God has a spectacular plan for the majority of the unsaved Jews in the near future. He has a wonderful plan for the church. He has no plan for those unsaved Jews and Gentiles who remain unsaved up to the close of the tribulation, where Satan's plan for them comes into force.
The church age or era is about to come to an end. Almost 2000 years of God's grace and work which began at Pentecost has a time limit on it. The church age began on the day of Pentecost at a moment in time. It will end in a moment in time too.
The rapture will close the church age and the world will kick into the seven-year tribulation period. This is also called the "time of Jacob's trouble". It is Jacobs trouble and not trouble for the church. Jacob is always a reference to Israel. Not once in the Bible is Jacob a type of, or reference to the church. Jacob refers to Israel 100% of the time.
The main focus of the tribulation period is Israel and the Jews. This is the time period in which God pours His wrath and judgement out upon the Jews and the world at large for their rejection of our Messiah.
This is the time period in which the Jews, en mass will see through the lifting veil that their Messiah is our Messiah and that He is preparing to come back a second time. They will be utterly shocked, and astounded to realise that their Messiah is their very own brother!
Imagine the shock of Joseph's brothers as they realise that Joseph is their brother, the one whom they rejected and left for dead. Well, imagine that shocking, but glorious experience occurring all over Israel and throughout the Jewish world. What incredible drama!
But Satan himself will try all in his power to stop this great revelation. He will and even is now working to do so. He is working through the Arab world, much of the western world, Europe in particular. He is working through much of the church and almost all of the world's mass media to bring the Jews down.
It's not because you're special that God chose you, Israel. It's not because of your religion, it's because you're marked! You're marked with God's call and plan, which is irrevocable. (Romans 11:29). He knew that you would ultimately turn to Him and fulfil His calling.
Now, our Lord and Saviour is about to put a new Spirit in you, Israel, and remove the hardened heart. So, sing, Israel sing!
Praise the Lord with the harp, make melody to Him with an instrument of ten strings, Sing to Him a new song; play skilfully with a shout of joy.
Israel, it's your time! It's your time to face the music for your own rebellion to the living God. It's your time to face the music of the wrath of Satan, the wrath of man, the wrath of the Arab nations, the wrath of the great bear of the north, the wrath of the wolves in the pulpits– all in their deep deception and ignorance!
Israel. It's your time. That terrible veil of blindness is being lifted even now and you are beginning to see your majestic, glorious Jewish Messiah emerging from behind the veil. O, yes Israel, you are about to face the music, but can you hear that incredible heavenly music? Can you hear the trumpets heralding your conversion? Talk about a triumphal entry to the blast of a million trumpets into the eternal purposes of the living God!
Israel, do you hear the music? Do you hear the trumpet blasts? Do you know what they mean? Do see you your Messiah, your Brother holding out His forever nail-pierced hands to you, in beautiful forgiving welcome?
Many Jews are already saying "Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord." Many are turning to Him now. The majority will do so in the tribulation period, but why wait. Do it now!
By the way, if there is a post-tribulation rapture, it is the "time of the church's trouble", not Jacob's.
So, when does your time begin, Israel?
We can see in all the current news events that Israel's time is starting up right now. We will see Israel becoming the focus of intense conflict now. The great battle in the spirit realm is beginning to intensify and it will manifest more and more in the natural realm now.
But we are not in the tribulation period or any part of it yet. This will be when Israel becomes the main focus.
One prophecy teacher has pointed out in his most recent work that the tribulation has to begin at the close of a Shemitah year and cycle. He maintains that it can now only be in seven year times at the earliest, because that's when the next Shemitah is.
That's quite logical, but here is my problem with this. It is based on the presumption that we have the dates correct. It presumes that the calendar is absolutely right. You see, it doesn't really matter what calendar you use, they all have discrepancies and a few variables within them.
There is another big problem and that is that God stopped reckoning the Shemitah and jubilee when Israel was out of favour with Him. That's an important consideration. What we have been doing is counting the Shemitahs and jubilees as though there was no break in them. That's fine to get some sort of picture, but can we count them with absolute certainty when God is not?
Now that the Shemitah has passed this time around, does that mean that we have to wait another seven years? For the reason I've just presented, I believe not.
So what we have to do is place less emphasis on any calendar and place a lot of emphasis on all the biblical signs. When all the signs begin to line up, then the right calendar dates will emerge. God will reveal more knowledge as we get closer.
That said, we are in the time period of numerous signs appearing very quickly.
In an upcoming edition I will present to you a very compelling study centred on the fact that the Shemitah / jubilee calendar that we have looking at is in fact one year out. Keep your eye on the coming Feast of Trumpets!
The title image right at the top is a montage I created of the gates into Jerusalem. The Golden Gate (top left) is closed and will be opened by our Messiah Yeshua on His return. Other gates have their own messages. Some display lions – shall we say representing the soon coming Lion of the tribe of Judah. Zion Gate is shot up, filled with bullet holes, the remnants of the war which returned Jerusalem to Jewish control and a lingering horror-sign of upcoming conflict over the city.
Do you see and hear the word of the stones full of bullet holes? Every world leader should be locked in a room and made to read that verse above in Zechariah a hundred times and then write it out a thousand times!
Dead, very dead and dry skeletons will come to life and cry out!
Out of the "valley of decision" will come a valley full of very dry bones and miraculously they will start coming to life.
By the way, this chapter ends with talk that sounds very much like the Third Temple!
Do you see that saved Jews will be the messengers of our Lord to the Gentile world in the tribulation period?
Iran has proclaimed her own destruction! Iran's leaders have recently proclaimed that Israel will not exist in 20 years. Iran, you are doomed with all other nations who did the same thing! You have proclaimed your own doom and destruction with your own mouth. It is on the way!
The Palestinian stones have got them nowhere except into the firing line of the Israeli Army. Just like Goliath of old, their weapons have been unable to bring down David, who, on the other hand had his stones guided supernaturally by God to the target.
Now, Israel, take note of the next verse! In this single small, succinct verse of scripture, which you have ignored, is the very reason for all your troubles. If you had obeyed this verse when you entered the Promised Land, you would not be faced with it now!
But we are now at the end of the great drama, Israel, you will respond to this verse above and you will be victorious after great battles, and the tables will be turned as revealed in the verse below.
Your biggest enemy is your friend in disguise. It is the world's mass media. The inspiration of the media is the god of lies, while the God of truth has another message altogether. Be careful what and who you believe, Israel. The world's mass media is of powerful, dangerous, demonic spirits, which they can't even see or know exist.
The Lord will bring back the Jews to their land from the four corners of the earth, from all nations where they have been scattered. They will have been preserved as a nation in the diaspora. The land will be too small to contain the full regathering.
The deserts of Israel will blossom and bear fruit, tree planting will turn the wilderness into an Eden. Ruined cities, gardens and vineyards will be restored. The regathering will be a "banner to the nations". Jerusalem will become a burdensome stone to all nations. The Jews will never again be uprooted from their land. The Lord will expand the borders of Israel. The nations will attempt to divide the land and the city. The Lord will bring salvation to the Jews and put in them a new spirit.
We must understand that there are two dimensions revealed in prophecy for Israel in these days.
God will bring His untold glory, blessing and victory to the Jews. He will also not let them off the hook, and bring severe punishment upon them for their rebellion. Do you know what the best thing to do here is? Don't question God, just accept and believe Him and His perfect word.
Stones, walls, gates, passions, tempers, tantrums, promises and prophecy are all part of the dramatic mix that makes up Jerusalem.
The Temple Mount is the most important and valuable piece of property on this earth. It is sacred to the Muslims, Jews and some Christians. It is called "The Noble Sanctuary of Jerusalem" and the "Har HaBayut" (Hebrew). It is also called Mount Moraih and Mount Zion. It has eleven gates, ten reserved for Muslims only. The area is 37 acres in size.
Tradition has it that God gathered the dust from this mount to create Adam. This was the site of Abraham's offering of Isaac, a type of the events of the cross and a type of Israel itself in that Isaac's offspring, Jacob had his name changed to Israel.
The Temple was the site of the revered Holy of Holies. As such it has always represented the presence of God on the earth, before Pentecost.
This is currently the site of the imposter "temples," The Dome of the Rock and the Al Aqsa Mosque. This was the site of the First Temple, the Second Temple and will be the site of the soon coming Third Temple. It will not be the site of the fourth or Millennium Temple.
The Bible predicts in a number of places that a new temple will stand on the Temple Mount at the half-way mark into the tribulation.
Because it is spoken of in prophecy, it will be built very soon. This Third Temple will be important to the religious Jews at that time. It will be the temple in which the antichrist declares himself as God.
At the Second Advent, our Lord will enter this temple through the Golden Gate, now sealed closed. The Bible doesn't lay out the details, but it appears that He will destroy this temple because it had been polluted by the antichrist. The new Millennium temple will be built on another location, out in the desert. (Ezekiel 40-48).
Because of the role of this Third Temple, Jews and Muslims will fight to the death over it.
Expect the current troubles to escalate dramatically now. Expect major conflict over the Temple Mount. Expect huge conflict and expect it now.
We all know the dreaded prophecies of Isaiah 17 and the one-day destruction of Damascus, the horror prophecies of Ezekiel 38 &39, also referred to as WW111 involving Russia, Iran and many nations of the world. We know the prophecies of Psalm 83 and the Arab confederacy calling for the destruction of Israel.
All of these wars may happen very close to each other or even merge into each other. They may occur inside the tribulation, but they appear to be pre-tribulation wars.
None of these events and brewing wars are the actual prophetic wars yet. They are all missing one key prophesied nation, which is Israel.
Prophecy requires the involvement of Israel in these big wars. This is the big thing we must wait and watch for. Until Israel is involved, these prophecies are in preparation phase. But be aware that this lot can all and most probably will occur very fast. In fact Israel could be drawn into active conflict in a day.
Of course we are already seeing the development of the third Intifada, but these are minor skirmishes compared to what is coming.
The entire Middle East situation is currently charged with explosive emotion and content. It is supernaturally charged and ready to go bang! It will happen very quickly.
Jewish people, your Brother, your very own Brother, the King of King and Lord of Lords is about to turn to you in judgement, mercy, love and all truth. He will make you an eternal excellence. Your time is now, open your hearts in repentance and turn to Him.
If only you could all see Him now, you would already fall on your faces with thanksgiving for the incredible future that lies right before you.
The lion sleeps tonight! Not for long though! I took this picture of my friend, Willie Joubert, the owner of Mabula Game Reserve with one of his beautiful lions.


Georgia Tech is taking on the challenge of moving computing past the end of Moore's Law by standing up a new interdisciplinary research center, which is known as CRNCH.
We knew that at some point physics would come into play. We hit that wall around 2005," said Tom Conte, inaugural director of CRNCH and professor in Georgia Tech's schools of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Since the 1960s, Moore's Law has essentially held that, for a given price point, the number of transistors on an integrated circuit doubles roughly every two years. However, there are hard limits to building smaller integrated circuits because, as transistors get smaller they become less energy efficient. The problem gets worse as the chips get faster.
In fact, according to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEEE) Rebooting Computing Initiative (of which Conte is a founding member and current co-chair) this inevitability means that wholesale changes are needed in both computing technologies and computer architecture if the next level of high performance supercomputing – machines capable of 10 million trillion floating-point operations per second (10 exaflops) – is to be achieved.
To facilitate these fundamental changes, Conte, along with School of Computational Science and Engineering Chair David Bader, Charlotte B. and Roger C. Warren Chair of Computing Richard DeMillo, Frederick G. Storey Chair in Computing Richard Lipton, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar and Rhesa "Ray" S. Farmer, Jr. Distinguished Chair in Embedded Computing Systems Marilyn Wolf, and other Georgia Tech faculty proposed the establishment of a new interdisciplinary research center.
This IRC would take the lead in breaking down traditional barriers between computing's various facets, such as devices, circuits, architecture, software, and algorithms, in order to restart the exponential growth rate embodied in Moore's Law.
The proposal has come to fruition in the form of CRNCH.
To achieve the bold breakthroughs necessary to propel computing to the exascale level and beyond, CRNCH researchers are evaluating a number of possibilities.
Quantum computing – uses properties of quantum mechanics to solve optimization problems.
Neuromophic computing – leverages what is known about the human brain to create new technologies.
Approximate and stochastic computing – complimentary approaches based on the observation that computers often calculate results to higher than required accuracy and precision.
Cryogenic superconducting – uses low temperature superconducting materials to conserve energy.
With the team in place and the center open for business, Conte expects CRNCH to quickly take a leading role in researching new computer hierarchies and become recognized as the academic research embodiment IEEE's rebooting computing initiative.


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130 - The Secrets of Branding on a Budget with Kasia Johnson
podcast | Dec 04, 2017
Kasia Johnson of Merge Forward, helps some of today's biggest brands with their branding and marketing. We've had several conversations about branding, and what it really means for businesses. Yes, it's so much more than a logo, however, it also doesn't need to be the extensive crazy expensive thing that we all think of when we think of companies like Apple. Even if you're a solo shop, there are small things you can do now that make a huge difference in how your business is perceived by the world.
What's your best description of what branding your business even is? It's visual storytelling and visually telling what your company is. It's such an important aspect too because it's the first thing that clients see and how they identify with your company. People don't realize that our brains process something sixty thousand times faster anything that's visual. So a lot of buying decisions are made on what you see first.
Is branding just a logo...
129 - Why You Should Consider an Event To Grow Your Business
Last year I ventured into my first live event, knowing absolutely nothing about doing one. I can't tell you it went off without a hitch, however, it was one of the best decisions I ever made for my business. I had no idea what would be on the other side for myself and my business by doing one.
In this podcast, I share:
Why I did one
The ins and outs of putting one together
Some basics you should know as to how to make this work for your business
For more info on my event visit:http://www.entrepreneursummitdallas.com
128 - Three Tips To Use Social Proof To Grow Your Business with Afton Negrea
Afton Negra is one of the sharpest people I know when it comes to systems and building a business. She has some of today's biggest online personalities as some of her clients, and she's a rockstar at tips and tricks and tools to simplify your business life. She's technically a social media strategist but does so much more beyond just that title. Her mission is to help the smaller companies learn the tips and tricks to get the bigger reach and leverage that they may need to grow.
In this podcast, we're covering three areas where you can improve your social proof of your business.
The first one is content, can we dig deep into understanding how your content aligns with the social proof of your business and how to use it grow? First, social proof is the positive influence when others find out when someone is doing something. This is crucial in social media. A great example of this is a nightclub, and why they make people wait outside....
127 - Writing and Publishing Your First Book with Morgan Gist MacDonald
I can speak from experience when I say writing a book can be a huge game changer in your business. It immediately positions you as an expert and shines a completely different light upon you. It can seem like a daunting task, and that's why I wanted Morgan of Paper Raven Books to talk about how to break down the process and use this to leverage your business.
What's the advice you give that first person trying to figure out what to write? Morgan likes to start by talking about their business. A book should be a strategic part of your business. They discuss who they serve now, and who they want to serve in the future, and focus on topics for those people.
It's also a great tool for pivoting in your business. Morgan was a broad general editor, and she wanted to focus on book editing. So she wrote a book on how to write a book, and now her clients are from the book industry. Make sure you're writing for that person who you want to...
125 - Getting Out of Your Own Way with Coach Jennie
Have you ever found yourself really excited about something, only to eventually talk yourself out of doing it with questions like 'who the hell are you?' 'Why would you think about doing something like this?' Or a statement of 'you're crazy to believe this will work.'
The good news is that you're not crazy. We all have that inner voice talking us out of greatness and doing amazing things. There's just a difference between people who succeed and those who don't. Those who succeed have learned to turn off the voice.
Coach Jennie, has named this inner voice 'Hilda', and she's been using her with her coaching clients for years. She has now published a book that talks about the four types of Hilda-isms that we seem to tell ourselves the most. She came by to talk more in-depth about Hilda!
Everyone has a naysayer in your head ? That will say "Who do you think you are ?", " What if they laugh at you?" Who is Hilda and does everybody have...
122 - Finding A Need in Real Estate and Filling It with Joshua Dorkin
Joshua Dorkin was a teacher who decided to be a real estate investor. After discovering the market was full of people more about making money than actually helping, he decided to do something about it.
Using a little bit of web design experience from college, he launched BiggerPockets.com. Over the years, the site slowly grew until it became a full-time income for Joshua. He shares how he got it rolling, some of the struggles he has faced, and what has made this such a successful site over 10 years later.
How did you start to monetize this business idea going against the grain of the industry? Joshua was working another job, so he was able to keep the business going in the beginning. He then started to put ads up with Google AdSense and started to slowly make money.
Talk about the side hustle part of it, when did you decide to make the leap? Joshua started substitute teaching and on his first job, the teacher he was working for quit....
119 - Continuing To Beat the Odds With Dr. Susan O'Malley
Dr. Susan O'Malley's story is an incredible journey of beating the odds time and time again. After dropping out of college, she worked as a secretary for 11 years. When her life took a drastic change, she decided to go back to school. It was then when she changed her major from being a nutritionist to being a doctor.
After she was rejected from every medical school in the country, perseverance kicked in. It took her that long to figure out what her dream was, and she wasn't going to be shut out of it. She was accepted just a few weeks before school started.
Times had changed, as she found herself pregnant and no husband. However, she decided to follow through and go to school.
How did you do it all being by yourself, with a baby, and in med school? Dr. O'Malley got through it one day at a time, and sometimes it was one hour at a time. Had she looked at graduation the first day of medical school, it would have been too overwhelming....
118 - Tip Tuesday - Self Publishing and Tips to a Successful Book Launch
Master the Start is out and holding strong as an Amazon Best Seller!!! It's been a journey and a process so beyond the steps it took to write and get it out to the world.
I share my struggles with getting it complete, and all of the things I learned about what needed to happen once you have completed the book.
I also get into things I want to do better next time, and things I wish I would have known!
116 - Tip Tuesday - Taking Facebook Groups to a New Level With Gary Leland
Facebook Groups have become a popular way to build your business. How it's typically done is where you have one group, and then you make comments, ask questions, connect people, etc. Gary Leland has taken Facebook Groups to an entirely new level and is using it as a way to build and connect the entire Fast Pitch Softball Community in the US. He gives us some tips and tricks for how he manages it all, and how he is using it also to build his business.
Let's first talk about your group of 20,000, how are you utilizing that? The main one started when groups started; Gary thought he would start a group. It's a basic group, and he advertises his business in there. His rules are that you can't sell anything in there, so he is the only allowed to sell. Now, as he approaches close to 20,000, there are a lot of people to sell to. He tries not to sell to them all the time. He does put stuff in there every week or every other week. The only...
115 - What You Legally Need to Know About Facebook Groups with Tamsen Horton
Facebook groups are the latest and greatest way to build a community for your business. However, as great as they are, you also have to be sure to protect yourself from what legally could happen to you.
Yes, it's not a lot of fun to think about. However, by putting precautions in place now, you could save yourself a lot of headaches down the line.
What are the general things we should know about Facebook Groups? No matter what type of group you have, there should be general term rules. Basically terms of use and terms and conditions. The big thing is that when they come into the group (especially if it's not part of a paid program), you make this a pinned post, especially when you're first starting. Make sure that you make it clear that being in the group isn't a free for all.
What kind of rules are you making? Be specific, so like a promo day, don't just say the day it is. Also say what kind of promo it is. You want to let people know if...
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Straight From Oz: Real Reason Elites Intend to Legalize Some Drugs?
I really appreciate the folks over at The Daily Bell, This article is very insightful. Take the brain out for a stroll and stretch a few of those synapses 🙂 E.
Dominant Social Theme: This drug war hasn't worked. Time to be more reasonable about it.
Free-Market Analysis: Last week we thought we detected a trend: The top elites via politicians and the mainstream media in the US were embarked on creating some sort of dominant social theme aimed at legalizing some drugs.
At the time we didn't understand why this promotion would be launched, given that the elites have shown no compunction about putting people in jail for years for doing something as innocent as smoking a marijuana cigarette.
We received interesting and insightful feedbacks to our questions about this seeming emergent elite meme, but as is so often the case, a little more time seems to be revealing what may be the truth of the matter. You can see the initial article here: Have Elites Decided to Legalize Some US Drugs?
The US has jailed tens of millions in the past decade over drug infractions. But now we seem to be seeing some re-thinking … First Pat Robertson writes about legalizing marijuana and then CNN's Fareed Zakaria writes about it as well. And that's not all.
A random search of Google shows that a bill to legalize medical marijuana is moving forward in the Tennessee House and that the Rhode Island Senate is discussing legalization as well. In Yakima, Washington, a former Seattle police chief and a former state senator will hold a public forum on the legalization of marijuana.
What might those priorities be? We can only speculate, but as the Western world tends to move in lockstep when it comes to such things (given that nation-states are pretty much an illusion at this point), we would tend to think that a decision has been made to point the resources of Leviathan at the emergent freedom movement that is roiling the Western world.
We've long predicted this moment, of course, writing over and over that the Internet is a kind of Gutenberg Press and that the same sort of society-transforming trends are taking place now as did back then.
Then, from what we can tell, the elites started a number of wars, including a so-called Peasant War that lasted about 30 years. War is a great way to control the masses because all the rules of civil society can be thrown out based on "security considerations." That's what is happening today, as then.
There are many other parallels between the circumstances surrounding the Gutenberg Press and today's Internet. We've often mentioned them in these pages. Copyright was invented in Britain after the advent of the press in order to slow the transmission of information – and now today, again, copyright is being used, this time as a weapon against the Internet.
The elites are neither imaginative nor facile. They tend to select repetitious stratagems from a sparse and brutal tool kit. They are not disappointing now. Brutality is increasingly the order of the day. Wars, depression, torture and general intimidation via Draconian laws and regulation are the order of the day.
People are perpetually and increasingly astonished at what's going on. Just the other day, CNN leftist Rachel Maddow appeared on-air with a rant against the Supreme Court for determining one could be strip-searched at the discretion of US law enforcement no matter the reason.
Maddow laid the blame on a "conservative" Supreme Court but, in fact, the stale right-left paradigm has no relevance to what's going on. The emergent fascist state throughout the West has all the hallmarks of a deliberate policy.
Of course, Maddow would have to admit that there are dynastic families based out of the City of London that want to run the world and are willing to create a kind of generalized Western Third Reich to do so.
The power elite that wants to rule the world has been destabilizing the US for several centuries – really ever since it came together as a libertarian republic. It took the Civil War to really set in motion the trends that have blossomed today, including a massive military-industrial complex, an intel-industrial complex and a penal-industrial complex.
Australia has all the signal hallmarks of an emergent fascist state including a feverish green lobby, incandescently dishonest politics, an emergent carbon tax, etc. But we have to think that the "stick" of this decriminalization is aimed at the US.
The emergent authoritarian TSA has just ordered 400 million hollow-point bullets and the US is building a trans-national spy facility out in Utah at a cost of billions. The elites have always hated and feared US exceptionalism and its general republican orientation.
Does the real reason for the War on Drugs stand revealed? Was it really intended simply to build a kind of trans-national gulag that can now be employed for the security purposes of the elite? Did people really waste away their lives in prison simply to provide a pretext for the construction of a blossoming Security State?
http://epic.org/privacy/backscatter…Worse, NIST had actually warned DHS and TSA that the machines were not necessarily safe, and that airport screening agents should avoid standing next to them because of the harmful radiation they emit. It is unclear whether or not this warning was ever taken seriously by TSA officials.
One thing is for sure, though. Many current and former TSA agents who have developed cancers are now speaking out against the machines, as they believe repeated and continual exposure to them is responsible for their conditions. Many TSA agents have repeatedly requested that they be given dosimeters to wear that will warn them of dangerous radiation exposure — but TSA higher-ups have never followed through in addressing their concerns, despite empty promises that they would.
– The incarceration of resistors to green fascism inside squalid ghettos and their subsequent separation from family members is a frightening throwback to the Nazi-run Warsaw Ghetto and other concentration camps and prisons within cities that housed Jews and political dissidents during World War Two.
– The restriction or even outlawing of meat, something already being vehemently pushed by eco-fascists, to the point where a hamburger becomes a rare delicacy to be enjoyed on special occasions – and only then if you can afford it. As my wife who is Chinese will attest, up until the late 80′s before China started to lift itself out of poverty, meat was a rare treat that was sparsely available and highly restricted. Again, the "planned-opolis" is nothing less than a fusion of Communist and fascist control measures inflicted upon the population to keep them poor, starving and weak.
They are also engaged in a ploy to shift the parameters of the Overton Window – which is defined as "A range of policies considered to be politically acceptable in the current climate of public opinion." By constantly bombarding us with extreme and repugnant proposals, they gradually wear down the human psyche until people begin to accept draconian controls over their personal life as normal, necessary and reasonable.
Alex Jones' seminal film Endgame, released in 2007, warned precisely of the kind of hi-tech slave grids being implemented that are now routinely proposed by top eco-fascist organizations. We urge you to warn everyone you know about this agenda and to stand up in unison to resist the first great assault on human liberty of the 21st century, which is now certain to be inflicted on us under the guise of saving mother earth. We either stop this now, or we end up in the eco-ghettos that our masters have readied for us in their "planned-opolis" of 2040.
Have They Put Up The Guard Towers In Your Hometown Yet?
Mobile Surveillance / Guard Towers coming to a town near you!
WTF!!! Hey that guard tower was not there at lunch today……… ICx Technologies Sky watch Mobile Snooper Towers are even going to be used at the SuperBowl, possibly even your local Wal-Mart, since they are already working hand in hand with the Napolitano's Stasi TSA.
As you can see these towers can be deployed in a moments notice. Think about it, with the ability to spool off barbed wire at high speeds from truck beds and these mobile guard towers that can be jacked up in a minute, the TSA and DHS could have mobile FEMA camps setup and ready for mass detention in almost a blink of an eye.
The develpoer ICx Technologies is no stranger to TSA and DHS. They have manged to land a multi milion dollar contract in 2009 for a bio-attact sensor system.
ICx Technologies announced this week that it has landed a Department of Homeland Security contract to develop sensors that could be used in the event of a biological attack.
The contract, worth $4.9 million, is a Phase IIb research and development program inside the DHS "Detect to Protect" project, which was formerly known as the IBADS program. It is the third time ICx has landed a contract with that program.
In October of 2009 DHS choose ICx Technologies to work on "Mass Transit" systems such as subways and train systems. This would seemingly fall under the guises of the TSA.
ICx Technologies was sold in October 2010 to FLIR industries.
(NaturalNews) Officials from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) seem to now be going on the offensive against those who oppose its new invasive and unconstitutional airport security protocols being carried out by agents of the U.S. TransportationSecurity Administration(TSA). According to George Donnelly, owner of WeWontFly.com, government workers appear to be posting hateful messages on his anti-TSA blog under the guise of anonymity.
Donnelly says that upon tracing the origin of the comments, he discovered that they came from the servers of dhs.gov, the official website of the U.S. Department ofHomeland Security. Nineteen comments in total were all posted from the same server, including the two previously mentioned. And while all were worded in different tones and voices, they all expressed hostility to those opposingthe TSA.
WeWontFly.com is working towards abolishing the new TSA protocols by pushingairlines totake a stand. And according to aWashington Postpiece from November, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a civil liberties group, has filed a lawsuit against the TSA citing the unconstitutionality of its current actions.
•Homeland Security secretly assigns "terrorist scores" to all international travelers entering U.S.
When we were on our way back from Afghanistan, we flew out of Baghram Air Field. We went through customs at BAF, full body scanners (no groping), had all of our bags searched, the whole nine yards. Our first stop was Shannon, Ireland to refuel. After that, we had to stop at Indianapolis, Indiana to drop off about 100 folks from the Indiana National Guard. That's where the stupid started.
First, everyone was forced to get off the plane-even though the plane wasn't refueling again. All 330 people got off that plane, rather than let the 100 people from the ING get off. We were filed from the plane to a holding area. No vending machines, no means of escape. Only a male/female latrine.
To top it off, the tsa demanded we all be swabbed for "explosive residue" detection. Everyone failed, [go figure, we just came home from a war zone], because we tested positive for "Gun Powder Residue". Who the F**K is hiring these people?
Can someone please tell me What the F**K happened to OUR country while we were gone?
It does not surprise me that the Obama Administration responds to the backlash against the unconstitutional fourth amendment violating TSA screening measures by blacklisting air travelers who object to the over reaching intrusive searches at the airports. They are trying to send a chilling effect not to protest the TSA groping and body scanners that has the public in an uproar.
Will they add them to a list were you can not buy a new car .apply for employment or do business.Will people be put on this list that will make life hard to function because the government has blackballed people who objected to the abusive TSA.These secretive list shows the abusive executive branch bypassing the courts and due process blacklisting their political enemies and opposition.
Is this the emperor striking back against the American people he wants to subjugate?He wants us to conform to his tyrannical world view.Will there be a second wave of a push back of the people against an imperial executive branch because we can not grow our own food and might not be able to buy from the local supermarket because Homeland security has blackballed someone who dares speak out against this President.
We must not allow this to chill us from standing up for our rights.We should not be able to make the decision between protesting the government and keeping the powers the be happy so my kids will be fed and keep a roof over their head by staying silent going along to get along. The consequences of inaction are far more severe than the price standing up and being free.Use them or lose them. We are not domestic extremist.We just want to be left alone.


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Press Release - Romney's Anemic Job Record Undermines Attack on #1 Job State of Texas
Despite his private sector experience, Gov. Mitt Romney's Massachusetts ranked a low 47th in job creation during his term.
While Mitt Romney was governor, Massachusetts' population declined by 3,000 people, with only 45,800 jobs added during Romney's four years in office — an anemic 1.4 percent job growth rate. At the same time, the U.S. as a whole experienced 5.3 percent job growth rate.
While Mitt Romney was governor, Massachusetts' rate of job growth underperformed the nation's rate of job growth by 3.9 percent.
Since Rick Perry has been governor, Texas, by comparison, has added 4.29 million people and 1.077 million jobs, an 11.3 percent job growth rate. During Perry's tenure, state job growth flourished despite two national recessions. At the same time, the U.S. as a whole experienced 1.1 percent job loss.
Since Rick Perry has been governor, Texas' rate of job growth outperformed the nation's rate of job growth by 12.4 percent.
Texas under
Rick Perry U.S. while
has been gov. Massachusetts
Mitt Romney U.S. while
was gov.
Jobs Start 9,537,900
(Dec. 2000) 132,570,100
(Dec. 2000) 3,224,600
(Jan. 2003) 130,016,100
(Jan. 2003)
Jobs End 10,615,000
(Aug. 2011) 131,114,400
(Aug. 2011) 3,270,400
Jobs Change +1,077,100
(+ 11.3%) -1,455,700
(-1.1%) +45,800
(+1.4%) +6,845,900
Population Start 20,851,818
(2000) 281,424,602
(2000) 6,440,000
End 25,145,561
Change +4,293,743
(+20.6%) +27,320,936
(+9.7%) -3,000
(-0.05%) +11,272,000
Jobs: U.S. Dept. of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics, Total Nonfarm, Seasonally Adjusted, www.bls.gov/sae
(U.S. total = "sum of states" calculation)
Population: Texas: http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/48000.html; Massachusetts: http://www.mass.gov/bb/fy2008h1/dnld08/budget.pdf (page 1009)
Massachusetts' 47th in job creation under Mitt Romney: "Mitt Romney plays the jobs card — Commentary: Looking at his record, it's a losing argument," Wall Street Journal Market Watch, 2/23/10, http://www.marketwatch.com/story/mitt-romney-tries-to-play-the-jobs-card...
Rick Perry, Press Release - Romney's Anemic Job Record Undermines Attack on #1 Job State of Texas Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/298130


A boy scout group leaves a series of fire rings in a backcountry camp, when they should have dissassembled them and scattered the ashes.
A rock climber places shiny silver bolts directly above a popular trail, when he should have painted the bolts to match the rock.
A fisherman leaves used toilet paper strewn on the trees near his backcountry latrine, when he should have dug a cathole to bury his waste while packing out his toilet paper.
A backpacker picks up an ancient Indian arrowhead to bring home and make a necklace, when he should have left it because it loses it's archealogical value once it leaves its resting place.
Each of the preceeding are examples of people who are not effectively using a Leave No Trace ethic in the wilderness. At its core, LNT is about leaving natural places as you found them and attempting not to change them in a negative way.
Every time we step into the backcountry we have an impact. We walk on terrain that may be changed by our method of travel. We build fires and go to the bathroom. We pick up interesting things and often – usually unintentionally – leave trash. The Leave No Trace Trainer program was designed to help you mitigate these impacts and to teach others how to do the same.
Backcountry land managers throughout the country are beginning to see the value of this training program, and many ranger districts and national parks now require those who work in the backcountry to be certified LNT Trainers. It is likely that more land managers will require this in the coming years.
Those who complete this training will be certified Leave No Trace Trainers by the Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics.
For those who desire a higher level of training, check out our 5-day Leave No Trace Master Educator courses. These courses are designed both for general outdoor leaders and also for professionals who will be training and/or supervising other educators in the delivery of the LNT curriculum.
Each of the students in the LNT Trainer course will be assigned one of the following principals of Leave No Trace. The student will prepare a short lesson on his or her topic and then the group will discuss how that particualr topic pertains to the terrain around them, as well as to how it might pertain to the places the students work or visit regularly.
AAI has discounted rates for outdoor education groups like the Girl Scouts/Boy Scouts that would like to obtain LNT Certification. These prices are based on the group size and are competetive.
The Leave No Trace Trainer program can be offered on a private basis in any location where we are permitted to work. The pricing varies based on instructor logistics. Please contact the AAI office for more information.


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Q: What is Haskell missing for totality checking? A total (functional) language is one in which everything can be shown to terminate. Obviously, there are lots of places where I don't want this - throwing exceptions is sometimes handy, a web-server isn't supposed to terminate, etc. But sometimes, I would like a local totality check to enable certain optimizations. For example, if I have a provably-total function
commutativity :: forall (n :: Nat) (m :: Nat). n + m :~: m + n
commutativity = ...

then, since :~: has exactly one inhabitant (Refl), GHC could optimize
gcastWith (commutativity @n @m) someExpression
  ==>
someExpression

And my proof of commutativity goes from having an O(n) runtime cost to being free. So, now for my question:
What are some of the subtle difficulties in making a totality checker for Haskell?
Obviously, such a checker is conservative so whenever GHC isn't sure something is total (or is to lazy to check) it could assume it isn't... Seems to me it might not be too difficult to cobble together a not-so-smart checker that would still be very useful (at least it should be straightforward to eliminate all my arithmetic proofs). Yet, I can't seem to find any efforts to build such a thing into GHC, so obviously I'm missing some pretty big constraints. Go ahead SO, crush my dreams. :)

Relevant but not recent: Unfailing Haskell by Neil Mitchell, 2005.

A: Liquid Haskell has totality checking: https://github.com/ucsd-progsys/liquidhaskell#termination-check

By default a termination check is performed on all recursive functions.
Use the no-termination option to disable the check
liquid --no-termination test.hs
In recursive functions the first algebraic or integer argument should be decreasing.
The default decreasing measure for lists is length and Integers its value.

(I included screenshot and quote for posterity.)
Similar to in Agda or other languages with totality checking, the arguments to the function must become structurally smaller over time to reach the base case. Combined with a totality checker, this makes for a reliable check for a number of functions. LH also supports helping the checker along by indicating how things decrease, which you could do with an abstract data type that's opaque or from an FFI. It's really quite practical.

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Quick Thoughts: GRIMM, "The Good Shepherd"
After a short hiatus, Grimm was back to its familiar Friday night timeslot, and unfortunately it didn't start off on the strongest of notes.
One of the many flaws of this week's episode was the case-of-the week which was a bit on the nose even for this show. You see, apparently there are sheep like Wesen in the Grimm world, so why not make them religious with a herd mentality, and to be even more clever let's have the reverend by a wolf. See what I mean? It was by no means the worst idea this show's ever had (I think there was a mouse episode that I've tried to repress), but having a wolf amongst the sheep was just lazy.
On top of that, "The Good Shepherd" was almost devoid of any real tension. Sure, it had some creepy moments like the sheep bludgeoning the wolf to death, but Grimm's at its best when it has the audience on the edge of their seats, and things were too predictable this time around. Matters were not helped by the fact that Nick's a Super Grimm how can take out a horse assassin single-handily which also undercut the drama, but we're used to that by now. At the end of the day, it didn't feel like there were any stakes for the characters to meet, and that'd be fine if this wasn't the first episode back from a break AND a return to its old stomping ground. But we got some good Monroe moments and some Portland Timbers love, so it wasn't all that bad.
Even the serialized components didn't quite land like Renard's pulling of Nick's strings and the continuation of Juliette's amnesia arc. Honestly, I've given up on the latter ever really captivating me, although there were some okay moments this time around, but I still have high hopes for the families trying to kill Nick and what does Renard have to do with it story line. I just hope future episodes give it more lip service than a few brief scenes, and I'm sure they will... it just would've been nice to get them during this one.
I'm still trying to figure out what NBC's strategy is when it comes to Grimm. One the one hand, I'm a little shocked that this would be the show's episode back because it wasn't the strongest outing, but it was the most accessible due to an easy to follow case-of-the-week and only a sprinkle of mythology. I can actually see how "The Good Shepherd" could draw in new viewers, but I can also see it turning off a few too. Ah well, it was nice having it back either way.
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Chesapeake Chamber Music has announced that its 2014 Gala, "All That Jazz," to be held on Saturday, March 8, 2014, has been underwritten by Wye Financial & Trust in partnership with Gilman Hill Asset Management. The Gala will kick-off at 6 p.m. with a concert at the Avalon Theatre in Easton, featuring Caterina Zapponi, a talented cabaret singer and the wife of legendary jazz pianist Monte Alexander. The concert will be followed by a cocktail party at the Tidewater Inn with beverages, a buffet featuring the Inn's passed hors d'oeuvres and generous food stations, along with a silent auction of unique events and experiences.
The Gala benefits the free and subsidized tickets provided during the annual two-week Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival in June, as well as YouthReach, and the free violin programs, "First Strings" and "Presto!" for grade school students. Tickets for the entire evening of concert, cocktails, auction and buffet are available for $175 per person. Concert only tickets for non-mezzanine balcony seats at the Avalon will be available for $30 each at www.chesapeakechambermusic.org, or by calling the office at 410-819-0380.


NFIP authorization expires in September - Fortmyersbeachtalk.com | Fort Myers Beach Bulletin, Fort Myers Beach Observer.
The current authorization of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is set to expire on September 30. Flood insurance rates have been rising since 2013 and will continue to increase. That is why Lee County strongly supports reauthorization legislation that includes enhanced affordability measures and flood mapping reforms. The Board of County Commissioners has long been advocating for continuation of flood insurance discounts and more local control over the flood mapping process.
On May 25, the House Financial Services Committee draft bill proposal was released in the form of six separate bills addressing various aspects of NFIP reauthorization.
Draft NFIP reauthorization language suggest that rates would be based on specific "structural risk," rather than on flood zone categories. That means property owners will be assessed according to whether their first livable floor meets the base flood elevation (BFE) that FEMA established for that neighborhood. The BFE is the height to which flood levels might rise in a major storm. General estimates are that property owners' annual premiums could cost about $1,200 for every foot their floor is below the BFE. In Lee County, thousands of elevated structures built to modern building codes and previous flood map standards that may not meet BFEs set with new maps in 2008. For this reason, Lee County urges Congress to retain "grandfathering" discounts that protect built-to-compliance structures from paying these penalties. This is also, why local quality control over flood mapping and the establishment of BFEs is imperative.
In essence, we must demand accurate BFE mapping. Our participation at a local level require we have a seat at the table when drawing the new maps and asking for more flexibility in what the private insurance sector can offer as alternatives to the NFIP.
Accurate maps depicting BFE meaning how high the first livable floor needs to be in order to avoid damage from a storm are critical. The cost of flood insurance depends on the accuracy of these maps. All coastlines are different if these models are inaccurate, costs can be unfairly inflated. While we would never allow our residents to live in unsafe conditions, we believe our local flood plain managers know when the risks have changed. Allowing their expert opinion will work better than the current 'one size fits all' approach.
Private Sector Flood Insurance - the NFIP bases all of their rates on storm prediction modules including factors such as Tsunami's and sea level rise. Instead, private sector companies base their rates on the history of actual claims made for each individual structure. While we recognize that government standards need to be in place, we would like property owners to have more freedom to choose a different program than only the one NFIP offers. We would also like people to be able to move back and forth between sectors without suffering a penalty.We have made considerable progress at the local level. Both Lee and Charlotte counties have hired consultants to work with FEMA on new coastal maps being created for all Gulf-front areas. For the first time in history, we are being allowed to review their work. They are making changes to the preliminary maps based on our suggestions.
At the federal level, this week, Commissioner Cecil Pendergrass met with legislators in D.C. to share our concerns. He reports that Congressman Rooney understands that Florida has for decades been paying way more into the system than it takes out in claims and is committed to finding fair and affordable options for Floridians. Also, two bills are being introduced this year to clarify that flood insurance offered by a private carrier does meet the mandatory purchase requirement allowing private insurers to sell flood policies like the NFIP.
The bottom line is that we understand that the system needs to be improved, but we know there's a better way to do it. You should be aware of your personal circumstances and involve your local representation with your concerns.
Larry Kiker is the District 3 Commissioner of Lee Board of County Commissioners. Contact him at dist3@leegov.com or 239-533-2223.


Today, more than ever, it's open source projects that are leading the charge in how modern software is developed, deployed and managed. There's Kubernetes for containers and OpenStack for running enterprise-grade infrastructure, for example. But over the course of the last few years, another platform — Cloud Foundry — has changed the way enterprises are developing their internal and external services.
Cloud Foundry falls under the "platform-as-a-service" (PaaS) umbrella, which essentially makes it the PaaS counterpart to OpenStack's "infrastructure-as-a-service." The promise of Cloud Foundry is that it abstracts all of the grunt work of running the infrastructure and more high-level services like databases away and gives developers a single platform to write their applications for.
The premise here is that what sits underneath Cloud Foundry shouldn't have to matter to the developer. That can be an on-premises OpenStack cloud or a public cloud like AWS, Google Cloud Platform, IBM Bluemix or Azure. This also means that companies get the ability to move their applications from one cloud to another (or use multiple clouds simultaneously) without having to adapt their code to every cloud's peculiarities. As Cloud Foundry Foundation CTO Chip Childers told me, the project wants to make developers happy (and productive).
While Cloud Foundry's history dates back to 2011, when VMware launched the first version, the Cloud Foundry Foundation that now shepherds the project with the help of the Linux Foundation, only launched in 2015. While the project saw its fair share of success before this, it's really come into its own since. Half of the Fortune 500 now use Cloud Foundry in some for or another.
Because enterprises move slowly and often have to keep a lot of older software around, many haven't made the full switch yet but plenty of them are now building all of their new software on top of Cloud Foundry. Even some of the biggest users may only run 10 percent of their applications on Cloud Foundry, but going forward, that's the platform they are betting on.
In addition, the Foundation also now offers a certification program that trains developers in both using the platform and cloud-native development patterns in general.
This week, Cloud Foundry hosted its annual developer conference and speakers there ranged from Allstate and Liberty Mutual to Ford, Home Depot, Google, Microsoft, SAP, IBM and plenty of startups that are now offering their own services to these companies. All of these companies are Cloud Foundry Foundation members and it's a sign of the times that Google, Microsoft, IBM, SAP, VMware, Cisco, DellEMC, Pivotal and others are all coming together here to build this project.
With Microsoft and Google on board, the company that's obviously missing from this lineup is Amazon with its AWS cloud. I don't expect they'll sign on anytime soon. Its users, however, are deploying Cloud Foundry on AWS already so it would probably be in their best interest to have a word in how the platform evolves.
As Childers stressed, the project isn't so much about open source as it is about shared research and development. That makes the project's philosophy at bit different from that of other open source projects (and its governance model is also a bit different from other Linux Foundation projects), though at the end of the day, the result is very similar.
Looking ahead, Childers argued that the foundation is obviously not a product company, so its roadmap is very much up to the members and various sub-projects — and because many of the commercial vendors that are part of the overall effort have their own roadmaps, it's hard to really predict where exactly the project is going.
Another area the project is actively looking at is unikernels — a concept that's slowly bubbling again, especially after Docker's acquisition of Unikernel Systems. In addition, the group is also looking at how Cloud Foundry can play a role in the recent push to bringing more compute power to the edge of the network (which in itself is an interesting shift after years of working to bring compute to centralized clouds).
"Innovation is hard. And we — as a community — are going to explore thing," Childers said. "Sometimes they are going to bear fruit and sometimes, maybe they don't." Now that Cloud Foundry has a stable core in place, we'll likely see more of these explorations in the coming months and years, especially as enterprises are looking how they can not just leverage the cloud in general but also how they can work with the best of breed services from multiple cloud vendors simultaneously.


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Top 10 Modern Magic Realism Movies
by Eric Melin on August 10, 2010
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Magic realism (also known as magical realism) is a literary term that's applied when a book blends the real and fantastic together, usually to reach a deeper understanding of reality. But when you apply it to film, it's a bit harder to pin down. Films tend to explain things, even when they revel in the uncanny. For instance, "Inception" lays out the rules for its alternate reality and different layered dream worlds. Sure, the things that happen are completely outside of our reality, but the characters go through great pains to explain why Paris is folding over on itself, etc.
In magic realism, things that can't happen in the real world just happen and are usually meant metaphorically—they aren't treated as weird by any of the characters involved or the film itself. Magical realism isn't explained away as a dream and it's not fantasy. The peculiar is either constant throughout the film or is the culmination of realistically portrayed events. This was a tough one to write, since the term is so amorphous, but here goes: In honor of the newest film to dabble in the world of magic realism (which opens Friday and comes in at #7 on this list), here are the Top 10 Modern Magic Realism Movies. If you'd like to submit a Top 10 of your own, email me at eric@scene-stealers.com.
Possible runners-up:
Groundhog Day, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Being John Malkovich, Edward Scissorhands , Purple Rose of Cairo, Big Fish, Field of Dreams, L.A. Story, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
10. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
Wes Anderson's bizarre tribute to famed oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau features Bill Murray as the title character. A bitter and petty man, he's on a mission to kill the glowing, fluorescent "Jaguar shark" that ate his best friend—not exactly a mission of peace and hope. The Jaguar shark isn't the only magical thing in the film—many of the sea creatures were animated by Henry Selick ("Coraline"). In Anderson's version of reality, underwater documentarians show films in ornate opera houses, script girls go topless as a matter of routine, and a crew member sings David Bowie covers all day in Portuguese. Everything is just a little "off" in "The Life Aquatic" (more so than any of his other films) although most of the land-locked world eerily resembles our own. Once the characters venture out into the ocean, they discover the frail nature of human existence—and Zissou finally learns to respect that.
9. Pleasantville (1998)
Tobey Maguire and Reese Witherspoon are siblings who get deposited in the black-and-white world of a 1950s sitcom in this overlooked film, written and directed by Gary Ross. As they bring modern attitudes about sex, race, and personal freedoms to this squeaky-clean don't-rock-the-boat environment, the characters who change their habits begin to appear in color. The Pleasantville citizens who embrace these new cultural ideas are marked in this way and soon the old-fashioned town leaders turn against them too. David Lynch knows that something more nefarious is lurking below the white-picket fence (see "Blue Velvet"), but "Pleasantville" blows the lid right off of the façade as the town's pent-up repression explodes into rage.
8. Like Water For Chocolate (1992)
Based on the popular Mexican novel from 1989, "Like Water For Chocolate" takes the idea of sexual heat and portrays it quite literally. Not only can sexual desire be transferred through cooking, but too much passion can result in actual fires—the kind that burn down houses. In addition, ghosts haunt the love-stricken protagonists Tita and Pedro—the kind of ghosts that represent repressive sexual attitudes and must be defeated. At the time of its release, "Like Water For Chocolate" was hugely popular for a foreign film, and became the highest-grossing Spanish-language movie in America. Speaking of closeness: The movie was directed by Alfonso Arau from the book and screenplay written by his ex-wife Laura Esquivel. (Even weirder—Arau played El Guapo in "Three Amigos.")
7. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
Being the movie version of a comic book that speaks to and for a generation of kids raised on videogames, director Edgar Wright has his selfish lead character (played by Michael Cera) lapse into otherworldly battles at a moment's notice. The fight scenes are perfectly suited to the kinetic slapstick that's also happening throughout the film, so when giant monsters appear during a battle of the bands, defeated enemies turn into coins, or Scott Pilgrim gets an extra life, none of his friends bat an eye. During the first part of the movie, Scott is almost anesthetized to the world around him. But as the movie progresses, he finds his passion (winning the right to date a girl named Ramona) and has his resolve tested the way he's used to being tested—through a videogame fight to the death.
6. Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Yes, it's overly loud and grandiose and in your face for most of its 2-hour running time, but Baz Luhrmann's "Moulin Rouge!" also has some of the most inspired scenes of magical realism in the last decade. Conceptually, it is peculiar from the start, since all the songs performed in this musical were written about 70-90 years after the film is actually set (which is during the turn of the 20th Century). The setpieces are extraordinary, each one a more heightened version than the last. Whether they are stagebound (surrounded by Bollywood-style costume and design) or flying through the sky, the tragic lovers played by Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman are in the throes of a passionate affair that can literally touch the moon.
5. Adaptation (2002)
Directed by Spike Jonze, this Charlie Kaufman-penned battle between Charlie and his fictional brother Donald (both played by Nicolas Cage) takes some pretty strange turns, putting it in the category of a film that culminates in magic realism. When anxiety-ridden screenwriter Charlie watches his real world become the same kind of clichéd action film that his talentless twin Donald has been trying to write, the only one who notices is Charlie. Does this introspective meta-journey conform to the rules of a bad Hollywood picture at the expense of plausible character development? You bet it does. It ends with—of all things—a car chase. Remarkably, through all of the movie's convoluted third-act turns, it also manages to enlighten Charlie and make some kind of emotional sense.
4. Run Lola Run (1998)
Here's another movie with some videogame-like parallels. German director Tom Twyker burst onto the international filmmaking scene with this thriller, starring Franka Potente as a girl who has 20 minutes to get 100,000 Deutsche Marks or her boyfriend will be killed. Everything about this world is exactly like ours, except when Lola fails to save her boyfriend, she says "stop" and the movie starts over with her running again. Like a second life in a videogame, she now applies all the things she learned to this new life in order to navigate her mission with success this time. By the third run, her boyfriend is saved, but Lola is the only one with knowledge of her previous two tries. She isn't the only one with multiple destinies, however: the people she bumps into get snapshot still-frame fast-forwards that reveal wildly different fates as well.
3. Barton Fink (1991)
Possibly the strangest Coen brothers movie ever made, this one involves a self-absorbed playwright (John Turturro) who goes to Hollywood to write a movie script while remaining true to "the common man."Besides a general feeling that something is "off," the film is loaded with dread—unbearable heat gives way to peeling wallpaper in Barton's hotel room, which eventually gives way to him waking up with a bloody corpse next to him and a firey visit from very possibly the Devil himself. And considering how these things change the stakes, the uncanny is not all simply in Barton's head. Is the hotel like a nightmare rest-stop for people who are between stable times in their lives? Maybe. Either way, Barton certainly comes to realize that he was probably fooling himself when he thought he had enough experience to explore "the life of the mind."
2. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Guillermo del Toro's masterpiece skirts fantasy and horror, but I believe it falls into the category of magic realism because the film doesn't try to separate the fantasy world from the real world—one is constantly intruding on the other. It is a fairy tale after all. During the Spanish Civil War, a young girl (Ivana Baquero) and her mother come under the protection of a cruel Captain while frightening creatures start appearing around her. The magic portions of the film exist as a mirror to the horror of the malevolent real world and one informs the other. Like the best tales infused with magic realism, the very idea of this world brings us closer to that feeling of wonderment that can only be experienced in childhood.
1. Synecdoche, New York (2008)
Whether its small fires burning in every corner of Samantha Morton's house that nobody seems to mind or the fact that Philip Seymour Hoffman is casting and rehearsing an ever-changing play about his lifestory in a giant warehouse with an unlimited budget and cast of hundreds, the reality of Charlie Kaufman's remarkable directorial debut is peculiar to say the least. As I wrote in my original review, "There is no way to dissect 'Synecdoche, New York' in order to find out what really happened; no surefire method to construct a realist narrative. But when the screen went white at the end, I felt as if I'd viewed a very intimate and somehow complete snapshot of one man's life and how he saw the players in his story as they weaved their way in and out. Kaufman has succeeded in portraying an unflinchingly honest and deep examination of the soul of a person without jumping through traditional hoops of 'this happened here, this happened next.'" OK, so maybe the whole movie did happen in the main character's head. In that case, the POV would disqualify it as a film that supports magical realism. I guess that's why the term is up for such debate. In that case, get your engines revved up for comments …
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1 Aaron Weber August 10, 2010 at 9:25 pm
Anglo lit (and film) has an uneasy relationship with Magical Realism, unlike our Latin or Asian pals, but c'mon… No Wim Wenders? Fellini?
Adaptation over Being John Malkovich? Or more recently: Stranger than Fiction? (which is a beautiful example of MR, since all the characters come to accept Ferrel's status as a literary creation).
You can say that magical realism is SCI-FI/Fantasy for pretentious people, but it's a genre that we (being so in love with metaphor) could do well to embrace more fully. It's the fantastic that allows us to explain the mundane.
2 Greg August 11, 2010 at 10:02 am
I'd probably move Adaptation up to #2. I would drop Pleasantville for Being John Malkovich. I'd put Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon on the list, but not sure it really qualifies? I did like Stranger than Fiction better than several that received consideration. Overall, I have to say I like every movie mentioned (that I've seen…)
3 Eric Melin August 11, 2010 at 2:18 pm
I think Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon works because of all the wire work that was never explained, even though that has become a genre tent since then, that 'magical' quality was a big part of that movie…
4 Jezza August 13, 2010 at 6:47 am
The Golden Compass would have been a consideration.
The concept of actually seeing your soul (in daemon form) is intriguing.
5 Vincent Scarpa August 16, 2010 at 2:42 pm
Couldn't agree more about #1, Eric. That movie still trips me out.
6 Tworkman August 16, 2010 at 3:09 pm
non sequitor, i love your comment verification tool…the words(?) make me giggle
7 sefankje December 30, 2010 at 10:13 pm
I have never posted a comment on anything, but this is bothering me. Magical Realism, as configured by its father (Gabriel Garcia Marquez), is not sci-fi / fantasy. It's not just about characters believing their world is real or the world serving as metaphor for reality–it is what could, within the vast realm of crazy possibilities, in fact happen–but is so strange that it is difficult to take as reality, because its probability of happening is so slim. Marquez was a journalist and stole many of his ideas from actual events.
I try to remember the cultural mindset of where he was coming from–Colombia's coast, where crazy things happen all the time between natural disasters, unstable government and revolutionary events, even driving there is like Russian Roulette. American / Western mindset is more the cool, certain kind of animal, the type that feels reality as stable and orderly. So, it's harder to digest the Magical Realism with the realism.
Note: magic / magical is the adjective. Realism is the noun–the actual form. Magical describes the type of realism. So, in other words, Pleasantville definitely doesn't work. Why not Big Fish?
8 Tara October 23, 2012 at 10:07 am
To that measure, I would include Australia in here as well – another Baz Luhrmann piece that more clearly seems to embody, at least to me, the ideal of Magical Realism. It was the first thing that popped into my mind, and as sefankje says, we're not dealing with the absolutely abusrd in this movie. Much of it is based on actual events – the bombing of Darwin, the abduction of half-breed children, and really, it is only Nullah's belief in his ability to control through song that would bend the 'reality' as we think it.
9 Eric Melin October 23, 2012 at 11:53 am
Interesting. I would have never thought of that — good call. Since I've written the list, I've seen "Beasts of the Southern Wild," which definitely applies….
10 Eric Melin January 2, 2011 at 9:55 pm
"Big Fish" would be a perfect example of magical realism, even if it is a story told by one person (the unreliable narrator). It just so happens that I thought the 10 above were better examples of Magic(al) realism.
I also agree that magic(al) realism is not strictly defined by genre lines, but I don't agree with your strict definition. I think we all can agree it's a little more amorphous than that — especially since its originally a literary form and I'm talking about movies.
That said, I will agree that "Pleasantville" does have some kind of explanation, however unclear, for its "other" world and that acknowledgment by its characters may take it out of the realm of strict magic(al) realism.
Thank you, sefankje, for a great comment!
11 ljbowman January 17, 2017 at 8:32 pm
"Big Fish" is not a clear example of magical realism. It is more aligned with the tall tale/fable genre. There is definitely some overlap between the genres, but I wouldn't consider "Big Fish" as a good example of the magical realist genre.
Many of the films on this list I would consider more surrealist that magical realist. Magical realism isn't about showing us "other" places or "other" states of mind/being. Magical realism shows us the magic and mystery that we co-exist with everyday. Franz Roh described magical realist art as depicting/representing the mystery that palpitates behind our represented world. Elements of magical realism don't seem out of place; they are absorbed and taken in stride with everything else.
12 Sattymike March 19, 2011 at 5:35 pm
Lord of Illusions blended modern world with magic.
13 Ruggles Maxabillion April 2, 2011 at 7:35 pm
A list of 'top 10' magical realist movies that only has 2 spanish language titles?? C'mon. That's like a list of the top 10 Baseball movies that only includes two films from the United States.
14 michelle April 3, 2014 at 7:24 pm
You forgot Groundhog Day.
15 Don September 7, 2015 at 11:25 am
I think this is my favorite movie trope, if it could be called that. I'd like to see The Hudsucker Proxy and Joe Versus the Volcano added to the list.
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