{ plucked image from the networld, artist unknown } “Never scream alone, when everyone around you is in the same intolerable boat !” XLt collective analyst … So the last few nights we’ve been perusing some of the deep analysis doomsayers, and as much as we can agree that humans currently appear to be “up shit creek, clueless, and without a paddle”, and that in many cases we are being lied to about the severity of the crises, a total collapse scenario is not one we should get comfortable and cuddle with, but rather view as a portal to extraordinary paradigm-shifting and/or transmigrational times.

. .. The Killing of The Gods … R Us ” It matters what you believe.” a nomadic urban tribesman ” Tools devised and used by humans in an upside down world are proportionately misused. ” XLT analyst .. . Part 1: On the cartoon path against belief systems … … This juicy image above ( and 2 more below ) from a […]

{ see below for info on street art in this poster } … XLterrestrials presents CiTiZEN KiNO #42: “The Occupied Territories” < Friday, Jan. 30th > At: Station 40 3030b 16th Street, SF, CA. 21:00h – 19:30h by Donation ______ CiTiZEN KiNO is a Berlin-based series of events to inspire collective intelligence and new forms of arts + praxis. A hybrid of film, internet, theater, hacker culture and public forum to analyze and strategize around urgent social issues. Currently on tour in the US.

… “I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.

… Ridley Scott’s making Philip K. Dicks’s Man In The High Castle … for BBC TV and now via Amazon. Perhaps you’ve already noticed: Episode 1 is already available. The image above is, in part, taken from one of the original covers for PKD’s 1962 Hugo award-winning alternate history tale in which the Axis powers are present within the US as the victors of WW2. It weaves an ingenious social analysis of a totalitarian state from that odd and uncomfortably close scenario.

… { Photo was taken in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where children bathe in water that is contaminated with lead paint and scrap metal. One of the places where retired and abandoned cargo ships -that transport products across the globe to feed our civilization’s consumer addictions – end up to be “recycled”. S. Salgado? } … An investigative analysis of the 1% dreams for the future. … work-in-progress When The 1% Start Singing Whalesongs … In the Long Now… Run ! ( part 1 )

… Now THere’s A Sharp Pen ! #CharlieHebdo No, we don’t mean the cartoon artist above – Mark Knight, Herald Sun, we mean the incredible analysis provided by Corey Oakley in REDFLAG, an Alternative Socialist newspaper out of Australia. His piece is called Charlie Hebdo and the hypocrisy of pencils … And it’s like this whole can of worms, and all the debates we’ve been getting into on this squirmy matter, have finally been given the proper context and a fully articulated light.

( vj podinski mix of an Ai WeiWei portrait * ) … -work-in-progress - Dysneytopia Coincidentally the same week we went to go see the Ai WeiWei exhibition on Alcatraz, we got a couple emails about a razor sharp talk at #31c3 – The 31st Chaos Communications Congress – by Hans de Zwart, a civil rights activist with @bitsoffreedom. A presentation about living under permanent surveillance, which is not just the state of the famed Beijing artist embattled with the Chinese govt.

… ” In case you swallowed too much Hollywood this year, this media might help you untangle your brain… while not 100% verified, it supposedly comes from N. Korea.. ( which may also be a clever hoax). In 2012 it went viral, and was the hit of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), possibly the most important doc festival for the industry. It kinda makes Seth Rogen, The Interview and the Hollywood censorship ruse look like just another profit-making hemorroid on the asscrack of humanity.

{ picture possibly from 29C3, the 1st of Hamburg returns } Hmm, a quick glance from the program, of the 31st Communications Congress we see Alec Empire as keynote and Laura Poitras in the deeper mix… But this article is a good preface for us, sent via the Uncivilization list ( some sharp, warm and fuzzy folks […]

{ Artist: Yuri Shwedoff } This is not a plog on a specific topic. It’s a latenight weaving together all the info that has been streaming through our brain portals over the last weeks… And an attempt to connect the dots. * Beneath The Planet of The Republicrats Sometimes a powerful image will pull up a big picture of what all these latest jumbled scenarios might mean when combined… Like taking in the latest news of the #NYPD murders and putting it beside the #ferguson and #ericgarner ( and so many others !

… If you are living in the US and have not been standing with the #ferguson #blacklivesmatter #mikebrown #ericgarner #AlexNieto protests YET, now’s an appropriate time to ask yourselves why the f*ck not ?? You cannot be neutral on this murderous moving train ! What are you doing to break from the injustices of the current power structures and systemic inequalities ?? … LOts of demos and actions around the country … check your local listings ! Or go out and make Your Own Protests !

… We will try to throw together a list of resources for actions in response to the injustices in Mike Brown’s killing and subsequent Grand Jury (mis)trial of police officer Darren Wilson in Missouri. Currently the most compelling articles we read these last couple days were from Davey D Cook from KPFA’s Hard Knock Radio and the Hip Hop Corner blog, one of the most engaged journalists we’ve come across on the problems of racism in the US. One text describes the whole corporate media Set-Up for escalating the racial tensions, so precisely !

So, ladies, gents and all migrant aliens on-the-upside-attack … Our upcoming shows: … { Image from Murphy Anderson’s cover of Mystery In Space v. 1 #22 – 1954 } … < Postponed until early February > < Dec 10th > CiTiZEN KiNO # 40.6 : Technotopia, All You Can’t Eat – w/ very special guests at The Internet Archive in SF, 19:00h And here’s the new PIRATE PAD for developing the theme ! This is our open source curating device, where you can suggest media and tactical angles, constructive rants and feedback.

{^} The next episode on The Cali-cidal Tendencies Tour… < Friday Nov 14th > CiTiZEN KiNO #41: The Occupied Territories on the housing struggles at Noisebridge, SF – doors at 20:00h w/ intro films. C-kino performance begins at 21:00h Our XLt analysts ask: Can Home & Shelter as traded market commodities and rent traps STILL be hacked !? … What is C-KiNO ? ABOUT CItiZEN KiNO: It’s media self-defense, it’s cinema hacking, it’s curated screenings mixed with performance and community brainstorming.