December 3, 2021: Reader Tips

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This evening we present a 1966 film called Blow-Up. The story focuses on a photographer who accidentally captures a murder on film and then is pursued because of it. You may have to turn up the volume but you should find the visuals very interesting.

Your more recent tips are surely appreciated!

52 Replies to “December 3, 2021: Reader Tips”

  2. Blow-Up was one of those flicks which, I think, was meant mainly for the art-house crowd.

    I watched it several years ago because I remember hearing so much about it soon after it was released. It was considered controversial, bordering on scandalous at the time. My reaction, on the other hand, was, “OK, so I’ve seen it.”

    It was directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. I was even less impressed by his next film, Zabriskie Point, which gained the reputation of being one of the worst ever made.

    Maybe I’m too dumb to recognize his talent. Perhaps I’ve seen too many John Wayne movies.

    1. That rock band in the movie is The Yardbirds with Jimmy Page. Much rare. And the early cell phones in the Rolls.

      1. David Hemmings’ performance in the movie didn’t help. In one sketch, Monty Python proposed replacing him in a show with a stick of wood.

    1. I am pretty sure there is something nasty to be uncovered there. Let us hope the truth is discovered,

  5. The election fraud liars civil war continues. It was bound to happen and will continue happening.

    Everyone that donated to Byrne, Powell, Clements, Wood, etc should all get their money back. It was one big scam.

      1. Great! they’ve been looking for a way to get their evidence heard in court. As the evidence is a key part of why they were fundraising, they’ll finally get a hearing.

        This could be a huge own-goal for the forces of darkness that don’t want the fraud to ever be seen in the light of day.

  7. Another hole in the story of “global warming”: It turns out that early tree budding is caused by artificial light in cities — that extends the growing season of urban trees by on average 15 days. This is apparently separate from the effect of the added warmth of cities.

    https://www.jpost.com/environment-and-climate-change/artificial-lighting-makes-city-trees-bud-9-days-early-study-687107

    “What she found surprised her: Intense artificial light corresponded with spring arriving nine days early on average, and on the flip side, autumn leaves became colored six days late. These findings indicated that artificial lighting had a significant and overlooked impact on urban trees, which seem to mistake it for sunlight and behave accordingly.”

    1. English bit starts at 2:22. Live translation, so it takes a while to get much out of it.
      4:50 “the virus is there, but it is no more deadly than the common flu… PCR test is useless…”
      No English after 9th minute that I could catch. Not particularly helpful for those of us who don’t speak the language.

    2. I see one politico in the EU wants to scrap the Nuremberg Code, a female I believe.

      2. Yep, the delightful Ursula Von Den Leyon, head of the EU, Brussels born of German bureaucrat parents has stated the laws should be changed to allow mandatory vaccinations. How far down the swirling toilet bowl can we go. A German bureaucrat proposing mandatory medical interventions. This woman should be summarily fired never to be allowed any public position ever again. Inexcusable. How quickly some people forget or perhaps it is a memory of convenience.

  12. Surprising its from Ivison. He sort of blames the policies/direction of Juthtin the Twat and his crew of mental defectives.

    https://nationalpost.com/opinion/john-ivison-we-are-bleeding-capital-and-that-spells-big-trouble-report-warns

    “Foreign investors are too important to ignore,” he said, with a quarter of federal and provincial bonds, and half of corporate bonds, held by overseas investors. “Clearly we are not doing well when our own domestic pension funds prefer to invest heavily abroad rather than in Canada.”

  14. The speaker of the fake parliament, has ruled that the Liberal/NDP coalition had no authority to mandate that all MPs must be vaccinated to appear in the House.

    1. Brilliant.

      Used to be a big Onion fan but they’re woke, now. The Bee is my fav as they’re able to poke fun at everyone – including themselves. The religious satire is hilarious and bang-on to anyone who’s been to church.

      mhb23re

  16. Big story at the Trudeau cult’s Toronto Star, is that there are too many white people working at Canada’s newspapers.

  18. Remember that niggling issue over the two chicoms that got removed from that lab?
    You know, the one that when Parliament ordered cabinet to table the documents the liberals went so far as suing the speaker to keep them from being tabled. I can understand that this would go down the memory hole having happened prior to the election.

    But now, it seems the liberals want to reach a compromise.

    Frankly, this is one of those things that need to be put to a vote of confidence.

  19. Merry Christmas! Ontario is reporting over a thousand cases of the China virus this morning. Those vaccines are really working. Expect politicians and the bought and paid for media, to call for a full lockdown again.

    1. What infuriates me is the use of the phrase “cases”. There should be differentiation between positive PCR tests and symptomatic and asymptomatic cases. Too much to expect of those determined to promote their agenda. I feel sure some enterprising MSM functionary will be on this soon.

  21. Revenue Canada claims it is owed several billion dollars in unpaid taxes, much of it from off-shore corporations with slick tax-avoidance structures.

    But, the Supreme Court of Canada just ruled 7-0 that Loblaw was not avoiding taxes in its Barbados subsidiary.

    https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/loblaw-financial-wins-supreme-court-case-over-tax-treatment-of-barbados-subsidiary/ar-AARqXZG?ocid=entnewsntp

    People should be nervous as Revenue Canada is increasing its efforts to recover taxes, and it isn’t having any luck with the big boys.

    1. And on what basis are they determining that a site is inappropriate? I don’t think they have any authority to do this.

  26. Good read on Russiagate.

    “A comparison of the media’s role in the two biggest political scandals of the past half-century is worth the time of anyone who cares about what the next decade or so of American public life is going to look and sound like. The Watergate story was broken by The Washington Post, which rightfully reaped bushels of glory for uncovering the criminal wrongdoing and malfeasance of President Nixon and his top aides. The Post’s top Watergate reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, became famous and rich, and were lionized in an Academy Award winning film, All the President’s Men.”

    In Russiagate, The Washington Post played the starring role in the cover-up. Congress’ hometown paper was the main venue through which U.S. officials illegally passed classified information to prosecute a campaign against a sitting president, validating a conspiracy theory that they helped to invent in part to cover their own flanks. Indeed, U.S. intelligence services used the Post to roll out the cover-up of their own illegal actions and malfeasance in a Dec. 9, 2016, story itself sourced to illegal leaks of classified information, titled “Secret CIA assessment says Russia was trying to help Trump win White House.”

    When the Pulitzer Prize committee awarded the Post, along with its chief rival The New York Times, the prize for its Trump-Russia work, it was an announcement that the kind of fearless investigative journalism that won the press the public’s admiration for three generations was finished. The profession was moving on. It had to—the rise of the internet had destroyed the financial model on which the great 20th-century newspapers and magazines were built, forcing them to spend down the cultural capital embodied in their memorable typefaces. The business of independent journalism, governed by professional editors who imagined themselves to be answerable to their peers, was replaced by monopoly speech platforms that were wholly owned by oligarchs, who called for their hired guns to run social media-driven internet campaigns against their enemies.”

    The job of these new media outlets was not to speak truth to the powerful men and women who owned their platforms and paid their bills. Rather, it was to serve as a megaphone for their power—to use the forms of journalism like “investigations” and “whistleblowers” and “inside sources” to protect and advance the interests of an increasingly ambitious oligarchy that employed the country’s corporate, political, academic, and cultural elites as their retainers and servants. In rewarding the country’s two most prestigious papers for partnering with intelligence services to shield criminals and attempting to undo the results of a presidential election, the Pulitzer committee announced that the American media had entered the post-dossier era.”

    The dossier was the centerpiece of Russiagate. Marketed by the press as a collection of highly confidential top-secret intelligence reports, it was in fact a slipshod anthology of fabrications, press articles, and Google search results prepared under the byline of British ex-spy Christopher Steele for Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign in order to smear her Republican opponent as a Russian agent. The Clinton campaign’s lawyers hired Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, co-founders of the D.C. political communications firm Fusion GPS to distribute the dossier to the media.

    After Steele’s ostensible primary source for the dossier was indicted for lying to the FBI last month, Fusion GPS’ media clients have been trying to put room between themselves and Steele’s counterfeit memos by arguing that the dossier never actually mattered. Nonetheless, the Russiagate faithful still maintain that the dossier’s wholesale untruthfulness doesn’t affect its essential underlying truth, which is ostensibly corroborated in endless numbers of other places—this type of logic is generally known as “cargo-culting.”

    https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/limited-hangout-lee-smith

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