[Video] President Obama’s Live Address on the NATO Action in Libya

[note: the live stream player has now been replaced by a youtube video embed courtesy PBS NewsHour]

[Video] Pioneering Female VP Candidate Geraldine Ferraro Dies at 75

“The first woman to run for U.S. vice president on a major party ticket has died. Geraldine Ferraro was 75.”

With all due respect though, let’s remember Shirley Chisholm too.

[MP3] Sole – Donald Trump In A Gilded Age (Mac Miller Detournement)

MP3 Download: Donald Trump In A Gilded Age(Mac Miller Detournement) by sole…

From Sole:

“The other day I was watching the new Mac Miller video, “Donald Trump.”   The song got stuck in my head, and I became obsessed with it.  I watched a few Mac Miller videos and decided he seemed like a good person. After all the bullshit I’ve dealt with over the years, the last thing I felt like doing was making something that could be construed as a diss record.  Because lets be honest, diss records are not very #BASED.

Over the past few months I’ve been slowly releasing  my previous Nuclear Winter detournments as I finish them.  So far I have  released “Bradley Manning Swag,” “Generation Hot,” & “White Rage.”    This time I decided to go after Donald trump himself, the CEO/dictator ego, and the absurdity of making songs about “balling” in a time where adults are earning wages unworthy of high school students.   Under Obama, the American empire continues to overreach, overspend, and under plan for the future.

Times are literally changing back.  Democracy has swept  the Middle East & African countries our chicken hawks have surely planned contingency/invasions on.  Americans stay passive as ever, with few impressive exceptions.  I suffer no illusions about the importance of talking about these issues in my music.  But it won’t prevent me from talking about what matters to me.

I think about the opiatic role that art takes in our society.  I think about the music blogs who seem to be perfectly content promoting art that does very little to intervene in our society or educate.   I think about all my musician friends who are so broke and depressed because labels put their needs ahead of the artists.   I think about how the middle class has dissolved into thin air and the top 1% have only gotten richer in the past decade. I think about the Bho Pal India’s chemical spilll and how these Wall Street leaches go unpunished.   I think about the fate of Kool Herc. I think about how as fast as the Pentagon cats burn money, the Federal Reserve is always there to print more. I think about the book “Society of the Spectacle” by Guy Debord, and how this book has only become more and more of a prophecy over the past 40+ years since its publication.

I feel kinda bad about dropping this song as tsunamis sweep over Japan.  But the song is done, so here it is.  I wrote this song on Wednesday. I knew we’d be getting lighter fluid everywhere, so I didn’t wanna do it in my house.   I called up Travis Egedy aka pictureplane and asked if we could do it at the Rhinoceropolis.  His response was “that’s what the Rhinoceropolis is for.”  Edited the lyrics and video together this morning and its uploading to youtube now.

I release this song with nothing but positive will and love for all my fellow artists.  This is some f-ck Donald trump shit and everything he stands for shit.  Recently on CNN Trump said we should be charging foreign counties for our military interventions. I think we should just close down all our bases, dismantle the CIA, the pentagon, and take care of our citizens.

My new album with the skyrider band Hello Cruel World drops on Fake Four Inc in July.”

– Sole

Not sure I fully cosign his geopolitical and economic analysis but at least he’s talking about this stuff! On a related note though, here’s some recommended reading: Nouriel Roubini’s Crisis Economics which I just finished yesterday….

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[Music Video] Jasiri X asks: Are Muslims Safe in America in ‘Wandering Strangers’?

And another really good one from Jasiri X….

“With Rep. Peter King holding hearings on “Muslim Radicalization”, and American Muslims being screamed at and harassed while attending a fundraiser for battered women, can Muslims safely live and pray in the United States of America?

Our new video “Wandering Strangers” raise questions about who’s a terrorist, and why people seem to forget freedom of religion is a constitutional right. Wandering Strangers was produced by Kreid and directed by Paradise Gray.”

LYRICS:
And I too shed tears on 9-11
asking God why looking for the signs in heaven
But let me remind the reverend
When it came to lynching the Christian knights were behind the weapons
When burning crosses in the nighttime were present
In the name of Jesus we were terrorized no question
Our hurt is the witness but we aint hate the church or religion
We put the blame on the person who did it you should search for forgiveness
this verse for the critics you’re totally wrong
why did Thomas Jefferson have a Holy Qur’an
when you mention radicals why is it only Islam
wasn’t Timothy McVeigh OK with a bomb
didn’t the government fund Saddam
and the Taliban in Afghanistan before it was Obama’s Vietnam
didn’t ya forefathers come to these shores and waters
to escape persecution religious wars and slaughter
and wrote the Constitution will you ignore the authors
without freedom of religion then do you see us as citizens
burning Qur’ans just leads to more division
ain’t that what the terrorist wanted which sides really winning

Imagine being denied a place to pray
in America where your just trying to make a way
Is this the land of the free I think it’s safe to say
we coming face to face with hate today
wasted racists make it seem like Islam’s the enemy
callin Obama a Muslim want him gone like Kennedy
wasn’t love thy neighbor how Jesus formed his ministry
but I don’t qualify cause I’m the wrong identity
say good bye integrity and so long dignity
They say it’s not religion just the mosque vicinity
to Ground Zero
then dishonor the 1st responders by denying em health care is that how you crown heroes
this is the way truth sounds in ya earlobe
stop listening to those Fox clowns and weirdos
how you gonna justify vilifying and hating
when the funder of the Kingdom foundation owns ya station
and if it’s about freedom what are we really debating
if we all brothers and sisters why aren’t we relating
they say it’s about respect then call us terrorists
Nazis, jihadists, but never Americans

[Music Video] Jasiri X – American Workers Vs Multi-Billionaires

Jasiri speaks truth to power yet again:

“Our latest video “American Workers Vs Multi-Billionaires” was filmed on location in Madison, Wisconsin, where thousands of hard working Americans came together in unity to fight back against a Governor bought and paid for by Billionaires to break up Unions and deny workers collective bargaining and a living wage. “American Workers Vs Multi-Billionaires” was produced by Cynik Lethal and directed by Paradise Gray.”

LYRICS:
Scott Walker works for multi billionaires
John Boehner works for multi billionaires
while corporations get billions in welfare
and millions in this country been out of work for years

Rupert Murdoch is multi billionaires
the Koch brothers are multi Billionaire
they wanna end social security and medicare
while millions in this country don’t have a dime to spare