The European elite and US neocons are in panic mode over ways to keep the Ukraine proxy war going. They were in literal tears as they closed down the Munich Security Council. Macron and Starmer are headed to DC to beg their master for more war. Pepe calls them Chihuahuas, and Putin predicted they would come to heel at the foot of their master. The summit in Riyadh was a good first step at normalizing US/Russian relations. Let's hope we continue down that path. D.O.G.E. is looking dodgy to me suggesting rebating taxpayers rather than applying it to our massive debt. Perhaps they see it as a stimulus package? Kash Patel made it through the senate to be appointed head of the FBI. Let's hope he follows through on his promised transparency and document releases. Plus lots more below the fold!
European warmongers try to develop a plan to keep the war going this week...but fail to do so.

Afternoon folks!

It's a blue, blue week. Starting off we have an album from harmonica ace Little Sonny, followed by a double album delta blues compilation of Charley Patton recordings from the days of noisy 78's - there are a couple of cuts that were blocked by some German company that bought up the rights to a couple of 90+ year old tunes that should by all rights be in the public domain but for our bought-off, coin-op congress. After that there's an album of Chicago blues from multi-instrumentalist Maurice John Vaughn and a Robert Cray album. Following that we've got some John Hammond and we finish up with some reggae from Bob Marley.

Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!

Good morning, good people!

I read a meme that said " Wow! It's been a helluva year this week!" Z and Trump having a bitch fight, a possibility the Epstein Client List will be revealed, Going all BFF with Russia, a federal judge ruling that Biden's preemptive pardons are unconstitutional, etc... I like that meme!

Welcome to Friday Night Photos everyone. Your once a week break from the daily madness of the crazy world we live in. Post any photos, memes, music, or whatever else you find of interest that helps you escape the madness.

The Navy's flight demonstration team the Blue Angels spend the winter months based at NAF El Centro in the Imperial valley. Most mornings they have an hour long practice session so yesterday morning I got up early and made the 1-1/2 hour drive to El Centro to shoot their practice. The best part about going to one of their practice sessions is there are no crowds. There was maybe 100 people there. When they perform at an airshow there will be upwards of 100,000 people that come to watch them fly.

I was born in 1954 and began observing politics in the mid 60s. Even though politics has always been contentious the current level of vitriol is over the top. I'm well aware of how volatile various periods of US history were, to the point of violence, but in my lifetime, current politics have reached a crescendo of hate that I think may end up with bad consequences.

Thinking back on it all, I believe the recent trend started back in the Clinton and Gingrich era and has steadily grown ever since. That's when the impeachment tit for tat began and has become a feature of modern politics. It didn't use to be this way. Members of both houses of Congress used to work across the aisle, oh sure they had their differences but at the end of the day they'd go out together and have dinner and drinks and were friendly towards one another. It's quite different today.

Acting as Our Russian historian and war correspondent, Dmitry Orlov, is writing today from St Petersburg, Russia, to give interested Westerners a recap of the communications and activities surrounding the conclusion of both the Russian SMO, and the US Proxy War, both taking place in Ukraine. The battles and fighting have entered their final weeks; the only possible outcome has long been known. The terms and conditions for a stable and peaceful future between the two Superpowers are now being discussed, defined, and drawn up by the United States and Russia — the Superpowers that represent and control the two principal sides of the conflict.

Special Military Operation Progress Report

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This is just a progress report, for it is still too early to tell what the ultimate conclusion of Russia's SMO in the former Ukraine will look like and, most importantly, where Russia will choose to draw the line between the Russian World it holds sacred and the Wild Field to the west of it, which it will decide to be of no interest. But it is not too early to say that the operation appears to be a success.

The main goal of the SMO was to protect Russian people on former Ukrainian territory, who had no wish to accept neo-Nazi ideology of the Banderite junta.