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The Essential Phil Ochs (music)

Category: Misc
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Philip David Ochs (pronounced /ˈoʊks/) (December 19, 1940 – April 9, 1976) was a U.S. protest singer (or, as he preferred, a topical singer) and songwriter who was known for his sharp wit, sardonic humor, earnest humanism, political activism, insightful and alliterative lyrics, and haunting voice. He wrote hundreds of songs in the 1960s and released eight albums in his lifetime. Ochs performed at many political events, including anti-Vietnam War and civil rights rallies, student events, and organized labor events over the course of his career, in addition to many concert appearances at such venues as New York City's Town Hall and Carnegie Hall. Politically, Ochs described himself as a "left social democrat" who became an "early revolutionary" after the protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago led to a police riot, which had a profound effect on his state of mind. After years of prolific writing in the 1960s, Ochs's mental stability declined in the 1970s and eventually he succumbed to a number of problems including bipolar disorder and alcoholism, and he took his own life in 1976. Some of Ochs's major influences were Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, Bob Gibson, Faron Young, Merle Haggard, John Wayne, and John F. Kennedy. His best-known songs include "I Ain't Marching Anymore", "Changes", "Crucifixion", "Draft Dodger Rag", "Love Me I'm a Liberal", "Outside of a Small Circle of Friends", "Power and the Glory", "There but for Fortune", and "The War Is Over"
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Zizek collection

Category: eBooks, Magazines, Audio Books
Description:
Some books by and about Slavoj Žižek - philosopher extrordinaire
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War Is A Racket - Major General Smedley Butler

Category: Documentary
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War Is A Racket By Major General Smedley Butler This Short 14 paged book was written by two congressional medals of honor winner, Major General Smedley Butler Butler knew war, he knew how to kill a man, or how to survive the cold , bitter trenches of World War One. But , He also knew an even darker side of war.. Profit. Butler's pinpoint accuracy at locating the reasons why we then , and more importantly, today go to war. For who is really profiting? Who is really benefiting? " War..War Never Changes." Peace Psycho92 Keep in mind that this was written several years prior to World War 2, Butler died in 1940 Which Makes his writings disturbingly prophetic.
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Slavery and the Making of America (2005) (PBS) (Four Part Documentary)

Category: Documentary
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Slavery and the Making of America (PBS-Public Broadcasting Service) (Complete Four-Part, History Documentary) DVDRip by derelict of Cinema Obscura Distributed to the Public by BloodLogic Narration By: Morgan Freeman Starring: Chauncey Herring, Justin Jackson, Fred Johnson, Fred Johnson, Eric W. Klatt, Don Pentz, Virginia M. Pinckney, Desmond Aldridge, Steven A. Butler Jr., Carlo Daquin, Ian Eaton, Jerrod Paige, Kerry Robinson, Jeremy L. Sheppard, Robert Sizemore, Algernon Ward Jr., LeCourtney Young, Sebastian Trossbach PBS Description: SLAVERY AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA is a four-part series documenting the history of American slavery from its beginnings in the British colonies to its end in the Southern states and the years of post-Civil War Reconstruction. Drawing on a wealth of recent scholarship, it looks at slavery as an integral part of a developing nation, challenging the long held notion that slavery was exclusively a Southern enterprise. At the same time, by focusing on the remarkable stories of individual slaves, it offers new perspectives on the slave experience and testifies to the active role that Africans and African Americans took in surviving their bondage and shaping their own lives. IMDB Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0472251/ Episodes... Episode 01 - The Downward Spiral Description: Episode one opens in the 1620s with the introduction of 11 men of African descent and mixed ethnicity into slavery in New Amsterdam. Working side by side with white indentured servants, these men labored to lay the foundations of the Dutch colony that would later become New York. There were no laws defining the limitations imposed on slaves at this point in time. Enslaved people, such as Anthony d'Angola, Emmanuel Driggus, and Frances Driggus could bring suits to court, earn wages, and marry. But in the span of a hundred years, everything changed. By the early 18th century, the trade of African slaves in America was expanding to accommodate an agricultural economy growing in the hands of ambitious planters. After the 1731 Stono Rebellion (a violent uprising led by a slave named Jemmy) many colonies adopted strict "black codes" transforming the social system into one of legal racial oppression. Episode 02 - Liberty in the Air Description: From the 1740s to the 1830s, the institution of slavery continued to support economic development. As the slave population reproduced, American planters became less dependent on the African slave trade. Ensuing generations of slaves developed a unique culture that blended elements of African and American life. Episode two follows the paths of several African Americans, including Thomas Jefferson's slave Jupiter, Colonel Tye, Elizabeth Freeman, David Walker, and Maria Stewart, as they respond to the increasingly restrictive system of slavery. At the core of this episode is the Revolutionary War, an event which reveals the contradictions of a nation seeking independence while simultaneously denying freedom to its black citizens. Episode 03 - Seeds of Destruction Description: One by one the Northern states, led by Vermont in 1777, adopted laws to abolish and phase out slavery. Simultaneously, slavery in the Southern United States entered the period of its greatest expansion. Episode three, which starts at the beginning of the 1800s, examines slavery's increasing divisiveness in America as the nation develops westward and cotton replaces tobacco as the country's most valuable crop. The episode weaves national events through the personal histories of two African American slaves -- Harriet Jacobs and Louis Hughes -- who not only managed to escape bondage, but also exposed the horrific realities of the slave experience in autobiographical narratives. These and other stories of physical, psychological, and sexual exploitation fed the fires of a reinvigorated abolitionist movement. With a diverse membership comprised of men and women, blacks and whites, and led by figures including Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and Amy Post, abolitionist sentiment gathered strength in the North, contributing to the widening fissure and imminent break-up of the nation. Episode 04 - The Challenge of Freedom Description: Episode four looks at Civil War and Reconstruction through the experiences of South Carolina slave Robert Smalls. It chronicles Smalls' daring escape to freedom, his military service, and his tenure as a congressman after the war. As the events of Smalls' life unfold, the complexities of this period in American history are revealed. The episode shows the transformation of the war from a struggle for union to a battle over slavery. It examines the black contribution to the war effort and traces the gains and losses of newly freed African Americans during Reconstruction. The 13th amendment abolished slavery in 1865, the 14th and 15th amendments guaranteed black civil rights, and the Freedmen's Bureau offered aid to former slaves throughout the 1870s. Yet simultaneously, the formation of militant groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan threatened the future of racial equality and segregation laws began to appear across the country. Slavery's eradication had not brought an end to black oppression Episode File Specifications ------------------- File Size: 696.46 MB Container: avi Codec: Xvid Frame: 640x352 Frame Rate: 29.97 Data Rate: 1782.94 kbits Audio Codec: ATSC A/52 and AC-3 Decoder Sample Rate: 48000 hz Bit Rate: 224 kbps Channels: 2 Duration: 0:55:54 Has Index Is Interleaved Language: English More action from Operation Massive Information Leak, Wave 1. BloodLogic
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Examined Life (2008) DVDRip

Category: Documentary
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Just bumped into this, and it says Slavoy Zizek and Peter Singer are in it, so I figured some of it might be interesting.. Astra Taylor - Examined Life (2008) EXAMINED LIFE Year: 2008 / Running Time: 90 mins Directed by: Astra Taylor Executive Producer: Ron Mann Producers: Bill Imperial (Sphinx Productions), Lea Martin (NFB) Editor: Robert Kennedy IMDb link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1279083/ More Info: http://www.filmswelike.com/films/examinedlife/examinedlife.html Synopsis: Examined Life takes philosophy out of the darkened corners of academia and into the hustle and bustle of the everyday, a visual reminder that great ideas are born through profound engagement with the world around us. Featuring the “rock star” philosophers of our time, including Cornel West, Peter Singer, Slavoj Zizek, Judith Butler, Avital Ronell, Michael Hardt, Anthony Appiah and Martha Nussbaum. Note: Credits to mostro and marx at KG Media Info: Examined.Life.DVDRip.avi General Format : AVI Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave File size : 1 021 MiB Duration : 1h 28mn Overall bit rate : 1 619 Kbps Writing application : VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.2 (build 2540/release) Writing library : VirtualDubMod build 2540/release Video Format : MPEG-4 Visual Format profile : Streaming Video@L1 Format settings, BVOP : Yes Format settings, QPel : No Format settings, GMC : No warppoints Format settings, Matrix : Default Codec ID : XVID Codec ID/Hint : XviD Duration : 1h 28mn Bit rate : 1 482 Kbps Width : 720 pixels Height : 384 pixels Display aspect ratio : 1.875 Frame rate : 23.976 fps Resolution : 24 bits Colorimetry : 4:2:0 Scan type : Progressive Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.224 Stream size : 934 MiB (92%) Writing library : XviD 50 Audio Format : MPEG Audio Format version : Version 1 Format profile : Layer 3 Codec ID : 55 Codec ID/Hint : MP3 Duration : 1h 28mn Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 128 Kbps Channel(s) : 2 channels Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz Resolution : 16 bits Stream size : 80.7 MiB (8%) Alignment : Split accross interleaves Interleave, duration : 42 ms (1.00 video frame) Interleave, preload duration : 500 ms
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INSIDE IRAQ~ Special – Iraq: 5 Years On 9 April 08 avi (Al-Jazeera)

Category: News & Current Affairs
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INSIDE IRAQ~ Special – Iraq: 5 Years On 9 April 08 avi (Al-Jazeera) 47 min 199 megs When the statue of Saddam fell in central Baghdad five years ago, there was widespread hope and promise of better days ahead. But things began to unravel amid lawlessness, chaos and violence. Today, Iraq is now at a crossroads and no one can predict what the future holds. After five years, was the Iraq war worth it? On the fifth anniversary of the fall of Saddam's regime, Inside Iraq goes to Cairo, at the heart of the Arab world to look again at the reasons and ramifications of the invasion of Iraq. How does Iraq and the region appear five years after Saddam's downfall? Our guests this week in Cairo: Lawrence Butler from the US State Department, Hesham Yousseff, chief of staff of the Arab League, Abdel Raouf ElReedy from the Egyptian Council of Foreign Relations, Dominic Asquith, British ambassador to Egypt and Hassan Issa, former Egyptian diplomat, and from Baghdad, Hoshyar Zebari, Iraqi foreign minister. Jasim Azawi hosts Inside Iraq in Cairo in front of a live audience. Students from Cairo were asked to join the audience, and pose questions to the panelists. With special comments from Hans Blix and Madeleine Albright Smaller, private torrents need your extra, special seeding for them to survive and thrive…thanks! http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/69C9D94F-7435-408C-8E06-D1A19A9518C2.htm cap shunster: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAOu14V_RC4 + 3 parts
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US War On Terror - Various Defense Studies

Category: Misc
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This package contains various recent studies commissioned by the U.S. defense establishment and put out by the Rand Corporation, U.S. Army and Air Force, etc. All of this is supposed to keep us safe. Does it? Files included: All Necessary Means--Employing CIA Operatives In A Warfighting Role Alongside Special Operations Forces [US Army] A Military Guide to Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century [US Army] Beyond al-Qaeda - Part 1--The Global Jihadist Movement [Rand Corp] Beyond al-Qaeda - Part 2--The Outer Rings of the Terrorist Universe [Rand Corp] Fm 33-1-1 - Psychological Operations Techniques And Procedures (Psyops) [US Army] Know Thy Enemy--Profiles Of Adversary Leaders And Their Strategic Cultures [USAF] Unconquerable Nation--Knowing Our Enemy, Strengthening Ourselves [Rand Corp] The New US AfriCOM Military Command - Various articles War Is A Racket [USMC] General Butler Speaks Out.txt
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Contingency, Hegemony, Universality - Butler, Laclau, Zizek

Category: eBooks, Magazines, Audio Books
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"In a compelling and unusual experiment, three eminent theorists engage in a dialogue on central questions of contemporary philosophy and politics. Their essays, organized as separate contributions that respond to one another, range over the Hegelian legacy in contemporary critical theory, the theoretical dilemmas of multiculturalism, the universalism-versus-particularism debate, the strategies of the Left in a globalized economy, and the relative merits of post-structuralism and Lacanian psychoanalysis for a critical social theory.While the rigor and intelligence with which these writers approach their work is formidable, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality benefits additionally from their clear sense of energy and enjoyment in a revealing and often unpredictable exchange." "Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Subjects of Desire, Gender Trouble, Bodies that Matter, and The Psychic Life of Power. Ernesto Laclau is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Essex. He is the author of Emancipation(s), New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time, The Making of Political Identities and, with Chantal Mouffe, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy. Slavoj Zizek is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Studies in Ljubljana. His books include The Sublime Object of Ideology, Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Lacan (But were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock), The Plague of Fantasies, and The Ticklish Subject."
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Indefinite Detention - Judith Butler

Category: eBooks, Magazines, Audio Books
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"On March 21, 2002, the Department of Defense, in conjunction with the Department of Justice, issued new guidelines for the military tribunals in which some of the prisoners detained domestically and in the Guantanamo Bay would be tried by the US. What has been striking about these detentions from the start, and continues to be alarming, is that the right to legal counsel and, indeed, the right to a trial has not been granted to most of these detainees. The new military tribunals are, in fact, not courts of law to which the detainees from the war against Afghanistan are entitled. Some will be tried, and others will not, and at the time of this writing, plans have just been announced to try 6 of the 650 prisoners who have remained in captivity there for more than a year. The rights to counsel, means of appeal, and repatriation stipulated by the Geneva Convention have not been granted to any of the detainees in Guantanamo, and although the US has announced its recognition of the Taliban as “covered” by the Geneva Accord, it had made clear that even the Taliban do not have prisoner of war status; as, indeed, no prisoner in Guantanamo has..."
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Phil Ochs - Farewells & Fantasies

Category: Misc
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Philip David Ochs (December 19, 1940–April 9, 1976) was a U.S. protest singer (or, as he preferred, a "topical singer"), songwriter, musician and recording artist who was known for his sharp wit, sardonic humor, earnest humanism, political activism, insightful and alliterative lyrics, and haunting voice. He wrote hundreds of songs in the 1960s and released eight LP record albums in his lifetime. He performed at many political events, anti-Vietnam War and civil rights rallies, student events, and at organized labor events over the course of his career, in addition to many concert appearances at such venues as New York City's The Town Hall and Carnegie Hall. Politically, Ochs described himself as a "left social democrat" who turned into an "early revolutionary" after the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, which had a profound effect on his state of mind. He was often seen as a radical and also a patriot — though he was also interested in differing political philosophies as well as journalism, and was an avid fan of music and movies. After years of prolific writing in the 1960s, Ochs' mental stability declined in the 1970s and eventually he succumbed to a number of problems including bipolar disorder, depression, and alcoholism, and he took his own life in 1976. Some of his major influences were Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, Bob Gibson, Faron Young, Merle Haggard, John Wayne, and John F. Kennedy. His best known songs include "Power and the Glory", "Draft Dodger Rag", "There But for Fortune", "Changes", "Crucifixion, "When I'm Gone", "Love Me I'm a Liberal", "Links on the Chain", "Ringing of Revolution", "Outside of a Small Circle of Friends", and "I Ain't Marching Anymore". Farewells & Fantasies is the 1997 posthumous box set of the work of singer/songwriter Phil Ochs, chronicling his life and career in music from 1964 through 1970. With its non-chronological running order, it plays like three separate albums, each showcasing a different side of the extraordinary Ochs. The compilation was produced by Gary Stewart, Michael Ochs (Phil's brother) and Meegan Lee Ochs (Phil's daughter). Liner notes include a Foreword by Meegan Lee Ochs, "The Sound of Freedom Callin'" by Michael Ventura and "Song of a Soldier: The Life and Times of Phil Ochs" by Mark Kemp, (Music News Editor of Rolling Stone,) track-by-track explanations by Ben Edmonds, discography, selected bibliography, and many photographs, some of which are from the family's private collections. The box set is dedicated to Bob Gibson, a friend, co-writer, and inspiration to Phil Ochs, who died while the box set was in production. Its title comes from the back of Ochs' LP Tape from California. Phil Ochs Links Phil Ochs Videos Tribute #1 Tribute #2 Phil Ochs' FBI File
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