“Cornel West is morally and intellectually superior to literally every single government official and it’s not even close.” (-Caitlin Johnstone)
“Those who fail to exhibit positive attitudes, no matter the external reality, are seen as maladjusted and in need of assistance. Their attitudes need correction. Once we adopt an upbeat vision of reality, positive things will happen. This belief encourages us to flee from reality when reality does not elicit positive feelings. These specialists in “happiness” have formulated something they call the “Law of Attraction.” It argues that we attract those things in life, whether it is money, relationships or employment, which we focus on. Suddenly, abused and battered wives or children, the unemployed, the depressed and mentally ill, the illiterate, the lonely, those grieving for lost loved ones, those crushed by poverty, the terminally ill, those fighting with addictions, those suffering from trauma, those trapped in menial and poorly paid jobs, those whose homes are in foreclosure or who are filing for bankruptcy because they cannot pay their medical bills, are to blame for their negativity. The ideology justifies the cruelty of unfettered capitalism, shifting the blame from the power elite to those they oppress. And many of us have internalized this pernicious message, which in times of difficulty leads to personal despair, passivity and disillusionment.”
(― Chris Hedges)
“The immorality of this. The war criminals running U.S. policies encouraged Ukraine to reject Minsk agreement & opt for war that the Pentagon & intelligence agencies knew could not be won military – but now the line is its Ukraine’s strategy at fault.” (-Ajamu Baraka)
“One of the worst mistakes you can make when formulating your understanding of the world is to begin with the assumption that the truest and most accurate position must lie somewhere near the center of the two major political perspectives you see laid out all around you.
It’s a mistake not only because assuming that the center position must be the best one is a type of fallacious reasoning known as the middle ground fallacy (the correct position between “Drink a gallon of bleach daily for good health” and “Drink zero bleach daily for good health” is not “Drink half a gallon of bleach daily for good health”); it’s also a mistake because the entire framing arises from a situation that has been artificially engineered by the powerful.
It’s a well-documented fact that the rich and powerful pour vast fortunes into manipulating the political and media landscape in ways that serve their interests. Their control over the news media and Silicon Valley tech platforms is used to set the agenda and influence public perception by determining what issues will receive attention and which won’t in ways that preserve the political status quo they’ve built their empire upon, thereby shrinking the Overton window of acceptable debate down to a very narrow spectrum whose outcomes can’t threaten their interests in any way.
We just discussed this dynamic with regard to US aggressions against Russia and China; the Overton window is being narrowed to a debate between which US enemy should be the target of the most imperial aggressions, with voices who advocate detente with both countries finding no platform in mainstream politics or media. This is what Noam Chomsky was talking about when he said “the smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.”
People assume there must be truth in the mainstream worldview because so many others are invested in the mainstream worldview, when really the only reason that worldview is mainstream in the first place is because so much wealth and influence has gone into making it mainstream. In reality the assumption that the truth exists anywhere in either of the two mainstream political viewpoints promoted by the managers of the western empire is an example of the bandwagon effect, which describes the cognitive bias in which humans tend to take on beliefs, behaviors, styles and attitudes solely because that’s what the people around them are doing.
This bias would have had evolutionary advantages early on in our development as a species. Back when our evolutionary ancestors were prey for prehistoric carnivores, it was a survival advantage to start running for your life if you saw other members of your tribe running, even if you personally didn’t see what they were running from. As primates whose survival depended on social cohesion, being rejected by the tribe would mean almost certain death by predation or starvation, so it was necessary to conform in whatever ways prevented that rejection from happening.
But we don’t live in prehistoric times anymore. We live in a civilization with a highly complex information environment that is being continually manipulated away from truth and accuracy and toward the advantage of powerful people who rule over us. If you go along with the herd, you’ll be deceived.” (-Caitlin Johnstone)”
Finally stories of the violent conscription of men in Ukraine are being covered in the Western press even though stories circulated in the non-Western “free press” since beginning of the Biden war in Ukraine. This war is another stain on European history.” (-Ajamu Baraka)
“What is known: During the Cold War, the CIA compromised some 400 American journalists under Operation Mockingbird. What is less known: Operation Mockingbird is alive and well.” (-Robert F. Kennedy Jr.)
The people are starting to understand elite agenda with the Biden war in Ukraine as oil & defense companies make obscene levels of profits while the administration sends billions to Ukraine & fails to protect human rights of workers & the poor in the U.S.” (-Ajamu Baraka)
“If we really saw war, what war does to young minds and bodies, it would be impossible to embrace the myth of war. If we had to stand over the mangled corpses of schoolchildren killed in Afghanistan and listen to the wails of their parents, we would not be able to repeat clichés we use to justify war. This is why war is carefully sanitized. This is why we are given war’s perverse and dark thrill but are spared from seeing war’s consequences. The mythic visions of war keep it heroic and entertaining…
The wounded, the crippled, and the dead are, in this great charade, swiftly carted offstage. They are war’s refuse. We do not see them. We do not hear them. They are doomed, like wandering spirits, to float around the edges of our consciousness, ignored, even reviled. The message they tell is too painful for us to hear. We prefer to celebrate ourselves and our nation by imbibing the myths of glory, honor, patriotism, and heroism, words that in combat become empty and meaningless.”
(― Chris Hedges, Death of the Liberal Class)
DURAN DURAN
Duran 1986 03 07 I do What I Do + John Taylor interview by Paula Yates @ The Tube – YouTube
Want To Live Like Duran Duran’s John Taylor? Here’s How – Spin
John Taylor – I Do What I Do – YouTube
MOTORCYCLE BOY YEAH
Motorcycle Boy @ X Poseur 54, 4 1 1990 – YouTube
ANOTHER ROUND FOR ALL MY FRIENDS
I Need A Thrill / Somethin’ Good – YouTube
I LOVE THE GODFATHERS
When The Cowards Fall – YouTube
ROCKNROLL SUICIDE
David Bowie – Rock ‘N’ Roll Suicide (2023 Remaster) – YouTube
MORRISSEY
Morrissey – Seasick, Yet Still Docked @ Caesars Palace, Las Vegas 08/28/2021 – YouTube
HANOI ROCKS FOREVER
Hanoi Rocks – Cafe Avenue – YouTube
RETURN OF JETBOY
Don’t Mess With My Hair – YouTube
JETBOY “Born To Fly” Out Now #RockAintDead – YouTube
Jetboy – “Brokenhearted Daydream” (Official Music Video) #RockAintDead – YouTube
Jetboy The Glam Years – YouTube
JETBOY- Feel The Shake – YouTube
TOO BROKE FOR POP TRASH
Johnny Cash Action Figure 2023: Buy $19 Artist Figurine Collab Online – Rolling Stone
RIVER CITY REBELS
I’m a bitter old glam geezer and usually ignore kid bands until like years and years after everybody else already knows about them, I think it’s probably just cause I got some residual anguish and emotional damage relating to bands and band breakups and never being able to finance my own music adequately, it’s made me resentful, but these guys aren’t bad. I like ’em way better than i ever liked fucking green day, i can tell you that.
River City Rebels – Glitter and Gold – YouTube
River City Rebels – Life’s a Drag – YouTube
River City Rebels – Hate – YouTube
DANZIG
Yeah the Misfits are the ultimate steroid monkey, bridge and tunnel mooks, and eternally easy to mock and ridicule, but they have always been entertaining in my eyes, intentionally AND unintentionally and have made an awful lot of fantastic songs if you ask me, so I’m actually kinda happy they’ve been performing and Glenn is gonna rerelease the classic “Who Killed Marilyn” on a purple 12 inch picture disc which I might even try to acquire if I ever get to travel again, cause I aint got no record stores anywhere near where I live, but I still love all their old stuff quite honestly. I remember being bummed out when Metallica started wearing their shirts cause in the hick states, the real asshole rednecks loved metallica and I kinda did not like being assocated with Metallica in anyway. The Misfits, though? I used to play Misfits covers in my first grasy kid garage band!
The Misfits Who Killed Marilyn? – YouTube
CAMPUS TRAMPS
The Campus Tramps – Power Pop Pauline – YouTube
The Campus Tramps – Stay Dumb! (Full Album) – YouTube
The Campus Tramps – Blow It ! (Full Album) – YouTube
The Campus Tramps – T.F.F.T. (Full Album) – YouTube
The Campus Tramps – Curves Ahead (Full Album) – YouTube
HOWARD ZINN
Chris Hedges: The Importance of Howard Zinn – Dandelion Salad (wordpress.com)
SUSAN SARANDON ROCKS MY WORLD
Susan Sarandon Defends Julian Assange – YouTube
NYC Assange Rally: Susan Sarandon, Julian’s Brother, Roger Waters & More – Assange Defense
DEXY’S MIDNIGHT RUNNERS
Some of my old Catholic school buddies who are sadly dead now used to drag me to some really horrible jock bars where all the conservative white fratboys and even their older retired coach and rightwing golfer parents would all get fuckedup and have these drunken singalongs to Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline” and “Coming To Amerikkka”…and also, my beloved own childhood anthem, “Come On Eileen”, it was outer limits, man. It really was. One time at Christmas I revisted that awful pub with like a popular beauty from the other high school I got kicked out of for “chronic dress code violations” and “disrupting the learning process” by challenging the wrestling coach/history teacher’s dummy racist whitewash narrative about indigenous Amurkkkans, and all these asshole creeps who had bullied me in middle school and high school were approaching me as if we were friends, but only cause they wanted the approval of the pretty girlI I was with. same as it ever was. Really grateful to be free of that hellhole tank plant town, at least geographically, if not all the way psychologically free. I know it’s been overplayed, but man if you listen to the lyrics of “Come On Eileen”, it still resonates so deeply inside of me. They are back with new music and touring. Just beautiful. Me, I’m still searching for the old soul rebels.
Dexys – Coming Home Official Music Video – YouTube
Dexys – I’m Going To Get Free (Official Music Video) – YouTube
Dexy’s Midnight Runners – There, There My Dear – YouTube
Dexys Midnight Runners, Kevin Rowland – The Celtic Soul Brothers (More, Please, Thank You) – YouTube
Dexys Midnight Runners, Kevin Rowland – Come On Eileen (1982 Version) – YouTube
Jackie Wilson Said (I’m In Heaven When You Smile) – YouTube
Geno (2000 Remaster) – YouTube
Dexys – Both Sides Now [Official Video] – YouTube
Dexys – I’m Going To Get Free (Official Music Video) – YouTube
GROPEY JOE DEMENTIA IS A WOODEN DUMMY FOR THE SUPER RICH
LITTLE BIT OF SOFT RAIN HERE THIS MORNING FEELS REAL SOOTHING AFTER A HOT RESTLESS NIGHT OF CRAZY DREAMS IN MY OLD SKULL
No, Climate Change DIDN’T Cause Maui Disaster! – YouTube
DEBATE: Is Cornel West a “Spoiler” or Duopoly Crusher? – YouTube
The Progressive Misleadership Class (w/ Chris Hedges) – YouTube
The Rulers Are Pushing For CBDC, Will We Push Back Hard Enough To Stop It? – Activist Post
Tracking Orwellian Change: The Aristocratic Takeover of “Transparency” (racket.news)
RFK Jr on First Amendment – YouTube
🔥🎙️ Cornel West & Stephen A. Smith: Revolutionary Run for 2024! 🇺🇸 #XOLiveStreaming – YouTube
Did Biden fall asleep during a Maui event? – YouTube
Biden faces more scrutiny after remarks in Hawaii | The Hill – YouTube
Opinion | Sending Cluster Bombs to Ukraine Indicts the US’ Moral Posturing | Common Dreams
US Navy’s “Death Star” Destroyer Prepares For Hypersonic Weapon Installation – Activist Post
Over 200 Palestinians Killed in Occupied West Bank in 2023 (consortiumnews.com)
77 Years Ago: John Hersey Exposed Hiroshima Truths to the World – Antiwar.com Blog
‘Extradition to the US would be catastrophic for him’: Julian Assange’s wife | ABCNL – YouTube
WikiLeaks video ‘shows US attack’ – YouTube
The Occupation of the American Mind (must-see) – Dandelion Salad (wordpress.com)
Chris Hedges and Henry Giroux: The Age of Manufactured Ignorance – Dandelion Salad (wordpress.com)
FREE ASSANGE
Julian Assange’s family tells Tucker why the DOJ wants to keep him behind bars – YouTube
“We’ve bought into the idea that education is about training and “success”, defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and to challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death.”
(― Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle)
NEWS, SPORTS, & WEATHER DESK
City of Atlanta verifies how it will handle ‘Stop Cop City’ petition – YouTube
‘Stop Cop City’ activists delay turning in over 100K signatures | FOX 5 News – YouTube
Mask Mandates Return: Lionsgate Employees Told To Wear Face Masks – Activist Post
14 US Cities Initiate New Globalist Climate Plan In Partnership With Soros & The Clintons – Activist Post here come the clampdowns, but…pants suits!
Labor Day 2023: Bobby Kennedy’s Heterodox Jobs Plan (forbes.com)
Cop City Referendum in Atlanta | Black Agenda Report
How to Avoid a U.S.-China War (archive.is)
Noam Chomsky on Neoliberalism – YouTube
Japan to start releasing Fukushima water from Thursday | Fukushima News | Al Jazeera empire colony
Consider The Possibility That This Is Already The Dystopia You Fear – Caitlin Johnstone
Corey Holcomb & Alabama Mama on the Meritocracy MYTH – YouTube
INTERVIEW w/FIORELLA ISABEL – YouTube
DIVIDED SLAVES OF AMNESIA
AOC Pushes Sunscreen | TPDS HardLens Media & Due Dissidence – YouTube
Will Cornel West BREAK The Two Party System? w/ Steve Grumbine – YouTube
EXCLUSIVE: Dr. Cornel West Addresses Tax Controversy – YouTube
Kamala’s HAIL MARY REBRAND Is Destined To Fail With Voters Before 2024: Rising – YouTube
The Joy Behar Comment About East Palestine That Made Her Audience Gasp (townhall.com) shitlibs gotta shitlib…
Gore Vidal on the Cold War – YouTube
Gore Vidal on the media – YouTube
LIVE: The United States of BlackRock! (& other stories) – YouTube
The Betrayal by the Black Elite – YouTube
Niger REJECTS Neo-Imperialism: Coup Explained – YouTube
Matt Taibbi “There Is No SPOILER Candidate” (Interview Clip) – YouTube
“The words consent of the governed have become an empty phrase. Our textbooks on political science and economics are obsolete. Our nation has been hijacked by oligarchs, corporations, and a narrow, selfish, political, and economic elite, a small and privileged group that governs, and often steals, on behalf of moneyed interests. This elite, in the name of patriotism and democracy, in the name of all the values that were once part of the American system and defined the Protestant work ethic, has systematically destroyed our manufacturing sector, looted the treasury, corrupted our democracy, and trashed the financial system. During this plundering we remained passive, mesmerized by the enticing shadows on the wall, assured our tickets to success, prosperity, and happiness were waiting around the corner.”
(― Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle)
CHURCH
The Unguarded Moment (2002 Digital Remaster) – YouTube
The Unguarded Moment (2002 Digital Remaster) – YouTube
The Church – No Other You (Official) – YouTube
The Church – The Hypnogogue (Official) – YouTube
The Church – The Hypnogogue (Official) – YouTube
The Church – Under The Milky Way – YouTube
The Church – Reptile – YouTube
YOU GOT GOOD TASTE!
Take it off (The Donnas) – YouTube
UK DECAY – Revolutionary love song – YouTube
John Trudell , I’m crazy ? – YouTube
The Kinks – Stop Your Sobbing (Official Audio) – YouTube
Cornel West’s EPIC CLAPBACK at Vivek Ramaswamy – YouTube
Devo – [I Can’t Get No] Satisfaction (Video) – YouTube
The Distillers – “Beat Your Heart Out” (Official Video) – YouTube
The Lilac Time – A dream that we all share – YouTube
Green Sunday – Cornel West’s Presidential Run: Open Forum Discussion – YouTube
Ronald Koal & The Trillionaires, THE CITY IS SLEEPING, live at the Columbus Agora – YouTube
STAY WILD! STAY FREE!
Veglam 
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