More on The 2016 Academy Awards

[Mark Gordon Brown]

I listened to Joe speak of the Oscars. I would like to add a few things to it all.





Biggest was the whole diversity dialog leading up to and during the Oscars.



I believe that “actors of color” were “shunned” in the nominations on purpose to create the agitprop Theater that was the 2016 Oscars. The President of the Academy is a Black Woman. The host of the show a Black Comedian. It was not at all about diversity in the bits but why were their not more Black actors nominated. Not why were there more Black, Asian, etc actors nominated.



Also there was one backdrop that had Oscar Statues arranged in looked like Brugel's Tower of Babel, the symbolism of this in regards to diversity should be obvious.



Sam Smith who won best song when he sang that song had his face in shadow thus giving us a One Eye symbol through that performance.



Then there was Leo DeCaprio winning best actor and continuing his Global Warming Climate Change Carbon Tax preaching. The problem is that what Leo said was wrong. He stated that his film The Revenant had to move production from Alberta (where I live) to Chili to find even a little bit of snow to finish the shoot. “we had to go to the very tip of the Southern Hemisphere to find even a little bit of snow”. Now this has already been vetted and debunked here in Alberta and the rest of Canada. Even Canadian Global Warming activist have called Leo out on saying something so stupid. You see what happen is that there was a Chinook, a weather phenomenon that happens most years, while they were finishing up production and then it became Spring and Summer in Alberta and the snow melts in Spring and Summer in Alberta. So they had to move to Chili where it was fall and winter and the snow came back.



I think Oscar Hungary Leo made a deal to someone to say this complete BS about the weather in Alberta to get his Oscar, either that or he is a complete idiot who does not understand the Seasons.

 

[Jerry Russell]

The wsws picked up on the hypocrisy of the "diversity" meme:

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/03/01/osca-m01.html

Quote:

The #OscarsSoWhite campaign, promoted relentlessly and uncritically in the media, reached almost hysterical proportions in recent weeks, with detailed “studies” including statistics, bar graphs and other data, online or in the pages of the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, USA Todayand elsewhere. In one article it was explained that Peter Dinklage, who plays Tyrion Lannister in HBO's Game of Thrones, could not be included in the “diversity” list because the dwarfism with which he was born does not appear as a category in US census statistics!

To say that this campaign is a diversion would be a gross understatement. It has absolutely nothing to do with issues of discrimination, equality or democratic rights. It falls under the rubric of the attacks on “white privilege”—attempts to obscure the fundamental class divide in society, to secure a bigger piece of the wealth of the super-rich for the most grasping and privileged layers of the middle class, and especially to divide the population and above all the working class on racial and ethnic lines.

Veteran black filmmaker Spike Lee, who first made a splash with Do the Right Thing (1989), is a prime spokesman for this layer. At an earlier ceremony where he received an honorary Oscar, which was rebroadcast last Sunday, he made the revealing comment that “it’s easier to be the president of the United States as a black person than to be the head of a studio.” Lee, a multimillionaire himself, is a champion of 21st century American capitalism and all of its crimes. He demands only the same kind of entrée into the ranks of the powerful Hollywood billionaires that Barack Obama secured as the leading spokesman of imperialism.

Several of Chris Rock’s jabs, whatever their intention, hit home against this smug layer of the upper-middle class. At one point Rock suggested jokingly that perhaps the solution was to have a category of “Black Oscars,” alongside those for women and men. A bit later he tweaked actor Will Smith, who joined his wife Jada Pinkett-Smith’s call to boycott the ceremony, remarking that Smith received $20 million for his latest film. The couple has a reported net worth of more than $200 million.

Remarks by Oscar winner Iñárritu must also be noted in connection with the “diversity” obsession. The 52-year-old Mexican director, who won for the second year in a row, urged society to “liberate ourselves from all prejudice”—and to make sure the “color of our skin becomes as irrelevant as the length of our hair.” After the ceremony, he elaborated, warning about “tribalism” and, as reported in the Guardian, “criticizing the #OscarsSoWhite movement for not ‘observing the complexity and beauty’ of ‘a multi-mixed country.’”

This more humane approach undoubtedly had other supporters at the Academy Awards ceremony. The promoters of identity politics represent a very narrow and privileged social layer. Confusion persists, however, as issues of race, gender and sexual orientation are divorced from the central social and historical questions. This is bound up with an orientation toward, and political and financial support for, the Democratic Party, specifically its nominal “liberal” wing.​

 

[Mark Gordon Brown]

Also because of revelation of the method magickal rules the elites seem to follow. The fact that Leo DeCaprio played The Great Gatsby just prior to starting his Carbon Tax crusade is an extremely important detail. They had to in some indirect way tell the public that Leo DeCaprio is a liar. So they used the character of Gatsby "a liar, manipulator of reality" for this notice to the public of planet earth of this. After that Leo could then begin these lies to convince the public to support Carbon Tax thus transferring more wealth to the elites via taxes. The elites are bound by their beliefs that those they are doing things to know in some way about what is being done. It is a rule that is in many magickal systems. I am using the Crowleyian spelling of magickal for the same reason as Crowley to make a distinction between it and state magic.

 

[lorenhough]

Also because of revelation of the method magickal rules the elites seem to follow. The fact that Leo DeCaprio played The Great Gatsby just prior to starting his Carbon Tax crusade is an extremely important detail. They had to in some indirect way tell the public that Leo DeCaprio is a liar. So they used the character of Gatsby "a liar, manipulator of reality" for this notice to the public of planet earth of this. After that Leo could then begin these lies to convince the public to support Carbon Tax thus transferring more wealth to the elites via taxes. The elites are bound by their beliefs that those they are doing things to know in some way about what is being done. It is a rule that is in many magickal systems. I am using the Crowleyian spelling of magickal for the same reason as Crowley to make a distinction between it and state magic.

Yes so true good stuff my friend ! LH

 

[Mark Gordon Brown]

Loren on an unrelated note I was glad to hear Joe say you are okay the other week. Since my first wife was from Fiji I have ties there as well. Still viewing her brother and sister and cousins as my Jijis and Jijas (Fiji Indians) of whom are all okay as well.