#Greg Mitchell

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[Thanks to shrinkrants]

via Greg Mitchell:

Andrew Coyne, a columnist for the venerable Globe and Mail in Toronto has written some terrific things about Trump, but this one had special urgency:

I wonder if we have underestimated the gravity of the situation the democratic world faces…..The United States, under Mr. Trump, cannot be considered an idle bystander in the great twilight struggle between the democracies and the dictatorships, as it was in the 1930s. It is now on the side of the dictatorships. The United States that openly threatens to invade Panama or Denmark – or to annex Canada – has not just stepped outside international law, including the basic Westphalian proscription of attempts to alter borders by force. Neither does a country that launches trade wars on a different country every day, including countries with which it has longstanding free trade treaties, reveal a simple lack of commitment to a rules-based approach to international trade. It is engaged in an all-out assault on both. It has become an outlaw state. And in this regard, too, it is aligning itself with the dictatorships. That is what dictatorships do. It is intrinsic to their nature. Just as they refuse to be bound by law internally so they recognize no law in their dealings with other states. It is not just that the democratic world can no longer count on America. It is that America, under Mr. Trump, is no longer necessarily part of the democratic world: neither fully democratic in its own affairs, nor committed to the welfare of other democracies, but hostile to both. If the international order is to be preserved, then, it will have to be preserved, in part, from the United States. Certainly it will have to be rebuilt without it. Which means abandoning all attempts to propitiate Mr. Trump on military matters, in hopes of “keeping NATO together,” that is with the United States in it. Not only will that do nothing to strengthen NATO, an organization to which Mr. Trump is viscerally opposed, but our desire to strike a deal only invites him to use it against us, as an instrument of blackmail. We need to face some unpleasant facts. NATO, as a transatlantic democratic alliance, is dead. Henceforth the defence of Europe will be the responsibility of Europe. (And the defence of Canada? Wedged as we are between the United States and Russia, with the North an increasingly tempting prize? We better get some allies, fast.) The same applies to the World Trade Organization, or any of the other instruments of international co-operation developed after the Second World War, in which the United States played such a constructive part: they will have to be reconstituted, de jure or de facto, without it. We will need new defence alignments, different trade arrangements, the works. That is not our choice. That is America’s, or at least the Trump administration’s. The democratic world must therefore regard and treat it as it does the other non-democracies: not as an ally to be consulted but as an adversary to be contained.

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Protest Music

Shrinkrants points to a post at Greg Mitchell's Between Rock and a Hard Place.

The Last Song of Victor Jara

Remembering the once-forgotten "Bob Dylan of Chile" who died, after being tortured, in the 1971 Pinochet coup.

It's exceptional.

In July I wrote about the radio station I listen to seeking song list of listeners' favorite songs to make a week of programming. I wanted to a list inspired by Woodly Guthrie's "All You Fascists." I did make a list, but I suspect that not even one of the songs I recomended got selected. One of my favortites is Victor Jara's Hands by Calexico.

Here's my list:

Darkness Darkness ~Ritchie Havens

How Long Have You Been Blind ~Lenny Kravitz

Mentira ~Manu Chao

Victor Jara's Hands ~Calexico

Morning Dew ~Long John Baldry

Wake Up ~Rage Against The Machine

Bloodless ~Andrew Bird

Which Side Are You On? ~Birds On a Wire

Slave Driver ~Our Native Daughters

Downpressor Man ~Sinead O'Connor

Change ~Mavis Staples

All You Fascists ~Billy Bragg

Bella Ciao ~Chumbawamba

Riot! (Extended) ~Earl Sweatshirt

Talking About a Revolution ~Tracy Chapman

None of Us Are Free ~Ray Charles

A Change Is Gonna Come ~Billy Preston

People Get Ready ~The Chambers Brothers

People Have the Power ~Patti Smith

Love Army ~Resistance Revival Chorus

And here's a cool Website: The Ongoing History of Protest Music.

[petitesombres]

Shay Mitchell for Fashion Canada

By Greg Swales

October 2024

[kcsplace]

top gun silliness

[eesttm]

S12E05

[panelshowsource]

out of context taskmaster (3/∞)

[peachesandcreames]

It's Not the Plane, It's the Pilots 💞💕

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[okaycoffees]

evening routine:

think about 50+ year old actor of my choice (preferably british)

get butterflies in my tummy and giggle

spend the rest of the night hating myself because what the fuck was that

[pinktulips111]

britcom season?

[about-faces]

Renee’s birthday.

From “Happy Birthday Two You…” from Detective Comics #747 (August 2000), written by Greg Rucka, art by William Rosado and Steve Mitchell, letters by Todd Klein.

These excerpts omit glimpses into Renee’s life while she was still in the closet, and the heavy weight she carries in both her personal and professional lives, which makes her moment of happiness at the end even more satisfying. Read the whole issue if you can find it.

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V is for Victoria's Mr Greedy Esquire. ----- Victoria Coren Mitchell brought her little home made mr greedy esquire in for most elegant thing starting with G and got 2 points. Later in the series she brought him in again for most ridiculous thin thing. She claim Greg couldn't put her last for something he'd called ridiculous previously and she gained herself 5 points. I enjoyed Victoria a lot of taskmaster and really enjoy her on only connect. I did struggle to come up with an idea for this one (peoplemhave suggested things that would have worked possibly better but this is a bit of fun) and I got a bit stuck on the idea of Victoria. Who was your favourite Mr men character? --- #atozoftaskmaster #taskmaster #taskmasterfanart #taskmasteruk #taskmasterseries13 #illustration #illustrator #mrmen #mrgreedy #watercolour #victoriacorenmitchell

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Taskmaster (2021): Croissants is croissants.

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Shay Mitchell for Cacharel

By Greg Swales

2021

[kcsplace]

Top Gun Silliness

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S12E07 outtake