“My message is: ‘You have to get back to playing your serious role as a leader, playing a liberatory role for the rest of the world’,” Pillay, 85, told Reuters in The Hague, where she is currently a judge at the United Nations’ highest legal body, the International Court of Justice.
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Computer, bring me the file on Alfred Nobel.
- Early Beginnings: The business traces its roots back to 1873 when Charles Barnes opened a book-printing business in Wheaton, Illinois.
- The Partnership: In 1917, Charles’s son William Barnes partnered with G. Clifford Noble to open their first major bookstore in New York City.
- The Flagship Store: In 1932, the store moved to Fifth Avenue and 18th Street in New York City, eventually becoming known as the world’s largest bookstore.
- Leonard Riggio Era: Entrepreneur Leonard Riggio purchased the company in 1971 and transformed it into a national powerhouse, pioneering discount books, television advertising, and massive book superstores with in-store cafes in the 1980s and 1990s.
- Modern Ownership: After competing heavily with online retailers like Amazon and launching digital products like the NOOK, the company was acquired and taken private in 2019 by Elliott Investment Management (Elliott Advisors), with CEO James Daunt leading a major operational turnaround.
Computer, refine search, “merchant of death”
Plot and Summary
- The Loan: Antonio, a Venetian merchant, borrows 3,000 ducats from the Jewish moneylender Shylock to help his friend Bassanio court the wealthy heiress Portia.
- The Bond: Because Antonio’s money is tied up in shipping, Shylock agrees to an interest-free loan on one condition: if Antonio defaults, Shylock can claim a pound of Antonio’s flesh.
- The Caskets: In Belmont, Bassanio successfully wins Portia’s hand by choosing the correct lead chest in her father’s riddle test.
- The Courtroom Trial: When Antonio’s ships seemingly sink at sea and he defaults, Shylock demands his pound of flesh. Portia disguises herself as a young lawyer and saves Antonio by noting the contract allows flesh but no single drop of blood. Shylock is penalized for threatening a citizen’s life, losing his wealth and facing forced conversion.
Main Characters
- Antonio: The melancholy merchant of Venice whose loyalty to Bassanio drives the central conflict.
- Bassanio: Antonio’s dear friend and suitor to Portia.
- Portia: The intelligent heiress of Belmont who outsmarts Shylock in court.
- Shylock: The complex Jewish moneylender caught between villainy and the sting of societal antisemitism.
Interesting, Number One schedule an audit of the computer systems. Geordi is going to need to take a look at this.
He invented dynamite and then felt bad and now every dynamite inventor invents more dynamite so they can be like, “Look, look, here is peace!”
“He invented dynamite -> Saw his obituary and it said he caused deaths -> Nobel prize to launder his reputation” is the story the Nobel family wants you to hear. And it’s not wrong that the Nobel prizes are for reputation laundering, and it is remarkable that they just out and admit that.
But the Nobels were prolific weapons dealers, their name is still on an arms manufacturer. He ran Bofors, nobel dynamite and a Scottish explosive company. His dad made his fortune selling sea mines to the Russian empire.I’m mostly dead and still learning something new everyday
They were also prolific oligarchs (That’s what we call rich people from that part of the world) in the late Russian empire. For instance they all but had a monopoly on oil in the country through their company Branobel. They sold their part in that company in 1920 (Yes)
Personal opinion on the Nobel prize shifting from dismissive to antipathy
Who’s that in your avatar?
Kjeld. A character from the old Danish(/Norwegian) film series “Olsen Banden”. I am also named after him ,but I forgor about the silent J
See also: Pulitzer, namesake of the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism.
Bofors
Bofors deez mass murder devices
Resume something that never existed.
there can, possibly, in liberal worldview, be a case for the 60-63 period, where internal documents of jfk admin point to some sympathies to africa’s plight (and desire to shoulder ussr away) to colonialism and some economic development programs (which were done on less shit deals by world bank), but of course, that’s bookended by korea/vietnam wars temporally, guatemala silent genocide concurrently, start of indonesia killing lists and malay rebellion smothering (although brits were the leaders there) and lumumba assassination, so even there the case is basically vibes-based.
You can point to FDR’s relationship with Latin America as the best the US has ever done in foreign policy but it’s pretty fucking exceptional
Just the kind of people I expect running the Hague
icj, in their infinite laziness, have given entity till 2029 to respond to genocide accusations btw
why is waiting for a response even a part of the process
We have given the German Reich until 1960 to respond to the genocide accusations
It’s a joke now anyway, bring back people’s tribunal.
Hexbear user urges ICJ judges to learn to read.
one would think that south african judge will have some ideas about usa leadership in liberatory struggle, but money opens a lot of different viewpoints for the mind.
Anyone well connected enough to the western hegemony to get a Nobel prize is invariably going to be a western comprador and not actually care about liberatory struggles.
The US has always been hyper-imperialistic and any notion of peace is false propaganda.
So do European schools only do US history from 1941-1945 or did this cat just sleep through the rest?
she is south african
Whoops.
