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Tonight's music features saxophonist A.C. Reed, a stalwart of the Chicago blues scene from the 1940's to the 2000's. Enjoy!
A.C. Reed - Reedman's Boogie
"When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression."
-- Jesse Jackson
News
“Nonsense Economics” and the Deepening Greek Crisis
1920's Depression also caused by bankers
Obama: “I’m prepared to make a whole range of compromises...”
The big news in that AP interview with President Obama over the weekend comes in this exchange, from the transcript:
But what I’m offering the American people is a balanced approach that the majority agrees with, including a lot of Republicans. And for me to be able to say to the Republicans, the election is over; you no longer need to be focused on trying to beat me; what you need to be focused on and what you should have been focused on from the start is how do we advance the American economy—I’m prepared to make a whole range of compromises, some of which I get criticized from the Democratic Party on, in order to make progress.
Obama has ads running touting this “balanced approach.” He speaks about it in press conferences and interviews. He thinks the fact that he doesn’t get enough credit for a willingness to cut Social Security and Medicare in a deal like this represents one of the greatest frustrations of his Presidency.
Protesters at Republican National Convention in Tampa march against Ryan-Romney budget, build 'Romneyville' encampment
Neither the fear of Tropical Storm Isaac or the heavy-handed security walled up around the National Republican Convention in Tampa slowed the earliest protesters from voicing their opposition to the platform positions of Mitt Romney, his vice-presidential running mate Paul Ryan, and the political party they both now represent.
A contigent of protesters marched to the Tropicana Field on Sunday where the RNC was hosting its convention "kick-off party" and a variety of progressive groups held smaller events nearby to let it be known that they would not stand idly by while the Republican party lurches even further to the right.
According to the Tampa Tribune, the thousand or more people who marched to the Tropicana event were met by "several hundred troops comprised of police, sheriff's deputies and others" that penned them in along the way.
Tampa officials fail to evict tent encampment as human rights group plans protests and marches to herald start of convention
They have dubbed it "Romneyville" but the name is not meant as a compliment to the Republican grandee shortly to be nominated as the party's presidential candidate. ...
City officials have tried to evict the protesters, who are collected in several buses, cars and a score of tents outside on a patch of gravel just outside Tampa's downtown – and just inside a restricted "event zone" declared by the host city.
But their efforts failed on a technicality and now occupants of the camp are determined to go ahead with a series of unauthorised marches and protests to herald the start of the convention. ...
The group rented the lot, situated just outside an army-navy general store beside the main freeway exit into downtown Tampa, making it a certain sight to the thousands of Republicans and media pouring into the city each day.
a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/08/26">Two Pussy Riot Members 'Have Fled Russia'
Two female Pussy Riot punk rockers who are being hunted by police to avoid prosecution for staging a protest against Vladimir Putin at a church altar have fled Russia in order to evade arrest, the group announced Sunday.
"Our two members who are wanted by police have managed to leave the Russian territory! They are trying to recruit foreign feminists to prepare new action," the group wrote on its Twitter account, without giving details on where the women have fled to.
Scientists warn food shortages could turn us all into vegetarians
Leading water scientists have issued one of the sternest warnings yet about global food supplies, saying that the world’s population may have to switch almost completely to a vegetarian diet over the next 40 years to avoid catastrophic shortages.
Humans derive about 20% of their protein from animal-based products now, but this may need to drop to just 5% to feed the extra 2 billion people expected to be alive by 2050, according to research by some of the world’s leading water scientists.
“There will not be enough water available on current croplands to produce food for the expected 9 billion population in 2050 if we follow current trends and changes towards diets common in western nations,” the report by Malik Falkenmark and colleagues at the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) said.
“There will be just enough water if the proportion of animal-based foods is limited to 5% of total calories and considerable regional water deficits can be met by a … reliable system of food trade.”
Bill Nye: Creationism is holding America back
Blog Posts of Interest
Here are diaries and selected blog posts of interest on DailyKos and other blogs.
What's Happenin'
Bankers' Profits Soar on Backs of Home Buyers
Ten Years After Decriminalization, Drug Abuse Down by Half in Portugal
A Little Night Music
Albert Collins & A.C. Reed - Instrumental Jam
A. C. Reed - I Am Fed Up
A.C. REED & THE ICEBREAKERS - Medley / She's Fine
A.C. Reed - I Can't Go On This Way
A.C. Reed w/Stevie Ray Vaughn - Miami Strut
A.C. Reed - Talkin' Bout My Friends
A.C.Reed & Bonnie Raitt - She`s Fine
A. C. Reed - Boogalo Tramp
A.C. Reed - My Baby's Been Cheating
A.C. Reed - Big Woman
A.C. Reed - Junk Food
A.C. Reed - I Got Money To Burn
A.C. Reed - Oh Wee...These Blues is Killing Me!
A.C. Reed + Phil Guy - Like Ice Around My Heart
AC Reed + Maurice John Vaughn - I got money
Bonnie Raitt & Friends - Long Lonesome Road
We are ready for some serious change. We are ready to take up the tools of a free and analytic press to peacefully undermine the stranglehold of the kleptocrats on our battered democracy. We are ready to expose and publicize their greed, lies and illegal machinations and hold their enablers in government and the media to account. Are you in?
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
~ Margaret Mead
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