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♫ Right Down The Line ♫ | Filosofa’s Word

Other than the fact that this was written and recorded by Gerry Rafferty and was a follow-up song to Baker Street, I am not able to find much in the way of background or trivia about the song.  I don’t think I knew that Rafferty was Scottish … I did learn that much … or perhaps I knew it and had forgotten.  I also did not know that Gerry Rafferty died of liver failure in January 2011.  By all accounts, his life from about 2008 was not a happy one.

The song reached in Canada, in the U.S., and strangely did not chart at all in the UK.

Right Down the Line
Gerry Rafferty

Source: ♫ Right Down The Line ♫ | Filosofa’s Word

North Carolina’s Wolfspeed to receive $750 million for semiconductor plant – UPI.com

The Biden administration said on Tuesday that North Carolina’s Wolfspeed Inc. has entered into an agreement with the Commerce Department to receive $750 million to help create a new silicon carbide wafer manufacturing facility.

The plant, which will be built in Siler, N.C., will help the country build a reliable domestic supply of semiconductors during the artificial intelligence boon and future energy economy, the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology said in a statement.

Source: North Carolina’s Wolfspeed to receive $750 million for semiconductor plant – UPI.com

(36) Netanyahu mulls plan to empty northern Gaza of civilians and cut off aid to those left inside – YouTube – (Me: Unforgivable)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is examining a plan to seal off humanitarian aid to northern Gaza in an attempt to starve out Hamas militants, a plan that, if implemented, could trap without food or water hundreds of thousands of Palestinians unwilling or unable to leave their homes. The plan proposed to Netanyahu and the Israeli parliament by a group of retired generals would escalate the pressure, giving Palestinians a week to leave the northern third of the Gaza Strip, including Gaza City, before declaring it a closed military zone. The plan calls for Israel to maintain control over the north for an indefinite period to attempt to create a new administration without Hamas, splitting the Gaza Strip in two. FRANCE 24’s International Affairs Commentator Douglas Herbert tells us more.