Proving once again he doesn't care who he has to step on to claw his way to rock bottom, fallen liberal media hero Keith Olbermann has called for the complete removal of left wing comedian and podcaster Jimmy Dore from all internet platforms.

Reading by Tim Foley.
Article with links and sources: https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/keith-olbermann-wants-jimmy-dore

Keith Olbermann Wants Jimmy Dore Banned From All Platforms

To be absolutely clear, there is not actually any legitimate reason for any normal person to refer to these machines as a "robotic dog", or a "high-tech canine", or by a cutesy cliché name for a pet. These are robots. Robots that are being used by police forces on civilian populations. If the robots being used had two legs, or eight, they would not be able to apply such cuddly wuddly labels, and public alarm bells would be going off a lot louder.

Reading by Tim Foley.
Article with links and sources: https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/theyre-normalizing-robot-police-by

They're Normalizing Robot Police By Calling Them "Dogs"

The way people are acting like trust in media-sanctioned narratives should be a given after those institutions literally JUST discredited themselves in front of everyone is insane. You don't have to believe anything odd about the virus or the vaccine to understand the distrust. 

Reading by Tim Foley.
Article with links and sources: https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/after-russiagate-why-wouldnt-people

After Russiagate, Why WOULDN'T People Be Skeptical About Covid?

Don't let elitists use the illusion of complexity to cow you out of talking about what's going on in your world. You can see what's going on well enough to begin speaking out, and the more you learn the more detailed the picture will become. 

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Oligarchic Empire Is Actually Simple And Easy To Understand

Military members who support imperialism get promoted. Those who get to the top go on to work for war profiteers. The war profiteers fund think tanks which promote more wars. The mass media report "news" stories citing those think tanks. These stories manufacture consent for more wars.

The war industry reinforces itself. Those who get to the top of the war machine move on to the private sector and spend their time lobbying for more wars which create more eventual Pentagon officials who go on to lobby for more wars. Peace should be easy. This is why it's not.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The System Is Rigged For Endless War

(Patreon-only Rose McGowan interview here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/rose-mcgowan-57953217)
Labor journalists Alex Press (https://twitter.com/alexnpress) & Jonah Furman (https://twitter.com/JonahFurman) discuss the labor movement, strikes, John Deere and what it has to do with Alec Baldwin's deadly shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

Alex Press is a writer and editor at Jacobin Magazine, whose latest article is "Halyna Hutchins’s Death on the Set of Rust Was 'Not a Freak Accident'."Jonah Furman is a labor movement organizer and writer for Labor Notes (https://twitter.com/labornotes), the media and organizing project that since 1979 has amplified the voice of workers and labor militants. He is also a frequent contributor to The Intercept.

Alec Baldwin Shooting 'NOT a Freak Accident' With Alex Press & Jonah Furman

IS This the Real Life

Created for the Disquiet Junto Project 0523: Chill Communication
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The Project: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it.

These ice samples were recorded by whirling ice cubes in a growler back in 2017. I looped a section and processed that through a Make Noise Strega, recording the piece mostly as one improvised take where I 'played' the filter to create layers of feedback in the delay. There is one overdub where I improvised repitching the same ice loop in Samplr and also processed that through the Strega, creating different tones of delay feedback. There's a bit of judicious volume envelope editing added in post to calm the feedback swells a bit. It all reminded me of a slow motion version of the wild ricochet sounds made by dropping ice down a bored ice core well.

Many congrats and thanks to Marc ( @disquiet ) and Happy 10th Anniversary to the Junto!!

More on this 523rd weekly Disquiet Junto project – Chill Communication (The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it) – at: https://disquiet.com/0523/

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Ice Drops - [disquiet0523 - chillcommunication ]

I Can Feel It Coming In The Air Tonight - Cover

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An album of sound collage experiments I recorded almost 20 years ago that I recently found again. This is the first time these pieces have been released since I recorded these pieces in 2002 to 2003.

Fragments

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