International Relations, Intelligence, Geopolitics, Law Enforcement, Globalization, Anthropology.
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USS Liberty Memorial
On June 8, 1967, US Navy intelligence ship USS Liberty was suddenly and brutally attacked on the high seas in international waters by the air and naval forces of Israel. The Israeli forces attacked with full knowledge that this was an American ship. Survivors have been forbidden for 40 years to tell their story under oath to the American public.
We will never forget
The USS PUEBLO was a U. S. Navy vessel sent on an intelligence mission off the coast of North Korea. On January 23, 1968, the USS PUEBLO was attacked by North Korean naval vessels and MiG jets. One man was killed and several were wounded. The Eighty-two surviving crew members were captured and held prisoner for 11 months.
Music
Arcade Fire.
Asshole.
Bad Brains.
Battery.
Beastie Boys.
Black Lipstick.
Black Octopus Lipstick Project.
Bloc Party.
Books,The.
Boomers.
Brad Mehldau.
Clash,The.
Cramps,The.
David Bowie.
Dead Kennedys.
Death Cab For Cutie.
Dinosaur Jr.
Dungen.
Ennio Morricone.
Fireworks.
Frank Black.
Fu Manchu.
Fugazi.
Ganglands.
Germs,The.
Gories,The.
Guitar Wolf.
Gun Club,The.
Hives,The.
Hope&Glory.
Husker Du.
Infected Mushroom.
Jesus and Mary Chain,The.
Jimi Hendrix.
Jimmy Dickinson & The Cramps.
Joey Ramone.
John Coltrane.
Johnny Boy & The Bookmakers.
Johnny Cash.
Keith Jarrett.
Kickstart.
Kids.
Kinks,The.
Klaxon.
Les Savy Fav.
Makers,The.
Manonegra.
Meteors,The.
Microphones,The.
Milkshakes,The.
Modest Mouse.
Monks.
Mummies.
Neil Young.
Neutral Milk Hotel.
The New Bomb Turks.
New York Dolls,The.
nirvana.
Oblivians.
Pagans.
Pink Floyd.
Pixies.
Postal Service,The.
Punk al Muro.
Q and not U.
Queers,The.
Radiohead.
Ramones,The.
Reigning Sound.
Rino Gaetano.
The Rippers.
Satelliters.
Seam.
Sonics,The.
Sonic Youth.
Spacemen 3.
Strokes,The.
Teenage Idols.
Teengenerate.
Television.
Tell-Tale Hearts.
Temporal Sluts.
Tom Waits.
Trashmen,The.
Ufo Diktatorz.
UK Subs.
Von Zippers,The.
Wayne Shorter.
Wire.
X.
Kill a punk for Rock & Roll
Here we go!
@ the black cat..
Oblivians
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The Monks
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Cult 1960s garage band THE SONICS have reformed for the upcoming Cavestomp Festival in New York. The Witch hitmakers, who listed Jimi Hendrix among their fans, had a run of hits from 1964 to 1966 before they split. The Washington-area group will headline two nights of the upcoming Cavestomp 2007 festival in Brooklyn (02+04Nov07). Original frontman Jerry Roslie, guitarist Larry Parypa and saxophonist Rob Lind will reteam for the shows, for which they'll be joined by Don Wilhelm and Ricky Lynn Johnson, who will replace Parypa's brother Andy and drummer Bob Bennett.
The Clash
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Movies
Taxi Driver.Indagine su un cittadino al di fuori di ogni sospetto.The Good,the Bad and the Ugly.For a Fistful of Dollars. For a Few Dollars More.The Man With No Name.Once Upon a Time in the West. La Haine. Clockwork Orange. Shining.
Riff Raff. La classe operaia va in paradiso.
Il caso Mattei. Il caso Moro. Solyaris. Nostalghia. Stalker. Andrey Rublyov. Gatto Nero,Gatto Bianco. Underground. La meglio gioventù.
Television
Blob. Fuori Orario-cose mai viste. How it's made. Man vs wild. Dirty jobs. Scrubs. C'era una volta. Report. E'quasi magia Johnny.
The Italian TV Sucks!
NO TIME TO THINK
"When I put on the television, after a while there's the feeling that images are just pouring into me and there's nothing I am able to do about them." This liquid quality of television imagery derives from the simple fact that television sets its own visual pace. One image is always evolving into the next, arriving in a stream of light and proceeding inward to the brain at its own electronic speed. The viewer has no way to slow the flow, except to turn off the set altogether. If you decide to watch television, then there is no choice but to accept the stream of electronic images as it comes.
The first effect of this is to create a passive mental attitude. Since there is no way to stop the images, one merely gives over to them. More than this, one has to clear all channels of reception to allow them in more cleanly. Thinking only gets in the way. There is a second difficulty. Television information seems to be received more in the unconscious than the conscious regions of the mind where it would be possible to think about it. The retina collects impressions emanating from dots. The picture is formed only after it is well inside your brain. The image does not exist in the world, and so cannot be observed as you would observe another person, or a car, or a fight. The images pass through your eyes in a dematerialized form, invisible. They are reconstituted only after they are already inside your head.
Perhaps this quality of nonexistence, at least in concrete worldly form, disqualifies this image information from being subject to conscious processes: thinking, discernment, analysis. You may think about the sound but not the images.
Television viewing may then qualify as a kind of wakeful dreaming, except that it's a stranger's dream, from a faraway place, though it plays against the screen of your mind. The stillness required of the eyes while watching the small television screen is surely an important contributor to this feeling of being bypassed by the images as they proceed merrily into our unconscious minds. There are hundreds of studies to show that eye movement and thinking are directly connected. The act of seeking information with the eyes requires and also causes the seeker/viewer to be alert, active, not passively accepting whatever comes. There are corollary studies which show that when the eyes are not moving, but instead are staring zombie-like, thinking is diminished. Television images are not sought, they just arrive in a direct channel, all on their own, from cathode to brain. If indeed this means that television imagery does bypass thinking and discernment, then it would certainly be more difficult to make use of whatever information was delivered into your head that way.
If you see a person standing in your living room, you can say, "There is a person; how do I feel about this?" If, however, the person is not perceived until she is constructed inside your unconscious mind, you'd have to bring the image up and out again, as it were, in order to think about it. The process is similar to the way we struggle to keep our dream images after waking.
If television images have any similarity to dream imagery, then this would surely help explain a growing confusion between the concrete and the imaginary. Television is becoming real to many people while their lives take on the quality of a dream. It would also help explain recent studies, quoted by Marie Winn and many others, that children are showing a decline in recallable memory and in the ability to learn in such a way that articulation and the written word are usable forms of expression. We may have entered an era when information is fed directly into the mass subconscious. If so, then television is every bit Huxley's hypnopaedic machine and; Tausk's influencing machine.
Books
HIDE & SEEK should be required for anyone working in the fields of homeland security, counterterrorism, and terrorist financing, as well as for concerned citizens.
trame atlantiche
maurizio costanzo shock
Affari, potere, alcova: tutto quello che non è mai stato raccontato sul telegiornalista più famoso e potente d’Italia. L’arrampicata al successo, e la carriera all’ombra della Loggia massonica segreta P2. Gli appalti privati, e le pubbliche virtù. La raffica di matrimoni, e la dedizione al potere mediatico. Pronto per tutte le stagioni: a sinistra della Destra, a destra della Sinistra.
Heroes
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Today... is Christmas! There will be a magic show at zero-nine-thirty! Chaplain Charlie will tell you about how the free world will conquer Communism with the aid of God and a few marines!
God has a hard-on for marines because we kill everything we see! He plays His games, we play ours! To show our appreciation for so much power, we keep heaven packed with fresh souls! God was here before the Marine Corps! So you can give your heart to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the Corps! Do you ladies understand?
full metal jacket
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: If you ladies leave my island, if you survive recruit training, you will be a weapon. You will be a minister of death praying for war. But until that day you are pukes. You are the lowest form of life on Earth. You are not even human, fucking beings. You are nothing but unorganized grabastic pieces of amphibian shit. Because I am hard you will not like me. But the more you hate me the more you will learn. I am hard but I am fair. There is no racial bigotry here. I do not look down on niggers, kikes, wops or greasers. Here you are all equally worthless. And my orders are to weed out all non-hackers who do not pack the gear to serve in my beloved Corps. Do you maggots understand that?
PSYCHOPOLITICS
The art and science of asserting and maintaining dominion over the thoughts and loyalties of individuals, officers, bureaus and masses, and the effecting of the conquest of enemy nations through "mental healing".
THOUGHT REFORM
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) published by the American Psychiatric Association cites thought reform as a contributing factor to “Dissociative Disorder Not Otherwise Specified” (a diagnosis frequently given to former cult members). Thought reform and its synonyms brainwashing and coercive persuasion were also noted in DSM-III (1980) and in DSM-III-Revised (1987), as well as in widely recognized medical texts.
Thought reform is not mysterious. It is the systematic application of psychological and social influence techniques in an organized programmatic way within a constructed and managed environment. The goal is to produce specific attitudinal and behavioral changes. The changes occur incrementally without its being patently visible to those undergoing the process that their attitudes and behavior are being changed a step at a time according to the plan of those directing the program.
In society there are numerous elaborate attempts to influence attitudes and modify behavior. However, thought reform programs can be distinguished from other social influence efforts because of their totalistic scope and their sequenced phases aimed at destabilizing participants' sense of self, sense of reality, and values. Thought reform programs rely on organized peer pressure, the development of bonds between the leader or trainer and the followers, the control of communication, and the use of a variety of influence techniques.
Thought reform is accomplished through the use of psychological and environmental control processes that do not depend on physical coercion. Today's thought reform programs are sophisticated, subtle, and insidious, creating a psychological bond that in many ways is far more powerful than gun-at-the-head methods of influence. The effects generally lose their potency when the control processes are lifted or neutralized in some way.
Anything rather than that..
A MODERN ITALIAN DISEASE.
How do people can get sick watching TV?
Keywords: Social Engineering, manipulation, conditioning, brainwashing, thought reform, coercive persuasion, mind control, the power of suggestion.
In Nov.1969 a researcher named H.Krugman decided to try to discover what goes on physiologically in the brain of a person watching TV.
Flicking on the TV, Krugman began monitoring the brain-waves of the subject. What he found through repeated trials was that within about thirty seconds, the brain-waves switched from predominantly beta waves, indicating alert and conscious attention, to predominantly alpha waves, indicating an unfocused, receptive lack of attention: the state of aimless fantasy and daydreaming below the threshold of consciousness.
When Krugman's subject turned to reading through a magazine, beta waves reappeared, indicating that conscious and alert attentiveness had replaced the daydreaming state. What surprised Krugman, who had set out to test some McLuhanesque hypotheses about the nature of TV-viewing, was how rapidly the alpha-state emerged.
You get decrease in beta [fast waves] and an increase in slow activity with a large percentage of alpha.
Understand that when you watch TV, brainwashing and mind control is constantly working against you as messages are being placed inside your mind that are conjured up at a later time.
"Television watching is only receiving," he went on, "no longer reacting. It cannot do anything but hold your attention; you are receiving, not looking. The key for why they are in alpha is that when they are watching they are not looking at, not orienting. This is all by way of totally agreeing with Krugman. If you have a light which is not really being attended to, you can get an infinite amount of alpha. Perhaps it is that the TV target is so far away, the screen so small that your eyes need not move; you are looking at infinity, in a way, like looking at the hypnotist's flashlight. If you look at moving targets, you have at least a little active interaction; that would tend to put you into beta. But with television though there seems to be movement, you stay all the time in alpha."
As real-life experience is increasingly replaced by the mediated 'experience' of television-viewing, it becomes easy for politicians and market-researchers of all sorts to rely on a base of mediated mass experience that can be evoked by appropriate triggers.
A study shows that children who were watching television were far slower to react to an emergency than children who were doing something else.
Dr. Peper describes the Mulholland experiment. "As far as I know, this study is the only one that has been made, aside from Krugman's. Ten kids were asked to watch their favorite television programs. Our assumption was that since these programs were their favorite shows, the kids would be involved in them and we would find there would be an oscillation between alpha slow-wave activity and beta. The prediction was that they would go back and forth. But they did not do that. They just sat back. They stayed almost all the time in alpha. This meant that while they were watching they were not reacting, not orienting, not focusing, just spaced-out."
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Milieu Control. This involves the control of information and communication both within the environment and, ultimately, within the individual, resulting in a significant degree of isolation from society at large.
Mystical Manipulation. There is manipulation of experiences that appear spontaneous but in fact were planned and orchestrated by the group or its leaders in order to demonstrate divine authority or spiritual advancement or some special gift or talent that will then allow the leader to reinterpret events, scripture, and experiences as he or she wishes.
Demand for Purity. The world is viewed as black and white and the members are constantly exhorted to conform to the ideology of the group and strive for perfection. The induction of guilt and/or shame is a powerful control device used here.
Confession. Sins, as defined by the group, are to be confessed either to a personal monitor or publicly to the group. There is no confidentiality; members' "sins," "attitudes," and "faults" are discussed and exploited by the leaders.
Sacred Science. The group's doctrine or ideology is considered to be the ultimate Truth, beyond all questioning or dispute. Truth is not to be found outside the group. The leader, as the spokesperson for God or for all humanity, is likewise above criticism.
Loading the Language. The group interprets or uses words and phrases in new ways so that often the outside world does not understand. This jargon consists of thought-terminating clichés, which serve to alter members' thought processes to conform to the group's way of thinking.
Doctrine over person. Member's personal experiences are subordinated to the sacred science and any contrary experiences must be denied or reinterpreted to fit the ideology of the group.
Dispensing of existence. The group has the prerogative to decide who has the right to exist and who does not. This is usually not literal but means that those in the outside world are not saved, unenlightened, unconscious and they must be converted to the group's ideology. If they do not join the group or are critical of the group, then they must be rejected by the members. Thus, the outside world loses all credibility. In conjunction, should any member leave the group, he or she must be rejected also. (Lifton, 1989)
Who I'd like to meet:
John Schooley and HIs One Man Band- "Drive You Faster"
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taxi driver 1976 Travis Bickle: I think someone should just take this city and just... just flush it down the fuckin' toilet.
Travis Bickle: All the animals come out at night - whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets. I go all over. I take people to the Bronx, Brooklyn, I take 'em to Harlem. I don't care. Don't make no difference to me. It does to some. Some won't even take spooks. Don't make no difference to me.
apocalypse now Kilgore: You either surf or you fight.
Willard: Are you crazy God damnit? Don't you think its a little risky for some R&R?
Kilgore: If I say its safe to surf this beach Captain, then its safe to surf this beach. I mean I'm not afraid to surf this place, I'll surf this whole fucking place!
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ciao luc!! qua tutto bene.. anche se ormai sarebbe ora di tornare a casa.. che due palle.. dai vieni a bologna allora? allora ci vediamo! fammi sapere.. un bacio!
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ciao amico! dopo un periodo di caxxeggio su maispeis, ho lasciato gli amici a casa e sono andata a lavorare a perugia!!! quindi niente festini per il momento!!
L' headliner del Coconut 4 ci riempie di orgoglio e soddisfazione... perchè il nostro piccolo festival, nato solo 18 mesi fa e già arrivato alla quarta edizione, avrà ospiti sul proprio palco i REBELDEVIL, che annoverano nella loro line up personaggi di rilievo della scena rock/metal italiana come GL Perotti (EXTREMA), Dario Cappanera (STRANA OFFICINA), Ale Paolucci (RAW POWER) e Ale Lera (CHEEKY MUFF- ex EXILIA).
Oltre a loro, quattro band che riteniamo assolutamente interessanti e perfette per far vivere alla grande a tutti voi la quarta edizione del COCONUT MUSIC FEST.
Detto questo, eccovi finalmente il bill ufficiale:
Alla fine dei concerti il sensualissimo DJ Set garage'n'roll de LE VALKIRIE!!!
Per il momento è tutto...potete cominciare a dire a tutti di tenersi liberi il 10 maggio...perchè c'è solo una cosa da fare quella sera...INVADERE IL COCONUT!!!! ..
ahahahahahahahhaahha! si', infatti..sarà il sole che mi ha dato in testa a farmi sentire cosi' "tamarra"! qui gli aperitivi non sono un granchè di moda..quindi vado a lavoricchiare un po'! nonostante l'euforia che è giusto che ci sia in questi giorni! a presto e saluti dalla mia banda di amici ahahahah!
ciao caro amico! nella mia lenta frequentazione di myspace noto che sei quello che risponde piu' assiduamente ai miei saltuari commenti, e quindi hai vito tu! a te l'onore del commento del giorno!
buona giornata dalla mia essenza tamarra in fieri! ^_^
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