“Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.”
(-Henry David Thoreau; Essay On Civil Disobedience)
““Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.” (-Robert Frost)
“The real story here is that the US government classifies everything under the sun so that average Americans don’t know what they’re doing. Plus there are over 1 million people with classified status. When you are a secretive military state with millions on your payroll, you can’t keep everything quiet.” (-Lee Camp)
“When evil men make bad laws, righteous men disobey them.”” (-Pastor Butch Paugh)
““Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” (-Albert Einstein)
“Only the truly evil do not believe in civil disobedience under any circumstance. If you refuse to disobey when the government demands that you commit atrocities, you are devoid of values. Every man with a conscience has some line in the sand over which the Government may not pass!”” (-David Kreiss)
“A reminder that the CIA paid the Dalai Lama $180,000 per year to protect a brutal theocratic aristocracy that tortured and maimed poor peasants in China’s Tibetan region. People like the Lamas are the US’s true “allies.” (-Danny Haiphong)
“Fucking moron. Pathetic, power-worshipping empire simp. My god the mass media are so disgusting..WikiLeaks HAS published leaks on Russia. What kind of sick fuck publishes a smear piece on Julian Assange in the year 2023? How hard is it to do 30 seconds of research before publishing? The New York Post is a 220 year-old newspaper for fuck’s sake. It’s 2023. Assange has been in prison for 4 years for the crime of good journalism. Everything his supporters have ever said about him has been fully vindicated, and everything his detractors have ever said about him has been fully invalidated. This debate’s been over for years. Also what kind of idiot thinks Assange was some kind of omnipotent hacker who had access to every government’s secrets? He was a leak publisher; he could only publish what he was given. People who wanted to publish damning information on Russia went through outlets like the NY Times.” (-Caitlin Johnstone)
“The New York Times and Washington Post helped the FBI capture Jack Teixeira.
We knew they worked with the state, but they’ve given that idea a whole new meaning. What a bunch of snitching rat bastards.” (-Margaret Kimberley)
““Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is the numbers of people all over the world who have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience.”” (-Howard Zinn)
Had a nightmare that I leaked some classified information and was arrested and waterboarded by New York Times reporters.” (-Caitlin Johnstone)
“It’s funny to think that, less than a decade ago, “woke” and “red-pilled” meant the same thing. Every empire has been destroyed by the vices and ineptitudes of a corrupt, incompetent, out-of-touch elite.
If you can grasp this simple historical fact, then you can decode the truth behind all of the headlines we are seeing today.” (-Primo Radical)
STAYING PUNK AS FUCK FOREVER

Ya know, to me, the Hollywood Brats are as mythical as King Arthur and the Knights Of The Round Table or some shit, totally iconic, larger than life super heroes from days of yore. If you find yourself stone cold sober, anguished about all the grotesque fascism of Macron’s WEF goonsquads in France beating up people for the cashless society oligarchs, or just kinda pissy on a stuck at home Saturday alone, you know there is always that one thing you can do in case of emergency, break glass and turn up the Brats. As vital and important to me as the Dolls or Heartbreakers and I feel the same way about the Boys. I turn to the Brats when I am all outta hope.
THE HOLLYWOOD BRATS – VAMPIRE NAZI – YouTube
Hollywood Brats live at Nells, London Aug 31 2019 – Courtesan – YouTube
The Hollywood Brats – Red Leather – YouTube
RICHARD DUGUAY

A friend and kindred spirit and fellow traveler still carrying on the rebel poet tradition when most of our other last bandis and long gone jetboys have moved on or punked out. He is the real thing, a great producer, guitar player, songwriter, and rocknroll badass after my own chrome and tattered sentimental heart.
Richard Duguay – Paradise Is Gone – YouTube
Richard Duguay – Bad JuJu – YouTube
STREETS AIN’T PAVED WITH GOLD NO MORE

Ya know it’s still unreal to me that Nikki, Kusworth and Epic and Rowland are all gone! One of the real golden eras of my mostly humiliating life was when I lived with some people in an old drafty rent controlled apartment in Cambridge, we were all young, musicians, cartoonists, indie film and hiphop enthusiasts and a couple of us worked at record stores and loved all the jangly glam and bullet proof poets and velvet clad dandies who came before us. We were definitely from the same Ragged School as the Jacobites and Joneses and Hollywood Brats and Crybabys and Dogs D’Amour. That was the last hours of my original pirate band still actively collaborating and we were quite prolific in those years, all we really did was write and record more songs about revolution, drinking, and some new wave girls who’d broke our little hearts. Me and those two guitarists were a real formidable combination, none of us were pitch perfect Robin Zanders, but together we sounded pretty fabulous in a wet alleycat sorta way. The famous music writer Sleazegrinder was an early fan of our band the Original Suffering Bastards, he used to know the words to all our songs and frequently came to see our whiskey sodden rehearsals. First time we met, he gifted me with a copy of the Beasts Of Bourbon’s masterpiece, “The Low Road” and we became fast friends after that. I hosted his tv show for about a year and he wrote columns in all my early fanzines before he was famous. We went through half a dozen bassplayers and could only keep a drummer for maybe one recording session or haphazard show at Rvere Beach’s townie metal bar at a time. We were so visible on the club scene that local entertainment weeklies would publish photos of us decked out in all our chartreuse regalia and black leather strides out on the tiles makin’ the scene with our dangerous girlfriends and we had an extensive entrouge of rocknroll fans, a pretty significant cult following of people who came to our parties and shows, wrote about us in fanzines, filmed our practices, covered our songs, made t shirts from our band logo, the whole bit, which was always astonishing to me, cause we seldom played out and rarely recorded. We had perpetually tortuous drummer problems, all my life. Our shabbiest tape recorded rehearsal cassettes circulated and people seemed to really connect to the stuff we were doing back then. Local scenester Mikey D had me on his radio show. People said we sounded like the Crybabys and Black Halos who were still called Black Market Babies in those years I think, and Suicide Kings and Dramarama, and we were flattered by all those comparsions. We thought if D-Generation got a major label record deal there was a lot of hope for us. We were wrong. I still believe in some of the songs we co wrote in that velvet basement back then, still hope to record ’em before I die. Some of ’em have been beaten to death by other bands cover versions and I can’t stand to hear ’em no more, but all our stuff from back then was definitely informed by our love of the Jacobites who one of my life’s dearest soul sisters first got me hip to. Love, love, love ’em. It’s always been my fantasy that if I struck it rich, I’d buy that old apartment and turn that basement into my recording studio. I used to have a beloved sax player from those days who explained to me one time why I kept experiencing so much friction and confusion about my relationships with the bandmates and roommates and he said, “Everybody loves Hank Williams but nobody wants to live with Hank Williams”, I had to think about that. I loved my Hank Williams like friends, so ya know, I was just different. The sax player and his indie-cinema movie critc wife moved back to Hellhole, Ohio. The lead guitarist who’d been my best pal since we were like 12, he hung up all the blue velvet jackets and frilly girl’s blouses, went to med school and vanished into the daytime world. The reckless beat travelin’ rhythm guitar man lived in his van with his dog down by the river for a number of years before finally landing in a veteran’s aid apartment and I am gratified he got off the streets. He says he can’t fit in the snakeskin pants anymore and has nerve damage from motorcycle wrecks, barfights and that time he crashed through a windshield prohibiting him from playing much guitar or dominating the lip of the stage with his oversized and legendary windmilling Billy Duffy like guitar posing, or serenading scantly clad hippie chicks on bended knee, and swingin the bottle and jumping around like we used to. Our hard partying Irish tambourine bangers and sometimes bassists both apparently moved back to Ireland-one works at a newspaper and the other one was so handsome, he’s probably still making girls swoon in our old age-that’s why he could never really dedicate himself to a scuzzy gutterpunk gang, he had too many women following him around. One of our roommates became a baker. We had some good times back then. I’m still am who I am and looking for a new guitar hero for my gypsy camp bonfire outskirts of town glamrachist torch and twang cowpunk glitter gang.
Elizabethan Balladeer – YouTube
All The Dark Rags (2019 Remaster) – YouTube
Fortune Of Fame (2019 Remaster) – YouTube
When Angels Die (Remastered 2017) – YouTube
Nikki Sudden Interview – YouTube
Only Children Sleeping (2019 Remaster) – YouTube
Jacobites – Angels In My Arms – YouTube
I Am Just A Broken Heart (2019 Remaster) – YouTube

Blonde Angel – YouTube that’s what Andrew Loog Oldham aclled Marrianne Faithful, but it of course reminds me of my first love, the girl who got me into the Smiths and Depeche Mode in like 1983 or 1984 or something.
# 32 – the Uke Man & Tyler – “Jesus Dionysus” – YouTube there was a rumor that this song was written about yours crudely. “no one wnats to live with…”
SIMPLE TWIST IN FATE
Only A Memory – The Smithereens at BB King, New York NY 1/21/17 – YouTube
Lords Of The New Church “New Church” Livin’ On Livin’ “Vive Le Rock Awards 2023 – YouTube
Lords Of The New Church Backstage Footage – YouTube
Beasts Of Bourbon – Live Phoenician Club Sydney – December 1991 & April 1992 – YouTube
Rockin’ Is Ma Business – YouTube
The Crybabys – She didn´t like rock & roll – YouTube
Diamond Dogs (Singing With The Alleycats) – YouTube
The Boys, BRICKFIELD NIGHTS (Steel/Dangerfield) – YouTube
Beasts Of Bourbon – The Low Road – YouTube
JIMMY DORE SHOW & REVOLUTIONARY BLACKOUT NETWORK & STATUS COUP!
Washington Post RATS OUT Pentagon Docs Leaker To The FBI! – YouTube
POLL-RFK Jr. DOUBLES Marianne Williamson’s Support – YouTube
Bombshell: CIA’s Plot To Assassinate Assange! – YouTube
Jaybe, Nick & CJ Break Down David Sirota’s Interview with AOC – YouTube
FATAL TOXIN Detected in Indiana Plastics Fire Evacuation Zone – YouTube
SCARY: East Palestine “Controlled Burn” Worse Than You Thought-Industrial Gases Expert – YouTube
Norfolk Southern ORDERED East Palestine “Controlled Burn,” PA Lawmaker Says – YouTube
Season of the Snitch – The Grayzone Friday Live – YouTube

WEF PUPPETS ALSO KILLING HOPE IN CANADA
☀️👀 on Twitter: “the New York Times working with the CIA front Bellingcat to find the leaker of the Pentagon files, then publicly gloating about it as they downplay the actual information contained in the leaks, is just the latest proof of the “free and independent media” being a pathetic joke” / Twitter when we say imperial stenographers are spooks it’s cause they are spooks
“Imagine if a Russian media outlet worked with their security services to lead a manhunt for a leaker. That would be seen as the most evil thing in the world, and proof that it’s a totalitarian hellscape. But when the NYT does it for the US regime it’s Brave and Heroic Journalism…it’s hard to believe they actually proudly published this. It’s like if Daniel Ellsberg wanted to hand them the Pentagon Papers, and they immediately called the FBI and CIA to rat him out and then gloated about it. It’s so incredibly bizarre, and shows just how depraved they are…” (-Zei_Squirrel)
““Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.” (-Albert Einstein)
IGNORE THIS AT YOUR OWN PERIL
EDUCATE YOURSELF, GROW FOOD, ORGANIZE YOUR RESISTANCE COMMUNITY!
If the U.S. Can’t Boss the World, It Will Spitefully Destroy It | CovertAction Magazine
The IMF’s ‘Austerity Drive’ (consortiumnews.com)
REBEL DREAD

I really enjoyed the Don Letts movie, I was wrong when I thought I already knew everything about Don Letts. This film is very educational and informative as well as entertaining and you know if you are a parent or auntie or uncle or mentor to any young people, it is a good one to show all generations to follow, so they can see what is possible, even if it does not happen just like that everyday, anymore. It all started out a cool kid from Brixton who worked at early punk boutique Acme Atrractions and got ahold of an early video camera and started video taping shows at the 100 Club, creating the landmark “Punk Rock Movie” and the iconic “London Calling” video, expressing himself by whatever medium he had available. All my loved ones know how much I love Big Audio Dynamite. I had no idea the Don did all those videos. I mean I knew about Lydon and the Clash, but he created some of THE best videos of all time, one after another. Bam. Musical Youth “Pass The Dutchie”. Bam. Pretenders “Back On The Chain Gang”. Bam. Gap Band “Party Train”. Just on and on and on and you don’t stop. I’m glad he’s enjoying a resurgence.
Don Letts presents Culture Clash radio: Screaming Target – YouTube
Don Letts – Outta Sync (Official video) – YouTube
Big Audio Dynamite – C’mon Every Beatbox – YouTube
Bob Marley Interview Punk and Reggae (revolution) – YouTube
Don Letts – No Fooling Me (feat. Hollie Cook) [Official Video] – YouTube
Don Letts | Culture Clash – YouTube
Legendary Don Letts Details Solo Debut, Drops ‘Outta Sync’ – American Songwriter
30 Candid Snapshots Capture the Early Punk Movement From the 1970s ~ Vintage Everyday
Superstonic Sound: Don Letts Documentary – YouTube
Ari Up of The Slits Dancing to Funk, Late 1970s, UK | Don Letts | Premium Footage – YouTube
Don Letts – Interview about PUNK: Attitude – YouTube
““Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn’t. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.”” (-Mark Twain)
“Who wants to bet that US surveillance state cut-out Belling Cat has had access to classified documents?” (-Margaret Kimberley)
“Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.” (-Benjamin Franklin)
“This spirit is resistance to illegitimate authority and to forces that deprive people of their life and liberty and right to pursue happiness, and therefore under these conditions, it urges the right to alter or abolish their current form of government – and the stress had been on abolish. But to establish the principles of the Declaration of Independence, we are going to need to go outside the law, to stop obeying the laws that demand killing or that allocate wealth the way it has been done, or that put people in jail for petty technical offenses and keep other people out of jail for enormous crimes.” (-Howard Zinn)
Prof Zenkus on Twitter: “Fuck Joe Biden. https://t.co/lZutQbd1P0” / Twitter
NEWS, SPORTS & WEATHER DESK
Even the judiciary is WEF controlled France pensions protests: Top court backs unpopular plans to raise retirement age to 64 – CNN
The Lying IMF (consortiumnews.com)
Blair’s Former Allies on Trial for War Crimes (consortiumnews.com)
Nikki Sudden & Dave Kusworth – Jacobites – full band, full set – Germany 1995 – YouTube
Primo Radical on Twitter: “https://t.co/G5rNy3tqZW” / Twitter
Jacobites – Silver Street – Video – YouTube
WHOOPS, OOPSY DAISY, ANOTHER COINCIDENTAL, ACCIDENTAL ATTACK ON THE DOMESTIC FOOD SUPPLY
SPEECH: Forge Negro-Labor Unity for Peace and Jobs, Paul Robeson, 1950 | Black Agenda Report

BREATHE, HYDRATE, TAKE VITAMINS, GET SOME SUNSHINE, LISTEN TO MUSIC, SELF CARE & PRAYING
Bitterness, animosity, resentment and anger can grip you enexpectedly if you find yourself trapped with no mobility or freedom. I do my best to entertain myself with very limited resources and mercifully my wife bought me a fresh notebook, some pens and a new memory card for an old camera we found, so I photograph flowers and sunsets and I write lyrics for future songs about this fuckedup world we live in. Two differnt friends asked to hear summa my crummy old demos this week and I was flattered when they liked that stuff cause it was all poorly recorded, unfinished and recorded with mutinous mercenary sidemen who weren’t really committed to the operation, so it was a wonder any of it ever, ever generated any positive reviews, but it all did. I also got two scathingly meanspirited, flatout hateful reviews and those were my favorites, honestly. I think they were right about all of it. I’m restless, irritable and discontented. Keep tryin to recruit a new rebel army. Wanna gypsy glamarchist real rocknrolol band, wanna travel, play shows, record new music, in the immortal words of Joe Strummer, “LET’S ROCK AGAIN!”
YOU THINK I”M A WHORE BUT…
11 Big Reveals From Scorsese’s David Johansen Doc ‘Personality Crisis’ – Rolling Stone
STAYING PUNK AS FUCK FOREVER
Jimmy Dore Says WAKE-UP! (clip) – YouTube
POLL-RFK Jr. DOUBLES Marianne Williamson’s Support – YouTube
Nikki Sudden & the French Revolution – Captain Kennedy – YouTube
Pin Your Heart to Me – YouTube
The Subterranean Hawks – Big Store – YouTube
The Smithereens – “Too Much Passion” – YouTube
The Damned – Smash it Up (Rare Footage) – YouTube
Don’t Let Our Youth Go To Waste – YouTube
The Smithereens – Blood and Roses [4-27-95] – YouTube
MOTORHEAD – Live – Rockstage 1980 – Full version.mpg – YouTube
If the Kids Are United – YouTube
Nikki Sudden & Dave Kusworth – “Hanging Out The Banners” – YouTube
Shabba Doo on Miami Vice – YouTube
The Jesus And Mary Chain – Always Sad (Official Video) – YouTube
The Hollywood Brats “Tumble with Me” @ Nells, Kensington – 31st August 2019 – YouTube
John Schubert – Whatever Happened To Fun and How the Rock Band Candy Started – YouTube
Next Tuesday – Dave Kusworth – YouTube
Lost Hearts – Hate Yourself – YouTube reminds me of my own early bands
Baby Don’t Get Weird Tonight – YouTube
All the Way from Memphis – YouTube
BOYCOTT STATE MEDIA! JOIN THE REBEL ALLIANCE! STAY WILD! STAY FREE!








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