Friday, August 28, 2020
Ten Better Uses for 10% of the Pentagon Budget
Ten Better Uses for 10% of the Pentagon Budget: A $74 billion cut is a strong step toward better spending priorities, and could make a tremendous difference in other programs ranging from health care and education to job creation at a time when it is desperately needed.
Thursday, August 27, 2020
02 R.E.M. - Disturbance At The Heron House (MTV Unplugged)
Great violin-like murmurings from Mike here, with sweet additional guitar from Pete Holsapple.
Wednesday, August 26, 2020
Tuesday, August 25, 2020
Controlling the Viral Spread of Unemployment With a Job Guarantee - The American Prospect
Controlling the Viral Spread of Unemployment With a Job Guarantee - The American Prospect: Job loss is an epidemic, and the federal government has the cure.
Monday, August 24, 2020
Voters Want a Green Stimulus
Voters Want a Green Stimulus: As the world reels from the COVID19 epidemic, we must support all efforts to keep people safe and healthy. That includes immediate actions to ensure free testing and treatment, and a stronger social welfare system to protect the millions of people whose livelihoods are being devastated as we write.
MUSIC MONDAY: “Fantastic Voyage” – A Tribute to the Funk Music of Dayton, Ohio (LISTEN) – Good Black News
MUSIC MONDAY: “Fantastic Voyage” – A Tribute to the Funk Music of Dayton, Ohio (LISTEN) – Good Black News: The Ohio Players (Photo Credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) by Marlon West (FB: marlon.west1 Twitter: @marlonw IG: stlmarlonwest Spotify: marlonwest) Dayton, Ohio was already a mecca of gro…
Some joy to enjoy amidst the gloom.
Some joy to enjoy amidst the gloom.
My Reparations Bill — HR 40
My Reparations Bill — HR 40: In January of 1989, I first introduced the bill H.R. 40, Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act. I have re-introduced HR 40 every Congress since 1989, and will continue to do so until it’s passed into law.
(4) Border Wall II: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) - YouTube
(4) Border Wall II: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) - YouTube: Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Sunday, August 23, 2020
Saturday, August 22, 2020
Pure evil: Trump Cabinet officials voted in 2018 White House meeting to separate migrant children, say officials
Trump Cabinet officials voted in 2018 White House meeting to separate migrant children, say officials: "If we don't enforce this, it is the end of our country as we know it," said Trump adviser Stephen Miller, according to officials present at a White House meeting.
Thursday, August 20, 2020
Han Shan ('Cold Mountain')
Poem 283:
Mister Wang the Graduate
laughs at my poor prosody.
I don't know a wasp's waist
much less a crane's knee.
I can't keep my flat tones straight,
all my words come helter-skelter.
I laugh at the poems he writes-
a blind man's songs about the sun!
Buddha truth
In the Shurangama, Sutra, the Buddha says, “Even though you have heard the truth, if you don't practice it, it's the same as having not heard it. It's like someone who only talks about food. Such a person never feels full.”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Right to Warn of “Fascism in the United States” | The New Republic
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Right to Warn of “Fascism in the United States” | The New Republic: Three fascism scholars explain why the term remains taboo in American culture—and how that must change.
Wednesday, August 19, 2020
Tuesday, August 18, 2020
Redux: The Missing Tree’s Perspective
Redux: The Missing Tree’s Perspective: This week, we’ve lowered the paywall on Rae Armantrout’s Art of Poetry interview, a story by Leigh Newman, and a poem by Mónica de la Torre.
Them There Eyes (1949) - Frank Sinatra
Still on a Sinatra kick. Here's a fave from the great radio box:
RSN: Will Ohio Finally Inherit Its Wind?
RSN: Will Ohio Finally Inherit Its Wind?: Excerpt: Amidst an astonishing billion-dollar nuke reactor corruption scandal, one of the world's richest wind resources-the key to Ohio's economic and ecological future-is being trashed by a single sentence.
Monday, August 17, 2020
Sunday, August 16, 2020
Trump's wall is threatening at least 8 endangered species, according to government emails
Trump's wall is threatening at least 8 endangered species, according to government emails: Staffers at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) have been sending urgent emails sounding the alarm, at least internally, about the disastrous impact of Trump's border wall on wildlife. The emails, obtained by The Center for Biological Diversity…
Dogen teaches....
Dogen teaches, “Waiting for causes, effects are felt. But it's not a matter of before and after. The truth is present in each moment as it is.” He also says, “This life and death is just the sacred life of buddha. If we hate it and want to get rid of it, that is just wanting to lose the sacred life of buddha. If we stick to it, if we attach to life and death, this also is to lose the sacred life of buddha.”
Saturday, August 15, 2020
(182) A memoir of musical reverence to A Tribe Called Quest - YouTube
(182) A memoir of musical reverence to A Tribe Called Quest - YouTube: Pioneering hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest crossed musical genres, influenced other and delivered social commentary. Their unique sound and chemistry earn...
Lawyers claim pattern of sexual abuse in El Paso immigrant detention center | The Texas Tribune
Lawyers claim pattern of sexual abuse in El Paso immigrant detention center | The Texas Tribune: Allegations include guards attacking victims in camera “blind spots” and telling them that “no one would believe” them in ICE detention centers, which imprison about 50,000 immigrants each year at a taxpayer expense of $2.7 billion.
(1900) Ida B. Wells, "Lynch Law in America" •
(1900) Ida B. Wells, "Lynch Law in America" •: Beginning in 1892 with the destruction of her newspaper, the Memphis Free Speech, Ida B. Wells for the next forty years was the most prominent opponent of lynching in the United States. What follows is a speech she made to a Chicago audience on the subject in January 1900.
Our country’s national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob. It represents the cool, calculating deliberation of intelligent people who openly avow that there is an “unwritten law” that justifies them in putting human beings to death without complaint under oath, without trial by jury, without opportunity to make defense, and without right of appeal. The “unwritten law” first found excuse with the rough, rugged, and determined man who left the civilized centers of eastern States to seek for quick returns in the gold-fields of the far West. Following in uncertain pursuit of continually eluding fortune, they dared the savagery of the Indians, the hardships of mountain travel, and the constant terror of border State outlaws.
Naturally, they felt slight toleration for traitors in their own ranks. It was enough
Our country’s national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob. It represents the cool, calculating deliberation of intelligent people who openly avow that there is an “unwritten law” that justifies them in putting human beings to death without complaint under oath, without trial by jury, without opportunity to make defense, and without right of appeal. The “unwritten law” first found excuse with the rough, rugged, and determined man who left the civilized centers of eastern States to seek for quick returns in the gold-fields of the far West. Following in uncertain pursuit of continually eluding fortune, they dared the savagery of the Indians, the hardships of mountain travel, and the constant terror of border State outlaws.
Naturally, they felt slight toleration for traitors in their own ranks. It was enough
Friday, August 14, 2020
Thursday, August 13, 2020
Evolution and Conservation of Island Birds - Lessons from Genomics
A giant in his field and a real hero to birds and birders -- the great Dr. Scott Edwards. If this were a better world, the president would give him a medal fo honour.
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
Trump White House Considers Plans for Private Spy Network
Trump White House Considers Plans for Private Spy Network: Blackwater founder Erik Prince, a former CIA paramilitary officer, and Oliver North want to make ’80s-style covert action great again.
What's the update on this story? What went on in the 'Tinfoil Room'? Have Prince's assassins in UAE, Saudi Arabia, Israel & Egypt been questioned? Trump Regime plans for private spies to counter 'deep state' & global enemies https://interc.pt/2kkwOHL
What's the update on this story? What went on in the 'Tinfoil Room'? Have Prince's assassins in UAE, Saudi Arabia, Israel & Egypt been questioned? Trump Regime plans for private spies to counter 'deep state' & global enemies https://interc.pt/2kkwOHL
MR Online | Celebrating Rosa Luxemburg
MR Online | Celebrating Rosa Luxemburg: A remarkable figure amid a revolutionary ferment, Rosa Luxemburg lit the way for generations to come. Sally Campbell recalls her legacy…
Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Kill Your Television
Like many issues, Trump claims in his pressers that he is an authority on the voting process because “he has watched elections many times on TV.”
Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Educators say Betsy DeVos is funneling pandemic funding into private schools
Educators say Betsy DeVos is funneling pandemic funding into private schools: School reopening divides the nation. Parents and teachers are uncertain and scared. In response, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has allegedly used the COVID pandemic to promote a partisan agenda aimed at nationalizing private vouchers at the expense of funding public schools.
Monday, August 10, 2020
CDC reports the rich sleep better at night
CDC reports the rich sleep better at night: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has conducted a sleep study and found that rich people, on average, sleep longer at night than poor people. According to a report by CNN, researchers at the agency sent surveys to people in the United States over the years 2011 to 2014 inquiring about their sleep habits and have now made their results public.
Coronavirus: How Trump killed tens of thousands of Americans.
Coronavirus: How Trump killed tens of thousands of Americans.: A blow-by-blow account of his personal role in the coronavirus catastrophe.
Alarm as pesticides spur rapid decline of US bird species | Environment | The Guardian
Alarm as pesticides spur rapid decline of US bird species | Environment | The Guardian: Seed-coating chemicals called neonicotinoids harm birds’ development, study finds, as experts fear further decrease in bird populations
Sunday, August 9, 2020
Cancel culture?
Sad that, in 2020, you still can't post the words “annexation” and “Crimea” in close proximity without being stung by a slew of Russian bots and trolls. Is this what the American Right means by “cancel culture”?
Trump Admits To 'Relationship' With Putin In Resurfaced Video | HuffPost
Trump Admits To 'Relationship' With Putin In Resurfaced Video | HuffPost: “I do have a relationship and I can tell you that he’s very interested in what we’re doing here today,” Trump told MSNBC. “He’s probably very interested in what you and I are saying today, and I’m sure he’s going to be seeing it in some form.”
The interview was conducted in Moscow, where Trump’s Miss Universe pageant was being held at the time.
Trump addressed those comments in an interview last year with ABC News by parsing the word “relationship.”
“What do you call a relationship? I mean he treats me with great respect,” he said.
He added: “Well, I don’t know what it means by having a relationship. I mean he was saying very good things about me, but I don’t have a relationship with him. I didn’t meet him. I haven’t spent time with him. I didn’t have dinner with him. I didn’t go hiking with him.”
However, Trump also said in 2014 that he “spoke indirectly and directly with President Putin” and told a radio interviewer in 2015 that he met Putin “a long time ago” and “got along with him great.” He also said last year that he “got to k
The interview was conducted in Moscow, where Trump’s Miss Universe pageant was being held at the time.
Trump addressed those comments in an interview last year with ABC News by parsing the word “relationship.”
“What do you call a relationship? I mean he treats me with great respect,” he said.
He added: “Well, I don’t know what it means by having a relationship. I mean he was saying very good things about me, but I don’t have a relationship with him. I didn’t meet him. I haven’t spent time with him. I didn’t have dinner with him. I didn’t go hiking with him.”
However, Trump also said in 2014 that he “spoke indirectly and directly with President Putin” and told a radio interviewer in 2015 that he met Putin “a long time ago” and “got along with him great.” He also said last year that he “got to k
Note on Russia...
Russia's cyber-war on Estonia was centered around the Estonian people's refusal to honour a Russian statue in the center of their capital. Russia shut down not just the Estonian government's sites, but also its media and banks. A year later, Putin invaded Georgia and later rigged an election to put in a billionaire puppet leader, Ivanishvili. No party in Georgia could have been in a real, popular way pro-Russian, so Ivanishvili said words later echoed by Trump to the effect that his country should seek a better relationship with Russia.
...
Gazprom, the world's largest gas company, backed by Putin's promotion of right-wing leaders, was using affiliates in order to buy up energy supplies in other countries. Ukraine is 100% dependent on Russian gas sales. Russian oligarch Dimity Firtash, a close ally of Putin who worked with Mogilevich, the Russian crime boss, siphoned off lots of money from Gazprom to the tune of billions of dollars. He was also a business partner of Paul Manafort. Putin shut off the gas in Ukraine to spite prime minister Tymoshenko, before Manafort helped smear her as an “Armenian traitor” and “dirty jew” and she was jailed, beaten, and financially ruined.
...
Gazprom, the world's largest gas company, backed by Putin's promotion of right-wing leaders, was using affiliates in order to buy up energy supplies in other countries. Ukraine is 100% dependent on Russian gas sales. Russian oligarch Dimity Firtash, a close ally of Putin who worked with Mogilevich, the Russian crime boss, siphoned off lots of money from Gazprom to the tune of billions of dollars. He was also a business partner of Paul Manafort. Putin shut off the gas in Ukraine to spite prime minister Tymoshenko, before Manafort helped smear her as an “Armenian traitor” and “dirty jew” and she was jailed, beaten, and financially ruined.
...
Trump's Taj Mahal tower in Atlantic City, called “the 8th blunder of the world” at the time, was pure folly and quickly failed, and in 1999 his casino resort was ruled to have violated state gaming laws. At the time of his divorce, he had filed at least six bankruptcies and, unable to secure any further bank loans, had no means to move forward without committing more crimes and misdemeanours. While no American bank would support him, Deutsche Bank, to the shock of many, did, having been already heavily involved with Russian money laundering and set make a killing in the foreclosure racket during the 2008 global financial crisis. When the CEO of Deutsche is fired for money laundering, he gets hired in 2014 as the CEO of one of Russia's main money laundering tools, the bank of Cyprus! Who hired him? – Wilbur Ross, tight supporter of Donald Trump, later his Secretary of Commerce. And who is Ross's partner as principal owner of the bank of Cyprus? - Dmitry Rybolovlev, the “king of potash” who deposited cool $100 million into Trump's account during the housing crisis.
As U.S. security advisors have confirmed, Trump fit the description of a typical Russian 'mark' – failed business and a difficult financial situation that opens them to bribery, narcissistic bravado, a history of existing corruption, shady morals, and political ties or aspirations. At this point, the Russians stepped in to save his interests.
Trump's Taj Mahal tower in Atlantic City, called “the 8th blunder of the world” at the time, was pure folly and quickly failed, and in 1999 his casino resort was ruled to have violated state gaming laws. At the time of his divorce, he had filed at least six bankruptcies and, unable to secure any further bank loans, had no means to move forward without committing more crimes and misdemeanours. While no American bank would support him, Deutsche Bank, to the shock of many, did, having been already heavily involved with Russian money laundering and set make a killing in the foreclosure racket during the 2008 global financial crisis. When the CEO of Deutsche is fired for money laundering, he gets hired in 2014 as the CEO of one of Russia's main money laundering tools, the bank of Cyprus! Who hired him? – Wilbur Ross, tight supporter of Donald Trump, later his Secretary of Commerce. And who is Ross's partner as principal owner of the bank of Cyprus? - Dmitry Rybolovlev, the “king of potash” who deposited cool $100 million into Trump's account during the housing crisis.
As U.S. security advisors have confirmed, Trump fit the description of a typical Russian 'mark' – failed business and a difficult financial situation that opens them to bribery, narcissistic bravado, a history of existing corruption, shady morals, and political ties or aspirations. At this point, the Russians stepped in to save his interests.
Trump Is Laundering Russian Money, Here’s How It Works | WIRED
If Trump Is Laundering Russian Money, Here’s How It Works | WIRED: Shell companies, pseudonyms, shady lawyers, and secrecy: The president’s and his lawyer's business practices match the classic pattern of suspicious activity.
Helpful description for slow learners like me!
Helpful description for slow learners like me!
Trump Talked Mafia In Old Interview - YouTube
(164) Trump Talked Mafia In Old Interview - YouTube
His Taj Mahal tower in Atlantic City, called “the 8th blunder of the world” at the time, was pure folly and quickly failed, and in 1999 his casino resort was ruled to have violated state gaming laws. At the time of his divorce, he had filed at least six bankruptcies and, unable to secure any further bank loans, had no means to move forward without committing more crimes and misdemeanours. As U.S. security advisors have confirmed, Trump fit the description of a typical Russian 'mark' – failed business and a difficult financial situation that opens them to bribery, narcissistic bravado, a history of existing corruption, shady morals, and political ties or aspirations. At this point, the Russians stepped in to save his interests.
His Taj Mahal tower in Atlantic City, called “the 8th blunder of the world” at the time, was pure folly and quickly failed, and in 1999 his casino resort was ruled to have violated state gaming laws. At the time of his divorce, he had filed at least six bankruptcies and, unable to secure any further bank loans, had no means to move forward without committing more crimes and misdemeanours. As U.S. security advisors have confirmed, Trump fit the description of a typical Russian 'mark' – failed business and a difficult financial situation that opens them to bribery, narcissistic bravado, a history of existing corruption, shady morals, and political ties or aspirations. At this point, the Russians stepped in to save his interests.
ACTIVE MEASURES [Theatrical Trailer]
According to former Russian general Oleg Kalugin, once the head of counterintelligence for the KGB, the few details we have of Trump's 1987 trip to Moscow leads him to be “reasonably sure that the KGB had kompromat from that visit.”
How did debt-ridden Trump suddenly come up with the money for golf courses in Scotland & $46 million to spend on other properties? Perhaps from the sale of a Palm Beach mansion to an oligarch, Dmitry Rybolovlev, who is close to a senior adviser to Vladimir Putin, Yuri Trutnev?
Saturday, August 8, 2020
United States of Conspiracy | Watch S2020 E2 | FRONTLINE | PBS | Official Site
United States of Conspiracy | Watch S2020 E2 | FRONTLINE | PBS | Official Site: Watch FRONTLINE's documentary investigating the alliance among conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, longtime Trump associate Roger Stone and the president.
Alex Jones, who was diagnosed early on as having narcissistic personality disorder, rose from the anti-government conspiracy underground of lizard people and teleportation pads, broadcasting from the choo-choo train and Star Wars posters of his bedroom and remaining unhinged and confident that he was capable of changing the world if enough of his viewers smoked enough pot. On election day, a Trump advisor, Roger Stone, appeared on the far-right conspiracy show Infowars.
TensorFlow Core | Machine Learning for Beginners and Experts
TensorFlow Core | Machine Learning for Beginners and Experts: Start your machine learning project with the open source ML library supported by a community of researchers, practitioners, students and developers.
Friday, August 7, 2020
Right Wing Round-Up: Diamond Dog | Right Wing Watch
Right Wing Round-Up: Diamond Dog | Right Wing Watch: A project of People For the American Way
In case you forget who George Nader is....
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/26/george-nader-mueller-probe-sentence-341624
In case you forgot: former Cheney & Devos bro' Erik Prince employee George Nader pitched Middle Eastern leaders a plan for a new pro-U.S., pro-Israel alliance of Arab nations less than a year before he became Trump's advisor https://politi.co/2CHzlFb
Canada's Last Fully Intact Arctic Ice Shelf Collapses | HuffPost
Canada's Last Fully Intact Arctic Ice Shelf Collapses | HuffPost: The Arctic has been warming at twice the global rate for the past 30 years.
'Nobody can find them': Trump admin has been expelling migrant kids without a trace, advocates say
'Nobody can find them': Trump admin has been expelling migrant kids without a trace, advocates say: We know the Trump administration has been unlawfully expelling unaccompanied minors, or children who come to the U.S. by themselves, under a Stephen Miller-led COVID-19 health order, including detaining some kids as young as 1 at hotels in Arizona and...
My pick for best bandcamp discography buy!
Music | Balance Point Acoustics: Balance Point Acoustics.
St. Louis, Missouri.
St. Louis, Missouri.
RSN: Why the Left Must Reject and Elect Biden at the Same Time
RSN: Why the Left Must Reject and Elect Biden at the Same Time: Solomon writes: In the next three months, a dozen states will determine whether Donald Trump wins another four years as president. Those swing states should be central to the work of progressives who are determined to prevent that outcome.
Thursday, August 6, 2020
(159) Country Joe McDonald - Tricky Dicky *RARE* - YouTube
(159) Country Joe McDonald - Tricky Dicky *RARE* - YouTube:
Watching @CNN Original Series #TrickyDicky What a monster! Nixon may be gone but many Repugglydems have followed in his crooked footsteps. #theyallmustgo #ohiogop
Watching @CNN Original Series #TrickyDicky What a monster! Nixon may be gone but many Repugglydems have followed in his crooked footsteps. #theyallmustgo #ohiogop
Wednesday, August 5, 2020
A reminder of the context for Trump's first foreign policy speech....
Trump gave his first foreign policy speech at the Mayflower Hotel, at an event hosted by the pro-Kremlin Center for the National Interest and attended by the Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak, and ambassadors from Italy and Singapore, two nations that are major players in the upcoming sale of a stake in Russia’s state-owned oil company, Rosneft. Among the VIP attendees was a man with special interests in Russian energy profits, Robert “Bud” McFarlane, the Iran-Contra figure convicted of four counts of withholding information from Congress.
One of the men who helps edit Trump's pro-Russian speech, George Papadopoulos, was in regular contact with Kremlin agents for the four weeks leading up to the Mayflower event. Two of the speech’s authors were longtime Kremlin allies.
Alex Chilton - No Sex
This year it's a retrovirus
Now they'd just as soon gas and fire us
[. . .]
This year we're gonna get it
Time to buy some stuff on credit
Tuesday, August 4, 2020
(148) Jared Kushner’s Failed Testing Plan; Trump Threatens to Ban TikTok: A Closer Look - YouTube
(148) Jared Kushner’s Failed Testing Plan; Trump Threatens to Ban TikTok: A Closer Look - YouTube: Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Monday, August 3, 2020
Pistol Shrimp sonic weapon - Weird Nature - BBC wildlife - YouTube
Pistol Shrimp sonic weapon - Weird Nature - BBC wildlife - YouTube: Want more natural history and wildlife videos? Visit the official BBC Earth channel: http://bit.ly/BBCEarthWW BBC Earth The BBC Earth YouTube channel is home...
Sunday, August 2, 2020
A lil' slice of Trump/Russia history worth recalling...
Trump and a core group of ten to twenty aides, associates, and allies conspired with a hostile foreign power to sell that power control over America’s foreign policy in exchange for financial reward and—eventually—covert election assistance.
A set of Russian, Russian-American, and Soviet-born allies, many of whom are known criminals, rescued the family from its business struggles in the recession of the late 2000s and early 2010s, when many U.S. banks were declining to lend to the Trump Organization.
On returning from a business trip to Moscow in 1987, Trump spent nearly $100,000 on politically charged newspaper ads, attacking American allies like Japan and Saudi Arabia for spending too little on their own defense.
Once Trump’s companies recovered from a string of bankruptcies in 1991 and 1992, he returned his attention to the Russian market and announced plans for a Trump International–branded building in November 1996; the deal saw him invest $250 million and license his name to two buildings. When the deal fell through, he became associated (“indirectly or directly,” in Trump's own words) with Putin, helping the oligarch to secure a win for Russian contestant (who is rumoured to be having an affair with Putin) in the Miss Universe pageant owned by Trump. After winning, she was dethroned 120 days later because of her involvement in unspecified criminal conduct. The Express later noted that Trump had “[taken] an interest in Ms. Fedorova,” and that after her victory he “took care of her” as her handler.” It may be coincidence, but Fedorova's criminal boss boyfriend, Vladimir Golubev, has business ties to Trump's construction interests.
Soon after, a close criminal aide to Putin, Felix Sater, takes up a position delivering Russian clients and partners to Trump, including for the biggest Trump construction project of the 2000s, Trump SoHo (which also targeted investors from the United Arab Emirates and was later sue for deceptive sales practices involving Don Jr.
Soon after, a close criminal aide to Putin, Felix Sater, takes up a position delivering Russian clients and partners to Trump, including for the biggest Trump construction project of the 2000s, Trump SoHo (which also targeted investors from the United Arab Emirates and was later sue for deceptive sales practices involving Don Jr.
Meanwhile, Paul Manafort moved into a forty-third-floor apartment in Trump Tower, at a time when he is making millions working for pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine. Manafort had previously proposed in a confidential strategy plan that he would influence politics, business dealings and news coverage inside the United States, Europe and former Soviet republics to benefit President Vladimir Putin’s government. He is paid $10 million in 2006 by close Putin ally Oleg Deripaska — the same year he buys his apartment in Trump Tower. Trump wasted no time signing a one-year development deal with Sater's Bayrock Group for a Trump Tower Moscow in 2005; though the deal fell through, a site had been selected.
Flashback Blues - YouTube
Flashback Blues - YouTube: Provided to YouTube by Atlantic Records Flashback Blues · John Prine John Prine ℗ 1971 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA Internati...
Saturday, August 1, 2020
My Lil' Lockdown Buddy
My lil' guy really needs a walk but we're both comfy & chillin' & diggin' the good tunes on the Kim Fowley IMPOSSIBLE BUT TRUE comp. (Nico loves Fowley & yes, those are my Adventure Time PJs in the shot!). #lockdownlife
Help Me to Help My Neighbor / Irving Berlin Commentary on Frank Sinatra ...
Working my way through Sinatra's early radio recordings and this a pertinent gem.
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