Starwhackers Patrol, please note:
Here, again, we see that Peter Jackson is an incredibly clever and perceptive man, who knows (like Marlon Brando, Michael Jackson, Dave Chapelle, Randy Quaid and so many others) exactly how Hollywood works - and dodges a massive bullet.
The obvious, conscious decision to portray Wormtongue is the most pale, pasty, creepy Anglo vision of vile treachery spared him all hell to pay later....
Possibly sensing this, someone gave Whoppi Goldberg the idea to bitch onstage at the Oscars that year regarding the lack of diversity onscreen in Lord of The Rings.... Which are, after all, based directly on Anglo-Saxon and pre-Norman British folklore tails, a attempt, consciously, to create a British mythology, a story for all the folk history of people and place, along with its own creation narrative, which it uniquely, it has never had.
Oh, really ? Do you not remember the hell George Lucas took over his gay, Jamacian fish Rasta man, or his cowardly Asian aliens (whose characters were named Lott and Dodd and sat in the Galactic Senate, purposely f**king it up with proceedural log-jamming and corrupt filibusters, incidentally....)
Can you imagine if Brad Dourif's nose had been just half an inch more prominent...?
Diversity is a gift, especially in Hollywood, where audience share and connecting to the wider world as viscerally as possible (and drive up the grosses) is everything.
It's a gift : and as the Late Brother Steve Cokely teaches us :
"You gotta realise - sometimes, when we are being given something, we are being attacked"
Do the three Black Haitians still living in West Harlem really want to see a Black Aragorn, swing his (extra longj) broadsword around...?
Honestly, I don't think that they do. Nor will the presence of a Brotherman in the film make them all three put down their $15 to go and see the movie and tell all their friends.
Or, make them so much as give a fuck.
But that's not what they will tell you in Hollyood
"The second lesson I want to share with you is about learning from your failures.
I’ve been fortunate to have found success in my life and I know most of you will be successful as well, because you have the love of your parents and a college education from a great university. But that success will depend on what you do when you fail, because you will fail along the way. We all do.
1992 was a good year, as the President noted. I joined Bill Clinton’s long-shot presidential race as finance director. He was talking about hope, he wasn’t from Washington, and no one thought he could win.
It sounded so familiar.
We raised a lot of money that helped us spread our message and win a great victory.
Soon afterward, I was named political director in the White House. I was on top of the world, and in a pretty good job for someone just several years out of college.
But the truth is, it may have gone to my head a little bit, and I think you can strike the word “may.”
I probably shot off my mouth a few too many times and I problem picked up a few too many fights, and before I knew it my dream job was hanging by a threat. I was demoted.
It felt terrible, and here I was, thinking that I had messed up the biggest opportunity of my life.
But I didn’t give up. I didn’t quit.
I dug in and I dug deep. I refused to leave.
But I did try to act with a little less bravado and a lot more humility.
I threw myself into the efforts to pass the assault weapon ban, NAFTA, welfare reform, the crime bill, and while doing my best to prove that I could work well with others.
And by the way, that’s a work in progress sometimes.
“But that’s the second lesson in life: Learn humility and wisdom when you stumble, because it will help you when you succeed.
Being forced to come back from that failure is why I’m standing here today.
You will have failures in your life, but it is what you do during those valleys that will determine the heights of your peaks.”
Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, earned more than $18 million in just two and a half years when he left Bill Clinton’s White House, where he was an aide, to join big time Democratic donor and Wall Street dealmaker Bruce Wasserstein’s investment banking boutique, Wasserstein Perella & Company, as a consultant.
He also benefited from the sale of Wasserstein Perella to a German bank, which provided him with an unusually large payout, The New York Times reports.
Not only did the dalliance with banking make Emanuel rich, it provided him with strong ties to the banking sector at a time when the new Obama administration is planning a sweeping regulatory overhaul of Wall Street.
Emanuel says his links with bankers will not lead to special favors. “I would say I’ve been as tough on my friends as others,” he said.
“I call it like I see it.”
"The second lesson I want to share with you is about learning from your failures.
I’ve been fortunate to have found success in my life and I know most of you will be successful as well, because you have the love of your parents and a college education from a great university. But that success will depend on what you do when you fail, because you will fail along the way. We all do.
1992 was a good year, as the President noted. I joined Bill Clinton’s long-shot presidential race as finance director. He was talking about hope, he wasn’t from Washington, and no one thought he could win.
It sounded so familiar.
We raised a lot of money that helped us spread our message and win a great victory.
Soon afterward, I was named political director in the White House. I was on top of the world, and in a pretty good job for someone just several years out of college.
But the truth is, it may have gone to my head a little bit, and I think you can strike the word “may.”
I probably shot off my mouth a few too many times and I problem picked up a few too many fights, and before I knew it my dream job was hanging by a threat. I was demoted.
It felt terrible, and here I was, thinking that I had messed up the biggest opportunity of my life.
But I didn’t give up. I didn’t quit.
I dug in and I dug deep. I refused to leave.
But I did try to act with a little less bravado and a lot more humility.
I threw myself into the efforts to pass the assault weapon ban, NAFTA, welfare reform, the crime bill, and while doing my best to prove that I could work well with others.
And by the way, that’s a work in progress sometimes.
“But that’s the second lesson in life: Learn humility and wisdom when you stumble, because it will help you when you succeed.
Being forced to come back from that failure is why I’m standing here today.
You will have failures in your life, but it is what you do during those valleys that will determine the heights of your peaks.”
Both Paul Finney and Steve Cokely's research by 1993 had identified Rahm Emmanuel in Chicago as the leader of ADL attacks to remove and neutralise SPECIFICALLY BLACK elected officials representing Chicago and Illinois, as an existential threat to the State of Israel.
By 1993, Rahm Emmanuel was the Chief Mossad Agent operating under plain cover in the United States.
The same year he became Clinton's chief political advisor.
Rahm Emmanuel RAN the 2000 strong pre- 9/11 Mossad spy ring which compromised every facet of US Defence and Intelligence.
The 5 Dancing Israelis reported into, and ultimately, were sent by him, to film the event, flicking lighters in front of the burning towers for the camera.
Numerous White House correspondents, from Richard Woolfe to Bob Woodward confirm: at the height of the CIA Drone campaign in Yemen during late 2009, Emmanuel would religiously and gleefully telephone then-Director of Central Intelligence Panetta each morning at 9am sharp and ask, With a beaming smile each morning: "So, who've we killed today ?"
Paul Findley was Rahm Emmanuel's political blooding - in 1984, Rahm led the attack that resulted in Paul Findley being thrown out of office for meeting with the PLO.
Findley and Strauss
November 3, 1980
WASHINGTON (Nov. 2)
Rep. Paul Findley (R.III.), fighting for reelection against Democratic challenger David Robinson, has declared President Carter’s campaign chairman, Robert Strauss, gave him “full backing” on his contacts with Palestine Liberation Organization Chief Yasir Arafat and espousal of U.S. negotiation with the terrorist organization.
In Los Angeles, Strauss reportedly disavowed Findley’s statement and in Washington an aide to Strauss said Strauss “in no way encouraged” Findley in his PLO affairs. The report was first published in the Los Angeles Times, Oct. 19 which said in a dispatch from Springfield, III., by its reporter, Paul Houston, that Findley was in a tough battle because of his PLO contacts.
“Counter-attacking on the issue for the first time, ” the dispatch said, “he contended that his two meetings with Arafat and his correspondence with the PLO leader have the full backing of a rather prominent Jewish Democrat — Robert Strauss….”
“Findley said that in his contacts with Arafat, he conferred frequently with Strauss about what details were discussed and had received hand-written notes from Strauss that ‘recognized the importance and value of correct communication with Arafat.’”
Houston’s dispatch noted that official Administration policy is that the U.S. will not deal with the PLO until it accepts United Nations Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338 and Israel’s right to exist. “Nevertheless, recently at the U.S. Capital, he (Findley) got another endorsement on his contacts with Arafat from Strauss,” Houston reported.
The Los Angeles Times’ bureau in Washington told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that it had no record of a response from Strauss either here or in Los Angeles. The JTA made repeated efforts here to contact Strauss but he is immersed in details in the last days of the election campaign and therefore not available for comment. But the JTA was informed that Philip Blazer, publisher of Israel Today in Los Angeles, said Strauss had totally disavowed Findley’s charges.
At the Carter-Mondale Campaign Committee’s offices here, a spokesperson told the JTA that she was informed Strauss had said Findley should be ashamed of himself and the story was not worth commenting on.
Read more: http://www.jta.org/1980/11/03/archive/findley-and-strauss#ixzz2cQbRCoO5
Busted. Right Back In 1993. By Black People.
Five Dancing Israelis
False Flag.
(Is he using a concealed onion...?)
I never ceases to stun me when Isrealis speak of shame.
You drop White Phosphorus on children...
A few short months, later: "I couldn't agree with you more, Mitt!"
White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday invited Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington for talks with the U.S. President Obama on regional peace and security.
"On behalf of the President I am happy to extend an invitation to visit President Obama in the White House for a working meeting to discuss our shared security interests, as well as our close co-operation in achieving peace between Israel and its neighbors," Emanuel told Netanyahu at the prime minister's Jerusalem office.
Israeli sources said that Obama's snap decision to invite Netanyahu to Washington was an attempt to obliterate the memory of the two leaders' previous White House meeting in March, when reporters were barred and the White House did not release a joint photograph. The apparent contrast with Obama's warm and well-publicized meetings with Arab leaders in Washington was viewed in Israel as a deliberate snub.
The March meeting revealed serious differences of opinion between the two men, especially over Jewish construction in East Jerusalem. Netanyahu also failed to satisfy the U.S. with his answers to Obama's questions on final-status positions in the event of a peace deal with the Palestinians.
Israeli officials expect the upcoming meeting will include a photograph of the two leaders in the Oval Office and perhaps even a joint press conference.
The officials said Obama was keen to meet Netanyahu before Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas arrives in Washington in a few weeks. Israel thinks the White House will use the photo opportunity to forestall claims from Jewish groups and from within the Congress that Obama has shown a pro-Palestinian bias, they said.
Netanyahu's visit to Washington will be tacked on to the end of Netanyahu's previously scheduled trip to Canada. The prime minister will on Thursday fly to Paris for a meeting of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which Israel was recently invited to join.
On Friday, he will arrive in Toronto for meetings with the local Jewish community and will observe the annual Walk With Israel parade on Sunday before flying to Ottawa, the Canadian capital, for a meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Monday. He will then head to the United States.
In recent weeks, the White House has made great efforts to counter criticism of it stance aginst Israel. Last week, Obama met with Jewish congressmen to stress his commitment to Israel's security, while two key aides - Dennis Ross and Dan Shapiro - held similar talks with Jewish leaders. To show his commitment to Israel's security, Obama also approved additional funding for Israel's Iron Dome rocket defense system.
On Monday, Obama's special envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, used two speeches in Washington to praise Netanyahu for his efforts to advance the peace process, such as the declaration of a 10-month freeze on construction in the settlements and the removal of some checkpoints in the West Bank.
Mitchell also said he believed Netanyahu capable of reaching a peace agreement with the Palestinians.
Meanwhile, Netanyahu on Tuesday made his first public comment on the nuclear fuel deal that Iran struck with Turkey and Brazil earlier this month, under which Iran would send some of its low-enriched uranium abroad in return for reactor fuel.
"This is a transparent Iranian exercise in deceit, whose purpose is to divert international public opinion from Security Council sanctions against Iran," he told the Knesset. "This is an empty offer, because Iran would retain enough uranium to produce a nuclear weapon."
However, he praised the Obama administration for its efforts to get the Security Council to pass a new sanctions resolution against Iran.
