[IndiaWire] It might sound like a backhanded compliment to say that Jesse Eisenberg’s antic performance as French mime Marcel Marceau is the best thing about Jonathan Jakubowicz’s "Resistance," but it’s not. Well, it’s not a backhanded compliment to Eisenberg, anyway. The giddy standout of a bizarre and half-baked Holocaust thriller that’s otherwise absent any clear sense of self, the star of "The Social Network" is an inspired — if also logical — choice to play another Jewish icon who changed the world from behind the flat screen of their own neuroses. And for the better, in this case.
If only this film made any real use of history’s famous mime. Few people know that Marceau helped thousands of orphaned children escape the Nazis before he ever painted his face white, but Jakubowicz only uses that incredible factoid as the hook for a shoddy and generic war saga about the Jewish Resistance in France (Organisation Juive de Combat, or OJC); Marceau plays such an uncertain part in the movie around him that it’s easy to forget what he’s doing there in the first place. Too broad to work as a biopic, but also tethered to its iconic protagonist in a way that squeezes the entire movie into his shadow, "Resistance" is lost in the muddy water somewhere between a superhero origin story and a heroic portrait of artistic survival.
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Marcel Marceau shot his wife when she started getting as good as him. At that point she quit doing mime but still stayed with him and sort of worshiped him.
I met them both in 1973 and saw them again after the shooting. I am sorry I just didn't "get it".
[Aljazeera] There was a time when drug use in the UK was not considered a matter for the police and judges, but for the doctor. Then it adopted the US’s punitive approach to addiction.
Pat Hudson never leaves her house without a syringe of Naloxone. She will not be needing it for herself, but she wants to be ready for any emergency on the street. Naloxone is injected into the muscle and blocks the effect of opioids: If somebody has taken an overdose of heroin, it can save their life.
"It’s a bit late, of course," she says: Hudson’s 32-year-old adopted son, Kevin Lane, died in 2017 after taking heroin.
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Back in the day, the Larouchies often had a table at the gun shows. They had a poster with a picture of Queen Elizabeth II and a caption that read "World's Biggest Heroin Dealer."
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They blamed Margaret Thatcher for the "Criminalization" of the counterinsurgency action against the IRA. It's easier for pundits to advocate "soft diplomacy" when they are not directly suffering.
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The same bien pensants who didn’t care that that the children of the poor and working classes were being raped by Moslem colonists, the rich, the famous, and the powerful also didn’t care that the same children were growing up surrounded by easily available drugs to dull the pain of their lives.
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Has there ever actually been a war on drugs? No. Start napalming the drug fields, executing dealers, smugglers, and everyone above user who is involved and receives money or bribes and the users get flogged/caned in public, I suspect you might see an actual drop in usage.
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Silentbrick they tried that in Columbia in '92. The US sent "support" forces to help the Columbians destroy the coke fields and help bring down Escobar. It kinda worked, but once he was gone later in the decade the cartels just broke up into smaller pieces and were nearly impossible to destroy.
Unless you break the demand, cartels will thrive. Supply and demand at its basic level.
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Just FYI, no violence was advocated against Americans. I have long advocated on here that JSOC treat the cartels as terrorists and have free reign to destroy them barring only the use of nuclear weapons. I have said so many times.
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Same reason it failed here. It was never intended to succeed. It was meant to be a political issue the pols can claim to support without having to actually do anything or solve anything. Bonus points of they make it worse. As well as for them to beat their opponent with.
They never intend to actually solve the 'War on _fill_in_the_blanks_'. Just look at 'War on Poverty' 'War on Drugs', 'War on Terror', etc... Its just a reason for them to spend billions without actually solving anything.
One of the reasons the left (and never-Trumpers) hated Trump is that he intended to actually solve some of these problems.
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Every reasonable observer of Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... ’s collapse must have the following two questions in mind: Have the US and La Belle France, the two key Western powers concerned with the Lebanese issue, agreed to hand over what remains of the country to Iran? And if that is indeed true, what will the borders of regional and international interests in the Middle East as a whole look like, given the confusion and push-and-pull that mark Washington’s relations with the three other major world powers, Russia, China, and the EU?
The recent speech of Hezbollah Secretary General His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
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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.
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