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Paul Holmes

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Founder & CEO at PRovokeMedia, I have been writing, speaking and thinking about public relations, and the intersection of business and society, for 40 years. I believe ESG, DEI and stakeholder engagement in general are mission critical for all oganizations

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Somebody start a gofundme to put a licensed long gun in the hands of every African-American man in Tennessee....

13.03.2026 19:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"Oil prices are triggering inflation, let's cut interest rates" is certainly an interesting take on orthodox economics.

13.03.2026 19:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"Holes in the strategy."

LOL.

13.03.2026 18:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Do you like it better than La Cage aux Folles? I saw the French-Italian movie in the early 80s and loved it. The Birdcage never clicked for me, but maybe that's a snobby anti-remake bias.

13.03.2026 18:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And people said Trump had no clear objectives.

13.03.2026 18:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And remind me, were they shooting at shipping a couple of weeks ago?

You know, when they were negotiating with you?

Before you started murdering them?

13.03.2026 18:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So why are prices going up? US production does not have to go through the Strait of Hormuz to reach American gas stations. Are US producers profiteering? Or does our Energy Secretary not understand how energy markets work?

13.03.2026 18:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Te beauty of it is that you don't need to engage with your subject at all.

No reason to develop critical thinking ability, no need for research skills. Hell, no real need for a brain.

13.03.2026 16:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

As Banderas movies go, this is better than Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever

As Donner movies go, a bit of a disappointment

As Stallone movies go, it definitely was one

13.03.2026 16:44 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Based on Article IV of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), it is widely recognized that all state parties have an "inalienable right" to develop, research, and use nuclear.

13.03.2026 12:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes it's been expensive.

But at least we've achieved nothing.

13.03.2026 12:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Unless you have been poor, I promise you you have no idea how the real world actually works.

13.03.2026 11:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We need to think about what it means that someone so morally repugnant was able to work for four prominent educational institutions over two decades without ever being called on his degeneracy.

13.03.2026 11:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is why you don't give toddlers machine guns.

13.03.2026 09:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Bitcoin investor offers all Nevis residents $100 a month if libertarian city is approved Olivier Janssens accused of β€˜public bribes’ with offer to locals as his development awaits final government approval

This is going to end with hunting humans for sport, I just know it.

13.03.2026 09:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Prediction: With Palantir calling the shots, the NHS will kill more people a year than th e US military.

12.03.2026 19:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Russia earned €6bn from fossil fuel exports since start of Iran war, data suggests Figures from thinktank show Russia received extra €672m in revenues from oil, gas and coal during March so far

The war is costing America dearly, and benefitng Russia financially, and nobody seems to be wondering whether that was the plan all along?

12.03.2026 17:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If you win, you can call it "Epic Fury" but for now it's still "Epstein Tantrum."

12.03.2026 14:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And yet we are floundering around in the Gulf.

Yes, we are lethal. Whoop-de-doo.

To what effect. If we are not smart enough to focus that lethality, to use it only when necessary and only for strategic purposes, we're just a toddler with a machine gun.

12.03.2026 14:22 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I hear Christians complaining about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights far more often than Muslims.

Maybe Christians are the ones who are unable to assimilate.

11.03.2026 19:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Where is this from?

Because I was in New York in the 90s, and that is not how I remember it. At all.

11.03.2026 19:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Least surprising finding in recent memory.

(But remember that the real anti-Semites are the people who oppose genocide.)

11.03.2026 18:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"Why do so many WW2 movies feature right-wingers as the villains? It's political correctness gone mad."

11.03.2026 18:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hey Joe

The last war America got into under a Democratic president was Korea.

Since then it's been Republicans every time.

This is publicly available information.

11.03.2026 18:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry, but hard disagree.

"He's not Judge Judy and executioner" is perhaps the funniest single line of dialogue in the history of movies.

11.03.2026 17:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not a single one of the people who voted for Trump will care.

Some will claim it's an AI fake.

Some will say the bible gives him the right.

Some will attack Dems for being too work to rape children.

11.03.2026 17:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

No plan for any of it.

FT has an article today about how opponents of the ayotollahs are rethinking an uprising. Apparently people are reluctant to take to the streets when Israel and America are bombing those streets 24/7.

Who knew?

11.03.2026 17:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If only the Washington Post was still alive.

11.03.2026 17:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Pentagon bars press photographers over β€˜unflattering’ Hegseth photos Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s staff took issue with photos taken in a rare briefing last week and decided to shut out press photographers from two subsequent news conferences.

Warfighter my ass.

11.03.2026 17:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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US weighs sending forces into Iran to secure nuclear stockpile, reports say Tehran has enough material to make at least 10 nuclear warheads but extracting it would be very risky, say experts

Conveniently located in the exact same place Saddam kept his weapons of mass destruction?

11.03.2026 10:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0