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John McCain is Not a Hero! 'Manchurian Candidate' His POW Commanding Officer Submitted a Charge of Treason to Military Prosecutors!
" John McCain was awarded a full pardon for his crimes by President Richard Nixon .Thus,the worst traitor in American history became the "war hero" to a generation.John McCain is Not a Hero! McCain was cited for crimes as serious as planning air defenses for the Hanoi government to aid them in downing American pilots!"(Author of this Article: Gordon Duff) I served as a Marine infantryman in Vietnam during 1969 and 1970. I managed to catch malaria, get hit by a handful of scrap metal and gain a permanent distrust for the US government, one that had been festering in me after the killings of John and Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther
King. Article First appeared: http://journal-neo.org/2013/10/27/ghosts-of-vietnam/
Little did I know then that the lessons I learned, the cynicism proven so correct,
nearly a half century of entropy, America the slowly rotting corpse we see today, those signs were there then for any to see.Forth three years later, the Vietnam War continues to define America, not through the accomplishments of war veterans instilled with courage and leadership gained through surviving a brutal struggle but quite the opposite.
Vietnam was a great evil. If genocide on such shallow pretense could be
perpetrated there, why not anywhere or everywhere? All that was needed
was to instill, not just obedience, that would be easy.
What kind of nation would elect, again and again, criminals and degenerates to high
office, each designated the "leader of the free world?"
The flotsam and jetsam of the Vietnam War, the short-lived "Age of Aquarius" and the
national descent into someone no one has been able to adequately
describe, are enjoying their waning days.Vietnam is still important, the war at least, but few understand why.
Within the first five years of the "end of the war," 50,000 veterans had already
died. Survival rates for amputees was low, thousands died of infection
and neglect in filthy veterans hospitals.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or so it is called today, was unimagined, unthought-of
and, most certainly, undiagnosed and untreated. It ravaged a
generation, filling prisons, destroying families and infecting
generations to come.
Nearly a million more veterans would die of exposure to Agent Orange, a defoliant still devastating Vietnam decades later.
Thousand more killed themselves. The same thing is going on today, the count of
veterans from the "Global War on Terror" that have died at their own
hand exceeded 30,000 by 2009. Since then, not only has America stopped
counting but it has buried that figure as well.
Now America talks about so many veterans a day or one every so many minutes, making
the numbers as small as possible and hoping nobody "does the math."
The Vietnam War is best known for those who failed to go rather than for those who
served. News anchor at CBS, Dan Rather, was fired for reporting that
President Bush (41) had evaded the draft. The documents he was given
were disputed.
However, they are now known to have been, not only accurate but much more of Bush's
"draft dodging" has come to light including clear evidence that he
simply "abandoned" his service in the Air Force Reserve and nobody said a
word.Similarly,
Vice President Cheney dodged the draft. In fact, the term "Chickenhawk"
was coined to describe a virtual "army" of politicians who favor war,
who reek of jingoism and phony patriotism but used every form of guile
and deception imaginary to avoid serving in Vietnam.
It is easy to see how America bullies the world, a nation ruled by physical cowards. Who goes into politics in America?
These were the kids no one would play with, the informers, the malcontents, the
weaklings of the schoolyard. Servility and corruption come easily to
them.
The two best known Vietnam veterans are John McCain and John Kerry.
The McCain story is a curious one. Records of McCain's period as a POW were
classified upon his return from North Vietnam. His commanding officer,
while a POW, was Colonel Ted Guy who submitted a series of charges to
military prosecutors citing McCain for, among other things, treason.
Thirty-three POWs faced court martial with McCain, by far, accused of the most
serious crimes. It was also McCain, son of an admiral who was also the
son of an admiral who had to be protected.
John McCain was awarded a full pardon for his crimes by President Richard Nixon.
Thus, the worst traitor in American history became the "war hero" to a
generation.
As American writer and humorist, Jim W. Dean, so often states, "You just can't make things like this up."
McCain was hounded by Marine Sgt. Major John Holland, Army Colonel Earl Hopper and
the CIA's Ted Sampley, all dead now, who cited McCain for crimes as
serious as planning air defenses for the Hanoi government to aid them in
downing American pilots.
Hopper credits McCain with helping shoot down sixty American aircraft. Others who
served with McCain claim it was John McCain that nearly sunk the nuclear
super-carrier USS Forrestal, killing or wounding nearly 300 of the
crew.
This would be funny if it weren't true. If John McCain had been around during World
War II, the two primary languages in North America would be German and
Japanese.
During McCain's time in the US Senate, when it was known that American POWs
were still being held in Southeast Asia, McCain worked to block
repatriation though evidence of surviving POWs was overwhelming.
It was then that John McCain began being referred to by those in the military,
intelligence and veteran's community as "the Manchurian Candidate,"
after the character played by English actor Lawrence Harvey in the John
Frankenheimer film of the same name.
Many Americans have wondered why Russia hasn't opened its intelligence files on
McCain, files that include recordings of 32 propaganda broadcasts he
made while a "prisoner."
**JFK Assassination WAS 'THE INTERVENTION' says John McCain! John McCain describes JFK's assassination as "The Intervention" with eyes open
wide,eyebrows up high and grabs his nose". Quickly says "err tragedy in Dallas"** WATCH THE SHORT McCain VIDEO AT THIS LINK; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gM9cfkPnnA
John Kerry
commanded a patrol boat in the Mekong Delta during the war. He served
only 90 days in Vietnam, being wounded three times, sufficient for him
to be removed from a combat zone. None of his wounds were severe or life
threatening.
During his 2004 run for the presidency, Kerry was attack by a group who referred to
themselves as "Swift Boaters." Though Kerry was backed by his crew and
other boat commanders, this group of veterans underwritten by
billionaire political extremist T. Boone Pickens accused Kerry of
cowardice.
Pickens offered to pay $1 million to a charity of Kerry's choice if his
accusations were proven false. Many though the "Swift Boaters" cost
Kerry the election.
However, exit polls taken during the election showed that Kerry had actually won the
election over Bush in a near landslide. Evidence was brought to bear
that electronic voting machines were hacked and the election stolen.
In key voting precincts that guaranteed Bush an Electoral College majority, the
"electoral college" being the strange system the US uses from time to
time to override popular vote, nearly 200% of all registered voters cast
their ballots for Bush.
In previous elections, it had been rumored that even the dead voted. In 2004 even farm animals voted.
Mike Connell, the programmer cited for writing the code that stole the election. In
2008, Connell, facing questioning by a grand jury, asked the Justice
Department for protection. Connell told officials that his life was
threatened by Bush national security advisor Karl Rove.
Within days, Connell was dead, victim of an unexplained plane crash. There was no
explanation for the crash. The family said it was murder. There was no
investigation.
T. Boone Pickens never paid the million dollars though, in the end, overwhelming
evidence proved that he and his "Swift Boaters" were frauds. When I
criticized Pickens for backing out of his agreement, he contacted me by
email. Pickens seemed more than indifferent to his promise but
indifferent to the veterans that his money would have aided.
Kerry and McCain make a strange pair, supposed political opposites, both are
vastly wealthy, have always been close friends and have moved closer
together politically, as seen in John Kerry's short-lived period of
bellicose rhetoric against Syria.
Few can think of John McCain without considering his musical rendition of the Beach
Boys song, Barbara Ann, "Bomb - Bomb - Bomb....Bomb - Bomb Iran."
Kerry was the titular leader of the anti-war movement in the US, no question about
that. The movement floundered when it was led by young Marxists or bored
college students who would show at campus rallies between classes.
Returning veterans demonstrating voicing their outrage stopped the Vietnam War.
The military during Vietnam was filled with draftees and young
disillusioned idealists. One in three Marine infantrymen had IQ's over
120, qualifying them to be officers.
Lt. William Calley, the young Army officer credited with ordering the My Lai
massacre, leaving over 500 women and children slaughtered had an IQ of
89. He would be the template for the new "volunteer army," the force
that has served so well in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Kerry was always suspect, however. He lacked the feeling of rage so many of us
felt. If, so long ago, Kerry was being groomed for something, his career
in the senate, heavily punctuated with cozying up to the
military/industrial complex, we hadn't seen it.
We see it now.
The one that doesn't fit is Senator Chuck Hagel, now Secretary of Defense. Hagel
served in the Army in Vietnam, his background much the same as mine as
is his record of service.
At some point,however, Hagel becomes incomprehensible. Hagel, though a Republican,
has a record of standing up to the Israel lobby, something in itself
bizarre in Washington. He has seemed outspoken, voted as a moderate and
shown himself to be presidential material.
In Vietnam, combat infantrymen were, invariably, anti-war. This didn't necessarily
come from strong political beliefs or even liberalism.
The military, at this time, was largely drafted and recruited from the most backward
parts of the country. This is where Chuck Hagel is from, Nebraska.Hagel, a rare
cheerleader for the Vietnam War, moved from college to Washington, first
as a congressional aid then as a lobbyist.
From there, Hagel was moved from one position to another, steered into money,
steered into power, a "stalking horse" with populist views, carefully
groomed, now seemingly a "Manchurian Candidate" like McCain but yet
different, less volatile, less violent and potentially more dangerous.
Many felt that moving a Vietnam veteran, a real combat infantryman into the Department
of Defense's top slot would lead to military reforms and even signal a
loosening of the noose Bush era legislation put around America's neck.
America had become a police state and her police, her military and spy agencies had become an "uber-Gestapo."
We would see no reform from Hagel, instead he simply sat in the chair held by Donald
Rumsfeld and Robert Gates, his two utterly useless predecessors and
"maintained an even keel."
Did America lose its innocence in Vietnam?
The generation of Americans that fought World War II is called "the greatest
generation." In Russia, World War II is called "the great patriotic
war."
Vietnam was different. From a military standpoint, the forces sent to Vietnam were
probably the best and brightest, the most effective America had ever put
in the field.
That generation, my generation, fought a war to stay alive and fought a
second enemy, a corrupt military, a corrupt government in Washington, to
stay sane.It didn't work.
The real enemy was always here, in America. The Vietnamese won their freedom. Americans lost theirs.
Gordon Duff, Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War that has worked on veterans and POW issues for decades and consulted with governments challenged by security
issues. He's a senior editor and chairman of the board of Veterans Today. Especially for the online magazine "New Eastern Outlook".
This Article First appeared: http://journal-neo.org/2013/10/27/ghosts-of-vietnam/
The views of the authors do not necessarily coincide with the opinion of the editorial board.
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RAW VIDEO -- Boone County Sheriff Shoots 19-Year Old
This is unedited raw dash cam video of the incident in Hebron, Kentucky where a Boone County Sheriff shot and killed a 19-Year Old Samantha Ramsey after she tried to flee the scene.
The video starts at the scene of a previous automobile crash and then the deputy drives to the scene of the field party. For those who are impatient, go to 2:20.
The entire video was 48 minutes long but I cut shortened it by cutting off the end or rest of the video.
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Yorkie 'saved me' from Bigfoot
Bigfoot (also known as Sasquatch ) is the name given to a cryptid simian -, ape -, or hominid -like creature that is said to inhabit forests, mainly in the Pacific Northwest region of North America . Bigfoot is usually described as a large, hairy, bipedal humanoid . The term sasquatch is an Anglicized derivative of the Halkomelem word s'asq'ets .
ASHEVILLE, NC (WBTV) -
A Boone man says he was enjoying time in the North Carolina mountains when he saw a Sasquatch and his little dog chased the beast away.
It happened Thursday morning by a cabin Eric Walters was renting with his family near Asheville, he told WBTV.
"Our neighbors told us there was some bear activity and to be cautious," he said. "So, when walked the trails I've kept my Yorkie, Zippy very close."
Thursday morning, Walters says he thought I saw a bear and started filming on his cell phone.
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"I quickly realized it was not a bear, but a Sasquatch," Walters said. "Zippy could tell I was scared and got so riled up that he got loose and went after it."
Walters calls Zippy a "brave little guy," saying he chased the Sasquatch away." saved me from a possible encounter," Walters said. "I love him more than ever."
Walters initially shared his story with the Asheville Citizen-Times Thursday morning and says he knows people are skeptical.
"I've read that some people think I was a little over dramatic, but how would you react to a Sasquatch?" he asks.
He wants to reiterate how amazing his dog, Zippy, was in the situation.
"Yorkies are small in size but bigger than even a Sasquatch in heart."
http://www.wlox.com/story/29735031/video-boone-man-says-yorkie-saved-me-from-bigfoot?utm_source=wlox&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=3x2
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Boone County (Belvidere) IL Sergeant Accused of Harassment, Jury found guilty
BOONE COUNTY (WIFR) -- A jury
has found a Boone County Sheriff's Sergeant guilty of harassment. 23
News Reporter Meghan Dwyer looked into the allegations.
Anita Christensen, Accused Boone County Sergeant of
Harassment, "He followed me from place to place that i went, he went and
sat in front of my work places. he would tailgate me.""I was terrified
of him."
It all started in 1998..a beef between a Belvidere
City cop and a County Deputy. But it turned into much more than that
when the Deputy Ed Krieger began following his enemy's girlfriend all
over town.
"Their cars were marked with the
badge number on the front fender on each side. Over the years I learned
what he looked like, and what kind of car he drove. when he was working
and when he wasn't working," Christensen said.
Christensen filed complaints with the Boone County
Sheriff's Department but got no response. Then she starting filing
lawsuits. She didn't get anywhere until last month when a jury found
Krieger guilty of harassing her.
Despite the jury's verdict Krieger's attorney says he
denies any wrongdoing. Because Boone County is such a small place there
are only so many Sheriff's Deputies on the streets at any given time
and anytime Christensen thinks she saw him, it was merely a coincidence.
The jury found Krieger guilty but they didn't award Christensen any money. It's a verdict she says sends the wrong message.
"They gave him the same message that the Sheriff's
Department has been giving him for the last 10 years. it's okay. it was
wrong for you to do it but there's no punishment," Christensen said.
Calls to the Boone County Sheriff Duane Wirth were
not returned. Christensen says she hasn't seen Krieger since the jury
verdict came down. He was promoted to Sergeant in 2007.
http://www.wifr.com/home/headlines/Boone_County_Sergeant_Accused_of_Harassment_148928925.html
Note: Boone County is actually a big place. Its includes Caledonia, Popular Grove, Garden Prairie, Capron, Timberlane, and Belvidere.
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RAW VIDEO -- Boone County Sheriff Shoots 19-Year Old
This is unedited raw dash cam video of the incident in Hebron, Kentucky where a Boone County Sheriff shot and killed a 19-Year Old Samantha Ramsey after she tried to flee the scene.
The video starts at the scene of a previous automobile crash and then the deputy drives to the scene of the field party. For those who are impatient, go to 2:20.
The entire video was 48 minutes long but I cut shortened it by cutting off the end or rest of the video.
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Boone's Farm: Strawberry Hill Wine (70's TV Advert)
Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill Commercial. Doesn't that wine taste good? A couple of bottles of that stuff and it was the porcelain bowl forever.
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April Love - 1957 - Pat Boone.
This is for roll1981 because he just hates that new fangled music hippy stuff..............
video from the "Organization Pat Boone".
Oh man, I see a cat fight brewing in the entralled audience............
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Do Democrats actually listen to T Boone Pickens
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T. Boone Pickens on US Energy Independence
interesting watch
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T. Boone Pickens On The View
T. Boone Pickens appeared on The View to talk about his energy plans, and gets some dumb-ass questions from Joy (SHOCKA!)
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The Post-American Bandstand with Pat Boone
He's the President who's always got something to say and somewhere new to say it. On Pat Boone's Post-American Bandstand, they're celebrating him with a song
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T. Boone Pickens Wants To Drill!
America:
A vote for a democrap, is a vote for $8.00 dollar a gallon gas.
Thats not smart.
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Pat Boone offically gone nuts
Pat Boone was once a well known singer,entertainer and millionaire....that is until he took his millions and made a very bad business decision...he decided to make a basketball team called the Oakland Oaks which lasted from 1967-69. It just so happened they won the ABA championship in their final year in 1969 but immediately began a financial meltdown and cost Boone upwards of 1.2 million. But Boone was always a heavily religious man...and here in this clip taken in 1992 he is with Father Harold Bredesen who helped Boone take whatever he had left financially and linked him with the church. The rest....well take a gander.
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George Foreman Fights 5 Men in 1 Night
in 1974, things came tumbling down for the unbeatable champ. He took on Muhammad Ali in a tight defense...The Rumble In The Jungle...After eight rounds, Ali knocked out the previously undefeated champion Foreman.For Ali, the victory sparked a huge career. He was (and still is) one of the greatest boxers in history. For Foreman, the roof caved in.
Desperate to put his name back on the map, months later, George Foreman re-emerged with one of the most bizarre ideas in boxing history. Like something out of a WWE pay per view.On April 26, 1975, in Toronto, George Foreman would fight... five men. The idea being that Foreman would fight five men, knock them all out, recapture his mental edge and thrill the public watching on Wide World of Sports. The reality was it was just stupid.
Unfortunately for Foreman, from the moment he arrived in the ring, boos surrounded him throughout the crowd. To make matters worse for Foreman, Muhammad Ali was commentating from the sidelines, whilst throwing plenty of verbal abuse at him.His first opponent, Alonzo Johnson, was no real match for Foreman. Despite Foreman's creepy-like dancing and goofing about, he put the fight to bed quickly in the second round.Jerry Judge was the next man to enter the ring. Foreman matched his words once again, knocking him out in the second round. It was after the second knockout that things started to get interesting...
After the fight came to a halt, the two brawled and were then joined by their cornermen. When the ring was cleared, fans started throwing things into the ring. Foreman started throwing the things back. Meanwhile, Ali, would occasionally stand and lead the crowd in loud chants of "Ali! Ali! Ali!"Back to the fights. Terry Daniels, a former title challenger vs Joe Frazier, was the third opponent. Foreman was awarded a TKO win. Daniels and Foreman fought after the stoppage, and the entire event started looking like it was going to turn into a riot.Enter challenger four. Charlie Polite."This is the weirdest thing you will ever see," said commentator Cosell.
Polite entered the ring with a pretty lousy record, but made a name for himself by the time he had left the ring. He got away with blowing Foreman kisses in the pre-fight staredown, and ended up going the distance with George.The final fight also went the distance as Boone Kirkman survived a tiring Foreman's winging punches for three full rounds.This was the exhibition that was going to put Foreman back on top. The epic return of an incredible bad ass.It was epic. But in a bad way... A really bad way.It had turned into a psychological horror show.
The fans condemned him. Ali publicly made a fool of him, mocking him from ringside. Yes he took on five fighters, but rather than looking like the champion he had hoped to be, he looked like a man who was out of his depth. Aside from the five opponents, he also punched an opposing cornerman, and even a couple of his own cornermen.Rarely will you ever see a man's psyche so exposed and battered in just over an hour.After the failed exhibition, Foreman strung together a few wins only to be upset by the light-hitting Jimmy Young. The loss ended any chance Foreman would have in getting a rematch with Ali.
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(Missouri) A muslim university professor drags 14 y/o down flight of stairs out of her school for not wearing hijab'
University of Missouri assistant professor charged with 'violently grabbing 14-year-old relative by the hair and dragging her out of school for not wearing hijab'
An assistant professor at an American university has been arrested for allegedly grabbing a 14-year-old female relative by the hair and dragging her into a car after he noticed she wasn't wearing a hijab.
Youssif Z. Omar, 53, was reportedly at Hickman High School in Columbia, Missouri, on Tuesday when he spotted that the girl did not have the traditional Muslim headscarf.
Officer Latisha Stroer told the Columbia Tribune in an email that Omar grabbed the girl 'very violently by the hair'.
He then allegedly slapped her across the face, and pulled her by the hair down and flight of stairs and into his car.
The next day, Omar was arrested on suspicion of child abuse while he was at his home on the 1700 block of Timber Creek Drive.
Omar's LinkedIn page lists him as being an assistant professor at the University of Missouri, Columbia and manager of Artifacts Journal at the University bookstore.
His Facebook page says he's married and originally from Benghazi, Libya. His LinkedIn profile says he was the head of the English department at the University of Benghazi Wahat Branch from 2003-2007.
He was released from the Boone County Jail after posting a $4,500 bond.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3338058/University-Missouri-Assistant-Professor-charged-violently-grabbing-14-year-old-relative-hair-dragging-school-not-wearing-hijab.html#ixzz3sucD3d00
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Ted Cruz: Trump Will Let Deported Immigrants Back In, I Won't
"He's advocated allowing folks to come back in and become citizens. I oppose that."
Ted Cruz said during an appearance in Iowa on Monday that there's a difference between him and Donald Trump on immigration.
The Texas senator, who is leading the field of Republican presidential candidates in Iowa according to the latest polls, was asked by a man in the state if, like Trump, he believed that all undocumented immigrants should be deported.
Cruz replied, "Absolutely yes.""And in fact, look, there's a difference," said Cruz. "He's advocated allowing folks to come back in and become citizens. I oppose that."
Cruz is on a six-day trip around the state to shore up support for his candidacy. He made the remarks during an appearance in Boone.
QUESTIONER: Both you and Donald Trump are really strong on immigration, but he supports deporting all the illegal immigrants. Are you willing to say the same?
TED CRUZ: Absolutely, yes. We should enforce the law.
Q: All?
T.C.: We should enforce the law.
Q: Ok.
T.C.: And in fact, look, there's a difference. He's advocated allowing folks to come back in and become citizens. I oppose that.
Q: So no citizens and all of them?
T.C.: So, if you read I have a very detailed 11-page immigration proposal that's on my website it's TedCruz.org. It was designed with Steve King and Jeff Sessions were the two who sat down with me to prepare it and it is enforce the law across the board.
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Drunk Cop Abuses K-9
Carlton, MN - A Ramsey County sheriff's deputy admitted Tuesday that he was "exceedingly drunk" when he was captured on video beating his police dog partner at a training event in Carlton County last summer.
Brett Arthur Berry, 48, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of animal cruelty at the hearing in Carlton County District Court. Berry has been subject to intense criticism after the surveillance video.
The video shows him repeatedly striking police dog partner Boone and slamming the dog into the ground on June 15 at Black Bear Casino Resort near Carlton.
Under questioning from defense attorney Kevin Short, Berry testified Tuesday that he was unable to recall details of the incident until he saw the video.
"Do you have any explanation for what prompted you to physically strike the dog?" Short asked."No," Berry replied softly, adding that he felt remorseful after viewing the video.
In exchange for the plea, Carlton County Attorney Thom Pertler agreed to drop an additional misdemeanor charge of assaulting a public safety dog.
Judge Leslie Beiers ordered a presentence investigation and scheduled sentencing for Feb. 17. Berry faces a maximum punishment of one year in jail and a $3,000 fine.
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Spike Lee ButtHurt!
Calls for Oscar boycott grow over lack of non-white nominees
Published January 19, 2016FoxNews.com
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FILE - In a Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015 file photo, Spike Lee attends the premiere of "Chi-Raq" at the Ziegfeld Theatre, in New York. Calls for a boycott of the Academy Awards are growing over the Oscars' second straight year of mostly white nominees, as Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith each said Monday, Jan. 17, 2016, that they will not attend this year's ceremony. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File) (The Associated Press)
NextAs calls for a boycott of this year's Academy Awards over the all-white list of acting nominees intensifies, the academy's president issued a statement late Monday promising a more intense drive to diversify the largely white, male voting body.
Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences President Cheryl Boone Isaacs's statement came after director Spike Lee and actress Jada Pinkett Smith each announced that they would not be attending the Feb. 28 ceremony.
In a lengthy Instagram post , Lee said he "cannot support" the "lily white" Oscars. Noting that he was writing on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Lee -- who in November was given an honorary Oscar at the Governors Awards -- said he was fed up: "Forty white actors in two years and no flava at all," he wrote. "We can't act?!"
Lee made a point of writing in his post that the Academy Awards is only part of the problem in an industry with deep-rooted diversity issues. In his Governors Awards speech, Lee said "It's easier to be the president of the United States as a black person than be the head of a studio.""The Academy Awards is not where the `real' battle is," wrote Lee on Monday. "It's in the executive office of the Hollywood studios and TV and cable networks. This is where the gate keepers decide what gets made and what gets jettisoned to `turnaround' or scrap heap. This is what's important. The gate keepers. Those with `the green light' vote."
In a video message on Facebook, Pinkett Smith, whose husband Will Smith wasn't nominated for his performance in the NFL head trauma drama "Concussion," said it was time for people of color to disregard the Academy Awards."Begging for acknowledgement, or even asking, diminishes dignity and diminishes power," she said. "And we are a dignified people and we are powerful."
She added: "Let's let the academy do them, with all grace and love. And let's do us differently." The video had amassed 4.5 million by mid-Monday afternoon.
Last year's all-white acting nominees also drew calls for a boycott, though not from such prominent individuals as Lee and Pinkett Smith. Whether it had any impact or not, the audience for the broadcast, hosted by Neil Patrick Harris, was down 16 percent from the year prior, a six-year low.
Isaacs has made a point of presenting a more inclusive show this year. The Feb. 28 broadcast will be hosted by Chris Rock and produced by "Django Unchained" producer Reginald Hudlin and David Hill.
The #Oscars . The White BET Awards. https://t.co/8qjLR0uysI
- Chris Rock (@chrisrock) January 15, 2016
The website NaughtyGossip reported Monday that Rock had come under pressure to pull out of hosting the show, but had not agreed to do so.
When Oscar nominations were announced Thursday, Isaacs acknowledged she was "disappointed" that all 20 acting nominees were again white and promised to "continue the conversation" on diversity. Isaacs has worked to diversify membership for the academy, which a 2012 study by the Los Angeles Times found is overwhelming white and male.
But on Monday, Isaacs was more explicit and promised an examination of the academy and a more intense drive to diversify.
"This is a difficult but important conversation, and it's time for big changes," she said in a statement released Monday night. "The Academy is taking dramatic steps to alter the makeup of our membership. In the coming days and weeks we will conduct a review of our membership recruitment in order to bring about much-needed diversity in our 2016 class and beyond."
Many awards handicappers expected nominations for Idris Elba of "Beasts of No Nation" and Benicio Del Toro for "Sicario." The N.W.A. biopic "Straight Outta Compton" also failed to earn a best picture nomination, despite some predictions it would. Ryan Coogler's acclaimed Rocky sequel "Creed" scored only a nomination only for Sylvester Stallone. (Lee's own movie, the Chicago gang violence hip-hop musical "Chi-Raq" -- celebrated by some and scorned by others -- also went unnoticed.)
The hashtag "OscarsSoWhite," created last year, was quickly resurrected online following the nominations. Rev. Al Sharpton -- who last year met with former Sony head Amy Pascal following leaked emails that some viewed as racist -- on Friday lambasted the academy."Hollywood is like the Rocky Mountains, the higher up you get the whiter it gets and this year's Academy Awards will be yet another Rocky Mountain Oscar," said Sharpton.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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ButtHurt B-movie actress / Tupacgroupie gets school from past co-worker over Oscar boycott
'Fresh Prince' Actress Slams Jada Pinkett Smith's Oscars Boycott With Video RantJanet Hubert, who played the first Aunt Viv, posted a video on Martin Luther King Jr. Day addressing the #OscarsSoWhite controversy, and Pinkett Smith's public decision to boycott the show.Janet Hubert is the latest celebrity to speak out about the #OscarsSoWhite controversy, but she is aiming her thoughts at two people in particular: Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith.
She apparently is still sore for not winning an oscar for her voice in Madagascar 3 back in 2012.
Referring to Pinkett Smith as "Miss Thing," Hubert opened her video by asking "Does your man not have a mouth of his own with which to speak?" before launching into her thoughts on the controversy that has drawn so much attention.
No! She's had his balls in a jar for years. before launching into her thoughts on the controversy that has drawn so much attention (it even prompted the Academy to release a rare statement on Monday .)
"I find it ironic that somebody who has made their living and has made millions and millions of dollars from the very people that you're talking about boycotting just because you didn't get a nomination, just because you didn't win?" said Hubert. "That's not the way life works, baby."
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She continued, "You ain't Barack and Michelle Obama. And y'all need to get over yourselves. You have a huge production company that you only produce your friends and family and yourself. So you are a part of Hollywood, you are part of the system that is unfair to other actors. So get real. "
Hubert then recalled how, when they were filming Fresh Prince years ago, she approached then-star Smith about banding together to ask the network for a cast-wide raise like the "white shows" did -- like Friends. "Your response to me was 'My deal is my deal. And your deal is your deal,' " she said.
Spoken like the true ghetto slut that she is!
She ended the post by saying, "You know some of us have got mortgages to pay, we got bills to pay, we have bigger shit to worry about than the Oscars."
Pinkett Smith isn't the only one in Hollywood to speak out in protest against this year's nominations. Filmmaker Spike Lee, Who dresses like the boy from peter pan that never wants to grow up, was awarded an honorary Oscar at the Governors Awards in November, on the down low to protect the narrative,said that while he appreciated that recognition, he and his wife "cannot support" this year's Academy Awards. Al Sharpton , Straight Outta Compton executive producer Will Packer , and Chris Rock , who is set to host the Feb. 28 show, were all quick to call out the lack of diversity after Thursday's announcements.
On Monday, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, issued a lengthy statement on the subject, saying she was both "heartbroken" and "frustrated" and promised complete manipulation and brainwashing and hypnosis over the fans to get them to like retarded black actors that act in horrible films going forward . "The Academy is taking dramatic steps to alter the makeup of our membership," she said in the statement. "In the coming days and weeks we will conduct a review of our membership recruitment in order to bring about much-needed diversity in our 2016 class and beyond."
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