Saturday, February 23, 2019

General and Miscellaneous related links 022319



Somebody by Eagles

Tarantella - Songs by Chilean Folk Group Inti Illimani

Alturas - Songs by Chilean Folk Group Inti Illimani

El Condor Pasa " If I Could " | Guitar and Pan Flute Best Version ( Live ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LFQDVvnKAQ

Daniel Alomia Robles El condor pasa

el condor pasa - Songs by Chilean Folk Group Inti Illimani

Huajra - Songs by Chilean Folk Group Inti Illimani

The House of the Rising Sun versión THE ANDES

BOLERO Ravel レーベルボレロ Orquesta Joven de la Sinfónica de Galicia ガリシア D: Vicente Alberola. Dvořák nº 8

La Fiesta de San Benito - Songs by Chilean Folk Group Inti Illimani

Malagueña - Songs by Chilean Folk Group Inti Illimani

Best of Larry, Darryl, and Darryl (part 1)

Simon & Garfunkel - Scarborough Fair (Full Version) Lyrics

JOURNEY TO SELF-REALIZATION

The Royal Path to Self-Realization

‘The Goodness Paradox’ Review: The Benefits of Good Breeding.  Humans are peaceful compared to some of our closest primate relatives. Did we domesticate ourselves?

Review: The Goodness Paradox: How Evolution Made Us More and Less Violent by Richard Wrangham — killing alpha males made us peaceful.  A new book argues we tamed ourselves by culling the aggressors, says Tom Whipple

Book Review of The Goodness Paradox: Humans evolved to be peaceful.  Why are we still so violent?

A Bold New Theory Proposes That Humans Tamed Themselves: A leading anthropologist suggests that protohumans became domesticated by killing off violent males.

Chris Rea "And You My Love"

The Elephant In The Room: One Fat Man's Quest To Get Smaller In A Growing America

The Elephant in the Room, my first book, is available at bookstores and online.

THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM: One Fat Man's Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America

The Weight I Carry: What it’s like to be too big in America

Joe Cocker - Unchain My Heart

A DOCUMENT ON HUMAN FRATERNITY FOR WORLD PEACE AND LIVING TOGETHER

Don Williams - Just 'Cause I'm In Love With You

Terri Clark - Poor, Poor Pitiful Me

Mariah Carey - Hero (Video)

Bonfire You Make Me Feel

Shania Twain - You're Still The One (Official Music Video)

Guy Takes His Blonde Girlfriend To Her First Football Game
They had great seats right behind their team's bench.
After the game, he asked her how she liked it. “Oh, I really liked it,” she replied, “especially the tight pants and all the big muscles, but I just couldn’t understand why they were killing each other over 25 cents!”
Dumbfounded, her boyfriend asked, “What do you mean?”
“Well,” she said, “they flipped Of all the blonde jokes, this one has to be one of the best because it makes football make sense. A guy took his blonde girlfriend to the Super Bowl game. They had great seats right behind their team’s bench.  
a coin, one team got it and then for the rest of the game all they kept screaming was, “Get the quarter back! Get the quarter back!  I’m like, hello?  It’s only 25 cents!”

Riders on the Storm - The Doors HD

STEVE WINWOOD & CARLOS SANTANA Why can't we live together

Don Henley & The Eagles ~ Heart Of The Matter ( Lyrics )

Stevie Nicks - Landslide / HQ/ Lyrics

In Case You Missed 'Em: The 10 Most Popular 'Fresh Air' Interviews Of 2018

Richie Havens - Here Comes The Sun (live 1971) HQ 0815007

Analysis of Poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost

Adele - Rolling in the Deep

Carpenters - Hurting Each Other

Promises | Eric Clapton | Lyrics ☾☀

Super Snow Moon Today Is the Biggest Full Moon of 2019

Ariane Moffatt - Point de mire (lyrics)

Dan Fogelberg - Same Auld Lang Syne (Lyrics)

Anders Sandberg: Does Alien Life Exist in the Universe?

DON'T KNOW MUCH (Lyrics) - LINDA RONSTADT / AARON NEVILLE

Neil Diamond - Love On The Rocks Lyrics

Neil Diamond Talks About "Holly Holy" Then Plays It (Live 1971)

The Hidden Castle In Wisconsin That Almost No One Knows About

Street and Sidewalk Closure Permits

Launch Risk

Military related links 022319



New House Armed Services Chairman Pledges to Keep ‘Bipartisan Tradition’

Proposal Could Require Women to Register for the Draft

US warships again challenge Beijing's claims in South China Sea

DoD and civilian doctors, pharmacies now sharing information about opioid prescriptions, watching for abuse

Defense Health Board to Also Focus on Care in Civilian Hospitals: The review will examine the care given to military beneficiaries who are patients in non-military hospitals.

Optimism may protect against chronic pain in soldiers

What Would Major Cuts to Military Medical Personnel Mean to Your Care?

Military Family Survey Shows How Pay, Benefit Cuts May Harm Retention

Tax Code Changes Could Mean Bigger Returns for Servicemembers, Families

Mold, Lead and Vermin: Survey Finds Toxic Conditions in Military Housing

Horror Stories From Military Families in Privatized Housing Shock, Outrage Lawmakers

Current Condition of the Military Housing Privatization Initiative

Shutdown Averted: Declaration Concerns Mounting

Watch: MOAA CEO Outlines FY 2020 Defense Budget Priorities

Warren, Smith introduce bill to bar US from using nuclear weapons first

Navy captain who moonlighted as Fat Leonard’s PR man is going to prison

Military Health System – Electronic Health Record – MHS GENESIS

Army modernizes accessions enterprise

Advisory Committee on Arlington National Cemetery

The Navy admits that its secretive new $760 million aircraft carrier defense system is a total failure

Admiral to Congress: Think about the 280-plus ships that didn’t have collisions

Admiral to Lawmaker: Lots of Navy Ships Didn’t Have Collisions

Marine Suicides Reach Highest Level In A Decade Despite End Of Large-Scale Combat Operations

US Army Orders $40M in Personal Reconnaissance Nano-Drones

Junior Officers Are Now Tracked in Air Force's Misconduct Probes Database

The military’s lingering readiness problem: Lack of daycare

Coast Guard lieutenant arrested, accused of planning domestic terrorism

2018 Virginia Military Tattoo: From 46:10 to 54:15 in the video link below, recorded at the 2018 Virginia International Tattoo (Norfolk), the U.S. Army Band does at musical tribute to the U.S. soldiers of the Vietnam War, especially to the three men who would be awarded the Medal of Honor for their actions at the Battle of Ia Drang: Walter "Joe" Marm, Jr., Bruce Crandall and Ed "Too Tall" Freeman, with a nod to author Joe Galloway. Note the olive green jungle fatigues worn by three of the vocal soloists.

World War II - Operation Magic Carpet

Russian Navy has new weapon that makes targets hallucinate, vomit: report

Watchdog: Navy bought too many helicopters

Group wants to force consumer agency to show why it stopped monitoring military lending protections

Navy Rethinks 355-Ship Fleet: CNO Richardson.  The Navy may back off its much-publicized call for a 355-ship fleet and look at new options like unmanned vessels, the Chief of Naval Operations said.

Hyuga class Helicopter carrier

Naval Terminology, Jargon and Slang FAQ

Wreck of WWII aircraft carrier USS Hornet discovered in the South Pacific

Tricare Podcast

‘Great nations do not fight endless wars’ — Trump touts troop drawdowns in State of the Union

INF Treaty talks between Russia and the U.S. fail at summit: The pact was designed to keep ground-based nuclear weapons out of Europe. Washington has accused Moscow of violating it for years.

UN experts: North Korea nukes intact, dispersing missiles

Terrorism related links 022319



Report: U.S.-Based Plane Caught Bringing Arms into Venezuela

In stark contrast to Trump, California AG's speech is hopeful tribute to immigrant perseverance

El Paso’s Message for Trump Before Rally: Don’t Speak for Us.  A young woman and her friends celebrate her quinceañera by posing for photographs at an overlook in El Paso. The tension surrounding President Trump’s planned visit to the city on Monday is revealing political fissures.

Lawmakers Reintroduce War Powers Resolution To End Carnage in Yemen and Reclaim Congress' Constitutional Authority: "Congress must end support for the catastrophic war in Yemen led by a despotic Saudi regime," said Sen. Bernie Sanders

Your Complete Guide to the N.Y. Times’ Support of U.S.-Backed Coups in Latin America: A survey of The New York Times archives shows the Times editorial board has supported 10 out of 12 American-backed coups in Latin America

"The Worst Option is War": US Intervention in Venezuela Will Only Deepen the Country’s Crisis.  The men directed by President Donald Trump to "handle" the situation in Venezuela are not clear-headed diplomats capable of working for peace and democracy. They are war criminals and should be behind bars.

Migrating birds to be denied entry back into the UK in the spring following Brexit

Iran's revolution turns 40

DONALD TRUMP'S NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER TELLS IRAN'S LEADER, 'I DON'T THINK YOU'LL HAVE MANY' YEARS LEFT

Iraqi rejects Trump plan to watch Iran: Move to boot U.S. grows, officials say

The brewing crisis over Taiwan: Taiwan's separate status, says China's leader, Xi Jinping, is "a wound to the Chinese nation left by history." Is a crisis coming?

Hispanics Are Like Everyone Else Who Comes to America: The idea that immigrants from Latin America fail to assimilate doesn’t hold up.

Freed Iranian Hostage Jason Rezaian: 'They Messed With the Wrong Guy.'  The more time Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian and his wife spent in an Iranian prison, the clearer it became that he was being jailed for doing his job.

Journalist Jason Rezaian On His 544 Days In Iranian Prison

Pence: Europe must withdraw from Iran nuclear deal

Trump official freaks out after Rep. Omar asks him if he’d back genocide in Venezuela like ‘you did in Guatemala’

U.S. Border Patrol Detained U.S. Citizens for Speaking Spanish in Montana

Three arrested in Florida in violent scheme targeting undocumented immigrants; four more at large

Reporter reveals ICE official is Ann Coulter fanboy; Coulter responds with anti-Asian Twitter attack

Portland far-right 'Patriot' street brawlers in disarray as Proud Boys part ways amid violent talk

Can Progressive Dems Fix Trump’s Nightmarish Foreign Policy?  The ascendant progressive wing of the Democratic party has plenty of ideas gaining momentum at home—but what about issues abroad?

Violence from the Far-Right is Growing. Why Aren’t We Doing More to Stop it?  Newly elected House Democrats promise to crack down on “domestic terrorism.”

Why We Don’t Need a Wall: When we are at our best, we don’t spend billions of dollars building monuments to paranoia. And we sure don’t allow fixation on the erection of such a monument — call it a wall, call it a fence — to bring useful functions of government to a grinding halt.

Open thread for night owls: Excerpts from the March edition of Harper's Index

Israel, PLO, Jordan, EU and UN must agree on boundaries of Palestine

ISRAEL SAYS IT WANTS ‘WAR WITH IRAN’ AND IS MEETING WITH ARAB COUNTRIES TO ‘ADVANCE’ IT

La Gran Patraña/A Blatant Lie

Democrats did in on immigration, and it’s not about a wall

Merkel Rejects U.S. Demands That Europe Pull Out of Iran Nuclear Deal: At the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany delivered a spirited defense of multilateral institutions in a world increasingly marked by great power rivalry.

How The CIA Overthrew Iran's Democracy In 4 Days

U.S. Military Warns of Threat From Chinese-Run Space Station in Argentina: Defense officials are worried about a remote compound Beijing says helped it land on the far side of the moon.

Guantanamo prison looms as option as IS fight ends

IMMIGRATION & THE BORDER: Deported parents may lose kids to adoption, investigation finds
"We have the kids in the U.S. and the parents down in Central America, and now they'll bring all these child welfare agencies into play... It's just a recipe for disaster."

INSTEAD OF PUNISHING THE SAUDIS FOR KHASHOGGI, TRUMP WANTS TO HAND THEM NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY

Coast Guard Officer Plotted to Kill Democrats and Journalists, Prosecutors Say
Federal agents said that when they searched the Maryland apartment of Lt. Christopher P. Hasson, they found 15 firearms and more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition, displayed in a photo that was included in a court filing.

Putin vows to target U.S. if missiles are deployed in Europe: He said Moscow would have no choice but to respond to such a move because it would drastically cut the time it took U.S. missiles to reach Russia.

NATIONAL SECURITY EXPERT WARNS THERE'S 'A CHANCE THAT VLADIMIR PUTIN IS CONTROLLING' TRUMP'S WHITE HOUSE

Israel’s Latest Improvements to Arrow-3 Anti-Missile System

Government shutdown: What's in the deal on border security and federal funding?

2019 federal pay raise likely as lawmakers finalize shutdown-avoiding spending package

Government shutdown watch: What's in the 1,169 page spending package, and will Trump sign it?

Army Major Mathew Golsteyn defends himself after US charges him in suspected Taliban bomb maker's death

Immunity granted to seven SEALs in war crimes case

In 1941, British and Soviet Troops Invaded Iran: The Shah's troops barely could resist