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I cut the following passage out of 9/11 memorials on the 20th anniversary because the NFL blocked the video from embedding. It went where the ellipsis is.

"Listening to Michael Arad talk about the placement of names to increase their significance to survivors reminds me of the first time I saw all the names displayed publicly as the backdrop to U2 Superbowl 36 halftime performance where the streets have no name...To this day, this is one of my favorite Super Bowl Halftime Shows and a welcome relief from the trend for more spectacle, even if it leads to Emmy Awards and nominations."

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Here is a video I rejected for Trump Administration designating Iranian Revolutionary Guards a terrorist organization updates 'U.S. leaving Iran nuclear agreement pushes U.S. oil price above $70 plus driving update for May 2018: Pearl,' a top post of the eighth year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News at Crazy Eddie's Motie News.

"Trump's Iran decision is unprecedented" (Watch on YouTube)

President Donald Trump announced the US will formally designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist organization.

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Current Location: House in the woods at the edge of town
Current Music: Star Wars: The Old Republic

Early this month, Entertainment Weekly released the fifteen film short list for feature length documentaries. Here are the films.

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail, Mitten Media, Motto Pictures, Kartemquin Educational Films
and WGBH/Frontline
Chasing Coral, Exposure Labs in partnership with The Ocean Agency & View Into the Blue in association with Argent Pictures & The Kendeda Fund
City of Ghosts, Our Time Projects and Jigsaw Productions
Ex Libris – The New York Public Library, Ex Libris Films
Faces Places, Ciné Tamaris
Human Flow, Participant Media and AC Films
Icarus, Netflix Documentary in association with Impact Partners, Diamond Docs, Chicago
Media Project and Alex Productions
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, Paramount Pictures and Participant Media
Jane, National Geographic Studios in association with Public Road Productions
LA 92, Lightbox
Last Men in Aleppo, Larm Film
Long Strange Trip, Double E Pictures, AOMA Sunshine Films and Sikelia
One of Us, Loki Films
Strong Island, Yanceville Films and Louverture Films
Unrest, Shella Films and Little by Little Films

On Crazy Eddie's Motie News, I quote reviews and comment on ten of them in The most honored political documentaries of 2017 examine crime, injustice, and the Syrian Civil War. The ones I don't mention are "Faces, Places," "Jane," "Long Strange Trip," "One of Us," and "Unrest," which are not on my list, have made the Oscar shortlist and are as good as any of the my top five. Here's to five out of my favorites, "Abacus," "Chasing Coral," "City of Ghosts," "Ex Libris," "Jane," "Long Strange Trip," "Strong Island," and "Unrest," filling up the slots when the Oscar nominees are announced.

I should compose an "all about me" post. Manana.

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Yahoo! News: German TV news host confuses Star Trek logo for Navy SEAL emblem
by Liz Goodwin

The ins and outs of other cultures can seem fairly mysterious to outsiders, admittedly. But we can't really get over the image of a German TV newscaster solemnly presenting a logo fashioned by Star Trek enthusiasts while explaining the Navy SEALs to his fellow countrymen.The German site Bildblog appears to have been the first to capture the error with this screenshot, at right.

Channel N24's host Mick Locher explained during the segment that the Navy SEAL Six team raided Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan and killed him—as the emblem made by Star Trek fans flashed on the screen behind him.

"And they also have the 'Team Six' that carried out the mission. They don't have the skull in their emblem for nothing," Locher said, according to a translation from the fan site TrekMovie.

Locher's team must have searched for "Navy SEAL Six" on the Internet and stumbled upon the symbol made by a Star Trek fan group called "Maquis Forces International." The Maquis, a rebel group, fought against Cardassia--the bad guys--in Federation colonies in some Star Trek storylines. The skull in the badge represents a Klingon, and it also includes three Klingon bat'leth swords. The group makes lots of imagined Navy SEAL logos for the "24th century," TrekMovie says.

The actual emblem for Navy SEAL Team Six is below. The military has never publicly admitted that the elite group even exists. The portion of the 2,500 Navy SEALs who are chosen to be in the elite force are not allowed to talk about their position, according to the Washington Post.

Images of the fake and real SEALS logos at the link. For once, read the comments. The highest rated ones are actually quite funny.

Also, the icon I'm using has never been more appropriate.

Above crossposted to ontd_political on LJ, where it is awaiting moderation. A shorter version posted to fandom_lounge on JournalFen here.

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Crossposts: http://darksumomo.livejournal.com/343504.html

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Entries tagged with war on terror

Deleted passage from 9/11 20 years later post

Rejected video on Iran's Revolutionary Guards being declared a terrorist organization

The Oscar Documentary shortlist for 2017

No wonder bin Ladin didn't hear the SEALS coming; they were beamed in!

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