When I get off of this mountain, you know where I want to go?

Straight down the Mississippi river, to the Gulf of Mexico

To Lake Charles, Louisiana, little Bessie, girl that I once knew

She told me just to come on by, if there's anything she could do

Up on Cripple Creek she sends me

If I spring a leak she mends me

I don't have to speak, she defends me

A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one

Rehearsing up at Woodstock

The Band - Up On Cripple Creek…LIVE

Policy Brief: Protecting the Environment from the Green New Deal

This Policy Brief reviews the largely ignored environmental damage that would result from the expanded use of renewable energy mandated under the Green New Deal.

In recent decades, policymakers have forced public utilities to generate increasingly more electricity from fashionable “renewable energy” sources, notably wind and solar. For example, through various measures, they have pushed automakers to manufacture more electric vehicles.

The chief policy goal for many of these policymakers is to eliminate reliable and affordable fossil fuels, despite the fact they continue to generate most of America’s electricity and power most forms of U.S. transportation. Ostensibly, their aim is to avoid an onslaught of devastating global warming and extreme weather events, which they attribute to carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions resulting from burning coal, oil, and natural gas.

The “Green New Deal,” championed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and other prominent members of Congress, is the latest vehicle for advancing this agenda, which adds nuclear power to the list of energy sources they seek to eliminate. To date, the Green New Deal (GND) has been roundly criticized for the astronomical costs it would impose upon factories, businesses, households, hospitals, and virtually every other sector of the U.S. economy, as well as for the economic devastation it would inflict.

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https://www.heartland.org/publications-resources/publications/policy-brief-protecting-the-environment-from-the-green-new-deal

Kansas coronavirus update: National Guard plans delivery of supplies, not martial law; unemployment claims surge 10,000

Adjutant general says draconian measures feared in social media posts aren’t in ‘realm of possibility’

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TOPEKA — Members of the Kansas National Guard are busy planning the distribution of medical supplies recently received from the Strategic National Stockpile and other logistics for aiding in the campaign against COVID-19.

They aren’t contemplating martial law, quarantine enforcement or other draconian measures outside “the realm of possibility,” said Maj. Gen. Lee Tafanelli, the state’s adjutant general.

“There’s all kinds of social media saying the National Guard is taking over, they’re on the streets, they’re going to do this or that,” Tafanelli said.

https://www.hdnews.net/article/20200320/NEWS/200329991/2000211/NEWS

The History of US Psychological Operations: World War One

In part one, we reviewed the basic definition of Psychological Operations and its relations to standard propaganda. Psychological Operations is actually a relatively modern concept but had roots long before the advent of the 20th century.

The United States government and military, with a few exceptions, did not effectively utilize propaganda or public relations during the early wars of the country’s history. Even when the U.S. inherited a pseudo-empire after the Spanish- and Philippine-American War, conventional military tactics were considered sufficient enough. But the start of a new war, unprecedented in technology and scale, would forever change that notion.

Modern war, modern propaganda

“Wake up America! Civilization calls every Man, Woman, and Child!”

-American WWI Propaganda Poster Slogan

The Great War was the first of many things: The first to see large scale industrialized warfare. The first to see the use of the armored tank. The first in which aircraft were used in combat. And the first war in which chemical weapons were employed on such a large and terrible scale.

With new methods of dissemination being available (airplanes, airships, radio, telephone, etc.) this was the perfect environment for countries to start using wide-scale propaganda. This is arguably the first time the Great Powers, including the United States, developed what we would understand as the modern form of Psychological Operations or Psychological Warfare.

https://sofrep.com/news/the-history-of-u-s-psychological-operations-precursor-in-the-great-war-part-2/

ECB launches €750bn emergency purchase programme

The European Central Bank unveiled an emergency asset purchase programme to tackle the effects of the Covid-19 crisis after an extraordinary meeting of its governing council on March 18. The new Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme (PEPP) will have a €750 billion ($810 billion) envelope through which the Eurosystem will carry out net purchases of sovereign and corporate assets until the end of 2020

https://www.centralbanking.com/central-banks/monetary-policy/unconventional-monetary-policy/7508041/ecb-launches-eu750bn-emergency-purchase-programme

Elusive Butterfly" is a popular song by Bob Lind released in 1966, which reached #5 on the Billboard Hot 100

Bob Lind Elusive Butterfly