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Hey! Good Evening!
This evening's music features the blues guitarist, song writer and singer Peter Green, specifically during his years (1968-1969) with Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac. This was Fleetwood Mac's blues period preceeding their rock & roll period that began with the Kiln House album of 1970. Enjoy!
Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac - Black Magic Woman (Live Boston Tea Party) 1970
PS--Yes, Peter Green wrote Black Magic Woman.
Considered by many, including myself, to be one of the top blues guitarists of all time, he is revered by many practitioners of the genre, B.B. King said of him "He has the sweetest tone I ever heard; he was the only one who gave me the cold sweats."
Lakota Instructions for Living
Friend do it this way - that is,
whatever you do in life,
do the very best you can
with both your heart and mind.
And if you do it that way,
the Power Of The Universe
will come to your assistance,
if your heart and mind are in Unity.
When one sits in the Hoop Of The People,
one must be responsible because
All of Creation is related.
And the hurt of one is the hurt of all.
And the honor of one is the honor of all.
And whatever we do effects everything in the universe.
If you do it that way - that is,
if you truly join your heart and mind
as One - whatever you ask for,
that's the Way It's Going To Be.
Passed down from White Buffalo Calf Woman
News and Opinion
Isis launches attack on Kobani from inside Turkey for first time
Assault by Islamic State militants reportedly began with suicide attack on border between Turkey and strategic Syrian town
Islamic State (Isis) has launched an attack on the Syrian border town of Kobani from Turkey for the first time, a Kurdish official and activists said.
The assault began with a suicide attack by a bomber in an armoured vehicle on the border crossing between Kobani and Turkey, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based opposition group, said.
Nawaf Khalil, a spokesman for Syria’s Kurdish Democratic Union party, said that Isis “used to attack the town from three sides” but “today, they are attacking from four sides”.
Turkey has previously backing the Syrian rebels fighting to topple the country’s president, Bashar al-Assad, has it has been reluctant to help the Kurds in Kobani for fear of stoking Kurdish ambitions for an independent state.
There was no comment from Ankara on Saturday about Isis fighters launching the assault from Turkish soil.
Syria: US-led strikes failed to weaken ISIS
The Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) has not been weakened since US-led airstrikes began in September, Syria’s foreign minister said, adding that nothing will change until Turkey increases security at its borders.
"All the indications say that [the Islamic State] today, after two months of coalition air strikes, is not weaker," Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem told the Beirut-based Al Mayadeen TV on Friday.
US-led airstrikes in Syria against the IS began as part of a larger effort to battle the jihadist group after it had seized vast amounts of territory in Iraq and Syria. Despite carrying out airstrikes in Syria, Washington has refused to work with the country’s government, stating that it wants to see Bashar Assad ousted. Turkey shares the latter stance with the US.
Muallem noted that until Ankara is forced to step up security at its borders, the Islamic State cannot actually be defeated.
Taliban attack Kabul aid workers' compound, Camp Bastion
(Reuters) - Taliban gunmen stormed a guest house for aid workers in Afghanistan's capital on Saturday and were fighting Afghan soldiers inside former U.S. and British base Camp Bastion in the south, just a month after foreign troops left.
Taliban attacks are intensifying as the U.S.-led coalition prepares to withdraw most of its soldiers by the end of 2014.
At least two people were killed in the second attack in three days on expatriate aid workers' housing, and authorities fear hostages may have been taken inside the compound in Kabul's western Karte Seh district.
Gunfire and explosions could be heard late into the evening and police said the building's second floor had caught fire.
Marked for deportation, Iraq war resisters fight to stay in Canada
Up to two dozen military deserters would likely face stiff penalties upon return to US
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — For more than five years, former U.S. soldier Rodney Watson has lived as a prisoner, confined to a church that serves a poor neighborhood here.
Wanted on charges of desertion in the United States and marked for deportation from Canada, he’s invoked the protection of sanctuary. Following a tradition established in medieval times, the Canada Border Services Agency officers have refrained from entering the church. Watson is safe from arrest as long as he stays within its walls.
There are as many as two dozen men and women like Watson living in Canada today. Self-described conscientious objectors or resisters to the 2003 Iraq war, they have applied to Canadian refugee and immigration boards, but their applications have been stalled in courts for years. They remain in various states of legal limbo.
Most live with their families and are awaiting the outcome of immigration appeals. A few have work permits, while others are forced to sit idle. Some have exhausted legal options and have gone into hiding.
Egyptian court drops case against Mubarak over 2011 protest deaths
(Reuters) - An Egyptian court has dropped its case against former President Hosni Mubarak over the killing of 239 protesters in the 2011 revolt that ended his three-decade rule.
Mubarak, 86, was sentenced to life in prison in 2012 for conspiring to murder the demonstrators, sowing chaos and creating a security vacuum during the 18-day revolt, but an appeals court ordered a retrial.
His supporters erupted into celebration when the verdicts of that retrial - which also cleared Mubarak's former interior minister Habib al-Adly and six aides - were read out. The defendants had denied the charges.
Those supporters outside court, carrying pictures of the ex-air force officer who loomed so large over the most populous Arab nation for three decades, far outnumbered families of protesters who died in the Tahrir Square revolt.
Protests after Mubarak murder charges dropped
One person killed as security forces clash with protesters in Egypt after case against toppled president is dismissed.
Violence erupted in the Egyptian capital as security forces clashed with people protesting a court decision to throw out charges against former President Hosni Mubarak over the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising.
Egyptian security forces shot one person dead late on Saturday, either with live ammunition or birdshot, and dozens more were injured as teargas and birdshot was fired at demonstrators near Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square.
Around 2,000 people gathered to protest the decision to dismiss murder charges against Mubarak, his interior minister and six aides over the deaths of nearly 900 demonstrators in the 18-day uprising that toppled the former president.
Mubarak and his sons, Alaa and Gamal, were also cleared by Chief Judge Mahmoud Kamel al-Rashidi of corruption charges related to gas exports to Israel.
Russia calls for end to sanctions as EU targets Ukraine separatists
(Reuters) - Russia urged the European Union on Saturday to lift sanctions against Moscow and promised to waive its food embargo, but a top EU official rejected such a move as the bloc imposed fresh measures on Ukrainian rebels.
The European Union and the United States imposed economic sanctions on Russia in late July, targeting the Russian energy, banking and defense sectors to punish Moscow's support for rebels in eastern Ukraine, the West's toughest steps yet.
In retaliation, Moscow has banned most Western food imports, worth $9 billion a year.
"We don't expect anything from our European partners. The only thing we expect is for them to leave the meaningless sanctions spiral and move onto the path of lifting the sanctions and dropping the blacklists," Russia's deputy foreign minister, Alexei Meshkov, was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency.
"This, in turn, would allow us to drop our lists."
Court bans pro-Russia party from Moldova elections
Submitted by: enhydra lutris
CHISINAU,Moldova (AP) — Moldova's top court had upheld a decision to bar a pro-Russian party from competing in this weekend's elections on the grounds that it illegally received funding from abroad.
The Supreme Court on Saturday rejected an appeal for the Patria party to run in Sunday's elections. Party founder Renato Usatii, who has done business with Russian Railways, fled Moldova Friday, saying he feared arrest by the country's pro-European authorities. Border police said he caught an early flight to Moscow.
The former Soviet republic of less than 4 million is torn between moving closer to Europe or back into Russia's orbit. Pro-European parties are slightly ahead in polls, although two pro-Russia parties remain in the race. Patria was polling at about 13 percent.
Nicolas Sarkozy wins French opposition UMP party vote
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been elected head of the opposition UMP, in what is being seen as the start of a new bid for the presidency.
Submitted by: enhydra lutris
Mr Sarkozy gained 64.5% of the vote, well ahead of his nearest rival Bruno le Marie.
He was under pressure to win by a wide margin, and hoped to get more than 70% to keep his re-election hopes alive.
The UMP has struggled to be effective in opposition to Francois Hollande, despite the president's dismal ratings.
Mr Sarkozy, 59, won 85% of the vote when he was first elected party leader in 2004.
Slavery levels in UK 'higher than thought'
There could be between 10,000 and 13,000 victims of slavery in the UK, higher than previous figures, analysis for the Home Office suggests.
Modern slavery victims are said to include women forced into prostitution, "imprisoned" domestic staff and workers in fields, factories and fishing boats.
The figure for 2013 is the first time the government has made an official estimate of the scale of the problem.
The Home Office has launched a strategy to help tackle slavery.
It said the victims included people trafficked from more than 100 countries - the most prevalent being Albania, Nigeria, Vietnam and Romania - as well as British-born adults and children.
At Home and Abroad, UN Report Details Abysmal US Record of Abuse
Torture, indefinite detention, excessive force, and systematic discrimination and mistreatment have become part of the nation's modern legacy
An official report by the United Nations Committee Against Torture released Friday found that the United States has a long way to go if it wants to actually earn its claimed position as a leader in the world on human rights.
Following a lengthy review of recent and current practices regarding torture, imprisonment, policing, immigration policies, and the overall legacy of the Bush and Obama administration's execution of the so-called 'War on Terror,' the committee report (pdf) found the U.S. government in gross violation when it comes to protecting basic principles of the Convention Against Torture, which the U.S. ratified in 1994, as well as other international treaties.
This was the first full review of the U.S. human rights record by the UN body since 2006 and the release of the report follows a two-day hearing in Geneva earlier this month in which representatives of the Obama administration offered testimony and answered questions to the review panel. The report's findings do not reflect well on the U.S., a nation that continues to tout itself as a leader on such issues despite the enormous amount of criticism aimed at policies of torture and indefinite detention implemented in the years following September 11, 2001, the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq that followed, and the global military campaign taking place on several continents and numerous countries that continues to this day.
In addition to calling for full accountability for the worst torture practices that happened during the Bush administration, the panel also demanded the Obama administration end the continued harsh treatment of foreign detainees at its offshore prison at Guantanamo Bay on the island of Cuba. As Reuters notes, the panel's report criticized what it called a continued U.S. failure to fully investigate allegations of torture and ill-treatment of terrorism suspects held in U.S. custody abroad, "evidenced by the limited number of criminal prosecutions and convictions".
Talking to James Risen About Pay Any Price, the War on Terror and Press Freedoms
James Risen, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2005 for exposing the NSA warrantless eavesdropping program, has long been one of the nation’s most aggressive and adversarial investigative journalists. Over the past several years, he has received at least as much attention for being threatened with prison by the Obama Justice Department (ostensibly) for refusing to reveal the source of one of his stories—a persecution that, in reality, is almost certainly the vindictive by-product of the U.S. government’s anger over his NSA reporting.
He has published a new book on the War on Terror entitled Pay Any Price: Greed, Power and Endless War. There have been lots of critiques of the War on Terror on its own terms, but Risen’s is one of the first to offer large amounts of original reporting on what is almost certainly the most overlooked aspect of this war: the role corporate profiteering plays in ensuring its endless continuation, and how the beneficiaries use rank fear-mongering to sustain it.
That alone makes the book very worth reading, but what independently interests me about Risen is how he seems to have become entirely radicalized by what he’s discovered in the last decade of reporting, as well as by the years-long battle he has had to wage with the U.S. government to stay out of prison. He now so often eschews the modulated, safe, uncontroversial tones of the standard establishment reporter (such as when he called Obama “the greatest enemy of press freedom in a generation” and said about the administration’s press freedom attacks: “Nice to see the U.S. government is becoming more like the Iranian government”). He at times even channels radical thinkers, sounding almost Chomsky-esque when he delivered a multiple-tweet denunciation—taken from a speech he delivered at Colby College—of how establishment journalists cling to mandated orthodoxies out of fear:
"It is difficult to recognize the limits a society places on accepted thought at the time it is doing it. When everyone accepts basic assumptions, there don’t seem to be constraints on ideas. That truth often only reveals itself in hindsight. Today, the basic prerequisite to being taken seriously in American politics is to accept the legitimacy of the new national security state. The new basic American assumption is that there really is a need for a global war on terror. Anyone who doesn’t accept that basic assumption is considered dangerous and maybe even a traitor. The crackdown on leaks by the Obama administration has been designed to suppress the truth about the war on terror. Stay on the interstate highway of conventional wisdom with your journalism, and you will have no problems. Try to get off and challenge basic assumptions, and you will face punishment."
Listen to interview here.
Read transcript here.
The Long, Dark Shadows of Plutocracy
Latest episode of Moyers & Company explores how soaring towers of the elite help expose the scourge of economic inequality that is destroying a nation
Some people say inequality doesn’t matter. They are wrong. All we have to do to see its effects is to realize that all across America millions of people of ordinary means can’t afford decent housing.
As wealthy investors and buyers drive up real estate values, the middle class is being squeezed further and the working poor are being shoved deeper into squalor — in places as disparate as Silicon Valley and New York City.
On the latest episode of Moyers & Company this week, host Bill Moyers points to the changing skyline of Manhattan as the physical embodiment of how money and power impact the lives and neighborhoods of every day people. Soaring towers being built at the south end of Central Park, climbing higher than ever with apartments selling from $30 million to $90 million, are beginning to block the light on the park below. Many of the apartments are being sold at those sky high prices to the international super rich, many of whom will only live in Manhattan part-time – if at all — and often pay little or no city income or property taxes, thanks to the political clout of real estate developers.
View video here.
Ferguson officer who shot Michael Brown resigns
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The white police officer who killed Michael Brown has resigned from the Ferguson Police Department, his attorney said Saturday, nearly four months after the fatal confrontation with the black 18-year-old that fueled protests in the St. Louis suburb and across the nation.
Darren Wilson, 28, has been on administrative leave since the shooting on Aug. 9. His resignation was announced Saturday by one of his attorneys, Neil Bruntrager. The resignation is effective immediately, Bruntrager said. He declined further immediate comment but said he would release more details Saturday night.
The attorney for the Brown family, Benjamin Crump, did not immediately return phone and email messages from The Associated Press seeking comment.
A grand jury spent more than three months reviewing evidence in the case before declining in November to issue any charges against Wilson. He told jurors that he feared for his life when Brown hit him and reached for his gun.
Police arrest 16 in Ferguson amid nationwide Black Friday protests
~Demonstrators temporarily shut three malls in St Louis
~Michael Brown protests in New York, Chicago and California
~Ferguson woman `blinded in one eye’ by police beanbag round
Sixteen people were arrested in Ferguson, Missouri on Friday night, during continued protests following a grand jury decision not to indict police officer Darren Wilson for the fatal shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown.
Approximately 100 protesters marched and blocked traffic on South Florrissant Road towards the Ferguson police department, which has seen some of the heaviest unrest since the grand jury’s decision on Monday.
Police said 15 of those arrested were from out of state, including eight from New York, amidst reports published by the New York Times that some protesters were affiliated with the Revolutionary Communist Party. One protester from New York was arrested for allegedly assaulting a police officer.
St Louis County police did not respond to a further request for further clarification from the Guardian.
Rage echoing across nation goes beyond grand jury's decision
The rage echoing across the nation after a grand jury's conclusion in Ferguson, Missouri, goes far beyond the decision not to indict white police Officer Darren Wilson in the death of unarmed black teen Michael Brown.
Protesters have blocked bridges and tunnels, spilled into roadways and disrupted Black Friday shopping in more than 150 cities in mostly peaceful protests that conjure memories of the civil rights movement for some. The demonstrators were furious at the grand jury decision, but their frustration transcends anger over what happened between Wilson and Brown in the shadow of St. Louis one Saturday afternoon in August.
"It's bigger than what happened in Ferguson," said Dorothy Brown, a law professor at Emory University School of Law in Atlanta.
After the grand jury completed its work, many around the United States have interpreted what happened in Ferguson squarely in the context of a larger, historic narrative about race and justice in America.
To them, Ferguson is just the latest reminder that the American criminal justice system doesn't treat blacks and whites the same -- and that young black men in particular are often killed with impunity.
Hellraiser Preview
Sherman, set the time machine for tomorrow's Hellraisers Journal, which will feature Colorado Coalfield Strike of 1913-14: President Wilson Appoints Strike Adjusters, Ready to withdraw federal troops from strike zone..
Tune in at 2pm!
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Wal-Mart Workers hold Protest
About 300 people gathered on Friday morning at a Wal-Mart store near Union Station in Washington and 11 Wal-Mart workers and supporters were taken into custody on charges of jamming traffic outside a Wal-Mart on West Monroe Street in Chicago.
Millions of shoppers crowded to Wal-Mart stores nationwide on Black Friday and thousands of protesters descended on Wal-Marts to protest what they called were the retailer's low wages. Numerous hundred union members and others protested at the Wal-Mart in North Bergen, New Jersey.
Ronee Hinton, a cashier at a Wal-Mart in Laurel, Maryland, took part in morning protest at the Walmart in Washington, calling on the company to boost everyone's pay to minimum $15 an hour and provide more workers full-time and less erratic schedules.
"It's very hard on what I earn. Right now I'm on food stamps and am applying for medical assistance. It would help a lot to get full time", said Hinton, noting that she normally earns about $220 a week, she earns $8.40 an hour and frequently works about 26 hours a week.
Walmart employees rally across US for living wage
Employees and activists are calling on Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, to improve wages and other practices, accusing it of “bullying” those who want better work conditions. It is the third year that such protests have taken place on Black Friday.
Workers took to the streets – on the busiest shopping day of the year – demanding a pay increase to $15 per hour and the opportunity to work full-time.
Some of the biggest demonstrations took place outside Walmart stores in Chicago and Washington, DC, as well as various cities throughout California, Texas, New Jersey, and Washington state. Though organizers had planned the union-backed protests for some 1,600 stores, it is not clear how many actually took place.
What falling oil prices will mean for state budgets
Submitted by: enhydra lutris
Oil prices are dropping…fast. This may be good news for drivers but not so good for a handful of states that use energy tax revenue to help fund their budgets. It may be especially challenging for states that rely on taxes from production of shale oil that uses methods that may be practical only at high prices. It costs $60 to $70 to produce a barrel of shale oil, leaving little margin once the price of crude dropped to the $75 range in November. Of course, the success of the controversial hydrofracking method which has opened up vast new reserves is one reason oil prices are so low.
On the positive side, with gas prices at a four year low, consumers have extra money in their pockets just in time for the holiday shopping season: more shopping means more state sales tax collections. If more travelers take to the roads, those long trips will also boost motor fuel tax collections (remember, gas taxes are generally fixed, and not tied to pump prices).
Low crude oil prices also lower the costs of surface transport, both rail and truck. Unfortunately, low prices may also boost short-term consumption of fossil fuel and may make buying gas-guzzlers more attractive.
Energy states will be affected in different ways, depending in part on how well they’ve projected prices—always a risky game. Among states that rely heavily on oil severance taxes, price forecasts for the current fiscal year range from $80 to $105 per barrel, depending on when the forecast was made.
Russia not planning to reduce oil production – Deputy PM
Russia is to stay in line with OPEC’s decision not to cut oil production, said the country’s First Deputy PM, adding the move serves to secure the country’s position on the market and protect the budget.
"The experts say that one of the main reasons behind the falling oil prices is that some Arab oil producing countries... are squeezing out shale oil from the international market," Igor Shuvalov told Rossiya-1 TV Saturday.
"If such actions are happening with the aim to fix or confirm one's position on the market, we should not do anything at the moment to scale down our positions."
The US is seeing a peak in shale oil market production, which has drastically affected the global oil market dampening prices. Shuvalov admitted that falling costs have dragged the ruble down to a degree it cannot be ignored.
Southern Democrats urging a return to party basics
Submitted by: enhydra lutris
ATLANTA — Southern Democrats are joining others in the party who say that a return to advocating to lift people out of economic hardship and emphasizing spending on education and public works will re-energize black voters and attract whites as well.
“It’s time to draw a line in the sand and not surrender our brand,” said Rickey Cole, the party chairman in Mississippi. He believes candidates have distanced themselves from the past half-century of Democratic principles.
“We don’t need a New Coke formula,” Cole said. “The problem is we’ve been out there trying to peddle Tab and RC Cola.”
Researchers Redate Antikyethera Mechanism By One Hundred Years
The Antikythera Mechanism is considered the oldest computer in the world. In fact it seems it is actually even older than originally believed. Researchers at the National University of Quilmes, in Argentina, have studied the device again and now determine that it could date back as far 205 B.C. which is approximately 100 years earlier than they thought before.
The Antikythera Mechanism was actually discovered within a sunken shipwreck at the bottom of the Aegean Sea (near the island of Antikythera, hence its name).
But when it was made is only part of the mystery, because this device can accurately predict astronomical positions and eclipses. This device, in fact, is so complex that many consider it to be far ahead of its time which probably accounts for the early miscalculation of its age. Still, mechanical astronomical clocks of similar complexity would not appear on Man’s timeline until maybe the 14th century. And furthermore, researchers believe that the Antikythera Mechanism must be an original machine and not the prototype for others, because of the relative span of time between it and the next such device.
These new findings, though, could reveal that the accurate eclipse predictor—the Saros dial—within the Antikythera mechanism suggests it provided highly valuable astronomical data.
Did North Korea order hack on Sony Pictures computers?
Reports suggest anger over film The Interview depicting a CIA plot to assassinate Kim Jong-un could be reason for cyber attack
Sony Pictures Entertainment is said to be investigating whether North Korea was behind a hack of its computer network, over a Hollywood film depicting a plot to assassinate Kim Jong-un.
The hermit state’s anger over the comedy about CIA plans to kill its leader may have been behind the attack on the company’s system, according to tech news website Re/code.
A group calling itself #GOP (Guardians of Peace) posted a warning on employees computers on Monday saying “If you don`t obey us, we`ll release the data shown below to the world”, giving a deadline of 11:00 the same day and listing five data links.
#GOP said Sony Pictures had been warned before but did not detail its demands.
The Evening Greens
Weekend Edition Editor - Agathena
Environment Canada Study Reveals Oilsands Tailings Ponds Emit Toxins to Atmosphere at Much Higher Levels than Reported
There are more than 176 square kilometres of tailings ponds holding waste from oilsands development in the area around Fort McMurray, Alberta. According to new research released from Environment Canada, those tailings ponds are emitting much higher levels of toxic and potentially cancer-causing contaminants into the air than previously reported.
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1,069 kilograms of oilsands toxins from tailings released into air each year
The research found 1,069 kilograms of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), oil-derived toxins that are known to cause cancer in animals and humans, are released from tailings directly into the air each year.
According to Galarneau’s research abstract, the most recent emissions reports to Canada’s National Pollutant Release Inventory only totaled 231 kilograms.
“These results indicate that tailings ponds may be an important PAH source to the atmosphere that is missing from current inventories in the [oilsands region],” the abstract states.
Keep on demonstrating people!
“Citizen Interventions” Have Cost Canada’s Tar Sands Industry $17B, New Report Shows
Opposition to tar sands unexpected
Steve Kretzmann, executive director of Oil Change International, added industry officials never anticipated the level and intensity of public opposition to their massive build-out plans.
“Public opposition has caused government and its administrative agencies to take a second and third look,” Kretzmann said. “Legal and other challenges are raising new issues related to environmental protection, indigenous rights and the disruptive impact of new pipeline proposals.”
He added anti-pipeline protests are keeping carbon in the ground, and changing the bottom line for the tar sands industry.
“Business as usual for Big Oil – particularly in the tar sands – is over,” Kretzmann said.
Fracking a 'Violation of Our Basic Human Rights', Argues New Report
The report cites human rights liabilities for the British government if fracking is to commence commercially across the UK. It was co-authored by the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment as well as the Environment and Human Rights Advisory and the Human Rights Consortium at the University of London.
It focuses primarily on the health implications of people living by frack sites, where the government is “legally bound to respect and protect human rights, both under the auspices of its own Human Rights Act 1998 and of the European Convention on Human Rights.”
Under these acts, the UK is obligated to consider the environmental impacts of industry on its citizens by allowing for public participation as well as the ‘right to life’, which protects citizens from living near dangerous and contaminated areas, including poisonous water supplies.
Blog Posts of Interest
Here are diaries and selected blog posts of interest on DailyKos and other blogs.
What's Happenin' Is On Hiatus
The dirty f**king progressive hippies were right about the Wall Street suit and tie generation
Ferguson: It is Right to Resist, By Any and All Means Necessary
We had the music, they had the media and the guns
Hellraisers Journal: Wilson Considers Plan to End Colorado Coal Strike: Commission for Investigation
Meteorite Sheds Light on Earth's Mantle
AIDS Awareness
U.N. condemns United States for police and military torture
A Mass Murder That Happened One Hundred and Fifty Years Ago Today, in Eastern Colorado
Turkey: an ISIS ally?
A Little Night Music
Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac - Doctor Brown
Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac - Shake Your Money Maker
Fleetwood Mac - Oh Well (Part 1 & 2)
Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac - Albatross
Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac - Black Magic Woman Studio Version
Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac - World's In A Tangle
Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac - My Heart Beat Like A Hammer
Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac - Hungry County Girl with Otis Spann
Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac - Horton's Boogie Woogie (Take 1) with Big Walter Horton
Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac - Madison Blues
Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac - I Loved Another Woman
Fleetwood Mac - Rattlesnake Shake
Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac - Long Grey Mare
Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac - Watch Out
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