The Evening Blues - 7-13-22



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The day's news roundup + tonight's musical feature: Hound Dog Taylor

Hey! Good Evening!

This evening's music features 11-fingered Chicago blues slide guitarist Hound Dog Taylor. Enjoy!

Hound Dog Taylor - Wild About You Baby

"Propaganda, censorship and Silicon Valley algorithm manipulation keep getting worse because the US-centralized empire needs to prevent the emergence of a true multipolar world and it will need to manufacture a lot of consent for the drastic actions needed to accomplish this.

Stopping the rise of China requires knocking out its pillars of support like Russia. These are massive and extremely dangerous agendas that will financially hurt and existentially imperil pretty much everyone. Empire managers can’t allow a free flow of information in such times."

-- Caitlin Johnstone


News and Opinion

Three Illuminating Quotes About The War In Ukraine

Noam Chomsky, John Pilger, and Chris Hedges have lent their expertise to the subject of the war in Ukraine with some recent comments that help bring some much-needed clarity to an often confusing and always contentious issue. Here they are:

“I’ve spent my career working in the mainstream, and I’ve covered probably seven, eight, nine shooting wars; I’ve never seen coverage so utterly consumed by a tsunami of jingoism, and of manipulative jingoism as this one.”

~ John Pilger

This comment comes from a recent interview with the legendary Australian journalist by the South China Morning Post, and it says so much about the information ecosystem we now find ourselves floundering around trying to understand things in.

From the earliest days of the invasion it was clear that the western world was being smashed with a deluge of propaganda unlike anything we’ve ever seen before. In the first full month of the conflict, American network TV stations gave more coverage to the war in Ukraine than any other war that the US has been directly involved in, including Iraq and Vietnam. Literal Iraq war architects were some of the first pundits sought out for analysis of the conflict by the mainstream press, and calls for insane escalations against Russia succeeded in pushing the Overton window of acceptable debate in the direction of warmongering extremism and away from support for diplomatic solutions.

And this was all easily piped into mainstream consciousness because the way had been lubricated by years of Russia hysterica resulting from the mass scale psychological operation known as Russiagate. America’s most dangerous confrontation in generations just so happens to have been preceded by years of media-generated panic about that very same country, despite the Ukraine invasion having ostensibly nothing whatsoever to do with the conspiracy theory that the Kremlin had infiltrated the highest levels of the US government. Heckin’ heck of a coincidence right there, buddy boy.

“It’s quite interesting that in American discourse, it is almost obligatory to refer to the invasion as the ‘unprovoked invasion of Ukraine’. Look it up on Google, you will find hundreds of thousands of hits. Of course, it was provoked. Otherwise they wouldn’t refer to it all the time as an unprovoked invasion.”

~ Noam Chomsky

This quote, from an interview last month with Ramzy Baroud, is self-evidently true and should be pointed out more often.

People don’t go adding the same gratuitous adjectives and modifiers to something over and over again unless they’re trying to manipulate how it’s perceived. If your neighbor always referred to his wife as “my wife who I definitely never beat,” you’d immediately become suspicious because that’s not how normal people talk about normal things. We don’t say “round Earth” or “the Holocaust that totally happened,” we just say the words, because their basic nature is not seriously in dispute and we’ve got nothing invested in manipulating or obfuscating people’s understanding about them.

The need of the political/media class to continually bleat this phrase “unprovoked invasion” over and over again is itself a confession that they know they’re not telling the whole truth. It’s the imperial propaganda version of this classic tweet:


Chomsky outlines many of the provocations the US/NATO power structure engaged in prior to the conflict, which many western analysts spent years warning was coming as a result of the provocative actions that were already being taken by the empire. The invasion could easily have been prevented with a little diplomacy and some low-cost, high-reward concessions ike honoring the Minsk agreements and providing assurances of neutrality for Ukraine, but they chose provocation and escalation instead. Add to that the exponentially increased shelling of the Donbas by Kyiv immediately prior to the invasion and you can understand why empire spinmeisters are working so hard to push the “unprovoked” line.

None of this is to say that Russia is blameless in this war; if I provoke someone into punching somebody they are still morally responsible for having thrown the punch, but I am also responsible for having provoked it. Russia is responsible for its actions, and the US/NATO/Ukraine power structure is responsible for its actions. Putin is responsible for invading, the western empire is responsible for provoking that invasion. Not complicated.

In the same interview Chomsky also says that “censorship in the United States has reached such a level beyond anything in my lifetime” regarding this war. That assessment plus Pilger’s testimony about war propaganda unlike anything he’s ever seen shows that imperial narrative management is at an all-time high, which wouldn’t be happening unless the empire had some major agendas it wanted to roll out in the coming years.

“At no time, including the Cuban missile crisis, have we stood closer to the precipice of nuclear war.”

~ Chris Hedges

Echoing the urgent warnings that Stephen Cohen was making at the end of his life, a new article by Hedges outlines the profoundly dangerous games the empire is playing with a nuclear superpower in its continually escalating proxy war against Moscow.

The observations by Pilger and Chomsky about how much effort is going in to manipulating people’s understanding of this war make sense when you realize that the agendas the empire is trying to roll out against Russia now and then China later down the road stand not only to throw the world into poverty and starvation, but to wipe us off the face of this planet.

It doesn’t have to be this way. There’s no good reason the world’s most powerful government needs to risk the life of everyone on earth in a bid to secure planetary domination. It is possible for all nations and peoples to simply get along and collaborate toward the common good together. All that would need to happen is for these agendas of total hegemony to be abandoned.

Unfortunately the managers of empire don’t seem to have any plans to abandon their goal of global conquest anytime soon, so we the ordinary people of this world may end up having to force the issue with them at some point in the interests of our very survival.

This is a hell of a time to be alive, but man they’ve been keeping it interesting.

Doubts About Ukraine Kherson Counteroffensive, US Inflation Rises, Europe Fears Winter

Biden moves US closer to confrontation with Russia

The United States is sinking its flag deeper into European soil. President Biden announced late last month that the American military will soon open a “permanent base” in Poland, deploy two squadrons of F-35 fighter jets to Britain, send more warships to our sprawling base in Spain, and increase our troop strength in Romania, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. Instead of promoting diplomacy that could lead to peace, he chose a course guaranteed to increase tensions with Russia at a moment when they are already approaching an all-time high. This brings us one step closer to direct confrontation with another nuclear-armed power.

Biden and other promoters of this policy — a group that includes virtually everyone in Washington — say it is necessary to counter Russian aggression in Ukraine. In fact, it will have little effect in Ukraine. The true purpose of this American buildup is to threaten and intimidate Russia. ...

For American strategic planners, this war has little to do with Ukraine. They see it as a battering ram against Russia. Since saving Ukrainian lives is not their priority, they view diplomacy as an enemy. Negotiation would inevitably give Russia at least some of what it wants. Russia’s war with Ukraine, on the other hand, holds out the delicious prospect of bringing Russia to its knees. That’s why Congress voted to send Ukraine billions of dollars in weaponry, and why President Biden asserted when making his announcement that rather than send diplomats to the crisis zone, he prefers “stepping up” US military involvement there.

An obsession with crushing Russia lies behind Washington’s passionate embrace of the Ukrainian cause. But there is another, more cosmic reason. We are seeing a textbook example of what geo-strategists call the classic security dilemma. One country takes steps to secure itself, but others see those steps as preparation for war. They respond with buildups of their own. Fears, accusations, and demonizing propaganda intensify until fighting breaks out. This syndrome has led to countless wars. World War I is just one example.

Kim Iversen: NYC Prepares Residents For NUCLEAR ATTACK In New PSA

US treasury announces additional $1.7 billion aid to Ukraine

The United States Treasury announced Tuesday it will send an additional $1.7 billion in economic aid to Ukraine to help continue funding the country’s “essential services.”

“This latest contribution of economic assistance for Ukraine is part of President Biden’s commitment to support the Government of Ukraine as it defends Ukraine’s democracy against Russia’s unprovoked and unjustifiable war,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a statement. “This aid will help Ukraine’s democratic government provide essential services for the people of Ukraine.”

The payment, part of the $7.5 billion aid package signed by President Joe Biden in May, is set to be made through the World Bank. The funds will go towards critical operations in Ukraine, such as paying health care worker salaries, according to the Treasury statement.

According to World Bank estimates, the war, which began with Russia’s invasion of its former Soviet neighbor in February, could cause the Ukrainian economy to contract by up to 45 percent in 2022. The country is currently running a budget deficit that is growing by $5 billion every month, exacerbated by its inability to raise funds or to access financing on external markets.

Iran FM spokesman reacts to Jake Sullivan's claims

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman reacted to the US claims on handing over Iranian-made military achievements to Russia, saying that Iran-Russia cooperation in the new technologies field dates back prior to the Ukraine war.

"The history of cooperation between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Russian Federation in the field of some new technologies dates back to before the start of the war in Ukraine and there has been no special development in this relationship recently," Nasser Kanaani told reporters on Tuesday. ...

"The claim of the US official comes while the United States and the Europeans have for years turned the occupying and aggressor countries, including in the West Asian region, into a storehouse for their various fatal weapons," Kanaani continued, adding, "Without these weapons, the continuation of more than seven decades of aggression, crime and occupation by the Zionists in Occupied territories were not possible." ...

The spokesman made the comments in reaction to the US National security adviser Jake Sullivan who claimed on Monday that Iran will be providing Russia with a rushed delivery of “weapons-capable” UAVs and other unmanned aircraft.

John Bolton Admits on Live TV He 'Has Helped Plan Coups D'État'

Longtime Republican official John Bolton admitted during a televised interview Tuesday that he has helped plan coups outside of the United States.

Bolton, who served as former President Donald Trump's national security adviser, appeared on CNN to discuss the congressional committee investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

After Bolton claimed that Trump's lies about the 2020 presidential election that provoked last year's Capitol attack were not part of "a carefully planned coup d'état aimed at the Constitution," host Jake Tapper said that "I don't know that I agree with you, to be fair, with all due respect. One doesn't have to be brilliant to attempt a coup."

Bolton responded that "I disagree with that. As somebody who has helped plan coups d'état, not here, but, you know, other places, it takes a lot of work. And that's not what he did."

Tapper followed up on coup comments, and Bolton—who also held roles in the administrations of former Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush—initially said that "I'm not gonna get into the specifics."

Bolton then pointed out that in his recently released book, he wrote about the failed effort to overthrow Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in 2019. The Trump administration notably backed opposition leader Juan Guaidó.

However, as reporters and others—such as Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.)—were quick to highlight, Bolton has a long history of supporting such efforts.

As HuffPost detailed Tuesday:

In 2004, while Bolton was serving in the State Department, the U.S. faced allegations of backing the overthrow of Haiti's president. A former French ambassador told The New York Times this year that the U.S. and France had "effectively orchestrated" the coup.

Bolton has a long history of advocating for coups and supporting regime change plots. He advocated for regime change in Iraq ahead of a war he helped orchestrate and said in 2018 that the United States should overthrow the government of Iran.

Critics of Bolton shared a range of reactions on social media.

Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Will Bunch tweeted that "I've been investigating U.S. imperialism for decades, and...he...just...blurted...it...out."

"America in one clip," More Perfect Union's Jordan Zakarin said of the interview, describing Bolton as "a bloodthirsty right-wing war hawk" who was given a platform to "brazenly admit to secret war crimes without worrying about any consequences whatsoever."

"It's just a little oopsies, a meme for a few days," Zakarin added, declaring that "this is even more embarrassing for CNN."

Defense Secretary Punished For Telling Truth About Ukraine

Shireen Abu Aqleh: family of killed journalist demand meeting with Biden

The family of Shireen Abu Aqleh, the renowned Palestinian-American journalist killed during an Israeli military raid in the West Bank, is demanding a meeting with President Biden during his visit to Jerusalem this week after accusing his administration of shielding Israel from accountability for her death.

Abu Aqleh’s brother, Anton, wrote to Biden on Friday expressing his family’s “grief, outrage and sense of betrayal” after the US state department concluded that Israeli forces were “likely responsible” for shooting the Al Jazeera reporter in the head in the West Bank city of Jenin in May but “found no reason to believe that this was intentional”.

The letter to Biden said the state department assessment was a “whitewash” given the weight of evidence showing that Abu Aqleh “was the subject of an extrajudicial killing” by the Israeli military, including a United Nations report that said soldiers fired “several single, seemingly well-aimed bullets” at her and other journalists.

The family accused the White House of adopting the Israeli government’s conclusions and talking points in “an apparent intent to undermine our efforts toward justice and accountability for Shireen’s death”.

“Instead, the United States has been skulking toward the erasure of any wrongdoing by Israeli forces,” the letter said.

Biden administration announces new strategy to tackle Covid subvariant

Joe Biden’s administration has announced a new strategy to tackle the highly contagious BA.5 coronavirus subvariant amid reports that the government was developing a plan to make second booster shots available to all US adults. In a fact sheet published on Tuesday the White House said BA.5, a subvariant of the Omicron coronavirus variant, is already responsible for the majority of new Covid-19 cases in the US.

The subvariant, the government said, “has the potential to cause the numbers of infections to rise in the coming weeks”. The US is averaging about 100,000 new coronavirus cases daily, and hospitalizations have been on the rise since April – although they remain below previous peaks.

The White House said it would increase efforts to get more people vaccinated, particularly in areas where BA.5 is spreading most rapidly, and it encouraged Americans to test themselves regularly.

The announcement came as the Washington Post reported that Biden administration officials are working on a plan to make second booster vaccine shots available to adults under age 50 in a bid to tackle BA.5 and BA.4, another highly contagious Omicron subvariant. For now, adults over 50 and people over 12 who are immunocompromised are eligible for a second booster four months after receiving their first.

Inflation Hits 40 YEAR HIGH At 9.1%; Gas, Groceries Hit Hardest

Uber paid academics six-figure sums for research to feed to the media

Uber paid high-profile academics in Europe and the US hundreds of thousands of dollars to produce reports that could be used as part of the company’s lobbying campaign. The Uber files, a cache of thousands of confidential documents leaked to the Guardian, reveal lucrative deals with several leading academics who were paid to publish research on the benefits of its economic model. The reports were commissioned as Uber wrestled with regulators in key cities around the world.

University economists were targeted in France and Germany where enforcement by the authorities was increasingly fierce in 2014-15. One report by a French academic, who asked for a €100,000 consultancy fee, was cited in a 2016 Financial Times report as evidence that Uber was a “route out of the French banlieues”, delighting Uber executives.

Using techniques common in party political campaigns, Uber targeted academics and thinktanks to help it construct a positive narrative, namely that it created well-paid jobs that drivers liked, delivered cheap transport to consumers and boosted productivity. Documents show how its lobbyists planned to use academic research as part of a production line of political ammunition that could be fed to politicians and the media.

The aim was to use the research to increase pressure for changing the rules Uber was evading. While Uber’s involvement in reports was mentioned, leaked files expose how it wanted to use academics’ work and their reputations to further its aims, and how much it was prepared to pay them.

Joe Biden’s Biggest Lie Yet

AOC, Lieu to Senate Dems: Say on the Record Whether Gorsuch and Kavanaugh Lied

Reps. Ted Lieu and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez demanded Monday that Senate Democratic leaders say on the record whether they believe U.S. Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh lied under oath about their views on Roe v. Wade, a 1973 decision that both judges voted to overturn last month.

In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Lieu and Ocasio-Cortez noted that neither Gorsuch nor Kavanaugh contended during their Senate confirmation hearings that Roe was "egregiously wrong from the start," a position that both justices assented to last month by joining Justice Samuel Alito's majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization—a ruling that ended the constitutional right to abortion.

"They expressed the exact opposite position," the Democratic lawmakers wrote. "While several justices made misleading statements during their confirmation hearings, two examples are particularly egregious."

Lieu and Ocasio-Cortez went on to cite Gorsuch's under-oath comment in 2017 that Roe "is a precedent of the United States Supreme Court" that "has been reaffirmed."

"A good judge," he added, "will consider it as precedent of the U.S. Supreme Court worthy as treatment of precedent like any other."

Kavanaugh, for his part, similarly told senators in 2018 that "the Supreme Court has recognized the right to abortion since the 1973 Roe v. Wade case" and has "reaffirmed it many times."

"It is not as if it is just a run-of-the-mill case that was decided and never been reconsidered, but Casey specifically reconsidered it, applied the stare decisis factors, and decided to reaffirm it," Kavanaugh said. "That makes Casey a precedent on precedent."

Senators who voted to confirm both Gorsuch and Kavanaugh—including Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.)—have cited such statements as evidence that the judges duped them into believing they viewed Roe as established precedent and would therefore be unwilling to cast it aside as they did on June 24.

In their letter on Monday, Lieu and Ocasio-Cortez argued that "we cannot have a system where justices lie about their views in order to get confirmed," warning that such a system "makes a mockery of the confirmation power, and of the separation of powers."

"We respectfully request the Senate issue a finding—through a resolution or another kind of public statement—on whether these justices lied under oath to the Senate Judiciary Committee," added Lieu and Ocasio-Cortez. The New York Democrat has also urged the House to launch impeachment investigations into Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and other right-wing justices.

"We must call out their actions for what they were before the moment passes," Lieu and Ocasio-Cortez wrote Monday, "so that we can prevent such a mendacious denigration of our fundamental rights and the rule of law from ever happening again."

US law will overrule states for abortions in cases of medical emergencies

Physicians must continue to offer abortions in cases of medical emergencies without exception, Joe Biden’s administration said on Monday, as it insisted federal law would overrule any total state bans on abortion.

In a letter to healthcare providers, the president’s health and human services secretary, Xavier Becerra, said the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) protects providers from any purported state restrictions should they be required to perform emergency abortions.

“Under the law, no matter where you live, women have the right to emergency care – including abortion care,” Becerra said. “Today, in no uncertain terms, we are reinforcing that we expect providers to continue offering these services, and that federal law preempts state abortion bans when needed for emergency care.”

Becerra said medical emergencies include ectopic pregnancies, complications arising from miscarriages, and pre-eclampsia, NBC News reported.

A hospital found to have violated the federal law could be stripped of its Medicare provider status and subjected to “civil monetary penalties”, Becerra added.

Briahna Joy Gray: Are We ALLOWED To Protest Elites?

“Rough ride” in police van leaves New Haven, Connecticut, man paralyzed

On June 19, Randy Cox, a 36-year-old African American resident of New Haven, Connecticut, suffered severe spinal injuries when the police van transporting him to jail, stopped suddenly and catapulted him headfirst into the steel cage wall of the vehicle. He was handcuffed and without a seatbelt.

Much of the incident has been caught on police video camera, which the city has released to the public, although the city has withheld about two hours of footage.

Weeks later, Cox, after two neck operations, remains intubated and paralyzed. The “rough ride” of detainees is a common type of police torture in the United States.

Cox’s injuries were almost certainly exacerbated afterward by the cops, who, even though Cox told them he could not move, dragged him out of the van and forced him to sit up in a wheelchair. As they were processing him, they even made him listen to and sign off on a pre-recorded statement about sexual harassment. They then dragged him into a cell, where he lay, with his paralyzed ankles handcuffed together, until paramedics arrived.

Cox’s case immediately recalls the case of Freddie Gray who was murdered by police in a similar case of a “rough ride” in a police van in Baltimore in 2015. Gray’s murder sparked mass protests against police brutality. The treatment meted out to Cox is also reminiscent of the Gray killing in another way: It was an assault by the police in a city run by the Democratic Party, in the case of Baltimore the administration of Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and in New Haven, Mayor Justin Elicker.



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Nearly $2tn of damage inflicted on other countries by US emissions

The US has inflicted more than $1.9tn in damage to other countries from the effects of its greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new analysis that has provided the first measurement of nations’ liability in stoking the climate crisis. The huge volume of planet-heating gases pumped out by the US, the largest historical emitter, has caused such harm to other, mostly poor, countries through heatwaves, crop failures and other consequences that the US is responsible for $1.91tn in lost global income since 1990, the study found.

This puts the US ahead of China, currently the world’s leading emitter, Russian, India and Brazil as the next largest contributors to global economic damage through their emissions. Combined, these five leading culprits have caused a total of $6tn in losses worldwide, or about 11% of annual global GDP, since 1990 by fueling climate breakdown.

“It’s a huge number,” said Chris Callahan, a researcher at Dartmouth College and lead author of the study, of the overall economic loss. “It’s not surprising that the US and China are at the top of that list but the numbers really are very stark. For the first time, we can show that a country’s emissions can be traced to specific harm.”

The Dartmouth researchers combined a number of different models, showing factors such as emissions, local climate conditions and economic changes, to ascertain the precise impact of an individual country’s contribution to the climate crisis. They looked for these links over a period spanning 1990 to 2014, with the research published in the journal Climatic Change.

What they found was a perniciously uneven picture – rich nations in northerly latitudes, such as those in north America and Europe, have done the most to fuel climate change but have not yet been severely harmed by it economically. Countries such as Canada and Russia have even benefitted from longer agricultural growing seasons and reduced deaths from the cold as winters have warmed. Conversely, poorer countries, such as those found in the tropics or low-lying Pacific islands, have done the least to harm other nations and yet are suffering the brunt of the economic damage from climate change. The research didn’t factor things not included in GDP, such as biodiversity loss, cultural harm and deaths from disasters, meaning the damage is in reality far greater.

With Yosemite’s giant sequoias at risk, firefighters place hope in prescribed burns

A wildfire has burned more than 2,720 acres in Yosemite national park, sparking global concern for the cherished groves of ancient and iconic tall trees clustered among the picturesque mountainsides. The fire, which was 22% contained Tuesday morning, also forced evacuations in the town of Wawona and caused the park to partially close to visitors. It’s possible that the blaze will smolder for weeks, even as containment increases.

As the Washburn fire crept closer to the Mariposa Grove, home to hundreds of giant sequoias, including the 3,000-year-old Grizzly Giant, which stretches over 200ft into the sky, firefighters installed protections for trees, setting up sprinkler systems to tame flames that might meet their bases with a bump of humidity and moisture.

But although these mitigations are effective tools against the onslaught of extreme fire intensity that has been a main culprit in killing swaths of sequoias in recent years, experts and officials are hopeful that work done well ahead of the wildfire will go even further to protect them. Prescribed burning and thinning treatments that removed dense and dried fuels from the forests may end up being instrumental in helping to reduce the worst effects.

The blaze is big, and the rough terrain burning has made the firefight perilous, but it has not yet caused a calamity due to favorable weather and gentle winds. Officials are optimistic firefighters can corral the fire before a trifecta of dire conditions – devastatingly low humidity, rising temperatures, and strong gusts – send flames into a rage. Even with the added risks from a severe and record drought that’s left landscapes parched, there is still a good chance that this fire will do more good than harm.

“Recently there has been this association between fire and bad outcomes because the fires have been absurdly, apocalyptically intense,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at the University of California, Los Angeles, noting that more ferocious fires in the west may erupt in the coming months. “This fire – so far – has not been a catastrophe.”


Also of Interest

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

Imperial Detritus

'$839 Billion Military Budget Is a Policy Failure,' Say Critics as House Tees Up NDAA

No, Iran Will Not Deliver Armed Drones To Russia

Political False Dichotomies: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

The CIA’s Role in Watergate

Blinken Leading the Blind Into the Mideast Desert

Michael Hudson: The End of Western Civilization

Michael Hudson: The End of Western Civilization – Why It Lacks Resilience, and What Will Take Its Place

Getty opens access to 30,000 images of black diaspora in UK and US

Jill Biden Compares Latinos To TACOS At 'Latinx' Festival

Buttigieg To Teach The World About Infrastructure


A Little Night Music

Hound Dog Taylor - Sitting Here Alone

Hound Dog Taylor - She's Gone

Hound Dog Taylor - Dust My Broom

Hound Dog Taylor - The Sun Is Shining

Hound Dog Taylor - Give Me Back My Wig

Hound Dog Taylor - It Hurts Me Too

Hound Dog Taylor - Walking The Ceiling

Hound Dog Taylor - Sadie

Hound Dog Taylor - Let's Get Funky

Hound Dog Taylor - The Dog Meets The Wolf

Hound "Dog" Taylor - ABC Radio, Australia. 1975


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dystopian's picture

Hey Joe, Great Hound Dog man! He was great.

Love that overblown gain sound. Have been guilty of that myself. In that (Ann Arbor) vid what was the guitar he was playing? Those two neck pickups together could have something to do with it. Almost looks like some type of DanElectro. In that hand pic his pinky finger looks vestigal, as if there were four of the other larger fingers instead of three, and the pinkies were messed up. At least he got rid of that bad one he didn't need. Gadzooks!

Hope all are well!

Thanks for the great soundscapes Joe!

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

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@dystopian

heh, hound dog favored japanese guitars with 4 pickups. a couple of them were made by kawai and one was made by teisco. i'm not sure exactly which guitar he's playing at the ann arbor gig, but it's probably one of the kawais.

have a great evening!

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I would have been crazy! man, just great sounds!
The war news was so un-propagandized, it read or sounded like something from a parallel universe.
Bolton..coups..surprise!
I have had cops brag about "rough rides" before. It is a cop thing. They think they need to be inflicting punishment, just in case some obvious criminal gets off on a technicality.
I may have mentioned this before, but I really despise fucking cops, except the two who have been my pals and clients for years.
It is getting hotter, but we all know climate change is a hoax. Just read the Bible. Shit happens.
Have a great evening, joe!

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

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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!

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@The Liberal Moonbat

You might want to bookmark the NZDSOS site, if you haven't already ...

https://nzdsos.com/posts/

There are many of us who support their efforts which are starting to pay off.

On a lighter note ...

[video:https://youtu.be/CNefL4q0k5E]

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@The Liberal Moonbat

It is no longer (if it ever was) prudent to assume the veracity of our ‘news’ and ‘official’ pronouncements. Lies are the primary fuel of our struggling empire in its effort to carry on with its megalomania and plans to rule the world.

People like the NZ docs you linked to are waking up to the deception and betrayal they have been subjected to. May this awareness and outrage gain momentum quickly! Time is short.

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“What the herd hates most is the one who thinks differently; it is not so much the opinion itself, but the audacity of wanting to think for themselves, something that they do not know how to do.”
-Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

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@janis b @ovals49 This is an AMAZING time we live in.

Time is indeed short, and for many - including the single-most important individual in my life (who introduced my parents to each other, mentored me in certain life-defining hobbies, and remained our closest family friend to the very end) - it is already too late.

It does seem a little off to compare anything to the Holocaust when there aren't any Muselmanner lying all over the place...but god damn it, it is too close just the same.

As my parents both affirmed when I pointed it out to them, my refusing to get Prik'd was the first time in my entire life I had ever seriously defied their wishes.

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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!

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@The Liberal Moonbat @The Liberal Moonbat

There’s much that can be found in these doctor’s perspectives and knowledge that are affirming of your choice. You must have felt very assured in your decision. Our strong sense of what feels right for us as individuals is so important to listen to, even when, or maybe especially when we are taking a risk.

I am very sorry you lost such a special person in your life. You are lucky to have had him in your life.

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Evidence is emerging that at least some segments of the ongoing protests in Sri Lanka are funded and backed by the US, serving US interests. A “digital strategist” given credit by the Western media for the successful toppling of the Sri Lankan government was a “volunteer” at a US National Endowment for Democracy-funded “election” organization.
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His group’s involvement in the current protests are a carbon copy of events that unfolded during the 2011 US-engineered “Arab Spring.”

Food price increases and lack of fertilizer are being blamed on Russia. The food price increases pre-date Russia/Ukraine conflict:

while the lack of fertilizer was due to the Sri Lankan government abruptly going "green" by banning ALL fertilizer use starting in 2021. (This is the same as is being done in the Netherlands which has caused the farmer's revolt.)

I would argue the WEF programs to reduce population by any and all means is now in full swing and will increase globally in the coming years.

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Sri Lanka's economy has been crippled because of "Chinese Debt Trap Diplomacy," yet a quick look at even Western reports on who actually holds Sri Lanka's debt reveals it is the West itself.

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@CB It's just a small, out-of-the-way island - 'the Subcontinent's Tasmania', if you will; what would they accomplish except maybe to antagonize India, and why would they do that?

Sure they're not playing ball with NATO, but other than that the Modi government sounds like it's been a near-model WEF colony.

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In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.

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