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Tonight's music features Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry who mostly performed as a duo for many decades starting in the 1940's. Enjoy!
Brownie McGhee - Born and Livin' With The Blues
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News
Georgia Prisoners’ Hunger Strike at Critical Stage
"The United States is the world's first prison state. We lock up more people for longer and for less than anyone else does on this planet. African Americans, who are one-eighth of the nation's population, make up over 40 percent of this nation's prisoners. Latinos, who are another one-eighth, make up an additional 30 percent, and their numbers are climbing. So that means that between blacks and Latinos, who make up a quarter of the nation's population, are three-quarters of its prisoners. In Georgia we have 1 in 13 adults who are either in prison, out on bail, or on parole, on bond, or some form of court supervision. That's the highest number of any state in the union, 1 in 13 adults."
As World Spends Trillions on War and Bank Bailouts, Little Money Left to Fight AIDS
Ecuador Says Assange Extradition to US Would be 'Evil' - Asylum decision to come 'after Olympics'
The Ecuadorean government has been working to ensure WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is not extradited to the US and this week went so far as to call such a possibility 'evil'.
"In legal terms … the evil that Ecuador wishes to prevent is the extradition [of Assange] to the US. Now if there are ways and means of that being tied down, I think that would be a just solution," stated the senior legal adviser to the country's embassy in London, where Assange has been staying in a bid to gain political asylum in Ecuador. ...
Diplomats for Ecuador said they have taken part in numerous diplomatic talks with the Swedish and UK governments, seeking to guarantee that Assange will not be extradited to the US after the completion of legal proceedings in Sweden.
Your Phone, the Snitch
IMSI, which stands for the dull and deceptively innocuous-sounding “International Mobile Subscriber Identity,” acts as a mobile phone tower that tricks cellphones into sending data to it instead of a nearby tower. Such “man-in-the- middle” attacks defy detection, usually occurring without the caller’s knowledge.
Police departments say they do not need warrants to use IMSI catchers. A case on the matter is working its way through the courts. The FBI already uses the device. Except for turning your cellphone off, there appears at the moment to be no way to shield yourself from such attacks.
Eagle Scouts resign to protest Scouts’ anti-LGBT policy
Last week, the Boy Scouts of America announced that it has no intention of changing its policy of not allowing openly LGBT people to serve within its ranks or work with the scouting program. Now, according to the Atlantic a protest movement is roiling the organization from within as generations of Eagle Scouts resign from the program over its refusal to change the policy.
“After a confidential two-year review,” read Boy Scouts of America’s July 17 statement, “Boy Scouts of America has emphatically reaffirmed its policy of excluding gays.”
Since then, dozens of Eagle Scouts, the highest honor a BSA member can attain, have returned their medals to the organization. While the Scouts claim that only ten Eagle Scouts have resigned, the blog Boing Boing has been publishing letters from Eagle Scouts who have resigned from scouting, and the number is much higher than that.
U.S. ‘extreme drought’ zones triple in size
The drought in America’s breadbasket is intensifying at an unprecedented rate, experts warned, driving concern food prices could soar if crops in the world’s key producer are decimated.
The US Drought Monitor reported a nearly threefold increase in areas of extreme drought over the past week in the nine Midwestern states where three quarters of the country’s corn and soybean crops are produced.
“That expansion of D3 or extreme conditions intensified quite rapidly and we went from 11.9 percent to 28.9 percent in just one week,” Brian Fuchs, a climatologist and Drought Monitor author, told AFP.
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Blog Posts of Interest
Here are diaries and selected blog posts of interest on DailyKos and other blogs.
What's Happenin'
House Adopts 2013 Pentagon Budget Increase
Transgender in the Military
A Little Night Music
Brownie McGhee - Cornbread and Peas
Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee - Red River Blues & Crow Jane
Brownie McGhee - Kansas City Blues & Me and My Dog
Brownie McGhee & Bert Jansch - Key To The Highway
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Walk on
Sonny Terry & Brownie Mc Ghee - Hootin' Blues
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Burnt Child & Gonna Move Across the River
Sonny Terry + Brownie McGhee - Stranger Blues
Brownie McGhee - Good Morning Blues
Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry - Custard Pie Blues
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - My Baby's So Fine & Poor Man / Fighting a Losing Battle
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Pawn Shop Blues
Brownie McGhee - Dealing with the Devil
Brownie McGhee - Not Guilty Blues
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