Africa, Europe, Asia and Latin America

   Not in the Guardian news? Really. 

"The UK and Australia abstained while the US voted against." 

Hot Potato got buried I guess.

____ 

"It says Israel must return land and other “immovable property” 

 as well as all assets seized since the occupation began in 1967  

and all cultural property and assets taken from Palestinians and Palestinian institutions.

The resolution also demands Israel allow all Palestinians displaced during the occupation to return to their places of origin and make reparations for the damage caused by its occupation. " 

The world’s highest court ruled that Israel is “abusing its status as the occupying power” by 

 building and expanding settlements,  

using the area’s natural resources, 

 annexing and imposing permanent controls over lands,  

and undermining Palestinians’ right to self-determination." 

But look a pigmy hippo. 

"the vast majority of the international community consider the Palestinian territory as Israeli-occupied." 

"The list of those opposed includes Israel and its top ally, the United States. 

 Argentina,  

which in 2010 had recognised Palestinian statehood, has under current President Javier Milei  

shifted its stance and grown into one of Israel’s staunchest diplomatic supporters. It too opposed the resolution. 

 Paraguay  

is the only other nation in the Americas that voted against the resolution." 

"Hungary and the Czech Republic were the only ones to vote no from Europe, joined by Malawi from Africa and multiple Pacific island countries." 

For:  

France, Spain, Finland and Portugal  

were some of the main European countries to vote in favour. Other prominent backers included 

 Japan, China, Russia and Brazil.  

Overall, almost 

 all of Africa,  

Europe, 

 Asia  

and Latin America  

voted yes. 

 

Beep beep beep. 

"U.N. General Assembly demands Israel end occupation of Palestinian territory

The nonbinding resolution says Israel must end its “unlawful presence” within a year, pull out military forces, halt settlement expansion and evacuate settlers." 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/19/un-resolution-israel-palestinian-territory-countries-vote/ 

"It also asks member states to cease arms transfers to Israel  

when there are reasonable grounds to believe that they might be used in the occupied territory  

and to impose sanctions on settlers involved in violence against Palestinians" 

Countries that voted against the resolution: 

 Argentina, 

 Czech Republic, 

 Fiji,.

 Hungary,  

Israel,  

Malawi,  

Micronesia,  

Nauru, 

 Palau,  

Papua New Guinea, 

 Paraguay,  

Tonga,  

Tuvalu, 

 United Goon States." 

"Countries that abstained: 

 Albania, Australia, Austria, Britain, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Canada, Costa Rica, Croatia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Georgia, Germany, Guatemala, Haiti, India, Italy, Kenya, Kiribati, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Moldova, Nepal, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Panama, Poland, Romania, Rwanda, Samoa, Serbia, Slovakia, South Korea, South Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, Uruguay, Vanuatu." 

"Countries that voted for the resolution: 

 Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua-Barbuda, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Botswana, 

 Brazil,  

Brunei, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Chad, Chile,  

China,  

Colombia, Comoros, Côte d’Ivoire, Cuba, Cyprus, Djibouti, Dominica, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia,  

Finland, 

 France,  

Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Honduras, Iceland, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Jamaica, 

 Japan,  

Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Libya, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Mauritius, 

 Mexico,  

Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea,  

Norway,  

Oman, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Qatar,  

Russia, 

 Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino,  

Saudi Arabia, 

 Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, South Africa,  

Spain, 

 Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor Leste, Trinidad-Tobago, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, 

 Turkey,  

Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen, Zimbabwe.  "

"Gaza crisis: In the Gaza Strip, Israel has waged one of this century’s most destructive wars, killing tens of thousands and plunging at least half of the population into “famine-like conditions.” For months, Israel has resisted pressure from Western allies to allow more humanitarian aid into the enclave.

U.S. involvement: Despite tensions between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and some U.S. politicians, including President Biden, the United States supports Israel with weapons, funds aid packages, and has vetoed or abstained from the United Nations’ cease-fire resolutions.

History: The roots of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and mistrust are deep and complex, predating the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. Read more on the history of the Gaza Strip."

That guy

  

"The state law, Act 86, authorizes places like grocery stores and gas stations in the Keystone state to sell ready-to-drink cocktails with up to  

12.5% alcohol  

by volume in containers of up to 16 ounces, starting 16 September.

Shapiro signed the bipartisan legislation into law this summer.

“This is what real freedom looks like,   

UN General Assembly demands Israel ends occupation of Palestinian territories

and we did it in a way that protects taxpayers and supports our state workers,” Shapiro said in August." 

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Real freedom has a look 

Real freedom has a buzz 

Real freedom is fine to drive 

Real freedom has a wisecrack pop sound 

Real freedom may go dance or riot who knows 

Real freedom looks better each gulp

Real freedom fits in the cupholder in the car 

Real freedom doesn't recall last night 

Real freedom for sale   5am till 12 pm 

Stock up real freedom in shirt supply 

Real freedom fills a trash bag 5 cents a can't. 

"Everybody’s been there,” look, don't have a hissy fit grandpa. 

Exploding cigar Inc.

  

'In 1844, 23-year-old Heyum Lehmann, who changed his name to Henry Lehman,  the son of a Jewish cattle merchant, emigrated to the United States from Rimpar, Bavaria. 

 He settled in Montgomery, Alabama, where he opened a dry-goods store, "H. Lehman". 

In 1847, following the arrival of his brother Emanuel Lehman, the firm became "H. Lehman and Bro." 

 With the arrival of their youngest brother, Mayer Lehman, in 1850, the firm changed its name again and "Lehman Brothers" was founded. " 

'Before filing for bankruptcy in 2008, Lehman was the fourth-largest investment bank 

 in the United States  

(behind Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Merrill Lynch), with about 25,000 employees worldwide" 

"Defunct, September 15, 2008; 16 years ago

 Lehman's bankruptcy filing was the largest in US history,  

beating the previous record holder Enron, 

  and is thought to have played a major role in the unfolding of the 2007–2008 financial crisis. The market collapse also gave support to the "too big to fail" doctrine." 

Lehman became a member of the Coffee Exchange as early as 1883 and finally the New York Stock Exchange in 1887. In 1899, it underwrote its first public offering, the preferred and common stock of the International Steam Pump Company.

'Despite the offering of International Steam, the firm's real shift from being a commodities house to a house of issue did not begin until 1906. 

 In that year, under Emanuel's son Philip Lehman, the firm partnered with Goldman, Sachs & Co.,to bring the  

"An exploding cigar is a variety of cigar that explodes shortly after being lit. Such cigars are normally packed with a minute chemical explosive charge near the lighting end or with a non-chemical device that ruptures the cigar when exposed to heat. 

 Also known as "loaded cigars," the customary intended purpose of exploding cigars is as a practical joke, rather than to cause lasting physical harm to the smoker of the cigar.  

Nevertheless, the high risk of unintended injuries from their use caused a decline in their manufacture and sale."

 General Cigar Co.  (General Cigar Company is the largest manufacturer of premium cigars in the world. )

to market, followed closely by  

Sears, Roebuck and Company. 

Among these were F.W. Woolworth Company, 

May Department Stores Company,  

Gimbel Brothers, Inc.,   (The company is known for creating the oldest Thanksgiving parade, the Gimbels Thanksgiving Day Parade, originating in 1920 in Philadelphia. Gimbels was also considered the chief rival of Macy's with their feud popularized in American culture. As of 1930, Gimbels had grown to 20 stores, whose sales revenue made it the largest department store chain in the world) 

 R.H. Macy & Company, 

The Studebaker Corporation. (Founded in 1852 and incorporated in 1868[5] as the Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company, the firm was originally a coachbuilder, manufacturing wagons, buggies, carriages and harnesses.)

 the B.F. Goodrich Co. 

and Endicott Johnson Corporation..

(The company was responsible for nearly all of the shoe and footwear for the United States Army during World War I and World War II.

At its peak, E-J was one of the largest shoe manufacturers in the U.S., with retail outlets in over 30 states.)"

" 

"In the 1930s, Lehman underwrote the initial public offering of the first television manufacturer, DuMont Laboratories, and helped fund the Radio Corporation of America (RCA). 

 It also helped finance the rapidly growing oil industry, including the companies Halliburton and Kerr-McGee. 

 In the 1950s, Lehman underwrote the IPO of Digital Equipment Corporation. Later, it arranged the acquisition of Digital by Compaq." 

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

 

"The company directly dealt with cotton farmers. Lehman, particularly, presented himself as a friend to the farmers, who believed that the banks only lend money to merchants and middlemen. 

 He bartered with skills that he learned from dealing with farmers in the Bavarian countryside and accepted cotton as payment for borrowed money.  Within a few years, this became the major part of their firm" 

 

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"With its arrival in New York, Gimbels prospered, and soon became the primary rival to the leading Herald Square retailer, Macy's, whose flagship store was located a block north.  

This rivalry entered into the American popular argot as "Does Macy's tell Gimbels?",  

an idiom used to brush off any query about matters the speaker didn't wish to divulge.  

To distinguish itself from Herald Square neighbors, Gimbels' advertising promised more: 

"Select, don't settle. " 

"1923, Saks & Co. merged with Gimbel Brothers, Inc., which was owned by a cousin of Horace Saks,[16] Bernard Gimbel, operating as a separate autonomous subsidiary. " 

"Although far rarer than their prank cousins, the use of exploding cigars as a means to kill or attempt to kill targets in real life has been claimed, and is well represented as a fictional plot device.  

The most famous case concerning the intentionally deadly variety was an alleged plot by the CIA in the 1960s to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro.  

Notable real-life incidents involving the non-lethal variety include an exploding cigar purportedly given by Ulysses S. Grant to an acquaintance and  

a dust-up between Turkish military officers and Ernest Hemingway after he pranked one of them with an exploding cigar." 

No one worth counting is laughing

  

"Well, one lesson I’ve learned is that just because I say something to a group 

 and they laugh doesn’t mean it’s going to be all that hilarious  

as a post on X,” he said in a follow-up post early Monday.  

 “Turns out that jokes are WAY less funny 

 if people don’t know the context 

 and the delivery 

 is plain text,” he wrote in another."  

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Or if it's not a joke. 

Or the laughs are from sick people. 

Or if the "joke" is plain ugly, illegal, and wrong.  

Boycotting Twitter and Tesla and joke Mars Space X and brain implants. 

Keeping Elon's fascism out of US government. 

Censoring is the least of Musk fears. 

Ignore the semen out of his slimy skull and keep it in a monitored petri group, where they can laugh, and gang bang choke on self approval ad infinitum.   

___  

 

"Mr. Musk took down the post after it immediately drew outrage. X" 

"The Secret Service said on Sunday that it had fired on an armed man at Mr. Trump’s golf club in West Palm Beach, Fla., while the former president was praying." 

What a joke. 

___ 

"X, and before it Twitter, has a long-held reputation for being a breeding ground for white supremacy.  

Dating as far back as the 2016 election, these extremists have used the app to sow seeds of misinformation and spread racism. " 

"Elon Musk... has been retweeting prominent race scientist adherents on his platform X (formally known as Twitter), spreading misinformation about racial minorities’ intelligence and physiology to his audience of 176.3 million followers—" 

In 2022, just one week after Musk purchased Twitter, the Center for Countering Digital Hate —an online civil rights group— found that  

racial slurs against Black people had increased three times the year’s average, 

 with homophobic and transphobic epithets  

also seeing a significant uptick, according to the Associated Press"  

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/03/elon-musk-racist-tweets-science-video/

 

Black workers at California Tesla factory allege rampant racism, seek class-action status 

"California regulators sued Tesla in state court, alleging the company turned “a blind eye” to abuses and that Musk told workers to be 

 “thick-skinned” about racial harassment.

 In April, a federal jury awarded another former Tesla employee $3.2 million for racial abuse he suffered." 

All of the declarants said they heard use of one particular racial slur, with more than half saying they heard supervisors and managers use that word, according to a declaration summarizing the statements.

Dozens also said higher-ups direct the racial slur toward them, 

 the summary stated, and nearly half said they experienced or saw other Black workers tasked with more physically laborious work and disciplined more frequently. " 

https://apnews.com/article/tesla-racism-black-lawsuit-class-action-21c88bddf60eca702560be58429495de

"Almost 6,000 Black workers from Tesla Inc.’s California factory can sue the car maker collectively over claims that it failed to protect them from racism, under a tentative ruling by a California judge." 

___ 

'Tesla employs over 20,000 people at the factory and expects to eventually have a staff of 60,000 as production ramps up. 

 It is the country's second biggest factory by size 

 as well as the second-largest building by volume 

 in the world after the Boeing Everett Factory." 

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

 

"By May 2020, a selection process was underway by Tesla. The short list included Austin, Nashville (Tennessee) and Tulsa (Oklahoma). 

Two locations in the vicinity of Tulsa had been viewed by Tesla by mid-May. 

 The Tulsa campaign was promoted by G. T. Bynum, the mayor of Tulsa. In May 2020 Bynum discussed the suitability of "Green Country" (Northeastern Oklahoma) 

 and distributed a photomontage of the Cybertruck in Tulsa Police Department livery, with a suggestion of local purchasing, if the Gigafactory were to be situated near Tulsa. 

 On May 20, 2020, wrap advertising was applied to the Golden Driller statue located at the Tulsa Expo Center to create a caricature of Elon Musk, with the word "Tulsa" on statue's belt buckle replaced by the "Tesla" name. 

In July 2020, Tesla selected Austin as the site" 

"the fascist/billionaire said he will move SpaceX’s HQ from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas, a company town being built in the southern part of the state. Social media platform X will move from San Francisco to Austin, Texas" 

The stick in the mud stirs

  

"The New York Times review of The Song of Hiawatha was scathing. 

The anonymous reviewer judged that the poem "is entitled to commendation" for "embalming pleasantly enough the monstrous traditions of an uninteresting, and, one may almost say, a justly exterminated race.  

As a poem, it deserves no place" because there "is no romance about the Indian." He complains that Hiawatha's deeds of magical strength pale by comparison to the feats of Hercules and to "Finn Mac Cool, that big stupid Celtic mammoth." 

 The reviewer writes that "Grotesque, absurd, and savage as the groundwork is, Mr. LONGFELLOW has woven over it a profuse wreath of his own poetic elegancies."  

But, he concludes, Hiawatha "will never add to Mr. LONGFELLOW's reputation as a poet." 

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

Scratch the surface, the pond nary ripple 

Better greenhorn that no horn 

An amateur suffice in deconstruction armed with a sledge 

Creating destruction as entertainment

Some leader hate hats as verb 

One hate atop each, dunce pedestal atop spine 

Romanticism the pagan put-on 

Still suckle roman columns 

Holding child's marbles  

And cats made to fight, a new coliseum 

A world wide web ones staggered through 

On the path to put out recycling bin 

Even though it's trash or 

Incinerated upstream from the formula plant 

The stick in the mud 

Stirs 

 

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"English writer George Eliot called The Song of Hiawatha, along with Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 book The Scarlet Letter, the "two most indigenous and masterly productions in American literature". " 

"Numerous artists also responded to the epic. The earliest pieces of sculpture were by Edmonia Lewis, who had most of her career in Rome.  

Her father was Haitian and her mother was Native American and African American. 

 The arrow-maker and his daughter, later called The Wooing of Hiawatha, was modelled in 1866 and carved in 1872. 

By that time she had achieved success with individual heads of Hiawatha and Minnehaha. Carved in Rome, these are now held by the Newark Museum in New Jersey." 

 

  

 "For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills" 

Wordsworth 

The rotten mane (2017)

  

earth nameless stumbles into human form,

     a suit derides in mealy pleats;

the phaeton drops them at the curb,

     his cape over his klannish sheets;

dim don treads, alligator shoe-horned,

     toward his minaret of unflinching greed;

composure escapes him, a raped morn,

     liberty lady ravaged need not plead.

the vouch of slime undoes his tongue, 

    all fair and noble creature recoil;

rather air or water to quench his lust,

     don's bearings gurgle Oil.

land promises, evict the rotten mane

of tyrants tirades and more of the same.

12-14-17

Mt Tabor, Oregon

Schrammelmusik

 

 

Schrammelmusik  

(German pronunciation: [ˈʃʁaməlmuˌzik]) is  

a style of Viennese folk music originating in the late nineteenth century and still performed in Austria. The style is named for the prolific folk composers Johann and Josef Schrammel.  

1878, the brothers Johann Schrammel (1850–1893) and Josef Schrammel (1852-1895),  

musicians, violinists and composers from Vienna, Austria, formed an ensemble with guitarist Anton Strohmayer, son of the celebrated composer Alois Strohmayer.

 The Schrammel brothers played two violins, accompanied by Strohmayer on a double-necked contraguitar. 

 Inspired by both urbane and rustic traditions, the three musicians performed folk songs, marches, and dance music, most often for audiences at wine taverns (Heurigen) and inns around Vienna.  

1884 clarinetist Georg Dänzer joined the group, which soon enjoyed phenomenal success under the name "Schrammel Brothers Specialities Quartet" (Specialitäten Quartett Gebrüder Schrammel).  

The ensemble was invited to perform in palaces and mansions as "Schrammel euphoria" gripped the Viennese elite. So great was the Schrammel brothers' popularity that some earlier folk music forms, such as the Wienerlied dialect song, came to be known as Schrammelmusik as well.  

The Schrammels' popularity eventually extended throughout Europe and in 1893 they were invited to perform at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. 

A typical Schrammelmusik ensemble consists of two violins or fiddles, a double-necked contraguitar, and a G clarinet (also known in Austria as a picksüßes Hölzl). Often a button accordion, called a Schrammelharmonika, is included.

"Performers strive for a melancholy, "crying", but melodious sound. 

 The style is influenced by folk music from Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, Moravia and Bavaria."

"Several of Vienna's composers of formal music have also been Schrammelmusik enthusiasts, including  

Johann Strauss, Johannes Brahms, and Arnold Schönberg. "

*  

"The album Continental Cafe contains five tracks of Schrammelmusik, by a group called Wiener Konzertschrammeln.  

The record was issued by Cook Records in the 1950s and reissued by Smithsonian Folkways in 2004." 

     __&&____

 'The noble family of Horrem called Schramm , also of Hornumb or of Hornum and later also of Horn called Schramm , is an old Lower Rhine noble family of knightly descent.  

The origin of the family is believed to be at the ancestral castle of Hemmersbach near Horrem .  However, the places of origin of Horr , Hoeven and Büttgen , all of which are located on the Lower Rhine, are also discussed. Branches of the family also reached Wittgenstein , Nassau and Hesse around 1600 , where the family briefly became members of the Old Hessian Knighthood around 1700." 

Before 1200, a common descent with the Lords of Hemmersbach is assumed. The first knight with the actual name of the family is recorded as "Gottfried von Horrem called Schramm", who fell in the Battle of Worringen in 1288 

The grandchildren's generation at the latest had adopted Protestantism , which had driven parts of the family to emigrate from the Catholic Rhineland to Wittgenstein, Nassau and Hesse. 

 Civilian descendants of the family, who bore only the name "Schramm", lived in Bad Berleburg , Dillenburg and Herborn . 

 The professor and theologian Johann Heinrich Schramm from Herborn came from this branch of the family 

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horrem_genannt_Schramm_(Adelsgeschlecht)

With the grandchildren's generation in Langenselbold , who all married into commoners, the traceable male line of the noble family ends.  

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7. Jeremia (Leman) Layman (abt. 1765) 

8. Jacob Lehman 1731 * Margreta Schram 1732 

9. Friedrich Wilhelm Schram 1695 

10. Johan Heinrich Schram 1667 

11. Tilman Schram 1633

12. Thomas Schram 1590 

13. Paulus VonHorn Schram 1557 

14. Wilhelm Von Horrem Schram 1509 

Pauwels Von Horrem Schram  

Mechteld Prick  

Unknown Schram 1395 

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Schram-88#Ancestors 

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Leman-392#Ancestors

 

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Leman-395

 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/95400049/benjamin-layman  

6. Benjamin Layman 1791

(son of Jeremias "Jurri" Layman and Catharina "Tryntje" Allen ) 

 

5. Phebe “Polly” Layman Shoemaker

BIRTH 1 Sep 1822

Conesville, Schoharie County, New York, USA

*  

4. Ophelia A. Shoemaker Bloodgood

BIRTH 7 Jul 1844

Conesville, Schoharie County, New York, USA 

*  

3. Dean W. Bloodgood 

* 

2. Dean P. Bloodgood 

* 

1.FLB

* 

Mesa Isis Surreal Bloodgood 

(Margreta Schram 1732) 

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(On a different Note....) 

Brahms's father, Johann Jakob Brahms, was from the town of Heide in Holstein. 

 Against his family's will, Johann Jakob pursued a career in music, arriving in Hamburg at age 19. 

He found work playing double bass for jobs; he also played in a sextet in the Alster-pavilion in Hamburg's Jungfernstieg. In 1830, Johann Jakob was appointed as a horn player in the Hamburg militia. 

He married Johanna Henrika Christiane Nissen the same year. 

A middle-class seamstress 17 years his senior, she enjoyed writing letters and reading despite an apparently limited education.

Johannes Brahms was born in 1833. His sister Elisabeth (Elise) had been born in 1831 and a younger brother Fritz Friedrich was born in 1835. 

The family then lived in poor apartments in the Gängeviertel [de] quarter of Hamburg and struggled economically. 

 (Johann Jakob even considered emigrating to the United States  

when an impresario, recognizing Johannes's talent, promised them fortune there.)   

"Johann Jakob gave his son his first musical training; Johannes also learnt to play the violin and the basics of playing the cello. From 1840 he studied piano with Otto Friedrich Willibald Cossel. Cossel complained in 1842 that Brahms 

 "could be such a good player, but he will not stop his never-ending composing."

"Photograph from 1891 of the building in Hamburg where Brahms was born. It was destroyed by bombing in 1943." 

"1850 Brahms met the Hungarian violinist Ede Reményi and accompanied him in a number of recitals over the next few years. This was his introduction to "gypsy-style" music such as the csardas, which was later to prove the foundation of his most lucrative and popular compositions, the two sets of Hungarian Dances (1869 and 1880)." 

"the initials of Joachim's personal motto Frei aber einsam ("Free but lonely"). " 

"Brahms has been described as an agnostic and a humanist.The devout Catholic Antonín Dvořák wrote in a letter: "Such a man, such a fine soul – and he believes in nothing! He believes in nothing! 

 When asked by conductor Karl Reinthaler to add additional explicitly religious text to his German Requiem, Brahms is reported to have responded, "As far as the text is concerned, I confess that I would gladly omit even the word German and instead use Human" 

"The commendation of Brahms by Breslau as "the leader in the art of serious music in Germany today" led to a bilious comment from Wagner in his essay "On Poetry and Composition": 

 "I know of some famous composers who in their concert masquerades don the disguise of a street-singer one day, the hallelujah periwig of Handel the next, the dress of a Jewish Czardas-fiddler another time, and then again the guise of a highly respectable symphony dressed up as Number Ten"  

(referring to Brahms's First Symphony as a putative tenth symphony of Beethoven)."  

*

'as one of the 'Three Bs'; in a letter to his wife he wrote: "You know what I think of Brahms: after Bach and Beethoven the greatest, the most sublime of all composers." 

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

Old Sock Mascot

  

"The brand had several mascots, all anthropomorphicized versions of their products, most notably Twinkie the Kid, a Twinkie dressed like a wrangler. "

Other mascots include: 

Kit Karson Kakes  

Ivanka Iced Ovaries 

Sour Stone Proud Puffs 

Manchin Canary Croakers 

Victor Vanilla 

Captain Cupcake

Fruit Pie the Magician

Chauncey Chocodile

Chipper Brownie

Chief Big Wheels

Happy HoHo

King Ding Dong

Suzy Q   

 "In the 1970s and 1980s, Hostess frequently promoted its snack foods in whole page comic book advertisements in major publishers such as DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Harvey Comics, Archie Comics and Gold Key Comics." 

"In 2024, The Bible was sold to Chinese-Russian patriots for an undisclosed portfolio of hookers, stinger missiles, and opium rights. Don Trump issued this new Bible, including free used sneakers that allow one to snorkel thru piss. As it outlived arsenic and fluoride in health longevity and flavor supremacy, Donettes was thereby added to the periodic table as a measure of GOP ruthlessness. "

"Twinkie defense" is a derisive label for an improbable legal defense. 

 It is not a recognized legal defense in jurisprudence, but a catch-all term coined by reporters during their coverage of the trial of defendant Dan White for the murders of San Francisco city Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone.  

White's defense was that he suffered diminished capacity as a result of his depression. His change in diet from healthful food to Twinkies and other sugary foods was said to be a symptom of depression. 

 Contrary to common belief, White's attorneys did not argue that the Twinkies were the cause of White's actions, but that their consumption was symptomatic of his underlying depression. " 

* 

"El box of Twinkies from shortly before Hostess's bankruptcy in 2012 was opened eight years later; one had completely molded over with cladosporium, another had a small amount of mold, and the creme filling in a third Twinkie had turned brown with the taste of "old sock"." 

You get what you get MAGA.

Nazi Moving Inc.

  

"After Adolf Hitler seized power in Germany, Alfred and his brother Werner, Klaus-Michael’s uncle, ousted their Jewish shareholder from Kuehne + Nagel.  

During World War II, Kuehne + Nagel, led by Alfred and Werner, transported looted Jewish property, primarily furniture, books, and art, from occupied Western Europe to Nazi Germany as part of the so-called “M-Aktion,” an abbreviation of “Möbelaktion,” which translates to “furniture operation.” 

 Over two years, between 1942 and 1944, almost 70,000 homes belonging to Jews in the Netherlands, France, Belgium, and Luxembourg were systematically looted after their inhabitants had been 

deported by train to ghettos and death camps. 

He is also the largest shareholder of the German airline Lufthansa,  

shipping behemoth Hapag-Lloyd, 

 chemicals distributor Brenntag, 

 Hamburg soccer club HSV, and the company that owns " 

Furnishings Polishings Lessons and Rules. 

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/richest-german-nazi-billions

 North America’s Greyhound bus lines"

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"The legislation, to be introduced in parliament on Thursday, targets false content that hurts election integrity or public health, calls for denouncing a group or injuring a person, or risks disrupting key infrastructure or emergency services." 

"Facebook owner Meta (META.O), opens new tab has said it may block professional news content if it is forced to pay royalties, while X, formerly Twitter, has removed most content moderation since being bought by billionaire Elon Musk in 2022." 

https://www.reuters.com/technology/australia-threatens-fines-social-media-giants-enabling-misinformation-2024-09-12/

"Misinformation and disinformation pose a serious threat to the safety and wellbeing of Australians, as well as to our democracy, society and economy," said Communications Minister Michelle Rowland in a statement." 

"the company became the logistics partner of the British Olympic Association, which is why it took over logistics services for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris." 

"September 2013, Kuehne + Nagel agreed to merge its railfreight business with VTG to form VTG Rail Logistics, which would be Europe's largest private railfreight business when it starts operations in 2014" 

"Upon Kühne's death in 1932, his sons – Alfred and Werner – became partners in the firm. 

 Adolf Maass (1875 – probably early in 1945 in Auschwitz concentration camp), who was Jewish, a partner, and one of the firm's shareholder with a 45% stake, was forced out in April 1933.  

On the 1st of May 1933 Alfred and Werner Kühne joined the Nazi Party, and under the brothers' management the firm played a prominent role in the transport of property seized from Jews in occupied territories" 

Diamond cinder

  

Got a little breathing relief 

Catch my breath can't hardly speak 

Ma's ashes still warm on the altar 

Stop to smell the roses don't falter

Got a few days together before she died 

two months later put life aside 

There's no easement how we go on 

Uncharted realms gotta go full swan 

Still smarts but don't feel too wise 

Tween a rock and a grown place vice 

Brush off the sad she's part my galaxy

Always was and will be mom to me  

We have a little breathing space 

Keep lungs tidy earth's business pace 

Planting trees gotta vote out the saw 

Seed health, water well, keep well ready to draw 

Sketch the planet a charcoal filter 

Before it reduces to one, a diamond cinder 

You'll never see another paradise   

Parent earth takes two clean dice

 

Her father away she smoked as a child

Back when vending machine handed out tar mild 

Mid life clouds stimulant, weight loss 

Never tallied the big picture cost 

 

Gave it her all, tossed in the towel 

A month after brother preceded her vowel 

O you and I we iou the future 

Few'n far between last breaths gathered 

short of breath,  too winded to walk 

Give us a stump speech talk 

She gave her shade, we swung from limbs, 

Made a canoe, rings full to their brim

 

There's no walls in this breathing expanse 

Just horizon and a crease in plans 

We're done on books, finito caput ideas 

Rest all you can can you  please find peace  

Hate Group Terrorism sponsored by Koch

 "Emil’ Keme, a professor in the Native American and Indigenous Studies program, was also on the flyer. 

 An Indigenous K’iche’ Maya scholar  

and one of only two Indigenous tenured faculty members at Emory,  

Keme told the Guardian that he came to the US as a teenager from Guatemala,  

escaping “a civil war against my people … involving the Guatemalan army, who  

received training from Israelis”." 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/12/emory-university-campus-reform-israel-flyers 

'Noëlle McAfee, chairperson of Emory’s philosophy department and also featured on the flyer,  

sent an email Tuesday afternoon to Brad Slutsky, Emory’s general counsel, 

 asking what the university “will do to notify the [Campus Reform] organization that it is has violated our rules and, 

 absent any invitation from any member of the campus community, is not welcome here”.

McAfee said the flyer is defaming students and faculty mentioned by calling them “anti-Israel”  

and claiming that all those arrested were involved in “setting up an encampment”. “There’s no evidence [of this],” she said. “The whole thing is lies.” 

"If you go around handing out flyers with people’s names and pictures, drawing negative attention to them,” he said, “it’s very clear you want to cause harm to them – physically, emotionally or psychologically.” 

"Campus Reform, a national group of  (fascist) conservative students, 

 put its logo on the flyer, which refers to arrests made during last April’s protests seeking Emory divestment from Israel. " 

"The Leadership Institute, funded by the Koch family  

and others, runs the group"   

"One of the students who appears on the flyer spoke to the Guardian on condition of anonymity, due to safety concerns.  

She recounted how she approached the campus quad or central plaza on the morning of 25 April  

to observe last semester’s protest, then only several hours old.  

“I was there two minutes  

when a police officer 

 came up behind me,  

grabbed my hands and put zip ties on me,” she said."  

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"Lisa Wright, the chair of the union’s bargaining committee and an employee of 23 years at the SPLC, was one of the employees impacted by the layoffs."

“Shock, horror, confusion. It’s been sloppy, dispassionate, inhumane. 

 It has been the absolute  

opposite of what the organization 

 says they stand for and absolute chaos since then,” Wright said" 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/12/southern-poverty-law-center-layoffs 

"This was designed with trauma as a feature, not a bug – to keep us confused, hopeless, afraid, divided" 

"Thereatha Redding, an employee at SPLC for nearly three years and a union steward, worked in Stewart county, Georgia,  

one of the poorest counties in the state, 

 providing legal services to immigrants held at an ICE detention center.  

She and the entire legal team were laid off  

and no communication or support was offered to the community members who rely on their services, she said."  

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2023, CharityWatch initially gave SPLC a grade of B based on its 2021 financials. 

 CharityWatch, however, downgrades all charities that "hoard" donations, 

 which per CharityWatch's definition occurs whenever "a charity's available assets in reserve exceeds three years' worth its annual budget." 

 In particular, CharityWatch automatically "downgrades to an F rating any charity holding available assets in reserve equal to 5 years or more of its annual budget." 

 In accordance with this policy, on 3 February 2023 

 CharityWatch 

 downgraded SPLC from B to F 

 because it had 7.3 years of available assets in reserve, 

 it spent 68% of its funds on programs, and it cost $20 to raise $100.  

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"In the richest country on earth it’s absurd that 75% of seniors who need hearing aids don’t have them, 65% of seniors don’t have dental insurance and eyeglass frames manufactured for as little as $10 cost over $230.  

Some 84% of Americans – including 83% of Republicans – want to expand Medicare to cover dental, hearing and vision.  

The vice-president should run on this.

At a time when about half of American households over the age of 55 have no retirement savings 

 and one out of five seniors is trying to live on less than $13,500 a year, 

 we must expand social security so that everyone in this country can retire with the dignity they have earned and everyone with a disability can live with the security they need. 

 We can do that by lifting the cap on social security taxes, so that the very wealthy pay the same tax rate as working-class families.

The American people are united in supporting these popular ideas.  They are important policies.  They are winning politics.  And they are particularly popular in the battleground states that Harris needs to win.

In other words: campaigning on an economic agenda that speaks to the needs of working families is a winning formula for Kamala Harris and Democrats in November.

By embracing bold ideas that address the day-to-day crises facing America’s working families, Harris can not only win the White House, but create a Democratic party that is responsive to the needs of ordinary Americans."

*Bernie Sanders is a US Senator and chairman of the health education labor and pensions committee. He represents the state of Vermont, and is the longest-serving independent in the history of Congress. *  

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"from mid-2020 to mid-2022, corporate profits rose by 75% – five times as fast as inflation. "  

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/12/price-gouging-ban

"In Texas, for example, where the attorney general has the power to take on companies that 

 unfairly exploit state residents, .

the governor regularly touts the state as the best place to do business in the country. " 

"In New York, the state was able to punish Walgreens for taking advantage of customers during the infant formula crisis when supply chain issues reduced the availability of baby formula across the country. 

 In North Carolina, the attorney general won a series of cases against companies that gouged consumers following hurricanes. 

 In both Kentucky and Idaho, companies were held accountable for artificially forcing up gas prices in the wake of pipeline closures."  

"Our bill would apply this standard to massive corporations that exploit consumers while  

specifically protecting small businesses under $100m in earnings that don’t have the same power to set prices."  

Bob Casey is a US senator representing the state of Pennsylvania 

"In January 2024, Casey voted against a resolution proposed by Senator Bernie Sanders to apply the human rights provisions 

 of the Foreign Assistance Act to U.S. aid to Israel's military.  

The proposal was defeated, 72 to 11." 

"Casey expressed support for the confirmation of both John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court of the United States; both were believed to be in favor of overturning Roe v. Wade." 

"Casey voted to confirm both Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court of the United States." 

"In March 2017, Casey voted against confirming Neil Gorsuch  

to the Supreme Court, citing "real concerns" about Gorsuch's "rigid and restrictive" judicial philosophy and some of his past opinions on issues relating to the health and safety of workers and the rights of those with disabilities. 

 He also voted against the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. 

On October 23, 2020, Casey voted against the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court."

Greenwashing Solicitation Parasite Con

 "The Nature Conservancy has ties to many large companies, including those in the oil, gas, mining, chemical and agricultural industries. 

 As of 2016, its board of directors included the retired chairman of 

 Duke Energy, 

 and executives from 

 Merck,  

HP, 

 Google  

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. 

The organization faced criticism in 2010 from supporters for its refusal to cut ties with BP after the Gulf oil spill." 

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

Do you have a minute before you go?

Enjoy your shopping.

I love your tattoos.

Want to help save Earth? 

It'll only take a minute. 

 

(Every person they see passing, they attempt to make contact. Flattery, engagement, anything to initiate getting your info and steady money.) 

There's a spiel they train on led by corporate. 

"For the price of a donut..." 

$20 a month is $240. 

$50 a month is $600. 

$100 a month is $1200. 

  

$20 a month is just 75 pennies a day. 

Let me know the next time you see a $.75 donut.  It's an endangered species. 

No paws in corndog zinger

  

Venezuela on steroids, maduro 

Snacks on his cat burger 

Dim don dug up from pet cemetery in Springfield

They hit a gusher 

The biggest oil in his story of biblical oil 

It stopped the baby killing democrats 

In their abortive trance

Ten months old fetuses back to voting after their umbilicals sorted out 

Hulk hogan a cabinet of one 

His sweat on trump's lips from all those blow jobs 

Seeking a higher commission than musk 

No one said god bless our sponsors

Climate change blew past both 

In a nanosecond as trump rolled his eye 

And sought a teleprompt from the implant 

A tiny crowd fled the debate 

Devil tail between 300 pound legs 

It's a photo opportunity the biggest in the world times the world 

The scribble penultimate pet 

Went down the drain, throw Don a lifeline 

Bankrupt but selling bibles 

Can't buy the election but it'll rent more proud boys to suck 

The grease off his cells bars 

Quit fondling the strongman told dim don 

That's my black job 

I hung my flag inside out on my hate 

Pole polls scream from the top of my wingtips 

Too big to flail 

The jumbo fascism stuck on the runway 

To say it again venezuela on steering void 

* 

Can you see yo self GOP

Let's mop the floor s'more 

You bought in whole hog what Putin fed piss  

There's a spot you missed 

 

Run don jump fetch 

Wag the burger tail, yo fried brain madcow tirade kvetch 

Can the oligarch handle their lawless slop

Grab the bucket by its pie hole full stop 

Injecting bleach don't sterilize stupid 

Venting ammonia deserve no bleacher  vapid

Clean the rally stall Hercules it crap right and far right 

There's no paws in the corndog bite 

Dip in mustard tan that's a Herculean task

Hydra headed lies grow out the GOP mask

Matt gaetz got his tweens waiting in the jet 

Florida eats it's vixen trafficked pets 

Victor orban on the toilet going thru our papers 

It a lending liebury judge cannon caper 

Get a mop spread it around the commissary 

Undocumented documents documentary unsanitary 

 

It's over the GOP head project 2025 

DeSatan is pawning fawning Nikki Haley hide 

Wear it MAGA leech its guts left a trail 

Can't hide your Putin petness sleeves grail 

 

Watch party at the gun store get a candy intermission 

Utter sickness perverse profiteering bigot session 

Turd times the charm, that down the clogged sink 

Call yo GOP plumber have a lethe lethal drink 

 * 

Be the fulcrum not a smidge 

Don't hide yo mite neath the fridge 

I can see by starlink off my populist ridge

Fudge maker pudding fudging money hid 

Appeal the banana slippery slope 

Away to various bunkers Archie Trump elope 

Meathead foil don't serve a complimentary position 

Wrap up protections and SCOTUS expansion 

Bloomberg melting lift all their yacht 

They mine Greenland all bets made on the spot 

Usual suspects sheik hands ground zero 

It deja vous all the fellas Nero  

* 

It's making a funny sound 

Please take a look 

It may be a belt from running full tilt 

I gassed it in Kiev on the way to Gaza 

Stalled out here at wall street plaza 

I crawled under didn't spy nuthin off 

Just a hung jury jury rigged hung 

That baling wire and duct tape 

The republic crawls all fours then walks with a fraud diploma 

What's that smoke from the manual

Just some corrections then fire it up 

Good to go (  think we already done goed 

 

Consumer Consumed research arm

  

"The research arm of the insurance industry found that  

pickups, SUVs and vans with a hood height greater than 40 inches  

are about 45% more likely to cause deaths in pedestrian crashes  

than cars and other vehicles with a hood height of 30 inches or less and a sloping profile." 

"Consumer Reports found in 2021 that elevated vehicle hoods also obstructed driver views of pedestrians crossing before them.

The magazine and website found that pickup truck hood heights have risen 11% since 2000.  

The hood of a 2017 Ford F-250 heavy-duty pickup  

was 55 inches off the ground, 

 as tall as the roofs of some cars."  

"Consumer Reports said it measured visibility for 15 new vehicles, including full-size trucks. Due to height and long hoods, it found that 

 front blind spots in some trucks were 11 feet longer than some sedans and 7 feet longer than many popular SUVs." 

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One moment we're warm in our nest 

Then thud, fall 70 feet in a second 

Hello crows only a minute later 

I held the pup a minute or two 

Then placed it back on tree 

An adult squirrel picked it up to reunite pup but too late 

Several crow separated them 

Unwilling to watch crow eat squirrel pup 

I carried it to trash 

 

And a news flash from the insurance industry 

That just caught on 

About  auto hood industry specifications 

Lethality 

(Watch crows if you want to be a hero,

After the fact.) 

Freeman, Mueller Swan

 Richard Freeman (1718 - 1784)

 Edward Freeman (1755 - 1819)

Jacob Freeman (1792 - 1871)

George Washington Freeman (1832 - 1898)

 Edward Jacob Freeman (1851 - 1920)

Anna Elizabeth (Freeman) Mueller (1892 - 1973) 

Robert Swan Mueller II (1916 - 2007) 

Robert Swan Mueller, III (1944---)

"His father was an executive with DuPont who had served as a Navy officer in the Atlantic and Mediterranean theaters during World War II. 

He is the only FBI Director that Congress has allowed to serve more than the statutory limit of 10 years since the death of J. Edgar Hoover in 1972 by giving him a special two-year extension." 

 

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Freeman-12950

"Mueller and William Barr—the attorney general who supervised the late stage of Mueller's special counsel investigation—have known each other since the 1980s and have been described as good friends. Mueller attended the weddings of two of Barr's daughters, and their wives attend Bible study together." 

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

 

Did tut tut

  

We possess nothing by chance, 

Cats and stars think 

Through the cosmic telescope new worlds claimed 

No planted flag, no catpaw 

Opens the curtains to surveil beyond lawn 

Thru snow and against snow 

We're refracted, light dissembled, tabby

And calico, maine coon trail blows away 

Is covered or melts 

By chance going either number of ways 

Up the tree or over fence or under the barn 

Bouncing off innumeracy 

Finding quasars to get lost in

or another molten ball of minerals and gasses 

To rest one's light beam 

After traveling the void for a few billion

Years, it's shed 

The new coat comes in, looking for cream 

Stars and cats make unprinted poem 

By design of chance guessing 

Does a tree fall in their woods 

If no one's seen it tasted it heard it 

scanned it weighed it read it  

Did twinkle twinkle 

Asked a rhetorical moses floating 

Nile adding its basket to sea  

Did tut tut the feline meow smiles    

"Tutankhamun acceded to the throne around the age of nine following the short reigns of his predecessors Smenkhkare and Neferneferuaten. He reestablished diplomatic relations with the Mitanni and carried out military campaigns in Nubia and the Near East. Tutankhamun was one of few kings worshipped as a deity during his lifetime. Tutankhamun died unexpectedly aged about 18; his health and the cause of his death have been the subject of much debate. In 2012 it was suggested he died from a combination of malaria and a leg fracture. " 

"By sending his treasures on tour across the United States, Nixon and Kissinger hoped to shape public perceptions about the United States' newest ally. What they got was a cultural juggernaut. From November 1976 to April 1979, “Treasures of Tutankhamun” traveled to six American cities with the help of NEH grants." 

B-side to the blues "My Bucket's Got a Hole in It"

Hear that lonesome whippoorwill

He sounds too blue to fly

The midnight train is whining low

I'm so lonesome, I could cry 

I've never seen a night so long

And time goes crawling by

The moon just went behind the clouds

To hide its face and cry 

Did you ever see a robin weep

When leaves begin to die?

Like me, he's lost the will to live

I'm so lonesome, I could cry 

The silence of a falling star

Lights up a purple sky

And as I wonder where you are

I'm so lonesome, I could cry 

-----Hank Williams Sr.     1949    

_____

Hey, hey, good lookin'

Whatcha got cookin'?

How's about cookin'

Somethin' up with me?

Hey, sweet baby,

Don't you think maybe

We could find us

A brand new recipe?

I got a Hot-Rod Ford

And a two-dollar bill

And I know a spot

Right over the hill

There's soda pop

And the dancin's free

So if you wanna have fun

Come along with me

Say, hey, good lookin'

Whatcha got cookin'?

How's about cookin'

Somethin' up with me?

I'm free and ready

So we can go steady

How's about savin'

All your time for me?

No more lookin'

I know I've been tooken

How's about keepin'

Steady company?

I'm gonna throw

My date-book over the fence

And find me one

For five or ten cents

I'll keep it

'Til it's covered with age

'Cause I'm writin' your name

Down on every page

Say hey, good lookin'

Whatcha got cookin'?

How's about cookin'

Somethin' up with me?

 

----- Hank Williams Sr. 

***

"I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" is a song written and recorded by American country music singer-songwriter Hank Williams in 1949. " 

"Various writers quoted Williams as saying he wrote the song originally intending the words be spoken rather than sung..." 

"The song was released as the B-side to the blues "My Bucket's Got a Hole in It", 

 because up-tempo numbers were deemed more appropriate for the jukebox trade than melancholy ballads. The single reached number four on the country chart in 1949." 

Furnishings polishings lessons & rules (2016)

the sissy distraction action resembled

an assembly line deleting perfections

contraptions melded in semblance detected

by bully missions bandied by sillygoats

horned in honored money some bloody

vice prevails in form of snails driving hate nails

chewed perversely by reverse motion vultures

antic frantic manic mites of power in a phallic tower

milling their might to a willing unright &shilling delight

sordid sadists, sceptics, scabbed up rebels and such

only suited to furnace the nation with furnishings

polishings lessons and rules 

SE Portland 2016

A lullaby panacea

  

Summertime, and the livin' is easy

Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high

Oh, your daddy's rich and your ma is good-lookin'

So hush little baby, don't you cry 

One of these mornings, you're goin' to rise up singin'

And you'll spread your wings and you'll take the sky

But 'til that mornin', there's a-nothin' can harm you

With daddy and mommy standin' by 

One of these mornings, you're goin' to rise up singin'

And you'll spread your wings and you'll take the sky

But 'til that mornin', there's a-nothin' can harm you

With daddy and mommy standin' by   

"Written in 1934, 'Summertime' was one of the first compositions George Gershwin worked on for his brand-new opera Porgy and Bess. The jazz-inspired song is a lullaby for Clara to sing to her child, and it is reprised several more times throughout the opera." 

"probably the most well-known and extraordinary of the pop versions of 'Summertime' is by Janis Joplin and her band, Big Brother and Holding Company." 

___ 

'In Greek mythology and religion, 

 Panacea  

(Greek Πανάκεια, Panakeia), a goddess of universal remedy, was the daughter of Asclepius and Epione. 

Panacea and her four sisters each performed a facet of Apollo's art:

"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panacea 

Panacea (the goddess of universal health)

Hygieia ("Hygiene", the goddess/personification of health, cleanliness, and sanitation)

Iaso (the goddess of recuperation from illness)

Aceso (the goddess of the healing process)

Aegle (the goddess of radiant good health) "

"The term "panacea" has also come into figurative use as meaning "something used to solve all problems " 

___ 

"Porgy and Bess was first performed in Boston on September 30, 1935, before it moved to Broadway in New York City.]It featured a cast of classically trained African-American singers—a daring artistic choice at the time. A 1976 Houston Grand Opera production gained it a renewed popularity, and it is now one of the best known and most frequently performed operas.

The libretto of Porgy and Bess tells the story of Porgy, a disabled black street beggar living in the slums of Charleston. 

 It deals with his attempts to rescue Bess from the clutches of Crown, her violent and possessive lover, and Sportin' Life, her drug dealer. The opera plot generally follows the stage play." 

___ 

"Porgy is a novel written by the American author DuBose Heyward and published by the George H. Doran Company in 1925. 

The novel tells the story of Porgy, a crippled street beggar living in the black tenements of Charleston, South Carolina, in the 1920s. The character was based on Charlestonian Samuel Smalls. 

 In some of the novel's passages, black characters speak in Gullah, a creole language that had developed among enslaved African Americans during the slavery years on the Sea Islands.

The novel was adapted for a 1927 play of the same name by Heyward and his wife, playwright Dorothy Heyward. 

 Even before completing the play, Heyward was in discussions with composer George Gershwin for an operatic version of his novel. This was produced in 1935 as Porgy and Bess (renamed to distinguish it from the play" 

*

"The belief that Porgy and Bess was racist gained strength during the civil rights movement and Black Power movement of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. As these movements advanced, Porgy and Bess was seen as more and more out of date. When the play was revived in the 1960s, social critic and African-American educator Harold Cruse called it, "The most incongruous, contradictory cultural symbol ever created in the Western World" 

"Gershwin's all-black opera was also unpopular with some celebrated black artists. Harry Belafonte declined to play Porgy in the late 1950s film version, so the role went to Sidney Poitier. 

 Poitier found the opera insulting and only took on the film role due to coercion from producer Samuel Goldwyn. Betty Allen, president of The Harlem School of the Arts, admittedly loathed the piece, and Grace Bumbry, who excelled in the 1985 Metropolitan Opera production as Bess, made the often cited statement: 

My way of dealing with it was to see that it was really a piece of Americana, of American history, whether we liked it or not. 

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

Murdered activist multiplies NW activism

  

"Eygi was volunteering with the anti-occupation International Solidarity Movement when Israeli soldiers fatally shot her, 

 according to Palestinian officials and two witnesses who spoke to the Associated Press. Two doctors told the AP she was shot in the head. 

 The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has said it was investigating a report that troops had killed a foreign national while firing at an “instigator of violent activity” 

____ 

"Eygi was an organizer with the Popular University for Gaza Liberated Zone on UW’s campus, one of dozens of pro-Palestinian encampments established during protests in the spring, he said. 

 “She was an instrumental part of … 

 protesting the university’s ties to Boeing 

 and Israel 

 and spearheading negotiations with the UW administration,” Fani said 

"Eygi had also previously protested the oil pipeline on the Standing Rock reservation 

and was critical of Turkish nationalism and violence against Kurdish minorities, 

 Fani said:  

“She was very critical of US foreign policy and white supremacy in the US, and Israel was no exception.” 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/06/aysenur-eygi-american-killed-west-bank 

 ___ 

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

Congressman Adam Smith says ‘totalitarian’ protesters are ‘trying to silence anyone who dares to disagree with them’ 

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

 

"Student protesters – largely united under a coalition called Columbia University Apartheid Divest – are demanding that the university disclose its investment portfolio and divest from companies profiting “from Israeli apartheid, genocide, and military occupation of Palestine”. Examples include weapons manufacturers and tech companies with ties to or operations in Israel, such as Amazon, Google, Lockheed Martin and more."