freakpowertix

TODAY'S PROGRAM IS NOW POSTED FIRST IN MY BUZZNET PLAYLIST!!!  (IN 2 PARTS)

the freak power ticket - monday, january 22nd, 2007

*** - denotes new releases

1) alice donut  - "demonologist" dry humping the cash cow (alternative tentacles)

2) julie london - "cry me a river" v for vendetta (original motion picture soundtrack)  (astralwerks/emd)  (music bed for voice over)

3) *** agent ribbons - "birds and bees"  on time travel and romance (self-released)



4) *** oso "G8 breakdown"  lonesome tunnel hum these strong arm drones (self-released)



5) *** anton barbeau - "the bane of your existence is my name" in the village of the apple sun (four way records)

6) *** anton barbeau - "seeds of space"  in the village of the apple sun (four way records)  (music bed for voice over)



7) *** robyn hitchcock & the venus 3 - "olé! tarantula"  olé! tarantula (yep roc records)

8) pilot scott tracy - "run run run" we cut loose! (alternative tentacles records)

9) tamar kali - "boot"  geechee goddess hardcore warrior soul (oya warrior records)




10)  the bouncing souls - "hopeless romantic" (epitaph records)

11) the haints - "zombie crush"  (an unreleased version of an old groovie ghoulies song, from the haints myspace page -- the haints are a ghoulies side-project)

12) gary glitter - "do you wanna touch me? (oh yeah!) rock and roll: gary glitter greatest hits (rhino records/bell records)

13) jello biafra & the melvins - "halo of flies"  sieg howdy! (alternative tentacles)  (cover of an alice cooper song)

14) neil young (with johnny depp) - theme to "dead man" (a film by jim jarmusch) (unreleased; words by william blake) (music bed for playlist recap)

15) *** anton barbeau - "when i was 46 in the year 13" in the village of the apple sun (four way records)



16) peter gabriel - "the feeling begins" passion: music from the last temptation [of christ] (geffen) (music bed for show outro)

January 20/21 2007
First Bomb Carter; Then Nuke Iran!
The Israel Lobby Trips and Tilts

[from CounterPunch]

By ALEXANDER COCKBURN

Suppose the movers and shakers in the Israel lobby here -- Abe Foxman, Alan Dershowitz and the rest of the crew -- had simply decided to leave Jimmy Carter’s Palestine Peace Not Apartheid alone. How long before the book would have been gathering dust on the remainder shelves? Suppose even that Dershowitz had rounded up his unacknowledged co-authors in all their tens of thousands and sallied forth to buy up every copy of Carter’s book and toss each one into the Charles River, would not that have been a more successful suppressor than the blitzkrieg strategy they did adopt?



Of course it would. For weeks now the lobby has hurled its legions into battle against Carter. He has been stigmatized as an anti-Semite, a Holocaust denier, a patron of former concentration camp killers, a Christian madman, a pawn of the Arabs who “flatly condones mass murder” of Israeli Jews. (This last was from Murdoch’s New York Post editorial, relayed to its mailing list by the Zionist Organization of America.)

Any day now I expect some janitors at the Carter Center to resign, declaring that they can no longer in all conscience mop bathrooms that might have been used by the former President, their letter of protest duly front-paged by the New York Times, just like the famous fourteen members of the Carter Center’s Board of Councilors. Actually there were, at the time of resignations, 224 people on this board, where membership is mostly a thank you for a financial donation to the center. So the headlines could be saying, “Nearly 95 per cent of Carter Center Board Members Back Former President.”

But the assault on Carter is all to no avail. With each gust of abuse, Carter’s book soars higher and higher on the bestseller lists, reaching number 4 on Amazon itself. This doesn’t prove the lobby has no power. It proves the lobby can be dumb. Adroit lobbying consists in preventing unpleasing material reaching the light of day. Lobbying thrives in furtive darkness: slipping language into a bill at the last moment, threatening to back a campaign opponent, making quiet phone calls to the Polish embassy. Pressure is now being exerted on Farrar, Straus and Giroux to abandon its impending publication of Mearsheimer and Walt’s attack on the lobby.

The Israel lobby retains its grip inside the Beltway, but it’s starting to lose its hold on the broader public debate. Why? You can’t brutalize the Palestinian people in the full light of day, decade after decade, without claims that Israel is a light among the nations getting more than a few serious dents. In the old days, Mearsheimer and Walt’s tract would have been deep-sixed by the University of Chicago and the Kennedy School long before it reached its final draft, and Farrar, Straus and Giroux wouldn’t have considered offering a six-figure advance for it. Simon & Schuster would have told President Carter that his manuscript had run into insurmountable objections from a distinguished board of internal reviewers. But once a book by a former president with weighty humanitarian credentials makes it into bookstores, it’s hard to shoot it down with volleys of wild abuse.

The trouble with the lobby and the Christian zealots who act as its echo chamber is that they believe their own propaganda about Israel’s equitable social arrangements and immaculate political and legal record in its relations with the Palestinians. Use the word apartheid and they howl with indignation. The shock is about thirty years out of date. Israeli writers have used the word apartheid to describe arrangements in the occupied territories for years. Hundreds of prominent South African Jews issued a statement six years ago making the same link.

As in so many things, conventional elite opinion lives in a bubble, believing mere assertion and ranting about anti-Semitism will carry the day. The New York Times featured a spectacularly disingenuous hatchet job by its deputy foreign editor, Ethan Bronner, and another assault by former Clinton-era Middle East negotiator Dennis Ross. The latter rolled out the ritual accusations about Arafat’s rejection of Clinton’s proposals in December 2000, which is nonsense, as Ross surely knows. Clinton himself acknowledged in 2001 what later historians have substantiated, that both sides accepted his proposals in principle, while filing reservations. (Israel’s amounted to 20 single-spaced pages.)

The Times’ attacks were matched in the Washington Post by Jeffrey Goldberg, formerly of the IDF and a notorious trafficker in fictions, such as the supposed terror ties between Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. Amazon ran his vulgar ravings under the “Editorial Reviews” heading—a space usually reserved for short blurbs from Publishers Weekly and the like.

But if the lobby is fighting rearguard and increasingly futile actions to suppress all discussion here of what Israel is doing to Palestinians, it continues to exercise very serious clout in such enclaves of timidity as the U.S. Congress. Bush was not foolish in singling out Iran for threats in his January 10 address. The Democratic reaction to Bush’s escalation against Iraq and Iran has mostly been confined to nervous talk of “symbolic votes.” This temperate posture is surely not unconnected to the fact that the lobby’s prime foreign policy task, joined by Israeli hawks like Bibi Netanyahu, has been to rally support for an assault on Iran.

What an irony! Desperate for an end to the war, the voters hand Congress to the Democrats. Barely more than two months later Bush is kidnapping Iranian diplomats from in their consulate in Irbil, Iraq -- a calculated provocation arousing scant tumult here. Bush is also deploying a larger naval force to the Persian Gulf, as Israel plants stories about its possible recourse to nuclear weapons. Some provocation, maybe a seizure by the U.S. of an Iranian tanker, is easy to imagine in February. In the Congress, there’s barely a whimper out of the Democrats amid these terrifying prospects. It may have made a mess of its war against Carter’s book, but as a ferryman across the Styx toward Armageddon the lobby is doing a competent job.

there's a chance i may get to meet writer/animator/director mike judge tonight.



frickin' Office Space!!!!



we shall see...

:)

my amazingly-talented cartoonist friend molly recently joined buzznet! it's so cool!

            


she goes by "mollycules." molly is the artist i blogged about last night.




tell her i sentcha! it'll be worth it, i can guarantee it!



werd.

freakay pantalones

i just ate a pb&j sammich & it tastered sorta funny.

just looked inside the strawberry preserves jar & it turned out to be mouldy.

do y'all think i'm gonna hallucinate now?!?

(um... please, god...)