I've finally achieved consistency in my life. Any person of average or above intelligence can predict what I will say next with unerring accuracy. And what I say will always be wrong.

Saturday, January 26, 2008

[CanYoAssDigIt] Supreme Cool Beings trivia answer

Maybe a couple of days ago I posted the comment and question -
"[when I go back to brazil] it would be really cool to do that Mr.
Potatohead song - was
that the Supreme Cool Beings that did it? Does anybody have a recording?"

Well, I have it from three sources

1. I got an mp3 from a 23 year old guy in the UK - imagine that, kids
to day are still listening to the Supreme Cool Beings
2. This song as well as all the other songs on "Survival of the
Coolest" can be streamed from http://beingcrayola.multiply.com/
I guess you have to be a member of Multiply to do this...
3. I am the lucky owner of a "Survival of the Coolest" cassette, the
very first release on the now mighty K label.

I didn't know the song was on there, because I thought the song's
title was "Plastic Potato Head, but actually, it's "Your Name Here" -
oh, those crazy punk rock kids and their wacky song titles.

I forwarded both this song and Song For America by the Westside
Lockers to my collaborators in Brazil, and they went over well, so
chances are good we'll try to work them up for the next time we do a
show.

Assuming I can find the lyric sheet I got from S. O'Neil for Song For
America last time I performed this song about 8 years ago, I can't
make out half the lyrics on the record.... or if I can track him down
again, it was a tough job last time I did it, and he appears to be
even more reclusive now...

I've just about milked the Brazil Trip for all it's worth, but you
might be interested in my wife's blog of it:

http://bajabulile.blogspot.com/.

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Friday, January 25, 2008

[CanYoAssDigIt] And now for something completely different...

I found these lyrics of mine in a notebook. I wrote them in January
1988. It's pretty depressing that they are as true today as they were
20 years ago... I just changed the name "Pat Robertson" to "Mike
Huckabee" and a couple of other words here and there, and badabang
badaboom, it was ready to record.

You can listen to it (though I don't know why anybody would want to) at
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm?bandID=686996&songID=6205690

The Church of the Gilded Mind

You're buying your salvation
You're riding on the gravy train
On your way to meet our savior
In the clouds above the plain

You know that God's rich treasures
Are too precious for the poor
So you bought a gun to hold them back
The wolves circling at your door

Chorus
And everything is beautiful
The glories we will find
When we're taking our communion in
The Church of the Gilded Mind

It's good to know when you talk to God
He patches you right through
And friends like me have an inside track
I"m so glad that it's true

You took that Domino's Pizza guy
To dinner yesterday
You signed and sealed the papers
And then you bowed your heads to pray

Chorus

You're working with Mike Huckabee
To make faith the law of the land
Survival of the richest
Social Darwinism is God's plan

And God helps those who have it made
The devil takes those behind
And that's the way it ought to be
In the church of the Gilded Mind

Chorus

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Thursday, January 24, 2008

[CanYoAssDigIt] And I now wish to be known as Squiddly Diddly Squirmy Wormy

Sean Combs now prefers 'Sean John.'
Rap label boss Sean Combs has decided that he'd like to be known as "Sean John," in Diddy replacement of his most recent nickname "Diddy." "Diddy" – those who've actually paid attention will know – replaced the earlier nickname "Puff Daddy," which was a variation of the nickname "Puffy." "Sean John," apparently, is a moniker Combs has chosen to borrow from his signature clothing line. "I have always evolved and taken a different name each time," says Puffy/Puff Daddy/Diddy/Sean John. "It's nothing unusual where I come from." Wonder where he comes from.

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Monday, January 21, 2008

[CanYoAssDigIt] Another hero gone...

I am very sad to read this - I met Philip Agee at a Nicaraguan solidarity event in Seattle where he presented - it must have been the early 90s (I have no idea how he got into the country). To meet this great man was a high point of my life.  It's striking to me that after Agee exposed The Agency to save lives and prevent torture, the US government passed laws expressly for the purpose of getting Philip Agee - and preventing others from doing the same. This same government - perhaps some of the same people (Cheney goes back to the Nixon days) broke their own laws when they exposed Valerie Plame, so that they could invade countries illegally, and kill and torture people.  Yet they haven't been hounded out of country after country, or paid for their actions. 

MLK Day
January 21, 2008

How Many Share His Dream Today?

Philip Agee Versus the CIA

By JEAN-GUY ALLARD

Philip Agee, the former CIA agent who in 1968 had the courage to resign from an agency that was known for its criminal support of bloody dictators, claims that he made up his mind, one year before, the moment a woman he was sitting with in a restaurant in Mexico burst into tears upon hearing the news of Che Guevara's death.

This one anecdote exemplifies all the honor and integrity of the man who passed away at 73, this January 7, in the city of Havana, on Cuban soil where he continued to denounce the terrorist and subversive activities perpetrate by the U.S. intelligence service against the progressive governments and leaders of the continent.

Phillip B. Agee, a U.S. citizen, was a CIA officer working in Latin America for 12 years (Ecuador, Uruguay and Mexico) before his conscience forced him to leave its ranks in 1969. At that time his cover was working in the U.S. embassy in Mexico as an attaché to the 1968 Olympics. In 1967 he had been assigned to the CIA station in Mexico as reinforcement for the upcoming Games.

"Millions of people all over the world had been killed or had their lives destroyed by the CIA and the institutions it supports," Agee declared in a 1975 interview.

"I couldn't just sit by and do nothing ," he added.

Upon leaving the Company, while enduring threats and constant persecution that put his life in danger on more than one occasion, he managed to write the book "Inside the Company: CIA Diary."

This ingenuous synthesis of the criminal activities of the CIA in the Americas, was published in 1974 accompanied by an annex containing 22 pages of names of undercover agents dispersed across the continent. It was a bomb that blasted through all sectors of U.S. intelligence.

Determined to eliminate him, the CIA entrusted former Miami station chief Ted Shackley, known as the Blonde Ghost, with the mission to capture him. Agee was forced to leave France and took refuge in Cambridge, England; but Agee was then expelled by the British at the request of Washington.

Successively prevented from settling in Italy and in the Netherlands, where authorities were constantly pressured to deny him any kind of migratory status, and stripped of his U.S. passport for being a "threat to national security," Agee took refugein 1980 on the Caribbean island of Granada while it was under the revolutionary government of Maurice Bishop.

With the U.S. invasion of that small country in 1983, he fled to Nicaragua. And after the Washington-backed counterrevolution prevailed there, he accepted the offer of Cuba's hospitality.

Despite all the danger and difficulties, Agee published Dirty Work : The CIA in Western Europe , with Louis Wolf, as well as several essays and articles. He also granted interviews and assisted journalists in search of information.

On five occasions, the U.S. government attempted legal action against him for revealing secrets; but without success. His former bosses worried about the damage he could cause with the enormous amount of information he still retained.

Rabid, George Bush Sr., former CIA chief recycled into president who sponsored the formation of the terrorist organization CORU and operation Condor, labeled him a traitor and defamed him on numerous occasions. His wife Barbara, was forced to retract slanderous charges included in her autobiography.

A faithful friend of Cuba, Agee revealed how the island was victim of a new CIA global program to finance and promote so-called dissident organizations under the auspices of the Agency for International Development (AID) and a foundation expressly established in 1983 with this objective, The National Endowment for Democracy (NED).

While the New York Times, upon announcing his death, rebuked him for the significant "damage" he caused to the U.S . intelligence agency, the progressive media worldwide, to the contrary, recognized his service to humanity as a true patriot, for having unmasked an organization that took the use of violence to an extreme unprecedented by a contemporary power.

A power that while it protects a terrorist like Luis Posada Carriles, it continues to incarcerate, in sub-humane conditions, five anti-terrorist Cuban agents who attempted to thwart plots against their homeland.

With the entire world shocked by the torture inflicted on prisoners at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and the expansive network of interrogation centers run by the CIA around the globe, and with the discovery that the agency, in collusion with members of the Bush government have destroyed hundreds of hours of videotapes of interrogations employing "severe" techniqueswhat would a CIA agent think who joined the organization with the illusion of defending his country?

How many honorable members among the more than 20,000 that make up the immense machine have asked themselves, like Philip Agee did, if the time has come to give up the advantages of their position, finally change the course of their life, and join the struggle of billions of human beings who, armed only with the strength of their conviction, believe that a better world is possible?

Jean-Guy Allard lives in Cuba. He can be reached at: jean.guy.allard@gmail.com

This article was originally published in Spanish in La Republica.

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Sunday, January 20, 2008

[CanYoAssDigIt] The Waiters - I Got Ideas - on YouTube - the rest to follow today and tomorrow

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