may day portland oregon 2012

November 17, 2011 portland oregon

occupy portland, oregon....october 2011

one party race

Hegemony (UK /hɨˈɡɛməni/, US /hɨˈdʒɛməni/;[1][2][3] Greek: ἡγεμονία hēgemonía, "leadership, rule") is an indirect form of government, and of imperial dominance in which the hegemon (leader state)

http://www.fulcrumpolitical.com/  " with independent tests proving it to be among the most persuasive voter contact in the nation."

 rules geopolitically subordinate states by the implied means of power, the threat of force, rather than by direct military force.

"battle tested. experience, strategy, propaganda."

"MARK WIENER IS A TOTAL ASSFUCKER," says a political insider, who has worked with Oregon's most powerful political consultant in the past.

"Don't cross the man. He's the one person in this business you don't want to cross, because he knows everybody and he knows everyone. There's nobody and nothing that is beyond his reach. He is somebody to keep on your side."

Here's a nicer way of putting it.

"Mark Wiener is the man in the shadows who's elected the majority of city council,

"

 Under hegemony, rebellion (social, political, economic, armed) is eliminated either by

co-optation of the rebels

 or by suppression (police and military), without direct intervention by the hegemon;

...in the theory of cultural hegemony, whereby one social class

can manipulate the system of values and mores of a society,

 in order to create and establish a ruling class Weltanschauung,

 a worldview that justifies the status quo of bourgeois domination of the other social classes of the society."
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"In contemporary society, the exemplar hegemonic organisations are churches and the mass communications media that continually transmit data and information to the public.

As such, the ideologic content of the data and information are determined by the vocabulary with which the messages are presented—how the messages are presented; thereby determines the value of the information as "reliable" or "unreliable", as "true" or "false", for the recipient reader, listener, and viewer.

Hence language is essential to the imposition, establishment, and functioning of the cultural hegemony that influences what and how people think about the status quo of their society"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegemony
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he who carries the water

"Water with a high deuterium content can only form under specific conditions. The environment needs to be very cold, and there needs to be enough energy to power the reaction that binds hydrogen, deuterium and oxygen. Over the past several decades, researchers have come up with two possible — and competing  — explanations of how this heavy water took up residence in our solar system.

The first is that it came from interstellar water ice that formed in the huge cloud of gas that gave birth to our sun and the solar system. Stellar nurseries can be found throughout the universe, and they are rich in both heavy water and regular water (H20), the researchers said."

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"For Kitzhaber’s re-election campaign, McCaig has done far more than a typical campaign volunteer.  

She has routinely taken a leading role in strategy sessions with paid campaign consultants, including Mark Wiener and Kevin Looper, both of whom worked on the 2010 campaign for Kitzhaber.

 (The governor has disclosed he is paying Wiener and Looper; both declined to discuss McCaig’s role in the campaign.)"

_____http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-23139-working_off_the_books.html___

"That would be Mark Wiener, the Portland political consultant to Leonard, Commissioner Dan Saltzman and Mayor Sam Adams as well as Portland City Council candidates Steve Novick and Mary Nolan.

Portland, of course, does not fluoridate its municipal water, as other U.S. cities do for dental reasons. Upstream Public Health has made oral health a priority for its group, and it hired Wiener as an adviser to assess the political landscape on fluoride not because the group is planning a large-scale 

campaign....http://blog.oregonlive.com/portlandcityhall/2011/09/fluoride_proponents_visit_comm.html

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2012-2013 Fluoride Campaign Supporters

American Dental Association

Cambia Foundation          

Capital Dental

CareOregon

DentaQuest                  

Dental Foundation of Oregon

Kaiser Permanente            

Legacy Health Systems

Metropolitan Medical Foundation of Oregon

Northwest Health Foundation  

OHSU

Oregon Community Foundation

Oregon Dental Association    

Oregon Medical Association

Pew Charitable Trust

Providence Health Systems

Willamette Dental Group



 http://www.upstreampublichealth.org/10th-anniversary-sponsors
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Sam Adams for Portland Mayor (OR)
American Cancer Society
American Heart Association
American Lung Association
American Rights at Work
Tammy Baldwin for State Senate (WI)*
Basic Rights Education Fund
Alan Bates for State Senate (OR)
Shelley Berkley for State Senate (NV)*
Howard Berman for Congress (CA)*
Dave Bieter for Boise Mayor (ID)
Earl Blumenauer for Congress (OR)
Suzanne Bonamici for Congress (OR)
Mary Bono Mack for Congress (CA)*
Kate Brown for Secretary of State (OR)
Sherrod Brown for Senate (OH)*
John Burbank for State Rep (WA)
Darcy Burner for Congress (WA)*
California League of Conservation Voters
Richard Carmona State Senate (AZ)*
Susan Castillo for State Superintendent of Public Instruction (OR)
Children’s Investment Fund
Clean Air Now
Clean Water Action Project
Climate PAC
Jeff Cogen for County Chair (OR)
Communications Workers of America
Tony Corcoran for State Senate (OR)
Peter Courtney for State Senate (OR)
DC Democracy Fund
Ryan Deckert for State Senate (OR)
Peter Defazio for Congress (OR)*
Defend Oregon
Defenders of Wildlife
Richard Devlin for State Senate (OR)
Earth Justice
Easter Seals
Randall Edwards for State Treasurer (OR)
Donna Edwards for Congress (MD)*
Randall Edwards for State Treasurer (OR)
Environment Colorado
Environmental Defense Fund
Jack Evans for DC Council (DC)
Experience Corps
John Foote for Clackamas County District Attorney (OR)
Friends of the Earth
Future PAC
Genocide Intervention
Jim Gerlach for Congress (PA)*
Jennifer Granholm for Governor (MI)*
Vince Gray for DC Council (DC)
Charlie Hales for Portland Mayor (OR)
Colleen Hanabusa for Congress (HI)*
Mark Hass for State Rep (OR)
Hawaii State Teachers Association
Healthy Kids Now
Healthy Legacy
Sue Hecht for State Senate (MD)*
Martin Heinrich for State Senate (NM)*
Carl Hosticka for Metro (OR)
Jon Hulburd for Congress (AZ)
Humane Society of the United States (AZ, CO, MT, ND, NM, NV, VA, WA)
Humane Society Legislative Fund (CA, CT, LA, MD, MI, NM, NV, NY, OH, PA, SC, VA, WA, WV)
IBEW
Idaho Conservation League
Idaho Education Association
Christine Jennings for Congress (FL)*
Joyce Johnson for City Council (NY)
Betsy Johnson for State Senate (OR)
Maryanne Jordan for Boise Council (ID)*
Mary Jo Kilroy for Congress (OH)*
Judge Rives Kistler for Supreme Court (OR)
John Kitzhaber for Governor (OR)
Komen Foundation
Frank Kratovil for Congress (MD)*
John Kroger for Attorney General (OR)
Ted Kulongoski for Governor (OR)*
Randy Leonard for Portland City Council (OR)
Robert Liberty for Metro (OR)
Greg Lind for Senate District 50 (MT)
Patricia Madrid for Congress (NM)*
Jerome Mapp for Boise Council (ID)*
Jerry McNerney for Congress (CA)*
Phil Mendelson for Council Chair (DC)
Grace Meng for Congress (NY)*
Jeff Merkley for US Senate (OR)*
Rick Metsger for State Senate (OR)
Michigan League of Conservation Voters
Million Voices for Darfur
Montana Conservation Voters
Jim Moran for Congress (VA)*
John Morse for State Senate (CO)
Chris Murphy for State Senate (CT)*
Hardy Myers for Attorney General (OR)
NARAL Pro-Choice America (NY, OR)
National Education Association
The Nature Conservancy
Nevada Conservation Awareness Project
New York League of Conservation Voters
Northwest Carpenters
Steve Novick for City Council (OR)
Barack Obama for President*
Oregon AFL-CIO
Oregon Education Association
Oregon Environmental Council
Oregon League of Conservation Voters
Oregon Trial Lawyers Association
Oregon University System
Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations
The Patterson Foundation
Ed Perlmutter for Congress (CO)*
Gary Peters for Congress (MI)*
Lynn Peterson fo County Chair (OR)
Kitty Piercy for Eugene Mayor (OR)
Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood Advocates of Oregon
Protect Washington
Floyd Prozanski for State Senate (OR)
Nick Rahall for Congress (WV)*
Dave Reichert for Congress (WA)*
Charlie Ringo for State Senate (OR)
Craig Roberts for Sheriff (OR)*
Maria Rojo de Steffey for County Commission (OR)
Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families
SAFER States
Dan Saltzman for Portland City Council (OR)
Sam Adams for Portland Mayor (OR)
Save Darfur Coalition
Mark Schauer for Congress (MI)*
Martha Schrader for County Commissioner (OR)
Brian Schweitzer for Governor (MT)*
Screen Actors Guild
SEIU, Oregon and Montana
Shaheen for Senate (NH)*
Janice Shamberg for Anchorage Assembly (AK)*
Chris Shays for State Senate (CT)*
Sierra Club (D.C., CO, FL, GA, MD, MI, MN, MO, NH, NJ, NM, NV, OH, OR, PA, RI, TN, VA, WA, WI)
Sierra Club State Action Fund
Kyrsten Sinema for Congress (AZ)*
Snohomish Conservation Voters*
John Spratt for Congress (SC)*
Stand for Children
Erik Sten for Portland City Council (OR)
Ted Strickland for Governor (OH)*
Student Alliance Project
Betty Sutton for Congress (OH)*
Texas Envirnomental Watch Alliance
John Tierney for Congress (MA)*
Dina Titus for Congress (NV)*
U.S. PIRG
Mark Udall for US Senate (CO)*
Rod Underhill for District Attorney (OR)
United Way
Upstream Public Health
Fred Upton for Congress (MI)*
Doug Van Etten for Anchorage Assembly (AK)*
Joanne Verger for State Senate (OR)
Victory Fund
                                                                                 David Vitter for State Senate (LA)*
Anthony David Weiner for City Council (NY)
Western States Center
The Wilderness Society
Worksafe
Ron Wyden for US Senator (OR)
Wyoming Equality State Policy Center
Wyoming Trial Lawyers Association
*Independent Expenditure

"Mark Wiener has more than thirty years of political experience inside and outside government at the federal, state and local levels. Mark has served in every imaginable campaign role and has become known as a national leader in direct mail and online.

 As the founder of Winning Mark and co-founder of Fulcrum, Mark’s work has won numerous awards, with independent tests proving it to be among

the most persuasive
 voter contact
 in the nation."

http://www.fulcrumpolitical.com/
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http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-old-water-on-earth-20140923-story.html

"In a study published Thursday in Science, researchers say the distinct chemical signature of the water on Earth and throughout the solar system could occur only if some of that water formed before the swirling disk of dust and gas gave birth to the planets, moons, comets and asteroids.

This primordial water makes up 30% to 50% of the water on Earth, the researchers estimate."

blackwater

"The two types of boast are the ȝielp (pronounced 'yelp') and the beot (pronounced 'bayawt', but as one syllable). The former is a boast of one's own worthiness, such as one's accomplishments, ancestry, etc. The latter is a boast of an action one plans to undertake."
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and THEN i am going to yelp,
writing my own previews,

a real nowhere man
with a hole in my levy

ready to fix
(redlines not gentrified with sitcom dynamite)

spots
just like i fixed iraq

as if "state department"
were a command

i.e.---"where are you FROM?"
born of black water,

primordial ooze
shows up to clean the mess precipitated

not by hurricane storm surges,
but by doing a FEMA

"heck of a slob" mop up job,
covering up deeds best buried.

seed eye saw

a kitten named odin
used my hand
for a sparring partner,
lacking sisters& brothers
but having found his
right hand man
(the sacrificial priest donated one limb
injured healer etc etc
to climb sky to earth along nerves,
play fighting the realms,
putting faces on each finger
as if the litter of foes
came not of one mother one father
as if clouding names
helps blood stay secret
as if the act were a farce as skin peels its curtain
to a crowned crowd
related by tales that castle-keep
us young,
frenzied, sharpening claws on
self-bark nine layers deep
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when grandmother selover
passed i was high on a plain
in still water, many eyed,
hit by my own waves
thirteen generations placed
from implacable origins
(nine teen thirteen ash street,
eleven nine nineteen ninety three
the placenta nourishes the hathor
the milky way
sucking my hug
holding on to the lone tree while i hold my thing,
alone never in mystery.
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tracing back,
be leaf,
okie oak,

missile toes for trance-formers,
host of birth games,

nut job. look at the kitten,
odin, go. made

of sticks
& circles my name
b l o o d g o o d rolls the hoop down the stairs,
up into a canopy of multitudes

if i lift my cup
splashing thoughts,
call it divination to read the blots of my bragging

binary code zero ones,
no thing but soil singing,
attacking itself immunized against staged fear:

face the hand,
inside is seed
i saw.

black maria

(order

prevails in paralytic charm)

we each get a turn to mein nothing,

noodling message-fish-embankments,

mainly meandering manforms

dressed in garbled garb

of tarped autonomy

here i hear our dissonance departing....

it is called a beat,

gumshoes, or gaul lashes 

fertile riotry.

even order is confused

when non-charmed volks

drive paddy wagons

10-18-11 Occupy Portland

(Black Maria, a slang term for a police van used to transport prisoners)

wading on the devil's bar

 "In Goethe's Faust, a chorus of Lemurs who serve Mephistopheles dig Faustus' grave. Lemures may represent the wandering and vengeful spirits of those not afforded proper burial, funeral rites or affectionate cult by the living: they are not attested by tomb or votive inscriptions. Ovid interprets them as vagrant, unsatiated and potentially vengeful di manes or di parentes, ancestral gods or spirits of the underworld."




usually best to roll them into the canyon,
divergent roads using vehicles
as writing nibs
made of iridium, the hardest material
on earth, entering the
police blotter
by high angle rope team extraction
several hundred feet
an old town needle in a haystack writing seminar
no coincidence
i rub my eyes and head to feel the scar
from a devil's pointed shove
down in the 2 am street
bounced down
i sprang up, otherwise a sitting duck
for midnight hunters run amok
returning to the scene for answers
two weaks later
i reborn from my own caesarian extraction,
producing a knife when cornered
to avoid injury
the bouncer told me i could not enter
"to swerve could cause
more dead"
two bucks were the admission charge
two bucks paid to protect
gangster does as want travels thru the dark
i did my own intrepid research,
at the KKclub, told by a slinky doe
the frank owner found them
by finding a cellphone
exhausted breath turnsignaled red
as if the pimp of dozens has more access
to pings
or knows where habeas corpus
pawns the kings of access, exquisite corpses
in failing lingerie,
as the wilderness listens thru a voodoo donuthole
that took out the middle
men, and inserted questions large in the belly,
pregnant with arrows
much like masked stage directions for portlandia
in which mansions saved by longshoremen
share the stage with benson bubblers
giving free hard thinking to all
having heart attacks on the way down
the same weak as mlk
the same tweakers that sent me to emergence rooms
in which surrendered blades
allow catscans that purr under a hood
owned by frank finders of faustian loopholes
wading on the bar
to shovel just
ice into the flames

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after William Stafford's "traveling thru the dark"
dante, and goethe: too.

champlin oil, union pacific resources group, anadarko petroleum, deepwater horizon...

Champlin Oil


"In 1916, oil was discovered at Garber Field. Champlin bought the mineral rights from George Beggs, a farmer who resided in the area. Ary Champlin had encouraged him to do so.  

 He purchased a small refinery from Victor Bolene, and built a pipeline between it and Garber Field. In 1920, he purchased the Goodwell Oil Company which consisted of several bulk plants and service stations.

 During his lifetime, the Champlin Oil Company expanded to operate service stations and wholesale outlets in twenty midwestern states and drilling and production operations in Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, and New Mexico.

 By Mr. Champlin’s death in 1944, the company employed over 800 people in Enid.

Following nine years of continued family ownership, the company went public in 1953. 

It had several owners:

1954: Purchased by the Chicago Corporation for $55,000,000. This parent company changed its name to Champlin Refining Company in 1956.

 
1964: The Celanese Company purchased the company. 

1970: The company was sold to Union Pacific Resources Company. 

1984: The operation was purchased by American Petrofina, which ultimately closed the refinery" 

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May 3, 1987 — The Union Pacific Corporation consolidated two subsidiaries, Champlin Petroleum and the Rocky Mountain Energy Company, into a single operating company called the Union Pacific Resources Group, Inc. 

 It said the change would permit further cost and productivity improvements in the natural resource businesses. (New York Times, May 4, 1987)

In 1995, Union Pacific Corporation combined all of its natural resource operations (Champlin Petroleum and Rocky Mountain Energy) into the Union Pacific Resources Group.  

In October 1995, Union Pacific sold a 17 percent stake to the public in an IPO. (New York Times, October 9, 1995)

On October 15, 1996, Union Pacific Corporation spun off its remaining 83 percent stake in Union Pacific Resources Group.  

At the time, Union Pacific Resources owned 

 7.5 million acres of land 

 in the western states that originally came to Union Pacific as mid-19th century land grants. (New York Times, November 17, 1996)
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UPC acquired Champlin Petroleum Company ("Champlin") in 1970 to manage the exploitation of its oil and gas operations on the Land Grant.  

The Land Grant consists of land granted by the Federal government to a predecessor of UPC in the mid-1800s which passes through the states of Colorado and Wyoming and into Utah and intersects several highly productive oil and gas basins.

In the Land Grant Area, the Company has fee ownership of the mineral rights under approximately 7.9 million acres constituting the initial Land Grant and controls the mineral rights under approximately 700,000 additional acres. In 1971, UPC combined its own oil and gas operations with those of Champlin.

In 1987, the Champlin name was changed to Union Pacific Resources Company ("UPRC") and UPRC also became responsible for managing UPC's hard mineral assets.
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In June 1997, Union Pacific Resources was reported as being

the largest domestic driller of oil and gas,

 for the past five years. (New York Times, June 24, 1997)
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the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862 granted large chunks of western land for those attempting to lay railroad tracks across the continent. Union Pacific, the Goliath of railroading west of the Mississippi, was given 7.9 million acres in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming.  

It wasn't until a good 50 years later that Union Pacific started to mine this land for oil, gas, and coal in earnest.

After growing the business both organically and through several acquisitions, Union Pacific found itself a major player in the natural resources market. In 1995, the railroad packaged together and spun off to shareholders all of its assets in gas and natural resources as Union Pacific Resources.

After Union Pacific Resources found itself independent of the railroad, it went about looking for acquisitions. Its first major deal, a hostile offer for Pennzoil at more than double today's prices, was derailed at the last moment in 1997. Still hungry for mergers and acquisitions, the company successfully bought Canada-based Norcen for $3.5 billion last year. Late in 1998, Union Pacific Resources decided to sell its midstream gas processing operations to Duke Energy for $1.35 billion to pare down debt and concentrate on upstream gas exploration.

 The company is now one of the largest gas exploration companies on the continent.
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In April 2000, Union Pacific Resources Group was purchased by Anadarko Petroleum Corp. (Dallas Business Journal, April 3, 2000; Anadarko news release dated April 3, 2000)

Sale of Union Pacific Resources -- On July 14, 2000, Anadarko Petroleum announced the closing of its acquisition of Union Pacific Resources Group.  

Union Pacific became a wholly owned subsidiary of Anadarko.
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Transocean and Halliburton have settled some liabilities and the judge said they were shielded by indemnity clauses with BP.

Texas-based Anadarko Petroleum Corp, which owned a quarter of the well, might have to pay fines under the Clean Water Act, though it has settled other claims with BP.
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In April 2014, Anadarko settled with the Federal Government to pay over $5 billion to clean up environmental waste sites around the country.

 It was the largest environmental contamination settlement in American history.
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Oligarchy