top of the heap to third world status in one generation

[h.h.]

British couple ‘who arranged murder of son, 11, in India’ won’t be deported



https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/07/british-couple-arranged-murder-son-11-india-wont-deported-12198373/

 

[White Beard]

An Unsettling New Theory: There Is No Swing Voter

Rachel Bitecofer’s radical new theory predicted the midterms spot-on. So who’s going to win 2020?


https://www.politico.com/news/magaz...ng-new-theory-108944?utm_source=pocket-newtab

An excellent piece, I thought: made sense all the way through. I like that in an article.

Thank you for the link on spotting doctored photos BTW, a true public service

 

[White Beard]

Indicted Parnas associate was set to partner with VA on cannabis research

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/03/andrey-kukushkin-veterans-affairs-cannabis-research-110545

Why are RUSSIANS involved in *anything* here? We are rapidly being sold by our so-called conservative “betters”, maybe we should chant “Russian thugs will not replace us”...like that’ll do anything

 

[Gry]

How Trump Rewired the Electoral Map
This presidential race will be fought on electoral terrain that would have been unthinkable four years ago, before everything blew up.

https://www.politico.com/news/magaz...electoral-map-110496?utm_source=pocket-newtab

 

[Gry]

The cinematographer of Knives Out wants to end the film-vs.-digital debate
Every movie lover has an opinion — but they may be asking the wrong questions

https://www.polygon.com/2020/2/6/21125680/film-vs-digital-debate-movies-cinematography

 

[h.h.]

Why are RUSSIANS involved in *anything* here? We are rapidly being sold by our so-called conservative “betters”, maybe we should chant “Russian thugs will not replace us”...like that’ll do anything

Globalization.
Same reason Toyota builds plants here.
Same reason trump builds worldwide.
They’re all globalists.

 

[Gry]

The Best Board Games of the Ancient World

Thousands of years before Monopoly, people were playing games like Senet, Patolli and Chaturanga

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/scie...ent-world-180974094/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Had a friend with a copy of the above in the late 70's.
Nice way to pass time, went real well with Colombian.

 

[Gry]

My Double Life as a KGB Agent

Raised in East Germany, Jack Barsky abandoned his mother, brother, wife and son to spy for the KGB. In America, he started a second family. And then it all came crashing down.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/...-life-as-a-kgb-agent?utm_source=pocket-newtab

 

[Gry]

The Ancient Waterways of Phoenix, Arizona

To understand this sprawling desert city, you have to understand its canals, whose routes Indigenous people dug as far back as A.D. 200.
https://longreads.com/2020/02/05/the-ancient-waterways-of-phoenix-arizona/

 

[Gry]

I Survived the Warsaw Ghetto. Here Are the Lessons I’d Like to Pass On. I’m 93, and, as extremism sweeps across Europe, I fear we are doomed to repeat the mistakes which created the Holocaust.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/...-i-d-like-to-pass-on?utm_source=pocket-newtab

 

[h.h.]

University of Colorado in Pueblo now offering B.S. in cannabis.

 

[Loc Dog]

University of Colorado in Pueblo now offering B.S. in cannabis.

From life experience I should have a masters in Entheogens. Although admit, reluctant to try ayahuasca due to shit life, especially in last year.

 

[h.h.]

From life experience I should have a masters in Entheogens. Although admit, reluctant to try ayahuasca due to shit life, especially in last year.

Slab City. Fuck it. When you got nothing, you got nothing to loose.

Close to...Coachella Valley.
One of the greatest food growing areas in the world.
Jobs at Coachellafest and Stagecoach.
Where all the rich fucks go. Usually work when the rest of the country is in recession.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slab_City,_California

 

[bigtacofarmer]

From life experience I should have a masters in Entheogens. Although admit, reluctant to try ayahuasca due to shit life, especially in last year.

I have mixed feelings about my ayahuasca experience. It did cause me to see some damaging behavior I needed to fix. And sorta helped save my life after turning it upside down. But then again I already knew better so all aya really did was made it so fucking clear that I had to fix shit.

 

[Gry]

Day One at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: ‘De Gaulle Thinks He’s Joan of Arc’

Diana Preston's Day-By-Day Account of the Historic Summit, 75 Years Later

https://lithub.com/day-one-at-yalta...nks-hes-joan-of-arc/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

 

[St. Phatty]

I Survived the Warsaw Ghetto. Here Are the Lessons I’d Like to Pass On. I’m 93, and, as extremism sweeps across Europe, I fear we are doomed to repeat the mistakes which created the Holocaust.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/...-i-d-like-to-pass-on?utm_source=pocket-newtab

If you can find it

"For those I Loved"

by Martin Gray.

he was about 15 when they were in a walled off city in Poland.

Very enterprising, bribing German guards to bring in shipments of wheat & corn.

similar to Mr. Aronson, about the same age if Mr. Gray is still alive.

 

[h.h.]

Hookers for Jesus.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...pt-whistleblower-complaint-idUSKBN20425G?il=0

 

[Sunshineinabag]

https://youtu.be/-gxB8CXXAJ4

 

[Gry]

The Golden Age of White Collar Crime
https://www.huffpost.com/highline/article/white-collar-crime/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

 

[Gypsy Nirvana]

I just can't abide going to a website - and you get some advertising questionnaire shoved in your face - about them engineering their advertising to suit you - what a load of bollocks -

Sorry Gry - probably best to cut and paste the article - rather than trying that link -

The Golden Age of White Collar Crime
https://www.huffpost.com/highline/article/white-collar-crime/?utm_source=pocket-newtab