Monday, May 6, 2019

NEXTRUSH UNPLUGGED:  THROUGH THE NIGHT


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SPRINGBOK RADIO OPENING DANIE SMUTS


A blast from the past, what I used to hear on shortwave radio in the 1970's, local radio from South Africa.

No internet back then, but the shortwaves brought information from around the world in my home back then.

Local radio in English from New Zealand, Australia and other places like Kuwait and Israel.

The BBC World Service and the list goes on also with all kinds of information coming in.

Getting back to South Africa, its easy to moralize about racism and apartheid but before the "Reformed National Party" took over in 1948 there was a war against the Afrikaaners, the Boers.

The British Empire enforcing "world order" and the Boers were put in the first institutions called "concentration camps".   The Wikipedia entry lists 26,000 Afrikaaner deaths in those camps along with 14,000 South Africans who were black.

Out of the bitterness of that experience came apartheid and out of apartheid the modern anarchy and drift of South Africa towards Communist China.

You can read about the crimes against the white farmers in South Africa today and more at the link below.

SOUTH AFRICA TODAY


Out of the ashes of the Holocaust came Israel and this continuous fight and struggle played out in a deadly barrage of rockets over the weekend from Gaza with four Israelis killed.    Retaliatory strikes killed more than 20 in Gaza according to the authorities there.

Again as in the past money will be transferred into Gaza to supposedly pacify it, but the previous transfers of money only preludes to the next rocket barrage.

Read this from Israel National News:


"NETANYAHU TO APPROVE TRANFER OF QATARI MONEY TO HAMAS"


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"FOOL ME"-LYNN ANDERSON


"ONE'S ON THE WAY"-LORETTA LYNN



Loretta Lynn with a country classic from my experience and I guess "One Has Arrived", a new addition to Britain's royal family Monday.    The BBC with more on that......LINK

And this video shows Paul Anka singing on "Top of the Pops" BBC-TV back in the 1970's


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"HAVING MY BABY"-PAUL ANKA


"OH BABE WHAT WOULD YOU SAY"-HURRICANE SMITH


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There's been ground fighting reported in northern Syria in the last 24 hours.  This Twitter feed has more....LEITH ABOUFADEL TWITTER

The jihadists launched two rocket barrages which were dealt with by the defenses of the Russian air base at Hememim.   That story from Tass News Agency......LINK


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The BBC up with the story that the election for mayor of Istanbul will be run even though the opposition won the first time.  The Erodgan government getting its wishes for a second election even though they lost the first one by more than 20-thousand votes.

Just like people in the UK want a second referendum on Brexit after losing the first time and if May and or Corbyn go that way they are no better than Erdogan in Turkey.


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'LITTLE MAN'-SONNY AND CHER



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Back with you.....More in minutes.......

Tiger Woods awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom Monday.    What an honor.

And to the critics Tiger said in part:

"You have to respect the office.  No matter who is in the office...."


Class all the way......



TRUMP AWARDS TIGER WOODS THE PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM



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'YOUR KINDNESS'-LESLIE PHILLIPS


'REFLECTING LIGHT'-SAM PHILLIPS


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Same singer in two different decades with two different names.    Leslie Phillips emerging from the Christian music subculture of the 1980's to become Sam Phillips.

Off to the news the US riled up about Iran based on Israeli intelligence and Iran moving partially away from the JCPOA otherwise called the "nuclear deal".

Iran being pushed and squeezed just like Japan was in 1940 and 1941 and we all know what happened next.   World War 2 a needed war because of World War 1, but do we need a new war now?

Our economy doing OK without it.


Columnist and former White House aide Patrick J. Buchanan weighs in....


PATRICK J. BUCHANAN: IS BOLTON STEERING TRUMP INTO WAR WITH IRAN?


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'WHY CAN'T WE BE FRIENDS?'-WAR


'DON'T WORRY BE HAPPY'-BOBBY MCFERRIN


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And the Catalan politician, former leader of the province of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont can run in the European Parliament elections.    That ruling from a Spanish court after the country's electoral commission said No.    Puigdemont fled the country to avoid prosecution for sedition among other things following the independence referendum and proclamation in 2017.

More from the BBC......LINK


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End of the line....wish you the best today and hope you find some sanity, sobriety, peace and serenity in spite of the insanity about us.

Earlier the article about Qatari cash being allowed into Gaza after the rocket barrage on Israel by Prime Minister Netanyahu and now details about Qatari cash going into Palestinian coffers including those of Gaza. 

Details announced today by Qatar.


The story from YNet in Israel.....


QATAR TO TRANSFER HALF A BILLION DOLLARS TO PALESTINIANS IN WEST BANK, GAZA


Cat Stevens became Yusuf Islam and got involved in charity work being accused of supporting terrorism with that kind of activity.

But why should we get angry when Bibi Netanyahu is content to let the cash flow in the direction of Gaza from Qatar?

Why waste time getting angry about things when politicians twist and turn and do what they want to anyway?

I stand with Israel but not with politicians and I'm not in the business of being angry with people either.   It doesn't work.

So have a good day and it looks like we can say "Morning Has Broken"


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'MORNING HAS BROKEN'-CAT STEVENS








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