Ella Fitzgerald - Blue Skies (High Quality - Remastered) https://t.co/I8eqhJdg5A via @YouTube— Mike Nova (@mikenov) April 9, 2017
Russians Say There Is No Negotiating Over Syria Strikes https://t.co/54jJEWEJ41— Mike Nova (@mikenov) April 9, 2017
Ella Fitzgerald - Blues In The Night (Verve Records 1961) https://t.co/oQYCKdyrvm via @YouTube— Mike Nova (@mikenov) April 9, 2017
Update: 4.9.17: Just one step from love to hatred:
‘Punch Him In The Eye’: Furious Russians Await Tillerson’s Visit
Secretary Tillerson spoke with his Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in a call on Saturday, which Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs claims was initiated by the Americans. Tillerson is expected to arrive in Moscow for face-to-face discussions on Wednesday. News of the planned meeting, Tillerson’s first as secretary, was published prior to the American missile strike, though the attack on Syria is now likely to be front and center.
The meeting was initially expected to test President Trump’s desires for closer ties with President Putin, but now many Russians are clamoring for Lavrov to confront Tillerson.
Russia’s media slammed the missile strike, with newspaper headlines stating that the strike was “more than a mistake,” and that the U.S. is working “on the side of terrorists.” Before the strike, the Trump administration had stated its priority was to work with Russia and the Assad regime to fight ISIS in Syria. Opinion pieces flooded the Russian press claiming that American diplomacy is illogical, and that Washington can’t lead negotiations for a peace deal in Syria.
Meanwhile, on Russian social media, hundreds discussed Lavrov’s conversations with Tillerson, and many believed that negotiations would be futile. “When Tillerson comes to Moscow, I suggest Lavrov punch him in the eye, and then offer talks on Syria,” one user on the social media network VKontakte posted.
Another user stated, “It would have been better if he [Tillerson] did not come to Russia. Without the Americans, it’s calmer, and wherever they are awaits trouble and sorrow.”
“What kind of negotiations?” A third user asked. “There will be no negotiations. Tillerson will accuse us all collectively.”
The U.S. is reportedly investigating Russia’s role in the chemical attack that prompted the American missile strike. The use of chemical weapons in Syria’s Idlib province killed at least 80 people, some of them children. Russia denies that the Syrian military used chemical weapons, claiming instead that the Syrian Air Force struck a rebel-operated chemical weapons factory. Turkish authorities, who performed autopsies on the dead, say they were killed by sarin gas.
Russia is one of the Syrian regime’s oldest and closest allies, and has provided Syrian President Bashar al-Assad with significant military and diplomatic support. Speaking on Friday, Secretary Tillerson blamed Russia for allowing Syrian forces to use chemical weapons, saying, “Either Russia has been complicit or Russia has been simply incompetent.” President Trump told the nation a day earlier that the US was obligated to respond to the chemical attack, saying that preventing the use of deadly chemical weapons was a “vital national security interest.”
ella sings My mama done tol' me when I was in pigtails
My mama done tol' me, "Hon
A man's gonna sweet talk and give ya the big eye
But when the sweet talkin's done
A man's a two-face
A worrisome thing who'll leave ya to sing
The blues in the night"
Now the rain's a-fallin'
Hear the train a callin', whooee
My mama done tol' me
Hear That lonesome whistle
Blowin' 'cross the trestle, whooee!
My mama done tol' me, a-whooee-ah-whooee
Ol' clickety-clack's a-echoin'
Back th' blues in the night
The evenin' breeze'll start the trees to cryin'
And the moon'll hide it's light
When you get the blues in the night
Take my word, the mockingbird'll sing
The saddest kind of song
He knows things are wrong
And he's right
From Natchez to Mobile, from Memphis to St. Joe
Wherever the four winds blow
I been in some big towns and heard me some big talk
But there is one thing I know
A man is a two-face
A worrisome thing who'll leave you to sing
The blues in the night
The evenin' breeze'll start the trees to cryin'
And the moon'll hide it's light
When you get the blues
Blues in the night
Take my word, the mockingbird'll sing
The saddest kind of song
He knows things are wrong
And he's right
From Natchez to Mobile, from Memphis to St. Joe
Wherever the four winds, four winds blow
I been in some big towns and heard me some big talk
But there is one thing I know
A man's a two-face
A worrisome thing who'll leave you to sing
The blues in the night
Yes, babe, lonely, lonely blues in the night
Rex Tillerson + Sergey Lavrov = ?
4.9 - 8.17
