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Made-in-USA Ebola and ISIS: Love Those Costumes!
Who says the US has lost its manufacturing? The US government is making lies faster than flies, and selling them globally for a fortune.
They've just produced two new "terrifying threats to the whole world": ISIS and ebola.
So give the US credit where its credit is due. Sure they say that ISIS comes out of the Middle East and ebola comes out of Africa, but that's just modesty and to help sell the effect. Because you can't have a Middle East scourge that comes out of Hoboken, NJ, or a really scary germ that comes out of Atlanta, and have it sell the same, now can you?
They have to have that authentic feel if your media stories are going to have a chance of doing some kick-ass marketing. How else are US companies going sell billions more in weapons for wars in the same area they've already bombed the shit out of, or convince the world to buy what will obviously be weaponized vaccines, if the germ is so obviously invented? Think about it. Provenance matters mucho when you sell things. You couldn't get as much for an authentic US antique table if it has a "made in China" sticker on the bottom, could you? You might even have to give it few dings here and there to age it a bit.
Same with ISIS and ebola. You just can't create a US-made ISIS and say its a Middle Eastern scourge or just go on about an ebola apocalypse from Africa, you got to show people. You gotta have photos of ISIS in the Middle East (not Blackwater guys boarding a plane in the US) and ebola in Africa (not CIA guys in suits packing vials of germs into their suitcases).
And then you got to dress it up. And this is especially true if those ISIS boys come from Hoboken or wherever and look .... white. What kind of effect would that have? Not scary Middle Eastern terrorist-scary, that's for sure. And how lousy would that be for the big posters that say "ISIS, the Scourge of the Middle East - Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid!" Nah, with white guys in the photos, the effect would be more like "Yo, JIm, doesn't that guy on the right with the blond hair look just like my cousin Daryl, the one that just got out of prison and got a passport?"
And if people saw pictures of the CIA packing up vials of germy things labeled "Ebola - Handle with care" before their flight to Africa, people would likely say, "But I thought ebola came from African fruit bats. Where's the bats?"
No, if you're going sell these things, you gotta go Hollywood. That's where the costumes come in. They are not just a nice touch, they are hones to God the only way to sell a "new" Made-in-the-USA Middle Eastern terrorist group. Al Quaeda, forget it. Old news and worse= everyone so knows it's the CIA, they call it Al-CIA-da. So, the US needed a new and improved group, much more bad, much more scary. They needed out and out crazy. And they needed costumes so people could see - that's ISIS!!! Look how nuts they are! And their marching helps, too. Cuz it's a show. They're selling something that doesn't exist in any real way so they gotta make a kind of movie for the public to try to make them think ISIS is real. If they wanted everyone to believe in pink elephants, they'd have painted up a bunch o a bunch of elephants and they'd be flaunting their "Look, there really are pink elephants, see?" down the streets, too.
But we're in Hollywood land. The US is even doing fake beheadings to make ISIS seem scarier and nuttier than nutty. They're kind of desperate to sell weapons and it depends on this hokey show.
James Foley Fake Beheading by CIA/Israel-Mossad to Make You Fear & Hate Arabs/ISIS, and Want to Go to War.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AvOQrTUEBA
ISIS Is Not ISIS
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/06/26/isis_is_not_isis_kurdistan_iraq_refugee_camps
They've even set up ISIS with its own PR and even media production, with Middle Eastern names, of course.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant
ISIS is also known for its effective use of propaganda.[140] In November 2006, shortly after the creation of the Islamic State of Iraq, the group established the al-Furqan Institute for Media Production, which produces CDs, DVDs, posters, pamphlets, and web-related propaganda products.[141] ISIS's main media outlet is the I'tisaam Media Foundation,[142] which was formed in March 2013 and distributes through the Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF).[143] In 2014, ISIS established the Al Hayat Media Center, which targets a Western audience and produces material in English, German, Russian and French.[144][145] In 2014 it also launched the Ajnad Media Foundation, which releases jihadist audio chants.[146]
(CNN) -- One video shows more than 100 prisoners paraded across the desert in their underwear, then lying face down as militants unleash a hailstorm of bullets into their bodies.
Other images show crucifixions and public executions in towns overrun by terrorists.
And recent footage showing the beheading of a second American journalist proves that ISIS wants to world to know how brutal it can be.
The insurgents are experts at using footage of their crimes as propaganda to terrify those who disagree with their radicalism and to threaten foreign leaders. The visuals are as much a part of ISIS' terrorism as its bloody march across the Iraq and Syria.
And their PR people even made a down-home looking poster for the US, and US media helps by calling it "chilling." It's phenomenal Hollywood, when you think about it.
'Chilling': Footage purportedly from a CNN live stream of the protests appeared to show one young demonstrator marching along a street holding a sign reading 'ISIS is here'
And ebola is just the same.
They gotta have those ebola costumes because the last global "pandemic" the WHO and the CDC promoted in 2009 with swine flu (also made in the USA and with Dyncorps and NIH holding the patent) flopped like a giant dead fish. No amount of CDC lying about the number of cases in the US - and they sure tried hard, even lying in some cases by 98% - and no amount of the WHO changing the definition of "pandemic" so it could include a sneeze in two places in the world, was enough.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/10/24/cbs-reveals-that-swine-flu-cases-seriously-overestimated.aspx#!
It was all cooked up, the WHO right smack in the middle of it. The WHO which is announcing every day how terrible ebola is. http://www.financialsensearchive.com/editorials/engdahl/2009/1208.html
Really, they got to do something because the crooks behind the US are in big trouble.
1. Their cover up of 9/11 is falling apart and the murders are about the fall in their lap.
2. There's a court case now moving along showing they used trillions to bribe the whole government and Supreme Court.
http://kauilapele.wordpress.com/2014/09/05/breaking-news-well-stew-webb-says-super-breaking-from-vt-radio-9-3-14/
3. Their masters at the Vatican are being charged with Satanic murder of children and don't look too holy and have lost a lot of popularity because of that.
http://itccs.org/2014/08/25/report-from-the-joint-consultation-of-the-directorate-of-the-international-tribunal-into-crimes-of-church-and-state-itccs-and-the-common-law-court-of-justice-held-in-brussels-and-new-york-city-augus/
Theses dudes are looking at jail, even execution, with the whole world cheering.
So they just gotta sell ebola as a gigantic pandemic. They need the money from the untested vaccines and they need martial law to murder anyone trying to catch them. Quite clever really. And they want to kill millions more dead, just because. Just because they like genocide with their scotch.
They're all ready with a careful layout of standing dominoes that Bush delicately put in place. Right now, they are playing make-believe - ebola is a terrible disease coming out of deepest darkest Africa. Only it's coming out the CDC but never mind that. The make believe depends on them everyday putting out wildly phony numbers about ebola (or killing Africans which they like to do anyway, and saying it was ebola). They want to get the numbers up so high, the WHO can talk among themselves and agree "Okay, that looks black plague-y enough," and then they will announce a level 6 global pandemic. When that happens, along with civil unrest (they cooked up), a collapsed economy (they cooked up), and environmental disaster (they cooked up) the first domino falls over. That first domino leads to the president suspending the Constitution and Congress.
That shock of a domino knocks over the next one and DHS takes control with the president, and that knocks over the next domino and the WHO shows up and sets up health crisis committees across the country, and that domino knocks over the next one and the UN invades with foreign troops, and then that domino knocks over the one that give them the pandemic laws Bush put in place right after 9/11-anthrax murders, which is so weighted down with goodies for fascists http://exopolitics.blogs.com/breaking_news/2014/08/ebola-triggers-george-bushs-bizarre-pandemic-laws.html and then that domino starts to fall and it hits that last big domino with a resounding smack and as it falls over, before you can say domino, you've got yourself an old fashioned fascist coup, just like the one Prescott Bush tried to get in 1933. .... And that's not all they planned to have fall. Damn if they aren't set up for another Holocaust, this time in the good ole USA, using guillotines made in China - the final insult.
http://exopolitics.blogs.com/breaking_news/2014/08/a-vrba-message-jews-ebola-and-two-holocausts.html
These guys funding "Holocaust II" have already moved their crooked Wall Street asses out of NYC. http://exopolitics.blogs.com/ebolagate/2014/08/wall-street-has-moved-out-of-nyc-prepare-for-major-false-flag-attack-perhaps-ebola-.html
The first domino is ebola.
It's their new product, ebola, and you can see why it's extra special to them. They need ebola bad. It's not enough to say it's much worse than swine flu (that fizzle). It's not enough to say it's "new and improved" pandemic manufacturing. They are already in overdrive with the PR marketing. The package already reads "worse than anything ever in the history of the world!" The movie posters read "The Black Plague Returns!"
But how are you going to sell all that if people don't see anything happening themselves? That was the downfall of the 2009 swine flu. Nobody saw anybody being sick, except those taking the vaccines. CBS was getting all these calls from medical people saying they weren't seeing anything. So CBS investigated and damned if nobody was sick! http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/10/24/cbs-reveals-that-swine-flu-cases-seriously-overestimated.aspx
So, those running this "disease equals a fortune and total control" show learned a lot about how to sell a pandemic from 2009 and are back again now, with same media stories of all the deaths that could happen. Last time they said millions would die but that didn't seem to phase anybody so this time they are "projecting" billions are going to die. Problem is those are just numbers and even those wildly concocted numbers doesn't really hit people in their solar plexus. Numbers are just not enough.
So, it's show time! It's show AND tell (lies) time.
Basically, the crooks running the US government are trying to keep the economy going by selling made-in-the-USA products but the world doesn't really like things made in the USA much anymore - not cars, not refrigerators, not wars, and not even terrorist groups or germs.
It's an uphill thing they're trying to do, with the sand eroding out from under them.
Ebola gets its Hollywood on by dressing people up in Hazmat suits using ceaseless and scary global media stories about all the people dropping dead. They are careful not to say the CDC holds the patent, that fruit bats are in the clear, that the outbreaks in Africa started around a US bioweapons lab funded by Soros and Gates and happened elsewhere with a little help from the UN.
The Ebola breakout coincided with UN vaccine campaigns
http://domesticity.gawker.com/a-fitness-critique-of-the-isis-terrorist-workout-video-1593208538
So, when you see costumes, try to understand how important they are to the crooks who are scared poop-y themselves right now. Those crooks are counting on costumes to keep people focused on their "scary" Middle Eastern guys (who comes with PR agencies and work out videos http://domesticity.gawker.com/a-fitness-critique-of-the-isis-terrorist-workout-video-1593208538) and scary germs (with patents and weaponized vaccines and plans for a coup in the US hidden).
And tell all your friends so they can enjoy the masquerade, movie-ness of it all.
And have some pity for the murderous crooks. They're facing arrests, losing all their power and everything else, and being executed. That's really scary.
http://exopolitics.blogs.com/ebolagate/2014/09/made-in-usa-ebola-and-isis-love-those-costumes.html


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October 26, 2012 October 26, 2012 Michael S. Moore
Review: So Close (2002)
Starring Shu Qui, Karen Mok, Zhao Wei, Yasuaki Kurata, Derek Wan
Fight Choreography by Corey Yuen
Directed by Corey Yuen
Corey Yuen, fight choreographer legend, who has directed films like No Retreat, No Surrender, and Above the Law (the Yuen Biao film) jumps again behind the camera to team up Hong Kong beauties Shu Qui, Karen Mok and Zhao Wei in a Chinese action film in the vein of Charlie's Angels.
The film revolves around sisters Lin (Qui) and Quan (Wei) who are having issues within their given professions…as hired killers. Their jobs are already complicated as they don't just kill anyone; they are looking for the men who killed their parents, and their father who had created a computer program that would have aided the police greatly. Lin does the killing while younger sister Quan is the computer wiz who holds down the fort at home and runs their complex satellite mainframe computer, but yearns to get out of her sisters' shadow and take assassination jobs of her own. The only thing wrong with this? Quan's never killed anyone. Things get complicated when Lin meets with an old flame and decides to get out of the business, while at the same time a super-smart police woman Kong Yay Hung (Mok) starts to put everything together and attempts to bring both women to justice, and the brother of Lin's most recent assassination victims Chow Nunn, a drug and gun runner who fronted a corporation for his crimes, plans to take his revenge on Lin and her sister. All parties slam into each other, and tragedy strikes, and a final confrontation within the corporation itself between the women and Chow Nunn and his army of thugs…and one Japanese sword master…
This is a really entertaining film, very much in the vein of Charlie's Angels, and while not so "out there" Yuen makes sure you know just how beautiful all three main leads are. The story is entertaining as both Lin and Quan have a good backstory for why they do what they do, and Zhao Wei is pitch perfect as the immature, yet capable Quan. Shu Qi, not known for action films, does a capable job as a tough-as-nails character, and Karen Mok is great in her fight scenes. Yasuaki Kurata doesn't really make his presence truly felt until the end of the film, as he proves to be the real villain of the film, and as always is great. There is a turning point in the film that changes the fantastical tone of the film, but it isn't as jarring as it could be as things build to this moment, but it was a surprise and doesn't take anything away from the fun to be had.
Corey Yuen choreographs the fights as he always has, and does a good job, especially for those who didn't know martial arts. He made them look as if they did (unlike in his American output) and he stages the fights well. Hell, he even hearkens back to his best 'lethal ladies' film Yes, Madam, as Karen Mok pulls off a move that came directly from that film, and if you know the scene you'll smile when it happens. The finale is great display of gun action versus the guards. The final fight with Yasuaki Kurata is excellent, and Zhao Wei really shines here, and holds her own versus the legendary Kurata. She looks fantastic, and Karen Mok does well in this fight too, the most impressive of a film full of great set pieces.
Kiai-Kick's Grade: 8
A film far more fun than Charlie's Angels, an explosive gun and kung-fu fight fest wrapped around a Mission Impossible-like story with a great villain in Yasuaki Kurata.
NEXT: All samurais fear the Geisha Assassin!
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dangerousmeredith says:
I also enjoyed this film Michael, especially Corey Yuen's choreography.
MikeOutWest says:
Probably one of the glossiest martial arts/action movies out there. I have a penchant for fights within elevators, and this movie has a doozy when Karen Mok finds herself in a lift with two crooks (liked the way we see her mind working). The car chase sequence is pretty thrilling too.
Mike, looking forward to see what you make of Geisha Assassin – I wasn't impressed with it at first but it really grew on me as it went on.
Yanto says:
Yeah I agree. As far as fighting-game-movie-adaptations go, I'd rank them like this:Street Fighter < DOA < Mortal KombatSF would have been hiehgr if Jean-Claude Van Damme weren't involved
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I'm sure there was a thread about this question a while ago, but I'm not able to find it again, so please apologize to ask again.
If I place a new prop/figure in a large scene this new items is always placed at the "standard zero point". It seems to make no difference if I doubleclick on the prop in the content tab or if I drag&drop; it to the scene. The problem is that this could be far away from the visible area.
What's the best way to bring a figure/prop into the visible area of a scene?
If you hold the ALT key and drag the item from the content window you'll get a placement cursor allowing to put it wherever you please.
Thank you, that's what I was looking for.


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On a VPS I have never used any anti-virus program and never had any problem.
On my work and home PC I only use the default Windows Defender for months now and no problems so far.
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One could say that passwords were insecure from the very beginning, but still - something was needed to provide at least the basic security for our accounts, so they stuck around.
Nowadays, we use our emails or usernames in combination with passwords to access everything. And by doing so - without another form of protection - we are opening up our digital lives to outsiders.
To understand how insecure it is to use this combination as the only way to log into an account, just visit Have I Been Pwned. While you're there, check if your credentials have been stolen, but only a quick glance at the total number of emails pawned should be enough to make you rethink how you think about your logins. Especially when you consider that a small mistake or a bug can expose passwords of millions of users, like Facebook's recently published mishap.
This month, we published a short video giving our view on just how insecure using e-mail and password for login is.
In a nutshell, using only username/email & password - will not actually protect you in the long run. Especially if you are, as many do, re-using the same password in many places!
Last week, Harry wrote about PSD2 and how will it influence the authentication space. First and foremost in banking & fintech in European Union. But if its provisions prove useful - we will see it spread to other industries as well.
What I am referring to is Strong Customer Authentication and its requirement to use two out of three types of authentication factors: something you know, something you possess, and something you are.
The password fits into the first type and is not the only item in this group. So, depending on what users want to use - they can rely on two factors that don't even feature something they know.
For instance, they could use their smartphone based verification (something they have) and combine it with a fingertip scan (something they are). This, depending on the type of smartphone-based authentication, can be smooth and fast & secure at the same time. Significantly better and more secure than the current method of combining email & password with SMS 2FA!
Why having smooth authentication matters? Because users don't like bad UX. Actually, they hate it! So much so that they stop their activities (ie. shopping) mid-process because of too much friction.
And when asked about their authentication preferences, 70% of users chose those methods that are easy to use, while only 45% prefer authentication that provides strong data security!
In light of that, and the changes PSD2 is bringing to the market, will not only secure bank & fintech customers, they will also motivate service providers to update authentication options, especially during shopping, to ensure the process runs smoothly until the very end (successful payment or other type of transaction).
PSD2 may bring on the death of passwords, but it is not aimed at such a goal. Other projects are.
Google recently ran a pilot program to test passwordless registration and login using Google Accounts. It is a good effort, currently under development, but with recent successful phishing attacks on Google Accounts protected with 2FA - this one might not the best possible approach.
Microsoft announced moving on from passwords to their Authenticator app, but where you will still need to type your password once to log into the app itself. Its a step in the right direction, but limited only to MS app ecosystem.
There hardware token-based solutions replacing passwords, but you don't need more details to understand its limited usefulness. Nobody wants such UX unless there are very high-security concerns that can't be avoided in any other way.
IPification fits perfectly into this passwordless future.
Based on secure communication between an app or a website and mobile operators server, and the data only the operator knows about the user, IPification can be used for a single factor authentication as an email/password replacement, as well as one of the factors whenever more than is used.
And private user data will not be compromised in any way - it is being sent neither from the app nor from the telco side - but only information about the device, SIM card and similar are checked against operators' records to ensure identity!
We are not only ready for the passwordless future, but we are eager for it to happen soon. It will make the digital world more secure for all of us, and we want to play our part in it!


Are you ready to jump into deeper weaving waters and graduate from a cardboard loom? Want a woven project you're proud to hang on your wall? Ready to get really familiar with a few fundamental stitches that will take you where you want to go with your woven designs?
DIY Woven Art author, Rachel Denbow, designed this project-based class for the weaving novice with step-by-step instructions that are easy to digest so you no longer have to figure it out the hard way. You'll learn how to warp your loom, add plain weave, utilize rya knots, incorporate soumak, create shapes, and a few important finishing steps to get your work off your loom and onto your wall. We'll also work through tips on choosing colors, a basic overview of yarn weights and varieties, and a few troubleshooting tips in case you get hung up along the way.
Don't have your own frame loom? Rachel shares a simple and inexpensive way to create a sturdy loom to finish this project as well as household items you can use in place of weaving tools to get started.
Be sure to share your progress! I want to see your color choices, the kind of loom you're using, progress shots along the way, the messy bits on the back of your weaving, and your finished pieces!
Rachel Denbow, author of DIY Woven Art, has been teaching creative skills through online tutorials, eCourses, and workshops for over ten years through her brand, Smile and Wave DIY, as well as through the popular lifestyle and DIY blog, A Beautiful Mess.
Her work has been published in HGTV magazine, Better Homes & Gardens, Readers Digest, Bob Vila, Curbly, CRAFT, BUST, Design*Sponge, Apartment Therapy, SEW, and most recently in Easy Weaving with Little Looms magazine.