Thursday 12 July 2012

This one's not for you Spaceboy

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Three more sleeps and you hit the BIG 05 kiddo!!!

♪♫ Public Enemy - I Shall Not Be Moved

Part I - Empire
An Introduction to the Empire; Iran – Oil and Geopolitics; Guatemala – the “merger of state and corporate power”; The Congo – Neocolonialism; Grenada – “The Mafia Doctrine”; Chile – “libertarianism with a small l"; Globalization: Consequences.
1945: Grand Area Strategy; Fascism: a “rational system of the plutocracy”; Case Studies: the Greek Communists; The Italian Communists; the Spanish Anarchists; Fascism’s Western backers; Trading with the Enemy; Fascism as “preservation of civilization”; the Cold War and “A Century of Fear”
Part II – Propaganda
The Soviet Menace?; Case Studies: El Salvador, Nicaragua; Propaganda: Self-Deception and blowback; The “International Communist Conspiracy”; Declassified Documents; NSC 68; The Pentagon as Keynsian Mechanism; The Military Industrial Complex; The War against the Third World; Shifting rationales; What is imperialism?; Case Study: Haiti; “War is a racket”.
Fear-based conditioning - The War of the Worlds, The Triumph of the Will; World view Warfare; The Russians are coming; Television: The “perfect propaganda medium”; Soviet vs. American propaganda; Hollywood and the Pentagon; Psywarriors and the media; Operation Mockingbird; The Pentagon Pundits; Project Revere; The Bomber Gap; “scare the hell out of them”
Part III – Apocalypse
Mutually Assured Destruction; MAD men - Curtis Lemay and the super hawks; MAD men - Hermann Kahn and the Rand Corporation; Over flights as provocation; Cuba: the “danger of a good example”; terrorism against Cuba; “Unconventional warfare”; the Cuban Missile Crisis and the “man who saved the world”.
Why did the Soviet Union collapse?; Gorbachev: a “more violent, less stable world”; the Pentagon’s New Map; Did Ronald Reagan end the Cold War?; The Brink of Apocalypse: Able Archer; The betrayal of Russia; The expansion of NATO; Yugoslavia and Libya; the Yeltsin coup; Living standards in the former Soviet Union; A third way?
Postscript: The Power Principle. A gripping, deeply informative account of the plunder, hypocrisy, and mass violence of plutocracy and empire; insightful, historically grounded and highly relevant to the events of today
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Pete McKee: Alternative poster for the London Olympics

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(Thanx Stan!)

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♪♫ Dave Graney and the MistLY - Flash In The Pantz

Bonus:

Kerry Negara's tribute / profile to a great Australian band and personality - 'Dave Graney 'n The Coral Snakes' - for SBS TV's diverse music show 'nomad' 1992. Has snippets of Tony Mahoney's music clip, 'You're Just Too Hip Baby', music from 'Night of the Wolverine' & set in Melbourne locations that no longer exist!
http://negarafilmtvmedia.com/

David Toop on Lol Coxhill

Azealia Banks - Fantasea Mixtape

Fantasea collects the previously released tracks ‘Neptune,’ ‘Fuck Up the Fun,’ ‘Nathan,’ ‘L8R,’ ‘Jumanji,’ ‘Aquababe,’ and ‘Runnin,’ along with the rumored remakes of The Prodigy’s ‘Out Of Space’ and ‘Ima Read’ by Zebra Katz. Production credits go to electronic music luminaries including Lunice, Hudson Mohawke, Machinedrum, EPROM, Drums of Death, Nick Hook, and Diplo.
Download Fantasea here.
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50 years later...

This photo of The Rolling Stones by world famous photographer Rankin was taken in London today to mark the 50th anniversary of the Rollin’ Stones first ever live performance on 12 July 1962 at the iconic venue on London’s Oxford Street.
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How the Global War on Drugs Drives HIV and AIDS

Catnip: Egress to Oblivion? [Classroom Drug Educational Film]

Catnip is all the rage with today's modern feline, but do we really understand it?
Is it a source for harmless kicks, or a potentially crippling addiction? Is it a tool to expand one's consciousness, or a downward spiraling path that can eventually lead to insanity?
Once and for all the facts about this controversial substance are frankly discussed, in the long-lost drug educational film that never-was, "Catnip: Egress to Oblivion?".