#seattle

ramnath@nerdpol.ch

Did anyone know that The #Walrus refers to a #hotel in #Seattle? And equally well-known there are The Egg-Men, The Egg-Man (who is different), and The English Garden? (Not in England, but in Seattle, named after a man called Carl English. It even has its own Wiki page.) And that Glass Onions are well-known crafts made in Seattle.

And that's just the start. Sharon Clemons goes down a complex rabbit hole of her own, also looking at The Magical Mystery Tour videos, one of which shows the Cascade Range of mountains close to Seattle. Clemons has become convinced that it was on the Beatles visit to Seattle, in August 1966, where Paul was ritually sacrificed and then immediately replaced by lookalike #BillyShears (the stage name for highly-talented musician #WilliamShepherd).

Shepherd/'Shears' underwent plastic surgery (though this couldn't hide his longer face), was several inches taller than Paul (which is why the Beatles then made no more live performances), and had to learn to play the bass left-handed. 'Sir #PaulMcCartney', so very famous now, is still William Shepherd — and is actually now 87 years old, as Billy was older than the original Paul.

This is why 'McCartney' was held by the Japanese for 9 long days(!) back in January 1980 after he was stopped at Tokyo airport for carrying marijuana. The problem was that his #fingerprints didn't match those held by Interpol, as the real Paul had had a minor scuffle with the German police way back in the Beatles' Hamburg days.

He was only released when MI5 intervened, something confirmed by musician Denny Lane (ex Moody Blues), who was a close friend of Shepherd at the time and like many others in the industry knew the entire story but was pledged to secrecy.

#TheBeatles were an Illuminati/Tavistock project from the very start
The entire thing was linked to the work of satanist Aleister Crowley
'Lennon/McCartney' actually wrote few (if any!) of their own very well-known songs.
This all may sound outlandish (at least) to anyone unfamiliar with this. But if you're interested enough to listen to Sharon Clemons' presentation, it may be well worth the time.

#Faul
Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-jsmkVKNi9U

anonymiss@despora.de

#Starbucks #CEO is under fire for plan to commute to #office by private #jet

Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/starbucks-ceo-commute-private-jet/

But while other workers will commute by car or public #transportation, Niccol will travel nearly 1,000 miles from his home in Newport Beach, #California, to Starbuck's #Seattle offices, by corporate jet, according to his offer letter, which was made public in an SEC filing.

#job #work #Problem #economy #climate #environment #co2 #transport #news

artsound2@diasp.eu

Seattle gave low-income residents $500 a month no strings attached. Employment rates nearly doubled.

For years, Candice Johnson had a stable job and few money troubles.

But when she was laid off during the pandemic, she found herself in “a chain reaction of events that kept going down.” Pregnant, jobless and forced to leave her home due to domestic violence, Johnson’s life “was an absolute mess,” she said.

Then her luck turned around. She got an apartment through King County Regional Homelessness Authority’s Rapid Re-Housing Program and connected with case workers at the YWCA, landing a job at a Pierce County bank.

And critically, she was tapped to receive $500 a month through a 10-month guaranteed basic income pilot program run by the Workforce Development Council of Seattle-King County, a local nonprofit organization. ...

BusinessInsider article: https://www.businessinsider.com/seattle-ubi-guaranteed-basic-income-low-income-poverty-housing-employment-2024-4
Original (paywall): https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/how-king-countys-500-a-month-guaranteed-income-program-fared/
#seattle #UBI

dunoir@diaspora-fr.org

#Amériques, #Guerre, #Israel #Palestine #Solidarité

USA : vague d’actions contre la guerre coloniale

Malgré le soutien inconditionnel du gouvernement Biden à l’État israélien, de nombreuses actions ont lieu aux États-Unis contre le massacre de la population palestinienne :

  • À #New-York, des centaines de militant-es juif-ves pour la paix ont occupé la Statue de la Liberté pour exiger d’Israël un #cessez-le-feu dans la bande de Gaza, vêtu-es de T-Shirt «Pas en notre nom». Des banderoles «Le monde entier regarde» et «Les Palestiniens devraient être libres» ont été déposées devant la sculpture emblématique du pays.

  • À #Oakland, le port de cette ville de Californie a été bloqué pendant plusieurs jours pour empêcher un navire chargé d’armes destinées à Israël d’appareiller. Des centaines de personnes se sont relayées pour perturber l’activité portuaire et d’autres se sont enchaînées à entrée du bateau. Les slogans : «Joe Biden, tu ne peux pas te cacher, nous t’accusons de génocide !» ou «arrêt de l’aide US à Israël».

  • À #Tacoma, dans cet autre port situé plus au nord, près de la métropole de #Seattle, un navire de guerre américain soupçonné d’exporter de l’armement était amarré : le port a également été bloqué. Des militant-es autochtones ont même pris des kayaks pour empêcher les expéditions d’armes depuis la mer.

  • Ailleurs, plus près de chez nous, le syndicat des dockers de #Barcelone annonce qu’il ne chargera plus les navires transportant des équipements militaires vers l’État colonial israélien ou l’Ukraine. Avant lui, des syndicats italiens, anglais et belges ont également pris position.

mikhailmuzakmen@pod.geraspora.de

#music #alternative #experimental #doom #drone #instrumental #rock #subpop #Seattle

Earth 2​.​23 Special Lower Frequency Mix by Earth

  • The new remix set, Earth 2.23: Special Lower Frequency Mix, makes this clearer than ever. The Bug has taken a bit of “Seven Angels” and laced it with feedback and big bass, allowing grime luminary Flowdan to climb atop it with his dark, staccato visions. Responsible for many transformational records himself, Justin K. Broadrick of Jesu and Godflesh crawls inside “Teeth” to lash at it with punishing drum machines and sordid layers of new distortion, building it into some brokedown palace of industrial mayhem. Loop’s Robert Hampson makes good on the premise of ambient metal with his 30-minute hypnotic beauty, while longtime Earth cohort and longtime Built to Spill multi-instrumentalist Brett Netson seems to float the sound through a benighted graveyard on his clever “Teeth” revamp.
california@diaspora.permutationsofchaos.com

#Raspberry Pis Found in Abandoned Spin #Scooters in #Seattle

But when things don’t work out and the businesses close shop, they usually take spare stock with them. However, when Spin backed out of Seattle, many residents discovered unused scooters scattered throughout the city. Upon closer inspection of these abandoned devices, or should we say dissection, it was uncovered that they each have a #RaspberryPi 4B inside.

more here: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi-4bs-inside-spin-scooters

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#harware #news #scooter #USA

mikhailmuzakmen@pod.geraspora.de

#music #egyptian #psych-folk #rock #SCG #Seattle

The Big Minute von The Invisible Hands

  • The Invisible Hands are Alan Bishop, Cherif El Masri, Ayawasqa, Adham Zidan. Years in the making amidst multiple other projects, the third album by The Invisible Hands has finally seen the light of day. This is the third album from the only folk-psychedelic-rock band to ever hail from Egypt. Recorded in Cairo by Adham Zidan. Features covers of Morricone, Brainticket, and Sun City Girls plus original tracks.
johnwehrle@diaspora.glasswings.com

IDK if this is as much of a thing in other more liberal states and cities but in Washington state and in Seattle there is a long pattern of paralysis.

Different factions disagree vehemently over details while agreeing on overarching goals.

And most, it appears, fail to do their due diligence and read what ought to be read.

#Seattle #OverdoseCrisis

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/can-we-act-now-was-overdose-deaths-are-fastest-rising-in-the-nation/

escheche@diasp.org

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Kshama Sawant

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-chris-hedges-report-podcast-with-23b

The Democrats and Republicans both answer to the billionaires, that’s why #working #people keep getting screwed, she says. Even so-called #progressives in #Congress, she notes, have completely failed to fight against the #establishment, and offer no #solutions. #Sawant in her decade as a member of the #Seattle-city-council has an impressive track record. She helped win a $ #15-minimum-wage for #Seattle #workers, pushed the council to #tax #Amazon, and championed #renter #protection as the #Chair-of-the-Renters-and-Sustainability-Committee. She joined the #Socialist-Alternative-party in 2006.

#chrishedges #kshamasawant #podcast #interview #workers-strike-back #labor #unions #organization #movement #strikes