“Anora”

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If folks are saying Anora, like Pretty Woman it is promoting prostitution, they are wrong. 

Anora is about broken lives and the reality some find themselves when life has failed them. No one wants their child to grow up to be a stripper. No matter the movie about women that use their nakedness to get by in the world there are always tradeoffs and sad realities.

Wasn’t Jennifer Lopez in a movie about stripping? 

But, as to Anora, there is not one character that lives a good life. Not one.

The film takes place with a twenty something that strips and allows men to touch her body in private booths otherwise known as lap dances. She makes money with the tips she receives. Of course, the men give her tips to encourage her nakedness and erotic movements.

With that understanding the film turns into a roller coaster ride with a young Russian man suffering from multiple substance abuses. The facilitator to the roller coaster ride is Russian Oligarch money.

The portrayal of the young son of a million-billionaire Russian is accurate. The property, the wealth, and the wild lifestyles some of the oligarchs live. If that seems unbelievable, then look up all the Russian real estate in the world while realizing governments like the UK would take them back as sovereign property in a heartbeat.

Ask young women who were taken for pleasure the kind of lives these Russian men live. Then when the oligarchs are finished with these young women recreationally they are turned loose to return to a life of poverty.

In Anora, the mother to the young Russian man is spot on. Beautiful women that rely on power to carry out their lavish lives. 

Anora actually believes she has found something wonderful and special in the young Russian when she consents to marry him. After the marriage a power struggle ensues and of course the wealthy parents win in the end spending money like water to return their arrogant social standards.

But, then what of Anora? The money she is paid in the end leaves her raw and vulnerable. The Russian man looking

after her safe return home, is not her usual client. He actually cared about her and the last scene where she cries in his arms with a broken heart clearly illustrates the pain of young women who find themselves simply a toy to wealth and power.

Anora is a great film if the viewer knows what they are looking at and seek the human side of the film rather than plugging into titillating sex scenes.

If one saw the film and “didn’t get it.” Then go back to see it again with new insights and judgement.

Illinois’ Governor is not waiting for Trump’s economic collapse.

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If Putin wanted to destroy the USA how would he do it?

Bill Gates started out in a garage. Microsoft may just end up back there. 

Don’t expect Trump to understand Wall Street. He is a technician, not a programmer of the right wing extremists. 

People in Israel are calling Trump more patriotic than Netanyahu because he appears to care more about the hostages. At the same time Trump is arresting a Palestinian that exerted freedom of speech on Columbia’s campus at the same time he is cutting off funding to Columbia.

There is no clear path forward. Trump is following Project 2025 and Elon Musk who is having his rockets explode regularly.

Wall Street knows a lot of their business directly or indirectly depends on the USA treasury and the policies of governments globally. Can the next Great Depression be far away? 

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This is the road map Trump is following. Americans should not be surprised if they are falling further into poverty.

Unions.

Impoverished Americans will be far more cooperative than they are today. 

Local economies and local control. 

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Disastrous outcomes

When the petroleum industry enters a country there are disastrous outcomes for citizens. This is real and can be found today with at least two examples in Ecuador and Nigeria. 

In Nigeria the impacts exceeded environmental degradation, it also destroyed their society causing greed, corruption, and violence.

The Niger Delta oil exploitation initially caused a change in the government structure of Nigeria. The oil industry drilling was met with citizens attacking oil workers (which were brought by the company) and attacks of the oil rigs. As a result the government turned against their own citizens as the elite were bought, as a result casting the citizens into poverty and imprisonment.

The sadness of the citizen tragedy didn’t stop there. As it became obvious the government would do nothing to stop the air and water pollution resulting in the loss of food from coastal waters and inland rivers, the people were left little alternative but to harvest wasted oil floating in the water and scarring their land.

In order to sell the harvested oil the Nigerians developed crude processing technics that immersed human labor in oil making them ill, and causing chronic disease no different that what occurred in Ecuador.

Children in both these countries suffered from birth defects and disease. The women experienced miscarriages due to exposure to toxins.

These tragedies expose the petroleum industry for what it is, ruthless, much like the USA president that promises them the moon while destroying the living atmospheres of Earth.

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Ecuador not only saw huge increases in cancer, but, the beauty and the land are irretrievably damaged. They lost habitat and any chance for the land to be used productively again.

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Elections tomorrow in Greenland.

It expands the borders of a madman in the White House. Don’t do it. It puts Trump and Russia nearer to Europe and begins to cut off Canada on its east coast with Russia on the west coast.

Greenland has no autonomous military which would have to be established before any election. With such a small population it would have a militarized state police force similar to Jamaica. That means arming Greenland with weapons of war. The entire domestic picture would change.

For as much as Greenlanders want independence they should approach it with caution. Their independence will be traumatized by commercial interest by the petroleum industry. 

Trump doesn’t care about their blissful lives and beautiful country. He will seek control for exploitation. Their beautiful country will be scattered with invasion of commercial enterprise that will suck them dry and abandon them when profits dry up.

The children will not be better educated. Their elderly will not be more comfortable. Their health care will not improve. Their naivety will be exploited and that happy little country will no longer be at peace. 

More of the same Trump lawlessness.

This could be anyone. There is no respect for the Rule of Law. This is a hate based Executive Branch that uses power as a domestic tool to its goals. Everyone needs to fight this.

This is a direct assault on Habeas Corpus and Freedom of Speech.

Once detained what is next? Guantanamo? Or worse? Once people disappear it is to late to protect their life.

ICE didn’t decide this. It more than likely came from those targeting Columbia University. I can’t help to think this is Musk. He would have enough clout to lean on the top of the food chain at ICE.

ICE should require a court ordered warrant going forward. They are more than police enforcing the law. They run raids. They know who they are targeting, hence, a warrant requirement is reasonable. Using ICE to round up people without court permission has to stop. The cost of legal proceedings is prohibitive for most people.

This arrest is over the top. ICE needs guidance to their activities. A judicial warrant would prevent costly mistakes and prohibit abuse.

Proper clearance of warrants by ICE does not require public exposure. The FISA process is probably open to ICE as well.

Congress can establish a dedicated process and court for ICE to prevent lawless apprehension.

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No sovereign power, oligarchs, or billionaires…

…should be interfering in Romanian elections. Romania’s people are completely capable of conducting their own governance and elections.

The Romanian elections belong to the citizens of Romania, not a bunch of communists. Communism and plutocrats have very similar character traits, they want control regardless of the impact and abuse of those that rightfully should have control of their futures.

Plutocrats actually do believe they are filthy rich because they are wiser. 

Not the case at all. The chaos throughout the federal government today has a purpose and it has nothing to do with government efficiency. DoGE is a distraction.

Musk bought Trump into the presidency of the USA to end all those investigations of him.

And Trump? 

Why did he encourage Musk’s dreamscape to purchase the presidency for him? All one has to do is look at the corruption occurring within the USA DOJ and know the answer to that question. Bondi is systematically disarming every investigation, criminal indictment, and criminal trial of Trump as fast as she can while holding the bright, shiny object of tabloid curiosity for Jeffery Epstein’s death while screaming cover-up.

The USA executive branch is reeking of racketeering. Certainly Romania wants nothing to do with such interference in their elections.

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