Rod McRiven

Artist | Author: Challenging the shameful excesses of the 21st Century through Art, Words, and Deeds.

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@BrainsinNo @spce33 @jk_rowling @BrainsinNo I am loving your word salad! Extreme flavours, spicy with overtones of Austin Powers. I’m probably a little confused due to the cider. I hope it makes sense in the morning - or the afternoon- when I wake up.

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@enezito_ Interesting. . . https://t.co/gdBmz7c5y2

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@RockChartrand @jnltoy A well thought out piece, possibly the neatest description of Capitalism I have seen in a while. I would add that a Just Society is possible when pure Capitalism is sanctioned by citizens as the financial driver of the social contract. Socialism is unavoidably innate in us all.

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Lou Reed: The magic, the legend, an inspired artist.

Lou Reed didn’t just soundtrack a teen rebellion—he dragged us into Warhol’s bruised, neon underworld and taught us to crave the beautiful damage.

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PROTO HOMOS 3: 213-million-year-old Nobnobbs will surprise you. For starters, their sheer size is awesome. Not to mention Benni-Wun-Tuns. Brace. Brace, Brace! https://t.co/CUOTHuHUzW

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@LanceForman To command respect for a nation, a state, requires of that state, particularly those who run that state for its citizens, to respect the humanity of everyone. It’s not enough to say it, to drag up history (we can all do that), but to do it. To believe in it with all your heart.

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@SuzieWo20886208 I was at university in London in the ‘80s. One of the professors told us (Hall, I think) that it would take more than 50 years for the UK to recover from the sociological and economic damage caused by Thatcher’s regime. Yes, he did say Regime. Will our country ever recover?

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@caitoz “Thoughtful storytelling that takes the edge off while making you think about humanity and whether we have the right or the means to survive.” https://t.co/SRcHEYmbpE

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Please, whatever you do, don't share this photograph of Obama receiving his Nobel.

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@ChrisTwiggsPM I’m not a tenant. I’m a landlord. I own 36 properties outright. A fool borrows at 6% to “own” a rental. In hock to a bank who’ve all the power. You “maintain” the property. You “manage” the income on behalf of the bank. You transfer responsibility of your foolishness to tenants.

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@RnaudBertrand I understand what you’re saying but for the current gen. the maths you rely on doesn’t stack up. Each gen. fully funds approx 50% of the previous gen’s retirees. With falling birth rates successive gens. fund a diminishing no. of retirees. Longevity is a factor, but skews little.

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@HankDesmondPhD Twaddle. https://t.co/0txRKKnOUE

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@elonmusk @georgegalloway Idiot.

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@LoinDuTribu Twaddle.

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@colwight @Jonathan_K_Cook Not very bright, I’m afraid, ColW. Straightforward error, logically and in practice, Jewish people are not Israel and Israel is not a Jewish state no more than Birmingham is a Rastafarian state. Such a shame that an intellectually find mind can be so distorted.

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@Microinteracti1 Sad. Politicians don’t care about citizens. Average US adults barely have a pot to piss in yet Trump throws cash around like a demented baboon. Somehow it’s Europe’s fault. Maybe he’s noticed EU citizens have almost 3 x the wealth of the average American. Or maybe he’s just dumb.

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@SuzieWo20886208 May I be so bold as to point you to a salutary story/documentary series of two newly discovered proto-human species. It may yet give you hope for the survival of Homo sapiens.

https://t.co/cqwMkEzW8r

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@elonmusk True? Meh. Budapest.

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@elonmusk When a person makes a hundred, so called, predictions and one of them turn out to be true, or almost true, it does not make that person a prophet. It makes them a gambler.

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Cremation, human ashes and reality‑TV chaos collide in a brutal, hilarious vision of entertainment’s future. Fire, death and spectacle—served hot.
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