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Japanese Girl-Band Wants You (To Buy Japanese Government Bonds)
Whether it was Captain America's roadshow or Uncle-Sam 'wanting' your help, the US always seemed to maintain some semblance of class when propagandizing its citizens into buying its government bonds. Whether for patriotic or xenophobic reasons, it appeared to work. Japan, though, with its increasingly desperate demographic situation, deficits, downgrades, and well, general malaise of Koo/Keynesian-stuffed economic stagnation has turned to the next best thing - the all-girl band AKB48. As The Telegraph notes today, the all-female pop group will headline a summer campaign for "reconstruction bonds" aimed at financing projects in regions hammered by last year's quake-tsunami disaster. The debt campaign will see AKB48 - comprising about 90 performers, ranging in age from early teens to mid-20s - joined by sumo wrestling's champion Hakuho and female football star Homare Sawa, Japan's Jiji press agency reported. The group's bubblegum pop and synchronized dancing has proved a huge hit with young girls. Perhaps more disturbingly (and why Japan chose them maybe?) - running the gamut from girl-next-door to sultry temptress, the band also has a substantial male following - many of whom are older - who support a vast merchandising industry. Japan has the industrialized world's worst public debt, amounting to more than twice its gross domestic product - topping hard-hit eurozone countries including Greece, which have drawn fire from foreign investors over their fiscal management. On the bright side, AKB48 have also promoted the government's suicide prevention program and appeared in a farm ministry rice campaign.
All of this makes us wonder - Forget AKB48, how long until AK47 in musical, or primarily otherwise, format is used to encourage lending to sovereigns all around the "developed" world?
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Bullish for the music industry — who needs people to buy records when the government can pay you to write propaganda songs?
Foo Fighters Concert Tour for 10-Year Treasuries is in the planning stages.
The government of Japan is now resorting to Visual Combat.
Who would have imagined???
Banzai7, your the inspiration of a nation!
I can summarize this video for those like me who can't watch it without dangrous vomiting:
20something Japanese girls - No cup.
What, no tentacle porn?
That's a bloke!
Really? Looks like an octopus.
Are you guys blind? It's a black dress..
I think you're supposed to inflate them with a bicycle pump...
That's some serious Japanese Vampire Squid Action.
Time to buy J-Bonds!
....
waxing areolae ?
id hit that like the fist of an angry god!
Octopussy. Bonds and such.
I bet she survived the tsunami.
Too soon?
you're all idiots...don't you see the gold chain??
Fu-u...wow! Yea, I'm a real sucker for that pic! ;D
Did someone buy the first 762?
I think I see some stains.
Mercury
Dude, signed collectors edition.
A bunch of someones bought all 1000, and they are still in the bags after a single read.
No stains on these.
Not even on the bag.
We're not all in the same time zone guys, morning wood to all...
Kyle Bass would give this 2 thumbs up... LMAO
Definitely prefer both the Nipponese grrl band and the above trio to this:
http://www.sushi-typhoon.com/films/mutant-girls-squad
(Although I do plan on passing on to the Mutants Gen. Powell's book tour itinerary. Just in case. . .)
Bukkake Bonds.
It`s the future....
All your bonds are belong to us
Japanese Millf's are much better. Filled out and plumped up a bit, now thats a woman !!!
Hulk
Asian women have no ass.
Even white chick ass is more round.
It's the only thing detracting from the Asian chick myth, the flat as a board ass.
I'm afraid you couldn't be more wrong with your sweeping generalization.
What's the Asian chick myth?
That in over 75 years of western processed food availability, there has not been a filler effect.
If the closest you've gotten to Asia is buying Rice-a-Roni at Safeway, I can see how you might say that.
As a red-blooded possessor of just the right number of Y chromosomes, and an appreciative fan of all of God's creations, I respectfully disagree.
Watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNg3mcjhq9w and then you'll agree with me: if AKB48 came to my house, it probably wouldn't take them too long to convince me to buy some JGBs. They could probably even do it without resorting to BJs. FTW!
I'd rather have an ice pick in my ear than listen to that crap.
I'm waiting for WB7 to chop pedobear images into a few of those videos. That would be some funny shit!
Too old!
Accurate would be to the point.
Can you guys let them grow up some before you stick things in them?
young twat is the greatest renewable energy source on the planet - build some monuments of this shit
Gary Glitter is all over this, I'm sure of it!
Word is they're giving out panties with large bond purchases
The debt storm, it rages and swirls
Who knows what finally unfurls?
So to avoid revolution
They propose this solution...
A band made of Japanese girls!
Rather than Japan 'suddenly' following WB7, I think what we see here, is one more offshoot of the general cultural background of some of WB7's more inspired work.
Am wondering WTF is the deal here with ZeroHedge all of a sudden getting all Calvinist-Puritanical on us, suggesting that it is « disturbing » because men of all ages enjoy seeing pretty singing and dancing girls in their 20s?
How is this different from Western men ogling all the singing and dancing girls on movies and television, going back to things like the Busby Berkeley days, and leggy high-heels dancing films like 'Gold Diggers of 1935'?
Has ZeroHedge joined Mitt Romney's Mormons, or the fundamentalist zealot fanatics of America?
God loves a pretty girl, that's why God made so many ... and some young women really enjoy being pretty and having men of all ages appreciate them.
And for the 'older males', there is an art to growing older well, being a gentleman ... for which one of the rewards is that even young pretty women appreciate grown-up men, too. I have pretty female friends in their 20s who kiss my cheeks whenever we meet ... but we kiss a lot here (3 kisses is common Belgian greeting).
And one of the gentlemanly arts, too, is to also smile at women who aren't pretty - I think H L Mencken recommended this as a way for his friends to honour his memory after he was gone.
I have to second you Bank Guy.
Two internet things I've never understood fully.
The interest in stick figure J-Pop girls that are mediocremarkable at best...and fully grown straight men that follow my little pny (aka /b/ronies)...
I'd trade a 10 year t-bill to see the Foo Fighters.
1. If you have to ask, I don't think I could explain it to you.
2. I have also asked this, and I don't think they'll ever be able to explain it to me.
BooMushroom
You overlooked the obvious to 2, in the closet Gay.
Much like men who moisturize, exfoliate, get pedicures, get manicures, and participate in other chick like activities.
Naw most of them are incredible savages online and straight as arrows, I've thought it's an ironic thing, but they geniunely like MLP.
Like there are birds in the sky, they are part of the internet datasphere. Still don't get it.
I'm going to try. I had a male friend with long hair to his waist who wore a skirt (yes a kilt), fishnet stockings (ripped), and army boots. It was one of those things, no one said shit to him. He would kick your ass if you did. You knew this as a certainty. It is a kind of confidence you just can't fake.
He was sexy as all get out. Great guy. He rescued me more than once from unwanted attention.
Some of the MLP guys may be like that. They like what they like, some of it is considered fem, but they don't give a flying fuck what you think. They are real men.
Western dichotomies. BTW, you're either with us or against us.
Dave Grohl singing "Long Road to Ruin" will take a whole new meaning...
What a sad state of affairs for music. I grew up listening to my dads Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, and Bob Marley music and always liked how they questioned authority. Music is now shit
I listen to metal now, because even though you really face a challenge understanding the words, they are still pretty damn poignant. Check out the lyrics.
http://www.lyricsmania.com/royalty_into_exile_lyrics_all_shall_perish.html
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/asilaydying/parallels.html
I grew up listening to Floyd, Zeppelin, AC/DC...when I got older it was Metallica, Nirvana, Pearl Jam. Now all the crap my kids listen to is coporate canned shit full of propoganda. It makes me sick.
Dr. some elevator music for your listening pleasure.
That is awesome. Quartet playing Metalica's Fade to Black...liking the other stuff in their channel.
this is a call to all my
patriotic neighbors
this is a call to all
10-year Treasuries are pretty
10-year Treasuries are good
seems that all they ever wanted was a buyer
them bond bubbles are pretty big
and say they should
ever fall to ground
call the magic Bernanke
As long as they aren't girls showing their lung removal suregery scar, I really don't care.
Aziz
Music industry? Why limit the Geek appeal?
Propaganda from the Soviet Tass
Wouldn't be so craven and crass
What better invention
To get our attention
Than the prospect of some Japanese music
So Carl, are you into game shows?
Perhaps this is more everyone's speed...
You must buy Shinpokemon. Please state-a-name, please statapurpose !! We must move to Australia before stupid american find out too late.
When a govt. is doing something like this to get you to buy their debt, you know said country is on it's last leg.
Boyz 2 Men selling TIPS is next up.
BTW... Hot! ina creepy kinda way....
GeneMarchbanks
Why are you interested in Boys, Men and tips?
LOL +1
Think this a much better alternative than having the 3 stooges (Bernank, Timmay, Hank) pulling the "do what we say or the bunny gets it" routine.
It'll probably even WORK. Japan seems to have some kind of lingering committment to the social contract.
These really are desperate times ......
WhyDoesItHurtWh...
Oh please, how is is any more desperate than having actors hawk savings or war bonds.
Seems like a long tradition to me.
Because these funds would not be going to savings or war, only to pay interest on money already spent.
BooMushroom
Like the war and savings bonds didn't go to money already spent.
FDR tapped into SS to fund new battleships. He started the tradition and SS.
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2012/5/24_Nigel_Farage_-_We_Are_on_the_Edge_of_a_Total_Social_Breakdown.html
Mr. Farages take.....................
only japan, this group has that robot girl, using robots to sell bonds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh_BC_HU_lk&feature=related
At first I thought the headline read
"Japanese Bondage Girls Want You!"
loooooooooooool
On the other hand, Reality: Fukushima
You've heard about the fuel pond at No. 4, right? That ain't the 1/2 of it...
‘The Sleeper’: Unit 3 building ‘fatally flawed’ (VIDEO)Hmmm...they don't need bonds, they need Bond-O.
LongSoupLine
Your upvotes are from people who actually know what Bondo is, and maybe have used some.
The rest are still trying to grasp just how you check their oil, and much like sex, which hole to put it in.
Only 4 posts separate bondage girls from cheesegraters...
Ah, so now there are two collapse threats.
What’s the worry? Japan has only had something like 27 earthquakes greater than 6.0 in the last forty years.
They probably won’t see another one for months.
ArrestBobRubin
Fukushima seems to have dropped off the radar here.
Luckily Rense and What Really Happened carry frequent updates.
All that lovely radioactive wreckage has started to hit the west coast.
I expect to see glow in the dark driftwood scupture at the hippy fairs soon.
Gully, all I know is that my Cali strawberries are now the size of grapefruit...maybe that radiation showering Surfers paradise is stimulating growth and DNA mutations...who knows.
I'm waiting for that there Pacific salmon to be grow 100 ft long....mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Arnold Ziffel
One of the online seafood companies has started testing fish for radioactivity.
Adds a whole new level to Deadliest Catch.
If it's a US based company, I bet they'll get told by some fedgov agency to cease and desist, lest you scare the natives, ala the mad cow episode.
AKB48 Heavy Radiation.
What are the odds they'll do a cover of REM''s 'Its the end of the world as we know it'?
Oohhhh! Timmy totally had the Sergeant Pepper’s Sovereign Debt Club Band idea first! What's he going to do with all those uniforms now?
Actually, if Geithner sings Plasmatics covers on American Idol and barks like a dog I'll consider his paper...
Still, SPEND A NEW YORK NIGHT WITH THE PRESIDENT, FIRST LADY AND SARAH JESSICA PARKER! ...is far more sleazy.
http://blog.4president.org/.a/6a00d83451721569e20168ebb04a09970c-pi
Still, SPEND A NEW YORK NIGHT WITH THE PRESIDENT, FIRST LADY AND SARAH JESSICA PARKER! ...is far more sleazy.
LOL, He had a 150 Invited guest promo(gimme $$$$$$), and nearly all failed to even SHOW.
Seriously, if WE can get him out of the position he's in, the American peoples outlook in general about life will jump 15-20%.
IMHO
It won't make a dime's worth of difference. Mittens Magic Underomney is just as geared up to transfer your money to Goldman as Barack O'Boomer is.
Box seats for dirty old Japanese men with a yen must be going for a premie-yum.
This is another one of those teenie-bopper Sushi-concerts that smells fishy.
but can theKalashnikovs cover THIS?
We somehow got thru ok with Ricky Martin and Milli Vanilli and so will they.
and don't forget the original: Gary U.S. Bonds - Out Of Work
cha-cha-cha!
Hi, I'm Michael Jackson, back from the dead with a special offer ... !!!
^.^
I guess the 5,6,7,8s turned em down.
Whoohoo!
No thanks, I'm holding out for the "Milli-Vanilli 0%-Bond Revival Tour"...
"Blame it on the rain..."
This is the chorus translated for you non-Japanese speakers. "Pay up or we'll keep singing!"
What's next? The B52's singing 'Bomb Bomb Iran?
AKB48 means "jail bait will get you 48".
Try Essex in England. You can find jailbait milfs.
Too bad Japanese bond yield is not that '' Kawaii ''.
Why not auction off their G-strings to sell Japan Gubmint Bonds. The Japanese are pretty kinky in the sexuality area.
Of course, "an anonymous bidder" bought Kim Kardashian's G-string for $5k at auction ....rumor has it.
Who knows what her bicycle seat will sell for?
This video is more disturbing than the picture of Nigerians...
Maybe the Nigerians could join the group.
They will be fighting over the cucumbers.
Sure, sign me up for those JGB's; only I can't pay for them until FaceBook is back over $42. Is there a problem?
http://vegasxau.blogspot.com
They should worry about buying potassium iodide and gieger counters
They no longer use airplane to bomb, they use breasts.
OT,
PNSN is a MF Global look alike and is melting down today. DUCK!
Got Gold?
SEMPER FUCKIN FI
Don't know what they're even doing on the DAQ anymore. Shouldn't they be in the pinksheets? Heh.
C'mon, they've only dropped $0.08.
The one in the back center is a man baby!
All they need to do is drop a few hints with purchases of bonds, you obtain free used panties from the group.
genious, panties worn and signed by members for large bond purchases
Just print the bonds on the panties. Problem solved.
Oh god, oh god, oh god....oh, shit, that is some awful "music"
Brought to you by the nation that coined Bukaki... or was it Kabuki?
http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/109/905/impossibru.jpg?...
Another reason why love the hedge. Where else can you get hard-hitting news like this?
True, but I think there was no reason to bring in Japanese fetishism to impending financial collapse.
Gotta fund the gov somehow.
AKB48 are big business.Japan is the second biggest music industry in the world after the USA and by a very big margin.
This group sold over $211m in CD/DVDs last year, then add another few hundred million for the franchising advertising etc.. There business model I believe is now being studied.
The West doesn't know too much, but they are into China, Indonesia where they have set up a group... Asia is right into this group.
Shit they even have their own elections broadcast live in Japan and Asia, where the public can vote to rank the girls. The they have this massive Paper-scissors-rock competitoin among the girls also broadcast live. It is crazy insane.
This type of group has been popular in Japan for 40 years.
Which is exactly why the status quo will perpetuate.
Too much fucking stupidity.
This dude just joined the group:
http://www.france24.com/en/20120525-japanese-man-cooks-serves-own-genitals
Kyle Bass is laughing his a$$ off, no?
Paging Chris Hansen!
http://www.google.com/imgres?q=chris+hansen&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefo...
i'd buy those b... er... bonds.
Fuckin awsome. Where did tey learn all those gang signs? Im going to be singing that song at work all day to my co-workers.
" sat se su se gat ge gag gee goo!
" ree mee gat see mat see moo!
No difference between this crap and our Government coaxing little old ladies to take out a 5% "REVERSE MORTGAGE".
Thank you for your patriotism Fonzie, RJ, Senator Fred and Barb Eden.
Put up your home as collateral, and when you expire .gov will take your home AND go after your kids and grandkids for the unpaid balance, including 20 years of compounding interest.
Steady income stream AND free real estate.
Another fine example of wealth extraction.
All your asses are belong to us.
Peace.
I really get sad when I look at Japan's situation. If their demographic-fiscal problem wasn't enough, the Fukushima catastrophy has to be the coup de gras. Arnie Gundersen's findings vis-a-vis the ubitiquitous presence of aerial hot spot particles throughout most of Japan is alarming. The Japanese people are going to see an epidemic of lung and bone cancers, leukemias and sarcomas in 5-10 years that will shock the world. The young people are going to suffer the brunt of this insidious fallout. I weep for Japan. I pray that the storage pool at Reactor 4 can be cleared of the fuel rods before the next big quake, or we will all be buyng one way tickets to New Zealand.
Smoke em if you got em japan
http://youtu.be/kKbc_5ZHffo
dddeeeessssSSSSUUUUUUU
Ah yes, ...
The early 80's. To be young and Japanese again.
Where's Styx and Mr. Roboto when you truly need them?
AKB= All Kindsa Bukake
/laugh
well played sir...
You can keep your little school girl fetish, Japan.... Wake me up when they use Brazilian carnival dancers to pimp bonds, and I will consider it.
these oriental xenophobic fucks deserve whats coming to them
their public needs to open their eyes to see the death spiral they are on, oh wait they can't open those puny slits
just barely to see these hot bitches dance though
Japan's xenophobia is one of the few things saving them. At least they still have the same stock that built the nation. Unlike some western nations...
Which are too busy celebrating diversity via forced homogenity. Only in a civilized world does one denigrate individual cultures while pretending to celebrate them.
Not convinced. More skin please.
This why the Greeks screwed up on their bonds, they only have Demis Roussos and Nana Mouskouri.
Awful.
Sounds like a cheap version of the Go-Go's with bad sound.
nope - it is pure awesome
Well, I wasn't planning on buying any Japanese bonds anytime soon, but on the advice of these chick financial wizards, how can you not?
Tomorrow.....asking Justin Bieber for stock tips.
Cant wait to hear what he has to say.
Not exactly the same as marine corps Iwo Jima vets stomping for U. S. bonds during WWII but any port in a storm, right?
By the way, I support women in short skirts. "I'm behind them all the way!"
Tuco
And this related Breaking News just in:
To counter Jap-threat, Hillary - fresh and frisky from her recent cavorting in Colombia - threatening to release her own pov Lap-Dance video Bills, Bonds 'n USDA-Prime Butts....
Radioactive.