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And the WHO too. Watch Covid strike again in the USA.

You can count on Sting for most of these benefit shows, everything from Band Aid, Live Aid to Amnesty International and more. Not to mention that when it comes to music and acting he is a modern Renaissance man.

I have seen him live twice, once solo and the other time with Peter Gabriel as a duo.

I think Sting is due for a knighthood for all he's been doing for the past nearly 50 years.

Hey Chuckie boy, you listening? I'm talking to YOU.

TokyoLivingToday  09:37 am JST

Decadent and pathetic show..

A total farce. Everybody who took part in this is a total kiswsazz and a sellout. From Carrie Underwood chicken spread to the ninny Lee Greenwood to the juvenile pre-teen Kiddie Crock to even the Village People. The latter have disgusted me the most, they have sold their credibility, their PRIDE and their souls to an egotistical arrogant tin god who hates their 'kind' and practically everyone else.

'YMCA' and 'In the Navy' were once anthems used for sports and of course the USN which I was in, but now they have totally trash canned all the kitsch and thrill of it all by sucking up to this uncouth hateful sassybrat excuse of a human being.

Sickening and grody to the MAX!

Harry_GattoToday  10:56 am JST

I wonder how many police officers will be handing in their badges because of this stupidity.

So I guess it's alright to be killing cops too, huh? What's the point of anything if the head of state is a felon himself. I don't respect or admire rapists or insurrectionists, never will.

I'm glad I'm not in the military anymore!

TaiwanIsNotChinaToday  06:38 am JST

JapantimeToday 06:32 am JST

It was amazing to see this type of event live on TV. They showed it live in every country. You can see why he was elected as President. The crowd was happy and all Americans are walking a lot taller today.

The "crowd" was invited MAGAs and people who had to be there.

Toadies, yes-men, lackeys.

I didn't watch it and had no desire to. I could've gone to any home in my neighborhood if I wanted to see a baby soil his diddies.

'Reshape'? As in reestablish an ugly personality cult. Look how he's puckering his lips, ready to kiss Putin's and/or Muskrat's fannies again.

And what 'Bible' did he lay his hand on, not that he really respects it anyway. Oh I know, a 'Trump Bible' like the ones he and that ninny Lee Greenwood were pushing last year.

The executive orders are the first step in what Trump calls “the complete restoration of America and the revolution of common sense."

A totalitarian 'New Order'.

bass4funkJan. 17  03:53 am JST

I've listened to about half those songs and none of them do anything for me. Live shows are now about twerking, exposed butts, and auto-tune.

I agree, and with the exception of Chrissy Hynde, Deborah Harry, Wendy & Lisa from Prince, Janet Jackson, Donna Summer, Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson of the B-52s, the Heart sisters, Kate Bush, Björk, Chaka Khan, Whitney Houston and Anita Baker, the other pop crap of today is just not for me, it is just overly nauseating.

It's been nearly 30 years already since the Spice Girls stunk up the world, and where are they now? I remember in my college newspaper somebody asked this 'indy' band in an interview who their 'favorite Spice Girl' was. They said, 'Ringo!'.

George Harrison himself said that the best you could say about them was that you could always watch their videos with the sound turned....down.

Britney Spears put out a self-embarrassing expose book last year that only amplified how dumb we all know she is. Music? What's that? Video Really Did Kill the Radio Star, didn't it?

Did you know that Lady Gaga took her name from that 1984 Queen song 'Radio Gaga' which pans radio crap, yet that's the exact type of 'music' she makes! Radio goo-goo, radio nyah-nyah. Oh, and most of her videos are vulgar and disgusting too.

Videos are a wonderful thing. Every musical act now needs to do them so audiences can see and hear what they're all about. Some bands like say Duran Duran are masters at marrying sound and vision, like David Bowie himself foretold during the 70s.

Where are Lindsay Lohan, Hillary Duff, Demi Levato, Tiffany, Debbie Gibson, et al. and where are they now? Tah-rashhh-CANNN!!!!

The 'sexuality' thing can only go for so many years and if they don't have anything to say musically or otherwise, they're history. Best left forgotten.

The GoGos and definitely the Bangles are QTs but they never pushed that angle. I've seen very young girls and t(w)een girls @ shows by Joan Jett, Heart, Shonen Knife and other 'chick' rockers and that's a good thing. They are seeing women performers, not lip-synching posers. And the same goes for Chaka Khan, Anita Baker, Candy Dulfer, Alison Krause (she made two albums with Robert Plant), the violin prodigy Lindsay Sterling (who will always be in demand somewhere). That's the stuff that counts in the long run.

To me it's the same way with the men performers. Either you got it in you, or you don't.

wallaceJan. 17  07:24 am JST

There is so much fake news and comments on the social networks.

Absolutely. The wildest and craziest ideas abound now, stuff that nobody in their right mind would've even thought up 0 years ago.

Remember 'Pizzagate' from 2016? C'mon people! When a person is POTUS the media and the world have their eye on that person, always waiting to see him do or say something wrong or stupid. And that 'Pizzagate' rumor is definitely hogwash. We would've known that long ago if that were true. But some Americans bought it up.

There's the 'Flat Earth Society'. 'Faked moon landings', tin foil ideas, the New Age, Heaven's Gate. On and on.

I've seen some hateful channels on YouTube and reported them too. Islamophobia, homophobia, any type of '-phobia', it all leads to violence because it portrays 'others' as being less than human.

> Bad HaircutJan. 17  10:51 am JST

What would you regard as the wilder ones?

Flat Earth? Holocaust denial? Faked moon landing?

These are dumb but don't get people killed.

Holocaust denial does get people killed! 6 million dead Jews is no lie. Holocaust denial is a felony offense in many European nations, rightfully so.

In America a loudmouth governor who was negligent about enforcing the COVID lockdown screams about 'gays, trans and drags infecting our schools' in order to divert out attention away from his dereliction of duty. Next week a fascist pig who rapes and screams hatred towards 'invading hordes of Hispanics' is coming back to the WH and we all know what he's about and what he did before.

I could go on all day on this. The internet, TV, radio keeps on spoon-feeding the masses - telling them what to look like, what car to drive, what films to see, what music to listen to, even who or what to marry. The Information Age has revolutionized mankind, for better AND for worse. Some social and moral ideas that were frowned upon 30+ years ago are encouraged and demanded now from the obedient masses. And that's SAD.

> David BrentJan. 16  05:11 pm JST

I know people who even today think the whole COVID pandemic was thought up by Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci in order to vaccinate people with something dangerous, so as to reduce world population, or some such nonsense. These people walk among us, and vote; and have offspring.

My little sister believes that the Chinese government (which is ROTTEN) 'invented' COVID as a 'biological weapon' and unleashed it on the world, and that vaccines are just a money-grabber for all those 'big companies'.

She never applied herself beyond HS, in fact she 'gets' the info from these whackos who dominate the radio and TV in America - no, wait! Sinclair Corp., they control Faux News, ABC News, CBS in my hometown. Oh yeah, a 'Big Company', a practical 'media monopoly' you could say. That, and she still clings to the long discarded notion that gays 'invented' the AIDS virus too.

Oh hell. Some people never learn, because they just don't want to!

This is no indication that these 'artists' are any good. Either they're gyrating lip-synching sex robots or they're whining prissy-miss diva pissy-pants crybabies screeching, 'You screwed me over this, you screwed me over that! Eee! Eee! Eeeeeeee-yeeee! Eee! Eee! Eeeeeeee-yeeee! Eee! Eee! Eeeeeeee-yeeee!' ... ad infinitum.

I've seen (and met) some good female musicians. I've seen + met the J-punk lady trio Shonen Knife 5 times, I've seen Chrissy Hyndes, Debbie Harry, Exene Cervenka, Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson (B-52s), L7, Joan Jett and more. And last year I saw the sister duo Heart for the second time.

All these females stars and others I listed have some things that these 'pop tarts' don't - smarts, originality, creativity, strong wills, and TALENT. And they have the mileage records to prove it.

maxjapankToday  11:31 am JST

It is. Time for working-class Americans to level the playing field. Income inequlity is too great.

Joe's right and we all know it. And his statement is reminiscent of Ike's farewell speech where he warned about a 'military industrial complex'. Ike knew from experience, and Joe does too.

itsonlyrocknrollToday  11:35 am JST

WATCH LIVE: Biden's farewell address from the White House | PBS News Special Report

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlFXvRfBTjg

No spontaneity, little emotional pause, Joe Biden reading from an autocue.

Democrats that knew Joe Biden age related cognitive decline when taking office, then cynically hid that from the US people are truly shameful.

Not only that, created an deceptive illusion

President Biden could well have been a a clear danger to such office.

Sorry to state so.

People said the exact same damn thing 40 years ago about Ronald Reagan, and esp. during his 2nd term he suffered from Alzheimer's before it even had a name. He got derided and joked about concerning that. Alzheimer's and dementia are no laughing matter, ever. It wasn't funny when Ronnie had it, and if Joe has it, it still isn't funny.

I myself have known some people who suffered from that, it's not funny. I lost two uncles to it, and many entertainers have died from it too.

Reagan and Biden still were capable and mature enough to get some things accomplished. And tRump is totally deranged with arrogant narcisstic delusions of godhood and gross immaturity, uncouth unsociability and a total lack of class. He has to mature beyond the age of 11. Big difference.

NCIS RerunsToday  11:21 am JST

When political candidates for national office flaunt goofy stories (like immigrants eating cats and dogs in Ohio USA) that they cherry-picked from social media, you know the world is teetering on the precipice of something dreadful.

The most ridiculous crap has been bouncing around since Rubbish Limberger and his immature ilk took over AM radio in the 90s. Remember the hysterical misinformation surrounding the Comet Hale-Bopp and those cult suicides? Then when Obama was POTUS there were the most ridiculous whacko ideas concerning him nearly every single day about 'what he was gonna do' but didn't. 'Birther', anyone? Of course some won't admit it but the 'problem' was ( coff! coff! ahem! ) that Pres. Barack Obama has a 'funny' (non-European name) and he is ( coff! coff! ahem! ) BEE-ELL-AYY-CEE-KAY. Mhm.

virusrexToday  12:57 pm JST

Conspiracy theorists are frequently victim of mental problems, give exaggerated value to their own opinions no matter how wrong they are, frequently antisocial, paranoid, insecure, etc. Many take pride in not being able to discuss or argue and to be openly irrational about their beliefs. Even worse is that those with poor morals tend to believe everybody else is the same (so they see no problem thinking for example that every doctor in the world could be hiding cures from their own families and friends just for money). The people that systematically believe in conspiracies are not trying to help society but instead to validate their own flaws no matter who can suffer because of the rumors they spread.

As the article says, It is important to maintain vigilance against such stories, because sooner or later people will be victimized if the belief in them spreads.

Conspiracy theorists are not victims of mental problems, they're just evil and immature gossipy kids that we all knew in school who never matured a single day. They know what they're saying is wrong and grossly exaggerated to the max. They love to see other people turn against each because of the LIES they propagate.

Ever read the Shakespeare play 'Othello'? Recall the grousing gossipy chump character Iago. That's what these 'conspiracy theory' nerds truly are. IAGOS!

When I was stationed at a Navy base in Orlando (now shut down) 40 years ago, I witnessed two Space Shuttle launches (Discovery and Challenger - a successful launch) and one communications satellite launch for France. This all was from the Kennedy Space Center; 1.5 hours' drive away.

Now these events are more commonplace.

We've really advanced.

GuruMickJan. 13  02:43 pm JST

Depression is as real as a broken leg.

Cant " see it "...but hurts 10 times worse.

Logical , rational thinking not usually present when one hits the suicide stage.

Unfair to be mean minded when discussing this story.

This woman I dated long ago in college lost her battle with depression in late 2016. At the funeral home I saw a video the family made of her life, and I could plainly see the immense pain of depression in her beautiful brown eyes. But it was so deep, I couldn't 'get into' it, nobody can. But depression shows on the face of a person who has it. And I saw it so markedly in her eyes, no matter what she was doing in the video's scenes.

It's a sad disorder. Mental and emotional illnesses are illnesses, but they are crippling, get in the way of enjoying life itself and can be very harmful. Depression destroys. I loved her so much but I was and am helpless.

Mr KiplingToday  07:53 am JST

Seriously, suicides are tragic but if you want to die, die only yourself, don't drag others to death..

Everything should be done to prevent pointless self killing but those who cannot be convinced to choose life should know about charcoal briquettes in the bathroom.

NO! Suicide is done by people who are so much misery all the time and they can only see one way out. It is a very serious and final act performed by people who need help but don't get it from a society that is so eager and quick to judge and just wants to shove everything under a rug.

It is NOT the answer. The saddest part of all is that all those haughty pompous cretins just keep on badmouthing these people, dismissing them as 'weak'. That in itself is a very arrogant attitude and it has got to stop.

Meet George Jetson......

McGurk has been working on final details of a text to be presented to both sides, Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, told CNN’s “State of the Union.” But he said he would not predict whether a deal can be reached by Jan. 20, the day of the inauguration.

It would be nice if some deal were made before Joe is out of office. This would be his Final Glory and Trashtrump would have mud on his ugly face.

In a post on X Sunday, Zelenskyy said: "Ukraine is ready to hand over Kim Jong Un's soldiers to him if he can organize their exchange for our warriors who are being held captive in Russia."

There would "undoubtedly be more" North Korean soldiers captured by Kyiv, he added.

"For those North Korean soldiers who do not wish to return, there may be other options available," said Zelenskyy.

"In particular, those who express a desire to bring peace closer by spreading the truth about this war in Korean will be given that opportunity."

Bargaining chips. Zelenskyy can now use a leverage. If more Norks get captured, it'll only show further what a failure this war is for Putin. He thought it'd be so fast and easy like Kazakhstan was. That was just one week, remember?

And of course, these NK soldiers are certainly not volunteers. If they choose to stay in Ukraine, I wouldn't blame them. After all, what do they have to lose now?

MoriahToday  07:18 am JST

free love made possible by new social attitudes and a new pill that decoupled sex from propagation

and turned sex into a transactional commodity void of meaning and intimacy.

In Every Dream Home a Heartache. I remember the movie 'Logan's Run' featuring hologram 'women' lovers, maybe men to. This has been written about and forecast in sci-fi so many times, it's been the focus of the awful movie 'Mannequin' from 1987 and its sequel 4 years later.

There are sexbots out now such as Roxxxy and similar ones. They are programmed to 'say something' when a hand is squeezed, or something else is done. It can Be Your Girl and you can make it your wife. You can call it 'Sally'. Lenny Kravitz wrote about the 'Black Velveteen' for all those yuppies who are too 'busy' trying to make a zillion bucks.

No intimacy, no meaning, no humanity at all. No thank you.

Desert TortoiseToday  06:58 am JST

Especially if you look at what happened in Altadena, this wasn't a wild land fire as much as an urban fire. The fire was going home to home. A news channel was showing a map of the fires as they popped up in Altadena and they were hop-scotching across the city started by embers thrown off one burning home landing on another.

It's a bit of both. Mt. Wilson Observatory is located on a mountain nearby and smoke from nearby forests is endangering that place too, as well as access to that facility. After all, how can astronomers do their scientific work in that situation?

Remember how bad those forest fires in Nova Scotia got last year? The smoke was so heavy that remote Montreal was engulfed in heavy smoke. Olympique Stadion barely 'poked' above all that. And it could get that way in the USA too.

There are many tasty ways to make a good chicken soup. This looks very appetizing. Still, everyone will probably still say that it can't beat the way their grandma did it.

But it can come close to it. Chow down!

This looks tasty, worth a shot. Wash them down with a drink.

I remember as a kid some of these sing-songs on this show and the various guests featured on Jim Henson's 'Muppet Show' during prime time. Everything from 'Ma-na-na-na' to 'I Like Onions' to 'Octopus' Garden' (that one teaches how to count to 8), and the latter show featuring guests as diverse as Roger Miller, Leo Sayer, Harry Belafonte, Alice Cooper, etc.

Also I remember how a primitive Moog synthesizer was played to 'point' to syllables or words in a song or just as a sound effect.

Times have progressed and as such so must our education. I'm glad to see this show still around for today's kids, they are the future, and they must be fully prepared for the challenges they will be facing later on. That incl. the knowledge (freedom) to resist lies and propaganda and brainwashing.

Viva Sesame Street!

> TheDalaiLamasBifocalsJan. 8  06:58 am JST

I'm getting the word...nonce.

I've seen it so many times before. 'Puff' was one of my favorite songs we sang in elementary school music class, along with 'Take a Stick of Bamboo', 'Yellow Submarine' and other cultural delights. Never liked 'Feeling Groovy', however. Schmalzy to me.

Once again, a childhood joy and foundation reveals the true colors.

Just like Bill Cosby.

Is there anything sacred???????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

“You don’t just spoon feed them the same things over and over again.”

WTH do these people think they are doing? Everything now is Sequel City 20 years or more, remakes galore and just plain super clichéd trash.

WabiwasabiDec. 30  10:43 pm JST

It's a sad day for cinema when brainrot like this is taking the box office...

Spoon feed the masses. Eat it up, chumps!

itsonlyrocknrollDec. 30  10:25 pm JST

Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum bravery is highly commendable, I would suggest could and will ultimately threaten her families lives.

If Donald Trump seriously wants to stop the dangers a never ending ,spread of fentanyl into the US and the repercussions he will have a totally need a joined up cast iron multi disciplined costly agenda programme.

Such a policy will require a fully financed, providing Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum with the investment and miliary capability to effect change.

A huge resource commitment.

Dream on. He wouldn't and he won't because he is a ninny, a derelict and a chicken. He doesn't have the GUTS. Besides, he screaming to build an egotistical Berlin-ish wall at the southern border and he stole $ZILLIONS from every government organization, incl. the Pentagon for it. He even kidnapped thousands of Hispanic children and placed them in concentration camps as bait/hostages for his evil hateful agenda.

He HATES Hispanics. He wanted/wants war with them. He gas attacked Mexicans during a Thanksgiving weekend. As for that fentanyl jive, that's everyone's problem in every nation.

Let's see what Mexico's new President can do about it, I wish her luck. However, trumpChump has long shown that he's an uncouth racist and sexist who can't tolerate strong women leaders and he'll try some Orwellian excuse for some human rights abuse anyway. trump is trash.

Pukey2Dec. 29  04:46 pm JST

She was in one of my fave Xmas movies, Black Christmas. RIP Olivia.

She also starred as the Virgin Mary Mother of Jesus in the 1979 TV miniseries 'Jesus of Nazareth'.

Tokyo GuyToday  08:34 am JST

Question, what does J6 have anything to do with Carter’s life? 

Answer: quite a lot. Carter, as a former president, will naturally be compared to others who have held that office. One of them incited a riot after he lost an election. Carter did not. One of them couldn't even name a single bible verse when asked; Carter probably knew the bible inside out and backwards. One of them cheated on his wife with an adult entertainment personality; Carter remained married to the same woman for decades.

It's not really a matter of 'knowing' the Bible to be a Christian as much as living the gist and word of it. And Jimmy Carter certainly did that. Now of course as a military veteran officer (which he was) he knew about having to defend the American nation, the Constitution and our freedoms - even if it takes a war to do so.

But Carter had to deal with the aftereffects of a wasteful unnecessary war that still the nation even now. It caused a tremendous impact on the US conscience and economy, and that would've been a bear to anyone. But he did do the best that he could at the time. At least he tried. And he didn't try to start a coup either.

And he knew he 'couldn't get it right' but there was no one at fault for that. Carter was smart enough and mature enough to attend Reagan's inauguration in 1981 (I saw that on TV) and then he went on in his life.

And Jimmy and the late Rosalyn were married for decades. He never cheated. He never talked juvenile pornographic trash, he never expressed lust for his daughter or did anything disgusting with her, and Jimmy never got into 'adult' entertainment. He never raped. His marriage was Solid As A Rock. And also, Rosalyn herself virtuous. I don't know what her occupation was before she became First Lady but it sure as hell wasn't posing for BDSM porn pics like Melania did. She had more class than that.

Whatever you may feel about Jimmy as a POTUS, credit must be given where it is due. The actions speak everything, and these days that's more than enough.

One thing about him is that as the times changed and America evolved politically, socially and economically; so did he. He championed human rights right from the start and he was devoted to making that situation better for all no matter what it took.

Yes, he made mistakes, done and said some dumb things. Haven't all POTUS's done that? Nonetheless he had enormous challenges and major crises that would've been humongous chore for anybody at the time. After all, POTUS is a JOB. Some of those problems (esp. economic) would continue into the Reagan era. I remember all the criticism and sass he got for that too. Some things are not a 'political' issue at all.

Carter had the patience of a saint in some regards. I myself would not have been so nice to dirtbags like Castro or Aristide. But that's just me I guess.

Carter had a true 'Christian' heart and vision, it showed in his life, deeds and work. He walked the walk (so to speak). Even after losing in 1980, he went on respectable things. He didn't cry and scream like a bratty geek. He took his lumps and losses and moved on like the man he was. No J6 for him.

And during his 100 years he witnessed the whole world evolving and changing, he grew older and wiser through it all. He grew up and he never stopped growing up - even when the brain cancer started to destroy him.

He made and said some dumb goofs, but don't we all? But looking at his life story, the plusses far outweigh the minuses.

TaiwanIsNotChinaToday  06:42 am JST

A truly great man exemplifying basic values like bravery, humility, and honesty.

In every way he was a true American icon, a hero. America needs more people with his wisdom and humility.

Back in the 50s he saw integration as inevitable, he was brave (and correct) to tell his parish that churches are for everyone - they are to serve the God who has no race or color.

Today Jimmy Carter is dwelling forever in Heaven with God. And salute him! ( you can kick in that special AC/DC song now )

TaiwanIsNotChinaToday  06:52 am JST

Pukey2Dec. 29 07:25 pm JST

Any talk of whether the two stranded US astronauts will return to earth in year 2025?

They will live in comfort until March.

They recently aired Christmas greetings live from the ISS. One of them even showed a huge tightly packed bundle of freeze-dried food in a boxey. That of course is their holiday feast.

They knew they would be on the station; it was all preplanned.

The situation there is nowhere near as bad as the media is making it out to be.

I like eel. It goes well on a bed of rice. Delicious. Thing is, it's not exclusively a 'Japanese' cuisine, in some localities people cook and dine on it too.