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Roosevelt Sykes - The Honeydripper
“It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporeal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.”
-- Anton Chekhov
News and Opinion
Former CIA Director Says "Rectal Hydration" Not Torture
Former CIA Director Michael Hayden tells The Real News that the rectal hydration of Guantanamo detainees was a "medical procedure", but prominent human rights attorney Michael Ratner says this was a torture tactic used to break hunger strikes and intimidate detainees
How Big Business Is Helping Expand NSA Surveillance, Snowden Be Damned
Since November 11, 2011, with the introduction of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, American spy agencies have been pushing laws to encourage corporations to share more customer information. They repeatedly failed, thanks in part to NSA contractor Edward Snowden’s revelations of mass government surveillance. Then came Republican victories in last year’s midterm Congressional elections and a major push by corporate interests in favor of the legislation.
Today, the bill is back, largely unchanged, and if congressional insiders and the bill’s sponsors are to believed, the legislation could end up on President Obama’s desk as soon as this month. In another boon to the legislation, Obama is expected to reverse his past opposition and sign it, albeit in an amended and renamed form (CISPA is now CISA, the “Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act”). The reversal comes in the wake of high-profile hacks on JPMorgan Chase and Sony Pictures Entertainment. The bill has also benefitted greatly from lobbying by big business, which sees it as a way to cut costs and to shift some anti-hacking defenses onto the government.
For all its appeal to corporations, CISA represents a major new privacy threat to individual citizens. It lays the groundwork for corporations to feed massive amounts of communications to private consortiums and the federal government, a scale of cooperation even greater than that revealed by Snowden. The law also breaks new ground in suppressing pushback against privacy invasions; in exchange for channeling data to the government, businesses are granted broad legal immunity from privacy lawsuits — potentially leaving consumers without protection if companies break privacy promises that would otherwise keep information out of the hands of authorities. ...
The legislation — at least as marked up by the Senate Intelligence Committee — provides an expansive definition of what can be construed as a cybersecurity threat, including any information for responding to or mitigating “an imminent threat of death, serious bodily harm, or serious economic harm,” or information that is potentially related to threats relating to weapons of mass destruction, threats to minors, identity theft, espionage, protection of trade secrets, and other possible offenses ... "The lack of use limitations creates yet another loophole for law enforcement to conduct backdoor searches on Americans,” argues a letter sent by a coalition of privacy organizations, including Free Press Action Fund and New America’s Open Technology Institute.
China Accused of Doling Out Counterfeit Digital Certificates in 'Serious' Web Security Breach
Digital certificates are the passports of the internet. They tell browsers like Chrome and Internet Explorer that websites are authentic. When you go to your bank's webpage, for example, it presents a certificate to your browser — a padlock icon appears at the left of the URL address, signifying the site is legitimate and encrypted and you're not giving your username and password to, say, a Russian hacker.
But that sense of security assumes the certificate is valid.
In a development that may affect the free flow of information online, it appears China has been doling out counterfeit digital certificates.
In a March 23 blog post, Google said it had recently become aware of "unauthorized" certificates on several of the company's domains, calling it a "serious breach." Google said an Egyptian company called MCS Holdings issued the certificates as an intermediary for the China Internet Network Information Center, or CNNIC, a unit of China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
Google claimed MCS Holdings gave out false certificates that convinced browsers that fake websites were the real thing. The company didn't specify which domains were affected, but someone could have logged onto what they thought was Gmail when really they were on a fake site.
More nefariously, MCS Holdings used the counterfeit certificates to run so-called "man-in-the-middle" scams, Google claimed, meaning their fake certificates sent people to genuine websites but kept track of the activity on them.
Couldn't have happened to a nicer
warmonger Senator:
US senator Bob Menendez indicted on corruption charges
New Jersey senator Bob Menendez has been indicted on corruption charges, following a months-long federal investigation into whether he used his power to advance the special interests of a friend and donor in exchange for gifts.
Menendez was indicted along with a close friend, Salomon Melgen, on Wednesday by a federal grand jury in Newark, New Jersey.
Department of Justice spokesman Peter Carr confirmed that Menendez and Melgen were indicted “in connection with a bribery scheme in which Menendez allegedly accepted gifts from Melgen in exchange for using the power of his Senate office to benefit Melgen’s financial and personal interests.”
Menendez was indicted on a total of 14 charges: one count of conspiracy, one count of violating the travel act, eight counts of bribery, three counts of honest services fraud and one count of making false statements. Melgen faces the same charges with the exception of making false statements.
The DOJ and FBI have been handling the case, which stems from Menendez’s ties to Melgen, a Florida ophthalmologist who is his close friend and campaign donor. Melgen, along with his family and associates, contributed more than $1m to Menendez and political action committees to help secure the senator’s re-election in 2012, according to Federal Election Commission filings.
Menendez charges put Iran legislation in doubt
Sen. Robert Menendez's (N.J.) decision to step aside temporarily as ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee following his indictment on Wednesday could jeopardize Congress's chances of passing Iran legislation.
Menendez has co-authored legislation with Chairman Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) that would allow the Senate to weigh in on any nuclear deal with Iran, and a separate bill that would restore and impose tougher sanctions on Iran if it walks away from talks or violates a deal.
The Foreign Relations Committee is set to vote April 14 on the bill he co-authored with Corker calling for Senate review of an Iran deal. If Menendez is out of the picture long-term, it could sap Democratic support for legislation that the White House has already threatened to veto.
Leading Papers Incite ‘Supreme International Crime’
Advocating for war is not like advocating for most other policies because, as peace activist David Swanson points out, war is a crime. It was outlawed in 1928 by the Kellogg-Briand Pact, in which the United States, the Soviet Union, China, Britain, Germany, France, Japan and 55 other nations “condemn[ed] recourse to war for the solution of international controversies, and renounce[d] it, as an instrument of national policy in their relations with one another.”
Kellogg-Briand was the basis for the “crimes against peace” indictment at the Nuremberg Trials for Nazi leaders, several of whom were hanged for “planning, preparation, initiation, or waging a war of aggression.” At Nuremberg, chief US prosecutor Robert H. Jackson declared:
To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.
So to advocate for war, as the Washington Post and New York Times op-ed pages have done, is to incite a crime–“the supreme international crime,” as Jackson noted. How would we react if leading papers were to run articles suggesting that genocide was the best solution to an international conflict–or that lynching is the answer to domestic problems? Calling for an unprovoked military attack against another nation is in the same category of argument.
Iran nuclear talks enter eighth day after 6am finish to latest session
Foreign ministers engaged in talks on Iran’s nuclear programme negotiated through the night until dawn on Thursday but went into an eighth day without a preliminary deal.
Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, emerged from the marathon session in Lausanne at 6am saying: “We have made significant progress but we do not have any final result yet.”
“We are moving,” he added, saying that a joint statement would be issued later in the day if the remaining obstacles were resolved.
The negotiations have now gone two days past the deadline for reaching a preliminary framework of a deal that would impose restrictions on Iran’s nuclear programme, aimed at blocking Tehran from making a bomb, in return for lifting UN sanctions.
Heh, Bush the Elder, Clinton, Bush the Shrub and Obama can all claim the title, "The Education President," having created a number of "Finishing Schools for Foreign Extremists."
Iraq and Syria are 'finishing schools' for foreign extremists, says UN report
The number of foreign fighters joining al-Qaida and Islamic State in Iraq, Syria and other countries has spiked to more than 25,000 from more than 100 countries
Iraq and Syria have become “international finishing schools” for extremists according to a UN report which says the number of foreign fighters joining terrorist groups has spiked to more than 25,000 from more than 100 countries.
The panel of experts monitoring UN sanctions against al-Qaida estimates the number of overseas terrorist fighters worldwide increased by 71% between mid-2014 and March 2015.
It said the scale of the problem had increased over the past three years and the flow of foreign fighters was “higher than it has ever been historically”.
The overall number of foreign terrorist fighters has “risen sharply from a few thousand … a decade ago to more than 25,000 today,” the panel said in its report to the UN security council, which was obtained by Associated Press.
The report said just two countries had drawn more than 20,000 foreign fighters: Syria and Iraq. They went to fight primarily for the Islamic State group but also the al-Nusra Front.
Looking ahead, the panel said the thousands of foreign fighters who travelled to Syria and Iraq were living and working in “a veritable ‘international finishing school’ for extremists”, as was the case in Afghanistan in the 1990s.
Yemen not a sectarian conflict but Saudis, Iran could turn it into one – ME analyst
Civilian Deaths in Saudi Attacks Fuel Growing Backlash in Yemen
A week in to Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen has done a lot to transform public sentiment among Yemenis on the matter. Once seen as a limited conflict aimed at the Shi’ite Houthis, the toll has been hugely civilian in nature.
The civilian toll is in excess of 170 after today’s attack on a dairy, and the previous attack on the refugee camp, and so on. That, and the Saudis openly blocking the Red Cross from delivering humanitarian aid, has had a jarring effect on war opinion. ...
Nationwide, the Houthis didn’t command much popular support going into this war, but could quickly find themselves embraced as the sole remaining defenders of Yemeni sovereignty, a situation that has so often happened in military interventions across the region.
About the only Yemeni still publicly endorsing the war is former President Hadi, from whatever city he is presently in exile, as he sees the Saudi war, whatever the death toll that results, as his only chance to regain power over the nation after his resignation in January.
Rebel forces push farther into key Yemeni port city of Aden
Shiite rebel forces backed by tanks and heavy machine guns pushed deeper into Yemen’s second-largest city on Wednesday in a bid to strengthen their hold even as Saudi-led airstrikes attempt to cut off their supply lines and cripple their capabilities. ...
The rebels, who control Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, hope to find new defensive positions and open fresh supply channels by taking full control of Aden. ....
The city appeared closer to falling into rebel hands after Wednesday’s gains. Houthi fighters — joined by soldiers loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh — faced barrages from a warship while on a coastal road but managed to reach areas near the center of Aden with tanks and vehicles mounted with heavy machine guns. ...
It was unclear how many ground forces loyal to Hadi remained to defend Aden.
Austerity and Anger: Protests Against Syriza's EU Deal
Pentagon Sends Wish List to Congress, Demands Bigger Budget
The US military spends more than any other military on the planet, indeed several-fold. They also appear to complain more than any other military about not getting enough.
So even though the planned 2016 Pentagon budget is already $34 billion over the budget caps, the Pentagon has submitted a new round of “wish lists,”seeking large amounts of additional funds for warplanes.
Indiana lawmakers announce proposed religious law changes
Indiana's Republican legislative leaders have unveiled changes to the state's new religious objections law that has faced criticism it could allow discrimination against lesbians and gays.
The amendment to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act released Thursday prohibits service providers from using the law as a legal defense for refusing to provide services, goods, facilities or accommodations. It also bars discrimination based on race, color, religion, ancestry, age, national origin, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or United States military service.
America's corporate citizens stand up. Some of the same companies that want to profit from spying on you want to protect the rights of LGBT citizens. Go figure.
Silicon Valley flexes political muscle in new US culture war over anti-gay laws
Apple CEO Tim Cook set in motion an unprecedented backlash against Indiana’s Religious Freedom and Restoration Act on Sunday, calling out the “nearly 100 bills” nationwide he said were designed to “rationalize injustice”. ...
On Wednesday, nearly 50 executives from Twitter and Airbnb to Yelp, eBay and top Silicon Valley developers signed a statement calling on state and federal leaders to add sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes to their civil rights laws, saying it was “critically important to speak out about proposed bills and existing laws that would put the rights of minorities at risk”.
“Any state that enacts a legislation that does not specifically protect LGBT persons’ housing, public accommodations, or employment does risk any kind of future investment,” said Ryan Metcalf, a spokesman for Affirm, the online payment company that spearheaded the joint statement and is encouraging tech CEOs to evaluate their relationships and investments in states that do not overtly protect LGBT citizens.
Salesforce CEO: We're helping employees move out of Indiana
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said Wednesday that he is helping employees who are uncomfortable with Indiana's controversial religious freedom law to transfer out of the state. ...
Benioff had already pledged to reduce his company's investments in Indiana, calling the law "brutal," "unfair" and "unjust." The cloud computing CEO said he is working with state officials in hopes of changing the statute.
Moving employees out of the state is a new step, however, and one of the most aggressive corporate actions taken in response to the new law.
Benioff told CNN's Poppy Harlow that several employees have asked for transfers -- and he has agreed, even supplying relocation packages.
"I just got an email on the way to studio from another employee who said, 'look I don't feel comfortable living in this state anymore, you have to move me out,' and I gave him a $50,000 relocation package and said, 'great, you're clear to go.' "
Indiana pizza joint pranked by Yelp users for backing religious freedom bill
On the business review site Yelp, one of the featured photos for a small pizza shop in Indiana this week included a man wearing only his underwear. He was using one hand to hold a box of pasta over his face – and the other to hold … something else.
Such an image is likely not in keeping with the Christian values of Memories Pizza in Walkerton, Indiana (population: 2,248). But the pizza and ice cream store found itself in the middle of a social media firestorm on Wednesday, the day after its owners told a told a local news station they support Indiana’s controversial religious freedom law. ... Crystal and Kevin O’Connor told ABC57 they “definitely agree with the bill”. The pizza shop owners said they will serve LGBT customers, and that they are not discriminating against anyone.
However, Crystal O’Connor told the station: “If a gay couple came in and wanted us to provide pizzas for their wedding, we would have to say no.”
On Yelp, users sprang into action to say “no” right back.
20 Years in Prison for Miscarrying? The Case of Purvi Patel & the Criminalization of Pregnancy
Indiana Sent a Woman Who Claims She Had a Miscarriage to Prison for 20 Years for Killing Her Fetus
Purvi Patel was afraid of the lifeless fetus and the blood that gushed out of her and onto her bathroom floor one summer evening in July 2013, but she was even more afraid to tell her strict Hindu family she had fallen pregnant during an affair with a married co-worker. In a panic, she swathed the fetus in towels and a plastic bag and hid it in a dumpster near her family's restaurant in Mishawaka, Indiana.
Later that night, Patel arrived at the local hospital with a severed umbilical cord and placenta still stuffed in her womb. Prosecutors charged her with felony neglect and feticide — an act that causes the death of a fetus — and a jury convicted her in February. This week, nearly 20 months after the incident, the 33-year-old Patel was sentenced to 30 years prison with 10 suspended for what she still maintains was a miscarriage.
Patel is first woman in America to be charged, convicted, and sentenced for attempting to kill an unborn fetus. To this day, experts have not been able to determine how many weeks pregnant she was at the time of the incident. Some doctors have said the fetus was only 23 or 24 weeks old and incapable of breathing on its own.
For advocates of women's reproductive rights, her case underscores the ongoing criminalization of free choice, and sets a dangerous precedent for women who seek support and medical care for unwanted pregnancies and miscarriages.
"When these feticide laws were passed, their supporters tried to claim they would never be used against the women themselves, that they were there to protect them," Alexa Kolbi-Molinas, legal counsel for reproductive rights at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), told VICE News. "Patel's prosecution just exposes the lies, that any of these laws have anything to do with protecting women."
HSBC is 'cast-iron certain' to breach banking rules again, executive admits
A senior HSBC executive has privately admitted that the bank is “cast-iron certain” to have another major regulatory breach in the future, and is struggling on multiple fronts to clean up its worldwide operations.
Global head of sanctions Lee Hale – whose recorded comments appear to contrast with public statements from HSBC’s chief executive that the bank has fundamentally transformed itself after recent scandals – said gaps remained in the bank’s compliance with sanctions policies and the screening of certain financial transactions
Stuart Gulliver, HSBC’s chief executive since 2011, and Rona Fairhead, chair of HSBC North America as well as the BBC Trust, have repeatedly assured the UK parliament that the bank today is markedly different from when its Swiss branch facilitated large-scale tax evasion, or when its Mexican branch was found by US authorities to be complicit in multimillion-dollar money laundering for drug cartels.
Hale was meeting with independent lawyers monitoring HSBC as part of a controversial 2012 deal with the US Department of Justice, in which the bank avoided prosecution over sanctions busting and money laundering in its Mexican branch in exchange for paying a $1.9bn fine and receiving additional regulatory scrutiny for a period of five years. ... During a long exchange about HSBC’s new policy on sanctions and internal breaches of company rules, Hale told the regulator that “given the size and scale of HSBC”, in his view “it is a cast-iron certain[ty] this will happen, at some point in the future we’re going to have some big breach, some regulatory breach”. ...
Under pressure from regulators and investors alike, Gulliver has repeatedly insisted HSBC is not too big to manage. ... However, Hale suggested in his conversation with the monitor that HSBC’s sprawling 70-country operation was still a significant complicating factor in the work of the bank’s 7,000-strong compliance team.
Johns Hopkins sued for $1bn over role in deliberate STD infections in Guatemala
Lawsuit seeks damages for individuals, spouses and children of people infected with STDs through US government program in 1940s and 1950s
More than 750 plaintiffs are suing the Johns Hopkins Hospital System Corp over its role in a series of medical experiments in Guatemala in the 1940s and 1950s during which subjects were deliberately infected with venereal diseases without their consent.
The lawsuit in Baltimore seeks $1bn in damages for individuals, spouses and children of people infected with syphilis, gonorrhea and other sexually transmitted diseases through a US government program from 1945-56.
The suit claims officials at Johns Hopkins had “substantial influence” over the studies by controlling some panels that advised the federal government on how to spend research dollars. The suit also alleges that Hopkins and the Rockefeller Foundation, which is also named as a defendant, “did not limit their involvement to design, planning, funding and authorization of the Experiments; instead, they exercised control over, supervised, supported, encouraged, participated in and directed the course of the Experiments”. ...
According to the US department of health and human services, researchers initially infected Guatemalan sex workers with gonorrhea or syphilis, then allowed them to have sex with soldiers and prison inmates with the aim of spreading the disease.
The suit says that orphans, children and mental patients were also deliberately infected without their consent, and that treatment was withheld from some subjects.
Astroturf Warning: TPP Critics Call Out Fake 'Progressive' Group Pushing Corporate Trade Agenda
'The fact is, you can be a progressive committed to fighting for working families or you can be for this massive job-killing trade deal written by hundreds of corporate representatives, but you can't be both.'
Critics of the corporate-friendly Trans-Pacific Partnership are lining up against what they call an "astroturf" operation claiming to represent progressives in favor of Fast Tracking the sweeping and secretive trade deal.
No such progressives exist, they say.
Last month, a Democratic political consulting firm founded by former Obama administration staffers launched a website dubbed "Progressive Coalition for American Jobs," which claimed to prove the existence of progressives who support trade promotion authority, or Fast Track power. ...
However, groups like Public Citizen, CREDO Action, and Democracy for America say no real progressives support handing over trade authority to the White House in this way.
"A consultant-run, pro-TPP astroturf campaign won't change the fact that progressives are united in their opposition to Fast Track and the Trans-Pacific Partnership," said Murshed Zaheed, deputy political director at CREDO Action, on a press call (pdf) Wednesday.
Hellraiser Preview
Sherman, set the time machine for tomorrow's Hellraisers Journal which will feature from the United Mine Workers Journal: "Shackling the Workers, Colorado's Proposed Anti-Treason Bills Betray the Workers-by Adolph Germer. Colorado's coal miners were massacred under the Democratic Governor for going out on strike; they could now be made guilty of treason, under the new Republican governor, should they dare to strike again.
Tune in at 2pm!
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'Not Nearly Enough': McDonald's Wage Hike Lambasted as Publicity Stunt
One day after fast-food workers and their supporters called for a nationwide strike to demand higher wages and the right to form a union, McDonald's announced Wednesday that it will raise pay for about 90,000 of its U.S. employees—only those who work at the 1,500 locations owned by the corporation—as of July 1, 2015.
But workers and labor activists say the move amounts to little more than a publicity stunt, noting that the vast majority of McDonald's employees will not see any raise, but will continue to earn poverty wages.
The wage hike covers just 10 percent of 14,350 McDonald's stores nationwide. The rest, which employ about 750,000 people, are owned by franchisees, who the company claims "operate their individual businesses and make their own decisions on pay and benefits for their employees."
Which means, according to the Fight for $15 campaign—which is organizing the 200-city walkout for April 15—that "[n]early everyone who works at McDonald’s will still get paid less than $10 an hour—not enough to pay the bills. And many will still be making far less."
The Evening Greens
California restricts water as snowpack survey finds 'no snow whatsoever'
The governor of California has ordered unprecedented and mandatory water restrictions in the state as officials conducted a regular measurement of the Sierra Nevada snowpack and found “no snow whatsoever” amid the state’s ongoing drought.
“This was the first time in 75 years of early-April measurements at the Phillips snow course that no snow was found there,” the California Department of Water Resources said in a statement on Wednesday at the conclusion of a survey attended by the Governor Jerry Brown. It said readings from Wednesday put the state’s level of water content at just 5% of the historical average for the date.
“Today’s survey underscores the severity of California’s drought,” said DWR director Mark Cowin. “Water conservation must become a way of life during the worst drought in most Californians’ lifetimes.”
Brown on Wednesday ordered the State Water Resources Control Board to reduce statewide water use by 25%. The action – the first time ever state officials have imposed mandatory water restrictions – is expected to save 1.5m acre-feet of water by the year’s end.
After Warmest Winter, Drought-Stricken California Limits Water But Exempts Thirstiest Big Growers
Despite Dire Scientific Warnings, GOP Leaders Vow to Bury Global Climate Deal
Less than 24 hours after the White House unveiled its pledge to cut carbon emissions, Congressional Republicans made it clear that if President Obama hopes to make any headway on climate action he will have to bypass them.
Under the climate plan, which was submitted on Tuesday to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), President Obama pledged to cut carbon emissions roughly 28 percent over the next decade. The commitment relies heavily on the success of several pending initiatives including halting construction of new coal-fired power plants, increasing vehicle fuel economy standards, and limiting methane leaks from oil and gas production. ...
While many hailed the White House for taking the lead on an international climate agreement, environmental groups slammed the proposal as insufficient, arguing that any such climate pledge will be negated by the Obama administration's continued support for fossil fuel development.
Why Obama's Climate Change Proposal Falls Short
New Report Debunks 'Myth' That GMOs are Key to Feeding the World
The biotechnology industry "myth" that feeding billions of people necessitates genetically engineered agriculture has been debunked by a new report out Tuesday by the nonprofit health organization Environmental Working Group.
The report, Feeding the World Without GMOs(pdf), argues that investment in genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, has failed to expand global food security. It advocates more traditional methods "shown to actually increase food supplies and reduce the environmental impact of production."
Over the past 20 years, the report notes, global crop yields have only grown by 20 percent—despite the massive investment in biotechnology.
On the other hand, it continues, in recent decades "the dominant source of yield improvements has been traditional crossbreeding, and that is likely to continue for the foreseeable future."
As the report states, "seed companies' investment in improving yields in already high-yielding areas does little to improve food security; it mainly helps line the pockets of seed and chemical companies, large-scale growers and producers of corn ethanol."
Blog Posts of Interest
Here are diaries and selected blog posts of interest on DailyKos and other blogs.
What's Happenin' Is On Hiatus
Chris Rock documents series of detainments by police
Can Oregon's tiny houses be part of the solution to homelessness?
Why Iran Distrusts the US in Nuke Talks
Do you want a happy kid, or a dead kid?
A Little Night Music
Roosevelt Sykes - Gulfport Boogie
Roosevelt Sykes + Clifford Gibson - Tired of Being Mistreated
Roosevelt Sykes - 44 Blues
Roosevelt Sykes - Dirty Mother Fuyer
Roosevelt Sykes - Yes Lawd
Roosevelt Sykes - Persimmon Pie
Roosevelt Sykes - Hangover
Roosevelt Sykes and Big Bill Broonzy - Come Back Baby
Roosevelt Sykes - Southern Blues
Roosevelt Sykes - Jiving the Jive
Roosevelt Sykes - Dresser Drawers
Roosevelt Sykes- Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
Roosevelt Sykes - Music is my business
Roosevelt Sykes - Sweet Old Chicago
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