The Goats in ‘92 talkin’ shit about politicians, from their album Tricks of the Shade.
Diamond V. Chakrabarty was a supreme court case in 1980 where it was decided that genetically modified organisms, and all other forms of life, can be patented. This includes any and all genes of any living thing. Corporations have since utilized this as a tool to shadily increase their profits with little thought of the social, biological, and environmental consequences. I am convinced that soon this case will be known to everyone like Roe V. Wade.
WE ARE ALLOWING THE SOCIOPATHIC CORPORATE MACHINE TO MAXIMIZE THEIR PROFITS BY CONTROLLING AND MANIPULATING BIOLOGY, LIFE ON EARTH, IN ANY WAY THEY SEE FIT. THIS SHOULD TERRIFY YOU!
Watch this documentary about how corporations are making billions by patenting life, and fucking over farmers, consumers (that’s you), and the environment in the process.
Live at the Jewel Box Theater in Seattle WA 26 December 2009.
Obama’s bad influence at the Copenhagen climate change summit leads the world to what will be hailed as an international success in the fight against global warming, far from it. Because the US, UK, and friends have gone ahead and drafted their own climate change agenda which “...hands effective control of climate change finance to the World Bank [and would] abandon the Kyoto protocol” Read Naomi Klein’s interpretation below.
“AMY GOODMAN: Naomi Klein…The issue of the Kyoto Protocol, and the United States is always talking about, it sunsets, it ends in 2012…But that’s not true.
NAOMI KLEIN: It’s one of the great misconceptions…there is no expiration date on the Kyoto Protocol. What it had was, a first period of emissions cuts that ends in 2012. And the idea was that countries would come back together and increase their emission cuts and develop the agreement. But the idea that it just needs to be scrapped completely and replaced with a wholly new deal and that in addition to this there isn’t time to come up with a whole new deal, which is the position of the US negotiators here, is based on this faulty premise that the Kyoto Protocol expires.
But I think, you know, the real issue here is what they want to replace the Kyoto Protocol with is much weaker than the Kyoto Protocol. …the Kyoto Protocol comes up with a goal for all the countries that they have to reach in terms of emissions cuts, and it’s legally binding. Here, what they want to replace it to is, all countries go off, come up with their own goals, and then it’s sort of mashed together into an agreement that really isn’t a multilateral agreement, because the whole idea of multilateralism is that countries agree on the same set of rules and they agree to a common monitoring mechanism.
So the great irony of what’s happening here in Copenhagen is that it takes place in this context of this huge global celebration of the US embrace—re-embrace of multilateralism. In fact, Obama is getting the Nobel Prize specifically for this. In the citation for the Nobel Prize, they talk about the reengagement with the climate talks, the embrace of multilateralism. He’s getting the Nobel Prize for it. But what’s actually happening here is that they’re using the tools of multilateralism, the infrastructure of multilateralism, to destroy multilateralism, to kill multilateralism. ”
See the full interview here
PS – I love you Naomi
8:00 PM at At Jewlbox Theater at the Rendezvous (21+)
2322 2nd Avenue, Seattle, Washington 98121
Horse Grinder and Song Sparrow Research together on one bill! That is so fuckin’ awesome! We are totally pumped, this will not happen again any time soon so don’t miss it. And what the hell else are you going to do on the day after x-mas? If it is not going to see Horse Grinder it is surely stupid.
Here is the full lineup: Navigator vs. Navigator, Song Sparrow Research, Horse Grinder, Levator
In his recent decision to escalate the war in Afghanistan Obama has become our latest status quo ringleader of the military industrial complex spreading death around the third world and here at home. He is following the FALSE ideology that military force will insure US security and spread democracy abroad, or just giving in to the corporate fucks who will become more rich as a result of the escalation. Here are the things that an increased military presence in Afghanistan will accomplish: 1) Terrible death and suffering for the Afghan people and American troops and their families. 2) Put added strain on the government budget limiting much needed reform to health care, education, energy policies etc. 3) Make a whole bunch of rich mother fucking corporations with military contracts even more rich (who do you think wants more war in the first place?). Fuck that!
Check out this slick radio show called Cascadia Now! which features great tunes + art + liberal politics and activism, what more could you ask for really?!  They played our track This Is A Crisis and brilliantly placed between Sleater-Kinney and Melvins!! We are huge fans of both those bands so it is totally slick to have our track placed beside theirs. The host also had some kind words about us e.g. “The best [band] name I have heard in 2009″ “intensely-political-bluesy-hardcore-duo-riot”. You can download that portion of the show as an mp3 here
Michael Moore has 15 specific things that you can do right now! See them here
Download it here or stream it here
15 tracks, 35 minutes. How Your Actions Every Day Make You Guilty.
Every song on the album is a statement of how the everyday actions of people like you and me make the world a worse place. You are guilty, We are guilty! Play it loud when you’re happy, when you’re sad, when you want to freak out some squares, when you think that our species is greedy, violent and galloping towards extinction, or when you love everything!
These are photos from our July 18th Horse Grinder CD release show at the 1209 house. Free admission. All black attire required. Red and black face paint required. No opening bands. Our set was 17 minutes of pure fury. All photos by Miles Burnett.
Video directed by Austin Jacobsen, featuring Thomas Beecham and Hamilton Boyce, edited by Hamilton Boyce.