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Monday, September 25, 2017

Is this tagline an example of Aussie humour, or this tagline an example of mild Aussie anti-semitic humour?

Says a reader in NYC: ''I don't sense any humor, but the antisemitism is all too clear.''

Is this tagline an example of Aussie humour, or this tagline an example of mild Aussie antisemitic humour?

SEE VIDEO FIRST HERE and wait for the tagline in text only at the very end of the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9UnNq9srog&feature=youtu.be

The tagline on this advert reads: ''YouTube has declared this ad offensive, and, [as a result] it is not eligible for monetization. Hence the censorship from the Jewish ADL [Anti-Defamation League] is dictating what is acceptable and where the world's [International Jewish Conspiracy] advertising dollars go. [Non-Jewish Australian] creators [of this Aussie ad] are now denied A$100,000,000 as YouTube funnels revenue to their chosen creators [the Chosen People].''

Without brackets: ''YouTube has declared this ad offensive, and it is not eligible for monetization. Hence the censorship from the Jewish ADL [Anti-Defamation League] is dictating what is acceptable and where the world's advertising dollars go. Creators are now denied A$100,000,000 as YouTube funnels revenue to their chosen creators.''

CAN ANYONE IN AUSTRALIA EXPLAIN THIS HUMOUR OR CAN THE PEOPLE WHO RUN THIS YOUTUBE CHANNEL -- Geeeetube -- explain their reasoning?

Several newspapers and websites in Australia and the USA and the UK and Canada are now looking into this in order to find out who was behind the humourous [or antisemitic] -- take your pick -- tagline at the end of the video, including the New York Times, the Sydnye Morning Herald, the Age, The BBC, The Guardian, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) in New York and the Times of Israel.

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Recently, the Australia Lamb PR campaign released a humorous video about religious gods from over 25 religions eating lamb together at an outdoor picnic. The official video site got over 1 million page views and it's hilarious.

It's funny, laugh at loud funny, and very well done from a video production point of view. The script is perfect, very well written and the director is a genius.
Well done, Australia! See the video here.
But some jokers in Australia made their own video on their own separate video channel and here it is. It ends on a bit of an antisemitic note when the tagline appears. (The tagline is not part of the official video, of course.)
Is this tagline at the end of the 2-minute video an example of Aussie humor, or this tagline an example of Aussie antisemitic hatred?
I honestly don't know. I have asked some Australian friends, Jewish and non-Jewish, and so far none of them want to go on record as telling me their true opinion on this.

The tagline on this advert reads, with my brackets for clarification: ''YouTube has declared this ad offensive, and, [as a result] it is not eligible for monetization. Hence the censorship from the Jewish ADL [Anti-Defamation League] is dictating what is acceptable and where the world's [International Jewish Conspiracy] advertising dollars go. [Non-Jewish Australian] creators [of this Aussie ad] are now denied A$100,000,000 as YouTube funnels revenue to their chosen creators [the Chosen People].''
Without brackets: ''YouTube has declared this ad offensive, and it is not eligible for monetization. Hence the censorship from the Jewish ADL [Anti-Defamation League] is dictating what is acceptable and where the world's advertising dollars go. Creators are now denied A$100,000,000 as YouTube funnels revenue to their chosen creators.''
CAN ANYONE IN AUSTRALIA EXPLAIN THIS HUMOUR OR CAN THE PEOPLE WHO RUN THIS YOUTUBE CHANNEL explain their reasoning?
Several newspapers and websites in Australia and the USA and the UK and Canada are now looking into this in order to find out who was behind the humourous [or antisemitic] -- take your pick -- tagline at the end of the video, including the New York Times, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age, The BBC, The Guardian, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) in New York and the Times of Israel.

Sunday, September 24, 2017

Meat Ad Triggers Protests: here is the Video of the Advert in Australia

Meat Ad Triggers Protests: here is the Video of the Advert in Australia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY0DgJoGz0M

Jeff VanderMeer‏ tweets: ''The reason climate fiction is not a subset of science fiction = you do not need a spec element to write climate fiction. Shld be obvious.''

Jeff VanderMeer‏ @jeffvandermeer TWEETS 9/22/2017

''The reason climate fiction is not a subset of science fiction = you do not need a spec element to write climate fiction. Shld be obvious.''

prehensile mane‏ @AmateurDullahan REPLIES TO JEFF:

回覆給 @jeffvandermeer

''But jeff! If we dont genre-fy every little aspect of scifi however will we market it /sarcasm''

Sam Dean‏ @SamAugustDean 9月22日 to JEFF

回覆給 @jeffvandermeer
''I'd def read you interviewing Ghosh about his premise! If he somehow thinks all the climate fiction is bad, at least that's a real position''
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Jeff VanderMeer‏ @jeffvandermeer 9月22日

回覆給 @jeffvandermeer
''Meanwhile, a metric ton of climate fiction has been written since the 1960s and 1970s. I started in the late 1980s.''
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Jeff VanderMeer‏ @jeffvandermeer 9月22日

''The reason climate fiction is not a subset of science fiction = you do not need a spec element to write climate fiction. Shld be obvious.''

Cli-fi genre rising in non-English-speaking nations: Ecuador and Norway noted here

Research-dronninga

NRK

Det prestisjetunge magasinet The Atlantic har et stort oppslag om Lundes «cli-fi» – det hippe engelske ordet for «klimafiksjon». Så blir det en ...

Neste turnéstopp for Maja Lunde er New York og deretter London. Hun skal besøke Brooklyn Book Festival og BBC har valgt ut «The History of Bees» som Pick of the Week. Det prestisjetunge magasinet The Atlantic magazine har et stort oppslag om Lundes «cli-fi» – det hippe engelske ordet for «klimafiksjon». Så blir det en svipptur i oktober innom bokmessen i Frankfurt. Majas agent har fortalt oss at forlagsfolk fra hele verden allerede har booket møter med Norges nye literære stjerne.

El cambio climático contado en seis novelas

El Comercio (Ecuador)

Margaret Atwood también es uno de los referentes del Cli-Fi (ficción climática), el género literario ambientado en mundos devastados por las catástrofes ...

Gabriel Flores

Redactor (I)
gflores@elcomercio.com

El domingo pasado, la escritora canadiense Margaret Atwood fue ovacionada en el Teatro Microsoft de Los Ángeles. Ella es la autora de la historia de la serie ‘El cuento de la criada’, que ganó el Premio a Mejor Drama en los Emmy 2017.

Atwood también es uno de los referentes del Cli-Fi (ficción climática), el género literario ambientado en mundos devastados por las catástrofes naturales. En ‘El año del diluvio’, publicada en el 2009, narra la historia de Ren y Toby, dos mujeres que cuentan su lucha por sobrevivir en un mundo devastado por los abusos de las industrias farmacéuticas.

George Turner es uno de los escritores clásicos de este género. Él es el autor de ‘Las torres del olvido’, una novela ambientada en Melbourne, Australia, de mediados del siglo XXI. Entre las ruinas de esta ciudad destruida por los trastornos del cambio climático, la superpoblación y la carestía de alimentos aparecen personas interesadas en reconstruir lo que fue la vida humana.

La Cli-Fi está llena de historias en las que se ha advertido sobre las consecuencias del cambio climático. Una de ellas es ‘El mundo de cristal’, del escritor inglés J.G. Ballard y publicado en 1966. En esta obra los protagonistas son una serie de animales extraños, una selva cristalizada y el médico británico Edward Sanders, quien recibe la misión de desplazarse a una remota región de África, para ayudar en el combate contra una variante de la lepra.

‘La carretera’ publicada, en el 2006, por Cormac McCarthy, narra la historia de un mundo bañado impregnado por el gris, polvoriento y lúgubre. En esta novela, un padre y un hijo recorren una larga carretera de Estados Unidos, donde el paisaje está literalmente quemado por un reciente holocausto nuclear. Los protagonistas huyen de las inclemencias del frío y de bandas de caníbales acompañados de un carrito de compras. El libro ganó el Premio Pulitzer en el 2007.

Una de las obras más populares de los últimos años es ‘Solar’, de Ian McEwan. La historia es protagonizada por Michael Beard, un físico que recibió el Premio Nobel. Este personaje tiene más de cincuenta años y se encuentra en el tramo final de su quinto matrimonio. También es la cabeza de un instituto estatal para la investigación de las energías renovables que esconde las visibles causas del calentamiento global.

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1. Neste turnéstopp for Maja Lunde er New York og deretter London. Hun skal besøke Brooklyn Book Festival og BBC har valgt ut «The History of Bees» som Pick of the Week. Det prestisjetunge magasinet The Atlantic magazine har et stort oppslag om Lundes «cli-fi» – det hippe engelske ordet for «klimafiksjon». Så blir det en svipptur i oktober innom bokmessen i Frankfurt. Majas agent har fortalt oss at forlagsfolk fra hele verden allerede har booket møter med Norges nye literære stjerne.

SVALBARD (NRK): Vi har hengt i hælene på Norges heiteste forfatter mens hun slukte Svalbard.
– Hvordan er det i hodet ditt nå, Maja?
– Det koker.
Forfatter Maja Lunde har vært på Svalbard i fire dager. Fire dager med et intenst og tettpakka program. Verdens nordligste litteraturfestival, TV-program-innspilling, litteratur-cruise og sosialisering med andre forfattere og journalister.

Og research. Mye research. Maja rører ikke tastaturet før hun har scannet alt som finnes av tilgjengelig kunnskap. Det er i denne fasen hun finner all inspirasjon.

Den internasjonale megasuksessen «Bienes historie», som visstnok selger for to millioner i uka (!), er ... historie, oppfølgeren «Blå» er snart i butikken. Nå er det tredje- og fjerdeboka i det som skal bli en klimaroman-kvartett som putrer i hodet på Maja. Ny kunnskap og nye opplevelser som med tid og stunder – og kjærlighet og arbeid – kan bli reisverk i nye romaner.
Og det er ikke tilfeldig at klimaforfatteren ville hit. Svalbard er det stedet i verden der klimaendringene skjer raskest. Det er seks år siden temperaturen var under normalen på flyplassen. Øygruppen har fått den tvilsomme æren av å bli et klimakatastrofisk utstillingsvindu. Det er hit man tar verdens toppolitikere for å motivere dem til å signere Paris-avtaler.
Maja har vært høyt og lavt under besøket – ikke et våkent minutt er gått til spille. Ting hun finner ut av her kan bli helt sentralt i en kommende bestselger.
Pyramiden. Den fraflyttede sovjetiske bosettingen er en gave fra himmelen hvis du er glad i emneknaggen #abandonedplaces på Instagram. Basketballbane, kantine, dansestudio, musikkrom, kinosal og svømmehall. Alt har stått og forfalt i 20 år. Likevel er stedet underlig levende.
– For meg som skriver dystopier, så er det å få besøkt en forlatt by en våt drøm. Virkelig! Det er som å gå rundt i noen av de samfunnene jeg har sett for meg.

Saturday, September 23, 2017

Atwood speaks after the Emmys telecast about her view of the Handmaid Tale vs Gilead vs Scientology here, [REAL QUOTES]

ATWOOD SPEAKS

Margaret Atwood, author of ''The Handmaid's Tale'', the 1985 novel that was adapted by Hulu for a TV series in 2017, has recently spoken out -- just two days after the Emmys -- about how she views this ongoing media brouhaha over Lizzie Moss, star of the Hulu TV series who won an Emmy winner for her role as well, and Moss's connections to the ''cult'' of Scientology.

When this blogger a few days after the Emmys were announced asked Ms. Atwood if she was aware of the brouhaha over the Moss/Scientology flap and if she knew or was aware that Scientology is a massive fascist self-help fraud concocted by a deeply-flawed American sci-fi writer and mass movement sweet-talking con man, L. Ron Hubbard , Atwood replied in a friendly manner, saying more or less, paraphrasing [who cares, she's not hurting anyone, it's her personal journey and if she likes being in it, that's fine].

And this blogger has to say that as an outside observer of all this meshagus, I agree with Ms. Atwood. Still, it's interesting, her point of view.

THE VERBATIM QUOTES: (which came in two separate emails a few days after the Emmys were announced)

Atwood told this blogger when asked if she was aware that Scientology was a fascist cult and Moss was in it: "Nah, her parents were [Scientology members so she was born into it]. And [her parents were of] the mild Hollywood kind. [Elisabeth is] about as fascist as my bedroom slippers. Nixon was a Quaker [after all]. As Fanny Silberman ( the model for Lily in ''Moral Disorder'' and a Holocaust survivor) used to say: "There's good and bad of everyone." You are what you do. Not what you be. Doo be do be do. If someone wants to believe people came out of a giant clam, that's fine with me, as long as they aren't Mean."

Atwood added in a second comment when asked if it was worth it to criticize cults like Scientology and its relation to Gilead: ''....if I take on one religion, then I'd have to take them all on. I am a strict agnostic.( In the minds of us strict agnostics, atheism is itself a religion.) Please, look at the origin stories of the major (and minor) religions. Look at their past practices. (Mormons, anyone?) (Quakers, anyone?) Read "The Evolution of God" By Robert Wright. Read "Behave," Robert Sapolsky. (Why do we behave the ways we do, with every conceivable factor considered, including genes and upbringing) Then we can talk about evil cults.''

[So. Yes. She has spoken. I find her comments interesting, and I more or less agree with her. What do others think? Some reporters in Canada and USA might look into this more and get even more amplification and clarification. It's a worthwhile global discussion. Other media outlets might pick up on this pro and con.'

Friday, September 22, 2017

WWMAD -- "What Would Margaret Atwood [Say or] Do?" -- Re: The Elisabeth Moss/Scientology vs Gilead HULU TV series brouhaha

WWMAD -- "What Would Margaret Atwood [Say or] Do?" -- Re: The Elisabeth Moss/Scientology vs Gilead HULU TV series brouhaha after the Emmys telecast

UPDATED (September 23)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY0DgJoGz0M

W.W.M.A.D -- "What Would Margaret Atwood ...[Say or]... Do?" -- Re: The Elisabeth Moss/Scientology vs Gilead HULU TV series brouhaha

From the Department of Amplification and the Department of Humor:

ATWOOD SPEAKS

Margaret Atwood, author of ''The Handmaid's Tale'', the 1985 novel that was adapted by Hulu for a TV series in 2017, has spoken out a bit, but not much, about how she views this ongoing media brouhaha over Lizzie Moss, star of the Hulu show and an Emmy winner for her part as well, and Moss's connection to the ''cult'' of Scientology -- it is definitely NOT a ''religion,'' according to those who have been in it and left it: see Tony Ortega's very good website at https://tonyortega.org/2017/09/19/tonights-paul-haggis-calls-out-scientologys-celebs-damn-them-for-being-purposely-blind/#disqus_thread

When this blogger recently asked Ms. Atwood a few days after the Emmys telecast if she was aware of the brouhaha and if she knew that Scientology was a massive fascist self-help fraud, Atwood replied in a friendly manner, saying more or less, paraphrasing [who cares, she's not hurting anyone, it's her personal journey and if she likes being in it, that's fine]. And I have to say that as an outside observer of all this meshagus, I agree with Ms. Atwood. Still, it's interesting, her point of view.

THE QUOTES:

Atwood told this blogger when asked if she knew that Scientology was a fascist cult: "Nah, her parents were [Scientology members so she was born into it]. And [her parents were of] the mild Hollywood kind. [Elisabeth is] about as fascist as my bedroom slippers. Nixon was a Quaker [after all]. As Fanny Silberman ( the model for Lily in ''Moral Disorder'' and a Holocaust survivor) used to say: "There's good and bad of everyone." You are what you do. Not what you be. Doo be do be do. If someone wants to believe people came out of a giant clam, that's fine with me, as long as they aren't Mean."

So W.W.M.A.D? She has spoken. I find her comments interesting, and I more or less agree with her. What do others think? Some reporters in Canada and USA might look into this more and get even more amplification and clarification. It's a worthwhile global discussion. Other media outlets might pick up on this pro and con.

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REFERENCE:

Elisabeth Moss defends ''Scientology'' (sic), [since it is not a ''science'' at all but a psychobabble scam fraudulent cult) after an InstantGram fan compares it to Gilead in ''The Handmaid's Tale''

http://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/elisabeth-moss-sounds-like-she-kind-of-wants-to-stop-being-asked-about-scientology-in

Thursday, September 21, 2017

YouTube News VIDEO: .....3 minutes...... - Climate Change Nurtures a New Genre Of Science Fiction Called ‘Cli-Fi’

VIDEO: 3 minutes - Climate Change Nurtures a New Genre Of Science Fiction Called ‘Cli-Fi’ https://youtu.be/_6LBh02zBgQ