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"A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done."
-- Fred Allen
News and Opinion
Surprise! Obama is willing to appoint a committee, but he's unwilling to make the change that diminishes the power of the surveillance state.
A Year After Reform Push, NSA Still Collects Bulk Domestic Data, Still Lacks Way to Assess Value
The presidential advisory board on privacy that recommended a slew of domestic surveillance reforms in the wake of the Edward Snowden revelations reported today that many of its suggestions have been agreed to “in principle” by the Obama administration, but in practice, very little has changed.
Most notably, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board called attention to the obvious fact that one full year after it concluded that the government’s bulk collection of metadata on domestic telephone calls is illegal and unproductive, the program continues apace.
“The Administration accepted our recommendation in principle. However, it has not ended the bulk telephone records program on its own, opting instead to seek legislation to create an alternative to the existing program,” the report notes.
And while Congress has variously debated, proposed, neutered, and failed to agree on any action, the report’s authors point the finger of blame squarely at President Obama. “It should be noted that the Administration can end the bulk telephone records program at any time, without congressional involvement,” the report says.
Obama said a year ago that he favored an end to the government collection of those records if an alternative — such as keeping the records at the telephone companies, or with a third party — still allowed them to be searchable by the government. The White House was recently said to be “still considering” the matter.
Ladar Levison: Prosecutors used the same legal strategy against Barrett Brown as they did me. Are you next?
FBI agents and the state’s lawyers misrepresented events to create a false narrative, and the judges in both our cases bought it
When it happened to me, I dismissed it as an anomaly. The government – while trying to access the private emails of my company’s 410,000 users – made material misrepresentations to the courts in a coordinated campaign to portray me as obstinate and uncooperative. Their intent? To manipulate a judge into accepting an unconstitutional legal theory. It cost me my business.
Barrett Brown, whose investigative journalism frequently embarrassed the DOJ and FBI, wasn’t quite so lucky. Last week, he was sentenced to five years in prison, followed by another two years of supervised release. He was also ordered to pay $890K in restitution. That was the penalty for pleading guilty to three charges: “accessory after the fact”, a charge he faced for attempting to negotiate redactions in the stolen data, “obstructing justice” because he moved his laptop from a table to a cabinet, and “threatening a federal agent” in a video posted on the internet. The justification provided for his harsh sentence was a “trafficking in stolen authentication features” charge, for sharing a hyperlink to a public website, that the prosecution dropped before his plea. ...
While I can’t speak to Barrett’s case detail, he claims (and I believe) that the government made at least 41 false statements against him. During his pre-sentencing allocution, for instance, Barrett reminded the court that, at his bond hearing, a federal agent swore “that I have lived in the Middle East, a region I have never actually had the pleasure of visiting.”
It reminded me of a similar, easily disproven, statement made in my own case: “After knocking on his door, the FBI Special Agents witnessed Mr. Levison exit his apartment from a back door, get in his car, and drive away.” It’s true that my apartment had a back door which led onto a balcony, but I lived on the fifth floor. Let me assure you, I cannot fly: at the time, I was recovering from a torn ACL and could barely jump.
I did not realize until it was too late how the once-seemingly trivial misrepresentations in my own case affected the court’s perception of me, and how this perception would lead to the court finding in the government’s favor. ... We were both singled out by the government for what they thought we could – and would – tell them about other people. When we resisted, they twisted our words, our actions and the law. The result has been a set of disturbing court decisions that may give the government the ability to selectively prosecute anyone they wish. This time it was a journalist. Next time it could be you.
Warmomgering piece of talking filth, John "Bomb Bomb Iran" McCain loves him some war criminals:
John McCain tells protesters at hearing: 'Get out of here, you lowlife scum'
Code Pink activists ushered out by capitol police after they demand the arrest of Henry Kissinger for ‘war crimes’; no arrests were made
US Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain kicked protesters out of a committee hearing Thursday, calling them “lowlife scum” as they hollered for the arrest of one of the witnesses, former secretary of state Henry Kissinger.
Shortly after Kissinger, 91, took a seat at the witness table, several protesters from the anti-war group Code Pink approached from behind, waving signs and a pair of handcuffs and chanting, “Arrest Henry Kissinger for war crimes.”
“You know, you’re going to have to shut up or I’m going to have you arrested,” McCain said from the podium, calling for US capitol police to remove them. As officers escorted the protesters out of the hearing room, the unsuccessful 2008 Republican presidential candidate, a decorated Vietnam veteran and former prisoner of war, growled, “Get out of here, you lowlife scum.”
Speaking of lowlife scum... Click the link if you can stand the revulsion for the lowlife scum that runs America:
The Lies Hidden Inside the Torture Report
“Waterboarding is torture. . . . And thus, illegal,” Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch said during her confirmation hearing Wednesday.
Lynch is not the first AG nominee to definitively label waterboarding as such; Eric Holder made the same declaration during his 2009 appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
But speaking more recently, the attorney general was unwilling to say that CIA officers who engaged in waterboarding and other acts of torture had committed crimes. In December, he told MSNBC that “I can’t honestly say that crimes were committed,” Holder said. “They might have been ‘legal’ in the strictest sense of the word, but in many ways they were immoral.”
This is nonsense.
In fact, a close reading of the Office of Legal Counsel memos that authorized the CIA’s “enhanced interrogation techniques” shows they relied not only on flawed legal analysis but on a series of factual claims by the CIA to the Department of Justice that served as the underpinnings for the legal protections the memos purported to bestow.
In the days after the Senate torture report was released, John Yoo, the architect of the original Department of Justice memos, said that the report indicated some of the CIA officers involved went beyond the strict guidance they were given and engaged in acts that “were not approved by the Justice Department at the time.” However, as the dust has settled from the report’s release, a closer, detailed reading of the report makes clear that the program’s legality was undermined because of how the agency misled the Justice Department lawyers looking over their shoulders.
The CIA, for example, said that its techniques had been safely used in training exercises for U.S. service members; that they would be carefully monitored by doctors and psychologists who would keep detainees safe; that no detainee had suffered pain or injury or showed any long term ill-effects; that they were necessary to disrupt terrorists plots, and had saved lives. What if none of them were true? What if the CIA knew they were false—and failed to inform the Justice Department?
CIA Director John Brennan has asserted that the “overwhelming majority” of CIA personnel had complied with the limits in the Office of Legal Counsel memos, and said they should not be “criticized” for their actions. The torture report released last month by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence makes clear this is untrue, shattering the legal justification for the CIA program.
Poll: Netanyahu Should be Investigated for Nuclear Weapons Tech Smuggling Before US Visit
A majority of Americans believe Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be investigated by the FBI for nuclear weapons technology smuggling before being allowed to enter the United States according to a new poll.
In 2012 the FBI declassified and released files (PDF archive) of its investigation into how 800 nuclear weapons triggers were illegally smuggled from the U.S. to Israel. According to the FBI, the Israeli Ministry of Defense ordered nuclear triggers (krytrons), encrypted radios, ballistic missile propellants and other export-prohibited items through a network of front companies. Smuggling ring operations leader Richard Kelly Smyth alleged that Netanyahu worked at one of the fronts – Heli Trading owned by confessed spy and Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan – and met with him frequently to execute smuggling operations.
Israel officially designated the smuggling operation "Project Pinto." Smyth was captured, prosecuted and incarcerated in 2002 after years on the run as an international fugitive. The krytrons were believed to be destined for Israel’s clandestine nuclear weapons program.
Only 25.8 percent of Americans polled believe Netanyahu should be allowed to freely visit the U.S. while 15.9 percent say said he should neither be investigated nor allowed to enter the U.S.
Apparently it would be too dangerous to tell the American people what is being done in their name in Afghanistan, so Obama is classifying the (expletive deleted) out of it:
U.S. Suddenly Goes Quiet on Effort to Bolster Afghan Forces
The United States has spent about $65 billion to build Afghanistan’s army and police forces, and until this month the American-led coalition regularly shared details on how the money was being put to use and on the Afghan forces’ progress.
But as of this month, ask a question as seemingly straightforward as the number of Afghan soldiers and police officers in uniform, and the military coalition offers a singularly unrevealing answer: The information is now considered classified.
The American outlay for weapons and gear for Afghan forces? Classified. The cost of teaching Afghan soldiers to read and write? Even that is now a secret.
The military command’s explanation for making the change is that such information could endanger American and Afghan lives, even though the data had been released every quarter over the past six years, and Afghan officials do not consider the information secret.
But as the Obama administration is seeking to declare the long war in Afghanistan officially over, at least from an American standpoint, the move to classify data about the Afghan forces removes one of the most crucial measures for assessing the accomplishments of the international coalition there. And it raises stark questions about the state of the fight against the Taliban, coming after a year in which the Afghan forces took record-high casualties as they battled heavy militant offensives.
The reality is that the United States is still deeply invested in Afghanistan and that it plans to spend billions of dollars to keep the Afghans armed, fed and fighting. At the same time, roughly 9,500 American service members and thousands of contractors remain in the country to help the Afghan forces with the crucial art of military logistics and to build an air force.
Obama discovers exceptional nuance; the Taliban are not terrorists, they just carry out terrorist attacks. Did Obama look in the mirror or something?
White House: Taliban Not Terrorists
White House officials continue to struggle with their “no negotiations with terrorists” policy, today arguing that the Taliban may carry out terrorist attacks, but that they aren’t officially terrorists.
They probably should’ve told the Treasury Department this awhile ago, as they continue to list the Taliban on the “Specially Designated Global Terrorists” list for the sake of sanctions.
“They have a different classification,” insisted press secretary Josh Earnest, which is the closest we’re likely to get to an official explanation on the matter.
Saudi Arabia postpones flogging of Raef Badawi for third week
Saudi Arabia has postponed for a third week in a row the flogging of a blogger sentenced to 1,000 lashes for insulting Islam, his wife said.
Raef Badawi’s wife Ensaf Haidar added that the reason why he was not flogged was unclear.
The 30-year-old received the first 50 lashes of his sentence outside a mosque in the Red Sea city of Jeddah on 9 January.
The next round of the punishment was postponed for the following two weeks on medical grounds.
Badawi’s case has already prompted worldwide outrage and criticism from the UN, US, the EU and others.
On Thursday, Haidar, who has sought asylum with their three children in Canada, voiced concerns about the health of her husband, who has been suffering from hypertension since his arrest in June 2012.
Ukraine: artillery fire in Donetsk kills at least 12 civilians, according to reports
Artillery fire in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk has reportedly killed at least 12 civilians as the fighting between pro-Russia separatists and government troops intensifies.
Donetsk city hall says five people were killed early on Friday afternoon as they were waiting for humanitarian aid outside a community centre. Two people were killed when a mortar shell landed near a bus stop. Five other people were reported to have died on Friday in sporadic artillery fire in the west of Donetsk.
Full-blown fighting between the rebels and government forces erupted again earlier this month following a period of relative tranquillity. Hostilities now seem to be focused around Debaltseve, a railway hub which could prove a crucial link between the rebels in Donetsk and in Luhansk to the north-east.
Ukrainian separatist officials said peace talks on the Ukrainian crisis due to take place in the Belarusian capital, Minsk, on Friday had been called off after government officials failed to show up.
Gorbachev: US Pulled Russia Into New Cold War That Could Turn 'Hot'
Mikhail Gorbachev stated that the United States has pulled Russia into a new Cold War that faces the risk of further escalation.
The 83-year-old former Soviet leader made the comments on Thursday in an interview with Russian news agency Interfax.
"The U.S. has already dragged us into a new Cold War, trying to openly implement its idea of triumphalism," he is quoted as saying.
"Where will that lead all of us?" he said.
"I can no longer say that this Cold War will not lead to a ‘Hot War.’ I fear that they could risk it," Gorbachev said, referring to the United States. "All you hear is about sanctions towards Russia from America and the European Union. Have they totally lost their heads? The U.S. has been totally 'lost in the jungle' and is dragging us there as well."
House of Cards: A DC Real Estate Column
In October of 2014, former Democratic Senator Majority Leader Tom Daschle and his wife sold their seven-bedroom, seven-bathroom house on Foxhall Road for $3.25 million.
It was not an unusually large haul for a member of Washington’s political elite, but it was a big step up from his financial circumstances in 2003. Daschle’s financial disclosure form—filed a year before he lost a race to John Thune, marking the first time in more than half a century that a Senate party leader failed to win reelection—showed his net worth to be between $400,000 and $1.2 million. It was a pitiful amount by congressional standards and led CNN to disparage him as a senator of “modest means.”
After leaving office, however, Daschle immediately began making millions by advising corporations. During the two years prior to his failed nomination to head Health and Human Services he netted $5.2 million, mostly from healthcare, energy, private equity and telecommunications companies. That included big compensation for speaking appearances (he is, according to his speakers’ bureau profile, “a tireless fighter for the common man”) and for authoring such works as, Getting It Done: How Obama and Congress Finally Broke the Stalemate to Make Way for Health Care Reform, which was subsequently found to induce narcolepsy in laboratory rats.
There’s a common perception that government doesn’t work and that “partisan gridlock” has made things worse than ever. But when it comes to fundamental economic questions, there is no partisan divide in Washington and the system is “broken” only if you’re part of the growing slice of the population that’s poor or middle class, for whom average income has been stagnant for decades.
"Vanguard of the Revolution": New Film Chronicles Rise of Black Panthers & FBI’s War Against Them
Family of Akai Gurley planning to sue city for $50m in fatal NYPD shooting
The family of Akai Gurley, the unarmed man shot by police in an unlit Brooklyn housing project stairwell in November 2014, has filed paperwork that begins the process of suing the city, the housing authority, the NYPD and the two officers involved in his death.
Gurley was shot in the stairwell of the Louis H Pink houses in East New York, Brooklyn, by officer Peter Liang. Liang and his partner, Shaun Landau, who were both rookie officers, were conducting a routine patrol of the block when they encountered Gurley in the stairwell. ...
The suit is seeking damages totalling $50m, but Scott Rynecki, the attorney representing the family, told the Guardian that the suit “isn’t just about the monetary value.”
Rynecki said the family was calling for changes in the NYPD training academy regarding how officers are trained in the use and discharge of firearms, and for an independent review of police training procedures.
“In this case, with no crime in progress, there was no reason why a police officer would have his weapon out and his finger on the trigger,” he said.
Havoc Disrupts St. Louis Hearing on Civilian-led Police Oversight Board
A public hearing held Wednesday evening to discuss the creation of a civilian oversight board to monitor St. Louis police turned physical amid shouting as a police officer spoke in opposition to the initiative.
... In the [Mike Brown] shooting's aftermath, a committee of local aldermen proposed creating a civilian oversight board that would review the public's complaints about police abuse and have access to internal police investigations.
The bill is intended to provide the greater police accountability that St. Louis residents have been demanding for months — but police advocates argue that it violates an officer's right to due process.
Wednesday night's meeting proceeded smoothly until officers started testifying against the bill — drawing vocal criticism from the crowd.
That's when State Rep. Jeff Roorda, who works as the St. Louis Police Officers Association's business manager — and who was sporting an "I am Darren Wilson" wristband — shouted at Alderman Terry Kennedy, who chaired the committee, to get the situation under control. Roorda's exchange with Kennedy ignited the crowd even further. Roorda appeared to grab and shove a woman out of his way in the scuffle that followed, prompting a reaction from others in the audience.
St Louis police official unapologetic after pushing woman at public meeting
A St Louis police union official declined to apologise on Thursday after appearing to push a woman in the audience at a public meeting, and pledged to continue wearing a provocative bracelet in support of the officer who killed an unarmed 18-year-old in Ferguson, Missouri.
Police have launched an investigation into the fracas that broke out at St Louis city hall on Wednesday evening when Jeff Roorda, the business manager of the St Louis Police Officers’ Association, grabbed Cachet Currie by the arm and appeared to shove her.
Roorda was accused of exacerbating tensions at the meeting by wearing a bracelet endorsing Darren Wilson, who fatally shot Michael Brown in the suburb of Ferguson on 9 August, leading to months of protests. Roorda hailed Wilson as “a hero” on Thursday and denied being responsible for the struggle at city hall. ...
Roorda clashed with Currie as he tried to move past her and get to the front of the room, where Terry Kennedy, a local alderman, was chairing a hearing on a proposal to create a civilian police-review board. As protesters heckled an off-duty police officer who was testifying, Roorda complained that Kennedy did not have control of the meeting.
“Roorda just jumped out into the aisle, pushed me over and tried to get to Kennedy,” Currie told KMOV after the meeting. “I’m like, ‘Wait a minute, don’t push me.’” Currie’s forehead was grazed in the ensuing struggle between police, protesters and other people in the audience.
Seattle activist pepper-sprayed while talking on phone sues city and police
A Seattle high school history teacher who was pepper-sprayed by police as he walked home from a Black Lives Matter rally on the Martin Luther King holiday is suing the city and the police for $500,000.
Newly released video shows the moment Jesse Hagopian, a popular city activist who had earlier addressed the rally, was sprayed directly in the face by a white female police officer as he talks on his mobile phone and appears to be be walking away from the police line.
Hagopian’s lawyer, James Bible, said the use of force was unprovoked. ...
“We wouldn’t anticipate that there would be an apology in this case. Frankly the Seattle police department has a long history of violating civil rights,” said Bible, the attorney for Hagopian.
In 2011 the SPD was investigated by the US department of justice (DOJ), which found the force “engaged in a pattern of excessive force that violates the constitution and federal law” and raised “serious concerns” that some practices of the force “could result in discriminatory policing”.
Professor Fired for Criticizing Israel Files Lawsuit Against University of Illinois
Steven Salaita, an academic whose contract for tenured professorship was abruptly terminated by the University of Illinois board of trustees last September for tweets critical of Israel, has filed a lawsuit against the university’s administrators and unnamed donors. Salaita’s attorneys and the Center for Constitutional Rights commenced the lawsuit this morning in United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
The lawsuit seeks his reinstatement as well as compensatory and punitive damages. Salaita’s complaint invokes both the U.S. Constitution and the university’s bylaws to allege violations of his free speech and due process rights along with claims for breach of contract, conspiracy, and destruction of evidence. ...
Salaita, author of six books, was teaching on the faculty of Virginia Tech in 2013. He then accepted a position as a tenured professor of Native American studies at the University of Illinois-Urbana Champlain campus on October 3, 2013 and was scheduled to begin teaching the following fall. He and his wife both resigned from their positions and prepared to move to Illinois.
On August 2, 2014, he received a letter from University Chancellor Phyllis Wise and Vice President Christophe Pierre stating that his appointment would “not be recommended by for submission to the Board of Trustees in September,” a process that is typically done en masse and was widely understood as a formality.
The sudden and unexpected reversal was a response to tweets Salaita had written that were critical of Israel’s Operation Protective Edge, a bloody, 50-day military campaign in the Gaza Strip in which, according to the UN, 2,131 Palestinians were killed, along with 71 Israelis (all but five of whom were soldiers).
'Workers across EU should support Syriza & refuse to pay bankers' debts'
Hellraiser Preview
Sherman, set the time machine for tomorrow's Hellraisers Journal which will feature the testimony before the CIR of John R Lawson, UMWA executive board member from Colorado, who is now facing the gallows on several charges of murder, whose home was bombed with his wife and daughter inside, and who was once shot and almost killed by a mine owner, all in the cause of unionism.
Tune in at 2pm!
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EU wins Greek backing to extend Russia sanctions, delays decision on new steps
European Union foreign ministers extended existing sanctions against Russia on Thursday, holding off on tighter economic measures for now but winning the support of the new left-leaning government of Greece, whose position had been in doubt.
The ministers agreed to extend until September travel bans and asset freezes imposed last year that had been due to expire. They also agreed to list the names of additional people who could be targeted with sanctions when they meet again on Feb. 9.
They dropped language, however, about drawing up "further restrictive measures" that had appeared in a pre-meeting draft. The bloc's foreign policy chief said a decision on such measures would be left to EU leaders meeting next month. ...
Tsipras has not made his position on Ukraine clear in public. His Syriza party has its roots in leftist movements, some of which were sympathetic to Moscow during the Cold War, and Russia's ambassador was the first foreign official Tsipras met after taking office on Monday.
But Greece has also long treasured its membership of the Western NATO alliance. It shares Orthodox Christianity with both Russia and Ukraine, and many Greeks sympathize with both countries.
Will the SYRIZA Victory Spark a Broad Anti-Austerity Struggle in Europe?
The Evening Greens
Keystone Senate Yea Votes: Seven Times More Oil & Gas Money
Senators who voted to push through development of the Keystone XL pipeline today have received, on average, $570,034 in contributions to their campaigns and leadership PACs from the oil and gas industry over the course of their careers. The 35 senators who voted against bill have received, on average, just $78,641 from the industry.
The Obama administration is still considering whether or not to approve the pipeline, but the Republican-led 114th Congress seized the reins almost as soon as it took office earlier this month. The House passed H.R. 3, the Keystone XL Pipeline Act, on Jan. 9 by a vote of 266-153. The Senate followed suit with its version of the Keystone bill, S.1, today, with nine Democrats joining every single Republican to pass the measure 62-36. ...
A full list of all current senators and their career totals from the oil and gas industry can be found here. The data includes only donations made after 1989.
A Dirty Link Between the Senate and the Keystone Vote
Extreme Thunderstorms Might Be Making Climate Change Worse
Scientists watching a Midwestern thunderstorm discovered it sucking a river of ozone from high in the sky and dumping it in the lower atmosphere, a find that may require them to tweak some computer models that simulate the impacts of climate change.
While ozone acts as a shield against ultraviolet radiation when it's in the upper reaches of the atmosphere, it's a source of pollution and a heat-trapping greenhouse gas when it's near the Earth's surface.
Instruments aboard a NASA jet picked up what researchers called a "ram's horn" of ozone, a pathway swirling downward around the edge of a May 2012 storm over Kansas. ...
The findings have been published in the peer-reviewed journal Geophysical Research Letters. Previous studies had suggested that storms were drawing ozone out of the stratosphere and into the troposphere, the layer of air closest to the Earth, but this is "the first unambiguous observation" of the process, the paper states.
The Federal Government Just Sold Hundreds of Square Miles To Offshore Wind Developers
The United States is one of the most energy-hungry countries in the world. Yet, in an era of increasing pressure to reduce emissions from fossil fuel burning, only nine percent of the nation's energy is generated by renewable sources. That puts the US far behind countries like Germany, which produces 27 percent of its electricity with green sources, and Denmark, where the government aims to produce all of its power from renewables by mid-century.
In an effort to hasten the pace of clean energy generation, the federal government conducted its largest ever sale of leases dedicated to offshore wind. Located about 14 miles off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, the federal parcels could provide electricity to 1.4 million homes, according to the US Department of Energy.
If developed, the area could become the nation's first offshore wind project and help establish an energy sector that's been plagued by opposition from coastal communities. ...
Half of the 1,100 square miles put up for auction by the BOEM were sold for a combined take of $448,151 — magnitudes less than the agency's three other wind auctions, all of which generated millions of dollars from smaller land areas. About 125 square miles off the coast of Maryland sold for $8.7 million in 2014, while two 2013 auctions in Virginia and Rhode Island resulted in sales of $1.6 million and $3.8 million, respectively.
The Massachusetts plots are in deeper water than the three previous offshore areas, Hopper said, which makes development more technologically challenging and drove down the price. ...The lease sales begin a long process of planning and review that could take more than six years before any construction begins, a BOEM spokesperson told VICE News.
Blog Posts of Interest
Here are diaries and selected blog posts of interest on DailyKos and other blogs.
What's Happenin' Is On Hiatus
How Washington Mourned Tommy Boggs, Friend to the Worst People in the World
The Bush Administration Whistleblower Who Says the US Has Not Closed the Door on Torture
Texas Executed a Man with a 67 IQ Tonight
Mainstream Media: Who Gets On and Who Does Not
A Little Night Music
Memphis Slim w/Matt "Guitar" Murphy - I'm lost without you
Matt 'Guitar' Murphy & Memphis Slim - Living The Life I Love
Matt "Guitar" Murphy - Ungrateful Woman
Matt 'Guitar' Murphy & Memphis Slim - Lonesome
Memphis Slim and his House Rockers - Four years of torment
Matt "Guitar" Murphy - Buck's Boogie
Matt 'Guitar' Murphy & Memphis Slim - Boogie in the Barnyard
The Blues Brothers - Shotgun Blues
Matt Guitar Murphy w/Christine Ohlman & Rebel Montez
Billy Boy Arnold, Matt Guitar Murphy & Joe Louis Walker - I Wanna Love You
Matt Guitar Murphy - Strut Your Stuff
Matt ''Guitar'' Murphy - Blue Walls
Matt 'Guitar' Murphy - What's Up With You, Baby
Matt 'Guitar' Murphy - The Blues Don't Bother Me
The Nouveau Honkies with Matt "Guitar" Murphy - Rock Me Baby
Matt "Guitar" Murphy - Murphy's Boogie
Sunnyland Slim with Matt Guitar Murphy
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