katiekitamura Katie Kitamura
Strategy backfired. Police brutality has turned #occupywallstreet into a huge story.
Sunday, 25 September 2011
HA!
TheTweetOfGod God
Gay, lesbian, straight, bisexual, transgendered: Thou art all equally smitable in My eyes.
♪♫ John Lee Hooker & Ry Cooder - It Serves Me Right To Suffer
John Lee Hooker & Ry Cooder performing It Serves Me Right To Suffer at the All Our Colors benefit concert, Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, 10-10-1992
(Thanx Joe!)
(Thanx Joe!)
War and Shopping: The Extremism That Never Speaks Its Name
Looking for a bookshop that was no longer there, I walked instead into a labyrinth designed as a trap. Leaving became an illusion, rather like Alice once she had stepped through the looking glass. Walls of glass curved into concentric circles as one "store" merged into another: Armani Exchange with Dinki Di Pies. Exits led to gauntlets of more "offers" and "exciting options." Seeking a guide, I bought a lousy pair of sunglasses: anything to get out. It was a vision of hell. It was a Westfield mega mall.
This happened in Sydney - where the Westfield empire began - in a "mall" not half as mega as the one that opened in Stratford, East London, on 13 September. "Everything" is here, reported the architectural critic Jonathan Glancey: from Apple to Primark, McDonalds's to KFC and Krispy Kreme. There is a cinema with 17 screens and "luxurious VIP seats," and a mega "luxury" bowling alley. Tracey Emin and Mary Portas lead the Westfield "cultural team." The biggest casino in the land will overlook a "24-hour lifestyle street" called The Arcade. This will be the only way into the 2012 Olympic Games for ten million people attending the athletics. The simple, grotesque message of "buy me, buy me" will be London's welcome to the world....
This happened in Sydney - where the Westfield empire began - in a "mall" not half as mega as the one that opened in Stratford, East London, on 13 September. "Everything" is here, reported the architectural critic Jonathan Glancey: from Apple to Primark, McDonalds's to KFC and Krispy Kreme. There is a cinema with 17 screens and "luxurious VIP seats," and a mega "luxury" bowling alley. Tracey Emin and Mary Portas lead the Westfield "cultural team." The biggest casino in the land will overlook a "24-hour lifestyle street" called The Arcade. This will be the only way into the 2012 Olympic Games for ten million people attending the athletics. The simple, grotesque message of "buy me, buy me" will be London's welcome to the world....
Continue reading
John Pilger @'truthout'
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
