The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest. Criticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract, or the executives who supply it is not the same as criticizing Jewish people. This critical and necessary dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel. To be clear, my views come from my own political convictions and should never be interpreted as hostility toward Jewish people, for whom I have deep love and respect. Everything I know about acting, activism, and humanism has been profoundly shaped by the Jewish friends, colleagues, and loved ones who have been integral and family throughout every point of my life.
This merger has real consequences for real people, and for the entire country. Scrutinizing the Ellisons, including Oracle’s business built on data, surveillance technology and government contracts, and the serious threat to editorial freedom and the loss of a livelihood for thousands of families, is fair and necessary. The $111 billion deal would hand one family control over CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., backed in part by foreign money whose influence on editorial decisions has never been fully explained to the public.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called for serious national security review, and regulators still haven’t given the public a real answer. Until they do, the merger shouldn’t move forward. Now is the time to dive boldly into all these issues, not step back or concede.
Hiyo Diani ni ya mostly sole proprietors, wale wa generational wealth na Big Law.
Huku Onyalo Obiro & Kinyanjui LLP hakuna any difference, hakuna hata leave.
John Feeley, the former US ambassador to Panama, describes the first meeting with Trump that ultimately led him to resign.
Everyone (in politics) needs to be aware of this. That's what it boils down to.
I came to the conclusion that you can only fumble a woman who has immaculate brains/ is good at making money/comes from generational wealth, the rest are expendable
Beautiful women in Nairobi are a renewable resource, they can never end
Towards the end of Sicario, Josh Brolin's character delivers a cynical monologue on the reality of the drug trade. The speech closely reflects writer Taylor Sheridan’s own views on the United States’ war on drugs. He explains:
“I did a lot of research for Sicario. I was able to talk to some people on the inside. And to be honest, Sicario is the PG version of what it could have been.
As barbaric as it is, we were shielded from the drug war. The film was really based on the 2010–2011 drug war. More people died in the five years around that than died in Vietnam…
Illegal drugs are estimated at $3.3 trillion a year.
We talk about Big Pharma as this fucking monster. Think about the fact that the illegal drug trade is bigger than Big Pharma. And there’s no way to know exactly how large it is, because it’s illegal...
I don’t have the answer. I’ve written movies about this, and I don’t have the fucking answer. But look at overdose deaths from prescription medication—OxyContin and all these other drugs. These are heavily regulated narcotics, and the number of deaths is still substantially high.
I don’t think it (legalization) would work. I talked about it in Sicario, where he says, ‘Until we can convince 20% of the population not to smoke and snort this shit, a measure of control is the best we can hope for.’”
Game theory explains why working harder inside a broken system is the worst response to that system. Because a system is never truly broken. It's just producing exactly the outcomes its own incentive structures were designed to produce, whether intentional or not. Working harder inside this system increases your output in the payoff matrix, but it simply won't change the actual structure of the system's matrix. Thus, the correct response is not more effort. Instead, you must aim to identify whose interests the current structure serves and position yourself in favor of those interests rather than against them. Change the game, or play the game that is actually being played. Either way, you must stop optimizing for the game you wish it to be and start acting realistically.
I saw a comedian explain a dysfunctional childhood in the best way.
He said “okay yeah I know I am 37 and I shouldn’t still be upset about what my parents did to me as a kid. But let me ask you a question…
If you were in a building with bad foundation would you feel safer on the 37th floor?!”