moonbase 99

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2011-03-17T22:50:00.000-07:00

Don't use the arrow in the middle of the player screen. Use the little one at bottom left and turn sound off until the commercial is over. Rest of the time it's silent and intermittently the monitor is taken off screen for some minutes to calibrate averages before being replaced. Please notify me if this sucker isn't working.

THIS LINK WILL BE OF MUCH USE TOO....

They say that anywhere between 5 to 100 on this puppy is okay, normal... I don't like anything above 5... also, this monitor is INSIDE and I've seen it spiking up into the 60s a bunch of times so far tonight... after only looking intermittently for a couple hours.

Basically, I don't know if you can trust this, but it's all we've got for now.

2011-01-17T08:58:00.000-08:00

2010-10-18T13:30:00.000-07:00

red ice radio player

2010-08-30T21:11:00.000-07:00

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all the parenti i've found so far

2010-06-20T02:03:00.000-07:00

On JFK [audio mp3s, half hour each] — — Part One ~~~ Part Two — — or as a YouTube playlist....

1988 lecture: second half of this mp3 and all of this mp3....

Raising Sand broadcast....

Watch the volume on this... Canadian kids interviewing Parenti....

Half hour, August 2008....

One hour, March 2009....

Recent interview on Diet Soap....

2010-03-16T23:02:00.000-07:00

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2010-03-05T21:04:00.001-08:00

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2010-02-22T15:08:00.001-08:00

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2010-02-15T16:29:00.001-08:00

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2010-02-09T23:12:00.001-08:00

PUT PLAINLY

YOU CAN'T ARGUE ANY OF THIS...

EVEN IF YOU WILL....

2010-01-25T18:56:00.000-08:00

2010-01-24T20:35:00.000-08:00

Link to the PDF of the chart used in the video... that may or not be going to work at some point....

2010-01-07T23:18:00.000-08:00

Pay particular attention to Rick Rowley at about minute 7:00 to 8:00 in Part One.

2010-01-06T23:19:00.000-08:00

2009-12-30T18:57:00.000-08:00

norman at penn state

2009-11-22T12:51:00.000-08:00

A little over two hours, including Q&A....

the beautiful minister farrakhan

2009-11-21T15:06:00.001-08:00

2009-11-14T19:28:00.000-08:00

big brother is you

2009-10-23T13:05:00.000-07:00

2009-10-21T17:24:00.000-07:00

2009-06-17T18:14:00.000-07:00

Here's some extensive coverage of just why my beloved Iranian friends should be rallying around your president.

darkness

2009-06-10T21:43:00.000-07:00

2009-06-05T23:17:00.001-07:00

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my neighbor

2009-03-29T13:49:00.000-07:00

Take out two hours for this, or at least scroll down below the videos to read.

PLEASE LISTEN VERY CAREFULLY TO THE FULL TWO HOURS. THERE ARE SOME EXCRUCIATINGLY URGENT POINTS IN THESE TWO HOURS. HE IS A VERY ENTERTAINING, AND PIERCINGLY REAL. DO THE WHOLE WORLD A FAVOR AND LISTEN TO HIM.

Or read his twenty premises at least:

Premise One: Civilization is not and can never be sustainable. This is especially true for industrial civilization. Premise Two: Traditional communities do not often voluntarily give up or sell the resources on which their communities are based until their communities have been destroyed. They also do not willingly allow their landbases to be damaged so that other resources — gold, oil, and so on — can be extracted. It follows that those who want the resources will do what they can to destroy traditional communities. Premise Three: Our way of living — industrial civilization — is based on, requires, and would collapse very quickly without persistent and widespread violence. Premise Four: Civilization is based on a clearly defined and widely accepted yet often unarticulated hierarchy. Violence done by those higher on the hierarchy to those lower is nearly always invisible, that is, unnoticed. When it is noticed, it is fully rationalized. Violence done by those lower on the hierarchy to those higher is unthinkable, and when it does occur is regarded with shock, horror, and the fetishization of the victims. Premise Five: The property of those higher on the hierarchy is more valuable than the lives of those below. It is acceptable for those above to increase the amount of property they control — in everyday language, to make money — by destroying or taking the lives of those below. This is called production. If those below damage the property of those above, those above may kill or otherwise destroy the lives of those below. This is called justice. Premise Six: Civilization is not redeemable. This culture will not undergo any sort of voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of living. If we do not put a halt to it, civilization will continue to immiserate the vast majority of humans and to degrade the planet until it (civilization, and probably the planet) collapses. The effects of this degradation will continue to harm humans and nonhumans for a very long time. Premise Seven: The longer we wait for civilization to crash — or the longer we wait before we ourselves bring it down — the messier will be the crash, and the worse things will be for those humans and nonhumans who live during it, and for those who come after. Premise Eight: The needs of the natural world are more important than the needs of the economic system. Another way to put premise Eight: Any economic or social system that does not benefit the natural communities on which it is based is unsustainable, immoral, and stupid. Sustainability, morality, and intelligence (as well as justice) requires the dismantling of any such economic or social system, or at the very least disallowing it from damaging your landbase. Premise Nine: Although there will clearly some day be far fewer humans than there are at present, there are many ways this reduction in population could occur (or be achieved, depending on the passivity or activity with which we choose to approach this transformation). Some of these ways would be characterized by extreme violence and privation: nuclear armageddon, for example, would reduce both population and consumption, yet do so horrifically; the same would be true for a continuation of overshoot, followed by crash. Other ways could be characterized by less violence. Given the current levels of violence by this culture against both humans and the natural world, however, it’s not possible to speak of reductions in population and consumption that do not involve violence and privation, not because the reductions themselves would necessarily involve violence, but because violence and privation have become the default. Yet some ways of reducing population and consumption, while still violent, would consist of decreasing the current levels of violence required, and caused by, the (often forced) movement of resources from the poor to the rich, and would of course be marked by a reduction in current violence against the natural world. Personally and collectively we may be able to both reduce the amount and soften the character of violence that occurs during this ongoing and perhaps longterm shift. Or we may not. But this much is certain: if we do not approach it actively — if we do not talk about our predicament and what we are going to do about it — the violence will almost undoubtedly be far more severe, the privation more extreme. Premise Ten: The culture as a whole and most of its members are insane. The culture is driven by a death urge, an urge to destroy life. Premise Eleven: From the beginning, this culture — civilization — has been a culture of occupation. Premise Twelve: There are no rich people in the world, and there are no poor people. There are just people. The rich may have lots of pieces of green paper that many pretend are worth something — or their presumed riches may be even more abstract: numbers on hard drives at banks — and the poor may not. These “rich” claim they own land, and the “poor” are often denied the right to make that same claim. A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of pieces of green paper. Those without the green papers generally buy into these delusions almost as quickly and completely as those with. These delusions carry with them extreme consequences in the real world. Premise Thirteen: Those in power rule by force, and the sooner we break ourselves of illusions to the contrary, the sooner we can at least begin to make reasonable decisions about whether, when, and how we are going to resist. Premise Fourteen: From birth on — and probably from conception, but I’m not sure how I’d make the case — we are individually and collectively enculturated to hate life, hate the natural world, hate the wild, hate wild animals, hate women, hate children, hate our bodies, hate and fear our emotions, hate ourselves. If we did not hate the world, we could not allow it to be destroyed before our eyes. If we did not hate ourselves, we could not allow our homes — and our bodies — to be poisoned. Premise Fifteen: Love does not imply pacifism. Premise Sixteen: The material world is primary. This does not mean that the spirit does not exist, nor that the material world is all there is. It means that spirit mixes with flesh. It means also that real world actions have real world consequences. It means we cannot rely on Jesus, Santa Claus, the Great Mother, or even the Easter Bunny to get us out of this mess. It means this mess really is a mess, and not just the movement of God’s eyebrows. It means we have to face this mess ourselves. It means that for the time we are here on Earth — whether or not we end up somewhere else after we die, and whether we are condemned or privileged to live here — the Earth is the point. It is primary. It is our home. It is everything. It is silly to think or act or be as though this world is not real and primary. It is silly and pathetic to not live our lives as though our lives are real. Premise Seventeen: It is a mistake (or more likely, denial) to base our decisions on whether actions arising from these will or won’t frighten fence-sitters, or the mass of Americans. Premise Eighteen: Our current sense of self is no more sustainable than our current use of energy or technology. Premise Nineteen: The culture’s problem lies above all in the belief that controlling and abusing the natural world is justifiable. Premise Twenty: Within this culture, economics — not community well-being, not morals, not ethics, not justice, not life itself — drives social decisions. Modification of Premise Twenty: Social decisions are determined primarily (and often exclusively) on the basis of whether these decisions will increase the monetary fortunes of the decision-makers and those they serve. Re-modification of Premise Twenty: Social decisions are determined primarily (and often exclusively) on the basis of whether these decisions will increase the power of the decision-makers and those they serve. Re-modification of Premise Twenty: Social decisions are founded primarily (and often exclusively) on the almost entirely unexamined belief that the decision-makers and those they serve are entitled to magnify their power and/or financial fortunes at the expense of those below. Re-modification of Premise Twenty: If you dig to the heart of it — if there were any heart left — you would find that social decisions are determined primarily on the basis of how well these decisions serve the ends of controlling or destroying wild nature.

The guy is WORTH your time.

2009-02-04T12:54:00.000-08:00

The lecture on the Gaza Extermination he gave instead of this one elsewhere....

2009-01-10T20:48:00.000-08:00

2008-12-23T15:12:00.000-08:00

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2008-10-10T22:21:00.000-07:00

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2008-10-09T03:54:00.001-07:00

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2008-07-18T21:24:00.000-07:00

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2008-07-12T20:53:00.000-07:00

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2008-07-04T18:07:00.000-07:00

Listen to Sy Hersh talk about covert ops in Iran....

2008-05-26T14:54:00.000-07:00

2008-05-25T16:06:00.001-07:00

poseidon

2008-04-27T01:01:00.001-07:00

perfect

2008-04-05T15:43:00.000-07:00

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,
And Mourners to and fro
Kept treading--treading--till it seemed
That Sense was breaking through--

And when they all were seated,
A Service, like a Drum--
Kept beating--beating--till I thought
My Mind was going numb--

And then I heard them lift a Box
And creak across my Soul
With those same Boots of Lead, again,
Then Space--began to toll,

As all the Heavens were a Bell,
And Being, but an Ear,
And I, and Silence, some strange Race
Wrecked, solitary, here--

And then a Plank in Reason, broke,
And I dropped down, and down--
And hit a World, at every plunge,
And Finished knowing--then--

-- Emily Dickinson

torture

2008-03-10T15:40:00.001-07:00

porcupine

2008-02-21T03:01:00.000-08:00

dodo

2008-02-17T18:35:00.001-08:00

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2008-02-16T17:32:00.001-08:00

[2 hours, 10 minutes]

dead kid

2008-01-22T19:36:00.000-08:00

They were comparing him to Marlon Brando and Sean Penn. The kid could act. I just saw him in "Candy" about junkies in love, and he managed to make that new, spiritual and new. It wasn't anything like you've ever seen before, and he just OD'd? This is awful... and I find it incredible.

what the bleep

2008-01-21T18:43:00.000-08:00

[1 hour and 20 minutes]

[1 hour and 10 minutes]

2008-01-18T12:40:00.000-08:00

I don't think people are remembering where we are.

2007-12-18T21:08:00.000-08:00

2007-12-15T23:40:00.000-08:00

2007-11-22T14:35:00.001-08:00

so we don't forget

2007-10-14T12:36:00.000-07:00

figuring it out

2007-09-17T20:32:00.001-07:00

2007-09-06T02:31:00.000-07:00

totality

2007-08-28T02:39:00.000-07:00

love from a dead hero

2007-08-24T22:47:00.001-07:00

two hours of 9/11 news clips ~~ lots of PERTINENT stuff

2007-08-16T23:18:00.000-07:00

5 minutes, with the clear shot of the "spire" evaporating, and demolitions explosions:

jfk to labor

2007-08-14T20:31:00.000-07:00

synapses

2007-08-12T20:41:00.000-07:00

earth

2007-08-12T20:36:00.000-07:00

adagio

2007-08-12T14:31:00.000-07:00

vincent van gogh

2007-08-12T02:22:00.000-07:00

deal with it

2007-08-08T18:55:00.001-07:00

michael parenti

2007-08-07T02:01:00.000-07:00

hour and a half
I really like this lecture because it shows the "dominant paradigm" for what it is, and it points out the murderous insanity of our insistence upon calling the right "stupid".

Really. Take a little field trip around the lefty blogs or liberal talk radio and a great deal of academia. They're like lightning when it comes to CALLING people stupid, or racist, or homophobic, or intolerant, or regressive. They're like boulders when it comes to REALIZING the true nature of the trouble we are in... the catastrophe in progress.

[Liked it so well I listened again. The pearl of the whole lecture is about liberals who disparage conservative policies as stupid, or failures. Why do they continue to do this, when time after time after time the story has been the same? They are staying within the dominant paradigm: They prefer to make a liberal complaint rather than a radical analysis.]

when it's catastrophe to you

2007-08-05T21:32:00.000-07:00

Spent a great deal of yesterday listening to Minnesota Public Radio on iTunes. I heard just about everything there is to hear as of now about the bridge collapse. One thing that really stuck was the statements from those who’d been involved in the tragedy. They were all reporting about how nobody got out and ran, nobody tried to seek safety before they had gone to the people in the cars around them to help them get out. At any moment, all your fellow motorists could instantly cease being assholes trying to kill you for a few yards’ advantage in the traffic and turn into your brothers and sisters making sure you are safe before they even know if they are safe. This is so. I’ve been in enough emergencies to know. And your skin color has NOTHING to do with whether you provide this help or receive it. Neither does your political party. When the chips are down, all living things matter more to us than what we think.

I have a friend who, ever since reading Childhood’s End (a science fiction novel about aliens who come and hover over Earth and subdue all our tyrannies by making clear their ability to annihilate us if we keep it up), can’t stop wishing for those aliens to show up. He looks to the sky and yells for them to hurry up. In the novel it turns out that these saviors of humanity are doing it for some nefarious reason or other (so that they could keep us as livestock, if I remember correctly) but not even this is enough to make him change his mind about wishing on the sky for the all-powerful aliens to fix this unholy mess. I try to convince him this is just colorful illustration of a determination to remain helpless. How could he prefer this to action? Does colorfully capitulating make the capitulation any less? Does it distract anyone from realizing your capitulation? Is that substantively different than the legions who decide to capitulate by avidly agreeing with the tyrants? I sure don’t think so.

It should be stated that Americans are acting just like Germans in the 1930s right now. We made them pay for that.

Wow, did we ever.

Bill Moyers had Clive James on the other night. I was happy to see James lauding the heroism of Sophie Scholl. As he pointed out, her heroism was possibly even more important than that of her compatriots in the White Rose, a German resistance group against the Nazis, because she could have avoided execution by renouncing the others, rejoining the enabling masses of German society. She would not. One very young lady understood that Germany was a bridge collapse and acted accordingly. If sufficiently more people had been unable to talk themselves out of the true nature of the emergency, Sophie would not have been executed, nor her compatriots. If any executing at all had to take place, it would have been Nazis beheaded instead.

Maybe it would be good for you to read their leaflets and contemplate how much better things would have been if the population had been awakened by their efforts.

You must know by now that Congress has extended wiretapping privileges to the administration, on top of the entirely too many other concessions against their oaths to the Constitution. What in the hell makes you believe this is any different than during the rise of Nazism in Germany? We have a million Iraqis dead already. Does calling the occupation a war confuse you? Is it that they aren't being rounded up to go die confusing you? What in the hell makes you think this is any different than the bridge collapsing in Minnesota? Is this all on too grand a scale for you? Is it only the clear and present danger of utter catastrophe that lets you SEE through your benighting conditioning? Do you think because you WRITE blog posts that dis the tyrants that you are helping your fellow motorists get to safety?

SNAP OUT OF IT... FOR CRAPSAKES SNAP OUT OF IT!

jack

2007-07-31T23:55:00.000-07:00

bobby junior

2007-07-09T07:37:00.000-07:00

Just the choice between fear and love....

2007-06-13T00:01:00.000-07:00