The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 163

Do you know the name of the "new system" we're all being herded toward? Communism, Fascism, Communo-fascism, Technocracy... sure, yeah, all of those. But these are based on an underlying economic principle called stakeholderism. The World Economic Forum (WEF) "Stakeholder Capitalism" model from Klaus Schwab, along with the corporate ESG gobbledygook, is the most recognizable stakeholderist plan in the game, but do you know its long history and broader use? In this groundbreaking and controversial episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay explains how the first true Stakeholder economy was instituted in Nazi Germany in 1937 with the passage of a National Socialist Shareholder Law, and that both the Woke Left and New Right (or Woke Right) champion that same model today, alongside the WEF, UN, Club of Rome, CCP, and all the rest. You will not want to miss this one.

Source articles:
Financial Post, 2021 (https://financialpost.com/opinion/terence-corcoran-the-murky-rise-of-stakeholder-capitalism); Guardian, 2019 (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/02/inequality-fox-news-tucker-carlson-capitalism); National Review, 2019 (https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/11/the-case-for-common-good-capitalism/).

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Totalitarian Stakeholderism, Left and Right

A (few variations of a) song dedicated to all truth-tellers (some of them born gay) victims of dictatorial oppression, with much love... vive la Vérité, vive la Résistance!

"(I Wanted to Be a) Poem" is an experimental jazzy psychedelic song I wrote around the quote “I thought I wanted to be a poet but basically, I wanted to be the poem”; it is lyrically structured after the song “Summertime”, and directly inspired by the following essay about Jaime Gil de Biedma—an introverted, humble poet who lived under the Franco dictatorship, during the Spanish Inquisition (early last century)…

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“Perhaps poetry is best minted under pressure. Poetry that lasts. (...)

Jaime Gil de Biedma lived under Franco. Born in 1929 in Barcelona, Biedma was six when Federico Garcia Lorca was killed by Franco’s troops in Granada. Famously, the story goes that as they shot Lorca his murderers said: “Three shots in the ass for Garcia Lorca for being a faggot.” His body was never found. (…)

Silence carves these poems. He wrote his poems under a dictator who was famous for saying, “You are master of what you don’t say.” Maybe all poems are carved by silence. Think Dickinson. Think Hopkins. Silence can equal life. Here silence is particularly historic in a way it no longer is. Franco shut Spain up. The ground rich with unidentified corpses. Homosexuality denied in a regime that aligned itself with the conservative Catholic Church.

But poetry. Poetry provides a passport to transcendence when pressures seem unsurmountable: and more than thrice a poetry created under pressure in silence trumps death.

As Biedma began to put pen to paper, what preceded him was daunting. All the major poets had vanished: Machado on a death march, Lorca shot, Hernandez dead in prison, Cernuda fled to Mexico and never returned. Decades rolled on, censorship reigned, and torpid inertia smothered art. (...)

Poetry remains indestructible. Poetry outlasts Franco and AIDS. So long as men and women can breathe museums will preserve artifacts and a poet like Biedma will add to the record of what life was like under oppression.”

[11] I Wanted to Be the Poem - Jazzy Singalong FOLK

[10] I Wanted to Be the Poem - Dreamy Strings FOLK

[14] I Wanted to Be the Poem - Booya Banger BANJO

A pop song about Kilmar Abrego Garcia and Yunseo Chung and America becoming a fascist nation.

America is a Lie

She came here with her family

Only 8 years old.

Grew up like the other kids

America is her home

She went away to college

To learn and to be free

She joined protests 

for what she believed

She joined protests 

for what she believed


They ordered her arrested

‘cause our gov did not agree

She had no right to speak out

She had no freedom of speech

They tried to send her flying,
To a place she'd never known
like other students rising
She was not alone.

Because America

Is a lie

She found out America

Is a lie


He fled poverty and violence 

To a fabled promised land

The greatest nation in the world 

His future in our hands

He dreamed of a great life

Help me if you can

He said Help me if you can yea

He said Help me if you can yea


They ripped him from his car

As his child wailed and cried

They denied him all his rights

As his future quickly died

They forced him on a plane

Head bowed and wrapped in chains.

They asked for his confession

To hide their lies and shame

Because America

Is a lie

He found out America

Is a lie


We voted against Freedom

In America

We voted for fascism

In America

We voted for oppression

In America

We may never vote again

In America


Say Goodbye

Say Goodbye  

Say Goodbye

America

America Is a Lie (Kilmar Abrego Garcia)

US-directed repression and counter-insurgency in El Salvador in the 1980s allowed the imposition of "free trade" or "neoliberal" regimes in the generations since then—ultimately culminating in the adoption of CAFTA. This, in turn, has exacerbated the expropriation of the traditional lands of the peasantry by the agro-export oligarchy. It also led to the hypertlophy of the narco economy and a new nightmare of violence, which Nayib Bukele has exploited to establish a new dictatorship. This dictatorship is now openly in league with Donald Trump, and has in fact become critical to his fascist agenda. In Episode 275 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg breaks down El Salvador's historical role as a laboratory of genocide and police-state methods for US imperialism, and the imperative of trans-national resistance.

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MAGA-fascism and the struggle in El Salvador

As comemorações do 25 de Abril foram canceladas pelo governo? Os lutos nacionais deviam ser repensados? Fascista bom é fascista preso? O aumento da tensão entre a Índia e o Paquistão é motivo de preocupação? Ou tudo não passam de escaramuças e zaragatas que se arrastam há anos? A estratégia chinesa é melhor do que a norte-americana? Trump é um joguete nas mãos de Xi e Putin? Europa, que decisões tomas?

Ep. 256 - 25A25 com fascistas presos; Índia e Paquistão; EUA, China, UE e Ucrânia

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Poverty and Fascism on the rise in Europe Garland Nixon and Joti Brar Ep35

Part 2a: “So… What Are We Actually Living In Right Now?”
Democracy? Authoritarianism (with a smidge of dictatorship)? Or Something Else

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Beatrice speaks with Vicky Osterweil about some of the major events that happened during our parental leave—from Trump’s kidnapping of protesters for political speech to the proposed autism registry—and what the first months of Trump’s second term tell us about the administration’s particular approach to fascism.

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… because life on earth is a Psychedelic Cabaret, and “music is the only religion that delivers the goods” (like Frank said). 

To be clear, all I really know is I dunno shit about fck (like Socrates said:)—music and songwriting included. But(t) I feel it, the music, so damn deeep in my soul! I’m just a humble existential fool, a silly banana who likes to play and share, to question and learn. Words are my oldest best friends, hearing myself sing is a freaking miracle (trust me on that lol), and I believe curiosity and #gratitude are the keys to happiness… So voilà, there’s that.

Also, (if you’re curious) BananaSutra is not just a made up BS brand kinda word, it’s actually the name of my DIY Bible—a collection of songs telling true stories of faith, to help me (and perhaps you) make sense of a world gone wild, like bananas gone foul in shallow ignorance and deadly malevolence… Think of it as an agnostic testament of sorts, an audio book of songs with quirky lyrics about things that matter, like the definition of right and wrong, and the meaning of truth, joy, justice, peace, grace, and awe 🕊️

Some call it Artificial Intelligence, but(t) I call Authentic Imagination, Alternative Ideas, Augmented Innuendos, Abstract Illogisms… hopefully, you get the gist? The point being, life is the story we tell ourselves and LYRICS matter—each @bananasutra song has a wondering root and a loving purpose, guided by one of (my) 7 (bananas) sutras: 
- KNOWsutra : is it fair?
- BLOWsutra : is it foul?
- SHOWsutra : is it fun?
- GROWsutra : is it fear?
- FLOWsutra : is it free?
- GLOWsutra : is it fab?
- BOWsutra : is it awe?

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