ABEL ASHES – UPON CLOSER INSPECTION

ABEL ASHES – UPON CLOSER INSPECTION

social critic, political philosopher, activist, composer, improviser, singer-songwriter

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  • My Facebook account has been permanently disabled and will be deleted. I have been given no explanation and they will not allow me to appeal the decision.
  • ABEL ASHES – NEW CALAMITY (Official Music Video with Lyrics) premieres on Saturday August 22nd, 2020 at 12 Midnight PST (Pacific Standard Time).
  • New Album: NEW CALAMITY
  • NEW SONG DEMO/PREVIEW VIDEO: New Calamity (song about the CoVid-19/coronavirus pandemic)
  • NEW MUSIC VIDEO: Abel Ashes – And Photograph Stars
  • What people are saying about my new music
  • Submission to The Needle Drop: Abel Ashes – Between the Droughts and the Floods
  • My Advice to Tunisia’s Next President:
  • Mutually Assured Destruction
  • Magical Markets and Magical Mules
  • And Photograph Stars
  • By the Smartphone Light
  • Islamists in Bornu
  • Blood in the Wake (Reprise)
  • R2P (Human Refugees)
  • Leaves of Kosutnjak
  • Between the Droughts and the Floods
  • Atheists in Mecca
  • Blood in the Wake
  • Between the Droughts and the Floods: Track by track
  • Submission of Between the Droughts and the Floods to THE ONGOING HISTORY OF PROTEST MUSIC
  • The story of my new album: Between the Droughts and the Floods.
  • Some Things Aren’t Meant To Be, Some things Don’t Come For Free Midnight Oil Great Circle World Tour 2017 May 23rd 2017, Paramount Theater, Denver, Colorado, USA
  • Mass shootings: guns, mental health, and American culture itself
  • Gun control is not necessarily anti-gun
  • I’ve been blocked on Facebook for 3 days.
  • If It Wasn’t Necessary To Drop The A-Bomb on Hiroshima Then Why Was It Done?
  • The simple truth that many defenders and detractors of Islam alike seem to not understand
  • 20 facts to consider about the Israel/Palestine conflict
  • The biggest terrorism threat to whom?
  • Nuclear Weapons, the Responsibility to Protect, and the Trump’s creepy “America First” ideology
  • Afghan activist Nemat Sadat tells his “coming out as gay story” on MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, and Channel 5 United Kingdom in June during Pride Month
  • Why “Christianity, capitalism, and democracy” cannot save us from Islamic extremist terrorism
  • My early music influences in the 80s
  • New music
  • Thoughts on the possible elimination of ACA mandates by Trump’s Executive Order
  • The Dakota Access Pipeline protests are being oversimplified
  • Why ISIS attacks Turkey without claiming responsibility
  • There are many versions of Islam
  • ISIS attacks in MENA and against “The West” related to lose of ground within their evil “Caliphate”
  • ISIS attacks on Turkey related to idiotic End Times prophecies
  • Paul Begala was just wiping the floor with a Trump campaigner
  • Some less well known facts about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict
  • Thoughts on the anti-gay jihadist attack against Pulse nightclub in Orlando
  • ♫ Eat Plastic (Remastered) – Abel Ashes & the Runs. Listen @cdbaby
  • Some people think the USA and Iran are allies?
  • We must not let ISIS divide humanity. We must unite against them.
  • The media reports, you fail to read about it, you want an excuse not care about Paris, ISIS laughs at you
  • There are many kinds of Muslims because Islam is a big mess of contradictions
  • Send an email – Make a phone call – speak up: Yousef Muhammad Ali faces trial tomorrow for criticising Islam
  • Election Disrupting Pro-Russian Ukrainian Group “Hacks” Alleged ISIS Mock Execution Video From McCain Staffer and Russian State Run Media Uses It To Spin Yet Another Web of Lies: Russian Government’s False Accusations Against McCain And Rita Katz’s SITE Intelligence Group Also Promoted by Noted Conspiracy Theorist Website of James Fetzer
  • Announcement: Abel Ashes merging political and music websites over the coming months
  • The Legendary A&M Sessions/The 1966 Demos & (The Complete) It Comes To You In A Plain Brown Wrapper sessions as a 2 CD set (proposal)
  • Dylann Roof is obviously a racist and a terrorist and therefore probably also a fucking lunatic
  • Fake “Leftist” terrorism supporters like the Guardian’s Seumas Milne “helped fuel the rise of ISIS in Iraq and Syria”
  • It is not hateful to show Muslims and Christians that there is hate literature in the Bible and the Koran
  • ISIS’s enemies would never support ISIS except for the enemies of ISIS you don’t like right?
  • If you tell the truth about Dr. Burzynski’s scam “cancer cure”, his propagandist Eric Merola will block you from his page promoting Burzynski: The Movie
  • Debunking Syrian Girl, AKA Mimi Al Laham on her Facebook page
  • A few of my ideas for reforming the American political system
  • As I said would happen: “ISIS” has once again attacked Israel and is threatening to attack Israel and Palestine, including Hamas as Hamas attacks “ISIS”
  • No Syria, Turkey, the USA, Israel, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, etc are not supporting “ISIS”
  • Anarchism is fucking stupid
  • On the issue of ISIS and Al Nusra terrorists sneaking into Europe among Syrian refugees
  • A Brief history of “Islamic” suicide bombing
  • “Do atheist men secretly admire Muslim women?”
  • How the Israel/Palestine conflict is relevant to the issues of al Qaeda, the 9/11 attacks, and jihadist movements in general
  • If there were any “secondary explosive devices” in the Twin Towers on 9/11/01 al Qaeda probably put them there.
  • Why it was not “stupid” or “paranoid” for Washington DC cops to be concerned about a pressure cooker near the Washington Mall
  • Israel/Palestine: The land belongs to (fill in the blank)…which land?
  • 50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can’t Be Wrong
  • Once again…”ISIS” is not state sponsored
  • A Brief History of “ISIS”
  • Thoughts on the Baltimore riots
  • Interesting arguments with right-leaning Zappa fans
  • Universal human rights are your property
  • In response to the absurd notion that there is “no such thing as political Islam”
  • Defining “Terrorism”: Media critics still refuse to read the goddamn dictionary
  • Looking back on “The Great Recession” of 2007/2008
  • Statement on the Charlie Hebdo massacre
  • Just another post on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
  • But is Afghanistan safer?
  • My comments to critics of Tommy Robinson’s lecture at the Oxford Union
  • Morality derived from religious doctrine can only be subjective unlike secular humanism which can be based on a more objective form of ethics
  • Then she asked me for the “sources” employed in my research
  • Improving Tunisia’s economy is a matter of political will
  • Which “occupation” and whose “Holy Land”?
  • Individuals produce corrupt institutions not the other way around
  • “White Muslims” and “white jihadists” are nothing unusual
  • Why All Americans Should Read “Triple Cross” by Peter Lance: Jihadists are still manipulating our naivete and ignorance
  • Zero tolerance for Muslim conspiracy theories blaming ISIS on non-Muslims
  • Dear Muslims, The Koran Endorses the Sex Slavery of Non-Muslim Women as Practiced by Islamic State (ISIS)
  • Russell Brand’s uninformed “open-mindedness” about 9/11
  • Some historical figures whose biographies you should know in order to understand the Israeli/Palestinian conflict
  • These controversial Muslim Obama Homeland Security appointees are Republicans tied to McCain and Ashcroft
  • Why I blame the religion first and the followers of the religion second
  • On the murder of Mohamed Abu Khdeir and the assault of Tariq Abu Khdeir
  • Israel/Palestine conflict is about religious bigotry and conspiracy on BOTH sides
  • Islamic State issues message to al Qaeda, July 4th, 2014
  • Death threat from a Pakistani “Syrian Rebel” jihadist who knows how to use CAPLOCKS
  • New anonymous online tip form for reporting Islamic State agents, supporters, and webpages
  • Terrorism experts in the fight against the Islamic State
  • Tunisian Ansar Sharia aligned with ISIS has sent more than 2,000 fighters to Syria
  • State of the Ummah – Anwar Al Awlaki: Caliphate for global Ummah by 2024
  • Islamic State’s propaganda video indicates global ambition of the “new caliphate”
  • Report: Gazan ISIS preparing to wage war on Israel and Palestine
  • ISIS changes name to simply “Islamic State” and declares new Caliphate with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as Caliph
  • My message to the pro-al Nusra and pro-ISIS jihadist elements in the Free Syrian Army and a childish response from from one of them.
  • The US did NOT fund or train ISIS.
  • Islamist “logic” says rape of 90 year old is due to “liberal values”.
  • ISIS Facebook page claims Zawahiri will announce his support for ISIS within the next few weeks
  • Report this password protected ISIS forum to INTERPOL, FBI, and Homeland Security
  • I got another couple of pro-ISIS Facebook pages removed (maybe I shouldn’t have)
  • If you support democracy and secularism and human rights you must support action against ISIS
  • My unpopular opinion about the Iraq War and some facts of about the post-Saddam Iraq oil industry
  • Maliki’s corruption is no excuse not to act against ISIS
  • Hitler was a theocrat and therefore opposed to secularism
  • Why Muslims should support burning the Quran
  • The Taliban, Saddam Hussein, R2P, and my goal of a world secular government
  • You reported بيعة أمير المؤمنين – The Pledge Of Allegiance To Amir al Muminin for containing credible threat of violence. This Page was removed
  • Syria : The Planet of the Daleks – A story of Death, Hate and God by Wael Alkel
  • National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces is not “al Qaeda”.
  • FSA, Syrian National Coalition, National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces versus Al Qaeda, Al Nusra, and Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham
  • Obama is not a Muslim
  • For those who think all Iraqis are crazy and the country is doomed to always live this way….#NO2ISIS
  • My opinion on the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in short:
  • The Taliban didn’t exist when Reagan was President and the US isn’t supporting al Qaeda in Syria
  • ISIS is a bigger threat to world peace and security than al Qaeda ever was: the free world must act
  • I support US airstrikes against ISIS
  • On the roots of jihadism and the Sunni/Shia divide in Islam as relates to the conflict between ISIS and the Iranian backed Maliki regime in Iraq
  • And now for some good news: Atheism is on the rise in the “Muslim world” and throughout the globe!
  • ISIS’s Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: The wannabe Caliph so violent Al Qaeda disavowed him
  • “Spreading rumors and writing statements that instigate people against the enemy” (confronting Nafeez Ahmed’s propaganda of distraction)
  • Missing Nigerian girls have not been stoned to death.
  • I suggest this short article for anyone short on time and/or attention who wants to understand who ISIS/ISIL/EIIL/Daech are and what they are doing in Iraq and Syria.
  • Confronting widespread ignorance and conspiracy theories regarding ISIS/ISIL/EIIL/Daech
  • Too upset to write about Iraq (but I did it anyway)
  • The adolescence and intellectual and moral cowardice of James B Russel, David Gerard, and Olivia Guest of the “RationalWiki” Facebook page…pseudo-“rationalist”, artificial “feminist”, and fake “liberal” apologists for oppression of the so-called “Muslim world” under Islam.
  • On the release of 5 Taliban associates for one American soldier
  • Jefferson’s Letter to the Danbury Baptists
  • The Taliban in Their Own Words (via gemsofislamism.tripod.com)
  • Please sign this petition to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to put pressure on Saudi Arabia to free liberal blogger Raef Badawi. Free Raif Badawi!
  • Why doesn’t “the Mainstream Media” ever talk about____? They did and that’s how you know about it.
  • Jews and Christians and Zoroastrians were worshiping an evil monotheistic god long before Mohammed invented Islam (How did you think he came up with the idea?)
  • Music is art, entertainment, catharsis, and communication. It is not a sport or a competition.
  • Anarchism is adolescent intellectual masturbation…silly like libertarianism, conservatism, communism, nationalism, isolationism…
  • HAARP is being shutdown but the myths, misinformation, and unfounded conspiracy theories continue
  • We need a popular international movement for the liberation of apostates in the Islamic world and for the enslaved people of North Korea
  • Fred Phelps may not have died hating “gays”, but why did he feel the need to hate them in the first place?
  • If everyone else knows you are crazy but you don’t don’t think you’re crazy you can legally buy guns in California.

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