theDUCT: NEWS

sO here's the deal. In case any of you straglers didn't get the initial briefing; the words on these pages are not perfect for a reason. i don't edit much do to stylistic choices and nuances of the subconscious. If i choose to Capitalize on certain Letters its due to Emphasis. if i mispell something it's al in good fun. If a le tter is misplaeced it might have been caused by dislexia or maybe to point out an important...point.

So get this, the truth about Bushy boy finally starts finding its way to the light. MAybe...we'll see how all this Gitmo detainment/internment thing unfolds. Here as some words by my main man E. J. Dionne Jr.

"I write about it now because of the new reports and because I fear that too many people in traditional journalism are becoming dangerously defensive in the face of a brilliantly conceived conservative attack on the independent media.

Conservative academics have long attacked "postmodernist" philosophies for questioning whether "truth" exists at all and claiming that what we take as "truths" are merely "narratives" woven around some ideological predisposition. Today's conservative activists have become the new postmodernists. They shift attention away from the truth or falsity of specific facts and allegations -- and move the discussion to the motives of the journalists and media organizations putting them forward. Just a modest number of failures can be used to discredit an entire enterprise."

How about this: Meditation is the key to a content mind. We should all try and discover the potential of meditation within ourselves. I'm thinking that if you can let go of all worldy influences, including emotional ones, maybe it's easier to deal with the "problems". Isn't a problem only a problem once you make it one?
JCB

sO the best thing to do right now is to stay focused. keep your eye on th eball, don't swagger. The Real Men keep it real with good help, form the smart ones...the conservationists. the Ladies know what i'm talkin' 'bout.

SO, how the eff do we do this? what do we do in this environment? do we become one and live off the Wind and Sun? can we recycle the hell out of our garbage and water and turn it into habitat or whatEVER!
These questions have been raised by a few people and a few people with ideas can change the world as we know it. Simple Technology will set us free...the stuff that doesn't take much effort. Industry and Corporation has us in a daze i think. i feel cloudy in th head whenever i switch on that Box. What to do about it? Support this angle of the TV: Freespeech TV is the new PBS. Corporations are taking over the world one commodity at a time. Water, food, Oil, BS is being manufactured. it's almost time to stand up. how far wil they push us? Taxes upon fees upon receipts for I.O.U.'s...the Debt should be taken care of by you and me, right? We're working hard to pay the rich man's fun bill. Where is fiscal responsibility in GLOBAL economics? Sustainability much? 1 + 1 = ?

Welcome the celebration of Cinco de Mayo! In honour of the celebration, let's all consider our own freedom of speech and liberties! I realize that i have been negative in the past few weeks...i want to change all of that. My goal from here on out is to provide you all with a path to enlightenment. I've realized that i have had a great privilege bestowed upon me. That which is being the gift of knowledge and free time. College provided more than an education in the traditional sense. It also provided a vast representation of the social spectrum. It enables us to bridge the gap of space/time. We, through the process of schooling are allowed to experience the diversity of the land.

My goal is to bridge that gap...to span the work/time continuum. We all have something to say...we all have something to contribute. So i ask you and i jinx you for not responding to my Blog...what do you expect from this world? What can we do to make things more Substantial? We may have these so-called freedoms but what do they mean to you? What do you do with your Spare Time? And i ask with complete sincerity...what do you do, be it making dinner for you loved one(s) or giving a tattoo to a stranger. FILL ME IN. This act of mine is reciprocal. Give me a sentence, no more. Expect more, spend less (any which way!)
Thanks Sweets,

JCB

Why don't you finish this thought...what is going to happen to the Earth? I was thinking due to a friend...that i might participate in the citizenship of Black Rock, Nevada . This year may bring a new understanding of what is to come. I know you're all wondering what the future brings to the Doorstep... What to do, eh? Search for the Truth! Work for wha tis the beginning!!! What is important is your wits. Always and forever. Logic and reasoning...thinking things through social reality justifies it as truth. Your Friends dictate our future. Connectivity brings harmony..."She blinded me with technology...
Poetry in motion". What you have to remember today is the lack of integrity in science and the ultimate response the media has to the reporting of facts. Don't believe me for a second! The real news come from the Wire. We truly need to be careful of where we are going. All i think about are the deep needs we all have. i mean, we all want a dog and kitty...a place to chill out and hang with our compadres. Where are we going in our quest for life? are we thinking about our future or are we thinking about ourselves? Every time i turn on the TV i see people thinking about themselves. Don't make me point...it's not polite.
JCB

Happy Earth day! What did you do to celebrate our loving mother Earth's fun day? Did you refuse to drive or recycle some bottles or yell at a politician or maybe some other act of sustainable environmentalism. Tell me all about your non-participating ass! I know you didn't even know it was Earth day. And if you did know, what the hell did you do? Leave a blog you bastards...i'll eat you alive!!! The World as we know it is falling to pieces and we all have a front seat.

You may think that it’s such a slow process that it won’t effect you in your lifetime. Science is an interesting thing especially when we keep an eye on the people that are keeping the score. These guys may have a point.

God forbid a lack of inspiration in this market of filth and bribery. I tire of perusing over repetitive headlines of bullshit from spin factories. It’s really easy enough for anyone to sift through the horrors of real life. All i’ve been doing to find out what going on is look at Google News and get every hot story on the Net. There are so many inhumane acts going on around the world it’s overwhelming .

Why even care? Is it Michael Jackson that matters the most? Is it the new Pope? How about Tom Delay? How about Iraq? What’s going on with OPEC? How about Lance Armstrong!?

I’m tired of looking...If you can make it through this whole Washington Post article your a better meatwad than I. Rick Santorum is a weirdo!

by J. C. Bugbee
Welcome, thanks for coming....Tonight we have a special guest with us. He’s the Executive Vice President for Government Relations from the Walt Disney Corporation. Preston Padden would like to invite everyone in the audience out for a night at Disneyworld. under your seats are a pair of complimentary tickets, including airfare, to the Theme park including MGM Studios and Epcot center. Thanks for coming, here he is, Preston.

(Applause)

So this is what it looked like, this bastard guy with a suit and tie sitting behind a microphone and a camera telling me that i’m not going to be able to see channels that i want to see (like National Geographic documentaries or uncensored PAY TV like Showtime or HBO) because they’re lewd and obscene and not fit for viewing by anyone. WHAT! I’m PAYING beaucoup bucks, dollars, scrilla, ducketts out the yang for your stupid 24 hour programing already! What more do you want from me, blood? No BLOOD FOR OIL! Oh, wrong meeting....

Disney has this branch that only deals with government relations? That is scary to me. They said that all channels have to be carried on PAY cable and also, HO HO HO, get this! All the channels must be edited for content. No more violence or swearing or nudity or anything not suitable for the family. Who’s to say what is good for my family? Me, myself and my Lady; no one else can impose their judgement on my life and kin. This is scary to me. GOV’T = DISNEY = CABLE = CENSOR = I’m going to be paying for all of this? Eff that fo’ shizzle. Leave me out of it. You can have your BS factory.

Tourism.

We’re all nothing but a bunch of tourists, nothing more than a crowd of consumers piling in cars and burning oil as gasoline. China and India have followed suit and we’re all happily burning away our delicate balance. Check out what the Scientist have to say about the end of the world. Some serious shit is about to hit the fan and all we’re worried about here in the ol’ USA is if Billy heard someone say shit on the boob tube last night. I don’t think i’m to worried about that, are you? It’s called a V-chip and a remote control. How about the let’s think about our children’s future and their children’s children future in the next century or millennium.

I'm a couple days late on this one folks but better late than never, right? The documentary, The Corporation has now been widely released. "Why should I care?", you ask yourself. Well deary, to understand what is going on with our government and the rest of the corporate dominated world, it's a good thing to be able to see some of the details. This doc outlines all of the evil practices corporations are capable of and illustrates how our judicial system has mistakenly protected corrupt pratices. The Corporation is a must see for curious peoples that want to be in the know.

If you do check it out, let me know what you think of it. I had one friend that was offended by its attack on his childhood obsessions. I didn't get his "problem" with it since the real problem was the vicious predatory nature corporations like Hasbro executed against the young minds like my own during the 80's (G.I. Joe captured my heart as well as my allowance). BASTARDS! Buy it?

>by J. C. Bugbee
I can't help but feel a little cheated and bewildered after attending the "Who Controls the Media" forum with Amy Goodman, Phil Donahue, Bob McChesney, and the owner of the Seattle Times, Frank Blethen. It turns out that the whole thing was just a way for the Times to throw a bar party and get wasted! If you were a somebody in Seattle you were able to sneak in to the mixer and chit chat with the big wigs. Maybe i'm just jealous of not being able to rub elbows with the Capitalists deal-makers (obviously i'm jealous that i didn't get a free drink after holding a camera without a tripod for an hour and 1/2). Don't get me wrong! These folks are fighting on the Front Lines . The word has been put out, it's just a shame that it's the well-of folks that get the front row seats.

The most disappointing aspect of this event was the lack of risky questions.
Everything that was discussed could have been read 5 years ago in McChesney's book, Rich Media, Poor Democracy. I feel that i'm being harsh here but only because i knew almost everything they were talking about. Something that Bob said did give me a little more hope. It had to do with the FCC deregulation that's been going on since 1996. He said that people are responding to the FCC's actions and letting them know that they can't deregulate everything just because big business wants them to. Check out thisarticleand don't get to distracted by thissignature drive. Just get it done, sign it and ship it out.


So basically, everything the government wants reported on gets reported on. Like VNR's (Video News Releases which are corporate created propaganda) or just flip on Fox or CNN or MSNBC...it doesn't matter because even your local news broadcast will turn around and stab you in the back when you least expect it. We're fighting the FCC here people! The very organization that was put into place to protect our asses. Keep OUR airwaves OURS!

Over all, looking back on everything now, i feel that this event is actually a very good sign. Rich people are actually paying money to hear how their buddies are effing the system up. There may actually be some good rich people out there truly concerned about the state of Democracy. The People will always have the power as long as they don't fall asleep at the helm of the American dreamboat.
Why don't you take a look for yourself and juxtapose Democracy Now! against CNN and tell me how different you feel after viewing each one.

Life sucks for the rest of the world these days. The shit is hiting the fan and all Americans care about is Terry Schiavo? Wrong, no one wants to hear it anymore except for a select few who are brainwashed by mainstream television news reports. With Fox Murdoch behind the wheel of the news juggernaut, the shredding of information can be heard for miles and miles. But if you're lucky enough and rich enough you can pipe in channels like FSTV channel 9415 on Dish Network (i love making plugs and not getting anything. yes!) and watch shows like I.N.N. World Report or Democracy Now! and get some real news, unfiltered like a mountain spring on a watershed. Sweet, Delicious and essential truths abundant. Stories about real people that have had it with this Set-up and are ready to stand up for what they believe in.

I really like Google news.

Jim Hightower kicks major booty!

by J. C. Bugbee
It should be obvious what is going on within our own government. I mean the government needs to divulge ever aspect of it's goals for this world policing BS. We're giving out democracy like it was tootsie pop at the end of a meal, as if it were free and easy. Giving democracy to terrorized nations like Iraq while in fact terrorizing the public with inexperienced soldiers and torturous interogation methods as seen in Abu Ghraib.
Some truths manage to surface though, through the tests of time and legislature. The politicians game is ever present, it's just a matter of looking at the right news and documents that back the info. Just yesterdayinformation about plans within plans came to light. The short memory span of modern history is trumped by hard documents kept by the deal-makers themselves. These rich politicians have everything figured out. "The War must go on."
The United States is playing the gun-for-hire and working every angle concievable. Like Bruce Willis in Last Man Standing or the mighty Yojimbo from Kurosawa's classic, the leaders of our country are working all the angles and have been doing so for centuries. It is part of their job to bedazzle and confuse just long enough to make that sweet deal that would guarantee themselves and their buddies some other sweet deals for their war machines, bullet factories andnuclear technology. Clint Eastwood's Joe in A Fistful of Dollars knew every angle to play against the two families. What he didn't expect was some second guessing that nearly cost him his life. Let's not let our family get ripped off by these hoodwinkers and bamboozlers. It's time we passed the word on about these Architects of destruction. Am i making any sense here?

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by J. C. Bugbee
It blows me away every time i pick up a newspaper or click on a headline. It's always the same old news. Bush says that the world is a safer place because the terrorists are being sought out and killed in Iraq, Afganistan of the the rest of the World. If you think that this statement is true, your lying to yourelf and looking over many facts that prove we are doing nothing but create new terrorist by occupying Iraq and it's people. If you think that the Oil was only a secondary reason for "stabilizing" Iraq, think again. The most recentarticle and Newsnight segment by Greg Palast stirs some interesting evidence into plain view. So why trust a guy who works for a foriegn broadcaster like the BBC? He's an outside source...a Commie sympathyzer, a Socialist bastard! Right? Well, why trust your Capitalist government? You don't right? Step aside from politcal viewpoints and judge for yourself the words that don't lie. The people involved that are now willing to speak. What do they have to gain. In fact, as to not stray to far from my subject, Greg Palast works outside of the US because he does his job properly. By which, i mean he questions those in authority, the people that regulate our existences. What happens when a news agency here in the states trys to question the Powers that be? Career ending whispers and secret phone calls with dropped hints. Not one Big Wig will admit any kind of direct action of censorship. Instead there are guidelines and hints at subject shaping and what can be said and what should be avoided. "The people don't want to hear a story about Oil baron meetings". And that's that...no more discusion just a dash to get a more news worthy reports likeMartha Stewart's Poncho's orMichael Jackson's trial and maybe even a tid bit about what Congress has been up to. All of these stories barely touch the surface of Reality. If you look at alterantive sources that aren't run by big money publishers and Fat-cat Big Wigs you may get a whole new outlook. Check out tHE qUEUE.

So what i have so far are mostly links. i don't have much time right now but this site will be taking off shortly. look for news, entertainment from the Net, sound clips, and eventually video. tHE dUCT will host a few different artists and there work, so keep your eyes and ears open. WordZ.

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Today is the inaugeration of tHE dUCT coming into full realization. Today, in a world of full of confusion, politics, Corporations, and freeloaders comes a little insight and information. Since today is the first day, not much will happen or be seen. Keep a close eye!