Arcade Fire & U2 - Love Will Tear Us Apart

arcade fire and bowie - wake up

Alanis Morissette: You Oughta Know (Grammy's)

I couldn't help myself. This brought back some memories.

Natalie Merchant - Carnival

10.000 maniacs: my mother the war

Noam Chomsky - CBC Newshour

Tom Waits - Hold On

Tom Waits - I Don't Want To Grow Up

Tom Waits - Misery's the River of the World, Alice

THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED

THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED DIRECTED AND PHOTOGRAPHED BY KIM BARTLEY AND DONNACHA O'BRIAIN IRELAND, 2003 74 MINUTES IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES HUGO CHAVEZ ELECTED PRESIDENT OF VENEZUELA IN 1998, IS A COLORFUL, UNPREDICTABLE FOLK HERO, beloved by his nation's working class and a tough-as-nails, quixotic opponent to the power structure that would see him deposed. Two independent filmmakers were inside the presidential palace on April 11, 2002, when he was forcibly removed from office. They were also present 48 hours later when, remarkably, he returned to power amid cheering aides. Their film records what was probably history's shortest-lived coup d'état. It's a unique document about political muscle and an extraordinary portrait of the man The Wall Street Journal credits with making Venezuela "Washington‚s biggest Latin American headache after the old standby, Cuba."

Chomsky: My Dinner with Hassan

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From the very good Open Source radio.

Sam Harris at Idea City '05

Critical philosopher Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason, offers a cogent outline of the dangers inherrent within the ID movement. While the portion of the presentation that he actually discusses the ID movement is brief, maybe 4 minutes or so, he is frighteningly concise and articulate in pointing out the dire ramifications that that this movement has had on both the classroom environment and across the gross politcal spectrum.

September 11th: Tough Day, Great Opportunity!

Nick Cave - The Weeping Song

Nick Cave- into my arms

Arcade fire

Leonard Cohen I'm Your Man Theatrical Trailer

Man, do I ever want to see this.

Neko Case - Maybe Sparrow (Letterman)

Neko Case - Furnace Room Lullabye

Be Good Tanyas

Joseph Arthur - Redemption's Son

Strangely Appealing

Joseph Arthur - Smile that Explodes

War Quotes

'This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.'

~Plato

'Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man has a right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has quarrel with mine, although I have none with him?'

~Blaise Pascal

'Force always attracts men of low morality.'

~Albert Einstein

'Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.'

~Albert Einstein

'What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.'

~Leo Tolstoy

'The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.'

~Leo Tolstoy

'We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening...'

~Leo Tolstoy

'In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.'

~Leo Tolstoy

'Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule – and both commonly succeed, and are right.'

~H.L. Mencken

'The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.'

~H. L. Mencken

'Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.'

~Sir Peter Ustinov

'The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.'

~Marie Beyle

'Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with...'

~Gerard K. O'Neill

'War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.'

~General Smedley Butler

'After every ''victory'' you have more enemies.'

~Jeanette Winterson

'Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.'

~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

'The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.'

~Tacitus

'I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.'

~Thucydides

'It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.'

~Albert Camus

'Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.'

~Noam Chomsky

'War is the unfolding of miscalculations.'

~Barbara Tuchman

'Dulce bellum inexpertis (War is delightful to the inexperienced).'

~Erasmus

'War is not a word, it's an acronym for "Wasting Another's Resources."'

~Ramman Kenoun

'A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over...is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.'

~G. K. Chesterton

'Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.'

~George Washington

(Stolen from here, where there are many more.)

http://antiwar.com/quotes.php

The Root of All Evil? Part I (Richard Dawkins)

War News Radio

http://warnewsradio.org/

War News Radio

"War News Radio is a production of Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA. Our weekly, 29-minute program is currently carried on numerous radio stations worldwide and is available for free public broadcast."

Robert Newman History of oil

The World According To Bush

The World According To Bush 2004

From a Wired interview with Stephen Colbert.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.08/colbert.html

Be an Expert on Anything

PICK A FIELD THAT CAN'T BE VERIFIED. Try something like string theory or God’s will: “I speak to God. I’m sorry that you can’t also.” Security experts are in this category: They have security clearances, we don’t. We can’t question the expertise of the NSA because we are not in the NSA.

CHOOSE A SUBJECT THAT'S ACTUALLY SECRET. Dan Brown invented a secret subject for The Da Vinci Code, so now he is forever an expert on this secret subject that no one can challenge. Anybody who attacks the secret subject is, by definition, part of the cabal.

GET YOUR OWN ENTRY IN AN ENCYCLOPEDIA. In the media age, everybody was famous for 15 minutes. In the Wikipedia age, everybody can be an expert in five minutes. Special bonus: You can edit your own entry to make yourself seem even smarter.

USE THE WORD ZEITGEIST AS OFTEN AS POSSIBLE. Ideally, you want to find words that sound familiar but people don’t really know their definitions: zeitgeist, bildungsroman, doppelgänger – better yet, anything Latin. But avoid paradigm. It’s so 1994. If you say the word paradigm, everybody knows you’re a poser.

BE SURE TO USE LOTS OF ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS. Someone who says the words operations security may be educated, but the person who uses the military abbreviation Opsec is clearly an expert. If I use the term Gitmo, that means I’ve actually been there. If you say, “We’re going to Defcon 1,” it means you probably have the launch codes. Real experts don’t have time for extra syllables.

SPEAK FROM THE BALLS, NOT FROM THE DIAPHRAGM. In the expert game, you’ve got to have sack. That means speaking with confidence. In America, you’ve got to steer clear of nuance and ambivalence – and don’t even contemplate doubt.

DON'T BE AFRAID TO MAKE THINGS UP. Never fear being exposed as a fraud. Experts make things up all the time. They’re qualified to.

DON'T LIMIT YOURSELF TO CURRENT KNOWLEDGE. If you worry too much about being up-to-date, you miss out on vast territories of obsolete knowledge just waiting to be reclaimed. Think of leech-craft and all the lonely experts in the use of the little creatures, which are now experiencing a renaissance in health care.

GET AN HONORARY PHD. They work wonders. I have a doctorate in fine arts from Knox College in Illinois. All I did was give a speech, and now everybody has to call me Dr. Colbert.

MAKE A HABIT OF NAME-DROPPING. Say things like “I was talking to John Hockenberry yesterday for my story in Wired. Have you seen my cover?” I plan to use this issue of Wired to assert that I now know everything about wires.

BE FAMOUS. IT HELPS.

The Spin

City of God

'Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.'

~A pirate, from St. Augustine's "City of God"

54-40 I Go Blind

Andrew Bird - Measuring Cups Live

Andrew Bird, Live!