The Evening Blues - 1-28-25
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Son Sims Four (Vcl & Guitar - Muddy Waters) - Rosalie
"The opportunist thinks of me and today. The statesman thinks of us and tomorrow."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
News and Opinion
Jordan And Egypt Snub Trump’s Ethnic Cleansing Plan
Both Jordan and Egypt have put out statements rejecting President Trump’s proposal to “clean out” Gaza and move its population to those nations.
“Our principles are clear, and Jordan’s steadfast position to uphold the Palestinians’ presence on their land remains unchanged and will never change,” Jordan’s foreign minister Ayman Safadi told the press on Sunday.
Similarly, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry affirmed “Egypt’s continued support for the resilience of the Palestinian people on their land and their commitment to their legitimate rights in their homeland, in accordance with international law and international humanitarian law.”
It still remains to be seen if the Trump administration will find a way to bribe or coerce either or both nations to comply with Trump’s ethnic cleansing agenda, but the fact that they aren’t already on board means the empire still needs to jump through some significant hoops before this could happen.
In response to my write-up about Trump’s plans to purge Gaza of Palestinians I’ve been getting a nice eclectic mix of American rightists telling me “Stop calling it ethnic cleansing, Trump’s just trying to rescue those people from a destroyed Gaza!” and Israeli rightists going “Haha yes, Trump will help us ethnically cleanse the terrorists and their spawn.”
Trump supporters are such shitbrained, knuckle-dragging bootlickers. They’re all up in my social media replies going “Well what do you expect Trump to do? What other possible solution is there but to empty out the population of Gaza to neighboring Arab countries?” And of course the obvious humanitarian solution is a heroic multinational push to rush massive amounts of aid to Gaza while rebuilding it at the expense of the states who destroyed it — but nope, they can’t even entertain that possibility. Only possible solution is to bend over backwards to give Israel the exact thing it’s desired from Gaza for many years, which will just coincidentally happen to delight Trump’s Zionist megadonors.
Worthless human livestock. Trump supporters claim to oppose wars and despise the neocons, but are always consistently paced into supporting all the worst agendas of the nastiest swamp monsters in Washington. Trump supporters are George W Bush supporters LARPing as Ron Paul supporters.
MAX Blumenthal : IDF Murders on October 7th
Tens of thousands of Palestinians return to north Gaza as Israel opens checkpoints
Tens of thousands of Palestinians flooded back into northern Gaza on Monday after Israel opened military checkpoints that had divided the strip for more than a year, ending a forced exile from homes and loved ones that many feared could become permanent. In the dawn light, crowds that had waited by the road overnight began the long walk back to their homes and business – or what remained of them – as soon as the crossing opened.
A column heavy with emotion and trepidation spread up along the coast, parallel to the Mediterranean, into the ruined wasteland of Gaza City, and the north of the strip beyond it. More than 80,000 buildings here have been damaged or destroyed, according to UN data. ...
Some were looking for loved ones who had been unable or unwilling to go when Israel’s military ordered all civilians to leave for the south soon after the start of the war in response to the cross-border attacks by Hamas on 7 October 2023.
Social media was filled with videos of joyful reunions – parents, children, friends and siblings back together after 15 months of war. Others hoped only to find bodies they knew were buried under the rubble to give them a dignified burial and a grave to visit and mourn their dead.
Genocide Denial in Holocaust Studies: Raz Segal on Gaza & 80 Years After Auschwitz Liberation
Israel insists it is going ahead with Unrwa ban
Israel has insisted it will not back down over its plan to close down the Gaza operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (Unrwa), the UN relief agency for Palestinians, even though critics say the move will jeopardise urgent humanitarian aid efforts.
Israel has ordered the UN agency to vacate its headquarters in East Jerusalem by Thursday, after the Israeli Knesset passed a law on 28 October banning its operations in Israel and the Palestinian territories. It has not yet said how it will implement a related law ending all Israeli government cooperation with Unwra, which could come into force on the same day and strangle its operations in the West Bank and Gaza.
The move comes as Unrwa and other aid groups have been able, as part of the ceasefire agreement, to pour aid into the Gaza Strip after months of Israeli obstruction, amid warnings of imminent famine in some areas.
Israel has declined to spell out further how it will implement the Knesset votes. But Unrwa staff believe it will mean international employees will not be given visas, any aid with an Unrwa label will be blocked from crossing the borders into Gaza and liaison between it and Israel Defense Forces about security will end. Unrwa bank accounts are also likely to be frozen. “We are going to be left with a gaping hole,” Rose said. Almost half of the food being sent into Gaza is organised through the Unwra distribution network, even if not all of that food has an Unwra label.
Rose added: “In the first three says since the ceasefire started, we distributed food parcels to just under 300,000 people south of the Wadi Gaza, roughly 15% of the people in this part of Gaza. At this rate Unrwa will have reached 1 million people in the next 10 days. It is a dramatic increase, and there is no other organisation with the breadth and size to undertake our work.”
U.S. Journalist Ali Abunimah Arrested in Switzerland for Criticizing Israel
US Silent as Press Freedom Advocates Condemn Swiss Arrest of Electronic Intifada Journalist
Two days after Swiss authorities detained Ali Abunimah, the executive director of the independent Palestine-focused news outlet Electronic Intifada, press freedom advocates in the United States demanded to know why the Trump administration had not spoken out about the U.S. citizen's arrest.
"If the U.S. State Department values free speech, it must publicly condemn the arrest of American journalist Ali Abunimah by Swiss authorities and do everything possible to secure his immediate release," said Freedom of the Press Foundation on the social media platform X.
Abunimah was arrested Saturday in Zurich, where he had been scheduled to give a speech on Palestinian history and the Israeli occupation. Electronic Intifada (EI) said in a statement that the journalist "was questioned by police for an hour before being allowed to enter the country."
The arrest "appears to be part of a growing backlash from Western governments against expressions of solidarity with the Palestinian people," said the group.
EI cited the cases of several activists and journalists who were arrested, subjected to raids, or charged last year under "counter-terror" powers of the British government. Asa Winstanley, an associate editor with EI, was among those whose homes were raided; Winstanley was accused of "encouragement of terrorism."
Swiss police said Abunimah was subject to an "entry ban."
While the White House has been silent thus far about Abunimah's arrest, Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967, was among those who urged a "prompt investigation" into the matter
Irene Khan, U.N. special rapporteur on freedom of expression and opinion, also called Abunimah's detention "shocking" and called on the Swiss government to investigate.
EI said Abunimah has had access to legal counsel since Saturday. The website, which was founded in 2001, has reported extensively on Israel's apartheid policies in the occupied Palestinian territories, including its recent violent escalations against Gaza and the West Bank.
"Speaking out against injustice in Palestine is not a crime," said EI on Saturday. "Journalism is not a crime."
A spokesperson for the U.S. Embassy in Bern, Switzerland told Al Jazeera it was providing standard consular assistance after learning of Abunimah's arrest, but did not comment further.
Journalist Rania Khalek of BreakThrough News condemned the silence of corporate media outlets in the United States.
"Not a single mainstream western media outlet has covered" Abunimah's detention, said Khalek.
Human rights lawyer Craig Mokhiber—who resigned from his position in the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in October 2023, saying the U.N. was failing to prevent genocide in Gaza—said Sunday that the social media platform X was blocking him from sharing a petition in support of Abunimah.
"This is not only an attempt to silence Ali Abunimah as an individual, but the manifestation of a wider campaign of repressing and intimidating those who dare speak up for for Palestinian human rights and against their genocide, fitting into a pattern of racism and Islamophobia," reads the petition, started by Swiss Action for Human Rights.
The group said the arrest is part of a broader effort "to silence the truth and deny the oppression of the Palestinian people, attacking free speech and waging a war on journalism."
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said Abunimah's "arbitrary arrest gives the false impression that showing solidarity with the victims of the Israeli occupation peacefully is now illegal."
"The action taken by Swiss authorities is extremely concerning, as it marks an unprecedented low level of respect for human rights, particularly in a nation that has long been known for upholding democratic principles and protecting fundamental liberties. Targeting journalists and human rights advocates is indicative of a significant decline in European governments' dedication to upholding human rights and freedom of expression," said the group.
"The Swiss authorities must immediately and unconditionally release Ali Abunimah," Euro-Med Monitor added, "and ensure respect for his legal and human rights."
Matt Hoh : The Palestinian Sufferings
Worth a click and a full read:
Craig Murray: Israeli Atrocities Continue in Lebanon
Not only did Israel fail to evacuate its army from Southern Lebanon on Sunday, as stipulated in the ceasefire agreement, its forces also shot over 130 Lebanese civilians attempting to return home in accordance with the deal, killing 23 and wounding 109 (of whom some are in critical condition). This included a 12-year-old boy wounded in the neck in Kfarkela, standing right next to my local producer Mahmood. I was 20 yards away and on my way to them. Four were killed in Kfarkela and overnight the Israeli army demolished numerous homes there in “punishment.”
Apart from one Lebanese army soldier, all of the dead were civilians simply attempting to return to their homes. At least five of the dead were children. All were shot, not bombed.
Israel’s excuse for not withdrawing is that the ceasefire agreement is not fulfilled, in that Hezbollah have not been disarmed south of the Litani River, and that the Lebanese army has not assumed control. I have spent every waking hour of three days travelling the entire southern border (remember Lebanon is a very small country; its entire area is less than Yorkshire or Connecticut and the demarcated border region is much smaller still). I can guarantee the Lebanese army is fully in control of the area. There are army checkpoints at every major crossroads and town entrance and at every track into the hills. What is more to the point, I saw nobody at all except for the Lebanese army carrying weapons.
Hezbollah are a significant political presence still — they are the largest political party in Lebanon — but they are not carrying arms in the ceasefire zone south of the Litani. Furthermore the Lebanese army has indeed occupied and taken over or dismantled Hezbollah’s military positions in this zone. They have confiscated over 50 arms caches. The only areas of southern Lebanon not under the control of the Lebanese armed forces are those areas occupied by the Israeli army.
The role of the Lebanese army is extremely dubious, but 100 percent in Israel’s favour. The Lebanese army is fully under U.S. control. Literally, 50 percent of the salary of every single Lebanese soldier is directly paid by the U.S. government.
AMB. Chas Freeman : Netanyahu on the Ropes
Israeli Forces Kill at Least 24 People Trying to Go Home in Southern Lebanon
Israeli forces killed at least 24 Lebanese and injured more than 130 others as they tried to return to their homes in occupied southern Lebanon, the country's Ministry of Public Health said Monday.
The ministry said in a statement that the dead include six women. One Lebanese soldier was also reportedly killed. Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops opened fire on residents desperate to go home after the 60-day deadline for Israeli forces to withdraw from southern Lebanon expired.
The Washington Post reported Monday that an IDF spokesperson claimed that Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah sent "agitators" into the southern part of the country in a bid to inflame tensions. No evidence was provided to support the claim.
What an image.
A Lebanese woman confronts an Israeli tank, demanding she be allowed to return to her village
Israel killed 22 people across Lebanon today who were trying to go home to areas Israel still occupies pic.twitter.com/hdzWIg9eFP
— Alex Shams (@alexshams_) January 26, 2025
IDF Arabic-language spokesperson Avichay Adraee warned Lebanese on Sunday that, while Israeli forces "do not intend to target you... at this stage you are prohibited from returning to your homes... until further notice," and that "anyone who moves south" of an Israeli-designated line along the Litani River "puts themselves at risk." Scores of villages are located south of the IDF "red line."
The White House said Sunday that Israel and Lebanon have agreed to an extension of the deadline for Israel's withdrawal from the country, with IDF troops now having until February 18 to leave. Lebanese and international media reported several Israeli cease-fire violations since the extension was announced.
Last month, Amnesty International called for a war crimes investigation into IDF airstrikes in Lebanon, as well as a suspension of arms transfers to Israel over its attacks on the country, and on Gaza and the illegally occupied West Bank in Palestine.
Velyka Novosilka falls. Reality smashes into 'Ukraine victory' spin
Trump administration puts about 60 USAid officials on leave after aid freeze
The Trump administration has put on leave about 60 senior career officials at the US Agency for International Development (USAid) workers, sources familiar with the matter said, after Washington put a sweeping freeze on US aid worldwide. The administration on Saturday urged the USAid staff to join the effort to transform how Washington allocates aid around the world in line with Trump’s “America First” policy. It also threatened “disciplinary action” for any staff ignoring the administration’s orders.
An internal memo sent to USAid employees on Monday evening said the new leadership identified several actions in the agency that “appeared to be designed to circumvent the President’s Executive Orders and the mandate from the American people”.
“As a result, we have placed a number of USAID employees on administrative leave with full pay and benefits until further notice while we complete our analysis of these actions,” said acting administrator Jason Gray, in the memo reviewed by Reuters. The memo did not spell out how many people were affected by the decision, but five sources familiar with the matter told Reuters that it was about 57 to 60 people.
Those being put on leave comprised career staff in the leadership positions of almost all USAid bureaus based in Washington, with roles ranging from energy security to water security, children’s education overseas and digital technology, two of the sources said. Staff in the agency’s general counsel’s office were among those targeted. “People are calling it the Monday afternoon massacre,” said Francisco Bencosme, who was USAid’s China policy lead until earlier this month.
Chinese DeepSeek AI System Just CRUSHED American AI Market & It’s FREE!
‘Sputnik moment’: $1tn wiped off US stocks after Chinese firm unveils AI chatbot
The race for domination in artificial intelligence was blown wide open on Monday after the launch of a Chinese chatbot wiped $1tn from the leading US tech index, with one investor calling it a “Sputnik moment” for the world’s AI superpowers.
Investors punished global tech stocks on Monday after the emergence of DeepSeek, a competitor to OpenAI and its ChatGPT tool, shook faith in the US artificial intelligence boom by appearing to deliver the same performance with fewer resources.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite closed down 3.1%, with the drop at one point wiping more than $1tn off the index from its closing value of $32.5tn last week, as investors digested the implications of the latest AI model developed by DeepSeek.
Nvidia, a leading maker of the computer chips that power AI models, was overtaken by Apple as the most valuable listed company in the US after its shares fell 17%, wiping nearly $600bn off its market value. Google’s parent company lost $100bn and Microsoft $7bn. Nvidia’s fall was the biggest in US stock market history. ...
DeepSeek’s success at building an advanced AI model without access to the most cutting-edge US technology has raised concerns about the efficacy of Washington’s attempts to stymie China’s hi-tech sector.
Who would do such a thing? Pfffftttt!!!
DeepSeek hit with ‘large-scale’ cyber-attack after AI chatbot tops app stores
DeepSeek said its newly popular app was hit with a cyber-attack on Monday, which forced the Chinese company to temporarily limit registrations. The attack came after the DeepSeek AI assistant app skyrocketed to the top of Apple’s App Store, becoming the highest rated free app in the US, and climbed high in Google’s Play Store.
On its status page, DeepSeek said it started to investigate the issue late Monday night Beijing time. After about two hours of monitoring, the company said it was the victim of a “large-scale malicious attack”. While DeekSeek limited registrations, existing users were still able to log on as usual. The app is now allowing registrations again.
Billionaire Banker: 'GET OVER' Inflation
Senate Confirms Billionaire Hedge Fund Manager Bessent as Treasury Secretary
Government watchdog groups on Monday responded critically to the U.S. Senate's bipartisan confirmation of Republican President Donald Trump's nominee for treasury secretary, billionaire hedge fund manager Scott Bessent.
"Donald Trump spent months promising American workers they'd have no greater friend and advocate than him. But his first order of business as president-elect was to nominate a stack of corporate lobbyists, billionaire donors, and Wall Street insiders like Scott Bessent to carry out a wealthy-first, workers-last agenda," said Accountable.US executive director Tony Carrk in a statement after the 68-29 vote.
"Another giant Trump tax giveaway to price gouging corporations won't lift up working people, but it will put Social Security and Medicare at risk," Carrk continued. "A national Trump sales tax won't be much help to working families when it results in thousands of dollars in extra costs every year. Bessent is so enthusiastic about the Trump trickle-down economic plans because it keeps the system rigged in favor of wealthy insiders like him, while everyday Americans pay the price."
Recalling congressional Republicans' and Trump's massive tax cuts for the rich during his first term, Groundwork Collaborative executive director Lindsay Owens declared Monday that "a billionaire hedge fund manager who doesn't pay his own taxes is now Trump's right-hand man for another massive tax break for the ultrawealthy. The president is filling his Cabinet with one goal in mind: more tax giveaways for the wealthy and corporations."
ICE Detaining NATIVE AMERICANS: We're "More American Than Being American"
Navajo alarmed by reports of Indigenous people caught up in Trump immigration raids
The Navajo nation is taking steps to protect its community from federal immigration actions, amid reports that some Indigenous Americans have been swept up in US deportation raids being carried out early in Donald Trump’s second presidency.
In a statement, the Navajo nation president, Buu Nygren, said his office in Window Rock, Arizona, had received reports that tribal members had had “negative, and sometimes traumatizing, experiences with federal agents targeting undocumented immigrants in the south-west”. Nygren advised Navajo people to carry state-issued identification, such as a driver’s license, other picture identification, or their certificate of Indian blood, known as a CIB. “It’s best to be prepared,” he said. “Having your state ID is crucial, and if you possess a CIB, it can provide an additional layer of reassurance.”
That came alongside reports of at least 15 Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico having reported being stopped at their homes and workplaces, questioned or detained by federal law enforcement and asked to produce proof of citizenship during immigration raids that began last week. The Navajo nation council speaker, Crystalyne Curley, told CNN the number of Navajo or members of other Indigenous tribal groups that had been swept up in actions was unclear – or which federal agencies were involved.
“There’s a lot of fear, and I know they’re probably feeling frustrated knowing that they don’t feel safe in the country where they were born or where their ancestors come from, and there’s a lot of frustration of them being stereotyped,” Curley told the outlet. “I think there’s a confusion with other races, maybe just because having a brown skin, automatically being profiled or stereotyped to be in a certain group of race,” Curley added.
It was not clear whether the apprehensions were made on reservation land. CNN said one tribal member was involved in a raid in Phoenix and had been released after showing tribal identification. The Arizona state senator Theresa Hatathlie, who is Diné/Navajo, told CNN of reports that federal agents did not acknowledge the documents as valid proof of citizenship.
Trump justice department fires officials who worked for prosecutor Jack Smith
Acting attorney general James McHenry on Monday fired more than a dozen federal prosecutors who worked on the two criminal cases against Donald Trump, saying they could not be trusted to implement the president’s agenda for the justice department, two people familiar with the matter said.
The precise extent of the firings were unclear because the department did not disclose names. At the time the cases were dismissed last year, after Trump won the election, special counsel Jack Smith had 17 prosecutors attached to his team.
The purge was not unexpected given Trump had vowed, on the campaign trail, to fire Smith, but the abrupt firings were jarring as the acting attorney general took aim at career prosecutors who had served at the department for years through changes in administrations and had gone back to their old jobs.
Smith charged Trump in two criminal cases: in Florida, for mishandling classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago club and defying a subpoena commanding their return; and in Washington, for attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
In the termination notices transmitted to the prosecutors who worked on Smith’s team, McHenry wrote that they were being let go as a result of their “significant role in prosecuting President Trump” which meant they could not be trusted to “assist in faithfully implementing the president’s agenda”.
Notorious US chemical plant polluting water with toxic PFAS, lawsuit claims
The chemical giant Chemours’s notorious West Virginia PFAS plant is regularly polluting nearby water with high levels of toxic “forever chemicals”, a new lawsuit alleges. It represents the latest salvo in a decades-old fight over pollution from the plant, called Washington Works, which continues despite public health advocates winning significant legal battles.
The new federal complaint claims Washington Works has been spitting out levels of PFAS waste significantly higher than what a discharge permit has allowed since 2023, which is contaminating the Ohio River in Parkersburg, a town of about 50,000 people in Appalachia.
The factory was the focal point of a Hollywood movie, Dark Waters. It dramatized the story of how the pollution widely sickened Parkersburg residents, and the David v Goliath legal saga in which a group of residents and attorneys took on Chemours, then part of DuPont. An epidemiological study stemming from the case blew the lid off of the health risks of PFAS, and ultimately cost DuPont about $700m.
Though the landmark case still reverberates across the regulatory landscape, the suit started almost 25 years ago, concluded in 2016, and Chemours’s pollution continues. The new lawsuit is part of other legal actions related to the facility that have filled the gap left by weak regulatory action, local advocates say. The never-ending struggle “wears you out”, added Joe Kiger, a Parkersburg resident who was one of the original litigants in 2001. “We have put up with this for 24 years, and [Chemours] is still polluting, they’re still putting this stuff in the water,” Kiger said.
The new lawsuit, filed by the West Virginia Rivers Coalition, alleges “numerous violations” since the level of PFAS the company is permitted to discharge per a consent order was lowered in early 2023. Among the contaminants are PFOA, a PFAS chemical to which virtually no level of exposure in drinking water is safe, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has found. It also includes GenX, a compound for which the EPA has similarly found very low exposure levels can cause health problems. The EPA ordered Chemours to take corrective action, but the company has done nothing in response, and the agency has not taken further action, the suit states.
Dangerous temperatures could kill 50% more Europeans by 2100, study finds
Dangerous temperatures could kill 50% more people in Europe by the end of the century, a study has found, with the lives lost to stronger heat projected to outnumber those saved from milder cold.
The researchers estimated an extra 8,000 people would die each year as a result of “suboptimal temperatures” even under the most optimistic scenario for cutting planet-heating pollution. The hottest plausible scenario they considered showed a net increase of 80,000 temperature-related deaths a year.
The findings challenge an argument popular among those who say global heating is good for society because fewer people will die from cold weather.
“We wanted to test this,” said Pierre Masselot, a statistician at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and lead author of the study. “And we show clearly that we will see a net increase in temperature-related deaths under climate change.”
The study builds on previous research in which the scientists linked temperature to mortality rates for different age groups in 854 cities across Europe. They combined these with three climate scenarios that map possible changes in population structure and temperature over the century. In all three scenarios, they found, uncomfortable temperatures would kill more people than they do today. The scientists cautioned that the uncertainties in the data are large.
California rainstorms aid firefighters but bring ash, mud and debris in burn areas
Rain eased on Monday after southern California’s first significant storm of the season brought weekend downpours that aided firefighters but caused ash, mud and debris to flow across streets in wildfire burn areas.
Less than an inch of rain fell in most areas, but it was enough to loosen Los Angeles hillsides burned bare by the recent blaze near the Pacific Palisades, where crews working before dawn cleared inundated roadways including the famed Pacific Coast Highway.
In neighboring Malibu, four schools were closed on Monday “due to dangerous road conditions and challenges with access”, the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District said in a statement.
North of Los Angeles, snowy conditions late on Sunday shut down the mountainous Tejon Pass section of Interstate 5, a key north-south artery. The California department of transportation said there was no estimated reopening time.
Flood watches were in effect for burn areas from recent fires that broke out around the Pacific Palisades and Altadena neighborhoods, as well as Castaic Lake, said Joe Sirard, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Oxnard.
Also of Interest
Here are some articles of interest, some which defied fair-use abstraction.
Small Chinese Company Hilariously Crushes American AI
Former Israeli DM Says More Troops Should Be Sent to Lebanon to ‘Enforce’ Ceasefire
Israel Isn’t Leaving Syria: Settlement Plans Signal a Permanent Land Grab
How the Israel Lobby Tries to Silence Criticism of Israel
Patrick Lawrence: Trump’s Failures, America’s Failures
Report: Trump Wants To Pull 20,000 US Troops Out of Europe
What would happen if the US military went after cartels on Mexican soil?
Trade war could erupt between US and EU over Trump’s threat to seize Greenland
TULSI IN DANGER As Warhawks Doubt Spying Flip
A Little Night Music
Son Sims Four (Vcl & Guitar - Muddy Waters) - Ramblin Kid Blues
Son Sims Four - Pearly May Blues
Son Sims Four - Joe Turner Blues
Charley Patton & Henry Sims - Be True, Be True Blues
Henry Sims - Tell Me Man Blues
Charley Patton & Henry Sims - Come Back Corrina
Charley Patton & Henry Sims - Farrell Blues
Charley Patton & Henry Sims - Rattlesnake Blues
Charley Patton & Henry Sims - Going To Move To Alabama
Comments
At least it is a start but I have my doubts that it will be
adopted by many countries as they are under the influence of Israel its protector the US.
evening humphrey...
good for the kiwis! i assume that now they will get a lot of pressure from the u.s. and israel.
Sweet
Yes more countries should do that. The Hind foundation alerts governments when Israel war criminals are in their country. I think Israel had to rescue 2 already. Maybe more?
I wonder if the soldiers in Lebanon are filming their crimes of taking all valuables out of the homes before they destroy them? I hope so.
BTW Putin is ordering Trump do do all the chaos he’s doing and once he’s finished then Putin will kill him. Yup. I read that on Shitlib central. And yes people believe it.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
For bad or worse it can be said that emperor Trump will not be
considered to be boring.
He has only been in charge for a short time and the changes are quite shocking!
His sharpie and executive orders are in overdrive!
https://theatlantavoice.com/trump-workers-buyout/
heh...
this would be a great time for the entire workforce to take the buyout and shut down the government.
The biggest drawback would be those that he replaces them with
The seems to be no shortage of MAGA or is MIGA? idiots who would apply for the openings.
heh...
perhaps, but i don't think that even the maga people will enjoy working for trump. maybe at first, but i suspect that every job will in short order become a nightmare job.
perhaps with the hiring freeze
.
these vacancies are not intended
to be refilled. 'Offers void where
prohibited by law.' Tying up the courts
is a feature, not a bug.
question everything
evening qms...
that is possible, too. who knows what evil lurks in the minds of the broligarchs?
Since "open source" is above my pay grade I can't answer the
question.
It seems that the panties of the administration are in a bunch.
Since the article is quite long and it is hard to summarize here is a link that might provide some insight.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/deepseek-ai-raises-national-security-concer...
so, the small minds want to deep six deepseek ...
heh, putting export controls on technology was what incentivized those inscrutable chinese to invent a better, cheaper mousetrap.
what a maroon!
Yup
The only newspaper in the UK that covered this war criminals visit.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
evening snoopy...
buckle up, we're all going to get our recommended daily allowance of irony.
Right on time…
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
heh...
no good deed goes unpunished.
Evening Joe
The Israeli spent 80 years chasing down Nazi war criminals.
I sense irony in the making.
Thanks for the great tunes.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
evening earthling...
i think that you're right. currently the hind rajab foundation has picked up the torch and is doing great work tracking down israeli war criminals.
Not everyone obeys why trump issues a command.
heh...
who knew that trump wanted a communist-style centrally-planned command economy. pfffffttt!!!
Sam had me drive to the farm store today
.
to pick up more dawg treats. I met the cutest puppy there who I gave thought to adopting. Fortunately it was a he so I didn’t. He looked like a cross between a lab and beagle, but had none of either. Seriously sweet puppy, but I only get girl dawgs. Phew…. Besides I want to get another beagle, but I’m so enjoying my time with Sam.
Every one of my dawgs got their noses bent when I got a new puppy. I don’t want to do that to Sam quite yet.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
heh...
glad to hear that sam's not going to get her nose out of joint for a while.
please dispense a scritch or two for me.
Will do
Have you thought of getting another dawg or have you? I usually wait years before I do, but I was all alone for the first time in 40 years after Charlie died suddenly. Yeah I had humans during that time, but life without a dawg is so bereft.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
heh...
i think about it all the time. a few months ago a great pyrenees befriended me and i always look forward to seeing him. i am not sure if i could convince ms. shikspack though, since she seems to be pretty happy about the lack of dawg hair on everything and the ability to just pick up and go without worrying about who is going to watch the dawg while we're travelling.
SO, all this department-freezing...
...Can I get a non-partisan view of that around here?
Yes, for the most part it is probably bad, but by this point my guess is that the sources I've heard about it from are omitting something important (and inconvenient).
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!
evening moonbat...
well, i have no problem with shrinking the footprint of the government, but trump and his minions are focused on shrinking the wrong part of government from my point of view. i'd say we could do with far less military and people who kill people, but instead they seem to want to do away with the people and departments who provide services to americans who need things.
Agreed
Cutting funding for programs that help the poor while promising to cut taxes on the rich. I saw so many T supporters cheering this. Naturally I called them out. I asked if they will help their relatives buy food and medicine.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
This is exactly what they're doing
It's so in your face, like it's a good thing. Cutting benefits, adverse adjudications, arbitrary decision making, becomes the rule. Forcing out the lower level personnel who make the wheels turn comes down the line. The public at large in a sense will be picked clean. Vengeance politics. We'll get rid of the "ideologues" who believe in public service.
語必忠信 行必正直
No matter how you try to spread your "truth"
...around here, this is one place where you are not interacting with the brain dead:
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They are free to interact with you, but they will see right through you.
Carry a burning candle and share the light.
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Wait, what???
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!
Busan Air fire
There are other videos of this fire out there. I thought this picture from the interior was unusual.
Passenger plane catches fire at South Korean airport. All 176 people on board are evacuated
Thanks for the EBs Joe!
語必忠信 行必正直
Caitlin Johnstone, speaking the truth again:
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But there is a much bigger net that must be thrown to capture all the supporers of the CIA Lies.
Carry a burning candle and share the light.
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One thing that struck me as funny about Trump ever since 2016
GOERING OR GOEBBELS?!
GOERING OR GOEBBELS?!
GOERING OR GOEBBELS?!
Pick one! This is The Most Important Election Of Our Lifetimes (no, you CAN'T pick Wernher von Braun, he is unqualified and unelectable and an egomaniac with a worm in his brain...!)!!!
Actually, somebody did a pretty good job demonstrating the diversity of the Trump-base in Dungeons & Dragons alignment-system terms!:
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fnvzk2ie...
It's remarkable that the "political alignment" graph that Corporate Media take so seriously is just a shoddier version of the Dungeons & Dragons alignment system, and yet try to introduce THAT to politics and you'd be met with utter scorn!
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!