The Commitments is a 1991 musical comedy-drama film based on the 1987 novel by Roddy Doyle. It was directed by Alan Parker from a screenplay written by Doyle, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. Set in the Northside of Dublin, the film tells the story of Jimmy Rabbitte (Robert Arkins), a young music fanatic who assembles a group of working-class youths to form a soul band named "The Commitments".
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On Saturday, October 7th 2023 my friend Artist Shahram Alizadeh opened his atelier for a group show of fantastic artists, where I had the opportunity to participate with some of my artwork. The display will be open-ended, that is, I can exchange my work with other pieces at any time. This is both Shahram's atelier as well as a showroom for his artist friends.
On Tiktok I made a vide from clips and photos that Shahram provided, adding special effects (and the 'obligatory selfie' at the end, which is a transition creation from Dreamwombo. The charcoal drawing of 'Nubian Kore' is not in the video, but it is displayed in the back room part, whereas the other two are in the front room.
I am posting two versions - one from YouTube Age restricted, only available directly on YouTube - but if that one gets deleted (again?) I embed one from Rumble ▼ Ukraine. Across its eastern border is Russia and to its west-Europe. For centuries, it has been at the center of a tug-of-war between powers seeking to control its rich lands and access to the Black Sea. 2014's Maidan Massacre triggered a bloody uprising that ousted president Viktor Yanukovych and painted Russia as the perpetrator by Western media. But was it? "Ukraine on Fire" by Igor Lopatonok.. 
2020 / 2022 - For the past two years, the world population has been under the spell of the coronavirus. Emergency regimes have been established, civil liberties have been dismantled, surveillance programs were being installed and an unprecedented global vaccination program has been rolled out.
Are we doing the right thing, or did we make a deal with the devil in exchange for a benefit? Through critical voices from various areas of expertise, PANDAMNED attempted for the first time to paint the whole picture and shed light on the darkness. It has become a relentless stocktaking of our time, which global organizations, governments and big tech companies would have preferred to prevent. Documentary maker Marijn Poels takes the viewer on an enlightening journey through the emerging absurd world of the "New Normal" and how we can still prevent it. www.pandamned.org Subtitles: German, Englisch, Dutch For my German readers, here is a excellent article in German für meine Deutschen Leser, hier ist ein sehr guter Artikel auf Deutsch über diesen Film: «Pandamned» – Dokumentation über die Hintergründe der Corona-Politik 
Tripping out on some Facebook posts that I found impressive:
Alice in Wonderland Syndrome
Fairy World
April Fools
You will not always find what you seek,
you'll find what your soul needs. And it is above you and me, is the spirit and the life. - Arnau of Tera - This video was sent to me via WhatsApp. This is the Live-stream from the demo today: Today is the time. Austria goes on the street together for FREEDOM! Today Vienna sets a sign against the newest Lockdown insanity and forced vaccinations! :Yesterday I posted on the Blockchain - embedded on Twitter - please click through to the original post, there is a lot of information, relevant videos and newspaper articles.
I could not help myself - here is my interpretation of the mayor of Vienna one of the driving forces of the measures against which the people are protesting  UPDATE November 21st 2021 posted on the blockchain with additional material and details:
 CORONA VIRUS RESOURCES 
Short and sweet today - below find embedded a chart from ourworldindata.org where I selected a number of countries to compare. Mouse over the timeline and observe the changing rankings.
I included India for various reasons, one being that the Delta variation had originally been called the Indian variation, the other is that even though the vaccination rate in India is around 10%, it has now for the longest time one of the lowest fall numbers in the world.
Included in this chart is Austria, where I live. What I think about the current "Measures" I point out here (which I also published on Facebook):
The policies in force now in Austria are pure insanity!
There is a campaign going on to blame the unvaccinated for everything. But it will soon show the truth, because now the unvaccinated are in lockdown, whereas the vaccinated are free to do everything and are not required to be tested. Considering the decreasing efficiency of the vaccines, that one can be infected and infectious, we should see (and already have) where the cluster infections will happen, and how many vaccinated are filling the hospitals (the percentages are rising - at the moment it is 40% vaccinated). The vaccinated were from the start given to believe that the vaccines are highly effective, and from the comments in the media we can see that the majority believe that now they are free to do whatever, no precautions, no masks, party without care. The ones that are actually careful and mindful of the virus are those that are unvaccinated (and a few of the vaccinated that have enough brains) which are wearing masks, hold proper distance and follow all hygiene recommendations. In my circles I know quite a few vaccinated people that did catch the virus, and some quite bad, whereas I am not aware that any of my unvaccinated friends are sick - even though one particularly disturbed so called "Virologist", Dorothee von Laer, proclaimed that 3G (as a rule is called in German) actually means Geimpft - Genesen - Gestorben (translated: Vaccinated - Recovered - Dead) - the third G actually means Getestet = tested. And this are the so called experts that advise the government of Austria. If you read German, or have a translator installed, check this out, it is unreal, and I commented previousl on Facebook that she should be a prime candidate for psychiatric attention: https://www.weekend.at/politik/virologin-von-laer-duestere-3G-prognose
This also as a comment on the current video about the subject by Dr. John Campbell:
Bonus today - a very interesting video that brings together eight prominent medical experts, among themDr. Robert W. Malone who was instrumental in the development of mRNA vaccine.
CORONAVIRUS RESOURCES
I REALIZED I HAD NOT POSTED LATELY UNDER THE TAG CORONA - I HAD HOWEVER CONTRIBUTED A FEW RELEVANT POSTS ON FACEBOOK AND MY BLOCKCHAIN ACCOUNT.
So here we go - I posted the most important blogs just now on the Hive/PeakD blockchain. So rather than preaching twice, I just give you the highlights here.
Visions of Corona - the pandemic has the city in its grip.
Digital photocollage. Coronavirus - Aktuelle Maßnahmen in Österreich CORONA WAHNSINN - CORONA MADNESS
click text link above to see the entire article - opens in separate window - most content is in German
but some items are also in English, and one particularly relevant text had been translated. Among the items of interest is how Denmark handles Corona, so below find embedded the current DANISH CORONA PASS
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Es ist unerklärlich warum das bei uns nicht funktionieren könnte It is inexplicable why this could not work for us to read up on the Danish site, go to coronasmitte.dk After posting on the Blockchain, I found this video about a protest in Vienna (in German):
I also like to point out that some of the most interesting posts are collected on my Mix site under the Covid-19 Collection:
Also contained in my Blockchain Blog CORONA WAHNSINN - CORONA MADNESS is the interesting story of the Irish City District Waterford where it says that:
Waterford city has one of the Ireland’s highest rates of vaccination against Covid-19, but one of its electoral areas has emerged as the place with the highest rate of Covid-19 infection in the State. 
Waterford city district has State’s highest rate of Covid-19 infections
THIS IS PERHAPS THE WEIRDEST SURREAL TAKE ON KASPAR HAUSER
I came upon this by chance on Facebook. It ties in with the surreal visons you would find in the descriptions under my painting BOGOMIL'S CEREMONIAL STAGE: CASPAR AND HIS PROPS
UPDATE October 2024: However, since I cannot connect to Facebook anymore I found a motherlode of stuff on YouTube, so here it is: 
SYNOPSIS In Sardinia, in an abstract dimension without place or time, a body arrives on a beach: it is Kaspar Hauser, a young heir to the throne kept hidden from an early age to prevent him from reigning. The island is inhabited by only 5 characters: the Grand Duchess, who became queen, the Dragon, her humble servant, the Dark Man, the Duchess's handyman, the Seer and the Sheriff. Kaspar Hauser will be looked after by the Sheriff and will soon learn who to trust or not. CAST Directed by: Davide Manuli . With Vincent Gallo , Claudia Gerini , Elisa Sednaoui , Fabrizio Gifuni , Marco Lampis , Silvia Calderoni . 
CASPAR AND HIS PROPS
Image by Tumisu from Pixabay
First off, maybe check who David E. Martin, PhD is - lets visit the website of his company M.CAM: https://www.m-cam.com/about-us/ I am not going to write a long intro, because whatever I could say could not do justice of what is being discussed in these videos.
The first video I was made aware of by a Canadian friend, and it discussed issues about the Corona Virus from a Canadian perspective. It was uploaded to BitChute by Vaccine Choice Canada:
After watching this, I started searching and found the info about his company (see above), but additional videos, and one of them from the Stiftung Corona Ausschuss, conducted in Berlin, Germany, but all in English
This is a multiple-warhead bombshell: Intelligence analyst David E. Martin has been checking the patent files concerning SARS-CoV2 and found out ... damn, listen to the guy yourself. If this turns out to be true there can be no more doubt about what the hell is going on.
The German Corona Inquiry Committee has been formed in July 2020 and heard almost 150 scientists, experts, researchers, witnesses and victims in 60 five-hour sessions. This video is a collection of the English-only sections of the hearing. The hearing with David E. Martin can be watched completely at: Dr. David E. Martin | Sitzung 60: Die Zeit ist kein flacher Kreis
You might want to watch either of these two videos at the origin sites BitChute and YouTube, since some of the comments would also be interesting. The video on the Corona Ausschuss website is a little longer than the one on YouTube.
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