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AFI FEST 2018: CAPSULE REVIEWS
By Ed Rampell
The American Film Institute’s annual film festival is arguably Los Angeles’ best and most comprehensive annual fete of feature, documentary, short, animated, domestic and foreign cinema. Here are capsule reviews of some of AFI Fest 2019’s myriad productions.
THE IRISHMAN: Film Review
The portentous screening of The Irishman at the world’s most famous movie palace, Hollywood Blvd.’s capacious TCL Chinese Theatre, was preceded by an in person interview with one of the world’s greatest living directors, Martin Scorsese. Clips from his half century oeuvre were screened, reminding us of the cinematic realms Scorsese has unspooled, and his personal appearance was punctuated by sincere, enthusiastic applause. Interestingly, if I heard correctly, the loudest clapping was when Scorsese was lauded as a foremost film preservation advocate - but then again, what would you expect from a film festival audience packed with fervent cineastes like moi?
“Somebody ought to put a bullet in her skull. Back in the day, our forefathers would have put a bullet in her [expletive].”
These words, uttered by some lost soul, were directed at U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar earlier this year. He had called her office and talked to a staffer, calling the congresswoman a terrorist and spewing out his death threat on behalf of the fantasy Founding Fathers. He was later arrested.
An Israeli attack on Gaza was imminent, and not because of any provocations by Palestinian groups in the besieged, impoverished Gaza Strip. The Israeli military escalation was foreseeable because it factors neatly in Israel’s contentious political scene. The war was not a question of “if”, but “when”.
The answer came on November 12, when the Israeli military launched a major strike against Gaza, killing an Islamic Jihad Commander, Bahaa Abu al-Ata, along with his wife Asma.
Misneach (mish-nyuhkh) is an Irish word meaning something like bravery, courage, spirit.
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Mumia Abu-Jamal and his supporters are closer than ever to winning his release after 38 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. The Fraternal Order of Police, former district attorneys, and other political higher ups who participated in the frame up are now shaking in their boots because an innocent man may be given a new trial in which judicial, police and prosecutorial misconduct will be exposed.
Fully-vaccinated Puppies in America are Increasingly Developing Vaccine-induced Autoimmune (AND Neurodevelopmental) Disorders Just Like Their Human Counterparts
The main explanations for the unwelcome consequences of America’s blatant over-vaccination schedules for both puppies and babies (and children and adults, as well) have been fully elucidated in previous columns, some of which are also in the following text, but it will help the reader to understand that both veterinarians and pediatricians very profitably vaccinate their young patients with far too many toxin-containing vaccines, combinations of which have never been fully tested for short-term safety or long-term efficacy. The toxic ingredients that are in both animal and human vaccines include toxic aluminum adjuvants, toxic mercury preservatives, toxic formaldehyde, various toxic impurities and a host of other dangerous ingredients.
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De: World BEYOND War
14 de noviembre, 2019.
A: Presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Deseamos agradecerle a nombre de nuestros miembros de todo el mundo por sus comentarios realizados el día 5 de noviembre de 2019, dichos comentarios fueron en respuesta a la propuesta del presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, sobre una guerra contra los traficantes de drogas.
Sus palabras deben ser escuchadas por los gobiernos de todo el mundo.
Estamos de acuerdo con usted, la guerra es la peor opción posible, lo que significa que nunca se puede elegirla por encima de otros recursos de acción.
Veterans For Peace, an organization that speaks truth to war like nobody else, is attempting to reclaim Armistice Day, the Nov. 11 holiday that was flipped on its head 65 years ago when it was renamed Veterans Day — and became a celebration not of the end of war but of its perpetuity.
The name change occurred in 1954. The Korean War had recently “ended,” the Cold War and the nuclear arms race were seriously revving up and, of course, that other world war, nine years past, was still vividly a part of everyone’s consciousness. There was near-infinite cynicism about the whole idea of “the war to end all wars” . . . yeah, sure, what a joke. That’ll never happen.