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-- Aeschylus

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52% Say US Would Lie About Foreign Chemical Weapons

A statistically significant poll of the American adult Internet population reveals that 52.4% believe the US government would mislead them "about a foreign government’s use of chemical weapons in order to justify US military action." 45.7% responded that they did not believe the US government would mislead them, while the remainder (1.9%) provided other responses.

The IRmep poll administered by Google Surveys has a RMSE score of 5.8 and was fielded July 5-22, just after Seymour Hersh’s stunning investigative report discrediting the official narrative justifying President Trump’s authorization to launch fifty-nine Tomahawk missiles at the Shayrat Air base in Syria on April 6.

Iraq seeking ‘substantial' Russian military & political presence – vice-president

Pitching the ‘Forever War’ in Afghanistan

In May, the founder of the mercenary-for-hire group Blackwater (now since remained Academi), Erik Prince took to the pages of the Wall Street Journal to propose that the Pentagon employ “private military units” and appoint a “viceroy” to oversee the war in Afghanistan. According to Prince, who has been actively lobbying for what he calls an “East India Company approach” as the solution to America’s longest war (16 years, $117 billion and counting), “In Afghanistan, the viceroy approach would reduce rampant fraud by focusing spending on initiatives that further the central strategy, rather than handing cash to every outstretched hand from a U.S. system bereft of institutional memory.” (Prince naturally failed to say if his were among those “outstretched hands”)

On July 10, The New York Times reported that Prince and the owner of the military contractor Dyn Corporation, Stephen Feinberg, have, at the request of Stephen K. Bannon and Jared Kushner, been pushing a plan to, in effect, privatize the war effort in Afghanistan. (In recent weeks both The Nation and The American Conservative have published deep-dive investigative pieces into the behind the scenes machinations of would-be Viceroys Prince and Feinberg). ...

While Prince and Feinberg have (so far anyway) gotten the cold shoulder from National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster and Pentagon Chief James Mattis, momentum is picking up for once again ramping up American involvement in Afghanistan among some of the (allegedly) more sophisticated members of the foreign policy establishment.

On July 11, former Deputy Defense Secretary Michele Flournoy and think tank functionary Richard Fontaine published a piece for the purportedly realist National Interest magazine that attempted to assure readers that “The Afghan War Is Not Lost.” Why not? Because even though there are roughly 8,400 U.S. troops in Afghanistan, “More troops can help achieve American objectives in Afghanistan, but only if they are part of a larger and more effective strategy.” [Emphasis mine]. The stress on more troops (if not to say, thousands upon thousands of unaccountable mercenaries in the pay of Feinberg and Prince) is deeply concerning because if anyone can be said to be a reliable barometer of prevailing opinion inside the Beltway it is Flournoy. ...

Worryingly, some members of Congress seem to be on board. In early July, a bipartisan delegation including Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Elizabeth Warren toured Pakistan and Afghanistan and called for greater military involvement in the region. Speaking on behalf of the delegation, McCain noted, “none of us would say that we’re on course to a success here in Afghanistan.”

Russia says troops deployed to enforce two Syrian safe zones

Russia has deployed military police to monitor two safe zones being established in Syria, the defence ministry in Moscow said on Monday. Senior commander Sergei Rudskoi said Russian forces had set up checkpoints and observation posts around a zone in south-west Syria and in another one covering Eastern Ghouta, near Damascus.

The announcement marks the first deployment of foreign troops to enforce four "de-escalation zones" being created in rebel-held areas under a Moscow-backed plan to pacify Syria's six-year civil war. Lieutenant General Rudskoi said Russian personnel had set up two checkpoints and 10 observation posts along the fronts between rebel forces and government troops in the southern zone.

Russia, the United States and Jordan struck a deal earlier this month to fix the boundaries of this zone and impose a ceasefire in the area.

Hezbollah says battle with Nusra Front almost won at Syria-Lebanon border

Hezbollah said on Monday its battle with Nusra Front jihadists at the Syria-Lebanon border was almost over and urged remaining insurgents in the area to give up, pressing its campaign to take their last foothold at the frontier.

With the Nusra Front almost beaten in the mountainous area on the outskirts of the Lebanese town of Arsal, the next phase is expected to focus on adjacent territory held by Islamic State militants. ...

Hezbollah's military media unit said its fighters had advanced early on Monday from several directions to capture the Wadi al-Kheil valley in Juroud Arsal, a barren mountainous border zone that has served as a base for militants linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State.

The advance gave Hezbollah control over what had been "the most important base (in the area) for Nusra Front," the media unit said in a statement.

The world’s lack of outrage over tens of thousands of civilian deaths in Mosul is shameful

The catastrophic number of civilian casualties in Mosul is receiving little attention internationally from politicians and journalists. This is in sharp contrast to the outrage expressed worldwide over the bombardment of east Aleppo by Syrian government and Russian forces at the end of 2016. ...

Terrible civilian casualties have occurred in many sieges over the centuries, but in one important respect the siege of Mosul is different from the others. Isis, the cruellest and most violent movement in the world, was determined not to give up its human shields. Determined to hang on to its hundreds of thousands of human shields, Isis packed them into a smaller and smaller space as pro-government forces advanced. Isis patrols said they would kill anybody who left their houses; they welded shut metal doors to keep them in, and hanged people who tried to escape from electricity pylons and left the bodies to rot.

“Consequently, as IS lost territory during the course of the battle, IS-controlled areas became increasingly crowded with civilians,” says the AI report. “Mosul residents routinely described to Amnesty International how they sheltered in homes with relatives or neighbours in groups of between 15-100.” It was these groups that became the victims of the massed firepower of pro-government forces. ...

Why has there not been more outcry over the destruction of west Mosul? There should be no question about the massive civilian loss of life, even if there are differences over the exact numbers of the dead. The biggest reason for the lack of outrage is that Isis was seen as a uniquely evil movement that had to be defeated – whatever the cost in dead bodies to the people of Mosul. It is an understandable argument, but one that in the past has meant Iraq never finds peace.

Pfffttt! Wondering if the Pentagon is wasting money on one of its idiotic wars of choice is like wondering if water is wet.

Top Democrat Wonders if Pentagon Broke Procurement Laws Wasting Millions on Afghan Army Uniforms

The top Democrat on the Senate’s Homeland Security Committee is demanding answers about a report that the Pentagon wasted $28 million buying uniforms with a forest camouflage pattern for the Afghan army — even though forests only cover 2 percent of the country.

Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., sent a letter to the Department of Defense asking for information about how it is investigating the waste internally and how the Pentagon plans to ensure its uniform choices are cost-effective in the future. What’s more, McCaskill questioned whether the process by which the uniforms were procured followed the laws governing the procedure. ...

Last month, John Sopko, the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, issued a scathing report saying the Pentagon spent $93 million to purchase 1.3 million uniforms and 88,000 extra pairs of pants with a forest pattern, “without conducting any formal testing to determine the pattern’s effectiveness for use in Afghanistan.” The report concluded that, in addition to providing a “more clearly visible target to the enemy,” the uniforms were unnecessarily expensive because they were chosen from a design owned by a private company instead of one of the dozens of designs the Pentagon owns and keeps on file.

Senators Promise to Amend Israel Boycott Bill After Backlash

The lead author of the controversial Israel Anti-Boycott Act, Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland, is open to amending the legislation to address concerns raised by the American Civil Liberties Union, he told The Intercept Monday evening.

The ACLU warned last week that the measure, which targets the BDS movement, was unconstitutional and would have a chilling effect on free speech. In the wake of that warning, and a subsequent article by The Intercept, co-sponsors of the bill have begun to re-examine their support for it.

Cardin said that the ACLU had misinterpreted his legislation, but if it needed to be clarified, he would take the steps to do so. “A lot of the co-sponsors are pretty strongly committed to the freedom of speech,” Cardin said. “We’re certainly sensitive to the issues they raise. If we have to make it clearer, we’ll make it clearer.” ...

Co-sponsors of the bill have faced pressure at home to explain support for a bill with such language in it. Rep. Joe Kennedy III, D-Mass., is reviewing the bill in the light of the ACLU’s concerns, as are Democratic Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Maria Cantwell of Washington, Ron Wyden of Oregon, Claire McCaskill of Missouri, and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut.

Justice Department’s Demand for Extreme Secrecy in Reality Winner Trial Contested by Defense

The Justice Department is seeking to impose extreme secrecy rules in the trial of alleged Intercept source and whistleblower Reality Winner that could prevent her defense team from citing countless publicly available news articles in appearances before the court — and even prevent Winner herself from seeing evidence relevant to her defense. On July 20, Winner’s defense lawyers moved to challenge those arguments, accusing the government in a court filing of attempting to use the pre-trial discovery process to unfairly gag them from discussing issues both vital to the case and the public at large. ...

Under the rules established under the Classified Information Procedures Act, the defense has the right to access certain classified documents from the government that may be relevant to Winner’s case. In response, the government filed for a protective order that will prevent the defense team from revealing the classified information in those documents in its legal filings or to the public.

A protective order surrounding discovery material, by itself, is fairly standard procedure. However, the government is going a step further: They are arguing that the defense would be barred from discussing any information that has appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, or any other newspaper if the defense “knows or have reason to know” any of that information is also contained in classified discovery documents they will receive. ...

This is a critical point given that the trial may hinge on whether the prosecution can prove the document Winner is alleged to have leaked could have “damaged” national security. Winner’s team may want to use these stories to provide the jury with much-needed context around the document at issue — to show, for example, that the public interest in election security is extremely high, or that leaking the material in question couldn’t possibly have damaged national security given the mountains of stories about Russian hacking that came before it.

An excellent article:

A Suggestion for Bernie: On Crimes Detectable and Not

Bernie Sanders claims to be an anti-plutocratic populist and sometimes even a “democratic socialist” opponent of the wealthy corporate and financial Few.  Let me therefore make a recommendation for Senator Sanders and his “Our Revolution” movement.  Bernie should call a press conference to demand the replacement of current Congressional and Justice Department investigations of a mythical non-problem – Russia’ supposed swinging of the 2016 United States presidential election – by Congressional and Justice Department investigation of a real problem: the control of U.S. politics and policy by the nation’s biggest corporations and financial institutions.  In his press conference, Sanders could cite a remarkable passage from a recent New York Times interview with the nation’s leading intellectual Noam Chomsky.  As Chomsky remarked:

“For liberal opinion, the political crime of the century, as it is sometimes called, is Russian interference in American elections. The effects of the crime are undetectable, unlike the massive effects of interference by corporate power and private wealth, not considered a crime but the normal workings of democracy. That’s even putting aside the record of U.S. ‘interference’ in foreign elections, Russia included; the word ‘interference’ in quotes because it is so laughably inadequate, as anyone with the slightest familiarity with recent history must be aware.”

Then Sanders could cite the findings of the leading liberal political scientists Martin Gilens (Princeton) and Benjamin Page (Northwestern). Over the past three plus decades, Gilens and Page reported nearly three years ago, the U.S. political system has functioned as “an oligarchy,” where wealthy elites and their corporations “rule.” ... Even more stark was the judgement of Simon Johnson, the chief economist of the International Monetary Fund from March 2007 through 2008.  In a remarkable May 2009 Atlantic essay titled “The Quiet Coup,” he noted that “the finance industry has effectively captured our government,” turning the U.S. into a “financial oligarchy” and “banana republic” where top financial investors and managers get whatever they want regardless of technically irrelevant public opinion. Such is the harsh reality of “really existing capitalist democracy,” humorously acronymized by Chomsky as “RECD, pronounced as ‘wrecked.’”

Just what great American “democracy” was it exactly that the Kremlin supposedly undermined last year? ...

So where is our great “socialist” (please) hero Bernie Sanders on all this?  When will he call for an end to the ridiculous Russia investigations and its replacement by serious Congressional and Justice Department inquiries into RECD – that is, into the longstanding and well-documented trumping of popular governance and sovereignty by domestic capitalist corporate and financial power? Wouldn’t that be what a “democratic socialist” Senator atop a movement for “revolution” would be doing regularly and loudly right now? Isn’t that what Eugene Debs (whose poster sits forlornly behind Bernie’s U.S. Senate desk on Capitol Hill) would be calling for?

The Rebellions that Changed U.S. History: Looking Back at the 1967 Newark & Detroit Uprisings

#Rexit: Report Indicates Tillerson Contemplating Early Departure

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is considering a "Rexit," CNN reported on Monday.

The former Exxon Mobil CEO has apparently become increasingly troubled by the Trump administration, most recently by President Donald Trump's comments regarding Attorney General Jeff Sessions. In an interview with the New York Times last week the president criticized Sessions for recusing himself from the ongoing investigation into Trump's alleged Russia ties. Tillerson reportedly found the remarks "unprofessional," according to CNN. ...

Tillerson's frustrations have reportedly been growing for months. He has quarreled with the White House on hiring decisions in the State Department and was not consulted before Trump issued major announcements concerning State-related issues, including the travel ban and a warning to the Syrian regime about the use of chemical weapons.

Tillerson and Trump have also publicly disagreed about a dispute between Saudi Arabia and Qatar over Qatar's alleged support of terrorism. While Tillerson traveled to the Middle East to attempt a resolution, Trump tweeted a message calling Qatar a funder of terrorism "at a very high level." As CNN reports, Tillerson has shown signs in recent weeks that "despite his frustrations, [he] was determined to stay on the job at least through the end of the year. That would allow time to continue efforts to reorganize the State Department and would mean he could claim to have put in a year as America's top diplomat."

But statements to the news outlet from sources close to Tillerson are pointing to the possibility of a "Rexit" taking place much sooner than anticipated.

'Hiding It Like Cowards': McCain Returns to Help GOP Pass Secret Trumpcare Bill

With Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) expected to return to his post in the Senate just days after being diagnosed with a severe form of brain cancer, the GOP is gearing up to hold a procedural vote on Tuesday to move forward with a "mystery" version of Trumpcare that has not been fully analyzed by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), members of Congress, or the public.

Resistance groups were quick to raise the alarm, urging supporters to ramp up calls to their representatives and continue mobilizing at the Capitol in the face of the Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's secretive efforts to ram through a deeply unpopular bill.

"It's impossible to overstate how incredible this is," writes Axios's Sam Baker of McConnell's tactics. "The Senate is planning to vote today to begin debate on a health care bill. No one knows which one—which means no one knows what it would do. Would it fundamentally restructure Medicaid? Would it send individual insurance markets across the country into a tailspin? The Senate won't know until it has already voted, later in the week, on one bill or another." ...

"Their legislation literally cannot survive more than a few days of public scrutiny, so they're hiding it like cowards," concluded MSNBC's Chris Hayes.

McCain's quick return to the Senate has raised serious concerns among activists who have spent the last several weeks working to ensure Trumpcare's failure. That McCain is flying to Washington for the Trumpcare vote could, as some have speculated, be an indication that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has the votes necessary to proceed with the legislation.

GOP: Come over

MCCAIN: I can't, I have brain cancer

GOP: We need your vote to strip millions of their health coverage

MCCAIN: pic.twitter.com/8nSgQbprfP

— ken klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) July 25, 2017

Trump denounces Jeff Sessions for being 'weak' on Hillary Clinton

Donald Trump on Tuesday condemned Jeff Sessions for his “very weak position” on Hillary Clinton, as he continued to rage against the attorney general’s decision to recuse himself from the Russia investigation. ... He slammed Sessions for not investigating his presidential rival in the race and raised questions, without offering evidence, about Ukraine’s alleged role in supporting the Democratic candidate.

“Attorney General Jeff Sessions has taken a VERY weak position on Hillary Clinton crimes (where are E-mails & DNC server) & Intel leakers!” Trump wrote. “Problem is that the acting head of the FBI & the person in charge of the Hillary investigation, Andrew McCabe, got $700,000 from H for wife!”

McCabe’s wife, Jill McCabe, ran for state senate in Virginia in 2015, and lost. She received donations from sources connected to Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe, a Clinton ally.

In an earlier tweet, Trump wrote: “Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump campaign - ‘quietly working to boost Clinton’. So where is the investigation A.G”.

Where’s the Hard Evidence Putin Interfered in the 2016 Election? We're About to Find Out

Today, July 24, the House will consider the Fiscal Year 2018 Intelligence Authorization Act under suspension of the rules in an attempt to fast-track the legislation, which contains some significant “Russiagate”-related provisions.

Section 501 calls for a new Intelligence Community assessment “of the most significant Russian influence campaigns, if any, conducted during the 3-year period preceding the date of the enactment of this Act, as well as the most significant current or planned such Russian influence campaigns, if any.”

Significantly, the classified report, which is due 60 days after enactment, is to also have an unclassified summary, meaning the public may learn still more about exactly when alleged Russian efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election began.

What may be lacking, as was the case with the IC assessment published in January 2016, is any new or meaningful, specific declassified intelligence that actually validates IC claims that the Russians were, in fact, responsible for the interference.

Keiser Report: Making Politics Great Again?

Democrats trot out a new line of platitudes. Ho hum. Would you buy a used car from Chuck Schumer or Nancy Pelosi? How about some well-worn promises that never come true?

Democrats pledge 'better deal' for workers in shift to populist platform

Wrapping themselves in the tradition of Franklin D Roosevelt, Democrats promised American workers a “better deal” on Monday as part of a new populist economic agenda adopted nine months after a demoralizing election that delivered Donald Trump to the White House and handed control of Congress to Republicans.

Democratic leaders retreated from Washington for the afternoon to Berryville, Virginia, a bucolic town in the Shenandoah Valley 70 miles west of the Capitol Hill, where they unveiled their populist platform, packaged under the slogan: “A Better Deal: Better Jobs, Better Wages, Better Future”.

“Democrats have too often hesitated from directly and unflinchingly taking on misguided policies that got us here,” Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, said during remarks at Rose Hill park off of Main Street. “Too many Americans don’t know what we stand for. Not after today.”

Locked out of power in Washington, Democrats have struggled to settle on an economic message in the months since Trump’s inauguration. Schumer conceded that Trump’s message of economic populism resonated with voters in 2016, but argued that the president had failed to live up to his promise to be the “greatest jobs president that God ever created”.

Dem Leaders Reiterate That They’ll Be Changing Absolutely Nothing

For the first time in my life, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer got my hopes up. He then immediately dashed them to the floor and had Nancy Pelosi pee on them for good measure. ... “When you lose to somebody who has 40 percent popularity, you don’t blame other things — Comey, Russia — you blame yourself,” Schumer told the Washington Post in an interview yesterday. ... But then he kept talking. “So what did we do wrong?” Schumer continued. “People didn’t know what we stood for, just that we were against Trump. And still believe that.”

In the context of the article — wankily titled “Trump had ‘The Art of the Deal.’ Now Democrats say their economic agenda is ‘A Better Deal’” — Schumer was responding to a new poll which shows that most Americans believe his party stands for nothing other than opposing the current administration. Given that they just ran a presidential candidate whose entire campaign platform consisted of not being Donald Trump, and given that their current McResistance vanity politics parade has consisted of nothing other than resisting Trump, this is a highly understandable perception for Americans to have.

But according to Amy Schumer’s creepy uncle, the problem isn’t what the Democratic party did, it’s what you thought about what the Democratic party did. Their party isn’t in the worst shape it’s been in since the Civil War because they’re the slightly more photogenic conjoined twin of the GOP, who promulgate the exact same soul-crushing neoliberal and neoconservative policies as the Republicans but slap a rainbow flag bumper sticker on it for appearance, who deliberately sabotage progressive candidates and who are now contesting the DNC fraud case on the grounds that they have no obligation to provide real party primaries. No, their party is in the worst shape it’s been in since the Civil War because you’re just not thinking the correct thoughts about them. You refused to support the Democratic party because you don’t know enough about them, not because you know so much about them that you hope they lose party legitimacy soon and get flushed down the toilet where they belong.

If that wasn’t clear enough, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi added that the change the Democratic party will be making “is not a course correction, but it’s a presentation correction.” Are you getting this loud and clear, America? The undisputed leaders of the Democratic party are telling you with their own face holes that they are not changing course at all — they are only going to change the way that they have been speaking to you. Because the problem is in you, not them.

Activists in Iowa Admit to Repeatedly Sabotaging Dakota Access Pipeline

Trump proposes scrapping Obama-era fracking rule on water pollution

The Trump administration has proposed scrapping an Obama-era rule that aimed to ensure fracking for oil and gas does not pollute water supplies. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), which is part of the Department of Interior, said on Tuesday that it is moving to scrap the 2015 regulation because it duplicates state rules and “imposes burdensome reporting requirements and other unjustified costs” on the oil and gas industry.

The rule requires that fracking operations on public land are properly constructed so that pollutants do not leak into water supplies. Companies are also obliged to publicly disclose the chemicals in fluids used in fracking, which is a drilling process used to release oil and gas deposits within rock formations.

Despite being finalised two years ago, the fracking rule has never come into force due to a series of court challenges from the fossil fuel industry and several states.

EPA Decided Preventing a West, Texas-Style Accident Wasn't a Priority. So 11 AGs Are Suing

Eleven states filed suit against the Environmental Protection Agency and its chief, Scott Pruitt, in federal court on Monday over the agency's decision to postpone implementation of a rule aimed at lessening the risk of a chemical plant disaster such as the deadly one that rocked West, Texas in 2013.

"Protecting our workers, first-responders, and communities from chemical accidents should be something on which we all agree. Yet the Trump EPA continues to put special interests before the health and safety of the people they serve," said New York Attorney General Schneiderman, who's leading the lawsuit.

Noting that EPA itself says there have been over 1,500 accidents at chemical plants over the past decade resulting in 58 deaths, Schneiderman said, "It's simply outrageous to block these common sense protections—and attorneys general will keep fighting back when our communities are put at risk."

The EPA said in June it was again delaying implementation of the Risk Management Program (RMP) Amendments, setting an effective date of February 19, 2019. The states say that the EPA rule delay is arbitrary and capricious, and exceeds the agency's authority under the Clean Air Act.

'Walking Conflict of Interest': Fossil Fuel Industry Lobbyist Now Second-in-Command at Interior Dept.

Despite David Bernhardt's long career of lobbying for the gas and oil industry, on Monday the Senate confirmed him as second-in-command of the U.S. Department of Interior, which manages public lands and water, as well as federal protections for endangered species.

Although Bernhardt's confirmation as deputy secretary isn't a shock, considering Trump's tendency to stock the White House and federal agencies with corporate insiders and former lobbyists, it still frustrated environmentalists.

"Bernhardt has years of experience serving corporate polluters so he's going to fit right into the Trump Administration’s Department of Interior," said Ben Schreiber, senior political strategist at Friends of the Earth. "Americans want our public lands protected, not plundered for corporate profit. The senators who voted to confirm Bernhardt are enabling Trump's trashing of America's public lands."

Before Bernhardt's confirmation, more than 150 environmental groups urged the Senate to reject his nomination.

"Bernhardt has been called a 'walking conflict of interest' for good reason. He represents everything that's wrong with the Trump administration and the revolving door of politics," said Randi Spivak, public lands director for the Center for Biological Diversity. "It's clear he'll put the interests of oil, mining and agribusiness above the interests of the American people, public lands and wildlife. From Scott Pruitt to Ryan Zinke, and now David Bernhardt, Trump has assembled the most anti-environmental administration in history."

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Trump and the Christian Fascists

Microsoft Paint saved after outpouring of love – sort of

A Little Night Music

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Louis Jordan - Fat Back and Corn Liquor

Louis Jordan w/Gatemouth Brown - The Saturday Night Fish Fry

Louis Jordan - Slow Down

Louis Jordan - Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens

Louis Jordan - Old Age

Louis Jordan - Long Legg's Lizzie

Louis Jordan - Wham Sam, Dig Them Gams

Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five - Jumpin' At The Jubilee