Former boxing world champion, Dingaan Thobela, found dead in his flat in Johannesburg, South Africa on Monday evening. He was 57.

carn0ld03 · 2024-05-02T11:01:34+00:00

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carn0ld03 · 2024-05-02T11:50:30+00:00

"Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt."

— Juvenal, "Satires" 127 AD

"The purpose of bread and circuses is, as Neil Postman said in his book 'Amusing Ourselves to Death', to distract, to divert emotional energy towards the absurd and the trivial and the spectacle while you are ruthlessly stripped of power."

— Chris Hedges, Interview with David Barsamian, July 14, 2011

They need to keep everyone distracted by any means necessary, which should make the more inquisitive curious as to why.

carn0ld03 · 2024-05-02T11:49:58+00:00

Industrial sabotage comes in many forms.

carn0ld03 · 2024-04-29T10:22:02+00:00

Guyana is almost entirely at sea level as are most of the worlds cities. If sea levels were actually rising cities would've been evacuated decades ago. Further, the hoax of global warming or the progression of climate change isn't much of a concern, considering the Venezuelan's are about to take half of Guyana back and the British are in no condition to provide them any real support to deter it.

carn0ld03 · 2024-04-28T14:07:23+00:00

That's not too different from the plot of 2009's "Surrogates".

carn0ld03 · 2024-04-28T11:48:33+00:00

At this point, I can confidently say I'm likely to get comparable medical advice from a crack dealer as a physician in a western country. Going to college is something you'll have to decide for yourself and it's very likely you'll have to first pursue a trade to provide you with a source of income that can survive economic instability.

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