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Listening to the methods that Edward Bernays employed on the masses always blows my mind.
No doubt you know this one, but for others who haven't heard it, it's a great listen & distillation of Bernays propaganda methods that started as advertising to poison the minds & bodies of people, & then transitioned to fomenting world wars.
[#ThePeteQuinonesShow] The Edward Bernays Episodes - featuring Buck Johnson and Philo's Miscellany
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In the early morning of April 19, 1928, the air around Benton, Illinois, hung heavy—not with mist, but with morbid anticipation. Charles Birger, bootlegger, showman, and self-proclaimed “Gangster King” of Southern Illinois, was about to meet the gallows.
But if anyone expected Birger to crumble under the weight of his crimes, they were sorely mistaken. True to his flair for drama, he greeted his final hour with an eerie calm, even flashing a smile as he exchanged words with prison officials. It was as though he were the host of his own grim farewell, playing the part of the charismatic outlaw to the very end.
Birger wasn’t just a petty criminal—he was a Prohibition-era warlord, locked in a brutal battle for control of the southern Illinois bootlegging empire.
His rival, Joe Adams, the mayor of West City, stood in his way. In 1927, Adams was gunned down, allegedly on Birger’s orders. That murder would be Birger’s undoing. Despite his swagger and deep network of loyal men, the law finally caught up with him. His trial was a spectacle, his conviction swift, and his death sentence unavoidable. And yet, as the noose was adjusted, Birger joked with the guards, his grin unsettling in its ease.
With a noose around his neck, Charles Birger became the last man to be publicly hanged in Illinois. The execution drew a crowd, curious to witness the final act of a man who had turned violence into theater.
Even in death, Birger remained defiant, refusing blindfolds and standing upright with the gallows’ shadow draped across him. The smile never quite left his face.
And as the trapdoor dropped, the legend of the laughing gangster took root—an unsettling reminder that in the lawless pockets of American history, even killers could command a stage.
[🗞️Veille] I block ads • Cory Dransfeldt coryd.dev/posts/2023/i-block-a… Pareil. Parfois je me demande si je suis du côté des paranos, des complotistes, des bizarres. Et souvent, je me dis que tout le monde devrait faire pareil. #hygiènenumérique 🗃️Toute ma veille commentée veille.louisderrac.com
Israeli settlers attacked the entrance of Abu Falah village, located in the plain between Al-Mughayyir and Abu Falah near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
Anyone who has worked in a large company or public committee knows "group think" always goes nowhere. The decisions made result in a lot of trouble with no reward.
People who prefer group working teams are those who can not evaluate "risk vs reward" nor "cause and effect" for themselves and hide behind the group's decisions. People who promote group think are talkers not doers.
Dutch consumer watchdog Foodwatch is renewing its call for stronger regulations on the amount of salt in processed foods, warning that voluntary measures by the food industry have not significantly reduced salt intake.
@LadyMontI am pro salt. Salt’s bad reputation is entirely undeserved, and some people like me (with low blood pressure and head rushes) need lots of it.
Rise of the Ronin. Team Ninja made a sandbox game set in the "foreigners are entering Japan" era. It's good fun but optimized pretty shit on PC. It's very much "a sandbox game but good" and with slightly less than Nioh quality combat.
I can get it to run at 60 FPS if I let it do upscaling so it's probably "As good as it's going to get" considering they haven't patched it in months. It is probably the sort of game you ought to pirate or test with a refund window, but you don't even get to the open world without clearing the first chapter so if you wanted to do Steam's 2 hour refund you'd want to speedplay the prologue to get to the actual meat of the game.
Israeli settler attack Palestinian land and residents in the Marj Sa'i area, between the towns of Abu Falah and Turmus Ayya #Palestinetiktokgenocide.com/uploads/isr…
Cagnard et nuits tropicales: le sud de la France bat encore des records de chaleur
Si la #canicule commence à refluer dans une partie du pays, la chaleur écrase toujours le sud de la France, d’ouest en est. Des records absolus ou mensuels de température ont de nouveau été battus et le risque incendie demeure très élevé.
Si la canicule commence à refluer dans une partie du pays, la chaleur écrase toujours le sud de la France, d’ouest en est. Des records absolus ou mensuels de température ont de nouveau été battus et le risque incendie demeure très élevé.
I really like the images where the girl depicted in the foreground is leaning forward and looking toward the viewer just enough to make her breasts reach their belly button making them look huge. I want to draw an illustration like that.
UN human rights expert slams genocide apologists trying to cover horrors of occupation’s crimes and barbarism A mass grave uncovered in Gaza after Israel occupied the area. The life expectanc…
AN UNDERCOVER investigation released today revealed “extreme cannibalism and cruelty” at a Lincolnshire pig farm supplying Tesco, Sainsbury’s and other major supermarkets.
The past few days I've been waking up really early (within my ideal range). But been having a really hard time staying up for even just 12 hours. No fever or anything, and the air quality in the apartment is all good. So, I think it might just be really cozy in the apartment lately. lol.
awe I’m sorry about the sleepy time being off . But being cozy is good! I got cozy yesterday and took a nap…and now MY sleep schedule is probably messed up! good morning btw!
Seeking even the most basic essentials for life is a life-and-death gamble in Gaza under Israel’s genocide Security camera footage from Gaza has again exposed Israel’s wanton slaughter …
A man understandably refused to hand over his ID or get out of the car for a bunch of masked thugs who refused to identify themselves. And when he drove away, they opened fire on him. This isn’t how you do any sort of enforcement when your goal is to uphold the law. This is gangsterism. RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:udnac…
In case any reasonable person still doubts this: "The Trump administration’s assertion that Harvard has committed antisemitic discrimination against Jews is a series of falsehoods fabricated by an antisemitic president and his obedient bureaucrats who seek to punish their perceived political enemies on fraudulent grounds": insidehighered.com/opinion/col…
“Al Jazeera published a video showing an Israeli reconnaissance drone targeting a little girl as she tried to carry a #water container.
The child can be clearly identified in the footage. #Israel has killed more than 62,000 people in #Gaza since the #genocide began, most of them #women and #children.” #warcrimes
I am slowly coming around to the idea that continuous passive resistance and legal peaceful protest isn't actually worth much at all.
Radicalization is a direct response to continuously deteriorating circumstances and the clock running out. Most acts of terrorism are born out of hopelessness and these actions and the constant eroding of hope is how fascists obtain their police state.
legal peaceful protest does little to a state or system of management imposing laws against their people which are immoral and unjust tbh
nothing significant in life has ever been achieved through entirely peaceful means, it just... isn't something that works long term... because sometimes you have to actually anger the people in power for things to improve, and doing that necessarily involves more than passive peaceful resistance to inhuman and terrible conditions
We are very much in for it the next few years. They are pushing for a great war and all the state power that comes with wartime. I am really trying to cling on to EU values when they seem so far away from me right now, I dont support any of this shit. We are being Americanized.
I consider the current EU completely hostile and in direct opposition to its supposed values. They have become the enemy of the people. The drastic veering towards militarism and surveillance aren't values I share.
Des dizaines de rapports scientifiques démontrent depuis des années que l'inaction climatique va coûter plus cher que l'action. Mais soyez certains que François Bayrou préfèrera retirer tous les jours fériés que d'agir pour le climat.
Selon une étude d’Allianz-Trade, sur les 12 jours de canicule fin juin, la canicule pourrait coûter 0,3 point de PIB à la France, soit plus de 9 milliards d’euros.
Imagine a world in which you can lose your job for calling someone by their chosen name. Welcome to today's world of teaching. In Florida, you can be fired for calling your students by their chosen name without parental consent. That's what happened to Melissa Calhoun.
Her district's superintendent said that parental input can’t be ignored. But what if the parents are just plain wrong?
No matter. SCOTUS gave a ruling earlier this year that essentially made parental input is the ONLY thing that matters. Parents across the nation can now exempt their child from any and all curriculum that "goes against their religious beliefs." This would allow parents to exempt their kids from any of the standards, including evolution, in biology, or the Civil Rights movement, in U.S. history.
From the teachers' and schools' perspective, this completely throws the concept of teaching standards out the window. It makes it pointless for teachers to plan curriculum in advance since they wouldn't know until the last minute which students, if any, would be allowed to learn it. And it would significantly increase teachers' workload since they must create alternative curriculum for students who are exempted.
#GazaCity is the last standing part of a Palestinian #city in #Gaza. #Israel now occupies 88% of Gaza, and has forced all 2.2 million Palestinians into only 43.5 sq km of #land.
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En Estados Unidos ya comienzan a entender que sus facturas de la luz son más caras por culpa de los #CentrosDeDatos
En Ohio, los vecinos pagan 15 euros más mensualmente para este sector. Y para 2030 se estima que subirán un 8% para todo el país, y un 25% para lugares de alta concentración de centros de datos como Virgina.
Electricity bills are skyrocketing and water reserves are dwindling, yet Big Tech giants like OpenAI, Meta, and Amazon are thriving. They’ve secured billions...
I am still not over the situation when someone asked for my “gmail”, I gave them my email address and they were like “No, your gmail!” And tried to explain to me that they only could send messages to Gmail accounts and they do not have an email.
We really need to teach more computer literacy. It was not their fault, they just did not know that Gmail IS email.
@haui By the way, one of my cutomers knew this, but her disability kept her from being able to reach it. Most people would give that a "That sucks". I offered to reroute her entire set up to put the router at wheelchair height, and showed her pulling the router side of the power cable, instead of the plug side, accomplished the same result. She was very greatful. "No biggie. I'm just not an ablist asshat."
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that’s gonnya be so fun! You gotta tell me how it goes and what band you saw/will see!
Jazzilla
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You can believe whatever you want. Just remember who hates Christ and what the history actually is as recorded.
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Was Jesus Real? (what ancient Roman historians had to say)
Zack Duncan (Medium)dever
in reply to Jazzilla • • •incredibly strong.
Listening to the methods that Edward Bernays employed on the masses always blows my mind.
No doubt you know this one, but for others who haven't heard it, it's a great listen & distillation of Bernays propaganda methods that started as advertising to poison the minds & bodies of people, & then transitioned to fomenting world wars.
[#ThePeteQuinonesShow] The Edward Bernays Episodes - featuring Buck Johnson and Philo's Miscellany
podcastaddict.com/the-pete-qui…
The Pete Quiñones Show - The Edward Bernays Episodes - featuring Buck Johnson and Philo's Miscellany
Podcast AddictJazzilla
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Oh thanks for that reminder. Those episodes really stuck with me, I should re listen this week.