Thursday, January 7, 2010

McDonald's and a Soviet Invasion

Evidently some of the below rather avoir du poid "Soviet" soldiers -- to anyone, such as myself, who witnessed rake-thin ex-USSR military men begging on Moscow streets in the late 90s/early 00's -- consumed too many McDonald's hamburgers upon their hostile takeover of the United States ... will it be the same case with the Chinese who, in the Red Dawn remake decribed below, invade die Big Mac homeland?

US paranoia seen in new Red Dawn - Benjamin A Shobert, Asia Times:The Chinese propaganda posters, carefully set inside the windows of the Chinese/American Friendship Center in Detroit, say it all:

the first, a picture of the Capitol in Washington DC having its rotunda blown off, with the words "Defeating Your Enemy" running along the top. The second, a Chinese hand reaching down to help up an American, with the phrase "Helping You Back On Your Feet", and the last, a burly laborer hammering away at an anvil, a figure of the US dollar beneath his descending hammer, with the slogan "Repairing Your Economy" in large white letters on the poster. Another poster makes its point even more directly: beneath a picture of the chastened US dollar, "Deceitful Leaders. Greedy Corporations. This is Not a Democracy. We Are Here to Help." Thankfully, this is not the Detroit of today, rather the Detroit of tomorrow, at least as envisioned by director Dan Bradley, who is in the midst of remaking the 1984 cult hit Red Dawn, but this time with the Soviets taking the back seat and the Chinese standing in as the aggressor. Red Dawn image from

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