Astronomer and scientist Carl Sagan tried to warn us years ago about scientific charlatans who declare “the science is settled” and who try to shut down any debate. “If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then, we are up for grabs for the next charlatan (political or religious) who comes rambling along.” Let’s see, that would be Al Gore, Anthony Fauci, plus all their minions in the press, etc.
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2000 Is Mules #1 On Amazon, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%
Without any support from major media — in fact despite a barrage of fake “fact check” articles and personal attacks on Dinesh D’Souza — the new documentary 2000 Mules is scoring big with audiences. The DVD is currently #1 on Amazon in the Movies & TV category, and the film’s Rotten Tomatoes audience score is 100%. See the trailer and review here.
It’s Back: 2000 Mules In Theater Near You
After an initial run that sold out in three out of four theaters in early May, the new Dinesh D’Souza film 2000 Mules is getting a second run on the request of theaters eager for ticket sales. The film has grossed $10 million in sales in its first ten days, making it the highest-grossing political documentary in ten years. You can find 2000 Mules in theater nearest you at AtomicTickets. The DVD is also available at Amazon. You can also see the trailer and a review of it here.
Project Veritas Is Hiring
Project Veritas, the organization that has exposed left-wing lies over and over again, largely through the aggressive use of hidden cameras, is hiring right now.
An example of their work…
Cambodian Day of Remembrance: Five Films to Honor the Dead
Pol Pot and his gang of Khmer Rouge socialist comrades murdered 25% of Cambodian citizens, in total somewhere around two million lives, in the span of just five years (1975-1979). Cambodia declared May 20th to be a day of remembrance to honor these dead.
Pol Pot was taught the wonders of agrarian socialism while attending college in France, and returned home with a determination to build that utopia — whatever the cost. Per Wikipedia, “[The Khmer Rouge] planned to create a form of agrarian socialism founded on the ideals of Stalinism and Maoism. The subsequent policies caused forced relocation of the population from urban centers, torture, mass executions, use of forced labor, malnutrition, and disease.”
The five films below are among the few to touch on this subject. The Killing Fields (1984) was the first major film to tell of this democide, and for many it was the first they had heard of it. It was followed two years later by the Disney film The Girl Who Spelled Freedom (1986), which told the true story of Linn Yann, a young Cambodian girl who impressed the nation by winning the US spelling bee championship just a few years after her arrival. Much later, two documentaries were made, Enemies of the People (2009) and Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll (2014). In 2017, Angeline Jolie released the documentary, First They Killed My Father.
Enemies of the People
“This is patient, persistent, probing and fearless journalism of the highest order and it shocks to the core. ”
–Time Out
“Enemies of the People is another disquieting testament to the fact that ordinary individuals under extreme pressure will carry out the most monstrous crimes.”
–New York Times
The Girl Who Spelled Freedom
This Disney film tells the true story of Linn Yann, a young girl who escaped the killing fields of Cambodia, immigrated to America, and four years later became the U.S. national spelling bee champion. For a film made 30 years ago, it’s remarkable how popular this film remains; it currently scores a 95% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes. More details here.
The Killing Fields
In The Killing Fields, a New York Times correspondent and his Cambodian guide brave the dangers of war and socialist atrocity to report the truth, and to protect each other. This true story was the first many had ever heard of the Cambodian democide. The film was nominated for Best Picture. More details here.
“Himself a survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime, lucky to have escaped with his life, Ngor subsumes himself in the role in a way that makes one wonder that he made it through filming without losing his mind.”
–Eye for Film
“Few feature films have captured a nation’s agony more dramatically than Roland Joffé’s The Killing Fields.”
–Radio Times
Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll
“A film not just for the musically obsessed, Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten is a poignant and an important reminder that art matters, especially when one is facing the abyss.”
–Austin Chronicle
“This is eye-opening and frequently moving, elevated by sharp editing that imaginatively juxtaposes major events in government and entertainment history.”
–Chicago Reader
First They Killed My Father
Angelina Jolie produced a film for Netflix about the devastating Cambodian democide carried out by the Khmer Rouge (“Red Khmers,” followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea in Cambodia), led by Pol Pot, who dreamed of remaking Cambodia into an agrarian socialist paradise. In the process of “remaking” Cambodia, Pol Pot deliberately massacred a quarter of the Cambodian population. The film will be based on the book by the same name and is available on Netflix.
R. J. Mitchell: Happy Angel Birthday!
British aeronautical engineer R. J. Mitchell was born on May 20th, 1895. He is little known today, but as the inventor of the Spitfire fighter plane, he is said to have done more to turn back the Nazi menace than anyone other than Churchill. What makes his story all the more remarkable is that his heroism was largely single-handed and alone, occurring in the mid-1930s before the governments of England and the US were fully awake to the dangers of Nazi Germany.
Alarmed at rapid German rearmament, and without government funding or support, he decided on his own to prepare for German aggression by designing the most deadly fighter plane of his time. However, in the midst of his work, he was diagnosed with cancer before he’d even finished the plans. He nonetheless persevered in completing his remarkable design, literally spending the last cancer-ridden months of his life putting the final touches on his “impregnable wall against the barbarians.” When the Spitfire was finally built, it surpassed even his own expectations for agility and deadliness. It was such an effective fighter, it was the only Allied warplane that was kept in production for the entire duration of the war, and was a key factor in saving the free world from National Socialism. He is celebrated in the film Spitfire.