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#Globalization

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VIVIZ -- EUNHA -- Full Moon @ ULSAN SUMMER FESTIVAL -- (FANCAM)
youtu.be/TXkDDm1lDlI?si=m9w4aZ

This is already one of my favourite fancams.

(How lucky I feel, having been born into a Britain with three channels of black and white television, that I can now watch the beautiful Kpop idol Eunha sing and dance without the restrictions of broadcast schedules!

I know there are many downsides to this media and information explosion, but we should not forget the ways in which it has changed the world for the better.)

Contrary to my usual preference for the dressy over the casual in Kpop styling, I prefer the outfits here to those worn in the stage I have recently featured in #KpopOfTheWeek .

A few seconds that strike me in this fancam are those following 0:34. Eunha stands, with her attention, I would guess, completely devoted to listening for her cue.

These moments of selfless concentration in performance can be so wonderful to see, let alone experience. Here's Eunha in another such moment...

youtu.be- YouTubeEnjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
#Kpop#VIVIZ#Eunha
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RAPE has been used for millennia to create omerta among groups of people. other crimes may be used too, but there’s a reason the Illiad is based on the rape and abduction of a woman.

you need women like Ghislaine Maxwell, and guys like Epstein and Jean-Luc Brunel to create, and GLOBALIZE, the criminal ties that bind any elite
bbc.com/news/world-europe-6044

it really is no coincidence the Lolita Express thrived as Bill Clinton and his corporatist, #fascism-lite squad pushed #globalization

Jean-Luc Brunel with models
www.bbc.comJean-Luc Brunel: Epstein associate found dead in Paris prison cellModel agent Jean-Luc Brunel was being investigated for rape and supplying girls to Jeffrey Epstein.
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#globalization is nothing but the full realization of #fascism, with the entrenchment of capitalist #corruption ―corporatism― worldwide.

once you understand that corporatism is fascism in a capitalist business suit (and their techbro lackeys in khakis), then you understand why #JeffreyEpstein was necessary for the American capitalist elites.
apnews.com/article/epstein-tru

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Speaking at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Tianjin on Wednesday, Li reiterated Beijing’s commitment to boosting demand in the world’s second-largest economy and defending globalisation.

“This will make China a mega-sized consumption powerhouse, on top of being a manufacturing powerhouse,” Li said at the gathering, also known as Summer Davos.
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scmp.com/economy/china-economy

South China Morning Post · Not just manufacturing: Li Qiang vows China will be major consumption powerIn a turbulent world, Beijing will double down on household spending to fuel growth and overcome risks, China’s premier says.
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In way, the length and subtlety of the con is impressive, starting all the way back with #Reagan and the cultural encouragement of "temporarily embarrassed billionaires" to support regressive taxation, followed by the gutting of communities under #globalization along with social welfare programs in the 90s, then the public education system with NCLB under Bush II... #fascism #resist #uspolitics

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#globalization could only happen with the spread of #MSOffice. USA produced software have been describe at different points as crack-cocaine. i think of it more as viruses ―not just as software, but cognitive.

so if you want to destroy Silicon Valley, you need to break the gringo engineering mold that depends on monolingual architectures and infrastructures. this isn’t just relational databases. KEYBOARD HARDWARE is a big one.

#multilinguism is to gringos what #vaccines are to viruses.

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"Once at the cutting edge of a revolutionary movement, India has capitulated itself in striving to become a regional economic power-house."

Sara Radha Pelham, a Bengali Jew, reports: vashtimedia.com/india-israel-n @india @israel

Vashti Media · Ashrams for war criminalsIn a rebuke of its anti-colonial past, India’s pursuit of Israel normalisation knows no bounds

if you are an USAmerican, i urge you to peruse the #mayday and #may1 streams, to see how every other country but USA celebrates the first day of may as not just #LaborDay but the day to celebrate workers internationally because that’s what “workers of the world, UNITE!” means.

actually, on this 1st of May of 2025, let’s reflect on the fact that American capitalists co-opted the language of #IWW and labor union internationalism, to repackage & normalize fascist #corporatism as #GLOBALIZATION