Voicemail: 678-368-4935. Dwight’s on the show again today, and we discuss how the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street movements actually spring from the same dissatisfaction with the economy and government, and how it may behoove us to work together to change things. This is not a popular stance . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show 11-12-11]]>

The Tea Party is mad!

Voicemail: 678-368-4935. Dwight’s on the show again today, and we discuss how the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street movements actually spring from the same dissatisfaction with the economy and government, and how it may behoove us to work together to change things. This is not a popular stance that we have taken, we’ll admit. But if you listen to old speeches by Tea Party activists in the days before the movement was taken over by Fox News and the Republican Party, you would be hard pressed to tell them apart from OWS talks. The advantage (and also the disadvantage) of the newer movement is that it has been peopled largely with anarchists, who do not tend to follow a hierarchical type of leadership roles. Instead they are a mass movement, and have not allowed the Democrats or unions to take over and speak for them, so far. But it is hard to keep violence in check with this type of crowd and it is making a lot of people nervous. So far so good.

The original Occupy Wall Street poster by Ad Busters

I am playing a lovely piece by Charity Chapmen, “One Plus One.” She’s an unsigned singer-songwriter from Los Angeles who does some background music work, and has also been writing songs for Cleo Elliott, who is Sam Elliot’s daughter. I found her on Music Alley.

Charity Chapman

I recently went to see again John Carpenter’s nifty 1988 alien conspiracy flick “They Live” at the Plaza Theater in Atlanta, one of my favorite indie movie theaters. Besides the movie, the theater had a small art show consisting of conspiracy art. I was reading parts of the art show off into . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show – Alien Conspiracy]]>
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I recently went to see again John Carpenter’s nifty 1988 alien conspiracy flick “They Live” at the Plaza Theater in Atlanta, one of my favorite indie movie theaters. Besides the movie, the theater had a small art show consisting of conspiracy art. I was reading parts of the art show off into the microphone while I was waiting for some of the artists to come be interviewed, and I played around with the sound trying to make it sound more “alien”–there’s nothing wrong with your iPod!

I had a great time talking to the artists – Nick, who had the aluminum foil hat and Phillip with the alien mask. There was also a young woman who spoke but I didn’t catch her name. We discussed our favorite conspiracies.

Then it was time for the movie. Before the movie started, they had some slides with different mind-control instructions and soft chanting of “Sleep…sleep…sleep….”

Music: “Alien Occupation” by Ben Base

“Alien in a Bottle” by Uncle Dirty, from the album Alien in a Bottle

“If the Aliens Came” by Ian Knapp, from the album Into These Oceans (You can download four free Ian Knapp mp3s at his website, by the way.).

All of the music came from MusicAlley by Mevio.

On today’s show I talk about Rev. Charles Ellis of Detroit’s Greater Grace Temple who had a service with three vehicles representing the Big Three automakers, asking for God’s help to turn the companies fortunes around. I also talk about the results of the sit-in strike by laid-off workers in the . . . → Read More: Fly121108 – Cars, Money, and Union Busting (678) 368-4935]]>

Graphic by Twolf

On today’s show I talk about Rev. Charles Ellis of Detroit’s Greater Grace Temple who had a service with three vehicles representing the Big Three automakers, asking for God’s help to turn the companies fortunes around. I also talk about the results of the sit-in strike by laid-off workers in the shuttered factory of Chicago’s Republic Windows and Doors, which resulted in the loans by Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase, allowing the workers sixty days of severance pay and give them their accrued vacations.

I play a rap song by Elohim Marino – “Money is God” from the album Truth.

Next I talk about the vote on the Big Three automakers’ request for a $14 billion short-term bailout and how the Republicans are admitting to using it as a way of devastating the United Auto Workers labor union. Breaking news that didn’t make it on the podcast–the bailout failed. It’s more important to bust a union than prevent a depression, apparently.

Next I play Josh Charles song “Love, Work and Money” from the album Josh Charles.

Music from this podcast came from Podshow Podsafe Music Network.