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Heavy Rotation - 07/05/10

Playlist for 07/05/10

Junior Murvin - Police And Thieves
Manu Chao - Radio Bemba (Baïonarena Live)
ZZ Top - Tube Snake Boogie
Pama International - Highrise
Uptown Seranaders - The Onyx Hop
Galactic - sidewalk stepper
Morphine - Buena
D.I. - Voices
SSSC - Promenade
Gogol Bordello - American Wedding
Valient Thorr - Man Behind The Curtain
Amsterdam Klezmer Band - Magnificent Seven
Phish - Rift (Hampton 09/03/06)
The Killers - Mr. Brightside

You're welcome.

GYPZY SHYTZY BLOG

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CONTRAMUNDO!!!

Milwaukee Police break into house & pull guns on innocent family

2 days ago my friends in Milwaukee had an encounter with the local police who were chasing a suspect through their neighborhood. Apparently the suspect broke into their house as he was being chased by police. The officers followed him inside the house and pulled a gun on the occupants of the house (including their young children). The incident was not caught on tape, but the residents did manage to film the officer after and got him on tape admitting to pulling a gun on their young child. At the beginning of the video the officer threatens to take the camera away from the resident. What's your take on this? Can my friends press charges against the officers for unlawful entry and assault with a deadly weapon?

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Street Sweeper Social Club

Check out Street Sweeper Social Club, the new project from Boots Riley (The Coup) and Tom Morello (Rage Against The Machine, Audioslave, Nightwatchman). SSSC released their debut record this week and it's available now on itunes.

Tom and Boots were on Rockline this week, listen to the interview. They will also appear tonight (Wed. 6/17/09) on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

Here's a few SSSC related videos:

My un-official Fight! Smash! Win! inspired music video:


video I shot of SSSC covering M.I.A.'s hit "Paper Planes" @ Shoreline in Mountain View on NINJA 2009 Tour:


SSSC perform MC5's "Kick Out The Jams" w/ Trent Reznor:


SSSC's Youtube Channel

These Folks Must Go!!!

Here's a list of the House Representatives who should be voted out of office in 2010 and tried for treason. I give you... the TARP ALL STARS!!!

Neil Abercrombie, Gary Ackerman, Thomas Allen, Robert Andrews, Michael Arcuri, Joe Baca, Brian Baird, Tammy Baldwin, Melissa Bean, Shelley Berkley, Howard Berman, Marion Berry, Sanford Bishop, Timothy Bishop, Dan Boren, Leonard Boswell, Rick Boucher, Allen Boyd, Robert Brady, Bruce Braley, Corrine Brown, Lois Capps, Michael Capuano, Dennis Cardoza, Russ Carnahan, André Carson, Yvette Clarke, Emanuel Cleaver, James Clyburn, Steve Cohen, Jim Cooper, Jim Costa, Bud Cramer, Joseph Crowley, Henry Cuellar, Elijah Cummings, Artur Davis, Susan Davis, Danny Davis, Diana DeGette, Rosa DeLauro, Norman Dicks, John Dingell, Joe Donnelly, Michael Doyle, Donna Edwards, Chet Edwards, Keith Ellison, Brad Ellsworth, Rahm Emanuel, Eliot Engel, Anna Eshoo, Bob Etheridge, Sam Farr, Chaka Fattah, Bill Foster, Barney Frank, Gabrielle Giffords, Charles Gonzalez, Bart Gordon, Al Green, Luis Gutierrez, John Hall, Phil Hare, Jane Harman, Alcee Hastings, Brian Higgins, Ruben Hinojosa, Mazie Hirono, Rush Holt, Mike Honda, Darlene Hooley, Steny Hoyer, Steve Israel, Jesse Jackson, Sheila Jackson-Lee, Eddie Johnson, Paul Kanjorski, Patrick Kennedy, Dale Kildee, Carolyn Kilpatrick, Ron Kind, Ron Klein, James Langevin, Rick Larsen, John Larson, Barbara Lee, Sander Levin, John Lewis, David Loebsack, Zoe Lofgren, Nita Lowey, Tim Mahoney, Carolyn Maloney, Edward Markey, Jim Marshall, Doris Matsui, Carolyn McCarthy, Betty McCollum, James McGovern, Jerry McNerney, Michael McNulty, Kendrick Meek, Gregory Meeks, Charles Melancon, Brad Miller, George Miller, Harry Mitchell, Alan Mollohan, Dennis Moore, Gwen Moore, James Moran, Christopher Murphy, Patrick Murphy, John Murtha, Jerrold Nadler, Richard Neal, James Oberstar, David Obey, John Olver, Solomon Ortiz, Frank Pallone, Bill Pascrell, Ed Pastor, Nancy Pelosi, Ed Perlmutter, Earl Pomeroy, David Price, Nick Rahall, Charles Rangel, Silvestre Reyes, Laura Richardson, Mike Ross, Dutch Ruppersberger, Bobby Rush, Tim Ryan, John Sarbanes, Jan Schakowsky, Adam Schiff, Allyson Schwartz, David Scott, Joe Sestak, Albio Sires, Ike Skelton, Louise Slaughter, Adam Smith, Vic Snyder, Hilda Solis, Zachary Space, Jackie Speier, John Spratt, Betty Sutton, John Tanner, Ellen Tauscher, Mike Thompson, John Tierney, Edolphus Towns, Niki Tsongas, Chris Van Hollen, Nydia Velazquez, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Maxine Waters, Diane Watson, Melvin Watt, Henry Waxman, Anthony Weiner, Peter Welch, Robert Wexler, Charles Wilson, Lynn Woolsey, David Wu, John Yarmuth

Rodney Alexander, Spencer Bachus, J. Gresham Barrett, Judith Biggert, Roy Blunt, John Boehner, Jo Bonner, Mary Bono, John Boozman, Charles Boustany, Kevin Brady, Henry Brown, Vern Buchanan, Ken Calvert, Dave Camp, John Campbell, Chris Cannon, Eric Cantor, Michael Castle, Howard Coble, Tom Cole, Michael Conaway, Ander Crenshaw, Barbara Cubin, Tom Davis, Charles Dent, David Dreier, Vernon Ehlers, Jo Ann Emerson, Terry Everett, Mary Fallin, Mike Ferguson, Vito Fossella, Rodney Frelinghuysen, Jim Gerlach, Wayne Gilchrest, Kay Granger, Wally Herger, David Hobson, Peter Hoekstra, Bob Inglis, Peter King, Mark Kirk, John Kline, Joe Knollenberg, Randy Kuhl, Ray LaHood, Jerry Lewis, Ron Lewis, Daniel Lungren, Jim McCrery, John McHugh, Buck McKeon, Gary Miller, Sue Myrick, John Peterson, Chip Pickering, Jon Porter, Deborah Pryce, Adam Putnam, George Radanovich, Jim Ramstad, Ralph Regula, Thomas Reynolds, Mike Rogers, Hal Rogers, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Paul Ryan, Jim Saxton, Jean Schmidt, Pete Sessions, John Shadegg, Christopher Shays, Bill Shuster, Michael Simpson, Lamar Smith, Mark Souder, John Sullivan, Tom Tancredo, Lee Terry, Mac Thornberry, Pat Tiberi, Fred Upton, Greg Walden, James Walsh, Zachary Wamp, Dave Weldon, Jerry Weller, Heather Wilson, Joe Wilson, Frank Wolf

4th of July prediction

You heard it here first, I predict that gold will be at $1000 and oil $100 on July 4th, just in time for tea parties! http://www.reteaparty.com/

I see $950 as the anchor point for gold in the next 8 to 10 months and $70 as the anchor point for oil. Gas should be around $3.50 this summer at the peak and will find $3 as it's anchor point for the same period. -Vince (vtocce@gmail.com) 5/13/09

PHANTOM VLOG #4 - GAVIOTA HOT SPRINGS

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COACHELLA WITH TE'DEVAN

Te'Devan, aka "Slacker Prophet," and I made it out to Coachella for the opening night of the festival. He posted up outside the show doing yoga and healing random passers-by. Got to see Paul McCartney, Genghis Tron, & Bajofondo. Here's a video diary of our adventures...
PART ONE

PART TWO

PART THREE

PART FOUR



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PEOPLE ARE STARTING TO GET IT

MEGAFORCE animation

This is a clip I created for the intro to the new web series "MEGAFORCE" coming soon... I created it from an old Soviet Propaghanda poster from a really cool site: http://www.davno.ru/soviet-posters Kinda interesting, some of the artwork is really cool, gives Fillmore posters a run for their money. Also noticed that I'm not the first person to co-op from those posters. I noticed one that the Red Elvises used for one of their album covers. Cool shit, enjoy!

I ♥ my new Megaphone!

Dave and I stopped by Radio Shack yesterday and picked up a brand new megaphone! Here we are testing it out at the local Jack In The Box drive through, unfortunately you can't get the full effect because the camera is inside the car and the megaphone is facing outside, but you get the idea. Actually I think there was some weird feedback/noise cancellation going on because for some reason it wasn't amplifying my voice normally. I was pointing it straight at the drive thru speaker so that must have caused some sort of funky noise cancellation to occur. Audio magic! Anyway, I just got the thing, so I'll definitely get a chance to make plenty of noise. The siren is so loud I can't even turn it on because it like destroys my eardrums instantly. Fight!



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Valient Thorr - Live at Detroit Bar, Costa Mesa, CA

I had the distinct privelege to witness the almighty Valient Thorr melt the faces off of a very rambunctious crowd at the Detroit Bar in Costa Mesa, CA. The dark, dingy, warm and familiar venue was an epic scene tucked into the corner of a typical Orange County stripmall.

Check out a video clip from their performance and also download an mp3 of the entire performance...




MP3 of entire Valient Thorr performance at Detroit Bar

PHANTOM VLOG #2 - PSYCHO DONUTS

I found my new favorite donut shop, it's Psycho Donuts in Campbell, California. A friend recommended I stop in before I left town last week and I was glad I did it. For those of you in the Bay Area who are looking to take your donut experience to the next level may I suggest the shock treatment at Psycho Donuts.

Whether you are basking in the glow of the crazy artwork or simply enjoying a Crispy Critter, Psycho Donuts certainly has a treat for you. If you show up Saturday or Sunday morning you can strap yourself into the padded cell and have donuts administered to you from the lovely Nurses on duty.

Check out their website here:
http://www.psycho-donuts.com

I missed the daily festivites and almost all the donuts, but was able to grab a tasty Oreo Cookie Peanut Butter Donut thing, which you'll see in the video below, enjoy!



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Street Sweeper - Fight! Smash! Win!

Street Sweeper is the new project from Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine) and Boots Riley (The Coup). Visit the Street Sweeper website for music and concert info:

www.streetsweepermusic.com

Catch SS on tour this summer with Nine Inch Nails & Jane's Addiction. There is a free mp3 sampler featuring new SS tracks here!

Here's a video inspired by the Street Sweeper single "Fight! Smash! Win!"

FIGHT! SMASH! WIN! VIDEO!

NIN, Jane's Addiction, Street Sweeper Summer Tour Dates

PHANTOM VLOG #1 - Will Bernard & Larry Birkhead

PHANTOM VLOG - EPISODE ONE

We catch up with Will Bernard at the Roxy in West Hollywood and also run into a gang of Paparazzi chasing after Larry Birkhead outside the infamous Rainbow Bar.

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Afganistan Pre 9/11

http://opioids.com/afghanistan/index.html


JALALABAD, Afghanistan (February 15, 2001 8:19 p.m. EST
U.N. drug control officers said the Taliban religious militia has nearly wiped out opium production in Afghanistan -- once the world's largest producer -- since banning poppy cultivation last summer.

A 12-member team from the U.N. Drug Control Program spent two weeks searching most of the nation's largest opium-producing areas and found so few poppies that they do not expect any opium to come out of Afghanistan this year.

"We are not just guessing. We have seen the proof in the fields," said Bernard Frahi, regional director for the U.N. program in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He laid out photographs of vast tracts of land cultivated with wheat alongside pictures of the same fields taken a year earlier -- a sea of blood-red poppies.

A State Department official said Thursday all the information the United States has received so far indicates the poppy crop had decreased, but he did not believe it was eliminated.

Last year, Afghanistan produced nearly 4,000 tons of opium, about 75 percent of the world's supply, U.N. officials said. Opium -- the milky substance drained from the poppy plant -- is converted into heroin and sold in Europe and North America. The 1999 output was a world record for opium production, the United Nations said -- more than all other countries combined, including the "Golden Triangle," where the borders of Thailand, Laos and Myanmar meet.

Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban's supreme leader, banned poppy growing before the November planting season and augmented it with a religious edict making it contrary to the tenets of Islam.

The Taliban, which has imposed a strict brand of Islam in the 95 percent of Afghanistan it controls, has set fire to heroin laboratories and jailed farmers until they agreed to destroy their poppy crops.

The U.N. surveyors, who completed their search this week, crisscrossed Helmand, Kandahar, Urzgan and Nangarhar provinces and parts of two others -- areas responsible for 86 percent of the opium produced in Afghanistan last year, Frahi said in an interview Wednesday. They covered 80 percent of the land in those provinces that last year had been awash in poppies.

This year they found poppies growing on barely an acre here and there, Frahi said. The rest -- about 175,000 acres -- was clean.

"We have to look at the situation with careful optimism," said Sandro Tucci of the U.N. Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention in Vienna, Austria.

He said indications are that no poppies were planted this season and that, as a result, there hasn't been any production of opium -- but that officials would keep checking.

The State Department counternarcotics official said the department would make its own estimate of the poppy crop. Information received so far suggests there will be a decrease, but how much is not yet clear, he said, speaking on condition of anonymity.


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US OUT OF CALIFORNIA!!!

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8SPL3IG1&show_article=1

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California sued the federal government on Thursday to force a decision about whether the state can impose the nation's first greenhouse gas emission standards for cars and light trucks.
More than a dozen other states are poised to follow California's lead if it is granted the waiver from federal law, presenting a challenge to automakers who would have to adapt to a patchwork of regulations.

The state's lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., was expected after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vowed last spring to take legal action.

"Our future depends on us taking action on global warming right now," Schwarzenegger said during a news conference. "There's no legal basis for Washington to stand in our way."

At issue is California's nearly two-year-old request for a waiver under the federal Clean Air Act allowing it to implement a 2002 state anti-pollution law regulating greenhouse gases.

Eleven other states have adopted California's standard as a way to combat global warming and five others are considering it.

"Our position is that it's time for EPA to either act or get out of the way," said Lee Moore, a spokesman for New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram.

Arizona, Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington plan to join California's lawsuit against the federal government, said Gareth Lacy, spokesman for California Attorney General Jerry Brown.

"The longer the delay in reducing these emissions, the more costly and harmful will be the impact on California," the state attorney general's office said in its 16-page complaint.

Schwarzenegger and other state officials say implementing the law is crucial in order to meet the provisions of a separate global warming law that passed law year. That law seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 25 percent by 2020.

California asked the EPA to grant its waiver in December 2005. EPA administrator Stephen Johnson said last summer that he would make a decision by the end of this year.

Brown said the EPA simply was "sitting on its hands."

The EPA criticized the state's actions Thursday.

"The administrator has stated numerous times that he plans to make a decision by the end of the year," spokeswoman Jennifer Wood said. "It's unfortunate that California is more interested in getting a good headline than allowing us to make a decision."

State officials say they need the matter resolved soon because the auto-emissions law applies to vehicles in the 2009 model year, which can be marketed by companies as early as this coming January.

Cars, pickups and sport utility vehicles sold in California would be required to produce fewer greenhouse gases, with the goal of reducing auto emissions 25 percent by 2030.

Further delay by the EPA would interfere with the state's ability to enforce the law on time, according to the complaint.

"Congress generally intended that the U.S. EPA make determinations of this type in a matter of weeks or months, not years," the complaint says.

While the federal government sets national air pollution rules, California has unique status under the Clean Air Act to enact its own regulations if it gets approval to do so by the EPA.

Other states can follow the federal rules or California's standards if they are tougher. The EPA has granted about 50 such waivers over the past 40 years for the use of catalytic converters, leaded gasoline regulations and other measures.

The complaint filed Thursday claims the EPA failed to act in a reasonable length of time.

In addition to the states that plan to join California's lawsuit, the governors of Colorado, Florida and Utah said their states plan to adopt the standard.

The EPA initially refused to act on California's application, saying the agency did not have the authority to regulate greenhouse gases as a pollutant. That changed when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in April that the EPA did indeed have that right.

As a result, the EPA is now developing greenhouse gas regulations that are scheduled to be released by the end of the year. Environmental groups say those regulations are not likely to be stronger than the California standards.

Meanwhile, automakers continue to challenge the California standards in court.

They are appealing a ruling last month by a federal judge in Vermont who upheld the California rules in that state. They also are trying to persuade a federal judge in Fresno to toss out the emission standards mandated under California's 2002 law.

Associations for both domestic and foreign car companies say California's standards would raise the cost of vehicles and could force manufacturers to pull some sport utility vehicles and pickup truck models from showrooms.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8SPL3IG1&show_article=1