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[Hot Air] A reviewer at the Blaze seems to agree that, while it's obvious the president in the film is meant to be Trump, the film would have been a disaster if it tried to delve deeply into what was motivating the various factions.
It's all very effectively done: harrowing urban combat, menacing rednecks with "assault rifles," real-life Dunst-hubby Jesse Plemon in those red sharpshooter shades. If the point is "war is hell," consider it made. Although, there's nothing here Steven Spielberg didn't do better 25 years ago in "Saving Private Ryan."
And that better be the point, as the movie has nothing to say about our current political divisions. Take away the burned-out shopping malls and the assault on the Lincoln Memorial, and the "Civil War" might as well take place in Bagdad or Odessa.
Had Garland spent his $50 million budget on making the kind of libtard, death-to-muh-democracy fever dream that's been stupefying half of the country since 2016, he would've had a "Battlefield Earth"-level camp classic on his hands.
But over at the NY Times, Michelle Goldberg is pretty excited that the politics of the film are more recognizable than she expected.
Blond haired Aryan Jesse Plemon with his nasal spade on the trigger of an AR.
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I'm sorry but any 'film' that has the Texas-California Alliance in it, cannot be considered to be anything than a bad LSD trip or some rotten schrooms.
Every review I've read merely confirms my suspicions and like the stupid crap set in some NYC ghetto about 'revolution' I'm going to put it right up there with Avatar. To be watched when the humans win.
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Movie reviewers I trust say, basically, its supposed to lionize 'media' but ends up really being a shitty parody.
And no, there was never any good reason to see this movie, other than to see who says wet farts smell like pine trees. X years into a shooting war, and butterfat mcfuckface still has no trigger discipline. But see, orange glasses bad gurglegurglemonkeypox.
[IsraelTimes] Pro-Israel politician reveals his grandfather learned shortly before dying that his mother was a Jew, in latest Jewish-related development for the philosemitic Argentine president.
Probably half of the Latin world has a story like this buried in their DNA, given how many Jews in Spain and Portugal converted — or pretended to convert — in order not to be expelled (Spain 1492, Portugal 1493)… and then married their Catholic neighbours. A thought to chill the hearts of Jew-haters everywhere, because there are similar stories in the rest of Christendom and the Ummah, as well.
[Breitbart] Eighty-six House Republicans on Friday voted against an amendment to require a warrant for surveillance of Americans’ communications.
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) proposed an amendment to the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act (RISAA), a bill that would reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Section 702 is a law that is meant to target foreign adversaries, but often surveils Americans’ private communications without a warrant.
The amendment tied at 212-212 in the House; a tie in the House means that the measure fails. Although Biggs’s amendment did receive support from a majority of Republicans, 86 House Republicans failed to support the proposal.
A warrant requirement is overwhelmingly backed by Americans. A YouGov poll commissioned by FreedomWorks and Demand Progress found that 76 percent of Americans support a warrant requirement, while only 12 percent oppose.
Only one member of House Republican leadership voted with the majority of the House Republican Conference on warrants requirements: House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN). Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA), and House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY) voted against the warrant requirement.
Greylock McKinnon Associates (GMA), a trusted consulting firm, fell victim to a cyber breach on May 30, 2023, but was undetected until February 7, 2024.
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Hey I just yesterday got the word from ATT that I was in in the their big breach from a couple of months ago. As recompense, they offered me: 6 mos of Experian coverage. You know, so they can loose my data.
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Nothing worse than loosing your data unless it's losing it.
[FoxNews] The Navy has 49 out of 66 attack submarines necessary to meet their AUKUS requirements
U.S. nuclear-powered submarines are the crown jewel of American military might and key to deterring adversaries like China. The Biden administration signed a historic three-way partnership with Australia and the United Kingdom, known as AUKUS in 2021.
The agreement promotes deeper information and technology sharing between the three countries and the U.S. agreed to share nuclear submarine technology with Australia for the first time ever. Also a first; the U.S. will sell several nuclear-powered attack submarines to Australia.
But there is one problem. The U.S. does not have enough submarines for itself. Old subs are being retired faster than they can be replaced and the U.S. ship building industry is years behind schedule.
Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., who serves as ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, supports AUKUS, but is concerned how the U.S. is going to live up to its commitments to Australia.
"The intelligence couldn't be clearer... China is preparing for a war and specifically for a war with the United States," Wicker said on the Senate floor. "The AUKUS deal will help prevent that war from happening."
Wicker has been ringing the alarm for years on how the U.S. needs to build up its industrial base. Wicker inserted $3.4 billion into the national security supplemental to jumpstart the ship building base.
The Navy requires 66 attack submarines but right now only has 49. In total, the Pentagon is 17 nuclear attack submarines short of Navy requirements and needs to build 2.33 Virginia-class submarines per year to meet its AUKUS commitments on time.
The basic fact is this: Our defense industrial base is not where it needs to be," Wicker said.
In an exclusive interview with Fox News, U.S. Navy Under Secretary Erik Raven explained how the Navy is addressing the shortage. Asked why the submarine industry is so behind and backed up, Raven said demand for submarines has gone up five times in the last 15 years.
"While industry has been increasing its production, it's been challenging. And what we're seeing is they're not quite catching up to the demand signal, but we're doing something about it," Raven said.
Raven explained the U.S. Navy is partnering with private industry, state and local governments, community colleges and non-profits to recruit 100,000 Americans to work in the submarine industry.
"We're going through a generational change in the workforce at our shipyards and our suppliers. So we need to build new talent, bring in more Americans to work in the sector and also in supply chain. Covid was a significant interruption in our ability to do business," Raven said.
It is a modern day "Uncle Sam Wants You!" campaign.
Non-profit BlueForge Alliance has been tasked with helping the Navy hire 100,000 Americans.
Kiley Wren, the co-founder and chief executive put this as an appeal to patriotism.
"There are literally tens of thousands of opportunities over the coming decade and more for long term, family-sustaining generational jobs that have a really important purpose," Wren told Fox News.
"We have, high-paying, good wage, family-sustaining jobs. But the number one thing that comes up is purpose and the ability to serve your country in a job that you go to every day is an enormous sense of pride," Wren said.
Earlier this month, Admiral John Aquilino, U.S. Pacific Commander, assessed China would be capable of invading Taiwan in 2027. One way the U.S. stays ahead of China as the dominant Navy power is its submarines.
"Submarines have a unique role in securing the peace all around the world. Their ability to move unchallenged, through, through the seas, all around the world is an incredible asymmetric advantage. And the United States builds and operates the world's most advanced submarines," Raven said.
Asked about reports China is building a "Great Underwater Wall," to monitor submarine activity in the waters around China, Raven said he is not concerned.
"We have an incredibly capable submarine force that's capable of tackling any challenge that her adversaries may pose… our submarines are incredibly capable," Raven said.
Raven emphasized in order to stay ahead of China, the U.S. must have a strong submarine industrial base.
"These are good, dependable jobs with a long future. No matter whether you are an engineer, a welder, an electrician or an accountant, there's some role for any American who has an interest in helping us build submarines," Raven said.
[YouTube] New video has emerged of Chinese police flying into Fiji to round up a group of 77 alleged online scammers. But an expert in Pacific studies says such raids by China are happening globally, and they raise serious concerns about sovereignty - not just for Fiji but also for New Zealand.
Remember the Chinese police kiosk set up in New York City (I think) not long ago? They’ve been everywhere.
[You Tube] If you were going on operations tomorrow and you could only choose either the 7.62 mm Self Loading Rifle (SLR) or the 5.56 mm SA80 A1/A2/A3.
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Depends. If it is a shorter range city slug crawl, M-4A3 definitely. Lighter and can carry more ammunition and it works perfectly well at 150-200 meters.
Long range fire like the trench warfare in Ukraine, definitely the SLR. Hits harder at longer ranges and I can keep ammo stored near me for resupply.
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Didn't we have this dynamic in the early Viet Nam era and the M-14/M-16 discussion about Fulda Gap Vs Jungle environment engagement ranges and combat ammo load? Sounds awfully familiar. As an aside, don;t we have a lot of M-14s in storage somewhere, and a 7.62, seems like we could just avoid re-tooling for a whole new cartridge series when we are flat broke?
[Jpost] Research on decision-making has shown that when people are making decisions, they have to evaluate their options over time because they often don’t immediately know what to do.
Too many psych research projects are based on the responses of easily available undergraduate psych students, who tend toward an exploratory rather than decisive personality type. The decisive personality type (eg. engineers, business managers, the military) has a great deal of trouble not making decisions quickly.
Corresponding author and psychology Prof. Ian Krajbich, who studies the cognitive process by which people make choices, and colleagues led by Fadong Chen at China’s Zhejiang University and Hangzhou Normal University, asked 353 college-student volunteers to choose between patient and impatient alternatives – for example to receive $40 in seven days or $60 in 30 days, by clicking their choice on a computer screen while software tracked and recorded the movements of their mouse. In some cases, participants had to make their decisions in two seconds, in others they had to wait 10 seconds or had unlimited time before choosing. At the end of the study, participants earned money based on one decision.
With that subject base and base size, the results can be no more than suggestive. Re-do it with a thousand or more subjects from a variety of backgrounds — see how the results compare.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
