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North Korea’s Cinema of Dreams

A lesson in totalitarian indoctrination by all means.

But what is the reality ? The truth…

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The new French Connection’s Spring/Summer 2011 advertising campaign is entitled “You are…” which questions what it means to be a man or a woman in today’s society. This campaign challenges the consumer to explore how gender and society dictate behavior with powerful, thought-provoking imagery. “You are…” continues the conversation of the brand’s past award-winning campaigns from 2010 featuring French Connection’s “The Man” and “The Woman.” Moving forward from the idealized image of man and woman, French Connection has created scenarios confronting the viewer by asking, “You are Man?” and “You are Woman?”

My vote ? Definitely New Earth…(love the wet shirt look too…)

All eyes may be on the Middle East, but there is also a quite explosive story developing in the US.  In Ohio, Tennessee, and Indiana newly elected Republican lawmakers are facing off against unions as they attempt to roll back long-held benefits and bargaining rights. Freedomworks, an organization that helped grow the Tea Party movement, says it’s using its list of supporters to rally people around several states’ anti-union bills, while in Pennsylvania, union members plan to wear read in solidarity despite not currently being under attack. Meanwhile, Wisconsin Democrats remain on the run, trying to delay a vote on their state’s bill that would sharply curtail the power of public workers unions.

And then there is the House vote to slash $ 60 bn from the federal budget over the next seven months, showing the efforts of the new Republican majority to shrink size and scope of government.

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