Kazuyoshi Saito "It Was All Lies"

[Mulboyne]

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In the clip above, Kazuyoshi Saito tweaks the lyrics to "I Always Loved You" and turns it into a nuclear power protest song with the title "It was All Lies". Here he is performing the original version at the Budokan:

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[Mulboyne]

[Ganma]

Interesting. Protest music or music with any kind of message is so rare in Japanese music. It would be nice to see a turn around. It might help J kids to get a desperately needed political consciousness.

[Yokohammer]

Interesting. Protest music or music with any kind of message is so rare in Japanese music. It would be nice to see a turn around. It might help J kids to get a desperately needed political consciousness.

Things have changed. Back in the late 60's and early 70's there was plenty of protest music happening. People would gather at Shinjuku station every weekend for impromptu folk festivals. I mean lots of people ... until the police kicked them out. Young Japanese people were much less docile then ... which probably gave them an outlet, which is probably why there seem to be so many more freak-out weird crimes committed by young people these days.

[Ganma]

Things have changed. Back in the late 60's and early 70's there was plenty of protest music happening. People would gather at Shinjuku station every weekend for impromptu folk festivals. I mean lots of people ... until the police kicked them out. Young Japanese people were much less docile then ... which probably gave them an outlet, which is probably why there seem to be so many more freak-out weird crimes committed by young people these days.

Yeah, I heard about that from older Japanese friends. I wonder what happened to make J folk so apathetic? Was their spirit killed by Bubble era affluence?

[Coligny]

Things have changed. Back in the late 60's and early 70's there was plenty of protest music happening. People would gather at Shinjuku station every weekend for impromptu folk festivals. I mean lots of people ... until the police kicked them out. Young Japanese people were much less docile then ... which probably gave them an outlet, which is probably why there seem to be so many more freak-out weird crimes committed by young people these days.

And wemen were wemen instead of lunatic disposable fuck toys.


Meiko Kaji*

Funny how to see that some stuck with an arguing psycho consider her as "having personnality"... The same way I say this for anything breaking down constantly... (looking at you here V.A.G.)

*Looks a plenty like Yua Aida...

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Yeah, I heard about that from older Japanese friends. I wonder what happened to make J folk so apathetic? Was their spirit killed by Bubble era affluence?

Wither apathy? J folk alone? I think not. Post 1970, apathy became the norm in every cuntry with an over-supply of Baby Boomers.

The same punters advocating violent Marxist revolution in the U.S. in 1968 turned into Gordon Gecko-like yuppies a generation later and then became the same sorts of old fogeys they used to protest about when they were kids.

[Ganma]

Wither apathy? J folk alone? I think not. Post 1970, apathy became the norm in every cuntry with an over-supply of Baby Boomers.

The same punters advocating violent Marxist revolution in the U.S. in 1968 turned into Gordon Gecko-like yuppies a generation later and then became the same sorts of old fogeys they used to protest about when they were kids.

While this is true, protesting never died in the West though the focus on it has disappeared since the 60s. There have been plenty of protest marches and demonstrations held over the years in the UK and the US. However the establishment has become more clever at quashing them and using their influence to keep the issues out of the media or at least toned down.
Here's a list on wiki of protest marches on Washington.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_protest_marches_on_Washington,_D.C.#2000.E2.80.932009

[Coligny]

While this is true, protesting never died in the West though the focus on it has disappeared since the 60s. There have been plenty of protest marches and demonstrations held over the years in the UK and the US. However the establishment has become more clever at quashing them and using their influence to keep the issues out of the media or at least toned down.
Here's a list on wiki of protest marches on Washington.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_protest_marches_on_Washington,_D.C.#2000.E2.80.932009

Guys, don't forget the leaders in that sport:

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouvement_social_en_France

The bottom numbers give you the quantity (in million of unworked days) of wanking. 1995 and 2003 were quite some good years. I remember 95 as it was a bit surrealistic. Nothing train/bus/truck/metro/fuel/mail I don't think the country had ever been as disfunctionnal even during the German occupation... 2003 was cherry on the cake with huge strikes just when I was packing and leaving for Japan in june.

These numbers do not include student riots or other slums-born riots... so you're missing quite a big number...

And to finish the website for meteo of contestation, how to prepare for your workweek between the strikes: http://www.francegreve.com/

[nikoneko]

Yeah, I heard about that from older Japanese friends. I wonder what happened to make J folk so apathetic? Was their spirit killed by Bubble era affluence?

It was an eye opener to me watching an old US documentary saying the very first protests against the Vietnam war worldwide were in Japan. Being here now had to do a double take.

[Mike Oxlong]

[SIZE="4"]Thousands Participate in Tokyo Anti-Nuclear Protest[/SIZE]

Two anti-nuclear protests were held in Tokyo yesterday, one at Koenji and another at Shiba Park.

The Koenji protest, which apparently was a sort of ad hoc event promoted mostly through Twitter, seems to have drawn more people. Footage of the Koenji protest shows people carrying various handmade signs, with some protesting against nuclear power and others protesting against nuclear weapons. Because of its internet-based call to action, it looks like there are a lot of younger people and some foreigners. There were many weird costumes and it had a festive atmosphere to it.

The Shiba Koen protest, which involved a march in front of the TEPCO headquarters, seemed calmer. It was mainly an anti-nuclear power protest, with many participants carrying the copies of the same signs. The crowd seemed to include a lot of older people, and very few wacky costumes...

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Guys, don't forget the leaders in that sport:

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouvement_social_en_France

The bottom numbers give you the quantity (in million of unworked days) of wanking. 1995 and 2003 were quite some good years. I remember 95 as it was a bit surrealistic. Nothing train/bus/truck/metro/fuel/mail I don't think the country had ever been as disfunctionnal even during the German occupation... 2003 was cherry on the cake with huge strikes just when I was packing and leaving for Japan in june.

These numbers do not include student riots or other slums-born riots... so you're missing quite a big number...

And to finish the website for meteo of contestation, how to prepare for your workweek between the strikes: http://www.francegreve.com/

I loved the French farmer who dumped a (shitload?) of manure in a MuckDonald's restaurant as a protest back in the '90s...probably improved the flavor.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

[SIZE="4"]Thousands Participate in Tokyo Anti-Nuclear Protest[/SIZE]

This photo kinda reminded me of what Ganma was on about in his posts...it seems every demonstration in this cuntry by people with a semblance of a social conscience requires participants to conceal their identities yet quasi-fascist, nationalist movements making their voices heard do so unperturbed. ( realize this is an enormous generalization, but I'm certified insane and have lots of time on my hands today....)

[Coligny]

I loved the French farmer who dumped a (shitload?) of manure in a MuckDonald's restaurant as a protest back in the '90s...probably improved the flavor.

That was before or after we started blowing them up ?

(remember kids, it's not terrurism if it's against an amurikun megacorp...)

[Catoneinutica]

I loved the French farmer who dumped a (shitload?) of manure in a MuckDonald's restaurant as a protest back in the '90s...probably improved the flavor.

Ah, Jose Bove, fat fuck and typical fasciste de la France: back when a bunch of synagogues got blown up in France, he claimed the Mossad was actually doing it in order to garner sympathy for les Juifs.

-catone
-but he did probably improve the flavor, though the French nevertheless love themselves some of that McDo malbouffe

[Coligny]

Ah, Jose Bove, fat fuck and typical fasciste de la France: back when a bunch of synagogues got blown up in France, he claimed the Mossad was actually doing it in order to garner sympathy for les Juifs.

Do you see a contradiction ?

Hint... I highlighted it for you...

You see now ?

So let me cut it for you:

Hating the JOUZES is a nationnal sport in France... It come back from... the middle ages (really, not like in my usual metaphors) and was one of the few things we agreed with the Germans... (see Maurice Papon and Vichy, even Petain was a notorious Jew and Freemaason h4t3rz...).

Even your run of the mill schmuck will have something to blame on the jews... And they of course play that card at full power...

At the start of the intarweb availability for everybody. The union of French Jews Student wanted it to be shutdown because it was possible to download picture of swastika and other Nazi propaganda...
It's a lose lose situation -I fuck you, you fuck me back- that have been goign on for centuries.

The last joke on this circus is the "adopt a dead jew" law by Sarkozy were every highschooler in France have to choose the name and biography of a Jew who died in concentration camp to honor his memory. So it's basically reducing WWII to "jews were killed by Nazis..." Which is not to far from the american version were Nazis bombed Pearl Harbour... But every bit as diminutive and insulting for all the other death or event from this period...
And also a bit insulting toward historical methodology were you are supposed to study things in their context... and mind you... as wrong as it might have been... open antisemitism was nothing uncommon or illegal back then... (but would have forced to admit that a whole society can be wrong, back then... and so... also maybe today on other topics... like... them bad islamo-fascist camel jokey...)
(but hey, Sarkozy can't make an adopt a dead homosexual killed by the nazis when some in his governement find the concept awesome (looking at you bible thumping Christine Boutin))

[Catoneinutica]

Don't want to threadjack too outrageously. I just wanted to note that Bove, who's known outside of France as a quirky crusader against evil, evil genetically-modified food (did you know it's evil? It keeps the world from starving? Fuck that - it's bad for French farmers), is also a pinheaded anti-semite. Hard to get into that tiny little head of his, but perhaps he meant sympathy from abroad for the Jews. Look, I'm a fat fucking francophile, but their record on anti-semitism is a mixed bag. Napoleon legally emancipated the Jews, and France acquitted itself well in the Dreyfuss Affair, but WWII? To me, the ultimate test of a country's level of Judenhass was the enthusiasm with which its populace handed them over to the Chermans. And here, France does okay, but not as well as Italy, and nowhere near as fucking awesome as Denmark:

[dimwit]

I loved the French farmer who dumped a (shitload?) of manure in a MuckDonald's restaurant as a protest back in the '90s...probably improved the flavor.

Horse manure would certainly improved the quality, as I don't think they use shit grade corn to fatten horses up.