New Cool Song: Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile "Over Everything" (Official Video) from "Lotta See Lice" Forthcoming Duet Album

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions IS a Confederate monument! Force Him To Change His Name!

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German Magazine "Stern" Shows Trump As Hitler & "Sein Kampf" (His Struggle)

The latest issue of German magazine Stern shows Trump making a Hitler salute, wrapped in the American flag, with the caption "Sein Kampf" (His Struggle), a play on the title of Hitler's book Mein Kampf (My Struggle)...

"His Struggle: Neo-Nazis, KKK, Racism: As Trump stirs up hate in America"

Cool, New M.I.A. song "Load 'Em"

Billy Corgan Has A New Album... But Until He Denounces Alex Jones, Forget It!

                                                                        Billy and I in happier times....

Pitchfork reports that Billy Corgan has a new album coming out in October, produced by Rick Rubin, but not under the name Smashing Pumpkins. Instead, he is using his real full name: William Patrick Corgan.

I heard the first song; nothing special. A slow, piano number. There's also gonna be a tour, but you won't hear me talking about it, much less going to it. I was formerly a huge fan of Smashing Pumpkins and went to many of their shows, as well as Zwan and Billy solo shows.

But until Billy denounces Alex Jones and his comments to Jones about Bernie Sanders, Socialism, and "Social Justice Warriors", I'm going to assume that Billy is still lost and doesn't need his old fans, or new ones, for that matter.

Perhaps he could blame drug and alcohol use or a fall on the head to mansplain his appearance on Alex Jones' Infowars show and his subsequent comments?

In light of Charlottesville, we all have to decide where our loyalties lie.

Billy, who and what are you loyal to?

Oh-oh... I just looked at the track listing for the new album and there's two songs with names of vicious battles from the U.S. Civil War: Shiloh and Antietam.... I smell trouble...

See: The Death of a Smashing Pumpkins/Billy Corgan Fan 1993 - 2016

See: Billy Corgan on Alex Jones show attacks Bernie, Socialism, and "Social Justice Warriors"

See: Billy Corgan Announces New Album Ogilala, Shares Song “Aeronaut”: Listen

Removing Deplorable Statues Is A Great American Tradition: July 9, 1776; King George Statue Pulled Down In New York

"On July 9, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was read for the first time in New York in front of George Washington and his troops. In reaction to what had been read, soldiers and citizens went to Bowling Green, a park in Manhattan, where a lead statue of King George III on horseback stood. The mob of people pulled down the statue, and later the lead was melted down to make musket balls, or bullets for use in the war for independence. Careful records were kept, and it is known that 42, 088 bullets were made..."

Teach U.S. History: Pulling Down the Statue of George III

(Is this the Bowling Green Massacre Kellyanne Conway was talking about?)

The riots in Charlottesville over the proposed removal of pro-Confederate statues calls to mind the grand American tradition of removing deplorable statues, such as this removal of a statue of England's King George by patriotic Americans.

William Walcutt, Pulling Down the Statue of George III at Bowling Green, July 9, 1776. 1857, oil on canvas, Lafayette College Art Collection.

We also are reminded of the removal of Soviet-era monuments in Eastern Europe, the toppling of Saddam's statue in Iraq, and so on. Here's an idea: In Hungary they made a special park for the old statues which celebrated pro-Soviet Communist rule. Or there's the path the people in Bowling Green took - making bullets and musket balls out of it to fight the British. 

The Confederates were deplorable traitors, defenders of racism and slavery, and any memorials to them should be removed immediately.

And that damned Confederate flag too... It's high time it was relegated to the trash heap of history once and for all!

And while we're at it, might as well throw that Nazi flag on the fire as well...

Pulling Down the Statue Of King George III, New York City by Johannes Adam Simon Oertel

Rosanne Cash On A Neo-Nazi Wearing A Johnny Cash Shirt At Charlottesville

Roger Waters Accuses Radiohead of Supporting Israeli Government in New Interview On Pro-Putin RT

ThisSmallPlanet Editor's Note: RT (Russia Today), in our opinion, should be considered a mouthpiece of the Putin administration, and in general, is NOT a legitimate news source. 

ThisSmallPlanet Editor's Note: Roger Waters claims, on RT (Russia Today), a media outlet aligned with the Russian government, that Russia is only "involved" with countries on its' "doorstep", yet fails to note that Syria and the U.S., two countries where Russia has played a very negative role recently, are not on Russia's doorstep at all. Furthermore, countries on Russia's "doorstep", such as Georgia, The Ukraine, and Occupied Chechnya would undoubtedly tell us that not all Russian "involvement" is welcome or benign. While Waters seems to address American and Israeli shortcomings at length, he seems very willing to underplay Russia's and Putin's crimes, while appearing on a media outlet aligned with Putin. Waters also appears to downplay the importance of Americans investigating Russian influence on the Trump campaign and the 2016 U.S. elections. It is vital for Americans to investigate this fully, prosecute any Americans who broke the law, and prevent such foreign interference from happening again.

P.S. Although Roger seemed to be a little soft on Putin in the interview, someone at RT, by accident or design, included footage in the piece from Roger's current U.S. tour, showing that Putin, as well as Trump, is called out as a charade and a pig (below: image of Putin in blue/green holding a puppy under the word CHARADE).

Original Article on Pitchfork.com:
Pitchfork: Roger Waters Accuses Radiohead of Supporting Israeli Government in New RT Interview

by Noah Yoo

Pink Floyd frontman says Thom Yorke and co. “endorsed” Israeli government policies by performing

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Roger Waters recently appeared on RT (Russia Today - see video below) for a lengthy interview that covered a multitude of topics, including Trump, Putin, the media, world politics, and more, as CoS points out. During the interview, he once again criticized Thom Yorke and Radiohead over their decision to follow through with a concert in Tel Aviv, a decision that was mired in controversy in the months leading up to it. Before the concert took place, Yorke issued a statement on Twitter saying, “ We don’t endorse [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu any more than Trump, but we still play in America.” Waters addressed that comment directly in the new video, saying:

Thom Yorke is wrong about not endorsing the policies of the Israeli government by playing there. Spokespersons of that government have said how excited they are, that this is the best thing that’s happened to their hasbara, which is the explaining to the rest of the world what a wonderful and precious democracy Israel is. And willy-nilly, when they cross the picket line, they are making a public statement that they do endorse policies of the government, whatever they say, because that is what will be reported in Israel and that is what gets reported around the world. That is why Radiohead are being so soundly criticized by anybody with progressive ideas about human rights, because they have taken that step.

Waters continued on to explain that he believes Radiohead performing in Israel is different from the band playing in the U.S. during the Trump administration, citing the existence of the BDS Movement as a key reason for that belief. “The people of the United States have not got together as a civil society and asked performers from the rest of the world not to come and perform in the United States, because they are an occupied people and there is an organized resistance against the occupying army,” he said. “This is something that they started that they have organized, and they have made an appeal to all artists, writers, musicians, actors, directors, anybody in the rest of the world to observe the picket line, which they have drawn.” Watch Waters’ full interview below. Pitchfork has reached out to representatives for Radiohead for comment.

Elsewhere in the interview, Waters compared Trump and Putin, calling the American president “a complete buffoon” before saying, “[Putin] may be power hungry, but at least he’s coherent. At least he can string a sentence together. At least he reads about the political situations in places his countries are involved in.”

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ThisSmallPlanet.com Playlist August 2017: Music For The New Apocalypse (North Korean Remix)

New albums from Queens of The Stone Age & Manchester Orchestra... 

Classic albums and tracks from Glen Campbell, Barbara Dane,   Sandy Denny, and Laura Nyro...

New albums:

Villains from Queens of The Stone Age
A Black Mile To The Surface by Manchester Orchestra

Classic Albums and Tracks:

Gentle On My Mind: The Best Of Glen Campbell Glen Campbell
"Guess I'm Dumb" Glen Campbell (a Brian Wilson song)
"My World Fell Down" Sagittarius (feat Glen Campbell)

Sometimes I Believe She Loves Me Barbara Dane & Lightnin' Hopkins
Barbara Dane & The Chambers Brothers Barbara Dane & The Chambers Brothers

Heyday Fairport Convention (feat Sandy Denny, Richard Thompson, Iain Matthews)

More Than A New Discovery Laura Nyro
Eli And The Thirteenth Confession Laura Nyro
Gonna Take A Miracle Laura Nyro & LaBelle
"Stoned Soul Picnic" by The Staple Singers
"Stoned Soul Picnic" by The Magnificent Seven (The Supremes & The Four Tops)

ThisSmallPlanet.com Playlist August 2017: Music For The New Apocalypse (North Korean Remix):

Great new albums by Queens of The Stone Age and Manchester Orchestra!

We're all grieving for Glen Campbell and what better way to remember him (I remember him from his TV show) than to play all his fabulous songs: "Gentle On My Mind", "Galveston", "By The Time I Get To Phoenix"... While you're at it, check out his psychedelic oddity "My World Fell Down" and his take on Brian Wilson's "Guess I'm Dumb". Glen's history with The Beach Boys was extensive, he was practically an honorary Beach Boy and played on many other tracks of other artists in the 60's and beyond, as well as his own work.

We're celebrating Barbara Dane's 90th birthday all year long and here's two of her best: collaborations  (or maybe it's better to think of them as co-conspirators) with Lightnin' Hopkins and The Chambers Brothers.

I'm really loving Fairport Convention's Heyday, a collection of BBC performances circa 1968-1969.  It features their classic line-up, including Sandy Denny, Richard Thompson, and Iain Matthews. The perform a number of enlightened covers by artists such as Leonard Cohen (two songs - "Suzanne" and "Bird On A Wire"), Gene Clark ("Tried So Hard" from his under-appreciated fantastic first solo album  - he went solo after writing "Eight Miles High" for The Byrds), Richard Fariña ("Reno, Nevada"),  Bob Dylan ("Percy's Song"), and The Everly Brothers ("Gone, Gone, Gone" - popularized by Robert Plant and Allison Krauss on Raising Sand).

And finally.... Laura Nyro's first two albums, her collaboration with LaBelle, and two versions of her classic "Stoned Soul Picnic" feat Mavis Staples and Diana Ross.

Washington Post & Pitchfork: Pussy Riot Members Briefly Detained After Prison Protest

Washington Post/Associated Press: 

2 members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot briefly detained

August 7 at 2:13 PM

MOSCOW — Two members of the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot were briefly detained Monday after rallying for the release of a Ukrainian filmmaker outside his Siberian prison.

During Sunday’s protest in Yakutsk where Oleg Sentsov is serving his sentence, the band members unfurled a banner on a nearby bridge that read “Free Sentsov!”

Longtime Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina tweeted that she and Olga Borisova were taken to a police station following their detention earlier in the day and faced a court hearing over charges of holding an unauthorized rally.

Borisova later said on Facebook that she and Alyokhina were released after a judge found flaws in the case. It was unclear if the police would refile charges.A Russian military court convicted Sentsov, who comes from the Crimean Peninsula that Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014, of conspiracy to commit terror attacks and sentenced him to 20 years in prison.

In this handout photo taken on Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017 and released on Monday, Aug. 7, 2017 by Zona.media, Maria Alyokhina and Olga Borisova, members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot, hold flares and a banner on the bridge nearby outside the prison colony in Yakutsk, Russia, Monday, Aug. 7, 2017. Film director Oleg Sentsov of Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014, was convicted of conspiracy to commit terror attacks by a Russian military court in 2015 and sentenced to 20 years in prison. (Zona.media via AP/Associated Press)

Sentsov, who made two short movies and the 2012 feature film “Gamer,” denied the charges, which he and his supporters denounced as political punishment for his opposition to Crimea’s annexation.

Pitchfork: Pussy Riot’s Masha Alekhina and Olya Borisova were briefly detained in Yakutsk, Siberia this morning after protesting the detention of Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, The Washington Post reports. Yesterday, the pair had unveiled a “Free Sentsov” banner and set off flares on a bridge near the detention center holding Sentsov, according to the report. Watch video footage from the incident below, via Alekhina’s Facebook page. The group tweeted this morning that “2 pussy riot members are in a police station now,” and later shared a photo of Alekhina and Borisova following their release. The protest was part of an ongoing wave of condemnations of the Russian government, who handed Sentsov a 20-year prison camp sentence in 2015 on controversial terrorism charges. Pitchfork has emailed Pussy Riot’s representative for further details.

Pussy Riot recently announced an eight-week immersive theatre piece at London’s Saatchi Gallery, centering on the “epic ordeal when they were arrested, forced through a flawed judicial system and finally transported to a Russian jail” back in 2012.

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Washington Post: Nassau County legislator seeks to bar Roger Waters concert from county-owned theater, because of Waters’s pro-Israel-boycott views

By Eugene Volokh July 27 Opinion

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Roger Waters performs onstage in Indio, Calif., last year. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

From Nassau County, N.Y. Legislator Howard J. Kopel:

On May 22, 2016 I was proud that Nassau County signed into Law a piece of Legislation that I sponsored, taking a stand against discrimination and bigotry against Israel. Local law 3-2016 bars companies from doing business with Nassau County if they participate in economic warfare against Israel. My intent in sponsoring this piece of Legislation was simple: embrace the BDS movement and Nassau will not do business with you. There is no room for hatred in Nassau.

Upon hearing that Roger Waters, notorious front-man for the BDS movement and virulent anti-semite was to preform two shows at Nassau Coliseum, a County sponsored facility, I researched the implications of that show under the passed Legislation. In so doing, it became clear that the lease of the Nassau Coliseum requires compliance with all laws. The question of whether Waters’ scheduled performance would, therefore, violate the lease was, at my request, submitted for verification to the County Attorney.

I am pleased to report that the Nassau County Attorney confirms that Roger Waters’ proposed upcoming tour dates at the Nassau Coliseum are indeed in violation of Local Law 3-2016. Allowing Waters, who actively promotes and encourages others to withdraw from commercial relations with Israel and other “BDS” activities as defined by the law to perform at a County owned facility that must comply with all local requirements and governing laws not only violates the law, and the Coliseum Lease, but offends the sense of decency held by our residents.

Accordingly, I call upon NEC to cancel all currently scheduled performances by Waters in order to be in compliance with the law. Moreover, should they decline to do so, I will call upon the County Executive to take any and all appropriate actions to enforce the anti-BDS law.

Nassau County Attorney Carnell Foskey has indeed been quoted by Newsday (Robert Brodsky) as “threatening to take ‘appropriate legal action'” if the concert goes forward.

Nassau County law does indeed limit county contracting with businesses that (among other things) engage in “any action politically motivated and intended to penalize or otherwise limit commercial relations with Israeli owned or controlled businesses,” and lets the county rescind contracts with such businesses. But to the extent that this covers contractors’ speech urging boycott of Israel, such a law clearly violates the First Amendment in this case, and likely many others.

1. The government generally may not discriminate based on political viewpoint in selecting contractors, even for run-of-the-mill services such as trash hauling, see Bd. of Comm’rs v. Umbehr (1996). There may be an exception for specific cases where the government can show that a business’s political speech greatly interferes with the operation of the government entity (an adaptation of the government-as-employer Pickering v. Bd. of Ed. test; but that would require case-by-case decision-making, and the categorical ban in the Nassau County law (if it’s applied to business’s political speech) would be impermissible. Indeed, this ban — again, if it’s read as covering businesses’ speech — is likely unconstitutionally overbroad, in violation of the First Amendment, see U.S. v. Nat’l Treasury Emp. Union (1995).

2. But the First Amendment problem is especially clear when it comes to refusal to allow someone to perform a concert on government property. Such property is likely a “limited public forum,” open to a wide range of speakers for their own speech (though requiring that they pay money for it), see Southeastern Promotions, Ltd. v. Conrad (1975). The government may not discriminate based on speaker viewpoint in administering such property, even if the speaker is planning on expressing that viewpoint right there on the government property. It certainly may not discriminate based on the speaker’s past speech on his own property. It’s not clear to me that the ordinance would even apply to Waters’s concert. But if it did, it would violate the First Amendment.

Fortunately, the Nassau Coliseum is more respectful of the First Amendment than Kopel; according to Newsday (Robert Brodsky):

Jeffrey Gewirtz, chief legal and administrative officer at Nassau Events Center, which has a 49-year lease with the county to operate the arena, said Waters’ opinions are protected speech.

“NEC respects the constitutionally guaranteed rights of all people and therefore intends the Coliseum — under its stewardship — to be a venue that respects the expression and exchange of a wide variety of ideas and viewpoints,” Gewirtz said.

Gewirtz said Nassau’s BDS law does not apply to Waters because he does not have a contract with the county.

This matter has been developing over the past several weeks, but I just learned about it (from a National Coalition Against Censorship newsletter), and I thought I’d mention it. And it seems especially apt given the controversy about the proposed amendments to the anti-Israel-boycott statute: The Nassau County incident helps show that some government officials are indeed quite willing to use ambiguous laws as means to punish or suppress pro-boycott advocacy and not just the boycott itself. I generally support Israel in many respects, and oppose boycotts of Israel; but speech harshly critical of Israel and urging boycotts of Israel is just as constitutionally protected as speech harshly critical of any country or organization.

Spin.com: Roger Waters on Trump Escapism: “Go See Katy Perry”

Originally on Spin.com

by Dale Eisinger // August 4, 2017

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Roger Waters continued his increasingly reasoned defense of his very anti-Trump live show he’s been touring through the US, with a newly surfaced CNN interview. The network’s Michael Smerconish presses the political issue even further with the legendary Pink Floyd bassist, drawing out some nuggets of wisdom on Katy Perry, the news media, and choosing art over commerce.

Focusing on how the political content of the tour may alienate some of the fans in the states that he’s touring through, Smerconish wonders what it’s like when concertgoers walk out on the highly charged political atmosphere. (Fans in New Orleans booed anti-Trump images on sight.)

“This is no big surprise to me. But I do find it slightly surprising that anybody could have been listening to my songs for 50 years without understanding.” What about people who are searching for escapism? “Go see Katy Perry. Watch the Kardashians. I don’t care. Whatever you want to do. Go escape.”

When asked if going over the top with the show helps Trump’s caused, Waters responded, “I don’t think help or hindering. We need to survive his presidency, because it’s totally unpredictable. I don’t think he knows what he’s going to do…” He goes on to say he’s given up on the mainstream media and all the talking heads in regard to ties to the Russia campaign, calling the situation “irrelevant to the larger picture.” He continues: “The problem is entertainment has been mixed up with news a lot in this country.”

When Smerconish wonders if Waters has lost touch with a potential marketshare by alienating people through politics, he puts his morals to his money.

“In life you have to make your choices, between doing the right thing and the thing that makes you the most money.”

Smerconish even gets in a scold over a performance of Dark Side of the Moon that he ties to 9/11 and Guantanamo Bay.

“I only wish we could sit here and talk about love more,” Rogers concludes the interview. You can watch it below.

Recently, Waters took Thom Yorke to task over a controversial Radiohead show in Tel Aviv; Long Island officials tried to shut down a show there over his criticism of Israel. He’s on tour in the US and Canada through October.

Dale Eisinger

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