04.21.10
Posted in Crazy Weapons, Cyberterrorism, Extremism at 7:39 am by George Smith
Why are you not surprised?
Completely shut out — except on opinion pages and in press releases from the Heritage Foundation — that nugget of the GOP far right known as the Cult of Electromagnetic Pulse Crazy resorted to lobbying Rush Limbaugh.
Birther Frank Gaffney spoke with Limbaugh who told it this way:
People are utterly unprepared to live and to deal with circumstances that were the norm for humanity up to a hundred years ago. Stop and think about that. I interviewed Frank Gaffney, defense policy expert during the Reagan years, for the next issue of the Limbaugh Letter. I talked to him on Friday. One of his big concerns is that the Iranians could load up a small little nuclear device on a boat and start trolling the East Coast of the United States, there are some 2,000 ships a day out there, how do you know which one is the mullahs cruise ship? They launch a little nuke and detonate it in the atmosphere and cause an EMP, electromagnetic pulse. He said if they took out our electric grid, if they took out our ability for electricity, do you realize the number of mass deaths that would happen very quickly? So dependent are we on all these — What got me to thinking about this is that we live at a time where we’ve had all this modernization, all of these terrific advancements that have enhanced life, improved the quality of life, and lengthened the span of life.
We are being pestered by a bunch of people who have friends in this regime who want to roll all of that back and take us back to the times where life was much more primitive. Now, people did not die en masse because there wasn’t electricity. Life was harder. Nighttime was really dark. You had to have your torches out there or what have you, and that was, you know, only after somebody figured out how to create fire, about which they made a movie. Imagine if that guy had been able to patent it. Can you imagine if that guy had a family, they’d be the richest people in the world, the guy that invented fire, had the patent on it. Every time a fire happened, this guy got the royalty. But they didn’t think about things like that back then. You have all these scions out there like the Sulzberger guy at the New York Times, you’ve got the people from the old Firestone Tire and Rubber, you got the Ford, GM, the Mellons and so forth, and now you’ve got all these fourth and fifth generation offspring that have no idea what their families did to create it living off of it.
Hmmm. So let’s see if DD understands this. Iran could take US back to the time of the movie The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and the Obama administration also wants to take us back to a time “when life was much more primitive.”
Also, the people who control fire at such a time get all the royalties. And the Sulzbergers, “old Firestone Tire and Rubber … the Mellons and so forth,” plus the New York Times, they’re sort of the firemakers now, so they’d benefit. Or something like that.
Therefore, the mullahs and the current US “regime” are somehow connected in this desire.
“All of liberalism is a giant hoax,” Limbaugh concludes.
There’s also some jabber about the volcano and airplanes.
Cult of EMP Crazy is the best sobriquet, don’t you think?
DD was once popular with Rush Limbaugh because I had written something he found convenient.
It would be remiss of me not to mention one of the chieftains of the Cult of Cyberwar in this post. That’d be Richard Clarke, who is currently flogging his newest book on … cyberwar … at least the second on the topic, the last one being fiction.
Here one observes stiff competition for the meme of who will turn out our lights. It could be Iran or China using hackers. Or it could be Iran, employing electromagnetic pulse.
Iran has a lot of options, apparently. I’m afraid, aren’t you?
Writes the instapundit guy at the Wall Street Journal:
Over the past few decades, American society has become steadily more wired. Devices talk to one another over the Internet, with tremendous increases in efficiency: Copy machines call their own repairmen when they break down, stores automatically replenish inventory as needed and military units stay in perpetual contact over logistical matters—often without humans in the loop at all. The benefits of this nonstop communication are obvious, but the vulnerabilities are underappreciated. The Internet was designed for ease of communication; security was (and is) largely an afterthought. We have created a hacker’s playground.
Worse yet, computer hardware, usually made in China, is sometimes laced with “logic bombs” that will allow anyone who has the correct codes—the Chinese government comes to mind—to turn our own devices against us. [Richard Clarke] and Knake are particularly concerned with risks to the electric grid
Here the enemies, as usual, are Iran and China. A couple months ago it was North Korea.
Clarke’s book — Cyberwar: The Next National Security Threat and What to Do About It — was said to have claimed North Korea was a cyberwar power to be feared because it was primitive and poor. The reasoning being that it was invulnerable to cyber-retaliation. Because it was poor and primitive and so on.
(Clarke repeated the substance of this for Maddow again tonight. Because North Korea is infrastructurally a cybernobody, it’s a cyber superpower).
“Worrying about threats to the electric grid is all the rage these days, with anxious planners troubled by electromagnetic pulse attacks or even solar superflares that could melt down the power net for months or even years, bringing civilization to a halt,” argued the instapundit.
“But Richard Clarke … [warns] in ‘Cyber War’ that if such a calamity occurs, the culprit behind it might not be a high-altitude nuclear burst or strange solar weather but a computer hacker in Beijing or Tehran.”
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04.18.10
Posted in Extremism, Rock 'n' Roll at 5:20 pm by George Smith
Yesterday, a handful of neo-Nazis were in downtown LA trying to provoke a riot with the police and immigrants. It did not go well for them.
Wrote one friend who had to get through it:
There were unintentionally humorous elements. The cops in riot gear escorted the Nazis back to their cars after the demonstration, but instead of making a smooth getaway, one of their crappy cars wouldn’t start. So the Nazis were trying to use jumper cables and shield themselves as the counter-protesters rained rocks and bottles on them …
What did [Paul Fussell] call this? The bottom-out-of-sight class?
And today DD takes readers back to the local chapter of the white Christian identity movement in Allentown, Poker Face.
On tax day Poker Face issued a press release. And it mentioned me! Although it was primarily aimed at one of the group’s regular arch-enemies, the Anti-Defamation League.
Mr. Poker Face, Paul Topete, did a question and answer for the settling of various controversies swirling about his band.
Here’s one part of it:
Question: As you might know, the Anti-Defamation League wrote something on their website speaking out against your band. They refer to your band as anti-government and anti-immigrant, and they post stuff from your website and interviews you’ve done that they claim are anti-Semitic and Holocaust denials:
http://www.adl.org/main_Extremism/poker_face_anti_government.htm
RESPONSE – We weren’t aware of that until you pointed it out. Thank you. Actually we’re not all that concerned about the ADL/SPLC/AIPAC and their history of character assassinations. Heck, they even attacked Frank Zappa. It’s hard to take them
serious when they have ties to known terrorist groups like the JDL and JDO as well as many other illegal activities like spying on Americans in California etc.
And here is another:
As you’ve probably seen, there are other blogs that have been writing this stuff too:
[link to DD post]
Do you have any response to any of this?
RESPONSE – Never heard of him …
There is also a long non-explanation on Holocaust denial. (Readers can find it easily enough at the top of the band’s website.)
But the best part of the press release is this:
QUESTION – … and claiming that Israel was behind 9/11. Do you believe these things?
ANSWER – We do not believe that Israel was the sole perpetrator of 9-11
Is there a public relations damage control expert who can help these poor folk out? Probably not.
In any case, readers will remember the local newspaper did a lukewarm story on Poker Face, one which mentioned the band’s forum for Holocaust denial at the foot of the piece.
The salient paragraph was this:
But Poker Face also has raised eyebrows with a forum on its Web site that includes such topics as the authenticity of the Holocaust, Jewish control of the media and repatriating illegal immigrants.
At the time, DD was passed comment from the Call’s assigning features editor before the story was done but after the nature of Poker Face’s website was brought to her attention.
They’re worth noting:
“I did just go to the Web site to see what I could see and after 10 minutes, still did not find anything. I see there are thousands of posts on the forum – just don’t have time to sift through.”
Maybe that was true. Or maybe not. To steal a phrase, it’s an eyebrow raising statement.
And this is because it is difficult to log onto Poker Face’s web forum and not immediately stumble upon rants like these:
Your eyes are not failing, your mind not playing tricks. Yes, this is what it says:
“Elliot Spitzer was set up by the mossad with a JAP-Shiska … [he is] not a zionazi cock-sucking Israeli firster …”
“Write on Mr. Spitzer, your sage wisdom is needed now more than ever,” it concludes.
That’s some recommendation. If only we all had such friends.
Next …
Here Topete expresses his disappointment with famous Christian fundamentalist preachers because they blather on “teebee … about how we have to protect the atheistic JEW founded Israel.”
And …
“It just never stops with the International Jewry and its affront to freedom for all,” writes a seemingly angered Topete.
Kevin MacDonald was written about by the OC Weekly recently here.
An excerpt:
Over the years, the Long Beach State psychology professor has courted controversy for books and articles asserting Jews have kept their culture throughout the millennia as a strategy that lets them compete against and subvert Western civilization. His works have been denounced by his 49ers colleagues, civil-rights organizations—seemingly everyone except white supremacists, who revere him as their movement’s contemporary intellectual giant.
All along, MacDonald has insisted he isn’t an anti-Semite or a neo-Nazi and definitely not a racist—he’s just a hard-working academic whose work happens to have an exclusively skinhead following. “I don’t necessarily endorse all of the attitudes reflected in all of the articles,??? MacDonald wrote to the Southern Poverty Law Center in regards to a 2008 exposé in its Intelligence Report magazine showing the professor’s courting of the extreme right through submitting his work in their publications and accepting their grants.
But at [a summer 2009 meeting of the Institute for Historical Review, the country’s premier Holocaust-denying organization], MacDonald began shedding his regular-guy façade. And with his introductions to Freedom 14 and other local neo-Nazis at that conference, the professor began the first steps toward emerging as a full-fledged bigot.
Topete’s posts on Jews creep into almost every corner of the band’s forum. Here are a couple quick screen shots of various message threads. They speak eloquently for themselves.
Note helpful ‘Christian identity info’ stuck in the middle of the rubbish about the ‘lost tribes of Israel.’ That was considerate.
Update
The Call keeps tryin.’ Atta boys.
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04.08.10
Posted in Crazy Weapons, Extremism at 7:00 pm by George Smith
The last time we read of Washington Times’ columnist Arnaud de Borchgrave, he was writing about how neocon Dan Pipes thought Barack Obama could save his lost presidency. (This was before healthcare reform passed.)
Called the Short Count behind closed doors, if he is called at all, de Borchgrave wrote:
Mr. Obama is floundering as he tries to reset his presidency on economics. Defense is sacrosanct. Either taxes go up, or entitlements go down, or both. On Capitol Hill, it’s still burned toast for the president.
For centuries, leaders faced with insuperable domestic problems found escape in foreign distractions. In some cases, the distractions occurred suddenly and fortuitously, such as World War II, which started in Europe and pulled America out of the Great Depression.
President Obama isn’t looking for such a distraction, but others have no pangs illuminating what they think is the way out of the “clueless in Washington??? dilemma. Right-wing scholar-activist Daniel Pipes, a neocon icon, could not be more blunt: President Obama can “save??? his presidency by bombing Iran. The fact that this also could cost him the presidency is not deemed worthy of discussion
It was time to bomb Iran — actually, it’s always time to bomb Iran — because, as readers of DD blog know, the mullahs could send the US back to the time of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance via electromagnetic pulse attack.
But electromagnetic pulse attack is a wonderful tool of the extreme GOP right. If one must pause for an instant in warning about how Iran will attack the US with electromagnetic pulse, the empty time can be filled with a discussion of how WE can attack Iran with electromagnetic pulses.
And today, the Count writes of allegedly fevered discussion recommending the excellence of attacking Iran via electromagnetic pulse:
If Israel decided to explode an electromagnetic pulse weapon over Iran, the latest hot rumor in the blogosphere, and fry all electric appliances, including those at 27 nuclear sites, would Mr. Obama disown America’s closest ally? Such a high-altitude nuclear explosion would, inevitably, cause collateral electrical damage in neighboring countries, e.g., Turkey, Pakistan, Iraq and Afghanistan. The answer: A loud yes.
Maybe Israel ought not to do that, the Short Count seems to be thinking.
But where is this hot rumor in the blogosphere coming from?
As you may have guessed, it’s not so hot. It’s kind of cooled off year-old tea, in fact.
Writing at Human Events, the agency which publishes Ted Nugent’s various advices, someone “who was closely associated with former President Reagan for a number of years” (quite a recommendation) writes:
There is another alternative [to nuclear-armed Iran]. It’s called EMP for “electro-magnetic pulse??? …
Chet Nagle, a former naval intelligence officer and author of “Iran Covenant”, says that an EMP pulse is “much like a powerful radio wave.??? It would have an impact on a conductor of electricity and could knock out transmission lines, transformers and even power-generation stations.
As Nagle put it recently: “The easiest solution to the threat of Iran’s nuclear weapons program is an EMP strike. A nuke detonated 450 kilometers over Tehran at high noon on a sunny day would not even be noticed by the folks on the ground; however, their lights would go out and everything electrical would stop, including those enrichment centrifuges.??? He adds that, “a few aircraft could then drop commando teams in the resulting darkness, chaos and lack of communications and do whatever else needs doing. Iran then would be living in the late 19th Century.???
Remember: no radiation; no blast effect. A dividend could be that the “Greens,??? the democratic reformers, would seize power. If that were to happen, we and our allies could help the country recover from the EMP attack, with the nuclear enrichment facilities permanently shut down.
Yes, no doubt Iranians would be really happy to have Americans assist them after we and/or the Israelis detonated a couple low yield nuclear weapons high in the sky over their country. The rest of the world would be mighty impressed by our great exhibition of good will, too.
Anyway, who is Chet Nagle?
DD has the answer for you.
Another old white guy, one who’s been flogging a self-published novel, Iran Covenant, on how the US and Israel smash Iran after the latter goes on the attack, for about a year.
“My first novel will be on Amazon.com by 1 January 2009, at last, and the second follows as soon as the editing process is finished, the man writes here.
“Iran Covenant is the story of a clandestine attack on Israel by Iran – using a smuggled nuclear weapon – ending with non-nuclear strikes by Israel and the United States that destroy Iran’s nuclear weapons program. The plot details how that could be accomplished without putting boots on the ground.”
That was thoughtful.
More recently, Nagle writes of an apparently enjoyable to him fictional attack on Iran by Israel from the POV of the Israeli prime minister here:
The prime minister knows the calculus well. First, he thinks, will be the salvo of Jericho III missiles. EMP from their nuclear warheads will destroy Iran’s electrical power grid, communications, television, radio, air defenses, and most of the industrial infrastructure. At noon the flashes will not even be noticed, so high there is no blast or radiation on the ground. Then cruise missiles from submarines for high value targets. They should save one for Ahmadinejad’s presidential palace. With chaos in the dark streets, maybe our commandos have time to open that Evin prison hellhole and let out the political prisoners. Those kids, that ‘Green’ opposition—they can deal with the mullahs if they like. And the best part, with the radar and air defenses inoperative, our air force can overfly Iran. They will finish the job with none of my boys lost, God willing …
“Afterwards, he thought, to show no hard feelings I invite President Obama to make a visit to Jerusalem,” Nagle continues. “If he comes I will make him a present. Perhaps a little framed photo from our satellite that shows such a peaceful Iran.”
What is the title of this musing?
Electromagnetic Pulse: The Answer to a Jewish Prayer.
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Posted in Extremism, Rock 'n' Roll at 9:38 am by George Smith
Today the Allentown Morning Call newspaper got around to writing up a story on Poker Face and the Hutaree.
And the reason this happened was because of posts on DD blog over the past week or so. (See here and here and here.)
But the Morning Call still doesn’t quite put its finger on the matter. To see why, we go to the last quotes in the piece, where reporter John J. Moser questions Poker Face’s Paul Topete about his website.
But Poker Face also has raised eyebrows with a forum on its Web site that includes such topics as the authenticity of the Holocaust, Jewish control of the media and repatriating illegal immigrants.
”We most certainly do not deny the Holocaust,” Topete said. ”To suggest that is absurd. The reason this section of our forum exists is because people have been imprisoned for questioning details regarding this horrific slaughter of mankind.”
That story is here.
In the parlance, this is called being deceptive. Alert readers will notice the awkward mental slip-up in the phrase ‘slaughter of mankind,’ since the Holocaust, to most sane people, specifically means Nazi Germany’s extermination campaign against the Jews. But we’ll get back to the hows and whys of deceptive practice in a minute.
Now, to the newspaper’s role in informing society.
A better story might have actually stated the title or words Poker Face uses to describe the Holocaust. That would be ‘Holohaux,’ ‘Holohoax’ or other variations on the same.
The ‘Holohoax’ is explained by a Holocaust denier site here.
Sample quote:
The Zionist Mafia’s conspiracy theory, of a secret plot involving “gas chambers” to murder six million Jews and five million undesirables and turn them into soap and lampshades, has proved immensely lucrative for them, but is now collapsing before their eyes
World Zionism’s problem is that none of their claims of “gas chambers” and an “extermination program” can hold up unless one postulates wholesale revision of the laws of physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, logic, and / or psychology.
The Web has many such sites. Another typical example is here. It described Fred Leuchter, the weird man who insisted the gas chambers were not gas chambers. The arthouse documentary, Mr. Death, was based upon his self-destructive pursuit of this belief.
Now, back to Poker Face.
When Topete speaks of questioning the details of the Holocaust and people who have been imprisoned for such, he is speaking of specific individuals listed in his site’s chats. One of them is Ernst Zundel, an infamous Holocaust denier.
The Southern Poverty Law Center describes Zundel in this manner:
German-born Ernst Zundel came to prominence in the world of Holocaust denial, or what he prefers to call historical “revisionism,” in the 1980s, when his Samisdat Publishing company began distributing propaganda like a “Did 6 Million Really Die?” pamphlet and Zundel’s own book, The Hitler We Loved and Why. By then a non-citizen resident of Canada (he moved there in 1958), Zundel’s repeated attempts at gaining citizenship in Canada were denied as he was decried by both the Canadian and German governments for his incitement of racial hatred. After several Canadian court battles over the contents of the material he distributed, he was deported in 2005 back to Germany, where he was later tried and convicted for Holocaust denial and inciting racial hatred.
On the Poker Face website, one permanent post reads:
The total absurdity in the first place for Ernst being locked up for anytime is crazy.
Its like telling JEWS that my feelings are hurt and they must go to jail becvause they dont believe in Christ, In His Resurrection, and His granting of eternal life to us. But no JEW goes to jail for believing or Not.
So why should ANYONE else goto jail because they choose not to believe in the fantasy fairy tale called the holohaux? Look into CD Jackson + Syke Troops and Buchenwald, and understand from the very BEGINNING THE HOLOHAUX WAS A CREATED FABRICATION by Jews for the sole purpose of giving Israel legitimacy. period.
Did some Jews die in work camps. Yes, so did many other peopls and races. But they were work camps. Not extermination centers.
Sorry Jews, your leaders have LIED to you, and preach to you your DEATH CULTURE you live in day in and day out.
A snapshot DD took of it is here. (For the original, click here.)
Here is more of Poker Face’s rationale:
So, typically, if by observation of Poker Face’s website, when its leader says he has forums which talk about people questioning the details of the Holocaust, in practice this just means stories about Holocaust deniers, all of whom are given supportive treatment. Accompanied by vitriolic denunciations of ‘jews’ and ‘zionazis’.
Naturally, free speech makes this perfectly OK in the US of A. However, what others think of it and how it illumines your character are other matters entirely.
Here, for example, is another post on how ‘Holocaust Hoaxer’ Simon Wiesenthal has been exposed for his ‘lies.’
Or, there’s this fascinating view — also in a prominently placed post on the Poker Face website — of what the Theresienstadt concentration camp really was:
From a Fan … and I’d like to draw my Czech friends and relatives to the word I put in red, Theresienstadt. I had sent an email some time ago about Theresienstadt and got some flack about it from the delusional crybabies who were drilled by the Communists to believe in
the Hoax. Theresienstadt was an old German fortress that was converted into a village for elderly Jews who were too feeble to be sent to work camps. I can no longer find the original info I sent and the links I quickly gleaned to add to this email were all genocide propaganda sites. Jewish “scholars” have plagiarized each other put up thousands of almost identical sites. There is now an Arbeit Macht Frei on its gate, though I highly doubt it was there during the war as Theresienstadt was not a work camp.
The ‘genocide propaganda site’ and ‘communist delusional crybabies’ at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC describe it this way:
Despite all the efforts of the Council of Jewish Elders and the camp-ghetto inhabitants to make the best of an atrocious situation, living conditions in the ghetto with respect to food supply, medicine, maintenance of residential structures, provision of basic services, and overpopulation in a limited space caused a death rate in the camp-ghetto comparable to that in Reich concentration camps like Dachau and Buchenwald. In 1942, the death rate within the ghetto accelerated so dramatically that the Germans built — to the south of the ghetto — a crematorium capable of handling almost 200 bodies a day.
Here is another screed which touches upon one of Poker Face’s favorite topics — how neo-Nazis aren’t always protected by rights to free speech in Europe, to the band’s great dismay:
The hollercaustics are crying for blood now over a musician who spreads the truth about their money making scam. It will be awhile before Poker Face tours Europe.
Europe is the laughing stock of the world, where they pontific how free they are, becayuse they will print cartoons that defame Mohammed. Not that I give a crap about Mohamed, but tit for tat I say. These same freedom screeing bastards WOULD NEVER PRINT A TRUTHFUL HOAX-A-SHOAH cartoon. The editors know they would get their ass canned immediately.
Freedom of thought, and speech goes out the window, when it comes to the mythology of the cult of holohauxianity.
People of the world. Wake the fuck up. As long as one brother is in jail for his thoughts or speech, while committing no crime against person or property, THEN WE ARE ALL IN FUCKING TROUBLE, because it will come to your country soon enough.
Talk about a Orwellian society. Blaspheme Christ, or Dont believe in Christ, collect 200$ and go ahead… Point out one of a million lies about the holohaux, and JAIL is there waiting for you. When did someones hurt feelings trump REAL Law.
Indeed, one could spend the entire day sifting Poker Face’s website for ‘information’ on the ‘myths’ of the gas chambers and 9/11, that Benjamin Netanyahu ‘planned 9/11,’ and so forth.
So when John. J. Moser writes that “Poker Face also has raised eyebrows” it’s a bit of an understatement.
Many many reasonable people, upon viewing the material outlined here, would find Poker Face’s political views astonishingly offensive, ragingly anti-Semitic and screwed-up to the max.
To call it eyebrow raising doesn’t quite do it justice.
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04.07.10
Posted in Extremism, Rock 'n' Roll at 4:21 pm by George Smith
Ted Nugent once was a great rock musician.
Now he’s just astonishingly crazy and mean, inflammatory for the sake of cruelty and outrage.
This fits his role as one of the new mega-mouthpieces of the crazy and mean Republican Party. If one takes Nugent’s writings and regular public utterances even half seriously, he is by any reasonable definition an incomprehensible fellow lacking even small vestiges of good will and grace.
It’s entertaining then to review Ted Nugent’s role as MC at ‘Coalstock’ last Labor Day, a political rally held by Don Blankenship, CEO of the now nationally known, and not in a good way, Massey Energy coal company.
While being paid by Blankenship, you’ll notice Nugent couldn’t help but make a favorite joke about ‘dead tyrants,’ tyrant now being one of the favored words for referencing Barack Obama — used by the Tea Party, the GOP and American extremist groups.
Coalstock, which you probably never heard much about, was not a success. For reasons perfectly obvious.
From various newspapers:
First on the stage was pro-gun provocateur, musician Ted Nugent.
“I love America, but mostly I love defiance,??? he said. “I like when the punks from England overtax us and we throw the tea in the bay. Isn’t that kind of a cute move?”
“But I particularly like it when the British came to get our guns so we went to Concord bridge and shot them,” he added.
“I like dead tyrants. Isn’t that your favorite type of tyrant, a dead tyrant?” Nugent said.
Nugent went on to defend someone he called his “blood brother,??? Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship. He also defended mountaintop removal mining. — here
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[The rally] wasn’t sponsored by some unions. Instead it was hosted by Massey Coal’s Don Blankenship, the coal industry’s most gleefully Dickensian figure, a man who treated his own maid in conditions “reminiscent of slavery,” according to a West Virginia high court judge in a 2008 ruling. Blankenship spent $1 million on the event. It featured Sean Hannity, Ted Nugent and Hank Williams Jr., son of the great Hank Williams, but alas, not a musical genius and instead a reactionary boobhead. — from the Guardian
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Coal magnate Don Blankenship, who made his name as a union buster, hosted a Labor Day shindig on a reclaimed mine site in West Virginia. This is part of what he said:
“In Washington, they sometimes say that those of us in Appalachia need help because we’re not very smart. Well, we’re smart enough to know that only God can change the earth’s temperature not Al Gore.”
This is a fascinating observation from a leader of an industry that has forever changed the landscape of Kentucky and West Virginia.
The strip-mining of coal has leveled some of the world’s oldest mountains and richest forests, poisoned water and destroyed hundreds of miles of mountain streams and the life to which they give rise.
If anyone has demonstrated humankind’s ability to change the environment on a massive scale, it’s Blankenship and the coal industry.
Blankenship is CEO of a large coal company, Massey Energy, so his myopic rant was an act of supreme self interest. He railed against “cap-and-trade” legislation, pending in the Senate, that would reduce heat-trapping gases by making it more expensive to burn coal and other fossil fuels. His message understandably falls on receptive ears in places where the only decent-paying jobs are in mining (even if they require going into one of Blankenship’s notoriously unsafe mines).
… Blankenship reportedly spent $1 million to attract an estimated 75,000 people to hear him, along with performances by Hank Williams Jr. and Fox News’ Sean Hannity, emceed by Ted Nugent.
Dropping $1 million to manipulate public opinion is small potatoes for Blankenship, though. He spent $3.1 million to elect a West Virginia Supreme Court Justice who protected him from a costly civil suit only to be foiled by the U.S. Supreme Court.
In another case, involving Blankenship’s former maid’s successful attempt to collect unemployment, another West Virginia justice said Blankenship’s treatment of the woman was “reminiscent of slavery.”
Blankenship can command a huge audience, level mountains and buy elected officials (though not respect). — from the Lexington Herald Leader in Kentucky
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Tens of thousands of people throughout West Virginia and several other states traveled to the town near the Logan-Mingo County border Sept. 7 for the Friends of America Rally, according to media reports.
The rally, which was marketed to people as a way to show support for American workers and jobs, featured musicians Ted Nugent, Hank Williams Jr., John Rich and Fox News personality Sean Hannity.
“Today was a good day for American workers past, present and future,” said Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship, who organized the rally. “This historic event brought tens of thousands of people together to show their support for the men and women whose hard work built this country and we were proud to welcome them.”
Blankenship told those gathered at the rally that the gathering was about “our government and what it is doing to American labor.”
“It is also about what our government is allowing others to do to American labor. Our government, environmental extremists, American corporations, and politicians on the right and the left are all endangering American labor. They are making American labor the real endangered species as they tell us that their goal is to save the planet,” he said
He went on, speaking against the proposed cap and trade legislation in Congress.
“We don’t need a government that wants to shut down our coal mines. We don’t want a government that wants to increase our power bills. We don’t want a government that loans our tax money to our overseas competitors and that refuses to loan money to our employers. We don’t want a government that is run by people who believe they can change the earth’s temperature when they can’t balance a budget.”
Blankenship said the rally was about more than just protecting jobs.
“It’s not only American labor that’s at risk. It’s America itself,” he told the crowds. “Let’s all work hard and be friends of America. Let’s send the message to Washington that enough is enough.” — the State Journal of West Virginia
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From the stage, people heard dull lectures from Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship about his corporate philosophy. Ted Nugent, the right wing’s berserker, gave a speech in which he declared, “I say, start up the bulldozers and get me some more coal, Massey.??? Why would anyone want to dedicate their Labor Day to listening to these kinds of public relations messages from corporate management? — here
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A group including mine operators Massey Energy and International Coal Group say country singer Hank Williams Jr. and rock musician Ted Nugent are going to take part in a free Labor Day concert in southern West Virginia.
Organizers say the Sept. 7 concert will be part of what they’re calling the Friends of America rally.
The lineup also includes radio personality Sean Hannity.
Ruth Lemmon, president of the West Virginia Automobile & Truck Dealers Association, says the rally is being held to let the nation’s leaders know that organizers support American jobs. — from the Associated Press
But that was about being a toady to Don Blankenship and Massey Energy. Idly, one wonders how big the check was for that role.
However, what’s bugging Ted now, specifically?
More than fifty percent of the country. You and me, probably, if he knew who we were, us blood-sucking parasites.
Last week — on Ted Nugent
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Posted in Extremism, Rock 'n' Roll at 8:24 am by George Smith
Allentown rock band Poker Face’s Paul Topete has been nothing if not voluble about his beliefs. Today, thank to the Internet, they are easy to see.
However, our friends at the Morning Call newspaper are having a little trouble. They need our help to see such things. The layoffs by Tribune have cut deeply, impacting oversight. They have reduced manpower, which in turn cuts into the time needed to do more thorough work. Plus, it’s only human nature to resist the idea that you have somehow been remiss in overlooking the fact that Poker Face — one of your “Bands of the Week,” is really weird in its belief that Jews are a satanic cult. Among other things.
From an interview here, DD has extracted some of Paul Topete’s greatest ‘hits’:
The FBIs bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 thru their informant Edam Salem, was just a continuation of the Satanic Elite’s program to undermine America’s freedom, and subject the rest of the world to whims of a global parasitic order based on neo-paganism and greed, with a little bit of perverted sex thrown in for good measure …
And the always popular ‘9/11 was an inside job’ trope:
Over the course of the day we could show movies like ‘AMERICA – FREDOM TO FASCISM’ by Aaron Russo, 911Mysteries.com – Controlled Demolitions of the Towers, or many others that we have seen, that the rest of America needs to see.
On the Catholic church:
As for the Catholic church … Well since Christ’s death, Ha-Satan has been attacking it at its roots. Today we have at least 40,000 Christian who are actually in a cult. The Catholic Church has always been the biggest impediment to Satan’s plan of destroying this 2nd earth age as he did the first. In my opinion, there are millions of good, God loving people in and involved with the church. But I also believe that Satan finally took over the hierarchy of the church in 1963 with the election of Paul the 6th to the POPE’s throne. I think that the same year a satanic mass took place in Rome as well as The Citadel in South Carolina.
Other groups like the Jew-Suits (JESUITS) were created by zealots for the papacy (are more often times Crypto-Jews), and are manned by Atheist-Judeos like Adam Weishaupt. He was a founder of one of the most recent incantations of the Illuminati May 1st, 1776.
On Jews:
What is a Turkish Mongol – Yiddish speaking race of Ashekenazi/Khazars who have little to no SHEMite blood in them doing in Palestine to begin with? This was the frothy dream of zionazis like Theodor Herzl, Rothschild and Balfour, along with the creation of the United Nations. Why are these Jews in name only, even there to begin with? This cause was helped along by Zio-enabler Hitler with unifications like The HAAVRA Agreement. This agreement, in 1933 moved 500,000 German-Jews with all of their wealth, possessions and companies into Palestine thru 1938. Funny how this major topic is NEVER discussed in history! The problem for the zionazis of the day was.. it wasn’t enough of European-Jewery that moved to Palestine, so plan 2 came into play. Getting them out of their comfort zone by moving them out of Germany, first East, and then South into countries like Cypress and Greece, before shooting into Palestine.
Hitler creeps into the conversation:
In 1931 Hitler sent the Jew, Rosenberg to England to meet with the Pro-Fascist group The CLIVEDEN group, so that when Rosenberg came back to Germany, the coffers of the bankers and industrialists started to overflow the NSDAP – What became Hitler’s Nazi party. Whether Hitler was a real player, or a just water boy for the elite is still to be decided.
The interviewer, adding helpfully: “As for Hitler, I think he was a Zionist stooge, but a very well placed stooge …”
On the true perpetrators of the Oklahoma City bombing:
That the Varsity A team of the suits pulled off what the JV B team of blue jeans led by boy [Clinton]couldn’t pull off. Varsity A team got the 15 + years in the making; THE PATRIOT ACTS I & II with all of its subsequent departments of tyranny in tow. Klinton the Klown barely pulled off the OKC bombing debacle, who had a little help on the ground by his traitorous pals in the [Southern Poverty Law Center].
More stuff on the jews:
The root cause today in the middle east is the transplantation of the non-semetic Ashekenazi-Khazarian jews in name only who invaded Palestine in the early 1900s. This was planned by late 19th century World Jewry. Whose use of a pseudo political/spiritual created movement of Zionism, got these Yiddish speaking jews in name only to set up shop in Palestine so Rothschild and his agents could create an area of the world that would forever have political and religious tensions that will never be solved by man. And if the day should come in our lifetime that one man makes it happen, know the very last days of this earth age are here and rejoice. This man will be the flesh carrier of Satans spirit that will be thrown down upon the earth in a lightening bolt. He will proclaim himself Christ. Looks like Christ but will speak like the dragon. The instead of Christ comes first. If you can still pinch yourself and still feel it, the real deal aint here yet.
The Paul Topete recommended book list:
THE SECRET EMPIRE I&II by Cushman Cunningham
-The Sabbatian Jews, The judeoMasonRosicrucians and the World Gay mafia are the unholy trinity killing the earth today…
Judaisms Strange Gods by Michael A. Hoffman II
-you will understand why their god is not our GOD. The Talmud and the satanic Kabballah were not a part of the majority of Israelite tribes beliefs. This strange leaven of evil came back with the Babylonian-Judaised members of the tribe of Judah. Yesteryear Phareesism is todays Judaism. Jesus Christ railed against these Pharisees calling them sons of the devil John8:34-44
Here’s an idea for a story!
One could explore the relationship between white christian identity militias across the country, their rebound after the Clinton years due to the current polarized political climate and election of Obama as president, their warped beliefs and why they cling to them, and how the Internet now allows them to quickly communicate and share with each other — from the Lehigh Valley to the locales of the Hutaree and coast to coast — a capability which did not exist during the time of Tim McVeigh.
Who, incidentally, Poker Face thinks was a patsy, an equally fascinating question to ask them about.
Now I should think that’s a job any reporter would love to sink his or her teeth into.
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04.06.10
Posted in Extremism, Rock 'n' Roll at 8:53 am by George Smith
Honestly, you can’t make this stuff up.
When the local rural neo-Nazis lurking in the woodpile make it into the newspaper as “Band of the Week,” you know the firings have gone too far.
”I am looking forward to becoming even more closely involved with The Morning Call and in the Lehigh Valley community,” [new publisher Tim Ryan] said in a written statement, news of which was published at the Call here in a story about the firing of the old publisher last week.
”With the strong management team in place here at The Morning Call, I am confident that we will continue to provide readers with compelling local content in whatever form they want and advertisers with effective solutions for growing their businesses.”
Unintentionally humorous, that.
Tribune company was bought by Chicago mogul Sam Zell a few years ago. Zell considered himself a business captain among captains. But reality did not cooperate and under Zell, Tribune was forced to file for bankruptcy.
The only constant at Zell newspapers pre- and post-bankruptcy, which includes the Morning Call and the Los Angeles Times, has been regular mass firings.
Dismiss enough people and those left can’t provide much of a product, no matter press release insistence to the contrary.
So the free-lance workers, editors and reporters miss the obvious, like the white Christian identity militia nature of the Allentown hard rock band, Poker Face.
In the Call’s publicity bit:
How band came together: Band came together because of the message/mission that we are on to expose the tyranny and rights violations out of our nation’s Capitol.
“Our audience [is] 7 years old to 70,” the band tells the newspaper. “If you love freedom and liberty, then you will love what we are about.”
And Poker Face’s “biggest gig?”
Playing at the Knob Creek, Ky., machine gun shoots. Tens of thousands show up for this awesome freedom loving event.
Well, certainly nothing says you’re a bunch of tyranny-fighting freedom-loving protest rockers more vigorously than rants like this one on your band website:
From last week — on this matter.
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04.02.10
Posted in Extremism, Rock 'n' Roll, Why the World Doesn't Need US at 8:07 am by George Smith
American extremism is impossible to satirize. It’s a reality cartoon from which there is no escape. And one standard example is rocker Ted Nugent.
The zinc-plated proof of it is that he was too-too-too-much for even his conservative hometown newspaper, the Waco Tribune, which 86’d him as a columnist last year.
“No more namecalling,” said the newspaper.
Asking Ted Nugent to not namecall is like telling Fido that from now on he will have to defecate in the toilet like the rest of the family.
Anyhoo, for yesterday, colleague Chuck was commissioned to do a short piece for the Rhapsody on-line music site. It was an April Fool’s announcement that Nugent had just announced a run for the presidency:
Angry times call for angry measures, so rock ‘n’ roll’s Angriest Old White Man of all — Ted Nugent — is the first candidate to officially declare presidential ambitions for 2012. “The Nuge,” as his bow-hunting buddies call him, will run on a hybrid True Republican/Tea Party/Michigan Militia ticket, he announced Thursday morning at O-Dark-Thirty while clad in full camouflage gear and straddling a great white buffalo on his homestead not far from the ATF-seized former Branch Dividian compound in Waco, Tex . . . With the Atrocious Theodocious at the helm, the G.O.P. arsenal can now train its full stormtroopin’ firepower on Obamacare Maoists, animal-rights numbnuts, states’ rights deniers, illegal invaders, global-warming charlatans, paycheck-blowtorching Fedzillas, bailout-happy congressional cockroaches overloading America’s credit cards like drunken sailors in a Planet of the Apes whorehouse, sperm-whale-shaped children fed on junk food, smokers who expect the healthy to fix their self-poisoned lungs, human leeches claiming poverty [etc] …
He even got the foaming, shouted into a tape recorder run-on style of Nugent’s columns at Human Events pretty close.
Of course, if you watch Glenn Beck for even fifteen minutes you know everyday is an April Fool. You can’t make up more ridiculous stuff and pass it than he does on a daily basis. And since his large audience believes every word, one sees the problem. There’s no longer any real distinction between telling them a story on April Fool’s day as opposed to any other day of the year.
All these people can’t be nuts. But there is something else that has taken root in them over the last decade of polarization and however one tries to describe it — it points only to an increasingly bleak future. (See Digby today.)
So DD thought it unsurprising when the majority of Rhapsody readers who chose to comment did not actually get the Ted Nugent thing was part of the April Fool’s party. Even when other commenters tried to tell them so. They believed it because they wanted to, it seemed entirely consistent with news they get from their regular sources.
Be sure to read the entire thing here. I’ve posted only two of its ‘better,’ or more discouraging — if you will, bits:
You go for it Ted, We as True-Blooded Americans need someone like you as a FrontMan to start kicking some A– so we and the younger generations to come can enjoy a lifestyle as the Constitution was written. I have no doubt the end is near if we don’t remove these “Fedzillas”. I will support you 100% in any way I can.
I’m 100% disabled, but I make my own way; I don’t give em nuthin and I don’t want nuthin! I’m with ya all the way “Lock n Load”
Woodman
I had planned on voting for Palin, but If Ted runs, he’s got my vote! I’ve never been a big fan of his music, but I agree with his line of thinking!
I’ve got a strange hunch that Obama will not complete his 4 years in office as president.
From the end of 2008 here:
I used to catch my dad reading trash like Mandingo and “Masters of Falconhurst” in the early Seventies, books he’d hide away in a closet whenever the neighbors were about to come by. Although something like [Nugent’s political manifesto] “Ted, White and Blue” is non-fiction, it’s a book of quality in the same way that Fifties-made fiction for white men about sex between plantation owners and slaves, fisticuffs and torture made for books of quality.
Approximating $25/hardback, Regnery … made about $600,000 gross on “Ted, White & Blue.”
Sales of 24,000 would have merited Nugent being summarily dropped by a major label in the Seventies.
Another publication for right-wing nutjobs feigning sanity, the City Journal, featured an article by a conservative book reviewer who admitted to some heartburn over the success of “Ted, White and Blue.”
“William Regnery once told his publisher son, ‘If you ever begin to make any money in that business you are going into, you can be pretty sure that you are publishing the wrong kind of books,” writes the reviewer.
“Regnery is now highly profitable, and the elder Regnery’s words loom over such titles as Chuck Norris’s Black Belt Patriotism and Ted Nugent’s Ted, White, and Blue.”
Ted Nugent — from the archives.
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04.01.10
Posted in Extremism, Rock 'n' Roll at 10:04 am by George Smith
Updated
Although the Allentown Morning Call seems not to have yet noticed that local rock band Poker Face was on Hutaree iPods, the rival Easton newspaper, the Express-Times — did. However, even in this, the more interesting stuff on the band — quoted below — was overlooked.
Said the Easton newspaper here:
A group of Christian militants arrested last week for plotting to murder police officers might have been listening to music from the Lehigh Valley while they prepared.
One of the songs by Poker Face, an Allentown-based rock band, has been featured in a militia training video used by Hutaree, the Michigan-based Christian militia group.
Nine members of Hutaree were arrested last weekend for plotting to shoot a police officer then plant homemade bombs at his police funeral and kill even more officers.
Poker Face, a staple of the Lehigh Valley music scene for two decades, dubs itself a “protest rock” band whose mission is “to expose the lies and scandals coming out of the Union’s Capitol,” according to its Web site.
Paul Topete, singer and guitarist for the four-man band, said he has had no interaction with Hutaree or any knowledge about the group’s activities beyond the use of the song.
However, Topete defended militias in general and told the Detroit Free Press the charges against Hutaree “sound like they’re trumped up.”
[Other Poker Face lyrics include] “Rise up! Rise up! Militias throughout the world / It’s time to end The Order’s globalist plans. / The Revolution is the only solution / When good government has gone bad.”
The Detroit Free Press has been covering the Hutaree and a story yesterday had this to say in reference to the Lehigh Valley band:
One of the [Hutaree’s] Facebook friends is Paul Topete, singer of the band Pokerface, from Allentown, Pa. Topete said Tuesday that he has had a few interactions with Hutaree because militia members play his band’s music for training videos.
“These are defensive training videos,” Topete said, describing his music as revolutionary protest rock. “Militias are defensive. We love our country, and we love our constitution, and we are not the ones trying to subvert our country.
Yep, it’s something of an honorific when your protest band calling for removal of “Obamas commie-fascist nation” has its music adapted for white Christian identity militia training videos.
The next comments — bluntly self-impeaching as they are — come from a long interview with Poker Face’s Paul Topete here.
Freedom Fighters will mainly come from the liberty-loving common man, whose ideology can be reduced to Life, Liberty and Property or simpler terms … Freedom vs Tyranny, and no taxation without representation. People from other groups will enjoin the fight, but it will be of convenience, and jumping on a bandwagon. Remember, all –isms of the last 500 years came from and grew out of the Sabbatean-Jewish mindset. Bolshevism, Communism, Socialism, Feminism, Jacobism, Neo-Conism . . . It is these satanic Jews, and the Rosicrucian Goyim henchmen that need to be erased from our planet. They are the cancer that is destroying humanity. All for the sake of greed and power. They want what little you and I have, while we want NOTHING of them or their ill-gotten fortunes. We believe in live, let live, while they practice: just who will get to live in the future.
The satanic Jews as a cancer destroying humanity slip of the tongue certainly stands to win a lot of friends for the band once it gets into even wider circulation.
But there’s more, lots more:
American Patriot talk radio has done a lot for us. Especially after we were attacked by a racist organization called OPP who are funded and directed by everyone’s favorite traitors, the [Anti-Defamation League] & the [Southern Poverty Law Center]. Both organizations should be investigated, tried and imprisoned for their roles in the 1995 Domestic
Terrorism bombing of the Federal Murrah building in Oklahoma City. Instead the false flag patsy Tim McVeigh, took the Lee Harvey Oswald FALL for it.
And a couple years ago, a Poker Face gig was cancelled at Rutgers University, for now obvious reasons.
Topete explains his view of it:
The event at Rutgers University was cancelled on us. We where suppose to have played for the New Jersey State Libertarians. Instead this story about our gig getting canceled by these twats’ efforts reached an international audience and gained Poker Face an even greater listening audience then [sic] before … Thanks to Darnell … We were labelled haters, racists, supremacists, anti-semites for just saying and posting the truth about the holoco$t, the domination of the African slave trade into the New World by Jewish merchants, Israel and NeoCons behind 9/11 events, Globalist forces shoving the North American Union and the Illegal alien Invasion down our throats etc … go to our politically incorrect forum board for yourselves …
Poker Face’s homepage links directly to the “Barnes Review,” an agency devoted to Holocaust denial. It is semi-well known for infamously asserting Hitler was an overlooked candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize.
And as if that is not enough, there is Poker Face’s link to an Internet radio broadcast called Pastor Dan, in which long anti-Semitic white Christian identity sermons are served up for consumption. (On their website it’s called ‘Yaweh by Design’.)
In November, the Morning Call newspaper wrote about Poker Face’s new record. The paper somehow managed to miss all of this, accidentally making a good argument that Tribune Company’s firing of everyone it can in editorial for the sake of the bottom line doesn’t make a better product. It’s apparent stripping editorial of experience and talent does not make the place a richer source of accuracy and helpful consumer news.
The Call’s unintentionally hilarious review is here.
Yesterday, DD wrote of it here.
Said the Morning Call of Poker Face:
There is a goofy brilliance on “Peace or War: Songs for the Revolution,??? and I mean that as a compliment. In a time when so many bands sound alike, these guys are following their own road.
Knock, knock — features editor Jodi Duckett! Anyone home?
Commented another website in 2008, on Poker Face’s rocking out for presidential candidate Ron Paul:
In the stuffy world of politics, the Ron Paul campaign has earned the reputation of being something like a raucous, freedom-loving party. A raucous, freedom-loving party with lots of paranoid bigots. So it would probably be more surprising if the band reportedly headlining RonPaulapalooza didn’t have a few teeny-tiny problems with the Jews, who they feel are trying to destroy everybody. The band Poker Face enjoys churning out a hard-chargin’ “freedom rock” that they developed under the influence of Boston, the Beatles, and Frank Zappa, as well as a firm conviction that the Holocaust did not happen and that the Jews are in fact the lead agents of a “Satanic World Order.”
The original announcement at Ron Paul Warroom.
Amusingly understated Morning Call newspaper music blog headline. Ongoing discussion title on Poker Face website: “The Holohaux & the neo-religious CULT of Holohauxianity ~ Witnesses to the Gas Chambers of Auschwitz – there are none.”
Anyway, this friends-of-the-Hutaree thing could be inspiration for more Poker Face material. Now the FBI probably really is watching them.
Poker Face — Morning Call ‘Band of the Week’.
The Morning Call finally gets around to covering Poker Face but still can’t quite puts its finger on all the vexing details.
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03.31.10
Posted in Extremism, Rock 'n' Roll at 10:33 am by George Smith
Many years ago, I used to write for the Morning Call newspaper in Allentown, PA. And I still refer to it from time to time.
The newspaper, like many small provincial operations, was mad to publicize any and all locals, no matter how odious they might be. If they were from town, the reasoning was, they had to be great. Plus they’d always buy a couple copies of the newspaper if they could see themselves in it.
The news about the arrests of the Christian white identity nuts looking to spark a revolution for the bringing down of the US government took me out to the website of the Hutaree.
There — right up front — was a link to the Hutaree’s favorite rock band, Poker Face.
My colleague, Chuck, also noticed on the I Love Music chat board (link in the Blogroll section). He pointed out the band was from Bethlehem and that he’d listened to a number of promotional CDs from them over the years.
Now, this ain’t gonna be the rare occasion of me making nice. It’s another example of how the Lehigh Valley is home to a large assortment of far right kooks with views on politics and anyone who’s not like them characterized only by fear and unreasoning hostility.
The Morning Call newspaper had a free-lancer review Poker Face in November of last year. It’s here.
Poker Face, explained the newspaper, was making a political statement in hard rock.
Here’s a ‘political statement’ on the Hutaree, such as it is — a no-comment with comment, from the Poker Face website yesterday:
At the present time, Poker Face has no comment on the situation developing/unfolding with the Hutaree folks.
But given the governments track record against we the free, it makes us suspect government motives first, not the Hutaree.
The band, the website explains, “has been dubbed the leading truth/freedom band in the Union … this four piece band has made it their mission to expose the lies & scandals coming out the Union’s Capitol.”
For the Morning Call, Dave Howell wrote this unintentionally hilarious bit:
There is a goofy brilliance on “Peace or War: Songs for the Revolution,??? and I mean that as a compliment. In a time when so many bands sound alike, these guys are following their own road.
Having worked there this is not really a surprise.
The Morning Call is a place where many, but by no means all, of the employees are half-assed shucks incapable of noting even painfully obvious details about the subjects they choose to cover.
Yes, Poker Face is definitely following a unique road, one many decent people might choose not to even tepidly recommend.
Sparked by natural intellectual curiosity, colleague Chuck spent more time than was perhaps wise on Poker Face material.
And I defer to him, on I Love Music, for this:
As for Poker Face, what I called “flirting with Anti-Semitism” above might be understating things, given their complaints about “how many treasonous dual loyalist Jews have gotten away with their SPYING crimes,” not to mention, uh, “the fraud of the holocaust.” (And in re: Oklahoma, they call [Tim McVeigh], “Tom McVay,” say he was a Patsy.)
Lyric snips, displayed on the website, taken from various tunes:
ABC, CBS, NBC CNN…. AP, UPI, BBC LIE THE LIE
Litton, Merck & Glaxo, Phizer Lilly J& J…. CDC, FDA NIH & AMA Time, Warner, AOL, Viacom & Disney ….. Exxon, Mobil, Amoco, Texaco Ford, Rand, Heritage, Rockefeller, Carnegie ….. Illuminati, Fabians, Jacobins, Club of Rome Darwin, Karl Marx, Gramsci, Albert Pike ….. TriLats, Bilderberg, CFR are the whores
GATT, NAFTA, IMF, World Trade, & World Bank .. WACO, OKC Gordon Khal,& Ruby Ridge WACO, OKC Gordon Khal,& Ruby Ridge, Were JFK & RFK murdered by our CIA Were JFK & MLK murdered by our CIA, Were JFK & RFK murdered by our CIA
It’s actually Gordon Kahl — the organizer of a chapter of the anti-Semitic group called Posse Comitatus, one responsible for shootouts with government men in which two of the latter were killed.
From “FinCen,” a song apparently aimed at the US government’s financial crimes enforcement unit:
I think we’ve had just about enough
It won’t take to much to set things off
Down, you’re going down
I know my brothers back me up
Don’t, you, tell
Tell me what to do
You suck the life force from men’s souls
You offer nothing, to the fold
From “Freedoms on the Run”:
Welcome to this New world Circus
Coming to a homeland near you
Jack Boots and Billy clubs are GAY fashion
Marching to Obamas Commie-Fascist nation
Help me to stuff these fucks in a box
They wont, they wont be missed at all
Imagine, this world free from their disease
Some day, there will be true rest and peace
Another great line from Dave Howell is this:
Far from churning out the usual banal relationship and partying songs, this rocking foursome concentrate on politics, which are libertarian to the max.
If only.
Libertarian isn’t quite the word one reaches for upon seeing that a violent old dead member of the Posse Comitatus is a hero. Or for people who think heavily armed white Christian identity fanatics are always being framed by the government.
And anyone who sings about ‘commie-fascists’ is just a little too dumb for that political categorization.
It’s disrespectful to the Cato Institute people, dontcha think?
More.
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