A Couple of Tidbits
Been very busy and also feeling a bit sick lately (heat? dunno - but today's supposed to be cool and rainy, so we'll see). Therefore, I've not got a lot for today's Open Thread. But I do have a few tidbits!

Tidbit 1:
A young woman in Canada, a student at a high school in Montreal, got suspended for supporting Palestine! So much for free speech, eh? It was, of course, that she was against the wars and the genocide Israel is doing. And she posted a link to a reel by Lee Camp about October 7th. And those two things got her suspended.

Lee says:

That’s right. Apparently the first ever suspension in Montreal public schools (or perhaps even Canada’s public schools in general) due to reposting criticism of a country was because of …me. Wow. I’m more powerful than I realized.

But here’s the good news. After many people wrote to defend the student and protesters even showed up in freezing temperatures in March to demand the school system apologize, the student was vindicated.

What the heck?! Canada, how disappointing!

Protesters in support of the student, what the student wrote on her own private instragram account is on the little white protest sign (from the story at therover.ca here)

Good morning everybody.
Hot temperatures here for a few days, with a lone shower Wednesday/Thursday.
Got some more green beans planted.
Corn is 2ft. tall and looking good.
Will head home this afternoon.
Picking up blips about the Graham death.

The 500th Edition

Almost a decade of weekly watches reviewing the news of the week, and this week is jam full of news. We had the world's largest funeral on record in Iran, and next door in Turkey there was the NATO clown show. The MoU is officially over and the hot war with Iran resumes. The Strait is closed and economic consequences will ensue. Oil, it seems, is the lubricant driving war. Having none pass through Hormuz (along with the other Gulf products- Helium, Natural Gas, fertilizers, and so on) will have global effects. Trump signed an agreement he never intended to honor. It was a stalling tactic to see if he could open the strait...another Minsk style agreement. As Lavrov stated, "The US is agreement incapable". Ukraine and Russia continue the drone wars, and with NATO openly stating they intend to go to war with Russia, giving Russia no choice but to prepare for a war with NATO. These stories and more below the fold.

Afternoon folks!

This week we've got some cool '50's blues compilation albums from guitarist Pee Wee Crayton and piano player Floyd Dixon. Following that is another blues artist from the fifties, Lowell Fulson, but still recording in the 80's and 90's, this album is from 1988. After that, we've got an Allman Brothers Band (live) show from 1971 and then we ease on into prog rock with a sort of Zappa-esque album from Godley & Creme (formerly of 10cc).

Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!