Monday, February 5, 2018

Trudeau compares ISIS fighters to Greek, Italian, Portuguese immigrants





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Trudeau’s stupidity can excuse a lot of things he does and says but he should not be let off the hook for this one

Trudeau compares ISIS fighters to Greek, Italian, Portuguese immigrants


Trudeau compares ISIS fighters to Greek, Italian, Portuguese immigrants
This was bad. Even for him.

On Thursday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau held one of his town hall meetings. The PM is currently crisscrossing the country in an attempt to bolster his sinking popularity. While many things coming out of the mouth of the most unqualified prime minister in history are bad, this comment was particularly disgusting.
Towards the end of last year, Trudeau made it very clear he welcomes the return to Canada of Canadians who went to the Middle East to fight for the Islamic State. Gone is the law stripping dual citizens who have taken part in terrorist activities of their Canadian citizenship. Of course these people are never referred to as “terrorists” by the Liberal government. Those who have returned to Canada have been given the cutesy label of “returning foreign fighters.” Gee, they sound just like Canadian vets returning to Canada except the terrorists get much more respect and better treatment from the government than do members of the military.

In what passes for his mind, Trudeau believes these returning foreign fighters can be rehabilitated by being given hugs and hot chocolate,  and he actually believes these fighters can de-radicalize others who wish to join the cause. Trudeau is incapable of understanding these “travellers” are returning to Canada not because they have seen the error of their ways but because since the election of Donald Trump, ISIS has been pretty well wiped out in Syria and Iraq. And even Trudeau’s Public Safety Minister said the chances these terrorists can be rehabilitated is “remote.” But nothing will destroy Justin’s love for these savage head choppers.

At the town hall in Edmonton, a man asked the PM a question. Whoever he is, he obviously didn’t get the memo that the purpose of these town halls is to lob softball questions at Trudeau to make him look good. The man wanted the PM to explain his views on ISIS; “how you’re going to protect future Canadians like my young daughter 10, 15 or 20 years from now, when you’re letting in people with an ideology that just does not conform to what we’re doing here.”
Trudeau then went into his rambling answer about how Canada is a welcoming country that takes in people from all over the world who are fleeing persecution and poverty. He then made reference to other groups of people who came to Canada in large numbers, specifically Greek, Italian and Portuguese immigrants.

In other words, ISIS fighters are no different than the immigrants who came to Canada in years gone by from Western European countries.
There are several possible reasons why Trudeau answered like he did. One is that, as simple and straightforward as the question was, he did not understand it and thought the man was asking about Muslims, not ISIS. In pointing out the questioner, Trudeau referred to him as “the man in the red hat” and wondered if it was “THE red hat.” In Canada, these hats usually say “Make Trudeau a Drama Teacher Again.” While the question was clear, it is possible Trudeau simply was incapable of understanding it.

Another possible reason is that he did not listen to the question but assumed the white Albertan with the red hat is a racist and an Islamophobe and needed to be told that Canada welcomes immigrants as the country did in the past.

A third possibility, and this is the scary one, is the prime minister did understand the question and really doesn’t see any difference between Muslim immigrants, Western Europeans and members of ISIS. If true, this is not the first time Trudeau has called daring to question his beloved returning foreign travellers Islamophobic. Last November when CPC leader Andrew Scheer questioned Trudeau on giving group hugs to ISIS fighters instead of jailing them, the prime minister shot back the reason the Tories lost the last election was because “they ran an election on Islamophobia and division.” In Trudeau’s world, any criticism of ISIS is Islamophobic.

It appears our prime minister really doesn’t think members of ISIS are any different than ordinary immigrants to Canada.

Last week, groups of Chinese Canadians held protests against Trudeau in various Canadian cities. They were protesting Trudeau’s silence concerning the now infamous “hijab hoax.” An 11-year-old Toronto girl reported a man ran up to her twice while she was walking to school and cut her hijab with scissors. She described her attacker as a tall “Asian” man with a mustache. Trudeau, as were other politicians, was quick off the mark to condemn this horrific attack. Three days later Toronto police announced the incident never happened and the case was closed. Canadians of Chinese descent were particularly upset Trudeau had no response in light of the fact this girl chose an Asian man as her imaginary attacker.
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Hopefully Greek, Italian and Portuguese Canadians will also protest Trudeau for comparing Western European immigrants to radical Islamic terrorists. Trudeau’s stupidity can excuse a lot of things he does and says but he should not be let off the hook for this one.

The question and answer begins around the 14:50 minute mark of the video.



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warns against insatiable greed






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Hector de la Vallée: Bungalow
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Illustrator Hector de la Vallée’s Bungalow zine warns against insatiable greed

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French illustrator Hector de la Vallée’s drawings are cynical, clever and expertly executed. Hector studied art at university, but his interest in illustration dates back to his childhood. As a boy, the artist was inspired by comic strips, like Tales from the Crypt and House of Mystery, as well as science fiction book covers, such as the cover art of H P Lovecraft and Stefan Wul’s novels. Pursuing this long-term fascination as a full-time job landed him in the bi-weekly magazine Society and saw him designing promotional record covers and music posters. “This year I am going to release a collection of my press drawings,” Hector tells It’s Nice That. 

The artist’s compilation of press illustrations won’t be Hector’s first publication. The zine Bungalow, edited by Editions FP&CF, is the second in a series of cruel narratives and alarming stories that are conceptualised and designed by Hector. The plot is distressing, dark and simple: “Bungalow tells the story of a growing multi-million dollar company, like Apple, Google or Amazon, that manufactures monster costumes.” Mac computers or Monster costumes; the differences between huge, multi-national companies are slight in a world where profit-making and business growth takes priority. Hector’s story illustrates the potentially grave consequences of unstoppable desire in his cautionary tale. “The company’s founder dies in a bungalow during his vacation in Seychelles,” the artist reveals. Insatiable greed becomes the character’s internal monster that haunts and plagues him. 

Despite the moral messages that pervade his visual narrative, Hector refrains from explicit preaching and overt criticism. Nor does he recount his creative process. “I can’t really describe how I draw, it’s pretty chaotic but it takes me a lot of time,” he says. His black and white illustrations are lively and dynamic, filled with bold lines and sharp contrasts. His plots are dramatic, intense and emotionally charged, but the characters remain unfazed. The drawings are wry and leave the reader with a bitter smile: “For Bungalow, I adopted a simple narrative technique close to that of a children’s storybook: one image and one sentence per page,” Hector says. Simple appearances aside, Hector’s work reveals a shrewd critical awareness of the pathologies in today’s society. 
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plants as a metaphor for place





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Brendan George Ko: A Stranger In Two Worlds
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Brendan George Ko’s intoxicating latest scrapbook sees plants as a metaphor for place

Brendan George Ko publishes his work in the form of scrapbooks which document the photographer’s fascinatingly sprawling life currently spread across Toronto and Hawai’i .
“I grew up all over the place since I was a child,” Brendan explains. “I learned to adapt to new places and cultures and through this perspective, my work as visual storyteller came to be. For the past three years I have been splitting my time between Toronto, Canada and Wailuku, Hawai’i . I lead two very different lives in both places and over the years I have been witnessing myself become a stranger in both worlds. The part of me from the city feels like a stranger in the rural setting I have in Maui and vice versa.”
Brendan’s latest scrapbook comes bursting with foliage. Not the identikit manicured plants that climb the pages of Pinterest: Brendan’s flowers are of a different, more lawless strand. “My interest in plants started in 2013 when I was developing my thesis exhibition, Aloha,” Brenda explains. “I was studying ecology of Hawai’i and using plants as a metaphor to human adaptation in the archipelago. Recently I returned to photographing ubiquitous plants in both the places I live in. When I see the image of these plants I see memory, I see life, and I long for the plant that is so far away.”
With a working title A Stranger In Two Worlds, the latest scrapbook is a meditation on rootlessness and attachment. “They are the textures of a reality in which I am removed from because of distance,” Brendan notes. “In Hawai’i there are species of plants that are found nowhere else in the world and in Ontario, the plants return to overrun the landscape in the summer. The study of ecology often is about the relationship humans have on the natural world, how we moved plants, introduced them to a place, and the process of naturalization. I remember going to an alien forest preserve in Kula and there was an illustration of an ancient Hawaiian landscape. It looked like another world with species of plants that were completely foreign to me because they were either extinct or endangered and rare to encounter. When humans started to arrive in Hawai’i, they brought with them new species of life. Over the years, especially after European contact, the ecology of the islands rapidly changed. The landscape is marked by the tale of migration.”
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Brendan George Ko: A Stranger In Two Worlds
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Brendan George Ko: A Stranger In Two Worlds
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an era of lavish propaganda







A compendium of 20th century alcohol and tobacco ads charts an era of lavish propaganda

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20th century alcohol and tobacco ads. Published by Taschen
Steven Heller and Allison Silver have co-authored a new book for Taschen, edited by Jim Heimann, which collects and analyses campaigns from an important – if controversial – sector of advertising. 20th Century Alcohol & Tobacco Ads is a compendium of the most recognisable and impactful adverts of the century, tracing the evolution of this most lavish of propaganda and its key players.
“A stiff shot, a cold brew, and an aromatic smoke have been staples of American life – and death,” state the authors in the book’s introduction. “Statutes restricting their use and abuse have not lessened these sometimes vices, and their ill effects seem not to have thwarted the habits of the masses, which are simply too ingrained. Alcohol and tobacco are huge industries that produce massive wealth for many, and one of the most profitable beneficiaries, the advertising industry, has made certain of that. Over the years, alcohol and tobacco have been white-shoe, blue-chip accounts. Despite government and self-regulatory restrictions, beer, wine, and spirits are among the most vigorously promoted products in the nation’s media today.”
Following the industry through the ages, the book is a fascinating reflection of shifts in popular culture, and with often the biggest budgets and agencies behind the campaigns, often represents the zenith of creativity in advertising at that time. From 1920s celebrity endorsements and a re-focus on female markets in the 1930s, to the iconic Marlboro Man and ads with doctors claiming liquor can bring social success, the book shows the breadth of techniques used by brands to attract consumers. With rules against tobacco branding ever tightening, and recent talk about alcohol advertising and branding going a similar direction, the book’s release now seems particularly pertinent.
20th Century Alcohol & Tobacco Ads is published by Taschen on 12 February.
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20th century alcohol and tobacco ads. Published by Taschen
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20th century alcohol and tobacco ads. Published by Taschen
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20th century alcohol and tobacco ads. Published by Taschen
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20th century alcohol and tobacco ads. Published by Taschen
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20th century alcohol and tobacco ads. Published by Taschen
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20th century alcohol and tobacco ads. Published by Taschen