So what is in the Academy Awards swag bag … total value in excess of $200k. While many articles dtated the lush material aspects of Hollywood life, one nation took this opportunity for more insight into its PR methodology: a all-expense paid trip to Israel, worth $55k. Paid for by the PM Netanyahu’s own Office of Propaganda. Indeed, Israel calls itself a democracy although it is very much an oligarchy that can be bought for the right price.
The U.S. Congress has been bought by Israel and therefore its leaders can act with impunity to murder Palestinians ans flaunt International law with its occupation and resettling the West Bank from the Green Line to the Jordan River, fulfulling the dream of Zionism. The Jewish people read from the Old Testament and impose scripture to lay claim to land of the Palestinians. In every turn of conflict in the Middle East, including the attempt for cessation of hostilities in Syria, international and regional leaders refer to the injustice and plight of the Palestinians.
○ ‘Substantive and Rigorous’ Galilee Trip Paid for by AIPAC
The alliance between Israel and the Neoconservative wing in the Democratic and Republican parties of the U.S., is facing a harsh reality of a historic defeat of the US, Israel and Arab States by Russia’s military intervention on behalf of Bashar al-Assad. The George Bush and Barack Obama policy to overthrow the government of Syria has cost over 300,000 lives and hardship of refugees and displaced millions of its citizens. Exclusive news broadcasts in East and Western Europe is not about the war-torn Middle East, but about preserving “national” values and the “Judeo-Christian” principles which rejects the influx of refugees bearing the half-moon of Islam. Europe and its fascist political right-wing parties ought to be so proud of themselves. Europe in the 21st century, not so very different as to the turn of the 19th into the 20th century, some five scores ago.
Very much illustrative of Israel of today: gift-wrapped next to a breast lift, vibrator and vaporizer. The state of Israel, the illusion of a democracy and human values. Get a thrill from the 2016 Oscars in Hollywood … all white btw as the American cities burn with police brutality. [Israel’s academy to train not only US Armed forces but also police captains to suppress domestic protest. From kibbutz Beit Alfa and agriculture in the Jordan Valley to manufacturing Special Purpose vehicles (Beit Alfa Technologies) for IDF and riot control to African nations and Erdogan’s Turkey]
May the upcoming regional power of Iran with the results of yesterday’s parliamentary election, continue on a path of reform leading towards acceptance of political diversity and human dignity. May the transformation of the greater Middle East lead to peace and not war. May it lessen the militant forces of religion in Jerusalem at the Temple Wall, Mecca of the hajj and Karbala/Teheran the center of Shiiites.
Our Swag Bags, Ourselves | The Atlantic |
Was it the Vampire Breast Lift? Or maybe the Haze Dual Vaporizer? Or maybe the Nuelle Fiera vibrator? Whatever it was (it was probably the vibrator), 2016 has proved to be the year that a longstanding Oscar tradition–the absurdly expensive and also just absurd gift bags handed out to losing nominees–seems, officially, to have Gone Too Far: Last week, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences sued Distinctive Assets, the marketing firm that has long provided the sassy swag, for trademark infringement.
The lawsuit contended, essentially, that the party favors to end all party favors–and, more specifically, their vampy/vapey/vibey contents, this year said to be worth $232,000 in all–were giving the awards show a bad name. The so-called “Everybody Wins” bags were dirty alloys, basically, to Oscar’s gold.
… the role the bags have played in the strange sub-economies of the ultimate American awards show. “The Oscar Gift Bags Are So Lavish That Even the Academy Is Embarrassed,” New York magazine declared.
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Yahoo made a video “Dissecting the Outrageously Valuable, Not to Mention Ridiculous, Oscars Gift Bags.” GOOD offered its own look, “Inside the $200,000 `Unofficial’ 2016 Oscars Gift Bag“–under the ambiguous rubric of “poptimism.”Blasting News took things to their logically Marxist conclusion: “The Rich and Oscar-famous are Spoiled whil Thousands Go Withoot.”
- ○ LA Times Runs BDS Ad Advising Top Oscar Nominees To #SkipTheTrip To Israel
○ Israel’s research: development and promotion of remotely operated means of delivering or dispersing riot control agents [pdf]
○ Will Israel’s “whiff from hell” weapon be used to crush US protests?
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My diaries @EuroTrib …
○ Dutch FM Timmermans An Apologist for Israel’s War on Gaza; etc., etc.
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