It's melancholic but hopeful. The composition I've written over a decade ago but decided to share hoping it can make someone's day better. 

Written by Madine

Waiting For The Sunrise

An improvised single take ambient guitar piece. Hopefully, if I have the patience, the project will yield further results! My eternal thanks to Kevin Lyons for the photo.

Cousin Silas - Old Beach

Criminal Minds. Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer. Inside the Criminal Mind. Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez.

Each of these is the title of a series, fictional or otherwise, or documentary that relies on the work of so-called criminal profilers. They’re all premised, more or less, on the same idea: That the ability to venture inside the mind of an individual who’s committed a horrific act of violence–say, serial murder, rape, or kidnapping–is the key to figuring out why that crime happened in the first place. This theory may sound promising at first blush; after all, the highest echelons of law enforcement in the US continue to use criminal profiling tactics to this day.

But the reality is that, despite their prevalence in law enforcement both onscreen and off, criminal profiling techniques are largely ineffective, and in many ways, dangerous. Failing to consider institutional factors such as a culture of violence and easy access to weapons, patriarchy, austerity and other social ills that contribute to and reinforce violent crime, criminal profiling focuses almost exclusively on individual experiences and psychological makeup. Meanwhile, it categorizes “criminals” not as people who’ve been shaped by this social conditioning, but as neuro-deviants whose psychological anatomy is just different from yours or mine.

On this episode, we examine the history of the practice of criminal profiling in the West; how the FBI and entertainment industry work in tandem to glamorize the profession, despite its harms; what the actual effectiveness of profiling is; and how it serves as yet another form of Hollywood copaganda.

Our guests are Thomas MacMillan and Chris Fabricant.

Real Life Implications of Pop Culture's Fascination with the Dubious Science of “Criminal Profiling”

In this live stream, Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss The Grayzone's report exposing UK journalist Paul Mason's collusion with a shady intelligence contractor to enlist the UK state in a plot to destroy this outlet and neutralize the British grassroots left.

Support Pushback: https://www.patreon.com/aaronmate

Read more: https://thegrayzone.com/2022/06/07/paul-masons-covert-intelligence-grayzone/

Masongate: Exposing Paul Mason's spook plot to destroy The Grayzone

Dad’s Garage

Jeffrey Sachs joins The Grayzone's Aaron Maté and Max Blumenthal to discuss escalating nuclear rhetoric in Ukraine proxy war, the bombing of the Nord Stream pipelines, and why a diplomatic off-ramp is more urgent than ever. Sachs also addresses the investigation into the origins of Covid-19. 

Guest: Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University and President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. He has also served as chair of the Lancet COVID-19 commission.

Support Pushback: https://www.patreon.com/aaronmate

Aaron Mate on Substack: https://mate.substack.com/

Jeffrey Sachs: end Ukraine proxy war or face "armageddon"

Seasons Greetings from Mono-Orbit with this Festive Offering… includes words from “What Child Is This? / The Manger Throne” written by William Chatterton Dix in 1865

Charm

For the LoopDiggers Crew Main Challenge "El Pistolero"

GunnShot (JorDams)

Taking Chances

Second try, will be several more but no posted. If there will be a final version, then..

Human Touch - Take No. 2

QE3 Infinite Quantitative Easing; the world that is dying and the world that is being born; where the money went; where some of the money is returning; fraud and the black budget; the three big lies; re-engineering the federal budget; the fiscal cliff; WTO and industrial food; what's up with space.

Aired:  September 19, 2012

Guns and Butter 264

Unpacking Mr. Global, Part Three - Catherine Austin Fitts, #264

A news show hosted by Aaron Maté. Presented by The Grayzone.

Masongate: Exposing Paul Mason's spook plot to destroy The Grayzone

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