The Evening Blues - 6-18-26

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This evening's music features blues and r&b singer and songwriter Ray Agee. Enjoy!
Ray Agee - Wobble - Loo
"Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost no kind of outrage-torture, imprisonment without trial, assassination, the bombing of civilians-which does not change its moral color when it is committed by 'our' side. The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them."
-- George Orwell
News and Opinion
Iran Keeps Winning And The US Empire Keeps Losing
Everyone’s talking about the Memo of Understanding that has been reached between the US and Iran, set to be signed on Friday. All the most fanatical Zionist warmongers are rending their garments in heartbreak over the development, which is always a good sign, but it remains to be seen how much of this thing actually happens and for how long.
One major sticking point in the deal is ending Israel’s assault on Lebanon, which Tehran remains adamant about, warning of an Iranian military response if the IDF doesn’t cease its constant attacks on the country. This could easily end up tanking the whole thing.
Either way, I personally can’t see a whole lot to get excited about right now. Any “peace deal” with Iran is at best a temporary pause in the US/Israeli efforts to topple Tehran while the US pursues other war agendas like regime change in Cuba. And there’s a very, very strong possibility that it won’t even be that.
But it is clear that the efforts to shatter and balkanize Iran have failed for the time being, and that the US/Israel tandem has been successfully deterred from ever attempting the same type of military operation in the same way again.
And that’s a good thing. The US empire is the most destructive and tyrannical force on the planet, and it is good when it fails to accomplish its goals.
Westerners love to whine about how tyrannical and authoritarian Iran’s government is, but it’s worth noting that the control Tehran exerts within its borders is a major reason US-Israeli efforts to turn the nation into a giant Libya have failed. That control exists to thwart precisely the type of existential foreign threat that Iran just thwarted. Were it not for that existential foreign threat, such control wouldn’t be necessary.
The US has openly admitted to deliberately fomenting the domestic unrest we saw in Iran earlier this year, and to attempting to arm insurgent factions. Those foreign threats were put down by precisely the Iranian “tyranny” you’ve seen western liberals and anarkiddies huffing about all year.
The fact that the US-Israeli war failed to achieve the government-toppling goals set out by Washington and Tel Aviv means that Iran was able to inhibit the visibility that US and Israeli intelligence agencies had into the nation, because you only fail to accomplish a military objective you think you can accomplish if your enemy is able to surprise you. Countering US and Israeli intelligence operations, rooting out US and Israeli intelligence assets, blocking US and Israeli propaganda from domestic consumption, and obstructing US and Israeli visibility into Tehran’s government and military could only be achieved by a strong government that’s willing exert forceful control over what goes on inside its own borders.
Westerners like to point at the “authoritarianism” of the few remaining enemies of the US-centralized empire as though it proves that we’re looking at a struggle between a beneficent and virtuous civilization and a bunch of evil tyrants, but really all it proves is that the only nations who are able to resist absorption into the imperial blob are the ones who are willing and able to exert control over what happens inside their borders. If the US and its allies weren’t constantly working to subvert and topple all unabsorbed nations, this “authoritarianism” wouldn’t be needed to resist it.
The managers of the western empire are the real tyrants. Abusing populations around the world with nonstop wars, proxy conflicts, regime change ops and starvation sanctions in an effort to rule the world is as tyrannical as it gets.
Deep State TRYING TO DESTROY Iran Deal
‘HUMILIATING Loss ’: Rania Khalek Unpacks How Trump, Israel Got Played in Iran MoU
US releases text of Iran peace plan as Trump says deal averts ‘worldwide depression’
The Trump administration has released the text of its 14-point agreement with Iran, claiming it delivered a “major win” for the United States – even as it made significant political and financial concessions to Iran to reopen the strait of Hormuz and prevent a “worldwide depression”. In extraordinary remarks on Wednesday, Donald Trump went from threatening Iran with a new wave of attacks to suggesting the country had basic rights to enrich uranium for civilian use, that he would not pressure Tehran to abandon its ballistic missiles programme and the US was “going to have to give back” billions of dollars in frozen Iranian assets.
Those remarks, as well as the full text of the agreement – which was hailed by the Hezbollah chief, Naim Qassem, as a “great victory” – are likely to fuel anger in Israel and among hardliners in the Republican party who had urged Trump not to make a deal with Tehran. Iran’s chief negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said: “The agreement is a record of US failure. People will see it and judge.”
Defending the deal, Trump said no US president had ever been as tough on Iran as him, and “there is nothing as smart as the market – and the market loves it”. Trump said that “the alternative would be a worldwide depression”, arguing that if he had not struck a deal, “the strait [of Hormuz] would never have been opened. They don’t like floating billion-dollar ships up and down the strait when their rockets are flying overhead and there are mines all over the place.”
Senior administration officials said the deal would help prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, pointing to an agreement to discuss down-blending its 440kg stockpile of highly enriched uranium, which could be further enriched for use in a nuclear weapon. Trump has said he was open to the stockpile being diluted inside Iran under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Trump and Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, signed the agreement on Wednesday. The US vice-president, JD Vance, is also expected to sign the deal at a more formal ceremony in Geneva on Friday.
The Trump administration had delayed the release of the full text of the memorandum of understanding, which is essentially a 60-day ceasefire agreement, in order to hold more comprehensive nuclear and permanent peace talks with Iran. The 14-point plan was dictated to journalists during a background briefing by senior administration officials as Trump spoke at the end of the G7.
COL. Douglas Macgregor : Israel The Real Loser
Top Republican decries Trump’s Iran deal: ‘Reagan is rolling over in his grave’
A handful of Senate Republicans have sharply criticized the agreement Donald Trump reached with Iran, accusing the administration of committing “the worst foreign policy blunder in decades”. On Wednesday, the Trump administration released the text of an interim deal between Washington and Tehran to end the 110-day conflict, framing it as a “major win” for the US – even as the 14-point accord made significant political and financial concessions to Iran to reopen the strait of Hormuz and prevent a “worldwide depression”.
Reagan is rolling over in his grave. Iran’s nuclear ambitions were not curbed, and they have learned that threatening the Strait of Hormuz works and will undoubtedly leverage it in the future. Now, Iran gets to build brand-new infrastructure under this deal.
Before the war, the…
— U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (@SenBillCassidy) June 17, 2026
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Before the war, the strait was open, Iran was being crushed by sanctions, and 13 service members were still alive. Now, 13 Americans are dead, families have paid billions at the pump, sanctions will be lifted, and the bombing has stopped. This is the worst foreign policy blunder in decades.
Cassidy lost his primary last month when voters in Louisiana opted instead to advance two challengers to a runoff election after an extraordinary intervention by Trump to oust the incumbent. Trump has publicly feuded with Cassidy for years, after the Republican senator voted in favor of Trump’s impeachment after the January 6 insurrection. Before the Louisiana Senate primary election, Trump repeatedly disparaged Cassidy on social media, calling him “a disloyal disaster”.
The Republican senator Ted Cruz, who previously voiced reservations about a potential Iran deal, said in an interview with conservative outlet the Daily Wire that he hopes to see more details, but said elements of what is currently public appeared “ill-advised”.
“What has been released so far suggests that, unfortunately, the president is getting, I think, very poor advice when it comes to this deal,” Cruz said. “History teaches that giving billions of dollars to theocratic lunatics who want to murder us is a bad idea.”
Trump defended his ceasefire deal on Wednesday at the G7 summit, further promising that if Iran misbehaved he would “go back to dropping bombs right smack in the middle of their head”.
Part1: Seyed Mohammad Marandi in Conversation with Jeffrey Sachs about USA& Israel war against Iran
Part2: Seyed Mohammad Marandi in Conversation with Jeffrey Sachs about USA& Israel war against Iran
MoU Released by the US Says Enriched Uranium Will Be Downblended Inside Iran
The 14-point US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding, which US officials detailed to reporters on Wednesday, says that under the potential deal, Iran’s enriched uranium will be downblended “on site,” as the US has backed off on its demand to take it out of the country.
The MoU states that the “have agreed to resolve the disposition of stockpiled enriched material pursuant to a mechanism that will be mutually agreed upon in accordance with the schedule mentioned in paragraph seven with the minimum methodology to be down-blending on site under the supervision of the [International Atomic Energy Agency].”
Despite the offer being on the table before the war, Trump administration officials are selling the downblending as a “major win,” as the deal is under intense scrutiny from hawks in the US and Israel. “They’re saying: ‘We will destroy the enriched stockpile, and this is how we’re going to do it, at a minimum,” a US official told reporters on Wednesday.
Max Blumenthal : Israel In Panic
Construction equipment multinationals may be aiding Israeli war crimes
Human rights experts have alleged that six multinational construction equipment conglomerates may be aiding and abetting war crimes by supplying excavators and bulldozers to Israel, after photos and videos showed the Israeli military using their equipment to demolish villages in south Lebanon. The Guardian geolocated and verified images showing the Israeli military using excavators made by six companies – Caterpillar, Volvo, Hyundai, Doosan, Hitachi and Komatsu – to destroy homes, public utilities, shops and other structures across southern Lebanon.
Israel has levelled entire villages inside the “yellow line”, a 608 sq km area occupied by Israel along the Lebanese-Israeli border. At least 46 villages in south Lebanon have suffered heavy damage, most of it caused by demolitions carried out after the 17 April Lebanon-Israel ceasefire, according to a satellite analysis by Bellingcat.
The Israeli military said it was destroying Hezbollah infrastructure, with Israel’s defence minister, Israel Katz, calling for “all homes in Lebanese villages near the border” to be destroyed to “remove threats”.
However, Human Rights Watch has said that Israel’s wide-scale destruction of villages could amount to wanton destruction – a war crime. Displaced residents have watched from afar as videos show craters and vast fields of rubble where their family homes once stood. Much of that destruction is being carried out by excavators and bulldozers produced and sold to Israel by foreign companies.
Human rights experts said that supplying the construction equipment that enables the Israeli military to destroy homes and villages in south Lebanon could make these companies complicit in any war crimes and potentially lead to their executives facing legal consequences. Foreign companies should stop supplying heavy construction equipment to Israel until they are assured that it will not be used in war crimes, the experts said.
Andrei Martyanov: Israel Just Dealt a Defeat to the US
Russia Says Ukrainian Drone Hit Bus Carrying Children in Russia’s Bryansk Region
Russian officials said on Wednesday that a Ukrainian drone hit a bus carrying a children’s soccer team from Belarus in Russia’s Bryansk Oblast, as civilian casualties continue to rise in both Ukraine and Russia.
For its part, the Ukrainian military denied responsibility, claiming that it wasn’t carrying out drone attacks in Bryansk at the time. Yegor Kovalchuk, the acting governor of Bryansk, called the attack a “completely deliberate strike on civilian transport on a busy highway.”
At least one woman was killed in the attack, and six people, including four children, were wounded. A Belarusian law enforcement official told RT that the woman was the wife of the team’s coach.
Russia Warns Iran Beware US Trap; US Signs MoU On Iran Terms; EU Offers Talks Russia 'Uninterested'
UK officials expect Russia to retaliate for seizure of shadow fleet oil tanker
British officials believe Russia will try to retaliate for the Royal Marines’ seizure of the oil tanker Smyrtos, prompting UK ship owners to exercise greater vigilance until tensions with Moscow ease.
Military sources said the UK had considered possible responses to the seizure of the vessel carrying Russian crude worth $40m (£30m) to India, and anticipate that the Kremlin will want to hit back.
“Seizing the Smyrtos was in the works for a long period. They had gone through the risks, and expectation is Russia will try to retaliate,” said a naval insider. “If they do so, it could be globally. They are likely to take their time and pick their moment.”
No formal warning has been issued to British captains and ship owners, but the UK Chamber of Shipping, which represents the industry, said there was an understanding that there could be the risk of a Russian tit-for-tat action.
“We are aware of the increased risk and owners assess the risk for themselves,” said a spokesperson. “From an industry perspective, a greater vigilance is more prevalent, given the events of the last few days.”
Trump administration seeks to halt first US reparations program for Black people
The Trump administration has joined a lawsuit attempting to stop a first-of-its-kind reparations plan that would compensate Black residents of a Chicago suburb, arguing that its race-based criteria are unconstitutional. The program, in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, offers Black residents and their descendants up to $25,000 for past raced-based housing discrimination. When the city’s program was approved in 2021, it was hailed as a model for reparations movements across the US.
The US Department of Justice is wading into the legal fray two years after the conservative activist group Judicial Watch first filed the lawsuit on behalf of six plaintiffs whose parents or grandparents lived in Evanston, and argued their rights were violated under the equal protection clause since they were excluded from receiving reparations because they were not Black. “There are sound ways for a city to remedy past discrimination or direct resources to its most vulnerable citizens and neighborhoods. Simply handing out money based on race, however, is not the answer,” Harmeet K Dhillon, the assistant attorney general of the justice department’s civil rights division, said in a statement.
Daniel Biss, Evanston’s Democratic mayor, said the city was reviewing the justice department filing and that the city stood behind its reparations program. “[We] are confident in its constitutionality, and look forward to defending it in court,” Biss said in an email. Throughout his second term, Donald Trump has sought to weaponize civil rights laws against groups they once protected and has fixated on dismantling programs related to diversity, equity and inclusion.
In 2021, Evanston became the first city to launch a reparations program of its kind by which Black residents, and their direct descendants who lived in the city between 1919 and 1969 and experienced housing discrimination, such as that imposed by exclusionary zoning laws and other city policies, could receive up to $25,000. Residents of any race who experienced housing discrimination after 1969 are also eligible to use the program, but must show proof of the discriminatory policy or practice, according to the city’s restorative housing program guidelines.
Funded by local cannabis taxes, the program as of last June had already disbursed $6.3m to hundreds of eligible applicants, according to the Evanston RoundTable. The funds are limited in use: recipients can use them for down payments on a property, home repairs or improvements, and paying down a mortgage and other fees. Though the program was passed to great fanfare in 2021, it has also been criticized for its limited application to home-related costs, and for funneling money back to the institutions, like banks, that were responsible for discriminating against Black homeowners in the first place.
Trump derails confirmation process for Jay Clayton as US intelligence chief
Donald Trump abruptly diverted the confirmation process for Jay Clayton as the US’s top intelligence chief early Wednesday, in a move that will allow the president’s controversial selection for acting director of national security, Bill Pulte, to assume the role and remain in place for at least several weeks until Clayton is confirmed.
Trump pushed the Senate to confirm Clayton after his appointment of Pulte as acting director sparked bipartisan pushback and stalled his administration’s push for renewal of the controversial Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (Fisa). Democrats and some Republicans have decried Pulte’s nomination, saying that his background as the chair of a federal mortgage regulation agency is insufficient to lead America’s intelligence community.
In a surprising post on Truth Social in the early morning hours on Wednesday, Trump declared: “we are cancelling the Senate Hearing RE: DNI today.” The president does not technically have the power to cancel a Senate hearing. Tom Cotton, a Republican senator and chair of the intelligence committee, initially said on X Wednesday morning: “We will proceed with his hearing as scheduled unless the president directs [Clayton] not to appear or withdraws his nomination.”
Tulsi Gabbard resigned late last month as director of national intelligence, which oversees 18 US spy agencies. Pulte could become acting director as soon as this week. Like Pulte and Gabbard, Clayton has thin credentials for America’s top intelligence job. He served as the chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) during Trump’s first term and made millions working as a Wall Street attorney in the decades prior to his 2017 SEC post.
But like Trump’s other appointees, Clayton has also demonstrated unwavering support for Trump and his agenda – including his conspiracies of election fraud.
Mississippi officer put on leave after killing baby in car outside Walmart
A Mississippi police officer has been placed on administrative leave after a shooting while responding to an alleged shoplifting complaint killed a one-year-old child – and prompted local protests. Demonstrations erupted in Senatobia after the police killing on Sunday of Kohen Wiley. That included Tuesday evening, when protesters gathered outside Senatobia city hall while municipal officials held a meeting inside.
Police had on Sunday responded to a report alleging someone attempted to steal a box of diapers from the Senatobia Walmart. An officer fired a gun at a vehicle before it left the scene, according to the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation (MBI). Authorities maintained the vehicle involved was driving toward an officer at the time of the shooting, although some witnesses have challenged that account, according to the Mississippi Free Press.
Kohen was inside that vehicle, which arrived at a nearby hospital soon after. The boy was pronounced dead. And another person in the vehicle – reportedly a friend of Kohen’s mother – was listed in critical condition. The MBI said none of the officers at the scene of the shooting on Sunday suffered serious injuries.
Authorities said the case involved officers from the Senatobia police department and deputies with the local Tate county sheriff’s office. The MBI continues to investigate the shooting and has not publicly identified any of the officers involved. Meanwhile, Kohen’s family is demanding the release of the officers’ body camera footage as well as Walmart surveillance video.
Kash Patel accused of directing $1m to ‘slush fund’ to pay bonuses to loyalist agents
Kash Patel, the FBI director, has been accused of directing more than $1m in taxpayer-funded bonus payments to a small circle of loyalist agents as part of a “personal slush fund” that may have violated federal law. Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the ranking member of the House of Representatives judiciary committee, alleged Patel had authorized substantial recurring payments to agents in his inner circle and security detail.
According to information received by the House judiciary minority committee, some agents received payments of nearly $8,000 every two weeks, despite already earning at the federal salary ceiling. While the exact total received by each individual remains unclear, the committee says it can confirm a number of agents received at least five such payments in consecutive pay periods, amounting to close to $40,000 per person.
The pace of disbursements was so rapid, the committee says, that FBI reserve accounts set aside for bonus payments were drained dry, causing some payments to bounce back from exhausted funds.
“Why are these agents receiving extra pay simply for doing their jobs?” Raskin wrote in a 15 June letter to the FBI director. “Are they, in fact, collecting bonus compensation for engaging in actions outside of their duties and outside of the law?” He added: “We write to find out precisely how much slush fund largess you have put on the American taxpayer’s tab.”
The main beneficiaries, according to Raskin, were agents serving on Patel’s “director’s advisory team”. The unit was created in 2025 and tasked with examining internal documents and government materials to expose and discredit federal law enforcement officials who had investigated Trump and his allies. Notus reported in May that the team has been referred to internally as a “payback squad” tasked with building politically motivated cases, including one modeled on the indictment of James Comey, the former FBI director.

Jose Vega in HOME STRETCH Of PRIMARY Against AIPAC Darling
Georgia Republicans decline to redraw congressional map in defiance of Trump
Georgia Republicans declined to redraw the state’s congressional map during a special session, defying calls from Donald Trump for widespread redistricting in the wake of a recent US supreme court decision that effectively gutted a major section of the Voting Rights Act. “We believe that it’s important to do things the Georgia way, responsibly, transparently, and with ample opportunity for public input,” said Jon Burns, the Georgia house speaker.
Burns cited a rushed timeline and incomplete understanding of the ramifications of a supreme court ruling in April that weakened protections for minority voters under the Voting Rights Act, which prompted a Republican scramble to redraw voting districts to the party’s advantage in an effort to preserve its slim majority in the US House of Representatives.
Some states, urged by Donald Trump, did so rapidly. Others have been more hesitant.
The governor, Brian Kemp, called the special session not to redistrict for the upcoming 2026 elections in November, like other states, but for elections in 2028.
Platner: Susan Collins has gotten 21 times wealthier just in the last 15 years. Has anybody else gotten 21 times wealthier since Susan Collins was elected to office? Does Maine have 21 times the schools and hospitals? No, we have less. Susan Collins is getting rich while we're… pic.twitter.com/ZsB2v9JyVu
— Acyn (@Acyn) June 10, 2026

US public still favours action on climate change despite Trump’s fossil fuel drive
US political and media discourse has drifted away from the climate crisis amid a frontal assault by Donald Trump upon policies to limit global heating and the president’s pugnacious demands to “drill, baby, drill” for more oil and gas. Yet while elite attention on climate has waned, even among some previously vocal Democrats who have wound back on criticism of the fossil fuels that are overheating our planet, the American public remains concerned about the climate crisis and continues to favour action to deal with it, according to experts and polling.
“The 2024 election was not a referendum on climate change – Americans believe in climate change, worry about climate change and support action on climate change,” said Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the climate communication program at Yale University. “That didn’t change before, during or after the election.” About two-thirds of Americans say they are worried about the climate crisis, Yale’s longstanding climate polling has found, with this proportion staying consistent even as other topics such as the Iran war and inflation have dominated news cycles.
However, people in the US are hearing and reading less about climate change as the media shrinks its coverage of the issue, despite mounting heatwaves, droughts and other impacts that have roiled parts of the country. Outlets including the Washington Post, NPR and CBS have also cut climate journalist positions. “Voting priorities haven’t changed much in terms of climate but other issues have leapfrogged over it, such as the Iran war, and the lack of coverage in the media means that people aren’t hearing or talking about it as much,” said Leiserowitz.
A majority of US voters now link rising costs in their lives to the climate crisis, Yale has found, despite this lack of coverage, with global dependence on oil resulting in higher gasoline costs as the Iran war dragged on. Meanwhile, Trump’s faltering attempts to halt renewable energy projects and escalate oil, gas and coal production are also broadly unpopular with the American public, despite some assumptions that embracing fossil fuels is a mainstream position.
“The status quo has a lot of real negative consequences for American households,” said Kimberly Clausing, an economist at the UCLA School of Law and one of the study’s co-authors, who added that home insurance rates and, less obviously, health costs are being accelerated by the climate crisis. “If you live on the Gulf coast or in the rural American west you’d have to be out to lunch to not notice how climate change is affecting you in very real ways,” she said. “But if you’re sitting in Chicago or Boston it could be harder to realize this on a daily basis. That makes it difficult for policymakers to respond, as people often do not connect the dots.”
‘Most famous tree in the world’: Sherwood Forest’s 1,000-year-old Major oak dies
The Major oak, one of Europe’s oldest, largest and most celebrated ancient trees, has died. The huge tree, which has grown in Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire, England, for at least 1,000 years, failed to produce any leaves this year, after becoming stressed by a series of hot, dry summers.
Thousands of visitors admire the oak each year, with its great age, enormous 11-metre girth and 28-metre canopy inspiring a forest of folklore. Although the oak would not have been hollow in Robin Hood’s day, it was said to have provided a sanctuary for the outlaw and his gang when fleeing the tyrannical Sheriff of Nottingham.
In the winter of 2010, when snow fell on the tree, it traced an eerily precise image of Friar Tuck on the trunk. In other winters, when snow fell all around, none appeared on the tree’s limbs. But it was recent summers – and human admiration – that probably hastened the natural end of the tree’s long life. Like other ancient oaks, the tree has been repeatedly stressed by the heat and drought of global heating, particularly the heatwave of July 2022 when Britain baked under record 40C temperatures.
Well-intentioned historical interventions have not helped its longevity. In 1904, props and metal chains were installed to support its branches. In the 1960s, hollow parts of the tree were filled with concrete to support it, while limbs were clad with lead, then fibre-glass and even treated with fire-retardant paint. Experts believe that the props that continued to support the tree’s mighty limbs also placed it under strain. Left alone, ancient oaks shed their limbs and “grow down”, retreating into their trunk and thereby requiring less water and nutrients as they age.
Reg Harris, an arborist who has monitored the tree’s health for the past nine years for the RSPB, said it was impossible to isolate a single cause for its decline. “The range of factors affecting it over such a long period of time is very wide and varied, including 200 years of tourist footfall and vehicular compaction, changes to the water table from coal mining beneath it and significant changes to the climate, particularly in the last 10% of its life. “Sadly, it seems probable the lack of summer rainfall over the last five years, coupled with the unprecedented high temperatures, have had a significant hand in it.”
Also of Interest
Here are some articles of interest, some of which defied fair-use abstraction.
Hedges Report: The ‘Leading State Sponsor of Terrorism’
Strait of Hormuz: A Constant in Iranian History
War On Iran: Trump Under Fire For Not Yet Published MoU
Left-Leaning Groups Join Newsom-Backed Effort to Sink California Billionaire Tax
Luigi Mangione to pursue psychiatric defense in New York state murder trial
Apocalypse when? ‘Earth’s Black Box’ to be installed in remote Tasmanian airfield
Israel Mouthpiece Predicts FALSE FLAG ATTACK In U.S. To Kill Peace Deal!
A Little Night Music
Ray Agee - Real Real Love
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Ray Agee - Tin Pan Alley
Ray Agee - I'm not Looking Back
Ray Agee - The Devil's Angels
Ray Agee - It's Hard To Explain
Ray Agee - You Hit Me Where It Hurts
Ray Agee - Somebody Messed Up
Ray Agee - Don't Step On My Broken Heart
Ray Agee - Your Thingerma-Do


Comments
Interesting to see mention of Platner on here
While Platner checks all the correct boxes on health care, redistribution, billionaires etc, and is endorsed by Sanders he is also a patriotic American who loves his country and fought in 4 deployments.
I like the guy. Not much to do with policy, just how I feel, but then I also like America.
Being supported by a sheepdog
makes him look weak.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
@Pricknick I missed the reference
I missed the reference not being a denizen of Moon of Albania.
You should be.
n/t
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
evening ban nock...
can you be "a patriotic American who loves his country," without fighting in various wars of choice or otherwise serving in the military?
@joe shikspack Most certainly. Many
Most certainly. Many join the military for all kinds of reasons, not necessarily patriotism.
Running for office is fairly impressive in this day and age. Platner believes it is his patriotic duty to protect and rebuild the American working class. Can't think of a higher calling.
heh...
well, look at that! it's a point of agreement.
Isn't refusing to participate in wars of choice the principal
way in which one can show patriotism? Asking for a friend.
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...
always seemed so to me.
@enhydra lutris Not joining the
Not joining the military is often a sign of coming from an affluent background, like Romney or Trump. During the draft one could simply pay to go to college. Now it is one way to get educated for without debt.
All wars are a choice.
Being patriotic takes much less effort than joining the military, all that is required is to like the USA. You can even say "I like America". Alternatively it's not supporting those who say they hate America and want to kill Americans.
Actually, none of the draft resisters I knew personally were
from very affluent backgrounds and some were outright poor. In the end, for many, it came down to saying "I'm not going" and going to jail, or Canada, or alternative service, etc.
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 --
Hey, joe!
The featured Break Through News vid was the best one yet. Really good.
We missed out on the flooding this week, but not the extreme heat index of 114 deg. today. We got warnings to stay hydrated and inside from an weather emergency state agency on all landlines this morning.
Thanks for the eb, dear friend!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
evening otc...
yep, rania khalek is a really good reporter, i've been following her reporting for a long time.
glad to hear that the promised flooding avoided you, sorry about the heat. 114 sounds punishing, especially in a moist climate. i've experienced that kind of heat out west sometimes but it's been a drier heat, that makes you feel like you're in a frying pan and the moisture is being sucked out of your body. around baltimore we get days near to or just over 100 but mostly with high humidity which just make you go and hide in the coolest place you can find.
stay as cool as you can and drink copious amounts of water.
I have walked around in NM and AZ
in 110 deg. heat. To cool off, I would stand in the shade.
That doesn't work here. The temp was only 94 deg. The humidity brought up the heat index. Shade doesn't matter that much. The advisory call suggested staying inside, in a/c, and drink lots of water.
East Texas. Humidity is a thing.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Good evening Joe, thanks for the EBs. Gonna be away this
weekend starting tomorrow morning, so have a great weekend.
Found my self wondering whether "wars of choice" isn't redundant, but that's a different ball of wax,.
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...
have a great trip/weekend!
i guess all wars are an affirmative choice by somebody, but often not so much by the team playing defense.
take care!
el!
Go run and play d no speeding tickets, ok?
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Heh, thanks. Calistoga is near the top of Napa valley, there
is a ton of traffic and it is wise to assume that at least 1/2 of the drivers are at least 1/2 looped at least 1/2 of the time, making speeding self-endangerment. Given that all the cops and the highway patrol also know/assume that and are usually out in droves, especially on weekends. Our first stop is quasi-legendary restaurant that is allegedly 1 hr and 19 minutes away from here. We plan to allow 2 hours to get there and take our time. This is a special occasion so we will act our age and take it slow and easy.
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 --