The Evening Blues - 4-3-25
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Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels ~ Devil with a Blue Dress On
“These tariffs are going to give us growth like you’ve never seen before, and it’ll be something very special to watch.”
-- Donald "The Mad Taxer" Trump
News and Opinion
They Tell You The Houthis Attack Ships, But They Never Tell You Why
None of the people applauding Trump’s war on Yemen because “the Houthis are attacking ships” will tell you why the Houthis started attacking ships.
The pundits won’t say, and the people don’t know.
After two weeks of interacting with people who support Trump’s war I can confidently say that none of them know why the war is happening. They know it has something to do with the Houthis attacking ships in the Red Sea, but they never have any idea why those attacks started happening in the first place. They generally assume it’s because the Houthis are just plain evil and want to attack ships, or because Iran ordered them to do it in order to take over the middle east. The words “terrorists” and “pirates” come up a lot.
They legitimately do not know it’s a blockade aimed at halting Israel’s genocidal atrocities in Gaza, and that all attacks had ceased while the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was in effect. They have no idea that Ansar Allah only announced the Red Sea blockade would resume after Trump and Netanyahu actively collaborated to sabotage the ceasefire and resume starving Gaza, or that they hadn’t even resumed attacks yet when Trump began bombing them.
My latest piece in @Mondoweiss: Yemen is acting responsibly to stop genocide and the U.S. is bombing them for it https://t.co/STmueYMCdR
— Craig Mokhiber (@CraigMokhiber) April 2, 2025
They do not know that the Houthis succeeded in causing an 85 percent reduction in shipping activity to Israel’s Port Eilat, putting effective pressure on the Netanyahu regime to end the Gaza holocaust. They do not know that Trump’s reason for bombing Yemen is the same reason as Biden’s: because the US empire believes it should be allowed to back Israel’s genocide without any consequences or resistance of any kind.
They’re supporting a war without knowing why they support it. This is possible because they not only don’t know why the war is happening — they also don’t care. They would support literally anything Trump did for any reason whatsoever, because they are mindless infantile cultists and not free thinking adults.
They don’t need to know why Trump is bombing Yemen, all they need is to be assured in a confident-sounding tone that the people he is bombing deserve to be bombed. As long as they receive that assurance, they don’t ask any further questions. They don’t even bother doing a few seconds worth of research. All they care about is supporting whatever Trump and his pundits tell them to support.
When you see how effective the Houthis have been at using Yemen's critical location to shut down Red Sea traffic, you understand why the US spent years backing a horrific genocidal military campaign trying to get rid of them. pic.twitter.com/kL3fYDqJlY
— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) December 21, 2023
And what keeps blowing my mind is that they’re still supporting Trump’s war even after seeing the leaked Signal chat featuring Trump’s own team privately acknowledging to each other that it isn’t really necessary. They know that chat exists. They saw Trump officials talking about how there’s no real reason the bombing needs to happen right now and at most it can be used to “send a message” (whatever that means). But they’ve been aggressively defending Trump’s war this whole time anyway.
Really all that would need to happen for the Houthis to permanently stop attacking ships would be for Trump to use the immense amount of leverage the White House has over Israel and force Netanyahu into a permanent ceasefire. That’s how he could make himself into the “President of Peace” Tulsi Gabbard says he is instead of another disgusting warmonger advancing all the longstanding neocon war agendas his political faction pretends to oppose.
But that all it is. Pretending. They’re all phonies and frauds. A bunch of George W Bush Republicans LARPing as Ron Paul libertarians. Bleating human livestock cheering for every act of mass military slaughter they are instructed to cheer for.
Israel is ‘seizing territory’ and will ‘divide up’ Gaza, Netanyahu says
Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel is “seizing territory” and intends to “divide up” the Gaza Strip by building a new security corridor, amid a major expansion of aerial and ground operations in the besieged Palestinian territory. “Tonight, we have shifted gears in the Gaza Strip. The [Israeli army] is seizing territory, hitting the terrorists and destroying the infrastructure,” the prime minister said in a video statement on Wednesday evening.
“We are also doing another thing – seizing the ‘Morag route’. This will be the second Philadelphi route, another Philadelphi route,” he said, referring to an Israeli-held corridor along the Egypt-Gaza border. “Because we are currently dividing up the strip, we are adding pressure step by step, so that our hostages will be given to us,” Netanyahu added.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have seized buffer zones around Gaza’s edges totalling 62 sq km, or 17% of the strip, since the war began in October 2023, according to the Israeli human rights group Gisha. The Netzarim corridor, named for a defunct Israeli settlement, now cuts off Gaza City from the south of the strip. Morag was a Jewish settlement that once stood between Rafah and Khan Younis, so the use of the name suggests the new corridor is designed to separate the two southern cities.
The Israeli prime minister’s announcement follows remarks on Wednesday from his defence minister, Israel Katz, who said the Israeli army would “seize large areas” of Gaza, necessitating large-scale civilian evacuations. Neither Netanyahu nor Katz elaborated on how much Palestinian land Israel intended to capture in the renewed offensive, but the move is likely to complicate ceasefire talks and inflame fears that Israel intends to take permanent control of the strip when the war ends.
Evidence of ‘execution-style’ killings of Palestinian aid workers by Israeli forces, doctor says
A forensic doctor who examined the bodies of some of the 15 paramedics and Palestinian rescue workers shot dead by Israeli forces and buried in a mass grave in southern Gaza has said there is evidence of execution-style killing, based on the “specific and intentional” location of shots at close range.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society, the Palestinian Civil Defense and UN employees were on a humanitarian mission to collect dead and wounded civilians outside the southern city of Rafah on the morning of 23 March when they were killed and then buried in the sand by a bulldozer alongside their flattened vehicles, according to the UN. ...
Ahmad Dhaher, a forensic consultant who examined five of the dead at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis after they had been exhumed, said all of them had died from bullet wounds. “All cases had been shot with multiple bullets, except for one, which could not be determined due to the body being mutilated by animals like dogs, leaving it almost as just a skeleton,” Dhaher told the Guardian.
“Preliminary analysis suggests they were executed, not from a distant range, since the locations of the bullet wounds were specific and intentional,” he said. “One observation is that the bullets were aimed at one person’s head, another at their heart, and a third person had been shot with six or seven bullets in the torso.” He emphasised that there was room for uncertainty due to the decomposition of the remains, and that in other cases he reviewed “most of the bullets targeted the joints, such as the shoulder, elbow, ankle, or wrist”.
Two witnesses to the recovery of the bodies told the Guardian on Tuesday that they had seen bodies the hands and legs of which had been tied, suggesting they had been detained before their deaths. A Red Crescent spokesperson, Nebal Farsakh, said on Wednesday that one of the paramedics “had his hands tied together with his legs to his body”. Dhaher said there was no clear evidence of restraints on the five bodies he examined. “I could not recognise any tying marks on their hands due to the state of decomposition of the five cases I checked, so I can’t be sure of it,” he said.
Netanyahu steps up assault on Israel’s legal authorities, confirms no end to Gaza genocide
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right Israeli government is moving to dispense with all constraints on its powers and get rid of its political opponents within the state apparatus—including the head of the Shin Bet domestic spy agency Ronen Bar and Attorney-General Galia Beharav-Miara. This is part of its preparations for a broader crackdown on all opposition to its policies at home and abroad.
Last week, in an unprecedented move aimed at eliminating judicial oversight of government, the cabinet unanimously backed a no confidence motion against Baharav-Miara, who as Israel’s Attorney-General is the country’s most senior legal official and one of the few nominal checks on the power of the executive, while also heading the public prosecution. Her position is a fixed-term independent, not a political, appointment. The vote is the first step in a lengthy process to secure her dismissal that will likely go all the way up to the Supreme Court, which some ministers have already said they will ignore if the decision goes against them. Justice Minister and prime mover in the government’s two-year long judicial coup Yariv Levin accused Baharav-Miara of acting “as an extension of the government’s opponents”. She had made “effective co-operation” and was holding the government “in contempt”.
The attempt to dismiss her is part of Netanyahu’s bitter feud with Israel’s judiciary that he accuses of organising a “left-wing coup” against him under the guise of a corruption trial. It follows a series of developments aimed at strengthening the government’s powers against its political opponents—including initiatives that were put on hold after the post-October 7 assault on Gaza when opposition leaders joined the war cabinet—that are intensifying the tensions with Israel’s legal authorities and precipitating a constitutional crisis. ...
Baharav-Miara has backed the government’s most blatant violations of international law to the hilt and greenlighted war crimes against the Palestinians. As she acknowledged in her defence, she gave her legal support for the government’s “operational approach to Gaza”. In other words, she approved Israel’s genocidal war on the Palestinians that led the International Court of Justice to conclude in January 2024 that the claim that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza was “plausible”, and the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants for war crimes for Netanyahu and his former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. ...
While Baharav-Miara has backed Netanyahu’s assault on the Palestinians, she has refused to call off his corruption trial. She has also opposed the government’s efforts to exempt the ultra-Orthodox from military service. Netanyahu has promised the religious parties, on which his coalition is dependent, that once she has been removed from office it will be easier to bypass the law mandating conscription. ...
Netanyahu told the cabinet on Sunday that even if a deal is reached to free all hostages, ending the war is not on the agenda. War would only end if Hamas were disarmed and its leaders sent into exile. Israel would retain control of Gaza’s “security” and implement US President Donald Trump’s plan to expel the Palestinians. Defence Minister Israel Katz on Wednesday announced plans to seize large areas of Gaza “to crush and clean the area of terrorists and terrorist infrastructure and capture large areas that will be added to the security zones of the state of Israel.”
Sen. Tom Cotton: Pushing for WAR with IRAN?
Trump Is Preparing To Bomb Iran With Israel
The US and Israel are currently planning to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities, an attack that could happen in a “few weeks’ time,” Daily Mail columnist Dan Hodges reported on Wednesday.
Hodges wrote the report while in Tel Aviv and cited Israeli political, diplomatic, and military sources. He said the purpose of the strike would be to “eradicate the threat” posed by Iran’s “nuclear weapons program,” although there’s no evidence Tehran has a nuclear weapons program, a fact recently confirmed by US intelligence agencies.
A senior Israeli diplomatic source told Hodges that Trump’s presidency offers the best time to hit Iran. “From Israel’s perspective, with Trump in the White House, this represents the optimum moment to deal with Iran. There won’t be a better chance,” the official said.
Trump recently threatened to bomb Iran if a nuclear deal isn’t reached, and he has reportedly given Tehran a two-month deadline, which would end at the end of May. Iran responded to Trump by rejecting direct talks in the face of increasing US pressure, but Tehran has offered to hold indirect negotiations.
US bombing of Yemen compounding dire humanitarian situation
A ramped-up US bombing campaign on Yemen has killed civilians and brought further destruction and uncertainty to the poorest country in the Middle East, compounding an already dire situation after Donald Trump cut aid, according to local people, humanitarian workers and rights groups. ...
For more than two weeks, US airstrikes have hit the Gulf country, targeting the anti-western Houthi movement, which controls most of the war-torn country. ... Strikes have targeted Sana’a, Yemen’s capital, as well as the port city of Hodeidah and the Houthi stronghold of Sa’ada. The targets include densely populated areas, but assessing the impact on civilians of the strikes – which are coordinated with and supported by UK armed forces – is difficult.
Niku Jafarnia, a Yemen researcher at Human Rights Watch, said the Houthis had blocked off “any and all access” to bomb sites and hospitals as part of a crackdown on civil society and the media. But she added: “There is no question there are civilian casualties. Residential areas are being hit in the middle of the night, which is a sure-fire way to kill civilians.”
The Houthi-run Saba news agency has said the US has twice bombed a cancer hospital in the country’s north and accused the US of “full-fledged war crimes by targeting civilians and civilian objects, resulting in dozens of deaths and injuries in several governorates”. Independent groups have also suggested a high degree of civilian harm.
In a post on X, the Yemen Data Project, which monitors attacks in the country, said that the first week of attacks had killed at least 25 civilians, including four children. About half of the strikes had hit civilian sites, including a school, a wedding hall, residential areas and Bedouin tents, it said.
Prof. JOHN MEARSHEIMER : 'Ukraine Cannot Survive.'
South Korea ‘at breaking point’ ahead of ruling on President Yoon’s impeachment
The usually quiet streets outside South Korea’s constitutional court in Seoul are now a political ground zero for a decision that will determine the country’s future. Months after Yoon Suk Yeol imposed martial law and triggered South Korea’s worst political crisis in decades, the court will on Friday decide whether to uphold the suspended president’s impeachment or return him to office.
The name of the neighbourhood in which the court lies is Anguk, which means “peaceful country”, an irony that will not be lost on South Koreans as they await the court ruling on the vote by MPs to impeach Yoon after his ill-fated attempt in December to suspend democracy.
More than 14,000 police officers – more than a tenth of the country’s entire force – will be mobilised in Seoul when the verdict is delivered on Friday. A 100-metre radius “vacuum state” has been imposed outside the court building to prevent demonstrations. More police buses arrived ahead of the verdict, bringing traffic to a near-standstill. ...
The security clampdown will extend well beyond barricades. Petrol stations near the court will close to prevent arson attacks, and rooftop access to high-rise buildings will be restricted to prevent people from jumping or throwing objects. Authorities are also planning to ban the release of firearms usually used to kill wild animals, with proposals to track licensed gun owners via GPS on the day of the ruling. Anguk station will close, and subway station lockers sealed to prevent bomb threats. A no-fly zone has been imposed over the court, with police deploying signal jammers against unauthorised drones. Eleven schools will close, and vendors have been told to close and remove items, such as flower pots, that could be used as weapons.If Yoon survives the ruling, he will have pulled off an extraordinary political comeback. If the decision goes against him, he will join a growing list of disgraced South Korean leaders who challenged the country’s democratic institutions. ... Yoon is also fighting for survival in a separate criminal trial in which he is accused of instigating an insurrection – a crime that carries a life sentence or even the death penalty, though South Korea has not conducted an execution since 1997.
Mike Waltz’s team set up at least 20 Signal chats for national security work
Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Mike Waltz, and his team have created at least 20 different group chats on the encrypted messaging app Signal to coordinate sensitive national security work, sources tell Politico.
The revelation, which cites four people with direct knowledge of the practice, follows heightened scrutiny of the administration’s handling of sensitive information after the Atlantic recently published messages from a chat that included the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, sharing operational details of deadly strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen.
Those anonymous sources told Politico the Signal chats covered a wide range of policy areas, including Ukraine, China, Gaza, broader Middle East policy, Africa and Europe. All four individuals reported seeing “sensitive information” discussed in these forums, though none said they were aware of classified material being shared.
Over the last few days, Waltz’s flippant nature over the protection of national security secrets has been exposed. The Washington Post reported on documents revealing that Waltz’s team had been conducting government business through personal Gmail accounts.
Prof. Jeffery Sachs : The Disaster of Tariffs
Trump announces sweeping new tariffs, upending decades of US trade policy
Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs on some of its largest trading partners on Wednesday, upending decades of US trade policy and threatening to unleash a global trade war on what he has called “liberation day”.
Trump said he will impose a 10% universal tariff on all imported foreign goods in addition to “reciprocal tariffs” on a few dozen countries, charging additional duties onto countries that Trump claims have “cheated” America.
The 10% universal tariff will go into effect on 5 April while the reciprocal tariffs will begin on 9 April. “This is one of the most important days, in my opinion, in American history,” Trump said in a long-winded speech on the White House lawn. For decades America had been “looted, pillaged and raped” by its trading partners, he said. “In many cases, the friend is worse than the foe.”
In the middle of his hour-long speech, the president displayed a chart that showed the “unfair” fees that countries placed on the US, alongside the new “USA Discounted Reciprocal Tariffs”. China charged the US 67% in “unfair” fees, and said the US would now levy a 34% fee. The EU charges 39% on imports, according to the White House, and will now be levied at 20%. Trump said the UK would be charged 10% – the baseline tariff – equal to the Trump administration’s calculations of the UK’s fees on US imports.
Special exceptions were made for Canada and Mexico, though the countries were previously targets of proposed broad tariffs. The White House said that goods covered by an existing trade deal with Canada and Mexico will continue to see no tariffs.
COL. Lawrence Wilkerson : Trump Delusional over Tariffs and Iran
largest tax increase ever! https://t.co/8gX00wt27G
— Dean Baker (@DeanBaker13) April 2, 2025
Republicans join Democrats in Senate vote to rescind Trump Canada tariffs
Several Republican senators joined Democrats to pass a resolution that would block Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada, a rare rebuke of the president’s trade policy just hours after he announced plans for sweeping import taxes on some of the country’s largest trading partners.
In a 51-48 vote, four Republicans – Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and both Kentucky senators, the former majority leader Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul – defied Trump’s pressure campaign and supported the measure. Democrats used a procedural maneuver to force a vote on the resolution, which would terminate the national emergency on fentanyl Trump is using to justify tariffs on Canada.
While Trump’s sweeping new tariffs, introduced in a White House Rose Garden ceremony on Wednesday, did not include additional levies on Canada, the Senate vote amounted to a significant bipartisan condemnation of the president’s escalating global trade war with allies and enemies alike.
“Tariffs will hurt our families. Canada is not an enemy,” the Democratic senator Tim Kaine, the bill’s sponsor, said in a floor speech on Wednesday. “Let’s not label an ally as an enemy. Let’s not impose punishing costs on American families at a time they can’t afford it. Let’s not hurt American small businesses. Let’s not make our national security investments in ships and subs more expensive.” ...
[Trump] vowed not to sign the measure if it reached his desk. ... Earlier on Wednesday, the representative Gregory Meeks, the top Democrat on the House foreign affairs committee, said he would also force a similar vote in the House on the tariffs. “Republicans can’t keep ducking this – it’s time they show whether they support the economic pain Trump is inflicting on their constituents,” he wrote on X.
"American Empire Is in Decline": Economist Richard Wolff on Trump's Trade War & Tariffs
Emails Show Trump Official Targeted Maine Social Security Services as Political Revenge
The top Democrat on the U.S. House Oversight Committee on Wednesday led calls for the resignation of acting Social Security Administration Commissioner Leland Dudek following the revelation of internal emails confirming that the SSA canceled contracts with the state of Maine as political payback after Democratic Gov. Janet Mills publicly defied President Donald Trump in support of transgender student athletes.
The emails—which were obtained by House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Gerry Connolly (D-Va.)—show that Dudek ordered the cancellation of enumeration at birth and electronic death registration contracts with Maine, even though SSAd subordinates warned that such action "would result in improper payments and potential for identity theft."
Dudek—who is leading the SSA while the Senate considers Trump's nomination of financial services executive Frank Bisignano—replied to the staffer: "Please cancel the contracts. While our improper payments will go up, and fraudsters may compromise identities, no money will go from the public trust to a petulant child."
He was referring to Mills, who stood up to Trump in February after the president threatened to suspend federal funding for Maine unless the state banned transgender girls and women from participating on female scholastic sports teams.
The termination of the enumeration at birth contract briefly forced Maine parents to register their newborns for a Social Security number at a Social Security office, rather than checking a box on a form at the hospital as is customary, before the SSA reversed its decision.
Connolly sent Dudek a letter demanding that he "resign immediately" and submit to a transcribed interview with House Oversight Committee Democrats. Connolly wrote that Dudek "ordered these contracts terminated" as "direct retaliation" for Mills' defiance, "even though you knew that doing so would increase improper payments and create opportunities for fraudsters."
Trump Wants Elon OUT After Wisconsin Disaster
Elon Musk reportedly to step down from lead Trump role as service limit nears
Elon Musk’s polarizing stint slashing and bashing federal bureaucracy will probably soon end, with the world’s richest person’s government service hitting its legal limit in the coming weeks. “He’s got a big company to run … at some point he’s going to be going back,” Donald Trump told reporters on Monday. “I’d keep him as long as I could keep him,” the president added.
As a special government employee, Musk faces a strict 130-day cap on his service – probably expiring in late May if counted from the day of inauguration, despite earlier White House claims Musk was “here to stay”.
Administration insiders told Politico on Wednesday that Musk would indeed be stepping down from his lead role in the weeks to come. But Musk called the reporting “fake news” and the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, on Wednesday said the Politico story was “garbage”.
“Elon Musk and President Trump have both publicly stated that Elon will depart from public service as a special government employee when his incredible work at Doge is complete,” she said.

THIS Is Why Israel Controls BOTH U.S. Political Parties! w/ Dennis Kucinich
The bad news is that the world is going to hell, the good news is that you can invest in air conditioning and get rich!
US banks predict climate goals will fail – but air conditioning firms will thrive
The world is on track for disastrous global heating – but this will create profits for some air conditioning companies, according to forecasts by leading Wall Street financial institutions. Recent reports by Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase and the Institute of International Finance all make clear the finance sector considers the Paris climate agreement limiting global temperatures, signed a decade ago by nearly 200 nations, is effectively dead and investors should plan accordingly.
“We now expect a 3C world,” states a March analysis by Morgan Stanley. This level of global heating above preindustrial times is well beyond the 2C limit agreed to by governments and would lead to catastrophic heatwaves, floods, economic strife and other upheavals.
The Morgan Stanley investor research forecasts, though, that multiplying heatwaves will provide a windfall for companies that provide air conditioning, and that the global market could grow by 41% to be worth $331bn by the end of this decade. The analysis outlines several dozen air conditioning businesses around the world that are likely to profit from a hotter world. “Progress on climate change is likely to fall short of net-zero targets,” the report states. “We expect cooling – critical to human health and productivity in many climates – to be a potent long-term growth theme.”
The skepticism of top Wall Street firms over climate targets is shared by many other analysts, including at the United Nations, who have predicted that the Paris goals are wildly off-track due to persistently high greenhouse gas emissions.
US midwest and south face potentially deadly floods and severe tornadoes
Potentially deadly flash flooding, high-magnitude tornadoes and baseball-sized hail could hit parts of the midwest and south on Wednesday as severe thunderstorms blowing eastward become supercharged, forecasters warned.
There were tornado warnings Wednesday morning near the Missouri cities of Joplin and Columbia – merely the opening acts of what forecasters expect will be a more intense period of violent weather later on Wednesday, as daytime heating combines with an unstable atmosphere, strong wind shear and abundant moisture streaming into the nation’s midsection from the Gulf.
The potent storm system will bring “significant, life-threatening flash flooding” starting Wednesday and continuing each day through Saturday, the National Weather Service said.
With more than a foot (30cm) of rain possible over the next four days, the prolonged deluge “is an event that happens once in a generation to once in a lifetime”, the service said in one of its flood warnings. “Historic rainfall totals and impacts are possible.”
The flood fears come as residents in parts of Michigan continue to dig out from a weekend ice storm.
Also of Interest
Here are some articles of interest, some which defied fair-use abstraction.
Trump Exposes the Elite Classes
Israel executes unarmed Red Crescent paramedics with the west’s blessing
Israeli Lawsuits Target Americans
Patrick Lawrence: American Freefall
Israel Attacks Multiple Sites in Syria in ‘Message to Turkey’
‘Failing Up’ From the White House
Tariffs Won't Solve The Bigger Problems
Trump's Absurd Trade Policies Will Impoverish Americans and Harm the World
Tesla quarterly sales slump 13% amid backlash against Elon Musk
Report Details Crisis of Billionaires Buying US Elections
Watchdogs Warn Trump Pick for Interior Will Assist Corporate Attack on Public Lands
John Oliver faces defamation lawsuit from US healthcare executive
Politico ROASTED For Saying Trump Will Lose Gen Z Over Luigi Mangione Death Penalty Push
Liberation Day, the end of globalization
A Little Night Music
Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels ~ Sock It to Me
Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels ~ CC Rider / Jenny Take a Ride
Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels ~ Little Latin Lupe Lu
Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels - Walking The Dog
Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels ~ Rock & Roll
Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels - Breakout
Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels - Baby Jane (Mo Mo Jane)
Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels - Shake a Tail Feather
Mitch Ryder - When You Where Mine

Comments
Trump reacts to the stock markets crashing due to his tariffs.
evening humphrey...
it's on! i don't know if it's popcorn i should be stocking up on or survival goodies.
Where do those go-go dancers get their shakes?
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Must be more than high energy R & R.
Thanks for the EB's, joe!
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
-- August Hare
evening qms...
yep, that's some high-speed tailfeather shaking going on there.
If Yoon survives the ruling,
Rashid wrote this? It won't be a political comeback, it will be the conservative party returning to dictatorship. The conservative PPP candidates lost badly in today's local county and city elections. There is no comeback, there is only the prospect of the destruction of South Korea's constitutional institutions as originally planned by Yoon if he isn't dismissed from office by the CC tonight.
Here's a case of poor or deliberately misleading editing:
There have been no cases of Yoon's opponents being violent, only his supporters. The cabinet has repeatedly violated the law by not appointing the ninth justice to the Constitutional Court, in order to reduce the odds of securing 6 justices to impeach Yoon. By declaring that not appointing that justice was a constitutional violation by Han Deok-su, (and again later by his replacement) and then not dismissing him from office, the Court diminished it's own standing and credibility. If it does so again with Yoon, the Republic of South Korea will be a thing of the past. The constitutional court will have completely betrayed its constitutional role. There is no "comeback" for Yoon. Rashid and others need to keep in mind, that corruption of the judicial system is the bread and butter of Yoon and the conservative party. If this corruption succeeds calling it a comeback is bizarre.
His X thread had been excellent lately, and the article makes some good observations. I suspect his editors did this to "bothsider" an issue that really doesn't have two sides. You either oppose dictatorship or you don't.
Great news coverage and Mitch Ryder tunes, thanks Joe!
語必忠信 行必正直
evening soryang...
thanks for pointing out the (sadly expected) flaws in the guardian's reporting. i guess we'll find out soon if the korean court will relieve south korea of yoon.
If I have the time zones right
CC convenes in a hour for the announcement.
語必忠信 行必正直
thanks!
i'll lookout for reporting.
oops! dupe
having some technical difficulties
語必忠信 行必正直
Target practice for the Houthis.
heh...
you'd think that after losing nearly 20 expensive drones that the u.s. military would figure out that they need to try something else.
Incoming.
One unknown missile makes one hell of a mess.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
that ain't no yacht
one ugly assed killing machine
amazing how stupid the navy is
to put out such a big target
kinda feel bad for the birds on deck
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
-- August Hare
Impeached!
Goodbye Yoon. It's 8-0.
語必忠信 行必正直
foregone conclusion
what changes?
his goose was already cooked
elites must already have a plan B
in the wings, could get messy.
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
-- August Hare
heh...
good to hear! i wonder if the u.s. has another lackey-in-waiting to continue the trilateral gang-up on china.
this is the conservative field
The PPP doesn't have much time to get a candidate selected.
Hong Joon-pyo, Oh Se-hoon, and Kim Moon-soo. Kim the Minister of Employment and Labor was in the lead in popularity but his numbers weren't that high, Oh Se-hoon is Mayor of Seoul, Hong Jong-pyo is a regular contender for president, he's mayor of Daegu currently.
I would consider Ahn Chul-soo a candidate, he usually is. When he folded last time around and threw his support to Yoon, that made Yoon the candidate. Kim Moon-soo is far right, and seems even less charismatic than Han Deok-soo the acting president. The latter has to supervise the election process, so I don't think he will be a candidate. Han Dong-hun, is a wild card, Yoon's former right hand, and former PPP party leader, who turned against Yoon and recommended his impeachment.
Oh Se-hoon would be the most appealing imo. I'm sure he would work well with US policies. Kim Moon-soo would play ball as well as an arch conservative. Na Kyung-won, who supported Yoon to the bitter end, might make a run. She's pro-Japan too.
Lee Jun-seok would be a wild card. He's young, a former PPP party leader. The Yoon faction forced him out, and he started his own small conservative party. I think he'll run as a spoiler.
The US is treating South Korea roughly right now, so I'm not sure how pro-US one wants to be in a campaign. Depends on US actions. South Korea made market sacrifices in China for the US, and also is investing large sums in the US, and Trump is screwing them. May depend on how the national security situation on the Korean peninsula goes and what South Korean chaebol want to do in light of Trump's actions.
語必忠信 行必正直
your objectivity is refreshing
we are not treated to this in western media
as I'm sure you are aware
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
-- August Hare
i started doing this in 2017
...encouraged by my US ex-patriot friend in Australia. I started following the candlelight demos during the Park impeachment. I've continued doing it since. I followed Yoon's antics as a dishonest prosecutor in the Moon Jae-in administration after he became prosecutor general. I learned of his history from witnesses who he had either screwed in court, or witnesses who admitted perjuring themselves for Yoon's wife, or mother in law. They're all dirty. I've been waiting for Yoon to get what he deserves since then. When he was feted by Biden and the Congress here in the US it made me sick.
Anyway, he's done for now, I think. Appreciate your interest and the compliment QMS. It's a milestone for me that's his political career such as it was is over. I thought when the Samsung Group Chairman Lee Jae-yong, visited with Lee Jae-myung before his successful appeal this was a bad omen for Yoon. You were right QMS, legally there was no other way for this to go. It was a no brainer. Yoon's supporters in the streets were stunned.
Someone close to me, is there in South Korea now, I was a little worried. She's staying with a friend. The embassy advised people to stay away from any crowds or demos.
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Aw, MAN!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
OTC
Yippee! I'm so relieved.
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thanks for the analysis...
knowing little about south korea i have more questions than you have time or patience, i'm sure.
nonetheless... i was thinking about the great political scandal of my lifetime, the nixon debacle. after it, there was a general revulsion against politics and politicians, with the public considering (probably quite correctly) that they are all crooked, which eventually led to jimmy carter (a man with many shortcomings but a general tendency towards honesty and straight dealing) getting elected in something of an all-too-temporary sea change.
do you suppose that south koreans might take this opportunity to make a significant political change of direction?
Lee Jae-myung is the likely change
I can't name the others right now, but the democratic party leadership, and Cho Guk, who is in prison now, put there by Yoon, unjustly, are the smartest political leaders I've seen. I think there will be a change for the better. Moon was a change for the better, but he had short comings. His foreign policy was top notch. I'm hoping Lee, will triangulate like Moon did, steering an independent course between the US and China, and keeping the Japanese, and the Indo-Pacific strategy at arms length. Moon pushed back when the US pushed him.
Lee is an outstanding leader. All the charges Yoon brought against him are bs. He has the potential to be the best president South Korea ever had.
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thanks! n/t
It's hard to consider everything
...in a short paragraph, to a question like that. There are a couple of major factors that need to be understood about the flaw of having a corrupt administration of justice, affected by the seonbae-hoobae (senior junior) patronage culture. The long and short of it is, how you advance in the justice system, as a prosecutor or as a judge, depends on the university you went to and who's ahead of you in the pecking order. This is the basis of social and political influence. The democrats have been trying to reform the prosecutors' offices in particular for years now because it has too much power. Because they have too much investigative power, which should be the exclusive province of police, they can exert too much influence even on the judges.
The judges too innately have political leanings but in addition they can be pressured by prosecutors like Yoon investigating them or their families, and are also subject to the seonbae-hoobae system. Be true to your school as it were. This system was the undoing of the progressive Roh Mu-hyun presidency, as his closest advisors and supporters were hounded by prosecutors and jailed, isolating Roh. Ultimately Roh's family was also harassed, Roh was impeached unsuccessfully. Roh's family and he himself were hounded by investigations until Roh killed himself shortly after leaving office.
From the wikipedia on Roh Moo-hyun :
The wiki notes a number of other political office holders who met similar fates. I will note one similar case that was more recent. The former three time mayor of Seoul Park Won-soon, likely would have been a top contender for president. He was caught in something very much like a honey trap and appears to have committed suicide in a manner very similar to former president Roh Mu-hyun. I have described the developments here at C99 some time ago. Park may have acted inappropriately with one of his former subordinates, but he never raped her nor sexually assaulted her. I don't think he ever had consensual sex with her. She was always climbing all over him. She was raped by another government employee from the city, after she finally left the mayor's office. Somehow Park's political enemies used her to get rid of Park. (a woman spurned etc.). Independent investigative media have alleged that Oh Se-yoon, the current Seoul mayor was behind the plot. He financed Park's accuser, paid her off or is even supporting her in the US according to allegations.
So when I say conservative mayor Oh Se-yoon is an attractive presidential candidate for the conservative PPP party, I'm speaking of appearances. He's good looking, well spoken, electable etc. His character is another matter that needs to be explored. I regard him as a tricky SOB like Yoon.
The prosecutors offices and justice system need to be reformed. This is a perennial problem that needs to be fixed.
Deceased Mayor Park Won-soon- Trial by Media in South Korea
Lee Jae-myung, the leading prospect for the democratic party's candidate for the presidency, Cho Guk, the former Justice Minister, and former president Moon Jae-in, and their families, have all been subject to the Roh Mu-hyun, Park Won-sun treatment by Yoon's cabal in the prosecutors offices and their allies in conservative media. Lee if elected before any more trial hearings on the charges against him, will gain presidential immunity. I assume he will pardon Cho Guk as soon as feasible.
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Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers and
now, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels!! Yessir!!!
joe, you're batting your usual 1,000 with the tunes. Have you ever done a 1950s R and B program? Regarding the news/politicoinfotainment, I'll just stay clear. Rec'd!!!. 
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.
The lip syncing is waaay off on that
Devil With a Blue Dress clip. Those were the dayz?
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.