Open thread for Sunday, January 18th: Master of Puppets
Here is the open thread for Sunday, January 18th. Please feel free to post links to interesting articles and to discuss whatever issues arise during the course of the day. Nothing is off-topic here.
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Now onto the musical selection of the week. After a couple of “mellow” posts the last couple of weeks I have decided to kick it up a notch or ten this week.
Many of us believe there are people at work behind a veil of secrecy influencing our government. Whether it is the Chamber of Commerce, special interest groups, liberal billionaires, or dare I say it, the Illuminati, these people donate millions of dollars to politicians on both sides of the aisle and when these puppet masters pull the strings our elected officials have no choice but to dance to their nefarious plan.
Here is Metallica performing “Master of Puppets” live in 1989. Although the song is actually about drug addiction I think these lyrics are appropriate to the situation in our government:
Master of Puppets I’m pulling your strings
Twisting your mind and smashing your dreams
Blinded by me, you can’t see a thing
Just call my name, ’cause I’ll hear you scream
Master
Master
Master, Master, where’s the dreams that I’ve been after?
Master, Master, you promised only lies
Laughter, Laughter, all I hear or see is laughter
Laughter, Laughter, laughing at my cries
Hell is worth all that, natural habitat
Just a rhyme without a reason
Neverending maze, drift on numbered days
now your life is out of season
I will occupy
I will help you die
I will run through you
Now I rule you too
Come crawling faster
Obey your Master
Your life burns faster
Obey your Master
Master
Enjoy:
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10 B52’s 09 UK SUBS 08 Enrico Carruso 07 Discharge 06 Biker Song 05 The ex
06 Kraftwerk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraftwerk
Hello Steve From Puppets To Robots 😉 (thinking Nanotechnology)
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I made a mistake Kraftwerk is N°4 not 6 still 3 to go …
The Kraftwerk Influence :
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Thanks for sharing, I actually have the CD that the Robots is on but I have not listened to it in many years. Might have to break it out now!
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I couldn’t say which one I like the most, those old one are like a sort of masterpiece equivalent to some classical music. Others are like pop music, but the sound is quiet unique and get its place in the Pantheon of Creativity.
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That settles it, I am going to have to dig this CD up and listen to it!
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The lyrics bring to mind the statement: Liars always want others to tell them the truth, but have no compunction to give it themselves. They’ll speak out lies freely, and looked wounded if questioned; & shame and mock the inquiry. Using force to get the truth out of anyone and everyone is justified in their mind as long as they get what they want to further their self-indulgence and interest.
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It comes so naturally to them that it is hard to tell when they are telling the truth, and also I think sometimes they no longer can tell a lie from the truth because they create their own realilty.
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Elective Dictatorship (podcast)
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano talks to Lew Rockwell about the American presidency. http://www.lewrockwell.com/podcast/elective-dictatorship/
Progression of the reprobate mind.
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Thanks, I am going to have to listen to it tonight!
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You know how they say if you tell a lie often enough it becomes the truth, well, is this any different with our Administration? They say it over and over again and it becomes the “norm” when they are finished with it. How do they possibility think we can ever trust ANYTHING they say?
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That’s right Lou, Goebbels would be proud of this regime’s willingness and ability to turn lie into truth.
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This little tid bit will fit nicely with today’s theme. “The largest university press in the world has warned its authors not to mention pigs or pork in their books to avoid offending Muslims and Jews. (oxford-university-press)
Let’s break down this lie. “Muslims and Jews” they say. Well this is a new announcement so something must have changed recently with Muslims and Jews to cause this new policy. Did Jews demand that the country bow to their religion? Did Jews fly planes into buildings? Did Jews set off bombs at the Boston Marathon? Did Jews fight their way into a French news organization and murder people? NO! So nothing changed there. The Jews have had traditions against pork for a 1000 years before Mohammad, and the politically correct never gave a damn about the Jews or their beliefs. So is it offending Muslim the Oxford press is worried about? I wonder why?
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Imagine if our poor excuse for a President had the courage of this Dutch Muslim? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2907941/Moroccan-born-mayor-Rotterdam-tells-fellow-Muslims-not-appreciate-freedoms-living-West-pack-bags-f-live-TV.html
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Wow! Now that would be something to hear but I will not be holding my breath…
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I read that is well and talk about giving in! This is taking political correctness to a whole new level.
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And if we are NOT “zee robots” we need to be terminated.
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Big fan of Metallica! I have not heard of Kraftwerk before, but after looking them up and seeing they are a German group, probably the reason why. I listened to the “influence” they had on the other groups and sure can hear it. I just cannot wrap my head around Jay-Z, but I like Nelly, so go figure!
SDL, if I might ask, what is your age?
The “live” version of Kraftwerk was pretty cool, ear AND eye candy at the same time.
Thanks for sharing something that is not political, some days we just need to chill out for awhile, I guess.
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Lou, check out Autobahn by kraftwork of a pleasant mental “drive” in an old VW bug. That was my first introduction to them 25 years ago.
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Will check into that, thanks Bruce. My first car was a 1960 TR3 (with the bug eyes headlights, bolted in side curtains and knock on spinners on the wire wheels), but my husband had a VW bug, in fact had a couple spares for “parts”, haha!
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Ah Lou, those were the days! My little English plaything was a ’62 MGA Mkii also with the side curtains and spinners on wire wheels, But that bug eye was my favorite.
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Yep, I loved that little car. Had a “tiny” heater you could warm your finger tips at best (used a cover around my legs in the winter). Mine was a removable hardtop, but loved the side curtains. I would pull into A&W, no windows to put the tray on and the girls would just sit it down next to the car, of course you could touch the ground you were sitting so low. It had a toggle in the center of the LARGE steering wheel that you turned your blinkers on and off with and you put your key in and pushed a button to start it. It was a 4 speed and cornered rather well…….ah…those were the days, my friend. I was in college and life was good! Did you have a copper hammer to use to tighten the spinners for the wheels and a t-bar to open the hood and take the curtains out? If I remember correctly there was also a Bugged Eyed Sprite??
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I had a 1974 Super Beetle for awhile and I loved that car! When it finally got to the point where it was rotted out so bad I couldn’t get it expected my brother, father, and I went in on one of those boats that glide on the water. It was a used kit and this one took a VW engine, we never did anything with it though.
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I would say we never forget those first fun cars! I think that is why I have the Miata now, it will not replace my love of English sports cars of the 60’s or the 70’s Mopar muscle cars, but it is one hell of a fun car to get out on the highway in. I refuse to grow up when it comes to what I drive, I am still young at heart!
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Music help me to stand, The Political and more precisely The Geo political. Starting the part when everybody turn their back to the President of Syria….They turn their back to the doing of those so called Freedom Fighther…When I see this boy hanging on a rope (and many other stuff) How Pamela Gelller says it Between the savage and the Civilized, choice the Civilized.. Which has give me an understanding. But the killing continue and I did get sick. Music is an instrument by itself that can be use to speed or to slow down,appaisement a way or an other. Helping to detached somehow while strength the will to continue.
For my age I give it but I like you to give me it first, Just to see the perception..
🙂
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Yes sometimes music can help you to escape the real world and we all need that once in awhile!
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Music also sometimes can take you back to a simpler or better time in ones life. I hear certain things and remember a time, place situation or person. I am sure others do that. But, yes, it can also stop time for just a moment so you can recharge, as well. It can also bring people together in a common bond. If it helps only just a little to help, that is a good thing.
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Steve, this is one of those full circles stories, fitting in nicely with music Sunday. Some time ago, you posted Nick Cave, someone I had never heard of. This week we started to watch a BBC show “Peaky Blinders” and something sounded familiar. It is Nick Cave and the song you posted. Good show by the way, although the accents give my wife a very hard time.
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Well that is interesting, I will have to check the show out. Any show that has a Nick Cave song in it has to be a good show. Where can I find it?
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We are watching it on Netflix on line. I imagine it is on disc as well. There was a period in England where, like the US, gangsters ruled. Very interesting, and VERY well filmed. Excellent scenery. It is based in Birmingham, England with BSA often referred to which was at one time the largest manufacturing company in the world. .
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THANK YOU Bruce !!! I did looked it up, and I found A very Good Show ! For the accent a lot of Irish, But Thinking It Could have been Newcastle…
I have read that they are preparing a Season 3..
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Hay Swiss, your reply made me wonder. Because everything is a “foreign accent” for you, are some harder to understand than others? We Americans think we don’t have an accent, but that everyone else does.
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I beg to differ, No, everything is not a foreign accent, I travel and live in several English Speaking Countries and region enough to get use of their way to speak English.
Everyone think I’m not the one with the accent, you are. lol
But you agree with that some Texas or other South States Of The USA don’t speak like they do in New York or in California.
Yes some are harder, Irish or Scottish when they mix with Gaelic. I like to say also (all have notice I have a very bad grammar, but I don’t feel outsider of the English speaking world. I wasn’t in school with a pen, but outside with the people, so it is with my hearing that I learn.
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You are right Swiss, it is everyone else who has an accent. There is a TV show with a guy from the deep south and I can’t understand a word he says. I lived in Liverpool England for a year and had to really pay attention as I traveled. I was at a rail station in East Berlin not too long after the wall came down and I was listening to 3 guys, all from different countries, talking to each other in English. I easily understood what they were saying, but once I started speaking to them, they stopped talking, and I thought that was a shame. There is a video where Japanese students learning English say they are forced to learn endless grammar, but never how to actually speak with people, so I think you are doing it the right way.
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That is TOO funny! The kid is good. I have a mid-western accent, they “say” it is the easiest to understand in the US, but who the hell knows. Of course I don’t know who “they” are,haha!
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Hello back from hospital
with a piece of lung that will never be the same, I guess I will have to adapt…I like to skate and enjoy going fast even old, any way now its hard to even to carry a bag on my right side lol. This not due to smoking but to water which did full my lung couldn’t not breath…
I haven’t follow I did get about 3300 something in my inbox, I have certainly miss interesting stuff.
I will if you don’t mind put my last two of my listing. And hope that someone put his ten best too…and so on…
And For Steve (I Like It Too)
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We have been worried about you, so glad you are okay!
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Thank you so much for sharing this. I have the audio of this but I never knew there was a video!
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SDL, we were very worried about you, you just disappeared! I even went to your website to be added in case you posted and one just came thru this morning. We just kind of expect you to be here on Sunday and no YOU! Hopefully you will mend with some rest and get back to what you like to do….glad you are back!
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Hello Lou,
What I’ve got is irreversible, and might kind of happen again.
But disappear… it might happen to anyone, car crash and so on.
It is important to keep the table clear. whatever happen I’m glad I found you all…and I really appreciate been here, and hope that my modest participation won’t be in vain.
Thanks Lou for the Following, I’m honored !
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I know what you mean about being here and then gone. I have had so many friends that has happened to. Live a good life and be sorry for nothing you have done, that seems the way to go.
Get well!
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