Occupy Comics

From Dangerous Minds.

 

I have quite mixed feelings about the “Occupy” movement, right on down to the name itself.  The arguments are presented here:

2013 Unoccupied

Sun Tzu’s Messages to the Occupy Movement

 

 

 

Catching Fire Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyPnQw_Lqds&feature=player_embedded

Revolution Begins: Hunger Games II

 

You know I’m going to be there.  This looks better than the first one, and the stakes are getting larger.  Here are the articles we posted concerning The Hunger Games:

• The Hunger Games (2012)
• The Hunger Games (Take Two)

 

Blomkamp Strikes Again

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvqjwTQ1Kqk&feature=player_detailpage

 

Elysium is coming, August they say. This time it’s class war and they’re going big. Take the District 9 budget and add $90 mil. Let’s hope it really delivers.

What we had to say about District 9:

• District 9 & Sci-Fi Politics by Binoy Kampmark
• Science Fiction of the Now by Kim Nicolini
• Sci Fi Action With Brains and Soul by Bill Martell
• District 9 (2009) by Joe Giambrone

 

Bankster Paradise

Cyprus Parliament President Says “No Future” Under Troika, Calls For “Iceland” Solution

 

If you aren’t following the compete and utter meltdown of Europe, after their money system was taken over by unaccountable bankster mafia, you need to wake the fuck up.

“Troika-imposed’ responsibility will, “turn Cyprus into a colony of the worst possible type. …“by leaving the troika and the EMS behind us, we will ensure our national independence,… If we remain bound by the Troika and the memorandum Cyprus’ destiny is already foretold and there will be no future.”

 

 

Something In the Air (2012)

 

The political turmoil of the early 70′s brought to life by the director of Carlos. Check out the trailer…

 

Also see the trailer for Carlos (2010), a multi-part mini series:

 

Iceland’s Peaceful Revolution Censored

 

VICE Goes Big Time

Vice Magazine has been picked up by HBO and will have more of a budget to tour the world and find the real shit.

 

One of my favorites:

The VICE Guide to North Korea – Part 1
 

Why They Assassinated Dr. King

Americans from childhood are fed a diet of bullshit that carries on into adulthood. One of these bullshit myths concerns Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who was assassinated by the US government, and not by a lone gunman, on April 4th of 1968.

Exactly one year to the day prior to that event, April 4th of 1967, Dr. King gave the most political and controversial speech of his life. Lashing out at the war in Vietnam, the mass murder, billions squandered, the imperialist machinations of the US government, Dr. King essentially signed his own death warrant by stating point blank:

“Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent.”

Full Text: Beyond Vietnam, A Time to Break Silence

I believe that section of the quite lengthy speech is contained in this clip:

  
Dr. King reveals US meddling prior to US involvement in the war:

“After 1954 they watched us conspire with Diem to prevent elections which could have surely brought Ho Chi Minh to power over a united Vietnam, and they realized they had been betrayed again”

He reveals clear war propaganda lies by the United States:

“Hanoi remembers how our leaders refused to tell us the truth about the earlier North Vietnamese overtures for peace, how the president claimed that none existed when they had clearly been made.”

Dr. King was labeled one of the most dangerous “national security” threats in America several months before his liquidation. Statements like these directly challenged the legitimacy of the war, the draft and the government in Washington:

“Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam. I speak for those whose land is being laid waste, whose homes are being destroyed, whose culture is being subverted. I speak of the — for the poor of America who are paying the double price of smashed hopes at home, and death and corruption in Vietnam.”

Professor Jared Ball discusses the whitewashing of Dr. King’s actual struggle, and his revolutionary stances against poverty and militarism as well as racism.

  
Lastly, a civil trial took place in 1999 which ruled that there was a conspiracy to kill Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the morning of April 4th 1968. I highly suggest that those who are interested research the evidence brought out during that trial.

The rifle which was claimed to have killed Dr. King, and said to belong to James Earl Ray could not have done so. The sight was completely off. What’s more, the rifle itself was deposited in an alley beside an arcade company 10 minutes prior to the actual shooting. It was planted by an unknown figure, and clearly not in the possession of James Earl Ray when Dr. King was shot. Numerous other anomalies surround the case, and the jury came to a verdict in a very short amount of time.

Dr. Martin Luther King was not about nostalgia, feel good photo opportunities or homogenized, sanitized history. He was a fighter who chose non-violent, and quite risky confrontation. His legacy should be taught and remembered for what it actually was, and not for what white corporate Amerika would like it to be.

“Judge Arthur Haynes testified that he was, of course, James Earl Ray’s first lawyer along with his father, and he testified that in the course of their early on-the-scene investigation, they talked to Guy Canipe, who owned the amusement shop in front of which was found the bundle which contained, amongst other things, the rifle. He said Canipe told them very early on, before anyone else apparently had done any kind of tampering with him, told him very early on that that bundle was dropped some minutes before the actual shooting. Imagine that, that the bundle, the murder weapon, the rifle in evidence, was dropped minutes before the actual shooting.”(Civil Case: King Family versus Jowers)

Happy Martin Luther King Day.

 

Argo Wins at Golden Globes

I can’t help but feel a little relief that it wasn’t ZDT.  Perhaps the judges there were cautious enough to avoid that stigma.  Who wants to be known for supporting torture lies?

Argo, however, is more CIA so-called “heroism” with the people of Iran in the crosshairs.  As we “look forward instead of backward” in the words of Obama, on why he won’t enforce the law against torturers, we must all bear in mind what “forward” entails.  It entails the known hit list of the US military industrial complex, and at the top of that Mafia styled listing is Iran.  Former General Wesley Clark, among others, have revealed the war plans against Iran for many years now.

Argo is a piece of despicable propaganda because it failed to tell the whole truth about the US fucking over that nation.  Training the Shah’s death squads and secret police, the SAVAK, this was a prime motivator for the mobs of 1979 to rise up and overthrow their oppressors.  Argo sides with the oppressors, and it renders caricatures of Iranians, wild eyed, irrational maniacs to be feared.  Its propaganda value today is clear.

Articles reviewing Argo:

• “Argo, Fuck Yourself” by Kim Niccolini
• Target Iran: Argo’s CIA Heroes vs. A Separation by Jennifer Epps
• Argo in Context by Patrice Greanville
• Argo (2012) by Eric Walberg
• The Lies Screenwriters Tell Themselves

UTR: Corialanus (2012)

 

Shakespeare set in modern times, this film might remind people of the 1995 Richard III, set in a fascist World War Two scenario. Here the war is modern and messy, but the language is the original play. It’s an odd discordant meshing of new and old.

I hadn’t known the story of Corialanus and didn’t know what to expect. Some interesting twists of fate, and even more interesting visuals reminiscent of the Arab Spring or street battles in Greece, make this an interesting experience to take in.

Ralph Fiennes, who starred and directed the film, plays a Roman general so fanatical in his bloodlust and drive to conquer that he has become a bit of a monster. When it comes time for him to enter the world of Roman politics he falters. The elites of Rome, of which Corialanus is a member, consider the common people as sub-human scum. While other Patricians easily lie and mislead the rabble, Corialanus is far too proud and arrogant to hold his tongue. He winds up in hot water.

Then comes the big twist of the story’s midpoint.

The visual style has really made this 400 year old story accessible and relevant. Revolution by the people, elites who despise the commoners, dictators, politics, fascistic militarism, worship of the soldiers, that Shakespeare guy was well ahead of his time. Aspects of the story fit seamlessly in with the tanks and shock troops.

Corialanus on Netflix.

Les Miserables – First Song Clip

See what you’re in store for here.

 

 

The Man Who Saved Iceland From the Banksters

Hörður Torfason speaks out about how Greece can fight back against the bankster mafia currently ravaging their nation.

 

Article explores the current situation in Iceland, and how non-violent massive protest (Nordic Spring?) threw out a government and ushered in a fair Constituion that barred banks from raping their nation any longer.

Iceland section of the film Inside Job: