The Strange Wall on The Deprogramming Hour

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Jackie Recycles

This is a clip from last Friday's live call in episode. Enjoy!

If you live in Manhattan you can watch the Deprogramming Hour every other Friday night at 11:30 on MNN Time Warner channel 56
If not you can watch online at mnn.org

If you live in Brooklyn, you can watch us every Monday at midnight, Time Warner channel 56 / cablevision 69.

Shock Doctrine

I first saw this on Democracy now. You can find out more about this film on their website democracynow.org
You can watch the full video online at naomiklein.org

When did speaking become a crime

I'm not sure what's scarier - the cops with tasers or the crowd clappping.

Is the world flat? Hum - not sure.

VHKB at the Art Parade

Jackie and Jon Vomit with the news

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Jon Vomit doesn't want to tell us the news.

Read more about these stories which we found on truthout.org

The Voluptous Horror of Karen Black in Tomkins Square

summer flowers from Candian garden

Jealousy

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This is a video I put together for the song Jealousy by Ninth House. The visuals come from various public domain footage.

Witch Song

Check out this clip from the next episode of the Deprogramming Hour featuring Jollyship the Whizbang.

Jollyship The Whizbang combines a rock band with puppets, video, a solid storyline and lovable characters, to create a funny and sometimes shocking live show. Check out bits from their rock opera Crabquistador: Scavenger of God this Friday July 27 at 11:30 pm on The Deprogramming Hour.

MNN - Time Warner channel 56 - and online at mnn.org.

You can also check out Jollyship the Whizbang live this Saturday

July, 28 2007 at Cha Chas in coney island at 8pm.

Visit Jollyship the Whizbang online at http://www.thewhizbang.org/

You can see more videos from them at http://www.youtube.com/user/captainclamp

See more videos from the Deprogramming Hour at http://deprogramminghour.blip.tv/

This show will also feature a beautiful shadow puppet short, which was submitted by John Vomit. It's based on an Edgar Allen Poe story. It was performed live at the theatre for the new city, with music by The Strange Walls.

http://www.myspace.com/strangewalls

And there is also a vintage burlesque music video for the song Jealousy by Ninth House.

http://www.myspace.com/ninthhouse

The Chances of the World Changing

I was very touched by a film I watched on PBS's POV last night titled "The Chances of the World Changing". It was about this guy who saved a rare turtle from the soup pot, took it home, and named it Empress. Some time later he saved 1,200 more turtles -some of which are now extinct in the wild- and housed them in his Manhattan apartment. His story made it into the mainstream media briefly as a light story and then dropped. The filmakers take over the story when the man, Richard Ogust, is in crisis to save the turtles from extintion and find a permanant place to house them against all odds and sacrificing his own personal life for the cause. It's a sad story illustrating how many turtles are unprotected and will soon fade out of existence.

You can read more about it POV website by clicking here.

You can watch the trailer for it by clicking here.

We're All Gonna Die

Here is an article I want to share that I found on truthout.org

We're All Gonna Die
By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Columnist

Friday 13 July 2007

We are all wired into a survival trip now.

- Hunter S. Thompson

Who can forget the incredible scandal that erupted back in May of 2002? Around about the middle of that month, details began to emerge about the August 6, 2001 Presidential Daily Briefing that specifically warned Bush about Osama bin Laden's determination to strike the United States.

Wait. Actually, everyone forgot, because two days later, the Bush administration unleashed a blizzard of dire warnings about impending terrorist attacks. FBI Director Robert Mueller intoned such attacks were "inevitable," and the Department of Homeland Security announced the imminent, explosive destruction of all American railroads, along with the Brooklyn Bridge and the Statue of Liberty.

Who can forget the incredible scandal that erupted back in June of 2003? Over the course of two days, reports emerged about serious doubts held by the CIA regarding the credibility of the administration's claim Iraq tried to buy uranium from Niger. On the heels of this, Congress unfurled its 9/11 report, which criticized all levels of the Bush administration for its performance before and during the attacks.

Wait. Actually, everyone forgot, because the Bush administration unleashed another blizzard of warnings about impending terrorist attacks. Specifically, the Department of Homeland Security warned terrorists were, once again, preparing to attack the United States with suicide missions using commercial airliners as bombs.

Who can forget the incredible scandal that erupted back in December of 2003? 9/11 Commission chairman Thomas Keane declared the attacks of 9/11 should have been prevented. The next day, a Federal appeals court ruled against the administration on the case of suspected terrorist Jose Padilla, stating Padilla could not be held indefinitely without being charged.

Wait. Actually, everyone forgot, because the Bush administration increased the terrorism threat level to Orange and claimed more suicide planes were about to come zooming out of the sky. Six international flights were diverted due to potential terrorist actions of some passengers who were later identified as an insurance salesman, an elderly Chinese woman and a five-year-old boy.

Who can forget the incredible scandal that erupted back in May of 2004? Secretary of State Colin Powell appeared on Meet the Press and stated the intelligence on Iraqi WMD he'd been given for his UN presentation had been "inaccurate and wrong and, in some cases, deliberately misleading." Horrifying new pictures of the torture, rape and murder of prisoners by Americans at Abu Ghraib prison became public. The American military accidentally bombed a wedding party in Iraq, killing 40 civilians.

Wait. Actually, everyone forgot, because FBI Director Mueller and Attorney General John Ashcroft announced they had reports from multiple sources of al Qaeda's "specific intention to hit the United States hard." The threat levels were not raised, but dire warnings of impending catastrophe were offered by the administration for the next several days.

The recipe is simple, like the directions on the back of a shampoo bottle. Damaging reports of Bush administration malfeasance emerge. Warnings of imminent terrorist-borne doom immediately follow, all spread far and wide by said Bush administration. Lather, rinse, repeat.

There are many more instances of this curious timing to be found, but apparently, no one in the administration is concerned this dubious pattern - spreading fear among the populace to change the subject, an act of terrorism itself - might start to wear thin.

Who is going to forget the incredible scandals of June and July of 2007? The Bush administration leaves Nixon in the dust by commuting the prison sentence of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. This action strongly suggests the existence of a quid pro quo between Libby and Bush's people to cover up the criminal activities of powerful officials like Vice President Dick Cheney, who had recently claimed his office wasn't part of the executive branch to avoid handing papers over to the National Archives.

The administration deploys spurious claims of Executive Privilege to avoid subpoenas regarding the patently illegal NSA wiretapping of American citizens. That privilege is extended to deny Congressional access to Harriet Miers, former White House counsel, regarding the issue of fired US attorneys. Contempt charges are threatened against Miers, and the NSA subpoena stonewall comes closer to getting openly challenged in court. Alberto Gonzales is exposed as having lied to the Senate in his testimony about FBI abuses of the Patriot Act.

Few of the benchmarks for success in Iraq are met. Desperate to halt a tide of GOP defections from his Iraq policy, Bush again coughs up the totally discredited link between 9/11 and Iraq, saying, "The same people that attacked us on September the 11th is a crowd that is now bombing people, killing innocent men, women and children." The House again votes to withdraw American troops from Iraq. A new Harris poll on Bush's approval rating is published. The number reads 26 percent.

Wait.

Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff all but guarantees devastating new terror attacks against the United States this summer. He bases this warning on a "gut feeling." White House spokesman Tony Snow threatens that withdrawal from Iraq would bring terrorism "to a shopping mall near you."

Meanwhile, al Qaeda is alleged to be as secure in Pakistan and Afghanistan as they were before 9/11, yet no one in the administration connects this new security to the drain of resources happening in Iraq. Additionally, no one in the administration points out the fact that, if Chertoff's gut is indeed correct, and we are indeed attacked again, responsibility for that attack will fall upon those who manufactured war in Iraq. Never mind the fact that if an attack is allowed to happen, even a minor one, more of our constitutional rights and protections will be eviscerated by the very same people who failed to stop it again.

Will everyone forget about the scandals of June and July 2007 amid these deadly warnings of coming death?

Lather, rinse, repeat.

Jackie and John Vomit hate you - Live!

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Here is a clip from last Friday's episode of the Deprogramming Hour on MNN (Manhattan Cable Access).

Jackie and John Vomit hosted a live call in talk show about hate.

Once in an Ordinary Life

Here is another clip from our show with Ninth House, due to air Friday May 18 at 11:30pm.

The song is called, Once in an Ordianary Life.

If you have Time Warner Cable in Manhattan, you can tune onto channel 56 and see the complete episode. If not, just go to mnn.org and click on channel 56.

You can also check out Ninth House online at NinthHouse.org or be their friend on MySpace - http://www.myspace.com/ninthhouse

Mistaken For Love

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The Deprogramming Hour was happy to host Ninth House at Manhattan Neighborhood Network last month.

Here is a clip from the show due to air Friday May 18 at 11:30pm.

It's a solo song performed by Mark called, Mistaken For Love.

If you have Time Warner Cable in Manhattan, you can tune onto channel 56 and see the complete episode.

If not, just go to mnn.org and click on channel 56.

You can also check out Ninth House online at NinthHouse.org or be their friend on MySpace - http://www.myspace.com/ninthhouse

If This Is Growing Up

Sonia Pichardo has a sexy urban podcast of her book, If This is Growing UP, at www.harlemfriends.com

Sonia narrates the entanglements of Jackie, a graduate who recently moved to New York to find work and fall in love. It's the sex in the city for the rest of New York.

Last opening day at Astroland ever!

This is it. After the summer it's all getting torn down. (minus the Wonderwheel and Cyclone)

Last night at Sin-e

Here is a slideshow of some of the bands that played the last night at Sin-e.
✰MISS GUY✰
Pretty Boys
Theo & the Skyscrapers

You can also set the set on flickr.

vigil to commemorate 4 year anniversary of Iraq war

No Brainer War Escalation Increases Cemetery Population
Originally uploaded by Deprogramming Hour.

check out more pictures from the vigil on Flicker

Last winter at the Coney Island I've known

Snowball fight
Originally uploaded by Deprogramming Hour.

I posted a dozen or so pics of Coney Island after the snow storm. Check them out if you are so inclined.

American Idiot

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montage of media and protest footage over Greenday song

Lonely and Wet

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Strangewalls does a cover of Mekons song "Lonely and Wet" at Otto's Shrunken Head.

Jesus was a liberal

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montage from the rnc in nyc 2004

The History of Democracy - Part 1

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Chief justice explations the history of Democracy to

The History of Democracy - Part 2

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Chief Jusitice completes the tale of how our democratic republic was formed.

Headwounds

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This rockin band hails from Baltimore MD.

This clip is from a show they played at CB's Lounge last summer.

You can find them at:  http://www.myspace.com/headwounds 

Hymen Holocaust at CB's Lounge

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Here is a clip from a performance by Hymen Holocaust at CB's Lounge this past summer, for Creamy Fist magazine.

You can find them at:  http://www.myspace.com/hymenholocaustrules   

Jackie Hates You

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Jackie hates poetry in motion.

Freedom Fighta

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Puja lets you know how she feels about the path hip hop has taken.