“Terrible predatory forces are eating away at the country. The corporatists, militarists and political mandarins that serve them are the enemy. It is not our job to make them more appealing, but to destroy them. There are amongst us genuine freedom fighters of all ethnicities and backgrounds whose integrity does not permit them to serve the system of inverted totalitarianism that has destroyed our democracy, impoverished the nation and perpetuated endless wars. Diversity when it serves the oppressed is an asset, but a con when it serves the oppressors.” (-Chris Hedges)
“Blaming our problems on socialism when we live in the most capitalist country on earth is lunacy. Every one of our presidents has been a capitalist. Both parties who rule over us are capitalist. A socialist has never even been elected to Congress (Bernie & AOC aren’t socialists).” (-Ryan Knight)
“Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). Russia hacked the 2016 election to elect Trump. China spied on the US using a hot air balloon the size of four buses. The US war machine is built on lies, lies, and more lies.” (-Danny Haiphong)
“Our problem, folks, is corporate socialism, not socialism.” (-Dr. Jill Stein)
Zelensky couldn’t make it, so “Dr” Jill Biden got the call to promote another regime change operation against a country sanctioned and continually attacked by the US. Neocon theatrics like these are now mandatory at US awards ceremonies.” (-Max Blumenthal)
CHRIS HEDGES ON “WOKE” IMPERALISM
Woke Imperialism – The Chris Hedges Report (substack.com)
More Evidence That The West Sabotaged Peace In Ukraine – Caitlin Johnstone
Memphis Police Chief Trained With Israel Security Forces (theintercept.com)
Cuba, Africa, and Apartheid’s End: Africa’s Children Return – Part 2 | Black Agenda Report
Who is the Better Identity Coalition? – Activist Post
Rage Against the War Machine (rageagainstwar.com)
STEVIE KLASSON
Swedish guitar virtuoso Steveie Klasson was one of those rare individuals who was just Born To Rock. He picked up the guitar as a kid and by the time he his his teens he was already performing in punk bands Neon Leon, Friday’s Angels and Linus & The Loosers and by the time he was seventeen or eighteen he had been discovered and befriended by the late great Johnny Thunders who kept Stevie in his band THE ODDBALLS until his tragic demise in 91 after which time Klasson relocated to the UK to collaborate with the badass legend, Patti Palladin. Since then, he has variously collaborated with Syl Sylvain, Glen Matlock, Darrel Bath, members of the Hellacopters, Flamin’ Groovies, Cardigans, Diamond Dogs, and Hanoi Rocks. I used to see him play around NYC with the Oddballs in my late teens and early twenties and he always reminded me of JT’s little brother, had that same impeccable stylishness and coolness, still does, all these years later. One cool cat who never gets enough credit is the glammy blues cowboy STEVIE KLASSON! He’s seen it all, done it all, experienced woe and grief and loss and heartbreak, and still carries himself like a suave and dashing dandified Bo Diddley Meets Doc Holiday, a gentleman gangster of the old West! ALL HAIL STEVIE KLASSON!!!!
Sylvain Sylvain & The Trash Cowboys “Trash” 12-4-2016, Bilbao (Bilborock) – YouTube
2016-01-08_StevieKlassonBofB_0239 | Alan Rand | Flickr
Sylvain Sylvain & The Trash Cowboys “Trash” 12-4-2016, Bilbao (Bilborock) – YouTube
Stevie Klasson & Dixie Klasson live at Stampen 15/7 2021 – YouTube
Stevie Klasson´s Black Weeds – Good Stuff – YouTube
Rock N’ Roll Tales From A Crooked Highway – The Dirty Blues – YouTube
Stevie Klasson “Looking for Johnny” Music Video – MVD Entertainment Group B2B (mvdb2b.com)
Stevie Klasson (sugarbuzzmagazine.com)
stevieklasson photos on Flickr | Flickr
I STILL BELIEVE IN THE MYSTICAL AND HEALING AND REDEMPTIVE POWERS OF REAL ROCKNROLL!
Motorhead – Bad Magic (2015) Full album – YouTube
Motorhead – Motorhead (Remastered full length official music video) – YouTube
Joey Ramone (& friends) Last show ever 2000 (Full). – YouTube
Joey Ramone – His FINAL Interview (December 2000) – YouTube
Joey Ramone- Don´t worry about me – YouTube
“Number of democratically-elected governments the US has tried to overthrow since 1945: 50+.
Number of democratically-elected governments China has attempted to overthrow since 1945: 0. Western media: China is the world’s biggest “threat”! (-Danny Haiphong)
COLD MORNINGS, WORRIED MIND, TENT CITIES, SUDDEN DEATHS
Cold mornings in Neverland, I move my chair to the sunniest parcel of the yard and listen to the birds, still thinkin’ about all my faroff family and friends who’ve been knocked like billiard balls to different parts of the world. I talked to some of my old homies on the phone-we’re all kinda crazy and in perpetual chaos or crisis, everybody who’s at the bottom of the capitalist culture knows we’re being gaslit and abused by the powers that be, with non stop psy ops and propaganda, and pro war bullshit, and excuses for billionaire greed, and fake as fuck politicians who never tell the truth about what’s really happening but instead just blame “the others”. People who are cold and broke and worried tend to fuck up or quarrel, suffer from intense helpless depressions, or just get psychologically burdened by all the lies and lying and top down media division programs, it makes us all a little meaner than we maybe need to be, especially with each other. it’s sad to behold. None of us can really even help each other anymore cause we all gotta hunker down and stay our post, and protect our loved ones and what little stability and shelter we can still grasp onto. Aint no surplus to share much, like in the olden times when we had a big bandhouse and twenty people chippin’ in to buy P.A.’s or band vans, or pizza and libations. Media makes people in the dwindling middle class stay focused on the lifestyles of the rich and famous, and pretend like they can join them and become millionaires too, if they keep the trains running on time, avoid the riffraff cooties, and repeat “the current thing” obediently enough, on social media. I’m gratified I aint the only one talkin’ about people like Springsteen and the Squad selling out the workers and the underclasses. I don’t know what we can do about any of it, anymore, it’s a helpless feeling when the Big 5 Vanguard/Blackrock/Gates weaponsmakers and pig-pharma owned media push their bogus advertising lies so hard our fellows can only parrot the dumb commercials about Chinese balloons or Chinese Bats or how the proxy war was unprovoked, and how “we” gotta send more billions to nazis in the Ukraine, rather than provide for any of the people suffering at the bottom of this ghetto nation or “dying suddenly” from mysterious causes no one can explain. Yesterday, we worked in the yard and fixed stuff and listened to some old George Michael and ended up having a bonfire under a full moon and all that felt good. Other days, the pressures of poverty, bills, superinflation, the war economy and family medical problems, make it hard to have harmony cause everybody’s under pressure, just like in that old Queen and David Bowie song, “it’s the terror of knowing what this world is about”. I found one of my old Catolic school friends but neither one of us can really bring ourselves to talk on the phone cause we’d rather leave things as is, as they were, we don’t wanna foul up the holy memeories, or touch the butterfly’s wings, we both instinctively prefer to cherish the scrapbooks of the log gone past and don’t wanna mess up the good old flame. Several of our friends from the good old days have dropped dead, now we’re all just coping with the disintegrating infratstructure around us, the nonstop threat of eviction, crime in all our cities, and disntegrating society, goin’ to work, doing our best to care for loved ones, with what limited resources we can still access, but shitlibs don’t understand how the bureacracy is not really there to benefit us, it’s all a slippery slope and more tricks of the rich. Somebody used to say the rich get richer and the poor get drunk, nowadays, the poor people can’t even afford much beer. I’m glad to see some old rocknroll bands like Circus Of Power and Faster Pussycat still playing at the last few metal bars scattered across the land and bringing those old songs to the people, even if the big towns are less than welcoming to us poor people, at least some middle class folks can still get together in the cities and remember the golden years when everything still seemed possible, and hear thaose good old songs about freedom and fun . I love that summa those guys still know how to bring a room of people together for a celebration of life, like the nice lady at the local grocery cash register told us yesterday, we might as well have fun while we can, seize every last moment of joy and communion, cause it’s all too brief and harboring too much unforgiveness and anger just kills us off early. Joe Strummer really had some stuff figured out towards the end of his life. I still wish more people could have heard songs like “Boogie With Your Children” and “Nitcomb” and “Johnny Appleseed”. Old ideas that need to be kept alive around the fire and passed down to whoever survives this bullshit Klaus Scwab depopulation, purge, culling of the herd. Lou Reed said it “Takes A Bus Loard Of Faith To Get By”, a bus load of forgiveness, too.
Lou Reed – Busload Of Faith (Official Music Video) – YouTube
Facebook Protects Nazis to Protect Ukraine Proxy War – FAIR
MALCOLM X WARNED US LONG AGO ABOUT SHITLIBS & SUPERFICIAL IDENTITY HUSTLAS! WATCH REVOLUTIONARY BLACKOUT NETWORK!
Lex Brody on Twitter: “@UnholyRom3 https://t.co/XphNaqVtIv” / Twitter
“When your government condemns socialism while engaging in fascism and refuses to denounce Nazis, you’re being ruled by fascist Nazis. Me connecting with poor white people for the better is called a “Red-Brown alliance” rich men black & white connecting to steal from us is called “bipartisanship”. (-UnholyRom3)
“The Chinese spy balloon debacle is nothing but a psyop meant to prepare Americans for war with China
And it’s working.” (-Danny Haiphong)
Mama Earth Angry on Twitter: “This was a compelling documentary. I love Rome and all he does for the people.” / Twitter me, too. #LoveRome.
US-Laid Trap for Russia Has Trapped West Instead (consortiumnews.com)
Caitlin Johnstone: War Machine vs. Balloons (consortiumnews.com)
SOME STUFF WE LIKE:
The Gaslight Troubadours – Salambo (feat. Marc Almond & Neal X) (Official Video) – YouTube
PATTI PALLADIN – “Dreamtime / Who Needs It” (1994) – YouTube
Snatch – Snatch(1983)(NoWave)(Experimental) MUST HEAR!!! – YouTube
The Trouble with Palm Trees | The Nervous Breakdown
Bootsey X and The Lovemasters @ Mario’s LIVE! – YouTube
Birdland with Lester Bangs – I’m In Love With My Walls – YouTube
Birdland with Lester Bangs – I Fought The Law – YouTube
Lester Bangs and The Delinquents – I just want to be a movie star – YouTube
Hunter S. Thompson Documentary BBC (1978) – YouTube
Hunter S. Thompson Omnibus 1978 – YouTube
BOOJ COMPOND AMAZON SHOPPERS ARE FUCKING WHACKADOO
Max Blumenthal has been talking about Branch Covidians for a long time-the cloistered haves who are so one message psychically scarred and adversely affected by nonstop media blitz that they still want babies to wear masks and society to remain in permenent lockdown because they only need shop Amazon or Grub-Hub. We know people who still have their Wal Mart shopping done by employees and delivered to their car so they don’t have to risk the death plague by setting foot in the store. They live in big gated compounds and only see employees and consume corporate media all night long so they trust Dr. Jill Biden and Dr. Fauchi and think every other scientist or doctor who is not actively pushing more boosters for children, shutdowns of mom n pops, and billions for endless war nazi regimes must be working for Russia, China, or Trump. I got neighbors in the desert who live in trailers surrounded by cameras and electronic gates. Only place I’ve ever seen a trailer with cameras and electric gates. The country is getting weirder. I know people who consume rightwing media who keep complaining to me about the immigrants and Chinese “threat” just like the shitlib pink hats, who keep bleating on and on and on about the Capital Hill election protests. Not my problem, not my cause, I BELIEVE IN FREEDOM OF SPEECH & THE RIGHT TO ASSEMBLE. I DO NOT believe that these fucking puppet politicians are goddesses from Mt. Olympus or should be worshipped as such. They all suck so bad. What phonies, such traitors.
BACKSTREET CINDERELLA
When I was avoiding the truancy officers while waiting to turn eighteen in a school to prison pipeline, fuckedup and corrupt, fascistic patriotic, tankplant town, I lived in a cold garage in an attic crawlspace over my friend Bryan B’s mom nd brother’s sports cars, we had a Coalman’s stove we’d run sometimes, but I get dizzy just remembering the fumes and how idiotic it was to try to wram ourselves with that thing in a confined space, you do a lotta dumbass risky shit when you’re a kid and if you survive all that, I guess you’re lucky. We had some heavy metal girlfriends who’d get rides to come visit us up there. My stoner metal skateboard crew and detention hall roommate Beefy (RIP) might bring over some dirtweed which was just ridiculously outlawed back then-total reefer madness drug scare bullshittery. Girls would bring us 12 packs of Budweiser and it felt like the greatest thing in the world. Back then we were all still into Def Leppard and Ratt and Cinderella, but were about to graduate into Dogs D’Amour and Circus Of Power and Junkyard and Mother Love Bone, right? . Keifer had a real specific kinda singing voice, you might say an acquired taste, but I’ve known festivals fulla people who actually love that high pitched screechy shit. I can not sit through a whole album’s worth of screeching very often, but I can do four or five songs worth in a sentimental mood. Back when I was sixteen or seventeen, I thought he dressed Goth Like Me, and was sortof a dumbed down smalltown Steven Tyler, so I was all aboard and never stopped really loving “Gypsy Road”. His band brokeup a long time ago and Jeff LeBar died. Kindof a sad story. Anyways, I’m glad that guy’s still around doing his thing! (RIP) Jeff LeBar
Tom Keifer #keiferband “Touching The Divine” Official Lyric Video – YouTube
Tom Keifer #keiferband – Life Was Here (Official Lyric/Visualizer Video) – YouTube
An Interview with Cinderella’s Tom Keifer – YouTube
Tom Keifer #keiferband – “A Different Light” (Official Music Video) – YouTube
⭐TOM KEIFER GETS EMOTIONAL DISCUSSING THE SAD DEATH OF CINDERELLA GUITARIST JEFF LABAR – YouTube
The Untold Truth About Jeff LaBar’s Death – YouTube
FASTER WHISKEY CIRCUS
When I was in my twenties, I had an open all night, non stop party, communal crash pad, bandhouse and performance venue where most of the time there was like fifteen cars and three or four motorcycles parked out front-we had cookouts, bar b q’s, a motorcade to all our dodgy shows, weekend visitors who’d bring us groceries/booze/new music, it was so much fun but I foolishly believed all that fleetingly fabulous bedazzling magic was gonna last forever. All those dudes who used to drive me ten hours to see all the big city rockshows? Bobby, Mitch, Joey, Keith B.,…Most of them are dead now and my little black heart just can’t stop cryin’ over ’em. Hug your babies, call your grandmother, forgive ’em all for they know not wht they do, do it while you can. All those sleazy metal bands soundtracked all our best times in our young lives and I feel particularly attached to Circus Of Power, who’d kinda taken a couple of under their wings and always brought us backstage and encouraged our greasy kid hairspray punk bands. Special Thanks to Alex, Gary, and Ricky. We all liked LA Guns too, but I think we kinda lost interest and enthusaism when Mick Cripps split and those other guys did all the bitchy lawsuits and stupid feuds for decades and attacked the fans who were confused about when Phil and Tracii were getting along and when they were hating on the rest of the old band, all that shit over the years, it was hard to really stay connected to them-Tracii Guns did that Brides Of Destruction band and then all that shit with the TV show people, Phil Got bitchier and went though 500 different bandmates who all left in bitter acrimony, then they got Paul Mars Black back in the band with Tracii for a minute, right? Then the other guys-Riley and Nickles had their version. I tried to checkout their new song “You Betray” this morning but it ws just too heavy for me I guess. Faster Pussycat still entertain me. I like Taime and Danny and those other guys are putting a lot of energy into the show, even if I don’t care if I ever know their names cause I miss Greg and Brent, right? I bet you do, too. (RIP) Ryan Maher and Zowie Ackerman and Mark Michaels. I still have not been able to get a copy of that “Nothin’ But A Good Time” book about Eighties Heavy Metal in L.A., but you know I want it!
Faster Pussycat “Bathroom Wall” Green Bay, WI July 7, 2022 – YouTube
Faster Pussycat – Cathouse – Live at the Whisky a go go 2022 – YouTube
Circus Of Power – Mama Tequila – YouTube
Circus Of Power – Call of the Wild – YouTube
Circus of Power – Motor – Live at the Whisky a go go on the Sunset Strip – YouTube
LA Guns – “Over The Edge” – Phil Lewis and Tracii Guns – HAIR NATION FEST LIVE 2016 – YouTube
L.A. Guns play Sex Action @TheCanyonclub Santa Clarita, CA 8/13/22 – YouTube
I STAND WITH THE WORKERS, NEVER THE BOSSES!
Bruce Springsteen ticket prices causes fan magazine to shutter in protest (nypost.com)
Palestinians Are Not Liars: Confronting the Violence of Media Delegitimization – CounterPunch.org
WHITNEY WEBB
“However, to date, the dumbest smear on my book thus far goes to Kirby Sommers, who claims I am sus because I had a great grandfather live in Ohio in the late 1800s lmao. If you are a professional historian and are smearing my book for not including Russia + China, but can’t be bothered to read past Chapter 2 to find the parts where I do talk extensively about Russia + China, I am have a very hard time believing that you are acting in good faith.” (-Whitney Webb)
Hoover and Blackmail: The Evidence (odysee.com)
NEWS, SPORTS, & WEATHER DESK:
“Cynical does not capture the immoral game U.S. policymakers are playing with the lives of Ukrainians. Everyone knows the final outcome of the war, yet the U.S. continues to escalates creating the necessity for the Russians to conquer the entire country.” (-Ajamu Baraka)
Air Force Academy cadet died of blood clot in lung, autopsy finds (taskandpurpose.com)
THE TOP 25 MOST CENSORED STORIES OF 2021-2022 (projectcensored.org) Blackrock, Vanguard, Gates, WEF supervillains capturing regulatory agencies, covertly geoengineering, buying media and most of the USA farmland, tech cenosrhip, mass surveillance, kidnapping journalists, proxy wars.
Sunny War Seeks Peace on Anarchist Gospel – SPIN
Ralph Nader: Workplace Surveillance + The Luddite Club – Dandelion Salad (wordpress.com)
“On this day in 2003, Colin Powell lied the US into war with claims that Iraq harbored WMDs.
On this day in 2023, the US is once again lying its way into war with China over an absurd ballon-gate scandal that no one with an ounce of critical thought would take seriously.” (-Danny Haiphong)
Ray McGovern on How We Got Here and How To End the Madness – Antiwar.com Blog
NEOCONS DIGGING THEIR OWN GRAVE IN UKRAINE W/ GARLAND NIXON! – YouTube
PEACE ON EARTH, MY BROTHERS & SISTERS & FRIENDS OF THE REVOLUTION! STAY WILD! STAY FREE!
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