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The quote on the shirt is from the #great #MarkTwain, so we claim no credit for that. However, it’s still relevant today.
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#MarkTwain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) was a writer and humourist that lived in from #1835 until #1910
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like and do what you'd rather not. -- Mark Twain
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Rose/Icke VI ~ The Vindication
https://freedomplatform.tv/rose-icke-6-the-vindication
"No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth."- #Plato
"The high-minded man must care more for the truth than what most people think." - #Aristotle.
"The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom." - #Voltaire
“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” - #MarkTwain
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Hal Holbrook, Actor Who Channeled Mark Twain, Is Dead at 95
Hal Holbrook, who carved out a substantial acting career in television and film but who achieved his widest acclaim onstage, embodying Mark Twain in all his craggy splendor and vinegary wit in a one-man show seen around the world, died on Jan. 23 at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 95.
His death was confirmed by his assistant, Joyce Cohen, on Monday night.
Mr. Holbrook had a long and fruitful run as an actor. He was the shadowy patriot Deep Throat in “All the President’s Men” (1976); an achingly grandfatherly character in “Into the Wild” (2007), for which he received an Oscar nomination; and the influential Republican Preston Blair in Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” (2012).
He played the 16th president himself, on television, in Carl Sandburg’s “Lincoln,” a 1974 mini-series. The performance earned him an Emmy Award, one of five he won for his acting in television movies and mini-series; the others included “The Bold Ones: The Senator” (1970), his protagonist resembling John F. Kennedy, and “Pueblo” (1973) in which he played the commander of a Navy intelligence boat seized by North Korea in 1968.
Mr. Holbrook was a regular on the 1980s television series “Designing Women.” He played Willy Loman in “Death of a Salesman,” Shakespeare’s Hotspur and King Lear, and the Stage Manager in Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town.”
But above all he was Mark Twain, standing alone onstage in a rumpled white linen suit, spinning an omnisciently pungent, incisive and humane narration of the human comedy. ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/theater/hal-holbrook-dead.html
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American Xenophobia is Not New, 1960--2000 Was an Aberration
A HN reader asks "What happened to the US in the past fourty years?"
When I was a kid in the 80s, I had a US flag on my wall. What happened to the US in the past fourty years? It became a country that I don't really want to visit anymore. Every civilized nation behaves differently, at least towards citizens of allied nations. We are no enemies. Ain't no reason to treat us non-US citizens like people without any rights. - I am deeply saddened to see the US come this way, and I have no hopes that this will change in the forseeable future.
The trend unfortunately dates back through history. The 1960s through 1990s were a high period of openness to foreigners and globalisation, across the political spectrum, though not universally embraced. In particular the 1965 Hart-Celler Act, lifting nation-of-origin quotas and the 1961 formation of the Peace Corps saw a tremendous increase in non-European immigration and foreign students to the US, and of peaceful deployment of Americans to non-European nations. (Despite overlapping in part with the Vietnam War). Globalisation, beginning in large part with oil and the Middle East but extending to consumer, manufacturing, and service relationships, also played a major role. The "bad foreigners" existed, but were Communists, a relationship that shifted and softened beginning in the 1980s, with Islamic and generally Latin-American narcotics adversaries ascendant.
Richard J. Hofstadter, "The Paranoid Style in American Politics", is a 1963 essay that "explores the influence of a particular 'style' of conspiracy theory and "movements of suspicious discontent" throughout American history." It's not specifically concerned with anti-foreign sentiment, but includes that. Wikipedia article.
But the xenophobic pattern is clear in the history of American Immigration law. Forced Mexican Repatriation (1932), The National Origins Formula (1924), California Alien Land Law of 1913, Anarchist Exclusion Act (1901), Chinese Exclusion Act (1882).
The Page Act (1875) barring "immigrants considered 'undesirable,' defining this as a person from East Asia who was coming to the United States to be a forced laborer, any East Asian woman who would engage in prostitution, and all people considered to be convicts in their own country."
Samuel Finley Breese Morse, creator of the eponymous Morse Code, wrote an anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic screed, Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States, initially anonymously though his name was later associated with the piece.
Surely American Protestants, freemen, have discernment enough to discover beneath them the cloven foot of this subtle foreign heresy. They will see that Popery is now, what it has ever been, a system of the darkest political intrigue and despotism, cloaking itself to avoid attack under the sacred name of religion. They will be deeply impressed with the truth, that Popery is a political as well as a religious system; that in this respect it differs totally from all other sects, from all other forms of religion in the country.
-- Wikipedia
That itself is only one of a long line of examples of anti-immigrant, nationalistic, or racist sentiments expressed by business and industry leaders, including notably Henry Ford and Thomas Watson (IBM), both anti-semites and Nazi collaborators. See; Henry Ford and Anti-Semitism: A Complex Story (The Henry Ford Museum), Henry Ford Pioneered Modern Industry, Made America An Economic Power, And Was A Fervent Anti-Semite, and from the Algemeiner, IBM’s Role in the Holocaust: What the Newly Released Documents Show.
Mark Twain's On the Damned Human Race includes numerous essays highlighting abominable treatment of and policy toward foreigners (and others), notably during the Spanish American war, mostly dating from 1890-1910.
Ellsworth and Harris, The American Right Wing (1960) is a fascinating look at reactionary politics, much of it xenophobic and racist, largely of the 1940s and 1950s, with more than a few names familiar today.
True history is far darker than the highlight reels.
Adapted from an HN comment.
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They'd never lie to you.... unless there's profit to be made.
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@<img src="https://diasp.org/uploads/images/thumb_small_604ae7ffdc71f7d8804f.jpg" alt="Avatar"> Anna Blume 27/1/2014 08:01:39
Mark Twain inside the laboratory of Nikola Tesla, 1894.
Mark Twain
30. November 1835 †21. April 1910
amerikanischer Schriftsteller
**Die Schrecken der deutschen Sprache*
http://www.vorleser.net/hoerbuch.php?id=twain_schrecken
Sprecher: Johannes Ackner
Spieldauer: 00:06:39
«In dieser Rede, die Mark Twain am 21. November 1897 vor dem Presse-Club in Wien gehalten hat, macht Mark Twain einige ironische Vorschläge zur Verbesserung und Vereinfachung der deutschen Sprache. Er macht sich auch ein wenig über die deutsche Sprache lustig, aber man merkt: er liebt sie - und er spricht und schreibt sie hervorragend!»
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