SATURDAY NIGHT FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE, ARCADE FIRE.

Fountains of Wayne with Sink to the Bottom, from their self-titled 1996 debut album.





Ah, the nineties. How I remember rejoicing this song on morning radio on the N42, off to dreary work and truckloads of stress!

The mid-nineties really saw a spate of damn good rock and rock varieties both in the UK and the USA. As for FOW, they formed in New York in 1995. The name reportedly comes from a lawn ornament biz, now defunct, in the township of Wayne, New Jersey.


Then Arcade Fire with Everything Now. From the recently released album of the same name.





Canadian indie rock band from Montreal.


Nite.


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IT'S OFFICIAL: YOUTUBE NOW A STASI COMPANY. PURGE AGAINST RIGHTWING COMMENTATORS.

Dutch pundit site Geenstijl reports:

"Google affiliate Youtube has tonight, and over the past few weeks, demonitized several channels and videos of popular rightwingsites.

This means that the makers will from now on not earn money anymore (or less) for certain videos they put online, because ads are removed and because advertizers are advised to no longer put pre-rolls with certain creators. Among the demonitizing victims we find Paul Joseph Watson (aka PrisonPlanet), who saw many videos being put 'kaltgestellt' (before he had been thrown off FB), Black Pigeion which lost 90 per cent of its income, and Luke Rudkowski (WeAreChange). Moreover, their videos are more difficult to find and they are no longer recommended. Last day all three of them made protest videos:"

Here's Mark Dice weighing in:





The Left's war on freedom of speech has a long, long history. Long before anti-racism laws, the bruhaha of unis cancelling speeches from conservative authors, the firings of Brendan Eich, Bill O'Reilly or James Damore, leftist regimes sought to suppress the voices of those not swallowing their worldview. That is not to say that rightwing regimes have sometimes not been doing just the same -
they did, but generally with far less bloodshed, plus only temporarily.

What we are witnessing is but a mere continuation of those policies, an affirmation of the generally accepted (among the left) modus operandi of silencing opponents, and umpteenth proof that leftists ARE_NOT-INTERESTED-IN-DEBATE. They only want you to shut up.


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RECOMMENDED VIDEO: THE JAMES DAMORE-STEFAN MOLYNEUX INTERVIEW.

First off, sorry for the very light blogging. Vacation came in the way PLUS I'm trying to figure out what to do with the visual content. Photobucket all of a sudden charges its customers a whopping 400 US$ if not more if you use their facilities for third party hosting, i.e. link on your blog to PB-stored pictures.

For now my photos are safe (I paid the cheapest plan so far, but that does not allow 3rd party hosting), but I'm not sure I want to continue with PB for visuals on DowneastBlog. Continuing...


Then, unless you spent your time in Mogadishu or Nuuk you must have heard about Google's firing of 28-year old software engineer James Damore. Needless to say, over here we stand with Mr Damore, although we've got some issues with things he said about rightwing characteristics. Here's Stefan Molyneux' interview:







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