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This evening's music features blues and r&b singer Bobby "Blue" Bland. Enjoy!
Bobby "Blue" Bland - I Pity The Fool
“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.”
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
News and Opinion
Prison Dispatches from the War on Terror: Gitmo Detainee’s Life an “Endless Horror Movie”
Moath Hamza Ahmed al-Alwi, a Yemeni national who has been detained at the American prison facility at Guantánamo Bay since 2002, weighs only 98 pounds. Never charged with a crime, al-Alwi, now 35 years old, is one of many detainees at the camp who have gone on a prolonged hunger strike.
As described in a recent petition submitted to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) by his lawyers, al-Alwi’s mental and physical state is seriously deteriorating after two years on hunger strike, and subsequent force-feeding. ...
Al-Alwi, who has described his strike as “a form of peaceful protest against injustice,” has said that he will not resume eating until there is some sort of legal resolution to his case. Prison officials have responded to his hunger strike by placing him in solitary confinement, denying him access to prescribed medical items and subjecting him to extreme temperatures in his cell.
According to the petition, al-Alwi’s nostril passages have now swelled shut due to the extra large tubes prison authorities have repeatedly forced down his nasal cavity during this feeding process. He also maintains that the force-feeding sessions have led to heavy vomiting and daily blood loss. Shackled to a chair for hours each day during the force-feeding sessions, al-Alwi now suffers severe back pain and other debilitating physical injuries. ...
Describing his brutal treatment by riot guards who come to restrain him for force-feedings, al-Alwi told his lawyers in the petition: “I weigh less than 100 pounds. I wear braces on both ankles, and both wrists, and one around my lower back. I am five foot five … and they claim that I am ‘resisting’ … How can I possibly resist anyone, let alone these men?”
FBI Ordered to Disclose its Surveillance Tactics on Communities
On Monday, a federal district court in San Francisco issued an important ruling for government transparency and accountability. Judge Richard Seeborg disallowed the FBI’s attempt to use a “law enforcement exemption” in the Freedom of Information Act to shield from public disclosure details of the agency’s surveillance programs.
The case originated in 2010, when—concerned about new FBI initiatives like “domain management” and “threat assessments” that do not require a criminal predicate, as well as intense and sometimes frightening efforts to recruit Muslim community members to become “informants”—the ACLU of Northern California, Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus and the San Francisco Bay Guardian filed a Freedom of Information Act request for records relating to FBI surveillance of Northern California’s Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim and South Asian (“AMEMSA”) communities. ...
But many of those documents were redacted in part, and many others withheld in full, based on a variety of rationales. One asserted justification—the one that was the sole focus of the court’s opinion today—was that the records were “complied for law enforcement purposes,” also called exemption 7. We argued that the documents related to surveillance techniques and activities that did not involve enforcement of a particular federal law could not be withheld based on that exemption. We highlighted records describing training to recruit community members to be “informants” unconnected to any actual criminal investigation, documents describing community outreach efforts, and threat assessment and domain management documents, which by definition do not require a criminal predicate. The court agreed with us and held, “Because the FBI’s explanation of the link between its law enforcement activities and the particular documents withheld fails to meet the [applicable] ‘rational nexus’ standard . . ., the FBI is altogether precluded from withholding information under [the law enforcement exemption].”
As Yemen Descends Further into Chaos, Saudi Military Mobilizing Near Border
As Houthi forces in Yemen reached the port city of Aden on Wednesday amid conflicting information of the whereabouts of embattled President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, separate reporting indicated that Saudi Arabia is mobilizing its military forces along its southern border—fulfilling predictions of a total breakdown of peace efforts and stoking fears for a wider and more protracted conflict.
Alarms have been ringing this week that the breakdown of peace talks between the government of President Hadi—which has received backing and patronage from the U.S. and Saudi Arabia—and the Shi'ite factions from the north, backed by Yemen's former President Ali Abdullah Saleh and thought to be receiving at least tacit support from Iran, could lead to a full-scale war inside the country. On Sunday, UN special envoy to Yemen declared that continued fighting and the inability to bring a complex array of Yemeni factions to the table was pushing the impoverished nation to the "edge of civil war".
The Canadian Government is About to Start Bombing the Islamic State in Syria
On Tuesday morning, Prime Minister Stephen Harper unveiled his plan to extend his bombing campaign against the Islamic State, putting Canada on a short list of nations that have opted to launch airstrikes against the strongholds near the caliphate's capital.
Harper announced that Canada would be contributing personnel and planes to the mission until March 2016, and that Canadian fighter jets would be hitting targets in Syria for the first time. ...
Canada has spent the past six months of its mission in Iraq, dubbed Operation IMPACT, conducting air reconnaissance, training Iraqi and Peshmerga fighters, and launching air strikes against Islamic State targets on the ground. ...
Harper did not explain just how the mission in Syria is exactly legal, except to say that "in expanding our air strikes into Syria, the government has now decided that we will not seek the express consent of the Syrian government," adding that Ottawa will be working closely with Washington and its coalition allies.
Stepping Up Collaboration With Iran, US Now Directly Backing Tikrit Offensive
Stepping up its de-facto collaboration with Iran, the United States military is now giving direct air support to the Iran-backed offensive by Iraqi forces and Shiite militias on the city of Tikrit, northwest of Baghdad. ...
The U.S. initially did not take part in the attack, with Iranian advisers playing a much more visible role, including Qasem Soleimani, head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s overseas unit. ...
The Pentagon confirmedearlier this week that U.S. forces are providing intelligence, reconnaissance, and surveillance support.
Iraqi President Fouad Massoum claimed on Wednesday that coalition air strikes will soon follow.
Obama: Chances of peace under Netanyahu are dim
President Barack Obama said Tuesday that he was not optimistic that a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians could be reached with the newly re-elected Benjamin Netanyahu at the helm.
Obama said that no one envisioned that the creation of a Palestinian state would happen "overnight", but the goal was to give Palestinians hope for a secure state adjoining Israel.
"It's hard to envision how that happens based on the prime minister's statements," he said, referring to Netanyahu's pre-election declaration that a Palestinian state would not be created during his tenure.
Obama also reiterated his intention to reassess US policy on Israeli-Palestinian negotiations after Netanyahu rejected the two-state solution during his campaign.
Israeli official: White House was part of bid to oust Netanyahu
Senior Jerusalem source says administration wanted ‘revenge’ over Congress speech; declares there’ll be no Palestinian state ‘in our generation’
The White House was directly involved in an attempt to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in last week’s general election, during a nadir in ties between the Israeli leader and US President Barack Obama, a senior Jerusalem official said Tuesday.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told The Times of Israel that “it’s no secret” that the Obama administration had attempted to influence the outcome of the election, having been partially motivated by a desire for revenge over Netanyahu’s polarizing speech before Congress earlier this month, which sought to undermine the president’s key foreign policy initiative – a nuclear deal with Iran. ...
The White House will attempt to “punish” Israel at the UN or the Security Council, the senior Israeli official said Tuesday, alluding to intimations by US officials to the effect that Washington could change its policy of vetoing anti-Israel measures and even pursue a unilateral Palestinian statehood initiative.
“Congress is currently our only means of preventing a series of harmful initiatives, on both the Iranian and the Palestinian front,” the official said. “If the US government will permit the recognition of a Palestinian state at the UN, then Congress will brandish its knives and defund the UN.” On Sunday, Republic Senator John McCain threatened to do just that. ...
“Netanyahu said there will no agreement [with the Palestinians] during his term in office.” A Palestinian state “won’t even happen in our generation,” the official added.” Everyone knows it.”
It’s not just Iran’s nuclear program that worries Israel
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has portrayed the specter of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons as the biggest threat Israel faces.
But what really disturbs experts in and out of the Israeli government is a far more conventional threat: Iranian forces and those of its close ally, the Lebanese Hezbollah militia, arrayed along Israel’s border with Syria.
The Nusra Front, the official al Qaida affiliate in Syria, now controls 80 percent of Syria’s side of the Golan Heights, the sensitive high ground that Israel and Syria have split since Israel captured much of it in the 1967 Six-Day War. And that means that with the army of Syrian President Bashar Assad weakened by four years of civil war, Iranian and Hezbollah forces have arrived in southern Lebanon to confront Nusra, which not only opposes Assad but whose virulent brand of Sunni Islam also sees Iran and Hezbollah’s Shiite Muslim faith as apostasy.
“Which is worse: Nusra or Hezbollah?” an Israeli Foreign Ministry official asked rhetorically, insisting on anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject. “In the immediate run, Hezbollah is the bigger threat.” The militia has fought three wars with Israel. ...
If anyone is in the driver’s seat regionally, it’s Iran, the experts agreed.
“It is a very sophisticated player,” said Uzi Rabi, director of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University. “They have their revolutionary guards. They stick to their revolutionary zeal. They understand what is going on, that the Arab states are being dismantled, and they know that the U.S. is a giant in retreat.”
What is Behind the Collapse of the Centre Left Parties in Europe?
This is an interesting article which provides some background about so-called "color revolutions" and how Belarus managed to get itself off of the US' short list for destabilization and revolution. It's worth a click, here's a taste:
'A revolution is impossible in Belarus'
The political year for the Belarusian opposition begins today, on Freedom Day, with a state-sanctioned rally.
The day, which marks the foundation of the Belarusian People’s Republic in 1918, used to bring thousands to the streets of Minsk to oppose the government of Alexander Lukashenko – who has been in power since 1994.
Not anymore. The political opposition is suffering from years of exclusion from public sphere; they have not held a seat in parliament since 1996, they are virtually ignored by state-affiliated media and the government have restricted their right to protest.
The appetite for a revolution has also been quelled by events in neighbouring Ukraine. Belarusians are cautious. The risk of the state collapse, civil strife and Russian interference seems too high. The west, particularly the US, take the same line. Preserving Belarusian independence, not democratisation, has become the highest priority.
My Lai Revisited: 47 Years Later, Seymour Hersh Travels to Vietnam Site of U.S. Massacre He Exposed
'This Must End Now': Web Companies, Rights Groups Call for Immediate Halt to Bulk Data Collection
More than 50 technology companies, privacy and human rights advocates on Wednesday sent aletter (pdf) to U.S. President Barack Obama, members of Congress, and other executive and intelligence officials demanding immediate curbs to government surveillance and an end to the bulk collection of citizens' communications under the U.S. Patriot Act.
"It has been nearly two years since the first news stories revealed the scope of the United States’ surveillance and bulk collection activities. Now is the time to take on meaningful legislative reforms to the nation’s surveillance programs that maintain national security while preserving privacy, transparency, and accountability," reads the letter.
The diverse coalition—which includes groups such as the Brennan Center for Justice, Mozilla, Center for Media and Technology, Wikimedia Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee—notes that, while there are "differing views on exactly what reforms must be included," there is widespread agreement on a few key measures.
Namely, the group is calling for "a clear, strong, and effective end to bulk collection practices" under the Patriot Act, enforceable transparency and accountability mechanisms for both the government and private company reporting of data collection, and a plan for declassifying Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court decisions.
With key provisions of the Patriot Act expiring on June 1, the push for action comes ahead of a looming deadline for legislative action, when Congress breaks for Memorial Day recess on May 21. The coalition is asking that these authorities, particularly Sections 215 and 214, not be renewed without strong, meaningful reforms.
Taiwan Lobbyist Wrote Republican Party Resolution Calling for More Weapons for Taiwan
When the Republican National Committee convened in Chicago last August for its annual summer meeting, it unanimously approved a resolution urging the White House to supply a host of weapons, ranging from submarines to advanced warplanes, to the island nation of Taiwan.
However, Justice Department records show the resolution was not written by any of the RNC’s members, but by Marshall Harris, a lobbyist who had been hired by the Taiwanese government to further its interests in Washington.
Under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, lobbyists representing foreign governments are required to disclose their activities to the U.S. attorney general. According to the disclosure documents filed by Harris’ employer Alston & Bird, an Atlanta-based law firm, he wrote a draft of the resolution a month before the RNC’s 2014 summer meeting.
Once the text reached the RNC, committee members cut several phrases and paragraphs, one of which called for Taiwan’s inclusion in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a proposed free trade agreement that has been described as a “high priority” by the Obama administration. The text that remained, however, was copied nearly word for word from Harris’ draft. ...
“We expect our political leaders to be independent of various interests,” Lee Drutman, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation’s political reform program, told The Intercept. “They’re supposed to weigh the claims that various interests might have, and try to evaluate them in some way. If they say, ‘You know what? We’re not going to do that. We’re just going to pick a side and let them write it for us,’ then what’s the point of having political parties as intermediaries? Why not just let lobbyists have seats in Congress?”
Both parties, Drutman said, often outsource the drafting of statements and legislations to lobbyists, in a process with very limited transparency.
Private Prisons for Immigrant Families Grow Despite Court Ruling Against "Detention as Deterrence"
Black Residents Bear Brunt of Philly's Trigger-Happy Police Department
New Department of Justice report finds high rate of shootings and severe lack of transparency
Philadelphia police shoot people at a rate far higher than much larger cities, opening fire roughly once a week, with black residents disproportionately impacted by such violence, a damning new investigation (pdf) by the Department of Justice finds.
Released Monday, the report was requested by Philadelphia’s police commissioner following a Philadelphia Inquirer article in 2013 that found that police shootings were drastically increasing.
Between 2007 and 2013, nearly 60 percent of the officers who used lethal force were white, while 80 percent of the people shot were black, the 174-page report concludes.
In the 59 reported cases over the past eight years where unarmed people were fired at by police, officers frequently reported that they were falsely under the impression the person was reaching for a gun. Black people "were the most likely to be the subject of a threat perception failure," the investigation notes. ...
"As with stop-and-frisk, African-Americans bear the brunt of the Philadelphia Police Department’s use of deadly force," said Reggie Shuford, executive director of the ACLU of Pennsylvania, in response to the report. "These racial disparities have created a deep mistrust of law enforcement in communities of color."
Heh, even millionaires aren't important enough to get the attention of our "representatives" anymore. Hat tip NCTim:
In 2016 campaign, the lament of the not quite rich enough
At this point in the 2012 presidential race, Terry Neese was in hot demand.
“Gosh, I was hearing from everyone and meeting with everyone,” said Neese, an Oklahoma City entrepreneur and former “Ranger” for President George W. Bush who raised more than $1 million for his reelection.
This year, no potential White House contender has called — not even Bush’s brother, Jeb. The only e-mails came from staffers for two other likely candidates; both went to her spam folder.
“They are only going to people who are multi-multi-millionaires and billionaires and raising big money first,” said Neese, who founded a successful employment agency. “Most of the people I talk to are kind of rolling their eyes and saying, ‘You know, we just don’t count anymore.’ ”
It’s the lament of the rich who are not quite rich enough for 2016.
Bundlers who used to carry platinum status have been downgraded, forced to temporarily watch the money race from the sidelines. They’ve been eclipsed by the uber-wealthy, who can dash off a seven-figure check to a super PAC without blinking. Who needs a bundler when you have a billionaire?
Hellraiser Preview
Sherman, set the time machine for tomorrow's Hellraisers Journal which will feature a report on a "declaration of war" issued by Chicago's central labor body against the Western Federation of Miners due to that organizations role in the upcoming convention of industrial unionists.
Tune in at 2pm!
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Congress tries to fix Medicare ‘doc fix’ before it fixes to leave town
WASHINGTON — With deep pockets and huge memberships, politically influential physician organizations think they’re on the cusp of achieving something they’ve aggressively sought for years: a congressional cure for a Medicare payment system that regularly threatens to cut their fees.
Lobbyists and physicians are working overtime this week as Congress weighs a bipartisan bill to revamp the Medicare payment formula for doctors and put an end to the so-called “doc fix,” temporary patches approved by lawmakers to stave off cuts in the payments.
“We’ve finally got Medicare’s Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula on the ropes,” Texas Medical Association President Austin King wrote to the group’s members earlier this month. “Let’s deliver the knockout punch right now.”
That punch might come Thursday, when the House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on revamping the program after an expensive, intense effort by physicians’ groups and their political action committees. ...
“I’ve heard nonstop from doctors without ceasing since I was a candidate in 2011that there needs to be a permanent fix,” said Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va. “It has never not been intense. Anything I ever do with physicians – it could be a pediatric, could be an OB-GYN, it could be a researcher – the SGR fix is always the first issue, and sometimes there isn’t a second or third issue.”
Rep. Raúl Labrador, R-Idaho, said, “I’ve heard the argument that if we don’t vote for the doc fix that doctors will campaign against us.”
This is an interesting piece by Kshama Sawant worth a full read. Hat tip joe democrat:
Want to Rebuild the Left? Take Socialism Seriously
After three decades of neoliberal economic policies and the staggering inequality they have produced, we are witnessing a rebirth of socialist ideals.
As the sun set on the Occupy Seattle encampment in December 2011, the question “What next?” hung in the air, as it did over Zuccotti Park in New York City. The tents were gone, our spirits were dampened, but an awakened sense of empowerment prevailed.
The movement had given voice to a widespread fury at big business and a recognition of the gaping class divide. Key to Occupy’s success were the thousands of young people who had helped elect President Obama and had completed their own first steps toward achieving the American Dream, only to see their college degrees translate into crushing student debt and poverty wages.
Inside and outside the encampments, discussions about the moral bankruptcy of Wall Street began to evolve into questions about the viability of capitalism itself. A revived search for an alternative had begun. ...
Here in Seattle, I filed in a race for the Washington State House as a socialist “Occupy” candidate. The Democratic Party establishment has virtual monopoly control over Seattle politics, as it does in most urban centers. The city has increasingly become a playground for the wealthy, with the nation’s fastest-rising rents and a rapidly gentrifying urban core. My campaign was a referendum on corporate, neoliberal politics: I flatly rejected cuts to education, mass transit and social services, while calling for taxes on the rich and a $15 minimum wage. ...
None of this would have been possible had I been aligned with corporate interests. All the other candidates in the city elections—most of them Democratic Party members—scrupulously avoided the issues raised in my campaign. As a testament to the power of grassroots movements, however, most politicians were forced to respond in the election’s final weeks, professing tepid support for the increasingly popular call to raise the minimum wage.
The Evening Greens
Obama administration expected to approve Shell's Arctic drilling program as early as Wednesday
Marking 26 years since the Exxon Valdez ran aground spilling as much as 38 million gallons of oil into the Port William Sound in Alaska, activists on Tuesday protested the Obama administration's continued support for Arctic oil exploration.
Despite the known threat to the fragile Arctic ecosystem and high risk of a devastating oil spill, the Department of the Interior is expected as early as Wednesday to sign off on the revised environmental impact statement (EIS) for Shell's Chuckchi Sea lease, which would clear a major hurdle for the company to restart its Arctic drilling program this summer.
Interior Secretary Sally Jewel's formal announcement will follow last month's approval by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), which was given despite the agency's own EIS finding that "there is a 75% chance of one or more large spills" occurring. ...
Meanwhile, in Seattle, environmental groups won a preliminary legal victory on Friday after a judge approved their standing to challenge Shell's plan to lease a port terminal to serve as a "homeport" for its drilling fleet. Seattle's approval of the plan, the groups charge, was given without public notification or consent.
Developing Nations Are Gobbling Up More Meat — and That Could Mean More Antibiotic-Resistant Infections
Two million Americans suffer from antibiotic-resistant infections each year and at least 23,000 people die, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — and much of the problem may stem from what we eat.
The livestock industry pumps massive quantities of antibiotics into farm animals in order to kill potentially sickening bacteria and boost animal growth. But with each dose, a new opportunity emerges for hardier bacteria to develop and jump from animals to human via farm workers or through the food supply.
It's a problem that could grow exponentially, as developing nations, such as China and India, become wealthier and their populations turn to more protein-rich diets.
Antimicrobial use in livestock production could increase 67 percent worldwide by 2030, according to projections published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and public health advocates worry that the world may be on the precipice of a great health care dilemma. ...
The study is the first to estimate the scale of antimicrobial use in livestock around the world. The researchers estimate that cattle, chickens, and pigs consumed 63,151 tons of antibiotics in 2010.
That's an important baseline because meat eating around the world is growing at an unprecedented rate. And if antibiotic use spikes, too, resistant bacteria may follow.
We’re treating soil like dirt. It’s a fatal mistake, as our lives depend on it
Landowners around the world are now engaged in an orgy of soil destruction so intense that, according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation, the world on average has just 60 more years of growing crops. Even in Britain, which is spared the tropical downpours that so quickly strip exposed soil from the land, Farmers Weekly reports, we have “only 100 harvests left”.
To keep up with global food demand, the UN estimates, 6m hectares (14.8m acres) of new farmland will be needed every year. Instead, 12m hectares a year are lost through soil degradation. We wreck it, then move on, trashing rainforests and other precious habitats as we go. Soil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters, making them available to plants. ...
The techniques that were supposed to feed the world threaten us with starvation. A paper just published in the journal Anthropocene analyses the undisturbed sediments in an 11th-century French lake. It reveals that the intensification of farming over the past century has increased the rate of soil erosion sixtyfold.
Whenever I mention this issue, people ask: “But surely farmers have an interest in looking after their soil?” They do, and there are many excellent cultivators who seek to keep their soil on the land. There are also some terrible farmers, often absentees, who allow contractors to rip their fields to shreds for the sake of a quick profit. Even the good ones are hampered by an economic and political system that could scarcely be better designed to frustrate them. ...
This is what topples civilisations. War and pestilence might kill large numbers of people, but in most cases the population recovers. But lose the soil and everything goes with it.
US supreme court to hear challenge to EPA power-plant pollution regulations
Court to decide whether cost is initial factor in regulating output of mercury and other hazardous pollutants or whether health risks are only consideration
The US supreme court is taking up a challenge by industry groups and Republican-led states that want to roll back Obama administration environmental rules aimed at reducing power plant emissions of mercury and other hazardous air pollutants that contribute to respiratory illnesses, birth defects and developmental problems in children.
The justices are hearing arguments Wednesday in a case about the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency to take action against coal- and oil-fired power plants that are responsible for half the nation’s output of mercury. The EPA’s rules on emissions of chromium, arsenic, acid gases, nickel, cadmium as well as mercury and other toxic substances is supposed to begin taking effect in April, and be in full force next year.
The court is to decide whether the Clean Air Act requires that costs be a factor in the initial decision on whether to regulate hazardous air pollutants from power plants, or whether health risks are the only consideration. The EPA did factor in costs, but only at a later stage when it wrote the standards that are expected to reduce the toxic emissions by 90%.
Blog Posts of Interest
Here are diaries and selected blog posts of interest on DailyKos and other blogs.
What's Happenin' Is On Hiatus
A Prosecutor Seeks Redemption. Can We Allow Prisoners the Same?
Saudi Government Retains GOP’s Big Data Firms
Naomi Klein: Let's kick oil while the price is down – video
A reporter’s journey to My Lai and the secrets of the past. - Seymour M. Hersh
In Washington, the Real Power Lies With the Spooks, Eavesdroppers and Assassins
Hat tip Don midwest:
Hard Graft
Tragic
BREAKING: WikiLeaks Leaks TPP Draft!!!
A Little Night Music
Bobby Blue Bland - Turn On Your Love Light
Bobby Blue Bland - 36 22 36
Bobby Blue Bland w/Ike Turner - Love You Baby
Bobby Blue Bland - Loan a Helping Hand
Bobby 'Blue' Bland - Yield Not To Temptation
Bobby Bland - Two Steps From The Blues
Bobby Bland - You Got Me
Bobby Bland - Ain't Nothing You Can Do
Bobby Bland - Stormy Monday
Bobby Bland - Woke Up Screaming
Bobby 'Blue' Bland - Don't Want No Woman
Bobby 'Blue' Bland - Farther On Up The Road
Bobby 'Blue' Bland - Blind Man
Bobby Bland - These Hands (Small but Mighty)
Bobby Blue Bland - Who Will the Next Fool Be
Bobby Bland - Poverty
Bobby Bland - Don't Cry No More
Bobby 'Blue' Bland - Do What You Set Out To Do
Bobby 'Blue' Bland - I Can't Put You Down Baby
Bobby Blue Bland - If I Don't Get Involved
Bobby Blue Bland - That's The Way Love Is
Bobby Bland - Honey Child
Bobby Bland - As Soon As The Weather Breaks
BB King and Bobby Blue Bland - It's My Own Fault, Medley
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