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Drifting Slim - My Sweet Woman
“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.”
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
News and Opinion
With US Accountability MIA, Poland to Make Payout for Torture of CIA
Though US officials involved in the program have faced zero accountability, Poland readies to pay $250,000 for its role in rendition and torture program
The people of Poland are expressing outrage on Friday as news spread that their own government is on the verge of paying more than $250,000 to victims of CIA torture which took place at an agency black site in the country even as the U.S. government refuses to acknowledge the crime or take responsibility for the grave human rights abuses that took place under the Bush administration.
The European Court of Human Rights imposed the penalty against Poland for its role in the torture of two individuals— Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri—both of whom were rendered by the CIA to a secret location in Poland in the wake of 9/11 attacks. Taken into custody overseas as "suspected terrorists," the men remain detained by the U.S. government in the offshore prison at Guantanamo Bay.
According to the Associated Press, "It irks many in Poland that their country is facing legal repercussions for the secret rendition and detention program which the CIA operated under then-President George W. Bush in several countries across the world after the 9/11 attacks. So far no U.S. officials have been held accountable, but the European Court of Human Rights has shown that it doesn't want to let European powers that helped the program off the hook."
William & Mary Honors War Criminal
Nothing better illustrates the extent to which the United States has turned its back on the rule of law than when the likes of Condoleezza Rice are asked to address graduates and receive doctoral degrees honoris causa at university commencements. Ms. Rice – in my view a war criminal – was accorded those honors Saturday by the College of William and Mary, the second-oldest college in the U.S.
Unlike Rice’s other university appearances in recent years, there was not the slightest sign of unhappiness, let alone protest. Most of the graduating seniors were not yet ten years old in 2003 when Rice played a key role helping President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney launch a war of aggression against Iraq. So, the graduates’ ignorance may perhaps be understandable, but it does not speak well for their grasp of recent history.
It is far less excusable for the patrician leadership of William and Mary to have bestowed this honor on Rice. Did the news not penetrate their ivory tower that last year Ms. Rice was prevented from being accorded similar honors by irate students at Rutgers University, who were sickened at the thought that their commencement would be sullied by Rice’s presence?
One of the leaders of the “No Rice” campaign at Rutgers last year (a senior at the time), Carmelo Cintrón Vivas, told Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! that the “students felt that war criminals shouldn’t be honored. … Someone who has such a tainted record as a public servant in this country should not … get an honorary law degree for trying to circumvent the law. … That’s not fair to any student graduating or not graduating at Rutgers University.”
Court sentences Egypt’s ex-president Morsi to death
Mohamed Morsi, Egypt's First Freely Elected President, Sentenced to Death
'The death penalty has become the favorite tool for the Egyptian authorities to purge the political opposition,' says Amnesty International
An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced ousted president Mohamed Morsi and more than 100 other defendants to death for their role in a 2011 mass prison break.
Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president, was ousted by the military in July 2013 after days of street protests by Egyptians demanding that he be removed because of his divisive rule. His overthrow triggered a government crackdown on his Muslim Brotherhood movement in which hundreds of people have died and thousands have been imprisoned. ...
Following Saturday's announcement, Said Boumedouha, deputy director of Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa Program, declared: "Condemning Mohamed Morsi to death after more grossly unfair trials shows a complete disregard for human rights. His trials were undermined even before he set foot in the courtroom. The fact that he was held for months incommunicado without judicial oversight and that he didn’t have a lawyer to represent him during the investigations makes these trials nothing but a charade based on null and void procedures."
Islamic State Seizes Control of Ramadi to Claim Major Victory in Iraq
Islamic State (IS) fighters scored a major victory in Iraq on Sunday, driving the last remaining government forces from Ramadi and decisively capturing the provincial capital of Anbar province, despite a recent spate of US airstrikes intended to keep the city from falling completely into militant hands.
IS fighters ransacked the local military headquarters, seized a large weapons cache, and executed several government loyalists, according to the New York Times, which cited information from security officials and tribal leaders.
"The city has fallen," Muhannad Haimour, a spokesman for Anbar's governor, reportedly said.
US: We’ll Just Help Iraq Retake Ramadi Later
Pentagon officials are desperately trying to downplay the reports of Ramadi falling to ISIS this weekend, saying they believe it istoo soon to label the city completely lost.
Even if it is, and the indications from Iraqi officials are that they are in full retreat in the Anbar capital, Pentagon officials say they will simply help Iraq retake the city at some future date.
Ceasefire Expires, Saudis Resume Airstrikes on Yemen
UN officials were desperately pushing the Saudi government to agree to an extension of the five-day humanitarian ceasefire, hoping to allow a bit more aid to flow into Yemen before the resumption of hostilities.
The push was unsuccessful, however, and with the 11 pm deadline Sunday evening, the Saudis immediately resumed strikesin force across Yemen. ...
Iran’s cargo ship of aid never even made it close to Yemen, and as of Sunday night they were still said to be at least four days away from the Yemeni port of Hodeida, their intended destination.
Tensions Run High as Israeli Revelers Parade Through Palestinian Neighborhoods on Jerusalem Day
As tens of thousands of Jewish Israelis flooded into Jerusalem on Sunday to celebrate the reunification of the city under Israeli rule following the defeat of the Arab armies during the Six-Day War in 1967, hundreds of Palestinians from the Old City and surrounding Arab neighborhoods in East Jerusalem were forced behind barricades to make way for the revelers.
In a contested city that holds great religious and political significance for both Israelis and Palestinians, Jerusalem Day inflames tensions like no other event. This year's celebration marked 48 years since the Israeli victory. Palestinians were forced to close their shops along the main streets running through sections of the Old City's Muslim Quarter, with the shopkeepers looking on from behind metal gates and lines of heavily armed police as Israelis streamed pass waving flags on their on their way to the Western Wall. ...
Last Monday, Israel's High Court rejected a petition by two NGOs to change the route of the march, moving it away from the Muslim Quarter. In a statement released Sunday, Tag Meir, an Israeli anti-racism group, said the annual march had become a "focus for extremists," that is full of "racist slurs and insults, destruction of property and physical violence against the Palestinian residents of Jerusalem." ...
Naftali Bennett, chairman of the Bayit Yehudyi (Israeli Home) party, made an appearance at the Western Wall during the festivities. Bennett's pro-settlement religious nationalist party wields significant power after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acceded to many of their demands in last-minute negotiations to form a coalition government that has slid even further to the right of the political spectrum.
"Jerusalem belongs to the Jewish people forever," Bennett said Sunday, according to the Israeli News site Arutz Sheva. "The world cannot divide Jerusalem. Soon, in our days, Jews will be able to enter and pray on the Temple Mount because the Temple Mount is ours."
Netanyahu: Answer to Terrorism Is More Settlements
Speaking at the Jerusalem Day ceremony today, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to continue to expand settlements in the occupied east of the city,saying this was a “decisive answer” to terrorism.
Netanyahu went on to talk up the 1967 conquest of the east and the “reunification” as “drama on a Biblical scale,” insisting they will never again allow the city to be divided.
Obama Gave Up on Ukraine, Press Simply Ignored It
On Tuesday, May 12th, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was asked at a press conference in Sochi Russia, to respond to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s recent statements promising renewed war against Donbass, which were made first on April 30th, “The war will end when Ukraine regains Donbass and Crimea,” and which were repeated on May 11th, by his saying, “I have no doubt, we will free the [Donetsk] Airport, because it is our land.” In other words, Poroshenko had repeatedly made clear that he plans a third invasion of Donbass, and, ultimately, also to invade and retake Crimea. (The Western press, however, had not reported any of these threats that were being made by Poroshenko.)
Kerry responded:
“ I have not had a chance – I have not read the speech. I haven’t seen any context. I have simply heard about it in the course of today [which would be shocking if true]. But if indeed President Poroshenko is advocating an engagement in a forceful effort at this time, we would strongly urge him to think twice not to engage in that kind of activity, that that would put Minsk in serious jeopardy. And we would be very, very concerned about what the consequences of that kind of action at this time may be.”
None of this was reported by Western ‘news’ media. Even Russia’s own Sputnik News, which was Russia’s main English-language medium reporting on Kerry’s comment, ignored this shocking assertion by the U.S. Secretary of State contradicting the nominal leader of the Ukrainian Government that the U.S. itself had installed in February 2014.
The Obama Administration now had slammed Poroshenko down on the key issue of whether to resume the war against Ukraine’s former Donbass region, and also slammed him on whether Ukraine should invade Crimea, which is Russian territory and would therefore mean a war against the Russian armed forces. America’s stooge-regime in Kiev was here being taken to the woodshed about the advisability of yet another Ukrainian invasion of Ukraine’s former southeastern breakaway regions, Donbass and, even Crimea. ...
Consequently, clearly, now, Obama is on-board with the “Plan B” for Ukraine, which Francois Hollande and Angela Merkel had put into place, the Minsk II Agreement, which brought about the present ceasefire, which now has become clearly the utter (even accepted by Kerry) capitulation of Obama’s Plan A on Ukraine, which plan Nuland had been carrying out. Kerry’s public statement there was a public slap in the face to his own #2 official on Ukraine; and it could not have been asserted by him if he were not under Obama’s instruction that the previous plan, to exterminate or drive out all the residents of Donbass, was no longer worth trying, and that the Hollande-Merkel plan would be America’s fall-back position.
’US understands it cannot bully Europe the way it tried to'
Former NSA Lawyer Says Keeping Bulk Collection Secret Was a Mistake
The Bush administration’s decision to keep bulk collection of domestic phone records a secret was a strategic mistake, former NSA Inspector General Joel Brenner told his former colleagues on Friday.
But in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Vice President Dick Cheney’s office was so determined to assert untrammeled executive power that any internal debate about going public or telling Congress was “academic” at the time, said Brenner, who served as the agency’s in-house watchdog from 2002 to 2006.
Brenner published his prepared remarks Friday morning, just before delivering them at the National Security Agency headquarters at an event marking the 40th Anniversary of the Church Committee, the special congressional committee that exposed surveillance abuse and led to the passage of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
Brenner concluded that the program blatantly violated FISA, and he recalled asking his NSA colleagues why the White House didn’t just go to Congress and get the law changed. But, he noted: “This was actually an academic question, because policy was being driven, and driven hard, by [Cheney legal counsel David] Addington, who detested the FISA statute.”
Brenner said bulk collection was a part of the now “mostly declassified” program called STELLAR WIND, which “was run directly by the Office of the Vice President and put under the direct personal control of the Vice President’s counsel, David Addington.”
Scheer and Hedges: They Know Everything About You
Proposed surveillance limits could force US to 'go dark', says Mitch McConnell
Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell said on Sunday that legislation concerning the federal government’s powers of surveillance that was passed by the House of Representatives this week could cause the country to “go dark” when it comes to collecting Americans’ phone records.
McConnell said that if such a state of affairs came about, “we’ll not be able to have yet another tool that we need to combat this terrorist threat from overseas”.
Earlier this month, such mass phone surveillance was ruled illegal by the US court of appeals. Under the USA Freedom Act, intelligence officials would only be able to search data held by telephone companies on a case-by-case basis.
McConnell opposes that, instead seeking an extension of section 215 of the Patriot Act, under which the bulk collection of phone records has taken place, for a few months, while legislators took a closer look at the House plan.
Tens of Thousands Call for 'Okinawa Without US Bases'
Marking the third straight day of demonstrations, tens of thousands protested in Okinawa, Japan on Sunday against the presence and expansion of U.S. military bases on the island.
The massive rally "aimed to pressure Tokyo to halt building work for the military base that has continued despite vehement opposition from the local government in Okinawa," Al Jazeera reports.
Held in the Okinawa Cellular Stadium, which Stars and Stripes notes is "usually reserved for professional baseball teams, including Major League all-stars when they visit the island," the event was called 'Seventy Years After the End of WWII—Stop Construction of a New Military Base at Henoko.'
Okinawa is home to more than half of the 47,000 U.S. service personnel stationed in Japan as part of a defense alliance—a proportion many of the island's residents have for decades said is too high.
The U.S. military announced plans to move Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in 1996, hoping to ease tensions with the host community after the gang-rape of a schoolgirl by servicemen. A new runway, being built into Oura Bay at the more remote Camp Schwab base near Henoko, is necessary to facilitate the closure of Futenma, which is located in a densely populated urban area of central Okinawa.
But locals have pushed to block the relocation of the base within the island, insisting the facility should be fully removed instead.
Cornel West, Eddie Conway and Rev. Sekou on Building a Mass Movement
Obama combats police militarization by limiting supply of military-style gear
Surprise announcement will ban government from providing items such as armored vehicles, high-power firearms and grenade launchers to local police
The president will ban the US government from providing certain types of military-style equipment to local police departments and sharply control other weapons and gear provided to law enforcement, White House officials announced on Monday.
The announcement coincides with the release of a report from a taskforce on policing assembled by Obama in response to the turmoil in Ferguson. The so-called 21st Century Policing Task Force, made up of 12 members from academia and law enforcement, was asked to propose solutions to overcome racial bias in police operations and recommend ways to improve relations between agencies and the communities they serve.
“Law enforcement culture should embrace a guardian – rather than a warrior – mindset to build trust and legitimacy both within agencies and with the public,” the report said. ...
A longer list of equipment the federal government provides will come under tighter control, including wheeled armored vehicles like Humvees, manned aircraft, drones, specialized firearms, explosives, battering rams and riot batons, helmets and shields. From October police will have to get approval from their city council, mayor or some other local governing body to obtain it, provide a persuasive explanation of why it is needed and have more training and data collection on the use of the equipment.
Anti-Police Brutality Activists: Body Camera Guidelines No Panacea — and Might Make Things Worse
This morning, to much buzz nationwide, a coalition of over 30 privacy and civil rights organizations released a statement of shared principles outlining their vision for the future use of police body cameras. The coalition statement argues that body camera footage documenting police interactions with the public “can have a valuable role to play in the present and future of policing,” but insists that safeguards be put in place to ensure that body cameras do not become a “tool for injustice.” Signatories include ACLU, the NAACP, Color of Change and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. ...
Some observers are concerned such recommendations may be counterproductive, especially if used to legitimize a technology that in the end will likely be left up to the self-regulation of police departments or their local government allies across the country.
“[A]ll this energy towards accountability … can be flipped into increased surveillance in communities of color and increased budgets to police,” activist Andrew Padilla told investigative journalist Raven Rakia last year. Padilla, who films civilian-police encounters as part of CopWatchNYC, pointed out that body cameras “record civilians. In cop watch, you record police.”
“Police shouldn’t have any control of the footage,” says Rakia, who focuses on the criminal justice system. “As you see with CCTV cameras everywhere, its very hard to get footage of police … a lawyer might be able to for a case, but for the public and press it’s very difficult. The police and the DA have complete control over footage and only use it to their advantage.” ...
With pending legislation on police body cameras in 13 states that does not meet the standards of the coalition guidelines, and news of an upcoming U.S. Senate hearing on the use of body cameras, many anti-police brutality activists fear the debate over the use of body cameras has been cut off in progressive circles preemptively, putting those who face police brutality every day under more surveillance and in more danger.
Madison police officer who shot Tony Robinson wants to return to duty
A Wisconsin police officer involved in a fatal shooting that prompted protests and drew intense public scrutiny wants to return to his job, according to his attorney, but the city’s police chief has said he fears for the officer’s safety.
Dane County district attorney Ismael Ozanne announced on Tuesday that Madison police officer Matt Kenny would not face criminal charges in the 6 March shooting death of 19-year-old Tony Robinson.
Kenny remains on paid leave, pending an internal investigation to see if he violated Madison police department policies during the incident. That review could still subject Kenny to department sanctions or firing. It has not been completed, officials said, but results are expected soon. ...
Madison police chief Mike Koval told WKOW-TV he was looking at alternatives for Kenny returning to a patrol role.
“Clearly, he’s certainly probably a household name or figure right now in our community,” Koval said. “I worry about his safety. I worry about those officers who go to back him up. And of course I worry about the community perceptions about what’s gone on here.”
McDonald's bans media from shareholder meeting amid protest threat
McDonald’s has been accused of “trying to hide from public scrutiny” by banning the media from this week’s shareholder meeting, which staff have promised to gatecrash with the biggest ever protest demanding an end to “poverty wages” paid to many of its 420,000 staff.
Shareholders and corporate governance groups said it was “extremely shocking” that a company the size of McDonald’s would try to hold its annual meeting behind closed doors, especially so soon after its new chief executive, Steve Easterbrook, promised to act as an “internal activist” and turn the struggling company into a “modern and progressive” burger chain.
The AFL-CIO, the largest federation of US trade unions and holder of more than $30m worth of McDonald’s shares, told the Guardian: “We can’t think of a single other company who has dared to ban the press from an annual meeting. What does the company have to hide?”
“We call on McDonald’s to reverse their decision and allow the media,” Vineeta Anand, the AFL-CIO chief investment research analyst, said. “Sunshine is the best disinfectant, when you shine a light on a company it changes their behaviour. They are acting like some sort of secret society.
Hellraiser Preview
Sherman, set the time machine for tomorrow's Hellraisers Journal which will feature an update on the Chicago Teamsters Strike.
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Wall Street Analyst Encouraged Rail Company to Lobby Against Train Safety Rules
Positive Train Control, a technology system used to monitor trains and automatically keep them from reaching unsafe speeds, would likely have prevented the tragic Amtrak derailment earlier this week and many other train crashes in recent years, according to the National Transportation Safety Board and train safety experts.
But ever since Congress passed a law in 2008 requiring train companies to implement PTC by the end of 2015, the railroad industry has mounted a ferocious lobbying campaign to delay the rule. ...
In one revealing exchange during an investor call in 2009, Jason Seidl, then a financial analyst with the Dahlman Rose & Co. investment bank, asked Wick Moorman, the chief executive of Norfolk Southern Corp., what “you guys can do in terms of lobbying” on the PTC. And given the costs of complying with the PTC rule, the analyst wanted to know how future investments might be impacted.
Moorman said he and other rail executives were busy working to “educate members of Congress as to what the implications of this legislation are.” Seidl encouraged Moorman to “further educate” them. ...
As journalist David Sirota reported, in March of this year, the Senate committee that oversees rail issues “approved a bipartisan bill to delay by an additional five years the requirement for the new [PTC] technology. ... The bill to delay the PTC was sponsored by Senators John Thune, Claire McCaskill, Bill Nelson, Ron Johnson, Jim Inhofe, Deb Fischer, Dan Sullivan, Lisa Murkowski, Jerry Moran, Dean Heller, Marco Rubio, Kelly Ayotte and Rob Portman.
Ralph Nader on Bernie Sanders’ Presidential Bid & His Unanswered Letters to the White House
The Evening Greens
Fossil fuels subsidised by $10m every minute, says IMF
‘Shocking’ revelation finds $5.3tn subsidy estimate for 2015 is greater than the total health spending of all the world’s governments
Fossil fuel companies are benefitting from global subsidies of $5.3tn (£3.4tn) a year, equivalent to $10m every minute of every day, according to a startling new estimate by the International Monetary Fund.
The IMF calls the revelation “shocking” and says the figure is an “extremely robust” estimate of the true cost of fossil fuels. The $5.3tn subsidy estimated for 2015 is greater than the total health spending of all the world’s governments.
The vast sum is largely due to polluters not paying the costs imposed on governments by the burning of coal, oil and gas. These include the harm caused to local populations by air pollution as well as to people across the globe affected by the floods, droughts and storms being driven by climate change. ...
The IMF... said that ending the subsidies to fossil fuels would cut global carbon emissions by 20%. That would be a giant step towards taming global warming, an issue on which the world has made little progress to date.
Ending the subsidies would also slash the number of premature deaths from outdoor air pollution by 50% – about 1.6m lives a year.
Shell accused of strategy risking catastrophic climate change
Royal Dutch Shell has been accused of pursuing a strategy that would lead to potentially catastrophic climate change after an internal document acknowledged a global temperature rise of 4C, twice the level considered safe for the planet.
A paper used for guiding future business planning at the Anglo-Dutch multinational assumes that carbon dioxide emissions will fail to limit temperature increases to 2C, the internationally agreed threshold to prevent widespread flooding, famine and desertification.
Instead, the New Lens Scenarios document refers to a forecast by the independent International Energy Agency (IEA) that points to a temperature rise of up to 4C in the short term, rising later to 6C. ...
Ben van Beurden, the Shell chief executive, has repeatedly stated that the fossil fuel giant is a responsible company that fully accepts the need to counter manmade global warming, has campaigned for a tax on greenhouse gas emissions, and is moving its focus from oil to cleaner fuels such as gas.
But an analysis of Shell’s New Lens planning document points to an acceptance that world temperatures will rise to a level that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change argues would have a severe and widespread impact. ... The Shell document says: “Both our (oceans and mountains) scenarios and the IEA New Policies scenario (and our base case energy demand and outlook) do not limit emissions to be consistent with the back-calculated 450 parts per million (Co2 in the atmosphere) 2 degrees C.”
It adds: “We also do not see governments taking steps now that are consistent with 2 degrees C scenario.”
Guilty as Charged: Duke Energy to Pay Record Fine for Coal Ash Crimes
Duke Energy pleaded guilty on Thursday to environmental crimes and has agreed to pay a record $102 million in fines and restitution for years of illegal pollution, ignored warnings, and poorly maintained infrastructure.
U.S. District Court Judge Malcolm Howard said it is the largest federal criminal fine in North Carolina history.
But some environmentalists insist the punishment is insufficient, given the damage Duke continues to wreak in local communities. Just last month, the company was forced to startdelivering bottled water to people with tainted wells close to several of its coal ash pits.
Of the $102 million, $68 million is a criminal penalty assessed under the federal Clean Water Act—believed to be among the largest such fines under the 43-year-old law. The rest of the settlement will go toward environmental projects in North Carolina and Virginia. The company will also be placed on a five-year probation, under which it will be monitored for compliance with the Clean Water Act. If it violates the law while on probation, Duke could be subject to further action by the court.
“We are born into this”: Meet the First Nations leader who defeated a mining behemoth
Even in a region known for massive, potentially havoc-wreaking open-pit mines, Prosperity Mine, one of the largest ever proposed in British Columbia, stood out. In order to build the gold and copper mine, Vancouver-based Taseko Mines Limited planned to drain nearby Fish Lake, home to the Xeni Gwet’in, or Nemiah Valley Indian Band, one of the six communities that form the Tsilhqot’in Nation.
That the mine was never built is thanks in large part to the efforts of Marilyn Baptiste, the tribe’s elected councillor and former chief, who led efforts to convince the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA) of the spiritual, environmental and economic importance of the Nemiah Valley. It was an ugly, years-long battle, but TML’s efforts to exploit the land were eventually blocked not once, but twice, by the federal government.
Baptiste hardly sees herself as an activist. ”As most indigenous peoples around the world, since contact we’ve had to protect our land, our people, our way of life and our future generations,” she told Salon. “This is part of our everyday life, this is what we live and we breathe.”
This past April, Baptiste was nonetheless awarded the Goldman Prize, the world’s largest environmental prize, for her work organizing her community in opposition to the mine and, when it came down to it, acting as a one-woman blockade against construction crews.
Blog Posts of Interest
Here are diaries and selected blog posts of interest on DailyKos and other blogs.
What's Happenin' Is On Hiatus
Disabled Veterans Shatter the Myths of American Warfare
How the US Treasury Department Promotes Israel's Propaganda Lines
Warrantless Snooping Goes Far Beyond the NSA's Phone-Record Dragnet
Thomas Drake: We're all foreigners now when it comes to surveillance
Gyrocopter Pilot Flew for Reform, Might Land in Prison
Chris Hedges: “Why should we be impoverished so that the profits of big banks, corporations, and hedge funds can swell?”
A Little Night Music
Model "T" Slim - 15 Years My Love Was In Vain
Driftin' Slim - Hoo-Doo Man Blues
Driftin' Slim - Mama Don't Tear My Clothes
Drifting Slim - My Sweet Woman
Elmon Mickle - Flat Foot Sam
Elmon Mickle - Lonesome Highway
Drifting Slim - Good Morning Baby
Model T Slim - Take My Hand
Drifting Slim - I Feel So Good
Model T Slim - You're growing old baby
Drifting Slim - Jonah
Model T Slim - Woman's The Glory Of Man
Drifting Slim - Down South
Drifting Slim - My Sweet Woman