Happy birthday cuz
Tuesday, May 07, 2024
Monday, May 06, 2024
Fascist Iran Violence, Beautiful Peace from Ok State
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/03/1147681
"Iranian security forces shot hundreds of people
who took part in widespread protests sparked by the death of Jina Mahsa Amini
while she was in the custody of the country’s so-called morality police,
top independent human rights investigators said on Monday."
"
Addressing the Human Rights Council in Geneva, the International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran – a group of Council-appointed independent experts – said that
Ms. Amini’s death in September 2022 was “unlawful and caused by physical violence” for which the State is responsible.
Chairperson Sara Hossain told the forum’s 47 Member States that after Ms. Amini’s death,
young women and schoolchildren “were at the forefront” of nationwide protests.
“The entire State apparatus was mobilised
with security forces using firearms, including AK-47s and Uzis
as we documented in some areas, resulting in injuries and deaths,” she said."
There are “credible figures” that indicate there were 551 deaths,
at least 49 women and 68 children, “and we found that those occurred in
26 out of the 31 provinces of Iran over multiple months”, the Mission found.
Ms. Hossain explained that many protesters “removed their hijab in public places as an act of defiance against long-standing discriminatory laws and practices”.
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"Thompson said it’s “frustrating” now to see people putting flags in the back of their trucks or wearing hats or shirts to indicate patriotism.
Retired Retired Col. Kelly Zachgo, left, and retired Maj. Gen. Doug Dollar, right, present the Hall of Honor award to
retired Maj. Gen. Michael Thompson during the Oklahoma Military Heritage Foundation ceremony on April 23.
“Self-anointing themselves
as a patriot – that’s not necessarily patriotism,
that’s more similar to symbolism,”
Thompson said.
“And the sooner we as a country recognize that accept that,
the better off we’re going to be, in my modest opinion.”
Respect The Constitution
Millions have died for it.
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'Hundreds of students gathered at Oklahoma State University Thursday in a protest for peace
regarding the conflict between Israel and the war in Gaza that has ratcheted up conflict in the Middle East.
Standing beneath a tree on Edmon Low Library’s south lawn, students from the Students Coalition for Palestinian Liberation chanted,
read poetry and gave short speeches for an hour and a half."
they demanded that OSU “divest and end partnerships” with companies they said are.
fueling and profiting from what they considered the “U.S.-Israel genocide of Palestinians.”
Those companies listed in the flyer included Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Caterpillar, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, Chevron, Palantir and Valero, among others."
Sunday, May 05, 2024
Saturday, May 04, 2024
Leave it to the Professionals (2015)
comfort squats on the part time worker,
stealing a rest in the desert
where the prickly pear
blooms bewareness as part and parcel of a wary dumping ground
littered with garden party accoutrements,
swimming pools of undrinkable water
and plastic bottles racing past tumbleneeds
toward the boarder's fence
where squatters hold sway while
trying to do number one or number two while avoiding
contact with an adverse terrain
of colosss husks
and burnt out pintos whose rusty comfort
returns his borrowed iron
into the ground by dropping sweat beads
onto a game floor
ruled by umps in loafers
who decree "play ball or blackball"
who scream "suck it up" while siphoning the gasps
of children fleeing "free tirade"
mad in the USA with boss springing the steens mtn. stallions free
in the movie version, in the disney venison,
getting comfortable with the corn eaters
in the black row of ledgers
running red ink
running out of metaphors for loss
running out of ways to screw with impunity
a stripped out threading where parts, partners,
frank steins brimming with bubbly "hey bub"
as the spokes define a hub
in the radial stretch of making it to the next paycheck
that bounces off the book cooker
and lands not on land but on the backs
of flipped turtles in their empire shells
calling the shots
from way off in lard conditioned eateries
making hypertension the medium whereby one presents any opinion
or addresses the gift of slave labor
to a hole knocked into a saguaro with a tiny sharp beak,
in a residential enclave cul de sac
guarded with goiters from incessant desk loitering
an ugly repose from which to respond
to pretty pleas for basic rites such as washing,
drinking, resting, breathing professional air
with unlicensed noses just out of reach
but easy to smack
May 2015
Portland
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/04/police-tactics-us-campus-protest-crackdowns
Held (2018)
The waves of ire
Land, land hard, weaving undone
Into beaches of
Sunset gold, gold
Eyes prize, seize
And can't hold,
Hold.
2018
Stonemason asst.
Outsider Declined Columbia University
Accepted to the Columbia University Graduate School Writing Program for Fall 1990, and 1991. Also accepted at Brown University for Fall 1990.
Outsiders Matter.
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"we watched in horror as hundreds of riot police flooded our beloved campus and brutalized our classmates.
The next day, students awoke with swollen faces, bruised wrists, and lacerations – all results of inhumane police treatment"
"The traumatic environment and militarization of our campus are not the sole product of ill-intended protestors or reckless non-affiliates as claimed by administrative emails; rather, they are
the fault of the senior administration themselves."
We Columbia University students urge you to listen to our voices
Columbia College Student Council
Occupy never dies
'Students are pointing out contradictions between being asked to be free thinkers and then finding themselves challenged when they think they are thinking freely,”
said Dr Manual Pastor, a professor and the director of the Equity Research Institute at the University of Southern California, whose research focuses on
the power of social movements."
The US universities that allow protest encampments – and even negotiate
Remember when Mayor Sam Adams coordinated with Occupy Portland, 2011, and hundreds of people camped for weeks and weeks near the downtown police station and city hall, camped living there in. Public City Park?
And massive protests, hundreds of riot police, huge demonstrations eventually resulted in violent police dismantling of the several acre Occupy City.
Adams was in contact with The White House, Obama Administration.
Allow and encourage Free Speech activity and use of all open public space to facilitate and be welcome to all who lack Homes. That was a central point of Occupy Portland. The results of Corporate Rule continue. Schools must be the most open spaces for dissent and self expression. Conservatives are the foremost censors, shutting libraries, banning books, promoting Hate Speech, targeting Workers and Activists and Everyone supporting Democracy in America. Divestment from totalitarian regimes is essential. Speaking about it will always draw a Police State response. Corporate Resistance works. The focus on profits short term versus long term won't prevail. Occupy never dies.
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let's take a walk or read a book or sit and listen to what birds may be.
if you were ever thirsty and sitting atop a spring
we'd be reflections of invitations that needn't reach print.
let's clean or do firewood or protest or fold our dollars or bake food.
you remember food, right?
Friday, May 03, 2024
Oregon PERS, Israel Pegasus, Delusional Professors for Peace
"Portland State protest ‘delusional,’ Wheeler says, as local leaders advise public caution"
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"for the life of me, I do not understand how terrorizing local business operators can possibly impact events in the Middle East,” Wheeler said
at a Thursday press conference held at the Portland Police Bureau’s Central Precinct.
“If you believe
that damaging those businesses or trashing a library on a university campus will impact events in the Middle East,
then you are delusional.”
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Oregon public pension fund gave blessing to NSO Group deal, sources suggest
How about teachers, professors, and other Oregon PERs beneficiaries that invest blindly in Israel's NSO and spyware Pegasus.
Since beliefs make one culpable, not actions according to former State Treasurer Wheeler.
" In his comments, Wheeler seemed
to commingle other recent demonstrations
with the PSU protest;
a May Day march in downtown Portland Wednesday night left some business windows smashed."
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The Guardian:
"Oregon’s public pension fund, which manages tens of billions of dollars in retirement savings,
appears to have privately given its blessing to a 2019 deal by an investment fund to acquire
NSO Group, the controversial spyware company.
A source with close knowledge of the matter and emails seen by the Guardian suggest that
a senior official at the pension fund signalled his strong support for the takeover of NSO
as early as 2018,
months before the deal was announced.
(Hold on, Ambassador Sondland's wife was in charge or PERs or was it Wheeler.....)
Last month, Oregon officials said they were “deeply disturbed” by reports that NSO Group “enabled widespread human rights violations”.
However, it now appears that the Oregon pension fund,
one of the most prominent in the US, gave its tacit approval over an investment in NSO several years ago –
at a time when security researchers were already publicly raising alarms about the company.
NSO, which is based in Israel, was recently blacklisted by the Biden administration
and accused of acting against the national security interests of the US.
The US commerce department said in November 2021 it was adding NSO to the so-called Entity List
based on evidence that the company had developed and supplied spyware to foreign governments
that used the tools to “maliciously target government officials, journalists, businesspeople, activists, academics and embassy workers”.
A spokesperson for Tobias Read, the Democratic Oregon state treasurer who has oversight of the pension fund,
issued a statement in December supporting the administration’s decision.
The statement was significant because Oregon invested $233m in a private equity firm, Novalpina Capital, in 2017
. Novalpina’s fund then acquired a controlling stake in NSO in 2019,
making the Oregon fund the largest indirect investor in the spyware company.
(Katy’s previous board membership and advisory experience includes:
Chairman of the Oregon Investment Council, which oversees the investment of the Oregon PERS funds https://www.sondlanddurant.org/katherine-j-durant )
A spokesperson for Read, who has oversight of public investments but does not personally manage relationships with private equity managers, said in the December statement that
the treasurer supported the sanctioning of technology companies
that “facilitate human rights violations and the oppression of journalists by selling technology to authoritarian regimes.”
The spokesperson said that Oregon was a limited partner in private equity fund investments and did not participate in the “selection or operation of private equity portfolio companies” held by it private equity investors.
“We’ve been deeply disturbed by reports about developments concerning NSO Group,” the statement said.
An investigation by the Guardian suggests that
a senior official at the Oregon pension fund was briefed on Novalpina’s desire to buy NSO –
and appears to have indicated to partners there that he supported the deal –
as early as 2018.
Records suggest that Michael Langdon, director of private markets at the Oregon State Treasury’s investment division, met the three founding partners at Novalpina in London on 15 June 2018.
According to a source familiar with the matter, Langdon voiced his support for Novalpina to pursue the acquisition.
A 24 June 2018 email that was sent by a person involved in the talks described Novalpina as discussing the opportunity “in detail” with the private equity firm’s three largest investors, who had voiced “strong support” for the transaction.
At the time, Langdon is said to have already been familiar with NSO and what insiders sometimes called the “noise” – or bad publicity – around the company
because
the Oregon pension fund was also an investor in Francisco Partners,
a California-based firm whose fund previously owned a majority stake in NSO.
“He was very supportive throughout,” said one investor who asked not to be named, describing Langdon’s approach to the Novalpina fund’s takeover of NSO.
A spokesperson for the Oregon treasury declined to answer the Guardian’s questions.
In an emailed statement, the spokesperson said: “Our role as a limited partner means we can’t comment on specifics related to our active investments, and as we have said before, we do not participate in the selection, operation, or control of portfolio companies.”
Concerns about the possible abuse of NSO’s hacking software by its government clients date back to 2016.
By 2018, researchers at Citizen Lab had issued reports that said there appeared to be a “lack of due diligence by NSO Group concerning the sale of their spyware, and widespread misuse of the spyware by several government clients”.
Researchers had delved into allegations that
journalists and human rights activists
in Mexico and the UAE had their phones hacked by governments using Pegasus.
Then, in October 2018, new allegations emerged that a Saudi dissident who was based in Canada, a close associate of the murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi, had been targeted and infected with NSO spyware by a client of the company.
NSO denied the claim. The controversy did not affect the takeover of the Israeli firm by Novalpina’s fund.
Months later, after the acquisition of a majority stake in NSO became public, an announcement of the deal appears to have been sent to Langdon by Stephen Peel, co-founder of Novalpina. The senior Oregon official responded on 21 March 2019: “This is great. Thanks. Let’s keep in touch on this.”
As allegations of misuse of NSO’s technology by the company’s government clients multiplied,
a spokesperson for the Oregon pension fund responded to inquiries from the Guardian by saying
Blah blah blah
it was against the fund’s policy to comment on specific portfolio investments given its role as a limited partner.
It did issue a statement after the Biden administration announced that it was adding NSO to a US blacklist.
spokesperson for Tobias Read said in December that the Oregon treasury had been working with the fund’s new manager, which replaced Novalpina in 2021, to obtain a “full accounting” of the prior fund manager’s investment activities over the past several years,
and had reached out to Oregon’s attorney general on “various legal options”.
The spokesperson did not elaborate on what was meant by “various legal options”.....opinions? Sic.
Novalpina’s three co-founding partners
, Stefan Kowski,
Stephen Peel
and Bastian Lueken,
did not respond to requests for comment from the Guardian.
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'Portland Police Bureau Chief Bob Day acknowledged that investigators don’t know
if there is any link between the damage to downtown businesses
with the library occupation,
which did result in damage to campus buildings."
Ain't cherry picking.
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"we adopted two black rinos"
Republicans by Any Other Name
"Our family rule is that everyone needs to be present for family dinner, unless you're in Gaza."
"Ayn Rand’s famous novel Atlas Shrugged, signed by the author and gifted to Katy from Gordon.
Hosting Dennis Hastert for a fundraiser, oh the fond memories. And Dick Cheney! The safari twins.
Gordon: " we are opposites in most respects.
Whether it’s food, music, movies or leisure activities,
we joke that if one of us loves it,
the other likely does not."
Yeah, she's mostly honest. Gordon is a duplicitous sleaze laughing at his own jokes and chasing Maids around his hotels.
Delusional?
Wheeler and the Sondlands, PERS, Spyware by the Mossad, oh and buying an Ambassadorship under Trump for $1, 000, 000 in Dark Money.
But I'm no journalist. I'm an Artist.
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"Not since Neil Goldschmidt has a public figure in Oregon wielded so much power on the national stage.
While Goldschmidt was a masterful politician and literally the political godfather of the Democratic Party in Oregon,
he got very sloppy
on the business side,
which opened up his personal life to intense scrutiny"
'Gordon Sondland has similarly been a masterful on the business side yet become sloppy regarding politics, opening up his business practices to similar scrutiny."
It is noteworthy that Sondland’s wife Katy Durant
served on the Oregon Investment Council (OIC), the body that manages
Oregon’s $90 billion in PERS assets from 2005-2016
11 years.
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Erasing
My updates
Or is it NSO.
This is where the State Treasurer is supposed to step in and unfortunately for Sondland and Durant,
Democrat Tobias Read has done just the opposite.
Read began by scrubbing away the archive of meetings and minutes as part of a web site overhaul.
This includes key audio from Wilbur Ross, now Commerce Secretary, whose firm has received almost $300 million from the OIC.
Again Durant made the motion to approve the investment, which I am confident Wilbur appreciated.
Let’s now take a look at another example regarding why this archive is so important.
TPG and the OIC’s in Novalpina, a TPG spinoff, Making Oregon Public Employees the largest shareholders in a Cyber Weapon Software Company NSO/Pegasus
After a long career benefiting enormously from Oregon’s investments in TPG, senior partner Stephen Peel started his own fund Novalpina, with a helping hand from TPG.
The OIC in fact became the first and largest investor at almost 25 percent of the entire fund. Here is a link to audio for this November 2017 monthly meeting. You can hear Chair Adams asking all the right questions yet getting little support from other council members, in terms of scrutiny, regarding the investment:
As it turns out they invested more than half the billion dollar fund, including debt, in a cyber weapons firm, NSO. This essentially makes Oregon Public Employees the NOS’s largest shareholder.
Here is a series of visuals, note that acccording to Private Equity HUB Novalpina used Brooklands Capital Strategies, a division of TPG, on the fundraising.
Not even the Willamette Week has reported on this investment.
good question for Gordon Sondland on his special mission to the Ukraine to get to the bottom of the election interference scandal is whether Novalpina and its portfolio company played a role.
Novalpina’s entry into the Cyber Weapon software business was greased by OIC funds and TPG’s big entry into security software when it purchased a majority stake in McAfee from Intel in September, 2016.
NSO’s previous owner was Francisco Partners, another private equity firm in which the OIC has invested almost $500 million.
Here is a recap of the NSO sale from Francisco partners to Novalpina per Wikipedia. Note the source.
Whether or note Novalpina leveraged this up with debt is not clear.
What is clear is that Oregon’s public employees are its largest shareholder.
One More Example of Sondland and Durant’s Conflicts of Interest, Elliott Broidy’s Markstone Capital
The OIC invested $50 million in 2004 in Eliott Broidy’s new Markstone Capital and during Durant’s time on the Council significant issues regarding problems with the fund were discussed.
These included a major pay for play scandal
brought by a New York Public Pension.
Broidy is also now the subject of a Department of Justice Investigation.
Sondland is a major investor with Broidy is a security surveillance firm, as reported by Nigel Jaquiss of Willamette Week.
What Jaquiss and other Journalists have not discussed is
Durant’s role on the OIC overseeing the Markstone Capital investment
while sensitive discussions were held.
In 2015 while Durant was Chair of the OIC an additional $112 million was invested in Endeavour Capital.
Durant’s husband is invested in three Endeavour Capital funds per his January 2018 Public Financial Disclosure Report.
Regarding Sondland and President Trump, many banks simply won’t lend to hotels because they are high risk loans.
What Gordon probably never anticipated is that all his property debt can be analyzed in great detail given that the banks he used have securitized the loans into commecial mortgage pools and sold these to investors.
Each such sale requires a prospectus, filed with the SEC, that provides very detailed information on each property, for example the Paramount Hotel assumes an occupancy rate of 87 percent. In addition, almost halve his revenue comes from food and beverage.
So let’s start with this deal involving a mortgage pool created by Goldman Sachs on February 6, 2015, which by the way does a lot of business with the OIC and Durant is now Chair, that is 2015, which shows Sondland’s $25 million mortgage on the Paramount Hotel, which was previously securitized by JP Morgan. In the prospectus Goldman claims the occupancy rate is 87 percent. Of course this is critical for a hotel and why again many banks will simply not lend to hotels, given the high risk that occupancy should decline sharply. Also noteworthy is that the President’s primary lendor, Deutsche Bank, President Trump’s primary lendor, was a key player in the issue.
Of course an obvious question might be, how has Gordon’s business mix changed since he joined the Trump administration.
For example, are there most government events being held there, etc. This would be a good public records request since he is still the owner of the properties.
Simply saying he is not actively managing them is not adequate.
Sondland’s Provenance Hotels recently filed an ethical complaint against Democratic Congressmen Earl Blumenhauer, and was allowed to do a major opinion piece in the Oregonian, after
Blumenhaeur suggested consumers boycott
Sondland’s Hotels
given his refusal
to testify to Congress.
One food vendor, salt and straw ice cream, has already backed out. Let’s just say chances are good the commercial lending officer at Washington Trust will be watching closely tomorrow.
This ethical complaint is particularly interesting because
after years of frustration with Sondland’s wife Katy Durant not disclosing conflicts of interest
while in charge of Oregon’s PERS investments,
I filed a complaint with the State Ethics division.
I am after all investment advisor to approximately 25 PERS participants.
Simply putting your name on art exhibits and using a foundation as a PR tool is also bad business, and worse politics.
My advice to Sondland is to look at the retirement plan for your 615 employees,
to which you contributed $60,000 as the employer contribution in your most recent filing,
that’s about $97 per employee for the year.
when you are in Europe please try not to personify the “Ugly American.” That joke you tell about asking what time it is, and someone responding no, is a language thing.
It’s reported your father was a Russian citizen before fleeing to Germany.
As you should know, that is a language thing and all you do is display ignorance to slavic languages when you tell that joke.
In Russian the answer would be nyet, the same thing.
It means I don’t have the time."
Thursday, May 02, 2024
Just my Pillar
in cases where student demonstrators have gathered unopposed,
police have intervened against pro-Palestine demonstrations
more than four times as often
as pro-Israel demonstrations.
I'm paying for a lawn mowing, maybe see you in a couple months
I'm praying for dinner, I'll wait until reindeer invade Houston
I'm hiring a fire brigade, after they nap a few more weeks
I'm comfy, can you adjust my pillow to wake me up
I'm sucking my silver spoon, is it worth more today let's google
I'm on the hook in ways a worm might dread, good thing I'm part fish
I'm Teflon but so are it's consumers
I'm natural gas, turn it down our thermostat bill makes me ventless
I'm just the middle man who hires the boss to your waiting
That don't fly in court.
1865 eight and one half months later
Wednesday, May 01, 2024
1987 Joe's NYC
Funny, Dad.
1987 was funny.
Joe Good
I was asleep in the photo. I was asleep on November 9th-10th.
There wasn't an erect plant, guess you filled in some details.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bloomberg
'As of April 2024, Forbes ranked him as the
thirteenth-richest person
in the world, with anj estimated net worth of
US $106.2 billion.
His father never earned more than $6,000 a year "
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'Bloomberg's family is Jewish, and he is a member of the Temple Emanu-El in Manhattan.
Bloomberg's paternal grandfather, Rabbi Alexander "Elick" Bloomberg, was a Polish Jew. Bloomberg's maternal grandfather, Max Rubens, was a Lithuanian Jewish immigrant from present-day Belarus, and his maternal grandmother was born in New York to Lithuanian Jewish parents."
'The Department of Education (DOE) announced on Thursday that it will be investigating Columbia University for anti-Palestinian discrimination against students.
The latest DOE investigation comes as the university called New York police to quell pro-Palestine protests on Columbia’s campus.
Columbia was added to a list of schools the department is investigating “for discrimination involving shared ancestry” on 23 April."
The wilder life
"Yusef, a UCLA student using only his first name publicly,
sustained 12 staples to the back of the head
after being hit
with a wooden plank
by a counter-demonstrator
on Tuesday night.
During a press conference Wednesday, Yusef said: “I had the ability to go to a hospital last night. Currently in Gaza, there are zero fully functioning hospitals.”
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Cold spring evening for an outdoor wedding I think
The signs taped onto the fir, elm, oak manage to endure
I don't relish being in the background of their photos but so what
I'm watching a documentary about the okc bombing
They leave at sundown
A guy brings me the last cake square on a big cardboard platter
Congratulations smile thanks for sharing
I toss the surplus frosting for the wildlife
Fistfuck Totalitarians
The Columbia University chapter of the American Association of University Professors has called for a vote of no confidence on Columbia president Minouche Shafik.
In a statement, the association criticized the decision by Shafik, the university’s board of trustees, and other Columbia officials to call New York police officers to remove student protests on 30 April.
“These offenses culminated in the horrific police attack on our students that is now shamefully on view for the whole world to see,” the association wrote, adding that students, faculty, and staff remain locked out of campus.
Biden forgives your debt
So you can pay for ER from police abuse that's a loss leader
Which side are you on
May Day President
The entitled occupier State of a genocide or those million college faculty and kids
Your adviser Dunn got Weinstein a few weeks out of prison
Hobbling to the hospital with a walker
How sweet
Biden, the unelectable marionette that gives fascism more rope than Pinocchio GOP
Once a segregationist apologist,
Twice a patsy
A war on progressives in plain sight is your offshore platform
Fistfuck Saudis, I'm not watching
POTUS.
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"Vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows,
shutting down campus,
forcing the cancellation of classes and graduation ...
none of this is a peaceful protest,”
Biden said.
University Presidents, Board of Regents, Donors....shut down campuses, not kids on the lawn. Mayor Eric Adams shuts down Education.
Biden added:
“We are not an authoritarian nation where we silence people and squash dissent … but neither are we a lawless country.”
We're funding the genocide of 2 million Gaza children, babies, women, innocent until proven otherwise men and boys. Apartheid in DC, apartheid over There. Scared of kids with cardboard signs? Who's voting in November, Joe.
Goel goal gong
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scapegoat
"A concept superficially similar to the biblical scapegoat is attested in two ritual texts of the
24th century BC archived at Ebla.
They were connected with ritual purification on the occasion of the king's wedding. In them, a she-goat with a silver bracelet hung from her neck was driven forth into the wasteland of "Alini"; "we" in the report of the ritual involves the whole community.
Such "elimination rites", in which an animal, without confession of sins, is the vehicle of evils (not sins) that are chased from the community are widely attested in the Ancient Near East."
ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scapegoat
"In the Bible, a scapegoat is one of a pair of kid goats that is released into the wilderness, taking with it all sins and impurities, while the other is sacrificed.
The concept first appears in the Book of Leviticus, in which a goat is designated to be cast into the desert to carry away the sins of the community."
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"The obligations of the goel include the duty to redeem the relative from slavery, if the latter had been obliged to sell himself into slavery (Leviticus 25:48–49);
to repurchase the property of a relative who had had to sell it because of poverty;
to avenge the blood of his relative;
to marry his brother's widow in order to have a son for his brother, in the case that the brother had no son to pass on his name (Deuteronomy 25:5–6);
and to receive the restitution if the injured relative had died (Numbers 5:8)."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goel_(Judaism)
'Jewish tradition has also attributed the blood avenger role in modern times to a prosecuting attorney, who pleads on behalf of the victim the case against the criminal.
Thus, he is responsible for bringing the offender to court, finding evidence against him, presenting the case to the court, and collecting damages from the offender"
'the goel hadam,
commonly translated to English as
"avenger of blood."
"We are trying our best to keep everyone safe while ending this unlawful occupation of our Palestine."
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"The Battle of Leyte Gulf (Japanese: レイテ沖海戦, romanized: Reite oki Kaisen, lit. '
Leyte Open Sea Naval Battle', Filipino: Labanan sa Golpo ng Leyte)
was the largest naval battle of World War II and by some criteria
the largest naval battle in history, with over 200,000 naval personnel involved."
It was fought in waters near the Philippine islands of Leyte, Samar, and Luzon from 23 to 26 October 1944
It was the first battle in which Japanese aircraft carried out organized kamikaze attacks, and
it was the last naval battle between battleships in history.
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"Mount Olympus departed from the East Coast in early July, arriving at Hawaii via the Panama Canal on 23 July. With the Commander, 3rd Amphibious Force, embarked, she was underway from Hawaii on 29 August.
She arrived Leyte Gulf 20 October, there to serve as the floating headquarters for the huge U.S. Army invasion force. "
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"Champlin reported to headquarters, Twelfth Naval District, in August 1944, and on October 7, 1944 was ordered to a shore assignment in the Bureau of Ordnance, Navy Department, Washington, DC,
where he was placed in charge of research and development of naval guns, mounts and missile launchers.
Detached in October 1948, he assumed command of USS Mt. Olympus,
and continued in command of that Amphibious Force, Flagship, in the Atlantic, until December 1949.
He next had thirty-three months’ duty in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Navy Department, attained to the Division of International Affairs as
Chief of Foreign Military Aid Matters."
Fair's May Fair
Ralph James May
"MAY Ralph James, born Dec. 31, 1907 in Thomas, OK to John Harry & Emma Elizabeth (Luderman) May.
He died Sat. at the Stillwater Nursing Home in Stillwater, OK. He married Dorothy Champlin in 1931 in Enid, OK.
He grew up in Oklahoma City and graduated from Classen High School. He received a B.A. and an LLD from OU in 1931.
He was an assistant city attorney in Okla. City. He was with Shell Oil in Tulsa '35-'45.
He was in private practice in Okla. City from 1945 until his retirement. He was with Bulla, May and Byman and later alone in private practice.
He moved to a farm near Hydro, OK in 1965 and came to Stillwater in 1977 to be with his daughter.
He played Baseball in high school and at OU, and was also Team Manager for basketball at OU. A member of Crown Heights Christian Church and a former Deacon and Elder. He was active in the United Way, and a 32 degree Mason in Guthrie.
He was preceded in death by a brother, John H. May. He is survived by a son, Ralph James May, Jr. Memphis, Tenn. Daughters Janice Louise May Tollas, The Woodlands, Tx., and Melanie Ruth May Bloodgood, OKC, OK. 6 grandchildren.
Memorial services will be 2:00 PM Tues. 9-29-92 at Crown Heights Christian Church with interment in Rose Hill Cemetery."
"Lily-of-the-valley and Hawthorn are the May birth flowers."
(Fair's fair. )
"In ancient astrology, Lily-of-the-valley was said to be protected by the son of the goddess Maia. In Greek mythology, that son was Hermes; for the Romans, it was Mercury.
According to legend, Lily-of-the-valley fell in love with the song of the nightingale and only bloomed when the bird returned to the woods in May.
It is also believed that Apollo created the ground cover flower for nymphs to walk on.
This flower has been associated with motherhood, sweetness, purity, and humility. It signifies a return to happiness, likely due to its time of bloom and the anticipation of summer.
In Christian lore, Lily-of-the-valley came to be from Eve’s tears after she was expelled from the Garden of Eden. It has also been said that Lily-of-the-valley sprouted from the tears of Mary at the site of Christ’s crucifixion."
"David May was born to a Jewish family in Kaiserslautern, then located in the Kingdom of Bavaria, Germany. In 1854, he immigrated with his family to the United States and settled in Cincinnati. As a young man he worked at a clothing factory, while attending night school at Cincinnati's Nelson Business College.
May Company went on to become one of the largest department store chains in the United States through organic growth and acquisitions. Some of the chains acquired included: Bernheim-Leader in Baltimore, Maryland; Kaufmann's in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; The Daniels & Fisher Stores Company in Denver, Colorado; Hecht's in Baltimore, Maryland; G. Fox & Co. in Hartford, Connecticut; and Meier & Frank in Portland, Oregon."
"On February 28, 2005, Federated Department Stores, Inc., announced that they would acquire the May company for $11 billion."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_May_(merchant)
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"Samuel Abraham Marx (August 27, 1885 - January 1964) was an American architect, designer and interior decorator. He is generally considered a modernist, influenced by the International style. House Beautiful magazine (1948) said about his works “it’s frequently hard to say where the architecture ends and the furniture begins.”
"Marx was born to a Jewish family in Natchez, Mississippi, in 1885. He graduated from MIT's Department of Architecture in 1907, with his thesis Design for a Synagogue. He then went studying to Europe for eight months."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Abraham_Marx
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'Kathy May Fritz (born June 18, 1956) is an American former professional tennis player. She reached three Grand Slam quarterfinals, once at the US Open in 1978 and twice at the French Open in 1977 and 1978. She won seven WTA singles titles during her career, and achieved a career-high ranking of world no. 10 in 1977."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_May
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'May was born to a Jewish family, the son of Sarah (née Hirsch) and Morton J. May. He was the grandson of David May, who started the family in merchandising from a canvas-roofed makeshift shop"
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The Wilbur D. May Center is an attraction located in Rancho San Rafael Regional Park at 1595 North Sierra, Reno, Nevada.
The facility comprises the Wilbur D. May Museum and the Wilbur D. May Arboretum and Botanical Garden. Previously, it also included the Great Basin Adventure, a children's park."
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May Name Meaning
'English: from the Middle English male personal name May a pet form of Matthew (see Mayhew ).
English Dutch and German: from a personal name or nickname taken from the month of May (Middle English Old French mai Middle High German meie from Latin Maius (mensis) from Maia a minor Roman goddess of fertility).
This name was sometimes bestowed on someone born or baptized in the month of May; it was also used to refer to someone of a sunny disposition or who had some anecdotal connection with the month of May such as owing a feudal obligation then.
In England this name was possibly also a pet form of Mary or Margaret. This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine) and Denmark.
English: nickname from Middle English mey may ‘kinsman’. English: occupational name from Middle English mei Old French mege meie ‘physician’ a side form of Mee . Irish (Connacht and Midlands): when not of English origin (see 1–4 above) this is an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Miadhaigh ‘descendant of Miadhach’ a personal name or byname meaning ‘honorable proud’.
French: habitational name from any of various places called (Le) May. Compare Dumay and Lemay .7: French: from an old vernacular form of the Latin personal name Marius (see Mario ).8: Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from Mayen a place in western Germany.9:
Americanized form of Polish and Jewish from Poland) Maj ‘May’ a cognate of 2 above.10: Chinese: variant Romanization of the surnames 麥 (see Mai ) and 梅 (see Mei ). This form occurs more often for the personal name than for the surname.
1 Amerindian (Mexico): Mayan name from maay ‘cloven hoof’ by extension also ‘young deer’."
https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=may
"Another frequent source for Jewish and German-Jewish surnames is the names of trades and occupations;
such names as Kaufmann and Marchant ("merchant") became prominent. Others of the same kind are: Bialasik, Banks, Brauer, Breyer, and Brower ("brewer"); Spielmann ("musician"); Gerber ("tanner"); Goldschmit (Goldsmith); Silverschmit (Silversmith); Steinschneider ("stonecutter"); Graveur ("engraver"); Shoemark or Schumacher ("shoemaker"); Schuster ("cobbler"); Schneider, Schneiders, and Snyders ("tailor"; in Hebrew חייט, Chait/Khait (and at times Hyatt[citation needed])); Wechsler ("money-changer"); Zimmermann ("Carpenter"). Related, and likewise generically German, names are derived metonymically for a common object or tool of a profession: e.g., Hammer for a blacksmith, Feder ("quill") for a scribe, and Lein ("linen") for a dealer in cloth; Balsam a dealer in Balsam."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_surname
"Cornelis Jacobsen Mey, often spelled Cornelius Jacobsz May
in Dutch, was a 17th-century century Dutch explorer, captain, and fur trader.
Mey was the first Director of New Netherland and was stationed at Fort Amsterdam.
Mey was the captain of the ship Nieu Nederlandt which delivered the first boat load of colonists to New Netherland in north-east America."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_Jacobsen_May
"Jan Jacobsz May is best remembered for giving his name to the island of Jan Mayen. As part of an exploratory expedition for the Noordsche Compagnie, May visited the island in July 1614. The highly regarded cartographer Joris Carolus was on board, and made a (now lost) report and (still existing) map of the voyage"
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"Hawthorn have long been a symbol of hope.
Other associations include its ability to mark the entrance to other worlds, with a strong connection to fairies.
Ancient Greeks were said to use its branches during wedding processions, while in Celtic lore, Hawthorn was thought to heal a broken heart.
According to Serbian lore, it was once believed that stakes made from Hawthorn could slay vampires.
Hawthorn are associated with the pagan symbol of fertility.
It was once thought that bringing a hawthorn blossom inside would be followed by illness and death. During medieval times, the smell of Hawthorn blossom was associated with the Great Plague.
Many have believed that a Hawthorn’s bloom marked the point of change from spring to summer.
Hawthorn in History
The Hawthorn’s link to May Day is undeniable.
For this reason, it has been customary to decorate the celebration with flowering Hawthorn branches, most notably in the form of May Day garlands."
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"He brought provisions like a drunken sailor, and potted flowers for the months at sea, so his daughters could smell earth while a thousand miles of ocean carried them toward hope. "
"She checked the seed vault shortly before lift off, all phylum intact, every species earth once bore, and a true repository of human DNA eggs and sperm unaltered, no family left out. It was better than an ark and closer to an encyclopedia with thrusters and spinning rims. "
Monday, April 29, 2024
Metamorphosisterhood
Sitting at the park, moonlight lonesome asks fetch my poem
No I demure, 'tis for my daughters
Better make it good jerk the moon swings between trees
Oh how other me in my eyore voice drinking a small can of priceless
Who crushed who heart ten years ago
Was it pressed in a library book overdue?
They'd do impromptu plays, maybe ten minutes of practice out of sight
Our living room kept getting smaller over the years , Natalie's paintings everywhere
We had a hearth however with a beautiful woman holding her violin almost correctly at rest
I bought them violins a few years back, thought they'd beg for lessons
Isis loved dance and drawing and poetry, who's to prioritize
Mesa loved making cartoon stories with narratives, we have them today in storage
The girls had their own rooms
We had a bathroom connected to the master bedroom
It wasn't fort anomaly but the cul de sac was only blocks from their k thru 8
I had 5 gigs, jewelry at the psm, music all over town with famous old folks, painting the kingmakers home in eastmoreland, making delivering salsa to 12 mile, being a father husband poet
I made up stories every night to put the girls to sleep
I'd done that their whole lives
Now I'm not sure they remember anything
Creston friends and once verboten family, the wedge appeals to adolescence, interrogation knows
Ten years later they're women not girls they call their own shots
They got mom on speed dial and if my text arrives on a day of the week I'm subject to scorn and advice
Silence also intrudes
In a city not your hometown but one where all the sudden fuck I gotta buy my own quesadilla
Dawns.
Lyndon Johnson, IPA,
"Your organization was founded by William Jennings Bryan,
Bob LaFollette,
William Howard Taft,
and Paul Pearson,
and I think it has a very special meaning for a former debate coach, like the one speaking to you this morning. "
Remarks to the International Platform Association Upon Receiving the Association's Annual Award
August 03, 1965
"I only wish that my college teacher could be here to see what is happening now.
Because in my first term in college, when I made the debating team as a freshman-which was slightly unusual-
-when I got my grade cards my teacher gave me the lowest grade I ever received in college--
and in just the course that you would expect him to give it to me in. He gave me a "D" in argumentation"
'President Eisenhower told me an interesting story after he returned from World War II. He said before he went out there, before he went to Europe to take command, they met at his mother's home out in Kansas.
And some of his brothers were there, and his mother told him goodby, and his brothers told him goodby as he went away to war.
And he said, one day one of the Russian generals came in and complained to him about a story that an American newspaperman had written about him which he felt was not fully in keeping with the facts, and that
he demanded that this newspaperman be punished,
and that he be refused the privileges of a press correspondent.
President Eisenhower said he thought it over and told him to come back the next day.
The next day he came back and he showed the Russian general a big scrapbook of unfair things and unkind things that had been said about him,
because his plans went astray on occasion, too, and a lot of American soldiers had died.
And he said to the general, "Now let me tell you this story." He said, "lust before I came over here f met at my mother's home in Kansas with four of my brothers, and they were there to tell me goodby." And he said,
"My father was a railroad man and he had married my mother as a young girl and out of this union had come these boys." And he said one of them was there and said he was a constitutional lawyer and a very conservative fellow, and nearly everything that came up he would quote the Constitution.
Another one of them was a college professor--college president Milton Eisenhower of Johns Hopkins now--and, he said, he was very liberal.
And he said, "Another one of my brothers is a conservative banker, and another is an engineer that is more liberal."
And he said, "The fifth boy is General of the Armies."
And he said, "The real reason I'm over here, General, fighting this war is so that a railroad man can marry a little American girl and
out of that union come five boys, two that are conservatives, two that are liberals, and one that is General of the Army."
That is what America stands for, and we want to keep it that way.
, I think, that story rather well emphasizes that these are rights that we ought to keep sacred.
These rights were not come by easily. They were hammered into our Bill of Rights, and they were put there by men who knew what it was to be jailed and to be beaten, and to be banished and to be ostracized for what they said or what they thought, or what they preached or what they published.
Our forefathers knew what these rights meant, and they exercised them. And we must exercise our rights, too. We must never allow ourselves to be cowed by conformity.
I don't think, from what I know about the fellow that introduced me, that he's likely to have that happen to him because I have never seen him conform very much.
But all of us, collectively, must never be cowed by conformity.
We must never be afraid to discuss or to challenge, or to innovate or to stimulate new ideas and new approaches.
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This year, I sent to the Congress a rather novel and unique suggestion, and I must say that my prediction was wrong. It wasn't 83 percent wrong--it was 100 percent wrong. I thought the Congress would debate it 10 years before they acted on it--and we got it passed the first session. We're going to sign it this week.
It was a rent supplement that provides that when a fellow pays 25 percent of his rent--if he makes $200 a month and he pays $50 for rent, then the Government, if his rent is $60, can pay $10 of that $60.
He pays $50 and the Government pays $10. If the Government paid $10 a month, that would be $120 a year,
and that would be a lot cheaper than building big public housing that would cost $34,000 for him to live in.
And it takes care of many more hundreds of thousands of families at less cost.
Now, we hope that it works out.
It was not too many years ago that a Midwestern newspaper circulated a petition at a Fourth of July rally. Now what do you think that petition contained? This is an interesting story. That petition was composed of extracts from the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. And every member but two in the entire crowd refused to sign it because they said it was too radical and they were too cowed to think for themselves.
So, free speech,
free press,
free religion,
the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition,
the right to buy ads and to have teachins, and sit-ins, and parades and marches and demonstrations--well, they are still radical ideas.
And so are secret ballots, and so are free elections,
and so is the principle of equal dignity,
and so is the principle of equal rights
for all the sons and daughters of man.
But all of these things are what America stands for, and all of these things are what you and all other Americans need to stand up for today.
Now, it is a new idea, and a somewhat radical one, that the people of small nations have a right to live in peace without fear of their neighbors.
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This Congress this week will pass a voting rights bill that will give every American, regardless of his economic status, or where he lives, or what kind of a dress or suit he wears, or what his color is, or what his religion is-he will have that right that every free American ought to have of a secret ballot and to go and vote for his official, and it will be guaranteed to him by the United States flag in every precinct in this land.
This week we're going to have the most comprehensive housing bill in 50 years, to try to permit every person to have a roof over the head of his wife and his children.
Last week I sat down with that great humanitarian, Harry Truman, 81 years old, in Independence, Missouri. And with tears in his eyes, I saw his dream of 20 years ago come true when we signed
we signed the Medicare bill
that not only provided hospital care and nurses' care and nurse home care and medicine, but also provided for doctors' bills that could be paid;
and no longer made it necessary for a mother and a father, in the twilight of their career, to write their nephew or their niece or their son
or their daughter and say,
please come, send me some money so I won't starve, or so I can go to the doctor.
In these days we are all more responsible in what we say than Americans used to be. I remember one public figure once described another public man as, and I quote,
"a mushtoed, spotted traitor to the Constitution
and a political turkey buzzard."
Now, sometimes they try to get me involved in personalities.
But we don't need name-calling and we don't need slander and we don't need libels and we don't need labels.
You really don't gain much by getting into personalities and talking about a man or his wife or his dogs on a personal basis.
hope that you of the IPA will go out into the hinterland and rouse the masses and blow the bugles and tell them that the hour has arrived and their day is here; that we are on the march against the ancient enemies and we are going to be successful.
Thank you very much."
Note: The President spoke at 10:40 a.m. on the South Lawn at the White House
before 200 members of the International Platform Association
a group of lecturers and speakers devoted to improving the quality of public speaking.
In his opening words he referred to Drew Pearson, newspaper correspondent and columnist and former president of the association.
Lyndon B. Johnson, Remarks to the International Platform Association
Upon Receiving the Association's Annual Award Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley,
The American Presidency Project
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/241318
Sunday, April 28, 2024
who owns the Gaza Marine gas field. Although it is legally under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority as a result of the Oslo Accords, Israeli forces have prevented Palestinians physical access to the offshore region and its resources.
"We shouldn’t exaggerate its potential,
but it can absolutely be a revenue stream for a Palestinian government,'
says Amos Hochstein, President Biden's energy security advisor, who is currently visiting Israel
Ben SamuelsAmir Tibon
Nov 20, 2023"
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Gaza Marine is a natural gas field off the coast of the Gaza Strip. The Gaza Marine natural gas field is located in water about 36 kilometres (22 mi) offshore at a depth of 2,000 feet (610 m).[1] The field was discovered in 2000 by BG Group and it is estimated to contain more than 1 trillion cubic feet (28.32 km3) of natural gas.
On 18 June 2023, the Israeli government gave preliminary approval for its development.
History
edit
In 1999, BG Group was granted an exploration license by the Palestinian National Authority. The field was discovered in 2000.
It is estimated that the Gaza Marine field contains upwards of 1 trillion cubic feet of natural gas,
more than is needed to power the Palestinian territories, with potential to export.[2][3]
For many years after discovery, security and economic negotiations delayed its development. Two of the main parties involved in the negotiations are the Israel Electric Corporation (IEC) and Egypt, which seek to convert the natural gas into liquefied natural gas to export.
The gas field remains unexploited for political and historical reasons; however, when it was first discovered, media coverage projected it to be a subject that could offer benefits to both Israelis and Palestinians, potentially leading to cooperation and negotiation between both parties.
On 18 June 2023, the Israeli government gave preliminary approval for its development, while requiring security coordination with the Palestinian Authority and Egypt.
Ownership and access disputes
Israel and the Palestinian territories are situated in close proximity to several other countries: Lebanon and Syria are to the north, while Cyprus, an island that rests nearby in the Mediterranean Sea, is to the west, just below Turkey (see 2018 Cyprus gas dispute).
To the south is Egypt, a major energy supplier to Israel. The gas fields that lie under the Mediterranean do not conform to national borders. Lebanon and Egypt objected to Israel's claims to certain gas fields, and Israel has tightened ties with Cyprus over gas field negotiations. Regionally, the discovery of gas fields has led to increased tension between these closely placed countries.
Maritime law and Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories also complicates the question of who owns the Gaza Marine gas field.
Although it is legally under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority as a result of the Oslo Accords, Israeli forces have prevented Palestinians physical access to the offshore region and its resources.[3]
Gaza Marine , South Park field
"Gaza Marine
is a natural gas field off the coast of the Gaza Strip.
The Gaza Marine natural gas field is located in water about 36 kilometres (22 mi) offshore at a depth of 2,000 feet (610 m).
The field was discovered in 2000 by BG Group and it is estimated to contain more than 1 trillion cubic feet (28.32 km3) of natural gas.
On 18 June 2023, the Israeli government gave preliminary approval for its development."
Israel and the Palestinian territories are situated in close proximity to several other countries: Lebanon and Syria are to the north, while Cyprus, an island that rests nearby in the Mediterranean Sea, is to the west, just below Turkey (see 2018 Cyprus gas dispute).
To the south is Egypt, a major energy supplier to Israel.
The gas fields that lie under the Mediterranean do not conform to national borders.
Lebanon and Egypt objected to Israel's claims to certain gas fields, and Israel has tightened ties with Cyprus over gas field negotiations.
Regionally, the discovery of gas fields has led to increased tension between these closely placed countries.
Maritime law and Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories also complicates the question of who owns the Gaza Marine gas field.
Although it is legally under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority as a result of the Oslo Accords,
Israeli forces have prevented Palestinians physical access to the offshore region and its resources."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Marine
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"The South Pars/North Dome field is a natural-gas condensate field located in the Persian Gulf. It is by far the world's largest natural gas field, with ownership of the field shared between Iran and Qatar.
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), the field holds an estimated 1,800 trillion cubic feet (51 trillion cubic metres)
of in-situ natural gas and some 50 billion barrels (7.9 billion cubic metres) of natural gas condensates.
On the list of natural gas fields it has almost as much recoverable reserves as all the other fields combined.
It has significant geostrategic influence."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pars/North_Dome_Gas-Condensate_field
"With in place volumes equivalent to 360 billion barrels (57 billion cubic metres) of oil
(310 billion boe of gas and 50 billion boe of natural gas condensate)
the field is the world's biggest conventional hydrocarbon accumulation."
OPEC, OKLA.
"The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC, /ˈoʊpɛk/ OH-pek) is an organization enabling the co-operation of leading oil-producing countries
in order to collectively influence
the global oil market and maximize profit.
It was founded on 14 September 1960 in Baghdad by the first five members
Iran,
Iraq,
Kuwait,
Saudi Arabia,
and Venezuela.
The organization, which currently comprises 12 member countries, accounted for an estimated 30 percent of global oil production.
A 2022 report further details that OPEC member countries were responsible for approximately 38 percent of it.
Additionally, it is estimated that 79.5 percent of the world's proven oil reserves are located within OPEC nations,
with the Middle East alone accounting for 67.2 percent of OPEC's total reserves."
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Southland completes sale of remaining interest in Citgo
By HARIHAR KRISHNAN UPI Business Writer
JAN. 31, 1990
"Southland, which operates 7-Eleven stores, said net proceeds from the transaction will be used to reduce the debt incurred in the $4.9 billion leveraged buyout of Southland by its founding Thompson family in 1987."
'PDVSA also owns 100 percent of Champlin Refining in Fort Worth, Texas, Young said.
Additionally, the Venezuelan enterprise owns 50 percent of Unoven, a Chicago-based refinery. The other half of Unoven is owned by Unocal Inc. of Los Angeles."
"PDVSA's acquisitions are part of Venezuela's strategy to shift its marketing strategy from being a mere crude oil producer to also being a refiner and marketer of petroleum products."
"Kuwait is another OPEC member that has adopted this strategy of acquiring 'downstream' operations to ensure markets for its crude. "
"The Citgo sale is the latest in a series of divestitures Southland has undertaken to pay down its bank debt of $1.5 billion incurred as part of the total LBO debt of $4.9 billion."
"Besides refining and marketing, Citgo also has substantial interest in a number of pipelines. It also owns 43 terminals, mostly in the eastern United States, and an additional 400 exchange terminals."
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'The invasion of Kuwait led to a United Nations Security Council embargo and sanctions on Iraq and a U.S.-led coalition air and ground war, which began on
January 16, 1991,
and ended with an Iraqi defeat and retreat from Kuwait on February 28, 1991. "
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"The South Pars Field was discovered in 1990 by National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC)."
According to International Energy Agency (IEA), the combined structure is the world's largest gas field.[1]
"In-place volumes are estimated to be around
1,800 trillion cubic feet (51 trillion cubic metres) gas in place
and some 50 billion barrels (7.9 billion cubic metres) of natural gas condensate in place.
With in place volumes equivalent to
360 billion barrels (57 billion cubic metres) of oil
(310 billion boe of gas and 50 billion boe of natural gas condensate)
the field is the world's biggest conventional hydrocarbon accumulation."
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"Phases 12 development begin carried out by Petropars as a LNG project. This phase will produce 2.5 billion cubic feet (71 million cubic metres) per day of rich natural gas, 75 million cubic feet (2.1 million cubic metres) of ethane, 80,000 barrels per day (13,000 m3/d) of natural gas condensate, 3000 tons of LPG per day plus 400 tons of sulfur per day.
Venezuela’s state-owned oil company Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA) will finance 10% of the $7.8 billion project.
Angola’s Sonangol Group has also been awarded a 20% stake in phase 12 project. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pars/North_Dome_Gas-Condensate_field
"A quarter of the Earth's helium reserves is estimated to be in South Pars)"
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Michael Hurley 2009 Last Chance Barndance
snock at last chance barndance
Michael Hurley
David Reisch
Forest Bloodgood
Trout Lake Washington 2009
Fascism conjecture upgrade
Say Fascism.
" The conservative justices have shown they are ready to sacrifice any law or principle to save the former president"
Fascism. Print it, Atlantic.
"Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Argues Presidents Must Be Allowed to Commit Federal Crimes or Democracy as We Know It Will Be Over"
Fascism.
"the president may be criminally prosecuted by a bitter political opponent..."
Or by Garland who was denied a Supreme Court seat by Trump's fascist GOP.
"...will that not lead us into a cycle that destabilizes the functioning of our country as a democracy?"
Self referential .
Structure the sophistry into a fascist fantasy, that'll distract America from our actual state of Fascism, corporate and DarkMoney-owned Government.
Where's Ginni.
Could President Trump have killed VP Pence as an official act? Alito grins.
Could Trump have Pence tortured in front of his family to change his decision to certify the election?
If it's Official.
Official Fascism, already well established.
Oh, can President Biden assassinate Trump now? Officially?
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Traitor to Democracy and Bidens re elect
Senior Democrat calls for arrests of ‘leftwing fascists’ urging Gaza ceasefire
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/25/israel-gaza-ceasefire-adam-smith
"As a freshman in Congress, Adam Smith made a one-year vow to shun money from all special-interest groups to focus on his new job.
Since that pledge expired in 1998, the Tacoma Democrat has become one of the lawmakers most heavily reliant on special-interest money to get re-elected in this state.
And by far the biggest share of that money is coming from defense companies".
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/rep-adam-smiths-campaign-leans-heavily-on-pac-money/
$$$$$$$$$
As Trump and his Nazi GOP rote in the KKK. Charlottesville anti semites, Smith attacks his Base of the Democratic Party, young voters, anti war Independents.
Selling Weapons is all Adam Smith is elected to do.
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Pro-Israel
$199,272
TOP CONTRIBUTOR 2023 - 2024
American Israel Public Affairs Cmte
$65,950
https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/adam-smith/summary?cid=N00007833
American Israel Public Affairs Cmte $65,950 $55,950 $10,000
2 General Atomics $32,600 $22,600 $10,000
3 General Dynamics $21,000 $16,000 $5,000
4 Microsoft Corp $14,320 $9,320 $5,000
5 Goldman Sachs $13,200 $13,200 $0
5 Solel Partners $13,200 $13,200 $0
7 Anduril Industries $12,000 $9,500 $2,500
8 Kymeta Corp $11,100 $11,100 $0
9 Blue Origin $11,080 $1,080 $10,000
10 Amentum Services $10,000 $0 $10,000
10 AT&T Inc $10,000 $0 $10,000
10 BAE Systems $10,000 $0 $10,000
10 Deloitte LLP $10,000 $0 $10,000
10 Honeywell International $10,000 $0 $10,000
10 Huntington Ingalls Industries
Huntington Ingalls Industries $10,000 $0 $10,000
10 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers $10,000 $0 $10,000
10 Kratos Defense & Security Solutions $10,000 $0 $10,000
10 L3Harris Technologies $10,000 $0 $10,000
10 Leidos Inc $10,000 $0 $10,000
10 Lockheed Martin $10,000 $0 $10,000
10 Motorola Solutions $10,000 $0 $10,000
10 Peraton Inc $10,000 $0 $10,000
10 SpaceX $10,000 $0 $10,000
10 Transdigm Group $10,000 $0 $10,000
"than a quarter of Smith’s PAC money came from defense-related interests, Boeing chief among them. "
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