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Catherine Russell - We The People
Upon suffering beyond suffering:
The Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick world; a world filled with broken promises, selfishness and separations; a world longing for light again.
I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole Earth will become one circle again.
In that day, there will be those among the Lakota who will carry knowledge and understanding of unity among all living things and the young white ones will come to those of my people and ask for this wisdom.
I salute the light within your eyes where the whole Universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you and I am that place within me, we shall be one.
Crazy Horse, Oglala Lakota Sioux (circa 1840-1877)
News and Opinion
US hostage Luke Somers and SA Pierre Korkie killed during Yemen rescue bid
UK-born US journalist Luke Somers and South African teacher Pierre Korkie have been killed by al-Qaeda militants in Yemen during a failed rescue bid.
Saturday's operation was carried out by joint US and Yemeni special forces in the southern Shabwa region.
US President Barack Obama condemned Mr Somers's death as a "barbaric murder".
They were being held by militants from al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), regarded by the US as one of the deadliest offshoots of al-Qaeda.
The group is based in eastern Yemen and has built up support amid the unrest which has beset the impoverished country since the overthrow of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in 2011.
U.S. to keep more troops in Afghanistan as violence spikes
(Reuters) - The United States will keep up to 1,000 more soldiers than previously planned in Afghanistan into next year, outgoing U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Saturday, in a recognition of the still formidable challenge from Taliban insurgents.
Hagel, officially confirming a change in the U.S. drawdown schedule first reported by Reuters, said the additional troops were a temporary measure and did not change the long term timeline for withdrawing troops.
He said U.S. forces in Afghanistan could fall only to 10,800 troops, rather than 9,800 as originally planned. The additional troops could stay until the first few months of 2015, while agreements were reached with other coalition partners to fill the gap, Hagel added.
"But the president's authorization will not change our troops' missions, or the long-term timeline for our drawdown," Hagel said during an unannounced trip to Afghanistan, his last as Pentagon chief.
Al-Qaida’s chief of global operations killed in army raid in Pakistan
Adnan Shukrijumah was indicted in the US over a plot to bomb New York’s subway system
Al-Qaida’s chief of global operations – who was indicted in the US over a plot to bomb New York’s subway system – has been killed in an army raid in Pakistan’s lawless tribal region.
Adnan Shukrijumah was killed, along with two other suspected militants, in Pakistan’s South Waziristan tribal area early on Saturday.
A senior Pakistani army officer said: “The al-Qaida leader, who was killed by the Pakistan army in a successful operation, is the same person who had been indicted in the United Stated.” .
The FBI lists the 39-year-old Saudi as a “most wanted” terrorist and had offered up to a $5 million reward for his capture.
Federal prosecutors in the US allege Shukrijumah had recruited the three men in 2008 to receive training in South Waziristan for the New York attack. The New York indictment links him to the Manhattan plot and a similar never-executed scheme to attack the London underground.
Britain reopens Bahrain navy base after 40 yrs – to fight ISIS
The UK is returning to its naval base in Bahrain, a former British protectorate, after more than 40 years. The base will serve as the main British hub for operations in the Persian Gulf.
Under an agreement with Bahrain, the Royal Navy will be able to deploy ships of larger deadweight and in greater numbers.
The base will become the Royal Navy's largest center of operations outside the UK.
“This new base is a permanent expansion of the Royal Navy's footprint and will enable Britain to send more and larger ships to reinforce stability in the Gulf,” British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon said.
“We will now be based again in the Gulf for the long term," he said.
Prominent Germans urge West to stop sabre rattling toward Russia
A group of prominent Germans are urging their country and the West to open dialogue with Russia. They believe this is essential to ensure peace in Europe, rather than further isolate Moscow, which they say would be “dangerous for the world.”
The petition named ‘New war in Europe? Not in our name!’ was signed by 60 people from Germany’s politics, economy, culture and media sectors – among them former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and film director Wim Wenders.
The group, led by former Chancellor advisor Horst Teltschik, former Defense Secretary Walter Stutzle and the former Vice President of the Bunderstag, Antje Vollmer, said that just because Russia and the West are experiencing differences at the moment, it “does not mean that the progress that we have achieved over the last 25 years with Russia should be terminated,” Telschik said.
They want to see a new policy of détente implemented in Europe and urge the German government and the West to move away from a confrontational policy towards Moscow, in favor of one of diplomacy.
Hollande meets Putin in impromptu visit to Moscow for Ukraine crisis talks
Francois Hollande has met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in an unscheduled short visit to Moscow to discuss the Ukrainian conflict. The French president said he believes Paris and Moscow together can find a solution.
Speaking to reporters after the meeting, Putin said that while both sides in the Ukrainian conflict are not fulfilling all their obligations, the situation there gives hope for improvement in near future.
Hollande made an unexpected stop in Moscow’s Vnukovo-2 airport as he travelled from neighboring Kazakhstan to France on Saturday.
"I was flying over Moscow and made a decision to stop over here for discussing the most significant issues related to Ukraine's crisis and to all the sufferings stemming out of it for the Ukrainians, for the European Union and for Russia as well," Hollande said.
Putin welcomed his counterpart and thanked him for the visit, saying that it “certainly will benefit the resolution of many problems.”
The French leader said he was eager to continue the discussion started at the G20 in Australia and at the three-way meeting between himself, Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel during D-Day celebrations in France.
Man dies after being shot by police in Hollywood near Walk of Fame
A man who police say was carrying a knife has died after being shot by law enforcers in Hollywood, Los Angeles. He was taken to hospital but, did not recover from his injuries. A witness who took a video of the incident says the man was unarmed.
Police say they were responding to a report of an assault with a deadly weapon on Friday night. On arrival they were met with an “armed man,” CBS Los Angeles reported. According to Detective Meghan Aguilar, the man was carrying a knife.
“When he saw the officers, he approached them and an officer involved shooting occurred,” ABC News reported Aguilar as saying.
A witness speaking to Eyewitness News that she heard officers with guns drawn yelling, "He's still got a knife."
The suspect was critically injured and taken to hospital but later died from his injuries, a Los Angeles Police Department spokesman said.
Police say they found a combination knife, similar to a Swiss Army Knife, at the scene.
Oakland protesters block Interstate 880
Submitted by: enhydra lutris
Hundreds of protesters swarmed onto Interstate 880 in Oakland Friday, forced the closure of the West Oakland BART Station, broke windows and roughed up a store owner during a third straight night of demonstrations against the recent killings of unarmed black men by police.
The teeming crowd chanted “shut it down” as they marched onto the freeway off-ramp about 9 p.m., and blocked traffic in both directions, prompting police to scramble. The blockage was short-lived. Police used a megaphone to warn of mass arrests.
“Disrupt the system,” the demonstrators yelled in unison as they marched off the freeway. At least two people were arrested during the incident, according to witnesses.
But they weren’t finished. The throng then surged into the West Oakland Bart Station and pounded on the entry gates, which were hastily closed before being swamped by the group. The crowd jammed a trash can underneath the gate and broke it. Someone broke a window at the station while others graffitied the walls as the mob shouted, “Oscar Grant, Oscar Grant.”
As the night wore on, the crowd thinned, but those who were left seemed bent on violence. Edwin Cabrillo, a worker at Oakland’s Downtown Wine Merchants, was roughed up when he tried to stop protesters from smashing two of the businesses’ front windows.
Protesters of chokehold death rally around nation
Submitted By: enhydra lutris
Demonstrators around the country staged die-ins, blocked roadways and marched into stores to protest a New York grand jury's decision to not indict a white police officer in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man.
Tensions were already running high around the nation because of a grand jury's decision last week to not indict a white officer in the shooting death of black 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. On Wednesday, more protests erupted after a grand jury in New York City decided not to indict a white officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner, a black man who gasped "I can't breathe" while he was being arrested for selling loose, untaxed cigarettes.
Hundreds of protesters marched and many briefly laid down in Macy's flagship store, Grand Central Terminal and an Apple store. They streamed along Fifth Avenue sidewalks and other parts of Manhattan, with signs and chants of "Black lives matter" and "I can't breathe."
News outlets reported that demonstrators later blocked traffic on the FDR Drive in Lower Manhattan, spurring arrests. Police didn't immediately have information on the number arrests.
In Oakland, California, hundreds of protesters briefly blocked Interstate 880, a major freeway, on Friday night. There were no immediate reports of any arrests or injuries.
The System Isn’t Going to Fix Itself—It’s Time for Us to Police the Police
The system has failed us. Or perhaps it’s finally been given a chance to assert the truth we didn’t want to hear: black lives don’t matter as much as others to those in power. And that truth has been writ large this year. It has been underscored by the sheer unbelievability of the circumstances under which black men and boys may be killed without consequence. Without justice. Without even so much as a trial to shed light on the murky corners of witness retellings and police misremembering … even if only to exonerate wrongly accused good cops.
Ron J. Williams, Chief Detective at proofLabs (prooflabsgroup.com), is an entrepreneur and speaker. He is obsessed with making human networks work better.
Lethal force for non-felony offenses? No problem. Illegal use of lethal force on an unarmed man? No problem. Lack of clear and present mortal danger? No problem. It is officially open season and even with a camera in your face recording you killing another human you’re safe from justice.
These faces of black boys killed by cops in this country haunt me. They’re my face at 15, 19, 21 and maybe even now.
But for some of us, maybe it doesn’t feel that personal. So I want to know what we will all do when it is not somebody else’s black boy or man, but yours. Your best friend. Your first love. Your husband. Your bi-racial son. Your godfather. Your co-worker. Your boss. Your professor. Your exceptional negro. Your pedigreed, successful, totally approachable, fairly reasonable wouldn’t hurt-a-fly black men.
Operation Auroragold
How the NSA Hacks Cellphone Networks Worldwide
In March 2011, two weeks before the Western intervention in Libya, a secret message was delivered to the National Security Agency. An intelligence unit within the U.S. military’s Africa Command needed help to hack into Libya’s cellphone networks and monitor text messages.
For the NSA, the task was easy. The agency had already obtained technical information about the cellphone carriers’ internal systems by spying on documents sent among company employees, and these details would provide the perfect blueprint to help the military break into the networks.
The NSA’s assistance in the Libya operation, however, was not an isolated case. It was part of a much larger surveillance program—global in its scope and ramifications—targeted not just at hostile countries.
According to documents contained in the archive of material provided to The Intercept by whistleblower Edward Snowden, the NSA has spied on hundreds of companies and organizations internationally, including in countries closely allied to the United States, in an effort to find security weaknesses in cellphone technology that it can exploit for surveillance.
The documents also reveal how the NSA plans to secretly introduce new flaws into communication systems so that they can be tapped into—a controversial tactic that security experts say could be exposing the general population to criminal hackers.
Former al Qaida hostage recounts nightmare – of dealing with FBI
WASHINGTON — The only thing as bad as being tortured for months as a captive of jihadists in Syria was dealing with the U.S. government afterward, according to one former American hostage.
Matt Schrier, 36, a freelance photographer held by extremists for seven months in 2013 until he escaped, has told McClatchy that the bureaucracy he endured upon his return home was a second kind of nightmare following the months of abuse he suffered while he was a hostage.
“I never thought it would get this bad,” Schrier said.
The FBI never told his father that he had been kidnapped. It waited six months into his capture to produce a wanted poster, and only after his mother prodded. It allowed jihadist forces to empty his bank account – $17,000 – with purchases on eBay, even as the government warned hostage families not to pay ransom so as not to run afoul of anti-terrorism laws.
After his escape, the government made him reimburse the State Department $1,605 for his ticket home just weeks after he arrived in the United States. The psychiatrist assigned to help him readjust canceled five appointments in the first two months. And when he had no means to rent an apartment, FBI victims services recommended New York City homeless shelters.
Muslim teenager killed in Kansas City: Hate crime?
A Muslim teenager in Kansas City was run down and killed by a driver in a car painted with anti-Islamic messages, say friends of the victim.
Submitted by: enhydra lutris
Kansas City, Mo. — Friends of a Muslim teenager who was run down and killed in a crash that's being investigated as a possible hate crime said they had been alarmed in recent weeks by someone driving around with anti-Islamic messages painted on a vehicle.
Police haven't said whether the crash and the messages are connected and there's no mention of them in court records. But people at the Somali Center of Kansas City say they were alarmed enough to call police.
Ahmed H. Aden, 34, of Kansas City, was charged Friday in Jackson County with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the crash that fatally injured 15-year-old Abdisamad Sheikh-Hussein on Thursday night at the center. Funeral services for Abdisamad are scheduled for 1 p.m. Saturday at the Islamic Society of Greater Kansas City.
According to a probable cause statement, Aden was driving the sport utility vehicle that hit the teen as the boy got into a car Thursday evening. A witness reported seeing the teen "fly through the air" before the SUV ran over him. The teen's legs were nearly severed, and he died in a hospital of his wounds.
Related article: How well do you know American extremism? Take the quiz.
US 'terrorism?' What's not being said about Kansas City, Austin attacks.
The adoption of slogans like the 'war on terrorism' since Al Qaeda's attacks on 9/11 was supposed to be about the tactic, not about the underlying beliefs of the attacker.
Submitted By: NCTim
Yesterday, a man in an SUV who'd been making online and in-person threats against the Muslim community ran down and killed a 15-year-old boy getting into the family car outside a mosque in Kansas City, Mo. At the end of last month a man with ties to extremist Christian groups and opposed to immigration fired more than 100 rounds at various targets in Austin, Texas, including the police headquarters, the federal courthouse, and the Mexican consulate, before he was killed.
In neither case has the word "terrorism" featured prominently in the coverage of the attack. And, if the US press and politicians stay true to what's become the accepted framing for homegrown "terrorism," it's unlikely to appear much going forward.
The adoption of slogans like the "war on terrorism" since Al Qaeda's attacks on New York and Washington in 2001 was supposed to be about the tactic, not about the underlying beliefs of the attacker. But in practice, terrorism carried out by Muslims is portrayed as far scarier, a far greater danger, than similar violent acts carried out by adherents of other faiths.
The killing in Kansas City happened outside a mosque mostly frequented by Somali immigrants, and the attacker was also a Somali, a convert from Islam to Christianity, according to local community members. “It became pretty clear that this was not an accidental crash, there is a considerable amount of evidence that leads us to believe it was intentional,” Sgt. Bill Mahoney from the Kansas City Police told the local Fox affiliate.
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Local station KCTV spoke to members of the Somali community who had a photograph of what they said was the attacker's SUV from two months ago, when it carried the slogan: "Quran is a virus disease woreste [sic] than Ebola."
Related article: How much do you know about terrorism? Take the quiz.
Hellraiser Preview
Sherman, set the time machine for tomorrow's Hellraisers Journal, which will feature From The Cincinnati Enquirer of Dec 6 & 7, 1914: J. F. Welborn, President of Colorado Fuel & Iron Company, grilled by Chairman Walsh of the Commission on Industrial Relations. UMW to meet in Denver to consider calling off Colorado Coalfield Strike.
Tune in at 2pm!
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Plummeting Oil Prices Could Destroy The Banks That Are Holding Trillions In Commodity Derivatives
Could rapidly falling oil prices trigger a nightmare scenario for the commodity derivatives market? The big Wall Street banks did not expect plunging home prices to cause a mortgage-backed securities implosion back in 2008, and their models did not anticipate a decline in the price of oil by more than 40 dollars in less than six months this time either. If the price of oil stays at this level or goes down even more, someone out there is going to have to absorb some absolutely massive losses. In some cases, the losses will be absorbed by oil producers, but many of the big players in the industry have already locked in high prices for their oil next year through derivatives contracts. The companies enter into these derivatives contracts for a couple of reasons. Number one, many lenders do not want to give them any money unless they can show that they have locked in a price for their oil that is higher than the cost of production. Secondly, derivatives contracts protect the profits of oil producers from dramatic swings in the marketplace. These dramatic swings rarely happen, but when they do they can be absolutely crippling. So the oil companies that have locked in high prices for their oil in 2015 and 2016 are feeling pretty good right about now. But who is on the other end of those contracts? In many cases, it is the big Wall Street banks, and if the price of oil does not rebound substantially they could be facing absolutely colossal losses.
It has been estimated that the six largest “too big to fail” banks control $3.9 trillion in commodity derivatives contracts. And a very large chunk of that amount is made up of oil derivatives.
By the middle of next year, we could be facing a situation where many of these oil producers have locked in a price of 90 or 100 dollars a barrel on their oil but the price has fallen to about 50 dollars a barrel.
In such a case, the losses for those on the wrong end of the derivatives contracts would be astronomical.
California’s holiday gift: forecasts of a wet winter
Submitted by: enhydra lutris
Meteorologists say periodic showers are likely through the middle of December, while new federal climate models, including a bumped-up forecast for El Niño, hint at definitively soggier months ahead.
While much of California still needs at least 50 percent more rain and snow than average this winter to make up for three dry years, climate experts are optimistic that the state won’t fall deeper into drought — and could very well close some of its rainfall deficit by summer.
“Right now, things look pretty good,” said Mike Halpert, acting director of the U.S. Climate Prediction Center in Maryland. “The forecasts favor wet. How wet that is, who knows.”
Weather prediction is a fickle science, and increasingly rosy indicators could ultimately fall flat.
Thousands flee as Hagupit nears Philippines
About 500,000 evacuate coastal areas, already devastated by typhoon Haiyan, as the erratic storm's path widens.
About half a million Filipinos fled their homes as a powerful typhoon bore down on the disaster-weary island nation where thousands died in a storm 13 months ago.
Typhoon Hagupit is triggering one of the largest evacuations we have ever seen in peacetime.
Denis McClean, UNISDR spokesman.
Typhoon Hagupit edged closer to the Philippines on Saturday, dipping below an earlier category five "super typhoon" level, as it remained on course to make landfall later in the day.
About 500,000 people evacuated coastal villages and landslide-prone areas in Samar and Leyte provinces, areas devastated from last year's super typhoon Haiyan that killed more than 7,300 people.
At least 47 of the country's 81 provinces are potentially at high risk, with weather officials still unclear over its forecasted path.
"Over 100,000 families are already in evacuation centres," Social Welfare secretary, Corazon Soliman said. "Multiply it by five [persons per family], that's 500,000," adding that most of the residents had volunteered to leave.
Orion: a last-ditch effort by a fading empire that will never strike back
When a space startup has twice the force for a fraction of the cost, you know the US government has a problem
~Orion spacecraft recovered after Nasa succeeds at second launch
~Video: Orion launched into space
~Live updates: Orion launches on first test for Mars
Submitted by:NCTim
If the new space race was like the movies, this week would be The Empires Strikes Back.
On Friday, after a weather delay, launched a very cool space capsule, in what at first blush looked like another Apollo mission. It rose on a massive rocket spewing superheated exhaust like some creature from a Peter Jackson movie. All went well just now – and given the expertise of engineers performing what was essentially an update of a 1970s Apollo mission, that much was expected: a four-seat capsule called Orion will detach any minute now, and soar around the Earth twice, then descend into the atmosphere and finally splash down under some parachutes. There are no people onboard.
Orion is a long-shot demonstration mission that is aimed at no celestial body, nor the moon, Mars or even an asteroid. The United States government’s attempt is aimed at space startups that are trying to muscle their way into the spaceflight industry – and budge NASA out for good.
In one corner is what’s now commonly called “private space”. It’s an odd coalition of billionaires, businessmen and engineers who want to build, launch and operate their own manned space vehicles. The proposed uses of these spacecraft range from profound (asteroid mining by Planetary Resources) to the banal (daredevil trips to sub-orbit for the wealthy, courtesy of Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic).
Sifting Fact from Fiction with All Writs and Encryption: No Backdoors
Following recent reports in the Wall Street Journal and Ars Technica, there’s been new interest in the government’s use of a relatively obscure law, the All Writs Act. According to these reports, the government has invoked the All Writs Act in order to compel the assistance of smartphone manufacturers in unlocking devices pursuant to a search warrant. The reports are based on orders from federal magistrate judges in Oakland and New York City issued to Apple and another unnamed manufacturer (possibly also Apple) respectively, requiring them to bypass the lock screen on seized phones and enable law enforcement access.
These reports come at an interesting time. Both Apple and Google have announced expanded encryption in their mobile operating systems. If a device is running the latest version of iOS or Android, neither company will be able to bypass a user’s PIN or password and unlock a phone, even if the government gets a court order asking it to do so. The announcements by Apple and Google have in turn led to calls for “golden keys”—hypothetical backdoors in devices intended to allow only law enforcement to access them. As we’ve explained, we think these proposals to create backdoors totally misunderstand the technology and make for terrible policy.
Amid this prospect of a second “Cryptowar” is the lurking fear that the government might force unwilling companies to include backdoors in their products, even if they’re not required by Congress to do so. We sometimes hear from jaded developers and others who think that all it would take to force a backdoor is one National Security Letter. While NSLs are even the government admits that they can only be used to obtain limited information, which does not include forcing anyone to backdoor a product. Nevertheless, this fear is feeding some of the interest generated by the press reports about the government’s invocation of All Writs Act in the unlocking cases.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says Apple products are overpriced
According to Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg Apple products are overpriced
We hardly ever come across bigger companies making direct attacks on other companies through public statements and this is why the world was surprised when Facebook CEO attacked Tim Cook and Apple through what he said in an interview. It isn’t usual for executives of this level to attack one another through statements such as these. This is what Zuckerberg said in an interview with Time magazine;
“A frustration I have is that a lot of people increasingly seem to equate an advertising business model with somehow being out of alignment with your customers ... I think it's the most ridiculous concept. What, you think because you're paying Apple that you're somehow in alignment with them? If you were in alignment with them, then they'd make their products a lot cheaper!”
This initially began with Cook’s comment on Facebook when he disagreed with their ways of doing business. The Apple CEO commented on advertising-supported businesses like Google and Facebook and stated that they are not in alignment with customers because customers are basically serving as the product.
In an interview Cook said that "If [companies are] making money mainly by collecting gobs of personal data, I think you have a right to be worried. And companies I think should be very transparent about it."
The collection of personal data is the main driving force behind Facebook. It collects personal data and then sells advertisements tailored to that personal data. Apple however is totally the opposite of this as it only sells hardware products and there is little collection of personal data. It appears that Cook has been stressing on this point to make it an important selling point and the basic idea is that if you are against letting out your personal information then you should be buying Apple products.
The Evening Greens
Clean Energy Provided More Jobs Last Year Than Oilsands: Report
anada’s rapidly developing green energy industry has seen investments of more than $24 billion in the past five years while employment in the sector increased by 37 per cent during the same period, according to a report released Tuesday by Clean Energy Canada.
According to the report, impressive growth in the emerging sector has been achieved despite frustratingly inadequate federal support on things such as tax incentives and research promotion.
Surging employment growth last year in the clean energy sector — encompassing manufacturing, power production, energy efficiency and biofuels — accounted for more direct Canadian jobs than in the oilsands, the report added.
Ecuador indigenous leader found dead days before planned Lima protest
The body of an indigenous leader who was opposed to a major mining project in Ecuador has been found bound and buried, days before he planned to take his campaign to climate talks in Lima.
The killing highlights the violence and harassment facing environmental activists in Ecuador, following the confiscation earlier this week of a bus carrying climate campaigners who planned to denounce president Rafael Correa at the United Nations conference.
The victim, José Isidro Tendetza Antún, a former vice-president of the Shuar Federation of Zamora, had been missing since 28 November, when he was last seen on his way to a meeting of protesters against the Mirador copper and gold mine. After a tip-off on Tuesday, his son Jorge unearthed the body from a grave marked “no name”. The arms and legs were trussed by a blue rope.
Other members of the community said Tendetza had been offered bribes and had his crops burned in an attempt to remove him from the area.
Highlights from week one at the Lima climate talks – in pictures
Agathena
Blog Posts of Interest
Here are diaries and selected blog posts of interest on DailyKos and other blogs.
What's Happenin' Is On Hiatus
BigAl's latest at FDL: At the Mountaintop, the Evolution of Democracy in the United States
Our heroes in Congress are stealing Indian land (again)
Hellraisers Journal: Southern Colorado Had No Law These Past 10 Years But That of Mine Owners' Guns.
Another Trans woman of color: Los Angeles
War on ISIS gets blurrier, bizarre
A Little Night Music
Catherine Russell - My Man's An Undertaker
Catherine Russell - Just In Time
Catherine Russell - I'm Checkn Out, Goom'bye
Catherine Russel - Crazy Blues
Catherine Russell - Troubled Waters
Catherine Russell - Public Melody Number One
Catherine Russell - Put Me Down Easy
Catherine Russell - Just Because You Can
Catherine Russell - Can't We Be Friends
Catherine Russell - Someday You'll Want Me To Want You
Catherine Russell - You Were Made For Me
Catherine Russell - All the Cats Join In
Catherine Russell - Spoonful
Catherine Russell - Thrill Me
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