Greggle

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Date registered: October 25, 2017

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  1. 2025 Year-End Review — January 1, 2026
  2. Story of the Year 2025 — January 1, 2026
  3. Newsmaker of the Year 2025 — January 1, 2026
  4. Person of the Year 2025 — January 1, 2026
  5. Feelgood Story of the Year 2025 — January 1, 2026

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Jan 01

Newsmaker(s) of the Year 2024

Demagogues and Sheeple

If it bleeds it leads but never discount the sheeple’s appetite for pure bullshit (and/or our cats and dogs). Yes 2024 will be remembered as the year of the above-mentioned demagogues and the sheeple they fleeced.

Jan 01

Person of the Year 2024

Person of the Year:  Pililani Mombe Nyoni

This Malawian woman used social media for good as opposed to cat videos or self-aggrandizement when she used WhatsApp to identify and help save more than 50 Malawian women working in slave-like conditions after they were tricked and trafficked to Oman.

Honorable Mention: Gisèle Pelicot

Drugged by her husband and pimped out to be raped on film by over 50 men over a period of years, this French woman opted to make their trial very public, “so the shame of rape should be felt by the other side.” Unable to face what they were doing to a conscious victim, in the end, all 50 men and her husband awoke to find themselves thoroughly screwed, disgraced and imprisoned.

Jan 01

Feelgood Story of the Year 2024

“Assad story with a happy ending”

A year whose headlines were dominated by the antics of authoritarian dictators and dictator wannabees ended with the dick in Syria, Bashar al-Assad, seeing his repressive 50 year regime toppled because his authoritarian allies were too busy spreading chaos elsewhere to come russian to his aid. The only sad note here was the fact that Assad was able to escape to live happily bitterly(?) ever after in [you guessed it] Russia.

Jan 01

Sleeper Story of the Year 2024

College Protests against Apartheid in Israel

Even as Israeli citizens mindfully continue their protest against Benjamin (I’ll Do Anything as Long as it Takes to Cling to Power) Netanyahu’s government, and other countries around the world struggle to remind Netanyahu that there are too many Palestinian men, women and children who are too cowed and/or too terrified to protest against Hamas dying, we find simpleminded university students across North America mindlessly following an apocryphal dickdumb that claims Hamas are simply fighting a war that is holy about their desire to end apartheid in Israel by masterminding the unapologetic mass rape and murder of Israelis and then retreating to hide behind their women (themselves the victims of the world’s biggest real apartheid past or present) and children en route to peacefully wiping the State of Israel off of the face of the earth (or something to that effect).  Yes, Palestinian terrorists have managed to kidnap the hearts and minds of thousands of poorly educated North American university students triggering the world’s largest case of Stockholm syndrome (outside of Russia).

Runner Up: Scurvy

As the rich get richer on the coattails of profiteers in Big Grocery, Big Ag and Big Food, scurvy is making a comeback as even those of us who are not living in food deserts find ourselves unable to afford real food.

Jan 01

Innovation of the Year 2024

The Nyobolt battery for electric cars  

Yes, the electric car industry is charging ahead with faster battery recharging capabilities as evidenced in this David and Goliath meets the Hare and the Tesla story. The Nyobolt takes 4.37 minutes to charge up to 80% and although Roger Bannister could run a mile faster than that, he couldn’t run 120 miles after a 41/2-minute break.

See the rest of the field at: https://www.popsci.com/technology/best-of-whats-new-2024/

Jan 01

Movie of the Year 2024

Nothing really stood out in a year that saw lots of the same old same old plots with an abundance of prequels, sequels and remakes.

Honourable Mention:

Maharaj: The true story of one man’s fight against a corrupted religious cult of personality in India that was led by a sociopathic demagogue in make-up. This is the only movie that tickled some, but not all, of the non-reptilian emotional nerve centres in our head.

The Beekeeper: He’s not Nobody (2022’s winner) but at least this buddy was willing to go after everyone and anyone (including the President) intent on harming old bodies and the hive everybody lives in.

The Shadow Strays: Kill Bill goes to Indonesia

See what everyone else liked at: Best at the Box Office 2024

 

Best Documentary 2024: Turning Point, The Bomb and the Cold War

Unlike all of the long, drawn-out Hollywood butt busters that have become the norm today, this real-life (and death) documentary is cleverly assembled to allow you to take a break and come back later while, at the same time, promising: many explosive revelations; larger than life little guys who literally saved the world; and (so far) a happy ending.

Jan 01

Song of the Year 2024

Can’t Fix the World by Toronzo Cannon

Honourable mention:

I Never Lie by Zach Top

The Emptiness Machine by Linkin Park

The Spark by Kabin Crew & Lisdoonvarna Crew

 

 

Jan 01

Best Book (I read) this Year 2024

What This Comedian Said will Shock You by Bill Maher

Nothing is Left to the imagination as this comedian stormed Right up the middle of the great North American divide with his own whirled view of everything that is wrong with our world today. At least that’s his opinion (and ours). Anyone who does not read this book does not get to have an opinion because theirs will continue to belong to the talking heads of whichever dyslexic cabal they have chosen to blindly doom scroll and parrot.

What the other guys liked: Top 200 Goodreads of 2024

From the Archive:

The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI by Betty Medsger

This nonfiction nugget from 2014 about a divided America in the anything but halcyon days of the early1970’s is a highly informative blast from the past that provides hope, inspiration, and faith in truth to power. It is the best feel-good nonfiction thriller I have read in a long, long time. It fills in some blanks, adds context, and clears the fog surrounding events that were unfolding back in the days when I (we) were young rebels without a cause like the one this small group of unassuming, ordinary every-day LARGER THAN LIFE American HEROES both embraced and nailed (while, at the same time, driving a GIANT NAIL through the heart of J. Edgar Hoover’s dream of being remembered as the larger than life hero that these guys proved he clearly was not).

Food Fix by Mark Hyman MD

Dr. Hyman clearly describes how the vast majority of all that is wrong in the world today medically, economically, and in the realm of climate change lies in what we are eating, how it is produced, how much big food and big agriculture are willing to spend to get our elected officials to not only turn a blind eye but also shovel our tax dollars into their soulless monopolies in order to keep their (the Big Food and Big Ag) nutritionally challenged, if not toxic, ultra-processed food costs (theirs’ not yours) low.  This should be required reading in every high school on the planet as well as for every global leader and their advisors. WARNING! The story, facts, and numbers laid out vis a vis our current reality is, at best, a kick in the gut and, at worst, doom and gloom on steroids; however, the fixes proposed at the end of each chapter provide real hope for the future of you, your children, humankind, and the planet we live on.

Jan 01

Quote of the Year 2024

“Billionaires in both parties should not be able to buy elections, including primary elections.”

— Bernie Sanders

Jan 01

Statistic of the Year 2024

According to the Gun Violence Archive there were 501 mass shootings in America over the course of 2024 (which is over 100 fewer than in each of the previous 4 years).

Related Revelation: Given that the American Center of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) seems to be the official scorekeeper for the above-mentioned statistics, regardless of what the lawmakers say about the right to bare arms, they have already admitted that gun ownership is rightly classified a disease.

 

 

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