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“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
-- Plato
News and Opinion
Meet the Muslim-American Leaders the FBI and NSA Have Been Spying On
The National Security Agency and FBI have covertly monitored the emails of prominent Muslim-Americans—including a political candidate and several civil rights activists, academics, and lawyers—under secretive procedures intended to target terrorists and foreign spies.
According to documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the list of Americans monitored by their own government includes:
• Faisal Gill, a longtime Republican Party operative and one-time candidate for public office who held a top-secret security clearance and served in the Department of Homeland Security under President George W. Bush;
• Asim Ghafoor, a prominent attorney who has represented clients in terrorism-related cases;
• Hooshang Amirahmadi, an Iranian-American professor of international relations at Rutgers University;
• Agha Saeed, a former political science professor at California State University who champions Muslim civil liberties and Palestinian rights;
• Nihad Awad, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest Muslim civil rights organization in the country.
The individuals appear on an NSA spreadsheet in the Snowden archives called “FISA recap”—short for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. ... The five Americans whose email accounts were monitored by the NSA and FBI have all led highly public, outwardly exemplary lives. All five vehemently deny any involvement in terrorism or espionage, and none advocates violent jihad or is known to have been implicated in any crime, despite years of intense scrutiny by the government and the press. Some have even climbed the ranks of the U.S. national security and foreign policy establishments. ...
Given that the government’s justifications for subjecting Gill and the other U.S. citizens to surveillance remain classified, it is impossible to know why their emails were monitored, or the extent of the surveillance. It is also unclear under what legal authority it was conducted, whether the men were formally targeted under FISA warrants, and what, if anything, authorities found that permitted them to continue spying on the men for prolonged periods of time. But the five individuals share one thing in common: Like many if not most of the people listed in the NSA spreadsheet, they are of Muslim heritage. ...
When Edward Snowden turned over a trove of NSA documents last year, he explained that he included the spreadsheet of monitored emails because he wanted to give people subjected to electronic surveillance the opportunity to challenge the spying as unconstitutional. For years, the government has succeeded in having such challenges dismissed on the ground that the various plaintiffs lack standing to sue because they could not prove that they were personally targeted.
Thanks to Snowden’s disclosures, those seeking to obtain such a ruling now have specific cases of surveillance against American citizens to examine. So do those charged with reforming the FISA process.
Julian Assange on Aiding Snowden, Tiff w/ The Intercept & Whether He’ll Ever Leave Embassy Refuge
Edward Snowden applies to extend stay in Russia, lawyer says
Edward Snowden has applied to extend his stay in Russia, his lawyer says.
Anatoly Kucherena said the former National Security Agency contractor had made the application to Russia's migration authorities because his one-year permit was due to expire at the end of July, according to Russian news agencies.
Kucherena refused to say what kind of migration status his client is seeking, saying that it is up to the federal migration service to make the decision.
WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Responds to Hillary Clinton: Fair U.S. Trial for Snowden "Not Possible"
Hillary Clinton Flaunts Her Surveillance State Baggage
Who is the true patriot, Hillary Clinton or Edward Snowden? The question comes up because Clinton has gone all out in attacking Snowden as a means of burnishing her hawkish credentials, eliciting Glenn Greenwald’s comment that she is “like a neocon, practically.”
On Friday in England, Clinton boasted that two years ago she had favored a proposal by a top British General to train 100,000 “moderate” rebels to overthrow the Assad regime in Syria, but Obama had turned her down. The American Thatcher? In that same interview with the Guardian she also managed to get in yet another shot against Snowden for taking refuge in Russia “apparently under Putin’s protection,” unless, she taunted, “he wishes to return knowing he would be held accountable.”
Accountable for telling the truth that Clinton concealed during her tenure as secretary of state in the Obama administration? Did she approve of the systematic spying on the American people as well as of others around the world, including the leaders of Germany and Brazil, or did she first learn of all this from the Snowden revelations? ...
Did Secretary of State Clinton know that such massive spying on the American people was going on and, if not, why isn’t she grateful that Snowden helped to enlighten her? With her scurrilous attacks on Snowden, Hillary Clinton is either a fool or a liar.
US military studied how to influence Twitter users in Darpa-funded research
• Defense Department spent millions to research social networks
• Studies focused on Occupy and Middle East protests
• Projects also analysed memes, celebrities and disinformation
The activities of users of Twitter and other social media services were recorded and analysed as part of a major project funded by the US military, in a program that covers ground similar to Facebook’s controversial experiment into how to control emotions by manipulating news feeds.
Research funded directly or indirectly by the US Department of Defense’s military research department, known as Darpa, has involved users of some of the internet’s largest destinations, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Kickstarter, for studies of social connections and how messages spread. ...
Several of the DoD-funded studies went further than merely monitoring what users were communicating on their own, instead messaging unwitting participants in order to track and study how they responded. ...
The project list includes a study of how activists with the Occupy movement used Twitter as well as a range of research on tracking internet memes and some about understanding how influence behaviour (liking, following, retweeting) happens on a range of popular social media platforms like Pinterest, Twitter, Kickstarter, Digg and Reddit. ...
[On its webpage, Darpa says,] “Through the program, Darpa seeks to develop tools to support the efforts of human operators to counter misinformation or deception campaigns with truthful information."
However, papers leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden indicate that US and British intelligence agencies have been deeply engaged in planning ways to covertly use social media for purposes of propaganda and deception.
Documents prepared by NSA and Britain's GCHQ (and previously published by the Intercept as well as NBC News) revealed aspects of some of these programs. They included a unit engaged in “discrediting” the agency’s enemies with false information spread online.
Earlier this year, the Associated Press also revealed the clandestine creation by USAid of a Twitter-like, Cuban communications network to undermine the Havana government.
CISPA, now renamed
CISA is back from the grave and ready to destroy your privacy again
Senate committee adopts cybersecurity bill opposed by NSA critics
The Senate intelligence committee voted Tuesday to adopt a major cybersecurity bill that critics fear will give the National Security Agency even wider access to American data than it already has.
Observers said the bill, approved by a 12 to 3 vote in a meeting closed to the public, would face a difficult time passing the full Senate, considering both the shortened legislative calendar in an election year and the controversy surrounding surveillance.
But the bill is a priority of current and former NSA directors, who warn that private companies’ vulnerability to digital sabotage and economic data exfiltration will get worse without it.
Pushed by Dianne Feinstein and Saxby Chambliss, the California Democrat and Georgia Republican who lead the committee, the bill would remove legal obstacles that block firms from sharing information "in real time" about cyber-attacks and prevention or mitigation measures with one another and with the US government.
Worrying civil libertarians is that the NSA and its twin military command, US Cyber Command, would receive access to vast amounts of data, and privacy guidelines for the handling of that data are yet to be developed.
[For activism opportunities to stop CISA, go to cispaisback.org - js]
Privacy-shredding loonies all over the world are eager to force their attentions on an unwilling public through the force of laws:
UK Moves to Legalize Mass Surveillance
The UK government is pushing to pass an emergency law that would allow for storing and tracking the public's phone calls, text messages, and internet use.
The bill, which is set for inter-party reforms later this week and is expected to pass, was created as a response to alleged domestic terrorism threats — although the validity of these threats and the likeliness of an attack are uncertain. Recruitment propaganda and videos of alleged war crimes by British citizens in Syria that surfaced on social media this year have helped fuel speculation and reports of radicalization on the home front. However, former MI6 chief Richard Dearlove said Tuesday that recent fears of extremism in the West have been overblown by governments and media, with most terrorist activity having been refocused into the Middle East.
The bill closely resembles a previous plan, proposed in 2012 by Home Secretary Theresa May, that would have required telecommunications companies to retain detailed information about their customers' phone calls and internet use for up to 12 months. The proposal, called the Communications Data Bill, was dropped in 2013 after its tactics were deemed invasive and disproportionate by opposing members, including Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.
Before being vetoed, the plan became known as the "Snooper's Charter."
Wow! Anti-Castro crazies have managed to piss away a half-billion of our tax dollars on idiotic schemes to get the Cuban people to rise up and revolt. I don't know who's dumber, them for creating these hare-brained schemes or us for paying for them.
Anti-Cuba Propaganda Plane Downed for Good
After years of a being criticized as wasteful and 'ineffective,' a U.S.-funded anti-Cuba propaganda campaign consisting of a plane that flew around the island broadcasting TV signals aimed at destabilizing the Communist government has finally come to an end, the U.S. State Department revealed (pdf) on Monday.
The program, started in 2006 and dubbed 'AeroMarti' after the Cuban hero of independence Jose Marti, consisted of a single plane that would beam signals to the island––signals that the Cuban government promptly blocked, meaning fewer than one percent of Cubans could actually receive the broadcasts. ...
While previous estimates of the taxpayer cost over the last seven years had put the amount at $24 million, the inspector general's report put that amount at $35.6 million.
The downing of the plane doesn't mean an end to anti-Cuba media funded by the State Department making its way to the island. The program is part of a larger and supremely wasteful propaganda machine aimed at Cuba, according to critics. ... The BBG's Office of Cuba Broadcasting is still producing programming for the "Martis," which have cost taxpayers around $500 million since they began. The office attempts to reach Cubans that have fashioned pirated satellite dishes through DirecTV satellite broadcasts, and sends 1,000 DVDs of burnt newscasts a week to the island.
Customs under fire for sweeping scans of employees’ personal data
WASHINGTON — A troubled division of Customs and Border Protection whose leader was recently ousted by the Obama administration is now accused of improperly scrutinizing the personal information of the agency’s 60,000 employees for evidence of potential misconduct and corruption.
In one program, the agency’s internal affairs division shared employees’ Social Security numbers with the FBI, looking for possible criminal leads. The program is no longer operating and is under review by the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general, according to three federal officials with knowledge of the inquiry.
In another effort, the division automatically scanned the Social Security numbers of all the agency’s employees in a Treasury Department financial records database, said the officials, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter. The Treasury Department halted the daily monitoring in April over questions about whether it violated federal policies.
The programs were inspired by the Obama administration’s Insider Threat initiative, a governmentwide crackdown on security threats that relies on profiling federal workers for certain behaviors.
Swap deal for Snowden? Russian MP's son kidnapped by US security service
Iraq VP to U.S.: Stay Out of Our Civil War
ISIS is only one small part of a larger Sunni revolt in Iraq that sectarian groups have been preparing for years, according to Iraq’s exiled Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi. And defeating ISIS won’t stop the greater battle.
“We shouldn’t look at this development of ISIS as apart from the uprising of the Arab Sunni provinces over two years,” Hashimi told The Daily Beast in an interview from Turkey, where he has been living since the government of Nouri al-Maliki purged him in 2012 by indicting him on murder charges, then convicting him in abstentia. ...
The Maliki government reneged on its promises to build an inclusive government with the Sunnis as soon as the American troops left Iraq, Hashimi said, and went after Sunni moderate leaders even though those leaders had led the Sunni awakening in 2008 that resulted in extremist groups leaving Iraq in the first place.
“We managed to clean up our territories, especially Anbar, and we put an end for a time to he extremists. But Nouri al-Maliki, instead of involving the Sunni moderates, he attacked them, starting with me,” said Hashimi. “There are two sides, the extremists and moderates. If you target the moderates, you intentionally create a vacuum that could be filled by the extremists and that’s exactly what happened.”
“It’s a really annoying development. The U.S. is in the process of committing itself into another set of grave mistakes. Definitely we consider all this military support to Nouri al-Maliki an alliance with Iran against the Arab Sunnis,” he said. “Try to avoid any use of military means, try to be fair, try to diffuse the bomb by asking Nouri al-Maliki to immediately to establish a caretaker government. Try to be neutral at least.” ...
And don’t expect another Anbar awakening this time around, Hashimi warned. The Sunni tribes still remember what happened last time and they are not going to make the same mistake of expelling the extremists and thereby leaving themselves vulnerable to Shiite forces.
Isis seizes former chemical weapons plant in Iraq
The Islamic State extremist group (Isis) has taken control of a vast former chemical weapons facility north-west of Baghdad, where 2,500 degraded chemical rockets filled decades ago with deadly nerve agent sarin or their remnants were stored along with other chemical warfare agents, Iraq has said in a letter circulated at the United Nations.
The US played down the threat from the takeover, saying there were no intact chemical weapons and it would be very difficult to use the material for military purposes.
Iraq's UN ambassador, Mohamed Ali Alhakim, told the UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, in a letter that "armed terrorist groups" entered the Muthanna site on 11 June, detained guards and seized their weapons. The following morning, the project manager spotted the looting of some equipment via the camera surveillance system before the "terrorists" disabled it, he said.
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Guess who probably sold that stuff to Saddam Hussein that ISIS now has taken custody of. Here's a visual aid:
Why Ukraine Can't Win an All-Out Military Victory—and Shouldn't Try
Suddenly, Ukraine’s army is winning. Over the weekend Kiev’s troops recaptured several cities in the eastern Donetsk region, sending pro-Russian rebels fleeing to strongholds further east. Now President Petro Poroshenko is planning a “complete blockade” of the region’s two other main cities, Donetsk and Luhansk, according to a Ukrainian television report that quoted the deputy head of the country’s National Defense and Security Council. ...
The cities retaken over the past few days were relatively small (the largest, Kramatorsk, has a population of 165,000) and lightly defended. Donetsk, the region’s biggest city with some 1 million inhabitants, is still in the hands of rebels. Rooting them out would be a long and brutal process. “They would have to do it street by street,” says Mark Galeotti, a professor of global affairs at New York University. “The cost in body bags would be high.” ...
The advances of the past few days could put Poroshenko in a better position to negotiate a peaceful settlement. That still looks like the best solution for Ukraine and for Russia. “Putin’s aim is to get Kiev to strike a deal that he can spin at home as ‘mission accomplished,’ that keeps Ukraine within Russia’s sphere of influence,” Galeotti says. “A great apocalyptic war in Donetsk doesn’t advance that case.” It’s understandable that Ukraine is taking a stronger stand against rebels who repeatedly violated a ceasefire, he says. But “trying for an all-out military victory could go horribly wrong.”
CrossTalk: Ukraine, End of Beginning (ft. Ray McGovern)
Children killed in Israeli air offensive against Gaza
- The Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has vowed to further intensify attacks on Hamas amid reports of continuing rocket fire from militants. His office said operation protective edge "will widen and continue until the rocket fire on our cities will stop and quiet returns." There have been no reports of deaths from the rocket attacks.
- Almost 50 people, including several children, have been killed in the continuing air strikes against the Palestinian enclave. A further 370 people have been injured, according to Gaza's health ministry.
- A senior aid worker in Gaza City said the area's already fragile health system threatens to be overwhelmed. "If it [the offensive] continues for more than a few days there will be a real crisis at hospitals," Fikr Shalltoot, director of programmes for Medical Aid for Palestinians, told the Guardian.
Renewed Violence Boosts Netanyahu
The last few months have gone rather well for the right-wing Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu, in the sense of advancing its prime objective of indefinitely extending the occupation and colonization of Palestinian territory by ensuring failure of any diplomatic efforts to end the occupation. ...
What most enabled him, however, to sustain his strategy in the face of this latest challenge — and here is one place where the luck of events has helped him — was the kidnapping and murder of three Jewish Israeli teenagers in the occupied West Bank.
Netanyahu immediately blamed Hamas and repeatedly promised evidence, which still hasn’t been forthcoming, that the group was responsible for the crime. Two men with ties to Hamas have been named as suspects. They are at large but their families’ homes have already been demolished. No proof of guilt was furnished beforehand, but Israeli demolition of Palestinian homes in the West Bank is an everyday occurrence anyway.
The crime provided the occasion for the Israeli government to strike back more broadly and forcefully than that. As Mitchell Plitnick has described it, “Under the cover of searching for the kidnapped youths, Netanyahu launched a massive operation to cripple Hamas in the West Bank, further humiliate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and punish the entire Palestinian population for calling for a halt to the charade of the ‘peace process’ and, worse, moving toward a unified leadership.”
This forceful stirring of the pot by Israel, which has involved the detention of hundreds of Palestinians and the death of several of them at the hands of Israeli security forces, helps to put any peace diplomacy even farther out of reach. It enables American supporters of Netanyahu’s government to say for the umpteenth time that the time is not “ripe” for peace negotiations — and the government they support will do what it has to do to ensure that the time will never be ripe.
Gitmo Detainees: Religious 'Rights' For Corporations But Not People?
If the the highest U.S. court says the corporation Hobby Lobby is an entity that deserves religious rights, what about the actual people being held in indefinite detention in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba?
So argue lawsuits filed last week on behalf of Emad Hassan from Pakistan and Ahmed Rabbani from Yemen, who have been held at this notorious offshore prison without charge or trial since 2002.
In the emergency motions, the men charge that prison authorities are denying them the right to participate in communal tarawih prayers during the ongoing 2014 holy month of Ramadan due to their participation in a hunger strike. According to the petitions, this practice is not new but continues from 2013 Ramadan, during which prison authorities forced men to stop hunger striking in order to participate in communal prayers.
"The fact that Petitioner is engaged in a peaceful hunger strike should not deprive him of his religious free exercise rights," the motions read.
While U.S. courts had previously ruled that people held at Guantánamo Bay do not have religious rights because they are not "persons" with respect to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the petitioners argue that this month's Burwell v. Hobby Lobby ruling highlights that those decisions "are not good law."
A 16 Year-Old Kid Made an App That Exposes Sellout Politicians
With US politics swimming in so much corporate money that it's pretty much an oligarchy, it can be hard to keep track of which particular set of lobbyists is trying to milk more cash out of health care, fossil fuels, and other very important issues from one week to the next.
But thanks to 16-year-old Nick Rubin, keeping track of just how much politicians have sold out has become a lot easier. He created Greenhouse, a new browser plug-in that operates under the motto "Some are red. Some are blue. All are green." The plugin aims "to shine light on a social and industrial disease of today: the undue influence of money in our Congress." It sounds like a bit of a lofty aim for an app, but it's actually pretty simple and effective—it provides a breakdown of a politician’s campaign contributions when that politician's name comes up in an article. It is currently available for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari and is completely free. As you can imagine, reading about how your member of Congress voted in a recent health bill becomes all the more enlightening if you know how much money the health industry showered him in at the last election.
Looks like the Pharmaceutical Industry's graft payments to Obama are really paying off.
Obama, running for a second term, received just over $1 million in pharma contributions during the 2011-2012 campaign. Obama does give service after the sale to the big donors:
Doctors: TPP Would Trample Access to Medicines
International humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned Monday that the highly secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership will further erode access to life saving medicines in all countries involved in the deal, hitting poor and vulnerable people the hardest.
The organization joins a crescendo of voices warning of the potentially deadly effects of the mammoth pact as another round of closed-door negotiations commences in Ottawa, Canada.
“Every TPP government is struggling to contain rising health costs, so it’s beyond reason why provisions designed to delay the introduction of low-cost generic medicines would be allowed to make it into the final TPP agreement,” said Stephen Cornish, executive director of MSF Canada, in a statement. ...
The U.S. has been aggressively pushing proposals to expand and reinforce pharmaceutical corporations' monopolies on life-saving drugs and restrict the abilities of governments to protect access to lower-cost generic medicines.
More banksters being let off after paying a gratuity:
Citigroup may pay $7 billion to resolve U.S. mortgage probes: source
Citigroup Inc is close to paying about $7 billion to resolve a U.S. probe into whether it defrauded investors on billions of dollars worth of mortgage securities in the run-up to the financial crisis, a source familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.
A majority of the settlement is expected to be in cash, but the figure also includes several billion dollars in help to struggling borrowers, the source said.
An announcement of the settlement between the bank and the U.S. Department of Justice could come as early as next week, the source said.
A Citigroup representative declined comment. A Justice Department spokeswoman did not respond to requests for comment.
A settlement of around $7 billion for Citigroup would be higher than analysts had expected based on the bank's mortgage securities business.
Some Wall Street analysts had previously estimated that Citigroup likely had about $3 billion of reserves set aside for a related settlement. U.S. authorities had demanded more than $10 billion last month, Reuters reported.
The Evening Greens
Obama's idea for dealing with global climate change is apparently working with China to develop oxymoronic "clean coal."
China and US sign deals on climate change
The United States and China on Tuesday signed eight partnership pacts to cut greenhouse gases, bringing the world's two biggest carbon emitters closer together on climate policy. ...
In one of the memoranda of understanding (MOUs), China's Huaneng Clean Energy Research Institute, a subsidiary of state-owned power company China Huaneng and Washington-based Summit Power Group agreed to share information on clean coal power generation technology....
Another project partners West Virginia University with Yanchang Petroleum on an industrialized demonstration of ultra-cleaning technology in northern Shaanxi province.
The University of Kentucky, another coal state university, will partner with Shanxi Coal International Energy Group and Air Products and Chemicals Inc on a project feasibility study for a 350MW supercritical coal-fired power plant that can capture 2 million tonnes of CO2 a year.
California Charged with 'Rubber-Stamping' Pesticides Linked to Bee Deaths
Environmental groups on Tuesday called out the state of California for illegally pushing new agricultural uses for certain pesticides despite mounting evidence that they are devastating honeybee populations.
A suit (pdf) filed by Earthjustice charges that the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) is "rubber-stamping" the approval of new pesticides, particularly neonicotinoids or neonics, "without first complying with laws enacted to ensure that they are safe."
“DPR has been saying for five years that neonicotinoid pesticides may be killing California’s honey bees, and yet the agency allows more and more of these pesticides to be used each year,” said Greg Loarie, an attorney at Earthjustice. In 2009, DPR began a scientific review of neonics in response to overwhelming evidence that linked the pesticides to bee decline.
The legal challenge, which was filed in the California Superior Court for the County of Alameda, demands that the court review DPR's June 13 decision to expand the use of two powerful neonics, known as Venom Insecticide and Dinotefuran 20SG, despite the office's still-pending review of their impact to pollinators.
6 Month Anniversary of Major Chemical Spill in West Virginia
'Big Oil Playbook' on Display in Small Town Tar Sands Fight
Exemplifying tactics outlined in a new report that dissects the oil industry's efforts to influence the tar sands debate, members of a Big Oil front group packed a city council meeting in South Portland, Maine, on Monday night, forcing the meeting to be rescheduled.
The council was slated to take its first vote on the Clear Skies Ordinance, which would prohibit loading crude oil in bulk onto marine tank vessels in Portland Harbor and building or expanding terminals and other facilities for that purpose. While its ultimate aim remains the same—to keep tar sands oil out of the city—the proposal has a much narrower scope than the Waterfront Protection Ordinance that city voters rejected by a small margin last November, and is therefore expected to be less vulnerable to public opposition and court challenges.
But half an hour before Monday's meeting was scheduled to start, the council chamber in the small coastal city was already overflowing; supporters (who wore sky-blue shirts) were surprised to encounter so many opponents wearing red shirts that read, "American Energy" on the front and "SoPo Jobs" on the back. At 7:30 pm, Mayor Gerry Jalbert announced that due to safety concerns the meeting would have to be postponed. ...
Opponents of the ordinance also took out an ad in local newspapers this week, claiming that the ordinance "puts thousands of South Portland jobs at risk." The ad directs readers to sopojobs.com, a site maintained by Energy Citizens, itself an "astroturf" organization supported by the American Petroleum Institute, according to the Center for Media and Democracy's SourceWatch.
Blog Posts of Interest
Here are diaries and selected blog posts of interest on DailyKos and other blogs.
What's Happenin' Is On Hiatus
Only the radical left can save Greece – and Europe – from disaster
Challenging Google maps
Plunging toward Armageddon in Israel
The Overwhelming Collateral Damage Caused by the National Security State’s Massive Dragnet
National Endowment for Empire
Manipulation Nation
A Little Night Music
Smiley Lewis - Bumpity Bump
Smiley Lewis - Shame Shame Shame
Smiley Lewis - Tee Nah Nah
Smiley Lewis - Big Mamou
Smiley Lewis - Ooh la La
Smiley Lewis - Tore Up
Smiley Lewis - Blue Monday
Smiley Lewis - One Night Of Sin
Smiley Lewis - Lillie Mae
Smiley Lewis - Last Night
Smiley Lewis - She's Got Me Hook, Line & Sinker
Smiley Lewis - Play Girl
Smiley Lewis - Bee's Boogie
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