an American Admiral (Carl Benton Reid) and a General talk through their opposite’s stonewalling (with a Chinese delegate literally blowing smoke): the General suggests, in dated terms, they need to save face. “
A searing image of a refugee child lying dead on a beach finally alerted the world to a crisis now entering its fifth year. Awareness is never bad, but here it too easily bypasses the question of where all the refugees come from, in favor of a simpler meme. One is reminded of Malala...
Under Bannon, Breitbart mastered the art of the viral image to further its own brand. A recentColumbia Journalism Reviewanalysisfound that while images constituted only 5 percent of the posts on Breitbart’s Facebook page last year, they accounted for half of the page’s 100 most-shared post...
It is not a matter of “face” as portrayed in the Western press but one of literal life-or-death in the ongoing struggle with NATO. There is no trust after 1989 in Putin’s calculus. Imagine North Korea asking to renegotiate the location of the DMZ southward at this point. A quick ...
…some face two to four years to get through the licensing process. Many would face the prospect of shutting down, at least temporarily, if they don’t get a regular license by current state deadlines, Kiloh said. …Supporters of legalization blame the discrepancy on problems that they say ...
This dialectic of “fancy” preemptive dialogue is “limned with the abject loss” of white female privilege–a murderous impulse against growing up, being truly equal, or at least facing the violence of ‘reality’ that most men, and non-white women face. It eludes reality, and eludes ...
“Gentlemen may cry, ‘Peace! Peace!’ but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? Wha...
Facebook Reddit Email Print Like this: Loading... Written by (Roughly) Daily October 1, 2020 at 1:01 am Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with BBC, broadcasting, Broadcasting the Barricades, history, hoax, News of the World, radio, Ronald Knox, Rupert Murdoch, War of the Worlds, wiretapping...
Then Kepler had to face the same stupid fight. Popular acceptance of our modern image of the Solar System was still centuries away. Truth has that elegance, especially in physics. Pi, for example, is both a constant and a mystery without a solution—is that not elegant? We may have ...
Thankfully the old slapperLouise Goodmanis still squeezing her thighs together every time she shoves a microphone in Jenson’s face. I think she secretly wants to come over to Jenson’s caravan and warm his beans for him but mustn’t deviate from the ITV LHLF regulations. ...