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Democrats leave 20 million unemployed in the lurch

Three weeks after the US Congress went on vacation and allowed federal supplemental unemployment benefits to expire for 20 million workers, cutting their benefits by $600 a week, the House of Representatives stabbed the unemployed in the back a second time. The Democratic Party-controlled House reconvened in the midst of its August recess, passed emergency legislation on the US Postal Service, and then adjourned without taking any action on the plight of those thrown out of work by the coronavirus crisis.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi declined to act on the appeal by nearly 100 members of her own caucus, who sent a letter asking that the reconvened House take up legislation to restore federal extended benefits for tens of millions of workers. The refusal of Pelosi and other leading Democrats to take action on the unemployment crisis shows that the Democratic Party’s claim to uphold the interests of working people is a political fraud. The Democrats jump to attention when Wall Street demands a bailout, but they have no time for workers facing poverty, hunger, eviction and homelessness.

Saturday’s House session followed the Democratic National Convention, where there was virtually no reference to the cutoff of federal extended benefits during four days of rhetorical bilge about the “decency” and “empathy” of Joe Biden. The alleged tender feelings of the Democratic presidential nominee evidently do not extend to those who lost their federal extended benefits on July 31. He made no mention of them in his acceptance speech, nor did he urge the House to take action on their behalf.

The silence of the Democratic National Convention will be matched this week when the Republican National Convention meets to renominate the president. Trump will stage his own coronation with nonstop declarations about the “great economy” and his prowess in “making America great again.” But the only thing “great” about the present state of affairs is the great scale of the social need and mass suffering to which both corporate-controlled parties are entirely indifferent.

A group called Unemployed Action is projecting images of Americans who have lost their jobs due to #COVID19. They claim their lives have been devastated by the #GOP’s failed response to the pandemic. This is on Caldwell and Stonewall Street. @wcnc pic.twitter.com/FPpxBBHmXZ

— Lexi Wilson (@LexiWCNC) August 24, 2020

'What Stage of Capitalism Is This?' Hedge Fund $3 Billion Richer Thanks to Wager on Wildfire Insurance Claims

The social and environmental toll of the unfolding fire catastrophe in California—where over 100,000 people have been displaced, seven have died, and approximately 1.2 million acres have burned since August 15—is incalculable, but hedge fund Baupost Group has found a way to turn the state's devastating wildfire epidemic over recent years into profits for investors.

After wagering on insurance claims against PG&E, Baupost received more than $3 billion in July, Bloomberg reported Friday.

According to Bloomberg:

The payout yielded Baupost’s biggest profit generator last month and represented a sizable markup from what the firm had anticipated, it told investors Thursday. The fund bought $6.8 billion of subrogation claims against PG&E, court documents show.

Baupost acquired some of the claims at about 35 cents on the dollar, Bloomberg previously reported, so its profit on the trade could have approached $1 billion. But the gains were partly offset by losses on the firm’s equity holdings in the utility company, one of the people said, asking not to be identified because the information is private.

The relationship between PG&E, insurers, and investors such as Baupost began last year. PG&E's electrical network—rendered vulnerable by a lackluster commitment to risk reduction—has been implicated in multiple fires across California in the past five years. Facing $30 billion in liabilities stemming from a series of fires in 2017 and 2018 that killed over 100 people and destroyed tens of thousands of buildings, the utility company declared bankruptcy in 2019 and announced an $11 billion settlement with a group of insurance carriers and investors, including Baupost.

Insurers sell subrogation claims to investors at a discount because they enjoy the certainty of being paid right away, but in the process they also lose the right to sue to recuperate damages endured by policyholders.

While fire victims across California—and elsewhere in the country—continue to suffer the impacts of increasingly destructive wildfires, the ability of hedge funds to profit from such calamities provoked critics of the financial system and its perverse incentives. In his assessment of a situation in which Wall Street firms have perfected their lucrative approach to disaster management, journalist David Sirota tweeted:

What stage of capitalism is this? https://t.co/gPlGSrYxGX

— David Sirota (@davidsirota) August 24, 2020

First Confirmed Coronavirus Reinfection Raises Immunity Concerns

A Hong Kong man has become the first confirmed patient to be reinfected with coronavirus, raising fresh concerns Monday that immunity to the potentially deadly virus may be short-lived.

A research team at the University of Hong Kong, led by Dr. Kelvin Kai-Wang, announced on Monday that a 33-year-old man who was first infected by SARS-CoV-2 in March apparently contracted the virus for a second time while recently traveling in Europe. The confirmed reinfection suggests that some patients who recover from Covid-19 may only be temporarily immune to the virus, although scientists pointed to the fact that reinfection is common with other coronaviruses.

"This is the world's first documentation of a patient who recovered from Covid-19 but got another episode of Covid-19 afterwards," the researchers said in a statement reported by the medical news site STAT. "Our findings suggest that Covid-19 may persist in the global human population, as is the case for other common-cold associated human coronaviruses, even if patients have acquired immunity via natural infection."

While there have been several reported cases of presumed reinfection in the United States, none of these have been confirmed by testing. There have also been cases of recovered patients testing positive for the virus a second time because they still carry viral fragments, sometimes for weeks.

The New York Times reports the Hong Kong man was first diagnosed with Covid-19 on March 26. Although he suffered only mild symptoms, he was hospitalized three days later as required by Hong Kong health regulations. He was released from hospital on April 14 after testing negative twice. After returning from a trip to Spain and the United Kingdom, he again tested positive on August 15. The new test revealed he was infected with a strain of the virus that is prevalent in Europe.

Immunologists around the world said it is too soon to determine whether the Hong Kong case was cause for broader concern.

US protects global empire during pandemic, not its own population

Trouble in Tin Pot (dictator) Alley:

Bolsonaro’s attempt to shut down debate over mystery payments backfires

Brazil’s social media-savvy leader is facing perhaps the most severe online backlash of his presidency after unsuccessfully trying to snuff out questions about his family’s financial dealings by warning a journalist he wanted to “smash his face in”.

Jair Bolsonaro issued the threat on Sunday, after a reporter from one of Brazil’s leading newspapers asked him to explain why a former policeman with alleged links to Rio’s mafia had paid thousands of pounds into the bank account of his wife, Michelle Bolsonaro.

But the menacing remark quickly backfired as Brazilian journalists flooded social media with the very same question. “President Jair Bolsonaro, why did your wife Michelle receive 89,000 reais from Fabrício Queiroz?” they tweeted in unison at Brazil’s far-right leader.

Fabio Malini, a social media researcher who is tracking the backlash, said hundreds of thousands of internet users quickly joined the counter-attack against Bolsonaro. By late on Sunday he had identified more than 1.1m tweets on the topic, with a similar deluge on Facebook and Instagram. At the peak of the revolt about 3,000 comments were being tweeted each minute. ...

The uprising appeared to stun Bolsonaro’s army of online cheerleaders and leave the administrators of his social networks – where he has more than 40 million followers – scrambling to delete critical comments and block the accounts of critics.

New York attorney general sues Trump Organization over financial dealings

The New York state attorney general has asked a court to enforce subpoenas that could reveal sensitive financial information about the Trump Organization, potentially pulling back the curtain on the president’s private business and throwing Donald Trump into legal jeopardy.

Letitia James, New York attorney general, filed a petition in state trial court in New York City naming the Trump Organization as a respondent along with other business entities. The filing also named Eric Trump, one of the president’s sons, and Seven Springs, a New York estate owned by the Trump family.

If the court agrees with the petition, sensitive tax documents and other material relating to Trump family holdings could come to light. The information could also feed investigations by prosecutors into whether Trump and his associates misrepresented the value of assets in order to either avoid taxes or win loans.

Either activity could constitute fraud. Trump has denied all wrongdoing, as has the Trump organization. The president has said that investigations of his businesses are politically motivated.

Citing Potential Conflicts of Interest, Warren Demands Postal Service Board of Governors Hand Over Personal Financial Disclosures

Declaring that "the public has a right to know" whether the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service has conflicts of interest that are affecting its decisionmaking and ongoing support for Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday demanded that members of the USPS Board of Governors immediately release their federal financial disclosure documents.

In a letter (pdf) to the board's six members—all appointed by President Donald Trump—the Massachusetts Democrat wrote that the officials' continued backing of DeJoy's "efforts to degrade and delay mail service is inexplicable, and raises questions about the role of the board and the motivations of its members."

"One key question for all board members is whether—like Mr. DeJoy—you have investments or outside responsibilities that potentially pose conflicts of interest with your role on the Postal Service Board of Governors," Warren wrote. "Unfortunately, this information is not available to the public."

Warren said that after her staffers requested the financial disclosures last week, they were told the documents "are not releasable to the public" because USPS board members are technically classified as Special Government Employees.

"That's a dumb loophole," Warren tweeted Monday. "The board should voluntarily release the reports."

Warren's letter comes as the board—which unanimously appointed DeJoy in May—is facing pressure from members of Congress to remove the postmaster general over operational changes that have caused significant mail backlogs across the country, delaying the delivery mail-order medications and other time-sensitive packages.

The board is also under growing scrutiny for its decision to appoint DeJoy—a Republican megadonor to President Donald Trump—despite his complete lack of experience working for the Postal Service and potential conflicts of interest, including tens of millions of dollars of investments in USPS competitors.

David Williams, a former USPS Board of Governors member who resigned in protest at the end of April, said during a Congressional Progressive Caucus hearing last week that DeJoy's appointment was suggested by board member John Barger, also a major Republican donor.

Citing anonymous individuals familiar with the hiring process, Reps. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) and Katie Porter (D-Calif.) confirmed Williams' claim in a letter (pdf) to Barger last week, characterizing DeJoy's appointment as suspicious.

"The appointment of Mr. Louis DeJoy as Postmaster General was highly irregular and we are concerned that his candidacy may have been influenced by political motivations," the lawmakers said in a joint statement. "We need to get to the bottom of why Mr. DeJoy was considered, given that he apparently was not one of the candidates recommended by the firm contracted to make such recommendations."

USPS hearing: DeJoy struggles to answer basic questions and defends leadership

US postmaster general Louis DeJoy struggled to answer basic questions about the price of mail as he continued to defend his leadership at the United States Postal Service (USPS) amid reports of widespread mail delays across the US. Appearing before the House oversight committee on Monday, DeJoy, a major Republican donor who took over as postmaster general in June, again conceded changes he implemented had led to delays, but distanced himself from the decision to remove mail boxes from the street and sorting machines from mail facilities.

He declined to say who was responsible for those changes, but reiterated that he will not restore the equipment, even after he announced earlier this month he was pausing changes until after the election. “I did not direct the removal of blue collection boxes or mail processing equipment,” he said.

Representative Carolyn Maloney, the New York Democrat who chairs the committee, pressed DeJoy over newly obtained documents showing declines in mail delivery times since he became the postmaster general. DeJoy did not dispute the decline and conceded that a recent change he implemented to get USPS trucks to run more on schedule had contributed to the delays. The schedules at mail processing plants, DeJoy said, weren’t aligning with the on-time truck schedules, leading some mail to be delivered late.

“While we have had temporary service declines, which should not have happened, we are fixing this,” DeJoy said. DeJoy conceded on Monday he was still trying to figure out why the problems had persisted over weeks. DeJoy offered few details on what analyses, if any, USPS had done before implementing the program to try and get trucks to run on time. ...

Throughout the hearing, DeJoy said that he would not restore hundreds of sorting machines that have reportedly been removed from postal facilities across the country. When Ro Khanna, a California Democrat, asked him why he wouldn’t restore the machines if it meant restoring confidence in the election, DeJoy simply said “because they’re not needed. That’s why.” Khanna later got DeJoy to concede that restoring the machines would likely cost less than $1bn. Asked whether the machines could be restored if USPS got an additional $1bn, DeJoy said: “Get me the billion and I’ll put the machines in.”

Wisconsin deploys national guard amid protests over police shooting

The Wisconsin national guard was deployed to Kenosha on Monday in advance of more protests expected after a man appeared to have been shot several times in the back by the city’s police on Sunday. The police officer in question is being investigated by the Wisconsin justice department amid uproar over the incident, which prompted protests the same night and drew criticism from Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, on Monday.

County officials said on Monday afternoon that state national guard members would arrive in Kenosha, about 40 miles south of Milwaukee, at 8pm local time to coincide with a planned curfew.

A video that emerged on Sunday, taken by a bystander, shows the man, identified by the Wisconsin governor, Tony Evers, as Jacob Blake, walking around a car on a Kenosha street as several officers stand by.

Blake, who is in serious condition in hospital, is seen attempting to get into the car through the driver’s side door. As he does so, an officer fires. At least seven gunshots are heard. The civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump said Blake’s three young sons had been in the car.

The shooting prompted hundreds to protest in Kenosha. Police used teargas and several vehicles were reportedly set on fire on Sunday night. More protests were planned for Monday afternoon and evening. “Tonight, Jacob Blake was shot in the back multiple times, in broad daylight, in Kenosha, Wisconsin,” said Governor Evers, a Democrat. “While we do not have all of the details yet, what we know for certain is that he is not the first Black man or person to have been shot or injured or mercilessly killed at the hands of individuals in law enforcement in our state or our country.”

Psychological Torture: ICE Responds to Covid-19 With Solitary Confinement

Immigrant detention centers in the United States are locking detainees with Covid-19 in solitary confinement cells for days or weeks at a time, with little opportunity for medical treatment, according to detainees and immigrant advocates. “In the end, what they did was psychologically torture me,” said Carlos Hernandez Corbacho, who said he spent more than a week in isolation cells at Arizona’s La Palma Correctional Center in June after showing symptoms of Covid-19. “That’s how I felt — like they were punishing me for getting sick.”

Quarantining people believed to have the coronavirus is crucial to slowing its spread. But solitary confinement cells that hold people detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are a far cry from a hospital bed or a hotel room: Cells are claustrophobic, sparsely furnished, and those confined are allowed limited social interaction. A stay can cause lasting trauma and trigger suicidal impulses.

Placing Covid-19 patients in solitary confinement, experts say, is inhumane and jeopardizes the overall population by deterring detainees from reporting symptoms.

“Resorting to solitary confinement to treat physically ill immigration detainees demonstrates ICE’s appalling inability to provide humane and truly civil detention,” said Ellen Gallagher, who works for the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General. Gallagher has been an outspoken critic of ICE’s use of solitary confinement, which she calls “barbaric.”

The United Nations special rapporteur on torture has said that solitary confinement should be banned except in “very exceptional circumstances.” In 2019, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and The Intercept’s Solitary Voices investigation found that ICE routinely isolates detainees that it sees as difficult to manage, including the sick, disabled, and mentally ill, for extended periods of time in solitary confinement cells.

Krystal Ball: Billionaire CRIES That Dems Aren't Corporate Enough

Biden feared 'ideological jihad' from Sanders after primary win

Joe Biden feared an “ideological jihad” from Bernie Sanders, after beating him for the Democratic presidential nomination in a primary fiercely contested by centrists and progressives, the former vice-president has told the New Yorker. Barack Obama, meanwhile, in an apparent effort to close any lingering split in Democratic ranks as the presidential election looms, told the same reporter the two men’s policy goals are “not that different”. ...

Sanders endorsed Biden and spoke at the convention but discontent lingers among progressives, not least given what they see as the relative sidelining of stars such as Alexandria Ocasio–Cortez, the congresswoman from New York, and Biden’s reluctance to fully embrace policies including Medicare for All and the Green New Deal.

Biden told the New Yorker he “had to be sure that Bernie was serious, that he wasn’t going to make this an ideological jihad”.

Discussing policy taskforces including one on the climate crisis, a panel chaired by Ocasio–Cortez, he added: “I said, ‘Bernie, if you want these set up in order for me to insist that I be for Medicare for All … this is not where it’s going to go.’

“But I said, ‘I’m open, I hear you, I’m ready to listen.’”

I know we're social distancing but I'm not looking at my life from a 40,000 foot perspective. https://t.co/MHVS9BGyLw

— Briahna Joy Gray (@briebriejoy) August 24, 2020

Ryan Grim: 'Desperate' Joe Kennedy Tries To Paint Ed Markey Supporters As Toxic Bernie Bros

Wave of extremist Republicans run for office, many with Trump's blessing

When Donald Trump congratulated Laura Loomer, an Islamophobe and conspiracy theorist, on her Republican congressional primary victory this week, it seemed to bring the president’s version of the Republican party full-circle to the start of his rise. ... Loomer has been banned from all the most prominent social media networks for promoting hate speech, has said she wants more migrants to die, and last year said “nobody cares about Christchurch” after a shooting at a mosque in New Zealand killed 51 people.

She is just one of a slew of extreme Republicans who are running for office this year. Many have been endorsed by Trump. ...

Media Matters, a not-for-profit progressive research center which monitors misinformation, has counted 67 current or former rightwing congressional candidates who have embraced QAnon, a conspiracy theory based in antisemitic tropes which has incited supporters to violence and is popular among Trump supporters.

Angela Stanton King, a QAnon believer who claimed Covid-19 and Black Lives Matter were a screen “for pedophilia and human trafficking”, won an uncontested primary in Georgia in July. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who said the election of the first two Muslim women to Congress in 2018 was evidence of an “Islamic invasion of our government”, will also run for office in Georgia. ...

There are few Republicans willing to condemn Loomer and the other Trump extremists – and those who will go on the record tend to be on their way out of the party.

Biden aides apologise privately over attack on Linda Sarsour

Top aides to presidential candidate Joe Biden have apologised to Arab and Muslim Democrats over an attack on Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour by the campaign, in an effort to quell anger over the controversy.

In a private call with dozens of prominent activists on Sunday, Ashley Allison, national coalitions director for the Biden campaign, said she was "sorry" for the comments that a campaign spokesman made against Sarsour.

Top foreign policy adviser Tony Blinken also expressed "regret" over the incident during the virtual meeting.

Anger erupted after a Biden campaign spokesman had condemned Sarsour and suggested that she was antisemitic over her criticism of Israel.

Allison said she empathised with "the pain" that the campaign had caused to Arabs and Muslims by disavowing Sarsour.

"I am sorry that that happened. And I hope that whatever trust was broken, that this conversation is one small step to help build back the trust, but that is not the last time we have this conversation," Allison told the activists.

Sunday's call was off-the-record, but Middle East Eye obtained a recording of it.

Excellent, worth a full read. Much more at the link:

Tilting at Windmills: The FBI Chased Imagined Eco-Activist Enemies, Documents Reveal

Federal and state law enforcement officers gathered in the Midwest in February 2019 to practice their responses to a fictional threat: wind farm sabotage. They divided into four teams and pretended to be the bad guys, environmental saboteurs targeting the large grids of turbines that turn the wind into electric power. The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Omaha, Nebraska, field office and the Iowa Division of Intelligence and Fusion Center had organized the “red hat” exercise, meant to provide insight into the minds of environmental activist adversaries that didn’t exist.

Each team developed an attack plan. One proposed ramming wind turbine infrastructure with a vehicle. Another sought to plant explosives on electrical transformers. And — although U.S. environmental saboteurs tend to not use guns — two of the teams suggested using firearms to attack electrical substations from a distance. The fact that cops themselves planned the attacks may have created a “bias toward the use of firearms,” the FBI later acknowledged in a pair of reports on the exercise obtained by The Intercept. However, the federal agents also concluded that “Environmental Extremists Likely Would Use Firearms To Circumvent Perceived Electrical Infrastructure Site Security Measures.”

The exercise was not conducted due to any imminent threat — a carefully noted fact included in the December 2019 and March 2020 reports. “Neither FBI Omaha nor the Iowa DOI/FC has intelligence suggesting environmental extremists intend to attack wind farms in Iowa,” both reports repeatedly state.

Why, then, spend public dollars on FBI role-playing? Because the energy industry wanted it. The exercise came “at the request of an USBUS private energy sector partner, following 14 environmental extremist attacks against transportation infrastructure in Iowa that services the energy sector, particularly oil pipelines,” said one of the documents about the exercise. Privately owned and operated companies and industry groups — none of which were named in the reports — were intimately involved in the exercise: An Iowa utility company and a wind energy lobbyist group provided information to help judge the fake attack plans and assess the fake “threat environment,” and an industry representative joined two of the teams, posing as an insider accomplice. ...

The red hat exercise was the product of a national network of public-private law enforcement and security partnerships forged in the wake of 9/11. The Iowa fusion center is one of 79 intelligence hubs like it, designed to enhance coordination between federal and local police as well as select private sector players. Given their close collaboration with corporate partners, the centers serve as a vector for transmitting industry interests to law enforcement.

Coalition Files Suit to Stop Trump's "Slapdash and Tragic Plan" to Drill in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

A coalition of environmental advocacy groups joined the Gwich'in Nation on Monday in filing a lawsuit to block the Trump administration's plan to open up the entire coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to fossil fuel lease sales.

"The Trump administration's complete and utter disregard for the human rights of the Gwich'in people is apparent as he continues the attack on the Arctic Refuge," said Jody Juneby Potts, Han Gwich'in leader in Eagle Village, Alaska, in a statement announcing the lawsuit.

"Last week's record of decision for the Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program in what my people know as 'the Sacred Place Where Life Begins' would have devastating impacts on the Porcupine Caribou Herd and the Gwich'in way of life," Potts added, referring to the Interior Department's announcement last week. 

The Porcupine Caribou Herd—upon whom the Gwich'in have relied for thousands of years—uses the Coastal Plain as their calving grounds. The likely impacts of oil and gas drilling on the herds—and thus the Gwich'in—are massive, the groups say. To boot, the lease sales threaten the area with a "spider web of industrialization" and the planet with more planet-heating emissions.

The plaintiffs in the suit, which include Environment America, Alaska Wilderness League, Alaska Wildlife Alliance, and Northern Alaska Environmental Center, say the administration's decision was "illegal," accusing it of violations of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, the National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the Wilderness Act, and the Endangered Species Act.

"Oil drilling and wildlife simply do not mix," said Steve Blackledge, senior director for Environment America's Conservation Program.

"Not only will the Trump administration's slapdash and tragic plan threaten one of the world's most untamed wildlife areas, but it is also completely blind to the reality that, in 2020, dangerously extracting more fossil fuels from the ground is a fool's errand when clean renewable energy options are rapidly on the rise," he added.

For Bernadette Demienteiff, executive director of the Gwich'in Steering Committee, there's nothing less than "the survival of future generations... at risk."

"As our ancestors before us, we will stand and fight for our future generations, for the Porcupine caribou herd, and the Gwich'in way of life," she said.

"We will stand up to anyone who seeks to destroy the calving grounds of the Porcupine caribou herd," said Demienteiff.

"A Human Tragedy": Wildfires Reveal California's Reliance on Incarcerated Firefighters

Major investment firm dumps Exxon, Chevron and Rio Tinto stock

A Nordic hedge fund worth more than $90bn (£68.6bn) has dumped its stocks in some of the world’s biggest oil companies and miners responsible for lobbying against climate action. Storebrand, a Norwegian asset manager, divested from miner Rio Tinto as well as US oil giants ExxonMobil and Chevron as part of a new climate policy targeting companies that use their political clout to block green policies.

The investor is one of many major financial institutions divesting from polluting industries, but is understood to be the first to dump shares in companies which use their influence to slow the pace of climate action.

Jan Erik Saugestad, the chief executive of Storebrand, said corporate lobbying activity designed to undermine solutions to “the greatest risks facing humanity” is “simply unacceptable”.

Storebrand will also divest from German chemicals company BASF and US electricity supplier Southern Company for lobbying against climate regulation, and a string of companies that derive more than 5% of their revenues from coal or oil sands.

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A Little Night Music

Connie Mac Booker - Oklahoma Baby

Connie Mack Booker - Love Me Pretty Baby (take1)

Connie Mack Booker - I Want To Tell You I Love You

Babe Johnson w/Conney's Combo - Shout It Out

BB King w/Connie Mack Booker(p) - Bye! Bye! Baby

Clarence Green & the Rhythmaires w/Connie Mack Booker(p)- Crazy Strings

Bobby Bland w/Connie Mack Booker(p) - You Or None

Babe Johnson w/ Conney's Combo - Ugly Mae

Connie McBooker - Shout Baby Boogie