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66 Hidden Horror Movies
The scariest, goriest, least socially redeeming films you've never seen!
Mike Lafavore
Illustration by The Red Dress
Brain Dead, 2007
Nothing says Halloween quite like brain-eating zombies and topless girls with enormous breasts.
Big Tits Zombies, 2010
Buxom, undead-fighting Japanese strippers with chain saws. Not convinced yet? How about reanimated sushi and a geisha zombie who shoots flames from her cha-cha? Thought that'd do it.
Deep River Savages, 1972
Director Umberto Lenzi is credited with starting the Italian-cannibal movie genre with this film. His mom must have been so proud. And how can you not love a flick that stars a beautiful Asian actress named Me Me Lay?
Psychos in Love, 1987
Two lonely people discover a mutual fondness for killing and dismembering. Their romance is challenged when the garbage disposal gets clogged with body parts and the plumber, who happens to be a cannibal, blackmails them into supplying him with fresh meat. Now, there's a heartwarming love story.
The Innocents, 1961
In this atmospheric film set in Victorian England, Governess Deborah Kerr becomes convinced that two young orphans she is hired to take care of in a spooky mansion are possessed. Proof that you don't need blood, monsters, or even color photography to tell a chilling ghost story.
Dahmer Vs. Gacy, 2010
We haven't loved a movie title this much since Snakes on a Plane, and this is 10 times better on one-millionth the budget. Serial killers Jeffrey Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy are reanimated by—who else?—government scientists. They escape, of course, and much gore and mayhem ensue. The actors make David Hasselhoff look like Olivier, but with cameos by Charlie Manson and a bunch of ninjas, who cares?
Vampyres, 1975
Still haven't had your fill of '70s lesbian-vampire B-movies? Here's another. The "vampyres" in this one are bisexual, but that's OK, too.
The Long Island Cannibal Massacre, 1980
The budget was a reported $900, and every penny is up there on the screen. A group of murderous lepers with a taste for human flesh are hunted by a gang of motorcycle yahoos. The climax features over-the-top gore and one of the best chain-saw duels we've seen in a long time.
Raw Meat, 1973
This tale of cannibals loose in London stars the dependably hammy Donald Pleas- ence and (briefly) British horror stalwart and future Saruman the White Christo- pher Lee. The gore effects are quite good for its time.
Black Christmas, 1974
Rather shoot your own eye out than watch A Christmas Story again on December 24? Screen Black Christmas instead. It's from the same director, Bob Clark, but rather than bunny suits and holiday cheer, you'll see a dark thriller about a serial killer offing girls at a sorority house.
Theatre of Blood, 1973
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Campy film in which Vincent Price plays an actor who kills his critics in Shakespearean ways. In our favorite scene, he bakes rotund Robert Morley's beloved poodles into meat pies and serves them to him. Yum.
Vampire Girl Vs. Frankenstein Girl, 2009
Despite the cheesy title, this New Wave Japanese vampire tale is stylish and inventive. It's also hyperviolent right from the opening minutes, when a bloody flying skull sucks a young woman's face off…and not in a good way.
Pulse, 2001
The Japanese horror-film industry has come a long way since Godzilla vs. Megalon and now produces some of the world's best ghost stories. Pulse, about a computer-haunting evil that lures victims into committing suicide, is a good place to start. Like many of the best Japanese and Korean horror films, this was remade into an inferior U.S. version.
The Seventh Curse, 1986
Our favorite Hong Kong monster/black magic/kung fu/nudie/Indiana Jones/Evil Dead rip-off movie ever.
The Shiver of the Vampires, 1971
Lesbians! Bloodsucking! 1970s natural breasts! What's not to like? Well, it is in French with subtitles, if you're determined to follow the dialogue.
The Quatermass Xperiment, 1955
This British gem, originally titled The Creeping Unknown in the U.S., took horror further than nearly any film of its time, earning a rare X rating. A returning spaceship crashes with only one of its three astronauts still aboard, and this guy is in serious trouble, slowly mutating into a blobby, cactus-y thing. A forgotten classic.
Deathdream, 1974
Another nice creepfest from the early career of A Christmas Story's Bob Clark. When her son is reported killed in Vietnam, Mom prays it's a mistake and he'll return. It isn't a mistake, but he comes home anyway…sort of.
Attack of the Beast Creatures, 1985
Wait, isn't that title redundant? Never mind, that's the least of this movie's problems. The others would be the terrible acting, the inept cinematography, and the plot about a group of shipwreck survivors washed up on an island populated by what appear to be man-eating tiki dolls. On the other hand, it does have one of our favorite film credits ever: "Hairstyles by DJ's Hair-Inn." Watch it with friends.
Contamination.7, 1993
No list would be complete without a film that's so bad it's good. Trust us: Contamination.7 is that bad. The plot—nuke waste dumped in a forest causes the foliage to turn killer—couldn't be less original. The acting is on a par with a preschool Christmas pageant, and the "special effects" consist of a guy off-camera jiggling dead branches. It's also known as Troll 3 and like Troll 2, another stinker, has nothing to do with trolls.
High Tension, 2003
The story is standard-issue— two women are stalked by a killer in an isolated farmhouse—yet the film is anything but, unless you watch a lot of movies where a man masturbates with a severed head. In which case, never call us. Get the unrated version, and prepare to be poop-your-pants scared.
The Bleeding House, 2011
A cheerful killer invades an isolated home but doesn't expect to encounter an occupant even crazier than he is. Eerie.
The Midnight Meat Train, 2008
We wonder if anyone told Bradley Cooper what they planned to name this film when he agreed to star in it. He plays a photographer attempting to catch the Subway Butcher, a serial killer. It's based on a Clive Barker story, so count on things getting bloody and very bizarre.
Inseminoid, 1981
A scientist exploring a distant planet gets knocked up by a huge, insect-monster thing. She then proceeds to murder her coworkers. The gore is cheesy and the plot is ripped off directly from Alien, but you have to love the title (later changed to the pedestrian Horror Planet).
Martyrs, 2008
It's hard to describe this French-Canadian shocker without spoiling it for you. Let's just say it's about a young woman who may have been kidnapped and tortured as a child and may be haunted by a disfigured ghoulish woman. Or maybe she imagined it all. Martyrs got an R rating for "disturbing/severe aberrant behavior, strong bloody violence, torture, child abuse, and nudity" (and that was the edited version!). A U.S. remake is reportedly in the works. They'll probably screw it up.
Cannibal Holocaust, 1980
Director Ruggero Deodato was arrested on obscenity charges after the Italian premiere of Cannibal Holocaust, his faux documentary about a group of NYU anthropologists studying a man-munching Amazon tribe. The movie was subsequently banned in several countries for its depiction of gore and sexual violence. Although oceans of blood have been spilled on film since this was made, watching it is still very unsettling. Definitely not a dinner-date flick.
Sleepaway Camp, 1983
Despite the innocuous title, this is one of the best '80s slasher films and features the only death by curling iron we can remember seeing. After Angela's parents are killed in a boating accident, she is sent to a Christian summer camp, where teens soon begin dying in horrible accidents. The effects are above average, and the twist ending is a killer. Spawned several sequels but none as good as the original.
Bloody Pit of Horror, 1965
Also known as The Crimson Executioner, this flick stars Mickey Hargitay (husband of Jayne Mansfield and father of Mariska) as a red-spandex-clad hunk who ruins a sexy photo shoot in a castle by killing all the models in medieval torture contraptions. There is some blood and horror, but not a single pit in the whole damn movie.
The Pit, 1981
Luckily for the pit-deprived, there actually is one in The Pit…Well, it's just a square hole in the woods, but it is filled with cannibal trolls, which a weird local kid keeps fed by luring friends and family into their lair.
Microwave Massacre, 1983
A man gets so tired of his wife's cooking that he kills and eats her. For seconds he lures prostitutes to his home and makes them into delicious microwave meals. The killer is played by Jackie Vernon, best known as the voice of Frosty the Snowman.
Eyes Without a Face, 1960
Yes, Billy Idol stole his song title from this French film, but don't hold that against it. In Eyes Without a Face, a doctor kidnaps young ladies and tries to graft their faces onto his disfigured daughter's noggin. Creepy.
I Saw the Devil, 2010
In this Korean shocker, a government agent tracks down the sadistic serial killer who butchered his pregnant fiancée. Min-sik Choi is a delight as the hard-to-catch psycho. Very violent, and engrossing.
Dog Soldiers, 2002
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The lame title may have kept more people from seeing this effective film about a group of Special Forces troops training in Scotland who come up against an unexpected enemy: the kind that turns hairy and hungry when the moon is full.
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Admirers and detractors of the United States agree on one point: This country is unusually resistant to the social consensus and set of structures broadly known as "social democracy" or "progressivism." (Social democracy leans more toward state ownership, progressivism toward state regulation.) Various versions of such schemes have prevailed in Western Europe and Japan, and to a lesser degree in Britain, Canada, and Australia. The characteristics include a wider scope and role for the state, centralization of decision-making in a national bureaucracy, monopolization of power by a set of large institutions, including state-champion corporations and labor unions, and a wide variety of social entitlements for all citizens. This was the classic progressive economic program; since the 1960s, it has also included certain social characteristics, such as official multiculturalism.
Most of these measures were characteristic of some parts of Continental Western Europe from the late 19th century onward, and became generally prevalent there after the Second World War. The English-speaking countries lagged well behind; Britain began to adopt welfarist policies and admit labor unions to the domestic power system before the First World War, but moved to full entitlement systems and substantial state control of the economy only after 1945. Australia and New Zealand adopted entitlement systems early, using their agricultural and mineral export earnings as petro-states now use oil wealth, but remained socially conservative in many other ways. Canada was essentially similar to the U.S. in its domestic systems (despite some greater public ownership, mostly in transportation) until the 1960s. But by the end of the 1970s, America stood virtually alone in a world of seemingly universal consensus for a strong managerial state.
Optimistic progressives pointed to the accomplishments of the New Deal and the Great Society as evidence that the U.S. could and eventually would achieve their full agenda. Social Security was, after all, a universal welfare entitlement, even if it had to be disguised as insurance; Medicare was the seed of a socialized medical system. Many of the eastern and West Coast states had gone farther with the progressive agenda than the country at large. They were the richer and better-educated parts of the country, and were therefore beacons of the future.
Such a picture was credible through the end of the Great Society, and even through the Nixon administration. In fact, it was possible to see Nixon as the conservative rationalizer of the welfare state, the man who said, "We are all Keynesians now," who imposed wage and price controls, and who created the regulation-extending Environmental Protection Agency. Any non-progressive features of his administration could be dismissed as electoral pandering to the rednecks, to be undone when genuine progressives returned to power.
And in 1976 it did appear that such an administration was at hand, with the election of James Earl Carter. When Carter gained the presidency over a wounded Republican party, he mistook his narrow victory for a mandate to continue moving along the track toward a European-style social democracy, building on Johnson's and Nixon's enhancements of centralized power. In this he was basically following the trajectory of Britain and Canada. Carter envisioned moving toward fully government-controlled medicine, a government-dominated energy sector enforcing strict rationing, and a federally dominated school system promoting governing-class values. In order to carry out his agenda, he created and entrenched two new cabinet bureaucracies, the Departments of Energy and of Education, and a wide variety of new pork and entitlement programs, such as the Comprehensive Education and Training Act and an expansion of the scandal-plagued Community Development Corporations.
#page#Yet by the (unexpectedly hastened) end of his administration, these plans were in ruins. Most of the expansions of power he had envisioned had been forestalled or greatly circumscribed; the nation was engaging in widespread civil disobedience against measures such as the 55-mph national speed limit; and, to the surprise and horror of those who followed the prevailing intellectual consensus, Ronald Reagan had been chosen to take Carter's place. Although it wasn't fully appreciated at the time, Reagan's replacement of Carter marked a critical point (not the first, in fact, but the first generally noticed) of a great U-turn in American politics and society.
For decades — at a minimum, since the beginning of the Progressive Era, and arguably earlier — America had been on a course toward a more centralized society, one in which individualism as it had been understood since before the Founding — a society built on independent families living on their own properties, most of them farms — was being replaced by a different vision. The progressive vision was one of citizens as employees whose existence was mediated by negotiations among large corporations, unions, and government agencies. For such subjects, "rights" were to be a designated set of entitlements granted by those organizations.
America had gone some distance down this road by 1980, although not as far as Canada or Britain, and nowhere near as far as Germany or France, which had never been all that laissez-faire in the first place. But 1980 marked the point at which the nation reversed course. Thenceforth it would be headed in the opposite direction, toward a new vision of individualism and decentralism, driven by the computer rather than the plow.
It was the defeat and frustration of the Carter administration's plans that made the U-turn, which would be long in unfolding, visible to perceptive observers. By objective standards, Reagan's domestic program was quite moderate and constrained, not really dismantling any major parts of the federal machine but merely slowing the rate of increase of federal non-defense spending. Reagan devoted the bulk of his attention to foreign affairs and to implementing his principal insight: He understood that one period of sustained pressure would be sufficient to cause the Soviet empire to collapse without a shot being fired, and he applied that pressure with the intended result.
In parallel, a set of explicitly deregulating and decentralizing developments had emerged, including the privatization of COMSAT (begun under Nixon), the legislative deregulation of the air-transport and freight-rail industries (done under Carter), and the court-ordered demise of the regulated telephone monopoly. The resulting drastic reductions in the price of rail freight, flying, and phone service made it substantially easier to do business nationwide, and indeed worldwide, independent of location. This was an often overlooked factor in the entrepreneurial takeoff and continuing decentralization of the Reagan years.
#page#During World War II, Americans had accepted a great deal of regimentation for the sake of victory, but they made it clear that with the coming of peace they wanted something different. The Democratic party had controlled both houses of Congress from 1933 through 1946, voting reliably for the centralizing policies of Franklin D. Roosevelt. The first post-war election, in 1946, returned the Republicans to power in both houses.
The new Congress proceeded to undo most of the wartime controls and return the country to a more market-oriented economy, while keeping popular New Deal measures such as Social Security. Most important, in 1947 the 80th Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act over Truman's veto. This outlawed a number of abusive union practices, and in particular allowed states to forbid the practice of requiring employees to join unions.
Subsequently, the Eisenhower administration consolidated the social gains of the 80th Congress, meeting the defense, infrastructure, and economic challenges of the Cold War and restabilizing the country after decades of wrenching and traumatic experiences. Eisenhower also launched a series of initiatives that turned America from what had been, in effect, a continental empire, with a metropole and a quasi-colonial periphery, into a genuinely continental nation. Previously, the Northeastern–Great Lakes metropolitan core had dominated politics, finance, and manufacturing, while the western and southern states were primarily semi-colonial farming and mining regions. The interstate highway system and other advances, particularly the completion of transcontinental coaxial-cable networks (which permitted simultaneous distribution of television programs), direct-dial telephone networks, and expanded air transportation, allowed national activities to take place on a genuinely national scale and pace. A good marker for this transition can be seen in the timing and geography of the expansion of the major-league sports teams.
The final significant development was cheap air conditioning for homes, cars, and commercial buildings. Together with the transportation and communications improvements, air conditioning turned great reaches of the South, Southwest, and West into much easier places to live and work in, and integrated them more tightly into the national economy. As this happened, many western and southern states, where unions had always been weaker, began to pass right-to-work laws as permitted by Taft-Hartley. This created a virtuous circle whereby smaller and newer companies located or relocated in the right-to-work states, reinforcing the pressure for deregulatory and low-tax policies in those states and making them yet more attractive to companies and employees. It could almost be viewed as the last act of America's transcontinental settlement, in which the interior spaces of the Sunbelt were settled a second time upon the discovery of a new type of gold, this time an intangible one of policy advantage.
#page#The effect of this pattern was to set up a national movement from the Northeast to the Sunbelt, a trend that had profound long-term electoral implications. The migration began to affect the distribution of congressional seats and electoral votes as early as the 1960 census, or even the 1950 census, given the substantial movement of population to the West during and after the Second World War. Voters who chose to move to right-to-work states were generally more conservative than those who remained; thus, the shift in electoral votes and House seats to Sunbelt states began to give Republican candidates an edge over Democrats, and, within the Republican party, to give conservative candidates an edge over centrist and liberal ones.
Barry Goldwater's 1952 election as a Republican senator in historically Democratic-leaning Arizona was one of the first fruits of this shift, as was his nomination for president in 1964. Neither would have been likely to happen under the population distributions of 1940. Similarly, northern transplants to the Deep South were one factor in its transition from a predominantly Democratic region to a predominantly Republican one.
This suggests that the Great American U-Turn was due not so much to an inherent or essentialist explanation of American exceptionalism, but a circumstantial one. It was due to some specific characteristics of the American situation in the late 20th century, primarily geographical and technological, that permitted a large-scale inter-regional population shift. This in turn permitted the prescient work of the Founders, in their devotion to federalist principles, to set in motion a process of regulatory arbitrage that created a virtuous circle of deregulation and entrepreneurial vigor. These factors combined with the fortunate political developments of the 80th Congress, particularly the Taft-Hartley Act.
To apply the comparative method, it's worth examining the "socialism gap" between the United States and our closest cousins, Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The last three are particularly useful examples, since all three shared the frontier and colonial experience that is so often cited as a principal source of our exceptionalism. To the extent we consider that these experiences shaped America's Founders, we must ask what the equivalent influence on the Canadian and Australian founders as well.
A snapshot of the English-speaking world in, say, 1945 would not have revealed any major gaps, political or practical, between its members in the matters of centralization, state control, and public acceptance of a directive state. Rather, there would have been a clear pattern of a slight lead in adoption of such mechanisms by Britain, with their adoption in the U.S. and Canada coming a decade or two later.
At the end of the 19th century, populist politicians in Australia and New Zealand had conducted a series of experiments in state-driven social-welfare and economic interventions. Both countries had small, homogeneous populations with a very limited set of prosperous industries in farming and natural-resource extraction, exporting mostly back to Britain. Their socialism was not the systematic socialism of latter-day German social democrats or the apocalyptic totalitarianism of Slavic Communists. Rather, it was a series of pragmatic experiments by a collection of somewhat dotty and colorful labor leaders and populist politicians, more Methodist than Marxist, wrapped up in "fair go" rhetoric.
#page#Volatile international price swings, and the lack of effective market mechanisms to cope with them, inspired the establishment of commodity marketing boards; underdeveloped banking and housing sectors led to state provision of single-family houses in New Zealand; and again, the lack of effective capital markets encouraged state entrepreneurship in railway construction. Social- and medical-insurance schemes and old-age pensions pyramided on high childbirth rates, and employers could pass their costs along to their British customers under the wing of Imperial tariff preferences.
Of course, Marxist intellectuals such as those in the Fabian Society were happy to use the results, real or imagined, as an argument for their kind of comprehensive, ideological socialism. However, for many more in Britain, they just sounded like a set of commonsense measures that delivered results. The experience of the First World War seemed to validate this perception. The divisions of robust, healthy Australian and New Zealand troops that had come to their rescue in the grim middle years of trench warfare stood in contrast to the high percentage of conscripts from Britain's industrial slums who were rejected as physically unfit. All those family allowances, free daily rations of milk for schoolchildren, and state-provided cricket fields seemed a plausible explanation.
"One-Nation Conservatives" as well as liberals and leftists were moved to accept a broader degree of state intervention as a result. This came on the heels of the Victorian reformation of mores, which had included a social conscience that led to amelioration of the Dickensian misery of the slums. These trends were also present in the U.S., but less universally.
The Second World War placed Britain under extreme pressure in terms of food and fuel resources, finance, and manpower, both military and industrial. Its response was an extremely high degree of mobilization, including conscription, rationing, and tight planning and control of all economic and industrial matters. This control was generally accepted in the name of wartime necessity, accompanied by a sense that the privation and intrusion were more acceptable because they were shared equally. At the end of the war, this translated into support for the Labour party and its program of a welfare state and state ownership or control of major industries.
The post-war Labour government undertook one of the most sweeping institutional and structural changes ever imposed by peaceful electoral politics in the English-speaking world, particularly in the creation of the welfare state. Yet for all the atmospherics, the actual amount of nationalization was limited to the commanding heights of the old "first industrial revolution" sector, plus health care. The railway companies were acquired, but the railways had been so debilitated by wartime damage and deferred maintenance that massive capitalization was needed to modernize them. It's likely that such rebuilding would have been state-financed, and therefore state-controlled, under a Conservative government as well.
The coal industry was nationalized as a payoff to the miners' union. The steel industry was quasi-nationalized through a coordinating entity that eventually came to be called British Steel. Steel nationalization was undone quickly by Churchill's returning Conservatives in the early 1950s; rail and steel nationalization were undone in the Thatcher revolution a few decades later. Of all the post-war nationalizations, only that of the health-care system proved to be an enduring political success, and it was the one most ardently envied by the American Left. British socialism was, overall, more Bismarckian than Leninist.
#page#In 1945, it was quite possible that America would soon follow Britain in many of its key social initiatives. Harry Truman is today remembered primarily for his assertive foreign policy. Many forget or ignore that in economics he was a hard-core New Dealer who was firmly in favor of regulation, mandatory union membership, and nationalized health care. It was only after the 80th Congress turned America back onto a more private and decentralized path, while the Labour government put Britain on the path of centralization and welfarism, that a substantial divergence appeared. Even then, the United States's lag was seen by progressives as merely temporary, to be corrected as soon as progressive government was restored.
In 1962, the Canadian province of Saskatchewan created a mandatory, universal government-run medical-insurance scheme, although only after a bitter battle that included a 23-day doctors' strike. Other provinces quickly followed suit, and by 1966 Canada had formally established by federal action a comprehensive, state-controlled medical system. Meanwhile, with his huge congressional majorities elected in 1964, Lyndon Johnson enacted Medicare. Many on the left thought this would soon be expanded to a general state-funded medical system. Yet no significant movement was made in that direction until the Obama administration's legislation of this year, which still falls well short of either the British or the Canadian model. For a brief moment after the electoral triumph of the Left in 2008, it seemed as if the U-turn might be turned again. But the vociferous and widespread opposition to the Obama agenda suggests that the U-turn is part of a long-term transition and is not likely to be reversed by short-term politics.
Had Truman or Lyndon Johnson been able to push through a similar British- or Canadian-style agenda in their times, the new institutions and arrangements would have immediately appealed to a substantial bloc of the electorate, particularly unionized employees of large corporations, who would have constituted a substantial lobby for the entrenchment, protection, and expansion of those institutions and benefits. By 2009, this bloc was substantially smaller and weaker, and it has had to expend substantial amounts of its political capital merely to stay alive. The entrepreneurial companies, the self-employed, and small businesses that do not benefit from, but rather are penalized by, this agenda are conversely stronger.
One way to think about the U-turn is to look at an alternative history that was proposed and advocated, but never came to pass. By the 1880s, Britain had seen its share of world manufacturing decline significantly from its mid-century high-water mark of half the world's output. A great deal of the difference was a result of the rapidly growing output of the U.S. and Germany. At this time Germany was barely a decade old as a state, having united only in 1871, while the U.S. had preserved and deepened its unity just six years before that. It seemed as if the prevailing worldwide trend was the merger of smaller entities into large ones. Little Britain seemed destined to be permanently surpassed by the newer, larger, more vigorous unions.
#page#Yet an alternative beckoned alluringly. While the world's attention had been fixed on the Americans' sprint to populate their part of the continent, their fellow onetime British subjects to the north had achieved an equally remarkable feat. From being in 1783 a dumping ground for dispossessed American loyalists, Canada had achieved its own coast-to-coast settlement, becoming a self-governing dominion in 1867 and completing a transcontinental railroad by 1885. Australia began in an even more inauspicious fashion as a penal colony in 1788, but grew to a self-governing continental federation by 1901. New Zealand quickly followed suit, while on yet another continent the gold-rush crowds of the 1890s seemed to be in the process of rapidly outnumbering the Dutch settlers of South Africa with restless Britons.
With this background, a group of Victorians, both British and colonial, began to dream of a globe-spanning Imperial Federation under the Crown, uniting Britain and all of its colonies of settlement into a global federal state, governed by a single Imperial Parliament, and able to operate on the same scale as the U.S., Germany, and Russia. Taken singly, Britain and its colonies amounted to, respectively, no more than a small island with a shrinking share of the global economy and a collection of scattered deserts and forests sparsely populated by a handful of settlers. Taken together, they might be a functionally equivalent (if more widely scattered) version of the U.S. (Britain equaling the Northeast, Canada the Midwest and Northwest, Australia the Southwest and California), wanting only a set of American-style federal institutions to keep pace with America and Germany. It just needed some Founding Fathers to bring it into existence.
Historian Duncan Bell has called this "one of the most audacious political projects of modern times." It was the political equivalent of the visionary engineering of Isambard Brunel and the other great Victorian engineers. In a world of crawling stagecoaches, painfully constructed stone-arch bridges, and wooden ships at the mercy of the winds, Brunel saw broad-gauge trains steaming at a mile a minute, iron spans crossing wide estuaries, and steamships that amounted to vast floating cities bridging the oceans and linking continents in safety and comfort. Brunel turned his visions into reality, but the Victorian political visionaries saw only a shadow of their dreams come to pass, in the form of what came to be known as the British Commonwealth.
The reasons their dream never became real are varied. While the voluntary Commonwealth worked well, it seemed unnecessary, and when the voluntary system became inadequate, it was too late to build a federal solution. Other options became more attractive, such as working out separate national deals with the United States. Finally, Britain itself was beguiled by the alternative of European unification. Its 1961 application to join the European Economic Community, which signaled a willingness to disrupt trade ties with its Commonwealth partners, came as a shattering blow. Gradually, the existing ties — particularly the common citizenship and ease of personal movement between dominions — were extinguished.
#page#Ironically, then, just as the United States was knitting together its quasi-colonial outlying regions into a true nation by means of jet aviation, simultaneous national broadcasting, direct dialing, the interstate highway system, and air conditioning, the Commonwealth was shrinking its horizons by terminating common citizenship and restricting freedom of movement. Jet aviation, television broadcasting, and geosynchronous satellites (again ironically, all invented or co-invented by Britons) were finally promising the technical means to realize the premature vision of the old Imperial Federationists, just as the last few political ties that remained from that dream were being severed.
Had the full federalist vision been realized, an Imperial Federation would have been subject to the same decentralist pressures as was the United States. It would have been difficult at best to apply a single, centralized administration in such a polity to the extent needed for progressive planned economies, and cheap, unrestricted movement between its components would have undercut extremes of taxation by those units. Perhaps the most important effect would have been psychological: the sense, always present, of broad lands overseas that were there as a potential, whether you chose to exercise the option of migrating or not. Kipling, a fan of Greater Britain, wrote lovingly in the 1890s of "the far-flung fenceless prairie / Where the quick cloud-shadows trail." Even in 1953, Nevil Shute's futurist novel In the Wet pictured a Commonwealth in 1980 linked by jet aviation and common citizenship, to the consternation of British socialist politicians.
Today, a wave of privatization and deregulation throughout the English-speaking world and beyond has narrowed the socialism gap between the U.S. and its Anglosphere cousins, with the primary exception of health care. Canada and Britain have privatized their state-owned railways and many other industries. In some areas, such as air-traffic control and airport operation, it is the U.S. that is the socialist relic. Conservative governments in Britain and Canada have announced intentions to reduce the size of the state. Meanwhile, the Obama administration is seeking to close the socialism gap by expanding the American state, having already made a start in health care and, supposedly temporarily, auto manufacturing.
Yet no sooner had Obama and his supporters started down this road than the decentralized nature of post-U-turn America threw roadblocks in their path. Diverse "new media" prevented the administration from flooding the discussion zone with a uniform message and provided a channel for organizing protests, leading to the tea-party movement. Resurgent state governments have filed suit to overturn Obamacare, and perhaps shrink the scope of the Commerce Clause in the process. If successful, these suits could be as momentous a development as the Taft-Hartley Act.
The American U-turn, despite Obama, seems well established, in contrast to the tentative movement to shrink the British state and revisit the increasingly problematic decision to join the European Union. Obama came to office hoping to found the New New Deal, but America is no longer the America of FDR. A combination of the Founders' gift of a fundamentally decentralist Constitution and the sheer elbow room of the American continent appears to be pointing us to a third era in American history, taking the technological and civil-rights gains of the second, centralized, industrial era, but returning to the decentralized and diverse community vision of the Founding.
– Mr. Bennett is the author of The Anglosphere Challenge (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004).


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Another 'creepy clown' reported in Adams County, sheriff's office says
The creepy clown fad sweeping the nation appears to have found a new home in Colorado in the past week.
By: Blair Miller
ADAMS COUNTY, Colo. – The "creepy clown" fad sweeping the nation appears to have found a new home in Colorado in the past week.
The Adams County Sheriff's Office posted a note to Facebook Wednesday afternoon saying its deputies had to investigate a report of a person dressed in a clown costume Tuesday night near the Bellview School.
The sheriff's office had a bit of fun with the post, saying sarcastically that deputies "were not at all spooked by responding to a school that looks like a castle, surrounded by corn fields, in the dark, during the Halloween season."
"Deputies were thankful that at the end of the shift they would be sleeping during the day, in the light," the post continued.
The sheriff's office never found the supposed clown, who was allegedly dressed in a green shirt and wearing a green wig.
But the clown threat wasn't so funny earlier this week, after people in Greeley were shaken up when posts made their rounds on Facebook saying clowns were going to shoot-up Northride High School and Franklin Middle School.
A 15-year-old female student now faces criminal charges for that threat.
The FBI says it is now investigating the clown reports streaming in from across the country.

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Posted by William James on June 15, 2021 at 12:23pm in Rumors And News
Esoteric presents Be-Bop Deluxe "Live! In The Air Age" – an expanded edition of the classic 1977 live album!
• A DELUXE 16 DISC LIMITED EDITION BOXED SET OF THE CLASSIC 1977 LIVE ALBUM BY BE BOP DELUXE
• THE ORIGINAL ALBUM IS NEWLY REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES RESTORING THE CORRECT ALBUM
• WITH AN ADDITIONAL 14 CDs FEATURING EVERY CONCERT RECORDED ON THE BE BOP DELUXE UK TOUR OF
FEBRUARY & MARCH 1977 ALL NEWLY REMIXED FROM THE ORIGINAL MULTI-TRACK TAPES BY STEPHEN W. TAYLER
• INCLUDES A BBC RADIO ONE JOHN PEEL SESSION FROM JANUARY 1977
• ALSO INCLUDES A DVD (NTSC / REGION FREE) OF THE STAR RIDER IN CONCERT TV FILM FIRST SCREENED IN 1977,
RELEASED HERE FOR THE FIRST TIME
• INCLUDES A LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED BOOK WITH MANY PREVIOUSLY UNSEEN PHOTOGRAPHS & NEW ESSAY BY BILL NELSON
• ALSO INCLUDES POSTCARDS AND A REPLICA POSTER
Esoteric Recordings is proud to announce a new re-mastered super-deluxe expanded boxed set limited edition release (comprising 15 CDs and a DVD) of "Live! In The Air Age" by Be-Bop Deluxe. This legendary live album was released in July 1977 and would prove to be the band's most successful album, peaking at number 10 in the UK charts. The album was issued at a time of growing commercial success for the band and followed on the heels of two highly acclaimed studio albums in thirteen months, Sunburst Finish and Modern Music, both of which reached the top twenty of the UK album charts. Live! In the Air Age would be the band's only live record and was recorded on a series of dates in the UK in February and March 1977 on the Rolling Stones mobile unit with John Leckie, who had engineered and co-produced the band's previous two albums, supervising the location recordings.
The band's UK tour began in late January and was an audio-visual extravaganza that featured the use of projection screens and excerpts from the 1927 German silent film Metropolis, director Fritz Lang's striking science fiction masterpiece. Continuing into February, the first concert to be recorded was at the De Montfort Hall in Leicester on the 12th of that month. The following two nights saw concerts at the Grand Theatre in Leeds which were both captured on tape and saw Bill Nelson perform to an enthusiastic home audience. However, at this juncture fate would intervene to cause a postponement to the remainder of the tour. Travelling to a concert in Bristol on 15th February 1977, Bill Nelson and John Leckie were involved in a car accident which resulted in them being hospitalized at Huddersfield Infirmary. Thankfully, all involved recovered quickly from their injuries, but as a result of the accident, the remaining concerts were postponed until the end of March. The tour began again with two concerts at Hammersmith Odeon in London on March 25th and 26th 1977 which revealed the band to be on top form, feeding off the tremendous warmth of the audience. Further shows in Bristol and Bournemouth on the 27th and 28th March respectively also contained many fine moments. Bill Nelson and John Leckie selected the best performances for mixing at Abbey Road and Advision studios in London and "Live! In The Air Age" was released in July 1977.
Research of all of the Be-Bop Deluxe master tapes revealed that multi track tapes of all the shows recorded on the UK tour of 1977 had survived. After digitizing and listening through to all of the Rolling Stones mobile unit 24-track tapes it was decided to include each concert in its entirety in this expanded boxed set. The concerts were mixed over a period of several months by Stephen W. Tayler and are presented here for the very first time. They reveal the improvisational side of Be-Bop Deluxe, particularly on pieces such as "Shine" and "Blazing" Apostles which made each concert unique.
This set features the original album, newly remastered from the original master tapes, and restores the correct running order of the original LP release and has three bonus tracks drawn from a BBC Radio One JOHN PEEL SHOW session from January 1977. This box also adds an NTSC / Region Free DVD of STAR RIDER IN CONCERT – BE-BOP DELUXE, which was first screened on television in 1977 and appears exclusively in this boxed set for the first time. Finally, this limited-edition boxed set includes an illustrated 68-page book with many previously unseen photographs and an essay of recollections by Bill Nelson. Additionally, the set includes postcards and a replica poster. This special deluxe limited-edition boxed set of "Live! In The Air Age" is a fitting tribute to a fine live band and the creative vision of Bill Nelson.
To pre-order:
Be-Bop Deluxe "Live! In The Air Age" 15CD/1DVD Limited Edition Box Set: https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/be-bop-deluxe-live-in-the-air-a...
Be-Bop Deluxe "Live! In The Air Age" 3CD Remastered & Expanded Edition: https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/be-bop-deluxe-live-in-the-air-a...
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Sarge is in charge and the Lions are in great shape. Day one of free agency report!
Now that the Lions have sent the message that the locker room must be cleaned, here is an update and primer on what has been done, what will get done and a look at the draft.
Dre' Bly: to many issues in the locker room.
James Hall: see Dre' Bly.
Marcus Bell: ditto. Dude has more issues then I have extra pounds. I didn't like him coming here last year and told you he would be a problem and gone before next season.
Marcus Pollard: I love Marcus and he is one of my best friends on the Lions. They love him and his attitude but the does not fit the system. I know for a fact his deep admiration and respect for Sarge and Millen, this is a move the benefits both. Marcus will love to play, but leaving Millen and Sarge will be a sad thing for him.
Cory Schlesinger:Â great guy, but simply does not fit what the Lions want to do.
Rick DeMulling: again a good friend, but simply under performed in D-Town. Lots of love from me for the Ricker, but he didn't get it done and has to go.
Terrance Holt: under performed and that is can't be tolerated in the Tampa Two, especially from a safety. Dude is a great dresser (could give Millen, Sarge and I some lessons) but is simply not a good football player. If I could avoid donuts like he does collisions I would weigh about as much as the Lions Chrissie Zavicar. That is about 15 pounds in case you're wondering.
Ross Verba: issues in the locker room, and off the field. I said the Lions over paid to get him and I am glad (as are many on the team) that he is out of here.
Tatum Bell has been added. He will be the third string back (unless KJ is injured) then he will be the second stringer. Who is two, I will talk about that in a minute.
George Foster has been added. He is really a younger Stockar McDougle. He has motivation issues, but will be a good backup and maybe a change of scenery will help him mature.
Alex Lewis is resigned and that is a great move. Lewis is one of their most athletic players and is a great contributor to the LB corp as well as special teams. A great locker room guy and he is loved by his teammates.
I think the Lions will sign free agent Kevin Curtis. Curtis is clearly the guy the Lions have targeted to round out the receiving corp with Roy and Furrey.
I think the Lions will sign DE Dewayne White from Tampa Bay. He will be joined by Kalimba on the other side and new DC Joe Barry and HC Sarge Marinelli developed him. He loves this staff and players I have spoken with onr of the Bucs and he thinks it is a no brainer that he is a Lion.
Detroit will be a major player for a major RB I free agency. I am not going to report whom it is at this point, but I will have an article about him coming soon. The Lions will bring him in clearly as the number two back, but if KJ does not recover or stumbles he will be a great fit for the Lions and will be able to assume that #1 role with no problem.
The Lions will bring in Kawika Mitchell MLB from the Chiefs. He has experience in the Tampa Two with the Chiefs. This is not a lock signing at all, like I feel the three above are. This is an intriguing guy, but not a lock.
The Lions really like Joe Thomas and at this point he will be their first round pick. He is the only player that they will select with this pick. If they are unable to trade the pick, Thomas is a Lion. Everyone else they like would be way over paid at this spot. I know for a fact that the Lions mentality for this pick is "he must be a starter this year." That is a direct quote from a senior Lions official about the #2 overall pick in the first round.
The Lions LOVE Drew Stanton and he is the best QB in the draft on their board. They are not alone (I wrote about that yesterday) and he is the real deal. One or two years behind Kitna would be a great experience for Drew, just ask Carson Palmer. They will not select him with their first round pick (#2 overall) so if the Lions get him, it will be because they moved down (from their second round pick #34 overall) and got him in the bottom third of the first round.
The Lions really like Patrick Willis the MLB from Ole Miss. If they were able to trade down and accumulate more picks, they would take him in the eight to twelve ranges. Another name getting a lot of play is Gaines Adams the DE from Clemson. I know for a fact that the Lions prefer Dan Bazuin DE from CMU. They feel that they can get him later then Gaines and I just don't think they move up for a guy when they like someone better, and can get him later.
I will keep you updated as the day goes on.


Editor's note: This piece has been updated to more precisely reflect the Dwyane Wade situation.
The Chicago Bulls have been picked dead last in ESPN Forecast's projected standings for the 2017-18 season. Just 26 projected wins for a team that has gone to the playoffs in eight of the past nine seasons. That's a hard fall from grace for a proud organization that rode Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen to six NBA championships and worldwide prominence.
But as the Bulls get set for a major rebuilding season, the reality is that the bottom of a bad Eastern Conference is right where this team wants to be. That's because it will put Chicago in the best possible position to draft either Michael Porter Jr. or Marvin Bagley III next summer.
Rookie of the Year: Lonzo in landslide?
First-time All-Stars: Who will rise?
Best newcomers: CP3, PG-13 at No. 1?
Team Turnaround: Wolves lead the pack?
Team Turmoil: Chaos in Cleveland?
East standings: Changes at the top?
West standings: Can Warriors win 70?
The Bulls' rebuilding plan got a major shot in the arm Monday night when Bagley announced he would be attending Duke and would reclassify as part of this year's class. Not only did his decision give the Bulls another high-level target in the 2018 draft, it gave the front office a reminder of what its main objective should be all season: Put yourself in the most advantageous lottery position by losing as many games as possible.
In other words, tank away.
From a pure basketball perspective, it appears the Bulls are well-equipped to do just that. Dwyane Wade isn't expected to be long for the organization's future, as nobody would be surprised if he decided not to stick around for a season in the tank and instead chooses to reach a buyout agreement at some point in the next few months.
Bulls GM Gar Forman said at the Las Vegas Summer League that he hasn't had any discussions with Wade's representatives about a potential buyout, but the widespread belief within the organization is that a deal that would allow Wade to play elsewhere will eventually get worked out at some point during the season.
Robin Lopez has become the most respected player in the Bulls' locker room, but he isn't a game-changing force, averaging just 10 points a game. After that, the rest of the Bulls' roster is littered with question marks.
Kris Dunn, acquired from the Minnesota Timberwolves in the deal for Jimmy Butler, showed flashes of promise in his first year, but remains in search of a consistent jump shot. Rookie Lauri Markkanen played fairly well in the Las Vegas Summer League, but has to work through all the ups and downs young players deal with in their first season. Jerian Grant had a couple of nice games last season but appears to be a fringe NBA player.
Bobby Portis played the game of his professional life in a win over the Boston Celtics in the first round of last season's playoffs, but his two pro years have been defined by inconsistency. Zach LaVine will give the Bulls an athletic boost whenever he returns to the floor, but the Bulls will be very cautious with his rehab as he makes his way back from an ACL tear suffered last season. Paul Zipser will be given more of a chance in the rotation, but the second-round pick showed plenty of flaws in his game.
Cameron Payne has struggled so badly since being dealt from the Oklahoma City Thunder that it doesn't look like he has a long future in the league. Niko Mirotic would give the Bulls another perimeter threat, but his contract status remains in limbo after he didn't get the type of offer sheet he was looking for at the beginning of free agency.
The Bulls could learn a tanking lesson from the other professional sports team that Jerry Reinsdorf owns in town, the Chicago White Sox. They've competed hard in games while continuing to rack up losses. They've spent the year dealing away proven assets for prospects with possibly huge futures.
Bulls head coach Fred Hoiberg knows he's in for a challenging season, but he can rehabilitate his own image within the league if he can get this unproven group to play hard on a nightly basis even in defeat. As tough as the losses might be to stomach for players, coaches and fans, strengthening your ability to land players like Porter or Bagley is much more important than trying to earn more wins in another lost season.


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"Jesus is Lord!!!"...
This is a common refrain in the Christian world. It usually refers to putting Jesus first in one's life, serving God's agenda for making more disciples and leading a holy life above all human desires. It can be used to mean a forsaking of oneself, picking up our crosses daily so that we might follow Jesus; a denial of everything immoral that may tempt us, of putting God's holy way above our own sinful desires, that God's glory may be known and his kingdom may grow.
It is also generally misunderstood by many throughout Church history who have used their particular appropriations to justify "holy" and not-so-holy wars, excommunications, inquisitions and persecutions and generally all other exclusions from faith communities. Too many people have been killed by the Church throughout history - directly and indirectly; physically, socially and emotionally - in defence of Jesus' lordship. It is amazing the lengths we will go to, and the pain we will deliberately and unknowingly inflict on others even today, in order to preserve Jesus Christ's position and authority as ruler and judge over all the world.
We'll excuse such behaviour though, justifying it with a "biblical" worldview that places concern for someone's eternal future over any concern for what will result from our words and actions in the here and now. Our desire for them to submit to Jesus' "lordship" and be spared an eternity of torment is seen as more the loving thing, and justifies – in our minds – what those outside of the church see as terribly harmful words and actions.
We will disown our gay and trans children for example, telling them they are an abomination to the Lord. We do this out of "love" in order to stimulate a repentance on their part, so they might enjoy our notion of heaven in the next life. It matters not that our words and actions have led to the tragic and extremely disproportionate rate of suicide amongst the lgbtqi+ community. The end justifies the means...
Lord of all
For many Christians, Jesus is omnipotent, all-powerful. He has mercifully provided a way for those who believe in him to be saved, but for those who refuse to accept the gift of his sacrifice, he will exercise justice on judgment day. "Jesus is Lord" and he will return to judge the living and the dead. As Lord of creation, Jesus stands above the Buddha, Krishna, Mohammed and Moses as the only way to be saved and made whole, and the followers of any and all others will also be relegated to an eternity of damnation.
But what does it really mean?
Let's take a moment to examine the origin of the phrase in Christian culture and how it relates to Jesus' own message and legacy. At the time of Jesus, Rome ruled the known world. The Roman Emperors had set themselves up as gods, and the phrase "Caesar is Lord" was a common expression, meant to guarantee subservience in the hearts and minds of the common folk through repetition and violent enforcement. For Rome, its citizens and its subjugates, the Caesar's way was the only way, and deviation from or denouncement of, the dictated way of life was to defy "God" himself, and to accept the inevitable death penalty that came with such a course of action.
So when the early followers of "The Way" began declaring that "Jesus is Lord", it was a direct indictment of the Caesars and the violence-fueled empire that they reigned over. But the early believers weren't raising Jesus up as someone to be worshiped or to follow into battle to violently conquer other people. Jesus asked for none of these things, and even specifically requested to not be treated as such.
Nor were they raising up a violent opposition to the Caesars' cause. And yet, for the early church, "Jesus is Lord" meant that the way of Jesus was superior to the way of Caesar. But what they were declaring was that the path of service and servitude, of humility and grace, of love and compassion for the lowly – and of non-violence – was a much more beautiful, fulfilling and godly way to live than the fear and anger-driven, domination-and-violence model that was embraced in Rome and has been by every other culture before Christ and since.
A shift in meaning
Yet once Christianity was universally adopted by the Roman Empire the notion of "Jesus is Lord" changed dramatically, from a humble way of service and love, to the exact expression of violent control and subjugation that the phrase was designed to subvert. It became synonymous with the Roman control of the empire, that required everyone - under threat of force if necessary - to bow down to its new state-sanctioned mantra.
In the modern age we have watered down much of the physical violence, yet that domination perspective still monopolises the meaning of the phrase. We Christians still largely believe that we are meant to go and make converts for Christ, conquering lands, cities and peoples for the glory of God. For us it is about ensuring that Jesus gets the biggest slice of the global worship pie, defending his honour against the "scourge" of false religions.
Military metaphors still abound in worship circles and many Christians feel the weight of being "under attack" by unseen enemies who spiritually manipulate people, things and events in order to thwart God's plans for his own advancing kingdom, ultimately revealing our lack of trust in God's omnipotence and goodness.
We circle the wagons, closing ranks and church doors to anyone who doesn't accept God exactly as we see *him*. We fire out our arrows at everything we are against – same sex marriage and the LGBTQI+ community in general, abortion, "lefties", people who have different religious beliefs (even within the Christian world), evolution and science – little realising that the tighter we close our ranks, the smaller our circle of wagons becomes.
To side with power or critique it?
God's kingdom was never meant to work this way. Jesus meant for his followers to be a critique of power and those who would desire it; to slowly permeate the world's systems by filling our whole world with grace, love, acceptance and humility. Not to wield power ourselves, holding the gates of heaven shut to all who believe or live differently - but to willingly accept, and even ask for, the lowest seat of honour at the banquet table of life so that we may better love and serve the world.
It doesn't matter to God how many people call themselves "Christian", or how big *his* 'kingdom' is in any part of this planet. What matters is how attune we are to God's willfully humiliated spirit of service, forgiveness and grace - and if we choose to engage with it or not. And many outside of the Christian wagon-circle are doing just that.
The "Lordship of Jesus" is not found in worshipping a god-man on a heavenly throne like some sort of Caesar with a fragile ego, it is found in allowing your holy feet to be washed by someone more lowly than you; discovering Christ in them regardless of who they are. Maybe then, we might be equipped to do the same for a broken and hurting world.
Russell has a heart for community and reaching out to the marginalised and forgotten. He is getting to know the God of infinite goodness and is living a joy-filled life with his wife Belinda and three children in South-East Queensland, Australia.
See all previous articles by Russell Croft
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Celtic have launched a buy Irish campaign in their bid to wrestle the SPL title back from Rangers next season. At least five members of the current Republic of Ireland squad — Kevin Kilbane, Sean St Ledger, Liam Lawrence, Anthony Stokes and Paul Green — have all been linked strongly with the Glasgow club, with owner Dermot Desmond determined that the mistakes made under previous manager Tony Mowbray will not be repeated.
Neil Lennon, who is expected to be appointed permanently this week, is also keen to bring in players who are recognised performers in the British leagues.
It is thought that Lennon will be offered a budget of between £8m and £10m to spend on players, though that figure could almost double if Spartak…


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