November 30, 2020

France proposed security law on publishing police brutality

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source: https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/28/europe/france-protests-security-law-intl/index.html
related: https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/24/europe/france-freedom-of-press-law-police-images-controversy-intl/index.html
related: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/26/world/europe/Paris-police-beating-video.html
photo: Getty Images

French President Macron is pushing for a new law prohibiting photo-video recording of police in public.  It is retaliation against political free speech and street demonstrations precipitated from the Yellow Vest protests.

Macron endorses this new law, yet to be finalized by the French Senate, saying "... images that bring shame upon us."  This was just before decrying the shocking video of a police street beating of a black resident in Paris.

'Macron has made similar requests at least twice this year already.'

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Such important news is literally buried or not reported at all by American news publications.  Our own First Amendment rights and our right to publish public events is not endangered yet.  But, beware that France is our best mirrored reflection of our own troubled democratic society.

October 21, 2020

Republican Voters: Are You Normal? Well then, you better take the test

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Being normal is our life goal. Figuring out if everyone else is normal is just as important.

A tip of the hat to other DU citizens asking the same question:

hatrack: "Normal" Is The Problem: So Is Its Bastard Spawn "The New Normal"
babylonsister: How Many Ways to Say This Is Not Normal?
MoonRiver: Chump has no clue about the normal range of human emotions
erronis: Repeat After Me, "It Will Never Be 'Normal' Again."
Floyd R. Turbo: Quiz: How Normal Are You?
Soph0571: These millions of abnormally normal people
kentuck: Who is to say what is "normal"?
kpete: ":We are all walking contradictions of what "normal" looks like"
Miles Archer: Litmus test...how "normal" is this?
SpartanDem: Where are the normal Christians?

{rumor control: We are not born normal, it's an acquired taste.)

October 21, 2020

Candace Owens Says 50 Cent Endorsing Trump...'He's Smart, and You're Not'

Candace Owens Says 50 Cent Endorsing Trump is Not Betraying Black America: 'He's Smart, and You're Not'

source: NEWSWEEK
https://www.newsweek.com/50-cent-tax-candace-owens-joe-biden-donald-trump-1540516

If there is one ultimate measure of being American it is how much money you have. Race, religion, humanity and intellectual capacity are irrelevant. If you have more money you should keep all that money for yourself, only you. Screw infrastructure, democracy is a dumpster fire, money is always the winner and you are the loser. It is the zero sum game called 'a life worth living' and he-she who has the most money is forever better then everyone else. They worship the Golden Calf and it's name is MAGA GOP.

And of course they want you to continue paying tribute to their success,, so don't stop buying their bullshit and music and fashion. You are their slaves. Bow down to the wealthy. Bow down to the Golden Calf.

(DU video reference: 'Submit To The Golden Calf')

October 16, 2020

Trump Loves You And So Does Jimmy Jones

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TRUMP LOVES YOU AND SO DOES JIMMY JONES

History has us, by our own hands. repeating the same mistakes and machinations that cause so much of the tragedy and needless death around us. It doesn't matter what political party or religion you obey.

November 1978 JonesTown committed their act of revolutionary suicide and murder. The FBI released the audio recordings of the voices of JonesTown, including the cassette tape of the moment the execution began. This video sketch is a derivation of a ghostly shadow of that moment, of their lives, of what we still might see..

If you really want to know how it happened to those who lived it, search for the original FBI recordings on the web, wiki, archive,, start somewhere,, you will find them.

Listen with a clear eye; the parallels for the present day are manifest.

October 14, 2020

VOTE - Use It Or Lose It

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A small group of friends volunteered to put together this 30 second public service announcement. It aired on Seattle TV during the 2006 election by the local League Of Women Voters. May it remind us of our responsibility to keep democracy alive.

October 14, 2020

Submit to The Golden Calf

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Present day recruiting poster for the cult of The Golden Calf, targeting the weak minded
believers of all religious faiths. It has it's undeniable parallels both biblical and political.
So, just what could have Samiri of old said to the people waiting in their hour of
desperation that they would abandon their god and worship a golden idol?
The answer was simple: submit to The Golden Calf and be a winner again.

Production Notes:

Atlas Hacked: Insect Politics


'Insect Politics' published by Natalis Group, February 2020. It is the
second act of a concept album produced by Maki.

Direct link: http://atlashacked.natalisgroup.com

"This song has no genre. Some have labeled it as avant-garde or post-
modern pastiche. I'm not sure they are wrong, but everybody agrees that
you can't dance to it."