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Subscribe to RSSAustralian Prime Minister Julia Gillard barely breaks a smile in this spoof video made for a TV program that agrees with the Mayan calendar and predicts the end of the world on December 21. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard has warned that predictions of the end of the world by ancient Mayans were correct and that the final days are coming -- in a deadpan ad for a lighthearted breakfast radio show.
"Whether the final blow comes from flesh-eating zombies, demonic hell-beasts or the total triumph of K-Pop, if you know one thing about me, it is this: I will always fight for you to the very end," Gillard said in a message to the "dear remaining fellow Australians."
She concluded her message by saying "Good luck to you all."
Australia's Herald Sun newspaper contacted Gillard's office seeking further information.
"What Australian doesn't mind a laugh from time to time? Anyway, the world's going to end tomorrow so shouldn't you be writing about that?" a spokesperson for the prime minister said.
NASA: It's not true
Such has been the hype about the supposed Mayan prediction for the end of the world on Dec. 21, 2012, that NASA was moved to issue a denial in a statement on its website.
"The world will not end in 2012. Our planet has been getting along just fine for more than 4 billion years, and credible scientists worldwide know of no threat associated with 2012," NASA said.
TODAYshow.com's Dara Brown talks with author and professor Gerardo Aldana about his theory that the Mayan calendar, which many believe indicates that the world will end in 2012, is wrong.
2012 and Maya prophecies: What were they thinking?
The statement said the "story" started with claims by the ancient Sumerian civilization that a "supposed planet" called Nibiru was headed toward Earth.
"This catastrophe was initially predicted for May 2003, but when nothing happened the doomsday date was moved forward to December 2012 and linked to the end of one of the cycles in the ancient Mayan calendar at the winter solstice in 2012 -- hence the predicted doomsday date of December 21, 2012," NASA said.
Maya text cites 2012 as end of calendar cycle, not end of world
"Just as the calendar you have on your kitchen wall does not cease to exist after December 31, the Mayan calendar does not cease to exist on December 21, 2012," it added. "This date is the end of the Mayan long-count period but then -- just as your calendar begins again on January 1 -- another long-count period begins for the Mayan calendar."
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Yea, yea yea And the world is going to be the same lame world that it always has been. So on the 22 of December I will have an ad out saying "Nothing has changed, I told you so. HA HA HA HA"
the mayans predicted a change..not destruction....the mayans said that there god will desend from the heavens..so a ufo might come down to land...also the mayan say's a change is comming..something is gonna change not distruction...plus if u look at it....look at all the earthquakes bad weather happing..they might be something
The world is not going to end, just the USA. The mayans voted for Obama to make sure
It's scaring children, people! STOP IT. Kids are innocent victim to the desperate idiots who believe this garbage.
Let me fill you in IT'S NOT TRUE! So you still have to go on with your miserable life, deal with the debt you have, and suck it up. Stop fantasizing about death, and LIVE YOUR LIFE!
The Mayan calendar ends when it does because they ran out of room on the rock it is carved on!
My mom taught me not to worry about the end of the world, " ...The world ends for somebody every day, enjoy your life"
I believe according to Revelations of the King James Version of the Holy Bible there will be an end to all of the hellish behavior in this world. Just not this year. There will be a failed World Organization once all bankrupt nations join together, a man coming in peace that claims he's Christ from the temple in Jerusalem and then the coming of Christ.
Prove to me that we aren't already DEAD.
You might be.............
Well didn't they hear about Obummer's re-election? With the Marxists in charge, the end is near, question is for whom? Civil War on the horizion.
Do you pronounce your name Dar-RELL ?
There is no civil war on the horizon.
The world will probably still be here on Dec 22...some of the doomsdayers, already are saying that the end will start on Dec 21...so that probably gives them quite a few years to prove them right...and don't have to be proved wrong on Dec 21
To all those Obama haters (i don't agree with some of his leftist policy), but you think it would have been any better with the far right facists winning the elections.
All of you religious people quoting the bible as your source, don't you realize intelligent, educated people don't accept the bible as a source of information, so your arguments are irrelevent? I have no problems with Christians as long as they don't try to recruit me (or scare me). If I came and tried to convert your children to be atheists you'd be outraged. Stop trying to get everybody to join you in your delusions.
Sounds like you must not know that many intelligent, educated people.
I have a degree in Computer Information Systems and have worked in IT for over two decades.
I have a full time job and own my own business of computer support.
I believe in Jesus Christ more than I believe in you.
YOU have the right to burn in hell. I'm not recruiting you.
Lol. Well if you believe it, it must be true. Funny how a loving god can burn people in hell for all eternity. Would you send your children to hell forever if they broke your rules? What? God doesn't do that it is the people who choose it? BS. Betcha Mahatma Ghandi didn't choose it but according to your beliefs he must be burning. I happen to believe in a much more loving god than you do. And isn't it your duty as a Christian to recruit everybody?
No, they NEED people to believe to reinforce their own beliefs. I've said this before and I will say this again: Nothing deters people more from christianity than christians. You can call me all the names you want, tell me im going to hell....narnia....whatever it is you believe in but it's true. I've never met more annoying people in my life than bible thumpers. Honestly, keep it to yourself.
By the way, having a degree doesn't make you smart. It's not very hard to get a degree you just need money. I while I do disagree that there are intelligent christians I also believe that they have the common sense of a shoelace. If they don't have as much sense to at least leave people to themselves without.....oh I don't know.....threatening their imagine far away lands on us. I mean we are never scared of that stuff just annoyed. It's like a fly that won't fly out the window.
If the end doesn't come and I live to a ripe old age of 96, I hope I'm the rascally old lady who stirs up games of strip bingo at the nursing home.
Tilda Swinton is the PM of Australia?
Damn, just when I had maxed out my credit cards and took out massive loans from every bank I could swindle, your going to tell me the worlds not going to end, and I gots to pay it all back?
North Korea getting ready to launch a rocket to space...Syria getting ready to launch rockets with Sarin...NATO shoots down Syrian rockets, South Korea shoots down North Korean rocket, China retaliates and rockets South Korea, Russia retaliates and rockets Turkey, USA rockets China and Russia, shock waves coursing through the planets crust tips the house of cards in Yellowstone and Greenland, simultaneously the whole ice sheet slips, mega volcanic eruptions start, the mega tsunami and pyroclastic flow meet somewhere around Detroit, the whole West Antarctic Ice Sheet calves so the Southern hemisphere can join the party...Yeah it seems to all be coming to a head right around December 21st. Those that live will have an awakening and a feeling of humility that will change civilization's view of reality for once and for all, how did those crazy Myan's get it so right?
you know how to make someone that already worries worry even more, there is nothing we can do except float off into space ( a place i visit alot )
You don't look like the "floating" kind,to be honest.You are more like the "beached" kind of person!
she should have said HUMANITY, which would be good for the planet, and life would return too normality.
The Maya were Heathens. Their deluded Long Count cannot represent reality, only their delusional beliefs.
It is impossible because the Creation was just a little over 6 thousand years ago. !!
Adams' creation was just a little over 6 thousand years ago for the blood line of Jesus Christ. Adam was created in Chapter II of Genesis, not one.
And then Harry Potter came and set things straight!
duh? i mean, really??? LOL
man, i bought all of this survival stuff for nothin?
In this article, it's claimed the original date was set fr May 2003, but I have a book published from the mid-90's placing the date at 12/21-23/12.
I keep waiting for Bank of America to advise me that there is no reason for me to make another mortgage payment after December 2012.
At the end of time,everyone will have to deal with their own hell.The gays will be forced to live in Pocatella,Idaho.All dimocraps will have to return to the south.All marxist will have to live in Dallas,all republicans will be forced to live in NY or LA.All christians will be moved to San Francisco and all lazy aholes who have spent the past days of their lives sitting in their momms'y basement ,alone with their ifone,will be forced to get a job and give up all their electronic gear.The rest of you can just go to hell!
Too bad its not true...I will take the Tool:AENEMA stance and I'd like to sit with some popcorn and watch all of it. Merry Christmas all of you selfish a-holes...
the only ones that are doomed are idiots that this kinda stuff propagates. The cult and apocoliptic brain dead religeous dumb$sses that can't think for themselves. I feel for these people for being the way they are. It's sad that in this day and age of intelligence and information that we still have this sort of thing going on. sad sad sad.