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Archiv: the Knowing Few
Trumpâs ridiculous Hormuz proposal is the last thing the world needs
The strait was open before the US and Israel joined forces to wage war on Iran, only to have that nation slam it shut. Some vessels got through during the ceasefire, with Iran charging $3 million for a fully loaded supertanker to transit the strait.
Trumpâs threatened toll would jack that cost up to $69 million.
S2 E2 Nava Rosolyo: Leading the democracy protests in Israel
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Attorney Nava Rosolyo is a very busy woman. One of the prominent leaders of the pro-democracy anti-Netanyahu protest movement in Israel, she is the founder of The Shame Brigade and the Rumblers Movement that demand accountability from the government and call for new elections. Find her every Saturday night at Kaplan in Tel Aviv, and look for her on X — https://x.com/rozolyo. In this episode, she spoke with Elana and Eva about democracy, religion, and her vision for the future.
this is the biggest blunder in American history. Mark my words
(December 9, 2023)
Eric Burdon â Tobacco Road (Eric Burdon Declares âWarâ)
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Uriah Heep – The Wizard …
aken from their 1972 album ‚Demons and Wizards‘.
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He was the wizard of a thousand kings
And I chanced to meet him one night wandering
He told me tales and he drank my wine
Me and my magic man, kinda feelin‘ fine
He had a cloak of gold and eyes of fire
And as he spoke, I felt a deep desire
To free the world of its fear and pain
And help the people to feel free again
Why don‘t we listen to the
Voices in our heart?
Cause then I know we‘d find
We‘re not so far apart
Everybody‘s got to be happy
Everyone should sing
For we know the joy of life
Peace and love can bring
So spoke the wizard
In his mountain home
The vision of his wisdom
Means we‘ll never be alone
And I will dream of my magic night
And the million silver stars
That guide me with their light
Ceasefire likely in 2025, Ukraine‘s spy chief says
Ukrainian military intelligence head Kyrylo Budanov believes that Ukraine and Russia will reach a ceasefire this year, he said in an interview with Azerbaijani journalist Eynulla Fatullayev published on Feb. 18.
Elias Khoury on Writing
âLiterature speaks in many ways. It speaks to the present, of course, and to the future, if it is good literature. But literature is also a way for the writer to make a dialogue with the dead. This is the power of literature. It is not like religion: religion gives you the feeling that you are eternal. Here, there is no eternity at all, but it opens the possibility of dialoguing with the dead.â
Francis Ford Coppola: âI Have Nothing Left to Loseâ
At Cannes, where it premiered in May, Megalopolis managed to be the single most divisive film of the festival; love it or hate it, Coppolaâs huge swing for the philosophical fences is a truly singular work â and is exactly the movie that he wanted to make. (Itâs set to hit theaters on Sept. 27.) That Coppola somehow managed in his eighties to will this long-gestating pet project into being and self-finance it against his winery for $120 million is borderline unbelievable, even given his legacy as someone willing to bet a fortune and/or a film studio to follow a dream. âI have everything to lose here,â he says, referring to this portrait of the decline, fall, and Phoenix-like rise of a civilization. âAnd, in a way, I have nothing left to lose anymore.â
The U.S. Reassessment of Netanyahuâs Government Has Begun
(July 11, 2023)
Whenever people ask me what I do for a living, I tell them that Iâm a translator from English to English.