[cia-drugs] Re: Mexico reconquers California? Absolut drinks to that!
Maybe something to do with the Russians in Alaska, Seward's Folly in purchasing it from them. Seward's Absolut-ion? Maybe confusion between Alyeska and Aztlan. -Bob --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where is the sense of humor here? Am sure laughing their heads off 'there'. Absolut is a Russian company, lol. Michael Donovan http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/laplaza/2008/04/mexico-reconque.html *Mexico reconquers California? Absolut drinks to that!* The latest advertising campaign in Mexico from Swedish vodka maker Absolut promises to push all the right buttons south of the U.S. border, but it could ruffle a few feathers in El Norte. Absolut http://www.flickr.com/photos/newcorrespondent/2383371667/ The billboard and press campaign, created by advertising agency Teran\TBWA http://www.terantbwa.com.mx/ and now running in Mexico, is a colorful map depicting what the Americas might look like in an Absolut -- i.e., perfect -- world. The U.S.-Mexico border lies where it was before the Mexican-American war of 1848 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican-American_War when California, as we now know it, was Mexican territory and known as Alta California. Following the war, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo saw the Mexican territories of Alta California and Santa Fé de Nuevo México ceded to the United States to become modern-day California, Texas, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado and Arizona. (Texas actually split from Mexico several years earlier to form a breakaway republic, and was voluntarily annexed by the United States in 1846.) The campaign taps into the national pride of Mexicans, according to Favio Ucedo, creative director of leading Latino advertising agency Grupo Gallegos in the U.S. Ucedo, who is from Argentina, said: Mexicans talk about how the Americans stole their land, so this is their way of reclaiming it. It's very relevant and the Mexicans will love the idea. But he said that were the campaign to run in the United States, it might fall flat. Many people aren't going to understand it here. Americans in the East and the North or in the center of the county -- I don't know if they know much about the history. Probably Americans in Texas and California understand perfectly and I don't know how they'd take it. Meanwhile, the campaign has been circulating on the blogs and generating strong responses from people north of the border. I find this ad deeply offensive, and needlessly divisive. I will now make a point of drinking other brands. And 'vodka and tonic' is my drink, said one visitor, called New Yorker, on MexicoReporter.com http://mexicoreporter.com/2008/04/03/california-reclaimed-by-mexico-thats-the-absolut-truth/#comments. Reader Paul Green goes into a discussion on the blog Gateway Pundit http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/04/absolut-ly-outrageous-ad-in-mexico-city.html of whether the U.S. territories ever belonged to Mexico in the first place, and the News12 Long island http://forum.news12.com//ubbthreads/showthreaded.php?Cat=0Number=928151page=0 site invited people to boycott Absolut, with one user, called LivingSmall, writing: If you drink Absolut vodka, you can voice your approval or disapproval of this advertising campaign with your purchases. I know I will be switching to Grey Goose or Stoli and will never have another bottle of Absolut in my house. Hey Absolut ... that's my form of social commentary. -- Deborah Bonello and Reed Johnson in Mexico City
Re: [cia-drugs] Re: Mexico reconquers California? Absolut drinks to that!
Though I erred, (It is Swedish -confused with Vodka that starts with 'S')..yes, amounts to same thing. Swedes backing Russia is this, our stupid 'expansion'. They have been more connected to Russia than most realize from the time Charles XII defeated by Peter. It IS a political statement and they don't mind some stupid 'boycott' which won't last anyway to make the statement. Those states becoming more and more Spanish. There are NO hispanics in Miss. Alabama, Ark. Why? Why should they go there and compete with the Blacks. And those states becoming more and more controlled by Blacks. Economically Washington state is more and more connected to Vancouver both places saying 'why should we be controlled by D.C. and Ottawa?'. Michael. Maybe something to do with the Russians in Alaska, Seward's Folly in purchasing it from them. Seward's Absolut-ion? Maybe confusion between Alyeska and Aztlan. -Bob --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where is the sense of humor here? Am sure laughing their heads off 'there'. Absolut is a Russian company, lol. Michael Donovan http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/laplaza/2008/04/mexico-reconque.html *Mexico reconquers California? Absolut drinks to that!* The latest advertising campaign in Mexico from Swedish vodka maker Absolut promises to push all the right buttons south of the U.S. border, but it could ruffle a few feathers in El Norte. Absolut http://www.flickr.com/photos/newcorrespondent/2383371667/ The billboard and press campaign, created by advertising agency Teran\TBWA http://www.terantbwa.com.mx/ and now running in Mexico, is a colorful map depicting what the Americas might look like in an Absolut -- i.e., perfect -- world. The U.S.-Mexico border lies where it was before the Mexican-American war of 1848 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican-American_War when California, as we now know it, was Mexican territory and known as Alta California. Following the war, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo saw the Mexican territories of Alta California and Santa Fé de Nuevo México ceded to the United States to become modern-day California, Texas, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado and Arizona. (Texas actually split from Mexico several years earlier to form a breakaway republic, and was voluntarily annexed by the United States in 1846.) The campaign taps into the national pride of Mexicans, according to Favio Ucedo, creative director of leading Latino advertising agency Grupo Gallegos in the U.S. Ucedo, who is from Argentina, said: Mexicans talk about how the Americans stole their land, so this is their way of reclaiming it. It's very relevant and the Mexicans will love the idea. But he said that were the campaign to run in the United States, it might fall flat. Many people aren't going to understand it here. Americans in the East and the North or in the center of the county -- I don't know if they know much about the history. Probably Americans in Texas and California understand perfectly and I don't know how they'd take it. Meanwhile, the campaign has been circulating on the blogs and generating strong responses from people north of the border. I find this ad deeply offensive, and needlessly divisive. I will now make a point of drinking other brands. And 'vodka and tonic' is my drink, said one visitor, called New Yorker, on MexicoReporter.com http://mexicoreporter.com/2008/04/03/california-reclaimed-by-mexico-thats-the-absolut-truth/#comments. Reader Paul Green goes into a discussion on the blog Gateway Pundit http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/04/absolut-ly-outrageous-ad-in-mexico-city.html of whether the U.S. territories ever belonged to Mexico in the first place, and the News12 Long island http://forum.news12.com//ubbthreads/showthreaded.php?Cat=0Number=928151page=0 site invited people to boycott Absolut, with one user, called LivingSmall, writing: If you drink Absolut vodka, you can voice your approval or disapproval of this advertising campaign with your purchases. I know I will be switching to Grey Goose or Stoli and will never have another bottle of Absolut in my house. Hey Absolut ... that's my form of social commentary. -- Deborah Bonello and Reed Johnson in Mexico City
[cia-drugs] Re: Mexico reconquers California? Absolut drinks to that!
Salut, -solut. Russia is the word for Swede. That's how Russia got started, Swedes. At least the Swedes gave up the folly of kings, war, after the conflict in Germany between Catholic and Lutheran. Finnish draftees invented total war on an idealogical basis, the idea that they just wanted to go home. They slaughtered professional soldiers so they could go home. So Sweden and Finland both contributed to enlightenment, the Swedes from above and Finns from below, by fragging the enemy, a prelude to fragging one's own officers, a subsequent permutation of modern man's affront to the folly of kings. DC area is over-run by latin americans who vote with their feet because DC area wouldn't allow them to vote or over-ruled their vote at home for so many decades. First CIA imported the worst, now another economic misfits rather than social misfits come here to vote against Republicans and Milton Friedman. They also vote with their babies, all US citizens. Probably half of the babies in the DC area are US citizens speaking Spanish. It's a very large number. We cannot laugh at bird sex much longer. Republicans cannot make a campaign issue of illegal immigrants much longer, because illegal immigrants have five US citizen children every five years. It's like California at this point, but with a backlash of criminalization of illegal alien parents who all have at least three US citizen children by now. Criminaliztion of blacks extends to one in nine black men being incarcerated. In some cross-sections 1:3, 1:2, 1:1. That could be translated to some subtle means of doing the same thing to hispanic males. Maybe it's already happening. -Bob --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Though I erred, (It is Swedish -confused with Vodka that starts with 'S')..yes, amounts to same thing. Swedes backing Russia is this, our stupid 'expansion'. They have been more connected to Russia than most realize from the time Charles XII defeated by Peter. It IS a political statement and they don't mind some stupid 'boycott' which won't last anyway to make the statement. Those states becoming more and more Spanish. There are NO hispanics in Miss. Alabama, Ark. Why? Why should they go there and compete with the Blacks. And those states becoming more and more controlled by Blacks. Economically Washington state is more and more connected to Vancouver both places saying 'why should we be controlled by D.C. and Ottawa?'. Michael. Maybe something to do with the Russians in Alaska, Seward's Folly in purchasing it from them. Seward's Absolut-ion? Maybe confusion between Alyeska and Aztlan. -Bob --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, michael1@ wrote: Where is the sense of humor here? Am sure laughing their heads off 'there'. Absolut is a Russian company, lol. Michael Donovan http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/laplaza/2008/04/mexico-reconque.html *Mexico reconquers California? Absolut drinks to that!* The latest advertising campaign in Mexico from Swedish vodka maker Absolut promises to push all the right buttons south of the U.S. border, but it could ruffle a few feathers in El Norte. Absolut http://www.flickr.com/photos/newcorrespondent/2383371667/ The billboard and press campaign, created by advertising agency Teran\TBWA http://www.terantbwa.com.mx/ and now running in Mexico, is a colorful map depicting what the Americas might look like in an Absolut -- i.e., perfect -- world. The U.S.-Mexico border lies where it was before the Mexican-American war of 1848 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican-American_War when California, as we now know it, was Mexican territory and known as Alta California. Following the war, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo saw the Mexican territories of Alta California and Santa Fé de Nuevo México ceded to the United States to become modern-day California, Texas, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado and Arizona. (Texas actually split from Mexico several years earlier to form a breakaway republic, and was voluntarily annexed by the United States in 1846.) The campaign taps into the national pride of Mexicans, according to Favio Ucedo, creative director of leading Latino advertising agency Grupo Gallegos in the U.S. Ucedo, who is from Argentina, said: Mexicans talk about how the Americans stole their land, so this is their way of reclaiming it. It's very relevant and the Mexicans will love the idea. But he said that were the campaign to run in the United States, it might fall flat. Many people aren't going to understand it here. Americans in the East and the North or in the center of the county -- I don't know if they know much about the history. Probably Americans in Texas and California understand perfectly and I don't know how they'd take it. Meanwhile, the campaign has been circulating on the blogs and
