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Billy Boy Arnold - I Wish You Would
"If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don't care."
-- Nelson Mandela
News and Opinion
Drone strike kills 15 wedding-goers instead of Al-Qaeda convoy in Yemen
In Yemen, al Qaeda gains sympathy amid U.S. drone strikes
On January 23, science teacher Ali Nasser al-Qawli had finished supervising school exams in the Yemeni village of Khawlan and was enjoying an afternoon with friends when he encountered the strangers.
They wanted a lift in a taxi Qawli and his nephew were in. A while later, locals say, an American aircraft fired missiles at the vehicle. ...
The Yemeni government now says Qawli, who had three children, and his nephew were not militants but innocent civilians. In a statement, it concluded: "We can confirm the following: Ali al-Qawli ... did not know or communicate with the individuals who rented the mentioned car and their death was a matter of fate." ...
Mohamed, brother of the dead Qawli, told Reuters: "These (drone) strikes create more terrorism. In our area there was never anyone linked to al Qaeda. After the strike, everyone in the area started listening to al Qaeda types, exchanging videos on mobile phones."
He said that many houses in his area now fly a black flag carrying an Islamic expression of faith - a symbol al Qaeda often uses.
U.S. Congressman Alan Grayson, a Democrat representative in Florida, told Reuters that according to one U.S. official who served in Yemen, "every drone death yields 50 to 60 new recruits for Al Qaeda." Grayson, who recently participated in a Congressional briefing that included relatives of victims of drone strikes, described the drone policy as "ineffective."
Bipartisan Budget Deal Secures Austerity Policies, Fails to Extend Unemployment Benefits
Budget deal passes House before Senate enters second night of partisan strife
Congress celebrated a rare moment of bipartisan harmony on Thursday evening, after a $1tn federal budget passed in the House of Representatives, before swiftly returning to all-night bickering in the Senate.
An overwhelming majority of 332 Republicans and Democrats voted against 94 rebels from both parties to pass the limited two-year spending deal and repeal parts of the so-called sequester cuts.
Opponents, including the Democratic whip Steny Hoyer, comprised a mixture of fiscal hardliners who wanted more cuts and liberals angry that the deal neglected to fix expiring unemployment benefits and will charge future federal workers more for their pensions.
The messy compromise, which is expected be ratified by the Senate next week and is backed by the White House, makes this the first time since the 1980s that a divided US government has agreed to set a formal budget.
See how Pelosi fights fiercely for the unemployed who are about to get cut out of benefits 3 days after Xmas. Fight valiantly, Nancy, as you Embrace The Suck!
Pelosi "Embraces the Suck"
Pelosi on budget: ‘I don’t think that our members will let this bill go down’
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi publicly pushed her caucus to support the budget deal lined up for a House vote, saying “we fought it to a draw.” ...
Without an overwhelming number of Republican votes, passage will require substantial Democratic backing in the House. Pelosi and Democratic House leadership refrained from publicly backing the deal until Thursday, after Pelosi told members at a morning meeting to “embrace the suck” and vote for the deal, Politico reported. ...
Despite that, she chided Republicans for refusing to vote on including an etension of unemployment benefits in the bill before the House leaves for recess on Friday. Federal emergency unemployment benefits are set to expire on Dec. 28 – and Congress is due to return in January. While the extension could be attached to another bill before Friday, emergency aid to 1.3 million Americans hangs in the balance.
“We really thought that was the right thing to do, to do the unemployment insurance, especially when you need our votes,” Pelosi said, calling the rejection “unconscionable” and “practically at the level of immoral.”
“I told my members we have to go forward with what’s before us right now, but that doesn’t diminish the importance of this,” Pelosi said.
Is Obama’s Fiery New Populism Phony or Heartfelt?
When trouble starts brewing, the rally-the-base strategy is an old one in Washington. Obama has shown that he is fully capable of beating the rhetorical drum on populist messages while signaling to wealthy centrist donors that they need not worry, because it’s mostly just talk. A new New York Times/CBS poll shows that the President has enjoyed a small uptick in his popularity ratings, which now stand at 42 percent approval. The numbers are now back to where they were before the healthcare rollout, though far from where they were a year ago. Could it be that the flurry of inequality discussions initiated by the President and many organizations connected to his administration, like the Center for American Progress, are having the desired effect? ...
As uninspiring as this situation may be, there’s a small silver lining. Every once in a while you have to actually match actions with words. Obama, we know, has long promoted the centrist desire to cut Social Security through various schemes like his favorite, the chained-CPI cut, which would prevent seniors from keeping up with rising costs. However, in the current budget negotiations, the President seems to have dropped that idea. This is good news. ...
The public is still being sold a pack of lies which places blame for our economic woes on hard-working people rather than where it belongs — on Wall Street bankers and the politicians they have purchased to promote policies that deregulate businesses, crush unions, hurt workers and cheat taxpayers. We are told we must cut the federal deficit by reducing government investment instead of focusing on creating jobs. But by emphasizing deficit reduction instead of job creation, Obama has exacerbated income inequality and has allowed discredited economic theories to drive public policy. Mentioning to Americans in his speech that the deficit is shrinking doesn’t do much to dispel the memory of his much-reviled Deficit Commission, co-chaired by one percenters Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, the mouthpieces of Wall Street financier Pete Peterson, whose fondest wish is to kill Social Security.
Barack Obama is a man who surrounds himself with wealthy people who speak to the interests of the wealthy, not the common American. He proved this long ago, when he filled the airwaves with messages of hope and change while he made his first bid for the White House, and then, once ensconced in Washington, governed like a centrist as a little light went out in hearts across the land.
Presidential Task Force Recommends Overhaul of NSA Surveillance Tactics
A presidential task force has drafted recommendations that constitute a sweeping overhaul of the National Security Agency, according to people familiar with the recommendations.
The panel's draft proposals would change the spy agency's leadership from military to civilian and limit how it gathers and holds the electronic information of Americans.
The task force, for example, proposed that the records of nearly every U.S. phone call now collected in a controversial NSA program be held instead by the phone company or a third-party organization, these people said.
The panel also suggested the imposition of stricter standards before allowing NSA permission to search the data, these people said.
Recommendations of the task force, which President Barack Obama established in August in response to disclosures from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, aren't binding and could change before the final draft is written.
"One of Our Greatest Coups": The CIA & the Capture of Nelson Mandela
Pirate Bay Founder Held in Solitary Confinement Without a Warrant
Since his arrival in Denmark to face hacking charges Gottfrid Svartholm has sat in solitary confinement, denied free access to mail and denied access to his books. The situation has outraged Wikileaks’ Julian Assange who says Gottfrid is now a political prisoner. Meanwhile Gottfrid’s mother Kristina has written to Amnesty hoping that they will take notice of her son’s plight.
Following a failed last-ditch appeal to the Supreme Court in Sweden, Gottfrid Svartholm was extradited to Denmark last month. ...
The extradition by Sweden and current situation in Denmark has outraged Wikileaks‘ Julian Assange, a staunch supporter of Gottfrid who he describes as a ‘Wikileaks Consultant’.
“It is time someone says it like it is: Gottfrid Svartholm Warg is a political prisoner and Sweden has fallen off the map of decent nations in its treatment of him. Gottfrid has always been ideologically driven to inform the world; he worked tirelessly to help WikiLeaks expose the slaughter of civilians in Iraq by a US helicopter gunship and was responsible for an important part of our infrastructure,” Assange says.
This piece is a great read:
Machines of Loving Grace
That the United States will suffer another major terrorist attack is certain. In the long run, determined, intelligent malice, coupled with the willingness to sacrifice one's own life in the act, must now and then trump our defenses, which remain merely reactive. ... It follows that any rational policymaker would wish to know as much as possible about as many people as possible. A perfect extension of this aim would entail constant passive surveillance of everyone on Earth, with the capability of making that surveillance active and then employing lethal force as needed. As a Richard Brautigan poem has it, we would be "all watched over by machines of loving grace."
NOT LONG AGO, THANKS TO A REQUEST MADE under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), I learned that I had been a suspect in the Unabomber case. You see, I had written a historical novel called Fathers and Crows, and the Unabomber's moniker was FC. That book, by the way, exemplified my "anti-growth and anti-progress" themes, according to the (redacted) copy of my FBI file, because it was about 17th-century Iroquois. ... My file, which I wrote about in detail for Harper's, indicates that the FBI surveilled and perhaps burgled my home. After the Unabomber was brought to justice, I became a suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks, in part because I had been a former Unabomber suspect. Your tax dollars at work! ...
As I remind myself and my friends, no real harm came to me. In a worse country, I might have wound up in prison. Of course, what would have happened to me right here had my name been Mohammed?
Anglo-American that I am, I have suffered only small inconveniences. For one thing, I have lost any expectation of reliably receiving my international mail. My Japanese translator informs me that she has written me a number of times; her letters never reach me. Books from my French publisher have come with each volume's spine carefully slit open. All I can do is throw them in the trash. A letter from my mother, who lives in Switzerland, shows up with the envelope unsealed. How will I ever know why this keeps happening to me?
Icelanders Overthrow Government and Rewrite Constitution After Banking Fraud-No Word From US Media
Can you imagine participating in a protest outside the White House and forcing the entire U.S. government to resign? Can you imagine a group of randomly chosen private citizens rewriting the U.S. constitution to include measures banning corporate fraud? It seems incomprehensible in the U.S., but Icelanders did just that. Icelanders forced their entire government to resign after a banking fraud scandal, overthrowing the ruling party and creating a citizen’s group tasked with writing a new constitution that offered a solution to prevent corporate greed from destroying the country. The constitution of Iceland was scrapped and is being rewritten by private citizens; using a crowd-sourcing technique via social media channels such as Facebook and Twitter. These events have been going on since 2008, yet there’s been no word from the U.S. mainstream media about any of them. In fact, all of the events that unfolded were recorded by international journalists, overseas news bureaus, citizen journalists and bloggers. This has created current accusations of an intentional cover up of the story by mainstream U.S. news sources.
An “iReport” on CNN, written by a private citizen in May 2012, has questioned the reasons why this revolution has not been widely covered in the U.S., suggesting that perhaps the mainstream media is controlled by large corporate interests and thus has been unwilling to report on Iceland’s activities. ... In Iceland, the citizens took to the streets by the thousands, banging pots and pans in what is known as the “pots and pans revolution,” leading to the arrest and prosecution of many unscrupulous bankers responsible for the economic collapse. Icelandic citizens also refused to pay for the sins of the bankers and rejected any measures of taxation to bail them out. In the U.S., the government bailed out the banks and arrested no one.
The pots and pans revolution in Iceland was not covered by mainstream U.S. media. In fact, any information about this revolution is found only on international newspapers, blogs and online documentaries, not on mainstream front-page articles as would be expected from news organizations covering a story of this magnitude. The New York Times published a small handful of piecemeal stories, blogs and opinion pieces, but mostly glossed over the main narrative by saying the 2008 financial collapse in Iceland caused “mayhem far beyond the country’s borders” rather than pointing out that Icelanders took to the streets with pots and pans and forced their entire government to resign.
Occupy is dead. Long live Occupy!
Iceland jails four 'banksters' in financial fraud case
The Volcker rule cites the Occupy Movement 284 times
Occupy the SEC has remained very busy -- filing amicus briefs, testifying before Congress, suing regulators and writing comment letters, including a 325-page opus on the Volcker Rule. After quickly taking stock of how it turned out Tuesday, they gave the final version a "C-". Occupy's Akshat Tewary and Eric Taylor explained what problems they still have with it. ...
LD: Did you guys do anything to push this besides send letters into the ether?
ET: We met with each regulator after they wrote the rule, and we worked with other interest groups collaboratively through the process.
AT: To get ideas, we had a weekly conference call where we talked about things with a couple other groups. We definitely met with all the regulators once, we had a hearing in Congress for 100 to 200 congressional staff members who at that time were considering re-proposing the Volcker Rule, so we were encouraging them not to do it, to strengthen the rule that already existed. We met with Paul Volcker and Sen. [Jeff] Merkley along the same lines.
LD: Were any of your proposed changes incorporated?
ET: We'll be able to say more about that in the future, the preamble is almost 900 pages, and the actual rule is 71 pages, so we've only been able to look at it from a cursory point of view. There were certainly some things in there where they didn't concede to industry, which was good.
AT: They've cited our suggestions 284 times in the final rule, and in a lot of those contexts they agreed with us, and a lot of the time they disagreed with us. They're not going to say that Occupy said this and we're going to follow it, but we are pretty comforted that they followed at least some of our suggestions. [For comparison, the rule cites the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association 599 times, Americans for Financial Reform 179 times, and Senator Jeff Merkley 176 times. - ed. note]
Bill Black: Volcker Rule Approved But "Not Enforceable"
This article is a great read. I can't really do it justice with this abstract, so if you're interested in single-payer, definitely check this article out:
The Backroom Deal That Could've Given Us Single-Payer
Back in March 2009, leaks from the White House made it clear that a single-payer health insurance system was “off the table” as an option for health care reform. By doing so, the President had ruled out the simplest and most obvious reform of the disaster that is US healthcare. Instituting single-payer would have meant putting US health insurance companies out of business and extending the existing Medicare or Medicaid to the entire population. Instead, over the following weeks the outlines of the bloated monstrosity known as Obamacare emerged; an impossibly complicated Rube Goldberg contraption, badly designed, incompetently executed, and whose intended beneficiaries increasingly seem to hate.
The decision to abandon the nationalization of perhaps the most unpopular companies in the US is correctly attributed to the fundamental conservatism of the Obama White House, and its unwillingness to take on the health insurers, pharmaceutical companies, or any interest group willing and able to spend millions lobbying, hiring former politicians, and donating to campaigns. Obama’s “wimpiness,” his need to always take the path of least resistance, became common tropes among the American left. Obamacare, liberals claim, is the best possible reform that could’ve been wrangled out of the health insurance industry.
But were the many backroom deals that make up Obamacare really an easier alternative to nationalization? A look at the financial details reveals the opposite conclusion. In strictly financial terms, nationalization would have been the easiest way forward, costing relatively little and delivering immediate savings while making access to health care truly universal. Politically, Obama could have counted on the support of a unlikely ally of progressive causes: health insurance shareholders, the theoretical owners of those very companies who would have been relieved of their then-dubious investments with a huge payout. ...
[N]ationalization of the health insurance industry in 2009 would have cost no more (and almost certainly a lot less) than $240 billion. The savings in waste resulting from replacing the health insurance racket with an extension of Medicare would have resulted in no less than $158 billion a year. That’s an annualized return on investment of 66 percent. The entire operation would have paid for itself in less than 18 months, and after that, an eternity of administrative efficiency for free. And, of course, happy shareholders. ...
So what would make a self-described market-lover like Obama take such an obvious solution off the table before the discussions even began? As it turns out, Obama is a fan of a very specific kind of market – the kind of complicated, opaque market full of rules, moving parts, variables, exceptions, and complexities that generate lots of opportunities for rent extraction.
What Would Universal Healthcare Look Like in the U.S.?
Why Obamacare Cannot “Insure” for Pre-Existing Conditions
One of the biggest selling points for Obamacare is that it requires insurers to offer policies to people with so-called pre-existing conditions, as in known, fairly to extremely costly-to-treat ailments, like diabetes, HIV, and autoimmune diseases.
Not surprisingly, two things have started happening. One is that the early evidence suggests that people with pre-existing conditions are signing up for the new plans in disproportionate numbers. For instance, the individuals determined to be eligible to enroll in federal exchanges through the end of November had a much lower proportion of people eligible for subsidies than anticipated. Those who had health issues would naturally be highly motivated to obtain coverage. Insurers and the Administration no doubt hope this will balance out and more of the “young invincibles” will sign up as the deadline approaches.
Second is that the insurers, par for the course, are finding clever ways to make the actual coverage offered to people with pre-existing conditions so minimal as to come as close as they can to covering them, apparently with the hope that they will go elsewhere. As the Washington Post reported earlier this week:
Some plans sold on the online insurance exchanges, for instance, don’t cover key medications for HIV, or they require patients to pay as much as 50 percent of the cost per prescription in co-insurance — sometimes more than $1,000 a month….
“The easiest way [for insurers] to identify a core group of people that is going to cost you a lot of money is to look at the medicines they need and the easiest way to make your plan less appealing is to put limitations on these products,” [Marc] Boutin [executive vice president of the National Health Council] said.
The ugly reality is that, logically speaking, a known condition isn’t a matter of insurance but subsidy or socialization of costs.
Selling Priceless Art Won’t Save Detroit
The Detroit Institute of Arts is one of the country’s oldest and best museums, and has been under threat since Kevyn Orr insisted that everything in Detroit is “on the table” to address the financial crisis. In the intervening months, salivating creditors have circled the museum while the institution has tried to keep them at bay. Some of Detroit’s largest creditors have contended in court that the museum’s collection is not an “essential city asset” and should be sold to help pay those who are owed money. Now, for better or worse, there’s a price tag on the collection. The same day the bankruptcy decision was issued, the auction house Christie’s released its appraisal of the worth of the DIA’s art collection at between $452 million and $886 million, although a few masterpieces displayed to the public, such as Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Wedding Dance and Matisse’s The Window, account for as much as 75% of that estimate. This is a significantly lower amount than the $2 billion that was estimated informally last summer. ...
There also are regulations governing American museums that expressly forbid the sale of artworks for any reason other than to acquire other artworks. Michigan’s attorney general issued an opinion in the summer that states specifically that such a sale would violate the law. This is not even to mention the insanity of treating artworks in the public trust as mere “property” to be sold off to pay bills.
A report by Demos, published in November, lays out some of the actual reasons for the city’s problems.
Detroit’s bankruptcy is, at its core, a cash flow problem caused by its inability to bring in enough revenue to pay its bills. While emergency manager Kevyn Orr has focused on cutting retiree benefits and reducing the city’s long-term liabilities to address the crisis, an analysis of the city’s finances reveals that his efforts are inappropriate and, in important ways, not rooted in fact. Detroit’s bankruptcy was primarily caused by a severe decline in revenue and exacerbated by complicated Wall Street deals that put its ability to pay its expenses at greater risk. To address the city’s cash flow shortfall and get it out of bankruptcy, the emergency manager should focus on increasing revenue and extricating the city from these toxic financial deals.
Selling the city’s art won’t accomplish any of that. I hope that effort is stopped, and the priceless art works in the DIA’s collection are preserved for future generations.
Heroic Uruguay deserves a Nobel peace prize for legalising cannabis
The war on the war on drugs is the only war that matters. Uruguay's stance puts the UN and the US to shame
I used to think the United Nations was a harmless talking shop, with tax-free jobs for otherwise unemployed bureaucrats. I now realise it is a force for evil. Its response to a truly significant attempt to combat a global menace – Uruguay's new drug regime – has been to declare that it "violates international law".
To see the tide turn on drugs is like trying to detect a glacier move. But moving it is. Wednesday's statute was introduced by the Uruguayan president, José Mujica, "to free future generations from this plague". The plague was not drugs as such but the "war" on them, which leaves the world's youth at the mercy of criminal traffickers and random imprisonment. Mujica declares himself a reluctant legaliser but one determined "to take users away from clandestine business. We don't defend marijuana or any other addiction, but worse than any drug is trafficking."
Uruguay will legalise not only cannabis consumption but, crucially, its production and sale. Users must be over 18 and registered Uruguayans. While small quantities can be grown privately, firms will produce cannabis under state licence and prices will be set to undercut traffickers. ...This measured approach is still way in advance even of American states such as Colorado and Washington, which have legalised recreational as well as medical cannabis consumption, but not production.
The Evening Greens
Momentum Grows to Stop Coal Finance, but Further Action is Critical
This week, two important actions were added to the growing list of recent global steps curbing public finance for coal. First, on December 10, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) joined the World Bank and European Investment Bank (EIB) in adopting a new Energy Strategy that significantly restricts support for coal power projects. Under the EBRD’s new Energy Strategy, the Bank will support coal-fired generation only “in rare and exceptional circumstances in which there is no feasible alternative energy source.” ...
As the second climate feat of the week, the U.S. government voted no on the Board of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for a proposed coal power plant in Pakistan. However, even though the U.S. and several other countries voted no or abstained from supporting the Pakistan coal plant, the ADB board still had a simple majority, and therefore approved $900 million in funding for the 600 MW Jamshoro coal plant.
The no vote on the coal plant at the ADB by the United States clearly follows on President Obama’s Climate Action Plan, which aims to halt U.S. tax dollar support for overseas coal plants. Momentum is growing to stop coal finance in other countries as well, as the United Kingdom and Nordic countries have also recently announced steps to limit international coal financing.
These steps all deserve to be commended, but the fact still remains that the job is far from finished. Without further heightened action from the U.S. and other powerful actors the coal-curbing policies will have limited influence. As demonstrated in the case of the ADB, the U.S. and other countries need to go beyond simply voting no to stop their tax dollars from supporting coal. Unlike the World Bank and EBRD, the ADB does not have a policy restricting support for coal plants. Thus, the U.S. needs to step up and work hard to demonstrate to other ADB member countries, especially borrowing countries, that coal is not the answer and provide the necessary strategic assessments and financing of alternatives for affordable, clean energy for the poor.
House Dems press Obama to halt Keystone XL review
House Democrats are calling on President Obama to delay the highly anticipated release of the State Department's environmental review on the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline.
In an effort led by Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) on Thursday, 24 House Democrats sent a letter to Obama, highlighting "serious corporate conflicts of interest" in State's preparation of the environmental impact statement (EIS) on TransCanada's proposed pipeline.
At issue is the contractor brought on by State, Environmental Resources Management (ERM), which did not disclose its previous contracts with pipeline developer TransCanada when vying to preform the environmental review on Keystone XL.
The contractor worked with TransCanada in 2011 on the Alaska Petroleum pipeline, Grijalva's office said in a statement on Thursday.
The statement added that the contractor "worked for more than a dozen oil companies with financial interests in seeing Keystone completed."
"Because of the seriousness of the conflicts and because of allegations that ERM lied to the Department of State to get the contract, we believe no EIS from the company — draft or final — should be accepted by the administration before these issues are resolved," House Democrats wrote in the letter.
Former Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon Buys Fracking Wells In Ohio's Utica Shale
Former Chesapeake Energy CEO and Founder Aubrey McClendon is back in the hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") game in Ohio's Utica Shale in a big way, receiving a permit to frack five wells from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources on November 26.
"The Ohio Department of Natural Resources awarded McClendon's new company, American Energy Utica LLC, five horizontal well permits Nov. 26 that allows oil and gas exploration on the Jones property in Nottingham Township, Harrison County," a December 6 article appearing in The Business Journal explained. "In October, American Energy Utica announced it has raised $1.7 billion in capital to secure new leases in the Utica shale play." ...
The $1.7 billion McClendon has received in capital investments for the purchase of 110,000 acres worth of Utica Shale land came from the Energy & Minerals Group, First Reserve Corporation, BlackRock Inc. and Magnetar Capital.
McClendon — a central figure in Gregory Zuckerman's recent book "The Frackers" — is currently under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He left Chesapeake in January 2013 following shareholder upset over controversial business practices.
Blog Posts of Interest
Here are diaries and selected blog posts of interest on DailyKos and other blogs.
What's Happenin' Is On Hiatus
Hedges: `We`re in a pre-revolutionary society… this is extremely dangerous`
Why Do You Hate Obama?
Hacktivists on Trial
We don't come to steal or destroy gender. We are here to liberate it.
If I were given the opportunity to pick the fifth face on Mount Rushmore, it would be Pete Seeger
A Little Night Music
Billy Boy Arnold, Tony McPhee & The Groundhogs - Dirty Mother Fuyer
Billy Boy Arnold - My Little Machine
Billy Boy Arnold - Squeeze Me Tight
Billy Boy Arnold & The Aces - She Fooled Me
Billy Boy Arnold - Catfish
Billy Boy Arnold - I Ain't Got You
Billy Boy Arnold - Shake Your Hips
Billy Boy Arnold - Sunny Road
Billy Boy Arnold, Matt Guitar Murphy & Joe Louis Walker I Wanna Love You
Billy Boy Arnold - You're So Fine
Billy Boy Arnold - Don't Stay Out All Night
Billy Boy Arnold - Just Your Fool
Billy Boy Arnold - Shake The Boogie
Billy Boy Arnold - I Wish You Would (original)
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