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Lies They Told Us: A Long History of Being Manipulated Into War
Post Date: 2019-06-24 11:43:42 by Deckard
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Before we retaliate over drone and oil tanker attacks, take a look at all the times we've been duped. “It is the assessment of the U.S. government that Iran is responsible for today’s attacks in the Gulf of Oman” Credit: @SecPompeo Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says there’s no question that Iran initiated the recent attacks on those two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman. The evidence, he says, is “indisputable” and “unmistakable.” President Donald Trump weighs in with the same degree of certainty. “Well, Iran did do it,” he told Fox News. Maybe. But our past is screaming at us: don’t buy it; you can’t trust your leaders when ...
Revealed last secret of American Pie - pop's most enigmatic song: Drugs, Elvis, murders and how a lost verse sheds new light on Don McLean's hauntingly evocative lyrics...
Post Date: 2019-06-22 04:49:47 by Deckard
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There has never been a popular song quite like it. For more than 40 years, its lyrics have been an enigma wrapped in an eight-and-a-half minute long rock 'n' roll puzzle.Argued over by generations of geeky fans, deciphered and re-deciphered by code-breaking rock nerds and considered to be poetic reflections on mid-20th century U.S. social history by even groovier academics, it's called American Pie. And this week its lyrics, hand-written in 1971 by a young folk singer called Don McLean, were sold at auction in New York for more than $1 million.That's a lot of money for 18 sheets of paper, albeit with a lost seventh verse. But, to be honest, I rather think that whoever bought ...
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts Rock This Cover
Post Date: 2019-06-14 10:16:14 by Deckard
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Joan Jett - Love Is All Around (Live Letterman)Can't say I'm a huge fan of her music, but she nails this one.Best rock cover of a tv show theme song ever !
Dire Straits’ Breakthrough Debut Album @41
Post Date: 2019-06-14 09:21:36 by Deckard
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EmailCall it the solo that sold the band. Mark Knopfler had written “Sultans of Swing” on his National Steel guitar in an open tuning, but he found the result “dull” until he bought his first Stratocaster in 1977, the year he joined brother David Knopfler (rhythm guitar), John Illsley (bass) and Pick Withers (drums) in Café Racer, the London quartet that would be rechristened Dire Straits. Picking up the tempo and plugging in his red ’61 Strat, Knopfler crafted an iconic rock anthem capped by a two-part solo that was pivotal to the band’s breakthrough. The reworked version was one of five songs on the demo tape the band had submitted to MCA ...
America's rural radio stations are vanishing – and taking the country's soul with them
Post Date: 2019-06-08 00:38:02 by Deckard
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When I arrive at the radio station, Mark Lucke is standing in the doorway, looking out at the spitting, winter rain. He’s slim and stoic, with sad, almost haunted, eyes. The first thing he asks is if I’d like to see “the dungeon”. Who wouldn’t? Lucke pulls on a Steeler’s jacket and a baseball cap over brown hair that falls halfway down his back, and leads me across the five-acre yard. Out here, 90 miles east of Tucson, the desert is a long sweep of brush the color of beach sand. Lucke seems to slip through the rainy day like a ghost. The radio station, whose call letters are KHIL, has long been the daily soundtrack for this frontier town (population 3,500) that ...
On this day 200 million horses unleashed on antiChrist
Post Date: 2019-06-06 12:15:00 by interpreter
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75 years ago today (June 6, 1944), 200 million horses, prepared (manufactured) by 4 (angelic) Allies sporting red white and blue insignias, were unleashed against the anti-Christ and the third of the Earth aligned with him. It soon brought an end to the Great Tribulation known as WW II which lasted precisely 3 1/2 years as prophesied (based on the 360-day calendar used in all Bible prophecy). (See Revelation 9:13-20 and Rev. 13:1-5) Barry M
Newly Released Files Document the FBI's Participation in the Hunt for Bigfoot
Post Date: 2019-06-06 06:05:09 by Deckard
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37 (Paul Brady/Dreamstime.com) If the FBI only releases files to the public when the subject of a file has died, and the FBI is releasing its files on Bigfoot, does that mean Bigfoot is dead?Sadly, you won't find the answer to that question in the 22 pages of archival documents the FBI just released detailing its investigation of the mythical creature.What those pages do reveal, amazingly enough, is that the FBI took the hunt for Bigfoot seriously enough to test hair samples provided by an Oregon-based sasquatch enthusiast.The FBI's brief investigation into the fictitious reclusive man-beast began in August 1976, when it received a letter from Irish-born cryptozoologist Peter C. ...
'A Song For Any Struggle': Tom Petty's 'I Won't Back Down' Is An Anthem Of Resolve
Post Date: 2019-05-17 10:19:00 by Deckard
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Enlarge this image Tom Petty performs with the Heartbreakers in Belgium in 1992. This story is part of American Anthem, a yearlong series on songs that rouse, unite, celebrate and call to action. Find more at NPR.org/Anthem. Editor's note: This story includes discussions of depression, addiction and suicide. Of all his many, many hit songs, the one that Tom Petty said had the most direct and powerful impact on his fans was "I Won't Back Down." Well, I won't back downNo, I won't back downYou can stand me up at the gates of hellBut I won't back down The song was released in 1989 on Petty's solo album Full Moon Fever. The artist told interviewers that ...
Wikileaks releases unused footage of moon landing showing it was REALLY filmed in Nevada desert...
Post Date: 2019-05-16 09:35:21 by Deckard
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George Carlin Was Monitored By The FBI – Because He Joked About The Government
Post Date: 2019-05-13 09:26:08 by Deckard
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By Mayukh Saha / Truth Theory George Carlin has been considered as one of many outspoken and controversial people in entertainment, that too, in the world of comedy. But while we may like him, he might have even been an extremist, at least, in the eyes of the Government. It is significant to note that he had shown no inclination towards violence or even criminal behavior in any manner. It is actually the parts of his comic routines in which he talked about the Government that made him the subject of hard scrutiny. He delved deep into the details of corruption that plagued businesses and Government bodies. His reputation gained so much notoriety that his work was cited as an ...
Nineteen Eighty-Four Turns 70 Years Old In A World That Looks A Lot Like The Book
Post Date: 2019-05-13 09:19:18 by Deckard
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This month, George Orwell’s legendary novel Nineteen Eighty-Four turns 70 years old, and the warnings contained within the story are now more relevant than ever. Orwell’s predictions were so spot on that it almost seems like it was used as some type of accidental instruction manual for would-be tyrants. In the world of Nineteen Eighty-Four, there is an all-encompassing surveillance state that keeps a watchful eye on everyone, in search of possible rebels and points of resistance. Censorship is the norm in this world, and is so extreme that individuals can become “unpersons” who are essentially deleted from society because their ideas were considered dangerous by the ...
That First Taste of Freedom
Post Date: 2019-05-10 09:09:43 by Deckard
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Riding a bicycle has changed – and the change may account for the waning of interest in driving as well as the waxing hostility between cyclists and drivers.Cycling is mostly an adult activity now. It’ rare to see kids out riding their bicycles – especially by themselves.They used to.A bicycle was once upon-a-time a kid’s first taste of real freedom. This appetizer tended to instill a hankering for more. An expectation. An awakening.Those who grew up before the era of helicopter parenting commenced in the ’90s will remember it because they lived it. Saturday morning came and as soon as you were finished with breakfast, you bolted outside, got on your bike ...
May 4, 1970: Kent St. Deaths Inspire CSNY’s ‘Ohio’
Post Date: 2019-05-04 08:26:08 by Deckard
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Email45 RPM single sleeve for “Ohio”“Four dead in Ohio” is not the kind of lyric you’d expect to find in a hit single. Yet those words were crucial to “Ohio,” the song written by Neil Young following the horrific Kent State University massacre of May 4, 1970, in which four students were shot dead by the Ohio National Guard. Recorded by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, “Ohio” was released as a single in late June, backed with Stephen Stills’ “Find the Cost of Freedom.” On June 27 it had entered the U.S. Record World chart at #67, ultimately peaking at #13 on Aug. 1 (#14 in Billboard).Record World’s Aug. 8 “100 Top ...
The End of Cathedral Culture
Post Date: 2019-04-19 09:06:48 by IbJensen
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Shortly after the tragic sight of Notre Dame Cathedral going up in flames in Paris, as crowds watched and sang "Ave Maria," historian Victor Davis Hanson put our modern times in perspective. He told Fox News: "it's going to be very hard in our society to ever build a cathedral again, much less to repair them, because we don't believe in what they represented. And it's ironic, because we don't like the past. We are at war with the past. We tear down monuments. We don't build cathedrals. We erase names." Fox's Laura Ingraham underlined his point with a depressing quote from Rolling Stone: "Any rebuilding should be a reflection not of an old ...
8 Historic Cases That Show the FBI and CIA Were Out of Control Long Before Russiagate
Post Date: 2019-04-03 09:38:16 by Deckard
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Conservatives tend to have two bad habits. First, they’re prone to viewing the past through a nostalgic lens. Second, they tend to instinctively give law enforcement the benefit of the doubt. These tendencies help explain why conservatives for decades have been able to overlook the many abuses—constitutional, legal, and moral—of US intelligence agencies. Unlike some more seasoned media, conservatives have appeared genuinely shocked by revelations of the Trump-Russia saga: abuse of FISA warrants, classified leaks from top FBI brass, corruption, campaign moles, and an apparent plot to remove an elected president through undemocratic (and ...
The CIA Takeover of America in the 1960s is the Story of Our Times
Post Date: 2019-04-03 07:29:54 by Deckard
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A Quasi-Review of A Lie Too Big To Fail: The Real History of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy by Lisa Pease “ ‘We’re all puppets,’ the suspect [Sirhan Sirhan] replied, with more truth than he could have understood at that moment.” – Lisa Pease, quoting from the LAPD questioning of Sirhan When Senator Robert Kennedy was assassinated on June 5,1968, the American public fell into an hypnotic trance in which they have remained ever since. The overwhelming majority accepted what was presented by government authorities as an open and shut case that a young Palestinian American, Sirhan Sirhan, had murdered RFK because of his support for Israel, a false ...
Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bards of the Working Class
Post Date: 2019-04-03 05:21:52 by Deckard
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Their songs put the spotlight not on free love, but average joes just trying to get by.Fifty years ago, one of the greatest rock bands in history overwhelmed the American music scene. They released three hit albums in a single year. They toured incessantly. They left an indelible mark on rock music. Their songs are still featured on the radio, in commercials, and in movies. And they weren’t British. I write of Creedence Clearwater Revival, who, though they didn’t write “We’re an American Band” (that honor goes to Grand Funk Railroad), exhibited the most important qualities of the quintessential American rock group. Indeed, in many respects, the band, also known as ...
The manipulation of the American mind: Edward Bernays and the birth of public relations
Post Date: 2019-03-22 07:20:49 by Deckard
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“The most interesting man in the world.” “Reach out and touch someone.” “Finger-lickin’ good.” Such advertising slogans have become fixtures of American culture, and each year millions now tune into the Super Bowl as much for the ads as for the football. While no single person can claim exclusive credit for the ascendancy of advertising in American life, no one deserves credit more than a man most of us have never heard of: Edward Bernays. I first encountered Bernays through an article I was writing on propaganda, and it quickly became clear that he was one of the 20th century’s foremost salesmen of ideas. The fact that 20 years have elapsed since ...
Fond Memories of Hitching
Post Date: 2019-03-21 08:07:00 by Deckard
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Hitchhiking is something that is simply not done these days, at least where I live, but back in the olden days of the 1970s, I used to hitch rides on a regular basis. Lots of us did, as a matter of fact[1]Though the girls didn’t, and I think they were smart not to. They’d attract far more “No thanks” offers than us boys. jQuery("#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1").tooltip({ tip: "#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1", tipClass: "footnote_tooltip", effect: "fade", fadeOutSpeed: 100, predelay: 400, position: "top right", relative: true, offset: [10, 10] });. And I’m not aware of anyone I knew, or that they knew, hitching a ride ...
It's all the Fuckin' Farmers Fault...
Post Date: 2019-03-15 11:52:23 by Willie Green
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Humans May Only Be Able To Say The F Word Because Of Agriculture There are more than 170,000 words in the English language but some, like "vampire", "flamingo", "volcano" and, of course, the F word, may not even exist if it weren't for agriculture. Authors of a new paper published in Science argue that certain sounds, including F and V, were not regular features of the human language until the dawn of farming in the Neolithic era. The general gist of their argument centers on the human diet – specifically, the dominance of softer food only made possible through agriculture. This dietary change shaped the way our jaws ...
Learning The Lesson: Where Our Forefathers Drew The Line!
Post Date: 2019-03-10 12:43:15 by Deckard
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“Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.” -Benjamin Franklin How many times I have had to reiterate that “We the People” in this country are the government (Preamble to the US Constitution), and those who are to serve “We the People” “derive their just powers from the consent of the governed,” and that they do, in fact, work for YOU Americans, and not you for them!Americans, are you not sick and tired of being sick and tired concerning the scandals, the lies and watch as justice is left undone and crime runs rampant? Are you not tired of seeing repeat offenders that act like demi-gods, who live like they are above the laws, the laws that ...
Rainbow Farm: The domestic siege that time forgot
Post Date: 2019-03-10 00:07:39 by Deckard
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In 2001, two men were killed by the FBI at a farm in Michigan. Then, 9/11 happened.In September of 2001, the buildings burned, filling the bright blue sky with black smoke that could be seen for miles. Locals remember exactly where they were when it happened. When the ash settled, many were left in shock. To some, the razed site had been a symbol of freedom, liberty, and enterprise. To others, it had been a manifestation of vice, turpitude, and lawlessness. Either way, it seemed obvious that such an event would be covered and discussed from coast to coast. As a country, we’d eventually begin to truly examine the costs of an overly broad and ill-defined war.Then, about a week later, ...
Flashback: Google’s true origin partly lies in CIA and NSA research grants for mass surveillance
Post Date: 2019-03-08 05:28:15 by Deckard
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Quartz – by Jeff Nesbit, December 8, 2017Two decades ago, the US intelligence community worked closely with Silicon Valley in an effort to track citizens in cyberspace. And Google is at the heart of that origin story. Some of the research that led to Google’s ambitious creation was funded and coordinated by a research group established by the intelligence community to find ways to track individuals and groups online. The intelligence community hoped that the nation’s leading computer scientists could take non-classified information and user data, combine it with what would become known as the internet, and begin to create for-profit, commercial enterprises to suit ...
Gun Background Checks: How the State Came To Decide Who Can and Cannot Buy a Firearm
Post Date: 2019-03-08 05:21:28 by Deckard
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Ammo.com Prior to 1968, most adults in the United States could purchase a firearm without state interference. Guns were available in local retail stores, as well as mail-order catalogs, and as long as you hadn’t been convicted of a felony and you had the funds, there weren’t any questions asked. Things are different now. Depending on where in America you are and what type of gun you want to buy, there’s a good chance you’ll need to pass a NICS-mandated background check to complete your purchase. Although many people hold a strong opinion for and against gun background checks, they’ve proven to be an integral part of the ...
Food For Thought
Post Date: 2019-03-07 10:02:42 by Deckard
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