GENERAL LABOR’S GUTTER GOSPEL! RAINIA KHALEK! WHITNEY WEBB! EIGHTIES NEW WAVE, SEVENTIES GLAM, BIDEN IS NOT A LEFTIST AND NEITHER ARE HIS WARPIG BILLIONAIRE DAVOS BOSSES, PIG-MEDIA’S JOB IS TO DIVIDE THE WORKING CLASS INTO IMPOTENT IDENTITY GROUPS. JIMMY DORE, REVOLUTIONARY BLACKOUT NETWORK, GLENN GREENWALD, REAL LEFT CALL OUT THE PRO WAR FASCISTIC IDENTITY POLITICS SHITLIBS OF THE SYNTHETIC LEFT! ENVIORNMENTAL SCIENTISTS COINCIDENTALLY IN MYSTERIOUS PLANE CRASH? ALMOST REMINDS YA OF WELLSTONE & JFK JR!

“Propagandists argue that there are 1,000 derailments per year to demean the Ohio disaster. It’s not the derailment that caused the crisis. It was the purposeful decision to line the derailed poison-filled cars w/ explosives & consciously bomb the village to save a few bucks.” (-Jeremy Loffredo)

“How do you go into journalism, know anything about the history of the US, and not look around and ask: 

“Why is it that our ostensible news network employs huge numbers of former operatives of the FBI, CIA, DOJ, Pentagon and NSA to report the ‘news'”?” (-Glenn Greenwald)

“Ninety percent of the American people believe there was a conspiracy involved in the assassination of the president. The other 10 percent work for the media or the government, probably.” (- Richard Belzer 1944-2023)

“Some may never live, but the crazy never die.” (-Hunter S. Thompson)

“Nobody who imperial narrative managers label “isolationists” are ever actually isolationists; Hawley is a virulent warmonger only opposes the Ukraine proxy war because he wants the US to focus on preparing for war with China. It’s so trippy how Democrats and both MAGA and non-MAGA Republicans all play along with this narrative that MAGA Republicans are rolling back US militarism, when in reality they’re just in favor of shifting the focus of the US war machine.” (-Caitlin Johnstone)

“If you are wondering why several countries ban certain U.S. foods it’s because there are 3,000 untested chemicals that appear in our food. Yes, our own government is allowing these big corporations to put untested chemicals in our food and it’s not even the top story on the news.” (-Ryan Knight)

They are not only allowing it, they are knowingly making us sick and then offering us their harsh drugs with side effects to fix it for profit.” (-Jory Micha)

“The trauma of just getting by financially is something we need to talk more about. The stress and fear is chronic.” (-Dr. Nicole LePera)

“More money for Ukraine. $10 billion! When does it end?” (-Sabby Sabs)

“I’ve seen a ton of snickering aimed at those suggesting that perhaps Biden should be visiting East Palestine where Americans are suffering rather than plopping into Ukraine, a foreign country, but I don’t understand the basis for the snickering. Could someone explain it to me?” (-Glenn Greenwald)”Gentrified Safespace Shitlibs hate poor people.” (-General Labor)
RANIA ROCKS! THE REAL LEFT WANT PEACE!

Rania Khalek Challenges US Foreign Policy and Mainstream Media Narratives (mintpressnews.com)

Biden DOJ Backing Norfolk Southern in High Court Case (consortiumnews.com)

The People Over Pentagon Act Is An Act – Let’s Try Democracy (davidswanson.org)

Chris Hedges: Smashing the Idols of War (consortiumnews.com)

Corrupt Mexican Drug Czar “Had a Very Close Relationship For Many Years with U.S. Intelligence,” Says Mexican Security Analyst | CovertAction Magazine

Conflicts of Interest: We Live in John Bolton’s World – Antiwar.com Blog

The Black Alliance for Peace

Malcolm X’s Family Sues the CIA, FBI and NYPD Over His Assassination (substack.com)

KAREN FACTORY SEZ WHAT

Von’s Views on Twitter: “What???? Oh this is beginning to sound unreal .. this kind of stuff never rollercoasters into our lives like this and now there’s multiple dodgy scenarios … what is going on!!” / Twitter

10 Ways the War in Ukraine Threatens Our Environment – Dandelion Salad (wordpress.com)

Glenn Greenwald on Twitter: “The ACLU still employs some old-school civil liberties lawyers who continue to do important work in litigating against the government to stop mass surveillance and other privacy-infringing policies. It’s sad that most of its work is partisan culture war tripe but it does do this:” / Twitter

Glenn Greenwald on Twitter: “A major reason the US liberal-left in DC is *unanimous* in support of Biden’s war policies — even as the left all over the world is divided to hostile — is lingering anger toward Russia because of the view they helped defeat Hillary. It’s utter madness but it’s how they think. https://t.co/m27XgeKeEK” / Twitter

“Boutique” Left Worked OBSESSIVELY To Undermine Anti-War Rally – YouTube

Whitney Webb on Twitter: “For people wondering about who Mark Middleton really was and why his time at the Clinton WH and with Epstein really matters, here’s a clip from an interview I did last August about him: https://t.co/BxPzJVcAh8 full interview: https://t.co/efG50RpSST” / Twitter

VP Harris Spreading WILD Accusations Against Putin – YouTube

Bill Gates’ Wife UNLOADS Over His “Epstein Relationship”! – YouTube

Activists from Different Worlds: Meet Two Prominent Peace Advocates Working to End Israel’s Occupation of Palestine (mintpressnews.com)

JOHN KIRIAKOU: Covid & the Way of Death in US Prisons (consortiumnews.com)

How the CIA, Mossad and “the Epstein Network” are Exploiting Mass Shootings to Create an Orwellian Nightmare (unlimitedhangout.com)

BIG SONGS FOR ME IN MIDDLE SCHOOL DAYS

Nik Kershaw – Wouldn’t It Be Good (Official Music Video) – YouTube

King – Love and Pride (Official Music Video) – YouTube

SIGUE SIGUE SPUTNIK

are still part of my life, my lifestyle, my way of doing things. When I hear that music, I never feel old. They invented the future. “Love n Rockets, pink guitars….!”

Sigue Sigue Sputnik – Dancerama (1988) – YouTube

SIGUE SIGUE SPUTNIK – 21st Century Boy – (HIGH DEFINITION) [HD] – YouTube

Sigue Sigue Sputnik Love Missile F1-11(live) – YouTube

Sigue Sigue Sputnik – 21st Century Boy HD – YouTube

MUDKISS VIDEOS – Mayhem Deranged ’50 Megaton Love’ – YouTube

The Official Mayhem Deranged Website – featuring ex Sigue Sigue Sputnik drummer Ray Mayhew

Sigue Sigue Sputnik (sputnikworld.com)

Sigue Sigue Sputnik Ultra Violence Ground Control 2 Silicon City – YouTube

Carbon/Silicon – The News (version 1) – YouTube

ADAM AND THE ANTS

Awww, man, all my smallish dead trees blew down in the extreme winds wich kinda sucks cause they helped provide us with cover from the nosy neighbors. I’ve never been like the landscapin’ man but here since we got a yard, I’m kinda feelin’ my way into it. Gardening was my grandfather’s respite and refuge. Me and him loved each other but never understood each other. He was a hardass farmer with shrapnel in his forearms and I was like into comic books and David Bowie and punk rock and shit.

I particularly related to the Adam Ant song, “Feeding Me To The Lions” as a kid cause that’s just exactly what it was like, being weird in a hickoid sports state. I still feel that way now with my bad back and ongoing alienation from the pig-media manufactured culture wars horseshit, all the pack-rat Borg-Bots still trying to make up comply and obey and goose step our way to Armaggeddon or sudden death, all the age old heartaches and disappointments, being targeted and misunderstood by the middle managers and tobacco spitters, the anguish, grief, sorrow, and useless nicotine cravings.

Just so grateful I did not growup with all the sniveling safespace college people always finding something to be offended about like that is some accomplishment or invention or contribution, forever wanting to silence or demonetize anyone they deem as insufficiently fauxwoke, or snivelingly safe and cuddly and polite enough for their special classer fragility worldviews, we had Eddie Murphy movies and laughed like pirates, he said all kinds of shit that offended Tipper Gore and made the rest of us laugh. Richard Pryor, too. We had writers like Hunter S. Thompson and Charles Bukowski who told the truth with great humor and compassion and observational analysis. That was the stuff of real inspiration to some of us as young people, but also, all the punk rock and new wave bands, we were so fortunate to inhabit that splendidly enchanted era with all the energizing pulsating dancefloor drums of Blondie, Depeche Mode and Duran Duran and Dead Or Alive, and all the bad ass guitar heroes like Neal X and Marco Pirroni, Steve Stevens and Paul Reynolds, Elliot Easton, Will Sergeant, and Johnny Marr. I may not have had siblings or support at home when shit went bad at the bullying white power suburban sports school, but I did have a love and grand passion for all that magical, fantastic eighties music, like Prince and Depeche Mode, Billy Idol, and Adam & The Ants. Fuck man, it was all so glorious and beautiful and heartfelt and true. Even the most preposterous cartoon characters like Pete Burns and Dirty Deg, Boy George and Nina Hafen, they were all so wonderfully colorful and entertaining, and yeah a big part of me is still back there making collages out of old “Smash Hits” and “Creem”, playing stacks of records by Smiths and Bow Wow Wow and all the Prince produced groups and even older 70’s bands like Slade and the Sweet. There were still fascists and privilege Karens trying to make us obey, or impose their private trauma, beliefs, or preferences on others-like the P.M.R.C.. All those bad guys from the John Hughes movies were in fact more humane than the jock dickheads I went to school with. Ollie North was running guns and the deep state was fucking over Jimmy Carter, there were bigots and assholes and “Greed Is Good” mass media programming…but we had so much real music with soulpower and real emotions that nourished and nurtured us, I’m an old man now and still drawing power, love, and inspiration from those old songs. All the new wave singles and MTV videos were totally pop art! Adam Ant was part Robin Hood, part Captain Hook, part Peter Pan, part Roy Rogers, it was perfect. Henry Rollins said Black Flag Kills Ants Dead, but to me, Adam and lots of the new wave bands, even Michael Jackson and Rick James were 1000% times more entertaining than any of those shirtless jock, mob mentality, stupid gray shorts hardcore dicks with all their testosterone crazy male bonding and DC private school complaining and trying to pimpose their beliefs on others. I’d had enough of jock dickheads way back in the sixth or seventh grade, really. I was looking for escapism and futuristic pirate realms. Adam still tours in the UK! VIVE LE JOLA!

Friend Or Foe – Adam Ant Live in Liverpool 2019 – YouTube

Adam & The Ants – Prince Charming – YouTube

Adam & The Ants – Antmusic – YouTube

Jola – Adam Ant Drummer Interview – Louder Than War

Drummer Profile: Jola of Adam Ant – SISTER FROM ANOTHER PLANET

Drummer Profile: Jola of Adam Ant | Tom Tom Magazine

Adam Ant – Vive Le Rock (Official Video) – YouTube

THE SWEET

Are you ready, gents? (We are) Steve? (I’m okay) Clemmy? (OK) Alright, fellas, let’s go!

Of course, Bowie, Sweet, Slade and T Rex paved the way for all our fave eighties new wave and glam, post punk hitmakers. And THE RAMONES!  And Sputnik and Celebrity Skin! They were the best, had the best singles! “Six Teens” is my favorite! Last night, my old lady was flipping through the youtubes and when she heard Depeche Mode’s cover of David Bowie’s “Heroes”, she finally saw it. Shew as like, “that could be you-why don’t you do THAT?” I’m like, “Right? Yeah, should’ve thought of that sooner!”

Sweet – Action – Promo Clip (OFFICIAL) – YouTube

Sweet – Lost Angels – Promo Clip (OFFICIAL) – YouTube

SLADE

are sometimes my fave band, Peter Crowley has said the correct answer to Beatles Vs. Stones is SLADE! Ya know I have to agree with that. They are still the right medicine, the elusive healing tonic when you’re jonesing for a coffin nail and suffering from all the punishing lies and fictitious whitewashings the mockingbird platforms of the Gates Reset and Technocratic Tyrannical WEF folks are subjecting us all to! Nothing ever made as much sense to me as the lyrics of “Come On Feel The Noise!” It is THE TRUTH!

Slade-Com on feel the noize HD – YouTube

 “You told me, a full fire water won’t hurt me

And you tease me, and all my ladies desert me…”

Slade – Mama Weer All Crazee Now • TopPop – YouTube

SLADE – GOODBYE TO JANE – Vidéo Dailymotion

SLADE – Coz I Love You ( TOTP ) 1971 – YouTube

Slade – Full Concert – 08/04/75 – Winterland (OFFICIAL) – YouTube

Slade – 7 Year Bitch 1985 – YouTube

Slade Songs Ranked – Return of Rock

T REX

T. Rex – Jeepster (1971) – YouTube

T. Rex – Hot Love (1971) HD 0815007 – YouTube

T. Rex – Metal Guru 1972 – YouTube

RUNAWAYS

As a kid, I was as influenced by the Runaways as I was any of ’em! STILL LOVE THE RUNAWAYS!

THE RUNAWAYS – Wasted (1977 UK TV Appearance) ~ HIGH QUALITY HQ ~ – YouTube

Runaways – Japan (1977 – Full Concert HD)(DHV 2011) – YouTube

Edgeplay – A Film About The Runaways – 2004 Documentary – YouTube

CHERIE CURRIE WEIGHS IN ON A RUNAWAYS REUNION, & WISHES LITA & JOAN ‘WOULD GET OVER’ THEIR ISSUES – YouTube

Lita Ford & Cherie Currie – Queens Of Noise (Runaways) M3 – 2014 – YouTube

“The USA, the only country in the world that murdered hundreds of thousands of civilians with atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, author of Operation Condor, of assassinations, interventions and coups d’état throughout the world, has no morals to accuse Russia of ‘crimes against humanity’. The free peoples of the world denounce that the US lies and politically accuses countries that do not submit to its policies of plundering natural resources, in order to justify its armament interventionism with NATO.” (-Evo Morales)

“Funny how Fiona Hill forgets about the CIA’s bombing of the USSR’s Siberian pipeline – the topic of Tony Blinken’s senior thesis – in her ahistorical attempt to deflect US responsibility for sabotaging Nord Stream.” (-Max Blumenthal)

RT on Twitter: “People marched in the ‘Rage Against The War Machine’ rally in Washington DC, expressing outrage at US involvement in the Ukraine conflict. The host of ‘The Whistleblowers’ show John Kiriakou observed the protest on location and spoke to the participants. https://t.co/E7MkMuevPJ” / Twitter

Max Blumenthal on Twitter: “Christian Parenti: “If leftists…have an interest in democratic political agitation unmolested by secret police, they should not dismiss the undeniable fact of the FBI using counterintelligence tactics against far-right groups and MAGA supporters” https://t.co/LgESmy5zqf” / Twitter

Marc & The Mambas & Antony Hegarty “My Little Book Of Sorrows” – YouTube

Ajamu Baraka on Twitter: “The face of fascism supported by the U.S. Hakeem Jefferies, Rev Warnock, Congressional Black Caucus, Progressive Caucus, do you silence yourself simply because your criminal president proudly proclaims himself a “Zionist”?” / Twitter

Steven Donziger on Twitter: “Two days after the 9/11 attacks, the EPA declared the air and water “safe” in lower Manhattan. Hundreds who worked in the area later died of cancer while thousands became sick. I fear history is repeating itself in Ohio. https://t.co/rA4cFLweag https://t.co/150PM0U8m9″ / Twitter

Glenn Greenwald on Twitter: “Tonight, live on @SystemUpdate_ at 7pm ET: Escalation continues between the US, Russia and now China over Ukraine. Plus: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy releases 1/6 surveillance footage to Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, and the media reacts poorly: https://t.co/HE5LVVen3t” / Twitter

How The CIA Keeps Us Sh*tting Our Pants! – YouTube

“Joe Biden has likened Zelensky and his government to democracy itself.

This is the same government that integrated Nazis into its military and banned every single opposition party in the country. Biden’s version of democracy is more like fascism.” (-Danny Haiphong)

American Capitalism’s Growing Dysfunction, by Rainer Shea – Dandelion Salad (wordpress.com)

BORDERTOWN BADLANDS ARE STEADILY CRUMBLING WHILE BILLIONAIRES BUY UP ALL THE LAND
Man my little town was efficiently killedoff by the Covid clampdowns and all the elderly people still died, they refuse to invest in repairing the infrastructure, so there are non stop floods from burst water pipes, the streets are like Detroit, all potholes, the electricity and phones were out for like two hours today-my kid got sent home early from his alternative learning program and there is no working restroom there, retail shops keep having to shutdown because of floods and not everybody can afford that like these airbandb owners and rich people tourist gallery holes. Whenever I think we got it bad out here with the cold and the wind emergencies, I think of people in Palestine. Or East Palestine. Or Yemen, or Flint, ya know? Rich people do not like us, it’s worse than they just don’t care about us. They seem to be actively seeking to harm the poor of the world on a mass scale. These wars are for Empire and Wall Street/banker hegemony. I absolutely do not understand how the empire just trots out a hand full of token black women or trans-humans, and that empty rebranding supposedly legitimizes all the plunder, carnage, ripoffs, abusive gaslighting, and wars of the one percent, in the eyes of all the fauxwoke, fauxgressive college safespace middleclass haves. All they seem to do, or care about, is repeat these meangingless slogans about how woke and inclusive they are, while poor people drop dead, and the empire eats all those kids abroad for nothing but war machine profits. Gropey Joe is doing all this horrible shit-he’s got superinflation pleasing all his bankster buddies, quadrupled rents and no significant minimum wage raises, three to seven citizens dead a day hypermilitarized and bipartisan overfunded jackbooted fascist killer kkkops, baiting wars with Russia, China, Iran and Haiti, betraying the unions, neglecting to protect even your most basic rights. Shitlibs just keep “identifying” with his double down deluxe Doctor Doctor Doctor Doctor wife, or smooth, dashing droner buddy with the first executive kill list who broke all his campaign promises about putting his comfortable shoes on and joining the picketline and closing the torture and kidnap gulags; or think it’s just so extra super special sensitive scientific if a Trans Surgeon General says nothing about the dangerous toxic effects of poisoned air and water and does nothing to help the poor people poisoned in Pennsylvania or Flint. It’s cute and charming and adorable if a gay Transporation Secretary ignores the poor because when he does it, it’s better than when some old white cys born Cheney or Lindsey Graham fuck over the poor. Most middle class people at this point really do not care about poor people, only their own got-mine vainglory and red carpet celebrity worship. They’d rather praise their token figurehead idle idols than advocate for anything that benefits “the others”. Which is us. The majority who can’t pay the bills. That P.C. identity politics shit is STILL blinding the shitlib fakeass synthetic left into supporting bad spook Mike Pompeo Cointelpro shit, Rachel Maddow McCarthyist cold war phony baloney, hideous oppression of Palestinians, coups in socilaist democracies and needless pissing contests with other nucleur powers. As long as they have some 31 flavors of future fascists to idolize on tv, some Amazon boxes on the sidewalk, a mimosa in their hand and an I-Phone to signal their virtue on, they are content with the corruption and mass murder. Bread and circuses, Netflix and Trader Joe’s , legal reefer and AOC, that’s all they care about. As Hunter S. Thompson who they tried a million ways to cancel and Cointepro until he committed suicide most likely, said so many years ago, during the beginning of the Bush/Cheney proxy war reign, “

We are living in dangerously weird times now. Smart people just shrug and admit they’re dazed and confused. The only ones left with any confidence at all are the New Dumb. It is the beginning of the end of our world as we knew it. Doom is the operative ethic.The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy – then go back to the office & sell every one of the poor bastards down the tube for a nickel apiece. Probably the rarest form of life in American politics is the man who can turn on a crowd & still keep his head straight – assuming it was straight in the first place.”

“Phoniest, most PR-intensive proxy war of all time.” (-Caitlin Johnstone)

American Exception on Twitter: “Parafascism in action” / Twitter

White House Officials Won’t Deny Blowing Up Nord Stream Pipeline! – YouTube

AIRBORN TOXIC EVENTS

Ohio Train Disaster Exposes Dark Side of Plastics • Children’s Health Defense (childrenshealthdefense.org)

Steven Donziger on Twitter: “Ohio train disaster is an eco-horror caused by corporate abuse. Norfolk Southern detonated the fireball below to “dispose” of cancer-causing chemicals because it was cheaper and the rails could open faster. They “nuked” a small town for profit. https://t.co/SaCbXGcQsO https://t.co/qTB40Eu05a” / Twitter

As Public Trust Wanes, FDA Pledges to ‘Save Lives’ by Policing Online Content • Children’s Health Defense (childrenshealthdefense.org)

Eric Feigl-Ding on Twitter: “Sham “health clinics”? The new East Palestine Assessment ‘Clinic’ being set up does NOT provide prescriptions, vital signs monitoring, diagnosis, OR blood and urine testing! @GovMikeDeWine needs to stop shilling for Norfolk Southern @nscorp or trying to astroturf. HT @StatusCoup https://t.co/sAGLIFlUXF” / Twitter

Film Club Premiere: WHITE NOISE Review – The EERILY Prescient Film Everyone’s Talking About (substack.com)

Status Coup News on Twitter: “”Everybody is getting sicker & sicker: they’ve not only ruined my home, my health of my children, they’ve ripped my life away from me, it’s not just our houses— it’s just a house—these people in town are my friends, they’re my life…nobody can sustain life the way we’re living.” https://t.co/PibkpnusGo” / Twitter

Revolutionary Blackout Network on Twitter: “Donald Trump Goes To East Palestine and Joe Biden Goes To Ukraine featuring Misty Premieres at 6PM ET WATCH https://t.co/htESIbzocV @SocialistMMA @Jaybefaunt @UnholyRom3 @SabbySabs2 @ComptonMadeMe @SarcasmStardust https://t.co/5yd1mD2Iwr” / Twitter

Comrade Misty is Putin’s Buddy 🍀 on Twitter: “It’s absurd that anyone would try to claim that Biden is anywhere near “left wing”.” / Twitter

EXCLUSIVE: Norfolk Southern Sends GERM CLEANERS to East Palestine Homes, EPA Using SCAM Air Tester – YouTube

East Palestine Ohio Resident’s Son ‘Projectile Vomiting’ After Toxic Train Crash – YouTube

TIMES OF GAZA on Twitter: “lsraeli occupation forces shoot two Palestinians and prevent paramedics from attending to them. https://t.co/uiQROOz8Cc” / Twitter Palestine/East Palestine

East Palestine Ohio Train Explosion: Water Smells Like “WET DOG”, Resident w/ SCALDING Throat – YouTube

Dems are now just Republikkkan servants of The Pathocracy, warpigs with kenta cloth and rainbow flag empty gesturing Jose Vega — Vote Diane Sare! on Twitter: “I confronted @hakeemjeffries on the Nordstream 2 pipeline revelations. I asked him to inquire into whether or not is true and to hold @POTUS accountable. His response? Lets praise Biden on what a great job he’s done and reaffirm our commitment to Ukraine. https://t.co/iK9Zb1pwT4” / Twitter

sad how Klaus controls Canada and Australia and germany already MintPress News on Twitter: “Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced last Thursday that the Canadian Navy will send two warships to Haiti to gather intelligence on the groups behind the uprising against the current Western-backed regime. https://t.co/7eOQ4ULmyA” / Twitter

BACK IN MY DAY, SONNY…

“Yeah we’re drinking and we’re dancing

But there’s nothing really happening
And the place is dead as Heaven on a Saturday night
And my very close companion
Gets me fumbling gets me laughing
She’s a hundred but she’s wearing
Something tight
And I lift my glass to the Awful Truth
Which you can’t reveal to the Ears of Youth
Except to say it isn’t worth a dime

And the whole damn place goes crazy twice
And it’s once for the devil and once for Christ
But the Boss don’t like these dizzy heights
We’re busted in the blinding lights
Of Closing Time

The whole damn place goes crazy twice
And it’s once for the devil and once for Christ
But the Boss don’t like these dizzy heights
We’re busted in the blinding lights
Busted in the blinding lights
Of Closing Time

Oh the women tear their blouses off
And the men they dance on the polka-dots
It’s Closing Time
And it’s partner found, it’s partner lost
And it’s hell to pay when the fiddler stops
It’s Closing Time
I swear it happened just like this:
A sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss
It’s Closing Time
The Gates of Love they budged an inch
I can’t say much has happened since
But Closing Time
I loved you when our love was blessed
I love you now there’s nothing left
But Closing Time” (-Leonard Cohen)

“Well a person can work up a mean, mean thirst after a hard day of nothing much at all….” (-Replacements)

SMACK is the answer to summa my problems this morning. Not the substance specifically, but those longhaired Finnish asskickers in all the silver bracelets from so long ago.

This is what we considered real cool rocknroll in my generation. Surprisingly, even Corndog Cobain covered “Run Rabbit Run”, and before they became super famous playing the same 12 songs in stadiums for Events people who don’t really care that much about real rocknroll, Guns N Roses very obviously, emulated them, too. 69 Eyes made no secret of their appreciation for Claude and cohorts. A couple of Smacks moved out to Hollywood and jammed with all the Sunset Strip royals from Decry, Jetboy, Hangmen, etc. Claude formed another cool band called the Fishheads, and much like with the Beasts Of Bourbon, pretty much anything Smack affiliated is gonna be pretty fantastic. When I need to blast away the blues, the lies for empire, the billionaire agenda, the brainwashed culture, the toxic bullshit pop garbage, the phony and transparent propaganda headlines of the day,I play myself some SMACK and it all comes back to me. The loud laughs, howling kicks, full moon, spooky girlfriends, flickering candles, and memories of being untamed and feral and singing our dumb gutsy hearts out, in rosaries and open shirts, swingin’ the bottle flagrantly, struttin’ down the greasy boulevards in mirrored sunglasses. I saw this movie the other night about a working class bar in a remote backwater desolate town, all the hard working people who go to the bar every day after work and spend all their money and go home alone to lives of empty yearning and lost children, after endless hours of abusively ogling long suffering, way underpaid strangers–all the hard up horny miners hitting on the captive transient barmaids, it was very stark and poignant, some of the barflies reminded me of people I knew in prior lives, it was not like the usual unreality tv programming we are so inundated with nowadays that’s always so obviously scripted by slick L.A. hucksters from behind the scenes, this was more like, cameras were were rolling while people did their bit, there is some embarrassing confession, scary stalkers, lighthearted frivolity, some reckless old lady abandon, ballsout bastard bosses, goofy morons, and the heroine ends up heartbreakingly hurt in the end, but it really captures the unbridled joys and stinking desperation of the dead ender drinking classes. I think my buddy Dan Denton the poet wrote a book about it-the old school, blue collar divebars we used to know-the human drama, the casual sexism, the belligerent behaviors, bad dancing, late night revelry, cigarette machines, bad jukeboxes are like bad pizza, and vintage Pabst beer lights. Another round for all my friends. Ya know my wife reminds me sometimes, how even in the four or five semi charmed and golden eras of my life, there was still treachery and subterfuge, stupidity and selfishness, accidents and obliviousness and fuckups and rejection and heartbreak and deaths and unexpected mutinies, cause that’s how life is. You know that Andy McCoy lyric, “I sit and count them shot by shot…”? That’s kinda how I am with cigarettes. Like, I know they’re no good for me, but when I’m suffering or stressed out, always anxious or in grief, ya know, they kinda gimee something to do. This is my Day 2 cigarette free after smoking three packs this year, they weren’t nowhere as good as I remember, so probably nothing else is, either. Smack still works, though.

Smack – On You (Full Album) – YouTube

Smack – Urbaanirock ’87 (8min) – YouTube

Completely Alone – YouTube

Smack – Dinosaurock ’88 (24min) – YouTube

Some Fun – YouTube

Smack – Maggie Mcgill (Urban Festival, Downtown Helsinki 1987) – YouTube

Little Cunt – YouTube

Smack, Ilosaarirock 1985 – YouTube

The 69 Eyes haastattelu Jyrkissä -96.mov – YouTube

Hotel Coolgardie THE FILM – Trailer – YouTube good flick, man.

WHAT’S REALLY GOIN’ ON HERE, ALL MY BROTHERS & SISTERS & FRIENDS OF THE REVOLUTION?

Status Coup News on Twitter: “”Every time I get a shower for two hours it’s like my body is on fire: why have I never experienced that for the 44 years that I’ve lived in East Palestine?” -Candice DeSanzo says. Her kids are also having diarrhea, nosebleeds, coughing, headaches, and sore throat… https://t.co/1jpYCy8X3S” / Twitter

Mystery surrounds death of Clinton aide linked to Epstein – where’s the gun? | Daily Mail Online

Whitney Webb on Twitter: “Mark Middleton’s “suicide” is back in the news. Even the Daily Mail, the only MSM outlet to cover Middleton and Epstein, won’t touch major details of their relationship. @EBBerger and I did in a podcast last year (more info, of course, in the book) https://t.co/45Em87Sugn” / Twitter

MSNBC Blatantly Lies About Ukraine Anti-War Rally | ZeroHedge

Revolutionary Blackout Network on Twitter: “Biden CRUSHED for Abandoning East Palestine for Ukraine | Putin Suspends New Start Nuclear Treaty Nick at NITE with Misty at 8PM ET WATCH https://t.co/aLlRHoW39H @SarcasmStardust @SocialistMMA https://t.co/fG240oisOu” / Twitter

Ryan Knight ☭🕊 on Twitter: ““Today, an estimated 3,000 chemicals that have never been scrutinized by the FDA appear in our food in the U.S.” The fact that our government is allowing big corporations to poison our food with untested chemicals should be a bigger story than it is. https://t.co/SESXYHwpSd” / Twitter

Slow News Day on Twitter: “I’ll be hosting a Twitter Space this evening to discuss the benefits of psychedelic medicine in therapy, as well as the very hidden and very real dark side of this subject. Bring questions & an open mind https://t.co/bZ2XDlZRbh” / Twitter

Luther ‘Cyrus’🕳️🐇💨 on Twitter: “He knew. (Operation Mockingbird)🧠 https://t.co/AE8gLZnryx” / Twitter

Slow News Day on Twitter: “I’ll be hosting a Twitter Space this evening to discuss the benefits of psychedelic medicine in therapy, as well as the very hidden and very real dark side of this subject. Bring questions & an open mind https://t.co/bZ2XDlZRbh” / Twitter

“Btw, does anyone remember how CIA compatible scribe David Corn wrote in The Nation about how ANSWER coalition was very very bad so everyone should avoid their anti-Iraq War rally? A very interesting antecedent.” (-Aaron Good)

American Exception on Twitter: “Wild that Twitter still does this stuff. This demonstrates the deep state’s “consciousness of guilt.”” / Twitter

Due Dissidence on Twitter: “Buttigieg 2028 campaign logo just dropped https://t.co/qFFme9BNgI” / Twitter

$ean P. McCarthy on Twitter: “Ah a new David Frum piece advocating regime change, this time in Mexico. Let’s see what he finds issue with there. https://t.co/s1yr6iCaZ4” / Twitter

7 Ways To Protect Yourself From The Ruling Elite’s World Depopulation Agenda (activistpost.com)

Ryan Knight ☭🕊 on Twitter: “Corporate media’s latest solution to the inflation & economic inequality problem: Just starve. Notice how their “solutions” are always geared toward the poor making even more sacrifices and never geared toward holding the rich accountable for hoarding wealth while people suffer. https://t.co/TqyZaNfXsi” / Twitter

illuminatibot on Twitter: “https://t.co/tdraQX17dP” / Twitter

East Palestine Ohio Train Explosion: Water Smells Like “WET DOG”, Resident w/ SCALDING Throat – YouTube

Bezos, Gates To Back Mind Control Research Company – Activist Post

Legendary Journalist Says He Knows What the “Mystery Object” Was the US Military Shot Down Over Alaska – Activist Post

Motherland on Twitter: “This is Gaza, not Ukraine. Does anyone care? https://t.co/8NqNntYMBk” / Twitter

BREAKING: Chemical Damage Confirmed Near East Palestine Explosion, GOP Border Insanity Grows – YouTube

East Palestine resident refuses to sign ‘hold harmless’ form | Rush Hour – YouTube

Something Strange is Happening in AMERICA – Activist Post

Forget the “Official” Word. Here’s How Much the Price of Food Has REALLY Gone Up – Activist Post

New Research Reveals Fracking Wastewater Creates “potentially far-ranging consequences” for Freshwater Species – Activist Post

Dr. Bhakdi Interview – Thai Princess Bajrakitiyabha & The Ongoing Cover Up Of The Deadly COVID Jabs (thelastamericanvagabond.com)

Comrade Misty is Putin’s Buddy 🍀 on Twitter: “#FreeAssangeNOW https://t.co/7M5LFq7De8” / Twitter

“Now that participants in the oppression Olympics have spent weeks attacking an anti-war rally because it didn’t fit their (tunnel) vision for the movement, gloves are off. Good luck winning over “the people” with your message. Gender ideology has created a dynamic in which a bunch of men can come into organizing circles, play victim, & assert control over what it is acceptable for others, especially women, to say & think. Most people know it’s just misogyny tied up in a frilly bow but are too afraid to say it. The same people who believed workers should be mandated to take an experimental injection that did not “stop the spread” cried “my body, my choice” when Roe was overturned. Yet they’re the same people who do not even believe biological women exist. Total incoherence!” (-Anya Parampil)

“If Norfolk Southern paid every household in East Palestine $50,000, it would cost them $94.4 million.

They took in $12 billion in revenue last year. Shitlib scumbags using right-wing talking points to justify FEMA’s inaction in East Palestine. This isn’t surprising – there are no depths to which these people won’t sink, and there’s no overestimating the stuidity of their followers.” (-Due Dissidence)

Status Coup News on Twitter: “”We’re all old hillbillies around here. We grow our own stuff and we eat off that. Now, what’s going to happen?” — #EastPalestineOH Resident waiting for Donald Trump visit @louis217 and @jonfarinaphoto #OhioTrainDerailment Watch LIVE NOW: https://t.co/nZNy8NXuqM https://t.co/S4kurVAKPn” / Twitter

Solidarity ☭ on Twitter: “The oligarchy’s propaganda arm trying to normalize “you’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy” in Canada. BlackRock buying everything? That’s cool and hip. You, on the other hand, are hurting the economy. 😂” / Twitter

Louis DeAngelis on Twitter: “This was an extremely tough interview. What folks in East Palestine are going through is beyond words. The decisions they are needing to make are impossible.” / Twitter

Due Dissidence on Twitter: “Glad you had fun – I’ll promote your organization’s rally even though they’re a bunch of triggered woke cowards who wouldn’t let you speak.” / Twitter

Prof Zenkus on Twitter: “EPA chief Michael Regan should resign immediately. https://t.co/iJRYDUrBNU” / Twitter

Left Against Lockdown (@LeftVLockdown) / Twitter

Clare Daly on Twitter: “All people have rights by virtue of being human, but for MEPs clearly some people are more human than others. The #EU approach to human rights is distorted beyond recognition. Every month we hunt for useful victims to demonise rivals, while victims we create are never mentioned. https://t.co/zqwZhFN1Nu” / Twitter

Jeff Wells on Twitter: “If you’re still on the fence about digital ID consider for a moment the rogues’ gallery that’s insistently nagging for it, that should push you over. https://t.co/bXdu4boDTU” / Twitter

The Narcissism Of Woke Totalitarianism | ZeroHedge

Due Dissidence on Twitter: “Pete plays identity politics while Ohio burns, and of course his supporters don’t care https://t.co/KyzRzQBC8p” / Twitter

The Empire Files on Twitter: “This government really going to just let all these working-class families and their kids die in the fallout, trapped in the town because their home values dropped to zero and the rail corporation thinks $5 is fair” / Twitter

Garland Nixon on Twitter: “Death of shot Clinton aide who signed Epstein into WH 17 times ruled suicide — despite no gun at scene https://t.co/3bu64qLeUv” / Twitter

🌽 CORN POP 🌽 on Twitter: “This ghoul posted this hours after Israel raided homes and killed 10 people in the West Bank.” / Twitter

Cynthia McKinney PhD on Twitter: “Expect More Carnage https://t.co/wdqXiEVW0A” / Twitter

🥖🎪 on Twitter: ““Google steps up prebunking scheme to inoculate people against misinformation,” Who wants to bet google didn’t test these pre bunking techniques to see if they prevented transmission either? https://t.co/zDKyIfPCXu” / Twitter

Collin (Ogbonna) Radix-Carter on Twitter: “As @DanielLuepker from @HardLensMedia says, “History may not repeat itself but it does rhyme.” #MalcolmX was assassinated on this day in 1965. Surprisingly how many decades later not much has changed politically.” / Twitter

Railroad Workers United ✊ on Twitter: “”Who, besides the thousands of railroads workers who warned us about this exact scenario, could have possibly seen this coming?” — Drew Shenaman https://t.co/s6pymhbaQ0″ / Twitter

Jaybefaunt🏳️‍🌈 on Twitter: “RBN is LIVE right now! We’ve got a lot to talk about so get your ass in here! #RBNto50K https://t.co/92SrHXJ4l4” / Twitter

Just.A.Thought 💭 on Twitter: “It’s common knowledge that the State kills revolutionaries but we still act like the US is a free country. https://t.co/41OIF8xkMe” / Twitter

Holding Biden Accountable on Twitter: “It’s like Biden is trying to lose, letting Trump greet East Palestine, Ohio residents cheering “Thank you for not forgetting about us!” while he’s on the other side of the world spending another half a billion to prolong a war instead. https://t.co/ltu1sUTuFU” / Twitter

Courage Foundation on Twitter: “LOS ANGELES: @IthakaMovie comes to @laemmle on March 1: https://t.co/hstJN2IVnK https://t.co/Mcmn2Z5aXK” / Twitter

Managing Democracy on Twitter: “@77_steeze The populace must be physically contained and delimited in addition to being monitored and brainwashed by smart phones.” / Twitter

Google Expands Campaign to ‘Inoculate’ People Against ‘Misinformation,’ But Critics Say It’s All About Money • Children’s Health Defense (childrenshealthdefense.org)

Pepe Escobar on Twitter: “”The degree of cynicism and confidence in one’s own impunity with which this unprecedented crime was committed is striking. We have become accustomed to the fact that our American colleagues place themselves above the law, claiming that they are the law.” V. Nebenzya at the UN https://t.co/KWTmKVTFow” / Twitter

YOU GOT GOOD TASTE:

Carbon/Silicon “gangs of England instrumentao” – YouTube

Depeche Mode – Heroes (Highline Sessions Version) – YouTube

RIP: Richard Belzer Who Played a JFK Detective in Real Life (substack.com)

Mott The Hoople All The Young Dudes Live Video 1973 1 – YouTube

American Exception on Twitter: “New AE! I talk with Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett about their epic book, ‘Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon : Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil’ https://t.co/bgl3pd8P1p https://t.co/ovpWNq2siq” / Twitter

T. REX – Cosmic Dancer – YouTube

Good for My Soul – YouTube

Adam Ant -rare – Dog eat dog – YouTube

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – The Weeping Song (Official Video) – YouTube

‘I’d rather be a one-hit wonder than a no-hit wonder’ – the Vapors on Turning Japanese | Punk | The Guardian

Adam Bomb getting set to embark on ‘Unfinished Business 2023 Tour’ throughout the USA – Sleaze Roxx

Cherry Came Too – YouTube

Cosmic Psychos | Facebook

Half Way to Crazy – YouTube

The Sigue Sigue Sputnik Story – YouTube

Between Planets – YouTube

Marc Bolan T Rex ft Billy Idol – YouTube

Sigue Sigue Sputnik – Memorabilia – YouTube

Dick Clark Interviews Adam Ant – American Bandstand 1982 – YouTube

Strummertime Podcast – by John Dissed – Discontented (substack.com)

Richard Medhurst on Twitter: “NO2NATO NO2WAR Feb 25 I’ll be speaking in London alongside former MPs @georgegalloway @DerbyChrisW, MEPs @wallacemick @ClareDalyMEP + @MaxBlumenthal @anyaparampil @Lowkey0nline, former 🇬🇧 Amb to 🇸🇾 Peter Ford & others. https://t.co/bsv6v4AWGE” / Twitter

Dr. Jill Stein🌻 on Twitter: “The American people have a right to know how the Ukraine War, and the war machine it’s a part of, are impoverishing and endanger us all. https://t.co/c9sZQUdmZp” / Twitter

Adam Ant & The Ants, S.E.X., live – YouTube

Sigue Sigue Sputnik – Memorabilia – YouTube

The Tragic Tale Of Julian Assange’s Father’s Journey – YouTube

STAY WILD! STAY FREE! THINK FOR YOURSELF! BE ORIGINAL! NOT A DRONE OR COPYCAT CLONE! GO WILD IN THE COUNTRY! FREE ASSANGE! POWER TO THE PEOPLE, RIGHT ON!