Welcome to summer movie hell—another blockbuster season filled with costly digital effects that disappoint more often than they surprise. During a University of Southern California film symposium in June, two directors guilty of creating this trend, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, predicted the imminent collapse of their mega-budget film industry. In its place, they suggested a future of immersive technologies, where theaters would offer thrills you couldn’t get via Netflix. In fact, Hollywood tried this more than 50 years ago, when filmmakers like William Castle pushed the boundaries of the movie-going experience to make it more interactive. Equal parts technical innovation and … Continue reading

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As the debate over the forthcoming EU referendum gears up, it would be wise perhaps to remember how Britain was led into membership in the first place. It seems to me that most people have little idea why one of the victors of the Second World War should have become almost desperate to join this “club”. That’s a shame, because answering that question is key to understanding why the EU has gone so wrong. Most students seem to think that Britain was in dire economic straits, and that the European Economic Community – as it was then called – provided … Continue reading

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Countries rise, and countries fall. Nobody assumes that the world map of the future will look like our modern map. Succession and unification movements exist all over the world, providing various possibilities for future countries. 10 Divided Belgium When most people think of countries splitting up, they probably do not think of Belgium. However, Belgium is already divided between cultures, with French-speaking people in the southern Wallonia region and Flemish-speaking people in the northern Flanders region. In 1993, the Belgian government gave increased autonomy to the Flemish people. As their region became more autonomous, some Flemish politicians began to advocate … Continue reading

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Few people with working brains respect the obviously stupid. Which explains why almost everyone disrespects posted speed limits … by ignoring them. Any law or edict  that is almost universally ignored can be safely presumed stupid. Or – as here – cynically dismissed as a tool for separating people’s money from their persons. Most speed limits (and thus, speeding tickets) fall into this latter category. None of this is news. But because speed limits exist as an artificial barometer of reasonable maximum velocities, there is the problem of a generally distorted perception of what constitutes reasonable average velocities. The Clover who mopes along at … Continue reading

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The government now must actually suspect you of something before collecting information on you.

Islamic State and Saudi Arabia prescribe near-identical punishments for a host of crimes.

Oregon Ranching Family Persecuted By Feds On Bogus Charges
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Turkey is authorized to close the Straits to all foreign warships in wartime or when it was threatened by aggression

If you didn’t already know that Obama is a serial murderer, and that, for example, he has a “Terror Tuesday” meeting every week in the White House to choose the next round of murder victims from what are called “baseball cards,”— if you’re one of the few who has managed to remain ignorant of this for almost seven years,— then a decision handed down on November 23 from the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, will remind you of what the rest of us have long known.

That decision, as reported by Marcy Wheeler and also by Cora Currier, makes it clear that Obama’s lawyers are busy cooking up new, secret, “legal” justifications for Presidentially-ordered murders, including murders of U.S. citizens.  Do you still remember the secret legal opinions written by John Yoo and others in the Bush Administration?  Well, Obama is doing the exactly same thing, but he’s doing it wholesale.

The Court had been at the point of releasing a 2002 Bush Justice Department memo on Ronald Reagan’s Executive Order 12333, which prohibits assassinations by the U.S. government.  (It contains some other provisions as well.)  The Court’s hearing record and its opinion, made that it clear that the issue involved Presidential assassinations.  For one thing, they cite speeches by Obama’s then-State Department lawyer Harold Koh, by his then-Attorney General Eric Holder, and by Obama’s then-Assistant to the President John Brennan,— all of them justifying Obama’s right to murder at will.

Obama officials intervened to insist that this 2002 Bush Administration memo justifying Presidential murders, remain classified.  Why?  Only because lawyers acting under Obama’s orders, are using that memo right now as raw material to cook up new secret “legal” opinions, “legalizing” Obama’s murders.

Another blatant coverup by Obama for his own murders, occurred on Nov 25, when the Army leaked to the press their phony investigative report on Obama’s Oct 3 mass-murders at the Doctors without Borders (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, when 30 or 31 patients and staff were massacred for an hour by a US warplane, while the doctors frantically telephoned the US Army, which already had the coordinates of the hospital.

The phony investigative report blamed low-ranking US service-members and supposed equipment malfunctions.  But Doctors without Border does not accept it.  That report raises “more questions than answers,” said MSF General Director Christopher Stokes.  What about MSF’s hour-long record of documented telephone calls to the US military to stop the bombing?  And why are these damning reports being released the day before Thanksgiving (when the US press is guaranteed to ignore them)?

Obama is plausibly a Satanic personality, said Lyndon LaRouche.  He has all the characteristics.  Why is he still President?  Isn’t there something wrong with our Constitutional processes?  Aren’t they being violated?  Isn’t this treason against the Constitution?  But cowardice makes traitors of us all.

If you didn’t already know that Obama is a serial murderer, and that, for example, he has a “Terror Tuesday” meeting every week in the White House to choose the next round of murder victims from what are called “baseball cards,”— if you’re one of the few who has managed to remain ignorant of this for almost seven years,— then a decision handed down on November 23 from the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, will remind you of what the rest of us have long known.

That decision, as reported by Marcy Wheeler and also by Cora Currier, makes it clear that Obama’s lawyers are busy cooking up new, secret, “legal” justifications for Presidentially-ordered murders, including murders of U.S. citizens.  Do you still remember the secret legal opinions written by John Yoo and others in the Bush Administration?  Well, Obama is doing the exactly same thing, but he’s doing it wholesale.

The Court had been at the point of releasing a 2002 Bush Justice Department memo on Ronald Reagan’s Executive Order 12333, which prohibits assassinations by the U.S. government.  (It contains some other provisions as well.)  The Court’s hearing record and its opinion, made that it clear that the issue involved Presidential assassinations.  For one thing, they cite speeches by Obama’s then-State Department lawyer Harold Koh, by his then-Attorney General Eric Holder, and by Obama’s then-Assistant to the President John Brennan,— all of them justifying Obama’s right to murder at will.

Obama officials intervened to insist that this 2002 Bush Administration memo justifying Presidential murders, remain classified.  Why?  Only because lawyers acting under Obama’s orders, are using that memo right now as raw material to cook up new secret “legal” opinions, “legalizing” Obama’s murders.

Another blatant coverup by Obama for his own murders, occurred on Nov 25, when the Army leaked to the press their phony investigative report on Obama’s Oct 3 mass-murders at the Doctors without Borders (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, when 30 or 31 patients and staff were massacred for an hour by a US warplane, while the doctors frantically telephoned the US Army, which already had the coordinates of the hospital.

The phony investigative report blamed low-ranking US service-members and supposed equipment malfunctions.  But Doctors without Border does not accept it.  That report raises “more questions than answers,” said MSF General Director Christopher Stokes.  What about MSF’s hour-long record of documented telephone calls to the US military to stop the bombing?  And why are these damning reports being released the day before Thanksgiving (when the US press is guaranteed to ignore them)?

Obama is plausibly a Satanic personality, said Lyndon LaRouche.  He has all the characteristics.  Why is he still President?  Isn’t there something wrong with our Constitutional processes?  Aren’t they being violated?  Isn’t this treason against the Constitution?  But cowardice makes traitors of us all.

1/4 To Prime Minister Davutoğlu: Fortunately our pilots are not as mercurial as yours against the Russians #EUTurkey — Alexis Tsipras (@tsipras_eu) November 29, 2015 2/4 What is happening in the Aegean is outrageous and unbelievable #EUTurkey — Alexis Tsipras

Disproven anthropogenic climate change theory supposedly drives IS.

Only a “relatively small” amount of digital currencies such as Bitcoin should be used if the Central Bank decides to include them in Barbados’ foreign reserves. Read more about Barbados and Bitcoin