Friday, May 12, 2006

This is The Answer

Check this out - I am listening to Democracy Now! right now and they're interviewing someone from "Yes Men" who are a group of people that impersonate corporate people and present things at conferences.. they just released a " 'Halliburton' Survival Ball" it's on the website www.halliburtoncontracts.com.

From the website...

'The SurvivaBall is designed to protect the corporate manager no matter what Mother Nature throws his or her way," said Fred Wolf, a Halliburton representative who spoke today at the Catastrophic Loss conference held at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Amelia Island, Florida. "This technology is the only rational response to abrupt climate change," he said to an attentive and appreciative audience.

"It's essentially a gated community for one," said Wolf.

Dr. Northrop Goody, the head of Halliburton's Emergency Products Development Unit, showed diagrams and videos describing the SurvivaBall's many features. "Much as amoebas link up into slime molds when threatened, SurvivaBalls also fulfill a community function. After all, people need people," noted Goody as he showed an artist's rendition of numerous SurvivaBalls linking up to form a managerial aggregate with functional differentiation, metaphorically dancing through the streets of Houston, Texas.

"The SurvivaBall builds on Halliburton's reputation as a disaster and conflict industry innovator," said Wolf. "Just as the Black Plague led to the Renaissance and the Great Deluge gave Noah a monopoly of the animals, so tomorrow's catastrophes could well lead to good - and industry must be ready to seize that good." '

Apparently, only 1 person at the conference the Yes Men infiltrated understood that they were being made fun of. the rest of the people started asking questions about whether or not the suit was effective against terrorism... awesome.

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