Who
are you people? Are you crazy? Do you realise how many laws you’ve broken? Disruption of international air transportation, abduction, piracy, kidnapping!
FILMS WATCHED IN 2018→ The Goonies (1985) dir. Richard Donner. Don’t you realize? The next time you see sky, it’ll be over another town. The next time you take a test, it’ll be in some other school. Our parents, they want the best of stuff for us. But right now, they got to do what’s right for them. Because it’s their time. Their time! Up there! Down here, it’s our time. It’s our time down here. That’s all over the second we ride up Troy’s bucket.
It’s wild that Natalie owns property, the most expensive thing I own are these boots. Excuse me, those are my boots. Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (2003) dir. McG
You must be imaginative, strong-hearted. You must try things that may not work, and you must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. Your only limit is your soul. What I say is true- anyone can cook… but only the fearless can be great.
“I used to want to save the world. This beautiful place. But I knew so little then. It is a land of beauty and wonder, worth cherishing in every way. But the closer you get, the more you see the great darkness simmering within. And mankind? Mankind is another story altogether.”
“What the hell is happening to Harry? He looks as if he’s aged 10 years in less than one. He looks miserable a good portion of the time, like it’s painful to give a genuine smile. I don’t know if this is a Markle thing, a mental health thing, a getting older thing or whatever but, get it sorted, mate! You’re too young to be so outwardly jaded. (And spare me the his life is hard comments— we all have a difficult go, move on).“ – Submitted by Anonymous
“I think you owe me a solid reason. I worked my ass off for you and the kids to have a nice life and you owe me a reason that makes sense. I want to hear it.”
“Because. When I watch you eat. When I see you asleep. When I look at you lately, I just want to smash your face in.”
The War of the Roses (1989) dir.
Danny DeVito
I think there are pieces of yourself that you will always guard.
It’s the kind of suit (minus the satin top) that you would wear when you want to come across as powerful and authoritative. I don’t think it was the right outfit for this event at all.
She’s making really strange outfit choices. The Hamilton dress was more “date night” than gala and this was more TED Talk than anything else.
September 3, 2018 || Her Majesty Queen Sonja invited minority women to a tea party at the Royal Palace in Oslo, Norway. It is the third time that Queen Sonja brings together women of multicultural backgrounds to chat over a cup of tea and the talk went lively around the table in the daily dining room.
“Most of you have in common that you have come here to Norway from different places – different backgrounds, with different challenges and circumstances. I’m looking forward to hearing more about this,” said Queen when she welcomed her guests to the table.
The guests had backgrounds from Eritrea, Somalia, Liberia, Pakistan, Malaysia, Iran, India, Guatemala, Syria and Afghanistan. They actively participate in various projects that promote the integration of women.
There were five women from the Norwegian garden company project Grenseløse grønnsaker og herter (Limitless vegetables and herbs), five from the Mira Center and five members of the Norwegian Tourist Association’s department in Drammen with project for inclusive outdoor life. Each of the three projects were presented around the table.
The Queen’s commitment to minority women extends over a long period of time. She is interested in the women’s stories and how their everyday lives in Norway are. She has also emphasized the importance of minority women standing up and using her voice.
Actually, having a degree isn’t a specific requirement to become a foreign service officer. State Department leaves that door open. It’s statistically unlikely that someone would become a foreign service officer without one though.
Older people who perhaps have careers where they have gained significant professional experience without a bachelors or masters degree are the only ones I can think of that would likely fit the bill of getting into the foreign service without some sort of post-secondary education. Post-secondary education is not a requirement, but that doesn’t mean it’s likely for those without it to enter the foreign service. Also, the hiring process for the US foreign service is long, say a year on the short end of an estimate. Not something that someone generally waits around at home for a call back.
one of the oldest and arguably the most important museum in Brazil is burning to the ground as we speak. home to the portuguese royal family from 1808 to 1821, the Museu Nacional stored fossils, meteorites, pre-historic human skeletons and a variety of artefacts related to natural history. it holds two centuries of latin & brazilian history and now it’s all gone.
some of the things that are now lost forever: the largest collection of egyptian artefacts in latin america; the skeleton of the largest flying reptile ever found in Brazil; the oldest human fossil ever found in the country, named “Luzia” (over 11.000 y.o) and other 20 million extremely important relics and researches just burned to the ground. never to be seen again.
thanks to our government, of course, who didn’t want to pay the museum the necessary funds to make the essencial maintenances since 2014 (which by the way, costed less than a supreme federal court judge’s sallary: R$520 in a year).
another sad instance where the state’s indifference towards culture and history becomes painfully obvious. this is a massive blow to our cultural legacy.
all that in our independe week. happy independe for us, brazilians, who just lost our history and culture in a fire caused by ignorance and indifference.
in case you’re wondering, this is what the museum used to look like:
this is what it looks like now:
thousands of years of culture lost. happy independence week.
“Authorities say the fire lasted for six hours, causing irreparable damage. To put it bluntly: it’s all gone. A meteorite, that can sustain incredibly high temperatures, was found intact. But other than that, there are apparently no other pieces left. It would not be an understatement to call the Museu Nacional the Brazilian equivalent of the Louvre or the British Museum.”
here is some of the international news saying on this, because most articles and videos are all in portuguese, u can check some of the news in english: (here *new york times*) (here *bbc news*) (here *le monde* for french speaking readers) (here *shorouk news* for people who speak arabian) (here *azteca news* for spanish) (here *corriere della sera* for italian).
it was a natural science and historic museum, there were all sorts of important researches and relics. all burned. this was our culture. our history. the first human fossil found in brazil (mentioned above, Luzia) was so important for science, since it proved that way before indigenous tribes existed in Brazil, there were black people.
this is the place where our first constitution was made and the declaration of independence was signed. our independe day is this friday. heartbroken.
Watching everything that has happened since the engagement, I can only conclude that Meghan is completely oblivious to the negative PR and public opinion. In her mind, she was separated from the royals at birth and has now finally been reconnected to the family she never had. She has to makeup for 36 years of bling and clothes she didn’t get.
But stepping back and taking a broader perspective: there is so much corruption within the higher levels of government, corporations, media, etc. these days. Everyone is a fake on the make. The so called “liberal” media in the “free” world has been dead for several years.
Corporate media is full of gushing articles on Meghan. The Daily Mail and possibly Yahoo are the last two places where the public can still express an opinion on a larg(er) scale. (For comparison, I comment a lot of Financial Time, but a really hot topic gets only a few hundred comments compared to DM thousands). Google search will not bring up blogs anymore unless you already know of the existence of the blog. Twitter, fb, etc. are not places where you can get reasonable analysis of anything.
I’ve seen for myself that in the biggest bank’s headquarters, senior executives are only concerned with hanging on to their paychecks. Every decision they make hinges on that one objective. Apart from a small number of entrepreneurs (and even many of those eventually sell out), you have to hustle your way up the hierarchy if you want to recognized as a mover and a shaker.
Face it, Meghan is a small fraud compared to Lloyd Blankfein or Jamie Dimon, or even the Clintons with their pay-to-play schemes through the State Department. No, I am not a Trump supporter, I am a Julian Assange supporter and I was a Sanders supporter ….long live the liberal media for exposing all the shenanigans around the democratic nomination. Said nobody ever.
Corporate media is composed of craven journalists also attached like limpets to their paycheques, They spew whatever narrative is required. I’ve seen “news reports” that have entire chunks cut and pasted from press releases. The media’s job is to protect institutional elites.
75% (?) of the public buy every narrative they are fed, whether it is about the War on “Terrorism” or Meghan Markle “modernizing the monarchy”. Just look at the all the photos of European royalty playing dressup in their silly gowns, crowns and sashes
….fakes on the make, the whole lot of them.
Thanks for sending this in! I love the FT comment section and it’s so depressing that it’s only a handful of people chiming in. I also follow FinTwitter and a fantastic thread will get maybe 32 RTs, which is also sad.
The fakery is everywhere nowadays, which is downright scary. One reason I blog about Meghan is that it’s less stressful than commenting on Trump or Elon Musk or any of the other fraudsters. Meghan has little effect on my real life, my country, or its economy. The other have a huge influence.
And the press is useless. I can sort of see why the royals get this worshipful pap because they are so secretive and finding real info is hard. I don’t understand it as to the other fraudsters. it reminds me of Chuck Price’s legendary 2007 quote “as long as the music is playing, you’ve got to get up and dance.” It’s good while it lasts, but eventually the music stops and the whole house of cards comes down.
House of Brat 