Pepe Escobar Talks Live With The Real News' Paul Jay About The Outcome Of The Iranian Election
It's useless to wait—for a breakthrough, for the revolution, the nuclear apocalypse or a social movement. To go on waiting is madness. The catastrophe is not coming, it is here. We are already situated within the collapse of a civilization. It is within this reality the me must choose sides.
The Coming Insurrection
“Two centuries of capitalism and market nihilism have brought us to the most extreme alienations—from ourselves, from others, from worlds. The fiction of the individual has decomposed with the same speed that it once became real. Children of the metropolis, we offer this wager: that it’s in the most profound deprivation of existence—perpetually stifled, perpetually conjured away—that the possibility of communism resides.”—
The Coming Insurrection, Introduction to the English edition
The Coming Insurrection is an eloquent call to arms arising from the recent waves of social contestation in France and Europe. Written by the anonymous Invisible Committee in the vein of Guy Debord—and with comparable elegance—it has been proclaimed a manual for terrorism by the French government (who recently arrested its alleged authors). One of its members more adequately described the group as "the name given to a collective voice bent on denouncing contemporary cynicism and reality."
The Coming Insurrection is a strategic prescription for an emergent war-machine to "spread anarchy and live communism Written in the wake of the riots that erupted throughout the Paris suburbs in the fall of 2005 and presaging more recent riots and general strikes in France and Greece, The Coming Insurrection articulates a rejection of the official Left and its reformist agenda, aligning itself instead with the younger, wilder forms of resistance that have emerged in Europe around recent struggles against immigration control and the "war on terror." Hot-wired to the movement of '77 in Italy, its preferred historical reference point, The Coming Insurrection formulates an ethics that takes as its starting point theft, sabotage, the refusal to work, and the elaboration of collective, self-organized forms-of-life. It is a philosophical statement that addresses the growing number of those—in France, in the United States, and elsewhere—who refuse the idea that theory, politics, and life are separate realms.
The Invisible Committee is a collective and anonymous penname
The Invisible Committee is a collective and anonymous penname
Sunday, June 7th – 7:00 pm
THE REVOLUTION OF DESIRE SCREENING AND PERFORMANCES
THE REVOLUTION OF DESIRE SCREENING AND PERFORMANCES
Please join us in celebrating the closing of the show Screwball Asses at the Company in Chinatown featuring artworks by Gene Barnes AKA Portia Manson, Sheyla Baykal, Gary Lee Boas, Robert Alan Hyde, Hedi El Kholti, Matt Fishbeck, Mark Flores, Paul Gellman, David Jones, William E. Jones, Brian Kenny, Slava Mogutin, and Donnie & Travis; and the upcoming release by Semiotext(e) of Guy Hocquenghem's pamphlet, The Screwball Asses.
Perfomances at The Company at 7:30 PM by Tall Paul + Mare, and Alex Black + Samuel Vasquez.
The Company
946 Yale Street, Los Angeles, Ca, 90012
Screening at the Mountain Bar at 8:30 PM of The Revolution of Desire by Alessandro Avellis & Gabriele Ferluga, 2006 (52 mn).
The Revolution of Desire explores the nebulous post-'68 circumstances that birthed the sexual liberation movement in France, and interrogates its transformation from a grassroots rebellion to an effort to normalize homosexuals. Referencing the work of impassioned activists and intriguingly titled essays Le rapport contre la normalité (“A Report Against Normalcy”) and Trois milliards de pervers (“Three Billion Perverts”) , the film sketches the lives of Guy Hocquenghem and Françoise d’Eaubonne, brilliant intellectuals and unconditional supporters of the “revolution of desire.” We meet philosopher René Schérer, MLF photographer Catherine Deudon, militant filmmaker Carole Roussopoulos, Guy’s brother Joani Hocquenghem, historian Marie-Jo Bonnet, the Panthères roses and numerous other key players. The Revolution of Desire is a rare and valuable document that explores the past but more importantly questions the present.
The Mountain Bar
473 Gin Ling Way, Los Angeles, Ca, 90012
comic by Tim Bollinger
Pecha Kucha at Wellington Overseas Terminal
Dear Pecha Kucha Fans
First of all a big thank you to all of you for supporting our Pecha Kucha Nights in Wellington and for telling all your friends about the one coming up!
I am delighted to announce the current line-up for our next Pecha Kucha Night at the wonderful Overseas Terminal venue on 9 June. We will start at 7.30 pm sharp with the first presentation so come early to grab a seat. There will be a great bar, a brilliant wood burner and some food too. Door sales cash only, $9.
The line up so far confirmed is:
Ralph Johns // landscape architect // Isthmus Group Limited // about new
sea land
Stacey Childs // about discounderworld
Sam Trubridge // Director & Designer // about Sleep/Wake
Mervin Singham // Artist // about his inspiration for his work
Edward Lynden-Bell // Writer & Filmmaker // about the Drake Equation
Tim Bollinger // Cartoonist // about his cartoons
Joshua Judkins // about playing "The Lost Ring" and Ponoko
Jared Forbes // Creative Director // Lumen Digital Ltd
Emma Knight // Experience Design Consultant/Snowboarder
Luke Pittar // on travel sketching as an educational experience
Chris Jackson // industrial designer // 2000 years in 20 chairs
Maurice Bennett // the toastman//
Tao Wells // unemployed
Pecha Kucha at Wellington Overseas Terminal
Dear Pecha Kucha Fans
First of all a big thank you to all of you for supporting our Pecha Kucha Nights in Wellington and for telling all your friends about the one coming up!
I am delighted to announce the current line-up for our next Pecha Kucha Night at the wonderful Overseas Terminal venue on 9 June. We will start at 7.30 pm sharp with the first presentation so come early to grab a seat. There will be a great bar, a brilliant wood burner and some food too. Door sales cash only, $9.
The line up so far confirmed is:
Ralph Johns // landscape architect // Isthmus Group Limited // about new
sea land
Stacey Childs // about discounderworld
Sam Trubridge // Director & Designer // about Sleep/Wake
Mervin Singham // Artist // about his inspiration for his work
Edward Lynden-Bell // Writer & Filmmaker // about the Drake Equation
Tim Bollinger // Cartoonist // about his cartoons
Joshua Judkins // about playing "The Lost Ring" and Ponoko
Jared Forbes // Creative Director // Lumen Digital Ltd
Emma Knight // Experience Design Consultant/Snowboarder
Luke Pittar // on travel sketching as an educational experience
Chris Jackson // industrial designer // 2000 years in 20 chairs
Maurice Bennett // the toastman//
Tao Wells // unemployed
Killing them softly with air strikes
Don't Be Fooled by the Taliban Hysteria in Pakistan: They Aren't Going to Take Over
By Pepe Escobar, Asia Times. Posted May 1, 2009.
The fear being stoked of Taliban taking over nuclear-armed Pakistan are a ruse to legitimize Obama's expanding Af-Pak war.
Apocalypse Now. Run for cover. The turbans are coming. This is the state of Pakistan today, according to the current hysteria disseminated by the Barack Obama administration and United States corporate media - from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to The New York Times. Even British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said on the record that Pakistani Talibanistan is a threat to the security of Britain.
But unlike St Petersburg in 1917 or Tehran in late 1978, Islamabad won't fall tomorrow to a turban revolution.
Pakistan is not an ungovernable Somalia. The numbers tell the story. At least 55% of Pakistan's 170 million-strong population are Punjabis. There's no evidence they are about to embraceTalibanistan; they are essentially Shi'ites, Sufis or a mix of both. Around 50 million are Sindhis - faithful followers of the late Benazir Bhutto and her husband, now President Asif Ali Zardari's centrist and overwhelmingly secular Pakistan People's Party. Talibanistan fanatics in these two provinces - amounting to 85% of Pakistan's population, with a heavy concentration of the urban middle class - are an infinitesimal minority.
The Pakistan-based Taliban - subdivided in roughly three major groups, amounting to less than 10,000 fighters with no air force, no Predator drones, no tanks and no heavily weaponized vehicles - are concentrated in the Pashtun tribal areas, in some districts of North-West Frontier Province (NWFP), and some very localized, small parts of Punjab.
To believe this rag-tag band could rout the well-equipped, very professional 550,000-strong Pakistani army, the sixth-largest military in the world, which has already met the Indian colossus in battle, is a ludicrous proposition.
Moreover, there's no evidence the Taliban, in Afghanistan or in Pakistan, have any capability to hit a target outside of "Af-Pak"(Afghanistan and Pakistan). That's mythical al-Qaeda's privileged territory. As for the nuclear hysteria of the Taliban being able to crack the Pakistani army codes for the country's nuclear arsenal (most of the Taliban, by the way, are semi-literate), even Obama, at his 100-day news conference, stressed the nuclear arsenal was safe.
Of course, there's a smatter of junior Pashtun army officers who sympathize with the Taliban - as well as significant sections of the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence agency. But the military institution itself is backed by none other than the American army - with which it has been closely intertwined since the 1970s. Zardari would be a fool to unleash a mass killing of Pakistani Pashtuns; on the contrary, Pashtuns can be very useful for Islamabad's own designs.
Zardari's government this week had to send in troops and the air force to deal with the Buner problem, in the Malakand district of NWFP, which shares a border with Kunar province in Afghanistan and thus is relatively close to US and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) troops. They are fighting less than 500 members of the Tehrik-e Taliban-e Pakistan (TTP). But for the Pakistani army, the possibility of the area joining Talibanistan is a great asset - because this skyrockets Pakistani control of Pashtun southern Afghanistan, ever in accordance to the eternal "strategic depth" doctrine prevailing in Islamabad.
Read the rest at Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/story/139228/don%27t_be_fooled_by_the_taliban_hysteria_in_pakistan%3A_they_aren%27t_going_to_take_over/
Greg Malcolm and Peter Trevelyan at White Fungus Relocation Party
Come to Enjoy this Saturday evening for a one night only performance by Greg Malcolm and a temporary light installation by Peter Trevelyan as White Fungus celebrates four-and-a-half years and ten issues in Wellington and its upcoming move to Taiwan.
White Fungus will be returning to Taichung City where its founders spent four years before beginning the magazine in 2004.
White Fungus Editor Ron Hanson says the team is looking forward to a new adventure and a chance to re-engage with Taiwan.
"Taiwan's a dynamic place and we're all about cross-cultural communication," Hanson says. "We look forward to getting involved in the local art scene and producing the next issue of the magazine."
White Fungus's Trip To Taiwan Is Kindly Supported by Asia New Zealand Foundation.
White Fungus Relocation Party
Greg Malcolm
Peter Trevelyan
DJ Powerfull and the Lost Weekend
Enjoy
Level 1, 147 Cuba St
Wellington
6:30-8:30
Saturday
May 2 Free
DISCUSSION
Is less more? Debating Apple on Moore
One Day Sculpture discussion
von Kohorn Room, Museum of Wellington
Thursday
23 April 2009
5.30-7pm
Free entry, all welcome.
Following on from Billy Apple’s One Day Sculpture, this discussion will pick up on Apple’s project, to assess the validity of his proposition “Less is Moore ” and canvass the history of Moore ’s sculpture and its place in his oeuvre. In association with the Museum of Wellington , this public forum will provide an opportunity for a range of key stakeholders to share their points of view and involve the public in debating the issues raised.
Panel speakers will include: Christina Barton (Director of the Adam Art Gallery and curator of the exhibition Billy Apple New York 1969-1973), Vikki Muxlow (Parks and Gardens, Wellington City Council); Jack Fry (Freelance conservator); Neil Plimmer (Wellington Sculpture Trust); Jeanne Macaskill (artist), Carolina Izzo (art conservator) chaired by David Cross (Litmus Research Initiative Director, Massey University ).
One Day Sculpture is led by the Litmus Research Initiative, Massey University with UK curator Claire Doherty and realised in partnership with arts organisations across New Zealand .
Billy Apple’s One Day Sculpture project Less is Moore was commissioned by the Adam Art Gallery , Victoria University of Wellington.
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ARTIST’S TALK
Billy Apple on New York
Adam Art Gallery
Friday 24 April
12-1pm
Billy Apple is a conceptual artist who is known for his rigorous investigation of the sites, systems and social relations that structure the art world. After studying graphic design in London and contributing to early pop art in Britain he left for New York in 1964. Apple lived there until 1990 before returning to New Zealand , where he continues to work and exhibit widely. Over a career spanning 50 years he has produced objects, text pieces, photographs, installations and undertaken actions that test definitions of art, challenge the structuring suppositions of artistic identity, expose the workings of the art system and demonstrate art’s permeability to larger social, political and economic forces.
Join artist Billy Apple and exhibition curator and Director of the Adam Art Gallery , Christina Barton , for a tour of the exhibition Billy Apple New York 1969-1973, which focuses on the short but intense period in which Apple ran a small not-for-profit gallery at 161 West 23rd Street as a venue for his own work and for others who shared his ambition to test the definitions of art making and find new models that would serve as an alternative to the commercial gallery system. This will be a rare opportunity to hear first-hand what it was like to be in New York at this time and to gain insights into the alternative art scene that fostered the radical practices that were galvanising the art scene in New York in the early 1970s.
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comic by terry bag
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White Fungus Reviewed At Lumiere Reader
Reviewed by Thomasin Sleigh
THE RECENT White Fungus is a big box of words. Good words. All arranged well and clearly and in tidy lines for ease of reading. It is great to see this publication reach issue number ten given the difficulties involved in sustaining niche publications in New Zealand. Part of its charm I guess is that White Fungus isn’t that ‘niche’ and actually caters to many tastes – Issue 10 includes poetry, prose, political critique, page works, historical snippets, art criticism and a tasty little run down on the 300BC cynic Diogenes to finish. Like a Greek after dinner mint.
The first article of White Fungus is often the best. This issue starts with a sensationalist story of early zoological collecting in colonial New Zealand. It is a deft account of the intrepid amateur zoologists who trekked around New Zealand in the mid 1800s hunting for remnants of the mythical bird, ‘the moa’. The story has a pleasing arc to it, and is made all the more potent by the almost stereotypical characters described by writer Terry Bag. There is the evil scientist back in England bent on fame and fortune who lies, schemes and belittles his colleagues. To balance the scales there is also the earnest, dedicated zoologist who faithfully retains specimens sent back to him from his son tramping around the wilds of New Zealand. It’s riveting stuff, a science soap opera with interesting conflations of fact, science, colonialist ideology and mythology.
Other highlights include some pointedly grotesque page works by Judy Darragh. Common visual tropes – a black panther, a naked woman, a still life of food – have been coated by the artist in trickles of twinky paint which pool and obscure the images. I was reminded of Dan Arps’ similarly subversive posters in recent shows; suggestive takes on romantic urban signs.
Read the rest at Lumiere Reader: http://lumiere.net.nz/reader/arts.php/item/2082
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Obama tops Bush's Record Military Budget By 20 Billion
Obama's Top Economic Adviser Is Greedy and Highly Compromised
By Matt Taibbi, True/Slant.
Among the payoffs Larry Summers received: $45K from Merrill Lynch days before he joined Obama's team. And it gets worse.
"But Summers, a leading architect of the administration's economic policies and response to the global recession, appears to have collected the most income. Financial institutions including JP Morgan, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch paid Summers for speaking appearances in 2008. Fees ranged from $45,000 for a Nov. 12 Merrill Lynch appearance to $135,000 for an April 16 visit to Goldman Sachs, according to his disclosure form." -- Washingtonpost.com
So I guess that $45,000 speaking fee from Merrill Lynch wasn't technically a bribe because Summers wasn't named to Obama's economic transition team until Nov. 24 — a full 12 days later. I'm sure Larry Summers had absolutely no inkling whatsoever that he was going to be one of the key advisers to the new administration on Nov. 12.
It likewise makes perfect sense that Merrill Lynch, a company just months removed from having to be rescued from bankruptcy by an 11th-hour, pseudo-state-subsidized buyout by Bank of America, would decide to spend $45,000 on a speaking appearance by Summers because, well, they really valued his economic expertise and his proven ability to rally the troops with his stirring rhetoric.
It certainly had nothing to do with the fact that a) it was eight days after a Democrat was elected to the presidency; b) Summers had a long history of being one of the key policymakers in Democratic Party politics; and c) Merrill was absolutely not going to survive more than a few more months unless taxpayers forked over another 20 billion or so to cover the giant hole in Merrill's balance sheet that was, at that time, still being hidden from Bank of America and its shareholders.
And how about that $135,000 appearance for Goldman Sachs in April, when Summers was already involved with Democratic Party politics again? That wasn't a surreptitious campaign contribution at all!
But you have to give Goldman credit: it sure is thorough. It literally leaves no stone unturned.
One has to love the sequence of events here. Back in 2004, Goldman chief Hank Paulson goes to SEC chief William Donaldson and petitions to have lending restrictions relaxed for the top five investment banks. Donaldson rolls over, the restrictions are relaxed, and it's a disaster, as the top five banks immediately overleverage themselves — two of the five, Bear Stearns and Lehman, would actually collapse, at least partially as a result of being insanely overleveraged.
In the midst of this disaster, Paulson is named Treasury secretary. He does nothing about the worsening financial crisis until it is far too late, then allows one of Goldman's biggest competitors, Lehman, to fail while at the same time intervening on a huge scale to save AIG, which just happens to owe Goldman a ton of money.
When AIG is bailed out, its government regulator is not in the room, but the new chief of Goldman, Lloyd Blankfein, is. In fact, Goldman Sachs ultimately receives about $13 billion of the money paid to AIG by the government in the bailout, reportedly getting paid 100 cents on the dollar for its AIG exposure, despite the fact that the bank claimed it wasn't going to suffer severe losses if AIG collapsed.
Later, another former Goldman executive, Ed Liddy, is installed as head of AIG -- which just happens to get bailed out twice more, the last time to the tune of $30 billion.
The last two bailouts of AIG take place after a former Goldman chief, Robert Rubin (who, incidentally, helped start this mess by ramming through a series of i-banker wet-dream deregulatory moves as Treasury secretary for Clinton in the 1990s), is named to the Obama transition team, joining Summers (who had already taken $135,000 from Goldman that year) and Timothy Geithner (a protege of another Goldman alum, John Thain, former president and chief operating officer and notorious scumbag).
When it comes time for new Treasury Secretary Geithner to name a chief of staff, he chooses Mark Patterson, who is less than a year removed from working as a lobbyist for … Goldman Sachs. Patterson's great contribution to society as a Goldman lobbyist was opposing a 2007 measure introduced in the Senate by presidential candidate Barack Obama to rein in executive compensation.
I remember watching Obama the presidential candidate give a speech in Mason City, Iowa, in 2007. Obama had made a big show of not having registered lobbyists working for his campaign, and he promised that lobbyists "won't work in my White House." The line was a hit and became part of Obama's stump speech. I must have heard it two dozen times.
A little over a year later, he put a registered lobbyist of a bailed-out investment bank into a job whose primary responsibility is administering bailout money.
It gets worse. According to a Glenn Greenwald piece I just read, even Gary Gensler is a former Goldman employee. That absolutely blows my mind. Genlser is Obama's choice to head the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, whose purview is the derivatives market. The CFTC was the battleground where ages ago Rubin, Summers, and then-Rubin aide Gensler teamed up to whack CFTC chief Brooksley Born, who had serious concerns about the burgeoning derivatives market, in particular the credit-default swap market. Rubin overturned Born's recommendations, and derivatives were freed from most regulation. That economic Alamo led almost directly to the AIG disaster.
Read the rest at Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/democracy/136008/obama%27s_top_economic_adviser_is_greedy_and_highly_compromised/
http://trueslant.com/
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Obama's Top Economic Adviser Is Greedy and Highly Compromised
By Matt Taibbi, True/Slant.
Among the payoffs Larry Summers received: $45K from Merrill Lynch days before he joined Obama's team. And it gets worse.
"But Summers, a leading architect of the administration's economic policies and response to the global recession, appears to have collected the most income. Financial institutions including JP Morgan, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch paid Summers for speaking appearances in 2008. Fees ranged from $45,000 for a Nov. 12 Merrill Lynch appearance to $135,000 for an April 16 visit to Goldman Sachs, according to his disclosure form." -- Washingtonpost.com
So I guess that $45,000 speaking fee from Merrill Lynch wasn't technically a bribe because Summers wasn't named to Obama's economic transition team until Nov. 24 — a full 12 days later. I'm sure Larry Summers had absolutely no inkling whatsoever that he was going to be one of the key advisers to the new administration on Nov. 12.
It likewise makes perfect sense that Merrill Lynch, a company just months removed from having to be rescued from bankruptcy by an 11th-hour, pseudo-state-subsidized buyout by Bank of America, would decide to spend $45,000 on a speaking appearance by Summers because, well, they really valued his economic expertise and his proven ability to rally the troops with his stirring rhetoric.
It certainly had nothing to do with the fact that a) it was eight days after a Democrat was elected to the presidency; b) Summers had a long history of being one of the key policymakers in Democratic Party politics; and c) Merrill was absolutely not going to survive more than a few more months unless taxpayers forked over another 20 billion or so to cover the giant hole in Merrill's balance sheet that was, at that time, still being hidden from Bank of America and its shareholders.
And how about that $135,000 appearance for Goldman Sachs in April, when Summers was already involved with Democratic Party politics again? That wasn't a surreptitious campaign contribution at all!
But you have to give Goldman credit: it sure is thorough. It literally leaves no stone unturned.
One has to love the sequence of events here. Back in 2004, Goldman chief Hank Paulson goes to SEC chief William Donaldson and petitions to have lending restrictions relaxed for the top five investment banks. Donaldson rolls over, the restrictions are relaxed, and it's a disaster, as the top five banks immediately overleverage themselves — two of the five, Bear Stearns and Lehman, would actually collapse, at least partially as a result of being insanely overleveraged.
In the midst of this disaster, Paulson is named Treasury secretary. He does nothing about the worsening financial crisis until it is far too late, then allows one of Goldman's biggest competitors, Lehman, to fail while at the same time intervening on a huge scale to save AIG, which just happens to owe Goldman a ton of money.
When AIG is bailed out, its government regulator is not in the room, but the new chief of Goldman, Lloyd Blankfein, is. In fact, Goldman Sachs ultimately receives about $13 billion of the money paid to AIG by the government in the bailout, reportedly getting paid 100 cents on the dollar for its AIG exposure, despite the fact that the bank claimed it wasn't going to suffer severe losses if AIG collapsed.
Later, another former Goldman executive, Ed Liddy, is installed as head of AIG -- which just happens to get bailed out twice more, the last time to the tune of $30 billion.
The last two bailouts of AIG take place after a former Goldman chief, Robert Rubin (who, incidentally, helped start this mess by ramming through a series of i-banker wet-dream deregulatory moves as Treasury secretary for Clinton in the 1990s), is named to the Obama transition team, joining Summers (who had already taken $135,000 from Goldman that year) and Timothy Geithner (a protege of another Goldman alum, John Thain, former president and chief operating officer and notorious scumbag).
When it comes time for new Treasury Secretary Geithner to name a chief of staff, he chooses Mark Patterson, who is less than a year removed from working as a lobbyist for … Goldman Sachs. Patterson's great contribution to society as a Goldman lobbyist was opposing a 2007 measure introduced in the Senate by presidential candidate Barack Obama to rein in executive compensation.
I remember watching Obama the presidential candidate give a speech in Mason City, Iowa, in 2007. Obama had made a big show of not having registered lobbyists working for his campaign, and he promised that lobbyists "won't work in my White House." The line was a hit and became part of Obama's stump speech. I must have heard it two dozen times.
A little over a year later, he put a registered lobbyist of a bailed-out investment bank into a job whose primary responsibility is administering bailout money.
It gets worse. According to a Glenn Greenwald piece I just read, even Gary Gensler is a former Goldman employee. That absolutely blows my mind. Genlser is Obama's choice to head the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, whose purview is the derivatives market. The CFTC was the battleground where ages ago Rubin, Summers, and then-Rubin aide Gensler teamed up to whack CFTC chief Brooksley Born, who had serious concerns about the burgeoning derivatives market, in particular the credit-default swap market. Rubin overturned Born's recommendations, and derivatives were freed from most regulation. That economic Alamo led almost directly to the AIG disaster.
Read the rest at Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/democracy/136008/obama%27s_top_economic_adviser_is_greedy_and_highly_compromised/
http://trueslant.com/
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Pogus releases Source Records 1-6 Music of the Avant Garde, 1968-1971: The digital reissue of the Source LP's on 3 CDs Pogus is extremely proud to reissue the recordings included in the seminal new music journal, Source: Music of the Avant Garde, Vols. 1-6, Issues 1-11, Source Records 1-6, 1967-1973. The original six ten-inch LP Source Records contained some of the most important experimental music of the nineteen-sixties to mid nineteen-seventies and they have now been reissued as a 3 CD set. Source ended publication in 1973, having published, since 1967, contemporary musical materials, scores, articles, interviews, photo essays and recordings over seven years, with up to 2000 subscribers to the semiannual journal: the subscribers avidly anticipated receiving two new and critically acclaimed issues each year during that period.
Most of the original tape masters for the records, after over forty years, have vanished or have seriously deteriorated; hence, we have carefully transferred, noise-reduced, and crackle-removed all the actual LP record tracks to the digital medium, then mastered to the compact disc format for this reissue: the result is an authentic recreation of the original LP, characteristic sound.
CD One - Source Records 1 and 2 Robert Ashley, The Wolfman; David Behrman, Wave Train; Larry Austin, Accidents; Allan Bryant, Pitch Out
CD Two - Source Records 3 and 4 Alvin Lucier, I am sitting in a room; Arthur Woodbury, Velox; Mark Riener, Phlegethon; Larry Austin, Caritas; Stanley Lunetta, moosack machine
CD Three - Source Records 5 and 6 Lowell Cross, Video II (B)/(C)/(L); Arrigo Lora-Totino, english phonemes; Alvin Curran, Magic Carpet; Annea Lockwood, Tiger Balm
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