GRGR - Banana breakfast

jporter jp3214 at earthlink.net
Wed Nov 2 10:30:29 CST 2005


And there is the reference to the Latin American source of
the bananas, traded for with a German camera, by Pirate,
a member of the S.O.E, one of the precursors, presumably,
of the OSS, which would morph into the CIA.

The Banana Wars of Central America provided a real
proving ground for the concerted actions of the American
Intelligence community and Multi-National Corporations,
in suppressing and exploiting indigenous peoples and
their local economies. Pirate's innocence is in question.

jody

On Nov 2, 2005, at 11:04 AM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:

> The banana breakfast, with its impossible litany of foods prepared by 
> Pirate, is a signal that the hoped-for reality (waking from the dream) 
> isn't going to materialize.  Pirate's desperate attempt to counterpose 
> a humanized phallus (banana as comfort food) against the rocket 
> phallus?  The banana breakfast resistance includes American/Belgian 
> waffles, bananas molded into the British lion, bananas flambe and, 
> most noticeably, Jewish kreplach -- a culinary missle counterattack.
>




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