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Neuromonakh Feofan! Heroic Russian Rock Music with a Dancing Bear - Sami Yaffa visits St Petersburg on Sound Tracker TV Show - Link TV - They DON'T Make 'em Like This in LA...

https://www.linktv.org/shows/sound-tracker/episodes/russia-st-petersburg
 After Watching this episode THREE times I was able to Read the Name of the Band! Here it is!  

In this episode, Sami Yaffa travels to St. Petersburg and examines the vast musical diversity present in Russia's most European city. From St. Petersburg's underground musical scene to Tuvan Buddhist throat-singers, Yaffa explores a wide range of musical talents. Rooted in the multitude of musical forms present in St. Petersburg is a sense of multiculturalism, a diverse Russia. Yaffa not only shows all that St. Petersburg has to offer musically, but engages in a dialogue of what music can do in a state with issues of freedom of speech.


and HERE is a Working Video!

and HERE is Another! 

The project consists of the author of songs and performer Neuromonakh Feofan (real name is Oleg Stepanov), DJ Nikodim (Mikhail Grodinsky) and the Bear (originally — Feofan's wife, Irina Stepanova). Neuromonkh Feofan is a tall man with a beard whose face is hidden behind a hood, dressed in a Orthodox-like hoodie and bast shoes and holding a stave with a laser pointer hidden inside.
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Neuromonakh Feofan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thZTZk09Cp4

Neuromonakh Feofan (Russian: Нейромонáх Феофáн, lit. 'Neuromonk Feofan') is a musical project from St. Petersburg, Russia, performing music in drum 'n' bass styles. The project is popular on the Internet and got the status of an Internet meme. The group members remain anonymous.

Neuromonakh Feofan's performances are stylized as Russian festivals with group members dressed in bast shoes, kosovorotkas and sarafans. The lyrics of Feofan's songs abound with Slavic and obsolete Russian words, and the vocals are filled with characteristic rope. Neuromonakh Feofan performs his songs with balalaika side by side with drum 'n' bass rhythms.

Neuromonakh Feofan / Нейромонах Феофан
Neuromonakh Feofan (Нейромонах Феофан) is a mysterious and extraordinary product of the Russian club scene. The name “Neuromonakh” is derived from “Neurofunk,” a subgenre of drum and bass, and the Russian word for “monk.” The band sings exclusively in Russian, but mixes contemporary language with obsolete words and Old Church Slavonic to create epic verses set to electronic drum and bass mixed with traditional instruments like the balalaika.

Members of the three-man group remain anonymous, but we know the lead singer-songwriter, Feofan, conceals his face behind a hooded robe and false beard, wears sandals, and occasionally swaps his balalaika for a staff with a hidden laser. He’s also quite tall. He’s assisted by DJ Nicodemus, who sports an embroidered tunic and foot cloths, and is accompanied by a guy dressed in a bear costume. They never break character, and refuse to comment on politics, religion, or beards.

The legend of the group, as told by the group, goes something like this: Feofan began as a solo artist in St. Petersburg in 2009. Tired of city life, Nicodemus joined him in 2013 after they bumped into each other in the woods. The duo shared a cup of tea, relaxed on a tree stump and, disconnected from the overpowering rhythm of the city, conceived of a way to marry the fantastic energy of folk music to techno. They wrangled the bear, re-recorded old songs, wrote a few new ones and Neuromonakh Feofan was born.

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Metal Sculpture in Eureka, California
  • The Daily Beast
    Putin Ally Blames Crisis on Rise of Black U.S. Music Stars He Calls ‘Descendants of African American Slaves’
    In a sign of the times for Vladimir Putin’s twisted Russian regime, a regional governor has been backed by the State Duma after saying the “descendants of African-American slaves” are to blame for the country’s growing crisis.
    Vadim Shumkov, governor of the Kurgan region, said Russian society was collapsing—as exemplified by the rising rate of suicide and depression among young people—and it can all be traced back to the popularity of Black American stars in the music industry.
    In a bizarre rant posted on his official Telegram channel, Shumkov described a gaping hole of emptiness at the center of Russian culture, which he argued was not the result of poverty, war, or rampant corruption, but “an underestimation of the importance of native national culture.”
    “Many of our children… are already growing up without knowing or remembering their kindred tribe,” he lamented, claiming that they are instead “singing songs written by the descendants of African-American slaves, often playing the ape and imitating the habits and language, brimming with, frankly, second-rate quasi-cultural vulgarity. Clinging to this secondariness, being proud of it.”
    “Hence the growth of overt spiritual emptiness, depression, suicides. The lack of meaning in life,” he wrote.
    Though Shumkov did not mention Russia’s war against Ukraine as a possible reason for the bleak mood in the country, he went on to hint at a growing rift between ordinary Russians that he blamed on outside forces, claiming that a “neglect of native culture” has led to a biblical Cain and Abel situation, with brothers pitted against brothers by “foreign ‘well-wishers’” who see them as “expendable.”
    While Shumkov’s remarks were simultaneously mocked and criticized on social media, the Russian State Duma found nothing offensive in his argument.
    Alexander Sholokhov, the deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Culture, told local media there was nothing inflammatory in his comments because he’d used the term “African-American.”
    “I think that depression is connected with the lack of ideology in our country,” Sholokhov said. “I disagree with [allegations of] incitement. He used the word African American. The governor acted more than politically correct, using literally the American version to designate this race, and besides… this same African-American culture occupies a significant part of show business and variety shows.”
    BIFF: what? Did you really say "“Hence the growth of overt spiritual emptiness?
    Well I would have to say and all word wise Fanzenfrenz would have to say "Just wait till you hear Biff Rose' new band "Black Cootchie Riot"
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Trump Received Money From Roman Vasilenko (a Russian Businessman) for His 2016 Campaign. GOP operative Jesse Benton was convicted of funneling Russian donations. The "Russia Hoax" was Not a Hoax After All. Trump Actually Got Rubles to Help Him Campaign AND HE KEPT THEM!

Why Hasn't Trump Been Arrested and Convicted for This Crime?


https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/18/gop-operative-convicted-of-funneling-russian-donation-to-trumps-2016-campaign-.html
Republican political operative Jesse Benton was convicted in federal court of funneling $25,000 from a Russian businessman to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.


DOJ: Political Consultant Sentenced for Scheme Involving Illegal Foreign Campaign Contribution to 2016 Presidential Campaign.
A Texas man was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for his role in funneling illegal foreign campaign contributions from a Russian national to a 2016 presidential campaign.
According to court documents, Jessie R. Benton, 45, of The Woodlands, schemed with another political advisor to funnel political contributions to a 2016 presidential campaign from a Russian national seeking to meet and take a picture with the presidential candidate.


https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/political-consultant-sentenced-scheme-involving-illegal-foreign-campaign-contribution-2016

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It's Wonderful that Columbus discovered "America" - A Place That People Can Escape To When there is a Disaster in the Old World. In My Own Family, My Great Great Grandmother...

got pregnant while Unmarried. Shocking! a Scandal! So she Left the Busybodies in Holland and moved to New Amsterdam on the Hudson River... and Her Child was Nobody's Business but Her Own. Later the English renamed that city New York. The Dutch people were pretty Tolerant of Everything... If you wanted to have a different God, OK... That's Your Business... If you wanted to Speak a Different Language, OK... If You were a Native American and We were Europeans, OK... Let's see if we Can do Business... Trading, Farming, Hunting, Furs... We were all Just Folks trying to Earn a Living and Raise up our Kids...


People Have Been fleeing Disaster and Coming to America for Centuries. The Ukrainians today. The Afghans, The Irish, The Chinese, Central Americans, Haiti, Vietnamese Boat People, The Hmong... and The Spanish Colonized Mexico and then California, Texas, Colorado, New MEXICO and Arizona.

During the Russian Revolution, The "Reds" Won and the "Whites" had to Get Out of Russia or get Killed... So... Many Fled to America! That's what happened people I Know... They Came to America, Shortened their Name and Built a Business, raised Kids... Truly enjoying the Blessings of Capitalism.
Who were the Reds and Whites in Russian history?
The civil war occurred because after November 1917, many groups had formed that opposed Lenin's Bolsheviks. These groups included monarchists, militarists, and, for a short time, foreign nations. Collectively, they were known as the Whites while the Bolsheviks were known as the Reds.
https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/modern-world-history-1918-to-1980/russia-1900-to-1939/the-russian-civil-war/






And all of those people that came to America had to pay for their boat ride... The Irish often had to work for Seven Years as an Indentured Servant to Pay off the Debt for the Boat Ride...


as a Matter of Fact, Only Slaves from Africa got a Free Boat Ride and a Guaranteed Job for Life! Who Could Turn Down That Offer? Not Many...

Seems pretty Obviously Racist...

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"We Were DUPED by a KGB Agent." - Says Jim Jordan - The Biden Impeachment Inquiry has become a Disaster for the House GOP! "WE GOT NOTHING!"

Republican impeachment probe 'Insane' US president's son Hunter Biden says.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-presidents-son-hunter-biden-testify-republicans-impeachment-probe-2024-02-28/"You do not have evidence to support the baseless and MAGA-motivated conspiracies about my father because there isn't any," Hunter Biden said...
Asked how the hearing had gone as he left the building, Hunter Biden replied, "Great."
Republicans, who narrowly control the House, are pushing ahead with their impeachment inquiry even after a person who provided accusations at the heart of their case was charged with lying to the FBI.

James Biden reportedly says his brother was never involved in his business ventures –
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/feb/21/campaign-updates-trump-trials-biden-politics-latest

House Republicans’ long-running effort to impeach Joe Biden was rocked by news of the arrest of a former FBI informant whose claims about Hunter Biden’s business with a Ukrainian gas firm were a key part of the GOP’s case against the president. Alexander Smirnov is accused of lying to the government, and yesterday, prosecutors revealed that he said he received information from Russian intelligence.

House GOP Goes Crazy. Why Do They REFUSE to Make America Great? Matt Gaetz and Jim Jordan Lead the ANARCHY PARTY!



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The USA is Sending Depleted Uranium Shells to Ukraine. That Will Cause Miscarriages for Thousands of Years. It's a Form of Genocide.

Those People Over There Have Proven That They Are Insane... and Now They Won't Be Having Insane Children... or Any Children...

In My Humble Opinion: President Biden Made a Mistake sending Depleted Uranium Munitions to Ukraine... The Genocide Will Harm People for A Thousand Years... LONG After the Memory of Why Putin Invaded Ukraine... or even Who Putin was... Obviously HE'S Insane... but He Could STOP Behaving Crazy if He Just "Happened" to Be Dead... Did you notice That Osama bin Laden Stopped Behaving Crazy After President Obama sent the Seal Team Six to Assassinate Him...

By Shooting Depleted Uranium Bullets from Guns We are Distributing that Radioactive Metal... Making Sure that Future Generations WILL NOT HAVE as Many Russians and Ukrainians. Classic Definition of Genocide...

PLUS... at no extra Charge... It's a Way to Dispose of Radioactive Waste from Nuclear Power Reactors... Why Store it in Casks when we can Simply Dump it on our Enemies?



HEADLINE: Depleted uranium munitions: what are they and what risks do they pose?
The US says it will start delivering the controversial weapons to Ukraine soon; Russia denounced the decision as ‘an indicator of inhumanity’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/07/depleted-uranium-munitions-what-are-they-and-what-risks-do-they-pose


HEADLINE:
What is depleted uranium ammunition? How deadly shells tipped with dense metal can blast through tough tank armourDepleted uranium is considerably less reactive than uranium in its natural form
It is used in tank shells to pierce through armour because it is incredibly dense

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11889801/What-depleted-uranium-deadly-shells-tipped-dense-metal-blast-tank-armour.html

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My Bucket List: I Want to Go to the Redwood Forest SKYWALK in Sequoia Park - Eureka, CA

Redwood Skywalk - Sequoia Park Eureka CA
Closeup of a Burl on the Redwood Tree

and Whale Watching in the Ocean Near San Francisco... and Visit The Santa Cruz Boardwalk Main Beach, Glacier Point Yosemite, Ananda Village, The Top of Squaw Valley, The Spring at Panther Meadows Mount Shasta... 

Swimming in the Damn Cold Ocean... The Rides at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk Make That Beach Special. 

Glacier Point Has an Excellent View of Half Dome... and Washburn Point has a view of Nevada and Vernal Falls.

Washburn Point Yosemite. View of Half Dome, Nevada and Vernal Falls
https://www.nps.gov/places/000/washburn-point.htm


Ananda Village: A Commune that is Made of People That Follow the Paramahansa Yogananda. 
They are a Group of People That Grow their Own Food and Have NO Need for Contact with the Outside World. Totally Self Reliant... 
Near Nevada City, California. 

Squaw Valley; There is a Restaurant/Bar at the Top of the Mountain with a View of Lake Tahoe. 
Squaw Valley from the Top of the Tram Line


Bucket List meme - gvan42

Bring your own water or purify the creek water nearby. https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/stnf/recarea/?recid=6576

What Would be the POINT of Visiting a Spring...
if I Can't Drink the Water?


The Spring at Panther Meadows, Mount Shasta.
This Water is Considered Holy by the Native Americans... and It Was the Location of the Harmonic Convergence of 1987... I want to Drink That Water...
Panther Meadows Mount Shasta CA



and Here is My Bucket List from 2020... 

The Integratron,  Chaco Canyon Hopi City, Chichen Itza Yucatan Pyramid and Red Rocks Ampitheater

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integratron
The Integratron is a 38 feet (12 m) tall cupola structure with a diameter of 55 feet (17 m) designed by ufologist and contactee George Van Tassel. He claimed the Integratron was capable of rejuvenation, anti-gravity and time travel. Located Near BIG ROCK. 


The Integratron Immortality and Time Travel Device


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaco_Culture_National_Historical_Park 

A Religious Ceremony Site... and Four Corners, Dulce... There Are MANY UFO Spiritual Native American Places In that Part of the World... 

Chaco Culture National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park in the American Southwest hosting a concentration of pueblos. The park is located in northwestern New Mexico, between Albuquerque and Farmington, in a remote canyon cut by the Chaco Wash. Containing the most sweeping collection of ancient ruins north of Mexico, the park preserves one of the most important pre-Columbian cultural and historical areas in the United States.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichen_Itza

Chichen Itza[nb 1] was a large pre-Columbian city built by the Maya people of the Terminal Classic period. The archaeological site is located in Tinúm MunicipalityYucatán StateMexico.[1] 
It's was the Location of the "End of time" Celebration in 2012

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Rocks_Amphitheatre

Red Rocks Amphitheatre is an open-air amphitheatre built into a rock structure in the western United States, near MorrisonColorado, ten miles (16 km) west of Denver. There is a large, tilted, disc-shaped rock behind the stage, a huge vertical rock angled outwards from stage right, several large outcrops angled outwards from stage left and a seating area for up to 9,525.[1]

My Music Video: "Did You Ever Notice Reality? It's Right Outside Your Door... Take a Walk in the Woods... Unplug... and Experience Nature... "



Lyrics:
Did You Ever Notice... Reality? It's Right Outside Your Door... Take a Walk in the Woods... Unplug... and Experience Nature...

Did You Know It's Possible to Do Ecstatic Dancing Without Buying A Buncha Plastic Crap... Wayfair Is Lying... The TV is Lying... Wake Up! Wake Up! Wake Up NOW! 

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CIA, NSA, FBI, DOJ, DARPA, MKULTRA and EIEIO Think for Yourself and Question Authority. [2X] 

Go Ask Alice... To Legalize Magic Mushrooms? Why Not Let Doctors Decide... Why Not Let Patients Decide... Instead of Bribed Politicians...The Puppets of Big Pharma... 

What Have We Learned from COVID 19? Mainly that we are Going to Have COVID 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 and an Endless Stream of Tropical Diseases... 

Massive Loss on the Stock Market Again Today! DJIA Lost -1,701 POINTS. ARE YOU TIRED OF SO MUCH WINNING YET? #TrumpHasFailed #OccupyTheWorld Investigate #IvankaGate

Chords: A (EBE) Ab (EBE) G (EBE) F# (EBE) F (EBE) E, A, E, A, E, A

HINT! Save $145 by NOT Buying a Ticket to Dead & Co at the Sphere in Las Vegas. I Bet you Would be Able to Hear the Music and See the Lightshow from Outside... and Then you Would be able to Spend that Money on "SOMETHING ELSE!"  I Remember Going to The Further Festival at the Shoreline in Mountain View and enjoying the show from a Grassy Knoll with the poor boys overlooking the Parking Lot... It was a Very Long Concert and about Halfway thru I Walked over to a Chinese Restaurant... and when I got back they were still playing Music... including a Sample of a Train Whistle that totally fooled me... I asked the man sitting next to me: "Where is the Train Around Here?" and he responded: "It's a Synthesizer Onstage..."

I also Remember the Reno Hilton Steve Miller/George Thorogood Concert... outdoors... and we could hear it Great from the Parking Lot... at the end of the concert they played a 12 bar blues song... and both men traded lead guitar riffs... THAT was EPIC.

The REAL Reason I won't be going to the Concert is... I'm too old... Walking a city block is exhausting and I have to sit down... a major adventure is beyond me... The Price is not too high when I consider that Hotel Rooms are VERY Cheap!

What's bad about being Old is: The Rainbow Gathering will be in California this summer and the Idea of a Long Hike and sleeping outdoors is no longer something I want to do...


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Virtual Avenue of the Giants Tour. "Drive" thru the Giant Redwood Trees... Without Leaving Your Home... Beautiful Humboldt County, California, USA
LINK! --->https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2024/01/virtual-avenue-of-giants-humboldt-co.html <---LINK!


AOG Chimney Tree Grill Restaurant
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Avenue of the Giants - Big Trees
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Avenue of the Giants - Deerhorn Market
Deerhorn Market

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and then Joe Blow Said on FaceBorg...

First and foremost I am proud to be an American and that the grateful dead originated in the United States of America. I have a college degree in psychology and sociology.in doing so over the years I have learned much about myself as well as the people that surround me. I am tired of making comments of the ken ,Barbies and biffs who choose to attend the sphere shows ...though I may post a humorous pics or two. In reality America is the melting pot of the world. The introduction of the Internet and social media has changed everyones life. As is known change is a constant in this world and we all have to adapt at at one time or another. Yes, I am of the elder generation now but I was young once as were you. I chose to be with the best and wisest people I could meet at dead shows and learned to appreciate the music that feeds us all. As a whole looking at the big picture alot of people still want to experience a dead show because it is a special thing. I respect that. I was blessed to see the band many times front row. I wouldn't trade those memories for anything. I am thankful to feel part of the family. Things have changed. God bless the original members of the band for keeping the fire going. All I ask is that for those newbies to respect the elders who are there truly for the music. It's like a religion. It's not all about the drugs. All comments welcome.

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Religion is an existential threat to humanity... because it has been weaponized by those who believe in it. Simply, supporting and believing in it does us no justice in the bigger picture of stewardship of our planet. In fact it holds us back.
Look, the only way out of this is to make it cease to exist. And learn from it. Realize as a populace that it is a form of indoctrination (and therefore brainwashing).
Actually, to me it seems as if religion is already imploding, perhaps with the spread of the abundance of information being passed via the internet. For sure, information is power.
Sometimes I wonder if we will see the discovery of intelligent alien life during our lifetimes. Like out in the open info where no one can deny their existence. Certainly that would be the final nail in the coffin of organized religions, would it not?
'Certainly' may be a reach. Admittedly.
In my mind, the Conservative Movement remains the foremost threat to our democracy and likely our entire future. The climate isn't waiting for us to take ourselves out... it is actively changing before our eyes and we are doing little to change ourselves. It makes us wonder why they would call them Conservatives. They ain't conserving anything other than their dying ideology stemming from systemic racism and religious bigotry. And what we need instead is to move forward and learn how to adapt to what is coming.
There's some certainty in if they win the day though. Because certainly we will never make it if the conservative movement moves takes full control of our government which moves us backwards. We will eventually cease to exist due to our own accord. No, the only way to get through this is to bring truth to the table and vote out those who would have us thrown in prison (just because we vote differently). Vote those out who hide behind the bully (pulpits)... for they are the weak ones.
The most important election of our lifetimes is right around the corner. Definitely resembles good vs. evil in my book (i'm an ex-catholic, recovering).
Bu if we elect rational human beings capable of empathy and critical thinking... who is critical of faith-based philosophies (the cause of so many wars and hardships) - but which can work with the other side a bit - then we stand a chance to see our way through this dark era of the MAGA movement in our country. And perhaps then the world... would follow and revert to more liberal policies which provide safety nets and more thoughtfulness to the climate. And we could tax the churches and use that money to help the local communities and provide shelters to the homeless, with prospects as incentives.
But the ...as evidenced by... examples continue to pop up all around us - on the dailey. And what it really comes down to is we simply need to do more to stop and even reverse the damages we've done to our planet and the species on it.
Enter Science. Because we don't figure shit out by praying.



The sensory input devices on the front and sides of your head are scooping up data from the roil of energy all around you and streaming it to your onboard biocomputer, which uses these vibrations to construct a concept of what the world must be like beyond the confines of its bony encasement. This you call "reality."
The known universe lies behind your nose and between your ears. And the only one who can know it is YOU.
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