an idea - don’t vote … be isolated and uninvolved in what is happening around you … and then at least you too can say - without any doubt:
“I am a microcosm of America.”
#swingleft #vote #choose
Call it a public service. Links to the first 8 of the BBC TV Series Grumpy Old Men that started in 2003.
Just had a great conversation that was about how we might get seemingly disparate organizations focussed on working together, to broaden the common message, rather than working separately.
During the conversation I was reminded of The People’s Front of Judea