Morning, Sam
JFK, Bob Dylan, and the Death of the American Dream
How Dylan’s new song, “Murder Most Foul,” speaks to my
generation and pierces our collective soul.
By Tim Shorrock
APRIL 13, 2020
"On March 27, Bob Dylan released on the Internet “Murder Most Foul,” his first new song in nearly a decade. Delivered in the aging, tender, and cracking voice familiar to fans who caught his recent global tour, the song unfolds like an epic poem about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, and the music, culture, and mystery that still surround one of the most shocking events in American history.
“This is an unreleased song that we recorded a while back that you might find interesting,” Dylan wrote on his website early that Friday morning. “Stay safe, stay observant and may God be with you.” As I’ve listened to the song, over and over, during these last traumatic weeks, I’ve come to see “Murder Most Foul” as Dylan’s gift to the world at another terrible moment in our history, when our leaders have failed us and we are living through a calamity that seems to have no end. Like Kennedy’s murder in 1963, the federal government’s utter failure to protect the people in 2020 is a collapse of biblical proportions.
President Trump’s slow, cowardly, and stupendously foolish response to Covid-19 has allowed this nation to become the epicenter of the outbreak, and surpassed George W. Bush’s monumental blindness to the drowning of New Orleans in 2005. With hundreds of thousands of people in mortal danger and millions without jobs, health care, or hope, the country faces an existential crisis comparable to the Civil War, the Great Depression of the 1930s, World War II, the horror that unfolded after 9/11, and the terrifying future of climate change. High water’s rising, we’re up to our necks, and the specter of death is stalking the land: the perfect setting for a Bob Dylan song."
moar:
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/jfk-bob-dylan-and-the-death-of-the-american-dream/
i swear to Crom I will come over there! :D
punching old ladies and babies and shit! kek
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos adds $24bn to fortune
4 hours ago
"The founder and boss of Amazon has seen his wealth swell by $24bn (ÂŁ19bn) after soaring demand for online shopping sent the firm's share price to a new high.
Jeff Bezos now has a fortune of $138bn, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, cementing his position as the world's richest man.
Amazon has benefited from surging internet shopping by people forced to stay home during the Covid-19 outbreak.
The firm has been recruiting thousands of workers to cope with demand.
However, Amazon has also been criticised by employees in the US over workplace protection against the coronavirus.
Mr Bezos owns an 11% stake in Amazon and on Tuesday, the firm's shares rose by 5.3%.
The family behind retail giant Wal-Mart, which owns Asda in the UK, have also gained during the lockdown.
The Waltons saw their net worth rise 5% this year to $169bn, making them the world's richest family, according to Bloomberg.
With millions now working from home, online meeting site Zoom has seen founder Eric Yuan's fortune more than double to $7.4bn.
The Bloomberg Billionaires Index said the world's 500 richest people lost $553bn so far this year.
Investors in the global oil and gas industries have seen sharp drops in net worth as crude prices plunged on reduced global demand and a row - now resolved - about oil production between Saudi Arabia and Russia."
Moar:
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52289657