Primary Sources : China Tech News
China's internet does not receive as much coverage as it deserves, particularly in English. Here is a list of top news sources, in English and Chinese, that our team reads to stay sharp.
Posted: January 20th, 2011
at 2:14pm by Koookiecrumbles
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CIA Promoted American Modern Art
Some people (continue to) call it revisionist history, but in 1995 some ofA the people involved in the CIA’s campaign to finance and promote American Modern Art during the Cold War began to come forward.A The article quoted below is one of the first examples of this chain of disclosures.A I personally have never been a huge fan of the style of American Abstract Expressionism, but there are certainly pieces that have a huge, even subconscious cultural effect on even me, a hater.A Ninjas beware: The CIA might be promoting our ish… just sayin’…
The US government now faced a dilemma. This philistinism, combined with Joseph McCarthy’s hysterical denunciations of all that was avant-garde or unorthodox, was deeply embarrassing. It discredited the idea that America was a sophisticated, culturally rich democracy. It also prevented the US government from consolidating the shift in cultural supremacy from Paris to New York since the 1930s. To resolve this dilemma, the CIA was brought in.
The connection is not quite as odd as it might appear. At this time the new agency, staffed mainly by Yale and Harvard graduates, many of whom collected art and wrote novels in their spare time, was a haven of liberalism when compared with a political world dominated by McCarthy or with J Edgar Hoover’s FBI. If any official institution was in a position to celebrate the collection of Leninists, Trotskyites and heavy drinkers that made up the New York School, it was the CIA.
Until now there has been no first-hand evidence to prove that this connection was made, but for the first time a former case officer, Donald Jameson, has broken the silence. Yes, he says, the agency saw Abstract Expressionism as an opportunity, and yes, it ran with it.
"Regarding Abstract Expressionism, I’d love to be able to say that the CIA invented it just to see what happens in New York and downtown SoHo tomorrow!" he joked. "But I think that what we did really was to recognise the difference. It was recognised that Abstract Expression- ism was the kind of art that made Socialist Realism look even more stylised and more rigid and confined than it was. And that relationship was exploited in some of the exhibitions.
"In a way our understanding was helped because Moscow in those days was very vicious in its denunciation of any kind of non-conformity to its own very rigid patterns. And so one could quite adequately and accurately reason that anything they criticised that much and that heavy- handedly was worth support one way or another."
To pursue its underground interest in America’s lefty avant-garde, the CIA had to be sure its patronage could not be discovered. "Matters of this sort could only have been done at two or three removes," Mr Jameson explained, "so that there wouldn’t be any question of having to clear Jackson Pollock, for example, or do anything that would involve these people in the organisation. And it couldn’t have been any closer, because most of them were people who had very little respect for the government
, in particular, and certainly none for the CIA. If you had to use people who considered themselves one way or another to be closer to Moscow than to Washington, well, so much the better perhaps." (Source)
Posted: December 7th, 2010
at 9:12am by Black Ock
Tagged with CIA, abstract expressionism, Helen Frankenthaler, modern art
Categories: art,politricks,weaponry,fo' real?,primary sources,ninjas are everyehere,americana
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Primary Sources: Nikola Tesla’s FBI File
Posted: June 16th, 2010
at 9:43pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: science,primary sources
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Primary Sources: No Secrets
WikiLeaks front man Julian Paul Assange and his Icelandic transformation- how did his wish to under-serve those who hold "power without accountability" lead to the disintegration of his own orchestrated press club release? This New Yorker article by Raffi Khatchadourian due out next week explores his undoings in and out of the Bunker.
"If it feels a little bit like we're amateurs, it is because we are. Everyone is an amateur in this business."
Posted: May 31st, 2010
at 3:45pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: hood status,myninjaplease,youtube,life,crime,too good to be true,web,mnp is for the children,politricks,weaponry,fo' real?,real life news,science,primary sources,et cetera,tele,internets,ninjas are everyehere,law,ethics,ir
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Primary Sources: Frank Sinatra
Don’t let talent be wasted…
Posted: May 17th, 2010
at 9:39pm by Koookiecrumbles
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The Rant that Brought out the Crazies
This is just in case you forgot what started these "TEA parties."
Posted: February 6th, 2010
at 9:19am by Black Ock
Categories: politricks,fo' real?,real life news,primary sources
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Primary Sources : There are UFOs
Right click to download the above desktop image from Peter Gray
An official announcement by the Obama administration disclosing the reality of extraterrestrial life is imminent. For several months, senior administration officials have been quietly deliberating behind closed doors how much to disclose to the world about extraterrestrial life. Dissatisfaction among powerful institutions such as the U.S. Navy over the decades-long secrecy policy has given a boost to efforts to disclose the reality of extraterrestrial life and technology.
The impending disclosure announcement follows upon the secret implementation of a year long openness policy on UFOs and extraterrestrial life. Over the period February 12-14, 2008, the United Nations held closed doors discussions where approximately 30 nations secretly agreed on a new openness policy on UFOs and extraterrestrial life in 2009. The openness policy was implemented but never publicly announced due to threats against UN diplomats not to disclose details of the secret agreement. The secret UN agreement was based on two conditions. First, UFOs would continue to appear around the world; and second, the openness policy would not lead to social unrest in liberal democracies. Both conditions have been satisfied making it possible for the next stage to begin official disclosure of extraterrestrial life.
.::continue reading at the Honolulu Exopolitics Examiner->
Posted: November 8th, 2009
at 5:30pm by Koookiecrumbles
Tagged with President Obama, Honolulu Exopolitics Examiner, UFO, extraterrestrial life, United Nations
Categories: myninjaplease,life,politricks,science,primary sources
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2008 DNC/RNC Mobilizations: Full Report
At long last, wea€™ve completed our 35,000-word full report on last summera€™s anarchist mobilizations against the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, complete with chronological maps and painstaking documentation. Updated from the feature in Rolling Thunder #7 and expanded to include the complete text of thirteen different participant narratives, this report offers a comprehensive history of the preparations for, events of, and aftermath following the protests, and an analysis of their context and implications.
Posted: June 22nd, 2009
at 1:09pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: politricks,primary sources,et cetera
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zOMG…
I believe this qualifies as a life changing experience. I’m assuming you’ve already heard about this. BTW… we’re going ALL VIDEO this Monday.
Posted: April 13th, 2009
at 1:00pm by Black Ock
Categories: primary sources,10th dan
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