I don't know who is going to dominate in this conflict in Ukraine. A sober evaluation of the past year points to Russia overcoming all the Ukranato forces thrown at it. A few dozen more tanks and IFVs will not make a dent in the Russian front lines and will be destroyed by stand off weapons from deep inside Russian territory.

Set the Spin Cycle on High

It's been another busy news week. Are TPTB targeting Joementia? Usually they hide information about illegal classified documents. It has also been interesting to watch people come unglued over investigating the mafia branch of our government in congress. Additionally, the conflict in Ukraine is not going well for NATOstan and will require more spin...or perhaps just ignoring the facts? Let's dive into details below the fold...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-documents-bungle-seen-as-p...

Afternoon folks!

I uploaded a bunch of cool stuff this week, and I added to the collection of Jeff Beck stuff that has been accumulating as I dig out and clean up albums.

There's a Brownie & Sonny album, some Hot Tuna, a few cuts of Professor Longhair from a compilation, a live Flying Burrito Bros. album (later in their career without Gram Parsons), one of The Band's later albums and an album by Rory Gallagher.

Then there's two Jeff Beck Group albums that I just uploaded this week when I got the news of his passing, an album with Beck, Tim Bogert and Carmine Appice, a live album with Jeff Beck and the Jan Hammer Group and an old Yardbirds album that I uploaded a while ago.

Have a great weekend and enjoy the tunes!

Yesterday's Democracy Now recording echoed a report in the journal Science (not to mention the one in The Guardian) about Exxon. The headline started at about 2:45 of the recording, after Amy Goodman cited a couple of climate-change amplified weather disasters:

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
Pablo Picasso

The time between events, collective narrative created and new revelations challenging the official narrative keep getting shorter. This could be an interesting year.