Humanity doesn't just need to escape from the mental prison of imperial indoctrination. It needs to escape from the heart prison as well.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Just Seeing Through The Propaganda Isn't Enough - We've Got To Open Our Hearts As Well

Our heroes discuss and extremely well made film that's bogged down with lore.

We Just Watched... The First Omen

Resulting from a collaboration with Taron (Taronium) this is a colorful quiet track inspired by the feeling of a bath in the woods.
We created this track for the April-24-OSC using the DAW MuLab9 and 22 instances of the great synth Charlatan-3 (three instances for Taron's almost inaudible birds!) plus a couple of Wider, Auburn Sounds Panagement, Valhalla Supermassive, Abstract Chamber.
Mid-Side and Echo (MuLab intern)
Ott, Bassline-Infra and Loudmax on the master.

A bath in the woods

(collab Taron) A Bath In The Woods.Wav

My entry for OneSynthChallenge182.

All sounds made with the excellent Charlatan 3 VSTi.

Session Details

REAPER
x20 Charlatan3

x1 Free Clip 2
x1 LoudMax

x1 ThrillseekerVBLmkII
x1 RLC79
x2 Wider
x1 NastyDLAmkIII
x2 epicPLATEmkII
x1 Flux Mini 2
x2 BlueARP
x2 ValhallaSupermassive
x1 Burier
x1 bx_cleansweep
x2 MJUCjr

Feeling Blue (by phankiejankie303)

Entry for KVR OSC #182 Charlatan

Intro: 7 tone just intonation.
Main: 19 equal temperament (19 EDO).

Thanks to FrogsInPants & NeverBeenInARiot for inspiration about nuclear fusion guitar pedals.

30 instances of Charlatan
All designed from init (never even saw a preset!)

All reverb & delay on-board synth.

Dead Duck Filter
ReaEQ, ReaXComp
KHs: Trance Gate, Gain
Js Midi Arpeggiator
Limiter No6
SPAN
Youlean Loudness Meter

Fusion Stomp

Aviator sunglasses hide demented eyes
in a skull full of bank logos and forgotten AIPAC speeches,
boozy nights of rapefinger whisperings and Beltway balrogs,
and fundraising wisecracks with smiles made of Gaddafi's bones,
brain now crowded with paper shredders 
and frantic, sweaty interns
staying up all night working 
to dispose of the evidence.

Aviator sunglasses with glowing pentagons in them,
with mountains of skulls in them,
with dismembered children in them,
with gutted babies in them,
with screaming mothers in them,
with burning flesh in them,
with flattened neighborhoods in them,
crushed limbs sticking out of rubble in them,
fathers carrying tiny bags of body parts in them,
laughing, mocking, blood-soaked soldiers in them,
bombs and food falling from the sky together in them.

Demented eyes gazing out upon a dying world 
through aviator sunglasses full of dead faces,
skin illuminated by a burning sky,
licking an ice cream cone
that is dripping deep red.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Aviator Sunglasses

Starting with the illegal UN vote to partition Palestine in 1947, this second episode in a series goes over the colonial, racist history of the zionist project up until the 1967 Six-Day War. Listen to the first one on Apple, Spotify, or anywhere you get your podcasts. This was recorded April 26, 2024.

Brian is joined by Richard Becker, the author of the newly updated book, "Palestine, Israel, and U.S. Empire," published by 1804 Books.

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The Colonial Roots of Zionism: Palestine, Israel, and the U.S. Empire Part 2: 1947-1967

In one of the most appalling propaganda segments I have ever seen in my life, CNN's Dana Bash launched into a fire-and-brimstone sermon on Wednesday comparing anti-genocide university protesters to the brownshirts of Nazi Germany - doing so in defense of a fascistic police crackdown against those very same protesters.

Reading by Tim Foley.

CNN Compares Campus Protesters To Nazis In Stunning Propaganda Segment

I don't oppose the butchery in Gaza because I love Hamas or hate Jews or love Islam or hate America.
I don't oppose the butchery in Gaza because I'm a lefty or a commie or an anarchist or an anti-imperialist.
I oppose the butchery in Gaza because I'm not a fucking psychopath.

Reading by Tim Foley.

I Oppose Israel's Atrocities In Gaza Because I'm Not A Psychopath

US Senators sent a letter to International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan, threatening to impose sanctions and even invade the Hague if he issues arrest warrants for Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Biden administration is also pressuring the ICC not to charge Israeli officials over their war crimes in Gaza. Ben Norton discusses Washington's deep hypocrisy.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=pM29iLpZMJU

Sources and links: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/05/07/us-threat-icc-israel

Topics
0:00 Intro
0:48 US politicians threaten ICC
2:26 Trump sanctioned ICC
3:17 Biden's hypocrisy
3:56 Republican senators' letter to ICC
6:47 Hague Invasion Act
8:44 Israel's gen0c1de in Gaza
9:48 Israel unleashed famine in Gaza
10:37 Israeli minister demands "total annihilation" of Gaza
11:26 Amalek
13:16 US hypocrisy on ICC warrant for Russia's Putin
14:51 Africa criticizes ICC
15:42 US/Israel lobbied for ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan
16:46 US & Israel refuse to join ICC
17:02 ICC vs ICJ
18:40 Save face, or save your empire?
21:13 Outro

US politicians threaten to invade Int'l Criminal Court if Israel faces war crimes charges

Our perception of the world is dominated by the movements of our attention, which means that our perception of the world can be changed by manipulating those movements. Propagandists understand this, so they spend their time doing things like telling us over and over again what a bad bad baddie Vladimir Putin is while just occasionally giving a single highly mitigated mention to an individual instance of Israeli criminality, or talking about October 7 over and over again while greatly deemphasizing the massacres Israel has been perpetrating on the Palestinians in Gaza every day since.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Media Skew Public Perception By Manipulating People's Attention

Readings of all Caitlin Johnstone's articles, usually by her co-writer Tim Foley.