TERRACOTTA WARRIORS

 

oil paint and gouache on arches paper..

drawn in the 'survivors' style..

 

if only all armies were all made of only terracotta..

instead of..

scorched earth..

and airplanes built with paper wings..

and drones and missiles..

were only kites..

to decorate the days..

and sleep on the wind..

 peaceful nights..

 

if only men..

and women too..

could make only love..

and never war..

or if they must..

create a proof that they once were.. 

make terracotta armies..

to bury in the ground..

to guard the peace..

without a sound..

 

TALES FROM THE SKETCHBOOK 2

TERRACOTTA ARMY

just thinking about chinese art an stuff..

I made these sketches among others..

from looking at the terracotta army..

they are not documentary..

just imagined..

most of my stuff is..

imagined..


SURVIVORS

in the waste wood box..

in the design and tech. dept..

I went looking for off cuts that..

I could use to make figures..

these figures were..

created according to how their parts..

were already formed..

you know off cuts..

I was inspired by picasso..

his painting..


THE BATHERS


for which he constructed wooden figures to draw from..

mr. cut out gun..

was one of the first..

here though we are looking at the..

oil on paper drawings..

inspired by the terracotta army..

ANOTHER BLOW JOB FROM RONA

yo! .. blow the man down under... innit!

Harmy

Another blow for Australia.
Not content with slapping an 80% tariff..
on Oz barley export to China all beef exports have also been banned.
No doubt as punishment for the OZ pm..
wanting an investigation into the Covid virus.
China must have a lot to hide.

marg54

Luckily, Australia has other markets for their barley and beef.
 Chinese prefer Australian Barley to make their beer, lol..
so cutting off their noses to spite their faces!
 Australia is now seriously looking at markets other than China..
for a number of their raw material exports..
and hopefully other countries will also do the same.
 There is a growing movement in Australia away from Chinese produced goods..
particulary when it comes to vital supplies.

these comments are from mish's site


it was either share these or get my hair cut and lunch out..

as if..

Australia not as vulnerable to Beijing's trade threats as it appears

GET IN BED WITH CHINA

yo!.. wake up with rona... innit!

when in palookaville..

stay out of china town..

 

The Chinese Link With Italy’s Corona Crisis

EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS IS CHINATOWN

 

Noah Cross:
I hope you don't mind. I believe they should be served with the head.
Jake Gittes:
Fine... long as you don't serve the chicken that way.

 

 

 

Jake Gittes: So there's this guy Walsh, do you understand? 

He's tired of screwin' his wife... So his friend says to him, 

"Hey, why don't you do it like the Chinese do?" 

So he says, "How do the Chinese do it?" 

And the guy says, 

"Well, the Chinese, first they screw a little bit, then they stop, 

then they go and read a little Confucius, 

come back, screw a little bit more, 

 then they stop again, go and they screw a little bit... 

then they go back and they screw a little bit more 

and then they go out and they contemplate the moon or something like that. 

Makes it more exciting." 

So now, the guy goes home and he starts screwin' his own wife, see.

 

So he screws her for a little bit and then he stops, 

and he goes out of the room and reads Life Magazine. 

Then he goes back in, he starts screwin' again. 

He says, "Excuse me for a minute, honey." 

He goes out and he smokes a cigarette. 

Now his wife is gettin' sore as hell. 

He comes back in the room, he starts screwin' again. 

He gets up to start to leave again to go look at the moon. 

She looks at him and says,

 

"Hey, whats the matter with ya. 

You're screwin' just like a Chinaman! 

 

 

Loach:
What happened to your nose, Gittes?
Somebody slammed a bedroom window on it?

Jake Gittes:
Nope. Your wife got excited.
She crossed her legs a little too quick.
You understand what I mean, pal?

Yelburton:You ought to be more careful. That must really smart.
Jake Gittes: Only when I breathe.

Escobar:
You look like you've done well by yourself.

Gittes:
I get by.

Escobar:
Well, sometimes it takes a while for a man to find himself.
Maybe you have.

Loach:
Yeah, goin' through other people's dirty linen.
Gittes:
 
Yeah. Tell me. You still puttin' Chinamen in jail for spittin' in the laundry?

Escobar:
You're a little behind the times, Jake.
They use steam irons now.
And I'm out of Chinatown.

Gittes:
 Since when?

Escobar:
 Since I made Lieutenant.

Gittes:
 Congratulations.

J.J. Gittes: To tell you the truth, I lied a little.

 

   Walsh: Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown

 

 

 

WORLD LEADERS GET SICK

yo! ...an tired... innit!

here in palookaville...

THE VIRUS GAMES RAGE ON

folks is gettin sick..

they sick of bein cooped up..

sick of bein outta work..

sick of bein..

out of touch..

mostly though..

they sick of losin loved ones..

when ordinary palookas get sick..

they all get sick in the same way..

but team leaders

WORLD LEADERS ALL GET SICK IN THEIR OWN WAY

boris is sick..

he sick with the virus..

donald is sick..

he sick of media criticism..

vladimir is sick..

sick of the fallin oil price..

xi is sick..

sick of bein blamed fo a 

BIG YELLOW VIRUS

some sick thing they have in common..

they sick of not bein able to play..

with they train sets..

with they airplanes..

with they ships..

with they soldiers..

without they parades..

and  they banquets..

they feel small and alone..

and they all sick to death..

of the virus games.. 

WHATS REALLY SICK

is the doctors an nurses and the carers..

bein made ta play..

without the proper kit..

WOULDN'T IT BE NICE

if the team leaders..

could put aside their differences..

and agree a

common playbook..

and co-operate..

to bring these games..

to an end..

IT AIN'T OVER TIL THE FAT VACCINE SINGS

we here in palookaville..

look to our leaders..

to recover..

their sense of humour..

an set about..

sharin out the popcorn..

and all the stuff..

needed for a..

vaccine to be developed..

before the games get..

out of hand..

COMING NEXT

Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye..


Four and twenty pangolins
Baked in a pie..

When the pie was opened..

The virus began to sing..

Wasn't that a dainty dish
To set before the king?

The king was in the counting-house..

Counting out his money..

The queen was in the parlor..

Eating bread and honey..

The maid was in the garden..

Hanging out the clothes..

Along came a virus..

And snipped off her nose..

Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye..

Four and twenty million..
Baked in a pie..

When the pie was opened..

The dead began to sing..

Wasn't that a dainty dish..

To set before the king?

VOICES OFF

yo!... party off dude...innit!


from the www..


 How China dropped the ball on Covid-19

Sechel

In the six days after top Chinese officials secretly determined they likely were facing a pandemic from a new coronavirus, the city of Wuhan at the epicenter of the disease hosted a mass banquet for tens of thousands of people; millions began traveling through for Lunar New Year celebrations.

President Xi Jinping warned the public on the seventh day, Jan. 20.
But by that time, more than 3,000 people had been infected during almost a week of public silence, according to internal documents obtained by The Associated Press and expert estimates based on retrospective infection data.

But the six-day delay by China’s leaders in Beijing came on top of almost two weeks during which the national Center for Disease Control did not register any cases from local officials, internal bulletins obtained by the AP confirm.
Yet during that time, from Jan. 5 to Jan. 17, hundreds of patients were appearing in hospitals..

 not just in Wuhan..

but across the country.

Sechel

Republicans are ratcheting up efforts to paint China as the villain in the coronavirus pandemic, seeking to shift blame as President Donald Trump faces increased criticism of his handling of a crisis that has shuttered the U.S. economy.

DON'T JUST STAND THERE



 He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump’s Failure on the Virus

“Is this true?!” 

Dr. Kadlec wrote back to the researcher..

  “If so we have a huge hole on our screening and quarantine effort,”..

Her response was blunt: 

“People are carrying the virus everywhere.”

The following day, Dr. Kadlec and the others decided to present Mr. Trump with a plan titled “Four Steps to Mitigation,” telling the president that they needed to begin preparing Americans for a step rarely taken in United States history.

But over the next several days..

a presidential blowup and internal turf fights would sidetrack such a move..

The focus would shift to messaging and confident predictions of success..

rather than publicly calling..

for a shift to mitigation.

These final days of February..

perhaps more than any other moment during his tenure in the White House..

illustrated Mr. Trump’s inability or unwillingness..

to absorb warnings coming at him. 

He instead reverted to his traditional political playbook..

in the midst of a public health calamity..

squandering vital time as the coronavirus..

 spread silently across the country.

Sechel

“Despite Mr. Trump’s denial weeks later, he was told at the time about a Jan. 29 memo produced by his trade adviser, Peter Navarro, laying out in striking detail the potential risks of a coronavirus pandemic: as many as half a million deaths and trillions of dollars in economic losses.”

  Mortality rates in hospitalized patients

njbr

The average age of a patient hospitalized with covid-19, the company said, is 59.6 years old. Mortality rises sharply with age: It is just 1 percent for hospitalized patients under the age of 20, 4 percent for ages 20 to 44, 9 percent for 45 to 54, 13 percent for 55 to 64, 23 percent for 65 to 74, 31 percent for 75 to 84, and 40 percent for 85 and up.

CHINA SNEEZES

yo!... america catches a cold... innit!

time was...

america sneeze first

this time it's different...

YELLOW ROSE

palookaville folks agog...

lookin atta virus games...

 scoreboard...

they think america winnin...

they just dumb fucks... innit!

UPSIDE DOWN

an inside out...

the score board is real wierd...

it ain't the highest numbers...

but the lowest...

that wins the games...

WUHAN FLU

kicks off big in china...

figures gone thru a roof...

but we still playin golf...

before ya know it...

shit's hitta fan...

an it...

 game over...

for golf...

superbowled over...

cricket bowled out...

baseball strikes out...

football relegated...

olympic flame snuffed out...

china takes an early bath...

an then their averages stop...

HERE WE DO THINGS DIFFERENT

now it's us what gotta clap...

it's our figures goin thru a roof...

our team runnin outa kit...

pitch an diamond an park...

dug up fo burials...

hospital tents...

spare beds...

IT'S THE DEBT STUPID

whilst here in palookaville...

goin unemployed...

starbucks closed...

malls empty...

kids off school...

dad inna shed...

mum bakin up a storm...

china ain't pilin onna debt...

china gettin back ta work...

playin checkers...

A TRILLION HERE A TRILLION THERE

as long as the palookaville fed...

don't run outa paper an ink...

we just keep on pilin it up...

could be a...

paper crisis...

next

HAVE VIRUS WILL TRAVEL

yo!... only game in town... innit!

the sun shines down on palookaville...

an a folks like ta go outside...

maybe some lak ta visit a seaside...

even though a shops is shut...

amusements on hold...

cafes closed...

beach closed...

GO THE SOCIAL DISTANCE

don't go the extra mile...

THE VIRUS GAME

is the only game in town...

all other games are off...

it's games over for football...

games over fo olympics...

games over fo basketball, baseball,

what evva

GREAT WALL OF CHINA

the chinese are favourite to win a games...

well they invented them...

they were first up to bat...

and by all accounts...

played a blinder...

knocked a virus fo six innit...

some say the didn't play the game...

not with a straight bat...

only they can telll

anyway...

the great wall was breached anna virus...

flew around the world...

kicking off the world series...

TRAINS AN BOATS AN PLANES

now every country playing by it's own rules...

no referee...

china takes an early bath...

retired but not out...

the crowd is restless...

and will not stay...

off the park...

until ground rules are fully agreed...

the mob will rule... 

THRONE OF GAMES

who will be the winning team?

it looks like taiwan...

"Taiwan rapidly produced and implemented a list of at least 124 action items in the past five weeks to protect public health," report co-author Jason Wang, a Taiwanese doctor and associate professor of pediatrics at Stanford Medicine, said in a statement. 

"The policies and actions go beyond border control because they recognized that that wasn't enough."

This was while other countries were still debating whether to take action. 

In a study conducted in January, Johns Hopkins University said Taiwan was one of the most at-risk areas outside of mainland China -- owing to its close proximity, ties and transport links.

Among those early decisive measures was the decision to ban travel from many parts of China, stop cruise ships docking at the island's ports, and introduce strict punishments for anyone found breaching home quarantine orders.- from cnn

but germany will probably snatch it...

in extra time...

WHAT COMES AROUND

the games are played every several years..

they are not always kicked off in china...

the last really big games was 100 years ago...

and was kicked off in the USA

though for some reason...

they were called the

spanish games...

I SEE NO SHIPS

winners an losers..

but mostly losers...

it's airplanes nil...

cruise lines nil...

navy ships nil...

travel is the biggest losing team

TOURISTS FUCK OFF

go home palookas...

you are not wanted here...

virus invisiblity...

tarnishes all travellers... 

traveling is public enemy number one...

we cannot even agree on how to spell it!

The Night Before Virus

yo!.. silent day... innit!

starting to feel a lot like christmas...

here in palookaville...

all are hunkered down around the radiator...

panic shopping all done...

enough food etc....

for a month...

nobody around on the street...

no moving autos...

silent skies...

ANY PORT IN A STORM

ships all in dock...

planes onna ground...

taxis parked up...

only the central banks...

are at their emergency work alone...

CAN'T VISIT WON'T VISIT

due to the success of...

don't test, don't tell...

virus presents given to all...

fare share out this time...

no one shall go without...

 NOT OVER TIL FAT LADY SINGS

every year in palookaville...

the holidays seem to get longer...

cooped up at home with the family...

reruns of old movies...

nobody in here but us turkeys...

SOCKS DOWN AGAIN

risk off...

panic on...

some think it's time fo a reset...

others are fo a fix...

again...

ANVIL INNA SKY

tom and gerry...

remember...

the anvil is in the sky...

run around like a blue arsed fly...

do not send for where the iron will fall...

it falls on us..

VOTING FOR CHRISTMAS

yo!...gettin stuffed!...innit!


PALOOKAVILLE FINANCIAL
...capitulation day postponed...


...here in palookaville today...


...all eyes are on china...


...evvabody knows that the real deal kowloonside is birds...


...mish says that it's chickens...


...that they is all playin chicken with they dough...


...an that pretty soon or whenever...


...china, 'stralia an all...


...be gonna go pop...


AINT NOBODY IN HERE
...but us turkeys...


...include me in fo a early Christmas...


...snow onna groun an all...


...ahm lookin at ma 'vestments...


...lak I alus do at this time o yeh...


...an they a mess man...


...sho summa em's gone up...


...caint complain mostleh...


...trouble is...


...ah jus don unnerstan it all no mo...


...time was ya could place yo bets...


...an gravity worked...


THE UP ELLAVATER


...nah tho...


...gravity been postponed...


...an all eyes is on china...


...is all em birds be gonna be chickens...


...commin home ta roast...


TURKEYS DON FLY


...or is they gon be turkeys...


...oh yeah...this aint no advice...see the disclaimer...
all suckers is responsible fo they own investments...
an this is all my own opinions and jus fun...innit!

MAKE IT SO 如此做它

yo!...defying gravity...innit!

財務的PALOOKAVILLE

投降日347

bloomberg...Sept. 3 (Bloomberg) -- China’s stocks rose for a third day, driving the Shanghai Composite Index to its biggest gain in six months, on speculation regulators will adopt measures to boost the nation’s equities following declines in the past month...

...The government may take measures to stabilize the market before the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China on Oct. 1, the start of a weeklong holiday.

“They want everything to be stable and in harmony,” said Francis Lun, general manager of Fulbright Securities Ltd., in an interview with Bloomberg Television today. “They will approve more stock market funds and allow them to buy into the market.”...

...here in...

...palookagrad...

...all things are possible...

...but...

...most things are fixed...

...in theory...

...the gamblers bets should be winning all the time...

...except when they do not...

...of course...

...nobody knows when this must happen...

EARLY WARNING

yo...?

Palooka毕业财务

投降日313

...here in...

...palookagrad...

...all eyes are on...

...中国...

WATCH THIS VIDEO

...the short view...

petey : hope the translation is ok...used a mac widget...innit...!

DEBT AND BET

yo!...casino capitalism...innit!

PALOOKAVILLE FINANCIAL
capitulation day
+274...


...In palookaville today...


...everyone is a winner...


...the chinese have made all this cheap money available...


...for their many millions of gamblers...


...to play with...


...Chinese bail-out cash heads for Macau’s casinos rather than Guangdong factories...


and

...Xie: Chinese Banks Funding Commodities Speculation, Casting Doubt on Recovery...


...so...


...funny how so much of what we are told...


...by those pollyanna people...


...is proved bollox...


...eventually...


HERE IS THE NEWS


...the fruit machine has stopped...


...payouts are history...


...get a job...


...if you can...




IN GERMANY THEY DO IT DIFFERENTLY


...Berlin weaves a deficit hair-shirt for us all...



!NON!


...Sarkozy rejects austerity measures...

ONCE-UPON-A-TIME IN THE EAST

yo!...bad day at black rock...innit!

PALOOKAVILLE FINANCIAL
capitulation day
+122...


...in palookaville everybody goes to meet the train...

...so you can understand our dismay when we are met there by four horsemen...

...three of em are wearin long dusters...


...the fourth is roy rogers...


...the american engine has failed to decouple from the eastern train...

...an now it looks like they all goin over the cliff together...

...the stuffed shirts have caused all tomorrows spending to be spent yesterday...

...an now china is full of dollars an we are full of sh*t...


ALL TOMORROWS PARTIES


...roy says that the west is finished and in particular...

...that the pound is sunk, the oil all gone an a banks in debt...


...sell evva british thang ya got boys...fill yo boots wi oil an gold...

...this sukka goin dahn...innit!...


AN IT'S AN EARLY BATH FOR STERLING


...the pound has taken an early bath...

...and everyone is laughing they bollox off...

...but the guys in the dusters is waitin fo the train...

...they have blown the bridge...

...and the great eastern is goin over...


...seems like they chinese was balancin on a wooden cross in a spaghetti eastern...

...dude with the wicked smile was playin a harmonica...

...only it was a double cross...



THE GHOST OF ELECTRICITY

Lights go out across Britain as recession hits home

Electricity demand falls as economy slows at fastest rate since 1980

China Powers Down..."The global recession has meant a big decline in demand for iron and steel. That has meant sharp decreases in electricity demand from China’s metal producers, which have been leading the country’s demand for increased electricity production.For November, the Chinese government expects total power generation to fall by 7 percent compared to November 2007. That drop follows a 4 percent decline in October. This will mark the first time in recent history that China’s power demand has fallen for two consecutive months. Falling power demand mirrors a decline in exports. In November, China’s exports fell by 2.2 percent compared to November 2007. That’s the biggest year-over-year slide in exports since April 1999. Foreign investment is also falling. According to the latest Chinese government statistics, foreign direct investment fell by 36.5 percent in November, when compared to the year-earlier period."


THE DOLLAR YOU GET YOU DESERVE


...in china they know a thing or two about dollars...

...they have all of the real ones in a box under the bed...

...peraps they know a way to enhance their value...

...maybe then sell a few...


IN THE WHITE ROOM...WITH BLACK CURTAINS


...here in palookaville the train is late...

...come to think of it...

...so is the ship...