Clueless, standing in the entrance for twenty minutes, dog on a fully extended leash that nearly reaches me as I perform.
Finally I ask, "can you move to the side? "
"To the side? "
Nice, but clueless, and if you appreciate the music while basking, tip.
Produce, produce, produce.
Volunteer a tip after enjoying Music for 4 hours.
(Clueless.)
"Catholics believe the wafers used for the sacrament of communion .
literally transform into the body of the crucified Jesus Christ,
adding: “It is not just distasteful or ‘strange’; it is an all-too-familiar example of an elected official mocking religious persons and their practices.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/13/gretchen-whitmer-doritos-chip
'the stunt in question – captured on video with popular TikTok content creator Liz Plank – was meant to promote legislation signed by president Joe Biden in 2022 that is colloquially known as
the Chips Act and provided $280 Billion$
to research as well as manufacture semiconductors"
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280, 000, 000, 000 dollars
Poor starving Tech Oligarchs,
Poor Catholic Hierarchy Men,
Transformed Literally
Into Politicians
The flip side of shit is shit
So is the middle, shit
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"Whitmer... has been a prominent supporter of Harris and recently made headlines by calling Donald Trump “just deranged”
after the Republican nominee boasted that
women would no longer be thinking about abortion
if voters gave him a second presidency on 5 November."
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"Gelvana Aparecida Rodrigues da Silva, 37, lost her son Thiago on 5 November 2015 when the Fundão dam, near Mariana in eastern Brazil, collapsed, releasing about
50 million cubic metres of toxic waste.
The avalanche of water reached the small community of Bento Rodrigues within minutes, killing 19 people, including Thiago, who had been staying with his grandmother at the time.
"He called for Jesus to save him. But they got ripped apart.”
"The iron ore waste stored in the dam rapidly moved down various watercourses, spilling over their banks and into the neighbouring municipalities of Mariana, Barra Longa, Rio Doce and Santa Cruz do Escalvado.
It destroyed bridges, roads, houses, factories and other commercial premises, as well as farmland, wildlife and historic churches containing priceless shit artefacts."
"About 620,000 individuals, 46 Brazilian municipalities, 2,000 businesses and 65 faith-based institutions are to claim damages from the Anglo-Australian mining company BHP at a high court trial in London scheduled to be heard over 12 weeks, from 21 October. "
"Thiago’s father, who died two years ago,
received a small payment
for compensation after the disaster"
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"A Guardian report from 2020 described people in Corbett, Oregon, being stopped at armed civilian checkpoints and asked to identify themselves during wildfires, sparking a debate about vigilante activity and
how law enforcement should respond."
How about enforcing Law
And stopping intimidation
And armed vigilantes? Nah.
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"I can’t sleep at night knowing that it’s going on,” one US official told the Guardian. “It’s another form of psychological torture to make someone work there.”
'Sde Teiman was set up as a temporary holding facility for detainees from Gaza after last year’s 7 October attack and the ensuing war. Human rights groups and released detainees say the thousands of of Palestinians who have been through the facility have been subjected to severe abuse and torture."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/14/usaid-gasa-aid-meetings-sde-teiman
"The situation there is more horrific than anything we’ve heard about Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo,” Khaled Mahajneh, a lawyer who visited Sde Teiman, told +972 Magazine."
"A series of falsehoods and threats have swirled in the two weeks since Hurricane Helene tore through six states causing
several hundred deaths,
followed by Milton
crashing into Florida
on Wednesday."
"Katie Nickolaou, a Michigan-based meteorologist, said that she and her colleagues have borne the brunt of much of these conspiracies, having received messages claiming
there are category 6 hurricanes (there aren’t),
that meteorologists or the government are creating and directing hurricanes (they aren’t)
and even that scientists should be killed
and radar equipment be demolished. "
(Wrong.)
'several of Trump’s closest allies have baselessly asserted that the federal government is somehow controlling hurricanes.
“Hurricane Helene was an ATTACK caused by Weather Manipulation,” claimed a video shared by
Michael Flynn, a former national security advisor to Trump.
“Yes they can control the weather,”
Marjorie Taylor Greene, a far-right congresswoman"
(And They Control far right Lunatics)
"Gloninger said that meteorologists are “going to reach a point of burnout.
What other profession are people targeted for simply doing their job?
All we are trying to do is protect life and property during extreme weather.”
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Soldiers.
Politicians.
Science professionals, academics, anyone opposed to Fascism, Corporatism, Environmentalism, etc etc.
____
Helene killed Hundreds of people.
What's the death toll.
Is "Several hundred" precise, accurate?
If "a few hundred" is more accurate, just write Hundreds of people.
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Flynn deserved court martial, prosecution, foreign agent status, years ago Years ago .
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"More than 230 people have been killed from Hurricane Helene, .
which unleashed devastation across Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee.
Helene, which made landfall in Florida's Big Bend region as a massive Category 4 hurricane, has become
the deadliest mainland hurricane since
Katrina in 2005."
https://abcnews.go.com/US/live-updates/hurricane-helene/?id=113931821
How'd Republicans handle Katrina?
How'd FEMA perform under Bush and Katrina?
How many died from Katrina, Republicans?
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Zettajoule
"Human annual world energy consumption is approximately 0.5 ZJ.
The energy to raise the temperature of Earth's atmosphere 1 °C is approximately 2.2 ZJ.
Yottajoule
The yottajoule (YJ) is equal to one septillion (1024) joules.
This is approximately the amount of energy required to heat all the water on Earth by 1 °C.
The thermal output of the Sun is approximately 400 YJ per second."
Suite for Violin and Piano
William Grant Still
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Often referred to as the "Dean of Afro-American Composers," Still was the first American composer to have an opera produced by the New York City Opera.
He is known primarily for his first symphony, Afro-American Symphony (1930), which was, until 1950, the most widely performed symphony composed by an American.
Still was able to become a leading figure in the field of American classical music as the first African-American to conduct a major American symphony orchestra, have a symphony performed by a leading orchestra, have an opera performed by a major opera company, and have an opera performed on national television.
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Still started violin lessons in Little Rock at the age of 15. He taught himself to play the clarinet, saxophone, oboe, double bass, cello and viola, and showed a great interest in music.
On February 8, 1939, he married pianist Verna Arvey, driving to Tijuana for the ceremony because interracial marriage was illegal in California.
For the 1939 New York World's Fair, Still composed Song of a City for the exhibit "Democracity," which played continuously during the fair's run.
Despite writing music for the fair, he was unable to attend the fair without police protection except on "Negro Day" .
"what he – and we – underestimated was the speed and comprehensiveness that tech corporations such as Google and Facebook
would enclose that public sphere with their own walled gardens
in which “free speech” could be algorithmically curated
while the speakers were intensively surveilled
and their data mined for advertising purposes."
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search The Guardian using the term
"Gaza Starvation"
This is what we find:
"Israel minister condemned for saying starvation of millions in Gaza might be ‘justified and moral’
EU, UK and France urge Israel’s government to distance itself from comments by its finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich"
Wed 7 Aug 2024 20.57 EDT
So no News, no Starvation, nothing not a crumb....for almost a month
Specious to say the least.
Bombs missiles exploding pagers,
away
Complicity.
" Three feminist campaigners in the Netherlands want to reclaim the insult “witch”
and recognise the innocent victims of Dutch witch-hunts from the 15th to the 17th centuries with a national monument.
Susan Smit, Bregje Hofstede and Manja Bedner, the chair and board members of the National Witches Monument foundation, have raised €35,000 (£29,000) for an official site of memory for about
70,000 people who died during a Satanic panic
that swept Europe and the Americas "
"It’s about creating more awareness around this history of, basically, femicide,” Hofstede said.
“To this day a witch is still a comic figure.
In the Netherlands, every year at the carnaval, people burn effigies of witches
… but there’s hardly any knowledge of the
actual history of
people being burned at the stake"
“Maybe they were a bit different, maybe they didn’t take care of their surroundings,
maybe they had a very strong personality and stood up for themselves, or simply knew a lot about herbs and how to heal,”
she said, pointing out the witch-hunts still happening on modern social media"
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"A witch-hunt, or a witch purge, is a search for people who have been labeled witches or a search for evidence of witchcraft.
Practicing evil spells or incantations was proscribed and punishable in early human civilizations in the Middle East..
In medieval Europe, witch-hunts often arose in connection to
charges of heresy from Christianity.
An intensive period of witch-hunts occurring in Early Modern Europe and to a smaller extent Colonial America, took place from about 1450 to 1750, spanning the upheavals of the Counter Reformation and the Thirty Years' War, resulting in an estimated 35,000 to 60,000 executions."
"In current language, "witch-hunt" metaphorically means an investigation that is usually conducted with much publicity,
supposedly to uncover subversive activity, disloyalty, and so on, but with the real purpose of harming opponents.
It can also involve elements of moral panic, as well as mass hysteria"
"The Hebrew Bible condemns sorcery. Deuteronomy 18:10–12 states: "No one shall be found among you who makes a son or daughter pass through fire, who practices divination, or is a soothsayer, or an augur, or a sorcerer, or one that casts spells, or who consults ghosts or spirits, or who seeks oracles from the dead. For whoever does these things is abhorrent to the Lord"; and Exodus 22:18 prescribes: "thou shalt not suffer a witch to live".
"Condemnations of witchcraft are nevertheless found in the writings of Augustine of Hippo and early theologians, who made little distinction between witchcraft and the practices of pagan religions.
Many believed witchcraft did not exist in a philosophical sense: Witchcraft was based on illusions and powers of evil, which Augustine likened to darkness, a non-entity representing the absence of light.
Augustine and his adherents like Saint Thomas Aquinas nevertheless promulgated elaborate demonologies, including the belief that humans could enter pacts with demons, which became the basis of future witch hunts.
Ironically, many clerics of the Middle Ages openly or covertly practiced goetia,
believing that as Christ granted his disciples power to command demons, to summon and control demons was not, therefore, a sin."
"As Renaissance occultism gained traction among the educated classes, the belief in witchcraft, which in the medieval period had been part of the folk religion of the uneducated rural population at best, was incorporated into an increasingly comprehensive theology of Satan as the ultimate source of all maleficium"
"In 1484, Pope Innocent VIII issued Summis desiderantes affectibus, a Papal bull authorizing the "correcting, imprisoning, punishing and chastising" of devil-worshippers who have "slain infants", among other crimes"
"In Europe, the witch-hunt craze was negligible in Spain, Poland, and Eastern Europe; conversely, it was intense in Germany, Switzerland, and France."
"What had previously been a belief that some people possessed supernatural abilities (which were sometimes used to protect the people), now became a sign of a pact between the people with supernatural abilities and the devil.
To justify the killings, some Christians of the time and their proxy secular institutions deemed witchcraft as being associated to wild Satanic ritual parties in which
there was naked dancing and cannibalistic infanticide.
It was also seen as heresy for going against the first of the Ten Commandments ("You shall have no other gods before me") or as violating majesty, in this case referring to the divine majesty, not the worldly.
Further scripture was also frequently cited, especially the Exodus decree that "thou shalt not suffer a witch to live" (Exodus 22:18), which many supported."
"The first major persecution in Europe, when witches were caught, tried, convicted, and burned in the imperial lordship of Wiesensteig in southwestern Germany, is recorded in 1563 in a pamphlet called "True and Horrifying Deeds of 63 Witches".
"Witchcraft persecution spread to all areas of Europe. Learned European ideas about witchcraft and demonological ideas, strongly influenced the hunt for witches in the North. "
"These witch-hunts were at least partly driven by economic factors since a significant relationship between economic pressure and witch hunting activity can be found for regions such as Bavaria and Scotland."
"In Denmark, the burning of witches increased following the reformation of 1536. Christian IV of Denmark, in particular, encouraged this practice, and hundreds of people were convicted of witchcraft and burnt"
"In England, witch-hunting would reach its apex in 1644 to 1647 due to the efforts of Puritan Matthew Hopkins. Although operating without an official Parliament commission, Hopkins (calling himself Witchfinder General) and his accomplices charged hefty fees to towns during the English Civil War.
Hopkins' witch-hunting spree was brief but significant: 300 convictions and deaths are attributed to his work."
'About eighty people throughout England's Massachusetts Bay Colony were accused of practicing witchcraft; thirteen women and two men were executed in a witch-hunt that occurred throughout New England and lasted from 1645 to 1663. The Salem witch trials followed in 1692–1693."
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"According to Julian Goodare, in Europe, the overall proportion of women who were persecuted as witches was 80%, although there were countries and regions like Estonia, Normandy and Iceland, that targeted men more.
In Iceland 92% of the accused were men, in Estonia 60%, and in Moscow two-thirds of those accused were male. In Finland, a total of more than 100 death row inmates were roughly equal in both men and women, but all Ålanders sentenced to witchcraft were only women."
"The claim that "millions of witches" (often: "nine million witches") were killed in Europe is spurious, even though it is occasionally found in popular literature, and it is ultimately due to a 1791 pamphlet by Gottfried Christian Voigt."
Witchcraft or sorcery remains a criminal offense in Saudi Arabia, although the precise nature of the crime is undefined.[114]
The frequency of prosecutions for this in the country as whole is unknown. However, in November 2009, it was reported that 118 people had been arrested in the province of Makkah that year for practicing magic and "using the Book of Allah in a derogatory manner", 74% of them being female.[115] According to Human Rights Watch in 2009, prosecutions for witchcraft and sorcery are proliferating and "Saudi courts are sanctioning a literal witch hunt by the religious police."
"In 2006, an illiterate Saudi woman, Fawza Falih, was convicted of practising witchcraft, including casting an impotence spell, and sentenced to death by beheading, after allegedly being beaten and forced to fingerprint a false confession that had not been read to her."
"In 2007, Mustafa Ibrahim, an Egyptian national, was executed, having been convicted of using sorcery in an attempt to separate a married couple, as well as of adultery and of desecrating the Quran.
Also in 2007, Abdul Hamid Bin Hussain Bin Moustafa al-Fakki, a Sudanese national, was sentenced to death after being convicted of producing a spell that would lead to the reconciliation of a divorced couple.
In 2009, Ali Sibat, a Lebanese television presenter who had been arrested whilst on a pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, was sentenced to death for witchcraft arising out of his fortune-telling on an Arab satellite channel. "
"On 12 December 2011, Amina bint Abdulhalim Nassar was beheaded in Al Jawf Province after being convicted of practicing witchcraft and sorcery.[124] Another very similar situation occurred to Muree bin Ali bin Issa al-Asiri and he was beheaded on 19 June 2012 in the Najran Province."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-hunt
"Former US president Donald Trump frequently used the term on Twitter, referring to various investigations and the impeachment proceedings against him as
witch-hunts.
During his presidency
he used the phrase over 330 times
The National Rifle Association of America used the term in an unsuccessful bid to dismiss the New York attorney general's lawsuit against the organization for alleged fraud."
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This election cycle, former President Donald Trump has made one campaign promise the most prominent:
Mass deportation. It is a long-standing vow.
In 2016, Trump said he would deport the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States.
Once in the White House, he ordered sweeping worksite raids,
enacted a ban on travelers from Muslim-majority countries,
and deliberately separated migrant families,
many of whom have yet to be reunited."
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"A , Donotation is a commonly understood cultural or emotional association that any given word or phrase carries, in addition to its explicit or literal meaning, which is its denotation.
A connotation is frequently described as either positive or negative, with regard to its pleasing or displeasing emotional connection
For example, a stubborn person may be described as being either strong-willed or pig-headed; although these have the same literal meaning (stubborn), strong-willed connotes admiration for the level of someone's will (a positive connotation), while pig-headed connotes frustration in dealing with someone (a negative connotation)."
"In logic and semantics, connotation is roughly synonymous with intension.
Connotation is often contrasted with denotation, which is more or less synonymous with extension. Alternatively, the connotation of the word may be thought of as the set of all its possible referents (as opposed to merely the actual ones"
"In any communication, in any medium or format, "subtext" is the underlying or implicit meaning that, while not explicitly stated, is understood by an audience."
"When it is an attempt to win favor by exploiting the audience's preexisting spite or disdain for something else, it is called guilt by association or an appeal to spite (Latin: argumentum ad odium).
Guilt by association is similar to ad hominem arguments
which attack the speaker rather than addressing the claims, but in this case
the ill feeling is not created by the argument;
it already exists."
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"A form of the association fallacy often used by those denying a well-established scientific or historical proposition is the so-called Galileo gambit or Galileo fallacy.
The argument runs thus: Galileo was ridiculed in his time for his scientific observations, but was later acknowledged to be right; the proponent argues that since their non-mainstream views are provoking ridicule and rejection from other scientists, they will later be recognized as correct, like Galileo.
The gambit is flawed in that being ridiculed does not necessarily correlate with being right and that many people who have been ridiculed in history were, in fact, wrong.
Similarly, Carl Sagan has stated that people laughed at geniuses such as Christopher Columbus and the Wright brothers, but "they also laughed at Bozo the Clown".
It is often committed by those whose theories reject common scientific consensus"
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"Propaganda techniques are methods used in propaganda to convince an audience to believe what the propagandist wants them to believe.
Many propaganda techniques are based on socio-psychological research. Many of these same techniques can be classified as logical fallacies or abusive power and control tactics."
"Manipulation can be organized or unorganized, conscious or unconscious, politically or socially motivated. The concept reaches from systematic state propaganda to manipulate public opinion (Edward Bernays) to
"sociological propaganda" (propaganda of integration), where
the unconscious desire to be manipulated and self manipulation
leads the individual to adapt to the
socially expected thoughts and behaviours
(Jacques Ellul)."
"Some techniques are categorized, analyzed and interpreted psychologically, within political psychology, especially mass psychology, social psychology, and cognitive psychology, which includes the study of cognitive distortions.
With regard to political and military conflicts, propaganda is seen as part of psychological warfare and information warfare, which gain particular importance in the era of hybrid warfare and cyberwarfare. "
"Some techniques are classified as logical fallacies, because
propaganda uses arguments which may have psychological effects
but which are logically invalid.
In rhetoric and dialectic, they are viewed as sophisms, ruses, and eristic stratagems."
"In the dialogue Euthydemus, Plato satirizes eristic. It is more than persuasion, and it is more than discourse.
It is a combination that wins an argument without regard to truth.
Plato believed that the eristic style "did not constitute a method of argument" because to argue eristically is to consciously use fallacious arguments, which therefore weakens one's position."
"According to Schopenhauer, Eristic Dialectic is mainly concerned to tabulate and analyze dishonest stratagems,
so that they may at once be recognized and defeated, in order to continue with a productive dialectic debate.
It is for this very reason that Eristic Dialectic must admittedly take victory, and not objective truth, for its selfish aim and purpose."
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Exported gas produces far worse emissions than coal, major study finds
Research challenges idea that sending liquefied natural gas around the world is cleaner alternative to burning coal
"Drilling, moving, cooling and shipping gas from one country to another uses so much energy
that the actual final burning of gas in people’s homes and businesses
only accounts for
about a third of the total emissions
from this process, the research finds."
"Howarth’s paper finds that as much as 3.5% of the gas delivered to customers leaks to the atmosphere unburned, much more than previously assumed.
Methane is about 80 times more powerful as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide,
even though it persists for less time in the atmosphere, and scientists have warned that rising global methane emissions risk blowing apart agreed-upon climate goals."
"...it is supercooled to -162C (-260F) to become a liquid, which is loaded into huge storage containers on tankers. The tankers then travel long distances to deliver the product to client countries, where it is turned back into a gas and then burned.
“This whole process is much more energy intensive than coal,” said Howarth.
“The science is pretty clear here: it’s wishful thinking that the gas miraculously moves overseas without any emissions..”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/04/exported-liquefied-natural-gas-coal-study
What about Kale, Vegan Broccoli, what about a Write-Out option that negates one from the tally of horrid Gonzalez dip waffle.
My fingers not even near the scale.
capitulate on principal
interest drags
frame clear off sidewalk
the eye bank
rolls,
we're proved.
gain requires.
volume subsumes.
pleasure balances,
unfair
makes
earth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Russia_With_Lev
Release dates
September 7, 2024 (Brooklyn Academy of Music)
September 20, 2024 (MSNBC)
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"According to Rachel Maddow, Parnas had a "come to Jesus moment," repented from his actions, and as he had recorded everything he did, "terabytes of data from his phone and iCloud accounts," he handed them over to MSNBC. "
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And that's it
on Wikipedia.
He hugs and cries together with Hunter at the conclusion.
The film trounces Rudy.
Lev apologizes to Yanokovitch, Ambassador to Ukraine.
Lev, MSNBC fail to even mention
Three Amigos
Sondland, Rick Perry, Kurt Volker.
"Maas, Jennifer (May 22, 2023). "Billy Corben's Rakontur sets doc 'From Russia With Lev,' following Lev Parnas' 'Forrest Gumpian presence' in Trump scandals". Variety. Archived from the original on May 22, 2023. Retrieved September 9, 2024"
Clawing thru the mud underwater if you call this debate water if you snack snail on toothpick or gnaw ribs in plum braising as yak attack or fend onto submission dials it's as the snorkel foreplanned plenty suffocation and a three minute oxygen blurb sponsored by coal stuff one in her oven yesterday we're pro fuel not crazy if jello nods don't fortify finger claws then get religion painting by numbness our corners mushy let's not go there moderators mute heresy it plays to the grey canary petroglyph in the organ donor front row row row das boot gentiles exits stream moneylie moneylie syndrome syndicated chiseler graphs out our pi
Biden’s comments quickly sent oil prices soaring.
Biden’s comments quickly sent oil prices soaring.
Biden’s comments quickly sent oil prices soaring.
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How will the Uvalde police afford to keep their squad cars idling?
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Melania comments quickly sent abortion prices soaring.
Melania comments quickly sent abortion prices soaring.
Melania comments quickly sent abortion prices soaring.
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Vance comments quickly sent dodo prices soaring. Good eatin'.
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Israel's foreign minister announced Wednesday that U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has been declared "persona non grata" and barred from entering Israel.
Gaza is persona non-Gazaed.
"This is an Israel-hating Secretary-General, who gives support to terrorists," Biden's duck said.
The foreign minister expressed frustration that Guterres "lends support to terrorists, rapists, and murderers, and Melania."
Dodo.
"The Portland auditor’s office plans to take another look at whether Commissioner Rene Gonzalez, who is running for mayor, broke campaign finance rules when he used public funds to spruce up his Wikipedia page."
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Portland elections program hits council candidate Rene Gonzalez with $77,000 fine for discounted office space
"The $77,000 fine — the biggest ever issued by the city’s Small Donor Elections program — stems from an unreported in-kind contribution Gonzalez is accused of accepting from the company, which is owned by property magnate Jordan Schnitzer. Schnitzer personally donated $250 to Gonzalez in May.
Program director Susan Mottet sent Gonzalez a letter Tuesday notifying him of the fine. According to the letter, a normal tenant would have been asked to pay $6,900 per month for the over 3,000 square feet of downtown office space located at 1010 SW 11th Ave."
"911, what’s the emergency?” a dispatcher asks in the previously unreleased recording obtained by The Oregonian/OregonLive through a public records request.
“Light assault on the orange train just now,” responds Gonzalez,
who said he had just walked to his City Hall office from the Southwest Sixth Avenue and Montgomery Street MAX stop before making the report."
Gonzalez, who is running for mayor, took
to social media to claim
the incident had
forced him to stop taking public transit.
Surveillance footage later appeared to undercut his assertion that the woman
intentionally “bumped” him twice,
an account he provided to the 911 dispatcher and later to police.
"So her bumping you had nothing to do with like the general motion of the train?” the emergency dispatcher asks Gonzalez during the three-minute call.
“I don’t think so,” Gonzalez responds. “She bumped me twice.
I’m a public figure. She came up from behind."
"...the woman may have at most brushed Gonzalez’s arm as she moved to the front of the nearly empty train car.... "
"During the call, Gonzalez also mentions — unprompted — that the woman is Black before the dispatcher cuts him off...."
I’m a public figure
I’m a public figure
I’m a public figure
At the time of the 911 call,
Gonzalez was the head of Portland’s Bureau of Emergency Communications,
which for years has struggled
with perilous wait times
that are far longer
than
the national standard."
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" Tents are a false sense of security,” said Gonzalez,
who is running for mayor. “I’m not sure we should ever be distributing [them].”
The proposal, which would largely limit distribution to periods of severe weather,
track who received a tent
and where they set it up,
and label every tent
as being owned by the county,
was received coolly by county officials on the oversight board."
Gonzalez suggests all tents handed out by the county
be affixed with a large yellow label
with the words “County Funded Tent.”
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And Taxpayer Funded Vanity Wikipedia Edits be affixed with a large yellow label
And Non Essential 911 calls be affixed with a large yellow label
And Donations from Billionaires for free office space be affixed with a large yellow label
And Fraud be affixed with a large yellow label
And Scary Black Women be affixed with a large yellow label
Fascist eyeliner
Deportation vulture thug
Corporate jello
*
Amorphous Nazi
Totalitarian dude
Genuflect curtsy
*
Revisionist clod
Empathy machine haywired
Unpalatable
*
Dogma spaghetti
Unblinking oligarch drool
Carcinogenic
*
Vapid automaton
Empty suit huckster profile
Sludge pond elegy
*
Polite backstabber
Oven shoveling bigot
Heartless conservative
*
new land of towering tree and bike
hobohippoid redundancies
gentile flawscapes
germymandered boundaries
(regarding decent ineptitude,
old flotsam in sterile barrels
wharves buried on flat quests
slack understanding tall'er not
depending the incoming bullshit
zeno's froze up arrow
false dichotomy in a salad roll
every plebe a grebe on reprieve
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https://venmo.com/u/Forest-Bloodgood
How about $1 per view.
How about 10 cents per view.
Surprise me, Singa.
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Past 12 months
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"It’s common, in a Dickens or Eliot novel, for one person’s unthinking action or local relationship to dramatically influence the fate of someone seemingly unconnected with them. Highlighting such connections was an integral part of the moral work of Victorian fiction, which sought to remind readers how all members of society depended on one another to survive and thrive.
In Martineau’s work, though, these uncanny networks of connection did not stop at the borders of society. Her stories involved lives upended by unexpected patterns of rainfall, by the felling of trees, by the importing of new crops, and by the movements of fish.
Martineau’s work wasn’t just social or sociological. It was ecological. She put far more thought into the entanglements that draw the fates of humans together with those of trees, water, grain, cattle, and fish than any English-speaking novelist I could find before her—or after her, for that matter.
It wasn’t until the late twentieth century and the rise of environmentalism that novelists began, slowly, to reconnect their stories of human lives to the material changes in the nonhuman world around them. In many ways, Martineau still has today’s most ecologically attuned fiction writers beat when it comes to her sheer astuteness about the surprising ways interspecies connections affect us all."
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"Born in Portsmouth, Dickens left school at age 12 to work in a boot-blacking factory when his father John was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. After three years, he returned to school before beginning his literary career as a journalist. Dickens edited a weekly journal for 20 years; wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and nonfiction articles; lectured and performed readings extensively; was an indefatigable letter writer; and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, education and other social reforms".
The term Dickensian is used to describe something that is reminiscent of Dickens and his writings, such as poor social or working conditions, or comically repulsive characters. "
"Dickens's writing style is marked by a profuse linguistic creativity. Satire, flourishing in his gift for caricature, is his forte.
An early reviewer compared him to Hogarth for his keen practical sense of the ludicrous side of life, though his acclaimed mastery of varieties of class idiom
may in fact mirror the conventions of contemporary popular theatre.
Dickens worked intensively on developing arresting names for his characters that would reverberate with associations for his readers and assist the development of motifs in the storyline, giving what one critic calls an "allegorical impetus" to the novels' meanings.
To cite one of numerous examples, the name Mr Murdstone in David Copperfield conjures up twin allusions to murder and stony coldness.
His literary style is also a mixture of fantasy and realism. His satires of British aristocratic snobbery—he calls one character the "Noble Refrigerator"—are often popular.
Comparing orphans to stocks and shares, people to tug boats or dinner-party guests to furniture are just some of Dickens's acclaimed flights of fancy."
" Dickens employs Cockney English in many of his works, denoting working-class Londoners. Cockney grammar appears in terms such as ain't, and consonants in words are frequently omitted, as in 'ere (here) and wot (what).
An example of this usage is in Oliver Twist. The Artful Dodger uses cockney slang which is juxtaposed with Oliver's 'proper' English, when the Dodger repeats Oliver saying "seven" with "sivin"."
"He often depicted the exploitation and oppression of the poor and condemned the public officials and institutions that not only allowed such abuses to exist, but flourished as a result.
His most strident indictment of this condition is in Hard Times (1854), Dickens's only novel-length treatment of the industrial working class.
In this work, he uses vitriol and satire to illustrate how this marginalised social stratum was termed "Hands" by the factory owners; that is, not really "people"
but rather only appendages of the machines they operated.
His writings inspired others, in particular journalists and political figures, to address such problems of class oppression. For example, the prison scenes in The Pickwick Papers are claimed to have been influential in having the Fleet Prison shut down.
Karl Marx asserted that Dickens "issued to the world more political and social truths than have been uttered by all the professional politicians, publicists and moralists put together".
George Bernard Shaw even remarked that Great Expectations was more seditious than Marx's Das Kapital.
The exceptional popularity of Dickens's novels, even those with socially oppositional themes (Bleak House, 1853; Little Dorrit, 1857; Our Mutual Friend, 1865), not only underscored his ability to create compelling storylines and unforgettable characters, but also ensured that the Victorian public confronted issues of social justice that had commonly been ignored.
It has been argued that his technique of flooding his narratives with an 'unruly superfluity of material' that, in the gradual dénouement, yields up an unsuspected order, influenced the organisation of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species."
"He was a fierce critic of the poverty and social stratification of Victorian society. In a New York address,
he expressed his belief that "Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen."
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"In May, the ICC’s prosecutor, Karim Khan, requested the court issue arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his defence minister, Yoav Gallant, over alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
A panel of judges is still considering the request which, if granted, would oblige countries that are signatories to the ICC to detain Netanyahu if he were to visit"
"The stability–instability paradox is an international relations theory regarding the effect of nuclear weapons and mutually assured destruction.
It states that when two countries each have nuclear weapons, the probability of a direct war between them greatly decreases, but the probability of
minor or indirect conflicts between them increases.
This occurs because rational actors want to avoid nuclear wars, and thus they
neither start major conflicts nor allow minor conflicts
to escalate into major conflicts—
thus making it safe to engage in minor conflicts.
For instance, during the Cold War the United States and the Soviet Union never engaged each other in warfare, but fought proxy wars in
Korea, Vietnam, Angola, the Middle East, Nicaragua and Afghanistan and spent substantial amounts of money and manpower on gaining relative influence over the third world."
"This effect can be seen in the India–Pakistan relationship and to some degree in Russia–NATO relations."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stability%E2%80%93instability_paradox
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"Records obtained by the Guardian show that lobbyists working for major North American oil and gas companies were key architects of anti-protest laws that increase penalties and could lead to non-violent environmental and climate activists being imprisoned up to 10 years."
"Emails between fossil fuel lobbyists and lawmakers in Utah, West Virginia, Idaho and Ohio suggest a nationwide strategy to
deter people frustrated by government failure to tackle the climate crisis
from peacefully disrupting the expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure
by enacting tough laws with lengthy jail sentences.
“Draft bill attached,” wrote a lobbyist representing two influential fossil fuel trade groups to the lead counsel for the West Virginia state energy committee in January 2020.
The law, which carries a maximum 10-year prison sentence, was later used
to charge at least eight
peaceful climate protesters including six senior citizens."
Civil disobedience is a form of political protest that involves breaking the law in a planned, symbolic way – which activists and rights experts say is part of the bedrock of a democratic society and in the tradition of civil rights movements.
Last year was the hottest on record, and wildfires, baking temperatures, deadly floods and rising sea levels struck communities across North America – and the rest of the world.
Under the Biden administration, the US has handed out more than 1,450 new oil and gas licences,
accounting for half of the total globally, and 20% more licences than those issued by Donald Trump, who has promised to “drill, baby, drill”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/26/anti-protest-laws-fossil-fuel-lobby
"Prosecuting non-violent climate protesters is “just legalised violence”,
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"He rejected the myth of progress long before most writers who self-identify as conservative did so.
Famously, he penned an essay in 1988 titled “Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer,” in which he detailed his resolute—most called it stubborn and fundamentalist—refusal to adapt his work to the new technology. “Like almost everybody else,
I am hooked to the energy corporations,
which I do not admire,” he wrote.
“I hope to become less hooked to them. In my work, I try to be as little hooked to them as possible.
As a farmer, I do almost all of my work with horses. As a writer, I work with a pencil or pen and a piece of paper.”
Stegner captured what sets Berry apart:
"You never had a drinking problem or a drug problem; you have been as apparently immune to the Angst of your times as you have been indifferent to contemporary hedonism and the lust for kicks.
By every stereotypical rule of the twentieth century you should be dull, and I suppose there are some people, especially people who have not read you, who think you are. By upbringing and by choice you are a countryman, and therefore a sort of anachronism.
The lives you write about are not lives that challenge or defy the universe, or despair of it, but lives that accept it and make the best of it and are in sober ways fulfilled.
We have grown used to the image of the artist as a person more notable for his sensibility than his balance. We might go to that artist for the flash of insight, often achieved at terrible cost to himself, but not for sober wisdom. I don’t disparage these Dionysian writers; they have lighted dark corners for all of us, and will continue to. But I find your example comforting because it restores a lost balance—one doesn’t have to be crazy, or alcoholic, or suicidal, or manic, to be a legitimate spokesman to the world, and there is more to literature, as there clearly is to life, than aberration and sadomasochism. Your books
seem conservative. They are actually profoundly revolutionary,
and I have watched them gain you an increasingly devoted following over the years. Readers respond to them as lost dogs in hope of rescue turn toward some friendly stranger. The thought in your essays is so clear and unrattled that it reassures us.
Your stories and poems are good like bread.
I say that your books are revolutionary.
They are. They fly in the face of accepted opinion and approved fashion. They reassert values so commonly forgotten or repudiated that, reasserted, they have the force of novelty."
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/essay/wendell-berry-at-90/
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Wendell Erdman Berry
(born August 5, 1934) is an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer.
Closely identified with rural Kentucky, Berry developed many of his agrarian themes in ....Activism
Berry delivered "A Statement Against the War in Vietnam" during the Kentucky Conference on the War and the Draft on February 10, 1968, at the University of Kentucky in Lexington:
We seek to preserve peace by fighting a war, or to advance freedom by subsidizing dictatorships,
or to 'win the hearts and minds of the people'
by poisoning their crops and burning their villages and confining them in concentration camps;
we seek to uphold the 'truth' of our cause with lies, or to answer conscientious dissent with threats and slurs and intimidations. . . .
I have come to the realization that I can no longer imagine a war that I would believe to be either useful or necessary. I would be against any war."
On June 3, 1979, Berry engaged in nonviolent civil disobedience
against the construction of a nuclear power plant at Marble Hill, Indiana.
He describes "this nearly eventless event" and expands upon his reasons for it in the essay "The Reactor and the Garden."
On February 9, 2003, Berry's essay titled "A Citizen's Response to the National Security Strategy of the United States" was published as a full-page advertisement in The New York Times. Berry opened the essay
—a critique of the George W. Bush administration's post-9/11 international strategy—by asserting that "The new National Security Strategy published by the White House in September 2002, if carried out, would amount to
a radical revision of the political character of our nation"
Also in January 2009, Berry released a statement against the death penalty, which began,
"As I am made deeply uncomfortable by the taking of a human life before birth, I am also made deeply uncomfortable by the taking of a human life after birth."
And in November 2009, Berry and 38 other writers from Kentucky wrote to Gov. Steve Beshear and Attorney General Jack Conway asking them to impose a
moratorium on the death penalty in that state.
On March 2, 2009, Berry joined over 2,000 others in non-violently blocking the gates to a coal-fired power plant in Washington, D.C. No one was arrested.
On May 22, 2009, Berry, at a listening session in Louisville, spoke against the National Animal Identification System (NAIS).[25] He said,
"If you impose this program on the small farmers, who are already overburdened, you're going to have to send the police for me. I'm 75 years old.
I've about completed my responsibilities to my family.
I'll lose very little in going to jail in opposition to your program – and I'll have to do it.
Because I will be, in every way that I can conceive of, a non-cooperator."
On December 20, 2009, due to the University of Kentucky's close association with coal interests in the state, Berry removed his papers from the university.
On September 28, 2010, Berry participated in a rally in Louisville during an EPA hearing on how to manage coal ash. Berry said, "The EPA knows that coal ash is poison."
"Berry, with 14 other protesters, spent the weekend of February 12, 2011, locked in the Kentucky governor's office to demand an end to mountaintop removal coal mining.
He was part of the environmental group Kentuckians for the Commonwealth that began their sit-in on Friday and left at midday Monday to join about 1,000 others in a mass outdoor rally."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell_Berry
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"South Sudan’s controversial security legislation allowing the arrest of people without warrants
has become law even though the president has not signed it,
parliament’s spokesperson said Thursday.
Yasmin Sooka, chair of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan, said Thursday that the new law will give security agencies powers to conduct
“more arbitrary detentions and enforced disappearances.”
South Sudan is due to hold its first election Dec. 22 under the transitional government created after the signing of a peace agreement in 2018 that ended a five-year civil war in which nearly 400,000 people died."
https://apnews.com/article/south-sudan-security-bill-detentions-ad185b339601154dd3dc1c609c8baf05
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"International guarantors of South Sudan's peace process said the transitional government's postponement of elections due in December was disappointing and showed its failure to implement a 2018 peace plan.
Last Friday, South Sudan President Salva Kiir's office announced an extension of the transitional period by two years and postponed elections for a second time following a delay in 2022."
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"Nearly five million people are close to famine
as the country’s civil war passes the one-year mark. Aid officials say the warring parties – the army and the Rapid Support Forces –
are looting aid or blocking it from reaching areas where starvation is taking hold.
But ‘the world’s largest hunger crisis’ is drawing little global attention."
18 million people in Sudan – more than a third of the nation’s 49 million people – are facing “high levels of acute food insecurity,” according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a globally recognized hunger monitor. The IPC also estimates that of this group, nearly five million people are one step from famine
Our biggest challenge is the funding and lack of attention to Sudan,” said Chessa Latifi, senior program advisor in global health at relief organization Project HOPE.
“People are so involved in Ukraine and so involved in Gaza
that there is no space for anyone to think, to be open to listen and hear about Sudan.”
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/sudan-politics-hunger-aid/
Plus, corporate rule and politics focuses on bigot stunts, antics, publicity, manipulation, and religion, far right fascism co opts Religion or feeds from it.
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https://www.cfr.org/article/crisis-sudan-war-famine-and-failing-global-response
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"US announces $424m in Sudan aid amid pleas to stop ‘senseless’ war
American envoy to UN urges humanitarian pause and says international community ‘cannot simply look away’ "
"Describing the war in Sudan as horrific and shaming for the whole world, she said it was now necessary
“to compel, insist and demand that the warring parties agree a humanitarian pause to allow aid to flow and for citizens to flee”.
Katy Crosby from the NGO Mercy Corps expressed deep disappointment that a two-hour UN meeting had skirted around many of the fundamental issues.
She said:
“Many of the exact same expressions of concern and calls for more aid
to be allowed into Sudan
were expressed in almost the exact same room
here in New York at a high-level meeting here a year ago.”
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" Call out the violence by the RSF in Darfur for what it is: ethnic cleansing.
This reality cannot be disputed.
Alice Wairimu Nderitu, under secretary-general and special adviser to the secretary-general on the prevention of genocide, has warned that
“the situation today bears all the marks of risk of genocide, with strong allegations that this crime has already been committed”.
"This is a critical time for global leadership to live up to our commitments to protect vulnerable populations from destruction. We are watching the Janjaweed, the murderous militia now restyled as the RSF, trying to finish what it began 20 years ago"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/25/sudan-united-nations-intervention-uk-el-fasher
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"They attacked us. They displaced us’: grieving South Sudanese confront Swedish oil giant over their days of slaughter "
"In Sweden’s largest-ever trial, Ian Lundin, a Swede, and Alex Schneiter, who is Swiss, stand accused of asking Sudan’s government to make its army and allied militia responsible for security at one of Lundin Oil’s exploration fields. This led to aerial bombings, civilian killings and the burning of entire villages, according to the prosecution"
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Oil-rich Abyei is claimed by both Sudan and South Sudan
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"Libyan authorities have said they will investigate allegations of wholesale mismanagement in the country’s National Oil Corporation, with officials telling the Guardian rampant smuggling is helping to fuel the civil war in Sudan."
"Sources say the majority of the imported fuel comes from Russia, via third parties in Turkey, and is illicitly sold on to Europe at a large profit by smugglers, leaving ordinary Libyans with often hours-long queues for petrol."
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'The rupture of a crucial oil pipeline in Sudan might be the final straw. Oil is the glue that holds South Sudan together, with its export accounting for nearly 90% of government revenue. The economy is in freefall."
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Sudan conflict: Khartoum landmarks in flames as battles rage across country
Fire engulfs Greater Nile Petroleum Oil Company tower amid clashes around army headquarters in capital while fighting also reported in city of El-Obeid
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/18/sudan-fighting-conflict-landmarks-destroyed-battles
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"South Sudan is divided by the spoils of oil, not ethnicity"
Khalid Mustafa Medani
"South Sudan is more dependent on oil than any other oil-exporting country in the world.
Between 2005 and 2011, oil exports amounted to $9.5bn (£5.8bn) and accounted for 98% of total state revenues. But rather than utilising this revenue to invest in infrastructure and public services to improve livelihoods, the government financed a military and security apparatus, itself factionalised along ethnic lines.
Since independence in 2011, for example, South Sudan has allocated 38% of oil revenue to the military and security services, and only 10% to infrastructure and 7% to education.
Not only has the country seen agricultural productivity decline since the end of the civil war in 2003, it now imports the bulk of its food."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/14/south-sudan-divided-oil-ethnicity-violence
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"The Canadian firm Arakis bought the Chevron concession in the Muglad basin, north of Bentiu, and in March 1997 formed a consortium, the Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company (GNPOC), with the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), the Malaysian state oil company Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS), and the publicly owned Sudan National Petroleum Corporation (Sudapet).[1] In 1998 another Canadian firm, Talisman Energy, purchased the share of Arakis and then, under pressure from international nongovernmental organizations (which were opposed to the Islamist regime in Khartoum), sold it to a state-owned Indian oil company in 2003.[1] Other companies that also invested in concessions included the Qatar-based Gulf Petroleum and the French oil company Total.[1] The Swedish company Lundin Oil and the Austrian firm OMV were also involved, but both withdrew from the country because of deteriorating security conditions.[1]
Prior to 2005, the only concession producing petroleum was GNPOC.[1] However, many other fields were under development, such as the concession being developed by the consortium led by CNPC, PETRONAS, Sudapet, Sinopec, and Cairo-based Tri-Ocean Energy.[1] In 2003 and 2004, the consortium began construction of a new export pipeline and export terminal, as well as in-field production and transportation facilities.[1] South Sudan’s national oil company, Nile Petroleum Corporation (Nilepet), was also involved in allocating licenses.[1]
In 2005 Sudan established the National Petroleum Commission to improve the development of the country’s oil resources.[1] The commission allocates new oil contracts and ensures equal sharing of oil revenues between the national government in Khartoum and the Government of South Sudan (GOSS).[1] It also resolved duplicate oil contract issues in which the GOSS allocated blocks that overlapped the contracts previously granted by the national government in Khartoum.[1]
Intensive exploration by GNPOC resulted in known reserves of 800 million barrels in 2004.[1] At that time, however, studies suggested that production might eventually increase to more than 4 billion barrels, with recovery rates of 30–35 percent, and generate total oil income of about US$30 billion.[1] Exploration was expected to continue not only in the South, but also in the North near Dongola, the East around Port Sudan, the West, and also offshore.[1] As of 2009, proven oil reserves increased to 5 billion barrels, and there were proven natural gas reserves of 3 trillion cubic feet, although there was no production of natural gas by early 2011.[1] The majority of the reserves were in South Sudan.[1]
Additional refining capacity became essential as oil production increased.[1] A US$600 million refinery at Al-Jayli, north of Khartoum, came online in mid-2000 with a capacity of around 60,000 b/d, which allowed Sudan to become self-sufficient in refined products.[1] The export pipeline, which passed close to it, provided the resources for the refinery, which also produces a small surplus of refined goods, especially benzine, for export.[1]
In addition to the refineries at Al-Jayli and Port Sudan, there are also some smaller refineries.[1] They include Al-Obeid, with a capacity of 15,000 b/d, Abu Jabrah, with a capacity of about 2,000 b/d, and a topping plant built by Concorp with a capacity of 5,000 b/d.[1]
Refining capacity increased in July 2006 as CNPC completed the expansion of the Al-Jayli refinery north of Khartoum to 100,000 b/d.[1] An Indian energy company, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), had a contract to increase the capacity of the 40-year-old Port Sudan refinery from 21,000 b/d to 70,000 b/d, while PETRONAS was awarded a $1 billion joint venture with the government to build a second 100,000 b/d refinery in Port Sudan to process the new Dar Blend crude from its Melut concession in southeastern Sudan.[1] This project had been postponed several times by 2010, however, and its status is unknown.[1] Among other developments, Malaysia’s Peremba has begun construction of a marine export terminal, with a capacity of 2 million b/d, known as the Melut Basin Oil Development Project.[1]
Domestic production of petroleum was about 480,000 b/d in 2008, and consumption was approximately 86,000 b/d, with the remaining 394,000 b/d exported to Asian markets, the majority to China, Japan, and Indonesia.[1] Most of the oil was exported as crude, although some refined products were also exported.[1] Sudanese Nile Blend oil is a medium, sweet crude, with low sulphur and metal content.[1] It is sold at a discount to the Indonesian blend, Minas, the medium-sweet benchmark in Asia.[1] Dar Blend is also exported to Asian markets, but its heavy, sour quality causes it to trade at a discount, often severe, to Minas crude.[1] There has been a continuing trend of declining output of Nile Blend oil and increasing output of the less valuable Dar Blend, although total output remains relatively steady.[1] The shift from Nile to Dar, however, means that a larger share of Sudan’s oil is being produced in the South, about 78 percent.[1]
Sudan’s minister for energy and mining indicated in May 2010 that there might be modest output increases over the next several years.[1] He also indicated, however, that the recoverable reserves in the existing fields, using current technology, were only about 1.6 billion barrels, less than a decade of production at current output rates, and that production at those fields would only be a quarter of their current level by 2019.[1] He was confident, however, that new recovery technology could increase the amount recoverable from the fields and that new fields would be discovered.[1] He also was confident that production of natural gas would occur by that time.[1]
Satellite photographs were available in 2011 that provided evidence of oil exploration taking place in North Darfur, although the consortium of Arab companies holding the concession had not confirmed the exploration or indicated whether oil was discovered there.[1] This region has geological connections to the oil-producing regions in southeastern Libya.[1]
In May 2006, Sudan was invited to become a voting member of OPEC.[1] The country had had observer status since 1999 and was now qualified to join OPEC according to conditions set by the organization, although as of 2011 it had not yet become a member"
"The experience will provide “valuable experience for canine therapy teams as they prepare to work with victims during highly emotional and complex situations,” officials said.
“We were contacted by the victim advocates
who really felt a need for therapy dogs
to help victims just to take a breath
when they're waiting to testify.
when they're on the stand testifying,.
and they really felt that this was a need that they needed to fill,
and we went and just kind of presented our case as far as a therapy program,
and we've been with them ever since,”
said Kathy Loter, the Program Director for Portland Area Canine Therapy Teams.
Loter says they have 103 teams
in the area
and 40 teams work in the court system."
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DoveLewis is the only facility in Oregon to be certified on any level (I, II or III)."
Well, well.
"Dove Lewis and her husband, A.B., were breeders of Standard Poodles, Yorkshire Terriers, and Shih Tzus. Dove and A.B. ran the family kennel and dog grooming business (very upscale for its time)
At one point, there were 14 dogs in the family!"
https://www.dovelewis.org/board-directors-0
"pretty upscale"
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"The World Health Organization said this month at least 20,000 people have been killed in the conflict.
But some estimates are far higher, with the US envoy on Sudan, Tom Perriello, saying that up to
150,000 people may have died.
Sudan is classified as the world’s largest humanitarian catastrophe, she said it was “heartening that the US had stepped up with more funding, but it was deeply disappointing that other countries have not done more, or circled back to see if they had provided the funds they had promised”.
She added she could only hope Joe Biden had been more direct behind closed doors "
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/25/us-un-sudan-aid-war
