Jan 21, 2008
The War Still Rages / MLK Day
On some positions a coward has asked the question is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.
– Martin Luther King Jr., November 1967. (via dkos)
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“ New Form ”
01. Martin Luther King - Apathy (Peter Gabriel remix)
(Internet release)
02. Medeski Martin And Wood - Bloody Oil (web)
End Of The World Party (Just In Case) (2004)
03. Joshua Redman’s Elastic Band - Blowing Changes
Momentum (2005)
04. Aughra & Mosh Patrol - The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same
Is There Anyone Else OutSide? (Magic Bullet Records, 2007)
05. DJ Cam - Sang-Lien
Mad Blunted Jazz (Shadow Records, 1996)
06. Digable Planets - Pacifics
Beyond The Spectrum The Creamy Spy Chronicles (2005)
07. Roni Size & Reprazent - New Forms
New Forms Disc 1 (1997)
08. Dalek - Abandoned Language
Abandoned Language (Ipecac Recordings, 2007)
09. Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Trioon II
Vrioon (Raster Noton, 2002)
10. Spanish Prisoners - Some Among Them Are Killers (myspace)
Songs to Forget (Exit Stencil, 2007)
note: Well here we are. Another MLK day, and the war still goes on. Anyway, I tried to combined different hip-hop texture. Minimalist, electronic and rhythm flow. There is still rhyming, lyrics and tracks, but with different proportion, sparse and far more focus on words itself rather than clever rhyming. It underlines the message. Overall the list is tense and unsettling, at least I think it is. Cheers, and keep the words out. -sq
see also: Martin Luther King (wiki)
Image: christine allan
Martin Luther King, Jr. on War
Martin Luther King, “Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam”
more MLK recordings. (some of them are very much worth re-listening. if not for what he is saying, at least how he molds his rhythm and rhym)
http://www.seeqpod.com/music/?plid=6f25bf95c3
WASHINGTON - A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks.
The study concluded that the statements “were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretenses.”
The study was posted Tuesday on the Web site of the Center for Public Integrity, which worked with the Fund for Independence in Journalism. White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said he could not comment on the study because he had not seen it.
The study counted 935 false statements in the two-year period. It found that in speeches, briefings, interviews and other venues, Bush and administration officials stated unequivocally on at least 532 occasions that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or was trying to produce or obtain them or had links to al-Qaida or both.
“It is now beyond dispute that Iraq did not possess any weapons of mass destruction or have meaningful ties to al-Qaida,” according to Charles Lewis and Mark Reading-Smith of the Fund for Independence in Journalism staff members, writing an overview of the study. “In short, the Bush administration led the nation to war on the basis of erroneous information that it methodically propagated and that culminated in military action against Iraq on March 19, 2003.”
Named in the study along with Bush were top officials of the administration during the period studied: Vice President Dick Cheney, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and White House press secretaries Ari Fleischer and Scott McClellan.
Bush led with 259 false statements, 231 about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and 28 about Iraq’s links to al-Qaida, the study found. That was second only to Powell’s 244 false statements about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and 10 about Iraq and al-Qaida.
The center said the study was based on a database created with public statements over the two years beginning on Sept. 11, 2001, and information from more than 25 government reports, books, articles, speeches and interviews.
“The cumulative effect of these false statements — amplified by thousands of news stories and broadcasts — was massive, with the media coverage creating an almost impenetrable din for several critical months in the run-up to war,” the study concluded.
“Some journalists — indeed, even some entire news organizations — have since acknowledged that their coverage during those prewar months was far too deferential and uncritical. These mea culpas notwithstanding, much of the wall-to-wall media coverage provided additional, ‘independent’ validation of the Bush administration’s false statements about Iraq,” it said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080123/ap_on_go_pr_wh/misinformation_study_4
Beyond words, I am moved-
My Hero lives on forever.