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This evening's music features delta bluesman Big Joe Williams. Enjoy!
Big Joe Williams - She Left Me A Mule To Ride
"As bad as things are, so much of the world is as it always has been. The still contentment of sitting with one you love, saying nothing is still available. The sunset is still beautiful, and if there are fewer birds, their trills still delight.
The flowers are as beautiful, the russet and scarlet leaves of fall still adorn the trees, and a clean drink of water still refreshes. Children playing still bring a smile to my face, and I still enjoy pulling a comforter up and cracking open a new book. There are still beautiful women and handsome men, there is still kindness and charity in the world; there is still art to make and books to write and songs to sing."
-- Ian Welsh
News and Opinion
Another major public service from Greenwald's Intercept:
Secret Manuals Show the Spyware Sold to Despots and Cops Worldwide
When Apple and Google unveiled new encryption schemes last month, law enforcement officials complained that they wouldn’t be able to unlock evidence on criminals’ digital devices. What they didn’t say is that there are already methods to bypass encryption, thanks to off-the-shelf digital implants readily available to the smallest national agencies and the largest city police forces — easy-to-use software that takes over and monitors digital devices in real time, according to documents obtained by The Intercept.
We’re publishing in full, for the first time, manuals explaining the prominent commercial implant software “Remote Control System,” manufactured by the Italian company Hacking Team. Despite FBI director James Comey’s dire warnings about the impact of widespread data scrambling — “criminals and terrorists would like nothing more,” he declared — Hacking Team explicitly promises on its website that its software can “defeat encryption.”
The manuals describe Hacking Team’s software for government technicians and analysts, showing how it can activate cameras, exfiltrate emails, record Skype calls, log typing, and collect passwords on targeted devices. They also catalog a range of pre-bottled techniques for infecting those devices using wifi networks, USB sticks, streaming video, and email attachments to deliver viral installers. With a few clicks of a mouse, even a lightly trained technician can build a software agent that can infect and monitor a device, then upload captured data at unobtrusive times using a stealthy network of proxy servers, all without leaving a trace. That, at least, is what Hacking Team’s manuals claim as the company tries to distinguish its offerings in the global marketplace for government hacking software.
Hacking Team’s efforts include a visible push into the U.S. Though Remote Control System is sold around the world — suspected clients include small governments in dozens of countries, from Ethiopia to Kazakhstan to Saudi Arabia to Mexico to Oman — the company keeps one of its three listed worldwide offices in Annapolis, Maryland, on the edge of the federal intelligence and law-enforcement cluster around the nation’s capital; has sent representatives to American homeland security trade shows and conferences, where it has led training seminars like “Cyber Intelligence Solutions to Data Encryption” for police; and has even taken an investment from a firm headed by America’s former ambassador to Italy. The United States is also, according to two separate research teams, far and away Hacking Team’s top nexus for servers, hosting upwards of 100 such systems, roughly a fifth of all its servers globally.
FBI impersonates AP & Seattle Times for sting
Peekaboo, I See You: Government Authority Intended for Terrorism is Used for Other Purposes
The Patriot Act continues to wreak its havoc on civil liberties. Section 213 was included in the Patriot Act over the protests of privacy advocates and granted law enforcement the power to conduct a search while delaying notice to the suspect of the search. Known as a “sneak and peek” warrant, law enforcement was adamant Section 213 was needed to protect against terrorism. But the latest government report detailing the numbers of “sneak and peek” warrants reveals that out of a total of over 11,000 sneak and peek requests, only 51 were used for terrorism. Yet again, terrorism concerns appear to be trampling our civil liberties.
A closer look at the number of sneak and peek warrants issued (a reporting requirement imposed by Congress) shows this is simply not the case. The last publicly available report about sneak and peek warrants was released in 2010; however, the Administrative Office of the US Courts has finally released reports from 2011, 2012, and 2013.
What do the reports reveal? Two things: 1) there has been an enormous increase in the use of sneak and peek warrants and 2) they are rarely used for terrorism cases. ...
The numbers vindicate privacy advocates who urged Congress to shelve Section 213 during the Patriot Act debates. Proponents of Section 213 claimed sneak and peek warrants were needed to protect against terrorism. But just like we've seen elsewhere, these claims are false. The government will continue to argue for more surveillance authorities—like the need to update the Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act—under the guise of terrorism. But before we engage in any updates, the public must be convinced such updates are needed and won't be used for non-terrorist purposes that chip away at our civil liberties.
Canadian National Security Bill May Curtail Civil Liberties, Watchdogs Warn
The Conservative government on Monday unveiled a new bill—Bill C-44, or the 'Protection of Canada from Terrorists Act'—to beef up eavesdropping and data collection powers as well as protection for secret agents. Among other things, the bill gives the Canadian Security Intelligence System (CSIS) more powers of surveillance and extends explicit authority to Canada's spy agency to operate "within or outside Canada." This would allow the agency to share information on suspected Canadian terrorists abroad with members of the so-called 'Five Eyes' group of countries—the U.S., U.K., Australia, and New Zealand.
In addition, Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney on Monday announced that "further reforms to protect Canadians from terrorism will be presented in a second forthcoming piece of legislation."
What's more, observers note that an anti-cyberbulling law currently wending its way through Canada's Parliament already includes several controversial surveillance provisions, including one that would allow police to get a court order for online records or bank account information with only reasonable grounds to "suspect," not "believe," a crime may take place or has taken place.
But critics warn that new measures to protect Canadians could infringe on citizens' right to privacy—with no assurance that they'll be effective.
"The Conservatives have hinted that they are considering preventive detention and expanded powers to snoop on Canadians with a view to finding out their political views," Karl Nerenberg wrote on Wednesday. "And that's where things can get scary."
This should be read in full:
Pale Riders: The Moral Blindness of our Leading Liberals
Behold the quintessential earnest progressive liberal in the highest moral dudgeon: Digby railing with thunderous fury at the possibility (the very distinct possibility) that Barack Obama is going to suppress the Senate's report on CIA torture. Digby quotes the recent letter from some of Obama's fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureates, who are calling on Obama to release the report (and close the concentration camp at Guantanamo Bay, for good measure.) Worthy sentiments and justifiable anger indeed. But then Digby adds this gloss:
"Honestly, if they deep six the report (or redact it so heavily that it's meaningless) I think President Obama has no choice but to give back his prize. There's [sic] a lot of actions he's taken as president that people could claim disqualify him for the prize anyway. Arguments about the dirty wars and targeted assassination programs alone will go on for generations. But one can, at least, say they represent some form of modern warfare and that the President of a military Empire is always going to be required to deal in such ugly matters. (That, in fact, s one reason why it was ludicrous to give him the prize in the first place --- he runs the most powerful killing machine on the planet.)
But however you see his performance as Commander in Chief, There can be no debate about torture. It's a war crime. It should be prosecuted. But even if they cannot do that, covering it up is to be complicit."
Old cynic that I am, I must admit that even my grizzled jaw dropped as I read these words. "Arguments about the dirty wars and targeted assassination programs alone will go on for generations." This, again, is from one of our leading liberal lights. She thinks dirty wars -- secret incursions into other nations to murder, subvert, wreak havoc, terrorize -- are open to debate. She thinks that "targeted assassination programs" -- one of which is run directly out of the White House, with regular weekly meetings where Obama and his advisors tick off names of human beings to be killed without warning, without the slightest pretense of judicial process or rule of law -- will be argued about for generations. The morality of death squads and dirty wars is something about which serious, concerned citizens can disagree and debate, apparently.
Running a death squad -- which, among many others, kills American citizens without due process, then, just for the hell of it, murders their children: this doesn't put a person beyond the pale of acceptable human behavior. Not at all. It's something we can argue about, sure; but not only is it within the parameters of acceptable behavior, it does not even disqualify you from enthusiastic political support, not even from earnest, peace-loving antiwar liberals like Digby, who fought tooth and nail to keep Obama running his death squads and dirty wars in 2012. (And if he could run for a third term there is no doubt -- none whatsoever -- that he would have fierce backing of the earnest, peace-loving antiwar liberals like Digby.) ...
Isn't this a wonderment? A progressive, peace-loving liberalism that can accept a president actually checking off names on a death list, like Stalin in the Politburo -- that can accept "dirty wars" that have slaughtered thousands of innocent civilians and destabilized whole regions, breeding more violence and terror. And although Digby has criticized such actions, it is obvious that none of them have put Obama beyond the moral pale for her. He's still within the bounds of acceptable realpolitik. ("Hey, the guy has to run a military Empire. What's he supposed to do?"). He is still -- if only just -- on "our" side.
First Iraqi Kurdish fighters enter Isis-besieged Kobani
The first Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters have entered the besieged Syrian town of Kobani through the border crossing with Turkey, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The British-based monitoring group said 10 fighters moved in on Thursday and the others were expected to enter the town, which has been under attack by Islamic State (Isis) for more than a month, “within hours”.
A convoy of peshmerga fighters had arrived close to the Turkish town of Suruc on Wednesday night, meeting up with others who had flown in earlier in the day.
“About 10 members of the Kurdish peshmerga forces entered the town of Ayn al-Arab through the border crossing between the town and Turkish territory,” the Observatory said. Ayn al-Arab is the Arabic name for mainly Kurdish Kobani. ...
“The force is equipped with heavy guns including mortars, canons, rocket launchers, etc,” said Safeen Dizayee, spokesman for the Iraqi Kurdistan regional government, on Thursday. The troops were sent, he added, as a “moral, political and nationalistic duty”
Al Qaeda Seems to Want to Be Best Friends with the Islamic State Again
Remember when al Qaeda publicly rejected the then-stateless Islamic State of Iraq and Syria for disobeying its orders, but partially also because the militants' predilection for beheadings and crucifixions was a little too much even for them?
As it turns out, al Qaeda leaders might have jumped the gun with their squeamishness. They now want to be friends again — and the international Islamist network may be using the US and its allies' air strikes on the Islamic State as an opportunity to make amends. ...
Al Qaeda is saying, "Let's just have a truce in Syria," Tom Joscelyn, who tracks terror groups for the Long War Journal, told the AP, referring to fighting between Islamic State militants and the al Qaeda-backed Nusra Front, with which they actually have quite a bit in common. "That is what's underway now... What we have seen is that local commanders are entering into local truces. There are definitely areas where the two groups are not fighting." ...
But a reconciliation would be as symbolic globally as it is strategic in Syria, and on that front in particular there's a lot in it for al Qaeda as well, analysts suggest.
"You are looking at this group that's making headways, it's got the attention, it has land, it has resilient funding sources, it attracted fighters from 80 countries and is at the vanguard of global jihad, so you can't ignore it," Tom Sanderson, co-director of the Transnational Threats Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told VICE News. "If you denigrate it in any way, you are denigrating a group that stands for many of the same principles that the al Qaeda core does.
"At a certain point it becomes sort of self-defeating for al Qaeda to continue to hammer ISIS," he added. "As time goes on they see the reality that these guys are the center of gravity of violent extremism for Sunni jihadis and they are left with no choice but to support them."
Officials: US Attacks on ‘Khorasan’ Failed
US officials say that the September attack on “Khorasan,” a US-invented term for a faction within Jabhat al-Nusra, failed even worse than previously reported, and the leaders previously reported killed actually survived.
Though officials claimed to be tracking Khorasan for a long time, experts believe the term was primarily invented to sell the attacks as something other than on Nusra, which in addition to being al-Qaeda is also a close ally of the “moderate” rebels the US always hypes in Syria.
For Turkey and U.S., at odds over Syria, a 60-year alliance shows signs of crumbling
The increasingly hostile divergence of views between Turkey and the United States over Syria is testing the durability of their 60-year alliance, to the point where some are starting to question whether the two countries still can be considered allies at all.
Turkey’s refusal to allow the United States to use its bases to launch attacks against the Islamic State, quarrels over how to manage the battle raging in the Syrian border town of Kobane and the harsh tone of the anti-American rhetoric used by top Turkish officials to denounce U.S. policy have served to illuminate the vast gulf that divides the two nations as they scramble to address the menace posed by the extremists.
Whether the Islamic State even is the chief threat confronting the region is disputed, with Washington and Ankara publicly airing their differences through a fog of sniping, insults and recrimination over who is to blame for the mess the Middle East has become.
At stake is a six-decade-old relationship forged during the Cold War and now endowed with a different but equally vital strategic dimension. Turkey is positioned on the front line of the war against the Islamic State, controlling a 780-mile border with Iraq and Syria. Without Turkey’s cooperation, no U.S. policy to bring stability to the region can succeed, analysts and officials on both sides say.
Nato jets intercept Russian warplanes following 'unusual level of air activity'
Nato aircraft have been scrambled to shadow Russian strategic bombers over the Atlantic and Black Sea and fighter planes over the Baltic in what the western alliance called an unusual burst of activity as tensions remain elevated because of the situation in Ukraine.
In all, Nato said, its jets intercepted four groups of Russian aircraft in about 24 hours since Tuesday and some were still on manoeuvres late on Wednesday afternoon.
“These sizeable Russian flights represent an unusual level of air activity over European air space,” the alliance said.
A spokesman stressed there had been no violation of Nato air space, unlike a week earlier when a Russian spy plane briefly crossed Estonia’s border. But so many sorties in one day was unusual compared with recent years.
In the biggest exercise four Tupolev Tu-95 strategic bombers, the 1950s equivalent of the US B-52, flew out over the Norwegian Sea in the early hours of Wednesday, accompanied by four refuelling tanker aircraft.
Hedges & Wolin (5/8) - Can Capitalism & Democracy Coexist?
Targeted by Global Boycott, SodaStream to Close Factory in Occupied West Bank
Campaigners for Palestinian rights are declaring success following Wednesday's announcement by SodaStream International, a controversial Israeli-owned company targeted by a global boycott campaign, that it will be shuttering and relocating its factory that is housed in the occupied West Bank.
"We have witnessed a tremendous growth in boycott, divestment, and sanctions efforts this year to pressure Israel to ends its denial of Palestinian rights," said Ramah Kudaimi of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, a coalition of over than 400 groups. "[Wednesday's] news is just the latest sign that these global [Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, or BDS] campaigns are having an impact on changing the behavior of companies that profit from Israeli occupation and apartheid."
In an Investor Relations report posted to the company's website, SodaStream, which produces soda carbonation devices, announced it plans to relocate its factory located in the Israeli settlement of Ma’aleh Adumim—which is illegal under international law—to Israel's southern Naqab (Negev) desert region by the end of 2015.
The company has come under mounting pressure to shutter the facility from supporters of the Palestinian call for BDS, as well as backers of a more limited boycott of goods from illegal Israeli settlements. "Not only is SodaStream’s factory on land that is occupied (and so should not be built upon by the occupying power as per international humanitarian law), but it is also built on land from which Palestinians have been forcibly displaced," reads an open letter by renowned scholars and advocates published in January. The company, further, has faced criticism for exploiting Palestinian labor, including paying them lower wages than their Israeli counterparts and subjecting them to mass firings.
Is Your Judge for Sale? Dark Money Groups Pour Millions into Judicial Races to Reshape Courts
Arizona sheriff Arpaio ordered to undergo training to stop racial profiling
A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday ordered a controversial Arizona sheriff to undergo the same training as his deputies to prevent racial profiling and unlawful detention in the wake of the lawman's recent comments.
U.S. District Court Judge Murray Snow criticized sheriff Joe Arpaio during a hearing in Phoenix for telling a reporter he would have no problem conducting an immigration sweep like one performed in the town of Guadalupe in 2008, which was later declared unconstitutional.
The judge ruled in May 2013 that Arpaio, who bills himself as "America's Toughest Sheriff," violated the rights of Latino drivers with his crackdown on illegal immigration and ordered him to stop using race as a factor in law enforcement decisions.
Snow said Arpaio's recent comments undermined his office's efforts to comply with the ruling.
The ruling stems from a 2007 class-action lawsuit by Hispanic drivers, who argued they were unlawfully singled out for traffic stops on the basis of ethnicity.
Ferguson Protesters Turn to UN for Human Rights Protections
Michael Brown's family members and grassroots organizations from Ferguson are pressing the United Nations to intervene in response to what they say are U.S. police violations of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment, they revealed Wednesday.
Organizers announced that, in the "absence of justice from the local, state, and federal government," they have submitted a brief to the United Nations, which has been made available to the public. Later this month, a Ferguson contingent including Michael Brown's mother, Leslie McSpadden, and representatives from grassroots organizations HandsUpUnited, Organization for Black Struggle, and Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment, will travel to Geneva, Switzerland to formally present the document to the global body.
"The goal is not only to achieve justice in Ferguson, but to unite governments around the world against the human rights violations that result from racial profiling and police violence," reads a statement on the website announcing the effort.
The report strongly condemns the Ferguson police department's "intentional, arbitrary killing of Michael Brown," whose body was left uncovered and decomposing in the street, "traumatizing" family members and residents and showing disrespect to black lives. When communities participated in subsequent protests, "law enforcement officials donned riot gear, tanks, armored vehicles and other military-style armaments, and placed the town under siege," write report authors Justin Hansford, Jessica Lee, Jeena Shah, and Meena Jagannath. They add that "militarized" police responses to the demonstrations "amount to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment directed towards protesters primarily representing racial minorities."
Matt Taibbi Leaving First Look
Matt Taibbi has been missed. He went into a writing black hole when he decamped from Rolling Stone to Pierre Omidyar’s wannabe media empire, First Look in February. But when the billionaire’s news venture was launched, the press was sloppy in reporting on Omidyar’s financial commitment. It was widely depicted as a $250 million venture, when the tech titan never committed anywhere near that amount of funding. Admittedly, it takes time to get a new publication going, but the lack of any apparent progress was becoming noteworthy. From the outside, it looked like the project might be going pear-shaped, and it appears it did.
I had heard, second hand, that Taibbi had envisioned a publication that would mix satire and serious reporting, and would have a strong focus on skewering plutocrats. That may have struck too close to home. The official announcement of Taibbi’s departure is clumsy:
Important Announcement
Pierre Omidyar October 28, 2014
I regret to announce that after several weeks of discussions, Matt Taibbi has left First Look. We wish him well.
Our differences were never about editorial independence. We have never wavered from our pledge that journalistic content is for the journalists to decide, period.
We’re disappointed by how things have turned out. I was excited by Matt’s editorial vision and hoped to help him bring it to fruition. Now we turn our focus to exploring next steps for the talented team that has worked to create Matt’s publication.
I remain an enthusiastic supporter of the kind of independent journalism found at The Intercept and the site we were preparing to launch. As a startup, we’ll take what we’ve learned in the last several months and apply it to our efforts in the future.
Above all, we remain committed to our team and to the First Look mission.
Notice the tacky grousing by Omidyar that he’s been left with some Taibbi hires and now he has to figure out what to do with them.
The denial about “editorial independence” is so defensive that is it pretty much a given that it was about that. The beef was unlikely to have been on the story level, which is what Omidyar is defining as journalistic freedom, since it appears Taibbi never got far along with putting a first issue out (otherwise you’d expect to see a reference to it, that the staff was finishing it up despite his departure). So the differences could have been over the formats Taibbi wanted to use, as in the types of stories and regular features he had envisioned, or who he wanted to bring on board, or the level of resources he wanted versus what Omidyar was prepared to provide. Given that Omidyar is reportedly controlling (he’s been cited as being the most active person on First Look internal e-mails), the most likely sources of friction was over what the overall shape of the publication or a bad personality fit.
[Update: There is much more detailed information in this article from the Intercept. - js]
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Ayn Rand - How Is This Still A Thing?
The Evening Greens
$129 Billion Worth Of New York City Real Estate Lies In Flood Zones
More than 84,000 buildings worth over $129 billion lie in flood zones in New York City, according to an analysis released by the Office of New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer on the two-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy.
"It's easy to think that Sandy was a 'once-in-a-lifetime event,'" Stringer told VICE News, "but climate science tells us that rises in sea level and more frequent severe weather will put lives, property, and communities at increased risk."
The report examined new flood maps from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which extend the areas of the city that are at-risk from a flood that occurs once in a hundred years, meaning areas that have a one percent chance of flooding each year. That area now includes an additional 60,000 structures that were not identified as at-risk in FEMA's 2010 maps. ...
Storm surge occurs largely due to storm winds pushing ocean waters to shore. As global warming causes sea levels to rise — New York has already seen a foot increase since 1900 — less intense storms are needed to create a level of storm surge that threatens coastal property — and lives. ...
"People that are born now could see Sandy levels of flooding every other year because of rising sea levels," Kim Knowlton, a scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), told VICE News. "A storm even less powerful than Sandy could cause that amount of flooding in the city. We really need to take this into account."
"The Red Cross’ Secret Disaster": Charity Prioritized PR over People After Superstorm Sandy
Tar Sands Resistance Blowing Huge Hole in Oil Industry's Bottom Line
The growing tide of tar sands resistance—seen in blockades, tree sits, petitions, education efforts and calls to divest—is having a measurable negative impact on the bottom line of the tar sands industry, according to a new report, prompting researchers to declare that "business as usual for tar sands is over."
Published Wednesday by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis and Oil Change International, the report, Material Risks: How Public Accountability Is Slowing Tar Sands Development (pdf), finds that tar sands production revenues were down about $30.9 billion from 2010 through 2013. And according to the report, more than half of that lost revenue, roughly $17 billion, can be attributed to the fierce grassroots campaigns that have sprung up throughout North America in the past few years.
Led in large part by the Keystone XL resistance effort, anti-tar sands campaigns have created numerous delays and cancelled projects which have successfully impacted the bottom line for Canadian oil producers and drilling companies.
"Lack of market access, caused in large part by public accountability actions driven by pipeline campaigns, has played a significant role in the cancellation of three major tar sands projects in 2014 alone: Shell’s Pierre River, Total’s Joslyn North, and Statoil’s Corner Project," notes the report, which is the first in a series of collaborative papers on the tar sands industry to be published by the groups.
Candidate's Pro-Environment Stance Might Be A Winning Strategy In Michigan Senate Race
Last July, a small Canadian environmental group called Windsor on Watch captured footage of a frightening spectacle — a giant black cloud, dark and ominous as a thunderhead, swirling into Ontario from neighboring Detroit.
The cloud, it turned out, was dust from piles of petroleum coke, or petcoke, a byproduct of refining oil. The petcoke was the property of Koch Carbon, a company controlled by the Koch brothers, who have made much of their $100 billion fortune from fossil fuels. Though the dirty piles were eventually removed from the banks of the Detroit River, their influence is still being felt in Michigan's US Senate race, which pits Democrat Gary Peters against Republican Terri Lynn Land.
"If you had to name an issue that has dominated this race, it would be climate change, energy, and the environment," Susan Demas, publisher and editor of Inside Michigan Politics, told VICE News. "It's more of an issue here than in other states."
That fact is underscored by last summer's petcoke incident. Soon after the story broke, Peters, who has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2009, held a press conference in front of the black mounds. Calling petcoke "dirtier than the dirtiest coal," Peters announced that he would introduce legislation to study the impacts of the substance on human health. The piles were removed over the winter, a step that many environmentalists attribute to Peters' advocacy.
Like many Koch-linked Republicans, Land, who served as Michigan's Secretary of State from 2003 to 2010, has taken fire from environmental groups for her climate beliefs. ...
Peters' backers have not hesitated to exploit Land's Koch connection. Earlier this fall, the League of Conservation Voters Action Fund, which endorsed Peters, ran an attack ad featuring rising floodwaters, algal blooms, and belching smokestacks.
Recent polls show Peters ahead by double-digits.
Blog Posts of Interest
Here are diaries and selected blog posts of interest on DailyKos and other blogs.
What's Happenin' Is On Hiatus
Woman Was Awarded $685,737 After Learning Her Boyfriend Was an Undercover Cop Sent to Spy on Her
The Big Apple's Small Response to Hurricane Sandy
The claims against Jian Ghomeshi show we still need to talk about sexual consent
Israel Tests the Bounds of Its US Clout
Freedom Rider: The World Must Judge America’s Human Rights Abuses
The Philosophy of Decline and Collapse
A Little Night Music
Big Joe Williams - Baby Please Don't Go
The Devil's Music Part 2 - All American Collection
Big Joe Williams - Low Down Dirty Shame
Big Joe Williams - Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
Big Joe Williams - Highway 49
Lightnin' Hopkins,Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry & Big Joe Williams- Whiskey Blues
Big Joe Williams - Someday Baby
Big Joe Williams - Sloppy Drunk Blues
Big Joe Williams - Stack Of Dollars
Big Joe Williams w/Paul Butterfield - Whistling Pines
Big Joe Williams - Kings Highway
Big Joe Williams - Crawlin' King Snake
Big Joe Williams - Providence Help The Poor People
Big Joe Williams - Watergate Blues
Big Joe Williams - Mellow Peaches
Big Joe Williams - Pony Blues
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