Are There Clearer Methods Than Self-Interest Available To World Leaders?

When altruism seems more feasible now that decades past retirement age, Señor Raul Castro announced he's stepping down from Havana's political pulpit in 2018? Theoretically marked our modern medieval era's lamest duck yet, apparently without even consulting The Pope? Yet elections, five years hence, seem a miracle, at best. But a cause for optimism? So, in order, to possibly obsess less over change, take note, that so far, Señor Castro seems a decent political evolution buffer, strike muse-ical accompaniment and The Miami Herald. 

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So there is hope self-interest isn't everything? 

When the same upsetting things are upsetting everywhere? 

Tailgating automobiles at speeds that reduce the aftermaths 

of accidents to rubble.

When the claim is at least made less Argentines suffer because professional salaries answer inflation? When every coin, of all the realms, function by that, excuse for a premise, while what little the poor have is worth less every day? 

What exactly can't we afford? Aren't there clearer methods of negotiating than countries competing militarily to leverage world attention? When this is just a criminal generation of grudges financing the world? People have to eat. So, to reduce the United States Department of Defense budget is hardly a kick in the sand overall, when the problem just might be certain people could use actual vacations from their purported unmentionable yokes and war games. 

So, maybe all we have is wherever Dennis Rodman tours, teaching basketball, there's hope this world's grudges recede and terrorism understood as just a dangerous and unfair hobby rather than noble adventure. When politicians of every stripe earn their salaries from whom they're responsible to. 

Yes. Its not true a positive outlook never hurts. But unless stale entanglements loosen there's no compromise. For example, redundant political speech using "the American people" for a crutch.

But that's where we are politically. Not one iota past President Theodore Roosevelt's adage, of his era, 'to walk softly and carry a big stick.' People can only patiently wait for the world to live at peace with itself and hope, as individuals, to not be indiscriminately in the way in the meantime. 

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Meanwhile an excellent essay accounting of the current economic  equation, as alluded to above, is Dependents of the State By AMIA SRINIVASAN that appeared in The New York Times,  Tuesday, February 26, 2013.

When GIVE PEACE A CHANCE
Couldn't Have Been Clearer?
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in NYC

 

WOW! HOW MUCH FREE SPEECH HAS RUSSIA WON?

     The New York Times headline, Moscow Court Finds Kasparov Not Guilty of Illegal Protest During Pussy Riot Trial, written by ILYA MOUZYKANTSKII and ROBERT MACKEY is as welcome an independent-ish announcement of a judicial decision out of Russia as, well, maybe, there ever was. Nothing greater so far? Even if there’s elitist imagery of lenience toward a World Chess Champion, still, it’s a step.

     The Times begins – MOSCOW – A judge here ruled on Friday that former chess champion Garry Kasparov was not guilty of participating in an unsanctioned political demonstration outside the courthouse where three women in the punk band Pussy Riot wereconvicted of hooliganism last week and sentenced to two years in prison.

The Times states – long active in opposition politics, Mr. Kasparov was arrested while giving interviews to journalists, in a crowd, outside the courthouse, anticipating the guilty verdict laid on the three women who staged The Anti-Putin demonstration inside the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in February.

     The Times continues that – This acquittal of Mr. Kasparov is a rare victory for a member of Russia’s political opposition. Rarer still the remarks fromJudge Ekaterina Veklich, who said she did not believe some of the police testimony in the case. “The facts recorded in the police report,” she said bluntly, “do not correspond to reality.” Because Mr. Kasparov was able to present contrary evidence. Oh please, oh please be a real body of legal responsibility for the Russian conscience. Please, oh noble judiciary?

     In an interview in the courtroom after the decision, Mr. Kasparov, 49, seemed stunned and exhilarated. “It’s like Christmas,” he said. One can imagine him beaming. “I’m still speechless,” The Times quotes he added. “But, I think this is quite a symbolic moment which may give hope to many of our activists who have been harassed by the police. The judge, for the first time in many years, refused to take police testimony as an absolute truth.”

     Ahead of the hearing, Mr. Kasparov had mined social media sites for photographs and video documenting his arrest. And according to The Times this is the police wrestling with Garry Kasparov inside the paddy van. Using information, Garry Kasparov argued the police report was inaccurate, pointing to video evidence which showed that he was not chanting “Russia without Putin,” at the time as the police claimed. And also produced a photograph of the original police report and time-stamped images of officers dragging him away that proved he was, in fact, arrested more than an hour before the time listed in the final police report.

     Garry Kasparov found – 754 images of my illegal arrest & beating by police.

     Before the verdict came in, Mr. Kasparov said he was gratified that the judge had accepted the video and photographic evidence submitted in his defense, instead of relying solely on the police report. He said the authorities were perhaps mindful of the fact that his arrest “had huge publicity, thanks to all the social networks and journalists,” who were present at the time. Yes, a hopeful verdict that could be read in the stars, so to speak. But here on earth? The sad news is, the question is, is everyone ready for peace that does not require manhandling anymore?

     After he was acquitted, Mr. Kasparov said the judge’s ruling offered some hope for opposition activists charged with illegal assembly. Having previously, said, noted The Times, “police officers always had immunity to provide false testimonies. Now the judge said, ‘No, they are contradicting each other.’ People who supported me, and, again, the journalists, who were so good in submitting all these video and photos today, I mean, they saved me today!”

     Under a toughened law intended to tamp down on unapproved political protests, a guilty verdict against Mr. Kasparov could have resulted in a fine of nearly $1,000, The Times calculates, then speculates – Despite Mr. Kasparov’s optimism, there is no reason to believe his case will change anything for other political opposition leaders, several of whom are under investigation or already facing prosecution. Unlike some prominent young opposition leaders, like anti-corruption blogger Aleksei Navalny, Mr. Kasparov is not viewed as posing any serious threat to the government. Then, too, he occupies a very different category in the public imagination than the brash performance artists of Pussy Riot. He is still revered as a national hero by Russians who deeply respect chess skills. Yet not enough respect to absorb his constituency within the country’s political process?

     The Times recites – Mr. Kasparov became the youngest world chess champion in history winning the title at age 22 in 1985. He retired from the game in 2005, and since then has been active in politics. He created an advocacy group called the United Civil Front, dedicated to promoting electoral democracy in Russia, and also a political union called theOther Russia, in opposition to President Vladimir V. Putin. In 2007, he briefly ran for president.

     Immediately after he was cleared on Friday, Mr. Kasparov said he hoped this ruling would also “help me to demolish the stupid case on biting.” Mr. Kasparov scuffled with police officers at the time of his arrest and has been accused of biting one of the officers on the hand. The incident remains under investigation and was not part of the case decided on Friday. Mr. Kasparov, who insists the biting allegation is false, said he intends to sue the police for illegal arrest, assault and slander. And really, why exactly are police handling protestors? That’s not keeping the peace, but holding it down.

     Outside the courtroom, Mr. Kasparov elaborated on the importance of the decision in remarks to reporters, which were translated into English and posted online by the Other Russia.

     Summed up by The Times – Mr. Kasparov said: I have a strange sensation, it’s hard to even find words for, because my lawyers, friends and I didn’t expect anything besides another typical guilty verdict. And when, over the course of so many years, all opposition activists have been inevitably convicted in courts like this, it’s hard to imagine that the day would come when the courts could provide us with legitimate consideration. Actually, today was very unusual, because from the very beginning, as opposed to many other previous similar cases, the judge agreed to allow motions by the defense.Moreover, all of the defense’s motions were accepted, including those that called witnesses to the stand and those that entered video and photographic material as evidence. Of course, this was a very, let’s say, unusual sign, but we didn’t understand that it would influence the final verdict so much. … The result was a full acquittal, and this is a very important step forward. I don’t intend to stop here; I want to have charges brought against the officers who illegally detained me. We’ve already filed the necessary paperwork with the investigative branch for the Khamovniki region. And I hope that this verdict will give us additional evidence so that my detention and beating will be given due consideration by investigators.

     There you go. If the lawyers don’t keep establishing precedent then just as a business dies that doesn’t grow, precedent is set judicial independdence will deteriorate. So let’s hear of more principled decisions in the courts. Because, for one thing, if you don’t find enough for lawyers to do, eventually they come looking for you. Smirk.

     The Times writer, Ilya Mouzykantskii, who reported from Moscow, concludes – It’s hard for me to say what sort of consequences today’s verdict is going to have for the Russian opposition on the whole. I even feel slightly guilty, because until now all of these verdicts have been guilty ones, and so many of my friends are still experiencing this pressure. We know that the widespread investigation of the May 6th events on Bolotnaya Square is still ongoing. But nevertheless, this is a very important step forward, and I’m going to do everything in my power to help those who need defense in these matters, because not everyone is so lucky to have their detentions and the police violence they experienced be covered so fully by the press.

     Yes, judicial justice from the top, for the top of the social strata, could one day trickle down?

President Putin?

8/27/2012

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WOW! HOW MUCH FREE SPEECH HAS RUSSIA WON?

8/27/2012 concluded:Yes, judicial justice from the top, for the top of the social strata, could one day trickle down?

President Putin?

March 27, 2020 - ? ?, 2020 

Narcissism's The Enemy?

     In the midst of possibly one of the worst calamities of our lifetimes, it's probably not just the President of the United States circling the wagons to protect a self and public image.

     There's an end of Dr. Strangelove aura about all of this. Anticipating who'll be receiving the vaccine first, once invented. 

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     Read UP COUNTRY by Nelson deMille, kind of a tourist/criminal investigation with honorable allusions to emotionally reconciling the destructive Vietnam War. 

     I do apologize for being away from essaying every weekday. I was focused on finishing a film submission for the Bicycle Film Festival. 

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Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Artists feel inspired to create murals for the former Charas/El Bohio Community Center

Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy 

    A group of local artists continues to paint a series of murals on the Ninth Street side of the former Charas/El Bohio Community Center here between Avenue B and Avenue C. 

    The artists include (above) Seth Tobocman ... Sabrina Jones...

...Jenny Gonzalez-Blitz...

... and Ariel Kleinberg ...

    The work, which started on March 5, comes before the landmarked building heads to a foreclosure auction tomorrow, Wednesday, March 22, at the Hilton New York Midtown Fifth Avenue. (There is a Facebook invite to "Stop the Auction.")

    Meanwhile, there's a petition in circulation titled, "Save Charas Community Center! Stop the Private Auction!" Per the petition, which states, "Demand Mayor Adams use eminent domain to return the center to the people!" You can find the petition here.

    "We are operating on the assumption that we will get the community center back, and we are using permanent material that will last," Tobocman said. 

    He was quick to note that the participating artists are not involved with the various political groups and their plans for tomorrow's auction. 

    "We are just artists inspired to paint, inspired by the art that was painted on the other [10th Street] side," Tobocman said. "Sabrina Jones had a studio in the building before it was evicted. Some of us taught art classes to kids there back in the 80s. We have a Wednesday deadline due to the auction." 

AND WHY DO IDIOTS STILL AIM AT PEDESTRIANS ON THE QUEENSBOROUGH BRIDGE MR. MAYOR? CHARAS' TURN 

The Tompkins Square PARK RIOT Manifested Elitist Misrule 

Paving Paradise’s Amphitheaters For Luxurious People Parking Lots

    The, premeditated, 1988 Tompkins Square Park Riot served various cornered interests’ illusions. Illuminated in that debilitating Park Event remaining a drama transparently illustrating Modern America’s Political, Psychobabble, Delusions.

    Parallel to today’s American Southwest Front. The United States’ Mexico Border is an emblematic billboard for Evacuation Mentalities. Demeaning our Southwestern Hemisphere’s Migrants as having no rights in their unnecessariness in being hereCenter of not solving circulating money within coercive, private and government, sectors. Creating nightmarish manipulations. Hiding from the responsibility for Mexicans being short of the opportunities to even fully house themselves behind their own border. A world, scapegoat-captivated into a drug war fueling a belief morality overrides everything.

    Contributing to an overabundance of Bad Drugs done through every socially networked imbalance possible. Ron and Nancy Reagan’s figure-heading the hooking of the country on cocaine. When Columbia could have been providing the world’s best marijuana all along. But Ronnie chased and the opportunities followed burrowing ourselves in the hopeless belief scalawags were defending justice when it was only their sincere belief in their worths being above everyone else. Elitists, pure and simple, run the world in the ground Capitalist. Socialist. Whatever game’s the town.

    Authorities demanding obedience to a collective rule, is why this country was founded to stop that from having a specifically damaging effect. Crime clearly has legally evolved aspects. In magic marker, folks, bottom line. Whitey perpetrated, goofing off, playing off, imagining ruling the moon too.

    In the case of The 1988 Tompkins Square Riot, everyone’s a blemished pawn. Peaceful Protestors manage protests peacefully. Police and protestors both, obviously infiltrated by unrest. For landlords, yearly rising tax rates buttress their ideally crawling under or on top of neighborhoods’ economic calculations. Known on Real Estate’s Battlefield Chart as the wedge-word gentrification. That neither side has political wiggle-room from at the convenient will of Government and Real Estate’s combined power. And State’s pragmatic attention to a top down economy exaggerating their own bottom line. If people were good with money the poor could pay to feed themselves.

    So as Mayor Adams was quoted, weeks back, on morning CBS Radio. New York has the “best hotel industry in the world.” Devastated, as everywhere else was, by a shocked middle class losing their home/retirement investments. Why Rent-To-Own isn’t considered a national Housing Industry standard is on someone(s).

    American-Issue Migrants, even at the south of our border’s home, are perpetually used, and stand as a self- housed border defiant entity. Their use as a strategy of pawning off blame is well documented. New York City’s Tompkins Square Park Riot was confusingly concealed within a riot of faceless participants. No matter the charges, or everyone’s martyrdoms. Notice OCCUPY Wall Street did not allow their being duped into Aggression’s Tactic that would would have meant the demeaning of everything the casual demonstration stood and stands for.

    Right, the Tompkins Square Park Riot is explained by focusing on the poor, wretched, homeless itching to fight? And why such a representation of a professional militaristic Police Force? Even before King Rudy ruled only he and his Henchmen knew, impossibly, everything?

    A lethargic pattern of ignoring community responsibility became a polished park. A destroyed amphitheater that contained so much more real history than anything anyone decides to ever destroy in New York City ever again. Even that pathetic charade to debilitate a neighborhood another generation around Madison Square Garden, is still nowhere near the embellished meaning in destroying a public free speech opportunity podium in Tompkins Square Park. The Tompkins Square Park Riot Bandshell should be returned to its proper place in Tompkins Square Park.

    I remember the encampment made around the Tompkins Square Park benches. Leveraged, but always under siege to a (Peace) police (Officer) force enforcing poverty’s menagerie vision that it is something they’d not gotten across as a border all on their own. Where charity’s something the poor are seen as not affording at their own cost. Because money lost touch with just enough? Not only The Financial Question. But managing money is the answer for everyone.

An Open Letter to NYC Mayor Eric Adams

RE: The CHARAS Cultural and Community Center and Public Vocational School

Dear Mayor Adams:

Regarding the decades-long stalemate over the reclamation of the CHARAS cultural and community center (formerly PS 64), you once said: “This nonsense has to stop, and once I am elected Mayor we will issue a building permit and move this project forward.” Now, following the property’s foreclosure, and pressure from the East Village community, you have indeed ordered substantial work onsite. But we wonder: Why now? To what end? And for whom?

    As you are aware, built in 1905 and recently designated a landmark, Public School 64 functioned until 1977 when it was shuttered for health reasons (asbestos, lead). Soon after, NYC leased the building to the CHARAS community arts and cultural organization until the late 90s when former Mayor Giuliani auctioned it, evicting the community center. It now appears that the building is back in the hands of the city. Meanwhile, a private auction of the building has been set for March 22, 2023! That’s right! A private auction of a “community use” space! We are opposed to selling our beloved community center which for decades was a place of positivity and enrichment in our community. We demand that it be made anew!

To that end, we address the following proposal to you regarding the building’s future: We ask that as Mayor you reclaim the site through your powers of eminent domain as a “hybrid” public vocational school and cultural and community center to provide a wide range of training opportunities including; computer coding, construction trades, ESL and literacy, nursing, pre-law, public school teacher training, training in the arts, in aviation, and programs for differently abled and neurodivergent individuals, as well as programs for migrants recently arrived in our city.

Utilizing the buildings’ ample 135,000 square foot space, the Community also envisions CHARAS once again serving the neighborhood as a cultural and community center, comprised of various “walk-in” social services (employment, food, housing and health), along with after-school and evening programs such as theater and film, tutoring, GED classes, harm reduction services, rehearsal space, dance classes, artists’ work space, children’s theater, and activists meeting space, with a portion of the ground floor housing the Armando Perez Community Auditorium.

After decades of determined opposition to the destruction of our community center, it is clear that our Lower East Side community wants CHARAS to once again become a beacon of light and hope after sitting so long in disrepair. We can make it a green space, a state of the art facility using renewable energy (solar and wind power), a green roof for urban farming, carbon capturing technology, and composting and recycling programs. The top two floors of the building can serve as a school for ecology, preparing our youth for careers in sustainability and tackling climate change.

Mayor Adams, we hope you are as inspired with this vision as we are! We call on you to reclaim the building through your powers of eminent domain and then transfer it to the NYC Department of Education (DOE). The New York City School Construction Authority
(SCA) can “green” renovate and upgrade the building. The SCA, charged with keeping NYC public schools safe, attractive, and environmentally sound, maintains hundreds of historic school buildings, and designs, constructs and renovates capital projects in over 1,400 public school buildings, (half of which were constructed before 1949) and is therefore the ideal means by which to reclaim CHARAS.

Your appointee, (interests purposely conflicted?) David Banks, NYC DOE Chancellor, is Chair of SCA’s Board of Trustees . The DOE currently offers Career and Technical Education connecting students to a wide range of career pathways. Furthermore, Public Art for Public Schools, the country’s only public art education program, maintains nearly 2000 existing artworks in the NYC DOE’s collection and provides schools with art to enhance the learning environment and inspire students. How great it would be to offer vocational training in the arts as part of its mission, and to facilitate the participation of East Village neighborhood artists in the project!

The CHARAS Community and Cultural Center and Public Vocational School is a visionary project. But we also believe that it is a realistic means of reclaiming the site as a “city-wide” center of social and educational activity consistent with your recently announced “Apprenticeship Accelerator” initiative. And it’s a vision consistent with the legacy of the former CHARAS, supporting our sisters and brothers striving for a better future, offering hope to the under-served in our community in need of attainable, accessible and affordable vocational training.

Thank you Mayor Adams for considering our proposal.

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FAKE CELEBRITY FOR fake Mayor SO IDIOCY WELL DEFINED - - - Ron Kuby faced the idiot for years on local NYC Radio. 

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The Guardian Angels' founder and leader, Curtis Sliwa, has admitted that six of his group's early crime-fighting exploits were actually faked and former and present associates contend that even more of the group's activities were publicity stunts. Derogatory _sshole.

GUARDIAN ANGELS: AN ASSESSMENT OF CITIZEN RESPONSE TO CRIME VOLUME II TECHNICAL REPORT October 1985 San Diego ASSOCIATION OF GOVERNMENTS 1200 Third Avenue Suite 524 Security Pacific Plaza San Diego, California 92101 (619) 236-5383 Susan Pennell Christine Curtis Joel Henderson, Ph.D. Prepared for the U.S. Department of Justice National Institute of Justice

FAKE Guzzling up Oil-Spilling GAZILLIONAIRES Sliwa and Giuliani raised to cover up ANYTHING !!!

Stunts, Cats and Crime: Curtis Sliwa’s Colorful Run for NYC Mayor - BLOOMBERG

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I delivered to 100 GOLD for years in the two thousand oughts. What's going on? Housing luxury, killing New York City?

    The property that developer Gregg Singer purchased during a city auction in 1998 for $3.15 million fell into foreclosure last year. Through the years, Singer wanted to turn the one-time P.S. 64 into a dorm (more here), though those plans never materialized. Some residents want to see the space used again as a community center, as it was during its time as Charas/El Bohio Community Center. Singer evicted the group on Dec. 27, 2001.  

AMERICAN POLITICS, ART ACTIVISM, INTERVIEWS, UNDERGROUND COMIX

35 YEARS OF WORLD WAR 3 – AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

FEBRUARY 22, 2014 ADASTRACOMIX 2 COMMENTS

It’s been thirty-five years of World War 3. 

As momentous as it sounds, no one could have known in 1979 that this self-published periodical based in New York City would become the longest-running anthology of political comics in the world–at least, that we’ve been able to find. Doonesbury

    And gist is just a mockery how history is twisted not to mean the reality of war and violence existing from the financial profit. Figure the CHARAS location on Ninth Street, backed by the Tenth Street Side location, should be considered the complex in its' entirety because REAL ESTATE already owns its' stake in The East Village. And stood idly awaiting their own way that's exactly like the idea of demolishing the more than adequate Madison Square Garden to build an entertainment complex to highlight the dismal results of Real Estate not developing around the GARDEN, MR. KNICKS, CLYDE THE DRIVE, was reduced to years, now closed, on far away Tenth at 47th. The cab driven luxury elite probably no longer enticible? As HONKY'S done throughout racist history scapegoating everything. 

    World War 3's meaning was/is the illusion that the Nationalist Fabrications only muddle the public's awareness of why countries need to be defended, since altering our Middle Ages' Arrangements should have ended over these last centuries. But no. The Military Industrial Complex can't legitimate the reason for stockpiling weapons. So Media colors media hysterically in having common sense laughed down in THE US HOUSE OF McCarthy Cultural Court Jesters. So there's been a dance through history through NOW. That includes itinerant Russian Generals pretending someone could actually be fully in charge of such ridiculous madness. Crimea should be run by Crimeans, and not whoever was planted to kill them whenever. Partly why Zelenskyy smiles, the broad comedian smile, touring the world for money. Money that the shell shocked Chinese will throw anywhere just to not face that their Slave Labor Force should have evolved by selling themselves their own products. While the elite rewarded themselves czar-driven success unable to grow up as America was also deformed. HOPEFULLY NO GOD DAMNED MORE. 

A Revived CHARAS revives all of New York City's Village Hope

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Some faces (if ever?) seen in The East Village, distinctly 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇 shine PUPPET. 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

    IMPEACH GERALDO! Kurt Vonnegut DETESTS you. Nonsense. https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL9776726A/Charles_M._Fraser In LITERATURE it's not news there's reasons Vonnegut is publicly recognized hating that man pictured. Geraldo Rivera. Him and his idiot reasoning no doubt. Whoopi, more words for the DAMNED Honky? !!! Wrote on The View page. THIS POST then REMINDED 23 hours left suspended. Though told what I see isn't what people are getting. OPEN FORUM deemed not worthwhile by hierarchical wisdom that's led through war after hysterical skirmish blamed on the other Guy unwilling to be told what to do most likely.  - - - The official news site of the College of Charleston. More than 50 years after its release, Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five (aka The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death) is not only still relevant: It’s inspirational.

    Kurt says your move dirtbag Geraldo and Scum Dump Trump. 

I and Ron Kuby defend Leonard Lopate to the New York City Audience too. Celebrity shouldn't be two full strikes against anyone. Especially accused by idiots in The National Enquirer Conspiracy. Leonard Lopate-At-Large on WBAI.

PEACE EYE BOOKSTORE 

Fug You traces the flowering years of New York's downtown bohemia in the sixties, starting with the marketing problems presented by publishing Fuck You / A Magazine of the Arts, as it faced the aboveground's scrutiny, and leading to Sanders's arrest after a raid on his Peace Eye Bookstore. The memoir also traces the career of the Fugs -- formed in 1964 by Sanders and his neighbor, the legendary Tuli Kupferberg (called "the world's oldest living hippie" by Allen Ginsberg) -- as Sanders strives to find a home for this famous postmodern, innovative anarcho-folk-rock band in the world of record labels. Bernard Stollman, the founder of ESP-Disk, in 2009.

    Bernard Stollman, whose staunchly independent record label, ESP-Disk, provided an indispensable chronicle of the free jazz of the 1960s, and a series of provocations from the psychedelic counterculture. London's First Happening provider brother Steve ... "Yeah, you heard huh?" About the disgruntlement everyone felt knowing what Kerouac knew and Ginsberg set Kerouac commercially culturally free in degrees. "I was traveling the country(!) too." And I saw his eyes go slightly up seeing the dawn of Simon and Garfunkel's waking AMERICA up.

    Steve and I talked upstairs at 49 East Houston and Ed Sanders made a few shekels describing why culturally the Establishment wasn't facing anything. Accepting that to hide and speak up, and accept cultural mockery from the fools, is completely facing those bastards self-perpetuating enjoyed, defenseless, miseries. 

FUCK YOU, hippies RULE too.

    And Supreme Court Justices Are Cast Defending the right to words and the American Republic's responsibility is to actually listen and not reinterpret jargon as just among friends designed to eliminate more noble competition. Wrote yourselves into history, idiots. These two women could be both president and on the court and do more than you hypocrites have undone for more than a century of amusing yourselves and charging everyone else because LIARS willingly accept anything. 

CIA Man

• TIM SHORROCK
• AUGUST 7, 2010
• INTELLIGENCE, MUSIC

The CIA, Tuli Kupferberg and Me

CIA Man, written by the late, great Tuli Kupferberg, is one of the Fugs‘ oldest songs. I first heard it live at the Harry Smith Memorial Concert in DC produced by the Smithsonian Institution about ten years ago (I think that’s the version I’ve linked to here.)  To my delight, I recently discovered that “CIA Man” plays at the end of the Coen Brothers’ movie Burn After Reading. It’s worth it to see the movie just to hear the song. FANS PAY RESPECTS 

 Ed Sanders' History Class

Where Americans Stood Tall 

at 4:47

CHURCH PRESENTATION 

on the Nature of Sacrifice 

for the American Flag and our country's honor."Abbie Hoffman, the Jim Thorpe of Social Action."  "Jim Fouratt and Abbie throw money on the floor of the Stock Exchange."28:00 "Out demons out at the Pentagon."