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describe PDX in three words.

2008-07-10T22:43:37Z

...limits can be fun...sometimes.

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DO YOU LIKE TO DANCE?

2008-06-25T02:20:01Z

THIS SUNDAY~CATHEDRAL PARK~ST. JOHNS!

It's free.

http://www.playgroundphenomenon.com/

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Busker's Block for Last Thursday!

2008-06-23T00:44:53Z

Come by 19th and Alberta for a busker corner!
Rose City Vaudeville and Acadian Ballroom is hosting a beer garden, Irish band, and street performers on our blocked off 19th Avenue.
Look for the Rose City Vaudeville double decker bus in the street, ya can't miss it!

Are you a busker (street performer)?
This is how it works:
We will start at 6:00 and have a sign-up and we'll announce you, take the stage and you have a maximum 20 minutes of performance time then you can pass the hat if you would like. Then the next performer takes the stage and so on.

We have just built an aerial rig for trapeze, silk, and hoop if you let us know beforehand.

Rose City Vaudeville will also be scouting for new talent for upcoming shows. (FYI-our unifying theme is turn-of-the-century costuming and ol' time music with a modern flair. You know, bustles and top hats.)

Hope to see you there!

Maquette and Happy
Rose City Vaudeville

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6/6; Portland premiere of my film, "The Invisible Forest"

2008-05-21T19:00:45Z

Hello everybody. I'm a Berkeley-based filmmaker touring the northwest with my newest experimental feature-length film, "The Invisible Forest". This is my 11th feature (since 1993); each screening of my work is a rare event as my films are not in mainstream release and never will be; they are simply too 'out there' (they are available on dvd). You can also read more about this at my tribe profile page.

The details for the PDX premiere:

ParaTheatrical ReSearch presents
"THE INVISIBLE FOREST", A Film by Antero Alli
(2008; 111 mn. USA). Filmmkaer in person.

FRIDAY JUNE 6th, 9:30pm, $6.50
HOLLYWOOD THEATRE, 4122 NE Sandy, Portland
http://www.hollywoodtheatre.org

The Trailer (3 min.)
http://www.fractalvideo.com/HTML/IFFV2.html

SYNOPSIS
A sleep-deprived theatre director undergoes hypnotic regression to stop a reoccurring nightmare and unexpectedly participates in an ancient dreamtime ritual that sends him through the labyrinths of madness and transcendence in Antero Alli's surrealistic journey, "The Invisible Forest". Inspired by the radical ideas of French playwright Antonin Artaud, the filmmaker also borrows from Rimbaud's poetics of delirium for the "deliberate disorientation of the senses" to achieve a series of altered states. In Alli's own words, "Cinema is a drug. If some movies put us to sleep like tranquilizers and others jack us up like triple espressos, The Invisible Forest is a 100% organic, user-friendly hallucinogen".

This film reviewed
http://www.verticalpool.com/ifmontereview.html

The Invisible Forest site
http://www.verticalpool.com/if.html

Director's Blog
http://www.paratheatrical.com/forestjournal.html

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END.USER June 21st PDX

2008-04-10T01:28:04Z

SNEAK PEEK!!!
www.myspace.com/enduser
More artists TBA!!!!!
In the meantime............

END.USER is one of the cornerstones of the modern eclectic electronic music. Support from BBC Radio's Mary Anne Hobbs and a list of DJs too long to fit on a one sheet, from many different genres, and releases across many platforms have built him into a juggernaut. A usually prolific artist, having recorded for Hymen, Ad Noiseam, Sublight, Cargo, and many others, he took 2007 off, working on something very special - his debut album on Ohm Resistance. Having relocated to San Francisco, a new lease on his creative power is demonstrated adroitly over the entire album. Album: left shows the most range of END.USER's album making career. Intensely personal, intensely musical, and just plain INTENSE at points, the album showcases a spectacular array of skills across the board. From radio play material ("black light") with aussie vocalist Sol Thomas, to collaborations with and remixes by influential electronic acts SCORN and COUNTERSTRIKE, to absolutely stunning, no boundaries drum n bass, the album is diverse and full of powerful compositions. Compelling from start to finish, left is the culmination of more than a year's work.

Ohm Resistance is Brooklyn's premier experimental electronic label. Loaded with power, from Scorn, to Bill Laswell's Method of Defiance, to Enduser and Submerged, the label has transformed from drum n bass 12" powerhouse to cutting edge electronic project pioneer.

http://enduser. sonicterror. net/

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OPEN MIC NIGHT Tuesdays (NW 21st & Gilsan)

2008-04-06T22:59:55Z

The spacious Old Nob Hill Cafe & Bar is hosting open music nights.
Everyone is welcome from solo musicians, deejays, and bands.
This is a great opportunity for fun and practice at performing live. Being a new venue most nights are open- in fact we would like to get things rolling ASAP so impromptue shows are great you can most likely play tonight if you like. Anyhow we are setting the schedule but we are planning for bands and deejays on Saturday and Sunday with open mike nights during the week.

CONTACT INFO:
oldpharm@mail2bar.com
Or come on in any night after 9 o'clock and talk to either of the bartenders John or Matt.

LOCATION:
Old Nob Hill Pharmacy Cafe & Bar
NW 21st and Gilsan
(across from the McMenamins - Blue Moon Tavern)

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Electrogals Concert - Holocene April 10th! ** All women, all electronic!

2008-03-11T03:21:58Z

ELECTROGALS 2008 All Women – All Electronic

April 10, 2008
Holocene - 1001 SE Morrison, Portland, Oregon
Doors at 8:00, show at 8:30pm
$7 at the door - 21 & over

Electrogals 2008 will showcase female electronic music performers from the West Coast, featuring synthesists, experimental soulstresses, sonic explorers, deep listeners, circuit benders, and beat manglers. The evening will boast an eclectic lineup of talent, embracing a wide range of styles, from beat-heavy song forms to abstract noise-generated soundscapes.

Although there is nothing inherently manly about creating or performing electronic music, the female electronic musician is something of a rare bird. Electrogals 2008 is the third in a series of showcases for women who have immersed themselves in this art form.

The first Electrogals show happened in 1995 at Mills College, when composer Heather Perkins gathered a group of female electronic music composers for a show at the Mills Concert Hall. In 2004, Heather put on another Electrogals concert as part of the Sound/Craft music series at the Portland Museum of Contemporary Craft. It was clear that Electrogals was the beginning of something great. This year Heather and co-curator Mary Wright have expanded the with a larger venue that will offer food and drink. Electrogals 2008 will not disappoint.

Electrogals 2008 will be held on April 10, 2008, at Holocene, located at 1001 SE Morrison St., Portland, Oregon. Doors open at 8 p.m., and the show starts at 8:30 p.m. $7 cover. 21 & Over only.

Featured performers for Electrogals 2008:

Bonnie Miksch
Cheetah Fitness
Christi Denton
Lyn Goeringer
Marianne Messina
Rasheeda Ameera
Sugar Short Wave

Performer Bios:

Bonnie Miksch is a composer and performer whose music embraces multiple musical universes, creates both acoustic and electroacoustic works. Her computer music and vocal improvisations have been heard in Asia, Europe, Canada, and throughout the United States. Lately, she has been busy creating collaborative video works with husband Christopher Penrose. Recent notables include the Atlanta Concert Artists' release of "man dreaming butterfly dreaming man," a work for violin and piano. On most days she can be heard whistling or singing in the overly-resonant passageways of Lincoln Hall at Portland State University where she teaches composition, theory, and computer music.

Cheetah Fitness is a solo act created by the artist purley as a vehicle for artistic expression. She combines heavy beats with textural samples of voice, keys and sounds that layer into a rhythmic hypnotism. Cheetah Finess is currently recording her first album titled "Where my cell phone at?"

Christi Denton is a composer and sound artist. She graduated from Mills
College (Oakland) in 2000 with a degree in Music Composition and obtained a
graduate certificate from the Centre de Creation Musicale Iannis Xenakis in
2004. She's worked on several installations in San Francisco, including
building giant wind chimes in the Castro district and amplifying exhibits in
the Exploratorium. Her arrangement of Lou Harrison's King David's Lament
for Jonathan was performed by the SF Opera Singers and SF Gay Men's Chorus
at Other Minds 9. She played in Electrogals 2004, and her collaborative
piece, merge, has been featured on flasher.com and in the Spark Electronic
Music Festival in Minneapolis. Her recent accomplishments include breaking
her back and watching all of Season 2 of the Golden Girls on DVD.

Lyn Goeringer, featuring ExO SkeL

Best known as a Theremin player, electronicist Lyn Goeringer began working with her current interface, ExO SkeL, in the spring of 2007. ExO SkeL is a glove mounted gesture tracking device that allows her the ability to control audio, video, or both during live performance. She began working with electronic music in 1998, and began performing live gesture based electronic music in 2003. Since that time, she has performed throughout the United States with her various self created electronic instruments.

sugar short wave is a Portland based musician, engineer, producer, and film maker originally from Kentucky, who moved west for a taste of life and some sweeter sense of sound. She maintains an openness towards creation through her own patented sensory delay method of rehabilitating music structure for a tuned and well adjusted audience. Intricately arranged pieces are recreated line by line as the multi-instrumentalist plays and loops upright bass, guitars, keys, beats, purrs, and breath into song. Film is a passion, and given the right opportunity and space, sound and image collide. Each show sugar short wave arranges is different than the last, because as she would say "Predictability should be avoided."

Rasheeda Ameera: Experimental Soulstress...

Curator Bios:

Heather Perkins is Composer, Sound Designer and Mad Scientist at WaterDog Studio in Portland, OR, where she creates music and sound for multimedia, video, film, games, theater, dance, installation and live performance. Heather is also a producer, consultant, teacher and creative collaborator. She has an MFA in Electronic Music from Mills College in Oakland. She has two 20-year-old newts. She’s currently working on multiple collaborative projects with wilkes/barber choreography, sound work for ad agencies, a large-scale music and video project, several live solo electronic performances, and two solo CDs - “Telekinesis Nanette” and “Little Humans.”

Mary C. Wright is a composer whose works tend toward the theatrical and whimsical. Since her childhood she has been inspired by situations that embody visual, spatial and sonic elements, including 1960s head shops, tunnels, parades and sublime artistic and natural creations. She holds degrees in music composition from California Institute of the Arts and Princeton University.

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who are you?

2008-01-31T04:51:07Z

New here, to tribe and this group, and i figured i'd get another thread going while the tribe is still small, by asking who all of you are, what you do, if you make experimental music, art, video, etc? or just enjoy it?

I'll start i suppose:

I'm Noise (How i got that name is a long ass story of debauchery, chaos, and depravity)

My musical name is Prophetnoise. I make electronic music of the experimental variety. I've also been playing bass (4 and 6 string) for over 15 years, and can and have played any style. I have a degree in studio production and am currently re-building my home recording studio.

Originally from NYC, i left to get started on my music career. Moved to New Orleans where i was Head of Sound for 2 clubs on Bourbon st. Now i'm in Portland and i'm struggling to get my musical feet on the ground again, and i'm trying my hardest to meet as many musical people as i can.

hope to be meeting you people soon, and i hope that didn't read like a fucking Personal ad or a Job application. That's just how my brain works.

peace

<3 Noise!
http://www.myspace.com/prophetnoise

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The Aim of the Financiers: A One-World Government with a One-World Currency

2007-12-05T05:46:57Z

The Aim of the Financiers: A One-World Government with a One-World Currency
By Alain Pilote

The following article is one of the appendices of Louis Even's new book, "In This Age of Plenty":

The basic flaw of the present financial system is that the banks create money as a debt, charging interest on the money that they create. The obligation for the debtor countries to repay the banks money that the banks did not create, money that does not exist, brings about unpayable debts. The Financiers know quite well that it is impossible for these countries to repay their debts, that the present financial system is defective at its base, and that it can only bring about crises and revolutions. But this is exactly what they want!

As Clifford Hugh Douglas, the founder of the Social Credit school, said: "The Money Power does not, and never did, want to improve the money system - its consequences in war, sabotage and social friction are exactly what is desired.". Why?

It is because the Financiers believe that they are the only ones capable of governing mankind properly, and in order to be able to impose their will upon every individual and control the whole world, they invented the present debt-money system. They want to bring every nation in the world to such a state of crisis that these countries will think they have no alternative but to accept the miracle solution of the Financiers to save them from disaster: complete centralization, a single world currency, and a one-world government, in which all nations will be abolished, or forced to give up their sovereignty.

The Trilateral Commission
There are three major economic areas in the world: Europe, North America, and the Far East (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, etc.). If, under the pretext of having to join forces to be able to face economic competition with the two other economic regions, the member countries of each of these three regions decide to merge into one single country, forming three Super-States, then the one-world government will be almost achieved.

This is exactly what is taking place now, and being promoted by the Trilateral Commission, founded in July, 1973, by David Rockefeller, the chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank of New York. The official aim of the Trilateral Commission is "to harmonize the political, economic, social, and cultural relations between the three major economic regions in the world (hence the name "Trilateral"). This aim is almost achieved in Europe with the Single European Act that was implemented in 1993, requiring all the member countries of the European Community to abolish their trade barriers, and to hand over their monetary and fiscal policies to the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium. By 1999, all these countries are supposed to share only one currency, the "Euro".

As regards the North American area, the merger of its member countries is well under way with the passage of NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), first between Canada and the U.S.A., ant which later also included Mexico. (By the next ten years, it is supposed to include all of the Americas) There is a strong pressure to force these countries to harmonize their fiscal policies, and as it happened in Europe, economic union will inevitably lead to political union.

In front of these two gigantic economic powers, the countries of the Far East will have no choice but to join forces together and merge, to be able to compete with North America and Europe in the field of international trade.

One-world currency -- the "Mark of the Beast"??

To consolidate their power, the Financiers also want to eliminate every existing national currency, and to install a one-world currency. In the 1970s, Dr. Hanrick Eldeman, Chief Analyst of the Common Market Confederacy in Brussels, unveiled a plan to "straighten out world chaos": a three-story computer located in the administrative building of the headquarters of the Common Market, in Brussels, Belgium. People who work there call it "the Beast". The plan implies a system of digital enumeration of each human being on earth. Thus the computer would give each inhabitant of the world a number to be used for each purchase or sale. This number would be invisibly tattooed by laser (or implanted with a microchip) either on the forehead or on the back of the hand. This would establish a walking credit card system.

And the number could be seen only through infrared scanners, installed in special verification countries or in business places. Dr. Eldeman pointed out that by using three entries of six digits each, every inhabitant of the world would be given a distinct credit card number.

This reminds us strangely of what Saint John the Apostle wrote in the Book of Revelation (13:16-18): "And he (the Beast) shall make all, both little and great, rich and poor, freemen and slaves, to receive a mark on their right hands, or on their foreheads, and that none might buy or sell, unless he carried this mark, which was the beast's name, or the number that stands for his name. Here is wisdom; he that has understanding, let him count the number of the beast. For it is the number of a man: and the number of him is six hundred and sixty-six".

That man will be the Pope of Rome who will be incarnate by Satan as he incarnate the Serpent, a man-like creature, in the garden of Eden, and Judas Iscariot in the days of Christ's flesh. The main title and claim of the Pope is "Vicarivs Filii Dei" which means "In place of the Son of God", or "Substitute for the Holy Ghost". The letters of this title with numeric values in the old Roman system add up to 666. Thus:
V = 005
I = 001
C = 100
A = 000
R = 000
I = 001
V = 005
S = 000

F = 000
I = 001
L = 500
I = 001
I = 001

D = 050
E = 000
I = 001
Total = 666

Debit cards
A few decades ago, before the invention of computers and microchips, such a system would have seemed far-fetched, a product of science fiction. But now everyone knows about the existence of debit cards with which you can buy anything in stores, without the need to carry any cash on you, the amount of your purchase being debited automatically from your bank account. The avowed goal of the banks is to eliminate all cash, and to force people to use debit cards as the only means of payment.

There is always the risk of losing one's debit card, or of having somebody else illegally use it. So here comes the ultimate solution: to link people personally to their card, so there is no way they can lose it or have it stolen! And there you have it: a micro-computer chip can be implanted under your skin, or a three six-digital unit can be tattooed on your skin...just as described in Saint John's Book of Revelation.

Actually, the mark in the right hand signifies obeying the will, and the mark in the forehead implies receiving the doctrine of the "Beast". The Beast will be the Pope of Rome who will be incarnate by Satan when he is cast down to earth at the close of the Gentile dispensation.

Everything will be in place for a government that wants to control everybody's move, since they will know everything about you: all that you buy, where and when you buy it, who you phone, how much money you have, will all be inscribed on this card. And if, for whatever reason, you are classified as an "undesirable person" or as an "enemy of the State" by the government, they will only have to erase your number from the central computer, and you will no longer be able to buy or sell (and thus be condemned to disappear before long).

The Illuminati
This quest for a world government has been going on for a long time. For example, on Feb. 17, 1953, Financier Paul Warburg said before the U.S. Senate: "We shall have world government whether or not you like it, by conquest or consent." This quest for world domination can be traced back to the creation of the "Illuminati", a secret society, in 1776. Their leader, Adam Weishaupt, wrote out the master plan to bring about the subjection of the whole human race to an oligarchy of Financiers. The word "Illuminati" is derived from Lucifer and means "holders of the light".

As surprising as it may seems, the insignia of the Order of the Illuminati appears on the reverse side of U.S. one-dollar bills. The first time it appeared was in 1933, by order of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, at the beginning of the New Deal (the name given to Roosevelt's political reforms of that time).

One can read at the base of the 13-story pyramid, the year 1776 (MDCCLXVI in Roman numerals). Most of the people think that it represents the date of the signing of the American Declaration of Independence, but it actually memorializes the foundation of the Order of the Illuminati, which was on May 1, 1776. (Note the Zionist-Communist May Day connection).

The pyramid represents the conspiracy for the destruction of the Catholic Church (and all existing religions"), and the establishment of a one-world government, or a United Nations dictatorship. The eye radiating in all directions, is the "all-spying" eye that symbolizes the terroristic, Gestapo-like, espionage agency that Weishaupt set up to guard the "secret of the Order and to terrorize the populace into the acceptance of its rule". The Latin words "ANNUIT COEPTIS" translate to "Announcing the creation or beginning". Below them, "NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM" translates to a "New secular order" and the year is written in Roman numerals at the base of the Pyramid.

Manly Palmer Hall explained the symbolism otherwise. He said, Annuit Coeptis means "He (NOT the Christian God) has smiled upon our endeavours". The capstone or triangle signifies science, NOT spirituality, and that the scroll underneath, bearing the inscription "Novus Ordo Seclorum" indicates the nature of the enterprise: a "New order of the ages", an order of science and knowledge as opposed to Christian (morality) superstition and fear.

This insignia was adopted by the U.S. Congress as the reverse of the seal of the United States on September 15, 1789. (The obverse side of the seal bears the eagle, which is used as the official seal and coat of arms of the U.S.A., and which is also shown on the reverse side of the U.S. $1.00 bills).

The appearance of this insignia of the Illuminati on U.S., one-dollar bills in 1933 meant that the followers of Weishaupt regarded their efforts as beginning to "be crowned with success," and that they totally controlled the U.S. Government.

The pyramid is a symbol of the Knights Templar of Freemasonry and a Zionist symbol and the Hexgram is used by Royal Arch Masons which is part of York Rite Masonry also a Zionist symbol. The two seals of the "Great Seal" combines symbolism of all Masonic Orders. The Eagle is a symbol of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry.

Proof the Great Seal is Masonic
First outline the pyramid with a triangle. Now take the pyramid and draw a line under the base of the capstone and extend it left to right extended to the A in ANNUIT and the S in COEPTIS. Now draw lines from the end of this line down to the last O in ORDO so you will finsih the Hexagram also called the Jewish Star of David.

Draw circles around all five letters to which the Hexagram points. These letters make the word MASON. The 32 feathers on the left wing of the eagle signify the 32 degress of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. The right wing has 33 feathers for the extra 33rd honary degree and inner head of the Scottish Rite. George Washington himself on the front of the One Dollar Bill was a 33rd degree Scottish Rite Mason. The 9 tail feathers indicate the 9 additional degrees of the York Rite of Freemasonry. There are13 olives and 13 leaves on the olive branches, 13 arrows in the other eagle's claw, 13 stripes on the shield, 13 stars above the eagle in the form of a Hexagram, 13 letters in "E PLURIBUS UNUM", 13 letters in "ANNUIT COEPTIS", 13 rows of bricks in the pyramid. The 33rd degree Grand Lodge of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry is located exactly 13 blocks north of the White House above an upside down pentagram oulined by the road layout which rests on the White House. See this link: www.cuttingedge.org/n1040.html

The use of the Hexagram and the Pentagram and even the 7 pointed star stems from Jewish Cabalism or mysticism which was adopted from paganism. The placement of the symbols on the American money etc. is no different then to displaying a cross on the back of a one dollar bill. But you will never see these religious symbols removed because the ACLU only attacks what it sees as Christian. Separation of Church and State is a farce. The law requiring the "Separation of CHURCH and State" might as well say "Separation of Christondom and State" because only religions calling themseves "Christian" use buildings called "Church".

Albert Pike was the founder of the KKK and one time leader of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Southern Jurisdiction. He himself protested the suggestion that Masonry was Christian and said that "if Masonry was Christian why were most of the people who had possession of it during the early days of the USA Hebrew"?

www.geocities.com/SiliconVa...indxf.html
www.hourofthetime.com/majestyt.htm
www.cuttingedge.org/fmcorner.html

A Luciferian conspiracy
To say that the Illuminati is a "Luciferian" conspiracy" is not only a stylistic device, but it is literally true, since the leaders of the Illuminati are actually worshipers of Satan, and their final objective is to have the whole world bow down to him. Through his hellhounds, it is Satan himself who continues his revolt against God by endeavoring to foil God's plan on earth, and to snatch from God as many souls as possible.

Just like Satan, the Financiers think that they are smarter than God, and that they are the only ones who can lead mankind properly. The members of the Illuminati are people of every race and creed, but who all lust for money and power.

Recognizing the powers involved
In the conclusion of his book "Pawns in the Game", which denounces the plot of the Illuminati for world domination, William Guy Carr explains what must be done to stop this plot.

First, we must as individuals recognize the spiritual powers involved, and realize that we are not only facing terrestrial powers, but also spiritual ones; that it is basically a fight between God and Satan. We must choose who we will serve, who we will fight for: God or Satan.

Second, we must take practical steps to counteract the plan of the Financiers which, in Mr. Carr's own words, can be done only through a monetary reform: "The electors must insist that the issue of money, and the control thereof, be placed back in the hands of the Government where it rightfully belongs."

The necessity for Social Credit
The prayers and sacrifices to obtain the assistance of Heaven are certainly necessary to thwart the plan of the Financiers. But a technique, a temporal means, is also necessary to thwart the plan of the Financiers. This means is the Social Credit reform, conceived by the Scottish engineer, Clifford Hugh Douglas, the only reform that the Financiers really fear, and that would put an end to their power to control all the nations. ("Social Credit" means social money - money created without debt by society, issued with new production, and withdrawn from circulation as production is consumed - instead of having a banking credit, as it is the case today - money created as a debt by private banks.)

Douglas first thought that once his discovery and its implications would be brought to the attention of the governments and of those in charge of the economy, they would hasten to implement it. But Douglas soon made another discovery: the Financiers, who ruled the economy, were absolutely not interested in changing the financial system, and its flaws and consequences (wars, waste, poverty, social friction etc.,) were absolutely what they desired, and even fostered deliberately, in order to impose their solution of a one-world government. So the Financiers did everything they could to stop and silence the Social Credit idea: a conspiracy of silence in the news media, or deliberate falsification of Douglas's doctrine, in order to render it vulnerable; calumnies and ridicule against the apostles of "Michael". Douglas wrote in his book "Warning Democracy":

"So rapid was the progress made by the Social Credit ideas between 1919 and 1923 both in this country (Great Britain) and abroad, and so constantly did ideas derived from them appear in the pages of the press, that the interests threatened by them became considerably alarmed, and took what were, on the whole, effective steps to curtail their publicity. In this country the Institute of Bankers allocated five million pounds (then the equivalent of 24 million dollars) to combat the 'subversive' ideas of ourselves and other misguided people who wished to thinker with the financial system. The large Press Associations were expressly instructed that my own name should not be mentioned in the public press, and no metropolitan newspaper in this country or the United States was allowed to give publicity, either to correspondence or to contributions bearing upon the subject. In spite of this Canadian Parliamentary Inquiry at which I was a witness (in 1923) managed to expose on the one hand the ignorance of even leading bankers of the fundamental problems with which they had to deal, and on the other hand the lengths to which the financial power was prepared to go to retain control of the situation."

One must not forget to mention here that the best way that the Financiers found to stop the advancement of the Social Credit idea was the creation of political parties falsely bearing the name "Social Credit", to make people think that voting for a new party is sufficient to change the system, whereas what is needed is the education of the people (by having them subscribe to the "Michael Journal"), to force the elected representatives to serve the population, instead of serving the Financiers. Fortunately, all the so-called "Social Credit parties" are dead and buried now, but they did a lot of damage and spread confusion in the minds of the people while they existed.

"The psychological moment"
Douglas predicted that the present debt-money system of the Bankers would become unworkable and fall by itself, because of all of the unpayable debts that it creates. All the countries in the world are struggling with skyrocketing debts and heading for disaster, even though everybody knows these debts can never be paid off. Other factors announce the inevitable fall of the present system: automation, for example, which makes full employment impossible.

Douglas said that "a psychological moment" will come, a critical moment when the population, given the gravity of the situation, and despite all the power of the Financiers, will have suffered their debt-money system long enough, and will be disposed to study and accept Social Credit. Douglas wrote the following in 1924, in his book "Social Credit":

"The position will be tremendous in its importance. A comparatively short period will probably serve to decide whether we are to master the mighty economic and social machine that we have created, or whether it is to master us; and during that period a small impetus from a body of men who know what to do and how to do it, may make the difference between yet one more retreat into the Dark Ages, or the emergence into the full light of a day of such splendor as we can at present only envisage dimly. It is this necessity for the recognition of the psychological moment, and the fitting to that moment of appropriate action, which should be present in the minds of that small minority which is seized of the gravity of the present times."

Louis Even, at the end of an article written in 1970 and entitled "Social Credit, yes - Party, No", repeated this idea of Douglas:

"The Social Crediters of the Michael Journal maintain, along with Douglas, that as regards Social Credit, the most effective work to do is to enlighten the population on the monopoly of financial credit, attributing to it the bad fruits of which it is the cause in the lives of people, of families, of institutions; and, in front of these bad fruits, to expose the doctrine of genuine Social Credit, which is so brilliant and in keeping with common sense. They also endeavor to develop within themselves, and to also radiate, a Social Credit spirit, which is clearly in keeping with the spirit of the Gospel: a spirit of service and not of domination, not of an insatiable pursuit of money or material goods, which is of the same nature - with a less powerful means - as the spirit of the barons of High Finance.

"Whether the collapse of the present financial system, under the weight of its own enormities, or events that have been foretold many times by privileged souls - events one certainly cannot doubt of when one sees the present decadence of moral standards, apostasy, the paganization of affluent nations that used to be Christian - occur soon, in either case, the living or the survivors of those events won't be without a light to establish a social economic system worthy of its name."

The point to remember in all of this is that the present financial system, which creates money as a debt, is the main means of the Financiers to establish a one-world government. Debt finance is the bridge that leads us from a free society to complete dictatorship. And the only thing the Financiers fear, the only thing that can stop them in their plan of world conquest, is the reform of the present financial system, the establishment of an honest debt-free money system, along the lines of the Social Credit philosophy. Then one realizes all the importance of the Social Credit solution, and the importance of spreading it an making it known. This is why Soviet foreign Minister Molotow had said to Dr. Hawlett Johnson, Archbishop of Canterbury, in the 30s: "We know all about Social Credit. It is the one theory in the world we fear."
Alain Pilote.

Here is some more info from other web sites .

www.modernhistoryproject.org/mhp....php

www.hiddenmysteries.org/conspi...an.html

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What's your favorite Obscure Venue.

2007-09-28T13:01:38Z

Rules:

1. It can not be well publicized.
2. It can not be well known.
3. It must be :
(A) unusually cool.
(B) Unique (more or less).
(C) Unpretentious (it is only what is claims to be good or bad).
(D) Friendly (Venues full of unhelpful rude or overly aloof staff are automatically discounted)
(E) under appreciated.

ok shoot.

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Blasphemy Ball - Saturday March 10th!

2007-03-02T22:42:54Z

Final countdown for Blasphemy Ball on Saturday, March 10th!

Website: http://www.blasphemyball.com

Toast your toes at Dante's inferno - SW 3rd & Burnside, Portland
Dress yourself in perversion of faith!
$8 with costume, $10 without!
Doors at 9pm

Featuring not-for-the-faint-of-heart performances from PURE Cirkus (seattle's famous Modern Cirkus - purecirkus.com), the stunning Domina Betka Schpitz (dangerousfemme.com) and her wicked lovelies staffing the confessional, and DJ's Horrid, ChaotiQueer and Sine Qua Non.

The Blasphemy Ball is big EFF YOU to zealoutry, bigotry and oppression. One big night of heresy and hedonism. One night of focused, therapeutic rebellion. Nothing is sacred at the Blasphemy Ball. Shake your fist at whatever you believe. Shake your fist at whatever you don't. We're shaking ours and we want you with us.

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Blasphemy Ball - Saturday March 10th w/ PURE Cirkus!

2007-02-02T01:51:48Z

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Save the date, you heretics and heathens!

Feats of fire and fetish await you at the Blasphemy Ball on Saturday, March 10th!
Website: http://www.blasphemyball.com
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/blasphemyball
Tribe: http://tribes.tribe.net/blasphemyball
Toast your toes at Dante's inferno - SW 3rd & Burnside, Portland OR
Dress yourself in perversion of faith!
$8 with costume, $10 without!
Doors @ 9pm

We've booked PURE Cirkus - http://www.purecirkus.com who will be providing us with a 45 minute show full of fire spinning, sending up sparks with their grinder suits and creeping us out in the most delightful ways with suspension piercing!

The Blasphemy Ball is big EFF YOU to zealoutry, bigotry and oppression. One big night of heresy and hedonism. One night of focused, therapeutic rebellion. Nothing is sacred at the Blasphemy Ball. Shake your fist at whatever you believe. Shake your fist at whatever you don't. We're shaking ours and we want you with us.

DJs Horrid and Sine Qua Non will be spinning dark beats to keep us dancing.

Drop by the confessional to dish to the delectable Domina Betka Schpitz and, if you're lucky, she'll dish out some pleasurable , or painful, or both - penance! ;)

We'll have Tarot, Palm reading and more!

PURE Cirkus will also be performing at the Vampire Ball on the 24th of March! So you get a chance to see them twice!

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GYPSY MANIA!!!! @ Rotture $7 Sat Night

2007-01-27T08:23:22Z

Come and DANCE to some Gypsy grooves and enjoy the fire dancers and debauchery.
@
Rotture
315 SE 3rd AVE
97214
$7 9pm

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Blasphemy Ball seeks performance artists

2007-01-20T17:37:58Z

Hi there! This seems like an incredily appropriate place to post this. ;)

We're throwing the Blasphemy Ball ( http://www.blasphemyball.com ) on March 10th, and we're looking for fire dancers, fetish performers (suspension/piercing), aerial artists and themed performance artists for the evening's festivities. This will be paid. (not super WELL, but -- y'know..)

The event will be at Dante's! Please email me at stacy (at) stacybias (dawt) net if you're interested!

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Edit VS Ooah Sat 13th $10@ The Fez

2007-01-13T01:00:16Z

Saturday Night The GLITCH MOBS: Edit Vs Ooah. Also reppen the DNB sound KJ Sawka drumming his live Drum N Bass. We have locals DJ TANT, COLIN JONES, and OH.
@
The Fez ballroom 319 SW 11th 9pm-on $10

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SATURDAY - Batty's Hippodrome, Victorian circus extravaganza

2006-10-25T07:56:31Z

SATURDAY 10/28:
BATTY'S HIPPODROME PRESENTS
Thee 999 Eyes Ov Endless Dream
CoRE suspension
A Dictionary of Blood Theater
The Alberta Clown House
and still more

at Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th
$15 21 and over

Our house circus troupe, portraying the true-life Victorian circus of ringmaster William Batty, acts as a framing device for traveling circus troupes from all around the country. This month, we receive a visit from the last genuine traveling freakshow in the United States – Thee 999 Eyes Ov Endless Dream – who are being tailed from city to city by a film crew from The National Geographic Channel.
Arrive early for the second in Rale Sidebottom’s series of macabre puppet shows, A Dictionary of Blood Theater.
And stay late as the narrative turns grislier and we splatter the stage with the skin-crawling theatrical mutilations of CoRE.

Truly a show for the ages, from the creator and castmembers of Societas Insomnia and Cicuri Curajul –The Fireninja, Leapin’ Louie Lichtenstein, The Clown House, Aubrey Birdwell, Noah Mickens, and STILL MORE luminaries of the circus stage to be announced.
Witness the birth of a tradition.

9pm-1am
$15

THEE 999 EYES OV ENDLESS DREAM
www.999eyes.com
Lost in time, hidden in the dark corners and in the dusty shelves of old book stores, in the basements of libraries and museums, lies the fabulous, fantastical history of the carnival sideshow - a time when the malformed were glamorized as part of a traveling caravan and not locked up in institutions. A time when there was a place and venue for amazing performers to come together in a gypsy caravan style and change the atmosphere of the town around them - reminding people there is another way of life and relieving people of their daily routines - reminding them of the power of magic and imagination. The roots of radical artistic movements of today are deeply intertwined with the carnival sideshows of the past…
We acknowledge our carnival sideshow roots to empower our communities with alluring, inventive, and fearless displays of imagination and dream! Our carnival sideshow not only provides a place for roving gypsy carnival performers and “human curiosities” to express their art but also provides an environment which revives and highlights the great performers and “freaks” of the past – and their true life stories! Using olde-tyme music, puppets, story telling as well as classic carnival sideshow acts and performance we create a world that taps into profound emotion, reminding the AUDIENCE of the actualization of the living dream. At the same time, this gives the “human curiosities” of the modern age a venue to be appreciated once again - this is our mission.
Our collaborative carnival art troupe is co-created with many fabulous idividuals - musicians, sideshow artists, clowns, writers, experts - each of which works on their routines, props, banners, and costumes in their locale. Each on its own is amazing, and together, we form our carnival ov dreams. We tour selectively, displaying our “History of the FREAKSHOW” museum installation, with a real life modern day freakshow and sideshow for our openings. With all ages kid-themed shows(dream shows) as well as adult-themed “nightmare” performances, our carnival sideshow does well at what we aim to do. We’re recreating the world one carnival at a time – awakening the collective subconscious.
The psyche is never laid so bear as when entering the world ov dream… Our demons and dreamers are assembled in an ever evolving Multi-Form Cabinet containing enough skeletons to squeeze the tears and fears ov even the coldest heart… For we all have dreams, and we all have nightmares… When we enter into the waking dream of beauty and art in life, we realize how real our dreams really are. Staring at our hands, we consider all that they can accomplish, for good or ill. We present our WAKING DREAMS and NIGHTMARES for your perusal… as an actual, real, living, modern day museum ov oddities style freakshow is paraded before your awe-inspired eyes! With a musical background ranging from Old-tyme gypsy jug band to eldritch accordion “eville” puppet madness… all this and more can become available for the entertainment and horror ov THE AUDIENCE, which has the opportunity to sign on the dotted line (in blood) and sell their soul for a glimpse into another world ov phantasmagoric dream!

CORE
www.wearecore.com
Among the founding suspension performers on Earth, up from Los Angeles and Houston for a visit to Cascadia.
"It is our intent to create original and physically demanding works of theatre by blending the practice of modern performance art with ancient rituals of body suspension.
We in CoRE have suspended our own concept of physical limitation, pierced the heart of our fears, and transcended the boundaries of social convention in order to further the understanding of the corporeal and spiritual being. Suspension acts combined with traditional performance art and theatre provide us with a new outlet for artistic expression that enables the audience to join us on our emotional journey. By pushing our own boundaries in life and art, we inspire others to explore their own."

THE ALBERTA CLOWN HOUSE
www.clownhouse.org
A nationally-revered waystation for traveling clown society, led by Dingo Dizmal and Caffeine Enema Jones and featuring at one time or another every punk clown worth his or her salt.

A DICTIONARY OF BLOOD THEATER
"In a sense, there is no true, "real" theatre, only a black Cadillac crushing life and squeezing the heart out of us, one act at a time. It is appropriate then, that we cry, and mourn crushed lives, appropriate to watch as well as to perform. Why puppets? Because, by branch and root, from head to foot, there is not, nor art there be, anything so deep so sad so fun so thought-provoking so shamelessly despised so unrehearsed and prized as the beautiful blank darkness that descends upon you as the flesh is opened to let another story bleed forth.
The first installation of our new show Local man claims to have seen god but can't give an account of what he saw (Decipher that!) opens October 27 and runs throught the next two nights at the Someday lounge in Portland Oregon, moving to other venues down the west coast through October and November. This program deals with the erosion of sanity in the modern world. It is a puppetry program, including live actors and found objects, trash and treasures paraded before you eyes."
www.somedaylounge.com/perform..._theater

LEAPIN' LOUIE LICHTENSTEIN
www.comedytricks.com
Leapin' Louie performs a high energy comedy show featuring cowboy tricks, juggling, acrobatics, music and what-not. He inflames audiences to laughter and wild applause everywhere he plays and that’s a lot of wheres because he has appeared at corporate events, festivals, fairs, schools, etc., in twenty-one different nations.
Say it in one breath for a true feeling of jet lagged exhilaration. Leapin' Louie Lichtenstein has knocked them alive in:
USA, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Great Britain, Ireland, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Morocco, Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Japan.
Whoa! Take a breath.

AUBREY BIRDWELL
www.somedaylounge.com/perform...irdwell/
Aubrey Birdwell is a prodigous young gypsy accordionist notorious in all corners of Portland. His work with Cicuri Curajul and Mirumir; and his solo work both with traditional and modified accordions; has distinguished him as one of the most skilled and innovative players in this city. He presents the incidental music for this evening, including a mix of traditional romany songs and his own compositions.

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I am starting an IDM-NOISE-EXPERIMENTAL night in Portland Or.

2006-10-09T05:44:24Z

I am working with the abstract earth project and we are starting and IDM, NOISE, EXPERIMENTAL night up around town. We are planning on doing this within the next month. So right now I am looking for a few IDM djs as well as IDM, NOISE, and EXPERIMENTAL bands to perform. If you are interested or can give me a good lead please hit me up.

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Seeking clarinetists for The Moe!kestra! this Saturday

2006-09-26T22:25:20Z

Hey gang.

I've got perhaps the greatest Moe!kestra yet lined up to play this Saturday at Someday Lounge, but we're short a few clarinetists. Though we have some great ones of course, Mr. Staiano has expressed a desire for more.

The only qualification is that you need to be able to read music as well as freely improvise, which leaves me out unfortunately. We're getting together Friday and Saturday 4-6pm to rehearse, then the show itself is Saturday night at 9.

Any and all music-reading improvisational clarinetists, please contact me soon!

5000. - N.

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Synchronicity Frequency live in the garden at The Tin Shed - Aug. 31st, 10pm Free!!

2006-08-30T22:33:47Z

Thursday Aug. 31st @ The Tin Shed in the garden!
14th and Alberta st. NW Portland
10pm sharp - FREE
Synchronicity Frequency performs the sound series, Motions Through Ambience

The summer segment of this sound series is in full swing. Come enjoy the lucid soundscapes and dreamy rhythms of “Motions Through Ambience”. The journey continues to unfold as the sun makes it’s way closer to the earth and skewing its glare we will watch the days shorten. The vastness of the forest has taken the soundwaves beyond the ordinary and into the unknown. Now the set takes on the plummeting of the fire to the earth in a grittier and texturally thicker soundfield; your dreams become the reality and the darkness of sleep takes over the freshness of the waking morning dew.

Experience the process firsthand and in person live outdoors in the garden at The Tin Shed, following the last Thursday Alberta street walk!

Next version release scheduled for the autumnal equinox. Get the first take of “Motions Through Ambience” on cd from cdbaby. cdbaby.com/cd/synchronicity

Coming up – September 15th – Synchronicity Frequency @ Earthdance NW Festival at the ambient/downtempo stage – www.earthdance.org

www.morphedproductions.com
www.myspace.com/synchronicityfrequency
www.synchronicityfrequency.com
ryan@morphedproduction.com

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