2007 November | buzz twang

all the fascism that’s fit to print

November 30, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

Over at the conspiracy minded Prison Planet, Paul Joseph Watson conducts an interview with Naomi Wolf where she connects the Nazi sympathizing ancestors of the current US president with the rise of their financial and political power today: “A small group of people began very systematically to use the law and dismantle the Constitution and [...]

the future of social networking is in the past

November 30, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

Bill McKibben has written an interesting article in The Atlantic on how internet radio trumps satellite radio because internet radio makes local radio global. His point being that community is what people crave, and local community allows people to connect in a way that a disjointed, chaotic or simply programmed (24 hours of music but [...]

apathy kills and money rules

November 20, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

Be sure to watch the new featured video in the upper right hand corner. (c/o Noelle Belle at Crooks and Liars) If you can’t see the video, that probably means you are using an old version of Internet Explorer, and you should be using Firefox anyway! A new study finds that the US prison system [...]

something for nothing not science fiction for Harlan Ellison

November 20, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

From the Brian Leher Show’s Video Picks on WNYC, Harlan Ellison rants righteously on how so many of the big media corporations are perfectly willing to ask people for free access to all kinds of content – in this instance an interview with the famed writer to be put on a DVD – for zero [...]

democracy dance

November 19, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

What is old is new again. Digby is doing an amazing job of comparing and contrasting the dirty tricks of the Nixon era with those currently underway. Snippet: After years of this sort of politics, from Atwater to Rove, from Willie Horton to Swift Boats, it would be nice to think the mainstream media have [...]

Boris at the Bowery Ballroom

November 15, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

What I see in NYC. Meant to post this last week. Japanese sludge rock band Boris. Killer. buzz-twang : news and views : blog

street graffiti

November 14, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

Saw this on the street in midtown. buzz-twang : news and views : blog

Old man

November 14, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

Neil Young performing a solo acoustic version of his song “Old Man”, from Harvest, circa 1972. buzz-twang : news and views : blog

Greg Palast on Go Left TV

November 11, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

A couple weeks ago, working with NeoVids, yours truly shot some video with Greg Palast for the Air America show Ring of Fire that is now playing on Go Left TV. The topic was the Attack on Dan Rather. Check it out. buzz-twang : news and views : blog

catch up

November 10, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

Former Sec. of State Donald Rumsfeld had to flee France because citizens there want to prosecute him as a war criminal. If this had happened even ten years ago, it would have been front page, top of the news hour. Today, in the age of Dubya, it barely gets noticed. USA as banana republic. No [...]

the american dream state

November 7, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

There was a time when we could do anything. Walking on the moon wasn’t a fantasy, it was a reality. Alas, the past seven years we’ve seen the bar lowered by a two term Bush White House compliant to politics and arrogance rather than the difficult choices and compromises that foster real solutions. The result [...]

Jakeneck Archive: The rising price of oil

November 1, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

Remember when everyone was discussing whether the price of oil would rise above $65 a barrel? Yours truly surely does. Currently, it’s at around $96 a barrel and poised to top $100. A few years ago, I posted on this issue at Jakeneck and was met with a certain amount of consternation and denial. Harking [...]