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  Petrified Hollywood The ossification of empires RADIO FAR SIDE Hollywood began as a battle to the death between Thomas Edison and Georges Méliès, with Edison pirating Méliès’ work, particularly  Le Voyage dans la Lune   (1902), leaving the pioneering French director bankrupt and destitute. Edison is analogous to George Lucas, while Georges Méliès would be Steven Spielberg — the former is a consummate technician whose greatest film was  directed by someone else , and the latter a consummate storyteller and illusionist. Thus, Hollywood was born as a swindle and not much has changed. For folks who follow the laments of  Doomcock ,  Nerdrotic  and  Critical Drinker , much has been made of the decline and fall of Hollywood. The consensus is that Hollywood has Gone Woak and is in the process of Going Broke, and to a greater or lesser extent this is true. Certainly, the giants like Disney, Paramount, 20th Century Fox, and Warner Bros. have nose-dived in quality since their creative peak in

  Other Than Nuclear War, the Digital Revolution Is Mankind’s Greatest Disaster PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS   It has been clear to me from the beginning that the digital revolution was a massive catastrophe in the making. The digital revolution is a catastrophe across the board. It not only gives government ability to impose tyranny beyond George Orwells’ imagination, it subjects all accumulated knowledge to wipe out by an electromagnetic pulse, and it causes shutdown of worldwide economic activity because of a bug in cybersecurity software. We got a taste of this last Friday. All over the world flights stopped. People could not access their bank accounts. Stores could not process transactions. People could not purchase food or clothing. Emergency police, health, fire services could not be contacted. All of this and more happened because a Crowdstrike cybersecurity update contained an error that closed down services relying on the Microsoft operating system. Ask yourselves why humans, if they a

  "Counting Votes to Decide Everything" Zionist Zealotry and the Ballot Box. Which Zionist Political Party Will You Pick? ANTHONY JAMES HALL Many dozens of elections throughout the world are taking place during 2024. Not surprisingly, the most widely and closely watched of these electoral rituals is the US presidential contest. In 2023 the  The Economist  ominously predicted that in the forthcoming year of mass voting, “Donald Trump Poses the Biggest Danger to the World.” In this essay I shall highlight the elections in the USA, the UK, and Canada. These three cases as well as many others revolve around growing factionalism within Zionism and within the larger Jewish community based inside and outside Israel. These antagonisms figure prominently among the growing tensions generated by the genocidal assault in Gaza and the West Bank. The intensity and duration of this onslaught to advance the longstanding quest to de-Palestinianize Israel, is helping to inflame a larger confla