The Evening Blues - 7-3-25
Hey! Good Evening!
This evening's music features singer and guitarist Bonnie Raitt. Enjoy!
Bonnie Raitt – Mighty Tight Woman
"A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it."
-- Lewis H. Lapham
News and Opinion
Israel Supporters Are Exhausting, Insufferable Narcissists
Israel is making it abundantly clear that it’s going to keep doing everything it can to instigate a war between the US and Iran, and the Washington swamp is crawling with war sluts who are pushing in the same direction. Trump’s cabinet is full of Iran hawks, and Trump himself has publicly confessed to being bought and owned by the world’s richest Israeli, Miriam Adelson.
Israel will not stop pushing for a full-scale American regime change war until it gets it. It will keep pushing and pushing and pushing, because there’s nothing stopping it from doing so. It has too much to gain and too little to lose, since the political layout in Official Washington and the parapolitical layout in the unelected deep state largely aligns with this goal as well. The warmongers will keep trying, and if they fail next time, they will try again.
Nobody with any real power is doing anything to permanently shut this warmongering down and lock it away; at most they’re just postponing it a bit until the next moment of demented brinkmanship occurs.
What this means is that anyone in the United States who doesn’t want this war to happen needs to get much, much more hostile toward all the elements that are seeking to bring it about. Support for Israel needs to become politically toxic. A complete abandonment of Washington’s status quo approach to the middle east must be demanded. A robust peace movement needs to emerge.
The people in power aren’t pushing back against this mad shove toward war, so the pushback is going to have to come from the American people themselves. It will not happen from the top down, so it’s going to have to come from the bottom up, or it’s not going to come at all. That’s the only thing that will stop this looming nightmare from being inflicted upon our world.
'Profiting from occupation': UN expert urges countries to cut trade, financial ties with Israel
Israeli military used 500lb bomb in strike on Gaza cafe, fragments reveal
The Israeli military used a 500lb (230kg) bomb – a powerful and indiscriminate weapon that generates a massive blast wave and scatters shrapnel over a wide area – when it attacked a target in a crowded beachfront cafe in Gaza on Monday, evidence seen by the Guardian has revealed.
Experts in international law said the use of such a munition despite the known presence of many unprotected civilians, including children, women and elderly people, was almost certainly unlawful and may constitute a war crime.
Fragments of the weapon from the ruins of al-Baqa cafe photographed by the Guardian have been identified by ordnance experts as parts of an MK-82 general purpose 230kg bomb, a US-made staple of many bombing campaigns in recent decades. The large crater left by the explosion was further evidence of the use of a large and powerful bomb such as the MK-82, two ordnance experts said.
An Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson said the attack on the cafe was under review and that “prior to the strike, steps were taken to mitigate the risk of harming civilians using aerial surveillance”. Medical and other officials said between 24 and 36 Palestinians were killed in the attack on the cafe and dozens more were injured. The dead included a well-known film-maker and an artist, a 35-year-old housewife and a four-year-old child. Among the injured were a 14-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl.
Under international law based on the Geneva conventions, a military force is forbidden to launch attacks that cause “incidental loss of civilian life” that is “excessive or disproportionate” to the military advantage to be gained.
US contractors say their colleagues are firing live ammo as Palestinians seek food in Gaza
Israeli Airstrike Kills Gaza Hospital Director Along With His Family
On Wednesday, an Israeli airstrike on an apartment in Gaza City killed Dr. Marwan al-Sultan, the director of the Indonesian hospital, as the Israeli military continues to kill medical workers and decimate Gaza’s healthcare infrastructure.
According to The Associated Press, al-Sultan was killed alongside his wife, his daughter, and son-in-law. Other reports say his sister was also among the dead.
According to Haaretz, the Indonesian hospital has been out of service since May 21 after an Israeli airstrike destroyed its generators. Al-Sultan had been quoted by many media outlets, warning of the catastrophic destruction of Gaza’s medical infrastructure.
According to Healthcare Workers Watch (HWW), a Palestinian medical organization, al-Sultan’s killing marks the 70th healthcare worker killed by the Israeli military in Gaza in the past 50 days.
Jeremy Scahill REVEALS Hamas Ceasefire Strategy
Trump claims Israel ready for Gaza peace deal as he seeks ceasefire
Donald Trump has claimed that Israel is ready to agree to a peace deal with Hamas as he seeks to broker a ceasefire in the Gaza war that has claimed almost 60,000 lives, but it is unclear what conditions specifically Israel has agreed to. In a post on Truth Social on Tuesday night, the US president wrote: “Israel has agreed to the necessary conditions to finalize the 60 Day CEASEFIRE, during which time we will work with all parties to end the War.”
Trump’s previous claims that Israel was ready to end the war, including a ceasefire negotiated before his inauguration in January, have quickly broken down as both sides accused the other of violating agreements on prisoner exchanges.
Hamas said on Wednesday that it was reviewing Trump’s proposal for a 60-day ceasefire, while Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said any peace agreement would banish Hamas from the Gaza Strip permanently.
“There will not be a Hamas,” Netanyahu said in his first public comments since Trump proposed the ceasefire talks on Tuesday. “There will not be a Hamastan. We’re not going back to that. It’s over.”
Hamas negotiators were expected to meet Egyptian and Qatari mediators in Cairo on Wednesday. Israel is not believed to have sent a delegation.
Max Blumenthal : Trump and Israeli Disinformation
All Likud Ministers Urge Netanyahu to Annex Entire West Bank This Month
All 15 Israeli government members representing Likud on Wednesday urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—who leads the right-wing party—to annex the entire West Bank of Palestine before the end of the Knesset's summer session on July 27, citing support from U.S. President Donald Trump.
The ministers, along with Likud Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana, sent a letter to Netanyahu asserting that "this is the time to approve in government a decision to apply sovereignty" over Judea and Samaria, the biblical name for the West Bank, which includes East Jerusalem.
"Following the state of Israel's historic achievements in the face of Iran's Axis of Evil and its sympathizers, the task must be completed and the existential threat from within must be eliminated, to prevent another massacre in the heart of the country," the letter argues, referring to the recent 12-day war between Israel and Iran, in which the United States intervened by bombing Iranian nuclear sites.
"The strategic partnership, backing, and support of the U.S. and President Donald Trump have made it a propitious time to move forward with it now, and ensure Israel's security for generations," the ministers said. "The October 7 massacre proved that the doctrine of settlement blocs and the establishment of a Palestinian state in the remaining territory is an existential danger to Israel. It's time for sovereignty."
Asked during a Wednesday press briefing for reaction on the ministers' call to annex the West Bank, U.S. State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce replied, "I think that is specifically something that the White House would be able to answer for you, but I also know that our position regarding Israel... is that we stand with Israel and its decisions and how it views its own internal security."
Netanyahu is set to travel to Washington, D.C. next week to meet with Trump, despite an International Criminal Court warrant for the Israeli leader's arrest for alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza including murder and forced starvation.
Palestinians and their defenders warned during the 2024 U.S. presidential election cycle that a victorious Trump might lift the few guardrails the Biden administration had placed on Israel and unleash Netanyahu to seize all of Palestine. The goal of Israel's far right is expansion of Israeli territory to include what proponents call "Greater Israel," which is based on biblical boundaries that stretched from Africa to Turkey to Mesopotamia.
Netanyahu has repeatedly displayed maps showing the Middle East without Palestine, all of whose territory is shown as part of Israel. However, annexation had previously been most closely associated with far-right figures outside Likud like Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich of the Religious Zionist Party and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir of Jewish Power.
Following Trump's reelection last November, Smotrich said that "the year 2025 will be, with God's help, the year of sovereignty in Judea and Samaria."
"The only way to remove the threat of a Palestinian state from the agenda is to apply Israeli sovereignty over the settlements in Judea and Samaria," he continued. "I have no doubt that President Trump, who showed courage and determination in his decisions during his first term, will support the state of Israel in this move."
Smotrich praised Wednesday's letter, declaring he'll be ready to impose Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank as soon as Netanyahu "gives the order," according toThe Times of Israel.
Israeli Justice Minister Yariv Levin, one of the Likud members who signed the letter, said Wednesday: "I think that this period, beyond the current issues, is a time of historic opportunity that we must not miss. The time for sovereignty has come, the time to apply sovereignty. My position on this matter is firm, it is clear."
Prof. John Mearsheimer : Unpacking Netanyahu's next-steps. Why the DC visit w/ Trump?
Pentagon says US strikes set back Iran nuclear program ‘one to two years’
The Pentagon has collected intelligence material that suggests Iran’s nuclear program was set back roughly one to two years as a result of the US strikes on three key facilities last month, the chief spokesperson at the defense department said at a news conference on Wednesday.
The spokesperson, Sean Parnell, repeated Donald Trump’s claim that Iran’s key nuclear sites had been completely destroyed, although he did not offer further details on the origin of the assessments beyond saying it came from inside the defense department. “We have degraded their program by one to two years,” Parnell said at a news conference held at the Pentagon. “At least, intel assessments inside the department assess that.”
Parnell’s description of the strikes marked a more measured estimate than Trump’s assertions about the level of destruction. A low-confidence Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) report based on early assessments said Iran’s program was set back several months.
The evolving picture of the severity of the damage to Iran’s nuclear program comes as US intelligence agencies have continued to push out new assessments, using materials that suggested the centrifuges at the key Fordow enrichment site were destroyed even if it was unclear whether the facility itself had caved in. Trump advisers have used that material, which include the use of video taken from B-2 bombers to confirm simulation models of shock waves destroying centrifuges and other Israeli intel from outside Fordow, to defend Trump’s assertions, two people familiar with the matter said.
US Arms Cut-Off Stuns Kiev Shocks EU; Zelensky Defiant, War Goes On; Russia Advances, Hardens Terms
Planned Parenthood stands to lose roughly $700m in federal funding if the US House passes Republicans’ massive spending-and-tax bill, the organization’s CEO said on Wednesday, amounting to what abortion rights supporters and opponents alike have called a “backdoor abortion ban”.
“We are facing down the reality that nearly 200 health centers are at risk of closure. We’re facing a reality of the impact on shutting down almost half of abortion-providing health centers,” Alexis McGill Johnson, Planned Parenthood Federation of Americas’s CEO, said in an interview Wednesday morning. “It does feel existential. Not just for Planned Parenthood, but for communities that are relying on access to this care.”
Anti-abortion activists have longed to “defund” Planned Parenthood for decades. They are closer than ever to achieving their goal.
Trump’s asylum ban at US-Mexico border ruled unlawful
A federal court has ruled that Donald Trump’s proclamation of an “invasion” at the US-Mexico border is unlawful, saying that the president had exceeded his authority in suspending the right to apply for asylum at the southern border.
As part of his crackdown on immigration, Trump abruptly closed the southern border to tens of thousands of people who had been waiting to cross into the US legally and apply for asylum, signing a proclamation on the day of his inauguration that directed officials to take action to “repel, repatriate, or remove any alien engaged in the invasion across the southern border of the United States”.
In a ruling on Wednesday, US district judge Randolph Moss ruled in favor of 13 people seeking asylum in the US and three immigrants’ rights groups who argued that it was unlawful to declare an invasion and unilaterally ban the right to claim asylum. Moss ruled that nothing in the Immigration and Nationality Act or the US constitution “grants the president or his delegees the sweeping authority asserted in the proclamation and implementing guidance”.
He also asserted the constitution did not give the president the authority to “adopt an alternative immigration system, which supplants the statutes that Congress has enacted and the regulations that the responsible agencies have promulgated”.
The ruling will not take effect immediately; rather Moss has given the Trump administration 14 days to seek emergency relief from the federal appeals court. But if Moss’s ruling holds up, the Trump administration would have to renew processing asylum claims at the border.
Mehdi Hasan REACTS To TORTURE Of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Trump’s bill will supercharge mass deportations by funneling $170bn to Ice
Thousands of new immigration enforcement officers. Tens of thousands of new detention beds. New fees on asylum applications. And new construction on the border wall.
Donald Trump’s sweeping spending bill would vastly expand the federal government’s immigration enforcement machinery and, if passed by the House, supercharge the president’s plan to carry out what he has vowed will be the largest deportation campaign in US history.
The measure would authorize a level of immigration enforcement spending that analysts and advocates say is without precedent. Trump’s so-called “big, beautiful bill” dedicates roughly $170bn for immigration and border-related operations – a staggering sum that would make US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) the most heavily funded law enforcement agency in the federal government, and that critics warn will unleash more raids, disrupt the economy and severely restrict access to humanitarian protections like asylum.
“We’ve already seen aggressive, indiscriminate immigration enforcement across the country – and protests in reaction to how horribly it’s been carried out,” said Daniel Costa, director of immigration law and policy research at the liberal Economic Policy Institute. “And we’re going to see such a massive increase that most people can’t even begin to wrap their heads around it.”
The 940-page bill passed the Senate on Tuesday, with JD Vance casting the tie-breaking vote. It now returns to the House, which approved an initial draft by a single vote in May. While some elements of the spending package could still change, the border security provisions in the House and Senate versions are largely aligned. And despite mounting public backlash over the Trump administration’s sprawling immigration crackdown – which has separated families and even swept up US citizens – the proposal’s “unimaginable” immigration enforcement spending has received notably less scrutiny than its tax cuts and deep reductions to social safety net programs like Medicaid. “It’s going to fundamentally transform the immigration system,” said Adriel Orozco, senior policy counsel at the American Immigration Council (AIC). “It’s going to transform our society.”
Don't tell me you give a shit about the middle class when all you do is shit on the middle class.
I'm voting hell no. pic.twitter.com/EXhBPJ7uTp
— Rep. Josh Riley (@RepRileyNY) July 2, 2025
GOP Budget Bill Slashes Medicaid for Millions, Cuts Taxes for the Rich, Funds ICE at Historic Levels
House passes Trump's megabill, sends it to the president's desk
In a vote of 218-214, Republicans passed Trump’s megabill, sending it to the president’s desk by his self-imposed Independence Day deadline. Republicans burst into chants of of “U-S-A!”
Zohran FIRES BACK After Trump ARREST THREATS
Droughts worldwide pushing tens of millions towards starvation
Drought is pushing tens of millions of people to the edge of starvation around the world, in a foretaste of a global crisis that is rapidly deepening with climate breakdown. More than 90 million people in eastern and southern Africa are facing extreme hunger after record-breaking drought across many areas, ensuing widespread crop failures and the death of livestock. In Somalia, a quarter of the population is now edging towards starvation, and at least a million people have been displaced.
The situation has been years in the making. One-sixth of the population of southern Africa needed food aid last August. In Zimbabwe, last year’s corn crop was down 70% year on year, and 9,000 cattle died. These examples are just the beginning of a worldwide catastrophe that is gathering pace, according to a report on drought published on Wednesday. In regions across the world, drought and water mismanagement are leading to shortages that are hitting food supplies, energy and public health.
Mark Svoboda, the founding director of the US National Drought Mitigation Center (NMDC), and co-author of the report, said: “This is not a dry spell. This is a slow-moving global catastrophe, the worst I’ve ever seen.” The report, published by the NMDC, the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, and the International Drought Resilience Alliance, examined in detail more than a dozen countries in four main regions: Africa, south-east Asia, Latin America and the Mediterranean. Taking information from governments, scientific institutions and local sources, the authors were able to build a picture of human suffering and economic devastation. ...
Svoboda said: “The Mediterranean countries represent canaries in the coalmine for all modern economies. The struggles experienced by Spain, Morocco and Turkey to secure water, food and energy under persistent drought offer a preview of water futures under unchecked global warming. No country, regardless of wealth or capacity, can afford to be complacent.” ...
The impacts of drought stretch far beyond the borders of stricken countries. The report warned that drought had disrupted the production and supply chains of key crops such as rice, coffee and sugar. In 2023-2024, dry conditions in Thailand and India led to shortages that increased the price of sugar by 9% in the US.
US north-east sees record tick season as climate crisis sparks arachnid boom
Ticks have been flourishing recently in the United States. This year, as compared to recent years, there has been an increase in the reported number of blacklegged ticks, the number of such ticks that carry Lyme disease and visits to the emergency room because of bites from the tiny parasitic arachnid, according to data from universities and the US federal government.
The Fordham Tick Index, which measures the chances of being bitten by a blacklegged tick in southern New York, Connecticut and northern New Jersey, rated the week of 20 June as a 10 out of 10, its highest level of risk. Still, scientists who study ticks are not saying people need to panic and avoid hiking even as a heating planet is seeing ticks spread ever wider across the US and boom in numbers. ...
Blacklegged ticks, the most common cause of Lyme disease, are appearing in higher numbers this year and the range of Lyme disease has in recent decades expanded significantly across the US, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 1995, reports of the disease were rare in north-eastern states like New York, New Hampshire and Vermont and in midwestern states like Wisconsin and Minnesota. In 2023, there were large clusters of cases in those areas.
Daniels said climate change was probably a factor in that expansion of ticks, which are active when the temperature gets above 40F. “The fact that the distribution of ticks has expanded in the past 20 years is probably largely affected” by the climate becoming “a little more moderate”, Thomas Daniels, a vector ecologist and director of Fordham University’s Louis Calder Center, said.
US to breed billions of flies and dump them out of aircraft in bid to fight flesh-eating maggot
The US government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico and southern Texas to fight a flesh-eating maggot. That sounds like the plot of a horror movie, but it is part of the government’s plans for protecting the US from a bug that could devastate its beef industry, decimate wildlife and even kill household pets. This weird science has worked well before.
“It’s an exceptionally good technology,” said Edwin Burgess, an assistant professor at the University of Florida who studies parasites in animals, particularly livestock. “It’s an all-time great in terms of translating science to solve some kind of large problem.”
The targeted pest is the flesh-eating larva of the new world screwworm fly. The US Department of Agriculture plans to ramp up the breeding and distribution of adult male flies – sterilizing them with radiation before releasing them. They mate with females in the wild, and the eggs laid by the female aren’t fertilized and don’t hatch. There are fewer larvae, and, over time, the fly population dies out.
It is more effective and environmentally friendly than spraying the pest into oblivion, and it is how the US and other countries north of Panama eradicated the same pest decades ago. Sterile flies from a factory in Panama kept the flies contained there for years, but the pest appeared in southern Mexico late last year.
Also of Interest
Here are some articles of interest, some which defied fair-use abstraction.
Chris Hedges: The Genocide Profiteers
Iran Damaged 33,000 Structures in Israel
Britain’s Long History of Spying on Iran
Attacks On Russia Related Ships Smell Of British / Ukrainian Cooperation
Prices of Both Housing And Rent Are Decreasing In China
Wisconsin supreme court strikes down 1849 abortion ban
Tesla vehicle deliveries drop sharply as Musk backlash affects demand
Kirsten Gillibrand apologizes to Zohran Mamdani over ‘jihad’ claim
Mahmoud Khalil, Palestinian Activist Jailed by ICE for 104 Days, in First Live Interview
A Little Night Music
Bonnie Raitt – I Feel The Same
Bonnie Raitt – Walking Blues
Bonnie Raitt – Write Me A Few Of Your Lines / Kokomo Blues
Bonnie Raitt, Keb Mo - No Gettin' Over You
Bonnie Raitt – Big Road
Bonnie Raitt – Sweet Forgiveness
Bonnie Raitt – Good Enough
John Lee Hooker, Bonnie Raitt - I'm In The Mood
Little Feat - Dixie Chicken (with Emmylou Harris & Bonnie Raitt)
Bonnie Raitt & John Prine - Angel From Montgomery
Bonnie Raitt "Soundstage" PBS TV - Dec 17th, 1974
Comments
We are going to need an army
We are going to need an army of Weathermen and Luigis to bring the political class to heel. As Chris Hedges has said, the only language politicians understand is fear. They are bilingual, they understand money as well, it seems to be their only constituent.
As RFK said, sic; "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make a violent one inevitable."
At some point, the amount of collective pain and suffering that is being inflicted upon us, will foment unpredictably, and become overwhelmingly impossible to quell. When the populace has nothing left to lose, and everything to gain, at some point, the last front of the american empire will be internal, and likely lead to its collapse. The faschy Rebs are doing their best to drive the final nails in the coffin.
evening borg...
we are going to need an army of all kinds of people to take down the wealthy oppressors. we will need people who can sit on their hands and refuse to labor (we will need a lot of them) - we will need people who can face the fascist snouts in the street and even a few revolutionaries and saboteurs to scare the poop out of the rich.
i guess we'll see if those people will stand up (or sit down) as needed.
@joe shikspack Definitely a more
Definitely a more reasoned approach. I am angry about the whole kabuki. I just look at the rights for all that the Unions of yore fought for and won with blood.
It wasn't until they stood up and fought back against the oppressors that any materialist gains were made. It is sad how complacent and downright traitorous many of the union membership rank and file have become.
There was a movie that came out about 10 years ago called "The Brainwashing of my Dad", its on youtube. It lays out the whole program, how the insidious RW has essentially taken control of the collective mind of the nation.
In reality, there really aren't enough people to make a difference on a national scale, yet.
Hi joe
A kiwi of our generation asked today at coffee, “would it take a military coup to stop Trump and the progression of the state of america?” All of us, each from a different country, thought about it, and wondered whether that would make things better? Ultimately, it just reminded us that all we really have control of is how we chose to be in life and relationship.
evening janis...
military coups are always a crap shoot. they are effective, but there is always a problem getting back to a civilian government, the military often appoints a "caretaker" institution that represents the military's values, which may vary considerably from the values of the populace.
on the other hand, any sort of revolution tends to have a violent, nasty phase and the people who rise up to lead the revolution often turn out to be just as nasty as the elites they are displacing.
when the people create a grassroots revolt, they will have to be mighty careful not to wind up with a situation similar to the one that they toppled.
joe, you just described exactly
the point of the question he intended to make. It was considered by us, from nz, samoa, america, philippines, and brazil. We reached the same conclusion. Human nature can be brutal.
Middle Class Champion
Rep. Riley voted "Yes" on the BBB.
Voters never get what they want. They get betrayal. Both parties.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
evening otc...
while i am sadly all too accustomed to those demorats that serve the people with their lips but not their actions, i checked, and i think riley voted no.
i'm sure that riley will betray the people another day.
I read that the not votes were Massey
and another repub I can't remember.
If I bashed a good guy, I sowwy, Lawd. (As I apologized at age 2 and 3.)
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
heh...
well, as i understand it, all of the dems voted against it. i have no idea if you bashed a good guy, he just wasn't wrong today on this one vote. i am not of the opinion that i have any representation for my views in the national government, though occasionally some alleged rogue congressworm says something that might be considered useful. nothing much ever comes of it, though.
I mistakenly thought him
to be a Republican Rep. I am gonna go back to my cave for now, hibernate and rest up.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
heh...
have a good one, and a great holiday!
You, too, friend!
Fireworks may challenge the hibernation, however. Neighbors are already tsting them to see which ones are loudest and most obnoxious.
Take good care, joe!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
So it looks like Trump will get his wish and be dictator
Only, unlike Hitler, with Trump the ruinousness of all of the plans is evident immediately, whereas with Hitler it only became obvious in 1939, the point which biographer Volker Ullrich used to divide volume 1 from volume 2 of his biography of Hitler.
It's amazing what the Germans were willing to overlook before 1939. Hitler's ideas of "lebensraum" and "judenfrage" were evident from Mein Kampf, published in 1925. So it was only when Hitler attacked Poland that that previously loyal and optimistic portion of the German public figured out how thoroughly screwed they were. Trump, on the other hand, had two books published in his name, with a lot of very ordinary Republican pablum in them. His current agenda appears as a combination of Project 2025, amplified by narcissism, need to provide kickbacks to buddies (that's what the "defense" budget is about -- Hitler used Wall Street's money to build an enormous army whereas Trump will be creating a lot of gold-plated garbage), and of course the common agenda of the neoconservatives he claimed to oppose. None of it really builds anything new, and so at some point it should all come tumbling down, most obviously because the foreign policy is so destructive. There is of course the little matter of how many of us will survive.
I have to wonder at what point whatever the disaster is that takes down Trump will occur.
"the old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters" -- Antonio Gramsci
evening cass...
i anticipate a series of military and environmental disasters, coupled with massive economic failures. so far, he seems to be good at diverting the attention of his base to other things even as many of their lives and livelihoods are falling apart. i don't know how long that can last.
There used to was this thing called radio ---
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 --
evening el...
i remember that thing called radio well and with great fondness. thanks for the tunes and have a great holiday!
Heya, Joe, thanks for the OT. Have a great holiday snd
weekend yourself.
be well and have a good one
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 --
Bonnie at her best
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Brings her back to her fiercely creative times.
I've only got her latest stuff, which is OK. But
compared to this, watered down. Still good.
Thx bro for filling in the missing years.
Zionism is a social disease
Thank you el,
for all the early, raw, Bonnie Raitt. It's quite a treasure.
Evening joe and bluesters
Thank you joe, for the news and blues. I read the article about maggots and flies, and it might be the first and last for the day. Sadly, I guess they don't have the science of sterilisation under control, that or the force to survive is stronger than any science. I am laughing and crying at the same time. How out of balance we continue to go, and decline.
On the other hand, I am enjoying your great Bonnie Raitt playlist.
Enjoy the weekend all
Bonnie Raitt.......thank you, joe!
Snuck over here to check out the tunes of the day. Never disappointed.
I can tell JtC has been updating the site. Thumbs up. The Big Barfo bill? Big sh1t. It passed. No surprise. Natch, they're doing the usual attacks on Medicare. July 4th, just another day in the Fascist, lawless, ruined by greed, Wild Wild West. Rec'd!!
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.