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Israel’s right-wing defense minister resigned — because the government is too right-wing

Edit Vox 20 May 2016
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe "Bogie" Ya'alon is no one's idea of a leftist. Ya'alon opposed Israel's 2005 disengagement from Gaza and is openly skeptical of a two-state solution. He's referred to the threat from Palestinian militants as a "cancer" that has "to be severed," and bashed Secretary of State John Kerry for his "obsessive" and "messianic" commitment to the peace process ... Now, the timing is certainly political ... ....

Risk review – Laura Poitras skirts safely around Julian Assange in gripping documentary

Edit The Guardian 19 May 2016
4 / 5 stars. Poitras follows Citizenfour with a profile of WikiLeaks founder Assange, which contains some electrifying moments despite its lack of objectivity. @catherineshoard ... “What’s your favourite food?” And ... Twitter ... But what access. Some scenes play like an early adaptation of the Jonathan Frazen novel, Freedom, which is about the messianic head of a WikiLeaks-ish company populated by earnest coders and a flood of female recruits ... ....

A glimpse into the fog of life under Islamic State

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 19 May 2016
My Journey into the Heart of Terror. JURGEN TODENHOFER. SCRIBE, $32.99. ISIS. A History Advertisement. FAWAZ GERGES. ​PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, $62. Under the Black Flag. SAMI MOUBAYED. ​TAURIS, $33.95 ... A History, marking this an extraordinary blackout for humanity ... Gerges describes this "messianic ideology" at length, its strength stemming from effortlessly twisting to accommodate or refute fact and logic ... ....

The Pursuit of Purpose and the Bono Problem

Edit Huffington Post 18 May 2016
"You can't predict destiny, that's the beauty" sounds like a cross between a line from a John Lennon song and a pre-battle speech from Braveheart. It's actually a line from a new Wrigley's Orbit ad. Now there's a sound enough thought at the heart of the spots. gum freshens your breath, making you more confident and prepared in the process ... But people are becoming fed up with brands using messianic, world-shaking language ... ....

Clinton and Trump

Edit Dissident Voice 18 May 2016
Over half the US electorate views the two leading candidates for the 2016 Presidential elections with horror and disdain ... During Hilary Clinton’s joint presidency with William Clinton (the Billary Regime) the First Lady actively promoted an aggressive militarized takeover of Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Middle East and Eastern Africa – often under her favorite messianic doctrine of ‘humanitarian intervention and regime change’ ... ....

Will the Radical War on Science Transform America?

Edit WhoWhatWhy 18 May 2016
The scientific confirmation of a human factor in global warming is accepted by a majority of Americans as well as scientists, yet those in power have produced only the Paris climate agreement, with fine goals but little to guarantee reaching them ... the environmentally damaging Alberta tar sands ... Will the Radical War on Science Transform America?. ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Messianic Terrorism, Tribal Conflicts, and the Failures of Great Powers (New York....

For ‘X-Men: Apocalypse,’ think Old Testament, wrath-of-God-like stuff

Edit The Oklahoman 17 May 2016
One night a few years ago, director Bryan Singer was at the Saddle Ranch Chop House in Los Angeles, half-drunk, having a good time when a dark cinematic vision popped into his head ... Days of Future Past,” which went on to gross nearly $750 million worldwide ... “It also felt interesting to be able to create a new villain that would be more powerful than Magneto and would turn Magneto, who’s been this messianic leader, into a follower ... ———....

For 'X-Men: Apocalypse,' think Old Testament, wrath-of-God-like stuff

Edit The Miami Herald 17 May 2016
One night a few years ago, director Bryan Singer was at the Saddle Ranch Chop House in Los Angeles, half-drunk, having a good time when a dark cinematic vision popped into his head ... Apocalypse," which hits theaters May 27 ... way," he said, laughing ... "It also felt interesting to be able to create a new villain that would be more powerful than Magneto and would turn Magneto, who's been this messianic leader, into a follower....

The Death And Life Of Otto Bloom to open Melbourne International Film Festival 2016

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 15 May 2016
Melbourne International Film Festival has announced its opening night movie, The Death And Life Of Otto Bloom, the feature debut of Melbourne writer-director Cris​ Jones, stars Xavier Samuel as a man who experiences time backwards. . Otto Bloom is, Jones hastens to emphasise, different from The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, the F ... as a scientific oddity, a world-famous artist and a messianic figure, for example ... ....

Selfie With Statue In Portugal Doesn't End Well

Edit National Public Radio 13 May 2016
i. A woman takes pictures by the front doors of Lisbon's Rossio train station on Thursday. A statue of 16th century King Sebastian, around 3-feet tall, stood in the now empty niche between the doors. Armando Franca/AP hide caption. toggle caption Armando Franca/AP ... i ... "After his death, many of his subjects believed that he would return to deliver them from Spanish rule, a messianic faith known as Sebastianism (Sebastianismo)." ... It adds. ... ....

Thanks to Obama the left has just lived through a decade of unimaginable success

Edit New Statesman 13 May 2016
In the past decade, a black man was elected President and leaves after two terms in office with an historically high 50 per cent approval rating. A woman has a more than 70 per cent chance of succeeding him. Both are Democrats ... Tony Blair’s messianic invasion of Iraq impoverished a Labour Party that has now endured two general election debacles, will eventually suffer a third, and is probably only six years into a 15-year Tory reign....

Can the Lee-Chin growth model work for human capital?

Edit Jamaica Observer 13 May 2016
In 60 years of self-government by the People’s National Party (PNP) and the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), they did not deliver public goods and services as needed, be it houses or garbage collection. No Cabinet met targets, had adequate outcomes or delivered quality, yet all claim success ... Production lags, innovation withers, no prosperity ... We now know post-Independence Andrew is as messianic as the old guard ... Key ones are ... ....

The Great Leap Backward: America’s Illegal Wars on the World

Edit CounterPunch 13 May 2016
Can we face it in this election season? America is a weapons factory, the White House a war room, and the president the manager of the neoliberal conspiracy to recolonize the planet. It exports war and mass poverty ... American external imperialism was born ... According to the ideologically exulted, history had ended, ideologies had died, and the messianic mission of the US to become the steward of God’s property on earth could be fulfilled....
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