NEXTRUSH UNPLUGGED:  WEEKEND VERSION STOPPING BERNIE: THE NEVADA CAUCUS

NEWSDUMP UPDATE:  US SIMULATES NUCLEAR ATTACK ON RUSSIA

US Defense Secretary Mark Esper participated in an exercise at the US Strategic Command in Nebraska earlier this week.

An anonymous US defense official told the media about the 'mini exercise' that involved both sides engaging in the use of nuclear weapons.

The US has begun to add "low-yield" nuclear devices to its strategic arsenal on submarines in response to what it says is Russian deployment of similar weapons.

A sharp reaction from Russia to the news.

Deputy Foreign Minister Segei Ryabkov saying in part that the exercise and other actions:

"...clearly show that Washington is determined to pursue the path of confrontation and keep lowering the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons"

TASS NEWS STORY

Music Links:

"I WALK THE LINE"-JOHNNY CASH

"A BOY NAMED SUE"-JOHNNY CASH



'A FRONT ROW SEAT TO HEAR OLD JOHNNY SING'-SHEL SILVERSTEIN



Whoa welcome aboard with music that I heard on country music radio back in the 1970's as sung by Shel Silverstein.


Shel Silverstein did a lot of creative work in his lifetime writing the song before "A Boy Named Sue" as sung by the "Man In Black" Johnny Cash.     Other country songs also in his music writing career along with "The Unicorn" made into a hit by The Irish Rovers.

Shel was a cartoonist and his work ranged all over the place from children's work like "Where the Sidwalk Ends" to travel cartoons for "Playboy" magazine.   Shel  a presence during his lifetime at the Playboy Mansion with "Hugh and the Gang".

He wrote a biography called "A Boy Named Shel" acknowledging sexual encounters with hundreds of women .   Shel Silverstein died in Key West in 1999.


More at Wikipedia......LINK


I bring Shel Silverstein into the picture humbly identifying myself as a drunk and a man who has lusted after women in his heart and its shown some times with women offended by it.

Peter Hitchens writes for "First Things" about the controversy surrounding film director Roman Polanski who has admitted sexual misconduct with a 13-year old girl here in the USA but is unable or unwilling to face the justice that should result from it.

Should we shun his creative work because of that including his current film "An Officer and a Spy"?



EVILDOERS AND THEIR ART-PETER HITCHENS



Back to the music another song Shel Silverstein wrote sung by Loretta Lynn and a hit in 1973 on he country charts....


Music Links:




"HEY LORETTA"-LORETTA LYNN



"WHAT'S YOUR MAMA'S NAME"-TANYA TUCKER



"RIDIN' MY THUMB TO MEXICO"-JOHNNY RODRIGUEZ



'KING OF THE ROAD"-ROGER MILLER



Roger Miller singing the song of many a drunk on the street, the homeless drunk if you will.   I'm a currently sober drunk with two jobs but I see the other kind Roger Miller was singing about in 1965 ever day I work one of my jobs.

How will they "fornicate" Bernie Sanders with the process that is Nevada's caucuses today?   We'll get that picture later tonight or will we considering Iowa?  Dirty dealing you almost expect it because money and power are at stake.    That's why the Establishment leaked out the Russia's helping Bernie narrative yesterday.     OMG.   We are just the peons out here, God help us to find peace and accept our powerlessness over the dirty dealings obvious or not so obvious.

BREAKING NEWS:   ANOTHER TURKISH SOLDIER KILLED IN NORTHWESTERN SYRIA, RUSSIAN, SYRIAN AIR FORCES POUND JIHADISTS, SYRIAN WARNING

Here were are with a full plate of news today from the nation of Armageddon, Syria.   The scene of the action the "Greater Idlib Region" of the northwest.

First a Turkish soldier killed as the Turks mix in with Al Qaeda and other jihadists opposing the Syrian army there.   Turkey claims 21 strikes against "regime targets" in response....ANADOLU NEWS AGENCY TURKEY STORY

Late last night Russian and Syrian air forces pounded jihadist targets in the northwestern Syrian region.   It is reported that four Turkish M60 tanks were among the targets destroyed.....SOUTHFRONT STORY

The Turkish military is clearly in action with artillery and rockets right now in northwestern Syria but what if they escalate with their air force.    This warning from Syria's military today.....GENERAL COMMAND: ANY VIOLATION OF SYRIAN AIRSPACE WILL BE DEALT WITH.....(SYRIAN ARAB NEWS AGENCY)

And also in the mix late word that Russia's President Vladimir Putin will meet Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan along with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron to discuss "Greater Idlib" on March 5th.

For now Russia with its warning about northwestern Syria today via a Deputy Foreign Minister.   The warning is that the presence of the terrorists (Al Qaeda and others) in northwestern Syria is something Russia will never put up with....TASS NEWS STORY

All this blah blah blah  (FAKE NEWS MISTER PRESIDENT) about civilians fleeing by the million and the risk of a "massacre" in Greater Idlib flies in the face of the reality about who's fighting who right now there on the ground.

NEXTRUSH UNPLUGGED:  STOPPING BERNIE THE NEVADA CAUCUS

Here we are at about 8 pm Eastern I see only four percent of the vote up on the link I will post below from National Public Radio.

My observations about elections and voting based on my experience over the years in the media, as a participant in active fights against the GOP Establishment that wants me to kiss its backside with  $$$$$$$$ this year claiming to be Trump supporters, etc..etc...etc......

They boil down to the fact that the longer we wait the more negative the results are for the Establishment, they bury them until late in the night.

Another fact the Establishment holds back precincts and lets them out later to play catch up when the outsiders are leading.    They can "fine tune" as in find the "storage room votes" to reverse negative results later on.

NEVADA DEMOCRAT CAUCUS NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO RESULTS LINK

I see Bernie with the checkmark next to his name so I guess they are admitting he won the thing.

Music Links:

"DISCO INFERNO"-THE TRAMMPS



"MY GIRL"-THE TEMPTATIONS



'WE'VE ONLY JUST BEGUN"-THE CARPENTERS



"INDIAN RESERVATION"-PAUL REVERE AND THE RAIDERS



I've had an experience with Canada since the 1970's and have learned in sanity and sobriety that Canada, once in a cog in the wheel of the British Empire is now a cog in the wheel of the empire of the United States of  America.

The US opposed energy pipelines in the days of Obama so Justin Trudeau opposed energy pipelines.
When the White House changed hands and Donald Trump changed policy like the puppy dog Trudeau followed.

That's the Honest to G-d truth about how it works in Canada.    Canada's leaders put America First, too.

Native peoples are rising up in Canada to oppose the building of a natural gas pipeline in British Columbia out West.    The Mounties pushed the local group out of the way when they set up a blockade now more blockades affecting rail lines mainly and Prime Minister Trudeau saying yesterday they have to end.


One woman is looking back to 1990 when Canada's military intervened to stop a Mohawk protest at Oka in Quebec.

I was working my last days in the MSM back then mid-day news at a local station looking for video and stories to incorporate and I put this story into my newscasts when most US media were comotose to it.    I got no video from the network feed so I recorded it direct off CBC's mid-day news at 11 am Eastern for Atlantic Canada broadcast and used it on my program.


Here is Waneek Horn-Miller's story......

'THE TERROR WAS BROUGHT TO US': MEMORIES OF OKA RESURFACE AS RAIL BLOCKADE CRISIS CONTINUES

The latest news today is that the Western hereditary chiefs have arrived in Mohawk country in eastern Canada the center of the blockade effort in support of their cause.

CBC NEWS-THE CANADIAN PRESS-INDIGENOUS LEADERS MEET AT KAHNAWAKE AFTER TRUDEAU ORDERS BLOCKADES REMOVED

Protests in France today including one aimed at the visit of President Emmanuel Macron to an agricultural fair.    The Yellow Vests Week 67 amidst the movement against pension reform legislation now in the National Assembly.......FRANCE YELLOW VESTS WEEK 67

HEADING FOR THE REAL NEWS SUMMARY DOWN THE ROAD......

Music Links:

'COVER OF THE ROLLING STONE'-DR. HOOK

"ONE TOKE OVER THE LINE"-BREWER AND SHIPLEY



"MISSISSIPPI"-JOHN PHILLIPS



"CAREFREE HIGHWAY"-GORDON LIGHTFOOT



I was thinking about a TV show I saw when I was young called:

"Bridget Loves Bernie"

For some reason it seems appropriate to bring this up tonight.   It was a show about two young people in love who married but one was different from the other when these differences mattered to people as in Bridget the Irish Catholic girl and Bernie the Jewish guy....

Here'a a video showing the opening of the show.....BRIDGET LOVES BERNIE SHOW OPEN


The couple married in real life but the marriage broke up down the road.

NEXTRUSH UNPLUGGED: STOPPING BERNIE THE NEVADA CAUCUS

The call already made that Bernie won and latest count showing Bernie has the opposition in the palm of his hand with a 2-1 lead over Joe Biden his nearest competitor.

Its a blowout and the chattering heads of "corporate media" sounding the alarm about "socialism" in their own right reminding us that both political machines put business interests first and do the Conservative or Progressive talk to distract and divert from their real agenda.

CAN YOU SAY 'FRONT RUNNER' WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT BERNIE SANDERS?

The blog of NBC offers live updates tonight....NBC NEVADA CAUCUS BLOG

THE REAL NEWS SUMMARY

The coronavirus spreading in nations outside of China.

Iran ordering closure of schools, universities and hospitals with six now dead and at least 28 cases nationwide.

The outbreak centered in a city of power in Iran, the holy city of Qom.

Iran's Press TV summarizes the situation......LINK

In Israel some 60 more students ordered into quarantine.   They were in the same location as a group from South Korea that contracted the coronavirus....ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS STORY

Italy's Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte ordering emergency measures late Saturday with the number of cases now reaching 79 in the country.  Two Italians have died from the coronavirus (Covid-19).

A dozen towns put under quarantine by the Italian government.....BBC NEWS STORY

The latest Sunday morning statistics from China are out with 97 new deaths in the last 24 hours......TASS NEWS STORY

In Syria government reinforcements moving into the Greater Idlib region.   Speculation about a possible offensive but also about building up defenses to counter Turkish reinforcements pouring into northwestern Syria in support of opposition jihadist forces.....SOUTHFRONT STORY

Its nine days until election day in Israel and stories with political implications leaking out for spreading by the media.   One such story is a trip by Israel's spy chief to the Arab oil kingdom of Qatar earlier this month.    

There Yossi Cohen advocated for Qatari money to continue to pour into Gaza which is controlled by the militant anti-Israel Hamas group.    

The story put out by Avigdor Lieberman leader of the Yisrael Beitenu (Israel Our Home) Party.  Lieberman trying to make the point to people under attack from rockets and other devices in southern Israel that the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to appease their tormentors.

The Netanyahu camp firing back with accusations regarding violation of censorship rules in Israel by Mr. Lieberman.....ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS STORY

In London today a march in support of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange ahead of his extradition hearing Monday.   The US wants to prosecute Assange for his work with former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning that revealed human rights abuses by US military forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Celebrities like Roger Waters of Pink Floyd and Pretenders singer Chrissie Hynde in attendance supporting Asaange.....TV NEW ZEALAND NEWS STORY

And that's the way it really is on this Saturday night February 22nd, 2020.......

Good Night and God Bless.   Lets wrap it up with music.......


Music Links:



"ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL"-PINK FLOYD



"MY CITY WAS GONE"-THE PRETENDERS (LIVE)



"WAR"-EDWIN STARR



"KODACHROME"-PAUL SIMON