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Hopefully they'll all do the wrong thing and get each other nuked.

They would hit the American bases in South Korea. This is all hard wired in the command chain. It's why they have been left alone for so long because the casualty rate would be catastrophic now NK have 2 nukes.

N.K. doctrine is to nuke S.K. if attacked. If America attacks the nuke infrastructure there will be no S.K.

N.K. would starve without Chinese aid.

They are angry they the plan to bite off Ukraine failed and the ongoing Balkanisation of the ME is on hold. The plan is for pipelines to bring gas and oil through Syria to undercut Russian supplies to Europe and push Russia closer to financial jeopardy.

It's close.

They might have said all that shit but they didn't believe it. Russia knows the Neo-Cons still hold sway.

I mean you can see how clueless they are sending the fleet to N. Korea. N.K. aren't going to fight the fleet they will nuke South Korea.

Yeah by default. He's outgunned by the State Dept, the intelligence services (with budgets to maintain) and the long term interests of the deep state (Balkanisation). There is delusion of such proportions at play it is truly frightening.

Clinton would have been busy with brinkmanship and no fly zones from the get go. Both as bad as each other. McCain and the like seem to think Russia will back down.

It's not Trump it's the neo-cons. Most of which he brought into his administration. I doubt he's even had a proper discussion on Syria or really knows what's going on. No matter who's in charge Balkanisation of the Middle east is the goal. What I am annoyed about is that he's gone against his non-interventionist post election rhetoric and played straight into the hands of the Chicken Hawks.

I've used 5 HTP cause Jim Carey used to go on about it and I found noticeable benefit after a week or so. You can get that on Amazon.

Acid is tricky and toxic even in small doses. MDMA imo used occasionally/ during depressed states would I imagine be safer. If one must trial acid type psychoactives I found shrooms much more organic an experience and definitely 'healthier'. There was never a background anxiety with the mushrooms (in a tea) or any kind of curtain twitching paranoia. However there is evidence from the 60's that high doses of LSD had beneficial effects on schizophrenics but I have no idea how that works as we now know it can be a major contributor to the condition.

What are the symptoms? Feeling really good and then on other days really down?

Me and Fish are having a meta discussion we ain't interested if you 'enjoyed' a film.

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/logan-2017

No it's the marketing. In modern Hollywood the budget of say 150m to make the film will normally be supported by another 30/40m on marketing. These films live or die not only on the filmic merit but the marketing campaign. On world marketing campaigns they can spend upto 60/70m. It's why even if they are commercial successes they also have to make the marketing money back. China has become a very important market for these films and literally tons of money are spent there on region specific marketing. A marquee release will carry three major campaigns: Europe, America and Asia.

The biggest issue with these films is that the producers want an action scene every 10/15 min. They did research that people just switch off otherwise. They aren't doing test screening with the right audience either...Lot of them are mom and pop day outs.

My daughter made me watch it. Her and Mrs P love it. Thought it had some funny bits but for me was too flat. If you have a one character mine to dig you have to juxtapose a counter point (a character that questions all his actions) to give it that frisson and enlarge the 'world'. I don't like to manhandle complexity into an idea but you can see in Logan that not only is he continually questioning his actions but Charles is as well. The sullen performance of his 'daughter' also acts as a counterpoint in so much as Logan is seen as the last of his kind not only in the fictional stakes but also in the 'man' stakes. Mangold grafted the ageing gunfighter motif beautifully onto what otherwise might have been a tiresome fight fest. The two outings of the Danish girl in 'Lucy' and 'Ghost in the Shell' are both flat due to the reasons I have already mentioned. She has no counterpoint in either film. 'Something has happened to me I need to figure it out' just isn't enough. When I think of a protagonist with powers I first go to the flaws not the powers.

As I said a few weeks ago I really enjoyed Logan. The performances and character detail along with the backstory were well thought through.

The creative input in a lot of these films is shocking. Boiler plate and formula to the death.

We don't have many specialised coaches do we?

'Bolitics'

This is a revelation! Seeing how you sneaky snowflakes roll....Do you think it's right to deny hard working millionaire players of their income stream? Disgrace.