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DJ Psycho Mike spins Mash ups in Chicago, runs the Psychotronic Film Society at http://www.psychotronic.info
writes and directs film and theatre including the play and movie BETTIE PAGE UNCENSORED.
He also collects wild links on the web!
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Oct 13, 2009
SPECIAL THEME SURF: SPIES AND ESPIONAGE PART 2
Lot's of hits the last 24 hours on the SPIES AND ESPIONAGE theme part 1. Thanks to Sodahead, Facebook and people sending out the link in emails! There will be a third part, probably next week. You can sign up for updates by entering your email in the REGISTER box to the left of the posts. Today we discover the science fiction author who saved lives in WW 2, the true story of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the pagan magician who led a double life, how Rommel the Desert Fox was able to beat his foes in North Africa (it wasn't in the movie PATTON!) and more. Including declassified films and the story of Hitler's plan to use suicide bombers to attack New York City!
Cordwainer Smith was one of the most creative early science fiction writers whose work is still read and collected by fans. But what his fans didn't know, was that Smith was actually in Intel and had a profound effect on Intel. In World War 2 he had seen films of Japanese being taken prisoner and realized they were being executed. This of course meant not only were we not getting Intel but the Japanese knew if they tried to surrender they would be shot. Dr. Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, his real name, went to FDR and appealed to him to encourage the troops to take Japanese prisoners. The next day FDR's Secretary of War at the White House held a press conference and showed a U.S. soldiers' skull that had been fashioned into a ashtray and taken off a dead Japanese soldier.
 Realizing that FDR was not going to help, he hatched a plan. He sent to officers at Iwo Jima instructions to be read to the troops one morning on the proper handling of prisoners. It worked. Not only were we able to get intel, but once the Japanese realized they would not be shot, they began surrendering in droves.
There have been many biographies written about the Great Beast 666, Aleister Edward Crowley, the bisexual magician and mystic, champion chess player, mountaineer, writer and poet. Some of them have hinted at his possible involvement in the murky world of espionage and intelligence.
However, this is the first full-length study of the other secret life as a spy of one of the most extraordinary men of the 20th century. he also helpeds to sink the Lusitania and ready America to enter the first World War.
There have been no more successful, more dramatically impressive spies than a group of Englishmen who all met at Trinity College, Cambridge University in the 1930s. To one degree or another, they were active for the Soviet Union for over thirty years. They were the most efficient espionage agents against American and British interests of any collection of spies in the Twentieth Century. One of them, Kim Philby, served the KGB for almost fifty years.
All four were eventually exposed but --- amazingly --- never caught. One, Burgess, was a flamboyant, alcoholic homosexual. The second, Blunt, was a discrete homosexual who rose to knighthood as the Royal Curator of Art. The third, Maclean, was a tense, insecure diplomat of ambiguous sexual persuasion. The fourth, Philby --- and perhaps the most intriguing of the group --- was a dedicated heterosexual who has been called, not inaccurately, the "Spy of the Century."
Graphic Images. Captured enemy footage shows the Vietcong in action. Attacks on US Servicemen, using US Military equipment, building booby traps, etc. This film was shown to many US servicemen before they went into the fray in Vietnam.
http://www.realmilitaryflix.com/public/431.cfm
Sent through a supposedly secure channel devoted to peace negotiations (a transatlantic cable belonging to Scandinavia) on January 19th 1917, the 'Zimmermann Telegram' – often called the Zimmermann Note - was a memo sent from the German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann to the German Ambassador to Mexico. It informed the ambassador that Germany would be resuming its policy of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare (USW) and, crucially, ordered him to propose an alliance.If Mexico would join in a war against the US, they would be rewarded with financial support and re-conquered land in New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona. The ambassador was also to ask the Mexican President to propose his own alliance to Japan, a member of the Allies. This would cause many Americans to drop the pacifism they had after the Civil War.
There was no German officer as respected during or after the war as Rommel, known as the Desert Fox. He had argued for tanks at Normandy, but Hitler didn't believe there would be an attack there. He punished any German soldier in his command who mistreated POW's. He even plotted killing Hitler and was caught and ordered to kill himself or his entire family would be wiped out. But his greatest success was in the North Africa campaigns as seen in the film PATTON. What filmmakers and the public don't know, is that Rommel had broken the code and always knew where they were going to be. Once the code was changed, he began losing.
Part 1, J. Edgar Hoover describes espionage activities and security measures taken against them. Shows Bundist camps in the U.S. German rallies in South America are shown and acts of sabotage are dramatized. Part 2 reenacts the Fritz Duquesne spy case. Dramatizes the presence of German submarines off the Atlantic coast. Shows the saboteurs being brought to trial.
No story in 20th Century has achieved the mythos of the Cuban Missile Crisis. JFK standing up to the Russians would excite the nation, and from then on Presidents did not want to be seen as backing down. If JFK could stand up to atomic bombs, how could LBJ or Nixon back out of Nam? Or Bush or Obama turn away from Afghanistan? There's a problem, however. The facts do not match up to the myth, not one bit. Here's is part 1 on the Cuban missile crisis: http://thepond.blogdrive.com/archive/47.html
and here is part 2:
The myth has cost us many lives......
Adolf Hitler had plans to send suicide bombers to attack New York City! Here is part 1 of this amazing story:
Here is part 2:
Well folks we'll return to the regular Surf, and post a part 3 on SPIES AND ESPIONAGE later, perhaps next week. You can check out my YouTube channel for NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT and my hidden channel on censored history ( actually there's instructions on how to find it on the main page) for over 200 propaganda films from around the world.
Be seeing you! Posted at 12:02 pm by Psychomike
Oct 12, 2009
Surf W/ Real Spies Part 1
The world of spies and espionage is the theme today and for the coming part 2. At its best, spying allows countries to avoid wars. At its worse, it is a lonely life with little room for friends and often long lasting negative defamation's of one's character. Today we'll look at previously classified films, and characters and events that emerge from the shadows.
THE WORLD OF SPIES AND ESPIONAGE PART 1
In October 1917 – a year in which hundreds of thousands of men died pointlessly in the cause of one flag or another – a woman was shot by a military firing squad in the forest of Vincennes, east of Paris. She was a dancer, not a soldier. She came from a country that was not engaged in the Great War (a war that would not, as promised, end all wars).
It seems she was a prototype of 20th-century liberated woman – a Mae West or Marilyn Monroe – who seized independence and notoriety through manipulating and pleasing men.
Mata Hari was executed for her sexuality
She had a particular weakness for men in uniform. She once said that she would rather "sleep with a poor officer than a rich banker". It was this weakness – and her curious mixture of worldliness and naivety – which proved her undoing. Mata Hari was innocent when she faced her executioners. In fact, she was a patriot for the French. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/was-mata-hari-framed-631855.html
What was World War 1 like? This fascinating silent film THE ACTUALITIES OF WAR was made to show civilians what soldiers had gone through. The scenes are real, and captures a soldiers experiences like the vast majority of war films do not. http://www.realmilitaryflix.com/public/413.cfm?sd=9
The finest Christmas present, and the most unexpected, our country ever received was handed to us by George Washington in the dismal winter of 1776 when he crossed the Delaware and captured Trenton just as the faltering fires of the American Revolution seemed about to go out.
There were to be other hard winters before independence was won, Valley Forge among them, but none more critical than this one. Seven days later, Christmas night, Washington suddenly forded his troops back across the Delaware, stormed into Trenton with the dawn, and defeated the Hessian army there. The attack was flawlessly executed, timed perfectly. Without an American fatality, the town was taken!
It was America's first major victory of the war.
In one brilliant, totally unexpected stroke, Washington had changed the complexion of the War for Independence from a dying pallor to a ruddy glow. America was jubilant, its confidence magically reborn. England was grave with sudden concern. It is the story of John Honeyman, a plain, closemouthed weaver, "the spy of Washington" at Trenton. In his lifetime, the public never knew how he saved the revolution.
http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1957/5/1957_5_58.shtml
Films smuggled out of the country of Denmark show German Occupation and resistance operations.
http://www.realmilitaryflix.com/public/196.cfm?sd=61
D'Eon a French nobleman whose mother named him Genevieve because she wanted a daughter and dressed the child as girl from the age of four until seven! This obviously had long term effects on the boy as throughout his life he would alternate form dressing as female or male, in fact he was able to pass as a very good woman, he had narrow shoulders, a petite build and was unable to grow a beard!
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However spending half his life dressed as a woman did not mean that he was a wimp, in fact he became very good at the male occupation of fencing and studied law. He wrote a thesis on the finances of Louis XIV and it was this that got him noticed by King Louis XV, but when the king discovered that the young nobleman had a fancy to dress as a woman, this gave the king an idea, d'Eon would make the perfect spy and was recruited into the service of the king and France.
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/espionage/72100
Film Report on the operations of the 492d Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force in supplying air drops to French resistance forces in England during World War II. Describes the packing of guns, explosives, radio sets and breakable material in "H" and "C" containers and panniers; harness and parachute shops at Holme; loading air drop material into bomb racks of B-24's and briefing of plane crews at Harrington airfield.
http://www.realmilitaryflix.com/public/251.cfm
An innocent man, condemned by history and the CIA- until recently
The true story of Joseph McCarthy is now known by Cold War and espionage historians, although the general public has no idea what actually happened. The story of a whistle blower destroyed for trying to expose non-action on spies is more riveting and compelling than the illusions most have of the so-called "McCarthy era".
http://www.psywar.org/forum/index.php?topic=459.msg987;topicseen#msg987
Office of Strategic Services "Secret School" in London trains 40 Polish German Army soldiers in techniques of infiltration and radio operations. Chief of Polish Section, OSS European Theater of Operations, Maj. Schumolsky, Head of Polish Special Force Headquarters in London, and Maj. Schumannofsky, Officer of Polish Military Intelligence Service gives speeches. Soldiers take classes in morse code, telegraph operation, electronics, key making, cryptography, current affairs, use of invisible inks, gutter fighting, intelligence gathering, clandestine photography. School commander appraises students' work. Included are scenes of London and vicinity, and shots of morse code chart, telegraph equipment, tools used by agents, orientations of German circuit diagrams and German magazines, newspapers and maps, and soldier/students engaged in classroom tests and simulated intelligence assignments.
http://www.realmilitaryflix.com/public/247.cfm?sd=61
Benedict Arnold was different: a military hero for both sides in the same war. He began his career as an American Patriot in May 1775, when he and Ethan Allen led the brigade that captured Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain. Arnold's heroics continued in September, when he led an expedition of 1,150 riflemen against Quebec, the capital of British Canada. Why did Arnold desert the cause for which he had fought so gallantly and twice been wounded? Was there any justification for his conduct? Once again, the facts are wildly different from "what everyone knows".
http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/fall97/arnold.html
Secret OSS mission headed by Lt. Col. Gunn during World War II to rescue by air, allied airmen in a prisoner of war camp southwest of Bucharest, Romania. Part 1, aerial views of the Albanian coast line and Danube River as plane approaches Ploesti airfield. Romanian officials greet O.S.S. officers to arrange evacuation of the prisoners. Part 2, scenes of downed fliers in POW camp, in hospital and getting ready for evacuation; bomb damage to Ploesti oil fields; ambulant and wounded POW's board B-17's.
http://www.realmilitaryflix.com/public/229.cfm?sd=61
Richard Sorge warned Stalin that Hitler was going to attack Russia, but Stalin considered Hitler a comradfe and ally, he ignored the warning and Germany attacked. The following link is interesting because it is from a Russian site.
http://www.russia-ic.com/rus_international/in_depth/699/
The Soviet Union spy appartus did such a great job that being anti- communist, despite the fact communists backed Hitler before the war and spied on this country, or even opposing Stalin to this day is considered "paranoid". Ask someone from Hungary, Poland, East Germany or the Czech Republic and they are stunned Americans feel this way. This film, RED NIGHTMARE is considered an example of "paranoid politics", yet the film not only accurately portrays life behind the Iron Curtain, but correctly predicted how Communism would fall. Not from nuclear war or sanctions, but by the people rising up against it.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6718617330038323201#
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
The Venlo Incident. The story of how 2 British agents fell into Nazi hands.
http://www.georg-elser-arbeitskreis.de/texts/best-f.htm
Posted at 04:19 pm by Psychomike
Oct 11, 2009
Surf W/The Cat Who Saved A Dog!
MAYANS TO WHITE PEOPLE: THE EARTH ISN'T GOING TO END PLEASE STOP ASKING US ABOUT IT, SCOTTISH JEWS NOW HAVE A TARTAN, BEST MOVIE POSTER EVER!
Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly "running out" on Dec. 21, 2012. After all, it's not the end of the world.
Or is it?
Definitely not, the Mayan Indian elder insists. "I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff." http://apnews.myway.com/article/20091011/D9B8P09O0.html
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Ridiculous wedding cakes http://nowthatsnifty.blogspot.com/2009/10/ridiculous-wedding-cakes.html
They are the most unusual of Native American tribes. They had many members who had blonde hair and blue eyes, they even believed in an early form of Christianity. From Surfer Richard Crowe, an unusual and true story....
http://www.geocitiescomathens/aegean/9318/mandan.html
Make your own hard apple cider from scratch! http://www.instructables.com/id/Home_Brew_Hard_Cider_from_Scratch/
For over 300 years Scots Jews have waited for their own tartan and now - here it is!
The official Jewish Tartan is an authentic Scottish tartan created by Heritage Experts and Rabbis.
It is the only Scottish Jewish Tartan approved and registered by the Scottish Tartans Authority. From Surfer Richard Crowe. http://www.jewishtartan.com/
I have called Danielle de Niese the world's greatest actress and Opera singer. However as this article shows, her open sexuality has sent shock waves through the Opera community.
http://www.observer.com/2009/theater/thin-lady-sings
The comeback of a Taliban chief presumed defeated
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/world/asia/11mullah.html?_r=2&hp=&pagewanted=all
A TV station promoting showing KILL BILL did the greatest and most imaginative poster of all time:
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
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Surf W/Finger Nail Mural Art!
YOGA DOGS, SMOKERS ROLLING BACK LAWS, TOP 10 POLITICAL SEX SCANDALS, LEON TROTSKY WAS A JERK, WHAT FOLLOWS THE AMERICAN CENTURY?
From West Virginia to the West Coast, smokers are trying to fend off further restrictions on their habit, and local officials are starting to listen.
In some cases, smoking bans have even been rescinded or postponed - including in the city of Spokane.
http://www.komonews.com/news/national/63927697.html
The top 10 political sex scandals, from Surfer Harry Brooks.
In celebration of the release of Pixar's 'Up' and Wes Anderson's beautiful stop-motion rendering of Roald Dahl's 'The Fantastic Mr Fox', Time Out ushers in the help of master animator Terry Gilliam – whose own partially animated 'The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus' opens in cinemas this month – to run down 50 of the greatest animated features of all time
http://www.timeout.com/film/features/show-feature/8835/time-outs-50-greatest-animated-films-curated-by-terry-gilliam.html
Inhumanly ruthless in his dealings with non-Bolsheviks and inept with Stalin, Leon Trotsky was too vain and self-deceiving to merit the status of tragic hero
http://www.literaryreview.co.uk/gray_10_09.html
A new study shows that people who "buy green" offset this with bad behavior! From Surfer Drewster! http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/news/detail.asp?ID=492
Tourists take lava rocks from Hawaii - not realizing there is a curse on them! From Surfer Richard Crowe
http://www.volcanogallery.com/lavarock.htm
With trials, harassment, and other forms of thuggish intimidation, Russian authorities are striking out against trouble-making curators and artists http://www.artnewsonline.com/issues/article.asp?art_id=2757
I AM NOT TOUCHING THESE STATUES! The Ripley fertility statues have been seen by millions of people since their special powers were discovered in 1994, with more than 2,000 women reporting that they became pregnant shortly after touching the wooden sculptures.
Now, for the first time in eight years, the two statues are easily accessible to the public. They will be located in the front lobby of the Ripley’s Believe It or Not! museum in San Francisco, making it easy for would-be parents to come in and touch them for FREE during regular business hours. From Surfer Richard Crowe http://www.ripleys.com/fertility/content/
When Time magazine’s Henry Luce coined the phrase “The American Century,” it was already 1941. He turned out to be right – in spades. So what about this century? http://www.the-american-interest.com/article.cfm?piece=688
An official at an Iranian museum on Wednesday disputed a recent claim about the discovery of 19 Buddha statues at an ancient site in Iran and said they were statues smuggled out of Afghanistan.
''This is not an archaeological find,'' Mohamad Syrousnia, deputy curator of the National Archaeological Museum of Iran, told Kyodo News. He spoke in Persian. http://www.christiansgoodies.com/religion/buddha-statues-discovered-in-iran-smuggled-from-afghanistan/
Finger nail murals! Amazing art! http://www.offbeatearth.com/finger-murals/
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
Yoga dogs! Terrific pics! http://yogadogz.com/ Posted at 12:27 am by Psychomike
Oct 9, 2009
Surf W/The Art Of Mayumi Lake
WHY I WANT TO BE CREMATED, STONEHENGE SECRET REVEALED?, THE NEW TROPHY WIVES, VERY SMALL CARS, DESTINATION MOON WAS PROPHETIC, MASHUP CHANNEL ON YOUTUBE!
The stunning, elegant and slightly decadent art of Chicagoan Mayumi Lake. Not ok for
work. One of Chicago's most powerful and compelling photographers and artists.
Why I want to be cremated part 1: Workers at an Arizona cryonics facility mutilated the frozen head of baseball legend Ted Williams - even using it for a bizarre batting practice, a new tell-all book claims.
It certainly isn't cheap to play with cowboy and Indian toys anymore! From Surfer Richard Crowe
Stonehenge, an enigma to visitors and scientists alike for so many years, became less of a mystery after a discovery announced to the world this week.
Archaeologists have unearthed a new stone circle near Stonehenge that lends credence to the theory that the famous prehistoric monument in Britain was part of a funeral complex.
ZOMBIES BUILT CHICAGO is now in its 53rd week. A new edition of THE BRIDES OF GHOST HUNTER RICHARD CROWE continues in Chicago Friday and Saturday nights.
Posted at 07:31 am by Psychomike
Oct 6, 2009
Surfer W/The Model,The Natives
THE TEXAS RANGER MUSEUM AND FREEMASONRY, THAI SUN GOD HEAD FOUND IN MAIL, SHRUNKEN HEAD LAMPS, MORE LIBERALS CALLING THEMSELVES LIBERTARIANS, BACON HEALTHIER THAN LETTUCE AND VEGGIES!
Six agents in SWAT gear ransack a grandmother's house. Were they: a) DEA agents looking for 50 pounds of cocaine, b) FBI agents searching for terrorists, or c) The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service searching for orchids?
From Surfer Richard Crowe: Thai Sun god head, stolen from a museum, has been returned in the mail!
Shrunken head lamps, with long and short hair! Created by the design artist who made the martini lamps. $200 includes postage and there are are only a limited number available! Email Dave for more info:
Via Surfer Richard crowe, the hidden treasure of gangster Dutch Schultz
The Texas Rangers Museum has a special exhibit on its ties to Freemasonry, via Surfer Richard Crowe
A nonalcoholic sequel to the Whiskey Rebellion is brewing and it is gaining adherents. You might call it the Fresca Rebellion. And more and more liberals are calling themselves libertarians!
The hidden Mormon gold of Brigham Young
Want a healthy BLT? Get rid of the lettuce and tomatoes!
Bacteria found in lettuce and tomatoes
Jane Dolinger travelled the world writing books and
hundreds of magazine articles about her experiences, and she was a beautiful model as well. Here is her story, via Surfer Richard Crowe
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
From Surfer Richard Crowe: The Texas Rangers website!
Posted at 06:12 pm by Psychomike
Oct 5, 2009
Surf W/ KILL BILL 3 Is Coming!
THE MOST AMAZING COSTUMES AND MASKS YOU WILL EVER SEE, THE MAN WHO CRASHED THE WORLD, SWINE FLU SHOT FEARS, JOHN CLEESE HAS ONE BITTER ONE MAN SHOW!
The world of Japanese film and pop culture and it often tells you how the subject matter fits in with Japanese society and tradition. All in one incredible and elegant site, from Surfer Pojo.
Japanese pretz ads- nuts AND funny!
Joseph Cassano, former head of A.I.G.’s Financial Products unit, at London’s High Street Kensington subway station in June. From Bauer-Griffin.
The Man Who Crashed the World
Almost a year after AIG’s collapse, and despite a tidal wave of outrage, there was still no clear view of what toppled the company. Until Michael Lewis got on the case
Public college surprised to learn that students have rights that are protected by the First Amendment
Posted at 12:59 am by Psychomike
Oct 1, 2009
Surf W/Most Banned Book In U.S.
THE THOUSANDS OF JAPANESE TROOPS WHO DID NOT SURRENDER, BENEFITS OF BEING A JUDGES SON, THE SHOCKING STORY OF THE GHOST FLEET, THOSE WHO SURVIVED THE ATOMIC BOMBS!
The fall and rise of 60's icon Marianne Faithful. From Surfer Bruce Dinsmor.
1100 Pills of E? Check. 32 grams of coke? Check. Xanax, marijuana and crack? Check. Zero prison time because it was the judge's son? Check
From Surfer Richard Crowe. On Sept. 9, a bank marked its 150th anniversary in Hong Kong by launching what it claimed to be the world's first 150 dollar banknotes.
The most banned library book in the USA is about a homosexual penguin family. Thank goodness there aren't more important things to worry about like war, torture, prison without trial and suchlike. Via FARK
Sacred trees of the fairie crafts... with annoying midimusic. Gee, thanks Surfer Richard Crowe!
While there were only 50 to 60 people at my talk on Afghanistan, the smallest crowd I've ever spoken in front of, the talk was well recieved and you can watch it here. There is also counterpoints and questions from the audience.
Follow them in order of 1 through 5:
http://www.motionbox.com/filings?folder_id=75489865
Britain's last survivor of World War 1's trenches has died at the age of 111. From Surfer Richard Crowe.
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From Surfer Richard Crowe: Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi, a Japanese imperial army straggler who lived in the jungles of Guam for 28 years after World War II ended, died at 5:07 pm Monday Sept 22, 1997 of heart failure at JR Tokai General Hospital in Nagoya Japan. He was 82. Yokoi lived in a tunnel-like, underground cave in a bamboo grove until Jan 24, 1972, when he was discovered near the Talofofo River by hunters. Yokoi, who had been a tailor's apprentice before being drafted in 1941, made clothing from the fibers of wild hibiscus plants and survived on a diet of coconuts, breadfruit, papayas, snails, eels and rats. "We Japanese soldiers were told to prefer death to the disgrace of getting captured alive," Yokoi said in 1972. http://ns.gov.gu/scrollapplet/sergeant.html
The 'ghost fleet' near Singapore. The world's ship owners and government economists would prefer you not to see this symbol of the depths of the plague still crippling the world's economies.
This article will blow your mind. I think its time for the U.S. press to stop the propaganda. The biggest and most secretive gathering of ships in maritime history lies at anchor east of Singapore. Never before photographed, it is bigger than the U.S. and British navies combined but has no crew, no cargo and no destination - and is why your Christmas stocking may be on the light side this year
These stories are lost in history, but man does Surfer Richard Crowe know how to find them!?!
140,000 Japanese soldiers went into service with the Communist Red Army, or went on living independently in Communist held areas. Some of these soldiers had been stranded without transportation back to Japan, or were unwilling to return to the American occupied home islands. Others feared disgrace from their families for surrender. Many choose to fight for the Chinese, Russians or the warlords in the region. FOR EXAMPLE:
Late 1948
An estimated 10-20,000 well equipped Japanese troops were trapped in the mountains of Manchuria and did not surrender until late in 1948. They were caught in a no man's land of civil war stuck between the warring Nationalist and Communist forces and were unable to surrender. The American public was never told.
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
Via Richard Crowe: On August 6th and 9th, 1945, two atomic bombs vaporized 210,000 people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Those who survived are called "hibakusha"--people exposed to the bomb--and there are an estimated 200,000 living today. Today, with the threat of nuclear weapons of mass destruction frighteningly real- the world's arsenal capable of repeating the destruction at Hiroshima 400,000 times over, Oscar® award-winning filmmaker Steven Okazaki revisits the bombings and shares the stories of the only people to have survived a nuclear attack.
Posted at 03:05 pm by Psychomike
Sep 29, 2009
1940'S SUPERMAN CARTOONS WERE AMAZING, AYN RAND MORE POPULAR THAN EVER, CHURCH OF THE SUBGENIUS IN THE AIR, THE SUBVERSIVE NATURE OF BETTIE PAGE!
Are forehead tattoos ever a good idea? From Surfer Richard Crowe
The Church of the Subgenius Hour Of Slack is available to listen to on the web
Why do we still need to read the novels of Charles Dickens? Because they tell us, in the grandest way possible, why we are what we are
The Superman cartoons of the 1940's remain stunning works of art.
In 1952 Ian Fleming wrote CASINO ROYALE. He also wrote CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG. He created a character that rivalled Sherlock Holmes, Tarzan and Superman in terms of a modern myth. In the books he was cruel, sadistic, violent, sexist and imperialistic. All these aspects were removed over the years to appeal to female audiences. When the films returned to that formula with the CASINO ROYALE film a few years ago a funny thing happened... more women went to see the film than any Bond film in years!
Occasionally I meet someone who hasn't seen DR. NO, GOLDFINGER or FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE the sacred trilogy. I wonder what the hell they are teaching in film schools these days. Yet these same people saw the last three god awful Star Wars films and at least 3 SAWS. Close the film schools NOW!
Fleming actually worked in Intel, and Aleister Crowley was one of his best agents (Crowley was allowed to interview Rudolph Hess). Here is the story of Fleming and how his spy work impacted the Bond books.
http://www.hmss.com/books/fleming/
Ayn Rand's ATLAS SHRUGGED is one of the best selling books of this year. It was written in the 1950's. Here's why....
My years as a student at the Art Institute had as a major highlight banging every girl I could get hold of in the fashion department and Goodman acting school (when it was part of SAIC). The other was meeting, taking classes with and making a film with Stan Brakhage. He in fact got 3 museums to buy my film, before I was 21.
Not many places to go when you are already in museums at 20!
A great filmmaker, lecturer and just cool guy.
http://www.fredcamper.com/Film/Brakhage4.html
On this film Brakhage placed objects from nature- then ran them thru a projector!
Portrait art carved into phone books!
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
Bettie Page has taken up a lot of my life. She appeared as a character in THE GOOD TIME GIRLS, she was the focus of the first show I ever did (that Penn and Teller flew out to see), and then the focus of this play:
http://www.bettieville.com/bp/meyer.shtmlWhich was made into a movie I have since disinherited so to speak (never let your producer be the cameraman I learned, even if they do throw money around like water).
Bettie detroyed my life, saved it, rebuilt me. And I still love her. Posted at 01:10 pm by Psychomike
Sep 27, 2009
SurfW/Russ Meyers Motor Psycho
THE STORY OF THE CAVEMEN BAND, MAGICIAN'S TOKENS, THE ART OF DENNIS HOPPER, SPRINTCAM V3 CAMERA SHOOTS INCREDIBLE FOOTAGE, ZOMBIFY YOURSELF!
Here is the first SprintCam v3 showreel, made for NAB 2009 exhibition. The most amazing footage I've ever seen.
Watch Russ Meyer's MOTOR PSYCHO here!
Magicians' tokens have been produced since the late 1800's. Made of various materials including silver, copper, white metal, nickel, plastic and even wood, these tokens or coins served a variety of purposes. From Surfer Richard Crowe
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Date: unknown (early 1900's)
Produced for Martinka Magic Shop, New York City
Made to promote this famous magic shop once owned by Houdini. Rough translation: Deceiving the World. This coin is nickel/silver, but was also made in plated brass and bronze.
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I EAT CANNIBALS! Remember that song? The hair! The makeup! It was the 80's!
Sometimes a Christian will ask me, "how can you be a moral person without God? What's the motivation to live a moral life if you're not accountable for it anyway? Where do your morals come from?"
Rather than go through an exhaustive analysis of why these questions are flawed, I'm going to make a list. http://www.godless-heathen.com/?p=97
Dennis Hopper: Signs Of The Times will include a vast selection of the artist's iconic 1960s photographs, twelve enormous and never-seen-before 'billboard paintings,' and select video excerpts from Hopper's extensive body of work as an actor and director in film and television.
Now you can zombify yourself here:
The story of an amzing kids band called THE CAVEMEN with videos!
Who is to blame for the health care debacle?
BEST SITES OF THE DAY:
I guess the President is too busy with the Olympics department......
Asked how often he talks to the president, McChrystal said, "I've talked to the president since I've been here once on a VTC." "You talked to him once in 70 days?" Martin asked. "That's correct," McChrystal replied.
John Kerry believes we are making the Vietnam mistake in Afghanistan.
Posted at 09:37 pm by Psychomike
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