Children's world near Mt tabor

Islands of Portland (if all the ice sheets melted

https://dailygalaxy.com/2019/01/everything-is-melting-everywhere-arctic-warming-exponentially-faster-than-rest-of-planet/


"Glacial retreat in the Canadian Arctic has uncovered landscapes that haven’t been ice-free in more than 40,000 years and the region may be experiencing its warmest century in 115,000 years, new University of Colorado Boulder research finds. 

New research used radiocarbon dating to determine the ages of plants collected at the edges of 30 ice caps on Baffin Island, west of Greenland."

the dalles sisters, Fort Anomaly 2004ish

copper cheese

copper sulfides are precipitating today 

in relationship with colonies of sulfate-reducing microbes. 

The nanometer-sized crystals of covellite

 are embedded in the polymeric compounds 

that encapsulate bacteria. 

These crystals coalesce, 

later forming the big veins




https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190125131014.htm

Union Hall vandalized in Portland

"Portland IWW Union Hall and Cider Riot Vandalized With Graffiti Targeting Antifa"




Vancouver, Wash.-based agitator Joey Gibson and his followers tried to interrupt a DSA meeting on Jan. 17, but they were turned away at the door.

 A few antifascist demonstrators, which DSA says did not belong to their political group, tussled with the right-wing group.

Two days later, Patriot Prayer supporters and Proud Boys meandered outside the IWW house. 

They tried to clash with antifascists, but the few mild scuffles ended quickly. 

One video posted on Twitter shows right-wing figurehead Haley Adams holding a pink taser to one protester's neck, but she did not trigger an electric shock.

https://www.wweek.com/news/courts/2019/01/24/portland-iww-union-hall-and-cider-riot-vandalized-with-graffiti-targeting-antifa/

"While Patriot Prayer, the Proud Boys and their supporters have continued to show up to our meetings and outside our office to harass, threaten, and attempt to attack our members, our organization, and our allies, we have used deescalation tactics and otherwise been entirely nonresponsive, which enrages these fascists who are very clearly seeking out a fight and media attention," Katbi Smith says.

 "We will not be deterred by violent misogynistic white supremacists who attempt to disrupt our efforts."

semi dream with Roger

in the dream i was on the outside
of a speeding semi truck, hold on as
don't know who drove
barreling down the highway
i said people don't usually ride this way
tried to climb up
there were slots for my hands but like scaling
a wall there were people in the road on
either side we went right thru
and then like a nail in the tire a clacking
and then the rig stopped 
and some friend in the side door
roger moore
was saying some nonsense taunting me
so i pulled him out by the ankle
and dropped him to the ground and put
an elbow to his neck at which point
i guess i'd finished that dream,
woke up and roger stone had been
pulled out of his house by the fbi 
hallelujah 

grackle

painting by my dad, Dean

counterproductive totalitarian overreach

"But since the publication of her 2017 paper Magic Weapons, which details the extent of Chinese influence in New Zealand, Brady’s life has been turned upside down, becoming the target of a campaign of intimidation and “psy-ops” she believes is directed by Beijing towards her and her family. 

The Chinese government has not responded to requests for comment.

Beginning in late 2017, Brady has had her home burgled and her office broken into twice. Her family car has been tampered with, she has received a threatening letter (“You are the next”) and answered numerous, anonymous phone calls in the middle of the night, despite having an unlisted number. "

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/23/im-being-watched-anne-marie-brady-the-china-critic-living-in-fear-of-beijing

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/23/im-being-watched-anne-marie-brady-the-china-critic-living-in-fear-of-beijing

"Under Xi Jinping’s leadership, China academics around the world are experiencing increasing intimidation, say Brady and other experts. Some refuse to speak publicly for fear of reprisals or being refused visas to China.

“Kill the chicken to scare the monkey” – Brady says, quoting a Chinese idiom.

hotrod algae

return to moments murky clear
savor, yesteryear's better hair, and hotrod
drifting down a creek
summerslow, bumping into stones
ringed in algae halos

down s'up

down
s'up

my river feet many years rounded
balance rock to rock leaping time

up's
drown

Yo Merkley, Yo Wyden, Yo Google: what's an "Unknown Region?"

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Fearchars and Cadogs

 In later Arthurian Welsh Triads Cadoc, with Illtud and Peredur, is one of three knights said to have become keepers of the Holy Grail.

Scottish followers were known as "Gille Dog",  

the servants of Cadog,  

which appears as a surname, first as  

Dog, 

 and later as Doig,  

Dock, and 

 Doak.

"The genealogy of the blessed Cadoc arises from the most noble emperors of Rome, from the time of the incarnation of Jesus Christ, Augustus Cesar, in whose time Christ was born, begat Octavianus, Octavianus begat Tiberius, Tiberius begat Caius, Caius begat Claudius, Claudius begat Vespasian, Vespasian begat Titus, Titus begat Domitian, Domitian begat Nero, under whom the apostles Peter and Paul suffered, Nero begat Trajan, Trajan begat Adrian, Adrian begat Antonius, Antonius begat Commodus, Commodus begat Meobus, Meobus begat Severus, Severus begat Antonius, Antonius begat Aucanus, Aucanus begat Aurelian, Aurelian begat Alexander, Alexander begat Maximus, Maximus begat Gordian, Gordian begat Philip, Philip begat Decius, Decius begat Gallus, Callus begat Valerian, Valerian begat Cleopatra, Cleopatra begat Aurelian, Aurelian begat Titus, Titus begat Probus, Probus begat Carosius, Carosius begat Dioclesian, who perscuted the Christians throughout the whole world; for in his time the blessed martyrs Alban, that is Julian, Aaron, and many others suffered. Dioclesian begat Galerius, Galerius begat Constantine the Great the son of Helen, Constantine begat Constantius, Constantius begat Maximianus, with whom the British soldiers went from Britain, and he slew Gratian the Roman emperor, and held the government of all Europe; and he did not dismiss the soldiers, which he brought with him from Britain to return to their country on account of their bravery, but gave them many provinces and countries, that is from the pool which is on the top of the mountain of Jupiter to the city named Cantguic, and until the western mound that is Cruc Ochideint; and from those soldiers arose a nation which is called Lettau. Maximianus therefore begat Owain, Owain begat Nor, Nor begat Solor, Solor begat Glywys, Glywys begat Gwynlliw, Gwynlliw begat the most blessed Cadoc of whom we are speaking"

" Two stags came out of the forest to help them, which is said to be why the stream running past the monastery is called the Nant Carfan, the Stag Brook."

___________ 

Thankful Finley (Doak)

Also Known As: "Elizabeth", "Mary", "Thankful Finley" 

Birthdate: March 16, 1707
Birthplace: on ship from, North Ireland 
Death: September 20, 1791 (84) 
Staunton, Augusta County, Virginia, United States  
Immediate Family:
Daughter of James Samuel Doak and Elizabeth Doak 
Wife of John Finley 

Mother of James Finley; John Finley, Jr.; Margaret Finley; Andrew Finley; Thomas Finley and 11 others 
___________


"The change of the surname FINLAY to FINLEY is found in various documents relating to this family under date of 1461 to 1501; appears under the form of FYNLAY, FENLAY, and under date of 1506, John FINLEY, partitioner of Cupar Angus, son of John FYNLAY, is mentioned as partitioner of County Lanark."

""FINLAY, FINLEY, FINDLAY, Gaelic FIONNLAGH, less correctly FIONNLADH and FIONNLA. In the Gaelic genealogical manuscript of 1467, the name occurs in the genitive as FINLAEIC, and in the Duan Albanach, an old poetical chronicle of the kings of Dalriada (c. 1070, though in text of later date) as FIONNLAOICH.

" William FINLAY, Royal Forester of King Robert I; m Isabel DEMPSTER, daughter of Thomas DEMPSTER, Laird of Murish, and Eleanor FORBES, niece and co-heir of Viscount FORBES. Children: Andrew and John."

" FEARCHAR MCFINLAY:

Was Chief of a powerful Clan known as Clan Fionnladh, a sept of the great confederation, Clan Chattan, which held large possessions in Strathdie in the Parish of Crothie, in the Braces of Mar, at the head of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, in the year 1236.

Fionnladh, from which the name Finley is derived, is a combination of hte Gaelic word, Fionn, meaning Fergus and Ladh, meaning boy or child. From this root have come the different spellings, such as, Finleg, Finlegh, Finley, Finlay, Findley, and Findlay. All are pure Scotch, and identical in origin.

Fearchar is said to have been a lineal descendant of the ancient Thames of Ross and Moray, of whom the most famous was Macbeth.  

Malcolm II, was King of Scotland from 1005 to 1034, A. D.

brothers

forest and grant,
oklahoma or
somewhere
1980 or
sometime

The Duke flipped his rig,
dazzled by the sunlight
Out spilled the Queen her crown a hubcap
as Phil dusted off his monocle and velvet waistcoat
Once upon a Drury Lane keep your eyes
on the road beseeched the Queen and your hands
on the wheel

zeno's flotsam

new land of towering tree and bike

hobohippoid redundancies 

gentile flawscapes
germymandered boundaries 

(regarding decent ineptitude,

old flotsam in sterile barrels

wharves buried on flat quests

slack understanding tall'er not 
depending the incoming bullshit

zeno's froze up arrow

false dichotomy in a salad roll

every plebe a grebe on reprieve

heel yes i wear the USA jewelry of poverty

under your alcoved grassy knoll
archie bunker ashtray

you fuck you et tu

you
get a life
write a poem
draw something
have a conversation
fuck you you too, you you
we got a life
we drew swords
we had endless rivers of talk
we folk et tu, folk et tu

joy leaves fell limbs (2009)

which then blew up the fruit truck

packed with pallets of hundreds

--- - a story that Razziq chuckles in recalling

while forming a bread line

U.S. officials: said:

seeded with bomb's progress

on the western outskirts

and in the pomegranate orchards

Suddenly a man (in white robes) 
fell from the branches

of the Argfangdad valley

(his suicide vest)

treacherously absent

hundreds crows of joy leaves

they fired and exploded in the trees.

--- a story that Razziq crackles

in recanting, U.S. officials unofficially said

We obliterated those towns.

They're not there at all.

These are just porking lots right now.

and in the pomegranate orchards

the ground remains seedy with largesse bestowed upon

by US officials in joy leaves

joy leaves joy leaves fell limbs from all branches

in outskirts and kerneled multiplicity

the breaks of impatience red

read in the bread

lines. hundreds of

make mouths water (2009)

we do everything.

while you enjoy the pompous pleasure
of wonderment, befuddled

over which veto to employ,
we register to bleed. O positive

is good for everyone, no doubt.

blue skies mean sunburn.

my back is wet from sweat,
not a river's swift boat to el dorado.

give back my back.

relish your own dog, i'm on
break: broken.

the floor is wet with red tears
because you dream to ask not.

if things get done, why can't we share a lion
taco? i'll eat the clause.

sense is never made of such constructs;
that's why art is better

in a heap of plasma, milk, reflected moorings
and de-heaping tweezers.

tweezers made by us.

we do everything, and in our time.
we make time in which

our autograph is a shadow on the spittle

reserved for shining things

up. making things

butter. making things toast. making mouths

water

hawk diapers (2009)

peace hawk dived war vulture.

war vulture feigned blood spurt with catsup. made of cats.

up went profit man to squeegee the pearly gates

of prophets that kept peace hawk kibbled on dividends,

while war vulture needed barrows of giblets,

all quite: standard.

***

feathers were lost, medals traded.

meals were deducted, entrails protracted.

cousins were fathered, interruptions extinguished.

language was passed thru channels

long since ex communicated with reality.

grounded, one stares at feathers and invariably one's feed.

***

first eyes were pecked

then the thighs or neck in a flurry of sightless battle

vulture war and hawk peace

had a baby. it shot itself before
it aborted itself to save itself.

vulture peace.

crowed nothing common (2009)

nothing in common. not brands of soap, nor church affiliation,
not genetics, nor heaven forbid, the roadmap used

to find the way home. they don't have homes; not Common
homes. their hearths are made of gold, ours: of crap.

their food is different, their speech on another plane, their
mice are docile and don't carry diseases: they sing.

nothing in common. born with eight hands for the taking,
six mouths to be fed while the others wield swords, of gold,

they shed not blood when vanguished, but a sap-like goo that's good on pancakes.
their children are all smiles their soups never burn

they are so unlike us, we have nothing in common.
they pimp us and we pimp ourselves: big difference.

nothing in common, nothing in common. i wonder why we only have
a couple thousand nothings on our side?

the less common, the more crowded nothing seems.

great thaw (1996)

when'll she crest
             take rest
flunk flood's test
quit being a pest to us critters

gotta hike to the shitter
rain or snow
when'll she cease to grow i dunno

but the pipes have thawed&
i'm overawed
            as the dishes cleanse
       at the blush of a trickle



swale canyon, klickitat washington, 1996

central spin (2006)

with strength bent by watered sunlight
the heaviness lakes leave.

in their stead, remains persuade.
integral harmonies extrapolate upon immediate patterns

corresponding with spanish guitar.
ocean eats land to lose itself by winning over the opposition

bedrock. win over the cosmic bang while yer at it!
time molds and decays seasoned edges ripe

for return; slime begins soil of heaven's design.
plants emanate from the banks,

animals in their secret realms unharried by humans
create blue foot prints, writing starry oaths

within each tread. a bath in heated stone
traced to the mantle of the magma opus

central to the spin




the dalles, 2006

mineral men (2006)

i feel like a sack of shit slung to plug a levee

(emotions ain't real but they sure are heavy)

boil us down to zinc iron copper

world market dollar eighty scooped from a hopper



in a warehouse built of fractals by god

illusions determine our form of sod

unplowed due to steep rocky terrain

fortify with obstacles the living brain



make thyself indigestible, monkey wrench 

the stench associated with the bench

marks proving where turds skidded logs to float

mill jobs to japan in island sized boats



count yer blessings by the ounce and the gram

mineral vegetable mre spam





the dalles, spring 2006

schmaltz waltz (2009)

the love and the sadness did a dance tonight

there weren't no music didn't break out in fights



thoughts most precious, cast before swine

logged by foes, rest by a pint of white whine



why o why are our heads so thick?

with guts of feelings spanglin' the dick?



why o why is my folks so dumb?

sweetsour intricacies of coming undone.



                           **

my friends are perfect i think that they know

the world is pure butter 2% yellow snow


my heartache is contagious and mostly benign

just suture my memory on some dotted line



a guy stabs his heart in writing a song

to find the mercy of wanderin' on


the sadness and the loved duked it out all night

there ain't no grammar in the language of slights

nary a yankee in sight

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"Venezuela's PDVSA in oil deal with firm part-owned by Florida Republican"

"CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan state oil firm PDVSA [PDVSA.UL] has signed a deal with little-known U.S. energy firm Erepla, partly owned by a prominent Florida Republican, to help increase the socialist-run country’s plummeting crude oil output, the company said.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-oil-idUSKCN1P11EM

Erepla Services LLC, with an undisclosed stake held by Republican Harry Sargeant III and which Delaware state records show was only registered in November, said it plans to invest up to $500 million to increase production at three Venezuelan oil fields in exchange for a portion of the crude produced.


"Sargeant maintained business ties to PDVSA in the early 2000s through a company that he partly owned called Trigeant, whose Corpus Christi, Texas-based refinery processed Venezuelan crude into asphalt, according to court records.

PDVSA won arbitration claims against Trigeant in 2006 and 2008 totaling $52 million for unpaid crude cargoes, and received a $17 million payment, according to court records.

Before having paid the full amount, Trigeant sold the refinery to a third party.

PDVSA won a court order blocking the sale, arguing that it was a fraudulent transfer meant to prevent it from collecting on the arbitration judgment because Sargeant had a controlling stake in the buyer. Trigeant later declared bankruptcy"

______________


"The largest U.S. receiver of Venezuelan crude
last year was
PDVSA's refining unit Citgo Petroleum with 175,873 bpd,
followed
by Valero Energy with 166,099 bpd and Chevron Corp

 with 83,041 bpd, Eikon data showed."

https://www.reuters.com/article/oil-venezuela-usa/venezuelan-crude-sales-to-us-drop-to-lowest-in-almost-30-years-idUSL1N1Z415R


https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-venezuela-oil/

CITGO Rosneft Trump-Putin

 Sechin, formally out of government but still Rosneft chief and part of Putin’s inner circle, now controls at least 13 percent of the energy business in Venezuela.

 He visits the country frequently, increasingly as landlord rather than collaborator.

“We will never leave, and no one will be able to kick us out,” Sechin said last year, according to Russia’s Tass news agency.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/in-venezuela-russia-pockets-key-energy-assets-in-exchange-for-cash-bailouts/2018/12/20/da458db6-f403-11e8-80d0-f7e1948d55f4_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2a93a46b3116_

_______________________



"The Trump administration has previously weighed imposing sanctions against Venezuelan oil, but Trump ultimately rejected taking that additional step after an internal analysis showed it would lead to an increase in US gas prices.

 A full oil embargo would cause gas prices to rise by 15 cents a gallon for about six months, a former senior administration official said of the analysis."

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/15/politics/trump-juan-guaido-venezuela/index.html
________________________

"The White House on Friday announced a new round of sanctions against Venezuela that explicitly exempt the U.S. arm of the country’s state-owned oil company.

 That company, Citgo, donated six-figure sums to Trump’s inauguration and recently hired former Trump officials to lobby for that exemption.

"Since 2014, Citgo, a Delaware corporation, has fought to insulate its operations from measures aimed at punishing the Maduro regime’s efforts to consolidate political power.

Under the administration of President Donald Trump, those efforts entailed beefing up its D.C. influence operation with lobbyists with deep ties to the president’s political operation.

 In April, it hired Avenue Strategies, the firm co-founded by former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and campaign adviser Barry Bennett.

Since then, Citgo has paid Avenue Strategies $160,000 to lobby the White House, the Treasury Department, the Justice Department, and the Energy Department on the “potential impact of U.S. energy and foreign policy restrictions on CITGO Petroleum Corporation's operations and valuation of assets,” according to disclosure filings.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-just-gave-a-big-carve-out-to-citgo-an-oil-giant-repped-by-his-ex-aides
__________




Russia now owns significant parts of at least five oil fields in Venezuela, which holds the world’s largest reserves, along with 30 years’ worth of future output from two Caribbean natural-gas fields. 

Venezuela also has signed over 49.9 percent of Citgo, its wholly owned company in the United States — including three Gulf Coast refineries and a countrywide web of pipelines — as collateral to Russia’s state-owned Rosneft oil behemoth for a reported $1.5 billion in desperately needed cash. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/in-venezuela-russia-pockets-key-energy-assets-in-exchange-for-cash-bailouts/2018/12/20/da458db6-f403-11e8-80d0-f7e1948d55f4_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2a93a46b3116


In 2016, Caracas put up 50.1 percent of Citgo as collateral for a new crop of bonds, allowing it to pay off its most pressing debts.

When Russ Dallen, a Florida-based managing partner at the brokerage Caracas Capital Markets, sifted through court filings in Delaware, where Citgo’s holding company is based, he found that Rosneft had reached a deal that had pumped $1.5 billion into Venezuela in exchange for a lien on the other 49.9 percent of Citgo. 

With assumptions that Citgo, if sold, could be worth between $6 billion and $9 billion, the arrangement amounted to a sweetheart deal — and, in addition, the Russians had managed to lay claim to almost half of a major U.S. oil giant. "

_________

"The company, based in Houston, wrote off $647 million in Venezuela last year. 

Schlumberger, Halliburton’s principal global competitor, took a pretax write-down of $938 million in Venezuela late last year.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/23/business/halliburton-venezuela-pdvsa.html

smiles and smiles ago

woodah woodah woo

woodah woodah woo she says as a sort of condiment
joining nonsensical verbal dishes
of "conversation" leaping from thought to 
thought mezza-dish ramped up on
chardonnay probably and vape crutchpen
not to mention the add
-er all up and minus actual food an
empty tummy highly distracted just a few
mo'men uts
to get on my mascara she tells
the room and any ears waiting to care
as her ride nods off and the clock
turns pumpkins back to compost in crystal slippers
woodah woodah woo
out the door nope back in fergot dis
out the door again nope ah can't take that to the show
then off until round one
when banging the door off its twinges deja views
a redux of lost keys phone purse et al
hysterical upset at anything within screaming
distance no lesson can unlearn woodah
woodah woo can i use yer fone?

Mock duck vegan dish

Mock duck (gluten)

Green beans

Garlic

Carrots

Broccoli

Brussel sprouts

Basil

Bloodgood Canyon Bloetgoets, Gila

Bloodgood Canyon Bloetgoets, Gila

nine treasures

did jupiter and venus dally

in the public alley of stark darkness,

was mercury found

in mud? sandals hermetic, sealed.

library of night,

alight on four wheels,

future past tense, into dalliance.

the smile lent a date

to the sand about the goal of the sphinxtress,

a moist date not the starsullen kind.

hitched on the rim of the hill,

venus and jupiter,

they shared a salad of trees

they eschewed one another

did momentary dances create black holes

were the feathered comets not enough?

are nine treasures less than one?


6-29-15

leave it to the professionals

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


5-9-15