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Rambo [2008)
Unrequited.
For three years I was engaged.
I thought maybe the message didn’t get through.
Then I found a verbal device.
A fingerprint.
To check if my message had been received.
And read.
To my satisfaction, the level of certainty is high.
That I love someone.
And they no longer love me.
Color revolution.
Saffron.
Soros.
The truth about Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK).
https://stevepieczenik.com/2021/05/03/opus-2021-3-myanmar-orwellian/
2008 about mask Karens.
No Rohingya.
Weinstein.
Propaganda can still be artful.
Godard knew this as a youth under the tutelage of Langlois at the Cinèmathèque Française.
She wants to believe I stole her time.
I would gladly apologize.
For not being ready.
I was never ready.
Won’t be.
But she stole my innocence.
And retains it.
More tangible.
With no offer to return it.
They weren’t outnumbered.
They just didn’t want to risk giving away their presence.
Because they were not of a single mind.
To act or not act.
They would perform reconnaissance in a mostly perfunctory fashion.
Nothing much risked.
Just go have a look.
“Well, we’re outnumbered. Time to head home.”
A gesture of “trying” for having taken missionary money.
MOAB. (21,000 lb)
Tallboy. (12,000 lb)
MOAB H-6.
Tallboy Torpex D1.
Stuffing.
MOAB (18,700 lb).
Tallboy (5,200 lb).
Yield.
Tallboy Torpex equivalent to 3,600 lb TNT.
MOAB equivalent to 11,000 lb TNT.
Largest uranium deposit in the U.S. 1952.
Moab, Utah.
Like Grants, New Mexico.
Jeffrey City, Wyoming.
Uravan, Colorado.
Edgemont, South Dakota.
Atomic City, Idaho.
[Idaho National Laboratory]
17 labs.
16 federally funded.
Q clearance.
Lawrence Berkeley.
Plutonium.
Oak Ridge.
Y-12.
Pantex.
Argonne.
Ames.
Ames strain was a mislabeled specimen.
Actually from Texas.
Vollum Iraq.
Live-spore vaccines dangerous to humans.
Protective-antigen vaccine option.
No human vaccine against Ames.
Protective-antigen anthrax vaccines ineffective.
PCR.
Polymerase chain reaction.
PRC.
People’s Republic of China.
RT-PCR.
Reverse transcription.
J.S. Bach.
Schoenberg.
Kary Mullis credited with polymerase chain reaction (1983).
Kary Mullis died August 7, 2019.
PCR invention did not make up for his girlfriend breaking up with him.
PCR bought by Roche Molecular Systems ($300 million).
Roche Diagnostics.
Rotkreuz, Switzerland.
Red cross.
Klaus Schwab.
World Economic Forum.
Geneva, Switzerland.
1971.
Kissinger student.
Dr. Francis Boyle.
Mullis friend killed by strep.
Hoffman-La Roche v. Promega Corporation.
PCR patent unenforceable.
Mullis labeled “AIDS denialist” because he was unable to find a peer-reviewed reference that HIV was the cause of AIDS.
Keep in mind that Mullis was a Nobel Prize-winning chemist (1993).
He published his alternative theory of AIDS the following year.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01435010
Get this.
The 1993 winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was then called a “pseudoscientist” because he had a different view on HIV/AIDS.
Strange, eh?
What would Mulllis have made of COVID-19 had he not died a mere six months before the pandemic broke out?
Mullis’ basic view: there are different varieties of AIDS.
Mullis was 74 when he died of pneumonia.
Sixth months later, many people were dying of pneumonia.
And they were being categorized as having COVID-19 based on the technology he invented: PCR.
Brookhaven.
Cold Spring Harbor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_Record_Office
Princeton Plasma Physics.
Stanford Linear Accelerator.
Iron ink palimpsest.
Rubbed off.
Still readable.
By way of radiation.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
Hanford.
Plutonium.
Manhattan.
Fermilab.
Argonne.
Large Hadron Collider.
Geneva.
From their own website.
https://www.weforum.org/great-reset/
When was the first time a Chinese head of state attended a WEF meeting in Davos?
2017.
Why was WEF observer status for ECOSOC revoked in 2012?
WEF’s President is on the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg meetings.
So is Stacey Abrams.
So is Eric Schmidt.
https://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/background/steering-committee/steering-committee
Also on the Bilderberg Steering Committee is Mark Carney of Canada.
He sits on the WEF Board of Trustees (which is chaired by Klaus Schwab).
Al Gore on WEF Board.
Queen Rania of Jordan on WEF Board [Podesta].
Rafael Reif on WEF Board.
Ask Pieczenik about this guy.
[MIT].
David Rubenstein on WEF Board.
Co-founder/co-executive chairman of Carlyle Group.
https://staplestreetcapital.com/Team
Dominion Voting Systems.
WEF Board member Zhu Min.
And Jack Ma.
And Yo-Yo Ma.
Harvard.
Zhu Min Johns Hopkins.
Princeton.
Davos 2020.
Greta Thunberg.
Ren Zhengfei (Huawei).
George Soros.
And, yes, Donald Trump.
Interesting.
“Summer Davos” was started by WEF in China in 2007.
Yearly.
The big conference is happening in Singapore this August?
Not Davos?
https://www.axios.com/world-economic-forum-singapore-davos-f3fb535f-4edb-4273-ae30-6a4155c360ce.html
CEPI launched the day before Trump was inaugurated in 2017.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_for_Epidemic_Preparedness_Innovations
Gates. Vaccines.
January 19, 2017.
Still believe in coincidences?
Same players as Event 201.
That last-second dress rehearsal.
https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/
https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/scenario.html
https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/players/haines.html
It’s necessary to understand exactly how Avril Haines was promoted to her CIA position (by John Brennan) and what position she was rewarded (?) with soon after Biden took office (Director ODNI [head of entire American intelligence apparatus]).
CEPI and Moderna were working on a vaccine when there were only 600 cases and 26 deaths worldwide from COVID-19.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/01/wuhan-coronavirus-china-cepi-vaccine-davos/
CEPI (funded by those lovebirds, Bill and Melinda Gates) and Moderna were already in partnership as of January 24, 2020.
“The Great Reset” was to be the theme of the January 2021 Davos WEF meeting.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200818104743/https://www.weforum.org/great-reset/about
That same theme will hold for August 2021 in Singapore.
Samuel P. Huntington.
Harvard.
Kissinger.
Klaus Schwab.
Francis Boyle*.
“Davos Man”.
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator.
Cancelled yet?
Jefferson Lab.
Los Alamos.
J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Alamogordo.
Trinity.
July 16.
Vaccine distribution infrastructure.
Wen Ho Lee.
Judge apologized for incarcerating.
Sandia.
New Mexico.
California.
Livermore.
Teller.
H-bomb.
United States bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
May 7.
1999.
The only bombing in the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia which was directed by the CIA.
George Tenet remained through 9/11/01.
Looks like it was no accident.
The CIA “mishap”.
To start a war?
Clinton apologized.
Interesting.
Tenet continued with Bush.
B-2.
B83.
W87.
National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Golden, Colorado.
Savannah River.
South Carolina.
National Energy Technology Laboratory.
Oregon.
West Virginia.
Pennsylvania.
Ames check.
Argonne check.
Brookhaven check.
Fermilab check.
Idaho check.
Berkeley check.
Livermore check.
Los Alamos check.
NREL check.
Oak Ridge check.
PNNL check.
PPPL check.
Sandia check.
SRNL check.
SLAC check.
TJNAF check.
NETL not federally funded?!?
Bettis Atomic Power Lab.
Pittsburgh.
Knolls Atomic Power Lab.
New York.
New Brunswick Lab.
Argonne.
ORISE.
Tennessee.
RESL.
Idaho.
SRS.
SC.
Uranium City, Saskatchewan.
Elliot Lake, Ontario.
Julie Benz.
Was not impressed.
-PD
Flashback [1990)
I don’t know what happened.
Maybe I got dumped.
Things are fucked up.
Dennis Hopper does a nice job here.
Pretty good story.
Kiefer Sutherland is also pretty good.
But I’d say the best part is Carol Kane.
On the Oregon commune.
Who are we kidding?
Why did Kiefer ditch the hippies to join the FBI?
Some watery plot element about Hopper being a fake.
Ok, I guess I get it.
The limo actually wraps that up nicely.
Several false endings.
Death and Dylan.
Slow train.
R.E.M. and a Honda motorcycle.
And then another ending.
Three endings.
Just kidding.
Just kidding again.
What is going on?
I am up in the middle of the night.
Some sleep disorder.
Not sure where my life is headed now.
I just hope I can sleep and not worry too much.
-PD
Big Nothing [2006)
We all want to solve crimes.
Except for those among us who want to commit them.
That observation could be repeated and reversed.
Perhaps we all want to commit crimes.
Except for those among us who want to solve them.
Which brings us to a rather confusing portion of the Venn diagram.
And David Schwimmer’s character would doubtless appreciate this method of presentation.
Oregon.
Get good Twin Peaks wafting.
Bad grunge lingering.
Schwimmer does quite well here.
We hate him at first.
Resent him for Friends.
But he grows on the royal we.
You see, I don’t have a lot of time.
Simon Pegg does well (as he always does), but it is rather grating to hear him speak in an “American” accent for the entirety of this film.
And so the real star here (I hate to admit it) is Alice Eve.
Her character is venal.
As they all are.
Rather disgusting.
But intriguing.
The most enthralling though is the above-mediocre writing of Jean-Baptiste Andrea (who also directed) and Billy Asher.
“breathing liquid shit”
Some genuinely inventive concepts here.
Very imaginative.
Florid.
A web of interlocking chaos.
Vigilante impulse arises.
We all want to rid the world of scum.
But we all share the scumminess.
It’s just that some pursue the scum instinct more than others.
And so our heroes (“Bonnie, Clyde, and Clyde”) are spurred on by a bit of fortuitous reaping.
This only serves to sink them further.
I must give credit to William Rosenfeld who does a nice job as the pivotal Deputy Garman.
This movie is, quite simply, powered by the unflagging inventiveness of lies.
Deeper and deeper into the pit.
Eve buries the hatchet.
YEs, this movie is abounding in death.
But it is watchable.
At least the story is compelling.
There are really some stellar plot twists here.
Phone rings in the trunk.
There are really some gruesome details here.
Why is America so brutal?
I know we don’t have a monopoly on violence, but…
We export simulated violence.
And yet, despite David Schwimmer, this is (believe it or not) a UK/Canadian coproduction.
Honorable mention to Natascha McElhone for making the most of a small role.
Also kudos to Jon Polito.
This could have been a great movie.
-PD
Ted Bundy [2002)
I have long noticed the phenomenon of people being obsessed with serial killers.
In my experience, those who obsess over these troubled murderers are (perhaps surprisingly) women.
And so I am bucking that trend and delving into the serial killer biopic genre with 2002’s Ted Bundy.
I must say up front, I wasn’t particularly impressed with this film.
Everything about it was more-or-less half-assed.
I did, however, make it through the entire thing.
And there’s something to be said for that.
What I am interested in is a question which Godard has applied to Spielberg’s Schindler’s List. More or less.
Did the film under consideration do justice to the memory of the slain by way of depiction?
A key point should be, “Did this film faithfully evoke the horror of its subject?”
I would have to answer with a resounding “No!”.
Michael Reilly Burke (as Bundy) doesn’t even get the charm right.
Yes, remember ladies: serial killers can be quite charming.
We might think of serial killers as “shady looking”.
So a real (successful) serial killer might attempt to appear blameless.
Nice clothes, nice hair, a clean shave…
Burke gets close to this charm. But it’s too subtle.
Boti Bliss (as Bundy’s girlfriend) is probably the best thing about this film.
It’s hard to have scenario and mise-en-scène work together to dramatically show the psychological break which must have happened when Bundy was about 27 years old.
What is most problematic is that Ted Bundy isn’t really a horror movie. It’s a drama. Perhaps in order to reach a wider audience, the blood was toned down.
There’s even a camp aspect to this film which really undercuts its aspiration for greatness.
Literally, the film delves into a sort of dark humor. It is an odd, out-of-place element every time it pops up.
Ted Bundy is a low-budget film. Ted Bundy the personage was of such complex psychic energy that he (and his victims) deserved a more dedicated production.
I would therefore have to describe Matthew Bright’s directorial effort as uninspired.
At least they could have gotten the color of Bundy’s VW Beetle right.
The call center was brilliant (yes, Ted Bundy was an operator for a suicide hotline), but even more artful (if one is looking for such cinematic threads) is that he worked for a government agency in the state of Washington while said agency was looking for girls that (unbeknownst to them) HE had kidnapped.
In an interesting twist of fate, Bundy appears to have murdered a girl with the last name of Manson (although her remains were never recovered). Donna Gail Manson was a 19-year-old student at The Evergreen State University in Olympia, Washington. She left her dorm to attend a jazz concert on campus and was never seen again.
Bundy was an extremely-failed law school student. This was very troubling for him.
Bundy worked his way from Washington and Oregon down through Idaho, Utah, and Colorado.
Ted Bundy is not clear in delineating that Bundy was stringing along two women (in relationships) at once [all while killing and raping other young women].
The scenario or metteur en scène failed to exploit this subplot. It was, rather, inserted hesitatingly as a sort of afterthought.
The film misses another crucial detail. While Bundy was in Utah, he was baptized as a Mormon. [The church later excommunicated him.]
I must credit the filmmakers for getting the “rape kit” right (in comparison to a photo of Bundy’s own such collection of items).
But I must protest again. Bundy was a photographer. Sure, they were Polaroids…of people he’d killed. But how does that detail escape a creation in a field bound up with the ontology of the image for so long?
The failure, then, was that our director could not imagine himself as Ted Bundy. In all other areas of life (perhaps besides criminology), that would be a blessing. But as a filmmaker framing history, it’s a curse.
Plaster of Paris. Monmartre. Bundy’s fake casts.
Arm in a sling. Crutches.
“All warfare is based on deception.”
-PD
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