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April 11, 2022

At the Sunrise Café...

... you can talk about anything you want.

25 comments:

Clyde said...: Tomorrow marks the 50th anniversary of the release of the album 'Manassas', on April 12, 1972. The album is Stephen Stills' magnum opus, a double album that displayed all of his influences: Latin, Country, Rock and Blues. It holds up remarkably well a half-century later. If you've never heard it, and you like anything that Stills has been involved in, then I highly recommend it.

There are a number of clips on YouTube from a German television show called Beat-Club that show the band playing in Bremen on June 8th, 1972, shortly after the album was released. All are recommended. Here is one of the clips to give you a sample:

Manassas (feat. Stephen Stills) - 17 - The Treasure (1972); 4/11/22, 8:40 PM
Bender said...: How the rest of the world sees Joe Biden:

https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1513691975924518916; 4/11/22, 9:34 PM
Butkus51 said...: Michael Jackson is getting news from Earth. His only response was "Are you friggin kidding me, I was that close?"; 4/11/22, 9:42 PM
Narr said...: Clyde, my friends and I drove to Oxford MS to see Stills et al. at Ole Miss.

It was an outSTANDing live show, worth the money and the drive. I may still have the album, even.; 4/11/22, 9:45 PM
readering said...: Ok, John Eastman is a loon. Per ABC News report:

Eastman ... was part of a small group of Trump allies who secured a private meeting last month to try and convince the Republican leader of the Wisconsin state Assembly to decertify President Joe Biden’s win, multiple sources familiar with the meeting told ABC.

On March 16, Eastman and others spent nearly two hours behind closed doors pressuring Republican Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos to nullify the 2020 election and reclaim the electors awarded to Biden, the sources said, which legal experts say is impossible.

Eastman in the meeting urged Vos to decertify the election, sources familiar with the meeting said. According to Jefferson Davis, a Wisconsin activist pushing to reverse Biden’s victory who was also in the meeting, Trump’s former lawyer pushed Vos to start “reclaiming the electors” and move forward with “either a do over or having a new slate of electors seated that would declare someone else the winner."; 4/11/22, 11:59 PM
gadfly said...: I didn't remember Stephen Stills since his solo singing voice is not much to write home about. Maybe that's why he needed help from David Crosby, Graham Nash and Neil Young to harmonize in hits like "Teach Your Children Well."; 4/12/22, 3:33 AM
wendybar said...: The world is laughing AT us. https://therightscoop.com/video-saudi-tv-station-mocks-joe-and-kamala/; 4/12/22, 5:04 AM
wendybar said...: If you didn't see Tucker last night, you missed a lot. Shanghai China is hell on earth right now. He played videos. People screaming because they are being starved to death. Pets being killed with shovels when the covid infected are taken away. Little kids taken away. It is unbelievable that things are happening like this and nothing is being done about it. China released the virus, and the rest of the world looked away, and did nothing to stop them. https://redstate.com/bonchie/2022/04/11/tucker-carlson-exposes-the-shocking-hell-on-earth-in-shanghai-n549081; 4/12/22, 5:14 AM
Humperdink said...: When you've lost the House of Saud ........; 4/12/22, 6:33 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: I posted this in an earlier thread. Take a listen to Shanghai
https://twitter.com/i/status/1512600420610363394
Seven million views, Add yours.; 4/12/22, 6:36 AM
wendybar said...: Once again....The Daily Mail has the best coverage of news...THIS should make everybody shiver in fear. It's coming....

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10710095/Tucker-Carlson-warns-viewers-Shanghais-lockdown-providing-blueprint-control-people.html; 4/12/22, 6:51 AM
wendybar said...: BUMBLE BEE we are on the same page. It is devastating.; 4/12/22, 6:52 AM
wendybar said...: So much truth in this tweet.

George
@BehizyTweets
Dr. Fauci is warning about a new Covid surge coming up in the fall and he's calling for a return to indoor masking. It's almost like they're planning to use Covid to steal another election
8:34 PM · Apr 10, 2022; 4/12/22, 7:16 AM
Enigma said...: @Bender wrote: "How the rest of the world sees Joe Biden"

But it's not a parody, it's not a satire, and it's not even creative.

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It's a routine Biden press conference played by actors.

Welcome to real life Idiocracy.; 4/12/22, 7:17 AM
Clyde said...: Here is the link to the Beat-Workshop playlist for all 17 parts of that Manassas show in Bremen in 1972. Not all of them are songs; some of them are tuning up, etc.

Beat-Workshop - Manassas (Feat. Stephen Stills) | 1972; 4/12/22, 7:29 AM
gilbar said...: It's Almost Earth-Day! Let's look at the predictions, from the 1st Earth-Day:
1. Harvard biologist George Wald estimated that “civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”

2. “We are in an environmental crisis that threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation,” wrote Washington University biologist Barry Commoner in the Earth Day issue of the scholarly journal Environment.

3. The day after the first Earth Day, the New York Times editorial page warned, “Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.”

4. “Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make,” Paul Ehrlich confidently declared in the April 1970 issue of Mademoiselle. “The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.”

5. “Most of the people who are going to die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have already been born,” wrote Paul Ehrlich in a 1969 essay titled “Eco-Catastrophe! “By…[1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.”

6. Ehrlich sketched out his most alarmist scenario for the 1970 Earth Day issue of The Progressive, assuring readers that between 1980 and 1989, some 4 billion people, including 65 million Americans, would perish in the “Great Die-Off.”

7. “It is already too late to avoid mass starvation,” declared Denis Hayes, the chief organizer for Earth Day, in the Spring 1970 issue of The Living Wilderness.

8. Peter Gunter, a North Texas State University professor, wrote in 1970, “Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China, and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions….By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.”

9. In January 1970, Life reported, “Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution…by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half….”

10. Ecologist Kenneth Watt told Time that, “At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.”; 4/12/22, 7:34 AM
gilbar said...: 11. Barry Commoner predicted that decaying organic pollutants would use up all of the oxygen in America’s rivers, causing freshwater fish to suffocate.

12. Paul Ehrlich chimed in, predicting in 1970 that “air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.” Ehrlich sketched a scenario in which 200,000 Americans would die in 1973 during “smog disasters” in New York and Los Angeles.

13. Paul Ehrlich warned in the May 1970 issue of Audubon that DDT and other chlorinated hydrocarbons “may have substantially reduced the life expectancy of people born since 1945.” Ehrlich warned that Americans born since 1946…now had a life expectancy of only 49 years, and he predicted that if current patterns continued this expectancy would reach 42 years by 1980 when it might level out. (Note: According to the most recent CDC report, life expectancy in the US is 78.6 years).

14. Ecologist Kenneth Watt declared, “By the year 2000 if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate…that there won’t be any more crude oil. You’ll drive up to the pump and say, `Fill ‘er up, buddy,’ and he’ll say, `I am very sorry, there isn’t any.’” (Note: Global production of crude oil last year at 82.275M barrels per day (bpd) was just slightly below the record output in 2018 of 82.9M bpd, and about 50% higher than the global output of 55.7M bpd around the time of the first Earth Day).

15. Harrison Brown, a scientist at the National Academy of Sciences, published a chart in Scientific American that looked at metal reserves and estimated the humanity would totally run out of copper shortly after 2000. Lead, zinc, tin, gold, and silver would be gone before 1990.

16. Sen. Gaylord Nelson wrote in Look that, “Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.”

17. In 1975, Paul Ehrlich predicted that “since more than nine-tenths of the original tropical rainforests will be removed in most areas within the next 30 years or so, it is expected that half of the organisms in these areas will vanish with it.”

18. Kenneth Watt warned about a pending Ice Age in a speech. “The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years,” he declared. “If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”; 4/12/22, 7:34 AM
Lurker21 said...: False alarm: aldaily.com didn't go over to Substack yet. The fact that they tested it out with subscriptions required to read the articles they link to is not a good sign though. Cultural aggregator sites seem to have short lifespans. Either they get bought out by big companies that let them languish and/or the person behind them gets sick of doing all the work and gives up.

The Saudi clip is crude and not a very accurate impersonation, but it's funny enough in parts and more or less accurate in a rough way. SNL ducks having to make fun of Democrats and they certainly couldn't put together a very good skit about a foreign leader.; 4/12/22, 7:34 AM
Humperdink said...: From Axios: "Western sanctions and condemnations intended to pile pressure on Vladimir Putin instead seem to be rallying Russians behind him."

"Oh, what is this West doing to us?'" she recalls a (Russian) cashier saying when she visited a town outside the city. "The sanctions just reassured people that the West is evil."

Oh, in Russia it must the Biden price hikes.

https://www.axios.com/russia-putin-war-ukraine-134083e0-5a2a-48bc-910d-aad3b61eb4d5.html; 4/12/22, 7:58 AM
rhhardin said...: Message in morse code at about 25 wpm on 7026.28 kHz, repeated every few minutes, from an Ontario ham of the god-mentioning kind.

cq cq de ve3sxy ve3sxy god bless ukraine. we are thinking of you. if you need somewhere to stay my home is open to you. please contact me via my details on qrz.com god bless ukraine, god speed ukraine army god speed ukraine resistance k; 4/12/22, 8:05 AM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: A report on Portland's April global warming goodness.
Some places got as much as 11 inches.; 4/12/22, 8:31 AM
wendybar said...: Terrorist attack in Brooklyn Subway....; 4/12/22, 8:54 AM
wendybar said...: Ut-oh...looks like one of those pesky white Supremacists committed the terror attack....oh wait..???; 4/12/22, 11:13 AM
Jupiter said...: Looks like Biden has finally found something he's good at. He may be an even better gun salesman than the legendary Barack Obama.; 4/12/22, 1:30 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Sun Arise fillin up the hollow
bringin back the warmth to the ground; 4/12/22, 6:47 PM