Podcasts about notes from the edge

In this episode, Jared Lloyd and Annalise Kaylor talk shop after spending 10 days on boats photographing in Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska. Kenai Fjords is one of the most dynamic landscapes on Earth and plays home to an extraordinary diversity of wildlife from marine mammals to pelagic seabirds. The PhotoWILD crew timed their expedition to the edge of the world for the peak of the orca migration. Following huge schools of chinook salmon, each day was filled with countless orca sightings in addition to humpback whales, Stellar sea lions, harbor seals on icebergs, sea otters, three species of puffin, and so much more.  Key Takeaways Photographing from little boats in a big ocean can be challenging and how to overcome those challenges There really is no such thing as bad light, only our lack of knowledge of how best to exploit that light When the photography gods throw you lemons, make high key images Ice drives the entire ecosystem here Mastering Light book discussed in show: https://www.photowildmagazine.com/mastering-light Want to join us in Kenai Fjords next year? https://www.jaredlloyd.com/wildlife-of-kenai-fjords-photography-workshop

They don't just call Democrats "communists" and "Marxists" in order to attack Democrats, they do it to disappear the entire giant expanse of political spectrum that exists to the left of the capitalist imperialist Democratic Party. They want you to think that's as far left as it gets. Democrats refer to themselves as "the left" for the same reason. Both mainstream factions work to shrink the Overton window into a tug-o-war between Republican capitalist imperialists and Democrat capitalist imperialists. Between two opposing factions of neoliberal neocons. Reading by Tim Foley.

You may vote and debate freely on any issue which does not affect the functioning of the empire. When it comes to how money, weapons and resources move around the world, however, you suddenly find that your votes don't matter and your position has no mainstream representation. They'll let you argue until you're blue in the face over whether or not you can have an abortion or whether minorities should have civil rights; they'll even let you vote on it. But things like military expansionism and neoliberal globalization and deregulation are off limits. The empire relies on false political dichotomies like Democrats vs Republicans to keep everyone fighting over issues which don't affect the functioning of the empire so the machine can trudge onward uninterrupted by the local riff raff. That is the entire job of those parties.  The mainstream media exist to keep everyone spellbound by those false dichotomies on the level of discourse and debate. They manufacture culture wars which split the populace in half over an issue which doesn't affect the empire, then continually feed into that debate. The Bernie/AOC/TYT "populist left" and the Trump/Tucker Carlson "populist right" factions are there to lure parts of the population who get a little too curious about the raw mechanisms of empire back into the political false dichotomy so they stop asking unauthorized questions. The entire political/media class exists for this purpose: not to help people, not to fight for civil rights, not to create a well-informed populace so that democracy can function, but to keep the grubby little mitts of the unwashed masses far away from the true levers of power. That's their whole entire function. Reading by Tim Foley.

It's so important that the public have no real say in US politics that the empire not only set up two oligarchic puppet parties which pretend to oppose each other, but also set up fake populist movements within each of those factions which pretend to be fighting the establishment within those parties. It's a very clever illusion that sucks up almost all real opposition. If you don't fall for the first kayfabe conflict and realize the game is rigged for the powerful, you can still end up buying into the fake populist movements set up to oppose them. I fell for them both early on in this commentary gig. But after a while of watching what they do (as opposed to just listening to what they say) and seeing where they actually stand and fight or refuse to fight, you see it's all an Inception-level fakery. The opposition is controlled, and so is the opposition to the opposition.  It's like when you dream you're waking up from a dream but you're actually in another dream; you awaken from the liberals-vs-conservatives puppet show and then turn to the fake progressive Democrats or the bullshit MAGA camp as a solution, but you're still asleep. This all sounds like an awful lot of work to go through until you remember that an entire globe-spanning empire depends on the ability to prevent the American public from either (A) voting in a disruptive government or (B) fighting a revolution. So much power rides on their ability to do this. Reading by Tim Foley.

Public approval of the Israeli apartheid regime, like approval of the US police, has plummeted in direct proportion to the ubiquitousness of video cameras. In much the same way DNA testing vindicated prisoners who'd insisted on their innocence for years, a new technological development proved true what a marginalized population had been saying all along. Reading by Tim Foley.

People say "This is not a proxy war! How dare you call this a proxy war?" Pouring billions of dollars worth of weaponry into a foreign nation to be used by CIA-trained fighters with the direct ongoing assistance of US military intelligence is in fact the exact thing that a proxy war is. That is what those words mean. If the Ukraine war is not a proxy war, then there has never been a proxy war. Reading by Tim Foley.

Sometimes I can only stop and stare in awe at the power of the US propaganda machine. Almost the entire global north has been paced into perfect alignment with cold war agendas geared toward securing US unipolar dominance by an unprecedented propaganda and censorship campaign. There's nothing intrinsic in Russia's invasion of Ukraine which says the nation must be strangled to death by unheard-of levels of economic warfare from Washington-loyal governments. A huge international consensus needed to be manufactured for that specific response, and the public needed to go along with it. Just absolutely incredible. By securing control of global narratives via Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and plutocratic "news" outlets, the US empire has effectively supplanted the UN and international law in its ability to get whole groups of nations moving in a certain way with the consent of the governed. The human species is being led around like a dog on a leash by a collective mind control system of unparalleled and unprecedented sophistication that hardly anyone even notices. Imperial propaganda is the single most overlooked and underappreciated aspect of our society. Reading by Tim Foley.

The word "detente" has been deliberately scrubbed from the western lexicon. This has created a false dichotomy where everyone thinks the only choices are either escalate until we have a nuclear war or "OMG SO JUST GIVE PUTIN WHATEVER HE WANTS AND LET HIM TAKE OVER EUROPE???" Any time you oppose freakish world-threatening escalations that's the response you always get: "So just give into the bully and let him have everything?? That's appeasement!" They're sincerely unaware that there's a third choice between World War 3 and crowning Putin Emperor of Planet Earth. This is by design, because detente and US unipolar hegemony are mutually exclusive. You can't dominate the entire planet and also let Russia be its own nation; it's either one or the other. Detente was a popular concept back when we lived in a multipolar world, during the USSR, but since it's been dominated by one single superpower that word has been phased out of public awareness. Now that US unipolar hegemony is the normalized mainstream consensus ideal within the western empire, any talk of working toward peaceful solutions that don't subjugate one power to the other show up before indoctrinated minds as outrageous heresy. Reading by Tim Foley.

Just your regular reminder that the US empire (A) had solid intelligence that this war was coming, (B) knew they could prevent it by making very reasonable, low-cost concessions like promising not to add a nation to NATO that they didn't want to add anyway, and (C) chose not to. Reading by Tim Foley.

It takes a touch of madness to take seriously the possibility that your entire society is insane. That's why devoted critics of the oligarchic empire are often a bit odd; something in them was driven to wade into waters that most people aren't psychologically prepared to enter. It's not that questioning the status quo is madness; just the opposite: it's that "Maybe everything I've been taught is a lie and everyone I know is wrong and all the information I'm getting is designed to serve the powerful?" isn't the sort of question you tend to ask when everything's going your way. If you had a happy idyllic childhood where mummy and daddy loved you very much and have lived a life where things generally go okay for you, you'll likely be psychologically stable, but you're a lot less likely to go "Hey wait a minute—maybe all of this is bullshit!" That type of insight tends to fall to those who are just a hair off-kilter. So here's to all you heroic lunatics, waking the world up one pair of eyelids at a time. The smileyface gear-turners might scoff at you right now, but the world needs you, not them. Reading by Tim Foley.

People who defend US foreign policy are terrorist sympathizers. Reading by Tim Foley.

When US blockades on Cuba cause suffering, the suffering proves that socialism doesn't work. When US-backed blockades on Yemen cause suffering, it's an unfortunate and tragic accident of nature. Reading by Tim Foley.

You know what would've been a lot worse than a vile McCarthyite smear against an important antiwar journalist igniting an ugly war in online left media circles? A vile McCarthyite smear against an important antiwar journalist being tolerated by online left media circles. Reading by Tim Foley. Article with links and sources: https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/tyt-jimmy-dore-and-other-notes-from

The imperialist oligarchy deliberately keeps the public poor, busy and confused and then directs their resulting anger toward Russia, China, immigrants, and people from the other political party. Our anger at each other protects them from our anger landing where it belongs. Reading by Tim Foley. Article version: https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/divide-and-brainwash-notes-from-the

- Make a show called Actually That Was America. - Tell average Americans on the street about evil things America did, except you tell them it was a country the US government doesn't like. - Film their reaction. - Scream "ACTUALLY THAT WAS AMERICA!" - It never gets old. - You never run out of evil things. Reading by Tim Foley. Article version: https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/actually-that-was-america-notes-from

You can tell how backwards our society is by how much easier it is to thrive in it as a sociopath than if you have any other serious mental disorder. Reading by Tim Foley. Article version here: https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/capitalism-rewards-sociopathy-notes

My ongoing "Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix" series is a collection of assorted thoughts on politics, war, empire, oligarchy, and life. Reading by Tim Foley.

Considered by many a cult figure, since his bestseller 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, , in which he argued 2012 could bring unprecedented transformation – not the end of the world, contemporary shaman Daniel Pinchbeck is back with "Notes on the Edge Times," exploring the “edge realms” of topics ranging from financial and ecological collapse ... to our need for a new media paradigm ... to the true meaning of 2012. Julie Ann explores with Daniel how these societal and spiritual shifts influence us - and, in turn, how we might influence them, through conscious social co-creation in this transitional time.

  This week's playlist: • I Love 'Em (3:58) by Big James &The Chicago Playboys, from Right Here Right Now (2009); released June 2nd, 2009, and available from BlindPigRecords.com. Visit BigJames.com for more information. • Stop Watching Your Enemies (5:17) by Koko Taylor, from Jump for Joy (1990); available from Alligator Records and the iTMS. Visit KokoTaylor.com for more information. • Don't Touch My Guitar (4:34) by Pat Coast, from Don't Touch My Guitar (2003), available from CD Babyand the iTMS. Visit PatCoastBand.com for more information. • Soul Monster (3:54), Queen Bee (4:09) and Tell Me About It Sam (5:37), all by Rod Piazza and the Mighty Flyers Blues Quartet, and all from Soul Monster (2009), set for a June 16th, 2009 release on the Delta Groove Productions label. Visit TheMightyFlyers.com and Delta Groove Productions for more information. • Recession Blues (2:29) by Rivers & Roads, from a forthcoming album titled I've Got Issues. Visit the Rivers & Roads MySpace page for more information. • No Mercy (4:20) by The Snake Charmers, from Been Gone Too Long (2008), available from CD Baby and the iTMS. Visit TheSnakeCharmers.net and The Snake Charmers' MySpace page for more information. • Worse Without You (3:40) by the Ramblin Dawgs, from their EP, Rockin Blues (2009), available from CD Baby and the iTMS. Visit RamblinDawgs.com and their MySpace page for more information. • Mississippi Grace (3:12) by Matthew D and Random Tuesday, from Notes From The Edge (2006), available from CD Baby and the iTunes Music Store. Visit MattDWard.com or their Garageband page for more information. Mentioned during this show: Koko Taylor, the Queen of the Blues. To contact me: in addition to email - murphyssaloon(at)gmail(dot)com - you can contact me through: FriendFeed, Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. You are also welcome to write reviews in iTunes. Excellent sources of information about the blues: The Blues Foundation and the Delta Blues Museum; be sure to download and listen to the DBM's top-notch (and free) podcast, the Uncensored History of the Blues; BluesRevue.com, the online home of Blues Revue magazine; BigCityBluesMag.com, the online home of Big City Blues magazine; BluesCritic.com. The Blues Report. Be sure to read Today's Chicago Blues by Karen Hanson, an excellent guide to all things blues in present-day Chicago. For up-to-the-minute news about things to do in Chicago: TheLocalTourist.com. (Music on Murphy's Saloon #160 courtesy of the artists and the Podsafe Music Network, IODA PROMONET, Download.com or Garageband.com)

  This week's playlist: • Silent Treatment by P.W. Fenton & The Second Ward, obtained from the Podsafe Music Network, where it's for sale as a single for just 99 cents. • Fishing Blues by William Clarke, from William Clarke: Deluxe Edition (1999), available from Alligator Records and the iTunes Music Store. • Devil In My Shoes by the Rose City Kings, from Holler Out For More: Rose City Kings Live (2005), available from CD Baby. Visit RoseCityKings.com and their Garageband.com page for more information. Also, visit the Rose City Kings' online store for band-related merchandise. • Mississippi Grace by Matthew D and Random Tuesday, from Notes From The Edge (2006), available from CD Baby and the iTunes Music Store. Visit MattDWard.com or their Garageband page for more information. • All Kinds Of A Fool by Brad Wilson, from Rockin' The Blues (2007), available for sale at Brad's gigs. Brad has eight other albums for sale from CD Baby and the iTMS. He also has a long list of individual tracks for sale through Napster. Visit BradWilsonLive.com for a gig schedule and other information. • The Last Blues by Watermelon Slim, from UpClose And Personal (2007), available from Slim's site, NorthernBlues.com and the iTMS. Visit WatermelonSlim.com for more information. • Pocket Change Blues by Da Bottomfeeders, also available as a free dowload from Download.com. • Ice Cold by Long John Hunter, from Border Town Legend (1996), available from Alligator Records and the iTMS. • Deep Elem Blues by The Williams Brothers Band, a single obtained from the Podsafe Music Network. Visit their MySpace page for more information and to hear more tracks. • Breakin' Out by Shemekia Copeland, from The Soul Truth (2005), available from Alligator Records or the iTMS. Visit ShemekiaCopeland.com for more information. Mentioned during this show: Studs Terkel, P.W. Fenton's Digital Flotsam and Smokin' Roy Madison's Traveling Juke Joint. Excellent online resources for more information about the blues: The Blues Foundation and the Delta Blues Museum; and be sure to download and listen to the DBM's top-notch (and free) podcast, the Uncensored History of the Blues. (Music on Murphy's Saloon #74 courtesy of the artists and the Podsafe Music Network, the PROMONET program of the Independent Online Distribution Alliance or Download.com)

This week's playlist: • Mississippi Grace by Matthew D and Random Tuesday, from Notes From The Edge (2006), available from CD Baby and the iTunes Music Store. Visit MattDWard.com or their Garageband page for more information. • The Moon Is Full by Albert Collins, Johnny Copeland and Robert Cray, from Showdown! (1985) available from Alligator Records and the iTMS. Visit Collins' page, Copeland's page and Cray's page at the Alligator site for more information. • Young and Evil by Billy Boy Arnold, from Back Where I Belong (1993), available from Alligator Records and the iTMS. Visit Arnold's page at the Alligator site for more information. • 1,000 Feet Ahead by The Hitman Blues Band from Blooztown (2000), available at their online store, CD Baby and the iTMS. For more information about the band, visit HitmanBluesBand.com or their MySpace page. • There's A River by Phil Circle, from Searching For Scorpio (2007). Visit Phil's MySpace page for more information and to buy the CD. • Millionaire by Kevin Welch and the Danes, from Millionaire (2001), available from Echotunes.com. Visit KevinWelch.com for more information. • Dust Me Off by Billy Marquis, from the Blues and Beyond, available for sale through Garageband.com. Visit Billy's Garageband page for more information. • Red Clay Back Road Mama by Edwin Holt, from Second Time Around (2005), available from TopCat Records, CDuniverse and the iTMS. Visit EdwinHolt.com for more information. • Amtrak by the Big George Jackson Blues Band, from Southern In My Soul, available from Black & Tan Records and the iTMS. Visit BigGeorgeJackson.com for more information. • Bad Religion by Jimmie Bratcher, from Red (2005), available from his online store and the iTMS. Visit JimmieBratcher.com for more information. Also: the senders of the first three emails I receive with Detroit Women Rule! in the subject line will receive a copy of Detroit Women's new CD, Sassitude, and a Murphy's Saloon logo t-shirt; I'm going to the SXSW conference in March; and don't forget to send in your favorite jokes. For more information about the blues, visit: The Blues Foundation and the Delta Blues Museum; and be sure to download and listen to the DBM's top-notch (and free) podcast, the Uncensored History of the Blues. (Music on Murphy's Saloon #62 courtesy of the artists and the Podsafe Music Network, where I obtained many of these tracks)

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