Re: [OT] Police actively HELP Hamas supporters disrupt Jewish-friendly Walk with Israel

On 2025-05-30 6:17 AM, Rhino wrote:

On 2025-05-29 11:04 PM, danny burstein wrote:

In <101b6r3$3rn78$11@dont-email.me> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> writes:
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Okay, thanks for clarifying that.

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Did you know that you can listen to Lilley any time on YouTube (even in
your car if your car or cell phone can get YouTube)? Just search on
Brian Lilley. I watch his videos all the time, although I don't think
every print article makes it into YouTube versions.

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do they allow us folk in the States (don't hold it against me!?)
to see this stuff?
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Seriously? Do you really believe we prevent our pundits' videos from being seen outside the country? ;-)
 Mind you, I've never tried accessing Lilley or other commentators from the US so I suppose it may be geo-blocked the same as some American movie trailers are geo-blocked here. Why don't you give it a whirl and see what you get. I'd be curious to know if we geo-block outgoing political commentary.
 

misc back story: about 15 years ago there were two films
that the National Film Board of Canada produced, and I
had to ask a Canadian friend of mine to shill for...
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One of them was, umm, I forget the title and I can't
find it in a quick search... anyway, it was a documentary
of Israelis going to India to decompress/vacation after
their military service.  I completely forget what the
other one was...
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 Again, I have no idea if the National Film Board geo-blocks the films you can see online so I want you to try this: go to https://www.nfb.ca/ channels/exploredocs_new_releases_en/ and click on one of the films there. It doesn't matter which one, we're just trying to see if it will play for a user with an American IP address. Let me know what happens.
 The NFB, like CBC, is taxpayer-funded so they may well take the line that their content should be free to Canadians but blocked from everyone else. Then again, they may realize that Canadians aren't always in Canada so they may allow their content to be visible everywhere even if that means there will be foreigners looking at it for free too.
 The Toronto Sun, on the other hand, is a for-profit business and that's what would drive their decisions about geo-blocking their content.
 By the way, if you ever get the chance, check out the NFB offices in Canada. The NFB is headquartered in Montreal and I was there on business once and had a bit of free time at one point so I went to the NFB office. I was intrigued to find that you could watch a selection of films right there in the office. They had special chairs with TV screens fixed to them and each chair had a separate feed. Each visitor could watch something different. It was all free. Mind you, this was 30 years ago and they may do things very differently now. Also, I don't know if their other offices are set up the same way. Still, it might be worth checking out if you are near one of the bigger cities.
 Oh, I almost forgot, I deeply amused a Jewish friend a few years ago when I found an NFB film on YouTube that was an animated telling of a Jewish folk tale set in some past century. It was about a Jew somewhere in Eastern Europe - very possibly Poland - who was setting out on a long journey on foot. He didn't really know his way to his destination and at the end of the first day, he decided to go to sleep on the side of the road but didn't want to forget which way to go the next morning so he set up his shoes to point in the appropriate direction. Anyway, my friend knew this story very well and was impressed that it had been filmed.
 Out of curiousity, I just tried a couple of YouTube searches - "NFB Jewish" and "NFB animated" and found all kinds of both films. Unless they're geo-blocked you may find the documentaries you were looking for.
 

Wow! I found it! The same video I found for my friend a couple of years back! I couldn't remember the title and none of my searches turned up anything until I found a short video about Jewish folk tales and the presenter actually included a brief excerpt from the video I had found. Luckily, he credited the source and I discovered that it was a short called Village of Idiots. So here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuP_R7dePuQ [12 minutes]
You might also enjoy this short about a Shabbos Goy which I found about the same time I first found Village of Idiots. My Jewish friend was really amused with this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIige41_h1Q [7 minutes]
That one was a lot easier because I knew it was a series with a name similar to omelette and that it was about the Sabbath.
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Rhino