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May 8, 2026 1 hr 31 min

PODCAST 208

from Aesthetic Resistance Podcast Hosted by John Steppling

Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: opposition to data centers, data centers claimed to be national security assets, Japan’s militarization and growing protests against it, Bill Gates “ticks” all the boxes as a loathsome plague on the health of humanity, MAGA diehards think Trump is playing 5-D chess, social pressure to stay in the polarized left-right/blue-red mindscape, working class musicians no longer get into the music business, officers refuse to carry out the orders of the Secretary of War, the Charlie Kirk assassination in the Spectacle, Anthony Blinken tells the real reason for shutting down the war in Afghanistan. Music track: “Stranger in a Strange Land” by Leon Russell (Live 1972).

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