April 21, 2022

Oi Polloi ‎(SCO) - In Defence Of Our Earth (LP, 1990) [VINYL RIP] *HQ AUDIO* *RE-ENGINEERED*

Label: Words Of Warning – WOWLP10
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: UK
Released: 1990
Genre: Rock
Style: Punk

April 21, 2022

MAGA Rube Alert: QAnon Scamsters Profit Off Nutty 'Venom in the Water' Theory

One man’s claim that the CDC put cobra venom in the water inspired another man to sell filters to make sure tap water stays venom free.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/hucksters-profit-off-nutty-venom-in-the-water-theory



Conspiracy theorists have seized on a widespread hoax about snake venom in the water supply as an opportunity to hawk their products, even as the retired chiropractor behind the theory scrambles to distance himself from it.

Last week, far-right conspiracy theory communities went wild for a quasi-documentary produced by fringe online talk show host and former bounty hunter Stew Peters. The video, entitled “Watch the Water” after a QAnon catchphrase, features Peters interviewing retired chiropractor Bryan Ardis about his theory that the CDC planted king cobra venom in Covid-19 vaccines and the water supply in order to transfer Satanic DNA to unsuspecting people.

Ardis’s evidence for the venom theory is thin. Among other things, he claimed he got the idea for snake venom in the water supply from a fortune cookie and by watching a 2016 episode of NBC’s The Blacklist, in which a character played by James Spader suspects he’s been poisoned with venom. While The Blacklist is fictional, Ardis felt the episode carried some significance into the real world. “They are using the water systems because they can target specific demographics,” Ardis said.

https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1513960020693553155
Since its release, Watch the Water has racked up millions of views and been embraced by a number of pro-Trump conspiracy theorists. It’s also become a business opportunity for people like Pennsylvania QAnon promoter Phil Godlewski, who launched a website named after the video to sell water filtration devices. Some of the filtration equipment bundles from manufacturer Seychelle on the site cost hundreds of dollars — a small price to pay, according to Godlewski, who warned his fans that the possibility of cobra snake water planted in tap water meant they should stop drinking water until they can filter it out.

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https://rumble.com/v10mnew-live-world-premiere-watch-the-water.html

April 21, 2022

GOP Surges Amid Exodus of Women Democrats From Congress

Eleven Democratic women are retiring from the House. Meanwhile, females are ascendant in the GOP.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/theres-an-exodus-of-women-democrats-from-congress-while-the-gop-makes-gains



Women are the backbone of the Democratic Party, and yet there’s an ongoing exodus of 11 Democratic women from the House. This includes Rep. Stephanie Murphy, a member of the Jan. 6 Committee who flipped her Florida district from red to blue, and reflects the dashed hopes of the progress that unified power had briefly promised. “I’m accustomed to being stoned by Republicans,” Murphy said when she announced she wouldn’t be running for re-election. “I was a bit surprised to see Democrats eat their own.”

There are still three times more Democratic women in the House than Republican—90 to 31—but the energy and the enthusiasm for running for elective office at all levels is on the Republican side. “They’re breaking records,” said Debbie Walsh with the Center for American Women in Politics, making up ground they lost in 2018 when there were just 13 Republican women in the House, and anticipating that women will help deliver the majority to the GOP in November.

There’s been a sea change in attitude in the GOP about what Republicans like to deride as “identity politics.” Before 2020, the GOP didn’t actively recruit and run many women, and most women couldn’t make it out of the primaries. In 2018, when 36 new women were elected to the House, 35 of them were Democrats. That’s when the GOP realized that investing politically in women and people of color is likely to yield positive returns. In 2020, more women than men flipped seats from blue to red on the Republican side. Eleven of the GOP’s 15-seat pickup went to women.



“They could find women as right wing as the men, who could raise a lot of money and be competitive, and a lot of independent women voted for them thinking they weren’t as right wing as they are,” said Celinda Lake, a Democratic pollster who specializes in tracking the women’s vote. While she points out that Democratic women are leaving Congress at about the same rate as men, “what it’s doing is decimating what it took us decades to build up, that is the dilemma.”

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April 21, 2022

Gilgeori Toast (Korean Street Toast) 💚💙🌏

This veggie-packed Korean street toast is easy and delicious! Experience the streets of Korea with a few ingredients you most likely have in your fridge.

https://www.koreanbapsang.com/gilgeori-toast-korean-street-toast/





Korean street toast, known as gilgeori toast (길거리 토스트 ), is a popular grab-and-go egg sandwich that’s delicious and filling. Gilgeori means street in Korean. Whenever I’m in Seoul, I enjoy one of these from a street cart to go with my morning coffee as often as I can.

There are infinite variations created by street vendors and fast food joints. The classic street egg toasts, however, typically include thinly sliced cabbage and other vegetables and are topped with sugar and condiments such as ketchup, mayonnaise and mustard. Often, a slice(s) of ham and/or cheese is added or offered as an option.

Famous Halmeoni Toast (grandma toast)

I’ve had several different ones, but my favorite is this veggie-packed egg toast by famous Halmeoni Toast (할머니 토스트 ) in Changdong neighborhood of Seoul. Halmeoni means grandma in Korean. Years ago, I saw a TV program featuring this 84 year old halmeoni who had been cooking up gilgeori toasts for 20 some years, and was still running the business because she wanted to stay active and interact with people. How inspiring!!



Her street toasts were highly popular for being very big and loaded with veggies for 2,000 won (less than $2) each at the time in 2018. She would sprinkle a heaping spoonful of sugar on top of the veggie omelet, followed by a good squirt of ketchup. Sadly, Halmeoni passed away in February 2021, and her street cart was eventually closed down by the local government. Recently, her Vietnamese daughter-in-law, who used to help the aging mother-in-law with the business, reopened it at a different location in the same neighborhood. It’s wonderful to see the legacy of Halmeoni Toast being continued by her daughter-in-law. I can’t wait to visit the place next time I go to Korea.



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April 21, 2022

The Cramm spoke with young people from Ukraine and Poland about Russia's war on Ukraine and now it's

affected them.

Here’s part 2

https://www.instagram.com/p/CciZLrhFi9v/

featuring

@lattesojowowaniliowe
@iamancy
@korrineskyy
@bw4bl_official
@tokunbo.koiki
@reginal_x.

Big thanks to @thecrammfam for putting this video together.

April 21, 2022

Mockery: Indiana School's 70-Year-Old 'Pipe Ceremony' Comes Under Fire

https://www.thedailybeast.com/indiana-schools-70-year-old-pipe-ceremony-comes-under-fire



An Indiana high school has come under intense scrutiny after a now-deleted TikTok capturing a pregame ritual disrespectful to Native Americans accumulated more than half a million views on the platform.

“It was definitely bizarre,” Sarah Holba, who recorded and posted the video, told McClatchy News. “It kind of makes you feel a little sick to your stomach.”

Holba said she had gone to attend a basketball game at Anderson High School when a mascot walked out “wearing a headdress.” In subsequent footage, according to the Bellingham Herald, students can be seen passing around a kind of pipe and dancing in a style reminiscent of Native stereotypes.



It made a “mockery of a sacred pipe ceremony,” according to Rachel Thunder, a Native rights activist and organizer. Anderson Community School Corporation has said that an investigation into the performance has been launched. District officials told McClatchy that students at Anderson had been performing the ritual for more than seven decades, and that its intent was “to honor… our rich Native American history.”


Rachel Thunder, director of American Indian Movement The True People of Indiana and Kentucky, said her organization is working to end the use of Native American mascots and imagery in Indiana.

Read it at Bellingham Herald

April 21, 2022

Bill O'Reilly says it's Biden's fault he threw a shit fit at JFK after his flight was delayed

The former Fox News host called an airline worker a “scumbag” and threatened to have him fired.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/bill-oreilly-jfk-jetblue-meltdown



As you’ve probably heard by now, incidents of travellers abusing airline employees have skyrocketed over the last couple of years, likely due to a combination of hysterical anti-mask sentiment and people forgetting how to interact with other humans during the pandemic. Roughly 85% of flight attendants surveyed said they had to deal with a disruptive passenger in 2021, and 17% said they’d been physically assaulted, according to a December report from ABC News. And in a not-at-all surprising turn of events, former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly is among the segment of the population that apparently thinks it’s appropriate to verbally attack airline workers because he was temporarily inconvenienced.

Yes, the ex–The O’Reilly Factor host, best known for insulting his own guests and cutting their mics before he was fired in 2017 amidst a sexual harassment scandal, was caught on camera berating an airline employee at JFK earlier this month because his flight to Turks and Caicos was delayed. (O’Reilly has denied the sexual misconduct claims, despite he and his former employer paying out about $13 million in settlements over the years.) The airport incident was reportedly filmed on April 3 and made its way to Twitter this week.



In the video, O’Reilly can be heard asking a staffer in front of a JetBlue counter: “We need to know what you’re gonna do, it’s three hours late now.” When the worker responds, O’Reilly, pointing his finger in the guy’s face, says, “No, no, no, you’re going to find out.” He then leans in to get a closer look at the man’s name tag and says, “You’re lucky I don’t put my fist through it.” It’s unclear what the employee says next, but O’Reilly tells him, “You fucking scumbag, don’t talk to me like that.” When the worker informs O’Reilly that he is clearly “threatening” him ”with violence,” the former Fox host says, “No, I’m not. You’re the one—I dare you? I dare you? Is that what you said to me?” The notorious hothead then tells the guy, “you’re going to lose your job,” before walking off.

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1516536345476407315
On Tuesday, O’Reilly tweeted, “the character assassins on social media [are] completely lying about my interaction with a JetBlue guy who misled passengers during a five-hour delay…. I expected this.” Speaking to Mediaite, O’Reilly acknowledged that he handled the situation “poorly” and could have used different words but refused to apologize to the man he verbally abused. He claimed that numerous people, upon recognizing him, asked him about the holdup to their flight. He also insisted that the heat on him is a distraction from the real story, which is the subpar job airlines like JetBlue are doing. “The story is JetBlue can’t get their flights off the ground. It was crazy in the terminal,” O’Reilly said. (According to Mediaite, O’Reilly has been covering the alleged “mistreatment” of passengers, not airline workers, over the last several months.) Then, O’Reilly somehow managed to blame his behaviour on the Biden administration. “For some reason, the Biden administration is not big on solving problems. This is a huge problem,” he told Mediaite, saying he’s invited spokespeople from JetBlue to come on his podcast but has not heard back. (JetBlue did not immediately respond to Vanity Fair’s email for comment.)

https://twitter.com/BillOReilly/status/1516499149881020417
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April 21, 2022

This Sexy French Film Is Your Spring Must-See

'Paris, 13th District' should go on your watch list.

https://www.thrillist.com/drink/these-kentucky-mule-remixes-put-a-spin-on-a-classic



Near the start of Jacques Audiard’s new film, Paris, 13th District, Émilie (newcomer Lucie Zhang) has a surprise visitor. She’s been trying to get a new roommate, but is surprised when a man shows up at her door. She had wanted to live with another girl. His name happens to be Camille (Makita Samba), hence the confusion. Émilie acquiesces and allows Camille to come in for beers. They talk about relationships, and just as he’s about head out they say a proverbial fuck it and have sex. Then he moves in and it only gets messier from there.

Paris, 13th District—known as Les Olympiades in French and is now out in theatres and on VOD—is the shaggy, sexy movie that warrants seeking out as we head into summer blockbuster season. It’s a deceptively low-key movie about sex and connection that asks questions like: What if you start sleeping with your roommate? And: What if you start having an emotional affair over the internet with your lookalike cam girl?

Audiard—who has bounced around genres, last making the sensitive comedic western The Sisters Brothers—teamed with Portrait of a Lady on Fire’s Céline Sciamma and writer-director Léa Mysius to adapt a series of short stories by the graphic artist Adrian Tomine. Collectively, they moved the action to the eponymous section of Paris, an area not marked by the usual Parisian landmarks. Instead, Audiard films a region known for its Chinatown and apartment complexes in a tender black and white.

The first section of the film introduces us to Émilie and Camille and their confusing courtship. Camille, on their first meeting, admits that he channels “professional frustration into intense sexual activity.” “Cool,” Émilie says. Her mantra: “Fuck first, see later.” Only that strategy becomes a problem when she becomes far more invested in their tryst than Camille is, making things extra awkward when he brings home another woman.



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April 21, 2022

'We're All Going to the World's Fair' Has Its Roots in the Deep, Dark Internet

Director Jane Schoenbrun was inspired by creepypastas and dangerous viral challenges for their new movie.

https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/were-all-going-to-the-worlds-fair-jane-schoenbrun-director-interview



There is an internet adage about online self-expression called Poe's Law that goes something like this: It is virtually impossible to tell from the tone of someone's text on social media whether or not they're being sincere. Anyone can post anything online, truth or fiction, and without any indicators to the contrary, their words can be seen as sincere just as easily as they can be taken as parody. This is the lens through which director Jane Schoenbrun conceived their new film We're All Going to the World's Fair, which follows a young teen girl who becomes embroiled in a viral internet horror challenge.

For those who are expecting something like screenlife horror movie Host, World's Fair is a different creature entirely, focusing instead on the bizarre, grimy, beautiful, and fascinating culture of the internet rather than supernatural scares. Schoenbrun, who is nonbinary, is preoccupied with forms of online self-expression in all forms, and the ways in which the things we see on the internet have the power to warp reality. They wrote their own wiki for the "World's Fair challenge" that young Casey (Anna Cobb) records herself entering in the opening scenes of the film, reciting a phrase and performing a ritual, promising to document on video any "changes" she feels or sees in herself. The film has a limited release this weekend in New York and Chicago and will go nationwide and on-demand on April 22, and HBO Max has picked up the rights for, likely, a streaming release later this year.

Because the film draws from so many niche interests from the digital world, Schoenbrun took us through a number of their influences while creating the dreamy, creepy story of Casey and her fellow World's Fair challenger, a man who goes by the initials JLB (Michael Rogers). No stranger to creepypastas, online challenges, and manufactured internet personalities—Schoenbrun previously made an archival documentary about viral internet boogeyman Slenderman—they were more than happy to describe the online phenomena that got under their skin.



One of the core rules, literally in [the r/nosleep] disclaimer section, it says, "Everything is true here, even if it's not." The idea being that you can't say, like, "A ghost just killed me, I just happen to be writing that." You have to say, "I'm pretty sure I just saw a ghost." And then somebody else could say, "Holy shit, I just saw that ghost, too, and I took a photograph of it," and share a doctored photograph. The way that this space conflates truth and fiction, I think is really, really, really interesting. But it's also one of these mediums that—the classical period of creepypasta on the internet, which I'd say is kind of over now, around the era of Slenderman and Jeff the Killer, or whatever—it can feel a bit like a one-trick pony. There are only so many ways you can take that idea and do something fresh with it.

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April 21, 2022

SOURCE MATERIAL: 'Grey's Anatomy' Writer's Maybe-Fake Cancer Columns Quietly Disappear

In this week’s edition of Source Material, we reveal the latest in a scandal involving the hit TV drama, among other media scooplets.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/greys-anatomy-writer-elisabeth-finchs-maybe-fake-cancer-columns-quietly-scrubbed-from-elle

GREY’S ANATOMY WRITER SCRUBBED

Women’s lifestyle magazine Elle has quietly scrubbed all Elisabeth Finch columns from its website after the Grey’s Anatomy writer took personal leave from the hit Shonda Rhimes-produced medical drama over news that Disney was investigating claims that she fabricated her medical history and wrote alleged lies into the show.

In March, The Ankler reported that Finch was being probed by Disney after network execs were alerted to her “alleged deceptions” by her now-estranged wife. Finch had written several columns for Elle revealing how she was diagnosed with a rare blood cancer, battled with doctors over an alleged misdiagnosis, underwent chemotherapy which resulted in having an abortion, and wrote these experiences—which may have been partly fabricated—into Grey’s Anatomy plot arcs.

All five of her guest columns have been removed from the Elle website, Source Material has learned, with no explanation besides “Oops! We don't have the page you're looking for.” The Hollywood Reporter, meanwhile, has yet to remove or add a note to Finch’s two guest columns, one of which claimed she was sexually harassed on the set of Vampire Diaries and another that explained how her cancer diagnosis became a TV plot line. Reps for both Elle and THR did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

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