Two Months Until The Four Horsemen Ride
The US and Israel just finished joint military exercises in Nevada and the O administration has it's marching orders. This fall and into winter is shaping up to be a bumpy ride with this attack on Iran, the most publicly announced war for Israel's interests to date. It's also when the CDC may force citizens to accept their poisonous vaccinations at the point of a gun, and October is when the overlords like to crash economies.
Make sure your hat's screwed on tight.
US Tells Israel: Iran Has Eight Weeks
"Robert Gates, Jim Jones, and other US officials traipsing in and out of Israel this week have told Israeli officials to stop "ranting and raving" about Iran for, oh, about eight more weeks.
Eight weeks! According to Haaretz, the liberal Israeli daily, that's how much time they're willing to give Iran to start talking. Let's hope that Iran does start talking by then, but if they don't, well, then it'll take longer. But the Obama administration seems set on tougher sanctions after that."
And, either in an effort to cash in on apocalyptic fever or in some weird synchronicity, Hollywood is coming out with a slew of end times movie fare.
Here's Denzel trudging through the wasteland of post TEOTWAWKI america, carrying some sort of coveted tome which will guarantee plenty of action scenes:
Tim Burton chimes in with his animated "9", a tale of life after armageddon with a true A list of voices for a bunch of doomsday puppets.
Another good cast coming down the highway in "The Road". Gritty doesn't even begin to describe the look of this effort:
"A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones, and, when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the warmer south, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing: just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless cannibalistic bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a rusting shopping cart of scavenged food--and each other." see trailer here
I've always been a fan of end-of-the-world movies (a good list of them can be found here) but most of them dealt with the situation that causes all the destruction and chaos. But after decades of scaring us with war and bugs and asteroids the shock of Bad Things Happening got pretty shopworn and frayed. The current spate of efforts seem to deal with the aftermath and how people try to survive, which draws us into the story, a very smart move in my estimation because that reality could be staring us in our faces right now.
But for me one film from the past stands out and it isn't even about an apocalypse, at least not yet. It achieves the impossible, really, in that it's horrifyingly funny, and when the parts of it were made the intent was deadly serious. If you've never seen Atomic Cafe you owe it to yourself to check it out if only to realize that the men who bring us to the brink of complete disaster today are deranged sociopaths.
Make sure your hat's screwed on tight.
US Tells Israel: Iran Has Eight Weeks
"Robert Gates, Jim Jones, and other US officials traipsing in and out of Israel this week have told Israeli officials to stop "ranting and raving" about Iran for, oh, about eight more weeks.
Eight weeks! According to Haaretz, the liberal Israeli daily, that's how much time they're willing to give Iran to start talking. Let's hope that Iran does start talking by then, but if they don't, well, then it'll take longer. But the Obama administration seems set on tougher sanctions after that."
And, either in an effort to cash in on apocalyptic fever or in some weird synchronicity, Hollywood is coming out with a slew of end times movie fare.
Here's Denzel trudging through the wasteland of post TEOTWAWKI america, carrying some sort of coveted tome which will guarantee plenty of action scenes:
Tim Burton chimes in with his animated "9", a tale of life after armageddon with a true A list of voices for a bunch of doomsday puppets.
Another good cast coming down the highway in "The Road". Gritty doesn't even begin to describe the look of this effort:
"A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones, and, when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the warmer south, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing: just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless cannibalistic bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a rusting shopping cart of scavenged food--and each other." see trailer here
I've always been a fan of end-of-the-world movies (a good list of them can be found here) but most of them dealt with the situation that causes all the destruction and chaos. But after decades of scaring us with war and bugs and asteroids the shock of Bad Things Happening got pretty shopworn and frayed. The current spate of efforts seem to deal with the aftermath and how people try to survive, which draws us into the story, a very smart move in my estimation because that reality could be staring us in our faces right now.
But for me one film from the past stands out and it isn't even about an apocalypse, at least not yet. It achieves the impossible, really, in that it's horrifyingly funny, and when the parts of it were made the intent was deadly serious. If you've never seen Atomic Cafe you owe it to yourself to check it out if only to realize that the men who bring us to the brink of complete disaster today are deranged sociopaths.
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