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Friday, July 04, 2025

Jaberwock, hoodoo bash, history jest

  

"Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" is a 1953 novelty song,   


with lyrics by Jimmy Kennedy and music by Nat Simon. It was written on the 500th anniversary of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans.  

The lyrics humorously refer to the official renaming of the city of Constantinople to Istanbul.

 The song's original release, performed by The Four Lads, was certified as a gold record. Numerous cover versions have been recorded over the years, most famously a

 1990 version by They Might Be Giants." 


Big Muffin Serious Band

"Big Muffin Serious Band, a ukulele-based music performance group from New Zealand, released a cover on their LP 

 "Jabberwocky Goes To Town" in 1987." 


Muppets

"In Season 2, Episode 4 (U.S. release October 12, 1997)

 of the television series Muppets Tonight, portions of the song were performed by 

a quartet of rats in kaftans and fezzes."  



"Guitarist Trey Anastasio has teased the song on numerous occasions with Phish and with his own band, Trey Anastasio Band." 


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"Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

      Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

All mimsy were the borogoves,

      And the mome raths outgrabe.


“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!

      The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!

Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun

      The frumious Bandersnatch!”


He took his vorpal sword in hand;

      Long time the manxome foe he sought—

So rested he by the Tumtum tree

      And stood awhile in thought.


And, as in uffish thought he stood,

      The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,

Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,

      And burbled as it came!


One, two! One, two! And through and through

      The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!

He left it dead, and with its head

      He went galumphing back.


“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?

      Come to my arms, my beamish boy!

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”

      He chortled in his joy.


’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

      Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

All mimsy were the borogoves,

      And the mome raths outgrabe." 


*****

mesa, isis, surreal

All could recite/perform this

From early ages

Verbatim

They'd take turns.... sometimes 


Then sing "the hoodoo bash" by Unholy Modal Rounders

Without missing a step. 


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Population: 15.66 million  


The city now known as Istanbul developed to become one of the most significant cities in history. Byzantium was founded on the Sarayburnu promontory by Greek colonists, potentially in the seventh century BC. 

For nearly sixteen centuries following its reestablishment as Constantinople in 330 AD, it served as the capital of four empires:

 the Roman Empire (330–395), the Byzantine Empire (395–1204 and 1261–1453), the Latin Empire (1204–1261), and the Ottoman Empire (1453–1922) 

It was instrumental in the advancement of Christianity during Roman and Byzantine times, before the Ottomans conquered the city in 1453 and transformed it into an Islamic stronghold and the seat of the last caliphate"


The first known name of the city is Byzantium 

(Ancient Greek: Βυζάντιον, Byzántion), 

the name given to it at its foundation by Megarian colonists around 657 BCE. 

 Megarian colonists claimed a direct line back to the founders of the city,  

Byzas, the son of the god Poseidon  

and the nymph Ceroëssa." 

___.        

"Istanbul's historic peninsula was settled as far back as the 6th millennium BCE. 

That early settlement, important in the spread of the Neolithic Revolution from the Near East to Europe, lasted for almost a millennium before  

being inundated by rising water levels. 

 The first human settlement on the Asian side, the Fikirtepe mound, is from the Copper Age period, with artifacts dating from 5500 to 3500 BCE"  


"A 1942 wealth tax assessed mainly on non-Muslims led to the transfer or liquidation of many businesses owned by religious minorities. 

The US-incited.   and state-sanctioned 

 1955 Istanbul pogrom,  

in which hundreds of Greek men, women and children were attacked and raped and dozens murdered, led to the emigration of most of the remaining Greeks in Istanbul. 

 Government persecution of Greeks and religious minorities, especially Christians, intensified through the 1960s as part of the process of Turkification. 

 Further mass expulsions of Greeks took place in 1964–1965. 

As a result of these policies, the Greek population of Istanbul decreased 

 from 110,000 in 1919 to 2,500 today " 



Counter-Guerrilla

 (Turkish: Kontrgerilla) is a Turkish branch of Operation Gladio, 

a clandestine stay-behind anti-communist initiative 

backed by the United States as an expression of the Truman Doctrine.  

The founding goal of the operation was to erect a stay-behind guerrilla force to undermine a possible Soviet occupation. 

* The goal  was/is oil, oil, power, oil.* 


 

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


 





why law matters (one example

  

"(4) For the purposes of this section, a pedestrian is crossing the roadway in a crosswalk when any part or extension of the pedestrian, including but not limited to 

any part of the pedestrian’s body, wheelchair, cane, crutch or bicycle,

 moves onto the roadway in a crosswalk with the intent to proceed.

(5) The offense described in this section, failure to stop and remain stopped for a pedestrian, is a Class B traffic violation. [2005 c.746 §2; 2011 c.507 §1]

https://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/811.028

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For my children

For my grown children

For your children, grown/not

For safety

For order involving multiple variables

    In which car/pedestrian is unequal

Yield, car/truck/progress   

____

"The driver of a vehicle commits the offense of failure to stop and remain stopped for a pedestrian if the driver does not stop and remain stopped for a pedestrian when the pedestrian is:.."  


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International Law..... 


Genocide, human rights, environmental Law 















 



b'gosh oshkanzh

  "Oshkosh Corporation, formerly Oshkosh Truck, is an American industrial company that designs and builds specialty trucks,

 military vehicles, truck bodies, airport fire apparatus, and access equipment.  

The corporation also owns Pierce Manufacturing, a fire apparatus manufacturer in Appleton, Wisconsin, and JLG Industries, 

 a manufacturer of lift equipment, including aerial lifts, boom lifts, scissor lifts, telehandlers and low-level access lifts." 


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/03/global-firms-profiting-israel-genocide-gaza-united-nations-rapporteur  


"Founded in 1917 as the Wisconsin Duplex Auto Company, the company was created to build a severe-duty four-wheel-drive truck. After the first prototype was built, the company began to develop rapidly. 

 This first four-wheel-drive truck, known today as "Old Betsy" 


"On August 25, 2015, Oshkosh was awarded the U.S. military's Joint Light Tactical Vehicle contract. 

 The initial JLTV award is valued at $6.75 billion for up to 16,901 vehicles.  

The procurement objective for JLTV stands at 49,099 Army and 9,091 Marines, with the Navy and Air Force also having smaller requirements. 

 The estimated program cost is $47.6 billion. 

JLTV will partially replace the AM General Humvee." 


"February 2021, Oshkosh Defense was awarded the U.S. Postal Service's Next Generation Delivery Vehicle (NGDV) mail truck contract for between 50,000 and 165,000 units over ten years, with production start targeted for 2023. 

The fleet will include low-emissions internal combustion engine vehicles as well as battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and could be worth over $6 billion." 


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


"Genocide the Next Day, or Else" 


Toddler overalls be damned. 


Coming to the USAA.  


___. 


"OshKosh B'gosh 

 is an American children's apparel company.


 founded in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.  

It is a subsidiary of Carter's.".


My mistake, gosh.  

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Oshkosh


 (/ˈɒʃkɒʃ/ ⓘ) is a city in Winnebago County, Wisconsin, United States, .

and its county seat. It is located on the western shore of Lake Winnebago 

 and had a population of 66,816 as of the 2020 census, 

 making it the ninth-most populous city in Wisconsin." 


Call it 67k. 

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Oshkosh was named for Menominee Chief Oshkosh, 

 whose name meant "claw "(cf. Ojibwe 

 oshkanzh,

 "the claw"). 


'At one time, Oshkosh was known as the

 "Sawdust Capital of the World"  

due to the number of lumber mills in the city, 11 by 1860." 


"Iceblock heaven" 










1986-2006 Citgo provided gas to 7-Eleven for two decades.

 "7-Eleven is dropping Citgo as the gasoline supplier to its 2,100 stations around the country..

 The companies' contract was already set to expire, but 7-Eleven has been uneasy with its close ties to Citgo,

 a subsidiary of Venezuela's national oil company.


Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez attacked President Bush repeatedly in a recent speech to the United Nations, calling him

 "the devil" and a dangerous imperialist.

https://www.npr.org/2006/09/27/6154806/7-11-drops-citgo-citing-ties-to-venezuelas-chavez

Based in Houston, Texas,  Citgo has provided gas to 7-Eleven for two decades. 

 


 So when Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez crudely condemned President Bush on the floor of the United Nations last week, 

7-Eleven drew a pretty big gulp."  

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Countries 

(OPEC 

/ˈoʊpɛk/ OH-pek)  

is an organization enabling the co-operation 

of leading oil-producing and oil-dependent 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. " (Tulsa) 

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'In 1949, Venezuela initiated the move towards the establishment of what would become OPEC, by inviting Iran, Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to exchange views and explore avenues for more regular and closer communication among petroleum-exporting nations as the world recovered from World War II. 

 At the time, some of the world's largest oil fields were just entering production in the Middle East. 

The United States had established the

 Interstate Oil Compact Commission to join the Texas Railroad Commission 

 in limiting overproduction. 

The US was simultaneously the world's largest producer and consumer of oil; 

the world market was dominated by a group of multinational companies known as the "Seven Sisters",

 five of which were headquartered in the US following the breakup of John D. 

 Rockefeller's original Standard Oil"  

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"The 1973–1974 oil embargo had lasting effects on the United States and other industrialized nations, 

which established the International Energy Agency in response, as well as national emergency stockpiles

 designed to withstand months of future supply disruptions.

 Oil conservation efforts included lower speed limits on highways, smaller and more energy-efficient cars and appliances, year-round daylight saving time, reduced usage of heating and air-conditioning, better building insulation, increased support of mass transit, and  

greater emphasis on coal, natural gas, ethanol, nuclear and other alternative energy sources. 

These long-term efforts became effective enough that US oil consumption rose only 11 percent during 1980–2014, while real GDP rose 150 perce 


the years after 1973, as an example of so-called "checkbook diplomacy", certain Arab nations have been among the world's largest providers of foreign aid" 


On 21 December 1975, Saudi Arabia's Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Iran's Jamshid Amuzegar, and the other OPEC oil ministers were taken hostage at their semi-annual conference in Vienna, Austria. 

 The attack, which killed three non-ministers, was orchestrated by a six-person team led by Venezuelan terrorist "Carlos the Jackal "


The self-named "Arm of the Arab Revolution" group declared its goal to be the liberation of Palestine. 

 Carlos planned to take over the conference by force and hold for ransom all eleven attending oil ministers, except for Yamani and Amuzegar who were to be executed.[73]


Carlos arranged bus and plane travel for his team and 42 of the original 63 hostages, with stops in Algiers and Tripoli, planning to fly eventually to Baghdad, where Yamani and Amuzegar were to be killed. 

All 30 non-Arab hostages were released in Algiers, excluding Amuzegar


Sometime after the attack, Carlos's accomplices revealed that the operation was commanded by Wadie Haddad, a founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

 They also claimed that the idea and funding came from an Arab president, widely thought to be Muammar Gaddafi of Libya, itself an OPEC member. 

Fellow militants Bassam Abu Sharif and Klein claimed that Carlos received and kept a ransom between 20 million and US$50 million from "an Arab president".

 Carlos claimed that Saudi Arabia paid ransom on behalf of Iran, but that the money was "diverted en route and lost by the Revolution". 

 He was finally captured in 1994 and is serving life sentences for at least 16 other murders." 


one oil analyst summarized succinctly: "When the price of something as essential as oil spikes, humanity does two things: finds more of it and finds ways to use less


Faced with increasing economic hardship

 (which ultimately contributed to the collapse of the Soviet bloc in 1989), 


The September 2001 Al Qaeda attacks on the US and

 the March 2003 US invasion of Iraq 

had even milder short-term impacts on oil prices,

 as Saudi Arabia and other exporters again cooperated to keep the world adequately supplied.  


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPEC 


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"Bush did not attribute the phrase to either Burroughs or Lewis.  

It has been speculated Bush avoided all mention of William S. Burroughs in his first two major speeches  

because he did not wish to associate his candidacy or incipient presidency with Burroughs' controversial works and personal escapades." 

 


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand_points_of_light#:~:text=The%20term%20was%20used%20by,my%20government%20to%20become%20involved.  



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"1991 article in The New York Times noted that the phrase had inspired "a host of caustic political satires, including cartoons of devastated communities as

 'a thousand points of blight.'


U.S. President Donald Trump mocked the phrase at a rally in Montana on July 5, 2018, asking .

"What does that mean? I know one thing:

 Make America Great Again we understand.

 Putting America first we understand. Thousand points of light, I never quite got that one. 

What the hell is that? Has anyone ever figured that one out? "


 

"The first known instance of the phrase "a thousand points of light" appears in Arthur C. Clarke's short story

 "Rescue Party," initially published in Astounding Science-Fiction, May 1946:"

***

"The day after the 1984 presidential election, Atwater became a senior partner at

 the political consulting firm of Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly.


During his years in Washington, Atwater became aligned with

 Vice President George H. W. Bush, who chose Atwater to manage his 1988 presidential campaign."  


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"Isn't It a Pity" is a song by English rock musician George Harrison from his 1970 solo album All Things Must Pass. 

 Harrison wrote the song in 1966, 

In many countries around the world, the song was also issued on a double A-side single with "My Sweet Lord".  



Duster   on Max used the song in episode 8.


I found the quote by Kissinger and used it here at bloggod, in reference to Iran and Iraq or was it  reference to Atrocity and Capitalism's Crimes.



Look it up, kitten. 


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isn%27t_It_a_Pity

"In 2019, financial commentator J. Mulraj of The Hindu wrote that, in an international climate of distrust fostered by the Military–industrial complex, oil prices and irresponsible banking practices,  

"World leaders should listen to George Harrison's song"  


 

"as encapsulated in a remark by American diplomat Henry Kissinger that  "

Isn't it....

"It's a pity they both can't lose.



Thursday, July 03, 2025

Delicious pragmatic pita fajita

 

Sauteed medium chopped onion ,  half a red pepper, in  tablespoon oil (olive, sesame, canola etc 

1 big grated carrot, wait 

When slightly charred/cooked, add carrot 2 minutes on low heat

Remove contents from cast iron

Heat pita in skillet, flip 

Cover in grated sharp cheddar or cheese available (vegan cheese if need)

Cover in sauteed veggies content, lid 1-2 min. On low heat.

Top w/ nutritional yeast, salt, chilli powder 


Remove, fold pita into sandwich, fajita style 

Eat w/ fingers or knife/fork

Vary ingredients to taste or pantry need. 

Enjoy 






Wednesday, July 02, 2025

of the United States, in antiquity

  "The chief of naval operations (CNO) is the highest-ranking officer of the United States Navy. The position is a statutory office (10 U.S.C. § 8033) held by an admiral who is a military adviser and deputy to the secretary of the Navy.  

The CNO is also a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (10 U.S.C. § 151)

 and in this capacity, a military adviser to the National Security Council, the Homeland Security Council, the secretary of defense, and the president." 

___

"J.S. Champlin refers to Captain Jackson Selover Champlin, a US Navy officer who had a distinguished career.  

He commanded several ships, including the USS HARADEN and the USS MT. OLYMPUS, and served in various roles, including  

an instructor at the Naval Academy

 and in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. 

 He also received numerous medals and decorations for his service" 

____ 


"Sherman's next assignment, beginning in January 1948, was to command the navy's operating forces in the Mediterranean Sea .

 He was recalled to Washington, D.C., at the end of October 1949 to become Chief of Naval Operations,  

with the rank of admiral. During the next sixteen months, he helped the navy recover from a period of intense political controversy  

(as in the so-called "Revolt of the Admirals").  

Sherman's absence from the recent controversy, and his role in the unification negotiations made him the logical candidate.  

As Chief of Naval Operations, he oversaw the responses to the twin challenges of a hot war in Korea and an intensifying cold war elsewhere in the world."


"On July 22, 1951, while on a military and diplomatic trip to Europe, Admiral Forrest Sherman died in Naples, Italy, 

 following a sudden series of heart attacks.

 He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery on July 27, 1951." 


"The "Revolt of the Admirals" was a policy and funding dispute within the United States government during the Cold War in 1949, involving a number of retired and active duty United States Navy admirals.  

These included serving officers Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, Chief of Naval Operations, and Vice Admiral Gerald F. Bogan, as well as Fleet Admirals Chester Nimitz and William Halsey, senior officers during World War II.


"The episode occurred at a time when President Harry S. Truman and Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson were seeking to reduce military expenditures in the aftermath of World War II so that President Truman could redirect funding to his domestic priorities.  

This policy involved deep cuts to the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps,  

while making the United States Air Force and strategic nuclear bombing the primary means of defending American interests. 

 The Navy sought to carve out a role for itself in strategic bombing with Naval Aviation, which the Air Force saw as one of its primary roles."


"Partly driven by interservice rivalry, the debate escalated from differences over strategy to  

the question of civilian control over the military. 

Senior Navy officers...regarded the committee's recommendations as radical.

 They opposed the idea of a single secretary of National Defense, which they felt was too much responsibility for one man, 

and it interposed a civilian head between the JCS and the President of the United States, which might diminish the Navy's power and influence.   "


"July 1946, James Forrestal, the Secretary of the Navy and Nimitz, now the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), replaced him with the DCNO for Operations, 

 Rear Admiral Forrest Sherman.  

Although also a naval aviator, Sherman did not oppose unification. He and Norstad drew up an agreement that was endorsed by the JCS and forwarded to President Harry S. Truman, for approval on 12 December 1946.


This became the basis for the National Security Act of 1947,  


which created the National Security Council (NSC), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), an independent United States Air Force (USAF),

 

three civilian military department heads and the National Military Establishment, a unified command with a cabinet-level Secretary of Defense to oversee the service departments " 



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

 

"Deficit spending had lifted the United States out of the Great Depression, but now Truman and his economic advisors were concerned about the prospect of inflation, which rose to 14.4 percent in 1947 after wartime price controls were removed, and embraced austerity.  

To reduce expenditures, the armed services had to quickly demobilize and return to a peacetime military. " 

"services were reduced from 89 Army and Marine divisions to 12; 

 from 213 Air Force air groups to 63 (only 11 of which were operational, with some existing only on paper); 

 and from 1,166 Navy warships to 343. 

 Meanwhile, $13 billion went into the Marshall Plan, from 1948 to 1952."


"US war plans were drafted for a potential conflict with the Soviet Union.  

It was considered unlikely that the Soviet Union wanted to start a war, but the plans were prepared for the possibility that one might break out as a result of a miscalculation."  


"Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, who had succeeded Nimitz as CNO on 15 December 1947, was critical of the war plan, which he regarded as deeply flawed. 

He noted that abandoning Western Europe without a struggle ran counter 

to the US Government policy of building up the democracies there,  

and it meant accepting the loss of the Mediterranean Sea as well. " 


 "of the principal targets of the bombing offensive in Europe was destroyed or even suffered severe disruption and 

 only the oil campaign 

 was ultimately regarded as successful" 

***

"T]he most effective air siege will result by concurrently attacking every critical element of the enemy's economy at the same time. 

This will result in a general disintegration of all industry that will, in turn, prevent reconstruction. 

 Oil, transportation, power, vital end products, and weapon factories, 

if destroyed concurrently...there seems little question but 

that a nation would die 

 just as surely as a man will die

 if a bullet pierces his heart and his circulatory system is stopped."  



"The bombing campaign called for in the war plans was both nuclear and conventional. By June 1948, components for about fifty Fat Man and two Little Boy bombs were on hand. 

 These had to be assembled by specially trained Armed Forces Special Weapons Project assembly teams. 

Only Silverplate Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers were capable of delivering nuclear weapons, and of the 65 that had been made, only 32 were operational at the start of 1948, all of which were assigned to the 509th Bombardment Group, which was  

based at Walker Air Force Base, formerly Roswell Army Airfield, in New Mexico."


 "the Berlin Blockade in June 1948 led to increased concerns about the aggressive stance taken by the Soviet Union, and demands for an intercontinental bomber " 


"Being in third place for funding behind the Army and Air Force represented a major loss of status for the Navy,  

which had traditionally seen itself as the nation's first line of defense.  

The Navy's budget had exceeded the Army's for every year but one between 1922 and 1939. 

It enjoyed the support of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and had its own secretary who reported directly to him. " 

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 "any target in the world was within 1,500 nautical miles (2,800 km; 1,700 mi) of the sea. A carrier could be deployed quickly in a crisis, and did not require the establishment of expensive overseas bases"  

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"Forrestal considered the notion of a single service having a monopoly on nuclear weapons to be misguided." 

__&

"Forrestal did not support Truman's 1948 Presidential campaign; instead, he met with Truman's opponent, Thomas E. Dewey, with whom he discussed the possibility of remaining in cabinet in a Republican administration.  

Truman was angered by this, and on 2 March 1949, after he won the election, he announced that Forrestal was being replaced by Louis A. Johnson, who had raised $1.5 million for Truman's re-election campaign. 

On 22 May, Forrestal committed suicide by self-defenestration." 

 

(Defenestration  

(from Neo-Latin de fenestra)

"is the act of throwing someone or something out of a window. 


the term is also used to describe the forcible or summary removal of an adversary." ) 


"Johnson had no qualms over supporting Truman's military budget reductions and fiscally preferred the Air Force's argument. 

 His idea of an executive was someone who gave orders, and those orders were to be carried out immediately and without question. 

 When the naval officers questioned his decisions on weapons and strategy  

(such as the cancellation of the United States), he took that as a sign of insubordination.  

When attacks appeared against his character, he wanted those responsible severely punished." 



"Johnson recommended Francis P. Matthews for the position of 

Secretary of the Navy.

 A lawyer from Omaha, Nebraska, he had served as a director of the United Service Organizations (USO), a service organization that entertained the troops.  

He came to the attention of Johnson by assisting him with political fund raising for the 1948 Truman campaign. 

 Matthews admitted the nearest he had come to naval experience was rowing a boat on a lake."  








Smelling Drumpf Spirit blame Skinny Puppy for Vylan Halabja etc etc

 "Even the proven presence of cyanide gas at Halabja would not necessarily implicate Iran," for two reasons outlined by Hiltermann. Prior to Halabja, Iranian forces made widespread use of 

amyl nitrite  

to counter what they repeatedly alleged was Iraqi cyanide gas. If those Iranian claims are accepted, then "By that logic, Iraq could also be implicated in any Halabja deaths by cyanide."   




"There are no withdrawal symptoms. Overdose symptoms include nausea, vomiting, hypotension, hypoventilation, shortness of breath, and fainting.  

The effects set in very quickly, typically within a few seconds and disappear within a few minutes. Amyl nitrite may also intensify 

the experience of synesthesia. 

Amyl nitrite, when given as a medication for patients with angina, can also be administered as an ampule. 

 The ampule is put in a gauze pad and then inhaled by the patient during an angina attack and repeated every fifteen minutes. "

"In the 1999 film Fight Club,

 the character Chloe, a terminally ill woman, mentions having a collection of amyl nitrite while openly discussing her unfulfilled desires at a cancer support group.

The punk band Amyl and the Sniffers reference recreational use of amyl nitrite in their name. 

https://youtu.be/jCxgUPFVFkA?si=HhU9fwpr6zBLICXZ


The Hunter S. Thompson book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas sees amyl nitrite as one of the many drugs Raoul Duke packs for the trip to Las Vegas, 

 taking about two dozen ampules of it with him and usually justifying its usage by him and Dr. Gonzo to other people around them by

 claiming it is for angina."  


"Amyl nitrite, in common with other alkyl nitrites, is a potent vasodilator; it expands blood vessels, resulting in lowering of the blood pressure."   


"Trace amounts are added to some perfumes. "   


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

 

"the Halabja massacre remains the largest chemical weapons attack directed against a civilian-populated region in human history, killing between 3,200 and 5,000 people and injuring 7,000 to 10,000 more " 


"Canadian industrial-electronic band Skinny Puppy comments upon the Halabja chemical attacks in their song "VX Gas Attack" on their 1988 album VIVIsectVI." 
















rectal-skunkspeaker and a-hole system

 "Trace amounts are added to some perfumes."


 "He rather small, I think he'll fit, it's a squeeze. I have all gold shoehorns from every dictator around the globe, glib just comes naturally. It is from mom's Christ side."    

*#:&$@?$#?

"The British media in a frenzy about Bob Vylan and Kneecap, but artists all weekend at Glastonbury, from pop to rock to rap to punk to DJs, spoke up on stage, and there were tons of flags on every streamed set. 

 Trying to make it look like just a couple of isolated incidents and a couple of ‘bad bands’ 

so it appears the public isn’t as anti-genocide as it is.”

Writing in the Guardian, columnist Owen Jones compared the chant by Vylan

 with the killing by Israeli forces of hundreds of Palestinians seeking food. 

 “How morally lost is a society in which a chant against a genocidal foreign army

 provokes a political and media firestorm,

 but the intentionally starved,

 unarmed human beings being mowed down 





 on the orders of the IDF high command do not"  






"For Patriots who never enlist, like President Trump. 

This scent is your rallying cry in a bottle,” reads the advertising copy for both a men’s cologne and a women’s perfume sold under the same grift.

Trump launched the scents with an announcement on Truth Social, wedged between buttcheeks boasting 

about U.S. tariff revenue and touting the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill.” Hours later, Trump posted:  

“We bought respect and dignity back.”

“Trump Fragrances are here. They’re called ‘Victory 45-47’ because they’re all about Winning, Strength, and Success,” wrote the president.  

 “Get yourself a bottle, and don’t forget to get one for your loved ones too. Enjoy, have fun, and keep winning!”

Victory 45-47 costs a whopping $249 "



#+@!_*$?& 


 "think it’s a comedic way of rubbing the dog’s nose in its own dog piss after it weed on your favourite rug,” frontwoman Amy Taylor has said   " 

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"Marc Schack, an associate professor of international law at the University of Copenhagen, said: 

“It is almost impossible to see how this use of that kind of munition can be justified.  

If you are talking about 20, 30, 40 or more civilian casualties, usually that would have to be a target of very great importance

For coalition forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, the accepted number for a very high-level target 

was less than 30 civilians getting killed, and only then in exceptional circumstances.”  




"Medical and other officials said between 24 and 36 Palestinians were killed in the attack on the cafe and dozens more were injured.  

The dead included a well-known film-maker and an artist, 

a 35-year-old housewife  

and a four-year-old child. 

Among the injured were a 14-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl." 



How many Hostages remain unreleased? 






features of parodies (2018)

 


Features of maladies obscured in haste

The acrid greed dust my mouth tastes

Decades experience only fools go waste

Research symptoms facts cut and paste


Onto creatures of fallacies

Distant moral galaxies

Don't see what trees wanna seize

Economics trickle down please


Poisoned pension bleachers hid plain sight

Gladiators fall apart late at night

Coliseum colloidal crowned crows in flight

Nibbled up the blot specks lost bite by byte


Preachers of paradigms punked the power

Dirty dim Don plucked dung golden showered

Close inspection no thanks cowered

Via drone fed uplinks manned from towers


Teachers more than know

Revolution both ways flow

Scythes the grasses mow

Rust ploughshares buried low


Impeachers on the branch the bees their start

Flowers fruit democratic sugars from tart

Tongue torture all we gotta blurt

After dimdondungs tweets do their hurt


Meet yer looney money maker

Roger stone a slime filled quaker

Shakes his sheik banker

On the decks of bloody tankers


Another feature on the telly

Never broadcast from whales belly

Piccochio feels pretty smelly

Said his truth spreading jelly



2018




Tuesday, July 01, 2025

burn in hell GOP it's overtime

  

"I work hard not to Defect/Laugh,

to take care of a state that has more unique situations, 

more unique people,  Sarah Palin, 

and it's just different," she said..


$$$$$$$$$$$$$$


"Alaska is the largest U.S. state by area, comprising more total area than the following three largest states of Texas, California, and Montana combined" 


The expense and logistical difficulty of maintaining this distant possession prompted its 

sale to the U.S. in 1867 .

for US $7.2 million  

(equivalent to $162 million in 2024)" 



***Equivalent to 3-4 seasons of a decent NBA player. ***


Yeah, all of Alaska.  


___ 

 "Abundant natural resources have enabled Alaska— with one of the smallest state economies

—to have one of the highest per capita incomes, 

 with commercial fishing, and the extraction of natural gas and oil, 

dominating Alaska's economy.

 U.S. Armed Forces bases and tourism also contribute to the economy;  

more than half of the state is federally-owned land 

containing national forests,

 national parks,

and wildlife refuges. " 


Loot, pollute.  Verbs.  

___ 


"According to a 2013 study by Phoenix Marketing International, Alaska had the

 fifth-largest number of millionaires per capita in the United States, 

with a ratio of 6.75 percent. 

The oil and gas industry dominates the Alaskan economy, with .

more than 80% of the state's revenues derived from petroleum extraction. " 



 "Federal subsidies are also an important part of the economy, allowing the state to keep taxes low..

 Its industrial outputs are crude petroleum, natural gas, coal, gold, precious metals, zinc and other mining, seafood processing, timber and wood products. " 


"Canada's enormous Athabasca oil sands field, which by 2014 was producing about 1,500,000 barrels per day  

(240,000 m3/d) of unconventional oil, 

and had hundreds of years of producible reserves at that rate." 


"But Alaska needs Food Stamps, and the greater USA gets a.... big beautiful "  


___ 


"The Permanent Fund is often considered to be one of the leading examples of a basic income policy in the world.



 "Nick Begich Jr.,  

the son of the late U.S. Representative Nick Begich Sr., brother of former U.S. Senator Mark Begich and retired Alaska state senator Tom Begich, and.

 father of current U.S. Representative Nick Begich III is the co-author of .

Angels Don't Play This HAARP"





Ode, Ralph Waldo Emerson


 


Though loath to grieve


The evil time's sole patriot,


I cannot leave


My honied thought


For the priest's cant,


Or statesman's rant.




If I refuse


My study for their politique,


Which at the best is trick,


The angry Muse


Puts confusion in my brain.




But who is he that prates


Of the culture of mankind,


Of better arts and life?


Go, blindworm, go,


Behold the famous States


Harrying Mexico


With rifle and with knife!




Or who, with accent bolder,


Dare praise the freedom-loving mountaineer?


I found by thee, O rushing Contoocook!


And in thy valleys, Agiochook!


The jackals of the negro-holder.




The God who made New Hampshire


Taunted the lofty land


With little men; —


Small bat and wren


House in the oak: —


If earth-fire cleave


The upheaved land, and bury the folk,


The southern crocodile would grieve.


Virtue palters; Right is hence;


Freedom praised, but hid;


Funeral eloquence


Rattles the coffin-lid.




What boots thy zeal,


O glowing friend,


That would indignant rend


The northland from the south?


Wherefore? to what good end?


Boston Bay and Bunker Hill


Would serve things still; —


Things are of the snake.




The horseman serves the horse,


The neat-herd serves the neat,


The merchant serves the purse,


The eater serves his meat;


'T is the day of the chattel


Web to weave, and corn to grind;


Things are in the saddle,


And ride mankind.




There are two laws discrete,


Not reconciled,—


Law for man, and law for thing;


The last builds town and fleet,


But it runs wild,


And doth the man unking.




'T is fit the forest fall,


The steep be graded,


The mountain tunnelled,


The sand shaded,


The orchard planted,


The glebe tilled,


The prairie granted,


The steamer built.




Let man serve law for man;


Live for friendship, live for love,


For truth's and harmony's behoof;


The state may follow how it can,


As Olympus follows Jove.




     Yet do not I implore


The wrinkled shopman to my sounding woods,


Nor bid the unwilling senator


Ask votes of thrushes in the solitudes.


Every one to his chosen work; —


Foolish hands may mix and mar;


Wise and sure the issues are.


Round they roll till dark is light,


Sex to sex, and even to odd; —


The over-god


Who marries Right to Might,


Who peoples, unpeoples, —


He who exterminates


Races by stronger races,


Black by white faces, —


Knows to bring honey


Out of the lion;


Grafts gentlest scion


On pirate and Turk.




The Cossack eats Poland,


Like stolen fruit;


Her last noble is ruined,


Her last poet mute;


Straight into double band


The victors divide;


Half for freedom strike and stand; —


The astonished Muse finds thousands 

At her side  



Ralph Waldo Emerson .




___ 


"Ralph Waldo Emerson 

 (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), 

 was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. 

He was seen as a champion of individualism and critical thinking, as well as a prescient critic of 

the countervailing pressures of society and conformity. 

 Friedrich Nietzsche thought he was "the most gifted of the Americans," and Walt Whitman called Emerson his "master".  


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

 


"On May 6, 1862, Emerson's protégé Henry David Thoreau died of tuberculosis at the age of 44. Emerson delivered his eulogy. 

 He often referred to Thoreau as his best friend, despite a falling-out that began in 1849 after Thoreau published A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.

 Another friend, Nathaniel Hawthorne, died two years after Thoreau, in 1864.  

Emerson served as a pallbearer when Hawthorne was buried in Concord, as Emerson wrote, "in a pomp of sunshine and verdure"."

progressive conservative era

  

"Rockefeller was often considered to be liberal, progressive, 

or moderate. .

In an agreement that was termed the Treaty of Fifth Avenue, he persuaded Richard Nixon to alter the Republican Party platform just before the 1960 Republican National Convention. 

 In his time, liberals in the Republican Party were called "Rockefeller Republicans".


After unsuccessfully seeking the Republican presidential nomination in 1960, 1964, and 1968, .

Rockefeller was appointed vice president of the United States by President Gerald Ford in December 1974. 

 Rockefeller was the second vice president appointed to the position under the 25th Amendment, following Ford himself. 

 Rockefeller did not seek a full term in the 1976 election with Ford, who named  

Kansas Senator Bob Dole as his running mate 

 instead of Rockefeller that year. Rockefeller retired from politics in 1977 and died two years later." 


Eisenhower.... Kansas 

Truman..... Missouri 

Dole.... nope  

Bush.....Maine, er....Texas 

Bush 2....Texas, er.... Saudi Arabia

Gore....nope McCain....nope

Obama.....Hawaii via Kansas via Iowa via Harvard 

Biden....Delaware,  DOH  



"Truman was raised in Independence, Missouri, and during World War I fought in France as a captain in the Field Artillery. 

 Returning home, he opened a haberdashery in Kansas City, Missouri, and was elected as a judge of Jackson County in 1922. Truman was elected to the U.S. Senate for Missouri in 1934.  

Between 1940 and 1944, he gained national prominence as the chairman of the Truman Committee, which aimed to reduce waste and inefficiency in wartime contracts.

Truman was elected vice president in the 1944 presidential election and became president upon Roosevelt's death in April 1945. .

Only then was he told about the ongoing Manhattan Project and the atomic bomb. "

 

" In 1948, he proposed that Congress should pass comprehensive civil rights legislation. 

Congress refused, so Truman issued Executive Order 9980 and Executive Order 9981, which 

prohibited discrimination in agencies of the federal government 

 and desegregated the United States Armed Forces." 


"His middle initial, "S", is not an abbreviation of one particular name.

 Rather, it honors both his grandfathers, Anderson Shipp Truman and Solomon Young, a somewhat common practice in the American South at the time"  


J"ohn Truman was a farmer and livestock dealer. The family lived in Lamar until Harry was ten months old, when they moved to a farm near Harrisonville, Missouri. They next moved to Belton and in 1887 to his grandparents' 600-acre (240 ha) farm in Grandview.

 When Truman was six, his parents moved to Independence, Missouri, so he could attend the Presbyterian Church Sunday School. He did not attend a conventional school until he was eight years old. 

While living in Independence, he served as a Shabbos goy for Jewish neighbors, 

doing tasks for them on Shabbat that their religion prevented them from doing on that day." 


immediately after World War I, Truman became active in several business ventures. These included a lead and zinc mine near 

Commerce, Oklahoma, a company that bought land and leased the oil drilling rights to prospectors, and speculation in Kansas City real estate.  


"Truman is the only president since William McKinley (elected in 1896) who did not earn a college degree." 


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman 


Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower  


 (born David Dwight Eisenhower; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) 

 was the 34th president of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1961.  

During World War II, he was Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe and achieved the five-star rank as General of the Army.  

Eisenhower planned and supervised two of the most consequential military campaigns of World War II:   Operation Torch  

in the North Africa campaign in 1942–1943  

and the invasion of Normandy in 1944." 

___ 


"Eisenhower was born in Denison, Texas, and raised in Abilene, Kansas. " 

"1892, the family moved to Abilene, Kansas, which Eisenhower considered his hometown"  

"his mother was against war, it was her collection of history books that first sparked Eisenhower's interest in military history " 


"later decision to attend West Point saddened his mother, who felt that warfare was "rather wicked", 

but she did not overrule his decision.   Speaking of himself in 1948, Eisenhower said he was "one of the most deeply religious men I know" 


"In athletics, Eisenhower later said that "not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest". 

He made the varsity football team and was a starter at halfback in 1912, when he 

tried to tackle the legendary Jim Thorpe of the Carlisle Indians. 

Eisenhower suffered a torn knee while being tackled in the next game, 

which was the last he played; he reinjured his knee on horseback and in the boxing ring, so he turned to fencing and gymnastics" 



"He married Barbara Jean Thompson and had four children: David, Barbara Ann, Susan Elaine and Mary Jean. David, after whom Camp David is named, 

 married Richard Nixon's daughter Julie in 1968." 


"He began oil painting while at Columbia University"

"Throughout 1945, the allied armies liberated numerous Nazi concentration camps throughout Europe. 

As the allies learned the full extent of the Holocaust, Eisenhower anticipated that, in the future, 

 attempts to recharacterize Nazi crimes as propaganda (Holocaust denial) would be made, 

 and took steps against it by demanding extensive photo and film documentation of Nazi extermination camps." 


"He reclassified German prisoners of war (POWs) in US custody as Disarmed Enemy Forces (DEFs), who were no longer subject to the Geneva Convention.  

Eisenhower followed the orders laid down by the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) in directive JCS 1067 but softened them by bringing in 400,000 tons of food for civilians and allowing more fraternization. 

In response to the devastation in Germany, including food shortages and an influx of refugees, he arranged distribution of American food and medical equipment.

His actions reflected the new American attitudes 

of the German people as Nazi victims not villains,  

while aggressively purging the ex-Nazis"

___

"Eisenhower had opposed the use of the atomic bomb against the Japanese, writing, "First, the Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing.  

Second, I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon." 

___ 


"In 1948, Eisenhower became President of Columbia University, an Ivy League university.  Within months of becoming university president, Eisenhower was requested to advise Secretary of Defense James Forrestal on the unification of the armed services. About six months after his appointment, he became the informal Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington" 


"Columbia University's liberal faculty members became disenchanted with the university president's ties to oilmen and businessmen. The Institute of War and Peace Studies thus became one of the projects which Eisenhower considered his "unique contribution" to Columbia." 


"The trustees of Columbia University declined to accept Eisenhower's offer to resign in December 1950, when he took an extended leave from the university to become the  

Supreme Commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and he was given operational command of NATO forces in Europe"  

__

"Throughout his presidency, Eisenhower adhered to a political philosophy of dynamic conservatism. 

He described himself as a "progressive conservative", and used terms such as

 "progressive moderate" and "dynamic conservatism" to describe his approach. 

 He continued all the major New Deal programs still in operation, especially Social Security.  

He expanded its programs and rolled them into the new Cabinet-level agency of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, while 

 extending benefits to an additional ten million workers. "  

 

___ 


"On August 26, 1959, he was aboard the maiden flight of Air Force One, which replaced the Columbine as the presidential aircraft." 

"Eisenhower championed and signed the bill that authorized the Interstate Highway System in 1956.  

His subsequent experience with the German autobahn convinced him of the benefits of an Interstate Highway System. The system could also be used as a runway for airplanes" 

"The Eisenhower administration used propaganda and covert action extensively, and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) 

 "supported two military coups: the 1953 Iranian coup d'état and the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état. " 

1956, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal, sparking the Suez Crisis, in which  

a coalition of France, Britain, and Israel attacked Egypt" 


"The Cuban Revolution broke out during Eisenhower's second term, resulting in the replacement of pro-U.S. military dictator Fulgencio Batista with Fidel Castro. 

In response to the revolution, the Eisenhower administration broke ties with Cuba and  

Eisenhower approved a CIA operation to carry out a campaign of terrorist attacks and sabotage, kill civilians, and cause economic damage.  

The CIA also trained and commanded pilots to bomb civilian airfields. The CIA began preparations for an invasion of Cuba by Cuban expatriates, ultimately resulting in the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion after Eisenhower left office"  

"Early in 1953, the French asked Eisenhower for help in French Indochina against the Communists  

Eisenhower stated prophetically that "this war would absorb our troops by divisions."

Eisenhower did provide France with bombers and non-combat personnel. After a few months with no success by the French, he added other aircraft  

to drop napalm for clearing purposes. "


"Even before he was inaugurated Eisenhower accepted a request from the British government to restore the Shah of Iran (Mohammad Reza Pahlavi) to power.

 He therefore authorized the CIA to overthrow Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. 

This resulted in increased strategic control over Iranian oil by American and British companies" 


"in July 1958, he sent 15,000 Marines and soldiers to Lebanon as part of Operation Blue Bat, a non-combat peacekeeping mission to stabilize the pro-Western government and to prevent a radical revolution " 

"On 1 May 1960, a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces while conducting photographic aerial reconnaissance inside Soviet territory. Flown by American pilot Francis Gary Powers, the aircraft had taken off from Peshawar, Pakistan "


"From 1947 to 1961 the number of firings based on sexual orientation were far greater than those for membership in the Communist Party, 

 and government officials intentionally campaigned to make "homosexual" synonymous with "Communist traitor" such that non-heterosexual people were treated as a national security threat" 

"an unprecedented step by Eisenhower to protect communication beyond the confines of a cabinet meeting,  

and soon became a tradition known as executive privilege. 

 Eisenhower's denial of McCarthy's access to his staff reduced McCarthy's hearings to rants about trivial matters and contributed to his ultimate downfall" 


"The Democrats gained a majority in both houses in the 1954 election. Eisenhower had to work with 

the Democratic Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (later US president"  


"Eisenhower began chain smoking cigarettes at West Point, often three or four packs a day." 


"He was the first president to release information about his health and medical records while in office, 

 but people around him deliberately misled the public about his health.  

On September 24, 1955, while vacationing in Colorado, he had a serious heart attack. " 

"During a visit to England on August 29, 1959, he complained of dizziness and had to have his blood pressure checked; however, his physician, Snyder, recalled that before dinner at the prime minister's manor house Chequers the next day, 

Eisenhower "drank several gin-and-tonics, and one or two gins on the rocks ... three or four wines with the dinner".

Eisenhower had seven heart attacks from 1955 until his death." 

'The 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution, which set a two-term limit on the presidency, was ratified in 1951. 

 Eisenhower was the first president constitutionally prevented from serving a third term."  


 "continued with a warning that 

 "we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence,

 whether sought or unsought,

 by the military–industrial complex"  


Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry 

can compel the proper meshing  

of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense 

 with our peaceful methods and goals, 

 so that security and liberty 

 may prosper together




cancer rock rockefeller's apostrophe

 "The Arabian American Oil Company, commonly known as Aramco, was the original name of what is now Saudi Aramco. 

It was founded in 1933 as a result of an agreement between Saudi Arabia and 

the Standard Oil Company of California (Socal). B

The company was later renamed Arabian American Oil Company in 1944.  

In 1988, the Saudi government took full ownership and control, 

 renaming it Saudi Aramco. Today, Saudi Aramco is a state-owned energy giant and the world's largest oil producer. " 


"As of 2024, it is the fourth-largest company in the world by revenue 

and is headquartered in Dhahran. 

Saudi Aramco has both the world's second-largest proven crude oil reserves, at more than 

270 billion barrels 

(43 billion cubic metres),

and largest daily oil production 

 of all oil-producing companies"  

___

John Davison Rockefeller Sr. (July 8, 1839 – May 23, 1937) was an American businessman and philanthropist.  

He was one of the wealthiest Americans of all time 

and one of the richest people in modern history. 

Rockefeller founded the Standard Oil Company in 1870. He ran it until 1897 and remained its largest shareholder. In his retirement, he focused his energy and wealth energy and wealth energy and wealth energy and wealth energy and wealth energy and wealth leading to energy and wealth energy and wealth 


Died

May 23, 1937 (aged 97


___ 


Rockefeller's wealth grew substantially as kerosene and gasoline became increasingly important commodities, eventually making him the richest person in the United States.  

By 1900, Standard Oil controlled about 90% of the nation's oil production.

 The company lowered production costs and expanded oil distribution through corporate and technological innovations, but it also benefited from a legal environment that enabled consolidation. 

 Critics argue that regulatory capture played a role in facilitating its monopoly–a view reinforced by Rockefeller’s reputed remark,  

Competition is a sin.” 


____ 


The Supreme Court ruled in 1911 that Standard Oil must be dismantled for violation of federal antitrust laws.  

It was broken up into 34 separate entities, which included companies that became ExxonMobil, Chevron Corporation, and others—some of which remain among the largest companies by revenue worldwide. 

 Consequently, Rockefeller became the country's first billionaire, with a fortune worth nearly 2% of the national economy. 

His personal wealth was estimated in 1913 at $900 million, 

which was almost 3% of the US gross domestic product (GDP) of $39.1 billion that year 

He adhered to total abstinence from alcohol and tobacco throughout his life 


Rockefeller was also considered a supporter of 

capitalism based on a perspective of social Darwinism, 

and he was quoted often as saying, 

 "The growth of a large business is merely a survival of the fittest." 



Kinda like Cancer. 

___.


Standard was growing horizontally and vertically.

 It added its own pipelines, tank cars, and home delivery network. 

It kept oil prices low to stave off competitors, made its products affordable to the average household, 

and, to increase market penetration, sometimes sold below cost. 

 It developed over 300 oil-based products from tar to paint to petroleum jelly to chewing gum. 

0 lordy, By the end of the 1870s, Standard was refining over 90% of the oil in the U.S.[67 

Chewing paint, tar gum, jelly lord, all at yer Standard Church.

___ 



"He instinctively realized that orderliness would only proceed from centralized control of large aggregations of plant and capital, with the one aim of an orderly flow of products from the producer to the consumer.

 That orderly, economic, efficient flow is what we now, many years later, 

call 'vertical integration'.

 I do not know whether Mr. Rockefeller ever used the word 'integration'. I only know he conceived the idea." 

___ 

By 1880, according to the New York World, Standard Oil was "the most cruel, impudent, pitiless, and grasping monopoly that ever fastened upon a country" 

___ 

Think of that next time you're Filling the Tank of yer SUV at Chevron, Texaco, Exxon, Mobil, Bloodsucker Oil 

Saudi Arabia, Standard was there 

__& 


"The company's vast American empire included 20,000 domestic wells, 4,000 miles of pipeline, 5,000 tank cars, and over 100,000 employees"  

The National Petroleum Exchange opened in Manhattan in late 1882 to facilitate the trading of oil futures" 


Now Cushing Ok grease the wheels.

__ 


"The Paris Rothschilds jumped into the fray providing financing. Additional fields were discovered in Burma and Java. " 


____ 

 "I never had an animus against their size and wealth, never objected to their corporate form.

 I was willing that they should combine and grow as big and wealthy as they could, but only by legitimate means. 

But they had never played fair, and that ruined their greatness" 

___ 


"At last in 1911, the Supreme Court of the United States found Standard Oil Company of New Jersey in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. 

 By then the trust still had a 70% market share of the refined oil market but only 14% of the U.S. crude oil supply"

ordered it to be broken up into 34 new companies. These included, among many others, Continental Oil, which became Conoco, now part of ConocoPhillips;

 Standard of Indiana, which became Amoco, now part of BP;

 Standard of California, which became Chevron; 

Standard of New Jersey, which became Esso (and later, Exxon), now part of ExxonMobil;

 Standard of New York, which became Mobil, now part of ExxonMobil; 

and Standard of Ohio, which became Sohio, now part of BP.  

Pennzoil and Chevron have remained separate companies. 

___ 


"Rockefeller believed in the Efficiency Movement, arguing that: "To help an inefficient, ill-located, unnecessary school is a waste ... it's Trump U." 


"Rockefeller also provided financial support to such established eastern institutions as

 Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Brown,  

Bryn Mawr, Wellesley and Vassar.  

On Gates' advice, Rockefeller became one of the first great benefactors of medical science.  

In 1901, he founded the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York City.

 It changed its name to Rockefeller University in 1965, after expanding its mission to include graduate education. 

 It claims a connection to 23 Nobel laureates."


"Rockefeller became well known in his later life for the practice of giving dimes to adults and nickels to children wherever he went. 

 He even gave dimes as a playful gesture to wealthy men, such as tire mogul Harvey Firestone. "