War is an organized, armed, and often a prolonged conflict that is carried on between states, nations, or other parties typified by extreme aggression, social disruption, and usually high mortality. War should be understood as an actual, intentional and widespread armed conflict between political communities, and therefore is defined as a form of political violence. The set of techniques used by a group to carry out war is known as warfare. An absence of war (and other violence) is usually called peace.
In 2003, Nobel Laureate Richard E. Smalley identified war as the sixth (of ten) biggest problems facing the society of mankind for the next fifty years. In the 1832 treatise On War, Prussian military general and theoretician Carl von Clausewitz defined war as follows: "War is thus an act of force to compel our enemy to do our will."
While some scholars see warfare as an inescapable and integral aspect of human culture, others argue that it is only inevitable under certain socio-cultural or ecological circumstances. Some scholars argue that the practice of war is not linked to any single type of political organization or society. Rather, as discussed by John Keegan in his History of Warfare, war is a universal phenomenon whose form and scope is defined by the society that wages it. Another argument suggests that since there are human societies in which warfare does not exist, humans may not be naturally disposed for warfare, which emerges under particular circumstances. The ever changing technologies and potentials of war extend along a historical continuum. At the one end lies the endemic warfare of the Paleolithic[citation needed] with its stones and clubs, and the naturally limited loss of life associated with the use of such weapons. Found at the other end of this continuum is nuclear warfare, along with the recently developed possible outcome of its use, namely the potential risk of the complete extinction of the human species.
Seth Rogen (pronounced /ˈroʊɡɪn/; born April 15, 1982) is a Canadian stand-up comedian, actor, producer, screenwriter, and voice artist. Rogen began his career doing stand-up comedy during his teen years, winning the Vancouver Amateur Comedy Contest in 1998. While still living in his native Vancouver, he landed a small part in Freaks and Geeks. Shortly after Rogen moved to Los Angeles for his role, Freaks and Geeks was canceled after one season due to poor ratings. He then got a part on the equally short-lived Undeclared, which also hired him as a staff writer.
After landing a job as a staff writer on the final season of Da Ali G Show, for which Rogen and the other writers received an Emmy nomination, he was guided by film producer Judd Apatow toward a film career. Rogen was cast in a major supporting role and credited as a co-producer in Apatow's directorial debut, The 40-Year-Old Virgin. After Rogen received critical praise for that performance, Universal Pictures agreed to cast him as the lead in Apatow's directorial feature films Knocked Up and Funny People. Rogen and his comedy partner Evan Goldberg co-wrote the films Superbad, Pineapple Express, and The Green Hornet. Rogen has done voice work for the films Horton Hears a Who!, Kung Fu Panda, Monsters vs. Aliens, and Paul. He married fellow screenwriter Lauren Miller in October 2011.
James Edward Franco (born April 19, 1978) is an American actor. His first prominent role was a lead part on the short-lived cult hit television program Freaks and Geeks; he later achieved recognition for playing the titular character in the TV biographical film James Dean (2001), for which he was awarded a Golden Globe Award. He achieved international fame with his portrayals of Harry Osborn in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy.
Franco has won or been nominated for a number of awards. He has done both dramatic and comedic work in projects and has appeared in an eclectic range of films since the 2000s, ranging from period to contemporary pieces, and from major Hollywood productions to less publicized indie films, as well as fantasy films to biopics and soap operas. Other notable films include Pineapple Express, a 2008 stoner comedy that earned him his second Golden Globes nomination; the 2008 Harvey Milk-biopic Milk; and Danny Boyle's 2010 drama film 127 Hours, about real-life mountain climber Aron Ralston's struggle to free his hand from a boulder. His performance in 127 Hours earned him nominations for many high-profile awards, including the Academy Awards, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 2011, he starred opposite Andy Serkis in Rupert Wyatt's successful science fiction film Rise of the Planet of the Apes, a reboot of the Planet of the Apes franchise. Since 2009, he has played a recurring role in the ABC daytime soap opera General Hospital.
Keith Rupert Murdoch, AC, KSG (born 11 March 1931) is an Australian American media mogul. Murdoch became managing director of Australia's News Limited, inherited from his father, in 1952. He is the founder, Chairman and CEO of global media holding company the News Corporation, the world's second-largest media conglomerate.
In the 1950s and '60s, he acquired various newspapers in Australia and New Zealand, before expanding into the United Kingdom in 1969, taking over the News of the World followed closely by The Sun. He moved to New York in 1974 to expand into the US market and became a naturalised US citizen in 1985. In 1981, he bought The Times, his first British broadsheet.
In 1986, keen to adopt newer electronic publishing technologies, he consolidated his UK printing operations in Wapping, causing bitter industrial disputes. His News Corporation acquired Twentieth Century Fox (1985), HarperCollins (1989) and The Wall Street Journal (2007). He formed BSkyB in 1990 and during the 1990s expanded into Asian networks and South American television. By 2000 Murdoch's News Corporation owned over 800 companies in more than 50 countries with a net worth of over $5 billion.
The Wait Is Over
Plot
10 years in the making, 2 years in production... The members of the XBW organization have ran shows and impressed crowds spanning across multiple countries behind the backs of the Maryland State Athletic Commission. Obtaining more than 5,000 views per 'webisode' they proved dominance in Backyard Wrestling supremacy by also becoming the #1 most searched Backyard Wrestling Federation on the Internet and in the world. Their former website hit unique web hits reaching into the millions year after year. This is their grand stage, this is what they've worked hard for. After all the sweat, blood and egos... They come together one more time, with the Reunion of a lifetime. It's XBW! And it's the Reunion!
Keywords: alliance, army, asian, backyard, blood, championship, death, eastern, ecw, ego
10 years in the making, 2 years in production
Reilly Davidson: My most memorable moment was when we surpassed the one million unique hits mark, it was unheard of, we actually surpassed TNA that year.
Deathwarrent: Sorry dude, you sucked!
Plot
The four Horsemen of the Apocalypse as you've never seem them before. This short 10 minute comedy looks at the effect these four men can unintentionally have, especially on the poor hapless waitress caught in the middle, when they meet up in a country pub to discuss work.
Four men in a pub. Could be the beginning of a joke; it isn't.
Plot
Jimmy Cuervo is a down-on-his-luck ex-con living in a polluted mining town on a reservation that would run him out of town if not for the remainder of his probation. With his time nearly finished, he plans to start a new life with his girlfriend Lily , and leave the town for good. But Luc Crash and Lola Byrne head up a local gang of local Satanists who murder Jimmy and Lily in a brutally ritualistic slaying that they hope will conjure the rebirth of the Antichrist. When the legend of the Crow returns Jimmy from the dead, Jimmy heads out on a one-man path of vengeance that will lead him to El Nino, the leader of the gang that Luc and Lola are in.
Keywords: back-from-the-dead, based-on-comic, based-on-comic-book, based-on-novel, black-magician, character-name-in-title, crow, dark-hero, diabolical, eye-gouging
He will not rest until he gets his vengeance.
Passion..Revenge...Eternity.
Jimmy Cuervo: She believed in you. She believed in all of you.::Harold: She believed in fairy tales. Who are you to tell me what she believed in?::Jimmy Cuervo: I'm the fairy fucking godfather that's gonna save your fairy fucking tails.
Jimmy Cuervo: Don't you have any respect for the dead?
Jimmy Cuervo: You are gonna fucking die!
Jimmy Cuervo: Quoth the raven nevermore, motherfucker!
Jimmy Cuervo: Someone owes me two lifetimes and a set of perfect blue eyes.
Pestilence: Get off me, you damn hallucination!
Luc Crash: What's the difference between me and you, hm?::Jimmy Cuervo: I'm dead.
El Nino: He'll be your homey now and forever more!
El Nino: I now pronounce you devil and his shorty!::Lola Byrne: I love you, Lucifer.::El Nino: Well, kiss the bride, motherfucker!
El Nino: Well, wicked-ass props to you Mr. O.G. and thanks for representing all the homeboys.
Plot
From the people that brought you the cult comedy hit Why We Had To Kill Bitch comes the short film Grim, a witty romantic comedy that turns the "Honey-there's-something-I-need-to-tell-you-about-myself" genre on it's ear. Dan wants to marry Sally. But before he'll let her say "yes" he needs to let her in on a secret about his day job, a secret so unbelievable, so shocking, so Biblical that Sally literally needs to see it to believe it.
The movie they warned you about in church
War: Well, how 'bout it?::Famine: Ok. Let's see... I'm young. I'm Jewish. And my parents are dead.