By Paul Craig Roberts
16/07/08 “ICH” — - National Public Radio has been spending much news time on Darfur in Western Sudan where a great deal of human suffering and death are occurring. The military conflict has been brought on in part by climate change, according to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Drought is forcing nomads in search of water into areas occupied by other claimants. No doubt the conflict is tribal and racial as well. The entire catastrophe is overseen by a government with few resources other than bullets.
Now an International Criminal Court prosecutor wants to bring charges against Sudan’s president, Omar al-Bashir, for crimes against humanity and war crimes.
I have no sympathy for people who make others suffer. Nevertheless, I wonder at the International Criminal Court’s pick from the assortment of war criminals? Why al-Bashir
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Tagged absurdity, current events, politics, terrorism, war crimes | Have your say » | 07.16.2008 at 5:38 pm
Can - Mother Sky
Neu! - Spitzenqualität
Tangerine Dream - Sunrise In The Third System
Tangerine Dream - Ultima Thule Pt.1
Neu! - Für Immer
Ash Ra Tempel - Deep Distance
Michael Hoenig - Sun & Moon
Michael Rother - Feurland
Cluster - Sowieso
Can - Oh Yeah
Kraftwerk - Space Lab
David Bowie - V2 Schneider
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
Ash Ra Tempel - Sun Rain
Klaus Schulze - Dune
* selections by Klangfeld, 7-9pm wed 4/6/08 on Fleet FM
If you’ve ever wanted to know the roots of electronic music then check this out. I mean, that’s not to say this show is all about electronic music or even the beginning of it all but in the late 60s & early 70s Germany, along with Jamaica was taking the lead in freaking out sound, pushing the existing instruments & arriving just in time to exploit the world’s earliest synth keyboards.
Fueled by cosmic passion & excellent drugs Komische Musik, Krautrock, German prog rock, had arrived.
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Tagged radio shows, ambient, krautrock, prog, psychedellic, synth | 2 Comments » | 06.09.2008 at 11:24 pm
By Robert Scheer
02/06/08 —- This Op-Ed was originally published in The Los Angeles Times.
What should be the most important issue in this election is one that is rarely, if ever, addressed: Why is U.S. military spending at the highest point, in inflation-adjusted dollars, than at any time since the end of World War II? Why, without a sophisticated military opponent in sight, is the United States spending trillions of dollars on the development of high-tech weapons systems that lost their purpose with the collapse of the Soviet Union two decades ago?
You wouldn’t know it from the most-exhausting-ever presidential primary campaigns, but the 2009 defense budget commits the United States to spending more (again, in real dollars) to defeat a ragtag band of terrorists than it spent at the height of the Cold War fighting the Soviet superpower and what we alleged were its surrogates in the Korean and Vietnam wars.
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Tagged current events, capitalism, new world order, news | Have your say » | 06.08.2008 at 2:30 pm
CTI - Core
Carter Tutti - Sudden Dreaming
Paul Schutze - An Early Mutation
Col Paul Tibbets: reflection on his atomic attack on Hiroshima
Paul Schutze - Hallucinations (In Memory of Renaldo Arenas)
Dif Juz - The Last Day
Robin Guthrie - Continental
Avotor - Let Them Try
Coil - Who’ll Fall?
Boards of Canada - Colour of Fire
Flying Saucer Attack - the Sea
Once Dreamt - Birds
Our Sleepless Forest - Nomads
Bibio - London Planes
Space Burglar - Alt Country
Einsturzende Neubauten - Perpetuum Mobile
Coil - Where Are You
Kammarheit - Rest After Toil, Port After Stormy Seas
Final - We Glowed
Zoviet France - Drive
Wieland Samolak - Steady State Music: 2
Zoviet France - Monomisch: 9
* selections by Klangfeld, 7-9pm wed 7/5/08 on Fleet FM
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Tagged radio shows, ambient, drone, exotica, pastoral | Have your say » | 05.10.2008 at 4:15 am
I have to share this one, it’s priceless!!
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Pastor John Hagee
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.. But then it started. Wails and cries from the audience. To my left, a young black man started writhing around in his seat. In front of me and to my right, another young black man with Coke-bottle glasses and a shock of nerdly jheri curl — a dead ringer for a young Wayne Williams — started wailing and clutching his head.
“In the name of Jesus,” continued Fortenberry, “I cast out the demon of astrology!”
Coughing and spitting noises. Behind me, a bald white man started to wheeze and gurgle, like he was about to puke. Fortenberry, still reading from his list, pointed at the man. On cue, a pair of life coaches raced over to him and began to minister. One dabbed his forehead with oil and fiercely clutched his cranium; the other held a paper bag in front of his mouth ..
Tagged absurdity, armageddon, religion | Have your say » | 05.05.2008 at 7:43 pm
