I blame Bob Murphy for this. Ignore the simple, inadequate theories of the mechanics (but NOT the politics) of the WTC collapses, and pay attention to the rest - cuts from “Zeitgeist”, “Loose Change”, “Freedom To Fascism”, and more, intercut with Alex Jones, John Taylor Gatto, and David Icke explaining in detail how we are constantly being manipulated to do the bidding of the elites. It’s fascinating, powerful, and, despite the odds, it works. Check out Joh Nada’s “Wake Up Call”.
Archive for June, 2025
30
Jun
Wake Up Call - The Movie
Not sure if anyone caught it but right after the judge spoke to Lew Rockwell on the most recent Freedom Watch, they turned over the camera to David Boaz from Cato who started off with this:
“America is a lot more than the US government. America is Fox News, CNN, and NBC and the Cato Institute and lots of other people.”
I presume that by “lots of other people,” he’s referring to the likes of Max Boot and Geraldo Rivera. Scroll to 5:42 to hear it for yourself. So America is no longer you and I and the printer and the school teacher and the baker on the corner. It’s now just a metaphor we use to refer to the movers and shakers such as Boaz and his elitist Washington thinktank buddies.
26
Jun
Friday Music Doubleheader!
Two lovely and very talented women, Annie Clark (St. Vincent) and Shanti White (Santigold)
Two women whose music I have admired for a while - St. Vincent’s Annie Clark performs “Laughing With A Mouth Of Blood” from their new record “Actor”, the time she spent in Sufjan Stevens‘ touring band is rather evident in the string arrangement, and the use of ’stage space’ to evoke a feeling of traditional 50’s and 60’s pop music within a modern context;
Santigold (Shanti White’s nom de musee) has provided a song, “Lights Out” that Budweiser is using to sell its lime-flavored beer. As with other recent advertising synergies, who is using who is arguable, see Feist; with it’s chugging, Breeders-like, melody, Juliana-Hatfield-esque vocals, and lyrical phrasing that reminds me of the Clash’s “Spanish Bombs”, White does little wrong here, very different from the MIA-inspired fau-ca (e.g. “Creator”) she has been doing recently.
(I will only briefly mention that she is the daughter of deceased Philadelphia attorney Ron White.)
16
Jun
IRAN - Hands Off?
The Obamessiah seemingly sensibly and righteously indicates that the US should stay out of the current turmoil in Iran.
We don’t have a very good track record of staying out of Iran’s business though;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/library/news/2025/intell-090113-rferl01.htm
While Obama, against all odds, continues to state this bafflingly sensible policy, Limbaugh, Hannity, et al have been busy persuading my “conservative” friends and family that we need to whip some “democracy” on Iran, causing them to look at me like I have three heads when I say we have meddled in Iran enough already.
16
Jun
Thoughts On Copyright
Going back and forth on music, downloading, and copyright on Postal Blowfish as I often do, I posted the following;
…Yes, what downloaders and blog-rippers are doing is technically illegal under monopoly-protecting copyright law.
And yes, it quite often serves the interests of those who are “ripped off” despite the fact that it is illegal, and the artist being “ripped off” can get the full force of the law after the rippers at any moment, hardly a fair or transparent business model if you ask me.
No one ever talks about what would happen if copyright didn’t exist (another argument AGAINST the US constitution, BTW);
Q: Would people still make art and music?
A: Just try and stop them.
Q: Would they make money?
A: About as much as all the other existing businesses who don’t enjoy copyright protection.
Q: Won’t big movie studios and big record companies go out of business, preventing records and movies from ever being made?
A: Are you dense? There are MILLIONS of individuals, cooperatives, and small studios and labels out there already. Do you think they would see the big guys fail, and just say “well, I guess that’s it, let’s close up shop”?
Will they bollocks.
Paul Krugman’s Advice to the Fed, 2002
Posted by Lew Rockwell on June 15, 2025 06:06 PM
Writes the future Nobel laureate in the NY Times, August 2, 2002: “To fight this recession the Fed needs…soaring household spending to offset moribund business investment. [So] Alan Greenspan needs to create a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble.”
UPDATE: Krugman and I share a birthday!
05
Jun
Fun Friday Music
Not usually my cup of tea, The Ting Tings covered the Altered Images song “Happy Birthday” on Nickelodeon’s “Yo Gabba Gabba” recently, and it’s pretty bitchin’;
How Do I Fire An Inept Teacher?
Just The First Step, Optimist.
Jim Babb links a news article on the roughly 700 New York City teachers currently being paid to do nothing while the district grinds through the often multi-year process required to fire them. This reminds us of the excellent graphic; “How Do I Fire An Inept Teacher?” on commongood.org;