Xavier Rudd

Xavier Rudd has a sweet, soulful voice that carries with it the cries, hurts, and hopes of Aboriginal Australians. The purity of the emotion oozing from the singer is clear and his multi-instrumental skill is mesmerizing; Xavier Rudd is one of those artistes to fall in love with, a  rare gem. With a knack for connecting with people on the soul level and even bringing concert goers to the point of tears.

Yuri Bezmenov

Subversion & its four stages. Yuri Bezmenov's four stages of ideological subversion are a model for understanding how Marxist-Leninist doctrine can be used to influence and undermine a target country or institution from within. He outlines these stages as demoralization, destabilization, crisis, and finally normalization. 

Geoffrey Oryema’

Spending 40 years in exile inspired the Ugandan singer-songwriter to produce an extraordinarily heartfelt protest album. Translated, it is clear from the lyrics that  Makambo is a sigh, not a shout, and a resignation that peace will remain elusive: One hears the weariness of a perplexed man who has been in exile and cut off from his motherland for 13 years.

Walter Lippmann on Public Opinion, Our Slippery Grasp of Truth, and the Discipline of Apprehending Reality Clearly. “If the connection between reality and human response were direct and immediate, rather than indirect and inferred, indecision and failure would be unknown.”

Edward Hopper: Nighthawks (1942)

The diner was a place of refuge, absolutely, but there was no visible entrance, no way to get in or out. There was a cartoonish, ochre-coloured door at the back of the painting, leading perhaps into a grimy kitchen. But from the street, the room was sealed: an urban aquarium, a glass cell.