Sunday, November 29, 2009

Lord Monckton: Shut Down The UN, Arrest Al Gore

Appearing on The Alex Jones Show yesterday, Lord Christopher Monckton went further than ever before in his vehement opposition to the elitists running the climate change scam, calling for the UN to be shut down and for fraudulent peddlers of global warming propaganda like Al Gore to be arrested and criminally prosecuted.

Monckton said that those who are threatening to shut down economies, bankrupt nations, and deepen the problems of the third world by implementing draconian policies in the name of global warming should be indicted, prosecuted and imprisoned “for a very long time”.Full Story

Climategate, it won't go away report it, CBC


In general, the corporate media has ignored the climategate story. In Europe, Britain, Australia, and elsewhere the corporate media has reported on this important story, but here in the United States it has met mostly with a stony silence.

In Canada, a determined activist interrupted a CBC broadcast with a message demanding the news network report on the climategate story. His message and act should be repeated here in the United States and around the world.

The corporate media cannot be allowed to bury this important story.

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Rachel Uchitel


Rachel Uchitel Pictures and Photos: In Demand and Rumored Affair with Tiger Woods
It’s the buzz around the world that keeps our lives interesting. Today, the buzz is all about tiger woods and his rummored affair with Rachel Uchitel. Who is Rachel Uchitel? She’s a gorgeous, hot, celeb-wannabe but she really is hot on the search engines today as people are interested to know the face behind the rumor. Earlier this day, Tiger Woods had a car accident and rumors say that he was on an argument with his wife on the phone at the time of the crash. It is rumored that they are arguing of Rachel.

Source: Rachel Uchitel Pictures and Photos: In Demand and Rumored Affair with Tiger Woods | Daily World Buzz http://www.dailyworldbuzz.com/rachel-uchitel-pictures-in-demand-and-rumored-affair-with-tiger-woods-updated/3522/#ixzz0YD3NsWVC
Via: Daily World Buzz

Thirst (2009)





director: Chan-woo Park

writers: Chan-woo Park, Seo-Gyeong Jeong

starring: Kang-ho Song, Ok-vin Kim

genre: Drama, Horror







If you’re in the mood for a real vampire film Thirst is the proper way to go. Its not shiny, soap operarish and doesn’t have giant werewolves. Its more realistic take on the vampire genre with a romance to it and the corruption of the disease that is to be a vampire.




The story is of a deeply faithful priest Sang-hyun (Song Kang-Ho), who wants to help people as much as he can. He goes to this religious research facility that is researching on an virus that is plaguing missionaries. They administer the virus, then the vaccine on Sang-hyun and other test subjects to look for a cure. After loss of much of his blood, they put in him for unknown reasons vampire blood and from there the magic begins. Slowly his transformation to this vampiric entity will change him entirely and shake his religious beliefs. Falling in love with one his patient’s wife. The two of them will bond and in a sense will be doomed to hell.




Vampires are back once again due to the whole Twilight fad. But Chan-woo Park is not affected by the fad and actually makes a very fascinating film. It manages to tell a quirky, cool and fun tale that actually has some filmmaking to it, compared to the Twilight Saga. It's about forbidden love, lust, corruption of the mind, soul and where are actions take us. And it so happens to have vampires in it. Focusing too much on the monster mythology is what makes most monster or horror films fail. Let it be in the background if its not integral to the story.


If your not familiar with who Park is, he is the guy who made Olboy,one of the best films to come out of Asian cinema. In a way Oldboy is a masterpiece in my opinion. Thirst is no masterpiece. But no biggie. It still has all those qualities and filmmaking techniques that Oldboy had. Park's camera angles, the way he chooses his characters to act, the blood, the frenetic and surealistic story at all times keep the film fresh and constantly interesting. A lot of times due to his playful camera work and surrealistic storytelling you will be scratching your head or pondering with what’s taking place and if everything is as normal as it seems. Park is one one of those few filmmakers that manage to attract and entertain the audience with his incredible cinematic ideas and deep and provacative stories.




The fault of the film could be its quirkiness and its humor. There are a few elements of the film that are a tad weird. May they be some jokes in the film or the dialogue. But all of this could be attributed to bad subtitle translation or Korean humor. But any case its nothing too serious to distract you from the overall experience.




Thirst is the best horror film ive seen this year. There is a enough blood to go around with only gore fanatics to be disappointed. This is the vampire film to see and not Twilight, which is just a disgrace to the vampire genre and to cinema today.


Personal Rating:




Review by Paul

Throw Another Bunny on the Fire



Energizer Bunnies: Turning Rabbits into Green Fuel
By Tara Kelly Saturday, Nov. 28, 2009
rabbit sweden biofuel
Brian Bahr / Getty



Sweden's Tommy Tuvuynger and his team of professional hunters don't have to go far to find their prey. Tuvuynger is employed to keep down rabbit numbers in the Swedish capital, Stockholm. The rabbit population there has exploded over the past few years thanks to owners setting free their pets. Last year the eradication squad killed 6,000 of the furry critters, which are not native to Sweden. When the city started killing the rabbits in 2006, officials realized they would have to dispose of their carcasses. At around the same time, the European Union passed a law that makes it illegal to dispose of raw meat or carcasses in landfills. Solution: use the bunnies as fuel to heat Swedish homes.


Easter Bunny Heat

Obama Pro Land Mine

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has decided not to sign an international convention banning land mines.

State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said Tuesday that the administration recently completed a review and decided not to change the Bush-era policy.

"We decided that our land mine policy remains in effect," he said.


An Afghan girl touches her mother's artificial leg the ICRC Ali Abad Orthopaedic centre in Kabul November 12, 2009. The centre, which is run mostly by disabled people, aims to educate and rehabilitate landmine victims and people with any kind of deformities, to help them integrate effectively into society.

Friday, November 27, 2009

Sharyl Attkisson



Infowars.net
Friday, Nov 27, 2009
On Thursday 19th November 2009 news began to circulate that hacked documents and communications from the University of East Anglia’s Hadley Climate Research Unit (aka CRU) had been published to the internet.

The information revealed how top scientists conspired to falsify data in the face of declining global temperatures in order to prop up the premise that man-made factors are driving climate change.

The documents and emails illustrated how prominent climatologists, affiliated with the UN’s International Panel on Climate Change, embarked on a venomous and coordinated campaign to ostracize climate skeptics and use their influence to keep dissenting reports from appearing in peer-reviewed journals, as well as using cronyism to avoid compliance with Freedom of Information Act requests.

Monday, November 23, 2009

Broken Promise

Climate-Gate



Inhofe Says He Will Call for Investigation on "Climategate"

Global Warming Meltdown: Climategate!



Alan Caruba
Warning Signs
November 22, 2009

For those of us “skeptics” and “deniers” who have been jumping up and down, pointing at the Sun, and saying, “See, it’s the Sun that determines how warm or cool the Earth is. See it? Up there in the sky?” The truth about some of the scientists behind the global warming hoax has finally arrived.
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Now that Hadley CRU and its conspirators have been exposed, there truly is no need to hold a December UN climate change conference in Copenhagen.


The hoax has its roots in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an instrument of the United Nations Environmental Program, for whom global warming was the open sesame to achieving a one-world-government by scaring nations into signing a treaty that would control their use of energy, the means of producing it, and require vast billions to be sent to less developed nations in exchange for “emitting” greenhouse gases.

Energy is called “the master resource” because, if you have lots of it, you can call your own shots. If you don’t, you are condemned to live in the dark and keeping people in the dark about the global warming hoax was essential.

For years the IPCC has been controlled by a handful of the worst liars in the world, utterly devoted to taking actual climate data and twisting it to confirm the assertion that the Earth was not only warming dramatically, but that humanity was in peril of rising oceans, melting glaciers and polar ice caps, more hurricanes, the die-off of countless animal species, and every other calamity that could possibly be attributed to “global warming”, including acne.

So, around November 20, when some enterprising individual hacked into the computers of the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU), making off with thousands of emails and documents that demonstrate the level of collusion and deception being practiced by its scientists.

It’s a climate hoax expose that some are calling the revelations a “little blue dress” while others are comparing it to the Pentagon Papers. It has also been dubbed “climategate.”

As James Delingpole wrote in the Telegraph, one of England’s leading newspapers, “Conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organized resistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims and much more” was revealed in the 61 megabites of confidential files released on the Internet for anyone to read.

The conspirators had a visceral hatred for scientists who challenged their phony statistics and climate data, but they also agonized over the difficulties of hiding a long established climate cycle such as the Medieval Warm Period. At one point it was left out of a graph that famously became known as “the hockey stick” because it depicted a ludicrous sudden rise in warming, ignoring the previous natural cycle.

At the heart of the revelations were the intense efforts to ensure that no legitimate scientist, particularly those dissenting from the various IPCC reports, would be allowed to participate in the peer review process. Peer review is an essential element in science as it permits other scientists to examine and test the data being put forth to substantiate a new interpretation or discovery.

The IPCC reports were the basis by which popular media such as National Geographic, Time and Newsweek magazines could spread the lies about a dramatic “global warming”, passing them off to an unsuspecting and scientifically illiterate general public. At the same time, the lies were integrated them into school curriculums and maintained by Hollywood celebrities, politicians and others, duped or deliberately ignorant.

To this day, otherwise legitimate news media outlets continue to trumpet and repeat absolute nonsense about “global warming” like brain-dead parrots.

Now that Hadley CRU and its conspirators have been exposed, there truly is no need to hold a December UN climate change conference in Copenhagen; one in which nations would be required to put limits on “greenhouse gas emissions” even though such gases, primarily carbon dioxide, have nothing to do with altering the Earth’s climate.

And that is why you are going to hear more about “climate change” and far less about “global warming.” Hidden in such discussions, intended to justify legislation and regulation, is that the Earth’s climate has always and will always change.

It is, for example, shameful and deceitful for the EPA to claim carbon dioxide is a “pollutant” that should be regulated. The same applies to “cap-and-trade” legislation with the same purpose.

Billions of taxpayer dollars have been wasted on studies of global warming and poured into agencies such as NASA that have lent credence to the global warming hoax.

“The U.S. taxpayer has much exposure here in the joint projects and collaborations which operated in reliance upon what the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit was doing,” says Christopher C. Horner, a longtime global warming skeptic. “There are U.S. taxpayer-funded offices and individuals involved in the machinations addressed in the emails, and in the emails themselves.”

Horner, the author of “Red Hot Lies”, said that the initial revelations “give the appearance of a conspiracy to defraud, by parties working in taxpayer funded agencies collaborating on ways to misrepresent material on which an awful lot of taxpayer money rides.”

The climate, defined as long term trends, and the weather has nothing whatever to do with human activity and suggesting it does reveals the depth of contempt that people like Al Gore and his ilk have for humanity and those fleeced by purchasing “carbon credits” or paying more for electricity when their utility does.

The East Anglia CRU charlatans have been exposed. Most certainly, the United Nations IPCC should be disbanded in disgrace. It belongs in a museum of hoaxes right beside the Piltdown Man and the Loch Ness Monster.

Sunday, November 22, 2009

2012 (2009)



director: Roland Emmerich

writers: Roland Emmerich, Harald Kloser

starring: John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Oliver Platt, Tom McCarthy, Danny Glover

genre: Action/Drama/Sci-fi







Το 2012 αποτελεί μια ταινία που περίμενα λίγο καιρό τώρα να δω, γιατί μου είχε κινήσει τη περιέργεια το αδιαμφισβήτητα ωραίο τρέιλερ και επειδή γενικά απολαμβάνω ταινίες απόλυτης καταστροφής. Μπήκα λοιπόν στην αίθουσα και αυτό που παρακολούθησα για το χορταστικό διάστημα των δύο ωρών και σαράντα (!!!) παρακαλώ λεπτών ήταν αυτό ακριβώς. Μια καταστροφή ή καλύτερα μια απόλυτη καταστροφή. Αλλά στα της ταινίας:



Όλα ξεκινάνε στο σωτήριο έτος 2009 όταν ένας Αμερικάνος επιστήμονας ονόματι Adrian(Chiwetel Ejiofor) πληροφορείται από έναν Ινδό συνάδελφό του ότι τα επίπεδα νετρονίων που φτάνουν από τον ήλιο είναι πολύ υψηλά και ότι η Γη έχει μόλις λάβει ένα τελεσίγραφο καταστροφής. Αμέσως πληροφορείτε ο Πρόεδρος της Αμερικής (Danny Glover) και όλοι οι μεγάλοι ηγέτες του κόσμου. Τρία χρόνια μετά και συγκεκριμένα το 2012 ο κόσμος αρχίζει να συγκλονίζεται από μεγάλες φυσικές καταστροφές, με την πλειονότητα του λαού να αγνοεί τον επερχόμενο αφανισμό. Στη συντέλεια λοιπόν ώρα της Γης παρακολουθούμε την προσπάθεια του Jackson Curtis(John Cusack) να προστατέψει την οικογένειά του από την καταστροφή και μερικές άλλες παράλληλες ιστορίες, οι οποίες είτε διασταυρώνονται, είτε συναντιούνται και ταξιδεύουν μαζί προς την σωτηρία.



Σκηνοθετικά η ταινία ήταν καλή εκεί που την ήθελα να είναι. Πολύ καλά εφέ και πολύ καλή διαχείριση τους δίνουν πολύ όμορφες σκηνές που πραγματικά σε αφήνουν αποσβολωμένο με τη ρεαλιστικότητα τους και την κατασροφικότητά τους στη προκειμένη. Αυτό που δε μου άρεσε όμως ήταν η επανάληψη πολλών μελοδραματικών σκηνών που πραγματικά με κούρασε. Ο καθένας μέσα στη ταινία κατάφερε να έχει τουλάχιστον δύο λεπτά δικά του αποχαιρετώντας κάποιον συγγενή, φίλο ή παιδί που έχανε. Δεν είναι τυχαία λοιπόν και η διάρκεια της ταινίας.



Η ηθοποιία ήταν καλή, αναμενόμενο βέβαια από τα πολύ καλά ονόματα του καστ που ήταν πολύ εύκολο με βάση το ταλέντο τους να φέρουν σε πέρας τις σκηνές δράσης και κυνηγητού, αλλά ταυτόχρονα ήταν και πολύ αστείοι όταν πάσχιζαν σε δυνατούς μονολόγους και δραματικές σκηνές, όπου κανείς δε τις θυμάται μετά από πέντε λεπτά.



Αυτό που πραγματικά μένει από την ταινία είναι τα καταπληκτικά εφέ και πλάνα πλημμυρών, εκρήξεων και θανάτου που πιστέψτε με είναι πολλά, καθώς και οι πολλές καλές σκηνές γέλιου στις οποίες ο σκηνοθέτης μας έχει συνηθίσει στις ταινίες του όπως το Godzilla, Independence Day, 10,000 B.C και The Day After Tomorrow( το οποίο κατά την γνώμη μου ήταν κλάσεις καλύτερο από το τωρινό φιλμ).



Εν κατακλείδι λοιπόν, αξίζει να δείτε την ταινία στον κινηματογράφο αν είστε φαν του είδους ή αν θέλετε να κάνετε το χαβαλέ σας με την παρέα σας. Σε οποιαδήποτε άλλη περίπτωση μη διανοηθείτε να ξοδέψετε τα λεφτά σας σε αυτό το εισιτήριο.



Καλή Προβολή!!!







Three Mile Island Radiation Leak


MIDDLETOWN, Pa. - November 22, 2009 -- A small amount of radiation has been detected in a reactor building at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in central Pennsylvania.

About 150 employees were sent home after the radiation was detected Saturday afternoon, but officials say there is no public health risk.

Exelon Nuclear spokeswoman Beth Archer says investigators are searching for the cause, but that the radiation was quickly contained.

Radiological surveys showed the contamination was confined to surfaces inside the containment building.

The unit has been shut down for refueling and maintenance since Oct. 26. The company hopes to resume activities Sunday.

Officials are checking employees who had been working in the building for possible unusual radiation exposure.

A partial meltdown occurred in Three Mile Island's Unit 2 reactor in March 1979.

War Tax - "That 's not the kind of CHANGE I was looking for."


Under Bush there were 26,000 US troops in Afghanistan.
Under Obama there are 68,000 US troops in Afghanistan and a War Tax in the works.
As someone who voted for Obama, I must say "That's not the kind of CHANGE I was looking for."

Obama Allies Want New Tax To Pay For Cost Of Protecting Afghan Opium Fields, Bribing Taliban

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Friday, November 20, 2009

Not content with savaging American taxpayers with two huge new financial burdens during an economic recession, in the form of health care reform and cap and trade, close allies of Barack Obama have proposed a new war surtax that will force Americans to foot the bill for the cost of protecting opium fields in Afghanistan, paying off drug lords, and bribing the Taliban.

Warning that the cost of occupying Afghanistan is a threat to the Democrats’ plan to overhaul health care, lawmakers have announced their plan to make Americans pay an additional war tax that will be taken directly from their income, never mind the fact that around 36 per cent of federal taxes already go to paying for national defense.

“Regardless of whether one favors the war or not, if it is to be fought, it ought to be paid for,” the lawmakers, all prominent Democratic allies of Obama, said in a joint statement on the “Share The Sacrifice Act of 2010 ( PDF), reports AFP.

The move is being led by the appropriately named House Appropriations Committee Chairman Dave Obey, Representative John Murtha, who chairs that panel’s defense subcommittee; and House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank.

The tax would apply to anyone earning as little as $22,600 per year in 2011.

The proposal is described as “heavily symbolic” with little chance of passing, but it once again illustrates the hypocrisy of an administration that swept to power on the promise of “change” to the Neo-Con imperial agenda and a resolve to reduce U.S. military involvement overseas. In reality, there are more troops in Iraq and Afghanistan now under Obama that at any time during the Bush administration.

At the height of the Bush administration’s 2007 “surge” in Iraq, there were 26,000 US troops in Afghanistan and 160,000 in Iraq, a total of 186,000.

According to DoD figures cited by The Washington Post last month, there are now around 189,000 and rising deployed in total. There are now 68,000 troops in Afghanistan, over double the amount deployed there when Bush left office.

What precisely would this extra tax be used to pay for? Namely, bribing the Taliban, paying off CIA drug lords, and protecting heroin-producing opium fields.

Numerous reports over the past two weeks have confirmed that the U.S. military is paying off the Taliban with bags of gold to prevent them from attacking vehicle convoys, proving that there is no real “war” in Afghanistan, merely a business agreement that allows the occupiers to continue their lucrative control of record opium exports while they finalize construction of dozens of new military bases from which to launch new wars.

The Afghan opium trade has exploded since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, following a lull after the Taliban had imposed a crackdown. According to the U.N., the drug trade is now worth $65 billion. Afghanistan produces 92 per cent of the world’s opium, with the equivalent of at least 3,500 tonnes leaving the country each year.

This racket is secured by drug kingpins like the brother of disputed president Hamid Karzai. As a New York Times report revealed last month, Ahmed Wali Karzai, a Mafia-like figure who expanded his influence over the drug trade with the aid of U.S. efforts to eliminate his competitors, is on the CIA payroll.

As Professor Michel Chossudovsky has highlighted in a series of essays, the explosion of opium production after the invasion was about the CIA’s drive to restore the lucrative Golden Crescent opium trade that was in place during the time when the Agency were funding the Mujahideen rebels to fight the Soviets, and flood the streets of America and Britain with cheap heroin, destroying lives while making obscene profits.

Any war surtax will merely go straight to maintaining the agenda that Obama inherited from Bush, the continued looting of Afghanistan under the pretext of a “war on terror” that, as revelations about bribing the Taliban prove, doesn’t even exist.


*sidenote* My army buddy has walked through these fields and they are commanded not to destroy. Odd. I would've suggested napalm.

Sweet Dreams

The local police chief in Ozark, Arkansas is standing behind one of his officers who tasered a 10-year-old girl who was refusing to go to bed.
Night Night

He inoculated these weasels, and all of them died.

Bells Toll for Vaccine Maker

Sister Teresa Forcades i Vila, PhD, an Italian Benedictine nun, a trained medical doctor, and the author of Crimes and Abuses of the Pharmaceutical Industry – a 36-page study available in full at this linkCrimes & Abuses – is yet another voice of reason in the sea of swine flu madness.

I had an interview with her translated and transcribed into English, which you can read in its entirety here.

Here’s an excerpt from her interview, questioning the sanity of placing our unequivocal trust in a pharmaceutical company like Baxter:

“… Anyone can verify that the information I’m going to disclose is accurate and objective.

… At the end of January 2009, before this new flu was discovered, Baxter Pharmaceuticals, a US company with a very important subsidiary company in Austria, distributed vaccination material for the [seasonal] flu, from the Austrian subsidiary via neighboring European countries – the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Germany – to 16 different laboratories.

[This was] material for the vaccine to be administered between February and March to the population of those countries for the seasonal flu.

This material weighed 72 kg. Well, I haven’t calculated the exact number of doses but it certainly means thousands and thousands of doses. So this was distributed, and (there) comes a point, when through one of those life coincidences, situations or plans are revealed that otherwise would have remained in the dark.

The Czech company Bio Test was one of the recipients of this material. One of their lab technicians decided – through his own initiative and as something he was qualified to do but not obliged – to carry out an extra security test with the vaccination material that they received, before proceeding with its distribution.

… He inoculated this vaccine into animals called in Spanish "comadrejas" or "hurones" – weasels or ferrets, small mammals that have been used since 1918 to test flu vaccines. He inoculated these weasels, and all of them died.

When he observed these unexpected deaths, and given that the inoculated vaccine shouldn’t have caused the death of the weasels, he immediately sounded the alarm and they began checks to establish what this material received from Baxter contained.

… The results of the analysis showed that in the material delivered by Baxter to those 106 laboratories, two live viruses coexisted.

One was the bird flu virus – the bird flu virus is the virus that appeared in 2005, and that caused a high mortality rate but infected just a few people. The number of deaths worldwide, and I quote by heart, was around 250 but as far as we know, around 60% of those infected died. This means that if 250 died worldwide just around 600 got infected, whichever the exact number is, the mortality rate of this virus is very high, but its infection rate is minimal.

This virus was mixed with a seasonal flu virus that, as we all know, has an extremely low mortality rate; lower than, 0.01%, lower than 1% of mortality at any rate, but with a high degree of transmission. Well, it’s highly contagious, with a high infection rate.

If you mix these two viruses and then distribute it to thousands of people, what you’re doing is you’re maximizing the probabilities for these two viruses to merge; for them to recombine, and for a new virus to appear to be both very lethal and very infectious.

This is a fact and this has been admitted by Baxter. They haven’t said “No, this is not true. This is just what by Jane Burgermeister says, or whoever, but this material wasn’t there.”

… They have admitted that the contamination took place but not that the material was designed for human use. Claiming protection behind the confidentiality rights, they haven’t disclosed information about its destination, and that the total 72 kg of the material contained a mix of live bird flu and seasonal flu viruses.

This is a fact. Could this have happened by chance?

The first thing that must be said is that it is extremely unlikely.

And I say this simply because in science the word “impossible” is something we never say. What does extremely unlikely mean? It means that laboratories handling this kind of viruses have Bio Security Levels in place. The Bio Security Level 3 is the highest, and the one that must be applied to this laboratory.

It means that if we talk in a scientific context about probability, based on known facts, the probability that this may have happened by chance is extremely low. Not only this, how can we explain the mixing of two different live viruses?

Additionally, the flu vaccines, as we all know, are vaccines made with attenuated viruses. This means that it’s perfectly normal for the flu vaccine to contain live virus; this is not an exception. But attenuated means that the virus must go through a radiation procedure. These viruses found in the Czech Republic in the whole Baxter material had not been attenuated. Therefore the odds of it happening by chance, well…

That’s why I say that, scientifically, or simply from a humanly prudent standpoint, we can’t say that it’s 100% impossible but, let’s be clear – it’s important to let it be known how unlikely it is for an accident to occur under these circumstances.

Friday, November 20, 2009

Climategate: Global Warming Fraud



Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of 'Anthropogenic Global Warming'?

By James Delingpole Politics Last updated: November 20th, 2009

If you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (aka Hadley CRU) and released 61 megabites of confidential files onto the internet. (Hat tip: Watts Up With That)

When you read some of those files – including 1079 emails and 72 documents – you realise just why the boffins at Hadley CRU might have preferred to keep them confidential. As Andrew Bolt puts it, this scandal could well be “the greatest in modern science”. These alleged emails – supposedly exchanged by some of the most prominent scientists pushing AGW theory – suggest:

Conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organised resistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims and much more.

One of the alleged emails has a gentle gloat over the death in 2004 of John L Daly (one of the first climate change sceptics, founder of the Still Waiting For Greenhouse site), commenting:

“In an odd way this is cheering news.”

But perhaps the most damaging revelations – the scientific equivalent of the Telegraph’s MPs’ expenses scandal – are those concerning the way Warmist scientists may variously have manipulated or suppressed evidence in order to support their cause.

Here are a few tasters. (So far, we can only refer to them as alleged emails because – though Hadley CRU’s director Phil Jones has confirmed the break-in to Ian Wishart at the Briefing Room – he has yet to fess up to any specific contents.) But if genuine, they suggest dubious practices such as:

Manipulation of evidence:

I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.

Private doubts about whether the world really is heating up:

The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t. The CERES data published in the August BAMS 09 supplement on 2008 shows there should be even more warming: but the data are surely wrong. Our observing system is inadequate.

Suppression of evidence:

Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith re AR4?

Keith will do likewise. He’s not in at the moment – minor family crisis.

Can you also email Gene and get him to do the same? I don’t have his new email address.

We will be getting Caspar to do likewise.

Fantasies of violence against prominent Climate Sceptic scientists:

Next
time I see Pat Michaels at a scientific meeting, I’ll be tempted to beat
the crap out of him. Very tempted.

Attempts to disguise the inconvenient truth of the Medieval Warm Period (MWP):

……Phil and I have recently submitted a paper using about a dozen NH records that fit this category, and many of which are available nearly 2K back–I think that trying to adopt a timeframe of 2K, rather than the usual 1K, addresses a good earlier point that Peck made w/ regard to the memo, that it would be nice to try to “contain” the putative “MWP”, even if we don’t yet have a hemispheric mean reconstruction available that far back….

And, perhaps most reprehensibly, a long series of communications discussing how best to squeeze dissenting scientists out of the peer review process. How, in other words, to create a scientific climate in which anyone who disagrees with AGW can be written off as a crank, whose views do not have a scrap of authority.

“This was the danger of always criticising the skeptics for not publishing in the “peer-reviewed literature”. Obviously, they found a solution to that–take over a journal! So what do we do about this? I think we have to stop considering “Climate Research” as a legitimate peer-reviewed journal. Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal. We would also need to consider what we tell or request of our more reasonable colleagues who currently sit on the editorial board…What do others think?”

“I will be emailing the journal to tell them I’m having nothing more to do with it until they rid themselves of this troublesome editor.”“It results from this journal having a number of editors. The responsible one for this is a well-known skeptic in NZ. He has let a few papers through by Michaels and Gray in the past. I’ve had words with Hans von Storch about this, but got nowhere. Another thing to discuss in Nice !”

Hadley CRU has form in this regard. In September – I wrote the story up here as “How the global warming industry is based on a massive lie” – Hadley CRU’s researchers were exposed as having “cherry-picked” data in order to support their untrue claim that global temperatures had risen higher at the end of the 20th century than at any time in the last millenium. Hadley CRU was also the organisation which – in contravention of all acceptable behaviour in the international scientific community – spent years withholding data from researchers it deemed unhelpful to its cause. This matters because Hadley CRU, established in 1990 by the Met Office, is a government-funded body which is supposed to be a model of rectitude. Its HadCrut record is one of the four official sources of global temperature data used by the IPCC.

I asked in my title whether this will be the final nail in the coffin of Anthropenic Global Warming. This was wishful thinking, of course. In the run up to Copenhagen, we will see more and more hysterical (and grotesquely exaggerated) stories such as this in the Mainstream Media. And we will see ever-more-virulent campaigns conducted by eco-fascist activists, such as this risible new advertising campaign by Plane Stupid showing CGI polar bears falling from the sky and exploding because kind of, like, man, that’s sort of what happens whenever you take another trip on an aeroplane.

The world is currently cooling; electorates are increasingly reluctant to support eco-policies leading to more oppressive regulation, higher taxes and higher utility bills; the tide is turning against Al Gore’s Anthropogenic Global Warming theory. The so-called “sceptical” view is now also the majority view.

Unfortunately, we’ve a long, long way to go before the public mood (and scientific truth) is reflected by our policy makers. There are too many vested interests in AGW, with far too much to lose either in terms of reputation or money, for this to end without a bitter fight.

But if the Hadley CRU scandal is true,it’s a blow to the AGW lobby’s credibility which is never likely to recover.

Climate Skeptics See 'Smoking Gun' in Researchers' Leaked E-Mails


Hackers broke into the servers at a prominent British climate research center and leaked years worth of e-mail messages onto the Web, including one with a mysterious reference to a plan to "hide the decline" in data about temperatures.

The Internet is abuzz about the leaked data from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (commonly called Hadley CRU), which has acknowledged the leak of 61MB of confidential data.

Climate change skeptics describe the leaked data as a "smoking gun," evidence of collusion among climatologists and manipulation of data to support the widely held view that climate change is caused by the actions of mankind. The files were reportedly released on a Russian file-serve by an anonymous poster calling himself "FOIA."telegraph
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Monday, November 16, 2009

I appeal to you do not get vaccinated


Controversy in Croatia after famous Croatian priest Miroslav Bustruk appealed to Croatians not to get vaccinated against the Swine flu vaccine.

In a church ceremony dedicated to St Martin, father's Bustruk statement caused an avalanche of reactions in Croatia.

What is it that he said?

"I appeal to you, to not get vaccinated for the so called Swine Flu under any circumstance. There is a plan for massive destruction of humanity worldwide. For this purpose we will see new diseases springing up everywhere" reports Croatian daily "Jutarnji List", quoting father Bustruk.

"The H1N1 vaccine itself is a very sophisticated weapon whose implanted microchip will control the health of the human being" added the Croatian priest which prompted a great deal of disagreement by Croatian officials.

In defense of his colleague stood Don Jure Zubovik who said father Bustruk's statement only defended the Church, adding - "certain people who have spoken out or warned against the vaccine are already in jail".

More will be known in few weeks when the Vatican is expted to issue a press release addressing all World's Governments.

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Lymelife (2009)



director: Derick Martini

writers: Derick Martini, Steven Martini
starring: Alec Baldwin, Emma Roberts, Rory Culkin, Jill Hennessy
genre: Drama






Just like Adventureland here’s another film set in the 80’s about a young kid trying to deal with life’s tough ways. And once again its semi based on the filmmakers experiences as a kid. The difference between that film and this, is that this more realistic, substantial, with better character development and overall meaning.




The story is about Scott Bartlet (Kieran Culkin) and his life with his troubled parents and neighbors. Around 15 years old, the only things he could want is a girl and happiness. Like any of us. But as we know sometimes its not always that easy. His parents Brenda (Jill Hennessy) and Mickey (Alec Baldwin) are having difficulties both with different reasons and ways of handling the situation. At the same time Scott is in love with his best friend and neighbor Adrianna (Emma Roberts) who is into older boys. Her parents also have problems and play a integral part to the story. The story is very true and anyone seeing this film will realize that many of us have gone through similar problems with our own family's and that sometimes family problems are a very common occurrence and a sad part of life.



Very realistic reactions of family members and of how life in suburbia can be really got me. The loving over protective mother, the bullied kid, neglected kid, husband caught up too much at work, mom thinking of past mistakes, kids taking sides, all of these things were something that just made me love this film. The amount of detail to how a person reacts to these situations remineded me of my own experiences and of others. Its not often a movie can reflect real life in this way. Many films try and go overboard with drama and extremities. But Lymelife doesn't go that far and gets points across a very effective manner.




All around the film does a great job. It wasn't only the realism and how the script touched me, but also everything else that made this into such great film. The acting from the cast is tremendous, with Alec Baldwin being a stand out. Im happy that he is back again to some dramatic roles after his roles as of late have gone too much to the comedic (not that he is bad at it). Also the young actors Kieran Culkin and Emma Roberts stand out with their inspiring performances and will be a delight to see them in the years to come. But its the handling of those daunting and dark scenes from the director that kept this whole package rolling without flaw.





Lymelife was a pleasant surprise. A lot of the films that come out of festivals and especially Sundance always have this hype going around them of their high class and superiority. Most of the times the films end up as overrated dramas. Lymelife is an truly emotional film with a very good story and a great ensemble cast. As one of the best dramas of the year this should not be missed.



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Saturday, November 14, 2009

Κυνόδοντας {Dogtooth} (2009)





director: Γιώργος Λάνθιμος

writers: Γιώργος Λάνθιμος, Ευθύμης Φιλίππου

starring: Χρήστος Στεργιόγλου, Μισέλ Βάλεϊ, Αγγελική Παπούλια, Χρήστος Πασσάλης, Μαίρη Τσώνη, Άννα Καλαϊτζίδου

genre: Drama








Δεν είχα στο "πρόγραμμα" να κάνω κριτική σε αυτή την ταινία, για να λέμε την πλήρη αλήθεια, αλλά είμαι τυχερός που χάλασε τόσο άσχημα αυτός μου ο προγραμματισμός και έπεσα πάνω της. Περίμενα πολύ καιρό μέχρι να βρω την κατάλληλη ευκαιρία και να δω αυτό το φιλμ. Μπήκα στην αίθουσα με την καλύτερη διάθεση. Και δεν βαρέθηκα ούτε μια στιγμή. Πριν πάμε καθαρά στα της ταινίας, θέλω να πω ότι ο "Κυνόδοντας" είναι η ταινία με την μεγαλύτερη αντιφατικότητα γνωμών/απόψεων που έχω κριτικάρει μέχρι τώρα. Και αυτές οι απόψεις δεν ακολουθούσαν κάποια μέση οδό ή τάση, ήταν ακραίες. Γι' αυτό ακριβώς το λόγο, έκανα πολύ μεγάλη προσπάθεια για να παραμείνω προσκολλημένος στην δική μου άποψη, φιλτράροντας με έναν υγιή τρόπο τις υπόλοιπες γνώμες. Για να μην μακρηγορώ άλλο, ας περάσουμε στο θέμα μας:







<Μια ασυνήθιστη οικογένεια(ο "πατέρας", η "μητέρα", οι δύο κόρες, ο ένας γιος, ο φράχτης και ο σκύλος) ζει σε ένα σπίτι κάπου σε μια εξοχή. Ο πατέρας είναι εργοστασιάρχης και ο μοναδικός που έχει επαφή με τον κόσμο πέρα από τα όρια του σπιτιού του.Η υπόλοιπη οικογένεια παραμένει εσώκλειστη στο σπίτι, γιατί έτσι απαιτεί η σωστή διαπαιδαγώγησή της(των παιδιών, κατά κύριο λόγο). Η ζωή σταματάει στα όρια του φράχτη. Στο τέλος, δεν ξέρουμε πια τι είμαστε...




Η ταινία τονίζει με φοβερά δυναμικό τρόπο την έννοια της καταστροφής ενός ανθρώπου και, κατ' επέκταση, μιας ανθρώπινης ψυχής. Ο αέναος και άκρατος φασισμός, οι παιδαγωγικές μέθοδοι ενός σαδιστικού κόσμου και η παρανόηση της έννοιας του έρωτα συνθέτουν τον πυρήνα του μικρόκοσμου που ο σκηνοθέτης θέλει να εξερευνήσει και να μας τρίψει στην μούρη. Ενός κόσμου και μιας φιλοσοφίας που ασπαζόμαστε, σε άλλες της μορφές, ακόμα και σήμερα. Έρωτας δεν είναι μόνο η σεξουαλική επαφή για την καταστολή των ορμών μας. Δεν είναι η πληρωμένη ικανοποίηση. Ούτε η αίσθηση της ελευθερίας με την κουκούλα της "δυνατότητας επιλογής". Όταν σου στερώ την επαφή σου με άλλους, σε "κατακρεουργώ" ψυχικά και, με το έτσι θέλω, σου κόβω τα φτερά, δεν είμαι άνθρωπος.Όταν χτίζω έναν κόσμο από δήθεν αγάπη για 'σένα, όπου σε αυτόν όλα είναι "προστατευμένα", για να σε βασανίσω και να σε φυλακίσω μέσα σε αυτόν, δεν είμαι άνθρωπος.




Όλα αυτά, ο σκηνοθέτης φρόντισε να μας τα σφηνώσει καλά μέσα στο μυαλό. Πλάνα στα οποία τα κεφάλια ήταν "κομμένα" ή οι ηθοποιοί προσαρμοζόντουσαν στην τάξη του σκηνικού, συνέθεταν το συνολικό σκηνοθετικό πλαίσιο. Και τα σκηνικά, επίσης, ήταν πολύ καλά στημένα. Παρά το γεγονός ότι δεν προσδιοριζόταν ο χρόνος κατά τον οποίο διαδραματιζόταν η ιστορία, κάποιες σκηνογραφικές λεπτομέρειες(όπως, για παράδειγμα, κάποια από τα έπιπλα της δεκαετίας του '80) έδιναν έναν άλλο τόνο στη μιζέρια και τον πόνο που κατοικούσε μαζί με την υπόλοιπη οικογένεια στο σπίτι.




Σεναριακά, τώρα, η δουλειά που έχει γίνει είναι πολύ καλή και προσεγμένη. Υπάρχει ένα εξαιρετικό ταίριασμα του σεναρίου με τα νοήματα που ήθελε ο δημιουργός να περάσει. Αναδεικνύεται συγχρόνως η παιδικότητα, η ανάγκη για αγάπη, για παιχνίδι, μαζί με το ψέμα, τον πόνο, το οργανωμένο βασανιστήριο, το μίσος.Η όλη πλοκή, έτσι όπως "έτρεχε", δεν ήταν καθόλου ανιαρή(το είπα και πριν αυτό) και λειτουργούσε με τεράστια επιτυχία σαν καθρέφτης της καρδιάς και του μυαλού του κάθε πρωταγωνιστή.



Το καλύτερο μέρος το άφησα για το τέλος. Ηθοποιία, λοιπόν. Δεν ήταν εύκολο το εγχείρημα που είχε ανατεθεί στους ηθοποιούς. Τα παιδιά έπρεπε να διατηρήσουν την αγνότητά τους, το πνεύμα αμφισβήτησής τους, τη διάθεση για παιχνίδι και όλα αυτά που κάνουν ένα παιδί, παιδί, μέσα σε έναν κόσμο φτιαγμένο ειδικά για το αντίθετο. Η μάνα έπρεπε να διατηρήσει την σκληρότητα του γονέα σε κάποιες περιπτώσεις, τον καθωσπρεπισμό της συζύγου σε συνδυασμό με την απόλυτη υποταγή στον άντρα της και την τρυφερότητα της μάνας. Ο πατέρας έπρεπε να ήταν και γονέας και φίλος και τιμωρός. Παρά την ουσιαστική δυσκολία, λοιπόν, που παρουσιάζουν αυτοί οι ρόλοι, οι ηθοποιοί ήταν φανταστικοί. Η προσαρμογή τους ήταν αυτή που έπρεπε και χωρίς αυτές τους τις ερμηνείες η ταινία θα βάδιζε προς άλλον δρόμο.




Σίγουρα θα ακούσετε πολλά για την ταινία αυτή. Ακόμα και αυτό εδώ το κείμενο μπορεί να σας άλλαξε την αρχική σας άποψη, είτε αυτή ήταν θετική, είτε αρνητική. Συμβουλή μου είναι να ακολουθήσετε το ένστικτό σας. Δεν θα κάνω κάποια πρόταση αυτή τη φορά, γιατί, όπως είπα, οι απόψεις είναι ακραίες.


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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Depopulation

US and NATO protecting Afghan drug trade



Source: Pakistan Post - Naveed Miraj

ISLAMABAD: After the fall of Taliban government, Afghanistan has again become a hub of narcotics cultivation and smuggling. Thanks to protection, being provided by the US troops, western forces and the Afghan government which are fully involved in the business in the name of war on terror.

The poppy cultivation that came to an end during Taliban period has risen to its highest level as the farmers have cultivated opium in a vast area of 477,000 acres of land in 2007, a 14 per cent increase over the previous year and total production, spurred by unusually high rainfall. Last year it was cultivated on 165,000 hectres, which is 60 per cent more than that of the previous year while Drug Enforcement Agency has the capacity to eliminate only one per cent of the production in the country. Afghanistan supplies 93 per cent of the world’s opium, the main ingredient of heroin and cultivation of poppy has reached at unprecedented level as the opium harvest jumped 34 per cent last year to an estimated 8,200 tonnes. Most of the fields of opium in Afghanistan are owned by the pro-government people specially the warlords who also control various areas and promote poppy cultivation there under the protection of US and allied forces. The US and western forces for certain reasons have given a free hand to the Afghan farmers to cultivate opium therefore turning the country into the biggest opium producer in the world.

There are also reports that the US forces are exporting drugs in collaboration with these warlords who also provide handsome money to the US forces. According to a recent report published by The New York Times, John Schewit a senior US official who had been posted in Afghanistan during the past five years as the Chief of US Anti-Narcotics Agency in an article of 12000 words has confirmed that the US forces and Afghan government have done nothing to control and stop poppy cultivation. Even the US Congress has also criticised the US AID for not providing alternative sources of income to the Afghan people. The Golden Crescent drug trade, launched by the CIA in the early 1980s, continues to be protected by US intelligence, in liaison with NATO occupation forces and the British military. In recent developments, British occupation forces have also been found involved in promoting opium cultivation through paid radio advertisements.

According to reports, the Karzai government officials have also close links with drug smugglers and the government is totally helpless before these warlords. A chain has been made for narcotics smuggling from Afghanistan and opium first product of poppy is first sent to the north of the country for its procession and then smuggled to Central Asian states from where it travels to Europe via Iran.

Afghanistan’s economy has become a criminal economy and narcotics or drug smugglers have so permeated into the Afghan society that no force can control them. The independent observers are of the view that drug business is the major component of the Afghan economy and it is being run under the umbrella of US agencies working in the country in the name of socio-economic revival but to cover their illicit activities the US agencies specially CIA is blaming ISI for helping warlords to promote terrorism there. ISI that played tremendous role in Afghan war against Soviet aggression in 90s is now under fire from the US agencies as it has become main obstacle in their way to promote drug smuggling from Afghanistan via Pakistan and now they have to adopt alternative routes for this purpose. The Afghan government and allied forces have miserably failed to control internal security situation as they are more interested in the business other than bringing normalcy in the war-torn country and blaming ISI to protect their hidden agenda and Afghanistan is a golden arrow for them due to expanding drug business that is even stronger than the oil economy.

It is matter of fact that it was the ISI that helped Taliban government to control drug business who had imposed a complete ban on poppy cultivation seven years ago and ISI shut all doors for drug smuggling from Afghanistan via Pakistan but it is not acceptable for the USA and its allied forces to control the business that provides them huge money to fulfill their hidden agenda that could not be implemented through legal resources.

Ukraine Plague Warning



Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Thursday, Nov 5, 2009
According to the write up at Chechen news outlet Kavkaz Center, the Ukrainian News Agency Fraza, has reported “it has been confirmed 100% Pneumonic Plague in Ukraine” and that in order to quell panic only talk of swine flu has been sanctioned by the authorities.

Whatever is really going on in Ukraine, the news has sparked a flurry of reports from conspiracy based websites that are citing a warning made in August by a man called Joseph Moshe, who claimed to be a former Mossad microbiologist.

Moshe hit the headlines when he was arrested after a long standoff with police in LA because he had supposedly made threats against the White House.

Shortly after his arrest, hundreds of comments and reports began to circulate stating that Moshe had called into a radio show to warn people about a biological weapon that was being prepared by Baxter International’s Ukraine plant that would be spread via a flu vaccine and would cause a plague upon it’s release.

Moshe’s identity as a microbiologist does seem to be verifiable, and Baxter certainly does have a presence in the Ukraine, as this page with Baxter’s contact information for it’s Ukraine office confirms.

Whether Moshe’s claims have any basis in truth is up for debate, however, it now seems an incredible coincidence that he fingered Ukraine as the location for a specific outbreak.

Evil - In the Time of Heroes - Το Κακό στην Εποχή των Ηρώων (2009)



director: Γιώργος Νούσιας
writers: Claudio Bolivar, Γιώργος Νούσιας, Πέτρος Νούσιας, Χρήστος Χουλιάρας
starring : Αργύρης Θανάσουλας, Πέπη Μοσχοβάκου, Χρήστος Μπίρος, Billy Zane
genre : Τρόμου, Κωμωδία




Ιστορία
Πριν από τρεις μέρες τα πάντα άλλαξαν. Μία αρχαία δύναμη μετέτρεψε τους ανθρώπους σε αιμοβόρα ζόμπι.. Δεν ήταν η πρώτη φορά. 2.500 χρόνια πριν η κατάσταση ήταν ίδια. Τότε τα κατάφεραν και Το Κακό νικήθηκε, θα μπορέσουν οι ήρωες μας να κάνουν το ίδιο και σήμερα? Θα μπορέσουν να ξαναζήσουν Την Εποχή Των Ηρώων?


Κριτική
Αν και ως λάτρης του είδους και κομπάρσος της ταινίας ανυπομονούσα για την προβολή της, διάφορες αναποδιές που προέκυψαν με ανάγκασαν να την δω μόλις πριν λίγες μέρες. Στο μεταξύ άκουγα από κάποιους “ειδήμονες” για “χαμένη ευκαιρία”, “ημιτελή προσπάθεια”, και άλλους κονσερβοποιημένους χαρακτηρισμούς οι οποίοι άρχισαν να με προβληματίζουν. Μπαίνοντας λοιπόν στην αίθουσα καθάρισα το μυαλό μου από τις όποιες επιρροές, και μπορώ πλέον να καταγράψω τη δική μου ταπεινή γνώμη.


Σεναριακά, η κοινότυπη ιδέα της πρώτης ταινίας εξελίσσεται, με δυνατό χαρτί την ανάμειξη της αρχαίας Ελλάδας. Πολύ καλή έμπνευση που έκανε τη διαφορά, όπως και η ευρηματική μείξη αρχαίας και νέας διαλέκτου που δημιούργησαν μερικές ξεκαρδιστικές ατάκες. Όσον αφορά στην ιστορία του παρόντος, έχει έναν καλό κεντρικό άξονα, και αρκετές έξυπνες ιδέες για να τον εμπλουτίσει τόσο στον τομέα της δράσης όσο και στον τομέα του γέλιου. Υπάρχουν λίγοί τυποποιημένοι διάλογοι που θα μπορούσαν να λείπουν, αλλά οι περισσότερες ατάκες προκαλούν απίστευτο γέλιο. Γέλιο, γιατί για όσους ίσως δεν το κατάλαβαν, πρόκειται για μια κατά κύριο λόγο κωμωδία- παρωδία, και το σενάριο είναι πολύ καλό για το είδος, τολμώ να πω ότι δεν έχει τίποτα να ζηλέψει από αντίστοιχες ξένες παραγωγές, αλλά ακόμα και τις στιγμές που γίνεται πιο περιπετειώδες ή δραματικό, τα καταφέρνει μια χαρά.


Η σκηνοθεσία είναι εξαιρετική, χρησιμοποιεί πολύ καλά πειστικά εφέ, πρωτόγνωρα για τη χώρα μας, και σε συνδυασμό με τη σωστή χρήση της κάμερας, έχουμε ένα αποτέλεσμα που σε καμία περίπτωση δεν μαρτυρά ότι αυτή είναι μόλις η 2η δουλειά με ζόμπι που γίνεται στην Ελλάδα. Σίγουρα υπάρχουν περιθώρια για ακόμα καλύτερη δουλειά, πιο λεπτομερή πλάνα στις μάχες για παράδειγμα, όμως γενικά το δεύτερο Κακο έχει πιάσει αρκετά υψηλά στάνταρ. Στα θετικά του σκηνοθετικού team επίσης είναι και ο χειρισμός του πλήθους κομπάρσων – ζόμπι, σκηνοθετικά και ψυχολογικά, ο οποίος έβγαλε πολύ καλό αποτέλεσμα, για να ευλογήσουμε και λίγο τα γένια μας.


Οι ηθοποιοί δίνουν ότι καλύτερο μπορούν, απόρροια της γενικότερης καλής διάθεσης με την οποία γυρίστηκε η ταινία και η οποία βγαίνει στο θεατή. Πολύ καλός ο Αργύρης Θανάσουλας στον πρωταγωνιστικό ρόλο, άνετος και σαρκάστικός όπως και στο πρώτο Κακό. Αποκάλυψη της ταινίας για μένα ο Δρόσος Σκώτης στο ρόλο του μάγειρα, κάθε του παρουσία συνοδευόταν από απίστευτο γέλιο, μερικές φορές χωρίς καν να μιλήσει. Ο Billy Zane έδωσε άλλον αέρα στην ταινία με την συμμετοχή του στο ρόλο του προφήτη, προκαλώντας επιφωνήματα θαυμασμού με την πληθωρική παρουσία του. Και πάλι να σημειώσω όμως ότι όλοι, από τους γνωστούς ηθοποιούς μέχρι τους κομπάρσους έκαναν την καλύτερή τους προσπάθεια
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Τελικό συμπέρασμα: Η ταυτότητα της ταινίας αναγράφει καθαρά τη λέξη κωμωδία. Η περιπέτεια υπάρχει επίσης σε ικανοποιητικό βαθμό, όπως και το δράμα σε μικρότερο. Αλλά αυτό που κυρίως βγάζει με επιτυχία η ταινία είναι έναν, καλώς εννοούμενο, χαβαλέ, ο οποίος με αυτή τη μορφή έλειπε από το ελληνικό σινεμά και αξίζει ένα μπράβο στους συντελεστές της που, κόντρα στην τυποποιημένη θεματολογία που επικρατεί, το τόλμησαν και δεύτερη φορά η οποία, με την πρώτη σαν μάθημα, βγήκε βελτιωμένη σε βαθμό που λίγοι περίμεναν. Ελπίζω στο μέλλον να δούμε κι άλλες τέτοιες προσπάθειες, που να γίνονται πάντα με μεράκι και καλή διάθεση. Αναμένοντας το Dvd λοιπόν, το μόνο που μπορώ να πω είναι… καλή διασκέδαση!


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Das weisse Band | The White Ribbon (2009)



Director: Michael Haneke

Writer: Michael Haneke

Starring: Christian Friedel, Burghart Klaussner, Rainer Bock

Genre: Crime, Mystery, Drama



Μια ταινία που είδα ψιλοτυχαία να πω την αλήθεια και για την οποία δεν είχα ακούσει τίποτα πέρα από το ότι "έχει 5 αστέρια από κάποιους κριτικούς σε κάποια sites". Από μια αυθόρμητη βόλτα στο cinema, βρέθηκα τελικά μπροστά σε μια καταπληκτική ταινία. Η ταινία εναλλάσεται μεταξύ γεγονότων που διαταράσσουν τη "γαλήνια" ζωή ενός χωριού και εικόνων οικογενειών παλαιών αρχών, με καταπιεσμένα παιδιά και προσυλωμένους σε παλαιές αξίες γονείς και προσπαθεί να δικαιολογήσει ενέργειες σκιαγραφόντας σιγά σιγά το ήθος των ανθρώπων μέσα σε εκείνη τη μικρή κοινωνία. Βρισκόμαστε σε ένα μικρό γερμανικό χωρίο λίγο πριν την έναρξη του 1ου Παγκοσμίου Πολέμου. Ύποπτα ατυχήματα συμβαίνουν στο κατά τα άλλα ειρηνικό, θρησκευόμενο χωριό. Αυτές οδηγούν σε συγκρούσεις που φέρνουν στην επιφάνεια κρυμμένα συναισθήματα φόβου, καχυποψίας, εσωστρέφειας. Το βασικό ζουμί όμως είναι το πως επηρεάζονται και πως ενεργούν τα παιδιά μέσα σε αυτό το σύνολο. Παιδιά τα οποία έχουν μεγαλώσει με αυστηρές αρχές από ψυχρούς γονείς, χωρίς στοιχεία αθωότητας. Μέσα σε αυτή την κοινωνία των μεγάλων φαίνεται ότι τελικά τα παιδιά θα παίξουν πρωταγωνιστικό ρόλο και θα αναδείξουν σε έντονο βαθμό τα συναισθήματα που ήταν καλά κρυμμένα πίσω από τον καθωσπρεπισμό. Ο χώρος στον οποίο εκτυλίσσεται είναι επιλεγμένος να είναι ένα μικρό χωριό γιατί δημιουργεί την επιθυμητή υπερβολή ώστε να τονιστούν τα συναισθήματα. Οι οικογένειες που προβάλλονται σκιαγραφούν από πολλές γωνίες την κοινωνία της εποχής και το πώς τα παιδιά μεγαλώνουν μέσα σε κάθε είδος οικογένειας ξεχωριστά. Το τελικό ηθικό δίδαγμα αφορά μια απόπειρα αιτιολόγησης των μετέπειτα ιστορικών γεγονότων, την άνοδο του φασισμού και τους παγκόσμιους πολέμους, μέσα από την προβολή της ανατροφής της "φασιστικής γενιάς". Πρόκειται για μια γερμανική ταινία που μάλλον "ξύνει" τις πληγές του παρελθόντος για τους Γερμανούς. Η ταινία είναι μεγάλη, αργή και "βαριά", λίγο χαζός χαρακτηρισμός, αλλά είναι πιστεύω αρκετά πετυχημένος για να χαρακτηρίσει ταινίες κυρίως εκτός Hollywood, όπου τα πλάνα δεν τρέχουν με υλιγγιώδη ταχύτητα και από τα 15 λεπτά γυρισμάτων για μια σκηνή τελικά δεν μένουν μόνο 20 δευτερόλεπτα μετά το μοντάζ. Σε πολλά σημεία η κάμερα θα δείχνει μια ολόκληρη σκηνή σε πραγματικό χρόνο. Αυτό όμως είναι απαραίτητο ώστε ο θεατής να μπει στη σωστή ατμόσφαιρα. Οι ερμηνείες των παιδιών είναι κάτι παραπάνω από καθηλωτικές, πραγματικά δεν έχω ξαναδεί παιδιά να υποδύονται τόσο δύσκολους ρόλους και να εκφράζουν περίπλοκα συναισθήματα τόσο έντονα. Πραγματικά είναι τόσο αληθοφανείς οι αντιδράσεις τους που σε ξεγελάει η εξωτερική αθωότητά τους. Οι ερμηνείες των μεγάλων είναι και αυτές πολύ προσεγμένες και μελετημένες. Η σκηνοθεσία είναι κάπως πιο παραδοσιακή και η κάμερα πίσω από τους ηθοποιούς, αλλά οι ηθοποιοί περιφέρονται γύρω από την κάμερα που καλύπτει όλο το χώρο. Θα μπορούσε να έχει γυριστεί σε θεατρική παράσταση. Οι αργές σκηνές δε σε κάνουν να βαριέσαι, αλλά σίγουρα δεν είναι από τις ταινίες που σου κόβουν την άνασα. Άλλωστε δε σκοπεύει σε κάτι τέτοιο. Επίσης είναι ασπρόμαυρη, επιλογή κατά την άποψή μου πολύ πετυχημένη για το εγχείρημα. Τέλος, να αναφέρω ότι η ταινία αυτή τιμήθηκε με το βραβείο χρυσού φοίνηκα στο φεστιβάν Καννών για το 2009. Το αξίζει και με το παραπάνω, όπως αξίζει και δυόμιση ώρες από τη ζωήσας, αν θελήσετε να πάρετε κάτι και όχι απλά να σκοτώσετε το χρόνο σας.