INDRAJIT—America doesn’t make things anymore, and neither does Boeing. They just rebrand, reboot, and loot the corpse of the 20th century until it’s unrecognizable. The Boeing 737 is a 50-year-old airframe that some marketing idiot just slapped the word MAX on, like it’s a flavor of Mountain Dew. They might as well call it the 737 EXTREME, which is the experience of riding one. The thing has crashed itself, blown out doors midair, and the engine can melt itself if the pilot isn’t careful. These are not isolated problems.
CULTURE & CRITICISM
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DAVID WALSH—The disproportionate attention paid to Perry was a transparent effort to divert public attention from one of the greatest war crimes committed since the end of World War II, a war crime being carried out in the manner of the Nazis. The political and media establishment is terrified of the widespread public opposition to the mass death and destruction and that opposition’s increasing depth and breadth within the population. The establishment is desperate to find ways and means of keeping the reality from reaching the public.
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PAUL EDWARDS—The techniques of propaganda are refined, but their effect is entirely due to grotesque pandering to the worst susceptibilities of the human ego: the desire to assert one’s superlative worth as a member of a powerful, violent, conquering nation. The force of that tactic, endlessly repeated, rendered American citizenry, with rare exceptions, one solid, deluded, unthinking mass, devoted to whatever vicious, imperial ends the political elite intended.
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AMERICAN FASCISM – BIDEN? TRUMP? THE NEOCONS???
4 minutes readEDITOR—Garland wades into the swamp of misleading political labels and currents agitating Americans, and concludes that the nation is in a fundamental crisis, with the masses of ordinary citizens facing a still largely hidden ruling class whose ability to govern and exercise options has been severely curtailed by the weight of their own arrogance and stupidity. This class faces insurmountable problems on several fronts: (1) I has lost the respect and obedience of a huge segment of the population, especially the younger generations. Any call to arms to fight Russia, China, Iran or someone else in distant lands will be met now with massive refusal and probably rebellion…
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JOEL STEIN—As a proud Jew, I want America to know about our accomplishment. Yes, we control Hollywood. Without us, you’d be flipping between “The 700 Club” and “Davey and Goliath” on TV all day.
So I’ve taken it upon myself to re-convince America that Jews run Hollywood by launching a public relations campaign, because that’s what we do best. I’m weighing several slogans, including: “Hollywood: More Jewish than ever!”; “Hollywood: From the people who brought you the Bible”; and “Hollywood: If you enjoy TV and movies, then you probably like Jews after all.”