#F.T.A.

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Florentia

Erano gli ultimi anni dell’ Ottocento, le prime automobili “sfrecciavano” per le strade traballando tra buche e varie perplessità sul loro futuro. C’era infatti chi credeva nel fortunato avvenire della “carrozza a motore” e chi la riteneva una vera e propria “follia” di breve durata. Sta di fatto che il fascino della velocità andava aumentando di pari passo con il numero crescente di persone che volevano acquistare una macchina “a gaz di petrolio”, moderna, originale, che dava prestigio sociale a chi la possedeva e che ormai sembrava soppiantare l’uso della signorile carrozza a cavalli. Dapprima gli aspiranti acquirenti si rivolsero al mercato straniero o particolarmente a quello francese, ma poi sorsero le prime fabbriche nazionali ed anche Firenze in questo non fu da meno. Siamo alla fine dell’Ottocento quando l’ingegnere Guido Adami , il marchese Carlo Ginori e altri fiorentini nella primavera del 1899 aprirono l’officina La Rondine in via degli Artisti dove si produrranno alcuni prototipi di automobili che furono viste esposte in vie della città.

Nello stesso anno Guido Ravà e Giuseppe Alberti aprivano la Fabbrica Toscana di Automobili (F.T.A.) con lo stabilimento in via Ponte all’Asse al numero 24 e officina nel viale in Curva (attuale viale Belfiore). La prima vettura prodotta su larga scala con il marchio del giglio fiorentino sarà la “Florentia”, leggera, veloce e con un nuovo sistema di raffreddamento a ventilatore, già installato dal gruppo Mercedes, che permetteva di evitare l’eccessivo surriscaldamento del motore. Con questa vettura nazionale il marchese Lorenzo Ginori, abilissimo pilota, riuscì a superare senza alcuna difficoltà, unico tra tanti partecipanti, il percorso in salita che conduceva a Montenero, in provincia di Livorno.

Fu un enorme successo per la F.T.A. e il modello Florentia nel 1901 sarà messa nel mercato al prezzo di 5.000 lire. La vettura sembrava avere un buon futuro e per questo i soci decisero di incorporare la Fabbrica Toscana Automobili, che nel frattempo aveva inglobato la stessa officina La Rondine di via degli Artisti, nella Società anonima Florentia. Amministratore unico era il duca Leone Ferdinando Strozzi e il consiglio di amministrazione era composto dal presidente Giovanni Angelo Bastogi e dai consiglieri Neri Martini Bernardi, Giuseppe Alberti e Guido Ravà. Nel giro di un anno il capitale dell’azienda quadruplicò a seguito dell’entrata di altri soci che riuscirono a mettere in minoranza gli stessi fondatori. L’azienda Florentia raggiunse buoni traguardi nelle vendite e i suoi modelli vennero apprezzati per la raffinatezza e l’eleganza nei saloni di Torino, Milano ed anche in quello, allora più prestigioso, di Parigi. Erano vetture facilmente manovrabili, si presentano con una carrozzeria di gran lusso e con “un misterioso e brevettato dispositivo in grado di eliminare i frequenti guasti che si hanno con gli altri sistemi”, e se anche questo si fosse verificato si poteva “sempre ricorrere all’officina del viale in Curva che esegue qualunque tipo di riparazione”.

Riscossero successo ed uno dei clienti più prestigiosi fu la regina Margherita che acquistò il modello Florentia Laudalette da 10 HP, soprannominata Rondinella, che aveva visto sfilare alle Cascine. La società Florenzia sembrò decollare nel corso degli anni: alla fine del 1904 ottenne a Lione la licenza per costruire a Firenze i motori Rochet & Scheineder, produzione che poi dovette abbandonare nel 1907 a seguito della crisi economica italiana; nel 1905 cominciò a produrre anche imbarcazioni leggere a motore nei cantieri navali di San Bartolomeo a La Spezia. Il 1907 fu l’anno in cui furono prodotte dalla Società ben quattro auto di lusso con motori da quattro e sei cilindri.

La carrozzata Double Phaeton fu l’ ultimo tipo di automobile messa nel mercato e di cui un esemplare è oggi conservato nel Museo dell’automobile di Torino. Quello stesso anno vide l’ ultima partecipazione della Florentia ad una competizione automobilistica. Nonostante i buoni risultati ottenuti e la qualità delle vetture l’azienda vide anni di declino. Si racconta che Neri Martini Bernardi, leggendario pioniere dell’automobilismo fiorentino e tra i consiglieri della Società Florentia, durante una riunione per decidere cosa fare per risollevare le sorti della fabbrica in modo spiritoso, tipico del suo temperamento, propose di chiamarla “Dolores”. Aveva ragione. Non ci fu nulla da fare. A causa di errati investimenti e strategie gestionali fu posta in liquidazione nel 1910.

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Morray Drops New Mixtape 'Long Story Short'

After four years since the release of his last project, Multi-Platinum, Grammy-nominated rapper and singer Morray has just dropped his comeback mixtape Long Story Short out now via Empire Records along with a new live performance video for “Mud Baby”. The 12-track tape arrives on the heels of recent singles “Breakthrough”, “F.T.A. (Failure to Appear)”, and “Out The Hole”, which have…

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MORRAY RELEASES COMEBACK MIXTAPE  LONG STORY SHORT

After four years since the release of his last project, Multi-Platinum, Grammy-nominated rapper and singer Morray has just dropped his comeback mixtape Long Story Short — out now via Empire Records along with a new live performance video for "Mud Baby". The 12-track tape arrives on the heels of recent singles "Breakthrough", "F.T.A. (Failure to Appear)", and "Out The Hole", which have seen Morray emerge with a newfound faith and self-belief in his craft after persevering through years of industry struggles. After only putting out a handful of songs the past few years, the rapper is now making his triumphant return to the music scene with Long Story Short, a project that serves as his grand reintroduction to the rap game.

Hailing from Fayetteville, North Carolina, Morray balanced the full-time roles of fatherhood and a 9-to-5 job with his dreams of becoming an artist, fusing elements of soul and gospel music with the grit of Southern street rap. He turned real-life tales of pain and struggle into exultant raps so compelling that he nearly became a household name with just one song, “quicksand”, which amassed over 200 million views on YouTube alone and became one of 2020's biggest breakthrough tracks. In 2021, he released his debut major label mixtape, Street Sermons, which garnered critical acclaim from Pitchfork and HipHopDX — and earned him a coveted spot on the the 2021 XXL Freshmen cover. Later that year, Morray appeared on J. Cole’s Platinum-selling album The Off-Season, delivering a soulful chorus and interpolating a rap classic on the 21 Savage-featuring “m y . l i f e”, a 2x Platinum record with over 42 million streams that also received two nominations at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards for Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance. Morray also recently toured alongside J. Cole on his The Off-Season Tour and dropped collaborations with Cordae ("Still Here"), Benny The Butcher ("Never Fail"), and Lil Tjay ("High Price").

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Not grieving Donald Sutherland.

Donald Sutherland was a far left wing protester. He participated in F.T.A. Funny how, if you look north from the DMZ in Korea, the communists have spelled out FTA with rocks on their side.

He was pretty good in Ordinary People (1980).

I won't celebrate his death, but really not grieving.

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My review of the documentary F.T.A

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National Review article: Jane Fonda's Vietnam Actions Were Worse Than You Think by Kyle Smith

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Jane Fonda’s Vietnam Actions Were Worse Than You Think

By KYLE SMITH

March 3, 2021 11:14 AM

A newly restored documentary spotlights her despicable Team Communism cheerleading.

Back around the time Jane Fonda was giving aid and comfort to America’s Communist enemies in North Vietnam, yukking it up with anti-aircraft gunners who shot down our troops — I wonder if there are any laws against that sort of thing — she also headlined an anti-U.S.O. tour. Despising the actual U.S.O. for its policy of giving aid and comfort to American troops, Fonda went on the road with a hippie rebuttal to bolster the chances of the North Vietnamese Stalinists who, after the war turned out the way she wanted it to, forced 300,000 people into prison camps for reeducation. Fonda’s tour was called “F.T.A.,” and in the opening moments of the documentary of the same name, you can see her on stage with her pal and Klute co-star Donald Sutherland screaming out what it stood for: “F*** the Army.”

Filmed in 1971, the film F.T.A. went over like a rat in the punch bowl when it was released in 1972. It was yanked from theaters and most copies were destroyed; seldom has it been seen since. But the Hollywood Foreign Press Association recently decided to spend some of its Golden Globes money on restoring the film so we can all take a look at it with fresh eyes (it is being released in virtual cinemas). So how does Jane Fonda, who was just honored with a lifetime achievement award by the HFPA, look half a century later? Exactly the same: like a brainless simp for Team Communism. Those who tend to dismiss Hollywood stars as merely stupid, not evil, can consider the other side of that.

Fonda, Sutherland, and assorted tuneless musical acts (songs include “My Ass is Mine” and “Nothing Could Be Finer Than to Be in Indochina”) first went on the road in the U.S., performing in countercultural coffee houses. Next they went on a Pacific tour, aiming to attract off-duty anti-war troops they could influence and leverage while putting on shows near military bases in Hawaii, Tokyo, Manila, and Okinawa. In a new intro to the film, Fonda frames herself as simply an ally to the anti-war troops. It’s evident however, that she and her pals were determined to do everything they could, including encouraging crimes, to depress morale and help boost the Communist side.

Fonda says much but knows nothing; we hear her make all sorts of false assertions. In 1971 footage she proclaims, “The American GIs don’t know why they’re here, don’t want to be here, don’t want to be in Vietnam or Japan or the Philippines or Hawaii.” Hang on, should U.S. troops not defend . . . Hawaii? Is Fonda aware that Hawaii is a U.S. state? Fonda seems to think it’s imperialism for the U.S. to support overseas allies at their invitation, and that imperialism starts in Hawaii. (Okinawa was occupied by U.S. troops after the war, but two years before this film was shot the U.S. agreed to cede the island to Japan. American troops remained there at the request of the Japanese government, not out of imperial aggression.)

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Sutherland and guests are seen onstage in their F.T.A. show making larkish jokes about “fragging” — suggesting that it’s hilarious when enlisted soldiers shoot their officers. Other dopey songs and skits absurdly refer to U.S. efforts in Southeast Asia as “genocide,” urge soldiers to commit insubordination, and steer them to refuse to fight. One describes the war as secretly being controlled by “the businessmen you’re fighting for,” in an interlude that features Fonda and Co. singing and dancing in top hats while carrying canes. Singers belt out lines such as, “They’ll lock you up in their stockades, yeah they’ll lock you up ‘cause they’re afraid.” The vibe is half puerile Seventies variety-show, half Maoism; the tour could have been called Free to Be . . . Ho and Me. Or maybe Socialist Sesame Street. Several segments, aimed at black troops, make the absurd inference that losing the war will somehow make things better in Harlem (which remained a dire place to live for decades after we lost the war) and there’s a slam-poetry section that contains lines such as, “I can’t exactly tell you what to do/But there’s the armory. The rest is up to you.”

Sutherland solemnly reads from the (Stalinist) writer Dalton Trumbo’s anti-war novel Johnny Got His Gun, Fonda and three other ladies perform a can-can to protest catcalling, and there’s a loving segment on a communist street march in Manila, as well as a bitter one about the A-bomb attack on Hiroshima. (Fonda et al. do not provide an alternate theory of how the U.S should have ended the war that Japan started.) One performance, amusingly, breaks down when pro-war GI’s start making their voices heard and go up on stage to interrupt the action. “Should we ignore them?” Fonda asks Sutherland. “No, no, no, they have to go,” he explains.

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The average starstruck Private Snuffy attending these shows might reasonably have surmised that Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland wanted him to shoot his superiors, refuse lawful orders, maybe even launch a mutiny. Doing any of these things would, of course, likely lead to a court-martial and imprisonment. Fonda says in the intro, “As I became involved in the GI movement, I started to understand its class significance.” Does she understand the class significance of rich Hollywood actors telling uneducated working-class kids to do stupid things that could ruin their lives? As usual when dealing with Bolshie Bourgies, the only connecting impulse is hatred of America. If American troops have to suffer for what they learn from Hollywood dopes, they’re just collateral damage in the larger war against America.

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MORRAY DROPS VIDEO SINGLE "F.T.A. (FAILURE TO APPEAR)"

Multi-platinum Grammy-nominated rapper and singer Morray has just shared his new video single “F.T.A. (Failure to Appear)” out now via Empire. “F.T.A. (Failure to Appear)” marks Morray’s first release of 2025, continuing the momentum kicked off by his comeback 2024 single “Out The Hole”. After only releasing a handful of singles the past few years, Morray is kicking things back into high-gear,…

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MORRAY ANNOUNCES COMEBACK MIXTAPE  LONG STORY SHORT

Multi-Platinum, Grammy-nominated rapper and singer Morray has just announced that his comeback mixtape Long Story Short, his first project in almost four years, will be out on February 21st via Empire Records. The news arrives alongside new single "Breakthrough", a melodic, upbeat track that finds Morray tapping into his pop sensibilities, with inspired bars bolstered by the song's colorful guitar riff and soulful chorus. "Breakthrough" marks the third offering from his forthcoming project following recent singles "F.T.A. (Failure to Appear)" and "Out The Hole", which have seen Morray emerge with a newfound faith and self-belief in his craft after perservering through years of industry struggles. After only putting out a handful of songs the past few years, the rapper is now making his triumphant return to the music scene as he prepares for the release of Long Story Short, a 12-track outing that serves as his grand reintroduction to the rap game.

Hailing from Fayetteville, North Carolina, Morray balanced the full-time roles of fatherhood and a 9-to-5 job with his dreams of becoming an artist, fusing elements of soul and gospel music with the grit of Southern street rap. He turned real-life tales of pain and struggle into triumphant raps so compelling that he nearly became a household name with just one song, “quicksand”, which amassed over 200 million views on YouTube alone and became one of 2020's biggest breakthrough tracks. In 2021, he released his debut major label mixtape, Street Sermons, which garnered critical acclaim from Pitchfork and HipHopDX — and earned him a coveted spot on the the 2021 XXL Freshmen cover. Later that year, Morray appeared on J. Cole’s Platinum-selling album The Off-Season, delivering a soulful chorus and interpolating a rap classic on the 21 Savage-featuring “m y . l i f e”, a 2x Platinum record with over 42 million streams that also received two nominations at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards for Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance. Morray also recently toured alongside J. Cole on his The Off-Season Tour and dropped collaborations with Cordae ("Still Here"), Benny The Butcher ("Never Fail"), and Lil Tjay ("High Price").

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