It’s been a couple weeks without a TV now, and certainly don’t miss it because there still isn’t enough time in a day and wondering where I ever made the time for TV in the first place. Have made time for You Tube though, and WRH led me to this one on the UK server with Dick Cheney from 1994 talking about Kuwait, essentially saying invading Iraq would create a quagmire and split the country just as it is being split right now. Knowing now that it’s the same cabal that for all practicality sanctioned the Kuwait incursion by Saddam in the first place, and they are the same players as the Cold War days and the Doomsday Clock is still too close to midnight, it boggles the mind their killing games are still continuing. Can’t we figure out a way to get all the cool stuff without all the dead people to go with it?
So I took a wander through my childhood and listened to anti-war songs today. First up is CCR on the Ed Sullivan Show then Buffalo Springfield, with a montage of images from days long past and can’t help but cry that it has been 40 years since the Monterrey Festival in 1967 and we’re still struggling against the military-industrial machine that Eisenhower warned about in the US while Canada is being swallowed up by capitalists and corporatism.
Meanwhile it’s a pleasant enough day in Vancouver with filtered sunshine, and dry until just after 9:00 in the evening then some sprinkles for the flowers through to morning hopefully. No bombs going off, just a few sirens outside when I go out for a smoke, and the helicopter overhead is taking off from the nearby hospital roof for a car crash because someone fell asleep at the wheel and not because they invaded their country and killed their Sister, Mom and Dad in the name of securing “hearts and minds“.
Anchoring this list, none of them have been yanked for copyright yet:
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Fortunate Son
Barry McGuire – Eve of Destruction
Love and Rockets – Ball of Confusion
Paper Lace – Billy Don’t Be A Hero
Buffalo Springfield – For What It’s Worth
Phil Ochs – I Ain’t Marching Anymore
Country Joe McDonald – I Feel Like (Woodstock 1969)
Arlo Guthrie – Alice’s Restaurant
Bob Dylan & Joan Baez – Blowin’ in the Wind
Crosby Stills Nash & Young – Ohio ‘74
Coven – One Tin Soldier
The Original Caste – One Tin Soldier