At the Peoples Fair in Denver I talked to Max Montrose about “The VoiceBox Project”. It is a free speech art project that I’m going to be sharing some of my videos with. The project is in in Denver and runs June 19 – 28 , 2009.
Commander Yo produced the following video mashup using his own music and many recognizable images from our times. On the YouTube page this is posted on he says “Make of It what you will.”
Ok, I will, here is my take. To me it is a call to wake up from the sea of off track memes (war, brain dead media, unsound money, cult of personality, and more). A call to get back to the heart of what is written in the US Constitution, that we are a free people. The music is good fit.
The economic situation continues to deteriorate this week as past and future bailouts were discussed on Capitol Hill. The debate was over the accountability of already disbursed TARP money, and on whether or not to release remaining funds. Banks that had already been bailed out before are looking for more money to fill the black holes that are their balance sheets, warning that they are simply too big to fail. However, whatever ‘devastating’ consequences these banks are dreaming up and pushing on Capitol Hill regarding their own collapse will be nothing compared to the collapse of our currency if we keep debasing it through these foolish bailouts. It should be that they are too big to bailout. The world will not come to an end without this or that bank. The most troubling thing to me is this rhetoric that only government can save the economy, and must act. This is so counter-productive.
We must ask ourselves what strengthens this country, and what weakens it. Read more…
My SCOBY is slowwwwlllly growing larger. I still don’t have any heating system set up and the liquid has been under 64 for most of the time. The air temp in the house has been between 66F and 70F, but my tiles are cold. Here is a video of day 8.