Sunday, April 13, 2025
Saturday, April 12, 2025
distant stone
Distant stone clears mt hood by inch
Navigates siamese
cloud storage units beneath
Families also
A gaggle attend to midwife night
She's new they blurt
Pop can tabs
Mt Tabor
SE PDX
Nitwitkoff kremlin asset
"Talks have become increasingly acrimonious, Reuters said. The latest US draft is more “maximalist” than the original version from February, which proposed giving Washington $500bn worth of rare metals, as well as oil and gas.
Citing a source close to the talks, the news agency said the most recent document includes a demand that the
US government’s International Development Finance Corporation.
take control of the natural gas pipeline."
"Trump has refused to give security commitments or military support but wants the minerals anyway.
The US special envoy to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, said his remarks over a possible partition of Ukraine had been misinterpreted. In an interview with the Times, Kellogg said the country could be divided
“almost like the Berlin after world war two” as part of a peace deal."
And Putin beheaded like Nuremberg.
"Witkoff’s reported solution to the conflict was to give Russia the four Ukrainian provinces it is demanding
– including territory that Ukraine controls, and which is home to 1 million people."
defensive gestures
Avert soul in her presence, stare not sun
Gaze askew overshoot yer mark
Self defeating claims all mines' bounty
Calms grasp unquenchable folly
Past prime is another prime
The bruised banana better bread etcetera
You not you forgiving
Recipe on cuff improvise rapture
Tone it hell asunder
Float steep grounds she press your french
Vices excused age lingers hunger
What regain not accrue
wrinkled eye trim
Wincing from laughter
Sage stone treading barefoot any season
In her orbit but only gain momentum
Sling far into distal reverie
Goobledy gook phrases
excuse near missus
Banter games body language
Revert soil alchemy play in mud
Show kind cracked teeth horse not worn
on sleeve
Album cover
What's half a point fascist twit felon
"The fact Trump could not ignore was a mass sell-off by investors of US government bonds. But what exactly are bonds, how are they traded – and why are they so central to the current crisis?
What is a twit bond?
A bond is a certificate confirming that its owner has lent money to a specified borrower that will be repaid at a fixed date,
typically with a fixed rate of interest.
Known as fixed-income securities, they appeal to investors who want stable returns."
Bonds can be bought and sold like shares on a secondary market – an exchange – but, unlike shares, they offer guaranteed annual returns. The bond market is the world’s biggest securities exchange, worth almost $130tn (£99tn), with the US market accounting for about 40% of debt worldwide.
Government bonds are usually sold to financial institutions in auctions, and can then be resold on the secondary market for more or less than their face value.
Bond yields represent the amount of money an investor receives for owning the debt as a percentage of its current price. When the price of a bond falls, yields rise. The yield is commonly referred to as an interest rate, or the cost of borrowing to an issuer.
Rising yields suggest dwindling appetite to own the debt among investors, which can be influenced by a range of factors including an issuer’s ability to repay. For governments, this centres on the prospects for the country’s economy and finances.
Inflation expectations also have a significant impact. This is because
inflation undercuts the future value of money
received for owning the debt.
This means investors could demand a higher yield
to compensate for the risk.
And because other financial products, such as mortgages, are priced off the yield, there is a spillover into the broader economy.
What have Trump’s tariffs done to bonds?
At first the US president considered his tariff plan to be working, having anticipated stock markets would react badly to tariffs and the dollar would fall.
Trump was sure the bond market would remain calm because
he promised
to pay for tax cuts later in the year.
with revenues from tariffs,
meaning the US government could limit the number of bonds it issues,
keeping supply and demand in sync and putting
a cap on overall government debt levels.
However, the tariff war has prompted fears of a US recession, making it riskier to lend to the US.
There are concerns that the US will become locked in a titanic struggle with China,
which would damage both economies over a long period and drag down global growth.
In response, investors have sold US bonds
in huge quantities,
driving down their value
and sending the yield higher, making future government debt more expensive to issue.
Where did this leave Trump?
There was a fear in the White House that paying a higher interest rate
on national debt
would increase the government’s annual spending deficit,
adding pressure to an already stretched budget and increasing
the overall debt mountain.
Worse, the $29tn market in US treasuries is the bedrock of the global financial system
and heavy selling could put pressure on other parts of it,
forcing banks or other institutions to default and causing a wider financial crisis.
the effective interest rate
on a 10-year Treasury bond is
at 4.52% on Friday April 11th
compared with 3.99%
on 4 April. "
Source: The Guardian
Friday, April 11, 2025
Anka Survivor
Despite its commercial success, the song has been criticized for its maudlin sentimentality.
and perceived sexist undertones, .
and has appeared in many "worst songs" lists.
It was voted the #1 "Worst Song of All Time" in a poll conducted by CNN.com in 2006.
Peter Reilly, in a February 1975 review of the album from which it originated, for what was then known as Stereo Review, stated that the song "defeats critical evaluation with the same brashly sure grasp of the popular mood as his equally dismal "Diana" of years ago.
Everybody knows Anka can do better (he proved it easily with "My Way"), but he still composes and sings as if he were working on his first million and his fondest wish was an appearance on Dick Clark's show.
'(You're) Having My Baby' is (really) The Worst.
He grunts out the unforgettable lyrics,
'Yuh're havin' muh baybee/Whad a lovely way of sayin' how much yuh love me . . . Oh the seed inside you baybee/Do you feel it growin'?' in an Elvis-like roar "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(You%27re)_Having_My_Baby
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i HAD to look up Paul Anka. "Eye of the Tiger" was on the jukebox, an elderly friend kept mispronouncing Paul Anka, a Laotian elderly friend. It sounded like "Manhattan" no, no, no. Is he having a heart attack?
I did it My Way, I'd come across that trivia before. What a crock of shit, stone soup.
Not that it's an okay tune.
Survivor, I say. Not Paul Anka.
Quit eating white claws and drinking cuttlefish with Coors backs.
So I found this gem. Maybe Dave Reisch knows it.
Kissass by Allen Ginsberg
Kissass is the Part of Peace
America will have to Kissass Mother Earth
Whites have to Kissass blacks, for Peace & Pleasure,
Only Pathway to Peace, Kissass.
____
CLINTON, NEW JERSEY— (December 7, 1975) "Who are these people?" asked a young female inmate of the Correctional Institution for Women at Clinton as she entered the prison auditorium dressed in a white evening gown, walking confidently on glittery platform shoes.
"Don't know," answered her male companion, an inmate dressed slightly more conservatively, "but Roberta Flack will be here."
"These people" were Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Allen Ginsberg and the rest of the Rolling Thunder Revue. The night before playing at Madison Square Garden on behalf of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, they had come to this almost pastoral medium security prison in the northwestern part of New Jersey to entertain Carter and his mostly black fellow inmates. The results were almost predictable: standing ovations for Roberta Flack and confusion over the uneasy meeting of Rolling Thunder and prison society.
Flack's fans were obviously familiar with the three songs she sang, moving comfortably to "Killing Me Softly," "This Time I'll Be Sweeter" and "Feel like Making Love." And Joan Baez, who seemed most at ease in dealing with the prisoners as captive human beings, sang and danced with a graceful casualness that got the audience cheering and clapping. When Baez invited 26-year-old Willie Rogers, one of the 100 male inmates housed separately from the 200 women at Clinton, to dance the Bump with her onstage, she broke completely through the invisible curtain that existed between those who could leave after the concert and those who could not. There was more applause when Baez thanked the authorities "for making it so easy for us to get in"— and then said, "I just wish they'd make it a little bit easier for you to get out."
Dylan was treated respectfully, but an apparent lack of familiarity with his songs and the lack of a danceable beat kept the prison audience seated and a bit inattentive. Only when he and the others sang "Hurricane" did the revue ensemble capture the attention of the inmates. "Hurricane" was also the only number during the entire concert that caused Rubin Carter to listen intently and tap his foot to the rhythm.
Later, Carter called Dylan's song about his "false imprisonment" a "masterpiece" and said that his "white brother" Dylan was "a musical genius." He praised the musicians for coming to Clinton and drawing attention to his case, but warned that "frames won't end with Rubin Carter and John Artis." (Artis is the other man convicted of murdering three people in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1966.)
"Hurricane" aside, the greatest response was reserved for Allen Ginsberg's poem, 'Kiss Ass." The prisoners clapped and cheered as Allen, dressed in a conservative brown suit and narrow Fifties-style tie, delivered the poem:
Kissass is the Part of Peace
America will have to Kissass Mother Earth
Whites will have to Kissass Blacks, for Peace and Pleasure,
Only Pathway to Peace, Kissass.
Joni Mitchell, on the other hand, was hooted for the softness and lack of spirit in her songs. When she replied,
"We came here to give you love; if you can't handle it that's your problem," several prisoners traded looks of resignation.
After the show, one musician offered this assessment:
"It was a pretty piss poor performance. .
We were uncomfortable, didn't know what to expect.
After all, we've played to nothing but white middle-class audiences on the tour."
https://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=299
___ and
"If Mahmoud can be targeted in this way, .
simply for speaking out for Palestinians and exercising his constitutionally protected right to free speech,.
this can happen to anyone over any issue the Trump administration dislikes"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/mahmoud-khalil-deportation-ruling-immigration
Music in Nazi Vance Blip Amnesia
"Grenell also wrote: “Your people also booed and harassed the vice president Vance
who simply wanted to enjoy music
with his wife for a night. Who is the intolerant one?”
Last month, an audience booed JD Vance and his wife, Usha, as they took their seats
at the center’s National Symphony Orchestra concert in response to Vance and his allies’ attacks on alleged “improper ideology”
at Washington’s cultural institutions."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/kennedy-center-richard-grenell-yasmin-williams
"Music in Nazi Germany,
like all cultural activities in the regime, was controlled and "co-ordinated".
(Gleichschaltung) by various entities of the state and the Nazi Party, with Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels and the prominent Nazi theorist Alfred Rosenberg playing leading – and competing – roles. .
The primary concerns of these organizations was to exclude Jewish (woke) composers and musicians from publishing and performing music,
and to prevent the public exhibition of music considered to be "Jewish", "anti-German", or otherwise "degenerate", while at the same time promoting the work of favored "Germanic" composers,
such as Richard Wagner, Ludwig van Beethoven and Anton Bruckner. These works were believed to be positive contributions to the Volksgemeinschaft, or German folk community."
'The Nazis promoted Aryan ideologies through heavy censorship and cultural control,
blacklisting Jewish compositions, banning specific concert hall performances,
and controlling radio content in order to promote nationalism through cultural unity. .
By controlling the mediums of communication, the Reich Chamber of Culture was able to dictate public opinion
in regards to musical culture, and reaffirm their hegemonic beliefs"
When Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party took power in Germany, it stepped in to control these cultural music products as part of its general policy of Gleichschaltung or "co-ordination".
They wanted neither a simple return to nineteenth-century Romanticism nor a continuation of Weimar avant-garde but also no experimentation
As with most other aspects of the governance of the Third Reich, the personal views and preferences of Adolf Drumpf Hitler played a significant role in the Nazi control of music.
Don Hitler's normal modus operandi was to create overlapping and competing agencies within both the Nazi Party and the German state apparatus, and allow the heads of those agencies to "work toward the Führer".
Hitler would either make his preferences known, or, if he did not, the agency leaders would make assumptions about what they were, and then – usually without specific orders or guidance from Hitler – they would gear their decisions to what they believed he wanted.
The overlapping of the various competencies would often lead to conflicts, cat fights,
which would then be brought to Hitler for ultimate settlement.
Hitler, however, did not like to make these decisions, and often let the situations fester
for long periods before he either made a snap decision, or one choice had become the most obvious one to seleck."
"after the creation of the Reich Chamber of Culture, Goebbels had the upper hand "
Just as Vance claps, salutes simultaneously, maga.
In regard to music, Hitler had definite views as to what was acceptable and what was not. He was passionate about the music of Richard Wagner, but
denounced most contemporary music – which featured atonality, dissonance, and disturbing rhythms
in many cases influenced by what Hitler referred to as "nigger jazz" –.
as being "degenerate" (see below) and elitist.
Soon after Hitler became Chancellor in 1933, contemporary music concerts, as well as Modernist and Expressionist scenic design and staging of operas were cancelled, "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_in_Nazi_Germany
"Ziegler positioned the show as presenting examples of Cultural Bolshevism, saying at the opening ceremony:
'What's been gathered together in [this] exhibition constitutes the portrayal of a true witches' sabbath
and the most frivolous spiritual-artistic cultural bolshevism and a portrayal of the triumph of subhumanity,
of arrogant Jewish insolence and total spiritual senile dementia.'
Booths had been installed where attendees could listen to specially made records with excerpts of "Degenerate Music".
However, long lines at the booth for Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera showed that not all of the music presented at the exhibition was disliked by the public."
"works of Hungarian modernist composer Béla Bartók were not banned, because Hungary was Germany's ally – even though Bartók himself was anti-Fascist.
When his publisher was Aryanized, he switch to another one, he declared solidarity with banned composers,
and protested when his music was not included in the "Degenerate Music" Exhibition"
____
Grenell, a former acting director of national intelligence whom Trump appointed
to oversee the center after making himself the chair,
responded with a series of messages, accusing Williams of believing “newspapers who exist to hate Republicans”.
'Yes, I cut the DEl bullshit because we can’t afford to pay people for fringe and niche programming
that the public won’t support … Yes, we are doing programming for the masses in order to pay our bills.
No, the into[l]erants who left help us. .
They were the most intolerant people you’ve ever met.
They couldn’t play a show if Nazi Republicans were present. That’s weird."
The intolerants.
___
"Trump’s takeover of the prestigious institution in February triggered widespread criticism throughout the performing arts industry as well as the public.
Issa Rae, creator and star of Insecure, canceled her
one-night-only sold-out show
scheduled for March while the Scandal and Grey’s Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes resigned as the center’s treasurer.
The soprano singer Reneé Fleming
announced her departure last month as artistic adviser to the center while the singer-songwriter
Ben Folds stepped down as artistic adviser to the National Symphony Orchestra."
____
Meyers sent an email to all personnel at Pituffik on 31 March “seemingly aimed at
generating unity among the airmen and guardians, as well as the Canadians, Danes and Greenlanders
who work there,
following Vance’s appearance”.
The vice-president said during a press conference at the base:
“Our message to Denmark is very simple: you have not done a good job by the people of Greenland. You have underinvested in the people of Greenland and you have .
underinvested in the security architecture of
this incredible, beautiful land mass.”
**"
Head of US military base in Greenland fired after JD Vance visit
Col Susannah Meyers removed amid reports she distanced base from Vance’s criticism of Denmark’s oversight of territory
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/col-susannah-meyers-head-of-us-military-base-greenland-fired-after-jd-vance-visit
Bienseance troubled asset releaf poorgram
Why go thru all that trouble
snoozing in a bubble
Can't spot me from a hubble
Cometting way from thou
Tent no gobble rent
Park in a empty dent
Skitters away once poles are bent
Here then i'm not ain't we all
Plant flag on golfer moon
Themepark honeyballoon
Hole in two for par amoeba
What life got up the sleeve uh
Dog gets a house fido a bed
Cat spot on sofa from aunt Hilda's estate
Things' be cozier maybe near normal
Wait and wait red tape probate
Tarps easier to fold
Than specks of unicorn gold
Seen one invention of time last decade
Watchmakers monocle debate
City leave notice in orange
Neighbors sneeringly cough angry red
Trees green to pink to brown poof
Coating cements dented town
Stock tariff escapade
Thought you had made in the shade
Borrow a blankie crash in car cranky
Sun rises rats packed in steep shit
Life vest 401k
Parlay parlay bienseance promenade
Neglected my spats tie tuxedo
Rhymes torpedo netting mosquito
If yo broke get a splint
Invent a government
A sheet the roof divine
Pass clothespin turpentine
Stock Sycamore
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"The total market capitalization of all publicly traded stocks worldwide rose from US$2.5 trillion in 1980 to US$111 trillion by the end of 2023.
As of 2016, there are 60 stock exchanges in the world. Of these, there are 16 exchanges with a market capitalization of $1 trillion or more"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_market.
"The street was originally known in Dutch as Het Cingel ("the Belt") when it was part of New Amsterdam during the 17th century. .
An actual city wall existed on the street from 1653 to 1699. During the 18th century, the location served as a slave market and securities trading site"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street.
"first Anglo-Dutch War ended in 1654 without hostilities in New Amsterdam, but over time the "werken" (meaning the works or city fortifications) were reinforced and expanded to protect against potential incursions from Native Americans, pirates, and the English.
The English also expanded and improved the wall after their 1664 takeover (a cause of the Second Anglo-Dutch War), as did the Dutch from 1673 to 1674
when they briefly retook the city during the Third Anglo-Dutch War, and by the late 1600s the wall encircled most of the city and had two large stone bastions on the northern side "
____
"The Buttonwood Agreement is the founding document of what is now the New York Stock Exchange and is one of the most important financial documents in U.S. history.
The agreement organized securities trading in New York City and was signed on
May 17, 1792 between 24 stockbrokers outside of 68 Wall Street. According to legend the signing took place
under a buttonwood tree where their earliest transactions had occurred.
The New York Stock Exchange celebrates the signing of this agreement on May 17, 1792 as its founding. "
Platanus occidentalis, also known as.
American sycamore,
American planetree,
western plane, occidental plane,
buttonwood,
and water beech,
'The American sycamore is a long-lived species, typically surviving at least 200 years and likely as long as 500–600 years. "
Thursday, April 10, 2025
South Sudan Shower Misers
The agreement faced a major stress test when the civil war in Sudan halted South Sudan’s oil exports, which account for about 70% of its budget. .
More than 600,000 people from Sudan have also sought refuge in South Sudan further straining the country’s limited resources.
The country’s financial challenges, which meant many in the public sector were not paid for close to a year,
have been compounded by renewed hostilities
the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis, .
but has been persistently left at the bottom of the global list of diplomatic priorities.
Half of Sudan’s population are judged to be desperately short of food, with
11 million people internally displaced
.
'The Department of Homeland Security said
133 people
from South Sudan were on the TPS programme last year." .
Trump administration revokes all South Sudanese visas in repatriation row
State department accuses east African country of ‘taking advantage of the United States’.
"In my case, I like to take a nice shower to take care of my beautiful hair,” .
Trump drooledas he signed the executive order, which the White House said would apply to multiple household appliances, including toilets and sinks.
“I have to stand under the shower for 15 minutes until it gets wet.
It comes out drip, drip, drip. It’s ridiculous.”
When I shit, I want the GOP gone, not resurfacing after insurrection.
"Beautiful hair, Snock. "
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"Burdened with this terrible conviction, Odysseus infiltrates the squalid court in the Christ-like imposture of a tramp,
though he has a pretty buff physique like a sunburnt, weather-beaten version of Leonardo’s Vitruvian man."
'Ralph Fiennes is Odysseus, enigmatically washed ashore semi-conscious in a way we associate in fact with late Shakespeare rather than Homer;
he is reluctant to reveal himself, maybe through shame at having not returned before, at returning now in chaotic poverty and isolation and overwhelmed with his secret knowledge that the glories of independent labels are a shameful delusion."
"the actor had made his directorial debut with Coriolanus"
"shot in two months in Corfu and just north of Rome for $20m – a fraction of the $250m Christopher Nolan has"
sort of undecided space in someone, where there’s a question mark about who they are and what they’re doing,” says the actor
The piercing, icy blue stare is still there, but the “nimbus of depression and intensity around him..."
'In Corfu, they found forests of olive trees 30 metres high, with trunks of dark bark, that spoke to the agedness they were after. .
“We were very interested in the simplicity of the elements,” says the director. “So,
rain and water and sand and soil and fire and blood"
Galaxy Brain Maze
'Scientists Map Miles of Wiring in a Speck of Mouse Brain
Scientists achieved “a milestone” by charting the activity and structure of 200,000 cells in a mouse brain and their 523 million connections."
"Scientists map part of a mouse’s brain that’s so complex it looks like a galaxy"
'Using a piece of that mouse’s brain about the size of a poppy seed,
the researchers identified those neurons and traced how they communicated via branch-like fibers through a surprising 500 million junctions called synapses."
Musk is but a Fascist Lesion In Boxtown, Blackhaven
"It’s been known that xAI, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company,
has been using around 15 portable generators to help power its massive supercomputer in Memphis
without yet securing permits. But new aerial images obtained by the Southern Environmental Law Center show that number is now far higher.
The group says these gas turbines combined can generate around 420MW of electricity, .
enough to power an entire city."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/elon-musk-xai-memphis.
'Musk fired up his xAI facility in Memphis last summer. He calls the supercomputer “Colossus” and it’s tasked with providing compute power for xAI’s chatbot Grok.
The building that houses Colossus is the size of 13 football fields and Musk has said he plans to double that.
Artificial intelligence requires an immense amount of energy to carry out computations and provide quick responses to user queries.
For example, a query with ChatGPT needs nearly 10 times as much electricity as a typical Google search query,"
"xAI already has contracts to draw 150MW of electricity from Memphis’ local utility, which is enough to power 100,000 homes a year.
But Musk has said he needs even more energy to deal with power fluctuation issues at the plant"
**"
'Pearson is from one of the neighborhoods near xAI and said both of his grandmothers died of cancer in their 60s.
He believes their deaths were caused by living so close to Memphis’ industrial zone.
“Nobody else should be burying their families because these rogue, rich, white, racist people continue to build projects that are suffocating us,” Pearson said.
“This is all preventable.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/elon-musk-xai-memphis
"the Southern Environmental Law Center says an emergency order should be issued that requires xAI to cease or suspend the use of the 35 generators.
___
'"In March, three federal bills targeting university campus protests were announced including the Unmasking Hamas Act, which would make it a federal crime subject to 15 years in prison for wearing a mask or other disguise while protesting in an “intimidating” or “oppressive” way.
The bill, which is almost identical to the Unmasking Antifa bill introduced in the wake of the 2020 racial justice protests, does not define “oppressive” or “disguise”
___
If xAI doesn’t comply, the group says, it should be penalized $25,000 each day it violates the Clean Air Act."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/elon-musk-xai-memphis
____
"Boxtown began as a community for emancipated slaves and freedmen soon after the signing the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, in Shelby County on the southern boundary of the City of Memphis.
Boxtown was so-named because its houses resembled railroad boxcars. "
December 2019, Plains All American Pipeline and Valero Energy Corporation announced their plans to build the Byhalia Connection Pipeline.
This pipeline would start in southwest Memphis to Marshall county, Mississippi, crossing through Boxtown. After being referred to as
the “path of least resistance,”
The people of Boxtown raised concerns about this new pipeline and protested until the project was canceled in July 2021.
"xAI came to Memphis last year, launching its Colossus supercomputer in a new data center
housed in a former Electrolux factory in Memphis’s Boxtown district."
(Sited, not Housed.).
"Whitehaven, informally known as "Blackhaven", is a predominantly African-American community in Memphis, Tennessee, United States.
It was first organized in the late 19th century as a neighborhood for upper-class white families. .
Its current population is about 50,000. "
**
"xAI has bought a 1 million sq ft (92,905 sqm) site for a new data center in Memphis, as Elon Musk’s startup looks to expand its Colossus supercomputer
the land in the Whitehaven area of the city cost xAI $80 million, according to property records"
"The company has purchased three parcels of land at 5400 Tulane Road, Whitehaven, through an affiliate company CTC Properties. It acquired an existing warehouse, as well as two adjacent sites totaling 100 acres.
It is close to the Southaven Combined Cycle natural gas power plant owned by Tennessee Valley Authority, which generates 780MW of power."
according to an operating permit with the Shelby County Health Department for non-stop turbine use from June 2025 to June 2030.
Why does it matter? The Commercial Appeal, a news outlet that obtained the documents, observes that environmental concerns have emerged as the
20-year-old turbines emit hazardous air pollutants (HAP), including formaldehyde,
at levels exceeding the EPA’s 10-ton annual cap
for a single source. (Per the story, the facility’s operating permit self-reports
that the turbines each emit 11.51 tons of HAP per year.
The outlet also notes that 22,000 people live within five miles of the facility.)
with the Colossus supercomputer well on the path to the supercluster size mentioned at the Greater Memphis Chamber’s Annual Chairman’s luncheon in December.
**
"The expansion also follows an $80 million state-of-the-art Colossus Water Recycling Plant, featuring the world’s largest ceramic bioreactor (MBR) wastewater recycling system. Located in Frank C. Pidgeon Industrial Park,"
____
History:
The Memphis Defense Depot opened in 1942 as a logistical support facility for the military during
World War II, storing supplies and
eventually becoming a storage facility for hazardous materials.
Superfund Site:
In 1992, the site was placed on the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) National Priorities List (NPL) as a
Superfund site due to contamination of soil, groundwater, surface water, and sediment from waste releases.
Closure and Redevelopment:
The depot closed in 1997 as a result of the Base Realignment and Closure Commission and was converted into the Memphis Depot Industrial Park.
Remediation and Restoration:
Remediation and environmental restoration activities have been ongoing since the depot's closure,
with the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) initially responsible for cleanup and restoration,
followed by the Department of Defense (DoD) in 2010.
Ongoing Activities:
The DoD maintains overall responsibility for site cleanup
and long-term stewardship, with oversight provided by the EPA
and the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC).
Current Status:
The site is now a mixed-use industrial park with ongoing groundwater monitoring and
potential for additional investigations and changes to the selected remedies.
Community Involvement:
There has been considerable interaction between the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), EPA, and Memphis-Shelby County Health Department (MSCHD) with residents of the DDMT area to address health concerns and solicit input.
Success Story:
The Memphis Depot Business Park has been successfully converted from a once vital military base into a modern industrial park, and in 2004, the Association of Defense Communities selected it as the
Facility of the Year in its awards of excellence program.
"Elon Musk’s xAI powering its facility in Memphis with ‘illegal’ generators
Advocacy group says the firm has doubled the number of methane gas burning turbines it’s using without permits"
"CTC Property will pay $1,654,961 annually in rent,.
with 2.5% yearly increases. After the 21-year lease expires, the company can purchase the property for.
$23,642,293.
The lease agreement does not specify what the 522 acres will be used for.
CTC Property is an affiliate of xAI and was incorporated in Tennessee in March 2024. In July, Brent Mayo of CTC Property filed a certificate of occupancy permit with the Memphis and Shelby County Division of Planning and Development for.
3231 Paul R. Lowry Road. "
Wednesday, April 09, 2025
Why Frack when you can Triple-Frack
...Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy...
"Shale producers have continued to innovate over the years, learning to
bend drill bits horizontally and drill longer distances.
Triple-fracking requires the same amounts of sand and water as fracking one well at a time, but uses them more quickly,
meaning Chevron needs 60% more water and sand per day when using the technique, Newhook said.
That creates a logistical challenge for sand and water supply, with more than 10 trucks arriving per hour to deliver sand to the well pad.
The company has also begun fracking three wells at a time in another shale field, the Denver-Julesberg basin in Colorado"
Chevron uses mostly electric-powered equipment for triple-fracking,
which consumes 50% more power per day
than fracking one well at a time, he burbled."
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Frackricide
"Oil Spill in North Dakota Prompts Shutdown of Keystone Pipeline
An estimated 3,500 barrels of oil spilled in a field near Fort Ransom, N.D., "
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"Chevron began employing triple-frac for the first time in the Permian in March last year.....leading them to help install Trump Fascism. This year the company plans to use it on 50% to 60% of its wells in the basin,"
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Oligarchy’: Trump exempts big oil donors from tariffs package
Trump’s new 10% universal tariffs will not apply
to many fossil fuel products in sign of his fealty, advocates say Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy Oiligarchy
The Nature Consortium Inc.
"Mark Wiener has more than thirty years of political experience inside and outside government at the federal, state and local levels.
Mark has served in every imaginable campaign role
and has become known as a national leader in direct mail and online."
(And Uber lobbyist, oops)
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2012-2013 Fluoride Campaign Supporters
American Dental Association
Cambia Foundation
Capital Dental
CareOregon
DentaQuest
Dental Foundation of Oregon
Kaiser Permanente
Legacy Health Systems
Metropolitan Medical Foundation of Oregon
Northwest Health Foundation
OHSU
Oregon Community Foundation
Oregon Dental Association
Oregon Medical Association
Pew Charitable Trust
Providence Health Systems
Willamette Dental Group
http://www.upstreampublichealth.org/10th-anniversary-sponsors
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Sam Adams for Portland Mayor (OR)
American Cancer Society
American Heart Association
American Lung Association
American Rights at Work
Tammy Baldwin for State Senate (WI)*
Basic Rights Education Fund
Alan Bates for State Senate (OR)
Shelley Berkley for State Senate (NV)*
Howard Berman for Congress (CA)*
Dave Bieter for Boise Mayor (ID)
Earl Blumenauer for Congress (OR)
Suzanne Bonamici for Congress (OR)
Mary Bono Mack for Congress (CA)*
Kate Brown for Secretary of State (OR)
Sherrod Brown for Senate (OH)*
John Burbank for State Rep (WA)
Darcy Burner for Congress (WA)*
California League of Conservation Voters
Richard Carmona State Senate (AZ)*
Susan Castillo for State Superintendent of Public Instruction (OR)
Children’s Investment Fund
Clean Air Now
Clean Water Action Project
Climate PAC
Jeff Cogen for County Chair (OR)
Communications Workers of America
Tony Corcoran for State Senate (OR)
Peter Courtney for State Senate (OR)
DC Democracy Fund
Ryan Deckert for State Senate (OR)
Peter Defazio for Congress (OR)*
Defend Oregon
Defenders of Wildlife
Richard Devlin for State Senate (OR)
Earth Justice
Easter Seals
Randall Edwards for State Treasurer (OR)
Donna Edwards for Congress (MD)*
Randall Edwards for State Treasurer (OR)
Environment Colorado
Environmental Defense Fund
Jack Evans for DC Council (DC)
Experience Corps
John Foote for Clackamas County District Attorney (OR)
Friends of the Earth
Future PAC
Genocide Intervention
Jim Gerlach for Congress (PA)*
Jennifer Granholm for Governor (MI)*
Vince Gray for DC Council (DC)
Charlie Hales for Portland Mayor (OR)
Colleen Hanabusa for Congress (HI)*
Mark Hass for State Rep (OR)
Hawaii State Teachers Association
Healthy Kids Now
Healthy Legacy
Sue Hecht for State Senate (MD)*
Martin Heinrich for State Senate (NM)*
Carl Hosticka for Metro (OR)
Jon Hulburd for Congress (AZ)
Humane Society of the United States (AZ, CO, MT, ND, NM, NV, VA, WA)
Humane Society Legislative Fund (CA, CT, LA, MD, MI, NM, NV, NY, OH, PA, SC, VA, WA, WV)
IBEW
Idaho Conservation League
Idaho Education Association
Christine Jennings for Congress (FL)*
Joyce Johnson for City Council (NY)
Betsy Johnson for State Senate (OR)
Maryanne Jordan for Boise Council (ID)*
Mary Jo Kilroy for Congress (OH)*
Judge Rives Kistler for Supreme Court (OR)
John Kitzhaber for Governor (OR)
Komen Foundation
Frank Kratovil for Congress (MD)*
John Kroger for Attorney General (OR)
Ted Kulongoski for Governor (OR)*
Randy Leonard for Portland City Council (OR)
Robert Liberty for Metro (OR)
Greg Lind for Senate District 50 (MT)
Patricia Madrid for Congress (NM)*
Jerome Mapp for Boise Council (ID)*
Jerry McNerney for Congress (CA)*
Phil Mendelson for Council Chair (DC)
Grace Meng for Congress (NY)*
Jeff Merkley for US Senate (OR)*
Rick Metsger for State Senate (OR)
Michigan League of Conservation Voters
Million Voices for Darfur
Montana Conservation Voters
Jim Moran for Congress (VA)*
John Morse for State Senate (CO)
Chris Murphy for State Senate (CT)*
Hardy Myers for Attorney General (OR)
NARAL Pro-Choice America (NY, OR)
National Education Association
The Nature Conservancy
Nevada Conservation Awareness Project
New York League of Conservation Voters
Northwest Carpenters
Steve Novick for City Council (OR)
Barack Obama for President*
Oregon AFL-CIO
Oregon Education Association
Oregon Environmental Council
Oregon League of Conservation Voters
Oregon Trial Lawyers Association
Oregon University System
Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations
The Patterson Foundation
Ed Perlmutter for Congress (CO)*
Gary Peters for Congress (MI)*
Lynn Peterson fo County Chair (OR)
Kitty Piercy for Eugene Mayor (OR)
Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood Advocates of Oregon
Protect Washington
Floyd Prozanski for State Senate (OR)
Nick Rahall for Congress (WV)*
Dave Reichert for Congress (WA)*
Charlie Ringo for State Senate (OR)
Craig Roberts for Sheriff (OR)*
Maria Rojo de Steffey for County Commission (OR)
Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families
SAFER States
Dan Saltzman for Portland City Council (OR)
Sam Adams for Portland Mayor (OR)
Save Darfur Coalition
Mark Schauer for Congress (MI)*
Martha Schrader for County Commissioner (OR)
Brian Schweitzer for Governor (MT)*
Screen Actors Guild
SEIU, Oregon and Montana
Shaheen for Senate (NH)*
Janice Shamberg for Anchorage Assembly (AK)*
Chris Shays for State Senate (CT)*
Sierra Club (D.C., CO, FL, GA, MD, MI, MN, MO, NH, NJ, NM, NV, OH, OR, PA, RI, TN, VA, WA, WI)
Sierra Club State Action Fund
Kyrsten Sinema for Congress (AZ)*
Snohomish Conservation Voters*
John Spratt for Congress (SC)*
Stand for Children
Erik Sten for Portland City Council (OR)
Ted Strickland for Governor (OH)*
Student Alliance Project
Betty Sutton for Congress (OH)*
Texas Envirnomental Watch Alliance
John Tierney for Congress (MA)*
Dina Titus for Congress (NV)*
U.S. PIRG
Mark Udall for US Senate (CO)*
Rod Underhill for District Attorney (OR)
United Way
Upstream Public Health
Fred Upton for Congress (MI)*
Doug Van Etten for Anchorage Assembly (AK)*
Joanne Verger for State Senate (OR)
Victory Fund
David Vitter for State Senate (LA)*
Anthony David Weiner for City Council (NY)
Western States Center
The Wilderness Society
Worksafe
Ron Wyden for US Senator (OR)
Wyoming Equality State Policy Center
Wyoming Trial Lawyers Association
*Independent Expenditure
"Mark Wiener has more than thirty years of political experience inside and outside government at the federal, state and local levels.
Mark has served in every imaginable campaign role and has become known as a national leader in direct mail and online.
As the founder of Winning Mark and co-founder of Fulcrum, Mark’s work has won numerous awards, with independent tests proving it to be among
the most persuasive
voter contact
in the nation."
http://www.fulcrumpolitical.com/
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"It may be harder for buses to stay on schedule as traffic congestion grows in the future,” TriMet says.
'That’s largely because project leaders feel they must maintain ample access for car drivers,
instead of devoting more space to more efficient lanes for buses and bikes.
Since bicycle access on 82nd has already been ruled out,
and the political support does not appear to exist for reducing automobile access,
TriMet is now exploring additional investments they say will be needed to keep buses moving.
TriMet released an online open house today that asks the public to weigh in on three options under consideration: "
"TriMet hasn’t revealed pricing for each option, but Option One would be the cheapest. Option Two, More BAT Lanes, would be at least twice the cost of Option One.
And the intersection widening proposal would cost four times as much as Option One. "
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"Ice director wants to run deportations
like ‘Amazon Prime for human beings’
Todd Lyons said he wanted US immigration agency to be ‘like a business’ in its deportation process"
Fascist America
t
Tuesday, April 08, 2025
Soliciting Con SE Portland
,"The Nature Conservancy has also faced criticism for its policies and practices, including allegations of promoting industrial logging and wood products as climate solutions.
Exposé:
A coalition of scientists, faith and environmental justice leaders, and forest defenders released "The Nature Conspiracy," an exposé calling out The Nature Conservancy for falsely promoting wood production and logging as climate solutions.
Criticism of Corporate Ties:
The organization has also been criticized for its close ties to corporations and for potentially compromising its mission by working too closely with them.
Land Sales and Tax Breaks:
The Nature Conservancy has also been criticized for allowing donors to get tax breaks for donating land to be preserved when it wasn't always clear that the land was actually protected from development. "
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Soliciting, East Portland Community center
Nature Conservancy has it's desk, tablets, rehearsed speeches, training, corner on market, tactics, plebes, pyramid organization, lack of actual Erica, corporate sponsors, insiders in city office, insiders in state office, lobbyists, national offices, predatory dialogue, not to mention perch near ingress to confidence man every human,
"Do you have 45 seconds?"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nature_Conservancy
Look up their Corporate sponsors and members on Board of Nature Conservancy.
It's the hard sell guilt trip sponsored in league with Weyerhauser etc
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""As of 2014, it is the largest environmental non-profit organization by assets and revenue in the Americas."
Key people :
Senator: William "Bill" Frist, Global Board Chair
Revenue
US$1.29 billion
(2018)
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William Harrison Frist
(born February 22, 1952) is an American physician, businesstool, conservative maga logger , and policyfaker who reigned as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1995 to 2007.
A member of the Republican Party.
he also served as Senate Majority Leader from 2003 to 2007. ( True)
Born kinda
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As of 2016, its board of directors included the retired chairman of
Duke Energy,
and executives from
Merck,
HP,
and several financial industry groups.
It also has a Business Council which it describes as a consultative forum that includes
Bank of America,
BP America,
Chevron,
Coca-Cola,
Dow Chemical,
Duke Energy,
General Mills,
Royal Dutch Shell,
and Starbucks.
Monday, April 07, 2025
Sunday, April 06, 2025
empty ball cap
Cody kicked his bucket
But I know nonothow, heard the idle chatter on the last bus home
A gas station guy on the counters other side
He was ringing up beers just yesterday
*
Bussing from the pool over in cheery blossom
Feeling not too bad for Thursday
There at the mall got on the grimnews, out of the mouth of Rene
*
He just die
Just like that
Another hard fact
Just like that
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Probably the Covid I'd think, he was heavy, 40 in a wide orange vest
Smiling Colorado, a blond ole hick, said he knew
Nostradamus from his history class
Lived at the corn, the unicorn inn, said his nayburr near burnt it up,
He smiled and moved his big ballcap, rubbed his belly
tweren't a flu, twas MTN spew
*
He just die
Just a fact
No more alive
That's where he at
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Sweating in the field there pump #9
Idaho family gotta make good time,
school starts up and dad's three jobs
Cody wipes his brow, sounds lots like mine
That's why I'm here on the worst damn road,
filling tanks with petroleum
*
Back inside turn the slushy machine, 20 little cameras record the scene
A maskless montage of death on the go,
poor Cody poor Colorado, we all know
Life in a motel
so far from home, friends to all but close to none
Standing and breathing just hours close passed,
Cody lie still and none soon asked
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Why we go
Just like that
Leaving no mark
Just an empty ball cap.
SE PDX
8-4-22
8-4-2022
Montavilla
Saturday, April 05, 2025
Nadler
'We are not only the liberals who believe in liberty, we are not only the progressives who believe in progress.
We are the conservatives who will defend the land, the air, the water, the climate system, the constitution, the Bill of Rights, social cecurity, Medicare, Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Civil Rights Act … the National Labor Relations Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Clean Water Act …
Everything that their party of nihilists and authoritarians wants to tear down
in the next few weeks, we are going to conserve and defend for future generations of America"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/apr/05/hands-off-protests-trump-administration
"Hands off Canada. That’s an independent country. Hands off Panama. That’s an independent country. Statehood for Washington, DC!”
Thursday, April 03, 2025
Pickathon 2011 Michael Hurley setlist Sony Minidisc 80 minute capacity, analog sound engine
Pickathon 2011 Michael Hurley setlist
Sony Minidisc 80 minute capacity, analog sound engine
(hurley, reisch, bloodgood. longmire, anna
no set list. never know what Snock is about to play.
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1. sound check banter
2. the Portland Water ( here on Mt Tabor
**********"The Portland water they swillin' cold
and it swills my body but not not my soul
Oh the call up to Portland on the public telephone
said it sure is rainin' here in the state of Oregon
Up in the canyon lookin' down on the river
and the wind come blowin' and it makes me shiver
Oh the call up to Portland on the public telephone
said it sure is rainin' here in the state of Oregon
You see them injuns lookin down on the water
they say the river is the spirit's daughter
Oh the call up to Portland on the public telephone
said it sure is rainin' here in the state of Oregon
Honey honey honey honey whatcha tryin' to do
Why don't you signal when you are through
Oh the call up to Portland on the public telephone
said it sure is rainin' here in the state of Oregon
You can see quite a ways on the great hillside
And the people there livin' where the injuns died
Oh the call up to Portland on the public telephone
said it sure is rainin' here in the state of Oregon" genius greasewood
3. No Can Do (Knowcando
4. Have I blot/told You How Much I love You (Willie Nelson)
5. Cain't Help Myself
6. wildgeese
7. Troubled Waters
8. I don't Got No Place To Go
9. Cars, Jars, and Guitars
10. The Rue of Ruby Whores
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL6_pMdMhlQ video
11. The Bear ("think I'll hire these guys!"
12. Meara O Reilley (nice fiddle, Forest, cuz I knew Meara from her AVA gig
in Astoria.)
13. The Revenant
13. mouth trumpet thing
14. Jocko's Lament "In addition to the Townes Van Zandt cover and seven original tracks, Holland and Parton over new takes on Michael Hurley's "Jocko's Lament" and Bob Dylan's "Minstrel Boy." Wildflower Blues is due out Sep. 8 on Cinquefoil Records."
15. I PAINT a Design
16.
"Have I told you lately that I love you
Could I tell you once again somehow
Have I told you how with all my heart
And soul I need you
Well darling I'm telling you now
My heart would break in two if I should lose you I'm no good without you anyhow
Have I told you lately that I love you
Well, darling, I'm telling you now
[steel - guitar]
Have I told you lately when I'm sleeping
Every dream that I dream is you somehow
And have I told you how my every thought
Is in your keeping
Well, darling, I'm telling you now
My world would end today if I should lose you
Cause I'm no good without you anyhow
Have I told you lately that I love you
Well, darling, I'm telling you now"
double violin sweet
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