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mr. banzai's usual genius.
sir, i beg of you to look at CNBS's list of 'most interesting and excessive white collar criminals' slide show and tell us all , especially CNBS, what a huge crock of shit that list is when the real criminals are paid by us
http://www.cnbc.com/id/46116144/
I looked at that and laughed when it came it. Just a propaganda machine. What do you expect.
Are you FED up yet? Well, what are you doing about it?
The future is now. Be prepared.
WB7 thanks as always.
How about a mashup of Apple's 1984 commercial and their current facist worker camps in China?
They have become what they parodied.
Sorry if you already did it and I missed it.
Peace, and watch the fish cesium.....
For practical reasons I stay away from the subject of China. No reason to antagonize my hosts.
The thing about those factories is they literally build everything else electronic, not just APPL stuff. So you really have to decide whether you want to go totally dark. It's not an easy question to struggle with. I have heard just about every argument pro and con.
The fish are a major concern and not just here.
i remember in the early 80s when they caught mainland China outsourcing shoe parts to Hong Kong. some US congressional types got into China and they found evidence of prison labor, but corporate America pulls the strings. and the unofficial boilerplate went that Chinese society would become more progressive from the inside. and to a degree that is true, at least their standard of living. but to me its paper mache society, like one of those hollywood western towns all front and no buildings behind. (not that i know anything about them), i know it took America a long time, and plenty of social angst to get where we are, you just can't throw up an instant western civilization, add water. i suspect that there will be a sudden a radical shift in China soon, as too many of the worlds urban poor live in slums (reading Planet of Slums, by Mike Davis)
i hold very firmly to the role Bush played as Manchurian President, and the GOPS acquiescence to Chinese aggression. the GOP has a barbell ideology, conservative social values for the poor, corporate values for the rich, and fuck the middle class. so far its worked for them.
This is not a simple subject to tackle. You have to start with the struggle these people are used to dealing with. Chinese know how to make do with a fraction of what a typical Westerner consumes. Really meager by our standards. Suddenly they have a chance to work in a factory in the South. That is a big change and then, naturally, they live in a consumer driven juggernaut designed by us. So they want more. They know how to be austere but they also know how to flaunt it big time when they have it.
And so on and so on and so on.
Obviously the government is desperately trying to make sure everyone gets a piece of the pie. Not an easy task at all.
Meanwhile the human toll of all those migrant factory workers not living with their kids, is staggering.
the Chinese are what you might call a zero gradient culture, like India. in India they have the caste system, one culture, many different economic classes. in the west culture is a way of transcending the class ladder. i guess that's why i really don't get Slum Dog Millionaire. all of China's culture is internal, they do nothing for export. chairman Mao called it the cultural revolution, but its hard to see what came of that. to me they're only playing with half the deck. and the allusions to post war Japan ends there, because that culture flourished, and China just seems to be stuck. Americas cultural dead zone was after the civil war, the american west, when most of the east coast culture was thrown off the back of the wagon. and these things take time to permeate the culture regardless of all the high speed electronic devices you have. this why i like to see your work, which is tangible and explores our ability to remix images and raise awareness. i wouldn't even consider China a work in progress, not yet, and something will have to happen there because there is too much communication equipment, and not enough art and culture.
Understood. I recently disassembled an angel (no, bear with me)--a big lovely angel with colors swirling through fiber optic wings. It sits atop our Christmas tree each year, my wife had it before we met.
So it's kind of old for this type of thing. This year it didn't work. Rather than trash it, I took it apart in an attempt to fix it. I have to say, I marvelled at the internal mechanisms, all of which were clearly 'off the shelf' items but designed and arranged very nicely. I found the part I needed (online of course) and all was well. My wife wept when she saw it glowing again.
Just a story. Happy Year of the Dragon to you. Stay safe.
I am a do it yourselfer as well. Unfortunately, these days it is getting more and more difficult to do it yourself.
HPNY to you as well.
As long as any American finds reason to exclude any other American from life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, there will never be a force big enough, strong enough, or brave enough to stop the erosion of the constitution and the Declaration of Independence, and the American 'dream". Divide and conquer by race, religion, sex, sex orientation, education, personal beliefs, living standard....on and on anything to accomplish the goal, these are the flags that the masters use to trick and enslave. Turn you against you neighbor, your work mate, your best friend, your best judgment. Confuse truths and deliver misinformation is an easy game when you have fear in your hearts. A table with legs of unequal length can not sit true. It will never be understood by the 99.9% and that is something the 0.1% are know is their best weapon.
In battle, when the enemy charges you with overwhelming odds in their favor you do not care if the soldier next to you is white, black, yellow, green, jew. catholic, atheist, straight, gay, man, woman, child, foreign, or any other exclusionary reason. This is why America gets weaker every day, every year, we are our own worst enemy and can't see the forest for the trees of hate and mistrust. We stone one of our own with glee and praise adultery and thieves, murders and liars, worship idols and lust for greed. What would Jesus say? He can't talk right now, he is crying.
A house divided against itself cannot stand...
+1 WB7
WB7,
Simultaneously brilliant and terrifying - the mark of a great work of art. Your collage style would make Terry Gilliam proud..."Dinsdale"!
just say no
to the status quo
Thanks WB7 for making the truth visible. I keep asking why am I living in this backwards, asinine, jock/torture/psychologist country. I'm thinking it's time to leave this shithole of slavery. I'm not a big Simon Black fan, but damn, things here are ef-ed up.
The worst thing is being surrounded by the oblivious.
You're right. That really is the worst part.
On my better days, I have some compassion for folks that can't deal with what's really happening, who live out their day to day lives as if everything was going to be just fine. And then other days, like yesterday, I hear things like Kevin Anderson's speech about the real likely impact of global warming from an engineer's standpoint, and I am chilled to the bone.
Billy B - Fabulous stuff !
Where is Jon Corzine is the Ponzi circle jerk? Let not his invisability from Lame Stream Media allow him to find a rathole to hide in.
I think he belongs in a different circle since he created a different clusterfuck of his very own.
This was just sent to me on twitter...I don't typically watch what the RNC produces, but in this case...
I was surprised to hear on NPR yesterday a conversation that not one single item that was in last years speech has made it past the paper it was written on.
Thank God for short menories and dildos.
-1
thats what the Henry Ford production line was all about : repeat peformance and any colour provided it was black!
Corporate America and Congressional America; same production line! Scripted by Madison Avenue spin kings recycled into politics.
I can't believe the US MSM just let Obama get away with that cynical shit, which he doesn't even mean. He just looks into his appointment diary, "oh, another state of the union"... hmm ... well, lets put all the great speeches into a digital blender and make a stereo-typical load of meaningless passionless old crap that's guaranteed to get standing ovations, nods of approval, even tears from Das-Boner, and innumerable dumbshit-isms heaped up by those fawning gutless MSM dead-enders.
I have a more attractive solution to the, "any colour, provided it's black" mentality.
A bit of nature's art for you WB7:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=HY_2jttGfW4
nice, enjoyed it, ty.
Btw OT, but in reference to that congressional boobsy WB7 bimbo; there is at least ONE woman in the USA who can be milked more than the sacred cow of Bill Gates, its Mrs Jobs. I'm sure she'll be competing with Mrs Gates for whose biggest charity spender spot. Or at least the Demo party machine will try and pin her down on it in election liposuction year. No pun intended on the pretended suction side.
Impressive what Melinda can do, and she ain't no Imelda Marcos.
Mr. Banzai7 sir, you are a genius!
Who sells insurance to " KIWI's" . I guess that explains the diversification of YEN into " Austral-Asia "? Perhaps it's all the "old" money looking for a SAFE Haven?
aud/jpy HINT/HINT?
What is that under Jamie Dimon? on one side cambells pepper spray, on the other...
It's a little tornado getting ready to suck up boner.
Yes we can (hope).
That is some artifact that sits there permanently.
Warlock predicts 2012 election results (2:05) (Reuters)Jan. 4 - U.S. President Barack Obama will lose election and Syria will be invaded, predicts Mexico's self-proclaimed Grand Warlock. Kilmeny Duchardt reports. ( Transcript )
http://www.reuters.com/video/2012/01/04/warlock-predicts-2012-election-r...
ah, the vid I was thinking of
United Fruit Company
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb7XaF1rs1E
Say what you will of his politics, but Neruda still said it best:
"THE UNITED FRUIT CO."
When the trumpet sounded,
all was prepared on the earth
and Jehovah parceled out the world
to Coca-Cola Inc., Anaconda,
Ford Motors, and other entities:
the United Fruit Company Inc.
reserved for itself the juiciest bit,
the central coast of my land,
the gentle waist of America.
It rebaptized these lands
as "Banana Republics,"and over the sleeping dead,
over the restless heroes,
who had conquered greatness,
liberty and flags,
The Company established a comic opera,
drove all free will insane,
handed out crowns of Caesar,
unsheathed greed, and attracted
the dictatorship of the flies,
Trujillo flies, Tacho flies,
Carías flies, Martínez flies,
Ubico flies, flies moistened
by humble blood and marmalade
drunken flies buzzingover the tombs of the common people,
circus flies, wise flies
well versed in tyranny.
Among the bloody flies,
The United Fruit Company steps ashore,
devastating the coffee and the fruits,
in its ships that sail
like trays
taking away the treasure
of our drowning lands.
All the while, near the sugary deep of the harbors,
the Indians fell,
buried in the morning mists:
a corpse tumbles, a nameless thing,
a fallen number, a bunch of putrid fruit
thrown on the compost heap.
That last picture looks like the road to Vegas.
Kick that can! Roll the dice!
Sure, we can keep the ponzi going another cycle, can't we?
Double sixes! C'mon double sixes!
That kind of image is very American...into the great wide open...only it's paved.
squak squak This is what a lame duck president sounds like squak squak
This is what a lame duck president LOOKS like http://southpark.wikia.com/index.php?title=Duck_President&image=YoureGet...
A lawme duck/WTF President is dangerous.
Chucklefest Banzai ;))
Thank you WB. This is the only time I actually laughed out loud today. Not only once, but four times! Good for my soul....
Congressional Bullshit Drain Service - this is permanently imprinted on my brain cells - this is a MENTAL TATTOO - no erasing by any means, possible. One look at this poster instantly crushes and obliterates all the American history bullshit that has been laquered onto our childrens' minds. This, my kind sir, is a monumental achievement! Many thanks for your excellent work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank god I'm not wasting my time watching the state of whatever, whatever....
I did that last summer during the debt crisis...which is now the debt crisis. ;-)
Ditto!
William:
You know that eventually they WILL be coming for you. I've mostly just lurked here for the last few years and have only just enough artistic talent to appreciate and understand what you do.
Well, they may be corrupt but they too can see and appreciate Great Artistic Talent that is dangerous to them. And YOU are going to be perceived as a threat to them that they will most assuredly attempt to neutralize.
Because what you do REALLY does threaten them. Your humor and satire CUTS through the bullshit.
Think about where this is all going, and have an escape route planned.
We haven't really started the real conflict yet. Nobody can say with certainly where this will end up, but I'm pretty sure it will get a LOT worse before it starts to get better.
WELL DONE.
I will always have positive expectations for the future as long as I am seeing your satire.
Protect yourself.
You can kill the man, but not the images.
KILLING THE FAMILY OF JESUS
NEW YORK’S SUICIDE PACT WITH ISRAEL
Elie Weasel had not yet arrived at Auschwitz when "his" number A-7713 was assigned!
Soros Mouthpiece Calls On Google To Police “Conspiracy Theories”
USS Enterprise False Flag?
NO GRAVES FOUND AT TREBLINKA
Rabbi questioned in rape of minors (no worries, talmud says it's a-ok)
Iran Banned From Trading Gold and Silver (ussa next)Best yet, WB7. This is why we fight.
Problems for the U.S. began at least thirty years ago.
One of The Best WB7 I have seen ever!!!
Indicatively, we must have Marxist poof-fairy Tyler on tonight, because He/she/it is trying to ignore the State of the Union, WHICH IS DISUNION. The civil war is on like donky kong.
The Jew York Media has anointed Chief Big Hair, as if you hadn't noticed.
If Mittens is the answer, it must be a damn strange question;)