I loved a BIGGER BANG when it came out and have loved it more and more with each passing year. Li Cohen (CBS NEWS) reports the Rolling Stones are about to release another new album:
According to McCartney, the song was born out of a rough period in the mid-to-late ’60s. In his book The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, McCartney talks about bad drug trips and grueling business meetings, all of which weighed on him heavily.
“We were entering a period when we were doing LSD, staying up all night, and then wishing it would wear off, discovering that it wouldn’t,” McCartney wrote in the book. “A bad trip could leave you feeling a bit heavy, instead of enjoying the lightness of youth.
“That was coupled with the business problems at Apple Records,” he added. “The business meetings were just soul-destroying. We’d sit around in an office, and it was a place you just didn’t want to be, with people you didn’t want to be with.”
McCartney went on to talk about a photo his wife Linda McCartney took of manager Allen Klein, whom the Beatles massively distrusted. According to the songwriter, the lines I never give you my pillow / I only send you my invitations are a nod to another Beatles track “You Never Give Me Your Money,” which also documented their legal troubles.
To McCartney, his and the band’s strife extended far beyond their career – it was starting to affect his spiritual life as well.
ICYMI, yesterday was National Bey-Day (not Labor Day) in celebration of the one and only Beyoncé officially turning 42 years old — and legendary Motown singer, Diana Ross, honored her longtime friend’s birthday with a surprise appearance during night three of her Renaissance World Tour at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles.
On Monday, Sept. 4, Queen Bey was busy putting on a stellar show for a star-studded audience when Ross made a surprise appearance on stage. For the occasion, Ross dressed to the nines in a sparkly black off-the-shoulder gown with shimmery fringed sleeves while singing "Happy Birthday" to Beyoncé with the help of the sold-out crowd. The blingiest platform sandals and coordinating massive drop earrings rounded out her metallic ‘fit, and she wore her natural curls down with her forehead fringe on full display.
The Motown legend, who made her grand appearance at the end of the show, stepped out wearing a shimmering black dress complete with feather cuffs causing the 70,000-plus crowd to go “upside down” with delight, according to a TikTok.
Rumors that the “Love Hangover” songstress might appear had been circulating for weeks since Knowles-Carter, 42, sang at Ross’, 79, birthday in 2019.
The Post has reached out to Beyoncé and Ross for comment.
In the video, which was posted early Tuesday morning, Beyoncé can be seen looking “Crazy in Love” as Ross and fans belt out the tune.
Closing with C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"
Iraq's Federal Supreme Court decided Monday to invalidate a maritime
border agreement with Kuwait under which the two countries shared a key
waterway in the Gulf.
The decision against the Khor Abdullah agreement followed a trial related to an ongoing dispute over the deal, which was signed in 2012 and ratified in 2013 and concerned maritime borders and navigation regulations.
The court cited its inconsistency with the Iraqi Constitution, which mandates approval through legislation passed with a two-thirds majority in parliament, said a statement.
Following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 833 in 1993 which determined the land border between Iraq and Kuwait.
However, the delineation of the maritime border was left to the two countries.
Kirkuk is a multiethnic city home to Kurds, Arabs, and Turkmen, as well as an Assyrian minority. The city was under joint administration before 2014, when Kurds took full control after Iraqi forces withdrew in the face of a brazen offensive by the Islamic State (ISIS) group threatening the city. Kurds held Kirkuk until October 16, 2017, when Iraqi forces retook control and expelled Kurdish security forces following the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) independence referendum. While other Kurdish political parties remain active in Kirkuk, the KDP refused to return, saying the city was “occupied” by Shiite militias.
Chenar Chalak (RUDAW) sexplained:
An order from [Iraq's prime minister] Sudani in August asked the JOC to evacuate their offices
in Kirkuk and hand them over to the KDP to allow the Kurdish party to
resume its political activities in the province. The buildings were used
by the KDP prior to the expulsion of the Peshmerga forces from Kirkuk
in October 2017 when Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) gained
control of the province.
Sudani’s decision was strongly rejected by the PMF and their supporters,
who set up tents and held sit-in protests near the JOC headquarters in
Kirkuk, blocking the main Kirkuk-Erbil highway and vowing to continue
demonstrations until the Iraqi premier revokes his decision and leaves
the matter to the judiciary. The protesters claimed that the KDP’s
return would be detrimental to the province’s security.
Footage emerged on social media depicting the PMF protesters
disrespecting the flag of the Kurdistan Region and Kirkuk’s Peshmerga
statue located near the JOC headquarters, further enraging the city’s
Kurdish population who were already frustrated with the ongoing blockage
of the key highway for nearly a week.
Iraq's federal supreme court issued an urgent temporary ruling on Sunday obliging the government to delay procedures regarding the handover of a building in Kirkuk to the KDP, the state news agency reported.
The court ruling halted an order issued by Prime Minister Mohammed al-Sudani in his capacity as the commander-in-chief of Iraq's armed forces to hand over the army building to the KDP on September 1, according to a copy of the ruling seen by Reuters.
Not everyone fell into silent agreement. ALJAZEERA reports:
Masoud Barzani, a veteran Kurdish leader, accused “rioters” of blocking the highway from Kirkuk to Erbil, the Kurdish capital, with their sit-in.
He said this was “creating a tense and dangerous situation for residents”.
Barzani said it was “surprising” that security forces had not prevented “the chaos and illegal behaviour of those blocking the road”, while on Saturday, “violence was used against Kurdish youth and demonstrators”.
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani described the Iraqi Federal Supreme Court’s Sunday decision on recovering the Kurdistan Democratic Party’s (KDP) former headquarters in Kirkuk as a “farce”.
“Today's ‘federal court’ decision is a farce,” Barzani wrote on X platform, formerly known as Twitter.
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Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani on Sunday ordered the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Ministry of Martyrs and Anfal Affairs to register the killed protestors in Kirkuk as “martyrs” and provide medical assistance to the wounded, the spokesperson announced.
THE NATIONAL quote Barzani point out, "It's surprising that in the past few days security forces in Kirkuk did not prevent the violence and illegal behaviour of some groups, but today the Kurdish protesters were faced with violence and (the) blood of Kurdish youth was spilt, and it will carry a heavy price."
A delegation of Australian politicians from across the board will travel to the United States in September to lobby against the extradition of Julian Assange from a London prison.
The contingent is set to visit Washington DC to meet with top US diplomats and urge the government to end its prosecution bid, following years of unsuccessful intervention attempts to free the WikiLeaks founder.
MPs spanning the political spectrum, including Barnaby Joyce from the National Party, Tony Zappia from Labor, Alex Antic from the Liberals, independent MP Monique Ryan and David Shoebridge and Peter Whish-Walson from the Greens, will be part of the lobby group.
“Australians are united in their view that this matter must come to an end now,” Assange Campaign group’s legal advisor Greg Barns said in a media release.
Should he be deported from the U.K., Julian Assange, the Australian publisher of WikiLeaks, faces up to 175 years in a U.S. prison on charges related to his release of information that revealed U.S. war crimes and torture. His legal team has stated that they plan to appeal the extradition case to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, France, arguing that the British litigation process has been rife with malpractice.
However, experts say, there is little likelihood that Assange, who is currently being detained without British charges at London’s Belmarsh Prison pending extradition, will be allowed to physically attend any ECHR hearings in Strasbourg, which lies in France’s Alsace region.
“The U.K. authorities’ case against bail has always been that he is ‘a significant flight risk’ and a reminder of his seven years in the Ecuadorian embassy,” Tim Dawson of the International Federation of Journalists, a group opposing Assange’s detention, told Truthout. “I can’t see that they are going to allow anything similar to arise.”
Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) pointed out Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ “absolutely outrageous” move to not meet with President Joe Biden in the aftermath of Hurricane Idalia.
In a CNN appearance Friday, Kinzinger criticized the Florida governor, who had expressed logistical concerns over Biden’s trip to survey hurricane damage and remarked that the visit could be “very disruptive.”
“There’s a 1 to 2% chance it’s logistics, there’s a 98 to 99% chance it’s the optics,” Kinzinger told CNN’s John Berman.
DeSantis and Biden met when the president toured Florida after Hurricane Ian hit the state last year, and in the aftermath of the Surfside condo collapse in Miami Beach in 2021.
The pair have been speaking regularly this week about Idalia, but DeSantis avoided being photographed with Biden as he visited Florida on Saturday.
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"In times of crisis, the American people expect our leaders to put aside their differences and find strength in unity," said Nikki Fried, chair of the Florida Democratic Party "By refusing to meet with President Biden, he's proving again what we've known for years—Ron will always put politics over people. I hope his fundraisers in Iowa are worth it."
Victor Shi, a Gen-Z activist and Biden supporter, said media reports should make clear that it was DeSantis who refused to meet with Biden and not the other way around.
Let's wind down with this Tweet from Paul Rudnick.
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