The Coward (1915) Full Film
The Coward is a 1915 American silent historical war drama film directed by Reginald Barker and produced by Thomas H. Ince. Ince also wrote the film's scenario with C. Gardner Sullivan, from a story Ince had bought from writer (and future director) Edward Sloman. The film stars Frank Keenan and Charles Ray.[2] John Gilbert also appears in an uncredited bit part.[3] A copy of The Coward is preserved at the Museum of Modern Art.[4]
Plot
Set during the American Civil War, Keenan stars as a Virginia colonel, with Charles Ray as his weak-willed son. The son is forced, at gunpoint, by his father to enlist in the Confederate States Army. He is terrified by the war and deserts during a battle. The film focuses on the son's struggle to overcome his cowardice.
Cast
Frank Keenan as Col. Jefferson Beverly Winslow
Charles Ray as Frank Winslow
Gertrude Claire as Mrs. Elizabeth Winslow
Nick Cogley as a Negro Servant
Charles K. French as a Confederate Commander
Margaret Gibson as Amy
Minnie Provost as Mammy
John Gilbert as a Young Virginian (uncredited)
Bob Kortman as a Union Officer (uncredited)
Leo Willis as a Union Soldier (uncredited)
Reception
The Coward was both a critical and financial success and helped to launch Charles Ray's career.[3]
Criticism
Unusually at the time, the main character is not presented as a gallant Southerner who is eager to fight in the war.[5]
The acting in this film was much more natural than earlier films, with cutting and camera angles helping the actor's use of facial expressions and pauses to convey dramatic tension.[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coward_(1915_film)
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Martyrs of the Alamo (1915) Full Film
Martyrs of the Alamo (also known as The Birth of Texas) is a 1915 American historical war drama film written and directed by Christy Cabanne. The film is based on the historical novel of the same name by Theodosia Harris, and features an ensemble cast including Sam De Grasse, Douglas Fairbanks, Walter Long and Alfred Paget.[1] Fairbanks role was uncredited, and was his first role in film, although his first starring role, in The Lamb, was released prior to this picture.[2] The film features the siege of Béxar, the Battle of the Alamo, and the Battle of San Jacinto.
While making claims to historical accuracy, the film depicts the Mexican population in San Antonio in 1836 as a group of ill-mannered drunks. One scene depicts a Mexican officer verbally assaulting a white woman and making advances on her. The white woman reports the incident to her husband, Almeron Dickinson, who in turn shoots the Mexican officer. In his book Remembering the Alamo, author Richard R. Flores, argues that the negative portrayal of the Mexican population is due to racism toward Mexicans in 1915, the year the film was produced.[3] A copy of the film is preserved at the Library of Congress.[1]
Cast
Sam De Grasse as Silent Smith (Deaf Smith)
Allan Sears as David Crockett
Walter Long as Santa Anna
Alfred Paget as James Bowie
Fred Burns as Almeron Dickinson
John T. Dillon as Colonel Travis
Douglas Fairbanks as Joe/Texan Soldier
Juanita Hansen as Old Soldier's Daughter
Ora Carew as Mrs. Dickinson
Tom Wilson as Sam Houston
Augustus Carney as Old Soldier
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Have Muslims Been Praying In The Wrong Direction? - Sacred City - Full Documentary
Jan 26, 2019
The Sacred City presents compelling evidence that suggests the holy city of Mecca is in the wrong location and that the worlds 1.6 billion Muslims are praying in the direction of the wrong city. Compiling evidence from both historic sources and new technologies point to the correct location in this seismic, revelatory new film.
In this startling and original documentary, writer and historian, Dan Gibson, shows that descriptions of Mohamed’s original holy city – as detailed in the Qur’an and Islamic histories, do not match that of the Mecca we know today. If true this could shake Islam to it’s roots, because every Muslim is required to pray towards the ‘forbidden gathering place’. If Dan Gibson is right, Muslims are praying in the wrong direction.
In the film ‘The Sacred City’ we set out his evidence from within Islamic and ancient histories – while also using modern technologies - to track down the biggest secret of the last fifteen hundred years. Gibson not only finds the location of the original Mecca but also provides a convincing argument as to how such a great misunderstanding in Islamic history came about.
While clearly controversial, The Sacred City is respectful of Islam’s prophet, and does not dispute the events of the Qur’an; but shows how a deliberate attempt was made to hide from Islam, secrets that impact every Muslim today. The evidence is compelling and fascinating.
In a time when the world agenda is being set by Islam, it is more important than ever for the origins and history of this world religion to be examined afresh. This is an important documentary with world-wide appeal for both religious and secular audiences.
Beautifully filmed in the ruins and deserts of the middle east, the film is a detective story that investigates the dawn of Islam and will become the most talked about film for years to come.
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The Ten Commandments (1923) Full Film
For the 1956 film, also directed by Cecil B. DeMille, see The Ten Commandments (1956 film).
The Ten Commandments
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille
Story by Jeanie MacPherson
Produced by Cecil B. DeMille
Starring
Theodore Roberts
Charles De Roche
Estelle Taylor
Julia Faye
Richard Dix
Rod La Rocque
Leatrice Joy
Nita Naldi
Cinematography
Bert Glennon
Peverel Marley
Archibald Stout
J. F. Westerberg
Edited by Anne Bauchens
Color process Technicolor
Production
company
Famous Players–Lasky Corporation
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release dates
December 4, 1923 (Los Angeles premiere)
December 21, 1923 (New York City premiere)
Running time 136 minutes
Country United States
Languages
Silent
English intertitles
Budget $1.5 million[1]
Box office $4.2 million[1][2]
The Ten Commandments is a 1923 American silent religious epic film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Written by Jeanie MacPherson, the film is divided into two parts: a prologue recreating the biblical story of the Exodus and a modern story concerning two brothers and their respective views of the Ten Commandments.
Lauded for its "immense and stupendous" scenes, use of Technicolor process 2, and parting of the Red Sea sequence,[3] the expensive film proved to be a box-office hit upon release.[4] It is the first in DeMille's biblical trilogy, followed by The King of Kings (1927) and The Sign of the Cross (1932).
The Ten Commandments is one of many works from 1923 that entered the public domain in the United States in 2019.[5]
Plot
Duration: 2 hours, 16 minutes and 13 seconds.2:16:13
The Ten Commandments
The film has two parts: the Prologue, the epic tale of Moses; and the Story, in a modern setting and involving living by the Ten Commandments.
The prologue
The opening statement explains that modern society mocked Judeo-Christian morality until it witnessed the horrors of World War I; it then beseeches the viewer to return to the Commandments, calling them "the fundamental principles without which mankind cannot live together. They are not laws—they are the LAW." From there, the Book of Exodus is recounted, starting just after the ninth plague.
After their flight from Egypt, and the Crossing of the Red Sea, Moses climbs Mount Sinai and witnesses the Commandments given as writing in the sky, which he then carves into stone tablets. When he returns, he finds the Israelites have fallen into debauchery and built a golden calf to worship. Furiously, he smashes the Commandments, deeming the Israelites unworthy. An Israelite man and woman seducing each other find, to the horror of both, that the woman has hideous sores covering her hands and is unclean, prompting her to beg Moses to be cleansed. Moses calls on God's power and lightning destroys the calf.
The story
Two brothers, John and Dan McTavish, live with their mother Martha, a believer in Biblical inerrancy. The two brothers make opposite decisions; John follows his mother's teaching of the Commandments, becoming a carpenter living on meager earnings, and Dan, now an avowed atheist who is convinced the Commandments offer him nothing, vows to break every one of them and rise to the top.
Martha evicts Dan from her house. He stops at a lunch wagon. There, Mary, an impoverished but beautiful young woman, steals a bite of Dan's sandwich, triggering a madcap chase after her. She takes refuge in the McTavish house, where John convinces his mother to take Mary in for the night. John also convinces Dan to set aside his grievance and stay; he introduces Dan to Mary. Dan quickly wins Mary over with his freewheeling ways. Martha's strict observance of the Sabbath causes friction when Dan and Mary dance on Sunday, and, although John tries to convince his mother to show grace, Dan and Mary decide it's time to run off together.
Three years later, Dan has become a corrupt contractor. He earns a contract to build a massive cathedral and decides to cut the amount of cement in the concrete to dangerously low levels, pocketing the money saved and becoming very rich. He puts John, still a bachelor, in charge of construction, hoping to use him to provide her mother the gifts that she refuses to accept from Dan. Dan cheats on Mary with Sally, a Eurasian adulteress. One day, Martha visits John at his work site; a wall collapses on her. Fatally injured, with her last words, she tells Dan she spent too much time trying to teach fear, not love, of God.
Now out of money, Dan learns a muckraker tabloid threatens to expose his operation. His business partner recommends a $25,000 bribe to stop publication, but lacking the funds, Dan instead attempts suicide – his partner stops him, solely because he refuses to take the fall alone, and demands the money. He goes to Sally's brothel to take back expensive pearls he gave her, but Sally refuses, revealing she smuggled herself into the country from Molokai through a contraband jute shipment and is thus infected with leprosy, likely infecting Dan as well. In a rage, he kills Sally and attempts to flee to Mexico on a motorboat (Defiance), but rough weather sends him off course and he crashes into a rocky island. His dead body is among the wreckage. Mary, fearing herself also infected, stops by John's office to say goodbye, but John insists on taking her in. As he reads Mary the New Testament story of Jesus healing the lepers (re-enacted on screen, with Jesus shown only from behind), a light shows Mary's hands not to be scarred at all, and that her perceived scars had disappeared in the light.
Throughout the film, the visual motif of the commandments' tablets appears in the sets, with a particular commandment appearing on them when relevant to the story.
Cast
Prologue
Theodore Roberts as Moses, The Lawgiver
Charles De Roche as Rameses, The Magnificent
Estelle Taylor as Miriam, The Sister of Moses
Julia Faye as The Wife of Pharaoh
Pat Moore (billed as Terrence Moore) as The Son of Pharaoh
James Neill as Aaron, Brother of Moses
Lawson Butt as Dathan, The Discontented
Clarence Burton as The Taskmaster
Noble Johnson as The Bronze Man
Story
Edythe Chapman as Mrs. Martha McTavish
Richard Dix as John McTavish, her son
Rod La Rocque as Dan McTavish, her son
Leatrice Joy as Mary Leigh
Nita Naldi as Sally Lung, a Eurasian
Robert Edeson as Redding, an Inspector
Charles Ogle as The Doctor
Agnes Ayres as The Outcast
Production
The idea for the film was based upon the winning submission to a contest in which the public suggested ideas for DeMille's next film.[2] The winner was F. C. Nelson of Lansing, Michigan; the first line of his suggestion read: "You cannot break the Ten Commandments—they will break you."[2] Production on the film started on May 21, 1923, and ended on August 16, 1923.[2]
Writing
The four main characters of the modern story (from left to right): John McTavish, a carpenter; his mother, Mrs. Martha McTavish; his sister-in-law, Mary Leigh; and his brother, Dan McTavish
Jeanie MacPherson, the film's screenwriter, first thought to "interpret the Commandments in episodic form".[2] Both she and DeMille eventually decided on an unusual two-part screenplay: a biblical prologue and a modern story demonstrating the consequences of breaking the Ten Commandments.[2] In a treatment for the film, MacPherson described the four main characters of the modern story:
There are four people in the modern story of The Ten Commandments, and they view these Commandments in four different ways. There is Mrs. McTavish, the mother, who keeps the Commandments the wrong way. She is narrow. She is bigoted. She is bound with ritual. She is a representative of orthodoxy, yet withal she is a fine, clean, strong woman just like dozens we all know.
There is a girl, Mary Leigh, who doesn't bother about the Ten Commandments at all. She is a good kid, but she has spent so much time working that she hasn't learned the Ten Commandments...
Dan McTavish knows the Ten Commandments, but defies them.
John McTavish is a garden variety of human being, which believes the Ten Commandments as unchanging, immutable laws of the universe. He is not a sissy or a goody-goody, he is a regular fellow, an ideal type of man of high and steadfast principles, who believes the Commandments are as practicable in 1923 as they were in the time of Moses.[2]
Filming
The Gates of Rameses in one of the film's Technicolor sequences
The Exodus scenes were filmed at the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes in northern Santa Barbara County.[2] The film location was originally chosen because its immense sand dunes provided a superficial resemblance to the Egyptian desert. Rumor had it that after the filming was complete, the massive sets – which included four 35-foot-tall (11 m) Pharaoh statues, 21 sphinxes, and gates reaching a height of 110 feet, which were built by a small army of 1,600 workers – were dynamited and buried in the sand. Instead, the wind, rain and sand at the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes likely collapsed and buried a large part of the set under the ever-shifting dunes. The statues and sphinxes are in roughly the same place they were during filming. In 2012, archaeologists uncovered the head of one of the prop sphinxes; a 2014 recovery effort showed the body of that sphinx to have deteriorated significantly, but a second better-preserved sphinx was discovered and excavated.[6][7] The effort to locate and excavate the set was the subject of a 2016 documentary, The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille.[8][full citation needed]
The parting of the Red Sea scene was shot in Seal Beach, California.[9] The visual effect of keeping the walls of water apart while the Israelites walked through was accomplished with a slab of Jell-O that was sliced in two and filmed close up as it jiggled. This shot was then combined with live-action footage of Israelites walking into the distance to create the illusion.[10][11]
Portions of the modern story were filmed in San Francisco, with the cathedral building sequence filmed at the then under construction Sts. Peter and Paul Church on Filbert Street and the adjoining Washington Square.
Release
Distributed by Paramount Pictures, The Ten Commandments premiered at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre (in Hollywood) on December 4, 1923.[12][13]
Critical response
Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt in one of the film's Technicolor sequences
On its release, critics praised The Ten Commandments overall; however, the part of the film set in modern times received mixed reviews.[14] Variety, for example, declared the opening scenes alone worth the admission price, but found the remainder of the film disappointing by comparison: "The opening Biblical scenes of The Ten Commandments are irresistible in their assembly, breadth, color and direction [...] They are immense and stupendous, so big the modern tale after that seems puny."[3]
According to the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 86% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 7 reviews, with an average rating of 6.7/10.[15]
Box office
The Ten Commandments became the highest-grossing film of 1923. The film's box-office returns held the Paramount revenue record for 25 years until it was broken by other DeMille films.[4] The film competed at the box office with Fox's The Shepherd King, and won out overall.
Ban in China
The movie was banned in the 1930s in China under a category of "superstitious films" due to its religious subject matter involving gods and deities.[16]
Remake
Main article: The Ten Commandments (1956 film)
DeMille directed a second, expanded version of the biblical story in 1956. For the later version, DeMille dropped the modern-day storyline in favor of profiling more of Moses' early life. In 2006, the 1923 film was released on DVD as an extra feature on the 50th Anniversary DVD release of the 1956 film. In the DVD commentary with Katherine Orrison included with the 1923 film, she states that DeMille refilmed several sequences nearly shot-for-shot for the new version, and also had set pieces constructed for the later film that were near-duplicates of what he had used in 1923.[17] On March 29, 2011, Paramount released a new Blu-ray Disc with the 6-disc box set.[18]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ten_Commandments_(1923_film)
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A Burlesque on Carmen (1915) Full Film - Charlie Chaplin
A Burlesque on Carmen is Charlie Chaplin's thirteenth film for Essanay Studios, originally released as Carmen on December 18, 1915. Chaplin played the leading man and Edna Purviance played Carmen. The film is a parody of Cecil B. DeMille's Carmen 1915, which was itself an interpretation of the popular novella Carmen by Prosper Mérimée.[1]
Chaplin's original version was a tightly paced two-reeler, but in 1916 after he had moved to Mutual, Essanay reworked the film into a four-reel version called A Burlesque on Carmen, or Charlie Chaplin's Burlesque on Carmen, adding discarded footage and new scenes involving a subplot about a gypsy character played by Ben Turpin.[1] This longer version was deeply flawed in pacing and continuity, and not representative of Chaplin's initial conception. Chaplin sued Essanay but failed to stop the distribution of the longer version; Essanay's tampering with this and other of his films contributed significantly to Chaplin's bitterness about his time there. The presence of Essanay's badly redone version is likely the reason that A Burlesque on Carmen is among the least known of Chaplin's early works. Historian Ted Okuda calls the two-reel original version the best film of Chaplin's Essanay period, but derides the longer version as the worst.[2]
Further reissues followed, for instance a synchronized sound version in 1928 by Quality Amusement Corporation. It was re-edited from the 1916 Essanay reissue, with a newly shot introduction written by newspaper columnist Duke Bakrak. This version, with rewritten title cards, poor sequencing, and "fuzzy" in appearance from generation loss, can be found today on some budget home video releases.[1] Film preservationist David Shepard studied Chaplin's court transcripts and other evidence to more closely reproduce the original Chaplin cut.[2] This version was released on DVD by Image Entertainment in 1999[3] and has since been restored a second time in HD.[4]
Background
The story of Carmen was very popular in the 1910s, and two films under this title were released earlier in 1915. One was directed by Raoul Walsh, in which stage actress Theda Bara played Carmen, and the other by Cecil B. DeMille, in which the part was played by opera star Geraldine Farrar.[1] DeMille's film received positive reviews[5] but Chaplin thought it was ripe for parody.
Synopsis
1916 advertisement
Carmen, a gypsy seductress is sent to convince Darn Hosiery, the goofy officer in charge of guarding one of the entrances to the city of Sevilla, to allow a smuggling run. She first tries to bribe him but he takes the money and refused to let the smuggled goods in.
She then invites him to Lillas Pastia's inn where she seduces him. After a fight at the tobacco factory where Carmen works, he has to arrest her but later lets her escape. At Lillas Pastia's inn, he kills an officer who is also in love with her and has to go into hiding and he joins the gang of smugglers.
Carmen meets the famous toreador Escamillo and falls in love with him. She accompanies him to a bullfight but Darn Hosiery waits for her and when she tells him that she no longer loves him, he stabs her to death. But it is not for real, Chaplin shows that the knife was fake and both smile at the camera.
Review
In reviewing the four-reel version of this film that Essanay released in April 1916, four months after Chaplin's contract had expired with the studio, Julian Johnson of Photoplay panned the lengthy re-release of this comedy. Johnson declared, "In two reels this would be a characteristic Chaplin uproar. Four reels is watering the cream."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Burlesque_on_Carmen
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Plane Crazy (1929) - Full Film
Plane Crazy is a 1928 American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. The cartoon, released by the Walt Disney Studios, was the first Mickey Mouse film produced, and was originally a silent film. It was given a test screening to a theater audience on May 15, 1928, and an executive from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer saw the film, but failed to pick up a distributor. Later that year, Disney released Mickey's first sound cartoon, Steamboat Willie, which was an enormous success. Apart from that, Plane Crazy was released again as a sound cartoon on March 17, 1929.[1][2] It was the fourth Mickey film to be given a wide release after Steamboat Willie, The Gallopin' Gaucho and The Barn Dance (1929).
Plot
Mickey is trying to fly an airplane to imitate Charles Lindbergh. After building his own airplane, he does a flight simulation to ensure that the plane is safe for flight, but the flight fails, destroying the plane. Using a roadster and the remains of his plane to create another plane, he asks his girlfriend Minnie to join him for its first flight after she presents him with a horseshoe for good luck. They take an out-of-control flight with exaggerated, impossible situations. Clarabelle Cow briefly "rides" the aircraft.[4] Mickey uses a turkey's tail as a tail for his plane. Once he regains control of the plane, he repeatedly tries to kiss Minnie. When she refuses, he uses force: he breaks her concentration and terrifies her by throwing her out of the airplane, catching her with the airplane, and he uses this to kiss her. Minnie responds by slapping Mickey and parachutes out of the plane using her bloomers. While distracted by her, Mickey loses control of the plane and eventually crashes into a tree. Minnie then lands, and Mickey laughs at her exposed bloomers. Minnie then storms off, rebuffing him. Mickey then angrily throws the good luck horseshoe given to him by Minnie, and it boomerangs around a tree, hitting him, ringing around his neck, and knocking him out; this causes stars to fly out toward the screen, with one of the stars filling the screen up, ending the film.[5]
Production
The short was co-directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. Iwerks was also the sole animator for this short and spent just two weeks working on it in a back room, at a rate of over 700 drawings a day.[6] It is also speculated Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising might have done work for the short as well.[7][8] The sound version contained a soundtrack by Carl W. Stalling, who recorded it on October 26, 1928, when he was hired, and a month before Steamboat Willie was released.[9]
This was the first animated film to use a camera move. The point of view shot from the plane made it appear as if the camera was tracking into the ground.[10] In fact, when they shot this scene, they piled books under the spinning background to move the artwork closer to the camera.[citation needed]
Reception
The Film Daily (March 24, 1929): "Clever. Mickey Mouse does his animal antics in the latest mode via areoplane. [sic] The cartoonist has employed his usual ingenuity to extract a volume of laughs that are by no means confined to the juveniles. The sound effects are particularly appropriate on this type of film, and certainly add greatly to the comedy angle with the absurd squeaks, yawps and goofy noises."[11]
Variety (April 3, 1929): "Walt Disney sound cartoon, produced by Powers Cinephone, one of the Mickey Mouse series of animated cartoons. It's a snappy six minutes, with plenty of nonsensical action and a fitting musical accompaniment. Constitutes an amusingly silly interlude for any wired house. Disney has derived some breezy situations, one or two of them a bit saucy but, considering the animal characters, permissible."[12]
Home media
The short was released on December 2, 2002 on Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Black and White[13] and on December 11, 2007 on Walt Disney Treasures: The Adventures of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.[14]
Copyright and preservation status
The silent version was copyrighted on May 26, 1928, eleven days after it was test screened.[15] The copyright for the silent version was renewed on March 14, 1956.[16] To this day, the silent version that premiered at the test screening has not been found by Disney. The sound version, however, is available. It was copyrighted on August 9, 1930 and was renewed on December 16, 1957,[17] however, the copyright of the film says 1929 (MCMXXIX).
The sound version of the film will go in the public domain in 2025 in the United States according to current U.S. copyright law.
Legacy
In 1930, the story of Plane Crazy was adapted and used for the first story in the Mickey Mouse comic strip. This adaptation, entitled "Lost on a Desert Island," was written by Walt Disney with art by Ub Iwerks and Win Smith.[18]
In the Mickey Mouse short The Nifty Nineties (1941), Mickey and Minnie's car runs out of control and runs into a cow. The scene was taken almost directly from Plane Crazy.
The cartoon Mickey's Airplane Kit (1999) from the series Mickey Mouse Works and House of Mouse featured a similar premise in which Mickey built his own airplane to impress Minnie.
In the feature film Walt Before Mickey, Plane Crazy was featured.[19]
Plane Crazy plays in a continuous loop in the Main Street Cinema at Disneyland, albeit silently, next to Steamboat Willie.[20]
The airplane, horseshoe, and "How to Fly" book are on display as props from Plane Crazy in the queue of the Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway attraction at Disneyland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane_Crazy
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VICE: The Islamic State - Full Documentary
Aug 14, 2014
The Islamic State, a hardline Sunni jihadist group that formerly had ties to al Qaeda, has conquered large swathes of Iraq and Syria. Previously known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the group has announced its intention to reestablish the caliphate and has declared its leader, the shadowy Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as the caliph.
The lightning advances the Islamic State made across Syria and Iraq in June shocked the world. But it's not just the group's military victories that have garnered attention — it's also the pace with which its members have begun to carve out a viable state.
Flush with cash and US weapons seized during its advances in Iraq, the Islamic State's expansion shows no sign of slowing down. In the first week of August alone, Islamic State fighters have taken over new areas in northern Iraq, encroaching on Kurdish territory and sending Christians and other minorities fleeing as reports of massacres emerged.
VICE News reporter Medyan Dairieh spent three weeks embedded with the Islamic State, gaining unprecedented access to the group in Iraq and Syria as the first and only journalist to document its inner workings.
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Man In The Red Bandana - Full Documentary (Narrated by Gwyneth Paltrow)
Aug 31, 2021 #September11 #Documentary #FullMovie
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Charlie Chaplin - The Circus (1928) Full Film
The Circus is a 1928 silent romantic comedy film written, produced, and directed by Charlie Chaplin. The film stars Chaplin, Al Ernest Garcia, Merna Kennedy, Harry Crocker, George Davis and Henry Bergman. The ringmaster of an impoverished circus hires Chaplin's Little Tramp as a clown, but discovers that he can only be funny unintentionally.
The production of the film was the most difficult experience in Chaplin's career. Numerous problems and delays occurred, including a studio fire, the death of Chaplin's mother, as well as Chaplin's bitter divorce from his second wife Lita Grey, and the Internal Revenue Service's claims of Chaplin's owing back taxes, all of which culminated in filming being stalled for eight months.[2] The Circus was the seventh-highest grossing silent film in cinema history taking in more than $3.8 million in 1928.[1] The film continues to receive high praise.
Plot
At a circus midway, the penniless and hungry Tramp is mistaken for a pickpocket and chased by both the police and the real crook (the latter having stashed a stolen wallet and watch in the Tramp's pocket to avoid detection). Running away, the Tramp stumbles into the middle of a performance and unknowingly becomes the hit of the show.
The ringmaster/proprietor of the struggling circus gives him a tryout the next day, but the Tramp fails miserably. However, when the property men quit because they have not been paid, he gets hired on the spot to take their place. Once again, he inadvertently creates comic mayhem during a show. The ringmaster craftily hires him as a poorly paid property man who is always stationed in the performance area of the big top tent so he can unknowingly improvise comic material.
The Tramp befriends Merna, a horse rider who is treated badly by her ringmaster stepfather. She later informs the Tramp that he is the star of the show, forcing the ringmaster to pay him accordingly. With the circus thriving because of him, the Tramp also is able to secure better treatment for Merna.
After overhearing a fortune teller inform Merna that she sees "love and marriage with a dark, handsome man who is near you now", the overjoyed Tramp buys a ring from another clown. Alas for him, she meets Rex, the newly hired tightrope walker. The Tramp eavesdrops as she rushes to tell the fortune teller that she has fallen in love with the new man. With his heart broken, the Tramp is unable to entertain the crowds. After several poor performances, the ringmaster warns him he has only one more chance.
When Rex cannot be found for a performance, the ringmaster (knowing that the Tramp has been practicing the tightrope act in hopes of supplanting his rival) sends the Tramp out in his place. Despite a few mishaps, including several mischievous escaped monkeys, he manages to survive the experience and receives much applause from the audience. However, when he sees the ringmaster slapping Merna around afterward, he beats the man and is fired.
Merna runs away to join him. The Tramp finds and brings Rex back with him to marry Merna. The trio go back to the circus. The ringmaster starts berating his stepdaughter, but stops when Rex informs him that she is his wife. When the traveling circus leaves, the Tramp remains behind. He picks himself up and starts walking jauntily away.
Cast
Charlie Chaplin as The Tramp
Al Ernest Garcia as The Circus Proprietor and Ringmaster
Merna Kennedy as The Ringmaster's Step-daughter, a Circus Rider
Harry Crocker as Rex, a Tight Rope Walker (also a disgruntled property man and a clown)
Henry Bergman as an Old Clown
Tiny Sandford as The Head Property Man (as Stanley J. Sandford)
John Rand as an Assistant Property Man (also a clown)
George Davis as a Magician
Steve Murphy as a Pickpocket
Production
Development
Chaplin first began discussing his ideas for a film about a circus as early as 1920.[3] In late 1925, he returned from New York to California and began working on developing the film at Charlie Chaplin Studios. Set designer Danny Hall sketched out Chaplin's early ideas for the film, with Chaplin returning to one of his older films, The Vagabond (1916), and drawing upon similar story ideas and themes for The Circus.[4][5] Chaplin was a long time admirer of French comedian Max Linder, who had died in October 1925, and often borrowed gags and plot devices from Linder's films. Some critics have pointed out the similarities between The Circus and Linder's last completed film The King of the Circus.[6]
Filming
Filming began on January 11, 1926 and the majority was completed by November.[7][8] After the first month of filming, it was discovered that the film negative had been scratched; restoration work was able to eventually adjust the negative.[9] A major fire broke out at Chaplin's studios in September, delaying production for a month.[9][10] Chaplin was served with divorce papers by Lita Grey in December, and litigation delayed the release of the film for another year.
Release
The Circus finally premiered in New York City on January 6, 1928, at the Strand Theatre,[11] and in Los Angeles on January 27 at the Grauman's Chinese Theatre.[12] It came right at the beginning of the sound film era,[13] with the very first feature sound film, The Jazz Singer (1927), having been released just months earlier.
Chaplin composed a new score for the film in 1967, and this new version of the film (see below) was copyrighted in 1968 to "The Roy Export Company Establishment" and released in 1969.
Reception
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The Circus was well received by audiences and critics, and while its performance at the box office was good, it earned less than The Gold Rush (1925).[14] Some critics consider it and The Gold Rush to be Chaplin's two best comedies.[15]
In The New York Times, Mordaunt Hall reported that it was "likely to please intensely those who found something slightly wanting in The Gold Rush, but at the same time it will prove a little disappointing to those who reveled in the poetry, the pathos and fine humor of his previous adventure." Hall went on to write that there were passages "that are undoubtedly too long and others that are too extravagant for even this blend of humor. But Chaplin's unfailing imagination helps even when the sequence is obviously slipping from grace."[16]
Variety ran a very positive review, stating that "For the picture patrons, all of them, and for broad, laughable fun - Chaplin's best. It's Charlie Chaplin's best fun maker for other reasons: because it is the best straightaway story he has employed for broad film making, and because here his fun stuff is nearly all entirely creative or original in the major point."[17]
Commenting on the long wait for the film's release, Film Daily wrote that "it was worth it, for, if you are prone to favor superlatives here is an opportunity to coin several fresh ones" and that Chaplin was "as inimitable today as he was in the days of his two-reelers."[18]
In The New Yorker, Oliver Claxton wrote that the film was "a little disappointing. There are one or two moments when it is very funny, but there are long stretches when it is either mild or dull."[19]
Analysis
Film historian Jeffrey Vance views The Circus as an autobiographical metaphor:
He joins the circus and revolutionizes the cheap little knockabout comedy among the circus clowns, and becomes an enormous star. But by the end of the movie, the circus is packing up and moving on without him. Chaplin's left alone in the empty circus ring... It reminds me of Chaplin and his place in the world of the cinema. The show is moving on without him. He filmed that sequence four days after the release of The Jazz Singer (the first successful talkie) in New York. When he put a score to The Circus in 1928, Chaplin scored that sequence with "Blue Skies", the song Jolson had made famous, only Chaplin played it slowly and sorrowfully, like a funeral dirge.[20]
In his commentary track for the Criterion Collection home video release of the film, Vance notes:
Chaplin—a great cinema auteur—revealed his innermost feelings through his films. In The Circus, he fashioned a scenario that places The Tramp within the confines of a circus and, in so doing, documents, celebrates, and memorializes his own position as the greatest clown of his time. And, that accomplishment—beyond the wonderful comedy—ranks The Circus a major Chaplin film of considerable importance.[21]
Musical rescoring
In 1947, Hanns Eisler worked on music for the film. Eisler then used the music he composed for his Septet No. 2 ("Circus") for flute and piccolo, clarinet in B flat, bassoon, and string quartet. Eisler's sketch of scene sequences and rhythms is in the Hans Eisler Archive in Berlin.[22]
In 1967, Chaplin composed a new musical score for the film and a recording of him singing "Swing Little Girl" playing over the opening credits.[23] A new version of the film opened in New York on December 15, 1969, with the new score.[24] It was released in London in December 1970.[25]
Awards
Charlie Chaplin was originally nominated for three Academy Awards, but the Academy took Chaplin out of the running by giving him a Special Award "for writing, acting, directing and producing The Circus."[25][26] The Academy no longer lists Chaplin's nominations in their official list of nominees, although most unofficial lists include him.[27]
Academy Award Nominee
Best Director, Comedy Picture Charlie Chaplin
Best Actor Charlie Chaplin
Best Writing (Original Story) Charlie Chaplin
Preservation
The Academy Film Archive preserved The Circus in 2002.[28]
Home media
The Circus was released on Blu-ray and DVD by the Criterion Collection in 2019, which include trailers of the film, archival footage from the production, and an audio commentary track by Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance.[21]
The film's copyright was renewed, so it will not go into the public domain until 2024.[29]
Legacy
The iconic image of the Tramp walking alone but jauntily into the distance that concluded several of Chaplin's earlier shorts, appears here for the first and only time in any of his feature-length film. (Modern Times had the Tramp with a companion.)
The closing scene from The Circus is shown as the ending in both the 1992 biopic Chaplin and a 2021 documentary, The Real Charlie Chaplin.
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the
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world welcome to the special program as
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the war on Gaza continues to escalate
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the president of the Islamic Republic of
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Iran Ibrahim talks to
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alaz president Ibrahim RI thank you for
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talking to Al jaaz at the outset
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straight to the war on Gaza as it nears
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almost an entire month and as the
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president of the Islamic Republic of
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Iran how do you interpret what is taking
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place in Gaza at all
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levels in the name of Allah Almighty at
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the very beginning I'd like to salute
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all the viewers and wishing them success
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the news in our region is not good
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enough and it hurts anyone whatever his
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religion is anyone with conscience what
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we see in the region must be a trigger
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to everyone who have thought and uh who
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has
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opinion killing of women and children
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are supported by the United States and
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some European countries we can say that
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the world peoples in the world and are
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in one side and the US Administration
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and some other European countries with
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the Zionist regime is on another side
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concentration on this matter is quite
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important in order to know why this zist
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regime is committing the massacres
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against the Palestinian people the ones
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who live in their homes on their land
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those who resist and they are still
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resilient and are ready to die for the
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cause to be
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martyrs these zist regime is not fair
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against against the Palestinians for 75
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years or more the Zionist regime killed
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a lot of Palestinians put them in prison
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tortured them and took and confiscated
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the land and the
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houses the Palestinian cause shows the
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unfairness imposed by the iselis regime
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on the Palestinian people and the
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peoples of the
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region does the Z regime succeed to lead
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the Palestinian to surrender no what
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happened during the alaka flood is the
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result of year of torture and unfairness
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they resist and they defend Al AA mosque
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they were put in prison every day we
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have a Marty or martys and every day
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house is demolished and the result this
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anger and rage will turn into a
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resistance move movement and Al AA flood
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the Zionist regime is fake and Against
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Humanity the United States of America
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that claims commitment to the human
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rights cannot justify this torture this
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unfairness cannot justify they are
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providing the zus regime with weapons we
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can understand from the resilience of
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the Palestinian people is that they are
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uh resistant and they are strong at the
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same time the Palestinian people as the
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cribe today is a people who is capable
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and able but they are not treating
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fairly and the resistance and the
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Palestinian people will succeed such a
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resistance such a will will lead
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undoubtedly to the victory War today is
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the war of Wills there is the will of
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the people the will who is treat being
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treated unfairly under the unfairness of
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Israel and the United States and there
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are the will of the uh settlers and the
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will of unfairness in represented in
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Israel America and some other European
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countries in this war there is no doubt
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that the Iron Will of the Palestinians
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will win and the future will be for
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Palestine and the
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Palestinians Israel considers Iran as a
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partner with Hamas and the resistance
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from a historical perspective do you
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consider yourself I mean Iran a partner
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with the Palestinian resistance namely
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with the events on October 7th known as
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the alaxa storm
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operation the forces of the resistance
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are from inside the Palestinian people
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from inside Lebanon or any other place
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in the region they are youth and people
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who are get fed and sick of the
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unfairness the resistance in
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Palestine is a group of people from
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within the Palestinian people they are
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Weare enough they are aware of the
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situation and they want to defend their
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people and their land the defense is
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legitimate and we support such a
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legitimate defense they defend their
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people their land and their rights we
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have stressed so many times that we
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support the Palestinian resistance
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because they are trying to restore the
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rights of of the Palestinians if the
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resistance forces in Gaza are support by
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Iran yes this has been confirmed so many
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times from our side and Imam Ali said
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every
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unfair is
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torture and the unfairness and the
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torture will come to an end end of the
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day this unfairness will go away and
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what will stay is the right they cannot
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ignore forever the right of the
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Palestinian people Iran is a defender of
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the Palestinian resistance against the
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tortur and the unfairness people but if
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you mean if the resistance in any place
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remove is this due to a command or an
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order from the Iran they are free to
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take their decisions and to do their
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things and the answer is no the
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resistance adopt the decisions that suit
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them and they are pre they are doing
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their decisions making their decisions
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executing their decisions according to
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their benefit and according to their
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understanding and then it's up to them
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as announced all over the place the
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resistance in Palestine the resistance
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other places in the region are supported
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by us we support them but the decisions
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are theirs and the action is there this
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will be the situation today and in the
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future Iran represented by its foreign
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minister initiated its active diplomacy
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making efforts at a broader level with
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the Arab countries and the Muslim states
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with the aim of a unified regional
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position calling for a ceasefire
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delivery of relief Aid opening of border
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crossings and you received several calls
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from the lead of Arab and Muslim
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countries within the context of these
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diplomatic Endeavors you also
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communicated with the Amir of qat how
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these efforts bearing any
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fruit the Palestinian issue is the issue
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of the Islamic world the first issue of
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the Islamic World liberating Jerusalem
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and liberating
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are the most important issues in the
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mind of the Muslim World our relations
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with the Muslim countries Muslim
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presidents Muslim foreign ministers is
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to cooperate together regarding this
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very important matter the Palestinian
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issue is a necessity the war the recent
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War this current War at the beginning we
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had contacts in order to Gap uh the
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different uh views and today it's
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undoubtedly it's quite known and quite
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understood by everyone that we need to
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have a ceasefire and to stop the blocade
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and Siege against Gaza everyone is
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interested in giving Gaza the
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humanitarian re that they need this is
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why the cooperation must be there to
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reach a Seas fire as soon as we can this
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can be only done through negotiations
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and consult consultations we all agreed
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about that and this must be done very
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quickly on the other hand the United
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States is one of the parties that are a
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sort of an obstacle to this Seas fire
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some other European countries as well
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are an obstacle in this regard the
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United Nation General Assembly has
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announced the voting uh for an immediate
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his fire the entire world has voted for
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that except certain countries this means
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that the world the peoples this world
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are in bad need to have this SE fire
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they are for this fire when the US and
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some European countries oppose the ceas
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fire this means that the women and
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children will be continuously targeted
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we have seen people with no sin uh being
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killed every hour this means that the US
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and some European countries and theist
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regime that commit these crimes they are
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have their hand and there is blood in
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their hand these massacres will never be
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recorded under the name of the Zionist
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regime but under the name of everyone
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who supports the Zionist regime all
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countries support the ceasefire and all
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countries want to send humanitarian
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relief and Aid to Palestinians but the
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US is against this some European
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countries that signed a join statement
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with the United States must be
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responsible in the of God in the eyes of
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the peoples of the world in the eyes of
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the history about these crimes that's
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why we in our foreign policy believe in
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cooperation with the neighbor countries
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and with Islamic countries in the region
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and outside the region to have this
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unified stand and situation we have this
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conest now the international world is
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against the Zionist regime and we need
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to continue our talks our contact to
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follow everything in order for the
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countries who have similar situations to
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follow up the matter and to achieve the
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demands of the Palestinian people the
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peoples of the world and the peoples who
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went to the street against the American
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Injustice and the Zionist Injustice and
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they are support the Palestinian people
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are everywhere this must be achieved
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quickly let me ask you what are the red
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lines which if crossed by Israel we will
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then see a different policy adopted by
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Iran you must have had readed lines
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concerning what has been happening in
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Gaza for more than 3 weeks Israel's
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indiscriminate bombardment of innocent
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civilians in the
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strip the events in Gaza all these
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events are
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red lines the zist regime is crossing
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all the red lines killing more than
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3,000 child is not accepted at all under
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any circumstances killing women
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attacking hospitals and churches and
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mosques and all the medical centers is
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not accepted at all how many journalists
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have lost their lives because of the
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crime of the Zionist regime I have heard
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about the uh journalist the Palestinian
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journalist who works for jazer this one
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has seen by himself the killing of his
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beloved ones but he is still solid and
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resilient and he said that the family
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lost the lives for the sake of
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Palestine Allah is our
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helper this is a precious thing the
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young boy who
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was standing over the head of his late
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brother the Palestinian children women
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the elderly in Palestine are believers
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and are ready to lost their lives for
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the sake of the territories in the land
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they are solid and they are
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resilient no logic can accept the
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killing of this number of journalists
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this is a red line everywhere in the
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world journalists are doing their job
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journalists are being killed by the zus
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regime so as not to convey the proper
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message to the entire world they knock
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out the communication and the internet
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so as not the people of the world cannot
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understand what's going on but the
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peoples of the world are now very aware
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protests are against the regime
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everywhere among people from the Arab
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and Muslim World some criticize Iran
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others blame Iran and others attack your
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policy concerning that you're a regional
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superpower with an agenda in the region
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and the resistance is part of that if
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Iran claims to be big brother to this
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initiative those who criticize you say
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Iran has not taken any tangible military
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action to support the resistance in Gaza
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are there any actions taken but not
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disclosed or has the decision been left
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to the Commander in charge for the right
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moment
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today the United States provides theous
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regime with all equipment and weapons
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and they asked the resistance movements
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in the region not to do anything that's
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why I'm saying the resistance movement
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is a movement from within the people
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from within the ones who want to defend
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the country this question must be given
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to those who criticize Iran this should
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be to them the legitimate action of the
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resistance in Palestine is all right
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3,000 child have been killed so the
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question must be given to them those who
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criticize Iran or impose questions on
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this regard must be asked and must ask
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themselves why you in Iran defend the
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peoples who want the freedom and who
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defend their country and the
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nation
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we have announced so many times that we
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support the resistance in Palestine and
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in the regime the Muslim and independent
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countries must defend the Palestinian
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resistance and except those who are
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under the control of the US and some
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other European countries who have played
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a role in the establishment of the
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Zionist regime we need to support the
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resistance financially and politically
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look at the Palestinian resistance how
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resilient they are how solid they are in
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the face of the aggression they are very
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resilient and they are very strong and
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the question is valid for those who
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pretend for the countries who pretend
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and claim they defend the human rights
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no one has ask anything from the
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resistance because the resistance
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Palestine have their own decision can
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make their own decisions they are being
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treated Injustice for 75 years one
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day they have worked for the liberation
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of the country and let's remember when
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six Arab countries have met to face the
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zist regime during The Six Day
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War
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America the US has sent several messages
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to Iran they say you should not get
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involved in this war on Gaza not to
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expand the battlefield do you take these
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messages as a warning or threatening
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what do you say to
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them what has been announced by the
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United States in their
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messages to the Iranians in order to
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convey them to the to the resistance in
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Palestine they were announced no secret
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the resistance forces have their own
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decisions and Iran is not giving the
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resistance any orders we tell America
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America has no right to give orders to
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the axis of resistance these resistance
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groups and movements are from within the
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Palestinian Society the Lebanese Society
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they can distinguish they can make a
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decision and Iran is not taking any
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decisions or making any decisions on
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their behalf the Americans must
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understand that we have informed them
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clearly and openly about that it's a
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matter that can cause a sort of
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confusion when America says to us and to
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the access of resistance don't adopt any
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uh procedures or don't do any Step at
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the same time America provides the zist
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regime with equipment and weapons and
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they expect the movement the resistance
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move
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not to do anything not to take an action
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the zist regime is using the American
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weapons against the women and the
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children in front of the entire world
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and America wants the resistance and the
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resistance Act of resistance not to do
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anything or not to launch any operation
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this is not acceptable at all Iran does
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not make a decision or take a decision
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in front of any resistance movement the
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movement have the right to make the
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decisions and to take the action that's
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why let me say clearly that the access
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of resistance is well supported by
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Iran why they don't help and support the
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resistance movement who defend
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legitimately the rights of the country
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in Freedom we have said that in our
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foreign policies we support everyone who
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defend his land and his Nation the
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question must be asked to the other
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people why the Zionist regime in the
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occupied territories is enjoying the
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best support of America and the West
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they are arrogant they are very arrogant
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but the resistance are based on logic
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and Justice and Islamic rules Islamic
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ethics the most important of which is to
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defend the land to defend the people to
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defend the nation all the countries in
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the world must support the resistance
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can anyone say that those who defend
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themselves must not be supported this is
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my question to those parties who don't
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support the resistance and why they
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don't support the resistance everyone
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has to defend his life his land and the
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one who targets the houses of the
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innocent must be questioned and must be
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lab
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finally Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu
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made it clear that the ultimate goal of
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the war on Gaza is to entirely eliminate
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Hamas and reshape the new Middle East as
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desired by Israel do you think Israel is
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capable of achieving this goal do you
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have a confrontation plan if this
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materializes on the ground especially if
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you support the AIS of resistance in the
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region
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theist regim has no ability the US has
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no ability to put an end to the
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resistance movement in the region the
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resistance is there within the souls of
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the people the resistance is there
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within the souls of the Palestinian
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people and uh mother who lost her child
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the child who lost his mother the father
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who lost his child the child who lost
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his father they have seen their lives
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destroyed and they are not ready to give
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to let down the resistance can anyone
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put an end to the resistance the
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resistance is not one group or one
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person the resilience to face the
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Injustice is all over the place and no
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one can
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delete this or can put an end to this
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this must be always in the in the mind
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of the US and the Zionist regime they
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have been treating the Palestinians in
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for 75 years with complete Injustice
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they thought they can put an end to the
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resistance through killing the
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Palestinians this will never happen they
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will never be able to kill their
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resistance we have seen during the last
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years that the more Injustice theist
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regime is the more resilient the
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resistance is it's stronger than any
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other time in the past they are
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defending the Palestinian people and
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every movement must defend the people
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the world countries give the people who
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defend their lands the right except the
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United States of America it is now
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isolated from the other world of the
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countries the resist
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work hard to defend their territories
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and we in Iran announced in our falling
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policies that we support their
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resistance Iran is a strong country and
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America knows that Iran the Muslim
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country is better than any other time
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before stronger than any other time
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before we depend on Allah Almighty we
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depend on our beloved people and we
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depend on our strength despite the
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threats there is a possibility big
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possibility in Iran big potential in
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Iran they know that our people have the
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will every country every people who
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wants Independence they must know that
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Independence will be achieved through
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facing Injustice America has
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miscalculated things in Iraq
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and other parts in the world the targets
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of America America has
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miscalculated in things in Iraq and in
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other parts of the world and they must
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understand that our strength is not only
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in our weapon our strength is is also in
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our logic and uh this why the peoples of
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the region love Iran our weapons is not
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the main reason behind our strength
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America has a lot of weapons we have
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weapons before the Revolution but Iran
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has an option in the region to deal with
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the peoples of the region because our
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message is Justice and Independence and
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that's why we support the resistance
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movement in Palestine and in the
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region Mr president thank you for
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talking to
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aler
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VICE: Embedded with Al-Qaeda in Syria: ISIS and al-Nusra - Full Documentary
Aug 14, 2014
The Islamic State, a hardline Sunni jihadist group that formerly had ties to al Qaeda, has conquered large swathes of Iraq and Syria. Previously known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the group has announced its intention to reestablish the caliphate and has declared its leader, the shadowy Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as the caliph.
The lightning advances the Islamic State made across Syria and Iraq in June shocked the world. But it's not just the group's military victories that have garnered attention — it's also the pace with which its members have begun to carve out a viable state.
Flush with cash and US weapons seized during its advances in Iraq, the Islamic State's expansion shows no sign of slowing down. In the first week of August alone, Islamic State fighters have taken over new areas in northern Iraq, encroaching on Kurdish territory and sending Christians and other minorities fleeing as reports of massacres emerged.
VICE News reporter Medyan Dairieh spent three weeks embedded with the Islamic State, gaining unprecedented access to the group in Iraq and Syria as the first and only journalist to document its inner workings.
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VICE: Crime & Punishment in the Gaza Strip with Suroosh Alvi - Full Documentary
Jul 10, 2012
We finally got a rare glimpse of the embattled Gaza Strip and a chance to see what life was like under the rule of Hamas. In 2007 we tried and failed to get into Gaza through the Israeli-controlled Erez Crossing. Back then the rival Palestinian factions of Hamas and Fatah were engaged in a bloody war for control of this tiny strip of land. Hamas won. When the post-Mubarak government of Egypt decided to start letting small numbers of folks into Gaza through their Rafah Crossing, we knew we could finally enter the region.
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Shams al-Ma'arif - The Most Dangerous Book in the World?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ReQjwHXoa4SAMIfM8L5JQaHjidYOCggs/view?pli=1
https://www.reddit.com/r/EsotericIslam/comments/hi236l/translation_shams_almaarif_the_book_of_the_sun_of/?rdt=48732
https://archive.org/details/ShamsAlMarif
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAzdgYl0-lQ
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Jinn Possession in the Islamic World
Premiered Oct 12, 2023 #jinn #middleeast #spirits
We begin this years Shocktober season with another video about jinn - specifically about jinn possession and exorcism in the Islamic world.
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Sources/Recomended Reading:
Al-Buni, Ahmad ibn ‘Ali. “The Sun of Knowledge (Shams al-Ma’arif): An Arabic Grimoire in Selected Translation”. Translated by Amina Inloes & Illustrated by J.M. Hamade. Revelore Press, 2021.
Henninger, Joseph (2004). "Beliefs in Spirits among the Pre-Islamic Arabs". In "Magic and Divination in Early Islam". Edited by Emile Savage-Smith. Ashgate Publishing Company.
Lebling, Robert & Tahir Shah (2014). "Legends of the Fire Spirits: Jinn and Genies from Arabia to Zanzibar. I.B. Tauris.
Melvin-Koushki, Matthew & Noah Gardner (2017). "Islamicate Occultism: New Perspectives". Brill.
Philips, Bilal (2008). "The Exorcist Tradition in Islam". Al-Hidaayah Publishing & Distribution.
Savage-Smith, Emily (ed.) (2004). "Magic & Divination in Early Islam". Ashgate Publishing.
“Shams al-Ma’arif al-Kubra”. Arabic Printed Edition by Dar al-Mizan.
"The Annotated Arabian Nights: Tales from 1001 Nights". Edited by Paulo Lemos Horta. Translated by Yasmine Seale. Liveright Publishing Corporation.
#jinn #middleeast #spirits
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First Youtube Video Wasnt Actually The First! "Me at the zoo"
Aug 6, 2020 #thetekkitrealm
"Me at the zoo" Wasn't the First YouTube Video...
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First Ever Youtube Video - Jawed At The Zoo
Apr 23, 2005 SAN DIEGO ZOO
Chapters:
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00:05 The cool thing
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw
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Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) Full Documentary
Fahrenheit 9/11 is a 2004 American documentary film directed, written by, and starring filmmaker, director, political commentator and activist Michael Moore.[2] The subjects of the film are the presidency of George W. Bush, the Iraq War, and the media's coverage of the war. In the film, Moore claims that American corporate media were cheerleaders for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and did not provide an accurate or objective analysis of the rationale for the war and the resulting casualties there.
The title of the film alludes to Ray Bradbury's 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451, a dystopian view of the future United States, drawing an analogy between the autoignition temperature of paper and the date of the September 11 attacks; one of the film's taglines was "The Temperature at Which Freedom Burns".
The film debuted at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, where it was awarded the Palme d'Or,[3] the festival's highest award. It received generally positive reviews from critics, but it also generated intense controversy, particularly including disputes over its accuracy. The film became the highest-grossing documentary of all time (later surpassed by Michael Jackson's This Is It), grossing over $220 million. A follow-up, titled Fahrenheit 11/9, about the presidency of Donald Trump, was released in September 2018.
Synopsis
The documentary begins by suggesting that friends and political allies of George W. Bush at Fox News Channel tilted the election of 2000 by prematurely declaring Bush the winner. It then suggests that the handling of the voting controversy in Florida constituted election fraud.
The documentary then segues into the September 11 attacks of 2001. Moore says Bush was informed of the first plane hitting the World Trade Center on his way to an elementary school in Florida. Bush is then shown sitting in an Emma E. Booker Elementary School classroom with children. When told that a second plane has crashed into the World Trade Center and that the nation is "under attack", Bush allows the students to finish their book reading, and Moore notes that he continued reading The Pet Goat for nearly seven minutes.
Moore then discusses the complex relationships between the U.S. government and the Bush family; and between the bin Laden family, the Saudi Arabian government, and the Taliban, which span over three decades. Moore then states that the United States government evacuated 24 members of the bin Laden family on a secret flight shortly after the attacks, without subjecting them to any form of interrogation.
Moore moves on to examine George W. Bush's Texas Air National Guard service record. Moore contends that Bush's dry-hole oil well attempts were partially funded by the Saudis and by the bin Laden family through the intermediary of James R. Bath, whose name is shown to have been blacked out from Bush's records. Moore alleges that these conflicts of interest suggest that the Bush administration does not serve the interests of Americans. The movie continues by suggesting ulterior motives for the War in Afghanistan, including a natural gas pipeline through Afghanistan to the Indian Ocean.
Moore alleges that the Bush administration induced a climate of fear among the American population through the mass media. Moore then describes purported anti-terror efforts, including government infiltration of pacifist groups and other events, and the signing of the USA PATRIOT Act.
The documentary then turns to the subject of the Iraq War, comparing the lives of the Iraqis before and after the invasion. The citizens of Iraq are portrayed as living relatively happy lives prior to the country's invasion by the U.S. Armed Forces. The film also takes pains to demonstrate war cheerleading in the U.S. media and general bias of journalists, with quotes from news organizations and embedded journalists. Moore suggests that atrocities will occur in Iraq and shows footage depicting U.S. abuse of prisoners.
Later in the film, Lila Lipscomb appears with her family after hearing of the death of her son, Sgt. Michael Pedersen, who was killed on April 2, 2003, in Karbala. Anguished and tearful, she begins to question the purpose of the war.
Tying together several themes and points, Moore compliments those serving in the U.S. military. He claims that the working class of America are always the first to join the Army, so that the people better off do not have to join. He states that those valuable troops should not be sent to risk their lives unless it is necessary to defend America. The credits roll while Neil Young's "Rockin' in the Free World" plays. (Moore had originally intended to use the Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again" but was denied permission by Pete Townshend).[4]
Moore dedicated the film to his friend who was killed in the World Trade Center attacks and to those servicemen and women from Flint, Michigan that have been killed in Iraq: "Michael Pedersen, Brett Petriken and all the soldiers from the Flint area who have died in the Iraq War ... Bill Weems and the 2973 who died on 9/11/01 ... and the countless thousands who have died in Afghanistan and Iraq as a result of our actions."
Production
Originally planned to be financed by Mel Gibson's Icon Productions (which planned to give Michael Moore eight figures in upfront cash and potential backend),[5] Fahrenheit 9/11 was later picked up by Miramax Films and Wild Bunch in May 2003 after Icon Productions had abruptly dropped the financing deal it made.[6] Miramax had earlier distributed another film for Moore, The Big One, in 1997.
At that time, Disney was the parent company of Miramax. According to the book DisneyWar, Disney executives did not know that Miramax agreed to finance the film until they saw a posting on the Drudge Report. Michael Eisner (the CEO of Disney at that time) called Harvey Weinstein (co-chairman of Miramax at that time) and ordered him to drop the film. In addition, Disney sent two letters to Weinstein demanding Miramax drop the film. Weinstein felt Disney had no right to block the releasing of Fahrenheit 9/11 since the film's $6 million budget was well below the level at which Miramax needed to seek Disney's approval, and it would not be rated NC-17.[7] But Weinstein was in contract negotiations with Disney, so he offered a compromise that he would drop the film if Disney did not like it.[7] Disney responded by having Peter Murphy send Weinstein a letter stating that the film's $6 million budget was only a bridge financing and Miramax would sell off its interest in the movie to get those $6 million back; according to the same letter, Miramax was also expected to publicly state that it would not release the film.[7]
After Fahrenheit 9/11 was nearly finished, Miramax held several preview screenings; they were "testing through the roof".[8] Weinstein informed Eisner that Fahrenheit 9/11 was finished, and Eisner was surprised by the fact that Miramax had continued making the film.[8] Weinstein asked several Disney executives (including Eisner) to watch the film, but all declined; Disney stated again that Miramax would not release the film, and Disney also accused Weinstein of hiding Fahrenheit 9/11 by keeping it off production reports.[8] Disney sent production vice President Brad Epstein to watch Fahrenheit 9/11 on April 24, 2004.[8] According to Weinstein, Epstein said he liked the film; but according to the report Epstein sent to the Walt Disney Company board of directors, Epstein clearly criticized it.[8] Eisner told Weinstein that Disney's board decided not to allow Miramax to release the film.[8] Weinstein was furious and he asked George J. Mitchell (chairman of Disney at that time) to see the film, but Mitchell declined.[8] Weinstein asked lawyer David Boies to help find a solution;[8] the Weinsteins and Moore had also hired Chris Lehane to consult on the film's release strategies.[9] Lehane suggested to reveal Disney's decision to The New York Times.[10]
The New York Times reported about Disney's decision on May 5, 2004.[11] Disney stated that both Moore's agent (Ari Emanuel) and Miramax were advised in May 2003 that Miramax would not be permitted to distribute the film. Disney representatives said Disney had the right to veto any Miramax film if it appeared that its distribution would be counterproductive to the interests of the company; indeed, Disney had blocked Miramax from releasing two films before: Kids and Dogma.[12]
Because of these difficulties, distribution was first secured in numerous countries outside the U.S. On May 28, 2004, after more than a week of talks, Disney announced that Miramax film studio founders Harvey and Bob Weinstein had personally acquired the rights to the documentary after Disney declined to distribute it. The Weinsteins agreed to repay Disney for all costs to that point, estimated at around $6 million. They also agreed to be responsible for all costs to finish the film and all marketing costs not paid by any third-party film distributors.[13] A settlement between the Weinsteins and Disney was also reached so that 60% of the film's profit would be donated to charity.[14]
The Weinsteins established Fellowship Adventure Group to handle the distribution of this film. Fellowship Adventure Group joined forces with Lions Gate Entertainment (which had released two other Miramax-financed films O and Dogma)[15] and IFC Films to release it in the United States theatrically. (Fellowship Adventure Group also handled the film's U.S. home video distribution through Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment). Moore stated that he was "grateful to them now that everyone who wants to see it will now have the chance to do so.[16]
After being informed that the film had been given an R rating by the Motion Picture Association of America, Moore appealed the decision, hoping to obtain a PG-13 rating instead. Moore's lawyer, former Governor of New York, Mario Cuomo, was not allowed to attend the hearing. The appeal was denied on June 22, 2004, and Cuomo contended that it was because he had been banned from the hearing. Some theaters chose to defy the MPAA and allow unchaperoned teenagers to attend screenings.[17]
Release
Alternate Fahrenheit 9/11 poster
The film was released theatrically by The Fellowship Adventure Group through a distribution arrangement with Lions Gate Entertainment. On its opening weekend of June 25–27, 2004, the film generated box-office revenues of $23.9 million in the United States and Canada, making it the weekend's top-grossing film. Its opening weekend earned more than the entire U.S. theatrical run of any other feature-length documentary (including Moore's previous film, Bowling for Columbine). The film was released in the United Kingdom on July 2, 2004 and in France on July 7, 2004.[18]
Moore credited part of the theatrical success to the efforts of conservative groups to pressure theaters not to run the film, conjecturing that these efforts backfired by creating publicity. There were also efforts by liberal groups such as MoveOn.org (who helped promote the film) to encourage attendance in order to defy their political opponents' contrary efforts.[19]
Fahrenheit 9/11 was screened in a number of Middle Eastern countries, including the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, and Egypt, but was immediately banned in Kuwait. "We have a law that prohibits insulting friendly nations", said Abdul-Aziz Bou Dastour of the Kuwaiti Information Ministry.[20][21] The film was not shown in Saudi Arabia as public movie theaters were not permitted from 1983 until 2017. The Saudi ruling elite subsequently launched an advertising campaign spanning nineteen US cities to counter criticism partly raised in the film.[22] Democratic members of the Coalition Provisional Authority in U.S.-occupied Iraq had the film screened at the Republican Palace in Baghdad.[23]
In Cuba, bootlegged versions of the film were shown in 120 theaters, followed by a prime-time television broadcast by the leading state-run network. It had been widely reported that this might affect its Oscar eligibility, since the film was broadcast on television less than nine months after its theatrical release. However, soon after that story had been published, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences issued a statement denying this, saying, "If it was pirated or stolen or unauthorized we would not blame the producer or distributor for that".[24] In addition, Wild Bunch, the film's overseas distributor for Cuba, issued a statement denying a television deal had been struck with Cuban Television. The issue became moot, however, when Moore decided to forgo Oscar eligibility in favor of a pay-per-view televising of the film on November 1, 2004.
Critical reception
The film was received positively by critics. Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports an approval rating of 82% based on 237 reviews, with an average rating of 7.33/10. The site's critics' consensus reads: "Extremely one-sided in its indictment of the Bush administration, but worth watching for the humor and the debates it'll stir."[25] It also received a score of 67 (generally favorable) on Metacritic, based on 43 reviews.[26]
Film critic Roger Ebert, who gave the documentary three and a half stars out of four, said that the film "is less an exposé of George W. Bush than a dramatization of what Moore sees as a failed and dangerous presidency", and added: "Moore brings a fresh impact to familiar material by the way he marshals his images".[27]
Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal described the film as "rambling, troubling and sometimes rousing", and wrote: "At its best, "Fahrenheit 9/11" is an impressionist burlesque of contemporary American politics that culminates in a somber lament for lives lost in Iraq. But the good stuff—and there's some extremely good stuff—keeps getting tainted by Mr. Moore's poison-camera penchant for drawing dark inferences from dubious evidence."[28]
Entertainment Weekly put it on its end-of-the-decade, "best-of" list, saying, "Michael Moore's anti-Bush polemic gave millions of frustrated liberals exactly what they needed to hear in 2004—and infuriated just about everyone else. Along the way, it became the highest-grossing documentary of all time."[29]
Commercial performance
Grossing over $222 million total worldwide, the film is the highest grossing documentary of all time, according to Box Office Mojo.[1] The film had a general release in the United States and Canada on June 23, 2004. It has since been released in 42 more countries. On Al-Jazeera in August 2012, Moore claimed the movie "grossed about half a billion dollars" worldwide.[30] It was the highest-grossing film released by Lionsgate until it was surpassed by The Hunger Games in 2012.[31]
Home media
Fahrenheit 9/11 was released to DVD and VHS on October 5, 2004, an unusually short turnaround time after theatrical release. In the first days of the release, the film broke records for the highest-selling documentary ever. About two million copies were sold on the first day, most of which (1.4 million) were sold as rentals.[32]
A companion book, The Official Fahrenheit 9/11 Reader, was released at the same time. It contains the complete screenplay, documentation of Moore's sources, audience e-mails about the film, film reviews, and articles.
Initial television presentations
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The two-hour film was planned to be shown as part of the three-hour "The Michael Moore Pre-Election Special" on iN DEMAND, but iN DEMAND backed out in mid-October. Moore later arranged for simultaneous broadcasts on November 1, 2004 at 8:00 p.m. (EST) on Dish Network, TVN, and the Cinema Now website and material prepared for "The Michael Moore Pre-Election Special" was incorporated into "Fahrenheit 9/11: A Movement in Time", which aired that same week on The Independent Film Channel.
The movie was also shown on basic cable television in Germany and Austria on November 1, 2004 and November 2, 2004. In the UK, the film was shown on Channel 4 on January 27, 2005. In Hungary, it was shown on RTL Klub, a commercial channel, on September 10, 2005, on m1, one of the national channels, on August 13, 2006, on m2, the other national channel, on September 1, 2006. In Denmark, it was shown on Danmarks Radio (normally referred to as just DR), which is Denmark's national broadcasting corporation, on April 11, 2006. In Norway, it was shown on NRK, the national broadcasting corporation, on August 27, 2006. The film was screened in New Zealand on September 9, 2006 on TV ONE, a channel of TVNZ. The next day, the Dutch network Nederland 3 aired the film. In Belgium, it was shown on Kanaal 2 on October 12, 2006. In Brazil, it aired on October 10, 2008 on TV Cultura, the São Paulo public broadcasting network.
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Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah - English Translation - Full Speech - 11/3/2023
Nov 3, 2023 #aljazeeraenglish #BreakingNews #aljazeeralivenews
The Hezbollah chief says whoever wants to prevent a regional war, must quickly stop the war on the Gaza Strip.
Nasrallah repeats that all options in the Lebanese front are open.
He says that Hezbollah is ready for all possibilities.
Addressing the US deployment of warships in the region, Nasrallah says Hezbollah is not intimidated.
As he continues to touch on familiar themes during his speech, the Hezbollah leader also says that further escalation on the Lebanese front is a real possibility.
He warns that such a development depends on Israeli actions in Gaza.
Nasrallah continues, saying Hezbollah has been escalating its operations by the day and forcing Israel to keep its forces near the Lebanon border instead of Gaza or the occupied West Bank.
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Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown and Don't Come Back!! (1980)
Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!) is a 1980 American animated mystery comedy film produced by United Feature Syndicate and distributed by Paramount Pictures, directed by Bill Melendez and Phil Roman.[2] It was the fourth full-length feature film to be based on the Peanuts comic strip.[3]
Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz wrote that he came up with the idea for the story while visiting the Manoir de Malvoisine in Le Héron, where he was stationed briefly as a soldier during World War II. The castle plays a large role in the film.[4]
Paramount Home Entertainment released this film on VHS and Laserdisc in 1995 in 4:3 format, and released it to DVD (cropped to widescreen) on October 6, 2015.[5]
The film was also released on Blu-ray for the first time on March 15, 2022 in the US.[6]
Plot
At Charlie Brown's school, Linus Van Pelt introduces to his class two French students, Babette and Jacques, who will be spending two weeks there in order to get accustomed to the United States. In exchange, Charlie Brown and Linus are chosen to go to France. Charlie Brown heads home and invites Snoopy and Woodstock to go with him. He gets a call from Peppermint Patty, who tells him that she and Marcie were also chosen to go to France as a student exchange. Charlie Brown also gets a letter from France, but cannot read it because it is written in French. He is not very positive about the trip because of the letter he got, but Marcie, who has been studying French, translates the letter, explaining that Charlie Brown has been invited to stay at a French chateau, the Château du Mal Voisin (House of the Bad Neighbor). Charlie Brown cannot understand why someone in France would invite him to their home, let alone know who he is.
The group arrive first in London and head to Victoria Station, where they take the train to Dover. They ride across the English Channel from Dover to France via hovercraft. Then, they pick up a Citroën 2CV, which is driven by Snoopy (because the kids are too young to drive), although he grinds the gears out of it and causes a double fender bender when stopping to look for directions. Upon their arrival, the four go to their respective homes. Patty and Marcie go to stay at a farm in Morville-sur-Andelle, where they meet a boy named Pierre, who immediately attracts their attention. It is obvious that Marcie and Pierre have a spark between them – obvious to everyone except Patty, who manages to convince herself that Pierre likes her. Meanwhile, Charlie Brown, Linus, Snoopy, and Woodstock head to the chateau, which is actually owned by an unfriendly baron while his niece, Violette Honfleur, frequently leaves Charlie Brown and Linus food.
Late one night, while Charlie Brown is asleep, a suspicious Linus investigates the chateau's attic and meets Violette. She explains to him that Charlie Brown's grandfather, Silas Brown, had served in the U.S. Army and helped them out during World War II. The baron returns home and Violette tries hiding Linus, but she drops her candle, starting a fire in the chateau's attic. Charlie Brown wakes up and hears Linus crying for help, and runs to get Peppermint Patty and Marcie and Pierre calls the fire department, while Snoopy and Woodstock get an old fashioned fire hose from a shed. Charlie Brown, Peppermint Patty, Marcie, and Pierre rescue Linus and Violette, and Snoopy uses the hose to keep the fire under control until the fire department arrives to help.
Thankful for the chateau's rescue, the baron has a change of heart and allows the gang inside, and Charlie Brown learns the truth behind the mysterious letter he received from Violette: one of the villagers toured the United States when he got a haircut from Charlie Brown's father, whereupon Violette was able to find Silas' grandson. Charlie Brown later wishes Violette and Pierre goodbye as he, Snoopy, Woodstock, Linus, Patty, and Marcie leave the chateau to see more of the French countryside, and eventually return home to the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_Voyage,_Charlie_Brown_(and_Don%27t_Come_Back!!)
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The Day Israel Attacked America
Nov 3, 2014 #AljazeeraEnglish #Israel #USSLiberty
Al Jazeera investigates the shocking truth behind a deadly Israeli attack on a US naval vessel.
In 1967, at the height of the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War, the Israeli Air Force launched an unprovoked attack on the USS Liberty, a US Navy spy ship that was monitoring the conflict from the safety of international waters in the Mediterranean.
Israeli jet fighters hit the vessel with rockets, cannon fire and napalm, before three Israeli torpedo boats moved in to launch a second more devastating attack. Though she did not sink, the Liberty was badly damaged. Thirty-four US servicemen and civilian analysts were killed, another 171 were wounded.
Later Israel apologised for what it claimed to be a tragic case of mistaken identity. It said that it had believed the ship to be hostile Egyptian naval vessel. US President Lyndon Johnson was privately furious but publicly the White House chose not to challenge the word of its closest Middle East ally and accepted that the attack had been a catastrophic accident.
However, as this exclusive Al Jazeera investigation reveals, fresh evidence throws new light on exactly what happened that fateful day – and the remarkable cover up that followed.
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9/11: Inside The Twin Towers (2006) - Full Documentary
Aug 30, 2023
9/11: Inside The Twin Towers (also billed as Inside the Twin Towers) is a television special documentary film which uses re-enactments and computer-generated imagery to re-create a minute-by-minute account of what happened inside the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City during the September 11th attacks.
In the United States, it premiered on the Discovery Channel on September 3rd, 2006 and was narrated by narrated by Harry Pritchett. In the United Kingdom, it premiered on BBC One on September 7th, 2006 and was narrated by Terence Stamp.
The film won the 2007 British Academy Television Craft Award for Sound Factual, and was nominated (but did not win) for Editing as well. It was also nominated for the 2007 Emmy in the category of "Outstanding Made For Television Movie".
Note: This release was shot and recorded interlaced DV studio cameras for re-enactment scenes, as well as a myriad of budget, amateur home video recorders to professional-grade handycams of varying quality during the unfolding of the day's events.
I have enhanced the video with the use of AI editing, whilst at the same time tried to improve the original broadcast quality of the documentary without deteriorating or compromising the baseline visual fidelity.
As nearly all footage both in-studio and shot raw from the day of the attacks were recorded using interlaced DV cameras and imbedded in the original High Quality source, I have attempted to remove scan lines as best that I can without destroying the quality of the picture entirely with AI or other softwares in an attempt to botch repair or patch-out the vertical scan lines that are present in the video footage which would further degrade the footage itself.
This video is intended for educational and personal research purposes only and all rights tot he footage contained in this documentary are held by their respective owners.
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Rise and Fall: The World Trade Center (2021) - Full Documentary
Chronological look at the conception, construction and destruction of the World Trade Center towers which was built as a symbol of American strength and ambition.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15251082/
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Göbekli Tepe and The Vulture Stone
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Göbekli Tepe and the Vulture Stone Prophecy
We are the descendants of an ancient civilization; one which mastered technology, mapped the cosmos, and understood our relationship with the natural world.
Our ancestors traveled the world and built enormous structures. They scaled their creations into cities.
They shared a common governance and similar religious beliefs.
Our ancestors lived, as we do today, as a global society.
Around 14,500 years ago, this global superpower started to collapse.
First came uncontrollable change, and then a cataclysm. In less than a week, everything and almost everyone was gone.
Those left behind built monuments. Monuments not as tributes to Gods or homage to kings. The monuments are a warning to future generations: to us. That warning is simple: danger is coming.
Our civilization has ended before. And it will end again.
This is one story Big Archaeology and world governments don’t want you to know. Once you hear it, you’ll never trust them again.
Because the danger that’s coming? There’s nothing they can do to stop it.
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The Nabataeans - The Final Days Of Petra
Jul 17, 2022
In the deserts of Jordan, a city lies hidden for centuries in a valley of rose-red stone...
In this episode, we look at one of the most peculiar stories of civilizational survival to come down to us from the ancient world, the story of the Nabataeans. Find out how these once humble traders rose to become masters of the desert sands, and to defy empires. And discover what happened to finally bring down the empire of Nabataea.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSfFq02pK4s
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