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Showing posts with label Television and Movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Television and Movies. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Get Woke, Go Broke: Disney To Lay Off Employees After Billions In Operating Losses by Tyler Durden SOURCE: Zero Hedge

 

Monday, May 30, 2022

Operation Hollywood by Jeff Fleischer SOURCE: Mother Jones [September 20, 2004]

"But I think there’s a very good argument that can be made that over the past 50 years, this chronic sanitization of the military and what war is has affected the American character; that we’re now a more warlike people than we were 50 years ago. Clearly, there are also other reasons, but I think when the world’s most powerful medium colludes with the world’s most powerful military to put propaganda in mainstream films and television shows, that has to have an effect on the American psyche."

Monday, September 20, 2021

Shang-Chi: Why the MCU's first Asian superhero is empowering change by By Alex Taylor FROM The BBC


 

Wednesday, April 28, 2021

New Rule: The Debbies | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) [about the depressing Oscars/virtue signalling]

Wednesday, September 9, 2020

'Mulan' thanks CCP authorities linked to Xinjiang human rights violation BY Keoni Everington FROM Taiwan News

Monday, October 21, 2019

Joker Earns Its Accolades, but Offers Much More by Samuel R. Staley FROM The Beacon

Monday, March 5, 2012

How to win an Oscar By Lucy Rodgers FROM The BBC

"It is extremely difficult to see what difference is made and which performance is better than another. But when an actor plays a real person, you can judge a little better."

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

'China Heavyweight' documentary packs a heavy punch by Christopher Kamrani FROM The Park Record

"In 1959, the sport was banned in China after a boxer was killed in the ring. It was also considered, 'too capitalist, too Western, too violent.' "  

Sunday, July 17, 2011

China's film industry FROM The Economist

"Such films are profitable partly because their stars do not expect to be paid much, if anything."

Monday, November 15, 2010

Find and share movie clips with Movieclips.com

Search by movie, actor, genre, director, composer and lots of other categories.
http://movieclips.com/

Monday, January 18, 2010

Plot Summary for Forrest Gump FROM The Internet Movie Database

"Forrest becomes representative of the baby boomer generation having walked through life blindly."

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Watching TV: Even Worse for Kids Than You Think By Alice Park FROM Time

"Researchers in the U.S. and Spain collaborated on the study of 111 children ages 3 to 8 and found that of all the forms of inactivity they examined, television-viewing was the worst."

Friday, May 30, 2008

The Real Crime of Pearl Harbor by Lawrence W. Reed FROM Ludwig von Mises Institute

For at least a year before the attack, FDR pursued a policy of goading the Japanese to do it. He saw no other way to overwhelm American isolationist sentiment and get the country to enter the war against the Axis powers.

For key command posts, he carefully picked and placed naval officers who would not obstruct his provocation plans. Vice-Admiral James O. Richardson, commander-in-chief of the United States Fleet, strenuously objected to White House orders to bottle up the main elements of our Pacific navy in one place, Pearl Harbor. He was sacked. To fill Richardson’s place, FDR vaulted Admiral Husband Kimmel over 32 others. Kimmel was a decent man and no stooge, but the White House systematically denied him information that the Japanese were targeting Hawaii.

Indeed, on his own initiative in late November 1941, Kimmel dispatched a portion of the fleet to the sea north of Hawaii where he suspected a gathering of Japanese carriers. It turned out to be the staging area of the ultimate assault on Pearl Harbor, but Kimmel was stopped short of confirming that by strange orders from the White House to get his ships back to Oahu.

There’s a scene in the movie where Kimmel receives a cable from Washington, well after the attack had started, that hostilities with Japan were imminent. He tosses the untimely scrap of paper to the ground. No mention is made of what Stinnett proves: "By the closing months of 1941, America was intercepting and breaking—within a matter of hours—most every code that Japan could produce."

No less than seven Japanese naval broadcasts intercepted between November 28 and December 6 confirmed that Japan was planning to wipe out the bulk of America’s Pacific fleet ensconced at Pearl Harbor, but Kimmel was kept completely and deliberately in the dark. He was later the designated fall guy for the whole debacle, when the treacherous FDR relieved him of his command and demoted him unceremoniously to rear admiral.


Saturday, August 4, 2007

Flying Solo: The Aviator and Libertarian Philosophy By Paul Cantor

From the review:
"The Aviator offers something rare in a Hollywood movie — a positive portrait of a businessman, precisely in his role as a businessman."

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