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Budi's JournalMA Senate race is lit! Markey/Kennedy powerhouse is heating up!
I really like them both. But this seems to be politics in the day of saying bye to Establishment candidates & hello to young millennial progressive thinkers.
This is one to watch! go 💙 & 💙.
https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/06/13/ed-markey-joe-kennedy-massachusetts-316556
The Massachusetts Democratic Senate primary faded into the background here in recent months as the coronavirus pandemic overshadowed everything else.
But if the most recent Senate debate between Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Joe Kennedy III is any indication, that’s about to change.
MA lends us its finest, again.
Thanks MA.
"Simple Song of Freedom" - 1969 Tim Hardin & Bobby Darin
Fascinating read. Tim Hardin/Bobby Darin & Simple Song of Freedom
https://vancouversignaturesounds.com/hits/simple-song-freedom-tim-hardin/
SNIP
Numbers of other songs on the radio in the 1960’s and early 1970’s, like “Simple Song Of Freedom”, protested racial prejudice.
These include “Skip A Rope” by Henson Cargill, about children repeating racist ideas passed on by their parents while skipping rope.
One song by Bob Dylan was “The Ballad of Emmett Till.”
He sang it live on the radio in 1962, but it wasn’t recorded on the album Broadside Ballads, Volume 6, until 1972 under Dylan’s pseudonym Blind Boy Grunt.
The song concerned a 14-year-old African-American boy who moved from Chicago to Money, Mississippi, in 1955. He went to a grocery store and was alleged to have flirted with a white women who was at the check-out counter. For his indiscretion, Emmett Till was abducted, beat and mutilated by members the Ku Klux Klan before he was shot and his dead body was sunk into the Tallahatchie River. Gordon Lightfoot’s “Black Day In July” recounted the riots in Detroit in July 1967. And Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come“, became a Civil Rights anthem in 1965.
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While other songs, like “Simple Song Of Freedom,” protested militarism and the Vietnam War. Among these were “Brain Washed” by David Clayton-Thomas and The Bossmen. The song’s criticism of the Vietnam War got it banned from most of the airwaves in the USA.
Meanwhile, The Bells sang a song inviting a universal message of peace in “Fly Little White Dove Fly“. Gordon Lightfoot’s “Summer Side Of Life” explored the cost of a young man going off to war (“And if you saw him now/You’d wonder why he would cry/The whole day long”). “Fortunate Son” by Creedence Clearwater Revival criticized wealthy sons being able to avoid the Draft. Among the bigger protest songs on the pop charts were “Eve Of Destruction” by Barry McGuire, “Blowin’ In The Wind” by Peter, Paul And Mary (and later Stevie Wonder), “Ohio,” by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, “For What It’s Worth by Buffalo Springfield, “Imagine” by John Lennon, “If I Had A Hammer” by Peter, Paul And Mary, “Crystal Blue Persuasion” and “Sweet Cherry Wine” both by Tommy James And The Shondells, “Universal Soldier” by Buffy Sainte-Marie and “Turn, Turn, Turn” by The Byrds.
At the end of 1980 Hardin died from heroin overdose and was found in his Hollywood apartment. Since his death a dozen record compilations have featured original material from his first ten albums along with material not previously released.
Imagine / John Lennon
Hey Jude / The Beatles 1968
The ‘Hey Jude’ film had its world premiere on 8 September 1968 on 'Frost On Saturday', presented by David Frost.
"The World Has Had Enough" Paris, France 6/13/2020 Protest March
https://twitter.com/ElenaVLevenson/status/1271838759206686722
Replying to
@LincolnsBible
"Paris was invaded by Nazis and held under Nazi control during WWII. The French still (amazingly) have a special regard for the United States. The liberation of Paris by the allies is strong in the French memory. Thank you, people of France. We will elect a new president - soon!"
🎛Parachute
@ElementSDY
"France is our original ally in the fight for freedom all the way back to the Revolutionary War. The people of France never cease to amaze me. Thank you for standing with us in this important fight for freedom. "
60,000 People Participate in Silent March in Seattle 'Let our silence speak volumes'
60,000 People Participate in Silent March in Seattle
‘Let our silence speak volumes’
— An estimated 60,000 took part in this March of Silence in Seattle on Friday, June 12, 2020
https://twitter.com/roxydavis99/status/1271909487972986880
Darkness on the Edge of Town Springsteen 1978
1978 Rolling Stone review
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/darkness-on-the-edge-of-town-197342/amp/
ALBUM REVIEWS
Darkness On The Edge of Town
DAVE MARSH
JULY 27, 1978 4:00AM EDT
Occasionally, a record appears that changes fundamentally the way we hear rock & roll, the way it’s recorded, the way it’s played. Such records — Jimi Hendrix’ Are You Experienced, Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone,” Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks, Who’s Next, The Band — force response, both from the musical community and the audience.
To me, these are the records justifiably called classics, and I have no doubt that Bruce Springsteen’s Darkness on the Edge of Town will someday fit as naturally within that list as the Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” or Sly and the Family Stone’s “Dance to the Music.”
One ought to be wary of making such claims, but in this case, they’re justified at every level.
** In the area of production, Darkness on the Edge of Town is nothing less than a breakthrough.
Springsteen — with coproducer Jon Landau, engineer Jimmy Iovine and Charles Plotkin, who helped Iovine mix the LP — is the first artist to fuse the spacious clarity of Los Angeles record making and the raw density of English productions. That’s the major reason why the result is so different from Born to Run‘s Phil Spector wall of sound.
On the earlier album, for instance, the individual instruments were deliberately obscured to create the sense of one huge instrument. Here, the same power is achieved more naturally.
Most obviously, Max Weinberg’s drumming has enormous size, a heartbeat with the same kind of space it occupies onstage (the only other place I’ve heard a bass drum sound this big).
Now that it can be heard, the E Street Band is clearly one of the finest rock & roll groups ever assembled.
Weinberg, bassist Garry Tallent and guitarist Steve Van Zandt are a perfect rhythm section, capable of both power and groove. Pianist Roy Bittan is as virtuosic as on Born to Run, and saxophonist Clarence Clemons, though he has fewer solos, evokes more than ever the spirit of King Curtis.
But the revelation is organist Danny Federici, who barely appeared on the last L.P. Federici’s style is utterly singular, focusing on wailing, trebly chords that sing (and in the marvelous solo at the end of “Racing in the Street,” truly cry).
..Yet the dominant instrumental focus of Darkness on the Edge of Town is Bruce Springsteen’s guitar.
Like his songwriting and singing, Springsteen’s guitar playing gains much of its distinctiveness through pastiche. There are echoes of a dozen influences — Duane Eddy, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, Roy Buchanan, even Ennio Morricone’s Sergio Leone soundtracks — but the synthesis is completely Springsteen’s own.
OAN's ChanelRion flew to Ukraine with Giuliani to meet Putin's kgb thugs/Derkach, Telizhenk
This should have been known last Dec. @ChanelRion flew to Ukraine with Giuliani to meet Putin's kgb thugs and operatives Derkach, Telizhenko, etc for fabricated Biden info.
They flew from Ukraine to Vienna via a private plane owned by Firtash's associate
https://twitter.com/olgaNYC1211/status/1271241420314157056
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ARTICLE From The Atlantic:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/biden-ukraine-recordings-oan/612454/
Is OAN the Leading Edge of Russian Misinformation?
The Biden campaign says Trump’s favorite TV network is peddling the Kremlin’s lies.
EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE
JUNE 11, 2020
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THREADREADER :
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1271239339301834753.html
The Incredible Life of Dedication / bio of Hillary R Clinton
Her parents were Republicans and Clinton served as president of Wellesley’s Republican club, but the social issues of the late 1960s led her to become a dedicated Democrat. When her classmates elected her as Wellesley’s first student speaker at graduation, she said to her peers: “The challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.”In 1969, Clinton attended Yale Law School, where she served on the Board of Editors for the Yale Review of Law and Social Action. It was there that Clinton met her future husband, William “Bill” Clinton. After she graduated, Clinton turned down offers from lucrative law firms to work for the Children’s Defense Fund, as well as on the congressional committee that investigated the Watergate scandal.
Clinton then moved to the university town of Fayetteville, Arkansas where she joined the faculty of the University of Arkansas Law School. In 1975 she and Bill Clinton were married. The following year, Clinton joined the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock. The couple’s daughter Chelsea was born in 1980. Then in 1988 and 1991, Clinton was named one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America.
Clinton continued to practice law after Bill Clinton became governor of Arkansas, while also serving as a very active first lady. She led the Arkansas Educational Standards Committee, which greatly improved schools, and promoted programs that benefit women.
In 1992, when Bill Clinton was elected president, Clinton became the first First Lady to hold a law degree.
She continued her tradition of public service, most notably leading an attempt to reform the nation’s health care. However, the effort failed in the mid-1990s. Clinton continued to work on the edges of the issue, helping to establish the 1997 Children's Health Insurance Program.
Clinton was constantly traveling during her time as First Lady. She often took her daughter along when she visited women in Africa and Asia, and in 1995, she was criticized for joining the American delegation to Beijing for the United Nation’s conference on women’s rights. This convocation had been held every five years since 1975, but no first lady had attended it.
Clinton ran in 2000 for the New York Senate seat being vacated by Daniel Monahan, who supported her. Many accused her of being a “carpetbagger” because she had never lived in New York, but voters chose her by a solid 55% majority. She served on four major Senate committees: Armed Services; Budget; Environment and Public Works; and Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. New Yorkers gained confidence in her, and Clinton easily won her 2006 reelection.
On January 20, 2007 Clinton announced her candidacy for president, and joined the historic 2008 race. Although Clinton received roughly 18 million votes, she lost in the Democratic Primary to Senator Barack Obama, who went on to win the presidency. Clinton served as Secretary of State for the Obama administration from 2009-2013. During this time, Clinton focused on women and human rights.
On April 12, 2015, Clinton announced her second run for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Though she won the popular vote 48.2% to 46.1%, she lost the presidential race to her Republican opponent ..in the Electoral College.
MORE..
FROM: Women in History/The National Women's History Museum
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/hillary-clinton
The incredible life of dedication bio of Hillary R Clinton
Her parents were Republicans and Clinton served as president of Wellesley’s Republican club, but the social issues of the late 1960s led her to become a dedicated Democrat. When her classmates elected her as Wellesley’s first student speaker at graduation, she said to her peers: “The challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.”In 1969, Clinton attended Yale Law School, where she served on the Board of Editors for the Yale Review of Law and Social Action. It was there that Clinton met her future husband, William “Bill” Clinton. After she graduated, Clinton turned down offers from lucrative law firms to work for the Children’s Defense Fund, as well as on the congressional committee that investigated the Watergate scandal.
Clinton then moved to the university town of Fayetteville, Arkansas where she joined the faculty of the University of Arkansas Law School. In 1975 she and Bill Clinton were married. The following year, Clinton joined the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock. The couple’s daughter Chelsea was born in 1980. Then in 1988 and 1991, Clinton was named one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America.
Clinton continued to practice law after Bill Clinton became governor of Arkansas, while also serving as a very active first lady. She led the Arkansas Educational Standards Committee, which greatly improved schools, and promoted programs that benefit women.
In 1992, when Bill Clinton was elected president, Clinton became the first First Lady to hold a law degree.
She continued her tradition of public service, most notably leading an attempt to reform the nation’s health care. However, the effort failed in the mid-1990s. Clinton continued to work on the edges of the issue, helping to establish the 1997 Children's Health Insurance Program.
Clinton was constantly traveling during her time as First Lady. She often took her daughter along when she visited women in Africa and Asia, and in 1995, she was criticized for joining the American delegation to Beijing for the United Nation’s conference on women’s rights. This convocation had been held every five years since 1975, but no first lady had attended it.
Clinton ran in 2000 for the New York Senate seat being vacated by Daniel Monahan, who supported her. Many accused her of being a “carpetbagger” because she had never lived in New York, but voters chose her by a solid 55% majority. She served on four major Senate committees: Armed Services; Budget; Environment and Public Works; and Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. New Yorkers gained confidence in her, and Clinton easily won her 2006 reelection.
On January 20, 2007 Clinton announced her candidacy for president, and joined the historic 2008 race. Although Clinton received roughly 18 million votes, she lost in the Democratic Primary to Senator Barack Obama, who went on to win the presidency. Clinton served as Secretary of State for the Obama administration from 2009-2013. During this time, Clinton focused on women and human rights.
On April 12, 2015, Clinton announced her second run for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Though she won the popular vote 48.2% to 46.1%, she lost the presidential race to her Republican opponent ..in the Electoral College.
MORE..
FROM: Women in History/The National Women's History Museum
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/hillary-clinton
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