The Evening Blues - 9-3-24



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The day's news roundup + tonight's musical feature: L.C. "Good Rockin" Robinson

Hey! Good Evening!

This evening's music features blues fiddler and steel guitarist L.C. "Good Rockin" Robinson. Enjoy!

L.C. "Good Rockin'" Robinson - Train Time Blues

h/t Snoopy for the quote:

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than a thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love."

-- Washington Irving


News and Opinion

The West Truly Doesn’t See Palestinians As Human

You never see the dehumanization of Palestinians in western society exhibited so clearly as when something bad happens to Israelis during the genocidal assault on Gaza.

Today western officials are publicly weeping about six dead Israeli hostages, including one Israeli-American, who the IDF says were recently killed by Hamas.

Whoever’s been writing Joe Biden’s press releases for him published a statement about how “devastated and outraged” the president is about the death of the American hostage, Hersh Goldberg-Polin. 

The statement says the president knows Goldberg-Polin’s parents, saying “I admire them and grieve with them more deeply than words can express” and that “Hamas leaders will pay for these crimes.”

“I have worked tirelessly to bring their beloved Hersh safely to them and am heartbroken by the news of his death,” the statement reads, which for the record is a lie — the Biden administration has been collaborating with Benjamin Netanyahu to sabotage a hostage deal at every turn.


Similar sentiments are being expressed in statements by western officials like Vice President Kamala Harris, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

All of these statements frame the deaths of these six Israeli hostages as an earth-shakingly horrific tragedy, and all frame Hamas as a band of evil villains who must be brought to justice for their crimes.

No similar statements have ever been made by any of these officials about the far, far greater number of innocent Palestinians who have been killed in Gaza by the state of Israel with their assistance. No similar expressions of condolence have ever been uttered by these leaders for the millions of Palestinians who’ve had their lives completely ruined by Israel’s atrocities in Gaza and the West Bank over the last eleven months, or for the untold thousands of parents who’ve had to bury children who were exterminated in Israel’s genocidal onslaught.

Western government officials are making it clear that they do not see Palestinians as human in the same way they see Israelis as human, as are the mass media propaganda institutions who’ve been covering the deaths of these hostages with an intensity never seen regarding the IDF’s daily massacres of civilians in Gaza. Israeli strikes killed 47 Palestinians in Gaza in one 24-hour period between Saturday and Sunday, receiving not the tiniest fraction of the attention as those six Israeli hostages.

The message is clear: Israelis dying is a terrible tragedy, while Palestinians dying is just the normal way for things to be. An Israeli dying should matter as much to you as your own family or friends dying, while a Palestinian dying should be regarded as a routine and natural event like a drop of rain falling from the sky.

And that’s an important message for westerners to be indoctrinated with. Can you imagine if we all started caring about western bombs being dropped in the middle east as much as we would care if they were being dropped on our own country, or on a country we’ve been conditioned to sympathize with? All their carefully manufactured consent would crumble, and people would cease allowing the western empire to do what it needs to do to dominate the planet.

These people are actively working to subvert our basic sense of human empathy. To twist our psyches into being unable to recognize the same level of humanity among empire-targeted populations as empire-supported ones. To see authorized populations as worthy of care and sympathy, and to see unauthorized populations as vermin in need of extermination.

Yes, our rulers really are that evil, and so are the propagandists who run the mass media.

So today I would like to extend my deepest condolences to the millions of Palestinians who’ve lost loved ones and had their lives thrown to the winds of chaos by Israel’s western-backed campaign of extermination, ethnic cleansing, and terrorism.

And I would like to remind my readers that Israel has exponentially more hostages than Hamas has, and murders them routinely, and rapes and tortures them constantly.

And it is right that we should care deeply about that. Even if the people who rule over us do not.

Alastair Crooke : US Duped by Israeli Lies?

Defiant Netanyahu insists Israel must control strategic border corridor in Gaza

Benjamin Netanyahu has defied protests at home and criticism from Joe Biden by vowing that Israel would not relinquish control over a strategic corridor along the Gaza-Egyptian border. In a combative press conference, the Israeli prime minister presented control of the Philadelphi corridor along Gaza’s border with Egypt as a primary war aim, entrenching a position that has emerged as a key obstacle to a ceasefire deal.

“Israel will not accept the massacre of six hostages, Hamas will pay a heavy price,” said Netanyahu, standing in front of a wall-sized map of the Gaza Strip that included clip art of bombs and missiles crossing the border. “Iran’s axis of evil needs the Philadelphi corridors … Israel must control it.” The remarks came hours after the US president met with his top advisers on the Gaza conflict and told reporters that he did not believe Netanyahu was doing enough to secure a ceasefire deal with Hamas.

Netanyahu’s remarks came after protests this weekend and a general strike on Monday prompted by the discovery of the bodies of six hostages in Gaza. Tens of thousands of Israelis demonstrated against the government’s handling of the war in Gaza and efforts to release dozens of hostages who remain in captivity.

Hamas’s armed wing said on Monday that hostages would return to Israel “inside coffins” if military pressure continued, warning that “new instructions” had been given to the militants guarding the captives if Israeli troops approached.

Speaking to reporters on Monday, Biden said that his administration was “very close” to proposing a “final” hostage deal to both sides that has assumed new urgency since the discovery of the bodies, including that of Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin. The Washington Post had previously reported that the Biden administration was preparing to propose a “take it or leave it” deal that, if it failed, could mark the end of US-led efforts to negotiate a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

Mass Israeli Protests as 6 More Hostages Killed, But Netanyahu Refuses Ceasefire, U.S. Sends Arms

UK suspends 30 arms export licences to Israel after review

The UK has broken with the Biden administration on a significant part of their tightly coordinated policy towards Israel by announcing it is suspending some arms export licences to Israel because of a “clear risk” they may be used to commit or facilitate a serious violation of international humanitarian law.

The Foreign Office said a two-month internal review had raised concerns about the way Israel had conducted itself in the conflict in Gaza and that the decision specifically related to concerns around the treatment of Palestinian detainees and the supply of aid to Gaza.

No definitive conclusion has been reached about whether UK arms export licences have contributed to the destruction in the territory. But the scale of the devastation and the number of civilian deaths caused great concern, the Foreign Office said. The suspension, which is likely to cause tensions with the US government, covers components for military aircraft, helicopters, drones and targeting equipment.

The UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, said it applied to 30 of the 350 existing arms licences, but would almost entirely exclude all UK components for the F-35 fighter jet programme, seen as a significant loophole by pro-Palestinian groups. F-35 components have been exempted, officials say, because they are part of a global programme and the UK does not have unilateral control of these components, which are sent to the US. They will, however, not be exempt on the rare occasion where the part is being sent directly to Israel.

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs : The Looming War With Iran

Israel Kills 11 in Bombing of Gaza Shelter as Urgent Polio Vaccination Effort Begins

The Israeli military killed nearly a dozen people Sunday in its latest bombing of a school-turned-shelter in the Gaza Strip, an attack that came amid limited pauses aimed at allowing relief workers to vaccinate Palestinian children against reemergent polio.

Israel's strike on the Safad school in Gaza City killed at least 11 people, including a woman and a girl, a spokesperson for Gaza's civil defense agency told Agence France-Presse.

The Israeli military claimed it was targeting a "Hamas command center" inside the school, which—like other Gaza schools that remain standing—was being used as a shelter for people displaced by Israel's nearly 11-month assault.

Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), said Monday that Israeli bombing has damaged or destroyed more than 70% of the schools it runs in the enclave.

"The vast majority of our schools are now overcrowded shelters with hundreds of thousands of displaced families. They cannot be used for learning," Lazzarini continued. "With no cease-fire, children are likely to fall prey to exploitation including child labor and recruitment into armed groups. We have seen this way too often in conflicts around the world, let’s not repeat it in Gaza."

"A cease-fire is a win for all: it will allow respite for civilians, the release of the hostages, and a flow of much-needed basic supplies including for learning," he added.

The deadly attack came at the start of three days of localized humanitarian pauses to allow U.N. aid workers to vaccinate Palestinian children against polio amid growing fears of a mass outbreak of the infectious disease that has no known cure.

Last month, Gaza health officials detected the first polio case in more than two decades, heightening the urgency of a large-scale vaccination campaign—an effort made highly difficult by the Israeli military's relentless bombing and destruction of Gaza's healthcare infrastructure.

UNRWA said early Monday that its teams were able to vaccinate roughly 87,000 children on the first day of negotiated pauses even as Israeli airstrikes continued across the besieged enclave.

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said in a statement Sunday that "Israeli aircraft and tanks continue to bomb the central Gaza Strip, the area where the polio vaccination campaign has begun."

"Along with the ongoing shelling in various parts of the strip, these Israeli military attacks have coincided with the peak of families' movement with their children towards the designated vaccination centers," the group said. "Some of these attacks have even targeted locations near the vaccination centers, endangering the progress of the vaccination process that is required to stop the poliovirus from spreading among Palestinian children in the besieged enclave."

Louise Wateridge, a senior communications officer for UNRWA, told the BBC on Monday morning that "we cannot vaccinate children who are fearing for their lives."

"We cannot vaccinate children and families who have to flee for safety," said Wateridge as explosions rang out in the background. "We need these children to be able to come to the vaccination centers and receive these vaccines safely. And that's not possible when there's fighting like there is now."

Israeli settlers accused of using cover of war to build more settlements

Israel lays siege to Jenin as it stops food and water, blocks ambulances

The Israeli siege of the West Bank city of Jenin has left Palestinians with no food, water or electricity, with medical charity Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, accusing Israeli forces of obstructing access to health facilities and targeting ambulances.

“All basic necessities” including bread inside the refugee camp “no longer exist”, Taher al-Saadi, a resident of Jenin who managed to escape, told Al Jazeera. Fayza Abu Jaafar, another resident who fled Jenin, said the situation is “very hard” for children still trapped in the area, as they are “terrified” of the destruction carried out by Israeli forces.

The Israeli military brought in reinforcements on Sunday after demolishing shops and bulldozing streets, while preventing tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians from accessing humanitarian aid, in a step described as a “war crime”. Israel has also been accused of war crimes during its ongoing military offensive in Gaza.

According to the Jenin municipality, the Israeli army has bulldozed nearly 70 percent of the city’s streets and 20km (12.4 miles) of its water and sewage networks since it launched its raids on Wednesday, August 28. As a result, 80 percent of the Jenin refugee camp, home to 20,000 people, is left without water access, the Jenin municipality said.

Aside from the extensive damage to public utilities and infrastructure, Israeli troops have also raided numerous homes and damaged and “looted” private properties, while subjecting residents to interrogations and “harsh treatment”, the Palestinian Wafa news agency reported. Among those who were subjected to interrogation and beating was a trained volunteer from Doctors Without Borders (MSF), the group said in a statement, adding that Israeli forces have surrounded Khalil Suleiman Hospital, forcing its team to suspend dialysis care to patients in Jenin.

LEAKED CEASEFIRE DOCS Reveal Bibi Sabotage

Israeli court orders end of nationwide strike called over handling of hostage talks

Israel’s first nationwide general strike since the Hamas attacks of 7 October, which was convened in support of a deal to free hostages held in Gaza, has ended after eight hours with a court order for workers to go back to their jobs.

The strike was organised amid widespread public anger at the government’s handling of the war in Gaza after the discovery of the bodies of six hostages at the weekend.

It was called by Israel’s largest trade union, Histadrut, from 6am on Monday, closing government and municipal offices as well as schools and many private businesses. Israel’s international airport, Ben Gurion, was reported to have shut down at 8am local time (6am BST) for two hours.

The Tel Aviv labour court ordered an end to the strike on Monday, ruling that it was politically motivated and had not been called for economic reasons.

The chair of Histadrut, Arnon Bar-David, said in a statement before the strike: “I have come to the conclusion that only our intervention can shake those who need to be shaken.

Is Keir Starmer's England going fascist?

Starmer, destroying economy to tighten control

AfD leaders demand inclusion in state coalition talks after election success

Leaders of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland have demanded that their party be included in coalition negotiations in two states where it won nearly a third of the vote in elections on Sunday, in results that have scrambled the political landscape a year before a general election.

Although the political earthquake from the elections in eastern Germany had been long foreseen, the centrist governing parties proved incapable of stopping the rise of the AfD, which came first in Thuringia state with nearly 33% of the vote and a close second in Saxony with almost 31%. The three parties in the chancellor Olaf Scholz’s unpopular government each scored in the single-digit percentage points in a stinging rebuke from voters, leaving another of the EU’s main powers, along with France, politically chastened and hamstrung.

Valérie Hayer, a French politician who leads the liberal Renew Europe grouping in the European parliament, called the state results “unprecedented” and said on X that “a dark day for Germany is a dark day for Europe”. ...

The AfD chapters in Saxony and Thuringia have been designated as “rightwing extremist” by the security authorities. Sunday’s result in Thuringia marked the first time since the Nazi period that a far-right party has claimed the top spot in a state election, raising questions about how long the democratic parties can keep it out of power by refusing any cooperation. Scholz called the results “bitter” and “worrying”. He said: “Our country cannot and must not get used to this. The AfD is damaging Germany. It is weakening the economy, dividing society and ruining our country’s reputation.”

The night’s other big winner was the new leftwing-conservative populist party the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), named after its founder who broke off from the far-left Linke party last year, leaving it in tatters. The BSW, which calls for higher taxes on top earners, curbs on immigration and an end to military assistance for Ukraine, scored nearly 16% in Thuringia and almost 12% in Saxony.

AfD & Sahra rise. Scholz & Greens defeated

Anti-immigration leftists have potential to upend German political scene

It was, Sahra Wagenknecht declared on the social media platform X on Sunday, “a historic result” achieved from almost a standing start. Within eight months, her leftwing-conservative Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) has gone from an upstart party of breakaway populists to a decisive player with the potential to upend the German political scene.

The BSW party’s third place position in state elections in the eastern states of Thuringia (16%) and Saxony (12%), behind the centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU) and far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), now puts it in the position of kingmaker.

Like the other established mainstream parties, the BSW has scotched any possibility of entering into a formal coalition with the AfD, though it has not ruled out cooperation on subjects on which the parties are aligned. But its strong standing means negotiations in neither state can take place without it.

Asked on Sunday night whether she was ready to negotiate for a position in the states’ governments, Wagenknecht, 55, responded with an enigmatic smile. By Monday, she appeared triumphant, emboldened – and more open to the idea. “This is a magnificent day,” she said at a press conference flanked by the party’s lead candidates from both states. “We have become a power factor in Germany … We can use that position to really move things in this country.” The vote for the BSW, she added, was “an expression of the mood in Germany”.

Wagenknecht’s views are an eclectic mixture of left-leaning economics, anti-immigration rhetoric and a foreign policy grounded in suspicion of the US and residual support for Russia.

US Press Loses Interest as Winners of French Election Aren’t Allowed to Take Power

One of the US’s oldest and closest allies is currently undergoing a constitutional crisis. Its government is in disarray, led by a head of state whose party has been rejected by voters, and who refuses to allow parliament to function. Coups and crises of transition may pass by relatively unnoticed in the periphery, but France has gone nearly two months without a legitimate government, and US corporate media don’t seem to care to report on it.

Despite corporate media’s supposed dedication to preserving Western democracy, the Washington Post and the New York Times have mostly stayed silent on French President Emmanuel Macron’s refusal to respect the winners of the recent election. Since the left coalition supplied its pick for prime minister on July 23, the Times has reported on the issue twice, once when Macron declared he wouldn’t name a prime minister until after the Olympics (7/23/24), and again nearly seven weeks after the July 7 election (8/23/24). Neither story appeared on the front page.

It’s not that the Times didn’t think the French elections were worth reporting on; the paper ran five news articles (6/30/24, 6/30/24, 7/1/24, 7/1/24, 7/7/24), including two on the front page of its print edition, from June 30–July 7 on “France’s high-stakes election” that “could put the country on a new course” (6/30/24). But as it became clear that Macron was not going to name a prime minister, transforming the snap election into a constitutional crisis, the US paper of record seemingly lost interest.

Since July 23, the Post has published two news items from the AP (8/23/24, 8/27/24), plus an opinion piece by European affairs columnist Lee Hockstader (7/24/24), who suggested that France’s best path forward is “a broad alliance of the center”—conveniently omitting that the leftist coalition in fact beat Macron’s centrists in the July 7 election. In what little reporting there is, journalists have been satisfied to stick to Macron’s framing of “stability,” omitting any critique of an executive exploiting holes in the French constitution.

France is in an unprecedented political situation, in which there is no clear governing coalition in the National Assembly. After the snap elections concluded on July 7, the left coalition New Popular Front (NFP) won a plurality of seats in the National Assembly, beating out both Macron’s centrist Ensemble and the far-right National Rally (RN). (While the sitting president’s coalition won the second-most seats, it actually got fewer votes than either the left coalition or the far right.)

These circumstances expose a blind spot in the French constitution, where the president has sole responsibility to name a prime minister, but is not constitutionally obligated to choose someone from the coalition with the most backing. Indeed, there is no deadline for him to choose anyone. In the absence of a new government, Gabriel Attal of Macron’s Renaissance party continues to be prime minister of a caretaker government, despite the voters’ clear rejection of the party.

Despite Macron’s failure to allow the French government to function, US reporting on the subject has remained subdued. Headlines note less the historic impasse in the National Assembly, and Macron’s failure to respect the outcome of the legislative election, and more the confusing or curious nature of the situation.

Where US corporate media do comment on Macron’s denial of the election, their framing is neutral or even defensive of the president’s equivocations. Critiques are couched as attacks from the left; one AP piece published in the Washington Post (8/27/24) reports not that Macron is denying an election, but simply that France’s left is fuming:

France’s main left-wing coalition on Tuesday accused President Emmanuel Macron of denying democracy…. Leftist leaders lashed out at Macron, accusing him of endangering French democracy and denying the election results.

Left unchallenged are Macron’s claims that he is simply trying his best to preserve stability, election results be damned:

On Monday, Macron rejected their nominee for prime minister—little-known civil servant Lucie Castets—saying that his decision to refuse a government led by the New Popular Front is aimed at ensuring “institutional stability.”

AP left out of its story the fact that Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the leader of France Unbowed (LFI), the supposedly most objectionable member of the NFP coalition, even offered to accept an NFP government led by Castets, with no LFI members in ministerial roles, to assuage the fears of centrists. This olive branch did not impress AP, which instead relayed Macron’s call for “left-wing leaders to seek cooperation with parties outside their coalition.”

Despite noting that “the left-wing coalition…has insisted that the new prime minister should be from their ranks because it’s the largest group,” the AP piece concluded that “Macron appears more eager to seek a coalition that could include politicians from the center-left to the traditional right,” with no commentary on the right of the electorate to have their voices heard.

The New York Times’ reporting (8/23/24) had a similar tone, focusing on the “kafkaesque” situation in which the French government is “intractably stuck.”  Times correspondent Catherine Porter chided the NFP, the coalition with the most seats, for its supposed unwillingness to compromise—noting pointedly that “many of the actions the coalition has vowed to champion run counter to Mr. Macron’s philosophy of making France more business-friendly.”

She went on to admit, however, that Castets, the NFP’s choice for prime minister, “has softened her position from its original hard-core stance”—that is, that the coalition would implement the program it ran on—and that “she says she would pursue something more reflective of minority government position.”

However, the Times continued, “the biggest party in her coalition, France Unbowed, has a history of scorched-earth politics that makes the pledge for conciliation feel thin.” In other words, even when the left is willing to make compromises, it is still to blame if such offers aren’t accepted, due to its history of acting in a principled fashion.

The Times seemed to accept an equation between LFI and the RN, which was founded (as the National Front) as an explicitly neo-fascist movement. The paper reported that it was not only a departing minister from Macron’s party, but “many others,” who

consider France Unbowed and its combative leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a former Trotskyist, to be as dangerous to France’s democracy as the extreme right.

The anti-immigrant agenda of France’s extreme right, as represented by the RN, includes repealing birthright citizenship in favor of requiring a French parent and implementing strict tests of cultural and lingual assimilation. Mélenchon’s LFI, in contrast, favors medical aid for undocumented migrants and social support for asylum seekers.

Despite the Times’ previous reporting (7/9/24) that LFI is a “hostile-to-capitalism” party, the party’s platform only calls for more state intervention in the market economy, with a critique that is more anti–free market dogma than anti-capitalist, per political scientist Rémi Lefebvre.

Whether supporting intervention in the market is as extreme as supporting ethnic determination of “Frenchness” is left as an exercise for the reader. But according to the French government’s official categorization (Le Parisien, 3/11/24), LFI is categorized simply as “left,” while the RN is indeed categorized as “extreme right.”

Despite the sparse and incomplete coverage by the New York Times and the Washington Post, they must be given credit for covering the story at all. A Nexis review of Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS and PBS NewsHour reveals next to no reporting on Macron’s refusal to name a prime minister, with no critical reporting whatsoever.

Since July 23, when Castets emerged as the left’s choice, there have been two brief mentions of Macron’s lack of a decision, on CNN Newsroom (7/24/24) and Fox Special Report (8/23/24). Neither program mentioned Castets, much less the exceptional circumstances faced by the French electorate.

Oregon: drug possession to be a crime again as decriminalization law expires

Oregon’s first-in-the-nation experiment with decriminalizing drugs will expire on Sunday as a new law taking effect will once again make it a crime to possess small amounts of hard drugs.

The new recriminalization law, HB4002, will give those caught with illicit drugs – including fentanyl, heroin and meth – the choice to either be charged with possession or treatment, which includes completing a behavioral health program and participating in a “deflection program” to avoid fines.

Personal-use possession would be a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail. It aims to make it easier for police to crack down on drug use in public and introduced harsher penalties for selling drugs near places such as parks.

The recriminalization law encourages, but does not mandate, counties to create treatment alternatives to divert people from the criminal justice system and toward addiction and mental health services.

Backers of the law say this allows counties to develop programs based on their resources, while opponents say it may create a confusing and inequitable patchwork of policy.



the horse race



AOC LASHES OUT At Jill Stein, Demands FEALTY To Dems: Green Party Candidate On RISING



the evening greens


Weather tracker: extreme heat hits Brazil, fuelling risk of wildfires

Unrelenting heat will continue across parts of Brazil this week with temperatures about 5C to 10C above the 1991 to 2020 average. Daytime temperatures will reach 35C to 40C in parts of the Central West region, affecting cities such as Belo Horizonte, Brasília and Manaus. This extreme heat is likely to continue into next week, with temperatures above 40C possible in places.

This heat will amplify the risk of wildfires that have been raging across parts of Brazil, especially across the Amazon rainforest, Cerrado savanna, Pantanal wetlands and the southern state of São Paulo. Local reports say these fires have been exacerbated by high temperatures, strong winds and low relative humidity, with São Paulo and the Amazon suffering the worst fire season in decades.

Over the past week, 2,700 fires have ripped through São Paulo state, and authorities say more than 59,000 hectares (146,000 acres) have been destroyed by the fires. Brazil’s largest sugar group, Raizen SA, has estimated that about 1.8tn tonnes of its sugarcane have been affected by the fires, about 2% of its total forecasted crop for the year. ...

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, there have been 53,620 fire spots in the Amazon between 1 January and 27 August this year – an 83% increase on the same period last year.

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Chris Hedges Report: Roots of Mideast Conflict

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A Little Night Music

L.C 'Good Rockin'' Robinson & Omar Sharriff ~ She Got It From The Start

L.C. "Good Rockin'" Robinson - Bringin' My Baby Back Home

L.C. 'Good Rockin' Robinson ~ Summerville Blues

L.C. "Good Rockin'" Robinson - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie

L.C. Good Rockin' Robinson - I've Got To Go

L.C. Good Rockin' Robinson - Rockin' With Peggy

L.C. Robinson - Jack Rabbit Boogie

L C Robinson - Why Don't You Write Me

L C 'Good Rockin' Robinson - Mojo In My Hand


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QMS's picture

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Nutty yahoo and exlensky. It is about arms sales, not democracy.
Most of the world can read the writing on the walls, except us as
we are exceptionally propagandized.

love the Pinetop's Boogie Woogie

thanks for exposing the mess we make

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joe shikspack's picture

@QMS

i guess as long as they keep losing, they will need more weapons. well, at least until they run out of people to hold the weapons.

have a good one!

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Patrick Lawrence offers his opinion on shitlibs…don’t miss it.

https://scheerpost.com/2024/09/03/patrick-lawrence-gaza-kamala-harris-an...

am sure The Times is carefully selective in deciding what comments it publishes so as to contain dissent and encourage conformity. And what a job it did on the Alyan piece. These comments, 2,264 of them by Monday, are beyond outrage and indignation. They give us the sound of an educated, liberal elite that has so lost its moorings it can no longer discern pure evil when it stares back at them—an elite that, indeed, condemns those who dare to raise their voices in objection, as every single one of us should.

To read these comments is to wade through an intellectual and moral cesspit. A reader from Detroit tells Alyan, “I see no reason Gaza should be the decision maker on your vote.” A Los Angeleno going by JM says for Harris to depart from the Biden’s regime’s unconditional support for Israel’s terror operation in Gaza is “to commit political suicide and abandon reality.” An Atlanta man asserts, “There are more important issues in this election than petty ethnic whining about who owns what land in the Middle East.”

In our household, we call people such as these “the good Germans.”

I wonder how many of them wailed and gnashed their teeth over the deaths of the 6 Israeli hostages? And then stayed silent when Israel murdered 47 Palestinians the next day?

Hey maybe Israelis should have been protesting about their country’s treatment of Palestinians so they wouldn’t get the blowback it did on October 7. Do they even bother to wonder why Hamas attacked?

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A leftist is someone with morally correct politics. A liberal is someone who wants to feel morally correct w/o ever putting themselves at odds with power or costing themselves opportunities or experiencing the uncomfortable emotions that truth causes.

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and why they will not back down seems to be lost on the Israelites
so slaughter is the sensible response to these amoral idiots
not compromise, not negotiation and not diplomacy
just bombs, murder, starvation and genocide

sheesh, what a bunch of fools

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joe shikspack's picture

@snoopydawg

as i was reading lawrence's article and i got to the part about the comment responses to alyan's piece, a lyric from a 70's era satire piece ran through my head:

Be assured that a walk through the ocean of most souls
Would scarcely get your feet wet.

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@joe shikspack

That sounds right. If any of them actually read what she wrote it obviously didn’t sink in theirs feeble brains. It goes back to what Caitlin said in her article you posted.

Ahh well I will continue to laugh at them for following the dem's hype of Kamala’s JOY campaign after the media grabbed their noses and dragged then in the psyop of joy. Pavlov's dawg is laughing at shitlibs.

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A leftist is someone with morally correct politics. A liberal is someone who wants to feel morally correct w/o ever putting themselves at odds with power or costing themselves opportunities or experiencing the uncomfortable emotions that truth causes.

enhydra lutris's picture

invited some swedes in to teach them stuff. Somebody should have taught all of them what happened to the Swedes unde Emperor Chuck XII at Plotava. History is really prone to rhyme when one sets the stage for it.

be well and have a good one

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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

yeah, as i remember it, emperor chuckles empire petered out in poltava.

i wonder what the swedes will lose this time.

have a great evening!

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@joe shikspack

Thanks for the evening blues.

be well and have a good one

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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 --

springs into a fair and balanced action.

https://thehill.com/policy/international/4860594-doj-charges-hamas-leaders/

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has charged Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and other militants over the group’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Tuesday.

The charges, unsealed Tuesday, accuse Sinwar and other senior Hamas leaders of “financing and directing a decades-long campaign to murder American citizens and endanger the security of the United States.”

The criminal complaint, filed in federal court in New York City, includes seven counts, including charges of conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, conspiracy to murder U.S. nationals and conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction, resulting in death.

“In its attacks over the past three decades, Hamas has murdered or injured thousands of civilians, including dozens of American citizens,” Garland said in a video announcement.

Garland zeroed in on Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks, during which the group killed about 1,200 people — including more than 40 Americans. About 250 others were kidnapped and taken back to Gaza, including about a dozen Americans.

“In the early morning hours of Oct. 7 last year, Hamas, led by these defendants, committed its most violent, large scale terrorist attack to date,” he added. “They perpetrated the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.”

Garland said the unsealed charges are “just one part” of the DOJ’s efforts to “target every aspect of Hamas’s operations.”

“These actions will not be our last. The Justice Department has a long memory. We will pursue the terrorists responsible for murdering Americans and those who illegally provide them with material support for the rest of their lives,” he said.

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@humphrey

it shouldn’t be made. The UN says that an occupied country has the right to attack its occupiers. Hamas should have only gone after military targets, but then so should Israel and yet its jails are full of innocent civilians…goose/gander again.

Garland needs to buy a mirror and charge many ex and current presidents with murder as well as military commanders and every person who followed illegal orders.

Zionists are getting governments to dance to their tune and making them change the rules for decent. Starmer seems to be the worst for now, but colleges are making a protest against Zionism and genocide illegal. Draconian rules have been passed across the country on Israel's demands and how long will journalists be allowed to describe the truth? Ritter and Dean have already been raided. We ain’t sliding into fascism, we’re already there as Craig Murray writes.

https://consortiumnews.com/2024/09/03/craig-murray-the-end-of-western-pl...

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A leftist is someone with morally correct politics. A liberal is someone who wants to feel morally correct w/o ever putting themselves at odds with power or costing themselves opportunities or experiencing the uncomfortable emotions that truth causes.

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@humphrey

i can't wait to see palestine's countersuit and cross bill of complaint.

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@humphrey
when the DOJ went after Obama for the murder of Anwar Awlaki in 2011, his son, Abdulrahman the following month, and his daughter killed by Seal Team 6 in 2017?
All were American citizens.

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Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.

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was explained to me the rules have changed
the primary only had a few choices on it
I was somehow registered as a democrat
even though I dis-affiliated after the last general
you could only get an R or D ballot
wtf, I wanted to vote for my mate and against
Whitehouse. They told me I could dis-affiliate
after the election was certified or some such BS
Really? Right to vote is now a series of hurdles.
No opportunity to write-in.
This isn't an election so much as a scam.
I kindly asked the town clerk to not file my change
form in the sewer permit folder. She just laughed.
Oh, joy!

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And a good roundup of what's going on 'round the world.
I had read a comment from a German national describing the AfD as more akin to our Libertarian Party than far-right.
But that is not the correct narrative per the tptb.
The same with the Palestinians as not human
Demons gotta demonize.

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Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.

joe shikspack's picture

@earthling1

heh, i think that anybody that thinks limitations on immigration are a good idea gets labeled "far right" these days.

i don't really know much about afd, so i can't venture an opinion on what part of the spectrum they inhabit.

have a great evening!

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@joe shikspack
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propaganda outlets to describe an uncomfortable
(to them) entire spectrums of grievances against
the dominant regimes in many cultures

a convenient slur projected at a basket full of ideas

in our country, they try to apply it to trumpets
but in other regions, somehow the term does not
apply to nazi's or zionistas

the moral compass is askew
left is right and right is left

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is armored and has only one purpose.

And when they are done ripping up roads they have some fun doing this.

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joe shikspack's picture

@humphrey

yep, it would more appropriately be labeled destruction equipment. there's nothing constructive about the activities the israelis engage in with it.

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@humphrey

That’s just Israel doing self defense . Move along, nothing to see here. Hey did you hear that Hamas said mean things about Israel?

Gawd…I’m running out of words to describe my disgust of world leaders cowing to Israel’s dictates. Hey guys grow some fcking stones!

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There is this site in Armenia dedicated to the 600,000, more or less, people who were victims of genocide. In 2007, our gummint finally said it was so. It was so sad and just emotionally brutal to walk around, read the signs, get tour guided explanations. Similar to Auschwitz, as an example, which I also visited. I am a huge believer in bearing witness.
One of my lawyer pals in Houston is of Armenian descent. She was born there.
When I have to go to mediation under court order, she is always my choice. She totally "gets it".
The Hedges video is a must see. Lots about the world right now stems from then and that event.
Thanks for all you do, my dear friend!

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

joe shikspack's picture

@on the cusp

yep, the armenian genocide was pretty terrible, the numbers are variously estimated from about 600k to 1.5 million that i've seen over the years. turkey still refuses any accountability or to issue any form of apology. israel refuses to recognize it as a genocide or holocaust.

have a great evening!

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@joe shikspack deal with ports, oil, all is good.

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

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Wow! ‘Good Rockin’ Robinson is sure true to his name — loved the music. I loved how he took the same great tune and reinterpreted it, musically and lyrically.

The quote you reposted from Snoopy is superb. Because of it I'd like to find out more about Washington Irving.

Even if the tears don’t fall down ones face, they can drown the heart, or alternatively enliven it. We need less meaningless words drowning out the suffering, and more silent tears.

Thank you joe and all for keeping it real.

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