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R.E.M. - It's The End Of The World
That's great, it starts with an earthquake
Birds and snakes, an aeroplane, Lenny Bruce is not afraid
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn
World serves its own needs, don't misserve your own needsFeed it up a knock, speed, grunt, no, strength, no
Ladder, structure clatter with fear of height, down height
Wire in a fire, represent the seven games
In a government for hire and a combat site Left her, wasn't coming in a hurry with the furies
Breathing down your neck
Team by team, reporters baffled, Trump, tethered crop
Look at that low plane, fine then Uh oh, overflow, population, common group
But it'll do, save yourself, serve yourself
World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed
Tell me with the rapture and the reverent in the right, right
You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright light
Feeling pretty psyched
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
And I feel fineSix o'clock, TV hour, don't get caught in foreign tower
Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself churn
Lock him in uniform and book burning, blood letting
Every motive escalate, automotive incinerateLight a candle, light a motive, step down, step down
Watch a heel crush, crush, uh oh, this means no fear
Cavalier, renegade and steer clear
A tournament, a tournament, a tournament of lies
Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I declineIt's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
And I feel fine, I feel fine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY
R.E.M. - It's The End Of The World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY
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Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire (Official Video)
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[Verse 1]
Harry Truman, Doris Day
Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific
Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon
Studebaker, Television
North Korea, South Korea
Marilyn Monroe
Rosenbergs, H-Bomb
Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, The King And I,
And The Catcher In The Rye
Eisenhower, Vaccine
England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace
Santayana goodbye
[Chorus]
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
[Verse 2]
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov
Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella
Communist Bloc
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron
Toscanini, Dacron
Dien Bien Phu Falls, "Rock Around the Clock"
Einstein, James Dean
Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan
Elvis Presley,Disneyland
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place
Trouble in the Suez
[Chorus]
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
[Verse 3]
Little Rock, Pasternak
Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik,Zhou En-lai
Bridge On The River Kwai
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle
California baseball
Starkweather Homicide
Children of Thalidomide
Buddy Holly, Ben-Hur
=Space Monkey==, Mafia
Hula Hoops, Castro
Edsel is a no-go
U-2, Syngman Rhee
Payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho
Belgians in the Congo
[Chorus]
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
[Verse 4]
Hemingway, Eichmann
Stranger in a Strange Land
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn
Liston beats Patterson
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex
J.F.K. blown away
What else do I have to say?
[Chorus]
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
[Verse 5]
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh
Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock
Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine
Terror on the airline
Ayatollahs in Iran
Russians in Afghanistan
Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride
Heavy metal suicide
Foreign debts, homeless Vets
AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores
China's under martial law
Rock and Roller cola wars
I can't take it anymore
[Chorus]
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
It will still burn on, and on
And on, and on
[Outro]
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFTLKWw542g
Programming Alert: Live Coverage of Senate Hearing on Election ‘Irregularities’
BY EPOCH VIDEO December 15, 2020 Updated: December 15, 2020 biggersmaller Print
The Senate will hold a hearing Wednesday on irregularities that took place during the 2020 presidential election.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said during the hearing announcement that “a large percentage of the American public does not view the 2020 election result as legitimate because of apparent irregularities that have not been fully examined.” The goal of the hearing is to “resolve suspicions,” he added.
The hearing is scheduled to start at 10 a.m. ET. NTD and The Epoch Times will livestream the full hearing.
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Programming Alert: Live Coverage of Senate Hearing on Election ‘Irregularities’
BY EPOCH VIDEO December 15, 2020 Updated: December 15, 2020 biggersmaller Print
The Senate will hold a hearing Wednesday on irregularities that took place during the 2020 presidential election.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said during the hearing announcement that “a large percentage of the American public does not view the 2020 election result as legitimate because of apparent irregularities that have not been fully examined.” The goal of the hearing is to “resolve suspicions,” he added.
The hearing is scheduled to start at 10 a.m. ET. NTD and The Epoch Times will livestream the full hearing.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/programming-alert-live-coverage-of-senate-hearing-on-election-irregularities_3619991.html
Pompeo lambastes Russia for sowing 'chaos, conflict, and division' in Mediterranean
Pompeo's comments came in response to accusations from his Russian counterpart that the U.S. plays 'games' in region.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has launched a verbal salvo charging that Russia continues to destabilize the Mediterranean, and that it sows "chaos, conflict, and division" in the region.
Pompeo directed his comments Tuesday at his Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who recently accused the U.S. of playing political games in the countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea.
"It’s unfortunate and unhelpful that Mr. Lavrov again gets the facts wrong and attempts to rewrite history," Pompeo said in a statement. "The United States is working actively with allies and partners in the Eastern Mediterranean to promote greater stability, security, and prosperity."
The comments come during a time of increased tensions between Washington and Moscow, and in the wake of reports that Russian hackers have breached U.S. government computer systems.
Although he did not directly mention hacking operations, Pompeo charged Russia with spreading disinformation and undermining national sovereignty specifically in the countries surrounding the Mediterranean.
"In Syria, Russia supports the Assad regime whose war against its own people has added to regional instability, led to a protracted humanitarian crisis, and displaced half the population," Pompeo said.
The secretary of state listed a number of Russian actions in Greece, Cyprus, Malta, and elsewhere.
"In Libya, Russia supported an assault on the Libyan capital, Tripoli, killing civilians and undermining the UN’s efforts to bring peace to the country," Pompeo said.
Citing a litany of actions in Libya, Pompeo noted Russia had printed counterfeit Libyan dinars and has used its proxy mercenary army known as Wagner to fuel conflict.
"The Libyan government’s release of two Wagner operatives caught undermining Libyan politics is just another example of how Russia uses mercenaries and political shenanigans rather than open democratic means to advance its interests," Pompeo said.
Lavrov made his remarks about the United States during a virtual meeting Dec. 4 of the Mediterranean Dialogues conference in Rome.
https://justthenews.com/government/security/pompeo-says-russia-sows-chaos-conflict-and-division-mediterranean
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Speakeasy of secrets: Forgotten tales of debauchery from NYC’s ‘21’ Club
By Michael KaplanDecember 15, 2020 | 7:36pm | Updated
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The ‘21’ Club has spent the last 90 years as a magnet for the rich, louche, beautiful and powerful. Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton both stashed bottles of pricey wine in the West 52nd Street restaurant’s cellar (and some are said to still be there). Ernest Hemingway made love to a girlfriend of gangster Legs Diamond on a kitchen staircase. (Luckily, Legs was gunned down before he could seek his promised retribution.) Novelist John O’Hara routinely got blind-drunk and was liable to throw punches at anyone within proximity, while a sad and solo-dining Jackie Gleason insisted on swapping his pool cue from “The Hustler” (which remains on display) for a model train encased behind the bar.
Novelist Jay McInerney wed socialite Anne Hearst there in 2006, with former Mayor Rudy Giuliani officiating. Recalling the meal afterward, McInerney told The Post, “Prince Edward stopped by the table to say hello. In retrospect, it was quite a lunch.”
For the last 30 or so years, McInerney has enjoyed an annual boozy Christmas lunch at ‘21’ with publishing-world cronies — but no longer. Last week, The Post reported that the restaurant, New York’s last remaining eatery that once served as a Prohibition-era speakeasy, is closed indefinitely and may shut down for good in March. “I find it incredibly tragic,” McInerney said, acknowledging that the real sadness is for suddenly unemployed workers there. “It is a loss to New York. There is so much history ensconced in that place.”
Back in the 1960s when ‘21’ reigned as the city’s It destination for food and booze — where men were made to wear jackets, slacks on women were verboten and unescorted ladies were not allowed to drink at the bar — agent Swifty Lazar smashed a water glass into the head of Otto Preminger during a lunchtime dust-up over the movie rights to “In Cold Blood.” Preminger required stitches and pressed charges; the 5-foot-3 Lazar was arrested in his office.
Then there was the eccentric artist Salvador Dalí. He was allowed to flout health department rules and bring in his ocelot, Babou. “A man named Captain Moore, I think, came with Mr. Dalí to look after this wild animal, so to speak,” said Bruce Snyder, who managed ‘21’ from 1969 until 2005 and was famous for his dapper French cuffs and Bergdorf Goodman suits. “We had a place where Babou would get tied up. My only regret is that I never asked Mr. Dalí to sign a book for me.”
Of course, that would have broken a sacred tenet of ‘21’ that Snyder himself helped to maintain: “It was a safe haven. When you ate there, nobody got near you or asked for autographs,” he said, recalling the time a young teenager approached Nancy Reagan. Snyder took the girl aside and scolded her. “I think I made her cry,” he told The Post.
That tight-lipped policy helped attract security-conscious high-flyers such as Robert De Niro, Jackie Kennedy and her son John Jr., and a century’s worth of presidents. Donald Trump — whose father Fred routinely took the family to ‘21’ for Sunday-night dinners — has a long history of ordering well-done hamburgers and Diet Cokes at ‘21′ and even chose it to celebrate his 2016 election win.
The Donald somehow convinced management to allow TV cameras into the restaurant to film a dinner scene for the first season of “The Apprentice.” Referring to Omarosa Manigault Newman and her crew, Diana Biederman, the former publicist of ‘21,’ told The Post, “The number of times they ran into the loo, for whatever reason, was a tad disruptive.”
No stranger to star turns, ‘21’ recently served as a scene-setter in Sofia Coppola’s love letter to Manhattan, “On the Rocks.” Over the years, ‘21’ has also turned up in films such as “Sweet Smell of Success,” “All About Eve” and “Wall Street”— in which Charlie Sheen’s hapless Bud Fox eats the restaurant’s classic steak tartare soon after Michael Douglas’ Gordon Gekko admonished, “Lunch is for wimps.” In 1954, Marilyn Monroe turned heads while drinking at the bar during a press party for “The Seven Year Itch.”
Underscoring the fact that nobody went to ‘21’ for the food, Carol Channing used to bring her own dinner — carried in by her husband — and Trump’s former fixer, the attorney Roy Cohn, demanded that the kitchen serve him off-menu tuna salad for lunch made with fish from the can.
“We kept a jar of Hellmann’s mayonnaise in the kitchen,” Snyder told The Post, adding that Cohn was not the only one who required déclassé ingredients. “Frank Sinatra liked these red cherry peppers that came in a jar at the supermarket. We left [them] in the refrigerator for him. He enjoyed drinking Sambuca Originale, which was not the best sambuca. You couldn’t find it in the Manhattan liquor stores. So we had to bring it in from New Jersey.”
https://nypost.com/2020/12/15/sinatra-trump-and-other-tales-from-nycs-21-club/
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Apparently, the Chairman got whatever he wanted at ‘21’: “Mr. Sinatra handed out money like crazy. I once held the door as he exited. He tipped me 20 bucks and I said I couldn’t take it. I was management. He said, ‘Take it!’ I took it. You did what he said.”
It really did feel like a bit of a club — with a few dozen iron lawn jockeys standing guard outside 21 West 52nd St. They were donated by restaurant regulars in the 1930s, many of whom owned race-horse stables, in a tradition said to be started by the sportsman J. Blan van Urk.
Inside, items donated by the boldface names who dined there hung from the ceiling. They included a baseball bat signed by Willie Mays and a smashed tennis racquet from John McEnroe. On one memorable night, as reported in Page Six, Monica Lewinsky unwittingly sat beneath the model replica of Air Force One that came courtesy of Bill Clinton. Remembering that staffers scurried to provide an “extra wide chair for [broadly haunched oil mogul] Marvin Davis,” McInerney described ‘21’ as “an amazing diorama of a certain class of New Yorker.”
Not bad for a restaurant that began as a Greenwich Village speakeasy called the Red Head, moved up to West 49th Street as the Puncheon Club (it got pushed out to make room for Rockefeller Center) and relocated to 21 West 52nd St. in 1930, in the midst of Prohibition. Originally known as Jack and Charlie’s ‘21,’ the place was named for owners Jack Kriendler and Charlie Berns. Ensuring that their restaurant would not be evicted to make room for another new construction project, the partners bought the building where ‘21’ remains situated — at least for the time being.
Kriendler and Berns also made sure that their customers could enjoy the then-illegal liquor they loved. Despite being politically connected — NYC Mayor Jimmy Walker was a regular in the early 1930s and once closed off the street when word came that a raid was in the offing — the owners took additional precautions.
“Liquor was on a shelf that could collapse with the push of a button; that was in case the Feds came,” said Snyder. “Bottles would then go down a stone chute with spikes on it. Glass shattered and liquor sank into a pile of sand at the bottom. The evidence was destroyed.”
Later, in 1962, just as Cuban cigars were about to be deemed contraband in the US, Kriendler and Burns bought 750,000 Havana stogies, stashed them in a warehouse humidor on West 52nd Street and made the smokes available to their best customers.
Post-Prohibition, ‘21’ became known for its top-shelf cocktails — the gin-driven Southside was supposedly created there — and its so-called “secret cellar” (a leftover from Prohibition), long ranked among the best wine repositories in the United States.
It stands behind a brick door that is said to weigh some 2,500 pounds and is opened by sticking a thin wire through one of several pockmarked holes in front.
According to Kriendler’s memoir, “’21’: Everyday Was New Year’s Eve,” the cellar’s rarities have included an 1804 Madeira and a bottle of Château Margaux that dates back to 1870. The most expensive bottle of wine is said to be a $22,000 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti.
The original owners eventually sold ’21’ in the 1980s, and today it is owned by luxury hospitality company Belmond Ltd., which says the restaurant cannot survive in its “current form.”
With high-priced imbibing currently on hold at ‘21,’ McInerney and his gang — who include publishing pals Gary Fisketjon and Morgan Entrekin, along with former ‘SNL’ segment producer James Signorelli — have done the sensible thing.
“We’re suspending our lunch this year,” said the author. Then his voice turned hopeful as he echoed a Christmas wish of many a New Yorker: “Maybe ‘21’ will reopen in 2021 and we’ll be there next Christmas.
https://nypost.com/2020/12/15/sinatra-trump-and-other-tales-from-nycs-21-club/
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