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“How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me. I mean, there are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage monster'; instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do. If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees. But then you take a look at what the corporation does, the effect of its legal structure, the vast inequalities in pay and conditions, and you see the reality is something far different.”
-- Noam Chomsky
News and Opinion
Emails Show American Psychological Association Secretly Worked with Bush Admin to Enable Torture
Once the Youngest Prisoner at Guantanamo, Omar Khadr Could Be Released Today in Canada
The Canadian government is expected to make a last ditch effort on Tuesday to block the release of Omar Khadr, a 28-year-old man who agreed to a controversial plea deal for killing a US soldier when he was 15.
Khadr, who was at one point the youngest prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, was granted bail last month by a court in Edmonton, Alberta as he appeals an American military conviction he says was obtained through torture.
According to multiple media reports, the Canadian government is expected to argue on Tuesday that the country's interests "will suffer irreparable harm" if the Toronto-born man is released.
A story in the Toronto Star on Saturday, however, refuted those claims, with the US State department telling the newspaper that his release wouldn't hurt Canadian-American relations. ...
The Free Omar campaign, which began in 2011 to advocate for his release, said Monday the government's "'knee jerk' appeal of every court decision has prolonged his 12-year struggle for justice."
"The rights, freedom and liberties of all Canadians are diminished by the actions of this government," the organization said.
Witnesses Confirm First Saudi Ground Troops Arrive in Yemen
Weeks of Saudi airstrikes against Yemeni cities have extended into the first deployment of ground troops over the weekend, with witnesses confirming Saudi special forces on the ground in Aden, backed by helicopter gunships.
In previous weeks, Saudis had tried to drop weapons to the remnants of former President Hadi’s forces, hoping this and the airstrikes would shift the tide of battle against the Shi’ite Houthis, who control most of the rest of the country.
Not making much progress that way, the Saudis seem to bebringing in the first of their ground troops. With massive numbers of troops massed around the northern border, this may just be the first of a full-scale war.
Yemen: ICRC and MSF alarmed by attacks on country’s lifelines
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) are extremely concerned about the severe damage caused by recent Coalition attacks on airports in Sana’a and Hodeida, obstructing delivery of much needed humanitarian assistance and movement of humanitarian personnel.
“Yemen depends almost completely on imports of food and medication especially for the treatment of chronic diseases”, says Cedric Schweizer who heads a team of 250 ICRC staff in Yemen. “Sana’a airport was an essential civilian infrastructure, and the main lifeline to supply essential humanitarian goods and services. The harsh restrictions on importations imposed by the Coalition for the past 6 weeks, added to the extreme fuel shortages, have made the daily lives of Yemenis unbearable, and their suffering immense”, Mr. Schweizer added.
The disruption of the key logistic infrastructure, including airports, sea ports, bridges and roads are having alarming consequences on the civilian population, and the humanitarian situation has now become catastrophic. Checkpoints by the different armed factions have obstructed the delivery of urgent medical supplies to hospitals and have prevented patients and wounded to access essential healthcare.
Human Rights Watch: Saudi-Led Coalition Bombing Yemen with Banned U.S.-Made Cluster Munitions
Saudi Attack on Yemen Aims to Prevent Thaw Between Iran and the West
... Another important reason for the Saudi aggression against Yemen has to do with the negotiations between Iran and P5+1 -- the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany. The negotiations, which are opposed by Saudi Arabia, have made great progress, and may soon result in a comprehensive agreement with Iran. The Saudis believe that the agreement will marginalize their country, hurting its strategic significance to the United States. They are well aware that, given Iran's young, educated and dynamic population of nearly 80 million, its strategic position as a bridge between Asia and Europe and in control of the entire northern shores of the Persian Gulf, its rich natural resources in addition to vast reserves of oil and natural gas, and deep and old culture and influence throughout the Middle East, Afghanistan and Central Asia, Saudi Arabia cannot simply compete with Iran, if Iran's relations with the West are improved, and the crippling economic sanctions imposed on Iran are lifted. So, they are doing what they can to poison the negotiations' atmosphere, presenting Iran as a menace to the Middle East that must not be trusted. Saud al Faisal, Saudi Arabia's foreign minister, said a few days ago, "It is impossible to give Iran deals it does not deserve." ...
As Vice President Joe Biden put it last October at Harvard University, "The Saudis, the Emiratis. . .were so determined to take down [Bashar al-] Assad in essentially a proxy Sunni-Shiite war. What do they do? They poured hundreds of millions of dollar and tens of thousands of tons of weapons into anyone who would fight against Assad, except that the people who were being, who were being supplied were [Jabhat] al-Nusra], al-Qaeda, and extremist elements of jihadists coming from the parts of the world." So, just to hit Iran and the Shiites, the Saudis supported the worst terrorist groups in the Middle East, hence contributing mightily to the rise of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS and ISIL, in Iraq.
By supporting Saudi Arabia and its contention that it wants to restore the "legitimate president" of Yemen to power, the United States demonstrated once again its double standards. Why is it that the U.S. works closely with the dictatorial regime of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the man who toppled the Morsi government?
Once again we see the difference between Iran and the Sunni Arab regimes of the Middle East, particularly Saudi Arabia, that the United States has been "pampering" by its blind support for them. Despite all of its internal problems regarding the treatment of its citizens and violations of their human rights, Iran is a far more open society than Saudi Arabia has ever been, or can be for the foreseeable future. The question is, when does the United States finally recognize that it is Iran that is its strategic ally, not the corrupt Sunni Arab regimes of the Middle East?
Iraqi Troops Surrounded as ISIS Advances Into Key Refinery
Iraq’s largest oil refinery, Baiji, has traded hands several times over the course of the past year, with neither side holding it long enough to really do anything with it. Over the weekend, ISIS began another push. ...
“We are surround from all sides,” warned one of the policeman within the complex, saying they are short of ammo, food, and drinking water, and that many of the troops are setting aside a bullet for themselves in case ISIS overruns their position, adding “it’s an easier way to die than being beheaded.”
Samples of Israeli Horrific Brutality and War Criminality in Gaza
The Israeli group Breaking the Silence issued a report this morning containing testimony from Israeli soldiers about the savagery and criminality committed by the Israeli military during the attack on Gaza last summer. The Independent has a good article describing the report’s findings: “The Israeli military deliberately pounded civilian areas in the Gaza Strip with incessant fire of inaccurate ordinance” and “was at best indifferent about casualties among the Palestinian population.” At best. ...
Reading the accounts from these Israeli soldiers is revolting and important in equal parts. It shines considerable light on the reality of what Israeli loyalists have long hailed as “the most moral army in the world,” one unfairly held to a difference standard that ignores their great “restraint.”
The Intercept has chosen some selected, representative excerpts from the report:
Staff Sargent, Armored Corps:
[A]fter 48 hours during which no one shoots at you and they’re like ghosts, unseen, their presence unfelt – except once in a while the sound of one shot fired over the course of an entire day – you come to realize the situation is under control. And that’s when my difficulty there started, because the formal rules of engagement – I don’t know if for all soldiers – were, “Anything still there is as good as dead. Anything you see moving in the neighborhoods you’re in is not supposed to be there. The [Palestinian] civilians know they are not supposed to be there. Therefore whoever you see there, you kill. . . .
The commander [gave that order]. “Anything you see in the neighborhoods you’re in, anything within a reasonable distance, say between zero and 200 meters – is dead on the spot. No authorization needed.” We asked him: “I see someone walking in the street, do I shoot him?” He said yes.
Did the commander discuss what happens if you run into civilians or uninvolved people?
There are none. The working assumption states – and I want to stress that this is a quote of sorts: that anyone located in an IDF area, in areas the IDF took over – is not [considered] a civilian. That is the working assumption. We entered Gaza with that in mind, and with an insane amount of firepower.
[More at the link. -js]
Canada poised to pass anti-terror legislation despite widespread outrage
Criticism of anti-terror bill C-51 has united a diverse array of prominent opponents as many fear the legislation creates the potential for a police state
Widespread protest and souring public opinion has failed to prevent Canada’s ruling Conservative Party from pushing forward with sweeping anti-terror legislation which a battery of legal scholars, civil liberties groups, opposition politicians and pundits of every persuasion say will replace the country’s healthy democracy with a creeping police state.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is looking forward to an easy victory on Tuesday when the House of Commons votes in its final debate on the bill, known as C-51. But lingering public anger over the legislation suggests that his success in dividing his parliamentary opposition may well work against him when Canadians go to the polls for a national election this fall.
No legislation in memory has united such a diverse array of prominent opponents as the proposed legislation, which the Globe and Mail newspaper denounced as a a plan to create a “secret police force”.
The campaign to stop Bill C-51 grew to include virtually every civil-rights group, law professor, retired judge, author, editorialist and public intellectual in Canada. ...
Hundreds of thousands of ordinary Canadians signed petitions urging the bill be scrapped and took to the streets in a national day of protest last month.
Hat tip, JtC:
“It’s pure authoritarianism”: Glenn Greenwald exposes the link between Baltimore’s uprising and the NSA
[From an interview.]
You’re in Brazil; what has the unrest in Baltimore looked like from outside the U.S.?
I think that sometimes it’s hard for people who are Americans and living in the United States to appreciate the vast gap between how they’re taught to think about America and how the rest of the world perceives America. This has probably been one of the most eye-opening things for me from living outside the United States now for as long as I have, which is an appreciation of just how viscerally the rest of the world sees that discrepancy. Obviously there’s polling that shows that if you ask people around the world who the greatest threat to world peace is, overwhelmingly they’ll say the United States, which most Americans find bizarre, to the extent that they’re aware of it at all.
The perception that America has a radical problem with race and that it has become an extremely abusive penal state are very widespread in the rest of the world — or at least lots of parts of the rest of the world — and it’s also quite accurate. Just from my own experience, when I talk to people in Brazil about things like Ferguson or Baltimore, there’s not a surprise or bewilderment; it’s sort of a confirmation of the fact that America has a serious problem with racism and that police abuse and this abusive penal state seems to be getting worse.
Is there a connection between the era of mass incarceration and the era of the burgeoning national security state?
Oh they’re completely connected and inextricably linked. There’s so many different similarities that bind them together, but the most important one is just the mentality. Part of the War on Terror is how we’re taught to think that once you have a group of people who are identified as some kind of menace or threat to security, essentially anything can be done to them. They can be killed or brutalized or imprisoned without any real due process, and that’s all justified because they’ve demonstrated themselves to be a threat.
It reminds me a bit of how you hear some people say they don’t care about the NSA because they aren’t doing anything wrong. That logic seems to inform the “just do what a cop says and you won’t get hurt” argument you’ll see on Facebook or Fox News.
Yeah, it’s pure authoritarianism, in both cases. The idea that the people you should fear are not the ones who wield … political or corporate power — that those are the people you actually trust and want to even be more empowered because they will protect you from the people you’ve been told to fear (the terrorists or African-Americans or people deemed to be criminal or immigrants); that’s what power centers need to do to breed acquiescence and submission. I think you’re exactly right that it’s the same dynamic in both cases.
What Comes After Protests?
Tamir Rice's family loses home and cannot hold funeral amid legal delay
The family of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old boy who was fatally shot by a Cleveland police officer in November, are asking a judge to not grant a stay in their civil rights lawsuit against the city, as they wait to hold a funeral for the child pending the results of an investigation.
Last month, Timothy Loehmann, the officer who shot and killed Rice, and his partner Frank Garmback asked a judge to halt the case until the Cuyahoga County sheriff’s department concludes its criminal investigation. On Monday the family filed a request that asks judge Solomon Oliver Jr to not grant the stay. ...
According to a court document filed by family attorney Walter Madison, she and her daughter, Tajai Rice, had to move out of their home, which was a block from where Rice was killed, and live in an emergency shelter “because she could no longer live next door to the killing field of her son”. ...
Family attorney Walter Madison said Tamir Rice’s body has not been put to rest, in case the investigation requires an additional medical examination.
“Tamir Rice not being finally laid to rest prevents emotional healing and incurs a daily expense,” the document says. “The foot-dragging of this investigation has now spanned three seasons.”
Neoliberal Asset Stripping Continues - Greece to finalise further privatization deals
Greece will finalise "immediately" a 1.2-billion-euro ($1.3-billion) deal with Fraport to run regional airports and reopen bidding for a majority stake in Piraeus port, a senior privatisations official said on Tuesday.
The asset sales had been in doubt after Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' leftist-led government took power in January but may be the latest concessions offered by his government to try to secure more bailout cash from international creditors.
The Greek finance, shipping and economy ministries involved in the sales declined to comment.
"The issue of regional airports will be concluded immediately," the official at Greece's privatisations agency HRADF told Reuters on condition of anonymity, noting that an announcement could be expected by May 15.
Greece steps up diplomacy to avert cash crunch
Greece stepped up diplomacy with euro zone partners on Tuesday to try to avert a potentially catastrophic funding crunch this month, when it must make a big debt repayment to the IMF as cash reserves dry up.
Ministers were traveling to Frankfurt, Brussels and Paris to plead for a loosening of the financial stranglehold on Athens after leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras spoke by telephone to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Europe's pre-eminent leader.
"They discussed the course of the negotiations in Brussels and exchanged views on the issues of Greece's deal with its lenders," a Greek government official said of the call on Monday night, without elaborating.
Intensive talks continued with the International Monetary Fund, European Commission and European Central Bank on a cash-for-reform deal but there was no sign of a breakthrough on key differences over pensions, labor reform and the minimum wage.
As McDonald's Announces Corporate Shake-Up, Workers Vow to Rise Up
On the same day that McDonald's CEO Steve Easterbrook announced sweeping changes aimed at "returning excitement" to the behemoth—and struggling—fast-food chain, thousands of McDonald's cooks and cashiers vowed to descend on the the company's annual shareholder meeting in Illinois later this month to demand higher wages, fairer treatment, and the right to organize. ...
"The fight by fast-food workers for fair pay on the job is a continuation of the moral movement for economic justice that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. started 50 years ago," said Rev. Dwayne Grant, pastor at Greater Englewood United Methodist Church in Chicago. "We need to put an end to corporations raking in billions while their employees are forced to skip meals. We are fighting to build a country where people who work hard are paid enough to survive."
Bernie Sanders Calls Out Media For Not Covering Obama's Trade Deal
Adding to the chorus of protest over President Barack Obama’s push for a controversial new trade pact with Asia, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) sounded off on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and accused mainstream media of not covering what could be one of the biggest trade agreements in history.
“The major television networks are not covering the TPP. Incredible as it may sound, this trade agreement—the largest trade agreement in the history of the United States of America—has received virtually no coverage, no coverage, on the major networks,” Sanders said from the Senate floor on Thursday.
Hat tip, Pluto:
UN calls for suspension of TTIP talks over fears of human rights abuses
UN lawyer says tactics used by multinationals in courts outside of public jurisdiction would undermine democracy and law
A senior UN official has called for controversial trade talks between the European Union and the US to be suspended over fears that a mooted system of secret courts used by major corporations would undermine human rights.
Alfred de Zayas, a UN human rights campaigner, said there should be a moratorium on negotiations over the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), which are on course to turn the EU and US blocs into the largest free-trade area in the world.
The Cuban-born US lawyer warned that the lesson from other trade agreements around the world was that major corporations had succeeded in blocking government policies with the support of secret arbitration tribunals that operated outside the jurisdiction of domestic courts.
De Zayas said: “We don’t want a dystopian future in which corporations and not democratically elected governments call the shots. We don’t want an international order akin to post-democracy or post-law.”
Hellraiser Preview
Sherman, set the time machine for tomorrow's Hellraisers Journal which will feature from the Miners Magazine: Mother Jones appeals to Michigan copper miners to organize.
Tune in at 2pm!
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Workers Movement Forces Democrats To Increase Their Idea of Minimum Wage
While proposed $12 wage isn't enough, Democratic Party clearly chasing after workers who have put themselves in the street for the increased pay
It's not fifteen, but the Democratic Party is angling to hang its hat on a $12 minimum wage as they attempt to harness the energy and enthusiasm created by the national low-wage workers movement that has been steadily building in recent years.
As The Hill reports on Tuesday:
Party leaders are rallying behind new legislation that would raise the wage to $12 an hour, well beyond the $10.10 effort that failed to pass when Democrats controlled the Senate.
While the new bill has little chance to clear the GOP-dominated Congress, Democrats see the issue as a political winner for Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders — who have announced White House bids — as well as for potential presidential candidates.
As Common Dreams has covered in-depth, the fight for higher wages by fast food workers and employees at large retail chains like Wal-mart has gained strength in recent years with increasing numbers of the working poor demanding better pay, increased protections, and the right to organize or unionize on their own behalf.
For Democrats, the push for a $12 minimum wage is largely understood as a political strategy to get Republicans on the record during the campaign season opposing the interests of low-income Americans.
Bernie Sanders: What's Wrong With America Looking More Like Scandinavia?
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Sunday that if he becomes president in 2016, he will bring "a real political shake-up" that lifts the nation's poorest while stemming the proliferation of millionaires and billionaires.
In other words, he said he wants to make America look more like Scandinavia.
During an interview on ABC's "This Week," host George Stephanopoulos asked the 73-year-old Vermont senator if it's really possible for someone like him to be elected president. Sanders, who identifies as a democratic socialist, announced his White House run last week.
"Well, so long as we know what democratic socialism is," he said. "And if we know that in countries, in Scandinavia, like Denmark, Norway, Sweden, they are very democratic countries, obviously. The voter turnout is a lot higher than it is in the United States. In those countries, health care is the right of all people. And in those countries, college education, graduate school is free."
When Stephanopoulos said Republicans were likely to jump all over Sanders for saying the U.S. should be more like Scandinavia, the senator said he has no problem with that.
"That's right. And what's wrong with that?" Sanders said. "What's wrong when you have more income and wealth equality? What's wrong when they have a stronger middle class in many ways than we do, higher minimum wage than we do, and they are stronger on the environment than we do?"
For Meet the Press, Bernie Sanders Is He Who Must Not Be Named
Meet the Press host Chuck Todd can’t seem to get enough of the 2016 presidential race. Yet the one major candidate who announced he was running last week–Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent who declared on April 30 he was running for the Democratic nomination–was strikingly ignored on Meet the Press‘s May 2 broadcast.
It’s not that the broadcast didn’t have time to talk about the 2016 race. One of the show’s guest was Martin O’Malley, brought on to talk about the Baltimore protests as former mayor of Baltimore and former Maryland governor, but also as someone “weighing a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination”: “Do you think you can still run on your record, as mayor of Baltimore and governor of Maryland,” Todd asked him. “Do you think this is a positive thing that voters will look at…?”
Todd closed his interview by saying: “We’ll see you, you’ll probably announce in Baltimore.” But we didn’t see anything about the candidate who actually announced that week in Washington, DC. ...
It’s worth noting that Meet the Press did not ignore Sanders because he’s so much more obscure than the other candidates who were mentioned. Not that polls taken more than nine months before the first vote will be cast have much validity, but in four national opinion polls taken in the month before he announced his candidacy, Sanders averaged 6 percent of the vote–as opposed to O’Malley, who averaged 2 percent. In the Republican race, Todd was previewing the announcement of Fiorina, who’s averaging 1 percent in polls, albeit in a more crowded field.
Campaign pundits often use fundraising ability as a measure of the seriousness of a candidate. Sanders raised a surprising $1.5 million in the 24 hours after his announcement, in increments that averaged under $50. By comparison, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul raised $800,000, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz $1 million and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio $1.25 million in their first official day of campaigning.
The Evening Greens
Here's Why Elon Musk Might Have Just Really Pissed Off Your Utility Company
Musk unveiled on Thursday a new type of battery — not for use in his company's popular line of luxury electric vehicles, but for homes and business.
Measuring in at 3 feet across, 4 feet tall, and 7 inches deep, the batteries draw energy from rooftop solar panels, helping to power homes and businesses at night, reducing daytime demand on the electric grid during peak hours, and providing energy security during power outages. ...
Across the country, consumers who install rooftop solar arrays have increasingly clashed with utility companies over net-metering policies. Net metering allows a customer who generates energy from solar panels to run their meters backward — essentially feeding power into the electrical grid and lowering their utility bill — when they are producing more energy than they are consuming.
Forty-three states and the District of Columbia have such policies, but in recent years utilities have pushed back against net metering in California, Arizona, and Colorado, seeking to limit consumers' ability to ween themselves from utility-generated power.
According to attorney Katie Ottenweller, who leads the Southern Environmental Law Center's Solar Initiative, it's unclear how utilities will react as battery technology matures and cuts into their traditional customer base. ... Ottenweller told VICE News. "But there's also this double-edged sword where if utilities continue to pick fights with their solar customers, it makes it easy, once battery storage is available, for them to defect from the grid altogether."
Despite Climate Risks, Global Banks Keeping Dying Coal Industry Afloat
Global financial institutions continue to pour billions of dollars into the coal industry despite calls from scientists and global movements to leave this dirty fossil fuel in the earth in order to stave off climate catastrophe.
Released Monday by Rainforest Action Network, Sierra Club, and BankTrack, The End of Coal? Coal Finance Report Card 2015 finds that, in 2014 alone, international banks together financed $144 billion for coal mining and power companies. This compared to $145 billion in 2013, suggesting that overall levels remained constant.
Direct financing for coal mining, however, jumped from $55.28 billion in 2013 to $69.62 billion in 2014, finds the report, which has been released annually for the past five years.
As Vegetarian Giants Rapidly Disappear from Earth, 'Empty Landscape' Threatens
The world's plant-eating giants—including hippopotamuses, elephants, rhinoceros, and gorillas—are being rapidly wiped from the Earth, warns a new scientific study, and if habitat loss and human hunting continue unabated, these iconic species will be replaced with an "empty landscape."
The study—Collapse of the World's Largest Herbivores—was published Friday in the journal Science Advances by a global team of wildlife ecologists headed by William Ripple, professor at Oregon State University.
According to the research, 60 percent of the largest herbivores on the planet already face the immediate threat of extinction.
Focusing on 74 species of plant-eating giants, the researchers came to the conclusion that "large herbivores (and many smaller ones) will continue to disappear from numerous regions with enormous ecological, social, and economic costs. We have progressed well beyond the empty forest to early views of the 'empty landscape' in desert, grassland, savanna, and forest ecosystems across much of planet Earth."
Ripple said in a press statement, "I expected that habitat change would be the main factor causing the endangerment of large herbivores. But surprisingly, the results show that the two main factors in herbivore declines are hunting by humans and habitat change. They are twin threats."
Blog Posts of Interest
Here are diaries and selected blog posts of interest on DailyKos and other blogs.
What's Happenin' Is On Hiatus
Stuck in Yemen: A Personal History
Here's How Detroit Has Managed to Keep the Peace During Protests Over Police Brutality
Fox News apologises for Baltimore police shooting report: 'We screwed up'
David Simon on Baltimore’s Anguish
The Wars Come Home: A Five-Step Guide to the Police Repression of Protest from Ferguson to Baltimore and Beyond
NYT Editorial board does transgender
A Little Night Music
Lou Ann Barton - It's Raining
Jimmie Vaughan Lou Ann Barton & Charlie Musselwhite - Sugar Coated Love
Lou Ann Barton, Angela Strehli, Marcia Ball - Good Rockin' Daddy
Lou Ann Barton w/The Thunderbirds - Rocket In My Pocket
Lou Ann Barton, Angela Strehli, Marcia Ball - A Fool In Love
Lou Ann Barton - Shake Your Hips
Lou Ann Barton - Shake A Hand
Lou Ann Barton + Stevie Ray Vaughn - You Can Have My Husband
Lou Ann Barton - Te-Ni-Nee-Ni-Nu
Lou Ann Barton - I Feel Like Breaking Up Somebody's Home
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Lou Ann Barton - Maybe
Lou Ann Barton + Stevie Ray Vaughn - I Wonder Why
Lou Ann Barton - Let's Have a Party
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