Friday Night YouTube Thread

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   BooMan on April 13, 2007 at 8:31 pm

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   Man Eegee on April 13, 2007 at 9:06 pm

   One of Ozomatli’s latest – Can’t Stop, from the new album Don’t Mess With The Dragon

   Every song is dripping with activism – from commentary on the immigration protests to Iraq to Katrina.  Highly Recommended!

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     CabinGirl on April 13, 2007 at 9:58 pm

     Cool video!

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   urizon on April 13, 2007 at 9:06 pm

   Here’s Billy Bragg in one of his earliest TV appearances on Top of the Pops — sans lip-sync, no less:

   And the lyrics:

   Between the Wars

   I was a miner, I was a docker
   I was a railway man, between the wars
   I raised a family, in times of austerity
   With sweat at the foundry, between the wars

   I paid the union and as times got harder
   I looked to the government to help the working man
   But they brought prosperity down at the armoury
   “We’re arming for peace, me boys”
   Between the wars

   I kept the faith and I kept voting
   Not for the iron fist but for the helping hand
   For theirs is a land with a wall around it
   And mine is a faith in my fellow man
   Theirs is a land of hope and glory
   Mine is the green field and the factory floor
   Theirs are the skies all dark with bombers
   And mine is the peace we knew
   Between the wars

   Call up the craftsmen
   Bring me the draughtsmen
   Build me a path from cradle to grave
   And I’ll give my consent
   To any government
   That does not deny a man a living wage

   Go find the young men never to fight again
   Bring up the banners from the days gone by
   Sweet moderation
   Heart of this nation
   Desert us not, we are
   Between the wars

   Oh, the irony.

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   BooMan on April 13, 2007 at 9:08 pm

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   BooMan on April 13, 2007 at 9:12 pm

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   BooMan on April 13, 2007 at 9:18 pm

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     Gaianne on April 13, 2007 at 11:37 pm

     Well, let us hope!  

     Interesting.  

     CIA drug running is an old story.  During the Vietnam war, they were running heroin out of Laos.  

     Remember Noriega, dictator of Panama?  He was physically seized (after Panama was invaded) for drug running;  the interesting part is that his cocaine operations depended on the co-operation and complicity of the US Air Force (which in fact controlled Panamanian airspace).  

     The cocaine traffic leads in every direction:  into the CIA, and right into the White House.  

     May this story grow legs!  

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   Brendan Skwire on April 13, 2007 at 9:23 pm

   
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   I love the DKs.

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   Nancy LeTourneau on April 13, 2007 at 10:17 pm

   I’m feeling myself some Tina tonight. Just imagining her in a room with some of the talking-head good ole boys.

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   CabinGirl on April 13, 2007 at 10:28 pm

   doing a John Prine tune in Glasgow:

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    a517dogg on April 13, 2007 at 10:33 pm

    mashup of monty python and star trek.  duno who did it, but worth watching!

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    americanforliberty on April 13, 2007 at 10:41 pm

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    CabinGirl on April 13, 2007 at 11:02 pm

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      glitterscale on April 14, 2007 at 11:09 am

      wow , I really liked that. it’s so peaceful, so serene . not only the sight of it was , but the music . keep playing those types of songs !
      -Jo’s granddaughter