Terry Gilliam's ambitious "12 Monkeys" was co-authored by David Peoples, who wrote "Blade Runner," and it has the same view of the near future as a grunge pit - a view it shares with Gilliam's own "Brazil." In this world, everything is rusty, subterranean, and leaks. The movie uses its future world as a home base and launching pad for the central story, which is set in 1990 and 1996, and is about a time traveler trying to save the world from a deadly plague.
The traveler is Cole (Bruce Willis), who in the opening shots lives with a handful of other human survivors in an underground shelter put together out of scrap parts and a lot of wire mesh. The surface of the planet has been reclaimed by animals, after the death of 5 billion people during a plague in 1996.
Cole is plucked from his cage and sent on a surface expedition by the rulers of this domain, who hope to learn enough about the plague virus to defeat it. Later, he is picked for a more cruci
For years, Iâve tried without success to figure out what makes George Soros tick, why, unlike just about every other immigrant who has ever come here, he hates this country and is willing to spend so many billions of dollars to destroy it.
I think I may finally have figured it out.
When, as an impressionable teenager, he helped strip his fellow Jews of their valuables before they were herded onto the cattle cars headed off to Belsen and Auschwitz, Soros (born György Schwartz), became a perverted victim of Stockholm Syndrome.
He not only identified with the Nazis, he fantasized he was one. After all, they were the supermen in their shiny boots barking orders at the sheeplike Jews.
progressive is, hey, unless you want to continue to have racialized populism, economic populism, we better get these folks on our side and as their plight or we ll never advance our progressive agenda. that s her argument in a nutshell. up ahead, i talk to sports casting legend bob costas about the fight between the nba and china, whether tom brady or colin kaepernick will be playing next year and why olympic bombing hero richard jewel once sought out costas. this year more and more homeless are sleeping in america s treats. thanks to a new court decision cities can t ban them if they have no place else to go. what s the future of america s skid rows? and an evangelical magazine has come out in favor of removing president trump. how will this affect the 80% plus of white evangelicals who voted for him in 2016, my hunch is not so much. that is this week s survey