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Guitar Slim - The Things That I Used to Do
"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."
-- George Washington
News and Opinion
With Power of Social Media Growing, Police Now Monitoring and Criminalizing Online Speech
On March 6, 2012, six British soldiers were killed in Afghanistan by a roadside explosive device, and a national ritual of mourning and rage ensued. Prime Minister David Cameron called it a “desperately sad day for our country.” A British teenager, Azhar Ahmed, observed the reaction for two days and then went to Facebook to angrily object that the innocent Afghans killed by British soldiers receive almost no attention from British media. He opined that the UK’s soldiers in Afghanistan are guilty, their deaths deserved, and are therefore going to hell:
The following day, Ahmed was arrested and “charged with a racially aggravated public order offense.” The police spokesman explained that “he didn’t make his point very well and that is why he has landed himself in bother.” The state proceeded to prosecute him, and in October of that year, he was convicted “of sending a grossly offensive communication,” fined and sentenced to 240 hours of community service.
As demonstrators demanded he be imprisoned, the judge who sentenced Ahmed pronounced his opinions “beyond the pale of what’s tolerable in our society,” ruling: “I’m satisfied that the message was grossly offensive.” The Independent‘s Jerome Taylor noted that he “escaped jail partially because he quickly took down his unpleasant posting and tried to apologize to those he offended.” Apparently, heretics may be partially redeemed if they publicly renounce their heresies.
Criminal cases for online political speech are now commonplace in the UK, notorious for its hostility to basic free speech and press rights. As The Independent‘s James Bloodworth reported last week, “around 20,000 people in Britain have been investigated in the past three years for comments made online.”
But the persecution is by no means viewpoint-neutral. It instead is overwhelmingly directed at the country’s Muslims for expressing political opinions critical of the state’s actions.
Justice or Vengeance?: ACLU Raises Concerns as Boston Marathon Bombing Trial Begins
Senator Dianne Feinstein Proposes Legislation to Make Torture Extra Illegal
There are already laws on the books in the US that prohibit the use of torture. But after the Senate Intelligence Committee released a summary last month of its 6,700-page torture report that revealed the CIA subjected some detainees it captured after 9/11 to "rectal rehydration" and "ice water baths," the outgoing Democratic chairwoman of the committee said she will introduce legislation and call for a series of executive actions to ensure the US government never does it again.
In a letter sent to President Barack Obama December 30 and released Monday, Senator Dianne Feinstein said she put together proposals that will "close all torture loopholes" — she did not identify those loopholes in the letter — and make permanent an executive order Obama signed after he was sworn in as president in 2009 that banned both waterboarding and other so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques," and the CIA's longterm detention of detainees. Her letter contains a list of 11 recommendations on reining in the CIA that she says are supported by the findings and conclusions of her committee's report.
Feinstein wants to ensure that the International Committee of the Red Cross is promptly notified when detainees are captured, and her legislation will call for establishing the Army Field Manual as the sole rulebook for conducting interrogations.
But the Army Field Manual has come under fire because the United Nations Committee Against Torture has condemned some of the techniques — notably sleep and sensory deprivation — as methods that "constitute torture or ill-treatment."
Feinstein also called for videotaping the interrogations of detainees. The 2005 destruction of nearly 100 videotaped interrogations of two high-value CIA captives was the catalyst behind the Intelligence Committee's four-year investigation into the CIA torture program.
CIA Watchdog to Step Down
The CIA announced this morning that its top watchdog is stepping down at the end of the month.
The agency’s Inspector General, David Buckley, will leave to “pursue an opportunity in the private sector,” a CIA spokesman said in a statement.
Buckley has been in the post for over four years, but his most high-profile moment came earlier this year, when the Inspector General’s office was involved in a convoluted public dispute between the CIA and Senate staffers who were working on the intelligence committee’s report on CIA torture.
Senators had accused the CIA of spying on their computers and trying to thwart their work to declassify the report, a summary of which was finally released last month.
Buckley’s review—only an unclassified summary of which was released–found that five CIA employees had indeed accessed or “caused access” to the Senate researchers’ computer system, and that CIA security officers had searched Senate emails. Buckley’s report also repudiated CIA accusations that Senate staffers had improperly handled classified documents.
Former IG Buckley's employer, a noted liar, dissembler, obfuscator and distorter of facts reports that his decision to leave was unrelated to politics...
CIA inspector general David Buckley's exit 'unrelated to politics'
Officials at both the CIA and on Capitol Hill said his departure was unrelated to politics or anything he had investigated.
Civil liberties advocates said the timing of Buckley’s exit was unfortunate. “The CIA inspector general is one of the few people who has tried to impose some accountability on the CIA at a time when the White House and many in Congress are failing to do their oversight jobs,” said Christopher Anders of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Danielle Brian, executive director of the Project on Government Oversight, said Buckley had “raised some serious concerns about the conduct of the CIA in trying to thwart the Senate Intelligence Committee ... The lack of repercussions is very troubling and his departure so soon afterwards is troublesome.”
Buckley’s resignation came as the outgoing chairwoman of the Senate intelligence committee, Senator Dianne Feinstein, issued a series of recommendations “to prevent the future use of torture” by US agencies. Her recommendations include a proposal to increase the CIA inspector general’s power.
The greatest trick Obama ever pulled was convincing the world America isn't still at war
[Many links in the original article. - js]
The holiday headlines blared without a hint of distrust: “End of War” and “Mission Ends” and “U.S. formally ends the war in Afghanistan”, as the US government and Nato celebrated the alleged end of the longest war in American history. Great news! Except, that is, when you read past the first paragraph: “the fighting is as intense as it has ever been since the U.S.-led invasion in 2001,” according to the Wall Street Journal. And about 10,000 troops will remain there for the foreseeable future (more than we had a year after the Afghan war started). Oh, and they’ll continue to engage in combat regularly. But other than that, yeah, the war is definitely over.
This is the new reality of war: As long as the White House doesn’t admit the United States is at war, we’re all supposed to pretend as if that’s true. This ruse is not just the work of the president. Members of Congress, who return to work this week, are just as guilty as Barack Obama in letting the public think we’re Definitely Not at War, from Afghanistan and Somalia to the new war with Isis in Iraq and Syria and beyond. ...
Another place the United States is Definitely Not at War? Pakistan, where, according to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, the US conducted multiple drone strikes between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, killing at least nine people. We don’t know who died, but the Associated Press assured us they were “militants”, despite the US government’s definition of “militant” having been manipulated beyond comprehension. ...
Meanwhile, the Defense Department quietly announced a few days before Christmas that, later this month, another 1,300 troops will deploy to Iraq in its ever-expanding undeclared war on Isis. A Pentagon spokesperson emphasized these are Definitely Not Combat Troops, despite the US government’s current definition of “combat” being so narrow that it’s “rejected by virtually every military expert” – not to mention that the troops already in Iraq are already under “regular” fire, according to CNN. The US continues to launch airstrikes against Isis and various other groups in Syria as well.
As the new Congress opens in Washington on Tuesday, it once again has the opportunity to formally debate and actually vote on the war against Isis, a constitutional obligation from which America’s politicians shamefully slunk away, preferring instead to campaign for re-election – free of difficult decision-making. Now, almost five months in to a war the administration freely admits will last for years if not decades, hardly anyone seems to care what legal experts across the political spectrum believe: this war is without precedent – and it’s illegal without Congressional approval.
As US-Led War Continues, What Happens to Civilians Wounded and Displaced?
The United States has entered the new year pledging to lead a war on ISIS for "as long as it takes to prevail." But what of the Syrian civilians whose lives have been upended by years of conflict and whose plight is used, in part, to justify U.S.-led military operations? ...
The United Nations announced in November 2014 that at least 13.6 million people have been displaced by the wars in Iraq and Syria—a number that has since risen during an especially violent time for both countries.
However, since 2011, fewer than 191,000 Syrians have been allowed to resettle in countries outside of the region, according to a New York Times article published last month.
The United States has only taken in 300 Syrian refugees so far—in a closed-door policy that has garnered heavy criticism, given the key role the country has played in sowing the crisis and the rise of ISIS. European states, especially Britain, France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal, have been especially reluctant to take in Syrians. According to a September 2014 report by the charity Oxfam, wealthy nations, especially the United States, are failing to provide adequate resettlement or aid to Syrian people.
As Obama Hosts Peña Nieto, Explosive Report Ties Mexican Federal Police to Students’ Disappearance
Mexico’s Injustices and Bloodshed Are Just Not on the White House Radar
The presidents of the United States and Mexico are meeting Tuesday in Washington DC, in a key bilateral summit for leaders whose countries share one of the longest international land borders in the world, and an economic relationship estimated to be pumping a million dollars back and forth between that border every minute. ...
But it appears presidents Barack Obama and Enrique Peña Nieto will not focus their meetings on the topic that in recent months has most concerned Mexican citizens and Mexican-Americans in the US — the ongoing violence related to the drug war, and the horrifying recent cases of abuse at the hands of government security forces. ...
Human Rights Watch on Monday published a letter addressed to Obama, admonishing the American leader for not taking Mexico to task over its justice and security failures. The letter said the Guerrero case and a separate alleged military massacre of civilians are "not isolated incidents."
"Mexico is facing its worst human rights crisis in years, with security forces committing horrific abuses that are rarely punished," said Daniel Wilkinson, the Human Rights Watch Americas managing director, in a statement. "The Peña Nieto administration has so far failed to take this crisis seriously, and President Obama has been unwilling to call them on it."
Amnesty International has said torture is "out of control" in Mexico, which would technically make the country ineligible for US military aid, under US rules, as the group #USTired2 has pointed out.
[Perhaps Obama fears that if he broaches the subject of torture the response will be laughter due to his lack of moral standing on the issue. - js]
Tens of thousands of people have marched in the streets of cities across Mexico, the United States, Europe and elsewhere in response to the case of the students missing from the Ayotzinapa Normal School, after police opened fire on them on the night of September 26 in the city of Iguala, Guerrero.
Protesters Seize Mexican Leader's Visit to Denounce US Funding of State Violence
Fed up over the state-sponsored violence and corruption done in the name of the "War on Drugs," people gathered outside the White House and Mexican consulates in a dozen cities across the U.S. on Tuesday to protest Mexican President Peña Nieto's visit. ...
The group says that Obama's meeting with the Mexican leader "is a shameless exhibition of the open support of Peña Nieto's Narco-Government and a slap in the face of the Mexican people in their rightful clamor for security, well-being, peace, democracy, and true justice." ...
The group of protestors, which included many Mexican-Americans, are calling on the U.S. to suspend its aid to the Mexican government. Since 2007, the U.S. has funneled $2.3 billion to the Mexican government through the Merida Initiative, a bilateral agreement to combat organized crime as part of the U.S.’s decades-long War on Drugs.
US officials and Israeli president blast withholding of Palestinian tax revenues
The decision by Binyamin Netanyahu to order the withholding of Palestinian tax revenues in response to Mahmoud Abbas’s application to join the international criminal court has been sharply criticised by Israel’s president and the US, as well as senior Palestinian figures.
Although Washington remains strongly opposed to last week’s signing by Abbas of the Rome Treaty – which governs the international court of last resort - the Department of State issued a statement condemning the decision to freeze the transfer of $127m (£83m) in tax revenues.
“We conveyed to the Israelis that freezing the tax revenues is an action that raises tensions,” the department spokesman Jen Psaki told reporters at a daily briefing on Monday. “We oppose any actions that raise tensions and we call on both sides to avoid it.”
Psaki, however, also said it was within the power of Congress – where, from Tuesday, both houses will be led by the Republican party – to order cuts in the $440m aid the US sends to the Palestinian Authority if it continued with moves to join the court. That follows the passing of legislation in Congress making US aid dependent on the Palestinian territories not joining the ICC.
Israel’s move was also denounced in a strongly worded letter to the UN security council by the Palestinian ambassador to the UN, Riyad Mansour, who described it as “blatant theft and an act of collective punishment”.
Grand Juror in Ferguson Case Wants the Right to Speak Up and Is Suing the Prosecutor to Get It
One of the 12 members of the grand jury that declined to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson for fatally shooting Michael Brown filed a lawsuit Monday against St. Louis County prosecutor Bob McCulloch, accusing him of mischaracterizing the case in his public statements. ...
The ACLU of Missouri, which is representing "Grand Juror Doe," said in a statement that their client would like to talk about the experience of serving on the jury — and the evidence McCulloch presented — "in a way that could contribute to the public dialogue concerning race relations." ...
According to the lawsuit, McCulloch's statements about the grand jury were "not entirely accurate." McCulloch's public accounts of the way the grand jury viewed witnesses and evidence "does not accord" with the plaintiff's own views, the lawsuit alleges.
Grand Juror Doe also accuses McCulloch of presenting evidence "differently than in other cases, with the insinuation that Brown, not Wilson, was the wrongdoer."
"From Plaintiff's perspective, the presentation of evidence to the grand jury investigating Wilson differed markedly and in significant ways from how evidence was presented in the hundreds of matters presented to the grand jury earlier in its term," the lawsuit says.
The anonymous juror also alleges that the St. Louis County prosecutor presented the legal standards the grand jury was supposed to follow in a "muddled and untimely manner."
After a week, police bust up Occupy LAPD camp-in, arrest 2 women
For seven days, organizers with the regional Black Lives Matter movement camped peacefully outside Los Angeles police headquarters downtown, calling their protest "Occupy LAPD."
They had a set of demands centered on Ezell Ford and wanted an audience with Police Chief Charlie Beck. But Monday morning, they were forced to pack up tents, blankets, pots and pans and get off the sidewalk. ...
After loading their belongings into cars Monday, organizers began a planned news conference to go over their demands -- the firing of the two LAPD officers involved in Ford's death and a request that the district attorney file murder charges against the pair..
But the scene turned chaotic as two of the movement’s most vocal proponents were arrested.
The women -- Melina Abdullah and Sha Dixon -- had tried to pass barricades outside police headquarters to deliver letters with their list of demands to Beck, but they were blocked by officers. They then tried another entrance and were arrested on suspicion of trespassing.
“We are not a threat to anyone’s safety,” Abdullah told reporters as she gripped a large manila envelope and prepared to face the first barricade by police. “We are two women who are armed with letters.”
Cleveland mayor does not trust state to handle Tamir Rice investigation
Cleveland’s mayor says he doesn’t trust the state of Ohio to investigate why police shot and killed a 12-year-old black boy because he doesn’t think they handled a previous investigation properly. ...
In November 2012, Cleveland police officers unleashed a barrage of 137 rounds onto two unarmed people following a high-speed chase through the city.
After an investigation by the state’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation, Ohio attorney general Mike DeWine said the incident was the result of “systemic failure” in the city’s police department.
“Command failed, communications failed, the system failed,” DeWine told reporters for the Plain Dealer in Cleveland, while announcing the results of the state’s investigation in November 2013. “The system itself failed these officers.”
For his part, DeWine said he wasn’t interested in arguing with Jackson, and on Monday defended the results of the state’s earlier investigation, according to the Associated Press. ...
Criminal charges were brought against six police involved in the November 2012 shooting, a rare example of prosecution of police who acted in the line of duty. A patrolman was charged with homicide and five supervisors were charged with dereliction of duty. Proceedings against the officers are ongoing in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas court. ...
Jackson’s comments on Sunday were similar to those he made last month after the the Department of Justice released its report on the city’s police force.
NYC Mayor Rebukes Cops Over 'Selfish' Funeral Protests
The actions of the New York City police officers who turned their backs on Mayor Bill de Blasio during two recent police officer funerals disrespected the families and the people of New York, the mayor charged during a press conference on Monday.
De Blasio leveled the criticism—which marked the mayor's first public comment on the recent officer protests— during a press conference with Police Commissioner Bill Bratton discussing the record low crime rates in the city.
"They were disrespectful to the families involved," de Blasio said Monday. "They were disrespectful to the families who had lost their loved ones. I can’t understand why anyone would do such a thing in the context like that."
Sanders Demands Release of Trade Agreement Text
'It is incomprehensible to me that the leaders of major corporate interests are actively involved in the writing of the TPP, while the elected officials of this country have little or no knowledge as to what is in it,' says senator
With Congress on the verge of taking up the controversial, corporate-friendly Trans Pacific Partnership, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is demanding that the chief trade representative for the United States turn over the full text of the proposed trade agreement. ...
Sanders asked Froman to respond to his letter by January 16, 2015. If his request is denied, the senator vowed to introduce legislation that would require that the contents of any trade agreement that the U.S. is negotiating would have to be made public at the request of any member of Congress.
In addition, if Sanders' request is turned down, he asked Froman to spell out the legal basis for the denial.
"Please also explain why you think it is appropriate that the representatives of the largest financial institutions, pharmaceutical companies, oil companies, media conglomerates and other major corporate interests not only have access to some of these documents, but are also playing a major role in developing many of the key provisions in it," Sanders added. "Meanwhile, the people who will suffer the consequences of this treaty have been shut out of this process."
Hellraiser Preview
Sherman, set the time machine for tomorrow's Hellraisers Journal which will feature an article by John M. O'Neil on the anarchy of the rich and the anarchy of the poor, one by Eugene Debs on war and peace, and more news and views from the United Mine Workers Journal.
Tune in at 2pm!
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Oil Slump: Prices fall past $50 for first time in 5 years
Oil Falls Below $50, S&P Down Nearly 2% (Updated)
Nothing like the smell of deflation in the morning…
The realization that the fall in oil prices isn’t all to the good finally seems to have dawned on Mr. Market. ...
A warm winter in the US has made the consumption side worse than expected. And as we’ve written before, the US shale gas producers have to keep pumping to service debt. They can’t turn off the supply spigot. But many have credit lines that are due for renewal in March. I am also told that that is when many of their price hedges expire. So that is likely when we will see serious cutbacks. Based on the initial (optimistic) Wall Street forecasts that oil prices would rise in the second half of 2016, it appears that analysts assumed a 6 month lag between supply adjustment and oil prices firming up. If that is correct, it’s probably no sooner than third quarter before we see a meaningful recovery in oil prices. And if the warm winter continues and the Eurozone hits the shoals, who knows how long it takes.
An interesting and excellent article:
It is Not a Eurozone Crisis, but a European Union Crisis
The austerity policy dictated to the Eurozone by Germany has failed to generate a recovery. The news goes from bad to worse – and even worse. Nowhere is that more tangible than in Greece. Just to repeat the otherwise well known facts for the German readers of Naked Capitalism, who are withheld such facts in their own media: 1 million people have lost their jobs (approximately 25 percent of the working population); youth unemployment is well over 50 percent despite massive immigration; a third of business have closed, salaries have sunk almost 40 percent; pensions have been reduced almost by half; the economy has contracted by a quarter; there has been a 43 percent increase in child mortality and the health system has broken down; the Greek economy is in deflation; and, since the imposition of the austerity programme in 2010 the public debt has increased from 130 percent of GDP to 175 percent.
All these figures hide the most important fact: What is occurring in Greece is not so much an economic crisis as a humanitarian disaster. That the Greeks have raised the question of the appropriateness of austerity by precipitating elections is proof that democracy has survived these pernicious times and deserves our greatest respect. I sincerely do not believe that German democracy would have survived under similar conditions.
The democratic process in Greece is a threat for Germany and its allies, the political elites in Europe. They have a serious problem with democracy. When in 2011 the then prime minister of Greece, George Papandreou, announced a referendum to determine if the Greek people wished to adopt the imposed austerity programme, he was forced from office by the Germans and EU and replaced by a hand selected EU bureaucrat, a former vice-president of the European Central Bank. With the balance sheets of German and French banks in danger due to their extensive exposure to Greek bonds, that was no time to be consulting the Greek people. ...
There has been no tangible solidarity or compassion shown by EU leaders during the Greek crisis – except with their banks. Today the Troika pertinaciously demand increasingly destructive “reforms” from Greece, but have neglected the two most important: a purging of the corrupt political elite of Greece that was responsible for the crisis and clamping down on the systematic tax evasion of Greece’s oligarchy.
The two parties that have dominated Greek politics since the demise of the dictatorship in 1974 and are responsible for the crisis, New Democracy and PASOK, are still in power, enjoying support from the predominant EU parties, who are no less corrupt than their counterparts in Greece. ... Forty years ago as the dictatorships in Greece, Portugal and Spain collapsed; to prevent the success of leftist parties, the German government channelled large amounts of money to parties on the right. ... It could well be that suitcases full of cash are once again travelling south from the Foreign Office in Berlin to Athens.
The Evening Greens
Towards a Green Economy: How Urgent is It?
Scientists Say Massive Wildfires Raging Across Australia Are a Symptom of Climate Change
Wildfires in South Australia ripped across 20,000 hectares of land, destroying several homes on Sunday. After yet another summer of catastrophic burning, Australians are debating whether the fires are the result of climate change, and whether enough is being done to stop them. ...
Climate change quickly became a political talking point in Australia, even as the fires still burned out of control Sunday afternoon.
"Every year we are going to face these extreme weather events, which are going to cost lives and infrastructure, and enough is enough," Christine Milne, leader of the Australian Greens, said at a press conference. "The Abbott Government has to stop climate denial and help to get the country prepared to adapt to the more extreme conditions."
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott openly disagreed with Christiana Figueres, a top United Nations climate change official, last year when she linked the country's wildfires to climate change.
Abbott said Figueres, the executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, was "talking out of her hat" when she said there was "absolutely" a link between wildfires and climate change. Abbott instead insisted that bush fires "are certainly not a function of climate change, they're a function of life in Australia."
Senate Republicans to try to force construction of Keystone pipeline
Republicans will introduce a bill on Tuesday to force construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, setting the new Congress on a collision course with the White House over Barack Obama’s environmental agenda.
The Keystone XL bill aims to take the decision about the controversial pipeline out of the president’s hands. It is seen as the first shot in an all-out Republican offensive against the Democratic president’s environmental and health agenda.
The bill is expected to pass but it faces a potential veto from Obama.
Lisa Murkowski, an Alaska Republican who is the incoming head of the Senate energy committee, planned to introduce the bill on Tuesday, with hearings scheduled for Wednesday and a vote on the floor as early as next week, spokesman Robert Dillon said.
Murkowski’s bill would bypass the State Department, which has authority over the Keystone project, and grant immediate approval to TransCanada Corporation to “construct, connect, operate, and maintain the pipeline”. ...
The White House refused to commit to a veto on Monday.
Dozens of Pipeline Protesters Halt Operations in Pennsylvania
Dozens of people in Pennsylvania's Lancaster County brought work towards a natural gas pipeline to a halt on Monday, charging that the project threatens a Native American cultural site and their rural way of life.
The protesters, who include area residents and a local chapter of the American Indian Movement, gathered along the Conestoga River and encircled a rig which was drilling for core samples at the site of a proposed pipeline, according to a statement from the group.
The drilling was for part of the Oklahoma-based Williams Partners' proposed $3 billion Atlantic Sunrise Project, a pipeline network that would pass through ten Pennsylvania counties, bringing gas from the Marcellus Shale to as far south as Georgia. It is slated to be in service in 2017.
The project has met strong opposition from area communities, and Lancaster County resident Carlos Whitewolf of the American Indian Movement vowed in November: "We will stand in front of your bulldozers. We will show up in big numbers, and you will have a war on your hands."
Blog Posts of Interest
Here are diaries and selected blog posts of interest on DailyKos and other blogs.
What's Happenin' Is On Hiatus
Environmental Impacts Will Not Be Part of Updated Federal Dietary Guidelines
Nation states v Interdependence: a new struggle
Fear of Government Spying 'Chilling' Writers' Speech Worldwide
One or more starts
A Little Night Music
Guitar Slim - I'm Guitar Slim
Guitar Slim - Standin’ At The Station
Guitar Slim - The Cackle
Guitar Slim - Quicksand
Guitar Slim - I Got Sumpin' For You
Guitar Slim - Trouble Don't Last
Guitar Slim - Sufferin' Mind
Guitar Slim - You Give Me Nothing But The Blues
Guitar Slim - Story of My Life
Guitar Slim - Letter To My Girlfriend
Guitar Slim - It Hurts To Love Someone
Guitar Slim - Well, I Done Got Over It
Guitar Slim - Bad Luck Blues
Guitar Slim - Twenty-Five Lies
Guitar Slim - If I Had My Life To Live Over
Guitar Slim - Later For You Baby
Buddy Guy on Guitar Slim
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