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October 14, 2020
FLASH GORDON in “Planet of Peril!” (1936) SATURDAY NIGHT SERIAL
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POP UP A BATCH OF POPCORN, KIDDIES, AND SNUGGLE UP ON THE SOFA TO WATCH ALL 13 EPISODES OF THE CLASSIC SCI-FI SERIAL filmed in 1936: FLASH GORDON (Starring Buster Crabb) encounter with the evil Emperor Ming the Merciless in “The Planet of Peril!” (Remember, this is 1936 when Hitler was rising to power in Fascist Germany and the world was in a economic depression caused by International Bankers. It was filmed BEFORE the discovery of “RADIOACTIVE ENERGY”, which is mentioned in the film! Another interesting line of dialogue from this film when the “Emperor of the Universe” his slave-bride to be brainwashed: “Science can overcome all things — even the human emotions.”
When I was a kid my Mom gave me 10 cents to go see the “Saturday Matinee” in my little town of 2,000 people. This was really cheap baby-sitting back then. 3 hours of freedom for my Mom and 3 hours of freedom for the kids! Every week the theater would show black and white “serials” and a cartoon (Bugs Bunny was my favorite) before the featured film started. Some of the “serials” I remember best were the Science Fiction ones, based on comic strips. There were two that I love the most: 1) Flash Gordon and 2) Commando Cody. There were other Western serials, like The Lone Ranger, and Hopalong Cassidy. But I loved science fiction the best, and still do to this day.This is one of the truly ground-breaking, creative productions of science fiction on film. If you haven’t seen Flash Gordon, you don’t know what REAL Science Fiction films is about. Enjoy, Citizens of Earth!!
(Learn more about FLASH GORDON here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Gordon )
October 13, 2020
CONSPIRACY THEORY
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The Oxford English Dictionary defines conspiracy theory as “the theory that an event or phenomenon occurs as a result of a conspiracy between interested parties; spec. a belief that some covert but influential agency (typically political in motivation and oppressive in intent) is responsible for an unexplained event”. It cites a 1909 article in The American Historical Review as the earliest usage example, although it also appears in journals as early as April 1870. The word “conspiracy” derives from the Latin con- (“with, together”) and spirare (“to breathe”).
October 12, 2020
October 11, 2020
UNIVERSE HAIKU
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A UNIVERSE IS
CREATING WHAT’S TRUE FOR YOU
MOMENT BY MOMENT
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Definition of “HAIKU” — noun: an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines. In contrast to English verse typically characterized by meter, Japanese verse counts sound units known as “on” or morae. Traditional haiku consist of 17 on, in three phrases of five, seven and five on respectively.
October 10, 2020
DERIVATIVES: THE SAME OLD SCAM
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Does the following definition of a “derivative” sound like something you would spend you hard earned money on? Or, does it sound like a complex shell-game designed to steal your hard earned money from you? If you are stupid enough to believe that “Wall Street” is anything more than a criminal racket, you deserve to pay your tax dollars to bail the mutherfuckers out of the billions of dollars they’ve squandered on this elaborate scam. ARE YOU TIRED OF THE BULLSHIT YET?
“A derivative instrument is a “contract between two parties that specifies conditions-in particular, dates and the resulting values of the underlying variables-under which payments, or payoffs, are to be made between the parties. One of the oldest derivatives is rice futures, which have been traded on the Dojima Rice Exchange since the eighteenth century. Derivatives are broadly categorized by the relationship between the underlying asset and the derivative (e.g., forward, option, swap); the type of underlying asset (e.g., equity derivatives,foreign exchange derivatives, interest rate derivatives, commodity derivatives, or credit derivatives); the market in which they trade (e.g., exchange-traded or over-the-counter); and their pay-off profile.
Derivatives can be used for speculating purposes (“bets”) or to hedge (“insurance”). For example, a speculator may sell deep in-the-money naked calls on a stock, expecting the stock price to plummet, but exposing himself to potentially unlimited losses. Very commonly, companies buy currency forwards in order to limit losses due to fluctuations in the exchange rate of two currencies. — Wikipedia
October 8, 2020
SHIT HAPPENS
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FLASH MOB ORCHESTRA: ODE TO JOY
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One of the most profoundly moving musical compositions ever written is performed by a Flash Mob orchestra and choir: Ode an die Freude ( Ode to Joy ) Beethoven Symphony No.9
VIVA CHE!
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“Revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.”
Che Guevara 
