Endgame’ spoilers describe a heartbreaking superhero death

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A monster leak on Friday seemed to deliver believable Avengers: Endgame plot details until Redditors figured out that the post was being continuously updated through March. That’s why the post contained so much accurate information from Captain Marvel, including credits scenes that tie the film to Avengers 4, as well as details about Endgame footage that Disney showed a few days ago. Then, on Saturday, we found an Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) thread on Reddit that a supposed former Endgame crew member started, which offered many details about the film’s plot.

The new Redditor was partially verified but seemed to be a bit confused about how to use Reddit, which made piecing together the information a rather daunting task. Once you dive into Reddit, however, there’s no turning back unless you’ve got a special Quantum Realm suit, and that’s how I found a much older Endgame plot spoiler that seems to match the newest leak. As was the case before, massive spoilers follow below, assuming the information is accurate. It’s too late for me, but you can still save yourself from ruining the surprise if you turn back now.

The new details

In case you haven’t read the first part of the story, make sure you check it at this link. Since then, the Redditor has returned to the original post to provide additional bits of information. For example, he confirmed that Hulk loses an arm at some point in the movie and that it grows back. He also said Gamora is somehow resurrected and all the Guardians survive Endgame.

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Thanos apparently doesn’t die as was initially hinted, but he does get “the crap beat out of him.” The Avengers will use the proton cannon against him in the final battle, likely the one we saw in Infinity War, to slow Thanos down, and it’s War Machine who wields it. “That’s why his new suit is bulky,” the Redditor said. Thanos is apparently impressed by Captain Marvel’s fighting, but the Avengers will need “brains, strength, and planning” to beat the Titan. “Spider-Man plays a big roll in the fight” as well, he said.

The leaker also said that time travel scenes are actually in the second trailer:

Ok, remember when Thor was floating in the air and looking at his hammer that was them resetting the Wakanda fight and when they showed the scene when a ship was flying over a lit up city skyline that also was a time travel scene with Cap, Tony, and Ant-Man while the other distract Thanos.

Finally, he posted a longer comment about the first half of the movie and made a new post where he says it’s actually the first quarter of the film he’s discussing. Here’s that comment, edited for clarity:

First half of the movie is the remaining Avengers and newcomers reuniting to discuss the situation at hand and to come up with a plan.

Ant-Man rants on about the Quantum Realm and quantum energy and how he wasn’t affected by the snap because of laws of quantum physics. He also tells them he ran into a guy in the quantum realm who helped him get home to the right time that guy being Doctor Strange.

Captain Marvel eager to get a piece of Thanos flashes her power startling the Avengers. Thor’s tells them they need more muscle. Stark has a plan to give everyone suits to survive in the Quantum Realm and outer space.

Stark, Ant-Man, and Captain America head into the Quantum Realm while the others seek help from remaining survivors of Wakanda, mainly Shuri, to seek help on repairing Vision. Banner also tags along going to Wakanda.

Rocket, Hawkeye, Black Widow, Captain Marvel, Nebula, and Thor head into space to look for Valkyrie and other Asgardians.


The older leak

This brings me to an older leak, one that was posted on 4chan at some point last May by the same person who posted accurate information about Infinity War well ahead of the film’s premiere. In case you want to check out the accuracy of that Infinity War leak, see the following image, which shows exactly what was posted on 4chan and when it happened. You’ll notice several inconsistencies, but the major Infinity War plotlines are still there. That means the person has had access to Marvel scripts in the past, even if they were dummy scripts that contained some fake info.

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Fast-forward to May 2018, and someone saved all the new Endgame information and brought it over to Reddit, where it’s still available. Check it out in full below — we’ve emphasized all the parts that match the new theory we covered earlier in this post.

Iron Man reassembles the Avengers and decides to build his own Infinity Gauntlet to undo everything that Thanos did. They recruit Ant-Man to help them travel through time and space using the Quantum Real to retrieve the Infinity Stones from different time periods. Thanos finds out about their plans and becomes hellbent on stopping them.

The movie revolves around the relationship between Captain America and Iron Man.

At one point, Captain America and Thor fight Thanos. Timeline alterations have restored Mjolnir, and Cap wields it against Thanos to allow the others to escape and is killed holding Thanos off.

At one point, Hawkeye must protect the unfinished Stark Gauntlet from Thanos’ minions. He plays an ‘instrumental’ role in Thanos’ defeat.

Thor’s subplot centers on him assembling an army to challenge Thanos. Captain Marvel joins him.

Hulk’s subplot centers on Banner and Hulk finally merging to become Professor Hulk. He is the one that ultimately wields the Stark Gauntlet against Thanos, losing his arm in the process.

Nebula’s subplot centers on her efforts to redeem herself. At one point, she fights her murderous past self.

Several MCU movies are revisited and retconned (probably not permanently), such as the Avengers retrieving the Power Stone creating a timeline where the Guardians of the Galaxy never came together.

There’s a pivotal scene between Doctor Strange and a fully CGI character being shot on a secret location, with a skeleton crew, and which takes up a sizeable portion of the budget.

Only two of the original Avengers (Cap, Stark, Thor, Hulk, Hawkeye, and Black Widow) meant to survive the movie. Cap dies.

The title was AVENGERS: INFINITY GAUNTLET at one point, but it might be changed after Zoe Saldana accidentally leaked it.

As you can see above, there are plenty of similarities between these two leaks, which obviously increases the likelihood that they’re accurate. Of course nothing has been confirmed, but if any of this is indeed true, we’re about to see the heartbreaking death of Captain America in Endgame.

US College Admissions Scandal. “Affirmative Action for the Rich”

In the 1961 Hollywood film Splendor in the Grass, the protagonist’s oil-wealthy father got his academically unqualified son admitted to Yale.

Though unexplained in the film, he likely bought his admission, his influence not enough to prevent his son’s expulsion …

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‘Leaving Neverland’ – It’s Not Just Michael Jackson Fans Losing Faith

Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com,

Sunset Boulevard With Chimp

If you want some insight into how deep the collective public psychosis of this land runs, check out Dan Reed’s four-hour documentary about the late Michael Jackson streaming on the HBO cable network. The film apparently provoked outrage when it premiered at the Sundance Festival recently, as if it were in bad taste to disclose the icon’s peccadillos in these days of Progressive intersectional triumph.

Mr. Jackson methodically assembled a harem of catamites as his show business fame exploded and he struggled with the personal horror of developing into a full-grown man. He solved that problem by restricting his social consort to little boys while surgically metamorphosing into a schematic approximation of a woman — interesting, since he repeatedly referred to women as “evil,” but then his greatest hit was the self-revealing song, Bad.

Everybody and his uncle’s-second-cousin in Hollywood at the time must have known what the deal was with him but they went along with the gag that he was the reincarnation of Peter Pan, just a harmless character out of Show Biz’s own catalog of manufactured mythology, something they could understand, a framing device to spin cotton candy out of the truth that Mr. Jackson was simply a child-molester.

The two men featured in the film, Wade Robson and James Sawchuck, now full-grown themselves, with children of their own, were recruited at age 5 and 7, with their families coming along for the ride, mesmerized by the sparkly trappings of Jacksondom and all the money and unreality that emanated from it. The two moms, Joy Robson and Stephanie Sawchuck, gave permission for their boys to travel unaccompanied with Jackson on tour, and to share Mr. Jackson’s bed, testimony to their amazing feckless credulity. Sometimes they stayed at the star’s 2700-acre Neverland Ranch. Joy Robson states that whole days would go by when she wouldn’t see her son there, or know what he was doing with Mr. Jackson, feeling so alone that she resorted to passing the time with Mr. Jackson’s pet chimpanzee. “We became good friends,” she said of the chimp. Meanwhile, Mr. Jackson had initiated her son into homosexual sex with him, apparently in every room at Neverland — and there were a lot of rooms in all those buildings.

There were several other boys lured into the star’s sexual service besides the two featured in the film, and the law eventually caught up with Mr. Jackson. Though the prosecution botched both of his trails, the evidence and testimony made public was so unappetizing that even Hollywood had to quietly dissociate from the damaged entertainer — emphasis on the quietly. The star did the rest, losing most of his fortune, and eventually his very life at age 50 via a drug overdose. Gore Vidal put it best, as when remarking on the death of his literary rival Truman Capote: “Good career move.”

The fathers of these two boys come off as ciphers in the documentary. They seemingly had nothing to say about the insane goings-on, an interesting preview of the current status of adult males in this land today: authority revoked. The career of Mr. Jackson was also a preview of what America is acting out these days: a life of no boundaries, where anything goes and nothing matters. The bottom line for him, as he told one of the mothers who demurred from allowing her kid to leave home and spend a year living with Mr. Jackson, was “I always get what I want.”

Michael Jackson’s stalwart fans have mounted a counter-attack against the film and its maker, Dan Reed. “They’re the Islamic State of fandom,” he said.

As The New York Times put it in its coverage of the lurid tale, “Jackson’s supporters don’t see it that way. Instead they identify as researchers and activists who view Jackson as a civil rights case.” I suppose the Southern Poverty Law Center will brand the film as a vehicle of “hate,” and take up their battle flag. Since every other threshold of sexual behavior and identity has been crossed by now, get ready for the official attempt to normalize pederasty.

Or, just perhaps, Leaving Neverland signals an interesting turning point in the madness that has gripped this country for years, and especially the bewitched, bothered, and bewildered thinking class, lost in its labyrinth of sacred monsters. This year 2019 – and especially the coming springtime – promises to be a time of spectacular reversals in politics, manners, and markets.

Glorious Bitchery: Yorgos Lanthimos and “The Favourite”

Yorgos Lanthimos likes his subjects deranged and troubled.  He likes seeing queens in the slap, servants in the lurch, and women in mud.  But that is just one side. The Favourite is a film of exotic, exorbitant bitchery, filmed with

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Video: Arlington West: Military Families Whose Children Were Killed in Iraq

105 heartfelt interviews with U.S. Soldiers traveling to and from war zones,  Military Families whose children were killed in Iraq, Veterans, and Youth. Intimately documented on film by Artists Sally Marr and Peter Dudar.

Arlington West is a 74-minute Art

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Brazil’s new right-wing government asks schools to read out Bolsonaro slogan

February 25, 2019

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s new right-wing government requested on Monday that schools film their students singing the national anthem and that a message including President Jair Bolsonaro’s campaign slogan be read aloud to classes.

Education Minister Ricardo Velez Rodriguez sent a letter to schools requesting that teachers submit videos to the ministry of the readings and singing, according to a ministry statement.

“Brazilians! Let us greet new times in Brazil and celebrate responsible and quality education being developed in our schools by teachers, for the benefits of you, the students, who constitute the new generation,” the message to be read aloud says.

The message concludes with “Brazil above everything, God above everyone,” Bolsonaro’s campaign slogan.

Bolsonaro has vowed to eliminate perceived leftist influence in schools, including sex education and political debate, after the Workers Party ruled for 13 of the last 15 years.

Many activists and non-government organizations are also concerned about growing authoritarianism under Bolsonaro, who has openly praised the 1964-85 dictatorship.

(Reporting by Jake Spring; Editing by Richard Chang)

WATCH: 12yo Girl Owns Cop for Threatening to Arrest Her for Her Journalism

by Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project: A 12-year-old girl, who runs her very own news organization, was threatened with arrest by a police officer who claimed it was illegal to film him and put it online. So she owned him by proving him wrong. Patagonia, AZ — If you have been to the Free […]

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Star of Mexican film ‘Roma’ prompts raw discussion of race, class

February 23, 2019

By Daina Beth Solomon

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The Oscar-nominated film “Roma,” which chronicles the life of a young housekeeper in 1970s Mexico, has put an uneasy focus on the nation’s sharp class, ethnic and racial divisions, leading to mixed reactions to the indigenous woman cast in the starring role.

Yalitza Aparicio, who is nominated in the Best Actress category in Sunday’s Academy Awards, has appeared on the cover of “Vogue,” attracted over a million Instagram followers and been celebrated with a towering mural in her likeness over a humble district in Mexico City.

With her bronze skin and short stature, the 25-year-old woman from a poor indigenous family in southern Mexico has for many become a symbol of pride. She cuts a stark contrast to the pale women and men with European features who dominate Mexican television and film, despite representing only a sliver of Mexico’s overwhelmingly mestizo and indigenous population.

But reactions to Aparicio’s leap to fame after her powerful portrayal of a young domestic worker for a middle-class family in “Roma,” which is directed by Alfonso Cuaron and nominated for 10 Oscars, have also exposed how deeply prejudice is ingrained.

A telenovela actor disparaged her with crude, racially-charged language, one of many offensive remarks following her Oscar nomination that were especially prevalent on social media. When leading society magazine Hola! featured Aparicio on a recent cover, the actress’ skin appeared to have been digitally lightened.

Although Hollywood has been forced to confront its lack of diversity amid #OscarsSoWhite criticism in recent years, Mexico’s film industry has rarely turned the mirror on itself.

“We’re uncorking this racism that we’ve been carrying around for centuries,” said Itza Varela Huerta, a post-doctoral researcher studying indigenous and Afro-Mexican groups at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology in southern Oaxaca state, where Aparicio grew up.

“When we’re with an indigenous person, it’s always: she doesn’t know anything, she can’t do anything, she’s not pretty, she doesn’t know how to act.”

The stereotype-busting actress was studying for her teaching degree in the small town of Tlaxiaco when Cuaron discovered her at a local casting call.

In interviews, she opines on Mexican politics and urges stronger rights for domestic workers and indigenous people. Media coverage in Mexico and beyond has depicted her looking stylish and comfortable wearing fashionable dresses from Mexico City to Los Angeles.

Aparicio, with roots in the Mixtec and Triqui indigenous communities, is part of the nearly one-quarter of Mexico’s population of some 120 million people who are indigenous, according to government data. They speak nearly 70 distinct languages, and many live in Oaxaca and neighboring Chiapas, which are also two of Mexico’s poorest states.

Mexico’s indigenous people were decimated during the 1521 Spanish conquest that by some estimates wiped out nine tenths of the population. Following several centuries of colonial subjugation, many of Mexico’s modern power centers in politics, business and entertainment have stubbornly remained closed to them.

‘DAMN INSULT’

Carlos Cubero, head of academic projects at Mexico City’s Museum of Memory and Tolerance, says “Roma” has forced Mexicans to confront glaring social inequalities, both from the theme of the film itself and the reactions it has triggered, which has included outpourings of admiration for Aparicio.

Ideally, he said, the public will persist in self-reflection even after the spotlight on “Roma” fades.

After telenovela actor Sergio Goyri was last week caught on tape calling her a “fucking Indian,” Aparicio responded that she was saddened that people did not know “the correct meaning of words.”

Mexican pop singer Yuri, who since the 1980s has typically performed with bleach-blond hair, gave Aparicio a back-handed compliment when she commended her skill but also appeared to deny her Mexican identity as well as calling her unattractive.

“Lots of people say that if you’re in Hollywood you have to be very Mexican, extremely pretty and have a hot body, and she’s the total opposite,” she said in a local interview.

“It means yes, it’s possible to succeed if you have talent,” she said.

Others accused Aparicio of not having talent at all, and simply playing a version of herself.

“She didn’t act! That’s how she is!” former television host Elsa Burgos de Siller said on social media. “You get an Oscar with a performance that has nothing to do with you, a ‘Monster’ for Charlize Theron, but not a Yalitza being Yalitza.”

The assumption that all women who look like Aparicio also act like her domestic-worker character Cleo from “Roma,” quiet and submissive, is troubling, said Citlali Fabian, a photographer who focuses on indigenous culture in Oaxaca.

She explains that Mexicans seem to embody a contradiction, celebrating the achievements of their distant indigenous ancestors while at the same time knocking down their contemporaries.

“We’re proud of coming from the Aztecs,” she said. “But call me Indian and it’s a damn insult.”

(Reporting by Daina Beth Solomon; Editing by David Alire Garcia and Paul Simao)

George Clooney’s ‘Catch-22’ reflects on ‘insanity’ of war

February 11, 2019

By Lisa Richwine

PASADENA, California (Reuters) – George Clooney, who returns to TV for the first time in 20 years with an adaptation of the classic novel “Catch-22,” said on Monday the Hulu series set in World War II aims to tell a timeless story about the “insanity” of war.

At a preview for reporters, Clooney said he initially resisted the idea of taking on Joseph Heller’s 1961 book about member of a U.S. bomber squadron fighting the higher-ups in the military bureaucracy.

“It’s a beloved novel,” Clooney, who also served as executive producer and directed two episodes, said at a Television Critics Association event. “I didn’t want to get into the middle of that.”

He said he was drawn in because the writers “did an amazing job unspooling these characters” for the six-episode series that will be released on Hulu on May 17.

That allows the series to expand on Heller’s story, which Clooney said was meant “to make fun of all the red tape and bureaucracy of war and the ridiculousness of war.”

“I think it still plays,” he added. “All of us spend our days and nights worrying about those situations. This story is just reflecting on the insanity of it.”

“Catch-22” follows a U.S. bombardier named Yossarian who is infuriated that the army keeps raising the number of missions he must fly to be released from duty. Yossarian’s only way to avoid the missions is to declare insanity, but the only way to prove insanity is a willingness to embark on more of the highly dangerous bombing runs, thus creating the novel’s absurd ‘catch-22.’

It was made into a 1970 movie directed by Mike Nichols with Alan Arkin as Yossarian.

“I think we all wake up every morning these days in this kind of shared global anxiety condition, and this novel is a beautiful distillation, or a prophetic distillation of that,” said co-writer Luke Davies.

Christopher Abbott stars as Yossarian and Kyle Chandler plays his commander, Colonel Cathcart. Clooney originally planned to play Cathcart but instead took a supporting role as training commander Scheisskopf.

Clooney, 57, last appeared on television 20 years ago as Dr. Doug Ross in hit medical drama “ER.” He then built a successful film career with movies including “Ocean’s Eleven,” “Gravity” and “Up in the Air.”

The actor said he was happy to come back to television.

“I don’t care about the medium,” Clooney said. “I just care about the quality of the work and what we’re able to do.”

(Reporting by Lisa Richwine; Editing by David Gregorio and Bill Berkrot)

CIA Tried To Kill Castro Using Diving Suit Laced With Tuberculosis -Report

https://www.rt.com/usa/333815-castro-cia-assassination-tuberculosis/

While it is no secret that the US government wanted to get rid of the former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, it has been reported that the CIA came up with some outlandish plots to kill him.

The US National Security Archive published information that Washington tried to give Castro a diving suit which had been contaminated with tuberculosis.

RT reports:

The National Security Archive alleges that the US government contacted lawyer James Donovan to conduct secret negotiations with Castro. Given Donavan’s connections to the Cuban leader, the CIA believed they could use this to their advantage to try and assassinate Castro.

“At some point during Donovan’s negotiations with Castro” several officials in the covert operations division “devised a plan to have Donovan be the unwitting purveyor of a diving suit and breathing apparatus, respectively contaminated with Madura foot fungus and tuberculosis bacteria, as a gift for Castro,” a passage from the National Security Archive reveals.

However, the plan was ultimately shelved after Donovan’s handler Milan Miskovsky, a CIA lawyer, told him to make sure that the diving suit he had managed to obtain for Castro was not tampered with by the CIA.

Fidel Castro and James Donovan at the Bay of Pigs. Castro is wearing the scuba-diving watch given to him by Donovan. © National Security Archive
Fidel Castro and James Donovan at the Bay of Pigs. Castro is wearing the scuba-diving watch given to him by Donovan. © National Security Archive

Donovan met with Castro in 1963 and during one of those meetings, handed over a diving suit and a watch as a gift. The diving suit was chosen because both Donovan and Castro enjoyed diving. However, the suit was not contaminated following Miskovsky’s tipoff.

Donovan is the central figure in the Oscar-nominated movie, “Bridge of Spies,” with his role in the film played by actor Tom Hanks. During the film he tries to negotiate the exchange of captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for Soviet intelligence agent Rudolf Abel.

While one of the most famous plots to try and kill Castro involved an exploding cigar, which was meant to blow up in his face, declassified information mentioned how the CIA also plotted to try and use the Cuban leader’s love of strawberry milkshakes to try and kill him.

There was also another plot, which was to play on Castro’s fascination with scuba diving, the CIA reportedly invested in a number of scuba-related items. The idea was to find a shell big enough to catch his attention and to fit enough explosives to serve as a booby trap.

The last attempt surfaced in 2000 when Miami exiles planned to blow up an auditorium in Panama where Castro was scheduled to give a speech.

‘Alita: Battle Angel’ movie finally arrives, to lukewarm reviews

January 31, 2019

By Hanna Rantala

LONDON (Reuters) – Some 15 years in the making and after multiple delays, sci-fi epic “Alita: Battle Angel” finally arrived on Thursday, but the Japanese manga-inspired action film earned only lukewarm reviews.

The tale of a cyborg heroine in a post-apocalyptic world, “Alita: Battle Angel” was a passion project for acclaimed “Avatar” director James Cameron for years before he turned it over to director Robert Rodriguez.

Speaking at the world premiere in London on Thursday, Rodriguez said Cameron, who first wrote a script in 2004, had crafted “a story that could really play around the world, even to people who don’t know manga.”

“It’s a more universal story than I think people are expecting,” the director told Reuters.

Rodriguez has said the movie’s budget was around $150 million. The release date was pushed back twice by Hollywood studio Twenty-First Century Fox.

Early reviews were largely disappointing.

While praising the film’s slick action sequences and the expressive, huge-eyed Alita – who is played by actress Rosa Salazar with CGI effects – many movie critics found the characters thinly developed.

Britain’s Independent newspaper said “Alita” lacked the emotional pull of Cameron’s other blockbusters, “Avatar” and “Titanic.” Hollywood website The Wrap called the movie “a glossy muddle” while Britain’s Guardian newspaper said it was “a vanilla dystopian romance.”

Los Angeles-based IndieWire was more enthusiastic, saying the film “lives up to its potential while leaving you wanting more.”

Manga movies have proved a hard sell to Western filmgoers in the past, but Cameron, who retains a writing and producing credit, said on Thursday that “Alita” was different.

“We know the film is a crowd pleaser. We know that for sure. Now, we know the audience will go with her (Alita) on her journey and believe in her and feel her spirit,” he said.

The movie has also faced criticism for not casting Asian actors in the lead parts.

Yukito Kishiro, who wrote the original graphic novels, said on Thursday he did not share the misgivings.

“I think it’s a perfect cast. Had they had, say, a Japanese actress who can act the great action scenes, sure. But I suppose the casting people decided to go with what we have because there is a reason for that. I’m happy with that,” Kishiro told Reuters on the London red carpet.

“Alita: Battle Angel” opens in the UK on Feb. 6 and in the United States on Feb. 14.

(Writing by Jill Serjeant; Editing by James Dalgleish)

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Viacom will buy Pluto TV streaming service for $340 million

January 22, 2019

(Reuters) – Viacom Inc <VIAB.O> said on Tuesday it will buy Pluto TV, a free video streaming TV service, for $340 million in cash to expand its advanced advertising business.

The owner of MTV Networks and Nickelodeon sees the purchase of the six-year-old company as another way to build a so-called direct-to-consumer business, Viacom said, while avoiding the capital intensive task of competing directly against subscription video services owned or to be built by Netflix Inc<NFLX.O>, Walt Disney Co <DIS.N> and AT&T Inc’s <T.N> WarnerMedia.

Viacom’s moves reflect a rekindled interest in advertising supported digital media kicked off by Roku, a device maker that helped viewers stream online videos on TVs that was spun off from Netflix. Amazon has also launched a free TV service recently.

Pluto TV claims 12 million monthly active users and licenses programming from 130 film and TV partners, including Viacom.

It is available on devices made by Roku Inc<ROKU.O> , Amazon.com Inc<AMZN.O>, Sony Corp<6758.T> and Apple Inc<AAPL.O>. The app is also available on smart televisions from Samsung<005930.KS> and Vizio.

Viacom said it sees Pluto TV as an important outlet for it to sell advanced advertising that has the ability to target viewers based on their habits.

While Viacom has no plans to make current shows on pay TV services available for free on the service, it sees Pluto TV as a way to make money off its archives.

(Reporting by Kenneth Li; Editing by Sonya Hepinstall)

Markets Eye Possible “National Emergency Weekend?”

“The Wall” is Trump’s “Hooverville” as we figure it.

So, before we get into the Consumer Price report, the on-going government shutdown and the like, a bit of future modeling is in order.  Along with a grand lesson in management.

The lesson is simple – taught to me when I was running my first multi-million dollar P&L.  My mentor made it very clear: “No surprises, George.  The first rule of management is it’s our job to think EVERYTHING through in advance.  No surprises…”  (Thanks, Brock!)

How does this apply to the Border Impasse (notice how we are a country that can get illegals across our borders, but we can’t get a bill through Congress?)?

Simple:  President Trump knows that people and the stock market don’t handle surprises well, either.

Which is why astute politicians “watch the clock.”

Something a young cub reporter learned back in his first year “on the beat” at city hall.  Asked, one of the then Seattle mayor’s staff laid it out simply:  “George, the Post Intelligencer  is the morning paper, so we try to hold some stories for afternoon – which give them time to get the stock on the morning front page.  Other times, since the Seattle Times is the afternoon paper, we hold 9:30 or 10 am press conferences, so it will make their afternoon front page….”

It works a bit differently at the national level.  Since most of the Big Influence papers hit the street in the early morning, afternoon events tend to give them something to write about.  The morning press conferences favored the television networks.  ‘

The process was diluted as the TV industry transitioned from actual film (B-roll and stand-ups, remember ’em?) to the ENG (electronic news gathering) chains.  Why, television before ENG was positively boring in comparison to live reporter gaffes caught on YouTube these days.  But I digress…I’ll save the “Intro to Old School Journalism” for another time.

Point is, though, that Donald Trump announcing something like a National Emergency to deal with the border will be a big, ugly, disruptive deal.

First, we will likely see “spontaneous” demonstrations by open border supporters.  And then, there will be blustering, braggadocio and bullshit-deluxe out of congressoids.  Oh, and with uncertainty how this all works out, the stock market could peel off a thousand, or more points.

Which is why we would expect the presidential of a National Emergency to take place when the markets are closed so as to leave plenty of time for the idea to settle in.

Already, though, we can see the tumblers falling as that potential future is unlocking.  The headlines that reveal it?

We’ll toss in one more data point to consider:  The market here in the US could be at a critical juncture this weekend because one of our views of a particular oscillator when held up to our Aggregate Index for the past six-months, or so, looks like this:

The very last view on the right is based on futures pricing as of early this morning.  But the dashed line is our Aggregate Index and the blue line is the particular oscillator we’ve invented.

By the way, our Peoplenomics.com subscribers will be able to download the spreadsheet “Small Trader Power Tool” when we get the Saturday edition published.  And yes, this is one of the charts included.  The idea being that subscribers should be able to clone our (odd) view of markets on their own to see things evolving based on their own inputs.  No need to wait for a Saturday of Wednesday report.  It will be available on the Master Index page where things like out Elliott wave projecting spreadsheet and some other goodies (plus over a thousand back issues) are located.  Yes, you need to be Excel competent to use it.  Grownups, remember?

Back to point?  If you listen carefully right now, you can hear the tumblers falling unlocking the “possible future” while headlines tell us “Trump closer to declaring emergency; 800,000 won’t get paid,”

Such a grand cottage industry has Trump-hating become, that we would be surprised if there was no violence and demonstrations shortly after such a move.

Markets don’t like surprises, either. So, after 4 PM today, then?

Consumer Prices Fall

Oh-oh…deflation is it?  Just out from the Labor Dept – which offers the laborious details here:

“The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) declined 0.1 percent in December on a seasonally adjusted basis after being unchanged in November, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 1.9 percent before seasonal adjustment.

The seasonally adjusted decline in the all items index was caused by a sharp decrease in the gasoline index, which fell 7.5 percent in December. This decline more than offset increases in several indexes including shelter, food, and other energy components. The energy index fell 3.5 percent, as the gasoline and fuel oil indexes fell, but the indexes for natural gas and for electricity
increased. The food index increased 0.4 percent in December.

The index for all items less food and energy increased 0.2 percent in December, the same increase as in October and November. Along with the index for shelter, the indexes for recreation, medical care, and household furnishings and operations all increased in December, while the indexes for airline fares, used cars and trucks, and motor vehicle insurance all declined.

We need to be very price in our thinking about this stuff:  The Decline was in the month-on-month results.  On a whole-year, 12 months basis, the consumer prices overall are up 1.9 percent.

An “Amen” for “The Rock”

In the UK’s Daily Star, there’s a dandy read in their “EXCLUSIVE: The Rock slams snowflakes as ‘looking for reasons to be offended’.”

Mix equal parts of The Rock’s philosophy and the David Goggins’ book “Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds,” and you have a whole recovery and wellness program for today’s losers and selfaphiles.

Unfortunately, the majority of inmates in this planetentiary are mostly lazy and what these (actual role models) are talking about require sweat on the outside as well as between the ears.  So, while we’d like to see such thinking become more widespread, we’re not, oh, you know…holding our breath.

Reduced Instruction Set News

We figure you’re bright enough to figure out just from a few words how other “news” and “infotainment” is spilling into the living rooms of America:  RISN we call it.  Kinda like News Koans but easier to index.

…Pulling Troops… Syria…

…Geopolitical Risks …2019

Cuban…censoring

O-Cortez slammed”

China…Pictures …Far-Side

In case you hadn’t noticed, because I have been compressing half a dozen large spreadsheets of many megs each into a single bite-sized for Peoplenomics subscribers, eliminating the fluff has been high on my agenda.

Hence, today’s whole “waiting…border…declaration” and other mental shorthand.

Even a story like  Reuters Exclusive: China to set lower GDP growth target of 6-6.5 percent in 2019 – sources” reduces to “China GDP 6-6.5%” nicely.

Looking Ahead

Long-time reader Hank of Hawaii sent me a Qualitative Potentiation  (QP) device to try which I’m really looking forward to.  Details are on the Peoplenomics site under September 19, 2018:  Q-P Fields (Qualitative Potentiation)  – a Pending Physics Breakthrough?

The idea – for non-subscribers – is that it may be possible to emphasize certain modes of thought by potentiating certain frequencies.

If you’re a ham radio operator and have used a “Q-Multiplier” you’ll have the general idea.  If not, here are some resources so you can see what a Q-Multiplier is and how it works.

Q-Multipliers can either notch or boost a frequency…and while they are used in the radio spectrum, I figure there’s possibly something to be learned about increasing the Q- of extremely low frequencies, such as those the human brain employs.

We may (or may not) say much more about this.  But that’s one of the many projects here at Old Man Labs.

Tomorrow on UrbanSurvival, Ure’s Digital Cosmology will be “flipped out” so to speak..

God have a Friday and get back to us…

The post Markets Eye Possible “National Emergency Weekend?” appeared first on UrbanSurvival.

Markets Eye Possible “National Emergency Weekend?”

“The Wall” is Trump’s “Hooverville” as we figure it.

So, before we get into the Consumer Price report, the on-going government shutdown and the like, a bit of future modeling is in order.  Along with a grand lesson in management.

The lesson is simple – taught to me when I was running my first multi-million dollar P&L.  My mentor made it very clear: “No surprises, George.  The first rule of management is it’s our job to think EVERYTHING through in advance.  No surprises…”  (Thanks, Brock!)

How does this apply to the Border Impasse (notice how we are a country that can get illegals across our borders, but we can’t get a bill through Congress?)?

Simple:  President Trump knows that people and the stock market don’t handle surprises well, either.

Which is why astute politicians “watch the clock.”

Something a young cub reporter learned back in his first year “on the beat” at city hall.  Asked, one of the then Seattle mayor’s staff laid it out simply:  “George, the Post Intelligencer  is the morning paper, so we try to hold some stories for afternoon – which give them time to get the stock on the morning front page.  Other times, since the Seattle Times is the afternoon paper, we hold 9:30 or 10 am press conferences, so it will make their afternoon front page….”

It works a bit differently at the national level.  Since most of the Big Influence papers hit the street in the early morning, afternoon events tend to give them something to write about.  The morning press conferences favored the television networks.  ‘

The process was diluted as the TV industry transitioned from actual film (B-roll and stand-ups, remember ’em?) to the ENG (electronic news gathering) chains.  Why, television before ENG was positively boring in comparison to live reporter gaffes caught on YouTube these days.  But I digress…I’ll save the “Intro to Old School Journalism” for another time.

Point is, though, that Donald Trump announcing something like a National Emergency to deal with the border will be a big, ugly, disruptive deal.

First, we will likely see “spontaneous” demonstrations by open border supporters.  And then, there will be blustering, braggadocio and bullshit-deluxe out of congressoids.  Oh, and with uncertainty how this all works out, the stock market could peel off a thousand, or more points.

Which is why we would expect the presidential of a National Emergency to take place when the markets are closed so as to leave plenty of time for the idea to settle in.

Already, though, we can see the tumblers falling as that potential future is unlocking.  The headlines that reveal it?

We’ll toss in one more data point to consider:  The market here in the US could be at a critical juncture this weekend because one of our views of a particular oscillator when held up to our Aggregate Index for the past six-months, or so, looks like this:

The very last view on the right is based on futures pricing as of early this morning.  But the dashed line is our Aggregate Index and the blue line is the particular oscillator we’ve invented.

By the way, our Peoplenomics.com subscribers will be able to download the spreadsheet “Small Trader Power Tool” when we get the Saturday edition published.  And yes, this is one of the charts included.  The idea being that subscribers should be able to clone our (odd) view of markets on their own to see things evolving based on their own inputs.  No need to wait for a Saturday of Wednesday report.  It will be available on the Master Index page where things like out Elliott wave projecting spreadsheet and some other goodies (plus over a thousand back issues) are located.  Yes, you need to be Excel competent to use it.  Grownups, remember?

Back to point?  If you listen carefully right now, you can hear the tumblers falling unlocking the “possible future” while headlines tell us “Trump closer to declaring emergency; 800,000 won’t get paid,”

Such a grand cottage industry has Trump-hating become, that we would be surprised if there was no violence and demonstrations shortly after such a move.

Markets don’t like surprises, either. So, after 4 PM today, then?

Consumer Prices Fall

Oh-oh…deflation is it?  Just out from the Labor Dept – which offers the laborious details here:

“The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) declined 0.1 percent in December on a seasonally adjusted basis after being unchanged in November, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 1.9 percent before seasonal adjustment.

The seasonally adjusted decline in the all items index was caused by a sharp decrease in the gasoline index, which fell 7.5 percent in December. This decline more than offset increases in several indexes including shelter, food, and other energy components. The energy index fell 3.5 percent, as the gasoline and fuel oil indexes fell, but the indexes for natural gas and for electricity
increased. The food index increased 0.4 percent in December.

The index for all items less food and energy increased 0.2 percent in December, the same increase as in October and November. Along with the index for shelter, the indexes for recreation, medical care, and household furnishings and operations all increased in December, while the indexes for airline fares, used cars and trucks, and motor vehicle insurance all declined.

We need to be very price in our thinking about this stuff:  The Decline was in the month-on-month results.  On a whole-year, 12 months basis, the consumer prices overall are up 1.9 percent.

An “Amen” for “The Rock”

In the UK’s Daily Star, there’s a dandy read in their “EXCLUSIVE: The Rock slams snowflakes as ‘looking for reasons to be offended’.”

Mix equal parts of The Rock’s philosophy and the David Goggins’ book “Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds,” and you have a whole recovery and wellness program for today’s losers and selfaphiles.

Unfortunately, the majority of inmates in this planetentiary are mostly lazy and what these (actual role models) are talking about require sweat on the outside as well as between the ears.  So, while we’d like to see such thinking become more widespread, we’re not, oh, you know…holding our breath.

Reduced Instruction Set News

We figure you’re bright enough to figure out just from a few words how other “news” and “infotainment” is spilling into the living rooms of America:  RISN we call it.  Kinda like News Koans but easier to index.

…Pulling Troops… Syria…

…Geopolitical Risks …2019

Cuban…censoring

O-Cortez slammed”

China…Pictures …Far-Side

In case you hadn’t noticed, because I have been compressing half a dozen large spreadsheets of many megs each into a single bite-sized for Peoplenomics subscribers, eliminating the fluff has been high on my agenda.

Hence, today’s whole “waiting…border…declaration” and other mental shorthand.

Even a story like  Reuters Exclusive: China to set lower GDP growth target of 6-6.5 percent in 2019 – sources” reduces to “China GDP 6-6.5%” nicely.

Looking Ahead

Long-time reader Hank of Hawaii sent me a Qualitative Potentiation  (QP) device to try which I’m really looking forward to.  Details are on the Peoplenomics site under September 19, 2018:  Q-P Fields (Qualitative Potentiation)  – a Pending Physics Breakthrough?

The idea – for non-subscribers – is that it may be possible to emphasize certain modes of thought by potentiating certain frequencies.

If you’re a ham radio operator and have used a “Q-Multiplier” you’ll have the general idea.  If not, here are some resources so you can see what a Q-Multiplier is and how it works.

Q-Multipliers can either notch or boost a frequency…and while they are used in the radio spectrum, I figure there’s possibly something to be learned about increasing the Q- of extremely low frequencies, such as those the human brain employs.

We may (or may not) say much more about this.  But that’s one of the many projects here at Old Man Labs.

Tomorrow on UrbanSurvival, Ure’s Digital Cosmology will be “flipped out” so to speak..

God have a Friday and get back to us…

The post Markets Eye Possible “National Emergency Weekend?” appeared first on UrbanSurvival.

Markets Eye Possible “National Emergency Weekend?”

“The Wall” is Trump’s “Hooverville” as we figure it.

So, before we get into the Consumer Price report, the on-going government shutdown and the like, a bit of future modeling is in order.  Along with a grand lesson in management.

The lesson is simple – taught to me when I was running my first multi-million dollar P&L.  My mentor made it very clear: “No surprises, George.  The first rule of management is it’s our job to think EVERYTHING through in advance.  No surprises…”  (Thanks, Brock!)

How does this apply to the Border Impasse (notice how we are a country that can get illegals across our borders, but we can’t get a bill through Congress?)?

Simple:  President Trump knows that people and the stock market don’t handle surprises well, either.

Which is why astute politicians “watch the clock.”

Something a young cub reporter learned back in his first year “on the beat” at city hall.  Asked, one of the then Seattle mayor’s staff laid it out simply:  “George, the Post Intelligencer  is the morning paper, so we try to hold some stories for afternoon – which give them time to get the stock on the morning front page.  Other times, since the Seattle Times is the afternoon paper, we hold 9:30 or 10 am press conferences, so it will make their afternoon front page….”

It works a bit differently at the national level.  Since most of the Big Influence papers hit the street in the early morning, afternoon events tend to give them something to write about.  The morning press conferences favored the television networks.  ‘

The process was diluted as the TV industry transitioned from actual film (B-roll and stand-ups, remember ’em?) to the ENG (electronic news gathering) chains.  Why, television before ENG was positively boring in comparison to live reporter gaffes caught on YouTube these days.  But I digress…I’ll save the “Intro to Old School Journalism” for another time.

Point is, though, that Donald Trump announcing something like a National Emergency to deal with the border will be a big, ugly, disruptive deal.

First, we will likely see “spontaneous” demonstrations by open border supporters.  And then, there will be blustering, braggadocio and bullshit-deluxe out of congressoids.  Oh, and with uncertainty how this all works out, the stock market could peel off a thousand, or more points.

Which is why we would expect the presidential of a National Emergency to take place when the markets are closed so as to leave plenty of time for the idea to settle in.

Already, though, we can see the tumblers falling as that potential future is unlocking.  The headlines that reveal it?

We’ll toss in one more data point to consider:  The market here in the US could be at a critical juncture this weekend because one of our views of a particular oscillator when held up to our Aggregate Index for the past six-months, or so, looks like this:

The very last view on the right is based on futures pricing as of early this morning.  But the dashed line is our Aggregate Index and the blue line is the particular oscillator we’ve invented.

By the way, our Peoplenomics.com subscribers will be able to download the spreadsheet “Small Trader Power Tool” when we get the Saturday edition published.  And yes, this is one of the charts included.  The idea being that subscribers should be able to clone our (odd) view of markets on their own to see things evolving based on their own inputs.  No need to wait for a Saturday of Wednesday report.  It will be available on the Master Index page where things like out Elliott wave projecting spreadsheet and some other goodies (plus over a thousand back issues) are located.  Yes, you need to be Excel competent to use it.  Grownups, remember?

Back to point?  If you listen carefully right now, you can hear the tumblers falling unlocking the “possible future” while headlines tell us “Trump closer to declaring emergency; 800,000 won’t get paid,”

Such a grand cottage industry has Trump-hating become, that we would be surprised if there was no violence and demonstrations shortly after such a move.

Markets don’t like surprises, either. So, after 4 PM today, then?

Consumer Prices Fall

Oh-oh…deflation is it?  Just out from the Labor Dept – which offers the laborious details here:

“The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) declined 0.1 percent in December on a seasonally adjusted basis after being unchanged in November, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 1.9 percent before seasonal adjustment.

The seasonally adjusted decline in the all items index was caused by a sharp decrease in the gasoline index, which fell 7.5 percent in December. This decline more than offset increases in several indexes including shelter, food, and other energy components. The energy index fell 3.5 percent, as the gasoline and fuel oil indexes fell, but the indexes for natural gas and for electricity
increased. The food index increased 0.4 percent in December.

The index for all items less food and energy increased 0.2 percent in December, the same increase as in October and November. Along with the index for shelter, the indexes for recreation, medical care, and household furnishings and operations all increased in December, while the indexes for airline fares, used cars and trucks, and motor vehicle insurance all declined.

We need to be very price in our thinking about this stuff:  The Decline was in the month-on-month results.  On a whole-year, 12 months basis, the consumer prices overall are up 1.9 percent.

An “Amen” for “The Rock”

In the UK’s Daily Star, there’s a dandy read in their “EXCLUSIVE: The Rock slams snowflakes as ‘looking for reasons to be offended’.”

Mix equal parts of The Rock’s philosophy and the David Goggins’ book “Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds,” and you have a whole recovery and wellness program for today’s losers and selfaphiles.

Unfortunately, the majority of inmates in this planetentiary are mostly lazy and what these (actual role models) are talking about require sweat on the outside as well as between the ears.  So, while we’d like to see such thinking become more widespread, we’re not, oh, you know…holding our breath.

Reduced Instruction Set News

We figure you’re bright enough to figure out just from a few words how other “news” and “infotainment” is spilling into the living rooms of America:  RISN we call it.  Kinda like News Koans but easier to index.

…Pulling Troops… Syria…

…Geopolitical Risks …2019

Cuban…censoring

O-Cortez slammed”

China…Pictures …Far-Side

In case you hadn’t noticed, because I have been compressing half a dozen large spreadsheets of many megs each into a single bite-sized for Peoplenomics subscribers, eliminating the fluff has been high on my agenda.

Hence, today’s whole “waiting…border…declaration” and other mental shorthand.

Even a story like  Reuters Exclusive: China to set lower GDP growth target of 6-6.5 percent in 2019 – sources” reduces to “China GDP 6-6.5%” nicely.

Looking Ahead

Long-time reader Hank of Hawaii sent me a Qualitative Potentiation  (QP) device to try which I’m really looking forward to.  Details are on the Peoplenomics site under September 19, 2018:  Q-P Fields (Qualitative Potentiation)  – a Pending Physics Breakthrough?

The idea – for non-subscribers – is that it may be possible to emphasize certain modes of thought by potentiating certain frequencies.

If you’re a ham radio operator and have used a “Q-Multiplier” you’ll have the general idea.  If not, here are some resources so you can see what a Q-Multiplier is and how it works.

Q-Multipliers can either notch or boost a frequency…and while they are used in the radio spectrum, I figure there’s possibly something to be learned about increasing the Q- of extremely low frequencies, such as those the human brain employs.

We may (or may not) say much more about this.  But that’s one of the many projects here at Old Man Labs.

Tomorrow on UrbanSurvival, Ure’s Digital Cosmology will be “flipped out” so to speak..

God have a Friday and get back to us…

The post Markets Eye Possible “National Emergency Weekend?” appeared first on UrbanSurvival.

Martin Armstrong Exposes The Dick Cheney / Donald Rumsfeld Conspiracy

Authored by Martin Armstrong via ArmstrongEconomics.com,

I went to go watch VICE – the story about how Dick Cheney took over the government with the aid of his wife – Lynne Cheney. Vice is a film that seeks to bring complicated information about the inner corruption in Washington and transform it into a digestible and entertaining format. There is no question that Christian Bale delivered a very impressive performance of how Dick Cheney really is – a secretive and distant man whose eyes were always filled with naked contempt. Amy Adams gave a fantastic performance as well and captured the real character of the former Second Lady Lynne Cheney who was very much like her husband – ambitious, and equally just as ruthless.

While the film captures the reality of what took place, it completely misses the real story behind the scenes as to even how Cheney came to be Vice President. The film shows that he was out of politics and had effectively retired for some time. It pretends that George Bush called him to be his Vice President and they negotiate that Cheney will have most of the power and Bush was too stupid to understand what he was agreeing to.

As always, for whatever reason, I seem to be always in the middle of just about every major event for the past 30+ years. I have stated before that I was asked to fly around the country and meet with Republicans who wanted to run for President. Prior to 1999, they were told I was there to advise them on the world economy and how it functioned. I have been to White House dinners and testified before Congress. I have taken calls from Washington in times of crisis. So meeting with people who wanted to run for President was nothing unusual for me. The real issue was not that I was giving them advice, but I was to assess whether they were capable of comprehending how the world functioned economically as well as politically. I was regarded as the unbiased adviser around the world. Europeans loved me because I was not one of them. They knew I would advise according to the cycles and markets. I cannot even bring staff with me to meetings in Brussels today for the problem because they are European and will have skin in the game. The same was true when I was asked to fly to Beijing during the 1997 Asian Currency Crisis.

The real story how Cheney got that power is significantly different from how the movie portrayed that aspect. It did a fantastic job in covering what he did once in power, with the exception of the meeting when 911 took place. The film portrays everyone in that room and its sources were correct in saying they were all confused but Cheney was more concerned about talking to his lawyer in that meeting. What I do know is that the first World Trade Center bombers were in MCC prison in Manhattan and they were given markers by the recreation officer Mr. Kumb. They drew on the walls of their cell the twin towers with planes flying into them one year BEFORE the incident. In creating Home Land Security, Congress merely stated that various agencies had information but did not share it with one another. Cheney had personal offices in all the agencies and I believe he knew well what took place on 911.

The movie correctly portrays Donald Rumsfeld as his co-conspirator. Just the day before 911 on September 10th, the Inspector General reported that $2.3 trillion was missing from the Defense Department accounting. Rumsfeld stated before Congress an investigation was necessary. The next day, the plane that struck the Pentagon hit the precise room where all those records were stored.

The World Trade Center 7 collapsed like a pancake when no plane ever touched it. That building has all the evidence of many things we will never know about. I have 20 years worth of recordings that would have been enough to put all the major New York trading banks in prison. Tapes that admitted paying bribes to Russian officials and all sorts of market manipulations. All of those tapes from my case vanished that same day. I personally believe that Cheney knew what was in the works. The mere fact that the terrorists drew the WTC on the wall of their cell 1 year before and the MCC took pictures and made a big deal out of it tells me that information had been passed on.

Now to the issue of Cheney becoming Vice President. I was asked to go to Texas to meet with George Bush, Jr during the early summer of 1999. I was told that “this is different. He’s really stupid.” Up to that point, the entire process I was involved in was to assess the qualification of those who wanted to run for President. Suddenly I was told this was different. When I asked why would you make someone stupid President, the response was “he has the name.”

I was then asked if I would accept the position of Chief Economic Adviser in the White House. I was told BECAUSE Bush was stupid, which they pay well in the movie, that they needed to surround him with smart people. I declined because to take such a position meant I would have to shut down my operation. I said thanks, but no thanks.

The kingmakers who I would go visit potential candidates for selected the people to put around Bush. Cheney had been Chief of Staff so he knew the game. He was inserted into the White House DELIBERATELY to be the default, President. The movie makes it sound that Bush Junior had to convince him to be his VP. That is absolutely NOT the way this selection process worked. They would NEVER have allowed the very person they said was “stupid” to select the people to run the country. They were selected to be the babysitters. I know this because I was one of the people asked and declined.

Natalie Portman: I Was Sexualized As A Child Star

“I know I was sexualized in the ways that I was photographed or portrayed”

Natalie Portman on Wednesday, December 12, 2018

ByPaul Bois

In yet another troubling denunciation of Hollywood’s treatment of child stars, actress Natalie Portman claims her entry into the film industry at the young age of 13 affected her in profound ways in part because she was “sexualized.”

Speaking with People about her new film “Vox Lux,” in which the actress plays a pop icon struggling with past childhood trauma, Natalie Portman spoke about her sexualization as a child star from people who should have known better.

“I understood very quickly, even as a 13-year-old, that if I were to express myself sexually I would feel unsafe and that men would feel entitled to discuss and objectify my body to my great discomfort,” she said. “I felt the need to cover my body and to inhibit my expression and my work in order to send my own message to the world that I’m someone worth of safety and respect.”

“I know I was sexualized in the ways that I was photographed or portrayed, and that was not my doing,” she said. “That becomes a part of your public identity.”

Portman previously revealed that her first piece of fan mail was another man’s rape fantasy.

The actress got her start at age 13 in “The Professional” where she depicted an orphaned teenage girl who expresses sexual feelings toward a much older man. While the U.S. theatrical release depicted the relationship between Portman’s character, Mathilda, and Leon, played by Jean Reno, as being platonic in nature, the European version suggested something more.

In one deleted scene, Mathilda tries giving Leon a kiss at a fancy dinner; in another much more troubling scene, her character offers up her virginity to him. While the pubescent Mathilda’s sexual desire for Leon was an arguably accurate portrayal (she came from an abusive household), the scene takes a disturbing turn when Leon rejects her sexual advances due to his lack of self-confidence from a past tragedy, not her sexual immaturity. “I won’t be a good lover,” he even tells her.

The Daily Beast notes that “The Professional” director Luc Besson based the underage storyline on his own life:

According to The Washington Post, Besson met the child actress Maïwenn when she was 12, the same age as Mathilda in the film. He was 29. They claim to have started seeing each other romantically when she turned 15. Maïwenn gave birth to their daughter when she was 16 (and Besson was 33), and subsequently relocated to Los Angeles. She appears briefly during the opening sequences of Léonas “blonde babe”—her listed character name—lying naked in bed, her body wrapped in sheets, having just serviced a middle-age crime boss.

“When Luc Besson did Léon, the story of a 13-year-old girl in love with an older man, it was very inspired by us since it was written while our story started. But no media made the link,” Maïwenn said.

Portman told people that her past childhood experiences played a big role in her interpretation of her character in “Vox Lux.”

“She is such a wild character, but she’s also someone I felt was a real person, who is the product of this life that has happened to her,” Portman said. “You see in this film how a young girl is packaged into this brand, and it’s kind of separate from her. I experienced a different degree of it, in a different way, and obviously I have very different support system than the character in the movie, but you see what the culture wants from you, or demands from you and wants to put out there.”

“It’s complicated to have your own private development and maturation alongside that [pressure] as a person, kind of having these double identities,” Portman continued. “And I think that it’s a big conversation about how many different kinds of things girls and women can be.”

The Most Beautifully Free City They Don’t Want You To Know About

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Michael Lee Hill and the Anunnaki Sun Sept 17th@5pmPST

Michael Lee Hill is a musician, filmographer and UFO experiencer. His footage of the Lake Eri Michael-Lee-Hille UFO’s has created a buzz and this unassuming rocker seems to have developed an intuitive relationship with these craft. In his home state of Ohio, Michael has been cataloging video after video of UFO’s over Lake Erie. What makes these different than most sightings is that the phenomena consists almost entirely of ‘Pulsating orb’s of light’ characteristics.

Unusual lights seen changing colors, converging, and separating over the lake. Stories of the unexplained phenomena date back over 150 years to the indigenous tribes. Michael’s Lake Erie UFO footage has been featured on Fox News, Coast to Coast AM, Rense.com, hbccufo.org and in the feature film’s “UFO’s unplugged with Dan Aykroyd”, And David Sereda’s latest film From Here To Andromeda which Michael also co-produced. Michael was also featured on the History Channel’s “UFO’s Hunters” show.

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