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J. Giambrone

I’m kind of burned out on movie reviews. So here’s the short version.

The White Princess – This is the sequel to the intriguing White Queen series. Only, they seem to have tossed out the entire cast! Probably for budget, plus the camera department looked cheated too for the first several episodes. It is the same source material, however, and so the trials and tribulations of Tudor England press on.

The Greatest Showman – I was suckered into seeing this by a female. Little did I know it was a musical! They still make them. This one worked because they didn’t sing everything, but had big Baz Luhrmann style sequences in between the dramatic scenes. It’s almost got a Moulin Rouge sensibility.

Bates Motel – Unwatchable. They took gritty, serious source material, which Hitchcock based on serial killer Ed Gein, and turned it into teen soap opera. Fuck them…

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Facebook Exec Admits Dark Reality

 

Growth At Any Cost

 

That can be bad if they make it negative. Maybe it costs a life by exposing someone to bullies. Maybe someone dies in a terrorist attack coordinated on our tools.

…All the questionable contact importing practices. All the subtle language that helps people stay searchable by friends.

 

We come in peace

 

U.S. Has Special Forces in 149 Countries and Ambassadors in 144

 

 

Assange Incommunicado

 

Who had the real motive to poison the spy?

Ecuador cuts off Julian Assange’s internet in London embassy because he tweeted about Russian ex-spy’s poisoning

Those Cuddly, Lovable Saudis

 

Your evil empire in action…

Trump’s Publisher Pal Puts Saudi Propaganda Magazine in U.S. Supermarkets

Pulse gunman’s father revealed as FBI informant

 

Surprise, surprise. Now we find out Omar Mateen’s father was an FBI informant at the time of his ISIS-inspired massacre. What’s more the father sends money to Turkey and Afghanistan for unspecified reasons.

 

Pulse gunman’s father revealed as FBI informant

 

According to a motion filed by Salman’s lawyers, the defense team learned about Seddique Mateen’s work for the FBI on Saturday, in an email from prosecutor Sara Sweeney. She said the elder Mateen had been an FBI source “at various points” between January 2005 and June 2016. Seddique Mateen was on the prosecutors’ witness list, but they rested their case last week without calling him to testify.

Sweeney also disclosed that FBI agents investigating the shooting found receipts for money transfers to Turkey and Afghanistan between March 16, 2016, and June 5, 2016. On June 10, Omar Mateen searched for cheap tickets to Istanbul.

 

Chinese Petro-Yuan: This is Big

 

Nearly every recent war had a challenge to the US dollar as a contributing factor. Now China steps up.

Death of US dollar? China launches petro-yuan to challenge greenback’s dominance

Anne Frank Center: US / Nazi Germany Parallels

 

 

Anne Frank Centre warns of ‘alarming parallels’ between Trump’s America and Hitler’s Germany

Alarming parallels of history escalate. pic.twitter.com/5P708XVa5h

— Anne Frank Center (@AnneFrankCenter) August 8, 2017

World War 3 Imminent

 

US Planning a Terrorist False Flag Chemical Attack to Justify Bombing Syria: Russia Says It Will Respond

America and its allies have been committing war crimes against Syria for seven years, and now they are ramping up for a massive increase in violence. Russia has warned against this escalation.

The words of Gerasimov are even more dire, since he explains how the United States and its allies are preparing the ground to justify an attack on Syria. According to reports, terrorists stationed in Al-Tanf (an illegal US military base in Syria) received 20 tons of chlorine gas and detonators, disguised as cigarette packs, in order to attack in an area under the control of the terrorists that is densely inhabited by civilians. What would then happen is already obvious, with the White Helmets (AKA Al-Qaeda) and mainstream media ready to broadcast the images of the victims of the attack, tugging at the heartstrings of Western viewers otherwise unaware of the conspiracy being played out. Efforts to frame Russia have already reached the highest alert levels, with the false-flag poisoning of the Russian spy in the United Kingdom. It seems that there is a significant effort by the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Germany to provoke a military confrontation with Moscow. How else are we able to interpret threats from Macron to strike Damascus, together with his ominous advice to foreign journalists not to go to Damascus in the coming days and, for those already there, to leave the capital immediately? There has even been chatter within diplomatic circles that suggest that UN personnel are leaving Damascus. This could be psychological warfare, or it could be a prelude to war. With the stakes so high, we cannot afford to ignore any detail, even if it may be disinformation. The American attack seems imminent, with mounting signs of movements of American and Russian warships in the Mediterranean in attack formation.

Facebook Data Harvesting

Hundreds of millions of Facebook users are likely to have had their private information harvested by companies that exploited the same terms as the firm that collected data and passed it on to Cambridge Analytica, according to a new whistleblower.

“My concerns were that all of the data that left Facebook servers to developers could not be monitored by Facebook, so we had no idea what developers were doing with the data,” he said.

‘Utterly horrifying’: ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine

More Chemical Weapon False Flag Frauds

Russia’s Defense Ministry says “US instructors” are training militants to stage false flag chemical attacks in south Syria. The incidents are said to be a pretext for airstrikes on Syrian government troops and infrastructure.

US training Syria militants for false flag chemical attack as basis for airstrikes – Russian MoD

“We have reliable information at our disposal that US instructors have trained a number of militant groups in the vicinity of the town of At-Tanf, to stage provocations involving chemical warfare agents in southern Syria. Early in March, the saboteur groups were deployed to the southern de-escalation zone to the city of Deraa, where the units of the so-called Free Syrian Army are stationed. They are preparing a series of chemical munitions explosions. This fact will be used to blame the government forces. The components to produce chemical munitions have been already delivered to the southern de-escalation zone under the guise of humanitarian convoys of a number of NGOs.”

He also said:

“The provocations will be used as a pretext by the United States and its allies to launch strikes on military and government infrastructure in Syria. We’re registering the signs of the preparations for the possible strikes. Strike groups of the cruise missile carriers have been formed in the east of the Mediterranean Sea, Persian Gulf and Red Sea.”

‘Skripal case is a carefully-constructed drama’