AMERICAblog: China claims Bjork is a threat to national security
CitizenX
· 1 year ago
It was that 3d video she did that was the bamboo that broke the pandas back.
RealityCubed
· 1 year ago
I don't know, that swan dress she wore at the Oscars a few years ago could probably bring down a government.
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
I thought the swan dress was fabulous that night. Kinky...out of the box...and a huge "fuck you" to the fashionista queens who make women look like shit. But I can see where some geeky Chinese official thought she was a threat. China is very medieval.
Soundboy_jeff_meanie
· 1 year ago
I wanna do West Hollywood drag wearing that dress... full beard and all :-)
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
I don't do drag but if I did, I would love to have that thing
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Chris......you really have to get out more.
Don't know who Bjork is?
Geeze.
SouthernYankee
· 1 year ago
Wasn't he a Tennis player?
MikeinSanJo
· 1 year ago
I'm actually interested to see what kind of international incident China is willing to start because of the press, cuz you KNOW there are going to be journalists from all over the world (especially USA) who will think China's rules don't apply to them.
In any Olympics, the news is never exclusively about the sports and the athletes.
Saw news reports today that hotels and other commercial ventures expecting a windfall from the Olympics are being disappointed...lots of canceled trips by outsiders owing to visa problems...hotels only about half full...vendors stuck with souveniers and no buyers.....
HeartlandLiberal
· 1 year ago
1. tch tch. Admitting you do not know who Bjork is. We 62 year olds who know just don't know what to do with you.
2. As for China and the Olympics, I did a little visit to the google, and came up with the following very nice discussion comparing the Olympics of 1936 in Germany under Hitler and the current Olympics in China. I would recommend anyone interested understanding the media and totalitarian regimes read it. (Also, if you really don't know who Len Riefenstahl was, and have never seen "Triumph of the Will" ("Sieg des Willen"), march yourself to a video store or library, find a copy, and watch it.)
Hitler then became enthusiastic about the Olympics. His government invested 20 millions Marks (a huge sum) to aid the Berlin Olympic Games. He ordered a stadium built in Berlin that would hold one hundred thousand people. He wanted the Berlin Olympics to be a political extravaganza and exceed all previous Olympic Games in scale. Goebbels said, "The sole task of German sports is to strengthen the German people's character." What he referred here was, of course, the pure German race. In the Nazis' sports posters, the artists were asked to show the masculinity and heroic strengths of the Aryan race.
The Nazis enthusiasm in promoting the Olympics even brought a technological breakthrough in broadcasting. The Nazis broadcast the Olympic Games live (television had just appeared in Germany), so the Olympic Games became a political stage for Hitler and the Nazis to promote their political agenda. Their motto was, "Publicity helps us seize power, publicity helps us consolidate power, and publicity will help us get the whole world." The Nazis and the CCP are much the same in this regard, both consummate masters of the evil art of deception through propaganda. ... On August 1, Hitler hosted the opening ceremonies. The Berlin Olympic Games began the tradition of the Olympic Torch Relay (before then, the Olympic flame was taken to the site of the games from Greece, but there was no relay). Over three thousand people relayed the torch for twenty-one days. On the day of the ceremony, when the torch was taken to Hitler, it was as if the world had forgotten the ethnic cleansing that continued, even under their noses. Nazi propaganda had promoted the torch relay crazily. Hitler's official propaganda filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl produced the full length documentary film Olympia, bringing further unearned prestige to Hitler and his Games. Hitler's deceptive propaganda was very successful. Germany went on to win the most gold medals. Hitler and the Nazis had stolen the limelight.
Indigo
· 1 year ago
TRUTH! Leni Riefenstahl's film is so fine that it's easy to forget that it's Nazi propoganda. I doubt the Chinese will come up with anything of such quality.
Soundboy_jeff_meanie
· 1 year ago
I have no idea who Bjork is but I'm pretty sure China is strong enough to stand up to anything the performer may have to say. ---
maybe they found "Army of Me" threatening?
I know my Husbear considers her voice a torture... I kinda like her though.
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ImpureScience
· 1 year ago
The Chinese government is full of the rich brown stuff, but we'll never call them on it again. At this point we owe them so much money, and rely so much on their continued willingness to lend to us that we have no leverage with them.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Which is why Bush is flying there to kiss Chinese ass.
Pucker up, Bushie Boy, you Drugstore Cowboy Traitor you!
The Sugarcubes played for French President François Mitterrand during a 1991 summit meeting in Reykjavík, before recording Stick Around for Joy (#95, 1992). A year later Björk ventured outside the Sugarcubes to record her first U.S. solo album, Debut (#61, 1993), with producer/composer Nellee Hooper of British soul/jazz collective Soul II Soul. http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/bjork/biogr...
woodroad34
· 1 year ago
You don't know who Bjork is? Where have you been for the last 8 years--George W. Bjork...jeez!
Until george w bush is swinging from the end of a rope after having been convicted of Crimes Against Humantiy by a world court....I'm not interested in critisizing any other government.......
Jim Olson
· 1 year ago
Careful, Subroutine. That's treason. The Government Trolls will be visiting you.
Subroutine
· 1 year ago
What???? The Government Trolls don't want to see justice prevail? Guess I'll have to wear my flag pin when I answer the door..........you can't convict someone of treason wearing a flag pin, now can you.......
kl8n
· 1 year ago
Bwahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Oh no, please don't send the cute little pixie to undermine our security! HA!
Indigo
· 1 year ago
I doubt that the Beijing government could survive Bjork.
Maldoror
· 1 year ago
If the Nazis were still around and could make cheap shit for stupid Americans to waste their money on, they would probably be hosting the Olympics as well.
NanoPlop
· 1 year ago
I thought he skulked off to write polemics about the evils of liberalism and all around decline of America. He was a threat to National Security and I am glad he didn't get out of the Judiciary committee. BTW, the Nazis did make cheap money waste and did host the Olympics.
Forty2
· 1 year ago
China owns our collective ass. the very notion of that 25 years ago would blow Republican wigs sky-high. this is what happens when the pigmen gut our industrial base and turn us into a nation of paper-pushers and fry-pit operators that sell cars and houses to one another.
domino
· 1 year ago
China may own a lot of US bonds, but without their American market, they would be very hurt. So, the idea that China owns us or vice versa is kinda dumb. Both need each other.
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Don't know who Bjork is?
Geeze.
In any Olympics, the news is never exclusively about the sports and the athletes.
She's a singer from Iceland...and loves feathers, evidently.
http://shanghaiist.com/2008/03/05/bjorks_tibet_...
Tibet! Tibet!
2. As for China and the Olympics, I did a little visit to the google, and came up with the following very nice discussion comparing the Olympics of 1936 in Germany under Hitler and the current Olympics in China. I would recommend anyone interested understanding the media and totalitarian regimes read it. (Also, if you really don't know who Len Riefenstahl was, and have never seen "Triumph of the Will" ("Sieg des Willen"), march yourself to a video store or library, find a copy, and watch it.)
The Beijing Olympics and the 1936 Berlin Olympics - Similarities and Differences
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maybe they found "Army of Me" threatening?
I know my Husbear considers her voice a torture... I kinda like her though.
.
Pucker up, Bushie Boy, you Drugstore Cowboy Traitor you!
http://www.youtube.com/user/bjorktube?ob=4
Rollingstone:
The Sugarcubes played for French President François Mitterrand during a 1991 summit meeting in Reykjavík, before recording Stick Around for Joy (#95, 1992). A year later Björk ventured outside the Sugarcubes to record her first U.S. solo album, Debut (#61, 1993), with producer/composer Nellee Hooper of British soul/jazz collective Soul II Soul.
http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/bjork/biogr...
BTW, it's nice to know that Nancy Pelosi can still zing 'em: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080717/ap_on_go_pr...
Too bad she's just talk and no action on impeachment or really hamstringing The Big Dildo.
She's out there, but viable.
I'm not a fan, but then the last CD I bought was ... ooh, I can't even tell ya.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY_Yf4zz-yo
http://kotaku.com/gaming/top/street-fighter-bjo...
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1zdfg_bjork-a...