{"left":[{"id":"Sad-News-Of-Mazzeos-Passing","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2022-08-06T00:00-04:00","headline":"Sad News Of Mazzeos Passing","headlineText":"

Sad News of\nMAZZEO's\nPassing

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Sad News of MAZZEO's Passing

","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"My heart aches. We received the sad news this afternoon that James Mazzeo, “Mazz,\" has passed away after suffering an illness. I (and other Rusties) got to know him a bit over the years when we would gather for the International Rust Fest (IRF) in the greater Greendale area for the Bridge School Benefit. He graciously and generously hosted us in his Santa Cruz galleries as well as several years as his favorite spot, Olita’s on the SC Wharf. The last couple of years were at his friend’s Tramonti Italian Restaurant. Mazz really seemed to enjoy our company and he generously shared many stories of his years in the RnR business, from Moby Grape, to Boston, to CSNY and The Band, the Ducks and the Malibu days. He was especially proud of having served in the Coast Guard. \n\n![art-mazzeo-paintingbarngifts](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/1l8W2YxVfGNaQoaaCWPt5k/a5c1052a3d57fca52d714de1df82a56e/art-mazzeo-paintingbarngifts.jpg)\n\nHe would ply us with many stories and anecdotes. The Star Academy and meeting you for the first time. He always laughed when he shared about your surprised introduction to the elevated redwood conveyance. During the pandemic, I hosted several Rustie Zoom meetings. On occasion, Mazz would pop in and say hello to everyone and share a story or two. My favorite story related about how he was once asked, during the 1st Malibu residence, to take the hearse to run an errand for certain supplies up the PCH a bit. As he was driving along, he heard a rustling in the back. When he pulled over to check it out, to his great surprise Bob Dylan rolled out from what had served as a crash pad from the festivities the night before. Mazz offered to return Bob to your place, but Bob declined and instead began thumbing his way back. Over the years, that story had several variations, so I picked my favorite iteration here. I do hope that he did get to record his memories, as he had the best seat in the house of life. In late 2020 or early 2021, on Zoom he did spill the beans about the upcoming Ducks release which he said would be released near his 77th birthday in April 2021. He swore us to secrecy on that one. He was excited about the prospect and loved telling about booking the Ducks’ pop-up shows by displacing scheduled bands and paying their performance fees and distributing tickets to the band. I always thought it would be rude to record these conversations, but he assured that he was relating his stories to others for publication, someday. \n\nOver the years I’ve collected a few modest Mazz artworks and prints. This past winter, I bargained for an art piece with the condition that I would get to pick it up personally in the spring. But due to life getting in the way, the spring trip was put off. When things were finally settled down here, I attempted to call Mazz several times but was met with a full inbox. That’s when I noticed he hadn’t shared his works in progress or his beloved nature walks in several weeks. A couple of weeks ago, I was able to track down the bad news that he had been taken ill. But I was sworn to secrecy as Mazz desired to keep this part of his life private. \n\nWhile Mazz was very open about his experiences, he was always very loyal to you and your family, never sharing anything that could be even remotely construed as negative (except the claim that your were terrorized on the redwood lift! Lol). He called out anyone who would make a disparaging remark about you and yours. He loved you all and it showed. As a matter of fact, he had much love for all his friends and fans. He was a kind and generous soul. With his passing, we can only have faith that he has found everything he was looking for. \n\nPeace & Love,
\nChuck Naughton","bodyText":"My heart aches. We received the sad news this afternoon that James Mazzeo, “Mazz,\" has passed away after suffering an illness. I (and other Rusties) got to know him a bit over the years when we would gather for the International Rust Fest (IRF) in the greater Greendale area for the Bridge School Benefit. He graciously and generously hosted us in his Santa Cruz galleries as well as several years as his favorite spot, Olita’s on the SC Wharf. The last couple of years were at his friend’s Tramonti Italian Restaurant. Mazz really seemed to enjoy our company and he generously shared many stories of his years in the RnR business, from Moby Grape, to Boston, to CSNY and The Band, the Ducks and the Malibu days. He was especially proud of having served in the Coast Guard. \n\n![art-mazzeo-paintingbarngifts](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/1l8W2YxVfGNaQoaaCWPt5k/a5c1052a3d57fca52d714de1df82a56e/art-mazzeo-paintingbarngifts.jpg)\n\nHe would ply us with many stories and anecdotes. The Star Academy and meeting you for the first time. He always laughed when he shared about your surprised introduction to the elevated redwood conveyance. During the pandemic, I hosted several Rustie Zoom meetings. On occasion, Mazz would pop in and say hello to everyone and share a story or two. My favorite story related about how he was once asked, during the 1st Malibu residence, to take the hearse to run an errand for certain supplies up the PCH a bit. As he was driving along, he heard a rustling in the back. When he pulled over to check it out, to his great surprise Bob Dylan rolled out from what had served as a crash pad from the festivities the night before. Mazz offered to return Bob to your place, but Bob declined and instead began thumbing his way back. Over the years, that story had several variations, so I picked my favorite iteration here. I do hope that he did get to record his memories, as he had the best seat in the house of life. In late 2020 or early 2021, on Zoom he did spill the beans about the upcoming Ducks release which he said would be released near his 77th birthday in April 2021. He swore us to secrecy on that one. He was excited about the prospect and loved telling about booking the Ducks’ pop-up shows by displacing scheduled bands and paying their performance fees and distributing tickets to the band. I always thought it would be rude to record these conversations, but he assured that he was relating his stories to others for publication, someday. \n\nOver the years I’ve collected a few modest Mazz artworks and prints. This past winter, I bargained for an art piece with the condition that I would get to pick it up personally in the spring. But due to life getting in the way, the spring trip was put off. When things were finally settled down here, I attempted to call Mazz several times but was met with a full inbox. That’s when I noticed he hadn’t shared his works in progress or his beloved nature walks in several weeks. A couple of weeks ago, I was able to track down the bad news that he had been taken ill. But I was sworn to secrecy as Mazz desired to keep this part of his life private. \n\nWhile Mazz was very open about his experiences, he was always very loyal to you and your family, never sharing anything that could be even remotely construed as negative (except the claim that your were terrorized on the redwood lift! Lol). He called out anyone who would make a disparaging remark about you and yours. He loved you all and it showed. As a matter of fact, he had much love for all his friends and fans. He was a kind and generous soul. With his passing, we can only have faith that he has found everything he was looking for. \n\nPeace & Love,
\nChuck Naughton","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"3Z6noYxe4hgSShZZO2iIqS","updatedAt":"2022-08-06T18:18:39.121Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"8-6-22","releaseDate":{"year":2022,"month":8,"day":6}},{"id":"A-Message-From-Neil-Making-A-Record-Today","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2022-07-07T00:00-04:00","headline":"A Message From Neil Making A Record Today","headlineText":"

A MESSAGE\nFROM NEIL

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MAKING A\nRECORD TODAY

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A MESSAGE FROM NEIL

\n![VIEWPOINT-a-message-from-NEIL-1408](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/hBMpxUDVhsIbz2Deu7U1U/4de575e40a02888a239196c09da2b54a/VIEWPOINT-a-message-from-NEIL-1408.jpg)\n

photo: Michael Miller

MAKING A RECORD TODAY

","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"The new album is finished. Now comes the long wait for manufacturing vinyl. Listeners want vinyl for its quality and it’s worth waiting for. I would love this record to be out now but it won’t be out until later in this year. A couple of months before its release, some tracks will be featured to stimulate pre-orders, appearing one at a time for a couple of months.\n\nThe music on this album of course is very special to me. I want you to hear it right now. Back in the day, I would take a vinyl test to a DJ in LA somewhere and get the new record on the air waves. That was exciting. Feedback was instantaneous. People would call up the station and comment on the new music.\n\nNow, with this recording, something special is happening and we know we have a good one. It’s too early to say any more because in this world things come and go so fast. But real magic lasts and we think we have it.\n\nRick Rubin and I have produced the record and made the vinyl. That first edition will be improved upon when it gets to CD, but essentially it will be what it is on the vinyl. So it’s too late now to change the contents of the vinyl and some things will be a bit different in the digital versions, having evolved…not much though. \n\nBottom line is we are excited. We know we have something special, but we have to wait months for you to hear it. \n\nMusic lives. It’s the same band, Crazy Horse, but the music is unlike Barn, our last offering. Music lives!!!!!\nTwo records made in one year!!!!!!!
\nlove and be well
\nneil\n","bodyText":"The new album is finished. Now comes the long wait for manufacturing vinyl. Listeners want vinyl for its quality and it’s worth waiting for. I would love this record to be out now but it won’t be out until later in this year. A couple of months before its release, some tracks will be featured to stimulate pre-orders, appearing one at a time for a couple of months.\n\nThe music on this album of course is very special to me. I want you to hear it right now. Back in the day, I would take a vinyl test to a DJ in LA somewhere and get the new record on the air waves. That was exciting. Feedback was instantaneous. People would call up the station and comment on the new music.\n\nNow, with this recording, something special is happening and we know we have a good one. It’s too early to say any more because in this world things come and go so fast. But real magic lasts and we think we have it.\n\nRick Rubin and I have produced the record and made the vinyl. That first edition will be improved upon when it gets to CD, but essentially it will be what it is on the vinyl. So it’s too late now to change the contents of the vinyl and some things will be a bit different in the digital versions, having evolved…not much though. \n\nBottom line is we are excited. We know we have something special, but we have to wait months for you to hear it. \n\nMusic lives. It’s the same band, Crazy Horse, but the music is unlike Barn, our last offering. Music lives!!!!!\nTwo records made in one year!!!!!!!
\nlove and be well
\nneil\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"VIFwH9BMm21uCxlZcxEPX","updatedAt":"2022-07-07T16:33:48.115Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"7-7-22","releaseDate":{"year":2022,"month":7,"day":7}},{"id":"Bridge-School-Moms-Day-page1","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2022-05-09T00:00-04:00","headline":"Bridge School Moms Day page1","headlineText":"

Give your mother a gift that will\nchange a child's life.

\n![bridgemom1](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/63G4QgCVHLUhEzuviXLHxp/d7d7a61dfba8d7fb31fd05e14a01d955/bridgemom1.jpg)

Give The Gift\nof First Steps

\n![bridgemom2](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/4k6F33lnGywkxJJKdaFl2O/e9885b440e91014f3b39f42bf5a1f25d/bridgemom2.jpg)

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Give your mother a gift that will change a child's life.

\n![bridgemom1](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/63G4QgCVHLUhEzuviXLHxp/d7d7a61dfba8d7fb31fd05e14a01d955/bridgemom1.jpg)\n

Give The Gift of First Steps

\n![bridgemom2](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/4k6F33lnGywkxJJKdaFl2O/e9885b440e91014f3b39f42bf5a1f25d/bridgemom2.jpg)\n","titleDivider":250,"articleLayout":"single-column","excerpt":"Support our __Hands-Free Walker__ program and donate today.\n\n[Donate Now -->](https://www.bridgeschool.org/firststeps/)\n\nWhen Pegi Young envisioned The Bridge School, the vision started, but did not stop at providing an education for her son. Pegi’s dream was to improve opportunities for ALL children. She was a WARRIOR in that effort. With the help of her family, friends and supporters of The Bridge School, we are striving to ensure that Pegi’s dream comes true.
\n__— Dr. Vicki Casella, Executive Director of The Bridge School__\n\n![bridgemom3](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/5RecUHkJv1PAmDjhQOcrKz/00800ad0861bba28dcad9a55ea0969eb/bridgemom3.jpg)\n\nIt is impossible for me to think of the Bridge School's incredible work in education and advocacy without thinking of my mother, Pegi Young. It was her core belief that everyone, regardless of disability, deserves an education and access to accommodating devices that foster the ability to learn. She believed education is the foundation of access to the world and that education provides the tools needed for children to grow up confident and ready to participate.
\n__— Amber Jean Young__\n\n__Help The Bridge School make this dream come true for Pegi.__\n\n__Taking First Steps__
\nHands-free walkers allow kids to experience self-directed mobility or walking for the first time! The freedom and independence that comes with this experience opens new ways of exploring the world, accelerates learning, enhances social interactions, and builds self-confidence. These walkers help children like Mateo and Ariany take their firsts steps and embrace normal everyday kid life. Every child needs the benefit of these walkers and the amazing feeling of the ground beneath their feet.\n\n![bridgemom4](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/1fmGloW97ehstoeAjvUplo/6ccad49b0b8a05a96b86755d61bc0255/bridgemom4.jpg)\n\n![bridgemom5](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/7zpKtyO2nnaHDZ69dyb9V/9a0a88c8968ae460e908a5478f9b8523/bridgemom5.jpg)\n\n__Give the Gift of First Steps__
\nWe’re excited to announce The Bridge School’s first fundraising campaign of the year! The “First Steps” campaign is running now through July 1. We are raising money to provide hands-free walkers and first steps to children in need outside of The Bridge School. These walkers are a vital part of a child’s mobility and learning efforts. Please gift these kids with the ability to run, play and simply be a kid!\n\n[Donate Now](https://www.bridgeschool.org/firststeps/)\n","bodyText":"Support our __Hands-Free Walker__ program and donate today.\n\n[Donate Now -->](https://www.bridgeschool.org/firststeps/)\n\nWhen Pegi Young envisioned The Bridge School, the vision started, but did not stop at providing an education for her son. Pegi’s dream was to improve opportunities for ALL children. She was a WARRIOR in that effort. With the help of her family, friends and supporters of The Bridge School, we are striving to ensure that Pegi’s dream comes true.
\n__— Dr. Vicki Casella, Executive Director of The Bridge School__\n\n![bridgemom3](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/5RecUHkJv1PAmDjhQOcrKz/00800ad0861bba28dcad9a55ea0969eb/bridgemom3.jpg)\n\nIt is impossible for me to think of the Bridge School's incredible work in education and advocacy without thinking of my mother, Pegi Young. It was her core belief that everyone, regardless of disability, deserves an education and access to accommodating devices that foster the ability to learn. She believed education is the foundation of access to the world and that education provides the tools needed for children to grow up confident and ready to participate.
\n__— Amber Jean Young__\n\n__Help The Bridge School make this dream come true for Pegi.__\n\n__Taking First Steps__
\nHands-free walkers allow kids to experience self-directed mobility or walking for the first time! The freedom and independence that comes with this experience opens new ways of exploring the world, accelerates learning, enhances social interactions, and builds self-confidence. These walkers help children like Mateo and Ariany take their firsts steps and embrace normal everyday kid life. Every child needs the benefit of these walkers and the amazing feeling of the ground beneath their feet.\n\n![bridgemom4](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/1fmGloW97ehstoeAjvUplo/6ccad49b0b8a05a96b86755d61bc0255/bridgemom4.jpg)\n\n![bridgemom5](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/7zpKtyO2nnaHDZ69dyb9V/9a0a88c8968ae460e908a5478f9b8523/bridgemom5.jpg)\n\n__Give the Gift of First Steps__
\nWe’re excited to announce The Bridge School’s first fundraising campaign of the year! The “First Steps” campaign is running now through July 1. We are raising money to provide hands-free walkers and first steps to children in need outside of The Bridge School. These walkers are a vital part of a child’s mobility and learning efforts. Please gift these kids with the ability to run, play and simply be a kid!\n\n[Donate Now](https://www.bridgeschool.org/firststeps/)\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"4bgHTCji94YrLDaNdPpmOA","updatedAt":"2022-05-10T10:31:53.056Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"5-9-22","releaseDate":{"year":2022,"month":5,"day":9}},{"id":"Where-Am-I-map-page-1","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2022-04-03T00:00-05:00","order":2,"headline":"Where Am I map page 1","headlineText":"

WHERE AM I ?\n![whereami-map3](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/2F7CDkhgQT9yImxAZaQdTE/3c790c24fe67a63a582bd851b7287eef/whereami-map3.jpg)

CLICK TO FIND OUT

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WHERE AM I ?

\n![whereami-map3](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/2F7CDkhgQT9yImxAZaQdTE/3c790c24fe67a63a582bd851b7287eef/whereami-map3.jpg)\n","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":" ","bodyText":" ","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"5fzhLghsuBPqxdjduya98I","updatedAt":"2022-04-03T17:41:00.997Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"4-3-22","releaseDate":{"year":2022,"month":4,"day":3}},{"id":"New-Deep-Search-with-video-page1","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-08-31T00:00-04:00","order":1,"headline":"New Deep Search with video page1","headlineText":"![searchkeyhole-center](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/18Ds8MZRM85WYjFyhpSoj7/a04a9411f9e9917afd07728132ae3a67/searchkeyhole-center.png)\n

NEW DEEP\nSEARCH

\n","bodyHeadline":"![searchkeyhole-center](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/18Ds8MZRM85WYjFyhpSoj7/a04a9411f9e9917afd07728132ae3a67/searchkeyhole-center.png)\n

NEW DEEP SEARCH

\n","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"It not only searches, but __Deep Search__ sorts and presents the results in an organized way. Most searches just return a list of items in no specific order, but __Deep Search__ organizes everything to make it easy to use. It brings every bit of information that exists in the archive to the forefront, reaching deep into the archives and looking everywhere. It opens up the archive like nothing else we've done before.\n\nWe are pleased to announce __Deep Search__, a major upgrade to Search on NYA. As we’ve added thousands of new items to NYA, it’s become more difficult to quickly find what you are looking for, so this is a feature we’ve wanted to do for a long time.\n\nOur new __Deep Search__ engine will make it much easier for you to find just about anything on NYA - near instantaneously! \n\nWhen you __Deep Search__, the results will be displayed by tabbed category, including albums, songs, articles, etc. You’ll be able to jump to the results and return back to explore more results. \n\nOur new __Deep Search__ engine is now live. We are excited and know this will be a huge improvement in your ability to access and enjoy the archives. Enjoy NYA. \n\nCheck out our video of using Deep Search above. \n\nGet more info on using Deep Search at the [FAQ](/#/faq).\n\nBe well,
\nNeil\n","bodyText":"It not only searches, but __Deep Search__ sorts and presents the results in an organized way. Most searches just return a list of items in no specific order, but __Deep Search__ organizes everything to make it easy to use. It brings every bit of information that exists in the archive to the forefront, reaching deep into the archives and looking everywhere. It opens up the archive like nothing else we've done before.\n\nWe are pleased to announce __Deep Search__, a major upgrade to Search on NYA. As we’ve added thousands of new items to NYA, it’s become more difficult to quickly find what you are looking for, so this is a feature we’ve wanted to do for a long time.\n\nOur new __Deep Search__ engine will make it much easier for you to find just about anything on NYA - near instantaneously! \n\nWhen you __Deep Search__, the results will be displayed by tabbed category, including albums, songs, articles, etc. You’ll be able to jump to the results and return back to explore more results. \n\nOur new __Deep Search__ engine is now live. We are excited and know this will be a huge improvement in your ability to access and enjoy the archives. Enjoy NYA. \n\nCheck out our video of using Deep Search above.\n\nGet more info on using Deep Search at the [FAQ](/#/faq).\n\nBe well,
\nNeil\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"3guW2ksfItCEeZuIaBm5Nm","updatedAt":"2021-09-15T19:48:42.530Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"8-31-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":8,"day":31}},{"id":"Knockin-On-Genocides-Door-religion-page1","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-08-30T00:00-04:00","order":1,"headline":"Knockin On Genocides Door religion page1","headlineText":"

Knockin’ on\nGenocide’s Door

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Knockin’ on Genocide’s Door

","titleDivider":250,"articleLayout":"single-column","excerpt":"*Rev Billy is pastor at the secular earthy Church of Stop Shopping*\n\nWe are here at the highway-wide gash in the woods, that descends to the edge of the Shell River and then continues through the forest on the other side. Under our feet the Line 3 pipeline waits for its tar sands oil. 750,000 gallons under pressure is supposed to squirt through here every 24 hours. Enbridge Energy leaves signs along the tread marks of the bulldozers, threatening trespassers with arrest.\n\n“We” are Teddy Tam Tam, Brother Sunder and myself. We’re singers in a group of activists called the Stop Shopping Choir. We came from New York to these treaty lands of the Anishinaabe and Lakota in northern Minnesota. There was a call for allies by the RISE Coalition, R.I.S.E. Coalition - founded by indigenous mothers Dawn Goodwin and Nancy Beaulieu.\n\nWe joined their prayer-walk, mostly on the shoulders of highways, for 40 miles over several days, and brought food and singing to the historic effort. The prayer walk will arrive at the Minnesota state capitol on August 25, to DEFEND THE SACRED! STOP LINE 3! (Update on Aug 30: The occupation of the capitol was a big success, with speakers, singers and drumming, and tipis erected on the lawns around the statehouse. We believe the movement will grow to Standing Rock proportions and Biden/Harris will stop permitting Line 3).\n\n(Click Heading to Read More)\n","bodyText":"*Rev Billy is pastor at the secular earthy Church of Stop Shopping*\n\nWe are here at the highway-wide gash in the woods, that descends to the edge of the Shell River and then continues through the forest on the other side. Under our feet the Line 3 pipeline waits for its tar sands oil. 750,000 gallons under pressure is supposed to squirt through here every 24 hours. Enbridge Energy leaves signs along the tread marks of the bulldozers, threatening trespassers with arrest.\n\n“We” are Teddy Tam Tam, Brother Sunder and myself. We’re singers in a group of activists called the Stop Shopping Choir. We came from New York to these treaty lands of the Anishinaabe and Lakota in northern Minnesota. There was a call for allies by the RISE Coalition, R.I.S.E. Coalition - founded by indigenous mothers Dawn Goodwin and Nancy Beaulieu.\n\nWe joined their prayer-walk, mostly on the shoulders of highways, for 40 miles over several days, and brought food and singing to the historic effort. The prayer walk will arrive at the Minnesota state capitol on August 25, to DEFEND THE SACRED! STOP LINE 3! (Update on Aug 30: The occupation of the capitol was a big success, with speakers, singers and drumming, and tipis erected on the lawns around the statehouse. We believe the movement will grow to Standing Rock proportions and Biden/Harris will stop permitting Line 3).\n\nAs we stand at the pipeline, we are mindful that seven women, with Winona LaDuke among them, had submitted to arrest here two weeks before. The police, who made the arrests are paid in part by Enbridge. There are a lot of drones and helicopters, plain clothes spies and harassment arrests. This is the same benighted company that operated the DAPL pipeline that was stopped at Standing Rock, not far from here.\n\nOur thinking as we stand on this killed ground, and the source of our talk and our dreams for days to come…. Is that our idea of “direct action” has been conservative, even if it has put us in jail and the courts. When we watch the violence here, with the Earth and its indigenous citizens as co-witnesses, distances open up, greater stages open for dramatic resistance. The brutish hypnosis of the US’s consumerism and militarism is no longer surrounding us. The burning of tar sands oil is simply the wrong kind of fire.\n\nSunder, and Teddy and I came here to see the forest life flying and crawling and stalking and seeding back into this big square industrial vacuum. Everywhere, life is flooding into the hole in the forest, from the spiders swinging out over the agony of twisted roots down to the Bald Eagle on the bare branch over the river. The Earth is showing the way.\n\nWe walked for several days, carrying light-weight tents, with the prayer-walkers along the highway’s shoulder; we were on one side of the highway, hard by the exhaust-belching extraction trucks… but on our other side, away from the highway, we were consoled by the lakes bordered by manoomin, wild rice… \n\nWe shared and continued sharing how we felt about this force of nature coming up in us. We wanted to return to our old activism with this new power. Teddy and Sunder and I wanted to get back home to New York to testify in person, inside the banks that give Enbridge billions to break treaties and over-heat the Earth.\n\nWe’ll start with JPMorgan Chase and Citibank. When we walk into the back of the banks, where the executives sit in their suits with their wealthy clients, we will sing our song of the Shell River. We’ll sing the river right at their investment choices on the screens, sing with those harmonies you hear in the currents of water, and sing remembering the forest there, the loons and moose and trout in the stream. Can we change minds with a psychic flood?\n\nCan we bring to those banks the pipeline’s death trail, the scar across the treaty land, the living beings shifting back and forth from the forest to the industrial destruction? The struggle at genocide’s door needs to be common knowledge in the glassy 60 floor-high behemoths.\n\nCan we be the river itself? Will we still have this power as we lug our duffel bags from baggage claim in JFK? Water protectors are like a part of the river that got away. You can’t stop such a river. We believe that tributary of the Shell River will find its way to the black snake’s source, flooding the money-men with manoomin.\n\nWith heads full of activist dreams, it’s almost dark as we paddle back from the pipeline to “Shell City”, the white tipis shining in the trees. We’re happily exhausted as we walk into the encampment, where the native people sit in a circle around the fire, call out to us with hoots, then return to talking quietly.\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"1Oxg8Nce2UiwvlWLNy1nHk","updatedAt":"2021-08-30T20:28:05.343Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"8-30-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":8,"day":30}},{"id":"Official-Bootleg-Series-Reboot-page1","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-08-22T00:00-04:00","order":1,"headline":"Official Bootleg Series Reboot page1","headlineText":"

OFFICIAL\nBOOTLEG SERIES\nREBOOT

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OFFICIAL BOOTLEG SERIES REBOOT

","titleDivider":250,"articleLayout":"single-column","excerpt":"*__-Update__*\n\nThe Volume Dealers had completed the first 6 ‘Official Bootleg’ releases and were in the process of mastering. Originally, we envisioned launching the series all at once on a tentative schedule of April 2021. Suddenly the whole series would be available to all! Very exciting. But you know what happened…… Fires and Floods, Covid…..\n\nOf the six releases still coming to you, four are our own multi track masters, so they will sound amazing - much better than the original bootlegs you may have heard. One of the other two is the original tape it was recorded on. We remastered it. Here is what we have for you:\n\n__Carnegie Hall Dec 4 1970__ - first show. Only the midnight show has been released on Bootleg but this unreleased early show is the special one.
\nWe have our own mixes made from the multi-track recording we did that night. Henry Lewy in the truck.\n\n__Royce Hall. January 30, 1971__
\nThis is a beautiful show that had a very limited bootleg release. With our own mixes made from the multi-track recording we did that night, this show will sound like you are there. Henry Lewy in the truck.\n\n(Click Heading to Read More)\n","bodyText":"*__-Update__*\n\nThe Volume Dealers had completed the first 6 ‘Official Bootleg’ releases and were in the process of mastering. Originally, we envisioned launching the series all at once on a tentative schedule of April 2021. Suddenly the whole series would be available to all! Very exciting. But you know what happened…… Fires and Floods, Covid…..\n\nOf the six releases still coming to you, four are our own multi track masters, so they will sound amazing - much better than the original bootlegs you may have heard. One of the other two is the original tape it was recorded on. We remastered it. Here is what we have for you:\n\n__Carnegie Hall Dec 4 1970__ - first show. Only the midnight show has been released on Bootleg but this unreleased early show is the special one.
\nWe have our own mixes made from the multi-track recording we did that night. Henry Lewy in the truck.\n\n__Royce Hall. January 30, 1971__
\nThis is a beautiful show that had a very limited bootleg release. With our own mixes made from the multi-track recording we did that night, this show will sound like you are there. Henry Lewy in the truck.\n\n__Dorothy Chandler Pavillion. Feb 1, 1971__
\n“I’m happy that Y’all came down”. This was a quite popular bootleg when it first appeared.
\nAgain, we have our own mixes made from the multi-track recording we did that night and they sound unreal. Henry Lewy in the truck.\n\n__Under The Rainbow. Nov 3, 1973__
\nThe Tonight’s the Night Tour at the Rainbow Theater in London, ‘The Santa Monica Flyers’ are at the top of their game. Here we used the best sounding tape we could find. We had a lotf help from folks like Joel Bernstein.\n\n__The Bottom Line.
\n‘Citizen Kane Jr. Blues’ May 16, 1974__
\nThis New York club solo show is a collection of very early performances of new songs from the time. We have the original cassette the show was recorded on, and have mastered it. The Volume Dealers have made this show sound like you are right there. And of course- you are. A rare glimpse at many “first ever” performances, it’s a unique collection, the ony acoustic collection from that post ‘On The Beach’ period.\n\n__The Ducks - ‘Trick of Disaster’ August 1977__
\nRecorded in out our analog truck- ‘His Master’s Wheels,’ by Tim Mulligan, engineer-producer.
\nThe legendary Ducks:\n- Jeff Blackburn, ‘Blackburn and Snow’\n- Bob Mosley, ‘Moby Grape’\n- Johnny C (Craviatto) ‘legendary drum maker’\n- NY\n\nWe are fortunate to have recorded several of the Ducks’ shows in multiple Santa Cruz clubs during the Duck’s run in 1976. Tim Mulligan has mixed and assembled a multi-platter set from this legendary band. It’s unbelievable that we now have this collection for you. Songs sung and written by the Ducks will all be heard in full fidelity. Again, produced by Tim Mulligan in ‘His Master’s Wheels’.\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"3FBXgglT0cZt0yEyFtt4QP","updatedAt":"2021-08-22T13:26:46.403Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"8-22-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":8,"day":22}},{"id":"Two-New-Bridge-Shows-page1","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-06-16T00:00-04:00","headline":"Two New Bridge Shows page1","headlineText":"

TWO NEW\nBRIDGE\nSHOWS!!!\n![BB1988-89 PegiYoungTomPetty](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/1eH81eWupDB7Q9cHCgoJxp/845c025fbd0bdb1e875d409b42c38fcf/BB1988-89_PegiYoungTomPetty.jpg)

Pegi Young / Tom Petty

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TWO NEW BRIDGE SHOWS!!!

\n![BB1988-89 PegiYoungTomPetty](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/1eH81eWupDB7Q9cHCgoJxp/845c025fbd0bdb1e875d409b42c38fcf/BB1988-89_PegiYoungTomPetty.jpg)\n

Pegi Young / Tom Petty

","titleDivider":250,"articleLayout":"single-column","excerpt":"1988 and 1989 are now available to view. Proceeds go to Bridge School. Enjoy these historic shows. They are both amazing. SEE YOUNG NEIL! Great music. Support the Bridge.
\nlove
\nbe well
\nneil\n\n[Go To Movietone/Bridge School](/#/news/movietone?category=The-Bridge-School)","bodyText":"1988 and 1989 are now available to view. Proceeds go to Bridge School. Enjoy these historic shows. They are both amazing. SEE YOUNG NEIL! Great music. Support the Bridge.
\nlove
\nbe well
\nneil\n\n[Go To Movietone/Bridge School](/#/news/movietone?category=The-Bridge-School)","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"10PHJk7RbZJsIQB6pDSVkx","updatedAt":"2021-06-21T21:37:43.963Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"6-16-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":6,"day":16}},{"id":"Cowgirl-In-The-Sand-young-shakespeare-video","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-03-28T00:00-04:00","order":1,"headline":"Cowgirl In The Sand young shakespeare video","headlineText":"

COWGIRL IN\nTHE SAND\n'YOUNG\nSHAKESPEARE'

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COWGIRL IN THE SAND
'YOUNG SHAKESPEARE'

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DEJA VU Birds -\nCSNY

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DEJA VU Birds - CSNY

\n","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"When Graham and I recorded Birds, it was after a big CSNY show at the Greek Theater in LA - one of our very first shows. Graham and I sang’ I’ve Loved her So Long’ that night and it was a great version. We had found a blend. When we arrived in San Francisco the next day, Graham and I decided to sing ‘Birds’ in the studio there. We were just beginning to record. Then we made Deja Vu. Our version of Birds is now part of Deja Vu in the 50th anniversary set.","bodyText":"When Graham and I recorded Birds, it was after a big CSNY show at the Greek Theater in LA - one of our very first shows. Graham and I sang’ I’ve Loved her So Long’ that night and it was a great version. We had found a blend. When we arrived in San Francisco the next day, Graham and I decided to sing ‘Birds’ in the studio there. We were just beginning to record. Then we made Deja Vu. Our version of Birds is now part of Deja Vu in the 50th anniversary set.","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"3tXGrXrcu07nwCgHyy4pUK","updatedAt":"2021-04-18T13:59:54.357Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"3-17-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":3,"day":17}},{"id":"NYA-Volume-II-retail-release","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-03-06T00:00-05:00","headline":"NYA Volume II retail release","headlineText":"

NYA VOLUME 2\n![nya-volume2-bigday](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/5nP1Q2DitMk9nsvTQuxj61/27705519b23ac5fde893689ef48d0ee6/nya-volume2-bigday.jpg)

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NYA VOLUME 2

\n![nya-volume2-bigday](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/5nP1Q2DitMk9nsvTQuxj61/27705519b23ac5fde893689ef48d0ee6/nya-volume2-bigday.jpg)","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"The extended window of NYA exclusivity has come to end. We hope you had a nice time hanging out with us and Volume 2 these last few months. It has been very cozy, but it is time to let the rest of the world take it for a spin.\n\nNow, with the release of the retail version, NYA Volume 2 is officially out: available to stream on your 2nd favorite streaming service, to pick up at your local record store, and for sale through NYA from the Greedy Hand and xStream stores.\n","bodyText":"The extended window of NYA exclusivity has come to end. We hope you had a nice time hanging out with us and Volume 2 these last few months. It has been very cozy, but it is time to let the rest of the world take it for a spin.\n\nNow, with the release of the retail version, NYA Volume 2 is officially out: available to stream on your 2nd favorite streaming service, to pick up at your local record store, and for sale through NYA from the Greedy Hand and xStream stores.\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"UYKtJrU7Tg83kxcAGj97x","updatedAt":"2021-04-18T14:00:03.887Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"3-6-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":3,"day":6}},{"id":"The Times Vinyl page 1","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-02-19T00:00-05:00","headline":"The Times Vinyl page1","headlineText":"

THE TIMES VINYL\n![ny-thetimes-500](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/1Xn3s1VjYZFOdFMiiy4RGs/83bf4b796fd763a0c94f39725af8f60e/ny-thetimes-500.jpg)

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THE TIMES VINYL

\n![ny-thetimes-500](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/1Xn3s1VjYZFOdFMiiy4RGs/83bf4b796fd763a0c94f39725af8f60e/ny-thetimes-500.jpg)","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"Originally released this past September on CD via Reprise Records, and digitally in High Res through the Xstream Download Store at NYA, as well as at Amazon Music HD, ‘THE TIMES’ will be released on vinyl on Feb. 19th. These songs are a politically charged collection performed solo, including a cover of Bob Dylan’s classic ‘The Times They are a Changin’. ‘Lookin’ for a Leader 2020,’ originally from the 2006 album ‘LIVING WITH WAR’ was re-written for the times.\n\n(click heading to read more...)","bodyText":"Originally released this past September on CD via Reprise Records, and digitally in High Res through the Xstream Download Store at NYA, as well as at Amazon Music HD, ‘THE TIMES’ will be released on vinyl on Feb. 19th. These songs are a politically charged collection performed solo, including a cover of Bob Dylan’s classic ‘The Times They are a Changin’. ‘Lookin’ for a Leader 2020,’ originally from the 2006 album ‘LIVING WITH WAR’ was re-written for the times.\n\n

‘The Times’

Alabama
\nCampaigner
\nOhio
\nThe Times They Are A-Changin’
\nLookin’ for a Leader 2020
\nSouthern Man
\nLittle Wing

\n\n[Order Now](https://neilyoung.warnerrecords.com/the-times-vinyl-1.html)\n\nXSTREAM© HI-RES DOWNLOADS INCLUDED FOR ALL VINYL & CD PURCHASES AT THE GREEDY HAND STORE","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"2HoJoNUFVeDdyozfsuTejY","updatedAt":"2021-04-18T14:00:14.207Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"2-19-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":2,"day":19}},{"id":"51-Tracks-Added","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-01-23T00:00-05:00","order":1,"headline":"51 Tracks Added","headlineText":"

51 TRACKS\nADDED

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51 TRACKS ADDED

","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"51 tracks were added last week to the file cabinet. They ","bodyText":"51 tracks were added last week to the file cabinet. They are listed on page 10 in the column “New this Week”. Hurry up though because it’s almost next week! The 51 songs have infocards and many of them have special added notes for you to browse through. These are background / behind the scenes tracks and moments that are designated as outtakes, demos or singles. Many are now associated with the albums they were recorded during the time of. This gives hard core investigators something to get their teeth into. Most of them are in the earliest years. They are noted with “outtakes, demos or singles” tags in the File Cabinet. These 51 tracks are only the beginning. Expect more to arrive in the future from NYA.","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"5E2RtuXTV9Nx738hFkZs1Z","updatedAt":"2021-01-23T15:45:21.665Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"1-23-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":1,"day":23}},{"id":"Cinnamon-Girl-Single-Found","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-01-12T00:00-05:00","order":1,"headline":"Cinnamon Girl Single Found","headlineText":"

CINNAMON\nGIRL SINGLE\nFOUND!\n![cinnimangirlsinglefound](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/CFEEazPtHWjTY9ZTBrJhF/cc42d03556b74ee0f839eb47213e6ead/cinnimangirlsinglefound.jpg)

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CINNAMON GIRL SINGLE FOUND!

\n![cinnimangirlsinglefound](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/CFEEazPtHWjTY9ZTBrJhF/cc42d03556b74ee0f839eb47213e6ead/cinnimangirlsinglefound.jpg)\n","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"We have located the original Crazy Horse ‘Cinnamon Girl’ single. This is the one that started it ","bodyText":"We have located the original Crazy Horse ‘Cinnamon Girl’ single. This is the one that started it all for the Horse! When the mastering was done, the mastering engineer was told by reprise to fade it early to make it shorter. That’s how you got more airplay in those days!\n\nVery different from the one on the album, the single features Danny Whitten singing lead with Neil and Ralph Molina on harmony. Not the sound we have been hearing for years, this is the ORIGINAL!
\nThis mix rocks!
\nIt just goes to show that you never know what you are going to find at NYA! Sometimes discovery of our own oversights is the biggest thing we do!
\nThanks to all!
\n\n__Listen to this!!!!!
\nNYA__","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"2ydrXLy8PEBaPotRV6IqbM","updatedAt":"2021-01-27T12:00:25.503Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"1-12-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":1,"day":12}},{"id":"Black-Out-justiceforBreonna-page1","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-01-08T00:00-04:00","order":2,"headline":" Black Out justiceforBreonna page1","headlineText":" ","bodyHeadline":" ","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"[![justiceforbreonna](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/3tJkqtbO8ltPridNmJWrjg/144b89ca55a19b685bfd7ec073a8fef7/justiceforbreonna.jpg)](https://justiceforbreonna.org/)","bodyText":"[![justiceforbreonna](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/3tJkqtbO8ltPridNmJWrjg/144b89ca55a19b685bfd7ec073a8fef7/justiceforbreonna.jpg)](https://justiceforbreonna.org/)","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"7iBWHjG5K97Q36rISMqTfW","updatedAt":"2021-01-09T14:23:29.239Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"1-8-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":1,"day":8}},{"id":"Fight-The-Urge-To-Give-Up-Social-Distancing","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2020-12-11T00:00-05:00","headline":"Fight The Urge To Give Up Social Distancing","headlineText":"

FIGHT THE URGE\nTo Give Up on\nSocial Distancing

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FIGHT THE URGE
To Give Up on Social Distancing

","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"By Teo Armus, The Washington Post\n\nFor months, Barbara Ferrer, the public health director in Los Angeles County, has appeared ","bodyText":"![fighttheurgetogiveup](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/5vfZQd5nw42RcEvfViRv2C/f563e63dffa5b36e015681f47ee2c89e/fighttheurgetogiveup.jpg)\n\nBy Teo Armus, The Washington Post\n\nFor months, Barbara Ferrer, the public health director in Los Angeles County, has appeared beside a series of charts — infections, hospitalizations, fatalities — and tried to provide straightforward weekly updates on how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting her county’s more than 10 million residents.\n\nBut on Wednesday, with the number of deaths rapidly surging, she struggled to get the words out.\n\n“While this trend line provides a frightening visual of our reality, the more terrible truth is that over 8,000 people ...” Ferrer shuddered, catching her breath as she visibly held back tears.\n\nShe continued, her voice breaking, “Sorry. Over 8,000 people who were beloved members of their families are not coming back.” Ferrer called their deaths “an incalculable loss to their friends and their family as well as our community.”\n\nThat arresting, emotional response may have conveyed the gravity of the situation better than any graphs on the screen. Indeed, after nine months of steering the nation’s most populous county in its fight against the virus, it was the pandemic’s sheer human toll — more than 8,000 Angelenos dead — that prompted Ferrer to nearly break down on camera.\n\nOn a national scale, things appeared no more promising on Wednesday. The United States set a record for a one-day death total, crossing 3,100 dead for the first time since the pandemic’s start.\n\nThat staggering figure surpasses 9/11, the Pearl Harbor attack and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.\n\nFour states — Colorado, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Texas — were responsible for a large chunk of the total, with each reporting more than 200 deaths, according to data tracked by The Washington Post. Among the new cases was Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D), who said Wednesday he had tested positive for the virus and was isolating at home.\n\nWhile two vaccine candidates appear to be close to clearing final regulatory hurdles from the federal government, the rising daily death toll is a grim reminder of the pandemic’s continued devastation. In addition to setting a daily death record, Wednesday also meant a new high of more than 106,000 covid-19 patients in hospitals.\n\nIf current trends continue, as Ferrer noted, those figures may soon become fatalities.\n\n“We will bear witness to a significant rise in the number of people who are dying,” Ferrer told reporters during the daily briefing. As she spoke, a chart showed that Los Angeles County’s rolling average of fatalities per day had shot up by more than 250 percent in the past week. \n\nThe countywide surge, she noted, had also led to a worrying increase in cases among health-care workers. Last week, 1,745 infections were reported among the county’s health workers — about twice as many as the previous week.\n\nUnder an order from California health officials, the county has closed many kinds of nonessential businesses, temporarily banned outdoor dining and limited capacity in grocery stores, libraries and retail shops, in part because of the shrinking number of beds in hospital intensive care units.\n\nAs Ferrer has tried to enforce those rules, she’s faced death threats as well as a constant stream of protests outside her home. She has defended the rights of protesters, excluding demonstrations from the “safer-at-home” orders that started earlier this month.\n\nAmid the stressors of leading the response to the pandemic, she is not the first public health official who has been publicly moved to tears, or nearly to tears, over the devastation wrought by the virus.\n\nVerónica Casado, who leads the health department in the Spanish region of Castilla y León, began crying during an April meeting while reading the names of health workers who died on the front lines there.\n\nAnd in October, while noting during a news conference that Illinois surpassed its own daily record of infections, the state’s public health director, Ngozi Ezike, had to wait for tissues to be brought up to her podium.\n\nAfter composing herself, Ezike continued: “I’m sorry that that’s the message I have for you. Nevertheless, I’m asking you to fight the fatigue. Fight the urge to give up on social distancing.”\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"6M7ttk6SXgNCJhO7fvsUTy","updatedAt":"2020-12-11T13:41:17.776Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"12-11-20","releaseDate":{"year":2020,"month":12,"day":11}},{"id":"Covid-And-NYA","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2020-12-08T00:00-05:00","order":1,"headline":"Covid And NYA","headlineText":"

COVID AND NYA\n![covidwelcomenya](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/7kBmwbgudSPyR43w4rw2al/c0817ed00295db13f4297e7628bbb515/covidwelcomenya.jpg)

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COVID AND NYA

\n![covidwelcomenya](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/7kBmwbgudSPyR43w4rw2al/c0817ed00295db13f4297e7628bbb515/covidwelcomenya.jpg)","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"We are doing well here and feeling good. We hope ","bodyText":"We are doing well here and feeling good. We hope you are well too. Our hearts go out to all those families touched. If you are locked down, we are here for you with hours of listening and cruising around through the years in movies. We want you to enjoy what we have to share at NYA. \n\nAs a special gift for you - we will be showing TIMELESS ORPHEUM, a film made for NYA, coming very soon to The Hearse Theater.\n\nIt’s my music and our lives. Peace.\n\nThrough the holidays NYA and TIMELESS ORPHEUM will be available for everyone. Lots of Love,
\nbe well!
\nNeil and NYA","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"QWMkCQQjwnu11Iuk3jIU3","updatedAt":"2020-12-08T22:15:15.440Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"12-8-20","releaseDate":{"year":2020,"month":12,"day":8}},{"id":"A-Message-From-Neil-really-happy-to-see-the-results","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2020-11-25T00:00-04:00","headline":"A Message From Neil really happy to see the results","headlineText":"

A Message\nFrom Neil\n![VIEWPOINT-a-message-from-NEIL-1408](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/hBMpxUDVhsIbz2Deu7U1U/4de575e40a02888a239196c09da2b54a/VIEWPOINT-a-message-from-NEIL-1408.jpg)

photo: Michael Miller

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A Message From Neil

\n![VIEWPOINT-a-message-from-NEIL-1408](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/hBMpxUDVhsIbz2Deu7U1U/4de575e40a02888a239196c09da2b54a/VIEWPOINT-a-message-from-NEIL-1408.jpg)\n

photo: Michael Miller

","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"I have been really happy to see the results of our work being shared with all of you, from Outtakes we ","bodyText":"I have been really happy to see the results of our work being shared with all of you, from Outtakes we are sharing now to the release of Volume II, to the Timeline Performances we are introducing along with new tiers and more, I think our Archives is beginning to realize some of its potential.\n\nNext year more records than any other year in my history will be released. Some of them are already up on the TIMELINE, but many are not - ‘Road of Plenty,’ ‘Noise and Flowers,’ TIMELESS ORPHEUM’, and Alchemy are among the unannounced films and records still unscheduled as of this moment. You may have heard about the Official BOOTLEG SERIES, coming next year in a mass release of 6 albums, classic Bootlegs, many now heard from our original masters for the first time, preserving the original album art, while often expanding the songlists. Carnegie Hall 1970, we hope to release on record store day, with the other five close behind. Real Close.\n\nThe reason I am doing this is now is because I want this to happen so I can enjoy the reactions to these works. Not that I feel I am going anywhere, but there are many more things waiting in the wings.\n\nCovid 19 has provided the focused time for un-interrupted completion, bringing these records and films to all of us. \n\nI no longer wait for records to have a life and then release another. It’s another world now. The Archives is opening up.\n\nNew tiers, surprising new features, obscure content with the stories of how it all fits in, all this is coming right now.\n\nWe are enjoying ourselves here at NYA. The Surf Shack is humming as the Volume Dealers deliver. Niko Bolas and I have created three new albums for you - albums that are full of unheard gems.\n\nJ.Hanlon is working with me, producing NYA Volume III, slated for 2022.\n\nA series of Blu-rays and DVDs for limited release only here at NYA will bring all of our films to you in a tangible form in the next two years.\n\nIt’s a busy time here and we are happy to have you with us!
\nLove,
\nBe well!
\nNeil and NYA\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"5Adqu9F3oNH5lIqIdndcsN","updatedAt":"2020-11-26T14:21:02.029Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"11-25-20","releaseDate":{"year":2020,"month":11,"day":25}},{"id":"Hey-America-World-Premiere-video","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2020-10-31T02:00-04:00","order":2,"headline":"Hey America World Premiere video","headlineText":"

HEY\nAMERICA

Young Bob and\nthe Peterboroughs

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HEY AMERICA

Young Bob and the Peterboroughs

\n","titleDivider":250,"articleLayout":"double-column","excerpt":"The filming of ‘Hey America’ was done in the Covid 19 environment. One shot where we’re all standing ","bodyText":"The filming of ‘Hey America’ was done in the Covid 19 environment. One shot where we’re all standing together, singing without masks was done in three separate shoots with the same background and assembled in post-production to look like three people singing together. Stay safe.\n\n“I didn’t set out to become a songwriter and singer at 78 years of age,” Bob says. “It was and is an organic event. I was watching Donald Trump on TV a couple years ago and wrote down a few lines. When I got home, I found I could play those lines on guitar. Gradually, it became what it is now. It took a while to be able to play and sing the song from start to finish. When I could finally accomplish that, it was a victory.” Bob decided to record __“Hey America”__ after receiving encouragement from close friends and family including Neil, Daryl Hannah, Carrie Alice Williams, the song’s co-author Diane Marshall, and Blue Rodeo’s Greg Keelor. \n\n“The recording process all happened at once,” Bob continues. “I had never done that either. It was a band performance that had spontaneity. In another session, some vocal harmony was added, and Neil played harmonica. My perspective is simultaneously that of a participant and spectator. I am watching myself do this. All you aging baby boomers out there, give it a shot. As Yogi Berra put it, ‘It ain’t over ’til it’s over, and even then it ain’t over.’ I agree. I have more songs, all from the same creative spark.”\n\n__“Hey America”__ directed by CK Vollick with Bernard Shakey & dhlovelife\n\n__Young Bob & The Peterboroughs__ are __Bob Young__ (lead vocal and acoustic guitar); __Mike Belitsky__ (drums) and __Travis Good__ (banjo, vocal harmony) from __The Sadies__; __Ryan Weber__ from __The Weber Brothers__ (bass), __Melissa Payne__ (fiddle, vocal harmony); and __Neil Young__ (harmonica, vocal harmony). ","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"40BHF3AGox4iw0fzJQpQaS","updatedAt":"2020-11-17T11:37:31.786Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"10-31-20","releaseDate":{"year":2020,"month":10,"day":31}},{"id":"Hanlon-NYA-Numbering-System-page-1","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2020-10-30T00:00-04:00","headline":"Hanlon NYA Numbering System page 1","headlineText":"![jhanlonsnotebookheader-narrow](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/LtkE4DZT1fTbAKgoJc9Ef/16f8545579eb9121f9b55225b77d14c0/jhanlonsnotebookheader-narrow.png)\n

NYA\nNUMBERING\nSYSTEM

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NYA NUMBERING SYSTEM

","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"Neil and I decided several years ago that the ORS – read Official Release Series numbering would only apply to the record albums in his catalog that ","bodyText":"Neil and I decided several years ago that the ORS – read Official Release Series numbering would only apply to the record albums in his catalog that had been previously released that were going to be re-released many years after their original release date. In other words – “the second time”. And we are talking vinyl here, not specifically the web site. \n\nThat means that these newer studio records such as Silver & Gold, Are You Passionate, Greendale, Living With War, Fork In The Road, Monsanto Years, Earth, Peace Trail, The Visitor and numerous others - and right through last years Colorado will not be getting an ORS number designation until such time as they are re-released again for vinyl, and CD (possibly).\n\nYou will find this system in place on all of the vinyl records re-released in this fashion. That includes all of the albums contained in the first four box sets which means Harvest, After The Gold Rush etc through the soon to be re-released Eldorado that will round out Hawks & Doves, Re-Ac-Tor and This Note’s For You for NYA Box set 4.\n\nWe also decided that any compilation record such as Decade, Lucky Thirteen and for instance Greatest Hits will not get an ORS or Official Release Series number as they really are collections in most instances of previously released songs. So they should not qualify. And you will not find that series numbering on any of the re-released Decade album vinyl or Greatest Hits LPs for that matter.\n\nAs you can see, the numbering on the NYA website timeline has been treated somewhat differently. But those numbers are not the final ones and are subject to change. The bible if you will, is the numbering applied on the actual physical vinyl record albums and their corresponding CDs as they are re-released in these box sets and one offs. \n\nThe PS (as in Performance Series) numbers were assigned long ago in 2012 to live projects that Neil then had the intention of making available for a new release. But they are unique as they are live performances and as you can imagine, that list has grown as we discovered subsequent earlier possible bodies of live work that needed to have a number assigned. Where we had found a concert that fell between earlier number designations – well then the .5 fractional was added since other numbers were locked as assigned.\n\nThe SRS numbers for Special Release Series are less problematic as these are assigned to new releases of studio projects that had been done years and years ago but never before released. You will probably never see a fractional SRS numbered release. \n\nIn terms of ORS numbers for instance the fractional does appear but rarely. Such an example can be found on NYA box set 3 where the four studio albums or more correctly the next four original releases after Zuma were always American Stars & Bars, Comes A Time, Rust Never Sleep and Live Rust. It was only later that Neil decided to bring the Stills Young Band’s Long May You Run into the fold on that Box set 3, thus ORS 8.5 and five, not four albums in that box.\n\nTo follow through with your letter’s inquiry regarding Journey Through The Past, that record is a film soundtrack album of songs that are not all Neil Young performances and compositions. So it does not get an Official Release or Special Release designation, not yet anyway.\n\nYet Paradox was an SRS because we thought it deserved to be recognized as such even though it too was a film soundtrack record, but also because it was all Neil and Promise Of The Real and in any case mostly Neil’s compositions.\n\nIn summary, since we are talking about Rock ‘N Roll here, it is imperative to note that the first rule of Rock ‘N Roll is: THERE ARE NO RULES!\n\nSo that means we employ NO RULES, just guidelines that are subject to change and don’t always make sense. In this case the website information is subject to change. And in terms of original “Official Release Series” numbers, with the exception of perhaps Deadman (ORS 30) you will not find any numbering at all on original studio albums that are records in Neil’s catalog after This Note’s For You (ORS 20) until Eldorado vinyl is re-released as ORS 21, and that will be the first time it has ever been on vinyl anywhere let alone released in the United States.\n\nI hope this clarifies or further confuses you, whichever is desired!\n\nSenior Chief Hanlon","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"5NADUSarj0izgGKhkR5fdv","updatedAt":"2020-10-30T10:53:02.646Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"10-30-20","releaseDate":{"year":2020,"month":10,"day":30}},{"id":"Come-Along-And-Say-You-Will-video-preview","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2020-10-19T00:00-04:00","headline":"Come Along And Say You Will video preview","headlineText":"

COME ALONG AND\nSAY YOU WILL

An NYA V II Preview

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COME ALONG AND SAY YOU WILL

An NYA V II Preview

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UNDER THE\nRAINBOW

Official\nBootleg Series

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","bodyHeadline":"![SurfShack](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/JB4Dy7Ai8gnnX2FAch45F/222c5c6256dee67117573e394f4951c0/SurfShack.png)\n

UNDER THE RAINBOW
Official Bootleg Series

\n![undertherainbow-bootleg](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/6N3x53RfjoZuHTRKPJPc07/8b5207cdb68af423e9ad825fed791d45/undertherainbow-bootleg.jpg)","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"The Santa Monica Flyers at *The Rainbow Theater* in London. This is a very unique ","bodyText":"The Santa Monica Flyers at *The Rainbow Theater* in London. This is a very unique audience recording.
\nFor our NYA official Bootleg series, the Volume Dealers have remastered in the Surf Shack from tape and the sound is like nothing else. \n\nThe Flyer’s performance is mindless. Free. These are the kind of shows you get after being on the road for quite a while. . .
\nRalph’s drumming is unbelievable. Nils and Ben are on fire. Billy is great. What a trip!\n\nNoted NYA reporter Scoop Ashphalt said of ‘Under the Rainbow’s’ - ‘Cowgirl in the Sand’ encore . . . . “it’s Miles Davis meets the Monkees. . . . ‘Tonight’s the Night’ in its entirety . . . . . heard as never before.” \n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"7gCiQ4VIkJna5eeuoLjhhj","updatedAt":"2020-10-23T04:44:34.088Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"10-15-20","releaseDate":{"year":2020,"month":10,"day":15}},{"id":"Lincvolt-Episode-2-page-1","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2020-10-13T00:00-04:00","headline":"LIncvolt Episode 2 page 1","headlineText":"

LINCVOLT\nEPISODE 2\n![lincvolt-episode-2-at-hearse](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/2JpC5at5ZZbNr5shI2qVxZ/ef6d80433109263996cd855bbc0f6573/lincvolt-episode-2-at-hearse.jpg)

At The Hearse\nTheater now!

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LINCVOLT EPISODE 2

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At The Hearse Theater now!

","excerpt":"We continue sharing this ‘work in progress’ with you. Our series about the ","bodyText":"We continue sharing this ‘work in progress’ with you. Our series about the story of Lincvolt is an unfolding journey! \n\nLarry Johnson and I travel arrive in Wichita to get a 1959 Continental electrified. Come along for the ride . . . . the second of five episodes.\n\nWatch it now at the
\n[HEARSE THEATER](/#/movie-night/subscriber-features/)\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"vkFjK1dg8mumyPY8wCH0u","updatedAt":"2020-10-13T20:00:34.835Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"10-13-20","releaseDate":{"year":2020,"month":10,"day":13}},{"id":"The-Bottom-Line-bootleg-songs","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2020-10-07T00:00-04:00","headline":"The Bottom Line bootleg songs","headlineText":"

THE BOTTOM\nLINE\n![thebottomline-playingbootleg](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/5TnLLUDF5gvcUDSdFBIVqz/a89e9694820406c8b6d6206f92b6d488/thebottomline-playingbootleg.jpg)

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THE BOTTOM LINE

\n![thebottomline-playingbootleg](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/5TnLLUDF5gvcUDSdFBIVqz/a89e9694820406c8b6d6206f92b6d488/thebottomline-playingbootleg.jpg)","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"In 1974, on May 16th about 2:30 am in a famous NYC ","bodyText":"In 1974, on May 16th about 2:30 am in a famous NYC music club located in Greenwich Village called ‘The Bottom Line,’ I climbed onto the stage with my guitar and played eleven songs, including many new unreleased ones plus three that had never been played in the studio or anywhere - ‘Citizen Cane Jr Blues,’ ‘Long May You Run’ and ‘Pardon My Heart’.\n\nThis picture from a CSNY tour is from the bootleg cover and we always copy the bootleg.\n\nThat late night, ‘The Bottom Line’ set went like this:\n\n- Citizen Cane Jr. Blues\n- Long May You Run\n- Greensleeves\n- Ambulance Blues*\n- Helpless\n- Revolution Blues*\n- On the Beach*\n- Roll Another Number\n- Motion Pictures*\n- Pardon My Heart\n- Dance, Dance, Dance\n\nIn my mind it’s a hazy memory, but this moment really captures the essence of where I was in 1974.
\nTwo months later, the album ‘On The Beach*’ was released, including songs I played that night - ‘Ambulance Blues,’ ‘Revolution Blues,’ ‘On the Beach’ and ‘Motion Pictures.’ \n\nFolks at ‘The Bottom Line’ heard seven new songs for the first time. I just remember I was 28 years old, bare and letting it all out.\n\n*‘The Bottom Line - “Citizen Cane Jr. Blues”’* is part of the official Bootleg Series now in production and is scheduled for release by Shakey Pictures Records in first quarter 2021. This first edition of the NYA ‘Official Bootleg Series’ will contain at least six complete Bootleg series offerings, the majority of which are from our own original master recordings.
\nProduced by ‘The Volume Dealers,’ these six albums will provide the highest quality listening available.\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"f8Y8JfgVWJDP5s24UtpJ6","updatedAt":"2020-10-19T14:42:26.022Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"10-7-20","releaseDate":{"year":2020,"month":10,"day":7}},{"id":"Vinyl-Plants-Unable-To-Keep-Up-With-Schedules","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2020-09-19T00:00-04:00","headline":"Vinyl Plants Unable To Keep Up With Schedules","headlineText":"

VINYL PLANTS\nUNABLE TO\nKEEP UP WITH\nSCHEDULES!

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VINYL PLANTS UNABLE TO KEEP UP WITH SCHEDULES!

","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"Here are the latest details:\n\nReturn To Greendale \n","bodyText":"![ny-eldorado-500](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/3lPDtrvUg6CEm6WTVPVTYv/30137e589f62232632b0925560155bd9/ny-eldorado-500.jpg)\n\nHere are the latest details:\n\n__Return To Greendale__
\nrelease date remains at 11/06
\nannouncement and preorder date moves up one week earlier to 9/25\n\n__Archives II__
\nrelease date remains at 11/20
\nannouncement and preorder date moves to 10/16\n\nThere are likely release date changes for “Way Down In The Rust Bucket” and “Young Shakespeare”
\nWe have not heard about ‘Eldorado’
\nWe’ll keep you posted as soon as they are confirmed. \n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"1KvrC2nAeCHMP7khaGFr0c","updatedAt":"2020-09-19T19:39:23.103Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"9-19-20","releaseDate":{"year":2020,"month":9,"day":19}},{"id":"Terrific-News-Covid-19-almost-gone","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2020-09-14T00:00-04:00","headline":"Terrific News Covid 19 almost gone","headlineText":"

Terrific News!\n

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Terrific News!\n

","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"Covid 19 is almost gone and Climate ","bodyText":"Covid 19 is almost gone and Climate Change is not causing fires in California and the West. The President is beginning a Reassurance Rally tour inside small venues.","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"6hmMZ8y6g3264Fb4ZGUaQb","updatedAt":"2020-09-14T22:47:09.881Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"9-14-20","releaseDate":{"year":2020,"month":9,"day":14}},{"id":"A-Message-From-Neil-NYA-And-Amazon","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2020-09-03T00:00-04:00","headline":"A Message From Neil NYA And Amazon","headlineText":"

A MESSAGE\nFROM NEIL\n![VIEWPOINT-a-message-from-NEIL-1408](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/hBMpxUDVhsIbz2Deu7U1U/4de575e40a02888a239196c09da2b54a/VIEWPOINT-a-message-from-NEIL-1408.jpg)

photo: Michael Miller

NYA and\nAMAZON

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A MESSAGE FROM NEIL

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photo: Michael Miller

NYA and AMAZON

","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"I want you to know that I am releasing all my music from 1963-2020 on AMAZON HD. Amazon is the ","bodyText":"I want you to know that I am releasing all my music from 1963-2020 on AMAZON HD. Amazon is the only company with the audio quality and reach to bring my music to the masses in the High res you deserve. \n\nAmazon was the first and only major corporation to offer streaming music in High res, beginning a year ago. I supported the move then and I support it now.\n\nWe have a new release - ‘The Times’, an ‘Amazon Original,’ only available on AMAZON HD Music and NYA (neilyoungarchives.com). At Amazon, just as on NYA, you hear what we made when you hear it for the first time - not some watered down, cheap version like what would have been streamed on Apple or Spotify.\n\nAfter three months ‘The Times’ will be available for streaming to music lovers everywhere, including Qobuz, the only other High res streaming service. \n\nOur great NYA Vinyl and CDs are always available in all outlets.\n\nWe tried for years to get Apple and GOOGLE to step up to high res. When we reached out to them, their executives told us people couldn’t hear the difference.\n\nWhen Amazon held meetings a year or so back to introduce their visionary High res music initiative to the 100 or so staff who would be supporting it, most who attended the meetings were skeptical at first. But once it was demonstrated, they were all quite surprised by how much better it sounded. In a playback comparison between low-res offered by Spotify and Apple and AMAZON HD, they all could hear and feel the difference.\n\nBecause of Amazon’s High res quality and worldwide reach, I choose AMAZON HD over all. My released music is now available at Amazon, to be experienced in High res for my fans around the world.\n\nNYA is where all of my music and films (including many currently unreleased into the mainstream) are now available and previewed for music loving subscribers. Access my music in High res quality at neilyoungarchives.com and NYA at AMAZON HD. \n\nIf you would rather not purchase from AMAZON for any reason, NYA is always there to serve you. \n\n“Quality whether you want it or not,” as my old friend L.A. Johnson always said.
\nny","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"w0O9wHbuohPLNuH4JT1T2","updatedAt":"2020-09-03T16:32:56.447Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"9-3-20","releaseDate":{"year":2020,"month":9,"day":3}},{"id":"NYA-Times-Contrarian-New-Pages-Coming","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2020-08-30T00:00-04:00","headline":"NYA Time Contrarian New Pages Coming","headlineText":"![nyatimecontrarian-newpages](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/3ixu2Zu2c06BVQLwSArDTg/4682d957b344532d0878f53d53025fe8/nyatimecontrarian-newpages.jpg)\n

New pages\ncoming to the\nTimes Contrarian

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New pages coming to the Times Contrarian

","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"We have too much bad news in politics and need to get it off the front page of the Times ","bodyText":"We have too much bad news in politics and need to get it off the front page of the Times Contrarian. We’re putting music back on top where it belongs. \n\n__NYA POLITICAL SALAD__
\nGet your greens and Dressing on this page. Blend them as you wish in your own political salad. Both sides represented so our Republican or Trumpism supporters have their story told along with Democrats and everything else that makes up the fabric of the political world.\n\n__NYA LISTENING__
\nWe will keep you updated on the best ways to hear your music, from NYA or other sources. Find out how to get all the sound thats in your phone into your ears and into your heart.\n\n__NYA BLACK LIVES MATTER__
\nIn a massive cultural change already underway, this is where you can see what is happening to our Black Americans day to day as we herald the beginning of the end of White Supremacy - in our government and our way of life.
\nThis will be a big story for a long time - because it has been hidden in plain sight for centuries right here in the USA.
\nGet ready for change.","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"7dXsydwopCL64xxdR7O2Ag","updatedAt":"2020-08-30T21:19:04.906Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"8-30-20","releaseDate":{"year":2020,"month":8,"day":30}},{"id":"Private-Prisons","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2020-08-19T00:00-04:00","headline":"Private Prisons","headlineText":"

Private Prisons

How They Are\nProfiting Under\nthe Trump\nAdministration

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Private Prisons

How They Are Profiting\nUnder the Trump Administration

","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"There are more people behind bars in the United States than there are living in major American cities such as Phoenix or Philadelphia. According to a 2018 report from the U.S. Bureau of ","bodyText":"By Hauwa Ahmed,
\nAmericanProgress.org\n\n![privateprisons1](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/5jOS8jWh9xRDAPMJ9bqNbd/9865673b9a47e007b3cdbc3faaf7e962/privateprisons1.jpg)\n*Getty/Jessey Dearing/The Boston Globe*\n\nThere are more people behind bars in the United States than there are living in major American cities such as Phoenix or Philadelphia. According to a 2018 report from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, nearly 2 million adults were being held in America’s prisons and jails. Of these 2 million prisoners, about 128,063 were detained in federal or state facilities operated by private prison facilities, a 47 percent increase from the 87,369 prisoners in 2000.\n\nIn 2016, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) inspector general initiated a review to examine conditions at a number of for-profit prisons that the federal government contracted with from fiscal year 2011 through fiscal year 2014. A report on the findings indicated that private prisons had a 28 percent higher rate of inmate-on-inmate assaults and more than twice as many inmate-on-staff assaults compared with federally run or operated prisons. Furthermore, the report found that for-profit prisons in the United States were more likely to endanger inmates’ security and rights. These problems were so significant that in August 2016, the Obama administration announced that it would begin to phase out private prisons.\n\nAs the number of incarcerated individuals in for-profit prisons grew, so did the number of immigrants detained in such facilities. According to a report by the Sentencing Project, about 4,841 immigrants were detained in for-profit facilities in 2000. By 2016, that number had soared to 26,249 immigrants—a 442 percent increase. In the wake of the DOJ’s decision to phase out the use of for-profit prisons, the Homeland Security Advisory Council reviewed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) use of private immigration detention facilities. Immediately after this review was announced, the stock prices of private prison company giants CoreCivic—formerly the Corrections Corporation of America—and the GEO Group Inc. dropped by 9.4 percent and 6 percent, respective. A majority of the council agreed with the view that DHS should begin to move away from using private prison facilities but recommended that while they were still in use, they “should come with improved and expanded (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) oversight.”\n\nFollowing the inauguration of President Donald Trump in January 2017, however, the administration immediately shifted course to robustly support private prisons. In February of that year, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions revoked the Obama administration’s initiative, and by April 2017, the DOJ began requesting bids for contracts to house federal inmates in private prison facilities once again. That same month, the GEO Group won a $110 million contract to build the first detention center under the new administration.\n\nThe fact that private prisons have serious, documented flaws raises questions as to why the Trump administration is so eager to support them. It is noteworthy that a pro-Trump PAC and the president’s inaugural committee have benefited from the private prison industry’s financial contributions. The Trump family business has benefited from the industry’s patronage as well.\n\nThis issue brief details how Trump administration policies have increased the migrant detainee population—and the profits of private prisons—as well as endangered the lives of migrants being held in detention. The brief then illustrates just how much money private prisons have spent in U.S. political campaigns.\n\n__Trump administration policies have increased the number of migrants in detention__\n\nThe Trump administration has implemented policies that have increased the number of migrants in detention. In early 2017, President Trump signed an executive order titled “Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States,” which instituted a massive expansion of immigration enforcement within the United States. It defined enforcement priorities so broadly that all undocumented individuals became subject to deportation orders, regardless of how long they had been in the country. The order represented a radical departure from the Obama administration’s approach, which prioritized the removal of migrants who had been found guilty of crimes. The executive order also directed state and local police to enforce federal immigration laws.\n\nSimilarly, in April 2019, current Attorney General William Barr rescinded a decision that enabled eligible asylum-seekers to request bond from immigration judges. This decision effectively instituted indefinite detention due to the fact that some migrants will now be held in detention for months or years before their cases are adjudicated. Moreover, in July 2019, DHS increased its application of expedited removal, a fast-track summary process for deporting noncitizens without a hearing from an immigration judge.\n\nLast week, the Trump administration issued a final rule in a legally questionable attempt to make changes to the 1997 Flores agreement, a long-standing legal agreement specifying basic standards of care for minors in detention. As interpreted, this agreement requires that minors not be held in unlicensed secure detention facilities for more than 20 days. If implemented, the administration’s changes would effectively cause undocumented children and their families to be detained in inadequate, unlicensed facilities indefinitely. According to the president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, “no child should be placed in detention … even short periods of detention can cause psychological trauma and long-term mental health risks.”\n\nAs expected, the Trump administration’s hard-line immigration policies have led to a record-high number of immigrant detainees. Currently, there are about 54,344 immigrants detained in about 200 detention centers across the country. In 2017, the last time ICE produced such data, more than three-fourths of the average daily detainee population was being held in a for-profit detention facility. CoreCivic and the GEO Group are recipients of more than one-half of private prison industry contracts. These companies manage the detention of immigrants seeking asylum, those awaiting hearings in immigration courts, and those who have been identified for removal. For every 100 immigrant detainees, 32 are in GEO Group facilities, and 21 are in CoreCivic facilities.\n\nA record number of immigrants have died in detention. Since 2017, 27 immigrants have died in ICE custody, including a transgender woman named Roxsana Hernandez. Johana Medina Leon, also a transgender woman, died shortly after being released from custody. Of these 27 immigrants, 21 have died in facilities that are owned or operated by for-profit prison companies. In June 2019, the government’s own investigators determined that conditions in major private prison facilities were “unsafe and unhealthy” and violated ICE’s own standards. Despite these failures, the industry is benefiting enormously. Trump administration policies around enforcement priorities and detention practices have led to an increase in the demand for detention space, which has resulted in record-high profits for private detention facilities.\n\nUnder the Trump administration, ICE has significantly increased its enforcement operations, which has directly contributed to the rise in the migrant detainee population. In order to achieve this, ICE has consistently exceeded its budget. According to reporting from Buzzfeed News, there were 52,398 people in ICE custody in May 2019. Congress provided funds for ICE to maintain an average of 45,000 people in detention per day in the latest budget, but with about 54,344 migrants in detention currently, the agency is overspending these funds by more than 15 percent. DHS has also increasingly begun diverting funds that had been earmarked for other agency operations to ICE in order to fund enforcement and detention operations. According to a Roll Call report, DHS intends to divert more than $200 million from other programs—including disaster relief programs—to fund immigration detention. This is the fourth consecutive fiscal year in which DHS has repurposed funds meant for other agency operations toward immigration enforcement.\n\n__Significantly increasing the number of immigrants in detention means record-high profits for private prisons__\n\nDuring his 2016 campaign, then-candidate Trump expressed support for expanding the role of private prisons and espoused hard-line immigration policies. The morning after his election, stocks in CoreCivic increased by 34 percent, and those in the GEO Group rose by 18 percent. The two companies have informed their shareholders that federal government contracts are integral to their profitability. In memos to their shareholders, both companies acknowledge that policies with the potential to reduce the U.S. detainee population constitute potential risk factors to their business model.\n\nTable 1 indicates the extent to which both CoreCivic and the GEO Group are dependent on three government agencies—ICE, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and the U.S. Marshals Service—for their business.\n\n![privateprisons2](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/7HYKYOVakgR22OFl3Nr6Q3/fa6d6fbd5d6a47bbdd0be7adc7522f00/privateprisons2.jpg)\n\nIn light of the fact that both CoreCivic and the GEO Group have depended on just three agencies charged with enforcement and detention operations for an average of about 48 percent of their revenues over the past two years, these two companies have a vested interest in the Trump administration’s punitive immigration policies to ensure that they remain profitable.\n\n__Conditions in private detention facilities endanger immigrants’ lives__\n\nIn FY 2018, DHS received $3 billion for custody operations. At least 75 percent of the detention facilities for which DHS contracts are privately owned or operated. Despite this level of funding, conditions at these detention centers remain dangerous, and detainees’ rights are routinely violated. A 2019 Office of Inspector General (OIG) report on an investigation of ICE oversight of its contracted detention facilities indicates that the agency routinely waives its own standards, including those meant to ensure the health and safety of detainees. Additionally, ICE often fails to include its quality assurance surveillance plan (QASP)—a key tool for ensuring that facilities meet ICE’s performance standards—in facility contracts and rarely imposes financial consequences for facilities that are noncompliant.\n\nAccording to the OIG report, only 28 out of the 106 contracts reviewed contained a QASP. The report also stated that between October 1, 2015, and June 30, 2018, ICE imposed financial penalties on only two occasions despite documenting thousands of instances in which facilities failed to comply with detention standards. The OIG also investigated three GEO Group facilities and found “egregious violations of detention standards.” All three facilities were found to have expired food, putting detainees’ health at risk. The GEO Group-operated Aurora, Colorado, facility failed to provide recreation and outdoor activities to detainees. At another GEO Group-operated facility in Adelanto, California, the OIG identified detainee bathrooms that “were in poor condition, including mold and peeling paint on the walls, floors, and showers, and unusable toilets.” All of these infractions violate ICE’s standards.\n\nAccording to a 2018 letter from the Office of Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-NY) to DHS, “Of the 298 transgender people ICE detained in FY 2017, 13% were placed in solitary confinement.” This not only has adverse effects on detainees’ mental health and well-being but is also against ICE’s rules. While there is existing Obama-era guidance on how to provide care for transgender migrants in ICE custody, the guidance is not mandatory. Due to ICE’s negligence, LGBTQ+ immigrants continue to face a higher risk of sexual violence than the general population. And as for-profit prisons continue to play an outsize role in immigration detention while providing substandard care, the health and safety of vulnerable populations such as LGBTQ+ migrants remain especially at risk.\n\n__Private prison companies are major players in political spending__\n\nAlthough private prisons have been ineffective at providing high-quality detention services, they have been effective at supporting political allies. In the 2016 presidential election, for example, the GEO Group and CoreCivic donated $250,000 each to President Trump’s inaugural committee. In 2017, the GEO Group moved its annual conference to a Trump-owned resort in Boca Raton, Florida. Additionally, the GEO Group contributed heavily to the campaigns of some members of the U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, the congressional subcommittee charged with funding DHS.\n\nThese companies and their employees also contribute to congressional candidates, donating overwhelmingly to those running as Republicans. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, CoreCivic and its employees have spent about $3 million on campaign contributions to federal candidates and PACs since 1990. Eighty-five percent of CoreCivic’s contributions to federal candidates since 1990 have gone to Republicans, while 13 percent of its contributions have gone to Democrats. Additionally, CoreCivic has spent $26.1 million on lobbying since 1998. The GEO Group and its employees have donated about $4.4 million to federal candidates and PACs since 2004. Since that year, 54 percent of the GEO Group’s campaign contributions went to Republican candidates, while 15 percent went to Democratic candidates.\n\n__Conclusion__\n\nThe Trump administration’s immigration policies as well as existing immigration legislation create structural incentives to increase detention, which has largely been achieved through the use of private prisons. This increased role drives these companies’ profitability while endangering the lives of immigrants through inadequate care and a lack of accountability. Special interests should not profit from immigration enforcement. Congress and the administration should hold private detention facilities that violate ICE’S standards accountable.\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"6tf3QSB8fDmtzwLOPP7PTI","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:27.109Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"8-19-20","releaseDate":{"year":2020,"month":8,"day":19}},{"id":"A-Message-From-Neil-upcoming-news","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2020-08-11T00:00-04:00","headline":"A Message From Neil upcoming news","headlineText":"

A Message\nFrom Neil

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A Message From Neil

","titleDivider":250,"image1":"//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/hBMpxUDVhsIbz2Deu7U1U/4de575e40a02888a239196c09da2b54a/VIEWPOINT-a-message-from-NEIL-1408.jpg","photoCaption":"photo: Michael Miller","excerpt":"Hi everyone. I just want you to know that I am aware the paper seems to have a lot of bad news and less music ","bodyText":"Hi everyone. I just want you to know that I am aware the paper seems to have a lot of bad news and less music news than I would like. This is just what is happening in America and we can’t just close our eyes and ears. It’s a real issue. America is in serious trouble. Democracy is threatened. Today is no time to give up. It’s time to double down for justice and democracy.\n\nBut we do have a lot of things being made ready for release here for you right now. Two Crazy Horse classics - ‘Way Down in the Rust Bucket’ on Dec 6, ‘Return to Greendale’ on November 6, and NYA Volume 2 on that same day - Nov 6 as well. \n\nNYA will be the place to get Volume 2. Pre-orders will be announced soon. All the NYA Volume 2 info will be coming right here very soon.\n\nIn these days, like you, I have been staying home as much as I can, and that’s a lot. I have been working, staying busy, with projects that have actually come into being because of the crisis we are sharing. For me, a project called “The Timeless Orpheum” has been taking my time. It is a concert film with a lot of twists and turns, telling my story and yours, our history together. It will premiere right here in the Hearse Theater - for subscribers only, before it is offered elsewhere. We have had a wonderful time making this movie and it will be exciting for us to see how you like it. After it is introduced here at NYA for a few weeks, it will be offered in general release. Maybe in blu ray, which is the highest quality product for movies, much better than streaming because the sound and picture are much more clear. We live in the streaming world now and quality is for the few who seek it. We will always have it for you here at NYA.\n\nBig news will be coming regarding how we sell to the general public. We know NYA is just a niche and the complete audience is not even aware of us as of yet. The public will have an easy way to get the quality we offer. That announcement will be coming very soon.\n\nAll the best, stay safe. Register and vote.
\nWe need change in the USA!
\nbe well,
\nlove
\nNeil\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"DsadYEHbYhqHBhaScakik","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:21.670Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"8-11-20","releaseDate":{"year":2020,"month":8,"day":11}},{"id":"Warner-Music-Pledges-Support","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2020-06-04T00:00-04:00","headline":"Warner Music Pledges Support","headlineText":"![warnerrecords-watertower](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/3alMcaBOhtUdwQxJdCNep/2377989fd75385905044c0c01eda9a1a/warnerrecords-watertower.png)\n

Warner Music\npledges support\nto social\njustice groups

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Warner Music
pledges support to social justice groups

","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"In a move that shows why I am proud to record for Reprise records, Warner Music Group and the ","bodyText":"In a move that shows why I am proud to record for Reprise records, Warner Music Group and the Blavatnik Family Foundation announced a $100-million fund Wednesday aimed to support the music industry and groups promoting social justice, specifically against violence and racism. \n\nThe two groups will appoint an advisory panel to identify groups that strengthen education and promote “equality, opportunity, diversity and inclusion,” according to a statement.\n\n“This fund will support the extraordinary, dedicated organizations that are on the front lines of the fight against racism and injustice, and that help those in need across the music industry,” Steve Cooper, CEO of Warner Music Group, said in the statement. “Our advisory panel, which will draw from a diverse cross-section of people from our team and the wider community, will help us be very thoughtful and accountable in how we make an impact. We’re determined to contribute, on a sustained long-term basis, to the effort to bring about real change.”\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"1OCOSkV80qstZIjVSOXh8Z","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:25.184Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"6-4-20","releaseDate":{"year":2020,"month":6,"day":4}},{"id":"New-Hearse-Theater-under-renovation","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2020-05-22T00:00-04:00","order":2,"headline":"New Hearse Theater under renovation","headlineText":"

NEW HEARSE\nTHEATER\n![PSD Movietone Screen 2underrenovation](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/6I4n1UHxX4AABD3jBDjImI/d1b7ab75225164e83d9fee0a854f6153/PSD_Movietone_Screen_2underrenovation.png)

Open During\nRenovations!

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NEW HEARSE THEATER

\n\n![PSD Movietone Screen 2underrenovation](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/6I4n1UHxX4AABD3jBDjImI/d1b7ab75225164e83d9fee0a854f6153/PSD_Movietone_Screen_2underrenovation.png)\n\n

Open During Renovations!

","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"The new Hearse theater, due before the next Fireside ","bodyText":"The new Hearse theater, due before the next Fireside Sessions, will look the same but have multiple screens available. Built to accommodate the traffic we are experiencing with the Fireside sessions and our Movietone curated offerings as well as our continuing series, our new Hearse Theater will include ‘free’ presentations and well as 'subscriber only’ presentations.\n\nThese features will all be available in one new Hearse Theater for everyone visiting NYA.","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"4HbSaemuuZgIZ6SpTp7Klr","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:43.777Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"5-22-20","releaseDate":{"year":2020,"month":5,"day":22}},{"id":"Fireside-Sessions-Breaks-NYA-Records","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2020-03-22T00:00-04:00","order":3,"headline":"Fireside Sessions Breaks NYA Records","headlineText":"

FIRESIDE SESSIONS\nBREAKS NYA\nRECORDS

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FIRESIDE SESSIONS BREAKS NYA RECORDS

","titleDivider":250,"image1":"//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/1funZmWNjFyo6KDz07R05p/2a04779cb793858dc0e54c915b5488f1/firesidesessionsbreaksnyarecords.jpg","excerpt":"Our most watched presentation of all","bodyText":"Our most watched presentation of all time is the beginning of a series at NYA.
\nFilmed by dhlovelife!
\nThanks and LOVE TO ALL!
\nNYA","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"6etE07LBYJk59tpuQDkBvG","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:35.182Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"3-22-20","releaseDate":{"year":2020,"month":3,"day":22}},{"id":"Fireside-Sessions-Begin","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2020-03-22T00:00-04:00","order":2,"headline":"Fireside Sessions Begin","headlineText":"

Fireside\nSessions\nBegin

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Fireside Sessions Begin

","titleDivider":250,"image1":"//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/5zYZYRHIlWzG36Ny5JoPRL/59839d9fbbf47758272fce2f0416d466/firesidesessionshowseriesstarted.jpg","excerpt":"NYA thanks you all for watching the ","bodyText":"NYA thanks you all for watching the Fireside Sessions. We will be keeping this one up so everyone can see it free. Tell your friends if you think they would like the sessions. We welcome all visitors to NYA to watch free.","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"7G75R2YHV1OsgZwDMauxgb","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:37.139Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"3-22-20","releaseDate":{"year":2020,"month":3,"day":22}},{"id":"Staying-With-Facebook","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2020-03-18T00:00-04:00","headline":"Staying With Facebook","headlineText":"

STAYING WITH\nFACEBOOK

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STAYING WITH FACEBOOK

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\nny","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"FIKKRm03Y1utHN9yBRa7D","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:33.163Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"3-18-20","releaseDate":{"year":2020,"month":3,"day":18}},{"id":"Go-To-Timeline-2020","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2020-03-10T00:00-04:00","headline":"Go To Timeline 2020","headlineText":"

GO TO\nTIMELINE\n2020

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GO TO TIMELINE 2020

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\nny","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"57SEuk6YskG0IWooMqwNqV","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:30.121Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"3-10-20","releaseDate":{"year":2020,"month":3,"day":10}},{"id":"Climate-Change-Bill-Designed-To-Shore-Up","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2020-02-26T00:00-05:00","order":3,"headline":"Climate-Change Bill Designed To Shore Up","headlineText":"

Climate-Change\nBill

Designed to Shore Up\nConservation-Based\nFarming

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Climate-Change Bill

Designed to Shore Up Conservation-Based Farming

","titleDivider":250,"image1":"//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/2fRWIxxByF3Gc0I74gB0QT/0aa4341e30d6a18d441b690425ebe630/climatechangebillfarming.jpg","photoCaption":"Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (center) talks with farm owner Penny Jordan (right).","excerpt":"By Bryce Oates, DailyYonder.com\n\nThe bill, introduced by member of Congress serving a rural Maine district, supports ","bodyText":"By Bryce Oates, DailyYonder.com\n\n__*The bill, introduced by member of Congress serving a rural Maine district, supports existing USDA programs to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.*__\n\nA new bill seeks to address climate change by expanding existing USDA programs that support conservation-based agriculture and greenhouse gas emission reductions on farms. The sponsor is an organic farmer that represents a majority rural District in Maine.\n\n“We’re not trying to reinvent the wheel with this legislation. We’re trying to expand the impact of programs that we already know are working but could use additional resources and funding,” Representative Pingree (ME-1st, Democrat) said in an interview with the Daily Yonder. \n\nPingree, who serves on both the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture and the House Agriculture Committee, is one of a handful of Democratic House members representing rural districts that has been supportive of the proposed Green New Deal. which he described as an “aspirational tool to bring about climate action.” \n\n1) R. 5861 “is designed to put comprehensive, practical plans on paper to cut emissions while improving the rural economy,” Pingree said. If enacted, the Agriculture Resilience Act would aim to reach the following goals by 2030:\n\n- quadruple the total federal funding for food and agriculture research and extension\n- restore at least half of lost soil carbon\n- reduce greenhouse gas emissions related to the feeding of ruminants by at least 50 percent\n- convert at least two-thirds of wet manure handling and storage to alternative management\n- triple on-farm renewable energy production\n\nPingree’s bill would improve funding of USDA’s Climate Hubs, provide resources for on-farm research and data collection on improved crop rotations, cover crops and using pasture-based livestock to enhance soil health rather than concentrating manure as a potential pollutant of rural air and water. \n\nThe Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) is supporting the bill. “This legislation is a breadth and scope and level of new investment that is commensurate to the crisis we are facing in terms of climate and extreme weather and effects in rural communities,” said Karen Perry Stillerman, Senior Strategist and Analyst for the UCS Food and Environment Program.\n\n“The bill makes things like the USDA Climate Hubs real, with legislative and an actual budget. Right now there are people within USDA who are performing this work on their own time. Imagine what they could do with an actual budget,” Stillerman said. \n\n“Things such as directing the RMA (USDA’s Risk Management Agency that administers federal crop insurance programs- ed.) to account for climate risk in their actuarial tables. That, to me, is taking the concept and making the impacts of climate change real” she added.\n\nAdditional research and science budgets at USDA could help with “refining systems,” according to UCS. Stillerman pointed out that most of available research is conducted by the private sector and focuses on maximizing crop yields of major crops like corn, or soybeans. \n\n“We’re not yet looking at the effectiveness of cover crop and cover crop mixtures, or looking at how we find the right cultivars…every piece of ground, every farm is different, and we really need that localized research…with farmers on the ground to figure out what works best and grows best in their local environment,” Stillerman said. \n\nThe National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) is also supportive of Pingree’s legisation. “We think this is the first real, substantive bill to offer opportunities for farmers to do what they do well, and that is to be good stewards of the land and to help us to begin to turn the tide against climate change,” said Eric Deeble, NSAC Policy Director. \n\nNSAC is also supportive of the bill’s focus on research, education, and extension. Deeble recognizes the value of the bill’s provisions that measure conservation outcomes of programs that are already in place, showing their impact and value.\n\n“The other component of the research section is to make sure that farmers who need this information come to know the science and data right away so that they can implement the scientific research much more quickly than they had in the past,” Deeble said.\n\nAccording to Deeble, a big component of the bill is focused on soil carbon and resiliency, additional investments in the SARE program, seeds and breeds research, integrated pest management, long-term agroecological research, and other production systems.\n\nThe bill also integrates climate change for priority points and scoring for farmers applying to participate in the nation’s largest conservation program in terms of acres, the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP). \n\nCSP has been repeatedly targeted for elimination by many Republicans, including President Trump’s budgets and throughout the 2018 Farm Bill debates in the House and Senate.\n\n1) R. 5861 also provides hundreds of millions of dollars in increased funding for farmers to install clean energy generation systems, such as solar arrays and energy-conserving heating and cooling equipment, through REAP (the Renewable Energy for America Program).\n\n“If the goal is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, REAP is critical for farmers to utilize modern technology to cut those emissions,” Pingree said.\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"180qnbuTFW1EPMv7uEfffb","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:40.509Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"2-26-20","releaseDate":{"year":2020,"month":2,"day":26}},{"id":"Japan-Builds-22-New-Coal-Burning-Plants","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2020-02-03T00:00-05:00","headline":"Japan Builds 22 New Coal Burning Plants","headlineText":"

JAPAN BUILDS\n22 NEW COAL\nBURNING\nPLANTS

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JAPAN BUILDS 22 NEW COAL BURNING PLANTS

","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"As many as 22 new coal burning plants to be built in Japan despite Climate Risk\n","bodyText":"As many as 22 new coal burning plants to be built in Japan despite Climate Risk.\n\n![japanbuilds22newcoal](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/5DkzylCvrErABnpqt6twE6/7ff3b1b8242dc48f38a3bb5b7725dcd3/japanbuilds22newcoal.jpg)\nSatsuki Kanno lives across the bay from a coal-burning power plant under construction in Yokosuka, Japan.
\n*Noriko Hayashi for The New York Times*","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"6q24vfyH99RVDIavKEJiWz","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:37.113Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"2-3-20","releaseDate":{"year":2020,"month":2,"day":3}},{"id":"Could-Iranian-Strike-Trigger-Draft-Explained","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2020-01-06T00:00-05:00","headline":"Could Iranian Strike Trigger Draft Explained","headlineText":"

Could the strike on\nan Iranian general\ntrigger a draft? The\nSelective Service,\nexplained.

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Could the strike on an Iranian general trigger a draft?\nThe Selective Service, explained.

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\n*Air Force veteran Mike Fitzgerald of Kirkwood, Mo., stands near a protest outside the federal courthouse in St. Louis on Saturday. Photo: David Carson/AP*\n\nBy Kayla Epstein \n\nIn the hours since the Trump administration announced that the high-ranking Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani had been killed in a U.S. airstrike, Americans wondered: Does this mean war?\n\nAnd for young people, there was a follow-up: Would I have to go?\n\n__Trump plunges toward the kind of Middle Eastern conflict he pledged to avoid.__\n\n![triggeradraft2](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/3Xe48gQLlphkL2x5MzG4i0/c81f9976be0bc4c328fadcb10455b254/triggeradraft2.jpg)\n\nThe impact of President Trump’s decision to order a strike against Soleimani has yet to be seen, and it has turned up the heat on America’s already tense relationship with Iran, a country the president has portrayed as one of America’s most dangerous adversaries. Google searches for terms such as “conscription,” “Selective Service” and “Iran” spiked, according to Trends data, as youthful social media users on platforms like TikTok and Instagram dealt with this collective political anxiety the best way they knew how: by spinning out endless memes about getting drafted in a hypothetical, but seemingly imminent, World War III.\n\nOn Friday, the website for the Selective Service, a federal agency tasked with maintaining a database of adult men who could be called upon should a crisis require a draft, experienced technical difficulties as people flooded the site.\n\n__Trump says Iranian military leader was killed by drone strike ‘to stop a war,’ warns Iran not to retaliate.__\n\nThe draft was suspended in 1973 because of intense public and political opposition to the Vietnam War, and Congress and the president would have to pass legislation to bring it back, should an emergency call for it. But America still keeps a database of all young men who could be called upon should the draft ever return.\n\n![triggerdraft3](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/7i8spKKgAcWf1GnwkPo07h/6e853829dcf1b0ab15cfe9e0ef068d53/triggerdraft3.jpg)\n\nEvery year, millions of young adult men are required by law to register with the Selective Service, “a relatively low-cost insurance policy for our nation,” as the agency puts it.\n\n__Killing of Iranian commander exposes Democratic divide over America’s role in the world__\n\nIf you’re a male residing in the United States between ages 18 and 25, you are required by law to register for the Selective Service. The mandate applies whether you’re a U.S. citizen, immigrant, or undocumented immigrant. Women are not currently required to register, and signing up for the Selective Service does not enlist a person in the military.\n\nFailure to register for the Selective Service could lead to criminal penalties and an inability to qualify for federal student loans and federal jobs. But would the latest escalation with Iran lead to a conflict so intense that the long-dormant draft would be instated, as the United States did during the Civil War, World War II, Korean War and, most famously, the Vietnam War?\n\nProbably not, said Patricia Sullivan, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who researches military policy.\n\n“I think there is almost no chance at all that the draft will be reinstated,” Sullivan told The Washington Post. “With Iran, there’s almost no chance that we’re getting into the kind of ground-war scenario that large numbers of ground troops would be needed and we would implement the draft.”\n\nSullivan added that the military is now so professionalized, and the cost of training each soldier so high, that it would not necessarily make sense to add a surge of new recruits that may not be qualified.\n\nThe people who had the most reason to be concerned about an escalation with Iran were the military forces already in the Middle East region, Sullivan said, not civilians who might be conscripted in a hypothetical draft.\n\n*NYA thanks New York Times*","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"3X20k9D7tPKoDv32mJI3UC","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:22.490Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"1-6-20","releaseDate":{"year":2020,"month":1,"day":6}},{"id":"Trump-Backs-Bayer-In-Court-Fight","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-12-27T00:00-05:00","headline":"Trump Backs Bayer In Court Fight","headlineText":"

Trump\nAdministration\nBacks Bayer in\nWeedkiller\nCourt Fight\n![TrumpBacksBayer](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/3wx9j2yLJkv7mqD1XinyJv/a75598b4b7626d9b80dcaa1028ba737a/TrumpBacksBayer.jpg)

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EPA, Justice Department\nfile brief supporting\ncompany’s arguments that\nRoundup weedkiller didn’t\nrequire cancer warning

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Trump Administration Backs Bayer\nin Weedkiller Court Fight

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EPA, Justice Department file brief supporting company’s arguments\nthat Roundup weedkiller didn’t require cancer warning

","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"Government lawyers argued it would have been illegal for Bayer to print cancer-risk ","bodyText":"Government lawyers argued it would have been illegal for Bayer to print cancer-risk warnings on Roundup labels.\n\nBy Jacob Bunge and Timothy Puko \n\nThe Trump administration is backing Bayer AG in the German chemical maker’s high-stakes court fight over the world’s most widely used weedkiller.\n\nThe Environmental Protection Agency, working with the Justice Department, filed court papers Friday supporting Bayer’s argument that glyphosate, the active ingredient in the company’s Roundup herbicide, poses no cancer risk. The filing backs Bayer’s appeal in federal court of a $25 million verdict in the case of a California man who blamed Roundup for causing his non-Hodgkin lymphoma, one of tens of thousands of similar cases.\n\nLawyers for both government agencies argued the verdict should be overturned because it would have been illegal for Bayer to print cancer-risk warnings on Roundup labels. They said Congress granted the EPA the sole authority over safety labels on chemical products, and the agency wouldn’t have approved a cancer warning for Roundup.\n\nWhile it isn’t the first time a regulator has weighed in on such a case, legal scholars said the filing would likely catch the appeals court’s attention. The federal government will often weigh in on cases when the interpretation of a federal statute is involved, they said.\n\nSeveral Roundup trials have been postponed in recent months as Bayer and plaintiffs’ attorneys try to negotiate a settlement as part of a court-ordered mediation overseen by Ken Feinberg, who helped divvy up compensation to victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.\n\nBayer is under pressure to resolve the litigation after the company’s shares dropped 23% since the first verdict in August 2018, with the company since then divesting several businesses and laying off thousands of staff world-wide. In the spring, investors refused to back the actions of Bayer’s management in a vote at the company’s annual shareholder meeting. Bayer acquired Monsanto Co., Roundup’s maker, in June 2018 for $63 billion.\n\nThe government’s filing reiterates the agency’s long-held view that glyphosate doesn’t represent a cancer risk, most recently upheld in a December 2017 EPA review.\n\n“EPA has a longstanding position—It’s not just this administration which determined that this pesticide does not cause cancer,” said Jeffrey Clark, the assistant attorney general of the Environment and Natural Resources Division at the Justice Department in an interview. “EPA should be in control. Congress set it up that way.”\n\nThat view is being challenged in U.S. courtrooms, where farmers and residential gardeners have pointed to the International Agency for Research on Cancer’s 2015 classification of glyphosate as “probably carcinogenic to humans,” while criticizing company-funded studies that the EPA and other regulators have included in their glyphosate assessments.\n\nBayer rejected IARC’s link between glyphosate and cancer, saying the agency cherry-picked some studies and ignored others that regulators have used to establish the chemical’s safety.\n\nThree consecutive juries ruled in favor of plaintiffs over the past year and a half, awarding hundreds of millions of dollars in damages. The EPA’s brief comes in the case of Edwin Hardeman in the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the only one of the three trials so far to take place in federal court.\n\nAimee Wagstaff, Mr. Hardeman’s attorney, called the appeal a “Hail Mary” and said courts have previously rejected the argument made by the company and the government that federal regulations should negate the civil suits. “We are confident the Ninth Circuit will also reject Monsanto’s argument and rule in favor of Mr. Hardeman,” she said. \n\nU.S. regulators and administration officials have stepped up their defense of glyphosate, the most widely used weedkiller among U.S. corn and soybean farmers, as the number of lawsuits balloons and some towns and countries have moved to ban the spray.\n\nIn August, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler said the agency wouldn’t permit cancer warnings to be included on jugs of Roundup and other glyphosate-based herbicides, calling it a potentially false claim as the EPA has determined the chemical to be safe. That directive came after California unsuccessfully tried to require cancer warning labels for glyphosate, citing IARC’s classification of glyphosate as a probable carcinogen.\n\nBayer argued in its own recent Hardeman case filing that the EPA’s refusal to allow warnings should override the jury’s decision. The company argued it cannot be held liable by the jury for marketing a legal product with an EPA-approved label, which many scientists and regulators say isn’t carcinogenic.\n\nThe EPA’s brief mirrors those arguments. It says that while states can restrict the sale or use of pesticides, they cannot set any requirements for what can go on the label, adding only the EPA can.\n\nThe EPA’s filing could give Bayer additional ammunition as the company faces more scheduled trials in 2020. Plaintiffs’ central argument—that Bayer knew its herbicide posed a cancer risk, and failed to warn users—could be challenged because the product’s chief regulator barred manufacturers from including such a warning, lawyers said.\n\nThe appeals court judges “may not ultimately agree with the side the government is supporting for other reasons,” said Ben Feuer, an appellate lawyer in San Francisco, but the agency’s brief “is going to be closely parsed and they will engage with it.”\n\n—Sara Randazzo contributed to this article.\n\nNYA thanks WSJ","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"4b0kfInK7uh0TTqkH8TmGE","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:26.098Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"12-27-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":12,"day":27}},{"id":"Boxing-Day-mystery","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-12-26T00:00-05:00","headline":"Boxing Day mystery","headlineText":"

BOXING DAY

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BOXING DAY

","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"When I was growing up, Boxing day was a mystery. I ","bodyText":"When I was growing up, Boxing day was a mystery. I didn’t know what it was . . .. just that it was the day after Christmas! I was sure it had something to do with boxes because we had so many gift boxes. I still don’t know what it means and I don’t really want to google away the mystery in my life. NYA wishes you all a very Happy Boxing Day. Mystery is good!
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COLORADO\nREVIEWS

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COLORADO\nREVIEWS

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if you believe the good ones, you have to believe the bad ones-ny

\n\n“Neil Young continues to be rock ‘n’ rolls cranky conscience… *COLORADO* along with MOUNTAINTOP is like experiencing masters at work but at the same time so idiosyncratic and unpolished… Very striking. *COLORADO* is a hit.” – __*NPR /All Songs Considered*__\n \n“*COLORADO* finds Young sparring in open-ended spontaneous journeys with his old friends Billy Talbot, Ralph Molina, and Nils Lofgren, who slips right back into the mix with masterful ease as if he’s been there all along.” – __*Premier Guitar Magazine*__ \n \n“Neil Young is back with his old band Crazy Horse in all their ragged glory with *COLORADO*, a beautiful, rambling, chaotic howl against climate change, division and hate. At 73, he shows no signs of slowing down, as he cranks up both rage and tenderness as only he can with the latest incarnation of Crazy Horse”. – __*Associated Press*__ \n \n“In 2019, Young is one of the few rockers of his generation who’s still making music on the same meandering, uncompromising terms he staked out in his youth. “You might say I’m an old white guy,” he proposes on the eco-friendly “She Showed Me Love.” He is, and we do, and he’s working that old-white-guy magic all over this record.” – __*Rolling Stone*__ \n \n“Young’s fourth album of the century with his most famous band is simple and heartfelt, gritty and tender. *COLORADO* surpasses recent works by speaking directly to that ephemeral nature of life, our tragedies and joys and disappointments. And if one thing has remained unwavering about them (Young & Crazy Horse), it’s that you know they mean every word.” – __*Pitchfork*__\n \n“At 73, Young is just warming up. If you enjoy that teenage band squalling in your neighbor’s garage as much as you value the intersection of poetry and truth, *COLORADO* is a great fit”. – __*USA Today*__\n \n“Crazy Horse has earned its reputation as one of rocks nosiest, brashest, most magnificently ragged ensembles. So one surprising aspect of *COLORADO* is its quieter moments, songs built on some of the most poetic and graceful lyrics Young has written in at least a decade”. – __*The Los Angeles Times*__\n \n“Indelible melodies and eco-anthems. For Young, fidelity is a form of art and truth”. - __*Wired*__ \n \n“loose and inspired” – __*Billboard*__\n \n“Cranked up and cautiously optimistic”. – __*Variety*__\n \n“A legendary collaboration continues for *COLORADO*. Neil Young has one of the most recognizable names in American music, and his familiar voice is getting any quieter with time. Crazy Horse are back. Young is living in the moment”. - __*NPR Music*__ \n \n“Alternately ruminative and riled up”. – __*Denver Post*__\n \n“From the first note, there’s no mistaking that craggy guitar, the rise-and-fall pulse, the hypnotic fade into nothingness. In many ways, the Young-Crazy songbook is carved out of a single slab of stone, the endless endless of a jam that has never been particularly “cool” or technically proficient, but emblematic of something deeper in the human spirit. While locking in with his bandmates with a crude, off-the-cuff intensity that suggests a genre unto itself, Young spouts what’s been on his mind lately. There are worse things than Neil Young speaking his mind over Crazy Horse’s primal thud and thunder”. - __*Chicago Tribune*__\n \n“Neil Young rides again with Crazy Horse, reaches new heights. The music is appropriately rugged and raw conjuring some of that old magic”. - __*San Francisco Chronicle*__\n \n“The most accessible records he’s made since 2007’s *Chrome Dreams II*, and yet it still has a strong bite that only The Horse can bring out of him. *COLORADO* feels like it has a spark that’s prone to kick off a promising era for Shakey…it sounds like it was recorded with purpose and focus. Track by track *(COLORADO)* plays purely like a force of nature. An absolute treasure.” – __*Consequence Of Sound*__\n \n“Not many artists have the guts to use their platform for the sake of poignancy and on-the-nose politicizing. That’s Young’s charm and with Crazy Horse by his side, *COLORADO* is the most lucid sign of sage rage that he’s put forth since *The Monsanto Years*. A breath of fresh air.” – __*Flood*__\n \n“They are still together and they still sound like no one else. Half a century later, Young and his longtime comrades are still committed to making a raggedly glorious racket. *‘Thanks for making this all happen again’* he sings. *‘We’re gonna do it again like we did back then.’* Long May they run.” – __*Aquarium Drunkard*__\n \n“‘It’s better to burn out than to fade away,” Neil Young famously sang. At 73, (with the release of) *COLORADO*, the Canadian-born rocker has yet to do either.” – __*AARP*__\n \n“*COLORADO*, the latest from Neil Young with Crazy Horse, is a tour de force…(it) truly stands on its own as Young’s best work in 30 years.” - __*The Aquarian Weekly (4 out of 4 stars)*__\n \n“*COLORADO* beholds the rock n roll miracle: Neil Young and The Horse shaking off the dust and re-charging their power 3500 feet above sea level. Even in their 50th year – see unfazed by their age. Music has kept their spirits young. His message, like his music, largely hasn’t changed since the 70’s, yet he sounds more relevant to 2019 and better than ever”. – __*Set List.FM*__\n \n“*COLORADO* plays more like a greatest hits collection.” – __*Consequence Of Sound*__\n \n“The Notion of Neil and Crazy Horse cranking up their amps and making some righteous noise sounds like some sort of comfort food fans have been hungry for. On *COLORADO* Lofgren gives (Young) a strong, stable framework that allows Neil to explore. Lyrics are thoughtful and of the moment. Recognizably the work of a great artist.” – __*All Music*__\n \n“Constructive gift ideas for the climate-denier in your life: Neil Young has regrouped his legendary band Crazy Horse, to record *COLORADO*, largely about earth and climate change…which blares with ragged, gritty distortion. Young also settles down for sentimental, earthly musings. ‘It’s the only thing that matters’, Young said to AARP.” - __*Mashable*__\n\n“2019 was the year of Lizzo and Billie Eilish, yes, but it was also the year of Classic Rock. The Godfather of Grunge just released a killer record of new material. *COLORADO*, with his trusty buzzsaw of a band, Crazy Horse, is a potent, raw mix of Young’s power and singular vision.” – __*Dallas Observer*__\n \n“The first impression one gets upon listening to *COLORADO* is that Young has still got it. His distinct trembly voice hasn’t aged a day.” – __*Mxdwn*__\n \n“Crazy Horse is a rowdy beast of a band.” – __*Philadelphia Inquirer*__\n \n“Crazy Horse always brought out the best in Neil Young. Now, the real thing is back…impassioned and spontaneous, plus brimming with ecological urgency. He’s found new rage buried in his bones that occasionally seems like the core reason he keeps making music.” – __*Ultimate Classic Rock*__\n \n“*COLORADO* includes 10 tracks that shed light on subject matter dominating Young’s present thoughts, expertly presented by a band whose synergy is truly audible. Young’s penchant for the perfectly imperfect remains in this raw-sounding and honest record… powerful and real.” – __*Pancakes and Whiskey*__\n \n“Neil & Crazy Horse sustains their rock & roll swagger on the inspired *COLORADO*. The man is a seemingly endless spring of expression. *COLORADO* is sincere, forceful and familiar”. – __*Albumism*__\n \n“Young is always looking for something new and challenging. For fans of Young and Crazy Horse, we look forward to what’s next. Hopefully, we don’t have to wait another seven years to find out.” – __*Chicago Now*__\n \n“As Young moves into his mid-70’s, it is nothing short of amazing that he has rarely lost his originality or his stride and this album is a blistering testament to his continued relevance.” – __*Colorado Springs Independent*__\n \n“Crazy Horse have not only managed to avoid acrimony, they’ve also continued to make vital music throughout their entire tenure. Crazy Horse’s ineffable alchemy has been rendering utterly mesmerizing since 1969”. – __*Slant*__\n \n“That undeniable chemistry (Crazy Horse) has is on full display on *COLORADO*. *COLORADO* also has some riffs that remind you why people call Neil the Godfather of grunge. When he hits, he hits.” – __*Brooklyn Vegan*__\n \n“Burn out or fade away? Head to the mountains and release your best album in two decades. *COLORADO*’s 10 songs capture what we’ve always loved about Crazy Horse: their tenderness, creativity and ability to shake your bones with distortion – often all in one song.” – __*Exclaim*__\n \n“Neil Young’s *COLORADO* marks a triumphant return for Crazy Horse…an immersion and a completely primal approach to music. The 10 new songs on *COLORADO* are music more well-rounded and musically inviting that usual. It’s one for the ages” – __*No Depression*__\n \n“Crazy Horse bring out the best in Neil Young. Nice to have them back in a place where it all sounds so natural.” – __*Ultimate Classic Rock*__\n \n“*COLORADO* captures the potent chemistry between these seasoned musicians. Young says all that needs to be said about the abiding connections in his life, not the least of which is the one he maintains so fruitfully with Crazy Horse.” – __*Glide*__","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"o0ufMrJW9LZaEMjS4BKF7","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:28.306Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"12-18-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":12,"day":18}},{"id":"Protestors-Seen-As-Terrorists","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-11-28T00:00-05:00","headline":"Protestors Seen As Terrorists","headlineText":"

PROTESTORS\nSEEN AS\nTERRORISTS\n

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PROTESTORS SEEN AS TERRORISTS\n

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Revealed: how the FBI targeted environmental\nactivists in domestic terror investigations

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Revealed: how the FBI\ntargeted environmental\nactivists in domestic\nterror investigations

","subtitleDivider":220,"image1":"//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/8yjzWzBQGjdj0asVv1KiZ/c58fe842fe20e9215b4a5258a5b40712/protestorsterrorists1.jpg","excerpt":"US law enforcement officials preparing for fresh Keystone XL pipeline protests have ","bodyText":"*From The Guardian*\n\nUS law enforcement officials preparing for fresh Keystone XL pipeline protests have privately discussed tactics to stop activists “by any means” and have labeled demonstrators potential “domestic terrorism” threats, records reveal.\n\nInternal government documents seen by the Guardian show that police and local authorities in Montana and the surrounding region have been preparing a coordinated response in the event of a new wave of protests opposing the controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, which would carry crude oil from Canada to Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska.\n\nCivil rights organizations say the documents raise concerns that law enforcement is preparing to launch an even more brutal and aggressive response than the police tactics utilized during the 2016 Standing Rock movement, which drew thousands of indigenous and environmental activists opposed to the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL) to North Dakota.\n\n__At Standing Rock__, law enforcement organized repeated rounds of mass arrests and filed a wide array of serious charges in local and federal courts against activists. Police also deployed water cannons, teargas grenades, bean bag rounds and other weapons, causing serious injuries to protesters.\n\nThe documents are mostly emails from 2017 and 2018 between local and federal authorities discussing possible Keystone protests. They show that police officials are anticipating construction will spark a sustained resistance campaign akin to the one at Standing Rock and that police are considering closing public lands near the pipeline project.\n\n__The new records__ have come to light as the Keystone pipeline project has overcome numerous legal hurdles with help from the Trump administration, and as the project’s owner, TC Energy (formerly TransCanada), is moving forward with initial construction efforts.\n\nAmong the major revelations in the documents:\n\n- Officials at a 2017 law enforcement briefing on potential Keystone XL protests said one key tactic would be to “initially deny access to the property by protestors and keep them as far away (from) the contested locations as possible by any means”, according to an email summary from a US army corps of engineers security manager in Nebraska in July 2017.\n- Officials with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) said in 2017 that the bureau had 10 armed officers in Montana and was prepared to “work with local (law enforcement) to deny access to federal property”. In 2018, army corps officials were also in discussions with the Montana disaster and emergency services department to discuss ways to “close access” to lands near the pipeline route, including areas typically open for hunting and other activities.\n- A “joint terrorism task force” involving the US attorney’s office and other agencies, along with federal “counterterrorism” officials, said it was prepared to assist in the response to protests and a “critical incident response team” would be available for “domestic terrorism or threats to critical infrastructure”. Authorities have also pre-emptively discussed specific potential felony charges that protesters could face, noting that a “civil disorder” statute was used to prosecute activists at Standing Rock.\n- Authorities have been preparing for possible protests in the Fort Peck area, home to a Native American reservation and indigenous people opposing the project.\n\n“There is a lot of muscle behind this effort to make sure that Keystone is constructed,” said Alex Rate, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Montana, which obtained the documents through records act requests and shared them with the Guardian. “There are historically marginalized communities, primarily indigenous folks, who have grave concerns about the impact of this pipeline on their sovereignty, their resources, their religion and culture. They have a first amendment right to assemble and make their viewpoints heard.”\n\nRemi Bald Eagle, intergovernmental affairs coordinator of the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe, which is located along the pipeline route, said the police buildup was part of a long history of armed subjugation of native people in the region.\n\n“This is an experience of the tide of Manifest Destiny still coming at us,” Bald Eagle said, referring to the 19th-century belief that US settlers had the right to expand across the continent.\n\n__The files follow repeated revelations that the FBI and other law enforcement agencies have investigated environmental groups and leftwing activists as possible “terrorists”.__\n\nKeystone XL was rejected by the Obama administration and then revived by Donald Trump shortly after his inauguration in 2017. The $8bn project has been subject to multiple legal challenges, including over the environmental review process, but pre-construction efforts are now under way.\n\n![protestorsterrorists2](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/5eqZ08f8TQI4JiVRYh4hU6/6669484741356ccd006112af425dc75d/protestorsterrorists2.jpg)\n\nOpponents of Keystone XL have warned about the environmental and cultural impact of the project for a decade – concerns that came into sharper focus last month after the existing Keystone pipeline, which follows a similar route, leaked 383,000 gallons of tar sands into a swath of North Dakota wetlands.\n\nThe new Keystone records, which come from a number of government agencies and were released after a protracted legal battle, also show that officials have specifically met with police involved in the Standing Rock response to discuss “lessons learned”. North Dakota police officials told law enforcement prepping for Keystone that one of their biggest mistakes was their failure to keep activists far away and shut down access to nearby lands.\n\nIn one 2018 BLM document, labeled “KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE PUBLIC SAFETY ISSUES”, officials discussed the “available resources” to respond to protests in Montana.\n\n“The FBI will have primary investigative authority for all national security investigations, including but not limited to international terrorism, domestic terrorism, and weapons of mass destruction,” BLM wrote.\n\nUS border patrol would also be available to assist law enforcement around the border and has access to “drone assets”, the document continued. Border patrol also provided a surveillance drone that police used to track Standing Rock protesters.\n\nBLM also discussed purchasing “riot batons”, helmets and gas masks in advance of possible protests.\n\nMike Glasch, an army corps spokesman, said that the “by any means” comment came from the agency’s security chief, who was “relaying talking points” from police officials in Mandan and Morton County in North Dakota, adding: “Any method that we would employ to protect the safety of our employees and the public, as well as property and equipment, would be within the limits of the law and be the least invasive possible, while still protecting the public’s first amendment rights.”\n\nA spokesperson for the Morton county sheriff, Kyle Kirchmeier, said he advises law enforcement that “may be involved with potential pipeline protests to make it their goal to keep protesters off of private property and any areas that may be considered a public hazard, such as ditches or highways”, adding that he “is supportive of people’s right to protest, but they need to do so in a lawful manner”. Kirchmeier said he did not recall the 2017 briefing.\n\nA Mandan police spokesperson declined to comment.\n\nGlasch said the army corps had not closed access to its land around the project, but added: “Since a construction site comes with inherent hazards, options are being analyzed for methods to keep any non-essential personnel away from potential construction sites, while at the same time considering constitutional rights.” He said it was too early to speculate about specific potential closure plans.\n\nA spokesperson for the US attorney’s office did not respond to questions about the “terrorism” references but said the office’s “goal is to provide coordinated assistance to local, tribal and state law enforcement to protect public safety and civil rights, and to protect federal lands, while enforcing federal law”.\n\nThe FBI declined to comment.\n\nA border patrol spokesperson said the agency would “assist, upon request, with any law enforcement activities within the border area near the pipeline”.\n\nSpokespeople for BLM and TC Energy did not respond to questions.\n\n“Law enforcement are getting ready. They’ve been having meetings behind closed doors,” said Angeline Cheek, an indigenous organizer from the Fort Peck reservation. “We know that they’re preparing … We’ve been preparing for the last three years.”\n\nRate, from the ACLU, said there was no legal justification for the government to pre-emptively shut down lands in an effort to stop protests. He said it was also troubling for law enforcement to prepare a “militarized” response and suggest that activists could pose terrorist or criminal threats before any actions had even begun.\n\n“They are thinking of them as potential ‘domestic terrorists’. There is simply no support for adopting that paradigm,” said Rate. “The public justifiably thinks of BLM as a land management agency and not necessarily in the business of arming themselves and going out and squelching protesters.”\n\nCandi Brings Plenty, an Oglala Lakota Sioux activist working with the ACLU of Montana, said they were not surprised to learn that law enforcement was talking about stopping indigenous activists “by any means”.\n\n“That is the type of language that has been spoken to us our whole lives,” they said, adding: “We live these injustices on a daily basis. This is finally being unveiled for what it is.”\n\nBrings Plenty, who led a two-spirit camp at Standing Rock, said they would not be intimidated by law enforcement and hoped people would still support the fight against Keystone – instead of just accepting the pipeline.\n\n“It’s almost become the norm for folks to look the other way, feeling like there isn’t something they can do, that it’s beyond their grasp,” they said. “I want folks to see these pipelines the way they do the glaciers in the arctic. This is happening right here in their own front yard.”","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"3ednl4q8IbcQfl3WvSHMWk","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:22.202Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"11-28-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":11,"day":28}},{"id":"Venice-Drowning-high-tide","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-11-17T00:00-05:00","headline":"Venice Drowning high tide","headlineText":"

VENICE\nDROWNING

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VENICE DROWNING

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\n*People walk on a footbridge across a flooded street Wednesday after an exceptional overnight “acqua alta” high tide. (Marco Bertorello / AFP via Getty Images)*\n\nVENICE HAS always been linked closely with the water that surrounds it. The city is thought to have been founded by refugees seeking protection from Germanic invaders by sheltering in the northwestern Adriatic Sea’s islands and marshes. By the 12th century, the doge would annually drop a ring into the Adriatic to symbolically wed the sea. The Venetian merchant republic ruled the Mediterranean shipping trade for centuries, and the wealth it generated funded the construction of a glittering metropolis on piles driven into the city’s lagoon.\n\nBut Venice is sinking, and the seas are rising — and never before has the water seemed so close. Some 85 percent of the city flooded this week as the highest tidewaters in more than 50 years inundated its historic core. A viral video caught a man swimming through St. Mark’s Square, site of the Doge’s Palace, the city’s iconic campanile and the 11th-century St. Mark’s Basilica. In its hundreds of years, the basilica has flooded only six times. Two of those times came in the past two years.\n\nVenice’s problems stem from more than just the audacity of those who built a major settlement on a shallow lagoon. The ground below the city is shifting as the aquifer below the lagoon depletes. Meanwhile, man-made climate change is boosting sea levels steadily and promoting extreme weather. Virginia’s Hampton Roads, home to some of the United States’ most important military installations, faces a similar dual threat of sinking land and rising seas, resulting in major flooding problems in naval drydocks and other critical infrastructure.\n\n![venice-drowning-04](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/5tFViR6FdpeGuccc7tMcYQ/56088596e346852c6a3d9b155bc632f9/venice-drowning-04.jpg)
\n*People walk on a trestle bridge during high water in Venice on Friday. (Andrea Merola / AP)*\n\nFor coastal areas contending only with climate-related sea-level rise, sinking Hampton Roads and Venice are warnings of what is in store when water levels get increasingly ahistorical. Shoreline development that once faced only occasional risk will be inundated more and more often. Communities will have to face the dilemma of retreating from the coast or spending huge amounts of money trying to engineer protections.\n\nIn Venice’s case, there is no choice at all. Less a modern city than an open-air museum, Venice cannot be surrendered to the sea, despite expert projections that the city will be entirely submerged by 2100. The current plan to save the city calls for the installation of a system of floodgates that would close when high water threatened, similar to a proposal to wall off New York Harbor in response to sea-level rise. But as the water continues to advance, Venice’s lagoon may have to be more or less permanently closed off from the Adriatic, which would radically alter its ecosystem and pose problems for disposing municipal waste.\n\nSaving Venice will take money, time and compromise. In substantial ways, the place will not be the same. Humanity must ask how many Venices it wants in the decades to come. For centuries, humans have built their civilization around water, under a certain set of climatic conditions, in anticipation of only the rare catastrophe. Unless humans make easier changes now to reduce global warming’s risks, they will have harder choices in the future, in places ancient and new, in ways predictable and unexpected.\n\n![venice-drowning-05](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/5PG20SHwq4JiHpryyEXPIb/8e0af80b18146bc5a675a28ef93b0c00/venice-drowning-05.jpg)\n\n![venice-drowning-06](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/4elEXfaEDaOCrsmcFCk9Ta/2a437f1f47322ec0996c1de7c70fa1c4/venice-drowning-06.jpg)\n\nNYA THANKS THE WASHINGTON POST","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"3W0YmF8Qk7pMC4ujm7HHFV","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:43.277Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"11-17-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":11,"day":17}},{"id":"Theaters-Closing-small-towns","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-11-08T00:00-05:00","order":2,"headline":"Theaters Closing small towns","headlineText":"

THEATERS\nCLOSING

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THEATERS CLOSING

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IMPOSSIBLE\nBURGER ????

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IMPOSSIBLE BURGER ????

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Reports of Impossible Burger Health\nReactions Lead to National Health Survey

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Reports of Impossible Burger\nHealth Reactions Lead to National\nHealth Survey

","subtitleDivider":220,"excerpt":"UNIONVILLE, Conn., Sep. 30 /CSRwire/ - Reports from people who experienced ","bodyText":"![gmofreeusalogo-704](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/5y3zZKCtTrNZU17n12gl6h/46a4f10629eba57737aa6eb2752eeb33/gmofreeusalogo-704.png)\n\nUNIONVILLE, Conn., Sep. 30 /CSRwire/ - Reports from people who experienced adverse health reactions following the consumption of the Impossible Burger or other products produced by Impossible Foods have prompted GMO Free USA, a national nonprofit, to launch a public health survey to gather more data from people experiencing similar reactions.\n\nThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not provide the public with a simple procedure to report adverse reactions arising from the consumption of novel foods containing genetically engineered ingredients. GMO Free USA will collect the data and submit it to the FDA.\n\nThe highly processed Impossible Burger contains soy leghemoglobin manufactured from GMO yeast, which comes along with 46 contaminating yeast proteins, all of which are new to the food supply and never before consumed by humans. Impossible Foods’ safety testing of these potentially allergenic or toxic proteins was limited to two short term rat feeding studies, one 14 days and the other 28 days. An independent analysis of these feeding studies by molecular geneticist Michael Antoniou, PhD and Claire Robinson MPhil, found unexplained changes in weight gain and signs of potential toxicity in the 28 day study.\n\nConsumer advocacy organizations Consumers Union2 and Center for Science in the Public Interest3 recently expressed concerns about inadequate safety testing.\n\nAs Impossible Foods expands distribution beyond restaurants into grocery stores, it is in the interest of public health to track adverse health reactions. GMO Free USA is urging individuals who have experienced mild to severe digestive or other health reactions following consumption of the Impossible Burger or other Impossible Foods products to participate in the health survey: [gmofreeusa.org/take-action/impossible-burger-health-survey](https://gmofreeusa.org/take-action/impossible-burger-health-survey)\n\n*GMO Free USA is a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit advocating for a clean, healthy food system and educating consumers about the hazards of GMOs and synthetic pesticides.*\n\nNYA thanks GMO Free USA","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"1tdo24iDdINZMo3qq0uVay","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:36.186Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"11-4-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":11,"day":4}},{"id":"Facebook-Usage-Drops-26-Percent","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-10-31T00:00+01:00","order":2,"headline":"Facebook Usage Drops 26 Percent","headlineText":"

Facebook

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Facebook

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Usage Drops 26 Percent!

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Usage Drops 26 Percent!

","subtitleDivider":220,"excerpt":"According to a new report, Facebook usage has dropped a stunning 26% since 2017. \n","bodyText":"By Gene Marks\n\n![facebookdrops26percent](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/1DWaf2PJIqg6MxamN54xK8/d94e22f044fe7b30220a0c3ffef801fa/facebookdrops26percent.jpg)
\n*A giant digital sign is seen at Facebook's corporate headquarters campus in Menlo Park, California
\nAFP via Getty Images*\n\n__According to a new report, Facebook usage has dropped a stunning 26% since 2017.__\n\nAccording to research gathered by Active Inc., we have been spending significantly less time on Facebook over the last two years. The study gathered that Americans typically spent approximately 14 hours a month in 2017. However, in 2019 the average usage was 9 hours per month, falling 26%. The survey also revealed that social media users in the U.S. currently belong to approximately 5.8 different social media networks, predicting that the number will go up to over 10 in the next 4 years. Data has revealed that younger users—between the ages of 12-34— are gravitating toward other social media sites such as TikTok, Snapchat, and Facebook-owned Instagram. (Source: Fast Company) \n\nAlthough Facebook still remains extremely popular among small businesses and a potentially powerful way to find and serve customers, its problems cannot be ignored. This may be a good year to take a deep dive into TikTok, Snapchat or Instagram, for example, and see if perhaps those sites may offer better - or additional - opportunities. ","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"10RIwkj6u1nm8C0LNA9ZbT","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:42.786Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"10-31-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":10,"day":31}},{"id":"MOUNTAINTOP-HEARSE-THEATER-DELAY","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-10-30T00:00+01:00","order":2,"headline":"MOUNTAINTOP HEARSE THEATER DELAY","headlineText":"

MOUNTAINTOP\nHEARSE\nTHEATER\nDELAY

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MOUNTAINTOP\nHEARSE THEATER\nDELAY

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NYA postpones Hearse\nscreenings of Mountaintop

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NYA postpones Hearse\nscreenings of\nMountaintop

","image1":"//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/5ZQn1qOCxz6Y2os8OeJSZ7/3024f5506a0656ad91e7dd9288282171/mountaintop-poster-1408.jpg","excerpt":"Just like we did here in North America, we are showing Mountaintop in theaters ","bodyText":"Just like we did here in North America, we are showing Mountaintop in theaters throughout Europe on November 18. The European theaters have asked us to not screen Mountaintop publicly until 2 weeks after their screenings. This will delay the Hearse screenings planned and preserve our roll-out of the COLORADO record throughout Europe, supported by the theater screenings. \n\nNYA became aware of this yesterday and we decided to pull the Hearse screenings, delaying them until Dec 2 approximately to accommodate the wishes of the European Cinemas.\n\nMountaintop has been very well received at our 125 North American screenings and we are looking forward to showing it here at the Hearse Theater for you. Thanks for waiting.\nNYA.","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"10IBy1BhDwwAPfF4UzUAFO","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:28.208Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"10-30-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":10,"day":30}},{"id":"Delete-Facebook-instructions","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-10-19T00:00-04:00","headline":"Delete Facebook instructions","headlineText":"

DELETE

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DELETE

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How to Make a Clean Break With\nthe Clingiest Social Networks

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How to Make a\nClean Break With\nthe Clingiest Social\nNetworks

","subtitleDivider":220,"excerpt":"Breaking up is hard to do. Harder yet when there's a deactivation period.\n","bodyText":"*from wired.com*\n\nBreaking up is hard to do. Harder yet when there's a deactivation period.\n\n![facebook-exit](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/7m10JQC6uiVmic0y09NXZk/9ee7dbd27382f73ea030359eb19a127b/facebook-exit.jpg)\n\nThe major social networks don't want you absconding with your precious data, so deleting your accounts requires some determination.\n\nSocial networks walk a fine line between being a useful tool and a crippling addiction. Whether you want your free time back or don’t like your information scattered about on the internet, you may be considering deactivating some accounts. Wanting to delete your account is one thing, but actually being able to hit the delete button is another story. Social media outlets make money off of you and your information, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that they don’t want to let you go. \nBecause of this, the biggest networks have made it overly complicated to delete your account. But if you are set on getting rid of them, here’s what you’ll have to do.\n\n__Facebook__\n\nYou’ve had your Facebook account for about a decade, and in that time you’ve posted a little too much personal information. Maybe you’re just sick of all the baby pictures and slightly offensive status updates your friends are sharing. You’ve had enough.\n\nIf you’ve ever deactivated your account, you may have noticed that everything goes back to normal the next time you log in, as if nothing has happened. That’s because deactivating your Facebook account is not the same as deleting it. When you deactivate your account, you are just hiding your information from searches and your Facebook friends. Although nothing is visible on the site, your account information remains intact on Facebook’s servers, eagerly awaiting your return.\n\nEven so, deactivating your account is still a complex process. Go into your settings and click __General__. At the bottom, you'll find __Manage your Account__. From there, click on \"Deactivate your account\" and type in your password. Before you're completely off the hook, Facebook shows you photos of all the \"friends\" you'll miss (\"Callie will miss you\", \"Phoebe will miss you\", \"Ben will miss you\") followed by a survey asking you to detail your reasons for leaving. Get through that, click __Deactivate__, and you're good to go.\n\nNow, to *permanently* delete your account, you'll need to learn where the delete option resides. The easiest way to find it is by clicking the \"Quick Help\" icon in the top-right corner, then the \"Search\" icon. When you see the search field, type “delete account.” You'll see a list of search results. Click on \"How do I permanently delete my account?\" and Facebook will give you the obscure instructions to “log into your account and let us know.” In this case, “let us know” is code for “delete my account,” so click on that link. From here, the final steps are clear: Enter your password and solve the security captcha, and your request to permanently delete your account is underway.\n\nYes, you read that right—it's just a request. Facebook delays the deletion process for a few days after you submit your request, and will cancel your request if you log into your account during that time period. You know, just in case you change your mind. It's crucial that you don't visit Facebook during this waiting period. Delete the app from your phone.\n\nIf you want to delete your account but don't want to lose all your account information, download all your crucial data first. The information you can download includes everything from the photos and statuses you post, to the ads you’ve clicked and the IP addresses you’ve used. The list of what’s included is extensive, but you can view it in its entirety [here](https://www.facebook.com/help/405183566203254). Also, due to the nature of this data, you’ll want to keep it in a safe place.\n\nTo download your account, go into __Settings> General Account Settings > Download a copy of your Facebook data__ and then click “Start My Archive.” When your download is ready, Facebook will send you an email with a link to download. For added security, this link will expire after a few days, so download it quickly.","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"dCn9qs4txrWefv2yJHrYZ","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:30.119Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"10-19-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":10,"day":19}},{"id":"Whos-Gonna-Stand-Up-NYCH-video","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-09-27T00:00-04:00","headline":"Whos Gonna Stand Up NYCH video","headlineText":"

WHO'S GONNA\nSTAND UP?

NEIL YOUNG AND\nCRAZY HORSE

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WHO'S GONNA STAND UP?

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NEIL YOUNG AND CRAZY HORSE

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\n#lovelife
\n#protectwhatyoulove
\n#climatestrike
\n#fridaysforfuture
\nEarth - where we live
\nso far...
\nso good…","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"2kAogMC7N6oRFBiZ4ycC9F","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:22.102Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"9-27-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":9,"day":27}},{"id":"Dispatch-From-The-Childrens-Strike-In-New-York","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-09-22T00:00-04:00","order":2,"headline":"Dispatch From The Childrens Strike In New York","headlineText":"

Dispatch:

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Dispatch:

\n\n

-From the Children’s\nStrike in New York

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-From the Children’s\nStrike in New York

","subtitleDivider":190,"image1":"//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/5GNmZhUJ7JvserCtsKLwU3/e6f69b716ddcd1e67463ba8c35256e53/gretaclimatestrikeNYC.jpg","photoCaption":"“We should not be the ones who are fighting for the future, and yet, here we are,” Greta Thunberg tells the Climate Strike, New York City","excerpt":"They put the number at 300,000 – but who knows? ","bodyText":"They put the number at 300,000 – but who knows? The important thing wasn’t the number, it was that a new generation made its unforgettable coming out to the world. Later in the day, after our family returned home with an ecstatic kind of exhaustion, we read about the 185 countries, the unprecedented uprising everywhere on the Earth – *for* the Earth.\n\nOur choir was invited by Brazilians opposing Bolsonaro – to march with indigenous leaders from Amazonia. They were quietly powerful, nearly naked with feathers and small branches, while everyone was crazy around them. They were in town for the United Nations, as were representatives of 193 countries, and Greta Thunberg – for the annual General Assembly. The timing of it all grew the drama, starting with Thunberg’s arrival like a Charles Lindbergh in reverse, sailing on a carbon-free boat from Europe.\n\nTraditional media-style hero-worship seems not the right idea for the uprising for the Earth. Greta Thunberg’s spectral presence is not like celebrity. This child-woman is out of category. Something remarkable was generating on Saturday around her. Hundreds of thousands of youth were more like an eco-system and less like an institution; more like first responders to a tragedy and less like professionals with opinions; more like music and less like speedy information. They were kids who were not in the system yet led by a kid who was not in the system yet. It felt like all the interlocking professionals in “the system” were watching, fascinated.\n\nThunberg was inspired by the Parkland survivors, and she doesn’t smile a lot. While there is joy in the swirling mass of youth, the action she is calling for has not happened yet and she seems to know it. The hundreds of thousands marched right by the stock exchange without interrupting the symbolic center of the fossil fuel economy. This new radicalism, which everyone is saying will be so much deeper and different - how will it manifest?\n\nIn her speech at the march’s end, she quietly thundered with the hurricanes and wildfires of the summer. Her politics come down to this: hold those who have caused climate violence accountable for their actions while demanding real change by political and business leaders. This has not worked up to this point. The banks have lent $2 trillion to fossil fuel projects since the Paris Climate Agreement. CO2 levels are accelerating in the atmosphere in 2019. But while Thunberg and her youth rebellion is mesmerizing, will the fossil fuel and big bank oligarchs simply ignore her as they have the whole environmental movement for decades? \n\nFor the change to be enough to bring back the birds and the frogs, and to calm down these storming children, Wall Street will have to be flooded for real. \n\n*Reverend Billy*","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"1I9zlYZYt5juwGKQPQKbXl","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:39.191Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"9-22-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":9,"day":22}},{"id":"Famed-Gold-Star-Studio-Musical","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-08-17T00:00-04:00","headline":"Famed Gold Star Studio Musical","headlineText":"

Famed Gold\nStar Recording\nStudio inspires\nSan Diego-bred\nmusical - '33⅓'

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Famed Gold Star\nRecording Studio\ninspires San Diego-\nbred musical - '33⅓'

","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"San Diego’s Brad Ross and Jonathan Rosenberg didn’t have to look far for source ","bodyText":"![famedgoldstarspringfield](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/775ckqGxP9NZutzyxEmutd/c613267c129e8a31d30cab5872d52192/famedgoldstarspringfield.jpg)\nRock and Roll Hall of Famers Buffalo Springfield, with members Stephen Stills and Neil Young at left, are shown at Gold Star Recording Studio in the 1960s. A San Diego musical about Gold Star is now under way.
\n(Photo by Henry Diltz)\n\nBy George Varga\n\nSan Diego’s Brad Ross and Jonathan Rosenberg didn’t have to look far for source material for “33⅓ — House of Dreams,” their fledgling musical about one of the most celebrated independent recording studios in rock and pop-music history.\n\nStan Ross, Brad’s father and an expert audio engineer, co-founded Gold Star Recording Studio in 1950 at the corner of Santa Monica Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood. It became the studio of choice for Phil Spector, whose famed “Wall of Sound” production technique was created at Gold Star. So were such Spector-produced classics as The Ronettes’ “Be My Baby,” The Crystals’ “Da Doo Ron Ron” and the Righteous Brothers’ “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’.”\n\nAll told, more than 100 Top 40 hits were recorded at Gold Star. A sampling includes: Ritchie Valens’ “La Bamba”; Eddie Cochran’s “Summertime Blues” and “C’mon Everybody”; The Champs’ “Tequila\"; Dobie Gray’s “The In Crowd”; Sonny and Cher’s “I Got You Babe\"; Hugh Masekela’s “Grazin’ in the Grass”; and Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band’s “Express Yourself.”\n\nStan Ross and fellow Gold Star founder David S. Gold closed the famed studio in 1984 and it burned down later that year. In a fascinating local twist, Ross and Gold were hired in 1974 to come to Santee and build what is now operating as Twinstar Recording Studio. Twinstar is virtually identical to Gold Star, minus Gold Star’s one-of-a-kind echo chamber.\n\n“I always wanted to do something special to remember Gold Star and my father, who died in 2011,” said Brad Ross, a San Diego dentist who enlisted the help of Rosenberg, his longtime patient and friend. Both are musicians and have launched a fundraising drive to bring their hit songs-packed musical to life on stage, ideally in San Diego.\n\nA labor of love for the younger Ross and Rosenberg, “33⅓” is special enough that San Diego Repertory Theatre honcho Sam Woodhouse hopes the Rep will host the musical’s debut, once enough funding is secured.\n\n“We don’t have a deal, and we’re not announcing that we’re producing the show, but we’re working on finding a way to make it happen,” Woodhouse said. “I really hope we can.”\n\nHe spoke animatedly about the invitation-only workshop production he saw of “33⅓” last summer in La Jolla. Woodhouse was sufficiently impressed by the musical’s unique storyline and audience-pleasing potential that he hopes to include “33⅓” as part of the Rep’s 2018-19 season — possibly even as its opening production.\n\nDoing so will be largely contingent on whether Ross and Rosenberg can obtain an estimated $150,000 in underwriting. The two recently launched an online Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign that includes filmed testimonials about Gold Star from Herb Alpert, Brian Wilson, Bill Medley of the Righteous Brothers and others who regularly recorded there and are happy to sing the studio’s praises.\n\nWoodhouse’s interest is shared by San Diego Ballet Artistic Director Javier Velasco. He directed and choreographed the “33⅓” workshop production, for which his frequent creative partner Steve Gunderson served as musical arranger. Both are eager to be involved with getting it on stage.\n\n“I’m extremely enthusiastic about the piece,” Velasco said. “A lot of times — when you’re dealing with these types of stories — it’s about someone who was a genius, like Tina Turner. But this is a story about people who helped other people create and who made this space, Gold Star, where people could create.\n\n“And that seems like a unique, untold story that keeps it from becoming just another jukebox musical or a revue of greatest hits from the 1950s to 1970s. With ‘33⅓,’ there’s actually an examination of the creation.”\n\nDespite the many hit singles made there, Gold Star is just as significant for the memorable albums that were produced at the studio.\n\nHerb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass recorded their first six albums at Gold Star. Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys recorded parts of their landmark “Pet Sounds” and other albums there. Spector produced the Ramones’ “End of the Century” and Leonard Cohen’s “Death of a Ladies Man” there. For good measure, the music of the prime time TV cartoon group Alvin and the Chipmunks was born at Gold Star.\n\nGold Star is also where former San Diegan Kim Fowley produced the debut album by the all-girl band the Runaways and the San Diego-bred band Iron Butterfly recorded “In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida.”\n\nOther past and present San Diego artists who recorded at Gold Star range from punk band The Zeros to guitar greats Mundell Lowe and Barney Kessel (the latter a key member of Spector’s famed Wrecking Crew studio band at Gold Star).\n\n“We’re a couple of San Diego guys who have a passion for rock ’n’ roll and the legacy of rock ’n’ roll,” said Rosenberg in a recent joint interview with Ross.\n\n“This will not be a typical jukebox musical, because the story we’re telling is so compelling. We have the best San Diego has to offer with Javier Velasco and Steve Gundersen. We’re really excited, and they are, too.”\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"q0mFWIjmvu7CxUhYty50P","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:38.123Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"8-17-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":8,"day":17}},{"id":"Trump-Admin-Weakens-Endangered-Species-Act","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-08-14T00:00-04:00","headline":"Trump Admin Weakens Endangeered Species Act","headlineText":"

Trump\nAdministration\nWeakens\nEndangered\nSpecies Act Amid\nGlobal Extinction\nCrisis

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Trump Administration\nWeakens Endangered\nSpecies Act Amid\nGlobal Extinction\nCrisis

","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"Environmentalists see the rule as another handout to industry amid rising alarm that the ","bodyText":"Environmentalists see the rule as another handout to industry amid rising alarm that the ecosystems on which humans rely are collapsing.\n\nThree months after leading scientists warned that humans have driven up to 1 million species around the globe to the brink of extinction, the Trump administration has finalized a sweeping overhaul of the Endangered Species Act, weakening one of America’s most important laws for protecting imperiled plants and animals.\n\nThe new rules, unveiled on Monday, change how federal agencies implement portions of the conservation law, making it easier to remove recovered species from the protected list and opening the door for more drilling and other development. It also scraps the “blanket section 4(d) rule,” a provision that automatically extends the same protections to plants and animals listed as threatened as the act affords those listed as endangered, and revises how agencies go about designating habitat as critical to species’ long-term survival.\n\nHelp us tell more of the stories that matter from voices that too often remain unheard.\n\nThe changes, first proposed in July 2018, allow federal agencies to consider economic factors when making decisions about granting species protections, which the law has previously explicitly prohibited, and potentially limit their ability to account for the impacts of future climate change. \n\nThe administration has said the overhaul will “modernize” and “improve” the law, lifting regulatory burdens while continuing to protect species. \n\nKaren Budd-Falen, the Interior Department’s deputy solicitor for fish, wildlife and parks who once called the ESA “a sword to tear down the American economy,” was among several agency officials who briefed reporters about the changes during a call Monday. The rules, she said, will “ensure transparency” in the ESA process and “provide regulatory assurances and protection for both endangered species and the businesses that rely on the use of federal and private land.” \n\nEnvironmentalists see it as another handout to industry amid rising alarm that the ecosystems on which humans rely are collapsing, creating an existential threat.\n\nJamie Rappaport Clark, president and CEO of the conservation nonprofit Defenders of Wildlife and a former director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, told reporters Monday that the final rules politicize the listing process, make it harder to designate critical habitat and would “absolutely” drive threatened species closer to extinction.\n\n“This effort to gut protections for endangered and threatened species has the same two features of most Trump administration actions: It’s a gift to industry, and it’s illegal,” Drew Caputo, vice president of litigation for lands, wildlife and oceans at the nonprofit Earthjustice, said in a statement about the change. “We’ll see the Trump administration in court about it.”\n\n![speciesact1](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/YTpdJAyb9MVDWZ0XhJP9K/66fdfb77657b163aef5d3efcf04d65f8/speciesact1.jpg)
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\n*Interior Secretary David Bernhardt during a congressional budget hearing on Capitol Hill in May 2019.* \n\nThe Endangered Species Act was passed with strong bipartisan support in 1973 and has succeeded in preventing 99% of listed species from going extinct, including the Yellowstone grizzly bear, bald eagle, peregrine falcon, manatee and humpback whale. Today, it protects more than 1,600 plants and animals, as well as the habitats critical to their survival.\n\nA three-year study of the planet’s living world compiled by nearly 500 scientists for the United Nations in May showed that up to 1 million species of land and marine life could be made extinct by humans’ actions if present trends continue. The scientists said the rate of species extinction is up to hundreds of times higher than it has averaged over the past 10 million years. And a report last week from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, the leading U.N. body of researchers studying human-caused global warming, determined that humans have altered as much as 76% of the planet’s ice-free land ― exploitation that is helping to drive the climate and biodiversity crises. \n\nDespite its impressive track record, the Endangered Species Act has been a longtime target of industry and Republican lawmakers. They argue the law has been abused to control land and block economic activities, namely fossil fuel development.\n\n“The best way to uphold the Endangered Species Act is to do everything we can to ensure it remains effective in achieving its ultimate goal ― recovery of our rarest species,” Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, a former oil and gas lobbyist, said in a statement Monday. “The Act’s effectiveness rests on clear, consistent and efficient implementation.” \n\n![speciesact2](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/5ckCgCRtoe7JOVfM4XXMT2/14f529893db3fd6a7556583a0260d7d0/speciesact2.jpg)
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\n*A grizzly bear and her cub walk through a meadow in Yellowstone National Park.* \n\nA coalition of 10 state attorneys general was among the many groups that condemned the Trump administration’s proposal to roll back species protections. In a September letter to the administration, the coalition called the proposed changes “unlawful, arbitrary, and harmful.” \n\nMassachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra vowed Monday to fight the rules in court.\n\n“I know that gutting the Endangered Species Act sounds like plan from a cartoon villain, not the work of the president of the United States,” Healey said during a call with reporters. “But unfortunately that’s what we’re dealing with today.” \n\nThe goal of the overhaul is clear: to “undercut the science” and reduce the number of listed species, according to David Hayes, the executive director of New York University’s State Energy and Environmental Impact Center and former deputy secretary at the Interior Department under President Barack Obama. The only reason to consider economic impacts when making ESA decisions is to “poison the well and obtain a sort of public reaction to the listing,” he said. \n\n“The unifying principle of all these regulatory changes,” he added, “is to lessen the effectiveness of the act and to move away from what science tells you to do.”\n\nGary Frazer, assistant director for endangered species at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, said Monday that removing language that prohibits agencies from considering economic factors is simply aimed at better informing the public about those potential effects. He stressed that final listing decisions will continue to be made “solely on the basis of the best available scientific information and without consideration of the economic impacts.” \n\nEven as the administration was working to finalize the new Endangered Species Act rules, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which administers the act with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, was working to weaken or remove protections for threatened and endangered species, according to an internal 2018 memo obtained by freelance reporter Jimmy Tobias.\n\n![speciesact3](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/1pwT2ixl2LAs78A1WQvjLt/9f50d8e7d615fb622f719d78d30d5751/speciesact3.jpg)
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\n*An American bald eagle flies over Mill Pond with a freshly caught fish on July 29, 2018 in Centerport, New York.* \n\nBernhardt has a long history of fighting the Endangered Species Act. In 2008, as the Interior Department’s top lawyer during the Bush administration, Bernhardt issued a legal memo that concluded the law cannot be used to protect imperiled species from climate change and told federal agencies not to consider the impact of planet-warming greenhouse gases when making permit decisions. Later, as a private industry lobbyist and lawyer, he was involved in litigation against the federal government for its implementation of the act. His former clients include the Independent Petroleum Association of America, an industry trade group that has described the Endangered Species Act as a “broken law that does not help species.”\n\nThe IPAA successfully lobbied the Trump administration to delay federal protections for the Texas hornshell mussel, as The Guardian reported last year. It also pushed for the Interior Department to ease ESA protections for the American burying beetle, according to internal emails obtained by the conservation group Western Values Project. In May, the federal agency proposed downlisting the beetle from endangered to threatened. \n\nBernhardt has a long list of potential conflicts of interest and is one of several top Interior officials being investigated for alleged violations of ethics rules dealing with former employers. \n\nDuring his current stint at Interior, Bernhardt has played a key role in regulatory rollbacks, including loosening Obama-era protections for the greater sage grouse, a move that opened the door for more drilling, mining and other development in the game bird’s habitat. A recent investigation by The New York Times unearthed public records showing that Bernhardt intervened to block a scientific report by the Fish and Wildlife Service about the threat certain pesticides pose to more than 1,000 endangered species. \n\nAsked about the agency’s planned Endangered Species Act overhaul during his confirmation hearing in March, Bernhardt said the act has “wonderful goals, wonderful objectives,” but also “some ambiguity.” At a congressional budget hearing in early May, Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) accused Bernhardt of “rolling back endangered species protections to benefit your former clients.” \n\n“I take offense to the concept about profiting and your allegation that I’m here to do the bidding” of corporations, Bernhardt said. “I came here just like you to do the work of the public.”\n\nSen. Tom Udall (N.M.) joined other Democratic lawmakers in blasting the final rules, saying it would “take a wrecking ball” to the conservation law.\n\n“For more than 40 years, the ESA has been a pillar of environmental protection in this nation,” he said on a press call. “But as we’ve seen time and time again, no environmental protection, no matter how effective or popular, is safe from the Trump administration.”\n\nUdall added that lawmakers must consider stopping the ESA rollback “by any means,” including using the Congressional Review Act. ","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"13mcTKOnQatLiO03Z7cCgm","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:32.086Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"8-14-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":8,"day":14}},{"id":"Revealed How Monsantos Intelligence Center","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-08-09T00:00-04:00","headline":"Revealed How Monsantos Intelligence Center","headlineText":"

Revealed: how\nMonsanto's\n'intelligence\ncenter' targeted\njournalists and\nactivists

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Revealed: how\nMonsanto's 'intelligence center'\ntargeted journalists and activists

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\n*“they should have just called me directly. I remember all the shaky things I have done.” Neil Young*\n\nby Sam Levin\n\nMonsanto adopted a multi-pronged strategy to target Carey Gillam, a Reuters journalist who investigated the company’s weedkiller.\n\nMonsanto operated a “fusion center” to monitor and discredit journalists and activists, and targeted a reporter who wrote a critical book on the company, documents reveal. The agrochemical corporation also investigated the singer Neil Young and wrote an internal memo on his social media activity and music.\n\nThe records reviewed by the Guardian show Monsanto adopted a multi-pronged strategy to target Carey Gillam, a Reuters journalist who investigated the company’s weedkiller and its links to cancer. Monsanto, now owned by the German pharmaceutical corporation Bayer, also monitored a not-for-profit food research organization through its “intelligence fusion center”, a term that the FBI and other law enforcement agencies use for operations focused on surveillance and terrorism.\n\nThe documents, mostly from 2015 to 2017, were disclosed as part of an ongoing court battle on the health hazards of the company’s Roundup weedkiller. They show:\n\n- Monsanto planned a series of “actions” to attack a book authored by Gillam prior to its release, including writing “talking points” for “third parties” to criticize the book and directing “industry and farmer customers” on how to post negative reviews.\n\n- Monsanto paid Google to promote search results for “Monsanto Glyphosate Carey Gillam” that criticized her work. Monsanto PR staff also internally discussed placing sustained pressure on Reuters, saying they “continue to push back on [Gillam’s] editors very strongly every chance we get”, and that they were hoping “she gets reassigned”.\n\n- Monsanto “fusion center” officials wrote a lengthy report about singer Neil Young’s anti-Monsanto advocacy, monitoring his impact on social media, and at one point considering “legal action”. The fusion center also monitored US Right to Know (USRTK), a not-for-profit, producing weekly reports on the organization’s online activity.\n\n- Monsanto officials were repeatedly worried about the release of documents on their financial relationships with scientists that could support the allegations they were “covering up unflattering research”.\n\nThe internal communications add fuel to the ongoing claims in court that Monsanto has “bullied” critics and scientists and worked to conceal the dangers of glyphosate, the world’s most widely used herbicide. In the last year, two US juries have ruled that Monsanto was liable for plaintiffs’ non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), a blood cancer, and ordered the corporation to pay significant sums to cancer patients. Bayer has continued to assert that glyphosate is safe.\n\n“I’ve always known that Monsanto didn’t like my work … and worked to pressure editors and silence me,” Gillam, who is also a Guardian contributor and now USRTK’s research director, said in an interview. “But I never imagined a multi-billion dollar company would actually spend so much time and energy and personnel on me. It’s astonishing.”\n\nGillam, author of the 2017 book, Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science, said the records were “just one more example of how the company works behind the scenes to try to manipulate what the public knows about its products and practices”.\n\nMonsanto had a “Carey Gillam Book” spreadsheet, with more than 20 actions dedicated to opposing her book before its publication, including working to “Engage Pro-Science Third Parties” in criticisms, and partnering with “SEO experts” (search engine optimization), to spread its attacks. The company’s marketing strategy involved labeling Gillam and other critics as “anti-glyphosate activists and pro-organic capitalist organizations”.\n\n![monsantorevealed](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/3NJfyuSB9tgrac1JG0AWhh/8a56e35f416e7a2e9e056e6d6223d8bd/monsantorevealed.jpg)
\n__Monsanto must pay couple $2bn in largest verdict yet over cancer claims__\n\nGillam, who worked at the international news agency Reuters for 17 years, told the Guardian that a flurry of negative reviews appeared on Amazon just after the official publication of Whitewash, many seeming to repeat nearly identical talking points.\n\n“This is my first book. It’s just been released. It’s got glowing reviews from professional book reviewers,” she said. But on Amazon, “They were saying horrible things about me … It was very upsetting but I knew it was fake and it was engineered by the industry. But I don’t know that other people knew that.”\n\nA Bayer spokesman, Christopher Loder, declined to comment on specific documents or the fusion center, but said in a statement to the Guardian that the records show “that Monsanto’s activities were intended to ensure there was a fair, accurate and science-based dialogue about the company and its products in response to significant misinformation, including steps to respond to the publication of a book written by an individual who is a frequent critic of pesticides and GMOs”\n\nHe said the documents were “cherry-picked by plaintiffs’ lawyers and their surrogates” and did not contradict existing science supporting the continued use of glyphosate, adding, “We take the safety of our products and our reputation very seriously and work to ensure that everyone … has accurate and balanced information.”\n\n(A Reuters spokesperson said the agency “has covered Monsanto independently, fairly and robustly”, adding, “We stand by our reporting.”)\n\n__‘They saw us as a threat’__\n\nThe internal records don’t offer significant detail on the activities or scope of the fusion center, but show that the “intelligence” operations were involved in monitoring Gillam and others. An official with the title “Monsanto Corporate Engagement, Fusion Center” provided detailed analyses on tweets related to Gillam’s work in 2016.\n\nThe fusion center also produced detailed graphs on the Twitter activity of Neil Young, who released an album in 2015 called the Monsanto Years. The center “evaluated the lyrics on his album to develop a list of 20+ potential topics he may target” and created a plan to “proactively produce content and response preparedness”, a Monsanto official wrote in 2015, adding it was “closely monitoring discussions” about a concert featuring Young, Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews.\n\nMonsanto ‘fusion center’ officials wrote lengthy reports about singer Neil Young’s anti-Monsanto advocacy.\n\n“We have reached out to the legal team and are keeping them informed of Neil’s activities in case any legal action is appropriate,” the email said.\n\nA LinkedIn page for someone who said he was a manager of “global intelligence and investigations” for Monsanto said he established an “internal Intelligence Fusion Center” and managed a “team responsible for the collection and analysis of criminal, activist / extremist, geo-political and terrorist activities affecting company operations across 160 countries”. He said he created Monsanto’s “insider threats program”, leading analysts who collaborated “in real time on physical, cyber and reputational risk”.\n\n“They saw us as a threat,” Gary Ruskin, the USRTK co-founder, said in an interview. “They were conducting some kind of intelligence about us, and more than that, we don’t know.”\n\nGovernment fusion centers have increasingly raised privacy concerns surrounding the way law enforcement agencies collect data, surveil citizens and share information. Private companies might have intelligence centers that monitor legitimate criminal threats, such as cyberattacks, but “it becomes troubling when you see corporations leveraging their money to investigate people who are engaging in their first amendment rights”, said Dave Maass, the senior investigative researcher at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.\n\nDavid Levine, a University of California Hastings law professor, said he had not heard of any other private corporations running “fusion centers”, but said it did not surprise him that Monsanto was engaged in this kind of intensive digital monitoring.\n\nThe records showed Monsanto was also concerned about Ruskin’s Freedom of Information Act (Foia) requests targeting the company, writing documents on its relationships with researchers had the “potential to be extremely damaging” and could “impact the entire industry”.\n\nIn 2016, one Monsanto official expressed frustration of criticisms that the company paid academics to write favorable reports on their products: “The issue was NOT that we wanted to pay the experts but an acknowledgment that experts would need to be compensated for the time they invest in drafting responses for external engagement. No one works for free!”\n\nMichael Baum, one of the attorneys involved in the Roundup trials that uncovered the records, said the records were further “evidence of the reprehensible and conscious disregard of the rights and safety of others” and that they would support ongoing punitive damages for people who got cancer after using Roundup.\n\n“It shows an abuse of their power that they have gained by having achieved such large sales,” he added. “They’ve got so much money, and there is so much they are trying to protect.”\n\n__NYA thanks the Guardian__\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"3JRlw4gDs5m6pYRQz2AZhb","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:34.385Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"8-9-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":8,"day":9}},{"id":"Cameron-Crowe-writes-about-CSNY","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-08-07T00:00-04:00","headline":"Cameron Crowe writes about CSNY","headlineText":"

CAMERON CROWE\nwrites about\nCSNY

","bodyHeadline":"CAMERON CROWE writes about CSNY","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"CSNY 1974, our album of the week, is remembered with a vivid description of those times on [Page 9](/#/news/9). It’s great writing about a big time long ago. Check it out! Thanks Cameron. We appreciate your contribution to the Times Contrarian.
\nny","bodyText":"CSNY 1974, our album of the week, is remembered with a vivid description of those times on [Page 9](/#/news/9). It’s great writing about a big time long ago. Check it out! Thanks Cameron. We appreciate your contribution to the Times Contrarian.
\nny","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"4zvQQJpz5yTBNnqP9bmefg","updatedAt":"2022-01-12T16:18:54.274Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"8-7-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":8,"day":7}},{"id":"Archives-Film-Projects-Take-Precedent","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-07-31T00:00-04:00","headline":"Archives Film Projects Take Precedent","headlineText":"

Archives Film\nProjects Take\nPrecedent

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Archives Film\nProjects Take\nPrecedent

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NO TOURS SCHEDULED BEFORE 2020

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\n‘[A Rusted out Garage](/#/timeline?position=46.003361792344755)’,
\n‘[GREENDALE LIVE](/#/timeline?position=72.7510570669963)’,
\n‘[ALCHEMY](/#/news/2/article?id=Alchemy%20In%20The%20Editing%20Room)’,
\n‘[COLORADO SESSIONS](/#/news/1/article?id=Message-From-Neil-Colorado)’,
\n‘CATALYST’,
\n[TOKYO BUDOKAN 76](/#/timeline?position=29.23300572494456),
\n[LONDON ODEON HAMMERSMITH 76](/#/timeline?position=29.23300572494456),
\n[SOLO TRANS](/#/timeline?position=40.20666947780896) 82,\n\nSTRAY’ GATORS- ‘[HARVEST SESSIONS](/#/timeline?position=22.73298095151555)’ 71\n\nSOLO '[GREENDALE - Live at Vicar street](/#/timeline?position=72.26473699248761)’
\nSOLO ‘[The Boarding House](/#/timeline?position=32.670131166509506)’, 1977
\nSOLO ‘[SILVER AND GOLD](https://www./#/timeline?position=67.7409520281332)’, 90s
\nSOLO ‘Stamford Shakespearean Theater 1971’,
\nSOLO ‘BBC 1971’, \n\n[TRANS 2020](/#/news/4/article?id=Movietone-Sample-And-Hold) (animated Trans release).\n\nWe will be in the editing suites for the duration of 2019, putting some parts of this together for you. Thanks for coming to our shows! We plan to be back in 2020! Right now we are gathering the work of a lifetime for you to enjoy at the Hearse Theater and beyond.
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\nNY / Crazy Horse / Promise of the Real","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"3dfjbrcRtb9XcrlL15RuM2","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:38.486Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"7-31-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":7,"day":31}},{"id":"Florida-Climate-News-Is-Changing","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-07-13T00:00-04:00","headline":"Florida Climate News Is Changing","headlineText":"

FLORIDA?

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FLORIDA?

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As the World Heats Up,\nthe Climate for News\nIs Changing

","subtitleDivider":220,"image1":"//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/YiivHoKc4Tik2RgFjm8YE/1a1e9bc1e9ff0e17e57361ea2947789e/floridaclimatenewschanging.jpg","photoCaption":"Mike Stocker - Sun Sentinel","excerpt":"As Europe heats up, Greenland melts and the Midwest floods, many news organizations are ","bodyText":"As Europe heats up, Greenland melts and the Midwest floods, many news organizations are devoting more resources to climate change as they cover the topic with more urgency.\n\n__*Some news organizations have changed their approach to climate change as temperatures rise, melting the Southern Patagonian Ice Fields, among other effects.*__\n\nIn Florida, six newsrooms with different owners have taken the unusual step of pooling their resources and sharing their reporting on the issue. They plan to examine how climate change will affect the state’s enormous agriculture sector as well as “the future of coastal towns and cities — which ones survive, which ones go under,” according to a statement released when the initiative was announced last month.\n\nFlorida’s record-breaking heat waves, devastating storms like Hurricane Michael and increased flooding at high tide have not been lost on Mindy Marques, the publisher and executive editor of The Miami Herald, one of the six organizations taking part in the effort. “It’s undeniable that we are living with the impact of changes in our climate every day,” Ms. Marques said.\n\nThe other five outlets that have joined the initiative are The Palm Beach Post, The South Florida Sun Sentinel, The Tampa Bay Times, The Orlando Sentinel and WLRN Public Media. Ms. Marques said the partnership was not politically motivated.\n\n“We’re not launching a campaign,” she said. “We’re launching information, knowledge.”\n\nThe Guardian, the left-wing British daily, recently updated its house style to prefer the phrase “climate emergency” over “climate change.” It also recommends “climate science denier” in place of “climate skeptic.” The publication has also started listing the global carbon dioxide level on its daily weather page.\n\nThe New York Times established a desk dedicated to climate change in 2017, with editors and reporters in Washington and New York who collaborate with bureaus around the world.\n\nBut even among journalists who want to convey that climate change is a crisis, there is not unanimity about how to play it.\n\nMatthew C. Nisbet, a communications professor at Northeastern University and the editor of the journal Environmental Communication, has argued for more nuance. \n\n“We have good research that in amping up the threat without actually providing people with things they can do, you end up with fatalism, despair, depression, a sense of paralysis, or a sense of dismissiveness and denial,” he said.\n\nMr. Nisbet, who recently published an article headlined “The Trouble With Climate Emergency Journalism” in the journal Issues in Science and Technology, warned that fever-pitch coverage could make climate science go the way of dietary science, a discipline that has suffered, in his view, from credulous reports of new studies that regularly upend conventional wisdom — fat is bad; no, carbs are bad; no, eat like a cave man.\n\n“People don’t know what to believe,” Mr. Nisbet said. “They lose trust in the science and in the journalism about the science. and the complexity of the issue is lost.”\n\nDavid Wallace-Wells, the deputy editor of New York magazine whose work has appeared in The Times, argued the contrary, saying that a dash of alarmism suits alarming developments.\n\nMr. Wallace-Wells’s 2017 cover story for New York magazine — a precursor to his recently published book, “The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming” — drew criticism from scientists who said he had painted worst-case scenarios based on exaggerations of the data’s implications. Mr. Wallace-Wells said he had written the article “consciously outside the boundaries that had been established of what was considered responsible storytelling about climate, because I felt that was not serving the story all that well.”\n\nBarely a year after the kerfuffle around that article, a panel of scientists convened by the United Nations issued a dire report, which forecast severe climate change as soon as 2040.\n\nTo describe it, some news organizations pressed the panic button, à la The Guardian: “We Have 12 Years to Limit Climate Change Catastrophe, Warns U.N.” (Mr. Wallace-Wells’s contribution was headlined: “U.N. Says Climate Genocide Is Coming. It’s Actually Worse Than That.”) But even those that played it straight could not help but convey urgency. “U.N. Report: ‘Unprecedented Changes’ Needed to Protect Earth from Global Warming,” went the USA Today headline.\n\nOther outlets held off, however, with 28 of the top 50 American newspapers by Sunday circulation publishing nothing on the report the day after it was issued, according to the liberal watchdog Media Matters for America.\nThe Columbia Journalism Review bashed the nonchalant response to the U.N. report in an April 22 essay headlined “The media are complacent while the world burns.” Written by the longtime environmental reporter Mark Hertsgaard and the magazine’s top editor, Kyle Pope, the piece took issue with the “climate silence” of major news organizations and singled out the paucity of time given to the issue on television news, “where the brutal demands of ratings and money work against adequate coverage of the biggest story of our time.”\n\nA neat illustration of the extremes in how climate change has been covered was evident on a recent edition of the nightly Fox News program “The Story With Martha MacCallum.” The segment began with a clip from John Oliver’s HBO show in which Bill Nye the Science Guy, a winner of multiple Emmys who specializes in explaining scientific concepts in simple terms, lit a globe on fire and ordered his viewers, in unprintable language, to grow up and face the crisis. After the clip played, Ms. MacCallum’s guest, the Fox News personality Jesse Watters, weighed in.\n\n“The planet renews itself,” Mr. Watters said. “And I just am doubtful that man is causing the warming, because these experts have been saying this for years. The experts said there was going to be a Y2K meltdown. Didn’t happen. The experts said there was Russian collusion. Didn’t happen. The experts said there was going to be President Hillary Clinton. Didn’t happen.”\n\nMr. Watters’s view lines up with the roughly one-third of Americans who believe that climate change is mostly because of natural trends, according to a new study from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. It is also in keeping with the opinion of Mr. Watters’s onetime dining partner, President Trump, who pulled the United States out of the Paris climate accord and has called the idea that climate change results from human activity a “hoax” and “fake science.”\n\nAt the other end of the spectrum, the activists of Extinction Rebellion, a group founded in Britain last year, argue that most journalists have not met the crisis with sufficient urgency. In addition to recent protests in London and Paris (where some participants were tear-gassed), the group has aimed at the news media, with demonstrations last month outside the offices of The New York Times, The Washington Post and Fox News.\n\n“You’re still not talking about it like it’s an emergency,” said a group spokeswoman, Alanna Byrne, referring to large media outlets, “and that’s what we have to do now: Be honest to the public about the full-scale changes we have to make.”\n\nOn April 30, The Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation sponsored a town hall on how to cover climate change as part of an initiative called Covering Climate Change: A New Playbook for a 1.5-Degree World. It has brought together Japan’s Asahi Shimbun, Canada’s McLean’s, The Philadelphia Inquirer and other outlets that have pledged to step up coverage of the issue before a United Nations climate summit scheduled for September.\n\n“It’s outdated to say that covering the effects of climate change is advocacy,” said Mr. Pope, the Columbia Journalism Review editor. “It’s an enormous story. The effects of this are completely nonpartisan.”\n\nnya thanks the Miami Herald.\n\n__READ MORE EARTH NEWS p6__","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"5JLpepMh5H9Dt1rRPf6Got","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:38.102Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"7-13-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":7,"day":13}},{"id":"I-Opted-Out-Of-Facial-Recognition","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-07-06T00:00-04:00","headline":"I Opted Out Of Facial Recognition","headlineText":"

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","excerpt":"The announcement came as we began to board. Last month, I was at Detroit’s Metro Airport for a ","bodyText":"*Allie Funk is a research analyst for Freedom on the Net, Freedom House's annual country-by-country assessment of internet freedom. She focuses on developments in the US and Asia.*\n\nThe announcement came as we began to board. Last month, I was at Detroit’s Metro Airport for a connecting flight to Southeast Asia. I listened as a Delta Air Lines staff member informed passengers that the boarding process would use facial recognition instead of passport scanners.\n\nAs a privacy-conscious person, I was uncomfortable boarding this way. I also knew I could opt out. Presumably, most of my fellow fliers did not: I didn't hear a single announcement alerting passengers how to avoid the face scanners.\n\nTo figure out how to do so, I had to leave the boarding line, speak with a Delta representative at their information desk, get back in line, then request a passport scan when it was my turn to board. Federal agencies and airlines claim that facial recognition is an opt-out system, but my recent experience suggests they are incentivizing travelers to have their faces scanned—and disincentivizing them to sidestep the tech—by not clearly communicating alternative options. Last year, a Delta customer service representative reported that only 2 percent of customers opt out of facial-recognition. It's easy to see why.\n\nAs I watched traveler after traveler stand in front of a facial scanner before boarding our flight, I had an eerie vision of a new privacy-invasive status quo. With our faces becoming yet another form of data to be collected, stored, and used, it seems we’re sleepwalking toward a hyper-surveilled environment, mollified by assurances that the process is undertaken in the name of security and convenience. I began to wonder: Will we only wake up once we no longer have the choice to opt out?\n\nUntil we have evidence that facial recognition is accurate and reliable—as opposed to simply convenient—travelers should avoid the technology where they can.\n\nThe facial recognition plan in US airports is built around the Customs and Border Protection Biometric Exit Program, which utilizes face-scanning technology to verify a traveler’s identity. CBP partners with airlines—including Delta, JetBlue, American Airlines, and others—to photograph each traveler while boarding. That image gets compared to one stored in a cloud-based photo-matching service populated with photos from visas, passports, or related immigration applications. The Biometric Exit Program is used in at least 17 airports, and a recently-released Department of Homeland Security report states that CBP anticipates having the ability to scan the faces of 97 percent of commercial air passengers departing the United States by 2023.\n\nThis rapid deployment of facial recognition in airports follows a 2017 executive order in which President Trump expedited former President Obama’s efforts to use biometric technology. The Transportation Security Administration has since unveiled its own plan to improve partnership with CBP and to introduce the technology throughout the airport. The opportunity for this kind of biometric collection infrastructure to feed into a broader system of mass surveillance is staggering, as is its ability to erode privacy.\n\nProponents of these programs often argue that facial recognition in airports promotes security while providing convenience. But abandoning privacy should not be a prerequisite for achieving security. And in the case of technology like facial recognition, the “solution” can quickly become a deep and troubling problem of its own.\n\nFor starters, facial recognition technology appears incapable of treating all passengers equally at this stage. Research shows that it is particularly unreliable for gender and racial minorities: one study, for example, found a 99 percent accuracy rate for white men, while the error rate for women who have darker skin reached up to 35 percent. This suggests that, for women and people of color, facial recognition could actually cause an increase in the likelihood to be unfairly targeted for additional screening measures.\n\nAmericans should be concerned about whether images of their faces collected by this program will be used by companies and shared across different government agencies. Other data collected for immigration purposes—like social media details—can be shared with federal, state, and local agencies. If one government agency has a database with facial scans, it would be simple to share the data with others. This technology is already seeping into everyday life, and the increased regularity with which Americans encounter facial recognition as a matter of course while traveling will reinforce this familiarity; in this context, it is easy to imagine content from a government-operated facial recognition database being utilized in other settings aside from airports—say, for example, monitoring peaceful protests.\n\nThere are also serious concerns about CBP’s storage of this data. A database with millions of facial scans is extremely sensitive, and breaches seem inevitable. Indeed, CBP officials recently revealed that thousands of photos of people’s faces and license plates were compromised after a cyberattack on a federal subcontractor. Once this sort of data is made insecure, there is no hope of getting it back. One cannot simply alter their face like they can their phone number or email address.\n\nImportantly, there have been some efforts to address facial recognition in airports. The government’s Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board recently announced an aviation-security project to assess privacy and civil liberties implications with biometric technologies. Members of Congress have also shared similar concerns.\n\nNevertheless, the Biometric Exit Program needs to be stopped until it prioritizes travelers’ privacy and resolves its technical and legal shortcomings. At the state and local level, public opposition has driven cities and states to consider—and, in some cases, enact—restrictions on the use of facial recognition technology. The same healthy skepticism should be directed toward the technology’s deployment at our airports.\n\nCongress needs to supplement pressure from travelers with strong data protection laws that provide greater transparency and oversight. This should include strict limits on how long companies and government agencies can retain such intimate data. Private companies should not be allowed to utilize data collected for business purposes, and federal agencies should not be able to freely share this data with other parts of government. Policymakers should also ensure that biometric programs undergo thorough and transparent civil rights assessments prior to implementation.\n\nUntil measures like these are met, travelers should be critical when submitting to facial recognition technology in airports. Ask yourself: Is saving a few minutes worth handing over your most sensitive biometric information?\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"2iKSVXte0qCHoiKKBRx7Uy","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:36.150Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"7-6-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":7,"day":6}},{"id":"Protect-Earth-Dresden","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-07-03T00:00-04:00","headline":"Protect Earth Dresden","headlineText":"

PROTECT\nEARTH\n![dresden-image-1408](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/3SDzPgKhHvth3FQF7pwg8Z/860b7a15b138dc0ab827122b8fc64c63/dresden-image-1408.jpg)

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","excerpt":"First there was TINDERBOX, and Copenhagen. Denmark made us feel ","bodyText":"First there was TINDERBOX, and Copenhagen. Denmark made us feel welcome. It is so amazing to be back in Europe!\n\nOur second European show was a great experience for us all. I was feeling the music and playing with my Promise of the Real soul brothers in Germany. The audiences here are beautiful, as is this land.\n\nSo well cared for, Germany’s landscape is a great example for the rest of the world, particularly the most anti-climate science countries.\n\nOnce you see the difference vividly by going from place to place around the world, it is obvious. If you don’t travel, you have to believe the political leaders, who in some cases are anti-science.\n\nGermany is proof that caring for the Earth is real and beautiful! Thanks Germany, for bringing us back again!
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Eddie Vedder\nSpeaks

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","excerpt":"My old friend Eddie, and the whole Pearl Jam Family, I appreciate your friendship so ","bodyText":"\n\nMy old friend Eddie, and the whole Pearl Jam Family, I appreciate your friendship so much. Thanks for recognizing Elliot. Thanks for all your support with the Bridge School over so many years. If you need me, I am there to help you with your endeavors in any capacity I can.
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The Agenda

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\nDealmaker: Trump and Leadership Council member Larry Kudlow (right) meet with auto executives in May 2018, a few months before the administration rolled back Obama-era fuel-efficiency standards, one of a number of giveaways to the fossil-fuel industry.
\nPhoto credit: Evan Vucci/ AP/ REX/ Shutterstock\n\nBy [Andy Kroll](https://www.rollingstone.com/author/andy-kroll/)\n\nIt could have been an episode of *The Apprentice*. On a summer day in 2016, a group of businessmen and women descended on Trump Tower in Manhattan. They exited their black SUVs and rode the golden elevators to the 26th floor, where they assembled in a boardroom and awaited the presumptive presidential nominee of the Republican Party.\n\nA year earlier, surely no one in that meeting had the faintest notion that [Donald Trump](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/donald-trump/) would make a credible run for president. But by the spring, he’d dispatched Low-Energy Jeb, Lyin’ Ted and the rest, and was well on his way to securing enough delegates to clinch the nomination. The corporate leaders who formed one of the GOP’s most reliable constituencies faced a dilemma: Get behind Trump or find yourself potentially frozen out of the next administration, in the unlikely event that he won.\n\nTrump took his seat at the head of a long table and thanked his guests for coming. It was the inaugural meeting of the Trump Leadership Council, a kitchen Cabinet and sounding board featuring representatives from many of America’s biggest industries: energy, finance, transportation, pharmaceuticals, agriculture, defense, construction and health care. The men and women around him were told the meeting would be totally confidential. The handful of *Fortune* 500 executives in attendance were outnumbered by leaders of privately held corporations and little-known companies that, under more normal circumstances, would never find themselves in a position to inform the thinking of the standard-bearer of a major political party. They weren’t the country-club, Chamber of Commerce types that had backed Bush and Rubio and Kasich; they were more on the fringe, including Obama-bashing coal barons, China-hating steel producers and modern-day oil-and-gas wildcatters. Both the largest potato producer and truck-stop operator were also there. “They weren’t conventional Republicans,” council member and Heritage Foundation economist Stephen Moore tells Rolling Stone. “They were more maverick business leaders.” Moore himself had carved out a position as the far right’s go-to economist, and has stirred up headlines saying things like “I’d get rid of a lot of these child-labor laws. I want people starting to work at 11, 12,” and that women shouldn’t be involved in sports unless they’re attractive.\n\nIn the three years since that inaugural meeting, the council’s impact has been seen across the administration. At the urging of coal and oil industry representatives, Trump’s EPA has [systematically rolled back environmental protections](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/donald-trump-environmenal-agenda-738964/) and frozen new ones, affecting the air and water of thousands of people. The council’s trade hard-liners have advised Trump to embrace tariffs in the trade war with China — a move that has put farms out of business and cost every family in America hundreds of dollars a year, according to one analysis, as a result of higher-priced goods. The National Association of Manufacturers, a lobby group for big business whose leader, Jay Timmons, was a council member, sent the Trump administration a wish list of 132 regulations that NAM members took issue with, including Obama’s signature climate change legislation, the Clean Power Plan, and the FCC’s net neutrality rule. A [recent report](https://www.citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/Wishlist_report.pdf) by the watchdog group Public Citizen found that the Trump administration has moved to implement 64 percent of NAM’s recommendations.\n\n![trumpagenda1](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/4cFEdEMHnA3XCq2OXRbuL4/ecf181f2c295e29e97e5aaaf5ff76a3f/trumpagenda1.jpg)
\nJay Timmons, CEO, National Association of Manufacturers
\nPhoto credit: National Association of Manufacturers\n\nThe creation of the Trump Leadership Council back in 2016 went almost entirely unnoticed at the time. Until now, the members of the council have not been made public. But Rolling Stone obtained a complete list of the members and interviewed half a dozen people who attended and organized the council (the full list is published at the bottom of this article). Together, they form a lost chapter in the story of how Trump’s pro-industry, anti-regulation America First agenda became a reality.\n\n“With Trump, we’ve had a corporate takeover of government with no parallel in American history,” says Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen. “Your research shows the seeds were planted early on in the campaign.”\n\n__The Trump Leadership Council was__ the brainchild of Harold Hamm. Hamm, who runs the Oklahoma City-based oil and gas company Continental Resources and is worth an estimated $11 billion, was one of the few business execs to back Trump early on. (He did not respond to requests for comment.) Hamm acted as an unofficial adviser to Trump’s campaign, and helped secure the final delegates needed to lock up the nomination in the final stretch of the 2016 Republican primary, according to one source familiar with Hamm’s role. (It was no coincidence, the source said, that Trump announced he’d crossed the delegate threshold before speaking at an oil-industry conference in North Dakota, and that the first person he thanked was his “very good friend” Harold Hamm.) The last of 13 children born to Oklahoma sharecroppers, Hamm was truly self-made and had little in common with Trump, yet the two men hit it off. Two of Hamm’s associates, Blu Hulsey and John McNabb, began assembling a list of corporate chiefs who would help shape Trump’s policies.\n\nThey discovered that much of Corporate America wasn’t jumping at the opportunity to associate with a candidate who demonized immigrants, mocked his opponents’ appearance and stoked conspiracy theories about their families. “Some people blanched,” one organizer recalls. “Some said they’d do it because he was the nominee.”\n\nBy June, they had pulled together a list of 48 people. Despite Trump’s campaign theme of draining the swamp in Washington, the list was stocked with industry representatives and registered lobbyists, including former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, then-president and CEO of the Financial Services Roundtable, the banking industry’s lobbying group; John Lechleiter, then-CEO and chairman of pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly; Jerry Howard, CEO of the National Association of Home Builders; and lobbyists for behemoth defense contractors Boeing, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin. Three of Trump’s economic advisers — Moore, then-CNBC commentator Larry Kudlow and economist Arthur Laffer — also joined.\n\nThe industry best represented on the council was energy — a who’s who of fossil-fuel champions, including coal baron [Bob Murray](https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11102017/climate-denial-coal-industry-global-warming-robert-murray-energy) of Murray Energy, who’s called climate change a “hoax”; Joe Craft of Alliance Resources, one of the U.S.’s biggest coal companies; and Larry Nichols of Devon Energy, the $11 billion oil giant that has long been a fierce opponent of climate regulations. Leading the energy team was, of course, Harold Hamm. “The council mirrors Trump’s presidency in that even the mainstream polluters wouldn’t be found on this council,” says Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club. “You instead find people who are more extreme, more radical, more dangerous in their views — and who have been shaping Trump’s agenda since before he took office.”\n\nHamm, who never went to college, started his own oil company and pioneered the drilling technique known as horizontal fracking. “Climate change isn’t our biggest problem,” he said during his prime-time speaking slot at the 2016 Republican Convention. “It’s Islamic terrorism.” A dean at the University of Oklahoma accused him of pressuring the school to dismiss scientists studying links between fracking and earthquakes. (Hamm denied this.) Hamm’s goal is to make America energy-independent from the rest of the world. “We can be the Saudi Arabia of oil and natural gas in the 21st century,” he told *The Wall Street Journal* in 2011. To do that, the federal government needed to get off the backs of energy producers like him — meaning less oversight by the EPA and the ability to drill on federal land controlled by the Department of the Interior. Hamm and an industry front group he co-founded, the Domestic Energy Producers Alliance, have led the fight to protect longstanding tax loopholes worth billions to the oil and gas industry.\n\nAfter decades of steering clear of politics, Hamm began giving generously in the late 2000s and served as Mitt Romney’s top energy adviser in 2012. He gave $1 million to groups aligned with the Koch brothers. Back in Oklahoma, he donated the maximum to the [industry-friendly](https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08022017/scott-pruitt-epa-lawsuit-emails-center-media-democracy) 2014 attorney-general campaign for Scott Pruitt, who Trump later tapped to head the EPA. Hamm had first met the president four years earlier, when he visited Trump Tower and left with a collection of Trump ties. He wore one on the cover of Forbes, which pleased Trump so much that he sent Hamm a fawning letter (and more ties). Trump calls Hamm the “king of energy.”\n\nThe purpose of the Trump Leadership Council was not only to advise Trump but also to stump for his campaign and his policies in TV appearances, at the upcoming convention and more. “As you recall, there were few business leaders willing to go on the record in support of Trump’s campaign,” says Dan DiMicco, the former chairman of Nucor Corp., a North Carolina-based steel company, and a member of the council. “We were a group of his supporters willing to be out explaining and supporting his campaign.”\n\n![trumpagenda3](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/7gLQotJO552pZ67rtGKMr9/81f06085556567288aeee7995ae7c7c9/trumpagenda3.jpg)
\nHarold Hamm, CEO, Continental Resources.
\nPhoto credit: Sue Ogrocki/ AP/ REX/ Shutterstock\n\nWith Hamm seated to Trump’s right and McNabb to his left at that first meeting, Trump’s starting point, several attendees told me, was simple: What laws do you want to see repealed, what regulations unwound? This was typical fare coming from any presidential nominee, but Trump of course was different. His campaign was in many ways a blank slate. He didn’t run with a policy agenda in mind and had no overarching ideological framework. And because he had such a slim political network to tap, he was indebted to the people at Trump Tower that day offering to help. “Trump was very aware of who put their neck out on the line for him early,” one attendee told me.\n\nMoore expected Trump to stick around the meeting for a brief period and then make his exit. Instead, he stayed the entire time, quizzing representatives from each sector and taking notes. “In my entire career of doing this — we do it every four years, every presidential cycle — I have not given a policy briefing directly to a candidate like that,” says Jerry Howard of the home-builders association. Mostly what Trump heard from the attendees was that Obama had gone crazy with regulation and was hurting their growth, if not running them out of business. They backed the idea of overhauling the tax code, but even more than that they wanted to see Trump take aim at Obama’s regulations.\n\n“Whether it’s community banks or the coal industry or construction, it was pretty universal that the regulatory structure had become a deterrent to growth,” Moore says. “That had an impact on Trump’s thinking to prioritize deregulation if he got into office.”\n\nThe council’s influence on Trump was immediate. The word “regulation” hadn’t appeared once in his 2015 announcement speech, but in the summer of 2016, slashing regulations became one of Trump’s new rallying cries on the campaign trail. He called regulation “one of the greatest job killers of them all” and claimed excessive red tape cost the country $2 trillion a year — a figure produced by the National Association of Manufacturers. If elected, he went on to say, he would do away with 70 percent of all federal regulations. He was especially critical of the EPA and called for “complete American energy independence,” a favorite Hamm talking point.\n\n![trumpagenda4](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/2FuDoEN2iksgU3h1myEKBk/e6f67a62f560b3cace2fbb6e676bcd95/trumpagenda4.jpg)
\nDan DiMicco, Ex-CEO, Nucor Corp.
\nPhoto credit: Rogelio V Solis/ AP/ REX/ Shutterstock\n\nThe council met again at the Cleveland Browns’ football stadium, during the Republican Convention in July 2016, and went on to produce a series of issue-focused white papers on energy, taxes and banking, according to Moore. “They were blueprints for a lot of Trump’s agenda,” Moore says. “Those issues were highly discussed, and Trump ended up using a lot of that data for his whole agenda.” (Moore declined to share the documents.)\n\nIf joining the Leadership Council was a gamble, the executives saw their early bet on Trump pay off handsomely. (The White House declined to comment.) DiMicco, the former steel executive and longtime China critic, was put in charge of the transition team for the U.S. Trade Representative and later named to a trade advisory board by Trump. Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), who at the council’s first meeting had led a discussion about how to replace Obamacare, was picked to be secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (and was later forced out over a spending scandal). Dr. Mark Esper, a vice president at defense contractor Raytheon, was named secretary of the Army in 2017. “It’s the best time that we’ve ever seen for the defense industry,” Raytheon CEO Thomas Kennedy gushed last year. (At the president’s urging, Congress increased the military’s already-bloated budget, and Trump has sped up the process for approving arms deals.) And Trump publicly weighed nominating Stephen Moore to the Federal Reserve Board this spring, but the idea was dropped after even Senate Republicans scoffed at Moore’s record.\n\nDiMicco saw his pro-tariff position elevated inside the White House with the appointment of an ally named Peter Navarro. Navarro had written books critical of U.S. trade policy with China and received funding from DiMicco’s company, Nucor, for a documentary titled *Death by China*. After an internal battle pitting Navarro, DiMicco and the self-described America Firsters against National Economic Council director and former Goldman Sachs banker Gary Cohn and his allies, the America Firsters prevailed. In March 2018, Trump officially imposed nearly $3 billion in tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, and has been escalating the trade war ever since. As of June, Trump had approved tariffs on $250 billion of Chinese exports to the U.S. “It’s unprecedented,” says David Dollar, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. “This is, in modern times, quite extraordinary. It’s been decades since the U.S. has done anything like this.”\n\n![trumpagenda5](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/2sNLGgEychCZ3JPBmxB6HZ/abdfb612dc626518a419ed50970e1bc6/trumpagenda5.jpg)
\nBob Murray. CEO, Murray Energy
\nPhoto credit: Jae C Hong/ AP/ REX/ Shutterstock\n\n__But probably no industry got__ a president friendlier to its cause than fossil fuels. Trump’s first EPA director, Pruitt, was more than willing to do the industry’s bidding; while Oklahoma AG, he once [copied-and-pasted a document written by Devon Energy](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/07/us/politics/oklahoma-attorney-general-letter-written-almost-entirely-by-energy-company.html) onto his official letterhead and sent it to the EPA (which he sued more than a dozen times).\n\nCraft, of Alliance Resources, met with Pruitt at least seven times during Pruitt’s first 14 months at the EPA, according to official calendars. Pruitt even traveled to Craft’s hometown of Hazard, Kentucky, to announce his plan to gut Obama’s Clean Power Plan, which would phase out the use of coal. Bob Murray of Murray Energy submitted to the administration a [16-point “action plan”](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/09/climate/document-Murray-Energy-Action-Plan.html) on company letterhead to revive the coal industry; within a year, Trump officials had moved to implement more than half of them, including killing the Clean Power Plan and withdrawing from the Paris Agreement. EPA head [Andrew Wheeler](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/andrew-wheeler-epa-fossil-fuel-agenda-755332/), Pruitt’s replacement and a former lobbyist for Murray Energy, has moved forward with weakening methane-emissions protections, mercury regulations and fuel-efficiency standards for cars. “They have attacked safeguards anchored in science that protect collectively tens of thousands of lives and prevent hundreds of thousands of asthma attacks,” says Vickie Patton, general counsel at Environmental Defense Fund, “and they’ve done it at the urging of the economic interests of the few.”\n\nThe Trump Leadership Council eventually went the way of most advisory boards, members told me, atrophying and going dormant as the new administration found its footing, but not before members and their companies gave just over $3 million to Trump’s inauguration. By late 2017, the council was rebranded the American Leadership Council, with Hamm as chairman and his oil-and-gas colleague John McNabb as vice chair, to pressure Congress to deliver on Trump’s America First agenda.\n\nThe council’s influence is felt to this day, with members serving in the administration — Larry Kudlow, the CNBC host, replaced Cohn as Trump’s top economic adviser — or guiding the president in an unofficial capacity, part of the crew of “outfluencers” the president frequently calls on for advice. One lobbyist recalled White House staffers complaining about Trump calling DiMicco to talk trade. Moore told me that Hamm, who in 2017 was named to the board of a dark-money group helping to re-elect Trump, visits the White House “often.”\n\nWhatever happens in 2020, Trump’s all-out assault on regulations will long outlive his presidency, whether it’s four or eight years. At a time when the climate crisis threatens the future of humanity, Trump and his corporate backers have taken the country in the opposite direction. “This administration’s agenda was set well before Trump was elected,” says Brune of the Sierra Club. “Just about any safeguard to protect the country’s air, water and climate is up for sale. And if it makes Trump’s polluter friends happy, that’s what he’s promised to do and what he’s going to do.”\n\n

\n\n__THESE ARE THE PEOPLE__\n\n__Trump Leadership Council list obtained by *Rolling Stone*:__\n\n*Aerospace and Defense*
\nDave Melcher, President and Chief Executive Officer, Aerospace Industries Association
\nJohn Bonsell, Vice President, Government Affairs, SAIC
\nGeneral Leo Brooks, Vice President, Government Operations, Boeing Company
\nSteven Cortese, Executive Vice President, Washington Operations, DRS Technologies
\nDr. Mark Esper, Vice President, Government Relations, Raytheon
\nBlake Larson, Chief Operating Officer, Orbital ATK
\nDavid Manke, Vice President, International Government Relations, United Technologies
\nRobert Rangel, Senior Vice President, Washington Operations, Lockheed Martin
\nMichael Strianese, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, L3
\nMitch Waldman, Corporate Vice President, Government and Customer Relations, Huntington Ingalls\n\n*Banking, Tech, Trade, and Commerce*
\nTim Pawlenty, President and Chief Executive Officer, Financial Services Roundtable
\nScott Asplundh, Chief Executive Officer, Asplundh Tree Expert
\nTed Austell, Vice President, Government Operations, Boeing Company
\nRoy Bailey, Chief Executive Officer, Giuliani Deason Capital Interests
\nSteve Brooks, President and Chief Executive Officer, Phoenix American Insurance Group
\nJerry Howard, Chief Executive Officer, National Association of Home Builders Larry Kudlow, Senior Contributor, CNBC
\nArt Laffer, Founder and Chairman, Laffer Associates
\nHu Meena, President and Chief Executive Officer, C Spire
\nRob Stien, Vice President, Government Relations and Regulatory Affairs, InterDigital Transportation\n\n*Transportation*
\nJim Haslam, Founder, Pilot Corporation
\nDavid Grzebinski, President and Chief Executive Officer, Kirby Corporation
\nChristopher Lofgren, President and Chief Executive Officer, Schneider National
\nTonn Ostergard, President and Chief Executive Officer, Crete Carriers\n\n*Manufacturing*
\nJay Timmons, President and Chief Executive Officer, National Association of Manufacturers
\nDan Dimicco, Chairman Emeritus, Nucor Steel
\nRoddey Dowd, Chief Executive Officer, Charlotte Pipe & Foundry Company
\nAlan Landes, President and Chief Operating Officer, Herzog Contracting\n\n*Health Care*
\nJohn Lechleiter, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Eli Lilly
\nKathleen Harrington, Division Chair, Government Relations, Mayo Clinic
\nKelby Krabbenhoft, President and Chief Executive Officer, Sanford Health
\nKristen Morris, Chief Government and Community Relations Officer, Cleveland Clinic
\nTom Price, U.S. House of Representatives, Georgia
\nMarshall Snipes, Managing Director, Triton Value Partners Southwest\n\n*Agriculture/Energy*
\nHarold Hamm, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Continental Resources
\nMeredith Allen, President and Chief Executive Officer, Staplcotn Marketing Cooperative
\nChuck Conner, President and Chief Executive Officer, National Council of Farmers Cooperatives
\nJoe Craft, President, Chief Executive Officer and Director, Alliance Resources
\nMartin Craighead, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Baker Hughes
\nDr. Howard Hill, Veterinarian, National Pork Producers Council
\nDonald Hoffman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Excel Services
\nSteve Moore, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, The Heritage Foundation
\nBob Murray, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Murray Energy Corporation
\nGene Nicholas, Director, Northern Plains Capital
\nLarry Nichols, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, Devon Energy
\nRon Offutt, Founder and Chairman, R. D. Offutt Company
\nRyan Weston, Executive Vice President, Florida, Texas and Hawaii Sugar Cane Growers
\nBill Wilson, Distinguished University Professor, North Dakota State University\n\nNYA Thanks Rolling Stone","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"2wPwuqhzPUQWVBSXMLnZWy","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:41.334Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"6-22-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":6,"day":22}},{"id":"Cocoa-Cola-Fair-Oaks-Farms-video","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-06-11T00:00-04:00","byline":"ARM","headline":"Cocoa Cola Fair Oaks Farms video","headlineText":"

Coca Cola

& \nFair Oaks Farms

\nThe Biggest Undercover Dairy\nInvestigation in History

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Coca Cola

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Fair Oaks Farms

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\nThe Biggest Undercover Dairy
\nInvestigation in History

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\n[Watch video here.](https://vimeo.com/340292407)\n\nToday the largest undercover dairy investigation in history is being released with video evidence documenting systemic and illegal abuse at Fair Oaks Farm in Fair Oaks, Indiana. \n\nFair Oaks Farms is one of the largest dairies in the U.S. and produces dairy products for the Fairlife milk brand - which is produced, marketed and distributed by the Coca-Cola Corporation.\n\n![cokebottle](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/115toQJJb6HwfDICm7q2uK/a28e1a07fabc9455b5cc4aca5711c053/cokebottle.png)\n\nUndercover investigators for Animal Recovery Mission (ARM) have confirmed that male calves from Fair Oaks Farms are in fact transported to veal farms (Midwest Veal and Calf Start), despite the corporation's claims that it does not send its male calves to veal farms.\n\nThe following abuses were witnessed on virtually a daily basis:\n\nEmployees were observed slapping, kicking, punching, pushing, throwing and slamming calves; calves were stabbed and beaten with steel rebars, hit in the mouth and face with hard plastic milking bottles, kneed in the spine, burned in the face with hot branding irons, subjected to extreme temperatures, provided with improper nutrition, and denied medical attention. This resulted in extreme pain and suffering by the calves, and in some cases permanent injury and even death.\n\nIn addition, the ARM investigator captured footage of drug use and illegal marijuana cultivation by Fair Oaks employees and supervisors.\n\nAnimal Recovery Mission calls on the Coca-Cola Corporation, which claims to have a progressive stance on animal welfare, to end their relationship with Fairlife Corporation and cut their ties with the veal industry.\n\nNYA thanks ARM investigations","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"6j6bFdiqi43PHZWTWuaDw1","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:30.180Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"ARM","dateText":"6-11-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":6,"day":11}},{"id":"Impossible-Burger -Attacks-Moms","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-06-09T00:00-04:00","byline":"Dr. Joseph Mercola","headline":"Impossible Burger Attacks Moms","headlineText":"

Impossible Burger

Attacks Moms Across\nAmerica!

for Publishing Pesticide Results

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Impossible Burger

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Attacks Moms Across America!

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for Publishing Pesticide Results

","titleDivider":250,"image1":"//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/kc5tFAHAW05aSrJRUL6o6/e35d7a426817edded367792d91a7c7d8/impossibleburgerattacksmoms.png","excerpt":"Written by Dr. Joseph Mercola \n\nImpossible Foods Resorts to Insults, Name-Calling to 'Defend' Their Fake Burger\n","bodyText":"Written by [Dr. Joseph Mercola](https://www.mercola.com/forms/background.htm) \n\n__Impossible Foods Resorts to Insults, Name-Calling to 'Defend' Their Fake Burger__\n\nImpossible Foods is billing its Impossible Burger as a healthier, more sustainable option than beef, but when tested by consumer advocacy group Moms Across America (MAA), concerning levels of the herbicide glyphosate were found in the food.\n\nIt's not at all surprising, considering the Impossible patty is made mostly of genetically engineered (GE) soy protein, and in the U.S. about 94 percent of soybean acres are planted with such GE seeds, which are designed to tolerate glyphosate, i.e., Roundup, herbicides.\n\nThis alone pokes holes in their attempts to greenwash an otherwise highly processed fake food, but the company's response to MAA's findings is even more disconcerting.\n\nImpossible Foods' rebuttal to MAA's glyphosate testing has taken a page out of Monsanto's playbook: When a study shows reason for concern, immediately attempt to discredit the source using any means necessary, including insults and name-calling.\n\nRather than acknowledging that glyphosate in their food could be a problem — especially in light of the recent court cases against Bayer (which acquired Monsanto in 2018) totaling billions in judgments due to people who developed cancer as a result of Roundup use — they engaged in a veritable smear campaign against MAA.\n\nIn their Unofficial Correction of Moms Across America, Impossible Foods states, \"MAA is an anti-GMO, anti-vaccine, anti-science, fundamentalist group that cynically peddles a toxic brew of medical misinformation and completely unregulated, untested, potentially toxic quack \"supplements\" … .\"\n\nReally? In actuality, Moms Across America is a group of moms on a mission to raise awareness about toxic exposures and create healthy communities. They've previously commissioned research that's revealed [glyphosate lurking](https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2018/11/06/breakfast-foods-glyphosate-contamination.aspx) in everything from almond milk and hummus to orange juice and veggie burgers — information consumers should know.\n\nImpossible Foods also highlighted MAA's point that a staggering number of Americans have [nonalcoholic fatty liver disease](https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2019/01/14/arugula-helps-prevent-fatty-liver-disease.aspx) (NAFLD), to which they rebutted, \"Huh? This is a complete non-sequitur.\"\n\nPerhaps they're not aware, then, that as more and more glyphosate has been sprayed on agricultural lands, parks and backyards, entering our food and water supplies, NAFLD rates have trended upward, from a prevalence of 15% in 2005 to 25% in 2010.\n\nGlyphosate not only has been linked to liver damage at ultralow doses,6 but people with a more severe form of NAFLD called nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, or NASH, had significantly higher residues of glyphosate in their urine, according to one recent study.\n\nAs for MAA's statements that glyphosate-based herbicides have been \"proven to be carcinogenic,\" Impossible Foods stated this is \"a ridiculous claim\" and \"No regulatory authority in the world considers glyphosate to be carcinogenic to humans at current exposure levels,\" tell this to the victims behind the at least 13,400 lawsuits that have been filed claiming exposure to glyphosate-containing Roundup caused health problems, including cancer.\n\nNYA thanks Organic Consumers Association.\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"6ZOChLxwL4Dxt3anLBYk3a","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:38.153Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"Dr. Joseph Mercola","dateText":"6-9-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":6,"day":9}},{"id":"Save-Our-Food-Free-The-Seed","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-06-07T00:00-04:00","byline":"Dan Barber / New York Times","headline":"Save Our Food Free The Seed","headlineText":"

SAVE OUR FOOD

Free the Seed.

Today, just four giant companies\ncontrol more than 60 percent of\nall the world’s seed sales.

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SAVE OUR FOOD

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Free the Seed.

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Today, just four giant companies control more\nthan 60 percent of all the world’s seed sales.

","titleDivider":220,"excerpt":"Not long ago I was sitting in a combine tractor on a 24,000-acre farm in Dazey, N.D. ","bodyText":"By Dan Barber
\nAdditional reporting and graphics by Ash Ngu
\nPhotographs by Ruth Fremson\n\n![saveourfood-1](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/77IKejj70aPqrejjfwaaq1/61dfc7bb106af2fc540d45605d3c0401/saveourfood-1.png)\n\nNot long ago I was sitting in a combine tractor on a 24,000-acre farm in Dazey, N.D. The expanse of the landscape — endless rows of corn and soybeans as precise as a Soviet military parade — was difficult to ignore. So were the skyscraper-tall storage silos and the phalanx of 18-wheeled trucks ready to transport the grain. And yet what held my attention were the couple of dozen seeds in my palm — the same seeds cultivated all around me.\n\nWe are told that everything begins with seed. Everything ends with it, too. As a chef I can tell you that your meal will be incalculably more delicious if I’m cooking with good ingredients. But until that afternoon I’d rarely considered how seed influences — determines, really — not only the beginning and the end of the food chain, but also every link in between.\n\nThe tens of thousands of rows surrounding me owed their brigade-like uniformity to the operating instructions embedded in the seed. That uniformity allows for large-scale monoculture, which in turn determines the size and model of the combine tractor needed to efficiently harvest such a load. (“Six hundred horsepower — needs a half-mile just to turn her around,” joked the farmer sitting next to me.) Satellite information, beamed into the tractor’s computer, makes it possible to farm such an expanse with scientific precision.\n\nThe type of seed also dictates the fertilizer, pesticide and fungicide regimen, sold by the same company as part of the package, requiring a particular planter and sprayer (40 feet and 140 feet wide, respectively) and producing a per-acre yield that is startling, and startlingly easy to predict.\n\nIt is as if the seed is a toy that comes with a mile-long list of component parts you’re required to purchase to make it function properly.\n\n![saveourfood-2](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/44dml5QmpXEhuM4r14KCGO/6098ace6e6779a002053e2b8e9f933cf/saveourfood-2.png)\n\nWe think that the behemoths of agribusiness known as Big Food control the food system from up high — distribution, processing and the marketplace muscling everything into position. But really it is the seed that determines the system, not the other way around.\n\nThe seeds in my palm optimized the farm for large-scale machinery and chemical regimens; they reduced the need for labor; they elbowed out the competition (formally known as biodiversity). In other words, seeds are a blueprint for how we eat.\n\nWe should be alarmed by the current architects.\n\nJust 50 years ago, some 1,000 small and family-owned seed companies were producing and distributing seeds in the United States; [by 2009, there were fewer than 100](https://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/files/seed-report-for-print-final_25743.pdf). Thanks to a series of mergers and acquisitions over the last few years, four multinational agrochemical firms — Corteva, ChemChina, Bayer and BASF — [now control over 60 percent of global seed sales](https://civileats.com/2019/01/11/the-sobering-details-behind-the-latest-seed-monopoly-chart/).\n\n\n![saveourfood-3](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/6qvcMLHCQ5ewSDRugPMmXY/6baf7584c881c4284e93b9ab26043515/saveourfood-3.png)
\nFlowering curly kale, a variety called Baltisk Rod Purpurkal, being grown for seed at Fresh Roots Farm in Montana. The farm is collaborating with the Organic Seed Alliance on a toolkit for farmers who want to produce seed. \n\n![saveourfood-4](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/6VjAudkKobKksTUA37tqtB/8d47774be2b46659b06b6cc9ee00495f/saveourfood-4.png)
\nKristina Hubbard\n\n“I have never talked to a farmer who is comfortable with this level of concentration. It’s unprecedented.”- Kristina Hubbard, Director of advocacy and communications at the Organic Seed Alliance\n\nThe financial crisis brought us from boom-era complacency to nail-biting angst over institutions that were considered too big to fail. A decade wiser now, why are we not spooked by just four chemical companies largely controlling our future food supply?\n\nFlavor, long under siege, is having its moment as consumers abandon the processed foods of the center aisle in search of local and organic ingredients. Cooks have known forever that this kind of food tastes better; scientists are confirming that it’s better for the earth, too.\n\nOrganic growing reduces the use of harmful chemicals, improves the soil’s ability to sequester carbon and retain water, and strengthens biodiversity. As the climate grows more severe and unpredictable, we will need seeds adapted to this kind of farming, and to their environments — precisely what a centralized, chemical-driven industry is not built to provide.\n\nInstead, Big Seed keeps getting bigger, doubling down on a system of monocultures and mass distribution.\n\nThe problem is not that these seed corporations are too big to fail. It’s that they are failing to deliver what growers need to grow and what we want to eat.\n\nIt’s worth noting that seed oligarchies are a relatively new thing. Scratch that. Seed companies are new.\n\nFrom the Big Bang of agriculture around 10,000 B.C. until a hundred or so years ago, farmers saved their seeds to plant for the next season. Thousands of varieties evolved across the globe, constantly adapting to their environment and to the preferences of the culture and cuisine.\n\nNineteenth-century American farmers benefited from this diversity of vegetables, grains and fruits. It was a good time to be a seed. Not only welcomed but encouraged to stay through a government-backed seed distribution program, free seed allowed farmers to perform trial and error to see what worked.\n\nIt was a brilliant idea — except from the perspective of the nascent seed industry. Seed that was freely distributed, and freely saved and traded by farmers, stifled privatization. After decades of lobbying, the industry won (surprise!) and [Congress ended the program](https://history.house.gov/Collection/Detail/15032427674) in 1923.\n\nMeanwhile, thousands of years of intuitive plant breeding and selection were evolving into a science. On the heels of the Austrian monk-cum-geneticist Gregor Mendel, plant breeders began making intentional crosses between plant varieties to create stable hybrid offspring.\n\n![saveourfood-5](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/3CFTfUu0bQvKNOmbBawovx/17369cbac6367fedc2cf144842a9cc31/saveourfood-5.png)
\nFarmers examining hybrid seed corn in Grundy County, Iowa, in 1939. (Library of Congress)\n\n![saveourfood-6](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/4gCxtJipFz0to1bBC7a1Lx/a38ed91e565fb1a38f972ec47521d3a3/saveourfood-6.png)
\nA hybrid seed corn dryer in Grundy County in 1940. (Library of Congress)\n\nHybrid seeds were a hit with farmers because they could provide higher-yielding and more uniform plants. And seed companies loved them because they forced farmers to buy new seed every year. (If you save seeds from hybrid plants, the next generation will not be uniform.)\n\nThe first hybrid corn became commercially available in the early 1920s. Twenty years later, [nearly all of Iowa](https://www.pioneer.com/home/site/us/agronomy/hybrid-corn-innovators/) was planted with hybrid corn.\n\nSome seed purists consider hybrids the original sin. Tempting farmers away from saving their own seed is, by their measure, directly connected to the corporate seed juggernaut we’re faced with today. Since I’m writing this while sitting next to a brigade of cooks preparing several hybrid vegetables and grains for our restaurant’s menu, I’d argue that in a fallen world, hybrids are often reliable — and, in the right breeder’s hands, delicious. It’s true, though, that hybrids displaced valuable diversity and precipitated seed privatization.\n\nThe knockout punch for farmer-controlled seed was the utility patent. In a landmark (and utterly bananas) decision in 1980, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of [allowing patents on living organisms](https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/447/303/). It wasn’t long before the same protections were extended to crops. New advances in genetic engineering supported the argument, with companies claiming seeds as propriety inventions rather than part of our shared commons. Utility patents restricted farmers’ freedom to save and exchange seed and breeders’ right to use the germplasm for research.\n\nThe slow march of seed consolidation suddenly turned into a sprint. Chemical and pharmaceutical companies with no historical interest in seed bought small regional and family-owned seed companies. Targeting cash crops like corn and soy, these companies saw seeds as part of a profitable package: They made herbicides and pesticides, and then engineered the seeds to produce crops that could survive that drench of chemicals. The same seed companies that now control more than 60 percent of seed sales also sell more than 60 percent of the pesticides. Not a bad business.\n\nMore than 90 percent of the 178 million acres of corn and soybeans planted last year in the United States were sown with genetically engineered seeds. It’s a vision as dispiriting as it is unappetizing.\n\nVegetables have been spared some of this genetic tinkering but are increasingly victim to the same aggressive corporate seed environment. Last year the pharmaceutical company Bayer acquired the world’s largest vegetable seed company, Monsanto.\n\nFor these megacompanies, capturing a large share of the vegetable seed market means capturing patentable genetics. Since 2001, the scope of utility patents has expanded to include novel plant traits. (Before this, you could own a variety, but not its traits, in the same way that you can own a beachfront property but not the particles of sand.)\n\nOn his Oregon farm, Frank Morton produces 146 varieties of organic lettuce, 88 of which he created. \n\nHis lettuces, like this Lava Dome mini crisphead, are coveted by top chefs for their distinct colors, flavors, crispiness and butteriness. \n\nIn three decades of breeding, he has never filed for a patent on his lettuce varieties, because he wants others to build on his work. \n\n“Patents are completely unethical. We all need access to traits. My varieties are probably being used to create new varieties right now. I love that.” \n\nThere is now a patent on “[low pungency](https://patents.google.com/patent/US9320213B2/en?q=low&q=pungency&q=onion&status=GRANT)” onions and “[brilliant white](https://patents.google.com/patent/AU2007305239B2/en?q=brilliant&q=white&q=cauliflower&oq=brilliant+white+cauliflower)” cauliflower. There are patents on grape tomatoes with enhanced sweetness and a long “shelf life” gene and a patent on a “[pleasant tasting](https://patents.google.com/patent/US8829265B2/en?q=pleasant+tasting&q=melon&oq=pleasant+tasting+melon)” melon (which sounds as tempting as toothpaste). For lettuces, there are too many to count — salad greens are some of the most lawyered-up vegetables in your refrigerator.\n\nIf the consequences of this genetic land grab are not immediately apparent to us, they are to plant breeders who find themselves maneuvering around recently restricted genetic traits.\n\nA carrot breeder recently told me about working on a new variety of purple carrot only to bump up against restrictions for the level of purple color: “I had to be careful I didn’t infringe on their ‘purpleness’ patent and instigate a lawsuit, so I stayed clear.”\n\nBut there’s more. Investigative journalists heed the maxim “follow the money.” Let’s follow the carrot.\n\nWith the risks involved, most breeders avoid purple carrots entirely (and red carrots, too — [there’s a patent on a certain level of redness](https://patents.google.com/patent/AU2007310975B2/en?q=carrots&q=increased&q=lycopene&q=content&oq=carrots+having+increased+lycopene+content)). Orange carrots keep their hegemony.\n\nEver notice how supermarket carrots in January look identical to carrots sold in August? That’s the seeds’ software at work again: Carrots cultivated in different regions of the country, and increasingly different regions of the world, look and taste the same. What’s true of carrots is true of zucchini and onions and celery and you name it.\n\nOne breeder described it as “the aesthetics of sameness.”\n\n![saveourfood7](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/3riZQWc0S5jAG6qfjY8VQ6/79f405be5b0879ed6ea1c106babd7a1e/saveourfood7.png)
\nLane Selman\n\n“People get diversity in tomato or corn, but they tend not to translate that to other crops like cilantro.” - Lane Selman, founder of the Culinary Breeding Network, which brings chefs, farmers and breeders together to develop new organic vegetable varieties\n\nThis entrenched standard forces the breeder to select for similar genetic traits; it squeezes out diversity. The wacky purple carrot becomes a casualty, but so do differently shaped and sized carrots, and the distinctively flavored ones, or the carrots best suited for cold hardiness or drought resistance. Unique kinds of carrots — the product of decades, if not generations of selection — are discarded.\n\nThis is an ineffable loss. It does, however, suit retailers and processors and just about everyone trying to sell you vegetables. Less diversity locks in harvesting rates, machinery, shipping crate sizes, shelf space, and on and on. Above all, the seed industry argues, it lowers prices.\n\n__ORGANIC FARMERS FACE CHALLENGE__\n\nFor organic farmers, the options are especially grim. They need seeds bred for their ability to outcompete weeds and to resist pests and disease. But large seed companies don’t invest in organic research, not really. Why bother when most farmers can simply spray the problem away? And when you’re making money on the chemicals, the logic really breaks down.\n\nAccording to a [report published by the Organic Seed Alliance](https://stateoforganicseed.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/SOS-2016-report-FINAL-DIGITAL.pdf), most large-scale organic crop acreage is planted with conventional seed. Despite a recent uptick in the production of organic seed, there isn’t enough to go around. “Not if you want to plant 200 acres,” one midsize organic farmer told me. “Not even if you want to plant 50 acres.”\n\nFarmers find themselves hobbled by weak plants that were designed to be weaned on chemicals.\n\nIt’s not hard to see why organic food is expensive. Farmers have to price the organic carrots to reflect the cost of production in a world designed for them to fail. In the checkout aisle, we wince. A consensus is reached: Organic carrots are a noble idea but not a practical one to feed our growing population.\n\nAnd yet, these ingredients could be a lot more practical and affordable if they received more than a sliver of research and development investment. From 1996 to 2018, funding for public organic plant breeding [totaled $27.5 million](https://stateoforganicseed.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/SOS-2016-report-FINAL-DIGITAL.pdf). I’m reminded of a multinational seed company executive who once boasted that his company invested a million dollars a day in corn seed research. A million dollars a day! In 27 days he would blow through 22 years of public organic seed investment.\n\nImagine the advances an organic vegetable breeder could make with a fraction of that.\n\nNow picture that funding originating from public tax dollars, where plant breeding can be focused not on capturing patents and profits, but on increasing organic yields, along with flavor and nutrition.\n\nAnd what if we replicated this model across different regions, with an institution in each state?\n\nBefore you dismiss this as an Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez carrot fantasy, know that we don’t need to invent such institutions. We already have them. Our [land-grant college system](https://nifa.usda.gov/sites/default/files/resource/LGU-Map-03-18-19.pdf) — conceived to promote agriculture and technical education — has been, for more than 150 years, the envy of the world. These universities were home to thriving public plant breeding departments until a wave of defunding in the 1980s gutted them.\n\nToday, land-grant breeders are an endangered species. (Many have been replaced by plant scientists studying the genome, supporting the next generation of genetic tinkering like Crispr — often at the expense of classical plant breeding research.) Hundreds of programs have been whittled down to single digits for each crop. Onions are down to three land-grant breeders. Sweet corn has two.\n\nBill Tracy leads the sweet corn program at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His work is intended to help the state’s corn farmers. \n\n“I probably have graduated 40 Ph.D. students, and none of them have gone into academia because of what they perceive as a funding disaster.” \n\nCarrots have just one land-grant breeder: Irwin Goldman at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.\n\nAccording to Dr. Goldman, short of overturning intellectual property law (unlikely to happen) the federal government could level the playing field against private interests by revitalizing these public programs. For $10,000 a day, he believes, carrot researchers could address a long list of needs, like breeding carrots with large green tops to suppress weed growth in the absence of herbicides, and selecting carrots for specific soil conditions for greater mineral absorption and nutrient density. There’s untapped deliciousness, too — new flavors and culinary potential to discover, if breeders are given the freedom to look for them.\n\nThat vision may sound quaint against the industry’s Feed the World narrative, but imagine those gains across tomatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, wheat. In a world of waning diversity, what if we could give breeders the resources to create new crop varieties, as accessible as they are craveable?\n\nIt’s a future that we may soon be speaking of as the present.\n\nWhat has stayed with me after that visit to North Dakota and the 24,000 acres of corn and soybeans was not dread or despair, or even intimidation. It is the opposite, really. Looking back at it, I felt the way you might feel staring down a mainframe computer from the 1960s. This was supposed to represent the future? For all its high-tech efficiency, it managed to feel outmoded. It’s a system that will, in the words of Shakespeare via the great environmentalist Aldo Leopold, die “of its own too-much.”\n\nThe end has probably already begun.\n\nToday’s food culture is experiencing a tectonic shift as the rebellious stakeholders of our modern food movement — farmers, independent retailers, nutritionists, educators, chefs and ever-more-informed eaters — upend the marketplace. Their work is like those points in a Seurat painting, dizzyingly complex, but coordinated in impact.\n\nThe more that I’ve come to understand its intricacies, the more I appreciate that lasting change in our food system has to begin with seeds.\n\nThat acknowledgment is shared by a community of hard-nosed farmers, gardeners, activists and independent seed companies. With little fanfare, they continue a 12,000-year-old tradition of seed saving and improvement. They include people like Rowen White, the founder of [Sierra Seeds](https://sierraseeds.org/), who is dedicated to stewarding and reanimating traditional indigenous seeds, and Lane Selman of Oregon State University, whose [Culinary Breeding Network](https://www.culinarybreedingnetwork.com/about) promotes the seed-to-table conversation.\n\nRowen White visiting the Seed Savers Exchange in Decorah, Iowa. Ms. White sits on the board of the organization, which is growing several varieties of seed that can be traced back to indigenous growers.\n \n“Part of my commitment to the organic seed movement is to diversify the types of people who have the honor and privilege of stewarding seed.”\n\nRowen White, Coordinator of the Indigenous Seed Keepers Network\n\nMs. White is coordinating the return of seeds, like Narragansett Eight Row flint corn, to tribes whose food traditions were disrupted by colonization and displacement.\n\nThe movement is buttressed, too, by organizations like the [Open Source Seed Initiative](https://osseeds.org/about/), which Dr. Goldman helped found to “free the seed.” It’s created a new bastion of open source seeds, safeguarded from patents and other restrictions.\n\nThese efforts need more than our support; they demand our participation, the same engagement with seeds that humans had for thousands of years. Seeds not as commodities but as a vital part of our cultural commons; seeds not as software, but as living systems: seeds as the source of a new food revolution.\n\n*Dan Barber is the chef and co-owner of the Blue Hill and Blue Hill at Stone Barns restaurants in New York and the co-founder of Row 7 Seed Company.*\n\nNYA thanks New York Times","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"11v1fgbdiLlWFMMMceOks0","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:34.259Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"Dan Barber / New York Times","dateText":"6-7-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":6,"day":7}},{"id":"To-Feel-The-Music-A-New-Book","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-05-03T00:00-04:00","byline":"NY","headline":"To Feel The Music A New Book","headlineText":"

TO FEEL THE\nMUSIC

A New Book

","bodyHeadline":"TO FEEL THE MUSIC : A New Book","titleDivider":250,"image1":"//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/uEWki2JN0mGI7a0oBAgz0/8e9e6987e5ae4e41116eebfbc6fcbb29/ToFeelTheMusic_FinalCover_1408.jpg","excerpt":"My new book, ‘To Feel the Music’, co-written with Phil Baker, has been ","bodyText":"My new book, ‘To Feel the Music,’ co-written with Phil Baker, has been announced and is now available for pre-order on numerous book sites.\n\n‘To Feel the Music’ is the story of my efforts to improve the quality of audio that you hear. It takes you through how the sound was and is compromised by the tech and record companies, and instead of improving over time like other technologies, it has become worse. \n\nOur book also tells the business and development story behind Pono, and then, when people wanted the convenience of streaming, how we developed Xstream high resolution streaming, the highest quality streaming in the world, as you hear it at NYA.\n\nThe issue of improving audio quality has been one of the most important things we’ve been doing for decades, and something I focus on every day. We spent a year writing this and I think you’ll find it interesting and informative. \n\nThe book will be released on September 9 and I hope you enjoy it.\n\nny","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"6S1l7ddvWe2lXMx4Inm4Er","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:29.200Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"NY","dateText":"5-3-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":5,"day":3}},{"id":"Left-Mueller-Report-Should-Shock","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-04-19T00:00-04:00","byline":"David French","headline":"Left Mueller Report Should Shock","headlineText":"

LEFT

","bodyHeadline":"LEFT : The Mueller Report Should Shock Our Conscience","titleDivider":250,"subtitle":"

The Mueller Report\nShould Shock Our\nConscience

\n","subtitleDivider":200,"image1":"//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/6I4aoIae62ZRhKIZtJFxLG/fd8f3bb6487aa9ef5baef4d9eb51050b/left-trump-800.jpg","photoCaption":"Carlos Barria/Reuters","excerpt":"I’ve finished reading the entire Mueller report, and I must confess that even as a longtime, quite open critic of Donald Trump, ","bodyText":"by [David French](https://www.nationalreview.com/author/david-french/ \"articles\")\n\nI’ve finished reading the [entire Mueller report](https://www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf \"report\"), and I must confess that even as a longtime, quite open critic of Donald Trump, I was surprised at the sheer scope, scale, and brazenness of the lies, falsehoods, and misdirections detailed by the Special Counsel’s Office. We’ve become accustomed to Trump making up his own facts on matters great and small, but to see the extent to which his virus infected his entire political operation is sobering. And the idea that anyone is treating this report as “win” for Trump, given the sheer extent of deceptions exposed (among other things), demonstrates that the bar for his conduct has sunk so low that anything other than outright criminality is too often brushed aside as relatively meaningless.\n\nIf I were to list all the important lies in the report, I’d be reproducing much of the report itself. So let’s focus on the most important elements. We already knew that Michael Flynn lied about his communications with Russia, George Papadopolous lied about his contacts with a person he believed to be connected to Russia, Roger Stone lied about his attempts to obtain information from WikiLeaks, Michael Cohen lied about Trump’s continued efforts to negotiate a deal with Trump Tower Moscow, and that Trump had repeatedly misled the American people about those same dealings.\n\nWe had previously known that Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chairman, had [lied about his contacts](https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/us-judge-finds-paul-manafort-lied-to-mueller-probe-about-contacts-with-russian-aide/2019/02/13/c5209f7a-2f2c-11e9-86ab-5d02109aeb01_story.html?utm_term=.04cfea35db35 \"article\") with Konstantin Kilimnik, a person the FBI has assessed as having contacts with Russian intelligence. But now we know the significance of those lies. They included covering up the ongoing transmission of internal Trump polling data to Ukrainians and a Russian oligarch, covering up communications about a proposed Ukrainian “peace plan” that would entail granting Russia a “backdoor” means for Russia to control eastern Ukraine. Moreover, because Manafort deleted messages and sometimes used “encryption applications” when he sent messages, we may never know the full extent of his communications — or his lies.\n\nWhen asked about the Trump team’s contacts with Russia, key members of his campaign staff and administration responded with blatantly false statements. These statements may not have been deliberate (they could have believed internal lies and repeated them innocently), but they were nevertheless completely and totally wrong. Hope Hicks said, “It never happened. There was no communication between the campaign and any foreign entity during the campaign.” When asked about any “contact or coordination” between the campaign and Russia, Reince Priebus said, “Even this question is insane. Of course we didn’t interface with the Russians.”\n\nThe campaign did, indeed, interface with the Russians — including in Trump Tower, when Donald Jr., Paul Manafort, and Jared Kushner met with a Russian lawyer in the explicit hope of gaining dirt on Hillary Clinton.\n\nMoreover, as the Russian investigation continued, the lies multiplied. One of the most banal and petty came from Sarah Sanders, who simply made up claims to help justify Trump’s termination of James Comey:\n\nTrump himself of course got in the act. He famously edited Donald Jr.’s draft statement disclosing his Trump Tower meeting to disguise his real purpose, and — even more significantly — tried to order Don McGahn to lie to the public about McGahn’s claims that Trump had directed him to fire Robert Mueller:\n\nThese lies have multiple consequences. First and most obviously, they demonstrate that the president’s word simply can’t be trusted. Yes, I know that there are readers who will immediately respond that “we already knew that” or that his dishonesty is already “priced in.” But don’t forget — as recently as last year, 76 percent of Republicans still believed that Trump told the truth “all or most of the time.” I personally know many people who believe that Trump’s ability to “tell it like it is” is one of his chief appeals.\n\nSecond, the extent of the lying across the Trump team shows that Trump’s lies can’t be contained to Trump. Even honest people who believe and repeat Trump’s words or the words of key members of his team can find themselves deceiving the public. Those who resist Trump’s efforts to deceive can find themselves overruled and publicly shamed. It was to Donald Jr.’s credit that his instinct — after news of the Trump Tower meeting started to leak — was to be transparent. It is Trump’s shame that he forced his own son to put out a misleading statement instead.\n\nThird, the lies help demonstrate why the underlying investigation was so very necessary. When our intelligence agencies are aware of Russian efforts to interfere in the election and tilt it toward Trump, they know Trump officials are in contact with Russians, and they know that Trump officials are lying about those contacts, then it makes cries of “witch hunt” sound hollow indeed — especially when the actual results of the investigation demonstrate that the special counsel declined to prosecute multiple individuals who had Russian contacts, including members of Trump’s own family.\n\nI’m old enough to remember the closing days of the 1996 campaign, when the Clinton administration was already beset by an avalanche of scandals. Bob Dole looked into the cameras and asked a pointed question — “Where is the outrage?” The same question applies today, but to a different audience. The lies are simply too much to bear. No Republican should tolerate such dishonesty.\n\nNYA thanks The Corner\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"3dDHZFKK4AahNY6g8CWSf1","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:23.345Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"David French","dateText":"4-19-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":4,"day":19}},{"id":"LEFT-William-Barr-previewed-Trump","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-04-16T00:00-04:00","byline":"Paul Waldman","headline":"LEFT William Barr Previewed Trump","headlineText":"

LEFT

","bodyHeadline":"LEFT : William Barr just previewed Trump’s spin over the Mueller report","titleDivider":250,"subtitle":"

William Barr just\npreviewed Trump’s spin\nover the Mueller\nreport

","subtitleDivider":200,"image1":"//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/1GDCzORBTASp6rpliNGOxq/448e20d02c61d0d25e9b9e5eb4893752/williambarr-600.jpg","photoCaption":"Taylor Turner/The Washington Post","excerpt":"Barr: 'Within a week, I will be in a position to release the report to the public'\n\nAttorney General William P. Barr ","bodyText":"Barr: 'Within a week, I will be in a position to release the report to the public'\n\nAttorney General William P. Barr said on April 9 that he believes he will be able to release special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report “within a week.\" (Reuters) \n\nBy [Paul Waldman](https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/paul-waldman/ \"articles\") \n\nAttorney General William P. Barr just testified before Congress for the first time since releasing his controversial [four-page summary](https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/read-attorney-general-barr-s-principal-conclusions-of-the-mueller-report/?noteId=9048a12b-2332-4645-a1be-d645db216eb5&questionId=218b8095-c5e3-4eab-9135-4170f5b3e87f&utm_term=.659df2b96f74 \"article\") of the report prepared by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III on the investigation into the Russia scandal.\n\nIn so doing, Barr gave us a valuable preview of how the Trump administration will wage the information conflict to come.\n\nWhile “coverup” might be too strong a word to describe what the administration is planning, what is clear is that they will be carefully managing the information the public gets to see in order to make sure that the narrative of President Trump’s supposed innocence prevails. This is a public relations battle in which the attorney general is a key player.\n \nHere are some of the things we learned in Barr's testimony before a subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee:\n\n- Barr said the redacted version of Mueller's report will be given to Congress “within a week.\"\n- After first dodging a question on whether he consulted with the White House before releasing his now-infamous four-page letter, Barr later said that he had not showed them the letter before releasing it.\n- Barr did not specify whether the White House has seen Mueller’s report.\n- Barr has “no plans” to assert executive privilege on the White House’s behalf to keep parts of the report secret.\n- Barr made clear that he will not be showing Congress the full report, but only the redacted version. “I don’t intend at this stage to send the full un-redacted report to the (Judiciary) committee,” he said. In other words, it will be up to him what Congress and the public see and don’t see.\n\nSo here's what's going to happen when the report is released. It will contain plenty of damaging information about the president and those around him, but huge amounts of text will be blacked out. Democrats, distrustful that all of Barr's redactions were truly necessary and were not made in part to protect Trump, will demand to at least have a select group of lawmakers review the un-redacted report. Barr will refuse.\n\nMeanwhile, Trump and his Republican allies will insist that the report only exonerates him further, no matter what it actually contains. They will try to repeat the extraordinary success they achieved when Barr’s letter was released, when newspaper headlines and TV news stories trumpeted that Mueller had essentially found Trump innocent, and it wasn’t until later that some investigators on Mueller’s team [leaked word that Barr mischaracterized what they actually found](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/limited-information-barr-has-shared-about-russia-investigation-frustrated-some-on-muellers-team/2019/04/03/c98e8a02-567a-11e9-814f-e2f46684196e_story.html?utm_term=.468367095f52 \"article\") and kept secret summaries they had written specifically for public consumption.\n\nWhich brings us to something we need to watch for when Barr gives the redacted report to Congress: Might we hear from Mueller’s investigators again?\n\nUnless Barr has already given the full report to the White House (which is still unclear), there are only two groups of people who have seen it: Mueller’s team, and the group Barr assembled to review and redact the report. If they wind up telling the same story about the redactions — that they were all justified — then we can have some assurance that the redaction process was done appropriately. But if there’s a disagreement between those two groups, then we’ll have cause for serious concern.\n\nWe should stress something else, though. Even if Mueller confirms that all of Barr’s redactions were justified, *the redacted material could still contain deeply troubling, even scandalous information about what Trump and his associates did*. In fact, it almost certainly will.\n\nThe redactions will cover things that were revealed to the grand jury, things pertinent to ongoing investigations, things that might reveal intelligence sources and methods, and things related to people who were investigated but won’t be prosecuted. That is a vast area; it might mean most of the report will be redacted. All of those categories could and probably do include information that would deepen our understanding of the scandal and make the full scope of the Trump team’s malfeasance clear. But we may never get to see it.\n\nWhich won't stop Trump and his allies from making the plainly false claim that if any piece of information was redacted, that means that it was innocent and there's nothing more to see.\n\nAs we move forward, it’s important to keep in mind that the only reason Barr is attorney general right now is that last year he wrote an unsolicited [19-page memo](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5638848-June-2018-Barr-Memo-to-DOJ-Muellers-Obstruction.html \"memo\") to the Justice Department arguing that “Mueller’s obstruction theory is fatally misconceived.” Trump could not have been more clear that he pushed out his first attorney general, Jeff Sessions, because Sessions recused himself from the Russia investigation and couldn’t shut it down or otherwise use his authority to protect Trump, and he wasn’t going to make that mistake again.\n\nThere’s been nothing yet to suggest that he did, or that when the redacted Mueller report comes out Barr will be anything less than a full partner in the Republican effort to convince the public that the Russia investigation was much ado about nothing and Trump is an exemplar of ethical and patriotic behavior. I’m willing to be proven wrong on that score, but I doubt I will be.\n\nNYA thanks Washington Post\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"2OVqvG6HYthzsWH0DHT61P","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:33.179Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"Paul Waldman","dateText":"4-16-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":4,"day":16}},{"id":"Climate-Change-panel","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-04-07T00:00-04:00","order":1,"headline":"Climate Change panel","headlineText":"

Climate Change

","bodyHeadline":"Climate Change : panel disbanded by Trump defies president to issue urgent guidance on flooding and wildfire threats","titleDivider":250,"subtitle":"

panel disbanded by\nTrump defies\npresident to issue\nurgent guidance on\nflooding and wildfire\nthreats

","subtitleDivider":200,"excerpt":"\"Act now or swim later\" - Children worldwide protest climate change\n'Integrating climate science ","bodyText":"![climatechange1-800](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/7AQ5RpOhSlAY2fO73U025x/bab3edf463a31939a82a3ff57cf5366c/climatechange1-800.jpg)\n\n

\"Act now or swim later\" - Children worldwide protest climate change

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'Integrating climate science into everyday decisions is not just smart planning, it's an urgent necessity'

\n\n[Josh Gabbatiss](https://www.independent.co.uk/author/josh-gabbatiss \"articles\") Science Correspondent\n\nA group devoted to helping the US tackle [climate change](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/climate-change \"article\") has released its first report since being officially disbanded by [Donald Trump](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/DonaldTrump \"article\") two years ago.\n\nThe Federal Advisory Committee for the Sustained National Climate Assessment was set up as a panel of experts to prepare the nation for a future of rising sea levels and wildfires.\n\nIt was first appointed by former president Barack Obama to assist communities who wanted to adapt to the changing climate.\n\nBut Mr Trump – who has repeatedly expressed doubts about the existence of climate change – dismissed the panel after taking power in 2017. \n\nLast year, with support from Columbia University, New York State and the American Meteorological Society, the committee reconvened, but swapped the word “federal” in its title to “independent”.\n\n![climatechange2-800](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/aD7rGXrM6SRmTfynDmbkV/32476db6aa99dac6492fe6c48e0ee0c1/climatechange2-800.jpg)\n\nAnnouncing the move, the state’s governor Andrew Cuomo said: “In New York, we don’t believe denying climate change is a successful survival strategy and the work of this committee has never been more urgent”.\n\nNow, the group is calling for action to update infrastructure, reduce wildfire risk and manage flooding, in a world in which global temperatures continue to soar.\nTheir newly compiled report also calls for a new network to guide state, local and Native American tribal governments on how to use climate science to change their communities for the better and cut emissions.\n\n

\n\n![climatechange3-800](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/2qRlE3eikP2sTdnuLYiMCw/8e81ee3f655f60c2be93f3d10b136dfc/climatechange3-800.jpg)\n[Antarctica ‘could go green as a result of climate change’](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/antarctica-climate-change-green-global-warming-carbon-a8853921.html \"article\")\n\n“We’re trying to produce something that adds value for those on the front lines of preparing their communities for climate change,” said Dr Richard Moss, chairman of the committee.\n\nTheir recommendations are largely based on the official National Climate Assessment, a report released by Mr Trump’s own administration last year that the president [publicly announced](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-climate-change-report-us-government-economy-global-warming-a8653281.html \"article\") he “doesn’t believe”.\n\nIn the past, Mr Trump has dismissed global warming as a “hoax” and more recently described the science underpinning it, which the vast majority of researchers agree with, [as “fake”](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-climate-change-fake-science-tweet-a8819201.html \"article\").\n\nReports in February suggested the administration was [planning to set up another panel](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-climate-change-global-warming-panel-william-happer-white-house-a8795466.html \"article\") to reconsider the US government’s official position on climate change, including prominent skeptics who have questioned the scientific consensus.\n\n

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\n\n![climatechange4-800](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/g7bpDKlFcu1Tem63HqcyH/098fb9f35d4cc077259bdb7f0d9f8019/climatechange4-800.jpg)\n[Nations using ‘trick’ to restore forests that does not help climate](https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/forest-restoration-climate-change-china-brazil-india-tree-planting-global-warming-a8850796.html \"article\")\n\nThe move by Dr Moss and his colleagues is the latest effort by local leaders to take action on global warming in defiance of their climate sceptic president.\n\nCalifornia governor Jerry Brown has been a vocal critic of the president’s stance, calling him a “liar, criminal and fool” when it came to climate change, and pledging 100 per cent clean energy for his state by 2045.\n\nThe proposed Science to Climate Action Network would be independent of the federal government and would comprise experts from civil society and state, local, and tribal settings.\n“We live in an era of climate change and yet many of our systems, codes and standards have not caught up,” said Daniel Zarrilli, New York City’s chief climate policy advisor.\n\n“Integrating climate science into everyday decisions is not just smart planning, it’s an urgent necessity.”\n\nNYA thanks The Independent","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"70nWDzfoAsg3xd1vQ4F01B","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:27.112Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"4-7-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":4,"day":7}},{"id":"How-Does-Music-Affect-Your-Brain","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-03-17T00:00-04:00","byline":"Peter Rubin","headline":"How Does Music Affect Your Brain?","headlineText":"

How Does Music\nAffect Your Brain?

","bodyHeadline":"How Does Music Affect Your Brain? : Every Imaginable Way","titleDivider":260,"subtitle":"

Every Imaginable Way

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by Peter Rubin

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BOOK REVIEW

‘The Threat’ stands apart.

\n","bodyHeadline":"BOOK REVIEW : THE THREAT by Andrew G. McCabe","titleDivider":230,"image1":"//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/6hVoFx4XC9YVl8qQOZKbfD/83bbb33e34c6b5d5806234f860c7981d/thethreatcover700.jpg","excerpt":"This is best book to date about Trump’s Presidency (and the future of the country he is charged with leading). Well written, It clearly illustrates the values of the men and ","bodyText":"This is the best book to date about Trump’s Presidency (and the future of the country he is charged with leading). Intelligent and exceptionally well written, Andrew G. McCabe’s ‘The Threat’ clearly illustrates the values of the American men and women of the FBI, in a stark comparison with the President and his cabinet’s values. \n\nIn the abundance of books about the current administration, ‘The Threat’ stands apart. It is not a tell all - not a sensational bread-winner from a former White House employee.\n\n‘The Threat’ is a book that describes all that is important about the situation US citizens must now confront. It illustrates how the FBI works and how the Trump Administration works. All who read this book will know clearly the threat that the United States of America is now facing. By far the best book on the subject, it is a direct, truthful and articulate account.\n\n‘The Threat’ is a tale to be considered thoughtfully, having a lot to do with American values and the future of a secure American democracy. \n\nIn some ways it is your worst nightmare how well this situation is described by the author.\n\nThe Threat is a good refresher for lost Republicans.\n\nIf you care about the future of America and Democracy, read it or listen to it.
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Plummeting\ninsect numbers \n'threaten\ncollapse of \nnature'

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“Unless we change our ways of producing food, insects as a whole will go down the path of extinction in a few decades,” they write. “The repercussions this will have for the planet’s ecosystems are catastrophic to say the least.”

\n\n__Exclusive:__ Insects could vanish within a century at current rate of decline, says global review.
\n[Damian Carrington](https://www.theguardian.com/profile/damiancarrington) Environment editor
\n[@dpcarrington](https://twitter.com/dpcarrington) \n\nThe rate of insect extinction is eight times faster than that of mammals, birds and reptiles.\n\nThe world’s insects are hurtling down the path to extinction, threatening a “catastrophic collapse of nature’s ecosystems”, according to the first global scientific review.\n\nMore than 40% of insect species are declining and a third are endangered, the analysis found. The rate of extinction is eight times faster than that of mammals, birds and reptiles. The total mass of insects is falling by a precipitous 2.5% a year, according to the best data available, suggesting they could vanish within a century.\n\nThe planet is at the start of a [sixth mass extinction](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/10/earths-sixth-mass-extinction-event-already-underway-scientists-warn) in its history, with [huge losses already reported in larger animals](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/30/humanity-wiped-out-animals-since-1970-major-report-finds) that are easier to study. But insects are by far the most varied and abundant animals, [outweighing humanity by 17 times](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/21/human-race-just-001-of-all-life-but-has-destroyed-over-80-of-wild-mammals-study). They are “essential” for the proper functioning of all ecosystems, the researchers say, as food for other creatures, pollinators and recyclers of nutrients.\n\nInsect population collapses have recently been reported in [Germany](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/18/warning-of-ecological-armageddon-after-dramatic-plunge-in-insect-numbers) and [Puerto Rico](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/15/insect-collapse-we-are-destroying-our-life-support-systems), but the review strongly indicates the crisis is global. The researchers set out their conclusions in unusually forceful terms for a peer-reviewed scientific paper: “The (insect) trends confirm that the sixth major extinction event is profoundly impacting (on) life forms on our planet.\n\n__Insect collapse: the red flags__\n\nThe analysis, [published in the journal Biological Conservation](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320718313636), says intensive agriculture is the main driver of the declines, particularly the [heavy use of pesticides](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/21/assumed-safety-of-widespread-pesticide-use-is-false-says-top-government-scientist). Urbanization and climate change are also significant factors.\n\n“If insect species losses cannot be halted, this will have catastrophic consequences for both the planet’s ecosystems and for the survival of mankind,” said Francisco Sánchez-Bayo, at the University of Sydney, Australia, who wrote the review with Kris Wyckhuys at the China Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Beijing.\nThe 2.5% rate of annual loss over the last 25-30 years is “shocking”, Sánchez-Bayo told the Guardian: “It is very rapid. In 10 years you will have a quarter less, in 50 years only half left and in 100 years you will have none.”\n\nOne of the biggest impacts of insect loss is on the many birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish that eat insects. “If this food source is taken away, all these animals starve to death,” he said. Such cascading effects have already been seen in Puerto Rico, where a recent study revealed a [98% fall in ground insects over 35 years](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/15/insect-collapse-we-are-destroying-our-life-support-systems).\n\nThe new analysis selected the 73 best studies done to date to assess the insect decline. Butterflies and moths are among the worst hit. For example, the number of widespread [butterfly species fell by 58% on farmed land](https://peerj.com/articles/1402/) in England between 2000 and 2009. The UK has suffered the biggest recorded insect falls overall, though that is probably a result of being more intensely studied than most places.\n\nBees have also been seriously affected, with only [half of the bumblebee species found in Oklahoma](https://bioone.org/journals/journal-of-the-kansas-entomological-society/volume-88/issue-4/0022-8567-88.4.418/Bumble-Bees-Hymenoptera--Apidae-of-Oklahoma--Past-and/10.2317/0022-8567-88.4.418.short) in the US in 1949 being present in 2013. The number of honeybee colonies in the US was 6 million in 1947, but [3.5 million have been](https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/resinf/opm/2012/00000023/00000001/art00010) lost since.\n\nThere are more than 350,000 species of beetle and many are thought to have declined, especially dung beetles. But there are also big gaps in knowledge, with very little known about many flies, ants, aphids, shield bugs and crickets. Experts say there is no reason to think they are faring any better than the studied species.\n\nA small number of adaptable species are increasing in number, but not nearly enough to outweigh the big losses. “There are always some species that take advantage of vacuum left by the extinction of other species,” said Sanchez-Bayo. In the US, the common eastern bumblebee is increasing due to its tolerance of pesticides.\n\n

41% of global insect species have declined over the past decade...

\n\nEndangered, >50% loss
\nThreatened, >30% loss
\nIn decline, <30% loss\n\nAll insects 41%
\nCaddisflies 68
\nButterflies 53
\nBeetles 49
\nBees 46
\nMayflies 37
\nDragonflies 37
\nStoneflies 35
\nFlies 25\n\n

... compared with 22% of vertebrate species

\n\nAll vertebrates 22
\nBirds 26
\nAmphibians 23
\nLand mammals 15.4
\nReptiles 19\n\n*Source: Sánchez-Bayo & Wyckhuys, Biological Conservation, 2019 *\n\nMost of the studies analyzed were done in western Europe and the US, with a few ranging from Australia to China and Brazil to South Africa, but very few exist elsewhere.\n\n“The main cause of the decline is agricultural intensification,” Sánchez-Bayo said. “That means the elimination of all trees and shrubs that normally surround the fields, so there are plain, bare fields that are treated with synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.” He said the demise of insects appears to have started at the dawn of the 20th century, accelerated during the 1950s and 1960s and reached “alarming proportions” over the last two decades.\n\nHe thinks new classes of insecticides introduced in the last 20 years, including neonicotinoids and fipronil, have been particularly damaging as they are used routinely and persist in the environment: “They sterilize the soil, killing all the grubs.” This has effects even in nature reserves nearby; the [75% insect losses recorded in Germany](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/18/warning-of-ecological-armageddon-after-dramatic-plunge-in-insect-numbers) were in protected areas.\n\nThe world must change the way it produces food, Sánchez-Bayo said, noting that [organic farms had more insects](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2004.00152.x) and that occasional pesticide use in the past did not cause the level of decline seen in recent decades. “Industrial-scale, intensive agriculture is the one that is killing the ecosystems,” he said.\n\nIn the tropics, where industrial agriculture is often not yet present, the rising temperatures due to climate change are thought to be a [significant factor in the decline](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00594.x). The species there have adapted to very stable conditions and have little ability to change, as seen in Puerto Rico.\n\nSánchez-Bayo said the unusually strong language used in the review was not alarmist. “We wanted to really wake people up” and the reviewers and editor agreed, he said. “When you consider 80% of biomass of insects has disappeared in 25-30 years, it is a big concern.”\n\n![insect-diversity-1408](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/180Lxq3tLxbmcOqqqcPlj8/0d1a5b7fc70d6c2f39b4bb6bbc110ce9/insect-diversity-1408.jpg)\n

What is biodiversity and why does it matter to us?

\n\nOther scientists agree that it is becoming clear that insect losses are now a serious global problem. “The evidence all points in the same direction,” said Prof Dave Goulson at the University of Sussex in the UK. “It should be of huge concern to all of us, for insects are at the heart of every food web, they pollinate the large majority of plant species, keep the soil healthy, recycle nutrients, control pests, and much more. Love them or loathe them, we humans cannot survive without insects.”\n\nMatt Shardlow, at the conservation charity Buglife, said: “It is gravely sobering to see this collation of evidence that demonstrates the pitiful state of the world’s insect populations. It is increasingly obvious that the planet’s ecology is breaking and there is a need for an intense and global effort to halt and reverse these dreadful trends.” In his opinion, the review slightly overemphasizes the role of pesticides and underplays global warming, though other unstudied factors such as light pollution might prove to be significant.\n\nProf Paul Ehrlich, at Stanford Universityin the US, has seen insects vanish first-hand, through his work on checkerspot butterflies on Stanford’s Jasper Ridge reserve. He first studied them in 1960 [but they had all gone by 2000](https://news.stanford.edu/news/2002/may15/butterfly-515.html), largely due to climate change.\n\nEhrlich praised the review, saying: “It is extraordinary to have gone through all those studies and analysed them as well as they have.” He said the particularly large declines in aquatic insects were striking. “But they don’t mention that it is human overpopulation and overconsumption that is driving all the things (eradicating insects), including climate change,” he said.\nSánchez-Bayo said he had recently witnessed an insect crash himself. A recent family holiday involved a 400-mile (700km) drive across rural Australia, but he had not once had to clean the windscreen, he said. “Years ago you had to do this constantly.”\n\n

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GAMBLING\n![heyamerica-flag-1408](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/6FEnrJW3W24D0aWRf5IUU6/3e4483c01d5d7e791e4fb0a1669f2cd6/heyamerica-flag-1408.jpg)

","bodyHeadline":"GAMBLING : WITH THE FUTURE","titleDivider":240,"subtitle":"

WITH THE FUTURE

","subtitleDivider":210,"excerpt":"You represent the people and :\n\nBelieving that only you know what’s best, even though 95% disagrees with you, you ignore the great majority.\n","bodyText":"You represent the people and:\n\nBelieving that only you know what’s best, even though 95% disagrees with you, you ignore the great majority.\n\n- You waste money you don’t have, increasing the people’s debt by more than any of your predecessors \n- you decide to save on things that people want, like clean energy. \n- you cut subsidies on new electric car prices while subsidizing big oil.\n\nYou brag about the great economy while:\n- proceeding to tear down environmental protections previously put in place for future generations of the people you have sworn to protect. \n- borrowing money from future generations.\n- breaking laws meant to protect the citizens you serve.\n- not paying your own taxes.\n- defrauding the people you represent\n- illegally profiting from your office\n- not recognizing that any people could have a great economy by selling out core values and the beliefs of science\n\nWhen the experts on the National Security of your people all disagree with you:\n- you pretend they were misrepresented by the media\n- you lie\n- you disregard proof that you have lied.\n\nWhen the Justice Department investigates a foreign country meddling in any election in your people’s country: \n- you take it personally and call them names in front of the people they are serving.\n- you threaten witnesses who want to tell their own story\n- you refuse to talk to the Justice Department or answer a face to face question.\n\nWhen you are faced with an opposing view:\n- you call names that disparage race, dignity and equality\n\nNYA\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"3MjqEHhgFi2DPDmmEZvtvB","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:28.170Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"nya","dateText":"2-5-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":2,"day":5}},{"id":"Songs For Judy Review Tony Paris","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-01-23T00:00-05:00","byline":"Tony Paris","headline":"Songs For Judy Review Tony Paris","headlineText":"

SONGS FOR JUDY

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a review that takes you there

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The Quiet Innovation

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by Phil Baker

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ELVIS\nSPEAKS

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TRUMP\nSUPPORTERS

","bodyHeadline":"Trump Supporters : Thanks To All Of You","titleDivider":200,"subtitle":"

THANKS TO ALL OF YOU

","subtitleDivider":150,"excerpt":"We just got this letter in and want to say, “everyone is welcome”. Respect to all voters! We all have ","bodyText":"*We just got this letter in and want to say, “everyone is welcome”. Respect to all voters! We all have our differences and that is what democracy is about. Speak your truth. PEACE*\n\n![usflag-closeup-1408](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/2QZkvordXiIEwC4sWM4aUU/80756e13964b6db1297b0dcf01833188/usflag-closeup-1408.jpg)\n\nI have been and continue to be a huge fan of the music of Neil Young. I have been following him since 1970 or so. Been to many concerts. He always gives all. Is it possible to love Neil and Love President Trump? Well I do. I think every person has good in them and I do not like the constant negativity towards my President. I wish it didn't affect me but Hollywood celebrities are turning half of their audience away, DeNiro, Streep, Streisand, etc. Great actors and musicians with opinions that freedom has given them but it does affect many people who voted for DT. Of course my opinion carry's no weight because I do not have an audience but by the same token the one's that do should be just a little sensitive and realize many fans that love you are conservatives and didn't vote for your candidate. Some should heed Elvis Presley's answer, which he gave prior to a MSG concert, about politics. He knew. I love you Neil, and you do what you like because I'll always love your music.\n\n*This is a thoughtful person. I don’t like DT, and I don’t hide it, but I have respect for anyone who voted their conscience.
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EVERYTHING YOU\nNEED TO KNOW\nABOUT NYA\nPRESALES!

","bodyHeadline":"Everything You Need To Know About NYA Presales! : How to get your tickets","titleDivider":200,"subtitle":"![tickets v3](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/3Wd9gDHP0AcyoMokQ2U8Wc/ada0c99c237ded506d7f2c96e1ebf183/tickets_v3.png)","subtitleDivider":170,"callout":"

HOW TO GET YOUR TICKETS

","calloutDivider":140,"excerpt":"You guys have our heads spinning today with pre-sale questions and we are thrilled to have seen our subscriber numbers double since ","bodyText":"You guys have our heads spinning today with pre-sale questions and we are thrilled to have seen our subscriber numbers double since we announced these midwest shows and all before the app is released! (which between us is going to happen any day now…) so thanks for that. \n\nHere are the straight facts about NYA presales.\n\n1. ONLY yearly subscribers get access to pre-sales. It says it right there while you are subscribing. Don’t worry if you missed it - reach out to customer support and we will help you out. \n2. The tickets page lives in the account panel. (global menu>account>[tickets](/#/account?screen=tickets)) But when there is a pre-sale going on you will ALWAYS find a stack of tickets on the front cabinet. Click on that and it will take you straight to the [tickets page](/#/account?screen=tickets).\n3. Browse that page and when you find the show you want to buy tickets for click the “Get Code” button. Your code will magically be revealed. This code can only be used once. You can give it away if you like, but once it's used it’s toast.\n4. Click the “copy code” button to copy your code to your computer’s “clip board” then click “Buy Tickets.” This button will open the ticket vendors page in a new tab. Use the code you just copied on this page and you should be all set.\n\nAlways reach out to customer support if you have issues on the NYA end of things. If you have issues on the ticket vendor page, it’s going be quickest if you reach out to them directly.\n\nIf you can’t get a code on NYA - ask us. If your code doesn’t work on the vendor page - ask them.\n\nWe will redirect you if you reach out to us - but just trying to save you guys some time. In the frenzy for the best seats in the house minutes are hours.\n\nThis system was created to make sure that all of you get the best and easiest access to tickets. We think it’s great and we hope you do to.\n\nEnjoy the show(s)!\n\n-The Archives Team","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"5e8aodlQLYIcgEwiEKMi6y","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:44.506Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"12-13-18","releaseDate":{"year":2018,"month":12,"day":13}},{"id":"KEEP ON ROCKIN’ IN THE FREE WORLD","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2018-11-06T00:00-05:00","byline":"NY","headline":"KEEP ON ROCKIN’ IN THE FREE WORLD","headlineText":"

KEEP ON \nROCKIN’ IN\nTHE FREE\nWORLD

","bodyHeadline":"KEEP ON ROCKIN’ IN THE FREE WORLD : VOTE YOUR CONSCIENCE","titleDivider":180,"subtitle":"

VOTE YOUR CONSCIENCE

","subtitleDivider":150,"vimeoId":"296962730","excerpt":"DT does not have my permission to use the song ‘Rockin’ in the Free World’ at his ","bodyText":"__DT does not have my permission to use the song ‘Rockin’ in the Free World’ at his appearances. Legally, he has the right to, however it goes against my wishes.__\n\nI made this perfectly clear after he played it in a media moment to announce his candidacy. I asked him then, in a widely shared, public letter to cease and desist.\n\nHowever, he chose not to listen to my request, just as he chooses not to listen to the many American voices who ask him to stop his constant lies, to stop his petty, nasty name calling and bullying, to stop pushing his dangerous, vilifying and hateful rhetoric.\n\nThis man does not represent the character of the people in the USA that I have come to know and love.\n\nI’m Canadian so I can’t vote in the states, but if you can,
\nTake this great opportunity to make your voice heard,
\nand Vote!
\nKeep on Rocking in the Free World!
\nNeil Young","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"2mKommsAwAGSiqsOSGI8Qy","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:31.210Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"NY","dateText":"11-6-18","releaseDate":{"year":2018,"month":11,"day":6}},{"id":"Oceanside Countryside","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2018-10-14T00:00-04:00","byline":"NYA","headline":"Oceanside Countryside","headlineText":"

Oceanside\nCountryside

","bodyHeadline":"Oceanside Countryside : A breath of fresh air","titleDivider":200,"subtitle":"

A breath of fresh air

","subtitleDivider":170,"image1":"//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/79hWYj9rmo4gkM2q8KewME/62822bad799e7ba5371911be3a28e06a/A_094_oceancountryside700.png","photoCaption":"The hand written title seen above is found on the timeline in March 1977, where it soon will be replaced by original album art.","excerpt":"When I walked into Reprise in 1977 and played Oceanside-Countryside for the company, Mo Ostin and Lenny Woronker were the listeners.","bodyText":"When I walked into Reprise in 1977 and played Oceanside-Countryside for the company, Mo Ostin and Lenny Woronker were the listeners. I trusted their musical tastes then and still do. They were a sounding board for me for many years. \n\nOceanside Countryside was a record I felt really good about. It was quite a personal record, mostly made up of acoustic songs which had no bass or drums. I made the lion’s share of it in Ft Lauderdale, just playing myself, singing the songs and overdubbing a few acoustic instruments. I was alone and went in to Triad recording studios there daily for a while, laying these new songs down. I got seven tracks there, including overdubs I added to Pocahontas, recorded previously at Indigo Ranch in Malibu. That version ended up on Rust Never Sleeps. \n\nFollowing Triad, I went to Nashville and recorded at Crazy Mama’s. (JJ Cale’s studio) with Rufus Thibiodeaux- fiddle, [Ben Keith](/#/news/7/article?id=Histories-Ben-Keith)-dobro, Karl Himmel-drums and Joe Osborne -bass. \n\n![NeilZekeRufus1408](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/XaCU8tu34sKSKy0QCS46Q/b0b12292fad043d0a58db22e4304a00f/NeilZekeRufus1408.jpg)
\n*Zeke, Rufus and I in Nashville 1977-ny*\n\nIt was my first recording with Joe Osborne and he was great, laying it down. What a feel. He is legendary. I’m glad I got to feel that. The tracks were all done on one day, mixed and finished. Bobby Charles, writer of ‘See you Later Alligator’ and ‘Walkin to new Orleans’ to name a couple, was with us there too, cheering us on in the control room, laughing and joking, playing the part of the Wizard. We cut one of his incredible songs, “You’ll always live inside of me,” as well. I gave it to Bobby for his own record. \n\nThe resulting record was what I took to Warner Brothers in Burbank. Listening, they thought that the songs were good but they missed the drums and bass that I had not used on the seven acoustic tracks and were asking me if I thought I could do those songs with a rhythm section to make it sound more like a record and not a demo. I trusted them.\n\n“OK. I can go to Nashville and do some more there. It would be fun,” I told them. \n\nI did that; and also recorded a few more songs at Woodland Studio in Nashville. The result of that trip was the album, ‘Comes a Time’. It’s an album I know a lot of folks enjoyed. But….. it was not Oceanside Countryside.\n\nYesterday, listening to Oceanside Countryside in the car with John Hanlon, I drank a beer and smoked a little weed. I listened to it for the first time in forty years. That album was so *free* and open, unencumbered by the rhythm overdubs I had added to it in Nashville. The record was alive and breathing, with all the space in the world. The acoustic guitars I had layered on at Triad were all there, in my original mixes, just as i had originally envisioned them. Hearing them made me feel so good.\n\nUnchanged and unheard for years since I first made it in Fort Lauderdale, the album was a breath of fresh air. It was a real album and it got to me. Listening to it gave me a an uplifted feeling, so heartfelt. I could see those Countryside faces in my mind; those great musicians. What an amazingly true sound and feeling it was! \n\nI am happy that I will be sharing it with you soon. OCEANSIDE-COUNTRYSIDE.
\nNY
\nNYA","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"51A8tUqb60qmwi04SAYQgE","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:22.248Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"NYA","dateText":"10-14-18","releaseDate":{"year":2018,"month":10,"day":14}},{"id":"VOTE for a future","page":"page-1","column":"left","date":"2018-09-30T00:00-04:00","headline":"VOTE FOR A FUTURE","headlineText":"

VOTE

FOR\nA\nFUTURE

","bodyHeadline":"VOTE For A Future : A Crash Course With History","titleDivider":150,"subtitle":"

A CRASH COURSE\nWITH HISTORY

","subtitleDivider":120,"image1":"//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/22L8AVpzGco0IYoSaquMoS/e597c4a2ecda3f84386f72cb87dd450a/earthonfire1408.jpg","photoCaption":"painting by Igor Morski","excerpt":"Climate Change and its deniers are on a crash course with history. ","bodyText":"Climate Change and its deniers are on a crash course with history. \n\nBy electing a leader in denial, who believes he is smarter than the world’s scientists, the USA has enabled an enemy of the people to impose his will on the life of Planet Earth.
\nVOTE for change.\n\n

VOTE for a future.\n
\nNYA

\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"2TcxF1Gsy4oWaeQoyyiiyY","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:29.219Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"9-30-18","releaseDate":{"year":2018,"month":9,"day":30}},{"id":"WHEELCHAIR TO WALKING","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2018-09-12T00:00-04:00","byline":"NYA","headline":"WHEELCHAIR TO WALKING","headlineText":"

WHEELCHAIR\nTO\nWALKING

","bodyHeadline":"WHEELCHAIR TO WALKING : medical Marijuana treatment","titleDivider":250,"subtitle":"medical marijuana\ntreatment","image1":"//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/2PcGZJoA88SKycYCEaUaQu/45936476626dd04d383138ea9acf1b83/handicapsymbol1408.png","excerpt":"Dr. Robert Elkins of Saint Augustine, FL has a cannabis certification clinic where he examines patients to determine whether they can be prescribed medical marijuana, in accordance with Florida State law.\n","bodyText":"Dr. Robert Elkins of Saint Augustine, FL has a cannabis certification clinic where he examines patients to determine whether they can be prescribed medical marijuana, in accordance with Florida State law.\n\nHe recently examined a fourteen-year-old girl with post encephalitis. She was confined to a wheelchair with tremors, and had problems with concentration, eye disturbances, and other symptoms. As a result, she qualified for a prescription.\n\nShe has now been on medical marijuana for about six weeks. She is walking for the first time in two years, is much happier, has hardly any tremors, but needs to be home schooled because the school will not let her take her marijuana on the school grounds. \n\nHer mother was picking her up from school, driving her off the school grounds to give her the meds, and returning her to class, but it’s been tough on the family. She was recently on TV regarding the above problem. \n\nThis has been a real success story. A friend of Dr. Elkins has subsidized the cost at the dispensary, and Dr. Elkins is treating her for free. The parents are having trouble making ends meet; both parents work, but things seem to be looking up.\n\nDr. Elkins noted that she is the first child he has treated in his clinic, but says, “Cases like this make it all worthwhile.” Unfortunately, they have another child with ADD and some additional neurologic problems.\n\nPB
\nNYA","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"7mPT0kUdKE4QKOYwoeGK8I","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:31.113Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"NYA","dateText":"9-12-18","releaseDate":{"year":2018,"month":9,"day":12}},{"id":"Trump Taking 3rd Big Step","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2018-09-11T00:00-04:00","byline":"NY","headline":"Trump Taking 3rd Big Step","headlineText":"

Trump Taking\n3rd Big Step\nto Roll\nBack \nFight\nAgainst\nClimate\nChange

","bodyHeadline":"Trump Taking 3rd Big Step to Roll Back Fight Against Climate Change : VOTE","titleDivider":150,"subtitle":"

V O T E

","subtitleDivider":120,"calloutDivider":100,"excerpt":"In a victory for energy companies, the administration plans to roll back rules covering methane leaks and the “flaring” or burning, of the potent greenhouse gas.","bodyText":"In a victory for energy companies, the administration plans to roll back rules covering methane leaks and the “flaring” or burning, of the potent greenhouse gas.","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"3AdxCsddNeSAeE8AQeCqWq","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:27.096Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"NY","dateText":"9-11-18","releaseDate":{"year":2018,"month":9,"day":11}},{"id":"LOSING_GROUND","page":"page-1","column":"left","date":"2018-09-08T00:00-04:00","headline":"LOSING GROUND","headlineText":"

L O S I N G\nG R O U N D

","bodyHeadline":"LOSING GROUND : Results - Why Voting is your responsibility this time","titleDivider":160,"subtitle":"

R E S U L T S

","subtitleDivider":140,"callout":"

Why Voting is your\nresponsiblity this time

","calloutDivider":120,"image1":"//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/ENgaNmoEk8SMQA60SGWgs/ee34bd538738d3b2516d865a35945c2e/nasabluemarble1408.jpg","excerpt":"Here is what a leading US senator said yesterday:\n\n“Process and personality is what we are talking about — how they do things, how dysfunctional it is and how off the rails he can be,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, conceding that Mr. Trump was “a handful.” But, he said, “what I am talking about is results.”\n","bodyText":"Here is what a leading US senator said yesterday:\n\n“Process and personality is what we are talking about — how they do things, how dysfunctional it is and how off the rails he can be,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, conceding that Mr. Trump was “a handful.” But, he said, “what I am talking about is results.”\n\nResults are exactly what I am worried about as a citizen of Earth. Dismantled environmental protections are my biggest worry with the US government, among many others. As a Canadian, I am concerned that all the work we have done around the world to combat Climate Change and Corporate pollution practices is going by the wayside. \n\nInstead, the big US money grab is proceeding with greedy teeth gnashing, destroying the environment, killing off species and accelerating the planet into a deeply uncertain future. All this for short term financial gain that is sure to cost future generations. All this from the former leader of the free world?\n\nAround the Planet the dire predictions of scientists have proven to be very moderate compared to what is actually happening. Sea temperatures up to 10 degrees above normal, dying species, coral breakdown, rampant fires, floods and disruption of water supplies all point to a bleak picture for my children and theirs, if we get that far. This is really happening on your watch.\n\nMeanwhile the US government forges forward on its greedy path towards what? Dominance of the World through the power of money? I don’t think so. The US is losing ground in the world, trying to make friends with the ugly-minded leader of an all white country, Russia. The real world is colorful.\n\nAs a Canadian, I can only ask my fellow citizens of Earth here in the United States of America to VOTE. Register now and vote your conscience. Change the course of America by first slowing it down in 2018 and then in 2020 taking control of the White House, bringing many colors under its roof. White Supremacy is not America. It is your current temporary president and Putin.\n\nStay together. Resist the temptation to turn on your Brother or Sister because they voted for this divisive president. Vote your conscience instead. Respect them for voting theirs even if you don’t agree. That is civilized, democratic. Don’t fall into this president’s well-set trap of division which pits us against one another with every news cycle. Just go forward and use your right to vote. If we do this, we will win. I am Canadian. I can’t vote-but you can. I urge you vote for young ideas, fresh faces, multi-colored agendas, and truth.\n\nRespect your Brothers and Sisters.\n\nNeil Young\n\nNYA","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"3mhUu6IAjYeKOKwqWqU4Ok","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:40.428Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"9-8-18","releaseDate":{"year":2018,"month":9,"day":8}},{"id":"Trump&RussianMob","page":"page-1","column":"left","showBodyText":true,"date":"2018-09-05T00:00-04:00","byline":"NYA","headline":"Trump & Russian Mob","headlineText":"

Trump\n&\nRussian\nMob

","bodyHeadline":"Trump & Russian Mob : X-Spy reveals early history - Taj Mahal and the Russian Mob","titleDivider":210,"subtitle":"

X-SPY REVEALS\nEARLY HISTORY

","subtitleDivider":190,"callout":"

Taj Mahal and the\nRussian Mob

","calloutDivider":170,"image1":"//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/14MYOB261ieKMKKCO000aS/bedd8f7ee8035f2119834fefc9a0116b/TrumpTajMahalCasino1408.jpg","excerpt":"Bob Baer, former undercover CIA operative and current CNN correspondent, says he knows some of President Donald Trump’s Soviet secrets. The former undercover CIA operative divulged what he’s learned about Trump’s long-running relationship with Russia — specifically the KGB.","bodyText":"*Telluride Daily Planet Editor \nJustin Criado reports \n(edited by NYA)*\n\nBob Baer, former undercover CIA operative and current CNN correspondent, says he knows some of President Donald Trump’s Soviet secrets. The former undercover CIA operative divulged what he’s learned about Trump’s long-running relationship with Russia — specifically the KGB. \n\nThe chumminess with Communists dates back to 1986, when Trump, then a real estate developer in New York City, attended a cocktail party that included KGB agents, unbeknownst to Trump. America’s future president unwittingly became an “agent of influence,” which Baer explained is a person who is “susceptible to KGB manipulation, but the word KGB never comes up.” \n\nDuring that time, he added, a KGB “illegal” (the term for an undercover KGB agent) filled Trump’s head with anti-Ronald Reagan rhetoric and delusions of grandeur, including planting the possibility of a U.S. presidential run, during a 1991 visit to the former Soviet Union, which was close to collapse and “broke.” \n\n“It was a piece of flattery,” Baer said. “The Russians started his political aspirations.” \n\nThe “criminalization” of the KGB, the Soviet Union’s formal intelligence agency, began during the collapse, Baer explained. \n\n“What we have to look at it in this way, in 1991, the KGB didn’t give up, they simply retreated and regrouped,” he added. \n\n__Russian immigrants, including KGB illegals, began settling in Brighton Beach, New York, which is the start of the Russian mafia in America, Baer explained. The mob bosses worked out of Trump’s Taj Mahal Hotel & Casino. Trump, who needed money to finance his endeavors, started taking “Russian money,” according to Baer.__ \n\nThe scenario may sound like a “Godfather” spinoff, but Baer began digging after becoming privy to the Trump-Russia ties during the 2016 election cycle, when he received a tip from a current Democratic operative who asked him to reach out to an ex-KGB officer. \n\n“I knew from the phone number from the FBI that it was a legit KGB guy,” he said. \n\nHe added that the man on the other end of line said, “We have a tape of Donald Trump.”\n\n“What I didn’t know was how did the guy see the tape? Why should I believe him? Was this KGB disinformation?” said Baer, a current CNN intelligence and security analyst who lives in the Telluride Colorado area. “I worked with the KGB for years in the CIA. They’re very good at making stuff up. I knew that Russian President Vladimir Putin (a former KGB foreign intelligence officer) wants to disrupt our democracy at any cost, and, of course, he has. He’s done a great job of it.”\n\nBaer said he “filed away” the information until the Steele dossier was released in January, which alleges misconduct and conspiracy between Trump and the Russian government during the 2016 election. He added that the music video for Russian pop-star’s Emin Agalarov “Got Me Good,” which came out in June, depicts an alleged incident with Trump and two women during the 2013 Miss Universe contest in Moscow, which he hosted with Emin’s father, Aras. Baer proclaimed the Agalarovs are KGB agents. It is unclear if the Trump video the Russians maintain to have is from the 2013 Miss Universe contest. Baer did explain that a popular tactic the KGB like to employ involves planting a camera in a hotel room air conditioning vent in order to capture less-than-flattering encounters, usually with a “lady of the night.” \n\nHe explained that he used the contacts he’s collected over the years to conduct his independent investigation. \n\n“As a former CIA officer will do, I went back to my old KGB contacts,” Baer said of his recent research. “I said, ‘What happened? What’s the relationship between Donald Trump and the KGB.’ (His contacts) proceeded to lay it out.”\n\nHe explained that the U.S. intelligence agencies (i.e. FBI and CIA) quit monitoring Russian activity after the 1991 collapse, and didn’t resume monitoring until 2016. \n\n“It’s been a black hole,” he said. “We’re not looking at it.” \n\n“The curtain dropped down because we were patting ourselves on the back for winning the Cold War,” Baer said. (He added that he may turn what he’s discovered into a TV series; working title: “How the KGB won the Cold War.”) \n\nThe Hillary Clinton email debacle? It was the Russians. \n\n“They hacked Hillary’s email and the Democratic National Convention’s simply to cause problems after she was elected president. That’s all they wanted,” he said. “They hated her for the Ukraine. They hated her for Russian elections. They said, ‘This is great. We’ll get in her email. She’s elected president and we’ll go after her. We’ll make her miserable and the Democratic Party for four years. Then, we’ll get back in and we’ll do it again.’ Disruption. That’s what Putin is after.” \n\nWhen it became apparent that Trump may become the next President of the United States, the Russians worked to set up backchannels, according to Baer. \n\nThe July 16 Russia-United States summit in Helsinki, Finland, didn’t help matters either, Baer said. \n\n“This servile kissing the ring of Putin really makes you wonder what’s going on,” he said. “We’re not going to know what went on in that meeting, because if there’s any tape of it, it’s Putin that has it. We simply don’t know.”\n\nHe added, “You have a President of the United States that’s clearly in political trouble for his connections with Russia.”\n\n“The worst thing you can do when you look at this Russian thing is take sides,” he said. \n\n*NYA has omitted portions of the original article.*\n\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"A0LqJmBsyWk64aoaM68qi","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:26.160Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"NYA","dateText":"9-5-18","releaseDate":{"year":2018,"month":9,"day":5}},{"id":"BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD LIVES!","page":"page-1","column":"left","sticky":false,"showBodyText":true,"date":"2018-07-01T00:00-04:00","byline":"NYA","headline":"BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD LIVES!","headlineText":"

Buffalo

Springfield

Lives!

","bodyHeadline":"Buffalo Springfield Lives! : What's That Sound? - New box set is in stores now","titleDivider":230,"subtitle":"

WHAT'S THAT SOUND?

","subtitleDivider":200,"callout":"

New box set is

in stores now

","calloutDivider":170,"image1":"//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/1x1qKocI0IWmGqk0S0suIU/5a265fc1611ba86a69f69dff51ed5227/Buffalo_Springfield_What_s_That_Sound_cover_art_970.jpg","excerpt":"\n\n'What's that Sound?' has been released. It is the best Buffalo Springfield record ever made. Remastered from the original analog tapes, both mono and stereo, it is definitely superior to anything 'Buffalo Springfield' that I have heard, even the original records. If you want to hear our band, this is the best way to do it...\n\nClick on title to read more...","bodyText":"\n'What's that Sound?' has been released. It is the best Buffalo Springfield record ever made. Remastered from the original analog tapes, both mono and stereo, it is definitely superior to anything 'Buffalo Springfield' that I have heard, even the original records. If you want to hear our band, this is the best way to do it.\n\nAfter the Mynah Birds on Motown, my first recording in the states was Buffalo Springfield on Atco. It was a great time for me, playing with Stephen Stills, Richie Furay, Bruce Palmer and Dewey Martin in the Springfield. Our band was an influencer, lighting the way for many bands who were more commercially successful. When we first appeared at the Whiskey in Hollywood, and walked Sunset Strip with the flower children, we had no plans past success in the sixties. \n\nWe were learning how to make records and play big shows. Stephen and I were in the studios all the time overdubbing and mixing, trying to make the records we heard in our heads and hearts. These were rich times for us all, working in studios alongside the DOORS and other groups of the time, sharing bills with THEM, (Van Morrison’s early band), The Byrds, (where we met David Crosby), The Seeds, Johnny Rivers, and even opening for the Rolling Stones at the Hollywood Bowl. These were big times for some green kids living the dream.\n\n‘What’s That Sound’ is the greatest BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD COLLECTION ever. Remastered from the original analog tapes, it’s guaranteed to sound better than any earlier edition of this great and influential music. NYA was overseeing the remastering process. I have heard it and I think this is the best it can be! It sounds amazing! If you love BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD, this is the ultimate collection to have. Hear it at NYA. Enjoy it. Buy it if you can.\nNY\n\nPre-order ‘What’s That Sound?’ The Complete Albums Collection - newly remastered Buffalo Springfield box set now at neilyoungarchives.com. \n\nNYA\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"6OsqtipGTuAGYeqMWmEEQO","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:36.160Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"NYA","dateText":"7-1-18","releaseDate":{"year":2018,"month":7,"day":1}},{"id":"OHIO","page":"page-1","column":"left","date":"2018-05-04T00:00-07:00","byline":"NY","headline":"OHIO","excerpt":"![ohio 45 475](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/5GHUWUlermuq60q4su6eiK/6e3bcddbf93cb8fc2c68ca9b7a01446a/ohio_45_475.png)\n\n[OHIO](/#/info-card?track=t1970_0521_01&_k=1bhcl1)\n\nThis day, 48 years ago, National Guardsmen gunned down unarmed students \nat Kent State University. 67 shots, 13 seconds, 8 wounded, 4 killed, 1 \npermanently paralyzed. 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Change is coming, and its coming from the youth \nwho have suffered and who have seen enough!\n\nNY","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"1tfNnePDDGYSkQGYe2aOms","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:33.102Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"NY","dateText":"5-4-18","releaseDate":{"year":2018,"month":5,"day":4}},{"id":"SXSW_PRESS_TIME","page":"page-1","column":"left","date":"2018-03-17T00:00-07:00","byline":"NY","headline":"SXSW PRESS TIME","excerpt":"\n![Texas outline475](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/2uP66uhQXqkg24WOY0cOk6/63365fdef0b798ec3c1a6e9c951e8e63/Texas_outline475.png)\nPassing under the freeway, I rolled down the window for a breath of Austin air. Here I was in Texas’ beautiful Capitol city and cultural centre near Fredericksburg, a classic Texas town where I had spent the previous day. I loved the architecture there and saw many artist’s works everywhere. Outside of town on our way to Austin, D and I stopped to see an unbelievably great piece of architecture and art on hwy 290.\n\nThe road was beautiful, a Texas treasure. I love...\n\nClick title for details...","bodyText":"![Texas outline970](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/4xDq27IBf2gySCOIyYsKgW/1b76fcf5088f088d9220040f825ebbe9/Texas_outline970.png)\nPassing under the freeway, I rolled down the window for a breath of Austin air. Here I was in Texas’ beautiful Capitol city and cultural centre near Fredericksburg, a classic Texas town where I had spent the previous day. I loved the architecture there and saw many artist’s works everywhere. Outside of town on our way to Austin, D and I stopped to see an unbelievably great piece of architecture and art on hwy 290.\n\nThe road was beautiful, a Texas treasure. I love the rolling hills. Passing Luchenbach road, I thought of Waylon and Wille, ‘blue eyes cryin in the rain’, and ‘feelin no pain’. D and I had a nice ride into Austin where we hid outside town on the bus.\n\nIn the morning the alarm went off too early. I got some coffee for us and saw Miss D off to her interviews. I left an hour or so later for the interview hotel myself, where festival lovers paid big bucks for an average accommodation. The place was quiet when I arrived and went up to a holding room on the interview floor and waited there for huevos.\n\nMy managers Elliot and Frank were there to assist me in preparing for my day of talking to the press. Its something I try to do rarely, but I am looking forward to this today because it will give me a rare chance to review my interviews and cover the story for the Times-Contrarian.\n\nThis day at 10 am, brave independent students across the USA walked out of class to observe 17 minutes of daylight fo the dead students killed by a mentally ill person armed with an automatic assault weapon. They are no doubt aware that the president, who students from Florida visited recently, is in the pocket of NRA and assault weapon loving Americans and has vowed to do nothing to stop the carnage. He’s the irresponsible leader who got rid of the law preventing mentally ill patients from buying guns on one of his first days on the job. He’s the liar who was just kidding when he said he wanted to make the age of gun buyers 21, two years older than the mass murderer in Florida. That was good for a news story that day for the fake president who was a loser when people’s actual votes were counted, the half man-half chicken who needs to have three stories about himself going at once on the accommodating national press outlets to satisfy his massive ego. There they were, leaving the unsafe schools for a few minutes to remember their fallen classmates. I love these kids. They are the future. Thank you Young Americans, for knowing who you are and doing what you can do. You are the future. You will be voting soon. Respect.\n\nThe London Times is my first interview and it starts in 24 minutes. I think we will be discussing PARADOX, the movie Miss D directed and I am featured in, along with Promise of the Real and Willie Nelson, father of a couple of the band members Lukas and Micah, great musicians on their own. We are family. Our movie was fun to make and we made it to have a good time and tell a little story. No violence or hatred. Beauty and laughter. PARADOX is the ideal palate cleanser between two super hero movies. I love our friendly little movie! That’s what I told the London Times.\n\nI am back in my holding room now. London Times was good. The guy was prepared and asked intelligent questions about the movie PARADOX and our methods for making it. He also asked about the archives and high res music movement. I like this paper, the London Times. They have always been prepared and asked intelligent questions. I hope the rest of the day goes as easily as this interview. We talked about the creative process for songs and movies, albums and books. Thoughtful. Kind. A good half hour. \n\nAND THE LONDON TIMES PUBLISHED:\n\nNothing at Press Time\n\t\t\t\t\t \n \n![Break>>><<<<](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/36RfZCWnkIoKosCCEs2Io0/995ca9349f144b905cc5c8450c5d0e37/Break_v2.png)\n \n\nThe lady just came in to take our orders for lunch.\n\nI liked the Chicago interview. The interviewer Greg Cott, is an old acquaintance and we have some good history together, The interview started on PARADOX and wandered to the archives, how I perceive a success or failure, how I like playing and working at projects now that I’m older than 20, lots of discussion about tech and music and the record companies. I told him what I tell everyone, that I think the record companies should lower the price of high resolution and help music to heal itself. They are the ones to blame for today’s quality vacuum in audio. It's the bean-counters at the record companies. They have priced good sounding audio out of the market. For what? The high prices have failed. No one buys music that costs three times as much as the same music. There is no excuse for it. It has to change. Make songs all the same price no matter what technology is employed. We talked about platforms and how they have forgotten the art. Platforms and the Tech Giants are losers the way they are treating the arts. Art is art. I am not content to be content. Hey Tech giants, make an algorithm that shows you how to respect art. I told Chicago Tribune about my new album PROFANE, an album of beautiful music that has only profanities as lyrics. Just kidding, sort of.\n\n![ChicagoT 970](//images.contentful.com/2okapnzdylk2/60vrc0pjQQwkICu8yE2Ysy/cf168718cc024867ad6b9b0dad8e32cb/ChicagoT_970.png)\n\nAND THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE PUBLISHED:\n\n*Hannah, Nelson and a couple of his bandmates, Anthony LoGerfo and Tato Melgar, share a laugh. They’re gathered in a hotel suite overlooking the Colorado River, discussing what is essentially a modest art movie about a motley gang of outlaws hiding out in the Rocky Mountains, scavenging for a living in a setting saturated with broken tech toys (cellphones, laptops) buried by some unidentified apocalypse. Music and the clan of women who keep them at arm’s length are their sole salvation, their way of escaping their purgatory and their path to transcendence.* \n\n*The movie’s themes serve as a metaphor of sorts for Young’s deepest beliefs, the principles that have guided him through a 50-year career mostly spent in one-guy-vs.-The-Man mode. And Young, though he has the movie, two albums and a massive digital archive to promote, is happy to embrace the role in a separate interview. Young is indeed the man in the black hat, gray hair spilling past his ears, and he breaks into a grin as a question is posed:*\n\n*Can one guy make a dent in the way the tech-dominated power players (Spotify, Facebook, Apple, Google, YouTube, various multinational record labels) dominate the music world?*\n\n*“Sure, because they’re stupid,” he says. “The tech giants are jerks, they’re all losers. They operate to give us ‘content’ that sounds like crap, they want to take away our privacy and they want to monopolize music. For them, art is not art, it’s content. It’s an algorithm.”*\n\n*Young once could be reticent and vague in interviews, but those days are long gone. He has sold tens of millions of albums as a solo artist and as a member of Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, but he still carries a chip on his shoulder the size of a redwood.*\n\n*“Tech companies miss the essence of life,” he says. “People have a right to change their minds, and they often do. But algorithms can only track your past and give you more of the same. It’s an insult to the human mind and the human soul, because it takes away a universe of possibilities.”*\n\n*Greg Kot,\n\nRead more in the [Tribune](http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-ent-neil-young-darryl-hannah-0316-story.html)*\n\n![Break>>><<<<](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/36RfZCWnkIoKosCCEs2Io0/995ca9349f144b905cc5c8450c5d0e37/Break_v2.png)\n\n\nMy manager Elliot is with me while I type this and says I have my flyin’ fingers going today! I love that guy.\n\nWe are on a roll. Yahoo just interviewed me and asked a lot of good questions about PARADOX. I told the lady interviewing me how Daryl bought all the wardrobe herself in thrift stores, how she shot a lot of the movie herself on the phone, how CK Vollick is a great cinematographer, and all about working with Promise of the Real, who are my friends and a great band. I relayed how Daryl wrote the script and how she is so committed and professional and loves movies and movie making. She is a real pleasure to work with and for, a great director. \n\nWe went on to the archives and sound quality, where I have a lot to say, most of which centers around lowering the price of High Res and making all music the same price, eliminating the stigma of over priced High resolution audio. Its all just music. Let the people decide. FREE the music from tech constraints brought on by old 20th century technology. Lets get real and dump the tech giants with their loser attitudes about the arts. Art is not content. It is art and should be treated like a special gift from the Gods. Respect. The interview concluded.\n\n![Yahoo970](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/7a88ESR5U46ei2Uus68I0W/593569bc7a877ea1a31ebcbea90cfa5b/Yahoo970.png)\n\nAND YAHOO PUBLISHED:\n\n*“[Neil] has such a natural communication with the artistic process that he doesn’t question it, ever,” Hannah adds. “He just was like, ‘Oh, yeah, right. We’re making a movie.’ It was very natural.”*\n\nWe talked about many things with Yahoo but most of what they wrote about was superficial speculation, petty and ill-informed repetitive gossip. Miss D felt the Yahoo piece was disingenuous, and did not even reflect what she said or what she, Lukas, Anthony and Tato had discussed with the interviewer.\n\nNote to management: There were lots of questions from Yahoo but they just ended up focusing on gossip. We should have left this interview off the schedule. This is the danger of trusting the press. Yahoo. Real yahoos. Real FAKE news.\n\n\n![Break>>><<<<](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/36RfZCWnkIoKosCCEs2Io0/995ca9349f144b905cc5c8450c5d0e37/Break_v2.png)\n\t\t\t\t\t \n\nAfter lunch which Miss D and I enjoyed with Promise of the Real and my managers Elliot and Frank was over, the interviews continued.\n\nThe folks from Reuters, a lovely lady and a man who were both professional journalists, were mostly interested in the Archives, so we talked about why I started it. They wanted to know what made me do it, create NYA. I said metadata was a scourge that the tech giants had perpetrated on the masses, depriving them of all the real information behind the music, the people, the places, the machines, the songs, the writers, the producers and engineers, the studios.That does not fit in 3 lines of meta data. That’s why we created info cards for every song. We want the people behind the art to be recognized. \n\nThen there’s the music quality. Reuters wanted to know how we did what we did (make the best sounding streaming in the world and show how easy quality is to access.) They asked how we financed it. Warner Bros helped a lot, but it was not that expensive. They wanted to know about our subscription rates. I told them it would be about 20% of a normal streaming service but our free tier would still allow my 10 most popular albums to be accessed in High Resolution for free. The money part is something everyone was curious about and most people were curious about how we made the quality happen. I said its easy. Anyone could do it. Certainly is is easy from aa tech standpoint. It's really the high prices being charged by the labels that has killed high res, except at NYA. Warners is helping us.\n\nAND REUTERS PUBLISHED:\n\nNothing by Press time.\n\n![Break>>><<<<](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/36RfZCWnkIoKosCCEs2Io0/995ca9349f144b905cc5c8450c5d0e37/Break_v2.png)\t\t\t\t\t \n\n\nThe Daily Beast was very interesting. Questions about the film, an understanding of the film I had not considered before - a metaphor for women in society. The soundtrack album was interesting to discuss with Marlow, the man from ‘The Daily Beast’. The interview touched on my output- why so long and so much? I tried to answer but couldn’t really say except that I love art and creation. He asked if I was going to write a novel since I hadn’t done one yet and I told him about my new novel CANARY, which I am doing final edits on with my agent in New York. I told him a bit about the book and almost got carried away talking too much and the interview was over. We were out of time. I had another coffee. I hope the two coffees don’t make me too agro. I tend to get jacked and argue with too much java. Not yet today. Good thing. \n\n![Dailybeast 970](//images.contentful.com/2okapnzdylk2/3JPC99kT3OEawowQYE60iU/39aee7a95f985fe4e389d2e62c354906/Dailybeast_970.png)\n\nAND DAILY BEAST PUBLISHED:\n\n*AUSTIN, Texas — For Dana Loesch, there are three certainties in life: death, guns, and hating Neil Young with the fire of a thousand suns.*\n\n*The National Rifle Association spokesperson, who recently got her ass handed to her by a bunch of pissed-off teens on national television, has harbored a decades-long vendetta against the legendary singer-songwriter—one that rivals President Trump’s aversion to wind turbines in sheer vitriol. Loesch has tweeted negative things about Young at least 15 times over the course of a decade.* \n\n*When I tell Young this, he cracks up. “The spokesperson? That woman? She doesn’t like me?” he says. “Well, she’s one of the gang over there. Although Trump likes my music. He’d come to all my shows.”*\n\n*Young is at SXSW to promote Paradox, a trippy new film by his partner of four years, the actress and activist Daryl Hannah. In the film, hitting Netflix on March 23, Young plays “The Man in the Black Hat,” a mythical cowboy who embarks on a soul-searching quest. Young not only starred in the film, but also created an entire album’s worth of new songs for its soundtrack.* \n\n*After reading one of her infamous “dying cow fart” tweets aloud to Young, he replies through laughter, “Why doesn’t she just shoot me?” before quickly correcting himself: “You know, I hate to say that because I have kids and I really don’t want anybody to shoot me. I’ve still got to bring up my kids, so don’t take that seriously!”*\n\n*According to Loesch, her “first exposure” to the deadly virus that is Young’s music came while a student at Fox High School in Arnold, Missouri.* \n\nI had forgotten this exchange when I returned to the holding room and wrote what I remember of the interview. The exchange took maybe 30 seconds of the half hour interview, but it seems this is what the Daily Beast considered most important, It’s a risk you take when you trust the press.\n\n![Break>>><<<<](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/36RfZCWnkIoKosCCEs2Io0/995ca9349f144b905cc5c8450c5d0e37/Break_v2.png)\t\t\t\t\t \n\nBack in the holding pen (room) to write this and now on to another interview. Stick with me….\n\nBILLBOARD was my next interview and it touched on the PARADOX soundtrack, the movie, and politics in general. He like the song SHOW ME and really talked about that as being a high point as for him and I felt good that someone knew the song and felt that i had recently done something that got to him. That was a good feeling. A lot of questions about the president. Will i make another LIVING WITH WAR? I seem to getting a bit burned out by now because the interviews are starting to run together and I can’t recall where they begin or end. But that could be temporary. \n\n![Billboard970](//images.contentful.com/2okapnzdylk2/4jG6CpS9FCIAsY2sw2AC4W/4c3dea898eb595b28ef0c88068250432/Billboard970.png)\n\nAND BILLBOARD PUBLISHED:\n\n*Neil Young and Daryl Hannah are not looking for Academy Award buzz or even critical kudos as they prepare their new, Netflix-bound film Paradox for its premiere Thursday at South by Southwest.*\n\n*“It’s just fun,” Young told Billboard on Wednesday (March 14) at Austin’s Four Seasons Hotel. “We had talked about making a movie for awhile, just how fun it would be, and Daryl had some ideas. She’d always wanted to do a kind of Western-style thing. We shot the whole thing in three or four days with a bunch of our friends, and I knew the movie would be fun and something I could believe in.”*\n\n*Hannah, who directed and wrote Paradox, called the movie “an accident. Everything was spontaneous and organic. It was going to be a short; I wrote about a 10-page script, and then everyone got into their character and it just kind of ballooned as it shot. We didn’t want to make it just a music video, so we decided to just kind of cobble it together, and it all fit. Obviously we just made it for fun and we kind of hope people will take it in that spirit. It’s a lighthearted kind of thing even though it does have some themes and messages we care about.”*\n\n*The low-budget, single-camera “Paradox” is an impressionistic, fable-like tale that stars Young as the enigmatic Man In Black, accompanied by members of his current backing band Promise of the Real -- including Willie Nelson’s sons Lukas (Jail Time) and Micah (The Particle Kid) -- on a quest for physical treasure during the days and creative discoveries by night. Nelson also appears in the film, which begins streaming March 23 on Netflix alongside a limited theatrical release, with a soundtrack album by Young and Promise of the Real out the same day. Thursday’s premiere at the Paramount Theatre in Austin will be followed by a Q&A with Young, Hannah and other cast members.*\n\n*It marks the first time Young has been directed in an acting role by anyone other than Bernard Shakey (aka Young himself, who’s listed as the film’s co-producer), but he said the adjustment was not difficult. “I have a lot of respect for Daryl; she knew what she wanted to do and she had good direction,” Young said, acknowledging that it was easy to relate to the muse-driven character he plays. “Y’know, she wrote it, she put it together, and I just followed the directions. I followed the dots and we had a great time.” Hannah, meanwhile, said Young made contributions in helping to run the set in the Colorado mountains, where the band was preparing for a short tour during the fall of 2016 before the Desert Trip festival.*\n\n*“We did not have a crew and there was no [assistant director] or anything, so Neil was very helpful,” she noted. “He loves making movies, so it was really helpful to have him, but he totally refrained from backseat direction. I don’t believe Bernard ever made it onto the set. Everything had to be approved through Bernard, but he was very hands-off. He let everything happen.” Micah Nelson added that, “They’re a good team, and Neil trusts [Hannah] a lot. I think he enjoyed taking a back seat and just being an actor.”)*\n\n*The soundtrack by all telling, was created much the same way, using unrehearsed, first takes of songs such as “Peace Trail” and “Show Me,” the orchestrated and acoustic versions of “Tumbleweed” that came from sessions for Young’s 2014 album Storytone and covers of The Turtles’ “Happy Together” and Leadbelly’s “How Long?” “We really didn’t set out to do anything,” Nelson said. “Even the campfire scene, we were making up verses on the spot. The script said ‘Campfire jam, sing-along song,’ so we set it up and whatever happened.” Hannah recalled that, “We hadn’t even finished setting up the microphones when they started to play some of the songs that were in the film. If we could capture it, we were lucky. Nothing was planned in terms of what songs there were going to be. It just sort of happened.”*\n\n*Young says some of the material came from music he was working on with Promise of the Real after finishing 2017’s Peace Trail, including “a couple jams for instructional passages for different things, then I recorded a bunch of electric guitar and stuff to go with the scenes.” He likened the material to his score for Jim Jarmusch’s 1995 film Dead Man. “There’s a lot of ‘Dead Man’ in this film,” he said. “All of us like ‘Dead Man’.”*\n\n*The Netflix alliance, meanwhile, is “outside the box for me,” Young acknowledges. “It’s something I’ve never done before and Daryl’s never done before. Usually we try to go out and present our stuff and go to the people who we know are going to love it and present it. It’s made for them, so we find ways to locate them and let 'em know it’s happening. This is not like that; this is like we’re on the world stage. Anything can happen. People who have no idea what to expect, they’ll probably shoot it down ‘cause it’s not made by Cecil D. Eastwood or something; it’s not the Best Western they were looking for. So the jury’s out. We’re still kind of coming to grips with what it is and working on this platform.*\n\n*“But we just wanted to have fun. We just made this movie for fun. It’s already a hit, as far as we’re concerned.”*\n\t\t\t\t\t \n![Break>>><<<<](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/36RfZCWnkIoKosCCEs2Io0/995ca9349f144b905cc5c8450c5d0e37/Break_v2.png)\n\nI am back in the holding area now, waiting for my next interview. It feels good. We have avoided posed pictures. Basically, I hate posing.\n\nNext, I left the holding area and went into the interview with Rolling Stone, a magazine that started the same time I did with Buffalo Springfield. The interviewer was bright and knew his stuff…He loved the film PARADOX and had some beautiful things to say about it. I told him how much fun it was to make the film and how D and I enjoyed the whole thing. We talked about Willie and how he loved a scene we did outside a bank we had just robbed. It was refreshing to feel his energy and I think Rolling Stone is lucky to have him on board. We discussed Peace Trail, the album and the song. He talked about the flying spirits and the love shown in our film. He asked me about albums I had rediscovered on the archives and I told him ‘Broken Arrow, with the song, ‘This Town’, was one of my recent rediscoveries. I also love ‘BigTime’ and ‘Scattered’ from that record. I wrote it about David Briggs after he had just passed away. Briggs made many of my best records with me. He was my producer. The interview ended, seemingly passing quicker than the others, Not sure why. Good guy, the interviewer.\n\n![RS 970](//images.contentful.com/2okapnzdylk2/1XW3OlCW3GmsgKCq6CWoS/b6675e1d76f6778bb76dcbb8a37ae431/RS_970.png)\n\nAND ROLLING STONE PUBLISHED:\n\n*When you plan to write an article about Neil Young, you don’t expect Neil Young to also write an article about you. \"I'm writing a story of today for the Times Contrarian right now,\" he tells Rolling Stone, referring to the online newspaper he’s been updating on Neil Young Archives featuring unheard material going back to 1963.*\n\n*Young is doing interviews all day, and has been darting to another room after each one to jot down his thoughts. \"I write down my experience of the interview,\" he says. \"The whole day, all the interviews, who we talked about, as much as I can remember. Of course it's getting to the end of the day, so I remember less and less. You can tell the flow of the day. It’s a journalistic exercise.\"* \n\n*But if Young’s career has taught us anything, it’s to expect the unexpected. That goes for Paradox, the new film written and directed by his partner Daryl Hannah, which premieres Thursday night at South by Southwest and hits Netflix on March 23rd. Young stars as the \"Man in the Black Hat,\" the leader of a band of outlaws that include his band, Promise of the Real, living off the land in a world where seeds have become the currency (Willie Nelson makes a cameo).*\n\n*The story may be as out-there as Young's bizarre 1982 album Trans, with excellent musical sequences that include Young fingerpicking \"Pocahontas\" and a wild Promise of the Real version of Young’s overlooked 2016 cut \"Peace Trail.\" Hannah says the film came together fast: before playing some shows in the Rockies in 2016, Young and Promise of the Real needed to spend a few days getting acclimated to the climate. \"I knew they were gonna end up sitting around the campfire together playing songs and joking, but we didn't wanna make a documentary,\" she says. \"They're an incredibly playful group of guys so we just decided it would be fun to make a little movie and use the road crew and the guys in the band. We didn't have any professional actors, no crew, no budget, and three days. Everything was unplanned it sort of just happened.”)* \n\nRead more in [Rolling Stone](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/neil-young-retirement-tours-are-bullshit-w517920)\n\n![Break>>><<<<](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/36RfZCWnkIoKosCCEs2Io0/995ca9349f144b905cc5c8450c5d0e37/Break_v2.png)\n\n\t\t\nNoisey Vice….. Sensitive, intelligent, caring. Those are the words that come to mind after talking with the people from Noisey. They are tech youth, wondering what is happening. Can they feel what previous generations felt when listening to music? Can they trust the platforms? Can they grow with the tech or will they be stifled by it? How is art and music going to survive. I wanted them to know that a window for art and music can open on the platform but there is a long way to go in a short time. I liked these two people, alive and probing, thinking, intellectual, yet seemingly looking for more depth from their existence. These two were different from all the rest. I wish them and Noisey the best and hope that they find their way. I know they will. I wish I knew where they were going so I could tell them what I know. A lot of depth at Noisey.\n\n![noisey logo970](//images.contentful.com/2okapnzdylk2/2CYDzQ9eT6eUgYCUuUAaGo/cd28bd96773ef9816955eda45701720f/noisey_logo970.png)\n\nAND NOISEY VICE PUBLISHED: \n\nNothing at Press time. \n\nIn light of the other internet News organizations, it will be interesting to read what Noisey Vice publishes and/or if it reflects the conversation we had.\n\n![Break>>><<<<](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/36RfZCWnkIoKosCCEs2Io0/995ca9349f144b905cc5c8450c5d0e37/Break_v2.png)\t\t\t\t\t \n\nBack in the holding area, I wanted a beer but waited until one more interview was done.\n\n The \"Austin American Statesman’ is the local paper here in Austin and the journalist had a list of questions which I answered the best I could. He seemed to have liked PARADOX, was curious about the music we had put into the film. We spoke about Willie, Lukas and Micah. We talked for a while. \n\nIt was a friendly interview.\n\n![Austin American Statesman logo970](//images.contentful.com/2okapnzdylk2/2MH9nY9ALKSC64yyAkYGye/34748ad3950e251549befc2f306d129a/Austin_American_Statesman_logo970.png)\n\nAND THE ‘AUSTIN AMERICAN STATESMAN‘ PUBLISHED:\n\n*“Paradox,” premiering at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Paramount Theater as part of the South by Southwest Film Festival, is described in the fest’s program guide as a “far-fetched, whimsical western tale of music and love.” Directed by Daryl Hannah, the film features Neil Young as well as Lukas and Micah Nelson, sons of Willie and fixtures in Promise of the Real, Young’s backing band of the past few years. Their music — a mix of newly-written songs, instrumental film-score material and excerpts of classics from Young’s past — is central to the tone and theme of the film.*\n\n*Young isn’t performing at SXSW, but he’s here to help promote the film, and he granted a few interviews yesterday. We sat down with him for about 20 minutes Wednesday afternoon to discuss ‘Paradox,’ his impressive new Neil Young Archives website, his relationship with Lukas and Micah, and more.*\n\n*American-Statesman/Austin360: How did you assemble the material for the film?*\n\n*Neil Young: The instrumental passages we did were all written for this film. Three songs — “Peace Trail” and “Pocahontas” and the long instrumental of “Cowgirl” (1969’s “Cowgirl in the Sand”), those are old songs obviously, although “Peace Trail” is only a year old. “Diggin’ in the Dirt” we wrote that for this, Lukas and Micah and I. And of course Willie’s song “Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground,” sung by Lukas, is maybe the highlight, a classic. It’s like these two guys (Lukas and Micah) are American treasures, both of them. They’re continuing on the work their dad has done so well for so many years. It’s a beautiful thing.*\n\n*You must have known them since they were little kids. At one point did you realize, hey, these guys might be good for my band?*\n\n*The first time I remember thinking that is, Willie and I were standing onstage at Farm Aid in Milwaukee, maybe eight years ago, something like that. Lukas was playing, and it was just the (Promise of the Real) trio, and it was amazing. It was just stunningly great. And I was just standing there with Willie and saying, “You must feel great about this, to see those guys out there.” It’s just always felt good to see them. Now I’m playing with them, and they’re fantastic. It’s like they know: They’re in the river, they know the flow. They inherently know, and they have no fear. All those guys in that band, nobody has any fear. They’re not concerned with anything more than music. They know nothing to be scared of; they’re not trying to prove anything.*\n\n*Lukas has said that his priority is playing with you, but he’s getting really good on his own and had a big record last year. How do you balance the needs of your band with your desire to encourage his own work?*\n\n*I want him to do everything that he wants to do. And as soon as I’m ready to go out and play a tour, I’m hopeful that they’ll be ready to go, too. Right now I haven’t got the new music that I need to go out and play a tour, a Neil Young tour. I need to have a bunch of new songs, because it gives me something to get my teeth into. And then the (older) songs will hang off of them. And they hang on for dear life, those songs. But I can’t do it without the new songsm so I have to wait for the new songs to come.*\n\n*You’ve done music-and-film projects before. Was “Paradox” different?*\n\n*It’s just a continuation of music. We made the music that we felt like making. We knew we had a couple of scenes that we should create some themes for, and so we did them. In one case, we borrowed heavily from one of my existing songs to make a new musical track, and make an instrumental out of one of my old melodies. Another couple of songs are jam songs where we just went with the flow; we didn’t think about it much. Everything was so much fun. I mean, the drumming on one of those —is insane. Tato (Melgar) and Anthony (LoGerfo) had all these drums, the’re all banging away in the studio, and we’re just going nuts. On another one, I took my harp and I said (to the band), “You play the melody to ‘Love and Only Love,’ and I’ll play my harp and feed back through my amp.” And everybody just keep playing, and we’ll just keep playing that for a long time. We had a great time; it was fun.*\n\n*Your new streaming archives site comes with a 10-minute video that explains how it all works.. How many years have you been working on this?*\n\n*Well, it started off with an old friend of mine named Larry Johnson who passed maybe five years ago. We started in 1990, building it, and we put out “Archives Volume 1” on Blu-Ray, because I wanted it to have high-res. I wanted the music to be everything it could be, and I didn’t wan’t to put out my history unless the music sounded good. I hate what the music sounds like today on the internet, and I don’t like what people have to listen to. It’s been dummied down for no reason. So I wanted to prove to the world that you could have great-sounding music on the computer, and you could connect it up to speakers and it’d be like God. And we’ve done that. It’s the best-sounding streaming site in the world. There’s no one else doing what we’re doing. So our technology is really earth-shattering in that respect. I’m very proud of that.*\n\n*The archives has been an incredible journey for me. It’s nice to have an organized place to put everything I’ve done, so that people can find it and refer to it or whatever. … It’s like my whole life: If I like something and I do a good job on it, there’s always enough people who are going to like it so that I can keep on going and do something else. And that’s the way I look at the archives; it’s just a culmination of all of that. We worked on it for a long time to make it as great as it is. I’m particularly happy with the sound quality. There’s no magic to it, it’s just technology. It’s just using technology from this century instead of the last one.*\n\n*How many people did it take to build it? Like a couple dozen?*\n\n*Not that many. We’ve moved from place to place. We have a house in San Francisco, a tech house, that had done a lot of the development. But we’ve been on this for many years, developing the look and feel of it. It’s a big time machine for music, and for anything.*\n\n*In the instructional video, you show some images of an old album cover and you remark about “when we had room for art” on album covers. But now you have infinite room online.*\n\n*Yeah. And you can listen and move around, and look at different things while you’re listening. And the site is only improving. We’re still doing things to the site that make it more immersive. We also are missing about 75 percent of the content on the info cards that’s available. We have many more things to put in, and loading it takes time. That’s the hard part. So we’re a little slow on that right now, and I’m trying to get all that together. We’re getting some interns, and we’re getting a little office space, so we’ll be loading up all those info cards and stuff. It’s like every credit for every song. Everybody who worked on it: the engineers, the studio, the maintenance people, the musicians who were there, the people who dropped in to do things, the producer, the engineers. Everything’s there, plus the lyrics, the credits for the publishing — everything associated with the music is there.*\n\n*The credits are really important; it’s good to have that because they’re disappearing on the web.*\n\n*Yeah metadata is a joke. I mean, I don’t know who they thought they were fooling. You know, Silicon Valley is a bunch of crap.*\n\n*Other artists reach a point int their lives when they donate their archives to libraries or historical collections. But you want to keep it in house. Why is that?*\n\n*I want the people to keep it. I want everybody to have it. And when we start our subscription thing, we’re still going to have a lot of free music you can listen to. My top albums of the day, top ten streaming albums, will be available for free. Everything that you can do now, they’ll be able to do. It’s just that there’s another 40 or 50 albums, and all the information associated with them, all the videos associated with everything — the movies, the books, everything is there. And then for whatever it amounts to be — which, we figured out it’s going to be 20 percent of a normal subscription streaming — that’s what you’ll pay for this. Because it’s just me, it’s not all the artists in the world, so we don’t expect everybody to pay that. But if we can do that and get enough people — we want more people and less money. The smaller the amount that people pay, the more people are going to pay it. But we want something that’s really worth it, where they really feel like they’re getting a great deal. And people who can’t afford to do anything or just don’t know, we can still show them the difference between what great sound is and what they’ve got today, so they have a window into the possibilities to look at. That’s the mission.*\n\n*If I’m listening through my laptop, it can only get so much better because of these crappy speakers. Is it still noticeably better?*\n\n*Actually, much better. Oh yeah. And I realize computers are compromises. They can only play back CD quality at the best. They interpolate everything down and play back shit. They’re not playback devices. But it’s still, coming out of the little speakers in a Mac, the high-res noticeably sounds better. And we have a switch; you can listen to what you’ve got now, and you can, you spend a little time listening to a song that you like, and then listen to it the other way. Switch back and forth a few times; it’s like night and day. And as soon as you realize it, you go, “How the hell is Neil — how are they doing that? How come they can do it, and Spotify can’t do it?”*\n\n*You were at SXSW in 2014 talking about your Pono high-quality music player. How has that gone?*\n\n*Well, it ended up dying because streaming came in, and downloads are out. Ant that’s cool. I’m just talking about quality. And now I’m streaming quality, because I found the technology. We didn’t know where it was at that point. If I could have, I would have used streaming at that point and opened up a streaming service. But I knew my archives was really the way. The more I looked at it, I said, “You know, if I just do this for myself and make an example of it, it may be better than trying to sell people stuff.” Just let them have it; they can see it. The mission is for people to understand that music could be a lot better sounding, everywhere in the world, than it is right now. There’s no reason why it can’t be. Well, there is one reason: record companies. They charge too much for the high-res. They don’t make anything off of it because they’ve priced it out of existence, so nobody buys it. So if they made it all the same price, and the people had the choice of whether to have high-res or low-res, go ahead, make your choice. That’s all I’m asking for: Give people a choice.*\n\n*Anything else on the horizon for you?*\n\n*I’m writing a little bit. I’m writing a book; I’ve got a book coming out. It’s a novel. So I’ve written it, and it’s my first novel. I’m kind of excited about it.*\n\nJAY JANNER / AMERICAN-STATESMAN\n\n![Break>>><<<<](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/36RfZCWnkIoKosCCEs2Io0/995ca9349f144b905cc5c8450c5d0e37/Break_v2.png)\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\n \nThe next morning D and I did a couple of phoners. They are harder to gauge because on the phone its hard to get a feel for some things. None the less, sometimes phoners are good and the stories that come out of them are valuable.\n\nAP (Associated Press) \nThe man from AP had questions about the music in PARADOX. When he started he mentioned that he had seen the film twice. That’s all he said. There was no confirmation from him whether he liked it or ‘got’ it, or really anything. I answered his further questions about the music, how we decided what songs to include and some mention of the Archives, which he seemed to be asking me about without being overly prepared, relying on me to explain what it was. This kind of journalism is not my favorite. I like to have a discussion with some one knowledgeable about the subject, not be relegated to explaining ‘in my words’ what it was he had seen. I like a two way conversation. Later in the talk, he did ask about the floating people and why we did that? I explained that our music is meant to elevate the spirit and this was a visual take of that experience. He talked to D after me and I don’t yet know what happened there.\n\n\n![WP AP 970](//images.contentful.com/2okapnzdylk2/3VyJkN4cJiIaQGMu02aCGI/ff4f2c7e1cdb60e885a083235735c1e1/WP_AP_970.png)\n\nAND THE WASHINGTON POST PUBLISHED THE AP STORY:\n\n*By Scott Bauer | AP March 15 at 3:43 PM*\n\n*At 72, Neil Young feels a sense of urgency.*\n\n*The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member has a new, and joyfully perplexing, pseudo-Western film “Paradox” written and directed by actress and girlfriend Daryl Hannah coming out on Netflix next week. He’s releasing a movie soundtrack on the same day. And next month, he’s digging into his vast archives to put out “Roxy - Tonight’s the Night Live,” a collection of songs played live from the opening week of the famed Los Angeles club in 1973.*\n\n*And if that’s not enough, Young continues to move ahead with his vision to make his online musical archives the definitive repository of everything — previously released or otherwise — that he’s ever recorded.*\n\n*“I like to get it out there so I’m alive to see how people like it,” Young said in a telephone interview Thursday from Austin, Texas, where he is attending the South by Southwest music festival. “What the (expletive)? Why not?”*\n\n*Young unveiled his new archival website in December, making all of his officially released recordings available to stream in the highest audio quality possible — a passion of his — for free.*\n\n*In what has been a tantalizing tease for devoted Young fans, there were also inaccessible links to unreleased albums like “Homegrown” from 1974, “Chrome Dreams” from 1976 and “Toast” from 2001 along with various live recordings from throughout his 55-year career.*\n\n*Young said he has 12 to 14 unreleased records he made between the late 1960s and 2012 that he wants to get out soon. The 1973 Roxy concert highlights is next in April and he said two more vault releases are planned for later this year.*\n\n*“When I made these records, I made them so fast that I couldn’t put them all out,” he said. “I finished one and I’d go on to the next one. That’s just the way it was at that time. I was very productive and going through a lot. I put out what I was most interested in at the time.”*\n\n*Young remains productive, with “Paradox” and its soundtrack coming out next week.*\n\n*“Paradox” features Young as “The Man in the Black Hat,” Willie Nelson as “Red” and his sons Lukas and Micah Nelson — members of the band Promise of the Real — as “Jailtime” and the “Particle Kid.” It was premiering Thursday night at the South by Southwest Festival and will have a limited theatrical release in addition to being available on Netflix on March 23.*\n\n*Billed as a “fantasy, a loud poem and a free-spirited tale of music and love,” the film begins sometime in the “future-past” with Willie Nelson proclaiming that “time is fluid.” It follows Young and a band of outlaws in the mountains as they scavenge for treasure that includes computer keyboards, cameras and cellphones.*\n\n*It was filmed in Colorado while Young and his band were getting used to the 10,000-foot altitude before performing at the Desert Trip festival in 2016.*\n\n*In the film, Young’s band plays his song “Peace Trail” as listeners float in the air. In another scene, Young strums a ukulele as Hannah floats behind him, tied to Young’s waist by a rope.*\n\n*“When you’re in the music, sometimes you float away in your mind,” Young said. “It’s just another representation of the effect of art and music on people.”*\n\n*Hannah, who wrote the film and is making her directorial debut, said it was all very spontaneous and not meant to be taken too seriously. Hannah described it as a “homespun project” and said she was surprised when Netflix expressed interest.*\n\n*“It’s not really their sort of thing,” she said, adding that Netflix typically goes for more polished productions and not “spitball movies people make for themselves.”*\n\n*“That’s my biggest concern that people will be expecting a normal movie or a rock and roll documentary and they’ll be like, ‘What the heck?’” Hannah said. “I hope that they take it in the lighthearted spirit it was intended and turn it up so they can hear the music.”*\n\n*Young said he didn’t know what people would think of “Paradox,” but he stands by it.*\n\n*“It’s a little surreal but it’s playful and loving, no violence, no hatred,” Young said. “It’s a great palate cleanser (between Super Hero Movies).”*\n\n![Break>>><<<<](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/36RfZCWnkIoKosCCEs2Io0/995ca9349f144b905cc5c8450c5d0e37/Break_v2.png)\t\t\t\t\t \n\n\nD came out to the bus from her Huffington Post interview. It was my turn to do the Huffington Post next.\n\nThe lady from Huffington Post was very nice and she loved the movie. By what she said I could tell she ‘got’ it; she enjoyed it and it made her feel good. I told her we had a lot of fun making our little movie, explaining how D had gone out an bought all the wardrobe in thrift stores, how we were our own crew. She had a lot of good questions about the film, which I did my best to answer. She said her dad was a guitar player and had been a music lover for a long time, enjoying my records. I love families who have lived with music as I have in my own life. This was a very positive and enjoyable phone call.\n\n![Huffington Post970](//images.contentful.com/2okapnzdylk2/14VmEHBW4ucaq2Y04WqYS0/7f8ed1ce4567574a8b45683b78e69846/Huffington_Post970.png)\n\nAND THE HUFFINGTON POST PUBLISHED:\n\n*Neil Young Fires Back At No. 1 Hater: NRA Spokeswoman Dana Loesch*\n*Young joked, \"Why doesn’t she just shoot me?”*\n\n*By David Moye*\n\n*Apparently there’s one thing that National Rifle Association spokeswoman Dana Loesch hates almost as much as sensible gun laws: Neil Young’s singing voice.*\n\n*Loesch has tweeted at least 15 negative comments about the rock legend over the past decade, according to the Daily Beast, including referring to his voice as “a dying cow fart” at least three times.*\n\n*Young was apparently unaware that he’s been targeted by Loesch until the Daily Beast called it to his attention.\nHe was amused. Very amused.*\n\n*“The spokesperson? That woman? She doesn’t like me?” he asked. “Well, she’s one of the gang over there. Although Trump likes my music. He’d come to all my shows.”*\n\n*After a pause, he said, “Well, I’m glad I got under her skin.”*\n\n*As for the comparison that Young’s singing voice sounds like bovine flatulence, he wondered, “Why doesn’t she just shoot me?”*\n\n*He then thought better of his glib response.*\n\n*“You know, I hate to say that, because I have kids and I really don’t want anybody to shoot me. I’ve still got to bring up my kids, so don’t take that seriously!”*\n\n*Although Loesch has gone as far to suggest that if she ever won the Powerball, she would pay Young, Nickelback and Bush to stop playing, the Canadian-born Young says she’s entitled to her opinion.*\n\n*“That’s the way it goes! That’s what happens,” he said. “You’re out there in the world and people can say whatever they want. It’s freedom. I appreciate that, and I think she should exercise it as much as she can.”*\n\nIt appears here that the Huffington Post decided to go ahead with something they felt was more clickable, so they re-ran the Daily Beast story. ‘Neil Young Fires Back At No.1 Hater’. Even the title is misleading. I did not even know about that person or her tastes, until the Daily Beast reporter baited me with something I had never heard of. It was the last thing on my mind to ‘fire back’.\n\t\t\t\t\t\nYou may notice, reading the above, that sometimes the articles that journalists write, or what gets published after the interview, has nothing at all to do with the subject of the interview that we did. Instead the publishers tend to print what is click-bait worthy. It does seem to serve their purpose, as Daily Beast’s article quickly spread around the web. That is not the reason I sat with them though, and I have a good memory.\n\nIt is always a let down when you feel like you have been taken advantage of. Luckily for us it only happened a few times in a couple of days. After this experience, it does seem obvious to me that internet based outlets indulge more in FAKE news, and the old established press outlets invest in journalists who do their homework, research and tend to be much more truthful and focused on delivering the real story of an interview. \n\nWrapping up, __I want to say that the false, irresponsible, hurtful, untruthful, incompletely researched lies coming out of the internet news outlets will mark my last time speaking with any of those organizations. The articles put forth by Yahoo in particular are not based in fact. I don’t know how that interviewer can sleep at night. It is out of respect for the parties involved that I don’t respond with the truth, based on facts. Doing so would only be hurtful to people involved.__ \n\n![Break>>><<<<](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/36RfZCWnkIoKosCCEs2Io0/995ca9349f144b905cc5c8450c5d0e37/Break_v2.png)\t\t\t\t\t \n\n![NYATC 970](//images.contentful.com/2okapnzdylk2/27tskB6tpaqCm8UUUswE6W/6dd7b575f3d8a9d79cab53a6c3c1f85f/NYATC_970.png)\n\nWe are very thankful to those publications truly reporting on the interviews we shared with them.\n\nNY \n\n\n\n\n\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"6FTlNapyzmEWaaSA4GKciY","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:27.089Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"NY","dateText":"3-17-18","releaseDate":{"year":2018,"month":3,"day":17}},{"id":"Scattered","page":"page-1","column":"left","date":"2018-03-08T00:00-08:00","byline":"NY","headline":"Scattered","excerpt":"![BrokenArrow475](//images.contentful.com/2okapnzdylk2/6oxVXP3mKswUkMKe0KY8wO/b209304f12015ac1c9ed0409050b4102/BrokenArrow475.png)\n\nHere's a song that says how I feel....\n\nClick title for details...","bodyText":"![BrokenArrow970](//images.contentful.com/2okapnzdylk2/2SAexCaHz2Ew0WEiki8kou/2a9ffef2947fc03f2604b2ff79597b82/BrokenArrow970.png)\n\n[Here's](/#/info-card?track=t1996_0328_01) a song that says how I feel. Missing you today Gary. \n\nD and I love you.\n\nNY","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"3seQJ6KQVO2Qu4IcqQC80Y","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:23.352Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"NY","dateText":"3-8-18","releaseDate":{"year":2018,"month":3,"day":8}},{"id":"PARADOX PREMIERE SXSW","page":"page-1","column":"left","date":"2018-02-12T00:00-05:00","byline":"NY","headline":"PARADOX PREMIERE SXSW","excerpt":"![paradoxguitar475](//images.contentful.com/2okapnzdylk2/Jxcfeg6UykKQYyKQ4A0eW/bd0d9fac3f35dab1c55ab174d67e8c1f/paradoxguitar475.jpg)\n\nThursday, March 15 at 7 PM, the Paramount Theater will screen Paradox at SXSW. We will be there. Hope you will be there too! We are very happy with our little film and hope that you enjoy it as much as we do. Promise of the Real, Daryl and I all invite you to attend. We will have more news about the film, including more play dates very soon!\n","bodyText":"![paradoxguitar970](//images.contentful.com/2okapnzdylk2/NTJGmBJDC8gUgQ06WIeek/923c92217ea89d33d7d811e29d3727c8/paradoxguitar970.jpg)\n\nThursday, March 15 at 7 PM, the Paramount Theater will screen Paradox at SXSW. We will be there. Hope you will be there too! We are very happy with our little film and hope that you enjoy it as much as we do. Promise of the Real, Daryl and I all invite you to attend. We will have more news about the film, including more play dates very soon!\n\nNYA","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"118MVAiS9e6W2yOiigEueA","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:29.209Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"NY","dateText":"2-12-18","releaseDate":{"year":2018,"month":2,"day":12}},{"id":"THE SOUND OF THE NYA FILE CABINET","page":"page-1","column":"left","date":"2018-02-11T00:00-05:00","byline":"NYA","headline":"THE SOUND OF THE NYA FILE CABINET","excerpt":"*(nerd alert)*\n\n![soundcabinetdrawer475](//images.contentful.com/2okapnzdylk2/3SHDKlKit2q8SEKgcYOUSe/0f4315e6055f1ec98344e0a6382570ec/soundcabinetdrawer475.jpg)\n\nBrowsing your way through the NYA file cabinet you might hear the semi metallic clunking sound of your file tray rolling on its bearings as you zoom through the years! \n\nThe sound is actually a sample derived from one of the greatest and most musical technologies ever invented; the Ayre Acoustics volume control knob...\n\nClick title for details...\n","bodyText":"*(nerd alert)*\n\n![soundcabinetdrawer970](//images.contentful.com/2okapnzdylk2/5iLzB5YI8MY2k2Q4GcOkwU/75ddda5879a54ccc6aaf13ad02eb8fe6/soundcabinetdrawer970.jpg)\n\nBrowsing your way through the NYA file cabinet you might hear the semi metallic clunking sound of your file tray rolling on its bearings as you zoom through the years! \n\nThe sound is actually a sample derived from one of the greatest and most musical technologies ever invented; the Ayre Acoustics volume control knob. \n\nThere is some very interesting thinking and technology behind Ayre’s unique volume control, which never seems to lose the depth of the music, even as you turn the volume way down. \n\nThe reason Ayre Acoustics uses these switches is this: With the mechanical switch, there’s an extremely short signal path that routes through a very high-quality resistor that determines what the volume should be. As the contacts are silver and the “wipers” are all metal, it’s as close to having a solid trace as possible and avoids the quality drawbacks found with other solutions.\n\nWhile there are a number of these other solutions to control the volume in a preamplifier, almost every one of them makes some kind of compromise that severely impacts the audio quality. Some use relays to route the signal through different resistors, but the nature of relays compromises the audio sound. Some others use potentiometers, but they’re generally found to degrade the audio quality as the signal has to travel through a graphite or carbon polymer layer in that application. \n\nThe clunking sound itself originates from the motor that is attached to each channel. When the knob is turned, a signal is sent to the logic that then tells these motors to turn. The motors are connected by belts to big open frame switches. \n\nThe Ayre volume knob is the brainchild of Charlie Hansen, Ayre’s founding audio genius who passed away in 2017. We love you Charlie. You live on at NYA!\n\n*Neil Young, NYA Times*.\n\n*The editor thanks Ryan P. Berry of Ayre Acoustics for his contributions*.\n\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"4vhBy04EvmEGqsi4eqaQ2A","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:37.094Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"NYA","dateText":"2-11-18","releaseDate":{"year":2018,"month":2,"day":11}},{"id":"PARADOX-AT-SXSW","page":"page-1","column":"left","date":"2018-02-02T00:00-08:00","byline":"NY","headline":"PARADOX TO PREMIERE at SXSW","excerpt":"![Paradox Poster Thumbnail ](//images.contentful.com/2okapnzdylk2/Bjg3MwmfyS8SEEa8UGQeQ/e4dd09c1ad69c731cdfee1682fd256ee/IMG_2234_475px.jpg)\n“Perhaps the most SXSW-sounding project in history: An experimental western directed by Daryl Hannah, with a cast that includes Neil Young and Willie Nelson. Titled “PARADOX,” the movie is described as...\n\nClick title for details...","bodyText":"\n![Paradox Poster](//images.contentful.com/2okapnzdylk2/1wBb6EkJAYgwyYGKmygG4M/a60a71d78a6af47d7c8ed14c02dd776c/IMG_2234_970px.jpg)\n“Perhaps the most SXSW-sounding project in history: An experimental western directed by Daryl Hannah, with a cast that includes Neil Young and Willie Nelson. Titled “PARADOX,” the movie is described as “a loud Poem” and “a whimsical western tale of music and love.” Expect something off the beaten path.” - INDIE WIRE\n\n\nA new Shakey Pictures film - PARADOX.\nA corresponding film soundtrack album will be released. \nMore specific news on this as release information becomes available to us…..\nNYA\t\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"6vw1vGbRJYQmY0iwwuW8WU","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:38.317Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"NY","dateText":"2-2-18","releaseDate":{"year":2018,"month":2,"day":2}},{"id":"FREE-THE-MUSIC","page":"page-1","column":"left","date":"2018-01-29T00:00-05:00","byline":"NY ","headline":"FREE THE MUSIC","excerpt":"__Xstream by NYA “stunning”- Rolling Stone__\n\n![NY in studio 1969 x 144](//images.contentful.com/2okapnzdylk2/6whHVMKUPm0WSy6o6mI8sI/e306461f60ea7243dddcc9bcaaec47fc/IMG_2365x144.jpg)\n\n__Technology milestone__ - Xstream by NYA, the first hi-res music streaming in the US proves that hi-res music streaming can be done with today’s technology. People can hear the difference at NYA and are writing about it. \n\nWe are very grateful to Rolling Stone for pointing out the “stunning sound quality” of Xstream by NYA in their recent coverage. When was the last time you heard anyone, much less a leading music journal for 50 years, describe the sound of a streaming service as “stunning”? ...\n\nClick title for details...","bodyText":"__Xstream by NYA “stunning”- Rolling Stone__\n\n__Technology milestone__ - Xstream by NYA, the first hi-res music streaming in the US proves that hi-res music streaming can be done with today’s technology. People can hear the difference at NYA and are writing about it. \n\nWe are very grateful to Rolling Stone for pointing out the “stunning sound quality” of Xstream by NYA in their recent coverage. When was the last time you heard anyone, much less a leading music journal for 50 years, describe the sound of a streaming service as “stunning”? Never. Streaming services today have the worst audio quality ever offered by the music industry.\n\nIt is possible for everyone in the world to hear the difference in Xstream by NYA and it is possible to change the face of the music industry. It is possible for all streaming services to have an Xstream like tier. We have proved that. \n\nToday’s lack of depth in audio is slowly starving and smothering the enjoyment of all the music ever made. \n\nI was there when all music was distributed at the same great audio quality, when vinyl was King. We all heard that sound together. Everyone. It was the norm and it was amazing! \n\nToday, the sound is gone. It has been killed by the labels and Tech giant monopoly that distributes our music. They have sweet deals with one another that enhance their profits while cutting the artist royalty to shreds, and the deals allow the tech giant to lower the bar and sell our music with less than 5% of the quality that was originally it. \n\n__Young Artists__ - The greed of tech giants and record labels has stifled the ability of young artists to create the next generation of great music. Historically, young artists regenerate the music, turning it over every generation as it evolves. That’s how music grows. Standing on the shoulders of the greats that have come before them, now the young artists have only meager income from music and their tools to bring great sounding audio to the people have been taken away. They no longer have the ability to distribute their new music the way it is made in the studio like their heroes did. In a world like that, how can great music regenerate?\n\nHigh-Res is what we all heard and felt when I started my career in music. I live and die for High-Res. I don’t like to listen any other way. That’s why we made Xstream by NYA. I can’t imagine how a young artist must feel; knowing listeners will never hear what was recorded in the studio.\n\n![NY in the studio, 1969 650 wide](//images.contentful.com/2okapnzdylk2/3pCAt1YJmMcWM8YMOigK6K/8c38198a84dbcad3e2d0f4e31433bc9c/IMG_2365x650.jpg)\n\n*NY in the studio, 1969*\n\n__Hardware__ - Today the great audio companies who make whole systems for high resolution audio have no music available at a consumer price level to demonstrate the quality. As a result, there are fewer and fewer companies manufacturing equipment that can handle excellent audio and music. \n\nAt the same time, the high-resolution audio systems available easily reveal the inadequacies of iTunes’ mp3 compromised files. Played loudly, the iTunes files hurt one’s ears, where a top-quality file can fill the room with the depth and warmth of beautiful sounding music, not pain. \n\nHigh Resolution music at an equal price would re-invigorate the audio hardware industry to create technology that would allow all the people a fair chance to hear and feel all the music, streaming it into their phones, homes and cars. \n\n__Pricing__ - The record company’s deals with the Tech Giants are directly responsible for the death of quality listening in the mainstream. They offer no alternative. Today’s artificially inflated high-res music prices have killed high resolution as a possible mainstream music experience.\n\nIt would be easy for cell phones to play great sounding high res. Some already do, the HTC 10 and the new LG V30, but the high price charged by record companies kills high res streaming as a viable business. The tech giants and record labels continue to only offer their shabby substitute to the mainstream.\n\n__Free the Music__ - It is my position that all songs should cost the same, regardless of the technology. The files don’t cost more to duplicate. The artificial high price is a blatant money grab. Let the people decide what quality they want to hear. Some will say high. Some will say low. Free the Music. \n\nI do know some people cannot hear the difference in sound quality. Some people are color blind too, but that’s no reason to compromise color. If only cellphones had done for audio as they did for cameras, the world would be enjoying the true beauty of great music today. It still can and if I have anything to say about it, it will happen.\n\nAgain, thank you Rolling Stone for describing Xstream by NYA as having “stunning sound quality.” We are grateful for your helping hand. For us, it is a labor of love. It’s for all music, for all time.\n\nNY/ NYA\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"2iGEwHZCYIEamysMsYkGkG","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:31.094Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"NY ","dateText":"1-29-18","releaseDate":{"year":2018,"month":1,"day":29}},{"id":"BEHIND-THE-SCENES","page":"page-1","column":"left","date":"2018-01-24T00:00-08:00","byline":"NY","headline":"BEHIND THE SCENES","excerpt":"Last week was a big one at NYA. You probably couldn’t tell what was going on, unless you are watching very closely, so let me fill you in. The NYA project is fascinating in many ways, but mostly for me, it’s about getting ready for our year. We are preparing the NYA Times-Contrarian, a newspaper to keep you up to date on what’s been happening at NYA and...\n\nClick title for details...","bodyText":"Last week was a big one at NYA. You probably couldn’t tell what was going on, unless you are watching very closely, so let me fill you in. The NYA project is fascinating in many ways, but mostly for me, it’s about getting ready for our year. We are preparing the NYA Times-Contrarian, a newspaper to keep you up to date on what’s been happening at NYA and the world of music. Articles like this one will be published regularly by the paper. It’s a big job and we have been busy designing and building the Times-Contrarian. There are four of us actively involved. We will have guest columnists and I will be contributing regularly.\n\nOur archivist works around the clock sorting out the offerings we will be bringing you in the coming weeks months and years. We do have that much unheard music and unseen films and videos in our vaults. Ben Johnson and John Hausmann are digging through the Shakey Pictures Archive as I write this. NYA will be featuring entire concerts that have never been seen. \n\nOur music producer, John Hanlon has been on the case with me as we prepare our premiere releases of previously unheard music. The album we are working on now, recorded in 1973, should be ready in time for a March release. There are some hint on the site now. You will be hearing a track from that one soon, presented for you on Xstream by NYA, the world’s best sounding streaming service, the only one in the world that is capable of delivering full high resolution music directly to you. At NYA, we are serious about the sound. Just pick your favorite song and listen to it.\n\nCheck out these comments, a very small sampling from the hundreds we are collecting:\n\n*Thanks again for this, Neil. High quality headphones through an audio interface really kick the sounds directly into my brain.*\n\n*Archives is so very cool and I very much appreciate all the work that went into putting this awesome gem together. Thank you!!*\n\n*Thank you Neil. Love the site and the sound.*\n\n*I'm discovering neil young. What a musician*\n\n*Yes!!! This is a win! Love it😍*\n\n*NYA is stunning...A magnificent gift, I'm spellbound. Thank you.*\n\n\nMovie Night is coming to NYA! Once every week we will be streaming a film or long form video from the Shakey Pictures Archive. We will be announcing that soon! Watch for the announcement. It should be fun for everyone who wants to see all of the wacky movies we have made over the years, including HomeTown, the solo show I did in Omemee Ontario very recently.\n\nOn the business front, we have had to spend a lot of time in the office. Yes, we have an office. We are building our subscription service and deciding what it will be. We plan on a couple of levels of subscription with many exclusive features for the top level. We don’t want to lose our listeners so we are making it very low priced and attractive, with all kinds of perks, from premiere listens to first shot at buying tickets to shows before they are commercially announced. \n\nTour plans are forming now for the latter part of 2018.\n\nI have been writing and waking up with new music in my head and I plan to continue that for as long as it keeps happening. I know I have been blessed with being part of so much music in my life.\n\nThanks for being here at NYA. I really appreciate it very much. We are growing and feeling good about what we have accomplished so far. Our plans for the future are extremely exciting. Music is a great healer. In times of trouble and concern, we have our music. NY\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"N9BoZi9nCUquO0UmwuaMk","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:39.131Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"NY","dateText":"1-24-18","releaseDate":{"year":2018,"month":1,"day":24}},{"id":"CRAZY-HORSE-ALCHEMY ","page":"page-1","column":"left","date":"2018-01-23T00:00-08:00","byline":"NY","headline":"CRAZY HORSE - ALCHEMY ","image1":"//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/1uM4BkoNgoUy4GeMOaCwMW/0d92155d5fcb8a9391aa68615093a83e/D80_6444.jpg","photoCaption":"photo by dan harper","excerpt":"ALCHEMY is Crazy Horse Live through Europe, Australia and Canada. The third in the Crazy Horse Rust Trilogy, ALCHEMY is the last recorded album by Crazy Horse: Ralph Molina, Billy Talbot, Poncho Sampedro and myself, to this date. Truly spoken, there are four live Crazy Horse recordings, one done in rehearsal for the other three Rust Live shows. ‘A Rusted out Garage,’ where one of the rehearsals happened, is confusing in a trilogy. If you count ODEON-BUDOKAN as a Crazy Horse...\n\nClick title for details...","bodyText":"ALCHEMY is Crazy Horse Live through Europe, Australia and Canada. The third in the Crazy Horse Rust Trilogy, ALCHEMY is the last recorded album by Crazy Horse: [Ralph Molina](/#/news/7/article?id=Histories-Ralph-Molina), [Billy Talbot](/#/news/7/article?id=Histories-Billy-Talbot), [Poncho Sampedro](/#/news/7/article?id=Histories-Poncho-Sampedro) and myself, to this date. Truly spoken, there are four live Crazy Horse recordings, one done in rehearsal for the other three Rust Live shows. ‘A Rusted out Garage,’ where one of the rehearsals happened, is confusing in a trilogy. If you count ODEON-BUDOKAN as a Crazy Horse live album, the earliest, pre-dating LIVE RUST, then that is further confusing. But the Crazy Horse Rust Trilogy does sound cool.\n\nALCHEMY is a new Crazy Horse album. Recorded in high resolution audio and video during 2012-13, Crazy Horse performs *Walk Like a Giant*, *Dangerbird*, *Mr. Soul* and *Fuckin’Up* among others like *Surfer Joe*, *Ramada Inn* and *Red Sun*. Unreleased and rare songs from the period are included as well. All the songs were picked right after and during the tour. These are the ones we like. All that we are doing now is post production and mastering. We made this record and did not put it out until now. No one heard it back then but us.\n\nMusic and natural phenomenon come together in a big way for *Like a Hurricane*, recorded during a raging thunderstorm at the Paleo Festival in Nyon, Switzerland. The full length live video of that performance is a gem for Crazy Horse lovers. Some may have seen parts of this performance, captured by the crowd during the torrential wind-blown downpour and featured on You Tube. NYA has the whole multi camera capture of this unreal experience and will preview it at the premiere of *NYA’s Movie Night*.\n\nCrazy Horse is looking forward to this release. The wait is almost over. For me, ALCHEMY harkens back to the best of LIVE RUST and WELD, beginning to look like a circle... but not totally joined. Time shows us what we can do and when we can do it. Crazy Horse moves with the wind. Of course, ALCHEMY is a little like Spinal Tap as well... Crazy Horse’s big amps are still there, now tattered and worn, but listen to them now...\n\nThis is going to be a great experience for Crazy Horse fans everywhere! Watch for the cover to start taking shape on the timeline at NYA. When the cover is done, the release is imminent.\n\nI hope you love it!\n\nNY","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"2S38tNbAEouoAyEawewoAu","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:43.536Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"NY","dateText":"1-23-18","releaseDate":{"year":2018,"month":1,"day":23}},{"id":"timeline-1973","page":"page-1","column":"left","date":"2018-01-04T00:00-08:00","byline":"NY","headline":"TIMELINE - 1973","excerpt":"\n\n\nVisit the [Timeline](/#/timeline?position=23.449834677157227&_k=wqfdry). \nKeep an eye on this...\n\nClick title for details...","bodyText":"\n\nVisit the [Timeline](/#/timeline?position=22.37756625482715&_k=2to7yz). \nKeep an eye on this.\n\n![Roxy Live Stage 2- For News](//images.contentful.com/2okapnzdylk2/43m6DhhYHCaw80QEAy8GAC/38ce2da92d182c609fe2d0597b3d4a8c/A_087_roxylive_stage1_fornews.png)","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"3RvUp7WRS0ege24uMYKWc0","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:41.441Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"NY","dateText":"1-4-18","releaseDate":{"year":2018,"month":1,"day":4}},{"id":"Taking-Care-of-the Music","page":"page-1","column":"left","date":"2018-01-02T00:00-08:00","byline":"NY","headline":"Taking Care of the Music","excerpt":"Thanks for following NYA. I am very happy to be doing this; taking care of the music I have made with my friends over the last 5 or 6 decades. I really hope...\n\nClick title for details...","bodyText":"Thanks for following NYA. I am very happy to be doing this; taking care of the music I have made with my friends over the last 5 or 6 decades. I really hope you enjoy this archive as much as I do. I still wake up with new songs running through my head and wonder at the world we live in. It is such a beautiful place to help take care of. I am so thankful for the friends I have! Lots of love to you all and my Best Wishes for a Happy Healthy New Year!\nNY","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"3dRpvTVoJaIScIa4E2KS60","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:28.180Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"NY","dateText":"1-2-18","releaseDate":{"year":2018,"month":1,"day":2}},{"id":"thanks-from-nya","page":"page-1","column":"left","date":"2017-12-06T00:00-08:00","byline":"by Neil Young","headline":"thanks from nya!","excerpt":"NYA is up and running and it feels wonderful getting your positive response! Thanks for all of the comments, and while...\n\nClick title for details...","bodyText":"NYA is up and running and it feels wonderful getting your positive response! Thanks for all of the comments, and while we may not be able to get back to each and every one of you, we are reading all your letters with great interest. This has been a labor of love for all of us. In the meantime, it's free! Enjoy\nNY","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"5oMbHPcwNyqq022Ye8ukA4","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:24.220Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"by Neil Young","dateText":"12-6-17","releaseDate":{"year":2017,"month":12,"day":6}},{"id":"welcom-to-my-archive","page":"page-1","column":"left","date":"2017-12-01T00:00-08:00","byline":"NY","headline":"welcome to my archive","excerpt":"Welcome to my archive. We hope you enjoy your stay here, browsing through more than 50 years of music and movies. It has been my pleasure to write and perform these songs and make these films for you. They are all here. Many of them are found in versions you probably have never heard or seen...\n\nClick title for details...","bodyText":"Welcome to my archive. We hope you enjoy your stay here, browsing through more than 50 years of music and movies. It has been my pleasure to write and perform these songs and make these films for you. They are all here. Many of them are found in versions you probably have never heard or seen. \n\nThis archive is assembled chronologically. It has a [timeline](/#/timeline?position=15.541873825051773&_k=zfkjlf) with all of the records in order and a corresponding [file cabinet](/#/drawer?position=0&_k=er6jz7) full of the relevant information for every recording found on the timeline. This includes production and engineering credits, musician credits, publishing credits, press reviews, film and video, historic live performances, photos, and memorabilia. \n\nThere are about ten unreleased albums and a few unreleased films in this archive. These are projects I did not release at the time for one reason or another, and many of the songs subsequently appeared on other albums as the years flew past. Sometimes unreleased albums are just ‘sketched’ in on the timeline, with rough pencil drawings of the art. These drawings will evolve into full color covers as time goes by and the albums are released. That way you can see things coming. This archive is designed to be a living document, constantly evolving and including every new recording and film as it is made. It is not yet complete as we are still adding a lot of detail to the older recordings. The timeline also illustrates all of our tours and recording sessions.\n\nIn the music creation process, I have sometimes assembled an album and not released it for a variety of reasons. At Reprise Records, I have had a great working relationship with the company since 1969 and we play back every new album together, talking about how to release it and how it should be introduced. My manager, Elliot Roberts, always supported my art and made sure we got to do what we needed. We really wanted everyone to be behind what I was about to release, so these album playback meetings were very important. There we would decide some of the singles to be released and how the marketing of a work should be approached. Each project has been a labor of love.\n\nOf course, listening to the music is the most important aspect of this experience, and we wanted it to be the best experience possible. ‘Play’ buttons on each file card allow you to listen to the selected recording.\n\nXstream by NYA is the chosen playback method at NYA because streaming music is immediate and gives you the most connected experience as you browse. Most importantly, Xstream by NYA allows you to hear all the music your bandwidth will allow, all the way up to a Full Resolution experience. All of the music here is in its highest audio quality; original pre-digital analog albums were transferred to the highest digital resolution. More recent recordings are found here in their native resolution, so your listening experience is the best it can be. \n\nIt would be impossible for you to get better quality sound anywhere else. If you have the bandwidth, Full Resolution is attained with no compression, unlike any other streaming service to date. Full resolution is attained when your bandwidth is high enough to play back all the quality of each individual recording. That is as good as it gets. \n \nThe rest is up to you-what you are listening on, and what you plug into. The music audio quality is always potentially great, depending on your own location and equipment. That said, the sound found here will always be the best it can be, reaching the true potential of any playback equipment you listen through. \n\nCheck out the living playback chart to see how Xstream by NYA playback works. Compare it to other streaming services. Xstream by NYA is unique. Listen and watch. Enjoy!\n\nNY\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"4aU4aQti0gCocgSaE8kgWa","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:30.099Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"NY","dateText":"12-1-17","releaseDate":{"year":2017,"month":12,"day":1}},{"id":"a-few-things","page":"page-1","column":"left","date":"2017-11-30T00:00-08:00","byline":"NY","headline":"a few things before you get started","excerpt":"The NYA Experience\n\nPlease watch my Welcome Message located on the outside of the file cabinet for a personal tour of the site.\n\nThere are three distinct ways to explore my music on this site. Each... has its advantages.\n1. \tYou can view all songs organized chronologically in the file cabinet, giving you a list view of everything I have released—you will find some unreleased things in here, too...\n2.\tTo go a little deeper, you can view all recordings as an info card, sliding chronologically in either direction left to right, to listen and view detailed information about the recording of every song. \n3.\tLastly, the most comprehensive view is the timeline. Here you can view all of my albums on a chronological timeline, with touring information; relevant events in our lives, and my books, videos and films. The NYA timeline will also include galleries and videos-any content that might lie outside the scope of an album, film, video or particular recording.\n\nMy best advice is to simply explore the NYA on your own and find your own way through, much as you would in a physical archival library. But if you need some help, please watch my Welcome Message located on the outside of the file cabinet including a personal tour by me, or refer to the FAQ where...\n\nClick title for details...\n\n","bodyText":"The NYA Experience\n\nPlease watch my Welcome Message located on the outside of the file cabinet for a personal tour of the site.\n\nThere are three distinct ways to explore my music on this site. Each... has its advantages.\n1. \tYou can view all songs organized chronologically in the file cabinet, giving you a list view of everything I have released—you will find some unreleased things in here, too...\n2.\tTo go a little deeper, you can view all recordings as an info card, sliding chronologically in either direction left to right, to listen and view detailed information about the recording of every song. \n3.\tLastly, the most comprehensive view is the timeline. Here you can view all of my albums on a chronological timeline, with touring information; relevant events in our lives, and my books, videos and films. The NYA timeline will also include galleries and videos-any content that might lie outside the scope of an album, film, video or particular recording.\n\nMy best advice is to simply explore the NYA on your own and find your own way through, much as you would in a physical archival library. But if you need some help, please watch my Welcome Message located on the outside of the file cabinet including a personal tour by me, or refer to the FAQ where you should find answers to many of your questions. \n\nAlso, continually check in at the [NYA Times-Contrarian](/#/news?_k=w2zrik). This is where I will keep in touch with you.\n\nNow, please go and explore the world’s first musician’s online archives ever!. I love listening to music this way. I can really hear it! There is no other way to hear and explore music in this audio quality anywhere in the world. \n\nWe developed the Neil Young Archives site to provide fans and music historians with unprecedented access to all of my music and to my entire archives in one convenient location. My team and I have spent years developing this site to make it both enjoyable and easy to use. The site allows me to share with the world the material I’ve spent a lifetime creating and collecting. I hope you enjoy it. \n\nWhen you find a mistake, and if you look you probably will, please tell the archivist by sending a note on the [contact page](/#/contact?_k=3sct2o). NYA is a living document.\n\nI would like to thank the many people who worked to bring NYA to fruition. (Credits are linked on the front of the file cabinet.)\n\nAudio\n==================================\n\nListening to music has been one of the great joys of my life. \n\nThat said, today all music suffers from low quality audio throughout the distribution chain. It starts with big tech companies like Apple. Apple Music controls the audio quality that is served to the masses and chooses to not make high quality available, reducing audio quality to between 5% and 20% of the master I made in the studio in all cases. So, the people hear 5% to 20% of what I created.\n\nNot just new music— __All music__.\n\nApple not offering a top-quality tier has led labels to stop making quality products available to the masses. Stimulating a top-quality tier would restore and bring the great classic recordings of all music history to Full Resolution digital like you find at NYA.\n\nApple was built on music. There is a great opportunity to rescue the art form that helped Apple become great.\n \nTop quality digital music sounds amazing. \nToday there is no convenient way for people to purchase and to enjoy the history of recorded sound and the magical recordings of the last century at their finest. As a result, top quality is now only available to elite, high-paying customers and there is a very limited amount of music titles to buy and equipment to use. \n\nGiven this opportunity music could support itself.\n\nThis is ironic because Apple’s new connector allows a recording’s raw data to be accessed directly from the iphone into a music playback device. __This is a real breakthrough__, finally allowing listeners the possibility of amazing digital audio. __Now the cellphone can deliver. __\n\nThis exciting new Apple iPhone capability can be utilized with top quality audio downloads. The ability for a consumer to get the most out of the pure music data and not be limited by a legacy cellphone’s compressed audio quality is truly a breakthrough for digital music.\nThe only problem is: __top-quality audio recordings are not offered on Apple iTunes__. \n\nWhy not allow the world to hear exactly what the artists have created? \nArtists created this music for the people. \n\nThe technology exists for everyone to have the choice of top-quality audio. Let the people decide. It would be easy for music lovers to make a choice if top quality was offered by iTunes, rendering it obvious how good it sounds.\n\nWith control of an art form’s commerce comes some responsibility. Apple, while controlling the flow of music to the masses, has failed to be responsible.\n\nThat’s why it’s so important to me that my music be enjoyed here on this site at the highest possible digital quality, as close as possible to the way I recorded it. To accomplish this, all of my musical audio content at NYA is provided using Xstream by NYA adaptive audio technology streaming in Full Resolution.\n\n__In good conditions:__ Powerful computer, high bandwidth.\n\nYou can enjoy the absolute highest digital audio quality music listening. There is no better sounding digital than through Xstream by NYA. Your player window will be filled with green and a FULL RESOLUTION message will appear. This is a good opportunity to switch to 320 and listen for a bit, then go back to Master. That will show the difference.\n\n__In medium conditions:__ Powerful to mid-range computer, unsteady bandwidth.\n\nEven if your music cannot be Full Resolution all the time because of your location conditions, you always get the best quality audio available at your location. You get everything that is in the air. All the time. That is what Xstream by NYA adaptive audio is all about. Xstream by NYA adaptive audio adjusts the music resolution in real time based on the conditions where you are listening. Your player window will be partially filled with green, rising and falling with the quality of your playback, and a FULL RESOLUTION message will possibly appear occasionally. That is the real world of bandwidth when you are on the edge.\n\n__In poor conditions:__ mid-range computer, low or erratic bandwidth \n\nSometimes, because the bandwidth is so low and/or your computer may not have the computing power to give you Full Resolution, your Xstream by NYA music may skip and buffer. Your player window will show very little green and be erratic.\n\nIn those conditions, to provide a reliable listening experience, we offer a toggle at the top of the window to switch between Xstream by NYA Full Resolution Master down to 320 kbps low resolution. \n![res switch](//images.contentful.com/2okapnzdylk2/5C6VtSobmgIYgQIEeO8I4q/c840142c47dcbd56872028a8e563ebb0/switch.jpg)\n\n\n320 kbps is a recognized standard today, providing the same or better audio than most commercial streaming services. It is almost always consistent. \nYour player window will show very little green at the bottom if the original master is high resolution, and the green will fill half the window if the original master is CD quality. \n\n![Player Example 2](//images.contentful.com/2okapnzdylk2/3LhfgzfkmsGc2QS4yWK86g/4e07b1891d2ac95c334b7b3ab9242606/Screen_Shot_2017-11-29_at_9.46.56_AM.png)\n\n\nGreen represents the percentage of the Master you are currently hearing.\n\nTo get the best performance and learn more about this technology, including commercially available equipment to add Xstream by NYA to your home stereo or headphones, we encourage you to read through the [Audio Setup](/#/audio-setup) page, located in the global menu in the upper left corner.\n\nPlease remember that currently NYA sounds best from a computer. We will let you know when that advances. Our Audio section will be a BIG HELP there.\nNYA is also available on tablets. To accommodate the streaming abilities of the hardware, audio is set at a standard streaming 320. You can experiment and switch to Master from 320 on the toggle switch.\n\n\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"VRnAoriwGQWYIESUou4yk","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:29.123Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"NY","dateText":"11-30-17","releaseDate":{"year":2017,"month":11,"day":30}}],"right":[{"id":"Noise-And-Flowers-A-Concert-For-A-Friend","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2022-08-06T00:00-05:00","order":1,"headline":"Noise And Flowers A Concert For A Friend","headlineText":"

NOISE AND\nFLOWERS

a concert for a\nfriend

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NOISE AND FLOWERS

a concert for a friend

\n![nypotr-noiseandflowers1408](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/1kcDWgFPKC3UmETougi3Lc/66f9ae3dd52fe17da37e6be546ed02fd/nypotr-noiseandflowers1408.jpg)","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"‘NOISE AND FLOWERS’ is a record made just after the passing of my life-long manager and best friend, [Elliot Roberts](/#/news/10/article?id=Spirits-Fly-Elliot-Roberts). \n\nPromise of The Real and I had a tour planned of Europe. D and I were in the bus, on our way to New York to catch a plane to Europe . . . . when we got the call. After returning to the funeral for our beloved Elliot, we got on a plane and left for the tour. \n\nDuring the tour, we had a poster of Elliot on a road case, right where he always stood during all shows. Everyone who was with us felt that this tour was amazing for its great vibe. The REAL and I delivered for Elliot.\n\n‘NOISE AND FLOWERS’ is now available as a film and a double album - truly a great collection, dripping with the soul of our band as we played for our fallen leader.\n\n[Order Here](https://neilyoung.warnerrecords.com/noise-flowers-deluxe-edition-box-set-lp-cd-bluray-1.html)","bodyText":"‘NOISE AND FLOWERS’ is a record made just after the passing of my life-long manager and best friend, [Elliot Roberts](/#/news/10/article?id=Spirits-Fly-Elliot-Roberts). \n\nPromise of The Real and I had a tour planned of Europe. D and I were in the bus, on our way to New York to catch a plane to Europe . . . . when we got the call. After returning to the funeral for our beloved Elliot, we got on a plane and left for the tour. \n\nDuring the tour, we had a poster of Elliot on a road case, right where he always stood during all shows. Everyone who was with us felt that this tour was amazing for its great vibe. The REAL and I delivered for Elliot.\n\n‘NOISE AND FLOWERS’ is now available as a film and a double album - truly a great collection, dripping with the soul of our band as we played for our fallen leader.\n\n[Order Here](https://neilyoung.warnerrecords.com/noise-flowers-deluxe-edition-box-set-lp-cd-bluray-1.html)","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"3DHNSuMMcSN2C3TiFJDmXV","updatedAt":"2022-08-06T18:26:26.501Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"8-6-22","releaseDate":{"year":2022,"month":8,"day":6}},{"id":"HowYaDoinHearse_NewThisWeek","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2022-07-29T00:00-04:00","byline":"NYA","headline":"How Ya Doin'?","headlineText":"![New this week](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/1SWbk2LJFM4pLb4VikkpPJ/b54232c1374e995d766035aad51ae5c8/New_this_week.png)\n","bodyHeadline":"![New this week-704](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/GXHRejLCnjUgCclGPE3h1/af89e22351160ae50a3d2b82eafe4eb4/New_this_week-704.png)\n","titleDivider":200,"excerpt":"*July 29, 2022*\n\n[How ya doin'](/#/movie-night/subscriber-features) on this fine Friday morning? If you want to be even better, head on over to the Subscriber Features screen of the Hearse Theater to see the first episode in our ongoing series of *Making of* session documentaries: *Toast - How Ya Doin'?*\n","bodyText":"*July 29, 2022*\n\n[How ya doin'](/#/movie-night/subscriber-features) on this fine Friday morning? If you want to be even better, head on over to the Subscriber Features screen of the Hearse Theater to see the first episode in our ongoing series of *Making of* session documentaries: *Toast - How Ya Doin'?*\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"3IOD1XI2zBSINsAphXBrFm","updatedAt":"2022-07-29T15:09:04.892Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"NYA","dateText":"7-29-22","releaseDate":{"year":2022,"month":7,"day":29}},{"id":"Timeline-Chicago-Solo-2018","page":"page-1","column":"right","sticky":false,"showBodyText":true,"date":"2022-07-26T00:00-04:00","order":4,"byline":"NYA","headline":"Timeline Chicago Solo 2018","headlineText":"

TIMELINE -\nCHICAGO 2018

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TIMELINE - CHICAGO 2018

\n","titleDivider":200,"excerpt":"An acoustic performance for my friends in Chicago at the old Auditorium Theater comes with good vibe. That is such a beautiful place. I played there a long time ago with CSNY and played Tonight’s the Night there with the Santa Monica Flyers on another memorable tour. That was a long time ago.\n\nThis is a loose show with a good vibe. [Enjoy it now at NYA](/#/performance-log/tour?tourid=44OIsLw09O47baHsg5YBhs&performanceid=7vuhtK4QIJT3cfFrQwM7Qe&media=setList) on the Timeline. Lots of love!
\nneil\n","bodyText":"An acoustic performance for my friends in Chicago at the old Auditorium Theater comes with good vibe. That is such a beautiful place. I played there a long time ago with CSNY and played Tonight’s the Night there with the Santa Monica Flyers on another memorable tour. That was a long time ago.\n\nThis is a loose show with a good vibe. [Enjoy it now at NYA](/#/performance-log/tour?tourid=44OIsLw09O47baHsg5YBhs&performanceid=7vuhtK4QIJT3cfFrQwM7Qe&media=setList) on the Timeline. Lots of love!
\nneil","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"1LoJ9qovXySz1WCJ4M8Pbi","updatedAt":"2022-08-04T16:56:31.794Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"NYA","dateText":"7-26-22","releaseDate":{"year":2022,"month":7,"day":26}},{"id":"Vinyl-Rocks-Record-Industry","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2022-06-28T00:00-05:00","order":2,"headline":"Vinyl Rocks Record Industry","headlineText":"

Vinyl Rocks\nRecord\nIndustry!

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Vinyl Rocks Record Industry!

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","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"The record industry is currently struggling to meet an unprecedented demand for vinyl recordings. It’s a direct result of increased orders combined with limited manufacturing capacity. Currently it takes about ten months between the time an artist completes a master recording to when the vinyl albums become available for sale in the world. It’s worse for independent artists that have to compete with the the majors and their large orders. But, Vinyl sounds like God.\n\n__Few expected that a vinyl resurgence would be as popular as it has become.__ When CDs were introduced in the early eighties, everyone expected they would obsolete vinyl recordings. CDs were digital, a new and exciting technology, but something that few really understood, other than it eliminated some of the analog artifacts of vinyl such as a few pops and crackles. CD sales soared and vinyl sales dried up. There were a few lonely voices that raised concern about CD quality at the time, but no one paid attention. Digital was new, and new was considered better.\n\n__To everyone’s surprise vinyl sales began a comeback in 2006 that has continued to grow steadily.__ In 2021 sales of vinyl recordings surpassed CDs. CD sales also suffered during this time due to the popularity of digital downloads and streaming audio.\n\n(Click Heading to Read More)","bodyText":"The record industry is currently struggling to meet an unprecedented demand for vinyl recordings. It’s a direct result of increased orders combined with limited manufacturing capacity. Currently it takes about ten months between the time an artist completes a master recording to when the vinyl albums become available for sale in the world. It’s worse for independent artists that have to compete with the the majors and their large orders. But, Vinyl sounds like God.\n\n__Few expected that a vinyl resurgence would be as popular as it has become.__ When CDs were introduced in the early eighties, everyone expected they would obsolete vinyl recordings. CDs were digital, a new and exciting technology, but something that few really understood, other than it eliminated some of the analog artifacts of vinyl such as a few pops and crackles. CD sales soared and vinyl sales dried up. There were a few lonely voices that raised concern about CD quality at the time, but no one paid attention. Digital was new, and new was considered better.\n\n__To everyone’s surprise vinyl sales began a comeback in 2006 that has continued to grow steadily.__ In 2021 sales of vinyl recordings surpassed CDs. CD sales also suffered during this time due to the popularity of digital downloads and streaming audio.\n\nThe number of vinyl LPs sold rose 10% just between 2020 and 2021. 41.7 million LPs were sold in the U.S. alone in 2021, up more than 45-fold compared to 2006 when the vinyl comeback began. Worldwide, the vinyl record market was $1.5 Billion in 2021. It’s still growing.\n\nHi-res digital is now being offered by Amazon, Apple and Qobuz, as well as sites such as NYA, continually creating awareness of great audio quality and making a huge difference in enjoyment of the music at a high sampling rate. Today many listeners want something even better.\n\n*__“I prefer the infinite sampling rate of analog.”__
\n-Rupert Neve, legendary maker of Neve recording consoles.*\n\nOn the product side, in addition to holding it in your hand, vinyl, a tangible product that is the crown jewel of recorded music playback quality, displays much better sound compared to its digital alternatives. \n\n__Vinyl has attracted fans of all ages, especially those in their twenties__, meaning it’s not just something of interest to those that once enjoyed records in the old days when vinyl was king. Vinyl is now coming back - primarily with young, aware and sensitive listeners, those whose fresh ears and souls can really tell the difference and don’t doubt it.\n\n*__“It’s more than a resurgence for old timers like me. Its the crown jewel for today’s listeners.”__
\n-ny*\n\nNow, During the *Digital Depression*, Vinyl has been rediscovered, but record companies have closed their vinyl plants, sold off their equipment for pennies on the dollar, and are outsourcing their vinyl production to a number of smaller companies around the world. They focus on low res downloads and streaming, assuming vinyl is dead. In that, they are dead wrong.\n\n__Connoisseurs of Music__\n\n__NYA believes there’s substantial risk in ignoring the many 20-25 year old connoisseurs of music - the next generation who have re-committed to vinyl. That segment is growth in motion.__\n\n__What’s in the way-__\n\nMany today in the record business site the large investments and experienced personnel required to build new equipment and facilities. \n\nThe industry is also profiting from low resolution streaming which provides more than 85% of their profits, making vinyl quality less interesting.\n\nSome think vinyl production could take years to come on line, and there’s risk for them to forecast demand that far out.\n\n__Covid has also exacerbated the mismatch between demand and manufacturing capacity of vinyl.__ More people confined to home took greater interest in listening deeply to music and turned to vinyl at the same time as record manufacturing capacity massively suffered from factory disruptions due to the epidemic. As lead times lengthened, artists were more likely to over-order vinyl to avoid further delays. This added to the shortage.\n\n//////\n\nCraig Kallman, the Chairman and CEO of Atlantic Records, is concerned about available capacity and believes the record companies do need to develop their own capacity. He’s convinced that the popularity of vinyl is not a passing fad and that much more capacity is needed for the long term. He expects things will get worse before they get better. He cited as an example __Harry Styles’ new album that sold 182,000 vinyl records in the first week!__ He also noted the continuing growth in turntable sales that are not abating.\n\nNYA believes that it would be in the interests of music for the recording companies to invest in Vinyl Manufacturing Facility ownership. Vinyl is still the true form of great recorded music. Nothing has been better and digital will not get there. Vinyl will stay great - the best.\n\nDigital is a *reconstitution* of an analog sound, with varying amounts of detail.\n\nAnalog Vinyl is the *pure reflection* of that sound, with all of its infinite detail. \n\nVinyl, what we call “the crown jewel” of music playback, deserves a major record company with its own manufacturing plant to ensure quality sound and timely circulation. That record company would become the true home of great sounding music.\n\nToday’s music just does not match yesterday’s music in sound quality …..and it shows. \n\nRick Hashimoto, production manager of Record Technology Inc. of Camarillo, CA, a small vinyl manufacturer, sees some hope of improved capacity. He points out that new worldwide capacity is coming on line to meet some of the demand. A large Czech manufacturer (GZ Media) is greatly expanding their capacity, and expects it to bring to bring some relief - but not enough to fulfill growing demand.\n\nWho’s going to step up? Which major record company will rescue the “Crown Jewel” of recorded music playback and make new music instantly available in vinyl?\n\n*Neil Young and Phil Baker for NYA*\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"nxbJLcH3clb7uhdgpCm1A","updatedAt":"2022-06-28T19:02:38.296Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"6-28-22","releaseDate":{"year":2022,"month":6,"day":28}},{"id":"New-Concerts-Royce-Hall-Plus-Two","page":"page-1","column":"right","sticky":false,"showBodyText":true,"date":"2022-05-05T00:00-04:00","order":4,"byline":"NYA","headline":"New Concerts Royce Hall Plus Two","headlineText":"

New Concerts:\nRoyce Hall Plus\nTwo

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New Concerts: Royce Hall Plus Two

\n","titleDivider":200,"excerpt":"The day has finally come! [Bootlegs!](/#/album?id=A_127) [Bootlegs!](/#/album?id=A_128) [Bootlegs!](/#/album?id=A_130) \n\nIf you're in the UK or EU you may already have your pre-ordered records spinning on the turntable, but if you don't you can [order now](https://NeilYoung.lnk.to/NewReleases) (or walk down to your local record store) to remedy that. (If you're in the US or Canada you'll have to wait until June 3 for vinyl, but in the meantime you can listen right here on NYA... or hey, you could pick yourself up a compact disc!)\n\nFirst, enjoy a lovely evening at [UCLA’s Royce Hall](https://neilyoung.warnerrecords.com/obs-4-royce-hall-1971-lp.html) on the 1971 solo tour, and then, just two days later and on the other side of town, a legendary bootleg from the [Dorothy Chandler Pavillion](https://neilyoung.warnerrecords.com/obs-3-dorothy-chandler-pavilion-1971-lp.html) in downtown Los Angeles. These releases join C*arnegie Hall, Young Shakespeare, Massey Hall*, and *Live At The Cellar Door* to bolster one of the most compelling arguments for live music you’ll hear anywhere: these records capture the subtle variations from performance to performance, how those performances are influenced by the vibe of a specific physical space and the mood of a specific audience, how it may be “all one song” but even the same song is never the same from night to night. \n\nAnd then, what can I say about [*Citizen Kane Jr. Blues* from The Bottom Line](https://neilyoung.warnerrecords.com/obs-5-citizen-kane-jr-blues-the-bottom-line-1974-lp-1.html) that hasn’t been said? I’ll let Neil say something in my stead:\n\n*In 1974, on May 16th about 2:30 am in a famous NYC music club located in Greenwich Village called ‘The Bottom Line,’ I climbed onto the stage with my guitar and played eleven songs, including many new unreleased ones plus three that had never been played in the studio or anywhere - ‘Citizen Cane Jr Blues,’ ‘Long May You Run’ and ‘Pardon My Heart’.*\n\n*In my mind it’s a hazy memory, but this moment really captures the essence of where I was in 1974.*\n\n*Two months later, the album* [‘On The Beach’](/#/album?id=A_016) *was released, including songs I played that night - ‘Ambulance Blues,’ ‘Revolution Blues,’ ‘On the Beach’ and ‘Motion Pictures.’*\n\n*Folks at ‘The Bottom Line’ heard seven new songs for the first time. I just remember I was 28 years old, bare and letting it all out.*\n\nSome of you NYA subscribers weren’t yet born when these records were recorded—the most precocious among you may not have been born when these official (re-) releases were announced (what’s up, you cool babies)—but now we can all ride a honeyslide* back in time and pretend we were there. \n\nYou can hear the NYA-exclusive full, unedited concerts on the NYA Concert Timeline —[Royce Hall](/#/performance-log/tour?tourid=2VmayQcIaRtepPHxmZre2k&performanceid=EbQ262AZe47JYpoTHx2oj&media=setList), [Dorothy Chandler Pavillion](/#/performance-log/tour?tourid=2VmayQcIaRtepPHxmZre2k&performanceid=3nsGpbCm9b0AsMD3fbiHnT&media=setList), [The Bottom Line](/#/performance-log/tour?tourid=77pW14QMjHxznwAp64UUAT&performanceid=LkP9FT2eAGzp0a9ejRntA&media=setList)— or at the bottom of each album’s tracklist on the web or in your NYA mobile app.\n\n-john o\n\n**Honeyslide is an unregistered trademark of Shakey Pictures Records. No rights reserved. Must be 21 or over to use for the purposes of time travel. Local ordinances and restrictions apply. Please see your childhood best friend’s weird older brother for details. Don’t do drugs; Keep your grades up.* \n","bodyText":"The day has finally come! [Bootlegs!](/#/album?id=A_127) [Bootlegs!](/#/album?id=A_128) [Bootlegs!](/#/album?id=A_130) \n\nIf you're in the UK or EU you may already have your pre-ordered records spinning on the turntable, but if you don't you can [order now](https://NeilYoung.lnk.to/NewReleases) (or walk down to your local record store) to remedy that. (If you're in the US or Canada you'll have to wait until June 3 for vinyl, but in the meantime you can listen right here on NYA... or hey, you could pick yourself up a compact disc!)\n\nFirst, enjoy a lovely evening at [UCLA’s Royce Hall](https://neilyoung.warnerrecords.com/obs-4-royce-hall-1971-lp.html) on the 1971 solo tour, and then, just two days later and on the other side of town, a legendary bootleg from the [Dorothy Chandler Pavillion](https://neilyoung.warnerrecords.com/obs-3-dorothy-chandler-pavilion-1971-lp.html) in downtown Los Angeles. These releases join C*arnegie Hall, Young Shakespeare, Massey Hall*, and *Live At The Cellar Door* to bolster one of the most compelling arguments for live music you’ll hear anywhere: these records capture the subtle variations from performance to performance, how those performances are influenced by the vibe of a specific physical space and the mood of a specific audience, how it may be “all one song” but even the same song is never the same from night to night. \n\nAnd then, what can I say about [*Citizen Kane Jr. Blues* from The Bottom Line](https://neilyoung.warnerrecords.com/obs-5-citizen-kane-jr-blues-the-bottom-line-1974-lp-1.html) that hasn’t been said? I’ll let Neil say something in my stead:\n\n*In 1974, on May 16th about 2:30 am in a famous NYC music club located in Greenwich Village called ‘The Bottom Line,’ I climbed onto the stage with my guitar and played eleven songs, including many new unreleased ones plus three that had never been played in the studio or anywhere - ‘Citizen Cane Jr Blues,’ ‘Long May You Run’ and ‘Pardon My Heart’.*\n\n*In my mind it’s a hazy memory, but this moment really captures the essence of where I was in 1974.*\n\n*Two months later, the album* [‘On The Beach’](/#/album?id=A_016) *was released, including songs I played that night - ‘Ambulance Blues,’ ‘Revolution Blues,’ ‘On the Beach’ and ‘Motion Pictures.’*\n\n*Folks at ‘The Bottom Line’ heard seven new songs for the first time. I just remember I was 28 years old, bare and letting it all out.*\n\nSome of you NYA subscribers weren’t yet born when these records were recorded—the most precocious among you may not have been born when these official (re-) releases were announced (what’s up, you cool babies)—but now we can all ride a honeyslide* back in time and pretend we were there. \n\nYou can hear the NYA-exclusive full, unedited concerts on the NYA Concert Timeline —[Royce Hall](/#/performance-log/tour?tourid=2VmayQcIaRtepPHxmZre2k&performanceid=EbQ262AZe47JYpoTHx2oj&media=setList), [Dorothy Chandler Pavillion](/#/performance-log/tour?tourid=2VmayQcIaRtepPHxmZre2k&performanceid=3nsGpbCm9b0AsMD3fbiHnT&media=setList), [The Bottom Line](/#/performance-log/tour?tourid=77pW14QMjHxznwAp64UUAT&performanceid=LkP9FT2eAGzp0a9ejRntA&media=setList)— or at the bottom of each album’s tracklist on the web or in your NYA mobile app.\n\n-john o\n\n**Honeyslide is an unregistered trademark of Shakey Pictures Records. No rights reserved. Must be 21 or over to use for the purposes of time travel. Local ordinances and restrictions apply. Please see your childhood best friend’s weird older brother for details. Don’t do drugs; Keep your grades up.* \n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"2ndKESerHaBPLhNwnx1E8X","updatedAt":"2022-05-23T10:10:49.529Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"NYA","dateText":"5-5-22","releaseDate":{"year":2022,"month":5,"day":5}},{"id":"New-Concert-Leipzig-1996","page":"page-1","column":"right","sticky":false,"showBodyText":true,"date":"2022-04-25T00:00-04:00","order":4,"byline":"NYA","headline":"NYCH LEIPZIG 1996","headlineText":"

NYCH LEIPZIG\n1996

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NYCH LEIPZIG 1996

\n","titleDivider":200,"excerpt":"*April 25, 2022*\n\nHi y'all — It's been a while (*it's been a while*) since we've had an update here, and for that I apologize. We've been busy, which is both true and a euphemism for \"we had a bug that needed to get sorted out and now is... hopefully.\"\n\nSo, in the interest of making up for lost time, let's just get right to it with a few words from the man himself: \n\n[*CRAZY HORSE IN Germany!*](/performance-log/tour?tourid=1u2goCElBs67KtTh6JIvYN&performanceid=6yAb0fmEWzcdA0o0An7W6u&media=setList) \n*Enjoy this one NYA!*\n*neil*\n","bodyText":"*April 25, 2022*\n\nHi y'all — It's been a while (*it's been a while*) since we've had an update here, and for that I apologize. We've been busy, which is both true and a euphemism for \"we had a bug that needed to get sorted out and now is... hopefully.\"\n\nSo, in the interest of making up for lost time, let's just get right to it with a few words from the man himself: \n\n[*CRAZY HORSE IN Germany!*](/performance-log/tour?tourid=1u2goCElBs67KtTh6JIvYN&performanceid=6yAb0fmEWzcdA0o0An7W6u&media=setList) \n*Enjoy this one NYA!*\n*neil*\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"238uTccgNn3gnz5pWWc8uv","updatedAt":"2022-05-06T10:14:55.518Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"NYA","dateText":"4-25-22","releaseDate":{"year":2022,"month":4,"day":25}},{"id":"New-Outtakes-Inca-Queen-Natural-Beauty","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2022-03-30T00:00-04:00","byline":"NYA","headline":"New Outtakes","headlineText":"

Two New\nOuttakes

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Two New Outtakes

","titleDivider":200,"excerpt":"*March 30, 2022*\n\nWe’ve just published two new outtakes on NYA: The original live performances of [Natural Beauty (Harvest Moon)](/#/info-card?track=t1992_0123_02) and [Inca Queen (Life)](/#/info-card?track=t1986_1119_04) without the studio overdubs recorded for the album versions. \n\nInca Queen was performed with Crazy Horse at the Universal Amphitheater in Los Angeles during the 1986 Rusted Out Garage Tour — a rollicking good time that will be well-represented on the forthcoming Archives Vol III. \n\nNatural Beauty was performed at the Portland Civic Auditoreum during the first of several now-legendary 1992 solo tours — see [Dreamin’ Man Live ‘92](/#/album?id=A_071) if this recording whets your appetite. \n\nYou can find these outtakes by following the links in this article or by navigating to their respective albums, where they reside in their own purpose-built sections at the bottom of the track lists. \n\n-john o\n","bodyText":"*March 30, 2022*\n\nWe’ve just published two new outtakes on NYA: The original live performances of [Natural Beauty (Harvest Moon)](/#/info-card?track=t1992_0123_02) and [Inca Queen (Life)](/#/info-card?track=t1986_1119_04) without the studio overdubs recorded for the album versions. \n\nInca Queen was performed with Crazy Horse at the Universal Amphitheater in Los Angeles during the 1986 Rusted Out Garage Tour — a rollicking good time that will be well-represented on the forthcoming Archives Vol III. \n\nNatural Beauty was performed at the Portland Civic Auditoreum during the first of several now-legendary 1992 solo tours — see [Dreamin’ Man Live ‘92](/#/album?id=A_071) if this recording whets your appetite. \n\nYou can find these outtakes by following the links in this article or by navigating to their respective albums, where they reside in their own purpose-built sections at the bottom of the track lists. \n\n-john o\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"6cJItiTvkfNZodRAf0Kntn","updatedAt":"2022-04-26T14:06:21.996Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"NYA","dateText":"3-30-22","releaseDate":{"year":2022,"month":3,"day":30}},{"id":"Timeline-Concert-Rotterdam-76","page":"page-1","column":"right","sticky":false,"showBodyText":true,"date":"2022-03-03T00:00-04:00","order":4,"byline":"NYA","headline":"Timeline-Concert-Rotterdam-76","headlineText":"

Rotterdam '76

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Rotterdam '76

\n","titleDivider":200,"excerpt":"*March 3, 2022*\n\n*Touring with the Horse in 76, after arriving in Oslo Norway from Japan, we crossed Europe and [played a great rock and roll hall in Rotterdam](/#/performance-log/tour?tourid=3O7S9hhIkUWi6RXOdIwat&performanceid=6uX8DtPuOuUuHB5CHLOe6e&media=setList). Then we went on and toured the the US. An album was made and a film was created to memorialize that world tour. Perhaps the Horse was at the first peak of its powers. It was a great tour. Coming soon in NYA Volume 3, the film and the record.* \n\n*Love Earth,\nBe well,\nNeil*","bodyText":"*March 3, 2022*\n\n*Touring with the Horse in 76, after arriving in Oslo Norway from Japan, we crossed Europe and [played a great rock and roll hall in Rotterdam](/#/performance-log/tour?tourid=3O7S9hhIkUWi6RXOdIwat&performanceid=6uX8DtPuOuUuHB5CHLOe6e&media=setList). Then we went on and toured the the US. An album was made and a film was created to memorialize that world tour. Perhaps the Horse was at the first peak of its powers. It was a great tour. Coming soon in NYA Volume 3, the film and the record.* \n\n*Love Earth,\nBe well,\nNeil*","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"2SLshvT692tsGZolUn0uE","updatedAt":"2022-03-18T16:08:18.440Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"NYA","dateText":"3-3-22","releaseDate":{"year":2022,"month":3,"day":3}},{"id":"Timeline-Concert-ZiggoDome-2016","page":"page-1","column":"right","sticky":false,"showBodyText":true,"date":"2022-02-17T00:00-04:00","order":4,"byline":"NYA","headline":"Ziggo Dome!","headlineText":"

Ziggo Dome!\nPOTR 6/9/2016

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Ziggo Dome! POTR 6/9/2016

\n","titleDivider":200,"excerpt":"*February 17, 2022*\n\n*Dear Neil,*\n\n*Can you please broadcast the Amsterdam Ziggo Dome concert with Promise of the Real of the 9th of July 2016? It was surely the longest concert I ever visited (I understood yours too), and I must say the best performance with the best accompanying band ever, and I kept moving my head for so long to the rhythm of the electric songs that I had to consult my Physical Therapist for neck muscle massage afterwards ;-).* (Fons)\n\n~ ~ ~\n\n*First of all because this was an epic show. Neil and POTR were on fire for a massive three and a half hours!!! Second, because it was my last Neil Young concert. I had tickets for the 2019 show in Amsterdam, but missed it due to a tragic loss in the family. Hopefully I will get another chance at seeing Neil live, but I'll always have the memory of this fantastic show.* (John V)\n\n~ ~ ~\n\n*This was my 21st Neil gig and also my favourite. Travelled from Scotland to Amsterdam for this one show. I believe this is one of the longest shows Neil has ever done, the reason for that was obvious that both band and audience were enjoying it so much. Some wonderful surprises in the setlist like Change Your Mind and Here We Are In The Years. A wonderful show that I hope you can share on NYA.* (Ian)\n\n~ ~ ~\n\n*A magical night. One of your longer shows ever, a great setlist, and you and POTR were on fire!* (Ger)\n\n~ ~ ~\n\n[*Amsterdam Ziggo Dome!*](/#/performance-log/tour?tourid=6JrgpqFXSuzWBJq41eSIS1&performanceid=1KOSNQSHnVRwrlf8jh20cG&media=setList) (Hans)\n","bodyText":"*February 17, 2022*\n\n*Dear Neil,*\n\n*Can you please broadcast the Amsterdam Ziggo Dome concert with Promise of the Real of the 9th of July 2016? It was surely the longest concert I ever visited (I understood yours too), and I must say the best performance with the best accompanying band ever, and I kept moving my head for so long to the rhythm of the electric songs that I had to consult my Physical Therapist for neck muscle massage afterwards ;-).* (Fons)\n\n~ ~ ~\n\n*First of all because this was an epic show. Neil and POTR were on fire for a massive three and a half hours!!! Second, because it was my last Neil Young concert. I had tickets for the 2019 show in Amsterdam, but missed it due to a tragic loss in the family. Hopefully I will get another chance at seeing Neil live, but I'll always have the memory of this fantastic show.* (John V)\n\n~ ~ ~\n\n*This was my 21st Neil gig and also my favourite. Travelled from Scotland to Amsterdam for this one show. I believe this is one of the longest shows Neil has ever done, the reason for that was obvious that both band and audience were enjoying it so much. Some wonderful surprises in the setlist like Change Your Mind and Here We Are In The Years. A wonderful show that I hope you can share on NYA.* (Ian)\n\n~ ~ ~\n\n*A magical night. One of your longer shows ever, a great setlist, and you and POTR were on fire!* (Ger)\n\n~ ~ ~\n\n[*Amsterdam Ziggo Dome!*](/#/performance-log/tour?tourid=6JrgpqFXSuzWBJq41eSIS1&performanceid=1KOSNQSHnVRwrlf8jh20cG&media=setList) (Hans)\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"7yg4nwxvkeUPIPc2MDJgm4","updatedAt":"2022-02-24T18:44:22.977Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"NYA","dateText":"2-17-22","releaseDate":{"year":2022,"month":2,"day":17}},{"id":"Buffalo-1983-Timeline-Concert","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2022-02-09T00:00-04:00","order":4,"byline":"NYA","headline":"Buffalo 1983 - Solo Trans Tour!","headlineText":"

Buffalo 1983 -\nSolo Trans Tour!

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Buffalo 1983 - Solo Trans Tour!

\n","titleDivider":200,"excerpt":"*February 9, 2022*\n\nLong time no see! We've been so busy over here behind the scenes (and I'm not going to tell you what we're so busy with, but you can guess) that we haven't had time to drop a [new timeline concert](/#/performance-log/tour?tourid=2lzy68e0po8UcoXI28jDih&performanceid=3ZIUVZYfxE0xSgLtcF3pi7&media=setList) on you in a little while, and we *still* haven't found time to write an announcement for this one! So: let's let Patron Bob do the honors:\n\n> *The first Solo/Trans show to sellout (according to Neil on stage). Also the first show at Buffalo's Memorial auditorium that I attended that sold beer! This might have added to the amazing crowd enthusiasm that night to an acoustic show! Neil was blown away by the crowd & thank the crowd many times throughout the show & said he'd never miss playing Buffalo on any upcoming tours. I think he has held to that promise. This was a very special night for everyone there, including Neil. A nice recording to replace the audience recording most fans have would be nice to hear (If possible).* [ed note: it was possible!]\n\n> *Thanks to all involved with NYA website,*\n\n*Bob Meyer*\n","bodyText":"*February 9, 2022*\n\nLong time no see! We've been so busy over here behind the scenes (and I'm not going to tell you what we're so busy with, but you can guess) that we haven't had time to drop a [new timeline concert](/#/performance-log/tour?tourid=2lzy68e0po8UcoXI28jDih&performanceid=3ZIUVZYfxE0xSgLtcF3pi7&media=setList) on you in a little while, and we *still* haven't found time to write an announcement for this one! So: let's let Patron Bob do the honors:\n\n> *The first Solo/Trans show to sellout (according to Neil on stage). Also the first show at Buffalo's Memorial auditorium that I attended that sold beer! This might have added to the amazing crowd enthusiasm that night to an acoustic show! Neil was blown away by the crowd & thank the crowd many times throughout the show & said he'd never miss playing Buffalo on any upcoming tours. I think he has held to that promise. This was a very special night for everyone there, including Neil. A nice recording to replace the audience recording most fans have would be nice to hear (If possible).* [ed note: it was possible!]\n\n> *Thanks to all involved with NYA website,*\n\n*Bob Meyer*\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"6A5JQQiwWgawIO7qSFZ4MU","updatedAt":"2022-06-01T16:38:25.904Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"NYA","dateText":"2-9-22","releaseDate":{"year":2022,"month":2,"day":9}},{"id":"SongShift-page1","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2022-01-28T00:00-04:00","byline":"NYA","headline":"SongShift page1","headlineText":"

to help you move…

SONGSHIFT

\n![subscriber-songshift2](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/6dNgPwvvAlpNQ1SGZR9SXF/8481cf574dd1c9e0ab19048ab747e458/subscriber-songshift2.png)

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to help you move…

SONGSHIFT

\n![subscriber-songshift](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/1D0hTlPGfruBB3UWoVT5Q4/f09e1fdc4f931de09f1378f471443a09/subscriber-songshift.png)","titleDivider":200,"excerpt":" ","bodyText":" ","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"4OULbEqedDrYV89yu1pGZ7","updatedAt":"2022-01-28T19:46:04.290Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"NYA","dateText":"1-28-22","releaseDate":{"year":2022,"month":1,"day":28}},{"id":"Thanks-For-Standing-With-Me","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2022-01-26T00:00-05:00","order":2,"headline":"Thanks For Standing With Me","headlineText":"

THANKS FOR\nSTANDING\nWITH ME

\n![hipgnosis-reprise-universal-logos](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/4LRy6E23eo2IkJDOfUynMc/b3d5ff2060396e524d91637d0fe685eb/hipgnosis-reprise-universal-logos.jpg)

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THANKS FOR STANDING WITH ME

\n![hipgnosis-reprise-universal-logos](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/4LRy6E23eo2IkJDOfUynMc/b3d5ff2060396e524d91637d0fe685eb/hipgnosis-reprise-universal-logos.jpg)

","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"I want to thank my partners for standing with me.\n\nMy deal with Merck Mercuriadis and HIPGNOSIS began on January 1, 2021. The company HIPGNOSIS now has part of my publishing and I am very happy with their support. I want to personally thank Merck and HIPGNOSIS for standing with me. Losing 60% of worldwide streaming income by leaving SPOTIFY is a very big deal, a costly move, but worth it for our integrity and our beliefs. Misinformation about COVID is over the line.\n\nMy good friends at WARNER BROTHERS - REPRISE also stand by me and I love them for it. Misinformation about COVID cannot be accepted. I sincerely hope that other artists can make a move, but I can’t really expect that to happen. I did this because I had no choice in my heart. It is who I am. I am not censoring anyone. I am speaking my own truth. I know Daniel Ek who owns SPOTIFY, a private business. I like Daniel. I wish he had not taken the steps he has taken because it stopped my music from being shared on his SPOTIFY platform. It stopped us from working together to spread the music. But we are still friends.\n\nUNIVERSAL MUSIC stood by me too! I am so thankful for the conscience of Michele Anthony, Bruce Resnikoff, UNIVERSAL MUSIC and all these big Music organizations, stepping up and delivering with me. I truly appreciate your help and support. I encourage you to do all you can to stop SPOTIFY from spreading dangerous life threatening misinformation about COVID. \n\n__Music is our life. It is sacred. It lives in young minds and souls. Do not let SPOTIFY contaminate those young music loving spirits with misinformation that could cause death. We need to stand behind the spirit of music and protect music lovers everywhere. Thanks so much for being there and standing with me!__\n\nAgain, WARNER BROTHERS, UNIVERSAL and HIPGNOSIS, my great partners, are standing with me to help stop the flow of misinformation from SPOTIFY. Thanks so much to all of you. We did what we had to do.\n\nLove Earth
\nbe well
\nneil","bodyText":"I want to thank my partners for standing with me.\n\nMy deal with Merck Mercuriadis and HIPGNOSIS began on January 1, 2021. The company HIPGNOSIS now has part of my publishing and I am very happy with their support. I want to personally thank Merck and HIPGNOSIS for standing with me. Losing 60% of worldwide streaming income by leaving SPOTIFY is a very big deal, a costly move, but worth it for our integrity and our beliefs. Misinformation about COVID is over the line.\n\nMy good friends at WARNER BROTHERS - REPRISE also stand by me and I love them for it. Misinformation about COVID cannot be accepted. I sincerely hope that other artists can make a move, but I can’t really expect that to happen. I did this because I had no choice in my heart. It is who I am. I am not censoring anyone. I am speaking my own truth. I know Daniel Ek who owns SPOTIFY, a private business. I like Daniel. I wish he had not taken the steps he has taken because it stopped my music from being shared on his SPOTIFY platform. It stopped us from working together to spread the music. But we are still friends.\n\nUNIVERSAL MUSIC stood by me too! I am so thankful for the conscience of Michele Anthony, Bruce Resnikoff, UNIVERSAL MUSIC and all these big Music organizations, stepping up and delivering with me. I truly appreciate your help and support. I encourage you to do all you can to stop SPOTIFY from spreading dangerous life threatening misinformation about COVID. \n\n__Music is our life. It is sacred. It lives in young minds and souls. Do not let SPOTIFY contaminate those young music loving spirits with misinformation that could cause death. We need to stand behind the spirit of music and protect music lovers everywhere. Thanks so much for being there and standing with me!__\n\nAgain, WARNER BROTHERS, UNIVERSAL and HIPGNOSIS, my great partners, are standing with me to help stop the flow of misinformation from SPOTIFY. Thanks so much to all of you. We did what we had to do.\n\nLove Earth
\nbe well
\nneil","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"6d5uX5Lgp33DnTDm6W1E8Y","updatedAt":"2022-01-27T00:17:42.243Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"1-26-22","releaseDate":{"year":2022,"month":1,"day":26}},{"id":"Its-Neil-Youngs-Free-World-Not-Joe-Rogans","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2022-01-26T00:00-05:00","order":1,"headline":"Its Neil Youngs Free World Not Joe Rogans","headlineText":"

It's Neil Young's\nFree World \nnot Joe Rogan's

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It's Neil Young's Free World
not Joe Rogan's

","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"__(CNN) Neil Young only wants to keep on rocking in the reality based world.__ \n\n__Scientists call out Spotify for misinformation on Joe Rogan's podcast__ \n\nThe 76-year-old rock-and-roll icon has taken a stand against vaccine misinformation, telling the streaming platform Spotify to remove his music if it continues to feature those who regularly disseminate lies and conspiracy theories about Covid-19. \n\nBy Jill Filipovic\n\n*“Jill Filipovic is a journalist based in New York and author of the book \"OK Boomer, Let's Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind.\"*\n\n\"I am doing this because Spotify is spreading fake information about vaccines -- potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being spread by them,\" Young wrote in a letter to his management team, which was first reported by Rolling Stone and has now been deleted. \"Please act on this immediately today and keep me informed of the time schedule.\" \n\nCNN has reached out to Young's manager, his publicist at Warner Records and Spotify for comment. Frank Gironda, Young's manager, did confirm to the Daily Beast that the two had discussed Young's concerns and were \"trying to figure this out right now.\" He said that Young was \"very upset about this disinformation.\" \n\n(Click Heading to Read More)","bodyText":"__(CNN) Neil Young only wants to keep on rocking in the reality based world.__ \n\n__Scientists call out Spotify for misinformation on Joe Rogan's podcast__ \n\nThe 76-year-old rock-and-roll icon has taken a stand against vaccine misinformation, telling the streaming platform Spotify to remove his music if it continues to feature those who regularly disseminate lies and conspiracy theories about Covid-19. \n\nBy Jill Filipovic\n\n*“Jill Filipovic is a journalist based in New York and author of the book \"OK Boomer, Let's Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind.\"*\n\n\"I am doing this because Spotify is spreading fake information about vaccines -- potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being spread by them,\" Young wrote in a letter to his management team, which was first reported by Rolling Stone and has now been deleted. \"Please act on this immediately today and keep me informed of the time schedule.\" \n\nCNN has reached out to Young's manager, his publicist at Warner Records and Spotify for comment. Frank Gironda, Young's manager, did confirm to the Daily Beast that the two had discussed Young's concerns and were \"trying to figure this out right now.\" He said that Young was \"very upset about this disinformation.\" \n\nIn the now-deleted letter, \n\n

A MESSAGE TO SPOTIFY

\n\n__to:
\nFrank Gironda Lookout management,
\nTom Corson Warner Brothers,__\n\n__Please immediately inform Spotify that I am actively canceling all my music availability on Spotify as soon as possible. I am doing this because SPOTIFY is spreading false information about vaccines - potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being spread by them.
\nPlease act on this immediately today and keep me informed of the time schedule.\nI want you to let SPOTIFY know immediately TODAY that I want all my music off their platform. They can have Rogan or Young. Not both.
\nThanks,
\nlove earth
\nbe well
\nNeil Young__\n\nYoung seemed specifically incensed at sharing a streaming platform with podcaster Joe Rogan, whose show \"The Joe Rogan Experience\" was acquired by Spotify in 2020, in an exclusive deal worth more than $100 million. It was the most popular podcast on Spotify last year.\n\nOn the show, Rogan and guests identified as experts have said that vaccination isn't necessary for the young and healthy (they are); that ivermectin is an effective treatment for Covid (it isn't, and using it in large doses poses serious potential health risks); and that people who have Covid face health risks from getting vaccinated (they don’t).\n\nRogan's misinformation campaign, which reaches millions of listeners, has been so dangerous that hundreds of public health officials have signed an open letter asking Spotify to intervene. \n\n![itsneilyoungsfreeworld](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/1kSrErj7Wdjw7aYEmaH9Qp/fab7e7a92a16195b8f89cd196ebc8ce6/itsneilyoungsfreeworld.jpg)
\n*Neil Young wants his music scrubbed from Spotify because of vaccine misinformation on the platform*\n\nAnd now Young is asking the company to act as well. \n\n\"I want you to let Spotify know immediately TODAY that I want all my music off their platform,\" he wrote. \"They can have Rogan or Young. Not both.\" \n\nIf Spotify chooses Rogan over Young, hopefully Young's fans -- like me -- will take a stand along with him. That may mean buying Young's albums, and it certainly means letting Spotify know that you're dissatisfied with their decision. And even if Neil Young isn't in your typical Spotify rotation, this is a good moment to recognize the power artists wield, and to support those who use their platforms for good -- even if you never listen to Young's albums. \n\nPreviously, Spotify had taken a harder line on vaccine misinformation, saying \"dangerous false, deceptive, or misleading content about COVID-19 that may cause offline harm and/or pose a direct threat to public health\" was not allowed on its platform. But that statement hardly stands up in the face of Spotify's giving a platform to and profiting from Rogan and his vaccine misinformation, which poses a direct threat to public health. \n\n__It seems unlikely that Spotify would pick Young over one of its biggest cash cows. But it's still laudable that Young made this statement. Spotify now has a very public problem on its hands, and needs to take a public stand: Are they going to put profits over public health?__\n\nHow much a streaming platform, like a social media platform, should control what people can say on it is admittedly a difficult question to parse. I typically err on the side of less censorship and more leeway and speech -- even for bad or hateful speech. \n\nThe Rogan / Spotify situation, though, is less akin to a freewheeling public square than, say, Twitter; there is a business relationship more akin to a traditional media house and its star talent. Rogan isn't a random person on the internet; he's a host imbued with the authority of the company that pays for his show. He should be given room to discuss what he wants, even if that offends people who disagree with him politically.\n\nBut the company should draw the line at dangerous life-threatening conspiracy theories and the kind of misinformation that could result in unnecessary illness and death. \n\nThat's where Neil Young is drawing the line. Other musicians and podcasters who appear on Spotify should follow suit and use their platforms to tell the company that it does have obligations to the listening public. \n\nThe company also has options beyond kicking Rogan off of their platform. They, obviously, don't want to be a censorship machine, but they could remove episodes that further dangerous untruths, something they've already done with Rogan in the past, taking down an episode featuring his interview with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and another that featured fascist sympathizer Gavin McInnes. \n\nLast year, Spotify's CEO Daniel Ek told Axios that, when it comes to regulating what listeners hear, \"We have a lot of really well-paid rappers on Spotify too, that make tens of millions of dollars, if not more, each year from Spotify. And we don't dictate what they're putting in their songs, either.”\n\nBut we've always understood that there's a big difference between artists and musicians, whose crafts have always drawn in elements of fantasy and interpretation, and those like Rogan who claim to speak from a place of expertise and authority. It's like comparing David Bowie to Walter Cronkite. \n\nNot that Rogan is any Cronkite; he's not a reputable journalist, or a journalist at all. But he hosts an interview show that purports to inform its audience. It's not billed as fiction or fantasy -- it's not like David Bowie claiming to be Major Tom (no reasonable person would actually believe Bowie was floating around in space).\n\nReasonable people, though, may very well believe that when Rogan presents his guests as well-informed experts that they are indeed well-informed experts. Rogan claims his show is an intellectually honest exploration of ideas. The Covid misinformation Rogan is spreading is told as truth. And a startling number of people clearly believe it. \n\nSpotify should not be able to have it both ways. If Rogan's podcast is more akin to music than a truthful exploration of ideas featuring serious experts, then the company should categorize it as fiction or fantasy, and make clear to listeners that what they're hearing is as divorced from reality as Major Tom was from planet Earth. \n\nOr they should listen to Neil Young, and require that their best-paid and most-popular podcast hosts not pose a direct threat to public health. \n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"orJQx71vMqCdlpkHe8dH2","updatedAt":"2022-01-26T20:27:48.830Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"1-26-22","releaseDate":{"year":2022,"month":1,"day":26}},{"id":"Earth-California-Poised-To-Kill","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2022-01-15T00:00-05:00","order":2,"headline":"Earth California Poised To Kill","headlineText":"

CALIFORNIA\nPoised to Kill\nRooftop Solar

\n![earth-califpoisedtokill](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/1tXKn9Ju8KeDDpdpOlnXRA/9f7de4b28485939637a6c359f8535385/earth-califpoisedtokill.jpg)

A staggeringly\nmisinformed\ndecision…

damaging climate\nand health

EVER HEARD OF\nDECENTRALIZED\nENERGY?

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CALIFORNIA Poised to Kill Rooftop Solar

\n![earth-califpoisedtokill](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/1tXKn9Ju8KeDDpdpOlnXRA/9f7de4b28485939637a6c359f8535385/earth-califpoisedtokill.jpg)\n

A staggeringly misinformed decision…

damaging climate and health

EVER HEARD OF DECENTRALIZED ENERGY?

","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"By Mark Z. Jacobson, thehill.com\n\nThe California Public Utilities Commission is poised to kill off much of the rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) industry in California, which will result in the use of more polluting natural gas and biomass electricity as well as dirty electricity imported from out of state. The use of the new dirty electricity will raise air pollution death rates in California above the 12,000 per year who perish in the state already. Most of these additional deaths will be in poor communities in the Los Angeles basin and Central Valley, where pollution levels are already the highest in the state. \n\n__Roof PV should be encouraged to reduce natural gas and overhead wires__\n\nThe effort to end rooftop solar is through an esoteric rule called Net Metering 3.0. This rule, pushed by the utilities, supported by only a few groups — and opposed by the vast majority of environmental groups — __appears to be a back-door effort to get middle- and working-class homeowners to pay the damage costs of explosions, blowouts and fire damage caused by the utilities themselves. These incidents include, among others,__ \n\n(Click Heading to Read More)","bodyText":"By Mark Z. Jacobson, thehill.com\n\nThe California Public Utilities Commission is poised to kill off much of the rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) industry in California, which will result in the use of more polluting natural gas and biomass electricity as well as dirty electricity imported from out of state. The use of the new dirty electricity will raise air pollution death rates in California above the 12,000 per year who perish in the state already. Most of these additional deaths will be in poor communities in the Los Angeles basin and Central Valley, where pollution levels are already the highest in the state. \n\n__Roof PV should be encouraged to reduce natural gas and overhead wires__\n\nThe effort to end rooftop solar is through an esoteric rule called Net Metering 3.0. This rule, pushed by the utilities, supported by only a few groups — and opposed by the vast majority of environmental groups — __appears to be a back-door effort to get middle- and working-class homeowners to pay the damage costs of explosions, blowouts and fire damage caused by the utilities themselves. These incidents include, among others,__ \n\n- The 2010 San Bruno natural gas explosion that destroyed a neighborhood and killed eight people, costing Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) $565 million in settlements and another $1.7 billion in fines.\n- The 2015-2016 Aliso Canyon natural gas blowout, which Sempra energy paid $1.8 billion for in settlements. Sempra energy owns SoCal Gas and San Diego Gas and Electric.\n- The $7.5 billion cost of wildfires in PG&E’s territory in 2017 alone. In 2021, PG&E was allowed to recover those costs from ratepayers. Since then, much more fire damage has occurred, and utilities are facing pressure to find a source of funds to pay the new damage costs.\n\n__Instead of implementing policies that would address the root causes of these disasters__ and the resulting high costs of energy, namely natural gas and the overhead transmission system causing fires, utilities are proposing to do the opposite, namely to tax the solution.\n\n__Utilities should instead promote rooftop PV to reduce the need for long-distance transmission and to eliminate natural gas from new and existing buildings.__ Almost all building owners pay for both natural gas and electricity, and this helps to drive up overall energy costs. There is no need for two sources of energy in a building. There is nothing that natural gas can do that electricity cannot do better and cheaper.\n\nFor starters, the natural gas hookup fee alone for new homes ranges from around $3,000 to $10,000. Natural gas pipes are another $2,000 to $15,000. These costs are completely eliminated with an all-electric home. Utilities should encourage new and existing home- and building-owners to go all electric. This involves using electric heat pumps instead of natural gas air or water heaters or clothes dryers and using electric induction cooktops instead of natural gas cooktops. Heat pumps use one-fourth the energy as natural gas heaters, so encouraging building owners to use only heat pumps saves consumers enormous costs over the lifetime of the appliances. Utilities should also encourage home weatherization and the use of LED lights and energy-efficient appliances.\n\n__The justification for the rule is misplaced__\n\nThe primary justification for the proposed rule is that, as more homeowners put solar PV on their roofs, fewer will pay grid charges, so the cost of maintaining the grid will be spread over fewer kilowatt-hours of energy passing through the grid, raising bills to non-PV owners. However, if instead of taxing solar, utilities encouraged replacing natural gas with electricity, the cost of air pollution deaths and illness due to natural gas would decrease and demand for electricity among non-PV owners would increase, not decrease.\n\nIn fact, the assumption that the number of kilowatt-hours of electricity will stay constant over time in California is faulty, so the basis for taxing solar is faulty. As California transitions to clean, renewable energy as it must under policies including SB100 (California’s 100 percent renewable electricity law) as well as gubernatorial executive orders B-55-18 (carbon neutrality) and N-79-20 (zero vehicle emissions by 2035), it will electrify transportation, heating and industrial processes, creating new demands for electricity, allowing the grid cost to be spread over more kilowatt-hours of electricity. \n\nIn fact, a recent study I co-authored for California found that such electrification will double electricity needs in the state and reduce energy costs substantially while creating jobs. As such, even with a huge growth in rooftop PV, the cost of maintaining the grid will be spread over more, rather than fewer, kilowatt-hours than today.\n\n__The rule itself is inequitable__\n\nFinally, the structure of the proposed tax discourages rooftop PV and is perverse. PG&E, for example, will charge homeowners a flat $8 per month per kilowatt of installed solar PV. For a 10-kilowatt system, that amounts to $960 per year. That cost is on top of the cost to build the PV system, which ranges from $25,000 to $40,000 before even considering batteries. The $960 per year eats into the ability to pay for the system, discouraging homeowners from investing. \n\n- Equilibrium/Sustainability — Bald eagle comeback impacted by lead... \n- Overnight Energy & Environment — Lummis holds up Biden EPA picks \n\nThe perversity is that the bigger the homeowner’s system, the less the homeowner uses the grid — yet, the larger the tax. For example, if a homeowner has a very large enough system (lots of kilowatts) with batteries, the homeowner pays a heavy tax but may hardly ever use the grid, so the utility is taking money but is not providing any service in return.\n\nIn sum, California needs to decide if it really cares about people’s health, climate and low-cost energy. If it does, this rule should be abandoned. \n\n*Mark Z. Jacobson is a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University. His work forms the scientific basis for the U.S. Green New Deal and California’s SB100.*\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"74d6HFChnnLhCgfggskz9u","updatedAt":"2022-01-16T19:50:15.372Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"1-15-22","releaseDate":{"year":2022,"month":1,"day":15}},{"id":"New-Timeline-Concert-Finsbury-Park","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2022-01-05T00:00-04:00","order":4,"byline":"john o","headline":"Finsbury Park - July 11, 1993","headlineText":"

Finsbury Park\n1993

\n","bodyHeadline":"

Finsbury Park
1993

\n","titleDivider":200,"excerpt":"*January 5, 2022*\n\nHappy New Year! \n\nI hope you all had a warm and peaceful yule after which you feel rested and ready for what promises to be another long year. We’ve certainly got a long one ahead of us here at NYA (I’ve seen the fan-compiled list of expected/hoped-for 2022 releases making its rounds on the message boards, and am daunted by it); I hope through our little labors we can lighten the load for you, our beloved NYA subscribers. \n\nIt is in that spirit we bring you a performance guaranteed to please, whatever your preference. Do you long for shades of Dreamin’ Man ‘92’s lovingly rendered acoustic hits? Or would you rather bask in expressively sculpted guitar solos that sound as if they have hung like a mist in the north London air for millenia, just waiting to be dragged down kicking and screaming into the audible frequencies?\n\nThis show has it all: a never-released rarity performed only on this tour (Live To Ride), Dock Of The Bay improbably nuzzling up against a Weld-era rendition of All Along The Watchtower in the encore, Neil in a delightfully jocular mood. Plus, a mystery: did the tape run out, or are we not including the bonus encore with Pearl Jam for some more insidious reason? (The tape ran out.) \n\nWhatever you’re craving from us right now, this show from [Finsbury Park with Booker T. & The MGs](/#/performance-log/tour?tourid=4n5Kg9iGfh01cimfHEhf7k&performanceid=2Wee55crN01xTqtDHBM3d1&media=setList) will hit the spot, ease your holiday hangover, and get you started on this new year feeling good. \n\nThank you to Jamie and Patron Andy S for requesting the show, and thank you all for bearing with me as I shake the rust off and remember how to write these announcements.\n\nbest, \n\njohn o\n\np.s. Yes, Andy, we’d love to see photos of both your legitimate and less-legitimate t-shirts bought at this show. We’ll be in touch.","bodyText":"*January 5, 2022*\n\nHappy New Year! \n\nI hope you all had a warm and peaceful yule after which you feel rested and ready for what promises to be another long year. We’ve certainly got a long one ahead of us here at NYA (I’ve seen the fan-compiled list of expected/hoped-for 2022 releases making its rounds on the message boards, and am daunted by it); I hope through our little labors we can lighten the load for you, our beloved NYA subscribers. \n\nIt is in that spirit we bring you a performance guaranteed to please, whatever your preference. Do you long for shades of Dreamin’ Man ‘92’s lovingly rendered acoustic hits? Or would you rather bask in expressively sculpted guitar solos that sound as if they have hung like a mist in the north London air for millenia, just waiting to be dragged down kicking and screaming into the audible frequencies?\n\nThis show has it all: a never-released rarity performed only on this tour (Live To Ride), Dock Of The Bay improbably nuzzling up against a Weld-era rendition of All Along The Watchtower in the encore, Neil in a delightfully jocular mood. Plus, a mystery: did the tape run out, or are we not including the bonus encore with Pearl Jam for some more insidious reason? (The tape ran out.) \n\nWhatever you’re craving from us right now, this show from [Finsbury Park with Booker T. & The MGs](/#/performance-log/tour?tourid=4n5Kg9iGfh01cimfHEhf7k&performanceid=2Wee55crN01xTqtDHBM3d1&media=setList) will hit the spot, ease your holiday hangover, and get you started on this new year feeling good. \n\nThank you to Jamie and Patron Andy S for requesting the show, and thank you all for bearing with me as I shake the rust off and remember how to write these announcements.\n\nbest, \n\njohn o\n\np.s. Yes, Andy, we’d love to see photos of both your legitimate and less-legitimate t-shirts bought at this show. We’ll be in touch.","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"4mHfsrDar6baQo5zqYTqEp","updatedAt":"2022-01-16T19:54:59.561Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"john o","dateText":"1-5-22","releaseDate":{"year":2022,"month":1,"day":5}},{"id":"Maybe-I-Shouldve-Been-Giving","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-12-30T00:00-04:00","byline":"NYA","headline":"Maybe I Shouldve Been Giving","headlineText":"![maybeishouldvebeengiving](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/660DPlzNMKej9GzXavbnaG/2342241697769fc213a6d738fe14fb13/maybeishouldvebeengiving.jpg)","bodyHeadline":"![maybeishouldvebeengiving](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/660DPlzNMKej9GzXavbnaG/2342241697769fc213a6d738fe14fb13/maybeishouldvebeengiving.jpg)\n","titleDivider":200,"excerpt":" ","bodyText":" ","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"6lkRzHD1QpbXi5JRNAlLF2","updatedAt":"2021-12-30T16:26:48.238Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"NYA","dateText":"12-30-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":12,"day":30}},{"id":"Worst-Disaster-Ever-Brazil","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-12-29T00:00-04:00","byline":"NYA","headline":"Worst Disaster Ever Brazil","headlineText":"

Worst Disaster\nEver

Death toll from Brazil\nflooding rises in Bahia

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Worst Disaster Ever

Death toll from Brazil flooding rises in Bahia

\n","titleDivider":200,"articleLayout":"single-column","excerpt":"__Read more in [EARTH NEWS](/#/news/2)__\n\n*Submitted to NYA by Mary Appletree* \n\nBy Leonardo Benassatto and Sergio Queiroz\n\n![worstdisastereverbrazil](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/3sbrR1geDxceElFBGqwPCj/fc56b7a5e2165c8634316bfe4a085937/worstdisastereverbrazil.jpg)
\n*An aerial view shows flooded streets, caused due to heavy rains, in Itajuipe, Bahia state, Brazil December 27, 2021. Picture taken with a drone. (Reuters/ Amanda Perobelli)*\n\nAuthorities are monitoring an additional 10 dams for any signs they may collapse.\n\nITABUNA, Brazil, Dec 27 (Reuters) - The death toll from floods hammering northeast Brazil rose to 20 on Monday, as the governor of Bahia state declared it the worst disaster in the state's history and rescuers braced for more rain in the coming days.\n\nMuch of Bahia, home to about 15 million people, has suffered from intermittent flooding for weeks, after a long drought gave way to record rains. Flooding in some areas intensified late on Christmas Eve and early on Christmas Day after a pair of dams gave way, sending residents scrambling for higher ground.\n\n(Click Heading to Read More)\n","bodyText":"__Read more in [EARTH NEWS](/#/news/2)__\n\n*Submitted to NYA by Mary Appletree* \n\nBy Leonardo Benassatto and Sergio Queiroz\n\n![worstdisastereverbrazil](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/3sbrR1geDxceElFBGqwPCj/fc56b7a5e2165c8634316bfe4a085937/worstdisastereverbrazil.jpg)
\n*An aerial view shows flooded streets, caused due to heavy rains, in Itajuipe, Bahia state, Brazil December 27, 2021. Picture taken with a drone. (Reuters/ Amanda Perobelli)*\n\nAuthorities are monitoring an additional 10 dams for any signs they may collapse.\n\nITABUNA, Brazil, Dec 27 (Reuters) - The death toll from floods hammering northeast Brazil rose to 20 on Monday, as the governor of Bahia state declared it the worst disaster in the state's history and rescuers braced for more rain in the coming days.\n\nMuch of Bahia, home to about 15 million people, has suffered from intermittent flooding for weeks, after a long drought gave way to record rains. Flooding in some areas intensified late on Christmas Eve and early on Christmas Day after a pair of dams gave way, sending residents scrambling for higher ground.\n\nRescue workers patrolled in small dinghies around the city of Itabuna, in southern Bahia, plucking residents from their homes, including some who escaped through second-floor windows.\n\nBahia Governor Rui Costa said on Twitter that 72 municipalities were in a state of emergency.\n\n\"Unfortunately, we're living through the worst disaster that has ever occurred in the history of Bahia,\" he wrote.\n\nManfredo Santana, a lieutenant-colonel in Bahia's firefighting corps, told Reuters that emergency workers had rescued 200 people in just three nearby towns. The heavy currents of the swollen Cachoeira River complicated rescue efforts.\n\n\"It's difficult to maneuver even with jet skis,\" he said. \"Rescue teams had to retreat in certain moments.”\n\nBahia's civil defense agency said on Monday afternoon that 20 people had died in 11 separate municipalities.\n\nNewspaper O Globo, citing a state firefighting official, said that authorities are monitoring an additional 10 dams for any signs they may collapse.\n\nThe scrutiny of public infrastructure and urban planning comes just a couple years after the collapse of a mining dam in neighboring Minas Gerais state killed some 270 people.\n\nIn televised remarks, Costa, the Bahia governor, attributed the chaotic scenes in part to \"errors that have been committed over the course of years.”\n\nReporting by Leonardo Benassatto; Writing by Gram Slattery Editing by Alistair Bell\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"5KQHhKwJ3F2Ct0VZdlj1J6","updatedAt":"2022-01-04T13:51:00.715Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"NYA","dateText":"12-29-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":12,"day":29}},{"id":"Shape-Of-You-Single","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-12-10T00:00-04:00","headline":"Shape Of You Single","headlineText":"

SHAPE OF YOU\nSINGLE

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SHAPE OF YOU SINGLE

\n","titleDivider":250,"vimeoId":"653914630","articleLayout":"single-column","excerpt":"This song is about love!
\nDirected by dhlovelife……
\nMicah Nelson has animated the ‘shape of you’.
\nThanks from the Horse!
\nBe well\n","bodyText":"This song is about love!
\nDirected by dhlovelife……
\nMicah Nelson has animated the ‘shape of you’.
\nThanks from the Horse!
\nBe well","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"5qNMsdlBuNKC0c3XPBvsPr","updatedAt":"2021-12-10T04:59:33.607Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"12-10-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":12,"day":10}},{"id":"Great-Gift-Offer-free-subscription","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-12-09T00:00-04:00","byline":"NYA","headline":"Great Gift Offer free subcription","headlineText":"

GREAT GIFT\nOFFER!

\n![NYA logo V2 475](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/2zfvILGj3GwiwWOIcmCeqS/5e0744e8f86982d729f76029b42faf31/page-seven-banner.png)

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GREAT GIFT OFFER!

\n![NYA logo V2 475](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/2zfvILGj3GwiwWOIcmCeqS/5e0744e8f86982d729f76029b42faf31/page-seven-banner.png)\n","titleDivider":200,"articleLayout":"single-column","excerpt":"All NYA renewing members, with their renewal will get a free gift subscription to give to another music lover. A letter has gone out to all our members explaining this special offer. We want you to tell your friends about NYA. With more than 25,000 members at NYA, we don’t advertise. This is a great way to spread the word to your friends about what NYA offers to folks who like my music and want to hear it all.
\nThanks! And Happy Holidays!
\nNeil
\nbe well","bodyText":"All NYA renewing members, with their renewal will get a free gift subscription to give to another music lover. A letter has gone out to all our members explaining this special offer. We want you to tell your friends about NYA. With more than 25,000 members at NYA, we don’t advertise. This is a great way to spread the word to your friends about what NYA offers to folks who like my music and want to hear it all.
\nThanks! And Happy Holidays!
\nNeil
\nbe well","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"1T8zhawXw7iN0Fx39fneGv","updatedAt":"2021-12-09T15:43:52.256Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"NYA","dateText":"12-9-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":12,"day":9}},{"id":"A-Message-From-Neil-barn-comments","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-12-05T00:00-04:00","byline":"NYA","headline":"A Message From Neil barn comments","headlineText":"

A Message\nFrom Neil

\n![VIEWPOINT-a-message-from-NEIL-1408](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/hBMpxUDVhsIbz2Deu7U1U/4de575e40a02888a239196c09da2b54a/VIEWPOINT-a-message-from-NEIL-1408.jpg)

photo: Michael Miller

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A Message From Neil

\n![VIEWPOINT-a-message-from-NEIL-1408](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/hBMpxUDVhsIbz2Deu7U1U/4de575e40a02888a239196c09da2b54a/VIEWPOINT-a-message-from-NEIL-1408.jpg)\n

photo: Michael Miller

\n","titleDivider":200,"articleLayout":"single-column","excerpt":"Folks, I have to say thanks to all of you who have heard our new record and gone to the trouble of posting your wonderful comments. I really appreciate it! To touch the soul is one of the greatest things music does and when there is success like that, it brings a renewing feeling. \nOur music, the music that we make as Crazy Horse, has always held a special place. To hear your amazing reactions to Barn’s songs put forward so far is just a huge gift. Thanks!\n\nMore is coming. The whole album is out on Friday and we are all very excited! I talked to everyone in the Horse yesterday to tell them how great it felt to read your feelings. My sweet wife read me pages and pages of your posts again last night, then I got my guitar out and played a few of my newest songs, realizing it would be a long wait til next summer if we were to record in the Barn again. \n\nYour words brought the feeling back and I played all my newest songs, reading the lyrics to one that I wrote before we traveled to Canada last year just before I started writing Barn. I had forgotten that one.\n\nAgain, on behalf of Nils, Ralph and Billy, thanks so much for your comments and posts on Barn!
\nlove
\nbe well
\nNeil","bodyText":"Folks, I have to say thanks to all of you who have heard our new record and gone to the trouble of posting your wonderful comments. I really appreciate it! To touch the soul is one of the greatest things music does and when there is success like that, it brings a renewing feeling. \nOur music, the music that we make as Crazy Horse, has always held a special place. To hear your amazing reactions to Barn’s songs put forward so far is just a huge gift. Thanks!\n\nMore is coming. The whole album is out on Friday and we are all very excited! I talked to everyone in the Horse yesterday to tell them how great it felt to read your feelings. My sweet wife read me pages and pages of your posts again last night, then I got my guitar out and played a few of my newest songs, realizing it would be a long wait til next summer if we were to record in the Barn again. \n\nYour words brought the feeling back and I played all my newest songs, reading the lyrics to one that I wrote before we traveled to Canada last year just before I started writing Barn. I had forgotten that one.\n\nAgain, on behalf of Nils, Ralph and Billy, thanks so much for your comments and posts on Barn!
\nlove
\nbe well
\nNeil","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"4gkA3FyRQuolSTfLEOIIAN","updatedAt":"2021-12-05T15:09:28.237Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"NYA","dateText":"12-5-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":12,"day":5}},{"id":"Timeline-Concert-Holidays-Once-Again","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-12-01T00:00-04:00","order":4,"byline":"NYA","headline":"TImeline Concert Holidays Once Again","headlineText":"

The Holidays\nAre Once Again\nUpon Us

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The Holidays Are Once Again Upon Us

\n","titleDivider":200,"articleLayout":"single-column","excerpt":"![timeline album concerts holidays](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/3hrXrgpsd8v51B0SqGrDhH/3f91a573e227267b47bfdd7334cb5c9a/album_concerts_holidays.png)\n\nWhether you're spending this month shivering or barbecuing——we see you, our Southern Hemisphere friends——and/or reflecting on the year-gone-by, we want to give you a little token of our appreciation that should liven up any milieu:\n\nFor the month of December we are making available a small selection of this past year's NYA-exclusive live performance archive releases to all subscribers in the form of a new 'album': [*Timeline Concert of the Holidays*](/album?id=A_765&tab=songs), a 6 track, ~14 hour playlist of your favorite recordings released on the NYA Tour Timeline over the last year.\n\nThese performances will be available both on the web and in the app; simply click the icon on the front cabinet or search 'Holiday.' And if fourteen hours just simply won't cut it, Rust & Patron subscribers can find many more recordings where these came from on the NYA Tour Timeline. \n","bodyText":"![timeline album concerts holidays](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/3hrXrgpsd8v51B0SqGrDhH/3f91a573e227267b47bfdd7334cb5c9a/album_concerts_holidays.png)\n\nWhether you're spending this month shivering or barbecuing——we see you, our Southern Hemisphere friends——and/or reflecting on the year-gone-by, we want to give you a little token of our appreciation that should liven up any milieu:\n\nFor the month of December we are making available a small selection of this past year's NYA-exclusive live performance archive releases to all subscribers in the form of a new 'album': [*Timeline Concert of the Holidays*](/album?id=A_765&tab=songs), a 6 track, ~14 hour playlist of your favorite recordings released on the NYA Tour Timeline over the last year.\n\nThese performances will be available both on the web and in the app; simply click the icon on the front cabinet or search 'Holiday.' And if fourteen hours just simply won't cut it, Rust & Patron subscribers can find many more recordings where these came from on the NYA Tour Timeline. \n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"2jQvckJ38owh35VM0KoPJu","updatedAt":"2021-12-01T15:09:05.923Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"NYA","dateText":"12-1-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":12,"day":1}},{"id":"Concert-Of-The-Moment-ChromeDreams","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-11-15T00:00-04:00","order":4,"byline":"NYA","headline":"Chrome Dreams Band at United Palace!","headlineText":"

Chrome Dreams\nBand at \nUnited Palace\nDec. 16, 2007

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Chrome Dreams Band at United Palace
Dec. 16, 2007

\n","titleDivider":200,"articleLayout":"single-column","excerpt":"*November 15, 2021*\n\nGood morning, everyone! It's early, but the longer I spend writing this the later it gets, so lets just get right to it: a new [Concert Of The Moment](/#/performance-log/tour?tourid=tAATP8C2HBGHWYm3CrKWe&performanceid=3PedE7f8Yg1e6xjGtZAa0h&media=setList) has arrived! There's nothing I could say that Patron Matt didn't say better already, so I'll just let him say it:\n\n> *\"I was 13 and this was my first real rock concert. I went with my dad and older brother, though I was definitely the most excited. Between the intimate, rarity-filled acoustic set and blistering, exploratory electric set, my life had been changed. I had never felt the power of music like that before and I've been chasing that feeling ever since. My dad passed away just a few years later and the show is now also one of my favorite memories with him. I would love to hear it again in all its soundboard glory.\"*\n\nStay tuned for the electric set coming soon to a moment near you!\n\n

—john o

\n","bodyText":"*November 15, 2021*\n\nGood morning, everyone! It's early, but the longer I spend writing this the later it gets, so lets just get right to it: a new [Concert Of The Moment](/#/performance-log/tour?tourid=tAATP8C2HBGHWYm3CrKWe&performanceid=3PedE7f8Yg1e6xjGtZAa0h&media=setList) has arrived! There's nothing I could say that Patron Matt didn't say better already, so I'll just let him say it:\n\n> *\"I was 13 and this was my first real rock concert. I went with my dad and older brother, though I was definitely the most excited. Between the intimate, rarity-filled acoustic set and blistering, exploratory electric set, my life had been changed. I had never felt the power of music like that before and I've been chasing that feeling ever since. My dad passed away just a few years later and the show is now also one of my favorite memories with him. I would love to hear it again in all its soundboard glory.\"*\n\nStay tuned for the electric set coming soon to a moment near you!\n\n

—john o

\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"37Hskaqaq1pDDiU7SqJbSk","updatedAt":"2022-06-01T16:37:47.319Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"NYA","dateText":"11-15-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":11,"day":15}},{"id":"A-Message-From-Neil-early-reaction","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-11-04T00:00-04:00","byline":"NYA","headline":"A Message From Neil early reaction","headlineText":"

A Message\nFrom Neil

\n![VIEWPOINT-a-message-from-NEIL-1408](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/hBMpxUDVhsIbz2Deu7U1U/4de575e40a02888a239196c09da2b54a/VIEWPOINT-a-message-from-NEIL-1408.jpg)

photo: Michael Miller

EARLY REACTION\nIS NO SURPRISE

","bodyHeadline":"

A Message From Neil

\n![VIEWPOINT-a-message-from-NEIL-1408](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/hBMpxUDVhsIbz2Deu7U1U/4de575e40a02888a239196c09da2b54a/VIEWPOINT-a-message-from-NEIL-1408.jpg)\n

photo: Michael Miller

EARLY REACTION IS NO SURPRISE

","titleDivider":200,"articleLayout":"single-column","excerpt":"Every time we put out a record, there are many folks who share their opinions, feelings and thoughts. I love that they are there and involved. Some yearn for the hard core rock and roll Crazy Horse has lived. Some are into the ballads and easy refections on life that come along occasionally. But all are interested in what we have to offer each time we put out some new music. That is a gift I am thankful for.\n\nAll of BARN is real. It came from the heart. We may have cried after some takes…… in happiness… in elation…. A band of brothers, we have all known one another since our beginnings. We made ‘Only love can break your Heart’ and ‘Southern Man’ on the same album. We made ‘Round and Round’ and ‘Down by the River’ on the same album. We made “Don’t forget about Love’ and ‘Human Race’ on the same album. Welcome Back. It’s not the same.\n\nBarn may be our best album ever.
\nny\n","bodyText":"Every time we put out a record, there are many folks who share their opinions, feelings and thoughts. I love that they are there and involved. Some yearn for the hard core rock and roll Crazy Horse has lived. Some are into the ballads and easy refections on life that come along occasionally. But all are interested in what we have to offer each time we put out some new music. That is a gift I am thankful for.\n\nAll of BARN is real. It came from the heart. We may have cried after some takes…… in happiness… in elation…. A band of brothers, we have all known one another since our beginnings. We made ‘Only love can break your Heart’ and ‘Southern Man’ on the same album. We made ‘Round and Round’ and ‘Down by the River’ on the same album. We made “Don’t forget about Love’ and ‘Human Race’ on the same album. Welcome Back. It’s not the same.\n\nBarn may be our best album ever.
\nny\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"2rLa3abduYzCQilsnSXbAJ","updatedAt":"2021-11-04T15:22:19.200Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"NYA","dateText":"11-4-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":11,"day":4}},{"id":"A-Message-From-Neil-rick-rubin","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-11-03T00:00-04:00","byline":"NYA","headline":"A Message From Neil rick rubin","headlineText":"

A Message\nFrom Neil

\n![VIEWPOINT-a-message-from-NEIL-1408](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/hBMpxUDVhsIbz2Deu7U1U/4de575e40a02888a239196c09da2b54a/VIEWPOINT-a-message-from-NEIL-1408.jpg)

photo: Michael Miller

","bodyHeadline":"

A Message From Neil

\n![VIEWPOINT-a-message-from-NEIL-1408](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/hBMpxUDVhsIbz2Deu7U1U/4de575e40a02888a239196c09da2b54a/VIEWPOINT-a-message-from-NEIL-1408.jpg)\n

photo: Michael Miller

","titleDivider":200,"articleLayout":"single-column","excerpt":"Reading your weekly letters, I always find clues to where interesting things might be found in the audio archive. When we begin our search with the NYA team, John Hausmann, in the master vault, usually locates things easily. It’s just remembering what they are, where they are, and when they happened. \n\nThat’s where you come in. Once we have a clue, like:\n\n![message-rickrubinsessions400](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/3gfTfVeRzu4rZcppxCsaJG/d63f0e34e814dadc133757533446d45a/message-rickrubinsessions400.jpg)\n\nIt turned out that in that session at ‘OCEAN WAY’ studios, not Sunset Sound as I had remembered, there were three takes- ‘Hard Luck Stories’, ‘Horseshoe Man’, and ‘Modern World’. \n\nListening now, I don’t know why I didn’t follow through with these at the time! They are all so unique. So now we are finishing them and getting them ready for you! I am jacked. The Volume Dealers will finish these three Crazy Horse fresh tracks, all the first recordings of those songs. Today I really think they are awesome! They have a unique vibe. \n\nI really love Rick Rubin. He has a special thing going on in the studio. I have to figure out how to use these and where. They are all great. \n\nI never would have found these again without Omar’s questions. That’s how all of our members play such an important part here at NYA.
\nThanks everyone!!
\nlove
\nbe well\n","bodyText":"Reading your weekly letters, I always find clues to where interesting things might be found in the audio archive. When we begin our search with the NYA team, John Hausmann, in the master vault, usually locates things easily. It’s just remembering what they are, where they are, and when they happened. \n\nThat’s where you come in. Once we have a clue, like:\n\n![message-rickrubinsessions400](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/3gfTfVeRzu4rZcppxCsaJG/d63f0e34e814dadc133757533446d45a/message-rickrubinsessions400.jpg)\n\nIt turned out that in that session at ‘OCEAN WAY’ studios, not Sunset Sound as I had remembered, there were three takes- ‘Hard Luck Stories’, ‘Horseshoe Man’, and ‘Modern World’. \n\nListening now, I don’t know why I didn’t follow through with these at the time! They are all so unique. So now we are finishing them and getting them ready for you! I am jacked. The Volume Dealers will finish these three Crazy Horse fresh tracks, all the first recordings of those songs. Today I really think they are awesome! They have a unique vibe. \n\nI really love Rick Rubin. He has a special thing going on in the studio. I have to figure out how to use these and where. They are all great. \n\nI never would have found these again without Omar’s questions. That’s how all of our members play such an important part here at NYA.
\nThanks everyone!!
\nlove
\nbe well\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"58m0mZkFIqIh4JHXSWl1a5","updatedAt":"2021-11-03T16:17:22.124Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"NYA","dateText":"11-3-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":11,"day":3}},{"id":"Dolby-Atmos-Version-Of-Barn","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-10-27T00:00-04:00","order":4,"byline":"NYA","headline":"Dolby Atmos Version Of Barn","headlineText":"

‘DOLBY ATMOS’\nversion of BARN

","bodyHeadline":"

‘DOLBY ATMOS’ version of BARN

","titleDivider":200,"articleLayout":"single-column","excerpt":"![A 132 BARN ic](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/6Sdyb7ChrvNIghVrPxQ5hA/064977ee22c251e02d763f68fbab5dcd/A_132_BARN_ic.png)\n\nThe VOLUME DEALERS are completing the ‘Dolby Atmos’ version of Barn to be available through AMAZON upon release. Dolby developed Atmos.
\nApple’s version of Atmos is being made to be only available on Apple equipment and is not finalized at this point so we have not been able to make a final decision about using it.
\nWe are very happy with the original Dolby Atmos. It provides another perspective on the great music of Barn.
\n-The Volume Dealers","bodyText":"![A 132 BARN ic](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/6Sdyb7ChrvNIghVrPxQ5hA/064977ee22c251e02d763f68fbab5dcd/A_132_BARN_ic.png)\n\nThe VOLUME DEALERS are completing the ‘Dolby Atmos’ version of Barn to be available through AMAZON upon release. Dolby developed Atmos.
\nApple’s version of Atmos is being made to be only available on Apple equipment and is not finalized at this point so we have not been able to make a final decision about using it.
\nWe are very happy with the original Dolby Atmos. It provides another perspective on the great music of Barn.
\n-The Volume Dealers\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"7HN0Bic3nM23vr81IvEqtw","updatedAt":"2021-10-27T15:18:53.406Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"NYA","dateText":"10-27-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":10,"day":27}},{"id":"Concert-Of-The-Moment-Wiltern-1999","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-10-25T00:00-04:00","order":4,"byline":"NYA","headline":"Concert Of The Moment: Solo At The Wiltern, Los Angeles 1999","headlineText":"

Solo At The\nWiltern\nLos Angeles 1999

","bodyHeadline":"

Solo At The Wiltern
Los Angeles 1999

\n","titleDivider":200,"articleLayout":"single-column","excerpt":"It's a rainy afternoon in Los Angeles——we're wearing sweaters over our mu'umu'us here at NYA, or at least I am——and the vibe has been just right for doing one last QC of our next Concert Of The Moment: [March 23, 1999 at The Wiltern](/performance-log/tour?tourid=16DT81Jrhu4hkDD8O1NDCo&performanceid=61J06Itm2H2ll8oGzgcY8o&media=setList). \n\nClosing my eyes and listening to this recording is the first time I've been back at The Wiltern since Kurt Vile burned it to the ground in 2018, and it's a real treat——as Patron Chris writes, an \"absolutely amazing show.\"\n\nDig it.\n\n

—john o

\n","bodyText":"It's a rainy afternoon in Los Angeles——we're wearing sweaters over our mu'umu'us here at NYA, or at least I am——and the vibe has been just right for doing one last QC of our next Concert Of The Moment: [March 23, 1999 at The Wiltern](/performance-log/tour?tourid=16DT81Jrhu4hkDD8O1NDCo&performanceid=61J06Itm2H2ll8oGzgcY8o&media=setList). \n\nClosing my eyes and listening to this recording is the first time I've been back at The Wiltern since Kurt Vile burned it to the ground in 2018, and it's a real treat——as Patron Chris writes, an \"absolutely amazing show.\"\n\nDig it.\n\n

—john o

\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"tyov6DL8PjJUldU3nFBig","updatedAt":"2021-11-02T10:24:45.413Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"NYA","dateText":"10-25-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":10,"day":25}},{"id":"Carnegie-Hall-Bootleg-Series-letter","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-10-10T00:00-04:00","order":4,"byline":"NYA","headline":"Carnegie Hall Bootleg Series letter","headlineText":"

Bootleg Series\nCarnegie Hall

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Bootleg Series
Carnegie Hall

","titleDivider":200,"articleLayout":"single-column","excerpt":"![ny-carnegiehall70-bootleg-500](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/4YVbiHaRziiupBJjXUGo2L/4d815b7935c486602c6ae4b0633d924b/ny-carnegiehall70-bootleg-500.jpg)\n\nWhat a great start for the bootleg series with Carnegie Hall!
\nPeople who say they they don’t need to hear these shows because they have “Massey Hall” or “Young Shakespeare” don’t understand live music. It’s not just about a single live version of a song. The whole performance lives in the moment—every performance has a unique character—and we’re lucky enough to live in a time where these moments can be captured on tape. At least that’s how I feel; maybe you understand that as well? I think more people will get that now they can hear Carnegie Hall.
\nFor these reasons please don’t leave it too long to release Dorothy Chandler and Royce Hall as Bootleg Series releases as well. They’re all parts of the picture. \n\n*From a NYA member Mike in a letter….*\n\n[LISTEN WITH THIS LINK](/#/album?id=A_126)\n","bodyText":"![ny-carnegiehall70-bootleg-500](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/4YVbiHaRziiupBJjXUGo2L/4d815b7935c486602c6ae4b0633d924b/ny-carnegiehall70-bootleg-500.jpg)\n\nWhat a great start for the bootleg series with Carnegie Hall!
\nPeople who say they they don’t need to hear these shows because they have “Massey Hall” or “Young Shakespeare” don’t understand live music. It’s not just about a single live version of a song. The whole performance lives in the moment—every performance has a unique character—and we’re lucky enough to live in a time where these moments can be captured on tape. At least that’s how I feel; maybe you understand that as well? I think more people will get that now they can hear Carnegie Hall.
\nFor these reasons please don’t leave it too long to release Dorothy Chandler and Royce Hall as Bootleg Series releases as well. They’re all parts of the picture. \n\n*From a NYA member Mike in a letter….*\n\n[LISTEN WITH THIS LINK](/#/album?id=A_126)","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"7j4XXZNIiqiEXt1T8xcPHw","updatedAt":"2022-06-01T16:36:52.890Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"NYA","dateText":"10-10-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":10,"day":10}},{"id":"New This Week Bridge-School-Concert-1990","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-10-05T00:00-04:00","order":1,"headline":"New This Week Bridge School Concert 1990","headlineText":"

BRIDGE SCHOOL\nCONCERT 1990

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BRIDGE SCHOOL CONCERT 1990

","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"Head on over to our own little [Shoreline In The Cloud](/#/news/movietone?category=The-Bridge-School) (where the shows always start on time and you don't have to sit in traffic on the 101 to get there) to rent the latest addition to the Bridge Benefit section of Movietone. \n\n![bridgeschool199010260poster](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/6uAxxZBCSUhX8r89k0FkGn/3717fd32d7bdb3edb3d44f1497b9370d/bridgeschool199010260poster.jpg)\n\nThe 1990 video features performances from Elvis Costello, Gene LaFond and Larry Kegan, Jackson Browne, Edie Brickell & the *Few* Bohemians, and, of course, NYCH (whose set includes the live debuts of Mansion On The Hill and Love And Only Love!). \n\nAll rental proceeds go to the Bridge School, so feel encouraged to rent it as often as you like... or [make an additional donation](https://www.bridgeschool.org/support/). ","bodyText":"Head on over to our own little [Shoreline In The Cloud](/#/news/movietone?category=The-Bridge-School) (where the shows always start on time and you don't have to sit in traffic on the 101 to get there) to rent the latest addition to the Bridge Benefit section of Movietone. \n\n![bridgeschool199010260poster](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/6uAxxZBCSUhX8r89k0FkGn/3717fd32d7bdb3edb3d44f1497b9370d/bridgeschool199010260poster.jpg)\n\nThe 1990 video features performances from Elvis Costello, Gene LaFond and Larry Kegan, Jackson Browne, Edie Brickell & the *Few* Bohemians, and, of course, NYCH (whose set includes the live debuts of Mansion On The Hill and Love And Only Love!). \n\nAll rental proceeds go to the Bridge School, so feel encouraged to rent it as often as you like... or [make an additional donation](https://www.bridgeschool.org/support/). ","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"2meCVmcQTpKUdqKO7D1Ga8","updatedAt":"2021-10-12T10:36:18.964Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"10-5-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":10,"day":5}},{"id":"Trocadero-Timeline-Concert-NEW","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-10-01T00:00-04:00","order":4,"byline":"John O","headline":"Trocadero!","headlineText":"

The Trocadero\nSan Francisco\nMay 8, 1997

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The Trocadero
San Francisco
May 8, 1997

","titleDivider":200,"articleLayout":"single-column","excerpt":"*October 1, 2021*\n\nIf you're anything like me——and in this one respect at least, reader, you likely are——there's not much you dig more than a small club Crazy Horse warm-up show. These boys have a winningly ragged, shambolic charm at their absolute tightest; when they're *really loose* the charm's enough to knock you flat. Pure rock'n'roll. \n\nOne of the highlights of this job was stumbling on the footage that became *Rust Bucket* (boy was I thrilled when everybody got to hear that show!); another was cranking up this next tour timeline concert and falling in love with the Horse all over again. \n\nAs our dear subscriber Harm wrote in his request: the \"guys were absolutely smoking that night\"... but you don't have to take his or my word for it:\n\nListen to the first set from [The Trocadero, San Francisco (May 8, 1997)](/performance-log/tour?tourid=1dR7WVukTEopopDxZ0wiII&performanceid=6YSqvyIJwg00rO0K1kb09E&media=setList), the featured Concert of the Moment until we're good and ready to give you the second set (soon, soon, I promise). \n\n

—john o

\n\np.s. Read a fun little historical anecdote about this night in the Roadstories column!\n","bodyText":"*October 1, 2021*\n\nIf you're anything like me——and in this one respect at least, reader, you likely are——there's not much you dig more than a small club Crazy Horse warm-up show. These boys have a winningly ragged, shambolic charm at their absolute tightest; when they're *really loose* the charm's enough to knock you flat. Pure rock'n'roll. \n\nOne of the highlights of this job was stumbling on the footage that became *Rust Bucket* (boy was I thrilled when everybody got to hear that show!); another was cranking up this next tour timeline concert and falling in love with the Horse all over again. \n\nAs our dear subscriber Harm wrote in his request: the \"guys were absolutely smoking that night\"... but you don't have to take his or my word for it:\n\nListen to the first set from [The Trocadero, San Francisco (May 8, 1997)](/performance-log/tour?tourid=1dR7WVukTEopopDxZ0wiII&performanceid=6YSqvyIJwg00rO0K1kb09E&media=setList), the featured Concert of the Moment until we're good and ready to give you the second set (soon, soon, I promise). \n\n

—john o

\n\np.s. Read a fun little historical anecdote about this night in the Roadstories column!\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"5nTQ9ri7QBTCX4GDEkJRkt","updatedAt":"2021-10-12T10:35:09.387Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"John O","dateText":"10-1-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":10,"day":1}},{"id":"New This Week Concert-Of-The-Moment-coffs-harbor","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-09-22T00:00-04:00","order":2,"headline":"New This Week Concert of The Moment coffs harbor","headlineText":"

CONCERT of the\nMOMENT

","bodyHeadline":"

CONCERT of the MOMENT

","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"Coff’s Harbor in New South Wales is a gig that sticks in my memory. Playing in 1989 with the Lost Dogs, including quite a few songs that I only did with them, traveling across Australia and stopping at a little airport in the middle of the country to refuel. Rick Rosas on bass, Chad Cromwell on drums. Poncho was with us then. So was Ben Keith. Lots of love folks. [Here we go!](/#/performance-log/tour?tourid=1hnMq5oYkXoneP2kqJiqsK&performanceid=7MLhnuHOb1kbTlymPoQnRK&media=setList)
\nny","bodyText":"Coff’s Harbor in New South Wales is a gig that sticks in my memory. Playing in 1989 with the Lost Dogs, including quite a few songs that I only did with them, traveling across Australia and stopping at a little airport in the middle of the country to refuel. Rick Rosas on bass, Chad Cromwell on drums. Poncho was with us then. So was Ben Keith. Lots of love folks. [Here we go!](/#/performance-log/tour?tourid=1hnMq5oYkXoneP2kqJiqsK&performanceid=7MLhnuHOb1kbTlymPoQnRK&media=setList)
\nny","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"5rkMjS6Wvd7LjeKC0SZvIF","updatedAt":"2021-09-29T10:22:01.333Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"9-22-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":9,"day":22}},{"id":"New This Week Bridge-School-Concert-5","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-09-22T00:00-04:00","order":1,"headline":"New This Week Bridge School Concert 5","headlineText":"

BRIDGE SCHOOL\nCONCERT # 5

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BRIDGE SCHOOL CONCERT # 5

","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"Another [cool old Bridge show](/#/news/movietone?category=The-Bridge-School) coming your way!
\nEnjoy!
\nlove neil","bodyText":"Another [cool old Bridge show](/#/news/movietone?category=The-Bridge-School) coming your way!
\nEnjoy!
\nlove neil","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"5664R9UqbCDhnIkZcsueQY","updatedAt":"2021-09-29T10:21:21.821Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"9-22-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":9,"day":22}},{"id":"New This Week Timeline Concert Added greatwoods","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-09-15T00:00-04:00","order":1,"headline":"New This Week Timeline Concert Added greatwoods","headlineText":"

TIMELINE\nCONCERT ADDED

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TIMELINE CONCERT ADDED

","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"Greatwoods, near Boston, is a big amphitheater where we played more than a few times over the years. Right at the beginning of the ‘Bluenotes’ era I was introducing some of the first bluenotes songs. One of them, ‘Aint it the truth’, was a song i wrote back in Winnipeg, when i was just starting. In this concert at Greatwoods I can feel the blue note sound coming. It surrounded me for years!
\nEnjoy [this whole show](/#/performance-log/tour?tourid=7CadVTMBcARtVU9tb9IjlA&performanceid=3tL7Wthmd6KOnX6mn1NXon&media=setList) and many others on the Timeline.","bodyText":"Greatwoods, near Boston, is a big amphitheater where we played more than a few times over the years. Right at the beginning of the ‘Bluenotes’ era I was introducing some of the first bluenotes songs. One of them, ‘Aint it the truth’, was a song i wrote back in Winnipeg, when i was just starting. In this concert at Greatwoods I can feel the blue note sound coming. It surrounded me for years!
\nEnjoy [this whole show](/#/performance-log/tour?tourid=7CadVTMBcARtVU9tb9IjlA&performanceid=3tL7Wthmd6KOnX6mn1NXon&media=setList) and many others on the Timeline.","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"2BmU8ycmKdWdC6hE4crDbQ","updatedAt":"2021-09-22T10:26:33.004Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"9-15-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":9,"day":15}},{"id":"New-This-Week-Freedom","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-08-12T00:00-04:00","order":1,"headline":"New This Week Freedom","headlineText":"

FREEDOM

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FREEDOM

","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"![newthisweek-freedom](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/2CjY0yL6tC17pRE5NJ8pP/adc2cbeb1dc512173f43e6511cf2f7c9/newthisweek-freedom.jpg)\n\n‘Freedom’ is this week’s album of the week and for the first time, we are sharing [the video that goes with it](/#/movietone/418303961) on NYA. The solo acoustic set that led off the live show is here in all its ragged glory!
\nFilmed at Jones Beach on 6 14 89.
\nEnjoy NYA!\n","bodyText":"![newthisweek-freedom](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/2CjY0yL6tC17pRE5NJ8pP/adc2cbeb1dc512173f43e6511cf2f7c9/newthisweek-freedom.jpg)\n\n‘Freedom’ is this week’s album of the week and for the first time, we are sharing [the video that goes with it](/#/movietone/418303961) on NYA. The solo acoustic set that led off the live show is here in all its ragged glory!
\nFilmed at Jones Beach on 6 14 89.
\nEnjoy NYA!","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"1xoJSN7tTIlWSMA8C1ZHAJ","updatedAt":"2021-08-30T14:52:42.851Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"8-12-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":8,"day":12}},{"id":"New-This-Week-Canterbury-House-Last-Set","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-08-09T00:00-04:00","order":1,"headline":"New This Week Canterbury House Last Set","headlineText":"

CANTERBURY\nHOUSE 1969\nTHE LAST SET

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CANTERBURY HOUSE 1969
THE LAST SET

","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"We already gave you set one and two. [Here’s the closer!](/#/performance-log/tour?tourid=20FhfoRxMLrRXUqHdQwEjT&performanceid=4fWli9yal7e1qA05oKSFKu&media=setList) What a great night in 1969!!!
Ann Arbor Michigan. TIMELINE 1969. Click below the little white square. Enjoy NYA\n\n![canterburyhouse1969lastset](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/6A2oi98bTZQJUd4gV1Tfuk/ddc7147558d2aefbf389a2c9996e7708/canterburyhouse1969lastset.jpg)\n","bodyText":"We already gave you set one and two. [Here’s the closer!](/#/performance-log/tour?tourid=20FhfoRxMLrRXUqHdQwEjT&performanceid=4fWli9yal7e1qA05oKSFKu&media=setList) What a great night in 1969!!!
Ann Arbor Michigan. TIMELINE 1969. Click below the little white square. Enjoy NYA\n\n![canterburyhouse1969lastset](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/6A2oi98bTZQJUd4gV1Tfuk/ddc7147558d2aefbf389a2c9996e7708/canterburyhouse1969lastset.jpg)\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"zMIvcY3XKq0XO2diKwSkG","updatedAt":"2021-08-23T15:40:00.175Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"8-9-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":8,"day":9}},{"id":"Lukas-Nelson-POTR-Stars-Apart-Page-1","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-07-30T00:00-04:00","headline":"The Lukas Nelson POTR Stars Apart Page 1","headlineText":"

LUKAS NELSON &\nPROMISE OF THE\nREAL

A FEW STARS APART\n![lukasnelsonPOTR-afewstarsapart-500](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/3cDle2DOi8pW6PI95VgK8g/2784bc2132a084bcb311bfb683f56e15/lukasnelsonPOTR-afewstarsapart-500.jpg)

\n","bodyHeadline":"

LUKAS NELSON & PROMISE OF THE REAL
A FEW STARS APART

\n![lukasnelsonPOTR-afewstarsapart-500](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/3cDle2DOi8pW6PI95VgK8g/2784bc2132a084bcb311bfb683f56e15/lukasnelsonPOTR-afewstarsapart-500.jpg)","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"Another great new album of songs is here from Lukas and the boys. [Listen and enjoy!](/#/album?id=A_806) Get this album and support the band!
\nlove neil\n","bodyText":"Another great new album of songs is here from Lukas and the boys. [Listen and enjoy!](/#/album?id=A_806) Get this album and support the band!
\nlove neil","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"feLGm3lorlal8xv1V9sWE","updatedAt":"2021-08-01T19:55:28.092Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"7-30-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":7,"day":30}},{"id":"The-Force-Of-The-Horse-Page-1","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-07-07T00:00-04:00","headline":"The Force Of The Horse Page 1","headlineText":"

The Force of\nthe Horse\n![theforceofthehorse](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/2QlrS3YiInHsD5CDuMWBXN/512e30ebdd54c11c6fc7a514145ad2a6/theforceofthehorse.jpg)

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The Force of the Horse

\n![theforceofthehorse](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/2QlrS3YiInHsD5CDuMWBXN/512e30ebdd54c11c6fc7a514145ad2a6/theforceofthehorse.jpg)","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"Never in my musical life has there been anything to compare with the Crazy Horse. When the groove is fallen into, that feeling is unmatched for me. The big bass. The kickin’ drums, two guitars singin’ off one another, all supporting the feeling of the song, whether mysterious, happy, loving or just plain rockin’ - the horse in its stride continues to be a great gift for me. It is something unique and special in my life. I am so thankful for Nils, Billy and Ralph being with me today.
\nlove
\nbe well
\nNeil\n","bodyText":"Never in my musical life has there been anything to compare with the Crazy Horse. When the groove is fallen into, that feeling is unmatched for me. The big bass. The kickin’ drums, two guitars singin’ off one another, all supporting the feeling of the song, whether mysterious, happy, loving or just plain rockin’ - the horse in its stride continues to be a great gift for me. It is something unique and special in my life. I am so thankful for Nils, Billy and Ralph being with me today.
\nlove
\nbe well
\nNeil","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"6ELyz6W6CXMcHURmIHnJf0","updatedAt":"2021-07-07T13:53:21.469Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"7-7-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":7,"day":7}},{"id":"Members-Greedy-Hand-Rust-Bucket-DVDs-Page-1","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-06-22T00:00-04:00","headline":"Members Greedy Hand Rust Bucket DVDs Page 1","headlineText":"

Now Available!!\nRust Bucket DVDs\n![nych-rustbucket2-1408](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/7uXEc7qEzUaTvmPCoEH7uQ/2b633ac6eb955a8307aeda2b877e3881/nych-rustbucket2-1408.jpg)

\n","bodyHeadline":"

Now Available!!
Rust Bucket DVDs

\n![nych-rustbucket2-1408](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/7uXEc7qEzUaTvmPCoEH7uQ/2b633ac6eb955a8307aeda2b877e3881/nych-rustbucket2-1408.jpg)","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"Go to the Member Central / Greedy Hand column on [page 11](/#/news/11) for more info\n","bodyText":"Go to the Member Central / Greedy Hand column on [page 11](/#/news/11) for more info\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"1vjmK8xWjhlqKHNkM19kbD","updatedAt":"2021-06-22T17:54:11.011Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"6-22-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":6,"day":22}},{"id":"Whats-Goin-On-amazon","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-05-17T00:00-04:00","order":3,"headline":"Whats Goin On amazon","headlineText":"

WHAT'S GOIN'\nON?\n![amazonledtheway](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/3LTJ6t4jc2MjojxMCEovby/5d44a1763e457499157d98bfa75ff9e8/amazonledtheway.png)

","bodyHeadline":"

WHAT'S GOIN' ON?

\n![amazonledtheway](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/3LTJ6t4jc2MjojxMCEovby/5d44a1763e457499157d98bfa75ff9e8/amazonledtheway.png)","titleDivider":250,"articleLayout":"single-column","excerpt":"The word that came to us from inside AMAZON:\n\nWhat’s going on? Well, as you so eloquently predicted almost 2 years ago when we launched, Earth has indeed changed forever with the launch of Amazon Music HD. Our launch and focus on high-quality audio have forced the other major players (Spotify and Apple Music) to react and work on their own HiFi offerings. This, in turn, changed the momentum in the marketplace and allowed for very different conversations with the major labels around how this content should be licensed. Of course, I don’t actually know what Apple and Spotify will do, but my prediction is that by the end of this year (give or take a few months on either end) most or all premium streaming subscribers will be listening to HD audio as part of their core subscription, instead of having to pay extra to upgrade.\n\nI thought you’d want to know this, as it’s an outcome that you’ve worked tirelessly to achieve for so long. And now it looks like it’ll finally be happening soon! \n\nPS\n\nAnd now Apple has followed. I can only imagine that Spotify will follow as well later this year. Great news for music fans everywhere!!\n\nThat’s the word from inside AMAZON\n\nThanks everyone!","bodyText":"The word that came to us from inside AMAZON:\n\nWhat’s going on? Well, as you so eloquently predicted almost 2 years ago when we launched, Earth has indeed changed forever with the launch of Amazon Music HD. Our launch and focus on high-quality audio have forced the other major players (Spotify and Apple Music) to react and work on their own HiFi offerings. This, in turn, changed the momentum in the marketplace and allowed for very different conversations with the major labels around how this content should be licensed. Of course, I don’t actually know what Apple and Spotify will do, but my prediction is that by the end of this year (give or take a few months on either end) most or all premium streaming subscribers will be listening to HD audio as part of their core subscription, instead of having to pay extra to upgrade.\n\nI thought you’d want to know this, as it’s an outcome that you’ve worked tirelessly to achieve for so long. And now it looks like it’ll finally be happening soon! \n\nPS\n\nAnd now Apple has followed. I can only imagine that Spotify will follow as well later this year. Great news for music fans everywhere!!\n\nThat’s the word from inside AMAZON\n\nThanks everyone!","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"104QFOYyMm4d7Z0VELwKP3","updatedAt":"2021-05-17T21:37:28.343Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"5-17-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":5,"day":17}},{"id":"Earth-Stop-Eating-Fish-page-1-ad","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-03-29T00:00-04:00","order":1,"headline":"Earth Stop Eating Fish page 1 ad","headlineText":"

STOP EATING\nFISH

Seaspiracy

","bodyHeadline":"

STOP EATING FISH

Seaspiracy

","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"![earth-stopeatingfish](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/3zFmoNjcbEjhbGjWUoqTkg/2130e2b7cf3fcf532b77beae9c5f6143/earth-stopeatingfish.jpg)\n\n__[EARTH NEWS](/#/news/2)__\n\nThe damage being done to our great oceans by industrial fishing is causing more harm to Earth’s atmosphere than all the cars’ emissions and the destruction of the Amazon forests combined. Read more in [EARTH NEWS - p2](/#/news/2)","bodyText":"![earth-stopeatingfish](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/3zFmoNjcbEjhbGjWUoqTkg/2130e2b7cf3fcf532b77beae9c5f6143/earth-stopeatingfish.jpg)\n\n__[EARTH NEWS](/#/news/2)__\n\nThe damage being done to our great oceans by industrial fishing is causing more harm to Earth’s atmosphere than all the cars’ emissions and the destruction of the Amazon forests combined. Read more in [EARTH NEWS - p2](/#/news/2)","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"4NhlhrYzVoeFtu5dSCB3fk","updatedAt":"2022-01-04T13:51:47.082Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"3-29-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":3,"day":29}},{"id":"Wow-That-Was-Great-vacinated","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-03-26T00:00-04:00","order":3,"headline":"Wow That Was Great vaccinated","headlineText":"

WOW! THAT\nWAS GREAT!

EVERYONE SHOULD\nGET VACCINATED!

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WOW! THAT WAS GREAT!

EVERYONE SHOULD GET VACCINATED!

\n","titleDivider":250,"articleLayout":"single-column","excerpt":"![wowthatwasgreat1](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/2X76tkoHkYqzsFcNkvh2RV/d9e535ef8929704aa3ecdc9da63c72d5/wowthatwasgreat1.jpg)\n\nI feel so much better knowing that I have done this, for so many reasons- \n\n(click heading to read more)","bodyText":"![wowthatwasgreat1](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/2X76tkoHkYqzsFcNkvh2RV/d9e535ef8929704aa3ecdc9da63c72d5/wowthatwasgreat1.jpg)\n\nI feel so much better knowing that I have done this, for so many reasons- \n\n1. my nurse!, \n2. anxiety reduced, \n3. helping others be safe. \n4. Doing what President Trump did! \n5. Being able to visit family!!!!\n6. Join me in the worry free zone\n\n![wowthatwasgreat2](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/62IoezQ6VrFUQBppC5VC0k/da4011028294ff9424f727e24701b2d4/wowthatwasgreat2.jpg)\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"4UrtSHY5Y8XIw6ojrsuyvT","updatedAt":"2021-04-18T14:01:12.544Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"3-26-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":3,"day":26}},{"id":"Bridge-School-Concerts-and-much-more","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-03-09T00:00-05:00","order":2,"headline":"Bridge School Concerts and much more","headlineText":"

Bridge School\nConcerts\n![bridgeschoollogo-550](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/1HaRRtUtpAYfYJvO9ZM8jq/7ad01af2ca44c621aca5356490534462/bridgeschoollogo-550.png)

and much more...

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Bridge School Concerts

\n![bridgeschoollogo-float](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/6x8Rilsaiv5XiYVVR1I7qX/2f12911f68a1f94323a2b022a0d5f328/bridgeschoollogo-float.png)\n

and much more...

","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"Now you can start to enjoy all the Bridge School Concerts at NYA! Begin today with concert #1 at *[Movietone on Demand](/#/news/movietone)*. This great school for children with severe speech and physical impairments, founded by Pegi Young, Marilyn Buzolich and Jim Forderer back in 1986, was the catalyst for the now legendary Bridge Concert Series. These shows ran for more than 30 years!\n\n(click heading to read more)","bodyText":"Now you can start to enjoy all the Bridge School Concerts at NYA! Begin today with concert #1 at *[Movietone on Demand](/#/news/movietone)*. This great school for children with severe speech and physical impairments, founded by Pegi Young, Marilyn Buzolich and Jim Forderer back in 1986, was the catalyst for the now legendary Bridge Concert Series. These shows ran for more than 30 years!\n\nAll these historic Bridge Concerts will be made available to rent for 24 hours. The $9.99 rental fee will be donated to the Bridge School (less credit card processing fees). Additionally, see the ad below if you want to donate more directly to the School. The Bridge School is still there serving the kids and needs your support! The great majority of artists have donated their performances to this wonderful cause, and the Bridge School kids thank everyone who played in these amazing shows! Please enjoy them here at NYA exclusively.\n\nComing with these concerts at *[Movietone](/#/news/movietone)* is a huge selection of films from the archives, videos, short subjects and full length movies. These films, now found on the *[Movietone](/#/news/movietone)* page, are all available for new *“Rust”* subscribers and of course, *“Patrons”*. New film and video features are being added all the time!\n\n[Details](/#/news/1/article?id=NYA-Tiers-page-1) of the new NYA structure with *Classic*, *Rust*, and *Patron* tiers are presented elsewhere in the *NYA Times Contrarian*.\n\n![bridgeschoollogo-550](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/1HaRRtUtpAYfYJvO9ZM8jq/7ad01af2ca44c621aca5356490534462/bridgeschoollogo-550.png)\n\n

[DONATE TO THE BRIDGE SCHOOL](https://www.bridgeschool.org/support/)

","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"O6o0FME5RlVHBq9Ksmrjh","updatedAt":"2021-04-18T14:00:55.754Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"3-9-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":3,"day":9}},{"id":"Black-Out-GeorgeFloyd-page1","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2020-11-25T00:00-04:00","order":2,"headline":"Black Out GeorgeFloyd page1","headlineText":" ","bodyHeadline":" ","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"[![georgefloydmemorialfund](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/3hCNLVqOVmzcBMTul7I0tq/703a9635dfdb43eac9c3294fd88efcde/georgefloydmemorialfund.jpg)](https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd)","bodyText":"[![georgefloydmemorialfund](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/3hCNLVqOVmzcBMTul7I0tq/703a9635dfdb43eac9c3294fd88efcde/georgefloydmemorialfund.jpg)](https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd)","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"5ce2x8x5UqqKMJhUIrJoNm","updatedAt":"2020-12-14T18:18:49.114Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"11-25-20","releaseDate":{"year":2020,"month":11,"day":25}},{"id":"YelloPain-Announcement","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2020-09-18T00:00-04:00","headline":"YelloPain Announcement","headlineText":"

YelloPain\n![yellopain-announcement](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/69XLpaCafA3YxYLtBLgI5m/ac2156f33356070a8ce3a76b37e30b2d/yellopain-announcement.jpg)

","bodyHeadline":"

YelloPain

\n![yellopain-announcement](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/69XLpaCafA3YxYLtBLgI5m/ac2156f33356070a8ce3a76b37e30b2d/yellopain-announcement.jpg)","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"‘MY VOTE DON”T COUNT’ is an amazing new and very informative video by YelloPain appearing now on [BLM page 5](/#/news/5).\n\nIn these times, this video is essential. I think it’s a masterpiece. Check it out!\n\nbe well,
\nneil","bodyText":"‘MY VOTE DON”T COUNT’ is an amazing new and very informative video by YelloPain appearing now on [BLM page 5](/#/news/5).\n\nIn these times, this video is essential. I think it’s a masterpiece. Check it out!\n\nbe well,
\nneil","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"3eG95yzREzATznAFTU5vzD","updatedAt":"2022-01-12T16:07:41.671Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"9-18-20","releaseDate":{"year":2020,"month":9,"day":18}},{"id":"Buffalo-Springfield-Demo-Released-runaround-babe","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2020-09-17T00:00-04:00","headline":"Buffalo Springfield Demo Released runaround babe","headlineText":"

BUFFALO\nSPRINGFIELD\nDEMO\nRELEASED

","bodyHeadline":"

BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD
DEMO RELEASED

","titleDivider":250,"image1":"//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/27v84NxMWz3HNJk6hPghLf/898f2989f7789e01bd459cbcc960c4e0/bs-buffalspirngfield2-500.jpg","excerpt":"The song ‘Runaround Babe’ is now attached to the first Buffalo Springfield Album.\n","bodyText":"The song ‘Runaround Babe’ is now attached to the first Buffalo Springfield Album.
\nCheck it out. I was in the studio for one of the first times ever in Hollywood, putting down demos of my songs. The Springfield had just played a couple of first shows at the ‘Whisky a Go Go’ on Sunset Strip.
\nGive a listen to this early demo!\n\nNow streaming on NYA - [Runaround Babe (6/10/1966, Buffalo Springfield demo)](/#/info-card?track=t1966_0610_03)","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"2g1HH8uoYthpWHyJphQrzI","updatedAt":"2020-09-17T22:34:54.658Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"9-17-20","releaseDate":{"year":2020,"month":9,"day":17}},{"id":"A-Message-From-Neil-clear-up-some-thoughts","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2020-09-06T00:00-04:00","headline":"A Message From Neil clear up some thoughts","headlineText":"

A Message\nFrom Neil

","bodyHeadline":"

A Message From Neil

","titleDivider":250,"image1":"//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/hBMpxUDVhsIbz2Deu7U1U/4de575e40a02888a239196c09da2b54a/VIEWPOINT-a-message-from-NEIL-1408.jpg","photoCaption":"photo: Michael Miller","excerpt":"Just wanted to clear up some thoughts I have read that are not really factual, although I can understand what ","bodyText":"Just wanted to clear up some thoughts I have read that are not really factual, although I can understand what folks might think.\n\nFirst, our recent alignment and arrangement with Amazon - This is to make sure as many people get to hear my music *the way I made it as possible*. It has only to do with the quality of the music presented at Amazon. It is better than all others, just like Xstream is better. The notable exception is Qobuz. That is a great service.\n\nSecond, don’t worry that any of Amazon’s dealings with me compromise ownership or control of my art in any way at all. That does not happen. With Amazon, the releases we give them to be introduced as ‘Amazon Originals’ are a *three month exclusive* and are all treated very well in the marketplace and get to the largest amount of people possible *listening in the quality the music was made in*. Some of you may not care about that, but we do care a lot about it.
\n“Quality whether you want it or not!” - L.A. Johnson.\n\nI have read that some might think we are doing this Amazon initiative to save NYA. Nope. That is just not the reason we do things. We are successful and are maintaining well with many thousands of subscribers.\nThis is a very long term project and music service that will be around for a long time. We have a wonderful and talented crew of people who work hard everyday to make NYA great. NYA continues to grow and employ a lot of hard working folks during this pandemic we’re all experiencing together.\n\nAlso, NYA will continue to be adding outtakes and demos regularly and we do have a tremendous amount of them, the majority of which are previously unreleased. I really hope you enjoy them, as well as the ‘Timeline Performances’ feature, which will be coming your way at NYA very soon. You may have noticed that in letters - when people mention songs from gigs - that I sometimes comment “so noted” That means that the song and concert it was in are going on our list for the ‘Timeline Performances’ feature we are adding.\n\nLove, and be well folks
\nStay safe.
\nneil and NYA\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"39Jor4L4r2vvbT33jCpEOL","updatedAt":"2020-09-06T18:26:56.589Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"9-6-20","releaseDate":{"year":2020,"month":9,"day":6}},{"id":"NYA-Official-Bootlegs-page-1","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2020-08-08T00:00-04:00","headline":"NYA Official Bootlegs page 1","headlineText":"

NYA OFFICIAL\nBOOTLEGS

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NYA OFFICIAL BOOTLEGS

","titleDivider":250,"image1":"//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/12nNELsnVHujCxyFyJJ7kj/b9eda659e44bdd6bd6efc3feaa0041e4/nya-bootlegannounement1.jpg","excerpt":"Bootlegs are big piece of music history - especially rock ’n roll. Artists have no control ","bodyText":"Bootlegs are big piece of music history - especially rock ’n roll. Artists have no control over the quality or content of a bootleg. They just perform, get recorded by someone and that’s it. The NYA Official Bootleg Series captures this alive rock ’n roll feeling with shows that were bootlegged over the last 50 years.\n\nUnlike a normal release, the bootleg series will be added to without much fuss, just building out and completing copies of the best bootlegs we can find. We will open with 5 great bootlegs.\n\nOnly the quality is different. We have a lot of our masters, dating back to 1970 and possibly earlier, of bootlegs that have been released of my music in many forms.\n\nIn some cases, we dont have our master quality, so we release the original masters from the old recordings made for the bootleg. We have collected a few of those. So we give you the best you can ever get in our Official Bootleg Series, mostly our own masters, from Carnegie Hall 1970 v1 and v2 to much more recent releases.\n\nWe’re proud to stand with the outlaw companies who pioneered these releases in their desire to get this music out there. Now it’s time to really hear it in NYA quality. We simply copy the original bootleg art, continuing the tradition upgraded with our master quality sound.\n\nOur series will arrive unannounced sometime in 2020. It’s in production right now.\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"7fd2RFMTlNeLPwBuZ2maoc","updatedAt":"2020-12-11T14:25:01.540Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"8-8-20","releaseDate":{"year":2020,"month":8,"day":8}},{"id":"Complaint-page1-refer-to-Law-page5","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2020-08-04T00:00-04:00","headline":"Complaint page1 refer to Law page5","headlineText":"

COMPLAINT

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COMPLAINT

","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"__Action against Trump Campaign begins.__\n\nSee [LAW](/#/news/9) (page 9)
\nny","bodyText":"__Action against Trump Campaign begins.__\n\nSee [LAW](/#/news/9) (page 9)
\nny","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"7GHtbwP5dde0aRkNAfSxSg","updatedAt":"2022-01-12T16:20:28.940Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"8-4-20","releaseDate":{"year":2020,"month":8,"day":4}},{"id":"A-Message-From-Neil-Navy-Vet-Video","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2020-07-26T00:00-04:00","headline":"A Message From Neil Navy Vet Video","headlineText":"

A Message\nFrom Neil

","bodyHeadline":"

A Message From Neil

","titleDivider":250,"image1":"//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/hBMpxUDVhsIbz2Deu7U1U/4de575e40a02888a239196c09da2b54a/VIEWPOINT-a-message-from-NEIL-1408.jpg","photoCaption":"photo: Michael Miller","excerpt":"* “I don’t care what the military says.”
\n-- Donald J. Trump, US President.*\n\nI am changing my mind about suing President Trump. ","bodyText":"*“I don’t care what the military says.”
\n-- Donald J. Trump, US President.*\n\nI am changing my mind about suing President Trump. Reconsidering. I’m looking at it [again](/#/news/2/article?id=A-Letter-To-President-Trump). There is a [long history](/#/news/2/article?id=Viewpoint-My-History-With-President-Trump) to consider and I originally considered it, deciding not to pursue. But then President Trump ordered thugs in uniform onto our streets. His idea. He ordered this himself. This is all DJT. He told them to wear camouflage, use unmarked vehicles to take people away, innocent people peacefully protesting - their constitutional right as US citizens. Trump’s trooper thugs attacked a NAVY Vet (see video), who was presenting no threat to them, despite their lame excuses. This man is a military veteran (see what he says in video.)\n\n
\n\nTrump has no respect for our military. They are not to be used on the streets of America against law abiding citizens for a Political charade orchestrated by a challenged President. It’s a complete disgrace, the way he plays citizens against one another for his own political gain, saying that only cities run by democrats are in trouble and need help. Those elected leaders asked him not to intervene. The elected representatives in all these cities and states are against Trump’s military thugs shooting people on the streets. Our military is against it. That is not their sacred mission. \n\nTrump says : “I don’t care what the military says.” \n\nThese are thugs with no IDs shooting Americans on the streets. They are not our police. __Our police should arrest these untrained thugs for breaking our laws.__ They have zero de—escalation training, a must have for the job they are mishandling, so they’re totally unqualified to be there. \n\nThe US military is against these thug troops being here on the streets of America, attacking citizens. That is not what our US military does. They know they are not to be on the streets doing a rogue president’s bidding for his own political gain, harming innocent citizens who are legally protesting.\n\nWhen the states asked for help with Covid 19, the president did not give it. He said he’s not responsible. When they said don’t bring military to our streets - we don’t need that, he did it anyway for his own political reasons- not for America. This rogue president is creating a much worse problem with his street thug army of uniformed hatred.\n\nSo I am reconsidering. Imagine what it feels like to hear ‘Rockin’ in the Free World’ after this President speaks, like it is his theme song. I did not write it for that.\n\nNeil Young","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"1kEsq1Cf2rwDijYKDCBUYt","updatedAt":"2020-09-06T18:03:13.179Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"7-26-20","releaseDate":{"year":2020,"month":7,"day":26}},{"id":"Thanks-Page-1-vegetables","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2020-06-28T00:00-04:00","headline":"Thanks Page 1 vegetables","headlineText":"

THANKS!

","bodyHeadline":"

THANKS!

","titleDivider":250,"image1":"//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/2ZFlp0ZXf3dv3nmNh0aBvl/66ea1899070fc13bfd2034d413a21096/thanks-page1.jpg","excerpt":"Thanks for the abundance of love for Home Grown. I appreciate it! This is music for all of us ","bodyText":"Thanks for the abundance of love for Homegrown. I appreciate it! This is music for all of us who were there and the many who come after.\n\nIt's ours! Thanks everyone for making me feel so good, Love,
\nBe well.
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New Zealand Is\nCelebrating

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A Message\nfrom Neil

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A Message from Neil

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QUESTION\nFROM NYA\nSUBSCRIBER:

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QUESTION FROM NYA SUBSCRIBER:

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\nI have a good friend who’s a NYA subscriber and has been asking me for a year to ask you this:\n\n“About Time Fades Away and why he buried it for so long. And if he's changed his mind about disliking it given that so many of his fans--me!!!!--adore it. Joe\"\n\nJoe,
\nIt had a sound issue that drove me nuts and the tour was a stressful one. I eventually got into it when i got far enough away from it.
\nlove
\nbe well
\nneil\n\nNeil
\nI knew about the sound issue and the unhappy nature of the tour. It's all part of the lore around that album. It's part of the reason I bought up old vinyl of it and bootlegs. We knew he didn't like the album for reasons far beyond the musical content.\n \nBut the reason why I love that album--and so many of us do--is the bravery of it. He just had the huge commercial hit with Harvest. Any OTHER artist would have made a follow-up album that sounded a lot like Harvest. You know, record company pressure and all. Yet he followed with Time Fades Away. It was so dissonant and different that it took a while to HEAR it. But, man, it was brave. And remember, my introduction to business travel was a cold night stuck in a frigid gasoline station in Buffalo with a busted car and a cassette player and ONLY Harvest to listen to. So I loved Harvest, knew every lick and every word and every beat. But Time Fades Away FORCED you to think beyond that box. It's why it is great.\n \nI honestly think that's why so many Neil Young fans from my generation adored him--and I use adore advisedly. Everything he released forced you to think. You bought a Neil Young album on faith. Everybody Knows This is Nowhere was different from After the Gold Rush and that was different from Harvest and Time Fades Away was different from them all. They were ALL amazing, but they were never comfortable or easy. You couldn't assume anything. \n \nTime Fades Away isn't just great music. It's a statement: No boxes. No artificial rules. No records just to sell music. Grow or die. That's what Time Fades Away stands for. It's okay to fail if you try something, but you gotta TRY. That's what Neil Young proved with Time Fades Away. It changed a lot of our lives, even if we didn't understand why back then.\n \nSorry, didn't mean to get on a soapbox. But that album means so much to me, not just as a Neil Young fan and a music fan, but as a creative person. At a key moment of my life--20 years old, learning the rules of journalism and being told you have talent--there was a guy who said don't be bound by what they tell you. Don't repeat. Grow. Or, as some guy sang once, Don't Be Denied. Even now, 40+ years later, I go to the computer every day and think, don't be denied. What good can you do with your talent to push nouns against verbs today? What good can do without doing something you've done before? \n \nTime Fades Away is about that for the listener. I get that the creator found it wanting. I get that it was not a good time for him. But for us listeners--those of us who were listening--it was a massive influence ...
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NYA\nNOTIFICATIONS

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NYA NOTIFICATIONS

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\nBecause we have so much new and archival music going up on NYA and we don’t want you to miss any of it, we have started sending you notifications. \n\nWe do know you have a life and cannot be checking in on us all the time just to see what’s new here. . . . but we also know you care because you subscribed. \n\nFor that reason, from now on we’ll be notifying you when new Fireside Sessions or movie and video premieres are happening in our beloved Hearse Theater, as well as whenever we are showing rarities. Also, as we introduce new records we will be letting you know in advance with notifications.\n\nIf we’re buggin’ you with all this, you can just discontinue notifications and we won’t take offense! To ensure you have privacy and you’re happy, we want you to know what’s up here at NYA just in case it’s one of your favorite things… \n\nI will be writing these notes myself, so when you get one, it’ll be from me.
\nlove,
\nand be well!
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STRESS LIVES ON TV

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STRESS LIVES ON TV

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QUOTE OF THE DAY

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NOT FLATTENING

\n","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"By David Leonhardt, New York Times\n\nThis chart shows why.\n","bodyText":"By David Leonhardt, New York Times\n\nThis chart shows why.\n\n![notflatteninggraph](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/3PXxuUTNR0oOAa7BXXZDc/24cae75366e9923eaf96291c0e1dac7e/notflatteninggraph.jpg)\n\n__China and South Korea have flattened their curves.__ Italy, Spain, Germany and the Netherlands have begun to flatten their curves.\n\n__The United States still has not.__\n\nMore than half of all confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States have been diagnosed in the past five days. Depending on what data source you use, yesterday was either the worst day for new cases or one of the worst. And more than 3,000 Americans with the virus have died, meaning the death toll has now exceeded that of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.\n\nAs you can see in the chart above, the other three countries with the world’s largest number of confirmed cases — Italy, China and Spain — were all making significant progress at a similar point in their outbreaks. But the response in the United States has been slow and uneven.\n\n__President Trump spent almost two months denying that the virus was a serious problem__ and spreading incorrect information about it. Since then, he has oscillated between taking sensible measures and continuing to make false statements. (Yesterday, he said that hospital masks might be “going out the back door” — suggesting that doctors or somebody else were stealing the masks rather than using them.)\n\nMany state leaders — both Democrats, like Gov. Jay Inslee in Washington State, and Republicans, like Gov. Larry Hogan, in Maryland — have done a much better job. Altogether, the federal, state and local policies on social distancing may be starting to have an effect. The number of fevers recorded nationwide is falling, as Donald G. McNeil Jr. of The Times notes, which is an encouraging sign.\n\n__But the United States is badly behind.__ Both South Korea and the United States had their first confirmed case around the same day, in late January, as Neera Tanden of the Center for American Progress points out. South Korea has suffered only about 150 deaths, one-twentieth as many as the United States.\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"73uNTQk5XgG21alzcFLWux","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:34.182Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"4-1-20","releaseDate":{"year":2020,"month":4,"day":1}},{"id":"Million-Mask-Challenge-dhlovelife","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2020-03-24T00:00-04:00","headline":"Million Mask Challenge dhlovelife","headlineText":"

MILLION MASK\nCHALLENGE

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MILLION MASK CHALLENGE

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\n(with a lining/pocket for a filter!)
\nnow 🤞🏽onto mass production
\nfor #PPE donation -
\n#millionmaskchallenge
\nif you'd like to help out,
\nthere are lots of good patterns online
\ntake care ❤️\n\n

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\ngary ward

\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"EGBY8lE4Yl1pW9ae93JqI","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:27.269Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"3-24-20","releaseDate":{"year":2020,"month":3,"day":24}},{"id":"Willie-Nelson-Amazing-New-Album","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2020-03-22T00:00-04:00","headline":"Willie Nelson Amazing New Album","headlineText":"

WILLIE NELSON\nAMAZING NEW\nALBUM!

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WILLIE NELSON AMAZING NEW ALBUM!

","titleDivider":250,"image1":"//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/3mT8I6oNaqgSdncvZAZCwp/16bd1c0372afdb37fadddda51ea6b292/willienelson-firstroseofspring-1408.jpg","excerpt":"First Rose of Spring\n\nJust in time! \nThis is another wonderful classic, from the ","bodyText":"__*First Rose of Spring*__\n\nJust in time!
\nThis is another wonderful classic, from the music to the title to the art, coming your way soon. As the Nelson Family, now in Texas makes music together under the coronanvirus threat, we can expect another one soon from Lukas and Promise of The Real.
\nCongratulations Willie!
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DO YOUR\nPART

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DO YOUR PART

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\nSoap is King and Queen.
\nLove one another.
\nPlant in the house. Move it out later. Put it in the window to catch the sun . . . . and grOWWWW!\n\nMake amends.
\nPeace.
\nnya","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"66dY7lcCUOSinKOm6Eh6Wx","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:25.158Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"3-17-20","releaseDate":{"year":2020,"month":3,"day":17}},{"id":"Liberty-Mutual-Forget-The-Commercials-Think","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2020-03-15T00:00-04:00","headline":"Liberty Mutual Forget The Commercials Think","headlineText":"

LIBERTY\nMUTUAL

Forget the Commercials,\nTHINK

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LIBERTY MUTUAL

\n\n

Forget the Commercials, THINK

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\nny","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"6FUiitPN3Jw4IzQBaJnf0M","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:32.208Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"3-15-20","releaseDate":{"year":2020,"month":3,"day":15}},{"id":"Plank-Man-George-Hood","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2020-03-13T00:00-04:00","headline":"Plank Man George Hood","headlineText":"

PLANK MAN

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PLANK MAN

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What you can do at home while you are thinking about your friends and relatives . . .!

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What you can do at home\nwhile you are thinking\nabout your friends\nand relatives . . .!

","subtitleDivider":220,"excerpt":"George Hood, a former US Marine, broke his own world record this month. Here’s how you ","bodyText":"George Hood, a former US Marine, broke his own world record this month. Here’s how you can improve your technique\n\nBy Sam Diss\n\n![plankman-georgehood](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/3m1319P4FHsHuzXtclLT0Q/92720fbbb33349a107c267198c26d810/plankman-georgehood.jpg)\n*George Hood breaking his own world record. Photograph: Josef Holic* \n\nThis month, George Hood – a 62-year-old former US Marine – broke the world planking record with a time of 8hr 15min 15sec, adding an extra 14 minutes on to the previous record. Hood had originally claimed the record in 2011 with a paltry 1hr 20min, before losing it in 2016 to Mao Weidong, a police officer from China, who broke the record with a time of 8hr 1min.\n\nEight hours is a long time spent doing anything, especially with your face hovering 20cm away from the floor of a gym, but the benefits of a good plank go a very long way. “The plank is excellent because it’s all about stability,” says Chris Magee, the head of yoga at Psycle London, and a former personal trainer, rugby player and martial artist. “That’s key to an active, healthy lifestyle. You want to feel – when you’re walking around, running around or even sitting down – that your spine is strong and protected.”\n\nWith a good core, you’d imagine, comes a cut six-pack; the sort of Brad-Pitt-in-Fight-Club abs we’ve all dreamed of. But that’s just surface level, with the real money coming from working those deeper muscles, the ones you can’t see. \n\nTo reclaim his world record, Hood spent the last 18 months training seven hours a day. “I do 700 pushups a day, 2,000 situps a day in sets of 100 and 500 leg squats a day,” he told CNN. “For upper body and the arms, I do approximately 300 arm curls a day,” adding that he uses loud rock music – Rammstein are a favourite – to help push through the pain, while the torn skin on his elbows is manageable once the rest of his arm has gone numb. \n\nIf you’re an experienced planker, it’s your prerogative if you want to go in quite as hard as Hood, but Magee estimates that even beginners can improve easily if the technique is right. \n\n“With a plank,” says Magee, “you’re engaging your pelvis and shoulders, your back and the big muscles in your legs, firing them up to ensure that they’re perfectly still. It’s an accumulative exercise, working every part of your body. Even if you’re only holding one for 30 seconds a few times a day, every day, you’re going to start improving pretty quickly.”\n\nAdding 10 seconds to your holds each day is a good way to ensure steady progression. It sounds easy but, for a simple exercise – get on the floor and don’t move – plenty can go wrong, and part of the reason we mess up is because of that simplicity.\n\n“Some people seem to gloss over it,” says Magee. “If you really run through the checklist of all the things you have to get right within a plank movement, you should be squeezing and shaking really hard.”\n\nYou don’t have to lock it in for eight hours a day, but if you’re finishing a plank with ease, then something’s wrong. The plank should haunt you. It’s something you should feel – sorry – at your very core.\n\n[Support The Guardian](https://support.theguardian.com/us/contribute?INTCMP=header_support_contribute)","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"5MzcuKcF7oCxSs3iVqXXjQ","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:41.159Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"3-13-20","releaseDate":{"year":2020,"month":3,"day":13}},{"id":"Surge-Of-Virus-Misinformation","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2020-03-09T00:00-04:00","headline":"Surge of Virus Misinformation","headlineText":"

Surge of Virus\nMisinformation

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Surge of Virus Misinformation

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Facebook and Twitter

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Facebook and Twitter

","subtitleDivider":220,"image1":"//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/2L0j6ku36M5hzlEsgj615x/9e00db9052bd80d0cefc559bc7d37cbd/viewpoint-afterfacebook.jpg","excerpt":"Secret labs. Magic cures. Government plots. Despite efforts by social media companies to ","bodyText":"Secret labs. Magic cures. Government plots. Despite efforts by social media companies to stop it, false information about the coronavirus is proliferating around the world.\n\nSAN FRANCISCO — First, there were conspiratorial whispers on social media that the coronavirus had been cooked up in a secret government lab in China. Then there were bogus medicines: gels, liquids and powders that immunized against the virus.\n\nAnd then there were the false claims about governments and celebrities and racial unrest. Taiwan was covering up virus deaths, and the illness was spiraling out of control. Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder who now runs a philanthropic organization, was behind the spread of the virus. Italians were marching in the streets, accusing Chinese people of bringing the illness to their country. None of it was true.\n\nAs the coronavirus has spread across the world, so too has misinformation about it, despite an aggressive effort by social media companies to prevent its dissemination. Facebook, Google and Twitter said they were removing misinformation about the coronavirus as fast as they could find it, and were working with the World Health Organization and other government organizations to ensure that people got accurate information.\n\n\nBut a search by The New York Times found dozens of videos, photographs and written posts on each of the social media platforms that appeared to have slipped through the cracks. The posts were not limited to English. Many were originally in languages ranging from Hindi and Urdu to Hebrew and Farsi, reflecting the trajectory of the virus as it has traveled around the world.\n\nSecurity researchers have even found that hackers were setting up threadbare websites that claimed to have information about the coronavirus. The sites were actually digital traps, aimed at stealing personal data or breaking into the devices of people who landed on them.\n\nThe spread of false and malicious content about the coronavirus has been a stark reminder of the uphill battle fought by researchers and internet companies. Even when the companies are determined to protect the truth, they are often outgunned and outwitted by the internet’s liars and thieves.\n\nThere is so much inaccurate information about the virus, the W.H.O. has said it was confronting a “infodemic.”\n\n“I see misinformation about the coronavirus everywhere. Some people are panicking, and looking to magical cures, and other people are spreading conspiracies,” said Austin Chiang, a gastroenterologist at Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia.\n\nIn Taiwan, virus-related misinformation on social media has fed concerns that China might be using the crisis to undermine the government of the self-ruling island.\n\nIn recent weeks, there have been posts on Facebook and other sites claiming that Taiwan has concealed large numbers of coronavirus infections. There have been fake but official-looking documents promising giveaways of face masks and vaccines. A screen capture from a television news broadcast was doctored to say that President Tsai Ing-wen had contracted the disease and was in quarantine.\n\nIn a statement to The Times, Taiwan’s foreign minister, Joseph Wu, blamed China’s “internet armies” for the deluge of falsehoods, though his office declined to elaborate on how he came to that conclusion. China’s Taiwan Affairs Office didn’t respond to a faxed request for comment.\n\nThe Communist Party claims Taiwan as part of China’s territory, and Taiwanese officials have long accused Beijing of manipulating both traditional news media and social platforms to turn Taiwanese citizens against President Tsai, who opposes closer ties with China.\n\nSummer Chen, the editor in chief of Taiwan FactCheck Center, a watchdog group that debunks online rumors and hoaxes, said her team had been busier since the outbreak began than it was ahead of Taiwan’s presidential election in January, when the island was on high alert for potential Chinese meddling.\n\n“Throughout this whole epidemic, people have really liked conspiracy theories,” Ms. Chen said. “Why is it that during epidemics people don’t choose to believe accurate scientific information?”\n\nFacebook, YouTube and Twitter all said they were making efforts to point people back to reliable sources of medical information, and had direct lines of communication to the W.H.O. and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\n\nFacebook said it bans content that could cause people harm, such as claims that discourage treatment or taking appropriate precautions against the coronavirus. Posts and videos that shared conspiracy theories were clearly marked as false, once they had been reviewed by fact checkers.\n\nWhen Facebook users attempt to share them, a message pops up alerting the user that the post includes information that has been deemed false by fact checkers.\n\nThose measures, however, have not stopped people in private Facebook groups from linking to and sharing misinformation surrounding the virus. In private Facebook groups, including one that totals over 100,000 members, conspiracy theories spread that the coronavirus was an invention of the pharmaceutical industry, intended to sell the public on more expensive drugs and more vaccines.\n\nWhile many posts simply encouraged people to take vitamins and eat a balanced diet to boost their immune system, others offered promises of immunity or cures if certain combinations of powders and drinks were consumed. Some were even more dangerous. The Food and Drug Administration referred to one “miracle mineral solution” posted many times on Facebook and Twitter as “the same as drinking bleach.”\n\nDr. Chiang, the gastroenterologist, recently helped start the Association for Healthcare Social Media, a group dedicated to encouraging more health care professionals to post on social media so that they can dispel some of the misinformation.\n\n“People are looking for good sources of information because a lot of what they see, when they log into their social media platforms, is just scaring them,” he said.\n\nWhile Twitter acknowledged the presence of some of this content on its network, Del Harvey, Twitter’s vice president of trust and safety, said the company has not seen “large-scale, coordinated” efforts to misinform people about the coronavirus. After The New York Times contacted Twitter with examples of tweets containing health misinformation about coronavirus, some owners of the accounts were suspended “for spam.”\n\nFacebook said that in addition to working closely with health organizations, it was offering W.H.O. free ad space to try and point people toward accurate information on the coronavirus. The company said that it was removing posts that discouraged people from seeking treatment or suggested remedies that could cause physical harm and that it was placing warning labels on posts that were rated false by their fact checkers.\n\nYouTube, which is owned by Google, also said it was working closely with W.H.O. to help combat misinformation. YouTube’s spokesman, Farshad Shadloo, said the company had policies that prohibited videos that “promoted medically unsubstantiated methods to prevent the coronavirus in place of seeking medical treatment.”\n\nDozens of YouTube videos, however, included titles that suggested the video offered a cure for the virus. In others, the comment sections below the videos included links to pages offering a range of alternative, unsubstantiated treatments.\n\nIn some cases, those links have led people to websites that lure people in with the promise of a cure, but actually steal credit card information and other personal details.\n\nThe cybersecurity firm Check Point said more than 4,000 coronavirus-related websites that include words like “corona” or “covid” have been registered since the beginning of the year. Of those, 3 percent were considered malicious and another 5 percent were suspicious.\n\nResearch by Sophos, a cybersecurity company, has shown an uptick in these so-called spear-phishing messages targeting people in Italy, where coronavirus infections have surged in recent weeks. Those messages included a link to a Microsoft Word document that claimed to list cures for the virus. When downloaded, it installed malicious malware on people’s computers.\n\nLast month, W.H.O. also put out a warning about fake emails from apparent W.H.O. representatives. The emails carried malicious code aimed at breaking into someone’s computing device.\n\nJohn Gregory, the deputy health editor for NewsGuard, a start-up that tries to stop false stories from spreading on the internet, said the medical element to coronavirus misinformation made it different from other conspiracies the public has dealt with.\n\nBecause the information about the virus is “playing out in real time, it’s always going to be easier for someone to make a false claim,” Mr. Gregory said. “Then, there’s a separation of a few days before anyone with a scientific background, or journalists, are able to debunk the claim.”\n\nNYA thanks the New York Times\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"5onUOC0IvDnURDIGX0upB9","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:40.113Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"3-9-20","releaseDate":{"year":2020,"month":3,"day":9}},{"id":"Climate-Change-Has-Turned-Perus-Glacial-Lake","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2020-02-26T00:00-05:00","headline":"Climate Change Has Turned Perus Glacial Lake","headlineText":"

Climate Change

has turned Peru's\nglacial lake into a\ndeadly flood\ntimebomb

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Climate Change

has turned Peru's glacial lake into a deadly flood timebomb

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But despite its placid appearance it has become a deadly threat to tens of thousands people living beneath it as a result of global warming.\n\nA handful of residents of Huaraz, the city below the lake, can recall its destructive power. In 1941 a chunk of ice broke away from the glacier in an earthquake, tumbling into the lake. The impact caused a flood wave which sent an avalanche of mud and boulders cascading down the mountain, killing about 1,800 people when it reached the city.\n\nToday the lake is even more potentially dangerous, swollen with glacial meltwater like an almost-overflowing bathtub. A temperature rise of 0.5-0.8C between the 1970s and the 2000s has seen a third of Peru’s ice caps vanish in the last four decades. \n\nThe city’s population has grown too. With more than 150,000 inhabitants, today Huaraz is about 15 times larger than it was during the last deadly landslide. \n\nFlood wave modelling by the University of Texas shows how a breakaway chunk of glacier could displace up to 15bn litres of meltwater from the 70-metre deep, mile long (1.7km) lake, propelling a wave of up to 30 metres over a ridge of rocks and down the mountain. \n\n“There are around 50,000 people living in the danger zone,” says Noah Walker-Crawford, a social anthropologist from Manchester University.\n\n“According to the authorities’ estimates, even if you were able to warn the people, there could still be about 20,000 fatalities,” he adds.\n\nHuaraz is home to more than 150,000 people, about 50,000 of which live in the danger zone. Photograph: Dan Collyns/The Guardian \nThe people would have 30 minutes to evacuate, says Cesar Florez, a risk management specialist for the region’s government and the man ultimately responsible for the people’s safety. \n\n“It’s more than enough time,” Florez says. “It’s the same time allotted to evacuate coastal areas in the case of tsunami,” he tells the Guardian, adding the escape time could be lengthened by a series of energy dissipators and dykes. \n\nSo far, however, none of that flood mitigation infrastructure is in place. For now, 10 black tubes pump out water to reduce the lake’s level. Perched on a bluff facing the lake, Calef de la Cruz radios in a status report to the regional government every two hours. \n\nLiving in a hut for up to a fortnight at a time, it is a lonely and sleepless vigil. But until an early warning system is installed, which authorities say will happen later this year, the watchfulness of De la Cruz and his colleagues is all that stands between the lake and the residents below.\n\nBut for the poor, largely indigenous farmers in the verdant mountains around the ice caps, the problem is not too much water but too little. The Andean country is home to 70% of the world’s tropical glaciers and as they gradually ebb away, a water crisis looms. Climate change has made the weather unpredictable and the unseasonal melting of the glaciers has thrown the farmers’ existence into jeopardy.\n\nAlejandro Rosales is a 62-year-old farmer from Yarush, a tiny hamlet above Huaraz. For him, like many residents of the mountains, the snow-capped peaks are apus – beings of mythic or semi-divine importance. He never thought he would see the white peaks he gazed at as a child turn black, he says.\n\n“Sometimes there are years when you get a good harvest; there are also years when the harvest fails. That means the children go to school without their daily bread. It’s really hard,” he adds, showing the Guardian blackened potatoes which crumble in his hands.\n\n![climatchangeperuglaciallake2](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/gX6pe1ucrn2mOW5m6dIlq/69fb20df6fe8602a8ff1c50c225348e7/climatchangeperuglaciallake2.jpg)\n*Alejandro Rosales, 62 and his wife Guillerma Jamenca, 60, hold out pest-ridden potatoes. Photograph: Dan Collyns/The Guardian*\n\nThe potatoes, which were stored months earlier to sow later this year, are riddled with moth caterpillars. The warming has meant new pests are creeping to higher altitudes where the colder weather once held them at bay.\n\nSaúl Luciano Lliuya, a farmer and mountain guide whose home in Nueva Florida is in Lake Palcacocha’s flood path, has filed a lawsuit against the German electro-domestic firm RWE for its role in causing global warming, as one of the world’s top emitters of carbon dioxide.\n\n“The glacier is a source of water for those in the countryside and for us all in the city, so you can imagine what the future will be like if we don’t have it,” he says. \n\n“From the risk problem to the water scarcity problem; all of this is what inspired me to file a lawsuit,” he adds. Lliuya’s 2015 demand for damages from RWE has been admitted on appeal by a higher regional court in the German city of Hamm.\n\nLliuya is seeking compensation of about $20,000 (£15,000) from the energy giant to help install the lake’s safety measures, as well as the reimbursement of €6,384 he has spent on flood protection.\n\nIt is a tiny amount for the company, he admits but adds: “What we are saying is this is happening and it’s putting us at risk. The damage caused is irreversible; for that no amount of money is enough.”\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"5rqxcjJ9soUJJyYHVvIt9T","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:22.081Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"2-26-20","releaseDate":{"year":2020,"month":2,"day":26}},{"id":"NYA-The-Archive-As-Art","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2020-01-18T00:00-06:00","headline":"NYA The Archive As Art","headlineText":"

NYA:\nThe Archive\nas Art

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NYA: The Archive as Art

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\nSeamus Heaney Professor of Irish Writing
\nTrinity College Dublin
\n3 January, 2020","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"61woCWqw4KEFEIo1zNyqO1","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:25.145Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"1-18-20","releaseDate":{"year":2020,"month":1,"day":18}},{"id":"Lenbrook-New-Benefit-For-NYA-Subscribers","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2020-01-06T00:00-05:00","headline":"Lenbrook New Benefit For NYA Subscribers","headlineText":"![musicnote](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/6iaZu9tLEca64kUQuSkOQ4/015e76955f03606376185490ab13a8b1/musicnote.png)\n

New Benefit for\nNYA subscribers\ncoming soon!\nA Complete Hi Res\nHome Listening\nSystem!

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New Benefit for NYA subscribers coming soon!\nA Complete Hi Res Home Listening System!

","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"NYA has been working with Lenbrook, the parent company of NAD receivers, PSB ","bodyText":"NYA has been working with Lenbrook International, the parent company of NAD hi fi electronics, Bluesound, PSB Speakers and the BluOS high res multi-room platform to bring you a new benefit. North American members using their hardware and other brands that are BluOS enabled will be able to listen to NYA music streamed directly in full high res. Non-subscribers will also be able to listen to the song of the day and album of the week.\n\n![lenbrook-landing-logo2](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/3UR4vSzoi3Km8oZXj3VMY/47a0ea666aeffcaef043cceed841fd02/lenbrook-landing-logo2.png)\n\nLenbrook is announcing at CES on January 6 that in Q1 of 2020, North American users of BluOS Enabled products from NAD Electronics, Bluesound, and DALI Loudspeakers, will be prompted to update their players for the unique opportunity to sample Neil Young Archives’ song of the day and album of the week in full resolution, with a tap of a button in the BluOS Controller app.\n\n![nya-inside-400](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/7fjrNJuiC4nN7MdUlLnwF/7ff2f0a13ea6a8c4bdaca03f6fcd9c14/nya-inside-400.jpg)\n\nUsers interested in subscribing to the full NYA service will be able to subscribe through the BluOS app. Existing subscribers of the Neil Young Archives can simply enter their credentials into BluOS to access the service.\n\n“I am happy to be able to offer this as a new benefit to NYA’s existing subscribers,” said Young. “For the first time they’ll be able to stream all my archives’ audio content directly to equipment capable of playing it all back without any added compression. I¹m also excited that North American users of BluOS hardware can sample my archives free by listening to the song of the day and album of the week.\n\n\"Lenbrook and NYA share a passion for delivering and making high res audio streaming easily accessible to music lovers in their homes, leading us to this new cooperation.”\n\nLenbrook is looking at expanding this service to users in the rest of the world and NYA is also in discussions with other companies to bring NYA content to other audio systems.
\nnya","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"6iOIS2K0kMZadaxwYDDvr4","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:32.170Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"1-6-20","releaseDate":{"year":2020,"month":1,"day":6}},{"id":"Tech-And-Music-in-the-air","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2020-01-03T00:00-05:00","headline":"Tech And Music in the air","headlineText":"

TECH & MUSIC

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TECH & MUSIC

","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"Something is in the Air. Music! \n","bodyText":"Something is in the Air. Music! \n\nNYA users will benefit uniquely from an announcement we will be sharing about audio quality in the home. There will finally be a way to get more from your NYA music, in a complete home system designed to deliver it.
\nJanuary 6th, 2020.
\nnya","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"221bez3PANMjTyWhKkPWaC","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:22.103Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"1-3-20","releaseDate":{"year":2020,"month":1,"day":3}},{"id":"Fake-Stays-95-Percent-Leave-Up","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-12-08T00:00-05:00","headline":"Fake Stays 95 Percent Leave Up","headlineText":"

FAKE STAYS!

\nSocial media platforms\nleave 95% of reported\nfake accounts up,\nstudy finds

Fake accounts are easy to\nbuy and make, and\nplatforms are bad at\nyanking them.

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FAKE STAYS!

\n\n

Social media platforms leave 95% of reported fake\naccounts up, study finds

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Fake accounts are easy to buy and make, and\nplatforms are bad at yanking them.

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COLORADO\nVINYL IN\nCANADA

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COLORADO VINYL IN CANADA

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\nWe are experiencing major problems with our new distributor and this has ","bodyText":"This from Warner Reprise:
\nWM Canada received their Colorado vinyl U.S. stock on 10/29 and it started shipping out that day to all accounts that ordered.\n\nSo, they did miss street date for the vinyl version by 4 days, but aside from that slight delay, there are no current issues within Canada. They have back up stock in the warehouse should any of those accounts be re-ordering.\n\nTo all Canadians trying to get COLORADO vinyl, we apologize for any inconvenience.
\nny","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"6me80ajiTtinE9kcaGAPsk","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:44.565Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"11-17-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":11,"day":17}},{"id":"Uncle-Eddies-NYA-New-Tier","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-11-08T00:00-05:00","headline":"Uncle Eddies NYA New Tier","headlineText":"

UNCLE EDDIE’S\nNYA

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UNCLE EDDIE’S NYA

\n\n

NEW TIER?

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NEW TIER?

","image1":"//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/4mc8QX58sFOH9s1uDHyX0a/445cfb6bcfc63b2516771025289ab4eb/earlydaze-timeline.jpg","excerpt":"A letter titled ‘Uncle Eddie’ really got me thinking. I have been releasing records ","bodyText":"A letter titled ‘[Uncle Eddie](/#/news/2/article?id=Letters-Uncle-Eddie-Rocks-been-loving)’ really got me thinking. I have been releasing records for over 50 years and it’s habit forming! Colorado is now the latest one and I feel really great playing with Crazy Horse again. \n\nWhat I am getting at is this; currently records are released every 4 months or so and some of our subscribers like Uncle Eddie are old enough to wonder if they will still be around for all of them. That really bums me out, so I have been talking with our team about releasing them all here at *NYA exclusively* in 2020. Initially, these albums would not be released as CDs or vinyl. Eventually they may, but they would be here at NYA exclusively in the meantime and there are quite a few of them.\n\nThis would create a new tier at NYA, possibly including On-Demand videos, movies and records, plus NYA’s exclusive content for UNCLE EDDIE’s tier (as yet un-named.) Your subscription price will be higher for this tier. Everything else would probably remain the same. More changes will be added as we discuss this. \n\nEventually, over time these *NYA exclusive* records and films will be released to the public as hard goods and digital files with finished covers and art. That will happen as always, but many will have already been available here at NYA long before they become hard goods released to the public by Shakey Pictures or NYA Records. \n\nOf course we will have to try to make sure they do not escape into the internet while they are exclusive to NYA. If we can figure this out we will release many of them in 2020. That’s what we are thinking. We will keep you posted when we reach a decision.\n\nIt’s a race against time.\n\nThanks for being here. We appreciate you. NYA is evolving.
\nny","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"24JzY0Er6pMbAs1A3UtISY","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:22.216Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"11-8-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":11,"day":8}},{"id":"Conan-Needs-A-Friend","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-11-02T00:00+01:00","headline":"Conan Needs A Friend","headlineText":"

CONAN NEEDS\nA FRIEND!

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CONAN NEEDS A FRIEND!

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\nNYA","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"6LpLL857AlzQayAzZNow5w","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:30.250Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"11-2-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":11,"day":2}},{"id":"Crazy-Horse-Mountaintop-Thanks-For-Attending","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-10-23T00:00-04:00","headline":"Crazy Horse Mountaintop Thanks For Attending","headlineText":"

CRAZY HORSE

THANKS YOU FOR ATTENDING

MOUNTAINTOP!

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CRAZY HORSE

THANKS YOU FOR ATTENDING

MOUNTAINTOP!

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\nWe appreciate you!
\nlove, NYCH","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"69u4gD2PbNj93qQXxS9JRA","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:37.084Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"10-23-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":10,"day":23}},{"id":"Mountaintop-Crazy-Horse-movie-Oct-22","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-10-19T00:00-04:00","headline":"Mountaintop Crazy Horse movie Oct 22","headlineText":"

MOUNTAINTOP\nCRAZY HORSE

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MOUNTAINTOP\nCRAZY HORSE

","titleDivider":250,"image1":"//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/C3yXxVem7eIFdMcvEUAX5/2c12584fa967f99bc66b6178198db6a4/CRAZY-HORSE-IN-STUDIO.jpg","excerpt":"If you are Crazy Horse fan and wonder how ","bodyText":"If you are Crazy Horse fan and wonder how all those records were made, check this out. Don’t miss this movie. It’s all about making COLORADO, the new NY with Crazy Horse album coming out this week! Showing one day only Tuesday 10/22/19 (at over 100 participating theaters).\n\nGo to [MountainTopTheMovie.com](https://www.MountainTopTheMovie.com) to find the list of theaters near you!","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"4HjB5sQBQckMMMb73tDtl8","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:41.419Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"10-19-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":10,"day":19}},{"id":"Hi-Res-Music-Meets-The-Masses-Qobuz","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-10-09T00:00-04:00","headline":"Hi-Res Music Meets The Masses Qobuz","headlineText":"

Hi-Res Music \nMeets the\nMasses

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Hi-Res Music \nMeets the Masses

","titleDivider":250,"image1":"//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/6oudiXBzAiDu66ITi3PC0w/883f9da5e620e3f2009c1d409140b776/quobuz-logo-gradient-500.jpg","excerpt":"With the introduction of full lossless and 24-bit audio streaming by a major music ","bodyText":"With the introduction of full lossless and 24-bit audio streaming by a major music service earlier this month, it’s crystal clear that Hi-Res is finally ready for prime time. Regular people will be hearing this mainstream message about audio quality; it is sure to resonate loudly, as Neil has noted. You’re reading the *Times-Contrarian* so you are already pretty knowledgeable about formats, bit depth and sample rates, and where you can get what. But since [Qobuz](http://qob.uz/neil-young-qobuz) is a Hi-Res service that’s only operated in Europe in the past, Neil and his team have been kind enough to give us a couple of paragraphs to explain what we’re all about.\n\nThe Kobyz is an ancient Kazakh string instrument. It has two strings made of horsehair and a resonating cavity usually covered with goat leather. Traditionally, the kobyz was a sacred shamanic instrument. According to legend, its music could banish evil spirits, illness and even death. We adapted the name of this magical musical instrument and called our company [Qobuz](http://qob.uz/neil-young-qobuz) (pronounced “KO-buzz”) because we believe in the positive healing power of music, which is enormously enhanced by lossless or Hi-Res transmission in the digital sphere. \n\nQobuz offers as much 24-bit music as we can get our hands on. It comes from major labels, independents, distributors and aggregators, and even direct from specialist suppliers like Blue Coast Records, the audiophile label run by Cookie Marenco, formerly of Windham Hill. Right now there are over 2 million tracks available to stream in Hi-Res quality. Then there’s everything else, tens of millions of tracks, and we have them all in lossless, 16-bit/44 kHz CD quality. All this music streams in the FLAC format, the same lossless codec that was used with Pono.\n\nWe also have a download store where everything we stream (and more) is available for purchase, in the best possible quality up to 24-bit/192 kHz. You can download your music in FLAC, WAV, ALAC….whatever format you want. The download store is important because not only does it give you the ultimate flexibility with your music, but it generates enough revenue per transaction to benefit artists and creators more immediately than streaming alone. \n\nSound quality is only part of the experience when you are enjoying music, so Qobuz provides tons of information and context about what you are listening to. Performer and producer credits, digital booklets, original editorial content about artists, labels, scenes and genres…you know, the stuff we’re all really into. \n\nI read Neil and Phil’s book, *To Feel The Music* and found myself nodding so much my neck was sore. When you start with the knowledge that lossy music isn’t really necessary anymore, and that there’s something better within reach, the tech and commercial developments of the last year are incredibly exciting. Music fans have a number of easily accessible ways to get lossless and Hi-Res music not only onto their home systems but also via whatever portable music solution they prefer. Audio quality that, ten years ago may have required equipment costing thousands to reproduce, is now available out of a mobile phone with a modest USB DAC and some good IEMs! \n\nIt would be great if we could offer all the Neil Young Archives subscribers six free months of Qobuz, but the artists need to be paid so we can only offer one. If you take a look at [this link](http://qob.uz/neil-young-qobuz) we will also give you a free Hi-Res album download from the aforementioned Blue Coast Records that is yours to keep regardless of whether you give Qobuz a try. \n\nWe’re all a family of music lovers. Our collective enthusiasm for quality and a better listening experience is finally being felt out there. Thanks to people like the readers of the *Times-Contrarian*, who want to dig a little deeper for the good stuff, cool little companies like Qobuz can find their audience. Maybe you’re it? \n\nDan Mackta
\nManaging Director, Qobuz USA","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"bmhQBhQx8J0H0qwoo18uw","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:36.141Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"10-9-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":10,"day":9}},{"id":"How-Climate-Kids-Are-Short-Circuiting","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-09-28T00:00-04:00","headline":"How Climate Kids Are Short Circuiting","headlineText":"

How the\nClimate Kids Are\nShort-Circuiting\nRight-Wing Media

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How the Climate Kids\nAre Short-Circuiting\nRight-Wing Media

\n\n

Young people are\nparticipating in the\nculture wars while\nalso managing to float\nabove the fray.

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Young people are\nparticipating in the\nculture wars while\nalso managing to float\nabove the fray.

","subtitleDivider":220,"image1":"//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/5HS9PqOTr6qk8sXOLpuq3L/019267db216675d5f8fca3c08bbee0ac/howclimatekidsare.jpg","excerpt":"Greta Thunberg was the keynote speaker at ","bodyText":"By Charlie Warzel - Opinion writer at large.\n\nGreta Thunberg was the keynote speaker at the climate protest in New York on Friday. The kids aren’t just all right — they’re scrambling the brains of their political enemies.\n\nLast Friday, millions of people, many of them children and teenagers, took to the streets during the Global Climate Strike, a protest inspired by Fridays for Future, the international youth effort started by the 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg.\n\nThe protesters’ call for broad action to combat global warming was powerful, as was the message sent by their numbers: Dynamic, frustrated young people are instilling in the climate movement a new urgency. \n\nOnline, the climate kids’ impact can be measured in a different way — by how they’re short-circuiting the right-wing media ecosystem that’s partly responsible for the spread of climate skepticism. Since Friday’s strike, pro-Trump media and conservative cable news pundits have devoted significant resources to turning the children of the climate movement into Public Enemy No. 1.\n\nOver the weekend, Alan Jones, an Australian broadcaster for Sky News, delivered a monologue calling the climate-striking youth “selfish, badly educated, virtue-signaling little turds.” Mr. Jones finished by reading a letter arguing that children concerned about climate change should “wake up, grow up and shut up until you’re sure of the facts before protesting.” The rant echoed other criticisms of the protest from the right. “I wish I could inject that letter into my veins,” a blogger for the conservative site RedState wrote.\n\nMs. Thunberg has been the primary target of this vitriol. On Saturday, the pro-Trump media figure Dinesh D’Souza likened Ms. Thunberg to models in Nazi propaganda. Videos of her speeches have been edited to replace her voice with Adolf Hitler’s. On Fox News on Monday evening, the Daily Wire pundit Michael Knowles called Ms. Thunberg — who is open about being on the autism spectrum — “a mentally ill Swedish child who is being exploited by her parents.” (Fox News issued an apology and called the comment “disgraceful.”) \n\nAgree to disagree, or disagree better? We'll help you understand the sharpest arguments on the most pressing issues of the week, from new and familiar voices. \n\nA few hours later, the Fox News host Laura Ingraham likened her to children from the horror film “Children of the Corn.” A Breitbart contributor wrote that she deserved “a spanking or a psychological intervention.” And she’s attracted the ire of President Trump on Twitter — a jab with which Ms. Thunberg had some fun.\n\nTo be clear: battling Fox News and subtweeting the president are hardly the youth climate movement’s main goal. Still, it’s a notable case study in the limits of the right’s ability to wage an information war across the media.\n\nMuch like the Parkland students, who proved to be a formidable opposition to the pro-Trump media apparatus that accused them of being crisis actors, Ms. Thunberg and the climate kids seem immune to the usual tactics of right-wing media. As newcomers, they’re mostly impervious to the right’s tool of personal attacks. They don’t have the baggage of voting records or deep financial ties to political organizations. \n\nThis doesn’t mean their enemies aren’t trying — this week, a pro-Trump blog feebly attempted to tie Ms. Thunberg to the billionaire George Soros, who has been the subject of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. Online, far-right trolls are mounting an effort to harass the young women of the climate movement. Some of the onslaught is believed to be inauthentic — 5,000 tweets by suspected bots have mentioned Ms. Thunberg, according to BuzzFeed News. Similarly, toxic pro-Trump communities have zeroed in on teenage climate protesters. As of this writing, three of the top 25 posts from Reddit’s The_Donald forum in the last week were direct attacks on Ms. Thunberg. And yet, the usual smears don’t seem to stick. \n\nGrowing up online doesn’t hurt either. In 2018, I wrote that a strength of the Parkland students was being “effectively born onto the internet and innately capable of waging an information war.” The activists of the climate youth movement are no different — they’re battle-hardened by the internet and they’ve found a way to turn online organizing into mobilization on the streets. \n\nPerhaps most important is their instinctive understanding of attention and how to wield it as both a weapon and a tool. They understand how to attract attention: Their protests feature meme-able signs to capture interest across social media. Their events — from global strikes to sit-ins in the House speaker’s hallway — are tailored to garner media coverage. They also know how to spot enemies looking to divert attention and to ignore or dismiss them.\n\nSimply put, they don’t seem to care what adults, skeptics, deniers and crusty politicians think of them. And they waste very little of their time, energy and focus work-shopping their message or bulletproofing it against criticism. They simply pay their enemies no attention. They’re participating in the culture wars while also managing to float above the fray.\n\nNone in the movement embody this like Ms. Thunberg, who suffers no fools in her unsparing and blunt statements to diplomats and members of Congress alike. Some of this may be the result of age, what Robinson Meyer at The Atlantic describes as the “unique moral position of being a teenager,” in which “she can see the world through an ‘adult’ moral lens” but “unlike an actual adult, she bears almost no conscious blame for this dismal state.” \n\nShe does not allow her message — that the youth of the world have been betrayed by past generations’ inaction on climate change — to be co-opted by fawning lawmakers, and she dismisses their praise for her as a tragic role reversal that forces her to be the adult in a room of well-dressed children. And she seems keenly aware that her rivals’ critiques are merely efforts to divert her attention. “It seems they will cross every possible line to avert the focus, since they are so desperate not to talk about the climate and ecological crisis,” she wrote of her “haters” on Twitter on Wednesday.\n\nThe usual tactics of the right-wing media break down in the face of this type of resolve. While outrage campaigns intended to work the refs and appeal to fears of appearing partisan may work with lawmakers or companies in Silicon Valley, the youth climate movement appears wholly unmoved.\n\nWhile the levers for climate progress proposed by solutions like a Green New Deal are undoubtedly political, the broader movement’s desire — an inhabitable earth for all — is far from partisan. The stakes, as the movement sees it, are too high to focus attention on the trolls. And the pressure, from conservative pundits and Breitbart contributors, doesn’t just get dismissed, it goes unnoticed.\n\nFaced with a political enemy that pays it no attention, the right is palpably frustrated. They argue that children have become, as a headline on an essay by Commentary’s Noah Rothman put it, “Child Soldiers in the Culture wars,” are insulated against criticism because of their age and innocence. “How do you respond to statements like that?” the Fox News host Tucker Carlson said recently of Ms. Thunberg’s forthright speeches. “The truth is you can’t respond. And of course, that’s the point.” \n\nBut as the past week shows, the right is perfectly willing to attack the children. Instead, the problem is that, as Mr. Carlson seems to realize, there’s just not a very resonant counter message for a youth movement to protect the planet. Polling also suggests that there’s an increasingly shrinking pool of conservative listeners for it, with a majority of Republicans under age 45 now identifying as concerned about climate change. And so it feels increasingly likely that, when it comes to climate, the right-wing media, which is skewed toward an aging Republican audience, may simply be obsolete.\n\nIn other words, it’s not that the right can’t attack the climate kids because of their age. Rather, it’s that because of their age, the right’s attacks feel especially feeble.\n\n*NYA thanks New York Times*","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"1SHoAJh9MKxFgjaxOXfl2g","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:30.214Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"9-28-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":9,"day":28}},{"id":"Mountaintop-Sessions-Bill-Bentley","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-09-24T00:00-04:00","order":3,"headline":"Mountaintop Sessions Bill Bentley","headlineText":"

MOUNTAINTOP\nSESSIONS

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Recording Colorado

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Recording Colorado

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That would be instant death to who the band are. Instead, they are a quartet who live to make music which cannot be predicted. Sometimes they soar and sometimes the notes go sour. That is the beauty of what Crazy Horse has always been. They are driven by the fire of the unknown, and all who sail with them expect surprises, whether they are crashes or higher consciousness. \n\nIn 2019 it was once again time to gather the band of brothers together. Remember: a band is sacred ground. The true ones were born in a sea of agile agitation and inspired consciousness. It is a sonic alchemy which cannot be called up on demand. It must come to life because it is necessary, like breathing itself, to continue a calling. To record their new album, Crazy Horse went to Colorado. It was time to find a new place to call home and let the spirits run free. It was also time to film all that happened once Young, Molina, Talbot and Lofgren began to play.\n\nNeil Young is a born filmmaker. The same sounds he hears in his head he sees with his eyes. He wants to share each with those who want to join his journey. It has always been that way for the Canadian-born artist. In a way, his is one undivided vision that opens a door to new feelings and shared emotions. To try to separate them would be folly. There is no reason to. Experience cannot be chopped into small packages and given out like wrapped candies. Living can be messy business, but to embrace it in its totality is the true gift of life. When Young decided to film the entire album-making process during the sessions for the album titled COLORADO, from top to bottom and back again, he knew he was opening himself to some stark revelations and uncharted territory. Looking at the man's long career, if there is one overriding arc it is an ability to make artistic honesty the goal. It is a pursuit that never stops, nor even comes close to ending. It is a calling.\n\nOnce the recording of songs like \"Olden Days,\" \"Help Me Lose My Mind,\" \"Rainbow of Colors\" and others came to life, it was instantaneously obvious that Neil Young and Crazy Horse had entered a new zone. They were among the majestic mountains of Colorado that were covered with snow. It was like an idyllic setting to play music, inside a studio that felt like a hundred-year home to the spirits of sound. And then things got really interesting, because seeking to capture the near-uncaptureable can create emotional chaos and continued chasing of the sound. And that is exactly what is captured in all its human glory on MOUNTAINTOP SESSIONS. This is real life being lived out right in front of C.K. Vollick's cameras. Recording is never a perfect process. Human foibles quickly come to life, right next to long passages of passionate expression. To miss one would be to negate the other, so the cameras never stopped rolling. The highs and lows of four men making music started turning into an unforgettable journey through time, marked by different songs being born as the music never stopped.\n\nAnd as usual, Neil Young needed to obscure linear reality with near-mystical live performances from recent concerts. Woven into all the studio footage is a second-tier trip on what happens to music when it is taken to the stage and shared with an audience. It's like a 360-degree exposure to what Young's music really is: a life force that sustains not only him but also his audience. It is a glimpse inside the tent where creation actually occurs, and then goes to the next step where the music lives in the hearts and heads of those who hear it and see it. At its essence, MOUNTAINTOP SESSIONS' goal is to show who Neil Young and his music really is, at its inception and taken to the next stage to its reception. He has always had a private pact with those who live inside his songs: there can be no filter between him and them. Both are in for a penny and in for a pound, destined to become one when the music is playing. In this movie, the truth is told as the musician of our time takes a climb to the mountaintop. Again.\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"1TVHyJyfbLdxPN8a0eQ5fw","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:41.446Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"9-24-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":9,"day":24}},{"id":"Earth-Who-Are-They-page-1","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-09-24T00:00-04:00","order":2,"headline":"Earth Who Are They page 1","headlineText":"

WHO ARE\nTHEY?

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Children vs Climate Crisis

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Children vs\nClimate Crisis

","subtitleDivider":220,"excerpt":"Sixteen children from across the world are petitioning the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child to hold five of the world’s leading economic powers accountable for inaction on the climate crisis.\n\nSee [Earth News](/#/news/2) P2 for their stories\n","bodyText":"Sixteen children from across the world are petitioning the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child to hold five of the world’s leading economic powers accountable for inaction on the climate crisis.\n\nSee [Earth News](/#/news/2) P2 for their stories\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"7gkojyZMTwizqQBvHvCKvF","updatedAt":"2022-01-12T16:26:27.930Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"9-24-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":9,"day":24}},{"id":"Over-50-Albums-In-Amazon-Ultra-HD","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-09-24T00:00-04:00","order":1,"headline":"Over 50 Albums In Amazon Ultra HD","headlineText":"

OVER 50\nALBUMS IN\nAMAZON\nULTRA HD

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OVER 50 ALBUMS IN\nAMAZON ULTRA HD

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\nDrop Apple and Spotify until they offer quality levels that compare.
\nListen to me at Amazon now. Switch to AMAZON MUSIC today.
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Trump’s\ncommunications\nwith foreign\nleader

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Trump’s communications\nwith foreign leader

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Spy chief vs Congress

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\n*The whistleblower complaint that has triggered a tense showdown between the U.S. intelligence community and Congress involves President Trump’s communications with a foreign leader, according to two former U.S. officials familiar with the matter. Trump is pictured Wednesday during a visit to the border with Mexico in Otay Mesa, Calif. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images)* \n\nBy Greg Miller, Ellen Nakashima and Shane Harris\n\nThe whistleblower complaint that has triggered a tense showdown between the U.S. intelligence community and Congress involves President Trump’s communications with a foreign leader, according to two former U.S. officials familiar with the matter.\n\nTrump’s interaction with the foreign leader included a “promise” that was regarded as so troubling that it prompted an official in the U.S. intelligence community to file a formal whistleblower complaint with the inspector general for the intelligence community, said the former officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.\n\nIt was not immediately clear which foreign leader Trump was speaking with or what he pledged to deliver, but his direct involvement in the matter has not been previously disclosed. It raises new questions about the president’s handling of sensitive information and may further strain his relationship with U.S. spy agencies. One former official said the communication was a phone call.\n\nThe White House declined to comment late Wednesday night. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence and a lawyer representing the whistleblower declined to comment.\n\nIntelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson determined that the complaint was credible and troubling enough to be considered a matter of “urgent concern,” a legal threshold that requires notification of congressional oversight committees.\n\nBut acting director of national intelligence Joseph Maguire has refused to share details about Trump’s alleged transgression with lawmakers, touching off a legal and political dispute that has spilled into public view and prompted speculation that the spy chief is improperly protecting the president.\n\nThe dispute is expected to escalate Thursday when Atkinson is scheduled to appear before the House Intelligence Committee in a classified session closed to the public. The hearing is the latest move by committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) to compel U.S. intelligence officials to disclose the full details of the whistleblower complaint to Congress. Maguire has agreed to testify before the panel next week, according to a statement by Schiff. He declined to comment for this article.\n\nThe inspector general “determined that this complaint is both credible and urgent,” Schiff said in the statement released Wednesday evening. “The committee places the highest importance on the protection of whistleblowers and their complaints to Congress.”\n\nThe complaint was filed with Atkinson’s office on Aug. 12, a date on which Trump was at his golf resort in New Jersey. White House records indicate that Trump had had conversations or interactions with at least five foreign leaders in the preceding five weeks.\n\nAmong them was a call with Russian President Vladimir Putin that the White House initiated on July 31. Trump also received at least two letters from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during the summer, describing them as “beautiful” messages. In June, Trump said publicly that he was opposed to certain CIA spying operations against North Korea. Referring to a Wall Street Journal report that the agency had recruited Kim’s half brother, Trump said, “I would tell him that would not happen under my auspices.”\n\nTrump says he received 'beautiful letter' from Kim Jong Un\n\nTrump met with other foreign leaders at the White House in July, including the prime minister of Pakistan, the prime minister of the Netherlands and the emir of Qatar.\n\nTrump’s handling of classified information has been a source of concern to U.S. intelligence officials since the outset of his presidency. In May 2017, Trump revealed classified information about espionage operations in Syria to senior Russian officials in the Oval Office, disclosures that prompted a scramble among White House officials to contain the potential damage.\n\nStatements and letters exchanged between the offices of the DNI and the House Intelligence Committee in recent days have pointed at the White House without directly implicating the president.\n\nSchiff has said he was told that the complaint concerned “conduct by someone outside of the Intelligence Community.” Jason Klitenic, the DNI general counsel, noted in a letter sent to congressional leaders on Tuesday that the activity at the root of the complaint “involves confidential and potentially privileged communications.”\n\nThe dispute has put Maguire, thrust into the DNI job in an acting capacity with the resignation of Daniel Coats last month, at the center of a politically perilous conflict with constitutional implications.\n\nSchiff has demanded full disclosure of the whistleblower complaint. Maguire has defended his refusal by asserting that the subject of the complaint is beyond his jurisdiction.\n\nDefenders of Maguire disputed that he is subverting legal requirements to protect Trump, saying that he is trapped in a legitimate legal predicament and that he has made his displeasure clear to officials at the Justice Department and White House.\n\nAfter fielding the complaint on Aug. 12, Atkinson submitted it to Maguire two weeks later. By law, Maguire is required to transmit such complaints to Congress within seven days. But in this case, he refrained from doing so after turning for legal guidance to officials at the Justice Department.\n\nIn a sign of Atkinson’s discomfort with this situation, the inspector general informed the House and Senate intelligence committees of the existence of the whistleblower complaint — without revealing its substance — in early September.\n\nSchiff responded with almost immediate indignation, firing off a letter demanding a copy of the complaint and warning that he was prepared to subpoena senior U.S. intelligence officials. The DNI has asserted that lawyers determined there was no notification requirement because the whistleblower complaint did not constitute an urgent concern that was “within the responsibility and authority” of Maguire’s office.\n\nLegal experts said there are scenarios in which a president’s communications with a foreign leader could rise to the level of an “urgent concern” for the intelligence community, but they also noted that the president has broad authority to decide unilaterally when to classify or declassify information.\n\nRevealing how the United States obtained sensitive information could “compromise intelligence means and methods and potentially the lives of sources,” said Joel Brenner, former inspector general for the National Security Agency.\n\nIt was unclear whether the whistleblower witnessed Trump’s communication with the foreign leader or learned of it through other means. Summaries of such conversations are often distributed among White House staff, although the administration imposed new limits on this practice after Trump’s disclosures to Russian officials were revealed.\n\nCarol D. Leonnig and Julie Tate contributed to this report. ","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"76qKqmYpwGKSQiPCT9Bql3","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:26.201Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"9-19-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":9,"day":19}},{"id":"Earth-Amazon-Deforestation-page-1","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-09-18T00:00-04:00","headline":"Earth Amazon Deforestation page 1","headlineText":"

Amazon\nDeforestation

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Amazon\nDeforestation

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A Top Financier of\nTrump and McConnell\nIs a Driving Force

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A Top Financier of\nTrump and McConnell\nIs a Driving Force

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A MESSAGE TO\nSONGWRITERS

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A MESSAGE TO\nSONGWRITERS

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PROJECT AMPLIFY: The Song

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\nWe are being held in a cold cell. We sleep on the floor on mats with blankets. I have only been permitted to take a shower twice in the almost two weeks we've been here. We've been allowed to brush our teeth once. About three days ago I got a fever. They moved me alone to a flu cell. There is no one to take care of you there. They just give you pills twice a day.
\nThere is nothing to do all day, just watch television. They let us out of our cell twice a day for a few minutes but other than that we just sit there. We cry a lot and the other kids in the cell also cry. There was a four-year old boy in my cell for 15 days. He said he came with his father, but they separated them. We are all alone. Every time I talk about my family I start to cry. \n\n__8 years old, from Guatemala__
\nI want to see my parents. I spoke with my mother once by telephone, but I do not know where she lives or when I will be able to see her. I haven't spoken to anyone else about how I will get to see her.\n\n__15 years old, with 6 year old brother, from Honduras__
\nWe get the same food every day. We are hungry all the time here. (My brother) is still wearing the clothes he had on for our trip. They were washed one time. I am wearing the shirt I had on for the trip from Honduras, too.
\nI can't sleep, because the room we are in is so crowded. When we got here, people had the beds already. There are just a few. So we have been sleeping on a mat on the floor.
\nWe aren't allowed to go to the bathroom at night. I have to put diapers on (my brother) at night since he isn't allowed to use the bathroom. He didn't wear diapers for years, because he is 6. \n\n*This is just a small sample of the accounts from these children - NYA*\n\n__Overview__ \n\nHundreds of sworn declarations have been filed from children (and parents on behalf of their children) in the class action lawsuit, Flores v. Barr. Flores is a class action lawsuit first brought in 1985 to end the mistreatment of immigrant children. Unfortunately, because of the continuing abuse and neglect of children in federal custody (some experts categorize it as torture), the case remains active to this day. \n\nThere is tremendous pain in these children’s stories and we are reaching out to you as musicians and artists who will embrace their stories with humility, openness, and respect, and find a way within the music community with the talents, gifts, and calling to share their words with the universe in the hope that the truth will ensure that these practices end, so that these children will suffer no more. Please answer this call to amplify their voices and elevate the truth. \n\n__The ask:__ \n\nA unique song to amplify the voices of the children that utilizes their accounts from their detention in the United States by the Federal Government through Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Patrol. \n\nWe believe that music is universal and the best manner in which these accounts can be shared and heard throughout the world. We also believe that the songs will keep the accounts and atrocities being perpetrated against these children in the minds of the public and will be a call to take action. This can further prevent the harm and trauma that has been caused to children and their families. It is safety and a home that people are seeking for themselves and for their children. It is illegal what the US is doing to these children and their families and there is no end in sight. \n\nProject Amplify is a 501c3 registered in the state of Washington and is fiscally sponsored by the non- profit, Lawyer Moms of America. \n\n__For further information, please contact: Mary Ellen Carroll and Warren Binford
\namplifythechildren@gmail.com
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CLIMATE\nCHANGE\nLINKED TO\nIMMIGRATION

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CLIMATE CHANGE\nLINKED TO\nIMMIGRATION

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Among leaders, a widely\nunrecognized connection between\nclimate change and the\nimmigration crisis. . .

\n\nIn many countries today, Nationalists, those who want no immigrants coming in to their countries to diffuse the original bloodlines, may be missing the biggest connection of all. Climate Crisis and Immigration go hand in hand. If you deny either one of them, you are not living in the real world.\n\nCountries 23 degrees latitude north or south of the equator are where climate change is causing people and animals to leave their homelands and travel farther than they ever have to get to an inhabitable place where they can live and work free of the stress in their own unfortunate countries.\n\nNationalist leaders who deny Climate science are at odds with this reality, boxed in to an ignorant view of the world. These leaders need to learn they are wrong to ignore science. \n\nPresident Trump of the US is a climate science denier.
\nBrazil's new foreign minister believes climate change is a Marxist plot.
\nRussia’s Putin himself has acknowledged apparent changes in the Earth’s climate, but has dismissed the notion that human activity was to blame and characterized the notion of anthropogenic global warming as a “fraud.” \n\nSelling fossil fuels and ignoring the human outcome makes the bad situation worse.\n\nCountries near the equator, people in the torrid zone, are going to need our help. Shutting them out is inhumane.\n\nWe can manage it for humanity. \n\nNYA","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"1y7Hcsu5x4szV67vGq7DGo","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:41.483Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"8-8-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":8,"day":8}},{"id":"Colorado-Neil-Young-With-Crazy-Horse","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-07-31T00:00-04:00","headline":"Colorado Neil Young With Crazy Horse","headlineText":"

COLORADO

Neil Young\nwith Crazy Horse

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COLORADO

Neil Young\nwith Crazy Horse

\n","titleDivider":250,"image1":"//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/6kaIMxndRHBK5YSVpSfFsm/73bd872e2b3b679e837a3d42f28a8524/nych-colorado-side1-label.png","excerpt":"Crazy Horse’s new album, COLORADO, is dedicated to Elliot ","bodyText":"Crazy Horse’s new album, COLORADO, is dedicated to Elliot Roberts. Elliot loved this record. He said “It's the songs.”\n\nSince the first Crazy Horse album, ‘Everybody Knows this is Nowhere’, so many things have happened! Life is a gift to share with everyone. We are very excited. \n\nAs we release this record, you will be with us in spirit. COLORADO is a very special one. [Nils Lofgren](/#/news/7/article?id=Histories-Nils-Lofgren) is back in Crazy Horse again and the feeling is there.
\nny","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"151Up9qhA3BPUWDumhRNAw","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:34.113Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"7-31-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":7,"day":31}},{"id":"As-The-Crisis-Escalates-Support-The-Guardian","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-07-19T00:00-04:00","headline":"As The Crisis Escalates Support The Guardian","headlineText":"

As The Crisis\nEscalates

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As The Crisis\nEscalates

","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"In our natural world, we refuse to turn away from the climate catastrophe and species ","bodyText":"In our natural world, we refuse to turn away from the climate catastrophe and species extinction. For The Guardian, reporting on the environment is a priority. We give reporting on climate, nature and pollution the prominence it deserves, stories which often go unreported by others in the media. At this pivotal time for our species and our planet, we are determined to inform readers about threats, consequences and solutions based on scientific facts, not political prejudice or business interests.\n\nMore people are reading and supporting The Guardian’s independent, investigative journalism than ever before. And unlike many news organisations, we have chosen an approach that allows us to keep our journalism accessible to all, regardless of where they live or what they can afford. But we need your ongoing support to keep working as we do.\n\nThe Guardian will engage with the most critical issues of our time – from the escalating climate catastrophe to widespread inequality to the influence of big tech on our lives. At a time when factual information is a necessity, we believe that each of us, around the world, deserves access to accurate reporting with integrity at its heart.\n\nOur editorial independence means we set our own agenda and voice our own opinions. Guardian journalism is free from commercial and political bias and not influenced by billionaire owners or shareholders. This means we can give a voice to those less heard, explore where others turn away, and rigorously challenge those in power.\n\nWe need your support to keep delivering quality journalism, to maintain our openness and to protect our precious independence. Every reader contribution, big or small, is so valuable. __Support The Guardian from as little as €1 – and it only takes a minute. Thank you.__\n\n[Support The Guardian](https://support.theguardian.com/)\n![creditcardlogos](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/2t1ev9cBgkUvANgEm1OSjL/71bfb48f586dc1d8f6170550cfd31543/creditcardlogos.png)\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"7fhTji9OtdwfVvieUb7pat","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:42.620Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"7-19-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":7,"day":19}},{"id":"Wake-Up-Suckers","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-07-18T00:00-04:00","headline":"Wake Up Suckers","headlineText":"

WAKE UP\nSUCKERS

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WAKE UP\nSUCKERS

","titleDivider":230,"excerpt":"I’m a vampire baby, \nsuckin’ blood from the Earth\n","bodyText":"I’m a [vampire](/#/info-card?track=t1974_0407_01) baby,
\nsuckin’ blood from the Earth
\nI’m a vampire baby,
\nsuckin’ blood from the Earth
\nI’m a vampire Baby,
\nsell you twenty barrels worth
\n\n-1973.\n\nWe don’t get it yet.
\nny","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"38f70IvTooGr1ewkootXxy","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:32.110Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"7-18-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":7,"day":18}},{"id":"Bodies-In-The-Borderlands-1","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-07-06T00:00-04:00","order":2,"headline":"Bodies In The Borderlands 1","headlineText":"

Bodies in the\nBorderlands

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Bodies in the Borderlands

","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"Scott Warren Worked to Prevent Migrant Deaths in the Arizona Desert. The Government Wants Him in Prison.","bodyText":"![borderbodies01](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/2QuGORTG9VWVZsFOZIMfgA/569ca2164c5306e6e93c8714c344ba49/borderbodies01.jpg)\n\n__Scott Warren Worked to Prevent Migrant Deaths in the Arizona Desert. The Government Wants Him in Prison.__\n\n![borderbodies02](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/5qzWMFu64vcEBdLcdU43ZP/bcaf26af631d74717701cfb0d90da5c9/borderbodies02.jpg)
\nScott Warren visits the site of now-closed copper mines outside Ajo, Ariz., on July 10, 2018. Photo: Laura Saunders for The Intercept\n\nBy Ryan Devereaux\n\nScott Warren has a checklist he goes through every time he finds a body in the desert. The earthly components are straightforward. Log the GPS coordinates. Take photographs and notes. Scour the brush for more bones and pull together all the data pertinent to the investigation that local authorities will, in theory, initiate once they arrive. These elements are basic evidence-gathering. But for Warren, the process doesn’t end there.\n\nWarren believes that these moments merit an acknowledgement of humanity. And so, after years of recoveries, the 36-year-old has developed a modest ritual for the grim encounters. He goes quiet, lowers himself to the earth, collects the dirt around him, and then lets the soil pour through his fingers. The point, Warren says, is to take a moment to reflect or, as he puts it, “hold space.” It may not sound like much, but for him, this process and everything that attends to it is as sacred as anything one might find in a conventional house of God.\n\nWhen a person dies, Warren believes, some extra-physical element of them remains, dwelling in the place where they passed. In the last six years, Warren has communed with the dead no fewer than 16 times in the desert outside Ajo, the tiny Arizona border town he calls home. Those bodies and fragmented sets of human remains have served as his window into the slow-motion disaster unfolding in the borderlands, one in which U.S. government policy funnels migrants into the desert, creating a black hole of disappearance and death of historic proportions.\n\nIn response, Warren has helped convene a network of Arizona humanitarian aid volunteers with roots that go back decades. Through sweat-drenched marches deep into the Sonoran Desert, this collective has expanded access to water and medical aid in one of the border’s deadliest and most remote corridors, and fueled a historic increase in the number of bodies accounted for there. Even for those who can’t be saved, the finding of human remains opens the door for bodies to be returned to grief-stricken families, providing answers to painful questions. In an alternate universe, one could imagine the efforts of Warren and his cohort being the kind of thing a society might actively support, or even prioritize. But that’s not what is happening in Arizona right now.\n\nto be continued","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"5vjIFSXybTF34Rb9kW1Tdi","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:44.895Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"7-6-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":7,"day":6}},{"id":"Happy-4th-of-July","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-07-04T00:00-04:00","headline":"Happy 4th of July","headlineText":"

Happy 4th of July!

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Happy 4th of July!

","titleDivider":250,"vimeoId":"346173250","excerpt":"Enjoy your day celebrating freedom.\n","bodyText":"Enjoy your day celebrating freedom.
\nIt’s about the birth of a great nation.
\nIt’s not about children in cages.
\nIt’s about all Americans.
\nIt’s about you.
\nUSA\n\n![4th-image](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/rBnkeB1wsFLbWUOFFRJbb/e08b82aee633a9092b4035063c31b3e7/4th-image.jpg)\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"JiTRfLhGhMp4LTMw9Sa9R","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:39.098Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"7-4-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":7,"day":4}},{"id":"Living-Memory-Reverend-Billy","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-06-23T00:00-04:00","headline":"Living Memory Reverend Billy","headlineText":"

Religion

with\nREVEREND BILLY

LIVING\nMEMORY

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Religion

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with\nREVEREND BILLY

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LIVING MEMORY

","titleDivider":230,"excerpt":"When we lose a loved one, we are left standing there with thousands and thousands ","bodyText":"When we lose a loved one, we are left standing there with thousands and thousands of experiences with that friend – now physically playing and re-playing in our body. The love becomes an ecstatic implant in our liquid electrified cells. We keep having memories of all those long talks and arguments and laughing fits and those hours of traveling miles of life together.\n \nWe can call this “living memory.” We can say that our loved one who died is alive in those who loved him. For most people though, death is absolutely final. Even in our modern day, death is like the grim reaper. But we should never feel that death is cheating us or betraying us, because life and death take place together. How this works has never been explained. It’s a mystery. Death is a part of life. Death is always there throughout our life, not just at the end.\n \nIf life and death are one and the same thing, then why do we have two separate words for them? We treat them like they are opposites, though they are two parts of a whole. What would you call that whole? What is the word that includes both life and death? That word is love. When we love – then we know both life and death. When we love - we are trusting that mystery. To love is to trust life. You trusted life when you shared life with your friend. You trusted mysterious life together. Love!","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"6Ua1lvCfCHMxxmZatw3DL3","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:43.463Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"6-23-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":6,"day":23}},{"id":"I-Gave-Water-To-Migrants","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-06-22T00:00-04:00","headline":"I Gave Water To Migrants","headlineText":"

I Gave

I gave water to migrants\ncrossing the Arizona desert.\nThe government charged me\nwith a felony.

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I Gave

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I gave water to migrants crossing the\nArizona desert. The government charged\nme with a felony.

","titleDivider":170,"excerpt":"Volunteers with the humanitarian aid organization No More Deaths walk with ","bodyText":"![igavewater1](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/rtsQpnnYzzduWc6yJPv5r/4f768b54b5955e96823b0f394f906604/igavewater1.jpg)\n

photo: John Moore/Getty Images

\nVolunteers with the humanitarian aid organization No More Deaths walk with buckets of food and jugs of water on May 10 near Ajo, Ariz.\n\n![igavewater2](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/3VynELD8cWzr7F9FXAFgWa/66e2951fab09896eb59d11abd9f90afe/igavewater2.png)
\nBy Scott Warren
\n*Scott Warren is a geographer living in Ajo, Arizona.*\n\nAJO, Ariz. — After a dangerous journey across Mexico and a difficult crossing through the Arizona desert, someone told Jose and Kristian that they might find water and food at a place in Ajo called the Barn. The Barn is a gathering place for humanitarian volunteers like me, and there the two young men were able to eat, rest and get medical attention. As the two were preparing to leave, the Border Patrol arrested them. Agents also handcuffed and arrested me, for — in the agency’s words — having provided the two migrants with “food, water, clean clothes and beds.”\n\nJose and Kristian were detained for several weeks, deposed by the government as material witnesses in its case against me and then deported back to the countries from which they had fled for their lives. This week, the government will try me for human smuggling. If convicted, I may be imprisoned for up to 20 years.\n\nIn the Sonoran Desert, the temperature can reach 120 degrees during the day and plummet at night. Water is scarce. Tighter border policies have forced migrants into harsher and more remote territory, and many who attempt to traverse this landscape don’t survive. Along what’s become known as the Ajo corridor, dozens of bodies are found each year; many more are assumed to be undiscovered.\n\nLocal residents and volunteers organize hikes into this desert to offer humanitarian aid. We haul jugs of water and buckets filled with canned food, socks, electrolytes and basic first-aid supplies to a few sites along the mountain and canyon paths. Other times, we get a report that someone has gone missing, and our mission becomes search and rescue — or, more often, to recover the bodies and bones of those who have died.\n\nOver the years, humanitarian groups and local residents navigated a coexistence with the Border Patrol. We would meet with agents and inform them of how and where we worked. At times, the Border Patrol sought to cultivate a closer relationship. “Glad you’re out here today,” I remember an agent telling me once. “People really need water.” In a town as small as Ajo, we’re all neighbors, and everybody’s kids go to the same school. Whether it was in the grocery store or out in the field, it was commonplace for residents and volunteers to run into Border Patrol agents and talk.\n\n([Five myths about the U.S.-Mexico border](https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/five-myths/five-myths-about-the-us-mexico-border/2018/05/03/5e8addd0-4e53-11e8-af46-b1d6dc0d9bfe_story.html?utm_term=.f7c3b9090049))\n\nThose kinds of encounters are rare these days. Government authorities have cracked down on humanitarian aid: [denying permits](https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/050719_warren_trial/no-more-deaths-volunteer-testifes-leaving-water-migrants-sacred-act/) to enter the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, and [kicking over](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q205uh7ldv8) and slashing water jugs. They are also aggressively prosecuting volunteers. Several No More Deaths volunteers have [faced](https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/border-issues/2019/01/15/cabeza-prieta-national-wildlife-refuge-trial-against-humanitarian-aid-volunteers-tucson-arizona/2583531002/) possible imprisonment and fines of up to $10,000 on federal misdemeanor charges from 2017 including entering a wildlife refuge without a permit and “abandonment of property” — leaving water and cans of beans for migrants. (I face similar misdemeanor charges of “abandonment of property.”)\n\nMy case in particular may set a dangerous precedent, as the government expands its definitions of “transportation” and “harboring.” The smuggling and harboring laws have always been applied selectively: with aggressive prosecutions of “criminal” networks but leniency for big agriculture and other politically powerful industries that [employ scores](https://theconversation.com/why-care-about-undocumented-immigrants-for-one-thing-theyve-become-vital-to-key-sectors-of-the-us-economy-98790) of undocumented laborers. Now, the law may be applied to not only humanitarian aid workers but also to the millions of mixed-status families in the United States. Take, for instance, a family in which one member is undocumented and another member, who is a citizen, is buying the groceries and paying the rent. Would the government call that harboring? If this family were driving to a picnic in the park, would the government call that illegal transportation? Though this possibility would have seemed far-fetched a few years ago, it has become frighteningly real.\n\nThe Trump administration’s policies — warehousing asylees, separating families, caging children — seek to impose hardship and cruelty. For this strategy to work, it must also stamp out kindness.\n\nTo me, the question that emerges from all of this is not whether the prosecution will have a chilling effect on my community and its sense of compassion. The question is whether the government will take seriously its humanitarian obligations to the migrants and refugees who arrive at the border.\n\nIn Ajo, my community has provided food and water to those traveling through the desert for decades — for generations. Whatever happens with my trial, the next day, someone will walk in from the desert and knock on someone’s door, and the person who answers will respond to the needs of that traveler. If they are thirsty, we will offer them water; we will not ask for documents beforehand. The government should not make that a crime.\n\nNYA Thanks Scott Warren","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"3sMIJrQZqulIJKtft4dRhW","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:33.158Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"6-22-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":6,"day":22}},{"id":"The-Day-The-Music-Burned","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-06-11T00:00-04:00","byline":"Jody Rosen","headline":"The Day The Music Burned","headlineText":"

The Day the\nMusic Burned

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The Day the\nMusic Burned

","titleDivider":250,"image1":"//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/8JiK2Z6CMY5SKkFQW7JJL/70299a50515a2f7806717b1502f5592e/daymusicburned.png","excerpt":"It was the biggest disaster in the history of the music business — and almost nobody knew. ","bodyText":"It was the biggest disaster in the history of the music business — and almost nobody knew. This is the story of the 2008 Universal fire.\n\nBy Jody Rosen\n\nThe fire that swept across the backlot of Universal Studios Hollywood on Sunday, June 1, 2008, began early that morning, in New England. At 4:43 a.m., a security guard at the movie studio and theme park saw flames rising from a rooftop on the set known as New England Street, a stretch of quaint Colonial-style buildings where small-town scenes were filmed for motion pictures and television shows. That night, maintenance workers had repaired the roof of a building on the set, using blowtorches to heat asphalt shingles. They finished the job at 3 a.m. and, following protocol, kept watch over the site for another hour to ensure that the shingles had cooled. But the roof remained hot, and some 40 minutes after the workers left, one of the hot spots flared up.\n\nThe fire moved quickly. It engulfed the backlot’s famous New York City streetscape. It burned two sides of Courthouse Square, a set featured in “Back to the Future.” It spread south to a cavernous shed housing the King Kong Encounter, an animatronic attraction for theme-park visitors. Hundreds of firefighters responded, including Universal Studios’ on-site brigade. But the fire crews were hindered by low water pressure and damaged sprinkler systems and by intense radiant heat gusting between combustible structures.\n\nEventually the flames reached a 22,320-square-foot warehouse that sat near the King Kong Encounter. The warehouse was nondescript, a hulking edifice of corrugated metal, but it was one of the most important buildings on the 400-acre lot. Its official name was Building 6197. To backlot workers, it was known as the video vault.\n\nShortly after the fire broke out, a 50-year-old man named Randy Aronson was awakened by a ringing phone at his home in Canyon Country, Calif., about 30 miles north of Universal City, the unincorporated area of the San Fernando Valley where the studio sits. Aronson had worked on the Universal lot for 25 years. His title was senior director of vault operations at Universal Music Group (UMG). In practice, this meant he spent his days overseeing an archive housed in the video vault. The term “video vault” was in fact a misnomer, or a partial misnomer. About two-thirds of the building was used to store videotapes and film reels, a library controlled by Universal Studios’s parent company, NBCUniversal. But Aronson’s domain was a separate space, a fenced-off area of 2,400 square feet in the southwest corner of the building, lined with 18-foot-high storage shelves. It was a sound-recordings library, the repository of some of the most historically significant material owned by UMG, the world’s largest record company.\n\nAronson let the phone call go to voice mail, but when he listened to the message, he heard sirens screaming in the background and the frantic voice of a colleague: “The vault is on fire.”\n\n*([Read a summary of what was lost in the fire](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/us/master-recordings-universal-fire.html?module=inline).)*\n\nAronson dressed and steered his car to Interstate 5. A few minutes later, the air picked up a harsh scent: the acrid odor of the fire, riding the early-morning breeze into Santa Clarita, roughly 20 miles from the backlot. Aronson sped south. When he turned onto the Hollywood Freeway, he saw clouds of greenish-black smoke pouring into the sky. It was 5:45 a.m. when he gained access to the lot and made his way to the vault.\n\nThere, he found an inferno. Fire was blasting out of the building as if shot from giant flamethrowers. The heat was extraordinary. There were at least a dozen fire engines ringing the vault, and as Aronson looked around he noticed one truck whose parking lights seemed to be melting.\n\nThe vault lay near Park Lake, a man-made body of water that appeared in the classic B-movie “Creature From the Black Lagoon.” Fire crews began drafting water from the lake. They rained water from the tops of ladders; they doused the building with foam fire retardant. These efforts proved futile. “It was like watching molten lava move through the building,” Aronson remembers. “Just a huge blob of fire that flowed and flowed.”\n\nNYA thanks New York Times","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"4lEM5zmZkYUaTg1BDeWXuM","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:32.192Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"Jody Rosen","dateText":"6-11-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":6,"day":11}},{"id":"Impossible-Burger-CEO-Full-of-Baloney.","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-06-09T00:00-04:00","byline":"Pat Thomas","headline":"Impossible Burger CEO Full of Baloney.","headlineText":"

Impossible Burger\n![impossibleburgercdofullofbaloney](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/1cWvShd8TJIJONCOMDaWj3/c9b6b34aa99eb12497d9b3b9ce42c2ae/impossibleburgercdofullofbaloney.png)

CEO Full of Baloney.

Here’s why.

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Impossible Burger

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CEO Full of Baloney.

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Here’s why.

","titleDivider":180,"excerpt":"The Impossible Burger—deceptively marketed as “natural”—already contains a genetically engineered ingredient, a yeast ","bodyText":"The Impossible Burger—deceptively marketed as “natural”—already contains a genetically engineered ingredient, a yeast referred to as “heme.” \n\nNow, Impossible Foods, the maker of the fake meat patty, is adding a new GE ingredient: genetically engineered soy.\n\n__6 Reasons Impossible Burger's CEO Is Wrong About GMO Soy__\n\nIt's time to demand more from the food we eat, better protection from our regulators and a higher level of truthfulness and transparency from food brands\n\nby [Pat Thomas](https://www.commondreams.org/author/pat-thomas)\n\nGMO-based monocultures like soybean are bad news for wildlife, because they destroy habitats for a wide range of wild creatures, from ground-nesting birds to pollinators like bees and butterflies.\n\nThroughout the U.S., major food brands are trying to get rid of GMO ingredients—not necessarily for the right reasons, but because nearly [half](https://foodinsight.org/survey-nearly-half-of-u-s-consumers-avoid-gmo-foods-large-majority-primarily-concerned-about-human-health-impact/) of consumers say they avoid them in their food, primarily for health reasons.\n\nBut the CEO of Impossible Foods, purveyor of the Impossible Burger, is bucking that trend.\n\nThe manufacturers of the [controversial](https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/promotion-gmo-derived-impossible-burger-worlds-largest-natural-food-trade-show-denounced) veggie burger just announced that in the future, due to “high demand” for the product, its plant-based patties will be made using GMO soy.\n\nThe formula change was made to ensure the smooth rollout of the Impossible Burger in Burger King restaurants. The soy formulation is apparently better able to withstand Burger King’s trademark [flame grilling](https://www.businessinsider.com/impossible-burger-national-launch-gmo-soy-burger-king-2019-5?r=US&IR=T). As a result, in early in 2019, Impossible Foods dumped the textured wheat protein it had been using and replaced it with soy protein concentrate instead.\n\nPat Brown, founder and CEO of Impossible Foods, publicly [defended](https://medium.com/impossible-foods/how-our-commitment-to-consumers-and-our-planet-led-us-to-use-gm-soy-23f880c93408) the move. But a closer look reveals that Brown’s claims about the healthfulness and sustainability of “Impossible Burger 2.0” just don’t stack up.\n\nHere are six reasons the CEO of Impossible Burger is wrong when he claims that GMO soy is “the safest and most environmentally responsible option” for scaling up production of the fake meat product—a product that already uses a genetically engineered yeast, called heme, as its key ingredient.\n\n__1- Dubious health claims__\n\nWhen the switch to soy was first made. Sue Klapholz, Impossible Foods vice president of nutrition & health, [said](https://medium.com/impossible-foods/soy-facts-myths-and-why-its-in-our-new-recipe-12815b4997cf) that \"Soy is not only safe; it’s accessible, nutritious.\"\n\nThat’s not quite true.\n\nResults from studies showing healthful properties of fermented soy products like tofu or miso are sometimes used to support the healthfulness of other, more highly processed types of soy.\n\nBut all soy is not created equal.\n\nIn the messy world of soy studies, where “soy” can be defined as almost anything with soy in it, there are just as many [studies](https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/soy/) showing no or only marginal benefits, and in some cases, potential for harm—e. g. interference with thyroid medication—from diets high in soy.\n\nSoy protein isolates and concentrates are made from defatted soybean flakes that have been washed in either alcohol or water to remove the sugars and dietary fiber. The flakes are then processed into powders or “flours.”\n\nAlcohol is the most common process, as it produces products with a neutral taste. But the beneficial isoflavones in soy are removed by this method. Soy protein concentrate has the [lowest level](https://academic.oup.com/jn/article/134/5/1229S/4688709) of healthful isoflavones—including daidzein, genistein and glycitein—of any form of processed soy.\n\nThere are other differences between the various types of soy. A 2014 study comparing GMO and organic soy beans found small but statistically significant [differences](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308814613019201) in the nutritional quality: The organic soybeans had slightly higher protein levels and lower levels of omega-6 fatty acids. Omega-3 fatty acids showed no significant difference. Both fats are essential in human diets, but U.S. eaters tend to consume a [higher ratio](https://www.drweil.com/vitamins-supplements-herbs/vitamins/balancing-omega-3-and-omega-6/) of omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acids than is healthy.\n\n__2- Higher use of pesticides__\n\nBrown says that “careful analysis” has “conclusively shown” GMO soy is “better for the environment than the alternatives.”\n\nAbsolutely untrue. GMO soy, whether fed to cows or people, is bad for the environment.\n\nA 2013 Food & Water Watch [study](https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/reports/superweeds/), based on U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency data, found that planting GM crops quickly resulted in the growth of herbicide-resistant “superweeds” which caused farmers to increase their herbicide use.\n\nThat report echoed the findings of another [study](https://enveurope.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/2190-4715-24-24) produced by Washington State University research professor Charles Benbrook in 2012. In 2016, research from University of Virginia confirmed that glyphosate-resistant weeds have led to a [28-percent hike](https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/8/e1600850) in herbicide use on GM soybeans compared with non-GM.\n\nThis has also been seen in other countries, including [Canada](https://www.ourcommons.ca/Content/Committee/421/AGRI/Brief/BR8451190/br-external/CanadianBiotechnologyActionNetwork-e.pdf), [Brazil](https://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-81232017021003333) and [Argentina](https://www.grain.org/article/entries/706-twelve-years-of-gm-soya-in-argentina-a-disaster-for-people-and-the-environment).\n\nThere is also evidence that [glyphosate](https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/glyphosate-fact-sheet), the active ingredient in Monsanto’s [Roundup](https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/monsantos-roundup-enough-make-you-sick) weedkiller, accumulates in GM soy. The same study that found GM soy is nutritionally inferior to organic, and that GM-soy [contained](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308814613019201) high residues of glyphosate and its toxic breakdown product AMPA, while conventional and organic soybeans were free of these agrochemicals.\n\nThat may help explain why a recent laboratory analysis by Moms Across America found glyphosate residues in the new formula Impossible Burger. The [levels of glyphosate](https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/yesmaam/pages/8069/attachments/original/1557958339/COA_S0004900_Impossible_Burger_and_Beyond_Meat_patty_-_glyphosate.pdf?1557958339) and its toxic breakdown product AMPA were low (11ppb) but as the Moms note, evidence from animal feed studies indicates that just 0.1 ppb of glyphosate can [destroy gut bacteria](https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/yesmaam/pages/680/attachments/original/1393210354/Glyphosat__publikation__Shehata_und_Krüger.pdf?1393210354).\n\nOther studies of animals fed GM foods and/or glyphosate show worrying trends, including [damage](https://earthopensource.org/wordpress/downloads/GMO-Myths-and-Truths-edition2.pdf) to vital organs like the liver and kidneys, damage to gut tissues and gut flora, immune system disruption, reproductive abnormalities and even tumors.\n\nAgrichemical companies continue to claim that glyphosate is safe. Yet glyphosate is a “probable human carcinogen” [according to](https://www.iarc.fr/featured-news/media-centre-iarc-news-glyphosate/) the World Health Organization (WHO), and its maker Monsanto (Bayer) has recently been [ordered](https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/monsanto-ordered-pay-2-billion-cancer-victims) to pay out billions in compensation to victims who developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma as a result of using the weedkiller. More cases are pending.\n\n__3- No benefits for farmers__\n\nAccording to Brown, the company decided to source “American-grown, milled and processed GM soy” that is “from farms in Iowa, Minnesota and Illinois” because there just isn’t enough non-GMO soy to meet demand.\n\nThere is no question that GM soy is more plentiful than non-GM soy in the U.S. In fact, the U.S. grows more soybeans than any other country except Brazil. [According to the USDA](https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/adoption-of-genetically-engineered-crops-in-the-us/recent-trends-in-ge-adoption.aspx#.U1b1TYKjIuI), more than 90 percent of the soybeans harvested on U.S. farms are genetically engineered to withstand herbicides, especially Roundup.\n\nThat should translate into more crops to sell, but an indepth [investigation](https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/30/business/gmo-promise-falls-short.html) by the New York Times found that, in addition to increasing pesticide use, genetic modification in the U.S. and Canada has not brought the expected increases in crop yields.\n\nThis echoes the findings of a 2016 National Academy of Sciences report found that “[there was little evidence](https://www.nap.edu/catalog/23395/genetically-engineered-crops-experiences-and-prospects)” that the introduction of genetically modified crops in the United States had led to yield gains beyond those seen in conventional crops.\n\nRight now, U.S. farmers are suffering from a [glut of soy](https://www.producer.com/2019/02/u-s-soy-glut-could-take-three-years-to-eliminate/), thanks to ongoing trade disputes with China, which have resulted in low prices and farm bankruptcies.\n\n__4- Kills biodiversity__\n\nThe adoption of GMO herbicide-resistant crops like soy has favored the use of herbicides over tried and tested methods of weed management, such as crop rotation.\n\nIn addition to creating superweeds, glyphosate-based herbicides damage microbial life in the soil, which makes crops more susceptible to diseases. They are toxic to a range of aquatic organisms and also kill beneficial “weeds” like milkweed, [a major food source](https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/monarch-butterfles-problem-herbicides) for the Monarch butterfly.\n\nAs weeds become resistant, older and stronger pesticides such as 2,4-D or dicamba, are being used. In 2017-18, “dicamba drift” was responsible for damage to an estimated [5 million acres](https://www.revealnews.org/article/scientists-warned-this-weed-killer-would-destroy-crops-epa-approved-it-anyway/) of non-GM soybeans in 24 states, in addition to numerous specialty crops and wild plants.\n\nGlobally, soy plantations have been responsible for [wholesale clearing](https://www.ucsusa.org/global-warming/stop-deforestation/drivers-of-deforestation-2016-soybeans) of forests and savannahs in places like Brazil, with the added effect of contributing to climate change. In the U.S., land converted to soy production has typically been pre-existing agricultural land and so is not linked to deforestation. But increasing demand for soy is destroying American prairies. Analysis of satellite data has shown that between 2006 and 2011, farmers in the Dakotas, Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska had converted [1.3 million acres](https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/02/13/1215404110.abstract?sid=6beb2b07-ff9f-4090-a5dc-ec4811e46f7a) of grassland into soybean and corn production.\n\nResearch by [Environmental Working Group](https://static.ewg.org/pdf/plowed_under.pdf) and the USDA's [Economic Research Service](https://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/pub-details/?pubid=44880) supports this finding.\n\nThese monocultures are bad news for wildlife, because they destroy habitats for a wide range of wild creatures, from ground-nesting birds to pollinators like bees and butterflies.\n\nBut crop monocultures also lead to mono-diets. Agricultural diversity ensures a healthier environment and greater food security on a global scale. But the over-focus on cash crops like soy means that today just a [handful of crops](https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/02/26/1313490111.full.pdf) now dominate diets around the world. This new global diet has more calories and less nutrition, and is responsible for the global rise in non-communicable diseases such as obesity, heart disease and diabetes.\n\n__5- No ‘scientific consensus’ around safety__\n\nBrown proclaims there is “scientific consensus that GMOs are safe for consumers and the environment—a view now endorsed by the American Medical Association (AMA), the National Academy of Sciences and the World Health Organization.”\n\nBut Brown’s statement is factually untrue.\n\nA [closer look](https://beyond-gm.org/who-says-gmos-are-safe-and-who-says-theyre-not/) at these claims shows that the AMA’s Council on Science and Public Health statement opposing GMO labeling [did not claim GMOs are safe](https://ag.utah.gov/documents/AMA-BioengineeredFoods.pdf). It acknowledged “a small potential for adverse events . . . due mainly to horizontal gene transfer, allergenicity and toxicity.” The AMA recommended mandatory safety assessments prior to release of GM foods—a system which, as the AMA pointed out, is not in place in the U.S.\n\nThe National Academy of Sciences has not issued any blanket claims of GMO safety. It did issue a report in which it analyzed a range of plant-breeding techniques and concluded that GM posed a [higher risk](https://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309092094) of introducing unintended changes into food than any other crop breeding method other than mutation breeding, a method in which plant genomes are bombarded with radiation or chemicals to induce mutations.\n\nThe WHO has stated: “No effects on human health have been shown as a result of the consumption of GM foods by the general population in the countries where they have been approved.”\n\nBut take a look at the [text](https://www.who.int/foodsafety/publications/biotech/20questions/en/index.html) that preceded that sentence: “Different GM organisms include different genes inserted in different ways. This means that individual GM foods and their safety should be assessed on a case-by-case basis and that it is not possible to make general statements on the safety of all GM foods.” The WHO also recommends that “adequate post-market monitoring” is carried out to ensure the safety of GM foods.\n\nYet such monitoring is not carried out anywhere in the world.\n\nIn fact, GM foods were not subjected to human trials before being released into the food chain. Their human health impacts are not being studied by any government agency, nor by the companies that produce them.\n\nThat’s why nearly 300 independent scientists from around the world issued a public warning that there was [no scientific consensus](https://ensser.org/tag/no-consensus-on-gmo-safety/) about the safety of eating genetically modified food, and that the risks, as demonstrated in independent research, gave “serious cause for concern.”\n\n__6- Ignores consumer concerns__\n\nBrown says “we believe in our consumers and respect their right to consider the facts and decide for themselves.” He adds that the inclusion of GMO soy will lead to “noise from anti-genetic engineering fundamentalists.”\n\nBut concerns about GMOs aren’t just “noise.” They persist because they are legitimate, and because consumers want facts from independent researchers and other sources not from [paid mouthpieces](https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/us/food-industry-enlisted-academics-in-gmo-lobbying-war-emails-show.html) for the GMO industry, or from brands with a bias.\n\nU.S. consumers overwhelmingly want GMO foods labeled so they can make real informed choices. Impossible Foods has chosen to ignore both legitimate concerns and the desire for choice by insinuating its fake meat burger onto the market via independent restaurants, large restaurant chains, theme parks, museums, stadiums, college campuses and corporate offices—places where no food labeling is required and where customers are least likely to ask questions.\n\n__What can you do?__\n\nIt’s time to demand more from the food we eat, better protection from our regulators and a higher level of truthfulness and transparency from food brands.\nIf you want to let the CEO of Impossible Foods know that he's wrong about GMO soy, [click here](https://advocacy.organicconsumers.org/page/11006/action/1).\n\nTAKE ACTION: Tell Impossible Foods CEO Pat Brown: GMO Soy is bad for consumers, bad for the planet!\n\nImpossible Foods wants you to think the switch to GMO soy was motivated by the company’s “commitment to consumers and our planet.”\n\nBut that’s simply not true. We explain why, in our article: “Six Reasons Impossible Burger’s CEO Is Wrong about GMO Soy.”\n \nBurger-loving consumers who care about their health, and the health of the environment, are likely to choose burgers made from 100% grass-fed beef—not a lab-grown fake meat product made with GMO ingredients.\n \nWhy choose regeneratively raised 100% grass-fed burgers?\n\nWith more nutrients, and less risk of harmful pathogens, grass-fed beef is better for your health.\n \nAnd when managed properly, cows raised on grass can have a net-positive impact on the environment—by improving soil carbon sequestration and ecosystem biodiversity, and by reducing the need for toxic pesticides and chemical fertilizers.\n \nIn his article, CEO Brown says his company’s mission is to end the use of animals in food production by 2035. \n\nBut the real mission of Impossible Foods is to generate profits for Brown and his shareholders. That’s why the company is keen to sell its Impossible Burger to fast-food restaurant chains, where it’s certain they won’t be labeled.\n \nBrown plays fast and loose with the facts in his article, then writes: “Noise from anti-genetic engineering fundamentalists is inevitable.”\n\nLet’s make some noise. \n \nTAKE ACTION: Tell Impossible Foods CEO Pat Brown: GMO Soy is bad for consumers, bad for the planet!\n\nP.S. To help support this, and other campaigns, please consider making a donation to OCA. Nearly 80 percent of our support comes in the form of small donations from individual donors. Thank you!\n\nNYA thanks Organic Consumers Association","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"2kFSAx5GA0GdHdktKVL54v","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:27.119Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"Pat Thomas","dateText":"6-9-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":6,"day":9}},{"id":"Message-To-Facebook-This-Is-How","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-06-06T00:00-04:00","byline":"NY","headline":"Message To Facebook This Is How","headlineText":"

MESSAGE TO\nFACEBOOK\n![Facebook logo 250on1408](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/71s3KYmffF8XqDw3iDImv7/b2c11aa59bede43506d09d3f744a003b/Facebook_logo_250on1408.png)

THIS IS HOW\nYOU DO IT:

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MESSAGE TO FACEBOOK

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THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT:

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\nDemocracy flying low with facebook info

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OHIO

\n","bodyHeadline":"OHIO","titleDivider":200,"excerpt":"By Tara Law \n\nPhotography has shaped the American memory of the May 4, 1970, Kent State shootings.\n","bodyText":"![ohio 45 475](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/5GHUWUlermuq60q4su6eiK/6e3bcddbf93cb8fc2c68ca9b7a01446a/ohio_45_475.png)\n

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New Photos Are\nRevealed

\n\nBy [Tara Law](https://time.com/author/tara-law/)\n\nPhotography has shaped the American memory of the May 4, 1970, Kent State shootings.\n\nThe [image of a young woman screaming in horror](http://100photos.time.com/photos/john-paul-filo-kent-state-shootings) as she crouches beside the body of a student has become the defining moment of the day when National Guardsmen shot and killed four students at Kent State University in Ohio.\n\nThis year, on the 49th anniversary of the shooting, history’s lens has gotten a little wider. Getty Images has released previously unpublished pictures revealing the weekend leading up to the tragedy, the moments when the guards opened fire and the grief afterwards.\n\n![ohiophotos1](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/75iP9ZWnz4G02iey1a8YMk/0a4f803f78c371fa07a3f99408a81a77/ohiophotos1.png)\nAn unidentified demonstrator runs through a cloud of teargas on the Kent State University Commons during a student antiwar protest, Kent, Ohio, May 4, 1970. The protests, initially over the US invasion of Cambodia, resulted in the deaths of four students (and the injuries of nine others) after the National Guard opened fire on students.
\n*Howard Ruffner—Getty Images*\n\nThe new photos were taken by John Filo and Howard Ruffner, two students at the university. Filo captured the day’s most [iconic image](http://100photos.time.com/photos/john-paul-filo-kent-state-shootings): 14-year-old Mary Ann Vecchio beside the body of 20-year-old Jeffrey Miller.\n\n![ohiophotos2](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/6PQqRgCseC3nMdeCCuaCZe/b57376c6d36bcab3adf47f248ed0f063/ohiophotos2.png)\nTeenager Mary Ann Vecchio (kneeling, with white neckerchief) and others surround the body of Kent State University student Jeffrey Miller (1950 - 1970) who had been shot during an anti-war demonstration on the university campus, Kent, Ohio, May 4, 1970. The protests, initially over the US invasion of Cambodia, resulted in the deaths of four students, including Miller, and the injuries of nine others after the National Guard opened fire on students. Vecchio (who was not a KSU student) was also photographed in the Pulitzer prize-winning photograph (also by John Filo) that came to define the event.
\n*John Filo—Getty Images*\n\n![ohiophotos3](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/496g2LnW0tccbMwVLlaxGb/95a9c57892db5e161016cd4896e076b4/ohiophotos3.png)\nView, from behind, as Ohio National Guardsmen in gas masks and with rifles as they prepare to advance up Blanket Hill, through clouds of teargas, to drive back Kent State University students during an antiwar demonstration on the university's campus, Kent, Ohio, May 4, 1970. Visible at left is Taylor Hill. The protests, initially over the US invasion of Cambodia, resulted in the deaths of four students (and the injuries of nine others) after the National Guard opened fire on students.
\n*Howard Ruffner—Getty Images*\n\nRuffner, a second-year-student who had learned about photography while serving in the U.S. Air Force, was working on the university’s yearbook. Recruited as a freelance photographer by *[LIFE](https://time.com/3839195/life-magazine-kent-state/)* magazine, he snapped photos after students set fire to the campus’ ROTC building and National Guardsmen began to take over the school grounds. The campus was mostly empty, because Kent State was known to be a “suitcase school” – where students leave on the weekend, Ruffner told TIME.\n\n![ohiophotos4](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/1QDQYALPRNUmnKO4L7URhZ/72725ac2cf3adf126863378f5bc94cfa/ohiophotos4.png)\nParamedics and students run as they push the body of Kent State University student Jeffrey Miller (1950 - 1970) on a gurney after he'd been shot when the Ohio National Guard opened fire on antiwar protesters, Kent, Ohio, May 4, 1970.
\n*Howard Ruffner—Getty Images*\n\nStudents were arriving back on campus on May 4 – a Monday – and about 500 people gathered for a rally to protest the presence of the National Guard and the Vietnam War at around 12 p.m.\n\nRuffner said he was standing about 80 feet from the soldiers when they opened fire on the protesters.\n\n![ohiophotos5](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/TB6qYvQfzx5ylpNVFqSTA/b5c9950c8aeb6833da08d554873496b7/ohiophotos5.png)\nOn Blanket Hill, Kent State University students, several with hands over their mouths, stare in the aftermath of the Ohio National Guard having opened fire on their antiwar demonstration, Kent, Ohio, May 4, 1970.
\n*Howard Ruffner—Getty Images*\n\n“I heard people shouting, ‘Oh my God, they’re shooting with real bullets,'” Ruffner said. “And I looked around with my camera by myself, and I saw people on the ground in front of me, a person on the ground beside me. I was probably in a (state) of awe, or disbelief. But it didn’t stop me, or change who I was… I had to continue doing what I was doing.”\n\nBob Ahern, the director of Getty Image’s archive, told TIME that Ruffner and Filo’s perspective as students makes the images even more powerful.\n\n![ohiophotos6](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/3rTxQTiiceizdRGlSlILvx/5880e8d619cf43b98b64cf79296e053d/ohiophotos6.png)\nStudents kneel on the grass beside wounded classmate John Cleary after the latter had been shot when the Ohio National Guard opened fire on antiwar protesters, Kent, Ohio, May 4, 1970.
\n*Howard Ruffner—Getty Images*\n\n“It’s incredible coverage because it is (a) kind of eyewitness,” he said. “It was people there with cameras… They weren’t seasoned photojournalists, they were very much in the moment. (The pictures are) incredibly immediate like any good news photo can be. They still have a freshness and a rawness about them, which is kind of chilling.”\n\nPrior to the shooting’s anniversary, Getty asked Ruffner and Filo to look through their archives and check whether they had any unreleased photos. As they were freelance photographers at the time, their full collection of photos likely wouldn’t have gone into a magazine archive, Ahern says to explain why the photos are surfacing now.\n\n![ohiophotos7](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/6vgXggWMdNwjRKP51u8AAw/bef502f1c4f4da644a8423c6d304d43d/ohiophotos7.png)\nCloseup of a bullet hole left in a metal sculpture after the Ohio National Guard opened fire on antiwar protesters at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, May 4, 1970. In the background, an unidentified person photographs the hole from the opposite side. The sculpture, 'Solar Totem #1' by Don Drumm, is located outside Taylor Hall.
\n*John Filo—Getty Images*\n\nAhern said the power of the Kent State photographs echoes through time.\n\n“(The pictures remind) us of what’s involved in protest, and how high that price can be,” he said.\n\n__Correction, May 5:__
\n*Captions in the original version of story misidentified two of the victims during the Kent State shootings. They are believed to have died while walking to class, not while taking part in the protest. The original version of this story also misstated why Mary Ann Vecchio was present at the Kent State protest. Vecchio was visiting Kent State, she was not a student and was not Jeffrey Miller’s classmate.*\n\n__Write to__ Tara Law at tara.law@time.com\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"ug9xjvfM9BSpCO1VG8SD6","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:24.072Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"Tara Law","dateText":"5-28-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":5,"day":28}},{"id":"Amazon-shareholders-vote-down","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-05-25T00:00-04:00","byline":"Colin Lecher","headline":"Amazon shareholders vote down","headlineText":"

Amazon

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shareholders vote\ndown proposals on\nfacial recognition and\nclimate change

","subtitleDivider":170,"image1":"//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/1jvtXocORL9CdspVb3YLsD/7ae950251f6ab38fd5772e835c08c2f2/amazonsign500.jpg","excerpt":"Investors and employees pushed the company to make the changes\nBy Colin Lecher@colinlecher\n\nAmazon shareholders have voted down proposals meant to curb sales of the company’s contro","bodyText":"__Investors and employees pushed the company to make the changes__\n\nBy [Colin Lecher](https://www.theverge.com/authors/colin-lecher), theverge.com\n\nAmazon shareholders have voted down proposals meant to curb sales of the company’s controversial facial recognition tool and to limit its carbon output.\n\nThe proposals, which were driven by shareholding activists and employees, were nonbinding, but represented a moment of defiance against Amazon. The company’s Rekognition tool, which is sold to law enforcement, has been criticized on civil liberties grounds, and employees have said the company could be doing more to fight climate change.\n\n“Thousands of employees signed on to climate change proposal”\n\nTwo Rekognition proposals would have asked Amazon to cease sales to government agencies and to complete a review of the tool’s civil liberties implications. Amazon [went to the Securities Exchange Commission](https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/4/18295396/amazon-rekognition-ban-vote-sec-shareholders) in an attempt to stop the proposals from coming to a vote, but the agency allowed them to continue. The measures had received support from groups like the American Civil Liberties Union, which pressed the shareholders to adopt the facial recognition proposals.\n\n“The fact that there needed to be a vote on this is an embarrassment for Amazon’s leadership team,” Shankar Narayan of the ACLU of Washington said in a statement. “It demonstrates shareholders do not have confidence that company executives are properly understanding or addressing the civil and human rights impacts of its role in facilitating pervasive government surveillance.”\n\nAmazon employees also rallied around the climate change proposal, which asked the company to [adopt a wide-ranging plan](https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/10/18304800/amazon-employees-open-letter-climate-change-plan). Thousands of employees signed on to an open letter to CEO Jeff Bezos supporting the plan. “It’s past time for Jeff Bezos and Amazon’s board to listen,” Amazon organizers said in a statement read after the vote.\n\nAn Amazon spokesperson confirmed the proposals were voted down and said more details would be filed with the SEC and released later this week.\n\nThe shareholder meeting came on the same day as a [congressional hearing](https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/22/18635848/facial-recognition-tech-regulation-house-oversight-committee-republicans-democrats) on the use of facial recognition technology. “It’s just more important for Congress to act,” Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) said at the hearing, in response to the Amazon vote.\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"7rkjBVmoX24OpQf2ulKj8F","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:33.097Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"Colin Lecher","dateText":"5-25-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":5,"day":25}},{"id":"Another-Columbine-Death","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-05-19T00:00-04:00","byline":"Laura Rauch / Associated Press","headline":"Another Columbine Death","headlineText":"

ANOTHER\nCOLUMBINE\nDEATH

","bodyHeadline":"ANOTHER COLUMBINE DEATH : A Survivor Of The Columbine Shooting Has Died At Age 37","titleDivider":280,"subtitle":"

A Survivor Of The Columbine\nShooting Has Died At Age 37

","subtitleDivider":250,"image1":"//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/5Hk0r8xaKvKTZi3UQ3eblT/90ec29b7d1c61e02ebc2de65975d8741/colummbine500.jpg","excerpt":"Austin Eubanks, who survived being shot at Columbine High School in 1999, has died at ","bodyText":"Laura Rauch / Associated Press\n\nAustin Eubanks, who survived being shot at Columbine High School in 1999, has died at age 37.\n\nThe Colorado resident had grown up to be a speaker on addiction and trauma, based on his experiences as a teenager and young adult. He was 17 when one of two gunmen entered his school library, shot him, and killed his friends and classmates.\n\nEubanks was found dead on Saturday, and the cause of death has not yet been determined, his family told BuzzFeed News. There were no signs of foul play, the Routt County coroner [told the Associated Press](https://www.kcci.com/article/columbine-school-shooting-survivor-found-dead-at-37/27517291), and an autopsy is scheduled for Monday.\n\n“We thank the recovery community for its support,\" his family said. \"As you can imagine, we are beyond shocked and saddened and request that our privacy is respected at this time.”\n\nIn the days after the 1999 shooting, Eubanks was prescribed pain medication for his physical injuries, but he'd later say, even after his body healed, his emotional pain remained debilitating.\n\n\"So I continued taking the medication that was prescribed for my pain,\" he said in a [TEDx talk in 2017](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP_q3cW672s). \"I was addicted before I even knew what was happening.\"\nAfter more than a decade of struggling, he said a 14-month treatment program helped him lean into his pain and find recovery.\n\n\"I had to go through the stages of grief I should have been going through at 17, at age 29,\" he said. \"But I refused to keep running.\"\n\nEubanks went on to work as an administrator for treatment centers, while also volunteering with nonprofit groups aimed at helping people recover from addiction. He also began speaking to audiences nationally, advocating for more education on addiction, more accessible treatment, and reforms to the health care system.\n\nLast month, as the nation marked the 20th anniversary of the Columbine shooting, Eubanks spoke about his frustration that more wasn't being done to prevent mass violence. He called for action on both mental health care and gun control.\n\n“Instead of coming together to work on eradicating the issue for future generations, we are simply trying to teach kids how to hide better in active shooter drills,” he [told his local newspaper](https://www.steamboatpilot.com/news/columbine-survivors-still-waiting-for-change-20-years-later/), the Steamboat Pilot & Today. “In a lot of ways, we have desensitized and, in some way, traumatized entire generations of youth because we are basically normalizing this.”\n\nNYA thanks AP, Buzzfeed.","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"5DnW1Qbpw2m5YCtgozJeNz","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:42.788Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"Laura Rauch / Associated Press","dateText":"5-19-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":5,"day":19}},{"id":"Monsanto-Bombshell","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-05-18T00:00-04:00","byline":"Mike Adams","headline":"Monsanto Bombshell","headlineText":"

MONSANTO\nBOMBSHELL

","bodyHeadline":"MONSANTO BOMBSHELL : Bayer discovers “black ops” division run by Monsanto, shuts it down, initiates internal investigation as law enforcement prepares criminal charges against the chemical giant\n","titleDivider":280,"subtitle":"

Bayer discovers “black ops” division\nrun by Monsanto, shuts it down,\ninitiates internal investigation as\nlaw enforcement prepares criminal\ncharges against the chemical giant

\n","subtitleDivider":250,"excerpt":"(Natural News) For over a decade, Monsanto has been engaged in building and maintaining “hit lists” of journalists, lawmakers and ","bodyText":"By [Mike Adams](https://www.naturalnews.com/author/healthranger)\n\n![monsantobombshellbayer500](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/5f0FxBjlX6d7KKanaMbGF9/ca167f3dac72aa569b8ef2d361abd173/monsantobombshellbayer500.jpg)\n\n([Natural News](https://www.naturalnews.com/)) For over a decade, Monsanto has been engaged in building and maintaining “hit lists” of journalists, lawmakers and regulators to be taken out if they opposed the evil agenda of GMOs and toxic glyphosate weed killer chemicals that now inundate the world food supply. Any influential person who opposed the Monsanto agenda was subjected to one or more of the following:\n\n- Attempted bribery\n- Death threats and intimidation\n- Character assassination through well-funded “negative P.R.” campaigns\n- Defamation via coordinated Wikipedia attacks, run by Monsanto operatives\n- Career destruction, such as getting scientists blacklisted from science journals\n- Being doxxed, having their home addresses publicized and their families and co-workers threatened\n\nIn other words, Monsanto has been running a “black ops” division for over ten years, spending perhaps $100 million or more on efforts to silence, destroy or assassinate anyone who interfered with the agricultural giant’s market dominance.\n\nNow, [the criminal mafia activity that Monsanto](https://monsantomafia.com/) has carried out for years is finally being exposed as law enforcement closes in on the crimes of this evil agricultural giant now owned by Bayer, a corporation that appears to be making an effort to “clean house” and end the Monsanto crimes that targeted journalists, lawmakers and regulators with intimidation and bribery campaigns.\n\n__Law enforcement preparing criminal charges against Monsanto division operatives__\n\n“French prosecutors said on Friday they had opened an inquiry after newspaper Le Monde filed a complaint alleging that Monsanto – acquired by Bayer for $63 billion last year – had kept a file of 200 names, including journalists and lawmakers in hopes of influencing positions on pesticides,” [reports Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bayer-france-monsanto-europe-idUSKCN1SJ1OY).\n\nThis “hit list” of journalists and lawmakers was directly translated into action to intimidate, threaten or bribe these individuals, just as happens in the United States. In fact, a Monsanto spokesperson now confirms the Monsanto mafia used the list to take out anyone standing in the way of the Monsanto agenda. “There have been a number of cases where – as they would say in football – not the ball was played but the man, or woman, was tackled,” admitted Matthias Berninger to Reuters. Berninger is the “head of public affairs and sustainability” of Monsanto.\n\nFurther into the statement, Berninger admits Monsanto collected “non-publicly available data about individuals” and then issued an apology from Bayer for the activity. “Following an initial review, we understand that this initiative has raised concerns and criticism,” [said Bayer in a May 12th public statement](https://media.bayer.com/baynews/baynews.nsf/id/Bayer-commissions-external-investigate-Monsantos-stakeholder-mapping-project-reaffirms-commitment). “This is not the way Bayer seeks dialogue with society and stakeholders. We apologize for this behavior.”\n\nWhat Natural News can reveal is that __Monsanto hired black ops teams and private investigators__ to dig up the personal locations of individuals and their families, then engaged in activities to threaten and intimidate those individuals while publicly smearing them online through coordinated, well-funded character assassination campaigns.\n\nThis author believes that, over the last decade, I have been personally hunted by Monsanto-funded black ops teams who intended to destroy my credibility and physically harm my person in order to silence my public criticism of Monsanto and end the publishing of [MonsantoMafia.com](https://monsantomafia.com/), [GMO.news](https://gmo.news/), [Glyphosate.news](https://glyphosate.news/) and the dozens of other websites that Monsanto did not want to see published.\n\n__Health Ranger:__\n\n__I am willing to share details with Bayer’s investigation team in exchange for a public apology and a retraction of the smears__\n\nI am willing to consider the possibility that Bayer is genuine in its attempts to clean up the “Monsanto mafia” mess that it has inherited. It is possible that the culture of Bayer is not nearly as evil and corrupt as the culture of Monsanto, which is why I am willing to sit down with Bayer’s internal investigators and privately detail the illegal tactics that have been used against myself and others who spoke out against the multiple criminal activities carried out by Monsanto’s “black ops” teams.\n\nI will do this in exchange for a public apology from Bayer that specifically names myself, the Food Babe, Jeffrey Smith and other individuals in the independent media (there are about twenty) who have been specifically targeted, smeared and threatened by Monsanto operatives over the years. Bayer may contact my legal team for more details of what we are requesting.\n\nThis is a rare opportunity for Bayer to hear directly from the victims of the Monsanto “black ops” division that Bayer likely was not aware it was acquiring when it purchased Monsanto, since the entire division operated in secret and relied on internal corporate money laundering to obfuscate its operations.\n\nBayer’s attorneys may reach out to Natural News through our public contact page. Our attorneys are also initiating contact with Bayer’s legal team to initiate discussions.\n\n__Bayer says it will support criminal indictments of Monsanto operatives__\n\nIf you read the Bayer announcement that went public on May 12, you’ll find that Bayer is openly supporting the criminal indictment of Monsanto operatives who ran its black ops division. “Bayer will fully support the public prosecutor’s office in France in its investigation,” says the statement.\n\nThat same statement also explains:\n\n*As an immediate measure, we have decided to suspend our cooperation with the involved external service providers for the time being. The responsible Monsanto manager left the company shortly after the acquisition.*\n\nThe “external service providers” were, Natural News has learned:\n\n- Negative P.R. firms hired to engage in online character assassination.\n- Rogue private investigators tasked with geo-locating targeted individuals.\n- “Wet work” intimidation / assassination teams that were directed to threaten violence and / or carry out direct violence against “enemies” of Monsanto, including the targeting of innocent family members.\n\nBayer goes on to explain, “We are also currently investigating further appropriate consequences both internally and with regard to external parties. Bayer stands for openness and fair dealings with all interest groups. We do not tolerate unethical behavior in our company.”\n\nIf true, this would stand in great contrast to Monsanto itself, which was run like a criminal mafia organization, complete with “hit men” and terror campaigns that focused on critics of the biotech company.\n\nPerhaps Bayer is hoping to clean up the Monsanto nightmare and initiate a new era of operations where public debate replaces the intimidation, threats and murder campaigns run by former Monsanto operatives. As someone who has been routinely targeted, threatened and smeared by Monsanto, I am willing to entertain the possibility that Bayer is looking to right past wrongs. Even though I may never agree with the widespread use of herbicides and pharmaceuticals across society, I don’t go out of my way to criticize corporations unless they are engaged in acts of extreme evil.\n\nMcDonald’s for example, sells all sorts of garbage food products that are unhealthy for society, but McDonald’s doesn’t hire hit teams to hunt down and try to assassinate critics, for example. McDonald’s just runs ads and tries to get the public to focus on social happiness instead of the chemical pesticides found in their products. And for the most part, it works. Nobody goes to McDonald’s expecting an all-organic diet in the first place. McDonald’s is a “voluntary compromise” where a consumer is obtaining convenience and low cost in exchange for surrendering a bit of their own long-term health. But no one from McDonald’s puts a gun to their head and demands, “EAT HERE OR DIE MUTHA F##KA,” which is essentially the way Monsanto was run for over a decade.\n\n__Investigating “the project Monsanto commissioned”__\n\nFinally, I want to draw your attention to one more line in the Bayer press release. It refers to “the project Monsanto commissioned” and promises to “evaluate the allegations.”\n\nI can report to you that this “project” is the black ops unit of Monsanto. It was commissioned by angry, evil Monsanto managers whose personal hatred and violence is only exceeded by the violence of the Monsanto corporation itself, which unleashed Agent Orange on the world, along with a long list of other deadly chemicals that were used against innocent civilians as weapons of war.\n\nMonsanto was run by some of the most evil, criminal-minded people in the history of the world. These people, I believe, are directly responsible for acts of extreme violence — both online and offline — that specifically targeted Monsanto critics like myself. They belong behind bars, and it looks like Bayer may actually be willing to help put them there.\n\nIt’s time for Bayer to close the chapter on this Monsanto era of disinformation, destruction and death. Otherwise, the anger against Monsanto that is well deserved and widely publicized across the activist community will continue to reflect on Bayer and its share price. Monsanto has committed acts of tremendous evil against innocent, well-meaning individuals who only advocated a cleaner food supply and honest labeling. If Bayer does not open a dialogue with these activists and help resolve some of these issues, Bayer will continue to pay the price for crimes that it inherited through its acquisition of Monsanto, which has already proved disastrous from a financial point of view.\n\nI believe the only way Bayer can resolve this is to talk to those of us who suffered through these malicious attacks and still somehow made it out alive. Bayer needs to publicly apologize, set the record straight, admit the crimes of the Monsanto black ops managers, and retract all the smear articles and Wikipedia entries it funded.\n\nIt’s time for Bayer to come clean.\n\nNYA thanks Natural news","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"8IFGeicdmcTRajqq2jbgq","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:35.085Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"Mike Adams","dateText":"5-18-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":5,"day":18}},{"id":"46-New-Opened-Tracks-Were-Sluicin","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-05-12T00:00-07:00","byline":"The Archives Team","headline":"46 New Opened Tracks We're Sluicin","headlineText":"

46 NEW\nOPENED\nTRACKS!

","bodyHeadline":"46 NEW OPENED TRACKS! : We're Sluicin'","titleDivider":280,"subtitle":"

We're Sluicin'

","excerpt":"Forty-six tracks that were stuck upstream are now flowing from our servers to your ears. ","bodyText":"Forty-six tracks that were stuck upstream are now flowing from our servers to your ears. These tracks are washing ashore all over NYA, so check your favorite coves and eddies to listen for something new. \n\n- Baby What You Want Me To Do\n- Blackbird\n- Blowin' In The Wind\n- Changes\n- Classical Gas Rap\n- Clementine\n- Crazy\n- Early Morning Rain\n- Farmer John\n- Four Strong Winds\n- Gallows Pole\n- Get a Job\n- Girl From the North Country\n- God Save the Queen\n- High Flyin' Bird\n- I Wonder if I Care as Much\n- If You Could Read My Mind\n- It Might Have Been\n- Jesus' Chariot (She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain)\n- King Midas In Reverse\n- My Hometown\n- Needle of Death\n- Nighttime for the Generals\n- Oh Lonesome Me\n- On Broadway\n- On the Road Again\n- Peace And Love\n- Reason to Believe\n- Saddle Up the Palomino\n- Since I Met You Baby\n- Stand and Be Counted\n- String Quartet from Whiskey Boot Hill\n- The Wayward Wind\n- Tom Dula\n- Wayfarin' Stranger\n- We Never Danced\n- Wooden Ships\n- Woodstock\n\n\n*— The Archives Team*","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"6IB3ue5FCY3iATRaR4Uvkt","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:23.347Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"The Archives Team","dateText":"5-12-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":5,"day":12}},{"id":"Hemp-Warrior-Alex-White-Plume","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-05-04T00:00-04:00","byline":"Native Business Staff","headline":"Hemp Warrior Alex White Plume","headlineText":"

Hemp Warrior

","bodyHeadline":"Hemp Warrior : For Industrial Hemp Grower Alex White Plume, Sovereign Resolve Is Finally Paying Off","titleDivider":280,"subtitle":"

For Industrial Hemp Grower Alex\nWhite Plume, Sovereign Resolve Is\nFinally Paying Off

","subtitleDivider":198,"image1":"//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/6uRfWWk378JG4bNUmfFvYb/ad0cdb2bf0807214ebfc06f5b32c0ade/hempwarrioralexwhiteplume1049.jpg","excerpt":"All living things deserve respect,” says Alex White Plume, Oglala Lakota, who performs a ritual before each hemp harvest. “We tell the ","bodyText":"All living things deserve respect,” says Alex White Plume, Oglala Lakota, who performs a ritual before each hemp harvest. “We tell the plant, ‘Thank you. We’re going to use you.’”\n\nAfter 1998, when White Plume planted his first acres of hemp, thoughts kept him up at night: “Are we doing the harvest ceremonies right? Are we singing the right songs?” White Plume told Native Business Magazine.\n\nHis concern about cultivating hemp while honoring Lakota tradition turned into a living nightmare between 2000-2002 when dozens of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents raided his hemp fields on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Descending with “weed whackers,” they chopped the towering plants to the base of their stalks and ripped others up from the roots. “It gave us PTSD; it shocked us,” White Plume said. “They call it ‘eradicating.’ To us, it was theft of our property.”\n\nLittle did the agents know, the violent assault shook loose new seeds. “The DEA successfully replanted our field for us. We called it a DEA/FBI hemp field and used it as a tourist attraction for a while. People had a good laugh about it,” White Plume said.\n\nDEA agents didn’t arrest White Plume or his family. Despite misperceptions, hemp is not classified as a drug. While it mirrors the marijuana plant in appearance, hemp does not contain high levels of the psychoactive chemical THC. Industrial hemp lends itself to three categories of products: fiber, seed, and cannabidiol (CBD). Hemp offers vital nutrients in food or supplement form.\n\nWhile White Plume wasn’t thrown in jail, his battle to grow and process hemp was hardly over. In 2004, the U.S. Department of Justice obtained a permanent injunction against White Plume, banning him from planting hemp. A federal judge lifted the one-of-a-kind ban in 2016.\n\nIn spite of numerous legal setbacks and discrimination, White Plume remained steadfast in his mission—to raise industrial hemp to generate vital income for his family and tribal members on the most impoverished reservation in the United States.\n\n“I live in the poorest community and the poorest county in America today. I was desperate to bring some type of economic development in, where we could use the land without destroying the land,” White Plume told Native Business Magazine. \n\nFor the White Plume family, that time has finally arrived.\n\nThe White Plume family has partnered with Evo Hemp to produce full-spectrum CBD extracts. The Boulder, Colorado-based Evo Hemp is known for its line of Hemp Bars sold in more than 3,000 retailers, including Whole Foods Markets and Kroger.\n\nToday, anyone can purchase organic HempX Extract and HempX Capsules, made from White Plume’s organic, cannabinoid-rich hemp flower. His products are sold on EvoHemp.com, Walmart. com, and on the shelves of dozens of retailers across the country. “We’re hoping that it will be Wal-Mart brick and mortar stores soon,” Evo Hemp President Ari Sherman told Native Business Magazine.\n\n“We decided to partner on 10 acres (of hemp) with Alex White Plume because with CBD (as opposed to fiber or seed), you need a lot fewer acres. Ten acres will produce well over a million dollars’ worth of industrial hemp,” Sherman said.\n\nEvo Hemp brings a wealth of advantages to the table including a sales network of more than 100 people deployed across the country. The company’s products can be purchased in more than 3,000 retail stores including Kroger, Costco, Whole Foods Markets, and a number of small natural food chains. “We’re really hitting the mainstream consumer with our hemp products,” Sherman said.\n\nNYA thanks NATIVE BUSINESS\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"LoMRdqTHP0F5WGgoPgqkL","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:27.117Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"Native Business Staff","dateText":"5-4-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":5,"day":4}},{"id":"RIGHT-Admit-It-Fox-News-has-been-right","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-04-16T00:00-04:00","byline":"Gary Abernathy","headline":"RIGHT Admit It Fox News has been right","headlineText":"

RIGHT

","bodyHeadline":"RIGHT : Admit it - Fox News has been right all along","titleDivider":250,"subtitle":"

Admit it:

","subtitleDivider":220,"callout":"

Fox News has been right\nall along

","calloutDivider":190,"image1":"//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/6xfkDrJJotvO9mIPeCfEVv/53ea805ccba041f15a3e906353bffcdc/williambarr2-600.jpg","photoCaption":"Attorney General William Barr appears before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee (Andrew Harnik/AP)","excerpt":"By Gary Abernathy \nThroughout most of southern Ohio, residents who watch cable news are predominantly glued to one channel: Fox News.\n","bodyText":"By [Gary Abernathy](https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/gary-abernathy/ \"articles\")\n\nThroughout most of southern Ohio, residents who watch cable news are predominantly glued to one channel: Fox News.\n\nPeople there don’t watch Fox News to know what to think; they already know what they think, and they avoid news channels that insult their intelligence and core beliefs. Yes, Fox News is an echo chamber for the right, but no more than CNN and MSNBC are for the left, as far as conservatives are concerned. To be fair, when a Democrat is in the White House, the networks switch places, with Fox News criticizing every move, and MSNBC and CNN defending the Oval Office fortress.\n\nBut for now, while partisans on the left may quibble, the fact remains that on the subject of collusion with Russia by President Trump or his campaign, Fox News was right and the others were wrong. For at least two years, MSNBC and CNN devoted hour upon hour, day after day, to promoting the narrative that Trump colluded with the Russians, and that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III was going to prove it. That turned out to be wrong.\n\nAlong with defending Trump, Fox News hosts such as Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham and, especially, Sean Hannity have been slammed for spending nearly two years clamoring for an investigation of the investigators, aligning themselves with the president’s claim of a politically motivated witch hunt. Most of the media portrayed such accusations as preposterous, designed merely to divert attention from Trump’s alleged misdeeds.\n\nBut then comes Attorney General William P. Barr, dropping a bombshell last week by declaring during congressional testimony that he thinks [“spying did occur](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/04/10/ag-barr-says-spying-did-occur-trump-campaign-reviewing-legality/3421411002/ \"article\")” on the Trump campaign in 2016, and that he is looking into it. Democrats and many in the media immediately blasted Barr for carrying Trump’s water. Barr soon [clarified](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boAevUmrzI0 \"video\") his remarks, saying, “I am not saying that improper surveillance occurred. I’m saying that I am concerned about it and looking into it.”\n\n[Just three weeks ago](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/24/who-is-attorney-general-barr-man-deciding-what-parts-mueller-report-release/?utm_term=.61d15a8825d8 \"article\"), before Mueller wrapped up his report, The Post — in a story representative of mainstream sources at the time — produced a mostly flattering profile of the new attorney general. “A Justice Department official told The Washington Post last month that Barr is viewed at the department as ‘a lawyer’s lawyer’ and is seen as less politically minded than his predecessors,” the story noted.\n\nTimothy Flanigan, a former Barr colleague at the Justice Department, described Barr’s independent streak, saying, “If Bill starts getting the tweet treatment, Bill is a tough guy. He’s a tough, tough guy. Not that Jeff Sessions wasn’t, but I don’t think Bill’s just going to sit there and take it. I think he would make sure that the president understood that it is not really a smart thing to be lambasting the attorney general.”\n\nNow, Barr is being cast by the liberal cable channels and others as an unscrupulous political hack attached to the president’s leash. [On CBS’s “60 Minutes” on Sunday](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-14/pelosi-says-barr-may-be-whitewashing-his-mueller-summary \"article\"), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said that Barr “may be whitewashing” his summary of the report. Such accusations represent an unlikely turn of events for a 68-year-old professional with an impeccable record and a career more behind him than in front of him.\n\nFor Fox News devotees in southern Ohio and other Trump strongholds, nothing from the Mueller investigation has provided cause to waver from their preferred news source. Meanwhile, even regular viewers of CNN and MSNBC must certainly recognize the straws being grasped to justify sticking with a conspiracy theory that has been largely debunked — although the [expected release of Mueller’s report](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/mueller-reports-release-is-expected-thursday-justice-dept-says/2019/04/15/dd44eb02-5f91-11e9-9412-daf3d2e67c6d_story.html?utm_term=.3d03042029b1 \"article\") this week will probably provide just enough juice for one last effort.\n\nAfter two years of conjecture from all sides, some hard truths have emerged. Russia [did try](https://www.wired.com/story/did-russia-affect-the-2016-election-its-now-undeniable/ \"article\") to influence the 2016 election. Neither Trump nor his campaign conspired with Russia. The president’s actions did not rise to criminal obstruction of justice. And how and why this all began may well turn out to be the most troubling story of all.\n\nDuring his confirmation hearing in January, [Barr told senators](https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/15/politics/william-barr-hearing/index.html \"article\"), “I am not going to do anything that I think is wrong, and I will not be bullied into doing anything I think is wrong. By anybody. Whether it be editorial boards, or Congress or the president. I’m going to do what I think is right.” Observers at the time took Barr’s comments as reassurance of his independence from Trump, but in hindsight it should be noted that he mentioned editorial boards and Congress first.\n\nBarr’s career does not paint a portrait of someone who chases tin-foil-hat conspiracies. There’s enough evidence in the public record to raise valid suspicions that the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign was motivated not by real concerns about national security, but rather by a loathing of the candidate. And though new facts may emerge in the full, redacted report, they won’t change the larger truth. It would behoove serious journalists to put aside their political biases and delve into a story that might actually be worthy of Watergate comparisons — even if it includes the painful admission that Fox News has been right all along.\n\nNYA thanks Washington Post\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"4KS8bUTrVptSpdeRxL0NBC","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:40.260Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"Gary Abernathy","dateText":"4-16-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":4,"day":16}},{"id":"Green-New-Deal-outline","page":"page-1","column":"right","date":"2019-03-26T00:00-04:00","headline":"Green New Deal outline","headlineText":"

GREEN\nNEW DEAL

Rep. Alexandria\nOcasio-Cortez Releases \nGreen New Deal Outline

\n","bodyHeadline":"GREEN NEW DEAL : Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Releases Green New Deal Outline","titleDivider":250,"titlesFullWidth":true,"image1":"//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/29oq0HSdNZbTjQgEPKFFi1/b5655ba55c5125155536b33503393649/greennewdeal1-aoc.jpg","photoCaption":"photo: Amr Alfiky","excerpt":"The Green New Deal legislation laid out by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey sets goals for some drastic measures to cut carbon emissions across the economy. In the process, it aims to create jobs and boost the economy. \n","bodyText":"The Green New Deal legislation laid out by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey sets goals for some drastic measures to cut carbon emissions across the economy. In the process, it aims to create jobs and boost the economy. \n\nWhether it's a deadly cold snap or a hole under an Antarctic glacier or a terrifying new report, there seem to be constant reminders now of the dangers that climate change poses to humanity.\n\n

Ocasio-Cortez Talks About\nAmbitious Plan To Combat\nClimate Change

\n\nRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., think they have a start to a solution. Thursday they [are introducing](https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=5729033-Green-New-Deal-FINAL \"document\") a framework defining what they call a \"Green New Deal\" — what they foresee as a massive policy package that would remake the U.S. economy and, they hope, eliminate all U.S. carbon emissions.\n\nThat's a really big — potentially impossibly big — undertaking.\n\n\"Even the solutions that we have considered big and bold are nowhere near the scale of the actual problem that climate change presents to us,\" Ocasio-Cortez told NPR's Steve Inskeep in an interview that aired Thursday on *Morning Edition*.\n\nShe added: \"It could be part of a larger solution, but no one has actually scoped out what that larger solution would entail. And so that's really what we're trying to accomplish with the Green New Deal.\"\n\n__What is the Green New Deal?__\n\nIn very broad strokes, the Green New Deal legislation laid out by Ocasio-Cortez and Markey sets goals for some drastic measures to cut carbon emissions across the economy, from electricity generation to transportation to agriculture. In the process, it aims to create jobs and boost the economy.\n\n![greennewdeal2-warming](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/2x48Kr27aHQ68DIRy96hCp/ca442a79d8fd8acb4134157230b1af1f/greennewdeal2-warming.jpg)\n\n__[Environment](https://www.npr.org/sections/environment/ \"npr\")__\n\n__[2018 Was Earth's Fourth-Hottest Year On Record, Scientists Say](https://www.npr.org/2019/02/06/692060375/2018-was-earths-fourth-hottest-year-on-record-scientists-say \"article\")__\n\nn that vein, the proposal stresses that it aims to meet its ambitious goals while paying special attention to groups like the poor, disabled and minority communities that might be disproportionately affected by massive economic transitions like those the Green New Deal calls for.\n\nImportantly, it's a nonbinding resolution, meaning that even if it were to pass (more on the challenges to that below), it wouldn't itself create any new programs. Instead, it would potentially affirm the sense of the House that these things should be done in the coming years.\n\n__What are the specifics of that framework?__\n\nThe [bill calls for a](https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/ocasio-cortez.house.gov/files/Resolution on a Green New Deal.pdf \"document\") \"10-year national mobilizations\" toward accomplishing a series of goals that the resolution lays out.\n\n(Note: Ocasio-Cortez's office released an [updated version](https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/ocasio-cortez.house.gov/files/Resolution on a Green New Deal.pdf \"file\") of the bill on Thursday. The earlier version, which we had included in a prior version of this story, is [still available here](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5729033-Green-New-Deal-FINAL.html \"document\").)\n\nAmong the most prominent, the deal calls for \"meeting 100 percent of the power demand in the United States through clean, renewable, and zero-emission energy sources.\" The ultimate goal is to stop using fossil fuels entirely, Ocasio-Cortez's office told NPR, as well as to transition away from nuclear energy.\n\nIn addition, the framework, as described in the legislation as well as a [blog post](https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/media/blog-posts/green-new-deal-faq \"blog\") — containing an updated version of [\"FAQs\"](https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=5729035-Green-New-Deal-FAQ \"faq\") provided to NPR by Ocasio-Cortez's office — calls for a variety of other lofty goals:\n\n- \"upgrading all existing buildings\" in the country for energy efficiency;\n- working with farmers \"to eliminate pollution and greenhouse gas emissions ... as much as is technologically feasible\" (while supporting family farms and promoting \"universal access to healthy food\");\n- \"Overhauling transportation systems\" to reduce emissions — including expanding electric car manufacturing, building \"charging stations everywhere,\" and expanding high-speed rail to \"a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary\";\n- A guaranteed job \"with a family-sustaining wage, adequate family and medical leave, paid vacations and retirement security\" for every American;\n- \"High-quality health care\" for all Americans.\n\n![greennewdeal3-melting](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/32uMPIScLixECu7pTilG8t/79fa4f908771d4dd92ce94da4de9cf42/greennewdeal3-melting.jpg)\n\nWhich is to say: the Green New Deal framework combines big climate-change-related ideas with a wish list of progressive economic proposals that, taken together, would touch nearly every American and overhaul the economy.\n\n__Are those ideas doable?__\n\nMany in the climate science community, as well as Green New Deal proponents, agree that saving the world from disastrous effects of climate change requires aggressive action.\n\nAnd some of the Green New Deal's goals are indeed aggressive. For example, Ocasio-Cortez told NPR that \"in 10 years, we're trying to go carbon-neutral.\"\n\nAccording to Jesse Jenkins, a postdoctoral environmental fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School, that may be an unreachable goal.\n\n\"Where we need to be targeting really is a net-zero carbon economy by about 2050, which itself is an enormous challenge and will require reductions in carbon emissions much faster than have been achieved historically,\" he said. \"2030 might be a little bit early to be targeting.\"\n\nSimilarly, removing combustible engines from the roads or expanding high-speed rail to largely eliminate air travel would require nothing short of revolutionizing transportation.\n\nLikewise, some of the more progressive economic policies — universal health care and [a job guarantee](https://www.npr.org/2018/05/08/609091985/likely-2020-democratic-candidates-want-to-guarantee-a-job-to-every-american \"article\"), for example — while popular among some Democrats, would also be very difficult to implement and transition into.\n\nOn top of all that, implementing all of these policies could cost trillions upon trillions of dollars.\n\nAltogether, the Green New Deal is a loose framework. It does not lay out guidance on how to implement these policies.\n\nRather, the idea is that Ocasio-Cortez and Markey will \"begin work immediately on Green New Deal bills to put the nuts and bolts on the plan described in this resolution.\"\n\nAnd again, all of this is hypothetical — it would be tough to implement and potentially extremely expensive ... *if* it passed.\n\n__So did the idea of a Green New Deal start with Ocasio-Cortez?__\n\nNot at all.\n\nWhile the Green New Deal has in the last year or so grown central to progressive Democrats' policy conversations, the idea of a Green New Deal itself is well over a decade old. Environmentalists were talking about it as far back as 2003, when the term popped up in a [*San Francisco Chronicle* article](https://www.sfgate.com/politics/joegarofoli/article/Mother-Earth-s-cozy-conference-Annual-Bioneers-2570429.php \"article\") about an environmentalist conference.\n\nIt gained traction with a [2007 *New York Times* column](https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/19/opinion/19friedman.html \"article\") from Thomas Friedman, where he used the phrase to describe the scope of energy investments he thought would be necessary to slow climate change on a large scale.\n\nThe phrase was also used around President Barack Obama's 2009 stimulus, which had [around $90 billion](https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/01/15/the-trouble-with-the-green-new-deal-223977 \"article\") worth of environmental initiatives.\n\nWhile the idea gained some currency in Europe and also in the Green Party, it wasn't until after the 2016 election that it really gained broad popularity on the left in the U.S.\n\nThis latest iteration is different both in the political energy that it has amassed and the grand scope it is taking. While it was a product of the progressive activist community, Ocasio-Cortez has been perhaps the most visible proponent of the plan and has helped it gain nationwide attention.\n\n__So will it pass?__\n\nThat looks unlikely.\n\nYes, there's some energy for it on the left — some House Democrats have [already said they will support the bill](https://www.axios.com/green-new-deal-house-resolution-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-9bca3bd8-3932-43e8-87c9-caf2011ed533.html \"article\"). However, there are indications House leadership isn't prioritizing the idea as much as those more liberal Democrats would like — Speaker Nancy Pelosi [frustrated Green New Deal proponents](https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/423492-house-dems-formalize-climate-committee-plans-without-green-new-deal \"article\") by not giving them the kind of committee they wanted to put the policies together.\n\nAfter the deal's Thursday release, she also cast the plan as simply one of any number of environmental proposals the House might consider.\n\n\"It will be one of several or maybe many suggestions that we receive,\" [Pelosi told Politico](https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/07/pelosi-trump-government-shutdown-1154355 \"article\"). \"The green dream or whatever they call it, nobody knows what it is, but they're for it right?\"\n\n![greennewdeal4-fire](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/3XKbUm57yqelK3ezpL7bfR/dc35b5e0323a9c65349c7a05abd41bc3/greennewdeal4-fire.jpg)\n\nIn addition, it's easy to see how the bill could be dangerous for moderate House Democrats, many of whom come from swing districts and may be loath to touch such a progressive proposal.\n\nAmong Republicans — even those worried about climate change — the package, with its liberal economic ideas, will also likely be a nonstarter.\n\n\"Someone's going to have to prove to me how that can be accomplished because it looks to me like for the foreseeable future we're gonna be using a substantial amount of fossil fuels,\" said Rep. Francis Rooney, R-Fla., co-chair of the bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucus, speaking to NPR before the Green New Deal's text was released.\n\nFor his part, Rooney is in favor of a carbon tax, [a policy he helped propose](https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/418596-bipartisan-group-of-lawmakers-propose-landmark-carbon-tax \"article\") with a bipartisan group of lawmakers in November. Information from Ocasio-Cortez's office says that the Green New Deal could include a carbon tax, but that it would be \"a tiny part\" of the total package of policies.\n\nMeanwhile, there's little chance of a Green New Deal getting a vote in the Republican-controlled Senate.\n\n__If it's not going to pass and it's not even binding, why is it worth even talking about?__\n\nIt's worth talking about because it already is a politically powerful idea among Democrats.\n\n![greennewdeal5-candidates](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/1IohhBqHTJXVEvBptL8ABZ/ae7a046103f265796c5afc996c95bef7/greennewdeal5-candidates.jpg)\n\nAlready, presidential candidates are being asked whether they support the idea of a Green New Deal, meaning it's easy to see the issue becoming a litmus test for some voters in both the 2020 congressional elections and the presidential election.\n\nTo more liberal Democrats, the prospect of such an ambitious economic and environmental package at the center of the 2020 campaign may be particularly energizing.\n\n\"I think it's like a really weird instinct that the Democratic Party develops to not be exciting intentionally,\" said Sean McElwee, co-founder of the progressive think tank Data for Progress. \"Most of politics is getting people excited enough to show up and vote for you. And I think that a Green New Deal and [Medicare-for-all](https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/01/30/689930022/several-democrats-eying-a-presidential-run-embrace-medicare-for-all \"article\") — these are ideas that are big enough to get people excited and show up to vote for you.\"\n\nFor her part, Ocasio-Cortez says that a policy like the Green New Deal could get voters excited enough to pressure their Congress members to support it.\n\n\"I do think that when there's a wide spectrum of debate on an issue, that is where the public plays a role. That is where the public needs to call their member of Congress and say, 'This is something that I care about,' \" she told NPR, adding, \"Where I do have trust is in my colleagues' capacity to change and evolve and be adaptable and listen to their constituents.\"\n\nThat said, it's easy to see how a Green New Deal litmus test could backfire on that front, endangering some Democrats — particularly in swing districts.\n\nBut it's not just about national politics. The national-level energy for a Green New Deal could boost efforts in cities and states. [New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo](https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-announces-green-new-deal-included-2019-executive-budget \"article\"), for example, has been pushing a Green New Deal in his state.\n\nAside from the politics, there's the fact that climate change remains an impending threat — one for which the world has yet to come up with a fix.\n\n\"It's a big legislation because it's a huge (expletive) problem! We're all going to die,\" said McElwee. \"Every week it seems like the risks of climate change become more real, and the amount of devastation it is going to wreak upon humanity becomes larger, and that means we have to do bigger things.\"","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"4JoPUPt8oYrm82Mdcj4MLK","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:22.088Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"3-26-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":3,"day":26}},{"id":"Why Does NYA Sound Better","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-02-11T00:00-05:00","byline":"nya","headline":"Why Does NYA Sound Better","headlineText":"

WHY?\n![XSTREAM-LOGO-1408](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/3vUbfQOlfoe26kjcjYjWD8/e136ad084137987e1c59b95d7c3b985a/XSTREAM-LOGO-1408.jpg)

HEARING IS\nBELIEVING!

","bodyHeadline":"WHY : HEARING IS BELIEVING!","titleDivider":240,"excerpt":"Xstream by NYA music sounds better everywhere on any device! \n\nEspecially Android cell phones that play full high resolution. They are sounding awesome now! We have heard them!\n","bodyText":"Xstream by NYA music sounds better everywhere on any device! \n\nEspecially Android cell phones that play full high resolution. They are sounding awesome now! We have heard them!
\nAndroid is in testing and will come very soon!\n\nHere’s why. Xstream rocks! \n\nMusic on ‘Xstream by NYA’ sounds better right away because Xstream by NYA is able to play a full high res file anywhere! All the other services are limited to MP3, CD or a compressed file. \n\n__Imagine this:__\n\n-\tSpotify is limited to 320 kbps or a lower tier of quality. That’s two levels of quality to choose from with Spotify. \n-\tXstream by NYA has 15,000 levels of quality and continuously seeks the highest quality bandwidth allowed at your location, including extremely low bandwidth to super high bandwidth and every step in between. It’s seamless.\n-\tBecause Xstream by NYA has no bandwidth limitations, it easily plays music over 6,000 kbps, more than enough for High Resolution playback.\n-\tHigh bandwidth allows all music to be heard in High Res, exceeding an iPhone’s capabilities for playback, still, even with that limitation, anyone can hear the difference between ‘Xstream by NYA’ and ‘Spotify’ on an iPhone. It’s big! \n-\tSome phones by ‘SAMSUNG’ and ‘LG’ can play full high resolution today, exceeding even an iPhone’s capabilities. The listening experience on those phones is truly amazing! That said, the High Res advantage of Xstream by NYA is still quite obvious on the iPhone. Our APP for Android will be ready in May. \n\n__Just try this:__\n\n-\tlisten to one of my songs on your iPhone using neilyoungarchives.com ‘Xstream by NYA’. \n-\tNow listen to the same song through Spotify or one of the other services. \n-\tXstream by NYA is better sounding because we are able to play a file with all the quality (air, depth, dynamics, smoothness) of the original. Spotify is not capable of that. \n-\tIt doesn’t matter if you are using Bluetooth speakers or whatever, Xstream by NYA sounds best.\n-\tYour only limitation is the playback device you have chosen to use, yet even on low quality playback devices the difference is obvious. \n\n__Hearing is Believing.__
\nXstream by NYA.","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"1W439q1daVInELXzP5uNq1","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:39.140Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"nya","dateText":"2-11-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":2,"day":11}},{"id":"NYA Subscription from iPhone?","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2019-02-03T00:00-05:00","byline":"nya","headline":"NYA Subscription from iPhone?","headlineText":"

NYA\nSUBSCRIPTION\nFROM IPHONE?

","bodyHeadline":"NYA SUBSCRIPTION FROM IPHONE? : simple instructions to subscribe","titleDivider":240,"subtitle":"

simple instructions\nto subscribe

","subtitleDivider":200,"image1":"//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/73EsC3NP9kjE7auHLH7IPP/b9a1b7f57ae43902eae39cdedfe9659a/app-home-screen852.jpg","excerpt":"*Visit neilyoungarchives.com http://neilyoungarchives.com from the browser\non your phone. *\n*Click the Global Menu (square in top left of ","bodyText":"- Visit [neilyoungarchives.com](http://neilyoungarchives.com) from the browser on your phone.\n- Click the Global Menu (square in top left of of screen)\n- Click the blue \"subscribe\" button\n- Log in to your NYA account or Sign up if you don't already have one.\n- Click \"Get NYA Unlimited\" on the next page (or click global menu>account>plans)\n- Select Annual or Monthly Subscription and Check out.\n\nIt's that easy!\n\nEnjoy NYA and all NY music on your APP!
\nNYA\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"2oZS0u7j3Kgub9aka12jhv","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:35.157Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"nya","dateText":"2-3-19","releaseDate":{"year":2019,"month":2,"day":3}},{"id":"MUSIC MOVES AGAIN!","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2018-12-31T00:00-05:00","byline":"NYA","headline":"MUSIC MOVES AGAIN!","headlineText":"

MUSIC MOVES\nAGAIN!

","bodyHeadline":"MUSIC MOVES AGAIN! : THE SOUND OF TOMORROW?","titleDivider":200,"subtitle":"

THE SOUND OF TOMORROW?

","subtitleDivider":170,"excerpt":"A dream is finally coming true!\n\nYou know, I’ve worked on this for years. I’ve always heard it. I’ve tried to explain it. I failed to get across to people what this is. . . . . but now that’s over. . . . . \n","bodyText":"A dream is finally coming true!\n\nYou know, I’ve worked on this for years. I’ve always heard it. I’ve tried to explain it. I failed to get across to people what this is. . . . . but now that’s over. . . . . \n\n![musicmoves-1](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/3CfHpAXbckq8Gq6moMsCKq/27659c69594b2c6b07e2d246e3b36c97/musicmoves-1.png)\n\nThe NYA APP speaks for itself. Everyone hears it. It doesn’t matter how bad your system is. Just plug your phone into it. NYA music sounds more alive through it. You can hear and feel the difference. You can experience the music in a new deeper way for yourself through any playback device.\n\nI feel great. Reading people’s reactions to this APP is wonderful. Finally, it’s on a level playing field with everything else and can be truly compared.\n\nIt’s Music to my Ears!
\nCheck out what these folks are saying:\n\n\n[neilyoungarchives](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/neil-young-archives/id1444818920 \"itunes\")\n\n4.6/5 rating at IOS app store.\n\nNeil Does it again - Boundless50
\nContinuing his efforts to improve digital audio quality, Neil has hit a home run with a well-designed app that provides great sound (and flexibility when using a cellular connection) to enjoy even more his broad catalog of music. __Now, if the technology could also be used with other artists’ music as well…__\n\n![musicmoves-2](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/6I7qHlzZIso8s0meACY4qi/e0bcc70791b3373f6a49627d2d3c0119/musicmoves-2.png)\n\nGreat Sound Neil - JoeRay
\n***** (5-stars)
\nI just downloaded the Neil Young Archives app and the __music sounds alive;__ right out of the studio…Thanks Neil for 24 bit sound…Merry Christmas to all…\n\n24 bit steaming. Perfection! Love m… - WK-Y
\n*****
\n24 bit streaming from the iPhone, so simple! Perfect sound with no breaking up like the lower bit files. No more ssss. Even the 16 bit files sound better than Streaming from Tidal.
\n__Why can’t Apple Music do this?
\nThis is music streaming of the future!__
\nI have Apple Music and Tidal, this is the one app I use the most now. I wish all the music is on your website, Neil, and all remastered in 24 bit. __Use this app. Music moves again.__ I’m dancing and singing with it.\n\n![musicmoves-3](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/3ormQ6dz3qIMskWgAIUIgW/d7c2806dc5bf4c2013715a046134ff44/musicmoves-3.png)\n\nYeah - Kathy
\n*****
\nIt works. Sounds great. Yeah you need WiFi for high res, that ain’t Neil and company’s fault, maybe on 5G in a year or two. Been using this site all year and app does it justice.\n\n![musicmoves-4](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/XSyudhTDquisYu0Um68y6/2ed1b237b1959463e3fbdb4cf633c653/musicmoves-4.png)\n\nNeil’s done it again- AWLionelGuy
\n*****
\n__The difference is in the sound!__ Awesome app with amazing features. NYC allows you to listen to his discography the way it should be heard. Some navigation features are less than perfect, but I can’t wait to see the app evolve.\n\n\nMust have for Longtime Neil Fans - BertTR6
\n*****
\nThe Neil Young Archives is a treasure that music lovers around the world can enjoy with complete access to the life work of Neil Young. The sound quality at full resolution is __unquestionably the best I’ve ever streamed on my mobile device__. The fact that I can access all the gems, including the rare and obscure ones, and hear like I’m in the room with the music as it was meant to be…..\n\nBetter than expected - Hum1021\n\n![musicmoves-5](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/3Rrj1ssd4Q6oa0iWAkyqCC/19e97e8a28723378b12aa779d16f5a5d/musicmoves-5.png)\n\n*****
\nI’ve been using NYA for a long time I think it’s easier to navigate using the app than it is on the actual site Great job!
\nIf you like Neil, pay for the subscription. ..It’s well worth it.\n\nGreatest music all of all time - Deathcoach
\n*****
\nNothing less than the __greatest music app of all time!__\n\nBrilliant - Captain Daver
\n*****
\n__Simply brilliant app !!__\n\n*****
\nIf you like Neil’s music, or maybe are looking for __proof that music can come in hi-res through your phone__, this is your place. I love the music (it’s what got me to pick up a guitar), so this works well for me.
\nA must for Neil Young fans - tag302\n\n*****
\nWith subscription you get access to EVERYTHING related to Neil’s extensive musical output.\n\nIn addition to music, NYA provides a daily newspaper, Te NYA Times-Contrarian, delving into *inside the music* stories and news of the day reflections. But back to the sound of NYA. . . . . .\n\nFolks, what’s really amazing here is that even though it sounds great everywhere, __there is much more to this APP’s sound__ . . . . it is all there on your phone and you can unlock it and play it loud, all of it, the Startlingly Great Sound of High Res- through your home system.\n\n__Realizing the full potential of Xstream by NYA__ \n\nNow that you’re able to stream high res music anywhere, we want to offer some suggestions on how to use your phone and computer to hear Neil’s NYA music at its best quality. While you’d think advanced tech devices like iPhone could handle whatever audio is thrown at them, unfortunately the hardware manufacturers, including Apple, have never prepared for quality audio streaming. So, even though it makes an iPhone sound better than any phone you have ever heard, you are still not hearing all of what is being streamed to your phone.\n\nNow that High Res Xstream by NYA is here, iPhones are unfortunately unable play *all* of it. While you can play NYA files and they do sound better than anything else, to hear the full High-Res sound from your iPhone, you’ll need this\n\n__The solution__\n\nAdd a simple external device, some less than the size of your thumb, called a DAC, that upgrades the phone’s lower quality internal DAC. Simply, insert the DAC between the data port of phone (or computer) and headphone, speakers or amplifier, and you’ll hear music at its very best audio quality. Below are some DACs that are well-rated and capable of playing full High Res. They’re available from your local dealers and from Amazon. \n\nRemember, a DAC is not something you need to make ‘Xstream by NYA’ sound better than anything else through your phone; it already is doing that and you can hear it. An added DAC simply will allow you to unlock and hear all of the music, *more has ever been heard from any Iphone*. \n\nNextDrive Spectra - $149
\nMeridian - Explorer2 USB DAC - $199
\nChord Mojo - $499\n\nToday, some cellphones, particularly LG’s top models, are able to play high res (192/24) right from the phone *with no added DAC*. That is the way cellphones should be in the 21st Century.\n\nNYA","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"UkXs3pyT28waaMeyqQE2e","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:40.668Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"NYA","dateText":"12-31-18","releaseDate":{"year":2018,"month":12,"day":31}},{"id":"Banksy On Advertising","page":"page-1","column":"right","showBodyText":true,"date":"2018-09-15T00:00-04:00","byline":"Banksy","headline":"BANKSY ON ADVERTISING","headlineText":"BANKSY ON\nADVERTISING","bodyHeadline":"BANKSY ON ADVERTISING : THEY ARE LAUGHING AT YOU","titleDivider":250,"subtitle":"

THEY ARE LAUGHING AT YOU

","subtitleDivider":220,"image1":"//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/3BJBwa0suI4YekoiimG6yy/011e1cb5fd0d7bf05d038bbd2183bcf7/BANKSY-AD-1408.jpg","excerpt":"People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere ","bodyText":"People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are the Advertisers and they are laughing at you.\n\nYou, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say whatever they like whereever they like with total impunity.\n\nFuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone threw at your head.\n\nYou owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.\n\nBanksy
\nNYA","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"3NpsgvBMRy0mS0Qy4OYCcS","updatedAt":"2020-09-09T21:21:25.145Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"Banksy","dateText":"9-15-18","releaseDate":{"year":2018,"month":9,"day":15}}],"center":[{"id":"Mazzeo-page1","page":"page-1","column":"center","showBodyText":true,"date":"2022-08-04T00:00-04:00","order":1,"byline":"NYA","headline":"Mazzeo page1","headlineText":"

R.I.P. MAZZEO 1944-2022

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R.I.P. MAZZEO 1944-2022

\n![mazzeo-page1-zumacover](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/JtMuakGhe4UP4DIuSnuDT/b5c1c4d5a80306105c93526295f3bfc0/mazzeo-page1-zumacover.jpg)

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\n","titleDivider":200,"excerpt":"The artist Mazzeo, my old friend of 52 years, passed away Tuesday morning August 2nd. He was my life friend.\n\nA great artist, Mazzeo defined what it is to be dedicated to your work. We had so many wonderful times together in our 52 years of friendship. Mazz was one of the first friends I made after moving to Broken Arrow Ranch in September 1970, settling there for years, and raising a family. \n\nMazzeo created the album cover for Zuma, the Greendale sets and internal artwork for both the Greendale live and film productions as well as countless other projects we did. He played Earl Green in the Greendale film.\n\n‘The Artist Perspective,’ one of the many things we did together, will continue in the Times Contrarian. The latest piece I recently acquired from Mazz will be hanging in our new home down in the Southland. Always the artist, Mazz was dedicated, continuing to paint throughout his time here on Earth. He was wonderful in the way he approached his art and life! \n\nLove you Mazz and we will all really miss you.
\nlove
\nn","bodyText":"The artist Mazzeo, my old friend of 52 years, passed away Tuesday morning August 2nd. He was my life friend.\n\nA great artist, Mazzeo defined what it is to be dedicated to your work. We had so many wonderful times together in our 52 years of friendship. Mazz was one of the first friends I made after moving to Broken Arrow Ranch in September 1970, settling there for years, and raising a family. \n\nMazzeo created the album cover for Zuma, the Greendale sets and internal artwork for both the Greendale live and film productions as well as countless other projects we did. He played Earl Green in the Greendale film.\n\n‘The Artist Perspective,’ one of the many things we did together, will continue in the Times Contrarian. The latest piece I recently acquired from Mazz will be hanging in our new home down in the Southland. Always the artist, Mazz was dedicated, continuing to paint throughout his time here on Earth. He was wonderful in the way he approached his art and life! \n\nLove you Mazz and we will all really miss you.
\nlove
\nn","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"7BvydqcUKCigpKRU2sPWn2","updatedAt":"2022-08-04T18:39:40.364Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"NYA","dateText":"8-4-22","releaseDate":{"year":2022,"month":8,"day":4}},{"id":"Mo-Ostin-page1","page":"page-1","column":"center","showBodyText":true,"date":"2022-08-02T00:00-04:00","order":1,"byline":"NYA","headline":"Mo Ostin page1","headlineText":"

R.I.P. MO OSTIN 1927-2022

![moostinpage1-1](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/1AZ4N1OT5poNnHflw4RBv1/0f67db2e31a2b8a2c93136995cc86bea/moostinpage1-1.png)

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R.I.P. MO OSTIN 1927-2022

\n![moostinpage1-1](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/1AZ4N1OT5poNnHflw4RBv1/0f67db2e31a2b8a2c93136995cc86bea/moostinpage1-1.png)\n![moostinpage1-2](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/4oxTJ89ZyYYNw2fTy4vkgH/4dfaa0c73adb91c80c8c2da41cbe3861/moostinpage1-2.jpg)\n","titleDivider":200,"excerpt":"My old friend Mo Ostin has passed away. I am so sad that he is gone from this earth, but so happy for our life-long friendship. Mo was a hero. Supporting artists and their work all the way through his long life, Mo, the giant among Record Business leaders, backed us all up and let us do what we wanted with our music. He was always there for me and I really appreciate that. Thanks Mo.\n\nWithout Mo, my life in music could never have been the same. Every time we put a record out, it started with me bringing it in to Mo and playing it for him and Lenny Waronker. Playback for Mo and Lenny. This tradition continued right up to just last month when Rick Rubin and I played our latest Crazy Horse record for him at his home. We must have done that at least 40 times over the years. This last time was so special, as I sat between Mo and Lenny on his couch, listening to the new recording in his living room. Mo loved it, referring to ‘Harvest Moon’ and other records we had made together between songs while the record played. Michael Ostin, Mo’s wonderful son, was with us that day as always making sure everything was good. \n\nMo’s passing at 95 has touched me in a deep way, as I realize how fortunate i was to have him and Elliot Roberts at my side. They are both gone now, but their spirits will never be gone. \n\nThank you Mo. You are a champion for the creative artists who made music during your time. Now you can be with Evelyn and listen to Harvest Moon.
\nlove,
\nny","bodyText":"My old friend Mo Ostin has passed away. I am so sad that he is gone from this earth, but so happy for our life-long friendship. Mo was a hero. Supporting artists and their work all the way through his long life, Mo, the giant among Record Business leaders, backed us all up and let us do what we wanted with our music. He was always there for me and I really appreciate that. Thanks Mo.\n\nWithout Mo, my life in music could never have been the same. Every time we put a record out, it started with me bringing it in to Mo and playing it for him and Lenny Warnoker. Playback for Mo and Lenny. This tradition continued right up to just last month when Rick Rubin and I played our latest Crazy Horse record for him at his home. We must have done that at least 40 times over the years. This last time was so special, as I sat between Mo and Lenny on his couch, listening to the new recording in his living room. Mo loved it, referring to ‘Harvest Moon’ and other records we had made together between songs while the record played. Michael Ostin, Mo’s wonderful son, was with us that day as always making sure everything was good. \n\nMo’s passing at 95 has touched me in a deep way, as I realize how fortunate i was to have him and Elliot Roberts at my side. They are both gone now, but their spirits will never be gone. \n\nThank you Mo. You are a champion for the creative artists who made music during your time. Now you can be with Evelyn and listen to Harvest Moon.
\nlove,
\nny","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"2nRiVDc5ms1OkYBVr9Jipp","updatedAt":"2022-08-04T18:36:16.303Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"NYA","dateText":"8-2-22","releaseDate":{"year":2022,"month":8,"day":2}},{"id":"Toast-page1","page":"page-1","column":"center","showBodyText":true,"date":"2022-07-19T00:00-04:00","order":1,"byline":"NYA","headline":"Toast page1","headlineText":"

TOAST

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TOAST

\n![toast-page1excursion](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/1RgDYFRgNkceGFfzxGTaRD/7266ae1baeafa7537a9aa5afcbfa6d02/toast-page1excursion.jpg)\n","titleDivider":200,"excerpt":"What Toast has to give is an excursion into the world of music - one that I had never made before. Songs Like ‘Gateway’ and ‘How ya doin?’ possess a groove based in the history of the TOAST recording studio…… where Coltrane played many of his masterpieces, but it was also influenced by my previous tour. Returning from South America, the Horse brought that rhythm back to studio, continuing the quest for the finished TOAST album.\n\nEventually the album was finished at Toast studios, but i did not put it out at that time. That was a pretty big mistake for me. Toast had the groove. It should have come out. Instead, after spending so much time on it, i moved to another studio and recorded with Booker T, Duck Dunn and Steve Potts, along with Poncho Sampedro, doing many of the same songs again.\n\nThese songs were then well developed, having spent months writing and recording them with the horse at Toast studios during a tumultuous time for me, as is told in the lyrics. Possibly the songs had already had their ‘cherry’ moment. If I had put this out when it was made, it would have a had an effect on everything I did from then on - but that was not to be. When you hear Toast, I want you to know that it should have come out back in the early 2000s when it was made. I do think it is right up there with all the Crazy Horse records, at or near the top of the heap.\n\nI put out ‘Are you Passionate?’ instead. It included many of the same songs, although my own performances are not as immediate as the Toast versions already were at the time. On songs like Quit, there is no comparison. So here is an album that should have been released when it was made, 20 years back now.\n\nThe picture included here is part pf the ‘behind the scenes’ Toast video, made for and coming exclusively to NYA members.\n\nThanks
\nny","bodyText":"What Toast has to give is an excursion into the world of music - one that I had never made before. Songs Like ‘Gateway’ and ‘How ya doin?’ possess a groove based in the history of the TOAST recording studio…… where Coltrane played many of his masterpieces, but it was also influenced by my previous tour. Returning from South America, the Horse brought that rhythm back to studio, continuing the quest for the finished TOAST album.\n\nEventually the album was finished at Toast studios, but i did not put it out at that time. That was a pretty big mistake for me. Toast had the groove. It should have come out. Instead, after spending so much time on it, i moved to another studio and recorded with Booker T, Duck Dunn and Steve Potts, along with Poncho Sampedro, doing many of the same songs again.\n\nThese songs were then well developed, having spent months writing and recording them with the horse at Toast studios during a tumultuous time for me, as is told in the lyrics. Possibly the songs had already had their ‘cherry’ moment. If I had put this out when it was made, it would have a had an effect on everything I did from then on - but that was not to be. When you hear Toast, I want you to know that it should have come out back in the early 2000s when it was made. I do think it is right up there with all the Crazy Horse records, at or near the top of the heap.\n\nI put out ‘Are you Passionate?’ instead. It included many of the same songs, although my own performances are not as immediate as the Toast versions already were at the time. On songs like Quit, there is no comparison. So here is an album that should have been released when it was made, 20 years back now.\n\nThe picture included here is part pf the ‘behind the scenes’ Toast video, made for and coming exclusively to NYA members.\n\nThanks
\nny","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"5Q7OHpbZEl5CX4WvxYWwOU","updatedAt":"2022-07-19T15:33:20.232Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"NYA","dateText":"7-19-22","releaseDate":{"year":2022,"month":7,"day":19}},{"id":"Eldorado-Vinyl","page":"page-1","column":"center","showBodyText":true,"date":"2022-07-15T00:00-04:00","order":4,"byline":"NYA","headline":"Eldorado Vinyl","headlineText":"

ELDORADO VINYL

\n![ny-eldorado-lp-500](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/5hWroAUwkE6CX7SYs8EVWS/0418d4b0010558b99a34c6afa16f179b/ny-eldorado-lp-500.jpg)

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ELDORADO VINYL

\n![ny-eldorado-lp-500](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/5hWroAUwkE6CX7SYs8EVWS/0418d4b0010558b99a34c6afa16f179b/ny-eldorado-lp-500.jpg)

\n","titleDivider":200,"articleLayout":"single-column","excerpt":"The ELdorado EP will now be available on vinyl and sounds amazing. Because of the technology used in mastering from the original files, the digital to analog transfer is superb, getting more out of the digital masters than the original CD could present. This then, is the best sounding Eldorado ever! Available in both Vinyl and CD.\n\nPre-orders start this Friday, July 15, at 9 AM PT.
\nRelease date is August 19.\n","bodyText":"The ELdorado EP will now be available on vinyl and sounds amazing. Because of the technology used in mastering from the original files, the digital to analog transfer is superb, getting more out of the digital masters than the original CD could present. This then, is the best sounding Eldorado ever! Available in both Vinyl and CD.\n\nPre-orders start this Friday, July 15, at 9 AM PT.
\nRelease date is August 19.\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"5ZvGtD2l27id26Wow3imLA","updatedAt":"2022-07-15T15:58:24.442Z","type":"newsArticle","author":"NYA","dateText":"7-15-22","releaseDate":{"year":2022,"month":7,"day":15}},{"id":"Toast-The-Story-page1","page":"page-1","column":"center","showBodyText":true,"date":"2022-05-24T00:00-05:00","order":1,"headline":"Toast The Story page1","headlineText":"

TOAST - THE STORY

\n![toast-cover-1408](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/4QkyDw3lNlIITgnZ9Fvkbu/d9077b9aab108808d98dd25ef8ab4b11/toast-cover-1408.jpg)

Cover shot by Hannah Johnson

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TOAST - THE STORY

\n![toast-cover-1408](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/4QkyDw3lNlIITgnZ9Fvkbu/d9077b9aab108808d98dd25ef8ab4b11/toast-cover-1408.jpg)\n

Cover shot by Hannah Johnson

","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"Toast is an album that stands on its own in my collection, unlike any other. The songs of Toast were so sad at the time that I couldn’t put it out. I just skipped it and went on to do another album in its place. That was 2001.\n\nCrazy Horse and I recorded at ‘Toast’ studios in San Francisco. John Coltrane, one of my heroes, made some music there back in the day. The place had a vibe. It may have been called ‘Coast’ then, but maybe not. The name changed a few times back and forth. It was on Mission street in SF. The back door opened onto an alley. It was so stuffy in there that we left the door open until one day we saw rats coming in and out. After that, we just went outside for a smoke.\n\nThe music of Toast is about a relationship. There is a time in many relationships that go bad, a time long before the break up, where it dawns on one of the people, maybe both, that it’s over. This was that time.\n\nThe sound is murky and dark, but not in a bad way. Fat. From the first notes of Toast, I can feel the sadness that permeates the recording. One song, with its refrain, ”Don’t say you love me”, is called ‘Quit’. The next one, sort of like a Deep Purple hit, is called ‘[Standing in the Light of Love](/#/info-card?track=t2001_0207_01)’. “I don’t wanna get personal, or have you put me on the spot” is the opening line. Then came ‘Goin Home’. A lady is lost in her car. The dark city surrounds her - past present and future. It’s a scary place. You be the judge.\n\nNow the scene changes to a religious guy who just lost his job. He’s turning on Jesus. He can’t cut any more trees. He’s a logger. Finally, The ‘Gateway of Love’ beckons with “background noise on a changing sky”.\n\nI had forgotten about these songs, put them out of my mind and went on living my life.\n\nIt must be said that here Crazy Horse shows a depth never seen or heard before on any other Horse recording. For the greatest group I have ever met - CRAZY HORSE, this is a pinnacle. Where they let me go, where they took me, was unbelievable. I couldn’t stay. \n\nNext, “I’d like to shake your hand, Mr. Disappointment.” I see you now eye to eye. Murky and dark. There’s no mistaking it. How can you be so real and intangible? So we continued on down on the path. “She’s a healer”. But not this time. It’s Toast.\n\nBehind the board, John Hanlon was recording. Rick Rubin was in the control room for a fair amount of time during the recording as a guest. \n\nFinally, we came up with ‘Toast’, which was edited numerous times. What we have now released is our final take on what happened.\n\nToast is a unique record for me and I hope for you too. [Give it a listen](/#/album?id=A_098). Available for pre-order. [vinyl / hi res / CD](https://neilyoung.warnerrecords.com) - Friday May 27.\n","bodyText":"Toast is an album that stands on its own in my collection, unlike any other. The songs of Toast were so sad at the time that I couldn’t put it out. I just skipped it and went on to do another album in its place. That was 2001.\n\nCrazy Horse and I recorded at ‘Toast’ studios in San Francisco. John Coltrane, one of my heroes, made some music there back in the day. The place had a vibe. It may have been called ‘Coast’ then, but maybe not. The name changed a few times back and forth. It was on Mission street in SF. The back door opened onto an alley. It was so stuffy in there that we left the door open until one day we saw rats coming in and out. After that, we just went outside for a smoke.\n\nThe music of Toast is about a relationship. There is a time in many relationships that go bad, a time long before the break up, where it dawns on one of the people, maybe both, that it’s over. This was that time.\n\nThe sound is murky and dark, but not in a bad way. Fat. From the first notes of Toast, I can feel the sadness that permeates the recording. One song, with its refrain, ”Don’t say you love me”, is called ‘Quit’. The next one, sort of like a Deep Purple hit, is called ‘[Standing in the Light of Love](/#/info-card?track=t2001_0207_01)’. “I don’t wanna get personal, or have you put me on the spot” is the opening line. Then came ‘Goin Home’. A lady is lost in her car. The dark city surrounds her - past present and future. It’s a scary place. You be the judge.\n\nNow the scene changes to a religious guy who just lost his job. He’s turning on Jesus. He can’t cut any more trees. He’s a logger. Finally, The ‘Gateway of Love’ beckons with “background noise on a changing sky”.\n\nI had forgotten about these songs, put them out of my mind and went on living my life.\n\nIt must be said that here Crazy Horse shows a depth never seen or heard before on any other Horse recording. For the greatest group I have ever met - CRAZY HORSE, this is a pinnacle. Where they let me go, where they took me, was unbelievable. I couldn’t stay. \n\nNext, “I’d like to shake your hand, Mr. Disappointment.” I see you now eye to eye. Murky and dark. There’s no mistaking it. How can you be so real and intangible? So we continued on down on the path. “She’s a healer”. But not this time. It’s Toast.\n\nBehind the board, John Hanlon was recording. Rick Rubin was in the control room for a fair amount of time during the recording as a guest. \n\nFinally, we came up with ‘Toast’, which was edited numerous times. What we have now released is our final take on what happened.\n\nToast is a unique record for me and I hope for you too. [Give it a listen](/#/album?id=A_098). Available for pre-order. [vinyl / hi res / CD](https://neilyoung.warnerrecords.com) - Friday May 27.\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"3cG7Qr7QFVSXg3xAKFCDfU","updatedAt":"2022-05-27T16:23:38.379Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"5-24-22","releaseDate":{"year":2022,"month":5,"day":24}},{"id":"A-Day-At-The-Gallery-Starring-Hannah","page":"page-1","column":"center","showBodyText":true,"date":"2022-05-04T00:00-04:00","headline":"A Day At The Gallery Starring Hannah","headlineText":"

A DAY AT THE GALLERY\nSTARRING HANNAH JOHNSON!

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A DAY AT THE GALLERY
STARRING HANNAH JOHNSON!

\n","titleDivider":250,"vimeoId":"306502571","articleLayout":"single-column","excerpt":"Hannah has just moved toward her future, after heading up the build and launch of NYA from the very beginning! We wish you the best in a bright future! Thanks Hannah!.....LOVE from all of us at NYA!\n\nLove Earth,
\nBe well,
\nNeil","bodyText":"Hannah has just moved toward her future, after heading up the build and launch of NYA from the very beginning! We wish you the best in a bright future! Thanks Hannah!.....LOVE from all of us at NYA!\n\nLove Earth,
\nBe well,
\nNeil","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"552S8YihBuEAS1sndcyW3B","updatedAt":"2022-05-04T16:24:33.812Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"5-4-22","releaseDate":{"year":2022,"month":5,"day":4}},{"id":"Eldorado-Now-World-Wide-Release","page":"page-1","column":"center","showBodyText":true,"date":"2022-04-29T00:00-05:00","order":1,"headline":"Eldorado Now World Wide Release","headlineText":"

ELDORADO NOW\nWORLD WIDE RELEASE

\n![ny-eldorado-500](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/3lPDtrvUg6CEm6WTVPVTYv/30137e589f62232632b0925560155bd9/ny-eldorado-500.jpg)

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ELDORADO NOW
WORLD WIDE RELEASE

\n![ny-eldorado-500](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/3lPDtrvUg6CEm6WTVPVTYv/30137e589f62232632b0925560155bd9/ny-eldorado-500.jpg)

\n","titleDivider":250,"articleLayout":"single-column","excerpt":"Formerly a special release with songs and versions not heard before, Eldorado is now available at NYA. [Listen to Eldorado here](/#/album?id=A_034).
\nny","bodyText":"Formerly a special release with songs and versions not heard before, Eldorado is now available at NYA. [Listen to Eldorado here](/#/album?id=A_034).
\nny","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"7zjHx0CfvdmcyLpETA2aiC","updatedAt":"2022-05-01T10:29:02.425Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"4-29-22","releaseDate":{"year":2022,"month":4,"day":29}},{"id":"Next-Three-Vinyl-Bootlegs","page":"page-1","column":"center","showBodyText":true,"date":"2022-03-25T00:00-05:00","order":1,"headline":"Next Three Vinyl Bootlegs","headlineText":"

NEXT THREE VINYL BOOTLEGS

\n![Bootlegs square v3-1408](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/5AC4OPpwkThVDcT8svhVoj/e026cc5fe77c652db07135c3f254e443/Bootlegs_square_v3-1408.jpg)

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NEXT THREE VINYL BOOTLEGS

\n![Bootlegs square v3-1408](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/5AC4OPpwkThVDcT8svhVoj/e026cc5fe77c652db07135c3f254e443/Bootlegs_square_v3-1408.jpg)\n","titleDivider":250,"articleLayout":"single-column","excerpt":"The next three entries in the Official Bootleg Series—[Royce Hall](/#/album?id=A_127), [I’m happy that y’all came down (Dorothy Chandler Pavillion)](/#/album?id=A_128), and [Citizen Kane Jr Blues (The Bottom Line)](/#/album?id=A_130)—are finally and officially [available for preorder!](https://NeilYoung.lnk.to/NewReleases)\n\nThe first singles are available to stream in hi-res [right here on NYA](/#/playlist?id=Playlist_006_BootlegSingles), and you can watch the official music videos for each tune on their respective infocards. \n\nThe deeply oxidized rusties among you will have heard these shows before—they never sounded this sublime, so I hope you dig them all over again—but what excites me about this series is the opportunity people will have to sit down with these recordings for the first time. No need to dig around seedy corners of the internet or time travel to the kind of bygone record store that might keep this kind of thing under the counter with the other less-than-legal wares. \n\nSo, without further delay, I invite you to get into that under-the-counter mood: light one up (local ordinances permitting), head on over to the Official Bootleg Series playlist for a perfectly legal listening experience, and click yourself through to the Greedy Hand to buy some bootlegs, baby! \n\n-john o","bodyText":"The next three entries in the Official Bootleg Series—[Royce Hall](/#/album?id=A_127), [I’m happy that y’all came down (Dorothy Chandler Pavillion)](/#/album?id=A_128), and [Citizen Kane Jr Blues (The Bottom Line)](/#/album?id=A_130)—are finally and officially [available for preorder!](https://NeilYoung.lnk.to/NewReleases)\n\nThe first singles are available to stream in hi-res [right here on NYA](/#/playlist?id=Playlist_006_BootlegSingles), and you can watch the official music videos for each tune on their respective infocards. \n\nThe deeply oxidized rusties among you will have heard these shows before—they never sounded this sublime, so I hope you dig them all over again—but what excites me about this series is the opportunity people will have to sit down with these recordings for the first time. No need to dig around seedy corners of the internet or time travel to the kind of bygone record store that might keep this kind of thing under the counter with the other less-than-legal wares. \n\nSo, without further delay, I invite you to get into that under-the-counter mood: light one up (local ordinances permitting), head on over to the Official Bootleg Series playlist for a perfectly legal listening experience, and click yourself through to the Greedy Hand to buy some bootlegs, baby! \n\n-john o","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"5gj1PxyJ3svoqXlcg3RzTs","updatedAt":"2022-03-25T16:08:36.832Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"3-25-22","releaseDate":{"year":2022,"month":3,"day":25}},{"id":"ORS-Release-Series-V4-Box-Set","page":"page-1","column":"center","showBodyText":true,"date":"2022-03-18T00:00-05:00","order":1,"headline":"ORS Release Series V4 Box Set","headlineText":"

OFFICIAL RELEASE SERIES\nVOLUME 4 VINYL BOX SET

\n![ORS VOL4-Cover](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/2ewXM3astYm8IIiIeV7YYN/42e82fd52c13acdd62e2698465aef81f/ORS_VOL4-Cover.jpg)

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OFFICIAL RELEASE SERIES VOLUME 4 VINYL BOX SET

\n![ORS VOL4-Cover](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/2ewXM3astYm8IIiIeV7YYN/42e82fd52c13acdd62e2698465aef81f/ORS_VOL4-Cover.jpg)\n","titleDivider":250,"articleLayout":"single-column","excerpt":"[The ORS Volume 4 VINYL set is made up of 4 of my albums](https://neilyoung.warnerrecords.com/official-release-series-4-vinyl-box-set-1.html) for Reprise.
\n'__Hawks & Doves__', '__Re·ac·tor__' '__This Note’s for You__', and the limited release '__Eldorado__' (Japan Australia) are all included.
\nAfter the rush of 'Rust Never Sleeps' and the 'Live Rust' albums with Crazy Horse, I settled into a different phase of the musical journey with 'Hawks and Doves' and Crazy Horse's 'Reactor'. In the center of these four albums, I made a group of LPs for Geffen Records. Then I happily returned to reprise with 'This Note's for You' and Eldorado, the last two albums in this set.
\nny","bodyText":"[The ORS Volume 4 VINYL set is made up of 4 of my albums](https://neilyoung.warnerrecords.com/official-release-series-4-vinyl-box-set-1.html) for Reprise.
\n'__Hawks & Doves__', '__Re·ac·tor__' '__This Note’s for You__', and the limited release '__Eldorado__' (Japan Australia) are all included.
\nAfter the rush of 'Rust Never Sleeps' and the 'Live Rust' albums with Crazy Horse, I settled into a different phase of the musical journey with 'Hawks and Doves' and Crazy Horse's 'Reactor'. In the center of these four albums, I made a group of LPs for Geffen Records. Then I happily returned to reprise with 'This Note's for You' and Eldorado, the last two albums in this set.
\nny","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"4O7iWMQgcJgcDfhsS9Bldy","updatedAt":"2022-03-21T19:23:25.142Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"3-18-22","releaseDate":{"year":2022,"month":3,"day":18}},{"id":"I-Stand-With-Ukraine","page":"page-1","column":"center","showBodyText":true,"date":"2022-03-01T00:00-05:00","order":1,"headline":"I Stand With Ukraine","headlineText":"![istandwithukraine2](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/1yH8VbvFVGpDW8YBk2evPg/94674d24ffc98c09ef13aa4b40f44f78/istandwithukraine2.jpg)","bodyHeadline":"![istandwithukraine2](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/1yH8VbvFVGpDW8YBk2evPg/94674d24ffc98c09ef13aa4b40f44f78/istandwithukraine2.jpg)","titleDivider":250,"articleLayout":"single-column","excerpt":"*dhlovelife*","bodyText":"*dhlovelife*","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"2Q9CZaz8uG07M5qj2MpHjq","updatedAt":"2022-03-02T16:34:04.897Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"3-1-22","releaseDate":{"year":2022,"month":3,"day":1}},{"id":"Epic-Night-In-Amsterdam","page":"page-1","column":"center","showBodyText":true,"date":"2022-02-17T00:00-05:00","order":1,"headline":"Epic Night In Amsterdam","headlineText":"

EPIC NIGHT IN AMSTERDAM!

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Longest Show in NY History

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EPIC NIGHT IN AMSTERDAM!

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Longest Show in NY History

","titleDivider":250,"articleLayout":"single-column","excerpt":"__Amsterdam, Netherlands, Concert: Neil Young + Promise of the Real - July 9, 2016__\n\n[__*NOW ON NYA TIMELINE*__](/#/performance-log/tour?tourid=6JrgpqFXSuzWBJq41eSIS1&performanceid=1KOSNQSHnVRwrlf8jh20cG&media=setList)\n\nEpic night in Amsterdam. 26 songs, three and a half hours, the longest concert of the current tour and the longest Neil Young concert in his more than fifty year career. \"Don't Be Denied\" and \"Change Your Mind\" first time on the European Tour. The total number of different songs of the Tour now up to 57, Also, two song encore: \"Like An Inca\" & \"Here We Are In The Years”.\n\n![epicnightinamsterdam2](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/6A2x6Fkasil0LNuleVTP8R/e2578a39a046d93bc7e47860fed72348/epicnightinamsterdam2.jpg)\n\nThis night was unforgettable. The boys and I really enjoyed this show.
\nLove Earth
\nny ","bodyText":"__Amsterdam, Netherlands, Concert: Neil Young + Promise of the Real - July 9, 2016__\n\n[__*NOW ON NYA TIMELINE*__](/#/performance-log/tour?tourid=6JrgpqFXSuzWBJq41eSIS1&performanceid=1KOSNQSHnVRwrlf8jh20cG&media=setList)\n\nEpic night in Amsterdam. 26 songs, three and a half hours, the longest concert of the current tour and the longest Neil Young concert in his more than fifty year career. \"Don't Be Denied\" and \"Change Your Mind\" first time on the European Tour. The total number of different songs of the Tour now up to 57, Also, two song encore: \"Like An Inca\" & \"Here We Are In The Years”.\n\n![epicnightinamsterdam2](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/6A2x6Fkasil0LNuleVTP8R/e2578a39a046d93bc7e47860fed72348/epicnightinamsterdam2.jpg)\n\nThis night was unforgettable. The boys and I really enjoyed this show.
\nLove Earth
\nny ","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"6IhzNTQopmPedEaOpivaIs","updatedAt":"2022-02-17T21:36:55.338Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"2-17-22","releaseDate":{"year":2022,"month":2,"day":17}},{"id":"Trans-Restored-And-More","page":"page-1","column":"center","showBodyText":true,"date":"2022-02-12T00:00-05:00","order":1,"headline":"Trans Restored And More","headlineText":"

TRANS RESTORED\nand more

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TRANS RESTORED
and more

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\nThis was a story. Computer Age.\n\nI had a long form video planned, ready to go with the album simultaneously, telling the story of all the characters, many of whom sang with sub-titles to make their digital voices more recognizable. They were communicators! Telling the story.\n\n(Click Heading to Read More)","bodyText":"Trans is an album that to me, stands apart from all my other albums. When I made it, at first it was all computer age songs….sung through a vocoder to make the characters’ voices and played using technological instruments for accompaniment - synth drums..a synclavier. … ‘Transformer Man,’ ‘Computer Age’ and ‘Mr Soul’ were all like that. \n\nThere were also trans-songs with Crazy Horse playing on the tracks that used the vocoders as well, painting a picture of the times. ‘Computer Cowboy,’ ‘Sample and Hold,’ ‘We r in Control.’
\nThis was a story. Computer Age.\n\nI had a long form video planned, ready to go with the album simultaneously, telling the story of all the characters, many of whom sang with sub-titles to make their digital voices more recognizable. They were communicators! Telling the story.\n\nThe storyline lived where the digital people with synthetic voices dwelled - many of whom were working in the hospital trying to teach a non-speaking baby-child how to talk and communicate. He was my son. Three hospital nurses, Sylvia and the Synthetics, surrounded the child while another robotic being was always nearby -
\nTabulon, a robotic computer man, with a deep voice emanating from a grate in his chest reported the story. Tabulon’s face was a keypad. He was constantly pressing his face-keys with a flurry, keeping track of the story and reporting a point of view while singing and talking through his deep sounding chest grate.\n\nGeffen Records declined to let me make the video. \n\nLeft with all that music, in the end, I decided to go to the Islands and record there. New songs. ‘Island in the Sun, ‘A little thing called love,’ ‘Hold on to your love’ and ‘Like and Inca’ were all recorded right there and then.
\nWe took a whole new track….and combined the two records to make Trans -Trans, an album that told the tale of going from one life to another, as my own life had changed in many ways with the birth of my wonderful second son, quadriplegic, non-speaking, the subject of the film-story and one of my great teachers.\n\nNow the story has ultimately been told as it was meant to be. Animated by my friend Micah, the great Micah Nelson, our story of Trans is finally living!\n\nIn the meantime, Trans - the record, has been restored. All the original mixes are there. Just the way the album was first made. *The record is in the filing cabinet available now*. A missing song ‘If you got love,’ is still missing but now will be found in the archives Volume Three, along with the animated musical film - Trans.\n\nny
\nbe well\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"1upHb65QZ3cqJqPqSP9Ip7","updatedAt":"2022-02-17T17:11:57.819Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"2-12-22","releaseDate":{"year":2022,"month":2,"day":12}},{"id":"Dont-Forget-Love-gary-ward","page":"page-1","column":"center","showBodyText":true,"date":"2022-01-30T00:00-05:00","headline":"Dont Forget Love gary ward","headlineText":"

love earth

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love earth

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\n","titleDivider":250,"articleLayout":"single-column","excerpt":"“All of my fans who are looking for my music should use this link [amazonmusic.com/neilyoung](https://www.amazon.com/music/unlimited?view=neilyoung) for the US (or [amazonmusic.ca/neilyoung](https://www.amazon.ca/music/unlimited?view=neilyoung) for Canada, etc.). \n\nAmazon has been leading the pack in bringing Hi-Res audio to the masses, and it’s a great place to enjoy my entire catalog in the highest quality available.”
\nThanks
\nlove earth
\nbe well
\nneil\n\n(Click Heading for Worldwide Locations)","bodyText":"“All of my fans who are looking for my music should use this link [amazonmusic.com/neilyoung](https://www.amazon.com/music/unlimited?view=neilyoung) for the US (or [amazonmusic.ca/neilyoung](https://www.amazon.ca/music/unlimited?view=neilyoung) for Canada, etc.). \n\nAmazon has been leading the pack in bringing Hi-Res audio to the masses, and it’s a great place to enjoy my entire catalog in the highest quality available.”
\nThanks
\nlove earth
\nbe well
\nneil\n\n[amazon.com/neilyoung](https://www.amazon.com/music/unlimited?view=neilyoung)
\n[amazon.ca/neilyoung](https://www.amazon.ca/music/unlimited?view=neilyoung)
\n[amazon.com.au/neilyoung](https://www.amazon.com.au/music/unlimited?view=neilyoung)
\n[amazon.co.uk/neilyoung](https://www.amazon.co.uk/music/unlimited?view=neilyoung)
\n[amazon.de/neilyoung](https://www.amazon.de/music/unlimited?view=neilyoung)
\n[amazon.fr/neilyoung](https://www.amazon.fr/music/unlimited?view=neilyoung)
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\n[amazon.es/neilyoung](https://www.amazon.es/music/unlimited?view=neilyoung)","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"5txuLjK6645Q7uXnPcVnZf","updatedAt":"2022-02-05T10:53:29.646Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"1-28-22","releaseDate":{"year":2022,"month":1,"day":28}},{"id":"Spotify-More-Songs-Less-Sound","page":"page-1","column":"center","showBodyText":true,"date":"2022-01-28T00:00-05:00","order":1,"headline":"Spotify More Songs Less Sound","headlineText":"

SPOTIFY

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More Songs and Less Sound

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SPOTIFY

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More Songs and Less Sound

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\n","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"When I left SPOTIFY, I felt better.\n\nDigital music has been with us about 40 years now. Digital, rather than reproducing copies of the music as we did back in the analog day, reconstitutes it from 1s and 0s and plays back data that you hear as music.\n\nThis allows business people like those who run SPOTIFY to cut the quality right down to 5% of the music’s content. It’s just math. It’s easy to do that with digital, thus allowing more songs and less music to stream faster. That’s because 95% is missing. Thats what SPOTIFY the Tech company does. SPOTIFY then sells you the downgraded music. \n\nWhen I started everyone got to hear all the music. 100%.\n\n(Click Heading to Read More)","bodyText":"When I left SPOTIFY, I felt better.\n\nDigital music has been with us about 40 years now. Digital, rather than reproducing copies of the music as we did back in the analog day, reconstitutes it from 1s and 0s and plays back data that you hear as music.\n\nThis allows business people like those who run SPOTIFY to cut the quality right down to 5% of the music’s content. It’s just math. It’s easy to do that with digital, thus allowing more songs and less music to stream faster. That’s because 95% is missing. Thats what SPOTIFY the Tech company does. SPOTIFY then sells you the downgraded music. \n\nWhen I started everyone got to hear all the music. 100%.\n\nAMAZON, APPLE MUSIC and Qobuz deliver up to 100% of the music today and it sounds a lot better than the shitty degraded and neutered sound of SPOTIFY. If you support SPOTIFY, you are destroying an art form. Business over art. SPOTIFY plays the artist’s music at 5% of its quality and charges you like it was the real thing.\n\nAMAZON, APPLE MUSIC and Qobuz now deliver the real thing. SPOTIFY is ripping you off and has been since day 1. No goosebumps from SPOTIFY sound! \n\nSwitch to one of the alternatives - companies that support the arts. Real sound is available there. AMAZON, APPLE MUSIC and Qobuz You just have to leave Spotify and go to a new place that truly cares about music quality. \n\nI met Danile Ek when he started SPOTIFY. it sounded to me like he was really going to be getting into it. That was a long time ago. I wonder what happened.\n\nWhen I left Spotify, I felt better. \n\n__I support free speech. I have never been in favor of censorship. Private companies have the right to choose what they profit from, just as I can choose not to have my music support a platform that disseminates harmful information. I am happy and proud to stand in solidarity with the front line health care workers who risk their lives every day to help others.__ \n\nAs an unexpected bonus, I sound better everywhere else.\n\nlove earth
\nbe well
\nneil","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"6yD1TP9N8Q9gZTFVNLiegA","updatedAt":"2022-02-17T15:49:50.317Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"1-28-22","releaseDate":{"year":2022,"month":1,"day":28}},{"id":"Spotify-In-The-Name-Of-Truth","page":"page-1","column":"center","showBodyText":true,"date":"2022-01-26T00:00-05:00","headline":"Spotify In The Name Of Truth","headlineText":"

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SPOTIFY

IN THE NAME OF TRUTH

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SPOTIFY

IN THE NAME OF TRUTH

","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"SPOTIFY has recently become a very damaging force via its public misinformation and lies about COVID. \n\nI first learned of this problem by reading that 200 plus doctors had joined forces, taking on the dangerous life-threatening COVID falsehoods found in SPOTIFY programming. \n\nMost of the listeners hearing the unfactual, misleading and false COVID information on SPOTIFY are 24 years old, impressionable and easy to swing to the wrong side of the truth. \n\nThese young people believe SPOTIFY would never present grossly unfactual information. They unfortunately are wrong. I knew I had to try to point that out.\n\nAll my music is available on SPOTIFY, being sold to these young people, people who believe what they are hearing because it is on SPOTIFY, and people like me are supporting SPOTIFY by presenting my music there.\n\nI realized I could not continue to support SPOTIFY’s life threatening misinformation to the music loving public.\n\n(Click Heading to Read More)","bodyText":"SPOTIFY has recently become a very damaging force via its public misinformation and lies about COVID. \n\nI first learned of this problem by reading that 200 plus doctors had joined forces, taking on the dangerous life-threatening COVID falsehoods found in SPOTIFY programming. \n\nMost of the listeners hearing the unfactual, misleading and false COVID information on SPOTIFY are 24 years old, impressionable and easy to swing to the wrong side of the truth. \n\nThese young people believe SPOTIFY would never present grossly unfactual information. They unfortunately are wrong. I knew I had to try to point that out.\n\nAll my music is available on SPOTIFY, being sold to these young people, people who believe what they are hearing because it is on SPOTIFY, and people like me are supporting SPOTIFY by presenting my music there.\n\nI realized I could not continue to support SPOTIFY’s life threatening misinformation to the music loving public.\n\nBefore I told my friends at Warner Bros about my desire to leave the SPOTIFY platform, I was reminded by my own legal forces that contractually I did not have the control of my music to do that. I announced I was leaving anyway, because I knew I was. I was prepared to do all I could and more just to make sure that happened.\n\nI want to thank my truly great and supportive record company Warner Brothers - Reprise Records, for standing with me in my decision to pull all my music from Spotify. Thank You!\n\nSpotify represents 60% of the streaming of my music to listeners around the world, almost every record I have ever released is available - my life’s music - a huge loss for my record company to absorb. Yet my friends at WARNER BROTHERS REPRISE stood with me, recognizing the threat the COVID misinformation on SPOTIFY posed to the world - particularly for our young people who think everything they hear on SPOTIFY is true. Unfortunately it is not. \n\nThank you WARNER BROTHERS for standing with me and taking the hit - losing 60% of my world wide streaming income in the name of Truth.\n\nSPOTIFY has become the home of life threatening COVID misinformation. Lies being sold for money.\n\nThere is an upside for my listeners, people who may be listening to the 60 years of music I have made in my life so far. It is this: many other platforms, Amazon, Apple, and Qobuz, to name a few, present my music today in all its High-Resolution glory - the way it is intended to be heard, while unfortunately SPOTIFY continues to peddle the lowest quality in music reproduction. So much for art. But now that is in the past for me. Soon my music will live on in a better place.\n\nI truly want to thank the many, many people who have reached out to me thanking me for taking this position - people who are health professionals on the front lines, people who have lost loved ones to COVID or who are worried for their own children and families. I have never felt so much love coming from so many.\n\nI sincerely hope that other artists and record companies will move off the SPOTIFY platform and stop supporting SPOTIFY’s deadly misinformation about COVID. \n\nIn the name of Truth.\n\nneil young\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"3ud0MFqtKMPucO3AbRKQdT","updatedAt":"2022-01-28T16:38:12.365Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"1-26-22","releaseDate":{"year":2022,"month":1,"day":26}},{"id":"Tour-Bus-Going-Electric","page":"page-1","column":"center","showBodyText":true,"date":"2022-01-23T00:00-05:00","headline":"Tour Bus Going Electric","headlineText":"![tourbusgoingelectric](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/7CtWuI9CfZzoUXlZWt58Py/8222e1ca548c4fb9fec68fceddc51125/tourbusgoingelectric.jpg)\n

TOUR BUS GOING ELECTRIC

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TOUR BUS GOING ELECTRIC

","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"When we electrified Lincvolt - my 1959 Lincoln, it was a mere curiosity. Now it’s a matter of life and death for the planet as we know it. We need to stop polluting. That means stop touring if I can’t electrify my bus. We have already started to plan this and we will get on it asap. That is very fast - as fast as we can safely do it. The tour will wait for the clean bus. Not for Covid. \n\nThe Earth is more important to me than the pandemic. Earth is being systematically attacked by the industry and business we have created - our very way of life. We have to act now to change. We are already late. There is so little time left to turn it around that it must begin today - now. No more fossil fuel traveling for me. I am working to remove use of fossil fuel from our home, no fossil fuel vehicles on our property. That is my goal. \n\nNo dirty jets. We haven’t used them for years anyway.\n\nWhen we hit the road, in whatever configuration arises, we will be as clean as we can be.\n\nBack home, Ford Lightnings will be used by caretakers. We will be clean. \n\nThat is why I am not going out on tour for a while, but i will do everything I can to get to you and share some music.\n\nLove earth
\nbe well
\nneil","bodyText":"When we electrified Lincvolt - my 1959 Lincoln, it was a mere curiosity. Now it’s a matter of life and death for the planet as we know it. We need to stop polluting. That means stop touring if I can’t electrify my bus. We have already started to plan this and we will get on it asap. That is very fast - as fast as we can safely do it. The tour will wait for the clean bus. Not for Covid. \n\nThe Earth is more important to me than the pandemic. Earth is being systematically attacked by the industry and business we have created - our very way of life. We have to act now to change. We are already late. There is so little time left to turn it around that it must begin today - now. No more fossil fuel traveling for me. I am working to remove use of fossil fuel from our home, no fossil fuel vehicles on our property. That is my goal. \n\nNo dirty jets. We haven’t used them for years anyway.\n\nWhen we hit the road, in whatever configuration arises, we will be as clean as we can be.\n\nBack home, Ford Lightnings will be used by caretakers. We will be clean. \n\nThat is why I am not going out on tour for a while, but i will do everything I can to get to you and share some music.\n\nLove earth
\nbe well
\nneil","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"6SGpJE4aGEqXq1JkPy68Nc","updatedAt":"2022-01-23T17:19:42.329Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"1-23-22","releaseDate":{"year":2022,"month":1,"day":23}},{"id":"Earthaluja-Reflecting-On-This-Barnful","page":"page-1","column":"center","showBodyText":true,"date":"2022-01-06T00:00-05:00","order":2,"headline":"Earthaluja Reflecting On This Barnful","headlineText":"

EARTHALUJA!

Reflecting on this Barnful of songs

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Reverend Billy’s Review of BARN,

the new songs of Neil Young with Crazy Horse

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EARTHALUJA!

Reflecting on this Barnful of songs

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Reverend Billy’s Review of BARN,

the new songs of Neil Young with Crazy Horse

","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"These ten songs, BARN, are being played everywhere now. We are listening to Neil Young and Crazy Horse, taking a breather from our really confusing lives in the time of Covid. \n\nHe starts to sing and weaves a spell around the very ordinary things before us. Neil is a home-spun version of what is called an “animist”. He believes that all things have a life, a spirit - even old wavy glass windows, even the crowded city street - “masked people walking everywhere”, even the banners rippling in the rain at the palace of the queen. \n\nThen very soon - in fact the chorus of the first song on the record, the whole scene that he’s built up in the song is awash in the bright light of his love for a person that he’s singing to: “We’re so together in the way that we feel/that we could wind up anywhere.” So, now the song is in the hands of a fierce love that can change everything, as when Emma Goldman says “Love defies laws. Love is the molder of destiny.” A high impact Love is the 'threat' of these songs. Love can come into any of the songs at any time and change everything. And we all know that Neil Young and Daryl Hannah want change.\n\n(Click Heading to Read More)","bodyText":"These ten songs, BARN, are being played everywhere now. We are listening to Neil Young and Crazy Horse, taking a breather from our really confusing lives in the time of Covid. \n\nHe starts to sing and weaves a spell around the very ordinary things before us. Neil is a home-spun version of what is called an “animist”. He believes that all things have a life, a spirit - even old wavy glass windows, even the crowded city street - “masked people walking everywhere”, even the banners rippling in the rain at the palace of the queen. \n\nThen very soon - in fact the chorus of the first song on the record, the whole scene that he’s built up in the song is awash in the bright light of his love for a person that he’s singing to: “We’re so together in the way that we feel/that we could wind up anywhere.” So, now the song is in the hands of a fierce love that can change everything, as when Emma Goldman says “Love defies laws. Love is the molder of destiny.” A high impact Love is the 'threat' of these songs. Love can come into any of the songs at any time and change everything. And we all know that Neil Young and Daryl Hannah want change.\n\nThis happens again and again in Barn. The trust we have for Neil’s voice takes us farther and farther into a story, with the brotherhood of Crazy Horse weaving the spell with him. “When I was a little boy/ Pulled my wagon all through the town” and suddenly we’re invited to have our own companion memory to Neil’s. We can see the adults in the town keeping an eye on us when we were 7 years old, venturing out. So now we are remembering our lives too, except in this song (“Heading West”)we don’t get changed by love, it’s a story about divorce and driving away with Mom. But yes, there’s the love, she got him his first guitar. Then we’re searching for our own first moment of our own weapon of love.\n\nThere is a recurring pattern in Barn. Songs will go deep into a personal memory, only to be swept into the change-power of a love song. We go deeper and deeper into the report on Trumpers in “Change Aint Never Gonna” and then the Canadian becomes American in “Canerican” - and in sweeps the incandescent wind of “The Shape of You”. Again, “They Might Be Lost” and “Human Race” run right into white-water rapids of “Tumblin’ Thru the Years”. These switch-ups, these atmospheric changings, are handled by Crazy Horse. The musicians support with their dramatic playing, but then can leave space for their wordman. On this record, Crazy Horse is distinctly three individuals, Nils, Billy and Ralph, you can almost see them there in the barn, better than a YouTube clip. \n\nThese songs are important for Earth activists. Each one is a strategy for direct action. The Rust-Never-Sleeps-like \"Human Race\" is telling us that we only have a few days to get it together. The emergency is at hand and this is hard rock desperation. \"Welcome Back\" urges us to trust nature: \"the stars they only know”, but also to learn from the natural world that we have inside our own bodies. For Neil, nature is in his singing, “I’ve been singing this way for so long/riding through this storm.” And once again, there’s an action looming: “(My singing) might remind me of who we are/and why we walk so lowly.”\n\nIf each of the ten songs is a portal to a different kind of activist event, there is an over-arching second sound source that is never far from the singer, making a potential duet, a sound that is full of shouts, speeches, prayers and laughter. I’m talking about the activism of Neil and Daryl, going back to Farm Aid and the Bridge School and South Central Farm and the pipelines and mountaintop removal coal-mining actions where Daryl took the hit, and then right after she’s out of jail she goes on talk-shows defending the Earth. \n\nAfter the two got hitched, then came the Monsanto Years where they led the (ultimately successful) fight against the carcinogen Glyphosate, the toxin in Monsanto/Bayer's \"RoundUp”. These high risk histories of Neil Young and Daryl Hannah are always nearby. Any galloping beat or righteous chorus can suddenly produce a memory of the two of them standing up to power in the streets, a courtroom, at a microphone. \n\nThis record is a giant step toward giving the Earth’s crisis and resistance in songs that people can sing in the streets, as was so important to the Civil Rights Movement and the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. \n\n“Don’t Forget Love” could be that freedom song for the Earth, reminds us of “This Little Light of Mine”\n\n*When the storm comes and the lights go out - don’t forget love
\nWhen the rains give way to sunshine - don’t forget love
\nThere’s a secret in every story - in the ways that we remember love*\n\nNeil and Daryl and their family of artists believe that the fight for earth rights needs a re-discovery of the reality of Love. They talk about Love like it is a solid thing, a practical thing. It isn’t a solid or a fluid but it is material, maybe like radio waves. Suddenly voices come from what you thought was invisible. Love is a medium that carries messages from the Earth. Love gives us freedom to act. Neil Young keeps singing that. \n\nThanks Reverend! - NYA\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"3ezAI3LnwLD52MNPUbQ9UW","updatedAt":"2022-01-06T15:40:43.878Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"1-6-22","releaseDate":{"year":2022,"month":1,"day":6}},{"id":"Your-New-Years-Resolution","page":"page-1","column":"center","showBodyText":true,"date":"2022-01-02T00:00-05:00","order":2,"headline":"Your New Years Resolution","headlineText":"

Your New Year’s Resolution\nis Unconditional Surrender\nto the Earth

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Your New Year’s Resolution
is Unconditional Surrender to the Earth

\n","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"*By Reverend Billy*\n\nThe catastrophic news of the world, at the New Year 2022, is unbelievable. Everywhere we have floods and fires and the virus. Everywhere.\n\nThis resembles a world war. But, this would be the first war where the USA is not protected by the oceans. This is the first war where the USA did not have air superiority. We have no Star Wars defense against these behemoth storms and tornados and heatwaves.\n\nWhat? This is not a war! Well, this is how most American’s view it. Our public spokespersons in politics and the media present the natural disasters as enemies that are fanatical, or just plain evil. Many of the descriptions are borrowed from the script we have used for wars against asian or moslems. The storm is “relentless” and “cruel”. The sparks of the fires jump over rivers, the virus leaps from person to person like an invading evil army.\n\nIt is useful to portray the natural disasters as the work of an invading enemy if we go farther into it. The way of war is that when enemies are distant, then they are vilified. When the enemy combatants have killed each other for some years, and they must sit down at a table and talk, then often as not they talk to each other with some respect. I wonder if that would be possible in our fight with the Earth? \n\n(Click Heading to Read More)\n","bodyText":"*By Reverend Billy*\n\nThe catastrophic news of the world, at the New Year 2022, is unbelievable. Everywhere we have floods and fires and the virus. Everywhere.\n\nThis resembles a world war. But, this would be the first war where the USA is not protected by the oceans. This is the first war where the USA did not have air superiority. We have no Star Wars defense against these behemoth storms and tornados and heatwaves.\n\nWhat? This is not a war! Well, this is how most American’s view it. Our public spokespersons in politics and the media present the natural disasters as enemies that are fanatical, or just plain evil. Many of the descriptions are borrowed from the script we have used for wars against asian or moslems. The storm is “relentless” and “cruel”. The sparks of the fires jump over rivers, the virus leaps from person to person like an invading evil army.\n\nIt is useful to portray the natural disasters as the work of an invading enemy if we go farther into it. The way of war is that when enemies are distant, then they are vilified. When the enemy combatants have killed each other for some years, and they must sit down at a table and talk, then often as not they talk to each other with some respect. I wonder if that would be possible in our fight with the Earth? \n\nWe have always considered ourselves as superior to the Earth, by way of religion, capitalism, and “Enlightenment” philosophy - so much of our history has instructed us to hate and fear the wildness beyond our city limits. But now our enemy has smart bombs that are more sophisticated that ours, judging from the recent tornadoes in Kentucky that we described as bombs. Our old idea of war inspires us to create superior sea-walls, carbon capture, electric cars, etc. That way of thinking is clearly not realistic. \n\nThe future is not a triumph over the heat and disease and winds and floods. The future that should be our resolution here at the turn of the year is - surrender unconditionally to the Earth.\n\nThings fall into place when we accept that, first, this is a life and death moment. And secondly, the Earth is intelligent. A demand in our surrender discussions with the Earth is clearly that all CO2 emissions stop at this time. The Earth is saying that we stop our cars and trucks and jets. We walk away from them. The Earth’s condition for surrender is that we stop drilling for oil stop at this time. Oil and gas in pipelines, ships and trains - stop at this time. No fossil fuel is to be consumed. Manufactures of fossil fuel in plastics, pesticides, food or cosmetics - stop now. \n\nThe Earth will require that money be budgeted for de-programming of consumers. Estimates put the current exposure to advertisement by an urban person with a computer at 10,000 per day. This must be reduced to zero at the time. Ordinary citizens will learn to spot fossil fuels that are blended into everything from hearing aids to sneaker soles to perfumes. The Earth will require a massive withdrawal of fossil fuel products from all walks of life, to be detoxified and cycled back into the planet.\n\nAnd, I am operating under the idea that the Earth is given us only one option, unconditional surrender. There can be only one New Year’s resolution in 2022. This is a life-and-death emergency that over the years we have been unable to recognize as a danger to ourselves and our families. At this moment, January 1, 2022, we need to capitulate to the Earth’s grand scheme. Believing that the Earth is a conscious being, it is time to surrender completely, and accept that if a role appears for humans, we will receive those instructions.\n\nThe health of the Earth is a new world that we welcome. It will come back to us faster than we guessed, as quickly as the sky turning a mesmerizing blue in the spring of 2020.\n\nNYA thanks - the Church of Stop Shopping\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"2O1Sw9Qa0G2apyoBGDtlrH","updatedAt":"2022-01-02T20:41:31.183Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"1-2-22","releaseDate":{"year":2022,"month":1,"day":2}},{"id":"Happy-New-Year-To-All-Living-Things","page":"page-1","column":"center","showBodyText":true,"date":"2022-01-01T00:00-04:00","order":2,"headline":"Happy New Year To All Living Things","headlineText":"![happynewyeartoalllivingthings](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/2lSGRsKmxzcb63MIlGkB6N/a3a04665e5c72154895f164d18fde6c7/happynewyeartoalllivingthings.jpg)\n

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO\nALL LIVING THINGS

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HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL LIVING THINGS

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\nThe world as seen from above Broken Arrow Ranch was sent to me by a good old friend. I wanted to share it with you. \n\n

RESPECT THE EARTH
in every thing you do
and she will care for you.

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\nThe world as seen from above Broken Arrow Ranch was sent to me by a good old friend. I wanted to share it with you. \n\n

RESPECT THE EARTH
in every thing you do
and she will care for you.

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AN EARTH MESSAGE\nFROM NEIL

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AN EARTH MESSAGE FROM NEIL

\n![anearthmessagefromneil](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/y28qAqtGKMGjYOBLFxsXB/1b52265f06175693adcb9ed74612f29c/anearthmessagefromneil.jpg)\n","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"Hi, I write a lot about my music here and introduce songs and albums you have never heard before. And I do it pretty regularly. That’s what makes NYA good for music lovers …… but I also write about the [Earth](/#/news/2) a lot. \n\nEarth news is back in the paper and currently not as many folks see it as the front page, and I know you come here mainly for my music news…but..…That said, The Earth, our home, our children’s home, is in Big Trouble. Our grandchildren will not grow up in a similar world to what we knew when we were young. But that’s not all. Species are going extinct daily. Big business ignores Earth’s plight on a regular basis. News Media is scared to mention this and lose their viewers. It’s just not uplifting and entertaining, but it is informing.\n\nIn 1972, MIT released a study saying our life here on Earth would never be the same after 2040, mostly because of Climate Chaos and its effect on our daily existence and our business world.\n\nMIT has been proven correct. We are on course for those predictions they made. A little ahead of schedule actually. We need to change a lot of things right now. Right now. Today.\n\n(Click Heading to Read More)","bodyText":"Hi, I write a lot about my music here and introduce songs and albums you have never heard before. And I do it pretty regularly. That’s what makes NYA good for music lovers …… but I also write about the [Earth](/#/news/2) a lot. \n\nEarth news is back in the paper and currently not as many folks see it as the front page, and I know you come here mainly for my music news…but..…That said, The Earth, our home, our children’s home, is in Big Trouble. Our grandchildren will not grow up in a similar world to what we knew when we were young. But that’s not all. Species are going extinct daily. Big business ignores Earth’s plight on a regular basis. News Media is scared to mention this and lose their viewers. It’s just not uplifting and entertaining, but it is informing.\n\nIn 1972, MIT released a study saying our life here on Earth would never be the same after 2040, mostly because of Climate Chaos and its effect on our daily existence and our business world.\n\nMIT has been proven correct. We are on course for those predictions they made. A little ahead of schedule actually. We need to change a lot of things right now. Right now. Today.\n\nTo make this change real we need to do some things that guarantee the politician in charge could never ever be re-elected. If Biden would do what he has to today he would be committing his political suicide. That’s OK. He should do what is needed anyway. He took an oath. It’s not about him.\n\nKilling Big Oil subsidies would make the ‘price at the pump’ a lot higher. Do it now. Slow down consumption and use. People will make less pollution. Tax new sales of Fossil fueled cars. Fossil Fueled cars are planet killers. Give big breaks to electric buyers. Illegalize more fossil fueled car manufacturing. Force change through leadership. Those are undemocratic things to do. Do them. Don’t let us die.\n\nOur 24-7 work ethic is history. Big tall unhealthy buildings are history. Crowded freeways are history. Life will never be the same. People can work from home, doing many things that they do not need cars for. They can be with their families more.\n\nThe Earth as we knew it, our way of life as it was, is dying. It’s not too late to help save some of it for our grandchildren. This is real. Get engaged NOW. Think about the damage that you do. Reverse it. When we here at NYA scan the news for stories about the danger now presented to Earth, we share that Earth News throughout this paper. WE ARE WITH YOU. Be aware of the problems we face. There are EARTH facts here.\n\nPlease don’t wait another day. Our leaders are scared to act. They would never be re-elected. That system is not working as it did historically because we have never faced this before. \n\nWe have to be aware of today’s situation - not living in a distracted Q-world of TRUTH denial. This is bigger than anything humanity has ever faced. Ever. Do more than you can. \n\nPush the boundaries of caring for Earth. Give up a lot of things. Make new things to replace them. New ways of living. We can win.\n\nThere is much we can do. Be aware of the damage caused by certain activities. Learn what you can do, taking an interest in the future of mankind. Don’t dismiss this message. That’s way too easy. Take a good look around yourself. Multiple hundred year storms. Pandemics. Ice melts. Seas rising. Island countries sinking into the water. Areas of Earth that are becoming unfit for human habitation. Too hot. Too wet. Underwater. Where will those people go?\nYour neighborhood?\n\nAs mentioned earlier in this story, MIT released a study and projection in 1972 that we would make irreversible damage to EARTH and our way of life would be then forever different. It already is. Look around. We are not going back to the old normal. We are right on course with the predictions of MIT……even a bit ahead of the schedule they predicted. Wake up and do what you can for humanity, for your kids, theirs.\n\nPEACE","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"2TIDrAXYvgwc9DzIf1HM2i","updatedAt":"2022-01-04T13:50:31.617Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"12-29-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":12,"day":29}},{"id":"98-Percent-Deaths-Unvaccinated","page":"page-1","column":"center","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-12-27T00:00-04:00","order":2,"headline":"98 Percent Deaths Unvaccinated","headlineText":"

98 %

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of COVID DEATHS ARE UNVACCINATED

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98 %

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of COVID DEATHS ARE UNVACCINATED

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\nWe need you to be here listening to music!
\nYour kids need you!!!
\nYou need to be here for the CLIMATE CHANGE REVELATION!__\n","bodyText":"__Get Vaccinated and Be Well!
\nWe need you to be here listening to music!
\nYour kids need you!!!
\nYou need to be here for the CLIMATE CHANGE REVELATION!__\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"4z1TZDPAMTwL1U2PRft0s0","updatedAt":"2021-12-27T23:26:25.076Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"12-27-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":12,"day":27}},{"id":"A-Message-From-Neil-A-Gift-For-You-1987","page":"page-1","column":"center","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-12-25T00:00-04:00","order":2,"headline":"A Message From Neil A Gift For You 1987","headlineText":"

A Message from Neil

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A GIFT FOR YOU from 1987\nSUMMER SONGS

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A Message from Neil

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photo: Michael Miller

A GIFT FOR YOU from 1987
SUMMER SONGS

","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"Happy Holidays everyone! I think you will enjoy [this very cool recording](/#/album?id=A_133) - lost for years, but not forgotten. Now a gift. NYA’s files reveal the whole history. American Dream feels more real than ever. How could somethin’ so good go bad so fast? Wow, that was a little sad. But things are still good down on the farm right? Not so fast. Thanks Willie, John, Dave, Carolyn, Annie, for all you’ve done. It’s an honour being there with you. Replanting for next year? The farmer’s wife, the children, the animals. the birds. Kinda leaves you hangin’. We can win.\n\nThey’re pipin’ music in….yer gettin it…..someday. Remember the old songs? This ones for you! Rommel. We all have to fly.
\nGod weren’t meant to comment.
\nWe might see His face someday.
\nSome day. Lots of love folks.
\nHold me baby. Give me all the love you have to give
\nWe won’t have to wait someday\n\nLet the angels ring the bells in the holy halls, may they hear the voice that calls to them….Down the dusty road to the forest church in the billowing sky ….for the love of man. DOWN THE DUSTY ROAD TO THE FOREST CHURCH…..IN THE BILLOWING SKY
\nFOR THE LOVE OF MAN\n\nI’m gonna try to thank them all.
\nI’m gonna thank that old country fiddler.
\nlike leaves from an old maple…..weak…strong….\n\nbooze. the words are all different. You always disappear.\n\nWhen the melody through the window called,
\nhe knew he had to go
\nshe gave it all she gave…she taught him how to dance.\n\nDo it in the name of love.
\nyou hold the future in your hand.
\nto every boy and every girl,
\nyou hold the future.\n\nProduced by the Volume Dealers\n\nMastered by Tim Mulligan","bodyText":"Happy Holidays everyone! I think you will enjoy [this very cool recording](/#/album?id=A_133) - lost for years, but not forgotten. Now a gift. NYA’s files reveal the whole history. American Dream feels more real than ever. How could somethin’ so good go bad so fast? Wow, that was a little sad. But things are still good down on the farm right? Not so fast. Thanks Willie, John, Dave, Carolyn, Annie, for all you’ve done. It’s an honour being there with you. Replanting for next year? The farmer’s wife, the children, the animals. the birds. Kinda leaves you hangin’. We can win.\n\nThey’re pipin’ music in….yer gettin it…..someday. Remember the old songs? This ones for you! Rommel. We all have to fly.
\nGod weren’t meant to comment.
\nWe might see His face someday.
\nSome day. Lots of love folks.
\nHold me baby. Give me all the love you have to give
\nWe won’t have to wait someday\n\nLet the angels ring the bells in the holy halls, may they hear the voice that calls to them….Down the dusty road to the forest church in the billowing sky ….for the love of man. DOWN THE DUSTY ROAD TO THE FOREST CHURCH…..IN THE BILLOWING SKY
\nFOR THE LOVE OF MAN\n\nI’m gonna try to thank them all.
\nI’m gonna thank that old country fiddler.
\nlike leaves from an old maple…..weak…strong….\n\nbooze. the words are all different. You always disappear.\n\nWhen the melody through the window called,
\nhe knew he had to go
\nshe gave it all she gave…she taught him how to dance.\n\nDo it in the name of love.
\nyou hold the future in your hand.
\nto every boy and every girl,
\nyou hold the future.\n\nProduced by the Volume Dealers\n\nMastered by Tim Mulligan","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"41cshq9dK2jvULU2J7OX1b","updatedAt":"2021-12-25T14:56:33.126Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"12-25-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":12,"day":25}},{"id":"BARN-IS-HERE-NOW!","page":"page-1","column":"center","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-12-10T00:00-04:00","headline":"BARN IS HERE NOW!","headlineText":"

BARN IS HERE NOW!

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BARN IS HERE NOW!

\n","titleDivider":250,"vimeoId":"654973606","articleLayout":"single-column","excerpt":"Along with a new song & video - [Shape Of You](/#/news/1/article?id=Shape-Of-You-Single) - by Particle Kid & dhlovelife","bodyText":"Along with a new song & video - [Shape Of You](/#/news/1/article?id=Shape-Of-You-Single) - by Particle Kid & dhlovelife","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"2Bx7dcZmBx7pRwJYHicWxh","updatedAt":"2021-12-10T14:40:02.802Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"12-10-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":12,"day":10}},{"id":"Welcome-Back-video-just-released","page":"page-1","column":"center","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-12-03T00:00-04:00","headline":"Welcome Back video just released","headlineText":"

WELCOME BACK

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WELCOME BACK

\n","titleDivider":250,"vimeoId":"652566765","articleLayout":"single-column","excerpt":"*__Video just released!__*\n\nWelcome Back! The Horse is in the Barn playing a song like only the Horse can! Enjoy. We had a great time making this record for you and of course, for us! You can also view it with [hi-res audio here](/#/movietone/61a92046153a005a45fecf95?category=hi-res&osVideo=true).
\nlove!
\nbe well,
\nNeil and the Horse\n","bodyText":"*__Video just released!__*\n\nWelcome Back! The Horse is in the Barn playing a song like only the Horse can! Enjoy. We had a great time making this record for you and of course, for us! You can also view it with [hi-res audio here](/#/movietone/61a92046153a005a45fecf95?category=hi-res&osVideo=true).
\nlove!
\nbe well,
\nNeil and the Horse","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"jTsodp9swnDuQo3ehtRZy","updatedAt":"2021-12-03T17:49:32.899Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"12-3-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":12,"day":3}},{"id":"Barn-A-Band-A-Brotherhood-A-Barn-trailer","page":"page-1","column":"center","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-12-01T00:00-04:00","headline":"Barn A Band A Brotherhood A Barn trailer","headlineText":"

BARN\nA Band - A Brotherhood - A Barn

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BARN
A Band - A Brotherhood - A Barn

\n","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"*__The documentary will be
screening at select theaters one night only__*\n\n12/29 - Tulsa, OK
\nCircle Cinema
\n10 S. Lewis Ave, Tulsa, OK 74104
\n([more info](https://www.circlecinema.org/coming-soon/barn))\n\nBARN
\nA Band - A Brotherhood - A Barn
\nMore cities may be added &
\nThe Documentary will stream on NYA as well as other streaming services in January -
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\nCircle Cinema
\n10 S. Lewis Ave, Tulsa, OK 74104
\n([more info](https://www.circlecinema.org/coming-soon/barn))\n\nBARN
\nA Band - A Brotherhood - A Barn
\nMore cities may be added
\n&
\nThe Documentary will stream on NYA as well as other streaming services in January -
\ndetails coming soon…\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"67aw3xFd3Wdq3xTEDnmiH7","updatedAt":"2021-12-19T11:07:09.612Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"12-1-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":12,"day":1}},{"id":"The-Way-The-Wind-Blows-After-Glasgow","page":"page-1","column":"center","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-11-18T00:00-04:00","headline":"The Way The Wind Blows After Glasgow","headlineText":"

The Way the Wind Blows\nafter Glasgow

\n![thewaythewindblows](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/34ks0DAsTkIPmnf8JiIanT/38200b2b8e9c445cd91ee0c823eedb5e/thewaythewindblows.jpg)

LISTEN

The Church of Stop Shopping zig-zagged
across England for 2 weeks, with actions in
the streets and shows on the stages
on the way to COP26.

","bodyHeadline":"

The Way the Wind Blows after Glasgow

\n![thewaythewindblows](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/34ks0DAsTkIPmnf8JiIanT/38200b2b8e9c445cd91ee0c823eedb5e/thewaythewindblows.jpg)\n

LISTEN

The Church of Stop Shopping zig-zagged across England for 2 weeks, with actions in the streets and shows on the stages on the way to COP26.

","titleDivider":250,"articleLayout":"single-column","excerpt":"__This show starts with Billy in the bus.__ [(Click to listen)](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XtFYgcTxsq5DIspmQVWBSdxu23fPlF40/view?usp=drivesdk)\n\nAnd now we're home. The two rock-n-roll busses full of 25 singers were like ecstatic think-tanks all through our 7 city tour of the UK. What were we talking about? Why, life during Extinction, of course. And in Glasgow we watched the climate criminal banks, corporations and nation states go back to fossil fuels, as hundreds of civil society representatives walked out of the conference. In the bus, as we practice our songs, we ask, \"What form does our activism take when fossil energy is forcing the Earth into this massive evolutionary change? When in the USA people are blind to what is happening to them, and even subsidize their own poisoning? How do we work for the Earth now?” - Reverend Billy\n\n__Take the time to listen:__ [Reverend Billy and the Earth Choir](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XtFYgcTxsq5DIspmQVWBSdxu23fPlF40/view?usp=drivesdk)\n\n[More Reverend Billy on page 9](/#/news/9).\n","bodyText":"__This show starts with Billy in the bus.__ [(Click to listen)](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XtFYgcTxsq5DIspmQVWBSdxu23fPlF40/view?usp=drivesdk)\n\nAnd now we're home. The two rock-n-roll busses full of 25 singers were like ecstatic think-tanks all through our 7 city tour of the UK. What were we talking about? Why, life during Extinction, of course. And in Glasgow we watched the climate criminal banks, corporations and nation states go back to fossil fuels, as hundreds of civil society representatives walked out of the conference. In the bus, as we practice our songs, we ask, \"What form does our activism take when fossil energy is forcing the Earth into this massive evolutionary change? When in the USA people are blind to what is happening to them, and even subsidize their own poisoning? How do we work for the Earth now?” - Reverend Billy\n\n__Take the time to listen:__ [Reverend Billy and the Earth Choir](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XtFYgcTxsq5DIspmQVWBSdxu23fPlF40/view?usp=drivesdk)\n\n[More Reverend Billy on page 9](/#/news/9).\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"61p0dNJCdF4tMacvnA6IIR","updatedAt":"2021-11-18T15:34:58.199Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"11-18-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":11,"day":18}},{"id":"RIP-Dean-Stockwell","page":"page-1","column":"center","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-11-14T00:00-04:00","headline":"RIP Dean Stockwell","headlineText":"

R.I.P: Dean Stockwell

\n","bodyHeadline":"

R.I.P: Dean Stockwell

","titleDivider":250,"articleLayout":"single-column","excerpt":"![dennis-dean-neil-russ](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/37uplLHD9zCqTsQc9H2n2Z/b0a50db0372cf7a31457e86ee85e770a/dennis-dean-neil-russ.jpg)\n*l-r: Dennis Hopper, Dean Stockwell, Neil Young & Russ Tamblyn, on the set of Neil's film \"Human Highway\", Hollywood, Feb. 1980. © Joel Bernstein 1980.*\n\nDean was a great old friend. He was a true artist of many hands. I am so fortunate to have known Dean, whose screenplay 'After The Goldrush\" was the reason I made that record and wrote many of the songs for the film. Rest in Peace my fellow traveler.
\nNeil","bodyText":"![dennis-dean-neil-russ](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/37uplLHD9zCqTsQc9H2n2Z/b0a50db0372cf7a31457e86ee85e770a/dennis-dean-neil-russ.jpg)\n*l-r: Dennis Hopper, Dean Stockwell, Neil Young & Russ Tamblyn, on the set of Neil's film \"Human Highway\", Hollywood, Feb. 1980. © Joel Bernstein 1980.*\n\nDean was a great old friend. He was a true artist of many hands. I am so fortunate to have known Dean, whose screenplay 'After The Goldrush\" was the reason I made that record and wrote many of the songs for the film. Rest in Peace my fellow traveler.
\nNeil","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"7zsemgKYW20LJ3peuLTFTp","updatedAt":"2021-11-14T11:02:18.062Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"11-14-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":11,"day":14}},{"id":"A-Message-From-Neil-Birthday-2021","page":"page-1","column":"center","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-11-12T00:00-04:00","headline":"A Message From Neil Birthday 2021","headlineText":"

A MESSAGE FROM NEIL

\n","bodyHeadline":"

A MESSAGE FROM NEIL

","titleDivider":250,"vimeoId":"645237452","excerpt":"Hi everyone. Thanks for all your kind wishes on my 76th birthday! I am very grateful to hear from you all. I am a lucky man to have friends such as yourselves!\n\nTo my lovely and wonderful human being wife Daryl, I say I love you and thanks for being there! We are having a great life together! To my children Zeke, Ben and Amber, you are all the light of my life! What a beautiful and caring family to be part of. Ben Young, you are the man. Zeke, my old friend and traveller, you are a great son. Amber Jean, you have given me such wonderful grandchildren Ronan and Allyah and I couldn’t be happier for you and Rajib. You are such a beautiful family. I love you all.\n\nI find myself in the fortunate position of being surrounded by family and music today. I spent the day yesterday walking in the fields and listening to music I am preparing for release. It is some very exciting stuff, listening to to Billy, Ralph, Poncho and Nils, as well as music through my life that I will share soon in the third volume of my archive, my life’s work.\n\nI want to thank my old friends at Reprise and Lookout Management and NYA. You have been with me all the way. I could not have been better supported through the years. More to come!\n\nSomeday we will all be on the road together. Who knows where, or when. These times are so trying for us all. I hope we begin to understand our differences in approaching this pandemic as it rages on, jumping around the globe.\n\nLots of love
\nbe well
\nNeil\n","bodyText":"Hi everyone. Thanks for all your kind wishes on my 76th birthday! I am very grateful to hear from you all. I am a lucky man to have friends such as yourselves!\n\nTo my lovely and wonderful human being wife Daryl, I say I love you and thanks for being there! We are having a great life together! To my children Zeke, Ben and Amber, you are all the light of my life! What a beautiful and caring family to be part of. Ben Young, you are the man. Zeke, my old friend and traveller, you are a great son. Amber Jean, you have given me such wonderful grandchildren Ronan and Allyah and I couldn’t be happier for you and Rajib. You are such a beautiful family. I love you all.\n\nI find myself in the fortunate position of being surrounded by family and music today. I spent the day yesterday walking in the fields and listening to music I am preparing for release. It is some very exciting stuff, listening to to Billy, Ralph, Poncho and Nils, as well as music through my life that I will share soon in the third volume of my archive, my life’s work.\n\nI want to thank my old friends at Reprise and Lookout Management and NYA. You have been with me all the way. I could not have been better supported through the years. More to come!\n\nSomeday we will all be on the road together. Who knows where, or when. These times are so trying for us all. I hope we begin to understand our differences in approaching this pandemic as it rages on, jumping around the globe.\n\nLots of love
\nbe well
\nNeil\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"J4uKHjAUaPeE9K2YdT18M","updatedAt":"2021-11-12T14:26:55.202Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"11-12-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":11,"day":12}},{"id":"Heading-West-Video-barn","page":"page-1","column":"center","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-11-04T00:00-04:00","headline":"Heading West Video barn","headlineText":"

HEADING WEST SHORT FILM

\n","bodyHeadline":"

HEADING WEST SHORT FILM

\n","titleDivider":250,"vimeoId":"641631467","excerpt":"This is the second of our series. We are featuring ‘nature on the move’ in the area of the BARN where the music is emanating.\n\nJoin us and listen while you watch this beauty from dhlovelife. She is so great. Watch the door pulsing with the beat!\n\nYou can [watch it here](/#/movietone/61817eb3b175de8d80d2e72a?category=hi-res&osVideo=true) with Hi-Res Sound.\n\nIt’s wonderful the way the videos let you listen and watch undisturbed at the same time. Here we go! The living, breathing BARN!
\nlove neil
\nbe well\n","bodyText":"This is the second of our series. We are featuring ‘nature on the move’ in the area of the BARN where the music is emanating.\n\nJoin us and listen while you watch this beauty from dhlovelife. She is so great. Watch the door pulsing with the beat!\n\nYou can [watch it here](/#/movietone/61817eb3b175de8d80d2e72a?category=hi-res&osVideo=true) with Hi-Res Sound.\n\nIt’s wonderful the way the videos let you listen and watch undisturbed at the same time. Here we go! The living, breathing BARN!
\nlove neil
\nbe well","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"5w6y5fEjxXbEI8tCCaFA7s","updatedAt":"2021-11-06T14:32:12.482Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"11-4-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":11,"day":4}},{"id":"Barn-Heading-West-photo","page":"page-1","column":"center","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-10-28T00:00-04:00","headline":"Barn Heading West photo","headlineText":"

HEADING WEST

\n","bodyHeadline":"

HEADING WEST

","titleDivider":250,"articleLayout":"single-column","excerpt":"*What a great ride with the Horse on this one! Larry Cragg had my guitar sounding so alive.*\n\nMy mom and I travelled across the country together, heading west. She was on her way back home to start over. I was on my way there with her. [Here’s a song](/#/info-card?track=t2021_0621_02) about me and my mom and those ‘growing up’ times. It’s so great to remember her this way!
\nlove
\nthanks
\nn\n\n![headingwest1](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/7xmqPzcLo2HS3RWGJO09eq/5ed6fa2efb2c180adba840fd2bdba7bc/headingwest1.png)","bodyText":"*What a great ride with the Horse on this one! Larry Cragg had my guitar sounding so alive.*\n\nMy mom and I travelled across the country together, heading west. She was on her way back home to start over. I was on my way there with her. [Here’s a song](/#/info-card?track=t2021_0621_02) about me and my mom and those ‘growing up’ times. It’s so great to remember her this way!
\nlove
\nthanks
\nn\n\n![headingwest1](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/7xmqPzcLo2HS3RWGJO09eq/5ed6fa2efb2c180adba840fd2bdba7bc/headingwest1.png)","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"2iOJqIZXrHw5wRWIKtnk26","updatedAt":"2021-10-29T04:00:34.823Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"10-28-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":10,"day":28}},{"id":"Barn-Song-Of-The-Seasons-Short-Film","page":"page-1","column":"center","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-10-19T00:00-04:00","headline":"Barn Song Of The Seasons Short Film","headlineText":"

SONG OF THE SEASONS
SHORT FILM

\n","bodyHeadline":"

SONG OF THE SEASONS
SHORT FILM

\n","titleDivider":250,"vimeoId":"636437171","excerpt":"SONG OF THE SEASONS is the first song on *'Barn'*, our new Crazy Horse album. We love this record and hope you do too. Things are so different today with the way records are presented than they were when we started with our first LP ‘Everybody Knows This is Nowhere’ 50 years ago! \n\nA beautiful ‘Song of the Seasons’ film made by dhlovelife is introduced [here with high-res sound](/#/movietone/6168caf79598bd2ff8bd0903?category=hi-res&osVideo=true). It’s the same film we showed Reprise when we introduced *‘Barn’* at the Roxy in LA a few months ago - a film of the landscape and life where our record was made. Another will be introduced when the film and LP record comes out. All the songs in our *‘Barn’* film are the originals. Crazy Horse is seen playing each (almost) song. All performances are of our original recordings used on the album. Since we play it ‘live’ in the Barn, you are seeing exactly what happened that day as we made *‘Barn’* the album.\n\nNot a lot of records are recorded live anymore, so it should be interesting and fun for you. These are not contrived little snips. They document what happened. \n\nBut this short film shows what was happening outside the barn.
\nnych\n","bodyText":"SONG OF THE SEASONS is the first song on *'Barn'*, our new Crazy Horse album. We love this record and hope you do too. Things are so different today with the way records are presented than they were when we started with our first LP ‘Everybody Knows This is Nowhere’ 50 years ago! \n\nA beautiful ‘Song of the Seasons’ film made by dhlovelife is introduced [here with high-res sound](/#/movietone/6168caf79598bd2ff8bd0903?category=hi-res&osVideo=true). It’s the same film we showed Reprise when we introduced *‘Barn’* at the Roxy in LA a few months ago - a film of the landscape and life where our record was made. Another will be introduced when the film and LP record comes out. All the songs in our *‘Barn’* film are the originals. Crazy Horse is seen playing each (almost) song. All performances are of our original recordings used on the album. Since we play it ‘live’ in the Barn, you are seeing exactly what happened that day as we made *‘Barn’* the album.\n\nNot a lot of records are recorded live anymore, so it should be interesting and fun for you. These are not contrived little snips. They document what happened. \n\nBut this short film shows what was happening outside the barn.
\nnych\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"42OH8FZOjJPfLDjcY1G1Aj","updatedAt":"2021-10-20T19:46:50.036Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"10-19-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":10,"day":19}},{"id":"Barn-Song-Of-The-Seasons-infocard","page":"page-1","column":"center","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-10-13T00:00-04:00","headline":"Barn Song Of The Seasons infocard","headlineText":"

SONG OF THE SEASONS

\n","bodyHeadline":"

SONG OF THE SEASONS

","titleDivider":250,"articleLayout":"single-column","excerpt":"__This is the first track of ‘*Barn*’, our new album with Crazy Horse. It’s the oldest song on the record, written about this time last year. [Click Here](/#/info-card?track=t2021_0621_01) and play the song. Enjoy *Barn*.__\n\n![barn-songoftheseasons-infocard](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/6Sg0K6d58V805jjm0z9fFj/aa4a71988b01a483cb8ff926ba0b8c99/barn-songoftheseasons-infocard.jpg)","bodyText":"__This is the first track of ‘*Barn*’, our new album with Crazy Horse. It’s the oldest song on the record, written about this time last year. [Click Here](/#/info-card?track=t2021_0621_01) and play the song. Enjoy *Barn*.__\n\n![barn-songoftheseasons-infocard](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/6Sg0K6d58V805jjm0z9fFj/aa4a71988b01a483cb8ff926ba0b8c99/barn-songoftheseasons-infocard.jpg)","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"419NuCYGq4neq2ILSNpqM2","updatedAt":"2021-10-20T19:34:51.211Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"10-13-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":10,"day":13}},{"id":"A-Message-From-Neil-Harvest-Time","page":"page-1","column":"center","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-09-27T00:00-04:00","order":2,"headline":"A Message From Neil Harvest Time","headlineText":"

A MESSAGE FROM NEIL\n‘HARVEST TIME’

\n![message-harvesttime](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/43g5bqyXTx2TB7GyJamNBZ/21e4624c36e0028e3e50e40f42ed8150/message-harvesttime.jpg)

in production.....

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A MESSAGE FROM NEIL
‘HARVEST TIME’

\n![message-harvesttime](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/43g5bqyXTx2TB7GyJamNBZ/21e4624c36e0028e3e50e40f42ed8150/message-harvesttime.jpg)\n

in production.....

","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"At NYA, we sometimes show you things we are doing that will be coming to you in the future. This is one of those times…. and here is where the Archives unseals many gems. Along with four outtakes, a complete film ‘in progress’ of the Harvest era 1970-71 was viewed for the first time just this weekend. Many unseen performances from the era’s sessions appear in ‘Harvest Time’. As I watched the Nashville sessions, London Symphony sessions, Harvest Barn sessions, rare never heard or seen performances and interviews with the musicians, I was transported back to those days.\n\nJack Nitzsche, Kenny Buttrey, Ben Keith, Tim Drummond, John Harris, Elliot Mazer, are all there with me making Harvest. It’s beautiful and a bit lonely. They are all gone now, these old friends, musicians, except for their unforgettable music and our collective memories together. So great to see all of them again at their peak. Almost two hours of Harvest rarities. Harvest Time. Coming 2022.","bodyText":"At NYA, we sometimes show you things we are doing that will be coming to you in the future. This is one of those times…. and here is where the Archives unseals many gems. Along with four outtakes, a complete film ‘in progress’ of the Harvest era 1970-71 was viewed for the first time just this weekend. Many unseen performances from the era’s sessions appear in ‘Harvest Time’. As I watched the Nashville sessions, London Symphony sessions, Harvest Barn sessions, rare never heard or seen performances and interviews with the musicians, I was transported back to those days.\n\nJack Nitzsche, Kenny Buttrey, Ben Keith, Tim Drummond, John Harris, Elliot Mazer, are all there with me making Harvest. It’s beautiful and a bit lonely. They are all gone now, these old friends, musicians, except for their unforgettable music and our collective memories together. So great to see all of them again at their peak. Almost two hours of Harvest rarities. Harvest Time. Coming 2022.","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"2dInCGVUpvA65eZQA2A0qT","updatedAt":"2021-09-27T16:38:30.041Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"9-27-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":9,"day":27}},{"id":"Thank-You-From-Farm-Aid-Harvest-Moon","page":"page-1","column":"center","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-09-27T00:00-04:00","order":1,"headline":"Thank You From Farm Aid Harvest Moon","headlineText":"

THANK YOU FROM FARM AID

\n![thankyoufromfarmaidharvestmoon](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/5i1MnNaIk405xXY1Rb8yj5/261e3a1d9ca8af961d77af253270c8d6/thankyoufromfarmaidharvestmoon.jpg)

HARVEST MOON IN SASKATCHEWAN

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THANK YOU FROM FARM AID

\n![thankyoufromfarmaidharvestmoon](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/5i1MnNaIk405xXY1Rb8yj5/261e3a1d9ca8af961d77af253270c8d6/thankyoufromfarmaidharvestmoon.jpg)\n

HARVEST MOON IN SASKATCHEWAN

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A Message From Neil

\n![VIEWPOINT-a-message-from-NEIL-1408](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/hBMpxUDVhsIbz2Deu7U1U/4de575e40a02888a239196c09da2b54a/VIEWPOINT-a-message-from-NEIL-1408.jpg)

photo: Michael Miller

Coming up on 76

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A Message From Neil

\n![VIEWPOINT-a-message-from-NEIL-1408](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/hBMpxUDVhsIbz2Deu7U1U/4de575e40a02888a239196c09da2b54a/VIEWPOINT-a-message-from-NEIL-1408.jpg)

photo: Michael Miller

Coming up on 76

","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"This year, Crazy Horse finished a new album and I have started writing again. Albums are like stories - not literally though. My methods have changed over the years and my current way of writing is a departure from everything I’ve done before, evolving into something I might not have envisioned earlier in life.\n\nNow I start with melodies that gain a lot more variation as I continue to shape them. Sometimes, a section may last a long time, which means the song could be very much longer than previous ones. It might take weeks to shape the melody, but unlike the past, I’m in no rush now. When I think I might be done, I stop playing it and just keep that melody in my head. The melody swirling around, I start hearing the words. Before this….. the words mostly came first - followed by a melody….but there were never hard fast rules.\n\nSo I have almost finished my next song!
\nny","bodyText":"This year, Crazy Horse finished a new album and I have started writing again. Albums are like stories - not literally though. My methods have changed over the years and my current way of writing is a departure from everything I’ve done before, evolving into something I might not have envisioned earlier in life.\n\nNow I start with melodies that gain a lot more variation as I continue to shape them. Sometimes, a section may last a long time, which means the song could be very much longer than previous ones. It might take weeks to shape the melody, but unlike the past, I’m in no rush now. When I think I might be done, I stop playing it and just keep that melody in my head. The melody swirling around, I start hearing the words. Before this….. the words mostly came first - followed by a melody….but there were never hard fast rules.\n\nSo I have almost finished my next song!
\nny","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"IiANKlzLE8De3PVuPuveA","updatedAt":"2021-09-23T16:06:11.011Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"9-23-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":9,"day":23}},{"id":"A-Message-From-Neil-Volume-Three-And-Current-Events","page":"page-1","column":"center","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-09-11T00:00-04:00","headline":"A Message From Neil Volume Three And Current Events","headlineText":"

A Message From Neil

\n![VIEWPOINT-a-message-from-NEIL-1408](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/hBMpxUDVhsIbz2Deu7U1U/4de575e40a02888a239196c09da2b54a/VIEWPOINT-a-message-from-NEIL-1408.jpg)

photo: Michael Miller

Volume Three and Current Events

","bodyHeadline":"

A Message From Neil

\n![VIEWPOINT-a-message-from-NEIL-1408](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/hBMpxUDVhsIbz2Deu7U1U/4de575e40a02888a239196c09da2b54a/VIEWPOINT-a-message-from-NEIL-1408.jpg)

photo: Michael Miller

Volume Three and Current Events

","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"Hi folks, I hope you are all well and your families are safe too.\n\nStaying busy during the pandemic, we’ve been building Volume Three for you - a real monster.\nThis is the biggest one yet - different from one and two because it has many films and documentary audio included with the studio and live tracks. We also have had a great time building a handful of unreleased album titles from those years - albums with some familiar tracks but mostly unheard music, as well as completely new ones!\n\nWorking on this with Niko Bolas is a great joy to me! I love this time in my life - reviewing the music and preparing it for time to pass. The pandemic has given us the time and focus to complete a lot of work. We are thankful for that. \n\nI will deeply appreciate this opportunity to share it with you. Like Volume one, Volume three is blu-ray based, so you can have both hi-res audio and all the films. Also a CD version ….\n\nStay safe and be aware. This pandemic is nowhere near over. Some places it’s worse than ever. We really have to work together. Get vaccinated if you have any doubt. I did it and I’m fine. So many people are gone from this….our families torn apart. Stay together. Be positive and be informed. Check your facts.\n\nI was vaccinated for POLIO at my school in Canada. Nothing new about vaccines. They have been there for a long time. Like me!\nTrust Science.\n\nEnjoy music and life.
\nlove and be well
\nNeil\n","bodyText":"Hi folks, I hope you are all well and your families are safe too.\n\nStaying busy during the pandemic, we’ve been building Volume Three for you - a real monster.\nThis is the biggest one yet - different from one and two because it has many films and documentary audio included with the studio and live tracks. We also have had a great time building a handful of unreleased album titles from those years - albums with some familiar tracks but mostly unheard music, as well as completely new ones!\n\nWorking on this with Niko Bolas is a great joy to me! I love this time in my life - reviewing the music and preparing it for time to pass. The pandemic has given us the time and focus to complete a lot of work. We are thankful for that. \n\nI will deeply appreciate this opportunity to share it with you. Like Volume one, Volume three is blu-ray based, so you can have both hi-res audio and all the films. Also a CD version ….\n\nStay safe and be aware. This pandemic is nowhere near over. Some places it’s worse than ever. We really have to work together. Get vaccinated if you have any doubt. I did it and I’m fine. So many people are gone from this….our families torn apart. Stay together. Be positive and be informed. Check your facts.\n\nI was vaccinated for POLIO at my school in Canada. Nothing new about vaccines. They have been there for a long time. Like me!\nTrust Science.\n\nEnjoy music and life.
\nlove and be well
\nNeil\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"6xQoLJg86oxXF3lkokhi55","updatedAt":"2021-09-11T14:08:29.356Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"9-11-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":9,"day":11}},{"id":"Rust-Bucket-Outtake-page1","page":"page-1","column":"center","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-09-04T00:00-04:00","headline":"Rust Bucket Outtake page1","headlineText":"

RUST BUCKET OUTTAKE

now added for Subscribers Only……

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RUST BUCKET OUTTAKE

now added for Subscribers Only……

","titleDivider":250,"articleLayout":"single-column","excerpt":"This track had drop outs, so it was left off ‘Way Down in the Rust Bucket’ Here it is for you. A Crazy Horse jam and two verses. - ‘Cowgirl in the Sand’ from WAY DOWN IN THE RUST BUCKET, now [found, heard and seen](/#/info-card?track=t1990_1113_08) in the file cabinet. If you watch the video you can see the replaced parts…..ny\n\n![rustbucketouttake](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/2d3R2nylRCzNcxrQO3fXyt/bf293b0c8edee8f81125ee785adea223/rustbucketouttake.png)\n\n

Thanks for being here. Thanks for your support.
\nEnjoy NYA.

","bodyText":"This track had drop outs, so it was left off ‘Way Down in the Rust Bucket’ Here it is for you. A Crazy Horse jam and two verses. - ‘Cowgirl in the Sand’ from WAY DOWN IN THE RUST BUCKET, now [found, heard and seen](/#/info-card?track=t1990_1113_08) in the file cabinet. If you watch the video you can see the replaced parts…..ny\n\n![rustbucketouttake](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/2d3R2nylRCzNcxrQO3fXyt/bf293b0c8edee8f81125ee785adea223/rustbucketouttake.png)\n\n

Thanks for being here. Thanks for your support.
\nEnjoy NYA.

","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"uEz30We2PqBDhEsdtT8kU","updatedAt":"2021-09-06T12:59:28.103Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"9-4-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":9,"day":4}},{"id":"A-Message-Farmaid-And-The-Pandemic","page":"page-1","column":"center","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-08-18T00:00-04:00","order":1,"headline":"A Message Farmaid And The Pandemic","headlineText":"

A Message From Neil

\n![farmatid2021-logo](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/1LQz4f6aDmvD2EWYkWycWn/2f3ee8987236e50e60122c464ff348cf/farmatid2021-logo.png)

Farmaid and the Pandemic

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A Message From Neil

\n![farmatid2021-logo](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/1LQz4f6aDmvD2EWYkWycWn/2f3ee8987236e50e60122c464ff348cf/farmatid2021-logo.png)\n

Farmaid and the Pandemic

\n","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"Lots is going on in our world right now. I find myself wondering whether Farmaid will be safe for everyone with the Covid pandemic surging. I worry about that. I don’t want to let anybody down, but still can’t shake the feeling that it might not be safe for everyone. I worry about audiences coming together in these times. The show is sold out.\n\nAll you people who can’t go to a concert because you still don’t feel safe, I stand with you. I don’t want you to see me playing and think it’s safe now. I don’t want to play until you feel safe, and it is indeed, safe.\n\nMy soul tells me it would be wrong to risk having anyone die because they wanted to hear music and be with friends.\n\nNo matter where you are. I am with you. Do what you must, but think it through. We will be back. There is much work to do together.\n\nSince we know vaccinated people can catch and spread Covid, I worry about the children who could become infected after Farmaid, just by being with someone, maybe a parent, who caught the virus at Farmaid and didn't know it. There are already too many children in hospitals.\n\nWhile I respect Willie, John and Dave's decisions to stick with it and play, I am not of the same mind. It is a tough call.\n\nAs time passes, I hope the path ahead will become clear.
\nbe well
\nlove
\nny\n","bodyText":"Lots is going on in our world right now. I find myself wondering whether Farmaid will be safe for everyone with the Covid pandemic surging. I worry about that. I don’t want to let anybody down, but still can’t shake the feeling that it might not be safe for everyone. I worry about audiences coming together in these times. The show is sold out.\n\nAll you people who can’t go to a concert because you still don’t feel safe, I stand with you. I don’t want you to see me playing and think it’s safe now. I don’t want to play until you feel safe, and it is indeed, safe.\n\nMy soul tells me it would be wrong to risk having anyone die because they wanted to hear music and be with friends.\n\nNo matter where you are. I am with you. Do what you must, but think it through. We will be back. There is much work to do together.\n\nSince we know vaccinated people can catch and spread Covid, I worry about the children who could become infected after Farmaid, just by being with someone, maybe a parent, who caught the virus at Farmaid and didn't know it. There are already too many children in hospitals.\n\nWhile I respect Willie, John and Dave's decisions to stick with it and play, I am not of the same mind. It is a tough call.\n\nAs time passes, I hope the path ahead will become clear.
\nbe well
\nlove
\nny\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"2KbKSht3lKkxk8EwMeprjM","updatedAt":"2021-09-27T10:16:12.109Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"8-18-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":8,"day":18}},{"id":"NYA-Movietone-Adds-High-Res-Sound","page":"page-1","column":"center","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-08-12T00:00-04:00","headline":"NYA Movietone Adds High Res Sound","headlineText":"

NYA MOVIETONE\nADDS HIGH RES SOUND

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NYA MOVIETONE ADDS HIGH RES SOUND

","titleDivider":250,"articleLayout":"single-column","excerpt":"*Two films introduce new feature*\n\nBeing able to watch video and feel the sound the way it was made is really a great experience. Try it now with two presentations:\n\n![nyamovietonehighres1](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/1m125CdCxeUQegudlGz8sr/a48d626192c48a919cb4059301626ea0/nyamovietonehighres1.jpg)\n\n__[Distant Camera](/#/news/movietone?category=g3nrbwbumnttusjdpeahf)__, the record, was produced with Ben Keith. The band included Duck Dunn, Spooner Oldham and Jim Keltner, Ben Keith and myself.
\nNow, from the camera of LA Johnson comes a newly released film of the song. Recently completed by Bernard Shakey, Gary Ward and Lost Planet, shot in LAJ’s super eight film camera during 1998, with digital footage recently shot at the location by dhlovelife, Distant Camera is a Shakey Picture’s treasure.
\nNow you can hear and feel it in high res audio as you enjoy the film on NYA!\n\n![nyamovietonehighres2](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/1HN5n8d2FrGoAOwrr0iMKh/1bcf58228466211874c2940d7bacd72c/nyamovietonehighres2.jpg)\n\n__[Horseback](/#/news/movietone?category=g3nrbwbumnttusjdpeahf)__, filmed January 2012 by Ben Johnson, features a classic Crazy Horse jam and lasts a long time! Get lost in it as you drift around the room where Psychedelic Pill was recorded. It feels great to be able to hear this sound dimension and quality while watching a movie!\n","bodyText":"*Two films introduce new feature*\n\nBeing able to watch video and feel the sound the way it was made is really a great experience. Try it now with two presentations:\n\n![nyamovietonehighres1](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/1m125CdCxeUQegudlGz8sr/a48d626192c48a919cb4059301626ea0/nyamovietonehighres1.jpg)\n\n__[Distant Camera](/#/movietone/60cb07f93e6a794fb98819d7)__, the record, was produced with Ben Keith. The band included Duck Dunn, Spooner Oldham and Jim Keltner, Ben Keith and myself.
\nNow, from the camera of LA Johnson comes a newly released film of the song. Recently completed by Bernard Shakey, Gary Ward and Lost Planet, shot in LAJ’s super eight film camera during 1998, with digital footage recently shot at the location by dhlovelife, Distant Camera is a Shakey Picture’s treasure.
\nNow you can hear and feel it in high res audio as you enjoy the film on NYA!\n\n![nyamovietonehighres2](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/1HN5n8d2FrGoAOwrr0iMKh/1bcf58228466211874c2940d7bacd72c/nyamovietonehighres2.jpg)\n\n__[Horseback](/#/movietone/6109a44d3e4a31cb92bcff06)__, filmed January 2012 by Ben Johnson, features a classic Crazy Horse jam and lasts a long time! Get lost in it as you drift around the room where Psychedelic Pill was recorded. It feels great to be able to hear this sound dimension and quality while watching a movie!\n","pageNumber":"page-1","_id":"51eRPKkHPrNYJEflVKcGdR","updatedAt":"2021-08-13T16:27:31.346Z","type":"newsArticle","dateText":"8-12-21","releaseDate":{"year":2021,"month":8,"day":12}},{"id":"David-Briggs-Genius-CH-Live","page":"page-1","column":"center","showBodyText":true,"date":"2021-08-09T00:00-04:00","headline":"David Briggs Genius CH Live","headlineText":"

DAVID BRIGGS’ GENIUS\n‘CRAZY HORSE LIVE’

\n![davidbriggsgenius-CHlive](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/27Y2FdG7qsVKe3rIpoEh2R/eb62c543e26e193aadabb51d44982d0e/davidbriggsgenius-CHlive.jpg)

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DAVID BRIGGS’ GENIUS
‘CRAZY HORSE LIVE’

\n![davidbriggsgenius-CHlive](//images.ctfassets.net/2okapnzdylk2/27Y2FdG7qsVKe3rIpoEh2R/eb62c543e26e193aadabb51d44982d0e/davidbriggsgenius-CHlive.jpg)","titleDivider":250,"excerpt":"In the mid eighties, Crazy Horse was touring America with the ‘In a Rusted Out Garage’ tour. Briggs and a recording truck followed the band to the majority of the shows. The following is my notes upon first hearing this recording.\n\n__LIVE From a Rusted Out Garage__\n\nMR Soul and Cinnamon girl….we are in the eighties. everything is bigger!\n\nIt’s the eighties. we’ve been doing it now for maybe 16 years. Things have changed. Sounds are changing. Time is flying…..Ralph’s big snare! Briggs was going for it in the