9/11 Memorial Too Patriotic

Iconic Ground Zero photo was nearly excluded from museum for being too 'rah-rah' American

Ian Hunter, Wilco, James Mastro: Hoboken, N.J., 26 July 2013

Hoboken, NJ’s Pier A hosted the traveling AmericanaramA tour. The evening also included surprise guest appearances, including Allman Brothers Band/Gov’t Mule guitarist Warren Haynes, The J. Geils Band singer Peter Wolf, Mott The Hoople’s Ian Hunter and Hoboken, NJ musical hero and The Bongos member James Mastro.

Wilco surprised the crowd by inviting English R&B/glam rock star Ian Hunter onstage for his Mott The Hoople classic “I Wish I Was Your Mother.” Mastro, who owns a nearby guitar star in addition to his Hoboken music credits, also played mandolin on the tune. Both Hunter and Mastro remained onstage as Haynes returned for a take on “California Stars.” Then, Bingham and the members of My Morning Jacket joined Wilco and their guests on an all-star cover of David Bowie’s “All The Young Dudes.” (The song was made famous by Mott The Hoople). Wilco have covered “I Wish I Was Your Mother” in the past but have not performed the song since a 2001 stop at Chicago’s Abbey Pub.

I Wish I Was Your Mother [Mott The Hoople](w/Ian Hunter on acoustic guitar, harmonica and lead vocals and James Mastro on mandolin)

California Stars (w/Hunter, Mastro and Haynes; Haynes on guitar solos)

All The Young Dudes [David Bowie; made famous by Mott The Hoople] (w/Hunter, Mastro, Haynes, My Morning Jacket and Ryan Bingham)

All The Young Dudes

California Stars

2nd version,

California Stars

California Stars

3rd version

California Stars
Words by Woody Guthrie, Music by Jay Bennett/Jeff Tweedy

I’d like to rest my heavy head tonight
On a bed of California stars
I’d like to lay my weary bones tonight
On a bed of California stars
I’d love to feel your hand touching mine
And tell me why i must keep working on
Yes, I’d give my life to lay my head tonight
On a bed of California stars

I’d like to dream my troubles all away
On a bed of California stars
Jump up from my starbed and make another day
Underneath my California stars
They hang like grapes on vines that shine
And warm the lovers glass like friendly wine
So, I’d give this world just to dream a dream with you
On our bed of California stars

© Copyright Woody Guthrie Publications, Inc.

I Wish I Was Your Mother

2nd version, IWIWYM
3rd version, IWIWYM

All The Young Dudes

The finale to Wilco's set on July 26, 2013 at Pier A Park in Hoboken. Warren Haynes, My Morning Jacket, and Ryan Bingham joined Wilco and Ian Hunter and James Mastro on the Mott the Hoople classic, All the Young Dudes.


Ian gets a mention in the NY Times.

"Yet Wilco also affirmed its rootsy side, with exquisitely down-home guest solos by Warren Haynes (from Gov’t Mule, the Allman Brothers and the Dead). For its finale, it brought on the rest of the opening acts to join Ian Hunter, of Mott the Hoople, in “All the Young Dudes,” the very 1970s, very English glam-rock anthem written by David Bowie: not Americana but Britainiana."

Cf. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/29/arts/music/bob-dylan-and-wilco-americanarama-festival.html?_r=0&adxnnl=1&ref=arts&adxnnlx=1375286575-3g+zKCXp+aYhvQo9codPtQ



 2nd version, ATYD

California Stars

All The Young Dudes

 3rd version, ATYD
 4th version, ATYD
 5th version, ATYD

Bloodbath in Cairo

As predicted, Egypt is in chaos following Obama's disastrous Middle Eastern policy, and despite Kerry's round of alleged talks.

Obama Discriminates

College Republicans Denied Admittance to Obama Speech

BILL O’REILLY’S COMMENTS ON RACE

O'Reilly on race

TREY GOWDY ON KEY OBAMA ADVISER: ‘DEMAGOGIC, SELF-SERVING, POLITICAL HACK’

Military Invades Chicago

Following up on recent and unannounced training exercises in Florida and Washington state, the U.S. military is conducting a drill in Chicago.

The Windy City’s Office of Emergency Management and Communications (OEMC) told the Chicago Tribune on Tuesday it is providing support for “routine military training exercises,” including flying helicopters in the downtown area of the city at night.

ARIZONA MUSLIM CHARGED WITH DETONATING A BOMB OUTSIDE A FEDERAL BUILDING

Ariz. bomb suspect charged with previous murder

White House Directs IRS to Target Political Opponents

IRS head met with top White House official one day before revising targeting criteria

Congress to probe SEAL chopper crash

Congress has launched an investigation of the helicopter crash that killed 30 Americans in Afghanistan

IMAM ON JERUSALEM’S TEMPLE MOUNT CALLING FOR CALIPHATE AND DESTRUCTION OF THE U.S., FRANCE, BRITAIN, ROME

In a gathering on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem marking the first Friday of the Ramadan, an imam of the Islamist Hizb ut-Tahrir organization incited a crowd of hundreds of Muslims calling for the destruction of America, France, Britain and Rome. 

The fiery speech was made on July 12, 2013. The original Arabic video was translated by the Clarion Project.

The imam said a number of times, with the crowd repeating after him: 

"Allah is Greater! Let America be destroyed!"

"The Caliphate is the answer!"

"Listen, Obama, we are a nation that does not bow down, and the Caliphate will return!"

"Listen, Obama. and the Caliphate will return!"

OBAMA'S: ‘A BLOOD-SOAKED, TOTALITARIAN DEATH CULT’: THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD

Erick Stakelbeck’s new book, “The Brotherhood: America’s Next Great Enemy

HOW DID DETROIT CRASH? SOME CRAZY FACTS ABOUT DETROIT

Decline of Detroit

Ian Hunter Shephers Bush

Egyptian Cleric Calls on Allah to Kill Jews and Shiites

#3914 - Egyptian Cleric Muhammad Al-Zughbi Calls on Allah to Annihilate Jews and Shiites in Friday Sermon Amjad TV (Egypt) - May 24 and 31, 2013 - 04:52

Captain in the USMC from Afghanistan

Lioness of Judah,

I am back in Afghanistan.  There is no mission, no strategy. The Muslims have us pretty well figured out. They ask, ask and ask. We then give, give and give. The commander to balks at the cycle? He is replaced by someone who will go along. The Afghans are great allies--- so long as we bribe them with goods, services, and money. They turn when we leave. Just recently, an advisor team was ordered away from an Afghan Uniformed Police team in the south because, as higher headquarters claims, they were fully trained and operational independent of ISAF help. Just the other day, the chief of police for that team was caught on our drone assets delivering a Humvee-full of weapons and ammunition to a Taliban member who is targeted for death. Of course we did not drone strike him because, after all, this is what winning looks like.

We work with allied local national linguists. Hazaras, Tajiks, and Pashtuns. Every so often, I have one of these men come to my door and ask to speak privately. They then explain--- and beg me to not tell anyone--- that they do not consider themselves Muslim, but have to go along or be killed. They ask me to help them with their visa packages to escape this Islamist hell. I do.  I prod these linguists with those questions that would perk the ears of an Islamic supremist. I have identified some whom I will not trust. But there are others who recognize that Islam is the problem in Afghanistan. One is a secret Christian. They want away from Islam and America is the last place where it is safe to go. For now.

I feel like these guys who have seen what Islam is are the survivors. We need them. They are like the survivors who escaped to America from the Soviet bloc and pled with tears in their eyes for America to not vote for Obama. They know what is coming because they have seen it. I do not think that Islam can be readily defeated through intellect. They are beyond it. Only sheer violence and force can stop them, only liberating those who will be liberated and using the superstition of their religion against them will work. General Pershing understood this 100 years ago. I am afraid America will not really get this until the most extreme circumstance arises.   

My time in the Marine Corps is coming to an end. I could stay in the organization as long as I wish, but I feel there is no point. All the talented officers I know are resigning. We can’t bear to stay in and see what is happening. We are a social-experiment over and above the world’s premier war-fighting organization now. This is what America wants. This is what America has voted for twice.

Me and people like me look to get out and blend in with society at large. The consensus is that the time will come when America wants people like us again, but only after this new experimental drive has run its course. It will end how it has to end: in class war, race war, free men vs statists. Completely predictable.  At that time, the blood and sweat and broken hearts pressed from America’s fighting men and women over a decade of counter-insurgency warfare will rise up and be our nation’s salvation.

As always, please keep my identity secret. The system is no longer partial to my kind.

Captain, USMC

Obamacare’s Branch of the NSA

Community organizers will use a Federal Data Hub to sign up people for subsidies — and even ballots.

Should Obama Kill Americans?

Judge torn over lawsuit in drone strike that killed Americans

Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature: CIA and Weather Manipulation

The NAS website describes a study as an investigation into "a limited number of proposed geoengineering techniques, including examples of both solar radiation management (SRM) and carbon dioxide removal (CDR) techniques."

Much speculation has surrounded claims that the US government has long been involved in types of weather manipulation, including a much-discussed attempt to cloud-seed - the process of dispersing substances into the air to create cloud condensation or ice nuclei and subsequently rain or snow - during the Vietnam war.

Weather manipulation was most recently in the news after claims by some American commentators that devastating tornadoes in Oklahoma, along with other extreme weather events like Hurricane Sandy, were created by the US government using the Haarp antenna farm in Alaska.

NRA on Illegals

Produced by the NRA (National Rifle Association), this video is instructive for any citizen of the U.S.A.   Sheriff Larry Dever, white cowboy hat and blue/white checkered shirt, is the long time sheriff of Cochise County.  Sierra Vista, and is the largest town in Cochise County. Cochise County is huge and borders Sonora, Mexico . The bald-headed guy is the Sheriff of Pinal County, North of Tucson, AZ. The videos were filmed on Highway 8, going from the I-10 north of Tucson, through Gila Bed and on to CA.