![]() ![]() ![]() He knew he had such a long life and he really was so fearless and open-eyed and unflinching, he wasn’t at any point afraid. Henry Williams: The tough thing is that nobody was as ready or as brave as Mike in the end - we were the ones who weren’t ready. “You don’t get people like Mike very often,” said Williams. To better understand the late senator and critic of America’s place in the world, Intelligencer spoke with Williams and Oks to discuss their relationship with their mentor and his distinctive career. (He would also make fun of the Democratic field in a primary debate in South Carolina, diagnosing Joe Biden with a “certain arrogance” for his policies in the Middle East.) In a sense, a new-media stunt to frustrate the Democratic National Committee and promote a radical vision of change was a perfect coda to his life in public. In 2008, while condemning the Iraq War, he promoted his presidential run by recording a budget vignette with Lady Gaga and a cryptic video of himself throwing a rock into a river. In 1971, defying a court injunction to stop the release of the Pentagon Papers, Gravel read its passages for three hours in a Senate hearing, effectively declassifying the report that showed the government lied to the American people as the Johnson administration escalated the war in Vietnam. (Williams’s Zoom background is the city of Chongqing, the “Chicago of central China,” because “David and I are fascinated by disgraced former party boss Bo Xilai.”) But like his young acolytes, Gravel had a taste for theatrics in addition to his unshakable sense of morality in politics. Though they did not achieve their initial goal, they expanded their vision to build the Gravel Institute, promoting some of the ideas of their testy leftist, like establishing direct democracy in America and “ending imperial wars.”įrom the beginning of the experiment, there was an unexpected bond between Gravel and his students of history. The pair, formerly known as the Gravel teens (they are both 20 now), took a break from school to try and secure enough donors to get their candidate onto the debate stage to broadcast progressive ideas. Two years ago, Williams, a Columbia University freshman, and his friend David Oks, a high-school senior, convinced Gravel, an antiwar iconoclast last seen in national politics in a brief 2008 presidential run, to lend them his Twitter handle as part of a long-shot campaign to post their way to the Democratic primary by touting progressive ideas and being mean to other candidates online: “Pete Buttigieg is what you get when Patrick Bateman decides to pursue politics instead of banking,” one tweet reads. On Williams’s T-shirt is a phrase inspired by his unlikely champion: Send Henry Kissinger to the Hague. “We’re in our feelings, browsing people’s memorials on Twitter and talking to Mike’s family,” said Henry Williams of his schedule on Sunday, the day after former Alaska senator Mike Gravel died from myeloma at the age of 91. The mere name change did the trick.Senator Mike Gravel with his 2020 staff pictured left to right: Henry Williams, Henry McGowan, and David Oks. The firm has no agreements with any cryptocurrency promoters, nor does it have prospects for any. And early on Thursday morning, the Long Island Ice Tea Corp., which sells nonalcoholic beverages, changed its name to Long Blockchain, and its stock price promptly more than doubled. “The company has disclosed almost no information about itself, and almost nothing is known about its founders. The other day, speculators forked over $700 million to a company, block.one, for a cryptocurrency that doesn’t really exist and, according to its sponsors, has no purpose. Henwood also notes that the way novelty and branding - a hallmark of Dogecoin and other Elon Musk-supported tokens - affects a coin’s value is a major red flag: “And what a speculative mania it is. ![]() And now they’re trading futures on it, which takes speculation into a fourth or fifth dimension.” Its only value is what someone else will pay for it later today or maybe tomorrow. “Stocks are ultimately claims on corporate profits, and bonds are a claim on a future stream of interest payments. ![]()
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