tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70106287150128633882024-03-23T11:26:47.576-05:00“Politically Depressed” the Ranch Chimp JournalWhy the name Ranch Chimp? it was in humour because, science says that humans have similar DNA to a chimpanzee,so I felt some way related biologically to a chimpanzee. 2nd, everytime I was out of Texas on a vacation or for whatever reason I’m always asked things like, do I live on a ranch?,or have cattle? so I commonly call Dallas the Ranch. "Politically Depressed" was also humour inspired by the 1993- 2002 Bill Maher TV/ tele show "Politically Incorrect".Ranch Chimphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14086251248546955720noreply@blogger.comBlogger1490125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7010628715012863388.post-31425700295524447942020-10-05T16:51:00.009-05:002020-11-25T18:26:27.144-06:00PANTERA: "Cowboys From Hell", "Domination", "Walk", "Primal Concrete Sledge", & "Interview with Dimebag and Phil" ... In Memory of Dimebag Darrell <img height="264" src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e4/46/e2/e446e267d923f2c18f75628752a57dac.jpg" width="400" /> <img src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcS-QspphEaNZBqMXU8HzZRw9mmYxZMlEtVTfA&usqp=CAU" /><br />
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This entry into the music/ arts honour roll society of this journal/ blog is to feature some of the work and classic pieces of the band <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantera">"Pantera"</a> out of Arlington, TX (Dallas- Fort Worth). But I been wanting to do a posting in memory of co-founder/ songwriter/ guitarist Dimebag Darrell (and his brother, a kick ass drummer Vinnie Paul) for some time ... Dimebag was an outstanding guitarist! ... swell guyz, and great work on the composition and engineering, too. I been attracted to, and influenced by a variety of music and upbeat stuff since about 6 years old, listening to my grandmother's records of 1920s/ 1930s swing/ jazz as a child. But the other day an old friend/ guitarist and I were having some small talk about a party Pantera threw to celebrate their first record release here in North Dallas, which was the summer of 1983, that we had attended ... which reminded me to get Pantera in here. The party they threw was a small intimate setting ... and Pantera catered in some 6'ft long Subway sandwiches for folks at the party ... which was cool, and they played a little music ... and I got pretty ripped myself (too many whiskey shots {:-) That first album was self made, and their producer was their <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Abbott">dad, Jerry Abbott</a>, who was a songwriter and country- western record producer. Dimebag was murdered (shot in head multiple times), by what they said was a deranged fan that jumped on stage during a 2004 show in Columbus, Ohio, as well as killing the head of security who tried to take down the shooter, and killing a fan who tried to render aid to Dimebag, as well as an employee of the venue who tried to disarm the shooter as shooter was reloading ... and 3 other fans shot, but survived. The gig they were doing in Columbus was post Pantera after they broke up, and Darrell and his older brother <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinnie_Paul">Vinnie Paul</a> (drummer) formed a new band called Damageplan. In 2008 his brother Vinnie Paul also died ... so the Abbott brothers are gone, but their music still is enjoyed and still inspiring young musicians. Vinnie Paul, Darrell, and their mom are all buried in side by side graves in Arlington.<br />
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Since the dayz when they first formed in 1981 and playing the local clubs, they really moved up the ladder and gained quite an international reputation ... even Dimebag probably been on the front cover of every guitar magazine over the years. During the 1990s they really established their sound, which was more of a groove metal to me ... they were touring the world then on many bills, in the early 90s as an opening band for folks like Ozzy, Megadeth, Judas Priest, and other big name acts ... soon after, they became a big name headliner. This band was really tight too, the work of each member had a great chemistry ... it's one of those groups that you don't like to break up, because what each member had together, will not work the same with others. And Darrell is now known as one of the greatest all time metal guitarists today ... <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2012/06/van-halen-atomic-punk-running-with.html">Eddie Van Halen </a>buried a guitar of his with Darrell, that Darrell liked, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Simmons">Gene Simmons</a> of Kiss, donated the Kiss Kasket for Darrell to be buried. An interview at the top of the posting with Darrell and Phil (vocalist), in their early dayz touring the world as an opening act, with Vanessa Warwick for MTV Headbangers Ball ... she called Darrell "Diamond" in the interview, no, it's not a mistake, that was his nickname at first, and later he changed it to Dimebag. Some videos below I chose that are memorable pieces I really like, and I particularly love the way Darrell structured the guitar work on "Domination" ... that's the way to do it! I closed with "Primal Concrete Sledge", <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zakk_Wylde">Zakk Wylde</a> in the last part, comes on stage with his dog, and plays some guitar (hope his dog had some earplugs like musicians use {:-) ... I prefer to crank their music for "full flavour" .... Enjoy!<br />
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Pantera- Cowboys From Hell (Live @ Monsters of Rock, Moscow 1991) [HD] ... Thanx to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnxlpv2bRcbkDTgHTJXuPEA">PolVacf</a><br />
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Domination Live in Moscow 91' [HD] 1080 ... Thanx to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEjY8mp4E0lUEcYyHJlU48g">Paradoxx</a><br />
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This is Part 15 of the Halloween series for this journal/ blog, and also will be included in this blog's music/ arts honour roll society ... I wanted to go with some story telling, these are supposed to be true stories that were submitted to Mr. Nightmare on YouTube ... of some folks that had Halloween experiences that really creeped them out. And if they interest you, I suggest that you visit Mr. Nightmare's YouTube channel, he posts all kinds of present day horror stories weekly, year round ... his channel been around since 2014, and has over 657 million views. I also wanted to close out with a little music below that from an ole favourite of mine, <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-residents-pt3-mush-room-2013-album.html">The Residents</a>, out of Shreveport, Louisiana. Wishing the viewer of this posting a great Halloween, and still keep safe practices for Coronavirus, for you, your families, and friends sake ... Enjoy!<br />
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4 Bone- Chilling True Halloween Stories ... Thanx to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnM02drQP-dF7WMgtJHR4Xw">Mr. Nightmare</a><br />
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3 Creepy Real Trick- or- Treating Horror Stories- Part 2 ... Thanx to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnM02drQP-dF7WMgtJHR4Xw">Mr. Nightmare</a><br />
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This posting will be for 2 series of this journal/ blog, "Police Brutality" & "Thinking of the Kids?". I started this posting, got interrupted, came back to finish post a couple dayz later. It's to look at the recent shooting of Jacob Blake by police in Kenosha, WI ... who was shot in the back at point blank range multiple times by police, after a woman called police on him, cops arrived at scene to question him, also found Jacob had an active felony warrant. But nothing, whether warrant, past, or this call/ stop, gives any reason for this officer to use this kind of force, and attempt to murder Jacob. It's remarkable that Jacob pulled through, but the damage to his body, arm, kidney, spinal cord, liver, etc, will be some challenge. And this is America, which means even a health insurance company may likely refuse to pay, if he is insured, using like an excuse of happening in a criminal offense or related ... because care, rehab, treatment, etc, would be most expensive in U.S. costs. This guy is only 29 years old and father of young children, 3 of which that were in the vehicle that their dad was shot in. And despite his condition, to where he can't even move the bottom half of his body, he is shackled to his hospital bed. Now unshackled, since bond was posted for Jacob's outstanding warrant, so without new charges, he cannot be shackled/ cuffed, and under guard/ watch. It's common to have a guard, if a person has charges against them, considered a flight risk, and even handcuffed to their bed. But in Jacob's case, considering his immobility, charges/ warrant, or whatever ... this is just insulting and disrespectful to his family and community. This is another reason why I posted <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2017/07/stopped-by-police-in-america-tips-for.html">this piece on what to do if being stopped by police in America</a> ... because in America, especially if you're black, it's easier to get killed, or hurt bad. Not all officers are the same, but there are some out there, that no matter what training you try to give them, they may feel differently about how they treat people of colour, ethnicity, class, etc ... it's just something embedded in them, and with some probably goes back to childhood. These type officers, should be dismissed from their duties/ job ASAP, when made/ discovered, because several have many red flags, from previous encounters they had with civilians/ suspects. The opening video below, from family, is 2 minutes, summed up perfectly by Jacob's older sister, Letetra ... hear the woman out. Some news links below of overall events through the shooting. At the bottom, I'll add my input.<br />
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'I don't want pity, I wan't change': Jacob Blake's sister gives emotional testimony ... Thanx to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIRYBXDze5krPDzAEOxFGVA">Guardian News</a><br />
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There is still much that will unfold in this, so this is changing by the day, because of the lengthy investigation, and who will be charged with what. This is not to jump the gun either, because of that ... but to take a look at what there is so far. I have watched these videos several times, I zoomed in as much as I could and slowed the speed. And hearing different stories about this "knife", as far as where it was, either in his hand, possession, under drivers side front floor mat, side of drivers side seat on floor, in the hand of Jacob as officers were trying to apprehend him, etc. Official report sayz it was on drivers side floor, yet officers say it was in his hand, and Jacob admitted to having a knife. I can't seem to see any knife in his hand so far, maybe it was small?, or the angle I was looking at?, and several witnesses at scene, said that he was not displaying any knife when officers confronted him, there was not much physical threat by Jacob that I could see in the other video, besides resisting, before he went to the drivers side to get in the SUV. All I see is a couple officers with guns pointed directly at him while he walked away refusing to comply with officers requests, Jacob didn't even turn around at that point, so he was not even facing them, not once as he walked to the drivers side door did he even look back. When he started to get in the vehicle, the officer held and pulled Jacob's shirt to perhaps stop him from getting in, while also shooting into his back at the same time. There was no regard from the officers for Jacob's little kids in the car, or the scene, because you never carelessly/ recklessly discharge your weapon with civilians and kids in striking distance <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2013/07/capt-david-huff-zoey-keating-hostage.html">(except in maybe a rare life/ death situation, like this)</a>, and this was only a few feet, and bullets ricochet, miss, etc ... there was also civilians and children within feet outside the vehicle. His children in vehicle will need trauma counseling, this should be also included filing for compensation for the kids. If this was mostly white people, in the same situation/ scene ... I doubt this would even happen, the cops would most likely handled it differently ... I mean, one of the reasons why I started this series years back, is because I witnessed this type of brutality and recklessness a few times over the years, first when I was a child myself. But of course, time after time in these cases, officers are going to say they felt threatened, a suspect can being lying face down, cuffed/ restrained, get shot point blank range in the back of the head, and the officer will say they felt threatened.<br />
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Yes, the use of force was way excessive of officer Sheskey, and remarkable it didn't end up a homicide. If the SUV that Jacob was trying to get into, was not his vehicle, as reports say, and he didn't arrive there with his 3 kids in back seat, that will change this case view quick, in a court ...or a district attorney assessing it, to decide what charges to bring against Sheskey. What I mean, is that, the initial report said that Jacob arrived at scene, and was breaking up a fight between 2 people. The police were called by a woman (said he was her boyfriend) that said he wasn't supposed to be on her property (restraining order?), and trying to take her vehicle keys. After this report/ complaint is called in, Jacob also gets a want/ warrant check that comes back flagged ... so the officer(s) responding to call, are told that the woman is being harassed and an attempt to take her keys, then find Jacob has outstanding warrant(s) for 3rd degree felony sexual assault, etc ... this is all that the officer(s) know that they're responding to. Officers on scene, get into squabble with subject/ Jacob, he refuses to comply, and argues with officers, they taser him twice, he doesn't go down from it, and walks around the vehicle that has the kids in it, which Jacob said was to check on kids. The defense for the officer in a court, may argue that his client (officer Sheskey) was acting in good faith of the children and following protocol, and worried that kids were going to be kidnapped, and Jacob told them he has a knife, was angry, etc ... just one of a few examples of how a defense team for Sheskey may present this. In a case like that, defense will say that officer also had no idea, because of the erratic behaviour of Jacob, outstanding felony warrant, and that Jacob may endanger the children, if Jacob drives off with them in that state of mind. After officers tased on 2 attempts and failed, they had approximately 7 seconds to make decision, of how to detain/ stop Jacob, as Jacob made his way around SUV ... that was the most importante seconds, and Sheskey being the veteran officer of the 3, made that decision to fire the shots, by himself only. It was intentional, and even as far as killing Jacob at that range, if that would have happened, but the circumstances, video, and all witnesses are going to decide what that District Attorney will charge Sheskey with ... and there's a chance that it may not be what the family of Jacob and community wants, or believe is fair, based on what you have at this point. But you have also outside investigations, and also possible civil rights violations.<br />
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The continuous protests are alwayz in order, and the only way you will get any decent action to begin with ... there was even a couple more police shootings going on, that isn't getting much media atencion ... this kind of thing is frequent in the U.S. The <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/08/28/907130558/vigilante-militia-confusion-and-politics-shape-how-shooting-suspect-is-labeled">17 year old Rittenhouse militia kid (NPR)</a> that shot and killed 2 protesters, and injuring 1, most likely will use self defense. His defense already called it, but watching the video of that incident, I already knew how they were going to play that case, as far as his defense. I heard in the news that democrats and republicans in this election season, are blaming each other equally for the problems in America, as far as race, injustice, and these shootings, protests, etc ... this is where I agree with both parties at the same time ... because y'all both are part of the biggest problem in these policing policies and most of the other crap pushed upon people in this country. Much credit to the professional athletes, from Football, to Basketball, etc ... I'm a big fan of NFL Football, but this is more importante than missing some games. And this is the reason for continuing protests across the country week after week after week ... it's importante, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2020/08/28/march-on-washington-protest-dc/">just like the other day in front of Lincoln Memorial (Washington Post) </a>... taking it to the importante areas. Again, as I pointed out in earlier postings, you just don't want to protest in your community, or tear up your community, this is how they keep you contained ... you go to popular areas too, or you won't be heard. Example, last protests for George Floyd ... in Los Angeles this time, protesters didn't look much to South or East LA for getting their message out, they went up in to nicer sections of Beverly Hills and Santa Monica ... that's how you do it, in their face, of those with the power, money, and politics, and most importantly, make sure big business feels it. NBA or NFL players are importante, because it's a multi- billion industry, and when the big money gets disrupted and business as usual ... that's when you will get heard. Plus, it is those in big industries who will also pressure politicians when push comes to shove, because politicians won't do a bloody damn thing without being told to by their daddy (big business/ Wall Street). When you ask Washington "only", to act, they will talk, but nothing else, even though there is much they can do, to help get change. And when attempts are made on the floor in Congress, and bill drafts, they will make some lame last minute excuse, like the <a href="https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/amendment/amendment-x">10th Amendment</a>, saying it's up to the states and local government's to make the change, although while campaigning, they all whine about criminal justice reform, and police brutality, inequality, etc, etc<br />
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It's a beautiful day here on the Ranch (Dallas) considering it's August in Texas, and the last thing on my mind was a posting on politics, I'm seriously burned out on politics ... but, we are in a unique political situation. So this posting will serve as Part 8 of the "America's Vote Boat" series of this journal/ blog. It will be this blog's endorsement and support for Biden and Harris for President and Vice. I'm also posting this as a progressive, because so many progressives, and even non- progressives, are angry and dislike both Biden and Harris, and in some cases, for good reason. Frankly, politicians are going to have some controversial unpopular things they supported or were against in their past ... both left and right. I myself didn't even care to hear the Democratic Convention, or the Republican Convention, nor to hear the pointless bitch fighting and debates between these 2 parties, good and evil bullshit, repetitious platitudes, <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2020/06/bible-study-barbeque-beans-bullshit.html">plastic prayers</a>, etc, etc. The people need to be more engaged and determined to strengthen our stand ... if you don't apply pressure, and only allow corporate interests to be heard, without giving them Hell ... you can't expect to change a thing in Washington. I wanted to open below with a short video from former President Obama, because it's short, straight to the point, simple, and common sense. I will add some words/ views of my own below.<br />
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Barack Obama condemns Trump in powerful Democratic convention speech ... Thanx to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIRYBXDze5krPDzAEOxFGVA">Guardian News </a><br />
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Right now, I feel the most importante thing the people of this country can do, is to get rid of this President, Trump, and all his selections for various importante positions in his cabinet and various departments, especially those he put in these positions to destroy the functioning of these departments, whether education, housing development, energy, consumer protections, etc. These departments, that were designed to help, balance, and strengthen our society, and have helped us across the board, need to be strengthened if anything, not weakened, and not politically biased, their functions are to serve the interests of the country, of all, business, workers, consumers, citizens, etc. President Trump is taking this country into a deeper hole than what it is, with leadership qualities you would expect in a banana republic. Other countries that are even allies and key business partners are becoming weary and worried what this President may do, he sends the stock markets into dives just from his Tweets alone, and then <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2017/04/trumps-bigger-than-texas-break-on-taxes.html">builds them up with welfare/ tax break giveaways</a> and false hopes. He is putting some countries that are NOT very stable, and like him, on the edge, and making us more vulnerable for attacks. He has also tried his luck at pushing paramilitary and military forces into American cities, without talking it out with cities or anyone else, and disregard for the Constitution ... thinking his office gives him the right to just kill folks if he feels like it. <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-visible-enemy-trump-gop-reckless.html">Do we realize that his decisions, and lies, contributed to the deaths of thousands of Americans? ... by the intentional and inconsiderate way he handled this pandemic? </a>Which is what really is the most damaging thing he done in my view, and he continues to do this ... I hardly hear anyone talking about it ... why? Do you realize if a doctor, for example, had even overprescribed a drug that ended up killing a patient, he/ she would be immediately removed, their license taken, and be facing criminal charges on their negligence that led to the death of the patient(s)? They (doctors) have went to prison for this ... President Trump should be prosecuted in my view ... he is responsible for misleading the people he took an oath to protect (especially if a pandemic, crisis, or war), and thousands have died and continue to die for his irresponsible orders, and failure to take any responsibility, nor care who is dying, because of his "chosen" actions. I have conversed with what are called notorious convicted murderers, in particular, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Ramirez">Rick Ramirez</a>, and <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2011/12/charles-manson-victim-who-never-whined.html">Charlie Manson</a>, who had shown more regard for people in casual talk, than President Trump has.<br />
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Much of the politically progressive media sites that I enjoy following, are focusing too much on the records of Biden and Harris, on issues like drafting the 1990's crime bill during President Clinton's term, or prosecution of pot cases or related petty offenses of Harris as a former prosecutor ... what's done, is in the past, we need to fix it now. I appreciate these sites pointing out these things and their work, it's importante. But too much focus is on some past mistakes, and not focused enough on the challenge we face now, if Trump gets reelected ... besides saying he's bad ..."bad" is putting it lightly. Frankly, I don't care about the platform of the DNC, or if they didn't even have one, or their hours of speeches, or whatever. I myself, as one can see in this journal, would like to see a third party that is competitive in strength to these two parties ... but thinking that not voting or voting for Green Party (a party that has internal problems and unstable, at this point) will do us no good between now and November, and only work to Trump's advantage ... it will do progressives, not one bit of good. The logical simple objective at this point, should be to vote in every Democrat you can, to have a majority in the House and Senate, and Oval Office. No, it's not going to fix the political mess we have in this country, that took decades to get where it is ... but this is the only chance available right now, of getting rid of Trump and the far right of the GOP. If you can get a Democrat majority in control, right now ... it will be better for balance, and negotiating for the people, and better for dealing with this pandemic, most importantly. Democrats will have a little more consideration for people, and what they are going through as a result of COVID, and we need that. Don't worry about too left, or too right ... they are way more balanced between the two than the GOP ... and importantly having a growing membership of more progressives getting voted in to office. Having this, will make them have to negotiate within the party, their own sort of left and right. Right now the only reason why establishment Dems are so gung- ho on leaning right, choosing the picks they do, is because they owe to their big money donors, and they have to do and say whatever, to continue to get that money, too. Or the wealthy donors, will use their money to try to destroy them ... and spend more on Trump ... the big money is what controls much politics and legislation. If we can get a majority of Dems ... we can start day one, 2021, to stay vigilant, and apply pressure to them.<br />
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You are better off with having the next term under a majority of Democrats, and even Biden and Harris, than having to deal with a GOP majority, driven and dictated to by Trump. Otherwise more and more of your dignity and democracy will go down the drain. Folks that may say that Democrats are going back on Medicare for All, public option, or related ... some Democrats were not even sincere about pushing for M4A to begin with, the lobbies and funding are controlling their decisions. But thinking you will even get any kind of health care worth anything out of Trump and Republicans, is even worse chances, you'd be lucky to get a scaled down shitty version of ObamaCare (aka RomneyCare) out of Trump/ GOP ... they're more likely to set up voucher health clinics at a 7- Eleven store, Walmart, McDonald's, or with volunteers at faith based tents. Not only health care issues ... but the economy ... thinking that Trump will be able to tackle jobs losses in this post COVID era, and miraculously/ quickly, as he states, fix the economy, is ill thinking. COVID destroyed so much ... the figures you hear in the news about a strong economy is only talking about stocks and the "financial economy" ... the average worker/ consumer lives in the "real economy". Trump only moved to extend unemployment through executive means, because of elections, he's worried that the Congress is taking too much time reaching an agreement, which they are ... but only because the Republicans are trying to force Democrats into giving them most of what they want. Trump's looking out only for himself, in fact, if he gets another term, that's likely the last you'll hear about unemployment help ... just like what he promised with his <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2017/10/tax-reform-2017-how-apple-of-eye-is-pie.html">simple, fair "postcard" tax filing</a>, if you support his tax plan. Democrats, even corporate Democrats, will be more considerate and willing to help more with folks that lost their jobs, homes, or folks needing temporary help ... they will also do more to try to curb and deal with this pandemic, and help small business more. The way Trump is dealing with this pandemic, has been way more detrimental to the real economy and jobs ... in fact ... if he would have dealt with this early on, instead of trying to hide it ... our real economy would be better off now, being already 8 months into COVID and when he first learned of it. What do we have after 8 months of this COVID in this so called good economy? ... more homelessness, food lines, soup kitchens on wheels, unemployed, etc ... he didn't do one damn thing with all his power to deal with this and our problems, right. And this is why, Trumpster should be tossed in the dumpster.<br />
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***** <a href="http://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2011/04/rcj-music-arts-honour-roll-society.html">RCJ MUSIC/ ART'S HONOUR ROLL SOCIETY</a> (my hand- selected music/ arts picks)<br />
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***** <a href="http://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2010/12/perils-of-power-posse-and-its-prepaid.html">"THE RESISTANCE | PERILS OF THE POWER POSSE" </a>... ( a 2 part futuristic Ranch Chimp Journal dream to dream on )<br />
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Cam Cole- Cam Cole & his Guitar- 2Seas Sessions- EXTRAS ... Thanx to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCboLM0DrwGQtNiCLU2ZST1g">2Seas Sessions</a><br />
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This entry into the music/ arts honour roll society of this journal/ blog is another I been intending for some time, to showcase some of the music of Cam Cole out of London. Cam is just an outstanding songwriter, vocalist, guitarist, and performer ... he is also considered by many to be the best one man band in the world. Although some of the video here, will also show a drummer that worked some with Cam ... but most of his stuff, he does the percussions himself with his feet, on some self- made system that he rigged up. I heard one musician say, that Cam played drums better with his feet, than some drummers he jammed with ... heh, heh, heh, heh, heh {:-) Cam made his start doing street busking in Camden, and nearby areas of London, probably around 2014, then travelling the UK ... and it has such a rich history of music/ arts in this area (I myself stayed in Fitzrovia over there, lots o' good local music talent {:-) If you can set up on the streets there with a jerry- rigged system, gain and sustain the rep and following locally that this man had done ... you're doing it RIGHT! Cam also built a couple of his amps. Today Cam is starting to tour Europe and elsewhere, doing studio work, and has released 3 albums, one in 2019, and two in 2020. Which brings me to the video above, where Cam is trying to explain his guitar. I myself was so curious when I seen this guitar he was using and the sound it put out. Cam said he picked it up at some guitar shop, that he heard from the owner, that some Polish guy came in and used it as trade on the purchase of a newly manufactured guitar ... it's still a mystery of the brand/ make and where it came from. The neck of the guitar is large, and look at the antique style bridge on it, also the year "1931" is etched in it, look at the thick strings that Cam put on it, and how he arranged the strings and changed it to 5 strings ... one thing for sure, it certainly will strengthen your fingers, playing something like that ... but check it out, very interesting. When I first saw the guitar and sound, I was thinking back to times of <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2017/04/robert-johnson-fathering-formula-of.html">Robert Johnson</a> and <a href="http://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2010/01/django-reinhardt-does-sheik-of-araby.html">Django Reinhardt</a> ... it looked aged and tattered, but Cam brought such good sound out of it, or the guitar brought such good sound out of Cam {:-) ... they were definitely made for each other!<br />
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There is long line of influences that Cam sayz inspired his songwriting, from Delta Blues to Grunge, that goes back from the 1930s through the 1990s. I mean I could definitely hear that Mississippi Delta sound from back in the mid 1930s, and what great slide work he incorporates into his rhythms. I also heard much of the raw late 1960s/ early 1970s classic rock sounds, and vocals of that era, including <a href="http://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2012/03/panda-love-bondage-as-humans-teddy.html">Elvis</a> ... his foot work/ dance style has been compared to a mix of <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2011/10/michael-jackson-happy-halloween.html">Michael Jackson</a> and <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2011/12/rolling-stones-19th-nervous-breakdown.html">Mick Jagger/ Stones</a>. I wanted to mix it up a bit below, keeping most of it raw, and some from his earliest performances in the street ... I did include "New Age Blues", being one of his first and recent studio vidz. The street performance of "I See" at the bottom, was street busking in 2016, but was not released on record until 2019, so I wanted the live street version. I started with the 2 song vid below, "Away" and "Myself" to start it more mellow/ laid back, then some more upbeat style in vidz after ... he puts out alot of energy also as a singer and guitarist in some of his work ... packing his performance well. I'm looking forward to much more great work to come out of this artist, he's still just starting, and his potential hasn't yet been fully ripened ...so expect some good stuff to come. Thanx for the great music, and wishing Cam much more fun, and a decent living to invest into his music and pay bills ... Enjoy!<br />
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Cam Cole- Away and Myself at Extinction Rebellion Protest (London) ... Thanx to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/MrCamCole/featured">MrCamCole</a><br />
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Cam Cole streets of London- Mama ... Thanx to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuo86ipYo36_gkbFbhtPCgw">tehdebil </a><br />
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This posting will be a part 22 for the "Above & Below" series of this journal/ blog. This just seemed like such an excellent video, and interesting the way it was put together from all these images, which is explained below in the video. But the definition blew me away as well, nice quality! I remember as a young teen watching the first moon landing in black and white on the tele, and I was so fascinated ... yet the quality back then wasn't very good, and it looked so grainy ... but still, blown away by it. I also noticed that this video had 270,000 likes, and 10,000 dislikes ... reading some of the comments was amazing ... such as proof of alien life ... to being all fake ... to being filmed on Earth, like in Arizona or similar, to trick us, etc. Mars is a planet, and I would assume, that many planets have some similarities to even Earth. Although some may say it's just a desert area, maybe comparing it to "some" parts of Arizona for example ... one thing I don't see those asking, is why it's completely barren? I drove (a few times) completely across over a thousand miles of desert, from Midland/ Odessa west Texas through southern Arizona and New Mexico, into southern Nevada, through the Mojave and into Death Valley, California (as well as a long stretch of the Chihuahuan Desert in northern Mexico) ... I love the desert for its unique landscape. In all these areas of desert, there was alwayz something like desert plants/ cactus, tumbleweed, snakes, lizards, bones of animals, etc, sparsely here and there ... at some point within eyes view.<br />
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There is a point in the video, if you pause it at 7:57, right before it gets to 7:58, look at the center of the screen, and there is a shape, that could be mistaken for a bird on the landscape ... at least some folks could mistaken that for a bird, although it's a rock. I mention this, is because some folks see things like that ... and assume there may be birds on Mars, instead of closer review ... and say they seen a bird, or even something man made, which will spread through word of mouth, and millions may think that there is aliens or giants on Mars. A religious person into some of the religious mythology for example, could look at that bird shape, and try connect it to a dove and/ or pigeon of the Islam prophet Muhammad, or perhaps the dove at the baptism of the Christian messiah, Jesus ... then you would have a whole story built off that, and before you know it, it could turn into a couple million folks believing that this is proof of God on other planets. You may have heard the proverb "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" ... which makes me say that Mars is "a place where a bird in the hand has no more worth than two with no bush" ... because there is no hand, bird, or bush on this planet. I recommend full screen for the video ... Enjoy!<br />
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***** <a href="http://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2011/04/rcj-music-arts-honour-roll-society.html">RCJ MUSIC/ ART'S HONOUR ROLL SOCIETY</a> (my hand- selected music/ arts picks)<br />
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This posting will serve 3 series of this journal/ blog ... "The Awakening", "Public Patriots", and "Neoliberalism". I been following all the resistance in Portland/ PDX to what is basically leaning towards more fascist type policies, this time directed by President Trump, cloaked in the name of things like protection, goodness, love of the American People, patriotism, and Jesus ... or other related political charlatan neoliberal nonsense. But, yeah, this is very importante, if we want to keep anything that slightly resembles a democracy ... and credit here to these people of Portland, who are patriots for democracy. <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2010/12/portland-pdx-or-last-of-great-american.html">And in my view and experience of PDX ... I have also viewed PDX as one of the last of the great American cities</a> ... I mean, it'd be sad to see this unique American city get turned into a mundane cookie cutter corporate communism American shithole. To see this President try to suppress and destroy the spirit of liberty, this city, and democracy, is shameful, and the response from Portlanders, in defense of their liberty and Constitution, is appropriate. Now this administration is using various excuses to enforce these repugnant anti- American policies on other cities around our country. I selected a few videos and articles below for a briefing, out of a number of pieces I been reading. I felt it was appropriate to first hear out U.S. Navy vet Chris David, a native Portlander who was injured by these sort of national special police officers/ soldiers, when he approached them to ask a question. Other pieces below look at how a judge is reacting to this ... some of the events on the ground ... expanding surveillance powers and new funding for DHS, specifically for this ... a PDX journalist on how they instill fear in citizens ... a couple pieces on how a Mayor and District Attorney of 2 large American cities are handling this ... and a video from trial attorney, Devin Stone, who also runs the popular YouTube channel, LegalEagle, to explain and look at the legal end of this. At the bottom, I'll add some of my views.<br />
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Navy veteran beaten at Portland protest talks real message after video goes viral ... Thanx to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYUbNjkuE4lsr2v1Id2O1oA">ABC7 News Bay Area</a><br />
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***** CBS NEWS | ASSOCIATED PRESS: <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/portland-protests-judge-orders-federal-agents-keep-hands-off-journalists/">Judge orders federal agents to keep hands off journalists at Portland protests</a> ... (newsread)<br />
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***** THE GUARDIAN | Chris McGreal: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/26/portland-riot-protesters-trump-agents-police">Portland: protesters bring down fence as confrontation with Trump agents rises</a> ... (newsread)<br />
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***** THE INTERCEPT | Ryan Grim: <a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/07/21/fisa-surveillance-dragnet-warrants-dhs/">As Trump Threatens Secret Police Deployment Nationwide, Democrats Debate Expanding Surveillance Powers And New Money For DHS</a> ... (newsread)<br />
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***** THE OREGONIAN | Henry Latourette Miller: <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2020/07/opinion-protesting-an-authoritarian-police-state-is-terrifying.html">Opinion: Protesting an authoritarian police state is terrifying</a> ... (opinion/news)<br />
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***** IN THESE TIMES | Hamilton Nolan: <a href="https://inthesetimes.com/article/22673/philadelphia-district-attorney-larry-krasner-federal-agents-trump-police">Philly D.A. Larry Krasner He's Ready to Charge Invading Federal Agents with Crimes</a> ... (newsread/ interview)<br />
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***** BUSINESS INSIDER | Connor Perrett: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/chicago-mayor-says-federal-agents-cant-play-police-in-chicago-2020-7">Chicago mayor defends her decision to work with federal agents but says the can't 'play police' when 'they don't know the first thing about our city' </a>... (newsread)<br />
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Portland Occupied by Secret Federal "Police"? LegalEagle's Real Law Review ...Thanx to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpa-Zb0ZcQjTCPP1Dx_1M8Q">LegalEagle</a><br />
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***** PD | RCJ: <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2020/07/voodoo-doughnuts-solidarity-unionism.html">"PUBLIC PATRIOTS"</a> ... PART'S 65 THRU 1<br />
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***** PD | RCJ: <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2020/05/george-floyd-killing-2020-when-you-have.html">"NEOLIBERALISM"</a> ... PART'S 13 THRU 1 <br />
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Where are all the Constitutionalists in all of this? ... please, come out ... you know, those who fight tooth and claw endlessly to protect our 2nd Amendment right. What about the 1st and 4th amendment for example? ... shouldn't y'all be out in the streets with these folks with your AR-15s in hand? ... after all, some protesters desecrated a federal building ... certainly something that y'all would support, with your disdain for the federal government, eh? Where are all these folks that endlessly proclaim that the states individually should make their own decisions, and have the right to contest the Washington "elite" and federal government? This U.S. Navy veteran, Christopher David, that had his hand broken by these soldiers illegally beating him, for asking a question ... why didn't our President, who supports veterans above most, not meet with Chris, apologize to Chris, and publicly in front of the White House with Chris, as he would do for most any veteran support photo op? Speaking of President Trump ... where is your support publicly for these protesters/ freedom fighters for democracy? It was just earlier this year, that the President, with bipartisan support from other Washington political elitists, that y'all were loudly praising the Hong Kong protesters, and encouraging them to "tear shit down", and to fight the communist government of China, for their oppression of the people of Hong Kong. The President himself even threatening sanctions against China, if they didn't ease their brutality and oppression ... what in Hell happened over the last few months, that makes you respond to PDX freedom fighter protesters, like communist China would? I mean, we all know that you're a fascist ... do you also want to go down in history as one of the greatest communist leaders, as well? First the President labels these Portland citizens as "Antifa" ... I guess someone told him what "Antifa" actually means, because he now is calling them "Anarchists". No, Mr. President, you had it correct the first time, they should be called Antifa, because they ARE anti- fascist ... in other words, they are calling you by your right title, as a fascist ... not a President of any democracy ... they're fighting for their liberties, and against your policies and acting like a fascist dictator, Mr. President. And NO, the people of Portland are not out of order, they are doing the American thing ... and NO, there shouldn't be any goddamn peace, without justice ... nor should we have any respect for those who are out to destroy our democracy, rights/ liberties, and lives ... that have no respect for the majority of people.<br />
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Some of the mainstream media, in this case FOX News, has been painting this as anarchy taking over the country, to destroy everything American ... as far as Portland, and any large American cities, being ran by what they call liberals. What you see in PDX, is a small 4 block or so section of downtown, that has these protests, it has been consistent, and mostly orderly ... some vandalism, but the majority has been within the law. This is not nearly as heavy as what they praised in Hong Kong ... and this is no reason to gas, and shoot rubber bullets at mothers, dads, grandparents and the rest, that are simply asking to protect the rights of their families and children. Not only PDX and Oregon should be filing lawsuits here, but the UN should also be taking some kind of action ... this should be illegal, and probably is, on a global scale, by even international law. The reason they want to send troops into Chicago, has to do with a recent surge of gun violence, which I look at as largely gang related, not to do so much with the fight for democracy or George Floyd ... but yes, constant oppression as well. Completely different than PDX, but they will have and legislate various laws, to have reason to go into any city, if you allow it, for any reason, as this can easily become a slippery slope. I mean, Chicago has a history of gang violence that goes back to the 1800s/ 19th century ... you have a recent spike ... and Chicago has a history of city government corruption that goes back for nearly as many years too. But too, on the other hand, such as PDX, Seattle, NYC, Philly, or wherever ... this reaction to oppression, racism, police brutality, neoliberalism, has built up a growing amount of anger, and continues to. The <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2020/05/george-floyd-killing-2020-when-you-have.html">police murder of George Floyd</a> brought out alot of anger that been brewing over our government's policing policies for decades. I had this journal/ blog now for a decade ... and just in that short time, look at how much this country has deteriorated on these issues ... which is the whole reason I started covering this stuff a decade ago ... because at some point, we will come to some kind of awakening, the sooner, the better. This is why I support these folks like in Portland, or any other U.S. city that stands for democracy, because what we see today, is not democracy or even freedom by a long shot. Again, this resistance will NOT die out, but increase globally, wave after wave, as long as they push anti- democratic policies ... whether it's American protests, or folks like the French <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2018/12/french-neoliberal-resistance-2018.html">"Gilets Jaunes"</a>, or the German's <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2019/01/aufstehen-sahra-wagenknecht-2019-taking.html">"Aufstehen" </a>movement ... we are all up against a common global enemy.<br />
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It's in order if this is about only protecting the Federal Courthouse in Portland from vandalism or related ... whether a federal courthouse, park, monument, or whatever else. What is not part of that so called "detail", is breaking away from the courthouse protective perimeter, going a couple blocks away and just grabbing citizens off the street at random wearing masks, which they are supposed to, to protect themselves/ others from COVID as well, and detaining and interrogating them without legal cause to, they don't charge them with anything, because they're committing no crime. As for Mayor Lightfoot of Chicago, saying she wants these militarized federal forces to help them in Chicago, but with strict oversight and limits ... that's fine ... and it's common for folks to want help ... but there is no reason to believe that, that won't also lead to a slippery slope. As far as hundreds of protesters showing up outside Mayor Lightfoot's home, they should, and make sure their voices are heard loud and clear ... politicians should be fearing the people, not the other way around, they impose fear on the people constantly. The District Attorney of Philadelphia, Larry Krasner, is taking the more sensible route ... being that, if these troops break their local laws, he will charge and prosecute them, plain and simple. As far as the President thinking he's just going to send forces to all these cities, and crack heads or whatever ... that is ill thinking, which is quite common for him. "IF" you start to just mobilize these militarized forces across the country ... it will make many go underground, then you will really have to worry about pockets of anarchists and trouble. People, especially the younger more tech proficient, are not dumb ... thinking that you'll just track them all on their phones or whatever is also ill thinking ... they will devise and use alternative communications and organizing methods, and some will recruit ex- military sympathizers, with demolitions engineering backgrounds, counterinsurgency backgrounds, intelligence/ counterintelligence backgrounds, to special forces/ weapons backgrounds, etc, who will teach others ... then you'll have a new challenge. Because the forces the American people will be resisting are actually terrorizing the people and country ... at the request of fascists and multinational tyrannical oiligarchs. This is also NOT Hong Kong, there are millions of more guns here than population, and access to many tools that others across the globe may not have. It would be harder, for any U.S. military branch and/ or law enforcement branch, to contain and crush a strong determined resistance ... and this is much larger and more populated than Afghanistan or Iraq. And how long will it be, as the economy gets disrupted, and society increasingly turns against these tyrants attacking us ... that many of these militarized forces personel start realizing that they are doing wrong by taking orders from these anti- democracy tyrants, to attack our citizenry on/ in our own grounds/ country ... and decline to do it any further ... with some starting to join the people and their families to fight back?<br />
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As far as Washington and the Congress debating new funding and expansion of surveillance powers, etc ...well, this is nothing new, look at what has happened just over the last 30 years ... you can barely wipe your ass without some tech device picking it up, nothing to worry much about, because it's the reality, but certainly to be aware of. Of course there will be bitch fighting back and forth between Democrats and Republicans, but you can bank on it, that they will be beefing up surveillance and law enforcement. And you want to be careful of asking to dismantle/ defund police departments, because that will lead to privatization of police forces <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2011/12/pay-for-spray-tennessee-has-volunteer.html">(example here of a privatized Fire Department in Tennessee)</a>, and wealthy investors marketing it. This is not only to keep tabs on what everyone is doing, but what they are spending, eating, or whatever else. Most they will label as for the common good, after all ... people who have committed horrible crimes, including murder on others, have been easier to track and bust, because of technology. Hell, if it wasn't for our phones, we wouldn't even have all these clear cases of police misconduct and killings of innocent people ... there is a flip side to everything, eh? This is one of those things, that Democrats will even have enough to support it, and pass it, many with public approval, because so many fears and uncertainty people have. People want a certain amount of protection, and to be watched to some degree. But, these things also have a flip side, and has a history of turning into a slippery slope. It was events like the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hollywood_shootout">North Hollywood Shootout (wikipedia)</a> in early 1997, that started to even more, add military type gear to the police uniform and gear, when all these cops who responded to the bank robbery in progress, had no adequate protection, from these well equipped bank robbers. The 3 strikes laws against violent offenders, led to folks stealing a sandwich from a 7-11 to eat, getting decades in prison for it, which led to private profit/ investor driven prison/ detention facilities, unpaid forced labour, and so forth ... so you see how the slippery slope works without control, especially in a society where everything is market driven. The recent George Floyd protests, are evidence, that you can get change with strong protesting ... look how many corporations have changed things overnight from the protests. Major sports leagues changing their attitude, NFL supporting kneeling ... even changing the name of the "Washington Redskins", removing Confederate monuments, to taking Aunt Jemima off the pancake box ... I could go on and on. You have never seen this kind of change in such a short time frame from any political party/ politician ... it was the actions of the "people" and their protesting that brought this about, so don't expect these politicians to change a damn thing ... the people need to make the demand, and change things. Continuous protests and civil disobedience, over and over and over, is what will bring any change in any decent time frame.<br />
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***** <a href="http://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2013/01/ranch-chimp-journal-personal.html">RANCH CHIMP JOURNAL "WELCOME" POST</a><br />
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***** <a href="http://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2011/04/rcj-music-arts-honour-roll-society.html">RCJ MUSIC/ ART'S HONOUR ROLL SOCIETY</a> (my hand- selected music/ arts picks)<br />
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***** <a href="http://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2010/12/perils-of-power-posse-and-its-prepaid.html">"THE RESISTANCE | PERILS OF THE POWER POSSE" </a>... ( a 2 part futuristic Ranch Chimp Journal dream to dream on )<br />
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*****************************************************************************Ranch Chimphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14086251248546955720noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7010628715012863388.post-59611977816937477662020-07-17T11:05:00.002-05:002020-09-30T12:14:59.202-05:00CAB CALLOWAY: "Interview", "Jumpin' Jive- feat The Nicholas Brothers", "Calloway Boogie", "Some Of These Days", "Reefer Man", "Minnie The Moocher", & "St. James Infirmary" ... (BLACK HISTORY | HARMON LOFT PT.17)<img alt="THE VOCAL GROUP HARMONY WEB SITE - RECORD OF THE WEEK" height="263" src="https://www.vocalgroupharmony.com/5ROWNEW/CabCalloway3.jpg" width="400" /> <img height="320" src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/69/a2/12/69a212da64e128d9056319610b253f22.jpg" width="188" /><br />
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***** CUNY TV: <a href="https://tv.cuny.edu/show/dayatnight/PR1010462">Day at Night: Cab Calloway, singer and bandleader</a> ... (video/ interview 02 April 1974)<br />
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This entry into the music/ arts honour roll society of this journal/ blog will be to honour the great jazz legend <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cab_Calloway#cite_note-Brooks-4">"Cab Calloway" (wikipedia)</a>. I also decided to add this in the "Black History | Harmon Loft" series of this journal/ blog, because I think that my friend Harmon, would have wanted Cab in this series, Harlem was Harmon's area of New York City, and that series is for/ of Harmon. Cab was from Rochester (NY), moved to Baltimore at age 11, and his desire started there as a kid to pursue singing and entertaining, then trying to get to Chicago to sing, and finally New York. He says his dad wanted him to be a lawyer, like his dad, he even took his shot at law school in Chicago, but was hooked on music. Cab was also in a number of movies, and recieved many awards, to being inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame. The first black artist to sell 1 million records off a single, "Minnie The Moocher" (1931) ... and back then, I believe it was on the old <a href="https://web.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music/historyof78rpms">78 rpm shellac 10"/ 12" inch disk record</a> ... my grandmother actually had some of them. I been intending to get Cab in here for some time, since I like jazz and swing, especially that 1920s to 1940s era, because Cab had such a long line of musicians that he influenced up to present day ... today you have folks like <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2016/07/caravan-palace-rock-it-for-me-jolie.html">"Caravan Palace"</a> with some great work. One of the last appearances Cab made on the screen, would have been in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8UidwWPin4">Janet Jackson's "Alright" video (YouTube)</a>, which was about Cab, and in his fashion, this was 1990. I particularly loved his unique trademark style of scat singing, jazz vocals, piano, and jazz orchestra work. For those interested, I included a 1974 interview with him above, which he really gets into detail about how his career kicked off, folks he worked with from the clubs to Broadway. Lucky for Cab as well, was not only looking up to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Armstrong">Louis Armstrong (wikipedia) </a>as a influence he loved for his horn and vocal work, but actually being able to play and sing for Louis as well, who probably gave Cab the biggest break of his career, in my view. I remember the first time I seen <a href="http://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2011/01/foetus-j-g-thirlwell-i-hate-you-lust.html">JG Thirlwell (as Foetus)</a>, I was thinking ... Cab Calloway as an influence, not just vocals, but the music and horns. Cab even set a sort of fashion trend in his day, wearing the zoot suits, the jacket was because he liked jackets with long tails, and the hat he designed himself. He also had his trademark with the way he got his audience to participate, which he said came accidentally, as far as the "Hi- De- Ho" sing- along.<br />
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To me, what really made his work such a big influence in jazz, was his years with the Cotton Club. In 1931 when Cab and his Orchestra were asked to fill in for Duke Ellington, while the Duke was on tour, is what done it ... that led to being offered the permanent position for them at the club. I mean, when you get a permanent position/ house band like that at a place like The Cotton Club, which was like the place to be back in that day, for New York late night entertainment, it builds and sustains a large following over time, like any successful long running show. I chose some videos below to try to catch some of that spirit of then. The opening piece "Jumpin' Jive", from the 1943 musical/ film "Stormy Weather", I included the colourized version, and a treat in here features <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Brothers">"The Nicholas Brothers" (wikipedia)</a>, these guys are outstanding, some really good dance/ choreography. Songs like "Minnie The Moocher" and "Reefer Man" were quite controversial back in those dayz, with lyrics that refer to cocaine, opium, and marijuana use ... which was actually quite widespread back in those dayz, as far as drug usage ... but kept in the closet. The "Some Of These Days" cover is short, I love the orchestra, guitar, and vocal work on it by Cab ... this song goes back to 1910 from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Tucker">Sophie Tucker</a>, written by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelton_Brooks">Shelton Brooks</a>. I wanted to close out with the long classic "St. James Infirmary", which Louis Armstrong made famous in 1928, another cover that so many have done ... <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2013/09/bobby-blue-bland-members-only-aint-no.html">here is Bobby Blue Bland </a>also doing it ... and another cover of it <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2019/03/bridge-city-sinners-through-and-through.html">here with a unique twist, by Bridge City Sinners (2016)</a>. And Thanx to Cab and his Orchestra for all the great music .... Enjoy!<br />
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Stormy Weather in color- The Nicholas Brothers and Cab Calloway | Colorized with DeOldify ... Thanx to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqhUGGN-O_FC5Luf3wOmO1g">Black Pepper Swing</a> **** the name of this song is "Jumpin' Jive"<br />
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***** PD | RCJ: <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2020/02/dred-scott-scott-v-sandford-1857-how.html">"BLACK HISTORY | HARMON LOFT"</a> ... PART'S 16 THRU 1<br />
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Cab Calloway- Reefer Man (1932) ... Thanx to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0Zb3cPHU_f2YNoCea7OP8Q">PilotOfTheAirwaves1</a><br />
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Cab CALLOWAY "Minnie The Moocher" !!! ... Thanx to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFoZAfUiBqcj7TAVLZGvriQ">JUSTASITTINANDAROCK</a><br />
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Cab Calloway- St. James Infirmary (1930 version) ... Thanx to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJnSDoHFrLnXO4PYVCzqXsw">UbiquitousLazar</a><br />
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***** <a href="http://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2010/12/perils-of-power-posse-and-its-prepaid.html">"THE RESISTANCE | PERILS OF THE POWER POSSE" </a>... ( a 2 part futuristic Ranch Chimp Journal dream to dream on )<br />
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This posting will be for 2 series of this journal/ blog ... "LADIES a Lil on the HOT & SPICY side" and "Don't Be Alarmed" ... I had no idea what a "Karen" was, or what "QAnon" meant, I had to look it up. Just a little humour here, because I kept laughing when I seen this video the other day of Melissa Rein in front of a Target store in Arizona saying "Baaaaaaa ... Baaaaaaa" to customers coming out of the store wearing masks, referring to them as sheep! {:-) She also went into Target and started taking all of the face masks off the racks and throwing them around, angry as Hell over masks. Then she gets questioned by police at her hotel later, that was unrelated to the Target incident ... who her husband (ex), Jared Lively, called on her, to do a wellness check, she ends up getting busted for something or another, etc. She said Target was only harassing her, because she is a blonde white woman wearing a $40,000 Rolex watch ... and told the cops at her hotel that she was a spokesperson for the White House and Trump, and that the cops were some Nazi gestapo deep state shit, harassing her because she is Jewish ... heh, heh, heh, heh, heh {:-) The first link below is a article she wrote in the Scottsdale Independent, she was very concerned with the coronavirus, and not enough being done about it ... which is interesting, because it's like a complete opposite view. The 2nd link is how this all led to her getting dumped by hubby Jared ... who is so in love with her and worried about her mental health, that he gave her the boot ... a "very american" trait ... kind of like apartment complexes, telling you they are concerned about you not being able to pay your rent on time, because of lay off or hours cut, etc, so they tell you, you have 72 hours to get out, call the cops on you, and throw you in the fucken street. The 3rd link, is a look at some trouble she been having with a PR firm before all this.<br />
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Melissa has been really a go getter, she had her own PR firm, she was CEO and founder of, a fairly successful husband, hung out at all the right places and social circles, knew the right people to make good business, etc, etc ... she does pretty well, in my view. So what in Hell happened? I think it was just all the shit she been going through, and with the restraining orders against her, hubby, etc ... like the perfect storm ... and then getting pumped on Trump, which you shouldn't listen to much of anything he sayz, because it's all just garbage, and can make you miserable, if you don't let it go in one ear and out the other ... face it, he's (Trump) just a miserable guy. I included the videos below that had me laughing ... and included a video I want to dedicate to Melissa below, called "Dust Devil" ... concerning "BAAAAAAA ... BAAAAAAA" {:-) Hope she gets well, and gets past this, and has some fun for a change. And for you guyz out there like me, that likes them galz a little on the edge and the hot and spicy side ... Melissa is now single, she's beautiful, full of fire, and ready to go ... you go grrrrlll !!<br />
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***** SCOTTSDALE INDEPENDENT | Melissa Rein Lively: <a href="https://www.yourvalley.net/scottsdale-independent/stories/lively-mayor-lane-needs-to-protect-scottsdale-residents-now-before-its-too-late,148490">Lively: Mayor Lane needs to protect Scottsdale residents now before it's too late </a>... (opinion/ newread)<br />
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***** 2OCEANSVIBE NEWS | Carrie: <a href="https://www.2oceansvibe.com/2020/07/07/latest-us-mask-meltdown-video-ends-in-divorce/">This US Mask Meltdown Video Ends In Divorce</a> ... (newsread) *** and Jared Lively Facebook post<br />
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***** PHOENIX NEW TIMES | Elizabeth Whitman: <a href="https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/rose-pr-firm-feud-escalates-youtube-restraining-orders-11254699">Jason Rose's PR Firm Feud Escaltes From YouTube to Restraining Orders</a> ... (newsread)<br />
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***** PD | RCJ: <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2017/11/national-emp-drill-blackout-attacks-nov.html">"LADIES a Lil on the HOT & SPICY side"</a> ... PART'S 10 THRU 1<br />
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***** PD | RCJ: <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2018/10/teddy-bear-texas-terror-attack-thwarted.html">"DON'T BE ALARMED" </a>... PART'S 21 THRU 1<br />
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Butthole Surfers Dust Devil ... Thanx to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOyc57QkXhEN-fZOgPID4ag">hutrputr</a> **** I wanted to dedicate this ol' favourite song of mine to Melissa, with love from the Ranch, from the <a href="http://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2012/11/butthole-surfers-who-was-in-my-room.html">Butthole Surfers</a> out of San Antonio (TX) ... the <a href="https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/buttholesurfers/dustdevil.html">LYRICS HERE</a> are fitting to help understand and ease your frustration, Dear .... BAAAAAAA .... BAAAAAAA {:-) ..... XOXO Ranchy<br />
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***** <a href="http://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2011/04/rcj-music-arts-honour-roll-society.html">RCJ MUSIC/ ART'S HONOUR ROLL SOCIETY</a> (my hand- selected music/ arts picks)<br />
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This posting will be for the "American Jobs" and "Public Patriots" series of this journal/ blog ... and it's some good news in our trying times. It will focus on "solidarity unionism" and a group of workers that are making it happen ... a more aggressive and different approach to unionizing workers, led by workers themselves, instead of the complex channels and system we currently do as far as how, when, and where to organize and negotiate. I myself have never belonged to a union ... but due to the circumstances workers are now facing, I think it's importante for workers to stand stronger, than any other time in my life that I seen. This posting will focus on the recently formed union for Voodoo Doughnut Workers in Portland (OR), who I also view as public type patriots, for their strength in these trying times, because of the coronavirus, and this neoliberal corporatized culture in the workplace that has been growing. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo_Doughnut">Voodoo Doughnut (wikipedia)</a> is a unique and very popular business that started as one location in Portland/ PDX years back, and has now been expanding with new locations in Oregon, California, Colorado, Texas, and Florida. Even though their requests/ demands had not been met at this time, some of that has to do with the pandemic, and the decrease in business ... but these workers are on the right track, and are providing inspiration, channels, and tools, for so many other across the country. Sticking to their needs and making their voices heard through action, can only make progress, which otherwise, doing nothing, is no progress.<br />
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Some newsread for a briefing on what has been going on and why below in the Al Jazeera News piece. Then a video where Jimmy Dore sits down with Voodoo Doughnut Union organizer and activist, Samantha Bryce (also a local LGBT activist/ organizer), affiliated with Portland IWW (Industrial Workers of the World), to explain some of the recent actions, reason for action, plans, and strategies. And credit to Samantha on organizing these folks, and the IWW for their backing, since too many folks in these type jobs, can't get support from your big unions. The reason why there has been so many more benefits for workers in places like western European countries, is because after WWII, the people started to make demands, and they managed to diversify their politics more than here ... and they stayed hammering it ... again, it was the workers/ consumers/ people, that made it happen. The same applies thoughout history ... take a look at what actually brings change, instead of what you are told by the ruling establishment, of their guidelines to bring change, eh? At the bottom I'll add a few of my thoughts, and to close out with a video and letter to the upper management of Voodoo Doughnut from Apollo Fernweh, who was laid off from Voodoo Doughnut ... Apollo sums it up well, and straight to the point. I doubt that Apollo will get brought back onboard after a letter like such ... but it inspires others to think and act. I also agree with these workers and their affiliates 110% ... which is why they are in these series and journal/ blog.<br />
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***** ALJAZEERA | Shane Burley: <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/ajimpact/coronavirus-fight-worker-unions-aggressive-200417212003336.html">Coronavirus fight: Some US worker unions become more aggressive | Some US workers are breaking from generally accepted union procedures to respond to coronavirus- related risks</a> ... (newsread)<br />
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Workers Organize Themselves! -- Voodoo Doughnut Organizer Interview! ... Thanx to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3M7l8ved_rYQ45AVzS0RGA">The Jimmy Dore Show</a><br />
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***** PD | RCJ: <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2019/06/economic-patriotism-plan-elizabeth.html">"AMERICAN JOBS"</a> ... PART'S 14 THRU 1<br />
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***** PD | RCJ: <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2019/08/tulsi-gabbard-presidential-run-2020.html">"PUBLIC PATRIOTS"</a> ... PART'S 64 THRU 1<br />
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***** PD | RCJ: <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2020/04/earth-day-2020-50th-anniversary-picture.html">"THE AWAKENING"</a> ... PART'S 57 THRU 1 **** (a related series) <br />
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If this was a small mom/ pop type doughnut business, I could understand the strain on the business, even without the pandemic, as far as being able to give employees some benefits. I have never been to Voodoo Doughnut, but have heard and read about them ... they are very popular, even considered a tourist attraction, and I can see why. This is not the late night/ after hours corner shop it once was, that caters to the underground/ alternative music crowd and related ... and credit to the owners on the concept and work they done developing this. What I see is a winner, with much potential from a marketing perspective ... and it shows, looking how booming this business is, wherever they set up ... I mean, this is the kind of place that can become a giant like Starbucks. They are now moving into pop- corporatized hipster places like Hollywood's Universal CityWalk, and trying to <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2018/11/palessi-santa-monica-affluent.html">cater to these Santa Monica type fashionistas</a>, and places like Universal Orlando Resort/ CityWalk, it's now focused on tourists, wannabe hipsters with money, and family hot spots with folks that spend out the ass. When you hire employees for a business like this, it takes a certain personality and spirit to try to keep some of its authenticity ... you're not looking for someone with a cap and bowtie who served coffee and donuts at some mega corporate donut chain. Many of Voodoo's employees put their heart and creativity into things like decorating these doughnuts, it's like an art to some, and the comfortable and friendly unique atmosphere that they give off to customers ... they too, are a part of what Voodoo calls their "magic". This business is a specialty type artsy service, from the personalized packages they sell, to the weddings, to the unique decorations of the doughnuts, and atmosphere ... which is also making good sales just off mechandising itself, with all the novelties/ memorablilia they sell. These employees are part of what makes that happen ... and if you want to keep that raw authenticity, you must listen to the employees too, or else you just become another corporate behemoth. The owners, of all people should realize this, considering their backgrounds, and dealing with music/ arts and that alternative scene.<br />
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What employees like Samantha, Apollo, and others are asking for, is very basic ... and giving your crew a sense of security, is giving your business security, and paving the future for its longevity. These simple requests are a small price to pay for a bigger reward that you will get from it ... and to make sure it stays as unique as it started ... unless you plan to just make it huge, and then have the usual giants like Disney/ Fox buy it out, then it goes in the shitter and loses much of what it once had, and the giants will destroy a large part of what it was ... turning it into something that gets bought out again, by someone like the Communist Government of China, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh {:-) Whether it's Voodoo doughnuts or other places, like mentioned in the Al Jazeera article ... employees taking action is needed and past due ... and I even am excited to see things like wildcat strikes ... I mean, this is for the employees and consumers, all of which allows business and free markets to flow and grow. Acting on this, and consumers and workers taking action out of line with the chain of command in Washington, is what will bring change ... waiting for bureaucrats/ politicians to change anything, with their incremental shit ... you'll spend a lifetime waiting, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh {:-) This includes a mass response as far as protests, picketing, boycotts, etc ... and continuous. For example ... take the recent <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2020/05/george-floyd-killing-2020-when-you-have.html">George Floyd</a> protests, this brought out millions of people nationwide (and even worldwide) to vent their frustrations with this system on various levels of issues we have faced for decades. Look at how much progress has been made in just this short time ... they not only been getting symbols and statues of racism removed ... they actually got corporations concerned to the point, to where giants such as multibillion dollar PepsiCo/ Quaker Oats had to take ol' Aunt Jemima off the pancake box ... to the multibillion dollar NFL to recognize racism, and asking talented folks to play again like <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2016/08/colin-kaepernick-2016-taking-stand-by.html">Colin Kaepernick</a> ... police departments wanting to compromise, etc. This is because the people of this country made the change, which is what democracy is supposed to be about ... I'm 64 yrs old, and can say that there has never been a political party or politician that has brought this kind of change in this short of time frame in my entire life.<br />
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*****************************************************************************Ranch Chimphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14086251248546955720noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7010628715012863388.post-11181295237594696542020-06-26T13:41:00.002-05:002020-08-19T09:52:20.125-05:00POSSUM KINGDOM LAKE at Hell's Gate on the Brazos ... (TASTE OF TEXAS PT.36) <img height="253" src="https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/03/fc/b3/3c/possum-kingdom-lake-tx.jpg" width="640" /><br />
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Part 36 of the "Taste of Texas" series of this journal/ blog will be to have a glance of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possum_Kingdom_Lake">"Possum Kingdom Lake" </a>(wikipedia) ... Texas has about 7000 lakes. This area locally is known as Possum Kingdom, Devil's Island, Hell's Gate, it's on the Brazos River where it cut through the large limestone cliffs over in Palo Pinto County ... but another nice area to visit, close to Dallas, and inexpensive recreation ... it's common to run into wild deer all over the place, too. What partly inspires the posting is a young couple I know that moved here over a year ago from West LA, they were absolutely lost about Texas, seeing and living in Dallas only. One day asked me about the state, where to go or whatever, since I told them I covered the entire state, and they just wanted to get out of town and visit some countryside close by for the weekend. So I turned them on to Possum Kingdom, which I thought would be fun, beautiful, laid back, and a romantic place to get away from town ... and they loved it, they told me. This is only an hour drive west of the Metroplex, over by <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-too-tall-texas-tale-of-two-tall.html">Mineral Wells</a> (still part of the Dallas- Fort Worth combined statistical area) ... of course it's not the ocean and Santa Monica Pier, but it's relaxing, clear waters, not crowded, and very inexpensive for a weekend, friendly folks, and fun for outdoors, camping, fishing, or whatever, with many acres of public land, and places to set up a tent or cookout, or you can rent a small boat. One of the most popular recreations here is cliff diving off these tall cliffs, so if you're into that, this place is one of the best for it. I chose some video below for a glance, and closed out with some fitting music from <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-toadies-summer-of-strange-i-burn_22.html">The Toadies</a> out of Fort Worth, doing their hit single "Possum Kingdom", live on the shores of Possum Kingdom Lake.<br />
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Toadies "Possum Kingdom" Live ... Thanx to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn2p-Un4Nh0YRkHpKn3g6xg">KirtlandRecords</a> **** over the years there has been so much debate and talk over the lyrics meaning of this song, alot of folklore, I heard everything from vampires, stalkers, to serial killer theories ... for me, it's one of them songs with a theme like <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2016/01/blue-oyster-cult-boc-dont-fear-reaper.html">"(Don't Fear) The Reaper" by Blue Oyster Cult</a> ... both are great pieces of work!<br />
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This posting for the music/ arts honour roll society of this journal/ blog will feature <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-Eyed_Doll">"One-Eyed Doll"(wikipedia)</a>, out of Austin (TX) ... an interview with them linked above. This is basically a 2 member crew, of Kimberly Freeman and Jason Rufuss Sewell (aka Junior), and really can put out a powerful sound between just the 2 of them ... OED started around 2006/ 2007. In 2009/ 2010/ 2011 @ Austin Music Awards/ SXSW, they were voted as best punk band, as well as recognition in other categories/ genres. I myself, never considered OED as a punk group though, they are a mixed type genre to me, and I see and hear so many different influences, some punk, and much else ... great raw sound, but also stuff that is very polished, and focused on theatrics as well. Junior is also a producer, and been since his teen years, and damn good at it, producing for several others as well, plus for 4 solo albums of Kimberly, and packs a real punch as a drummer, too ... as a team, they have put out 11 full albums. They also make music for video games, movies, and commercials. As well as Kimberly's store of items she personally makes, even jewelry to perfumes, and much she gives away to fans ... and they have a solid fan base. Kimberly is really a flashy guitarist, and good vocalist, and if you can take your eyes off of her or her theatrics for a moment and watch her fingers on the guitar neck, check some of her powerful guitar riffs she is known for.<br />
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Kimberly was named as one of the 20 Most Extraordinary Female Guitarists, back in a 2011 issue of Guitar Player magazine ... and for good reason. Kimberly started out buying pawn shop guitars, and making modifications to them, and buying hardware store magnets to put behind the pickups on the guitar to change the sound feedback ... in time she got the opportunity to design her own signature guitar <a href="https://www.treganguitars.com/kf2/">Limited Edition SyrenXT with Tregan Guitars</a>. She also formed a partnership with <a href="https://www.blackstaramps.com/uk">Blackstar Amplification</a>, she likes the power and sound of them while on tour, and said it gives her everything she needs without having to use foot pedals/ stomp boxes. I selected some stuff to sample, and the first 4 I wanted to have their video worx, and good job as well by director Patrick Kendall. The videos are a short and clever mix of, lets say horror and humour. "Be My Friend" inspired by serial killers and slasher type flix ... "Committed" by the insane asylum ... "Afficted" goes back to the late 17th century Salem Witch Trials ... and "Nudie Bar", which I think is a good punk piece, is inspired by a girls revenge on the nudie bar that stole her boyfriend. The last 2 videos I wanted to add some live performance, "Plumes of Death" is a favourite, that I just love the way it's structured ... and "Black Forest" is last. Great work from these guyz, and looking forward to future worx from this duet, too .... Enjoy!<br />
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Nudie Bar by One-Eyed Doll OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO ... Thanx to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI87sit6dHVxw4m78EexzLA">Kimberly Freeman </a><br />
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This posting will serve as Part 18 of the "American Exceptionalism" series of this journal/ blog ... this one is just some morning humour. I had no intention of doing a posting this morning, as a matter of fact, I get so scatterbrained from time to time, I never know what I'll be thinking from one minute to the next, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh {:-) But these folks done it for me, so I would have something to post. Just woke up this morning, laying in bed, grabbed the remote to turn on the tele to get a quick news briefing. This is what I get for part of the news ... I see Speaker Pelosi reading from the Bible, and President Trump just showcasing it, not even sure if he actually reads it, or anything besides Twitter ... but Nancy did, and threw a couple extra pages in it, from fellow political allies, and bless her little heart {:-) These dayz, when I see wealthy/ rich politicians reading from Bibles in public on camera, I figure they're either worried that the people are on to them and their scams, in trouble, or going to fuck us out of something (like entitlements, services, etc ... to give our taxes to their rich friends {:-) . Now ... here's the kicker, that even started making me laugh harder ... in between news clips, I got hammered 3 times this morning with this AAA auto insurance commercial ... with testimony from this young couple, on how much money they saved with their insurance, and all they would be able to do that year with their big savings ... I believe they saved over $450, but YOU can save up to $537!! (but you can bet, they'll fuck you on something else throughout the year {:-) I'm not even sure if $537 would pay for lunch of Pelosi or Trump ... but they should look into it, if they actually drive, and maybe they can hustle up a few bucks too! {:-) But I'm sure, between the Bible Study, Barbeque, Beans & Bullshit, and a chance to save money and get rich ... this at least will be a sappy happy pitch to Americans, to make their day better ... where else in the world can you get this? ... Enjoy!<br />
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This posting will be for the "Police Brutality" and "Neoliberalism" series of this journal/ blog. It may seem odd that I would put this in a "neoliberalism" series/ posting ... but I'll explain that below, because this is also a result of neoliberalism. This posting is to focus on the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis by police. George is also a Texan, he moved to Minneapolis several years back, for a fresh start in life ... he grew up in the Third Ward of South Central Houston. Again, these cases are becoming common, and so much of this, I can't even keep up with the amount of police brutality that goes on in U.S.. I mean, we just got done not long ago with <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/black-woman-shot-killed-after-kentucky-police-entered-her-home-n1205651">Breonna Taylor of Louisville (KY) (NBC News)</a>, an EMT worker, who's home was invaded by police, and murdered during a botched search warrant, that killed Breonna in her own home, who done nothing, I haven't even covered that yet. The last PT.34 I done for the Police Brutality series, was yet another model citizen, Atatiana Jefferson of Fort Worth (TX), murdered in her own home ... these injustices and murders are being committed more frequently. Now we have George, another man killed for no reason by police, and all filmed, the witnesses in public told police that they/ he were killing this man, even George begged police and for folks to help him, because he was dying. They killed George anyway, even on camera and with witnesses, because it got to the point, where some feel confident that they can get away today with abusive and excessive force in policing, that even leads to murder in some cases, because some have. I linked some read and video below, and importantly, to hear out George's brother Philonise first. The last video below, is a black/ hispanic CNN reporter and his crew being arrested for nothing but covering the protests aftermath, by State Police ... there was also a white reporter nearby with his crew, that was not arrested. This clearly shows the depth of America's disguised institutional racism. <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2015/04/baltimore-resistance-2015-ingredients.html">Resistance, from especially our younger people, whether Baltimore 2015</a>, and/ or today in <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/01/world/george-floyd-global-protests-intl/index.html">U.S., with big THANX to international solidarity and support (CNN)</a> ... all is in order, justified, and true liberty ... considering how people are increasingly treated. At the bottom, I'll add some of my views on this murder/ manslaughter case.<br />
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The reason Hennepin County Attorney's Office seemed slow to getting Chauvin charged, is because, they felt if they acted too fast without careful review, they would do something wrong, an example they were looking at, is how <a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/columnists/dan-rodricks/bs-md-rodricks-column-0531-20200529-55vyc5mgnfhpxenbv6eo4f7r7u-story.html">Baltimore's Freddie Gray in police custody death, ended up as a legal justice failure (Baltimore Sun)</a>. It's the truth, too, because when you are charging cops from wrongful death to murder, you better have your top prosecution crew to go over it again and again with a fine tooth comb ... the cop's defense can hit and miss in court, the prosecution making a case cannot. Before Chauvin was charged or taken into custody, as difficult as it is to watch Mr. Floyd being slowly killed and Chauvin being protected by fellow officers allowing him to do so, while citizen/ witnesses pleaded for mercy, as well as Floyd ... I had to force myself to watch all videos over and over closely, and block my emotions out. I was watching as though I am a juror, and already went through the trial phase and all closing arguments of both defendant and prosecution ... and what I was looking at, was a weak murder case, some looking like an involuntary manslaughter case, based on all evidence that I reviewed in the news ... because I know damn well, how Chauvin's defense is going to present their case on what we have at this point. I had to watch it over and over, because the biggest problem I kept coming up with while watching the nearly 9 minute video of Chauvin's knee to neck of Floyd, from the perspective of a juror or member of a prosecution team, was trying to establish "intent" ... which is crucial for a solid airtight murder conviction. The importance is because, even with a conviction, if there is any weak spots, you can bet that it can likely be overturned in an appeal court, cops have one step up on citizens when it comes to being defended, I know it's not equal, especially under law, but it's an unwritten benefit that comes with being a cop. And Yes, even a cop like Chauvin, who has enough write-ups/ complaints in his career, comparable in length, to a career criminal rap sheet. Cops alwayz say "stop resisting" when they are escalating force, to have it recorded on record or in front of witnesses, even if the suspect is not resisting, for a case like this ... Floyd was not posing any threat or resisting, besides not complying to go on the ground. <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2017/07/stopped-by-police-in-america-tips-for.html">I give details in the last paragraph here, on what to do when being detained and handcuffed, and what can/ may qualify as resistance to an officer</a>.<br />
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The knee to neck usage is another problem I seen, because I been viewing various wording and opinions on this, from state to state ... from, it's no way to be used, to being used with high caution, with policy wording to that being very vague, which I feel is purposely wrote vaguely, for reason such as a case like this coming against an officer. I have seen the knee to neck used several times on the street (but mostly knee to legs, arms, shoulder, or back) and I even had concern watching it at times, because of the pressure to the neck. Bottom line is, in a situation like this, where a cop's adrenaline is in high gear, it's too difficult to go by all the rules/ wording on how and what to apply when and where ... meaning, that any type of knee, arm, baton/ nightstick, or whatever to the neck, or even head, should be outlawed, period. I mean, you usually like in Floyd's death, have 2,3,4,5, officers restraining while detaining a suspect, while having everything from spit hoods, to zip ties, cuffs, mace to pepper sprays, to tasers ... meaning these methods of excessive force we see, are no way needed. "IF" they felt Floyd was out of control even, which he was clearly NOT, one quick zip tie to the wrists, and another to the ankles, with only 2 officers needed to simultaneously apply them, would have Floyd restrained in 30 seconds, and you can bet he would go nowhere, and you wouldn't even have to have a hand or foot to hold him down, or even break a sweat ... simple as that. They need to investigate any previous job contact between Chauvin and Floyd, they both had shifts overlapped doing security work at the same nightclub in South Minneapolis, and Floyd is a convicted Texas felon, Chauvin may have not liked Floyd before this incident. Yes, there are convicted felons doing security, and some get hired because of their street experience, and it's common for cops to moonlight at clubs/ venues after hours. When I worked security back when I was about 50 years old in Uptown Dallas' nightclub district, on busy nights, special events, a DPD cop would come and help me, he was moonlighting, he worked DPD as regular job, working East Dallas Gang Unit (since he grew up in that barrio), and also Crime Scene, securing like homicide scenes, he taped off and guard over so no one contaminate area/ evidence, until detectives and forensics done their thing. But we got along good, and I learned alot from him. Chauvin may have had a grudge with Floyd.<br />
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The media yesterday was quick to broadcast that Chauvin is in custody charged with murder and manslaughter ... many are relieved, and feel a little better, from which seemed to many as too long a wait. And this is great, but remember, it is more great to make sure you actually get somewhere with a conviction. Media made sure to announce the words "charged with murder" over anything else, but it's much deeper than that, or words. They say what the maximum sentences are ... and that's about it. The max sentence if found guilty on both charges is about 35 years combined, which is a 3rd degree murder and 2nd degree manslaughter (different way of charging and degrees than Texas). This is why it is so importante to take your time putting this case together ... because it would be so easy from evidence so far, for Chauvin's defense to work this down to a probation deal, or drop a certain charge to focus on another, or for a jury to decline one over another. This is why it's also importante for federal law to get involved investigating for a case of civil rights violations/ charges. Also in Floyd's defense, the counterfeit $20 that Floyd allegedly tried to pass at the store which caused the police call, you have to prove that Floyd knew it was counterfeit, remember that. I mention this, because a couple years ago, a store clerk here in Dallas gave me my change from a purchase, and gave me a counterfeit $5 bill ... I told the clerk the $5 is counterfeit, and showed her why, and told her to give me another $5, and to tell authorities. If Floyd had a couple drinx in him as they say, it is very possible, he had no idea that it was a phony $20, and why would he try to pass it, having started a new life and having a security job, with a past record, knowing that's a federal offense? He would have passed it more likely in a street transaction, than a store. You also have to bring some kind of charges on the other officers involved, so that cases interact, it makes it more secure on the murder/ manslaughter case. The other officers had an obligation when they see something like this to intervene, and to tell Chauvin he needs to chill/ back off a sec, etc ... they allowed this to happen, even with nearly 3 minutes of no movement, breathing, or response from Floyd. All these charges of other officers for their participation, civil rights violations, etc, can be used to help conviction in this case ... or else ... there is more of a chance that Chauvin a year or so later, will walk away with a probation, suspended sentence, plea bargain, mistrial/ hung jury, etc.<br />
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On a final note ... the reason I put this in the "Neoliberalism" series, is because this disease of abusing citizens has been growing fast and dangerously over the last 4 decades, it has contaminated our entire society like a cancer. You can clearly see this as well on how our government responded to the coronavirus, the rush to do everything they can to make folks work, even in hazardous conditions, to asking people to be willing to die for the economy/ Wall Street. I mean, 2020 is a year, from the handling of the pandemic, to the mistreatment of citizens, to gunning down our children in the streets and so on ... that should definitely be a wake up call beyond any of past, as to the outright tyrannical rule that we are being challenged with. Politicians have for years refused to do anything about this of any value to society/ people ... the ruling establishments of both political parties, whether the fascist wing of the republican party, or the aristocracy wing of the democratic party have both collectively failed this country. This is also why we have <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2016/02/clintons-embrace-of-mass-incarceration.html">mass incarceration</a>, <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2019/08/ununited-shackles-of-america-usa-2019.html">systemic racism</a>, <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2012/02/slavery-involuntary-servitude-in.html">debt slavery</a>, <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2013/04/prison-prosperity-america-2013-penal.html">privatized prison systems for profit</a>, and a <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2017/04/united-states-national-health-care-act.html">failed healthcare system</a>, and <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2016/01/el-cheapo-chance-at-porter-ranch.html">reluctance to deal with environmental hazards to climate change</a>, and on and on ... all part of the neoliberal economics model and culture. This should be a new phase for Americans to act to get some kind of actual justice rolling, and you can't do that simply by voting alone, or holding up signs and walking in circles singing "We Shall Overcome". The outrage from people should be continuous and vigorous, over and over and over, not just this last week, or until another tragedy happens ... because our government's ruling class, are under the authority and payroll of oligarchs, and they are what designs what been happening in our society with injustices. We are dealing with tyrants ... never become complacent with this new normal they push on you, or it will only get worse. As far as the President and his tweets (which is all he's good for, hiding and talking shit on a phone device, or behind a podium surrounded by an entourage of high security), about thugs, looting, and shooting ... which he sayz he didn't mean to sound like that (which is another lie). Mr. President, if you were so concerned about "thugs and looting", you certainly wouldn't sign bills left and right, that give 90%+ of everything to the wealthiest people, even foreign entities, that are drafted by corporate lobbyists and the thugs they represent, that clearly loot not only our taxes, but the entire federal government, and all our public assets and society, while weakening our Constitutional Rights.<br />
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***** <a href="http://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2011/04/rcj-music-arts-honour-roll-society.html">RCJ MUSIC/ ART'S HONOUR ROLL SOCIETY</a> (my hand- selected music/ arts picks)<br />
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*****************************************************************************Ranch Chimphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14086251248546955720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7010628715012863388.post-29722527780653084802020-05-23T09:53:00.001-05:002020-09-14T11:17:38.529-05:00From LOSS of PERMAFROST & The Time Travelling Viruses ... to The Warmth & Feeding The BREEDING of The Infectious ... The "Crud in the Mud" Edition ... (GLOBAL WAR'N'ING PT.64)<img height="225" src="https://cdn1.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/WkxXab2hB5ROyPEmSbi_CFPsKYk=/0x1080/volume-assets.voxmedia.com/production/2e3c7f3d7a32a6de4f1fbb0b0991dfb9/VDC_XEH_007_permafrost_melt_ThumbFB.jpg" width="400" /> <img height="200" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CcI5nIWWAAIq0_U.jpg" width="200" /><br />
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This posting will be a Part 64 for the "Global War'n'ing" series of this journal/ blog. I mentioned in this series in previous postings, such as Part 63, about another threat from global warming, but never really devoted a posting to this threat, so this will take a look at it. Being that, most of the focus has been on the destructive parts to/of the air, land, water, infrastructure, etc, that results from the climate change and severe weather events. Then other postings that show how we can change this, and the wayz to do it, while building a new robust and sustainable future energy transition, economy, etc. So this will focus a bit more on the things like a virus, that can cause more harm to humans/ animals directly ... and the timing I figure is appropriate, since we are smack dab in this <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-visible-enemy-trump-gop-reckless.html">COVID-19 pandemic</a>. Unfortunately, we are still deep in this pandemic, don't fool yourself, even though you will hear folks saying that we defeated it, or we're stronger than it, time to go back to normal, or related thought and talk. Some may ask "what does the Arctic or Antarctic have to do with us? ... who the fuck lives there?", and that the north and south poles are on complete opposite sides of the globe. These poles have been critical to our ecosystem and our evolution, is why ... you may wonder what is the difference between a couple degrees increase in temps? ... after all, we live through heat waves. What seems like a couple degrees not meaning much, is as critical as if your body temperature rises a few degrees ... if you're okay at 98 degrees "body" temp, if you just go a few degrees over that, you're not going to be well, and likely sick ... that's how critical temps are to "life" as we know it. You may say that thawing and refreezing are just the normal cycles, it alwayz happens year after year, what's the big deal? The problem is, that it's losing its "balance", because not only the slight temp increases, but the length of that warming ... look at it like when your car engine starts showing gradual increases overheating, you know something ain't right, and you do something about it ... we depend on our environment, just as you may depend on your vehicle for a "living". These are the kind of questions, though ... that I heard folks ask, is why I mention this.<br />
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Listening to these scientists over the years, and their findings, had really caught my interest in this. Seeing that now, we have went so far into this warming as a result of our actions and industries, that we have some real problems ... just as if you neglect your car, you're going to have problems. This thawing is causing waters to flow into others, with all kinds of crud in it, including ancient bacteria, that been frozen solid for thousands of years ... they are now running into streams, lakes, seas. This means that we have increased amounts, and even more dangerous amounts of things like mercury feeding the fish populations, that we feed from, which also feeds our fishing industries. We now have new formed lakes/ ponds all over this arctic region, that are bubbling with methane ... we are looking at increases in carbon dioxide going into the atmosphere, at levels higher than our carbon output, at that. On top of all that, what infrastucture we have in these regions, even for industry, as well as forests are falling apart from the ground movement, even in Canada, massive sinkholes, etc ... which also is damaging to industry of any kind, including oil/ gas, not only the environment ... we are fucking ourselves and everything else, by our actions. We are also seeing an explosion of mosquito populations, and chances of them carrying infectious diseases ... and this is no longer limited to the usual known mosquito regions ... they been having a growing problem in areas like the Toronto/ Buffalo region for example, so many new areas, that are not hot and humid hotbeds like the U.S. gulf coast. And these areas that are hot humid areas, will probably see increases in infections from things like ticks and mosquitoes, and then they transmit to the human/ animals/ pets, and that travels to the cities. Example, for those who fish or hunt in a place like southeast Texas, Lousiana ... such as I did quite a bit, if when you get something, you bring it home. I would hunt in southeast Texas, which I know first hand how full it was with mosquitoes, ticks and snakes at certain times of the year ... and go home after, into central Houston where I lived, mosquito bites and all. So the idea that what happens in these remote areas, whether in the woods, or at the pole areas, are far from us, is wrong ... things spread, and quickly, by us, and through us.<br />
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And it's NOT too late to do anything about this, we've just been too damn slow at addressing this, we already have all the tools we need to change this, and stay on top of anything that comes, and need to, because things are moving quicker and more than we've had to deal with in the past. We wouldn't even be here, if we just listened before, years back. We already have the ability and technology to even carbon capture, it's been done all over, and proven ... just a simple thing like that in industry could have already made a difference. Even without shutting down industries, we could have softened the blow ... but we have been so consumed with being so cheap and thinking "market" only ... even environmental disasters from accidents could have been prevented, time and again, just a matter of spending a few more bucks! They're still gonna drill, because of the global petrodollar dominance, which gives a sense of confidence to the financial and national security sector (U.S.) ... but we don't have to be as reckless as we've been, nor do we need to use more and more fossil fuels, especially when we are globally spending $5 to $6 trillion a year to subsidize that, that isn't even renewable, we may use oil for much, but it's not needed for energy, or even to run cars, we are way past that. It's sickening having to hear some of these folks who have more money/ capital than they literally know what to do with, moan and whine about spending a dime extra ... and it's stupid, even from a business perspective. Even if you're a working class person from the economically challenged rural area, to folks that make their living on fishing on the U.S. gulf coast, or the person with a small business who depends on such ... you should be supporting these folks that are environmentalists, not criticizing them, what they are doing is in everyones interest, especially yours and your families. And this is global, and even those with the most wealth are very concerned about this, or else this and all related wouldn't be the hottest topics of concern at places like the World Economic Forum, year after year. The ripple effect of this and our actions, and inaction of addressing this more, has an impact on every single thing that is part of our lives, from social order to industry, to survival. Some read and video below to browse through, first part looks at the arctic region, the 2nd part below that on things like mosquitoes and ticks transmission. Try to have a fun Memorial Day weekend, and stay safe.<br />
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***** BBC FUTURE | Tim Smedley: <a href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190612-the-poisons-released-by-melting-arctic-ice">The poisons released by melting Arctic Ice </a>... (newsread)<br />
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***** SCIENCE DAILY | UC Davis: <a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/11/191107112926.htm">Melting Arctic sea ice linked to emergence of deadly virus in marine mammals</a> ... (newsread)<br />
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Could thawing permafrost unleash long-gone dedaly viruses? ... Thanx to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQfwfsi5VrQ8yKZ-UWmAEFg">FRANCE 24 English</a><br />
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***** MASSIVE SCIENCE | Max Levy: <a href="https://massivesci.com/articles/climate-change-mosquitoes-diseases-floods/">Mosquito-borne diseases get a boost from climate change</a> ... (newsread)<br />
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***** MEDICAL NEWS TODAY | James Kingsland: <a href="https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/how-might-global-warming-influence-the-spread-of-viruses">How might climate change affect the spread of viruses?</a> ... (newsread)<br />
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How global warming is causing more cases of mosquito-born diseases ... Thanx to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyI4gi0BtlKiUl6KgtuVIUw">Your Morning</a><br />
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***** <a href="http://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2011/04/rcj-music-arts-honour-roll-society.html">RCJ MUSIC/ ART'S HONOUR ROLL SOCIETY</a> (my hand- selected music/ arts picks)<br />
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***** <a href="http://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2010/12/perils-of-power-posse-and-its-prepaid.html">"THE RESISTANCE | PERILS OF THE POWER POSSE" </a>... ( a 2 part futuristic Ranch Chimp Journal dream to dream on )<br />
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*****************************************************************************Ranch Chimphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14086251248546955720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7010628715012863388.post-74796608253716342442020-04-22T21:56:00.001-05:002020-05-20T08:33:24.997-05:00EARTH DAY 2020 | 50TH ANNIVERSARY: A Picture PERFECT Fair Solution to AIR and WATER Pollution ... The "Eyes on the Skies" Edition ... (GLOBAL WAR'N'ING PT.63)- (THE AWAKENING PT.57)<img height="480" src="https://imagez.tmz.com/image/86/4by3/2020/04/07/86f13bc714074e40872d016659fec6ef_md.jpg" width="640" /><br />
Beautiful clear view of Downtown Los Angeles, post coronavirus shutdown ... LA's longest stretch of clean air on record<br />
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This posting will serve the "Global War'n'ing" and "The Awakening" series of this journal/ blog, in recognition of the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, and to salute all those folks that busted ass over the years to push environmental protections. I also wanted to have this event we are experiencing recorded in this journal, because it is such a rare event ... I mean, we have millennials these dayz, that live in large cities, that never had the opportunity to even witness skies this clear ... imagine that ... it's the truth. Even LA's mountains can be clearly seen all around town, amateur astronomers that can see moon crater details from their home, parts of India, folks can see the Himalayas from up to 125 miles away, not seen in 30 years, and folks noticing they can breathe better. Sadly it took a global lockdown due to a pandemic to awaken us and put our eye to the sky ... to see what we been missing. It's remarkable how in only a couple months we see such drastic improvement environmentally, with air and waters cleaning up so quickly ... can you imagine what it would be like after a couple years of not trashing the earth? The speedy cleansing and recovery from this illness of nature getting over this sickness that we imposed on it, shows us just how destructive we are, not just to the planet, but to ourselves. Just imagine, if we acted as quick as nature, we'd be in paradise right now, instead of this cesspool of misery. And right now, we are in such a hurry to get back to killing ourselves and environment ASAP, which is a solution of lunacy, even to the economies, that political mouthpieces say they want to preserve for our children's future ... which makes you wonder, what kind of future are they talking about at the rate we been going? ... a continuation of what we been doing?<br />
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We are and have been at a point, to where we have all the resources to go entirely green energy, right now. As a matter of fact, by doing so, it would not just be a major boost to the environment and health, it would be a such a huge project, that it would feed the economies across the board for years to come, because of the magnitude of transition. Over the last decade, I have posted and compiled in this "global war'n'ing" series many projects from engineers, to scientists, to entrepreneurs and investors ... from converting our vehicles, electric power, heating/ cooling, and replacing all we have, which is past due ... because we have everything that we need right now, and much already in motion. The only reason we are where we are, is because of a handful of industries who don't want anything to change, trying to squeeze every last breath and nickel they can out of the earth and people. 50 years ago, we didn't have yet what it takes to make such a transition, today we have it all and more ... but, we are starting to go backwards by increasingly funding these fossil fuels giants ... we (our Congress) are actually now, not just subsidizing these industries, but bailing them out during this pandemic, that are already swimming in profits, because they took a slight dip in profits. Frankly, they (big oil) don't need a bailout, they're already subsidized, gains and losses, here and there, are part of business and markets. If they want to stay in the energies/ fuels business, they need to learn to keep up with technologies and the times, be competitive, or else go out of business ... you know, like business meets consumer demand? We should be making policies for these mega industries to invest in a more sustainable energy model, that serves the times, environment, needs, and consumers ... while creating a robust future economy much improved from what we have ... you know ... for our children (as they say).<br />
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Some read and views below ... and I wanted to close out with a <a href="http://billmckibben.com/">Bill McKibben </a>interview with Democracy Now.<br />
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***** CNN | Helen Regan: <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/22/world/air-pollution-reduction-cities-coronavirus-intl-hnk/index.html">Air pollution falls by unprecedented levels in major global cities during coronavirus lockdowns</a> ... (newread/ video)<br />
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***** DAILY MAIL | Chris Pleasance: <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8240887/Before-images-coronavirus-lockdown-ridding-cities-pollution.html">Before and after images show how coronavirus lockdown is ridding cities of their air pollution and clearing the earth's skies</a> ... (photos/ video)<br />
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Bill McKibben on Earth Day at 50: We Must Stop Subsidizing Fossil Fuel Industry Wrecking the Planet ... Thanx to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzuqE7-t13O4NIDYJfakrhw">Democracy Now!</a><br />
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***** PD | RCJ: <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2019/11/dylan-ratigan-jimmy-dore-show-super.html">"THE AWAKENING" </a>... PART'S 56 THRU 1<br />
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George W. Bush Urged Us to Prepare for Future Pandemics in 2005 | NowThis ... Thanx to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn4sPeUomNGIr26bElVdDYg">NowThis News</a><br />
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This posting will be for the "Political Corruption & Ethics", and "Covid-19 2020" series of this journal/ blog ... a quick opening video above of what President George W. Bush warned Americans of in 2005, as far as preparing for the next pandemic, which was importante. The first video below, is 15 years after President Bush was pointing this out ... of President Trump, and his response to the pandemic, as it is infecting his city of New York, with hundreds dying daily. This posting is to have a quick update on some of the events, and particularly looking at the corruption that is increasingly clearer, not an "invisible enemy", as President Trump would put it ... but the "visible enemy" that we're at war with ... which is him and his administration. You have people with much wealth, like our President, some in politics, even the corporate/ banking world, that make decisions that kill many, and killed millions over the years ... they're your enemy. They chose to be our/ your enemy, and they started it all, they attacked us, we didn't attack them ... we should defend ourselves, as if they're a virus, because they are. They should be tried, imprisoned, and/ or executed by the majority, and replaced ... <a href="http://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2017/03/neoliberalism-crisis-2017-monbiot-klein.html">the last paragraph here explains this clearly</a>. Some media folks on the left or even late night mainstream tele shows, make jokes about Trump and his moves, I don't find anything funny, cute, or entertaining about his handling of this crisis, or ripping us off ... he has took our country further into a hole, than what it already has been. While browsing through some newsread and videos, I selected a few below that inspired this update posting. At the bottom, I will add to it.<br />
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Donald Trump's coronavirus timeline: how the President's message has changed ... Thanx to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTrQ7HXWRRxr7OsOtodr2_w">Channel 4 News</a><br />
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***** AXIOS | Jonathan Swan, Margaret Talev: <a href="https://www.axios.com/exclusive-navarro-deaths-coronavirus-memos-january-da3f08fb-dce1-4f69-89b5-ea048f8382a9.html">Peter Navarro memos warning of mass coronavirus death circulated in January</a> ... (newsread/ memos)<br />
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***** ABC NEWS | Josh Margolin, James Gordon Meek: <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/intelligence-report-warned-coronavirus-crisis-early-november-sources/story?id=70031273">Intelligence report warned of coronavirus crisis as early as November: Sources </a>... (newsread/ video)<br />
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***** THE INTERCEPT | Mehdi Hasan: <a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/04/06/coronavirus-trump-republicans-conservatives/">After Coronavirus, Let's Never Forget: Republicans Recklessly Put Our Lives in Danger </a>... (newsread/ article)<br />
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***** LOS ANGELES TIMES | Evan Halper, Janet Hook: <a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-04-08/battle-mail-ballots-coronavirus-stakes-november-election">After chaos in Wisconsin, fight intensifies over how to carry out presidential election amid pandemic </a>... (newsread)<br />
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***** MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL | Devi Shastri: <a href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/04/08/coronavirus-wisconsin-election-likely-hurt-effort-flatten-curve/2961718001/">In- person voting was likely a 'disaster' for Wisconsin's efforts to flatten coronavirus curve, national experts say</a> ... (newsread)<br />
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***** THE JERUSALEM POST | REUTERS: <a href="https://www.jpost.com/international/coronavirus-a-holdout-of-us-churches-defy-warnings-for-easter-624258">Coronavirus: A holdout of US churches defy warnings for Easter </a>... (newsread)<br />
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Voters stand in long line in the pouring rain outside Marshall High School in Milwaukee on Tuesday. The city cut its polling places from 180 to five citing lack of workers willing to staff the polls during the coronavirus pandemic. (Coburn Dukehart photo for Wisconsin Watch)<br />
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***** PD | RCJ: <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2019/03/americas-opioid-crisis-2019-dope.html">"POLITICAL CORRUPTION & ETHICS" </a>... PART'S 15 THRU 1<br />
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***** PD | RCJ: <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2020/03/covid-19-coronavirus-2020-pt2-blues.html">"COVID-19 | CORONAVIRUS 2020" </a>... PART'S 2 & 1<br />
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Thomas Hudson Pickering/ Ranch Chimp <br />
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Some may say that this is not the President's fault, some actually think he's doing a great job ... but the way he chose to deal with this, is entirely his fault. He knew much more about this than what he claims, but chose to focus more on his political ratings and the stock markets, over doing everything in his power to defend his country and citizens, he contributed to thousands of deaths because of his inaction, as well. President Trump lacks integrity, or even any type loyalty to the people and country that he took an oath to serve, yet expects loyalty from everyone else. He's doing more damage because of his neglect, to the economy and stock market, that will likely stall recovery, and bring more misery and suffering. Frankly, the reason we have people in charge like Trump, and they get away with everything they do, including all kinds of crimes, is because we have a system that allows it, controlled by markets only, and insanity, saturated in pipe dreams, corporatocracy and theocracy, with legalized corruption. Any other people that are not part of this cesspool of aristocracy, would be criminally charged and tried for the crimes that people like Trump commit. In a country like communist China, he and even many of those in the corporate world that rob our country blind, would be imprisoned at least, and probably in Trump's case, be executed swiftly ... even in the underworld of organized crime, he would have been executed quickly ... and of course, it would be justified and in order, not because of incompetence, but his intentional disregard and reckless endangerment of everyone, and everything that we depend on to survive. I feel he's done a terrible job, and I'm going on performance and record, not on politics. Trump took a position and failed this country terribly in the worst crisis in my lifetime (I'm 64). He has the power and has all the top people and advisors whether science or finance to utilize, he has executive powers that can change things in a heartbeat. I hear all the time out of him, only about business and his fantastic handling of this and his approval ratings ... he is not of any value to this country, or even the wartime leader or whatever kind of leader he claims to be ... he's nothing but a two bit charlatan. We should learn from this, and do everything possible to make sure no one like this guy ever gets the Presidency again. He is probably the most unethical person in a top position of government that I have seen, and compulsive liar.<br />
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The longer this President is in power, the worse he will get, unless he miraculously changes overnight, which is not likely ... and he is willing to put millions more in harms way, just to keep power. He is really not much different, than most of the worst well known dictators of the world over the last couple hundred years. And he has not done a thing for all his supporters in states that so strongly support him ... they are no better off with him as President, nor did they get any of what he promised of any worth and substance that could be beneficial to their lives. His boldness and irresponsibility is unprecedented in U.S. presidents of past. He has publicly stated that he don't take responsibility for anything in this crisis, and instead of admitting any fault on anything, he blames the previous Obama Administration, the Democrats, and everyone from the World Health Organization, down to his own intell network and people he appointed in his own administration, if needed ... all the qualities of any fascist dictator. He'll hire you and love you, and just as quickly fire you and hate you, in short time ... he has so many afraid to even tell him things that need to be done, out of fear of being fired. He runs his office like a business selling fast food franchises, with a day trader mentality as far as strategies to invest ... and when you put someone like that in charge, especially as disorganized as he is, and giving him anything close to a blank check on spending ... you're asking for trouble. The reason the Republicans support him, is because they feel they're losing favour, not because they like him, they like that he is good at conning people. This is also why Republicans needed to do so much as far as gerrymandering, they will support and do whatever, including destroying whatever democracy we still have, to maintain power. They're also trying to rush through another stimulus, without adequate consideration and help to those millions who can't work, while wanting very minimal oversight of any stimulus money distribution to small businesses through banks or anyone they enrich ... cloaking it in "free market" or related nonsense. They are also responsible for voter suppression, and encouraging folks to go out and vote even in a pandemic, instead of delaying the vote or supporting alternative methods ... or telling folks to go to church gatherings, knowing of the danger they are putting people in, or to work before it is safe, all in the name of freedom, or sacrificing their lives for the stock market/ Wall Street. A closing video below of pandemics history.<br />
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Spanish Flu: a warning from history ... Thanx to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc5vZEM1MLUzCrg_aZIJdeA">Cambridge University</a> **** this video is from 30 november 2018<br />
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***** <a href="http://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2013/01/ranch-chimp-journal-personal.html">RANCH CHIMP JOURNAL "WELCOME" POST</a><br />
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***** <a href="http://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2011/04/rcj-music-arts-honour-roll-society.html">RCJ MUSIC/ ART'S HONOUR ROLL SOCIETY</a> (my hand- selected music/ arts picks)<br />
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***** <a href="http://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2010/12/perils-of-power-posse-and-its-prepaid.html">"THE RESISTANCE | PERILS OF THE POWER POSSE" </a>... ( a 2 part futuristic Ranch Chimp Journal dream to dream on )<br />
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*****************************************************************************Ranch Chimphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14086251248546955720noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7010628715012863388.post-67942529217341396172020-04-03T15:37:00.001-05:002020-07-03T07:42:52.970-05:00THE PUNKLES: "Magical Mystery Tour", "Hey Jude", "I'm A Loser", "Help!", "Please Please Me", & "Rain"<img height="299" 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This entry into the music/ arts honour roll society of this journal/ blog, will be to feature some of the cuts from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Punkles">The Punkles </a>out of Hamburg, Germany. Although I followed much punk for years, I never heard of this band until on YouTube, back about 8 years ago ... and don't recall anyone off hand in those circles of punk ever mentioning them. But I sure would have loved to see this crew live somewhere. When I first heard this crew, if I wasn't looking at a video or reading anything about them, only listening to audio, I probably would have thought, they were the <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2010/07/ramones-live-new-years-eve-1977-at.html">Ramones</a> covering a couple <a href="http://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2010/12/john-lennon-beatles-paperback-writer.html">Beatles </a>songs. This crew started up in 1998 and disbanded 2006 ... but those years they were around, I read, they were really doing well in Europe and Japan ... then just disappeared ... but they could probably sell out shows all over if they done a reunion tour. Nothing stands out special of this crew either, they do have some good harmonizing and guitar work though ... they simply do the same lyrics and music on these tunes as they were originally wrote/ recorded, they just add that punk style twist to them. But if you liked some of the classic stuff from The Beatles, and liked the Ramones punk style, you will probably like this crew and these cuts ... they just plain kick ass, too ... they really put out a good sound on these. Thanx to these guys for the music they left us with. Enjoy! ....<br />
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The Punkles- Magical Mystery Tour ... Thanx to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdlzL35PaetWgnnBUv4xp5w">jamesosterberg</a><br />
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The Punkles- Hey Jude ... Thanx to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdlzL35PaetWgnnBUv4xp5w">jamesosterberg</a><br />
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The Punkles- I'm A Loser ... Thanx to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpRtvZ_qmr9zV9JCn_neJdA">punklescomeback</a><br />
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The Punkles- Help! ... Thanx to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXvsBpHgD08RfOoI0gbuMIg">salzarm</a><br />
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This posting will be Part 2 of "Covid-19 | Coronavirus 2020", Part 12 of "Neoliberalism", and Part 4 of the "Naomi Klein" series of this journal/ blog. This stuff is changing by the day, so again, this will be outdated as I post it. But I wanted to have some of this recorded in this journal/ blog, which changes faster than I can keep up with ... and there is already so much info out there, as it is ... every newspaper, and other media source is saturated with coronavirus, much is the doom and gloom talk, like a blues song, with death and infection figures posted hourly. They also hope to make people try to take this seriously, because too many have a "don't give a shit" attitude ... you don't need to become delirious and freaked out, but need to be serious about taking safeguards, and following some basic rules. Much of this is just simple common sense ... sure, many don't like it, but it's importante to take these steps for safety, for yourselves and others around you ... so it's not that difficult or complicated. I follow the rules, and still go outside daily, but changed how I do it and mingle, avoiding much that I usually do. Takes a bit of getting used to, but it's not that bad or difficult, wash hands alot, and follow recommended guidelines, etc. Many in the political arena haven't a clue what's up, they too are playing it by ear. The President saying that we should be up and running with business, back to work, etc, by Easter Sunday ... is just sales talk, anyone in the medical/ science fields would agree, that's too quick due to circumstances. Sure, it's good to be optimistic, but he should be a little more realistic, because it can backfire on him, and us. Understand the kind of environment the President came out of before being President ... he sells everything as "beautiful" and a "great deal" ... that's what he done his whole life ... he sells confidence to folks to invest in his ideas and projects, etc, he's a hustler ... same as any hustler selling you on the street, just bigger game. Plus you have this political season, so him and all the rest of them are looking to score public approval points, on mostly "talking" points. It's not all beautiful, but it's not all doom and gloom either ... so avoid too much political talk, or just miserable people that like to dwell on misery and fear ... that will just make you think like them and more miserable ... think straight and strategic.<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQO3LlHKgUI">Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick sayz that he and other seniors are willing to die, to save the economy (YouTube)</a>, as is, that all America loves, for our grandchildren, etc ... as if it's patriotic, again, trying to incorporate patriotism and "thinking of children", paying dues, or sacrificing for Wall Street. First place, many Americans do not think too highly of this newest neoliberal economics model, it's approval or popularity, would be about as popular as our Congress would be to most ... "rock bottom", which has failure after failure, and has to be fed with the Federal Government giving it unlimited welfare, to a bunch of gambling addicted hoarding type investors, who don't have any allegiance to ANY country, and destroy damn near everything in their path. Even WITHOUT this serious COVID-19, we have to constantly feed this vermin class, if it weren't for our taxes, workers/ consumers, and government socialism/ corporate welfare feeding them monthly, they would fail overnight. If you (Patrick) want to die for them, that's your choice, but don't speak for the rest of us ... I guess some of these folks would put bags of money in their caskets too. I understand what Lt. Gov. Patrick is trying to say, or the sentiment, patriotic feeling, or what have you ... but the idea that folks should put their lives on the line to save Wall Street, or some other casino is downright silly, no need for all that, which I'll explain below. I was browsing some videos and articles/ newsead, so I selected some below for this posting, to take a look at the overall crisis we're in, some mainstream, some not so mainstream. But there are a few positive things that came out of this too, and good food for thought. So, I wanted to open below with Naomi Klein, and her views/ assessments, and Thanx to Naomi for the Milton Friedman quote posted at the heading. I also wanted to close with <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2019/11/dylan-ratigan-jimmy-dore-show-super.html">Dylan Ratigan</a> being interviewed by Jimmy Dore, to get into detail about trying to avoid a financial crisis, as a 4th crisis, since we already have 3 to work on, being biological, economic, and social (we also have extreme weather due to climate change). Dylan explains "why" so much is having to be shelled out to the banks, much more than we realize, so I linked the PBS/ AP news piece Dylan is talking about first. At the bottom, I'll add a few more words/ views of my own.<br />
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"Coronavirus Capitalism": Naomi Klein's Case for Transformative Change Amid Coronavirus Pandemic ... Thanx to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzuqE7-t13O4NIDYJfakrhw">Democracy Now!</a><br />
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***** FORBES | Jun Wu: <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/cognitiveworld/2020/03/19/how-artificial-intelligence-can-help-fight-coronavirus/#7eeb5dd14d3a">How Artificial Intelligence Can Help Fight Coronavirus</a> ... (newsread)<br />
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***** THE NATION | Atossa Araxia Abrahamian: <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/world/coronavirus-future-fiction/">Covid-19: A Best-Case Scenario .... Now is the time to imagine a better world </a>... (article/ future/ fiction)<br />
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***** NEWSWEEK U.S. | Eddy Rodriguez: <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/how-avoid-coronavirus-related-scams-amid-plans-government-payout-us-citizens-1493318">How to Avoid Coronavirus-Related Scams Amid Plans of Government Payout to U.S. Citizens</a> ... (newsread)<br />
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***** THE GUARDIAN | Lily Kuo: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/23/life-after-lockdown-has-china-really-beaten-coronavirus">Life after lockdown: has China really beaten coronavirus?</a> ... (newsread)<br />
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***** FAST COMPANY | Marcus Baram: <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90483112/here-are-the-most-infuriating-details-and-corporate-giveaways-in-the-covid-19-stimulus-bill">Here are the most infuriating details and corporate giveaways in the COVID-19 stimulus bill</a> ... (2 minute newsread)<br />
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***** CNN | POLITICS: <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/27/politics/coronavirus-stimulus-house-vote/index.html">Trump signs historic $2 trillion stimulus after Congress passes it Friday </a>... (newsread)<br />
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***** THE MOTLEY FOOL | Dan Caplinger: <a href="https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/03/25/coronavirus-bailout-as-stock-buybacks-disappear-wi.aspx">Coronavirus Bailout: As Stock Buybacks Disappear, Will the Market Fall Further?</a> ... (newsread)<br />
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***** PBS/ AP | Christopher Rugaber: <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/federal-reserve-to-lend-additional-1-trillion-a-day-to-large-banks">Federal Reserve to lend additional $1 trillion a day to large banks</a> ... (newread)<br />
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U.S. Pumps $14 TRILLION Into Economy! ... Thanx to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3M7l8ved_rYQ45AVzS0RGA">The Jimmy Dore Show</a> **** Dylan reconfigurated and explained his $14 Trillion figures in a later interview, so $14 Trillion the way he estimated it, is not accurate, or a fixed figure. But the substance here is importante, set aside figures, which are never what they appear at first anywayz, but key to understanding how some of this works.<br />
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***** PD/ RCJ: <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2020/03/covid-19-coronavirus-2020-health-and.html">"COVID-19 | CORONAVIRUS 2020"</a> ... PART 1<br />
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As far as the news on China having the virus contained and their figures ... I myself don't trust those figures so quickly, I know China, as well as other major countries will want to go back to business and getting the economic machine in motion ASAP. Why I hesitate on ANY figures right now, whether from China or anyone else, is because it's too early. It makes sense too, that even if we feel that we have this contained, the fact is, that there is still the virus out there and millions of carriers, many we don't even know of. Starting getting back to routine too casually and quickly, can easily spread a 2nd epidemic surge ... I mean, we don't like to think that, but medical science shows this would likely be a problem. In the U.S. for example, we're a little slow at catching the boat ... much credit to all the folks in the medical fields and everyone else who put their necks on the line everyday ... but our government has been slow (or they would say "cautious", I guess) to get a decent handle on this. And we need much more as far as medical equipment and personel, we are pushing these workers to the limits as it is, without adequate equipment and supplies. And this state to state thing, in my view, don't cut it. New York has the strongest lockdown measures I figure, but this needs to be nationwide. From what I see, we need more strict lockdown/ restrictions, at least during the start of this, and more testing, much more of everything. But at least we are learning how unprepared we are, and what we need to do ... plus there are so many in science/ medicine working to find medicines, vaccines, or whatever needed. Sadly our government/ Fed, and the executive and legislative branches are under total control of the markets/ corporations/ banks/ investors. I mean, we are praising politicians that done the $2 Trillion stimulus, which is really good, but understand, that this was pushed mostly by the big money entities, to get a people/ workers stimulus through so quickly. Wall Street knows our Congress is incapable of getting much done for the people/ workers, because of the constant left- right bickering ... so they say ... push it, and get it done! As far as Texas Lt. Gov. Patrick telling us it's patriotic for us to work and die of coronavirus, if necessary, as our sacrifice to save this cesspool of financial misery he thinks everyone loves ... don't be silly, no need to do a thing, except get the Fed to pump billions more into society, as they do for all the corporations/ banks. Where does the money come from? ... <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yki_mFlMkUM">it's called the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (Prof. Richard Wolff)</a>.<br />
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In Texas, our methods from testing to quarantine are flexible, Dallas County has the tightest lockdown rules in the DFW Metroplex, but surrounding counties are slow to get on board. A couple weeks ago, they ordered all bars, restaurants, churches, etc closed ... so folks who wanted to party, just went to Fort Worth, Addison, or other suburban cities to party or whatever. Slowly, other suburban cities/ counties starting getting on board. You still have considerable traffic in this town, much more than a town like NYC. And that is because you have what's considered as "essential businesses" in Dallas and Texas, that have to stay open, such as pharma stores, groceries, construction related, hospitals/ clinics, emergency services, etc. You can get food delivered here, from restaurants, grocers, you can go up to restaurants, go inside and order, but not sit or dine- in, or have them bring the food out to you ... but, what is open and closed is so confusing to keep up with ... and quite a bit is open, but with many restrictions. At first Dallas closed all gun stores, there was a big surge in gun sales (as well as San Francisco, which is a bit unusual) ... folks couldn't buy them in Dallas City, so they went to suburban towns/ counties to buy ... not sure where it stands today, I haven't done any firearms shopping. My daughter and her husband, said the best time to go to Target store, is early in the morning when they first open, because they restock early before opening, there are limits on things like paper towels, for example, 1 pack per customer, you can buy a dozen rolls or so in a pack, max. But most items been restocking/ replenishing okay, considering the condition. But everything you touch you have to basically disinfect, remove packaging, discarding it properly, and importantly, washing hands after you touch it, and not touching your face. Example, I got a large Listerine Mint antiseptic mouthwash the other day, I wiped down the bottle entirely, and also washed my hands immediately after, for a good 20- 30 seconds. We are at a point now in America, to where we think too much about markets and money over anything else, including our lives. We don't like trillions going to banks and corporations, and every time we have a crisis, we get soaked for billions/ trillions by these entities, to keep us scrounging, dependent, and in debt and servitude to them. As Dylan Ratigan said in the video above, this was the easiest fix they could do fast, but it doesn't make significant beneficial changes for all in the financial system, just sustains everything we have, including the problems within it ... which also means, extracting anything we have of value, including "rights".<br />
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When we get a better handle and control on this virus, I don't think we should jump right back to business as usual, but move with high caution, you don't want to jump start another wave of it. Looking at this right now, I'm expecting quite a bit of economic trouble to follow. I also am expecting an uprise of angry citizens after this smooths out, right now, we're locked down because of the virus, but once the financial misery sets in later, people will have resentment, and this resentment will also be targeted at politicians too. This also makes us think twice about expanding our political choices, and possibly starting a new 3rd party that represents the majority of people. Sure, the $2 trillion is great and a big help, and Thanx to the pressure from Wall Street to make this happen. But you already have apartments in Dallas that are giving out eviction alert letters (and I'm sure in other cities coast to coast), although, no Dallas courts will sign any eviction notices, and it would be a few months before any could get signed off legally. Apartments are calling it a warning, and denying when asked, that they are evicting anyone, but look to get big late fees and such, and many folks will use credit cards, small loans or whatever, when money runs slim. Small business needs to pay rent/ mortgages, sure they'll get some help, but how long will it last? Folks are going to have to lay off/ cut employees, regardless of what the President sayz about business will be booming through the roof ... I see several complications coming, on that end. Also, some of your biggest investors, are going to be looking for a big home foreclosure amount to come ... and they know it, because they want to buy up as much as possible dirt cheap ... remember, even in a recession, while most lose ... few gain big profits ... this is America, to not expect these things, would be foolish. These temporary orders to not evict, foreclose, etc ... will run out after awhile, and will have to be extended or some new policies worked out, money gets folks desperate, desperation leads to extreme greed ... as soon as any of these protections run out, and a green light turns on, the vultures will come out of the woodwork. Right now, even several places are offering advances, on the stimulus checks that you haven't received yet, they will charge fees for an advance, like these tax prep services do, if you don't put limits on those fees, they could go through the roof. I could go on and on ... expect alot of game to be played, because there are many with scams and wayz to capitalize off this ... plan a strategy ahead of time.<br />
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As far as the $2 Trillion stimulus, and the generosity of it, don't be so quick to give credit to simply politicians, bipartisan love, or whatever ... this was mandatory, even your biggest of banks pushed for this. This is to basically protect the country from going in the shitter, this virus hit everyone unexpectedly, and hit market hard, everyone been scrambling. This is why I also put this in the "Neoliberalism" series. Even some airlines within the last year, before this crisis, claimed they could survive any recession, they are crying now for bailouts. The $2 trillion given to keep us hanging on, was because many trillions will go to the top players/ corporations/ investment banks, etc ... they realize they need to give some socialism, because they are taking so much. This talk of no stock buybacks and excessive CEO pay or whatever, may not last long, unless it's solid in law, and even then, the lobbyists/ lawyers make loopholes, changes, etc ... the Coronavirus Relief Bill is nearly 900 pages. See "Motley Fool" link above, on how importante stock buybacks were to generating large wealth expansion for big players. Good thing is, this makes even the wealthiest and everyone else see the importance of social safety nets, and trying to do something about out of control healthcare costs, we will probably need more stimulus before we have a good handle on this. The importance from a wealthy investor perspective, is to maintain social order and the flow of business ... leaving the workers/ consumers taking too much burden, can backfire with mass civil disobedience and even out of control pockets of anarchy, so this also makes people top to bottom, even think twice about things like <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2016/08/universal-basic-income-revising.html">UBI (universal basic income)</a>. This new stimulus/ bailout, will also contribute to fulfilling the global neoliberal goal, it's going to make these too big to fail entities of wealth, even that much larger, and more powerful ... basically what we once called democracy, will never be the same. It's already to the point where corporate neoliberalism are controlling ALL establishment politics in this country, and have politicians in fear of challenging them. This will bring more privatization of anything or assets that the public has remaining, with wealthy investors buying everything up ... that's why the wealthy are more than happy to throw us billions, while they milk us/ government for trillions. Do not pay atencion to those politician's statements like "where will the money come from", "we have too much debt", we need to pay down debt", etc, etc ... thinking about debt is silly, and they (politicians) know it, we would never even be able to pay down a fraction of the interest. This shows you, how over the last decade, the Fed just pumps endless money into the banking system, that we supposedly don't have ... and can suddenly drop a couple trillion as well, in a heartbeat. Whether it's 9/11 and following war in Iraq, the 2007-2008 Great Recession, or the Coronavirus crisis, the money alwayz appears somehow, and we take one further step in privatizing democracy and our government, and becoming more dependent on the oligarchs.<br />
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***** <a href="http://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2013/01/ranch-chimp-journal-personal.html">RANCH CHIMP JOURNAL "WELCOME" POST</a><br />
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***** <a href="http://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2011/04/rcj-music-arts-honour-roll-society.html">RCJ MUSIC/ ART'S HONOUR ROLL SOCIETY</a> (my hand- selected music/ arts picks)<br />
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This entry into the music/ arts honour roll society of this journal/ blog, will be to showcase some of the music of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuba_Skinny">"Tuba Skinny"</a> band of New Orleans. This group really sounds good, and captures the nostalgia of the great swing, blues, ragtime, and jazz of the 1920s/ 1930s, I've alwayz loved the music from then, and alwayz looked at it as good inspiration and ideas for incorporating it into upbeat heavy rock and punk music too, since I love both, as well. It's also the main ingredient for some of the great Electro Swing of today, such as groups like <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2016/07/caravan-palace-rock-it-for-me-jolie.html">"Caravan Palace"</a> and <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2015/11/diablo-swing-orchestra-black-box.html">"Diablo Swing Orchestra"</a>. The members of Tuba Skinny have all different roots as far as music/ art backgrounds, from jazz, to blues, swing, punk, and more ... and they are all from other parts than New Orleans. They met on the streets of New Orleans, prior to Hurricane Katrina ... the group started to slowly evolve piece by piece between 2003 to 2009, to become where they are today. This group, even though they are a favourite local street busking crew of the French Quarter in New Orleans, are known all over the world, by musicians and a spread out global fan base, and have received a number of awards ... yet still continue their street performances, and put out 10 full albums between 2009 and 2019. I love the vocal work and style of Erika Lewis, I could listen to her sing all day long ... many times on the street, she uses no mic. Even playing on the street at times, when the group is mostly free of any electronic equipment/ amplification, they still produce a powerful sound ... so I wanted to highlight some of that stuff here. This is the kind of group that will make folks just want to get up and dance, great stuff! There is so much more about this band, so I'll let the links handle that. I wanted to open below with a favourite of mine from years back ... "Yes Sir That's My Baby", <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Sir,_That%27s_My_Baby_(song)">that has been played by so many since around 1925</a> ... and some others follow. I also included a video at the very bottom of the posting, of an interview with the group, where they introduce themselves, and answer questions about their music, backgrounds, and much else. Wishing them the best and more ... and Thanx for doing such a great job at reviving and preserving these classic sounds. ... Enjoy!<br />
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Tuba Skinny- "Yes Sir That's My Baby"- Tip the band at Venmo.com. More at Digitalalexa channel ... Thanx to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG1GUVc9co7ZYejTbVG2-5w">digitalalexa</a><br />
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Tuba Skinny- "What's the Matter with the Mill"- Tip the band at Venmo.com. More at Digitalalexa channel ... Thanx to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG1GUVc9co7ZYejTbVG2-5w">digitalalexa</a><br />
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Tuba Skinny (3) Lyon, France 03 juil 2019- Tellin' You 'Bout It ... Thanx to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo-1hNcgiL4xuDRfwOaYLGg">Michel Miconnet</a><br />
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Tua Skinny- "Jackson Stomp" -- Tip the band at Venmo.com. More at Digitalalexa channel ... Thanx to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG1GUVc9co7ZYejTbVG2-5w">digitalalexa</a><br />
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*****************************************************************************Ranch Chimphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14086251248546955720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7010628715012863388.post-87601698012629963462020-03-02T09:20:00.002-06:002020-06-03T07:55:05.235-05:00COVID-19 | CORONAVIRUS 2020 (PT.1): The Health and Economic VIRUS Amongst Us ... The "Health & Human Market" Edition ... (GLOBAL WAR'N'ING PT.62)- (AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM PT.17)<img height="145" src="https://www.somagnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/e5-2-e1581461186594.jpg" width="400" /><br />
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This posting will be to examine the Coronavirus, it will also be Part 62 of the "Global War'n'ing" series of this journal/ blog, because, as I point out throughout the series, I suspect that the global warming/ climate change will contribute to a new line of diseases, viruses and related, some that will hit us where we have almost zero knowledge of the roots, to evolve and spread. This will also be Part 17 of the "American Exceptionalism" series, since America is an exceptional country on many avenues, including our unique broken healthcare system. I take this Coronavirus seriously, unlike <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2014/10/ebola-crisis-dallas-2014-fire-at-five.html">how I covered the Ebola Crisis in 2014</a>, this is a whole different ballgame. During the Dallas Ebola Crisis, I was not only in the neighbourhood (northeast Dallas "Five Points"), where Mr. Duncan lived in, and several feet from the apartment complex that was quarantined, but even at the train station (public transit) outside the hospital he was at ... and had minimal concern. Why?, because the Ebola deal was so contained, and we already had years of work worldwide with it, knew so much about it, etc. COVID-19 is just that, newly discovered in 2019 ... we're still trying to figure out all how it is spread for that matter, and it has moved rapidly, right now, it is on every continent besides Antarctica, which has a population smaller than my neighbourhood in Dallas. So this is nothing to take lightly, and even as I post this, it will be outdated the next day, because this is how fast updates on this are coming out. I hope to see AI (artificial intelligence shine in all this, as far as utilizing AI), we will need all the help we can get ... and this includes world participation, and trying to keep as much politics out of it as possible, and all the whiny petty bitch fighting/ arguing, religious cult stuff, etc ... I know that's asking alot, especially in America, but it's needed. But there is plenty of info going around out there to help folks with learning about this, and steps to take to be safer. We have a President and White House, that has put VP Pence, for oversight? ... we need experts in this field, people of medicine and science ... not politically slanted views and assessments. And the primary reason for that, was to censor info that comes to the public, to avoid panic, for Trump's re- election, and to keep people spending. It's not about health and safety, as much as it's about markets and politics ... yet should be, because without safety and health, all rest will go down. Hopefully we'll get a better handle on this soon.<br />
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In the U.S. we may have some problems with this if it becomes too widepread, I figure, just looking at our unique situation ... so maybe they will have to change a few things here, to help, regardless of the money, politics, or whatever else gets in the way. Right now, they tell folks to stay home if sick, some they may ask to stay home for a couple weeks ... this is America, we have millions upon millions here that live from paycheck to paycheck, many with little or no paid leave, and apartments that won't want to wait for their rent payments, millions could get evicted, plus that damages their credit scores. Everything in this country, including our lives, is ran on the markets/ money too, and if older folks who don't have time for their 401(k) to bounce back, decide they want to take their money out, lobbyists may try to stop them, maybe limit bank withdrawals, etc. We already seen the markets panic, with only this small amount of cases found, so you don't want it to get too widespread. Mega investors in the market are like drug addicts when they panic, like when a drug addict calls their line or goes to the dopehouse, only to find that they're dry (out of supply). We depend on consumption/ consumers to spend 24/ 7/ 365, we're like at the top worldwide on how much we spend ... if a situation comes up, that folks feel uncomfortable to go to stores, public, travel, or to even spend ... you have another problem. You have hundreds of thousands of homeless people in urban areas, that only have public restrooms and some shelters to possibly get a shower or clean up, overpopulated jails (mass incarceration), folks in rural areas (and cities) that don't have access to healthcare, or clean environment conditions. Some may say ... "well, they're the worthless poor, or criminals, or uneducated, etc" ... but they all have contact with overall society and public places, and right now, it's people that actually have decent jobs, education, and are considered as productive in society that been diagnosed with this. And the working poor makes this machine work in large part, and serve those with more money, meaning, contact. Currently, we are still learning new things daily about this, we are not even dead sure of all the wayz of transmission ... it's all new to us, so far. And hopefully, the U.S. will listen to scientists, and importantly, cooperate with the global community, and the President, not use this to start global fighting/ bickering ... having his little temper tantrums.<br />
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The U.S. don't have a national healthcare system, healthcare here is basically big business, with out of control rates and gouging. If this gets any more widespread in the U.S., how will all the different insurance companies plans and supplements handle this? Or all the for profit hospitals? Will they pay for testing?, will they pay for drugs?, what will the healthcare stock shareholders want and demand? Usually costs and premiums skyrocket, since we have no limits, and allow the markets to run everything ... at the least little discomfort to shareholders, this happens. Do we even have enough facilities to quarantine if needed, in a widespread situation? When money is needed and for government to step in, will they find the funds, like they do for big banks and corporations, and/ or just print up billions to bail us out like those? When funding comes up in the House and Senate between the 2 parties (democrats and republicans), will they play the usual back and forth bickering, and try to cut other things to pay for it?, and if/ when spending is passed, how much more will we have to give to billionaires, tax cuts or otherwise, and corporate subsidies, just to get it through, where both sides reach an agreement? ... I mean, recent history shows they never give nothing without taking from us, even if it is mostly our money, taxes, and consumption that generated it. Congress usually has no problem passing legislation to give trillions to billionaires, corporations, banks, and for wars ... but ask for a few billion for the public's own good, and they all start whining in chorus, like they're ordered to do by the wealthy and their lobbyists. What if they tell us what they usually tell us, like, "where will the money come from?" ... "It's all pie in the sky, pipe dreams, it can't be done", and the usual talk we hear? I've heard doctors/ scientists a couple months back, say they think this will become a pandemic of magnitude, although contained at some point ... why may they think that? ... they have reason to. Our President sayz it's all under control, "beautiful" testing methods, control, healthcare system, and containment, etc, but he changes day to day ... if something goes wrong on his actions, instead of looking at his own incompetence, he may blame China or the Democrats, probably ... and turn a serious health concern into a political bitch/ Twitter fight, because looking at his history, he's been quick to run his mouth (Tweets), forgets and contradicts what he sayz from one day to the next, and blames everyone but himself. I could go on and on, but, as you can see, I have alot of questions. Some more below, and stay cautious, at least follow the basics for safety, etc.<br />
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***** Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/summary.html">2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Situation Summary | CDC </a>... (updates/ information)<br />
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***** World Health Organization: <a href="https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019">Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) outbreak</a> ... (updates/ information)<br />
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How the Climate Crisis Is Making the Spread of Infectious Diseases Like Coronavirus More Common ... Thanx to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzuqE7-t13O4NIDYJfakrhw">Democracy Now!</a><br />
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Coronavirus: Scientists in the US race to find a vaccine ... Thanx to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNye-wNBqNL5ZzHSJj3l8Bg">Al Jazeera English</a><br />
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***** PD | RCJ: <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2019/08/trumps-greenland-purchase-attempt-2019.html">"GLOBAL WAR'N'ING"</a> ... PART'S 61 THRU 1<br />
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This posting will be Part 16 of the "Black History | Harmon Loft" series of this journal/ blog ... to highlight the life and court cases of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott">Dred Scott (wikipedia)</a>, and his wife, Harriet, they were American slaves. This story and case in history, should be an inspiration to people of all races today, let it be a lesson of sort, if anything, if you are a working class person. Because <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2016/10/ava-duvernays-13th-documentary.html">slavery has alwayz been a part of our system</a>, in some form, just like <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2019/08/ununited-shackles-of-america-usa-2019.html">racism still is</a>, and bigger than ever today, it's just cleverly repackaged and redesigned, to be larger and broader than anything of past ... today more subtle and sugarcoated. Again, for the viewer that never been to this journal/ series ... it is in memory and totally inspired by my friend, Harmon Loft ... he was the black history buff, and known for it in his New York community, back in the 1960s/ 1970s. If you had a question about related history ... you could ask this guy, I was only a teen at the time, never knew any of this, or history for that matter, and listening to his stories were interesting. I believe Harmon (aka "Red" to most), may have been originally from Chicago, not sure, he told me things about being a kid on the West Side of Chicago, he didn't really know his dad, who he heard was an alcoholic, so Harmon and his kid sister were raised by mom basically. His mom had some disease called sarcoidosis, she died, him and his sister was sent to their auntie's place in Harlem/ NYC, where he lived his latter teen years in the area of 123rd St & Lenox Ave, he was at least 25 years older than me, and like a mentor to me ... he helped me when in trouble, let me set up a shoe- shine stand in his pool/ billiards hall, and treated me like a son (he never had kids or married that I knew of ... but had some close female companions), taught me some things, and how to make money.<br />
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The life of Dred Scott was interesting ... I guess back then, it depended on who was your owner, to the slave, of what you could do or not, or what kind of duties/ chores you were assigned. I figured the least you could hope for, is having a master/ owner as lenient as possible, because you had nothing else, period ... but to be pushed around, used, raped, sold/ traded/ leased out, punished/ beaten, killed, or whatever. Scott was a hustler though, and considered as a "skilled slave", and had some situations, where he was able to use his head and take advantage of, to at least try to make what life he had less miserable. When he seen opportunity, he jumped all over it, including escaping slavery, if he could, and was savvy enough to lease out his services while still being owned, and pocketing all the money, even attempting to buy his freedom ... and sharp enough to legally challenge the crummy system. Historically, there were thousands of slaves actually, that were bucking slavery all over the place, while some others, just decided to submit, and accept it as the only way to live ... folks like Dred were a bolt of revolt, and you had many of them. The Dred Scott case was so well known, because it involved the US Supreme Court, and Chief Justice R.B. Taney, decided that a slave can never be a citizen, or qualify legally, for any rights, freedom whatsoever, etc. Between court cases from lower courts to the top, Dred went from slave to free, and back to slave, then back to free, depending on which territory he was taken to by his owners. But moving around like that also had its advantages, and gave opportunity, instead of just spending decades on some plantation, and experiencing or seeing nothing different. And just like the past, aligning yourself with thinkers and doers, that have that bolt in them, is a plus, Dred's wife, Harriet, was one like that too.<br />
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The reason this Supreme Court case was so importante, is because of the amount of rage it inspired, and contributed to making the Civil War get on the road. Even though Scott lost this case, the nation won, in that respect, because any rights past due to come about, started taking shape then and there. Scott didn't die on his knees or at the end of a rope, he died from tuberculosis, which was common in those dayz, and he lived his life making decisions for himself. He also never gave up on taking cases to the courts, and had a friendship with the kids of his former owner/ master, who were his age, that those kids ended up funding his legal case expenses, and inspiring abolition to the new blood/ generation. Dred was gonna make it either way, he's tasted half assed freedom and full slavery, both ... him and Harriet were doing it mostly for their 2 daughters, to try to bring better times for them. He tried to purchase freedom for their girls/ kids mainly, from Mrs. Emerson, their owner, and widow of US Army surgeon, Dr. John Emerson. Mrs. Emerson was still leasing Dred and Harriet out as slaves, even though they were no longer in prime age, to try to milk every nickel she could out of them, and Dred and Harriet knew, she looked at their daughters as commodity/ asset money makers. Eventually, at the end, a couple years before Dred's death, he managed to buy him and his wife and daughters freedom. This is the same way all working classes are looked at today by the usual extreme capitalists and oligarchs ... it's still the same master/ slave mentality today, as back then ... this mentality abuses all working classes of today, unjustly incarcerates the poor, and uses them through prison labour, and endless debt, etc, as well as all their family members. The point is, looking at all we are facing in 2020, revolt on a large scale is way past due. If we do not challenge what we are facing now, our children will get trampled on more than we are, to come ... this is why Scott's life and cases, including things like the Civil War, are a good lesson.<br />
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Some read and video below. First video is a brief clip, to introduce the great- great- granddaughter of Dred and Harriet, today ... Lynne M. Jackson. I also chose a video below that of a known expert in race relations, criminal/ civil procedure, constitutional law, and civil rights ... to review Scott's Supreme Court case, out of several I reviewed, from Professor of Law @ The George Washington University Law School, <a href="https://www.law.gwu.edu/christopher-bracey">Christopher A. Bracey</a> ... I thought he done a great job reviewing the case, Scott family, and condition. Importantly in the 2nd half of the video, Bracey points out so many legal flaws with the court/ Taney's decision, none was based on case/ precedent/ law, but opinion/ view only. Basically you had a Supreme Court, that was ignoring law and the Constitution.<br />
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**** <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2020/02/18/early-voting-starts-tuesday-texas-and-ends-feb-28/">Early voting is underway in Texas now through the 28th of February</a>, for the March 3rd primary season voting ... GET OUT TO VOTE, regardless of how much impact you feel your vote has ... you can bet Dred and Harriet Scott would have loved to had the chance to vote ... it's one of the few rights you still have. I'm out on my way after I post this, to vote for <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2019/06/economic-patriotism-plan-elizabeth.html">Senator Elizabeth Warren</a>, for the Democratic Presidential nomination, even though I know she is trailing <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2019/08/criminal-justice-reform-bernie-sanders.html">Senator Bernie Sanders</a>, and I love Bernie Sanders, voted for Bernie in the 2016 primary season, but been waiting for Warren to run for years, because of her unique skills/ background. I committed to voting Warren, if she ran, and she did, before Bernie even announced he's running for 2020 nomination, so I done what I promised. And I will be first in line to vote for Bernie in November, if he gets the nomination, for sure. Even if Bernie has 90%+ of voters, understand, that Wall St/ banks/ corporations, the establishment of the Democratic Party, and their Superdelegates, corporate media, smear and fear ads, and others, may/ will all try to interfere with him getting the nomination, so the voters need to stand strong, and pound and push very very hard. Bernie is despised by big money and the establishment, and they will encourage other candidates to stay in the race long as possible, and have as many as they can in the race, just to try to lessen the amount of votes Bernie gets, if anything.<br />
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***** usa.usembassy.de : <a href="https://usa.usembassy.de/etexts/democrac/21.htm">INTRODUCTION TO THE COURT OPINION ON THE DREDD SCOTT CASE | DRED SCOTT V. SANDFORD (1857)</a><br />
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STL LIVE Dred Scott Heritage Foundation 1 of 2 ... Thanx to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWU3FRSmVSxDcuzPDQGe24g">STL TV</a><br />
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Black History Month Special: 'The Dred Scott Case' 2/3/16 ... Thanx to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy98viEjrW9LMpV_7lZGeMQ">Entertain_DC</a><br />
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This will be part 12 of the "Helluva F'n Day" series of this journal/ blog, for a little humour. Early sunday morning (yesterday), a demolition crew was hired to take down some building on the east side of Uptown Dallas, to make way for a new complex to be developed ... well, they done a half assed job, and this is the result. You boyz ought to be ashamed of yourselves ... I know damn well if it was up to me to hire a reputable demolition crew to take down a city building ... I'd call Al- Qaeda, Inc. ... at least they won't ask for a tax write- off, and give me a better rate ... they take pride in their work.<br />
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***** PD/ RCJ: <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2016/08/a-day-in-life-of-arsonist-dedication-in.html">"HELLUVA F'N DAY" </a>... PART'S 11 THRU 1<br />
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This posting will serve the "Poverty & Despair" and "Neoliberalism" series of this journal/ blog. What inspired the posting, is the widening poverty and the historically unprecedented wealth, as well as several people that I have talked to over the last several years, that simply thought that all these folks with the largest wealth, are patriotic heroes of sort, for all that they contribute through their foundations/ charities and investments, for all the regular people/ working classes, to the poor and overall society. So I went seaching for some articles and video to help make my point, and include them below. Each of the 2 videos are 42 minutes long, that look at low end poverty to high end wealth, to show the contrast, and Thanx to DW Documentary. I opened below with a couple articles I found, that explains what all this philanthropic stuff is really about, which is also importante ... I have talked to several folks, that had no bloody idea, on how these are used as tax shelters, is why ... some folks may think that's just a cynical view. But this posting or links, is not to be cynical or unfair, it's about questioning and using common sense and reason ... after all, it's senseless and pointless to worship that, that has no consideration for you, eh? At the bottom, I'll add a few of my views/ opinion.<br />
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***** THE NATION | Chuck Collins: <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/philanthropy-charity-inequality-taxes/">The Perils of Billionaire Philanthropy</a> ... (newsread)<br />
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***** THE GUARDIAN | Owen Jones: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/26/dont-want-billionaires-philanthropy-pay-their-taxes">We don't want billionaires' charity. We want them to pay their taxes</a> ... (newsread)<br />
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With all the new housing/ office/ commercial development, all the new millionaires, high numbers of people taken out of extreme poverty in a country like China, the endless media of the bustling markets, and the most robust market and economy in history, and even all the well paying tech jobs and new middle class in America ... you may think that we are in paradise ... and some folks are. But most of what we see force-fed to us through media, just shows/ sells the glamour ... same as all the prime time tele commercials (approx every 6-7 minutes of programme airtime), showing all the pharma commercials, insurance company comedy skit commercials, to those of the financial/ retirement investors, with all the happy clients and families incorporated. But at the same time, the inequality gap between the wealth and poor is growing, and those extremes are beginning to clash, as well ... you can fudge figures any way you like, for whatever purpose or agenda. But you still can't miss the reality you see every day in our cities to rural areas, and that reality is expanding quickly ... overriding all the glamour that you are fed, whether by politicians, corporations, or Hollywood celebrities. More often, when we are shown homelessness in most cases, it is the worst of such, such as the Central City East area of downtown LA, which has been saturated for years and years ... yet now, just in the last few years, has nearly doubled. Rents have been becoming so expensive, and so restricted as far as who can lease/ rent, folks can't afford it ... even folks up in the Silicon Valley area, that have decent paying tech jobs, now have a growing amount of employees, using cars, vans, to used U- Haul trucks they buy to live in.<br />
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Over the last several years, you have seen a growing homeless population of working class, some are people that were able to afford to keep a car, and use their cars as their home. Those in San Diego, as you see in the first video, who have a vehicle, are lucky enough that they were provided a place to cook, and get water, or whatever ... and the reason they are more likely to help those, is because they see those as more valued homeless, because they work and spend more. The more extreme impoverished, like the skid- row types, aren't of the same value, besides to lock them up through criminalizing homelessness, and if they're healthy enough to work, they work them while incarcerated, for a company, or for the city/ county/ state, or whatever else they can use them for, it's actually a similar mentality in America today, as the former Nazi era of Germany. More like a corporate type fascism, even incorporating religion/ church, waving flags demanding patriotism to it, invading and occupying foreign lands, using economics, militarizing police forces, ignoring the rights of people and Constitution, creating more Gestapo type methods of policing, and criminalizing the poor, immigrants, mentally ill, etc ... similar in design to what Adolf Hitler done in Nazi Germany. Those homeless/ impoverished that are convicted on something like petty drug offenses, and are not an escape risk or danger to anyone, they make profits for investors through the private prison industry off state/ county taxes, free to buck ($1) a day labour, and/ or offer them to <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/14/california-is-paying-inmates-1-an-hour-to-fight-wildfires.html">fight forest fires for $2 per day and a $1/ buck an hour (CNBC)</a>. This is how to make everything, including human life, a commodity in a market ran society.<br />
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One of the things that some may get mixed up here, is the "real economy" and "financial economy" ... and what we have been experiencing over the last several years, is how neoliberal economics been working fine in the financial economy, to where it's much stronger in growth and numbers, than the real economy. Even any economy booming off the charts, one bad hard hit to it, <a href="https://seekingalpha.com/article/4280304-next-recession-robust-case-for-largest-stock-losses-in-history">say a recession with huge stock losses (Seeking Alpha)</a>, mega investors take advantage ... while most consumers/ workers hurt and lose, the top wealth can/ will buy up whatever at bargain basement prices ... even a recession creates millions/ billions for few ... money/ capital doesn't disappear, it changes hands. We as workers and consumers are in a tighter regulated atmosphere, in our individual countries, like US, England, Germany, Italy, etc ... the financial economy, that also interacts with the real economy, good or bad, is swallowing us, and overpowering us, neoliberal economics is designed to simply grow wealth, then the trickle down theory is supposed to kick in ... been in the works for decades. As far as the explosion of wealth of the top 1/ 10th of a percent and the financial economy, it can be of little significance to our real economy, yet really hurt us in bad times and crashes. The wealth explosion basically comes from investing only, and the return they get from those investments, these are all your big money players, and the personal high paid investors that work for them, planning their strategies. These investment strategists (for the wealthy, not the same kind for the working classes, like retirement investors), use computer algorithms that invest for short term quick and mass investments, and to also shelter the money from governments and taxation, for wealthy individuals, families, and connected foundations/ groups. These investments are pretty much worthless for the 99%, they create nothing, they are simply wayz to generate large amounts of money quickly, for a very few.<br />
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If a country has forest land, or any natural resource that become available (through pre- paid legislation/ bought politicians) for purchase, even public land/ assets, because of the desperate need and scramble for money, you'll have 50 investors lined up to buy immediately, and interest rates being low, with tax loopholes and shelters, makes it more attractive. So it's basically like a board game of buy, sell, trade, and make all the money you can, while building private power ... not by producing or developing anything, but just personal interests. Many have so much money, that they are running out of places to invest, because all the wealth is buying up everything they can find, and trying to beat each other to it. That end of the economy is strong, and powerful enough to drain governments, milk taxes, and dictate public policies/ legislation, and big banks help to impose austerity, to influencing our campaign financing in America, and increasingly in EU countries. Much of the homes/ apartment/ commercial private investing, we are likely to tax subsidize, cloaking it as public/ private partnerships, but the public loses on it. And many of your bad investments, maybe too risky or simply bad planning, to unethical politicians ... it may be tax subsidized and failed to pay off, the public ends up shelling out through tax revenues for losses, like with much else. None of these homes/ apartments become affordable for working classes, until maybe 20+ years ... after the property/ asset been sold multiple times, and requires improvements/ maintenance, etc. New places go up in Dallas faster than seasons change, they are all higher priced leasing/ buying when new. Investors are for short term, after 5 years or less, as repairs become needed, they sell, then it gets sold again, again, etc ... eventually after a couple decades or so, the development/ asset devalues, these places are nice, but not built like those for the upscale buyers/ leasees, nor to retain value.<br />
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Like the Public/ Private Partnership scam, all these other deals that they create through legislation, directed by private money influence, are all designed to take, and give nothing ... and the public loses, from tax revenues, publicly owned assets and institutions, to anything of actual value. This is also the case with these mega philanthropies, which is why I included the articles on them. For years I have criticized them, some folks think I was unfair to criticize those that do so much for arts, charity, or whatever else. What we are doing by allowing these philanthropies to remain "as is", is basically letting all the wealthiest people decide what our revenues/ taxes are spent on. That multimillionaire/ billionaire not only gets a tax haven to hide money, they decide who makes the list for help, and what they require those to do, to get help. Pay taxes like the rest of us do, and "let us" decide what we do and help with our own tax/ fees revenue intake, stay the Hell out of our business ... you are not our partners, or even our friends. In fact, stay out of everything that don't involve you ... you have your business to care for, we have ours, and it is none of yours ... be grateful that we even consume, manufacture, and contribute to your success. Nor do you create any significant job growth, the majority of jobs in this country are created by consumer demand and the smaller companies. Take away their tax shelter, see how fast they change. We can give tax incentives to those with wealth that are drafted by us, we have our own advisors, that are in our interests, and fair to the corporation at the same time. They want to destroy and replace our social services with private charities approved by them, then they take all the public's funds/ taxes/ assets ... we don't need your help, we can do for ourselves, with our own money, and not by giving most to you.<br />
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Some same people of mega wealth, demonize taxation ... yet indirectly use our taxes to feed and subsidize them with welfare for the wealthy and corporations. They say they want to abolish taxation, yet are first in line to take all our taxes they can, and by spending them for us. They try to make us believe that government and taxation are the ultimate evil ... but understand, besides things like the power of the vote (which they want to eliminate and rig, too), these institutions from education, to environmental protection, to social safety nets, etc, etc, are all that we have in a system of capitalism designed like this, to support and secure our interests. I seen Bill Gates in a recent tele interview, say that Presidential candidate, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, would want to impose a tax, if President, that would take 90%, of his $106/ $107 billion in taxes, and leave him with a measly $10 billion or whatever. This is all a LIE, and to try to scare the public like this through mainsteam media corporate controlled news, is shameful misinformation, trying to make the average working people think, that 90% of their paychecks would go to taxes, if she was voted in as President. And Gates knows it, and knows how ridiculous that statement was ... that is NOT how even the percentages of taxation worx, and never did. These folks of high wealth should be grateful that we pass their legislation, to have the general publics taxes help generate, maintain, and sustain their wealth, and bail them out every time they fail ... in a more sane society, they may have some of their ridiculous privileges revoked, and rightfully so. I myself am all for tax breaks, but within reason, nor do I give any praise or worship to which is not deserving, nor do I feel we should all be financially equal, in this type system, reward creates incentive and strengthens innovation. In the type of healthy and robust economy that we've had, with expanded safeguards for market failure, by any math, should not create more poverty.<br />
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Some of the extreme wealth, not all, are even getting more cocky and bold, and want to penalize or punish the 99%, saying that they're being attacked unfairly by working classes, who they look at, like an inferior species, ignoring all that those working classes contributed to their wealth and success. People around the globe rebel for a reason, many top wealth, have chosen to make enemies with us, and corrupt our economies, societies, rights, and goverments. These hoarders and manipulators of wealth, governments, and markets, are basically useless to us/ society ... they're "elite"? ... no, they're more like a household "pest", and about as useless to us as tits would be to a bull ... we do everything, why in Hell would we need them? Rebellion/ civil disobedience, in just about any form, is in order and justified, including violence. This has happened time and again throughout history for the same reasons, when they step on society the way they do, and slap the hand that feeds ... this time we have far more people with far better strategies, and weapons/ tools to fight back. Much top wealth, on the other hand, are concerned, and worried ... they know that we have big- big problems concerning inequality, and is a top growing issue at the Davos World Economic Forum year after year, to the World Bank, and several top figures even want change. They also have a slew of other problems that came from this neoliberal economics model, which also created the environmental problems and global warming, to the concerns of war activity, mass rebellion, to higher market volatility, etc, etc They're increasingly having to build luxury bunkers, increasing their security whenever in public, and trying to rathole all wealth and assets possible, to buy and secure more protection, because of their uncertainty, of what may come. You can bet, that even some top world leaders and financial institutions are going to propose modifications to this neoliberal economic model of current. Economic models come and go ... below, I added a short video of an alternative economic model.<br />
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*****************************************************************************Ranch Chimphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14086251248546955720noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7010628715012863388.post-3708246561168998592020-01-20T18:00:00.002-06:002020-07-03T07:43:32.155-05:00GRAND FUNK RAILROAD: "Inside Looking Out", "We're An American Band", "Black Brass", "I'm Your Captain (Closer To Home)", "Heartbreaker", "The Loco- Motion"& "Mark Farner Interview"<img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DiG2N8iU8AA0_Jw.jpg:large" /><br />
Grand Funk Railroad concert @ Shea Stadium, NYC, 09 July 1971 **** Grand Funk sold out this concert in 72 hours ... taking the previous sellout concert at this stadium in 1965, of The Beatles, weeks to sell it out.<br />
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This entry into the music/ arts honour roll society of this journal/ blog, will feature the original <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Funk_Railroad">Grand Funk Railroad/ Grand Funk</a> (wikipedia) out of Flint, MI, who I been wanting in this journal for some time now. The history of this band with the ups and downs, such as legal disputes/ lawsuits, along with break ups and make ups, multiple producers, which included well known artists such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Rundgren">Todd Rundgren</a> (wikipedia), and <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2017/07/frank-zappa-interview-music-morality.html">Frank Zappa</a>, is very lengthy, so I'll let the link handle most of that. I wondered, why this band didn't make it already into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? (although they did, only locally in Michigan), as tens of thousands of others wondered. I mean, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame">R&R Hall of Fame </a>in Cleveland, OH, features one of Mark Farner's guitars, yet not the band ... a petition been floating around for folks demanding that they be included. Much speculation surrounds on why they didn't make it in there ... but I won't speculate, because I still feel they will one day be inducted into it ... there are several other artists/ crews, that I wonder why they're not in there too. What was surprising to many about the original GFRR 3 member lineup, is how fast they went from a garage band, to a mega headliner, selling out arenas/ stadiums ... I mean, this is a crew that was rehearsing in a farm house, and then suddenly filling a slot months later at the 1969 Atlanta International Pop Festival ... which made Capitol Records want to sign them. Frankly, it was the exposure and public demand, they had a sound and lyrics that related to so many, this crew was opening for large acts such as <a href="https://ranchchimpjournal.blogspot.com/2012/11/jimmy-page-led-zeppelin-pt2-2012.html">Led Zeppelin</a>, yet getting standing ovations as a warm up crew ... yet all your big music media critics downplayed the group ... it was word of mouth among concert goers, and the will of the people, that boosted them. GFRR had all the chemistry of a mega arena hard rock crew ... they were good at being naturally themselves, with explosive raw sound and performance, and that relates to concert goers. I will give some credit here to their first manager/ producer, Terry Knight, simply because he recommended that they bring in Mel Schacher to play bass guitar, and Terry done well at promoting them. Keyboardist Craig Frost also came later as a fourth member, adding a new dimension to their sound, Craig is also keyboardist for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Seger">Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band</a>. Don (drummer) and Mark (songwriter/ guitar/ vocalist), were previously with another crew, called "Terry Knight and The Pack". Also, Terry being an ex radio DJ, and singer, really had a knack for marketing, and the Capitol Records connection. On the other hand, I have plenty of criticism for Terry Knight, and glad that Grand Funk dumped him, he was shortchanging the shit out of these guys, who were about 20 yrs old, and didn't look at contracts closely, screwing them out of millions, which includes bad and unauthorized investments of earnings through GFRR as a corporation ... but I'll just leave that there.<br />
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Grand Funk Railroad's name changed to Grand Funk, then back to GFRR, around when Mark and Don dumped Terry, and then the problems started over rights of song ownership, etc. Capitol Records, because of original contract, could not deal directly with the band, they had to go through Terry. Terry came back suing GFRR for over $50+ million for breach of contract, which both parties agreed to a settlement ... but this also created conflict in the band, and by another contract, Don and Mel ended up voting Mark out of the band. Today GF still puts out music, with 3 new members, besides Mel and Don, but for me, GF is not GF without Mark Farner, and Mark wrote most of the music, Mark was also a great frontman, and a multi- instrumentalist. Mark Farner has his own solo project and crew, both groups play newer materials, as well as GFRR classics on their tours, and they have had reunion shows too. I found a YouTube video I included below, of a song called "Black Brass", I never heard of it, so looked it up, and nothing on it ever being published as a song, I read it was just some piece they done for some "In Concert" series special, it was intense, especially the keyboards work that Craig done in it, and the drumming by Don, Mark also played drums with Don on it. I opened below with "Inside Looking Out" from the early dayz, which was a favourite of mine <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8M1MpkozJQ">(this was first done by Eric Burdon and The Animals, out of Newcastle, England, 1966, YouTube)</a> ... Mark added slight modifications to lyrics and instrumental, and one of the first hard rock songs I learned as a kid/ teen. In particular, the intense and soulful vocal work on it by Mark, and alwayz loved the bass that Mel does on this, but overall I really liked Mel's bass guitar work alot, period. After Todd Rundgren started producing with the band, and the addition of Craig on keyboards, they started to play a more pop sounding music, which also turned over well, giving them some top chart hits. The music overall (early 1970s), especially in hard rock music, started expanding into other areas, and you also had the new disco, glam, and pop music that was growing at the time, so a growing demand for more pop rock leaning stuff as well. You could clearly see this in "The Loco- Motion" <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKpVQm41f8Y">(originally wrote by Gerry Goffin and Carole King in 1962, and recorded by pop singer Little Eva, YouTube)</a>, along with other later songs, as far as comparing to the structure they started with on songs like "I'm Your Captain" or "Heartbreaker". I also included the classic hit, "We're an American Band", along with a Mark Farner interview at the bottom, where Mark talks about some of his gear, the band, and working with producers Frank Zappa and Todd Rundgren. Interesting, was the part about the incorrect accidental wiring of <a href="https://www.vintageguitar.com/22829/amplifier-builder-david-west-passes/">Dave West</a>'s "West" amplifiers, that Mark ended up wanting to buy, because that unintentional wiring when building that amp, is what gave Mark the guitar sound he was looking for. Thanks to these guys for all the great music and inspiration ... Enjoy!<br />
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GRAND FUNK RAILROAD- Inside Looking Out 1969 ... Thanx to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPjnyuQpKIspeN3yXtbjd9w">The 1 stGunner</a> **** this is Live from West Palm Beach, FL 1970<br />
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Grand Funk Railroad- We're An American Band ... Thanx to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAAvrEBipmokgtc7OBaUEiA">TurnItUp</a> **** this was Live @ The Forum in LA, 1974<br />
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Grand Funk Railroad- Black Brass- MSG 12/23/72 ... Thanx to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7R7A3v3O-sQEhMExEapNFg">T.J. Ash</a><br />
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Grand Funk Railroad- I'm Your Captain- Shea Stadium 1971 ... Thanx to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7R7A3v3O-sQEhMExEapNFg">T.J. Ash</a><br />
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Grand Funk Railroad- Heartbreaker ... Thanx to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAAvrEBipmokgtc7OBaUEiA">TurnItUp</a> **** this was Live @ The Forum in LA, 1974<br />
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Grand Funk Railroad- The Locomotion ... Thanx to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4rrvz6pW7N-qeqFzEJnNkA">Dario Paccagnella</a><br />
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