The Evening Blues - 6-2-22



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No news roundup + tonight's musical feature: Johnny Copeland

Hey! Good Evening!

This evening's music features Texas blues guitarist Johnny Copeland. Enjoy!

Johnny Copeland - Blues Ain't Nothin'


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A Little Night Music

Johnny Copeland - Old Man Blues

Johnny Copeland - Cut off my Right Arm

Johnny Copeland - Ghetto Child

Johnny Copeland - Everybody Wants A Piece Of Me

Johnny Copeland - Every Dog Has His Day

Johnny Copeland - Down On Bending Knees

Johnny Copeland - I Wish I Was Single

Johnny Copeland - Rolling With The Punches

Johnny Copeland - Don't Stop By The Creek, Son


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Who exactly are the good guys here?

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@gjohnsit

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“Good Guys” R-US, by definition. Am-I-Rite?

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Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work for the benefit of all."
- John Maynard Keynes

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@gjohnsit

Who exactly are the good guys here?

in my more cynical hours, i wonder if there are any good guys at all.

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The Liberal Moonbat's picture

@gjohnsit It wasn't until the very end I was certain that wasn't an ad for a movie or video game.

I'm...I'm not going to have cyberworms in my brain from watching that, am I???

Telling - maybe reassuring??? - that they're sure that's not counterconstructive advertising.

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In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.

Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!

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Photograph titled 'Xinjiang'.

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China sees less than 100 daily new local COVID-19 cases for 3 days: official

BEIJING, June 2 (Xinhua) -- The number of daily locally transmitted COVID-19 cases and asymptomatic carriers reported on the Chinese mainland has been below 100 for the past three days, an official said Thursday.

Measures against local and imported infections as well as the dynamic zero-COVID policy must be firmly upheld, Mi Feng, spokesperson for the National Health Commission, said at a press conference.

Mi urged efforts for early discovery and treatment as well as anti-virus measures in high-risk scenarios to avoid cluster infections or epidemic resurgence.

Over 110,000 child COVID-19 cases reported in U.S. in past week

LOS ANGELES, May 31 (Xinhua) -- More than 112,000 child COVID-19 cases were reported in the United States during the past week, a doubling of case counts from the four weeks prior, according to the latest report by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Children's Hospital Association.

It marks the seventh consecutive weekly increase in child COVID-19 cases in the United States, said the report published on Tuesday.

Nearly 5.5 million child COVID-19 cases have been added nationwide so far in 2022.
Children represent 18.9 percent of all COVID-19 cases in the United States, according to the report.

"It is important to recognize there are immediate effects of the pandemic on children's health, but importantly we need to identify and address the long-lasting impacts on the physical, mental, and social well-being of this generation of children and youth," it said.

U.S. COVID-19 cases 5 times higher than last Memorial Day weekend: report

LOS ANGELES, June 1 (Xinhua) -- The number of COVID-19 cases in the United States was above 110,000 a day during the Memorial Day weekend, five times that of the year before, said a report of American weekly magazine People.

The daily average is also a "significant undercount," with most people testing positive on rapid tests that go unreported or foregoing testing altogether, said the report published on Tuesday.
COVID-19 case numbers are once again high this spring with Omicron and its subvariants BA.2 and BA.2.12.1 easily infecting people, even those who are vaccinated and boosted, said the report.

Large portions of the country, particularly the Northwest, Midwest, Florida and the West Coast, are seeing medium or high levels of transmission, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The United States has reported over 83 million COVID-19 cases and more than 1 million related deaths since the onset of the pandemic in the country, the latest figures released by the CDC showed.

Trials show China's intranasal COVID-19 vaccine effective

BEIJING, June 1 (Xinhua) -- A China-developed intranasal vaccine against COVID-19 has shown to be safe and effective in early-stage human trials, according to a new study published in the journal The Lancet Respiratory Medicine.

Compared with currently available COVID-19 vaccines that are administered by intramuscular injection, the new drug, coded dNS1-RBD, is a two-dose, live-attenuated influenza vaccine given through the nose. It was jointly developed by Xiamen University, the University of Hong Kong and Beijing Wantai Biological Pharmacy Enterprise.

Researchers conducted phase-1 and phase-2 trials at hospitals in east China's Jiangsu Province from September 2020 to July 2021. More than 1,000 healthy adults aged between 18 and 86 were enrolled in the trials, which were randomized, double-blind and placebo-controlled.

According to the study, one month after the second dose, the immune responses were observed in the vaccine recipients. The proportion of responders was 40 percent, which was, significantly higher than that in the placebo group.

The study also highlighted that the needle-free vaccine was well tolerated by all participants. Its efficacy in older adults (aged 60 and above) was similar to that in younger recipients (aged between 18 and 59).

Most adverse reactions were mild or moderate flu-like symptoms, such as rhinorrhoea, fever, and fatigue. No serious adverse events were reported after vaccination.

The phase-3 trials with more participants are currently underway in the Philippines, South Africa, Vietnam and Colombia to test the efficacy of the Chinese vaccine, said the study.

The vaccine candidate is introduced to a cold-adapted influenza strain, into which receptor-binding domain genes from SARS-CoV-2 are inserted by gene reassortment.

In the preclinical study, the vaccine showed rapid, long-lasting, and broad protection against the SARS-CoV-2 challenge in mice. According to vaccine makers, nine months after two doses of dNS1-RBD, the protective effect against the SARS-CoV-2 beta variant remained as good as that against the original strain of the virus.

@Pluto's Republic

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@Pluto's Republic

i see that the skeletons, having burst out of the closet, are now under rugs. it's a lumpy world we live in.

great cartoon!

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@Pluto's Republic It's not working for me.

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In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.

Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!

Yes, I made the mistake after long time not reading TOP just to gauge how the diehards were viewing the war. It looks like Kos himself has taken the lead and fancied himself a genius field marshall telling the masses what is going on. More than anything Herr Field Marshall Kos is pushing that the Russian military is inept and corrupt. Advantage Ukraine. Every apparent Russian success is Pyrrhic. And man oh man are the party members on board and going even more hyperbolic that Herr Field Marshal. Seems like the comment sections are a written version of Orwell's 2 minute hate fests in 1984. So much for that site.

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@MrWebster

and have noticed that 10 minutes of daily hate for all things Russia. There are lots of little field marshals and they all seem to only use mainstream media sources. The biggest change I’ve seen in the last few weeks was that maybe Russia isn’t going to lose the war so quickly or run out of ammunition and bombs which they were predicting at the start. But apparently Russia is still using conscripts to fight the war instead of the main military.

It’s times like these that I’m sad I’m banned, but anyone who doesn’t go with Russia bad for fighting an unprovoked war gets hr'd into oblivion. Everyone else parrots the media talking points. Lots of people are pushing for Biden to send heavier offensive weapons and especially the bombs that can reach deep into Russia. The site is 20 years old and boy what a change from its original stance against the Iraq war. Just gobsmacked!

As I was driving today I came across a few yards that had 'pray for Ukraine' signs in them and other pro Ukraine slogans.

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@snoopydawg

in my travels around my area i frequently come across ukrainian flags and other signs of support, especially in baltimore city where there are large communities of eastern europeans.

in the surrounding county, you can spot the posers because they sometimes hang the ukrainian flag upside down.

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@snoopydawg

curiosity, intelligence, a strong sense of observation perilous
My father took me out to the U Michigan campus area on V-E day to see the cheering and shredded papers in the streets
but never spoke of why he and a friend rode the rails (boxcar?) to DC in the early 1930s.
He'd been shut down so intensively

Someone else spoke to an aunt about Prague in the family history
and was met with fury: "We are Americans!"

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@Creosote.

He'd been shut down so intensively.

Did he ever open up and talk about things? None of my family ever fought in any wars and I don’t remember us talking about them. I do remember going to the airport once about the Vietnam war and wearing a POW bracelet. But that seemed more like a fad than any anti war movement.

It’s great to see you. Hope things are going well for you and your family?

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@snoopydawg

They had no idea of what opening up meant.
But I'm starting to post more actively it seems! And your writing just gets stronger.

Almost nothing is known about my father's family (they farmed in the midwest). The other side were first-generation immigrants.

I wish I'd known how to ask questions and what to ask earlier.
Only later did I find I seemed to be usefully intelligent enough to pursue a kind of work that felt right.

Best wishes to Sam!

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@MrWebster

heh, thanks for confirming that my choice to walk away from the great orange satan was the right one.

have a great evening!

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Sunday night my wife and I went to our first concert since the pandemic: Tears for Fears has reunited and is touring in support of their new album, Tipping Point, and were outdoors at the Levitt Pavilion here in Denver. This was the second date on their tour.

I was extremely impressed with how well they sounded. Mr. Orzabal was in fine voice, and the female vocalist they are touring with (Carina Round) handled all those classic Oleta Adams riffs with incredible ease. The sound was just excellent, with perfect vocal intelligibility and no mud whatsoever. Full marks to all of them- it really has encouraged me to spring for some more tickets as the summer goes on. If you get a chance to see them, it is well worth the price of admission....

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Twice bitten, permanently shy.

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@usefewersyllables

thanks for the tip. ms shikspack and i have been going to select concerts for a while now, because, well, life just isn't life without music. we pick our venues carefully, usually outdoor venues or spacious halls where people aren't packed in like sardines.

last weekend we went up to a beautiful theatre in new jersey to see a yes tribute band that some of ms shikspack's friends play in. we've got plans to get out to some blues and bluegrass festivals this summer, too. yay!

glad you got out and had a good time!

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@joe shikspack

did Starship Trooper to open the first set, and Siberian Khatru to open the third. Good times!

TFF is such a vocally-driven band that I worried about how well the PA guys would do with it. They've refined it down to a fine art, and I think they were taking everything direct, with very few open mics onstage (just the drum overheads and vocal mics). It was so pristine without having all the multipath crud that you usually get to muddy it up. I think that they are using Firehouse Productions again this tour- there was at least one Firehouse semi there. In any case, they did incredibly well.

Orzabal still has every bit of his range- his voice doesn't seem to have aged a bit. He just got remarried (to a woman from Denver, which is probably why they played here) about 5 weeks ago. Losing his first wife must have been just brutal on him.

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enhydra lutris's picture

Heh, "mama said don't go near that river ...". and other echoes.

Be well and have a good one and a great weekend.

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

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@enhydra lutris

heh, i hope that you're staying away from old catfish john these days. Smile

have a great evening!

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There is very little that surprises me, but this is completely stunning. An FBI whistleblower came forth to inform Rep Jim Jordan and Rep Matt Gaetz that the FBI maintains a workspace inside the law firm of Perkins Coie. {Direct Rumble Link}

In response to a letter sent by Rep. Matt Gaetz and Jim Jordan, Perkins Coie, the legal arm of the DNC and Hillary Clinton, admitted they have been operating an FBI workspace in their Washington D.C. office since 2012. Pay attention to that date, it matters.

This is a huge development. Essentially, what is being admitted in this claim is that a portal existed into FBI databases within the law firm that represents democrats. This means access to FBI database searches exists inside the office of the DNC and Clinton legal group. Think about the ramifications here.

CTH has long claimed there was some kind of direct portal link between the Clinton campaign team and the FBI databases. There were too many trails of extracted non-minimized research evidence in the hands of the Clinton team that CTH could not trace to a transferring FBI official. If Perkins Coie operated a portal in their office that allowed them to conduct search queries of American citizens, then everything would make sense. That access portal is exactly what is being claimed and admitted in this report.

The start date of 2012 is important for several reasons, not the least of which is FISA presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer criticizing the scale and scope of unlawful FBI database access going back to exactly 2012. Keep in mind a FISA-702 search, is simply an unlawful FBI warrantless electronic search of an American (“702” represents the American citizen) into the central database -maintained by the NSA- that contains all electronic data and communication.

I have been in the deep hole of the FISA-702 database search query violations for so long I don’t even need a flashlight.

The report from Matt Gaetz about Perkins Coie access to FBI databases, is in direct alignment with Rosemary Collyer’s prior report on FBI abuses of the database, 702 violations. Notice the dates and scope Judge Collyer references [Source Link].

Non-compliant queries since 2012.

85% of the FBI and contractor searches are unlawful.

Many of those searches involved the use of the “same identifiers over different data ranges.” Put in plain terms, the same people were continually being tracked, searched and surveilled by querying the FBI database over time.

The non-compliant searches go back to 2012. The same date mentioned for the FBI portal to begin operating inside the Perkins Coie office.

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The FISA court rubber stamps almost every case so I’m not sure why they thought this back door was needed. The article says that Obama hid it from congress and the FISA court. But there’s so much lawbreaking in the intelligence agencies I’m not sure if congress will give a rat’s ass about it. Or republicans for that matter since they have also refused to protect the constitution.

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@snoopydawg

it would seem to be important, though it might be important for reasons that have little to do with hillary or the democrats (might being operative here). we need more information to make any sort of judgement.

first, we need to know why there was a feeb workspace inside a dc law firm, who put it there and who had access to feeb databases. was perkins coie working for the feebs? if so, what kind of wall existed between agents, databases and attorneys?

we probably need information about who was authorized to search feeb databases in the p-c workspace, what they queried and to whom they reported their results - a considerable data dump, i would imagine.

also of interest might be whether this is an unusual arrangement or do the feebs have workspaces in a number of law firms, and if so, what are the rules for each outlet and are they scrupulously observed? if there are other law firms that have feebs working in them, it would be useful to have the same information about database queries and to whom the results were reported. there could be an interesting minefield underneath all of this.

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@joe shikspack

This was reported a few days ago but I haven’t seen much yadaing about it except for off mainstream media sites.

Remember that the FBI had a field office in Ukraine and was working with democrats on cooking up stuff against Trump. I read something about how Durham was supposed to fail at holding anyone accountable for Russia Russia just like Mueller was supposed to not find anything about not only Trump, but no one in Hillary’s camp that cooked it up. Just like Comey was supposed to fail to hold Hillary accountable for her private email server. Barr of course was also there to make sure nothing happened to anyone. "It’s a big fcking club…." Amen to that George.

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@snoopydawg

the story is likely to be carried by people who smell partisanship in it. sadly, i don't think that there's much of anybody in the press that smells the fisa violations and cares enough about it to look deeply into it. maybe greenwald or taibbi would if they come across an inside source, but damned few others.

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@joe shikspack

He seems more to follow the letter of the law and not so much partisanship. Shitlibs despise Greenwald because he’s pro Putin Nea

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@The Liberal Moonbat

Thanks and AMEN!

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