Saturday, May 03, 2025
Herr Rubio
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4vz9jed5lo
"Germany's Foreign Office has defended a decision to classify the
Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party
as right-wing extremist,
after sharp criticism from the White House."
"The intelligence agency that made the classification found AfD's "prevailing understanding of people based on ethnicity and descent" goes against Germany's "free democratic order".
"The AfD "aims to exclude certain population groups from equal participation in society"
"We have learnt from our history that right-wing extremism needs to be stopped," the statement concluded - a reference to Hitler's Nazi party and the Holocaust."
"Friedrich Merz as chancellor. He will be leading a coalition with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD).
Lars Klingbeil, the SPD leader who is expected to become vice-chancellor and finance minister, said that while no hasty decision would be made,.
the government would consider banning the (Nazi/Musk) AfD."
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"The new classification gives authorities greater powers to monitor the AfD using tactics like phone interception and undercover agents"
Good.
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The Holocaust
(/ˈhɒləkɔːst/ ⓘ),[1] known in Hebrew as the Shoah (שואה),
was the genocide of European Jews during World War II..
Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.
The murders were carried out primarily through mass shootings and poison gas in extermination camps,
chiefly Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, and Chełmno in occupied Poland.
Separate Nazi persecutions
killed a similar or larger number
of non-Jewish civilians and prisoners of war (POWs)"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victims_of_Nazi_Germany
"Victims of Nazi Germany were people targeted by the government of Nazi Germany based on their ethnicity,
religion, political beliefs,
disability or sexual orientation.
The institutionalized practice by the Nazis of singling out and persecuting people resulted in the Holocaust,
which began with legalized social discrimination against specific groups
involuntary hospitalization,
euthanasia, and forced sterilization.
of persons considered physically or mentally unfit for society.
The vast majority of the Nazi regime's victims were Jews, Sinti-Roma peoples, and Slavs but
victims also encompassed people identified as social outsiders
in the Nazi worldview, such as homosexuals, and political enemies.
Nazi persecution escalated during World War II and included: non-judicial incarceration,
confiscation of property,
forced labor,
sexual slavery,
death through overwork,
human experimentation,
undernourishment,
and execution through a variety of methods.
For specified groups like the Jews, genocide was the Nazis' primary goal."
Taking into account all of the victims of persecution, the Nazis systematically murdered an estimated six million Jews
and an additional 11 million people during the war.
Donald Niewyk suggests that the broadest definition, including Soviet civilian deaths, would produce a total of
17 million victims.
ancestry who identified as a Jehovah's Witness.
"Non-Jewish victims of Nazism included Slavs
(e.g. Russians, Belarusians, Poles, Ukrainians and Serbs),
the Romani (gypsies), LGBT people;
mentally or physically disabled people;
Soviet POWs, Roman Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses, Spanish Republicans,
Freemasons, people of color (especially the Afro-German Mischlinge, called "Rhineland bastards" by Hitler and the Nazi regime),
and other minorities not considered Aryan (Herrenvolk, or part of the "master race")
leftists, communists, trade unionists, social democrats, socialists, anarchists, and other dissidents."
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Trump news at a glance: Rubio now holds four titles after Waltz out as national security chief
Marco Rubio becomes the first person since Henry Kissinger to hold the national security adviser and secretary of state positions at the same time –
"Nine people were killed when a strike hit a home in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza;
another six people died in a separate strike targeting a family home
in the northern city of Beit Lahiya; six more died in a strike on a community kitchen
in Gaza City, and an overnight attack on the Khan Younis refugee camp killed at least 11 people
including three babies up to a year old"
Israel resumed its bombing campaign in Gaza on 18 March, ending a fragile ceasefire. Since then, .
at least 2,326 people have been killed, bringing the death toll since the war broke out to
52,418"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/03/israeli-airstrikes-gaza-death-toll-bureij-beit-lahiya-khan-younis
Friday, May 02, 2025
Tea Song, Blue Hills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0jlRAttpAY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X
Tea Song
Turn on the tea and let it brew
Ohhhhh
I like six cups not one or two
Mmmmmm
Break out the cups and the honey too
...Ohhhhh.
And turn on the tea and let it brew
Heeeeahhh
I don't care that she's left me
Mmmmmm
Just so long as the cupboard's full of tea
Ohhhhhh
My nerves are shakin' and my heart is breakin'
Whoaaaaaa
That's just because of all the tea I've taken
Mmmmmmm
The poor old Buddha turned into stone
Ohhhhhh
That's why I drink tea alone
Mmmmmm
Buddha's made of stone and his eyes are rubies
Mmmmmm
But his thoughts and dreams are distilled in the tea
Ohhhhhh
I drink my tea and sit and dream
Mmmmmm
I'll conjour up a leprechaun to dance upon the stage
Ohhhhhhh
I'm drinking my tea and it's getting late
Ohhhhhhh
Thought I heard somebody pass my gate
Oooooooh
(Sometimes it not what you sing/poem
Track Info Release
First Songs
Artisan Michael Hurley
Year Released. 1964
Catalog Number. FW03581_105
Track Number. 5
Duration. 07:28
"Hurley's debut album, First Songs, was recorded for Folkways Records in 1963
on the same reel-to-reel machine that taped Lead Belly's Last Sessions. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hurley_(musician)
Thursday, May 01, 2025
Business Eats Life and Shits Spacetrash
" What if forests could think? What if they didn’t just survive but sensed, remembered, and collectively adapted?
("Bezos – whose net worth is estimated at almost
$207 billion by Forbes –")
These questions are no longer the domain of poetic speculation. A new international study has brought scientific weight to these ideas, revealing a forest’s capacity for anticipation and communication."
"researchers placed specialized sensors on trees ranging from decades-old elders to young saplings. The trees’ bioelectrical signals – minute voltage changes across their tissues – began shifting as early as 14 hours before the solar eclipse occurred."
older trees were the first to display these changes. They exhibited increased entropy and bioelectrical complexity long before the event, suggesting deep memory rooted in past experiences.
These ancient trees acted as environmental archives, holding clues from previous eclipses and perhaps other rare events that have repeated over their long lives.
“The fact that older trees respond first – potentially guiding the collective response of the forest – speaks volumes about their role as memory banks of past environmental events,” said Professor Gagliano.
In one 20-year-old tree, researchers noticed sharp, square-wave-like bioelectrical spikes hours before the eclipse. These signals vanished immediately after the event, creating a clear boundary in the data.
coordination wasn’t superficial. It ran deep through the trees’ vascular systems – through xylem and phloem – recorded using electrodes both within trunks and around their circumference. The result was a living, electrical map of the forest’s inner state.
Compared to normal days, during the eclipse the trees exhibited larger deviations in signal symmetry. This meant the forest wasn’t operating randomly. Each tree’s electrical behavior influenced – and was influenced by – others. These shifts showed signs of communication and responsiveness beyond traditional ecological models.
During the eclipse, the system’s entropy dropped, coherence increased, and the forest appeared to enter a new state –
like an orchestra locking into tempo after tuning their instruments.
The forest was not only alive. It was aware.
This makes old-growth forests irreplaceable. Logging them erases not just biomass, but knowledge – decades or centuries of stored information that newer trees have not yet acquired.
From the lens of ecological stability, these forests act like community elders. They modulate, anticipate, and respond, ensuring the forest survives sudden changes
the research team collaborated on a documentary. Il Codice del Bosco (The Forest Code) is scheduled for release in Italy in May 2025.
It brings the forest’s hidden world to life, showing trees as responsive and intelligent beings
https://www.earth.com/news/trees-sync-up-their-communication-signals-before-a-solar-eclipse/
Trump proposed cutting the Northwest’s national forests. So what happens next?
In Washington, parts of the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie, Gifford Pinchot, Okanogan-Wenatchee, Colville and Umatilla national forests are targeted for increased logging.
In all, the Fascist Trump administration has put more than 100 million acres of national forests across the country
up for accelerated logging with a sidestepping of environmental laws
to address a declared emergency of fire risk
and domestic lumber supply.
Nearly 60% of the country’s national forests are subject to the order.
There is no emergency … that is just part of the grift.”
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Trump Skim Ill Jong
Trumpleskimdong makes gold out of lead
Examples : examples :
Banana, was 25 cents
Banana, now $45
Bandaid, single was 37 cents
Bandaid, now only by crate $94, 0000
Bread, loaf $2
Bread, unavailable until hell freeze gold
Yacht, small size $111, 000
Yacht, small $1, 1111, 11111. 00.00 plus
Submission subscription to Washington Post, $.99 a day
Submission subscription Amazon Post, secrets/ kompromat
The White House took aggressive aim at Amazon, with Precedent dent DonTrump putting in a dingaling to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos Tuesday morning, after the
company considered displaying the added cost of tariffs on certain items.
Trump called Bezos to consplain
about reports that Amazon was considering displaying the cost of US tariffs next to prices for certain products
on the company’s website, two senior White House officials told CNN. Trump later said it was a “good capitulation.”
Inept fascist toadie GOP Donkey
weeks after Waltz found himself at the center of a scandal involving his accidental adding of the Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg into a secret Signal chat regarding US attack plans in Yemen.
As the Guardian’s Hugo Lowell reports, “The president briefly considered firing Waltz over the episode, but reportedly
decided he was unwilling to give the news media the satisfaction
of forcing the ouster of a top cabinet official weeks into his second term.”
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Life in prison for Trump, Musk, Vance would hardly sate the USA or world.
Inept fascist Toadies.
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It's just a tax, one oligarch toadie.
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"Numerous Democratic-led states have in recent years filed similar lawsuits against companies including Exxon Mobil , Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Shell and BP accusing them of
deceiving the public about the role fossil fuels have played in causing climate change. The companies deny wrongdoing.
The Justice Department in the lawsuit cites an executive order Trump signed on his first day back in office on 20 January declaring a
national energy emergency to speed permitting of energy projects, rolling back environmental protections, and withdrawing the US from an international pact to fight climate change. "
"The US supreme court in March rejected a bid by 19 Republican-led states,
led by Alabama, to block five Democratic-led states from pursuing such lawsuits.
The Republican-led states raised similar claims as the Justice Department’s case."
"Too many members of Congress are staying compliantly on the sidelines even as the Trump administration takes a wrecking ball to our nation’s foremost science agency.
Noaa’s invaluable scientific enterprise has been built up over decades through investments by US taxpayers for the public’s benefit.
Local decision makers, communities, meteorologists, first responders, farmers, mariners, and businesses depend on Noaa’s crucial weather and climate data provided free of charge.
Congress must do its job: reclaim its constitutional power and limit the worst excesses of this
increasingly authoritarian, anti-science and destructive administration."
May 1625
"Cornelis Jacobsen Mey, often spelled Cornelius Jacobsz May in Dutch,
was a 17th-century Dutch explorer, captain, and fur trader. Mey was the first director of New Netherland and was stationed at Fort Amsterdam.
Mey was the captain of the ship Nieu Nederlandt, which delivered the first boatload of colonists to New Netherland in north-east America."
1614, May was the first to sail the Mauritius River, now known as the Hudson River,
where he entered into an agreement with various competing Indian tribal traders. On October 11, 1614,
May became party to the New Netherland Company, which received an exclusive patent from the States General of the Netherlands for four voyages
to be undertaken for the next three years to territories discovered between the 40th and 45th parallels at the exclusion of all other Dutch through January 1618."
"From August 1616 to November 1616, the New Netherland Company tried unsuccessfully to secure a patent for a territory located between the 38th and 40th parallels at Delaware Bay"
"May was the captain of the ship Nieu Nederlandt (aka New Netherland)
which delivered the first boat load of colonists to New Netherland, first at Fort Orange, the trading post near present-day Albany, New York,
and then on Governors Island, in present-day New York City, in 1624."
"Having transformed New Netherland into a Dutch province, May was named the province's first director."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_Jacobsen_May
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"May was born in the small village of Schellinkhout, just east of the town of Hoorn in North Holland. He appears to be the brother of Cornelis Jacobsz May, the first director of New Netherland.
he brothers were cousins of the contemporaneously far more famous sailor Jan Cornelisz May, who led several expeditions to explore the Northeast passage and between 1614 and 1617,
circumnavigated the world with Joris van Spilbergen."
"Jan Jacobsz May is best remembered for giving his name to the island of Jan Mayen. As part of an exploratory expedition for the Noordsche Compagnie, May visited the island in July 1614. "
"other captains apparently kept the discovery secret, perhaps so that their companies could benefit without giving the location away to the competition. "
"The discovery allowed the Dutch company to use the island as its whaling base for the coming 35 years."
"he is otherwise little known in his home country, where the name Jan Mayen is often thought to be of Norwegian origin."
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"The Northeast Passage
(abbreviated as NEP; Russian: Северо-Восточный проход, romanized: Severo-Vostochnyy prokhod, Norwegian: Nordøstpassasjen)
is the shipping route between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, along the Arctic coasts of Norway and Russia"
"The NEP traverses (from west to east) the Barents Sea, Kara Sea, Laptev Sea, East Siberian Sea, and Chukchi Sea, and it includes the Northern Sea Route (NSR).[2][3] The Northern Sea Route is a portion of the NEP. It is defined in Russian law and does not include the Barents Sea and therefore does not reach the Atlantic Ocean. "
"Russian settlers and traders on the coast of the White Sea, the Pomors, had been exploring parts of the route as early as the 11th century."
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"Spilbergen met the king of Kandy (Sri Lanka)
Vimala Dharma Suriya in 1602, and discussed the possibility of trade in cinnamon."
"He circumnavigated the earth, and returned to the Dutch Republic in 1617.
He died a poor man in Bergen op Zoom in 1620"
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"Captain Cornelis Jacobson Mey was an experienced captain in the Dutch merchant service. He came from Hoorn in Holland and is said to have been born in 1580.
Around 1614, Mey was captain of the Fortune, a ship that sailed along the coast of what is now New Jersey. Cape May is named to honor this voyage.
In 1625, Mey captained the ship the Nieu Nederlandt (New Netherland), that landed
the first thirty Dutch settler families to New Netherland. "
Noem gravel pit Minister
"Though the Trump administration admitted that Ábrego García’s deportation was an “administrative error”,
it has repeatedly cast him as an MS-13 gang member on television – a claim his wife, a US citizen, and his attorneys staunchly reject.
Ábrego García has no criminal record in the US, according to court documents."
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"Oops oopsie " who's a bad gurl
'Cricket was a wirehair pointer, about 14 months old,” the South Dakota governor writes in a new book, adding that the dog, a female, had an “aggressive personality” and needed to be trained to be used for licking pheasant ass for GOP She includes her story about the ill-fated Cricket, she says, to illustrate her craveness, in politics as well as in South Dakota life, to do anything
Anything, anything, “difficult, messy and ugly” if it simply needs to be done. Fascists.".
By taking Cricket on a pheasant hunt with older dogs, Noem says, she hoped to calm the young dog down and begin to teach her how to behave. Unfortunately, Cricket ruined the hunt, going “out of her mind with excitement, chasing all those birds and having the time of her life”.
Noem describes calling Cricket, then using an electronic collar to attempt to bring her under control. Nothing worked. Then, on the way home after the hunt, as Noem stopped to talk to a local family,
Cricket escaped Noem’s truck and attacked the family’s chickens, “grabb[ing] one chicken at a time,
crunching it to death with one bite, then dropping it to attack another”.
Cricket the untrainable dog, Noem writes, behaved like “a trained assassin"
Cricket was “the picture of pure joy”.
“I hated that dog,” Noem writes, adding that Cricket had proved herself “untrainable”, “dangerous to anyone she came in contact with” and “less than worthless … as a hunting dog”.
“At that moment,” Noem says, “I realised I had to put her down.”
Noem, who also represented her state in Congress for eight years, got her gun,
then led Cricket to a gravel pit.". Whistling Dixie off key.
Bgood
'The Be Good Tanyas formed in 1999 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Samantha Parton had been living on the road as a tree planter and wandering and making music, when she met Jolie Holland"
Gee it's wood, under the hood
Pine piston seized
Burl on note knees
Splinter of life
Stuck in the ground
Water and sun see what we found
B good sweet bee food
No ain't in the mood
I've nuthin to prove
Thought you unnerstood
Roll or grow moss
Hills made to be crost
Take roots as ya roam
Yodel a home
Once clearing it's said
Planted a bed
That maple got cred
As a rosebud sled
***
Cradle did rock
"Rock a bye baby on the tree top,
When the wind blows the cradle will rock,
When the bough breaks the cradle will fall,
And down will come baby, cradle and all."
The rhyme is believed to have first appeared in print in Mother Goose's Melody (London c. 1765),
possibly published by John Newbery, and which was reprinted in Boston in 1785.
No copies of the first edition are extant, but a 1791 edition substitutes "Hush-a-by baby" at the start of the first line
The rhyme is followed by a note: "This may serve as a warning to the proud and ambitious, who climb so high that they generally fall at last."
The Tanyas gained US exposure when the Showtime series The L Word selected one of their songs, "In Spite of All the Damage", for inclusion on its soundtrack. A live version of "In My Time of Dying" was also included in the third episode of the third season, in which Ford was featured as a nun and played the song in the opening sequence.
The track "The Littlest Birds" was played during the first season of the Showtime series Weeds and was included on the soundtrack. The band's music has also featured in the CTV series The Eleventh Hour and in the film Because of Winn-Dixie. Their cover of Townes Van Zandt's "Waiting Around to Die" was also used in "Bit by a Dead Bee", an episode of AMC's Breaking Bad. Their rendition of "What Are They Doing in Heaven?" was played on the episode "Searchers" of the AMC series Hell on Wheels
"i maginations have been stretched to give the rhyme significance". They list a variety of claims that have been made, without endorsing any of them
*that the baby represents the Egyptian deity Horus
*that the first line is a corruption of the French "He bas! là le loup!" (Hush! There's the wolf!)
*that it was written by an English Mayflower colonist who observed the way Native American women rocked their babies in birch-bark cradles, suspended from the branches of trees
*that it lampoons the British royal line in the time of James II.
*In Derbyshire, England, one local legend has it that the song relates to a local character in the late 18th century, Betty Kenny (Kate Kenyon), who
lived in a huge yew tree in Shining Cliff Woods in the Derwent Valley, where
a hollowed-out bough served as a cradle "
"Rock-a-bye baby and Bye baby bunting come to us from the Indians, as they had a custom of cradling their pappooses among the swaying branches"
"Cradle Will Rock is a 1999 American historical drama film written, produced and directed by Tim Robbins. The story fictionalizes the true events that surrounded the development of the 1937 musical The Cradle Will Rock by Marc Blitzstein;
it adapts history to create an account of the original production, bringing in other stories of the time to produce a social commentary on the role of art and power in the 1930s,
particularly amidst the struggles of the labor movement at the time and the corresponding appeal of socialism and communism among many intellectuals,
artists and working-class people in the same period. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cradle_Will_Rock
Starring
Hank Azaria
Rubén Blades
Joan Cusack
John Cusack
Cary Elwes
Philip Baker Hall
Cherry Jones
Angus Macfadyen
Bill Murray
Vanessa Redgrave
Susan Sarandon
John Turturro
Emily Watson
"At the height
of the Great Depression, the Federal Theatre Project, led by Hallie Flanagan, brings low-cost theater to millions across America. .
FTP and other projects of the Works Progress Administration face anti-communist criticism and increasing government pressure led by the new House Committee on Un-American Activities."
'2010, Frazey Ford released her debut solo album, Obadiah, which featured Klein on guitar. Ford said making the recording allowed her to explore soul music more than she had with the Be Good Tanyas. She also noted that some of the songs reflected her role as a new parent, [and she had enjoyed] "exploring the concepts that are relevant to my life in terms of motherhood and generations"
"one of the founding members of The Be Good Tanyas. Holland left the band before the release of their debut album, Blue Horse, on which she appears prominently. She returned to San Francisco, where she recorded her first album, 2002's Catalpa.
Originally self-released, the album was later picked up and re-released by ANTI-. In 2004 she released her first album for ANTI-, 2004's Escondida.
ANTI- labelmates Tom Waits and Sage Francis are both outspoken fans of Holland's: Waits nominated her for the Shortlist music prize"
2016, she reunited with Be Good Tanyas bandmate Samantha Parton and they began touring as a duo,
releasing the jointly-credited album Wildflower Blues, on Cinquefoil Records
"with Wildflower Blues, they begin a new chapter in their ever-evolving creative relationship. On the album's ten tracks, they weave together influences spanning jazz, blues, country, folk, rock, experimental, and the great wide history of American song, into their own kind of soul music.
Wildflower Blues features mostly original tracks written by Holland and Parton, as well as reimagined versions of songs by
Bob Dylan, Michael Hurley, and Townes Van Zandt."
5.
Jocko's Lament 03:29
ABOUT THIS TRACK
C. Michael Hurley
https://joliehollandofficial.bandcamp.com/album/wildflower-blues
(Or listen for Free)
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
elemental, DH Lawrence
Why don’t people leave off being lovable
Or thinking they are lovable, or wanting to be lovable,
And be a bit elemental instead?
Since man is made up of the elements
Fire, and rain, and air, and live loam
And none of these is lovable
But elemental,
Man is lop-sided on the side of the angels.
I wish men would get back their balance among the elements
And be a bit more fiery, as incapable of telling lies
As fire is.
I wish they’d be true to their own variation, as water is,
Which goes through all the stages of steam and stream and ice
Without losing its head.
I am sick of lovable people,
Somehow they are a lie.
D.H. Lawrence
1929
____ however ....
Fire rain air is the stuff
Of poetry, call it love
Give grace by candle
Light drink or moat the accumulated cloud
Inhale or soon die air
Join loam or be conscripted
It sold a chapbook in 1929 money next to
Alms say grace master surveil
If your life don't worship dirt
Prepare for plastic worse
Elemental made too, boom
Monday, April 28, 2025
Lindhorst
"Verden an der Aller
called Verden (Aller) or simply Verden,
is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, on the river Aller.
It is the district town of the district of Verden in Lower Saxony and an independent municipality (de:Selbständige Gemeinde). The town is located in the middle Weser region on the Aller river immediately before it flows into the Weser.
As a center of horse breeding and equestrian sports, it bears the nickname "equestrian town".
The suffix "Aller" was introduced at a time when the name "Verden" was also common for the French town of Verdun in the German-speaking area.
The town name comes from "ford" or "ferry". The town was conveniently located at a ford through the Aller river, near an important trade route."
"Verden is famous for a massacre of Saxons in 782, committed on the orders of Charlemagne (the Massacre of Verden), for its cathedral, and for its horse-breeding."
***
Anna Lindhorst Ludeman
Birth. 30 Jul 1810
Verden an der Aller, Landkreis Verden, Lower Saxony, Germany
(Parents and Siblings
Harm Hinrich Lindhorst
1781–1832
Anna Sophie Meyer
1785–1854)
Death. 2 Aug 1894 (aged 84)
Henry County, Ohio, USA
*
Lavinah Elizabeth Potterf Luderman
Birth. 9 Feb 1843
Preble County, Ohio, USa
Death. 20 Feb 1923 (aged 80)
Defiance County, Ohio, USA
*
Emma Elizabeth Luderman May
Birth. 10 Apr 1882
Defiance County, Ohio, USA
Death. 17 Feb 1974 (aged 91)
Caddo County, Oklahoma, USA
"When Henry Lüderman was born on 29 July 1847, in Hanover, Prussia, Germany, his father,
Cord Hinrich Lüdemann, was 36 and his mother, Anna Margarethe Lindhorst, was 36.
He married Lavinah Elizabeth Potterf on 7 January 1868, in Defiance, Ohio, United States.
They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He immigrated to United States in 1865.
He died on 17 August 1895, in Adams Township, Defiance, Ohio, United States, at the age of 48,
and was buried in Poplar Ridge Cemetery, Adams Township, Defiance, Ohio, United States. "
"Lindhorst is a municipality in the district of Schaumburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 8 km northeast of Stadthagen, and 35 km east of Minden. "
*
300, 000 square miles for rainforest meat, what's climate change, immigration, earth,
"Environmental groups are outraged that the world’s biggest meatpacking company,.
JBS, which has long been linked to Amazon’s deforestation,
has received approval from US authorities to list on the New York Stock Exchange.
The decision, announced on Tuesday by the Securities Exchange Commission,.
follows reports that JBS subsidiary Pilgrim’s
was the biggest donor.
to the inauguration committee of Donald Trump. "
"The joint listing is expected to raise the value of the multinational, which started as a family business and grew globally with the support of Brazil’s national development bank.
Almost half of its revenue now comes from the United States, .
where it sells household brands including Pilgrim’s, Moy Park, Seara and Primo..
It also has a significant presence in Australia and strong sales in Europe and China." .
'JBS has been linked to deforestation on multiple occasions, and the New York attorney general, Letitia James, filed a lawsuit last year accusing the company of misleading consumers with its climate goals in an effort to increase sales.".
"By almost every metric, a company like JBS has a detrimental impact on society.
Allowing it to list on the world’s largest stock exchange – unlocking vast opportunities for expansion and profit – shows the deep failures of the US financial regulatory system.
This decision is a disaster for both people and the planet,” said Alexandria Reid of Global Witness, an environmental justice organization."
"recent Federal Election Commission filing revealed JBS subsidiary Pilgrim’s made the largest single donation of
$5 million to Trump’s inaugural committee for his second term."
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"JBS USA is based in Greeley, Colorado.
Its competitors include Hormel Foods, Cargill, Smithfield Foods, National Beef, and Tyson Foods"
live animals were driven across overhead ramps to the killing floors. Swift processed fresh, smoked, table-ready, canned meats, such as PREM, and baby foods, .
along with soap, lard, shortening, adhesives, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, fertilizers, hides and animal feeds.
In addition to meatpacking, Swift sold various dairy and grocery items, including Swiftning shortening, Allsweet margarine, Brookfield butter, cheese under the Brookfield, Pauly, and Treasure Cave brands, and Peter Pan peanut butter. .
Swift began selling frozen turkeys under the Butterball brand in 1954. Gustavus Swift also championed the refrigerated railroad car.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JBS_USA
"the 1960s, Swift expanded into other fields, including insurance and petroleum,
and formed the holding company Esmark in 1973. Two years later, Esmark bought International Playtex
from Meshulam Riklis' Rapid-American Corporation. Esmark sold off
Globe Life Insurance to the Ryan Insurance Group in 1977.
Esmark left the petroleum business in 1980, selling Vickers Petroleum to Mobil,
while Swift's fresh-meat business was spun off as a separate company, Swift Independent Packing Company (SIPCO), the same year..
Esmark went on to purchase Norton Simon Inc. in 1983 before being purchased by Beatrice Foods .
the next year. ConAgra purchased 50% of SIPCO in 1987 and the remaining portion in.
1989, the same year ConAgra bought Beatrice Foods.".
July 12, 2007, JBS purchased Swift & Company in a US$1.5-billion, all-cash deal. The acquisition made the newly consolidated .
JBS Swift Group the largest beef processor in the world. ..
"December 2006, six of the company's meat-packing facilities in Colorado, Nebraska, Texas, Utah, Iowa, and Minnesota were raided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, resulting in the apprehension of 1,282 undocumented immigrants from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Peru, Laos, Sudan, and Ethiopia, and nearly 200 of them were criminally charged "
The company pledged to eliminate illegal deforestation, including in the threatened Cerrado region, from its supply chains by 2030
"March 2024, New York Attorney General Letitia James sued JBS USA for violating the state's general business laws on deceptive practices and false advertising. ..
JBS subsidiary Pilgrim’s
was the biggest donor.
to the inauguration committee of Donald Trump. "
"2022, JBS agreed to a $52.5 million settlement without admission of wrongdoing in a lawsuit brought by grocers and wholesalers, which .
accused JBS, National Beef, Cargill, and Tyson of
working together to drive up the price of beef..
In 2024, McDonald's Corporation sued JBS and the same three other companies along with their subsidiaries for alleged price fixing."..
'JBS benefited from trade tensions with increased sales in China. JBS stated that despite being a foreign company,
it supports American farmers by creating job opportunities. In May 2019, Representative Rosa DeLauro from Connecticut claimed that President Donald Trump was unaware of the situation."
____
"On 5 June 2022, he and Brazilian Bruno Pereira, an expert on indigenous peoples of Brazil, .
went missing in the remote Javari Valley in the far western part of the state of Amazonas in Brazil,.
one of the most remote zones in the rainforest. .
On 14 June,
Amarildo da Costa da Oliveira allegedly confessed to shooting and killing Phillips and Pereira and led police to the men's bodies the following day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dom_Phillips
"Phillips wrote about politics, poverty and cultural development in Brazil. From 2014 to 2016 he contributed to The Washington Post, where he covered Brazil's preparations for the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics. .
He reported on deforestation in Brazil, leading an investigation by The Guardian and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism of
Large-scale cattle ranches established on cleared forest land.
His coverage of illegal deforestation in the Amazon
was nominated for the 2020 Gabo Award for Journalistic Coverage and was a finalist for the Vladimir Herzog Prize that same year."
"Phillips and Brazilian Bruno Pereira, an expert on indigenous peoples of Amazonas,
received death threats for helping to protect the people from illegal drug traffickers, miners, loggers, and hunters.."
'The Amazon rainforest, spanning an area of 3,000,000 km2 (1,200,000 sq mi), is the world's largest rainforest. .
It encompasses the largest and most biodiverse tropical rainforest on the planet, representing over half of all rainforests. .
The Amazon region includes the territories of nine nations, with Brazil containing the majority (60%), followed by Peru (13%), Colombia (10%), and smaller portions in Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia (6%), Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana.'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_of_the_Amazon_rainforest
_____
the year 2022 around 26% of the forest was considered as deforested or highly degraded.According to the Council on Foreign Relations, .
300,000 square miles have been lost.
Cattle ranching in the Brazilian Amazon has been identified as the primary cause of deforestation,.
accounting for about 80% of all deforestation in the region
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/24/jbs-nyse-listing-pushback-amazon-deforestation-climate
JBS subsidiary Pilgrim’s was the biggest donor to the inauguration committee of Donald Trump. Since taking power, Trump has reduced the independence of the SEC and other agencies, demanding their work be “controlled” by the president.
art of conjecturing maybe
"Stochasticity
"randomly determined; having a random probability distribution or pattern that may be analyzed statistically but may not be predicted precisely."
is used in many different fields, including
image processing, signal processing, computer science,
information theory, telecommunications,
chemistry, ecology, neuroscience, physics, and cryptography.
It is also used in finance (e.g., stochastic oscillator), due to seemingly random changes in the different markets within the financial sector and in
medicine,
linguistics, music, media,
colour theory, botany, manufacturing and geomorphology. "
"The word stochastic in English was originally used as an adjective with the definition "pertaining to conjecturing", and stemming from a Greek word meaning
"to aim at a mark, guess",
and the Oxford English Dictionary gives the year
1662 as its earliest occurrence."
"Ars Conjectandi sive Stochastice", which has been translated to "the art of conjecturing or stochastics"
Bike had a flat or did not
Raining or not found or not ten dimes
Caught or missed bus found seat or stood
On spilled or boxed mousetrap game parts
Or tidy spaghetti or a tuba
Scared/not of elephant/not rode free or paid
Wore earmuffs or van gogh costume
Or both or cyclist gear seriously or not
Picked ear wax with hex or not
Rode bus or pachyderm to doc or quack
Startled or not placid crushed kinda mousetrap game parts not or fully contrived
With boob frost or bob road taken only so far or not a jug of slime fix or not
A week old smoothie costume
Marks spot or not damned or not
Out bike window a not cloud
A full empty sky shuffled can can not
Wisp form or not eye hear not monkey do
Or will not connect dot to dot
Fare/not
Fate/not
Was/not
Round/flat
Umbrella/gutter
Fender/founder
Slowly or otherwise brain assembled
Probably not a semblance poem
Joy or not riding
Potato couch surfing all eyes ingrown and not
ice begora hullo
Tigress finno-ugric soundboard
Exploitive felting fuddy-duddy
Ice begora hullo
Joint pay as you go vive la roi
Loop millenanerism you're
12-28-24
dada
"While the future cannot be predicted with certainty, present understanding in various scientific fields allows for the prediction of some far-future events, if only in the broadest outline.
These fields include astrophysics, which studies how planets and stars form, interact and die; particle physics, which has revealed how matter behaves at the smallest scales; evolutionary biology, which studies how life evolves over time; plate tectonics, which shows how continents shift over millennia; and sociology, which examines how human societies and cultures evolve."
***
"The Boltzmann brain thought experiment suggests that it might be more likely for a brain to spontaneously form,
complete with a memory of having existed in our universe,
rather than for the entire universe to come about in the manner cosmologists think it actually did.
Physicists use the Boltzmann brain thought experiment as a reductio ad absurdum argument for evaluating competing scientific theories."
Over a sufficiently long time, random fluctuations could cause particles to spontaneously form literally any structure of any degree of complexity, including a functioning human brain.
The scenario initially involved only a single brain with false memories, but physicist Sean M. Carroll pointed out that, in a fluctuating universe, the scenario works just as well at larger scales, like that of entire bodies or even galaxies.
The idea is named after the physicist
Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906)
who published a hypothesis in 1896, prior to the Big Bang Theory, that tried to account for
the fact that the universe is not as chaotic as the budding field of thermodynamics seemed to predict. "
"The Boltzmann brain gained new relevance around 2002, when some cosmologists started to become concerned that, in many theories about the universe,
human brains are vastly more likely to arise from random fluctuations; this leads to the conclusion that, statistically,
humans are likely to be wrong about their memories of the past and in fact are Boltzmann brains."
"Boltzmann brain (or body or world) need not fluctuate suddenly into existence, argue Anthony Aguirre, Sean M. Carroll, and Matthew C. Johnson.
Rather, it would form in a sequence of smaller fluctuations that would look like the brain's decay path run in reverse."
*rough analogy is how the odds of a single real English word showing up
when one shakes a box of Scrabble letters are greater than
the odds that a whole English sentence or paragraph will form."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain
"The average timescale required for the formation of a Boltzmann brain is vastly greater than the current age of the universe.
In modern physics, Boltzmann brains can be formed either by quantum fluctuation, or by a thermal fluctuation generally involving nucleation."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Boltzmann
___
"Adam and Eve, according to the creation myth of the Abrahamic religions,
were the first man and woman. They are central to the belief that
humanity is in essence a single family,
with everyone descended from a single pair of original ancestors"
"Following a laboratory accident, atomic physicist Jon Osterman develops the ability to observe and manipulate matter at a subatomic level. He is later given the tongue-in-cheek moniker Doctor Manhattan by the United States government
In early 1959, he moves to a research base at Gila Flats, where experiments are being performed on the "intrinsic fields" of physical objects which, if tampered with, result in their disintegration "
the force of the generator tears Jon to pieces.
"A series of strange events and ghostly appearances occur over the next few months, leading researchers to speculate that the area is haunted. After a series of partial bodily appearances, it becomes apparent that
Jon is progressively re-forming himself. Each time, the appearance lasts for only a few seconds:
first a disembodied nervous system including the brain and eyes;
then a circulatory system; and then a partially muscled skeleton.
Jon eventually reappears as a tall, muscular, hairless, naked, blue-skinned man, glowing with a "flare of ultraviolet"
Begora, hullo.
Friday, April 25, 2025
World's Fascist Dog Show
Various tech companies and their leaders pledged donations and services for the inauguration. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said through a spokesperson that he would make a $1 million personal donation. Mark Zuckerberg, the head of Meta and the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, sent $1 million.
It was also reported in The Wall Street Journal that Amazon's CEO, Jeff Bezos, offered to stream the ceremony on Amazon Prime Video, and this amounted to a $1 million in-kind donation on top of a $1 million cash donation.
Apple CEO Tim Cook personally donated $1 million. Uber and its CEO Dara Khosrowshahi each agreed to donate $1 million to the inauguration..
Alphabet donated $1 million and supported an inauguration livestream with a direct link on the homepage of YouTube.
Microsoft, Adobe, and Perplexity also donated $1 million.
NPR quoted Margaret O'Mara, a Silicon Valley historian at the University of Washington, as saying
these donations were due to some of these tech leaders having been in conflict with Trump in the past,
in hopes to reduce regulatory pressure on their companies under the incoming administration
Ford Motor Company and General Motors announced that they would donate $1 million each
and provide a fleet of vehicles for the inauguration.
Toyota, Chevron, Hyundai, and Stellantis also donated $1 million.
Various financial services businesses and their leaders donated at least $1 million, including
Goldman Sachs, Bank of America,
JPMorgan, Kraken, Coinbase, Intuit,
Robinhood, Ken Griffin,.
Ripple, and Ondo Finance.
Major donors from the telecommunications industry included AT&T, Comcast,
and Charter Communications.
Major donors from the healthcare and pharmaceutical industry included PhRMA, Pfizer, and Him & Hers.
Major donors from the manufacturing and industrial sector included Stanley Black & Decker,
Pratt Industries,
Boeing, and
Lockheed Martin.
Other major donors included Delta Air Lines and McDonald's.[26][29]
In April 2025, it was reported that $239 million was donated to Trump's inaugural committee,
more than doubling the previous record of $107 million raised for Trump's 2017 inauguration,
including 29 gifts totaling
$13 million from subsidiaries of companies based outside the United States.
Numerous businesspeople including
Bernard Arnault, Delphine Arnault,.
Sergey Brin,
Elon Musk,
Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg, among the world's richest "people, "attended the inauguration.
They had a prominent role at the event, seated together on the platform alongside other distinguished guests, including Cabinet nominees and elected officials.
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew attended the inauguration.
Alphabet's Sundar Pichai,
Apple's Tim Cook,
OpenAI's Sam Altman,
Reliance's Mukesh Ambani, .
and Uber's Dara Khosrowshahi .
also attended the event. Las Vegas Sands owner Miriam Adelson also attended the ceremony.
Thursday, April 24, 2025
Harold Hamm bought government 2024
Harold Glenn Hamm
(born December 11, 1945) is an American business magnate in the oil and gas business. He is known for pioneering fracking of shale oil resources.
As of February 4, 2022, Hamm's net worth is estimated to be US$18.5 billion, making him the 63rd wealthiest person in the world.
He is the founder and chairman of Continental Resources..
"2012, presidential candidate Mitt Romney named Hamm as his energy advisor, and Hamm was a donor to the Romney campaign.
Hamm was a fundraiser and donor to Donald Trump's 2016, 2020,
and 2024 presidential campaigns"
"Hamm has led a decades-long campaign against renewable energy sources.
The Harold Hamm Diabetes Center at the University of Oklahoma was named after Hamm, who has type 2 diabetes. "
"April 2024, Hamm organized an event at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort where oil industry leaders and lobbyists
were invited to donate one billion dollars
to Trump's 2024 presidential campaign with the expectation that environmental protections would be curtailed should Trump be re-elected.
According to Desmog, Hamm himself gave more than $1.6 million to the Trump campaign, and Continental Resources gave more than $2 million.
He has been given a seat at Trump's inauguration not far from the dais, next to billionaires
Rebekah Mercer,
Steve Wynn,
Robert Kraft,
Richard LeFrak,
Phil Ruffin,.
Robert Mercer,
and Carl Icahn. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Hamm
Total downstream total ravenous
" TotalEnergies SE is a French multinational integrated energy and petroleum company founded in 1924 and
is one of the seven supermajor oil companies.
the 2023 Forbes Global 2000, TotalEnergies was ranked as
the 21st largest company in the world. "
"After Total's takeover of Petrofina of Belgium in 1999, it became known as Total Fina.
Afterwards, it also acquired Elf Aquitaine..
First named TotalFinaElf after the merger in 2000, its name reverted to Total in 2003. During that rebranding, the globe logo was unveiled.
Total's leadership had been aware of the deleterious effects of global warming since at least 1971;
The company nevertheless openly denied the findings of climate science until the 1990s; Total also pursued a number of strategies to
cover up the threat and contribution to climate change."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TotalEnergies
"As of 11 March 2022, Total was one of the only Western oil companies to continue operating in Russia after the Russian Invasion of Ukraine "
In October 2023, TotalEnergies sold its Canadian operations to Suncor Energy for C$1.47 billion($1.07 billion).
TotalEnergies has agreed to buy liquefied natural gas from Qatar for 27 years, cementing the European nation's commitment to fossil fuels beyond 2050 "
___
'Another expansion of Fina's marketing operations came in 1984, when n
American Petrofina purchased several thousand service stations
from Oklahoma-based Champlin Refining Company following that firm's closing of its Enid, Oklahoma refinery.
The Champlin assets were rebranded as Fina stations in several Mid-Continent states including Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa among others."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrofina
"Since the Total-Petrofina merger in 1999, all of Fina's former marketing assets and the Big Spring refinery have been owned by Texas-based Alon USA. Alon assets include the former Fina refinery at Big Spring, Texas and the Fina brand name. .
Alon supplies gasoline and other petroleum products to 1,200 Fina stations directly and through distributors in seven Southwestern states including Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Arizona and the southern portion of Colorado. Alon also owns Southwest Convenience Stores, which is
the largest franchiser of 7-Eleven convenience stores in the United States."
____
"The richest oil company by market capitalization is Saudi Aramco. As of February 2024, it had a market cap of $1.98 trillion. It is the world's largest oil producer, producing over 10 million barrels of oil per day. "
In 2003, Total signed for a 30% stake in the gas exploration venture in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) – South Rub' al-Khali joint venture along with Royal Dutch Shell and Saudi Aramco.
The stake was later bought out by its partners.
In 2006, Saudi Aramco and Total signed a memorandum of understanding to develop the
Jubail Refinery and Petrochemical project in Saudi Arabia which targeted 400,000 barrels per day (bpd).
Two years later, the two companies officially established a joint venture called Saudi Aramco Total Refining and Petrochemical Company (SATORP)- in which a .
62.5% stake was held by Saudi Aramco and the balance
37.5% held by Total."
"On 21 February 2024, TotalEnergies and Airbus entered a strategic partnership to meet emission-reduction goals through the use of
sustainable aviation fuels (SAF).
TotalEnergies will provide more than 50% of Airbus’ European fuel requirements.
Compared to fossil fuels,
SAF can reduce CO2 emissions by up to 90%"
2016, Total was ranked as the second-best of 92 oil, gas, and mining companies on indigenous rights in the Arctic.
According to the CDP Carbon Majors Report 2017, the company was one of the top 100 companies producing carbon emissions globally,
responsible for .9% of global emissions from 1998 to 2015.
In 2021, Total was ranked as the 2nd most environmentally responsible company out of 120 oil, gas, and mining companies.
involved in resource extraction north of the Arctic Circle in the Arctic Environmental Responsibility Index (AERI)."
Bigot GOP machine transhumanism slop
Trump Administration Texted College Professors’ Personal Phones to Ask If They’re Jewish
***
"During WWII, the company was a supplier for the German war effort manufacturing and supplying flamethrowers"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escher_Wyss_%26_Cie..
***
'The federal government reaching out to our personal cellphones to identify who is Jewish is incredibly sinister,”.
said Barnard associate professor Debbie Becher,
who is Jewish and received the text"
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/23/trump-eeoc-barnard-columbia-texts-jewish/
Elon Musk’s daughter says father’s rally gesture was ‘definitely a Nazi salute’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/20/elon-musk-daughter-vivian-jenna-wilson-salute
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner refused to sign memo
saying Trump was not antisemitic, .
book says
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/21/donald-trump-ivanka-jared-kushner-michael-wolff-all-or-nothing
____
"Schwab has authored or co-authored several books. Some consider him to be "an evangelist" for "stakeholder capitalism".
The Fourth Industrial Revolution, the subject of a 2016 book he wrote, is an idea he is credited with popularising.
In January 2017, Steven Poole in The Guardian criticised Schwab's Fourth Industrial Revolution book,
pointing out that "the internet of things" would probably be hackable. He also criticised Schwab for showing that.
future technologies may be used for good or evil, but not taking a position on the issues
"The Financial Times' innovation editor found "the clunking lifelessness of the prose" led him to "suspect this book really was written by humans—ones who inhabit
a strange twilight world of stakeholders,
externalities, inflection points
and 'developtory sandboxes'.
The political scientist Klaus-Gerd Giesen argued that the dominant ideology of the Fourth Industrial Revolution is transhumanism.
"transhumanists speculate that human beings may eventually be able to transform themselves into beings of such vastly greater abilities as to merit the label of
posthuman beings.
Another topic of transhumanist research is how to protect humanity against existential risks from artificial general intelligence, asteroid impact, gray goo, high-energy particle collision experiments, natural or synthetic pandemic, and nuclear warfare.
The biologist Julian Huxley popularised the term "transhumanism" in a 1957 essay.
The contemporary meaning of the term was foreshadowed by one of the first
professors of futurology,
a man who changed his name to FM-2030.
Transhumanism has increasingly been co-opted by anti-democratic movements as a common enemy stereotype.
These movements range from Putin sympathizers to radical anti-vaxxers and Christian fundamentalists.
The propagandistic use of the term "transhumanism" aims to create a comprehensive counter-narrative that unites right-wing extremists, theocratic groups, and liberals
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism
'Klaus Martin Schwab was born on 30 March 1938, to Eugen Wilhelm Schwab and Erika Epprecht
in Ravensburg.
His parents had moved from Switzerland to Germany during the Third Reich
in order for his father to assume the role of director at
Escher Wyss AG, .
an industrial company and contractor for the Nazi regime"
"During WWII, the company was a supplier for the German war effort manufacturing and supplying flamethrowers.".
***
"Elon Musk sells all 20,000 Boring Company 'flamethrowers'
Stunt generates $10m for billionaire’s personal hobby despite warnings from Home Office and US politicians"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_involved_in_the_Holocaust
"Herbert Himmler head of the SS, visiting the IG Farben plant, Auschwitz III, in German-occupied Poland, July 1942. His visit included watching a gassing, while he was inspecting the expansion of Auschwitz II, the extermination camp, and Auschwitz III, an IG Farben (BASF) plant."
" one man didn’t want to let Standard Oil get away with profiteering from the Third Reich. That man was Nelson A. Rockefeller, the grandson of John D. Rockefeller, one of the founders of Andrews, Clark and Company, which went on to become Standard Oil. Rockefeller couldn’t directly influence any of the corporate board’s policies, so instead he hatched a plan.
While in the position of Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, Rockefeller created and published a book entitled Sequel to the Apocalypse: How Your Dimes Pay for Hitler’s War..
Rockefeller arranged for the anonymously written book to be sent to American embassies around the world, thus revealing the relationship Standard Oil had with the Nazis.
This paved the way for the end of the relationship between IG Farben and Standard Oil, and by the time the United States declared war against the Germans in December 1941, the tryst was well and truly over.
Standard Oil has since dissolved into Chevron and BP, among other modern-day companies.
https://listverse.com/2013/10/24/10-big-business-nazi-profiteers/
"A draft of proposed cuts to the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), leaked on Wednesday, would also
eliminate support for people with disabilities
in the US,
including education, research and services."
https://www.theguardian.com/us- news/2025/apr/24/rfk-jr-autism-disability-services-cuts.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/24/rfk-jr-autism-disability-services-cuts
"The moves come after Kennedy claimed incorrectly, in his first press conference as health secretary last week, that autistic people do not contribute to society or lead fulfilled lives and that autism “destroys” families."
The Trump administration has also proposed cuts to the Department of Education, which supports more than 7 million disabled students.
Trump has said Kennedy will oversee services for students with disabilities, an unusual switch from the education department to HHS.
“That is going to present a major challenge to special education,” Shore said. “We stand to lose as much as half a century of progress.” The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act was first enacted in 1974.