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Tonight's music features piano player Henry Gray whose name is far too little known. Henry Gray was a piano player in Chicago during the heydey of Chess Records and for years played alongside and on the records of a wide variety of Chicago bluesmen, Little Walter, Junior Wells, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Robert Jr. Lockwood, Billy Boy Arnold and many more. He is one of the creators of the sound that has come to be called the Chicago blues.
Henry Gray & The Cats - Showers of Rain
"History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance."
-- James Madison
News
Matt Taibbi and Yves Smith on the Follies of Big Banks and Government
it's about time a nobel peace prize winning president stood up and said something truthful about america's horrendous human rights record:
A Cruel and Unusual Record -
By JIMMY CARTER
THE United States is abandoning its role as the global champion of human rights.
Revelations that top officials are targeting people to be assassinated abroad, including American citizens, are only the most recent, disturbing proof of how far our nation’s violation of human rights has extended. This development began after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and has been sanctioned and escalated by bipartisan executive and legislative actions, without dissent from the general public. As a result, our country can no longer speak with moral authority on these critical issues. ...
With leadership from the United States, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted in 1948 as “the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world.” This was a bold and clear commitment that power would no longer serve as a cover to oppress or injure people, and it established equal rights of all people to life, liberty, security of person, equal protection of the law and freedom from torture, arbitrary detention or forced exile. ... It is disturbing that, instead of strengthening these principles, our government’s counterterrorism policies are now clearly violating at least 10 of the declaration’s 30 articles, including the prohibition against “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.”
Coup in Paraguay: Will U.S. Join Latin America in Condemning Ouster of President Fernando Lugo?
The Left’s Big Sellout – How the ACLU and Human Rights Groups Quietly Exterminated Labor Rights
The intellectual-left’s wild mood swings between unrequited love towards labor unions, and unrequited contempt, got me wondering how this abandonment of labor has manifested itself. While progressives and labor are arguing, sometimes viciously, over labor’s current sorry state, one thing progressives haven’t done is serious self-examination on how and where this abandonment of labor manifests itself, how it affects the very genetic makeup of liberal assumptions and major premises.
So I did a simple check: I went to the websites of three of the biggest names in liberal activist politics: Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the ACLU. Checking their websites, I was surprised to find that not one of those three organizations lists labor as a major topic or issue that it covers. ...
On the advice of an old friend, Jan Frel, I read an excellent book on the human rights industry, James Peck’s Ideal Illusions, which helps answer why labor rights have been airbrushed out of the language of human rights. It wasn’t always this way: Economic rights and workplace rights were for decades at the very heart of the human rights movement. This was officially enshrined in 1948, when the United Nations adopted a 30-point “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” putting labor rights and economic equality rights alongside those we’re more familiar with today, like freedom of expression, due process, religion and so on. But somehow, labor rights and economic justice have been effectively amputated from the human rights agenda and forgotten about, in tandem with the American left’s abandonment of labor.
David Suzuki on Rio+20, "Green Economy" & Why Planet’s Survival Requires Undoing Its Economic Model
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House Passes Energy Bill, Allows Drilling on Public Lands
The Domestic Energy and Jobs Act requires President Obama to produce fossil fuels domestically if he taps into the country's reserves
Bee Smart - Sign this petition!
Apiarist and fellow Kossack Zhen Rhen wrote a great diary on Sunday that many may have missed. The long and short of it is that if you are a person who enjoys and/or needs to have food on a regular basis, you should pay attention to the health of bees and other pollinators that make that food possible.
The petition is here and also at the Credo action network.
Read the diary here:
Tell the EPA to stop enabling the 1%, and ban the bee-killing pesticide
Blog Posts of Interest
Here are diaries and selected blog posts of interest on DailyKos and other blogs.
What's Happenin'
Collapsing U.S. credibility
A Little Night Music
Henry Gray - Live at Lovers Lane
Henry Gray - Finger snappin' boogie
Henry Gray - Stagger Lee
Henry Gray & The Cats - Little Red Rooster
Henry Gray - How Could You Do It
Henry Gray - Blueberry Hill
Here are a couple of videos with Henry backing up other folks:
Henry Gray & Tail Dragger - Don't Lie On Me
Henry Gray + Kenny Neal - Rainin' In My Heart
For further listening:
Henry Gray - Cold Chills
Henry Gray - Gray's Bounce
Henry Gray - Talking About You
Henry Gray - I'm A Lucky Lucky Man