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""Pixie Dreams"" by robert greenway on INPRNT

[thetarotman]

Moon Serpent and Bone 10-18-2024

There may be some ghosties at this Night Market? Shall you meet them, or run screaming in the night?

It is my pleasure to announce that I shall be a part of the Moon Serpent and Bone 1st Annual Haunting, at the Sing Sing Kill Greenway, in collaboration with the Ossining Community Center in Ossining, New York. In addition, it honors me greatly that, of the more than 100 applications Moon Serpent and Bone received for this special Night Market Event, mine was one of 24 accepted. The Moon Serpent…

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Michael Gambon

1940-2023

Michael Gambon’s performance in Peter Greenaway’s 1989 film The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover came after a long and distinguished career on the British stage, and before his portrayal of Dumbledore, Hogwarts beloved Headmaster in the Harry Potter franchise cemented his place in pop-culture cinema and it is one of the most unforgettably perverse breakthrough roles I can remember.

Greenway’s story of a gangster taking over a posh French restaurant so he could commit any number of acts of violence, lewdness and gluttony and eventually all the while spewing  forth a continuous oratory on the relationship of food to sex (“Georgie’s my pleasure too though in a more private kind of way than stuffing the mouth and feeding the sewers, though the pleasures are related because the naughty bits and the dirty bits are so close together…..”) took the “sub” out of subtext and gave Gambon a great opportunity for scenery (and sometimes actor) chewing that he grabbed between his choppers with a relish that rivaled Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet. It’s not even his greatest performance (that would be the title role in Dennis Potter’s 1986 TV miniseries The Singing Detective) but it opened up a new career as an exemplary character actor in such films as Iain Softley’s The Wings of the Dove (1997), Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow (1999) a tobacco company CEO in Michael Mann’s The Insider (1999) a loathsome baronet turned murder victim in Robert Altman’s 2001 Gosford Park and a CIA liability in Robert De Niro’s underrated  The Good Shepherd (2006). 

He was one of the greats and he will be missed. RIP.

[kwebtv]

Young Joe, The Forgotten Kennedy - ABC - September 18, 1977

Drama / Biography

Running Time: 100 minutes

Stars:

Peter Strauss as Joe Kennedy Jr.

Barbara Parkins as Vanessa Hunt

Stephen Elliott as Joe Kennedy

Darleen Carr as Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy

Simon Oakland as Delaney

Asher Brauner as Mike Krasna

Lance Kerwin as Joe Jr. (age 14)

Peter Fox as Simpson

Steve Kanaly as Ray Pierce

Robert Englund as Willy

Gloria Stroock as Rose Kennedy

Tara Talboy as Elinor

Ben Fuhrman as Hank Riggs

James Sikking as Commander Devril

Ken Swofford as Greenway

Sam Chew Jr. as Jack Kennedy

Patrick Labyorteaux as Teddy Kennedy

Shane Kerwin as Bobby Kennedy

Margie Zech as Jean Kennedy

Kirsten Larkin as Rosemary Kennedy

Rosanne Covy as Eunice Kennedy

Deirdre Berthrong as Pat Kennedy

Lawrence Driscoll as Anderson

Michael Irving as Billy Harrington

Gardner Hayes as English Major

[thecrownnet]

Emmy Awards 2023: FYC

“Netflix has just updated its FYC campaign site, giving us the full list of titles they’ve submitted and will campaign for in the forthcoming 75th Primetime Emmy Awards.” (whats-on-netflix) Netflix is submitting The Crown season 5 for the following categories.

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION 

PRIMETIME EMMY AWARDS

OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES

OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES - IMELDA STAUNTON AS QUEEN ELIZABETH II

OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES - DOMINIC WEST AS PRINCE CHARLES

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES - ELIZABETH DEBICKI AS PRINCESS DIANA, and LESLEY MANVILLE AS PRINCESS MARGARET

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES - JONATHAN PRYCE AS PRINCE PHILIP, DUKE OF EDINBURGH, SALIM DAW AS MOHAMED AL FAYED, and JONNY LEE MILLER AS JOHN MAJOR

OUTSTANDING GUEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES - CLAIRE FOY AS YOUNG QUEEN ELIZABETH II, VANESSA KIRBY AS YOUNG PRINCESS MARGARET, and NATASCHA MCELHONE AS PENNY KNATCHBULL

OUTSTANDING GUEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES - ALEX JENNINGS AS DUKE OF WINDSOR, TIMOTHY DALTON AS PETER TOWNSEND, PRASANNA PUWANARAJAH AS MARTIN BASHIR, and KHALID ABDALLA  AS DODI FAYED

OUTSTANDING DIRECTING FOR A DRAMA SERIES "IPATIEV HOUSE" CHRISTIAN SCHWOCHOW, "GUNPOWDER" ERIK RICHTER STRAND, "MOU MOU" ALEX GABASSI, and "ANNUS HORRIBILIS" MAY EL-TOUKHY

OUTSTANDING WRITING FOR A DRAMA SERIES  "GUNPOWDER" PETER MORGAN

OUTSTANDING CASTING FOR A DRAMA SERIES ROBERT STERNE

OUTSTANDING CINEMATOGRAPHY FOR A SERIES (ONE HOUR) "NO WOMAN’S LAND" BEN WILSON, and "MOU MOU" ADRIANO GOLDMAN (ASC)

OUTSTANDING MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A SERIES (ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCORE) MARTIN PHIPPS

OUTSTANDING MUSIC SUPERVISION SARAH BRIDGE

OUTSTANDING PERIOD COSTUMES AMY ROBERTS, SIDONIE ROBERTS, CHRISTOF ROCHE-GORDON

OUTSTANDING PICTURE EDITING FOR A DRAMA SERIES "COUPLE 31" RICHARD GRAHAM, "MOU MOU" DANIEL GREENWAY, "IPATIEV HOUSE" SIMON BRASSE, and "GUNPOWDER" AMY HOUNSELL

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION DESIGN FOR A NARRATIVE PERIOD OR FANTASY PROGRAM (ONE HOUR OR MORE) MARTIN CHILDS, MARK RAGGETT, ALISON HARVEY

OUTSTANDING SOUND EDITING FOR A COMEDY OR DRAMA SERIES (ONE HOUR) "GUNPOWDER" LEE WALPOLE (MPSE), IAIN EYRE, ANDY KENNEDY, SAOIRSE CHRISTOPHERSON, MATTHEW MEWETT, TOM STEWART, ANNA WRIGHT

OUTSTANDING SOUND MIXING FOR A COMEDY OR DRAMA SERIES (ONE HOUR) "MOU MOU" LEE WALPOLE (MPSE), MARTIN JENSEN, STUART HILLIKER (CAS), JAMES HARRIS

OUTSTANDING SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS IN A SINGLE EPISODE BEN TURNER, REECE EWING

OUTSTANDING STUNT COORDINATION FOR A DRAMA SERIES, LIMITED OR ANTHOLOGY SERIES OR MOVIE ANDY BENNETT

*The Crown has received 63 Emmy Nominations and won 21 times for the past four seasons. Claire Foy won twice for Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series - 2018, and Outstanding Guest Actress In A Drama Series - 2021. The show won Outstanding Drama Series - 2021.

** June 15 - 26 Nominations-round voting

*** July 12 Nominations announced.

[thecorsetcollection]

dvd collection j-z

Jabberwocky dir. Terry Gilliam Jackass the Movie dir. Jeff Tremaine Jackass Number Two dir. Jeff Tremaine Jack Ketchum’s The Girl Next Door dir. Gregory M. Wilson Jenifer dir. Dario Argento Jennifer’s Body dir. Karyn Kusama Joe Dirt dir. Dennie Gordon Joshua dir. Travis Betz Ju-On dir. Takashi Shimizu Ju-On 2 dir. Takashi Shimizu Kids dir. Larry Clark The Killer dir. John Woo Labyrinth dir. Jim Henson Lady Vengeance dir. Park Chan-Wook La La Land dir. Damien Chazelle Lake Mungo dir. Joel Anderson The Last House on the Left dir. Wes Craven Let the Right One In dir. Tomas Alfredson Lost Highway dir. David Lynch Lovely Molly dir. Eduardo Sanchez Machine Girl dir. Noboru Iguchi Magnolia dir. Paul Thomas Anderson Man With a Movie Camera dir. Dziga Vertov Martyrs dir. Pascal Laugier Melancholia dir. Lars Von Trier Metropolis dir. Rintaro Mirrormask dir. Dave McKean Mister Lonely dir. Harmony Korine Muppets From Space dir. Tim Hill The Muppets Take Manhattan dir. Frank Oz Moonrise Kingdom dir. Wes Anderson Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind dir. Hayao Miyazaki The Neon Demon dir. Nicolas Winding Refn Oddsac dir. Danny Perez Oedipus Rex dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini One Hour Photo dir. Mark Romanek Otis dir. Tony Krantz Pan's Labyrinth dir. Guillermo del Toro Paprika dir. Satoshi Kon Pi dir. Darren Aranofsky The Place Beyond the Pines dir. Derek Cianfrance Pulse dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa Ran dir. Akira Kurosawa Rec dir. Jaume Balaguero & Paco Plaza Rec 2 dir. Jaume Balaguero & Paco Plaza Rec 3 dir. Paco Plaza Rushmore dir. Wes Anderson Saw dir. James Wan Shin Godzilla dir. Hideaki Anno Silk dir. Chao-Pin Su Slashers dir. Maurice Devereaux Sophie’s Choice dir. Alan J. Pakula Spirited Away dir. Hayao Miyazaki Spun dir. Jonas Akerlund The Straight Movie dir. David Lynch Suicide Club dir. Sion Sono Sunset Boulevard dir. Billy Wilder Suspiria dir. Dario Argento Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance dir. Park Chan-Wook Synecdoche, New York dir. Charlie Kaufman A Tale of Two Sisters dir. Kim Jee-Woon The Texas Chain Saw Massacre dir. Tobe Hooper Threads dir. Mick Jackson Time Bandits dir. Terry Gilliam Timecrimes dir. Nacho Vigalondo Tokyo Gore Police dir. Yoshihiro Nishimura Tourist Trap dir. David Schmoeller The Tree of Life dir. Terrence Malick Umbilical World dir. David Firth Unborn but Forgotten dir. Im Chang-Jae Un Chien Andalou dir. Luis Bunuel & Salvador Dali The Untold Story dir. Herman Yau Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend dir. Hideki Takayama Versus dir. Ryuhei Kitamura Videodrome dir. David Cronenberg The VVitch dir. Robert Eggers Wassup Rockers dir. Larry Clark Where the Dead Go to Die dir. Jimmy Screamerclauz Whiplash dir. Damien Chazelle The White Ribbon dir. Michael Haneke The Wind Rises dir. Hayao Miyazaki Wolf Children dir. Mamoru Hosoda The Work of Director Chris Cunningham The Wrestler dir. Darren Aranofsky Y Tu Mama Tambien dir. Alfonso Cuaron A Zed and Two Noughts dir. Peter Greenway

[wankerwatch]

Lords Vote

On: Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations 2024

Baroness Stedman-Scott moved that this House regrets (1) that the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations 2024 (SI 2024/869), laid before the House on 22 August, will leave pensioners worse off in winter; (2) the decision to prioritise above-inflation pay rises for unionised public sector professionals over the needs of the elderly, including many households that are eligible for Pension Credit but do not claim it; and (3) the lack of transparency on these policy decisions during the election period. The House divided:

Ayes: 164 (87.8% Con, 4.9% XB, 3.0% DUP, 2.4% , 1.2% UUP, 0.6% Green) Noes: 132 (92.4% Lab, 6.1% XB, 0.8% , 0.8% Bshp) Absent: ~535

Individual Votes:

Ayes

Conservative (144 votes)

Altrincham, L. Ashcombe, L. Attlee, E. Bailey of Paddington, L. Balfe, L. Banner, L. Barran, B. Bellamy, L. Bellingham, L. Berridge, B. Blackwood of North Oxford, B. Blencathra, L. Booth, L. Borwick, L. Brady of Altrincham, L. Brady, B. Browning, B. Brownlow of Shurlock Row, L. Caine, L. Callanan, L. Cameron of Lochiel, L. Camoys, L. Carrington of Fulham, L. Cathcart, E. Choudrey, L. Colgrain, L. Courtown, E. Davidson of Lundin Links, B. Davies of Gower, L. De Mauley, L. Douglas-Miller, L. Eccles, V. Effingham, E. Evans of Rainow, L. Fairfax of Cameron, L. Fookes, B. Foster of Oxton, B. Frost, L. Fuller, L. Garnier, L. Gascoigne, L. Godson, L. Goldie, B. Goldsmith of Richmond Park, L. Goodman of Wycombe, L. Goschen, V. Grayling, L. Harding of Winscombe, B. Harlech, L. Haselhurst, L. Hayward, L. Henley, L. Hodgson of Abinger, B. Holmes of Richmond, L. Hooper, B. Horam, L. Howell of Guildford, L. Hunt of Wirral, L. Jackson of Peterborough, L. James of Blackheath, L. Jenkin of Kennington, B. Johnson of Marylebone, L. Jopling, L. Kempsell, L. Kirkhope of Harrogate, L. Lamont of Lerwick, L. Lansley, L. Lawlor, B. Lea of Lymm, B. Leicester, E. Liverpool, E. Lucas, L. Magan of Castletown, L. Mancroft, L. Manzoor, B. Markham, L. Marland, L. Maude of Horsham, L. McInnes of Kilwinning, L. McIntosh of Pickering, B. McLoughlin, L. Mendoza, L. Minto, E. Mobarik, B. Monckton of Dallington Forest, B. Morgan of Cotes, B. Morris of Bolton, B. Mott, L. Moylan, L. Moynihan, L. Murray of Blidworth, L. Naseby, L. Neville-Jones, B. Neville-Rolfe, B. Newlove, B. Norton of Louth, L. O'Neill of Bexley, B. Offord of Garvel, L. Parkinson of Whitley Bay, L. Patten, L. Penn, B. Pidding, B. Polak, L. Popat, L. Porter of Fulwood, B. Reay, L. Redfern, B. Remnant, L. Risby, L. Robathan, L. Roberts of Belgravia, L. Roborough, L. Rock, B. Sanderson of Welton, B. Sandhurst, L. Sassoon, L. Sater, B. Scott of Bybrook, B. Seccombe, B. Shackleton of Belgravia, B. Sharpe of Epsom, L. Shephard of Northwold, B. Sherbourne of Didsbury, L. Shinkwin, L. Smith of Hindhead, L. Stedman-Scott, B. Stewart of Dirleton, L. Stowell of Beeston, B. Strathcarron, L. Strathclyde, L. Sugg, B. Swire, L. Taylor of Holbeach, L. Trenchard, V. True, L. Tugendhat, L. Vere of Norbiton, B. Verma, B. Waldegrave of North Hill, L. Wei, L. Williams of Trafford, B. Wolfson of Tredegar, L. Wrottesley, L. Young of Cookham, L.

Crossbench (8 votes)

Alton of Liverpool, L. Craig of Radley, L. Freeman of Steventon, B. Greenway, L. O'Loan, B. Pannick, L. Powell of Bayswater, L. Vaux of Harrowden, L.

Democratic Unionist Party (5 votes)

Browne of Belmont, L. Dodds of Duncairn, L. Hay of Ballyore, L. McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown, L. Morrow, L.

Non-affiliated (4 votes)

Prior of Brampton, L. Taylor of Warwick, L. Tyrie, L. Verdirame, L.

Ulster Unionist Party (2 votes)

Elliott of Ballinamallard, L. Empey, L.

Green Party (1 vote)

Jones of Moulsecoomb, B.

Noes

Labour (122 votes)

Adams of Craigielea, B. Alli, L. Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent, B. Anderson of Swansea, L. Armstrong of Hill Top, B. Ashton of Upholland, B. Bach, L. Bassam of Brighton, L. Beamish, L. Beckett, B. Berkeley, L. Blake of Leeds, B. Boateng, L. Bradley, L. Bragg, L. Browne of Ladyton, L. Campbell-Savours, L. Carter of Coles, L. Chakrabarti, B. Chapman of Darlington, B. Clark of Windermere, L. Collins of Highbury, L. Crawley, B. Cryer, L. Davies of Brixton, L. Donaghy, B. Donoughue, L. Drake, B. Eatwell, L. Evans of Watford, L. Faulkner of Worcester, L. Foulkes of Cumnock, L. Gale, B. Golding, B. Goudie, B. Grantchester, L. Grocott, L. Hacking, L. Hain, L. Hannett of Everton, L. Hanson of Flint, L. Hanworth, V. Harman, B. Harris of Haringey, L. Hayman of Ullock, B. Hayter of Kentish Town, B. Hazarika, B. Healy of Primrose Hill, B. Hendy of Richmond Hill, L. Hodge of Barking, B. Howarth of Newport, L. Hughes of Stretford, B. Hunt of Kings Heath, L. Hutton of Furness, L. Jay of Paddington, B. Jones of Whitchurch, B. Jordan, L. Keeley, B. Kennedy of Cradley, B. Kennedy of Southwark, L. Khan of Burnley, L. Kingsmill, B. Knight of Weymouth, L. Lawrence of Clarendon, B. Layard, L. Lennie, L. Leong, L. Liddell of Coatdyke, B. Liddle, L. Lipsey, L. Livermore, L. Mann, L. Maxton, L. McConnell of Glenscorrodale, L. McIntosh of Hudnall, B. McNicol of West Kilbride, L. Mendelsohn, L. Merron, B. Morgan of Drefelin, B. Morgan of Huyton, B. Morris of Yardley, B. Murphy of Torfaen, L. Nye, B. O'Grady of Upper Holloway, B. Pitkeathley, B. Ponsonby of Shulbrede, L. Prentis of Leeds, L. Ramsay of Cartvale, B. Ramsey of Wall Heath, B. Rebuck, B. Reid of Cardowan, L. Ritchie of Downpatrick, B. Robertson of Port Ellen, L. Rooker, L. Rowlands, L. Royall of Blaisdon, B. Sahota, L. Sherlock, B. Smith of Basildon, B. Smith of Malvern, B. Snape, L. Spellar, L. Stansgate, V. Symons of Vernham Dean, B. Taylor of Bolton, B. Taylor of Stevenage, B. Thornton, B. Timpson, L. Touhig, L. Tunnicliffe, L. Turnberg, L. Twycross, B. Vallance of Balham, L. Warwick of Undercliffe, B. Watson of Invergowrie, L. Watson of Wyre Forest, L. Wheeler, B. Whitaker, B. Wilcox of Newport, B. Winston, L. Winterton of Doncaster, B. Young of Old Scone, B.

Crossbench (8 votes)

Boycott, B. Butler-Sloss, B. Casey of Blackstock, B. Ford, B. Hogan-Howe, L. O'Donnell, L. Walney, L. Watkins of Tavistock, B.

Non-affiliated (1 vote)

Austin of Dudley, L.

Bishops (1 vote)

Sheffield, Bp.

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Netanyahu apologizes for Oct. 7 Hamas attacks, warns Israel now faces 'full-fledged Iranian axis'

New Post has been published on https://sa7ab.info/2024/08/09/netanyahu-apologizes-for-oct-7-hamas-attacks-warns-israel-now-faces-full-fledged-iranian-axis/

Netanyahu apologizes for Oct. 7 Hamas attacks, warns Israel now faces 'full-fledged Iranian axis'

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a new interview with Time Magazine, apologized for the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas terrorists happening on his watch, and warned that the country now faces a “full-fledged Iranian axis.”Netanyahu had been prime minister for almost a year when Hamas terrorists launched the attack on southern Israel that left 1,200 people dead and hundreds more taken as hostages in Gaza. In an interview conducted on Aug. 4 at the prime minister’s office in Jerusalem, Time asked Netanyahu whether he would apologize for the Oct. 7 attack, noting his 17-year cumulative political career has been built on the argument that he is the best leader to ensure Israel’s safety.  “Apologize?” Netanyahu asked. “Of course, of course. I am sorry, deeply, that something like this happened. And you always look back and you say, ‘Could we have done things that would have prevented it?’”ISRAEL ISSUES MESSAGE TO LEBANESE CITIZENS AMID REPORTS OF POTENTIAL PREEMPTIVE STRIKE ON HEZBOLLAHTen months after what amounted to the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust, the Biden administration has increasingly grown frustrated with Netanyahu for failing to deliver a plan to end the war and get the more than 100 hostages still held by Hamas home. Israel now faces more fronts – in the north with Hezbollah in Lebanon, in the Gulf with the Houthis in Yemen – and now is bracing for an aerial assault from its main enemy, Iran. “We’re facing not merely Hamas,” Netanyahu told TIME. “We’re facing a full-fledged Iranian axis, and we understand that we have to organize ourselves for broader defense.”According to a July poll by Israel’s most watched television station, 72% of Israelis believe Netanyahu should resign now or after the conflict ends. Critics, including former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, have accused Netanyahu of prolonging the war to further his own political ambition. “Netanyahu is focused on his longevity in power more than the interests of the Israeli people or the State of Israel,” Barak told Time. “It will take half a generation to repair the damage that Netanyahu has caused in the last year.” Netanyahu argued that Israel must demolish every element of Iran’s “axis of resistance” in the region to ensure that Israel is never subjected to future massacres and that Hamas can no longer lay claim to Palestinian territories.”Being destroyed has bigger implications about Israel’s security,” Netanyahu told Time, describing the war as existential. “I’d rather have bad press than a good obituary.”Netanyahu delivered a speech to Congress in Washington, D.C., on July 25 to rally support from Israel’s closest ally, but nearly 130 Democrats and Vice President Harris declined to attend. “I don’t think that the much-reported erosion of support among some quarters of the American public is related to Israel,” Netanyahu told Time. “It’s more related to America,” he added, referencing a Harvard-Harris survey in January showing that 80% of respondents supported Israel, while 20% supported Hamas. EXPECT IRAN’S RESPONSE TO EXTEND BEYOND THE MIDDLE EAST: ROBERT GREENWAY”There’s a problem that America has,” Netanyahu said, noting a significant amount of support for a terrorist organization. “It’s not a problem that Israel has.”The Biden administration and former President Trump have both expressed a desire for the war to end. Netanyahu has noted in the past that Israel did not start the war, but must be able to end it for its future security.When U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken flew to Tel Aviv earlier this year, he reportedly told Netanyahu to bring the war to a close, because Israeli forces had already ensured that another Oct. 7 couldn’t happen again. Netanyahu reportedly replied that wasn’t his objective. Instead, he said, the goal was to “completely destroy Hamas’ military and governing capabilities.””We’ve gone out of our way to enable humanitarian assistance since the beginning of the war,” Netanyahu told Time, responding to allegations brought by Columbia professor Rashid Khalidi that the Israeli operations amounted to “collective punishment” of civilians for Hamas’ actions. Time noted how Netanyahu embraced a policy over the past 10 years allowing Qatari funds to flow into Gaza after Hamas rose to power first through elections and later by force. It was meant as an incentive for Hamas to govern peacefully but instead financed miles of terror tunnels under civilian infrastructure. Also in January 2023, Netanyahu led government reforms that curbed judiciary powers, prompting large-scale protests. “You are weakening us, and our enemy is going to see it, and we’re going to pay the price,” former Minister of Defense Benny Gantz cautioned Netanyahu at the time. The prime minister placed blame on the protesters, many of whom said they would not serve in the Israeli military if the country’s democratic institutions were weakened. Netanyahu said his biggest mistake, however, was not going to war with Hamas in the past, listening to his security cabinet, which opposed such a move. For years, Israel’s strategy was to respond to Hamas’ attacks periodically by striking back and damaging them to the point of the terror group agreeing to a cease-fire that ultimately kept them in control of Gaza, with the ability to bolster their terror infrastructure that includes a complex network of underground tunnels.Time reported that when Israel did go to war against Hamas for less than two months in 2014, Israeli officials said the security cabinet brought Netanyahu a plan to end the terror organization. The plan was predicted to lead to the deaths of approximately 10,000 Gazan civilians and 500 Israeli soldiers.”There was no domestic support for such an action,” Netanyahu told Time regarding that plan. “There was certainly no international support for such an action – and you need both.”

[ulkaralakbarova]

Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Captain Patrick Hendry: Kenneth Tobey Nikki: Margaret Sheridan Dr. Arthur Carrington: Robert Cornthwaite Ned ‘Scotty’ Scott: Douglas Spencer Lt. Eddie Dykes: James Young Crew Chief Bob: Dewey Martin Lt. Ken ‘Mac’ Erickson: Robert Nichols Corporal Barnes: William Self Tex Richards: Nicholas Byron Dr. Stern: Eduard Franz Dr. Redding: George Fenneman Prof. Voorhees: Paul Frees Prof. Wilson: Everett Glass Dr. Lorenz: Norbert Schiller Prof. Ambrose: Edmund Breon Dr. Chapman: John Dierkes Mrs. Chapman: Sally Creighton ‘The Thing’: James Arness Gen. Fogarty: David McMahon Bill Stone (uncredited): Bill Neff Film Crew: Stunts: Sol Gorss Production Manager: Walter Daniels Music Director: Dimitri Tiomkin Screenplay: Charles Lederer Director of Photography: Russell Harlan Producer: Howard Hawks Art Direction: Albert S. D’Agostino Set Decoration: Darrell Silvera Sound: Clem Portman Director: Christian Nyby Stunts: Dick Crockett Hairstylist: Larry Germain Costume Designer: Michael Woulfe Editor: Roland Gross Stunts: Leslie Charles Makeup Supervisor: Lee Greenway Set Decoration: William Stevens Stunts: Tom Steele Associate Producer: Edward Lasker Stunts: Duke Taylor Stunts: Bob Morgan Art Direction: John Hughes Stunts: Ken Terrell Special Effects: Linwood G. Dunn Novel: John W. Campbell Jr. Stunts: Teddy Mangean Assistant Director: Arthur Siteman Sound: Phil Brigandi Special Effects: Donald Steward Camera Operator: Landon Arnett Stunts: Russell Saunders Special Effects Technician: Thol Simonson Stunts: Bill Lewin Movie Reviews: John Chard: There are no enemies in science, only phenomena to be studied. The Thing from Another World is set at The North Pole and finds a bunch of U.S. airmen, scientists and a journalist getting more than they bargained for when they investigate a space craft frozen in the ice. What is most striking about the film is the basic human story of team work, the pulling together of mankind during a crisis, this theme is a big shift from the short story by John W Campbell Jr. (Who Goes There?). Where that story and later John Carpenter’s wonderful remake focused on paranoia and mistrust, this film is something of the “polar” opposite (literally) as regards the group in peril. It bears all the hallmarks of producer Howard Hawks, who clearly influenced Nyby’s direction. The script, with its pros and cons of a military and scientific society, is very much of its time, blending po-faced observations with straight backed joviality. But this all works in the film’s favour and helps define it as one of the most important science fiction pictures ever made. Along with the other major sci-fi movie of 1951, “The Day the Earth Stood Still”, “TTFAW” firmly brought the visitor from outer space idea into the public conscious. But where the former film intellectualised the alien visitor, resplendent with a message of worth, the latter is about terror, pushing forward the notion that the visitor here is a monster that wants to drink our blood and attempt World domination. No major effects work is needed here because one of the pic’s highlights is only glimpsing the creature (James Arness) in little snippets, and this after we are made to wait for some time before things really kick off. This begs us to think for ourselves as regards this stalking menace, putting us firmly with this intrepid group of people, and we want to see them survive and we do care if they can or do succeed. The low end budget doesn’t hamper the atmosphere or flow, in fact Nyby, Hawks, cinematographer Russell Harlan and music maestro Dimitri Tiomkin, work wonders to ensure there’s a level of authenticity to the Arctic base and that peril is never far away. Not hindered by many of the clichés that would dominate similar themed genre pieces that followed it, film neatly taps into fears that were to become prevalent as the 1950s wore on. It may not be perf...

[wmproprt]

Iran primed to test nukes by end of 2024, ex-National Security Council official warns

Iran has the capability to produce as many as seven nukes and that their success only hinges on fusing their technology with intercontinental ballistic missiles.

@ccreitzpolitics

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WEDNESDAY’S WEEKLY POETRY PROMPTS - 7/19/23

Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem on his blog, Poetic Asides and I randomly select a paint color from the Sherwin-Williams palette... 

For this week:

From Poetic Asides:

Write a trip poem. 

Many people take trips to far off lands and amusements this time of year in my corner of the universe. 

I frequently take trips to the local grocery store and greenway. 

Some people trip on cracks in the sidewalk or roots on dirt trails (or their own feet).

And still other people may interpret the word trip in their own trippy ways. 

But however you trip, do so poetically this week.

And the Sherwin-Williams “color of the week is:

BUTTERFIELD

Remember: These prompts are springboards to creativity. Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them.

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The Mob | Robert Parrish | 1951

Ernest Borgnine, Neville Brand, Tom Greenway, Broderick Crawford