“Am I scared of the state? Pretty silly not to be. I’m a brown person. I might be killed by the police for existing in certain spaces. [But] fear is the mind killer … you can’t let the fear stop you from doing things, from living, from existing, from resisting.” (- Tortuguita)
“”The Sierra Club Georgia Chapter is horrified by the killing of Atlanta Forest Defender, Tortuguita, by state police and we continue to rise in solidarity with the movement to protect the Weelaunee Forest.” (-Gina Webber)
“A country with 25% of prisoners on the planet; where 19 year olds get life sentences for crack possession, is in no moral position to lecture about justice and equality.” (-Richard Medhurst)
“If you find yourself constantly saying this – “oh my god I used to love this great leftist but then he overnight turned into a far right fascist” – maybe it’s worth reflecting on whether you are stuck in archaic left/right frameworks with no relevance to neoliberal global power:” (-Glenn Greenwald)
“When the Western media whitewashed fascists from Ukraine & the anti-democratic crackdowns on Ukrainian society by the actor president Zelensky, another part of the Ukrainian story that was expunged was its endemic corruption.” (-Ajamu Baraka)
Kalltha KKKKops Karens only kare when the tv tells them to. Ajamu Baraka on Twitter: “Where is the outrage from the human rights champion? Like the authoritarian regime in Ukraine that it supports, the U.S. has thrown its weight behind another right-wing regime as it has been doing since 1945.” / Twitter
“Disrespecting Jetset Pelosi is the WORST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED!” This man is a nobody who had no right to challenge her authority or expect some kindof audience with his representatives to redress his grievances as their constituent. He’s a white patriarchal male and does not even have a lobbyist! HOW DARE HE??? Send ’em to Gitmo for feminism! And Science! Lyn Cheney wins! Shitlibs celebrate! Man Who Propped Feet On Pelosi Desk Guilty In Jan. 6 Case | HuffPost Latest News
WAR IS WORSE THAN A PROTEST YOU DISAGREE WITH!
“Addressing a Chambers of Commerce meeting in Boca Raton today, Zelensky thanks BlackRock, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, and others for their support of Ukraine. Adds that sending Ukraine heavier weapons, like Abrams tanks, represents a “big business” opportunity for US corporations” (-Michael Tracey)
“The US couldn’t defeat the Vietnamese, a people who had been robbed and impoverished by colonialism.
That the US thinks it can defeat Russia, a major economy and military power, is laughable. The empire never learns.” (-Danny Haiphong)
Ellsberg: Losing 1st Amendment Reverses War of Independence (consortiumnews.com) Yep, I been trying to tell you that for quite some time.
Panelists Predict ‘Catastrophic Cyber Event’ at World Economic Forum – Valiant News
Garland Nixon Discusses Free Speech, Internet Censorship, & Rage Against The War Machine – YouTube
IT SNOWED! YAAAAY!
It almost never snows here in the deadend desert ghostville, but it did this morning, not as much as I would like, but the tree in the front yard looks beautiful. Some loose cows have been traipsing through our yard at night, fertilizing, and knocking lawn chairs and small trees down. I find the whole notion of loose cows somehow thrilling. “FREEDOM!” Was sad for my friend who just lost her mom, that is some hard shit to cope with, the only silver lining was the good ole lady lived to be in her mid nineties and helped her daughter get a house and lived there with her family and got to know her grandkids and great grandkids. That’s about as good as it gets in this mysterious life. I was thinking about our mutual friend the great unknown, fuckedover songwriter, and how his life shoulda gone differently and how frustrated I was by empowered influencers in his life who envied his talent so much they sabotoged his career. He used to console me a lot when women were ditching me to pursue “Less Than Zero” creeps from the upper class or I was gettin’ the business from thr poshboys in the tough guy bands, he could always make me laugh about our shared permanent outsider status. He was not only the most talented person I knew, but also the kindest, aside from maybe my blusman record store brother from way back when. I miss him so much, the songwriter guy, he was like my own personal Obi Wan Kenobi, we would lose track of time talking on the phone for hours. He’d tell me rocknroll was just one more media myth that had long ago been hijackeed and weaponized by the bad guys in the tower. I like to believe he’s in a much groovier place, the people here kinda mostly suck. The capitalists, the power mongers, their fake as fuck suit-dummies, the pathetic rank n file sports team zombies stubbornly worshipping these paid for mannakins in the department store windows. I confided to my friend how fuckedup I think it is that the people who have some weight to throw around never seem to do that for any good purpose, or they just outright use it for evil. I see winners writing history right in front of me, though. Evil fuckers lining up their minions, and doing these ridiculous podcasts about how cool their scene was twenty five years ago. They were not cool, I can tell you that. They owned some shit, inherited some shit, got away with fucking over some lower ranking people, that much is true, but that don’t make ’em cool. The opposite of cool, but that’s how Bizarro World everything has gotten probably since Bush/Cheney. Up is down and left is right and war is peace and obedience is freedom and all that. How did people get so easily fooled? The privileges of membership don’t even really seem that good to me. I seen people sell out for nothing. To sit beside some married wealth bimbo at the hotel pool, I guess, and then they have to suck up to their husband like he’s some important figure, just cause he’s got a good job. I never understood that shit at all. I must have skipped that meeting. I know the Bill Clinton Nafta/Three Strikes/Telecommunications Act that handed the public airwaves over to just a tiny clique of propagandists is a big part of how it all started. They called it triangulating. Middleclass people still think they are having a culture war with the other wing of the Fascist Empire. I never got along that well with the privilege seekers who are only motivated by gloating about how good they are cause they got a special parking space near the gentrification brunch spot. People I knew in real life are still kinda like imitating “Seinfeld” and “90210” and thinking it’s hip and cool and somehow witty. Man, they pulled off the Biggest Bamboozle on 9/11, after that, they knew they could just tell the goofy gullible mad herd tv watchers ANYTHING and they’d believe it. The warpigs and police state control us not only with their tanks and extrajudicial assassinations but with pop culture garbage. Harry Styles and Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus and Lizzo are just as damaging as the Fraud Squad, they’ve really all helped dumb the whole culture down. The deep state not only exists and censors shit on social media, they even exert control over shit like “Saturday Night Live” and “Rolling Stone”, now. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. I love snow.
The Squad Has SOLD OUT To The Military-Industrial Complex – YouTube
Black People Need to Leave The Two Party Duopoly | Stop Cop City | Nick & CJ Weekends / Twitter
This Supreme Court case could let employers sue unions for striking (therealnews.com)
TSA Seizes Passport of Journalist Who Was Critical of Davos… – Activist Post
GUNFIRE DANCE FOREVER!
When I was a kid, recklessly adventuring around the country in brokedown black vans with skulls painted on the sides, and smelly Grayhounds, and tiger painted Oldsmobiles, playing shabby shows in nowhere boy’s clubs and VFW halls, and trying unsuccessfully to cement a real dedicated and D.T.K. L.A.M.F., “When You’re A Jet” lineup for my many set to self destruct in fifteen minutes crash and burn glam bands, I’d keep running into all these like, Warrant or Cherry Street or Tuff kinda Dude-Rock dudes, in headbands and Pirates Of Penzance white shirts, who all “looked up” to Tracii Guns and Nikki Sixx, admonishing me that I should be screeching in a super high pitched voice like Slaughter or Waxl or Davey Vain or Jim Gillette, they all seemed like clowns to me and not in a good way, the metal heads in the L.A. “hair” bands. My thing was more punk rock, like the Lords, Hypnotics, Hangmen, and these fellas. I never stopped writing about them in my fanzines and columns and unpublished memoirs cause I never stopped listening to them, they were a big part of my bloody youth and I am gratified that they are still being discovered by new generations of rocknroll enthusiasts, they were undoubtedly one of the best in my opinion, one of the rare bands that really had it, fully got it, knew what they were doing, you can’t get that stuff no more, I mean aside from their whizbang reissue on Easy Action Records. I’m so happy the Gunfires are finally getting recognized in the slick mainstream major league rawk magazines because they deserved a better go of it back when they were together, they were like comets. My wife sez my garage is like a shrine to all my fallen friends and forgotten bands, well here is one of the really brilliant bands fro the old daze who are being currently rediscovered. I only wish Ant had lived to see some of the positive press praise and pretty colored pinups presently appearing in all the exquisite $25 coffeetable magazines from the UK! (RIP) ANT you were one of my faves!
Gunfire Dance | Witness To The Crime | Album review (louderthanwar.com)
Review – Witness To The Crime – Gunfire Dance – – Easy Action Records – (whisperinandhollerin.com)
Gunfire Dance – Witness To The Glam Punk Crime – Skylight Webzine
GUNFIRE DANCE/(Live at CBGB’s) – YouTube
Musical Musings – VI: Hey Hey My My… (dancing-about-architecture.com)
SCARCE “DEADSEXY”
So if you’ve known me for a long time, ya might know I kinda got hassled into “interning” at a hardcore label in my 20’s cause somebody’s mom insisted I could “earn” my way into a paying job, well that was bullshit, live n learn, price of an education, there is no earning your way into a job if you lack basic computer skills and there is no pleasing anybody’s mother, that was all a self defeating and sometimes humiliating waste of time that got me nothing, and the dish ran away with the spoon. While I was there, I met some famous MTV alternahunk, they called him, who’d hang around the record store and chat with me about Big Star, Alex Chilton, and the Deadboys. He seemed nice enough, would help me shovel snow in the winter and actually one day made a big point to invite me to see one of his shows at the hipster in crowd bar but when me and my leather clad sideman showed, he kinda gave us the Great Big No, I guess cause his college rock starlet accomplices seemed to disapprove of our appearance or something. They clearly thought of themselves as very highbrow, super literate, lofty intellectuals cause they came from wealth or attended universities, but mostly cause nerd critics always worshipped them like Liz Phair, for being female and vaguely naughty, while we were perceived as like, monosyllabic male, metalhead, mook L.A. Guns guys in the mirrored shades and black leather, so they totally went outta their way to kinda look down their posh noses at us, blew us off collectively as if he had not personally invited us to come hang out with him, it was always middle school in the grunge decade-like we never met the credentials of the Alternative rich people. We were undeniably droput white trash wild boys. So anyways, I became ever more leery of Alternative types I assocaiated with New England posh college scenes. Or Spin Magazines. We had drafted a couple of these music school trained musicians into our flash bastards punk band in the early nineties, and they were really talented lads with brother harmonies and helpful arrangements, real qualified pop heads, and seemingly fun loving at first, right, I thought we were all bonding over our mutual love and appreciation of the Buzzcocks, Pretenders, Only Ones, and Waterboys, but they were “just visiting” the backstreet badlands where we dwelled, and again, there was this weird, New England class thing happening, where their real estate and rose gardening wives and moms sortof scolded them for consorting with the lesser than, low life likes of us, cause we were rowdy, less cultivated, wore fur coats and leather pants, and kinda made a scene wherever we went. They were just like, too rich for us-those guys were driving Jaguars and had grown up in mansions. I’m 53 and the most money I’ve ever had was two grand, once. Two grand that I wasted on a band project with an unreliable lineup. I know other people make two grand in a night and throw it away on nothin’, but if it’s all you ever had, it’s hard to get over, a real hurtful fuckover, when it comes to nothin’, talk about all those wasted years, and nothing to show for any of it.
So that Boston flash bastard punk band of ours was briefly lived, and when me and the hellion guitar player foolishly returned to the midwest, all the preppie people there had also inflitrated the formerly punk rock music scenes. We were always targets in the midewest, we just got hammered and hammered, cause we would not conform to their like sports and fratboy social hierarchies. We were still punk, never “Alternative”TM. Though sometimes people did compare some of our songs to Soul Asylum and Gin Blossoms, that was never what we were going for, at all. I was into Generation X and Hanoi Rocks. He went straight to jail for ancient smalltown badboy warrants and I spent about three years getting punched in the eye, while he was not around to protect me, it woulda gone different had it been the two of us. I am still triggered by grunge, like if I hear Matchbox 20 on the radio, or Pearl Jam, I wanna fucking throw up. Fuck I hated that shit. Alternative, my ass. Fuck all those grunge motherfuckers. Most of ’em were never even into music, just their own privilege and trust fund mediocrity, look at our stuff, it was only about being popular, like I said, middle school. Still is, in several parts of the country. Surprisingly though, I came to really genuinely LOVE this band called, SCARCE that a beautiful writer turned me on to. I think she knew I’d appreciate how they made a real effort to be entertaining in all the velvet and gold lame’, and also crafted these sensitively considered and thoughtful lyrics and melodies. Me, too. So yeah they may have came out of that same richkid blue blood WASPY New England hipster scene I hated, but man, they were playing real, real heartfelt pop songs, drawing from actual human emotions, not just ponceing around on somebody’s parent’s dime doing covers. I LOVED their songs. They toured with Hole. Oh yeah, I met Hole and they were all real fucking nice people, actually. Not Courtney, but the other three were all alright. Anyways, Chick Graning was awesome. He and his cohort Joyce Raskin made a fantastic record together in that loathsome grunge era, that I came to deeply love, and they finished creating against big odds and in spite of a scary health crisis, when Graning suffered an unexpected near-fatal brain hemorrhage. Not only did SCARCE stand out way above above all the annoyingly classist and snotty heiress, crunchy granola Cambridge college bands, but as I relocated to other medium sized college towns, I saw so much even inferior, half hearted, auto-pilot attempts at “Being Alternative” in every fucking town, like no matter where we’d venture, for years, there was the Local Gentry always present, and sleepwalking through all these really lame bands, with nerd fan clubs, that almost seemed like they were doing for college credits or something. Talk about interns. All the crunchy granolas did these generic sya nothing indie bands everywhere, but almost none of them EVEN TRIED to write a song from the heart. So that made SCARCE seem even more SCARCE! They wrote good songs. From the fucking heart. Wow, huh?! EXCELLENT IDEA! There was a rumor about them making a documentary about their band at some point, but I sadly have never seen it, if it exists. SCARCE were a real band who wrote real songs that were real good. When I heard that band Howlin’ Maggie who got famous with their big hit, “Slut”, they reminded me of Scarce. I know you maybe never even heard of SCARCE, but they are an imortant band to me because of their genuine personality and soulful, poetic artistry. A rare band. I wish them all the success they should have gotten way back in the Smashing Pumpkins and Nirvana era. They were way better than almost all the Lollaplaooza and Lillith Fair stars. “Glamorizing Cigarettes”, man, holy smokes! It’s perfect hit. Wish I wrote songs that good!!!
Glamorizing Cigarettes – Scarce – YouTube
OH MAN! LOOK WHAT I JUST FOUND! Scarce – Days Like These (Preview) – YouTube
Scarce – Obviously Midnight. – YouTube
Joyce Raskin, My Misadventures as a Teenage Rock Star | Secret Garden Books
Noble Scars | Scarce (bandcamp.com)
Scarce – All Sideways – YouTube
Scarce – Deadsexy | Releases | Discogs
NEWS, SPORTS & WEATHER:
New Hampshire Veterans Testify Against Unconstitutional Wars – Antiwar.com Blog
Julian Assange and the US government’s war on whistleblowers (therealnews.com)
Contribute to the Atlanta Solidarity Fund – Action Network
With no accountability, how can US intelligence community keep us safe? (nypost.com)
HOW FUCKED UP IS THIS? WHAT IF YOUR DAD HAD NOT HIS UNION? YOU WOULDN’T PROBABLY OWN THAT BIG HOUSE! The Real News on Twitter: “The deck has always been stacked in the boss’s favor, that’s why the right to strike is such a powerful weapon. And right now the Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a case that could seriously restrict our right to strike. https://t.co/2ZTt4KQ0cw” / Twitter
The Complete History Of Monsanto, “World’s Most Evil Corporation” (thelastamericanvagabond.com)
Summa what WEF wants Transhumanism And The Future Of Humanity: 7 Ways The World Will Change By 2030 (forbes.com)
Black Agenda Radio January 20, 2023 | Black Agenda Report
Raided by The FBI for Being Socialist –
& Chairman Omali Yeshitela WATCH LIVE: https://youtu.be/EdIQoHXZkvw
The War Party and its faux-gressive Minions www.cindysheehanssoapbox.com
Obama reverses decision on torture memo from the ACLU http://bit.ly/Ar1pv
Palestine, Censorship, and Punishment | Black Agenda Report
“Julian Assange is in solitary confinement, facing execution via Espionage Act, if deported, for the same act of mishandling classified intel that Pres Biden committed.” (-Dr. Naomi Wolf)
Neil DeGrasse Tyson EMBARRASSED After Spreading Covid Misinformation – YouTube
Going Cashless: Norway’s Digital Currency Project Raises Privacy Questions – Activist Post
Jon Stewart FINALLY ADMITS He questioned The Vaxx! – YouTube
BIRMINGHAM BOMBSHELLS
You know there aint that much in the way of real primo rocknroll anymore but Birmingham, England’s got a real badass rocknroll band you might already love by the name of the Black Bombers. If you aint already hip to them by now, check ’em out! They just added a formidable fourth member Critt from the Godfathers!
Black Bombers – Break It Down – YouTube
Black Bombers – Raw Ramp (Record Store Day 2017) – YouTube
Black Bombers – Relentless – YouTube
Black Bombers – ‘Last Bite’ – Easy Action Records April 2022 – YouTube
Black Bombers – You Take My Money – YouTube
UK’s Black Bombers deliver another payload | Singles Bar (i94bar.com)
Black Bombers – Black Bombers – Amazon.com Music
LONG LIVE CUBA! US Veterans Sail Historic Peace Boat to Cuba – LA Progressive
http://bit.ly/tq9be watch this video
WAR IS NOT GREEN, YOU SHITLIBS! CODEPINK on Twitter: “Yes. NordStream was a calculated escalation and inexcusable attack on the climate – with no accountability four months later. #WarIsNotGreen” / Twitter
“Inventories of zinc on the London Metal Exchange have plummeted by 90%.
Peru is the world’s 2nd-biggest producer of zinc.
The world’s 3rd-largest zinc mine is Peru’s Antamina mine, which is owned by the massive Swiss corporation Glencore. .Peru is the world’s 2nd-biggest producer of copper (after neighboring Chile)
Goldman Sachs wrote in 2022 that “copper is the new oil” and “sits at the heart of capturing, storing and transporting these new sources of [renewable] energy”. Peru has large reserves of copper, gold, zinc, silver, lead, iron, and natural gas. After a coup overthrew left-wing President Pedro Castillo, the US ambassador, CIA veteran Lisa Kenna, met with mining and energy ministers to discuss “investments”. (-Ben Norton)
The Enduring Media Lies Surrounding January 6, Two Years Later (substack.com)
The Elitist Corporate Media Attacks Populism (substack.com)
Caitlin’s Newsletter | Caitlin Johnstone | Substack
Matt Taibbi Explains The Key Takeaways From The #TwitterFiles – YouTube
BACKSTREET GIRLS
Chances are you’ve heard the Backstreet Girls before I did, I kinda blocked out everything I remotely associated with the whole Nineties Sleaze Metal Revival for awhile, anything from Hardcore Superstar and Backyard Babies to Turbonegro and Vains of Jenna, just probably outta sheer sour grapes, it was just too painful to hear so many bands with that big production value as I was never able to keep a steady lineup together of any of my own bands and that era and it was all seeming very assembly line formulaic and money oriented again, like have money or fuck off, ya know? Backstreet Girls are Norweigian, very eighties glam sounding, a dumb sense of humor (ex:”Sick My Duck”, “Getcher Yo Yo’s Out”), had some members of Glorious Bankrobbers pass through their ranks, and indeed are way cooler than I’d imagined. They’ve been around since ’86 with many differnt lineups and say their prime influences were Rose Tattoo and the Ramones, so that should give ya some idea.
BACKSTREET GIRLS MERCH – Backstreet Merch (bsg-merch.com)
Backstreet Girls – Awright Awright Awright – YouTube
Backstreet Girls – Temple Of Lust – live at Rockefeller – YouTube
Backstreet Girls – Boogie My Life Away – YouTube
Backstreet Girls – Going Down – YouTube
Backstreet Girls – Too Cool For You (Official Video) – YouTube
Rokfin | The best way to monetize your content
The Convo Couch (@theconvocouch) / Twitter
SOHODOLLS
Man, I love Sohodolls so much! FAB! An electronic band starring Maya Von Doll who put out some early singles on Poptones. Numbed Generation is too right.
Sohodolls – Is This Love – YouTube
The Soho Dolls – Stripper – YouTube
Sohodolls – Bang Bang Bang Bang – YouTube
Sohodolls – Right and Right Again – YouTube
Sohodolls – Open Your Eyes – YouTube
Sohodolls – Letter To My Ex (Thank You, Goodbye) Official Video – YouTube
Soho Dolls Prince Harry – YouTube
Sohodolls (@sohodolls) • Instagram photos and videos the more things change by cindy sheehan
Misty Winston Talks Of Anti-War Movement, Free Speech, Activism, & More (rumble.com)
Neil DeGrasse Tyson And Compounded Ignorance – by Rav Arora (substack.com)
“I stand with the 13 million children in the US living in poverty, but hey since the ‘IN’ thing you’ve all been instructed to do by our Oligarchy is standing with Ukraine, you do you. Anybody ever wonder why our media hasn’t been focusing on the massive protests happening all over Europe since the war started?
If so, you shouldn’t because the reason is obvious. They said Iraq had WMDs, they lied.
They said Gadaffi gave soldiers Viagra, they lied. They said babies were thrown out of incubators in Kuwait, they lied. They said Assad used chemical weapons, they lied. They said they had control in Afghanistan, they lied.
They are lying again. What a surprise!
Ukraine is starting to look like Libya, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and all the other countries the United States got into wars to bring freedom and democracy
Amazingly the same people always make money on these efforts. If you see somebody giving you actual facts about what is happening and the only push back is calling them a Putin puppet, silly memes and personal attacks, maybe you should think harder about who you believe. American society has been programmed to either hate Russia, China or both
Not because they cause us any threat, but because our Oligarchy sees them as a threat to their control of the world. Biden, Hunter and Ukraine
What a corrupt shit show that is. Remember when some of the leading doctors and scientists in the world questioned our handling of Covid and our Gov’ts response was not to debate our policy but instead was to smear, fire, censor and try to humiliate them-
Crazy thing is that it turned out what they said was right. Who’s the politician that worked with Segregationists to stop busing, eulogized a known white supremacist, pushed and wrote laws to mass incarcerate Black people, called us predators born out of wedlock and said we don’t know how to raise our kids on the debate stage?
It doesn’t matter though he represents the Blue team and has the letter ‘D’ next to his name. The Deep State that you say doesn’t exist isn’t loyal to a Political Party, they are only loyal to their agenda.
It sucks that they have now decided to turn their power against your fearless leader Joe Biden doesn’t it?” (-Black In The Empire)
Mainstream Media Has Been a Complete Failure Covering US Perpetual Wars – Antiwar.com Blog
Israel’s Hysterical Response to “Farha” Proves the Movie’s Effectiveness (mintpressnews.com)
Dr Naomi Wolf on Twitter: “DailyClout | US Freedom Flyers https://t.co/Q0L6NYEEXE” / Twitter
Guido Goldman, the CFR and the German Marshall Fund (unlimitedhangout.com)
Biden’s Dangerous Foreign Policy | Black Agenda Report
Pentagon Can’t Account for $220 Billion of Gear Given to Contractors (reason.com)
The Myocarditis Weapon & The DARPA/NIH COVID Experiment (thelastamericanvagabond.com)
Think Things Are Bad Now? Just Wait, Says Chris Hedges – YouTube
US, Israel Launch “Most Significant” Military Drills in History in Message to Iran – Activist Post
Defend the Atlanta Forest (@defendATLforest) / Twitter
KOOL STUFF WE LIKE
TOUR DATES | Billy Idol I wanna go!
Billy Idol – Postcards From The Past – Vídeo Dailymotion
Cruel World Fest To Feature Siouxsie Sioux’s First U.S. Show Since 2008 – SPIN fun for booj folks but not for me, love the bands, though.
Iggy Pop – Every Loser (Full Album) 2023 – YouTube
Billy Idol – Whiskey And Pills – YouTube
Sunset Strip Video Magazine 3 – 1991 – YouTube
STAY WILD, STAY FREE, ALL MY BROTHERS & SISTERS & FRIENDS OF THE REVOLUTION.
Veglam 
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