China's Century, if it can keep it
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My elder brother called Thanksgiving evening and at one point he asked "Is
China kicking our ass?"
Short answer: yes, since around 2008. Longer answer: "It...
1 day ago
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Brains are so strange. I thought James Bond movies were so great in the 60 and now they look so banal. East/West? Risking nuclear war for an economic system running on defective algebra? WHAT!?
Indoctrinated from childhood to believe in what makes no sense whatsoever.
Always welcomed a good technicolor treat. Such vibrant imagery juxtaposed against a real world powder keg landscape. Interesting how in film at that time subservient roles were always played by people of color, but whenever it was a brilliant warrior, ruler or diabolical genius (of color) those colored folks were no longer around to play themselves. David Carradine was perhaps the last of those archetypes.
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