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Bolshevism and Zionism Are Ideologically Indistinguishable
Jonas E. Alexis
"Our way must be: never knowingly support lies! Having understood where the lies begin—step back from that gangrenous edge!"—Alexander Solzhenitsyn[1]
…by Jonas E. Alexis
In his 1920 essay "Zionism vs. Bolshevism: The Struggle for the Soul of the Jewish People," Winston Churchill made the statement that Bolshevism both ideologically and politically "gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads"[2] and slowly led them to the slaughter house, where more than ten million innocent peasants eventually lost their precious lives in less than five years.[3]
Zionism ideologically and politically seeks to complete the work that Bolshevism had started. Bolshevism quickly spread like wildfire in places like China and other major Asian countries such as Vietnam.
Even Victor Serge, the revolutionary anarchist who was convicted of terrorism in 1912, declared at the time that "The influence of Bolshevism over Asia is very great."[4]
As a communist revolutionary, Serge thought that "International Communism — dialectical materialism and the theory of action of the proletariat — opens up today the highest possibilities of the European civilisation compromised and threatened by the capitalist regime."[5]
The "highest possibilities of the European civilization" ended up being the highest crime probably in human history: Bolshevism in both its metaphysical and ideological form carried out the greatest mass murder, with more than ninety million deaths to its credit.[6]
By the time that Bolshevism was done wiping out people by the millions, Western nations suddenly had an epiphany in the 1980s. By 1983 in Orlando, Florida, Ronald Reagan denounced the Soviet Union as "an evil empire" that repeatedly preached "the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the Earth. They are the focus of evil in the modern world…"[7]
Ronald Reagan could never have been a good cop. What do police officers do when they are investigating a crime? They find out all that can be found about the crime itself and the people behind it. They also get deeper into the suspect's origin, their background, and sometimes even their ethnicity and religion.
Reagan was right in saying that the Soviet Union was "the focus of evil in the modern world," that it sought to dominate all peoples of the Earth, and that it was "an evil empire."
Yet in his entire speech, Reagan never told his audience that the Soviet Union at the time was ideologically governed by Bolshevism, which is another Jewish revolutionary movement, and which ultimately sought to destroy Western civilization. Reagan should have consulted Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who emphatically declared:
"There are many Jewish authors who to this very day either deny the support of Jews for Bolshevism, or even reject it angrily, or else—the most common case—only speak defensively about it. The matter is well-attested, however: these Jewish renegades were for several years leaders at the center of the Bolshevik Party, at the head of the Red Army (Trotsky), of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (Sverdlov), of the two capitals (Zinoviev and Kamenev), of the Comintern (Zinoviev), of the Profintern (Dridzo-Lozovsky), and of the Komsomol (Oskar Ryvkin, then Lazar Shatskin).
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"In 1918 Trotsky, with the aid of Sklianski and Yakov Sverdlov, created the Red Army. Jewish soldiers were numerous in its ranks. Several units of the Red Army were composed entirely of Jews, as, e.g., the brigade commanded by Joseph Forman. Among the officers of the Red Army, the share of Jews grew in number and importance for many years after the Civil War."[8]
Solzhenitsyn, as a sober and seasoned scholar, made the point that
"I have never made general conclusions about a people. I will always differentiate between layers of Jews. One layer rushed headfirst to the revolution. Another, to the contrary, was trying to stand back. The Jewish subject for a long time was considered prohibited. Zhabotinsky [a Jewish writer] once said that the best service our Russian friends give to us is never to speak aloud about us."[9]
Yet in his book Conspiracy: How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where It Comes From, neoconservative hawk Daniel Pipes insinuates without a shred of evidence that those who believed that the Bolshevik Revolution was largely Jewish got their sources mainly from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion![10]
It got even more hilarious when Pipes accused Henry Hamilton of anti-Semitism for saying that "Bolshevism was Judaism."[11] But Pipes does not tell his readers that The Jewish Encyclopedia, Jewish revolutionaries and newspapers and magazines made similar assertions.[12]
In a nutshell, Reagan, a politician, got a wake-up call, and the Soviet Union eventually collapsed.
But Bolshevism in its ideological form did not die out then. It has been reincarnated in two identical and Jewish revolutionary movements: Zionism and neoconservatism. Both are almost politically indistinguishable and, like Bolshevism, both seek to implicitly destroy Western civilization in all of its manifestations.
Bolshevism was evil but the mass hysteria did not fully grasp the extent of its evilness until it was almost too late. Zionism's evilness, on the other hand, is being displayed right in front of us, but no politician is brave enough to break its political power. For example, Joel Greenberg of the New York Times wrote way back in 1993 that
"Amnesty International, in a human rights report in July, said Palestinian detainees under interrogation are 'systematically tortured or ill-treated' by Israel. The International Committee of the Red Cross, whose representatives regularly visit Palestinian prisoners, has accused Israel of using interrogation methods that violate the Fourth Geneva Convention on treatment of civilians in occupied areas…
"Human rights monitors estimate that 500 Palestinian detainees are subjected to such treatment each month and that at least 30,000 have been interrogated since the beginning of the anti-Israel uprising in December 1987"[13]
This massive brutality has been going on for decades and in many different forms. Just last year, nine Israeli teenagers were convicted of brutally attacking a Palestinian teenager by the name of Jamal Julani. When one of the convicted teenagers was asked how he would respond if Julani had died from the incident, he said,
"Great. Let him die. He's an Arab son of a bitch. What did he think, that he would curse my mother? When I attacked him I was going to stab him in the ribs to let him realize my mom is no child's play. He knows exactly why he is in the hospital."[14] The other teenagers responded with a similar voice:
"We went to look for Arabs, to hit them and beat the crap out of them, and I went ahead of everyone and I met the Arab who was swearing. I got upset and yelled, 'Here's an Arab,' and some more guys came with me and then R. [the 15-year-old girl perceived as the instigator] got there and gave him a slap in the back. He tried to get up but I hit him with my foot in his pelvic area, and then all the guys beat him up. He had a face that required a beating."[15]
He also declared, "You can't go by Damascus Gate without getting stabbed. So why do they come here? I beat him and I'd beat him again."[16] A year later, Jamal was still undergoing medical care.[17]
How many Americans do you think know about what happened to Jamal? Get a microphone and start asking the average American even at your neighborhood. The answer will surprise you.
Mohamed Merah
In March 2012, a gunman by the name of Mohamed Merah went into a Jewish day school in Toulouse, France, and killed three Jewish children and one rabbi. My heart went out to the families of those killed. Everyone should sympathize in tragic situations like these, and these acts of evil should not be tolerated.
The story was covered by almost every major news outlet in the Western world and in Israel.[18] Report after report followed the incident, almost nonstop, and some of those newspapers ran four or five stories of the same incident. One rabbi declared that the incident happened because of "jealousy" on the part of Gentiles about "God's chosen people."[19]
Yet around the same time, hundreds of Beitar Jerusalem fans beat up Arab workers at the capital's Malha shopping center in what was called "a mass lynching attempt," but not one person was arrested.[20]
The fans were even chanting "Death to Arabs,"[21] but one of the Arab workers declared that the police arrived more than one hour late.[22] The police justified their decision not to arrest anyone by saying that there were no complaints, and therefore no arrests were necessary.[23]
None of the major news outlets reported the story, except the Jerusalem Post, the Independent, and Haaretz. The Jerusalem Post only ran the story after some 150 protesters flooded the scene.
When Mohamed Merah gunned down the three children and the rabbi, Caroline Glick of the Jerusalem Post declared without any substantial evidence that Western elites were accomplices, claiming that these acts of evil formed "the physical and moral landscape of our time."[24]
Where was Glick, then, when those Palestinians were beaten? Isn't this the "moral landscape" of Zionist ideology? (French officials said after investigation that there was "no evidence" linking Merah to Al-Qaida.[25])
Another incident—that even shocked former CIA operative Philip Giraldi—was the May 2012 riots in Tel Aviv, where African immigrants were targeted. The New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times all stayed silent.[26]
On May 28, five young Israelis smashed the door of an internet café owned by Yorusalem Mestun, a 22 year-old. They "pulled a knife on her, while her Jewish neighbours looked on. The police came, checked her visa and left, without, she said, offering help or sympathy."[27]
Also in May, some Israeli settlers set fire to a West Bank village and shot some unarmed Palestinians.[28] It was later discovered that during the incident, Israeli youth tied up and beat one Palestinian who was already wounded.[29]
On May 24, 2012, Amnesty International released a report, declaring that Israel "frequently uses excessive, sometimes lethal, force against demonstrators in the West Bank and civilians in Gaza…Israel has engaged in the demolition of Palestinian homes and other facilities in the West Bank, as well is inside Israel itself, where homes of Palestinian citizens are destroyed in 'unrecognized' villages in the Negev desert."[30]
None of those reports made it on the air on popular news networks in America. The only reason some of the reports saw the light of day was because they were making a stir throughout the Middle East. There were dozens of incidents in the spring of 2012 where Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians and the Israeli Defense Forces just stood there and watched.[31]
What, then, are the Zionists telling us here? Simple: when Palestinians are killed, attacked and brutally maimed, life goes on and the West does not really need to know. And if the West does know, nothing is to be done.
But when even one Israeli is killed, this must be reported throughout the Western world. Meetings must be conducted, and the Zionist media must beat the Western world over the head about the news.
Do the Zionists Really Care About the American People?
Now here is one of the most disgusting things ever. The Zionist machine spends billions of dollars spying on Americans for years. They said over and over that their covert enterprise has actually saved lives.
Yet recently, "Al Qaeda claimed responsibility on Tuesday for simultaneous raids on two Iraqi prisons and said more than 500 inmates had been set free in the operation"[32]
As a result of the incident, "20 members of the security forces were killed 40 wounded in the attacks."[33] The incident also created a fear that a civil war could break out.[34]
The NSA, the Israeli-run organization that can locate your cell phone even when it is off,[35] could not locate actual terrorism. Again, what does that tell us about the NSA's covert activity? As Mac Slavo rightly puts it, the NSA
"spent hundreds of billions of dollars to monitor the activities of every single American by turning their listening networks on purported domestic terrorists operating in the United States.
"They know your underwear size. They know where you drove your car today. They know what you put up on Facebook, texted to your wife and emailed to your friends. And they've done it all in the supposed interest of 'national security.'
"If, however, you were an Al Qaeda terrorist coordinating a large-scale prison break to free senior members of your mid-east terror organization, you would have been able to operate with impunity.
"While our government is supposedly preventing terrorism by searching grandma at airports, , arresting kids for making jokes on the internet, deploying thousands of drones over America's skies, and looking for lone wolves, they have failed at their absolute top priority: stopping actual terrorists from doing what terrorists do"[36]
Last May, the Assyrian International News Agency reported that the Syrian rebels/terrorists/jihadists
"attacked a village in Syria's Western province and slaughtered all its Christian residents on Monday. The armed rebels affiliated to the Free Syrian Army (FSA) raided the Christian-populated al-Duvair village in Reef (outskirts of) Homs near the border with Lebanon today and massacred all its civilian residents, including women and children."[37]
The only agency that intervened and killed those terrorists at the time was the Assad government.[38]
Where was the NSA then? Where was Obama? Where was the Zionist regime? They were nowhere to be found. They were too busy supporting the Syrian terrorists and tracking down Edward Snowden.[39]
After all, Congress has already signed off on army the Syrian terrorists,[40] despite the fact that Assad has been willing to engage in peace talk.[41] The only country that has loudly voiced his concerns about the United States arming Syrian terrorists is Russia.[42]
Once again, Zionism supports terrorism and pretends that it is fighting terrorism. Anyone who supports terrorist organizations or terrorist cells ought to go to jail. But in the Jewish Century, supporting the Syrian rebels/terrorists is not a crime because those terrorists are friends of Israel.
Moreover, in the Jewish Century, if the Zionist gangsters perceive that you are a neo-Nazi and have children, more than likely they will try to take your children away from you. Listen to this report by the Daily Mail:
"The children of German neo-Nazis could soon be removed from their families and taken into care – in a bid to beat a rise in the glorification of Hitler and the Third Reich.
"German authorities are becoming increasingly concerned with the number of summer camps and special schools brainwashing youngsters into worshipping a movement that killed six million Jews in the Holocaust.
"A recent raid on one camp turned up jigsaw puzzles showing Germany's pre-World War 2 borders and colouring books where children were encouraged to crayon in the moustache of Hitler."[43]
In a nutshell, Zionism does not care about the West's future. It only cares about dominating the world and taking good care of Israel. If 2,114 precious American soldiers die in Afghanistan,[44] that is a small price to pay if you are protecting Zionism.
If military intervention in Syria could cost the U.S. one billion dollars every month,[45] that again is a very small price to pay. If poverty has risen at an astronomical rate in nations like Greece and Italy because of the economic collapse,[46] we still need to move on with perpetual wars in the Middle East.
Chuck Hagel recently said that "Our people are strong and resilient after 12 years of war, but they are under stress — and so are the institutions that support them."[47]
Yes, perpetual wars are getting boring, and both the American people and our precious soldiers who are getting killed for Israel are exhausted. It is time for serious politicians to reexamine our unconditional support for Israel, America's greatest enemy.
I have been saying for months that Iran is not an enemy of the United States—our "allies" are. Just a few days ago, John Glaser of the Washington Times had this to say:
"Contrary to dominant thinking in Washington, Iran poses no immediate threat to the U.S. In fact, our Middle Eastern allies, eager to have America do their fighting for them, wildly inflate the supposed threat from Iran.
"The U.S. has built up various alliances in the Middle East since WWII in order to fulfill a larger strategy of controlling the flow of oil and preventing the emergence of another power in the region that would threaten U.S. dominance.
"In the course of building these alliances, Washington has signed security agreements with these countries, promising to subsidize their militaries and come to their defense. In essence, this makes their problems our problems.
"Our closest allies in the region, Israel and the Arab Gulf states, hate Iran for a variety of strategic, cultural, religious, and ideological reasons. As a result, they have hyped the threat of Iran and frightened Americans into thinking the Islamic Republic poses an existential threat to America.
"In an interview on CBS's Face the Nation this week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned us that Iran is 'building ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles) to reach the American mainland in a few years,' adding that, 'they're getting closer and closer to the bomb," and "they have to be stopped.'
The problem here is that Netanyahu is exactly wrong. In reality, the current consensus in the U.S. intelligence community is that Iran has no active nuclear weapons program and has made no decision as to whether to pursue the bomb.
'Recent assessments by American spy agencies,' the New York Times reported last year, 'are broadly consistent with a 2007 intelligence finding that concluded that Iran had abandoned its nuclear weapons program years earlier' and this 'remains the consensus view of America's 16 intelligence agencies.'
"Nevertheless, Netanyahu and other Israeli officials continue to go on national television and contradict U.S. intelligence findings in order to scare Americans into seeing Iran as more of a threat than it is."[48]
Hopefully the American people will unanimously come to the same conclusion before it is too late.
[1] Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Solzhenitsyn Reader (Wilmington: ISI Books, 2006), 558.
[2] Winston Churchill, "Zionism vs. Bolshevism: The Struggle for the Soul of the Jewish People," Illustrated Sunday Herald, February 8, 1920.
[3] See for example Robert Conquest, The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987); Jean-Louis Panne et al., The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999); Steven Rosefielde, Red Holocaust (New York: Routlege, 2010).
[4] Victor Serge, "Bolshevism and Asia," Revolutionary History, Vol. 5. No. 3, March 1927.
[6] Jean-Louis Panne et al., The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999).
[7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_empire.
[8] http://www.toqonline.com/blog/solzhenitsyn-jews-soviets-part-i/.
[9] Quoted in Nick Paton Walsh, "Solzhenitsyn Breaks Last Taboo of the Revolution," Guardian, January 25, 2003.
[10] Daniel Pipes, Conspiracy: How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where It Comes From (New York: The Free Press), 92-94.
[12] For a detailed documentation on this, see Ted Pike, Israel: Our Duty, Our Dilemma (Costa Mesa: Noontide Press, 1988).
[13] Joel Greenberg, "Israel Rethinks Interrogation of Arabs," NY Times, August 14, 1993.
[14] Quoted in Philip Podolsky, "'I Hate Arabs Because This Is a Jewish State,'" Times of Israel, August 31, 2012.
[16] Quoted in Robert Mackey, "Account of 'a Lynch' in Jerusalem on Facebook," NY Times, August 20, 2012.
[17] Yair Ettinger, "Jerusalem Court Hands Jail Terms to Three Jewish Minors over Arab Lynchings," Haaretz, July 8, 2013.
[18] This is just a fraction of the articles: Christophe Schpoliansky, "Gun in French School Shooting Linked to
Prior Atttacks," ABC News, March 19, 2012; Scott Sayare, "Gunman May Have Filmed Attack at French School," NY Times, March 20, 2012; Diana Magnay and Saskya Vandoorne, "French Killing Suspect Dies Shooting at Police," CNN, March 22, 2012; "Sarkozy Compares Shooting Trauma to 9/11," Jewish Telegraphic Agency, March 30, 2012; Angelique Chrisafis, "Toulouse Shootings: Mohamed Merah Killed as Siege Ends," Guardian, March 22, 2012; D. G. Myers, "The Toulouse Shooting and the Jewish State," Commentary, March 19, 2012; "Toulouse Gunman Mohamed Merah," BBC News, March 22, 2012; Robert
Zaretsky, "Toulouse Tragedy Shows Rhetoric's Danger," Jewish Daily Forward, March 21, 2012; "Anger and Sadness after Shooting at Jewish Day School in France," ADL.com; Anshel Pfeffer, "Preventing Next Attack on Jewish Community," Haaretz, March 23, 2012; Melanie McDonagh, "A Man Surrounded—and
Some Assumptions Exposed," Spectator, March 21, 2012.
[19] Kobi Nahshoni, "Safed Rabbi: Gentiles Jealous of Chosen People," Y-Net News, March 22, 2012.
[20] Oz Rosenberg, "Hundreds of Beitar Jerusalem Fans Beat Up Arab Workers in Mall; No Arrests," Haaretz, March 23, 2012; Allon Sinai, "Riots, Racism and the Future of Israeli Soccer," Jerusalem Post, March 28, 2012.
[21] Melanie Lidman, "Protesters Rally
Against Racism at Malha Mall," Jerusalem Post, March 28, 2012.
[23] Catrina Stewart, "Anti-Arab Soccer Fans Rampage in Shopping Centre—But No Arrests," Independent, March 24, 2012.
[24] Caroline Glick, "Column One: Mohamed Merah—Man of the West," Jerusalem Post, March 22, 2012.
[25] "'No Evidence' of Mohamed Merah Terror Link, Says French Official," Independent, March 23, 2012.
[26] Philip Giraldi, "Rioting in Tel Aviv," American Conservative, May 28, 2012.
[27] Keep Out: Racial Tension is Rising as Black Asylum-Seekers Pour In," Economist, June 2, 2012.
[28] Ibid; also Jason Glaser, "Israeli Settlers Set Fire to West Bank Village, Shoot Guns at Unarmed Palestinians," Antiwar.com, May 21, 2012; "Settler Shoots Palestinian in Clash Near Nablus," Jerusalem Post, May 26, 2012.
[29] Gili Cohen, "IDF Inquiry Finds Israeli Youth Tied and Beat Palestinian After Shot by Settlers," Haaretz, June 3, 2012.
[30] Amnesty International: Israel Frequently Uses Excessive Force Against Palestinians," Haaretz, May 24, 2012.
[31] J. David Goodman, "Video of Settler Shooting Raises Questions Over Israeli Army Response," NY Times, May 22, 2012; Gili Cohen, "IDF robing 15 Cases of Soldiers Ignoring Settler Attacks on Palestinians," Haaretz, May 22, 2012.
[32] http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/23/us-iraq-violence-alqaeda-idUSBRE96M0C720130723; see also "Al-Qaeda Says It Freed 500 Inmates in Iraq Jail-Break," The Irish Times, July 23, 2013.
[33] "Fierce Assault on Iraq Prisons Kill 41," The Statesman, July 22, 2013.
[34] Mona Mahmood and Peter Beaumont, "Al-Qaida Raids on Iraq Prisons Raise Fears of Return to Civil War," Guardian, July 23, 2013.
[35] "NSA Locates Cell Phones even When Switched Off—Report," Russia Today, July 23, 2013.
[36] Mac Slavo, "Total Failure of Foreign Intelligence As Spy Agencies Miss Massive Al Qaeda Prison Break," shtfplan.com, July 23, 2013.
[37] http://www.aina.org/news/20130529024056.htm.
[39] Russia got the Zionist regime infuriated when it continues to refuse to extradite Snowden. David M. Herszenhorn, "Russia Cites Extradition as Sore Point With U.S.," NY Times, July 22, 2013. As I write, NSA director Keith Alexander has lobbied "against a proposed amendment to a military appropriations bill that would stop the financing for its phone data collection program." The pathetic rationalization again is that "ending the massive collection of phone records from millions of Americans would put the nation at risk from another terrorist attack." James Risen and Charlie Savage, "N.S.A. Director Lobbies House on Eve of Critical Vote," NY Times, July 23, 2013; http://news.yahoo.com/backers-surveillance-program-battle-challenge-075910474.html.
[40] http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/22/us-usa-syria-arms-idUSBRE96L0W520130722.
[41] David M. Herszenhorn, "Russia Says Assad Is Ready for Peace Talks," NY Times, July 22, 2013.
[42] http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/24/us-syria-crisis-russia-idUSBRE96N0LG20130724.
[43] Allan Hall, "Children of Neo-Nazis Could Be Taken Into Care to Stop Them Being Brainwashed at Summer Camp," Daily Mail, July 26, 2011.
[44] http://news.yahoo.com/us-military-deaths-afghanistan-2-114-204623145.html.
[45] "Pentagon: U.S. Military Intervention in Syria Could Cost $1 Billion a Month," Haaretz, July 23, 2013.
[46] "Italy Registers Growing Poverty Rate," The European Union Times, July 18, 2013; "European Commision: Greek Genocide, 20% Living Below Poverty Line," The European Union Times, July 23, 2013; "Eurozone Collective Debt Hits New Record High of 92.2%," The European Union Times, July 23, 2013.
[47] Quoted in Philip Ewing, "Chuck Hagel Warns: Troops Are 'Close to the Breaking Point,'" Politico, July 23, 2013.
[48] John Glaser, "Iran Is No Threat: Our Middle East 'Allies' Are," Washington Times, July 17, 2013.
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Jonas E. Alexis has degrees in mathematics and philosophy. He studied education at the graduate level. His main interests include U.S. foreign policy, history of Israel/Palestine conflict, and the history of ideas. He is the author of the new book Zionism vs. the West: How Talmudic Ideology is Undermining Western Culture. He teaches mathematics in South Korea.
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4 pm start Times, Division Rivalries, Sunday home clash highlight 2023 Lions schedule
Lions and Stampeders to open 2023 CFL campaign in Calgary, six of nine Lion home games to kickoff at 4:00 pm.
Fans of the BC Lions were served up an early holiday gift on Tuesday as the Canadian Football League announced the entire 2023 regular season schedule.
It all begins with a playoff rematch as the club's 69th regular season opener on Thursday, June 8 at the Calgary Stampeders also serves as the first game on the 2023 CFL slate. Kickoff is 6:00 pm at McMahon Stadium.
Our home opener then takes place on Saturday, June 17 against the Edmonton Elks in the first of six home games that will kick off at 4:00 pm.
"As an organization, we are thrilled with how our 2023 schedule has come together," said COO and incoming president Duane Vienneau.
"We've listened to our fans regarding early kickoffs and having the opportunity to play the majority of our home games at 4:00 will allow us to pick up where we left off in making it easily accessible for fans from all regions of British Columbia to attend. We also can't wait to make our home opener a MAJOR EVENT once again."
Six is also the magic number for home games against Western Division opponents. The Saskatchewan Roughriders and Calgary Stampeders will each make two trips to BC Place.
Saskatchewan comes to town on Saturday, July 22 at 4:00 pm and then again on Friday, September 29 at 7:30 pm when we will once again respect and honour Canada's National Day For Truth and Reconciliation.
The Stampeders' first visit since the 2022 Western Semi-Final goes down on Saturday, August 12 at 4:00 pm before they make their way here again on Friday, October 20 at 7:00 pm in the Lions' regular season finale.
Along with Edmonton, the rival Winnipeg Blue Bombers make just one appearance on the West Coast. That one takes place on Friday, October 6 at 7:00 pm.
For the first time since 2015, the Lions are slated to have a home game on a Sunday. As part of a new CFL-wide routine prior to Labour Day, we will host the Montreal Alouettes on Sunday, July 9 at 4:00 pm.
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The day-of-week breakdown for regular season home games is as follows: five Saturdays, three Fridays (all after Labour Day) and the one Sunday afternoon mentioned above.
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OPTION 2: For each student can can choose to enter a raw score. The Stanine score will be automatically calculated for you.
Step 7: Repeat steps 3-6 until you have filled in results for each assessment template you students have undertaken. If they have not completed all assessments, leave the template/s blank. Make sure you don't have student details listed in templates where they have not undertaken the assessment.
Step 8: Import the file to SPAstandard.


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Q: How can I make udate_idletasks work on Mac I've written a tkinter script with animation, that works fine on Xubuntu, but when I run it on Mac, the animation doesn't work.  Here's a little script that demonstrates the problem:
import tkinter as tk
from time import sleep

root = tk.Tk()
canvas = tk.Canvas(root, height=200, width = 200)
canvas.pack()

this = canvas.create_rectangle(25,25, 75, 75, fill='blue')
that = canvas.create_rectangle(125, 125, 175, 175, fill = 'red')

def blink(event):
    global this, that
    for _ in range(9):
        canvas.itemconfigure(this, fill='red')
        canvas.itemconfigure(that, fill = 'blue')
        canvas.update_idletasks()
        sleep(.4)
        this, that = that, this

canvas.bind('<ButtonRelease-1>', blink)

root.mainloop()

This draws a red square and a blue square on a canvas.  When the user clicks the canvas, the squares repeatedly switch colors.  On Xubuntu, it works as intended.
On Mac, when I click the canvas, I get spinning beach ball, and after a few seconds, we see that squares have switched colors, because they switch colors an odd number of times in the code.
It seems to me that update_idletasks isn't working.  Is there some way to fix this?  I am running python 3.9.5 with Tk 8.6 on Big Sur.

A: I think what you can do is avoid tasks that will block the mainloop, in this case time.sleep(). So your code can be remade by emulating a for loop with after, and I see nothing that stops this general code from running OS independent:
count = 0 # Think of this as the `_` in for _ in range(9)
def blink(event=None):
    global this, that, count

    if count < 9: # Basically repeats everytime `count` is less than 9, like a for loop
        canvas.itemconfigure(this, fill='red')
        canvas.itemconfigure(that, fill='blue')

        this, that = that, this
        count += 1 # Increase count
        root.after(400,blink) # Repeat this code block every 400 ms or 0.4 seconds
    else:
        count = 0 # After it is 9, set it to 0 for the next click to be processed

A: I found that using update instead of update_idletasks works on both platforms.  It's my understanding though, that the latter is much preferred.  See the accepted answer to this question for example.  This solves my immediate problem, but does anyone know if update_idletasks ever works on the Mac?

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Over the past decade, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has promoted environmental friendliness and sustainability. The Olympics host countries have made renewable energy, carbon offsets and conservation aspects of their hosting plan.
PyeongChang, South Korea, site of the 2018 Winter Games, is continuing that trend, reports Mother Nature Network.
PyeongChang organizers have touted their efforts to achieve a green Olympics. Solar and wind power will provide energy to event venues. Organizers have created a recycling infrastructure and public transportation network.
Olympic preparations have earned some negative press as well. Conservationists have criticized the clearing of a mountain forest to make room for a new ski slope (when others already exist in the area), and some wonder whether new buildings and venues will be used once the gold medals have been awarded.
PyeongChang is trying to respond to naysayers by being transparent when it comes to the greenness of their Olympics. Organizers have published information about carbon offsets, greenhouse gas emissions, air quality and water quality. They also have a "performance index" that shows up-to-date data concerning their efforts. They have published reports outlining their goals and plans.
Others wonder whether the most common drawback of past Games will haunt PyeongChang in the future. The new transportation network, venues and accommodations are meant to increase tourism allure after the events have ended. For past hosts like Athens, Sochi and Rio de Janeiro, that tourism boom never materialized.
The IOC has noticed this problem. The next Olympics cycle is in Tokyo and Beijing. Both of those cities have hosted before and will use already-existing venues rather than building new ones.
PyeongChang could be one of the last "built from scratch" Olympics. Some are already concerned that the Games won't make a profit when ticket sales and sponsorships are added up.
Even so, PyeongChang is pushing forward with its green Olympics efforts. Organizers have enlisted major corporate sponsors, many of whom have a long history with the Olympics. General Electric, which has provided renewable energy and tech solutions for past hosts including London and Sochi, is involved in the 2018 efforts.
Coca-Cola is working with organizers, local officials and the World Wildlife Fund on a water resource project that could affect all of South Korea. Like GE, Coke has a history with the Olympics. At Vancouver 2010, the company became the first zero-waste, carbon neutral sponsor.
Gangwon, PyeongChang's province, started erecting wind turbines while it was still bidding to host the 2018 Games. These wind farms could produce enough power to cover all of the 190 megawatts of electricity demanded during the Games.
Six venues constructed specifically for the Olympics will rely on either solar or geothermal energy. A number of these recent constructions have also achieved a G-SEED rating, the South Korean green building certification that uses many of the same criteria as LEED.


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Coin dealer whose gun discharged at Parsippany show loses PTI bid
Peggy Wright
Morristown Daily Record
MORRISTOWN - A Hasbrouck Heights vendor whose handgun accidentally went off at a coin show in Parsippany last year will not be allowed to enter Morris County's Pretrial Intervention program to resolve two criminal charges, a Superior Court judge ruled Thursday.
Judge Thomas Critchley, sitting in Morristown, upheld the Prosecutor's Office opposition to coin dealer William Wetzler Jr. being admitted into PTI, a special diversionary program that allows non-violent, first-time offenders to serve a period of supervision and have the charges dismissed if supervision is successful.
Assistant Prosecutor Alexis Keller argued that Wetzler, now 59, went to a coin show in Parsippany on May 1, 2016, with a loaded, Walther PPK/S .380-caliber handgun in his pants pocket that he had no license to carry. The gun was not secured in any way, she noted.
"These charges are alarming to the state, Judge," Keller said. "He had no precautionary measures in place. There could have been much more damage done."
Keller noted that Wetzler's case is not like that of a person from out-of-state and traveling through New Jersey with a lawfully registered handgun for which they don't have a permit to carry in this state. Wetzler was present in court for the PTI appeal but his attorney, Cheryl L. Hammel, argued by telephone for him to be accepted into PTI while Keller and the judge were present in the courtroom.
Keller also discounted Hammel's argument that the Parsippany coin show was "a de facto" place of business for Wetzler since his coin-selling business involves attendance at coin shows. Keller said the business argument is a legal argument against the unlawful possession of a weapon charge, not a basis to get into PTI.
On May 1, 2016, Wetzler had the handgun in his pants pocket when it accidentally went off. A bullet exited his pants just beneath his crotch before striking the ground and then ricocheting off the floor and striking fellow vendor Joseph Testa, who was not injured. Police arrived and both Wetzler and Testa were examined by emergency services workers. Wetzler was charged with unlawful possession of a weapon and aggravated assault and later was indicted on those charges.
Wetzler lawfully bought and registered the gun 30 years ago in Rutherford but told police he didn't realize that he did not have a permit to carry the weapon in public. His attorney said in court papers that Wetzler was robbed in 2009 of $60,000 in diamonds - while expanding his rare coin business - and has been fearful ever since of carrying his inventory without protection.
The judge said he believes that Wetzler is "a good man" who found himself "in a seriously dangerous and unfortunate situation." Critchley explained that the law on PTI does not permit him to interfere in the decision-making process of the prosecutors unless he believes rejection of PTI admission has been "a patent and gross abuse of discretion."
"I am very much in sympathy with someone whom I have described as a good man and a good citizen who made, unfortunately on that day, an illegal mistake," the judge said.
"But the facts are such that there could be no way that I could view the state's exercise of judgment and say 'that's a real mistake in judgment.' So, I must decline the application," Critchley said.
Wetzler is next due in court on June 19. He technically faces up to 10 years in prison on the unlawful possession of a weapon charge. Had he been accepted into PTI, he would have served a period of time on probation/supervision and performed community service and the charges would have been dismissed if the PTI stint was successful.
Staff Writer Peggy Wright: 973-267-1142; pwright@GannettNJ.com.


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Lionel Messi has the perfect response to Cristiano Ronaldo's challenge of joining him in Italy
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The debates of who between Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi is the better footballer have been happening for the last decade and will probably continue for the next 3-4 years at least. While both players have created some phenomenal records on the field, there are a few things that separate them. Highlighting one of the differentiating factors, Ronaldo had recently challenged Messi to join him in Italy, having left Real Madrid for Juventus himself during the summer window this year. The Argentine, however, has given a brilliant response to the Portuguese.
"I played in England, Spain, Italy, Portugal, in the national team, while he is still in Spain. Maybe he needs me more," the former Manchester United forward had said. "For me, life is a challenge, I like it and I like to make people happy. I would like him to come to Italy one day. Like me, accept the challenge."
Ronaldo has adapted himself to the leagues, clubs and oppositions, no matter where which team he has played for. Messi, meanwhile, was signed by Barcelona at the tender age of 13 and has emerged as unarguably the club's biggest player in history. In an interview with Marca, however, Messi revealed why he doesn't fancy a change of clubs.
"Accepting Ronaldo's challenge to join Italian football? I don't need any change", said the Barca skipper responding to his arch-rival. "I'm at the best team in the world. My challenges are renewed year after year. I do not need to change teams or leagues to set new goals. I am at home and I do not need to change."
In the lengthy interview, Messi had also addressed various other topics, ranging from the prospect of having Neymar and Pep Guardiola back at Barcelona, as well as the Ballon d'Or standings that saw him finish at 5th position this time around.
Both Messi and Ronaldo have been in sublime form this season, leading their respective teams to top of the league standings as the first half of the season concludes. Messi and Ronaldo are also vying for the top scorer's title this calendar year. While the Argentine is enjoying the mid-season break, the Portuguese still has one more game to go.


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Tags Dogbert, mineral, water, pharaohs, scientifically, produce, deep, relaxation, bandages, pyramid
Dogbert uses a megaphone to address several people wearing only towels. Dogbert says, "You are now ready for the next step in my 'New Age Mineral Water Spa' therapy." Dogbert continues, "This next therapy was practiced by the pharaohs . . . It has been scientifically proven to produce deep relaxation." Dogbert continues, "Please pick up a roll of bandages and line up in front of the pyramid door . . ."
Tags Dilbert, bottle, wine, distinctive, special, destined, cork, sniffers, Dogbert, love
Dilbert tells Dogbert, "To me, a woman is like a fine bottle of wine." Dilbert explains, "Each one is familiar, yet distinctive and special." Dogbert says, "In the wine of life, some people are destined to be cork-sniffers."
Sunday September 16, 1990
Tags Dilbert, express lane, grocery, store, woman, old women
Dilbert stands in the express line at the supermarket. The cashier says to the old woman in front of Dilbert, "This looks like a lot more than ten items, ma'am." The woman replies, "It doesn't matter. I'm old and you must do as I say." The woman continues, "I have some coupons for totally unrelated products and a fourth-party personal check from North Yemen." The woman reaches into her purse and says, "They're hopelessly lost in my bag. I'll rummage while you all wait." As she rummages, her head disappears into the bag. She says, "What the . . ." The store clerk watches as the woman screams and falls into the pocketbook. The clerk tells Dilbert, "Wild coyotes in the handbag . . . I've seen this before." A dog barks and burps inside the bag.
Tags judicial proceedings, lawyer, Dilbert, Dogbert, hypothetical, hypocracy, jury duty, standing, less, people, executioner, client
The defense lawyer says, "Okay, let's say that, hypothetically, my client did kill those people . . ." His client is holding an ax and wearing an executioner's hat. The attorney says to Dilbert and the other members of the jury, "Chances are that it was nobody you know." The lawyer continues, "And the next time you're standing in a long line, ask yourself: 'Am I better off now that there are less people?'"
Tags Dilbert, Dogbert, mildew, flamethrower, punk, punk rock
Dilbert tells Dogbert, "I hired a cleaning person to come in once a week." Dilbert continues, "Starting today." The doorbell rings. A man with a mohawk haircut and an eyepatch stands in the doorway. Dilbert says, "Hi . . . Uh . . . Leave the flame-thrower outside." The man replies, "Fine. Let's just surrender to the mildew . . ."
Tags Dilbert, energy, electricity, ring, rechargeable, battery, throwing, burned
The strip is titled, "How to get free energy." Dilbert faces the reader and says, "The world is full of free energy, if you know where to look." Dilbert continues, "For example, the phone company sends extra electricity to make your phone ring." Dilbert connects a telephone to a large battery. He continues, "You can plug your phone line into a rechargeable battery . . ." Dilbert continues, "Then give suckers a reason to call." Dilbert hangs a poster on a telephone pole. The sign says, "Free money? Call." Dilbert stands in front of a full mailbox. He asks, "And what about junk mail? Are you just throwing it away?" Dilbert asks, "Do you know it can be burned to heat your house?" Dilbert shovels junk mail into a furnace. Dilbert stands at a table and says, "New week I'll tell you how to get electricity from your houseguests." A box of sneezing pepper and a fan connected to a battery sit on the table.
Tags Dilbert, news, discovered, anti-gravity, formula, newsworthy, weight, exercising, misleading, unethical, marketing
Dilbert floats in mid-air with a propeller attached to his back. He says into the phone, "Hello, ABC News? I've discovered an anti-gravity formula." Dilbert continues, "What?! It's not newsworthy?!" Dogbert says, "Tell him it lets you lose weight without exercising." Dilbert covers the telephone receiver and asks, "Isn't that misleading and unethical?" Dogbert replies, "There's a fine line between marketing and grand theft."
Tags neighbor, friends, Dogbert, shallow, social, pulp, genuinely, care, feelings, Right, moment, relationships
Dogbert walks along a path humming. A man walking in the opposite direction says, "Hi, Dogbert. How are you?" Dogbert says, "How am I? Is this merely shallow social pulp, or do you genuinely care about me and my feelings right at his moment?" The man responds, "It's the pulp one." Dogbert says, "I'm fine. How are you?"
Tags Dilbert, Dogbert, karate, real, life, male, daydream, sequence, tought, nobody, else
Dilbert and Dogbert sit in the chair watching tv. On the television program, there is a whack and someone grunts. Dogbert says, "On television you can knock a person out with one karate chop." Dogbert continues, "Just think how useful that could be in real life." The caption says, "Male daydream sequence." Dilbert stands in a line thinking, "This movie line is too long." Dogbert karate chops the man in front of him. Dogbert knocks down the next man in line. The first person in line screams as Dogbert knocks him down. Dogbert stands at the ticket booth. He thinks, "I'm glad nobody else thought of that first."
Tags Dilbert, palm, reading, psychic, short, pencil, grease, intelligence, Dogbert
Dilbert sits at a table with a woman who looks at his hand and says, "Your life line is very short." The sign behind them says, "Palm Reading $20." The woman writes on Dilbert's hand and says, "I can get you a few more years by extending the line with this grease pencil." Back at home, Dilbert says to Dogbert, "Someday I should go back and have her lengthen my intelligence line too." Dogbert replies, "I'd hurry."


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Scientists develop phase-changing robot material
By Lance Ulanoff
Updated July 15, 2014 — 11.21am first published at 11.08am
This post was originally published on Mashable.
Scientists have developed a new material that could give future robots shape-shifting capabilities akin to the T-1000 robot in Terminator 2: Put that in your cigar and chew on it for a while, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Two 3D-printed soft, flexible scaffolds: the one on the left is maintained in a rigid, bent position via a cooled, rigid wax coating, while the one on the right is uncoated and remains compliant (here, it collapses under a wrench). Credit:MIT
The 3D-printed, phase-changing material is actually a combination of polyurethane foam and wax. The developers — Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Anette Hosoi, her former graduate student Nadia Cheng, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization and Stony Brook University — figured out how to saturate the foam in wax and then heat and cool specific parts to transform them from rigid to soft and pliable and then back to rigid and hard again.
The applications are fairly obvious. A robot made of such material could soften up when it needs to move into a small space, but then regain its original shape and rigidity when it needs to, say move or lift an object.
For their research, Hosoi and Cheng were trying to build a snake-like robot that could squeeze through a one-centimeter hole, emerge on the other side and still be able to move around. MIT researchers liken this capability to the way mice can squeeze though pencil-sized holes, but still come out looking and functioning like mice on the other side.
Soft robotics is nothing new, but the ability to — through electric current that generates heat — shift between two states, especially at such a low cost, is new. And the combination of foam and wax is unusual. Cheng did tell us that Harvard's Whitesides Research Group is working on wax-infused fabric that could also lead to self-healing robots.
When we asked Cheng, who now works on squishy robots for Empire Robotics, why the team used foam and wax, she said there really wasn't a "eureka" moment.
"We wanted something that would produce significant volume change, but something that could still be useful, support payloads and enforce payloads on the environment," Cheng said. The solution could not be something that's "completely squishy and floppy."
Foam can change volume in three dimensions; it's widely available, and anyone can play with it. It has the added benefit of not conducting heat too widely. So, even as the team used copper wire coiled around the wax-infused foam to heat the robot, the heat would stay contained to one small area and dissipate as soon as the current was turned off.
The selection of wax came only after the rejection of the moreTerminator 2-like solder. It too can change form based on heat — from hard solid to liquid and back again — and even offers higher stiffness and rigidity than wax. Unfortunately, foam really can't absorb it in the same way.
With the materials settled, Hosoi and Cheng went to the craft shop for foam and Batik wax. However, they soon found that 3D printing the polyurethane foam gave them far greater control over the foam's struts and pores, which makes the entire structure more tunable.
That tuning happens through heating specific portions of the wax-infused foam. A larger robot built of such material might have just a forearm heated and softened so it could squeeze it into small area. The hand, perhaps made of the same material, would also soften for the trip, but stiffen (by cooling to room temperature) so it can grab something in the open space.
For now, though, the largest shape-shifting robot the team produced was only a few centimeters in size. Not to mention there are other hurdles to clear: The wax still takes a few seconds to heat and cool and, Cheng told us, they could not figure out how to contain the wax within the robot.
Guess Mr. Schwarzenegger is safe, for now.
Mashable is the largest independent news source covering digital culture, social media and technology.


We are now running release nb137 of MIT App Inventor 2. Below is a summary of the changes since the last release. In the next few days we will update the release notes with more details.
The current Companion, version 2.20ai2zx1 or 2.21ai2zx1, is usable with this release, but you may experience problems. Please update to the latest version, 2.22ai2zx1 as soon as possible. It will be uploaded to the Play Store shortly after this release is live. If you have auto-update enabled, you will get the new version automatically. If you "side-load" the Companion (i.e., not from Google Play), you can use the links/QR Code in the "Companion Info" selection of the "Help" menu).
Internationalization: The MIT App Inventor service can now be translated into other languages. The first language supported is Chinese, with Spanish soon to follow. We will soon document how people can contribute translations.
Support for Tablets: In Apps that run on tablets will be able to take advantage of the increased screen size. However, in order to support tablets, we needed to remove support for very old phones, in particular those running versions of Android less than 1.6 (Donut). NOTE: This change was reverted for release nb137, it was included in nb136 which was only available for about a day.
Twitter Component update: We have updated the Twitter Component to submit images directly to Twitter instead of using Twitpic. Twitpic will be shutting down on September 25th. Note: If you have applications in the Google Play Store that use Twitpic, you will need to re-package your application after this release to get a version that will continue to work correctly after September 25th. You will not need any additional API keys to work with photos, and you will not need to make any changes to the blocks of your app.
Screen Scrollable: All new Screens will be non-scrollable by default.
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Hmm. Do you think that if the Church would become more faithful to its mandate and less dependent on government, maybe we ourselves could provide the international humanitarian assistance needed around the world? The government's role is policy. The Church's role is to bring the succor of Christ to the nations through works of charity. Demand less government interference in the things that are of God, and more works of charity in things that fall within the purview of the mission of the Church.


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Ghostbusters: Afterlife–Nostalgic trip arrives on home streaming platforms
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After pandemic delays and 32 years since the story left off, Ghostbusters: Afterlife finally arrived on home streaming platforms this past week. Not only is it a worthy follow-on to the first two 1980s films, it's thoughtful and nostalgic in the same way as a vintage Steven Spielberg supernatural adventure (think E.T. or Close Encounters or Super 8). It provides something for all its potential audiences: fans of the original films, fans of the animated series, and anyone young or old looking for a mild, enjoyable family film. It balances many things well: first and foremost the real-life death of original Ghostbuster player writer/creator and comedy master Harold Ramis, the need to bring back past characters in a way that is believable and even heartwarming, something for 21st century kids to find some fun with, and a horror comedy someone with no background in the franchise could just step into. That last part is helped by the addition of the always amiable and relatable Paul Rudd as a scientist and teacher in the story's improbable setting of rural Oklahoma, and the successful casting of kid actors who can hold their own against everything else going on.
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Ghostbusters–Revisit the original movie novelizations while you wait for the next sequel
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The most eagerly awaited movie of 2021 is also the most eagerly awaited movie of 2020. That's Ghostbusters: Afterlife, a direct sequel to Ghostbusters I and 2, slated for release in theaters November 11, 2021, after multiple delays. Will it actually happen? Who knows. But while you're waiting, you can get your fix of those days of Ghostbusters past while you're at the beach, soaking in the sun with the original novelizations thanks to a new reprint combo from Titan Books, Ghostbusters: The Original Novelizations of Ghostbusters 1 and 2. For anyone who has only watched the movies, you can gain a little more insight to the characters, many who will be back in the new movie.
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Ghostbusters: Afterlife–Original heroes suit up, Paul Rudd is a board game piece, and more toy tie-ins on the way
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Bustin' makes me feel good.
The most exciting movie of the year now has tie-in toys, and an early look at the toys appears to telegraph the return of three original Ghostbusters donning their garb again. That's Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, and Ernie Hudson, clearly featured as part of several toys coming from Hasbro and other brands for Ghostbusters: Afterlife.
Hasbro is offering a line of line up higher end figures, the Plasma Series (available here for pre-order now) featuring characters from the 2021 film, including Trevor, Lucky, Podcast, Peter, Winston, and Ray.
Check out more new Ghostbusters: Afterlife toys, including a new Clue below…
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Ghostbusters: Afterlife–The long-awaited sequel provides all the right feels in new trailer
The kids aren't all right because they released something vile from this old well…
The most exciting trailer this year comes from a film Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray have been interviewed about since Ghostbusters II. Taking a cue from Halloween, Predator, and Terminator, the franchise did some skipping of reboots and made Ghostbusters: Afterlife a direct sequel to Ghostbusters II. The lead role is for Mckenna Grace, who has appeared in lots of genre films and shows (Ready Player One, Independence Day: Resurgence, Captain Marvel, and horror franchises: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Annabelle, Amityville, and Hill House). In a nice nod to the late, great comedy writer and Ghostbusters co-star and writer Harold Ramis, Grace and Stranger Things co-star Finn Wolfhard (who wore his own Ghostbusters suit in his series) will play the grandkids of Ramis's Dr. Egon Spengler. Shifting to a prairie setting from the city, the tone feels more like the creepy and cool Stranger Things. Annie Potts's return is refreshing in this trailer, along with (at least) the voice of Dan Aykroyd.
Paul Rudd (Ant-Man) plays the grade school teacher, and the kids' mom is played by Carrie Coon, who played the creepy antagonist in the second season of Sinner as well as in Thanos' army in Avengers: Infinity War. Plus Bill Murray, Sigourney Weaver, Ernie Hudson, Gozer-everyone but Rick Moranis–have been confirmed for at least a cameo. And there's an El Camino and the return of the Ecto-1 with some extra features, and no doubt some animated series tie-ins and Easter eggs. What more could you want?
Check out the new trailer for Ghostbusters: Afterlife:
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All the movies you'll want to see in 2021, and a look back at the releases and delays of 2020
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It's that time of year again, time to take a look forward at what movies should be on your radar for 2021! But wait! Next year's list sure looks a lot like the the films we previewed last December. The covid pandemic has delayed hundreds of film projects, but some made it through. When you walk back through last year's list and compare it to movies released after theater lockdowns, you get some insight into how Hollywood thinks. Big movies and movies predicted to be successes were universally held back, while less popular films were released to low box office returns from theaters that remained open, and yet other films went directly to home streaming or related media platforms.
Last year we pulled 85 of the hundreds of films then slated for the 2020 movie calendar. The first two dozen made it to theaters (films like Underwater, Dolittle, and Birds of Prey) before the national shift began on March 11 with news of the NBA reacting to the pandemic by suspending pro basketball–the first national awareness of the scope of the problem. Suddenly we saw Vudu and other home platforms coming to the rescue for our entertainment fix, adding a new Theater at Home option, which captured movies like Anya Taylor-Joy's Emma, Vin Diesel's Bloodshot, and the animated Scoob! Disney began an interesting tiered release of Mulan, which for half the year showed a studio doing its best to maximize returns on what would have been a key release in any other year. After another delay The New Mutants made it briefly to theaters followed by home release after three years of getting kicked aside as the last vestiges of the Disney-Fox merger were shaken out. Other films, like Vast of Night, Extraction, The Old Guard, Rebecca, Radioactive, and Fantasy Island safely premiered on Netflix and Amazon Prime, with Chris Hemsworth's Extraction standing out as the clear popular winner–the entire world needed some new entertainment and after what would only be the first of several months of shelter-at-home, it tentatively filled the void.
So our predictions for the year's big genre films were flat wrong, every single one except Mulan was delayed to 2021, including Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Black Widow, No Time to Die, a new Fast & Furious, Tom Clancy's Without Remorse, and superhero flicks Venom 2, Eternals, and Morbius. Wonder Woman 1984 is expected to have a theatrical release by year end. Altogether 35 of last year's 85 movies previewed on our annual list are back again below, plus we found more than 35 new genre films we think will appeal to borg readers.
So what's left and what's new?
Grab your calendar and start making your plans–here are the movies you'll want to see in 2021. Then compare the below list to our 2020 list, and look back to the 2019 list, 2018 list, 2017 list, 2016 list, 2015 list, or 2014 list. Last year we noticed studios moving genre content from the big screen to the small screen via streaming services, and the pandemic only stepped up that migration. Note: Warner Bros. has reported it will issue its 2021 releases simultaneously on HBO Max. Netflix has mostly dramas slated for 2021, but a few genre films are in pre-production, so expect a few surprises throughout the year. Amazon Studios has fewer, most partnerships with Blumhouse Productions.
As we learned well this year, many of these films will have revised release dates, and even get pushed to 2022.
Mortal Kombat. Based on the video game. New! Tentative release date: January 15, 2021. HBO Max.
Wrath of Man. Next Jason Statham action flick. New! Tentative release date: January 15, 2021.
The French Dispatch. Wes Anderson and his familiar actors in new quirky film about journalists. New! January 28, 2021.
The Dig. A film about a woman finding archaeological treasures on her land, starring Ralph Fiennes, Lily James, and Carey Mulligan. January 29, 2021. Netflix.
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It's that time of year again, time to take a look forward at what movies should be on your radar for 2020. Are you going to see them all? Heck no. These are the genre films we think borg readers will want to know about to make their own checklists for the coming year–and they are only the films we know about so far. We pulled 85 of the hundreds of films that have been finalized or are in varying stages of final production, slated for next year's movie calendar.
What looks to top the list for most fanboys and fangirls? Ghostbusters: Afterlife! Scarlett Johannson solo in Black Widow! A new James Bond movie, No Time to Die. Vin Diesel in Bloodshot and a new Fast & Furious. The original Tom Clancy novel series is finally continuing with an adaptation of Without Remorse. Comic book adaptations are in less supply in 2020, but look for Venom 2, Wonder Woman 1984, Eternals, The New Mutants, Morbius, Birds of Prey, The Old Guard, and did we mention Black Widow? Compare the below list to our 2019 list and even the 2018 list, 2017 list, 2016 list, 2015 list, or 2014 list, and your takeaway may be seeing the studios moving genre content from the big screen to the small screen via streaming services.
Do you like sequels? There are far less coming to theaters in 2020 than in 2019, but many more remakes of movies, books, and TV shows are on the way. In fact, with all the blockbusters in 2019, 2020 looks pretty tame as the cinema marquee is concerned. Some films don't have locked in release dates yet: Amazon Studios and Netflix haven't revealed dates for the following 2020 releases (those we know you'll find on the calendar below):
7500, a film about a highjacked airplane, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Amazon Studios)
The Dig, a film about a woman finding archaeological treasures on her land, starring Ralph Fiennes, Lily James, and Carey Mulligan (Netflix)
Horse Girl, Alison Brie stars and directs this story about an awkward girl who fuses her dreams with reality (Netflix)
Jingle Jangle, an animated Christmas story with the voices of Forest Whitaker, Keegan-Michael Key, and Hugh Bonneville (Netflix)
Louis Wain, biopic of the 19th century artist starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire Foy, and Andrea Riseborough (Amazon Studios)
The Old Guard, adaptation of comic book story, starring Charlize Theron and Chiwetel Ejiofor (Netflix)
Radioactive, a film about Marie Curie, starring Rosamund Pike and Anya Taylor-Joy (Amazon)
Rebecca, adaptation and remake of the Daphne Du Maurier classic novel, starring Lily James, Keely Hawes, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Armie Hammer (Netflix)
Welcome to Sudden Death, sequel to Jean-Claude van Damme 1995 movie starring Michael Jai White (Netflix)
The Willoughbys, animated adaptation of the Lois Lowry book, with voices of Maya Rudolph, Martin Short, and Jane Krakowski (Netflix)
Wonderland, murder conspiracy mystery starring Mark Wahlberg, Allan Arkin, and Colleen Camp (Netflix)
Some of these films will have revised release dates, or get pushed to 2021.
So grab your calendar and start making your plans–here are the movies you'll want to see in 2020 (and some you might not!):
The Informer – Thriller, starring Joel Kinnaman, Rosamund Pike, Ana de Armas, Common, and Clive Owen – January 10.
Underwater – Thriller, stars Kristin Stewart in underwater horror story – January 10.
Dolittle – Family/Comedy, stars Robert Downey, Jr. in remake of the classic, with voices of Tom Holland, Rami Malek, Octavia Spencer, Emma Thompson, Antonio Banderas, Ralph Fiennes, and Michael Sheen – January 17.
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Trailer Park–The "Stranger Things Vibe" Edition
If you want to see how much the 1980s-inspired Stranger Things has worked itself into the 21st century zeitgeist, you need only turn to the last three big studio trailers revealed over the past three days. Make no mistake, if Stranger Things isn't the greatest thing since sliced bread it's pretty close, full of fun characters and great riffs on some of our favorite bits of nostalgia. So why shouldn't everything and everyone try to get on the bandwagon?
The most exciting trailer comes from a film Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray have been interviewed about since Ghostbusters II. Taking a cue from Halloween, Predator, and Terminator, the franchise is doing some skipping of reboots and making Ghostbusters: Afterlife a direct sequel to Ghostbusters II. The lead role will be played by young (perfectly cast) Mckenna Grace, who has appeared in lots of genre films and shows (Ready Player One, Independence Day: Resurgence, Captain Marvel, and horror franchises: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Annabelle, Amityville, and Hill House). In a nice nod to the late Ghostbusters co-star and writer Harold Ramis, she and Stranger Things co-star Finn Wolfhard (who wore his own Ghostbusters suit in his series) will play the grandkids of Ramis's character, Dr. Egon Spengler. Shifting to a prairie setting from the city, the tone feels more like the creepy and cool Netflix series in the first trailer, but it hints that slime-bearing apparitions we last saw in Manhattan will be showing their faces soon. And a bonus: Paul Rudd (Ant-Man) plays the grade school teacher, and the kids' mom is played by Carrie Coon (Avengers: Infinity War). Plus Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts–everyone but Rick Moranis–have been confirmed for at least a cameo. And there's an El Camino and the return of the Ecto-1. What more could you want?
Along with Ghostbusters: Afterlife are new trailers for Wonder Woman 1984 and Free Guy. As you'd guess from the title, Wonder Woman 1984 is also looking back to the 1980s, complete with a big shopping mall action scene like we saw this summer in Stranger Things. It looks like it's trying to be a Marvel movie, complete with a World War-era soldier named Steve (Chris Pine) making his return from the past to co-star and Gal Gadot back in her title role, making an Iron Man entrance. The movie has a comedic actor starring as a kooky villain (Kristen Wiig), making it look like we're going to get another Superman III–yet another 1980s thing. The third movie in our Stranger Things vibe is Free Guy, starring Ryan Reynolds in a spin on the lead character of the LEGO movies–here he is a video game character as in the 1980s nostalgia-filled Ready Player One, a non-player character who decides he wants to be the hero. The movie co-stars the guy who plays our favorite character in Stranger Things, Joe Keery. It doesn't look like Tron, but we'll take it.
Check out these trailers with a Stranger Things vibe for Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Wonder Woman 1984, and Free Guy:
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Netflix adds The Movies That Made Us to its docu-nostalgia line-up
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Following up on The Toys That Made Us (previously reviewed here at borg), Netflix's surprise hit documentary series leaning on viewers' nostalgia with a look behind select high-profile toy lines of the past, this weekend the streaming provider added a new series based on the same formula. The Movies That Made Us takes a four episode-per-season look at what someone somewhere thinks are important movies in the national consciousness. The series arrives nicely timed, since season three of The Toys That Made Us already is showing signs the studio has run out of ideas.
Like The Toys That Made Us, the new series isn't really about the subject of the series, instead taking viewers on a deep, dark dive into the business world of pop culture. Like the first series, The Movies That Made Us has some fascinating gold nuggets. It also has its problems. The biggest issue being the odd introductory selection of movies, and the second, the glaring omission of key players viewers want to see interviewed for the stories. As for the first issue, understandably the show is trying to appeal to a broad spectrum of viewers. But it seems highly unlikely any single person, whether a movie buff or casual moviegoer, would put the following four movies on their list of must-see films: Dirty Dancing, Home Alone, Ghostbusters, and Die Hard. As for the second problem, part of the issue is the series is too late to the table. So many of the key players behind and in front of the camera in these films have died, like Ghostbusters writer/actor Harold Ramis, Dirty Dancing director Emile Ardolino and co-stars Patrick Swayze and Jerry Orbach, Home Alone writer John Hughes, and Die Hard actors Alan Rickman and Alexander Godunov and writer Roderick Thorp. But people die and that shouldn't hold up a good story, except that so many players that could have been interviewed who are living also didn't participate. A documentary about Dirty Dancing without star Jennifer Grey? Die Hard without Bruce Willis? Ghostbusters without Bill Murray, Sigourney Weaver, or Rick Moranis? And the clincher… they couldn't get Macauley Culkin, Joe Pesci, or Catherine O'Hara to say anything about Home Alone?
It really gets to the point of audience expectation. Movie buffs will enjoy this series' first season even if they didn't care for the films, simply because it's always going to be interesting for them to watch the wheeling and dealing of the studio machine told from the people who were there. In that regard, the episodes about Dirty Dancing and Home Alone were entertaining by virtue of their tales of odd ideas that managed to emerge like the phoenix from dead deals to become major box office successes through a lot of luck and happenstance (told nicely in the episodes). And the same was true for The Toys That Made Us, although after nine episodes an hour of the retired talking heads of Toyland has lost its luster. To that end, the series should be called something more accurate, like The Making of the Movies That Made Us, etc. But even that would set the expectation that you'd see more than talking heads interspersed with fuzzy snapshots from productions of the past.
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Sony Pictures releases first trailer with new Ghostbusters team
So here it is. Maybe not the sequel fans of the classic all hoped for, but with the passing of the great Harold Ramis any sequel with the original team in their original roles was out the window. Much has been written about this reboot, and many questions. Is it just a redux with women instead of men, complete with a nerdy glasses-wearing team member, a street smart African American fourth team member, and a hearse as the Ecto-1? Is there anything new that Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, and current Saturday Night Live regulars Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones have to show us about this story?
Maybe it's not going to be a movie for the loyalists to the original. But for fans of these comediennes it's not going to matter. These actresses are putting on the proton packs, and they're going to get slimed and have fun along the way, like all the actors who have donned costumes in recent reboots like JJ Abrams' Star Trek and Star Wars. This new Ghostbusters will be no different than those attempts to blend the past and present.
Screen-used costumes and proton pack prop from the new film.
In the first full trailer from the studio, Melissa McCarthy looks like she's going to steal the show. She always has that laugh-out-loud humor that leaves everyone rolling. For those loyalists, look for cameos in roles different than their originals for Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Annie Potts, Sigourney Weaver, and Ernie Hudson. Rick Moranis took a pass on participating in this new venture.
Check out this new trailer for Ghostbusters from Sony Pictures:
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First look–New movie recounts Jesse Owens' historic Olympic triumph
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Stephen Hopkins, director of The Ghost in the Darkness, Predator 2, and the reboot of Lost in Space, and TV series House of Lies and 24, is bringing to the big screen the momentous race of Jesse Owens, the black track and field gold medalist who showed-up Adolf Hitler's racist regime by winning in the 1936 Olympics. The cleverly titled Race stars Stephan James (Selma) as Owens, the role previously given to John Boyega, who instead left the production to take on the role of Finn in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Race co-stars Saturday Night Live alumnus Jason Sudeikis as Coach Larry Snyder, as well as Academy Award winners William Hurt and Jeremy Irons. Race is the kind of serious topic biopic the Academy traditionally looks for at Oscar time. If the film is the great drama that the story deserves, this could be a breakout role for both James and Sudeikis.
But can Sudeikis overcome his comedy acting past to drive this drama home? Many ex-SNL regulars have tried to break the SNL curse and jump into drama, including Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Steve Martin, Albert Brooks, and Eddie Murphy, along with other comedy talents like Michael Keaton, Eddie Izzard, Jim Carrey, Jamie Foxx, Will Smith, Robin Williams, and Jonah Hill. Will the Academy recognize Race a year from now? Murray, Aykroyd, Martin, Brooks, Hill, Smith, Williams, and Keaton have all been nominated for acting Oscars, but no ex-SNL actor has won an acting Oscar, and only comedic actors Foxx and Williams were able to make the switch from comedy to drama and take home the big prize.
Check out this trailer for Race:
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