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"  

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-the-international-platform-association-upon-receiving-the-associations-annual 

'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

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

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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."

1972 OSU

 

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."

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1990/01/31/Southland-completes-sale-of-remaining-interest-in-Citgo/8254633762000/#ixzz5apb6zv2O

'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." 

____ 

'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)" 

Michael Hurley 2009 Last Chance Barndance

  

snock at last chance barndance

https://youtu.be/fARMYa_b4Hc

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.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/04/trump-presidential-inmunity-supreme-court/678193/ 

"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?

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. " 

Propaganda, Projection, Rep. Adam Smith

 Lunatic. Starving women and children in Palestine while massacring them with US made and paid for weapons is your Bread and butter. 

Senior Democrat calls for arrests of ‘leftwing fascists’ urging Gaza ceasefire

 

"Intimidation is the tactic,” said Adam Smith of Washington state, the ranking Democrat on the House armed services committee.    

Except for some aid given to Israel, all military aid must be used to purchase U.S. military equipment and training.

“Intimidation and an effort to silence opposition … I don’t know if there’s such a thing as leftwing fascism. 

 If you want to just call it leftwing totalitarianism, then that’s what it is. 

It is a direct challenge to arms profiteering and Boeing democracy now.” 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/25/israel-gaza-ceasefire-adam-smith

 

'Israel has waged a war on Gaza, killing more than 34,000 people, mostly women and children, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.  

"If you’re an ambulance trying to get through to hospital ....".  We'll bomb you, says Rep. Smith. 

 This week Mr. Biden condemned demonstrations that he said veered into antisemitism, but he also expressed sympathy for the Palestinians."

“I condemn the antisemitic protests,” Mr. Biden told reporters on Monday. “I also condemn those who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians.”

 "On October 10, 2002, Smith was among the 81 Democratic members of the House to vote to authorizing the invasion of Iraq. 

In March 2012, he said that U.S. troops had done "amazing work" in Afghanistan and that it was "time to bring the troops home". 

Smith also voted for the 2001 Patriot Act and to extend the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program. 

Smith and Representative Mac Thornberry co-sponsored an amendment to the fiscal 2013 defense spending bill 

 reversing previous bans 

on disseminating Defense and State Department propaganda 

 in the U.S., reversing the Smith–Mundt Act of 1948 and the Foreign Relations Authorization Act of 1987,  

designed to protect U.S. audiences 

 from government misinformation campaigns. 

The bill passed on May 18, 2012, 299 to 120.  

Smith voted with President Joe Biden's stated position 100% of the time " 

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Smith has talked openly about his struggles with anxiety, depression, and chronic pain. He wrote about it at length in his 2023 memoir Lost and Broken: My Journey Back from Chronic Pain and Crippling Anxiety. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith_(Washington_politician)#:~:text=Smith%20was%20elected%20to%20the,the%20House%20Armed%20Services%20Committee.

 in the 117th Congress, according to a FiveThirtyEight analysis."

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Rep. Becca Balint of Vermont, a progressive Jewish Democrat, in a statement ahead of her vote. 

 "The United States cannot continue to support the extreme offensive that has caused unimaginable suffering to the Palestinian people." 

 

The House of Representatives on Saturday passed a bill that includes more than $14 billion in military aid to Israel 

Here are the 37 Democrats who voted against the bill:

Becca Balint of Vermont

Don Beyer of Virginia

Earl Blumenauer of Oregon

Jamaal Bowman of New York

Cori Bush of Missouri

Andre Carson of Indiana

Greg Casar of Texas

Joaquin Castro of Texas

Judy Chu of California

Mark DeSaulnier of California

Lloyd Doggett of Texas

Maxwell Frost of Florida

John Garamendi of California

Chuy García of Illinois

Al Green of Texas

Jonathan Jackson of Illinois

Pramila Jayapal of Washington

Hank Johnson of Georgia

Ro Khanna of California

Dan Kildee of Michigan

Barbara Lee of California

Summer Lee of Pennsylvania

Jim McGovern of Massachusetts

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York

Ilhan Omar of Minnesota

Chellie Pingree of Maine

Mark Pocan of Wisconsin

Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts

Delia Ramirez of Illinois

Jamie Raskin of Maryland

Mark Takano of California

Bennie Thompson of Mississippi

Rashida Tlaib of Michigan

Jill Tokuda of Hawaii

Nydia Velázquez of New York

Maxine Waters of California

Bonnie Watson Coleman of New Jersey

Eighty percent of Ukraine-Israel bill will be spent in U.S. or by U.S. military

Except for some aid given to Israel, all military aid must be used to purchase U.S. military equipment and training. 

Nearly $57 billion — about 60 percent — is never leaving the United States. 

 Instead, these funds are being invested with weapons manufacturers  

located in dozens of states.  

(So far, according to the Pentagon, manufacturers in all but 11 states have received Ukraine-related weapons contracts.)

 

"Asked what kind of protest might be appropriate, Smith cited a recent instance in an armed services hearing in which  

“people came in and they didn’t say anything,  

they just held up bloody hands.  

And the chairman noticed that and said, ‘You can’t do that, you’re out, and they got up and left."  

(Excuse me, Trying to intimidate and SILENCE the way people protest: fine Corporate example.) 

"You go back to the civil rights movement, they expected to be arrested, they knew they were violating the law. 

 And also … you have to enforce the law.  

You have to make clear … that this is about more than just the issue.  

You know, they can be heard, but then other bigots and war profiteers get to be heard." 

(Lunatic. ) 

'got two words into it and they started screaming at me again.  

So this is a different thing than your standard protest. 

 In my view,  

the solution to it 

is if they are committing a crime" 

Congressman Smith's Solution.  

Intimidate. 

"Protesting at public figures’ homes should also be subject to arrest, Smith said." 

Sure, Mar a Lago is a sanctuary and bastion of innocence. 

"If you’re an ambulance trying to get through to hospital ...."  

Good luck in Portland.  

We don't have ambulances or politics.  

Father, I cannot lie....

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/23/george-washington-cherries-found 

'Centuries-old cherries found hidden in bottles under floor at George Washington’s home

Scientists speculate that the cherries were probably gathered at Mount Vernon in the 1770s, potentially before the revolutionary war, and stashed away for later use." 

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"Daniel Bloodgood was a fruit grower,

specializing in cherry trees  " 

(Lawson 1952:163-165).   

"Although rumored that Benjamin Franklin visited and swapped seeds with the Bloodgood Nurseries, no proof of this visit was found.

President George Washington recorded in his diary a visit to the Prince Nurseries on October 10, 1789. He was not impressed, but did purchase fruit from the trees." 

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/46327/46327-h/46327-h.htm#Chapt_II

"The cherry was one of the fruits much grown by the Dutch. It would be wearisome and would serve little purpose even to attempt a cursory review of the literature of colonial days in New York showing the spread and the extent of fruit culture by the Dutch.  

Travel up the Hudson and its branches was easy and within a century after the settlement of New York by the Dutch, cherries were not only cultivated by the whites, according to the records of travelers, naturalists and missionaries, but were rudely tilled by the Indians."

"For a long time after its introduction in New York, the cherry, in common with other fruits, was grown as a species—varieties and budded or grafted trees were probably not known.  

Fruit-growing as an industry began in New York and in America, with the establishment of a nursery 60at Flushing, Long Island, in 1730, by Robert Prince, founder of the nursery which afterwards became the famous Linnæan Botanic Garden.  

At what date this nursery began to offer named cherries for sale cannot be said but advertisements appearing in 1767, 1774 and 1794 show that budded or grafted named cherries were being offered for sale by the Princes.  

In 1804, William Prince, third proprietor of the famous Flushing nursery, prepared a list of the named cherries then under cultivation in America for Willich's Domestic Encyclopaedia, an English work which was being edited and made "applicable to the present situation of the United States" by Dr. James Mease. The following is Prince's list:" 

**" 

"Flushing was the site of the first commercial tree nurseries in North America, the most prominent being the Prince, Bloodgood, and Parsons nurseries." 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bloodgood

Thomas Bloodgood (died 1843) was a president of City National Bank.

Bloodgood was born in Flushing, New York, and was a member of the Bloodgood family dating back to Dutch ownership of New York.  

He was also a wine merchant at the Fulton Market and owned a nursery in Flushing.  

'After Mr. Bloodgood’s death in 1843,  the wine cellar was auctioned off by his executors on December 21, 1843, at the City Hotel in New York City. 

Two days after the auction the sales results were published. 

 This was a significant cellar of which the Madeira alone spanned the vintages of 1754 to 1836.   

Many of the producers and ships appear throughout the history of Madeira advertisements.   

The Madeira imported by Mr. Bloodgood appears in advertisements over the years as generic” Bloodgood” in 1845[3] to more specific “Bloodgood, imported in 1835” at the sale of Chester Jennings’ wines in 1848[4].   

“Old Bloodgood” was even served at the September 17, 1850, supper given by the Cincinnati Independent Fire Co.[5]  In this post I have reproduced the list of Madeira as it appeared in newspaper.  I have left out the unidentified lots of Madeira.

1754 Madeira, sent by Mr. Oliviera as a present, 2 cases

1754 Madeira, sent to Mr. Bloodgood as a present from Madeira, one bottle, at $5

1779 Mary Elizabeth, 12 demijohns, $4.50-$5 per gallon

1790 Madeira, sent to Mr. Bloodgood as a present from Madeira, one bottle at $5

1791 Blackburn, from the private stock of the late Thomas Tom, 38 bottles at $2.75 each

Blackburn, bottled 18[?]6, drawn out for rebottling 1836, 30 demijohns, $4 per gallon

Pre-1800 Madeira, from Mr. Bloodgood’s private stock, who received it on the division of Mr. Tom’s wine, 18 bottles, $4.50 per bottle

1794 Madeira, sent to Mr. Bloodgood as a present from Madeira, two bottles, $5 each

1798 Monteiro Madeira, bottled in 1808, rebottled in 1830, 17 bottles at $3 each

1800 Madeira, sent to Mr. Bloodgood as a present from Madeira, two bottles, $5 each

1800 Madeira, 5 years in Calcutta, imported into Baltimore 1808, six dozen, $14 per dozen

1800 Madeira, 5 years in Calcutta, imported into Baltimore 1808, 30 demijohns, $4-$4.50 per gallon

1803 Crawford, bottled 1808, rebottled 1836, 160 bottles at $2-$2.12 each

1803 Newton Gordon Murdock, 3 pipes

1803 Madeira of late Robt. Lennox, Esq., 200 half-gallon bottles, at $1.75 each

1805 Craford Madeira, in demijohns and bottles

Calcutta Madeira, three years in Calcutta, imported in 1806, two pipes, $13.50 per dozen

1808 Buchanan Teneriffe, in demijohns, 40 bottles at $3.50 each

1808 St. Anna Madeira, in demijohns and bottles

1808 Choice Malmsy Leacoch

1808 Blackburn, 40 dozen in half gallons and quarts

1809 “Olevelra “

1812 Leacock Madeira, bottled 18[?]8, rebottled 1837,32 dozen, $24 to $27 per dozen

1812 Leacock Madeira, supposedly, recently rebottled, 153 half-gallon magnums, $1.81 each

Pre-1820, very old, 11 bottles at $2.75 each

Pre-1820, red seal, very old, 47 bottles at $3-$3.50 each

Pre-1820, very old and dry, 18 bottles at $2 each

1820 Oliveria, 48 magnums, $1.50-$1.63 each

1820 Oliveria, six dozen bottles, $9.25 per dozen

1820 Oliveria, 30 demijohns, at $3.25 per gallon

1822 Pomona, bottled 1843, 12 dozen, at $13.5 per dozen

1822 Pomona, bottled 1843, six demijohns, at $4.50 per gallon

Pomona, imported in 1824, two pipes, $2.56 per gallon

Juno, two and a half pipes

Juno, imported 1822, bottled in 1843, 12 dozen, $1.50-$1.75 each bottle

Juno, imported 1822, bottled in 1843, 11 demijohns, $4.50-$5 per gallon

1823 Howard March Madeira, two butts

1825, imported by the Cazenove in 1838, three quarter-casks, at $3.[illegible] per gallon

1825 P. J. Monterio & Co., imported 1835 by the Madrid, cased, 3 quart-casks, at $3.25 per gallon

Howard, imported 1825 from J. Howard, March & Co, 9 pipes and 1 butt, at $3.25 per gallon

18[?]9 Mary Elizabeth, 24 demijohns

1828 Ivanough, bottled 1834, 23 bottles, at $0.85 each

1831 Indian Queen, one pipe and two half pipes

Ivanough, imported 1831, one quarter-cask, at $3 per gallon

[illegible] Anna, a fine old wine, imported by Messrs F. Stevens & sons, purchased in 1833, $19 per dozen

Madeira, imported by the San Francisco in 1832, two half-pipes, at $2 per gallon

Ivanough, imported 1834, two quarter-casks, at $3 per gallon

1834 Goiconda, one quarter-cask

Howard Madeira, very choice wine of the highest cost, imported in 1835 from J&H March & Co., 36 demijohns, $4.[illegible] – $5 per gallon

Monteiro, imported 1835 by the India, two quarter-casks, $2.25-$3 per gallon

Olivera & Co., imported 1836 by Oucco, one pipe, $3.25 per gallon

1836 Oneco Madeira, one pipe

Newton, Gordon, Murdock & Co., 34 pipes

Monteiro, per ship India, four pipes, 10 and one-third pipes, and four quarter-casks

Very choice Oliviera, three pipes

Arthur T. Taylor Madeira, a very delicate Light Wine, 24 demijohns 

[0] Barrett, Walter. The Old Merchants of New York City, Volume 5. 1885. URL: http://books.google.com/books?id=thIwAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false

[1] Date: Saturday, December 2, 1843                 Paper: Commercial Advertiser (New York, NY)   Volume: XLVI   Page: 3

[2] Date: Saturday, December 23, 1843              Paper: Spectator (New York, NY)   Page: 2

[3] Date: Friday, April 18, 1845             Paper: Commercial Advertiser (New York, NY)   Volume: XLVIII   Page: 1

[4] Date: Friday, December 29, 1848                   Paper: Daily National Intelligencer (Washington (DC), DC)   Volume: XXXVI   Issue: 11183   Page: 4

[5] Date: Wednesday, July 21, 1909     Paper: Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)   Page: 4 

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Citibank is the 4th largest bank in the United States in terms of assets..

Since the bank's founding in 1812, it has been led by a President, with Samuel Osgood being elected as the first President. In 1909, James Stillman became the first chairman of the company.

List of Chairmen

$$$

Samuel Osgood (1812–1813)

William Few (1813–1817)

Peter Staff (1817–1825)

Thomas Smith (1825–1827)

Isaac Wright (1827–1832) 

Thomas Bloodgood (1832–1844) 

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citibank 

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'1867 Cutter booked passage for a five-month trip aboard the Quaker City.  

Mark Twain turned out to be one of the other passengers, and Cutter found himself immortalized in Twain's book Innocents Abroad as the character the "Poet Lariat."  

This is how Mark Twain described Cutter in his notes for the book:

"He is fifty years old, and small of his age. He dresses in homespun, and is a simple-minded, honest, old-fashioned farmer, with a strange proclivity for writing rhymes.  

He writes them on all possible subjects, and gets them printed on slips of paper, with his portrait at the head.  

These he will give to any man that comes along, whether he has anything against him or not..."[10]

In 1886 Cutter self-published a collection of his poems titled The Long Island Farmer's Poems, which included an autographed picture of Mark Twain as well as a mention of being Twain's Poet Lariat on the title page. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodgood_Cutter

 

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Francis Bloodgood died on March 5, 1840, aged 71. He was also buried in the Presbyterian burial ground.[2] At the time of his death he was married to Anna Shoemaker (born March 27, 1777), from a Philadelphia Quaker family, the widow of Robert Morris Jr. 

His wife lived on until March 5, 1865, when she died in Philadelphia. His son was Major William Bloodgood [1801-1874], father of Captain Edward Bloodgood (38th US Infantry), who reportedly died at Fort Larned, Kansas on July 31, 1867..

In fact this report was in error-Edward Bloodgood was a Brevet Lt Col/Captain 38th US Infantry Regiment In command of Fort Seldon, New Mexico in 1868   and died in 1914. 

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bloodgood

 

'Union Lt. Col. Edward Bloodgood held Brentwood, a station on the Nashville & Decatur Railroad, with 400 men on the morning of March 25, 1863, m

when Confederate Brig. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, with a powerful column, approached the town.  

The day before, Forrest had ordered Col. James W. Starnes, commanding the 2nd Brigade, to go to Brentwood, cut the telegraph, tear up railroad track, attack the stockade, and cut off any retreat. 

Forrest and the other cavalry brigade made contact with Bloodgood about 7:00 am on March 25.  

A messenger from the stockade informed Bloodgood that Forrest's men were about to attack and had destroyed the railroad tracks. Bloodgood sought to notify his superiors and discovered that the telegraph lines were cut.  

Forrest sent in a demand for a surrender under a flag of truce but Bloodgood refused. Within a half-hour, Forrest had artillery in place to shell Bloodgood's position and had surrounded the Federals with a large force.  

Bloodgood surrendered." 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Brentwood

 

,'The cherry tree myth is one of the oldest and best-known legends about George Washington. In the original story, when Washington was six years old, he received a hatchet as a gift and damaged his father’s cherry tree with it. When his father discovered what George had done, he became angry. Young George bravely said, “I cannot tell a lie…I did cut it with my hatchet.” Washington’s father embraced him and declared that his son’s honesty was worth more than a thousand trees.

"This iconic story about the value of honesty  

was invented 

by one of Washington’s first biographers,"

 

She loved teaching, feeding ideas, challenging authority, cooking,  stirring the pot, dressing casual and playing fancy, she loved gardening, planting trees, gathering firewood, staring at the moon, playing her washtub bass, she loved her children, her husband, her sister and brother, she loved driving on the highway and dirt roads, she loved to smoke, she loved reading, she loved her bathtub, she loved the patio and wine, she loved watching birds, she loved art, she loved politics, she loved being right, she loved arguing, she loved every vegetable and meat and fish, she loved hiking in mountains, she loved her jobs, she loved scrabble, she loved her fellow teachers mostly, she loved sharing her wealth, she loved her granddaughters and her parents, she loved badminton, she loved making play doh Xmas ornaments, she loved mysticism and heretical truth, she loved her home state, she loved her nation and Paris and Germany, she loved swimming in the pond, picnics, watching movies at the drive in, she loved to make clothes from patterns, she loved all seasons, she loved no church, she loved semi independence, she loved her women friends and their children, she loved being easter and valentine hero, she loved making paper sack lunches for her boys, she loved philosophy, she loved greater minds, she loved the train, she loved bouquets uncut and also displayed in vases, she loved diversity, she loved rock and roll, she loved her home and property, she loved her study, she loved museums, she loved ice skating, she loved quoting Shakespeare and Chaucer, she loved fresh milk from jars, she loved coffee and making bread, she loved to doodle, she loved her sunglasses, she loved to opine, she loved her heirlooms, she loved her cats one by one, she loved her university, she loved to travel, she loved to smile, she loved her intellect, she loved her great grandmother and her farm, she loved hosting parties and going to other's parties, she loved being honestly generous, she loved sunbathing and frozen margaritas, she loved birthday letters, happy birthday mom, we love you too. 

Mother trees and socialist forests: is the ‘wood-wide web’ a fantasy? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/23/mother-trees-and-socialist-forests-is-the-wood-wide-web-a-fantasy?CMP=share_btn_url

Never Forget

 

April 23, 1943 (Friday)

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"SS Polizeifuhrer Jürgen Stroop carried out the order by Heinrich Himmler to burn down all of the buildings in the Warsaw Ghetto.

The Battle of Longstop Hill ended in British victory. 

The German submarines U-189 and U-191 were both lost to enemy action in the Atlantic Ocean, while U-602 went missing on patrol in the Mediterranean Sea.  "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_1943 

"Born: 3 athletes and 

Hervé Villechaize, French television actor who portrayed "Tattoo" on Fantasy Island, in Paris   "

Cruel and Usual

 

Robes from limos parse the cruise packet offers, the hunting excursions for the extended family, stock tips from unregistered numbers, and put their ballpoint pens to the temple in pensive pose for the oil crayon depictions. 

Beyond scrutiny, they decide if a freezing woman can use a blanket to stay alive in winter. 

Wouldn't she be better off in jail, they debate, with a job sewing for outsourced labor? The robes have underwear, it comes cheap. $1.19 an hour should keep her in tampons she buys at our prison shopping depot. 

That old man, his van parked outside, running a few blocks for the engine heat. What an eyesore. Hell be warmer, he'll be cared for in prison, and we pull no punches when it comes to health, or tuna fish casserole on Sundays. 

Millions of new prison cots at $463 a night, just imagine the kickbacks, the robes fantasize, the accidentally clicked ballpoint drawing scribbles across the made-up powdered brows. Dissenting opinions by a few will wash one hand while the gauntlet grabs. 

It's more humane, sorting electronic parts, 3 squares per day and free laundry for the dirtless life. Bible class in the library will earn you two cigarettes, too. It's super humane, better than a tent under an awning at the sporting goods outlet, in front of the steak house. 

___ 

Near the swing set, two tons of

Fresh chipped wood invites play, 

Safety: come swing and laugh. 

A towering trunk only an acorn toss away has a fort, limbs stacked and leaned into a hideaway. 

Imagination runs from one 

To the other, childhood, we experience and vicariously

Relive. Sunlight and rain, moonlight and heat, wind chips away. 

We'll remake it he whispers 

To his friend, we'll make it awesome.  

____ 

Almost storage access time, wait behind the 80s cargo van 

A mid aged man and older guy chat 

Getting some morning rays out front 

"Guess how much  fer 5 days 

At the disney hotel? $10,000. That's two grand a day ( he's proud to share.) Of course it includes tickets." 

He gets in the van, opening gate.

"It's just around the corner, " directing the driver to his unit. 

Amazing. Aladdin and Swiss Family Haunted Goldmine awaits, just gotta move the bbq grill real quick... 

Pinch me I must be dreaming 

"the San Francisco-based ninth US circuit court of appeals ruled that 

Grants Pass could not enforce local ordinances

 that prohibit homeless people “from using a blanket, pillow, or cardboard box for protection from the elements” 

 – a decision that applies across the nine western states of Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon and Washington.  "

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/22/homelessness-us-supreme-court-case

"Where do we put them if every city, every village, every town lacks compassion and passes a law identical to this? 

 Where are they supposed to sleep?  

Are they supposed to kill themselves, not sleeping?” Sotomayor asked.

“This is a complicated policy question,” Evangelis responded.

“What’s so complicated about letting someone, somewhere, sleep with a blanket in the outside if they have nowhere to sleep?” Sotomayor said.

The court’s conservative justices, who comprise the majority, seemed receptive to the city’s arguments. 

Progeny impetus

  

Painstakingly effortless says newton

coulter pinecone births seeds 

If one watch from a distance 

(Splendid barbarity

design) c section

coulter seeds birth coulter pines

Heat of spring releases man,

his wiles similar

Woman opens fences to bluejay 

The armadillo likewise observes as they rummage people scraps 

By the barbed wire illusion

Easily slid under 

To dine nightly human waste 

A bad spot on the heirloom tomato 

Or kale bought for show and tell at the instagram observatory 

Garlic greenly tossed amidst potato eyes gleaming life 

Out slips progeny impetus 

no bird devour, no fire by baptism takes 

Trampled grass, dust, rain start a new coulter, a new guarded gate, a new timeless code 

That skips past lesser lock 

General cluster gravity loosens upon impact 

As it tills soil with pounds of teeth 

In translucent stocking the kernel envelope not a propeller

Or wing but a tadpole of lignin 

On anthropocentric welfare 

In a paved world of potholes 

SE Portland 

Earth Day Oil Fascism 101

  

Records show that after Shell donated $25m in 2022 to LSU to create the Institute for Energy Innovation, the university gave the fossil fuel corporation license to influence research and coursework. 

"the LSU Foundation, used this partnership as a model to shop around to members of the Louisiana Chemical Association, such as ExxonMobil, Air Products and CF Industries, which have proposed carbon capture projects in Louisiana."

'For $2m, Exxon became the institute’s first “strategic partner-level donor”,  

a position that came with corrupt review of academic study output 

 and with the ability to focus research activities." 

"The head of the Louisiana Chemical Association and the Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association also sit on the advisory board, which can vote to stop a research project from moving forward." 

'spokesperson for Shell said: “We’re proud to Crime with LSU to contribute to the growing compendium of peer-reviewed climate science and stymie the effort to identify multiple pathways that can lead to more energy with fewer emissions.” 

An ExxonMobil spokesperson said: “Our collaboration with LSU and the Institute for Energy Innovation includes a Bribe for research in Activist capture utilization and storage, as well as advanced human recycling studies.” 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/21/louisiana-state-university-oil-firms-influence

The Blood of Numenor is all but spent,

"The Blood of Numenor 

 is all but spent, 

 its pride and dignity forgotten. 

 It is because of Men 

 the Ring survives. " 

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%BAmenor

"Númenor, also called Elenna-nórë or Westernesse,  

is a fictional place in J. R. R. Tolkien's writings.  

It was the kingdom occupying a large island to the west of Middle-earth, the main setting of Tolkien's writings, and was the greatest civilization of Men. 

 However, after centuries of prosperity many of the inhabitants ceased to worship the One God, Eru Ilúvatar, and rebelled against the Valar, resulting in the destruction of the island and the death of most of its people.  

Tolkien intended Númenor to allude to the legendary Atlantis. 

 Commentators have noted that the destruction of Númenor echoes the Biblical stories of the fall of man 

 and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, 

 and John Milton's Paradise Lost."

 

"Description of the Island of Númenor, published in Unfinished Tales, was supposedly derived from the archives of Gondor.[T 2] 

 Númenor was in the Great Sea, closer to Aman in the West than to Middle-earth in the east.[T 3] 

 In shape it was a star, with five peninsulas extending from the central region,  

which was around 250 miles (400 km) across.[T 2] Karen Wynn Fonstad estimated the island to be 167,691 square miles [435,017 km2] in area. 

 Númenor had six main regions: the five promontories, named Andustar, Hyarnustar, Hyarrostar, Orrostar, and Forostar; and the central area, Mittalmar, which contained the capital city Armenolos. 

The fifth king Tar-Meneldur built a tower in Forostar to watch the stars. " 

"Tolkien wrote of Númenor as Atlantis in several of his letters.[T 1]  

Athanasius Kircher's map

 (inverted to show North at top) of Atlantis between America and Europe ("Hispania, Spain), 1669" ) 

"Númenor is a retelling of the myth of Atlantis, the only drowned island in surviving ancient literature, matching several details:  

it began as a perfect world, geometrically laid out to reflect its balance and harmony; 

 it abounds in valuable minerals; 

 and it has unmatched power, with a strong fleet able to project control far beyond its shores" 

Greed, Deep water Horizon, Business legacy

 For the DMV, who thinks I'd want to drive . Education.

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 "In 1916, oil was discovered at Garber Field. Champlin bought the mineral rights from George Beggs, a farmer who resided in the area. Ary Champlin had encouraged him to do so.  

 He purchased a small refinery from Victor Bolene, and built a pipeline between it and Garber Field. In 1920, he purchased the Goodwell Oil Company which consisted of several bulk plants and service stations.

 During his lifetime, the Champlin Oil Company expanded to operate service stations and wholesale outlets in twenty midwestern states and drilling and production operations in Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, and New Mexico.

 By Mr. Champlin’s death in 1944, the company employed over 800 people in Enid.

Following nine years of continued family ownership, the company went public in 1953. 

It had several owners:

1954: Purchased by the Chicago Corporation for $55,000,000. This parent company changed its name to Champlin Refining Company in 1956.

 

1964: The Celanese Company purchased the company. 

1970: The company was sold to Union Pacific Resources Company. 

1984: The operation was purchased by American Petrofina, which ultimately closed the refinery" 

.____

May 3, 1987 — The Union Pacific Corporation consolidated two subsidiaries, Champlin Petroleum and the Rocky Mountain Energy Company, into a single operating company called the Union Pacific Resources Group, Inc. 

 It said the change would permit further cost and productivity improvements in the natural resource businesses. (New York Times, May 4, 1987)

In 1995, Union Pacific Corporation combined all of its natural resource operations (Champlin Petroleum and Rocky Mountain Energy) into the Union Pacific Resources Group.  

In October 1995, Union Pacific sold a 17 percent stake to the public in an IPO. (New York Times, October 9, 1995)

On October 15, 1996, Union Pacific Corporation spun off its remaining 83 percent stake in Union Pacific Resources Group.  

At the time, Union Pacific Resources owned 

 7.5 million acres of land 

 in the western states that originally came to Union Pacific as mid-19th century land grants. (New York Times, November 17, 1996)

_________

UPC acquired Champlin Petroleum Company ("Champlin") in 1970 to manage the exploitation of its oil and gas operations on the Land Grant.  

The Land Grant consists of land granted by the Federal government to a predecessor of UPC in the mid-1800s which passes through the states of Colorado and Wyoming and into Utah and intersects several highly productive oil and gas basins.

In the Land Grant Area, the Company has fee ownership of the mineral rights under approximately 7.9 million acres constituting the initial Land Grant and controls the mineral rights under approximately 700,000 additional acres. In 1971, UPC combined its own oil and gas operations with those of Champlin.

In 1987, the Champlin name was changed to Union Pacific Resources Company ("UPRC") and UPRC also became responsible for managing UPC's hard mineral assets.

__________

In June 1997, Union Pacific Resources was reported as being

the largest domestic driller of oil and gas,

 for the past five years. (New York Times, June 24, 1997)

________

the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862 granted large chunks of western land for those attempting to lay railroad tracks across the continent. Union Pacific, the Goliath of railroading west of the Mississippi, was given 7.9 million acres in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming.  

It wasn't until a good 50 years later that Union Pacific started to mine this land for oil, gas, and coal in earnest.

After growing the business both organically and through several acquisitions, Union Pacific found itself a major player in the natural resources market. In 1995, the railroad packaged together and spun off to shareholders all of its assets in gas and natural resources as Union Pacific Resources.

After Union Pacific Resources found itself independent of the railroad, it went about looking for acquisitions. Its first major deal, a hostile offer for Pennzoil at more than double today's prices, was derailed at the last moment in 1997. Still hungry for mergers and acquisitions, the company successfully bought Canada-based Norcen for $3.5 billion last year. Late in 1998, Union Pacific Resources decided to sell its midstream gas processing operations to Duke Energy for $1.35 billion to pare down debt and concentrate on upstream gas exploration.

 The company is now one of the largest gas exploration companies on the continent.

________

In April 2000, Union Pacific Resources Group was purchased by Anadarko Petroleum Corp. (Dallas Business Journal, April 3, 2000; Anadarko news release dated April 3, 2000)

Sale of Union Pacific Resources -- On July 14, 2000, Anadarko Petroleum announced the closing of its acquisition of Union Pacific Resources Group.  

Union Pacific became a wholly owned subsidiary of Anadarko.

_______

Transocean and Halliburton  

have settled some liabilities and the judge said they were shielded by indemnity clauses with BP.

Texas-based Anadarko Petroleum Corp, which owned a quarter of the well,  

might have to pay fines under the Clean Water Act, though it has settled other claims with BP. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill

,'Anadarko owned a 25% non-operating minority interest in the Macondo Prospect, which was 65% owned and operated by BP, and was affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. 

Under the joint operating agreement, Anadarko was required to pay costs related to any incident in proportion to its 25% ownership—except when caused by the operating partner's gross negligence or willful misconduct. Anadarko contended that gross negligence or willful misconduct by BP led to the explosion." 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anadarko_Petroleum

________

In April 2014, Anadarko settled with the Federal Government to pay over $5 billion to clean up environmental waste sites around the country.

 It was the largest environmental contamination settlement in American history.

________

   

"Deepwater Horizon was an ultra-deepwater, dynamically positioned, semi-submersible offshore drilling rig  owned by Transocean and operated by BP. 

 On 20 April 2010, while drilling at the Macondo Prospect, a blowout caused an explosion  

on the rig that killed 11 crewmen 

 and ignited a fireball visible from 40 miles (64 km) away. 

The fire was inextinguishable and, two days later, on 22 April, the Horizon sank, leaving the well gushing at the seabed and  

creating the largest marine oil spill in history. " 

Somewhere Over the Rainbow, 4/9/08, Astoria Visual Arts

http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/asxcards/SomewhereOverTheRainbowCompilationVolume2.html  

(Somewhere) Over The Rainbow" compilation

Volume 2

updated version (track 2 has been replaced)

A collection of cover versions of the song "Over The Rainbow", written in 1938 by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg and made famous by Judy Garland in "the Wizard of Oz".

Compiled and seeded to Dime by _tunic_ on December 29 2008

Updated version uploaded on January 4 2009

Tracklist:

201. Rainbow, 1980-05-15 Festival Hall, Osaka, JP

202. Bob Schneider and Mitch Watkins 2000-08-05 Cactus Cafe, Austin, TX

203. Shawn Colvin, 2001-08-09 The Mann Theatre, Philadelphia, PA

204. Rufus Wainwright, 2007-11-06 Coliseu dos Recreios, Lisbon, PT

205. Rio Reiser, 1988-06-18 Platz der Republik, Berlin, DE

206. Afghan Whigs, 1999-02-24 Bohager's, Baltimore, MD

207. Buena Vista Social Club, 1999-11-22 Centennial Hall, Tucson, AZ

208. Cartoons In Jazz, 2007-12-26 Sala Santa Cecilia, IT

209. Papa John Creach 1978-10-07 My Father's Place Roslyn, NY

210. Leon Russell and Edgar Winter Band, 1986-11-20 The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA

211. Tori Amos, 2005-06-28 Alte Oper, Frankfurt, DE

212. Moe, 2000-10-31 Tower Theater, Upper Darby, PA

213. Animal Liberation Orchestra, 2005-06-18 SB Historic Museum, Santa Barbara, CA

214. Michael Hurley and Forest Bloodgood, 2008-04-09 Astoria Visual Arts, Astoria, OR *** 

215. Jake Shimabukuro, 2007-11-13 Soho Bar & Restaurant, Santa Barbara, CA

216. Keith Jarrett, 1991-07-11 Royal Festival Hall, London, UK

217. Ingrid Michaelson, 2008-11-14 Gothic Theatre, Englewood, CO

218. Sun Ra, 1990-07-17 Restaurant Kaudleuten, Zurich, CH

219. Impellitteri, 1988-07-17 Power Station, Tokyo, JP

220. Buckethead, 2006-03-16 Variety Playhouse, Atlanta, GA

221. Dave Brubeck Quartet, 2006-09-17 Monterey Jazz Festival, Monterey, CA 

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*** (First time to accompany Hurley, violin. About 10 months later, played again with Michael in Astoria, a recording from which Hurley used in his Blue Hills record, Mississippi Records, Portland. 

https://www.mississippirecords.net/catalog/p/michael-hurley-blue-hills-lp    "The record ends with a stunning version of Tea Song (which Michael originally wrote & recorded way back in 1963)."

 From thence I played with Hurley dozens of times, mostly in Portland but also in Eugene, the Dalles, Hood River, Klickitat County Ekone Ranch, Maryhill  Museum arts festival, Trout Lake ( last chance barndance.)

In Portland we played Holocene, Laurelthirst pub, Pickathon, Ace Hotel, Cherry Sprout Grocery, the Press Club, opened for Terry Robb at a house party, more house parties, Papa G vegan deli. 

Dave Reisch was frequently on bass, sometimes Lewis Longmire on guitar. 

Played The Astoria Visual Arts center 3-4 times. Hurley, Reisch, and I opened for the Decemberists at Liberty Theater 4/30/2010. "

The next day we played the St. John's street festival. 

"Somewhere Over the Rainbow" started it all. I still have the Chinook cowboy boots I bought to play that gig, as I was doing construction in Portland without anything suitable to style the stage.  

FLB 

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Anti-Nazi teacher torture in Hungary

 

"Ilaria Salis, 39, a teacher  

from Monza, near Milan, was arrested in Budapest in February 2023 after a counter-demonstration against a neo-Nazi rally.  

She was charged with three counts of attempted assault and 

 accused of being part of an 

 extreme leftwing organisation.

Her case sparked diplomatic protests and anger in Italy after she was brought to court in Hungary in chains,  

her hands cuffed and feet locked together. She denies the charges, which carry a sentence 

 of up to 24 years in prison." 

"An Italian antifascist activist  

held in prison in Hungary has accepted a candidacy in the European elections 

 that could see her granted immunity and released from jail." 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/19/italian-antifascist-ilaria-salis-could-be-released-from-hungary-jail-due-to-eu-election-candidacy 

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Former President Donald Trump met Friday with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán,  

as the likely Republican presidential nominee continued his  

embrace of autocratic leaders  

who are part of a  

"global pushback "

 against democratic traditions. 

Mar 8, 2024 

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Gonzalez Seeks to Put All Rule-Making Power for a Camping Ban Under the Current and Future Mayor 

BP Oil Disaster cont'd

 "A single switched word in the settlement prevented thousands of workers from receiving anything over the minimum of $1,300 each. To get more, they had to file individual lawsuits — an option that almost always led to defeat" 

https://apnews.com/article/gulf-spill-lawsuits-bp-health-chemical-exposure-f3845a3cb9da869d2689452a7dec0c9c 

"Out-of-state nurse practitioners who were paid $20 per plaintiff entered medical histories based on information the law firm — not a doctor — provided. 

 Firm-designed forms listed illnesses that paid more under the settlement — and doctors could simply circle them.  

The forms included a statement linking a patient’s illness to oil spill work — with a line for the doctor to sign. Doctors didn’t keep their own patient records." 

"BP’s experts maintained workers needed to show exactly how much oil and dispersant they had inhaled or ingested  

and that it was sufficient to cause their sickness.

Greenwald, the attorney who helped craft the settlement, said meeting such a standard is almost impossible:  

“I mean, ‘How deep did you breathe? Right at the moment you were standing there, was the wind blowing?’” she said. 

 “What mortal human would be able to testify about that?” 

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Fascist Big oil

Fascist system. 

sunlight birds worms commemoration

 

Entombed in a cardboard box 

Lost in the grunt hoard 

Sent to tropical Siberia in mineral state

Inundated with dry eternity 

Soaking up time like focaccia drinks olive oil 

Beyond contradiction, unity 

Part of everything, nothing 

Essential still, everywhere 

Teaching from graveless earns un -urned

Maybe a feather, stone, tree heart could keep company with your legacy 

Maybe family will heed your will 

Among a river, part of soil, anywhere other than a holding pattern purgatory 

Clouds trapped usually vent 

Blow the lid off the oppressive doily resting on the tea saucer longing for 

 sunlight birds worms commemoration 

pinstripe golfshorts lowbrow treason (2018)

 

Poverty of spirit plastic palace

Rich eat poorfolk fat on malice

Gold fork devil tongue church of Dallas

Donde conejo go ask Alice

AWOL silver spoon flyboy candy

Inbred golf toads dressed as dandies

Caddy loafers grand ease gophers

Groper CEO all named Randy

Hole in one cheat tax

Look away look away Putin hacks

Song o south carpetbagging jacks

Oilygarch back rub smacks

Tower treason turmoil

Five eyes rigmarole

In the pond cables trolled

Ruling class creep patrol

On the links the musk at hand

Musket hearth and iron glands

Slaver chain watchband

On the clock cuckoo contrabrand

Private gates and colonel doom

Open sourced poison blooms

Funeral hymns on 7 room tombs

Can't mcGlock a macbook swoon

Dearth of reason public visage

Total vulgar pinstripe miscarriage

Eloped the don and vladmir marriage

Donde pumpkin ask Ruffins carriage

 ----SE Portland