Apocalypse Now Is A 1979 Anti-war Film By Director Francis Ford Coppola Set During The Vietnam War. It

Apocalypse Now is a 1979 anti-war film by director Francis Ford Coppola set during the Vietnam War. It is loosely based on Joseph Conrad's story Heart of Darkness and Michael Herr's Vietnam War report Dispatches.

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Heart of Darkness (original title: Heart of Darkness) is a story by Joseph Conrad that was first published in three installments in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899 and was also published in book form in November 1902. In this story, the sailor Charlie Marlow tells friends about his journey in Central Africa as captain of a river steamer. There he witnessed unprecedented cruelty towards the natives and increasingly doubted the justifications for exploitation, but his influential London friends involved in the exploitation of colonies were unimpressed by Marlow's shock.

Conrad's narrative is a contribution to the discussion of English colonialism and racism at the end of Queen Victoria's reign. The story, too short for a novel and too long for a novella, is now considered one of the most important works of prose in the English language.

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Plato's words, “Only the dead have seen the end of war”, convey a profound insight into the nature of war and its ongoing devastation. For many, war means loss, trauma and despair.

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The film impressed me so much because of the images about the truthfulness of the absolute disappearance of the thin layer of our human civilization in the transition to darkness.

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For this reason, I am a pacifist because any means of violence shows the failure of human civilization.

You have to understand pacifism in an absolutely new form, you don't hold out the other hand when you are beaten! Instead, you do everything in advance to avoid being hit. Should all this fail, one considers oneself a defensive pacifist and defends oneself by all means.

If you don't show the street thugs a red line, you are just a victim. Unconditional pacifism only works with civilized people, but not with power-abusing, egotistical, self-absorbed beings who think they belong to the human species.

We as humanity are constantly proving that we learn nothing from history, and that across generations.

The Magdeburg Wedding (also known as the Blood Wedding, Magdeburg's Sacrifice or, more generally, Magdeburgization) refers to the conquest and complete devastation of the city of Magdeburg by imperial troops under Tilly and Pappenheim on 10 May / 20 May 1631greg. in the course of the Thirty Years' War.

Magdeburgizing

A term for the destruction of a city, a completely barbaric arbitrary targeted violence against normal people of a city by an army has created this word. Long forgotten but still highly current.

The devastation went so far that Magdeburg went down in the history of the Thirty Years' War as a symbol of destruction and cruelty with the term “Magdeburgizing”.

Why do we as humans think that we can exploit the oceans without remorse? Oceans are part of a global system that allows us to live in a time of balance. Which has hardly had any temperature fluctuations since mankind appeared on the scene.

We take and take from them and use them as our global dumping ground.

They are an important part of the fight against man-made climate change.

If the oceans reach a tipping point, and there are several, there will be a chain reaction that is irreversible.

How do politicians and people not care so much about the issue of marine protection?

We need to tell a story to get the issue into everyone's heads.

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Where has the truthfulness gone with all the believers? Where is the humanity? Where is the humility? Where is the compassion? Where is the love for every creature? Where do all the injuries come from that turn into insults?

How could all the hatred, resentment and all the other non-Christian attributes have caused this?

If it happened, explain it to us.

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Well, if children in Britain, which has left the EU, are already so pissed off, the exit was probably a complete success, smile!

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Well, children are already learning about the effects of nonsensical decisions by propaganda morons in the effects of inflation.

Bloody hell.

Nigel, Boris Johnson thanks for nothing.

Three years after Brexit

“An economic disaster”

The UK had high hopes for the domestic economy after Brexit. But three years after leaving the EU, the track record is poor. This year, the country is likely to be the only major economy to slide into recession.

The forecast on the third anniversary of the UK's exit from the EU is unflattering for the Conservative government. The weak growth is mainly due to the lack of labor, the director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Paul Johnson, told the BBC on Tuesday. One of the triggers for this was Brexit, which made immigration from the EU considerably more difficult. There is a shortage of workers in many sectors, such as catering and logistics, which used to be carried out by EU citizens. However, many of them changed their focus during the pandemic and around Brexit. Now it is no longer easy to come to the UK to work due to expensive visas.

Exporters stop sales to the EU

The proportion of smaller companies in the UK exporting abroad has also fallen following Brexit. “One in eight exporters have temporarily or permanently stopped selling to the EU - and a further tenth are considering doing so,” said Lucy Monks from the Federation of Small Businesses, which represents smaller companies and the self-employed. Currently, around a fifth of these companies are still exporting their goods or services abroad - the lowest level since the start of the pandemic, when restrictions caused overall trade to slump, according to the association.Boris Glass, senior economist at ratings agency S&P Global, said the increasing red tape in trade between the UK and the EU had affected the competitiveness of smaller UK manufacturers in particular, as they had fewer resources to deal with it.

Brexit is seen as a mistakeIn view of this development, many Britons are now asking themselves what part Brexit has played in the difficult economic situation. After all, the campaign to leave the EU promised that food prices would fall, more money would be available for the NHS and the economy could operate more innovatively.

Let's face it, the two girls would definitely be in favor of joining the EU, if only because of the bloody hell ice cream prices!

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This is what equality looks like!

Taiwan has nothing to do with China, it is not China because it is a democracy.

No matter what XI pulls out of its hair as a historical justification on the basis of such claims, Europe would still be Roman.

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For a free and democratic Taiwan, let the other democracies realize that they can only stand together against the dictatorships.

China is overestimated and overestimates itself and that is exactly the point where it will tip over without outside influences. The Chinese youth have been given the promise that if they study they can practice what they have studied. Somehow apolitical, but not if the promise cannot be kept by the Communist Party XI. There are already measures on the part of the CP to bring all these unemployed academics who are supported by their parents to the countryside to work in inadequate jobs. These are still only measures and not coercive measures, but that can change at any time.

If parents are no longer able to support their children, dissatisfaction will increase, to the detriment of the CP. Many young people in China are seeking internal migration and thus a new sense of purpose, as the Communist Party's promise of prosperity and a future has not been fulfilled for them. The party is currently allowing this to happen without intervention, but if they realize the potential and impact it may have on the future of the CP's existence, violence will follow. What they do to other parts of the population, they will do to the youth and put them in re-education camps. So China has a huge problem because their promise that the fate of the party is linked to the prosperity of the people will be broken.

In addition, government spending is immense, not only for the gigantic army but also for all the infrastructure projects that were not necessary. In addition to the environmental problems such as clean air or water.

China is a giant with feet of clay.

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That is its weakness, no matter how puffed up it is in relation to the West.

President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan thanks drag queen Nymphia Wind for a great performance

DW reports that Taiwanese drag queen Nymphia Wind (妮妃雅‧瘋) and winner of the TV series “RuPaul’s Drag Race” has performed a medley of songs for outgoing President Tsai Ing-wen, thanking her for being the island’s “mother.”

As you can see from the video, the President enjoyed the performance very much. The president is clearly a strong supporter of the queer and trans communities.

Drag queens, led by "RuPaul's Drag Race" winner Nymphia Wind in yellow, perform for Taiwan's president Tsai Ing-wen at the presidential office in Taipei, Taiwan. 

Photo: Wang Yu Ching/Office of the President.

No-Face (顔無し)

“Ah… Ah... Ah.„~ No Face

The Kaonashi, or No-Face as he tends to be called in the English releases of the film, is the secondary antagonist of Studio Ghibli's 12th full-length animated feature film Spirited Away.

No-Face is a dark spirit who resembles a black humanoid being with a white mask. He devours other spirits and can absorb their emotions into his own soul, causing him to take on their attitudes, especially negative ones, which lead to his transformation into a villain (until his redemption).

Though he never truly speaks, his moans and coos were performed by Akio Nakamura in the Japanese version, and Bob Bergen in the English dubbed version.

When I saw it I just loved it, shortly afterwards I bought it and then gave it away.

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