The Evening Blues - 9-6-21
Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 09/06/2021 - 5:22pm
No news roundup + tonight's musical feature: Labor Day music
Hey! Good Evening!
This evening's music features Labor Day music. Enjoy!
Joe Louis Walker - Workin' Blues
No News or Opinion Here
Have a great Labor Day!
A Little Night Music
Merle Haggard - Workin' Man Blues
Creedence Clearwater Revival - The Working Man
Bruce Springsteen - Factory
Todd Rundgren - Honest Work
Billy Bragg -There Is Power In A Union
Jerry Garcia - Spike Driver Blues
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver - Poor Boy Working Blues
Hazel Dickens - They'll Never Keep Us Down
Almanac Singers - I Don't Want Your Millions, Mister
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Pick a Bale of Cotton
Ry Cooder - How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live
Johnny Cash - One Piece At A Time
Albert King - Cadillac Assembly Line
Eddy Clearwater - Hard Way to Make an Easy Living
John Handy - Hard Work
John Prine - Nine Pound Hammer
Comments
Not that I consider this surprising after all it is NPR.
evening humphrey...
heh, not to worry. progress for little people is over. progress is only for the billionaire class now. well, until there is something like a revolution, i guess.
Not the way to treat the potential new Mayor of Buffalo.
heh...
one can only imagine the treatment she will get once she becomes mayor. i hope that she gives as good as she gets.
Good evening, Joe
I didn't realize there'd be an Evening Blues tonight. Labor Day plus Rosh hashonah----seemed like a holiday to me. reprint from Labor Day posting.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-opens-chinese-operated-...
This caught my eye. DC must be unhappy, to say the least.
"China pivot" seems to have started without us.
This adds to what was said last week by somebody in Europe. I cannot recall who. "The USA is a Power, just not the SuperPower," anymore. that is certain.
All the other "Powers" Care for their people. healthcare, for one thing.
Belt and Road led by China is the future becoming the present. The article goes on to say that China is not the only country being granted a port in Israel.
You may recall that Russia established both a large scale port and an airbase on the Mediterrannean coast of Syria. One is called latakia and the other is Tartus.
The American Century seems to have been brought to a close. Buckle up.
The WHY israel is doing this probably has something to do with news that the Israeli airlines and travel economy is in trouble. Meanwhile Israel is contemplating a 4th booster shot.
Twenty years after the Towers were brought down, it is getting crazier and crazier.
One traditional Rosh Hashonah---New Year---prayer is "May the New Year, be a Sweet Year." Seems a little unlikely to me right now.
NYCVG
evening nycvg...
heh, i guess a lot of people are reading the tea leaves these days.
the world may be in a tangle, but may your new year be a sweet year.
Thank you
and a Sweet year to all at c99.
NYCVG
This link works
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-opens-chinese-operated-...
NYCVG
Just a matter of time now before I withdraw from the co-op that
publishes the Green-party-adjacent German daily newspaper “taz.de”. It’s really gotten too bad for me to support any more.
This article, selling a German version of Russiagate, is the last straw.
https://taz.de/Angriff-auf-die-Bundestagswahl/%215797145/
The writer repeats, and takes at face value without any evidence, the German government claim that Russia is meddling / intends to meddle in the upcoming election. How? By conducting “disinformation campaigns on the Internet.” It then links this to cyber-attacks that are supposedly coming from “the same group of Russian hackers that stole Hillary Clinton’s e-mails and gave them to Wikileaks.”
Groan.
evening lotlizard...
it's just a darned shame when an organization gets hit by some variant of the stoopid virus. the russia, russia, russia virus is a bad one.
What’s perplexing is that the only media immune to Russia virus
in Germany seem to be those connected to (1) diehard post-Soviet communists, and (2) right-wing populists.
You know things have gotten weird when supposed neo-Nazis are the ones organizing peace marches — or memorials for terrorist attack victims — which then get disrupted by Antifa and mainstream Green-Left who pointedly do not distance themselves from “Anti-Germans” among them and on the contrary, let the latter set the tone.
— Wikipedia
Trying to imagine “progressive” Japanese lending cover to disruptions of the yearly Hiroshima and Nagasaki memorials, treating every expression of mourning as on a par with honoring war criminals at Yasukuni Shrine…
Anyway, on September 26 one out of four voters in Saxony will again vote for the right-wing populist AfD and everyone else will cluck their tongues and wonder why. You’d think they’d figure this out. I’m surprised it isn’t more.
Not good!!
heh...
looks like somebody is making a downpayment on the rebellion starter kit. i hope they get everything that they've got coming to them.
Bright blessings, everyone.
More good news from our friends in Australia. Today's topic: Carbon Capture and Storage.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSZgoFyuHC8]
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." -- Albert Bartlett
"A species that is hurtling toward extinction has no business promoting slow incremental change." -- Caitlin Johnstone
evening woodsdweller...
thanks for the excellent video!
global oil and gas companies sure have managed that capture thing really well. they might not catch those furtive carbon particles, but they sure capture governments efficiently and effectively.
Here's a little history
From my home town Home Colony, Washington. Meet Jay Fox, anarchist and labor agitator.
https://depts.washington.edu/labhist/laborpress/Agitator.htm
evening pswaterspirit...
interesting reading, thanks!
You are very welcome
I wish I could have met him. I worked on a history book, interviewing those who seemed beyond ancient to my 13 year old self. Many were his friends. Jay was 14 years old when a bullet from a policemans gun grazed his shoulder and left a permanent scar at the Haymarket Riot. He spent the rest of his long life firing up the masses to fight for a better life. He is not a well known historical figure but a very interesting one.
Good evening joe, thanks for the newsless blues.
Thought I'd just add a little something to the playlist.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
evening el...
great addition, thanks!
have a good evening.
el, years ago Mr. Meta and I saw an outdoor concert
of Los Lobos at the Portland Zoo. We were in front of the elephant house where they had mostly been taken inside for the evening/night. Except one very young one who kept escaping the aunties and came out to sway and swing his trunk in time to the music.
The worried aunties would come to the door and curl their trunks around him to try to move him gently back inside.
He wasn't having it. A great time was had by all.
A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit. Allegedly Greek, but more possibly fairly modern quote.
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sounds like a good time indeed, most cool.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Interesting data
This isn’t the first time I’ve seen this. Kinda weird that the flu just disappeared from the earth during Covid.
Funny how no one talks about how hospitals were closed and nurses and doctors were laid off during the worst pandemic since 1918 which put more pressure on the ones remaining and the number of beds available in ICUs. It’s almost like we’ve been lied to again about just about everything related to Covid. I too hope one day we’ll have a reckoning and find out what the real truth is. Nuremberg trials do seem appropriate for those who did the lying.
The PCR tests can’t differentiate between the flu and Covid but they aren’t going away until December? Why wait till then if they are inaccurate and since they are what is the real f’cking number of Covid deaths? Hmm I wonder if ivermectin works for the flu too?
Just remembered that Cuomo cut Medicaid by billions during the epidemic too and Biden refuses to give everyone MFA during this horrible epidemic which he has the power to do. Insurance companies have decided that Covid is over and won’t be paying for it anymore. People will be on the hook for all bills from now on. Hello more bankruptcies. Yippee!
Hand in hand
Fake news? No… how surprising.
I asked a nurse at the hospital
I stayed in last April why there were no influenza patients this year. She said it was because of masks, social distancing and self quarantining. I then asked her why there was such a (supposed) upsurge in COVID cases during this time. She kinda looked at me funny then walked away. She didn't have an answer.
BTW, the ward I was in was less than 75% full and did not have any Covid patients. Any were sent to a regional hospital 40 miles away.
That's quite a revealing question,
and suggestive response.
I think I figured it out
It seems that the CDC was/is combining Pneumonia, Influenza and Covid-19 deaths, ie PIC, in their mortality data. I cannot find more info on this in newer sources. It become deaths by Covid-19 in later reports. (It's a hell of a site to navigate.)
NCHS Mortality Surveillance Data
Updated July 3, 2020
Note: I remember viewing an article from China where they were using AI with CT-scans in order to differentiate pneumonia from Covid-19. They said it was the only way to definitively prove Covid-19. "Ground glass" appearance. The computer could accurately analyze the scans in minutes with a trained technician. It usually took a skilled doctor half an hour or more to do so. The scans were made into 3d images that could be rotated. I will try and find it tomorrow.
There are other diseases/disorders that cause
ground glass opacities in the lungs. On one of my recent trips to the ER an X-Ray found some in my lungs and yet I didn't have pneumonia, Covid or so far any of the other things that caused it. The only thing I noticed before I knew about them was that I felt my breathing was more 'labored' but I'm not sure that's the right word. I just thought I was out of shape since after Charlie died the 1st few months I did more sitting than walking cuz of the grief and foot pain. I usually clock a few miles a day although slowly and the hills still make me feel I am out of shape. Hills... hey more like gradual inclines. But I thought it was an interesting find. Weird tho not one doctor had even asked if I had Covid or pneumonia or any of the other disorders. That was one thing I noticed when doctors asked about my history. They weren't really interested in it and a few times while I was answering they were walking out of the room. I'm having a pulmonary test tomorrow to see what's what.
Get well!
and maybe you might want to consider getting new Doc's?
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
They were ER doctors that I felt failed a bit on history
they did however run important test to see what was going on. The 1st 3 times I had a chest Xray, and CT scans. It was on the 4th visit that they did a urine culture and found that I had an infection and sepsis so I was admitted for 2 nights and given antiobiotics and more tests on my heart including a stress test. All heart tests including labs were normal so they have pretty much ruled out heart problems. On my last visit a doctor asked what I expected them to do for me. That was the 2nd time I had been asked that and I just looked at them. I went in by ambulance 5 times because my heart rate was elevated and BP way too high. One time I lost consciousness 3 times. On the last visit when the ER doc asked me that my BP was 220/160... " What do you want us to do for you?" Gee I don't know. Maybe at least monitor me in case I STROKE OUT?
I find it very sad that the quality of compassion has gone down at the hospital. I worked at the old one and when we moved into the new one I helped with moving my department. I had worked there for 8 years before specializing in another field and moved on and just find it sad to see how it has fallen since the nuns ran it. One visit a nurse came in and started ripping off my chest leads. I asked her a question and she rudely said 'I don't know I'm not your nurse!' I said then what are you doing so rudely in here and stopped her from doing it. She said fine, walked out, ripped her gloves off and threw them behind her back at me. They landed on the bed. I was floored. Who to complain to that night? That night I was put in a room, had blood tests and an XR and then they closed the door and no one looked in until I was discharged. Heart rate and BP finally dipped down a bit so out I went. They monitored my oxygen and it fell below 90 a few times. No one came in about it.
My primary doctor tho has been excellent tho and is really trying to get to the bottom of this. He has been adding new test when the others rule something out. When I am not having symptoms I feel fine. They just hit out of the blue and scare the beejezus out of me. Especially with my medical background. But even I can't make sense of what is happening. Good news is no new episodes for about a month.
Thanks for the well wishes. Means a lot.
That's some carzy alright.
Actually the last time I was in the hospital, I went in on a Friday they kept me there til Monday morning as no one was able to discharge me. I almost just got up and left which in hindsight would've been the best action to take. Getting Aspirin at $60 a pop is fucking nutz and pointless.
Any how just take it slowly and get better quickly!
Doctorsggersh's order!!!!!I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
Working on it
But doh! I left out that one of the symptoms was pain and pressure on my chest just like the warning signs of a heart attack, but the only abnormal blood test was lactic acid that meant my muscles had been doing hard work. Skiers have high lactic acid for hours after they stop skiing. But no idea what caused it. Just f’cking weird.
Ya, that can be scary alright
I didn't know they check blood for what might be heart issues? Did they suggest an angiogram and if not maybe ask the Doc if it's appropriate considering?
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
Yes blood work can find lots of problems with the body
For heart attack it’s troponin which gets elevated if there’s damage to the heart. I’d had an attack the night before and it was normal when I went in for another one. They have ruled out my heart pretty much after I wore a monitor for a month. When it happens I throw PVCs or premature ventricular contractions, but many people have them and don’t know it. Depends on what causes them. But boy I sure can tell when I am and my heart is racing. Tachycardia. CT scans with and without dye. MRI a few times and a stress test all pretty much ruled it out. So that’s good. Now just figuring out where the opacity in the lungs came from. Had a pulmonary test today and I think I passed. I studied all night for it. Heh…lab humor.
Thanks ggersh!
PS the kids that have myocarditis after getting vaccinated have very high levels of troponin for days afterwards. It shows up when there is heart damage and no case of it is mild. That is one reason why the British decided not to give them to young kids for now. Too many unknowns. Lab tests are one thing I’m well versed in.
sorry to hear this
Doctors seem to be of less help with increasing frequency. Unless they can charge for more tests and screenings and treatment, they are not interested.
Our health and well-being is antithetical to their interests.
NYCVG
I was looking to see if I could find reports from China
So far I have found several.
When I was in the hospital when I had my stroke - Isolated Broca's area aphasia and ischemic stroke mechanism - they did two CT's on successive days but didn't find anything. (From this diagnosis I will be at significant risk for heart disease or additional stroke if I took the mRNA vaccine.)
A different doctor then took over and he sent me for a MRI scan (saved the expensive one for last) and found the lesion. BTW, I still cannot speak normally - I slur my words and sound like a special needs person - difficult to form words (if I can actually find them in my brain - easier to find when writing - go figure). I probably would get arrested for drunk driving if stopped.
I am hoping you get the care you require. Unfortunately it is sometimes the luck of the draw for getting quality care.
No pneumonio tho and no fevers
so I am not sure where they came from. The other disorders are auto immune diseases and they stick out like a sore thumb. I had been feeling sick for months starting back in October, but I put it off to stuffing my feelings over Charlie's death and possibly the opiods backing up my gut system both of which I had experienced in the past. If I don't deal with my emotions I have a tendency to not feel well. I learned that lesson the hard way, but the grief was just too deep and painful and I did not want to get lost in it again. I used Scarlett's routine: "I'll think about that tomorrow" since I was listening to gone with the wind at the time. Heh...it was a coping method so I kept listening to it over and over and focusing on different aspects of characters and the story itself. I am still listening to it at night when I sleep. I've been doing that for years instead of letting my mind wander on problems that can't be solved. But once I got sick I usually felt better and just didn't think it was serious. Ooops..
The ER did the proper tests and once I was admitted both the quality of care and compassion from the staff was great. My 2 nurses did listen to what I said and responded with the proper responses. The doctors I saw were also good. Maybe the ER was just over tired or something. It happens but the whole hospital were wearing masks and not once was I offered one. The one time I asked about it I got an older style that you tie on and the guy tied it so loosely it kept falling off. I couldn't bend my arm to retie it so it just rode around my neck. I kept wondering about that tho. Stuck in the waiting room waiting for a ride and I was the only one not wearing one. Weird...
I do hope that you continue to heal from your stroke. It is obvious that it didn't affect your mind and that's great. That was my biggest fear having a stroke. Family history of them and with BP that high I am surprised I didn't.
Thank you CB
I appreciate your keen research and personal perspectives.
I feel affirmed in what I've naturally felt is questionable, and I've had it with authoritarian direction and skewed statistics.
evening snoopy...
heh, it's pretty impressive how corrupt our whole society is. i'd love to see some sort of sorting out of facts and fictions about covid, perhaps with consequences for knowing purveyors of fictions-for-profit. prospects of that seem pretty unlikely, though.
have a great evening!
I believe that the statement below is incorrect
From what I've been able to determine, the original PCR tests gave positive results ONLY for Covid-19. They will be replacing it with a test that can simultaneously separately detect covid-19, influenza A and influenza B and tell 1) if you have any of them, and 2) which one(s)
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Take it up with the authorities that said it
that would be both Fauci and someone at the the CDC. Besides it has always been a flawed test since they test it at such high values anyone and their dawg might have tested positive. Oh yeah it wasn't just dawgs. I don't remember the country but one leader sent in oil, goats blood and a few other things and they all came back positive for Covid. And no it's not a made up fact. I have no time to look for the link.
Be well and have a good one....
Sadly
the CDC, and Fauci in particular, have very little credibility. Where do you go for reliable information when those at the top flip and flop and faced with bad news (rapidly waning vaccine efficacy) abandon any semblance of data driven policy and endorse a third ‘booster’ dose of the same vaccine that has already failed miserably to prevent spread by the vaccinated, on faith alone. No data.
This is reckless behavior. More vaccine, as in additional doses, has been known to reduce protection. We have no data that shows a third dose will improve the situation, neither do we have any data to assure us that it won’t reduce protection. In a sane world this would be recognized as insanity writ large.
“ …and when we destroy nature, we diminish our capacity to sense the divine,and understand who God is, and what our own potential is and duties are as human beings.- RFK jr. 8/26/2024
Idaho is in trouble and is doing medical triage
because the hospitals are overwhelmed, but then reading further there is a lack of nurses and doctors and isn't that quite sad that in the 'richest country in the world' there are lack of hospitals and staff to deal with an epidemic.
Trump at least sent the navy hospital ship to NYC and LA to deal with the overflow, but Cuomo instead of using it sent patients to nursing homes and we know how that turned out. However he wasn't the only one that did it. Wash, CA, Mich, Ill, and other states were also doing it as were many countries over the pond. Trump also tried to investigate Cuomo, but was lied to about the number of people who had died. Cuomo gave his buddies immunity from prosecution, had to rescind and now Biden has said that he will not investigate anyone who ordered that done. Yeah what's a few hundred thousand dead elderly people? Look at how much money SS and Medicare will be saving going forward. Strange tho that SS is still supposed to run out of money next decade. But of course congress won't be addressing that. They had no problem ending UE for millions and letting millions more be evicted in the hottest housing market in quite awhile. They can compete with those who lost their houses to burning or floods or tornadoes or hurricanes or gawd know why else.
Greatest country. Bravo USA.
I would consider it, but I can't find where any
authorities ever said that except Mike Huckabee. There was a CDC statement that was subjected to some highly creative reading, but it never said any thing approaching that.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Tanzania — a goat and a pawpaw fruit tested positive
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/coronavirus-tanzania-tes...
More fallout with regards to ex Gov Cuomo
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/06/us/politics/alphonso-david-human-righ...
Another one bites the dust!
heh...
good. now that cuomo is gone, maybe his retinue of flunkies will be run out on a rail, too.
9 of them
are guests of the gov't. (prison)
NYCVG
Germans, Afghans tragically enmeshed in eternal cycle of karma
2017 – 2019:
Asylum seeker who killed Kandel teen found dead in prison cell
Two days ago:
Berlin: Man attacks woman with knife for “working”
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Despite being encased in the material plane, life as a human can yield many beautiful, spiritual moments. Yet the material plane is also full of bummers.
Samoan wrestler Rikishi pleads for help finding his niece’s killers
The World Economic Forum’s guide to selling people on the vax
“Advertising theory.” Nice euphemism. And: Think, feel, do!
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/06/3-tactics-to-overcome-covid-19-va...
Imagining the Alec Baldwin character from Glengarry Glen Ross out there, motivating mRNA vax influencers…