Posts tagged Miami
Beryl bears down on St. Augustine
May 27th
Tropical Storm Beryl making landfall in NE Fla.
Tropical Storm Beryl edges closer to southeast coast
Tropical Storm Beryl Making Landfall in…
Tropical Storm Beryl Nears Landfall, Hurricane Center Reports
Beryl threatens rain, winds on southeast US coast
Tropical Storm Beryl strengthens, nears US coast
Tropical Storm Beryl nears southeastern US coast
Tropical Storm Beryl Nears U.S.
Tropical Storm Beryl edges closer to southeast US coast
Tropical Storm Beryl nears hurricane force; Florida, Georgia wait
Tropical Storm Beryl near hurricane-strength as it approaches southeastern US …
Atlantic Tropical Storm Beryl Nears Hurricane Strength, NHC Says
Tropical Storm Interrupts Holiday Plans in Southeast
Beryl now a tropical storm, nearing US coast
Beryl may bring rain, wind here
Forecast: LI escapes Tropical Storm Beryl
Tropical Storm Beryl May Make Landfall Tonight in Florida
Tropical Storm Beryl nearing US coast
Tropical Storm Beryl bears down on Memorial Day weekend
Beryl to bring rain and winds to south-east US coast
Beryl now tropical storm, nears southeast US coast
Beryl upgraded to tropical storm as south-east US prepares for heavy rain
Beryl now a tropical storm, nears SE coast
Tropical Storm Beryl Gains Strength, Nears Coast
Tropical Storm Beryl Strengthens Slightly, Continues West
Beryl nearing US coast
Tropical Storm Beryl heading for US
Forecasters say Beryl now a tropical storm as it threatens rain, wind for …
Beryl Threatens Georgia Coast
Tropical Storm Beryl moves toward southeast US coast
Media Characterizes Military Invasion of South Florida as “Cool Tourist Story”
May 9th
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VIDEO
A joint drill between military and police in South Florida involving troops storming a building in the middle of the night was characterized by local media coverage not as a frightening example of how Americans are being acclimatized to accept a state of martial law but as a ‘cool tourist story’.
Panic-stricken residents in Coconut Grove were awoken at 1am to the sound of simulated gunfire and explosions as military helicopters hovered over buildings and dispatched troops to the ground.
The Department of Defense drills prompted a deluge of 911 calls, but instead of asking why the military is terrifying American citizens on U.S. soil with drills designed to acclimate the public to accept martial law, local news station WSVN-TV framed the incident as a ‘cool tourist story’.
“Miami police assisted in overseeing the exercises — but they were instructed to keep quiet about the exercises until late Monday, for security reasons. The police also blocked off roads around the Grand Bay during the exercise,” reports the Miami Herald.
Source: Paul Joseph Watson, Infowars.com
“Amelia” You Won’t Be Enthralled
Oct 29th
You Won’t Be Enthralled
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
AMELIA is the story of Amelia Earhart, the first woman to perform a number of flying accomplishments in the Twenties and Thirties, and she is played stunningly by two-time Academy Award winner Hilary Swank.
Unfortunately, if the film were a jet airplane, it would have to be called a flameout, whereas everyone involved with it and many in the audience were hoping that it would soar to wonderful and exiting heights.
Part of the reason is that we know how the story ends, and so there is hardly any suspense at all.
Another part is the construction of the film. It jumps back and forth in time and setting without warning, so that the audience is disoriented along with being dissatisfied.
As a matter of fact, the opening scene takes place in June 1937 in Miami, Florida, at the beginning of Earhart’s ill-fated attempt to be the first woman to fly around the world.
Then we jump back to April 1928 in New York City and see the preparations for Earhart’s first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, in which she didn’t fly the airplane, but was just a passenger, although she was named the “commander”
of the flight over two men who did the actual flying.
Now, some of these jumps are identified by titles for the audience, but others aren’t, and scenes from Earhart’s final flight keep being thrown into the somewhat chronological story at this point.
We see Earhart’s relationship with publisher and promoter George Putnam, played by Richard Gere, and the first time he asks her to marry him, she says, “I don’t want to get married, George. I’m not the marrying kind.”
However, they do get married, only without the part in the marriage vows about “obey.” Earhart says that she can’t promise that.
We also see Earhart’s relationship with flying instructor Gene Vidal, played by Ewan McGregor, the father of Gore Vidal, who appears in the film as a young boy.
Also, many shots of beautiful scenery are thrown in that have nothing to do with the story but just look pretty.
All in all, the film is too melodramatic, but without much drama and certainly without any suspense.
AMELIA might teach you something you didn’t know about Earhart’s life, but you won’t be enthralled with it, whereas I wanted to be enthralled.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”