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This evening's music features blues and r&b singer and songwriter Little Richard. Enjoy!
Little Richard - Tutti Frutti
"My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious."
-- Fidel Castro
"You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before."
-- Rahm Emanuel
News and Opinion
This is a really interesting article from the blog of the London School of Economics, well worth reading in full.
Profit from Crisis: Why capitalists do not want recovery, and what that means for America
What motivates capitalists?
Conventional economic theories tell us that capitalists are hedonic creatures. Like all other economic “agents” – from busy managers and hectic workers to active criminals and idle welfare recipients – their ultimate goal is maximum utility. In order for them to achieve this goal, they need to maximize their profit and interest; and this income – like any other income – depends on economic growth. Conclusion: utility-seeking capitalists have every reason to love booms and hate crises.
But, then, are capitalists really motivated by utility? Is it realistic to believe that large American corporations are guided by the hedonic pleasure of their owners – or do we need a different starting point altogether?
So try this: in our day and age, the key goal of leading capitalists and corporations is not absolute utility but relative power. Their real purpose is not to maximize hedonic pleasure, but to “beat the average.” Their ultimate aim is not to consume more goods and services (although that happens too), but to increase their power over others. And the key measure of this power is their distributive share of income and assets.
Note that capitalists have no choice in this matter. “Beating the average” is not a subjective preference but a rigid rule, dictated and enforced by the conflictual nature of the system. Capitalism pits capitalists against other groups in society – as well as against each other. And in this multifaceted struggle for greater power, the yardstick is always relative. Capitalists – and the corporations they operate through – are compelled and conditioned to accumulate differentially; to augment not their personal utility but their relative earnings. Whether they are private owners like Warren Buffet or institutional investors like Bill Gross, they all seek not to perform but to out-perform – and outperformance means re-distribution. Capitalists who beat the average redistribute income and assets in their favor; this redistribution raises their share of the total; and a larger share of the total means greater power stacked against others. In the final analysis, capitalists accumulate not hedonic pleasure but differential power.
Now, if you look at capitalists through the lens of relative power, the notion that they should love growth and yearn for recovery is no longer self-evident. In fact, the very opposite seems to be the case. For any group to increase its relative power in society, that group must be able to strategically sabotage others in that society. This rule derives from the very logic of power relations. It means that capitalists, seeking to augment their income-share-read-power, have to threaten or undermine the rest of society. And one of the key weapons they use in this power struggle –sometimes conscientiously, though usually by default – is unemployment. ...
The math is straightforward: for every 1 percent rise in unemployment, capitalists can expect their income share three years later to jump by 0.8 percent. Needless to say, this equation is very bad news for most Americans – precisely because it is such good news for the country’s capitalists.
“No civilization would tolerate what America has done”
It seems police can get away with anything: choking men who have surrendered; shooting unarmed teens; knocking pregnant women to the ground. While the issues involving race, civil rights and the relationship between law enforcement and communities are essential for examination and correction, few are talking about how all of this fits into the larger pattern of America’s cultural decline and decay. America has become a society addicted to violence and indifferent to the suffering of people without power. Whenever there is a combination of a culture of violence and an ethic of heartlessness, fatal abuse of authority will escalate, and the legal system will fail to address it.
Critics are right to condemn the criminal justice system for its embedded inequities and injustices, but they are hesitant to condemn the actual jurors giving killer cops get-out-of-jail-free cards. These jurors are representational of America: ignorant and cold. They hear testimony from eyewitnesses claiming Darren Wilson shot Michael Brown while he had his hands in the air, and set Wilson free without trial. They listen to reports of three officers choking Robert Saylor, an unarmed man with Down syndrome who wanted to see a movie without a ticket, and they send the police back to work. They watch video footage of police choking Eric Garner in New York, and of two police officers brutally beating Keyarika Diggles, a woman in Texas, and they decline to make them pay for it. ...
William of Ockham famously devised the problem-solving principle, Occam’s razor: Cut away the unnecessary complications and the simplest answer to a question is most likely the correct answer. After all the analysis of the normalized dysfunction of democracy in America, launched with the assumption that the political system fails to represent the will of the people, the question remains: what if it actually does represent the will of the people? That the system is actually succeeding in upholding its representational promise might be the simplest and most probable answer to the mystery of America’s comatose slumber in a nightmare of torment for the oppressed and treasures for the oppressors.
More optimistic liberals will identify the masses of protestors filling the streets with rage and disgust over the state-sanctioned murder of two unarmed black men, but the thousands of people protesting in major cities are only the sane minority. The sane minority fights against the “silent majority” of Richard Nixon’s delight. The disgraced president was right in 1969 when he pointed out that the majority of Americans were not part of anti-war demonstrations or countercultural movements; they were his voters, and their children became Reagan’s voters. From beyond the grave, he is still right. ...
The sane minority might ostensibly protest the racism of the criminal justice system, but they are actually demanding that America become a civilized society. No civilization would tolerate what America has recently done, but it is that very concept —the idea of civilization—that the silent majority so fiercely seems to hate and reject.
This is another installment of Robert Parry's reporting on the "perception management" program started by Ronald Reagan. There is far too much in the article to excerpt here. This is an important article and well worth your time to read through. If you're interested in how the right wing ascended to dominate government and institutions both public and private - this and Parry's previous article are great sources of information.
Murdoch, Scaife and CIA Propaganda
The Reagan administration pulled right-wing media executives Rupert Murdoch and Richard Mellon Scaife into a CIA-organized “perception management” operation which aimed Cold War-style propaganda at the American people in the 1980s, according to declassified U.S. government records.
Although some records relating to Murdoch remain classified, several documents that have been released indicate that he and billionaire Scaife were considered sources of financial and other support for President Ronald Reagan’s hard-line Central American policies, including the CIA’s covert war in Nicaragua. ...
Murdoch, who became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1985 to meet a regulatory requirement that U.S. TV stations must be owned by Americans, benefited from his close ties to both U.S. and British officialdom. ...
In 1983, Murdoch’s rising media empire was still based in Australia with only a few U.S. properties, such as the Star tabloid and the New York Post. But he was eyeing expansion into the U.S. media market. In 1984, he bought a stake in 20th Century Fox and then six Metromedia television stations, which would form the nucleus of Fox Broadcasting Company, which was founded on Oct. 9, 1986.
At the time, Murdoch and other media moguls were lobbying for a relaxation of regulations from the Federal Communications Commission, a goal that Reagan shared. Under FCC Chairman Mark Fowler, the Reagan administration undertook a number of steps favorable to Murdoch’s interests, including increasing the number of TV stations that any single entity could own from seven in 1981 to 12 in 1985.
In 1987, the “Fairness Doctrine,” which required political balance in broadcasting, was eliminated, which enabled Murdoch to pioneer a more aggressive conservatism on his TV network. In the mid-1990s, Murdoch expanded his political reach by founding the neoconservative Weekly Standard in 1995 and Fox News on cable in 1996. At Fox News, Murdoch has hired scores of prominent politicians, mostly Republicans, putting them on his payroll as commentators.
Sony Hackers Threaten U.S. News Media Organization
The hackers who infiltrated Sony Pictures Entertainment’s computer servers have threatened to attack an American news media organization, according to an FBI bulletin obtained by The Intercept.
The threat against the unnamed news organization by the Guardians of Peace, the hacker group that has claimed credit for the Sony attack, “may extend to other such organizations in the near future,” according to a Joint Intelligence Bulletin of the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security obtained by The Intercept. ...
No mention of a specific news outlet could be found by The Intercept in any of the GOP postings from that date still available online or quoted in news reports.
FBI Spurns Evidence on Sony Hack, Blames North Korea Again
Security experts are putting out a growing mountain of evidence in the Sony Pictures hack which points to the incident being an insider attack. and discrediting FBI allegations against North Korea.
The FBI has already made up their minds, however, and they’re not going to change them, loudly spurning all the evidence as non-credible, and insisting again that they are certain of North Korea’s guilt.
US Made Spyware Found on Merkel Aide’s USB Drive
Reports out of Berlin today say that a top aide of German Chancellor Angela Merkel was targeted by advanced malware commonly used by the NSA and Britain’s counterpart, the GCHQ.
The Backdoor.Regin spyware was discovered on the aide’s USB drive after she’d taken it home and put it into the computer at work again, only to be alerted by an antivirus program.
Officials say the drive only contained copies of the chancellor’s speeches, so no classified data was directly compromised. They say it is unclear how the drive was initially infected, but deny that the chancellery’s computer system is not believed to be compromised.
The Podemos Phenomenon: A New Left-Wing Party Has Transformed Spanish Politics in 2014
If Spain were to go to the polls today, its next prime minister would be Pablo Iglesias, a 36-year-old professor and talk show guest with no previous political experience, according to a recent survey conducted for the upcoming general elections in 2015. That is an astonishing achievement for his political party Podemos, which, since its founding only 11 months ago, has transformed the Spanish political landscape.
The fledgling left-wing party — whose name translates as "We can" — was born out of the 15M movement of los indignados — a grassroots phenomenon which took hold across the country in 2011 in protest at the political and economic elite and the austerity measures in place.
The 15M movement did not originally plan to channel public frustration at the status quo into a political force. But it wasn't long before its members began to feel that its neighborhood assemblies were not enough to bring about real change, and a shift into parliament was a natural progression. ...
Spaniards are disillusioned by both the current economic and social crisis in Spain, as well as traditional politics, which have fallen into disrepute as a result of numerous corruption scandals. ... Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, for his part, has sought to play down the corruption issue. In November, even as authorities pursued a raft of corruption charges against dozens of top political figures including members of his ruling Partido Popular (PP), and the day after his health minister resigned over a kickback scandal, he insisted to parliamentarians: "Spain is not corrupt; it just has some corrupt people in it, but most politicians are decent people."
Podemos boasts of being a force made up of ordinary people, and Iglesias has played heavily on the concept of what he calls "the caste," an emotive reference to Spain´s deeply entrenched political and economic elites.
UN Security Council Rejects Palestinian Resolution to End Israel's Occupation
After months of tense negotiations, an Arab United Nations Security Council resolution calling on Israel to withdraw from occupied territories by 2017 was defeated Monday, failing to reach the nine votes necessary to force a widely expected US veto.
The vote — 8 for, 2 against, and 5 abstentions — was an embarrassment for the Palestinian Authority and the Jordanian government, which as sole Arab representative on the Security Council brought the resolution to a vote a mere two days before new 2015 Council members likely would have offered wider support. ...
The US was joined by Australia in voting against the resolution. France, Luxembourg, Jordan, Chad, Argentina, Chile, Russia, and China voted yes. The UK, South Korea, Rwanda, Lithuania, and Nigeria abstained.
"All elements in the draft resolution were acceptable not just to the security council but to the international community as a whole," Dina Kawar, Jordanian UN ambassador, told the Council. "The council bears both the legal and moral responsibility to resolve the Palestinian Israeli conflict."
Palestinian Ambassador Riyad Mansour said, "the Security Council has once again failed to uphold its charter duties to address these crisis and to meaningfully contribute to a peaceful and lasting solution."
Palestinian president signs up to join international criminal court
Move will anger Israel and US and paves way for court to take jurisdiction over crimes committed in Palestinian territories
The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, has moved dramatically to join the international criminal court, setting Palestinians on a diplomatic collision course with Israel and the US.
Abbas signed the Rome treaty governing the court and 19 other international agreements on Wednesday evening following the rejection by the UN security council of a Jordanian-backed resolution calling for the end of the Israeli occupation by 2017.
At the end of 24 hours of high diplomatic tension, Abbas – under pressure from other members of the Palestinian leadership – followed through on the threat to join the ICC, which would open the way to Palestinians pursuing Israel for war crimes in the court of last resort, based in The Hague.
Acceding to the Rome treaty – the first step in joining the court – had been seen by many as the nuclear option in the recent Palestinian efforts to advance their case for statehood in international forums, including at the UN.
That campaign had followed the collapse of US-mediated peace talks last year. ...
Turning to the international criminal court marks a major policy shift by transforming Abbas’s relations with Israel from tense to openly hostile. Abbas has been threatening to join the court since 2012, but held off under American and Israeli pressure. The Palestinians can use the court to challenge the legality of Israeli settlement construction on occupied lands and to pursue war crimes charges connected to military activity.
Five Guantanamo prisoners flown to Kazakhstan for resettlement after 11 Years Without Charge Or Trial
Two Tunisian and three Yemeni detainees have been transferred from the US-run prison at Guantánamo Bay to Kazakhstan, the Pentagon said.
The former Guantánamo inmates, who were flown on a US military aircraft, arrived in Kazakhstan on Tuesday. Their transfer is part of President Barack Obama’s push to close the controversial military prison, which was set up to detain terror suspects after the September 11 2001 attacks.
“We are determined to responsibly reduce the detainee population and you can expect additional transfers over the coming weeks,” an administration official told Agence France-Presse.
The Pentagon said in a statement that the five men were unanimously approved for transfer after a thorough review by a taskforce of several US government agencies.
The transfer of the five detainees leaves 127 inmates still at the prison, located at a US naval base in south-east Cuba.
The number of detainees transferred out of Guantánamo in 2014 now stands at 28.
War is Not About Truth, Justice and the American Way
At Year’s End US Remains at War, But Less Public About It
President Obama has sought to portray the Afghan War as “over” this month, and what’s more a “success” after 13+ years of occupation and over $1 trillion, by conservative estimates, spent.
Yet all that really happened in Afghanistan was a transition from the old, NATO-led occupation to a new, more US-dominated one. The US has actually increased the number of troops it will leave in the country in 2015, and combat will continue. ...
With the Afghan War still open-ended, and the new ISIS war expanding in both Iraq and Syria, with major escalations to come, the appearance is of the conflicts in general speeding up, not slowing down.
That the administration seems so determined to present America as entering a post-war phase, even with multiple wars ongoing, suggests public war fatigue is finally catching up with officials, but instead of doing the sensible thing and ending the wars, they’re going to try to sell the fiction of the wars being over instead.
US Adding Names to Foreign Fighter Watchlist 'Like a Ticking Odometer'
The U.S. National Counter-Terrorism Center (NCTC) is adding the names and associated data of European citizens to a secretive watchlist of what it considers potential terrorists at such a rapid rate that one official decribed it "like a ticking odometer."
Quoted in an article by the Washington Post's Greg Miller on Tuesday, an unnamed former U.S. intelligence official described how the NCTC—citing the threat of Europeans who may have travelled to foreign battlefields, particularly in Syria and Iraq—is actively placing thousands of people into the database nearly constantly, sometimes with (and often without) the full knowledge of European governments or their intelligence agencies. According to the report, the database already contains more than 15,000 names.
Prosecutor in Eric Garner case leads pack to replace crooked Republican congressman
Potential candidates eyed a New York congressional seat Tuesday as Republican representative Michael Grimm announced his resignation, following a guilty plea on tax evasion charges.
Among the possible candidates is a Staten Island prosecutor who oversaw a case in which a white New York City police officer was cleared in the death of a black man in an apparent chokehold. Two state lawmakers and a former congressman who was unseated by Grimm could also be interested in the open seat. ...
At least two prominent Republicans said on Tuesday they were considering the race. Staten Island district attorney Daniel Donovan and state assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis were among several potential GOP candidates, with Donovan considered the frontrunner. Donovan was the prosecutor in a case in which a grand jury cleared a white New York City police officer in the death of Eric Garner, a black man, after being placed in an apparent chokehold. ...
Donovan said in a statement Tuesday that he was “deeply flattered by the enthusiastic expressions of support” he has received since Grimm announced his intention to resign, adding that he was “very seriously considering the race.”
Emails and Racist Chats Show How Cops and GOP Are Teaming Up to Undermine de Blasio
When hundreds of cops from around the country and as far away as Canada turned their backs on New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio during the funeral of Officer Rafael Ramos, the NYPD officer shot to death alongside his partner Wenjian Liu by a deranged gunman, they fired the first salvo in a carefully coordinated political operation aimed at discrediting the liberal mayor and shattering the ongoing anti-police brutality protest movement.
AlterNet has obtained emails revealing plans to organize a series of anti-de Blasio protests around the city until the summer of 2015. Billed as a non-partisan movement in support of “the men and women of the NYPD,” the protests are being orchestrated by a cast of NYPD union bosses and local Republican activists allied with Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor who recently called on de Blasio to “say you’re sorry to [NYPD officers] for having created a false impression of them.” The first rally is planned to take place at Queens Borough Hall at noon on January 13.
Joe Concannon, a failed Republican State Senate candidate and current president of the Tea Party-aligned Queens Village Republican Club, is the main organizer of the burgeoning anti-de Blasio protest effort. The retired NYPD captain and former Giuliani advisor is a close ally of Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association president Patrick Lynch. Lynch generated national headlines — and cheers from rank and file cops — when he claimed that de Blasio “has blood on [his] hands” just hours after Ismaaiyl Brinsley murdered Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu.
In an email exchange with a supporter, Concannon said he and his allies had filed papers to found a non-profit to fund the anti-de Blasio campaign. The January 13 Queens demonstration would be among the largest, according to Concannon. Major rallies in March in Breezy Point, Queens and at City Hall were also in the works, he said.
'No resolve' after talks between New York mayor de Blasio and NYPD unions
New York Police Department unions said on Tuesday there had been “no resolve” in the ongoing public rift between police and mayor Bill de Blasio, following a meeting between the two sides.
“There were a number of discussions, especially about the safety issues members face. There was no resolve,” Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association president Pat Lynch said in a statement after the two-hour discussions.
“And our thought here today is that actions speak louder than words and time will tell.”
De Blasio, who did not address reporters following the meeting, issued a statement through his press secretary saying the meeting had “focused on building a productive dialogue and ways to move forward together”.
The mayor called the meeting with five police union leaders, some of whom have blamed him for exacerbating tensions between police and city residents, just a day after he was heckled at the annual NYPD graduation ceremony. ...
The New York Post reported on Tuesday that NYPD arrest statistics had fallen by 66% for the week starting 22 December, in what an unnamed police source described as an undeclared slowdown of work.
Nationwide Anti-Police Brutality Protests Enter Second Month
Angela Merkel issues New Year’s warning over rightwing Pegida group
German chancellor Angela Merkel in a New Year’s address deplored the rise of a rightwing populist movement, saying its leaders have “prejudice, coldness, even hatred in their hearts”.
In her strongest comments yet on the so-called Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (Pegida), she spoke of demonstrators shouting “we are the people”, co-opting a slogan from the rallies that led up to the fall of the Berlin Wall 25 years ago.
“But what they really mean is: you are not one of us, because of your skin colour or your religion,” Merkel said, according to a pre-released copy of a televised speech she was to due to deliver to the nation on Wednesday evening. ...
The nationalistic and xenophobic Pegida movement, only formed in late October, has since drawn more than 17,000 protesters on to the streets of the eastern city of Dresden, sparking heated debate and deep soul-searching in the country.
Is Push for Corporate-Friendly Trade Deal Top 2015 Priority for White House?
It's not yet the new year, but the Obama administration appears to be preparing an all-out effort to push through the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement in 2015 despite the widespread concerns among his Democratic base, the unified opposition of hundreds of progressive organizations, and vocal warnings from individual lawmakers.
To its critics—along with a similar deal now being secretly negotiated with European nations known as the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)—the TPP represents an anti-democratic and regressive set of economic and regulatory policies, many of which have little to do with trade and much more with consolidating corporate power across international borders.
Led by U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman, the White House push to gain support for the TTP—which would lower trade barriers and codify reams of corporate-friendly rules between the U.S. and twelve Pacific rim nations—will likely be a top policy priority in the months ahead. Though administration efforts in 2014 to gain executive "trade promotion authority" (aka "fast track") failed in Congress, the White House seems hopeful that a new Republican-controlled Congress will be more willing to give away their right to review or amend the content of the deal before it receives a single up-or-down vote.
In fact, when fast-track authority was floated to Congress earlier this year, more than 500 labor, environmental and social justice organizations sent a joint letter voicing their strict opposition. That was enough to help squash the effort, but in a profile featured on the frontpage of the New York Times on Wednesday, Mr. Froman expressed full confidence that the administration can achieve passage in the year ahead.
Hellraiser Preview
Sherman, set the time machine for tomorrow's Hellraisers Journal which will feature coverage of the 2nd and final day of the founding convention of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America.
Tune in at 2pm!
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Ten Reasons Why the TPP Must Be Defeated
- TPP will allow corporations to outsource even more jobs overseas.
- U.S. sovereignty will be undermined by giving corporations the right to challenge our laws before international tribunals.
- Wages, benefits, and collective bargaining will be threatened.
- Our ability to protect the environment will be undermined.
- Food Safety Standards will be threatened.
- Buy America laws could come to an end.
- Prescription drug prices will increase, access to life saving drugs will decrease, and the profits of drug companies will go up.
- Wall Street would benefit at the expense of everyone else.
- The TPP would reward authoritarian regimes like Vietnam that systematically violate human rights.
- The TPP has no expiration date, making it virtually impossible to repeal.
2014: the year women won?
The Evening Greens
Despite Climate Warnings, New Export Rules Open Crude Oil Floodgates
Despite warnings about how such a move could accelerate climate change, the Obama administration has quietly loosened its regulations on crude oil exports, "opening the floodgates" for the shipment of as much as a million barrels per day of ultra-light crude, also known as condensate, to the rest of the world.
The obscure rule change by the Department of Commerce "will likely please domestic oil drillers, foreign trade partners and some Republicans who have urged Obama to loosen the export ban," Reuters reports. "The latest measures were wrapped in regulatory jargon and couched by some as a basic clarification of existing rules, but analysts said the message was unambiguous: a green light for any company willing and able to process their light condensate crude through a distillation tower, a simple piece of oilfield kit." ...
"Allowing U.S. crude oil exports will result in increased profits that will in turn result in increased oil production," read a report by Oil Change International, Lifting the Ban, Cooking the Climate.(pdf) "In the midst of President Obama’s 'All of the Above' energy strategy, the ban on crude oil exports is one of the few policies in place that effectively limits oil and gas extraction and protects our climate. The Obama Administration and the U.S. Congress must take a stand for the climate and resolve to leave the crude oil export ban intact."
As Andy Rowell, of Oil Change International, pointed out in October, the U.S. Government Accountability Office has recommended against lifting the ban, saying greenhouse gas emissions would rise if the ban was lifted—an outcome with serious implications for the climate and environment.
Keystone XL Pipeline at Top of GOP Agenda in 2015
The U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is set to hold a hearing next week to discuss the Keystone XL pipeline.
The hearing will take place on January 7, once Republicans retake control of the Senate. The committee will consider legislation that, if approved, would push the controversial $7 billion project forward after years of resistance from environmental organizations and some Democrats in Congress. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) vowed to make Keystone a top issue, saying before the end of this year's session that it would be the first item brought to the floor by the GOP in 2015.
In November, the Senate—then still majority Democrat—rejected a bill to approve the Canada-to-Texas pipeline by a single vote. Republicans promised to move the bill forward once they took control of the Senate in January.
The January 7 hearing will be the first one held by new chairwoman Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska).
At End of Warmest Year on Record, "Alternative Nobel" Winner Bill McKibben Urges Action on Climate
Blog Posts of Interest
Here are diaries and selected blog posts of interest on DailyKos and other blogs.
What's Happenin' Is On Hiatus
Why We’re Still Fighting the Last War on Trade Policy
Ending the year sadly
A Little Night Music
Little Richard - Long Tall Sally
Little Richard - I'm Just a Lonely Guy
Little Richard - Keep a Knockin
Little Richard - Lucille
Little Richard w/Johnny Otis - Little Richard's Boogie
Little Richard - Rip It Up
Little Richard - Hound Dog
Little Richard - Can't Believe You Wanna Leave
Little Richard - Get Rich Quick
Upsetters (Little Richard) - Every night about this time
Little Richard - The Girl Can't Help It
Little Richard - Ooh! My Soul
Little Richard - True Fine Mama
Little Richard - Poor Dog
Little Richard - Jenny Jenny
Little Richard - Good Golly Miss Molly
Jimi Hendrix & Little Richard - Goodnight Irene
It's Little Richard. 1964 UK TV Show
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