Great TV Advertisements and some that are Not Great, Misleading, Greenwashing or Just Plain Evil.

Nissan: Their Ads for Cars and Trucks feature a Beautiful White Woman. I assume that on Mexican TV They have a Mexican Model and In India They use a Bollywood Star... anything but an Oriental Spokes Model promoting an Oriental Car. Or Maybe Not...

Who Is Gorgeous Blonde Shifting Gears In Nissan Car Commercials? - Brie Larson

Halo - TV Commercial - like a Renaissance

Painting of the Virgin Mary... or Jesus...

Oh, Oh, Oh, Ozempic! Has Great Music Based on a Seventies Hit Song... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzlK0OGpIRs

Oh, Oh, Oh, It's Magic! by Pilot.

Pilot was a rock musical group, formed during 1973 in Edinburgh, Scotland by the former Bay City Rollers members, David Paton and Billy Lyall. "Magic" was the first hit single for the group. I wonder if Ozempic is Paying Royalties for that song? No One Seems to Know Online...

Sandals, a Resort in Jamaica, is using Bob Marley's Song "Three Little Birds" in their Commercials. Excellent! "Don't Worry about a thing, 'cause every little thing's gonna be all right!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNBCVM4KbUM

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and now for the Bad Commercials

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USPS: They spend a LOT of Money on TV Commercials in the Hope that People Will NOT NOTICE the Bad Quality and Think Positively About Them... Imagine if They Spent That money on ACTUALLY FIXING THE USPS...

Chevron also has many Greenwashing Commercials where they show the Joy of Driving a Car... Down Highway One in Big Sur... Remember: Automobile Exhaust is Causing Climate Change and Massive Wildfires Every Summer... but... With "The Human Energy Company" that's not mentioned... only How it's FUN FUN FUN!

and What The F*CK Does "Human Energy Company" Mean???

Here's a Photo of Actual Human Energy... Converting FAT into Electricity... using stationary bicycle generators at Humboldt State University

engineering drawing of a stationary bicycle power generator

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OK... Enough of that... Now for the Truly EVIL Commercials...

All Advertisements for Alcohol... Those Ads Make People Thirsty and Cause an Increase of Consumption... and an Increase of Brain Damage... and an Increase in Bad Decisions... and Drunk Driving... and Wife Beating... Fistfights...

We Stopped Advertising Tobacco on TV Because it caused Harm to People... Why not stop ads for Alcohol? It causes Harm to People...

There is a Fundamental Lie in All Alcohol Ads... That Drinking is FUN FUN FUN... For Some People, No It's Not...

and Teaching Children to that it's Cool to Drink? That's EVIL...

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OK: Misleading...

Prevagen and Neuriva claim to make you smarter... That's simply not true... Do Research on the Internet and all actual Doctors Dispute that Claim...

They all say that Coffee, Tea and Green Tea DO make people Smarter... But All Other Supplements are BOGUS!

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I Almost Always Turn Off the Sound During Commercials... BUT... on Occasion I Don't and the List of Side Effects for Doctor Drugs is Truly Frightening! I'm also angered by the Fact That the Price I Pay for Prescription Drugs Finances those Advertising Campaigns... When I See a Healthy Person Singing and Dancing after Eating a Pill that I Eat... I'm Angered... That's not the effect I'M GETTING... Oh, Results May Vary...

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and now for something completely different

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My Facebook Blocking of Religion Arguments

and the people responded:

I have experienced the same damn thing; not from Evangelicals - their dogma died long ago - they're so brain-frozen nothing gets through. But the anger and hate that comes out of evangelical-atheists is worse. Worse, to me, probably because it's unexpected from "learned" people who have studied theology, and/or physics, and/or evolution, etc, etc. One ("I") would think they would know they know not everything, and would, therefore, at least attempt to have an open mind; if for no other reason than to consider the unknown. IMO (not so humble) these are the closed-minded people who kept us stuck in the dark ages, the inquisition and 300 years between Newtonian and quantum physics (400 years from Copernicus). Point is: it wasn't and isn't the common-man/woman who kept us stuck in one dogma or another, it was the self-proclaimed "thinkers & experts" who did that.

Sorry for the rant.

Me too... I can't see any difference between religious zealots and radical atheists, they both sound the same to me...

I wish Americans realized that all of these issues, abortion, religion, electric vehicles, Ukraine, Russia, solar energy, fossil fuels, etc. etc. are all about keeping us divided so that the two party scam can keep perpetrating there corruption on us & our country  until America is destroyed. 

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Dear Rainbow Family, Peace Tribe.

I want to share an idea for us to grow sustainably and share together our talent, or help each other out, each and everyone in our pretty big family.

This idea I had for a while now, but was not sure how to put it in words with my half broken English, but here it goes.

As the world changing everymoment, and since the first rainbow till now, a lot of guidelines changed as well, even from my first rainbow in 1994 a lot have changed, talking information vise.

Now I thought if to the Nationals come 10 to 20 thousand people, and in this group is at least few thousand. Maybe at least about thousand will see it.

But here it goes. If all of us, each and everyone will create or make their YouTube channel or Reel or TikTok or any platform that we can get paid on, from the channel itsels. Not as donation but every month money to your account just by sharing wayever you feel like.

So if each and everyone will create one and follow each other on it. Like I have a YouTube channel and everyone will follow it, same I will follow everyone from this page channel, and everyone does the same to everyone, we could all become sustainable just by doing it to each other.

Because on YouTube you only need 1000 followers and 4000 watch hours for to get royalties. That is very doable for big family like ours.

So imagine then each and everyone of us will get paid just by creating that and supporting each other, which will no cost any money to any of us.

I believe it can work. Plus no one have to make any super videos. You dont even need videos, and share pics or anything. No one even have to show their face.

What do you think family?

That would definitely pay for everyone's travel or living in the woods without working for a man. It's just to trick the system with our togetherness and support. Then we will be sustainable just from that.

Who is down?

Any opinions?

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I don't actually know much about Christianity because I was Raised an Atheist... and after Eating LSD, Faith based Religions Seem So WIMPY... Why Read a Book About Meeting God When We Have the Technology to Have The Experience Yourself? 

LINK to All My Meeting God Bling:

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George Carlin Comedy Routine... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tp0UNcjzl8

Sonya Sophia Said: 

If you’re feeling depressed, you need to change some things. We are affected by the field of info we are subjecting ourselves to. Take inventory and feed your mind with hope, love, gratitude, and messages of POWER.

If something or someone is sending you sick signals that life sucks, that you suck, or that love sucks, you will eventually believe it. And THAT’S DEPRESSING!

Your thoughts generate your feelings. Your feelings control your brain chemistry. Change the message. It’s YOUR life! And unless you take charge of it, it’s likely to be run by someone or something else.

Edit for peace. Drop dysfunctional relationships. Then do the inner work to see why you accepted that in the first place.

Bottom line: heal your childhood trauma – old patterns your parents passed on to you. Tune yourself to uplifting messages as you learn to manage your mind, and design a new reality for yourself.

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Hi Gregory, it’s Jane Fonda with Fire Drill Fridays and Greenpeace USA.

First, I want to thank you for all your hard work this election season. Many of you volunteered, donated, and organized to ensure that efforts to Get Out the Vote were timely and widespread. And many of you joined us for Fire Drill Fridays to create a community of climate champions that will not back down from our shared values.

The election is over, the voters have spoken — but what does that mean for our movement?

Tomorrow, November 11 at 11am PT/2pm ET, I will be joined by Jane Kleeb, Chair of the Nebraska Democratic Party, to make sense of the election and how it impacts our fight for healthy communities and a livable planet.

Jane Kleeb has served as the Nebraska Democratic Party Chair since December 2016. She is an experienced grassroots organizer, manager, political strategist and nonprofit entrepreneur. Recently profiled by PBS in a film called Blue Wind on a Red Prairie, Jane is a leader who deeply understands the need to connect issues that rural and urban communities are facing to politics in order to win elections.

This is the time; this is the moment. With the wins and losses, the cheers and the heartbreak still fresh, let’s come together and discuss how we can most strategically move forward. 

RSVP to let us know you're coming and tune in tomorrow, Friday, November 11 at 11am PT / 2pm ET on firedrillfridays.com, Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube for this important conversation.

Our livestream isn’t the only way to get involved: We've entered a new phase in the fight for climate justice. Incremental legislative progress was never good enough and after this week's election results, we must seek transformative action. 

That’s why, on Friday, December 2, we're taking to the streets of Washington, D.C. to demand that President Biden declare a climate emergency. This will be the first climate-centered in-person rally after the election, and we will hold our elected officials’ feet to the fire to deliver the kind of climate action that science and justice demands. 

As my good friend and Greenpeace USA Co-Executive Director, Annie Leonard, says, “Being a climate champion means having the courage to fight for people and the planet no matter what powerful interests do to stand in the way of climate action.”

I’m asking you — as Americans of all generations, races, and places — to join me in setting the tone for a powerful movement in 2023 and beyond. Sign up now for our Climate Emergency Rally on Friday, December 2 in Washington, D.C.!

In solidarity,

Jane Fonda
Actor, Activist, and Fire Drill Fridays Founder 

GREAT BOOKS: F Scott Fitzgerald Was "The Kerouac" of the Roaring Twenties... His Books were the Ones That "Everybody" Read: They Told of the Newfound Freedom of the Flappers... "Tender is the Night" ... "The Great Gatsby" ...

Real Name: Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald - His Cousin Wrote the Star Spangled Banner... 

F Scott Fitzgerald and Wife, Zelda

Just to Be Clear: Jack Kerouac Wrote the Book "On the Road" that was Popular With Young People in the 1950s... Especially the Beatniks... 

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I'm spending a lot of time reading since we have a vast library here... 

and Tender Is the Night is totally Different Than Anything I've ever Read... 

It was Published in 1934 during the darkest days of the depression... 

It's all about the lifestyles of the rich and famous... an 18 year old movie star woman and a Married middle aged psychiatrist flirt on the French Riviera during the Roaring Twenties...

It's a form of "Wealth Porn" - Something poor people could read as escapism... 

and to make it even more bizarre: It's an autobiography - kind of... 

one thing I have noticed is the greatest authors have disastrous lives... 

Edgar Allen Poe and Lewis Carroll with their Opium and Alcohol Addictions...  

Phillip K Dick and his Amphetamine Troubles... that certainly caused his paranoid view of the world... at one point he was working full time at his wife's jewelry  making business AND Writing all night on his books!   That left ZERO time for sleep... and eventually it killed him... 

and then I just found out that Hemingway committed suicide... I wonder why?  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway#Idaho_and_suicide 

OK... I Found Out. He Had Electroshock Therapy and It burned his brain so he couldn't write anymore... so his life had become pointless... a word of warning... never have Electroshock Therapy...   

I've been to his house on Key West and It looked great! It had a rope bridge to his studio over the garage... and NO ONE ELSE could walk across that bridge... so if someone wanted to talk to him they stood on the ground and shouted up to the doorway... if it was open... 

Tender Is the Night is the fourth and final novel completed by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in French Riviera during the twilight of the Jazz Age

https://www.amazon.com/Tender-Night-F-Scott-Fitzgerald/dp/068480154X  

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Great Books! Read 'em before the Fascist GOP Bans 'em.

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The Monkeywrench Gang by Edward Abbey,

1984 by George Orwell,

The Search for the Manchurian Candidate by John Marks,

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe,

The Whole Earth Catalog by Stewart Brand,

One Flew Over The Coo Coo's Nest by Ken Kesey,

My Problem Child by Dr Albert Hofmann,

Remember, Be Here Now by Ram Dass,

Still Here by Ram Dass,

The Psychedelic Experience by Dr Timothy Leary and Dr Richard Alpert,

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence by Robert Pirsig,

America's Bogus Wars by Gregory Vanderlaan,

Island by Aldous Huxley,

Foundation by Isaac Asimov,

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein,

You are not the Target by Laura Huxley,

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley,

The Time Machine by HG Wells,

Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne,

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll,

Thru the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll,

The Wizard of OZ by Frank Baum,

Tom Sawyer - Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain,

The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe (and Everything else he wrote),

The Call of Cthulu by HP Lovecraft,

The Teachings of don Juan by Carlos Castaneda,

The Four Agreements by don Miguel Ruiz,

The Art of the Failed Deal by don Trump,

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay,

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,

2001 by Arthur C. Clarke,

Dune by Frank Herbert,

The Black Cloud by Fred Hoyle,

The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien,

The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien,

The Violet Overgrow by Gregory Vanderlaan,

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card,

The Bible by Various Authors (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John,

Ezekiel, Enoch, Peter, Paul and Mary),

The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov,

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov,

Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley,

Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda,

Alcoholics Anonymous by Bill W.

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