Economist: the world in 2015
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- Sausage (High) Roller
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2015 will be a particular good year for world peace... not saying it will be a peaceful one...
a big contributor to a peaceful and stronger international community is putin, apparently.
óf course, ppl have to die for it - as usual.
putin atm impressively explains the need and the importance of strong intl ties and relations.
not only politically. its also sensed and understood on a very broad basis among the population.
however, im quite sure, not so in America. but, hey...
apart from this, I don't understand the picture. its stupid.
for Europe, 2015 seems to become even the "year of the people"...
recognition, awareness, appreciation and defense of (achieved) values within the societies.
a big contributor to a peaceful and stronger international community is putin, apparently.
óf course, ppl have to die for it - as usual.
putin atm impressively explains the need and the importance of strong intl ties and relations.
not only politically. its also sensed and understood on a very broad basis among the population.
however, im quite sure, not so in America. but, hey...
apart from this, I don't understand the picture. its stupid.
for Europe, 2015 seems to become even the "year of the people"...
recognition, awareness, appreciation and defense of (achieved) values within the societies.
Thanks for your thoughts
Between Obama and the Chinese leader is the Chesire Cat, master of illusions and of vanishing in a flash. Between Obama and Merkel a ghost viewing a holiday brochure. All political faces (incl the terrorist) are black&white, other people (incl Queen Elizabeth in her Land Rover) still in full color.
And so much more. Enjoy the pondering
That said, ultimately I guess it's just a Beatles-album-cover-inspired big joke.. but not a stupid one
I think it's super interesting as far as magazine covers go because its many little details and references and alignments can be interpreted in numerous ways. It certainly isn't stupid (nor done by a stupid person) in the actual sense of the word, far from it.pdotty wrote:apart from this, I don't understand the picture. its stupid.
Between Obama and the Chinese leader is the Chesire Cat, master of illusions and of vanishing in a flash. Between Obama and Merkel a ghost viewing a holiday brochure. All political faces (incl the terrorist) are black&white, other people (incl Queen Elizabeth in her Land Rover) still in full color.
And so much more. Enjoy the pondering
That said, ultimately I guess it's just a Beatles-album-cover-inspired big joke.. but not a stupid one
Last edited by metaleap on Sun Jan 11, 2015 2:54 pm, edited 3 times in total.
He does indeedpdotty wrote:putin atm impressively explains the need and the importance of strong intl ties and relations.
not only politically.
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first, it looks as if mona lisa has a red-dot bindi on the forehead.. would have been cool...
who is it ?
and the two guys, next to hollande, between Obama and the Chinese pres ..
and the two between putin and the terrorist...?
why is napoleon waving...
who is the women with the thing on her head?
who is it ?
and the two guys, next to hollande, between Obama and the Chinese pres ..
and the two between putin and the terrorist...?
why is napoleon waving...
who is the women with the thing on her head?
The Economist is a British publication.pdotty wrote:if there is a Cheshire cat, there should be a chloride chicken as well.
its good, but perhaps too much from the American worldview ?
What I find interesting about it is the ommissions - where is the Dear Leader?
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I know now, why this pic feels like totally out of the world...
its because Obama in the center seems leading or dominating the group and that doesn't reflect the reality (anymore).
he should be in the last line, somewhere... I like him, but that's the truth...
its because Obama in the center seems leading or dominating the group and that doesn't reflect the reality (anymore).
he should be in the last line, somewhere... I like him, but that's the truth...
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Just some model fashioning a ridiculous birdnest adornment on her napper and that ain't Napolean waving, it's a fantastically rich Nigerian.pdotty wrote:............why is napoleon waving...
who is the women with the thing on her head?
Apparently a famous Da Vinci (?) painting about a story of a wife's husband intentionally catching Syphilis and giving it to her to infect the king she's having an affair with. Or perhaps it denotes both "old Europe" and "renaissance"? So many views to projectpdotty wrote:first, it looks as if mona lisa has a red-dot bindi on the forehead.. would have been cool...who is it ?
Omissions indeed are also interesting. This magazine of economists doesn't seem to expect the likes of Draghi, Lagarde, Yellen to make any newsworthy announcements or decisions all throughout the year..scobienz wrote:The Economist is a British publication.
What I find interesting about it is the ommissions - where is the Dear Leader?
That's why art like this is so great, so many ways to read into this! I've read another interpretation saying they made it look like "Obama-holiday-ghost-Chesire-cat still-being-in-the-center is all that's blocking everyone else crowding behind from moving forward".pdotty wrote:its because Obama in the center seems leading or dominating the group and that doesn't reflect the reality (anymore).
The current Nigerian president (at least until election later this year) but I think the hand belongs to Hillary who almost seems to try to jump "in between" Putin and Merkel.The Window Licker wrote:that ain't Napolean waving, it's a fantastically rich Nigerian.
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looks like a late edit with that hand, similar to the da vinci paintings
Hilary was supposed to make bunny ears behind putin, but then it was found that this is SOOOOOooooo worn, even for the economist... or so, and they added three more fingers...
sorry, but I still don't think, anyone has put more than 1.5 brain cells into this...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_belle_ferronniere
Hilary was supposed to make bunny ears behind putin, but then it was found that this is SOOOOOooooo worn, even for the economist... or so, and they added three more fingers...
sorry, but I still don't think, anyone has put more than 1.5 brain cells into this...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_belle_ferronniere
It is also known as Portrait of an Unknown Woman. The painting's title, applied as early as the seventeenth century, identifying the sitter as the wife or daughter of an ironmonger (a ferronnier), was said to be discreetly alluding to a reputed mistress of Francis I of France, married to a certain Le Ferron. The tale is a romantic legend of revenge in which the aggrieved husband intentionally infects himself with syphilis, which he passes to the king through infecting his wife. - citation needed
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Spitthedog reckons the economic story for 2015 might be about the parce the parcel of debt from the west to the east after the insatiable drive of asians who have been gorging on the the ultra cheap USD liquidity and ZIRP....which has now dried up.
As Gordon Gekko once said ''greed is good'', well psychologically speaking no more so than over here since the financial crisis i reckon. I'm not sure Asia was ready for 6 years of ultra cheap money.
This will have some consequences in a region where rising bad debts are the norm imo. Added to this is China's clampdown on corruption which could push alot of chinese companies under as China is also possibly experiencing a slowdown. This combined with the ECB now possibly committed to QE/lowering the Euro and Japan to lowering the Yen i wonder whether there will be a continued flight to safety = USD and Treasuries. So will this put further pressure on commodities, oil and oil exporting countries like Russia??
Dunno. Just a possible scenario.
I see there are reports of talks opening between North and South Korea to unify as one.
As usual though, i am a glass half empty kinda guy, so i could be talkin out of my ar$e so what are other peoples opinions?
As Gordon Gekko once said ''greed is good'', well psychologically speaking no more so than over here since the financial crisis i reckon. I'm not sure Asia was ready for 6 years of ultra cheap money.
This will have some consequences in a region where rising bad debts are the norm imo. Added to this is China's clampdown on corruption which could push alot of chinese companies under as China is also possibly experiencing a slowdown. This combined with the ECB now possibly committed to QE/lowering the Euro and Japan to lowering the Yen i wonder whether there will be a continued flight to safety = USD and Treasuries. So will this put further pressure on commodities, oil and oil exporting countries like Russia??
Dunno. Just a possible scenario.
I see there are reports of talks opening between North and South Korea to unify as one.
As usual though, i am a glass half empty kinda guy, so i could be talkin out of my ar$e so what are other peoples opinions?
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