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Here is the band #Blueburn of #Taiwan.

https://youtu.be/yYkWkAzAGaY
https://youtu.be/UdUSFXVznlA
https://youtu.be/i6biizR-WKQ
https://youtu.be/mY0-_3hxq70
#LunchtimeListens #WorldMusic

#StephenMiller pretended to freeze on live teevee after saying the quiet part out loud. The video feed clearly still works -- he just stopped talking after saying the president has "plenary" power, i.e., full and unlimited power. These #neofascists have made us a #dictatorship.

In celebration of human difference, and as a #MidnightMeditations entry, on #ThisDayInHistory was born the American author #EdgarAllanPoe. Some of his poetry was powerfully appealing to me at an earlier point in my life.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 2023, eight #Palestinian militias operating from the #GazaStrip launched an attack into Israel that caused 815 civilian deaths. It was a response to long-term occupation, but engaged in what must be called terrorism, as civilians should never be targeted.

Here is artist #CláudiaPascoal from #Portugal.

https://youtu.be/3TdgrKnjHN4
https://youtu.be/BOiGRN8p8UA
https://youtu.be/IYPu7H06cXI
https://youtu.be/Uc5MnhvNhuU
#LunchtimeListens #WorldMusic

On #ThisDayInHistory in 2001, the US launched the #AfghanWar, and with it the current iteration of its so-called #WarOnTerror. This global imperialist conflict has caused an estimated 4.5 million+ deaths and continues to subvert democratic institutions.

https://costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/papers/how-death-outlives-war

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1944, #Sonderkommando, the Jewish slaves working #GasChambers and crematoria at #AuschwitzBirkenau, revolted. They destroyed the No.4 crematorium and almost 500 were killed fighting the #Nazis. Women from the attached camp who supplied gunpowder were shot.

#HannahArendt noted the way #authoritarian and #totalitarian systems require internal and external enemies to rally support. The #MAGA emphasis on borders, cartels, and crime is a pretext for #neofascist rule. Trump is openly violating #PosseComitatus and using troops against us.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1973, Egypt and Syria made a last effort to regain lands taken in 1967, launching the #YomKippurWar. Below are the #ceasefire lines from that final Arab-Israeli War. To-day Israel ignored #Hamas accepting Trump's terms and bombed hell out of #Gaza again.

To-day we have #Lordkez from #SouthAfrica.

https://youtu.be/UA2jP_wpS9M
https://youtu.be/TFlk_A8zNb4
https://youtu.be/UFdUBrLHSZQ
https://youtu.be/4UB05oG4Zfo
#LunchtimeListens #WorldMusic

Here are #KrautRock pioneers #Faust of #Germany.

https://youtu.be/GRxvQmTTz5I
https://youtu.be/vtkOXbmuChE
https://youtu.be/66eAJ-QZztI
https://youtu.be/m5-_c2VFxhQ
#PsychedelicSunday #LunchtimeListens

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1936, the #BattleOfCableStreet brought together #anarchists, #socialists, #antifascists, #Jews, and #Irish workers in London's #EastEnd. They faced #OswaldMosley's #BritishUnionOfFascists and the Met #Police, routing them both & chasing off the #fascists.

Here is #FannySoegi of #Indonesia.

https://youtu.be/44v7A6ZHfDQ
https://youtu.be/_gP-yksjYUI
https://youtu.be/dreFLtvwG8c
https://youtu.be/xbkZuPW8534
#LunchtimeListens #WorldMusic

Here is #trance/#EDM artist #ATB of #Germany.

https://youtu.be/cgVEg3zA_vc
https://youtu.be/ri6Efk1SPJc
https://youtu.be/Y-vtlRzdqN0
https://youtu.be/uirFYDaMhYU
#FlashbackFriday #LunchtimeListens

To-day's picks are from #DJMix aka #AlexBotezatu of #Moldova.

https://youtu.be/MEHZBZlgRRE
https://youtu.be/XS1SOaF80HI
https://youtu.be/1GModeM1wrc
https://youtu.be/JHGF9adlGuc
#LunchtimeListens #WorldMusic

A government shutdown was part of the MAGA plan to instal loyalists throughout the federal bureaucracy, and as usual the Democrats were helpless tools to a fascist takeover, and both unable and unwilling to expose this reality or stop it. The corporate uniparty has no opposition.