Waching daily May 15 2018

'Deadpool 2' is the cinematic debut of X-Force,

and I'm shocked it took this long to adapt one of the defining teams of the '90s comics boom.

Its debut issue moved over 5 million copies,

to this day the second highest selling comic ever,

just behind Jim Lee's 'X-Men' #1.

But despite all of the cartoons, movies, and game adaptations of the X-Men,

'Deadpool 2' is the first time we're actually seeing the militaristic mutants in action,

so it's time for a little refresher.

Hit it!

I'm Andrew, and today, I'm asking a simple question:

Who the F?ck is X-Force?

When 'The New Mutants' premiered in 1982,

they were a refreshing throwback to the days when the X-Men were actually kids in a school,

instead of angsty 30-year-olds and ancient Canadians.

Your country needs you!

I'm Canadian.

It started off strong,

but sales took a dive until a rising artist named Rob Liefeld took over in 1989.

The book rocketed to the top of the charts,

making instant stars of its debuting characters like Cable, Domino, and of course, Deadpool.

Liefeld and co-writer Fabian Nicieza transformed the group of awkward teens,

into an elite paramilitary unit.

One that could do the dirty work Charles Xavier's goody-two-shoes team couldn't.

Kinda like 'Suicide Squad,' but better.

Blah blah blah blah blah blah.

Garbage.

With issue 100,

'The New Mutants' was cancelled and relaunched with a new title that better suited the book's take-no-prisoners style:

'X-Force.'

And leading the charge was a mysterious mutant mercenary from the future:

The man called

Cable

He was created to be the polar opposite of Professor X,

a man of action who took no crap and had no time for changing hearts and minds.

Do you think the world has been changed?

Right now, Beast, I really don't care.

But beyond that,

Cable's creators never really thought about who he was or where he came from,

he was just an ass-kicking drill sergeant with a bionic arm,

a glowing eye,

and plentiful pouches.

I loved him a lot as a kid, it's one of the only action figures I've ever owned. Cable and the Riddler.

Wow, you wanna talk about a dream match right there.

Yeah, maybe Cable's got this one. 'Riddle me this, Cable!'

Meanwhile, Cyclops and his then-wife Madelyne Pryor,

an evil clone of Jean Grey, by the way,

had just given birth to a bouncing baby boy named Nathan Summers.

Apocalypse infected their son with a techno-organic virus that turned his limbs into living metal,

and with no hope for a cure in the present day,

Nathan's parents tearfully sent him into a war-torn future.

If that wasn't complicated enough,

Marvel decided to merge the baby's origin with Cable's,

and revealed that the grizzled, grey-haired gunslinger was a grown up baby Nate,

hardened by decades in a post-apocalyptic hellhole,

and packing a helluva punch.

Mr. Sinister created the Jean Grey clone to breed the most powerful mutant on the planet,

and the resulting child was bursting with telepathic and telekinetic potential.

Unfortunately, Cable couldn't tap into his vast psionic power,

because he had to constantly use it to hold back the techno-organic virus.

You know how when you think about breathing,

you stop doing it subconsciously and have to focus on it?

What kind of place is this?!

It's kind of like that, only if Cable lets up his psychic hold on the virus,

it'll mutate out of control and kill him.

His power levels have waxed and waned over the years,

but Cable remains one of the most formidable fighters in the X-Men family.

Still, a general is only as good as his soldiers.

so let's move on to the next member of X-Force in 'Deadpool 2,'

Bedlam

Although 616 Bedlam is a martial arts expert,

he's more useful as a walking EMP, or electromagnetic pulse.

That means he can fry electronics,

complex machinery,

and even the human brain using his bioelectric field.

Bedlam has a pretty deep backstory involving his long-lost evil brother,

who he tag-teamed with Domino to take down,

but for the movie,

it looks like they're mostly using the character for his cool codename and building on that,

kind of like Bill Skarsgard's character,

Zeitgeist

X-Force has gone through a lot of iterations over the years,

but none as weird as the 2001 run by Peter Milligan and Mike Allred.

They re-imagined the team as pre-packaged pop stars,

who were more concerned with their Q-rating than the fate of mutantkind.

Their leader was Axel Cluney, A.K.A. Zeitgeist,

a mutant with the power to spew acid vomit from his mouth.

It's not exactly the Phoenix Force,

and it didn't help him much against the helicopter that disemboweled him in his very first appearance.

Still, the 'Deadpool' series has a habit of making stars from one-shot characters,

And you are...?

just look at Negasonic Teenage Warhead.

Negasonic Teenage what the shit?!

There's always a chance that Zeitgeist could be the movie's breakout character.

That is, if

Shatterstar

doesn't steal the show.

Out of all of Rob Liefeld's creations,

I think I'm most surprised to see Shatterstar on screen.

I'm not trying to get all 'Yellow Spandex' here,

that's Kya's wheelhouse and she would actually probably literally kill me,

but my dude is rocking one of the most ludicrous superhero looks since Superman went electric.

He's got some amateur boxing headgear,

dual-bladed katanas with a spiky grip because why not,

and the ultra-rare pony and pigtails combo.

It's like if somebody in an RPG found a bunch of endgame equipment and put it all on,

and it was just so crazily mismoshed.

Whaddya think? Pretty slick, huh?

All I need to complete the outfit is-- Ahh!

I shouldn't be too hard on the guy, though,

after all, he's from another dimension.

Mojoworld, to be precise,

where he was genetically engineered to compete in 'Running Man' style gladiator bouts.

Shatterstar is also from 100 years in the future,

so he's not just an alien,

he's a time-travelling alien.

Maybe he has two hearts!

His origins and powers have always been kind of murky,

but he's got superhuman strength, speed, and agility,

and on occasion he's been known to teleport and bust out a shockwave or two.

Sounds like he belongs in the DC Universe.

More importantly, Shatterstar is also one of the all-too-few queer superheroes.

His complex sexual identity broke new ground for LGBTQ+ representation in comics,

and his relationship with fellow X-Man Rictor led to the first male-male kiss in Marvel history.

I'm really hoping 'Deadpool 2' doesn't use it for joke fodder,

although they've made some surprisingly progressive choices,

like casting Zazie Beetz as the dynamic

Domino

Governments in the Marvel Universe have an unsettling obsession with eugenics,

just look at the first X-Men movie, it's all,

'I wanna be a mutant but not really but also mutants are bad but also I'm a fishman but also I can melt through bars and now I'm water.'

Senator Kelly 2020.

Domino was the result of yet another program designed to breed the perfect mutant.

Everyone wants the perfect mutant, it's like being the 'It' girl in 2005 except you get programmed to kill people.

After she escaped, Domino honed her fighting skills as a ruthless mercenary willing to take on all targets.

She and Cable helped form the paramilitary group Six Pack,

which led to her joining and eventually leading X-Force.

Not bad for someone who's superpower gets shit on by Deadpool.

I'm lucky.

Luck isn't a superpower. And certainly not very cinematic!

Yes it is.

Let's meet in the middle and say no it isn't.

I'm gonna have to disagree with DP here,

because Luck can absolutely be cinematic,

once you understand how it works.

Domino possesses telekinesis on a subconscious level.

She's not directly in control of her power,

but it kicks in whenever she's in danger to subtly shift the odds in her favor.

New plan! Use all of your imaginary powers to stop Cable from killing that kid!

If someone puts a gun to her head and pulls the trigger,

her power causes a jam.

If she gets launched into the air by a massive explosion,

she'll psionically maneuver herself into the safe and comfy arms of an inflatable panda.

At one point she even managed to take out two Sentinels with one extremely unlikely bolt of lightning.

It's really cool, and can totally work on screen… if you try.

I mean, probability manipulation is supposed to be the Scarlet Witch's thing too,

but the MCU didn't bother and just gave her vague wispy magic instead.

A lot of it is like this:

Really takes me out of it. Scarlet Witch is so much cooler in the comic books.

Elizabeth Olson you need to talk to somebody, get a good costume, and better powers because you could be messing stuff up.

Still, I bet a talented action director like David Leitch can play with the power in some really clever and surprising ways.

Speaking of surprises, 'Deadpool 2' introduces a mysterious, brand new member of X-Force:

Peter

Peter has no powers, no costume and no codename.

So obviously,

he's in.

Any power you wanna tell us about?

I have both type 1 and 2 diabetes.

As it turns out we are looking for someone with diabetes.

Peter's your man.

Naturally, this has theorists in a tizzy speculating over his 'real' identity.

Could he be Pete Wisdom, the British secret agent extraordinaire?

Morph or Mystique in disguise?

Hugh Jackman in a 'Mission Impossible' style mask?

Or maybe… JUST MAYBE…

He's a joke character with no deeper meaning besides

'it's hilarious to have a normal-ass dude running around with mutant maniacs.'

X-FORCE!!!

We'll have to wait for the movie to find out,

but we won't have to wait much longer for more X-Force.

The slightly derivative team is shooting a spinoff this fall,

just before the Disney/Fox merger is scheduled to finalize.

It could be the last stand for a group we've only just gotten to know.

It's an extremely strange, borderline parody version of X-Force,

but it's X-Force nonetheless.

And, as a fan of the weirder side of superheroes,

I hope they stick around for while.

CTA

Thanks for watching, everyone!

Who is your favorite member of X-Force?

Is it one of the movie characters,

Or did they leave out one of your comic faves?

Leave a comment, let me know,

Please subscribe,

And if you see a superhero recruitment ad,

Just believe in yourself and go for it!

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Is it possible to Change in 24 Hours? Eckhart Tolle - Duration: 25:27.

and we are here this afternoon not to add more to the accumulations that

already there not more knowledge not more experiences not more beliefs

satisfying as that might be for the sense of self if I could tell you just a

new fascinating belief and if you believe this then you will be fine

just believe this what does that mean believe this it means cling to this

thought form and let it complete your sense of self derive your sense

themselves from identification with this thought form and for a while it's

satisfying it's especially satisfying because now

while you totally cling to this thought form and you believe I've just been

converted to ISM this is amore that ISM and for that moment it's a while it's

very satisfying particularly because it puts you in a position of being right

and the rest of the world who don't share your belief hopefully there are

many who don't say it because that very strengthened their sense of separateness

of me great I know the truth and you don't so you don't get that here either

so we are here not to add more so on that level it is not satisfying to be

sitting here the whole afternoon because nothing is being given

not even stimulating to the mind not even interesting with a magazine

isn't that interesting we he really gave us food for thought so he we are here to

step out off quite simply identification was a content of the mind to step out of

the thought stream and reactive patterns that are part of that conditioning of

the self the mind mate self and also the emotions that

accompany the mind mate self of the thought movements of the mind mate so we

see it and then even to see it is the first you're taking one step out most

humans are still totally identified with the movement of thought and the reactive

patterns that are part of the conditioned sense of me and here

suddenly you see it so at the moment you see that movement this you have one foot

out it's still happening but the seeing is the arising of a deeper dimension of

consciousness sometimes in Buddhism they may call it the witness or the

witnessing presence where you can see a pattern in yourself a mind pattern or an

emotional pattern which means your sense of

suddenly is no longer in it you are not identified identify means comes from

Latin Edom vicara precarious to make Edom is the same to make the same si so

a thought becomes as if it were I as if there were I in it herself so when you

see it there's the beginning of freedom it's when you see how usually one is

totally identified not just with the mental image of me but the compulsive

thought activity that goes with deriving one sense of self from mental content

and because there's a sense of self in mind in thought thought has become

compulsive and the movement of thought the stream of thinking for most humans

hardly ever stops and a lot of the thinking of course is about me and my

problems and my future problematic my past unsatisfying hasn't really

fulfilled me and so the the compulsive mind movements that most people are

trapped in all day long which even psychologists who had no interest in

anything spiritual they observed the mind movements the thought movements of

normal human beings and realized that 99% of the thoughts that go through a

person's mind every day are repetitious they are the same thoughts that went to

their minds yesterday and last year and in many cases twenty years ago although

sometimes certain changes can happen nothing fundamental

so and you know how futile thought movements can be when there's nothing

you can do and you would be so much better off if you could just be fully

here without being compelled to have your attention in the mind stream so we

are here to step out of that and what I am suggesting to you this is just a way

of approaching it and if it were not happening to you already he wouldn't

even be here so it's not that you need to make it happen or I need to make it

happen to you that would be frustrating

and it would be stressful for me too are they going to get it so what I'm

suggesting and it only works because it's happening anyway so this my

function here is the Midwife to facilitate the birthing process but it's

the babies coming anyway babies came long before midwives ever

existed although that may be what the the earliest profession perhaps midwife

contrary to what some people say the earliest profession is probably to help

in the birthing process but even before there was anybody around babies were

coming so it's happening anyway it's just to speed it up one could say the

planet is running out of time one could say humanity is running out of time

really if we if the current dysfunction in the collective mind continues and we

have another 20th century or worse and it would be worse if there's no inner

change for another hundred years it would probably be the end of the planet

perhaps of humanity so it's we are running out of time for

the first time in history of time on this planet humanity we are running out

of time and this is not bad news but good news it is good news for the

individual human also I have met people who have come to listen to teachings on

their personal in their personal lives told me I am running out of time the

doctor has given me six months but now some of the the new age teaching

beautiful listening maybe don't work reply to me anymore they say because

they say you can make it and I'm sure it six months isn't in enough to complete

me not on that level and so something to say whatever you want to achieve you can

this is true on its own level but it when you are running out of time you

isn't time anymore for that so there's something more fundamental and whenever

a human being runs out of time that is the greatest opportunity opening up

because that human being is running out of future which is the escape for the

mind made self this is where it perpetuates itself to continuous focus

on future the needing it interfering it and moving between the two that's how

the self perpetuates itself and all it does it brings the past obscures the

present so the past is more of the same in future and so if a human being runs

out of time it's the most wonderful thing that can happen from the point of

view of the mind made self it is the most dreadful thing that could happen to

me of course the truth is everybody is running out of time on a personal level

it doesn't really matter whether you have six months or one year or 40 years

or 50 years it's not that much and it's fleeting it goes as you're

sitting on this express train of time

was that it yes it's time to get off the train stops for one moment and then you

get off that's it that was your life and maybe then you bought another train who

knows we go through it again I haven't arrived yet collectively

running out of time this is why there is an acceleration now in so many humans

want to be free are ready to go beyond the conditioning of thousands and

thousands and thousands of years of collective conditioning that is which is

increasingly becoming too small more dysfunction in this world because we're

getting to the end of an evolutionary cycle the closer you get to the end the

more dysfunctional it appears to be and this is how it has to be it's beautiful

ultimately even the madness of human history 20th century ultimately that's

all how it happens within the totality that also makes sense but it also makes

sense to see it now for us as madness and distrust that's part of the waking

up to recognize that so here's the midwife helping just to speed up the

birth process of a deeper dimension of consciousness that is emerging that has

nothing to do with your past that has nothing to do with your life situation

whether it's good or bad at this moment they can't they vary a

lot and that's allowing that to emerge what I sometimes call the unconditioned

consciousness I may give you some more pointers so how I may suggest to you

just a few helpful approach is what I call portals ways in which you can allow

that which wants to emerge to emerge instead of resisting it so this one

could call portals into the state of presence a portal is an opening it's a

doorway it opens up a portal into the state of presence one could say or you

could say it is a portal through which presence comes emerges

now some portals appear in everybody's life and they can be called involuntary

portals for example great loss the opposite of what the self wanted which

is more happens to you which is less so live an involuntary

portal happens to you until happens to every human being usually is not

recognized as a portal because it's only potential portal when you don't

recognize it it may not be able to fulfill its function you run away from

it into more future but any loss especially significant loss in your life

is an involuntary portal into the state of presents the

unconditioned consciousness so this isn't something that we need to explore

here but because that simply happens life does that to you you can't make

that happen it life sooner or later will remove

things from you the movement of the self within the opposite direction accumulate

more to be more of me and then at some point life comes in and and because it

tears something out of the an external thing disappears from your life that you

had identified with as me the thought form suddenly has no foundation anymore

the building has collapsed the company that I spent 30 years building up has

gone bankrupt thirty years of effort of making myself and my family and two

thousand two two thousand other people unhappy of trying to make it and it's

all been in vain it's a little example that means the thought form of me having

achieved this great thing and built up this company and a very temporarily

satisfying thought form suddenly has no foundation anymore because the external

structures have collapsed in the thought form then begins to shake of course it

cannot sustain itself unless you become insane and say no it never happened

I still have it this happens - its total denial and then you can keep the thought

form that I am still important but usually when the external foundation of

a thought form has been removed the thought form itself becomes shaky and

then also crumbles and that leads to great unhappiness in

the human being because the very foundation of oneself has become

threatened and this is the most dreadful thing it happens to humans and it is not

usually recognized as a potential for something else but occasionally it works

and then a person may experience great loss in his or her life and is so

stunned and it sometimes happens when there's loss not of one thing but

several things all at once that means every time something is removed from you

and a thought-form collapses that was linked to that an opening happens in the

stream of mind an opening happens because a form has dissolved first an

external form and then the corresponding thought form a sense of self was

launched in that thought form and now it's gone this is called death it is the

experience of death on one level or another that is very painful from one

side the death is and so the temptation not to face that is very great to run

away into a few chains say I'm going to build up another company I'll spend

another 30 years I'm going to show them that I can make it in perhaps you can

and then eventually the same thing happens if the company doesn't collapse

you collapse

this is the most fundamental law of the physical universe that the structures

are unstable and it shocks humans every time that is not supposed to happen

they are supposed to be stable I was walking I saw this wonderful I was going

for a walk in near Los Angeles but outside in the park a wild nature

reserve there was a collapsed building that had

burned down 40 years ago and the roof was gone and trees were growing in the

inside the building and beautiful wonderful to see how form is returning

to the formulas they left it there just and there was a waterfall nearby but as

you entered that space that the City Council had put up a sign which I to me

was a sacred Sutra but they probably didn't regard it as a sacred sutra the

sign said danger all structures are unstable so that was a holy sign that I

thank you so sooner or later that comes and so the instability of that comes

into your life as an involuntary opening of a thought form that was invested with

self dissolving sometimes it happens if you don't run away from it you're so

stunned that you can't even run away from it that may happen if several

things are lost at once

and now a strange thing happens there was a ford form and deformed dissolved

and when a form deserves something that is formless shines through the opening I

call that although we must be careful not to mistake the labels for it

the label is only a little pointer the unconditioned pure consciousness the

light metaphorically speaking pure unconditioned consciousness shines

through whenever there is an opening left by a great loss or death form as

dissolved in your life and it's not resisted or denied or run away from at

first you shake and then suddenly as you're not running away from it you face

what is and people have reported that in the face of great disaster and tragedy

they didn't run away from suddenly an enormous influx of deep peace aliveness

and joy and they couldn't understand it

and it changed them forever and some people have glimpses of it even through

minor loss it can happen that you get a glimpse of that when it's not resisted

so this is important to know although we are not we cannot bring that about here

nor do we need to live it's live job to do that to you and by the grace of the

one god life the one intelligence it'll happen

and in many of you it's already happened and perhaps for quite a few of you that

was how the inner transformation began through that opening of great loss and

that is the only reason why you're here now if that had not happened you would

be watching TV now being happy in the ordinary state of unhappiness asleep so

one could say it's the great awakener to go through loss it is a potential

opening if you don't run away from it but so this is good to know so what is

usually condemned as bad by the mind and the mind may itself is actually grace

coming into your life

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Homeland Security Makes Terrifying Announcement – THIS IS IT - Duration: 14:14.

Homeland Security Makes Terrifying Announcement – THIS IS IT

Another day, another terror attack on the western world.

On Tuesday, Kori Ali Muhammad (born Cory Allen Taylor) shot and killed three men in Fresno,

California.

Muhammad also shot and killed a Motel 6 security guard on April 14.

The four dead shooting victims were white males.

Muhammad, a 39-year-old African-American male, told authorities after his arrest that his

plan was to shoot and kill white people.

And now, in the wake of the attack, the Department of Homeland Security has made a terrifying

announcement.

While being arrested, Muhammad cried out "Allahu Akbar!"

It is truly a sign of the times that so many Americans are all-too familiar with the Islamic

jihadist battle cry.

It should come as no surprise that the police have said that the shootings have nothing

whatsoever to do with terrorism.

The media will, of course, downplay the terrorism angle.

Also, expect no outrage over the racial hatred aspect of these murders, as would be the case

if the races of the victims and the killer were flipped.

It simply doesn't fit the narrative the Left likes to push.

With terror attacks becoming nearly weekly events in Europe, and becoming more and more

common in the U.S., it is worthwhile to examine what the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

has recently said about the issue.

According to an April 18 article from the Washington Free Beacon:

Federal authorities have open investigations into radical Islamic terrorists in all 50

states, according to the Department of Homeland Security, which is warning that the threat

of terrorism in the United States has reached an all time high with radicalized individuals

in the country plotting to strike "each and every single day."

The FBI has "open terrorist investigations in all 50 states," according to DHS Secretary

John Kelly, who disclosed on Tuesday that there have been at least 37 "ISIS-linked

plots to attack our country" since 2013, a number that shows no signs of diminishing.

Kelly, in his first wide-ranging public address on the threat of terrorism in America since

taking office, warned that America's borders remain wide-open and that there is evidence

terror-linked individuals are exploiting these national security weaknesses and entering

the United States.

Kelly continued:

"I tell you, without exaggeration, they try to carry out this mission each and every

single day and no one can tell you how to stop it.

No one," he said.

The United States, he continued, is "under attack" from a wide variety of bad actors,

including "failed states, cyber-terrorists, vicious smugglers, and sadistic radicals."

"And we are under attack every single day," he said.

"The threats are relentless."

The main takeaways from Kelly's statements are that the United States is at risk of terrorism

every single day, terrorists and potential terrorists exist in all 50 states, and the

threats originate from outside the U.S. as well as home-grown threats like the Fresno

shooter.

It should be added that the mainstream media and the Left are essentially aiding and abetting

terrorists by downplaying the risk of jihadist terrorism while decrying those who voice concern

to the growing threat as bigots.

The threat is great and the concern is warranted.

The current President clearly understand what is at stake, even if many don't.

Let's hope the efforts of the Left and the media to undermine the President's attempts

to make us safer

do

not succeed.