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Redemption Song - movies, music & thoughts - 051107 -
The Italian Job | Throne of Blood | Akira Kurosawa | Cheney Lied | No Rest for a Weary President | Endangered Science?

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The Italian Job (2003)
Charlie Croker (Mark Walhberg) leads a gang that manages to pull off a major heist and steal a carload of gold stashed in a safe that they've stolen from Charlie's former crony (Ed Norton), who filched it from Charlie in the first place. But can they get away with the heist -- for good? Charlize Theron, Seth Green and Donald Sutherland co-star.
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Edward Norton, Seth Green, Donald Sutherland, Jason Statham, Mos Def, Franky G.
Director: F. Gary Gray



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Throne of Blood (1957) [Kumonosu Jo]  
Director Akira Kurosawa's magnificent rumination on Shakespeare's tragic "Macbeth" is a dark samurai drama set in feudal Japan. Two soldiers -- Washizu (Toshiro Mifune) and Miki (Minoru Chiaki) find themselves lost in a dense forest during a powerful thunderstorm. There, they encounter a ghostly old woman who predicts that Washizu will soon rise to power. Indeed, Washizu embarks on a murderously ambitious path and quickly fulfills the prophecy.
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura, Akira Kubo, Hiroshi Tachikawa, Minoru Chiaki, Takamaru Sasaki, Kokuten Kodo, Kichijiro Ueda, Eiko Miyoshi, Chieko Naniwa
Director: Akira Kurosawa


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above quote[s] from netflix

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Cheney Lied about Wilson, Plame Knowledge
The indictment against Cheney's Chief of Staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, clearly states that Cheney and Libby discussed Plame's undercover CIA status and the fact that her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, traveled to Niger to investigate claims that Iraq tried to acquire yellowcake uranium from the African country in early June of 2003. Yet the following month, Cheney and then-White House press secretary Ari Fleischer asserted that the vice president was unaware of Wilson's Niger trip, who the ambassador even was, and the classified report Wilson wrote about the Niger findings prior to his July 6, 2003 op-ed in the New York Times.
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Far Away from Home, No Rest for a Weary President
George W. Bush sometimes seems to be in a Murphy's Law period of his presidency, when everything that can go wrong will go wrong. So after one of his most miserable weeks at the White House, things did not get a lot better on his messy four-day trip to Latin America.
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Endangered Science?
A survey of scientists at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) reveals that many report experiencing political pressure to alter scientific information and analyses about endangered species. The activists who conducted the survey argue that such pressure is compromising the ability of the agency to protect wildlife and habitat.
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