I got to keep a closer eye on this trend. It’s beyond silly that every time there is a natural disaster, somebody, a politician or celebrity, blames the the disaster on somebody or, the actions of human beings. As if “Nature” no longer plays a part in “Natural” disasters. Now, this jive has been going on for a long time, it’s not new. But, these days, there isn’t one disaster that goes by without some politico or celeb showing their ass along with their insensitivity and ignorance.
I first saw this bit of news the other day. Sharon Stone discusses the recent earthquake in China, take it away Sharon Stone…
“I’m not happy about the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans because I don’t think anyone should be unkind to anyone else,” Stone said Thursday during a Cannes Film Festival red-carpet interview with Hong Kong’s Cable Entertainment News. “And then this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and then I thought, is that karma? When you’re not nice that the bad things happen to you?”
As if, after thousands and thousands of years of people dedicating their lives to studying the ins and outs of karma somehow, this woman….
…is now the arbiter of karma.
So, now Ms. Stone has pissed off the people of China, which means she has pissed off the largest emerging market for her dying industry and, pissed off the guy who owns the most theaters in China, who says he will never again show one of her films in any of his joints.
But, that’s not all…
During the brief interview, which has also surfaced on YouTube, Stone also said she cried when she received a letter from the Tibetan Foundation asking her to help the quake victims.
“They wanted to go and be helpful, and that made me cry,” she said. “It was a big lesson to me that sometimes you have to learn to put your head down and be of service even to people who aren’t nice to you.”
O.K., I saw the video a couple of days ago and, it’s really not worth sitting through but, it’s easy to find if you must. Stone mostly comes off as what we used to call “ditzy”, like she’s in over her head. She is pompous in that she seems of the opinion that she, as a celebrity, has a true impact on things like world affairs and natural disasters. She also has the audacity to name drop this guy.
Yep, the old Dalai Lama. Sharon Stone says something like; “The Dalai Lama who, is a good friend of mine.”, and then goes on to say the he asked for her help in all of this.
What is going on with the Dalai Lama? Is he hanging out at cocktail parties, eating goat cheese every night. The Dalai Lama knows more celebrities than Oprah. Maybe, he’s angling for his own talk show, I don’t know.
Anyway, keep watching folks. There will be more natural disasters, that’s nature, you know? And, when one happens, even before the dust has settled, somebody will be out there blaming it on somebody.
Update-5-27:
Reuters reporting today that Stone is continuing to feel the fallout from her remarks.
This is from a statement by Christian Dior, a company that Stone has a modeling contract with.
“Due to some customer reaction we have decided to pull her image from all of the department stores and from all of China,” Christian Dior China said in a statement.
“We just want our customers and fans to realize that her personal comments are not related to the company and of course we don’t support any type of commentary that will hurt the feelings of our customers,” Dior said.
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Kenski wrote,
The way I heard it, karma’s trying to make Americans feel guilty for turning a blind eye to the the postitive impact of the so-called ‘pink pound’ on the US economy, where China is booming despite their more oppressive regime.
Y’know… it’s kinda ‘feel guilty because you think you’ve got it so good, even though you actually don’t’. Karma’s an ironic bitch, really.
Earl
(Not really)
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Link | May 28th, 2008 at 4:18 am
Web Site Host wrote,
Sharon Stone’s statement is nothing compared to what a Chinese woman had ranted. This Chinese woman was complaining over China’s mourning that TV shows were shut down momentarily.
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Link | May 28th, 2008 at 6:02 am
Pribek wrote,
Kenski, are you watching Earl?
Funny, because it did cross my mind; What would Earl say about this?
Link | May 28th, 2008 at 11:23 am
sam wrote,
sharon stone is a bitch of all bitches, she get group fucked by all the lamas in the west. what she is good in is open her legs and get fucked, her words come out between her legs, that is where her brian is–go to hell, sharon bitch , go to hell and your next 100 life will be pig and bitch dog
–no need for your apology, nobody will ever accept you bitch meaningless apology. sharon bitch, you go to hell straight and enjoy group fucked by the ghosts, never have a next life, keep yourself fucked by ghosts in hell–go to hell sharon–also your whole family, your son, your 100 husbands, will all be karma–got to hell
Link | May 29th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Pribek wrote,
Sam, are you angry?
Link | May 29th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
lilly6 wrote,
I recommend those Dalai Lama supporters to read history about tibet.
Link | May 31st, 2008 at 12:17 am
Ray wrote,
Is there a competition of sort going on among the Hollywood celebs or what? We saw Richard Gere, Harrison Ford, Spielberg etc. coming out to promote their good friend, Dalai Lama, with Sharon Stone topping them all in stupidity and ignorance. Is that a new cult, new fashion, with everybody in HW vying for the honor of the most spiritually advanced ‘red guard’ for Dalai Lama, the ultimate Karma master? She is so so fake, inside and out. That’s her karma she can’t evade by association with the new cult around DL.
Link | May 31st, 2008 at 12:24 am
Pat Darnell And Friends wrote,
Suspenders, maybe?
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Link | May 31st, 2008 at 7:17 am
Dalai Lying Lama wrote,
Eat at Panda Express for a good cause!(Everywhere)
http://www.pandaexpress.com/px/2008/ChinaReli...
China Earthquake Relief Fund
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Panda Inn will donate $1 from every item ordered from the Chef’s Entrée Menu.
Relief Efforts
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Link | May 31st, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Dalai Lying Lama wrote,
Sharon Stone’s comment about Katrina.
News Reporter: Did you hear know about the typhoon in New Orleans?
Stone: Of cause I have. You know, it’s very interesting about that since first, I’m not happy about the way USA treats the Iraqis because I think anyone should not be unkind to anyone else. And so I am being very concerned about the election of the next president
of the US and A, because we had not being nice to Saddam Hussein, who is a good friend of mine. And Katrina typhoon ,and all the stuff happened, and I thought, is that Karma? When you’re not nice that the bad things happen. And then I got a letter from the Iraqi Foundation that they want to go and be helpful. This made me cry. And they asked me if I will write a quote to that, and I said I would that it was a big lesson to me, that sometimes you have to learn to put your face down and be a dog to the person who aren’t
nice to you. And that is a big lesson to me.
Link | May 31st, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
Kenski, that is the truth!! for real !! Sharon Stone is a cross cultural economist… pulling clothes of the mannequins.. whadda [expletive deleted] joke… but important to analyze:
Also, I think this article refers to the ligament and tendon of global surges. Yes, international corporations have the muscle but can the weaker threads of cartilage hold the effort together. Global efforts need a network to follow into foreign markets.
Global Specializing: [heath.grob] said economies are now non-static, meaning all of us in this [blog] are here to find new marketable skills in the new economy. The pain of retraining is always tough to measure and to stomach but specializing in technologically superior products means less job loss in the future–7:29pm (Live Chat: Heath.grob, May 18, 2006)
Employment
Limits to outsourcing, is only applied to those countries that have special contracts with the USA. Mexico has NAFTA, which tries to control trade deficits. NAFTA is a mandated exertion to combine efforts; however, China and India have no such agreement with USA. Mexico may therefore lose opportunities due to their agreement with USA in NAFTA.
It is noteworthy that the “quest for self-esteem is not a major driving force in collective cultures, such as Japan, where negative self-appraisals are taken as a path to self-improvement” (Fineman, 2004)
Sovereignty
Some sovereigns are displaying “knee jerk” to attempts to industrialize their emerging markets. The countries in need will shift business without popular consent, and possibly create problems for themselves.
Knee jerking, or hasty reactive reflex, is caused when an autocratic authority circumnavigates the culture of the society. For instance in India, if lower caste individuals are employed at the outsource site, next to upper caste cultures, and then the days are numbered for the smooth operations of that particular B2B.
“Many global variables do not add up to any kind of stability.” (LC 1 35:00, May 18, 06, Prof. Bermudez)
“The article focuses on American discontent with Chinese currency, which may be found to be unfairly manipulated by the American Treasury. America ran a trade deficit of $202 billion with China last year, but a rise in the Yuan would fail to dent America’s trade deficit. Imposing tariffs on Chinese goods, as America has threatened, would hurt America’s economy by more than China’s.” (Economist; 4/1/2006)
This is a game of Rock > Scissors > Paper…
Pink Pound, EURO, and a hop skip jump…. time to retire on the Ponderosa… eh? Thanks for the truth Mr Kenski. And thanks to Sharon Stone, cancer survivor, for bringing principles of global economics to the mySpace Gen…
Lo, Chung-Ting; GSM, I-Zhou U, Taiwan; d9231002@stmail.isu.edu.tw THE MONKEYS DISPERSE WHEN THE TREE FALLS: NETWORK’S TRANSMUTATION AND FAILURE
Yuan step from the edge. Economist; 4/1/2006, Vol. 378 Issue 8471, p11-12, 2p, 1 graph, Article Subject Terms: *BALANCE of trade *ECONOMIC indicators *FOREIGN exchange rates *INTERNATIONAL trade *MONETARY policy http://search.epnet.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bsh&an=20392285&loginpage=Login.asp
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Link | June 1st, 2008 at 8:56 am
Pribek wrote,
principle of global, image based sale of unnecessary consumer goods:
uphold the appearance of propriety (pribek meandering winnebago thought pattern, 2008)
As I gaze around, I notice that many people of cultures, other than ours, are genuinely pissed about Ms. Stone’s remarks.
Given that, the statement made by the Dior outfit-”we don’t support any type of commentary that will hurt the feelings of our customers,”
seems almost as insulting as those of Sharon Stone, who, by the way, I have a hard time seeing as a “cross cultural economist” rather than, a tool of carpetbagging peddlers.
Link | June 1st, 2008 at 11:42 am
peoples_temple_of_apostolic_socialism wrote,
(Ray, above)
Ray I can answer that one… No not a cult yet!! See below:
Jack:
Congratulations!! Excellence in Clogged Blog Perfection!!
I really think it is plausible to now found and manage that JIm Jones style commune for actors and actresses. Those post-famers so far out of the loop that they will fall for any horn-bugger promoters’ publicity pranks, sure need to find a home like in New Guyana, Arizona: for Reclamation of USA’s national treasures of cinema and thespian contexts.
Simply put, patronizing a culture as Dior has, is like you say: “seems almost as insulting as” … what ever you can think of!!
We could call the new Institution “Trick my Trunk” or “Pimp my Pride” … “Polish my Profile” … help me out here. Pat Boone could be the leader, wearing his leather outfitters. The mission is to get the actor/ess back in shape to ably fulfill this vision: “there isn’t one disaster that goes by without some politico or celeb showing their ass along with their insensitivity and ignorance” (Priek, above)
Yes — Mistakes are made… I made a few…
But the horror is that a mistake is made in China, and 250,000 people perish; buried alive under mudslides, or caught unawares and maimed while trying to save a neighbor’s child. That person is home that day because christian Dior canceled a Spring line due to Sharon Stone opened her mouth when she should’ve stuck with spread legs…, and the factory needed a day to close and regroup.
[btw -- they further claimed that [young Jim Jones] frequently held funerals for small animals, and heard a story of Jones fatally stabbing a cat.]
There, now, I bet you never in your wildest improvises / shuck and jives, ever thought this could go from a woman who likes to show her crotch to Jim Jones, by way of Christian Dior — and include all these current event keywords:
Oprah, typhoon in New Orleans?,
Dalai “Lying Demon” Lama
pink pound, economy, Earl?,
Karma’s, China Earthquake Relief Fund,
Richard Gere, Harrison Ford, Spielberg, Saddam Hussein
Tibetans, Tibetan Foundation
Cannes
Christian Dior China
earthquake in China, Chinese woman, China mourning, Asian Tsunami
Hong Kong, Hong Kong’s Cable Entertainment News,
Sharon Stone, group fucked by the ghosts, your next 100 life will be pig and bitch dog,
Tzu Chi Foundation, Panda Express, Winnebago… that’s not even half of the seeds in here today… either !!
Again Congratulations and that’s all from me for a long while. My fingers’ got blisters!! pd-in-full
Link | June 1st, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Pat Darnell and Yobs wrote,
Karma Added Value of the Shaman: I found this link and liked the gist… as the above discussions define the yearns of a global shamanist’s yen… no?
Richard Olsen’s Blog HERE
– and —
especially HERE ‘NAP’ Value added Karma
Cause ya’ better sleep quickly, you won’t slip the sunrise pas’ the rooster. [Pribek. TAO, Soul Searching]
Link | November 13th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Pribek wrote,
What If?
The Mayans were high when they wrote the calendar.
What If?
John Lennon was high.
What If?
The Mayans were not a defunct civilzation.
What If?
The Mayan calendar is a living, breathing document much like your constitution Earthling.
Link | November 13th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Pat Darnell and Yobs wrote,
Imagine, I’m not gonna teach your boyfriend to dance with You… to Runaway. I was the walrus,
But now I’m John, … yo. I know, the Dream is over.
And he’s a Christian, that Dior guy, bummer.
Link | November 13th, 2008 at 12:54 pm