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PRoPaGaNDA 101
Today we have seen this...
How long until we see this?
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Do you have a home you can lend?
Do you have some time you can spend?
What's not to love
They're death from above
On doomsday they'll be your best friend
The Limerick King
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'Historical truth may be discovered by a professor of history. We, however, are serving historical necessity. It is not the task of art to be objectively true. The sole aim of propaganda is success" --Joseph Goebbels
Incidently, are you aware of what has been going on with media cross ownership rules and the FCC? What is designed to facilitate more concentration by Rupert Murdoch and his ilk is being promoted as a plan to promote diversity and minority ownership in media. Lean over please...
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Yeah I thought it was, after watching so much of your work it had to be intentional, just thought I'd say from one Photoshop 1.0 to another I like the old school approach too.
Keep on truckin, brother
There is an aesthetic appeal to primitive technique. Much of the PS eye candy seems hyperreal and loses plausibility as a result.
All that classic Dada art was done with a pair of scissors and razor blades.
Only those without something to say get that hung up on process.
Yes, that is the problem. The eye candy photoshop images are usually devoid of relevance.
All that classic Dada art was done with a pair of scissors and razor blades
Yes, but so are haircuts and self-mutilation.
Just kidding, WB7, your stuff is great.
WB, have you seen this? Thought you might like it.
Fuck The Fed - A Central Bank Love SongThat's great. The more attacks from different artistic directions the better.
This is NOT an endorsement of Republicans.
One of the best clips I've ever seen:
MUST SEE: How To Confuse An Obama SupporterIronic this gets linked under a propaganda post. This is pure propaganda.
The most important take away is that people will tend to assume what an authority figure is telling them is the truth. Especially when a camera is put in their face. They aren't thinking about the questions, they are thinking about how they are going to look on TV. I'm not saying they are anything but ignorant sheep, most of the public is.
My major problem with it beyond that (that being you can trip up 90% of the popu,ation this way on any subject, whereas over a dinner table conversation they would likely have a completely different perspective), is all of these positions ARE positions Mitt Romney supported as well. He selected positions that Romney would have backed too. So what the fuck is the intention of these questions? That they don't support Obama/Romney policies and therefore made an uninformed choice that made a difference?
Like I said, people are this ignorant. No argument there. But recognize propaganda when you see it, the tactics and the intent, and stop defending its use just because it supports your agenda. Doing so just shows how malleable YOU are, not them.
Sounds awfully familiar, isn't this what that one guy ... Prescott Bush ... wanted to do with that famous General? Take over Washington? That Prescott Bush guy was related by blood, from what I hear, to some influential political figures. Also, our #1 terrorist, wasn't his family, the Bin Ladens, weren't they INVESTED with some Bush family members? hmm
Nader has a great story re: Prescott & his mother.
I think it was his motivation for his selfless public service.
Virtually all of my friends look at me like I have two heads when I describe the financial shit-storm that's coming.
This is especially true of the young folks in the under 40 crowd. They have no clue because they've never personally experienced, as an adult, "hard times". They make think otherwise now, but I'll live long enough to see that smug look wiped off their faces.
For the average Joe, the Federal Reserve System, which is what controls our economy, is baffling. And you really cannot blame him because it was in fact designed to be baffling. All you can do is try to break it down and relate it to concrete facts such food and gas prices, the logarithmic wealth gap, jobless recovery and this fiscal cliff charade.
WB7. They dont consider food, shelter or water as important for their part. Thats where the jackboot fiscal folks show up.
It is not baffling if you have tax lawyers like mitt romney does.
Tax law is one of those areas where an inordinate amount of mental resource is squandered tackling man made obstacles.
Sure, but the consumer price index is a dominant parameter in the study of economics.
* I am out of my league with you, just gracefully bowing out. You are one of the best. I'll still get your stuff after 12/15. All my best.
Truth in imagry.
I often shudder at the concept of humans being referred to as sheep as I am optimistic that most people have intelligence and use it, but lately I am discovering how many lap up the government propaganda.
Then there is a president who is opposite of what he claims to be and the population allows it to continue.
I think Gandhi proved something when he led his countrymen through peaceful means to independence. It can be done, but the people have to be unied and in most countries they are not.
I have a hypothesis. While most individuals have intelligence, common sense, or some combination of the two, and mostly use it to their benefit, the collective intelligence lags drastically behind the curve making people in very large groups and societies vulnerable to lies, theft, and all sorts of wrongdoing on a grand scale.
Humanity has not changed significantly over the centuries; only technology and innovation has allowed us to improve.
It was covered in the Alan Watts video I put up regarding conformity. People become willing to accept obvious falsehoods in exchange for the safety of belonging.
I think this is it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLm4MNgdi8M
soon you will have the chance to name a drone (like you can name a highway, for money), although if the terrorists on the other end get your number, it might turn dicey later on.
Kudos Banzai, awesome as usual.
Nice historical touch using the old 1912 aldrich plan octopus cartoon.
Whoever is the artist that did that Federal Reserve animation should really be ashamed of himself.
You're probably not going to like the accompanying website, then.
http://www.stlouisfed.org/inplainenglish/
Some lazy-ass teacher could turn this into an entire week.
Not lazy, that's their job. Mind programming.
Our young men and women that join the armed forces to do Bernankes bidding, should also be very ashamed. Since the Fed was formed, their paper has financed war, war, war and nothing but war.
No, it also finances the welfare-illfare state. Itself a war by the parasites (politicians and plutocrats, group entitlements, gubmint employees) agaunst the people who still work and produce..
that cartoonist must have died a mad man due to his incredible vision of the future.
Fucking AWESOME!!! Totally un-ilene.
Thanks again Mr.Banzai, your work is always enjoyable, all the best.
Droney don't play that shit.
Droney is sooo cute! Welcome to Orwell's 2012 nightmare.
Drones are being marketed differently.
http://news.sky.com/story/1021521/rhino-drones-google-backs-poacher-surveillance
Sonny Landreth "Blue Tarp Blues"
Air Force One had a heck of a view
Air Force One had a heck of a view
Looking down on the patchwork of the blue tarp blues.
I went Walkin through the water
sprung a leak in my shoes
I went Walkin through the water
sprung a leak in my shoes
that hole in my soul
give me the blue tarp blues.
I got the blues
I got the blue blue tarp blues.
There's a crack in the ceiling and the system too
There's a crack in the ceiling and the system too
We ain't got no coverage of the blue tarp blues.
I got the blues
I got the blue blue tarp blues.
I got the blues
I got the blue blue tarp blues.
No it wasn't the weather that shamed me and you
It was a bad fix of politics screaming through
That levee lock couldn't hold back the truth
We're in deep but not out of the reach
Loan me something, mister.
I'm gonna fly my colors and watch for you
I'm gonna fly my colors and watch for you
Like a flag of hope, but the blue tarp blues
I got the blues
I got the blue blue tarp blues.
I got the blues
I got the blue blue tarp blues
Landreth is a 6 string animal and Knopfler is a virtuoso...
Thanks wb7 and right on regarding Mark Knopfler! I love Dire Straits
Agreed. As a guitarist Knopfler is much under-rated (See Rolling Stone greatest guitarists list), probably becuase his style is "Minimalist". But in terms of "Expression" he deserves to be way up there with the very best.
Knopfler is doing what I do. He goes way back searching the old music then brings it into the present. His music goes along with my pictures perfectly. The themes in those songs overlap as well.
yeah that is a lovelly pair!
Sonny is the man!! also check out Cannibals with Knopfler
The tragedy of perpetual Central Banker financed war on children https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGpwKQo5_Z0
the buck stops here
WB,that has to be the best example of your art I have seen on ZH.
Any vintage photo with a sign placard is begging to be subverted by me ;-)
Hadn't seen this TARP one before, WB. I just put it into my folder for XMAS stories. Awesome.
This is the first time I put it up.
Hey WB, got a name for that pet drone yet?
Awesome.
Someone sent me a cartoon with a drone named Droney and I just incorporated the name into my drone shtick. I was thinking a drone version of adopt a highway. The smiley face I used looks hilarious on that stationary drone.