“Just admit you’ll defend the Biden administration no matter what it does you pathetic bootlickers. This *is* the dystopia you were warned about. A mind-controlled populace thinking, speaking, shopping, moving and voting in accordance with the will of the powerful. All that’s left now is to secure the few dissidents on the fringes and keep bolstering the mind control matrix.” (-Caitlin Johnstone)
“Obama’s CIA director just cooly admitting that he used his intelligence connections to orchestrate a psyop to “help Vice President Biden… because I wanted him to win the election” invalidates anything the US government does under the banner of fighting “election interference”. (-Caitlin Johnstone)
“If you cheered French protests for democracy & now cheer that eco loons got 5 yr prison sentences for doing the same thing, you need to think. The right to protest is like the right to free speech, strikes & bodily autonomy. Human rights aren’t only for those you agree with!” (-Bernie Spofforth)
Comrade Misty is Putin’s Buddy 🍀 on Twitter: “Blatant election interference. Period.” / Twitter
No more lies. on Twitter: ““The Center for a New American Security is one of the nastiest think tanks pulling strings in the information ecosystem today”” / Twitter https://t.co/2CjlQKZeB8″ / Twitter
REMEMBERING DEE DEE
Dee Dee Ramone really was a tragic poet and it breaks my heart to think about how all those guys died with so much division and acrimony and disappointment and bitterness, feeling like failures just because they never got rich. Who Cares? Most of us rocknroll dreamers never even get to make fucking records-they changed the world for the better, at least a little bit. They done good. “POISON HEART” is frequently my favorite song. Desperate times call for desperate measures-whenever I get torturously glum from too much grief, anxiety, poverty and stress, assassinated dreams and a stolen future, I sometimes will watch some old Dee Dee Ramone videos, which always somehow seem to brighten my mood and lift my spirits. I could not stick around for the Ramones show at the Ritz cause I had work in the morning and me and my old amigo Bobby had driven all that way mostly to see our friends, Circus Of Power opening for the Ramones, but you know, the show ran late and we had to go, we did see their tour bus parked out back in the alley. I saw Joey one time getting a slice on St. Mark’s but I did not talk to him cause that’s how shy I was back then. It’s fucking impossible to not smile when you see that video for Dee Dee’s “Funky Man” when he quit the Ramones to become a rapper! I loved his garish, emotive paintings I used to see at Wowsville on Second Avenue, I always wanted to buy some but I have basically always been broke as fuck. Dee Dee was such a character-remember their induction into the crass ass Hall Of Fuckdom when Dee Dee was like, thanking HIMSELF? He was such a sweet and lovable nutcase. My kinda people. I tend to be a pretty sullen cat, so Dee Dee kinda reminds me there aint much point in agonizing over shit I can’t control and did not cause, so some way back to Wowsville rocket ride to the long gone past can help me not take it all so seriously. True story: I lost an old drummer to Dee Dee’s Detroit based Chinese Dragons who later became a cop. Crazy shit, huh? Can’t make this stuff up!
Ramones – Poison Heart (Official Music Video) – YouTube
DEE DEE KING “Funky Man” – YouTube
Dee Dee Ramone – Zonked! (1997) (FULL ALBUM) – YouTube
Dee Dee Ramone – I hate freaks like you (1993) (FULL ALBUM) – YouTube
Dee Dee Ramone & The Chinese Dragons – Ace Of Spades – YouTube
Ramones – I Wanna Live (Official Music Video) – YouTube
Dee Dee Ramone- Baby Doll (Subtitulada) – YouTube
Ramones – I Wanna Live (Official Music Video) – YouTube
Dee Dee Ramone – Hop Around (2000) (FULL ALBUM) – YouTube
Dee Dee Ramone – Greatest & latest (2000) – YouTube
and Joey! Joey Ramone – “Rock ‘n Roll Is The Answer” official video – YouTube
“Was Abbie Hoffman really suicide?” (-“Scum Lives On” by Demolition 23)
WHO KILLED MICHAEL HASTINGS? WHO KILLED SETH RICH? THERE REALLY IS A WAR ON THE FREE PRESS! THEY PLOTTED TO KILL ASSANGE! HE’S STILL BEING NATO KIDNAPPED IN BELMARSH FOR EMBARRASSING DEMOCRATS. URBAN WARFARE COPS SHOT PROTESTING TREESITTER WITH HANDS UP 57 TIMES! COPS LIED! CORONOR SAID NO GUNPOWDER ON DEAD BOY’S HANDS!
RFK Jr. BLASTS War Machine Over Ukraine In Announcing Presidential Bid – YouTube
My Earth Day Message to America | Kennedy24
Democrats Threaten Journalist Matt Taibbi With Prison Over Twitter Files! w/ Matt Taibbi – YouTube
Ep.98: Taibbi, Uhuru, RFKJr. &More | SABBY SABS (callin.com)
How The Powerful Captured The Public | w/RFK Jr – YouTube
Backlash Over the LIES AOC Told Sirota | Rail Workers Union Calls Out AOC – YouTube
Jordan Goes NUCLEAR Over East Palestine Residents Forced to PAY TAXES on Their Poisoning – YouTube
COVER UP: CDC Urging Doctors NOT TO Test East Palestine Residents for Vinyl Chloride – YouTube
LEAKED AUDIO: Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw BULLSH*TS Sick East Palestine Resident – YouTube
Matt Taibbi RELEASES Twitter BLACKLIST (clip) – YouTube
Civil Asset Forfeiture | Police are Stealing MILLIONS from Black Communities – YouTube
“The death of the 2016 Bernie Sanders campaign marked the end of any meaningful push toward economic justice in America. Ever since then all political oxygen has gone into ramping up culture war hostilities that won’t put a single cent into any needful American’s bank account.” (-Caitlin Johnstone)
“Post Constitutional” Fascists Threatening People
WATCH: John Pilger’s Guide to Propaganda (consortiumnews.com)
Ajamu Baraka on Twitter: “No but Black Alliance for Peace has.” / Twitter
The Hypersonic Pentagon Budget (consortiumnews.com)
Ajamu Baraka on Twitter: “And most of the left” / Twitter
Biden indicts 4 members of Black Leftist Org for “Weaponized Free Speech” – YouTube
EXCLUSIVE: Matt Taibbi Speaks Out About Congress Threatening Him With Jail Time – YouTube
Today In Empire: War Machine-Funded War Games, Facebook Censors Hersh, And More – Caitlin Johnstone
Death – Politicians in my eyes – YouTube
“If there are future generations, they will scarce believe we allowed war profiteers to directly influence government policies on war & militarism using the money they made from profiting off war & militarism. It’s one of the most evil arrangements you could possibly come up with.” (-Baba Yaga)
“Indie media who spend a lot of time sniping at other indie media aren’t in it to fight the power or make the world a better place, they’re in it to build a brand. If you’re serious about this shit you keep your crosshairs on the top of governmental, political and media power. Don’t be a pro bono Pentagon propagandist. Don’t preface everything you say about China, Russia etc with “Of course their regime is awful, but”. Those messages are already amplified by society’s most influential voices, and they get paid a lot for it. Don’t do their job for free.” (-Caitlin Johnstone)
SHOULD BE OBVIOUS
Somebody asked me again why I mix the news in with my overcaffeinated recoolections of my brown bag on the corner dirty punk gutterfied glam daze long gone and I think the answer should be obvious-that the big 5 corporate media in my country has created a farfetched bullshit world of distraction for people who still watch tv which is why so many are unaware when corrupt politicians in the pocket of evil billionaires threaten to arrest journalist for telling the truth, kidnap and torture journalists for telling the truth, hijack journalists cars and crash them into trees at high velocities, etc., etc.
France is on fire as the working class revolts against the Davos billionaire agendas. Murkkkan’s have been tv trained to hate all protest, applaud when kkkops kill kids because they always say they feared for their lives and investigated themselves and found they did nothing wrong. There were three years of mass mobilizations against fascist cop violence in this country and Fraud squad fake shitlibs just help superfund the cops and recite talking points about the Ukraine needs more billions and Israel shares their common values and an unshakeable bond, and it’s okeydokey if some shady forces are poisoning entire communities. As much as we all like talking about Iggy Pop and Blondie some more, we got a crisis when the insiders are dismantling the Bill Of Rights in real time and nobody knows, nobody sees it.
RAFR COMPILATIONS, FIST FULLA ROCK, TRASH ON DEMAND & DRUNK ON ROCK!
Brevity’s never been my thing. I rambled too long in my last column and it kinda ate itself, apparently there is some limit to how many words you can cram into an email so part of what I said disappeared. I’ll try to ramble less this time. My kid woke me up early and it is a sunny day here, I planted some more peppers in pots this morning, broke one of my tomato stems last night and tried to replant it but it did not work, that was another of life’s little setbacks. Long days in the dead dull desert, at least the weather is ideal and the mousquitoes have not arrived, so I am thankful for the cool breeze through the window screen and the birds singing in the yard. My old lady bought me two books that came in the mail, so that is exciting. Our teenager is playing Nirvana loudly, I just never really got their appeal at all, aside from the fact that they were played so many times a day when MTV was still music. He’s has repetitiously watched these epsodes of “Tiger King: so many times, he’s memorized most of the lengthy passages of dialog. “The people that worked for Joe were misfits..” It’s a shame that zookeeper’s music career did not take off, he’s a pretty good countryish singer/songwriter, really. His nesmesis Carol has transferred her cats over to Peta Britney and has plans to leave the country. His rival/friend Doc Antle is probably going to jail for money laundering. I don’t know why Joe Exotic’s rotting in jail; when all those Jeff Lowe conman guys signed affadavits saying they lied about the murder for hire sham. The whole thing is rigged, it’s all about money, people behind the scenes, greasin’ the wheels of injustice. “Lobbying” is Wall Street code for bribery. If you don’t play ball with the big shots, they find the way to drum you out-look at what they did to Cynthia McKinney for refusing to sign the oath of alleigence to Israel. Dennis Kucinich seems to have been threatened by a general and ya’all’s Forever Prez on Air Force One, ya know they gerrymandered him out. I liked some things Tulsi Gabbard said about lies for war on Syria, and against censorship here and there, and her vocal opposition to the Restrict Act, but I still think she’s ultimately pro war and controlled opposition. She works for psy ops division of the army. Come on.
Nobody on the Squad has said anything on behalf of Julian Assange, or the cop murdered Atlanta treesitter who had his hands up and no gun powder was found by coroner on his hands refuting cop claims he had some firearm and was shooting at them-the cops were shooting at each other, from all accounts. None of the fake progressives said shit about his protestors being hit with “terror” charges(!!!) either, or about the black antiwar group being persecuted as commies cause the DNC just can’t let go of their “Russiagate” fiction, no matter how many times it gets refuted and debunked. Who told the college people that Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg should get to decide what is true and what is fiction? They’ve been censoring Seymour Hersh, me, David Swanson, Cindy Sheehan, Medea Benjamin, everybody on the left, the whole antiwar movement. So it’s weird to exist in a place where everybody else has an entirely different manufactured Metaverse unreality happening. Shitlibs have decided that everyone should be a gay transgendered occultist pro censorship bug eater for woke science and diversity or get cancelled. Rightwingers are still wingnut whackadoo and all they seem to care about is “the immigrants” who I just don’t see flooding into my honky rightwing gun nut rancher border town. I think I’d notice if there was a massive influx of new faces, that seems like a lotta rightwing radio hype and I can’t believe these gullible religious people on the radio here all have their kid’s classrooms praying for Elon Musk-they think because he has supported Trump and rightwing free speech in the past, that somehow makes him a Christian, when he is rather obviously an occultist. I suspect the people at the top all are loony cult members-they all have those secret islands and big own statues in the woods. All the sporting events have occult rituals-anytime you see McDonna or these unattractive blasphemy-popster outrage peddlers, like that pudgy mediocrity Sam Smith or all those interchangable slut puppets. One thing I do kinda miss from the mostly bleak and miserable grunge 90’s when they merged all the media into a mockingbird propaganda platform, and killed rocknroll with all the rich people phonies, there were still all those cool underground compilations released by boutique label honchos like Sal from Electric Frankenstein, Martin McMartin, Jeff Dahl and Jim Rinn. Remember those? “Trash On Demand”? I miss Sympathy singles too, until Long Gone John got too singlemindedly hungup on Meg White and every girlband anywhere you know he always released so much good stuff. That guy from Cold Front Records did some awesome stuff too, and of course our big faves, Vicious Kitten from Australia! That was like one of the only places where you could hear real cool trashy punkroll in those years as everything was getting yuppiefied, gentrified, dumbed down and turned into McDonalds-muzak.I miss those glammy punk compilations and also “Flipside” and “Maximum Rocknroll”.
V.A. – RAFR Volume 3 CD 2000 – Flipside Records – YouTube
V.A. – RAFR CD 1995 – Flipside Records – YouTube
V.A. – RAFR Volume 3 CD 2000 – Flipside Records – YouTube
V.A. – RAFR Volume 2 CD 1997 – Flipside Records – YouTube
Electric Frankenstein Video – Fist Full Of Rock – YouTube
Various – Trash On Demand Volume 1 (Full album) – YouTube
The Prostitutes – 25 Song Discography (Pelado Records) full album – YouTube
The Prostitutes – Rock N Roll Outbreak – YouTube
Russiagate was a hoax w/Matt Taibbi | The Chris Hedges Report – YouTube
GOLDEN RAT
KIM SALMON
Scientists play Swampland @ The Rosemount Hotel 15 March 2014 – YouTube
Kim & Leanne The Science Test – YouTube
Kim Salmon of The Scientists Guided Tour Of Perth – YouTube
LIKE PUNK NEVER HAPPENED
is an excellent book I am reading by an old “Smash Hits” magazine scribe named Dave Rimmer and those of you who read my columns here on a regular basis know I am a lifelong “Smash hits” devotee and self identify as New Romantic. It starts off with Jon Moss who played with everybody from the Clash to the Damned before turning down Adam Ant who he thought was too singlemindedly obsessed with fame and being famous and controlling his brand and hooking up with Boy George who was obviously every bit as obsessed with fame and being famous as Adam Ant. Anyways, it’s the story of the New Romantics, kinda my favorite era really-Human League, Duran Duran, Bow Wow Wow, Adam and the Ants and Culture Club. That’s my scene. I never liked Spandeau that much. I’m a diehard Duran fan. Also reading “There Was A Little Girl” by Brooke Shields, ya know she’s like four years older than me so I was just the right age to really fall in love with her in Blue Lagoon, like every other dumb boy of my generation though I refused to wear the designer jeans and mandatory golf shirts of my preppie peer group back in the day and took a lot more guff for being new wave than you might even believe if I told you. I saw that documentary about her and have even more compassion for her journey through mainstream meatgrinder of Murkkkan stardom, she’s a real cool person in my book. Blondie wrote “Pretty Baby” about her.
Blondie – Pretty Baby – 7/7/1979 – Convention Hall (Official) – YouTube
Brooke Shields PT. 2 interview AT 12 yrs. old -part2. with Stiv Bators photo shoot EAUTV – YouTube
New Romantics 1981: Crucial TV report that meant lift-off – YouTube
POSERS – New Romantics in the Kings Road, 1981 – YouTube
The Blitz Kids – Whatever happened to the Gender Bender’s 2005 (Edited For YouTube) – YouTube
BBC Documentary ‘Steve Strange’ (Visage) – YouTube
The New Romantics (Documentary BBC) – YouTube
Early 1980s London Style, Punk, Goth, New Romantic, Home Movies – YouTube
The Roth Show – Season 2 – Episode 10 – YouTube
“Robert Kennedy Jr. on why he’s challenging Biden: “My mission is to end the corrupt merger of state & corporate power that is imposing a new kind of corporate feudalism on our country.” It’s a noble mission but sadly as we learned with Bernie the DNC swallows up anyone who fights it from the inside.” (-Ryan Knight)
RFK Jr Announces Run for President! Dangerous Precedent -Black Activists Indicted As Russian Assets (rumble.com)
“Glenn Beck and Tucker Carlson are speaking out against Black Socialists being targeted by the Biden administration meanwhile Ilhan Omar, Cori Bush, and Jamaal Bowman are silent.
What does this say about the state of the progressive left???” (-Nick Cruse)
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The idea of pressuring any politician without the use of targeted strikes, to actual challenge the capitalists that control this country, will never work. I mean they voted for Pelosi and Hakeem, with no strings attached. Modern Democrats are just VBNMW lifetime members.” (-Sam G)
“At least RFK jr is actually challenging Biden on his actions in the executive branch Marianne Williamson, on the other hand, running to be commander in chief meanwhile she has zero disagreements with Biden regarding his most significant acts as Commander in Chief” (-Revolutionary Blackout Network)
FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK WHO AIN’T PAYING ATTENTION
Controlled left sells ARTERIAL lies better 4 Right on Twitter: “Well, the CIA’s media is showing their degree of objectivity re RFK Jr pretty clearly.” / Twitter
“Robert Kennedy Jr. on why he’s challenging Biden: “My mission is to end the corrupt merger of state & corporate power that is imposing a new kind of corporate feudalism on our country.” It’s a noble mission but sadly as we learned with Bernie the DNC swallows up anyone who fights it from the inside.” (-Ryan Knight)
RFK Jr Announces Run for President! Dangerous Precedent -Black Activists Indicted As Russian Assets (rumble.com)
PLOT TWIST: Seattle City Council Voted Not to Screw Over Renters – The Stranger
Revolutionary Blackout Network🥋 on Twitter: “At least RFK jr is actually challenging Biden on his actions in the executive branch Marianne Williamson, on the other hand, running to be commander in chief meanwhile she has zero disagreements with Biden regarding his most significant acts as Commander in Chief” / Twitter
Cop City Protestor Was Shot 57 Times; Had No Gunpowder Residue on Hands | The New Republic
‘Stop Cop City’ Activist Shot 50+ Times: DeKalb Autopsy Report | East Atlanta, GA Patch
Sabby Sabs on Twitter: “Free Omali Yeshitela!” / Twitter
“You neocons are trying to start WW3. You should be locked up and sequestered from humanity.” (-Garland Nixon)
FBI raid on African Peoples’ Socialist Party denounced – New York Amsterdam News
Largest US Corporate Landlords Reap Huge Profits Amid Double-Digit Rent Hikes (commondreams.org)
Opinion | Ukraine Leaks Punch Hole in War Propaganda | Common Dreams
Carol Rosenberg on Twitter: “BREAKING NEWS: The military has released the last Algerian held prisoner at Guantanamo Bay. Said Bakush, aka Ali Abdul Razzaq, had been held here without charge or trial since 2002. Today the United States holds 30 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. https://t.co/DPaTEunq2r” / Twitter remember when ya’aal’s foprever prez said he was gonna close it but then he just went ahead and “tortured some folks”?
‘Policy Murder’: Research Shows Poverty Is 4th Leading Cause of Death in US (commondreams.org)
Climate Activists Targeted by Fossil Fuel Industry Spies at Standing Rock (commondreams.org)
“Probably a good idea to avoid the jobs with the highest suicide rates. Cop. K-Pop star. Dentist. Military veteran.” (-Caitlin Johnstone)
I Support RFK, JR – Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Newsletter (substack.com)
Hope, or Hype – Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Newsletter (substack.com)
FATAL TOXIN Detected in Indiana Plastics Fire Evacuation Zone – YouTube
Elon Musk & Matt Taibbi Feud Over Twitter Files Explained w/ Matt Taibbi – YouTube
YOU GOT GOOD TASTE!
Texacala Jones – Even If (edit) – YouTube
The Unsung – Texacala Jones is the trashy queen of cowpunk | The Forty-Five (thefortyfive.com)
The Scientists – Last Night (1980) – YouTube
Drop Out by The Scientists [original line up] – YouTube
Iggy pop-The Idiot-Dum Dum Boys – YouTube
Divinyls – In My Life – YouTube
Lets Go to The Rat – documentary about the Boston Rock scene. – YouTube
The Only Ones – Even Serpents Shine 1979 Full Album – YouTube
Nikki Sudden – Home Movies 1991 – YouTube
TEXORCIST at Coconut Teaszer – January 3, 1994 – featuring Texacala Jones – YouTube
The Door s Strange Days Full Album 1967 – YouTube
The Neighborhoods , The Rat, 09 14 85, pt 1 – YouTube
Dave Kusworth and the Bounty Hunters – Camden Falcon – full gig – 89/90 – YouTube
Lords Of The New Church “Lord’s Prayer” Live Vienna 1988 – YouTube
AMERICAN HEARTBREAK – Rotten Apple (OFFICIAL VIDEO) – YouTube
AMERICAN HEARTBREAK – Postcards From Hell (OFFICIAL VIDEO) – YouTube
Discharge – Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing (1982) FULL ALBUM – YouTube
John Trudell & Jesse Ed Davis – Shaman (Make a Chant) [1986] – YouTube

The Jesus And & Mary Chain – Honey’s Dead Interview USA TV 1992 HD – YouTube
ENDLESS SUMMER HARMONY – by Frankie Delmane (substack.com)
Ruby Gloom by The Saviors – YouTube
Defend the Atlanta Forest – Home (facebook.com)
Atlanta Is Building a “Cop City” on the Site of a Former Prison Farm (jacobin.com)
The US activists holed up in treehouses to block $90m ‘Cop City’ | Atlanta | The Guardian
Charges Against Stop Cop City Protesters Continue Terror of “Anti-Terrorism” – Truthout
STAY WILD! STAY FREE!