The Evening Blues - 5-30-25



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The day's news roundup + tonight's musical feature: Big Brother & The Holding Company

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This evening's music features blues rock band Big Brother & The Holding Company. Enjoy!

Big Brother and the Holding Company - Ball And Chain

"The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It's not failure but aiming too low, that is life's greatest tragedy."

-- Benjamin E. Mays


News and Opinion

If You Don’t Oppose The Gaza Holocaust, You’ve Been Wasting Your Life On This Planet

They’re burning kids alive in Gaza. They’re burning them alive. And still people are silent, or are actively supporting Israel, or are spouting mealy-mouthed both-sides gibberish while shrugging their shoulders.

A spiritual teacher who I used to like posted the most obnoxious screed today babbling about how both Israelis and Palestinians are suffering in this “war” and that, while Israel does have a “right to defend itself”, it’s time for a ceasefire to be reached.

This is a guy who’s made a career out of presenting himself as so wise, insightful and enlightened that people should pay him money to hear what he has to say about life and spiritual attainment, finally deciding to speak out about a genocide that’s been going on for nearly 20 months now, and saying the most vapid, infantile nonsense imaginable. I know teenagers who could’ve done a much better job.

And from where I’m sitting, if this is the best you can do after a lifetime dedicated to spiritual insight and awakening, then what good was any of it? If you can’t even take a solid stance against history’s first live-streamed genocide after decades of spiritual seeking and spiritual finding, then it kinda seems like you’ve been wasting your life this whole time.


And I guess I feel pretty much the same way about everyone who still isn’t taking a stand on this thing. This is not a complicated issue. It doesn’t take a tremendous amount of learning, wisdom or morality to wind up on the correct side of this thing. You don’t have to be a buddha, a scholar or a saint to oppose an active genocide. You just have to not be all fucked up inside.

There is only one correct position to have on the Gaza holocaust, and if you still haven’t managed to find your way into that position then I think it’s fair to say you have been wasting your life up until this point.

I mean, what have you even been doing here exactly? You clearly haven’t been working on becoming a decent person. You haven’t been learning about the world. You haven’t been expanding your awareness of justice and inequality. You haven’t been working on developing a truth-based relationship with reality. You haven’t been developing empathy for your fellow human beings. You haven’t been growing or maturing. What exactly have you been doing? How have you managed to spend your entire life avoiding all the most important things about living as a human organism on this planet?


It’s not too late to change this, of course. It’s never too late to change. If you still haven’t taken your stand against the genocide in Gaza, you can change this right away. If you don’t know enough about what’s happening, get curious and start learning. If you’re having trouble discerning fact from fiction, get humble and ask questions. If you’re having trouble sorting out right from wrong, get quiet inside and look in your heart. You’ve got this.

You don’t need any special qualifications to speak out against the Gaza holocaust. You are already fully qualified to do so. Many people far more ignorant and far less ethical than yourself are already speaking out in support of Israel’s actions, so you should feel free to use your own voice just as loudly. Learn as much as you can, but don’t feel like you need to be some kind of expert to speak out against a genocide that’s been facilitated by your own government.

Get moving on this. There’s no time to lose. Children are burning, and the clock is running out. Take a firm position on the great moral issue of our time, or be prepared to spend the rest of your life explaining why you didn’t.

Why are Americans not speaking out against Israel's genocide?

Jonathan Cook: Israel Is Lying About ‘Hamas Stealing Aid’

Israel’s claim that Hamas is “stealing aid” is so preposterous no serious journalist or politician ought to give it any kind of airing – yet there it is continuously cropping up in the coverage of Gaza.

How do I know Israel’s claim is utterly worthless? For this simple reason: Israel has a fleet of surveillance drones constantly hovering over the tiny strip of land that is Gaza, monitoring every inch of the territory. The incessant whine you hear every time you watch someone there being interviewed is from one of those drones. They are Israel’s eyes on the enclave. If you are outside in Gaza, you might as well be living in the Truman Show. Were Hamas stealing aid in Gaza, Israel would easily be able to document it. It would have the video footage from its drones.

The fact that it has not provided any footage showing Hamas’ theft of aid — its ransacking of aid trucks, or its fighters smuggling themselves into aid warehouses — is confirmation enough that Israel has simply invented this claim to rationalise its plans to starve the people of Gaza to death through months of an aid blockade or force them to flee into neighbouring Sinai, whichever comes first.

Without its disinformation campaign about “Hamas stealing aid,” Israel knows popular revulsion at its starvation campaign would grow quickly and Western governments would further struggle to keep opposition in check.

There are lots of others reasons, of course, to reject Israel’s lies about “Hamas stealing aid.” Not least of these is because every single charity and aid agency dealing with Gaza says that aid is not being stolen by Hamas. But also because, were Hamas fighters doing so, they would be stealing from their own families: from their children and grandparents, who are much more vulnerable to Israel’s starvation campaign than they are. The idea that Hamas is stealing aid makes sense only to a racist, European colonial mindset in which Hamas fighters are viewed as bogeymen figures indifferent to the deaths of their own children, wives and parents.

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs : Is Trump Delivering Peace Anywhere?

Israel confirms plans to create 22 new settlements in occupied West Bank

Israel has said it will establish 22 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, including the legalisation of outposts already built without government authorisation, after a security cabinet vote held in secret last week.

Israel occupied the West Bank, capturing it from Jordan, in the six-day war of 1967. Since then, successive governments have tried to permanently cement Israeli control over the land, in part by declaring swathes as “state lands”, which prevents private Palestinian ownership.

The motion was said to have been put forward by the far-right defence minister, Israel Katz, and the finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, who lives in the West Bank settlement of Kedumim, which is considered illegal under international law.

Katz said the settlement decision “strengthens our hold on Judea and Samaria”, using the biblical term for the West Bank, “anchors our historical right in the Land of Israel, and constitutes a crushing response to Palestinian terrorism”. He added it was also “a strategic move that prevents the establishment of a Palestinian state that would endanger Israel”.

A spokesperson for the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem said: “Israel continues to promote Jewish supremacy through the theft of Palestinian land and the ethnic cleansing of the West Bank. The Israeli government is openly and blatantly working to destroy the Palestinian people, and any chances for a normal future for the people living between the Jordan River and the sea.”

Charity accuses Israeli-backed Gaza food group of unauthorised use of logo

A US charity has accused the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), the controversial Israeli-backed group that began distributing food in Gaza this week, of sending out photographs of deliveries containing its logo without permission.

Images distributed by GHF this week showed shipments bearing a label from Rahma Worldwide, which is based in Michigan, as part of its first distribution of food to sites inside Gaza. The rollout was marred by scenes of chaos on Tuesday after crowds overran one distribution centre managed by GHF and Israeli forces said they had fired “warning shots”. Gaza health officials said at least one civilian had been killed and 48 injured in the incident.

The aid bearing the Rahma logo, which was prominently displayed in a press packet distributed by GHF, suggested to some media outlets that the groups were official partners. That would be an important endorsement as questions have grown over GHF’s funding and lack of partners or experience in distributing aid.

Israeli jets continued to pound areas of Gaza on Thursday, killing at least 45 people, including 23 in a strike on the Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical workers said.

Israeli media reported that the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had told the families of hostages held in the territory that he had accepted a new ceasefire proposal presented by Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff. There were no further immediate details. Hamas said earlier that it had received the new proposal from mediators and was studying it.

Worth a peek, much greater detail at the link:

Inside Trump’s New Gaza "Ceasefire" Proposal

A new proposal for a Gaza ceasefire spearheaded by Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, includes a 60-day initial truce, a “redeployment” of some Israeli occupation forces, and an exchange of captives, including ten living Israelis held in Gaza. It would also require the “immediate” delivery of humanitarian aid, including by the United Nations and the Red Crescent. Drop Site obtained a copy of the document, labelled a “term sheet” by Witkoff.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced today that Israel had accepted the proposal, asserting it would allow Israel to continue its war of annihilation. "We agree to accept the outline that was conveyed to us tonight,” Netanyahu said. “We do not believe Hamas will release the last hostage, and therefore we will continue fighting until Hamas is destroyed, and we will not leave the Gaza Strip until all the hostages are in our hands."

If finalized, the agreement would be personally announced by President Trump and states that Trump “guarantees Israel’s adherence to the ceasefire during the agreed-upon period.” “Witkoff would come to the region to finalize the agreement,” it states, and to “preside over the negotiations.” Hamas confirmed it had received the Witkoff proposal and said it “is responsibly studying it in a way that serves the interests of our people, provides relief, and achieves a permanent ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.”

On Wednesday, Witkoff announced the U.S. was on the verge of sending the term sheet to Hamas and Israel for approval. “I have some very good feelings about getting to… a temporary ceasefire and a long-term, peaceful resolution of that conflict,” he said while standing alongside Trump in the Oval Office.

Most concerning to Hamas, according to officials who spoke to Drop Site, is that the proposal contains substantive amendments to an “understanding” Hamas announced it had reached with the U.S. on Monday. On Tuesday, Hamas issued a statement it had reached “an agreement with U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff on a general framework that achieves a permanent ceasefire, a complete withdrawal of occupation forces from the Gaza Strip, the flow of aid, and the appointment of a professional committee to manage the Gaza Strip's affairs immediately after the agreement is announced.”

UNREDACTED: Top 11 Signs Israel Is Collapsing!

Smotrich vows to 'rebuild temple' during Jerusalem Day celebrations

Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has called for the rebuilding of a Jewish temple on the site of Al-Aqsa Mosque and for the expansion of Israel’s borders and Jewish settlements in Gaza.

In speech addressing crowds at a Jerusalem Day rally on Monday, which celebrates Israel’s occupation of the old city of Jerusalem, Smotrich also called for “complete redemption” and reconstruction of “the Temple here,” referring to Al-Aqsa Mosque, which settlers had raided earlier.

“We are conquering the Land of Israel, liberating Gaza, settling Gaza and defeating the enemy,” Smotrich said to crowds that had chanted “death to Arabs” as they marched through Jerusalem’s Old City and attacked Palestinians.

“With God’s help, we will expand Israel’s borders, bring about complete redemption, and rebuild the Temple here,” he said. Smotrich also reiterated his calls for Jewish settlement in Gaza, declaring that “Israel is not afraid of the word occupation”.

“Worse Than McCarthyism”: Historian Ellen Schrecker on Trump’s War Against Universities & Students

Mahmoud Khalil Team Files FOIA Request to Expose Trump Collusion With Anti-Palestinian 'Agents of Repression'

Mahmoud Khalil's legal team on Thursday demanded records from the federal government to expose the Trump administration's "collusion with anti-Palestinian doxxing groups" that have worked to get people including their client deported from the United States.

“For years, these anti-Palestinian doxxing groups have served as agents of repression, weaponizing inflammatory rhetoric and conflating criticism of Israel with hate speech in order to chill activism for Palestinian rights," said Ayla Kadah, an attorney and justice fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), one of the groups representing Khalil, in a statement.

"Now, evidence seems to point to the Trump administration colluding with them as they escalate their crusade to target noncitizens for detention and deportation, with Mahmoud Khalil serving as their latest target," Kadah continued. "Mahmoud deserves answers, and so does the public."

Khalil is a legal permanent resident of Palestinian origin and a former Columbia University student organizer who has been in federal immigration custody since being accosted by plainclothes agents with his pregnant wife, Noor Abdalla, outside their New York City apartment in March. Abdalla, a U.S. citizen, gave birth to their son while her husband remained detained in Louisiana.

So far, the Trump administration has maintained its effort to deport Khalil over his on-campus activism against Israel's U.S.-backed assault on the Gaza Strip, claiming that despite his green card, he can be removed from the country because U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has "reasonable grounds to believe that Khalil's presence or activities in the United States would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences."

CCR sent the 15-page records request to the U.S. departments of Homeland Security (DHS), Justice, and State, as well as the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The group also publicly released the document, which states that "Khalil has long been targeted by anti-Palestinian organizations, including individuals and groups who have sought his deportation or later taken credit for his arrest and detention."

"Days prior to his arrest by ICE, he sought Columbia University protection from these hostile groups, seeing that the groups were calling for the federal government to effectuate his deportation," notes the Freedom of Information Act filing. "In this FOIA request, Khalil seeks information that would illuminate the reported origins of his targeting and the bases of the Rubio determination."

"Specifically, he seeks information that would document and expose the reported collaboration between federal officials and private, anti-Palestinian organizations who have identified, doxxed, and reported him and others for purposes of securing the deportation of student activists advocating on behalf of Palestinian human rights," the document says.

The filing lists "the most prominent groups" subject to the FOIA request—Betar USA, CAMERA, Canary Mission, Capital Research Center, Columbia Alumni for Israel, Documenting Jew Hatred on Campus, Middle East Forum, and Shirion Collective—and details their targeting of Khalil, his university, and other individuals dealing similar cases, including Badar Khan Suri, Mohsen Mahdawi, and Rümeysa Öztürk, who have all been released from ICE custody recently.

"Patterns of arrests and detention by ICE and DHS strongly suggest that these federal agencies are acting at the encouragement of the groups," the document says. "The groups also appear to be coordinating amongst themselves and amplifying each other's efforts to solicit federal agencies to punish individuals for protesting for Palestinian rights."

"These groups often take credit for ICE and DHS's adverse actions against those they have identified or reported, further corroborating the connection between the groups' targeting and the agencies' punitive actions," the filing adds. "The correlation is clear, and not a coincidence: To date, not a single reported visa revocation and detention of an individual based on pro-Palestine activism occurred absent prior doxxing by one of these groups."

The filing was first reported by Zeteo. A State Department spokesperson told the outlet, "Given our commitment to and responsibility for national security, the department uses all available tools to receive and review concerning information when considering visa revocations about possible ineligibilities."

CCR's request for records came a day after U.S. District Court Judge Michael Farbiarz in New Jersey ruled that Rubio likely violated constitutional law in his attempt to use Section 1227 of the U.S. Code to deport Khalil. Despite this, the judge declined to release Khalil on bail or to move him to a facility in New Jersey, closer to his family.

In response to Wednesday's ruling, Khalil's legal team said that "we will work as quickly as possible to provide the court the additional information it requested supporting our effort to free Mahmoud or otherwise return him to his wife and newborn son."

Russia Won the War - John Mearsheimer, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen

Russia Says It Downed 296 Ukrainian Drones in Massive Overnight Attack

The Russian Defense Ministry said Wednesday that its forces downed 296 Ukrainian drones over multiple Russian regions overnight, a barrage that Ukrainian media described as a “record-breaking” attack on Russian territory.

According to Russia’s TASS news agency, Ukrainian drones were downed over Moscow and the regions of Bryansk, Belgorod, Vladimir, Voronezh, Ivanovo, Kaluga, Kursk, Oryol, Ryazan, Smolensk, Tver, and Tula.

Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said there was no serious damage or casualties in the city, and there were no other reports of casualties in the other regions. According to SouthFront, Ukrainian drones struck a drone manufacturing plant in the town of Dubna in the Moscow Oblast, as well as the ELMA Technopark in Zelenograd, an electronics development hub located northwest of Moscow.

Ukraine has stepped up its drone attacks in recent weeks, and a Russian commander said that President Vladimir Putin’s helicopter was caught in a swarm of Ukrainian drones while he was visiting Russia’s Kursk Oblast on May 20. From May 20 to May 23, Russia said it intercepted 764 Ukrainian drones over its territory.

Federal Reserve issues rare statement asserting independence amid Trump pressure

The Federal Reserve issued a rare, strongly worded statement on Thursday after chair Jerome Powell spoke with Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday morning, holding firm on the central bank’s independence amid pressure from Trump to lower interest rates.

The three-paragraph statement emphasized the Fed’s independent, non-partisan role in setting monetary policy based on economic data. “Chair Powell did not discuss his expectations for monetary policy, except to stress that the path of policy will depend entirely on incoming economic information and what that means for the outlook,” the statement read.

Powell told Trump that he and other Fed officials “will set monetary policy, as required by law, to support maximum employment and stable prices and will make those decisions based solely on careful, objective, and non-political analysis”, according to the statement.

That the Fed, which tends to be extremely reserved with public statements, issued the brief memo shows that officials are aware of Trump’s pressure campaign and are standing firm on the Fed’s independence. ...

Historically, presidents show deference to the Fed, respecting the central bank’s independence. But over the last few months, Trump has tried to publicly pressure Powell to lower interest rates, as the Fed did last year, though officials say that the economy – thrown into a tailspin from Trump’s trade war – has become too unstable to continue lowering rates.

As Courts Battle Trump on Tariffs, Will Right-Wing Supreme Court Rescue President’s Trade Agenda?

Trump wins temporary reprieve as he fights against court block on tariffs

The Trump administration is racing to halt a major blow to the president’s sweeping tariffs after a US court ruled they “exceed any authority granted to the president.” A US trade court ruled the US president’s tariffs regime was illegal on Wednesday in a dramatic twist that could block Trump’s controversial global trade policy.

On Thursday, an appeals court agreed to a temporary pause in the decision pending an appeal hearing. The Trump administration is expected to take the case to the supreme court if it loses. The ruling by a three-judge panel at the New York-based court of international trade came after several lawsuits argued Trump had exceeded his authority, leaving US trade policy dependent on his whims and unleashing economic chaos around the world.

On Thursday, the Trump administration filed for “emergency relief” from the ruling “to avoid the irreparable national-security and economic harms at stake”.

The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said the judges had “brazenly abused their judicial power to usurp the authority of President Trump” in what she characterised as a pattern of judicial overreach. “Ultimately the supreme court must put an end to this,” she said.

Leavitt’s comments came as a second judge, Washington DC district court judge Rudolph Contreras, called the tariffs “unlawful” and ordered a preliminary injunction on the collection of tariffs from a pair of Illinois toy importers, which brought the case.

Trump tariffs derailed by law firm that received money from his richest backers

Donald Trump’s tariff policy was derailed by a libertarian public interest law firm that has received money from some of his richest backers. The Liberty Justice Center filed a lawsuit against the US president’s “reciprocal” tariffs on behalf of five small businesses, which it said were harmed by the policy.

The center, based in Austin, Texas, describes itself as a libertarian non-profit litigation firm “that seeks to protect economic liberty, private property rights, free speech, and other fundamental rights”.

Previous backers of the firm include billionaires Robert Mercer and Richard Uihlein, who were also financial backers of Trump’s presidential campaigns. Mercer, a hedge fund manager, was a key backer of Breitbart News and Cambridge Analytica, pouring millions into both companies. He personally directed Cambridge Analytica to focus on the Leave campaign during the UK’s Brexit referendum in 2016 that led to the UK leaving the European Union.

For its lawsuit against Trump’s tariffs, the Liberty Justice Center gathered five small businesses, including a wine company and a fish gear and apparel retailer, and argued that Trump overreached his executive authority and needed Congress’s approval to pass such broad tariffs.



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the evening greens


Trump violating right to life with anti-environment orders, youth lawsuit says

Twenty-two young Americans have filed a new lawsuit against the Trump administration over its anti-environment executive orders. By intentionally boosting oil and gas production and stymying carbon-free energy, federal officials are violating their constitutional rights to life and liberty, alleges the lawsuit, filed on Thursday.

The federal government is engaging in unlawful executive overreach by breaching congressional mandates to protect ecosystems and public health, argue the plaintiffs, who are between the ages of seven and 25 and hail from the heavily climate-impacted states of Montana, Hawaii, Oregon, California and Florida. They also say officials’ emissions-increasing and science-suppressing orders have violated the state-created danger doctrine, a legal principle meant to prevent government actors from inflicting injury upon their citizens.

“At its core, this suit is about the health of children, it’s about the right to life, it’s about the right to form families,” said Julia Olson, attorney and founder of Our Children’s Trust, the non-profit law firm that brought the suit. “We all have constitutional rights, and if we don’t use our constitution – if we walk away from it and we walk away from our youth – we will not have a democracy.”

The lawsuit specifically targets three of the slew of pro-fossil fuel executive orders Trump has signed during his second term. Among them are two day-one Trump moves to declare a “national energy emergency” and “unleash American energy”, and another April order aimed at “reinvigorating” the domestic production of coal – the dirtiest and most expensive fossil fuel.

All three orders aimed to bolster already-booming US energy production. They also led agencies to stymy renewable energy production and to suppress climate research and data, flaunting congressional environmental protections, the lawsuit argues.

There are more than 130 active wildfires across Canada, half of which are considered out of control

More than 17,000 people in Canada’s western Manitoba province were being evacuated on Wednesday as the region experienced its worst start to the wildfire season in years. “The Manitoba government has declared a province-wide state of emergency due to the wildfire situation,” Manitoba’s premier, Wab Kinew, told a news conference. “This is the largest evacuation Manitoba will have seen in most people’s living memory.”

Kinew said he had asked the prime minister, Mark Carney, to send in the Canadian military to help with the evacuations and firefighting. Military aircraft, Kinew said, would be deployed “imminently” to help move people out of endangered remote northern communities to safety, along with additional firefighting resources.

The climate crisis has made wildfires in Canada more frequent and intense. The country has been hit with devastating fires in recent years, including in 2023, the most destructive on record.

There are now 134 active fires across Canada, including in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario. Half are considered out of control.

Nato rearmament could increase emissions by 200m tonnes a year

A global military buildup poses an existential threat to climate goals, according to researchers who say the rearmament planned by Nato alone could increase greenhouse gas emissions by almost 200m tonnes a year. With the world embroiled in the highest number of armed conflicts since the second world war, countries have embarked on military spending sprees, collectively totalling a record $2.46tn in 2023.

For every dollar invested in new hardware, there is not only a corresponding carbon cost but also an opportunity cost to potential climate action, critics say. This is on top of the huge death toll resulting from armed conflicts. “There is a real concern around the way that we are prioritising short-term security and sacrificing long-term security,” said Ellie Kinney, a researcher with the Conflict and Environment Observatory and a co-author of the study, shared exclusively with the Guardian.

“Because of this kind of lack-of-informed approach that we’re taking, you’re investing in hard military security now, increasing global emissions for that reason, and worsening the climate crisis further down the line.” That in turn is only likely to lead to further violence, with climate change itself now increasingly seen as a driver of conflict, albeit indirectly. In Sudan’s Darfur region, conflict was linked to competition over scarce resources after prolonged droughts and desertification. In the Arctic, receding sea ice is leading to tensions over who should control newly accessible oil, gas and critical mineral resources.

Few militaries are transparent about the scale of their fossil fuel use, but researchers have estimated that collectively they are already responsible for 5.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions. That figure is expected to rise as tensions escalate in a number of regions and as the US, for decades the world’s biggest military spender, indicates that it expects its Nato allies to devote significantly more resources to their armed forces.


Also of Interest

Here are some articles of interest, some which defied fair-use abstraction.

Chris Hedges: Trump’s Useful Idiots

Have you looked at satellite images of Gaza? You should

Oxfam Warns Israel's 'Annihilation Campaign' Is 'Entirely Erasing Gaza'

Tariffs Defeated, DOGE Failure, Big Bill Endangered - What's Trump Gonna Do?

'Devastating Loss for Our Wild Places': Supreme Court Attacks Bedrock Environmental Law

‘Flooding could end southern Appalachia’

Remains of Mayan city nearly 3,000 years old unearthed in Guatemala


A Little Night Music

Janis Joplin w/Big Brother and the Holding Company - Turtle Blues

Big Brother & The Holding Company, Janis Joplin - Bye, Bye Baby

Janis Joplin w/Big Brother and the Holding Company - Piece of My Heart

Janis Joplin w/Big Brother and the Holding Company - Summertime & I Need A Man To Love

Janis Joplin w/Big Brother and the Holding Company - Down On Me

Janis Joplin w/Big Brother and the Holding Company - Coo Coo

Big Brother and the Holding Company - In the Hall of the Mountain King

Big Brother and the Holding Company - Easy Rider

Big Brother and The Holding Company - Keep On

Big Brother and the Holding Company - Blow My Mind

Big Brother and the Holding Company - Moanin' At Midnight (Live at California Hall, 1966)

Big Brother And The Holding Company - Catch Me Daddy


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Israeli Mossad named as funder of Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

Top Israeli lawmakers have accused their government of laundering massive sums through a shadowy network of US humanitarian and mercenary orgs. The weaponized aid initiative is the linchpin of Israel’s plan to ethnically cleanse northern Gaza by forcing the starving population into concentration camp-like hubs.

If true, this would mean Israel’s military-intelligence apparatus is effectively laundering massive sums of money through a weaponized aid scheme that forms the linchpin of its plan to ethnically cleanse northern Gaza. A leaked internal GHF document acknowledged that the food distribution centers and residential compounds it was constructing in Gaza could be perceived as “‘concentration camps’ with biometrics.’”

Can Israel become any more evil than it already is? You bet’cha it can.

Katie and Aaron interview a Palestinian who describes what is happening at the ‘aid’ concentration camps. Near the end of the video they discuss what Max wrote about. Zionists get compared to the Nazis. After watching this I think the Zionists are much more evil than…, it’s hard to quantify evil isn’t it?

One thing Shehada mentioned is after the Trump ceasefire Palestinians were able to understand what was happening and their shock at the world just watching what was happening and not doing anything about it set in. The Witkoff ceasefires just give Israel cover to keep genociding Palestinian. They have Trump’s full blessing. I didn’t know that I could be more appalled. I can.

They also show what our UN representative said about a 2 state solution. Margaret Kimberly has a name for Blacks that carry empire demands.

EXPOSED: Israel’s Conspiracy to Steal Gazan Aid – with Muhammad Shehada

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The message echoes from Gaza back to the US. “Starving people is fine.”

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@snoopydawg

it seemed intuitively obvious that israel and/or its spooks were behind the ghf. no other group would have an interest in setting up an aid group intended to fail.

After watching this I think the Zionists are much more evil than…, it’s hard to quantify evil isn’t it?

evil is a quality, as such your description of the evil in question as "more evil than" is perfectly appropriate.

thanks for the useful idiots video!

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Senate GOP Gives Dems a Chance to Tank Trump's Budget Bill—Will They Take It?

I’m guessing that they will not even think about doing it. But who knew that you could sue the parliamentarian if you don’t like their ruling? Democrats did because republicans had already done it before.

By voting to overrule the Senate parliamentarian last week, the chamber's Republicans handed their political opponents a procedural weapon that could be used to hold off or even kill the House-passed reconciliation package that's central to President Donald Trump's legislative agenda.

Also too…

GOP's Latest Pitch for Gutting Medicaid and Food Aid? 'Well, We All Are Going to Die'

"We're at the point where a U.S. senator is saying healthcare and hunger don't matter because we all die eventually."

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The message echoes from Gaza back to the US. “Starving people is fine.”

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@snoopydawg

of course the democrats will do nothing. same donors, same program. get ready for a tidal wave of rhetoric and fund-raising, though.

perhaps ms. ernst would like to volunteer to free up scarce resources that are clearly wasted on her and go first into the void.

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behavior.

Also too.

If you want to learn more about Pegasus check this out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware)

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@humphrey

can you smell the desperation?

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@humphrey

raping their prisoners whether male or female. But it’s not okay with them for 2 consenting adults having sex. Biggest effing hypocrites evah!

I’ma gonna laugh so hard when karma catches up with Israeli troops and they whine about it. 100 troops have committed suicide since 10/7. I bet that number is incorrect because Netanyahu doesn’t want to put ideas in the soldier's heads.

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@humphrey

before the heart problems do because the cancer will be more painful. And I hope the souls of tens of thousands children haunt him to the grave.
Oops did I say that out loud?

I think Netanyahu would even open up Melanie Wilkes’ eyes to what evil looks like.

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@humphrey

Isn’t that what kids in Israel are taught from a young age? That the Palestinians/Arabs want to kill them all and wipe Israel off the map.

I saw a tweet of Netanyahu saying that another holocaust will happen if any country cuts off weapons to Israel. Young kids are taught that another holocaust could break out at any minute if they don’t keep their guard up.

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The message echoes from Gaza back to the US. “Starving people is fine.”

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Hi Joe

Thanks for all the great news and blues all week.

I love Big Brother... they were awesome. Personally more appealing than the studio 'pro' band Warner used for Pearl. Hall of the Mountain Kings is a gerat vid.

My eyes too shot for much reading and commenting until repairs... Sure appreciate the vids.

Thanks! Have a great weekend!

Happy trails all!

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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein

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@dystopian

glad you're digging the tunes. i always liked big brother as a band and felt like they kind of got screwed by having such a talented singer in the band. their albums without janis were pretty good, but sadly didn't get much attention.

anyway, good luck with the repairs and have a great weekend!

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I may not be able to upload the post, but I got an AI? explanation below of what it portrayed: In front of the Gwacheon Central Election Commission Office, members of the "US election observer team" listen to "moving performance" of the US National Anthem???? "The US National Anthem immediately brings tears to my eyes." There are many bizarre posts on social media right now including X, basically spreading all kinds of rumors of irregularities in the election process allegedly caused by partisan (leftist) election officials, the Chinese, etc. This is obviously being orchestrated by US intelligence. The US observer team has no official status, therefore all its activities interfering in the South Korean election process are plausibly deniable. But that's a joke at this point. This is theater. I see one of the far right Korean activists I've seen before, putting his hand over his breast for the US national anthem. ?????

The American team's efforts are coordinated with the usual far right suspects Taeguki, religious cult followers, Jeon Gwang-hun's far right religious nuts, as far as I can tell at other voting venues. There they are allegedly counting voters, looking for Chinese in the lines, testing their pronunciation in Korean and photographing them (allegedly these fake voters are Chinese citizens of Korean ethnicity, living in S.Korea to work in low paying jobs. "Chosun jok." But they are really spies sending secret signals back to China). On the other hand, the Korean "observer" people are the foot soldiers of foreign election interference on behalf of the US and Japan. No s..t, this is some of the stuff I've seen posted. Too bad I have to sleep now, have a lot of work to do tomorrow.

Okay, I got it this time. This is a pathetic scene:

Why are there Japanese subtitles? Why are there Israeli flags on this post?

2:03

과천 중앙선관위 앞
미국 국가 나오는데 내가 눈물이 막 나려고 하네
Thank you USA! G-D bless America!

The video in the X post captures a pro-Yoon Suk Yeol rally in front of the Central Election Commission in Gwacheon, South Korea, where supporters are seen waving American flags and singing the U.S. national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner," as a gesture of solidarity with the United States, reflecting a sentiment of seeking U.S. intervention or support in the ongoing political crisis following Yoon's impeachment and failed martial law attempt on December 3, 2024.

This event occurs in the context of South Korea's upcoming snap presidential election on June 3, 2025, triggered by the political turmoil and impeachment of Yoon Suk Yeol, with the presence of American flags and the singing of the U.S. national anthem symbolizing a perceived alliance and hope for U.S. influence, as some supporters believe figures like Donald Trump could intervene, a notion that has historical precedence in South Korean conservative circles where the American flag is seen as an emblem of anti-communism and security partnership.

The rally's setting and actions are part of a broader narrative where South Korea's political landscape is shaped by external alliances and internal divisions, with the U.S. playing a significant role due to its historical and current security ties, especially in the face of threats from North Korea and tensions with China, as highlighted by recent analyses and the unexpected turn of events that have elevated controversial figures like Lee Jae-myung as potential presidential candidates.

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Thanks for EBs Joe! Always liked JJ. Enjoyed the tunes. Still going thru the videos.

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joe shikspack's picture

@soryang

i guess it would be too much to ask the u.s. not to meddle with "the democratic process" in one of its vassal states. hopefully, the election will not be close so that there is no room for the usual and customary u.s. interference.

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@soryang

This is a computer translation from a retweet in Korean that Simone Chun posted.

Expel the American election monitoring group for the purpose of interfering in the presidential election immediately!

On the 26th, a group of far-right American citizens who call themselves the International Election Monitoring Group entered Korea.

They have consistently supported the insurgent Yoon Seok-yeol and the far-right conservative forces in Korea since the December 3 civil war. The head of the monitoring group, Mos Tan, served as the State Department’s Ambassador for International Criminal Justice during Trump’s first term and has consistently supported Yoon Seok-yeol and the insurgent forces while attacking candidate Lee Jae-myung as a pro-China and pro-North Korea figure. In addition, attorney Gordon Chang, who entered with them, has an extreme anti-China and anti-North Korea stance and is an executive of CPAC, the largest conservative group in the US. Trump even said, “I believe almost everything he says.”

In a press conference held after their visit to Korea, they claimed that there are serious concerns about the transparency and fairness of the Korean election system. In addition, they held a meeting with Hwang Kyo-ahn, who has consistently claimed that the election was rigged, and openly encouraged public opinion on election rigging through interviews with Jeon Han-gil. They even visited an early voting station in Seocho-gu, Seoul on the 30th and claimed that “there is no transparency at first glance” and “there seem to be many unclear parts in terms of procedures.” This is clear interference in the presidential election and interference in internal affairs.

Although they do not hold official positions in the US government, they are close to Trump. It is questionable whether the Trump administration is behind their entry into the country. After losing the 2020 presidential election, Trump claimed that the election was rigged, and Trump supporters even rioted at the US Capitol. It is difficult not to seriously suspect that the monitoring group entered the country to incite conflict and violence with public opinion on election rigging after the Korean presidential election, just as they did in the US.

Since the December 3 civil war, the US has openly intervened in Korean politics, supporting Han Deok-soo and Choi Sang-mok, and attacking Lee Jae-myung. Recently, Commander of the US Forces Korea Xavier Brunson made a public threat, saying, “The new leader of Korea must accept the fact that Korea is at a crossroads of an alliance.”

The firm will and determination of our people in this presidential election, which will be held after the dismissal of the insurgent leader Yoon Seok-yeol, is to eliminate the forces of insurrection. The US must face the fact that the people’s anger is boiling over at the US attempting to openly intervene in Korea’s peaceful election.

The Republic of Korea is not a country that holds elections under foreign surveillance. We strongly condemn the US for completely ignoring and insulting the sovereign people. We will definitely uncover and punish who joined hands with them to commit treason.

Immediately expel the American election monitoring group for the purpose of interfering in the presidential election!
The US must immediately stop interfering in the presidential election!

May 30, 2025 Candlelight Action

Here's the leader of the US election interference team led by Morse H. Tan speaking in this propaganda video for the far right insurrectionists in South Korea:

Why is the Dean and former US ambassador at large speaking in English? Supposedly he's a great linguist and fluent in multiple languages. Never head of this production outfit, and I've been watching South Korean media virtually every day for almost 9 years. The other team members there are "china experts" and friends of right wing propagandist Gordon Chang. I can tell by the remarks made by the colonel on another video, he knows nothing about Korean customs or culture.

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BTW

I wonder how the find out who the critics of Israel are?

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A few days ago Sam decided that she needed to spend all her spare time in bed. She did this last year like a switch got switched and she started hibernating and only coming out to eat dinner or get a snack and then back she went.

She is whining to come home while we are walking. She jumps out of the car and goes to bed without stopping to get her after walk snack.

This morning she took the pillow out from under the covers and almost got the pillow case off. Did the same thing this afternoon. I put it back on and under the covers. Just found it in the middle of the bed and half undressed. She seems very anxious about it.

During our walk she seems okay and very normal until she decides it’s time to go home, but once home her anxiety rises again.

Help. I dunno what is happening in her head, but my anxiety is rising too. It’s just strange how quickly this comes on.

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The message echoes from Gaza back to the US. “Starving people is fine.”

joe shikspack's picture

@snoopydawg

i dunno. smart dogs are sensitive to changes in routine, the availability of various "special" things and changes in your mood and/or anxiety level. then again who knows?

good luck! give sam a scritch for me.

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@humphrey

just what we needed.

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