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Greenwald: Obama, Media 'Irresponsible' for Scaring Public Over Patriot Act
"The whole world has changed when it comes to this debate as a result of the revelations of Edward Snowden"
The Patriot Act will expire at midnight tonight unless Congress takes action today.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) pledged Saturday to “force the expiration” of the goverment spying laws - ensuring that they would lapse, despite a rare 4 PM Sunday Senate session to try and make one last attempt at renewing them. Under Senate rules, it only takes one Senator to object to moving a bill forward. If Paul does object, that could force consideration back to at least Tuesday.
Glenn Greenwald was interviewed by Brian Stelter on CNN Sunday afternoon saying: "The whole world has changed when it comes to this debate as a result of the revelations of Edward Snowden." Greewald also said: "The Obama Administration put together a panel - to ask this panel of experts who had access to classified information - 'are these metadata domestic spying programs keeping us safe?' And their own panel concluded that there has not been a single terrorist attack stopped by this program. So to allow Obama officials to go around the country saying "you’re gonna die at the hands of ISIS and al Queda if we can’t spy on you” without noting that all the evidence negates that - I think is irresponsible. It’s stenography journalism."
Transcript here.
Don’t Worry, the Government Still Has Plenty of Surveillance Power If Section 215 Sunsets
The story being spun by the defenders of Section 215 of the Patriot Act and the Obama Administration is that if the law sunsets entirely, the government will lose critical surveillance capabilities. The fearmongering includes President Obama, who said: “heaven forbid we’ve got a problem where we could’ve prevented a terrorist attack or could’ve apprehended someone who was engaged in dangerous activity but we didn’t do so.”
So how real is this concern? Not very. Section 215 is only one of a number of largely overlapping surveillance authorities, and the loss of the current version of the law will leave the government with a range of tools that is still incredibly powerful.
First, there’s the most famous use of Section 215—the bulk collection of telephone records by the NSA. Of course, no matter what law the government relies on, bulk surveillance is unconstitutional. But equally importantly, it doesn’t work. Every assessment about the bulk collection of telephone records, including two by hand-picked administration panels, have concluded that “collecting it all” hasn’t materially aided any terrorism investigation. The same goes for other still-secret bulk surveillance programs under Section 215, the latest evidence of which came in a recently released oversight report by the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG).
Can you tell the difference between Bush and Obama on the Patriot Act?
Obama’s critics often say that there’s no daylight between him and Bush when it comes to surveillance. Take our quiz and decide for yourself
Submitted by: NCTim
Dick Cheney and George W Bush were widely condemned by Democrats for their baseless fear-mongering to pressure members of Congress into passing expansive surveillance laws that infringed on American’s civil liberties. Unfortunately, with parts of their Patriot Act set to expire on Monday, the Obama administration is playing the very same game that its own party once decried hyperbolic and dishonest – even after a Justice Department report released last weekconcluded that the expiring section used to collect Americans’ phone records in bulk has never been vital to national security.
See if you can tell the difference between the Obama administration’s statements about the renewal of the Patriot Act and those from the Bush administration when they wanted Congress to renew some of the controversial mass surveillance authorities they passed after 9/11.
Questions and answers here.
US Senate debates future of NSA surveillance powers
Politicians meet in last-ditch attempt to pass legislation to allow spy agencies to continue mass phone surveillance.
The US Senate has convened a rare Sunday session in a last-ditch attempt to pass legislation to allow US spy agencies to continue to sweep up information on Americans' telephone calls and other business records.
Failure to pass such legislation would mean that key provisions of the USA Patriot Act would expire and, facing a midnight (04:00 GMT Monday) deadline, the National Security Agency would have to shut off a vast surveillance system.
The Patriot Act was signed into law by Republican President George W Bush after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. Parts of it have been renewed under Democratic President Barack Obama.
But with the clock ticking on some sections of the act, efforts to renew them have stalled in the Senate, which also has failed to advance a compromise bill known as the USA Freedom Act that would reform the telephone data programme.
What Will Happen If the Patriot Act Expires?
The Patriot Act isn’t needed to keep us safe. But politicians and natsec officials will go to tremendous lengths to terrify their people … to justify programs that are just a naked power grab.
The fearmongering from the usual suspects about what will happen if the Patriot Act expires is so over-the-top that Twitter has launched a hilarious parody campaign to counter the silliness:
Holes in the Neocons’ Syrian Story
By Robert Parry
Official Washington’s narrative about Syria’s civil war is that innocent “pro-democracy” protesters were driven to violence because the Syrian government cracked down harshly – and that if only President Barack Obama had armed the protesters and supported “regime change” at the beginning, the current crises in Syria and Iraq could have been averted.
But the storyline was never that black and white. Though there surely were many Syrian protesters in 2011 simply seeking the end of President Bashar al-Assad’s rule and political reform, there were also extremist elements in their ranks from the start, including “Al-Qaeda in Iraq” terrorists, as a Defense Intelligence Agency report describes.
“AQI supported the Syrian opposition from the beginning, both ideologically and through the media,” the DIA wrote in a partially redacted classified report from August 2012 that was released to Judicial Watch in response to a court case over the Benghazi controversy. “AQI declared its opposition of Assad’s government because it considered it a sectarian regime targeting Sunnis.”
In other words, Assad’s early complaint about “terrorists” having infiltrated the opposition wasn’t entirely false, although it was often treated that way by the mainstream U.S. news media. Even early in the disorders in 2011, there were cases of armed elements killing police and soldiers.
U.S. Pressures Nobel Committee to Declare Ukraine’s President a Peace Prize Nominee, Leaked Letter
Submitted by: dharmasyd
A leaked letter dated May 19th and sent by the Chairman of Ukraine’s parliament, Vladimir Groysman, to the chargé d’affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Oslo Norway, thanks her for “the efforts you have made to have Petro Oleksiyovych Poroshenko nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize,” but continues: “Still we consider your assurances of support by the two members of the Nobel Committee as insufficient,” because there are five members of the Committee, and the support of 3 of them is necessary.
Thus,
“We expect further efforts aimed at shifting the position of Berit Reiss-Andersen, Inger-Marie Ytterhorn and especially that of the Chair of the Nobel Committee Kaci Kullman Five. Regarding the latter, we recommend that you take advantage of the information you are going to receive from Germany. Your colleagues in Berlin have assured us that the dossier will soon be delivered to the U.S. Embassy in Oslo. It is of utmost importance for Mr. Poroshenko to have firm guarantees that he will be awarded the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize, since it could highlight the unanimous support of Ukrainian integrity by the democratic community of the world. Assistant Secretary of State Viktoria Nuland has highly estimated your job during her visit to Kyiv.”
The three mentioned Nobel Peace Prize Committee members are a politically varied group. Ms. Reiss-Andersen is from the social democratic or “Labour” party; Ms. Ytterhorn is from the libertarian or “Progress” party; and Ms. Five is from the Conservative Party. The two unidentified members are Thorbjørn Jagland from the Labour Party, and Henrik Syse from the Conservative Party. If this letter is correct, those are the two who are referred to by the letter’s phrase, “your assurances of support by the two members.”
In Denial: We Pursue Endless Growth At Our Peril
As we’ve been discussing of late here at PeakProsperity.com, humans desperately need a new story to live by. The old one is increasingly dysfunctional and rather obviously headed for either a quite dismal or possibly disastrous future. One of the chief impediments to recognizing the dysfunction of the old story and adopting a new one is the most powerful of all human emotional states: Denial.
I used to think that Desire was the most powerful human emotion because people are prone to risking everything in their lives – careers, marriages, relationships with their family and close friends – pursuing lust or accumulating 10,000 times more money and possessions than they need in their desire for “more.”
Perhaps it was my own blind spot(s) that prevented me from really appreciating just how powerful human denial really is. But here we are, 40 years after the Club of Rome and 7 years after the Great Financial Accident of 2008, collectively pretending that neither was a sign warning of the dangers we face — as a global society — if we continue our unsustainable policies and practices that assume perpetual growth.
Robert Reich: Corporate Welfare Is Destroying Our Economy
Only about 12 percent of federal spending goes to individuals and families -- an increasing portion goes to corporate handouts.
Corporations aren’t people, despite what the Supreme Court says, and they don’t need or deserve handouts.
When corporations get special handouts from the government – subsidies and tax breaks – it costs you. It means you have to pay more in taxes to make up for these hidden expenses. And government has less money for good schools and roads, Medicare and national defense, and everything else you need.
You might call these special corporate handouts “corporate welfare,” but at least welfare goes to real people in need. In the big picture, corporate handouts are costing tens of billions of dollars a year. Some estimates put it over $100 billion – which means it’s costing you money that would otherwise go to better schools or roads, or lower taxes.
Conservatives have made a game of obscuring where federal spending actually goes. In reality, only about 12 percent of federal spending goes to individuals and families, most in dire need. An increasing portion goes to corporate welfare.
After 8 fruitless years of Tony Blair
Blair has ‘failed from day one and never played his role’ – Palestinian analyst
Submitted by: NCTim
The news of Tony Blair’s resignation from his post as Middle East peace envoy has been welcomed by many Arabs, especially considering the former British premier’s role in the devastating 2003 war on Iraq, his lack of achievements in the Palestinian-Israeli peace talks, and his controversial business contracts and interests.
Blair is stepping down next month after eight years during which he represented the Quartet of Middle East peace negotiators — the UN, the EU, Russia and the US.
“It is a long-awaited resignation and it came too late,” said Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Palestinian political scientist and founder of the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs.
“People are happy he is leaving. He never [played the role]. He never filled the post from a Palestinian perspective and was echoing Israeli positions all the time,” Abdul Hadi, who is based in occupied East Jerusalem, told Gulf News.
As Deadline Looms for Iran Talks, Kerry Breaks a Leg
Kerry had cleared his schedule for June to focus on Iran
A day after Tehran rejected a key Western demand for nuclear site inspections, US Secretary of State John Kerry broke his right femur in a cycling accident in Scionzier, France, on Sunday morning, State Department spokesman John Kirby said.
After spending Sunday in a Geneva hospital, Kerry is to be transported to Boston on a specially equipped plane “outfitted to ensure he remains comfortable and stable throughout the flight,” according to a statement by Kirby.
Kerry had brought his personal bike to Geneva because he wanted to ride a small part of the route of the Tour de France, according to French media reports. He fell at the beginning of a route that was to take him through the Alpine pass known as Col de la Colombiere, in the French Alps, with an altitude of more than 5,000 feet.
With the deadline just a month away, a senior Iranian negotiator said Saturday the Geneva talks between Kerry and Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif have failed to bridge the differences between Tehran and other world powers. Kerry had cleared his travel schedule for June to focus on pushing an Iran deal over the finish line by the June 30th deadline.
China, U.S. tone down rhetoric but far from South China Sea solution
After a months-long row over Beijing's island-building in the South China Sea, the United States and China were relatively restrained at Asia's top security forum this weekend, but no closer to any solution.
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter told the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore that China was threatening security in the region with its maritime construction work, but acknowledged other claimant countries to the disputed sea were also at fault.
"There's no progress in the South China Sea (dispute), but the atmosphere has calmed a bit, thanks to reasonable consideration by all parties," said Major General Jin Yinan of China's National Defense University, a delegate at the conference. "The U.S. has adjusted its stance a little."
Admiral Sun Jianguo, a deputy chief of staff of the People's Liberation Army who headed the Chinese delegation, refrained from singling out the United States for criticism in his address and emphasized China's commitment to peaceful relations.
China’s Investment in Renewables Soars by a Third
LONDON—China invested more than US$89 billion in renewable energy projects in the country in 2014—a growth of 31% on the previous year, according to a detailed report on the country’s energy sector.
The soaring increase is revealed in a report by the US government’s Energy Information Administration (EIA). But it adds that fossil fuels—particularly coal—still look set to continue to dominate China’s power sector.
Coal is by far the most polluting fossil fuel, and China is the world’s leading emitter of climate-changing greenhouse gases.
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Wind power production went up by nearly 40% in the 2012-13 period. Although there are still big gaps in the transmission infrastructure, the aim is to generate 200 gigawatts (GW) of electricity from wind by 2020.
US police kill more than two people a day, report suggests
There is no standardised system for recording shooting deaths across the country's thousands of law enforcement agencies
Data collected by the Washington Post newspaper suggests that the number of people shot by US police is twice as high as official figures claim.
The paper said that during the first five months of this year, 385 people - more than two a day - were killed.
The number of black people was disproportionately high among the victims, especially unarmed ones.
Official statistics rely on self-reported figures from law enforcement agencies.
Pope's coming encyclical on environment stirring both hope and anxiety
Submitted by: NCTim
Rarely in modern times has a major papal pronouncement received so much attention and debate before it’s even been delivered.
But as Pope Francis prepares to publish an encyclical on the environment, expected this summer, he’s stoked plenty of anticipation and anxiety among Catholics and others over what he’ll say on climate change.
All indications — including recent statements by other arms of the Vatican — are that Francis will embrace the broad scientific consensus that humans are causing global warming through the burning of fossil fuels and that a major shift away from fossil fuels is needed to halt climate change. Scientists have linked climate change to rising sea levels, melting ice packs, spreading deserts, worsening storms, species extinctions and displacements of many people, primarily the poor.
Encyclicals are official teachings that the pope considers of worldwide importance, and they carry a strong weight of authority even though they’re not formally proclaimed as infallible.
Mississippi bids musical farewell to blues legend BB King - video report
Submitted by: NCTim
Video here.
Hellraiser Preview
Sherman, set the time machine for tomorrow's Hellraisers Journal, which will feature news of Mother Jones in Montana.
Tune in at 2pm!
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Bees are dying off — but there’s a surprisingly simple, completely uncontroversial way to save them
The only thing stopping us from protecting pollinators is greed, Dave Goulson tells Salon
The world’s bees are in trouble, and progress in addressing the underlying problems contributing to their demise, from the use of dangerous pesticides to the destruction of their habitat, is painfully slow.
But it still isn’t too late, a hopeful, if not terribly optimistic Dave Goulson tells Salon.
A professor of biology at the University of Sussex and the founder of the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, Goulson knows better than anyone just how massive the challenges are, but also how capable we are of meeting them — if we only muster the will. His work studying the bees’ plight was the focus of his first book, “A Sting in the Tale” — Salon spoke with him about it last May. His latest book, “A Buzz in the Meadow,” has as its centerpiece a small part of the solution: Goulson writes of his decade-plus-long project of transforming a rundown farm in rural France into a thriving meadow, which teems with life of all sorts and has become a haven for wild bees.
Salon caught up with Goulson to gauge the current situation and for a much-needed reminder that saving the bees isn’t as impossible as it may seem. Our conversation has been lightly edited for length and clarity.
Lawsuit alleges fake spinal parts used by doctors and hospitals nationwide
Thousands of spinal surgery patients may have had knock-off screws, cages and rods implanted, a new lawsuit alleges
Submitted by: enhydra lutris
LOS ANGELES – Fifteen surgeons and 17 hospitals nationwide along with more than a dozen other people, are accused of participating in a counterfeit spinal-hardware ring that resulted in patients receiving non-FDA approved implants, according to a civil complaint obtained by America Tonight.
The document, which was filed in February in California on behalf of dozens of insurance companies, was unsealed Thursday and details a massive alleged health care fraud scheme and conspiracy involving the use and billing of fake surgical hardware to hospitals and doctors across the country.
According to the filing, owners and operators of California-based Spinal Solutions, LLC, manufactured faked spinal implants and “insidiously co-mingled fake implantable hardware with genuine” parts. The fake parts were then implanted in patients at hospitals in California, Texas, Maryland, Wisconsin and Nevada, according to the complaint.
Production of the counterfeit rods and cages began in 2007 at a machine and tool shop in Temecula, California, according to the complaint. It’s alleged the defendants – doctors, hospitals and distributors – began a five-year relationship with Spinal Solutions to market the fake parts.
EFF Battles Abuse of Site-Blocking Court Orders
Fight Over Music Streaming Site Shows Music Labels’ Overreach
Submitted by: NCTim
New York – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged a federal court in an emergency hearing and a written filing this week to block the recording industry’s move to force Internet infrastructure companies into becoming copyright police with far-reaching restraining orders.
EFF represents CloudFlare, a service that speeds up websites and protects them from malicious attacks. One of its clients runs a website calling itself Grooveshark, which sprung up after a court shut down the more well known music sharing site Grooveshark. Citing trademark and copyright infringement, a group of record companies including Atlantic, Sony, Universal, and Warner Bros. convinced a New York judge to issue a sealed temporary restraining order. According to the record companies, the order requires service providers of every kind to help take down the new Grooveshark site—even companies like CloudFlare who cannot control their users’ web content or domain names. CloudFlare called EFF to bring the court process into the open and force the recording industry into a fair fight.
“Just because you are providing a service to a website doesn’t mean you should be roped into policing it,” said EFF Staff Attorney Mitch Stoltz. “Copyright holders should not be allowed to blanket infrastructure companies with blocking requests, co-opting them into becoming private trademark and copyright police.”
In the emergency hearing Tuesday, EFF and co-counsel from the firm of Goodwin Procter argued that blocking orders must follow a clear and open legal process, and can’t be directed to companies like CloudFlare. U.S. District Court Judge Alison Nathan ruled at that hearing that the proceedings must continue unsealed. In further briefing yesterday, EFF and Goodwin Procter opposed the restraining order. Judge Nathan is likely to make a decision about whether to target an order at CloudFlare within the next week.
Solar Impulse 2 begins crossing of Pacific
The revolutionary Solar Impulse 2 aircraft began a six-day flight over the Pacific Ocean to Hawaii
Submitted by: NCTim
Photo gallery here.
In the Face of Shell's Arctic Drilling Plans, Seattle Activists Speak Out
It may seem odd for a privileged city in the global North, one little-impacted by climate change, to be at the forefront of an emerging climate justice movement.
Climate refugees forced to flee their homes and communities because of the impacts of climate change are more common in the global South, or so record-setting coastal floods, droughts and typhoons tell us. However, decades of migration from the global South to the global North, including Seattle, where the movement has taken off, have fostered a new generation of activists sensitive to the experience of climate refugees.
When the Port of Seattle offered Royal Dutch Shell a home port for its Arctic drilling fleet, it didn't take long for climate justice to become the rallying cry. Add the fact that Seattle - along with the rest of the country - is experiencing a widespread, deepening awareness across generations and cultures of the rapid pace of climate change, and the fuse was ready to be lit.
Sarra Tekola and Katrina Pestano are climate justice activists living in Seattle. Both are involved in the ongoing battle to stop Shell from drilling in the Arctic this summer. Both have roots in the global South, a deepening awareness of the climate crisis faced by their generation - Tekola is 22 and Pestano is 31 - and a stake in the various cultures and places they call home.
No tsunami, but 7.8 magnitude quake off Japan rattles Tokyo
BEIJING — A massive earthquake that struck off the Japanese coast Saturday evening does not appear to pose a tsunami threat, but it rattled dwellers in Tokyo and others in the Pacific Rim, where seismic activity has been more jumpy than usual recently.
The U.S. Geological Survey reported the quake was of 7.8 magnitude and said it struck about 543 miles south of Tokyo in the Pacific Ocean, near Japan’s Ogasawara Islands. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said the earthquake had a magnitude of 8.5 and was at a deep depth of 696 kilometres, or 432 miles.
“There is no tsunami threat because the earthquake is located too deep inside the earth,” said the warning center, a division of the NOAA’s National Weather Service.
Tokyo residents were quick to note on Twitter that, had the quake been at more shallow depth, it could have generated a tsunami possibly worse that the one that struck Japan in 2011, killing more than 15,000 people and triggering a nuclear power disaster.
The Evening Greens
The Evening Greens Weekend Editor: enhydra lutris
Siaga population cuts in half in less than a month
No one knows what's killing them, but scientists estimate that almost half of the world's saiga (Saiga tatarica) have perished since May 10th. To date, researchers on-the-ground unofficially estimate that 120,000 saiga have died in Kazakhstan from what appears to be a wildly virulent disease, although no cause has been ruled out. Saiga are bizarre-looking, Ice Age antelopes that once roamed Central Asia in the millions, but are now listed as Critically Endangered.
"It's very dramatic and traumatic, with 100 per cent mortality," UK veterinarian Richard Kock, who has traveled to Kazakhstan to help, told New Scientist. "I know of no example in history with this level of mortality, killing all the animals and all the calves."
Kazakhstan's Agriculture Ministry said they believe the saiga-killer may be a bacterial infection known as pasteurellosis. However, saiga-expert, E.J. Milner-Gulland with the Saiga Conservation Alliance (SCA), was not fully convinced.
"The fact that you are getting positive reports of Pasteurella doesn't mean the bacterium is the underlying reason the animals are dying," she told Radio Free Europe. "[The bacteria] is there naturally and it's a kind of opportunistic."
The important role of bacteria in the oceans
A glass of seawater is teeming with life, and recent research reveals more about what ocean water contains. Microscopic creatures in the world's oceans weigh more than all of the fish in the sea and produce about half of Earth's oxygen.
Yet the ecology of marine microbes, which are crucial for everything from absorbing carbon dioxide from the air to regulating the productivity of major fisheries, are only beginning to be understood.
In a step to understanding this hidden world, University of Washington oceanographers have found that diatoms -- the intricately patterned single-celled algae that exist throughout the world's oceans -- grow faster in the presence of bacteria that release a growth hormone known to benefit land plants. The study, published online May 27 in Nature, uses genetic and molecular tools to discover what controls marine ecosystems.
"These very small organisms are interacting with their environment, but they're also interacting with other organisms," said co-author Ginger Armbrust, a UW professor of oceanography. "In my mind, in order to understand how future ecosystems will work, we need to understand how these organisms that are the basis of the marine food web interact with one another."
EPA Approves New Clean Water Protections
Drinking unclean water seems like a problem you’d hear about it in the developing world, not the United States. Believe it or not, though, one-third of Americans receive water that is unregulated by the Clean Water Act. That’s a lot of people who are potentially drinking tainted water.
Fortunately, all that is about to change with the EPA’s new Waters of the United States rule, which was announced on Wednesday. Altogether, the EPA now has the authority to safeguard 20 million acres of wetlands and two million miles of streams (that accounts for 60 percent of America’s streams) that were previously discounted by the Clean Water Act.
Until now, one of the biggest problems has been that while the main sources of drinking water are protected, their tributaries were not included in these protections. In other words, water flowing into the rivers and lakes was not held to the safety standards.
“[For] drinking water to be clean, the streams and wetlands that feed them need to be clean, too,” said EPA official Gina McCarthy. Although that’s a rather obvious sentiment, that’s precisely why finally taking this step is so important.
Wastewater treatment may be creating new antibiotics
For years scientists have been aware of the potential problems of antibiotics being present in wastewater, and the research of engineering professor Olya Keen is showing that treatments to clean wastewater may actually be creating new antibiotics and further contributing to the development of antibiotic resistance in the environment.
An assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at UNC Charlotte, Keen began her current research into the behavior of antibiotics in wastewater in summer 2014. She recently presented her initial findings at a conference of the American Chemical Society held in Denver, Colo.
"This research is a small piece of a larger question," Keen said. "There are varieties of antibiotics found in wastewater, and, at this point, we are just testing one. It is in a class of antibiotics that all have similar compositions, so we anticipate that other antibiotics in this class may respond the same way."
The antibiotic Keen and her student are studying is doxycycline, which falls into one of the more widely used classes of antibiotics. Their research to date is showing that chlorine used to treat wastewater is actually changing the makeup of the doxycycline and forming new antibiotics.
Blog Posts of Interest
Here are diaries and selected blog posts of interest on DailyKos and other blogs.
A Way for Hillary Clinton to Heal the Wounds Dividing the Democratic Party
To Spy or not to Spy/Liveblog of Senate Debate
Embracing the Dark Reality of Iraq
Hellraisers Journal: "Yet..you uphold every act of your executives [who] employed these gunmen."
If Bernie beats HRC in the primaries, Its unrealistic
Next up? Barnard
A Little Night Music
Gov't Mule - Rocking Horse
Gov't Mule - What Is Hip
Gov't Mule - Bad Little Doggie
Gov't Mule - War Pigs
Gov't Mule - I'm A Ram
Gov't Mule - Presence of the Lord
Gov't Mule - Pass the Peas
Gov't Mule - Blind Man in The Dark
Govt Mule - Simple Man
Govt Mule - Thorazine Shuffle
Gov' Mule - Just Got Paid
Gov't Mule - 30 Days in the Hole
Gov't Mule - We're Not Gonna Take It
Gov't Mule - Life Before Insanity
Gov't Mule - Power of Soul
