Voices. . .

Of course, it's better without it. Yet the "closed" Vertigo (1958) ending forced on director Alfred Hitchcock by foreign censors is very moving -- pregnant with sorrow and division: imprisoning Midge and Scottie in something complex, some sense of control, some sense of the way things are at last brought back under control.

Word

The next President of the United States. (Please click the expand button).

 

If we weren't living in a corporate totalitarian war state. . .

 

Twain

The 111th anniversary of the passing of America's greatest writer.

There must be two Americas: one that sets the captive free, and one that takes a once-captive's new freedom away from him, and picks a quarrel with him with nothing to found it on; then kills him to get his land. . .

True, we have crushed a deceived and confiding people; we have turned against the weak and the friendless who trusted us; we have stamped out a just and intelligent and well-ordered republic; we have stabbed an ally in the back and slapped the face of a guest; we have bought a Shadow from an enemy that hadn't it to sell; we have robbed a trusting friend of his land and his liberty; we have invited clean young men to shoulder a discredited musket and do bandit's work under a flag which bandits have been accustomed to fear, not to follow; we have debauched America's honor and blackened her face before the world. . .

And as for a flag for our newly conquered land, it is easily managed. We can have a special one--our States do it: we can have just our usual flag, with the white stripes painted black and the stars replaced by the skull and cross-bones.

The Heist

The Clinton/Obama/Biden Crime Families -- in much the same way familia Genovese, Patriarca, Luciano, Profaci took over, controlled, raped and stole everything Cuban up until 1959 -- saw Ukraine not only as a base of operations against Mother Russia, but as the cash cow whose tits they would suck at long after everyone had forgotten all about Hunter Biden or Chelsea Clinton. And now that the Neo-Lib coven is back in power, we may have a nuclear war on the way. . .

 

A very fine documentary produced by Oliver Stone (and supressed in all US theaters and streaming services until 2020) :  Ukraine on Fire

Fear

Perhaps the most renowned and surely one of the funniest episodes of The Bob Newhart Show:  "Death Be My Destiny" from February '77.

Fresh Air

Three hours of it in the midst of the Clinton/Bush/Obama/Trump/BiteMe stench: Max Blumenthal, Aaron Maté, Ben Norton, and Ajit Singh.