The Evening Blues - 7-17-25
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This evening's music features Stax band Booker T & The M.G.'s. Enjoy!
Booker T & The M.G.'s - Green Onions
"The misfortunes which God is represented in the book of Job as allowing Satan to inflict on Job, merely to test his faith, are indications, if not of positive malevolence, at least of a suspicious and ruthless insecurity, which is characteristic more of a tyrant than of a wholly powerful and benevolent deity."
-- A.J. Ayer
News and Opinion
'No State Is Above the Law': Hague Group Issues Plan to Counter Israeli Genocide in Gaza
The Hague Group—a coalition of Global South nations launched earlier this year by Progressive International to hold Israel legally accountable for its annihilation of Gaza—on Wednesday released a joint action plan aimed at bringing an end to the 21-month U.S.-backed genocidal assault on the Palestinian enclave.
On the second and final day of an emergency summit in Bogotá, Colombia—which co-chairs the Hague Group with South Africa—the coalition announced a six-point plan for "coordinated diplomatic, legal, and economic measures to restrain Israel's assault on the occupied Palestinian territories and defend international law at large."
Hague Group executive secretary Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla said in a statement that "this conference marks a turning point—not just for Palestine, but for the future of the international system."
"For decades, states—particularly in the Global South—have borne the cost of a broken international system," Gandikota-Nellutla added. "In Bogotá, they came together to reclaim it—not with words, but with actions."
BREAKING States announce unprecedented measures to halt the Gaza genocide at emergency conference convened by The Hague Group in Bogotá, Colombia. pic.twitter.com/wwnARhxNsy
— Progressive International (@ProgIntl) July 16, 2025
Twelve summit participants—Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Indonesia, Iraq, Libya, Malaysia, Namibia, Nicaragua, Oman, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and South Africa—committed to the following measures:
Preventing the provision or transfer of arms, munitions, military fuel, related military equipment, and dual-use items to Israel; Preventing the transit, docking, and servicing of ships at any port where there is a clear risk of the vessel being used to carry the aforementioned items to Israel; Preventing the transportation of such items aboard vessels flagged in participating nations; Launching an urgent review of all public contracts to prevent public institutions and funds from supporting Israel's illegal occupation of Palestine and entrenching its unlawful presence; Complying with obligations to ensure accountability for the most serious Israeli crimes under international law; and Supporting universal jurisdiction mandates in national legal frameworks and judiciaries to ensure justice for victims of international crimes committed in Palestine. "These 12 states have taken a momentous step forward," United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese, a prominent participant in the summit, said in a statement. "The clock is now ticking for states—from Europe to the Arab world and beyond—to join them."
Earlier this month, the Trump administration sanctioned Albanese, who recently said that "Israel is responsible for one of the cruelest genocides in modern history." The U.S. administration also imposed sanctions on judges from the International Criminal Court (ICC) after the tribunal issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza, including murder and forced starvation.
Unhinged State Dept statement to @DropSiteNews claims The Hague Group - about 20 countries meeting to discuss accountability for Israel — is “transparently laying the groundwork to attack the United States.” pic.twitter.com/Ml0roF6Am8
— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) July 16, 2025
In addition to the 12 nations, delegates from Algeria, Bangladesh, Botswana, Brazil, Chile, China, Djibouti, Honduras, Ireland, Lebanon, Mexico, Norway, Pakistan, Palestine, Portugal, Qatar, Senegal, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, Uruguay, and Venezuela attended the Bogotá summit.
Many of the participating nations are supporting the ongoing genocide case against Israel filed in December 2023 by South Africa at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. The ICJ has ordered Israel to prevent genocidal acts and allow humanitarian aid into Gaza. Israel has ignored the orders.
"What we have achieved here is a collective affirmation that no state is above the law," South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Ronald Lamola said Wednesday. "The Hague Group was born to advance international law in an era of impunity. The measures adopted in Bogotá show that we are serious—and that coordinated state action is possible."
Colombian President Gustavo Petro, whose government last year severed diplomatic relations with Israel, said, "We came to Bogotá to make history—and we did."
"Together, we have begun the work of ending the era of impunity," he added. "These measures show that we will no longer allow international law to be treated as optional, or Palestinian life as disposable."
According to the Gaza Health Ministry, at least 58,386 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since October 2023—most of them women and children. Multiple peer-reviewed studies have concluded that this figure is likely a vast undercount.
More than 139,000 Palestinians have been wounded, and at least 14,000 others are missing and presumed dead and buried beneath the rubble of bombed buildings. Most of Gaza's more than 2 million people have also been forcibly displaced, often multiple times, as Israel pursues an official policy of ethnic cleansing under the guise of humanitarian relocation.
Ultimately, it is up to Israel to end its obliteration of Gaza. However, neither Israel—which claims it is acting in self-defense in response to the Hamas-led attack of October 7, 2023—nor its unconditional U.S. benefactor recognize the authority of the ICJ or ICC, and both nations vehemently deny that any genocide is occurring in Gaza, despite growing international consensus.
One international human rights expert said Tuesday that a new report of alleged threats made against the International Criminal Court's prosecutor regarding his arrest warrants for Israeli officials were "extremely worrying," noting that the reported threats were just the latest show of intimidation against authorities who aim to hold Israel to account for its abuses of humanitarian law.
"The Commission of Inquiry on the [occupied Palestinian territories] quit, Francesca Albanese was sanctioned, and now we have reports of threats against Karim Khan," said London School of Economics human
rights fellow Alonso Gurmendi, referring to the mass resignation of three United Nations human rights experts, U.S. sanctions targeting the U.N. special rapporteur on the OPT, and the news about the ICC prosecutor.The Middle East Eye (MEE) reported that a British-Israeli defense lawyer linked to Israel's government, Nicholas Kaufman, delivered a warning to Khan at a meeting in May, as Khan was facing pressure over the arrest warrants he'd issued for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. Along with Hamas leader Mohammed Deif—since confirmed dead—Netanyahu and Gallant were accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Netanyahu's government began a military assault on Gaza in October 2023 that has been called a genocide by top human rights experts and groups.
Days before the meeting in May, Kaufman reportedly told Khan that he'd spoken to Roy Schondorf, a legal adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
When they met at a hotel in The Hague, Kaufman told Khan to apply to the ICC to have the warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant reclassified as "confidential" and submit them as part of a "noncriminal, noninvestigative process," allowing Israel to access the details of the allegations and privately challenge them without the outcome of the case being made public.
Kaufman also told Khan that issuing more arrest warrants for Israeli officials including Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir over their support for illegal settlements in the West Bank, as the ICC was considering at the time, could result in more U.S. sanctions against the ICC; the Trump administration imposed travel and economic sanctions against Khan earlier this year. More sanctions would "risk destroying the court," said Kaufman, MEE reported.
"All options would be off the table" for Khan if he issued the new arrest warrants, warned Kaufman. "They will destroy you, and they will destroy the court."
Kaufman told MEE that he requested a meeting with Khan in early May "because as an Israeli ICC lawyer, who had experienced the shock of October 7, 2023, I was well placed to understand the matter" and because Khan was "under fire" over his investigation into alleged war crimes committed by Netanyahu's government in Gaza.
At the time of the meeting, Khan was also facing an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct; he has denied the allegations.
He also told Khan that he should have gone after "lower-level suspects" and that his indictments of Netanyahu and Gallant had "basically indicted Israel."
Kaufman told the outlet that he had simply "told Mr. Khan that he should be looking for a way to extricate himself from his errors" but denied that he'd made a proposal to amend Khan's case against the Israeli officials on behalf of the government—despite his contact days earlier with Netanyahu's legal adviser.
Khan and his wife, lawyer Shyamala Alagendra, who also attended the meeting, told Kaufman his warning that Israel would "destroy" Khan over more warrants "was a clear threat."
Gurmendi said that if MEE's report is true, "this looks like a coordinated attack on international accountability on a scale never before seen."
Khan has faced other threats from officials allied with Israel since investigating Israel's assault on Gaza. In April 2024, the United Kingdom's then-foreign secretary, former Prime Minister David Cameron, had a tense phone call with Khan in which he threatened to defund the ICC and withdraw the U.K. from the court if it issued warrants for any Israeli leaders.
In May 2024, U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) threatened sanctions against ICC officials is Khan applied for more warrants.
Graham "was screaming at us," ICC lawyer Andrew Cayley, who oversaw the court's investigation into Palestine, told The Observer.
After Khan announced later that month that's he'd requested warrants for the Israeli and Hamas leaders, Cayley "began receiving anonymous, threatening phone calls saying, 'You're in a very dangerous position.'"
Writer Adam Shatz on How Oct. 7 & Israel's Brutality in Gaza Reshaped the World
At least 20 Palestinians killed in crush at food distribution site in southern Gaza
At least 20 Palestinians have been killed in a crush at a food distribution site in southern Gaza run by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). It happened after GHF guards used teargas or pepper spray on hungry crowds arriving at the centre, Palestinian health authorities and witnesses said.
Nineteen people were crushed and one stabbed in a “chaotic and dangerous surge” on Wednesday morning, GHF said in a statement. It did not respond to questions about the use of pepper spray or teargas by its staff at the site near Khan Younis.
Fifteen people died from suffocation after teargas was fired at the crowd, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement.
“All of the 15 arrived at the hospital already dead with obvious symptoms of lack of oxygen. You can see blue marks, vomit, blue lips, swelling faces – all symptoms of suffocation,” Dr Mohammed Zaqqout, the director of hospitals for Gaza, said. “We couldn’t save any of the 15 we received because they were already dead on arrival.”
Just another US-funded Israeli war
Middle East DESTABILIZATION: Israeli Attack in Damascus /Lt Col Daniel Davis
Israel strikes Syria’s defence ministry in third day of attacks
The Israeli military struck the Syrian defence ministry in Damascus twice on Wednesday as it intervened in the clashes between the Syrian army and Druze fighters in southern Syria in the country’s deadliest violence in months. The strikes collapsed four floors of the ministry and ruined its facade. The strikes killed one person and injured 18, Syrian officials said. It was the first time Israel had targeted Damascus since May and the third day in a row it had conducted airstrikes against the Syrian military.
A spokesperson for the Israeli military said the strike on the defence ministry had been a message to the Syrian president, Ahmed al-Sharaa “regarding the events in Sweida”. The Israeli military struck Syrian tanks on Monday and has continued to conduct dozens of drone strikes on troops, killing some soldiers.
Israel has said it will not allow the Syrian army to deploy in the south of the country, and that it would protect the Druze community from the Damascus government. Many in the Druze community have rebuffed Israel’s claim of patronage for fear of being viewed as a foreign proxy. ...
The Israeli bombing added another complication to an already escalating conflict between Syrian government forces, Bedouin Arab tribes and Druze fighters. More than 250 people have been killed in four days of clashes, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
On Wednesday, the Syrian government and one of the three spiritual leaders of the Syrian Druze community announced a ceasefire. It was unclear if the truce would hold, however, as another spiritual leader, Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri, vowed to keep fighting, calling the government a collection of “armed gangs”.
Trump NATO Arms Plan Unravels, Macron Meloni Opt Out; MSM Admits Ukraine Collapsing, Russia Unfazed
MASS Arrests Of Pro-Palestine Protesters In The U.K.!
Brazil tariffs ultimatum backfires on Bolsonaro
Silvana Marques was one of thousands of Brazilians who flocked to São Paulo’s most famous art museum one afternoon last week. But the 51-year-old teacher wasn’t there to marvel over fog-filled London landscapes at Masp’s new Monet retrospective. She had come to join a protest heaping scorn on Donald Trump. Beneath the museum’s brutalist hulk, Marques spotted a cardboard effigy of the US president and took a picture with her phone before the Trump dummy was set on fire. “Laranjão safado,” which translates as big orange dirtbag, she wrote under her photo on Instagram. Nearby, demonstrators hoisted a red banner into the air which read: “Nice try Trump. But we’re not afraid.”
The rally was a response to Trump’s decision last week to launch a politically motivated trade war against South America’s biggest economy in an attempt to help his rightwing ally, the former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, avoid jail. ... On 9 July, Trump wrote to Brazil’s leftwing president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, to demand that the charges against Bolsonaro be dropped and announce he would impose 50% tariffs on Brazilian imports until they were. “[This] is a Witch Hunt that should end IMMEDIATELY!” thundered Trump, long Bolsonaro’s most important international backer.
The US president apparently expected his intervention to improve the outlook for Bolsonaro, 70, who is already banned from running in next year’s election. Bolsonaro’s senator son, Flávio, urged Lula’s administration to immediately cave in to Trump’s ultimatum by offering his father an amnesty from prosecution. Flávio Bolsonaro likened Brazil’s predicament to Japan’s at the end of the second world war when the US’s B-29 bombers blasted it into submission. “It’s up to us to show the responsibility to avoid two atomic bombs landing on Brazil,” he said.
But a week after Trump’s tariff announcement, the ploy seems to be backfiring badly. The move has reinvigorated Bolsonaro’s leftwing rivals, given Lula a bounce in the polls and prompted a wave of public anger, largely focused on the Bolsonaro clan who have spent years portraying themselves as flag-loving nationalists. “Jair Bolsonaro couldn’t care less about Brazil. He’s a phoney patriot,” the conservative Estado de São Paulo newspaper fumed on Tuesday, excoriating the ex-president’s apparent willingness to throw his country to the wolves if it meant saving his own skin. The newspaper’s editorial board instructed conservatives to pick their side: “Brazil’s or Bolsonaro’s. The two paths are diametrically opposed.”
Eliane Cantanhêde, a columnist for the Estado de São Paulo, saw three motives behind Trump’s “indecent proposal”. He hoped to boost far-right fellow travellers in South America; retaliate against Chinese involvement in the region after the recent Brics summit in Rio; and do a personal favour to Bolsonaro’s son Eduardo, who has spent recent months lobbying officials in Washington after going into self-imposed exile in the US. But Cantanhêde believed Trump’s “megalomaniac” move had boomeranged, handing Lula a golden opportunity to recover slumping public support by posing as a nationalist defender of Brazilian coffee producers, orange growers, cattle ranchers and plane manufacturers in the face of Bolsonaro’s anti-patriotic and self-serving sellout to Trump. ... She said Beijing – Brazil’s biggest trade partner – would also be celebrating as Washington further damaged its standing in the region. “Trump is pushing the whole world into China’s lap,” Cantanhêde said.
Market PANICS After Trump Floats FED Chair Firing
Trump privately indicates he may soon fire Fed chair Jerome Powell
Donald Trump has privately indicated he is on the verge of firing the Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell, rattling Wall Street and renewing questions over the US central bank’s independence. The US president insisted on Wednesday that it was “highly unlikely” he would dismiss the Fed chair, after reports he had suggested he would and shown a draft letter dismissing Powell to political allies.
“I don’t rule out anything, but I think it’s highly unlikely. Unless he has to leave for fraud,” said Trump. The president has recently criticized Powell for a $2.5bn renovation of the Fed’s buildings. “I mean it’s possible there’s fraud involved,” said Trump. Powell has reportedly asked the central bank’s inspector general to review the renovation.
Trump has repeatedly and publicly demanded the Fed cut interest rates to spur economic growth. Powell has so far declined, noting that Trump’s controversial rollout of tariffs has clouded the outlook for inflation. Multiple news outlets reported that the president had openly mused about sacking Powell as Fed chair during a meeting with House Republicans, sending stocks sharply lower on Wednesday.
People present at the meeting with Trump expressed approval for Powell’s firing, CBS News reported. The president indicated he would “likely” do so soon, an unnamed White House official told the CNBC financial news network.
Louisiana police officials charged with taking bribes in alleged visa fraud plot
Federal authorities have charged three current or former Louisiana police chiefs with taking bribes in exchange for filing false police reports that would allow noncitizens to seek a visa that lets certain crime victims stay in the US. The false police reports would indicate that the immigrant was a victim of a crime that would qualify them to apply for a so-called U visa, US attorney Alexander C Van Hook said on Wednesday at a news conference in Lafayette, Louisiana. He said the police officials were paid $5,000 for each name they provided falsified reports for – and that there were hundreds of names.
There had been “an unusual concentration of armed robberies of people who were not from Louisiana” when the scheme unraveled, Van Hook said, noting that two other people were also charged in the alleged plot. “In fact, the armed robberies never took place,” he said. ...
Those charged are the Oakdale police chief, Chad Doyle, Forest Hill police chief, Glynn Dixon, former Glenmora police chief Tebo Onishea, Michael “Freck” Slaney, a marshal in Oakdale, and Chandrakant “Lala” Patel, an Oakdale businessman.
According to investigators, people seeking special visas would reach out to Patel, who would contact the lawmen and offer them a payment in exchange for falsified police reports that named the migrants as victims of armed robberies that never occurred. The scheme went on for nearly a decade, Van Hook said.
Trump says FBI should investigate 'the Jeffrey Epstein hoax' as a criminal conspiracy against him
In an interview with Real America’s Voice, the far-right network created to host Steve Bannon’s podcast, Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the FBI should investigate what he called “the Jeffrey Epstein hoax” as part of a criminal conspiracy against him.
Trump made the comment after his host John Solomon, a partisan journalist who worked with Rudy Giuliani in 2019 to spread false rumors about Joe Biden’s anticorruption effort in Ukraine, said that he had confirmed that the FBI has opened an investigation into an alleged, decade-long criminal conspiracy to use the federal government against him.
Asked by Solomon what he thought the FBI should investigate, Trump brought up Epstein, saying that the furor over the Epstein files, along with allegations that his 2016 campaign had benefited from Russian interference, and special counsel Jack Smith’s attempt to prosecute him for attempting to overturn his 2020 election loss, were “all the same scam”.
“They could look at this Jeffrey Epstein hoax also, because that’s the same stuff, that’s all put out by Democrats,” Trump said. “And you know some of the naive Republicans fall right into line.”
Trump went on to suggest that all of the files from the federal investigation into his late friend, the convicted sex offender Epstein, should not be released because they might include false information about him planted there by his Democratic rivals.
Yeah what changed? https://t.co/PeBSPbPiKs
— Theo Von (@TheoVon) July 16, 2025
Trump calls Epstein conspiracy a ‘hoax’ and turns on Maga ‘weaklings’
Donald Trump has lashed out against his own supporters, calling them gullible “weaklings” for questioning the transparency of a secretive government inquiry into the late high-profile socialite and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The US president is struggling to contain a political crisis within his usually loyal Make America Great Again (Maga) base over suspicion that the administration is hiding details of Epstein’s crimes to protect the rich elite Epstein associated with, which included Trump.
In a lengthy post on his social media website, Truth Social, Trump accused his voters on Wednesday of falling for what he called a “radical left” hoax by the opposition to discredit him. “Their new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters have bought into this ‘bullshit,’ hook, line, and sinker. They haven’t learned their lesson, and probably never will, even after being conned by the Lunatic Left for 8 long years,” he wrote.
“Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work, don’t even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don’t want their support any more!” ...
Republican voters and politicians have pressed Trump to publicly release documents related to the case, which have become known as the “Epstein Files”. Multiple users on Truth Social responded to Trump’s post, calling for him to release more information. “You’re losing your most loyal followers and voices Mr President,” said one post. “Why are you protecting pedophiles?” said another post. ...
During his election campaigns, Trump fuelled multiple conspiracies by his Maga movement, including that the country was controlled by shadowy “deep state” elites. This has caused deep paranoia among his base, who are now, unusually, questioning their leader over the Epstein controversy. ... Conservative allies of the president have focused their anger on the attorney general, Pam Bondi, who was leading the case, as she had previously said Epstein’s client list was “sitting on my desk right now to review”.
Wow, amazing that Epstein “killed himself” and Ghislaine is in federal prison for a hoax
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 16, 2025

Cuomo RE-ENTERS Mayor Race, Catches BRUTAL RATIO From Mamdani
Billionaire SAD After Zohran Doesn't Recognize Him
Death threats and falsehoods among online abuse reported by land and climate defenders
Death threats, doxing and cyber-attacks are just some of the online threats recounted by land and climate defenders in a new report, amid concerns that harassment is having a chilling effect on environmental activism. Interviews and questionaires sent out to more than 200 environmental defenders across six continents by Global Witness found that nine in 10 activists reported receiving abuse over their work. Three in four defenders who said they had experienced offline harm believed that digital harassment contributed to it.
The findings come after Meta announced in January that it was axing factchecking, reducing “censorship” and increasing political content, following similar moves by X since 2022.
Fatrisia Ain, a member of a collective of women fighting to regain land rights taken through Indonesia’s palm oil plantation partnership programme in Sulawesi, told the Guardian about repeated intimidation attempts. “Accounts have taken selfies from my personal Instagram and posted them on Facebook groups, spreading lies about me and ‘red-tagging’ – a very sensitive issue in Indonesia.” The posts remain visible in public groups with up to 40,000 members.
Almost two-thirds of defenders who had received abuse said it led them to fear for their safety, and Ain felt that being a woman made her “even more vulnerable”. “They falsely accused me of having an affair with a married man because I’m an unmarried woman activist,” she said, describing it as “another serious allegation in Indonesia”. She said the online attacks had seriously worried her family, who had begged her to stop her activism.
Ain said Facebook refused to remove the posts about her after she reported them for hate speech. “It said they’re not dangerous – but I explained that it is in Indonesia,” she said, calling on platforms to exercise cultural sensitivity in their moderation practices. Just 12% of defenders who reported abuse said they were happy with platforms’ responses, and Global Witness found evidence suggesting European defenders were more likely to receive responses when reporting harmful content. In 2023, at least 196 land defenders were killed worldwide for their work, and Ain told the Guardian that she had been physically attacked last year.
Trump administration sued by 20 states for cutting disaster prevention grants
A group of 20 mostly Democratic-led US states filed a lawsuit on Wednesday seeking to block the Trump administration from terminating a multibillion-dollar grant program that funds infrastructure upgrades to protect against natural disasters.
The lawsuit filed in Boston federal court claims that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) lacked the power to cancel the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program in April after it was approved and funded by Congress.
Fema, part of the US Department of Homeland Security, has come under scrutiny for its response to deadly floods in Texas earlier this month, which has put renewed focus on the administration’s moves to shrink or abolish the agency.
“By unilaterally shutting down Fema’s flagship pre-disaster mitigation program, Defendants have acted unlawfully and violated core separation of powers principles,” said the states, led by Washington and Massachusetts.
Also of Interest
Here are some articles of interest, some which defied fair-use abstraction.
UK Media Peddled Iran ‘Link’ to Palestine Action
Israel's Bombing Of Damascus Is Aimed At Turkey
How Trump's 50-day deadline threat against Putin will backfire
Elite Opinion In Canada Begins To Shift From America To China
Yanis Varoufakis: Who Needs Marx in 2025?
Trump's Concentration Camps Are Not New to the U.S.
Astronomers see formation of new solar system around distant sun for first time
Holocaust Scholar Omer Bartov: Yes, Israel Is Carrying Out a Genocide in Gaza
A Little Night Music
Booker T. & The MG's - Time Is Tight
Booker T & the MG's - Chinese Checkers
Booker T & the MG's - Melting Pot
Booker T & the MG's - Hip Hug-Her
Booker T. & the MG's - Hang 'em high
Booker T. & The M.G.'s - Soul Limbo from Soul Limbo
Booker T. & MG's - Slim Jenkins' Place
Booker T. & MG's - Mo' Onions
Booker T & The MGs - Booker Loo/Soul Dressing
Booker T. & The M.G.'s - Medley: Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight / The End / Here Comes The Sun / Come Together

Comments
Gotta love dem onions
thanks joe
Zionism is a social disease
evening qms...
those are the first onions that i really liked.
I would say that this is straightforward and on point.
Considering the source it might gain wide coverage.
evening humphrey...
it'll certainly get a great deal of notice if lula can organize some friendly nations to deplore and maybe boycott trump.
Watch as Brazil imposes a niobium embargo on the US
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-world-s-largest-producers-of-nio...
And remember, folks: The word "tariff" comes from the Arabic:
"the old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters" -- Antonio Gramsci
evening cass...
that might be one way to focus trumps attention on his asinine bullying behavior. if the many targets of trumps bullying were to join together (i note that canada is a major producer) it might make an even greater impression, particularly if it is pressed hard around election time.
Either way the money keeps flowing in to the MIC.
The rest of the tweet:
I appears as if there was a benefit for stealing the election in Romania.
heh...
maybe the swiss can pick up some air defense systems from china.
Hola Joe, thanks for the EBs. Iwas really blown away by the
cover of McLemore Avenue when it first came out, and then the music as well. A really great production. Thanks for posting that bit.
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 --
evening el...
yep, i picked up mclemore avenue when it first came out and it has grown on me ever since. i'm not usually into covers, but these are really well done and bring something to the material.
have a great evening!
I might add that he was a Republican. in congress,
heh...
and the adl will accuse him of antisemitism in 3, 2, 1 ...
Thanks Obama! .......Luigi should get a Nobel Prize!
the pitfalls of the DOGE, IRS, ICE nexus
In this video, I think the host actually underestimates the threat of the automated information sharing to take place by computer basically without any legal or administrative processes being met. Although with an estimated 7 million people already potentially having their records compromised by releasing them to an agency that feels it doesn't have to comply with any laws, it is not easy to exaggerate the potential evil here.
I ran into something like this at a state agency recently which had an oblique connection to voter registration. I'm certain they deliberately f...ed it up, to make it as difficult as possible for me to vote, if not completely impossible. I don't think for one minute it was a "mistake" or "administrative error." I have run into this sort of thing so often in one form or another. Now the digital bs becomes a tool to make it more systematic. The involvement of a private surveillance IT companies in the DOGE schemes with data dumps of government privacy act data is a huge red flag.
What I would say to this host is, this isn't just about deporting unlawful aliens without due process, or mistakenly deporting citizens, they want everything. It's total.
Thanks for the EBs Joe!
語必忠信 行必正直
evening soryang...
confidential, eh? i am reminded of ben franklin's advice:
"three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead."
Not many in this group condemned Israel's actions in Gaza
if they did it was extremely weakalso a number of them actually aided the US and Israel's attack on Iran.yes, well...
i guess we'll see if they get beyond sending a memo. israel is not particularly mindful of memos, international organizations or really anything but force.
Hey, joe!
LOVED the music tonight!
Good thing I am not running for a public office in NYC because I wouldn't recognize a billionaire, most likely. Maybe if they tattooed their hand or ear, that would help.
Tattooed now, branded after the revolution, perhaps...
Great ebs this evening, my friend! Thanks for all you do!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Evening joe and bluesters
Thanks for the EBs joe. You can’t help but be moved to move by Booker T. & the MG’s, especially their Soul Limbo and Green Onions. Melting Pot isn’t bad either ; ).
Just today, it was announced that NZ has established a long awaited trade deal with Canada for its dairy products. NZ has a fairly long established trading relationship with China, which has helped support its economy. China has been more approachable in terms of trade than America has ever been with NZ, I believe.
It was also announced today that Mu, of Fat Freddy's Drop, died. Lots of people are mourning his loss, which is a great loss to music, worldwide. I might try to write a dedication to him and FFD tomorrow.
As a comparison,
the Chinese population in America is not even 1%.
Merci Beaucoup, joe!!!
I love me some Booker T. The so-called "news"? Spare me. Rec'd!!
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.