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    • Have You Come to “When” Yet? June 20, 2013
      The Lord restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends —Job 42:10A pitiful, sickly, and self-centered kind of prayer and a determined effort and selfish desire to be right with God are never found in the …

David Rovics: Prism

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David Rovics June 12, 2013

A song for Edward Snowden and the Secret Government.

Lyrics:

A secretive government had a secret operation
Massacring villages, killing millions, secretly bombing an entire nation
They wiretapped a hotel room, they got caught and a government was deposed
Because of secret documents Daniel Ellsberg exposed

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Power-Packed Political Songs by Rocket Kirchner

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by Rocket Kirchner
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Rocket Kirchner (blog)
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April 25, 2013

Well, here we go again. This time it is music.

1. It’s alright ma (I am only bleeding). Bob Dylan. One voice, one guitar tour de force. “The” existentialist political manifesto.

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New Year’s Concert 2013: Vienna Philharmonic: Johann Strauss: Blue Danube + Radetzky March

Franz Welser-Möst #1

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Happy New Year! Love, Lo

mkd12345678·Jan 1, 2013

This is a video of an another great performance of Johann’s Strauss Waltzer | An der schönen blauen donau | On the blue Danube performed by the Wiener Philharmoniker | Vienna Philharmonic on the 2013 Neujahrskonzert | New Year Concert.

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CHRISTMAS IN HELL: The sadness of those who feel alone during the holidays by Rocket Kirchner

Christmas Alone II

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by Rocket Kirchner
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December 18, 2012

It is a known fact that there are more suicides and more people depressed during the holidays than in any other time of the year. Many of these people are just alone in society. Others are so overwhelmed with the sing-songy giddiness around them that it is just pure torture for them. The real irony is is that this is the exact opposite of what the holidays should be. This quandary reminds me of the famous quote by Hugo Von Hofmannsthal, “The weariness of long forgotten peoples hangs heavy on my eyelids”.

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Matisyahu: Happy Hanukkah

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Happy Chanukah!

matisyahuTV, Dec 7, 2012

Matisyahu “Happy Hanukkah” (Official Video) – New Song
All Proceeds through the End of Hanukkah will be donated to Hurricane Sandy Relief. For more info visit:
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The Peerless Quartet: I Didn’t Raise My Son To Be A Soldier (1915)

The Peerless Quartet (known as the Columbia Qu...

The Peerless Quartet (known as the Columbia Quartet prior to 1908). From left to right; John H. Meyer, Henry Burr, Frank Croxton, Albert Campbell. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Oct 28, 2012 by

Released in 1915, I Didn’t Raise My Son to be a Soldier, sung here by the Peerless Quartet, was the first commercially successful anti-war record and featured prominently in the American anti-war movement opposing US entry in the first world war. The warmongering ex-president Theodore Roosevelt objected to the song’s message of peace and its early feminism: “Foolish people who applaud a song entitled ‘I Didn’t Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier’ are just the people who would also in their hearts applaud a song entitled ‘I Didn’t Raise my Girl To Be A Mother.”

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The Gitmos: Why Vote? + Rap News 16: Obama v Romney – the Final Presidential Debate

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Oct 15, 2012 by CornFlu

Video by Marshall J. Baumgartner and Scott Hughes.
The Gitmos Great Seal artwork by Todd N. Kennedy
Tell us why or why not you plan to vote!

Why vote?
When there’s no one worth voting for
Why vote?
Every politician is a whore
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L’Shana Tova – Happy New Year! + What Makes Rosh Hashanah Beautiful + Rosh Hashanah Rock Anthem

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L’Shana Tova Umetuka Tikatevu

May you be inscribed in the book of a Good and Sweet Year.

L’Shana Tova Umetuka Tikatevu

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Rocket Kirchner: Hiding in America (Live)

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by Rocket Kirchner
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September 8, 2012

Sep 7, 2012 by pflvtmh

Written by and performed live at Schnuck’s by Rocket Kirchner

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Juice Rap News: Episode 15 – Big Brother is WWWatching You

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Domestic Spying

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Sep 5, 2012 by


http://www.thejuicemedia.com
Juice Rap News: Episode 15 – Big Brother is WWWatching You. September 2012 rocks around with some crucial developments in the ongoing struggle over the future of the internet. Will it remain the one open frequency where humanity can bypass filters and barriers; or become the greatest spying machine ever imagined? The future is being decided as we type. (more…)

Tom Waits: Hell Broke Luce

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Aug 6, 2012 by

Directed By Matt Mahurin

“Hell Broke Luce” from the album Bad As Me, Anti Records 2011


http://www.tomwaits.com

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Rocket Kirchner: SlingShot Survival (songs from his latest CD)


by Rocket Kirchner
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August 1, 2012

The entire CD plus his last CD and an extra 3 songs (more…)

David Rovics: Song For Bradley Manning

Hero, Bradley Manning

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Warning

This video may contain images depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be viewed by a mature audience.

Jun 21, 2012 by

Private Manning was an analyst if what they say is true
He was paid to read reports and find the patterns sifting through
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Rocket Kirchner: Soups Up (songs from his latest CD)

Rocket Kirchner: Soups Up cover

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by Rocket Kirchner
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June 13, 2012

The entire CD plus an extra 3 songs.

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Juice News: A News Hope – Julian Assange vs Rupert Murdoch

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Jun 2, 2012 by

Juice Rap News presents the new bulletin of “news show for the internet nation”.

Robert Foster talks about rebel journalists who dare to challenge the establishment’s grip on information. No reliable media at a time of corporate wars. The people of Earth are misinformed as “speakers of truth are censored and imprisoned”.

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