Fintan Dunne:

Furthur 1964 - 2014 On the Bus, with Merry Pranksters, Cameras and Frivolous Fun  > LISTEN mp3 : Zane Kesey   Furthur Bus 50th Anniversary Trip Celebrating 1964 when  Ken Kesey  and the Merry Band of  Pranksters , bankrolled with funds from  One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest , set out aboard the 'Furthur' school bus with film and audio equipment, garbed in colorful striped shirts, having splashed paint across the bus, strapped speakers on the top, and convincing beatnik hero Neal Cassady to drive Furthur.... the Pranksters headed east. This Summer of 2014 Ken's son,  Zane Kesey , along with Pranksters  old and new will head across the USA - Even  Further! #Furthur   https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/furthur50/furthur-bus-50th-anniversary-trip  

by Fintan Dunne 28 April 2014. Act 1, Scene 1:   Cue award-winning filmmaker Jon Jost , who in 2013, at the age of 71 - had thrown in the  towel on his internationally famous #indie film career. Not because of his age, but rather due to today's corporate, dust-bowl climate for independent films. So sad. [ But wait! Enter #Occupy, stage left.... ] Act 1, Scene 2:   Enter a 'Dynamic Duo' of Occupy stalwarts and film enthusiasts who prevail on Jon to restart his "Grassroots-America-Style" film, PLAIN SONGS . They both pledged to come on board and help Jon to complete the project. LISTEN :  Audio Interview with Filmmakers   The duo are Daniel Levine  (r.), a 2nd-day OWS participant and who wrote a book (Every Time I Check My Messages Somebody Thinks I’m Dead: A Memoir of Occupy Wall Street)  about his experience, and his friend Brian Spellman  (l.).  As Jon says : "They will be heading out themselves to travel par...

  Putin with Ukraine and economic affairs adviser  Sergei Glazyev   Russia Threatens to Ditch Dollar, and Default On US Bank Loans   by Fintan Dunne - 4 March 2014, 5pmEST  A Russian economic security adviser close to President Putin has warned that Russia would respond to US sanctions over Ukraine by switching away from the dollar to other currencies and creating its own payment systems for trade with friendly nations. Putin’s adviser,  Sergei Glazyev  said Tuesday that US sanctions would also inevitably force a default on loan repayments to US banks. "If sanctions are applied against state structures, we will be forced to recognize the impossibility of repayment of the loans that the US banks gave to the Russian structures. Indeed, sanctions are a double-edged weapon, and if the US chooses to freeze our assets, then our equities and liabilities in dollars will also be frozen. This means that our banks...

Renowned traditional Irish prancing duo , Rua O'Donnachu and Matthew O'Brien perform the world famous CJ Dance at the Iona Institute HQ. Think Michael Flatley - but without the tight pants and ass. Or don't. [p.s. Note on legal advice that the Iona Institute do NOT hate gays, they simply don't like them a lot. Even tho' Jesus IS quite a bit gay.]

Fed Fake Taper Means Loose Money Forever by Fintan Dunne, 19th Dec 2013 @ 11pm ET The latest Taper Caper has been a propaganda-enabled total misdirection. In truth, the Fed's feeble Taper was an admission of defeat, wrapped in a cloak of token austerity. In truth, it was the final capitulation to the new abnormal. A guarantee of broken markets and stealth confiscation from savers for the foreseeable future. It was not the beginning of the end to loose money. It was the entrenchment of that policy. To uncover the truth of the Federal Open Market Committee statement, watch the modifying words - not the impressive-sounding financial phrases. For example, words like " if " and " however ", give the lie to the Fed's headline plan to continue to Taper by degrees: If incoming information broadly supports the Committee’s expectation of ongoing improvement in labor market conditions and inflation moving back toward its longer-run objective, the Comm...

Zuma Should Stand Down, says Mbeki Promises 'Decisive' Move to Rescue an 'Astray' ANC by Fintan Dunne, 12th December 2013. F ormer South African president, Thabo Mbeki has intimated that the current president Jacob Zuma should step aside, in the light of corruption allegations . Reminded by Channel4's Jon Snow, that Mbeki himself had "gone quietly" when challenged by Zuma, Snow asked if the same logic applied now. Mbeki responded that " if a president found himself in a similar situation " as he[Mbeki] once had, then it would be better to stand aside in the interests of the nation. Pressed further in the TV interview on whether action would be taken within the ANC to address these issues, Mbeki said that the ANC membership was still inspired by Mandela's ideals, and that a " decisive " move would take place to ensure that the ANC does not go " astray ". Mbeki's comments to the UK national broadca...

Mandela's Conscience Lives: In Thabo Mbeki by Fintan Dunne, 10th December 2013. [ Thabo Mbeki 's dissident Aids stance is supported by] "febrile  New York journalist Celia Farber; former marketing executive John  Lauritsen; Irishman and arch conspiracy theorist  Fintan Dunne .."    " The Triumph of Unreason ," Mail & Guardian, 19 April 2002.   W hen former South African president, Thabo Mbeki arrived to a hero's welcome at  the FNB stadium, in Soweto today,  for  Nelson Mandela's celebration memorial service - he was, in effect, bestowed by the crowd with the mantle of Mandela's Conscience. They stood to chant "Mbeki, Mbeki," with some making bicycling movements with their arms to signal their desire to 'rotate' away from current ANC leader, Jacob Zuma and his deeply corrupted South African presidency. Even the notoriously anti-Mbeki,  Mail and Guardian's associate editor @phillipdewet had to admit:  ...