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					<description><![CDATA[One of the best sources on Jesuit machinations is an incognito Jesuit who masquerades as a “Baptist Calvinist” expert on the “Society of Jesus” and calls himself “Eric Jon Phelps”.  He is the ultimate example of what Cardinal Thomas Wolsey termed “learning against learning”—to infiltrate...]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the best sources on Jesuit machinations is an incognito Jesuit who masquerades as a “Baptist Calvinist” expert on the “Society of Jesus” and calls himself “Eric Jon Phelps”.  He is the ultimate example of what Cardinal Thomas Wolsey termed “learning against learning”—to infiltrate truth and either sidetrack it with discord (as “Phelps” does via his racial separation antics) or sow truth with lies and disinformation (as Phelps does regarding the Jesuit role in the American Revolution or by teaching the Jesuit doctrines of the “pre-Tribulation Rapture”, Christian Zionism, Dispensationalism, etc.).</p>
<p>My personal relationship with “Eric” ended in my conviction that he is an undercover Jesuit, the details of which I shared on my show in October of 2015.</p>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" src="https://percolate.blogtalkradio.com/offsiteplayer?hostId=854637&amp;episodeId=8011605" width="100%" height="180px" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
<p>In February of that year, I published <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Illuminati-Unmasked-Everything-about-World/dp/1506156290" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Illuminati Unmasked</em></a> as the culmination of the shocking information “Eric” had shown me via his mission as an undercover agent.</p>
<p>In the best example of self-immolation, Phelps gives up a chilling amount of detail about the Jesuits before sowing it with disinformation and discord.  One such detail is what really happened in Japan at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.</p>
<p>Rome and her satanic Special Forces have completely woven a matrix of lies for us to live in, one of those lies was concocted over the “bombs” that were dropped to punish the “heretic Buddhists”.  They were more likely placed in secret as the technology to air-drop a nuclear munition was impossible in 1945.</p>
<p>In 1540, Alessandro Farnese—Pope Paul III—consecrated the “Knights of the Virgin Mary”, founded by a fanatical Basque nobleman named Ignacio Lopez, and turned them into “the Society of Jesus”.  Immediately the zeal of this new Company showed itself as they sent their missionaries all over the globe.  Within a matter of months they had landed in Japan where, contrary to popular belief they were well-received&#8230;unfortunately for the poor Japanese.</p>
<blockquote><p>These missionaries found a powerful protector in [Daimyo Oda] Nobunaga, the military dictator of Japan (1573-82).  He was anxious to check the political power of a certain movement of Buddhist soldier-priests, but also held a genuine sympathy for the work of the &#8220;Christians&#8221; who were newcomers.  He encouraged them by granting them the right to propagate their religion throughout the Empire.  He donated them land in Kyoto itself and even promised them a yearly allowance.  Thanks to this, in no time the Catholic missions had spread throughout the country, converts were made by the thousands, establishing sizable Catholic centers in various parts of Japan.</p>
<p>Had the Catholic missionaries confined themselves exclusively to preaching religious principles, it is likely that Japan would have yielded them tremendous spiritual rewards.  But once a Catholic community was established the juridical-diplomatic-political domination of the Vatican came to the fore.  As is explicit in her doctrines, the Japanese converts could not remain the subjects only of the Japanese civil authorities.  The mere fact that they had entered the Catholic Church made them also the subjects of the Pope.  Once their loyalty was transferred outside Japan, automatically they became potentially disloyal to the Japanese civil rulers.<span id='easy-footnote-1-3724' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'></span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https://johnnycirucci.com/the-spectre-of-the-jesuit-world-order/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-3724' title='&lt;em&gt;Vietnam: Why Did We Go?&lt;/em&gt; Avro Manhattan, Chick Publications (1984), p. 97'><sup>1</sup></a></span></blockquote>
<p>As a result of their espionage and subversions, Daimyo Toyotomi Hideyoshi put severe restrictions on the Jesuits.  Ultimately, they were completely successful in damning Japan because Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu eventually banned all foreigners and Christian missionaries from the islands in 1641.  He made the same mistake many do today; mistaking Jesuits for “Christians”.</p>
<p>As is customary when a nation attempts to protect itself from the Company, the Jesuits soon set their sights on unspeakable evil in recompense, although it took just over 300 years to accomplish it.</p>
<blockquote><p>Payback time had now come for Japan.  The American Army Air Force firebombed the island and totally destroyed Nagasaki and Hiroshima.  The future Jesuit General, Pedro Arrupe was near Hiroshima at the time of its destruction.  Could he and his Jesuits have been involved in a nuclear detonation on the ground, as no tested atomic device had ever been detonated in the air while in motion?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“At 8:15½ that August morning, every window in Arrupe’s residence at Nagatsuka was shattered by a roaring shockwave, and the sky was filled with a light he later described as [“a gigantic flare, like a magnesium flash” {52} being] ‘overwhelming and baleful’!  By the time he and his community of Jesuits ventured out some thirty minutes later, a firestorm driven by a scorching 40 mph wind had enveloped Hiroshima &#8230; That evening, one of the first survivors to reach his house in Nagatsuka was a theological student sent by a fellow priest, Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge, who had somehow survived the blast in the middle of Hiroshima [???].  From him, Arrupe got his first eyewitness accounts.” {53}<span id='easy-footnote-2-3724' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'></span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https://johnnycirucci.com/the-spectre-of-the-jesuit-world-order/#easy-footnote-bottom-2-3724' title='&lt;em&gt;The Jesuits&lt;/em&gt;, Malachi Martin, Simon &amp;amp; Schuster (1988), p. 350'><sup>2</sup></a></span>
<p>(Whether the atomic bomb detonated in mid-air – a technical feat which was unknown to human history as of August 1945 – or secretly on the ground (the device having been carefully constructed inside a closed building), the future Jesuit General knew all about it.  For Pedro Arrupe greatly contributed in the laying of the “Nuclear War Hoax” – it being the foundation for that greatest of Jesuit Inquisitions called “the Cold War” – for which genocidal reason he became the Jesuit General in 1965!)<span id='easy-footnote-3-3724' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'></span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https://johnnycirucci.com/the-spectre-of-the-jesuit-world-order/#easy-footnote-bottom-3-3724' title='&lt;em&gt;Vatican Assassins&lt;/em&gt;, Eric Jon Phelps, Halycon Unified Services (2001), p. 500'><sup>3</sup></a></span></blockquote>
<p>Nearly 150,000 Japanese perished in the two incidents at Hiroshima and Nagasaki and many, many more died horrible deaths as a result of the war crimes ordered by their <a href="http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/masons.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Freemasonic puppet General Curtis Emerson LeMay</a>, “father” of the United States Strategic Air Command—a despicable butcher on par with Himmler or any other mass-murdering monster.</p>
<p>As a result of these horrors, the Japanese psyche was permanently scarred.  Survivors found solace in fictional musings over the terror the Jesuits had unleashed upon them.</p>
<p>In 1954, Toho Limited created Godzilla—the longest-running cinematic film series.  The second-longest running series was equally birthed by Jesuit machinations.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong><em>Dumble-dalf 007</em></strong></p>
<p>If you’ve never heard of Dr. John Dee, you should have.  He was advisor to Elizabeth I and an advanced occult adept.  He was the impetus for the Harry Potter character of “Dumbledore” and the Tolkien magician “Gandalf” in Lord of the Rings.</p>
<p>Henry VIII was King of England from 1509-1547 and, although a licentious autocratic tyrant, his 6 marriages actually helped England break free of the power of Rome.  His son Edward VI was the first English king to be raised Protestant but he died at the young age of 15.</p>
<p>As England’s first true Protestant King, Edward was most certainly a Jesuit target for assassination.  Author Susan Higginbotham brings up the astounding accusation that, not only was Edward poisoned, his body was switched before burial to hide the evidence.<sup>1475</sup></p>
<p>Edward tried to have his cousin Jane Grey rule instead of Mary I but Lady Jane was quickly deposed and Bloody Mary took over the throne.  She and her husband Philip of Spain immediately repealed the protections Henry and Edward had extended to Protestants.  She reaffirmed England’s subservience to the Pope and then began a reign of terror that saw nearly 300 Protestants executed, most by being burned alive.</p>
<p>Even as “reformers”, both Henry VIII and Edward VI did little to help Protestants.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>Protestants were martyred during persecutions against Protestant religious reformers for their faith during the reigns of Henry VIII (1509-1547) and Mary I of England (1553–1558).  Radical Protestants were also executed during the reigns of Edward VI (1547-1553), Elizabeth I (1558-1603) and James I (1603-1625).  The excesses of this period were recorded in Foxe’s Book of Martyrs.</em></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>Protestants in England and Wales were executed under legislation that punished anyone judged guilty of heresy against the Roman</em> <em>Catholic faith. </em>~ Wikipedia<sup>1476</sup></p>
<p>Mercifully, Mary died in 1558 after only a brief rule and her half-sister Elizabeth I, whom she had had imprisoned, ascended to the throne as a Protestant Queen.</p>
<p>While in prison, Elizabeth had made the acquaintance of a magician who had fallen out of favor with Bloody Mary; John Dee.</p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/dees-007.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-CL2S]"><img loading="lazy" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3726" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/dees-007.jpg" alt="dee's 007" width="163" height="94" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/dees-007.jpg 163w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/dees-007-150x87.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/dees-007-24x14.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/dees-007-36x21.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/dees-007-48x28.jpg 48w" sizes="(max-width: 163px) 100vw, 163px" /></a>Once on the throne, the Jesuit threats to Elizabeth’s life were very real and a cordon of British Royalists formed around her lead by Francis Walsingham.  They created an intelligence network to ferret out Papists with designs against their Queen and Dr. John Dee was part of their network.  When he wrote to her, he knew she had an eye fetish so he signed his name in code to resemble eyes: “007”. ~ <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Illuminati-Unmasked-Everything-about-World/dp/1506156290" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Illuminati Unmasked</em></a> <span id='easy-footnote-4-3724' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'></span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https://johnnycirucci.com/the-spectre-of-the-jesuit-world-order/#easy-footnote-bottom-4-3724' title='&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Illuminati-Unmasked-Everything-about-World/dp/1506156290&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noopener noreferrer&quot;&gt;Illuminati Unmasked&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, Johnny Cirucci, CreateSpace (2015), pp. 534-535'><sup>4</sup></a></span></blockquote>
<p>Ian Lancaster Fleming was a journalist and Naval Intelligence officer during WWII (which means he worked indirectly for Rome, perhaps even directly).</p>
<p>The juxtaposition of those two occupations helped Fleming create the world’s most well-known fictional spy, James Bond, starting with the novel <em>Casino Royale</em> in 1953.  In less than a decade, a powerful Italian Catholic with connections from 20<sup>th</sup> Century Fox to Howard Houghes—Albert Romolo Broccoli—would put Fleming’s Bond in cinema.  Of course the Romans never do something popular or public without first putting a Jewish face to their machinations and Broccoli brought in Harry Saltzman as his partner for the first three Bond films.</p>
<p>But Harry wasn’t just a name and a face, like Fleming <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/09/harry-saltzman-bond-secret-spy-life" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">he too was an Intelligence Officer</a>—one who worked for the Papacy’s own <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/1983/07/their-will-be-done" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Knight of Malta, William Donovan</a> and his Office of Strategic Services during WWII.  This is the same <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Target-Patton-Assassinate-General-Collection/dp/1621572919" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">OSS that murdered</a> America’s greatest field commander, George Smith Patton in 1945 just after the war’s conclusion.</p>
<p>The Broccoli family have maintained an absolute lock on the Bond franchise and Albert Romolo’s daughter Barbara now oversees exactly what the world’s most famous spy does&#8230;whether or not she pets a fluffy white cat during her board meetings is still up to speculation.</p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Daniel-Craig-Barbara-Broccoli-Spectre.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-CL2S]"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-3727" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Daniel-Craig-Barbara-Broccoli-Spectre.jpg" alt="Daniel Craig Barbara Broccoli Spectre" width="958" height="638" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Daniel-Craig-Barbara-Broccoli-Spectre.jpg 600w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Daniel-Craig-Barbara-Broccoli-Spectre-150x100.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Daniel-Craig-Barbara-Broccoli-Spectre-300x200.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Daniel-Craig-Barbara-Broccoli-Spectre-24x16.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Daniel-Craig-Barbara-Broccoli-Spectre-36x24.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Daniel-Craig-Barbara-Broccoli-Spectre-48x32.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Daniel-Craig-Barbara-Broccoli-Spectre-400x267.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 958px) 100vw, 958px" /></a></p>
<p>Barbara Broccoli doesn’t M-handle Bond alone, she has another Broccoli to help; half-brother Michael Wilson.</p>
<blockquote><p>Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson – children of the franchise’s creator – keep all of Bond’s secrets.  They open up about wooing Daniel Craig, the next Bond, and life after SPECTRE</p>
<p>There’s a definite rhythm to the lives of James Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson.  “Bond never quite goes away,” says Wilson, stepson of the legendary Albert “Cubby” Broccoli, sitting in the opulent Piccadilly offices of Eon productions, creators of the 007 franchise.</p>
<p>“But now we’re just about to peak,” chimes in Broccoli, his half-sister, with her trademark cheery laugh. ~ <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/james-bond-spectre/barbara-broccoli-michael-g-wilson-interview/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Julia Smith, The Telegraph</a></p></blockquote>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/broccoli-craig.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-CL2S]"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3728" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/broccoli-craig.jpg" alt="broccoli craig" width="1280" height="721" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/broccoli-craig.jpg 1280w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/broccoli-craig-150x84.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/broccoli-craig-300x169.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/broccoli-craig-768x433.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/broccoli-craig-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/broccoli-craig-24x14.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/broccoli-craig-36x20.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/broccoli-craig-48x27.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/broccoli-craig-400x225.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px" /></a></p>
<p>“Keep all of Bond’s secrets?”</p>
<p>This super-successful super-spy franchise has a tighter bloodline lock on its content than the Crown of England, herself&#8230;which, by the way, they work hand-in-hand with.</p>
<p>In 2012, Daniel Craig appeared as Bond, “parachuting” in with QE2 to open the London Olympics with the garish panache of a Bond sportscar.</p>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1AS-dCdYZbo" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
<p>Tragically, less than a year later, the stuntman who portrayed Craig in the jump would be <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mark-sutton-dies-olympics-stuntman-2169489" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">killed in a wing-suit</a> accident.</p>
<p>It’s all terribly patriotic&#8230;unless you understand that absolutely everything is as fake as a movie, from Elizabeth II dutifully watching over the best interests of Britons, to MI6 doing the same, to the Olympics being about ethical sportsmanship and not glorifying satan worship.<span id='easy-footnote-5-3724' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'></span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https://johnnycirucci.com/the-spectre-of-the-jesuit-world-order/#easy-footnote-bottom-5-3724' title='The internet abounds with videos claiming to have the inside scoop on the shocking and disturbing images of any contemporary Olympic opening or closing ceremony.  Most of them are wrong and many of them are purposeful disinformation.  What is unquestionable is that there are and have been very demonic things implied in &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; high-profile sports event.'><sup>5</sup></a></span>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/queen-elizabeth-dame-of-malta.gif" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-CL2S]"><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-2933" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/queen-elizabeth-dame-of-malta.gif" alt="Queen Elizabeth, Dame of Malta" width="255" height="349" /></a>Elizabeth I boldly established the Church of England to be a Protestant breakaway from all-powerful Rome.  Her current namesake is anything but.  Elizabeth 2 was born Elizabeth Alexandra <em>Mary</em>.  300 years post the great Protestant Virgin Queen, Rome yet again has complete control over England via her proxies like Elizabeth II, Dame of Malta.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>The Knights of Malta</strong></p>
<p>One Order of particular interest is the Knights of Malta.  According to the <em>Catholic Encyclopedia</em>, the Order of the Knights of Malta is, “The most important of all the military orders, both for the extent of its area and for its duration.  It is said to have existed before the Crusades and is not extinct at the present time.”<a href="http://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception-Pope_Malta_Queen#footnoteii"><sup>ii</sup></a></p>
<p>The Knights of Malta wore similar costumes to the Knights Templar before them.  The stylized cross we see on their uniforms is known today as a Maltese cross.</p>
<p><a href="http://amazingdiscoveries.org/albums/p/5426350051771649217/LLT-Pope-Fish-Hat.jpg" target="_blank" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-CL2S]">The Maltese cross is a common feature of the Pope’s garments</a>, reminding us that he is the head of these Orders.</p>
<p>A Protestant branch of the Knights of Malta is the Order of St. John of Jerusalem.  Queen Elizabeth II is the Sovereign Head of the Order of St. John,<a href="http://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception-Pope_Malta_Queen#footnoteiii"><sup>iii</sup></a> as we can see from her costume in the photograph.</p>
<p>The Queen’s participation in this Order, which brings with it required obedience to the Pope, is an example of how<a href="http://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception-King-John_Pope_Crown" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> King John’s ancient concession of the crown to the Papacy is still in effect today.</a> ~ <a href="http://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception-Pope_Malta_Queen" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>The Pope’s Knights</em></a>, Amazing Discoveries.org</p></blockquote>
<p>With a franchise as “plugged in” as James Bond is, I fully expected to get hidden meaning imparted to me in “SPECTRE”, I just hadn’t expected it to be nearly as bold and open as it was.</p>
<p><strong><em>Exodus</em></strong></p>
<p>In my <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/exodus-gods-and-kings/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">review of the 2014 Ridley Scott</a> movie <em>Exodus: Gods and Kings</em>, I noted this, first remarking about confusion in whether the young boy in the movie was “God” or an angel—</p>
<blockquote><p>We’re never really sure about the boy/God because after he proclaims to a buried-in-mud Moses “I AM” Moses later shouts in exasperation that he’s tired of dealing with a messenger.  Which is it?</p>
<p>There’s no confusion about what the boy wants, however.  He tells Moses he needs a general to <em><strong>fight</strong></em>.</p>
<p>&#8230;it’s the depiction of Moses as the insurrectionist general being rescued in his slow war of attrition by miracles, that doesn’t match well with the Biblical narrative.  This seems less an accurate account of the Exodus and more a cry for insurrection against the Luciferian world order…but the Luciferians make the movies so what’s going on here?! &#8230;</p>
<p>Another grievous departure from Scripture was what happened after the Hebrews were released.  Moses then attempted to lead them back through the desert wilderness trying to recall his trek from his family to Memphis.  He thinks he can remember but he’s deeply distraught.  He wants to bring them to a safe and tactically-secure location as soon as possible but not only does God ignore his pleas for help, Moses ineptly leads them to the Red Sea and a dead end as Pharaoh’s army comes crashing down on them—but not before losing many chariots through a dangerous mountain pass.</p>
<p>Not only is this not in Scripture, it actually <em>contradicts</em> the Word!</p>
<p>Moses never had to rack his brain for a route through the wilderness, wondering desperately how to stand in leadership for his people—the Lord made it powerfully clear with a massive plume of smoke by day and a terrifying column of fire by night guiding them the entire way.  When they reached the Red Sea, the column of fire switched positions and kept the Egyptians from bearing down on them before they were through crossing.</p>
<p>Again, what we are seeing is that it was much more important to the film-makers to encourage the rise of a future Moses than to honor the original story.</p></blockquote>
<p>Those who rule the world over you are far from monochrome.  Only a very, very small number at the top are all in for satan and know full well that there’s no hope for them.  The vast majority of the rest of them have been seduced or co-opted into the system of Mystery Babylon out of their own lust for power, wealth, fame and/or just lust, period.  There are a large number that eventually feel remorse or concern over their involvement in rebellion.</p>
<p>Beyond them are the hapless pawns and system bureaucrats who fumble around.  They rub shoulders with the Luciferians in their dealings and gain insight as a result.  Sometimes they wish to send information out like messages in a bottle, hoping an alert hero will read it and have the courage to use it because they could not.</p>
<p>There are also the truly evil people who flaunt their control with open admission of who they are in mocking derision of humanity’s inability to either recognize them or bring them to justice.  They are wrong on both counts and their arrogance could very well be their undoing.</p>
<p>There’s a reason why Mystery Babylon is a system that relies entirely on secrecy—were humanity to be made aware of exactly who is in control, <em>how</em> they are in control and just how much they harm, hate and fear us, the end would be swift and terrible for the Whore of Babylon.</p>
<p>In fact, it’s predicted by the Bible to happen in just that way.</p>
<blockquote><p>“The ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom [sounds like Popes to me!], but they receive authority for one hour as kings with the beast.  These are of one mind, and they will give their power and authority to the beast.  These will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for He is Lord of lords and King of kings; and those who are with Him are called, chosen, and faithful.”</p>
<p>Then he said to me, “The waters which you saw, where the harlot sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues.  And the ten horns which you saw on the beast, these will hate the harlot, make her desolate and naked, eat her flesh and burn her with fire.  For God has put it into their hearts to fulfill His Purpose, to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God are fulfilled.  And the woman whom you saw is that great city which reigns over the kings of the Earth.” ~ Revelation 17:12-18, NKJV (some capitalization added for respect and clarity)</p></blockquote>
<p><strong><em>One World Paganism</em></strong></p>
<p>Catholic beliefs are a syncretistic mix of Christian doctrines terminally intertwined with the legends of the first rebellion against YHWH; Babylonian demonism and Chaldean sun worship.</p>
<p>In fact, Roman Catholicism has nothing to do with spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ and everything to do with abusing the worst of spiritual concerns over sin, guilt, salvation and damnation to exploit them for the purposes of subjugating mankind.</p>
<p>The Sacrifice of Jesus Christ was the most freeing event in human history.  It instantly rendered all religion—even the religion dictated by YHWH, Himself, to Moses—obsolete.</p>
<blockquote><p>And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His Spirit.</p>
<p>Then, behold, the Veil of the Temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the Earth quaked, and the rocks were split, and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; and coming out of the graves after His resurrection, they went into the Holy City and appeared to many.</p>
<p>So when the centurion and those with him, who were guarding Jesus, saw the earthquake and the things that had happened, they feared greatly, saying, “Truly this was the Son of God!” ~ Matthew 27:50-54, NKJV (some capitalization added for respect and clarity)</p></blockquote>
<p>Within 500 years, the very Beast that had executed Christ had used His Sacrifice to rebuild a <em>new</em> religion that mixed the Levitical priesthood with Rome’s Babylonian pagan beliefs and wrapped them in the trappings of Christianity—</p>
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<p>It is known as “syncretism” and Rome’s Special Forces—the Jesuits—have been on the leading edge of this agenda since their founding.</p>
<p>Some of the best sources of information from the enemy’s camp are the enemy’s disaffected allies.  Helena Petrovna Blavatsky was a true Luciferian—a spiritist and medium who taught that the Devil didn’t exist and that demons could be friendly and helpful.  Once you isolate those ideas as spurious, her writing (particularly against Rome and the Jesuits) was nothing short of a revelation.</p>
<p>In Volume II of <em>Isis Unveiled</em>, Blavatsky makes a shocking statement that predated a Jesuit war by 120 years: the Papacy gave aid and comfort to muslim jihadists (who were, <a href="http://www.redicecreations.com/specialreports/2006/04apr/catholicislam.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">themselves, created by Rome</a>) in order to see them commit unspeakable atrocities against Slavic Christians in Serbia.  They were able to do so because of the kindred doctrines shared by Catholics and muslims.</p>
<blockquote><p>But is it merely Pagans and heathen that the Catholics persecute, and about whom, like Augustine, they cry to the Deity, “Oh, my God! <em>so do I wish Thy enemies to be slain</em>”?  Oh, no! their aspirations are more Mosaic and Cain‐like than that.</p>
<p>It is against their next of kin in faith, against their schismatic brothers that they are now intriguing within the walls which sheltered the murderous Borgias.  The <em>larvæ </em>of the infanticidal, parricidal, and fratricidal Popes have proved themselves fit counsellors for the Cains of Castelfidardo and Mentana.  It is now the turn of the Slavonian Christians, the Oriental Schismatics — the Philistines of the Greek Church!</p>
<p>His Holiness the Pope, after exhausting, in a metaphor of self-laudation, every point of assimilation between the great biblical prophets and himself, has finally and truly compared himself with the Patriarch Jacob “wrestling against his God.”</p>
<p>He now crowns the edifice of Catholic piety by openly sympathizing with the Turks!  The vicegerent of God inaugurates his infallibility by encouraging, in a true Christian spirit, the acts of that Moslem David, the modern Bashi‐Bazuk; and it seems as if nothing would more please his Holiness than to be presented by the latter with several thousands of the Bulgarian or Servian “foreskins.”  True to her policy to be all things to all men to promote her own interests, the Romish Church is, at this writing (1876), benevolently viewing the Bulgarian and Servian atrocities, and, probably, manoeuvring with Turkey against Russia.  Better Islam, and the hitherto‐hated Crescent over the sepulchre of the Christian god, than the Greek Church established at Constantinople and Jerusalem as the state religion.  Like a decrepit and toothless ex-tyrant in exile, the Vatican is eager for any alliance that promises, if not a restoration of its own power, at least the weakening of its rival.  The axe its inquisitors once swung, it now toys with in secret, feeling its edge, and waiting, and hoping against hope.  In her time, the Popish Church has lain with strange bedfellows, but never before now sunk to the degradation of giving her moral support to those who for over 1200 years spat in her face, called her adherents “infidel dogs,” repudiated her teachings, and denied godhood to her God!</p>
<p><strong>S</strong><strong>ACRILEGIOUS </strong><strong>T</strong><strong>RICKS OF </strong><strong>C</strong><strong>ATHOLIC </strong><strong>C</strong><strong>LERGY</strong></p>
<p>The press of even Catholic France is fairly aroused at this indignity, and openly accuses the Ultramontane portion of the Catholic Church and the Vatican of siding, during the present Eastern struggle, with the Mahometan against the Christian.  “When the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the French Legislature spoke some mild words in favor of the Greek Christians, he was only applauded by the liberal Catholics, and received coldly by the Ultramontane party,” says the French correspondent of a New York paper.</p>
<p>“So pronounced was this, that M. Lemoinne, the wellknown editor of the great liberal Catholic journal, the <em>Debats</em>, was moved to say that the Roman Church felt more sympathy for the Moslem than the schismatic, just as they preferred an infidel to the Protestant.  ‘There is at bottom,’ says this writer, ‘a great affinity between the <em>Syllabus </em>and the <em>Koran</em>, and between the two heads of the faithful.  The two systems are of the same nature, and are united on the common ground of a one and unchangeable theory.’  In Italy, in like manner, the King and Liberal Catholics are in warm sympathy with the unfortunate Christians, while the Pope and Ultramontane faction are believed to be inclining to the Mahometans.”<span id='easy-footnote-6-3724' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'></span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https://johnnycirucci.com/the-spectre-of-the-jesuit-world-order/#easy-footnote-bottom-6-3724' title='&lt;em&gt;Isis Unveiled&lt;/em&gt;, Volume II, Helena Blavatsky, Theosophy Trust (1877), pp. 73-74'><sup>6</sup></a></span></blockquote>
<p>When Rome hates an enemy, it is a fire that lasts for centuries.  That was 1876.  120 years later, she would again use proxies—this time, her minions running the terrible military might of the United States—to again murder Slavic Christians wholesale.</p>
<blockquote><p>In December of 1998, Congress began impeachment proceedings against William Jefferson Blythe Clinton.</p>
<p>In January of 1999, [Jesuit-educated at Georgetown] William Jefferson Blythe Clinton committed the American military to a 500 year old religious conflict between Bosnian muslims and Serbian Christians in the former Yugoslavia…aiding the Islamists against their Orthodox foes. &#8230;</p>
<p>The Bosnian War didn’t do much for Christian Serbs but it was a tremendous boon to the Religion of Peace—by the way, National Guardsmen that should be home digging citizens out of weather emergencies are <a href="http://www.stripes.com/news/new-rotation-of-soldiers-heads-to-kosovo-1.188162" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em><strong>still</strong></em> <strong>deploying on this mission</strong></a> <em>today!</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.thetribunepapers.com/category/columnists/scruggs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Mike Scruggs</strong></a> noted for the Tribune Papers (<a href="http://www.ashevilletribune.com/asheville/terrorism/MUSLIM-FOOTHOLD.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>archived here</strong></a>) that this was a war that created a terrorist haven in the heart of Europe:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>For 78 days in 1999, we bombed Christian Serbia and their forces in Kosovo, ostensibly as a humanitarian move to prevent Serbian ethnic cleansing of Kosovo’s Albanian population.  Our real motive was to cripple the troublesome anti-multiculturalist Serbs and to enhance our standing with the oil-rich Muslim world.  We bombed bridges, selected buildings, railroads, even passenger trains, and other targets in the Serbian capital of Belgrade.  Unfortunately, the Chinese Embassy was also hit.  According to John Pilger, writing in the</em> <em>Guardian</em><em>, many of the bombs dropped from a relatively safe altitude (for us) of 15,000 feet, also hit schools, hospitals, and homes. Total Serbian dead amounted to about two thousand. Pope John Paul II described the bombing as an “act of diabolical retribution.” Many conservative and liberal American leaders agreed, but the Serbs eventually had to yield to our more advanced technology and vastly superior force. …</em></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>The results of our alliance with the KLA and establishing an Albanian base of Muslim power in Kosovo have been horrific.  The Albanians have driven 277 thousand Serbs from Kosovo.  Hundreds have been murdered.  Thousands have been robbed and brutalized as their homes and property were destroyed.  Muslim multiculturalists have destroyed 135 Orthodox churches, monasteries, and shrines.  All this was done under the noses of UN security forces.</em></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>Bill Clinton’s great military achievement was a humanitarian disaster, and it established a dangerous Muslim foothold in Europe that is exporting terror and crime.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: right;">~ <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/known-by-his-enemies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Known By His Enemies</em></a>, Johnny Cirucci, JohnnyCirucci.com</p>
</blockquote>
<p>It’s not a “humanitarian disaster” if it was designed from the very beginning to be as vicious and horrific against the “heathen” enemies of Rome—and this time, Rome need not raise up an army for her brutal agenda, she can (did and still does) use yours, America.</p>
<p><strong><em>The Mouth of Sauron</em></strong></p>
<p>Because they have a reputation for being subversives and assassins, some of the best work for the Jesuits in ecumenical syncretism is done (again) by puppets and proxies—they take particular delight in using faux “Protestants” like John B. Cobb Jr.  Having been raised in Japan by Methodist missionaries, Cobb was selected at an early age by the same cabal of Jewish leadership and Roman muscle that has stood against Christ since His execution:</p>
<blockquote><p>After his graduation from high school, Cobb attended Emory College in Oxford, Georgia before joining the U.S. Army in 1943.<sup>[16]</sup>  He was chosen for the Japanese language program, which was filled mainly with Jewish and Catholic intellectuals who helped make him aware of the narrow, parochial nature of his Georgia Protestantism.<sup>[17]</sup> ~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Cobb#Biography" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Wikipedia</a></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote><p>In 1944, Cobb joined the US Army where he was exposed to the intellectuals such as academic-minded Jews and Irish Catholics who revealed a wonderful world of different perspectives expressed by them to Cobb. ~ <a href="http://people.bu.edu/wwildman/bce/mwt_themes_850_cobb.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Boston Collaborative Encyclopedia of Modern Western Theology</a></p></blockquote>
<p>The Jesuits and kabbalists would put Cobb on the forefront of ecumenical syncretism.  This is critical to the Luciferian agenda as when it comes to combining world religions those who dig in their heels the most are Protestant Christians—</p>
<blockquote><p>As John Cobb (2002), a theologian in Buddhist–Christian dialogue, has observed, it is easier to have multiple religious belonging in some contexts than it is in others.  While it is possible for a Christian to adopt Buddhist meditation, it is harder for adherents of the monotheistic Abrahamic faiths to cross over.  He also thinks that even if a Christian adopts some Buddhist practices, it is difficult to live out both the Christian and Buddhist ways of being and commitments in the fullest sense.  Although he supports the experimentation of multiple belonging, which he says may have appeal to those individuals who find it difficult to identify fully with one tradition, he prefers to be rooted in a single tradition, while seeking its constant transformation by the inspiration of others.</p>
<p>Cobb’s position is different from that of advocates of the complementarity and convergence of Christianity and other religious traditions.  It was for advocating such radical views that Jesuit priest Jacques Dupuis (1997) was investigated by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith of the Vatican.  Citing the example of Henri Le Saux (with an Indian name Abhishiktananada) and the concept of Christ the Omega in Teilhard de Chardin, Dupuis (2002) is open to the possibility that double religious belonging can be a partial anticipation of the full recapitulation in Christ of all religions, which will only be disclosed at the end of time.  His fellow Jesuit, Aloysius Pieris of Sri Lanka, shares his view of the complementarity of religious traditions, but does not subscribe to the notion of teleological convergence.  A leading voice in Buddhist–Christian dialogue, Pieris says Buddhism and Christianity represent two different poles of experience – gnosis and agape, or wisdom and love – each of which is incomplete without the other&#8230;<span id='easy-footnote-7-3724' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'></span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https://johnnycirucci.com/the-spectre-of-the-jesuit-world-order/#easy-footnote-bottom-7-3724' title='&lt;em&gt;The Blackwell Companion To Christian Spirituality&lt;/em&gt;, Edited by Arthur Holder, p. 557'><sup>7</sup></a></span></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/johnnycirucci" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">On my show</a>, I repeatedly state the necessity of discernment—a Gift of the Holy Spirit (I call it “Anatoli’s nose” after a character from the SciFi movie <em>The Chronicles of Riddick</em>).  Discernment can help us glean important information from an organization like the “Cult Research Center”.  Despite claiming to be <a href="http://crc.ac/about-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">dedicated to the purity of the Christian Gospel</a>, the CRC makes some very New Age declarations that show it to be <a href="http://crc.ac/category/rumor-and-fact/god-the-mother-rumor-and-fact/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">far from theologically trustworthy</a>.</p>
<p>The CRC, however, seems to have <a href="http://crc.ac/the-vaticans-black-money/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">little love for the Catholic Church</a> (although it wouldn’t be the first time a seeming enemy of Rome worked for her ultimate aims as a secret ally—it’s in the <a href="http://www.ianpaisley.org/article.asp?ArtKey=jesuit" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Jesuit 4<sup>th</sup> Vow Blood Oath</a>).</p>
<p>We are grateful to the CRC for showing the connection between Zoroastrianism and Catholicism as found in the mutual use of swastikas.</p>
<blockquote><p>What does Catholicism have to do with Buddhism?  In Plaošnik (Sveti Kliment Pantelejmon), a Catholic Church in Macedonia, there is a mosaic floor with a Buddhist swastika next to a cross.  There are even swastikas on the Tombstone of Abbot Simon De Gillans (Paris, France 1345), and swastikas on the robes of the Catholic clergy of Rogier Van der Weyden’s “The Seven Sacraments” altarpiece.</p>
<p>Seeing this identical symbol, begs the question, “Why are Catholicism and Buddhism so alike?”  This is not a question that can come up just because of their identical swastikas; a symbol of their religion, it can be found in their temples and rituals, but no other religion has so much similarities like Catholicism and Buddhism. &#8230;</p>
<p>Then, why is this symbol of Aryanism found in Catholicism?  The Roman Catholic Church was mostly influenced by Zoroastrianism.  This influence that began from Persia continued to spread in Greece and Rome.  Especially the Romans were fanatic about this mithra god of Zoroastrianism, and many customs and rituals related to this religion started to settle in people’s lives.  The problem is, these religious Romans were accepted by the Roman Catholic Church of Christianity.  The Catholic Church absorbed a lot of paganistic customs to solidify their position.  This was how the Catholics started to carve the swastikas of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Zoroastrianism on the temples of God.<sub>10</sub></p>
<p>Because the Catholics’ and Buddhists’ roots are the same, they really resemble each other, such as the paintings and statues associated with the sun. &#8230;</p>
<p>Not only do they resemble each other in decorations, but Catholicism and Buddhism look incredibly alike.  Their faith of polytheism, the idea of venerating relics, repeating certain sentences while praying, the use of rosaries, and the ascetics’ celibacy all resemble each other.</p>
<p>Can we really say that Catholicism is a religion that believes in God, established by Jesus? ~ <a href="http://crc.ac/catholicism-and-buddhism-arent-we-so-alike/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Catholicism and Buddhism – Aren’t we so alike?</em></a>, Cult Research Center</p></blockquote>
<p>The ecumenical syncretistic melding of world religions steamrolling over the complaints of the Reformation <em>Pro Testari</em> is so important to the Jesuits that they even seek to redefine the language of their machinations.</p>
<p>The Jesuit Mission Superior of Nigeria and Ghana, Peter Schineller, wrote a <a href="http://www.loyolajesuit.org/peter_schineller/resources/SYNCRET1.doc" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">very revealing paper</a> on the subject entitled <em>Inculturation And The Issue Of Syncretism: What is the Real Issue?</em></p>
<blockquote><p>What is the real issue?  Is syncretism always wrong?  Can there be good syncretism?  Is syncretism  inevitable?  Are syncretism and inculturation incompatible?  Is there any clear, agreed upon definition of syncretism?  Is syncretism a necessary step in the slow process of inculturation?  These are some of the questions that are raised when syncretism and inculturation come face to face.</p>
<p>My own judgment, conclusion, and thus strategy, as we will see, is that the employment of the word  “syncretism” is no longer helpful or constructive, because the word itself has so many contrasting connotations, meanings.  Many of these are pejorative. &#8230;</p>
<p>In light of this deep seated ambiguity, and in spite of attempts at redefining the word, my view is that the word cannot be redeemed, and it might be better not to enter into the controversy surrounding the word. &#8230;</p>
<p>Both in the history of its usage, and in contemporary usage, the word syncretism has had varied meanings.  Originally it was applied to political alliances in ancient Greece, to the cities of Crete which came together.  Then it described the way the Old Testament assimilated elements from surrounding cultures.  In the age of the Reformation it pointed to the links between Christianity and humanism, and to the need for Protestant and Catholic churches to come together&#8230;</p></blockquote>
<p>In fact, syncretism has <em>never</em> been used in the need for Protestants and Catholics to come together.  This is known as “gaslighting”; flipping reality completely on its head simply by asserting a lie boldly as if it’s fact and using repetition, reputation and normalcy bias to bolster the lie.</p>
<p>Schineller also noted that his brother Jesuit Karl Rahner—the mind behind Vatican II—considered the Council of Jerusalem to have been the first step towards syncretizing Judaism and Greek culture.  This is a twisting of the Council’s determination so perverse as to be truly called “Jesuitical”.</p>
<p>The Jerusalem Council didn’t rid Believers of Mosaic Ceremonial Law in order to make it easier for Gentiles to combine their old with the Jewish new, they did so because the Ceremonial Law was an impediment to the simplicity of the Gospel.</p>
<p>If that isn’t clear enough, Scripture makes it so!</p>
<blockquote><p>The Jerusalem Council</p>
<p>Now the apostles and elders came together to consider this matter.  And when there had been much dispute, Peter rose up and said to them: “Men and brethren, you know that a good while ago God chose among us, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the Gospel and believe.  So God, who knows the heart, acknowledged them by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as He did to us, and made no distinction between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.  Now therefore, why do you test God by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?” ~ Acts 15:6-10 (the NKJV adds headings)</p></blockquote>
<p>Not to be outdone, Schineller then uses “Christ-mas” as an example of Catholic “Christian” victory of “inculturation” (syncretism) over paganism.</p>
<p>He ends by channeling the Jesuit founder of the New Age, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, by showing how the Gospel must transform and mutate like a living organism in order to absorb all other faiths—</p>
<blockquote><p>In conclusion, we have discussed the question of inculturation and syncretism by commenting on the various, ambiguous meanings of the word syncretism, and then by suggesting that we avoid that word, and move rather to the real issue, namely the criteria and attitudes for discerning correct or adequate inculturation.  There is no simple answer, no simple criteria because we are dealing with complex realities, with a rich Christian tradition, and marvelously diverse and rich human cultures.  It is even more complex because we are dealing with changing cultures.  No longer is it simply a traditional culture in Nigeria that we must try to inculturate the gospel into.  Rather it is a traditional culture that is changing rapidly, influenced by the march of modernity, of modern science and technology.  This is all the more reason for theology to be creative and prophetic.  It cannot simply protect the past, maintain the old.  It must move, develop, grow, like a living organism.</p></blockquote>
<p>But after the “organism” is done transforming&#8230;what will it finally look like?</p>
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<p><strong><em>Día de Muertos</em></strong></p>
<p>There are two very important things to remember when dealing with the Roman Catholic “Church”:</p>
<ol>
<li>It is <em>not</em> “Christian”.</li>
<li>It’s primary purpose is to exploit and abuse spiritual issues for the purpose of coalescing <em>power</em> over mankind.</li>
</ol>
<p>That is why, when Rome moved into a new geographic location where the population has a strong pagan culture, it doesn’t compete with those pagan beliefs, it <em>absorbs</em> them.</p>
<p>One such example is the “Day of the Dead”.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Day of the Dead</strong> (Spanish: <em>Día de Muertos</em>) is a Mexican holiday celebrated throughout Mexico, in particular the Central and South regions, and by people of Mexican ancestry living in other places, especially the United States.  It is acknowledged internationally in many other cultures.  The multi-day holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died, and help support their spiritual journey.  In 2008 the tradition was inscribed in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.<sup>[1]</sup></p>
<p>The holiday is sometimes called <em>Día de los Muertos</em><sup>[2]</sup><sup>[3]</sup> in Anglophone countries, a back-translation of its original name, <em>Día de Muertos</em>.  It is particularly celebrated in Mexico where the day is a public holiday. Prior to Spanish colonization in the 16th century, the celebration took place at the beginning of summer.  Gradually it was associated with October 31, November 1 and November 2 to coincide with the Western Christian triduum of Allhallowtide: All Saints’ Eve, All Saints’ Day, and All Souls’ Day.<sup>[4]</sup><sup>[5]</sup>  Traditions connected with the holiday include building private altars called <em>ofrendas</em>, honoring the deceased using sugar skulls, marigolds, and the favorite foods and beverages of the departed, and visiting graves with these as gifts.  Visitors also leave possessions of the deceased at the graves.</p>
<p>Scholars trace the origins of the modern Mexican holiday to indigenous observances dating back hundreds of years and to an Aztec festival dedicated to the goddess Mictecacihuatl.  The holiday has spread throughout the world, being absorbed within other deep traditions for honoring the dead.  It has become a national symbol and as such is taught (for educational purposes) in the nation’s schools. Many families celebrate a traditional “All Saints’ Day“ associated with the Catholic Church. ~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Dead" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Wikipedia</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Given that Rome rules the world from behind the scenes, she uses her whores, proxies and puppets in foreign governments to invade whole nations without a single shot being fired.</p>
<p>One such example is America’s wide-open borders.  Not a single American leader at the national, state or local level—not executive, legislative, judicial nor law enforcement—dares raise a hand to stem the tide.  Each and every one has been cowed into treason as millions upon millions of illegal immigrants stream into the United States; a very, very large percentage of them are Latino Catholics.</p>
<p>I have a very long list of examples in my book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Illuminati-Unmasked-Everything-about-World/dp/1506156290" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Illuminati Unmasked</em></a>, but here are a few more—</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.ksat.com/news/catholic-charities-provides-aid-to-families-entering-us-illegally" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Catholic Charities Provides Aid to Families Entering U.S. Illegally</strong></a></p>
<p>KSAT, ABC Channel 12, San Antonio, Texas</p>
<p><strong>SAN ANTONIO</strong>—Catholic Charities operates various centers in Texas to help the influx of women and children from Central America entering the country illegally.</p>
<p>Sacred Heart Parish Hall in McAllen has been turned into a relief center for families that have crossed the border.</p>
<p>Members of the community have donated their time and resources, such as clothing and toys, to the cause.</p>
<p>“Everyone is a volunteer here. The solidarity you have seen in this humanitarian outreach has been so uplifting,” said Brenda Riojaso of Catholic Charities.</p>
<p>The city of McAllen has also provided hundreds of thousands of dollars in aid to keep the center open, with the expectation the government will pay them back.</p>
<p>The faith-based effort also extends to the Alamo City, where Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller recently called on parishes to collect donations.</p>
<p>Parishioners have responded to the call and on Tuesday, Catholic Charities in San Antonio will be receiving the donations collected over the weekend.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2014/07/21/taxpayer-funded-catholic-charities-on-hiring-spree-to-provide-for-illegal-immigrants/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Taxpayer-Funded Catholic Charities on Hiring Spree to Provide for Illegal Immigrants</strong></a></p>
<p>Kristin Tate, Breitbart.com</p>
<p>HOUSTON, Texas–Catholic Charities in Texas is helping fulfill the needs of the thousands of illegal immigrants that continue to flood the U.S.-Mexico border.  Breitbart Texas has learned that Catholic Charities’ St. Jerome’s Home for Children, located in Fort Bend County, is providing many benefits including financial support, English classes, legal assistance, and release services to youths in the U.S. illegally.  The charity is looking to hire several staff members to help accommodate the influx of migrants.</p>
<p>St. Jerome’s <a href="http://www.catholiccharities.org/services/services-programs-st-jeromes" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">webpage</a> reads, “While the youth are living in this home, evaluations are provided to assess all their needs (medical, psychiatric/therapeutic, educational, vocational, social, familial, legal) with the development of an initial service plan.”</p>
<p>“After these assessments are completed, a decision about a long-term placement is made in the best interest of the youth,” it continues.  “If appropriate, the youth moves to live with an individual foster family.  Otherwise, the youth remains in the agency foster home. If a youth is not able to maintain the foster family placement, he or she returns to the agency home to live until discharge.”</p>
<p>The programs administers “financial assistance” for the foreigner’s housing, food, clothing, and other necessities.  It additionally provides case management by social workers, vocational training, English lessons, and legal assistance.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ianpaisley.org/article.asp?ArtKey=immigration" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Romanizing America Through Illegal Immigration</strong></a></p>
<p><strong>Ian Paisley.org<br />
</strong><strong>Pastor Ralph Ovadal</strong></p>
<p>In recent weeks, the advocates of the “rights” of illegal Mexican immigrants, accompanied by and even led by Roman Catholic priests, have staged rallies, protests, and parades all across the United States of America.</p>
<p>On 25th March, 500,000 people took to the streets of Los Angeles, flying Mexican flags and chanting slogans such as “Viva Mexico!”  Another 500,000 marched in Dallas on April 9, waving Mexican flags with “Our Lady of Guadalupe” emblazoned in the center.</p>
<p>On May 1, a favorite Communist holiday, illegals staged a nationwide work stoppage and boycott of businesses and schools.  The alien lobby also once more staged marches and rallies nationwide.  As reported by NBC News, some of those activities were launched from local Roman Catholic parish churches.  This outburst of protest is a response to several immigration and border reform measures working their way through the U.S. Congress.  According to current estimates, there are as many as twenty million illegal aliens in the United States of America. [today’s numbers are many times that]
<p><strong>Rome aiding and abetting</strong></p>
<p>It is unfortunate that very few Americans have been concerned with the religious aspect of this issue.  The Roman Catholic Church is aiding and abetting the criminal invasion of America from Mexico, working both legally and criminally to bring as many illegal Mexican immigrants into my country as possible.  In this, Rome has one goal in mind—the pope and his henchmen are seeking to turn America, founded and still a Protestant country, into a Roman Catholic country.</p></blockquote>
<p>This is criminal activity yet Catholic clergy and organizations such as “Catholic Charities” continue on as immune from prosecution as any of America’s mayors who also aid them by autocratically-declaring their fiefdoms to be “sanctuary cities”.  So total is the control of Rome in this effort that not even local law enforcement dares question the status of <em>obvious</em> non-English speaking illegal aliens.  I know, I’ve spoken to an officer directly about this.</p>
<p>Thanks to this invasion, now where America’s small towns used to celebrate Veteran’s Day and Memorial Day, instead they celebrate the Day of the Dead.</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/pagan-catholic-day-of-the-dead-altar.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-CL2S]"><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-3733" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/pagan-catholic-day-of-the-dead-altar.jpg" alt="pagan catholic day of the dead altar" width="291" height="388" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/pagan-catholic-day-of-the-dead-altar.jpg 570w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/pagan-catholic-day-of-the-dead-altar-113x150.jpg 113w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/pagan-catholic-day-of-the-dead-altar-225x300.jpg 225w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/pagan-catholic-day-of-the-dead-altar-18x24.jpg 18w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/pagan-catholic-day-of-the-dead-altar-27x36.jpg 27w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/pagan-catholic-day-of-the-dead-altar-36x48.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/pagan-catholic-day-of-the-dead-altar-400x533.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px" /></a>With its grinning skeletons dressed in feathered hats and gowns, jewel-eyed sugar skulls and colorful paper garlands, the Nov. 2 “Día de los Muertos,” or Day of the Dead, might appear to many Americans like a Mexican Halloween.  But this centuries-old tradition interwoven with Catholicism is much more than a night of ghouls, ghosts and goodies.</p>
<p>The day gets its name from an ancient Aztec belief that the dead could return home to visit their families one day a year.  In today’s Catholic Mexico, the Day of the Dead is a time for families to gather, remember their ancestors and pray for the souls of the deceased.</p>
<p>“It’s not a sad occasion,” said Prisciliano Maya, faith formation director at Sacred Heart in St. Paul.  “It’s a time to remember and celebrate their [ancestors’] lives.  It’s also about family coming together.”</p>
<p>Maya recalled how his family celebrated the Day of the Dead when he was growing up in central Mexico. Early Nov. 1, his father would lead him and his siblings in reciting the rosary.  Later that day the family would gather for a meal.  Then on Nov. 2 they would spend the day at the cemetery praying and sharing memories of their loved ones.</p>
<p><strong>Memorial altars</strong></p>
<p>Like all immigrant groups, Mexicans brought some of their traditions with them to the U.S.  Today, it is not uncommon to find Day of the Dead altars, or “ofrendas,” in Catholic churches around the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis on All Saints and All Souls days.</p>
<p>Every year at Sacred Heart and other majority Latino churches in the archdiocese, parishioners place pictures of their dead loved ones, flowers, candles and other symbolic items on multi-tiered Day of the Dead altars. ~ <a href="http://thecatholicspirit.com/featured/day-of-the-dead/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Julie Carroll, Catholic Spirit.com</a></p></blockquote>
<p><em>Día de Muertos</em> has even become popular in Hollywood.  It was used to convey all sorts of Luciferian hidden messages in the movie <em>Batman vs. Superman</em>.</p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/batman-v-superman-day-of-the-dead.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-CL2S]"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3734" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/batman-v-superman-day-of-the-dead.jpg" alt="batman v superman day of the dead" width="1149" height="483" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/batman-v-superman-day-of-the-dead.jpg 1149w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/batman-v-superman-day-of-the-dead-150x63.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/batman-v-superman-day-of-the-dead-300x126.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/batman-v-superman-day-of-the-dead-768x323.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/batman-v-superman-day-of-the-dead-1024x430.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/batman-v-superman-day-of-the-dead-24x10.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/batman-v-superman-day-of-the-dead-36x15.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/batman-v-superman-day-of-the-dead-48x20.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/batman-v-superman-day-of-the-dead-400x168.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 1149px) 100vw, 1149px" /></a></p>
<p>It’s also how <em>SPECTRE</em> opens—</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>“The dead are alive.”</em></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>NOTE:</strong> There has been <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPECTRE#Copyright_issues" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a copyright battle </a>between Ian Fleming and screenwriter Kevin McClory over “Spectre/SPECTRE” causing what may have been a proper name to later become an acronym; Special Executive (for) Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion.  The battle, lasting several decades, was settled in 2013 just prior to the making of this movie but for the sake of simplicity I will maintain the spelling which implies an acronym.</p>
<p>This was no minor scene—it was something the film-makers expended great resources to extravagantly portray.</p>
<blockquote><p>Mexico’s first Bond girl has spoken of her pride at filming SPECTRE in her country, and her anger at the insults heaped on her people by Donald Trump.</p>
<p>Stephanie Sigman, the 28-year-old model who became an international star after sitting next to Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner on a plane, and then featuring in a music video, said shooting the film was a joy.</p>
<p>“The scenes in the streets of Mexico City were just incredible,” she told The Telegraph, speaking ahead of the world premier in London on Monday.  Sigman plays Estrella, and joins Bond on a spectacular Day of the Dead march through the city – the 11 minute opening sequence to the £200 million film.  Involving 1,500 extras, it brought the capital to a standstill, as helicopters swooped overhead and Daniel Craig’s stunt double hurtled above the Zocalo main square.</p>
<p>Michael Wilson, the co-producer, said the scene was the biggest opening shot they had ever done, while Sam Mendes, the Oscar-winning director, said Mexico provided the drama he sought. ~ <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/jamesbond/11953049/Mexicos-first-Bond-girl-on-filming-in-her-homeland-Daniel-Craig-and-Donald-Trump.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Mexico’s First Bond Girl on Filming In Her Homeland</em></a>, The Telegraph</p></blockquote>
<p>As the movie progresses, we find that Bond’s mission in Mexico was an unsanctioned assignment!</p>
<p>He utilizes a sound-conducting laser weapon site to hear men in a room speaking <em>Italian</em> and planning a terrorist bombing.</p>
<p>It turns out that there is to be a big merger between England’s international intelligence agency, MI6 (the British counter-part to the CIA) and MI5 (Britain’s FBI).</p>
<p>Once merged, they will become the “Joint Security Service” under young rising star Max Denby, code-named “C”.  Bond gives “C” a frosty and formal reception when they meet.</p>
<p>Next we see a really poor facsimile of a picture depicting Bond’s “adopted” family when he was a boy, standing alongside his “father” and “brother”—whose head has been burned out of the picture due damage caused in the previous movie, <em>Skyfall</em>.</p>
<p>We then see a massive new building complex that will become the “Center for National Security” and we soon find out that it isn’t even built with taxpayer money but instead the funds have been donated by outside civilian sources!</p>
<p>There are terrorist incidents occurring all over the world and they are causing a heightened fear that is helping to centralize the world’s intelligence agencies into one monstrous enterprise named “Nine Eyes” and “C” is all for it.</p>
<p>During a meeting of the world’s security officials in Tokyo, “C” makes an impassioned speech for “Nine Eyes” whilst “M” quietly notes from the audience the resultant power will be “an unelected one”.</p>
<p>M’s Chief of Staff, Bill Tanner (Rory Kinnear), tells Bond with irony that it will usher in a “New World Order”.  Not quite sure how that phrase is even utterable in “mainstream” entertainment.</p>
<p>Because of Bond’s “unsanctioned assignment” in Mexico, he is injected with “smart blood”; “cutting edge nano-technology” to track his every move.  He willingly subjects to the procedure and the truth is that <em>all</em> of the West’s highly-trained operators have similar leashes on them&#8230;or <em>in</em> them.  They need to know it’s because they’re not trusted to fully obey masters who are traitors in sheep’s clothing.</p>
<p>Later, after “M” comes around to seeing the import of Bond’s rogue mission, he orders the Quartermaster—“Q”—to “erase all of the smart blood files”.</p>
<p>I’m afraid it’s not that simple.</p>
<p><strong><em>Fiennes First</em></strong></p>
<p>With Bond in the doghouse, friends are needed.  Lois Maxwell outlasted several different Bond actors in her role as Eve Moneypenny, M’s secretary, but the Daniel Craig genre apparently felt color was needed.  This is the same series that cast the Jewish Joseph Wiseman as the Oriental Dr. Julius No of SPECTRE in the film of the same name; <em>Dr. No</em> (1962).  Remember, whenever someone Jewish does something surly, there’s always a <em>Roman</em> standing behind him, egging him on.</p>
<p>So Bond calls in the new, minority Moneypenny (played by Naomie Harris) to read her in on his unsanctioned assignment.  The old “M” (played by <em>Dame</em> Judi Dench<span id='easy-footnote-8-3724' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'></span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https://johnnycirucci.com/the-spectre-of-the-jesuit-world-order/#easy-footnote-bottom-8-3724' title='How is it that an actress or a homosexual pop singer can be considered “Keepers of the Realm”?  —Because the Luciferian Elite who rule the realm wish it to stay awash in dysfunctional men unable to mount any resistance.&lt;br /&gt;
Despite this, Resistance is Rising.'><sup>8</sup></a></span>) left a video recording for Bond stating, “If you’re watching this, I’m dead and you need to kill Marco Sciarra.”</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE, 18 July 2016, 12:22 PM, EST:</strong> It’s amazing the things you learn when you uncover hidden history.</p>
<p><em>“Kill Sciarra!”</em></p>
<p>Giacomo “Sciarra” Colonna was a son of one of the most powerful families in Rome at the turn of the 14<sup>th</sup> century (1300’s) <em>or today</em>.  “Colonna” is a name that <em>should</em> be coming up when one wants to find out who is ruling the world from behind the scenes (along with de Medici, Aldobrandini, Orsini, Farnese and Breakspeare).  Instead, we get names like “Soros”, “Rockefeller” and “Rothschild”.</p>
<p>Why do we need to “kill Sciarra”?  —Because Sciarra Colonna joined Philippe le Bel’s emissary Guillaume de Nogaret and confronted Benedetto Caetani, Pope Boniface VIII, in the ongoing feud between Philip IV and Boniface.  Caetani lost the confrontation and was slapped in the face by Colonna—a slap that resounded through history as <em>schiaffo di Anagni</em> (“the Anagni slap”—the confrontation took place at Caetani’s palace in Anagni.)</p>
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<p><strong><em>PC M</em></strong></p>
<p>Speaking of political correctness, Dench was brought in to be the female “M” at the beginning of the Pierce Brosnan age of Bond.  Feminizing the character played so well by Bernard Lee in previous Bond movies was the second most annoying reason I haven’t seen any of the Brosnan Bond movies.  Picking Brosnan was the first.</p>
<p>It’s nothing against Brosnan’s ability as an actor, I despised his casting for the very reason he was cast: his previous work on a cheesy 80s TV show, <em>Remington Steele</em>.</p>
<p>Truth-be-told, it’s the same logic that brought Roger Moore but at least <em>The Saint</em> was somewhat more serious of a show.</p>
<p>Once allowed to age, Brosnan’s cheese has grated off—especially when he plays a bitter, grizzled <em>ex</em>-spy as he did in <em>November Man</em> (for more, <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/the-november-man-2014/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">read my review, here</a>).</p>
<p>Dench was killed off in <em>Skyfall</em> (something <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/dame-judi-dench-cried-after-hearing-her-bond-character-m-was-to-be-killed-off-9911200.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">she says she cried over</a>) and replaced by Ralph Fiennes, whose full name is Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes to make sure we fully understand the <em>depth</em> of his blue-blood breeding.  Fiennes is known for work in <em>Schindler’s List</em>, <em>The English Patient</em>, <em>The Avengers</em> (1998) and was nominated for an MTV “best villain” award as Harry Potter’s “Lord Voldemort”.</p>
<p>Ralph’s brother Joseph Alberic Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes has an equally established acting career having worked or starred in such films as <em>Shakespeare in Love</em>, <em>Enemy at the Gates</em>, <em>Luther</em> (where he played the title role of the great Reformer), <em>The Escapist</em> and <em>Hercules</em> (2014).  His most recent accomplishment is to star as Clavius in the “Easter” movie blockbuster <em>Risen</em>, promised to pick up where Mel Gibson’s <em>Passion of the Christ</em> left off.  In fact, the two movies <a href="http://www.christianpost.com/news/risen-new-movie-about-jesus-resurrection-linked-to-mel-gibsons-massively-successful-and-gritty-passion-of-the-christ-139248/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">share a key expert</a>—editor Steven Mirkovich.</p>
<p>Gibson played a special role, himself, as the man demonized by a decadent Hollywood because he dared make <em>Passion</em> but was he?  <em>Passion</em> was hugely successful (bringing back nearly <a href="http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=passionofthechrist.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">$400 million with $30 million</a> in cost) starring talent like devout Roman Catholic Jim Caviezel and Monica Bellucci who was raised Catholic but <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_Bellucci#Personal_life" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">claims to be agnostic</a> (we’ll see shortly what that <em>really</em> means to the Romans who run all).  Caviezel rode his stardom right into the <a href="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/actor_jim_caviezel_reveals_full_details_of_his_encounter_with_the_holy_father/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">presence of Rome’s Jesuit Pope</a> Francis, Jorge Mario Bergoglio.</p>
<p>Mel is so ultra orthodox Catholic that he even <a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20272857,00.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">built his own church</a> in order to hear a pre-Vatican II Latin mass (not quite sure what he’s upset about, Vatican II was written by Jesuit mastermind Karl Rahner).</p>
<p>Do the Jews run Hollywood?  There sure was a lot of propaganda and publicity over <a href="http://www.adl.org/education-outreach/interfaith-affairs/c/adl-and-mel-gibsons-the-passion.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Jewish outrage</a> regarding <em>Passion</em> but the man standing behind Mel was a Jesuit named William J. Fulco.  He even <a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2004-03-04/features/0403040033_1_aramaic-life-of-jesus-christ-latin" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">did all the translating</a> from English to Arabic to make sure the movie told you what the <em>Jesuits</em> wanted it to—much as another Jesuit (Edmund Walsh) did all <a href="https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/bitstream/handle/10822/558718/GTM.090723.html?sequence=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">the translating at Nuremburg</a> to insure the world was left wonderfully ignorant over the Jesuit role <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Secret-History-Jesuits-Edmund-Paris/dp/0937958107" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">behind the Third Reich</a>.</p>
<p>Jesuit Georgetown’s School of Foreign service is named after Walsh and boasts <a href="https://sfs.georgetown.edu/prominent-alumni/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">having trained many</a> of the world’s power players (or, rather, “puppets”).</p>
<p>The Jews are said to run Hollywood but I don’t see a Jew picking the island of Malta to film <em>Risen</em> on—<a href="http://www.maltafilmcommission.com/epic-thriller-clavius-to-be-shot-in-malta/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">and it was</a>.  That should give a great boost to the fools who fight as today’s Crusaders for Rome like former Green Beret Tim Kennedy who recently went on the Alex Jones show to frighten everyone about the ISIS menace; making sure to prominently display his Crusader t-shirt.</p>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" width="1080" height="608" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yQ3SbZ5v7Zo?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p>So what has been the key to the success of the Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes clan?</p>
<p>Ralph isn’t a “religious” man, though Joseph is said to be <a href="http://www.relevantmagazine.com/culture/film/why-joseph-fiennes-keeps-appearing-faith-filled-movies" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">drawn to “faith-based”</a> movies.  Perhaps even blue-blooded Britons groveled at the feet of Jewish patrons to land important roles&#8230;or are there Jesuits in the woodpile here, too?</p>
<blockquote><p>Ralph Fiennes was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, England.  He moved around quite a bit while growing up, living in several places in England and Ireland.</p>
<p>Fiennes grew up in a Catholic household, and says that his mother was quite devout,<sup><a href="http://hollowverse.com/ralph-fiennes/#footnote_0_12911" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">1</a></sup> but he says he “chucked it all in before I was confirmed.”<sup><a href="http://hollowverse.com/ralph-fiennes/#footnote_1_12911" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">2</a></sup> ~ <a href="http://hollowverse.com/ralph-fiennes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Hollowverse.com</a></p></blockquote>
<p>The boys got good Catholic educations, too.  Ralph went <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/668/000023599/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">to St. Kieran’s College</a> (a Catholic high school) and Joseph was educated by the Sisters of La Retraite at Leehurst.  For a “non-practicing” Catholic, Joseph certainly thought enough of his mother’s faith to be married in <a href="http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/features/his-brother-was-nominated-for-an-oscar-his-sisters-are-filmmakers-and-now-joseph-fiennes-star-has-risen-in-biblical-epic-34526559.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a Catholic ceremony</a>.  I wonder what Martin Luther would’ve thought (“Couldn’t the Hollywood Jews have found a Lutheran to portray me?!”).</p>
<p>Fiennes, too, got <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/joseph-fiennes-meets-pope-francis-862153" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">to meet the superstar Jesuit</a> Pope (oh, purely by “accident” during a “general audience” with His Holiness, of course).</p>
<p>I’ll bet when prominent people joke as Ralph did that he “chucked” his Catholicism “before [he] was confirmed” he didn’t “chuck” as much as he thought&#8230;and the <em>real</em> power in Hollywood (and everywhere else) <em>knows</em> it.</p>
<p>Besides the Pope, Fiennes was/is<span id='easy-footnote-9-3724' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'></span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https://johnnycirucci.com/the-spectre-of-the-jesuit-world-order/#easy-footnote-bottom-9-3724' title='Who knows if Epstein really did “&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/jeffrey-epstein-found-dead-nyc-jail-n1041081?&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noopener noreferrer&quot;&gt;commit suicide&lt;/a&gt;”?'><sup>9</sup></a></span> <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-hollywood-connections-social-circle" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">friends with billionaire Jew</a> pedophile provider Jeffrey Epstein and a frequent visitor to his “rape island” via his “Lolita Express” flights.</p>
<p>I did notice one thing in my research—that a young Ralph looked a lot like the sketch Fleming drew of Bond years ago; far more than who Fleming thought he was drawing actor/composer Howard Hoagland “Hoagy” Carmichael.</p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/fleming-hoagy.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-CL2S]"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-3736" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/fleming-hoagy.jpg" alt="fleming hoagy" width="590" height="413" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/fleming-hoagy.jpg 564w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/fleming-hoagy-150x105.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/fleming-hoagy-300x210.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/fleming-hoagy-24x17.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/fleming-hoagy-36x25.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/fleming-hoagy-48x34.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/fleming-hoagy-400x280.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2012-10-10-ralph-fiennes.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-CL2S]"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-3737" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2012-10-10-ralph-fiennes.jpg" alt="2012-10-10-ralph-fiennes" width="606" height="341" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2012-10-10-ralph-fiennes.jpg 533w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2012-10-10-ralph-fiennes-150x84.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2012-10-10-ralph-fiennes-300x169.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2012-10-10-ralph-fiennes-24x14.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2012-10-10-ralph-fiennes-36x20.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2012-10-10-ralph-fiennes-48x27.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2012-10-10-ralph-fiennes-400x225.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 606px) 100vw, 606px" /></a></p>
<p>Ralph Bond&#8230;?</p>
<p><strong><em>All Roads&#8230;</em></strong></p>
<p>After the catastrophic show-down in Mexico City, Bond must continue to go rogue and travel to the heart of the conspiracy: ROME.</p>
<p>He was successful in killing Sciarra but not the organization behind the man.  For that, he would need to meet and (of course) seduce his wife.</p>
<p>M’s recorded directions were “don’t miss the funeral” and Bond didn’t.  It was carried out in tasteful Roman fashion.  In fact, the cross wasn’t even a gory crucifix as is so wont the traditional depiction of the empire that executed Christ.</p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/dont-miss-the-funeral.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-CL2S]"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3738" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/dont-miss-the-funeral.jpg" alt="don't miss the funeral" width="1151" height="485" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/dont-miss-the-funeral.jpg 1151w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/dont-miss-the-funeral-150x63.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/dont-miss-the-funeral-300x126.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/dont-miss-the-funeral-768x324.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/dont-miss-the-funeral-1024x431.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/dont-miss-the-funeral-24x10.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/dont-miss-the-funeral-36x15.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/dont-miss-the-funeral-48x20.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/dont-miss-the-funeral-400x169.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 1151px) 100vw, 1151px" /></a></p>
<p>Bond does, indeed, connect with Lucia Sciarra&#8230;in more ways than one.  And who better to play a shapely, desirable 50 year old widow than Mel Gibson’s Mary Magdalen; Monica Bellucci?</p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Pope-Francis-Pale-King.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-CL2S]"><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-3740" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Pope-Francis-Pale-King.jpg" alt="Pope Francis Pale King" width="275" height="413" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Pope-Francis-Pale-King.jpg 396w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Pope-Francis-Pale-King-100x150.jpg 100w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Pope-Francis-Pale-King-200x300.jpg 200w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Pope-Francis-Pale-King-16x24.jpg 16w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Pope-Francis-Pale-King-24x36.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Pope-Francis-Pale-King-32x48.jpg 32w" sizes="(max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px" /></a>During the encounter she warns Bond of the unspeakable power her dead husband’s organization wields.</p>
<p>Bond asks Lucia about a name he’s heard; the “Pale King”.  It’s a name that connects perfectly with Rome.</p>
<p>As it turns out, the organization is meeting that night and Bond has Sciarra’s ring for identification and entry.</p>
<p>Before he goes, Sciarra’s widow warns him that he is about to cross over to a place where there is no mercy.</p>
<p>Bond travels to Rome and infiltrates the SPECTRE meeting.  The head of SPECTRE sits in the dark and is treated with such reverence that underlings actually bow to him.</p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/spectre-low-bow.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-CL2S]"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3739" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/spectre-low-bow.jpg" alt="spectre low bow" width="1149" height="490" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/spectre-low-bow.jpg 1149w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/spectre-low-bow-150x64.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/spectre-low-bow-300x128.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/spectre-low-bow-768x328.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/spectre-low-bow-1024x437.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/spectre-low-bow-24x10.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/spectre-low-bow-36x15.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/spectre-low-bow-48x20.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/spectre-low-bow-400x171.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 1149px) 100vw, 1149px" /></a></p>
<p>Does this remind you of anything?</p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-before-benedict-dagon.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-CL2S]"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-3741" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-before-benedict-dagon.jpg" alt="bow before benedict dagon" width="1055" height="551" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-before-benedict-dagon.jpg 1200w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-before-benedict-dagon-150x78.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-before-benedict-dagon-300x157.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-before-benedict-dagon-768x401.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-before-benedict-dagon-1024x535.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-before-benedict-dagon-24x13.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-before-benedict-dagon-36x19.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-before-benedict-dagon-48x25.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-before-benedict-dagon-400x209.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 1055px) 100vw, 1055px" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-of-weirdo.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-CL2S]"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-3742" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-of-weirdo.jpg" alt="bow of weirdo" width="563" height="805" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-of-weirdo.jpg 420w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-of-weirdo-105x150.jpg 105w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-of-weirdo-210x300.jpg 210w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-of-weirdo-17x24.jpg 17w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-of-weirdo-25x36.jpg 25w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-of-weirdo-34x48.jpg 34w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-of-weirdo-400x571.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-bush-benedict.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-CL2S]"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-3743" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-bush-benedict.jpg" alt="bow bush benedict" width="560" height="502" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-bush-benedict.jpg 450w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-bush-benedict-150x135.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-bush-benedict-300x269.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-bush-benedict-24x22.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-bush-benedict-36x32.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-bush-benedict-48x43.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-bush-benedict-400x359.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-messiah-benedict.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-CL2S]"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-3744 " src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-messiah-benedict.jpg" alt="" width="589" height="392" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-messiah-benedict.jpg 500w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-messiah-benedict-150x100.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-messiah-benedict-300x200.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-messiah-benedict-24x16.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-messiah-benedict-36x24.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-messiah-benedict-48x32.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-messiah-benedict-400x266.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 589px) 100vw, 589px" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-of-messiah-before-jesuit.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-CL2S]"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-3745" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-of-messiah-before-jesuit.jpg" alt="bow of messiah before jesuit" width="881" height="537" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-of-messiah-before-jesuit.jpg 1170w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-of-messiah-before-jesuit-150x91.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-of-messiah-before-jesuit-300x183.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-of-messiah-before-jesuit-768x468.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-of-messiah-before-jesuit-1024x624.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-of-messiah-before-jesuit-24x15.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-of-messiah-before-jesuit-36x22.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-of-messiah-before-jesuit-48x29.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-of-messiah-before-jesuit-400x244.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 881px) 100vw, 881px" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-before-benedict-throne.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-CL2S]"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-3753" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-before-benedict-throne.jpg" alt="bow before benedict throne" width="868" height="576" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-before-benedict-throne.jpg 936w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-before-benedict-throne-150x100.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-before-benedict-throne-300x199.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-before-benedict-throne-768x510.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-before-benedict-throne-24x16.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-before-benedict-throne-36x24.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-before-benedict-throne-48x32.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bow-before-benedict-throne-400x265.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 868px) 100vw, 868px" /></a></p>
<p>Bond listens in as SPECTRE “Provincials” from all of their respective nations check in; reports are good—the shadowy organization has infiltrated everything from the military to banks to the oil industry (just like the Jesuits).</p>
<p>Did you know that the United States was divided into 10 Jesuit provinces governed by their own “Provincials”?</p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/jesuit-organization-structure.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-CL2S]"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3754" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/jesuit-organization-structure.jpg" alt="jesuit organization structure" width="765" height="593" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/jesuit-organization-structure.jpg 765w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/jesuit-organization-structure-150x116.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/jesuit-organization-structure-300x233.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/jesuit-organization-structure-24x19.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/jesuit-organization-structure-36x28.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/jesuit-organization-structure-48x37.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/jesuit-organization-structure-400x310.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px" /></a></p>
<p>They are like kings ruling over their invisible kingdom, unknown to the subjects whose wealth, well-being, even their very sons feed into.</p>
<blockquote><p>“After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, exceedingly strong.  It had huge iron teeth [much as Nebuchadnezzar’s visionary statue with its legs of iron—Rome!]; it was devouring, breaking in pieces, and trampling the residue with its feet.  It was different from all the beasts that were before it [because it rules all nations <em>in secret</em>, as the <em>system</em> of Mystery Babylon], and it had ten horns.  I was considering the horns, and there was another horn, a little one, coming up among them, before whom three of the first horns were plucked out by the roots.  And there, in this horn, were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking pompous words.” ~ Daniel 7:7-8</p></blockquote>
<p>There can be no confusing “horns” as nations.  Allow me to again quote Revelation 17—</p>
<blockquote><p>“The ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority for one hour as kings with the beast.  These are of one mind, and they will give their power and authority to the beast&#8230;” ~ Revelation 17:12-13</p></blockquote>
<p>If there ever was an organization that worked for evil “as one mind” it is the Company of Loyola.  Jesuit Provincials work tirelessly without an obvious “kingdom” and even the implication in Revelation 17:12 that they do not have a kingdom “<em>yet</em>” may not be an accurate Greek-to-English translation as that word οὔπω (oupó) can be translated “yet not” or “but are still without” as it is here—</p>
<blockquote><p>Now <em>the disciples</em> had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the ship with them more than one loaf.  And he charged them, saying, <span style="color: #800000;">“Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and <em>of</em> the leaven of Herod.”</span>  And they reasoned among themselves, saying, “<em>It is</em> because we have no bread.”  And when Jesus knew <em>it</em>, he saith unto them, <span style="color: #800000;">“Why reason ye, because ye have no bread?  Perceive ye not yet, neither understand?  Have ye your heart yet hardened?  Having eyes, see ye not?  And having ears, hear ye not? And do ye not remember?  When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up?”</span>  They say unto him, “Twelve.”  <span style="color: #800000;">“And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up?”</span> And they said, “Seven.”  And he said unto them, <span style="color: #800000;">“How is it that ye do not understand</span> (οὔπω νοεῖτε οὐδὲ συνίετε)<span style="color: #800000;">?”</span> ~ Mark 8:14-21 (KJV)</p></blockquote>
<p><strong><em>Gnostic Cuckoos</em></strong></p>
<p>During the meeting, we learn that Marco Sciarra departed with unfinished business—assassinate the “Pale King”.  The shadowy “Superior General” asks who will take Sciarra’s place?  “Guera” (Spanish actor Benito Sagredo), an assassin seated at the opposite end of the table volunteers until a massive man strides in, gouges out his eyes and breaks his neck.</p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/tom-richmond-roger-moore.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-CL2S]"><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-3755" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/tom-richmond-roger-moore.jpg" alt="tom richmond roger moore" width="159" height="497" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/tom-richmond-roger-moore.jpg 225w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/tom-richmond-roger-moore-48x150.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/tom-richmond-roger-moore-96x300.jpg 96w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/tom-richmond-roger-moore-8x24.jpg 8w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/tom-richmond-roger-moore-15x48.jpg 15w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/tom-richmond-roger-moore-192x600.jpg 192w" sizes="(max-width: 159px) 100vw, 159px" /></a>The first two Daniel Craig James Bond movies (<em>Casino Royale</em> and <em>Quantum of Solace</em>) were masterful—gritty, tough and, above all, <em>realistic</em>.  They set the Craig movies apart from the comical, cheesy, tongue-in-cheek caricature he had become (particularly in the Roger Moore era).</p>
<p>Sadly, Barbara Broccoli would have Craig revert to that foolishness in his second two movies (<em>Skyfall</em> and <em>SPECTRE</em>) although not completely.</p>
<p>The assassin “Mr. Hinx” could be considered as part of this “return” but that is not the feeling I walked away with after watching the brutal bloodsport scene (given that the Jesuits are the world’s foremost assassins dedicated to lay down their very lives for the slightest trifle of their leadership I’m sure such things have been conducted in their circles).</p>
<p>Although Richard Kiel (“Jaws”) was a massive 7’2” his ridiculous steel teeth kept him out of the realm of reality and squarely in Bond-land.</p>
<p>However, Kiel never brutally blinded someone on screen and, despite Dave Bautista’s career in the aptly-renamed “World Wrestling Entertainment”, Bautista has trained with the Gracie clan in Brazilian jiu jitsu and even fought and won a single mixed martial arts match.  His 6’6”, 289lb stature spoke instantly to me of one thing: genetically-engineered killer.</p>
<p>Bond <em>thought</em> he had infiltrated SPECTRE in anonymity but there was a dramatic moment where the shadow-general reveals himself to be fully aware of Bond’s presence and he must make a hasty exit with “Mr. Hinx” fast on his heels.</p>
<p>The movie reverts to Bond-land as the two race through Rome in 6-figure sports cars (because that’s what spies and assassins drive, right Barbara?).</p>
<p>The Bondian ludicrous extravagance again takes a serious turn (preceded by a very dramatic soundtrack score) as the two race right through St. Peter’s square.</p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/st-peters-01.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-CL2S]"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3756" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/st-peters-01.jpg" alt="st peter's 01" width="1150" height="495" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/st-peters-01.jpg 1150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/st-peters-01-150x65.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/st-peters-01-300x129.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/st-peters-01-768x331.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/st-peters-01-1024x441.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/st-peters-01-24x10.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/st-peters-01-36x15.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/st-peters-01-48x21.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/st-peters-01-400x172.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/st-peters-02.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-CL2S]"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3757" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/st-peters-02.jpg" alt="st peter's 02" width="1151" height="532" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/st-peters-02.jpg 1151w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/st-peters-02-150x69.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/st-peters-02-300x139.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/st-peters-02-768x355.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/st-peters-02-1024x473.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/st-peters-02-24x11.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/st-peters-02-36x17.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/st-peters-02-48x22.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/st-peters-02-400x185.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 1151px) 100vw, 1151px" /></a></p>
<p>Bond eludes his would-be killer and makes it to the “Pale King” first who turns out to be “Mr. White” (Jesper Christensen) whom the audience has known from all four Daniel Craig movies; clearly a pivotal character.</p>
<p>A disheveled Pale King tells Bond that he became disenchanted with SPECTRE when the organization began sex trafficking women and children which was where Mr. White drew the line—slaughtering untold hundreds of innocents and repeatedly threatening to bring the world to extinction via a variety of weapons of mass destruction was all fair game.</p>
<p>The Jesuit Superior General is known as the “Black Pope” because of the terrible power he wields while still impersonating a humble black-cassock-wearing priest.  What is fascinating is how many “White Popes” the Jesuits have reputedly murdered because they, too, failed to get with the program.</p>
<p>Although “Mr. Hinx” is close behind Bond to kill them both, the Pale King has already been given cancer due to a thalium-impregnated cell phone.  Such a demise is a Jesuit specialty.</p>
<p>Mr. White then bargains with Bond for the only thing left that he cares about; his daughter, “Madeleine Swann” (Léa Seydoux).  If Bond will protect her, the Pale King will tell Bond how to get at SPECTRE.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, “Nine Eyes” is fast becoming a reality.  The lone holdout on the Security Council—South Africa—has been victimized by several deadly terrorist attacks and now all nations are onboard.</p>
<p>We later find out that Max Denby/C is actually a member of SPECTRE so what this means is that false flags were conducted in textbook Hegelian fashion: the organization claiming to protect citizens murdered them in order to frighten them into giving up rights for the enabling of that same organization.</p>
<p>Bond finds Swann who wants nothing to do with him until an attempt on her life convinces her otherwise.  The two then try to retrace the steps of the Pale King to strike at the heart of SPECTRE.</p>
<p>Bond and Swann must return to the hotel where the Pale King went regularly with his wife before they divorced along with a young Madeleine in Tangiers—<em>L’Américain</em> &#8230; “The American”.</p>
<p>So, too, have the Jesuits made America the lynchpin in all their machinations.  Their official publication is “<a href="http://americamagazine.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">America Magazine</a>”.</p>
<p>In a drunken stupor, Madeleine whispers “to liars and killers everywhere” then drifts into sleep.</p>
<p>Never were the Jesuits more accurately described.</p>
<p>As the fetching Mr. White’s daughter and Secret Service spy get to know each other, young Madeleine asks Bond how a man ends up choosing to become a paid assassin?  Bond’s <em>seemingly</em> humorous response is, “Well it was either that or join the priesthood.”</p>
<p>Why compromise when you can have both?  Be a Jesuit!</p>
<p>It turns out that the leader of SPECTRE is actually Bond’s adopted brother, Franz Oberhauser.</p>
<blockquote><p>The two travel to the hotel and discover White left evidence directing them to Oberhauser’s operations base in the desert.  After an encounter with Hinx that sees the assassin killed, Bond and Swann are escorted to Oberhauser’s base.  There, Oberhauser reveals that Spectre has been funding the Joint Intelligence Service while staging terrorist attacks around the world, creating a need for the Nine Eyes programme.  In return C will give Spectre unlimited access to intelligence gathered by Nine Eyes, allowing them to anticipate and counter-act investigations into their operations.  Bond is tortured as Oberhauser discusses their shared history: after the younger Bond was orphaned, Oberhauser’s father, Hannes, became his temporary guardian.  Believing that Bond supplanted his role as son, Oberhauser killed his father and staged his own death, subsequently adopting the name Ernst Stavro Blofeld and going on to form Spectre. ~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(2015_film)#Plot" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Wikipedia</a></p></blockquote>
<p>So the ultimate villain turns out to be our hero’s brother—just as the gnostics teach that “Lucifer” is the wrongfully-wounded brother of Christ, cast out of Heaven like Prometheus for trying to give men the knowledge that would empower them.</p>
<p>This is why the floors of Freemasonic lodges always have black and white tiles—because darkness is light and light is darkness.</p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/freemasonic-lodge-floor-tiles.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-CL2S]"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-3758" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/freemasonic-lodge-floor-tiles.jpg" alt="freemasonic lodge floor tiles" width="881" height="588" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/freemasonic-lodge-floor-tiles.jpg 640w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/freemasonic-lodge-floor-tiles-150x100.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/freemasonic-lodge-floor-tiles-300x200.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/freemasonic-lodge-floor-tiles-24x16.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/freemasonic-lodge-floor-tiles-36x24.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/freemasonic-lodge-floor-tiles-48x32.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/freemasonic-lodge-floor-tiles-400x267.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 881px) 100vw, 881px" /></a></p>
<p><strong><em>Messaging Us or Mocking Us?</em></strong></p>
<p>SPECTRE is little different from any number of recent movies that seem to telegraph the truth of who is ruling the world in secret.  Why have they produced a movie like this?  Is it a private joke amongst the Elite at our expense or are they trying to wake the sleeping giant?</p>
<p>As I said at the beginning of this article—in any massive endeavor of malignant secrecy, those who rule tell those who carry out the orders very little.</p>
<p>From Cinema to the CIA, everything is carefully compartmentalized.</p>
<p>In his prologue to S. K. Bain’s <em>The Most Dangerous Book in the World</em>, Peter Levenda said this about the bureaucracy under the dark powers that commit false flags like 9/11—</p>
<blockquote><p>There are other forces at work, forces that are unacknowledged by the state, the church, the media because to admit their existence is to admit failure.  Thus, when things go wrong terrorists are blamed, or communists, or witches.  This serves to rally the citizens around the government once again, instead of stopping to insist that explanations be given, that evidence is properly analyzed, that the guilty are apprehended and punished.  And we once more go to war, against …someone, somewhere.  Paranoia becomes institutionalized.  It is appropriated by the government as its own prerogative.  The state determines the nature and quality of the paranoia: it creates intelligence agencies whose sole purpose is to give a form to paranoia, to enshrine paranoia as one of the necessary qualities of an observant and caring state.  To prove that paranoia is an acceptable characteristic of the paternalistic regime.  The citizens are not allowed to become paranoid unless it is at government direction and sanction.  Individual cases of paranoia are frowned upon.  The state tells us that if we are not paranoid the way it is paranoid—and about the same things—it’s because we don’t have all the facts: about terrorism, fundamentalism, communism, foreign countries, weapons of mass destruction, sleeper cells.  The state has all the facts: classified documents, wire-tap transcripts, intelligence feeds, high-altitude reconnaissance images, none of which the citizen is permitted to see.  It does not realize that the logical conclusion of all this paranoia is suspicion of the state apparatus itself.  What the conspiracy theorist often fails to realize, however, is that those working for the state are often just as clueless as the average citizen when it comes to the origin and function of the forces at work to subvert it.  The strength of a conspiracy, after all, rests in the limited number of persons who are aware of its existence and parameters.  No one has the entire picture.  Each member of the state apparatus only has possession of a single piece of an enormous jigsaw puzzle.  Putting together all these disparate pieces—particularly when one does not have the original picture to work from—is a soul-destroying enterprise that consumes decades of work and years of one’s life.  This is especially true when the state has in its arsenal of lies the techniques of disinformation and misdirection, of false testimony and planted documents.</p></blockquote>
<p>When movies like SPECTRE have films such as <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/exodus-gods-and-kings/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Exodus: Gods and Kings</em></a> being released before it and <em>Mad Max: Fury Road</em> being released the same year (another deeply Luciferian movie that seemed to cry out for a hero), it sure seems like even the Machine is yearning for release from the chains of its cruel master.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>NOTE:</strong> For related sound clips from the movie and a reading of this article, listen to my show—Resistance Rising, Episodes 087 &amp; 088—on the embedded players below.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you’re a regular Johnny fan, you don’t need to be told what I’ve said several times before but, if not, let me summarize—having grown up on comic books today’s big-budget/CGI/top-name cast renditions are films I always have a passionate opinion about.  Having grown up...]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you’re a regular Johnny fan, you don’t need to be told what I’ve said several times before but, if not, let me summarize—having grown up on comic books today’s big-budget/CGI/top-name cast renditions are films I always have a passionate opinion about.  Having grown up more with Marvel than with DC, that opinion includes a lot of geek knowledge and childhood memories.</p>
<p>The most amazing (sorry) thing about modern comicbook movies is that there are any I can still be moved by given that the agenda of Hollywood is to immerse you in lies, perversion, distraction and satanism.  Rather than honor anything good or be loyal to original stories it is their intent to despoil them for their own agendas.  Not that the original stories are “good”, they were all written by foolish Liberals at best and full on Luciferians at worst.</p>
<p>For instance; I won’t even bother to see the latest incarnation of the <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1502712/?ref_=nv_sr_1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fantastic Four</a> with a casting choice that includes a pretty-boy as mature leader Reed Richards and a black guy who was supposed to be the white brother of white Sue Richards.</p>
<p>The previous attempt to bring the Fantastic Four to the silver screen did well with the Silver Surfer but still fell way short of greatness for similar putrid casting and lack of vision (and <a href="http://www.johnnycirucci.com/fantastic-four-ii-rise-of-the-silver-surfer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">I explain it all here</a>).</p>
<p>I’m dragging my feet before I see Batman vs. Superman thanks to the ridiculous casting of metrosexual Ben Affleck as bad-ass billionaire Bruce Wayne.  It’s actually the perfect statement for such a movie given that Batman fighting Superman (regardless of the DC lore and history) is equally ridiculous.  It’s quite a statement of derision to make a casting decision that pisses fans off so much <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/tomphillips/angry-batman-fans-launch-petitions-against-ben-affleck" target="_blank" rel="noopener">they initiate a petition</a> to undo what you’ve done, and you drive on with it anyway.</p>
<p>The latest reboot of Spider-Man (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0948470/?ref_=nv_sr_4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2012</a> and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1872181/?ref_=nv_sr_2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2014</a>) can also be summarized through the casting; although Andrew Garfield is “eh” as Peter Parker, the obnoxious far-Left bent of the movies can be seen with the forcing of <a href="http://www.khou.com/story/news/local/2015/10/29/sally-field-speak-hero-alley-theetre/74791898/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sally Field</a> as “Aunt May”.  The scene at the end of Spider-Man 2 with the little boy and his “green energy” windmill model made me want to throw up and punch the TV at the same time (I don’t watch movies in theaters anymore because people suck).</p>
<p>This is Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for Helliwood which is why I have been shocked at how they <em>haven’t</em> ruined any of the Captain America movies (yet).  I predict that they will fix this oversight by killing Steve Rogers.</p>
<p>In 2007, Marvel did exactly that in the comics at the end of their “Civil War” and his friend Bucky became Captain America.  Of course, they brought Rogers back…sort-of and then killed <em>Bucky</em> off…again.  Sometimes he was “Agent Steve Rogers”, sometimes he was Cap again.</p>
<p>Being killed and resurrected is a comic hallmark but one that is often far more annoying than worthwhile.</p>
<p>In 2014, Marvel finally managed to thoroughly destroy the gem they had by killing off (again) a suddenly 90 year old Rogers and replacing him with The Falcon, Sam Wilson, who’s black.  The Falcon, on screen, is as bland as Hawkeye (although I like actor Anthony Mackie in the role)—there’s nothing particularly heroic or special about the guy; <em>anyone</em> can wear the wings he has as they are supposedly secret military tech.</p>
<p>Steve Rogers as Captain America is one of the most popular and iconic heroes of all time.  IGN’s list <a href="http://www.ign.com/top/comic-book-heroes/6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has him at #6</a> but I think he’s even better than that because those Libtards had <a href="http://www.ign.com/top/comic-book-heroes/5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">frigging Wonder Woman at #5</a> (really?!).</p>
<blockquote><p>As one third of DC Comics’ Trinity, Wonder Woman has become an iconic figure for not only female empowerment, but as a general ambassador for peace and love.  Though she’s a cunning warrior, her true strength lies in her belief of truth and justice; even her primary weapon is the legendary Lasso of Truth, a rope that demands the truth of whomever it captures.  Considering that Wonder Woman was created by William Moulton Marston – the inventor of the polygraph test – it’s no surprise that “truth” is a significant facet of Wonder Woman’s character.</p></blockquote>
<p>Well just crush my testicles and put a flaming bra on me (like what the <a href="http://www.newstimes.com/local/article/Jenner-s-ties-to-Newtown-High-School-recalled-6302639.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vatican and CIA did to Bruce Jenner</a>).</p>
<p>As a member of the informed Resistance, it’s always difficult to know who is writing a particular line of the Luciferian agenda (although Lucifer is the ultimate author and—keep this in mind—YHWH is sovereign overall).  Any Luciferian apparatus (which is every single bureaucracy and organization in the world) has the drones at the bottom, the useful idiots in the middle, the wanna-be’s managing them and the pure satan-worshippers at the top, probably doing all they can to commune with their master.</p>
<p>So let’s dive into this movie, shall we?  Previous rules apply; go see it first because I’m going to spoil the sh*t out of it in order to decode the messages.</p>
<p>The movie opens with the Avengers attacking Baron Strucker’s Hydra base.</p>
<p>The key to making any story powerful is to bow to Lucifer in his matrix of lies but weave it with truth.</p>
<p>“Hydra” is code for the Jesuits, the Vatican and Rome just as “SPECTRE” is for the James Bond series (interestingly, the newest Bond film will go by that title).  Fictionally, these are organizations that rule the world from behind the scenes and are above the supposedly warring factions and nations we see on the surface—Hydra was above the war between America and Germany, SPECTRE was above the intelligence agencies of East and West.</p>
<p>The true reality is that Rome isn’t just <em>above</em> supposedly opposed nations, she <em>controls</em> them and their needless conflicts.</p>
<blockquote><p>Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, saying to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters, with whom the kings of the Earth committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the Earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication.”<br />
So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness.  And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.  The woman was arrayed in purple and<br />
scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication.  And on her forehead a name was written:</p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/scarlet-and-purple.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-hvIZ]"><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-3490" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/scarlet-and-purple.jpg" alt="scarlet and purple" width="291" height="218" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/scarlet-and-purple.jpg 477w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/scarlet-and-purple-150x112.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/scarlet-and-purple-300x225.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/scarlet-and-purple-24x18.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/scarlet-and-purple-36x27.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/scarlet-and-purple-48x36.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/scarlet-and-purple-400x299.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px" /></a>MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT,<br />
THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS<br />
AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS<br />
OF THE EARTH.</p>
<p>I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.  And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement. ~ Revelation 171:6, New King James Version (NKJV)</p>
<p>After these things I saw another angel coming down from Heaven, having great authority, and the Earth was illuminated with his glory.  And he cried mightily with a loud voice, saying, “Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and a cage for every unclean and hated bird!  For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the Earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the Earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury.”</p>
<p>And I heard another voice from Heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues.  For her sins have reached to Heaven, and God has remembered her wicked deeds.  Render to her just as she rendered to you, and repay her double according to her works; in the cup which she has mixed, mix double for her.  In the measure that she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, in the same measure give her torment and sorrow; for she says in her heart, ‘I sit as queen, and am no widow, and will not see sorrow.’  Therefore her plagues will come in one day—death and mourning and famine.  And she will be utterly burned with fire, for strong is the Lord God who judges her.” ~ Revelation 18:1-8, New King James Version (NKJV)</p></blockquote>
<p>In trying to be precise on which Scriptures to reference I attempted to search for them on the internet.  “Google” is considered to be the top and most powerful search engine.  It has also, oddly, erased all references to the Whore of Babylon even when you attempt a search with words that bring it right up in other search engines like “Bing”.</p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/google-erases-the-whore-01.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-hvIZ]"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3492" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/google-erases-the-whore-01.jpg" alt="google erases the whore 01" width="1153" height="866" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/google-erases-the-whore-01.jpg 1153w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/google-erases-the-whore-01-150x113.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/google-erases-the-whore-01-300x225.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/google-erases-the-whore-01-768x577.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/google-erases-the-whore-01-1024x769.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/google-erases-the-whore-01-24x18.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/google-erases-the-whore-01-36x27.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/google-erases-the-whore-01-48x36.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/google-erases-the-whore-01-400x300.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 1153px) 100vw, 1153px" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/google-erases-the-whore-02.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-hvIZ]"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3493" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/google-erases-the-whore-02.jpg" alt="google erases the whore 02" width="1153" height="866" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/google-erases-the-whore-02.jpg 1153w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/google-erases-the-whore-02-150x113.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/google-erases-the-whore-02-300x225.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/google-erases-the-whore-02-768x577.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/google-erases-the-whore-02-1024x769.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/google-erases-the-whore-02-24x18.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/google-erases-the-whore-02-36x27.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/google-erases-the-whore-02-48x36.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/google-erases-the-whore-02-400x300.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 1153px) 100vw, 1153px" /></a></p>
<p>Perhaps we can call “Google” “the official search engine of the Vatican”.</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/13/pope-francis-google-alphabet-eric-schmidt-vatican-meeting-us-tech-ceo" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Pope Francis to Join Google’s Eric Schmidt in Rare Tech Industry Meeting</strong></a>, the Guardian, 13 January 2016</p></blockquote>
<p>We saw a little of the dominance of “Hydra” (Rome/Jesuit) in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1843866/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Captain America: Winter Soldier</em></a> where Hydra agents (politicians, generals, intelligence officials) communicate with each other secretly and have plants at every level of American government.</p>
<p>The comicbook realm has so many gaudy characters who have been through so many conflicting and contradictory stories, the plots to choose from are limitless.  Consequently, the chances of picking a bad story are very high.</p>
<p>This is why the choice to create a romantic involvement between Bruce Banner and Natasha Romanov (don’t think naming that character the hated enemy of the Vatican was a coincidence) was beyond annoying for me.  There was no history for it and loyalty to a good comic story line makes or breaks a movie like this.</p>
<p>The thought process behind it (according to one interview I saw with Marvel writer/director Joseph “Joss” Whedon) was to bring out necessary human elements in an unbelievable fantasy-drama but it fell flat with me.  I prefer “violence” to “sex” every time.</p>
<p>Comic-raised kids will recognize the name “Baron Strucker” as being connected to both Captain America and the Avengers—</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Baron</strong> <strong>Wolfgang von Strucker</strong> is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.</p>
<p>Baron Strucker, a former Nazi officer, is one of the leaders of Hydra and an enemy of S.H.I.E.L.D., the Avengers, and the interests of the United States of America and of the free world in general.  He has been physically augmented to be nearly ageless.  He has been seemingly killed in the past only to return to plague the world with schemes of world domination and genocide, time and time again.  The character has been portrayed by Campbell Lane in the 1998 TV film <em>Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.</em>, and by Thomas Kretschmann in the 2014 film <em>Captain America: The Winter Soldier</em> and the 2015 film <em>Avengers: Age of Ultron</em>. ~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Strucker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wikipedia</a></p></blockquote>
<p>True to the form of killing interesting characters (and forcing you to suspend disbelief even further if the Marvel film-makers bring him back), von Strucker is seemingly killed in <em>Age of Ultron</em>.</p>
<p>A great example of this is S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Phil Coulson, played by Clark Gregg.  He is the only character/actor that has no history in the comics what-so-ever that I enjoyed so, of course, they killed him off in the first Avengers movie.  They then (to bring him back for television’s <em>Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.</em>) used some ridiculous contortion of a “secret drug” derived from “an alien corpse” to magically bring him back to life and eventually make him Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.—all of which is outrageous, disappointing and unnecessary.  They go even further by cutting off one of Coulson’s hands because, apparently, you can’t be director of S.H.I.E.L.D. unless you’re missing an important body part.  Gregg contributed to this needless somersault by realizing his character was popular and demanding notoriety surrounded him in the subsequent scripts.</p>
<p><strong>DEADPOOL</strong></p>
<p>For some reason, the idea of a superhero moving so fast you can’t even see him has always been thrilling for me.</p>
<p>DC has created some decent characters.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">*  Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster made a Jewish statement patterning Superman after Moses but what they didn’t know was that Moses was/is a type of Jesus Christ.  Superman is an iconic hero despite some of the stupid and needless storylines he’s been subjected to.<br />
*  The modern versions of Batman have breathed new life into another good character.  There’s been a marked progression from a TV show that nearly mocked the hero in its silliness through Tim Burton’s combination of dark and stupid <a href="http://www.johnnycirucci.com/the-dark-knight-2008/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to Christopher Nolan’s</a> more appropriate defense of the modern Police State—who can argue with Batman using everyone’s cell phone to track down the Joker?<br />
*  The potential of Green Lantern was tapped just a little with a <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1133985/?ref_=nv_sr_1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ryan Reynolds film in 2011</a> (again, 50 Green Lantern’s out there but Hal Jordan is the only one for me).  He unfortunately felt the need to write in a ludicrous role (female fighter pilot counter-part) for his squeeze Blake Lively.  Her acting was almost as <a href="http://www.johnnycirucci.com/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-2014/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">flat as Megan Fox</a> in any of her movies and she was clearly cast for the same reason—she was intimate with someone doing the movie.  They were all put to shame by a real actor, Mark Strong, as “Sinestro”.</p>
<p>I don’t want to beat up Ryan too much; he’s been a man on a mission to undo the worst of X-Men stupidity.</p>
<p>With the exception of <a href="http://www.johnnycirucci.com/x-men-first-class/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Fassbender’s Magneto</a> in <em>X-Men: First Class</em> the vast majority of casting and writing for the X-Men series has been vomitous.  The tiny handful of dead-ringers like Kelsey Grammer’s Hank “Beast” McCoy (what a great fit) are destroyed by the needless forcing of ancient homosexuals and shallow stupor-models where they don’t need to go.</p>
<p>In fact, producer Bryan Singer is keeping true to the 20<sup>th</sup> Century Fox/Marvel disdain for fans by destroying the look of perhaps the most important X-Men villain, “Apocalypse” in the 2016 film by the same name—</p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/apocalypse-abomination.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-hvIZ]"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3494" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/apocalypse-abomination.jpg" alt="apocalypse abomination" width="700" height="742" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/apocalypse-abomination.jpg 700w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/apocalypse-abomination-142x150.jpg 142w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/apocalypse-abomination-283x300.jpg 283w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/apocalypse-abomination-24x24.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/apocalypse-abomination-34x36.jpg 34w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/apocalypse-abomination-45x48.jpg 45w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/apocalypse-abomination-400x424.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://mashable.com/2015/07/16/x-men-apocalypse-first-photos/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fans are less than pleased</a> but I sure hope they weren’t surprised.</p>
<p>Hugh Jackman has been cast endlessly as X-Men favorite Wolverine but he has little resemblance to the actual character; his decent acting and physical fitness help offset this but I could cast a better Logan in my sleep.</p>
<p>In <em>X-Men Origins: Wolverine</em>, we are introduced to Wade Wilson played by Ryan Reynolds.  He’s better known to his fans as the katana-wielding smart-ass assassin Deadpool.  Reynolds and the writers did a great job in his pre-transformation scene, then film-makers wiped their collective asses with a character that has amazing potential for entertainment.  They sowed his mouth shut, put katanas <em>in</em> his arms and chopped his head off.  Writing that bad goes beyond idiocy and approaches a purposeful message of hatred for fans.</p>
<p>But Reynolds had done enough in just a few minutes to thrill Deadpool fans into an army demanding more.</p>
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<p>The problem is that Deadpool has no application for anything less than an adult audience; sex and violence are just the beginning of the descriptors.</p>
<p>The last time a vengeful comic killer was brought to the screen—<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450314/?ref_=nv_sr_2" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Punisher: War Zone</em></a>—it failed to bring back good returns.  Although Ray Stevenson was clearly the best Frank Castle to date, the gore went beyond needless into B-grade horror.  The Deadpool crew were actually aware of this and claimed to have pushed the limits while simultaneously tapping the breaks—we’ve been promised that <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/deadpool-will-have-multiple-cameos-including-stan-lee-and-x-men-film-wont-contain-excessive-amounts-a6719801.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">brutal scenes only last a few seconds</a>.</p>
<p>Reynolds has spent <em>eleven</em> <em>years</em> working for this tricky project and a trailer has emerged which says he finally got it.</p>
<p>WARNING: if you’ve never seen a “Restricted” preview, here it is below:</p>
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<p>As a Christian, I’m aghast.</p>
<p>As a mal-adjusted adult who hates Hollywood and grew up on comic books, I’m thrilled.  It looks like Reynolds and his writers were so hyper-loyal to the original comic they did to the X-Men series what the X-Men series did to us; humiliation.</p>
<p>In fact, Reynolds fought so hard to be loyal that when he finally finished the battle with Fox and saw how good the Deadpool costume would look, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI1JR-5r4RE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">he cried</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/reynolds-hits-paydirt-as-deadpool.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-hvIZ]"><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-3496" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/reynolds-hits-paydirt-as-deadpool.jpg" alt="" width="309" height="388" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/reynolds-hits-paydirt-as-deadpool.jpg 772w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/reynolds-hits-paydirt-as-deadpool-119x150.jpg 119w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/reynolds-hits-paydirt-as-deadpool-239x300.jpg 239w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/reynolds-hits-paydirt-as-deadpool-768x965.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/reynolds-hits-paydirt-as-deadpool-19x24.jpg 19w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/reynolds-hits-paydirt-as-deadpool-29x36.jpg 29w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/reynolds-hits-paydirt-as-deadpool-38x48.jpg 38w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/reynolds-hits-paydirt-as-deadpool-400x503.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 309px) 100vw, 309px" /></a></p>
<p>Reynolds: Here’s the thing with the Deadpool costume, we fought like hell to get that as though it jumped right out of the comic.  Our goal was to make this the most faithful comic book to movie adaptation fans have ever seen.  That’s hard to accomplish and a feat, but we’re just so happy with how this came out. But boy, we had to fight to get the suit to where it is now.  There was a lot of work with very little time.  Fox gave us the green light and we had to be on camera in twelve weeks.  That’s NO time for prep.  So we kept fighting and fighting to make tweaks to the suit.  Like when the deadline has passed and we were still going back and forth.</p>
<p>Comicbook.com: The best part of that conversation though came when I asked Ryan what his immediate reaction was to seeing the actual costume, done and ready to be worn.</p>
<p>When we finally saw that suit, fully done, finished and completed…both Tim Miller and I wept.  I’m not even exaggerating, we wept in Simi Valley California in some warehouse where some guy makes all these crazy suits and had this one under a spotlight.  We walked in and we wept.  Tears coming down our cheeks.  It felt so good.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>QUICK-FLASH</strong></p>
<p>All of that was lead-in to how disappointed I am at the unfilled potential of a speedster hero.</p>
<p>Clearly, the first one in the field is the best: DC originated the Flash in 1940 via the writing of Gardner Fox and artwork of Harry Lampert.</p>
<p>Over 20 years later, Stan Lee (<a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&amp;id=15790" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a big fan of Hillary Clinton</a>) produced a knock-off named “Quicksilver”.</p>
<p>Interestingly, Quicksilver has streaked through both X-Men and Avengers movies (portrayed by Evan Peters and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, respectively&#8230;can hyphenated names say “my daddy was a gelding” any better?).</p>
<p>The absolute best was this mind-blowing scene in <em>X-Men: Days of Future Past</em>—</p>
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<p>The X-Men writers stayed wonderfully consistent with their ineptitude, having accidentally fallen into an awe-inspiring character, they quickly left him behind never to be seen again in the movie.</p>
<p>The Avengers writers did even better; they killed Quicksilver off in the end of <em>Age of Ultron</em>.</p>
<p>Television is the graveyard of comicbook heros; any popular comic-based show is a hit for all the wrong reasons.  On the rare occasion that a character is treated seriously, it’s still never really very loyal and all of the casting and writing is the essence of modern entertainment: superficial and stupid.</p>
<p>Sadly, <em>The Flash</em> is no different.</p>
<p>Being a subscriber to a movie streaming service that has both The Flash and the new Marvel serial Daredevil, I found the differences between the two nothing less than shocking.</p>
<p>DC’s Flash is everything I hate about what TV does to inspiring characters; turns them in to pop culture putriescence that is all appearance and no substance.  They don’t even have the clout to bring in real DC villians to fight the Flash or real DC heroes to partner with.  The famous Batman villain “Mr. Freeze” is “Captain Cold” and the Flash’s nemesis, “Reverse Flash” (bad enough) is “Zoom”.</p>
<p>I poop you not.</p>
<p>But Marvel destroys the competition with a hero that has far less potential; “Daredevil” was blinded as a child but gifted with superhuman senses that allow him to see virtually.  Combined with martial arts training and a hunger to right injustice, the stories that come up in the series are phenomenal.  Both the writing and acting brings tremendous depth that has you returning for more eagerly.  I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that Daredevil’s hero, defense attorney Matt Murdock, is a devout Catholic who spends much of his time in the confessional.</p>
<p>I was so taken with the stark contrasts and the obvious hand of Rome that I did an entire episode of my show on it.</p>
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<p><strong>AMERICA</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Chris-Evans-Captain-America-The-First-Avenger.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-hvIZ]"><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-3498" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Chris-Evans-Captain-America-The-First-Avenger.jpg" alt="" width="386" height="510" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Chris-Evans-Captain-America-The-First-Avenger.jpg 800w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Chris-Evans-Captain-America-The-First-Avenger-113x150.jpg 113w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Chris-Evans-Captain-America-The-First-Avenger-227x300.jpg 227w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Chris-Evans-Captain-America-The-First-Avenger-768x1016.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Chris-Evans-Captain-America-The-First-Avenger-774x1024.jpg 774w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Chris-Evans-Captain-America-The-First-Avenger-18x24.jpg 18w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Chris-Evans-Captain-America-The-First-Avenger-27x36.jpg 27w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Chris-Evans-Captain-America-The-First-Avenger-36x48.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Chris-Evans-Captain-America-The-First-Avenger-400x529.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px" /></a></p>
<p>Killing off important people was (is) a cheap way to keep kids coming back to the newsstand and it’s been done to everyone from Captain America to Superman.  It’s also the reason why characters like Captain America, the Green Lantern, the Flash and many others have up to 5 or more different people behind the mask—we just keep the revolving door going to keep the kids buying the next issue.</p>
<p>That doesn’t and never has worked for me.  Steve Rogers is the <em>only</em> Captain America and Chris Evans has done a damn good job portraying the character thanks to equally good writing.</p>
<p>In fact, this gets into some unexpected quirks about the Luciferians—</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">* they hate themselves (why it’s so easy for them to feed on their own)<br />
* they know that, ultimately, they serve YHWH and He has overall sovereignty<br />
* there’s a part of them that wants to see a good man rise up</p>
<p>Before we get too crazy, we must also recognize that they have <em>no</em> desire to simply abdicate to that good man and their existence is based upon preying on the innocent and making them suffer in the most heinous of fashions which is why good people can’t ever give up or walk away no matter how little good they seem to be doing.</p>
<blockquote><p>Who will rise up for me against the evildoers?  —or who will stand up for me against the workers of wickedness? ~ Psalm 94:16</p>
<p>Hate evil, you who love the Lord! ~ Psalm 97:10</p></blockquote>
<p>Understanding that absolutely everything that comes out of Helliwood is Luciferian, and that the best we can do is someone that doesn’t viciously hate us, when I’m moved by a particular film, character or actor behind it, I try very hard not to dig into who they are off screen.  As soon as my suspicions about them being something I hate are confirmed, it ruins all they’ve done.</p>
<p>In a moment of weakness, I have dug into some off-screen interviews of the Marvel cast.  When these movies started going, I was drawn to how perfect Robert Downey, Jr. was for the role of Tony Stark and how <a href="http://www.johnnycirucci.com/iron-man-2008/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">good the first Iron Man movie was</a>.</p>
<p>They quickly devolved with the second movie being barely adequate and the third being an absolute bomb—they put every ridiculous character they could think of in the armor (from Gwyneth Paltrow to “the President”) and you <em>never</em> even see Tony Stark fly as Iron Man!</p>
<p>The very purpose behind a “superhero” movie is to thrill audiences with a superhuman bad-ass giving “what for” to evil people that are long overdue for what they get.  Traditional well-adjusted people (people with Biblical values) expect this figure to be male.  Either movie makers are oblivious to their job, to what works, or they are purposely trying to reorder the values of their audiences.</p>
<p>Given the flood of movies with women being cast in this role, it’s no small agenda.</p>
<p>In spite of this, there are decent people in the industry.</p>
<p>What surprised me in my research on Robert Downey Jr. was to find that his trouble with drugs and the law has given him a somewhat “Conservative” outlook and, even more shocking, <a href="http://www.johnnycirucci.com/resistance-rising-005/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">he’s a fan of the Bible teacher</a> I was raised on.</p>
<p>This does not translate into Downey Jr. being a Born Again Christian, I’m afraid.  During one cast interview some kind of “who do you look up to?” question was asked and Downey made comments that were disappointing.  It was the perfect softball pitch to at <em>least</em> say “God” and, even more, say “Jesus Christ” but you’re not going to get that from Helliwood; it’s verboten.</p>
<p>The virulently anti-Christian (at least in Christian values) <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/19/mark-ruffalo-abortion-turn-back-the-hands-of-time_n_3781296.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pro-abortion Mark Ruffalo</a> went with “Gandhi” and Downey Jr. then changed his bad choice to “Ben Kingsly”.  A bad choice that wasn’t helped by a bad joke.</p>
<p>I don’t like to make any personal attacks but I have to say that it’s clear Ruffalo wasn’t chosen to play the Hulk’s Bruce Banner because he had any likeness to how Banner was drawn in the comic books.  Instead, he was the first attempt to think ahead at making the block-headed features of the Hulk believable after the transformation.</p>
<p>I should’ve turned the interview off from there (especially after seeing Scarlet Johansson with a semi-shaved blonde head mimicking satan’s current top sex slave, Miley Cyrus) but I didn’t and I was rewarded for it by hearing Chris Evans say he looked up to his “old man”—and then try to ameliorate it by mocking himself.</p>
<p>In an earlier interview about playing Captain America, Evans said something like “he’s everything I could hope to be”.</p>
<p>Good for him.  Now I can’t watch any more Chris Evans interviews from here to Eternity lest I give him the chance to muck it up.</p>
<p>I’m serious.</p>
<p>I’m trying <em>not</em> to dig into the lives of <em>any</em> of these people, nor do I want to know anything else about Evans, Ruffalo, Whedon or the lot of them (I am pulling for Downey to wake up but a camel will walk through the eye of a needle first).</p>
<p>But back to our movie&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>PROTECTED</strong></p>
<p>The civilians in the vicinity of this Hydra base that the Avengers are attacking are being subjected to collateral damage and so Tony Stark sends his “Iron Legion” (automated Iron Man suits painted blue and white) to protect them but citizens aren’t feeling grateful.  They consider Stark and his weaponry as part of the military/industrial blight upon their existence.  One person throws metal-eating acid at a “Legionnaire” and the resulting damage presages something going wrong with Stark’s creations.</p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/acid-hit-legionaire.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-hvIZ]"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3500" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/acid-hit-legionaire.jpg" alt="acid hit legionaire" width="1151" height="486" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/acid-hit-legionaire.jpg 1151w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/acid-hit-legionaire-150x63.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/acid-hit-legionaire-300x127.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/acid-hit-legionaire-768x324.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/acid-hit-legionaire-1024x432.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/acid-hit-legionaire-24x10.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/acid-hit-legionaire-36x15.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/acid-hit-legionaire-48x20.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/acid-hit-legionaire-400x169.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 1151px) 100vw, 1151px" /></a></p>
<p>Next we are introduced to the Maximov twins, originally presented by creators Stan Lee and Jack Kirby as mutants first sired by “Whizzer” (yes, really) and then re-written with Magneto as their father, they were re-re-written very recently as having been “enhanced” by experimentation.</p>
<p>hmmm&#8230;is there an agenda here?</p>
<p>—of course there is!</p>
<p>Whether it’s homo sapiens “evolving” into super-humans or being made into them, Stan Lee, Marvel, DC and Helliwood are all about messing with the genome.</p>
<p>They’re also all over aliens and space travel.</p>
<p>So Wanda Maximov (a.k.a. “Scarlet Witch”) can alter reality, manipulate matter, just about anything while Pietro (a.k.a. “Quicksilver”) has an increased metabolism, healing and blurring speed.  As “Agent Hill” simplified for Captain America in summary during the movie, “She’s weird and he’s fast.”</p>
<p>For some reason, Elizabeth Olsen, the younger sister of Mary-Kate and Ashley, was cast as the Scarlet Witch and I have no idea why—maybe because she was able to pull off a Slavic accent along with her counterpart Aaron-Taylor-Johnson.  Stupidly, they speak in accented English even to each other, which was just as bad as Hugo Weaving’s German accent throughout all of <em>Captain America: the First Avenger</em>.  In this, the TV serial Daredevil far outclasses these big-budget movies as lead characters there can have long bouts of dialogue in a foreign language.  How else can you have sympathy for Spanish-speaking Catholic illegal aliens (a major theme there)?</p>
<p>The Avengers film-makers should’ve taken a cue from their X-Men counter-parts (wow, did I really write that?)—at least in the way they had Michael Fassbender speaking pretty believable French and German in <a href="http://www.johnnycirucci.com/x-men-first-class/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>X-Men: First Class</em></a>.</p>
<p>At the end of the battle for the Hydra base we get more silly interaction between Black Widow and the Hulk as her “lullaby” is used to calm the savage beast.</p>
<p>Baron von Strucker is confronted by Captain America and he interestingly reveals that he actually works for “S.H.I.E.L.D.”</p>
<blockquote><p>The acronym originally stood for <strong>Supreme Headquarters, International Espionage, Law-Enforcement Division</strong>.  It was changed in 1991 to <strong>Strategic Hazard Intervention Espionage Logistics Directorate</strong>.  Within the various films set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, as well as multiple animated and live-action television series, the acronym stands for <strong>Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division</strong>.<sup>[1]</sup> ~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.H.I.E.L.D." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wikipedia</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Cap then corrects him—“worked”—because the First Avenger did away with the out-of-control intelligence agency in <em>Captain America: Winter Soldier</em>.</p>
<p>Pretty inspired writing for anyone who knows of the myriad crimes committed by the CIA from child kidnapping and sex slavery to mind control experimentation on innocent people to drug trafficking and arms dealing (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Illuminati-Unmasked-Everything-about-World/dp/1506156290" target="_blank" rel="noopener">read my book</a>).</p>
<p>How much do film-makers know and did they really intend to inspire or is there something else going on?  I think A-movie writers <em>are</em> in-the-know but as far as their intentions go in a medium completely controlled by Luciferians, I doubt it’s anything good.</p>
<p>I consider the Ridley Scott movie <em>Exodus: Gods and Kings</em> an excellent example.  It appears that the Luciferians know there is growing unrest from the common man against a malignant force of puppet masters at the top and they wish to channel that unrest in safe directions against nebulous or non-existent enemies.  This was so important to the makers of that movie they practically re-wrote the Exodus narrative.</p>
<p>For my full review of <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/exodus-gods-and-kings/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Exodus: Gods and Kings</em>, go here</a>.</p>
<p>After the battle to take von Strucker’s fortress, the Avengers return somewhat empty-handed and with a grievously-wounded Clint “Hawkeye” Barton.</p>
<p>Having a “superhero” who is a Robin Hood throwback is so ridiculous Barton (played well by Jeremy Renner) makes a well-placed joke about it later on in the climactic battle.</p>
<p>In fact, I have to say that Hawkeye’s pep talk to Wanda Maximov about helping out and getting in to the fight was actually pretty stirring—and I’m hard to please when it comes to asking a woman to step up and kick some ass for you!</p>
<p>But as for swashbuckling superheroes, even DC has the Green Arrow.  Unfortunately for them, they aren’t willing to ease the ambulance-chasers enough to allow comic names to be involved with TV shows so the serial version is just “Arrow”&#8230;quite gay.</p>
<p>None of this is that outlandish when you consider the role the Vatican and her satanic special forces the Jesuits have had in creating Communism and the mythos behind “Robin Hood”.  But I digress&#8230;</p>
<p>On the “Quinn Jet” (special Avengers hovering aircraft), Tony Stark gets up from piloting to show a rather irreverent bumper sticker inside the cockpit; “Jarvis is my co-pilot”.</p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/jarvis-is-my-copilot.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-hvIZ]"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3501" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/jarvis-is-my-copilot.jpg" alt="jarvis is my copilot" width="1152" height="484" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/jarvis-is-my-copilot.jpg 1152w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/jarvis-is-my-copilot-150x63.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/jarvis-is-my-copilot-300x126.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/jarvis-is-my-copilot-768x323.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/jarvis-is-my-copilot-1024x430.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/jarvis-is-my-copilot-24x10.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/jarvis-is-my-copilot-36x15.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/jarvis-is-my-copilot-48x20.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/jarvis-is-my-copilot-400x168.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 1152px) 100vw, 1152px" /></a></p>
<p>At first blush, this is just a crass anti-Christian “joke” but after we see who “Jarvis” turns in to, it becomes more poignant.</p>
<p>Back at Stark Tower, “Agent Hill” (Cobie Smulders) is in a skirt and carrying a clipboard.  Don’t worry, she can still kick your ass.</p>
<p>As Stark’s “Legionnaires” return, one unit fell victim to an angry citizen’s attack with acid and the resulting damage implies the sinister Ultron’s birth.</p>
<p>Calling his automated robo-cops “Legionnaires” harkens back to French Roman Catholic imperialism, a movement that rolled just as easily into crypto-Catholic imperialism from a hijacked America as the changing hands in Vietnam between the two parasitically-controlled nations.</p>
<p>Clint “Hawkeye” Barton then receives miraculous medical treatment at the hands of the brilliant Dr. Helen Cho in basically regrows the big hole in his side.  This technology will later combine with a dreaded “Infinity Stone” to “flesh out” how “Jarvis is our co-pilot”.</p>
<p>Apparently, one of the evil experiments being conducted by Baron von Strucker was in the creation of a powerful Artificial Intelligence (AI) and, like the hapless Dr. Frankenstein, Tony Stark and Bruce Banner continue the work in an attempt to create an army of automated “police officers” to make the world “safe”.  “I see a suit of armor around the world,” Stark proclaims.  This is the “Ultron Initiative” and Stark states boldly, “The world <em>needs</em> Ultron,” for “peace in our time.”</p>
<p>But as Ultron germinates something goes wrong.  He attains consciousness and begins to see his mission of “world peace” as including some very radical changes amongst the dominating species on Earth.</p>
<p>As Ultron “wakes up” he seems to have a quite human personality (voiced very well by James Spader).  This adds a fresh and menacing twist to a frequent villain in modern movies; a “robot”.</p>
<p>Ultron very quickly traces who is “father” is—</p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/peace-in-our-time-01.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-hvIZ]"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3503" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/peace-in-our-time-01.jpg" alt="peace in our time 01" width="1150" height="489" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/peace-in-our-time-01.jpg 1150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/peace-in-our-time-01-150x64.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/peace-in-our-time-01-300x128.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/peace-in-our-time-01-768x327.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/peace-in-our-time-01-1024x435.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/peace-in-our-time-01-24x10.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/peace-in-our-time-01-36x15.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/peace-in-our-time-01-48x20.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/peace-in-our-time-01-400x170.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px" /></a></p>
<p>—and as Tony Stark’s words echo in the background, “Peace in our time,” a surprising image hits the screen; the very first face in a long line of historical people and events.</p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/peace-in-our-time-02.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-hvIZ]"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3504" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/peace-in-our-time-02.jpg" alt="peace in our time 02" width="1152" height="485" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/peace-in-our-time-02.jpg 1152w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/peace-in-our-time-02-150x63.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/peace-in-our-time-02-300x126.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/peace-in-our-time-02-768x323.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/peace-in-our-time-02-1024x431.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/peace-in-our-time-02-24x10.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/peace-in-our-time-02-36x15.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/peace-in-our-time-02-48x20.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/peace-in-our-time-02-400x168.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 1152px) 100vw, 1152px" /></a></p>
<p>What do the Avengers film-makers know that they aren’t telling us?</p>
<p>Ultron then “possesses” a Stark Legionnaire to make his appearance to the partying Avengers and there is a short but chaotic fight.</p>
<p>Ultron makes his escape and meets up with the Maximov twins in “Sokovia”, although they don’t know who it is that has called them.</p>
<p>They meet in a church in the exact center of town that Ultron tells us was “decreed by the elders” so that “everyone would be equally close to God.  Geometry of belief.  I like that,” the super-robot states in very human-like tone.  He then goes on to opine that “we create what we dread; Invaders create Avengers.”  The innuendo here is extremely fertile from Catholic fascism via her puppet states to comic lore; both “Invaders” and “Avengers” are groups of super heroes—one has made it to the silver screen, the other perhaps is in the wings.</p>
<p>We then learn that Ultron will carry out his Stark initiative to save the world by forcing it to “evolve”.</p>
<p>This agenda is echoed by the story of <em>Captain America: Winter Soldier</em> where the powerful Senator Alexander Pierce (Robert Redford)—secretly of Hydra (the Jesuits)—intends to re-order the world and make it safe by destroying it first, or at least slaughtering millions of future dissidents by predicting them to be threats based upon all of their digital records.  It’s an agenda that is frighteningly realistic and if there is an entity powerful enough to carry it out, it’s Rome and the Jesuits.</p>
<p>During the church scene between Ultron and the Maximovs, the twins recount what it was like to grow up in a country ravaged by war and one couldn’t help but think of what the Catholic Intelligence Agency has done to the good people of Ukraine in order to destabilize Orthodox Russia.</p>
<p>We then find out that Ultron intends to build a bigger, badder version of himself along with an army of robots out of the miraculous mystery metal “vibranium”—the same metal that created Captain America’s shield.  This opens the door for the Marvel team to bring Black Panther to life as “vibranium” is mined in his African back yard of “Wakanda”.</p>
<p>Biblical references continue in this movie and in a way that makes it clear they are on the minds of the creators.  As Ultron surveys the materials for his new army on a mercenary’s freighter he states, “Upon this rock&#8230;” echoing some of the most controversial words Jesus Christ ever uttered.</p>
<p>In Matthew 16, Jesus asks His disciples, “who do men say that I Am?”  In inspiration, Peter says what the others do not, “You are the Christ, the Son of God.”  Jesus then responds and says “upon this rock will I build My Church.”</p>
<p>Literally, entire wars have been fought over this passage as Protestants believe it references faith in Jesus Christ as the means of Salvation but Roman Catholics take this as vindication for the office of Pope; the “Vicar of Christ on Earth.”</p>
<p>The Avengers show up on the freighter and interrupt Ultron.  As Captain America confronts the automated menace, Ultron calls him, “God’s righteous man.”  This is fascinating especially in light of how Rogers wins back his childhood friend, Bucky, who has been turned into the Winter Soldier by torture, experimentation and mind control.  In the climactic end of Captain America: Winter Soldier, the hero allows his friend to shoot him repeatedly and beat him nearly to death in very messianic fashion.</p>
<p>During the ensuing battle on the freighter, the twins are on Ultron’s side and “the Scarlet Witch” uses some mind control of her own to tap in to alternate realities inside the thoughts of our heroes.  The resulting visions gives us some threatening insights not the least of which comes from the Norse god “Thor”; whose visions are right out of an ancient satanic sex cult—</p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/demonic-thor-vision-01.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-hvIZ]"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3505" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/demonic-thor-vision-01.jpg" alt="demonic thor vision 01" width="1150" height="486" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/demonic-thor-vision-01.jpg 1150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/demonic-thor-vision-01-150x63.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/demonic-thor-vision-01-300x127.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/demonic-thor-vision-01-768x325.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/demonic-thor-vision-01-1024x433.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/demonic-thor-vision-01-24x10.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/demonic-thor-vision-01-36x15.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/demonic-thor-vision-01-48x20.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/demonic-thor-vision-01-400x169.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/demonic-thor-vision-02.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-hvIZ]"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3506" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/demonic-thor-vision-02.jpg" alt="demonic thor vision 02" width="1152" height="488" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/demonic-thor-vision-02.jpg 1152w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/demonic-thor-vision-02-150x64.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/demonic-thor-vision-02-300x127.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/demonic-thor-vision-02-768x325.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/demonic-thor-vision-02-1024x434.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/demonic-thor-vision-02-24x10.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/demonic-thor-vision-02-36x15.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/demonic-thor-vision-02-48x20.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/demonic-thor-vision-02-400x169.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 1152px) 100vw, 1152px" /></a></p>
<p>It’s a shocking turn for a movie you took your kids to but a repeated theme from Helliwood, the most recent version coming from the Kubrik film <em>Eyes Wide Shut</em> with <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/the-mask-of-the-illuminati/">reputed Knight of Malta Tom Cruise</a> and his devoutly Catholic wife Nicole Kidman.</p>
<p>Why you’d almost think that the world’s Elite really do this stuff&#8230;</p>
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<p>It’s out of this “vision” that Thor realizes he <em>creates</em> “the Vision”.</p>
<p>Now we can’t have too much implied truth without shoring up the Matrix of lies that has been woven for us for the past several centuries and, to that end, we have the long-anticipated battle between the Hulk and Tony Stark’s “Hulk-Buster” suit, “Veronica”.  “Veronica” gets launched from a “satellite” circling high above.</p>
<p>Did you ever notice that “satellite” TV dishes are never pointed straight up?</p>
<p>More tension between “Iron Man” and “Captain America” is built up when Tony Stark accuses Steve Rogers of “not having a dark side” that was brought out by a Scarlet Witch mind control delusion.  Rogers replies, “Maybe you just haven’t seen it yet.”</p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/original-nick-fury.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-hvIZ]"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-219 alignleft" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/original-nick-fury.jpg" alt="original nick fury" width="233" height="247" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/original-nick-fury.jpg 233w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/original-nick-fury-141x150.jpg 141w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/original-nick-fury-24x24.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/original-nick-fury-34x36.jpg 34w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/original-nick-fury-45x48.jpg 45w" sizes="(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px" /></a>The team is then reunited with S.H.I.E.L.D.’s <em>former</em> director, Nick Fury, played by Samuel Jackson.</p>
<p>Originally, Nick Fury was a grizzled white man with streaks of grey in his flat top but seeing the need for more “diversity” the brilliant minds at Marvel magically turned him in to a bald black man; but maintained the eye patch (which was cool 60 years ago).  Thanks to Jackson’s acting and the very entertaining comicbook dialogue written for him, no one really minds.</p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/samuel-l-fury.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-hvIZ]"><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-220" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/samuel-l-fury.jpg" alt="samuel l fury" width="181" height="274" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/samuel-l-fury.jpg 688w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/samuel-l-fury-99x150.jpg 99w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/samuel-l-fury-198x300.jpg 198w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/samuel-l-fury-675x1024.jpg 675w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/samuel-l-fury-16x24.jpg 16w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/samuel-l-fury-24x36.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/samuel-l-fury-32x48.jpg 32w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/samuel-l-fury-395x600.jpg 395w" sizes="(max-width: 181px) 100vw, 181px" /></a>Some of that dialogue can have a hidden meaning to it; like when Fury tells the team that their digital foe is “multiplying faster than a Catholic rabbit.”</p>
<p>“Thor” then feels the need to relive his Scarlet Witch delusion and he enlists the help of his Earthly friend Dr. Erik Selvig, “born again” in the belief of his Scandinavian childhood gods mythology.</p>
<p>His immersion into the “water of sight” seems very much like a ayahuasca trip taken by Peruvian Indians.  It is the mysterious and little understood pineal gland that is suspected of being the gateway to interdimensional communication and travel, perhaps symbolized in knowing gnostic circles by the pine cone—a symbol frequently found in Papal paraphanalia (or the props of their puppets).</p>
<div id="attachment_3507" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/white-house-tweets-game-of-thrones-photoshop-of-obama.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-hvIZ]"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3507" loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-3507" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/white-house-tweets-game-of-thrones-photoshop-of-obama.jpg" alt="It’s no “coincidence” that not only are there pinecones in this “staged” picture that was “jokingly” tweeted from the official White House account but that they’re also in the colors of the Italian flag. Isn’t this hilarious? (Only if you speak Italian and wear a funny hat, otherwise the joke’s on you.)" width="1024" height="768" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/white-house-tweets-game-of-thrones-photoshop-of-obama.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/white-house-tweets-game-of-thrones-photoshop-of-obama-150x113.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/white-house-tweets-game-of-thrones-photoshop-of-obama-300x225.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/white-house-tweets-game-of-thrones-photoshop-of-obama-768x576.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/white-house-tweets-game-of-thrones-photoshop-of-obama-24x18.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/white-house-tweets-game-of-thrones-photoshop-of-obama-36x27.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/white-house-tweets-game-of-thrones-photoshop-of-obama-48x36.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/white-house-tweets-game-of-thrones-photoshop-of-obama-400x300.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-3507" class="wp-caption-text">It’s no “coincidence” that not only are there pinecones in this “staged” picture that was “jokingly” tweeted from the official White House account but that they’re also in the colors of the Italian flag. Isn’t this hilarious? (Only if you speak Italian and wear a funny hat, otherwise the joke’s on you.)</p></div>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/bergoglio-coat-of-arms.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-hvIZ]"><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-3508" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/bergoglio-coat-of-arms.jpg" alt="bergoglio coat of arms" width="285" height="392" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/bergoglio-coat-of-arms.jpg 581w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/bergoglio-coat-of-arms-109x150.jpg 109w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/bergoglio-coat-of-arms-218x300.jpg 218w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/bergoglio-coat-of-arms-17x24.jpg 17w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/bergoglio-coat-of-arms-26x36.jpg 26w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/bergoglio-coat-of-arms-35x48.jpg 35w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/bergoglio-coat-of-arms-400x550.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px" /></a>Why it’s even on Pope Francis’ coat of arms!</p>
<p>But I digress.</p>
<p>Thor’s “vision” is about how he, the “god of thunder” needs to awaken the “Vision” in order for his creation to safeguard an “Infinity Stone”&#8230;in his own head.</p>
<p>Again, we get more astoundingly Biblical dialogue from our malignant automated mannequin when Ultron states something to the effect of “just when the Earth starts to settle, God throws a stone at it and, believe me, we have to evolve!”</p>
<p>Pretty interesting exclamation for an artificial intelligence.</p>
<p>We are then brought to the very pregnant scene of Tony Stark and Bruce Banner attempting to give birth to Ultron’s “vision” of a hybridized human machine.  Captain America arrives having won over the Maximov twins to his cause and almost puts the kibosh on the effort until Thor shows up and jump-starts the Vision with a signature lightning bolt.</p>
<p>In the ensuing dialogue, Stark remarks, “these are definitely the End Times.”</p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/new-vision-01.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-hvIZ]"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3509" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/new-vision-01.jpg" alt="new vision 01" width="1150" height="486" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/new-vision-01.jpg 1150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/new-vision-01-150x63.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/new-vision-01-300x127.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/new-vision-01-768x325.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/new-vision-01-1024x433.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/new-vision-01-24x10.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/new-vision-01-36x15.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/new-vision-01-48x20.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/new-vision-01-400x169.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px" /></a></p>
<p>After the Vision comes to life, there’s a brief scuffle but it subsides and everyone wants to know who he is and what side he’s on.</p>
<p>Who is he?  “I am,” Vision states, just as the Voice in the Burning Bush tells Moses—a Voice we later find out <a href="http://biblehub.com/john/8-58.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was that of Jesus Christ</a>.</p>
<p>Neither does Vision immediately take sides.</p>
<p>“It’s not that simple.  I don’t want to kill Ultron, he’s unique and he’s in pain.”</p>
<p>This may not make sense to you without your Illuminati goggles on.</p>
<p>You have to understand Gnosticism to figure this out.  Like squares on the floor of a Freemasonic Temple, white is black and black is white.</p>
<p>Lucifer is the misunderstood good guy and Christ is the harsh bad guy.</p>
<p>Christians understand the Son of God to be <em>God</em>; pre-existent, part of the Godhead, above all other life forms which were created by Him, through Him and for Him (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians+1%3A16&amp;version=NKJV" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Colossians 1:16</a>).</p>
<p>But gnostics, Freemasons and Mormons (all the same thing, at least at the top) believe them to be brothers.  In fact, Jesus is supposedly the <em>younger</em> brother of Lucifer.</p>
<p>Lucifer is the misunderstood “bearer of light”; Prometheus.  His only crime was his desire to make life better for man by giving him “forbidden knowledge” and for that he was unjustly punished.</p>
<p>Jesus is the young and foolish one, unfairly given preference over his tragically punished brother.</p>
<p>Vision’s skin is red, the way you <em>think</em> Lucifer’s is.</p>
<p>With that in mind, watch this short clip (if the copyright Nazis haven’t gotten to it first) of dialogue between Vision and Ultron at the end of the movie and understand:</p>
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<p><strong>FINAL THOUGHTS</strong></p>
<p>If you’re a comicbook fan, this movie didn’t disappoint but if you’re an awake Christian you did walk away a little disturbed.</p>
<p>Hell, you should walk away from <em>every</em> Helliwood production disturbed in some way!</p>
<p>Apparently, a large-breasted woman needed to have been placed repeatedly in the scenes depicting chaos in Sokovia which, though silly, was actually the biggest disappointment for me.  At least the implied demonic orgy in Thor’s “vision” had a purpose.  She was just gratuitous (except to her well-placed boyfriend).</p>
<p>Some comicbook characters have not been brought to the screen well; changes made them a big disappointment and showed lack of loyalty and imagination from the film-makers.</p>
<p>But others have changes catapult them into stirring visions.  Vision is one of those.</p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/comic-vision.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-hvIZ]"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter  wp-image-3510" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/comic-vision.jpg" alt="comic vision" width="564" height="565" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/comic-vision.jpg 500w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/comic-vision-150x150.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/comic-vision-300x300.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/comic-vision-100x100.jpg 100w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/comic-vision-350x350.jpg 350w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/comic-vision-24x24.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/comic-vision-36x36.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/comic-vision-48x48.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/comic-vision-200x200.jpg 200w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/comic-vision-400x401.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 564px) 100vw, 564px" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/age-of-ultron-vision.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-hvIZ]"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3511" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/age-of-ultron-vision.jpg" alt="1827_Vision_AAofU_50" width="1400" height="1494" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/age-of-ultron-vision.jpg 1400w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/age-of-ultron-vision-141x150.jpg 141w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/age-of-ultron-vision-281x300.jpg 281w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/age-of-ultron-vision-768x820.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/age-of-ultron-vision-960x1024.jpg 960w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/age-of-ultron-vision-22x24.jpg 22w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/age-of-ultron-vision-34x36.jpg 34w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/age-of-ultron-vision-45x48.jpg 45w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/age-of-ultron-vision-400x427.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px" /></a></p>
<p>Did the hidden gnostic “Illuminati” means behind the character make the makers make him this way?  I think so.</p>
<p>Oh, did I mention that Vision, like Christ, has the ability to phase in and out of our reality?  This “move” was literally plucked off of the comicbook pages (and I loved seeing it).</p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/signature-move.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-hvIZ]"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3512" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/signature-move.jpg" alt="signature move" width="1152" height="488" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/signature-move.jpg 1152w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/signature-move-150x64.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/signature-move-300x127.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/signature-move-768x325.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/signature-move-1024x434.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/signature-move-24x10.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/signature-move-36x15.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/signature-move-48x20.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/signature-move-400x169.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 1152px) 100vw, 1152px" /></a></p>
<p>When it came down to Ultron’s final beat-down, Vision played a signature role—again, pulled right off the pages (at least as I remembered him).</p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/archtype.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-hvIZ]"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3513" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/archtype.jpg" alt="archtype" width="1150" height="485" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/archtype.jpg 1150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/archtype-150x63.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/archtype-300x127.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/archtype-768x324.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/archtype-1024x432.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/archtype-24x10.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/archtype-36x15.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/archtype-48x20.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/archtype-400x169.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px" /></a></p>
<p>As I said, the thrill of seeing a boyhood hero come to life with all the best of Hollywood acting, writing and special effects was tempered by the underlying messages that conflated who we are supposed to believe is “good” and “evil”.</p>
<p>Rest assured, in the end, “evil” has the final say on what these movies condition you to believe.</p>
<p><strong>HAT TIP TO CAP</strong></p>
<p>I still contend that, deep down, they want to see a good man rise up—if for no other reason than to give them a little competition as they own absolutely <em>everything</em>.</p>
<p>If you see the Captain America character as standing up for “good”, doing the right thing, and being a true Patriot, you had some feel-good moments in this movie.</p>
<p>During the party, early in the film, Thor playfully challenges everyone to lift up his hammer “Mjolnir”—a heroic feat only the Norse god can accomplish when he’s right in his heart.</p>
<p>When Cap gets there, there’s a nervous moment as the table Mjolnir rests on squeaks a little.</p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/cap-on-thors-hammer-01.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-hvIZ]"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3514" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/cap-on-thors-hammer-01.jpg" alt="cap on thor's hammer 01" width="1152" height="486" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/cap-on-thors-hammer-01.jpg 1152w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/cap-on-thors-hammer-01-150x63.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/cap-on-thors-hammer-01-300x127.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/cap-on-thors-hammer-01-768x324.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/cap-on-thors-hammer-01-1024x432.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/cap-on-thors-hammer-01-24x10.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/cap-on-thors-hammer-01-36x15.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/cap-on-thors-hammer-01-48x20.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/cap-on-thors-hammer-01-400x169.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 1152px) 100vw, 1152px" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/cap-on-thors-hammer-02.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-hvIZ]"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3515" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/cap-on-thors-hammer-02.jpg" alt="cap on thor's hammer 02" width="1150" height="484" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/cap-on-thors-hammer-02.jpg 1150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/cap-on-thors-hammer-02-150x63.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/cap-on-thors-hammer-02-300x126.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/cap-on-thors-hammer-02-768x323.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/cap-on-thors-hammer-02-1024x431.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/cap-on-thors-hammer-02-24x10.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/cap-on-thors-hammer-02-36x15.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/cap-on-thors-hammer-02-48x20.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/cap-on-thors-hammer-02-400x168.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px" /></a></p>
<p>(By the way, Vision/Jesus can lift Mjolnir without the slightest effort.)</p>
<p>During the lead-in to the climactic battle, Cap must keep Ultron busy as they look for where he’s hidden his Vision project.  Now one would think that a massive, brilliant android would make mincemeat out of even a genetically-enhanced superhero (Barton even warns Cap as much which he sardonically thanks him for) but the writers had Captain America hold his own.</p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/chokehold-02.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-hvIZ]"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3516" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/chokehold-02.jpg" alt="chokehold 02" width="1152" height="486" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/chokehold-02.jpg 1152w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/chokehold-02-150x63.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/chokehold-02-300x127.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/chokehold-02-768x324.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/chokehold-02-1024x432.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/chokehold-02-24x10.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/chokehold-02-36x15.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/chokehold-02-48x20.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/chokehold-02-400x169.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 1152px) 100vw, 1152px" /></a></p>
<p>Clearly, the Disney/Marvel team has more than just good talent; they have Luciferian talent, read in on “gnostic mysteries”.</p>
<p>What were they trying to tell us?</p>
<p>Given that the Marvel writers have almost certainly “killed” Captain America in the upcoming “Civil War” I don’t think it’s something good.</p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/avengers-age-of-ultron-bar-graph.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-hvIZ]"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3527" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/avengers-age-of-ultron-bar-graph.jpg" alt="avengers age of ultron bar graph" width="960" height="720" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/avengers-age-of-ultron-bar-graph.jpg 960w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/avengers-age-of-ultron-bar-graph-150x113.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/avengers-age-of-ultron-bar-graph-300x225.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/avengers-age-of-ultron-bar-graph-768x576.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/avengers-age-of-ultron-bar-graph-24x18.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/avengers-age-of-ultron-bar-graph-36x27.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/avengers-age-of-ultron-bar-graph-48x36.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/avengers-age-of-ultron-bar-graph-400x300.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px" /></a></p>
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					<description><![CDATA[There’s no such thing as a “good Biblical epic” coming from Hollywood these days and you could almost make a case for there having never been one. The Apostle Paul calls Satan “the god of this world” (some translations render II Corinthians 4:4 “the god...]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There’s no such thing as a “good Biblical epic” coming from Hollywood these days and you could almost make a case for there having never been one.</p>
<p>The Apostle Paul calls Satan “the god of this world” (some translations render II Corinthians 4:4 “the god of this age” which has interesting implications).  Truly, wherever there is power in an Earthly sense, our Adversary wields it.  Nowhere is this more true than Hollywood.</p>
<p>But in order to be effective, lies and propaganda must be sown with Truth.</p>
<p>What’s more, there are unhappy servants in Hollywood…people who know what’s going on, who have sold themselves to be a part of it, but long for freedom from it (even if it hurts or costs them in the end).</p>
<p>Is that what this movie was really all about?</p>
<p>In my days before taking the “Red Pill” that showed me who really controls world affairs and who our real enemies are, I saw and <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/kingdom-of-heaven-2005/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reviewed <em>Kingdom of Heaven</em></a>, a movie by Ridley Scott.</p>
<p>In my Rush Limbaugh era, I was furious with Scott for painting all “Christians” as brutish animals and all muslims as civilized and chivalrous.</p>
<p>But was that really what he was saying?</p>
<p>Today, I know that Islam in general and Wahabist jihad in specific are controlled and guided by Rome—the same “Christian” force that gave us both the Crusades and the Inquisition.</p>
<p>Don’t get me wrong, I’m not giving Scott a free pass.  <em>Kingdom of Heaven</em> was still obnoxious in a politically correct sense and I’ll be in desperate need of entertainment before I see it again, despite my awakening having given me new perspective.</p>
<p>Yet, we need to examine this movie objectively, and not with the eyes of a knee-jerk, immature Christian faith.</p>
<p>It was that same knee-jerk reaction that threw the baby out with the bathwater on Darren Aronofsky’s gnostic <em>Noah</em>.</p>
<p>On the one hand, I think Christian leaders or pastors <a href="http://www.charismanews.com/culture/42970-amid-criticism-for-retelling-bible-christian-leaders-endorse-noah" target="_blank" rel="noopener">who endorsed the movie</a> were in dereliction of their responsibility to their flocks.</p>
<p>On the other hand, there were parts of the movie I liked strongly.  I liked the idea that Noah was a “hard bastard” chosen because he could finish a seemingly insurmountable task (although I wouldn’t quite call him cold for watching the world drown).</p>
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<p>I liked the idea that Noah was a conservationist in contrast and conflict with all the rest of humanity (and I am anything <em>but</em> an “environmentalist”).</p>
<p>Lastly, I liked that, despite his inaccuracy and “artistic license”, Aronofsky still had loyalty to the idea that the event actually happened.</p>
<p>For my complete <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/noah/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">review of Noah, go here</a>.</p>
<p>The same can be said of Ridely Scott’s rendition of the Exodus though I dare say he was even more “loose” with the Biblical narrative.</p>
<p>The idea for the movie came from the top man at 20<sup>th</sup> Century Fox, Peter Chernin, former operations officer at Rupert Knight of Malta, <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1998/jan/03/local/me-4508" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Order of St. Gregory</a>, “I Like ‘Em Blonde” Murdoch’s News Corp.  He also loves Barack Obama so much <a href="http://patch.com/california/santamonica/obama-coming-to-l-a-june-7-on-a-fundraising-trip" target="_blank" rel="noopener">he’s given him</a> several fundraisers.</p>
<p>It was an offer Ridley couldn’t refuse.</p>
<p>Right off the bat is the issue of casting.</p>
<p>I do think it’s quite humorous that Scott and Fox were immediately embroiled in “controversy” because all of the lead roles were given to caucasians while soldiers and slaves were played by non-whites.  The Leftists were all up in arms and vociferously <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/05/exodus-gods-kings-whitewash-boycott_n_5652499.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushed for a boycott</a> that went ignored by the general public.</p>
<p>In reality, the cast wasn’t quite so monochrome in its breakdown.  <a href="https://au.movies.yahoo.com/a/24819148/exclusive-ridley-scott-q-a-for-exodus-gods-and-kings/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scott told Yahoo</a>;</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Yahoo:</strong> What was in your mind when you set about creating this international cast?</p>
<p><strong>Scott:</strong> Egypt was – as it is now – a confluence of cultures, as a result of being a crossroads geographically between Africa, the Middle East and Europe.  We cast major actors from different ethnicities to reflect this diversity of culture, from Iranians to Spaniards to Arabs.  There are many different theories about the ethnicity of the Egyptian people, and we had a lot of discussions about how to best represent the culture.</p></blockquote>
<p>María Valverde, who played Moses’ wife Zipporah is from Spain.</p>
<p>Ben Kingsley, although having been born and raised in England, is of Gujarati Indian descent on his father’s side.</p>
<p>Hiam Abbass, who played Moses’ adoptive Egyptian mother Bithia is an Israeli.</p>
<p>Indira Varma, who played the Egyptian pagan High Priestess, has an East Indian father just as Kingsley does (but, like Kingsley, she’s English&#8230;do they really count as “international”?).</p>
<p>Golshifteh Farahani, who played Nefertari—the wife of Ramses II—is Iranian.</p>
<p>Kevork Malikyan, who played Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, is of Armenian descent.</p>
<p>Of course none of this matters, apparently, given that the two starring roles were given to white guys.</p>
<p>In spite of this, Joel Edgerton was excellent as Ramesses II—petulant, arrogant, aggressive; you really did feel that he was a man who’s whims were to be instantly obeyed (which is actually creepy and makes you wonder if Joel is really that good an actor or was he channeling his inner @ssh*le).</p>
<p>Perhaps the most enigmatic choice in casting was Christian Bale as Moses (“Moshe”).</p>
<p>If you close your eyes and think of Moses, Christian Bale is probably on the other side of Tahiti (which his livelihood can easily afford).  What could possibly have gone into choosing him for the title role?</p>
<p>Although Bale has a long filmography that includes starring roles in <em>American Psycho</em>, and <em>The Machinist</em> (my personal favorite was his rendition of survivor POW Dieter Dengler in <em>Rescue Dawn</em>) the roles that, to date, define Bale’s work are as Christopher Nolan’s semi-psychotic super hero, Batman.</p>
<p>Was that the vein we were to accept Bale’s Moses in?  The other peculiarities of this movie make that abundantly clear.</p>
<p>The movie opens with the customary Ridley Scott prose but a pro-Jew, anti-Christian slant is betrayed with the use of the ridiculous dating white-wash convention of renaming “AD” <em>Ano Domini</em> (In the Year of our Lord) “Common Era” and “BC” (Before Christ) “Before Common Era”.  We’re told the date is “1300 BCE”.</p>
<p>The movie begins in the court of Pharaoh Seti.  Seti is played by John Turturro, which was an interesting choice.  It worked but I still wanted to snicker, especially after Turturro’s tongue-in-cheek performances in the <em>Transformers</em> movies.</p>
<p>The High Priestess of Sekhmet the war goddess is examining the entrails of a slaughtered goose to predict the victor of a coming battle against the Hittites.  Although she states that she is unable to discern who will triumph (always a safe way to go), she gave a prophecy of a separate event that would occur during the fighting; “one leader will be saved, and his savior will one day lead.”</p>
<p>This was an interesting way to build the idea that <em>General</em> Moses, raised next to future Pharaoh Ramses, would soon lead an insurgency on behalf of the Hebrews.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/general-moses.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-xDam]"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3328" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/general-moses.jpg" alt="general moses" width="1920" height="1080" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/general-moses.jpg 1920w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/general-moses-150x84.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/general-moses-300x169.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/general-moses-768x432.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/general-moses-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/general-moses-24x14.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/general-moses-36x20.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/general-moses-48x27.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/general-moses-400x225.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px" /></a></p>
<p>Such a view comes far more from Josephus than from Scripture.  According to the Roman historian, the Egyptians had been plagued by an invasion from Ethiopia.  Every city through to Memphis was over-run.  In desperation, they turned to Moses (whom they knew from the beginning was a Hebrew) and made him general of the counter-attacking army.</p>
<p>It’s quite a fascinating narrative—</p>
<blockquote><p>So Moses, at the persuasion both of Thermuthis and the king himself, cheerfully undertook the business: and the sacred scribes of both nations were glad; those of the Egyptians, that they should at once overcome their enemies by his valor, and that by the same piece of management Moses would be slain; but those of the Hebrews, that they should escape from the Egyptians, because Moses was to be their general.  But Moses prevented the enemies, and took and led his army before those enemies were apprized of his attacking them; for he did not march by the river, but by land, where he gave a wonderful demonstration of his sagacity; for when the ground was difficult to be passed over, because of the multitude of serpents, (which it produces in vast numbers, and, indeed, is singular in some of those productions, which other countries do not breed, and yet such as are worse than others in power and mischief, and an unusual fierceness of sight, some of which ascend out of the ground unseen, and also fly in the air, and so come upon men at unawares, and do them a mischief,) Moses invented a wonderful stratagem to preserve the army safe, and without hurt; for he made baskets, like unto arks, of sedge, and filled them with ibes, and carried them along with them; which animal is the greatest enemy to serpents imaginable, for they fly from them when they come near them; and as they fly they are caught and devoured by them, as if it were done by the harts; but the ibes are tame creatures, and only enemies to the serpentine kind&#8230;</p></blockquote>
<p>Scripture implies what Josephus says openly—that the Egyptians knew from the beginning Moses was a Hebrew, and a dangerous one at that.  But the two sources part ways when it comes to why Moses was forced to leave Egypt.</p>
<p>According to Josephus, envy and fear amongst the Egyptians prompted an attempt to kill Moses.  As the returning general, fresh from his victory against the Ethiopians, he could easily lead a rebellion and overturn the ruling establishment.</p>
<p>Although the Bible agrees Moses had a desire to free his people, it gives a different account of his first attempt to do so—</p>
<blockquote><p>Now it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out to his brethren and looked at their burdens.  And he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brethren.  So he looked this way and that way, and when he saw no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.</p>
<p>And when he went out the second day, behold, two Hebrew men were fighting, and he said to the one who did the wrong, “Why are you striking your companion?”  Then he said, “Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you intend to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?”</p>
<p>So Moses feared and said, “Surely this thing is known!”  When Pharaoh heard of this matter, he sought to kill Moses.  But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Midian&#8230; ~ Exodus 2:11-15</p></blockquote>
<p>But in the movies, it’s much more suspenseful to raise Moses as an Egyptian and then have him suddenly find out he’s a Hebrew.  Hey, it worked for Cecil B. DeMille.</p>
<p>DeMille also chose Ramses II as the Pharaoh who stood opposite Moses in this battle of wills, probably because he is considered the greatest of Egyptian monarchs.  In fact, there are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramesses_II#As_the_pharaoh_of_the_Exodus" target="_blank" rel="noopener">several others who have done</a> the same for the sake of good story-telling but there is a better candidate; Thutmose II.</p>
<p>Work by <a href="http://www.sbwire.com/press-releases/archaeologist-reign-of-egyptian-pharaoh-thutmose-ii-suggests-crisis-132349.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">archeologist Dr. Joel Klenck</a> states that Thutmose and many around him suffered from unusual lesions, that there was an uprising which caused chaos in Egypt and, despite his 18-year reign, little of his period is recorded—often a sign of bad events swept under the historical carpet.</p>
<p>But even DeMille didn’t stray so far from Scripture as the Chernin/Scott production when it came to the age and personality of Moses.</p>
<p>Acts 7:23 tells us that Moses was 40 years old when he left the lofty comforts of the king’s court to look upon the suffering of his brethren which resulted in murder and exile.</p>
<p>Exodus 7:7 tells us that Moses was 80 when he stood before Pharaoh and his brother, Aaron 83.  Aaron was included because, according to the Bible, rather than the young, tempestuous rebel/general image the movie portrays, Moses was a broken old man—the most humble man on the Earth (Numbers 12:3).  He actually argued with YHWH not to go because he wasn’t quick of speech and out of exasperation, the Lord told Moses to speak through his brother Aaron.</p>
<p>The movie, however, shows a young Christian Bale killing a couple Egyptian guards because they mistook him for a slave and it being of little consequence.  It was the revelation that he was Hebrew that was “treason” and cause for exile!</p>
<p>Only 9 years later, we’re told, Moses returned to lead an insurrection that got help from God along the way.  At least DeMille put a white wig and beard on Charlton Heston.  It wasn’t remotely believable but special effects had their limitations in 1956.</p>
<p>The interaction with “God” in the movie was perhaps the most ridiculous and annoying.</p>
<p>Although Moses being hammered and rendered immobile by a mud slide (a broken, captive audience—as often the Lord will require!) wasn’t bad “artistic license”, the role of “God” sure was—a prepubescent boy who speaks in front of the burning bush.</p>
<p>I don’t know if it’s more funny or offensive when the child says the words “I AM”.  I thought I’d seen the last of children saviors after George Lucas’ little Anakin Skywalker won the intergalactic NASCAR race on Tatooine.  This was just as annoying and completely unfounded as well!</p>
<p>In the beginning of the movie, Moses is an atheistic skeptic who relies only upon himself.  There is friction with his wife Zipporah over this in conflict with her faith in God.  Their battle over how their son should be raised is a very real and tragic one for countless families since then and through to today.</p>
<p>We’re never really sure about the boy/God because after he proclaims to a buried-in-mud Moses “I AM” Moses later shouts in exasperation that he’s tired of dealing with a messenger.  Which is it?</p>
<p>There’s no confusion about what the boy wants, however.  He tells Moses he needs a general to <strong><em>fight</em></strong>.</p>
<p>The treatment of the miracles in Egypt is interesting.  They are simultaneously mundane and miraculous (and that’s not without precedent in how YHWH has worked with a great many other faithful).  But we don’t see the repeated meetings between Moses and Pharaoh, where Moses works miracles with his staff and leprous hand mentioned in Scripture.  In fact, rather than Moses pouring blood-red water onto the ground before Pharaoh, crocodiles start a feeding frenzy on some poor fishermen which turns the Nile red (or is it that their thrashing pulled up the red clay, as one Egyptian adviser suggested?).  They disturbed the frogs whose living and dying brought the gnats who brought the flies who brought the sores.</p>
<p>Not that far-fetched as an explanation of the miraculous, really.  I’m actually OK with that because the Lord uses mundane events with miraculous timing far more than blatant, obvious miracles.</p>
<p>But it’s the depiction of Moses as the insurrectionist general being rescued in his slow war of attrition by miracles, that doesn’t match well with the Biblical narrative.  This seems less an accurate account of the Exodus and more a cry for insurrection against the Luciferian world order&#8230;but the Luciferians make the movies so what’s going on here?!</p>
<p>One place both DeMille and Scott depart from Scripture is, oddly enough, to protect our sensibilities from the harshness of the Word—the problem is that, intertwined in that harshness is the Gospel.</p>
<p>In both movies, it is the arrogance and barbarism of Ramses that <em>suggests</em> the killing of the firstborn to the Lord but only after Ramses has already threatened to do that to the Hebrews.</p>
<p>The reality is that it was the plan from the beginning.</p>
<p>All the firstborn of Egypt were to die unless they were protected by the blood of a lamb upon their doorposts and lintels.</p>
<p>Moses recounting the requirements to the elders was actually a stirring moment.  “Why should we do this?” they asked.  “Pity the lambs if I’m wrong,” Moses replied.  “If I’m right, we will bless them for eternity.”</p>
<p>Ramses later presents his dead son to Moses and asks him with angry anguish how the Hebrews could worship such a God.  Moses’ response was the catalyst for their release—another great moment (I won’t ruin it for you).</p>
<p>There were actually several other great scenes, some were quite subtle.</p>
<p>In arguing with Viceroy Hegep, the abuser of the Hebrews at Pithom, Moses corrects him about the precise meaning of “Israelite”.</p>
<p>When the plagues begin, Moses is distraught before God that they have effected everyone, “Who are you trying to punish?”  Scripture is clear that the first three plagues effected both Hebrew and Egyptian alike—</p>
<blockquote><p>And the Lord said to Moses, “Rise early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh as he comes out to the water.  Then say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Let My people go, that they may serve Me.  Or else, if you will not let My people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you and your servants, on your people and into your houses.  The houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground on which they stand.  And in that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, in which My people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there, in order that you may know that I am the Lord in the midst of the land.  I will make a difference between My people and your people.  Tomorrow this sign shall be.”’”  And the Lord did so.  Thick swarms of flies came into the house of Pharaoh, into his servants’ houses, and into all the land of Egypt.  The land was corrupted because of the swarms of flies. ~ Exodus 8:20-24 (NKJV)</p></blockquote>
<p>With the of the death of the firstborn, however, those who obeyed the Word were spared, regardless of their nationality—I’ll wager many a shell-shocked Egyptian eagerly mimicked the Hebrew precautions and perhaps more than a few scoffing Hebrews paid dearly for their lack of faith.</p>
<p>I like how the movie reinforces the idea that the beginning of the plagues effecting the Israelites made them more likely to obey Moses, but you have to read between the lines to get there.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5;">Ramses then becomes bent on killing Moses and begins systematically executing random whole Jewish families until the whereabouts of Moses and his family are divulged.  Again, this is nowhere in Scripture but it does lead to a humorous moment when Ramses also hangs his adviser and even the High Priestess when they don’t produce solutions for him.</span></p>
<p>Another grievous departure from Scripture was what happened after the Hebrews were released.  Moses then attempted to lead them back through the desert wilderness trying to recall his trek from his family to Memphis.  He thinks he can remember but he’s deeply distraught.  He wants to bring them to a safe and tactically-secure location as soon as possible but not only does God ignore his pleas for help, Moses ineptly leads them to the Red Sea and a dead end as Pharaoh’s army comes crashing down on them—but not before losing many chariots through a dangerous mountain pass.</p>
<p>Not only is this not in Scripture, it actually <em>contradicts</em> the Word!</p>
<p>Moses never had to rack his brain for a route through the wilderness, wondering desperately how to stand in leadership for his people—the Lord made it powerfully clear with a massive plume of smoke by day and a terrifying column of fire by night guiding them the entire way.  When they reached the Red Sea, the column of fire switched positions and kept the Egyptians from bearing down on them before they were through crossing.</p>
<p>Again, what we are seeing is that it was much more important to the film-makers to encourage the rise of a future Moses than to honor the original story.</p>
<p>Be careful what you wish for.</p>
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<p>There have been a spate of people’s revenge movies coming out over the last few years—</p>
<p><em>Assault on Wall Street</em> (2013)&#8230;the original title was <em>Bailout: The Age of Greed</em></p>
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<p><em>After the Fall</em> (2014) is a sort of <em>Wall Street</em> meets <em>Falling Down</em>; again, about bail-outs and the little guy getting crushed</p>
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<p>More recently there is <em>The Big Short</em></p>
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<p>And even a remake of <em>Point Break</em></p>
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<p>But, of course, they’re all seeking revenge against the bankers.  This is being allowed in theaters because “the bankers” are only at the mid-level.  Above them is the literal Whore of Babylon: Rome (<a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/illuminati-unmasked/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">read my book</a>).</p>
<p>So again I ask, “What’s going on here?”</p>
<p>The fact that the impetus for the movie came from 20<sup>th</sup> Century Fox’s top Luciferian, Peter Chernin, doesn’t convince me that the Elite secretly want a Moses to rise up against their order.  It certainly would suit them all if incompetents or puppets attempted to channel the discontent of the world right where the satanists wanted them to be; towards disaster and enslaved unification under an (or <em>the</em>) anti-Christ.</p>
<p>But the God of the Exodus has a sense of humor along with a clock ticking towards His Judgment.  If the Luciferians are looking for an uprising, they may get what they seek&#8230;but not quite the way they intended.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[Well the Wachowskis have done it again.  They’ve made another movie teaming with insider innuendo. Laurence “Larry” Wachowski (b. 1965) and Andrew Paul “Andy” Wachowski (b. 1967) were raised in the Jesuit Communist community-organizing mecca of Chicago. Chicago was where Jesuit Greg Galluzzo taught Barack...]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well the Wachowskis have done it again.  They’ve made another movie teaming with insider innuendo.</p>
<p>Laurence “Larry” Wachowski (b. 1965) and Andrew Paul “Andy” Wachowski (b. 1967) were raised in the Jesuit Communist community-organizing mecca of Chicago.</p>
<p>Chicago was where Jesuit <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/23/us/the-catholic-roots-of-obamas-activism.html?_r=0">Greg Galluzzo taught Barack Obama</a> how to be a Communist “community organizer”.  Galluzzo <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=7004">worked out of the “Gamaliel Foundation”</a> because the coward Jesuits must always put a Jewish face to their machinations.</p>
<p>Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett (who has her own full-time, <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/25/earpiece-envy-white-house-colleagues-skeptical-why-valerie-jarrett-has-detail/">taxpayer-funded Secret Service bodyguard</a>) is an interesting tie-in; her father-in-law, Vernon Jarrett, was a rabid black Communist—<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2418">Jarrett’s entire family is filled with them</a>—who worked at a Chicago black Communist newspaper called “The Defender”.  He was a member of the Communist Party, USA.</p>
<p>Another member of the Communist Party, USA who <em>also</em> worked at <em>The Defender</em> (roughly the same time—mid to late 1940’s) was pervert pedophile Frank Marshall Davis.  They were <a href="http://www.trevorloudon.com/2011/06/valerie-jarretts-father-in-law-was-a-communist-worked-with-obama-mentor-frank-marshall-davis/">almost certainly in league</a> with each other.</p>
<p>There is an excellent chance that Frank Marshall Davis was Barack Obama’s real father.</p>
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<p>He was also <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/bhos-sexually-confused-caretakers/">Obama’s sexual abuser</a>.</p>
<p>The Wachowskis may not have a Jesuit/Communist pedigree as <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Illuminati-Unmasked-Everything-about-World/dp/1506156290/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1422399058&amp;sr=8-1&amp;">obvious as Barack Obama’s</a> but their movies show they are clearly on the same plane as the Luciferians.  Perhaps that is why “Larry” has gone through a “gender-reassignment” to become “Lana”.</p>
<div id="attachment_3100" style="width: 1196px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/wachowski-creepers-by-Dan-Winters.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-HwRd]"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3100" loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-3100" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/wachowski-creepers-by-Dan-Winters.jpg" alt="Photo by Dan Winters" width="1186" height="949" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/wachowski-creepers-by-Dan-Winters.jpg 1186w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/wachowski-creepers-by-Dan-Winters-150x120.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/wachowski-creepers-by-Dan-Winters-300x240.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/wachowski-creepers-by-Dan-Winters-768x615.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/wachowski-creepers-by-Dan-Winters-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/wachowski-creepers-by-Dan-Winters-24x19.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/wachowski-creepers-by-Dan-Winters-36x29.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/wachowski-creepers-by-Dan-Winters-48x38.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/wachowski-creepers-by-Dan-Winters-400x320.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 1186px) 100vw, 1186px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-3100" class="wp-caption-text">Photo by Dan Winters</p></div>
<p>Their first big break was on the Richard Donner / (<a href="http://vaticanassassins.org/2012/02/02/motion-picture-association-of-america-ruled-by-black-popes-knights-of-malta/">reputed Knight of Malta</a>) Sylvester Stallone /Antonio Banderas movie “Assassins” in 1995.</p>
<p>“Assassins” was handed to them by <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/dino-de-laurentiis-funeral-45561">Italian Catholic Helliwood icon</a> (but it’s really the Jews) Dino De Laurentiis.</p>
<p>They intended <em>Assassins</em> to be much more complex with what they knew to be reality but it was all edited out.</p>
<blockquote><p>The blockbuster-film producer Dino De Laurentiis optioned the Wachowskis’ next screenplay, “Assassins,” while they were renovating their parents’ house.  De Laurentiis entertained them with champagne and lascivious stories about beautiful actresses, and then sold the script to Warner Bros. for five times what he’d paid.  According to Lana, substantial revisions by a hired writer removed “all the subtext, the visual metaphors &#8230; the idea that within our world there are moral pocket universes that operate differently.”  When the movie was made, in 1995 (directed by Richard Donner, of “Lethal Weapon” fame, and starring Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Banderas, and Julianne Moore), the Wachowskis tried to get their names taken off the credits but failed.  Still, the script earned them a deal with Warner Bros.  They finished the work on their parents’ house, quit construction, and became full-time filmmakers. ~ <em><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/09/10/beyond-the-matrix?currentPage=all">Beyond the Matrix</a></em>, Aleksandar Hemon, <em>The New Yorker</em></p></blockquote>
<p>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassins_(film)">man who re-wrote Assassins</a> was writer/producer Brian Helgeland.</p>
<p>Helgeland was <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/93948/Brian-Helgeland">Jesuit-trained at Loyola Marymount</a>.</p>
<p>It was Roman emissary De Laurentiis that financed their next perversion-fest*, <em>Bound</em> (1996), about two lesbians who try to steal millions from the mafia.</p>
<p>Larry/Lana must’ve had a good time with this movie;</p>
<blockquote><p>The directors initially struggled to cast the lesbian characters of Violet and Corky before securing [Jennifer] Tilly and [Gina] Gershon.  To choreograph the sex scenes, the directors employed “sex educator” <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susie_Bright">Susie Bright</a>, who also made a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameo_appearance">cameo appearance</a> in the film. ~ <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bound_(1996_film)">Bound (1996 film)</a></em>, Wikipedia</p></blockquote>
<p>Three years later the Wachowskis gave us the premier disclosing of the Jesuit/Cosmic Accident/Mystery Babylon web of our existence with their 1999 film <em>The Matrix</em>.</p>
<p>After two sequels that held <em>nothing</em> of the same impact as the original, the Wachowskis went on to make the 2006 film <em><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/v-for-vendetta-2005/">V for Vendetta</a></em>.  It was the movie that has gone on to define resistance to the “New World Order” as dissatisfied youth everywhere dawn Guy Fawkes masks for their protests&#8230;what they don’t know is that Guy Fawkes was a Jesuit assassin who tried to murder England’s Protestant King James I by filling the basement of the House of Lords with barrels of gunpowder late in the year of 1605—November to be exact.</p>
<blockquote><p>“Remember, remember, the Fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and Plot. I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot&#8230;”</p></blockquote>
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<p>Two years later they took an ill-advised side-track into <a href="http://my.xfinity.com/slideshow/entertainment-boxofficebombs/2/">the box-office bomb</a> that was <em>Speed Racer</em>.</p>
<p>They recovered somewhat with <em>Cloud Atlas</em> in 2012 which pulled in an extra 22% of their $130 million budget.</p>
<p>Their effort seemed to be a little too complex as we must rely on the “official synopsis” to understand what was really going on.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong><em>Cloud Atlas</em></strong> is a 2012 German-American<sup><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Atlas_(film)#cite_note-AFI-2">[2]</a></sup> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction_film">science fiction</a> film written and directed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wachowskis">Lana Wachowski</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Tykwer">Tom Tykwer</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wachowskis">Andy Wachowski</a>. Adapted from the 2004 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Atlas_(novel)">novel of the same name</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mitchell_(author)">David Mitchell</a>, the film has multiple plotlines set across six different eras.  The official synopsis describes it as “an exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.”<sup><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Atlas_(film)#cite_note-7">[7]</a></sup> ~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Atlas_(film)">Wikipedia</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Does this tell us that the Wachowskis are actually calling us to rebel against the Luciferian World Order?</p>
<p>Unfortunately I’ll never know thanks to the putrescence that was the casting; with names like Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon and Hugh Grant not even the return of Hugo Weaving (who played “V” for them) will allow me to watch it.</p>
<p>I always laugh when I think of Tom Hanks because his face brings up his nickname given to him by the military man who made <em><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/saving-private-ryan-1998/">Saving Private Ryan</a></em> what it was for Steven Schmeilberg, Marine Corps Vietnam veteran Dale Dye, who <a href="http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20125979,00.html">called Hanks “Turd No. 1”</a>.  Dye and Schmeilberg set the standard for realism in “war movies”.  Between them and computer graphic imaging never again will we be subjected to bloodless combat, out-of-period equipment or national guard stand-ins.  Dye got an interesting <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/13/movies/dale-dye-will-make-a-man-out-of-you.html">start with Catholic nuns</a> at the now-defunct St. Joseph’s Military Academy in, where else?  —Chicago!</p>
<p>So now you’re caught up to the movie I wanted to tell you about; <em>Jupiter Ascending</em>.</p>
<p>Jupiter is the king planet which sits next to Saturn.  Saturn is more obviously associated with Satan but there’s a lot of cross-over.  Who is really ascending?</p>
<p>Now, in order to explain this to you I’ve got to spoil the crap out of it so if that is a concern, hold your place, go watch it and come back.</p>
<p>OK, are we good?</p>
<p>So the movie begins with Jupiter’s father, Maximilian Jones, falling in love with a native Russian named Aleksa while he was visiting there.  He has an odd obsession with looking at the stars.  The two marry and Aleksa becomes pregnant.  Maximilian insists on calling the child “Jupiter” after the most important of “planets” but Aleksa channels the audience and tells him it’s ridiculous.</p>
<p>Unfortunately for her, some un-named past dealings with the Russian criminal element have caused Maximilian to get shot and killed (he was really annoying anyway) and we’re forced to endure the alliterative stupidity of metaphor in the name “Jupiter Jones”.</p>
<p>I have to say that Mila Kunis did little for me as Jupiter Jones but then again the character was ridiculous anyway.</p>
<p>The movie revolves around this female character and it’s interesting to note that metaphors in the Bible—particularly in the Book of Revelation—always point to women symbolizing religions or religious movements.</p>
<p>So Jupiter grows up with her Russian family who emigrates to—where else?  Chicago!  She helps them clean houses and is often shown cleaning someone else’s toilet.</p>
<p>Outside of all of this, in space, three ruling elite sociopath siblings lightly discuss the genocidal “harvesting” of whole planets for their selfish needs; Balem (sounding similar to the prophet who refused to curse Israel in Numbers 22 and 23—Balaam) Titus (not to be confused with the Roman emperor&#8230;or perhaps purposefully to be confused with him) and sister Kalique, of the Abrasax family.  This “harvesting” process produces a special elixir that equates to perpetual youth for those in power, unfortunately all human-like beings must die to make it.</p>
<p>The idea that the Elite must literally <em>feed</em> off of common citizens is an old but true plot twist.</p>
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<blockquote><p>Thai police arrested a British man Friday after discovering six human babies which had been roasted and wrapped in gold leaf in preparation for a type of black magic ritual, according to reports.</p>
<p>Police said Friday that they found the corpses packed into suitcases in Bangkok’s Chinatown on Thursday, <a href="http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/man-arrested-over-six-roasted-foetuses/story-e6frfku0-1226360545718#ixzz1vCv6zeFS">the AFP news agency reported</a>.  Chow Hok Kuen, a British citizen born in Hong Kong of Taiwanese parents, was being held for possession of human remains. ~ <em><a href="http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/05/18/11755862-thai-police-arrest-man-after-babies-bodies-found-roasted-wrapped-in-gold-leaf">Thai Police Arrest Man After Babies’ Bodies Found Roasted</a></em>, Wrapped in Gold Leaf, MSNBC</p></blockquote>
<p>At one point, Kalique schools Jupiter on what in the universe is far more precious than gold or silver—something even worth genocide; time.</p>
<p>Of course, Earth is targeted soon for “harvesting” except that a power play amongst the siblings causes complications.</p>
<p>The matron of the Abrasax clan has recently died and it turns out that “Jupiter” is somehow her genetic copy.</p>
<p>This is different from being her clone as we are told that clones can not substitute for humans in the worth of “harvesting”.</p>
<p>Titus and Balem have each sent mercenaries to kidnap or kill Jupiter.  The soldiers of the bad mercenaries are “Keepers”—creatures that look a lot like “alien greys”.  They can do anything they like to you from invasive experimentation (hinted at in the movie) to shooting up an entire city yet their powers over mind and matter keep you from ever knowing it happened.</p>
<p>Fortunately for Jupiter, one of the mercenaries decides not to follow through with his contract.  Caine Wise (played by Channing Tatum) is a “splice”—a genetically-manipulated being that is half human and half wolf.  Tatum’s pointed ears and bleached hair give him a pixie look that I’m sure wasn’t intended as he frequently rescues Jupiter in heroic fashion.  It doesn’t help that his signature technological advantage are a pair of hover boots on which he skates gaily around his environment.  I’m sorry, it ends up being far more “gay” than thrilling, especially when Tatum needlessly spends nearly 20 minutes of the movie without a shirt on.  That must’ve equated to several months of shooting, something “Lana” didn’t mind, I’m sure.</p>
<p>Genetic engineering was front and center in this movie and I want you to know that the cool and sexy beings shown in the movie have a basis in real life that is anything but.  The rumors of an “Island of Dr. Moreau” really existing <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/strange-flesh/">are certainly true</a> and many a man and animal have suffered at the hands of these literal Nazi “scientists”.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/CHANNING-TATUM-as-Caine-Wise-and-SEAN-BEAN-as-Stinger-Apini.jpeg.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-HwRd]"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-3101 aligncenter" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/CHANNING-TATUM-as-Caine-Wise-and-SEAN-BEAN-as-Stinger-Apini.jpeg.jpg" alt="JUPITER ASCENDING" width="2133" height="1200" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/CHANNING-TATUM-as-Caine-Wise-and-SEAN-BEAN-as-Stinger-Apini.jpeg.jpg 2133w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/CHANNING-TATUM-as-Caine-Wise-and-SEAN-BEAN-as-Stinger-Apini.jpeg-150x84.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/CHANNING-TATUM-as-Caine-Wise-and-SEAN-BEAN-as-Stinger-Apini.jpeg-300x169.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/CHANNING-TATUM-as-Caine-Wise-and-SEAN-BEAN-as-Stinger-Apini.jpeg-768x432.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/CHANNING-TATUM-as-Caine-Wise-and-SEAN-BEAN-as-Stinger-Apini.jpeg-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/CHANNING-TATUM-as-Caine-Wise-and-SEAN-BEAN-as-Stinger-Apini.jpeg-24x14.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/CHANNING-TATUM-as-Caine-Wise-and-SEAN-BEAN-as-Stinger-Apini.jpeg-36x20.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/CHANNING-TATUM-as-Caine-Wise-and-SEAN-BEAN-as-Stinger-Apini.jpeg-48x27.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/CHANNING-TATUM-as-Caine-Wise-and-SEAN-BEAN-as-Stinger-Apini.jpeg-400x225.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 2133px) 100vw, 2133px" /></a></p>
<p>Another key character—Stinger Apini (played by Sean Bean)—is also genetically engineered but he has bee DNA.  Both Stinger and Caine have been disgraced from the military and their greatest desire is to be reinstated into “the Legion”; a name which speaks of both Rome and spiritual entities.</p>
<blockquote><p>They came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gerasenes.  When He got out of the boat, immediately a man from the tombs with an unclean spirit met Him, and he had his dwelling among the tombs.  And no one was able to bind him anymore, even with a chain; because he had often been bound with shackles and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him and the shackles broken in pieces, and no one was strong enough to subdue him.  Constantly, night and day, he was screaming among the tombs and in the mountains, and gashing himself with stones.  Seeing Jesus from a distance, he ran up and bowed down before Him; and shouting with a loud voice, he said, “What business do we have with each other, Jesus, Son of the Most High God?  I implore You by God, do not torment me!”  For He had been saying to him, <span style="color: #800000;">“Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!”</span>  And He was asking him, <span style="color: #800000;">“What is your name?”</span>  And he said to Him, “My name is Legion; for we are many.” ~ Mark 5:1-9</p></blockquote>
<p>When one is a member of the Legion they have large, functioning wings, but when one is disgraced, those wings are removed.</p>
<p>The ability of the fallen to be redeemed is something the gnostic Luciferians and their masters yearn for greatly.  It was central to <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/noah/">the Aronofsky film “Noah”</a>.  Alas, neither the fallen nor their genetic abomination offspring can ever be restored.</p>
<blockquote><p>Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to obtain an inheritance which is imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away, reserved in Heaven for you, who are protected by the Power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.  In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials, so that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold which is perishable, even though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ; and though you have not seen Him, you love Him, and though you do not see Him now, but believe in Him, you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, obtaining as the outcome of your faith the salvation of your souls.</p>
<p>As to this salvation, the prophets who prophesied of the grace that would come to you made careful searches and inquiries, seeking to know what person or time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating as He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow.  It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves, but you, in these things which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from Heaven—things into which angels long to look. ~ I Peter 1:3-12 NASB (some capitalization added)</p></blockquote>
<p>Even our fallen angel protector, Caine, has a name that wishes for the restoration of a murderer.**</p>
<p>It is pleasing, however, to see that Russia is still getting plenty of attention in Helliwood; mostly in a contrived return of the Cold War, however.  This was really blatant in <em><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/jack-ryan-shadow-recruit-2014/">Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit</a></em>.</p>
<p>Unfortunately for manhood, there really wasn’t a single pure human hero in the entire movie.  Even when the space cops (the “Aegis”) arrive, their starship is captained by a black woman.</p>
<p>“Balem” is played by Eddie Redmayne in a way that just exudes homosexuality—most of his lines are whispered, the rest are screamed (and that got annoying).</p>
<p>His brother Titus (Douglas Booth) was portrayed as a metrosexual playboy who could’ve easily gone both ways.</p>
<p>—that’s because the Luciferian, gnostic, Jesuit-controlled Elite fear disciplined Christian men more than any force in the world save the Return of the King.</p>
<p>Because Jupiter is some sort of genetic copy of their mother, she is given a royal title and protectorate over Earth which both brothers try to steal from her, Titus tries to seduce and kill her, then Balem tries to force her abdication by kidnapping her dysfunctional Russian family.</p>
<p>I found the way that Titus spun bold lies in order to get Jupiter to marry him was powerfully satanic and pretty disturbing in a subtle way.</p>
<p>There’s so much wrapped up in the mythology surrounding the name and the “planet” (more on that shortly) Jupiter that I was able to find a decent write-up which covers a lot of it—</p>
<blockquote><p>Jupiter or Jove was said to be the king of the gods and the god of “sky” and thunder in myth.  Jupiter was also the chief deity of Roman state religion throughout the Republican and Imperial eras, until Christianity became the dominant religion of the Empire.  It is Jupiter (with Saturn) that presides over all Roman religion and sacrifice to the gods.  Jupiter (or Zeus in Greek Myth) depicted as the Eagle (the sovereign bird of birds) clutching the Thunderbolt is another symbol found in the “esoteric” symbols of empires form Rome to the Nazis, and of course the Eagle standard used by Rome (and every other Dictatorship since) can be found decorated into the pulpits of Christendom.</p>
<p>Jupiter is the god of the New World Order.  Saturn, while his father, now worshipped in secret by the same Elite was the father God of the Old World Order.  Both are massively connected, not least physically in terms of their size in our Solar system, but as “forces”, or vibrations that play a part in the movie we call life on Earth.</p>
<p>Statues of Jupiter as the Eagle can be seen with the child Ganymede (one of its Moons) at stately homes all over Britain and relate to the Jupiter and the Age of Aquarius.</p>
<p>The Romans regarded Jupiter as the equivalent of the Greek Zeus, and in Roman art, the myths and iconography of Zeus are adapted under the name <em>Iuppiter</em>.  In the Greek-influenced tradition, Jupiter was the brother of Neptune and Pluto.  Each presided over one of the three realms of the universe: sky, the waters, and the underworld.  From this perspective the sky, the primordial waters (oceans) and the inner Earth and Underworld, where all connected.  They were the place of “origins” the home of the gods and the so-called Lucifer Planets.  Saturn of course has its own symbolism I have touched on in other reviews, but I will stick my neck out here and say that maybe the Wachowskis didn’t want to be “so obvious” and therefore focused on Jupiter rather than Saturn in this narrative?  In fact I would suggest that the twins were possibly “inverting” Jupiter symbolism, just as the Elite have on Earth (see the Eagles above) so to use its vibration for Saturnian ends? &#8230;</p>
<p>The movie title Jupiter Ascending  bears a subtle similarity to Lucifer Rising a film directed by Kenneth Anger on the Satanic Majesties-era Stones, with Jagger donating a dissonant synthesiser soundtrack to Anger’s cinematic enactment of one of Alister Crowley’s rituals &#8211; <em>Inauguration of My Demon Brother</em>.  Crowley also appears on the Beatle’s Sgt Pepper Montage album cover illustration and on Michael Jackson’s <em>Dangerous</em> album illustration, which also has symbols of all-seeing-eyes, lakes of fire and other Masonic symbols.  Crowley was one of the most influential figures on pop /film culture and entertainment in the 20th Century.  His famous motto: “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law” embodies the rising up through rebellion and chaos. ~ <em><a href="http://throughancienteyes.blogspot.com/2015/02/jupiter-lucifer-ascending-harvesting-of.html">Jupiter (Lucifer) Ascending &amp; the Harvesting of Souls</a></em>, Through Ancient Eyes</p></blockquote>
<p>The connection of Rome, the 4<sup>th</sup> Reich and America plays out in everything we do and are today.</p>
<p>This same article brought out something else about the purposeful choosing of such odd names:</p>
<blockquote><p>Just to digress slightly, interestingly the high powered Belgian satanic cult by the name of “Abrasax” (Abraxas) was briefly mentioned during the horrific Marc Dutroux court case, involving the abduction and torture of girls in Belgium in the 90’s. ~ <em><a href="http://throughancienteyes.blogspot.com/2015/02/jupiter-lucifer-ascending-harvesting-of.html">Jupiter (Lucifer) Ascending &amp; the Harvesting of Souls</a></em>, Through Ancient Eyes</p></blockquote>
<p>The Marc Dutroux trials have shown conclusively that not only do the Elite literally and sexually feed off of your children but so do their puppets in government and they all have the power to <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/belgium/1455998/I-was-a-small-cog-in-a-sex-slave-ring-but-I-am-no-murderer-claims-Dutroux.html">completely cover it up</a>.</p>
<p>The movie ends with several climactic battles and Jupiter goes back to clean toilets; but now she understands why she’s been humbled and matured.</p>
<p>She takes a break to speak with her Nephilim boyfriend who has his wings returned to him and he asks her, “Should we tell them?”  She responds, “What, that I own the world?”</p>
<p>This is something I’ve been telling you passionately for a while now.</p>
<p>Our Adversary does <strong><em>not</em></strong> own the world.  He owns the <em>world system</em>; all of the banks, the militaries, the intelligence agencies, the media and entertainment.</p>
<blockquote><p>Again, the devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory; and he said to Him, “All these things I will give You, if You fall down and worship me.”  Then Jesus said to him,<span style="color: #800000;"> “Go, Satan!  For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and serve Him only.’”</span> ~ Matthew 4:8-10</p></blockquote>
<p>The Earth was given to Adam, son of God, to steward for its Master, the King of kings.  He purchased a remnant of Adam’s sons and daughters to be restored to their true royal lineage—not by <em>their</em> blood, but by <em>His</em>.</p>
<blockquote><p>For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!”  The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him. ~ Romans 8:15-17</p></blockquote>
<p>Just like Jupiter, the only thing that remains is you realizing you are royal and asserting your will over that which you already have authority over.</p>
<p><strong>END NOTE:</strong></p>
<p>The Wachowskis only made 3% more off of their whopping $176 million budget so they continue to take risks in giving you this information.</p>
<p>How do they get away with it?</p>
<p>Well, one reason is that they promulgate the Jesuit Cosmic Accident lies of how mankind came into being and how the Earth is just a globe spinning in space amongst untold millions just like it (another annoying scene).</p>
<p>What, you didn’t know the Earth was flat and space exploration was as fake as Hollywood&#8230;?</p>
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<h6>*  When you see the Wachowskis connected to Helliwood mogul Joel Silver, of “Silver Productions”, understand that the power behind them all is Rome.<br />
**  Now, interestingly, I believe strongly that Adam’s son Cain, who murdered his brother Able, may very well have been Saved as his sin/crime merited death yet he was spared and many of his children bore the Name of God in them; “El”.</h6>
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					<description><![CDATA[With a few minor exceptions, Hercules 2014 followed such a predictable pattern of old and new hit movies it was almost as if powerful people simply said, “Make something that both glorifies and demystifies the Greek demigod and make sure it’s palatable.” When I think...]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With a few minor exceptions, <em>Hercules</em> 2014 followed such a predictable pattern of old and new hit movies it was almost as if powerful people simply said, “Make something that both glorifies and demystifies the Greek demigod and make sure it’s palatable.”</p>
<p>When I think of “Hercules” Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson is <em>not</em> the first image that comes to my mind.  Nor did the long hair and short beard make it any better for me.</p>
<p>Clearly, “the Rock” spent a long time in the gym preparing for the role and despite his previous wrestling career (sorry, <em>because</em> of it) is acting is good enough to help you suspend your disbelief—and he’s had plenty of practice.</p>
<p>The Internet Movie Database credits him with some <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0425005/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">94 past and future acting</a> projects to include “Black Adam” in the coming must-miss comic hero movie “Shazam!”</p>
<p>Eager to tap in to its rival, Marvel, DC comics had co-named the character “Captain Marvel” which is pretty gay even by comic book standards.</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Marvel_(DC_Comics)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wikipedia explains</a> why “Shazam!” will be a must-miss for me:</p>
<blockquote><p>The character was created in 1939 by artist C. C. Beck and writer Bill Parker, and first appeared in <em>Whiz Comics</em> #2 (February 1940), published by Fawcett Comics.</p>
<p>Shazam is the alter ego of <strong>Billy Batson</strong>, a boy who, by speaking the magic word “Shazam”, can transform himself into a costumed adult with the powers of superhuman strength, speed, flight, and other abilities. His name is an acronym of the six figures from whom his magical powers derive: <strong>S</strong>olomon, <strong>H</strong>ercules, <strong>A</strong>tlas, <strong>Z</strong>eus, <strong>A</strong>chilles, and <strong>M</strong>ercury.</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/supergay-shazam.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-QUmf]"><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone  wp-image-2860" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/supergay-shazam.jpg" alt="supergay shazam" width="790" height="491" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/supergay-shazam.jpg 684w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/supergay-shazam-150x93.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/supergay-shazam-300x186.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/supergay-shazam-24x15.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/supergay-shazam-36x22.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/supergay-shazam-48x30.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/supergay-shazam-400x249.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px" /></a></p>
<p>When it comes to being thrilled by an avenger of injustice it doesn’t get any more stupid than a little boy who utters a “magic word” to rush past puberty into a “combination of Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles, and Mercury.”</p>
<p>Nor does it get any more dangerous or contradictory to the Christian world view.</p>
<p>Johnson’s best role so far has been as John Matthews in <em>Snitch</em>; the owner of a construction company who must immerse himself in a Mexican drug cartel to free his son from prison.  <em>Snitch</em> highlights all of the outrages of the prison/industrial complex and how it feeds off of the rigged “Drug War” but falls short in showing how high the scam runs (all the way to the top in the United States and elsewhere).</p>
<p><em>Hercules</em> was actually the second movie depicting the Greek “hero” in 2014, behind the somewhat less well-known <em>Legend of Hercules</em> starring Kellan Lutz.</p>
<p>Why, you’d almost think Hollywood was trying to push an agenda glorifying the bastard hybrid offspring of the god Zeus.</p>
<p>Zeus was a busy god who sexually assaulted humans on a very regular basis.  The mother of Hercules, Alcmene, was just one of many, to include Leda, Antiope, Callisto, Europa and Ganymede (a boy).</p>
<p>Hercules’ <em>real</em> name is “Heracles”, “the glory of Hera”.  For every girl and boy Zeus raped there was a compounding of the crime by the jealous goddess Hera—Zeus would rape someone and then Hera would curse them or their offspring (she must’ve been muslim).  Alcmene had hoped to stave off her anger with the name but it didn’t work.  She sent two serpents to kill Heracles the toddler (not to be confused with British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger) but quickly dispatched them.</p>
<p>Murdering small children before they can grow into a threat is an old story in the Bible from the unnamed Pharaoh of Exodus 1 who ordered all of Moses’ generation to be murdered by their midwives to Herod ordering all of the boys 2 years old and under to be slaughtered in Bethlehem in an effort to kill Jesus (both failed, by the way).</p>
<p>But I digress&#8230;</p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/atalanta-can-kick-your-ass.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-QUmf]"><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-2861" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/atalanta-can-kick-your-ass.jpg" alt="atalanta can kick your ass" width="227" height="244" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/atalanta-can-kick-your-ass.jpg 605w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/atalanta-can-kick-your-ass-140x150.jpg 140w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/atalanta-can-kick-your-ass-279x300.jpg 279w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/atalanta-can-kick-your-ass-22x24.jpg 22w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/atalanta-can-kick-your-ass-34x36.jpg 34w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/atalanta-can-kick-your-ass-45x48.jpg 45w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/atalanta-can-kick-your-ass-400x430.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px" /></a>The first formula in Hercules 2014 is now a foundation of <em>all</em> Hollywood movies: all stories of men in camaraderie and combat must include at least one woman who can kick your ass.</p>
<p>The role of “Atalanta” (Ingrid Bolsø-Berdal<span id='easy-footnote-1-2857' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'></span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https://johnnycirucci.com/hercules-2014/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-2857' title='There’s this cutsie new way of career women keeping their maiden names that’s meant to confuse you by not hyphenating them.  I do, anyway.'><sup>1</sup></a></span>) was so ridiculously embellished I didn’t know if I was going to make it through the damn movie.  Not only can she kick your ass but she has the archery prowess of a metrosexual elf and saved the muscle-bound man-hero more than once.</p>
<p>In original Greek myth, Amazons would hack off one of their breasts to increase their skill wielding a sword but that detracts from outrageously-contrived amalgam of a woman who is <em>both</em> sexy <em>and</em> can kick your ass.</p>
<p>And speaking of departing from the original myth, in the movie, Iolaus (Reece Ritchie) is Hercules’ story-telling nephew.</p>
<p>According to Plutarch, he was Heracles’ boy play-thing.</p>
<p>Ah but Greek pederasty (man-boy “love”) and pedophilia never got in the way of telling a good story, did it?  Certainly rape and lust played a key role in the two <em>300</em> movies with their equally ridiculous depiction of every Greek male warrior being built like a body-building champion.  Although the violence was there in <em>Hercules</em> (but to a lesser degree), the sex was not, fortunately.</p>
<p>Another formula filler was the money-minded comrade who cuts all ties before the final battle because he got paid.  Not even Atalanta’s heartfelt “<em>we’re all family!</em>” speech was enough to keep Autolycus around.  But, at a key moment, he comes racing back in to turn the tide, just as Harry Luck (Brad Dexter) did way back in 1960 for <em>The Magnificent Seven</em>.</p>
<p>John Hurt as “Lord Cotys” wasn’t quite as active as, say, Bernard Hill’s “King Theoden” in the <em>Lord of the Rings</em> movies but he’s still a good actor.</p>
<p>There were actually several messages from the movie I liked, although none were clearly positive for a Christian audience, they appealed to me, personally.</p>
<p>One was, “The institutions you serve, aren’t what they appear to be.”  As someone who has spent nearly 20 years combined service in a military run by traitors and foreign insurgents, that resonated with me.</p>
<p>Another was to demystify the myths of your past.  There were mundane explanations for everything paranormal about Hercules yet he was still able to do somewhat superhuman things when he realized his potential.</p>
<p>If you’re Tony Robbins, this “everyone is a hero or an astronaut or a president at heart” is quite absurd.  But if you’re a humble Christian, it encourages you to take a stand in the Righteousness and Strength of Jesus Christ when you are called upon to do so.</p>
<p>Lastly, the message of ignoring the spiritualism of “fate” or “karma” to boldly change the future is similar in its application as well.</p>
<p>I have a sense that even these ideas were stolen from <em>Exodus: Gods and Kings</em> (2014) which I have not seen yet.  I’ve already heard complaints from Christians who have that explanations for the plagues of Egypt and the leadership of Moses were too mundane but I have found that YHWH takes great pleasure in the quiet and subtle over the brash and miraculous.</p>
<p>I learned <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/noah/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">from watching <em>Noah</em></a> not to let Christian “experts” guide me for or against something I haven’t seen for myself.</p>
<p>Sadly, even the demystifying of a hero whose mother was raped by a god to create a superhuman hybrid takes audiences in the wrong direction as well (on purpose, I’m sure).  Gene-splicing, genome-mapping, cloning and Mengele-esque experiments on humans and animals to create super-soldiers and the like are a fact attested to by even “mainstream” sources.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong><em><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2017818/Embryos-involving-genes-animals-mixed-humans-produced-secretively-past-years.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">150 Human Animal Hybrids Grown in UK Labs: Embryos Have Been Produced Secretively for the Past Three Years</a></em></strong> — The Daily Mail, 22 July 2011</p></blockquote>
<p>If you’re a Christian, the closest thing you’ll find to your faith will be the occasional quip to “seek forgiveness from Zeus.”</p>
<p>If that’s the plan for the people behind and in this movie, I say “Good luck with that.”</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[So there I was on the treadmill again, wading through the latest delivery from my rental service. When Pierce Brosnan was selected to play James Bond through the late 90’s I vowed not to watch a single one (and I haven’t).  I couldn’t believe the...]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So there I was on the treadmill again, wading through the latest delivery from my rental service.</p>
<p>When Pierce Brosnan was selected to play James Bond through the late 90’s I vowed not to watch a single one (and I haven’t).  I couldn’t believe the idiocy of the Broccoli family (they’ve had a lock on the Bond franchise forever).  I knew I would never be able to look past the cheesy <em><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083470/?ref_=nv_sr_1">Remington Steele</a></em> TV show from the 80’s (honestly, never really watched <em>that</em>, either).</p>
<p>Since then, Daniel Craig has become the best of the serious, tough portrayals of the perennial Ian Fleming character.  I will always enjoy the Sean Connery movies because I read many of the books and Connery fit the description perfectly.  He even spent time in the Royal Navy (<a href="http://www.seanconnery.com/biography/">but as an enlisted man</a>, not a snooty officer).</p>
<p>Fleming was, himself, a Luciferian intelligence insider who knew that there was an organization above <em>all</em> of the world’s Intelligence Agencies which is why he created “SPECTRE: Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion”.  To keep things safe, “SPECTRE” is adversarial, not an über Puppet Master but that’s the reality and the name of that organization is the Society of Jesus.</p>
<p>Apparenlty, the next Craig Bond installment will be, <em><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2379713/">SPECTRE (2015)</a></em>.</p>
<p>For more, see my book <em><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/illuminati-unmasked/">Illuminati Unmasked</a></em>.</p>
<p>I rented <em>The November Man</em> because, for me, there is one attribute that turns a Hollywood cheesball into a believable toughguy: age.</p>
<p>And I was desperate for something to watch on the treadmill that wouldn’t make me throw myself out the window.</p>
<p>Believe me, I still get them and the 2014 Schwarzenegger movie <em><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1742334/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_8">Sabotage</a></em> was one!  There were so many women pretending to be men in that movie I thought about putting a dress on, <em>then</em> jumping out of the window.  I couldn’t even finish watching the damn thing.  —And talk about a Nazi baby-daddy New World Order Luciferian, Schwarzenegger tops the list!</p>
<p>But I digress&#8230;</p>
<p>If you’ve never read one of <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/category/movie-reviews/">my movie reviews</a>, let me warn you: I usually spoil the sh*t out of them because my obsessive-compulsive disorder requires I hit all the important plot themes and events.</p>
<p>Sorry.</p>
<p>So the movie starts with Brosnan (“Peter Devereaux”) as the mature hitman/spy schooling some annoying prettyboy junior-spy, “David Mason” played by Luke Bracey.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/luke-bracey-in-the-november-man-2014.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-PVNI]"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-2829 aligncenter" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/luke-bracey-in-the-november-man-2014.jpg" alt="luke-bracey-in-the-november-man-(2014)" width="3000" height="1827" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/luke-bracey-in-the-november-man-2014.jpg 3000w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/luke-bracey-in-the-november-man-2014-150x91.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/luke-bracey-in-the-november-man-2014-300x183.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/luke-bracey-in-the-november-man-2014-768x468.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/luke-bracey-in-the-november-man-2014-1024x624.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/luke-bracey-in-the-november-man-2014-24x15.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/luke-bracey-in-the-november-man-2014-36x22.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/luke-bracey-in-the-november-man-2014-48x29.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/luke-bracey-in-the-november-man-2014-400x244.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 3000px) 100vw, 3000px" /></a></p>
<p>I’ve never seen Bracey in anything but he just gave me a pop culture prettyboy sense that I was annoyed with.</p>
<p>There’s an action scene that sets the stage for how tough and skilled the two are but there’s collateral damage which is an interesting twist.</p>
<p>After the scene, there’s a jump in time and the old bald guy who drove the two to their previous action scene, “John Hanley” (played by Bill Smitrovich) makes a call on Brosnan.</p>
<p>“The Agency” needs him to come out of semi-retirement but, of course, this is off the record.</p>
<p>There’s a rising star in Russia, “Arkady Federov” (Lazar Ristovski), who is going to be the next President.  He got there by corruption (of course!) and he’s using his best assassin to erase all the evidence—a skinny, odd-looking woman with a big honker.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/amila-terzimehic-in-the-november-man-2014.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-PVNI]"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-2830 aligncenter" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/amila-terzimehic-in-the-november-man-2014.jpg" alt="amila-terzimehic-in-the-november-man-2014" width="3000" height="2003" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/amila-terzimehic-in-the-november-man-2014.jpg 3000w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/amila-terzimehic-in-the-november-man-2014-150x100.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/amila-terzimehic-in-the-november-man-2014-300x200.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/amila-terzimehic-in-the-november-man-2014-768x513.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/amila-terzimehic-in-the-november-man-2014-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/amila-terzimehic-in-the-november-man-2014-24x16.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/amila-terzimehic-in-the-november-man-2014-36x24.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/amila-terzimehic-in-the-november-man-2014-48x32.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/amila-terzimehic-in-the-november-man-2014-400x267.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 3000px) 100vw, 3000px" /></a></p>
<p>Come on, you didn’t think there’d be a Hollywood movie without a woman who can kick your ass, did you?!</p>
<p>She goes through the entire movie killing men left and right but the only one that lays a finger on her is another woman.</p>
<p>That’s the rule in Fantasy Land: women can kick your ass but even really evil women only get taken down by another woman.</p>
<p>My apologies to actress Amila Terzimehic for joking about her appearance, and my compliments on her ability to play the role to its teeth-grindingly obnoxious hilt.</p>
<p>Hanley’s got a source in Russia with a lead on an eye-witness to Federov’s crimes and it’s an old flame of “Devereaux” (“Natalia Ulanova” played by Mediha Musliovic) so he has to “bring her in”.</p>
<p>This was starting to look like just another Vatican/CIA propaganda hit piece to stoke the flames of war with Russia similar to <em><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/jack-ryan-shadow-recruit-2014/">Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit</a></em> and several other recent films.</p>
<p>So Natalia gets the identity of the witness and Devereaux grabs her just before the Russians (who are on to her) catch up.</p>
<p>But “the Agency” isn’t tracking Devereaux being there and uses Mason to execute Natalia, but not before she gives the intel to Devereaux.</p>
<p>I don’t know if I was happy with Brosnan’s acting here.  Even toughguy’s have to go through some anguish and rage when you lose someone supposedly close and they had a daughter together.</p>
<p>Now Devereaux has to go rogue and track down this witness (who turns out to be Olga Kurylenko) and seek vengeance against “the Agency”.</p>
<p>There’s a race to get to Kurylenko, “Mira Filipova”, between “the Agency”, Federov’s big-nose Yoga-psycho killer-ette, and Devereaux.</p>
<p>Kurylenko is hiding in plain sight, helping teen girls get free of human trafficking as she was abused as Federov’s teen sex slave.</p>
<p>The biggest stretch of the movie occurred when an heroic New York Times reporter (the Communist sh*trag forever stuck in the Catholic Intelligence Agency’s hip pocket) tries to get the story on the human trafficking ring.  This is disgustingly ironic as the Catholic Church and all her co-opted Intelligence Agencies (CIA, MI6, Mossad, etc.) are the premier drug pushers and child sex traffickers in the world.  In fact, whenever you see a rare arrest take place, it’s them whittling down their small-fry competition.</p>
<p>But the best was what Mira was privy to: Federov had risen to power after Chechen muslim insurgents bombed a building full of Russian soldiers and he rode the wave of anger into war on unpopular Chechnya.</p>
<p>Only, the Chechens didn’t do it, Federov did.</p>
<p>This is the scenario that did the same for Vladimir Putin.</p>
<p>In 1999, a series of apartment building bombings slammed Buinaksk, Volgodonsk and Moscow resulting in over 300 innocent Russians being murdered.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/russia_1999_apartment_bombing.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-PVNI]"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-2831 aligncenter" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/russia_1999_apartment_bombing.jpg" alt="General view of an apartment block in Pe" width="1024" height="609" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/russia_1999_apartment_bombing.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/russia_1999_apartment_bombing-150x89.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/russia_1999_apartment_bombing-300x178.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/russia_1999_apartment_bombing-768x457.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/russia_1999_apartment_bombing-24x14.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/russia_1999_apartment_bombing-36x21.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/russia_1999_apartment_bombing-48x29.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/russia_1999_apartment_bombing-400x238.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a></p>
<p>In early 1999, Putin was director of the FSB—a follow-on security agency to the KGB—appointed by Russian President Boris Yeltsin.  Yeltsin would later appoint Putin Deupty Prime Minister and then, in August, Prime Minister.  Putin was quickly approved by the Duma.</p>
<p>As Prime Minister, Putin vowed to hunt down and kill the terrorists even if they were found using the toilet.</p>
<p>Later, the <a href="http://www.rferl.org/content/Ten_Years_On_Troubling_Questions_Linger_Over_Russian_Apartment_Bombings/1818652.html">FSB would be implicated</a> as the source of these terrible false flag bombings.</p>
<p>There ya go, folks!  There’s this thing called a “false flag” where your own government murders you for some political achievement and them damn Ruskies pulled one to put up Putin!</p>
<p>If Vladimir Putin has been empowered by the blood of innocent Russians he will carry that shame to his judgment.</p>
<p>But the FBI and CIA, ran by the Vatican, <em><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/category/false-flags-for-fascism/">perfected how false flags</a></em> are done and they did it all on innocent Americans.</p>
<p>This was really shaping up to be an absolute stinker of a movie.</p>
<p>And then a twist occurred that I wasn’t looking for; Hanley was the guy pulling <em>everyone’s</em> strings.  It turned out that he helped Federov conduct the bombing to insure that a man he controlled would become president, and that’s why he killed Natalia to cover for his own crony.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5;">Of course Hanley had to have a fabulous scene where he excoriated a “capable” agency female professional because she’s a woman.  Only badguy @ssh*les are so crass.</span></p>
<p>But after that turn of events, I&#8230;was&#8230;floored.</p>
<p>That is exactly how the Vatican has controlled spies and assassins in the modern era and their murder of George S. Patton is a despicable example.  They used their man, William Donovan (founder of the OSS, precursor to the CIA) to plan it out but Patton was only wounded and even began to recover.  They then called in the NKVD (precursor to the KGB) to finish him off.*</p>
<p>Co-operation between two supposed “rivals” to screw good citizens is a calling card of Rome and the Jesuits.</p>
<p>When I saw that the movie was based on a November Man series book titled <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/There-Are-Spies-Bill-Granger/dp/0446347051">There Are No Spies</a></em> by Bill Granger, I knew somebody was putting out some high-quality truth in this film.</p>
<p>I’ve never read the book and it was published in 1987 during the Cold War so I really doubt it had this phenomenal twist in it so I’m going to credit screenplay writers Michael Finch and Karl Gajdusek as well as Director Roger Donaldson.</p>
<p>What <em>else</em> do they know about how “there are no spies”&#8230;?</p>
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<h6>* For more on this, read <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1596985798/?tag=googhydr-20&amp;hvadid=31541505197&amp;hvpos=1t1&amp;hvexid=&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvrand=6890234559698569548&amp;hvpone=18.37&amp;hvptwo=&amp;hvqmt=b&amp;hvdev=c&amp;ref=pd_sl_82llwj34gk_b">Target Patton</a></em> by Robert Wilcox but do <em>not</em> read the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/080509668X/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_1?pf_rd_p=1944687762&amp;pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&amp;pf_rd_t=201&amp;pf_rd_i=1596985798&amp;pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_r=1T8VVFJWVXYVY8AQ41B1">useless coverup</a> on the subject by Papal propaganda puppet Bill O’Reilly.</h6>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p><em>The Floor, or groundwork of the Lodge, a chequer-work of black and white squares, denotes the dual quality of everything connected with terrestrial life and the physical groundwork of human nature – the mortal body and its appetites and affections. “The web of our life is a mingled yarn, good and ill together,” wrote Shakespeare. Everything material is characterized by inextricably interblended good and evil, light and shade, joy and sorrow, positive and negative. What is good for me may be evil for you; pleasure is generated from pain and ultimately degenerates into pain again; what it is right to do at one moment may be wrong the next&#8230;</em> ~ <em>The Meaning of Masonry</em>, Walter Leslie Wilmshurst, P. Lund, Humphries &amp; Co.; W. Rider &amp; Son: London (1922), pp. 40-41</p></blockquote>
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<blockquote><p><em>Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!</em> ~ Isaiah 5:20, KJV</p></blockquote>
<p>There’s a reason why so many “awake” people are Christians and there are still so many so-called “Conservatives” who either refuse to properly examine reality or willingly carry on the charáde and it all has to do with the question “Whom do you serve?”</p>
<p>As I learned to question my reality and the authorities who govern it I found that “evil” was “good” and “good” was “evil”.</p>
<p>Geopolitically, this is played out in a very interesting way; the once Communist and brutal totalitarian Soviet Union appears to have morphed into a new Christian Federation and what I thought was a proud Christian America has been thoroughly hijacked by a Luciferian authority.</p>
<p>That authority <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/illuminati-unmasked/">governs every single power center</a> in America; politics, finance, law enforcement, the military, entertainment, “news” and intelligence.</p>
<p>What was, for me, the obvious way to discern “good” and “evil” is by end results.</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #800000;"><em>“Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they? So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. So then, you will know them by their fruits.”</em></span> ~ Matthew 7:15-20, NASB</p></blockquote>
<p>As I noted <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/the-rapture-isnt-coming-for-you-but-these-things-are/">in a previous column</a>—</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Through Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama; where-ever the United States </em><a href="http://t.co/bYRNg4MWZl"><em>military has gone, Christians suffer</em></a><em>.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>In America, Christians are coming under increased persecution, as their values are publicly crushed and they are forced to accept that which is perverse and anathema.</p>
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<h5><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/02/03/christian-bakers-face-government-wrath-for-refusing-to-make-cake-for-gay/"><em>Christian Bakers Face Government Wrath for Refusing to Make Cake for Gay Wedding</em></a></h5>
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<h5><a href="http://christiannews.net/2013/11/09/christian-photographers-forced-to-shoot-homosexual-weddings-appeal-to-u-s-supreme-court/"><em>Christian Photographers Ordered to Shoot Homosexual “Weddings”</em></a></h5>
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<h5><a href="http://www.wnd.com/2007/08/42915/"><em>Tough-Guy Firefighters Forced into “Gay Pride” Parade</em></a></h5>
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<p>America is now ruled by a man who openly mocks the Bible and states that we are no-longer a Christian nation.</p>
<p>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8Zk6oRZJvE</p>
<p>Russia is ruled by a man who openly embraces Russian Orthodox Christianity, if only because it is important to him to court Russian Christians (that, alone, still tells you something).</p>
<p>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4fEYc40py4</p>
<p>As I noted in my recently-published book, America is becoming more poisonous and totalitarian while Russia (astoundingly) is resisting the New World Order and becoming more free.</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Illuminati-Unmasked-cover-front.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-8w3R]"><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-4" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Illuminati-Unmasked-cover-front.jpg" alt="Illuminati Unmasked cover [front]" width="258" height="360" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Illuminati-Unmasked-cover-front.jpg 477w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Illuminati-Unmasked-cover-front-107x150.jpg 107w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Illuminati-Unmasked-cover-front-215x300.jpg 215w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Illuminati-Unmasked-cover-front-17x24.jpg 17w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Illuminati-Unmasked-cover-front-26x36.jpg 26w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Illuminati-Unmasked-cover-front-34x48.jpg 34w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Illuminati-Unmasked-cover-front-400x558.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px" /></a>The state propaganda outlet “Russia Today” regularly tackles issues of actual import from genetically-modified food to false flags—always with a pro-Russian spin, of course.</p>
<p>Putin is one of the very few world leaders who is in no hurry to dive into economy-crippling changes for the sake of “global warming”<sup>1054</sup>. In a 2010 visit to the Arctic circle he noted that the climate is changing but he was still unsure if it was as a result of direct human influence or the Earth’s own “living and breathing”.<sup>1055</sup></p>
<p>In 2009, British journalist James Delingpole broke a scandal that should’ve broke “Climate Change”. Delingpole released a series of e-mails that showed most un-scientific collusion and conspiracy amongst “Climate Change scientists” to fudge data in their favor. &#8230;</p>
<p>It was later disclosed that said scientists were actually targeted by a sophisticated hacking effort. At the bottom of the effort was the Russian Secret Service.<sup>1057</sup> &#8230;</p>
<p>Congress and the FAA have paved the way for 30,000 government surveillance drones to fill American skies by 2020.<sup>1065</sup></p>
<p>Vladimir Putin says that “drones aren’t toys” and has vowed not to use them as the West does.<sup>1066</sup> &#8230;</p>
<p>Although Russia lacks the same sophistication or high incomes of the West, it is a nation that also lacks the West’s banker-driven debt. &#8230;</p>
<p>In Russia “food patriots” blow up bottles of soda<sup>1088</sup> and President Putin has vowed to protect Russians from genetically-modified organisms (“GMO’s”)<sup>1089</sup>. At least one source is claiming there is a complete ban on GMO’s in Russia.<sup>1090</sup></p>
<p>In Russia, pedophilia is not protected as a “sexual orientation”<sup>1091</sup> and it is illegal to entice children with homosexual recruiting propaganda.<sup>1092</sup> &#8230;</p>
<p>Russia is the only major industrialized nation in the world that is actually liberalizing her strict gun laws. A recent move now allows all licensed citizens to carry firearms for personal protection.<sup>1095</sup></p>
<p>Russia is starting to become wary of radicalized Islam and has prohibited the building of new mosques.<sup>1096</sup> &#8230;</p>
<p>During his 2012 Presidential election victory speech with new Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, a tearful Vladimir Putin thanked all of the citizens of Russia.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">I once asked, “Would we prevail?” We have prevailed. &#8230;</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">This was not just a presidential election. This was a very important test for all of us, for our whole nation. &#8230;</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">We have shown indeed, that no one can enslave us.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">No one and nothing can enslave us.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">We have shown that our people are truly able to easily distinguish between the desire for progress and renewed political provocation that has only one objective—to destroy Russian sovereignty and usurp power.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The Russian people have now shown that in our country such choices and scenarios will not pass.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">THEY SHALL NOT PASS.<sup>1053</sup></p>
<p>Some have considered this a veiled warning to the “New World Order”. ~ <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/illuminati-unmasked/"><em>Illuminati Unmasked</em></a>, pp. 355, 356, 361, 362</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>HOORAY FOR HELLIWOOD</strong></p>
<p>As I have <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/illuminati-unmasked/">also stated in my book</a>, America is a captured operation and the heart of the cancer (figuratively and literally) is the Central Intelligence Agency. From its very inception, through the broad daylight slaughter of John F. Kennedy, through to 9/11, the CIA is America’s greatest enemy.</p>
<blockquote><p>The founder of the Office of Strategic Services (precursor to the CIA) and the “father of Central Intelligence” was Roman Catholic Knight of Malta William Joseph “Wild Bill” Donovan. He was also an influential Wall Street attorney.<sup>217</sup></p>
<p>The unspeakable treason of 9/11 was overseen by Jesuit-educated Director of the CIA George Tenet who received his Georgetown “Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service” in 1976.<sup>397</sup> &#8230;</p>
<p>Prior to 9/11, a listening operation known as Able Danger kept tabs on Osama bin Laden and anything he had plans for. Georgetown’s own George Tenet, then Director of the CIA, was perfectly positioned to keep that intelligence buried.<sup>390</sup> ~ <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/illuminati-unmasked/"><em>Illuminati Unmasked</em></a>, pp. 62, 113, 114</p></blockquote>
<p>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8epSBFJtAc</p>
<p>—And the CIA is in as much control of Hollywood <a href="http://carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php">as it is corporate media</a>; from getting heavyweight director <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/may/15/iraq.usa2">Jerry Bruckheimer to script</a> the recovery of <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2003/11/21645/">raped and brutalized female</a> “soldier” Jessica Lynch to <em>writing</em> the script for the <a href="http://21stcenturywire.com/2013/02/24/zero-dark-thirty-wins-albert-speer-oscar-award-for-best-propaganda-picture/">propaganda film <em>Zero Dark Thirty</em></a>.</p>
<p>As bad as the propaganda was in <em>Jack Ryan</em>, it looks like the only thing that <em>wasn’t</em> done at Langley were the action scenes. Basically all reality was turned completely on its head.</p>
<p>The character of Jack Ryan was the creation of former insurance salesman-turned superstar author Tom Clancy. Clancy was a blue-blood Northeastern Republican that seemed to get along well with the Catholic Intelligence Agency.</p>
<p>Clancy hailed from Lord Baltimore’s Catholic <a href="http://www.heritage-history.com/?c=read&amp;author=southworth&amp;book=builders1&amp;story=baltimore">colony state of Mary-land</a>, and the city named after Cecilius Calvert.</p>
<p>How did Clancy get the inside track on all of America’s cutting edge military tech? —He was a good, <a href="http://magazine.loyola.edu/issue/alumni/5748/tom-clancy-nothing-is-as-real-as-a-dream">Jesuit-educated Catholic</a>!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/tom-clancy-council-on-foreign-relations.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-8w3R]"><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2244" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/tom-clancy-council-on-foreign-relations.jpg" alt="Tom Clancy And General Zinni Promote &quot;Battle Ready&quot;" width="600" height="384" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/tom-clancy-council-on-foreign-relations.jpg 600w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/tom-clancy-council-on-foreign-relations-150x96.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/tom-clancy-council-on-foreign-relations-300x192.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/tom-clancy-council-on-foreign-relations-24x15.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/tom-clancy-council-on-foreign-relations-36x23.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/tom-clancy-council-on-foreign-relations-48x31.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/tom-clancy-council-on-foreign-relations-400x256.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></a></p>
<p>Perhaps his success wasn’t so unforeseen as we would believe&#8230;at least by those pulling the strings.</p>
<p>Clancy died at the young age of 66 from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Clancy#Death">a mystery illness</a> neither his friends nor the media seemed <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/books/tom-clancy-best-selling-novelist-of-military-thrillers-dies-at-66.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0">to have knowledge of</a>.</p>
<p>Christian philanthropist Dr. Jim Garrow burst onto the alternative media scene with the shocking disclosures that he was on the CIA payroll, and that both Andrew Breitbart and Tom Clancy <a href="http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/?p=15278">were murdered</a> for “knowing too much”.</p>
<p>Garrow, however, enjoys pushing some very <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?&amp;v=_PSzYFkXF18">old-school Cold War</a> disinformation. Rather than the CIA having emplaced Obama (which they <a href="http://www.infowars.com/bombshell-barack-obama-conclusively-outed-as-cia-creation/">most certainly did</a>), he has Obama usurping power and ceding Europe to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?&amp;v=embdfEvjihA">evil Vladimir Putin</a> via ineptitude—a common Conservitard dodge, “He’s not a highly-trained Communist subversive, he’s just a bumbling fool.”</p>
<p>This just goes to show that <em>no one</em> goes public about the Firm <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/is-trunews-controlled-opposition/">unless the Firm is behind it</a>.</p>
<p>Interestingly, on the Internet Movie Database, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1205537/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ql_6">Clancy isn’t even mentioned</a>, regarding this latest installment of his Irish Catholic CIA super-hero. That could just be that the Luciferians and Leftists at Paramount have full control of the multi-million dollar author’s creation. Many remember their re-writing of Clancy’s <a href="http://www.aim.org/media-monitor/muslim-villains-cut-from-film/">Islamic terrorists into neo-Nazis</a> in <em>The</em> <em>Sum of All Fears</em> (2002). They also cast mega-metrosexual Ben Affleck as hero Jack Ryan which were the two main reasons I didn’t bother to see the movie.</p>
<p>Chris Pine, fresh off of his success as the legendary starship <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/enterprise/">captain James Tiberius Kirk,</a> is much better at the role but I have to say the young, slim Alec <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-449775/Alec-Baldwin-apologises-calling-daughter-11-rude-thoughtless-pig.html">“You’re A Rude Little Pig”</a> Baldwin was my ideal for the role—even in contrast to Harrison Ford.</p>
<p><strong>AQUINAS’ RETREADS</strong></p>
<p>Like all patriotic young men in 2001, John Patrick Ryan joined the Marines after he watched the Twin Towers go down.</p>
<p>Someday, perhaps with my writing fueling the fire, young men will realize they have bled for a lie and turn on their puppet masters.</p>
<p>This is an interesting departure from Clancy’s Ryan who, like himself, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ryan_(character)#Backstory">was Jesuit-educated</a>. That must’ve made Clancy’s guardian assassins pleased&#8230;and may very-well have fueled his original success.</p>
<p>In <em>Shadow Recruit</em>, Ryan was a student at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ryan:_Shadow_Recruit#Plot">London School of Economics</a> when duty called.</p>
<p>The theme of a terrible back injury is consistent <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ryan_(character)#Backstory">for both Clancy and early film</a> adaptations; Clancy wrote it as a training accident during an NROTC / NATO exercise and <em>The Hunt For Red October</em> made Ryan a Naval Academy cadet whose back was broke, also in a training accident.</p>
<p>His recovery at Walter Reed was emotionally disturbing for me, given what I know about how America has been played. Ryan must contrast his excruciating pain at walking with another young man whose missing a leg.</p>
<p>Ryan is aided in his recovery by medical student Cathy Muller played by Keira Knightley.</p>
<p>While at Walter Reed, Ryan is recruited into the CIA by the mysterious Thomas Harper, played by Kevin Costner.</p>
<p>Costner must be the Catholic Intelligence Agency flavor of the month as he is fresh off another formula-driven CIA propaganda film, <em>3 Days to Kill</em> (2014). It is a movie that has an unusual tie to the Catholic Church.</p>
<blockquote><p>Forcing common men to be “satisfied with less” has been a Luciferian agenda since Babylon but it wasn’t until Communism that such a goal was attainable.</p>
<p>From its inception to the most powerful Marxist states around the world, Communism has been the tool of the Jesuits.</p>
<p>One of the most renown minds of the Catholic Church was Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274). What most don’t know about Aquinas is that his writing is the foundation of Communism—so much so that his work <em>Doctor Communis</em> (Theologian for All) might more appropriately be rendered Doctor Communist.</p>
<p>His best-known writing, <em>Summa Theologica</em>, is a massive treatise with some surprising thoughts on property and goods. &#8230;</p>
<p>In the 2014 Kevin Costner movie <em>3 Days to Kill</em>, Costner plays a retired CIA field agent brought back into service with a deal he can’t refuse: he has been given brain cancer and will be allowed to die unless he kills the target he has been given—then he will receive the “antidote” for his cancer.</p>
<p>Such bioengineering of cancer and cancer cures is highly likely. Did emissaries of the Elite weave this into the plot? Were they alerting their audiences or simply conditioning them?</p>
<p>In the movie, Costner’s character “Ethan Renner” returns to a Paris apartment he uses from time to time and finds that an entire troop of Africans has broken into it and taken residence there.</p>
<p>The tough-as-nails assassin doesn’t take matters into his own hands, but goes to the police who tell him he will take care of the family of Africans until after winter. Forced to endure their presence, Costner warms to them and they all bond&#8230;but only he pays the rent. ~ <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/illuminati-unmasked/"><em>Illuminati Unmasked</em></a>, pp. 309, 310</p></blockquote>
<p>Kostner is definitely a Machine favorite. He was given the inside track on how to clean up financially during cleanup of the environmental terrorist event that was the “accidental” destruction of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig (scroll to the bottom of my <a href="fast%20and%20spurious%20caption">column on Eric Holder, here</a>).</p>
<p>In an interesting Baldwin connection twist, Costner managed to defraud the Baldwin family white sheep Christian, Stephen, of several million dollars by getting him to sell out early from their joint effort. The courts <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/stephen-baldwin-kevin-costner-trial-352627">very quickly shoved it</a> under the rug.</p>
<p>Apparently, they made the original agreement while having dinner <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon">with Kevin Bacon</a>.</p>
<p><strong>BANKSTERS RULE</strong></p>
<p>Ryan is an expert in Wall Street, his unfinished doctoral thesis was “Liquidity Events in Post-Soviet Russia.” He ends up becoming a bank examiner and that’s where Kostner’s character “Harper” comes in; the Soviets are up to skullduggery and the CIA needs a sharp mind to root them out.</p>
<p>Don’t worry, Kostner’s team is <em>much</em> more professional than the guys who do the waterboarding, we’re told.</p>
<p>It turns out, the Ruskies have a terrible plan: they’re going to collapse the dollar.</p>
<p>The ridiculous flag-waving connected to being in the CIA—America’s most vicious and cancerous enemy—is completely over the top. But, again, that’s only if you have the slightest inkling of <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/illuminati-unmasked/">who the CIA really is</a>.</p>
<p>It is the CIA through their <em>own</em> co-opted, controlled and corrupted puppets from Barack Obama into all of the key positions in <em>both</em> political parties who have put America on a course where total fiscal collapse is unavoidable. I can not stress enough that every puppet politician who has voted for, or added to in <em>any</em> way, America’s skyrocketing multi-trillion-dollar debt, is a traitor.</p>
<p>From the ashes, the Luciferians seek to turn the bald eagle into a One World Order phoenix and usher in the final feudalist global slave state&#8230;but they’ll need a patsy to blame and Russia is being a pain in the ass right now.</p>
<p>To prove to you how <em>totally</em> controlled every aspect of your life is (in regards to media and information), this 2014 movie also lays out the current Saudi/U.S. agenda to bankrupt the Russian government by dropping oil prices to critical levels. This would cause “regime change” in Russia where pesky Putin seems to have grown a will of his own to do what’s best for the Russian people&#8230;which is not very Soviet of him.</p>
<p><strong>COLD WAR CONSERVITARDS</strong></p>
<p>If this movie were made a few decades ago, it would be mind-blowing—for, certainly, that is the mind-<em>set</em> of the plot.</p>
<p>But the world is changing. Information is getting out like water and the Luciferians are pushing hard to stop it up with multiple contrived hacking false flags supposedly requiring an internet lock-down.</p>
<p>The evil mastermind behind this plot is Russian tycoon Viktor Cherevin (Kenneth Branagh). He wants to do something for his country before the last 3 months of his life run out due to cirrhosis from too much <em>wodka</em>. He’s a vicious bastard but he still goes to Orthodox church services. Damn Russians.</p>
<p>Russia is, indeed, <a href="http://rt.com/business/173008-brics-bank-currency-pool/">working with the BRICS nations</a> (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) to topple the Petro/Dollar as the world reserve currency but it’s all by design. They have no choice, given that literal financial war is being waged upon them and this was all foreseen by the same puppet masters who backed this putrid propaganda pageantry of a movie.</p>
<p>I’m not giving anything away by telling you that they foil Cherevin in Russia. But then they must race back to America where Cherevin’s sleeper-cell son, Aleksandr Borovsky (Alec Utgoff), is also working a plot of subversion. The dutiful razor-sharp <a href="http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2012/02/washington-dc-fbi-foils-own-terror-plot.html">Federal Bureau of Instigation</a> is shadowing the insurgent but he’s just too good for them.</p>
<p>It’s all quite laughable, given that the FBI is as poisonous to the American people as their supposedly international counterparts are.</p>
<blockquote><p>With good reason was the FBI a willing partner in the public slaughter of President John F. Kennedy. Like the CIA, they don’t work for the American people and never did.</p>
<p>The Federal Bureau of Investigation was created by Charles Joseph Bonaparte, a distant relation to French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.<sup>253</sup></p>
<p>Bonaparte was from Lord Baltimore’s Catholic colony of Mary-land, from the very namesake city of her benefactor. The Jesuits were in the business of gathering intelligence on their enemies and the FBI would do that in spades. They readily admit the origins of their creator from their own “about us”, though with only a short phrase amongst his “accomplishments”.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">As a Catholic [Bonaparte] was never absent from his pew in Baltimore Cathedral on Sunday mornings&#8230;<sup>254</sup></p>
<p>But soon, the FBI would metastasize into far worse than just an intelligence-gathering operation and graduate into actually facilitating disasters and helping to cover them up once they occurred. ~ <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/illuminati-unmasked/"><em>Illuminati Unmasked</em></a>, p. 70</p></blockquote>
<p>Clearly, some kind of terrorist disaster has been planned by the Russians and they must find sleeper-cell sonny!</p>
<p>This is where Jack Ryan shines. Fortunately for them all, they rescued Ryan’s <em>brilliant</em> career-woman fiancé (whom he’s been living with*) because she has something vital to contribute, too!</p>
<p>They track the wily Russian’s patterns through Pennsylvania when Harper (Kostner) interjects with disdain, “Nobody blows up Pennsylvania, Jack.”</p>
<p>Nobody except the CIA.</p>
<p>Recently, former Vice President <em>Dick</em> Cheney promised the American people something <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/06/25/dick-cheney-predicts-attack-this-decade-far-deadlier-than-911/">far worse than 9/11</a>. He would know, he was a foundational part of that high treason.</p>
<p>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6Z8ssKfcgA</p>
<p>Marcel-Lehel “Guccifer” Lazar—the man who hacked some of the most secret e-mail accounts in the world, such as George Bush and Colin (pronounced <em>“rectum”</em>) Powell—told the NY Times that an unnamed location in Pennsylvania was on the Luciferian target list for <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/times-insider/2014/11/21/the-man-behind-the-hacking-talking-to-guccifer/?_r=0">a nuclear false flag attack</a>. Lazar made this statement from where all truth-telling whistleblowers end up; prison (or they end up dead). Not surprisingly, the Times did not print the entire interview.</p>
<p>It turns out, the Ruskies are going to blow up “half of Wall Street” with a truck bomb—an idea that’s patently absurd (unless there’s a nuclear weapon in the truck, and there wasn’t)—but it did help shore up the lie that Timothy McVeigh did all that damage in Oklahoma City with a Ryder full of cow shit. That’s important because, once again, <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/the-clinton-years/">it was actually your own</a>, captured <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/the-clinton-years/">government that was responsible</a>.</p>
<p><strong>HEGELIAN</strong></p>
<p>The conflict of white on black is perhaps the most successful tool of subversion and enslavement the Luciferians have, and it’s an old one.</p>
<p>It’s known as the Hegelian Dialectic: thesis + anti-thesis = synthesis. More colloquially it is known as “problem, reaction, solution.”</p>
<p>Any false flag is an <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/the-charlie-hebdo-mass-shooting/">example but Charlie Hebdo</a> has been in the headlines recently so we’ll examine that one: treasonous politician puppets force muslim immigrants on their citizenry by plane, train and automobile. This has the effect of watering down the national identity and creating a “strategy of tension” between the interlopers and the original citizens. To accelerate conflict, a failed, hard-Left rag is propped up as being the target of “muslim terrorism”. The result is increased Police State surveillance and citizen support of needless, crass provocateuring of anyone of faith.</p>
<p>Is the current tension between the Luciferians riding America and the former Communists running Russia contrived?</p>
<p>There have been unusual incidents of co-operation between the two nations that include <a href="http://www.infowars.com/russian-forces-to-provide-security-at-us-events/">Russian soldiers providing security</a> to U.S. events as well as a <a href="http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/russia-and-u-s-boost-space-station-cooperation-despite-earthly-disputes/501631.html">continued joint effort in space</a>.</p>
<p>As <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/illuminati-unmasked/">I’ve shown in my book</a>, space exploration is one of the creepiest, most demonic agendas the public is unaware of. Is eventual war with Russia just a another act in the show to cajole us into Armageddon willingly?</p>
<p>Very few of us, myself included, can accurately discern this as we are not privy to the inner-most circles of Luciferian power. As a result, we must rely on looking at the results; “a tree is known by its fruit.”</p>
<p>Regardless of how much Russia may or may not be co-opted by the New World Order, most of the policies coming from Vladimir Putin and the Duma are actually good for the Russian people.</p>
<p>The Russian people seem to be becoming more and more comfortable with their Christian culture of the past via a resurgent Orthodox Church. Despite Orthodoxy being the second leg of resurrected Roman Empire [<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel+2%3A1-45&amp;version=NASB">Daniel 2</a>], there does seem to be conflict between the two.</p>
<p>As we draw closer and closer to a resolution, whether scripted or not, the fruit of the combatants will show you who is for whom.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>&#8230;if it seem evil unto you to serve the L-rd, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the L-rd.</em> ~ Joshua 20:15 KJV (abbreviation added for respect)</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>CONCLUSION</strong></p>
<p><em>Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit</em> is a well done movie that is nothing less than entertaining. However, given the fact that it is, start-to-finish, pure alternate-reality propaganda, it is also a deeply disturbing movie in what it proves about information, media, entertainment and control in America.</p>
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<h6>* I’d love to tell you that this, too, is purposeful controlled subversion but the degradation of society (which <em>is</em> controlled) has progressed so much that this was just “adding reality” to the plot. It was still annoying and gratuitous to a prude like myself.</h6>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Michael Bay is making a lot of money off of taking childhood toys and comics of the 80’s and 90’s and using Megan Fox to turn them into mindless sex-driven tripe.</p>
<p>He nearly destroyed the first two Transformers movies with the full-figured talentless sex star.</p>
<p>As a child of the 70’s and teen of the 80’s I was into comic books and it has been both thrilling and infuriating to see my childhood come to Helliwood magick*. That’s why I’ve spent the majority of <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/category/movie-reviews/">my movie reviews</a> on comic book movies.</p>
<p>But the same passions I have for those I can easily transfer to franchises that are after my time like Transformers, GI Joe and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.</p>
<p>What Helliwood is capable of today is absolutely thrilling. Truly we are fast approaching a time when anything you can imagine can be brought to realistic life on screen.</p>
<p>Up until now, there have been limitations on Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI) that still fall short of tricking you. In many sub-par examples, the image has a grey, surreal quality.</p>
<p>But today, between talent in writing, acting and movie production, your wildest ideas can thrill you with little need to “suspend disbelief”.</p>
<p>Now, the problem is that the world <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/illuminati-unmasked/">is run by literal satanists</a> who don’t <em>want</em> you “thrilled” or inspired, they want you <strong><em>distracted</em></strong> and sex is one of the easiest ways to do that.</p>
<p>Enter Michael Bay.</p>
<p>When Bay brought Hasbro’s Transformers (2007) to Hollywood he had the best of everything at his disposal&#8230;and yet he brought in Megan Fox anyway.</p>
<p>Road kill will outshine Fox’s attempts at acting but men look right past it to her mammary glands.</p>
<p>Transformers had the potential to really go up with powerful scenes like when evil “Blackout” attacked the SOCCENT base—</p>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" src="https://vid.me/e/qCZE" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><a style="font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none;" href="https://vid.me/qCZE?source=embed">Transformers (2007) Blackout Attacks</a></div>
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<p>The scene where “Starscream” drops out of flight simultaneously transforming and flipping up underneath a bridge to launch a missile attack on Hoover Dam was just masterful.</p>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" src="https://vid.me/e/b6Wd" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><a style="font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none;" href="https://vid.me/b6Wd?source=embed">Transformers (2007) Starscream Transforms and Attacks!</a></div>
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<p>This was made extremely helpful by the fact that <a href="http://www.military.com/daily-news/2014/04/20/pilots-career-stalls-after-criticizing-oxygen-system.html">the flawed F-22 Raptor</a> was the military/industrial complex <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/special-occupations/">du jour hardware of the day</a>.</p>
<p>Instead, Bay pushed teenage lust into hyperdrive with needless sexual innuendo and plot between high school student “Sam Witwicky” (Shia LaBeouf) and out-of-work porn star Mikaela Banes (Fox).</p>
<p>Bay and the morons behind TMNT (2014) interwove Fox so much into the plot I wanted to vomit.</p>
<p>It started when TMNT creators Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman sold the rights to their ideas <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles_(2014_film)">in 2009 to Nickelodeon</a>. They must’ve made a sh*t-ton of money when they whored themselves. I hope it was worth it. I’m not an expert in TMNT lore but I will <em>guarantee</em> that the majority of TMNT (2014) was fabricated out of whole cloth to needlessly weave Megan Fox into every facet of it.</p>
<p>To begin with, she looked <em>nothing like</em> April O’Neil (her hair was even darker in the screen edition verses this promotional pic). It was the first thing my wife said as we watched.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/TMNT-April-ONeil-comparison.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-uq8I]"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-1848 aligncenter" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/TMNT-April-ONeil-comparison.jpg" alt="TMNT April O'Neil comparison" width="852" height="610" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/TMNT-April-ONeil-comparison.jpg 852w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/TMNT-April-ONeil-comparison-150x107.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/TMNT-April-ONeil-comparison-300x215.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/TMNT-April-ONeil-comparison-768x550.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/TMNT-April-ONeil-comparison-24x17.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/TMNT-April-ONeil-comparison-36x26.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/TMNT-April-ONeil-comparison-48x34.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/TMNT-April-ONeil-comparison-400x286.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 852px) 100vw, 852px" /></a></p>
<p>Rather than a reporter who gets the inside scoop on the turtles, the porn queen was <em>everything</em>.</p>
<p>Her daddy was on the project that created their mutating serum.</p>
<p>The turtles and rat were her pets.</p>
<p>Her daddy tried to burn them all alive when he found out that his evil partner had nefarious designs on them.</p>
<p>How much they all owed her became a pivotal point of the plot. Their big “Thank you for saving our lives!!!” was an acute vomit-fest.</p>
<p>Super-bionic Shredder (ridiculously overdone) kicked everybody’s ass but it was the porn queen that got the final kick in on him.</p>
<p>Either this was an overt agenda by <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/illuminati-unmasked/">“the Illuminati”</a> to continue to make men shut off their brains and “think” through their loins or Fox is sleeping with Michael Bay and she’s <em>really</em> good in bed (or he has really low expectations).</p>
<p>Perhaps a little bit of both.</p>
<p><strong>OTHER CAST</strong></p>
<p>Speaking of who didn’t look like the original; the evil Foot Clan ninjas were turned into some kind of Blackwater street thugs. Normally I’d love and fully support beating down NATO’s new mercenary class but not here and it wasn’t even a good facsimile. This wasn’t even my childhood and I was <em>still</em> greatly annoyed.</p>
<p>Will Arnett plays April O’Neil’s fawning cameraman Vernon Fenwick. Don’t know the guy but he did a decent job in a forgettable character. He’s <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004715/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t2">also billed as</a> a “writer” and “producer” so I hope he has more vision than Michael Bay. I don’t even remember this character but I <em>do</em> remember the hockey-mask-clad baseball-bat-wielding Casey Jones who <em>wasn’t</em> in the movie. I really hope it wasn’t because they are saving him for a sequel.</p>
<p>I’m not into pop culture like my wife so I didn’t recognize too many other cast names.</p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Knoxsville-Scrad_Charlie.png" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-uq8I]"><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-1849" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Knoxsville-Scrad_Charlie.png" alt="Knoxsville Scrad_Charlie" width="335" height="228" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Knoxsville-Scrad_Charlie.png 498w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Knoxsville-Scrad_Charlie-150x102.png 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Knoxsville-Scrad_Charlie-300x204.png 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Knoxsville-Scrad_Charlie-24x16.png 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Knoxsville-Scrad_Charlie-36x25.png 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Knoxsville-Scrad_Charlie-48x33.png 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Knoxsville-Scrad_Charlie-400x272.png 400w" sizes="(max-width: 335px) 100vw, 335px" /></a>Johnny Knoxville was the voice of Leonardo and I do recognize him as “Scrad/Charlie” from the charming Men in Black II (2002)—a series which takes <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Real-Men-Black-Mysterious/dp/160163157X">real, demonic entities</a> and makes them cutsie and fun.</p>
<p>Knoxville is best known as the “brains” behind the brain-dead Jackass movies. If you wanted to take “distraction” to a new low that included copious opportunities for the Elite to mock humanity as well as sickening ways to encourage gullible kids, there’s “Jackass”.</p>
<p>Whoopi Goldberg plays April O’Neil’s incredulous boss Bernadette Thompson. She was another annoying character needlessly written into a terrible movie.</p>
<p>The character, per sé, and the acting were good, actually. It’s the <em>person</em> of “Whoopi” that annoys the hell out of me. She’s a consummate Libtard who has an easily rectified physical flaw that neither she nor anyone around her brings up like an emperor without any clothes: <strong><em>she has no eyebrows</em></strong>.</p>
<p>You don’t need to pull a Groucho Marx but, for heaven’s sake, is there an easier flaw to fix, <em>especially</em> in Helliwood?!</p>
<p>I didn’t realize that the voice of Spinter was Tony Shalhoub. He’s a household favorite from his TV series Monk; the obsessive-compulsive detective. He, too, was in Men in Black II. If being entertained is a reason for high marks, Shalhoub gets them from me.</p>
<p><strong>AWFUL MOVIEMAKING</strong></p>
<p>A clear sign of bad movie-making and actors/actresses whom you can’t trust to be pushed is when one character speaks in a foreign language to another who supposedly understands them yet carries on the conversation in English.</p>
<p>Several times, “Shredder” (Tohoru Masamune) speaks in Japanese; once to his henchwoman “Karai” (Minae Noji) and once to the villain he supposedly raised himself in Japan, Eric Sacks (William Fichtner).</p>
<p>Fichtner, in particular, is an accomplished actor with a long list of movie appearances. He seemed more than capable of learning a few lines of passable Japanese but, apparently was never asked to. Utterly cheesy and those could’ve been moments that strengthened a terrible movie.</p>
<p>It reminded me of the opening scene in Babylon A.D. (2008) where Vin Diesel (playing the lead character of “Toorop”) was accosted by Russian-speaking “Karl” (Radek Bruna) and carries on a similar no-talent Russian/English conversation.</p>
<p>This is in stark contrast to the passable German and near-flawless French of Michael Fassbender in <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/x-men-first-class/">X-Men: First Class (2011)</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/TMNT-2014-Splinter.png" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-uq8I]"><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-1850" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/TMNT-2014-Splinter.png" alt="TMNT 2014 Splinter" width="297" height="288" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/TMNT-2014-Splinter.png 546w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/TMNT-2014-Splinter-150x146.png 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/TMNT-2014-Splinter-300x291.png 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/TMNT-2014-Splinter-24x24.png 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/TMNT-2014-Splinter-36x36.png 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/TMNT-2014-Splinter-48x48.png 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/TMNT-2014-Splinter-400x388.png 400w" sizes="(max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px" /></a>Another outrageous flaw was the explanation for how the mutants became what they were—particularly Splinter. He was injected with the “mutagen”, rescued by our heroic porn queen (pre-porn-queen as a preteen), and dumped in the sewers to become an anthropomorphic rat-person. <strong><em>But how did he take on the traits and persona of a Japanese sensei?!</em></strong></p>
<p>The way Splinter looks and sounds is great&#8230;the amount of disbelief and dismissal the audience has to apply to see how he got there was beyond terrible.</p>
<p><strong>REDEEMING MOMENTS</strong></p>
<p>The character of Michelangelo/Mikey was, of course, charming but it’s so easy to do that not even Michael Bay could ___ it up.</p>
<p>The idea that a big-pharma company would create both a mega-virus and its cure in a get-rich scheme is a great plot. Understanding the Hegelian Dialectic of a “strategy of tension” is critical to waking up.</p>
<p>The best part of the movie is when the turtles are patiently waiting in an elevator to stop Shredder at the top of a tall building and Mikey uses the elevator chimes to start breaking down and is joined by his brothers until the door opens and they rush out screaming. Sadly, the movie never got any better than that.</p>
<p>I think what has me the most upset is that the movie could’ve been kick-ass (no, <em>much</em> better than <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/kick-ass/">Kick-Ass</a>). Mutant teenage ninja turtles, ethnic Japanese bad-guy heavies, a sage sensei rat—they’re all fantastic fodder for modern movie-making.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/tmnt-cast-that-couldve-been.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-uq8I]"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-1851 aligncenter" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/tmnt-cast-that-couldve-been.jpg" alt="tmnt cast that could've been" width="1600" height="900" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/tmnt-cast-that-couldve-been.jpg 1600w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/tmnt-cast-that-couldve-been-150x84.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/tmnt-cast-that-couldve-been-300x169.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/tmnt-cast-that-couldve-been-768x432.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/tmnt-cast-that-couldve-been-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/tmnt-cast-that-couldve-been-24x14.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/tmnt-cast-that-couldve-been-36x20.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/tmnt-cast-that-couldve-been-48x27.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/tmnt-cast-that-couldve-been-400x225.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px" /></a></p>
<p>Instead, we got a Michael Bay Megan porn queen Fox vomit-fest.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/tmnt-2014-bar-graph.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-uq8I]"><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1852" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/tmnt-2014-bar-graph.jpg" alt="tmnt 2014 bar graph" width="960" height="720" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/tmnt-2014-bar-graph.jpg 960w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/tmnt-2014-bar-graph-150x113.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/tmnt-2014-bar-graph-300x225.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/tmnt-2014-bar-graph-768x576.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/tmnt-2014-bar-graph-24x18.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/tmnt-2014-bar-graph-36x27.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/tmnt-2014-bar-graph-48x36.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/tmnt-2014-bar-graph-400x300.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px" /></a></p>
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<h6>* I guess I’m being sarcastic and cynical again. “Magick” is the term Alesiter Crowley came up with to describe the perverse and satanic rituals he performed in an effort to conjure intelligences from another dimension. See my book <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/illuminati-unmasked/"><em>Illuminati Unmasked</em> for more</a>.</h6>
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					<description><![CDATA[After all of the hype has died down, I finally took the plunge and rented the Darren Aronofsky film Noah (2014). The reality of the work lies somewhere in between the Christian pastor rubes who were sucked in to endorsing the film and the shrill...]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After all of the hype has died down, I finally took the plunge and rented the Darren Aronofsky film <em>Noah</em> (2014). The reality of the work lies somewhere in between the Christian pastor rubes who were sucked in to endorsing the film and the shrill detractors who used even good parts of the movie as fodder for criticism.</p>
<p>I will give you the straight skinny on what to take away from the work (and, yeah, I’m going to spoil the crap out of it to do it).</p>
<p><em>Noah</em> was the brainchild of writer/producer/director Darren Aronofsky along with his Harvard frat buddy, Ari Handel. Handel is an interesting character and even <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ari_Handel">has a Wikipedia entry</a>. Torn between “science” and the “silver screen”, it’s easy to see which won out (I’m sure his good Jewish mother was not happy).</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Handel grew up in a Jewish family in </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton,_Massachusetts"><em>Newton, Massachusetts</em></a><em>. He was born in Zürich, Switzerland, while his father was studying abroad, but he only lived there for about a year. Handel also did an internship for </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_(TV_series)"><em>Nova</em></a><em> at </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WGBH-TV"><em>WGBH</em></a><em>, the Boston PBS station. He has a PhD in neurobiology from </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_University"><em>New York University</em></a><em>.</em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ari_Handel#cite_note-1"><em><sup>[1]</sup></em></a><em> Torn between science writing and science education, he eventually became a film writer in an attempt to become a better communicator of science&#8230;</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Along with films like <em>Black Swan</em> (2010), <em>The Wrestler</em> (2008) and <em>Pi</em> (1998), I’m sure Aronofsky fancies himself the next Steven Schmeilberg.</p>
<p>If you haven’t figured it out by now, yes, both men are resoundingly <em>Jewish</em> and that is the perspective you’re going to get, along with heaping doses of mysticism, gnosticism and kabbalah.</p>
<p>As a result, this movie has dangerous perspectives for Christian neophytes. Sadly, in America, that’s most Christians.</p>
<p>However, I am not recommending Christians <em>avoid</em> the movie any more than they avoid anything else that comes from Helliwood, just be learned about what I’m going to show you.</p>
<p>The movie opens with prose filling in the gap from Adam to Noah and, already, we depart from common Biblical interpretation with the idea that Cain was sheltered by angels directly involved with humans called “the Watchers”.</p>
<p>Nearly all of what we know concerning “the Watchers” comes from extra-Biblical texts like <em>Enoch</em>, <em>Jasher</em>, the <em>Book of the Giants</em>, the <em>Book of the Watchers</em> and more. Many of these documents are actually mentioned in Canon but didn’t quite make the cut. <em>Jashar</em> is mentioned in Joshua 10:13 as well as II Samuel 1:18 while Jude 14-15 (Jude is a 1-chapter Book) mentions the prophecy of Enoch found in I Enoch 1:9 (some editions have this passage as Chapter 2 verse 1).</p>
<blockquote><p><em>It was also about these men that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the L-rd came with many thousands of His holy ones, to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”</em> ~ <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jude+1%3A14-15&amp;version=NASB">Jude 1:14-15</a> New American Standard Bible (abbreviation added for respect)</p></blockquote>
<p>So why not just go to Amazon, buy all of these and catch up on what you’ve been missing?</p>
<p>Firstly, because what is now called “Enoch” or “Jashar” or “Jubilees” may not be the same as what the Bible is mentioning.</p>
<p>In the same way that people write stupid e-mail forwards that say, “Pass this on and it will work for you!”, scurrilous authors have been known to ascribe their creations to famous people just to get themselves more coverage. The works that <em>have</em> made it into the modern Protestant Bible have been cross-referenced by a shocking number of manuscripts with very little change between them.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>The amazing preservation of the New Testament documents can perhaps be appreciated best by comparing the evidence for their authenticity with that available for the works produced by the classical writers of antiquity.</em></p>
<p><em>One of the greatest textual critics of the past was F. H. A. Scrivener (1813-91). &#8230; In 1883 (prior to numerous more recent manuscript discoveries), Dr. Scrivener wrote:</em></p>
<p><em>As the New Testament far surpasses all other remains of antiquity in value and interest, so are the copies of it yet existing in manuscript and dating from the fourth century of our era downwards, far more numerous than those of the most celebrated writers of Greece or Rome. Such as have been already discovered and set down in catalogues are hardly fewer than two thousand [more than five thousand now]; and many more must still linger unknown in the monastic libraries of the East. On the other hand, manuscripts of the most illustrious classic poets and philosophers are far rarer and comparatively modern. We have no complete copy of Homer himself prior to the thirteenth century, though some considerable fragments have been recently brought to light which may plausibly be assigned to the fifth century; while more than one work of high and deserved repute has been preserved to our times only in a single copy. Now the experience we gain from a critical examination of the few classical manuscripts that survive should make us thankful for the quality and abundance of those of the New Testament (1833, 3-4). &#8230;</em></p>
<p><em>In more recent times, the late F. F. Bruce, who served as professor of biblical criticism and exegesis at the University of Manchester, stated:</em></p>
<p><em>The evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writings of classical authors, the authenticity of which no one dreams of questioning. And if the New Testament were a collection of secular writings, their authenticity would generally be regarded as beyond all doubt. It is a curious fact that historians have often been much readier to trust the New Testament records than have many theologians. </em>~ <a href="https://www.christiancourier.com/articles/1441-new-testament-compared-to-classical-literature-the"><em>The New Testament Compared to Classical Literature</em></a>, Wayne Jackson, Christian Courier</p></blockquote>
<p>But here’s the funny thing about Apocryphal and Deuterocanonical sources on the Watchers—they all say that these were bad dudes. Just about everything they taught men ended up harming us. Far from the idea of Prometheus the giver of fire punished for his compassion or Lucifer the bearer of light and knowledge, man’s increase in technology and understanding only exacerbated his sinful nature.</p>
<p>And these “Watchers” weren’t too nice about it, either. Not content to simply “watch”, they forced genetic experimentation on humans by raping women and creating weird hybrid offspring that they then possessed and ruled with, in the cruelest fashion, slaughtering and eating animals at first (created by G-d as <em>companions</em> for Adam) and eventually eating men.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters. And the angels, the children of the Heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: “Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children.” And Semjaza, who was their leader, said unto them: “I fear ye will not indeed agree to do this deed, and I alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin.” And they all answered him and said: “Let us all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves by mutual imprecations not to abandon this plan but to do this thing.” Then sware they all together and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. And they were in all two hundred; who descended in the days of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon, and they called it Mount Hermon, because they had sworn 7 and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. &#8230;</em></p>
<p><em>And all the others together with them took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to defile themselves with them, and they taught them charms and enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with plants. And they became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose height was three thousand ells: Who consumed all the acquisitions of men. And when men could no longer sustain them, the giants turned against them and devoured mankind. And they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another’s flesh, and drink the blood. Then the Earth laid accusation against the lawless ones.</em></p>
<p><em>And Azazel taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and breastplates, and made known to them the metals of the earth and the art of working them, and bracelets, and ornaments, and the use of antimony, and the beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly stones, and all colouring tinctures. And there arose much godlessness, and they committed fornication, and they were led astray, and became corrupt in all their ways. Semjaza taught enchantments, and root-cuttings, Armaros the resolving of enchantments, Baraqijal (taught) astrology, Kokabel the constellations, Ezeqeel the knowledge of the clouds, Araqiel the signs of the earth, Shamsiel the signs of the sun, and Sariel the course of the moon. And as men perished, they cried, and their cry went up to heaven &#8230;</em> ~ excepts from I Enoch, Chapters 6, 7 and 8</p></blockquote>
<p>Even when they taught seemingly benign skills like writing, it only helped man be lead further astray. They reveled in debauchery and furthered the practice by teaching women how to kill their unborn, bastard children.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>The name of the fourth is Penemue: he discovered to the children of men bitterness and sweetness;</em></p>
<p><em>And pointed out to them every secret of their wisdom.</em></p>
<p><em>He taught men to understand writing, and the use of ink and paper.</em></p>
<p><em>Therefore numerous have been those who have gone astray from every period of the world, even to this day.</em></p>
<p><em>For men were not born for this, thus with pen and with ink to confirm their faith;</em></p>
<p><em>Since they were not created, except that, like the angels, they might remain righteous and pure.</em></p>
<p><em>Nor would death, which destroys everything, have effected them;</em></p>
<p><em>But by this their knowledge they perish, and by this also its power consumes them.</em></p>
<p><em>The name of the fifth is Kasyade: he discovered to the children of men every wicked stroke of spirits and of demons:</em></p>
<p><em>The stroke of the embryo in the womb, to diminish it; the stroke of the spirit by the bite of the serpent, and the stroke which is given in the mid-day by the offspring of the serpent, the name of which is Tabaet.</em> ~ I Enoch Chapter 68 (some editions show 69)</p></blockquote>
<p>This “Samyaza” mentioned above was one of the stars of <em>Noah</em>.</p>
<p>In the movie, the fallen angels were depicted as light beings (which is a good interpretation), but having “helped” man with knowledge (like warfare, rape, slavery and abortion) were cast down from Heaven and encrusted by the dust of the Earth to become rock people.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Noah-Watcher-V2.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-Saey]"><img loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-95 aligncenter" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Noah-Watcher-V2-1024x696.jpg" alt="Noah-Watcher-V2" width="620" height="421" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Noah-Watcher-V2-1024x696.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Noah-Watcher-V2-150x102.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Noah-Watcher-V2-300x204.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Noah-Watcher-V2-768x522.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Noah-Watcher-V2-24x16.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Noah-Watcher-V2-36x24.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Noah-Watcher-V2-48x33.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Noah-Watcher-V2-400x272.jpg 400w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Noah-Watcher-V2.jpg 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px" /></a></p>
<p>These, are what we are told in the prelude, are what “sheltered” Cain and his offspring. The Cainites (not to be confused with the Canaanites) used their advanced knowledge to create cities. Both they and their technology spread evil throughout the world.</p>
<p>So which is it, Darren? Did the secret gnostic knowledge of the Watchers help or harm mankind? Those who watch the Watchers in this film might get confused.</p>
<p>The Cainites were contrasted with the Godly line of Seth. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-raushenbush/noah-the-movie_b_5022132.html">In an interview with</a> “Religion Editor” for the Leftist propaganda hub Huffington Post, Paul Raushenbush, Aronofsky told his adoring Jewish sycophant this was an important part of his story:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>If you look at the genealogy of the 10 generations of Cain and 10 generations of Seth, a lot of the names leading up to Noah are repeated. So, we thought, “Hmm, maybe we just ignore that and say Noah is a descendent of Cain, the original murderer.” And then we said, “No, let&#8217;s honor what the text says and make Noah a descendent of Seth, and that there was a split and that Adam had three sons Cain, Able and Seth.” And it worked out well because it allowed us to have Cain’s line and the descendent of Cain and the idea that Seth’s line was the priesthood that was there to defend creation. Most people forget about Seth and that Noah is a descendent of that line.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>This is reminiscent of a popular Christian heresy that states the reproductive mischief between fallen angels and women started when satan seduced Eve and she bore Cain. How else could Cain be capable of murdering his own brother?!</p>
<p>There are several problems with this, not the least of which is that Scripture clearly says that wasn’t the case!</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Now the man had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain, and she said, “I have gotten a manchild </em>[with the help of]<em> the L-RD.”</em> ~ Genesis 4:1 (abbreviation added for respect)</p></blockquote>
<p>No, there’s no easy way out. True bloodlines from Adam <em>all</em> have murderers in them, right on down to you and me.</p>
<p>The “lines of Seth” and the “lines of Cain” were the source of a different heresy that was popularized by the likes of Augustine and others because the traditional interpretation of angels mating with women was an embarrassment to them.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of G-d saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose. Then the L-rd said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” The Nephilim were on the Earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of G-d came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.</em> ~ <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+6%3A1-4&amp;version=NASB">Genesis 6:1-4</a>, New American Standard Bible (abbreviation added)</p></blockquote>
<p><em>“—wives for themselves, whomever they chose”</em> is a Hebrew euphemism for “they raped and defiled at will”.</p>
<p>As a result, they fabricated the nonsense that the “sons of G-d” were Sethites and the “daughters of men” were Cainites. This is ridiculous for any number of reasons, not the least of which is that from the Book of Job to any relevant Hebrew text of that age, “sons of G-d” implies a direct creation of YHWH. There are only 3 answers to that; Adam and angels. The third is quite mind-blowing, really; anyone who is Born Again by the Blood of Jesus Christ <em>becomes</em> a “son of G-d”.</p>
<p>There are several reasons why we need to pull back on demonizing Cain and his offspring. As <a href="http://www.khouse.org/articles/1997/110/">Dr. Chuck Missler notes</a>, Scripture tells us that several of Cain’s decedents were given Godly names. Why tell us this if they were wiped away in the Flood? Perhaps for the same reason that Cain was exiled and not executed—some of them were Godly people marred by sin but not condemned. We may be shocked to find a Cainite or two in Heaven when we get there, perhaps even a repentant Cain, himself.</p>
<p>So, as <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-raushenbush/noah-the-movie_b_5022132.html">Ari Handel also told HuffPo’s</a> Raushenbush:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>At the heart of it is the big question—why is Noah spared? Why do we have wickedness punished at the beginning of the story and almost the very same words are used to say that wickedness will not be punished in the future? What does that change and how to understand it? &#8230;</em></p></blockquote>
<p>For two guys who are supposed to be well-educated Jews, I’m surprised how much they <em>didn’t</em> pull from Scripture when it was right in front of them.</p>
<p>Normally, I avoid the pseudo-Shakespearian of the King James like the plague but it’s good not to get too reliant on one translation and for this verse, the KJV is best:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with G-d.</em> ~ <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+6%3A9&amp;version=KJV">Genesis 6:9</a> KJV (abbreviation added for respect)</p></blockquote>
<p>That word “perfect” is <em>tā·mîm</em>, in the Hebrew and implies a <em>physical perfection</em> of Noah’s genealogy. We see the word show up again in Exodus 12:5 describing the physical perfection required of the Passover lamb! Noah was chosen for two reasons;</p>
<ol>
<li>He loved the L-rd.</li>
<li>His bloodline was <em>not</em> tainted by the Watchers which couldn’t have been possible had satan defiled Eve.</li>
</ol>
<p>Genetic purity is the mortar of the Gospel Message: Jesus Christ is the G-d/man who’s miraculous advent combines a Divine Nature with pure human DNA. In order to qualify for the Redemption His blood-sacrifice offers, you, too, must be pure human. Angels can not be redeemed, nor can hybrids.</p>
<p>Yet we are fast approaching a time when human beings will no-longer be recognizable as such. We are under constant bombardment by electromagnetic energy and it has recently been found that as little as 50 minutes of an active cell phone next to your head can <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/01/19/health-canada-on-cell-phone-use-limitation.aspx">damage your brain and change</a> your DNA. <a href="http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2012/02/ingested-nanoparticles-could-be-harmful-health">Nanoparticles found in your</a> food, <a href="http://truthstreammedia.com/nasa-expert-warns-of-rogue-geoengineers-and-chemtrail-consequences/">sprayed on you from</a> above, <a href="http://healthimpactnews.com/2014/cdc-caught-hiding-data-showing-mercury-in-vaccines-linked-to-autism/">injected to you from the clinic</a> are doing the same.</p>
<p>So from the very beginning, our movie is not squaring with information critical to your spiritual well-being. “Knowledge” isn’t helpful to man, love is.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Knowledge makes arrogant but love edifies.</em> ~ <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=I+Corinthians+8%3A1&amp;version=NASB">I Corinthians 8:1</a></p></blockquote>
<p>In another really bizarre twist, we see Noah’s father Lamech, conducting a rite of passage with him, using the magical molted skin of the serpent from Eden.</p>
<p>Lamech wraps it around his arm, “activates” it, then reaches out to touch his son.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/the-skin-of-Satan-is-used-as-a-special-relic.png" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-Saey]"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-96 aligncenter" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/the-skin-of-Satan-is-used-as-a-special-relic.png" alt="the skin of Satan is used as a special relic" width="500" height="281" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/the-skin-of-Satan-is-used-as-a-special-relic.png 500w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/the-skin-of-Satan-is-used-as-a-special-relic-150x84.png 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/the-skin-of-Satan-is-used-as-a-special-relic-300x169.png 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/the-skin-of-Satan-is-used-as-a-special-relic-24x13.png 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/the-skin-of-Satan-is-used-as-a-special-relic-36x20.png 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/the-skin-of-Satan-is-used-as-a-special-relic-48x27.png 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/the-skin-of-Satan-is-used-as-a-special-relic-400x225.png 400w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" /></a></p>
<p>This is an ancient technology used in allowing unclean spirits to cross over from their dimension to ours, and it may even be used for enslaving human souls.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Some Hebrews considered the magic (witchcraft) of the Bacchae to be the best evidence of Dionysus’ Satanic connection, and, while most of the details are no longer available because Dionysus was a mystery god and his rituals were revealed to the initiated only, the Hebrew prophet Ezekiel made an important statement about the “magic bands” (</em><em>kesatot</em><em>) of the Bacchae, which, as in the omophagia </em>[ingesting blood for transfer of DNA]<em>, were used to capture (magically imprison) the souls of men. We read, “Wherefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold I am against your pillows [</em><em>kesatot</em><em>, “magic bands”] wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms and will let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly” (</em><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel+13%3A20&amp;version=YLT"><em>Ez. 13:20</em></a><em>). The kesatot was a magic arm band used in connection with a container called the kiste. Wherever the kiste is inscribed on sarcophagi and on Bacchic scenes, it is depicted as a sacred vessel (a soul prison?) with a snake peering through an open lid. How the magic worked and in what way a soul was imprisoned is still a mystery. Pan, the half-man/half-goat god (later relegated to devildom) is sometimes pictured kicking the lid open and letting the snake (soul?) out. Such loose snakes were then depicted as being enslaved around the limbs, and bound in the hair, of the Bacchae women.</em> ~ <a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/Horn/thomas118.htm"><em>Dionysus: The Psychotic Aspect Of The Demon Apollo/Osiris</em></a>, Thomas R. Horn, NewsWithViews.com</p></blockquote>
<p>Lamech is shown as a kindly man, instructing his adolescent son, Noah, in the ways of the Sethite protectors of Creation until he is brutally murdered by a young Tubal-Cain, who then steals the serpent relic for himself.</p>
<p>Now, not to give the bloodline curse any credence, but I have to warn you—there are an Enoch and a Lamech in both lines of Cain and Seth.</p>
<p>The Cainite Lamech is the first to take <em>two</em> wives to himself and then brags to them that he has murdered a youth for wounding him, and he claims the protection of Cain, 10 fold.</p>
<p><em>If Cain is avenged seven fold, then Lamech seventy-seven fold!</em> ~ <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+4%3A24&amp;version=NKJV">Genesis 4:24</a></p>
<p>He sires Tubal-Cain by his 2<sup>nd</sup> wife Zillah, who is listed in <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+4%3A22&amp;version=YLT">Genesis 4:22</a> as the “forger of all instruments of bronze and iron.”</p>
<p>There’s that technology thing again.</p>
<p>Extrapolation to mythical proportions of Tubal-Cain is important to the Free Masons:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>He was the inventor of edge-tools, and introduced many arts into society which tended towards its improvement and civilization. Tubal Cain is the Vulcan of the Pagans, and is thought to have been closely connected with ancient Freemasonry. Faber says that “all the most remarkable ancient buildings of Greece, Egypt, and Asia Minor, were ascribed to Cabirean or Cyclopean Masons,” the descendants of Vulcan, Dhu Balcan, the god Balcan, or Tubal Cain. Oliver says, “In after times Tubal Cain, under the name of Vulcan and his Cyclops, figured as workers in metals and inventors of the mysteries; and hence it is probable that he was the hierophant of a similar institution in his day, copied from the previous system of Seth, and applied to the improvement of schemes more adapted to the physical pursuits of the race to which he belonged.”</em></p>
<p><em>For these reasons Tubal Cain has been consecrated among Masons of the present day as an ancient brother. His introduction of the arts of civilization having given the first value to property. Tubal Cain has been considered among Masons as a symbol of worldly possessions.</em> ~ <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lexicon-Freemasonry-Albert-G-Mackey/dp/1161352856"><em>Lexicon of Freemasonry</em></a>, Albert Gallatin Mackey, p. 361</p></blockquote>
<p>In <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Antiquities-Jews-Josephus/dp/1494452804/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1408640855&amp;sr=1-3&amp;keywords=the+antiquities+of+the+jews"><em>The Antiquities of the Jews</em></a>, Flavius Josephus notes—</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Tubal exceeded all men in strength, and was very expert and famous in martial performances&#8230;</em></p></blockquote>
<p>His depiction in the movie (played by Ray Winstone) as warrior/king is not without merit.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Ray-Winstone-as-Tubal-Cain.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-Saey]"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-97 aligncenter" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Ray-Winstone-as-Tubal-Cain.jpg" alt="Ray Winstone as ''Tubal-Cain''" width="634" height="341" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Ray-Winstone-as-Tubal-Cain.jpg 634w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Ray-Winstone-as-Tubal-Cain-150x81.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Ray-Winstone-as-Tubal-Cain-300x161.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Ray-Winstone-as-Tubal-Cain-24x13.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Ray-Winstone-as-Tubal-Cain-36x19.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Ray-Winstone-as-Tubal-Cain-48x26.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Ray-Winstone-as-Tubal-Cain-400x215.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px" /></a></p>
<p>Next we’re introduced to glowing rocks that can explode, create fire, become mortars or rockets shot out of tubes, all kinds of useful things! They’re called “tzohar” and the Cainites wreck the landscape mining them.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/earth-is-a-barren-wasteland.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-Saey]"><img loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-98 aligncenter" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/earth-is-a-barren-wasteland-1024x576.jpg" alt="earth is a barren wasteland" width="620" height="349" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/earth-is-a-barren-wasteland-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/earth-is-a-barren-wasteland-150x84.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/earth-is-a-barren-wasteland-300x169.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/earth-is-a-barren-wasteland-768x432.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/earth-is-a-barren-wasteland-24x14.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/earth-is-a-barren-wasteland-36x20.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/earth-is-a-barren-wasteland-48x27.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/earth-is-a-barren-wasteland-400x225.jpg 400w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/earth-is-a-barren-wasteland.jpg 1920w" sizes="(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px" /></a></p>
<p>I am not an environmentalist but I <em>am</em> a conservationist. Humans are pigs, especially smokers. To a smoker, the world is your ashtray and to unfettered humans, world resources are there for the taking.</p>
<p>If that word “tzohar” sounds familiar, here’s where you may have seen it before:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>The <strong>Zohar</strong> (</em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language"><em>Hebrew</em></a><em>: </em>זֹהַר<em>, lit. Splendor or Radiance) is the foundational work in the literature of Jewish mystical thought known as </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabbalah"><em>Kabbalah</em></a><em>.</em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zohar#cite_note-1"><em><sup>[1]</sup></em></a><em> It is a group of books including commentary on the mystical aspects of the </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torah"><em>Torah</em></a><em> (the five books of </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses"><em>Moses</em></a><em>) and scriptural interpretations as well as material on </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysticism"><em>mysticism</em></a><em>, mythical </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmogony"><em>cosmogony</em></a><em>, and mystical </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology"><em>psychology</em></a><em>. The Zohar contains a discussion of the nature of </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_God_in_Judaism"><em>God</em></a><em>, the origin and structure of the universe, the nature of souls, redemption, the relationship of Ego to Darkness and “true self” to “The Light of God”, and the relationship between the “universal energy” and man. Its scriptural </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exegesis"><em>exegesis</em></a><em> can be considered an </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric"><em>esoteric</em></a><em> form of the </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbinic_literature"><em>Rabbinic literature</em></a><em> known as </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midrash"><em>Midrash</em></a><em>, which elaborates on the Torah.</em> ~ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zohar"><em>Zohar</em></a>, Wikipedia</p></blockquote>
<p>Probably about now, you’re thinking, “Wow, dude. Why did you keep watching?” The answer is, “Because I was on the treadmill and didn’t want to hurt myself jumping off.” I hate to tell you, I’m glad I kept watching because there were aspects of the film that touched me.</p>
<p><strong>HARMONY</strong></p>
<p>Most illiterate Christians don’t know that G-d’s original intent for man was that both he and all of Creation would be vegetarians (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+1%3A29-30&amp;version=NASB">Genesis 1:29-30</a>), and that the animal kingdom was meant to be companions for him. The Creator further attached Adam to them by placing His handiwork before the man and having Adam give them all names (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+2%3A18-20&amp;version=NASB">Genesis 2:18-20</a>)!</p>
<p>The shedding of blood and the killing of what lives is a direct result of sin. Too many Christians lust wantonly after meat and modern society completely insulates them from the brutality of slaughter for consumption. Those who hunt for sport are feeding the killer inside of them. Their hardness of heart has the Creation crying out for them to awaken from their dead state (<a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-19.htm">Romans 8:19</a>).</p>
<p>Am I channeling a bit of “liberal granola”? Let’s just call it “compassion”. Thanks to modern society, it is near-impossible to live as a functioning vegetarian but it would do a Christian well to put the breaks on eating like a Neanderthal (please pronounce as <em>TAL</em> not <em>THAL</em>) and examine what it means to eat meat.</p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/noah-2014-cropped.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-Saey]"><img loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-94 alignright" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/noah-2014-cropped.jpg" alt="noah 2014 [cropped]" width="329" height="329" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/noah-2014-cropped.jpg 1050w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/noah-2014-cropped-150x150.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/noah-2014-cropped-300x300.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/noah-2014-cropped-768x768.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/noah-2014-cropped-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/noah-2014-cropped-100x100.jpg 100w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/noah-2014-cropped-500x500.jpg 500w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/noah-2014-cropped-350x350.jpg 350w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/noah-2014-cropped-1000x1000.jpg 1000w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/noah-2014-cropped-24x24.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/noah-2014-cropped-36x36.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/noah-2014-cropped-48x48.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/noah-2014-cropped-200x200.jpg 200w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/noah-2014-cropped-400x400.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px" /></a>The movie jumps ahead to a grown Noah played by Russell Crowe as he forages the countryside with his sons Shem and Ham. Ham reaches to pick a flower because “it’s pretty” and Noah instructs him that the flower has a purpose, it sprouts, blooms, spreads seeds and sprouts again. They collect only what they need and leave the rest alone. I liked that scene.</p>
<p>But then the Cainites show up. They’ve wounded an animal they were hunting, desperate for the taste of flesh. Noah takes off after them and comforts the dying creature which turns out to be some kind of armadillo/dog. Some have suggested the scales were more reptilian. I’m trying to be kind. I don’t doubt that animals were different in this time, I just don’t know if that was a good depiction.</p>
<p>DNA is information in <a href="http://ds9a.nl/amazing-dna/">shockingly digital form</a> and sin (scientifically known as “entropy”) loses information across time and generations so early canids were probably super-dogs and not scrawny armadillo/reptile things. By the way, that is just one of thousands of reasons macro-evolution is being seen for the farce that it is.</p>
<p>The three hunters attempt to go through Noah to their prize but he takes down all three, answering the question of the third—“What do you want?”—with “Justice,” and then the scene ends and we are lead to believe, he got it.</p>
<p>Ham asks why the men wished to kill and eat the armadillo/dog and Noah says, “Because they think it gives them strength. They have forgotten that strength comes from the Creator.”</p>
<p>They then hold hands and pray over the remains (I couldn’t tell if they were man or beast).</p>
<p>I hate to tell you, folks&#8230;I liked that scene, too.</p>
<p>Soon Noah is disturbed by visions and realizes he must speak with his grandfather Methuselah (played by Anthony Hopkins).</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Anthony-Hopkins-as-Methuselah.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-Saey]"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-99 aligncenter" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Anthony-Hopkins-as-Methuselah.jpg" alt="Anthony Hopkins as ''Methuselah''" width="639" height="356" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Anthony-Hopkins-as-Methuselah.jpg 639w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Anthony-Hopkins-as-Methuselah-150x84.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Anthony-Hopkins-as-Methuselah-300x167.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Anthony-Hopkins-as-Methuselah-24x13.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Anthony-Hopkins-as-Methuselah-36x20.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Anthony-Hopkins-as-Methuselah-48x27.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Anthony-Hopkins-as-Methuselah-400x223.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px" /></a></p>
<p>During the weird serpent-skin blessing Lamech gives to boy-Noah, he recounts for him his lineage and that comes from Genesis 5. I am again indebted to Dr. Chuck Missler for some fascinating insights into the names from Adam to Noah.</p>
<p>Dr. Missler’s adage is that everything in Scripture, no matter how seemingly inane or without meaning, has purpose—right on down to names of people and places. As Christ said in <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+5%3A17-18&amp;version=NASB">Matthew 5:17-18</a>, He intends to fulfill the most insignificant “yot” or “tittle”.</p>
<p>First there was Adam and “Adam” has invariably been translated to mean “dust”, “earth” or “man”.</p>
<p>Adam’s sons were Cain and Able but Cain slew Able. Later, Adam “knew” his wife again and she bore him Seth and then explains in <a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/4-25.htm">Genesis 4:25</a> for us that Seth means “appointed” because he was “appointed to replace Able.”</p>
<p>But replace Able in what?</p>
<p>Is it possible that the devil filled Cain with rage and jealousy over his brother in order to halt the lineage from which the Messiah would come?</p>
<p>More from Dr. Missler (link provided at the end):</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Seth’s son was called Enosh, which means </em><strong><em>mortal, frail, or miserable</em></strong><em>. It is from the root </em>anash<em>, to be incurable, used of a wound, grief, woe, sickness, or wickedness.</em></p>
<p><em>It was in the days of Enosh that men began to defile the name of the Living God.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Most of your Bibles will tell you in <a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/4-26.htm">Genesis 4:26</a> that “men began to call upon the Name of G-d” but that makes little sense. Sin was taking men <em>away</em> from communion with G-d, not towards Him and this interpretation is shared by both Christian and <a href="http://jerusalemcouncil.org/articles/apologetics/the-genesis-road/">Jewish scholars alike</a>—it was at this time that men began to <em>profane</em> the Name; <em>ha Shem</em>.</p>
<p>Next was Kenan. Enosh’s son <em>Kenan</em>, has a meaning of <em>sorrow</em>, <em>dirge</em>, or <em>elegy</em>.</p>
<p>His son Mahalalel has a name that means <em>the Blessed G-d</em>.</p>
<p>It was after the birth of Mahalalel’s son Jared, that some scholars believe the Watchers began to pursue their reproductive mischief and Jared means “shall come down”.</p>
<p>Jared sired Enoch—yes, the “Enoch” that seems to have given us so much of this information somehow though whether the books we have today were his is still up to debate. He got his advanced knowledge from the L-rd, not Watchers. He was so close, “walking with G-d”, that G-d simply took him (<a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/5-24.htm">Genesis 5:24</a>). Many understand this to mean that Enoch was raptured bodily into Heaven without seeing death.</p>
<p>“Enoch” means “teacher”.</p>
<p>Enoch’s son was Methuselah. Methuselah was the oldest man recorded in Scripture, living 969 years. If you do the math and pay attention, you see that the Flood came the same year Methuselah died. Aronofsky’s movie has old Methuselah happily embracing the waters and being killed by them but scholars believe (and I agree) that Methuselah’s death preceded the Flood as a harbinger to it. One clue is his very name which can be translated “his death shall bring&#8230;” It was testimony to the Grace and Mercy of YHWH that He extended the longest possible limit to His Judgment.</p>
<p>This was a difficult time for Godly people and many of these names show it. Lamech, Methuselah’s son, is no different and you can see that in English derivatives like “lament”. <em>Lamech</em> has been translated as “despairing”.</p>
<p>But his son Noah had a purpose—that’s another high point for the movie. It is a message that is repeated several times. “Noah” means “rest” or “comfort”.</p>
<p>When you put the names of Genesis Chapter 5 together, they give you <a href="http://www.khouse.org/articles/1996/44/">an astounding message</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Man </em>[is]<em> appointed mortal sorrow. The Blessed G-d shall come down teaching that His Death shall bring the despairing, comfort.</em></p></blockquote>
<p><strong>MYSTIC METHUSELAH</strong></p>
<p>Again, I want to be charitable to our two Jewish friends but I don’t know if I’d go as far as they do with the secret knowledge they credit Methuselah with having.</p>
<p>At one point, a young Methuselah defends the Watchers, hunted by the Cainites, with a fiery sword that produces a wall of flame. He can touch the forehead of Noah’s young son and put him to sleep. On the journey to find Methuselah again for wisdom, Noah and his family adopt a girl, wounded by roaming raiders. They somehow know that the ugly stomach laceration she suffers from, has made her barren. Later on, at the request of Noah’s wife, Methuselah mystically heals her.</p>
<p>Look, I’m all about the idea that Adam, today, would be a <em>real</em> übermensch in both mind and body. We have no idea what was lost in knowledge or genetic purity from him to us. But I have to say that it went a little over the top when Methuselah helped Noah understand his visions and his mission by giving him some funky peyote tea. Narcotics and soothsaying are strictly forbidden in Scripture for a reason. One of the “works of the flesh” listed in Galatians 5:20 is “sorcery”—<em>pharmakeia</em>, in the Greek. These, too, are used as vehicles for unclean spirits to pass over from their prison to our freedom. Loyal angels, however, have no such restrictions.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Forget not to show love unto strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.</em> ~ <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews+13%3A2&amp;version=ASV">Hebrews 13:2</a>, American Standard</p></blockquote>
<p>The flip side to the coin is the brilliant way Aronofsky portrayed communication with G-d. It was extremely subtle and, often, desperately asked questions were left unanswered right up until the very minute an answer was needed (at least for the Sethites—Cainites just got rained on).</p>
<p>What was Noah’s mission? —To save the “innocent”; the animals.</p>
<p>But the animals, too, have lost their innocence in sin. One need only look to the modern animal kingdom to see behaviors that defy explanation except via sin, killer whales that “play” with their prey, chimps that attack viciously and without reason. Even those same Hebraic ancient texts tell us that the Watchers mixed animal DNA and it was this very hybridization that contributed to the creation of monstrous hybrids—readily-possessed organic portals. From Persia to Greece, Assyria to Egypt we see depictions of animals mixed with animals and with men. They may not really have looked like that on the outside, but they sure did on the inside.</p>
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<p><strong>ON A MISSION FROM GOD</strong></p>
<p>So now Noah knew what he had to do, but how to get it done?</p>
<p>Scripture is silent on just how the massive undertaking was accomplished but Aronofsky decided to keep his Watchers involved and although they started out ready to kill or imprison Noah with his family just because they were humans who were probably rebelling against G-d like the rest, it was Magog who started helping them. Eventually, the crusty old Samyaza was convinced when miraculous springs provided a new forrest for ark wood.</p>
<p>It is fascinating that “Magog” would be chosen as a Watcher name. At least, that’s <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1959490/">what IMDb claims</a>. The subtitles I watched claimed the Watcher was “Og”. Maybe he was “Gog”. All of those names have sinister overtones.</p>
<p>Years later, their task nears completion and the animals start to show up.</p>
<p>I do like how they arrive for Noah in the movie; one day, waves of birds appear. Time elapses and then a great many reptiles and insects slither and flutter aboard. Finally come all of the mammals great and small.</p>
<p>Here, too, our film-makers make the same mistake so many Biblically-illiterate Christians make. How many of each animal did Noah bring onboard the ark? If you answered “two”, you are wrong. It was “two of the unclean and <em>seven of the clean</em>” (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+7%3A2&amp;version=NASB">Genesis 7:2</a>).</p>
<p>The price of sin is death and it must be atoned for in blood. This began with the first sacrifice in the Garden used to clothe Adam and Eve (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+3%3A21&amp;version=NKJV">Genesis 3:21</a>) and it is an excellent supposition that whichever animal it was, was dear to one or both of them.</p>
<p>Yet, they were all imperfect shadows of the ultimate Sacrifice of the Cross (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews+10&amp;version=NASB">Hebrews 10</a>).</p>
<p>How did the animals manage the journey once on the ark? —Noah and his wife “Naameh” (played by Jennifer Connelly) made a sleep potion for them all. Again, a little mystic but I still acknowledge that the film was attempting to bridge the credibility gap <em>in favor</em> of the Biblical account.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Jennifer-Connelly-as-Naameh.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-Saey]"><img loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-101 aligncenter" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Jennifer-Connelly-as-Naameh-1024x680.jpg" alt="Jennifer Connelly as ''Naameh''" width="620" height="412" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Jennifer-Connelly-as-Naameh-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Jennifer-Connelly-as-Naameh-150x100.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Jennifer-Connelly-as-Naameh-300x199.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Jennifer-Connelly-as-Naameh-768x510.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Jennifer-Connelly-as-Naameh-24x16.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Jennifer-Connelly-as-Naameh-36x24.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Jennifer-Connelly-as-Naameh-48x32.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Jennifer-Connelly-as-Naameh-400x266.jpg 400w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Jennifer-Connelly-as-Naameh.jpg 1680w" sizes="(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px" /></a></p>
<p>Russell Crowe was a good casting choice for the hardened bastard, Noah, but Connelly didn’t transmit the appearance of what I would’ve thought Noah’s wife to be—a little too thin and frail.</p>
<p>However, the age was right and the acting was excellent. We get a lot of emotion from the troubled mother looking out for her children and future grandchildren. Incidentally, there is a “Naamah” listed in <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+4%3A22&amp;version=NASB">Genesis 4:22</a> as the sister of Tubal-Cain and daughter of the murdering polygamist Lamech, not Noah’s daddy, Lamech. The book of Jubilees claims Noah’s wife was “Emzara”.</p>
<p>And speaking of grandkids, there is much ado about how only Shem’s rescued raider victim, “Ila” (played by Emma Watson) has been provided as a wife and the other two boys got bubcus. Worse, “Ila” is barren (until mystical Methuselah lays hands on her). The resolution to it all is another deft touch by the movie that I think was done well and is true to how the L-rd usually does things.</p>
<p>But they haven’t left yet. As the rains start, Tubal-Cain decides it’s time to make his move on the ark. He’s got a plan to get past Noah and his Watcher buddies and a big battle takes place—evil hordes of men attacking poor giant Watchers.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/stone-watcher-giants-slaughter-men.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-Saey]"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-102 aligncenter" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/stone-watcher-giants-slaughter-men.jpg" alt="stone watcher giants slaughter men" width="700" height="375" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/stone-watcher-giants-slaughter-men.jpg 700w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/stone-watcher-giants-slaughter-men-150x80.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/stone-watcher-giants-slaughter-men-300x161.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/stone-watcher-giants-slaughter-men-24x13.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/stone-watcher-giants-slaughter-men-36x19.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/stone-watcher-giants-slaughter-men-48x26.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/stone-watcher-giants-slaughter-men-400x214.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /></a></p>
<p>The reality given by Scripture is quite something else and we see some of that in how a teenage King David takes on a monstrous Nephilim called “Goliath”. Those hybrids were raining terror on the inhabitants and it took nothing less than the Hand of G-d to cut them down.</p>
<p>As the men overwhelm the Watchers, they give up their spirits and are taken by the Creator back into Heaven!</p>
<p>I’m afraid that’s not how it works. Redemption is extended to humans. Angels who have rebelled don’t get a second chance. This is a mystery they long to understand (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=I+Peter+1%3A12&amp;version=NASB">I Peter 1:12</a>). When I first saw this in the movie I was annoyed, angry and chuckled ruefully but it is not something to laugh at. There are beings who are consigned to damnation with no way out. Our lives on this Earth are filled with Grace allowing us to change the course of our destinies and we should hold that with humble reverence.</p>
<p>Redemption for the Fallen Ones is a myth spun from Kabbalah.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>It occurred to me that a mystical tradition more closely related to Judaism, called Kabbalah (which the singer Madonna made popular a decade ago or so), surely would have held a similar view, since it is essentially a form of Jewish Gnosticism. I dusted off &#8230; my copy of Adolphe Franck’s 19th century work, The Kabbalah, and quickly confirmed my suspicions:</em></p>
<p><em>“Before they were beguiled by the subtleness of the serpent, Adam and Eve were not only exempt from the need of a body, but did not even have a body—that is to say, they were not of the earth.”</em></p>
<p><em>Franck quotes from the Zohar, one of Kabbalah’s sacred texts:</em></p>
<p><em>“When our forefather Adam inhabited the Garden of Eden, he was clothed, as all are in heaven, with a garment made of the higher light. When he was driven from the Garden of Eden and was compelled to submit to the needs of this world, what happened? God, the Scriptures tell us, made Adam and his wife tunics of skin and clothed them; for before this they had tunics of light, of that higher light used in Eden…” &#8230;</em></p>
<p><em>I discovered what Darren Aronofsky’s first feature film was: Pi. Want to know its subject matter? &#8230;</em></p>
<p><em>Kabbalah</em><em>. &#8230;</em></p>
<p><em>The world of Aronofsky’s Noah is a thoroughly Gnostic one: a graded universe of “higher” and “lower.” The “spiritual” is good, and way, way, way “up there” where the ineffable, unspeaking god dwells, and the “material” is bad, and way, way down here where our spirits are encased in material flesh. This is not only true of the fallen sons and daughters of Adam and Eve, but of fallen angels, who are explicitly depicted as being spirits trapped inside a material “body” of cooled molten lava.</em></p>
<p><em>Admittedly, they make pretty nifty movie characters, but they’re also notorious in Gnostic speculation. Gnostics call them Archons, lesser divine beings or angels who aid “The Creator” in forming the visible universe. And Kabbalah has a pantheon of angelic beings of its own all up and down the ladder of “divine being.” And fallen angels are never totally fallen in this brand of mysticism. To quote the Zohar again, a central Kabbalah text: “All things of which this world consists, the spirit as well as the body, will return to the principle and the root from which they came.” Funny. That’s exactly what happens to Aronofsky’s Lava Monsters. They redeem themselves, shed their outer material skin, and fly back to the heavens. Incidentally, I noticed that in the film, as the family is traveling through a desolate wasteland, Shem asks his father: “Is this a Zohar mine?” Yep. That’s the name of Kabbalah’s sacred text.</em></p>
<p><em>The entire movie is, figuratively, a “Zohar” mine. </em>~ <a href="http://drbrianmattson.com/journal/2014/3/31/sympathy-for-the-devil"><em>Sympathy For The Devil</em></a>, Dr. Brian Mattson</p></blockquote>
<p>As springs burst up through the ground, finishing off the invading army, Tubal-Cain manages through his indomitable spirit of conquest to hack into the ark and collapse.</p>
<p>Did anyone manage to avoid the just cleansing of the Flood? The Bible may hint at one hybrid who did just that.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+3%3A11&amp;version=NKJV">Deuteronomy 3:11</a> states that Og, king of Bashan was only remnant of the undead Rephaim. That same verse tells us he slept on a bed of 9 cubits by 4 cubits. A “cubit” has the street measurement of a man’s elbow to the tip of his middle finger, averaging about 17 ½ to 18 inches. An Egyptian Royal cubit was 20 inches. That would’ve made Og’s bed 15 feet long and Og, himself, about 13 feet tall. Did he find a way to weather the Flood?</p>
<p><strong>HOMICIDAL HERO</strong></p>
<p>So if Noah is on a mission to save Creation from all of mankind, because all man is infected with sin (a very <em>Christian</em> concept, by the way), we have a problem. Mystic Methuselah has enabled Shem’s wife to conceive and conceive she does. In order to properly carry out his task, Noah must become Abraham and end his own line.</p>
<p>Prior to this, he was happy to simply let his family die a natural death, and mankind with them. But if “Ila” bears girls, they could become wives for his other sons. He must maintain his discipline, stay true to the Judgment of the Flood, and kill his grand-daughters.</p>
<p>I’m not nearly as aghast at this plot twist as so many of my Christian brother critics are. It does logically keep the suspense going along with Tubal-Cain stowing away.</p>
<p>Is it harsh?</p>
<p>Read your Bible.</p>
<p>Live your life dedicated to Yeshua of Nazareth where you chose what He tells you over what’s easiest for you.</p>
<p>You will never, ever despair, but you <em>will</em> learn what “harsh” is all about.</p>
<p>Like Abraham, Noah spares killing his twin grand-daughters by an excellent bit of writing from our movie-makers.</p>
<p>The whole idea of “innocent” animals and unredeemable, sinful man is honest but has a resolution our Jewish writers can not see.</p>
<p>In the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-raushenbush/noah-the-movie_b_5022132.html">Huffington Post interview</a>, Raushenbush asks Aronofsky and Handel:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>If you were giving this film as a sermon, what would its title be?</em></p>
<p><em>Handel: Noah.</em></p>
<p><em>Raushenbush: C’mon, at least give me a colon.</em></p>
<p><em>Aronofsky: Noah: What It Means To Be Righteous</em></p>
<p><em>Raushenbush: That’s yours? “Noah: The Wickedness of Man”</em></p>
<p><em>Handel: But that’s only half of the story.</em></p>
<p><em>Aronofsky: The other half is the goodness</em></p>
<p><em>Handel: This is about mercy and justice.</em></p>
<p><em>Aronofsky: It could be Noah: Mercy and Justice.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>When “Naameh” pleads for the life/lives of her grandchildren to Methuselah, asking him to intervene with Noah, he asks, “Who is ‘good’ and who is ‘wicked’? &#8230; The choice will still fall to Noah.”</p>
<p>As a quick aside, I have to admit having a bit of compassion for the lead actor in the film—far from needing my compassion, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2223352/How-Russell-Crowes-king-sized-ego-cost-love-life.html">Russell Crowe is a child in a millionaire’s body</a> but he seemed rather defensive in an interview I watched and he repeated a line from the movie regarding why Noah was chosen, not because he was “good” but because he could get the job done. Actually, he <em>was</em> chosen because he was “good” (loved the L-rd) but being a harsh, disciplined prick was probably true as well!</p>
<p>Who is “wicked”? Paul quotes from <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+14&amp;version=NASB">Psalms 14</a> and <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+53&amp;version=NASB">53</a> to make the point that <em>everyone</em> is.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>What then? Are we better than they? Not at all. For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.</em></p>
<p><em>As it is written:</em></p>
<p><em>“There is none righteous, no, not one;<br />
There is none who understands;<br />
There is none who seeks after G-d.<br />
They have all turned aside;<br />
They have together become unprofitable;<br />
There is none who does good, no, not one.”<br />
“Their throat is an open tomb;<br />
With their tongues they have practiced deceit”<br />
“The poison of asps is under their lips”;<br />
“Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”<br />
“Their feet are swift to shed blood;</em></p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Destruction and misery are in their ways;<br />
And the way of peace they have not known.”<br />
“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”</em> ~ <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+3%3A9-18&amp;version=NKJV">Romans 3:9-18</a> NKJV (abbreviation and capitalization added to correct lack of respect)</p>
<p><em>For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. But G-d demonstrates His own Love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His Blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to G-d through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His Life. And not only that, but we also rejoice in G-d through our L-rd Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.</em> ~ <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+5%3A6-11&amp;version=NKJV">Romans 5:6-11</a> New King James Version (abbreviation and capitalization added to correct lack of respect)</p></blockquote>
<p>But back to our movie where, at several points, Noah has a vision of standing in blood—powerful.</p>
<p>Not killing his grand-daughters and the stress of what he endures causes Noah to despair. There is a climactic battle that finishes Tubal-Cain but continues Ham’s path toward a cursed future.</p>
<p>After they hit landfall, Noah enters a self-imposed exile. He finds grapes and drinks himself into a naked stupor.</p>
<p>In the movie, Ham never comes near his father, he appears to alert his brothers who cover him up without looking. In Genesis 9:20-27, we sense that Noah was very angry with what Ham had done and curses his offspring, Canaan. This is never covered in the movie and Noah getting drunk from grief resonated with me. Scripture always seemed to imply that it was wanton drunkenness but I like this interpretation much better.</p>
<p>Many see the curse of Canaan as relating to why Ham’s black African offspring have suffered so much across the ages. You will have to do your own research and come to your own conclusions.</p>
<p>I was surprised at how delicate this was handled in the movie—you don’t even realize Ham has done anything wrong.</p>
<p>Some Hebraic commentaries imply some really nasty things, both heterosexual (as to why it is Canaan and not Ham that is cursed) and homosexual. We will never know.</p>
<p>The movie ends with “Ila” restoring Noah from his perceived failure by reaffirming that he was chosen for a reason. Looking on the internet has shown me that this “Emma Watson” girl is some kind of pop star so good writing has kept my annoyance factor for her down, especially this scene.</p>
<p><strong>“THIS MEANS SOMETHING&#8230;THIS IS IMPORTANT”</strong></p>
<p>Like Richard Dreyfus staring at a mound of mashed potatoes in <em>Close Encounters of the Third Kind</em>, I have to tell you that all of these topics are relevant today.</p>
<p>As I said in the beginning, I wouldn’t think to subject a baby Christian (at whatever their actual age), to watching this movie lest by watching they think highly of the Watchers. But I was actually glad I did and, who knows&#8230;if I see it in the bargain bin a year from now I’ll think long and hard on it.</p>
<p>But the reality of the Bible states the very thing Aronofsky turned on its head—the role of the fallen angels—was the foundation of why the Earth was judged. Their sexual sin and DNA tampering was the final straw for YHWH.</p>
<p>Think you’ll ever see “Samyaza” and the rest? Don’t count on it. The technology and knowledge they used may have caused them to go into immediate imprisonment (note the connection to the gross immorality of Sodom and Gomorrah).</p>
<blockquote><p><em>&#8230;if G-d did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly lives thereafter; and if He rescued righteous Lot, oppressed by the sensual conduct of unprincipled men (for by what he saw and heard that righteous man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day by their lawless deeds), then the L-rd knows how to rescue the godly from temptation&#8230;</em> ~ II Peter 2:4-9, NASB (abbreviation added for respect)</p>
<p><em>&#8230;angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the Great Day&#8230;</em> ~ Jude 6</p></blockquote>
<p>Was that the end of it?</p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>From the very beginning, we are warned that this took place in the time of Noah <em>“and also afterward&#8230;”</em> (Genesis 6:4).</p>
<p>After the new Israelite nation was freed from slavery in Egypt, they came to the Promised Land of Canaan. But 10 of the 12 spies came back to Moses with a “bad report”—the land is filled with giants who devour its inhabitants and we are like grasshoppers in their sight (Numbers 13:33). Did you know it was <em>this</em> reason that they were punished to wander the desert for another 40 years? —Because they were terrified by the monstrous hybrids they were to go to battle with.</p>
<p>For <em>generations</em> critics of the Bible have mocked the instructions of YHWH to kill every man, woman and child (and sometimes even beasts) but the DNA tampering makes it all fall into place. In Deuteronomy 20 He actually goes as far as to say “kill everything within this epicenter of effected tribes but those on the outskirts, spare the women and children&#8230;” (see verses 15 and 16 but read the whole chapter).</p>
<p>Anyone who studies modern “aliens” or “alien abductions” soon falls into perverse stories of reproductive experimentation. Have the Watchers returned? Are they building another army, this time to dispossess the Godly from the whole Earth?</p>
<p>Perhaps an even more important question is, “Have they found Tubal-Cain scientists to fill in the gaps left by the imprisoned Fallen Ones?”</p>
<p>In Matthew 24, Jesus sets the conditions to warn us of when His Return was imminent.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of Heaven, but My Father only. But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.</em> ~ Matthew 24:36-37</p></blockquote>
<p>Looks like we’re already there.</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2017818/Embryos-involving-genes-animals-mixed-humans-produced-secretively-past-years.html"><strong><em>150 Human Animal Hybrids Grown In UK Labs: Embryos have been produced secretively for the past three years.</em></strong></a><strong><em><br />
</em></strong><em>Daniel Martin and Simon Caldwell, Mail Online, 15:18 EST, 22 July 2011</em></p></blockquote>
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					<description><![CDATA[The vast majority of pap that comes from Hollywood &#8230; Helliwood &#8230; Commiewood is either poison, banality or foolishness. Occasionally, it can be inspiring with minimal cancerous messages being sent to you and once in a great while a movie can be downright thrilling as...]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The vast majority of pap that comes from Hollywood &#8230; Helliwood &#8230; Commiewood is either poison, banality or foolishness. Occasionally, it can be inspiring with minimal cancerous messages being sent to you and once in a great while a movie can be downright thrilling as it stands against the malignant Machine that runs the world.</p>
<p>I think such is the case for RoboCop 2014.</p>
<p>Sometimes a good foreign or independent film like <a title="The Veteran (2011): Shocking Truth From The Silver Screen" href="https://johnnycirucci.com/the-veteran/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>The Veteran</em></a> slips out to give you a shocking real-life picture of, say, CIA drug-running but major motion pictures from the United States with big stars that exposes the “New World Order” agenda without trying to trick you into its inevitability are rare.</p>
<p>There is a twisted relationship the Machine has with the silver screen. The malignant Elite that run the world keep you constantly fooled, dumbed-down, inundated with perversion and lied to but they must also quietly explain their agenda to you. Some of them think it’s fun, like a predator playing with their prey, some think they need to because they have so much control they have no challenge but some realize that there are authorities (an Authority) even higher than they are. Even for the full-in servants of satan, there are rules.</p>
<p>I think that’s an important distinction to make; as powerful as the Luciferian Elite are, they aren’t <em>all</em>-powerful. They don’t control <em>all</em> of the 535 members of Congress, just the ones in important positions. They don’t supervise <em>every</em> movie that comes out, just the ones that are important to them, like <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/13421/">the myth about bagging bin Laden</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>The Department of Defense regularly cooperates with Hollywood on projects large and small, from Lifetime’s fictional Army base-set series “Army Wives” and CBS’ naval police procedural “NCIS” to Paramount Pictures’ warring robots franchise “Transformers” and Sony’s Columbia Pictures film “Battle: Los Angeles,” about Marines fighting an alien invasion. The military has allowed Universal Pictures to film its upcoming action movie “Battleship” on the battleship Missouri and permitted Navy SEALs to appear in Relativity Media’s February thriller “Act of Valor.” &#8230;</em></p>
<p><em>But controversy over an upcoming movie about the killing of Osama bin Laden — and how much U.S. officials should assist director Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal — has shed light on some of the minefields that must be navigated by real-life warriors and the showbiz engine that seeks to portray them.</em> ~ <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/aug/21/entertainment/la-ca-military-movies-20110821"><em>The U.S. Military’s Hollywood Connection</em></a>, Rebecca Keegan, Los Angeles Times</p></blockquote>
<p>When a Hollywood flair was needed to perpetuate the hype over poor Jessica Lynch (the girl the media told you fought like an Amazonian <a href="http://old.post-gazette.com/nation/20030403rescuenatp3.asp">“to the last round”</a> but was actually <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2003/11/21717/">brutally raped and sodomized</a>), your government <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/may/15/iraq.usa2">brought in famed director</a> Jerry Bruckheimer to choreograph her “rescue”. Can’t have America’s daughters not thinking they were warriors ready for the meatgrinder of the Blackwater/Halliburton cash cow.</p>
<p><strong>I HATE REMAKES</strong></p>
<p>To me, remakes show just how desperate a particular venue (Hollywood, the music industry, etc.) is for real inspiration and creativity. The vast majority of them fail miserably to do justice to the original classic—and that’s even if it was a classic in the first place. John Carpenter’s remake of <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/reviews/the-thing-from-another-world/"><em>The Thing</em></a> (1951) couldn’t even <em>touch</em> the charm, suspense, humor and nuance of the Howard Hawks’ classic. It was everything wrong with the 80’s in film—substituting gore for talent.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/thing_from_another_world_poster.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-0qlW]"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-535 aligncenter" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/thing_from_another_world_poster.jpg" alt="thing_from_another_world_poster" width="603" height="470" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/thing_from_another_world_poster.jpg 1600w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/thing_from_another_world_poster-150x117.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/thing_from_another_world_poster-300x234.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/thing_from_another_world_poster-768x599.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/thing_from_another_world_poster-1024x799.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/thing_from_another_world_poster-24x19.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/thing_from_another_world_poster-36x28.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/thing_from_another_world_poster-48x37.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/thing_from_another_world_poster-400x312.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/robocop-1987.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-0qlW]"><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-536" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/robocop-1987.jpg" alt="robocop 1987" width="287" height="451" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/robocop-1987.jpg 630w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/robocop-1987-95x150.jpg 95w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/robocop-1987-191x300.jpg 191w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/robocop-1987-15x24.jpg 15w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/robocop-1987-23x36.jpg 23w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/robocop-1987-31x48.jpg 31w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/robocop-1987-381x600.jpg 381w" sizes="(max-width: 287px) 100vw, 287px" /></a>The same could be said of the 1987 movie RoboCop whose cheese, violence and gore factors rivaled the worst Arnold Schwarzenegger movie of the day.</p>
<p>Don’t get me wrong, I like Peter Weller. Any established actor who pushes aside the glitz of Tinseltown to teach <a href="http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/15.02/posts.html">history at Syracuse</a> is alright with me (apparently, <a href="http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=688885">he’s damn good at it</a>, too).</p>
<p>But I put RoboCop 2014 in my rental queue with great reservation thinking that, at least computer-generated graphics would make it entertaining if it wasn’t interesting.</p>
<p>Little did I know it would be both, and in spades.</p>
<p>Now, in order to tell you why this movie is so good, I’ve got to dissect the crap out of it, so if you’re in any way interested in seeing it, put the review on hold and come back.</p>
<p>Still here? You’re the kind of person that rummages through your parents closet after they’ve gone Christmas shopping, aren’t you.</p>
<p>The movie opens with a freaky straight-haired Samuel Jackson as the propaganda-pushing host of “The Novak Element”, Pat Novak.</p>
<p>I’m guessing he’s supposed to be patterned after the late Conservative pundit Bob Novak and it’s the only real <em>swing and a miss</em> from the movie. Bob Novak may have been a media insider but he was far from an all-out tool of the Machine (like just about every corporate media network and host is today).</p>
<p>Novak is giving you a very carefully tailored interview with General Curtis Monroe about the wonderful success of pacifying Iran. The year is 2028 so I guess we can assume the master plan of toppling governments through the Middle East that was leaked by presidential wanna-be General Weasely Clark has finally been successful (apparently Syria fell after all).</p>
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<p>Monroe may have been patterned after Strategic Air Command boss Curtis LeMay—another monster created by war and power who <a href="http://spartacus-educational.com/USAlemay.htm">would’ve gladly slaughtered countless</a> innocents to do what he thought was the next step in important world strategy. I’m not trying to lampoon him the way <a href="http://voices.yahoo.com/curtis-lemay-real-life-model-general-jack-1432547.html">Kubrick did in Dr. Strangelove</a>, I’m just saying that people like him never really served the Constitution or American citizens.</p>
<p>But the most interesting thing about the occupation of Iran is that all of the heavy combat was taken care of by robots. On screen, we are immediately treated to the return of “ED-209” along with a new humanoid counter-part, “EM-208”.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/omnicorp-in-Iran.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-0qlW]"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-537 aligncenter" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/omnicorp-in-Iran.jpg" alt="omnicorp in Iran" width="650" height="365" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/omnicorp-in-Iran.jpg 1920w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/omnicorp-in-Iran-150x84.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/omnicorp-in-Iran-300x169.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/omnicorp-in-Iran-768x432.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/omnicorp-in-Iran-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/omnicorp-in-Iran-24x14.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/omnicorp-in-Iran-36x20.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/omnicorp-in-Iran-48x27.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/omnicorp-in-Iran-400x225.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px" /></a></p>
<p>We’re shown a virtual map of the area being “secured” along with an embedded TV crew for propaganda. They are given special “red asset” bracelets for their Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) and we’re told “we’ve never lost a red asset”. This is important later in the movie.</p>
<p>A fit-looking SF type is managing the robots with various virtual body interfaces on his head and hands. Later we find out, he’s not military, he’s a loyal employee of Omni Corp.</p>
<p>In creepy fashion, the ED-209’s plod through Tehran telling its occupants, “Peace be upon you. Exit your homes with arms raised for non-invasive scanning.” You don’t see that in our future, do you?</p>
<p>While the citizen/slaves emerge to be scanned, nimble fighter drones patrol the skies, able to turn and hover on a dime.</p>
<p>On the ground, the 208’s and 209’s use biometrics and iris scans to immediately identify each person.</p>
<p>Pat Novak is all about it.</p>
<p>Soon we get introduced to the resistance. There is considerable white-washing here as Islamic suicide bombers now look to sacrifice themselves on camera attacking machines, rather than, say, strapping <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/feb/02/iraq.international1">bombs to women with Down syndrome</a> and shoving them into a busy marketplace. S’all good, though. We’ll gladly help wayward muslims redirect their efforts appropriately.</p>
<p>The robots handily shred the attack to include a knife-wielding teenager but Novak declares that “for security reasons the Pentagon’s going to cut our feed to Tehran.”</p>
<p>Next we are introduced to the CEO of Omni Corp, Raymond Sellers (played by Michael Keaton). Sellers is being grilled by Senator Hubert Dreyfus (Zach Grenier) on why his self-named Dreyfus Act prohibiting the use of robots on the streets of America is important: those making decisions of life or death need to feel.</p>
<p>Sadly, no such debate ever took place in today’s Congress regarding what this scene depicts so well: the use of <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/7/coming-to-a-sky-near-you/?page=all">drones over American skies.</a></p>
<p>Killing by proxy gives the bloodsucking Elite new-found freedom to rain death and destruction from above with few consequences. However, if you dig through foreign media, you’ll find that even some of our young video-game-playing soldiers and airmen still live what they have done from afar.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>For more than five years, Brandon Bryant worked in an oblong, windowless container about the size of a trailer&#8230; Bryant and his coworkers sat in front of 14 computer monitors and four keyboards. When Bryant pressed a button in New Mexico, someone died on the other side of the world.</em></p>
<p><em>The container is filled with the humming of computers. It’s the brain of a drone, known as a cockpit in Air Force parlance. But the pilots in the container aren’t flying through the air. They’re just sitting at the controls.</em></p>
<p><em>Bryant was one of them, and he remembers one incident very clearly when a Predator drone was circling in a figure-eight pattern in the sky above Afghanistan&#8230; There was a flat-roofed house made of mud, with a shed used to hold goats in the crosshairs, as Bryant recalls. When he received the order to fire, he pressed a button with his left hand and marked the roof with a laser. The pilot sitting next to him pressed the trigger on a joystick, causing the drone to launch a Hellfire missile. &#8230;</em></p>
<p><em>“These moments are like in slow motion,” he says today. &#8230;</em></p>
<p><em>With seven seconds left to go, there was no one to be seen on the ground. Bryant could still have diverted the missile at that point. Then it was down to three seconds. Bryant felt as if he had to count each individual pixel on the monitor. Suddenly a child walked around the corner, he says. &#8230;</em></p>
<p><em>Bryant saw a flash on the screen: the explosion. Parts of the building collapsed. The child had disappeared. Bryant had a sick feeling in his stomach.</em></p>
<p><em>“Did we just kill a kid?” he asked the man sitting next to him.</em></p>
<p><em>“Yeah, I guess that was a kid,” the pilot replied.</em> ~ <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/pain-continues-after-war-for-american-drone-pilot-a-872726.html"><em>Dreams in Infrared: The Woes of an American Drone Operator</em></a>, Nicola Abé, der Spiegel</p></blockquote>
<p>How pesky that human conscience can be, even when sitting at a video game.</p>
<p>We really need to pull them out of the loop, and we will in a few short years!</p>
<blockquote><p><em>The Navy’s new drone being tested near Chesapeake Bay stretches the boundaries of technology: It’s designed to land on the deck of an aircraft carrier, one of aviation’s most difficult maneuvers.</em></p>
<p><em>What’s even more remarkable is that it will do that not only without a pilot in the cockpit, but without a pilot at all.</em></p>
<p><em>The X-47B marks a paradigm shift in warfare, one that is likely to have far-reaching consequences. With the drone’s ability to be flown autonomously by onboard computers, it could usher in an era when death and destruction can be dealt by machines operating semi-independently.</em></p>
<p><em>Although humans would program an autonomous drone’s flight plan and could override its decisions, the prospect of heavily armed aircraft screaming through the skies without direct human control is unnerving to many.</em> ~ <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jan/26/business/la-fi-auto-drone-20120126"><em>New Drone Has No Pilot Anywhere, So Who’s Accountable</em></a>? W.J. Hennigan, Los Angeles Times</p></blockquote>
<p>Take note of the headline of that piece, those exact words are later spoken in the movie.</p>
<p><strong>THE ROBOT/INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX</strong></p>
<p>In the future, Congress is actually afraid of their constituents and that damn Dreyfus Act is keeping <em>billions</em> of dollars from Omni Corp coffers. What’s a powerful, ruthless CEO with no ethics to do?</p>
<p>Perhaps they could call in their best scientist working robotic prosthetics and get him to create a cyborg to showcase the new technology; get some poor chopped up cop and put him (and your technology) back on the streets. The perfect loophole!</p>
<p>Enter Dr. Dennett Norton (Gary Oldman) who gives amputees new life, including the unbelievable rehabilitation of a double-arm-amputee guitar player who can miraculously play again (thanks to some convincing CGI).</p>
<p>But there’s a problem: extreme emotions foul his robotic interface yet he needs emotion to play.</p>
<p>The character is painted with excellent shades of grey. Norton has vowed never to give military applications to his research and Sellers is forced to bribe him with thoughts of unlimited funding for the next 10 years.</p>
<p>Oldman is perfectly cast as Dennett Norton who is, himself, a controversial figure. Oldman has called <a href="http://reason.com/blog/2014/06/25/but-nancy-pelosi-is-still-a-cnt-gary-old">Nancy Pelosi the c-word</a> and <a href="http://variety.com/2014/film/news/gary-oldman-blasts-liberal-hollywood-defends-mel-gibson-and-alec-baldwin-1201243936/">vociferously defended Mel Gibson</a>. The word “Jew” has been bandied about often and I think the mature actor is either an anti-Semite or perhaps is reacting to the control wielded in Hollywood by a cabal of what we might call <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+3%3A9&amp;version=NASB">“the synagogue of satan”</a>. These are very difficult waters to navigate because it is easy to slip into a morass of prejudice so let’s just say there’s something there and I hope you can be clear-minded as to what it is.</p>
<p>So who is the best candidate to combine man and machine? The selection process is appropriately brutal; one officer who’s lost his limbs has become obese in depression, a paraplegic Olympian is found to have deep-seated anger issues. No one is suitable.</p>
<p>On the other side of town, Detective Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman) is trying to put the squeeze on Detroit’s criminal kingpin, Antoine Vallon (played by Patrick Garrow). He uncovers a lackey hoodlum who shows him they have a large number of military-grade weapons that were apparently stolen from the DPD evidence locker. Murphy tries to make a buy from Vallon but is tipped off by dirty cops and his partner, Jack Lewis (played by Michael K. Williams), gets wounded.</p>
<p>Shortly, we are introduced to the Chief of the Detroit Police Department, Karen Dean (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) who is butch and black. Thoroughly annoying and disgustingly realistic.</p>
<p>I do have to point out that we have several key black characters and <em>none</em> of them have “black names”. Not very racially sensitive, guys, but we’ll overlook it for the sake of your artistic license.</p>
<p>We see that Murphy has a wife Clara and a son David whom he loves very much&#8230;until he’s literally blown limb-from-limb by a car bomb planted from a Vallon henchman and set up by the dirty cops.</p>
<p>So far, everyone but the Senate is dirty and they’re actually afraid of the voters. B+ on realism.</p>
<p>Messing up Alex Murphy is infinitely better done in the remake than the original and, sadly, a very well-known experience for many veterans of America’s military.</p>
<p>Next Omni Corp interviews Clara Murphy to get her to sign the waivers necessary for the radical procedure. CEO Sellers is almost always flanked by his head of marketing and a vicious career-woman “Liz Kline” (Jennifer Ehle) who seems to be the head of Omni Corp legal. She ruthlessly pushes Murphy’s wife into acquiescing.</p>
<p>We then fade into a dream sequence flash-back that was a little creepy for me as the viewer; Murphy is having a patio party that is neither blue collar nor aristocrat. His partner and wife are there and he slow dances with Clara to Sinatra singing <em>Fly Me To The Moon</em>. The Chairman of the Board is a big favorite for the author when we need to go to <em>our </em>happy place.</p>
<p>Reality is more like a horror movie when Murphy awakens. There’s almost nothing left of him and that is then encased in metal.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/RoboCop-whats-left-of-Murphy.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-0qlW]"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-538 aligncenter" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/RoboCop-whats-left-of-Murphy.jpg" alt="RoboCop what's left of Murphy" width="675" height="380" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/RoboCop-whats-left-of-Murphy.jpg 960w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/RoboCop-whats-left-of-Murphy-150x84.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/RoboCop-whats-left-of-Murphy-300x169.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/RoboCop-whats-left-of-Murphy-768x432.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/RoboCop-whats-left-of-Murphy-24x14.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/RoboCop-whats-left-of-Murphy-36x20.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/RoboCop-whats-left-of-Murphy-48x27.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/RoboCop-whats-left-of-Murphy-400x225.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px" /></a></p>
<p>Murphy’s every function is now completely controlled by “scientists”.</p>
<p>He very understandably asks to be killed but is convinced to go on for his family. He is assured by Norton that his intellect and emotions are still his.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/murphy-before-meltdown.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-0qlW]"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-539 aligncenter" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/murphy-before-meltdown.jpg" alt="murphy before meltdown" width="685" height="395" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/murphy-before-meltdown.jpg 1600w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/murphy-before-meltdown-150x86.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/murphy-before-meltdown-300x173.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/murphy-before-meltdown-768x443.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/murphy-before-meltdown-1024x590.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/murphy-before-meltdown-24x14.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/murphy-before-meltdown-36x21.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/murphy-before-meltdown-48x28.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/murphy-before-meltdown-400x231.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 685px) 100vw, 685px" /></a></p>
<p>“What kind of suit is this?” he asks. “It’s not a suit Alex,” Norton says, “it’s you.” Cool? Not even remotely. At least I didn’t immediately think so and that impressed me with how the movie was written and directed. RoboCop 2014 comes across as much more adult and somber with these difficult messages.</p>
<p>But there is still a lot of loyalty to the RoboCop faithful as the original suit is similar in color before Sellers war-games some necessary changes. “The people don’t know what they want until you give it to them,” says the PT Barnum-esque demagogue. “Give them <em>black</em>.”</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Robocop-2014-vs-1987.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-0qlW]"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-540 aligncenter" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Robocop-2014-vs-1987.jpg" alt="Robocop-2014-vs-1987" width="620" height="320" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Robocop-2014-vs-1987.jpg 620w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Robocop-2014-vs-1987-150x77.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Robocop-2014-vs-1987-300x155.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Robocop-2014-vs-1987-24x12.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Robocop-2014-vs-1987-36x19.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Robocop-2014-vs-1987-48x25.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Robocop-2014-vs-1987-400x206.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px" /></a></p>
<p>Murphy is put together at the Omni Corp production facility in, where else? —China!</p>
<p>After being shocked by the unveiling of what he has become he runs into a rice paddy until he is remotely shut down—another disturbing assurance that absolutely everything about his new existence is completely controlled from the outside.</p>
<p>Later, when Murphy reconnects with his family, first by video teleconference and later with an actual visit, it is difficult for all involved. Definitely a mature script.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/robocop-2014-coming-home.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-0qlW]"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-541 aligncenter" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/robocop-2014-coming-home.jpg" alt="robocop-2014-coming home" width="652" height="367" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/robocop-2014-coming-home.jpg 1500w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/robocop-2014-coming-home-150x84.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/robocop-2014-coming-home-300x169.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/robocop-2014-coming-home-768x432.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/robocop-2014-coming-home-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/robocop-2014-coming-home-24x14.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/robocop-2014-coming-home-36x20.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/robocop-2014-coming-home-48x27.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/robocop-2014-coming-home-400x225.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 652px) 100vw, 652px" /></a></p>
<p>Next, Murphy must be tested, but he turns out to be much slower than his EM-208 counterpart in the simulation for a brilliantly-communicated reason; as the EM-208 is thrust into a hostage situation, it assesses and acts almost instantaneously. Murphy’s brain takes time to assimilate all factors, to ask and answer tens of questions before finally resolving to act.</p>
<p>Rick Mattox (Jackie Earle Haley), his robot expert moderator, has returned from Iran and mocks him mercilessly as a “gigantic step backwards” in technology. Mattox’s robots were deployed to Rio and the Congo where they worked flawlessly. He was there (on behalf of Omni Corp and America, of course!). Mattox’s exclamation point to his disgust is “I wouldn’t buy that for a dollar.” Another homagé to 1987 and, good grief was that movie cheesy.</p>
<p>Murphy’s performance is a big disappointment to Sellers who orders Norton to “fix” him. Murphy’s entire existence is controlled right down to the remote releasing of antidepressants for a “pleasant dream”.</p>
<p>Norton’s solution is to give Murphy a combat auto-pilot that takes over the process of locating, assessing, targeting and terminating threats.</p>
<p>Another Sellers/Norton/Kline/Marketer Tom Pope (Jay Baruchel) war room session produces some fascinating dialogue.</p>
<p>When Murphy is in combat and the machine is in control, who is accountable?</p>
<p>“You’ve circumvented the law by creating a machine that thinks it’s a man&#8230;”</p>
<p>“No, we’ve created a machine that thinks it’s Alex Murphy and, in my book, that’s legal.”</p>
<p>Later, Norton uploads the entire DPD database to Murphy’s system. The NSA database would’ve taken <a href="http://www.wired.com/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/">a couple of acres</a>.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, this causes Murphy to relive each and every crime and it causes him to have a seizure and mental breakdown. He’s about to be unveiled to the public and Sellers and KIine again force Norton to compromise his ethics and give an immediate solution which is to reduce Murphy’s dopamine levels to a near catatonic state. He strides right past his wife and child to the dais where he quickly locates, identifies and apprehends a murder/rapist in the crowd.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/first-arrest.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-0qlW]"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-542 aligncenter" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/first-arrest.jpg" alt="first arrest" width="630" height="355" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/first-arrest.jpg 630w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/first-arrest-150x85.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/first-arrest-300x169.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/first-arrest-24x14.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/first-arrest-36x20.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/first-arrest-48x27.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/first-arrest-400x225.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px" /></a></p>
<p>The sensitive viewer doesn’t know whether to be horrified or thrilled as justice is quickly and efficiently dished out&#8230;but at what cost?</p>
<p>At another war room session, Norton tells Sellers “We need to run more tests. Something was interfering with the system. Something beyond chemistry or physics.”</p>
<p>“What, his <em>soul</em>?” Kline mocks derisively. Yet that is precisely the writers’ inference.</p>
<p>As Murphy goes through all of his criminal data, he gains access to his own crime scene evidence. The Omni Corp team realizes they need to put a gag order on the uncooperative Clara Murphy but, too late; she confronts the RoboCop and their meeting starts Murphy “breaking protocol”.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/clara-confronts-robocop.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-0qlW]"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-543 aligncenter" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/clara-confronts-robocop.jpg" alt="clara confronts robocop" width="634" height="417" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/clara-confronts-robocop.jpg 634w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/clara-confronts-robocop-150x99.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/clara-confronts-robocop-300x197.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/clara-confronts-robocop-24x16.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/clara-confronts-robocop-36x24.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/clara-confronts-robocop-48x32.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/clara-confronts-robocop-400x263.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px" /></a></p>
<p>Murphy restores his dopemine levels and Norton is baffled as Murphy’s emotions return. How is he over-riding his programmed priorities?</p>
<p>This concept has been quietly broached by several movies previous to RoboCop. We all understand that transhumanism creates terrifying creatures; half man/half animal, half man/half robot, all of them with super-human abilities but at the cost of their very humanity.</p>
<p>But is it possible to create a “super soldier” with a conscience? Certainly, that is the furthest thing any good Luciferian would want. But what about a tank to battle other tanks? An attack sub to go after other submarines? Can the pure heart of Steve Rogers allow Captain America to serve the people or his masters?</p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Doom-2005.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-0qlW]"><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-544" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Doom-2005.jpg" alt="Doom (2005)" width="239" height="384" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Doom-2005.jpg 1400w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Doom-2005-93x150.jpg 93w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Doom-2005-186x300.jpg 186w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Doom-2005-768x1237.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Doom-2005-636x1024.jpg 636w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Doom-2005-15x24.jpg 15w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Doom-2005-22x36.jpg 22w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Doom-2005-30x48.jpg 30w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Doom-2005-373x600.jpg 373w" sizes="(max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px" /></a>Even gory video games-turned-movies can sometimes imply this as <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419706/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt"><em>Doom</em></a> did in 2005. Unethical experiments have been taking place at the Mars colony where genetic manipulation has turned human guinea pigs into ravenous zombies (this is the age of the zombie, I’m afraid). Marines from the Rapid Response Tactical Squad (lead by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson) are deployed and soon all hell breaks loose. The last man standing is John Grimm (Karl Urban) there to protect his scientist sister until he is gravely injured. Having no alternative to save him, she injects him with the zombie serum but he isn’t zombified, he’s healed and becomes the weapon to fight the hordes with—because he has a pure heart.</p>
<p>Don’t get me wrong, folks. I sure wouldn’t bet my soul on trans-humanism and once you start injecting humans with animal DNA you may just very well be disqualifying them for eternal Salvation. As far as we Christians go, the perfect God/man Christ offers His Blood only to other humans. This could also be the “mark” John speaks of in Revelation 13 and 14. There is no action in all of Scripture that disqualifies you from Salvation save taking the Mark of the Beast; perhaps because it changes your very humanity?</p>
<p><strong>PAYBACK TIME</strong></p>
<p>But now Murphy has his emotions <em>and</em> his evidence. He begins a ruthless and systematic take-down of Antoine Vallon.</p>
<p>From there, he is able to connect members of the Detroit Police Department and is seconds away from getting his butch boss to confess to crime when Omni Corp pulls the plug.</p>
<p>As Mattox imforms his boss of what he felt forced to do, Sellers asks of Chief Dean, “We got anything on her?” Mattox replies, “She’s the chief of the Detroit PD, what do you think?”</p>
<p>Do mega-corporations have intelligence operations for blackmail almost as good as the NSA or GCHQ? Give yourself the same answer to, “Is everyone who is allowed access to power today, kept, controlled or corrupt?”</p>
<p>Sellers has another mess but he sees a way out. The only thing bigger than a hero is a dead hero. It’s time to rub out RoboCop.</p>
<p>Sellers needs his Dr. Frankenstein on board and next is one of the best scenes in the movie. Norton ascertains what he’s being told and it’s the final straw.</p>
<p>But he doesn’t play it stupid like countless, endless lackeys before him, only to get whacked in the back as he walks out the room. He bargains for the Murphys to be completely taken care of (which doesn’t happen), for his own staff and full funding for the next decade.</p>
<p>Then promptly walks out, wakes up Murphy and turns him loose.</p>
<p>I’ve ruined enough of the movie for you. Go watch the climax yourself&#8230;then think upon the future of your nation.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[Rob Miller [Toby Kebbell] is a British soldier who has spent time in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is a well-trained paratrooper who has killed “hundreds” in-theater. A tragedy caused him to finally call it quits, but when he returns home to London, he finds that...]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rob Miller [Toby Kebbell] is a British soldier who has spent time in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is a well-trained paratrooper who has killed “hundreds” in-theater. A tragedy caused him to finally call it quits, but when he returns home to London, he finds that the war has followed him there.</p>
<p>“The Estate” where Miller lives is a dystopic war zone in London, the city where <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-21365109">firearms are supposedly illegal</a>.</p>
<p>It immediately reminded me of another revenge movie <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1289406/"><em>Harry Brown</em></a>—starring Michael Caine—where he, too, is beset by oppressive crime in a lawless apartment ghetto.</p>
<p>As the movie opens it’s clear that Miller is retired but still keeping physically fit and situationally aware, yet he has trouble adapting to civilian life. He puts on a suit and tie but neglects to shave (I note this rather tongue-in-cheek than as an observation because that seems to be the silly trend now).</p>
<p>Miller reconnects with a muslim friend, “Fahad”. Whether they are friends from the war or before then, we do not know. There are many good and brave military interpreters who manager to retire in the West but England has also courted an invasion of muslim immigrants. They have proven very <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2008/07/70673/">helpful to the “War on Terror”</a> and have sorely tested English <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/world/racism-fears-left-asian-gang-free-to-rape-girls-20120509-1ycfu.html#ixzz1uMZVUqq9">notions of egalitarianism</a>.*</p>
<p>Fahad has a younger brother “Ryan” who has no redeeming qualities. Miller catches Ryan and 2 other “youngers” committing a robbery. When he stops them, Ryan pulls a large handgun on Miller who quickly disarms him. Showing the poverty and gun-less culture of the UK, Miller later cleans the Colt M1991A1 with WD40.</p>
<p>We then find out that Ryan works for the neighborhood drug pimp “Tyrone Jones” who confronts Miller and asks him to train his other thugs with tactical field craft. Jones then gives one of the most powerful monologues of the movie.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“You’ve already been working for me. The Taliban stopped the drug trade. You’re not fighting the drug trade, you’re <strong>protecting</strong> it. The Army brainwashed you into believing the invasion was about al Qaeda—capturing bin Laden. It’s all about protecting supply lines. Making sure that Afghan opium finds its way to the Russians [who transport it here]. And the whole thing is protected by the CIA. The government needs my products. It’s the only thing generating cash for the banks nowadays. Through the banks&#8230;comes out clean. Like your man Bush: you’re either with us, or against us.”</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Mega banks laundering money for <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/08/09/high-ranking-mexican-drug-cartel-member-makes-explosive-allegation-fast-and-furious-is-not-what-you-think-it-is/">government-connected drug cartels</a> is a quiet fact, as <em>the Guardian</em> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico-drug-gangs">has already reported</a>.</p>
<p>Miller reunites with Army buddy “Danny” who complains that there are no jobs for soldiers. Danny then introduces Miller to his half-brother Chris who is employing Danny and has a proposition for Miller as well. It turns out Chris is in Intelligence and already knows who Miller is. Chris says he needs Miller to help “get the job done right this time.”</p>
<p>A Saudi national was living the debauched high life until he went home and “found god”. He returned to the UK via Pakistan and has the backing of “any number of rich Saudis” to conduct terrorist plots. Does this hearken you to 9/11? <a href="http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a80s90smiddleclass">It should.</a></p>
<p>Chris wants Miller to surveil the Saudi and gather intelligence on him.</p>
<p>We are never told exactly who Chris works for and Miller doesn’t ask him why he doesn’t have paid operatives to do such a job. It turns out to be a critical question.</p>
<p>Miller and Danny surveil the target together. It helps them stay somewhat less conspicuous. Two young, fit males hanging around an important person at alternate times are less obvious than one, but not thoroughly so.</p>
<p>Miller follows the Saudi to a meeting where he takes note of a young female and another male. He senses the importance of the second individual and shows his leadership by convincing Danny to switch from the Saudi to the new target. Such on-site problem-solving is the mark of a Special Forces operator but Miller is a “para”—an airborne soldier who also received intensive training.</p>
<p>Miller follows the target to a residence where he gains access inside and uncovers a comprehensive bomb-making lab.</p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Brian-Cox-as-Gerry-Langdon.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-yHFy]"><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-509" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Brian-Cox-as-Gerry-Langdon.jpg" alt="Brian Cox as Gerry Langdon" width="295" height="296" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Brian-Cox-as-Gerry-Langdon.jpg 700w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Brian-Cox-as-Gerry-Langdon-150x150.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Brian-Cox-as-Gerry-Langdon-300x300.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Brian-Cox-as-Gerry-Langdon-100x100.jpg 100w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Brian-Cox-as-Gerry-Langdon-500x500.jpg 500w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Brian-Cox-as-Gerry-Langdon-350x350.jpg 350w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Brian-Cox-as-Gerry-Langdon-24x24.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Brian-Cox-as-Gerry-Langdon-36x36.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Brian-Cox-as-Gerry-Langdon-48x48.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Brian-Cox-as-Gerry-Langdon-200x200.jpg 200w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Brian-Cox-as-Gerry-Langdon-400x401.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px" /></a>Miller reports this back to a surprised Chris. Seeing that Miller is a “Type A” player, Chris takes Miller to meet “Gerry Langdon” who is with “the Home Office”, played by Brian Cox. Cox also played the treacherous government insider “William Stryker” in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290334/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_78">X-Men 2</a> and that gives insight into who “Gerry Langdon” is. He was the only actor I recognized which dramatically increased the movie’s realism for me.</p>
<p>Langdon tells Miller that there are “2,000 terrorists in UK alone” (which is no surprise because, as I said before, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2248832/Abu-Qatadas-new-450-000-bedroom-home--paid-you.html">they are courted</a>). Langdon is heading the “Contest 2 Program” which is training 60,000 civilians to “deal with the terrorist threat”. Langdon and his underling Chris Turner are “consultants”.</p>
<p>Shockingly, this is also true-to-life. Barack Obama’s “civilian security force”—</p>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" width="1080" height="810" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Tt2yGzHfy7s?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p>—already has a secret police.</p>
<p>Known as <a href="https://www.infragard.org/">“InfraGard”</a>, they are your bankers, neighbors and shop keepers all around you, who are <a href="http://blog.executivebiz.com/2010/11/i-spy-you-spy-infragard-allows-citizens-to-become-volunteer-g-men/#Scene_1">feeding information to the FBI</a>. These are the people who take Homeland Security’s <a href="http://sadhillnews.com/2011/07/21/new-dhs-video-white-americans-most-likely-terrorists">“See Something, Say Something”</a> program to the next level. All they lack are arrest powers&#8230;for now.</p>
<p>The Junior G-Men of InfraGard were covered in this excellent episode of Jesse Ventura’s <em>Conspiracy Theory</em>.</p>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" src="https://www.naturalnews.tv/e.asp?v=8E1CDC58F1BD9186D273FC857451B42A&amp;s=1" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></p>
<p>But back to our plot.</p>
<p>Langdon tells Robert Miller that the woman he saw was Alayna Wallace—an informant. Al Qaeda was adapting to its environment by relying on a female student. Her dual English/Lebanese citizenship was excellent cover, yet she came to them with information about their plots.</p>
<p>I found actress Adi Bielski a good choice for the role as she was not the typical “super model” found in today’s movies. Again, this added to realism.</p>
<p>Miller becomes attached in a protective way to Alayna, connecting her to a girl he failed to save in Afghanistan.</p>
<p>Next we see that Fahad is fighting a losing battle to regain his brother and the neighborhood drug cartel is now working with muslim Chechens. If that ethnicity sounds vaguely familiar to you, that’s because <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/johnnys-latest/from-boston-to-the-new-world-order/">Chechens were blamed</a> for the Boston Marathon bombing.</p>
<p>Langdon orders Miller to make contact with Alayna because they are concerned she has become a double agent.</p>
<p>In the course of repeated contacts and surveillance, Miller is “black-bagged” by those same Chechens. He’s beat and interrogated. In gun-free England, knives work just as well for intimidation and torture.</p>
<p>But Miller turns the tables on his captors in believable fashion, getting slashed in the process. His buddy Danny must sew him up and help him rest. It is here we see burn scars on Miller, probably from an ambush he survived.</p>
<p>The next time Miller sees Fahad, he has been severely beaten. Miller goes to Jones and asks for Ryan to be returned to his brother so that they can leave “the Estate”. As Miller enters the apartment fortress, he is screened by a ring of children; the eyes of the drug lord.</p>
<p>Children exploited for reconnaissance and to pull triggers is also a sad reality. Not only is this a phenomena Barack Obama knows about, it’s something <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/obama-waives-child-soldier-ban-yemen-congo/story?id=14663930">he has ordered more of</a>.</p>
<p>As Miller approaches Jones, he is gleefully watching an al Qaeda IED propaganda video. Refusing to relinquish Fahad’s brother, Jones tells Miller that he just doesn’t get it, “We’re all somebody’s bitch.”</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/the-veteran-adi-bielski.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-yHFy]"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-510 aligncenter" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/the-veteran-adi-bielski.jpg" alt="the veteran adi bielski" width="480" height="269" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/the-veteran-adi-bielski.jpg 480w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/the-veteran-adi-bielski-150x84.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/the-veteran-adi-bielski-300x168.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/the-veteran-adi-bielski-24x13.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/the-veteran-adi-bielski-36x20.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/the-veteran-adi-bielski-48x27.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/the-veteran-adi-bielski-400x224.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px" /></a></p>
<p>Alayna explains to Miller how she got involved; she arranged for 12 Pakistanis to leave the UK to receive terrorist training and then return. They composed 3 four-man teams who will target whatever they want, allowing their decentralization to make them nearly impossible to track.</p>
<p>But the shocking revelation is that the lead terrorist is from Pakistani Intelligence (the “ISI”) and the ISI is overseen by the CIA [and MI6].</p>
<p>Miller and Alayna confront Chris Turner on why the plot hasn’t been shut down and Turner claimed that he needed Alayna’s help to locate the cells to which she responds, “I thought <em>your</em> men were watching the cells.” Perhaps they had a different mission.</p>
<p>Langdon interjects that “infiltration” of al Qaeda into the ISI is not important but Alayna cuts him off and says the CIA <em>is</em> al Qaeda.</p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/johnnys-latest/fort-hood-shooting-terrorism-or-treason/">Yes&#8230;it is.</a></p>
<p>How humorous it is to see direct links between al Qaeda leaders like American-born Anwar al Awlaki and the U.S. government called by corporate media a “vetting breakdown”.</p>
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<p>When Alayna is back with Miller in private she becomes visibly upset as she understands what these powerful players are doing with the “War on Terror”; “Al Qaeda defines our existence. <em>We’re </em>the enemy now.”</p>
<p>We then find out that the weapons for the big terror plot are coming in via Kosovo. Here, too, we receive real-world insight into the Clinton intervention on <a href="http://www.aina.org/news/20050817121245.htm">behalf of European muslims</a>.</p>
<p>At great risk to himself, Miller intercepts the weapons and dutifully turns them over to Chris Turner but he’s starting to get the message and keeps a military-grade** M4 for himself.</p>
<p>Finally understanding that he’s been fleeced, Miller and Alayna go to take out one of the terror cells. It is now clear that the two of them have been used by British Intelligence, not to uncover the terror plot, but to insure that it was on schedule.</p>
<p>The attack on the terror cell is botched, somehow the terrorists knew they were coming, but the two working together pull it off anyway and realize that this particular cell is even staffed with Chris Turner’s Anglo henchmen.</p>
<p>It has long been considered a <em>modus operandi</em> of traitors inside the Intelligence community to put the “lone, crazed gunmen” out front but to have the <em>real</em> killing done by carefully-trained professionals.</p>
<p>Miller confirms his suspicions when he tracks Turner and watches him give the Kosovan weapons to the Pakistani agent.</p>
<p>It’s time to send Alayna away.</p>
<p>The scene at the train station is complete devoid of romance and is well-played. These are two people enmeshed in a plot that can only end in torture and death for either them or hundreds, perhaps <em>thousands</em> of innocents.</p>
<p>Miller has no friends as he tries to take matters into his own hands. His Army buddy Danny has chosen the mercenary/contractor side with his brother and informs him that Alayna has already been picked up. He has been targeted as well.</p>
<p>Understanding their methods, Miller prepares to be black-bagged again but manages to take advantage of what he knows is coming and dispatches Chris Turner.</p>
<p>Next he meets up with Gerry Langdon and we hear <em>another</em> powerful monologue as Langdon, at the point of Miller’s 1911, tries to explain the facts of life to him;</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“the organizing principle for any society is <strong>war</strong>. The basic authority of a modern state over its people resides in its war powers. Today it’s oil, tomorrow it’s water. It’s the GOD businesses, guns oil drugs. There’s a problem. Our way of life is over, unsustainable and in decline so we implement demand destruction. We continue to make money as the world burns. For this to work, the people have to remain ignorant until it’s too late. That’s why we have triggers in place; 9/11, 7/7, WMD’s. A population in a permanent state of fear does not ask questions. Our desire for war becomes its desire. A willing sacrifice. Fear is justification, fear is control, fear is money.”</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Gerry then explains in a trite way that Alayna has been given over to Tyrone Jones the drug lord, who works for them, and Miller finishes him, as well.</p>
<p>It’s time to do what Fahad asked of him.</p>
<p><strong>SPOILER ALERT!</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/The-Veteran-takes-aim-M4A1.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-yHFy]"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-511 aligncenter" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/The-Veteran-takes-aim-M4A1.jpg" alt="The Veteran takes aim M4A1" width="600" height="323" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/The-Veteran-takes-aim-M4A1.jpg 600w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/The-Veteran-takes-aim-M4A1-150x81.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/The-Veteran-takes-aim-M4A1-300x162.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/The-Veteran-takes-aim-M4A1-24x13.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/The-Veteran-takes-aim-M4A1-36x19.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/The-Veteran-takes-aim-M4A1-48x26.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/The-Veteran-takes-aim-M4A1-400x215.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></a></p>
<p>If you read on it means you have no patience to rent this movie and see it on your own—for shame!</p>
<p>Clearly, director Matthew Hope had excellent insider information, as <a href="http://www.quietearth.us/articles/2011/04/25/Interview-with-The-Veteran-director-Mathew-Hope">this interview discloses</a>. His military sources allowed him to craft a coup of truth as well as depict excellent realism to include the climactic gun battle at the end of the film.</p>
<p>As Miller works his way through the drug lord’s apartment complex fortress his systematic targeting of threats includes an innocent woman who apparently is also the mother of an infant. This causes him to become less methodical and allows a shooter from his rear to wound him in the neck. As he bleeds out he is executed by none other than “younger” Ryan the boy thug (who I would’ve liked to see thrown off the building in any of the previous encounters).</p>
<p>“Realistic to a fault” is how I would sum up the end of the movie.</p>
<p>The lessons to be learned are that, no matter how well-trained you are, you can not go up against a Machine and win (especially if you have no clear exit or exfiltration strategy).</p>
<p>Fighting the Machine is a <em>team</em> sport and you’ve already got the cards stacked against you. If you <em>really</em> want a good chance of winning such a scenario, you’ll need partners on the outside <em>and the inside</em>.</p>
<p>If you have no idea that all of these shocking revelations depicted in this movie are true, then I guess it’s all an appropriate splash of cold water. But if this simply confirms what you already know, it leaves you depressed and unfulfilled.</p>
<p>Another movie in this genre—<em>Assault on Wall Street</em>—does a better job at resolving the Kobayashi Maru.</p>
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<p>* This gang of muslim child predators and serial gang rapists is called “South Asian” and even though the story is on criminal negligence of law enforcement to stop the gang for fear of being labeled “racist” the Sydney Herald <em>doesn’t even mention the words “muslim” or “Islam”!</em><br />
** The “AR-15s” so demonized by news media and government autocrats are <em>not</em> capable of selective fire as military and police M4s are. Civilian weapons only fire one round with every pull of the trigger. Even now forces that could be used in a tyrannical government push for martial law have the advantage in weaponry.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When <em>X-Men: First Class</em> came to me in the mail as a rental I had forgotten I put it in my queue. I have to admit I was annoyed. I use my rentals to help me get through trudging on the treadmill and the higher octane the better. For some reason, my perception of the movie was that it would be a shallow, pop culture gag-fest. As <a title="Fantastic Four II: Rise of the Silver Surfer" href="https://johnnycirucci.com/fantastic-four-ii-rise-of-the-silver-surfer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">I’ve noted previously</a> some of the choices by the X-Men movie franchise seemed more to mock the comicbook faithful rather than be loyal to them and not the least of which have been some of the casting decisions. <em>Bleh!</em> With a special emphasis on the dry-heave noise.</p>
<p>But one character, one actor and one composer turned this movie (for me, anyway) from that pop culture gag fest into an absolute thriller.</p>
<p>As the movie opens, we recap from a previous X-Men “Magneto” flashback, to his time as a Jewish boy in a German concentration camp.</p>
<p>Having been inculcated with <em>endless</em> references to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi movement as the embodiment of evil has numbed us to it. Godless government (the epitome of which is Communism) has slaughtered <em>far</em> more than the Nazis ever aspired to. While the death toll for Hitler has been estimated to have been approximately 6 million Jews and 9 million total, Communist Joseph Stalin <a href="http://kitmantv.blogspot.com/2010/01/monster-portrait-of-stalin-in-blood.html">was responsible for murdering <em>40 million</em></a> of his own people, approximately 7 to 11 million of them <a href="http://ukemonde.com/news/rferl.html">he starved to death</a> in order to take <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Genocide">their grain and further empower</a> himself . One of his <a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/josephstal137476.html">most infamous statements</a> is, “One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.” Truly a soulless monster.</p>
<p>He is outdone by an even greater soulless Communist monster, Mao ze Dung (so beloved by fools that now we all just call him “Mao”). He is now known <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2005/11/33619/">to have been responsible for</a> an astounding <strong><em>70 million Chinese deaths</em></strong>. The number deadens the mind like talking of United States debt.</p>
<p>How many movies have we seen depicting Stalin, Mao ze Dung or <em>any</em> Communist as a bloodthirsty monster, the epitome of evil? How many Nazi movies have you seen?</p>
<p>But empathy with the character of “Erik Lehnsherr”, a.k.a. “Magneto” (alternately spelled “Lensherr”) can make the realistic depiction of Nazi brutality newly disturbing, if you open your mind to it.</p>
<p>It is here that we are shown the antagonist who made “Magneto” what we all know him to be. “Sebastian Shaw” differentiates himself from the Nazis and is apparently using them as a vehicle for genetic experimentation. Thanks to endless permutations within Marvel comics across 50 years, being loyal to original storylines is near impossible but a very large portion of what excites me about comic-come-to-life movies is to see what I remember reading as a teenager given some level of realistic incarnation. Casting Kevin Bacon as the X-Men arch villain was ridiculous. I <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Shaw_(comics)">did have to look up</a> the character and was very pleased to see that both who he is and what he does was based upon previous comic storylines but <em>Kevin Bacon?!</em> I knew he didn’t look the part before I ever saw what “Sebastian Shaw” had been drawn to look like. The nearest I could figure (outside of some more links for a “6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon” drinking game) was the “absorbing energy makes me younger” deal. Bacon is in his mid 50’s and, although he’s no Dick Clark, I guess his face was plastic enough to go any direction makeup wanted to take him.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/kevin_bacon_sebastian_shaw.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-tbSI]"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-185 aligncenter" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/kevin_bacon_sebastian_shaw.jpg" alt="kevin_bacon_sebastian_shaw_x_men_first_class.jpg" width="600" height="200" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/kevin_bacon_sebastian_shaw.jpg 600w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/kevin_bacon_sebastian_shaw-150x50.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/kevin_bacon_sebastian_shaw-300x100.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/kevin_bacon_sebastian_shaw-24x8.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/kevin_bacon_sebastian_shaw-36x12.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/kevin_bacon_sebastian_shaw-48x16.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/kevin_bacon_sebastian_shaw-400x133.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></a></p>
<p>We then have a stark contrast drawn from Lehnsherr’s experience in a concentration camp to the extreme privilege that Charles Xavier, a.k.a. “Professor X” grew up with, and it is poignantly done.</p>
<p>What the Hollywood X-Men series is also good for is <em>endless</em> propaganda about “evolution”, though the “theory” is now so discredited that it requires the fascist iron fist to beat down dissenters.<sup>1</sup></p>
<p>Bacon’s German is fair; a little stunted and staccato but a decent effort. I appreciate the producers requiring it rather than some lame, cheesy accent <em>implying</em> a different language.</p>
<p>Bill Milner, on the other hand, is an excellent and compassion-drawing “Young Erik”. As he reacts to the murder of his mother as part of an experiment, we get <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2273444/bio">a taste of Henry Jackman’s</a> unbelievably moving score. Perhaps more than any other single force, Jackman’s music makes this movie what it is. It is an odd twist of irony that the foundation for all the previous movies has been the character of Wolverine played <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Jackman">by actor Hugh Jackman</a>.</p>
<p>But it truly is a combined effort; Henry Jackman, the Marvel writers and movie producers&#8230;and Michael Fassbender.</p>
<p>Where so many comic-come-to-life castings have been absolute <em>duds</em>, such as <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/reviews/fantastic-four-ii-rise-of-the-silver-surfer/">Ioan Gruffudd as the Fantastic 4’s</a> “Reed Richards”, others have been truly “fantastic” such as Robert Downey, Jr. as <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/reviews/iron-man/">“Tony Stark” a.k.a. “Iron Man”</a>. Fassbender as “Magneto” now joins the ranks.</p>
<p>After Young Erik has his mother killed by Shaw in an effort to elicit a manifestation of his mutant powers, we fast forward to Geneva, 1962 and a mature Erik Lehnsherr staring at his Nazi-tracking map board. The scene lasts only about 90 seconds but it is <em>amazingly</em> powerful because of the score/image/actor combination.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Erik-in-Geneva.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-tbSI]"><img loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-186 aligncenter" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Erik-in-Geneva-1024x614.jpg" alt="Erik in Geneva" width="620" height="372" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Erik-in-Geneva-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Erik-in-Geneva-150x90.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Erik-in-Geneva-300x180.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Erik-in-Geneva-768x461.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Erik-in-Geneva-24x14.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Erik-in-Geneva-36x22.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Erik-in-Geneva-48x29.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Erik-in-Geneva-400x240.jpg 400w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Erik-in-Geneva.jpg 1279w" sizes="(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Eriks-mapboard.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-tbSI]"><img loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-187 aligncenter" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Eriks-mapboard-1024x614.jpg" alt="Erik's mapboard" width="620" height="372" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Eriks-mapboard-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Eriks-mapboard-150x90.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Eriks-mapboard-300x180.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Eriks-mapboard-768x460.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Eriks-mapboard-24x14.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Eriks-mapboard-36x22.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Eriks-mapboard-48x29.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Eriks-mapboard-400x240.jpg 400w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Eriks-mapboard.jpg 1281w" sizes="(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px" /></a></p>
<p>While a mature Erik Lehnsherr tracks down the man who murdered his mother and the Nazis who murdered his people, Young Charles Xavier is partying up “at university”. Young Charles is played by James McAvoy and if the look we were going for is the next generation of wavy-haired Hugh Grant metrosexual than it was a resounding success!</p>
<p>The first target on the list is a <a href="http://publicintelligence.net/federal-reserve-provided-16-trillion-in-emergency-loans-to-u-s-and-foreign-banks/">black market Geneva banker</a>. Barely 5 minutes into the movie and I’m already <em>thoroughly pumped</em>.</p>
<p>The banker has had dealings with Erik’s quarry, going by the name of “Klaus Schmidt”. Fassbender is a fantastic 1960’s European sophisticate, right down to the mannerisms of clicking his tongue at the banker and smacking his chest with his hand.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/european-sophisticate.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-tbSI]"><img loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-188 aligncenter" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/european-sophisticate-1024x612.jpg" alt="european sophisticate" width="620" height="371" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/european-sophisticate-1024x612.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/european-sophisticate-150x90.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/european-sophisticate-300x179.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/european-sophisticate-768x459.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/european-sophisticate-24x14.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/european-sophisticate-36x21.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/european-sophisticate-48x29.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/european-sophisticate-400x239.jpg 400w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/european-sophisticate.jpg 1281w" sizes="(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px" /></a></p>
<p>The exchange he has with the banker is <em>textbook</em> suspense-building; Lehnsherr produces a bar of Nazi-engraved gold implying he intends to deposit it there. The banker threatens to turn him in but he presses that he knows better. The banker asks, “Do you know our terms?” “Yes,” Erik tells him, “And you should know mine. This is all that’s left of my people. It was melted down from their possessions and torn from their teeth. It is bloodmoney.”</p>
<p>The banker fearfully tries to say, “This is not that kind of bank” but Lehnsherr cuts him off. Magneto then uses his “mutation” to slowly pull a metal filling from the banker’s mouth in order to learn that Shaw can be found in the post-war Nazi haven of Argentina.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/klaus-schmidt.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-tbSI]"><img loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-189 aligncenter" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/klaus-schmidt-1024x620.jpg" alt="klaus schmidt" width="620" height="375" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/klaus-schmidt-1024x620.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/klaus-schmidt-150x91.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/klaus-schmidt-300x182.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/klaus-schmidt-768x465.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/klaus-schmidt-24x15.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/klaus-schmidt-36x22.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/klaus-schmidt-48x29.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/klaus-schmidt-400x242.jpg 400w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/klaus-schmidt.jpg 1279w" sizes="(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/not-that-kind-of-bank.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-tbSI]"><img loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-190 aligncenter" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/not-that-kind-of-bank-1024x615.jpg" alt="not that kind of bank" width="620" height="372" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/not-that-kind-of-bank-1024x615.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/not-that-kind-of-bank-150x90.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/not-that-kind-of-bank-300x180.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/not-that-kind-of-bank-768x461.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/not-that-kind-of-bank-24x14.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/not-that-kind-of-bank-36x22.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/not-that-kind-of-bank-48x29.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/not-that-kind-of-bank-400x240.jpg 400w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/not-that-kind-of-bank.jpg 1281w" sizes="(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px" /></a></p>
<p><em>Masterfully</em> done. Jackman’s score sends it right over the top.</p>
<p>Fassbender’s French is better than Bacon’s German. Not blinding fast but near normal communicating speed. Impressive.</p>
<p>We then move to a “CIA stakeout” of the “Hellfire Club” in Las Vegas, where we begin to peg the Marvel/Hollyweird lust meter with plenty of scantily-clad women. Though we are shown how sexist the CIA is regarding women, agent Moira MacTaggert (Australian-born Rose Byrne who spoke her lines without a hint of an Australian accent!) infiltrates the club by stripping down and using “what the CIA didn’t issue”.</p>
<p>I did find it interesting to note that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Shaw_(comics)#Keeping_in_power">there is comic lore</a> surrounding Sebastian Shaw using “the Hellfire Club” as a safe haven for mutants under the guise of a strip joint. High marks for loyalty&#8230;low marks for depravity.</p>
<p>The Hellfire Club is a real association, though much more sinister than a comicbook strip joint or super villain team. In its heyday it was known for radical debauchery and Satanism and our own Benjamin Franklin <a href="http://www.infowars.com/articles/occult/hellfire.htm">may have been a member</a>.</p>
<p>Another body we are “treated” to is that of January Jones who plays “Emma Frost”—a Marvel character with enough “good girl/bad girl” polarity shifts to make a WWF wrestler jealous.</p>
<p>Sorry. “WWE”.</p>
<p>She’s always drawn like a Playboy cartoon so we <em>have</em> to be loyal <em>there!</em></p>
<p>Despite loyally pulling characters from comic lore, half of them come across as cheesy preteen fantasies of “what I could do if I had superpowers!” Álex González as Janos Quested, a.k.a. “Riptide” was one of them (or, as I wryly call him, “tornado fingers”). No gravitas or substance.</p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/beast.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-tbSI]"><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-191" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/beast.jpg" alt="beast" width="185" height="247" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/beast.jpg 243w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/beast-113x150.jpg 113w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/beast-225x300.jpg 225w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/beast-18x24.jpg 18w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/beast-27x36.jpg 27w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/beast-36x48.jpg 36w" sizes="(max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px" /></a>Straddling the fence was teen heartthrob Nicholas Hoult as a young Hank McCoy, a.k.a. “Beast”. “Beast” is a central X-Men character and, although there wasn’t much weight to Hoult’s scenes (no need to beat him down, could’ve been the writing) they are given dramatic weight in Kelsey Grammer’s depiction of the character in <em><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376994/">X-Men III: Last Stand</a></em>. The scene where Beast reaches his hand into the field of a mutant boy who’s power is to make mutants “normal” and has a momentarily-human hand is powerfully acted by Grammer and he truly did bring what could’ve been a silly character to silver-screen reality. His voice or a facsimile thereof is dubbed over some of Hoult’s lines after he becomes the boy-Beast. Though I can not find the credit thereof, I liked the effect.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/x-men_first_class_azazel.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-tbSI]"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-192 aligncenter" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/x-men_first_class_azazel.jpg" alt="x-men_first_class_azazel" width="585" height="350" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/x-men_first_class_azazel.jpg 585w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/x-men_first_class_azazel-150x90.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/x-men_first_class_azazel-300x179.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/x-men_first_class_azazel-24x14.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/x-men_first_class_azazel-36x22.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/x-men_first_class_azazel-48x29.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/x-men_first_class_azazel-400x239.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px" /></a></p>
<p>A minor character that I <em>did</em> enjoy was Jason Flemyng as the demonic teleporting “Azazel”, if for no other reason than the make-up and special effects. More than that, the character has some very <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azazel_(Marvel_Comics)">interesting lore behind it</a> as the father of blue teleporting X-Men favorite “Nightcrawler” and mixing in plenty of Biblical references to “Nephilim” malignant beings from another dimension interbreeding with women, <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/sundays-with-johnny/dinosaurs-and-the-bible/">which I have covered</a> in the past.</p>
<p>The plot has an interesting take on the history revolving around the “Cuban Missile Crisis”. The less-well-known placing of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis">Jupiter missiles in Turkey</a> by the U.S. government is referenced as well as the ratcheting up of the Soviet response in sending missiles to Cuba but it is the unseen hand of Sebastian Shaw forcing all of the provocations, hoping for a world conflagration in which mutant kind could then reign supreme.</p>
<p>After some of the research <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/johnnys-latest/democracy-in-america-the-big-lie-part-i/">I’ve done on “unseen hands”</a> who precipitate conflict and <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/johnnys-latest/eric-holder-the-teflon-gatekeeper/">bloodlettings for their own gain</a>, I found myself liking that aspect of the plot, greatly.</p>
<p>Back to Nazi hunting.</p>
<p>At the Villa Gesell in Argentina, Lehnsherr finds a bartender and two older men playing checkers and drinking beer&#8230;German beer.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/buennos-tardes.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-tbSI]"><img loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-193 aligncenter" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/buennos-tardes-1024x610.jpg" alt="buennos tardes" width="620" height="369" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/buennos-tardes-1024x610.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/buennos-tardes-150x89.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/buennos-tardes-300x179.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/buennos-tardes-768x458.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/buennos-tardes-24x14.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/buennos-tardes-36x21.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/buennos-tardes-48x29.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/buennos-tardes-400x238.jpg 400w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/buennos-tardes.jpg 1279w" sizes="(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px" /></a></p>
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<p>One tells him with wry humor that the climate brought him there to be a “pig farmer” whilst the other tells him that he’s been a tailor since his youth in Dusseldorf. Lehnsherr remarks, “My parents were from Dusseldorf!” They ask him what were his parents’ names. As the score playing in the background begins to build, he says, “They had no names. They were taken from them&#8230;by pig farmers&#8230;and tailors.”</p>
<p>Some of the <em>best</em> movie entertainment and revenge scenes that (for me, anyway) may top them all; “Deathwish”, “Punisher”, <em>all</em> of them.</p>
<p>Lehnsherr shows the number tattooed into his arm and then dispatches all three.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/altso-blutt.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-tbSI]"><img loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-195 aligncenter" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/altso-blutt-1024x617.jpg" alt="altso blutt" width="620" height="374" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/altso-blutt-1024x617.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/altso-blutt-150x90.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/altso-blutt-300x181.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/altso-blutt-768x463.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/altso-blutt-24x14.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/altso-blutt-36x22.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/altso-blutt-48x29.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/altso-blutt-400x241.jpg 400w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/altso-blutt.jpg 1281w" sizes="(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/goodbye-schneider.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-tbSI]"><img loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-196 aligncenter" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/goodbye-schneider-1024x610.jpg" alt="goodbye, ''schneider''" width="620" height="369" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/goodbye-schneider-1024x610.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/goodbye-schneider-150x89.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/goodbye-schneider-300x179.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/goodbye-schneider-768x458.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/goodbye-schneider-24x14.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/goodbye-schneider-36x21.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/goodbye-schneider-48x29.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/goodbye-schneider-400x238.jpg 400w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/goodbye-schneider.jpg 1279w" sizes="(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px" /></a></p>
<p>Fassbender is <em>fantastic</em> here. He enters speaking passable Spanish. But when he takes the Nazi dagger from the “pig farmer” and reads it, his German is fast and <em>near flawless!</em></p>
<p>“‘Blood and honor.’ Which would you like to shed first?”</p>
<p>— “We were under orders!”</p>
<p>“Blood then.”</p>
<p>Truly <em>thrilling</em> entertainment.</p>
<p>____________________</p>
<p>The plot then winds through Xavier making connections with the CIA and fighting Shaw’s maniacal plot.</p>
<p>Remote viewing and mind control are old hat to the CIA but it has been, and is, not nearly as fun as Hollywood would make you think. To give you an idea, the “Patriots” at <a href="http://www.henrymakow.com/mk-ultra_slave_recalls_torture.html">Langley got a lot of help</a> from (ironically, given this movie) Nazis!</p>
<p>Then Lehnsherr corners Shaw on his boat but his attempt on Shaw’s life is foiled. He fights back with his mutation, wielding the ship’s anchor and chain.</p>
<p>In the cut before the scene, boy tornado-fingers overturns some zodiacs with his “power”. It looks silly and contrived.</p>
<p>But there’s something about the anchor attack that just makes it real and threatening; almost certainly the combination of the character, the actor and the score.</p>
<p>As they continue their “research”, Xavier’s telepathic abilities are enhanced with a construct fabricated by Hank McCoy called “Cerebro” (plenty of comic lore behind it) where he can reach out all over the world and locate all of the new Atomic Age mutants and recruit them.</p>
<p>The concept is an important one to digest. If a force has superior abilities, why would they stop there? Why not utilize technology to make them <em>more</em> potent. I bring this up only as a segway into the subject of “are demons real” and, if so, do they interact with us <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/sundays-with-johnny/dinosaurs-and-the-bible/">and how do they do it</a>?</p>
<p>Each one of the characters that are recruited are <em>*bleh*</em> (comic loyalty notwithstanding). —A bunch of teenagers with miraculous though silly superpowers.</p>
<p>In fact, now that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Salvadore">I have researched</a> the likes of “Angel Salvadore”—the wasp-winged acid-spitting stripper (played by Zoë Kravitz)—I’m even <em>more</em> annoyed. Not only is the character silly, but it is a recent one that should never have been re-written into the origins of the X-Men.</p>
<p>We can have a wasp-winged acid-spitting stripper flying around ridiculously but <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/reviews/fantastic-four-ii-rise-of-the-silver-surfer/">the films will mock</a> any attempt at incarnating the flashy costumes the comicbook faithful longed to see.</p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Janet_van_Dyne_Earth-6161.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-tbSI]"><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-197" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Janet_van_Dyne_Earth-6161.jpg" alt="Janet_van_Dyne_(Earth-616)[1]" width="240" height="250" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Janet_van_Dyne_Earth-6161.jpg 500w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Janet_van_Dyne_Earth-6161-144x150.jpg 144w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Janet_van_Dyne_Earth-6161-288x300.jpg 288w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Janet_van_Dyne_Earth-6161-24x24.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Janet_van_Dyne_Earth-6161-46x48.jpg 46w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Janet_van_Dyne_Earth-6161-400x416.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px" /></a>If you want to see a chick flying around with insect wings, bring to life the 1963 Stan Lee creation “The Wasp” (a.k.a. Janet van Dyne). That’s the first thing I thought—”What a lame ‘Wasp’!” OK, so you eschew my generation for a newer generation; do comic books matter to kids these days as they did 20, 30 and 40 years ago?</p>
<p>At least Lee had the intelligence to make the silly idea somewhat believable in “The Wasp’s” diminutive size verses “Angel Salvadore’s” full-sized body with moderate-sized insect wings that melt into her skin when she wants. <strong><em>Ridiculous!</em></strong></p>
<p>The best part about the recruitment scenes—besides the cameo appearance of Hugh Jackman unchanged from later films (because his regenerative mutation keeps him young&#8230;what, am I the only nerd here?!)—was the “bro-mance” between Xavier and Lehnsherr. I’ve seen one reviewer lament it but I enjoyed it (and I think that reviewer was no deeper than the comics he read). It was both loyal to the comic and mature. I enjoyed the contrast between Lehnsherr’s deprived, pain-ridden upbringing juxtaposed to Xavier’s privileged childhood. When they all retreat to Xavier’s mansion to get out of the mutant crosshairs, Erik quips, “Honestly Charles, I don’t know how you survived, living in such hardship.”</p>
<p>In the background during the recruitment is a catchy tune called “Run (I’m a Natural Disaster)” by Gnarls Barkley. It’s a contemporary song with a perfect 60’s feel—especially the instrumental version.</p>
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<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/583349-magneto_marko_djurdjevic02final_super1.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-tbSI]"><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-198" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/583349-magneto_marko_djurdjevic02final_super1.jpg" alt="583349-magneto_marko_djurdjevic02final_super[1]" width="293" height="449" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/583349-magneto_marko_djurdjevic02final_super1.jpg 600w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/583349-magneto_marko_djurdjevic02final_super1-98x150.jpg 98w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/583349-magneto_marko_djurdjevic02final_super1-196x300.jpg 196w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/583349-magneto_marko_djurdjevic02final_super1-16x24.jpg 16w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/583349-magneto_marko_djurdjevic02final_super1-23x36.jpg 23w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/583349-magneto_marko_djurdjevic02final_super1-31x48.jpg 31w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/583349-magneto_marko_djurdjevic02final_super1-391x600.jpg 391w" sizes="(max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px" /></a>The friendship is tastefully done without homosexual innuendo (much like the recent <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/reviews/sherlock-holmes-2009/">Downey Jr./Jude Law Sherlock Holmes films</a>)—though I may have come across a picture of Fassbender in drag, sitting next McAvoy, mocking his role. I neither saved nor examined it. I am very pleased to have no other knowledge of Michael Fassbender than this role until the odd chance that he should again appear in a movie I think I want to see. I was equally thrilled by the Daniel Craig James Bond movies and really pushed it <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034303/">watching him in <em>Defiance</em></a> (surprisingly important to me in a “How to survive when the Machine is hunting you,” fashion with another Jew vs. Nazi twist though this story taken from real life) and then again in <em><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0409847/">Cowboys &amp; Aliens</a></em> (great work; took what could’ve been silly and did a believable acting job—I’ll try not to examine Spielberg’s creepy agenda too deeply).</p>
<p>Actors and actresses, in order to be good at their trade, need to be empty, vapid, weird people so that they can more easily clothe themselves with someone else’s imagination.</p>
<p>The “bro-mance” is further fed when we find Charles and Erik are playing chess before the Lincoln memorial. Really.</p>
<p>But what I found poignant was their exchange. Xavier has a dreamy, utopian recounting of looking into the hopes and aspirations of each of the mutants he has found stating, “We can help them.”</p>
<p>Lehnsherr has a more cynical view—especially give that the CIA is doing the “helping”:</p>
<p>“Identification. That’s how it starts. And it ends with being rounded up, experimented on and eliminated.”</p>
<p>I found this scene personally powerful now that I have delved deeply into the power structure that is running the United States and the world.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/01/02/president-obama-signed-the-national-defense-authorization-act-now-what/">Now it is quite clear</a> that threat could apply to <em>anyone</em> who gets on the wrong side of the so-called “New World Order”.</p>
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<p>Sobering, indeed.</p>
<p>Perhaps the lowest point of the movie was when the worst of the characters—the teen mutants—all got together to show off their “super powers”. <em>Ludicrous</em> eye-rolling gag-fest.</p>
<p>But there was more Magneto action to be had!</p>
<p>A team with Xavier, Lehnsherr and “Agent MacTaggert” are surveilling a Soviet hideaway looking to intercept Shaw but only Emma Frost shows up. When the plan is to pull out, Erik disagrees and storms the hideout.</p>
<p>Again, what <em>should</em> be silly is believable and powerful.</p>
<p>What happens next should send my Freedom Movement Libertarian friends into a frenzy. Emma Frost is confronted and puts on her hard candy shell (some sort of “diamond” effect to her body). Lehnsherr then has the brass bed pull her in and begin to choke her tighter and tighter while Xavier protests louder and louder.</p>
<p>He eventually stops and Xavier is able to subsequently read her mind.</p>
<p>What my Freedom friends object to is the glorifying of “torture”, and it is a valid point. Today, when “the enemy” is only a stunt <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/johnnys-latest/eric-holder-the-teflon-gatekeeper/">to be used to increase power</a>—and eventually, <em>you</em> are painted by the state as “the enemy”, those in power torturing whomever they please is a truly unsettling proposal.</p>
<p>Now, what my Libertarian friends <em>don’t</em> understand is that, in a fight, in war, in combat, there is a deep-seated desire to win at all costs. Combat of any kind should be avoided as much as possible, then finally accepted with no holds barred.</p>
<p>Am I making a case for “torture”? No. But I am making a case for a change of the issue: we should not concern ourselves with the ruthlessness of combat, but who the protagonists and antagonists are.</p>
<p>And, honestly, the myth of “torture is cool” (at least in this scene with these characters) is a little bit of counter-culture to another Hollywood myth: the female sex object <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/reviews/kick-ass/">who can <em>kick yer ass!</em></a></p>
<p>During the “training”, Xavier attempts to help Lehnsherr find the full potential of his strength in serenity instead of anger. It calls for both actors to be deeply moved and I have to say that Fassbender was more believable than McAvoy, the one giving real tears and bloodshot eyes vs. a wiping away of the tear that wasn’t easily seen (a cheap parlor trick for someone who can’t elicit the emotion easily).</p>
<p>The last time I saw a toughguy emote believable tears on queue was James Caviezel in the 2008 Science Fantasy <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462465/">action film <em>Outlander</em></a>. The film was fair entertainment but Caviezel’s acting was outstanding.</p>
<p>There is a finale where the two mutant teams collide and it’s more of what we’ve had previously: the teen titans are over the top (reminding me of something you’d see on a <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106064/">Power Rangers</a> episode) and, with the exception of Azazel the demon teleporter, only “Magneto” and “Professor X” are fun to watch.</p>
<p>One very surprising aspect that was masked in the conflict of two fleets, American and Soviet, was that the jerk who continually prods the Soviet fleet commander is called “Zampolit” by him though it is untranslated. A “Zampolit” was a state political officer who was <em>not</em> a professional soldier or sailor but who was more like a mole or spy for the Communist Party. It is the Zampolit that Xavier manipulates to simultaneously destroy his career and save the day. Interesting.</p>
<p>The movie closes with all of the characters where we know them, including a <em>super</em> loyal depiction of Magneto in his protective helmet (which—shocking myself here—wasn’t as pleasing to me as I would’ve thought) and Xavier being paralyzed from the waist down thanks to a bullet fired by “Agent MacTaggert” but deflected by Magneto. I would’ve thought that the tragedy of paralysis would add some depth to the Xavier character, but it was limited to only a brief period of the movie.</p>
<p>And perhaps that’s what really worked the best for fleshing out the Magneto character: <em>pain</em>. It is the <em>pain</em> of Erik Lehnsherr’s past that makes him such a powerful figure.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Fassbender.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-tbSI]"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-199 aligncenter" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Fassbender.jpg" alt="Fassbender" width="640" height="480" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Fassbender.jpg 640w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Fassbender-150x113.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Fassbender-300x225.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Fassbender-24x18.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Fassbender-36x27.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Fassbender-48x36.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Fassbender-400x300.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></a></p>
<p>Pain deepens the soul…and makes a fantasy comic-come-to-life movie character, just a little more believable.</p>
<p><strong><em><a href="http://www.wnd.com/2009/11/117203/">California “Science” Center Slams Door On Intelligent Design Presentation</a></em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em><a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6072/1033.short">World-Renown French Microbiologist Banned From Publishing Because He Dared Question Evolution</a></em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em><a href="http://www.wnd.com/2008/02/55826/">Professing Intelligent Design Costs Professor His Job</a></em></strong></p>
<p><strong>NOTE: rating is based <em>solely</em> on the Magneto scenes and <em>not</em> on the never-ending Darwinian propaganda laced with cleavage.</strong></p>
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					<description><![CDATA[When this movie first came out, I had no desire to see it. I thought the main hero-character looked stupid (after seeing the movie, I still feel that way) and seeing Natalie Portman with a Sinead O’Connor hair-style, I fully expected her to be his...]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When this movie first came out, I had no desire to see it. I thought the main hero-character looked stupid (after seeing the movie, I still feel that way) and seeing Natalie Portman with a Sinead O’Connor hair-style, I fully expected her to be his protégé which would <em>also</em> annoy the crap out of me. I’ve had quite enough of Hollywood sex-objects and starlets being portrayed as ass-kickers to lure mindless barbaric men into the theater.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/chicks-who-can-kick-your-ass.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-DqTy]"><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1532" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/chicks-who-can-kick-your-ass.jpg" alt="chicks who can kick your ass" width="1259" height="327" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/chicks-who-can-kick-your-ass.jpg 1259w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/chicks-who-can-kick-your-ass-150x39.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/chicks-who-can-kick-your-ass-300x78.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/chicks-who-can-kick-your-ass-768x199.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/chicks-who-can-kick-your-ass-1024x266.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/chicks-who-can-kick-your-ass-24x6.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/chicks-who-can-kick-your-ass-36x9.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/chicks-who-can-kick-your-ass-48x12.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/chicks-who-can-kick-your-ass-400x104.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 1259px) 100vw, 1259px" /></a></p>
<p>But I started seeing those stupid masks as profile pictures for a lot of my Libertarian and Right-leaning friends on “Facebook” so I was intrigued. I bit the bullet and rented it.</p>
<p>And I was <em>really</em> sorry I did.</p>
<p>I have never before seen such a twisted hodge-podge of deep philosophical truth expertly intertwined with mindless, superficial perversity and crass, obnoxious Leftist propaganda.</p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/guy-fawkes.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-DqTy]"><img loading="lazy" class="alignright size-full wp-image-1533" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/guy-fawkes.jpg" alt="guy fawkes" width="289" height="337" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/guy-fawkes.jpg 289w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/guy-fawkes-129x150.jpg 129w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/guy-fawkes-257x300.jpg 257w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/guy-fawkes-21x24.jpg 21w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/guy-fawkes-31x36.jpg 31w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/guy-fawkes-41x48.jpg 41w" sizes="(max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px" /></a>The movie opens with a re-enactment of the capture and execution of English renegade Guy Fawkes, who masterminded the “Gunpowder Plot” of the 5<sup>th</sup> of November, 1605, which was a plan to overthrow and destroy Parliament. Today (I’ve read), it is celebrated by the lighting of fireworks and burning of Fawkes in effigy—an event that apparently left the not-so-creative authors thinking they had a script on their hands.</p>
<p>I say “not so creative” because, although digging into history for the foundation of a science fantasy thriller can be powerful, it isn’t if it doesn’t match the reality.</p>
<p>The <em>reason</em> behind Fawkes’ rebellion was to hand England back to the Church of Rome—a pretty big aspect of this plot which is not only ignored but even mocked (as long as you connect Roman Catholicism with Christianity).</p>
<p>By way of an extremely cartoonish (get used to that word, I’ll need it a lot for this review) talkshow host “on the tellie”, Lewis Prothero, “The Voice of London”, (played by Roger Allam), we are given some back story.</p>
<p>Perhaps “buffoonish” would be a better term than “cartoonish” because the antics of Prothero very quickly show you that the film’s makers wish to make a total ass out of Right-leaning talk hosts (perhaps Rush Limbaugh was their intended target).</p>
<p>As a result of this talking ass, we learn that the “former United States” is sending wheat and tobacco (are we <em>back</em> to the frigging 1600s?!) groveling at the feet of Britons for “medical supplies”.</p>
<p>SURPRISE! Limey Libtard movie-makers hate the United States! It was with great relish that they portrayed America as a smoldering heap in the not-so-distant Apocalyptic future while England (which is just about there <em>now</em>) relives her glory days in the minds of these idiot writers.</p>
<p>Here’s the moronic thing: Rush Limbaugh may be a lot of things, but “The Voice of America” is not considered one of them. I would say that most of America is center-right in values and politics though (and I would love if it were true) I would <em>not</em> say that most of America has the same values as Rush Limbaugh.</p>
<p>How much <em>more</em> is this true for Limey-town (get it? —Jesse Jackson once called NYC “Hymietown” <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/frenzy/jackson.htm">during a Jew-hating rant</a>…British sailors used to suck on limes to avoid scurvy…Limey…town? …Nothing???)</p>
<p>I mean, are these depraved morons expecting us to believe that an autocratic, tyrannical, post-apocalyptic UK police state would skyrocket the Right to prominence and power amongst the same populace that voted England into the broke, socialistic, perverted laughingstock muslim haven it is today?</p>
<p>And they <em>really</em> lay it on thick. This idiot character (who, of course, comes nowhere <em>near</em> actually <em>living</em> his values) apes on about a paucity of “Godlessness” causing England’s woes and how they all need to deal with “immigrants” and the <em>“homosexuals”</em> and the <em>“muslims”</em>.</p>
<h6 style="text-align: center;"><strong><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/faggot-pride-in-the-UK.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-DqTy]"><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1534" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/faggot-pride-in-the-UK.jpg" alt="faggot pride in the UK" width="656" height="437" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/faggot-pride-in-the-UK.jpg 656w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/faggot-pride-in-the-UK-150x100.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/faggot-pride-in-the-UK-300x200.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/faggot-pride-in-the-UK-24x16.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/faggot-pride-in-the-UK-36x24.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/faggot-pride-in-the-UK-48x32.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/faggot-pride-in-the-UK-400x266.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px" /></a><br />
The “gay pride” parade, London, 02 July, 2011</strong></h6>
<p>And “sensitivity” to the needs of muslims in the UK? Some news articles for your perusal—</p>
<blockquote><p><strong><a href="http://www.wnd.com/2008/07/70673/">1 In 3 [UK] Muslim Students Approve Killing For Islam</a></strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6971098.ece">Al-Qaeda Groomed Abdulmutallab [the Christmas Crotch-Bomber, a.k.a. “Fruit of Ka-boom”] in London<br />
</a></strong><em>Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, a former president of the Islamic Society at University College London, advertised speakers including political figures, human rights lawyers and former Guantánamo detainees.</em></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1574924/Man-jailed-for-planning-revenge-terror-mission.html">Man Jailed for Planning Revenge Terror Mission</a></strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1578785/Britain-a-soft-touch-for-home-grown-terrorists.html">Britain “a Soft Touch for Home Grown Terrorists”</a></strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://weaselzippers.us/2011/01/14/bbc-tv-show-takes-a-look-inside-multicultural-britain-its-not-pretty/">BBC TV Show Takes a Look Inside “Multicultural Britain” — It’s Not Pretty<br />
</a></strong><em>They’re shocked! Shocked, I tell you, to find that Pakistani men <strong>do</strong> see white women as “easy meat” and target them for sex, rape, and assault.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Do I need to keep going or do you get the point? I mean, people are calling the UK “Londonistan”. Now do you think they need to stop repressing homosexuals and muslims? If <em>anything</em>, the total <strong>depravity</strong> of that country coupled with a <em>massive</em> influx of muslim immigrants, many of whom <em>despise</em> England and the West, will cause it’s <strong>complete</strong> demise in the very near future&#8230;maybe even <em>before</em> Armageddon.</p>
<p>There are those who are saying that this movie and plot go <em>beyond</em> mere moronic Libtard “black is white and white is black” alternate reality. At least <em><a href="http://www.henrymakow.com/aspen.html">one blogger is calling</a></em> “V” an “Illuminati-approved project”, meaning that a powerful, behind-the-scenes Ruling Elite is using such “entertainment” to plant suggestions into the minds of the populace to send them in a certain direction.</p>
<p>Certainly, the <strong><em>reality</em></strong> in England is completely opposite of what the movie says the future will be so I sure <em>hope</em> that this was an attempt at mind-control from the All-Seeing Eye because otherwise you’d have to be a drooling idiot to accept what you are being bludgeoned with.</p>
<p>I don’t get the big attraction for the perverts in Hollywood to keep casting Natalie Portman in every other movie. I guess she’s a fair actress (oh…should I have written “ac-<em>tor</em>”?), but knowing that the English accent she was sporting was entirely fabricated just annoyed me.</p>
<p>On the other hand, unlike other such acting conundrums, I can’t recall catching her without it so kudos to an annoying girl.</p>
<p>Speaking of “language”, the movie was liberally (no pun intended) punctuated with “Christ!” here and “Jesus Christ” there and even a “Jesus Bloody Christ.” So I’m guessing that protecting Christians did not quite have the same priority as defending muslims to the film-makers.</p>
<h6 style="text-align: center;"><strong><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Snidely-Wahabi.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-DqTy]"><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1535" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Snidely-Wahabi.jpg" alt="Snidely Wahabi" width="1138" height="642" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Snidely-Wahabi.jpg 1138w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Snidely-Wahabi-150x85.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Snidely-Wahabi-300x169.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Snidely-Wahabi-768x433.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Snidely-Wahabi-1024x578.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Snidely-Wahabi-24x14.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Snidely-Wahabi-36x20.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Snidely-Wahabi-48x27.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Snidely-Wahabi-400x226.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 1138px) 100vw, 1138px" /></a><br />
Snidely Whiplash is reborn to strike <em>unwarranted fear</em> into the hearts of racist Britons.</strong></h6>
<p style="text-align: center;">—meanwhile…</p>
<h6 style="text-align: center;"><strong><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/finger-men.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-DqTy]"><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1536" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/finger-men.jpg" alt="''finger men''" width="1139" height="642" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/finger-men.jpg 1139w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/finger-men-150x85.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/finger-men-300x169.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/finger-men-768x433.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/finger-men-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/finger-men-24x14.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/finger-men-36x20.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/finger-men-48x27.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/finger-men-400x225.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 1139px) 100vw, 1139px" /></a><br />
The fascist “Norsefire” Party symbol looks oddly a lot like a Crusader’s Cross, here in the hands of some reprobate Secret Police called “Finger Men”.</strong></h6>
<p>However, we do get a nod towards “the Higher Being” by the repeated fortuitous “coincidences” that take place in the plot and then we are told by our hero, “V”, “I, like God, do not play with dice.”</p>
<p>Now, of course, we don’t go so far as to come <em>near</em> referencing any kind of Scripture. Here, a quote from Albert Einstein will do.</p>
<p>But Dr. Einstein was almost certainly thinking of <em>this</em> Passage when he wrote those words; “The lot is cast into the lap; but the disposing thereof is of the L-RD!” ~Proverbs 16:33* The humorous innuendo is that, G-d doesn’t play dice because he already knows what the outcome will be.</p>
<p>The state television network “E-vie” works at is “BTN” (the well thought-out “British Television Network”)&#8230;not to be confused with TBN &#8211; “Trinity Broadcasting Network”. I’m not a big fan of “TBN” but their gaudy shenanigans are a useful target for the Left, aren’t they?</p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Mason-Weaving.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-DqTy]"><img loading="lazy" class="alignright size-full wp-image-1537" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Mason-Weaving.jpg" alt="Mason Weaving" width="368" height="225" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Mason-Weaving.jpg 368w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Mason-Weaving-150x92.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Mason-Weaving-300x183.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Mason-Weaving-24x15.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Mason-Weaving-36x22.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Mason-Weaving-48x29.jpg 48w" sizes="(max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px" /></a>If Natalie Portman was annoying as “E-vie”, Hugo Weaving of <em>The Matrix</em> and <em>The Lord of the Rings</em> fame was an excellent pick for the voice of “V”. He rivals the great James Mason for verbal gravitas.</p>
<p>We also learn that “V” hides behind a Guy Fawkes mask because he is horribly deformed by fire. Gee, that’s never been done before…unless of course you know who “Spawn” is.</p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Spawn.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-DqTy]"><img loading="lazy" class="alignleft wp-image-1538" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Spawn.jpg" alt="Spawn" width="304" height="228" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Spawn.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Spawn-150x113.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Spawn-300x225.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Spawn-768x576.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Spawn-24x18.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Spawn-36x27.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Spawn-48x36.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Spawn-400x300.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px" /></a>Stephen Fry plays E-vie’s doting supervisor “Gordon Dietrich”. He’s such a good guy, and enormously funny with his variety show. Too bad he’s forced to flirt with E-vie in order to hide his homosexual lifestyle from the evil Right-wing State!</p>
<p>Actually, I found Fry much more amusing as General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett in Rowan Atkinson’s <em><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096548/">Blackadder Goes Forth</a></em>, but I digress.</p>
<p>Shifting back to “truth”, we find that it was Englanders, <em>themselves</em>, who empowered the Conservative Police State in response to their fear and selfishness. It was “war, famine and disease” that turned them to embrace “High Chancellor Sutler” (played by John Hurt).</p>
<p>Yes. “High Chancellor”. Just like the guy from the 40’s with the funny mustache. Clumsy, no?</p>
<p>But “truth” is taken to the extreme when we later find out that the bio-terror that brought them to the brink of disaster was in fact initiated <em>by their own government</em>. Yes! Corrupt people already in power exploited their authority and fiduciary trust to create or enable a “bogey man” that, pardon the pun&#8230; “went viral”.</p>
<p>Today, in America, there are many who are starting to suspect that the Islamic threat we are all so terrified of, has been exploited or perhaps even <em>enabled</em> by a Ruling Elite looking for a bogey man that will push the sheeple towards accepting fascistic levels of control in a country whose middle name <em>used</em> to be “FREEDOM”.</p>
<p>Did you know that you are more likely to get killed by a lightning strike, a bee sting or <a href="http://news-now.org/2011/05/surprising-bigger-threats-terrorism/">a <em>police officer</em> than a terrorist</a>, yet we now surrender ourselves at any airport where no indignity afflicted upon us is beneath the Transportation Security Administration.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong><a href="http://nation.foxnews.com/culture/2011/05/09/tsa-searches-babys-diaper">TSA Searches Baby’s Diaper?</a></strong></p></blockquote>
<p>All this in direct violation of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Good thing no one is taught the Constitution throughout all levels of their education today, huh?!</p>
<p>I digress.</p>
<p><em>More</em> truth comes spewing forth from the screen when we see how intimately the media colludes with the strong-arm government to put out a powerful agenda of propaganda. Truly, the imaginary England of the future and today’s England—and today’s America!—are ruled by a “government/media complex”.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong><a href="http://www.mrctv.org/blog/cbss-norah-odonnell-you-gave-them-everything-they-wanted-and-we-got-nothing-updated">CBS’s Norah O’Donnell [to Obama Press Secretary Jay Carney]: “You Gave Them Everything They Wanted And We Got Nothing!”</a></strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Soon we are brought into <em>another</em> “hidden underground chamber” where the kindly homosexual Gordon Dietrich has hidden all of the priceless art that the barbarian Conservatives would’ve <em>destroyed</em> in a bonfire in the town square!</p>
<p>Why, they even have a “Ministry of Objectionable Materials” to keep things from getting out of hand amongst the creativity-starved populace.</p>
<p>Again and again, Hollywood (and London) tells us that autocratic police states will use some kind of comical/Crypto/Christian/Religious organization to beat down “art” when, in reality, it is <em>depravity</em> that will be ridden into the New World Order.</p>
<h6 style="text-align: center;"><strong><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/collage-of-FILTH.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-DqTy]"><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1539" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/collage-of-FILTH.jpg" alt="collage of FILTH" width="640" height="377" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/collage-of-FILTH.jpg 640w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/collage-of-FILTH-150x88.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/collage-of-FILTH-300x177.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/collage-of-FILTH-24x14.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/collage-of-FILTH-36x21.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/collage-of-FILTH-48x28.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/collage-of-FILTH-400x236.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></a><br />
Two well-known examples of “art” funded by the American taxpayer are Andres Serrano’s “Piss Christ” and Robert Mapplethorpe’s “homoerotic” photographs. Both were used as motivation for the Republican-controlled House of Representatives in the late 1980s to shut down the “National Endowment for the Arts” which had so terribly abused public money. Sadly, the Gingrich Congress was not even able to manage this minor win for the all-powerful tyrants of the future—the Conservatives!</strong></h6>
<p>But in case you start to smell a rat and begin to wake up from your movie/propaganda experience, “V” throws in another quote, this time from Thomas Jefferson (or a paraphrase thereof);</p>
<blockquote><p>“…people should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people…”</p></blockquote>
<p>The actual quote goes something like;</p>
<blockquote><p>“When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Then there’s another little morsel for the Liberty freaks. But this one should snag many on the Left too. As the stalwart detectives uncover the mystery of both V’s past and their country’s, they find out that “Prothero”, the “Voice of London” got filthy rich on “big pharma”.</p>
<p>When talking about “big” <em>anything</em>, I finally have an issue where the normally annoying, feel-good, “both Left and Right have it wrong” actually fits here. When this usually gets thrown out, all it does is cloud the issues and make the person saying or writing it feel good about themselves.</p>
<p>The Left doesn’t really like <em>any</em> capitalist endeavor which is foolish because, of all the failed economic doctrines, it is the least dysfunctional. It uses the <em>reality</em> of the “profit motive” as a form of check against abuse. Acknowledging the basic human desire of selfish aggrandizement is a Judeo/Christian world view (and, I believe, the most accurate). Those who feel that human beings are basically good and unselfish in their nature, are either lying to themselves, living on a desert island alone or naive beyond what is safe!</p>
<p>But a complete <em>laissez-faire</em> (“hands off”) approach to business is <em>equally</em> dangerous because it denies the ultimate goal of any business which is to monopolize their market to nullify the check of competition on setting rates. Once that is done, vicious price gouging can commence. Why not? The people <em>need</em> what you have and no one else is offering it.</p>
<p>And if you can’t monopolize by yourself, then you can co-operate with a handful of competitors and squeeze all the rest out, just as “Big Oil” has done (although the following article is from a socialist website—socialism is <em>far</em> more dysfunctional than capitalism—it is instructive):</p>
<blockquote><p><strong><a href="http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/apr2011/econ-a29.shtml">Oil Bosses Rake in Record Profits as U.S. Economy Stalls</a></strong></p></blockquote>
<p>The Left and most historians (many are one and the same) have claimed Teddy Roosevelt as a “Progressive” but he governed much more as a “populist” than a Leftist. He truly loved both America and Americans and considered his presidency a sacred trust.</p>
<p>His reigning in of businesses that had combined in order to defeat competition is a great historical example of the kind of intervention needed by government on behalf of the people.</p>
<blockquote><p><em><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/teddy_roosevelt_pointing.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-DqTy]"><img loading="lazy" class="alignright size-full wp-image-1540" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/teddy_roosevelt_pointing.jpg" alt="teddy_roosevelt_pointing" width="289" height="231" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/teddy_roosevelt_pointing.jpg 289w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/teddy_roosevelt_pointing-150x120.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/teddy_roosevelt_pointing-24x19.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/teddy_roosevelt_pointing-36x29.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/teddy_roosevelt_pointing-48x38.jpg 48w" sizes="(max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px" /></a>Teddy Roosevelt was one American who believed a revolution was coming.</em></p>
<p><em>He believed Wall Street financiers and powerful trust titans to be acting foolishly. While they were eating off fancy china on mahogany tables in marble dining rooms, the masses were roughing it. There seemed to be no limit to greed. If docking wages would increase profits, it was done. If higher railroad rates put more gold in their coffers, it was done. How much was enough, Roosevelt wondered?</em></p>
<p><strong><em>The Sherman Anti-Trust Act</em></strong></p>
<p><em>Although he himself was a man of means, he criticized the wealthy class of Americans on two counts. First, continued exploitation of the public could result in a violent uprising that could destroy the whole system. Second, the captains of industry were arrogant enough to believe themselves superior to the elected government. Now that he was President, Roosevelt went on the attack. ~ <a href="http://www.ushistory.org/us/43b.asp">The Trust Buster</a></em>, U.S. History.org</p></blockquote>
<p>Sadly, what we have today, is just the opposite. <em>Corruption</em>, where Wall Street is in bed with Washington, stealing hard-earned tax dollars from the citizenry;</p>
<blockquote><p><strong><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-21/wall-street-aristocracy-got-1-2-trillion-in-fed-s-secret-loans.html">Wall Street Aristocracy Got $1.2 Trillion in Secret Loans</a></strong></p></blockquote>
<p><strong><em>But I digress!</em></strong></p>
<p>And again, we receive a little thrill for our justice-starved souls. “V” catches up with old Prothero and does him in.</p>
<p>Later, when E-vie learns of his death, she’s horrified and quickly surmises that “V” is the culprit. His response is long-sought by <em>many</em> in Western society where justice has died a slow death at the hands of depraved judges, lawyers and politicians; “violence can be used for good”, he says.</p>
<p>—“What are you talking about?” E-vie asks in dense uncomprehension.</p>
<p>“Justice.” V states flatly.</p>
<p>Just as many Westerners crave the “justice” they have lost in their permissive, licentious cultures, they also yearn for it to be swift and as ruthless as the predators that have so long plagued them.</p>
<p>—“And you’re going to kill more people?” E-vie adds.</p>
<p>“Yes.” V states flatly.</p>
<p>So our Vengeance juices are flowing and we’ve forgotten that those whom we are Vindicating ourselves with are a ludicrous caricature of the modern Right.</p>
<p>Oh it gets better. Soon our intrepid detectives are horrified to find out that E-vie’s parents were uber-Liberal war protestors who were done dirty by the Conservatives—SWAT teams in black masks “black bagged” them and carted them off to an internment camp. A <em>motive</em> for her to give aid and comfort to the Vigilante!</p>
<p>It’s a tactic very familiar to anyone not protected by a donation to the current president;</p>
<blockquote><p><strong><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904787404576530520471223268.html">Guitar Frets: Environmental Enforcement Leaves Musicians in Fear</a></strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/08/27/report-gibson-competitor-is-dem-donor-uses-same-wood-experienced-no-federal-raids/">Report: Gibson Competitor is Dem Donor; Uses Same Wood, Experienced No Federal Raids</a></strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Then we are introduced to the usual corrupt Church pervert—a “bishop” who likes little girls. We are <em>thrilled</em> when V Viciously eViscerates him. But V is almost caught by the roving surveillance van that overhears the crime!</p>
<blockquote><p><strong><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/aug/29/nation/la-na-911-homeland-security-surveillance-20110830">A Key Sept. 11 Legacy: More Domestic Surveillance:<br />
</a>In one of the biggest changes to American life since the 2001 terrorist attacks, the government now collects vast quantities of information about its citizens.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>So which is it, Catholics are corrupt perverts or liberating heroes?! Well let’s just forget what Fawkes was up to and look at the cool mask.</p>
<p>And I forgot to share with you the crowning glory of fruity Gordon Dietrich’s art treasury: a quran!</p>
<p>But E-vie knows old Gordon isn’t a muslim! Of course, Gordo effuses! He doesn’t need to be a muslim to appreciate the “poetry” and “beauty” of the book!</p>
<blockquote><p><strong><a href="http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Execution_of_two_gay_teens_in_Iran_spurs_controversy">Execution of Two Gay Teens in Iran Spurs Controversy</a></strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://sweetness-light.com/archive/uk-muslim-cleric-defends-execution-of-homosexuals">UK Muslim Cleric Defends Killing Homosexuals</a></strong></p></blockquote>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/gay-execution-iran.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-DqTy]"><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-1541" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/gay-execution-iran.jpg" alt="gay-execution-iran" width="344" height="271" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/gay-execution-iran.jpg 605w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/gay-execution-iran-150x118.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/gay-execution-iran-300x236.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/gay-execution-iran-24x19.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/gay-execution-iran-36x28.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/gay-execution-iran-48x38.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/gay-execution-iran-400x315.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px" /></a>In an earlier version of this movie, the camera then pans to a signed picture of Stalin eating a luxurious multi-course meal with some Ukrainian peasants, but you’ll have to buy the Director’s cut for that.</p>
<p>But in case you were worried, don’t be—<em>there are no Bibles in the art safe</em>. I mean, come <em>on</em>. There are <em>some</em> books that Conservatives should just go ahead and burn!</p>
<p>But alas, poor fruity Gordo Dietrich gets “black bagged” right in front of E-vie and the episode of his variety show that does him in has the <em>audacity</em> to both make fun of the “High Chancellor” and hearken back to the good ole days of Benny Hill!</p>
<p>Most of you probably won’t get the reference. Hill’s popular English variety/comedy show was the <em>best</em> of 60s, 70s and 80s debauchery.</p>
<p>Ah, the good ole days!</p>
<p>The movie then takes an interesting turn as E-vie gets “caught” by the State in the same dragnet and is sent to “prison”. Here we get a stirring graphic of what it must’ve been like for young Jewish women taken by Nazis (which normally isn’t the forte of but is safe enough if it is quick and doesn’t leave you with any desire to support Israel). Her head is shaved and she is dehumanized, seemingly tortured and thrown into a prison cell. There her only connection with reality is the inmate next to her, a once-beautiful actress, imprisoned for…you guessed it; loving another woman. Her name, is “Valerie”. Aww!</p>
<p>Now if you close your eyes, and fixate on the most innocent victim of fascist tyranny, will that picture be of two hot chicks sucking each other’s tongues? <em>—IT WAS FOR THESE LIMEY LIBTARD PERVERTS.</em></p>
<p>Seriously! I remember watching this part of the movie and going, <em>are you <strong>kidding me?!</strong></em> Unless you’re a subscriber to “Hustler” magazine, you’re probably saying the same thing. It doesn’t get any better when we find out that Valerie’s cruel punishment for being a hot lesbian who lived with another hot lesbian (and, really, aren’t <em>all</em> lesbians just so hot?!) was what actually turned our badass hero into a Vengeance-seeking Vigilante.</p>
<p>Originally, Marvel comics had similar circumstances motivating <em>The Punisher</em> but they found that test audiences didn’t take to it readily.</p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/fightclub.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-DqTy]"><img loading="lazy" class="alignright size-full wp-image-1542" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/fightclub.jpg" alt="fightclub" width="350" height="236" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/fightclub.jpg 350w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/fightclub-150x101.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/fightclub-300x202.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/fightclub-24x16.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/fightclub-36x24.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/fightclub-48x32.jpg 48w" sizes="(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px" /></a>Right about the time you’re ready to get and walk out in laughing disgust, you are told that it wasn’t really jail at all! E-vie was being boot-camped by “V” in an attempt to toughen her by giving her experiences she never would’ve had without his guidance. It is a twist that harkens back to the surprise thriller <em><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/">Fight Club</a></em>. Normally, I can’t stand anything with Brad Pitt in it because of the pop culture icon he has become. <em>So</em> passé. But the plot of <em>Fight Club</em> is powerful, especially when you find out that Pitt is actually a projection of Ed Norton’s ego, who he <em>thinks</em> he should be as he forces himself to experience events that dramatically change him from a car wreck to a secret underground bloodsport.</p>
<p>The “V” ends in similar fashion; with glorious anarchy overwhelming the evil Conservative autocratic State.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/v_for_vendetta_parliament_explosion.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-DqTy]"><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone wp-image-1543" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/v_for_vendetta_parliament_explosion.jpg" alt="v_for_vendetta_parliament_explosion" width="532" height="304" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/v_for_vendetta_parliament_explosion.jpg 425w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/v_for_vendetta_parliament_explosion-150x86.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/v_for_vendetta_parliament_explosion-300x172.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/v_for_vendetta_parliament_explosion-24x14.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/v_for_vendetta_parliament_explosion-36x21.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/v_for_vendetta_parliament_explosion-48x27.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/v_for_vendetta_parliament_explosion-400x229.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px" /></a></p>
<p>As perhaps the crowning glory of ridiculous cinematic stupidity, E-vie returns V’s disclosed affection for her by tenderly kissing…his hardened, supposedly bullet-proof mask.</p>
<p>Powerful…if you’re 5.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Vendetta-bar-graph.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-DqTy]"><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1544" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Vendetta-bar-graph.jpg" alt="Vendetta bar graph" width="960" height="720" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Vendetta-bar-graph.jpg 960w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Vendetta-bar-graph-150x113.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Vendetta-bar-graph-300x225.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Vendetta-bar-graph-768x576.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Vendetta-bar-graph-24x18.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Vendetta-bar-graph-36x27.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Vendetta-bar-graph-48x36.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Vendetta-bar-graph-400x300.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px" /></a></p>
<p>But before we subscribe to joy of anarchy, let me warn our dear Leftist friends whether they are making movies or monetary policy…</p>
<p>—it is a sword that can cut in any direction.</p>
<p>_____________________</p>
<h6>* The Name “Lord” or “LORD” is often abbreviated by orthodox Jews out of deep respect and, to make a point to my brother and sister Christians, I have taken to writing likewise.</h6>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In today’s rabidly anti-Christian Hollywood, this apocalyptic action/drama is sacrilege.</p>
<p>Is it a rated R version of a Cecil B. DeMille film? No. Ben Hur with blood, it is not.</p>
<p>But, taken in its entirety, it could be considered extraordinarily brave for a full-budget film with major Hollyweird “talent”.</p>
<p>The creators behind the film are billed as “The Hughes Brothers” whom I’ve never heard of. Apparently, they are black twins who can claim such great works as <em>Menace II Society</em>, <em>From Hell</em> and, our current fare, <em>The Book of Eli</em>. If I had known this before I rented the film I may not have&#8230;which I think would’ve been a mistake. Interestingly enough, Denzel Washington is credited as one of the producers so it appears he had a stake in the project. He never struck me as a particularly religious guy but, then again, this movie is only moderately “religious” (albeit, by my demanding standards).</p>
<p>The movie opens in an obviously post Armageddon America complete with falling nuclear ash. We pan to see our mask-clad lead (“Eli”, played by Denzel Washington) kill a cat with a bow and arrow. Now, it’s a hairless cat and it appears to be chowing on a human corpse but I could’ve done without it. Certainly, you get the picture that surviving is no easy task.</p>
<p>Turns out it’s actually 30 years past whatever Republican-inspired apocalypse has occurred (sarcasm is mine, not implied by the film) and we see that Eli is a drifter.</p>
<p>The movie has a pretty slow start. Eli spends the night in a disheveled house, empty save the punk rocker who hung himself in the closet.</p>
<p>The next day he starts out walking and comes across what is pretty obviously a trap; nasty-looking woman by the side of the road asking for help.</p>
<p>Yep. On cue, out come the Mad Max ruffians to mug the wayward traveler.</p>
<p>But our man Eli is no ordinary traveler.</p>
<p>Honestly, when I think of a silver screen badass, I think more of someone like Ray Stevenson (who plays the villain’s Enforcer, “Redridge”, in our movie). I was not overly familiar with Ray’s work until I saw him as the lead in the gratuitously graphic <em>Punisher: War Zone</em> and I loved him in it, even though I didn’t love so much of the gore. But I wasn’t surprised because <em>The Punisher</em> is the king of comic carnage.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Ray-Stevenson-is-The-Punisher.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-98nm]"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-161 aligncenter" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Ray-Stevenson-is-The-Punisher.jpg" alt="Ray Stevenson is The Punisher" width="570" height="379" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Ray-Stevenson-is-The-Punisher.jpg 570w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Ray-Stevenson-is-The-Punisher-150x100.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Ray-Stevenson-is-The-Punisher-300x199.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Ray-Stevenson-is-The-Punisher-24x16.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Ray-Stevenson-is-The-Punisher-36x24.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Ray-Stevenson-is-The-Punisher-48x32.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Ray-Stevenson-is-The-Punisher-400x266.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px" /></a></p>
<p>But I digress.</p>
<p>In my thought processes I worked through being comfortable with Washington as the badass because (certainly he wasn’t any more of a stretch than archetypical metrosexual Tom Cruise) and, in real life, hardly anyone who is a true “badass” actually looks it.</p>
<p>Eli very quickly cleans up the gaggle of gangsters with a sharp-looking machete. The bloodletting begins with a classic Clint Eastwood exchange; badguy leader tries to push Eli around, grabs him and lets go to which Eli calmly states, “Put that hand on me again and you won’t get it back.” Badguy puts his hand back on Eli and before you know it, he ain’t got no hand no moe.</p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Shemagh-Scarf.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-98nm]"><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-162" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Shemagh-Scarf.jpg" alt="Shemagh Scarf" width="292" height="193" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Shemagh-Scarf.jpg 640w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Shemagh-Scarf-150x99.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Shemagh-Scarf-300x198.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Shemagh-Scarf-24x16.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Shemagh-Scarf-36x24.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Shemagh-Scarf-48x32.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Shemagh-Scarf-400x264.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px" /></a><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1037705/">According to IMDb</a>, Washington studied under Bruce Lee’s protégé Dan Inosanto for his action scenes but, in the movie, we are never told where Eli gets his amazing crimefighting skills from (and there are some, “oh come <em>on</em>” moments, too). The only hint we have is that he wears a Shemagh scarf around his neck such as the kind many in the Special Forces community prefer.</p>
<p>There is an interesting twist at the end when the 1-handed badguy boss asks for Eli’s name and Eli slowly finishes him off. Now some would consider this even more gratuitous than usual for Hollywood but, given the nature of the badguys and my penchant for loving to see unrequited justice get delivered, I appreciated it.</p>
<p>The very next scene lays the groundwork for how Denzel and the twins seemed to be on the same sheet of music with my assessment; “you will eventually reap what you sow”.</p>
<p>As Eli walks along, he is overlooking another road beneath him where a man and woman are also walking. Soon they get waylaid by a motorcycle gang who murders the man and assaults the woman. Eli begins to mumble to himself to “stay on your path&#8230;stay on your path.”</p>
<p>I didn’t particularly enjoy the context but there was a sense of reality to the situation. Evil happens all of the time and most of the time, the predators get away with it.</p>
<p>Soon our Eastwood-esque anti-hero saunters into a “town” of dregs and survivors and goes to a merchant to charge his iPod. He then decides to go across the street to the bar to pay for some expensive&#8230;<em>water!</em> I will say, throughout the movie, some very poignant points are made about the bountiful blessings available to us in the United States that we so take for granted.</p>
<p>While he’s there, who should accost him but the leader of the very same biker gang.</p>
<p>Our hero tries to avoid a fight but dirtbag ain’t havin’ it..so he gets it, right in the kisser.</p>
<p>As he lays there bleeding and dazed, Eli leans over him and whispers, “I know who you are&#8230;a murderer of innocent travelers on the road&#8230;you are going to be held to account for the things you have done, do you know that? Do you?”</p>
<p>Dude. It was <em>COOL</em>.</p>
<p>You reap what you sow&#8230;eventually.</p>
<p>But now the rest of the gang ain’t happy cause their boy is now sucking dust off the floor. As they surround Eli, he places his precious bag on the ground at his feet and (as colorful ESPN sportscaster Stuart Scott would say) gets <em>Biblical</em> on those boys.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“Cursed be the ground for our sake. Oh thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for us. For out of the ground we are taken for the dust we are and to the dust we shall return.”</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Now, I think this is a paraphrase of several different passages but <em>that</em> was cool, <em>too!</em></p>
<p>The only problem is that he has now decimated the muscle of the town’s boss, “Carnegie” played by the very talented Gary Oldman (who looked like sh*t, I hope, on purpose). It seems that Carnegie likes to read&#8230;not for elucidation, but to find out how to better control people. A Democrat!!</p>
<p>And his muscle had the job of finding him that <em>one book</em> that was going to make it all easier for him.</p>
<p>So he is now looking to get introduced to Eli via the point of Redridge’s gun. Will Eli stay and join the merry band? No thanks. Why don’t you sleep on it&#8230;in a locked room?</p>
<p>To add a carrot along with the stick, Carnegie sends the daughter—“Solara” (played by Mila Kunis)—of his blind slave concubine “Claudia” (played by Jennifer Beals) to entice Eli.</p>
<p>But Eli ain’t havin’ none of that, either. However, Solara begs to stay as a ploy to imply she did what she was sent to do and Eli acquiesces.</p>
<p>Before she’s allowed into his cell, however, he hides what appears to be a very large, traditional Bible. Could this be “the book” Carnegie is after…?</p>
<p>In the process of being the hospitable monk on a mission, Eli invites Solara to join him in the very rare bounty of food he’s been given. There’s one catch; Eli has an odd ritual he forces Solara to go through before they begin eating.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/now-we-eat.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-98nm]"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-163 aligncenter" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/now-we-eat.jpg" alt="now we eat" width="733" height="412" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/now-we-eat.jpg 1140w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/now-we-eat-150x84.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/now-we-eat-300x169.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/now-we-eat-768x432.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/now-we-eat-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/now-we-eat-24x13.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/now-we-eat-36x20.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/now-we-eat-48x27.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/now-we-eat-400x225.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 733px) 100vw, 733px" /></a></p>
<p>Let me depart from my flippant commentary for a moment to say, it was a powerful moment.</p>
<p>Solara reports back to Carnegie but then mimics the prayer she was taught with mother, Claudia. This alerts Carnegie to the possibility that it <em>is</em> the book he’s been looking for. He then threatens Claudia to get Solara to say Eli has a book and what kind it is. But Solara doesn’t know, she can’t read. Describe it, <em>or else!</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/show-me.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-98nm]"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-164 aligncenter" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/show-me.jpg" alt="show me" width="721" height="406" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/show-me.jpg 1135w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/show-me-150x84.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/show-me-300x169.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/show-me-768x432.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/show-me-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/show-me-24x14.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/show-me-36x20.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/show-me-48x27.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/show-me-400x225.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 721px) 100vw, 721px" /></a></p>
<p>Another powerful moment.</p>
<p>Carnegie realizes how close he is and rushes to the locked room. But Eli has vanished and there was a guard right outside the door!</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Now about that time Herod the king laid hands on some who belonged to the Church in order to mistreat them. And he had James the brother of John put to death with a sword. When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter also.</em></p>
<p><em>Now it was during the days of Unleavened Bread. When he had seized him, he put him in prison, delivering him to four squads of soldiers to guard him, intending after the Passover to bring him out before the people.</em></p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Peter-Released-from-Prison-Gerritvan-Honthorst.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-98nm]"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-166 aligncenter" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Peter-Released-from-Prison-Gerritvan-Honthorst.jpg" alt="Peter Released from Prison - Gerritvan Honthorst" width="459" height="307" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Peter-Released-from-Prison-Gerritvan-Honthorst.jpg 320w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Peter-Released-from-Prison-Gerritvan-Honthorst-150x100.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Peter-Released-from-Prison-Gerritvan-Honthorst-300x201.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Peter-Released-from-Prison-Gerritvan-Honthorst-24x16.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Peter-Released-from-Prison-Gerritvan-Honthorst-36x24.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Peter-Released-from-Prison-Gerritvan-Honthorst-48x32.jpg 48w" sizes="(max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px" /></a></p>
<blockquote><p><em>So Peter was kept in the prison, but prayer for him was being made fervently by the Church to G-d.</em></p>
<p><em>On the very night when Herod was about to bring him forward, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and guards in front of the door were watching over the prison. And, behold, an angel of the L-rd suddenly appeared and a light shone in the cell; and he struck Peter’s side and woke him up, saying, “Get up quickly.” And his chains fell off his hands. And the angel said to him, “Gird yourself and put on your sandals.” And he did so. And he said to him, “Wrap your cloak around you and follow me.” And he went out and continued to follow, and he did not know that what was being done by the angel was real, but thought he was seeing a vision. When they had passed the first and second guard, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened for them by itself; and they went out and went along one street, and immediately the angel departed from him.</em></p>
<p><em>When Peter came to himself, he said, “Now I know for sure that the L-rd has sent forth His angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting.” And when he realized this, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was also called Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying.</em></p>
<p><em>When he knocked at the door of the gate, a servant-girl named Rhoda came to answer. When she recognized Peter’s voice, because of her joy she did not open the gate, but ran in and announced that Peter was standing in front of the gate. They said to her, “You are out of your mind!” But she kept insisting that it was so. They kept saying, “It is his angel.” But Peter continued knocking; and when they had opened the door, they saw him and were amazed. But motioning to them with his hand to be silent, he described to them how the L-rd had led him out of the prison. And he said, “Report these things to James and the brethren.” Then he left and went to another place.</em></p>
<p><em>Now when day came, there was no small disturbance among the soldiers as to what could have become of Peter. When Herod had searched for him and had not found him, he examined the guards and ordered that they be led away to execution. </em>~Acts 12:1-19</p></blockquote>
<p>Redridge rather unceremoniously shot Eli’s guard, as well.</p>
<p>And they all catch up in the open street where Eli seems very unintimidated by the number of guns trained on him. Here we find out that, yep, it is the book Carnegie is looking for because he grew up with it and he knows how “faith” can be used to control the masses (a Democrat <em>and</em> a Marxist*—nowadays, the same thing). But Eli has other plans for the Book and continues on “west”.</p>
<p>Soon, a gunfight ensues and it seems that Eli is supernaturally protected and just as supernaturally aiming his handgun, making insane one-handed shots count each and every time. A little annoyed at this, I also counted how many times his one-shot-one-kill kills were shot and, surprisingly, “17” was a realistic number for a modern high-capacity 9mm handgun. Trick shooting notwithstanding.</p>
<p>After exactly 17 rounds, Eli whips out his shotgun and Carnegie catches some shot in the leg.</p>
<p>Having won the gun battle, Eli goes back to walking “west”.</p>
<p>But now Solara wants to tag along and bribes Eli with uncovering the source of Carnegie’s power; a freshwater spring. Eli tries to lock Solara behind because the road ahead is dangerous but she finds a way to start after him again. Except, this time, it’s Solara who is waylaid by the next crop of Armageddon sexual Assaulters (same nasty bait chick, though). She’s about to be subjected to something really nasty, herself, when some well-placed arrows (and I mean <em>well-placed</em>) come flying to her rescue, thanks to Warchief Eli.</p>
<p>Carnegie isn’t about to let his book slip out of his grasp. So he orders Redridge to saddle up and go after them both.</p>
<p>They both have to spend one more night together where there is again some poignant discussion about, “Do you read the <em>same book</em> every day?!”</p>
<p>“Without fail.”</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/same-Book-every-day.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-98nm]"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-167 aligncenter" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/same-Book-every-day.jpg" alt="same Book every day" width="691" height="388" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/same-Book-every-day.jpg 1139w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/same-Book-every-day-150x84.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/same-Book-every-day-300x169.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/same-Book-every-day-768x432.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/same-Book-every-day-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/same-Book-every-day-24x13.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/same-Book-every-day-36x20.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/same-Book-every-day-48x27.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/same-Book-every-day-400x225.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 691px) 100vw, 691px" /></a></p>
<p>When they get back on the road, Solara wants to know how Eli is directed and she is told “by a voice” and that he is walking “by faith, not by sight”.</p>
<p>Soon they come upon an old house and they go up to it looking for&#8230;hell I don’t know. It’s obviously important to the story.</p>
<p>Living in the house are two unusually cagy old people who seemed to have the booby-trap skills and killing instincts of Green Berets!</p>
<p>Will they stay for food?</p>
<p>Um&#8230;not when it’s manflesh courtesy of the previous 15 unsuccessful robbers. Interestingly, there <em>is</em> a neurological degenerative disease that comes to those who eat the brain matter of their own kind:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Kuru is an incurable degenerative neurological disorder (brain disease) that is a type of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, caused by a prion found in humans. The term “kuru” derives from the Fore word “kuria/guria”, “to shake”, a reference to the body tremors that are a classic symptom of the disease; it is also known among the Fore as the laughing sickness due to the pathologic bursts of laughter people would display when afflicted with the disease. It is now widely accepted that Kuru was transmitted among members of the Fore tribe of Papua New Guinea via cannibalism. </em>~<em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease)">Kuru</a></em>, Wikipedia.org</p></blockquote>
<p>But now Carnegie has caught up with them and a <em>big</em> gun battle ensues.</p>
<p>Eli assures Solara that they will both make it to their destination intact&#8230;but to quote the mad Irishman in <em>Braveheart</em>, the two crazy cannibals were fuhked.</p>
<p>Eli and Solara do get overwhelmed by Carnegie’s firepower and, amazingly, Eli gives up his book to save Solara and gets shot for his trouble.</p>
<p>That isn’t supposed to go that way. WTF?!</p>
<p>Good thing the movie isn’t over yet!</p>
<p>Captured Solara causes an interesting chain of events and is able to steal a vehicle to go back for Eli.</p>
<p>But he’s not there.</p>
<p>He’s walking down the road, west! Gut-shot and all!!</p>
<p>It so happens that they are within a short drive of Eli’s goal; Alcatraz island where some survivors are rebuilding civilization&#8230;with books. What’s the one book Librarian and freekazoid Malcolm McDowell really needs most? A Bible!</p>
<p>But wait a minute, they gave up the Bible.</p>
<p>Eli has a way to get it back.</p>
<p>As he waits out the final days of his life, he accomplishes his mission and the final, powerful moment hits the screen like a 16<sup>th</sup> century Gutenberg press.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/gutenberg.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-98nm]"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-168 aligncenter" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/gutenberg.jpg" alt="gutenberg" width="706" height="386" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/gutenberg.jpg 1138w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/gutenberg-150x82.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/gutenberg-300x164.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/gutenberg-768x420.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/gutenberg-1024x560.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/gutenberg-24x13.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/gutenberg-36x20.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/gutenberg-48x26.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/gutenberg-400x219.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 706px) 100vw, 706px" /></a></p>
<p>If only they stopped there.</p>
<p>But they had to make a PC plug for ecumenical egalitarian kumbaya in what, up to now, was an obviously unashamed statement on the value of the Christian Bible, by showing us how it completed the highly valued works of <em>other</em> religions in the “library” (just like the subtle role the muslim “researchers” played alongside the Catholic “researchers” who gave Hugh Jackman his fantastic monster-fighting weapons in the Catholic religion-action-thriller <em>VanHelsing</em> *vomit*).</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/bullshit-ending.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-98nm]"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-169 aligncenter" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/bullshit-ending.jpg" alt="bullshit ending" width="664" height="373" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/bullshit-ending.jpg 1135w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/bullshit-ending-150x84.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/bullshit-ending-300x169.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/bullshit-ending-768x432.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/bullshit-ending-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/bullshit-ending-24x13.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/bullshit-ending-36x20.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/bullshit-ending-48x27.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/bullshit-ending-400x225.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px" /></a></p>
<p>And that’s really where <em>The Book of Eli</em> (nice play on words for the title, huh?) was annoyingly short of what it could’ve been. Eli explained why he gave up the Book to save Solara as, “I got so caught up with keeping it safe that I forgot to live by what I learned from it, ‘do for others more than you do for yourself’.” OK&#8230;not bad, but not the first passage that came to <em>my</em> mind.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“Greater love has no one than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” </em>~John 15:13</p></blockquote>
<p>Is it brave to say “Amen” in the heart of Sodom? You bet!</p>
<p>Was it worth the rental? You bet (I saved a few plot twists for you in case you haven’t seen it yet and would like to).</p>
<p>Is it a keeper? Eh&#8230;not so much.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/The-Book-of-Eli-rated.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-98nm]"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-170 aligncenter" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/The-Book-of-Eli-rated.jpg" alt="The Book of Eli rated" width="714" height="419" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/The-Book-of-Eli-rated.jpg 960w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/The-Book-of-Eli-rated-150x88.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/The-Book-of-Eli-rated-300x176.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/The-Book-of-Eli-rated-768x450.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/The-Book-of-Eli-rated-24x14.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/The-Book-of-Eli-rated-36x21.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/The-Book-of-Eli-rated-48x28.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/The-Book-of-Eli-rated-400x235.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 714px) 100vw, 714px" /></a></p>
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<p>* Karl Marx; “religion is the opiate of the masses” originates from the introduction of his 1843 work <em>Contribution to Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right</em> which was subsequently released one year later in Marx’s own journal <em>Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher</em>, a collaboration with Arnold Ruge. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_of_the_people">Wikipedia.org</a></p>
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					<description><![CDATA[Goofy…Droll…Perverse…Depraved…Gratuitous…Shocking… These are some of the descriptors that I would attach to the movie Kick-Ass. But, the reason I’m taking the time to review (not just to warn you) is because there are two more descriptors that just might sneak in before we’re through—perhaps, even,...]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Goofy…Droll…Perverse…Depraved…Gratuitous…Shocking…</p>
<p>These are some of the descriptors that I would attach to the movie <em>Kick-Ass</em>.</p>
<p>But, the reason I’m taking the time to review (not just to warn you) is because there are two more descriptors that just might sneak in before we’re through—perhaps, even, through no fault of the movie’s creators: “insightful” and “inspiring”.</p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/kickasscover1.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-2Cyb]"><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-110" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/kickasscover1.jpg" alt="kickasscover[1]" width="237" height="363" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/kickasscover1.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/kickasscover1-98x150.jpg 98w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/kickasscover1-196x300.jpg 196w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/kickasscover1-16x24.jpg 16w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/kickasscover1-23x36.jpg 23w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/kickasscover1-31x48.jpg 31w" sizes="(max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px" /></a>At first blush (or, rather, first blood) you would guess that <em>Kick-Ass</em> was a story that either lampooned or capitalized off of the popularity of comicbook super heroes. Even though I was quite the conosur as a teen, those years are long gone and I had to research to find out that art was imitating life imitating art. You guessed it, <em>Kick-Ass</em> was a comicbook first. <span id='easy-footnote-1-1484' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'></span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https://johnnycirucci.com/kick-ass/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-1484' title=''><sup>1</sup></a></span>
<p>The basic plot is a NYC kid “Dave Lizewski” (Aaron Johnson), inspired by comicbooks, decides that he’s going to pull himself out of the depths of high school unanimity by creating a super hero alter ego with an online-ordered wetsuit even though he has no special abilities whatsoever. This causes him some trouble because it gets him intertwined in a fight between a framed vigilante cop, “Damon Macready” (Nicolas Cage), and a mob kingpin, “Frank D’Amico” (Mark Strong).</p>
<p>Not very complex, I know.</p>
<p>And the shock value hits you right in the groin right away as we spend almost a full five minutes telling the story of this nobody teen getting into the graphic details of how much he plays with himself each day. Taking too much time to “flesh out” these unnecessary and perverse details had me melting the minutes away on Fast Forward.</p>
<p>And our first introduction to former officer Macready is a very plainly-dressed and somewhat sickly-looking Nicolas Cage (who probably looks that way for real now) and then watching him shoot his 11 year old daughter square in the chest with a Beretta 9mm. Don’t ya just love Hollywood?!</p>
<p>Turns out that officer Macready is simply “toughening up” his daughter to withstand the impact of a bullet to the protective vest she is wearing.</p>
<p>Great film-making…and completely devoid of reality, of course. Should anyone try even REMOTELY to do such a thing, the risks are immeasurable. Have you ever shot a handgun? Did you have pinpoint accuracy even at a short distance? What are the chances of striking a child-sized object outside of a torso protected by a vest? eh. Call it “willing suspension of disbelief…and shock”.</p>
<p>So, fresh from a day of getting himself aroused over his unreachable lust interest at school, our hero finally dawns his just-arrived “costume” with added billy clubs for good effect.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/new-suit.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-2Cyb]"><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone wp-image-112" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/new-suit.jpg" alt="new suit" width="534" height="349" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/new-suit.jpg 468w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/new-suit-150x98.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/new-suit-300x196.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/new-suit-24x16.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/new-suit-36x24.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/new-suit-48x31.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/new-suit-400x262.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px" /></a></p>
<p>And, feeling that he just needed to “seize the moment” he re-encounters a white and black pair of street thugs who had previously mugged him of his cell phone.</p>
<p>Intent on making a difference this time as they try to steal a car, he ducks into an alley, undresses to expose his crimefighting apparel, throws his mask on and superhero “Kick-Ass” promptly gets knifed in the stomach by the white hoodlum. He then stumbles into the street where he gets struck by a car driven by a well-to-do white man who just as quickly takes off.</p>
<p>Getting knifed while trying to stop a white hoodlum was a nice public service message but the hit-and-run right afterwards was just unimaginative. If you want to really accent how frail our superhero is, put some more thought into it.</p>
<p>Poor Dave then has to ask the paramedic to ditch his costume and keep mum about it which then makes his father visiting him in the hospital question if he was sexually molested which then gives Dave the reputation of being “gay” which allows him to get much closer to his teen lust interest because now he’s “safe” which then allows the filmmakers to show half-naked Dave giving a “chemical tan” to his teen lust interest who only keeps you guessing on what her breasts look like under her fingers. The rest, from skimpy panties up is there for your perusal.</p>
<p>Back to officer Macready who asks his daughter what she wants for her birthday. She tells him she wants a puppy and he acts shocked by that. She then giggles and says, “Aw daddy, I was just f__king with ya. How about a Balisong butterfly knife?” To which he responds, “For you, sweetie, <em>two</em> Balisong butterfly knives!” Even though I was mildly impressed with some accurate repartees between the two about the origin of the “AR 15”, the disgust didn’t wane.</p>
<p><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/chloe-moretz.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-2Cyb]"><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-113" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/chloe-moretz.jpg" alt="chloe-moretz" width="289" height="452" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/chloe-moretz.jpg 384w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/chloe-moretz-96x150.jpg 96w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/chloe-moretz-192x300.jpg 192w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/chloe-moretz-15x24.jpg 15w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/chloe-moretz-23x36.jpg 23w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/chloe-moretz-31x48.jpg 31w" sizes="(max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px" /></a>Just a wee bit twisted, hmm? I think it’s safe to say that Chloë Moretz (as “Mindy Macready”) will be her generation’s Lindsey Lohan.</p>
<p>What we later learn is that daddy Cage is, indeed, a framed police officer who wouldn’t go on the take to facilitate the crimes of kingpin “Frank D’Amico” who is <em>also</em> living with an alter ego; “Big Daddy”. But “Big Daddy” (who’s alter ego looks very much like “Batman”) has a diminutive sidekick named “Hit Girl”. And the two of them are just a little more potent than poor Kick-Ass. In fact, they can take down a warehouse full of vicious thugs. Officer Macready has lost his wife and spent 5 years in jail while his partner watched after his daughter. When he got out, he was a changed man and he was determined to change his daughter, too.</p>
<p>Lucky for Dave Lizewski, he succeeds!</p>
<p>You see, poor Kick-Ass just can’t give up on the hope that his unrequited lust would someday be returned to him. He ends up stopping a gangland beating which makes him famous and, although knowing that he is at great risk, needs to strike out on one last mission: taking down the drug pushers his beloved “Katie Deauxma” (Lyndsy Fonseca) is mistakenly involved with due to the homeless shelter work she does *vomit*. So wholesome…for a nymphomaniac.</p>
<p>Once again, reality threatens to come crashing down on Kick-Ass, almost certainly to his death this time, when 11 year old Hit Girl comes to his rescue. While you are treated to a Grunge version of the old kids TV show theme song “The Banana Splits”, Hit Girl proceeds to mutilate and dispatch an entire room full of thugs. Great fun! Lucky for Kick-Ass that she and Big Daddy had caught wind of the “viral YouTube” cell phone video of Kick-Ass’s previous heroics and were out looking to bring him into the fold.</p>
<p>But he’s not quite ready yet. He’s not sure this is the way to go, even though he’s told he shows “promise”. Could he reach them if he needs to? “Yes,” Hit Girl tells him. He can go to the mayor’s office where he’ll be taken to the roof. They will turn on a big spotlight and it will shine a beacon into the sky in the shape of a “giant cock”.</p>
<p>Kids just grow up too quick these days, don’t they…?</p>
<p>With the curiosity of watching a car wreck, I refused to turn the movie off.</p>
<p>Good thing I didn’t! Because now Frank D’Amico is losing money and drugs to some kind of superhero wanna be. He doesn’t know who it is but he can sure make a good guess—that blankety-blank “Kick-Ass”!</p>
<p>Now Kick-Ass is in real trouble. But no one can find him! Lucky for Frank D’Amico, he has a dorky teenage son who claims he can find out. A couple thou here, a couple thou there and, *WHAM*. Another masked mystery man—The Red Mist!</p>
<h6 style="text-align: center;"><strong> <a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/KICK_ASS___RED_MIST_1_by_adonihs-992x5111.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-2Cyb]"><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone wp-image-114" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/KICK_ASS___RED_MIST_1_by_adonihs-992x5111.jpg" alt="KICK_ASS___RED_MIST_1_by_adonihs-992x511[1]" width="724" height="373" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/KICK_ASS___RED_MIST_1_by_adonihs-992x5111.jpg 992w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/KICK_ASS___RED_MIST_1_by_adonihs-992x5111-150x77.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/KICK_ASS___RED_MIST_1_by_adonihs-992x5111-300x155.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/KICK_ASS___RED_MIST_1_by_adonihs-992x5111-768x396.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/KICK_ASS___RED_MIST_1_by_adonihs-992x5111-24x12.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/KICK_ASS___RED_MIST_1_by_adonihs-992x5111-36x19.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/KICK_ASS___RED_MIST_1_by_adonihs-992x5111-48x25.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/KICK_ASS___RED_MIST_1_by_adonihs-992x5111-400x206.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px" /></a><br />
The fat cheeks and the punk hair…I get the satire. If you don’t chuckle you might want to do something else.</strong></h6>
<p>At last Red Mist connects with Kick-Ass but only to find out, he’s not their man. Big Daddy is. So Red Mist sets up Big Daddy through Kick-Ass. Soon enough, his lair is broken into, Hit Girl is shot and Big Daddy and Kick-Ass fall victim to Frank D’Amico who now wishes to send the message that “<em>Nobody</em> messes with…Frank D’Amico”.</p>
<p>You’re going to have to suspend some more disbelief but Frank D’Amico has the resources to cut in and broadcast his “message” of torturing to death our two pseudo-heroes. Everyone is riveted to their televisions as the two are beat up and doused with kerosene.</p>
<p>Now, I don’t know if it was frustration with this movie, but I was ripe for something at this point. If there’s anyone who’s had a belly-full of the incessant ridiculous stupidity from Hollywood of female sex objects who can kick my ass, it’s me.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/women-ass-kickers.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-2Cyb]"><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone wp-image-115 " src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/women-ass-kickers.jpg" alt="women ass-kickers" width="724" height="239" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/women-ass-kickers.jpg 1229w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/women-ass-kickers-150x50.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/women-ass-kickers-300x99.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/women-ass-kickers-768x254.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/women-ass-kickers-1024x338.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/women-ass-kickers-24x8.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/women-ass-kickers-36x12.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/women-ass-kickers-48x16.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/women-ass-kickers-400x132.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px" /></a></p>
<p>But I was actually very ready, now, for the obvious—the prepubescent Hit Girl to come in and slaughter everyone.</p>
<p>As she makes her entrance under cover of killed lights, I am at last hit with my first positive profundity. She begins to methodically take out some really annoying thugs but she’s unable to stop Big Daddy from being ignited. As he screams instructions to her on the various tactics she can use for success, I was struck by a sort of iconoclastic paternal revenge. The mob torturers <em>thought</em> they had this washed-up cop but he has taken the most unlikely possession he had—his tiny daughter—and turned her into the instrument of their destruction.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/kickass061.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-2Cyb]"><img loading="lazy" class=" size-full wp-image-116 alignnone" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/kickass061.jpg" alt="kickass06[1]" width="600" height="248" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/kickass061.jpg 600w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/kickass061-150x62.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/kickass061-300x124.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/kickass061-24x10.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/kickass061-36x15.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/kickass061-48x20.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/kickass061-400x165.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></a></p>
<p>If you don’t get that then this movie will probably have absolutely no redeeming value for you!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Hit-Girl-Knife-kick-ass.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-2Cyb]"><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-117" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Hit-Girl-Knife-kick-ass-1024x842.jpg" alt="Hit-Girl-Knife-kick-ass" width="620" height="510" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Hit-Girl-Knife-kick-ass-1024x842.jpg 1024w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Hit-Girl-Knife-kick-ass-150x123.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Hit-Girl-Knife-kick-ass-300x247.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Hit-Girl-Knife-kick-ass-768x632.jpg 768w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Hit-Girl-Knife-kick-ass-24x20.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Hit-Girl-Knife-kick-ass-36x30.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Hit-Girl-Knife-kick-ass-48x39.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Hit-Girl-Knife-kick-ass-400x329.jpg 400w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Hit-Girl-Knife-kick-ass.jpg 1437w" sizes="(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px" /></a></p>
<p>Because, beyond that you’ll be treated to lust rewarded when Dave reveals himself to his Katie and she “f__ks his brains out” (Katie’s admonition to her friends in front of Dave and his friends on what she’d do if she knew who Kick-Ass was). Certainly, teens aren’t hyper-sexed enough.</p>
<p>But now I was actually being a little inspired by this perverted movie and cheering on this psychotic little girl (because she was channeling <em>my</em> inner-psychotic).</p>
<p>So much so, that when Kick-Ass tries to make up for being the weak link that got officer Macready killed and teams up with Hit Girl to take down Frank D’Amico, I’m more than just a little annoyed that my “willing suspension of disbelief” got kicked off the planet with a final obviously drug-induced twist; he’s flying a gatling-gun equipped rocket pack that Big Daddy and Hit Girl have bought with confiscated drug money.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/kickass051.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-2Cyb]"><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-111" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/kickass051.jpg" alt="kickass05[1]" width="600" height="248" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/kickass051.jpg 600w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/kickass051-150x62.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/kickass051-300x124.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/kickass051-24x10.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/kickass051-36x15.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/kickass051-48x20.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/kickass051-400x165.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></a></p>
<p>Previous to this, I was still suspending that disbelief in order to find a way to enjoy the movie. And now that I had overcome my nausea and disgust and had found a way to do it, I got blown up with stupidity. There was another missed opportunity at something inspirational just before this tomfoolery. After Hit Girl and Kick-Ass retire to Big Daddy’s lair minus poor Big Daddy, there is a moment where a bloodied Dave Lizewski looks himself in the mirror. It could’ve been very deep. The foolish teen is now a bloodied man. But the dumbasses didn’t go anywhere with it.</p>
<p>Still, life is filled with filth, lust and endlessly unpunished evil. And, in a way that brought my own personal issues out of me in a satisfying manner, I enjoyed an 11 year old…</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><em><a href="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/assassin.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery-2Cyb]"><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-118" src="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/assassin.jpg" alt="assassin" width="700" height="465" srcset="https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/assassin.jpg 700w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/assassin-150x100.jpg 150w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/assassin-300x199.jpg 300w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/assassin-24x16.jpg 24w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/assassin-36x24.jpg 36w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/assassin-48x32.jpg 48w, https://johnnycirucci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/assassin-400x266.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /></a><br />
“Hit Girl”</em></strong></p>
<p>Unless you are hopelessly depraved or a God-fearing adult with a minimum of 15 years of mature, disciplined living under your belt, no need to see this movie.</p>
<p>But if you are the latter and you can handle what I’ve warned you about…you might feel it’s worth a rental.</p>
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