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Illya Kuryakin, admirably played by David McCallum, "caught fire" as a character according to Wikipedia. Leo G. Carroll had been a steady character actor particularly in Alfred Hitchcock movies before he became prominent late in his career in the late 50s playing a character known as "Topper", a...

@jethomme Further on Orwell: 3) Orwell was opposed to: "totalitarian or manipulative social practices." Precisely what we have going on in our country today concerning how we get into war, how we continue to run an economy heavy in debt through through use of a serial "bubbles." Anonymous appe...

I don't know enough about 9/11, the towers, etc. to comment. I was referring to the JFK story of which this video deals effectively, scientifically, with credible sources. It seems to me that the disinformation process begins before the assassination and receives the imprimatur of the Warren C...

Helping to put the pieces together of the politics that lie beneath the surface, very deeply beneath and which most Americans have no idea.

Democracy is worth defending. However, "Western Democracy" may not properly describe what in the United States has become a corporatist state which successfully manipulates the levers of power by the capital it controls and funnels. This surely results in imperial foreign policies to preserve p...

Friedman is what Edmund Burke looks like in the 21st century, except he's not nearly so literate. Burke at least proved self-reflective and self-critical. Friedman is so damned certain of himself. His is a reactionary mind whose polemics surely makes the world a more dangerous place. His ass ...

Now I can more neatly identify why it is I am terrified when I walk into modern shopping malls.

A intriguing revival, more than merely utility value. A legitimate wave tool.

The thing is, there's a water Ferrari in the box.

Charming; another Lennon talent.

Loved Dean Martin's voice. That I would've have been there for this version of the famous Gorney/Harburg anthem to working class people.

@MrMarconi100 I so agree. Beautiful work, but somehow loses the Gorney (music) and Harburg (words) intent. That is, folks who believed, worked, fought, and were left out by the banks. Difference today is FDR put people to work while this government has thus far forsaken common folks.