You're fucking Oprah

  

"M.I.A. attributes much of her success to the "homeless, rootlessness" of her early life. 

Due to her and her family being displaced from Sri Lanka because of the Civil War, M.I.A. has become a refugee icon.  

The EMP Museum's 2008 Pop Conference featured paper submissions and discussions on M.I.A. presented on the theme of "Shake, Rattle: Music, Conflict, and Change." 

 She has used networking sites such as Twitter and MySpace to discuss and highlight the human rights abuses and war crimes that Sri Lanka is accused of perpetrating against Tamils, citing news articles, human rights group reports, government reports, her own experiences as a child and on her return to the island in 2001 to support calls for a ceasefire. 

 M.I.A. has also used a great deal of tiger print and imagery, a symbol for the Tamil Tigers in both album artwork and music videos, such as seen in "Galang". 

Being the only Tamil widely known in Western media, M.I.A. has discussed how she feels a responsibility to represent the Tamil minority" 

"She has been accused of being a "terrorist sympathiser" and "LTTE supporter" by the Sri Lankan government, even by public figures such as Oprah Winfrey, as was stated in a Rolling Stone magazine article, where the singer recalled their exchange:  

"She shut me down. She took that photo of me, but she was just like, 'I can't talk to you because you're crazy and you're a terrorist.'  

And I'm like, 'I'm not. I'm a Tamil and there are people dying in my country and you have to like look at it because  

you're fucking Oprah 

 and every American told me you're going to save the world.'"  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.I.A._(rapper)

 

Hegseth Hegseth

  

"Hegseth’s 2020 book exhorts conservatives to undertake “an AMERICAN CRUSADE”, to  

“mock, humiliate, intimidate, and crush our leftist opponents”, 

 to “attack first” in response to a left he identifies with “sedition”, 

 and he writes that the book “lays out the strategy we must employ in order to defeat America’s internal enemies”. 

_____ 

 

“mock, humiliate, intimidate, and crush our leftist opponents 

“mock, humiliate, intimidate, and crush our leftist opponents 

“mock, humiliate, intimidate, and crush our leftist consumers

“mock, humiliate, intimidate, and crush our leftist neighbors

“mock, humiliate, intimidate, and crush our leftist clients

“mock, humiliate, intimidate, and crush our leftist inlaws

“mock, humiliate, intimidate, and crush our leftist army compatriots

“mock, humiliate, intimidate, and crush our leftist centrists

“mock, humiliate, intimidate, and crush our leftist electorate

“mock, humiliate, intimidate, and crush our leftist unions

“mock, humiliate, intimidate, and crush our leftist majority 

____ 

hegseth the gurgle of censor swill backed out the sewer in overdrive 

plowing his oligarch buddies into the leftist squish  

foundations his spork tongued soliloquy began 

foundations gave patton the boot 

foundations funded the rounds and times 

eating brain while driving 

adding jacked off imported mule seed 

a octopus wired to the console hegseth consulted 

flimdations his gleep the octopi slathered  

wipe off the foundations 

hoity indentured cephalopod 

hegseth enraptured by the brass stars lapel chains to a ginormous virtual wallet 

it's a discretionary foundation 

flam and flim and film and strainers 

a group endeavor hegseth orated 

the cubicle footing a sea glacier unsettled 

it's auto compensate his frontal implant fixed his left brain 

pushing langley arlington foggy bottom 

into the backseat pothole  

hegseth his lima bean limo musked over 

donner future-past  

____ 

Rubber-stamp 

Rubber-stamp 

Goose stepping glue sniffing beltway tramp 

Two feet made for marching 

Trail of leers red tape tears 

Rubber stamping jugular damping 

Beltway vamp 

Squeaky in by a margin 

Just seated no ruckus barging 

Rubber-stamp the court and curtsy 

Drink the blood don't be blurtsy 

Rubber stamp the lobby chosen 

Better that than find funds frozen 

Cart Blanche go before the fall 

Back to slavery 4 y'all 

Kiss and make up milley will he 

Rubber-stamp rip up the Bill silly willy 

There a cramp in the stylus 

Frequent fascist mileage 

Add quadrillion zeros or no bondage 

Pam the Pam Pardon 

Dupont Teflon no charges stick 

The university accreditation one syllable thick  

No No No egg on face on Bondi 

Rubber glamping fucking Bambi 

Play Ballard ball tweedle dee 

The Disney log ride in Moscow pee 

Ritzy ditzy Carlton 

Open in your town 

Recording rubber pimping rubber thumping 

In Ukraine sequin gown 

Rosneft dating Exxon 

Shell finger twats BP 

Aramco lusting Citgo 

Osage Iran needs 

Goat roper all the Taliban 

Add in the sheiks of Gaza 

Mixing asphalt holy  

Build a corporate Plaza 

Rubber stamping the post office 

Screen the mail for lefty 

Mustafa twerk all her shift 

Eye slits Bondi hand crafted 

Etsy chastity belts 

Every denomination 

Just use a drone not your phone 

Viper Amazon station 

Ask Oracle Bloomberg bezos

A wax seal signet albatross 

Circle who to snuff out 

Rubber-stamping clout  

___ 

Grey goose euro euphoric 

It victory stank the Pyre 

Fill the Knight with basketbull 

A crowded theatre don't yell Liar 

_____ 

Million man March, of ides 

Change yer stripes zebra Nashville 

Withdraw the jack white cry 

Looking at the cash till 

____ 

Bruce a billion bono even more 

Flag the wave Garth  

a javelin shotput cow

Rubber-stamping proxy protest 

Jay z two step  tailored swiftly foo ball  

Floating dance floor Clooney clowny brother art thou 

De Nero Denaro boy cotting peon stomping 

Gibberish stew been here b4  

"mock, 

 humiliate,  

intimidate,  

and crush our leftist opponents” 

And Love Thy Hatred as It Be Rubber-stamp 

speck gringo narcissists

  

"The team then conducted digs in Belize’s Crooked Tree wildlife sanctuary. The ancient canals, paired with holding ponds, were used to channel and catch freshwater species such as catfish. 

archaeologists have discovered a 4,000-year-old network of earthen canals in what’s now Belize. The findings were published on Friday in the journal Science Advances."

“The aerial imagery was crucial to identify this really distinctive pattern of zigzag linear canals” 

 running for several miles through wetlands, 

 said study co-author Eleanor Harrison-Buck of the University of New Hampshire." 

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/nov/22/ancient-fishing-canals-belize 

"The canal networks were built as early as 4,000 years ago by semi-nomadic people in the Yucatán coastal plain.  

According to the study, the canals were used for about 1,000 years or longer, 

 including during the “formative” period when the Maya began to settle in permanent farming villages and a 

 distinctive culture started to emerge." 

Tagteams (1999)

  

reasons and excuses

seasons and crucifixes

words are good trouble

send me these, on the double

po-lice and senators

burglars and creditors

sharing a pizza pie

while nukeing earth's 3rd eye

good moms and holy men

never tire of supporting them

their community base is strong

thru profits from the Hall of Wrongs

sight-see the warzone

(fertile thoughts were wince sown)

here on the mainframe

the reference point is our brain

1999 Klickitat, Wa

Swale Creek

2012 Bloodgoods, Oregon

  

 

Mesa, 2012  

Isis, 2012  

poetry in motion(s)

  

"The DoJ also said Google should give publishers and content creators the ability  

to block their data 

 from being used to train its artificial intelligence models.  " 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/21/google-sell-chrome-us-court-filing-demand-competition-laws

Poetry in motion(s)  

Filed by DoJ  

Pooretry fleeced  

 

 

 

 

A cuss of justice (2003)

  

woke up in a stupor and my knees weren't even bent

I broke up in a giggle, my jello so content

I'd wore down all my morals till  our soul was soundly spent

   But I couldn't no I wouldn't say please

I hushed up and said grace, gravy on my face

I bashed the party growers, a hardon for a mace

I did my part and meant it when I laid the jail to waste

   But fer the photo I did not say cheese

I yessired all the officers and pleaded my case

I drew upon old charm pool, Gibraltar, and my base

I told you when we handcuffed I was hardly chaste

   But for the show you were good to go

I splintered up my hangnails, made a picture frame

Glued back my eyelashes, sheltered all the blame

I spoke a long lost fabric and feigned a rabid shame

   But I vote not to let my leaves all blow

I felt a lowly vermin and justified the trap

Chewed off my best credit, tourniqueted my SAP

I jettisoned the headache and did a victory lap

   But I couldn't purge the file

I dwelled in abject entropy, sponsor keeping dibs

Counted out my morsels as they took my tidbits in

I brung my story to the cave and hollered Drinker's Lib

   Then took notice of a big hairy trial

I downplayed all the romance, good times gone as god

I ronnyraygunned memories, said listen to da flood

I swore they were my floatie, my duckie, and my blood

   But I didn't mean to mean what they need

They shot me to a forum, put me on a chair

They voted all the dunces inferior at our fair

They falsified my vapidness, called me on the dare

   And i spread out all my plumage like a bird

They voted me a heathen a king and a fake

I abstained all over the tally, a consumate rake

All all agreed on one thing and that's thou auto forsake,

   But the object of our scorn was divided

I plead the cuss O justice, O freedom and the dunce

Cuss if yer not all of them, Just one you will be once

The game so tidy neat, my football needs no punts

    But ya love the drama runback that's provided

  2003  

the Dalles, Portland 

Coca-Cola Scholar

  

"The international criminal court has issued arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister,  

Benjamin Netanyahu, 

 the country’s former defence minister 

 Yoav Gallant 

 and the Hamas military leader 

 Mohammed Deif  

for alleged war crimes relating to the Gaza war.

It is the first time that leaders of a democracy 

and western-aligned state  

have been charged by the court, .

in the most momentous decision of its 22-year history." 

"The chamber ruled there were reasonable grounds to believe Netanyahu and Gallant bore criminal responsibility as co-perpetrators for  

“the war crime of starvation  

as a method of warfare; 

 and the crimes against humanity of 

 murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts”.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/21/icc-issues-arrest-warrant-for-benjamin-netanyahu-israel 

"The US national security council issued a statement “fundamentally” rejecting the court’s decision.  

_____  

Assistant to the President and National Security Advisor: Jake Sullivan  

"He was a Coca-Cola Scholar, debate champion, president of the student council, and voted "most likely to succeed" in his class."  

 "He also worked for Brookings Institution president Strobe Talbott at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization" 

Senior Advisor to the National Security Advisor: Ariana Berengaut

Deputy Assistant to the President & Chief of Staff and Executive Secretary for the National Security Council: Curtis Ried

Advisor to the Chief of Staff and Executive Secretary for the National Security Council: Medha Raj[37]

Deputy Chief of Staff and Deputy Executive Secretary: Ryan Harper

Deputy Director for Visits and Diplomatic Affairs: Darius Edgerton[38] 

Associate Director for Visits and Diplomatic Affairs: Nicole Fasano[39]

Director of Operations Ryan Abdelnabi[40]

Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy National Security Advisor: Jonathan Finer[36]

Senior Advisor to the Principal Deputy National Security Advisor: Ella Lipin

Assistant to the President and Homeland Security Advisor and Deputy National Security Advisor: Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall[36]

Senior Advisor to the Homeland Security Advisor: Hilary Hurd[41]

Senior Advisor to the Homeland Security Advisor: John MacWilliams[42] 

Deputy Assistant to the President & Deputy Homeland Security Advisor: Joshua Geltzer[43]

Senior Director for Counter-terrorism: Clare Linkins

Director for Counter-terrorism: Caitlin Conley[44]

Director for Counter-terrorism: Alexandra Miller[45]

Director for Counter-terrorism: Annie Rohrhoff[46]

Director for Counter-terrorism - Global Threats / Embassy Security: Derek Dela-Cruz 

Director for Counter-terrorism - Homeland Threats: Michael Massetti

Director for Threat Finance & Sanctions: Samantha Sultoon[47]

Director for Counternarcotics: Coqui Baez Gonzalez[48]

Senior Director for Resilience and Response: Caitlin Durkovich

Director for Resilience and Response: Nabeela Barbari[49]

Director for Resilience and Response: Capt. Jason Tama (US Coast Guard)[50] 

Deputy Assistant to the President & Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology: Anne Neuberger[36]

Senior Advisor to the Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology: Sezaneh Seymour

Deputy Assistant to the President & Co-ordinator for Technology and National Security: Jason Matheny[51]

Senior Director for Technology and National Security: Tarun Chhabra

Director for Technology and National Security: Saif M. Khan[52]

Director for Technology and National Security: Michelle Rozo[53] 

Director for Technology and National Security: Sarah Stalker-Lehoux[54]

Director for Technology and Democracy: Chanan Weissman[55]

Senior Director for Cyber: Andrew Scott[56]

Director for International Cyber Policy: Teddy Nemeroff[57]

Senior Director for Cybersecurity and Policy: Steven Kelly[58]

Director for Cybersecurity and Emerging Technology Policy: Jonah Force Hill[59]

Director for Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity: Elke Sobieraj[60]

Director for Cybersecurity Policy and Cyber Incident Response: Travis Berent[61] 

Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economics: Daleep Singh

Senior Director for International Economics and Competitiveness: Peter Harrell

Director for International Economics and Competitiveness: Adam Deutsch[62]

Director for International Economics and Competitiveness: Jessica McBroom[63]

Director for Digital Technology Policy and International Economics: Ruth Berry[64]

Senior Director for International Economics and Labor: Jennifer M. Harris 

Director for International Economics: Brian Janovitz[65]

Director for International Economics: Mimi Wang[66]

Director for Strategic Workforce Planning: Leila Elmergawi[67]

Assistant to the President, Deputy Counsel to the President and National Security Council Legal Advisor: John R. Phillips III

Associate Counsel and Deputy Legal Advisor to the NSC: Ashley Deeks

Deputy Legal Advisor to the NSC: Capt. Florencio Yuzon (US Navy)[68]

Director for Global Criminal Justice: Steven Hill[69] 

Deputy Assistant to the President & Co-ordinator for Defense Policy and Arms Control: Cara Abercrombie

Senior Director for Defense:

Director for Defense Innovation and Cyber Policy: Lt. Col. Nadine Nally (US Army)[70]

Director for Space Policy: Audrey Schaffer[71]

Director for Strategic Capabilities: Brigadier General John Edwards (US Air Force)[72]

Director for Military Personnel & Readiness/ Senior Advisor, Gender Policy Council: Cailin Crockett[73]

Senior Director for Arms Control, Disarmament & Non-Proliferation: Pranay Vaddi 

Senior Director for Strategic Planning: Thomas J. Wright[74]

Director for Strategic Planning: Alexander Bick[75]

Director for Strategic Planning: Rebecca Lissner[76]

Director for Strategic Planning: Brett Rosenberg[77]

Senior Director for Partnerships and Global Engagement: Amanda Mansour[78]

Director for Partnerships: Jim Thompson[79]

Senior Director for Legislative Affairs: Casey Redmon

Director for Legislative Affairs: Amanda Lorman[80]

Director for Legislative Affairs: Nicole Tisdale[81]

Chief of Staff & Policy Advisor for Legislative Affairs: Gershom Sacks[82] 

Senior Director for Global Health Security and Biodefense: Raj Panjabi

Director for Biodefense: Daniel Gastfriend[83]

Director for Biotechnology Risks and Biological Weapon Nonproliferation: Megan Frisk[84]

Director for Countering Biological Threats & Global Health Security: Mark Lucera[84]

Director for Medical and Biodefense Preparedness/ Director for International COVID Response: Hilary Marston[84]

Senior Advisor and Director for Emerging Biological Threats: Maureen Bartee[85] 

Deputy Assistant to the President & Co-ordinator for the Indo-Pacific: Kurt M. Campbell

Senior Director for East Asia and Oceania: Edgard Kagan

Director for East Asia: Christopher Johnstone[86]

Director for Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands: Kathryn Paik[87]

Senior Director for South Asia: Sumona Guha

Deputy Senior Director for China and Taiwan: Rush Doshi[88][89]

Special Assistant, National Security Council Indo-Pacific Directorate: Sarah Donilon[90] 

Senior Director for Intelligence Programs: Maher Bitar[91]

Director for Information Sharing and Identity Intelligence: Lauren Hartje[92]

Senior Director for Development, Global Health & Humanitarian Response: Linda Etim

Director for Global Health: Ladan Fakory[84]

Director for Global Health Response: Nidhi Bouri[84]

Director for Humanitarian Coordination: Rachel Grant[84]

Director for Refugees: Jacqui Pilch 

Senior Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs: Juan Gonzalez

Special Assistant to the Senior Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs: Alejandra Gonzalez[94]

Director for the Caribbean and Summit of the Americas: Neda Brown[95]

Director for Central America and Haiti: Megan Oates[96]

Director for North America: Isabel Rioja-Scott[97]

Director for Regional Protection and Migration Management: Eric Sigmon[98] 

 

Assistant to the President & White House National Security Communications Advisor: John Kirby

Senior Director for Press & NSC Spokesperson: Adrienne Watson[99]

Director of Strategic Communications/ Assistant Press Secretary: Patrick Evans[100]

Director of Strategic Communications/ Assistant Press Secretary: Dean Lieberman[100]

Director of Strategic Communications/ Assistant Press Secretary: Kedenard Raymond[100]

Director of Strategic Communications/ Assistant Press Secretary: Sean Savett[100]

Policy Advisor, Office of the Spokesperson and Senior Director for Press/ Strategic Communications: Jasmine Williams[100] 

Senior Director for Africa: Dana L. Banks[101]

Director for African Affairs: F. David Diaz[102]

Director for African Affairs: Peter Quaranto[103]

Director for Africa: Deniece Laurent-Mantey[104]

Special Advisor for Africa Strategy: Judd Devermont[105]

Deputy Assistant to the President & Coordinator for Democracy and Human Rights: Shanthi Kalathil[106]

Senior Director for Democracy and Human Rights: Robert G. Berschinski[107]

Director for Democracy and Human Rights: Tess McEnery[108]

Director for Democracy and Human Rights: Brian Vogt[109]

Director for Human Rights and Civil Society: Jesse Bernstein[110]

Director for Anticorruption: Chandana Ravi[111] 

Senior Director for Russia and Central Asia: Eric Green[112]

Director for Afghanistan: Allison Varricchio[113]

Director for Russia: Katrina Elledge[114]

Senior Director for Europe: Amanda Sloat

Director for Balkans and Central Europe: Robin Brooks[115]

Deputy Assistant to the President & Co-ordinator for Middle East and North Africa: Brett McGurk

Senior Director for Middle East and North Africa: Stephanie Hallett (acting)

Director for Gulf Affairs: Stephanie Hallett

Director for the Arabian Peninsula: Evyenia Sidereas[46]

Director for Iran: Sam Martin[46]

Director for Iraq and Syria: Zehra Bell[46] 

 

Director for Israeli-Palestinian Affairs: Julie Sawyer[46]

Director for Jordan and Lebanon: Maxwell Martin[46]

Director for North African Affairs: Josh Harris[46]

Director for Political-Military Affairs and Yemen: K.C. Evans[46]

Director for Political-Military Affairs: Col. Daniel Mouton (US Army)[116] 

Senior Director for Energy & Climate Change: Melanie Nakagawa

Director for Climate Diplomacy and Energy Transformation: Helaina Matza[117]

Director for Climate Investment, Trade, and Environment: Victoria Orero[118]

Director for Climate Security and Resilience: Jennifer DeCesaro[119]

Senior Director for Speechwriting and Strategic Initiatives: Carlyn Reichel

Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs: Josh Black

Director for Multilateral Affairs: Robert E. Kris

Director for Global Engagement and Multilateral Diplomacy at the NSC and NEC: Andy Rabens[120]  

Senior Director for Trans-border: Katie Tobin

Director for Trans-border Security: Ashley Feasley[121] 

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

"We shrink at any oath except a soft 'Beelzebub.' / We're out-Elizabething the Elizabethan Club." 

___ 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/21/accused-war-criminal-status-hard-stigma-netanyahu-shrug-off 

 

123 cattle, 44 grand, and plots

  

"South Sudan’s 2008 Child Act prohibits early and forced marriage, but according to Unicef, child marriage is “still a common practice” and “recent figures indicate that 52% of girls [in South Sudan] are married  

before they turn 18,  

with some girls being married off as young as 12 years old" 

"After the ceremonial part of the wedding in June, when she was given as a wife to Chol Marol Deng, for a payment of  

123 cattle, 

 120m South Sudanese pounds (about $44,000 or £33,000) in cash  

and a plot of land, she was dubbed 

 “the most expensive bride in South Sudan”  

"Globally, 12 million girls are married in childhood every year, according to another Unicef report. Across sub-Saharan Africa, more than a third of young women were married before the age of 18." 

"Questions around Athiak’s age were sparked by a Facebook post by her maternal uncle, Daniel Yach, a Canadian citizen, who said “she is a minor” and condemned the proposed marriage as “a classic example of pedophilia”. 

"I was very shocked because I had not seen Athiak since I left to Canada in 2015,” he says in a phone call. “By then she was six years old. Then I saw the posts about the marriage and I discovered 

 how tall she had become.

“But she’s just a child. This little girl is being brainwashed. It’s the craziest stuff ever.” 

"Sarah Diew Biel, a protection manager for the South Sudanese development organisation Nile Hope, says: “When you’re going against  

a thousand people who are saying ‘this marriage is OK’,  

you become a traitor in the eyes of the community, with a khawaja [foreigner] mentality. It’s mentally and emotionally draining.” 

Athiak’s mother tried to stop the wedding. 

 “I tried telling the family that Athiak should not be married,” she says. “But they all insisted.  

"They were looking for the cows. They saw that Athiak will bring them that great wealth. When I refused, they separated me from my daughter.”.

"The lawyer, Adhet Deng, believes Athiak is now probably in Nairobi with the family of  

Chol Marol Deng, who has returned to Canada, where he works."  

"Athiak has never spoken publicly about the controversy surrounding her marriage. But, on the eve of the agam celebration in June, she told the Guardian that, had the marriage process not started, she would have  

“preferred to study" 

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/sep/27/south-sudan-juba-dinka-child-marriage-athiak-dau-riak-customs-brideprice 

_____  

'The author Cormac McCarthy, who died last year aged 89, began a relationship with a 16-year-old when he was 42  

(42-16 =26)

and the woman became his “secret muse”, Vanity Fair has reported.

The author of The Road and Suttree gave very few interviews, so little is known of his private life other than that  

he married three times and lived in Spain and Texas before settling in New Mexico. 

(Spain plus Texas equals NM)

"Augusta Britt, now 64, told Vanity Fair she was “in and out of foster care” when she first saw McCarthy at a motel pool in Tucson, Arizona, that she would frequently visit. "

" The author looked familiar, and when she got home she realised she had recognised him from the author photo on the back of the novel she was reading, McCarthy’s debut, The Orchard Keeper."

"The next day, she brought her copy of the book to the motel, along with a Colt revolver, which she said she had stolen from the man who ran her foster home and “had taken to wearing”, having experienced violence at the hands of her father and foster parents. "

" The author was still there, and apparently asked her if she was planning to shoot him – to which she responded no, she wanted him to sign her book.

Britt said the pair began a relationship and in 1977... ."

Britt said the pair had sex for the first time when McCarthy was 43 and she was 17.

“I loved him,” she told Vanity Fair. “He was my safety. I really feel that if I had not met him, I would have died young.   

What I had trouble with came later.  

When he started writing about me.”  

___ 

 

He was my  revolving safety revolver trouble 

I coulda popped off babies 

Rather I troubled pops 

Flip switch fire Europe USA 

Always writing the head head in charges not filed 

Reading reading always sex on safety the eyelashes pop 

The bikini pop the novel tee peep oops pops 

Novelty trouble stag stagnates 

Horny thorny trouble sells double 

 

So different than South Sydan, Texas New Mexico Canada 

  

____ 

"Israeli attacks have destroyed huge areas of land used for crops, with 90% of cattle killed, analysis shows" 

'More than 90% of cattle have died and about 70% of land for crops in Gaza has been destroyed or damaged since the beginning of the war in the territory, an analysis of satellite imagery by the UN has found.

More than half of sheep and goat herds have been wiped out, while more than three-quarters of the territory’s famous orchards have been destroyed or damaged, the survey in September found." 

"Satellite images … indicate that heavy vehicle tracks, razing, shelling and other conflict-related pressures have damaged large areas of farmland, infrastructure, wells and other productive infrastructure,” Paulsen told the UN security council, adding that the destruction substantially increased the risk of famine there.

Before the outbreak of war last year, farms covered about 40% of Gaza and produced enough vegetables, eggs, fresh milk, poultry and fish to meet around a third of local demand. Many families had their own olive or fruit trees." 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/21/gaza-food-production-decimated-70-per-cent-farmland-hit

 

bloody town crier

   

"In Goslar, Germany, a crier was employed to remind the local populace not to urinate or defecate in the river the day before water was drawn for brewing beer." 

I'm might adept at semi proclivities 

Leaning toward falling into big life cavities

My sweet tooth it a siren

Lash me to the mast I'll Houdini my ass free since they hiring

From a cleaner past 

Five seconds rule pop it in mouth 

My speech bubble puke can't escape the semi south 

OK a good place to get raised on a cross dare

So move to kansas toto it's semi north square 

That fucking panhandle what's up oilymandered 

Add it to texas maybe get breeding pandas 

China get tibet not too late 

Fluff up a pillar of colonial states  

Hitchhiking semi slow it's the body inflation 

Priced outta iceberg lettuce gotta eat the old nation 

I use my semi molars and incisors morals too 

To full to swallow what the potlatch grew 

My glass half empty but not my tennis shoe

Blood and pus tops it off and hangnails glue 

Leap the gauntlet over tigers 

Fed on frozen fire 

Nanny nanny poo poo  

Apply for bloody town crier 

The Brits ain't coming neither France nor Spain 

Set places for Hungary and Serbia bring the purple bulgar grain 

Front and center an apple on the head 

George Washington William Tell dread 

Wig out the foundering father

And sleepy cotton mather the undergrad railroad 

Hide the Honduran semi bad 

They wanted better lives 

Found em in college 

Semi American if I'm not mistaken and forsaken 

So they're semi taken 

Where's the camp it a handmaiden store 

All the pretty ones first to go 

More than dubious the master cock impervious 

Put fox news idiots to roundup the curious 

Two eyes why for you only need a single 

Semi blind and fluoridated what more 

Man that panhandle piping gas hot 

Gonna blow cement the hole 

Semi single semi scream semi hush yer droll role 

Zealot harlot miscreant and me (2011)

  

the contures of billy club

as wielded by dour s. paisley

follow conjecture's pepper-dismay

dispersal on the attorney salt-slacks.

repudiated overmuch,

blank stares load up with vision,

fees propagate, sidewalk observant,

 or not.                 perceived travails,

billowing sales on downtown frowns.

booted most rudely,

stuck in luncheons with frenemies,

such is the lot of satanic clerks in riot zoots

distinguishing, by power twice removed,

every pain and rendered slight

in accordance with their...mores& norms.

guard bless ya!

storied, but based in base deed,

flies make most of penultimate creed.

zealot harlot miscreant& me 

 

N 17, 2011

do unto others the opposite of ms. paisley

secularism, leftism, globalism and sufi yoga

  

"In the book, “American Crusade,” Hegseth ties his belief in an existential struggle over America’s “native” and “Judeo-Christian” culture to the Crusades, writing that 

 Christians, along with their “Jewish friends 

 and freedom-loving people everywhere,” 

 must fight back against secularism, 

 leftism, 

 globalism 

 and Muslim immigration.

“See you on the battlefield,” he writes in closing out the book. “Together, with God’s help, we will save America. Deus vult!”  

___ 

"The Deus Vult tattoo, which appears on Hegseth’s arm as early as 2018,  

invokes a phrase that has grown popular among some Christians — it is the rallying cry of a Catholic school in New Jersey and the title of a podcast hosted by two Catholic priests.  

But it has also been used by extremists, 

 including the man who opened fire on two New Zealand mosques in 2019 — killing 49 Muslims — 

 and white nationalists, such as some of those who marched in Charlottesville in 2017.  

It appeared on at least one flag carried by rioters on Jan. 6." 

 

What Type of "Christians" is the crux of the issue. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2024/11/16/pete-hegseth-tattoo-national-guard/.

____ 

"Secret Service agents rushed President Donald Trump to a White House bunker on Friday night  

as hundreds of protesters gathered outside the executive mansion,  

some of them throwing rocks and tugging at police barricades.

Trump spent nearly an hour in the bunker, which was designed for use in emergencies like terrorist attacks," 

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-ap-top-news-george-floyd-politics-a2326518da6b25b4509bef1ec85f5d7f 

"My presence in that moment and in that environment created 

 a perception of  

the military involved in domestic politics."

Milley has drawn pointed criticism from retired military officers not only for accompanying the president in what turned out to be  

a staged photo-op in front of a boarded-up St. John's Church,  

but for having done so dressed in baggy battle fatigues. 

 The four-star Army general appeared to express regret for that as well."  

https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/06/11/875019346/gen-mark-milley-says-accompanying-trump-to-church-photo-op-was-a-mistake  

___ 

 Trump and Miller have described plans to federalize state national guard personnel and deploy them for immigration enforcement, including  

sending troops from friendly Republican-governed states 

 into neighboring states with governors who decline to participate. 

 Miller has also advocated for building  

large-scale detention “camps” and tents.

In his first post-election interview, Trump told NBC News that he had “no choice” but to implement a mass deportation plan, regardless of cost.

“It’s not a question of a price tag,” 

"Trump at various points claimed he would deport 

 at least 15 million – and even as many as 20 million  

– people who are in the US illegally" 

Sure, fascist. 

____ 

"The Supreme Court's majority opinion didn't address 

 whether 

 a president would be immune  

from prosecution for assassinating  

a political rival while in office.

Many saw that omission as conspicuous given Sotomayor's dissenting opinion – which was joined by her fellow Democratic-appointed justices, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson – accused the majority of providing cover for just that. 

"Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to 

 assassinate a political rival? Immune," Sotomayor wrote. 

"If the president can kill his political rivals without consequence, who's going to prosecute him?  

Then he can just kill the prosecutor. .

The judge says it's illegal?  

Then he just kills the judge." 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/07/11/donald-trump-immunity-supreme-court-powers/74332048007/

 

benchwarmer lull (2024)

The evening wind takes her off 

Across the lawn, her tawny dog on a long long blue rope, after 

She has sat awhile to watch

The summer soccer boys frolick 

She wears pastel shorts, a gallery of ink symbols, 

On thighs, shoulder, and forearm  

There's a top that matches, not cheap

She's not fixed she tells the picnic crew, explaining the twenty foot line 

They meander toward the garden 

Early August dense, corn tassels a thicket water covets 

A couple on a blanket take in the arrival of evening 

He leans over for the kiss she plants 

They exist on hip and elbow resting 

Freely feeding on the moment, yawning more 

The dog has gone, their mistress vanished 

There's nothing to fix, fertility folds the grass damp sheet 

No friction of city intrude 

A fleeting basket summer offers, a veritable pageant youth colors 

Over the sated mind mislead  

 

SE pdx 

8-7-24

blase shallow digestible dish

  

"because AI-generated poems do not have such complexity, they are better at unambiguously communicating an image, a mood, an emotion, or a theme to 

 non-expert readers of poetry,.

 who may not have the time or interest 

 for the in-depth analysis  

demanded by the poetry of human poets,” they said." 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/nov/18/ai-poetry-rated-better-than-poems-written-by-humans-study-shows

Or skill, experience, imagination,  mindset, philosophy, goals, capacity, stamina, drugs or alcohol or LSD or employment  regimen or life coach or reading sofa or bed of nails to peruse from, they may be far indoctrinated and having narrow vision, but I already mentioned some hues in that prism 

no punctuation or a smidge too scanty 

One wants a self driving car to soar to Mars, not to motor over across the countryside and covered bridges for organic maple syrup roan horses frozen licking porter off the mailboxes not yet bashed in by cars of jock wannabes so they can post their deeds on instadip for Likes.

  

nothing in common. not brands of soap, nor church affiliation,

not genetics, nor heaven forbid, the roadmap used

to find the way home. they don't have homes; not Common

homes. their hearths are made of gold, ours: of crap.

their food is different, their speech on another plane, their

mice are docile and don't carry diseases: they sing.

nothing in common. born with eight hands for the taking,

six mouths to be fed while the others wield swords, of gold,

they shed not blood when vanguished, but a sap-like goo that's good on pancakes.

their children are all smiles their soups never burn

they are so unlike us, we have nothing in common.

they pimp us and we pimp ourselves: big difference.

nothing in common, nothing in common. i wonder why we only have

a couple thousand nothings on our side?

the less common, the more crowded nothing seems. 

leave it to the professionals (2015)

 leave it to the professionals 

comfort squats on the part time worker,

stealing a rest in the desert

where the prickly pear

blooms bewareness as part and parcel of a wary dumping ground

littered with garden party accoutrements,

swimming pools of undrinkable water

and plastic bottles racing past tumbleneeds

toward the boarder's fence

where squatters hold sway while

trying to do number one or number two while avoiding

contact with an adverse terrain

of colosss husks

and burnt out pintos whose rusty comfort

returns his borrowed iron

into the ground by dropping sweat beads

onto a game floor

ruled by umps in loafers

who decree "play ball or blackball"

who scream "suck it up" while siphoning the gasps

of children fleeing "free tirade"

mad in the USA with boss springing the steens mtn. stallions free

in the movie version, in the disney venison,

getting comfortable with the corn eaters

in the black row of ledgers

running red ink

running out of metaphors for loss

running out of ways to screw with impunity

a stripped out threading where parts, partners,

frank steins brimming with bubbly "hey bub"

as the spokes define a hub

in the radial stretch of making it to the next paycheck

that bounces off the book cooker

and lands not on land but on the backs

of flipped turtles in their empire shells

calling the shots

from way off in lard conditioned eateries

making hypertension the medium whereby one presents any opinion

or addresses the gift of slave labor

to a hole knocked into a saguaro with a tiny sharp beak,

in a residential enclave cul de sac

guarded with goiters from incessant desk loitering

an ugly repose from which to respond

to pretty pleas for basic rites such as washing,

drinking, resting, breathing professional air

with unlicensed noses just out of reach

but easy to smack 

5-9-15

poem (2019)

  

that which sprung from soil, we turn to our bodies

made of oceans mad, which flung earth

out of star spit, drinking candles yes we are

tallow and the mortal tick, clocking illusion,

that which blooms of silence, we keep in jars

lidless and in search of a time, which seals the seventh

and becomes an octave, or sweet dissonance,

wicking up the brine of prehistory.

that which has no presence, we wrap in re-gifted

martyrs, eggs of ideas hard chiseled, 

unable to make anything as beautiful as a child

or a seedling, or a stupid poem. 

henbane aeon swirl (2017)

born on boughs covering stone harmony hearths

wodan again grins

shakes silver reindeer rattle

cattle mill about stout doors

baby has no use for

as  per powerful wont godan giveth thrice

willful in measure to cub size

weaned on mead and teethed on henbane spoons oak

strangling wyrm oz was easy pleased

throwing new scales to sky

his placenta ygdrasill three roots

world tree limbs four stags forage

no den no zen woe then zeus when

eagle-tested one

won another heart riven where thunder fears

unborn strewn for raven mockery assimilation

wolf swallowed good son goddown

born deep browed

chisled soul stone seer

cutting time for hearth food

Aeon dust swirling

in grey gazes bent  

6-4-17 Portland Oregon

Indulge in whatever

  

22 grandkids, seven sons four daughters 

She musta been fucking bunny style 

Fucking the voting commish 

Fucking the nra czar 

Lots of wheels with two eyeballs no nuts 

Lotsa snowcones hot dogs cotton candy 

Lotsa foosball get a hydra leash 

Lose a few while know 

I'm jealous not id settle for one grandkid 

"Rhadamanthys" redirects here. For the antagonist character of Saint Seiya, see Wyvern Rhadamanthys.

For other uses, see Rhadamanthus (disambiguation).

"In Greek mythology, Rhadamanthus (/ˌrædəˈmænθəs/) or Rhadamanthys (Ancient Greek: Ῥαδάμανθυς) was a wise king of Crete. 

 As the son of Zeus and Europa he was considered a demigod. He later became one of the judges of the dead and an important figure in Greek mythology. 

Elysium (/ɪˈlɪzi.əm, ɪˈlɪʒəm/[1]), otherwise known as the Elysian Fields (Ancient Greek: Ἠλύσιον πεδίον, Ēlýsion pedíon) or Elysian Plains, 

 is a conception of the afterlife that developed over time and was maintained by some Greek religious and philosophical sects and cults. 

 It was initially separated from the Greek underworld – the realm of Hades. Only mortals related to the gods and other heroes could be admitted past the river Styx. 

 Later, the conception of who could enter was expanded to include those chosen by the gods, the righteous, and the heroic. 

 They would remain at the Elysian Fields after death, to live a blessed and happy afterlife, and  

indulge in whatever they had enjoyed in life" 

In life whatever there wasn't cerebus 

Or a yuppie principal 

Or a picnic disappear ring table 

Or toothless gumption  

Keep him poor or hell scoot sic he will 

His will scoot a coon with salt buckshot run might fast 

I've produced plenty peckerwoods clean yer beak 

Glisten up 

___ 

"Although he was frequently considered one of the judges of the dead in the underworld, he was also known for a few legislative activities.  

There is a reference to a law of Rhadamanthus ordering the Cretans to swear oaths by animals and to another law of Rhadamanthus saying 

 if people defend themselves against others who initiated violence then they should suffer no penalty. 

"He is portrayed in Books 4 and 7 of Homer's Odyssey. Virgil (69–18 BC) makes Rhadamanthus one of the judges and punishers of the unworthy in the Underworld (Tartarus) section of the Aeneid."

"Homer represents him as dwelling in the Elysian Fields (Odyssey iv. 564), the paradise for the immortal sons of Zeus. 

 Pindar says that he is the right-hand man of Cronus (now ruling Elysium) 

 and was the sole judge of the dead. .

Lucian depicts Rhadamanthus as presiding over the company of heroes on the Isles of the Blest in True History." 

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

,

fjord fallow night (2017)

  

rib riven of seaside oxen driven to death

flank flung on coal bed born beside a black oak

seven seers serene tear severe to bits in bites

ash char snow lettered prehistoric blood scribble spray

ice ballast beard teeters toward keg

fists scabbed wrapped in ointment rags plundered

of southern thrusts plunged draining dawn of sun

slung moon songs hurled breath smoke

under eight pelts four furs six trees three rivers solid mtn sweat

mothers birth men yet cry to scare wolves stiff distant

in dens won by woe found wanting

creel harpoon craft mast listing in mist bygone tomorrow to battle

a silver rattle left and earrings persian glass

time sealed in twelve century slough night tantalizes mead heavy mind

a brace of narwhale ivory mends a leather pillow of a man

old known tree sounds fire speaks seasons secret lines

the fjord mirror draped in loam and foals child chased

her shield resting more tested his spear ready less flaunted

reindeer swim amid star filled lakes glacier gotten

acorn rolls name game the wood script floats off intelligent

cloak unhurried a button waits finger frozen 

sleep steams breath falls not far afield of brows sheltered

three roosters call fallow nights hold over

in goldrimmed henbane pots ice capped from sitting

knot known by woden born the day belongs

 

5-13-17 portland

The witch belles of Batwater (2017)

 oracular history need nest in no mystery

just ask the Belles of Batwater;

   like towels wrung from sister seas,

   tales drip from hoodoo alma mater.

fields full of cars and attending tent homes,

riverside dock, the stage;

    yachts intermingle with hobos and gnomes

    our children magnificently crazed

pot luck spreads mimic the Columbia,

dish after dish the best hippy grub ever;

   music sunset chases, if moribund ya

   just go fer coffee& talk witty-clever

   swooping gnat gobbling, night denizens party

   the Witches of Batwater, nocturnal, less warty

     

2017

Cover up yawn dress down

  

"Netanyahu’s office has denied the allegation,  

accusing critics of “another complete fabrication 

 that is also part of an unprecedented media witch-hunt 

 against the prime minister’s office during wartime,  

designed to whitewash the grave failures 

 of others  

on the night of October 7,” according to the Times of Israel." 

"I’m going to strongly request that the ethics committee not issue the report, 

 because that is not the way we do things in the House,” Johnson said, hours 

 after returning from a visit to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.  

“And I think that would be a terrible precedent to set.”

"The committee had reportedly been near to releasing its inquiry, but Gaetz’s resignation has thrown into question  

whether such a report can be made public     

once a lawmaker exits the House.....to become head law enforcement of the entire nation and court system. "  

Look we buried the skeletons. You want to force the rotting flesh on the public? 

That's not how Amnesia works in Blindville. 

You must be the problem, now scram and take your rule book over to dinner to sit on to reach the table. 

Enjoy the fresh entrails and boxing spectacular .

 

___ 

"Stacey Williams, who said she met Trump through Jeffrey Epstein about three decades ago,  

and told the Guardian that the now president-elect groped her at Trump Tower in 1993 

 in what seemed to be a “twisted game” with the late sex predator, is among the many processing election results.

“I think what we were all hoping was that [the] truth would come through and the  

stories would affect people’s vote once they had [them] in front of them.”

But, she said: “Disinformation won this election at the end of the day, and if we don’t figure out an answer for that, I don’t have a lot of hope for this country.” 

"Fox News host Pete Hegseth, who Donald Trump nominated to be defense secretary, was involved in a sexual assault investigation in California seven years ago, but no charges were filed against him, the San Francisco Chronicle reports." 

"If confirmed, RFK, Jr. would be the most pro-abortion Republican appointed secretary of HHS in modern history" 

It's God's will, obviously, mother. 

"Investors in pharmaceutical companies are selling off stock  

after Donald Trump nominated the anti-vaccine activist Robert F Kennedy Jr to lead the US Department of Health and Human Services.

"RFK Jr has embraced numerous health-related conspiracy theories, and is one of  

the most persistent and influential vaccine deniers in the US.

Trump’s announcement sent shares in some of the world’s biggest pharmaceutical companies – including  

Moderna, AstraZeneca and GSK – falling on Friday morning."

"RFK Jr has said vaccines are linked to autism in children, that HIV is not the cause of Aids  

and that some antidepressants are linked to a rise in school shootings.

RFK Jr – and Trump – are mulling banning fluoride in drinking water,  

while he has also called for bans on hundreds of food additives and chemicals 

 and wants to cut ultra-processed foods from school lunches as part of a plan to reduce diet-related chronic diseases." 

"The family of Malcolm X, the militant civil rights leader who was assassinated almost 60 years ago, filed a $100m federal lawsuit on Friday that accuses the FBI, the CIA and the New York police department (NYPD) of allowing his murder." 

"Ben & Jerry’s has sued Unilever, alleging that the ice cream brand’s parent company 

is silencing its effort to express support for Palestinians.

The Vermont-based brand said Wednesday that Unilever violated merger and settlement agreements 

 that give the Ben & Jerry’s independent board authority 

 over its social mission, according to the lawsuit." 

&tamarind (2018)

  

Not from harvest-heat do I my olive pluck;

And yet methinks I have lobotomy,

         But not to squeal of good malodorous luck,

 Of pimples, principles, or Treason's quality ; 

        Nor can I fortune to brief minutes yell,

Pointing to each hot thunder, press, &tamarind,

         Or quell parties that go well,

Most oft predict nonsense, easy to find: 

         But yer eyes all  knowledge scribes,

Art negligent stars, in them taste tart

         As tousled-beauty writhes, shall together thrive,

If going to storm thou could'st revert ;

Or else lightning prognosticates

Thy front's lie and booty: doom, all dates 

 

2018

Get it Right

  

"Kennedy, who endorsed and campaigned for Trump after dropping his own third-party presidential bid, has established himself as an influential promoter of baseless conspiracy theories about vaccines and 

 other public health staples,  

such as water fluoridation,  

which he opposes." 

___ 

So do a million water users around Portland, Oregon. 

Science confirms the toxicity of over -fluoridation. 

Did the Guardian forget their own article, the EPA and FDA findings? 

"Judge has ordered an EPA risk assessment amid fear that additive that strengthens teeth could  

harm children’s IQs" 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/04/fluoridation-water-epa-risk-assessement

Tom Perkins

Fri 4 Oct 2024 07.00 EDT 

 "Armed with a growing body of scientific evidence pointing toward fluoride’s neurotoxicity, public health advocates say the legal win shows they are overcoming “institutional inertia” and the 

 unwillingness of federal public health agencies  

to admit they may have been wrong.

The order last week requiring the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)  

to begin the process of strengthening fluoride regulations represents a “landmark” legal win that has long been in the making, said  

Stuart Cooper, director of the Fluoridation Action Network advocacy group." 

"The Obama-appointed US judge Edward Chen 

 found fluoridation could cause developmental damage  

and lower IQ 

 in children at levels to which the public is generally exposed in drinking water.  

Though the ruling did not state the level at which fluoridation would damage brains, 

the levels in US water 

 present an unreasonable risk,  

the court found." 

"The EPA now must perform a risk assessment that is among the first steps in setting new limits under the Toxic Substances Control Act." 

"It is added to drinking water for more than 200 million Americans, or about 75% of the population" 

'there has always been evidence of the risks, and 

 the practice is rare  

in most other countries, including those in Europe.  

The last 15 years have seen an “uptick” in high-quality scientific research demonstrated the risks, said Michael Connett, a Food and Water Watch lead attorney on the case." 

"In the ruling’s wake, four water systems, including that which provides water to Salt Lake City, have stopped or suspended fluoridation." 

___ 

It's a No Brainer, even for RFK 

Zenith, CEI Hub, Portland

  

"Zenith is one of 11 companies operating at the Critical Energy Infrastructure hub on the Willamette River, a 6-mile stretch along U.S. 30 between the Fremont Bridge and the southern tip of Sauvie Island. 

 That’s where Zenith offloads and stores fuels before transferring them to ships or trucks bound for refineries, local markets and other destinations. The company doesn’t produce, own or sell the fuels stored in its tanks." 

"The Department of Environmental Quality said Thursday that it’s putting the air quality permitting process on hold  

for Zenith Energy, a company that offloads and stores fuels at the Critical Energy Infrastructure hub in Northwest Portland.

The surprise announcement comes a day after state regulators conducted an 

 unannounced inspection at the Zenith facility on the Willamette River  

and after revelations that the company was using a  

previously undisclosed dock to offload fossil and renewable fuels." 

https://www.oregonlive.com/environment/2024/11/state-puts-hold-on-zenith-energys-controversial-air-permit-process-in-surprise-move.html 

"Zenith has attracted fierce opposition in Portland, with environmental groups 

 pointing to Zenith’s numerous violations and misleading tactics in recent years.  

A new air permit for Zenith would allow the company to continue offloading and storing fuels in Portland." 

___ 

"there’s an estimated 26% likelihood of a major earthquake in the next 50 years. 

 With more than 90% of Oregon’s liquid fuel located at the CEI Hub facilities, 

 residents want leaders to look into risk mitigation of the tanks or possibly moving them." 

"Floods occur with increasing frequency and the hub is in a flood plain on liquefiable soil,” said Nancy Hiser of the Linnton Neighborhood Association. 

 “Accidents have been alluded to, like the Ohio train derailment, happen.  

Human error is always a possibility. The list goes on. It’s a ticking time bomb.” 

"The six-mile stretch of tank farms is known as the Critical Energy Infrastructure Hub (or CEI Hub).  

A 2020 study commissioned by the City of Portland and Multnomah County found that a Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquake could indeed spell environmental disaster for this area." 

The CEI Hub, as it’s known, is a collection of huge white tanks you see on your right as you head up U.S. Route 30 to Sauvie Island to go berry picking.  

There are 630 of them, full of 150 different liquids, including gasoline, diesel and jet fuel. 

"in an earthquake, the tanks would likely move around and rupture, spilling gas on land and into the Willamette River.  

The lighter fuels would float downstream, the report says, while the heavier ones would settle in the river bottom.

At full capacity, the hub can hold 351 million gallons of fuel,  

and 200 million of those gallons could be released in a quake.  

That’s about how much oil spewed out of the offshore Deepwater Horizon well after it blew up in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010" 

"this isn’t hypothetical.  

As WW reported in 2011, it’s not a matter of whether a massive earthquake is going to hit, but when." 

Most of the tanks were built before anyone knew that the Northwest faced California-style seismic risks. The average one dates from 

 1954, 

 the report says, and they can be upgraded 

https://www.wweek.com/news/city/2022/02/07/tank-farm-in-northwest-portland-is-flaming-disaster-waiting-to-happen-new-report-says/ 

Yalta, Malta, OK Texas

  

"The Yalta Conference (Russian: Ялтинская конференция, romanized: Yaltinskaya konferentsiya),   

held 4–11 February 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe.  

 The three states were represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin. 

 The conference was held near Yalta in Crimea, 

 Soviet Union,  

within the Livadia, Yusupov, and Vorontsov palaces.   

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

"The aim of the conference was to shape a postwar peace that represented not only a collective security order, but also a plan to give self-determination to the liberated peoples of Europe. Intended mainly to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe, within a few years, with the Cold War dividing the continent, the conference became a subject of intense controversy." 

 

"Each of the three leaders had his own agenda for postwar Germany and liberated Europe. Roosevelt wanted Soviet support in the Pacific War against Japan, specifically for the planned invasion of Japan (Operation August Storm), as well as Soviet participation in the United Nations. 

Churchill pressed for free elections and democratic governments in Central and Eastern Europe, specifically Poland. Stalin demanded a Soviet sphere of political influence in Eastern and Central Europe as an essential aspect of the Soviets' national security strategy, and his position at the conference was felt by him to be so strong that he could dictate terms.  

According to US delegation member and future Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, "it was not a question of what we would let the Russians do, but what we could get the Russians to do". 

"the Soviets agreed to join the United Nations because of a secret understanding of a voting formula with a veto power for permanent members of the Security Council, which ensured that each country could block unwanted decisions." 

"Nazi war criminals were to be found and put on trial in the territories in which their crimes had been committed. Nazi leaders were to be executed."  

____

"The Allied oil campaign of World War II 

was an aerial bombing campaign conducted by the RAF and the USAAF against facilities supplying Nazi Germany with petroleum, oil, and lubrication (POL) products. 

 It formed part of the immense Allied strategic bombing effort during the war. The targets in Germany and in Axis-controlled Europe included refineries, synthetic-fuel factories, storage depots and other POL-infrastructure."

___ 

 

"Since its discovery in 1943, the West Edmond Oil field had produced a total of 121,455,000 barrels of oil as of January 1st, 1947."

_____ 

"On 6 January 1945, Champlin returned to Atlantic convoy escort, sailing for Oran. On 30 January, she cleared Oran to rendezvous with the group bringing 

 President Franklin D. Roosevelt to Malta, where he was to enplane for the Yalta Conference.  

She later escorted this same group back into the Atlantic, and on 20 February returned to Gibraltar for patrol and convoy escort duty in the western Mediterranean. On 22 April, she departed Oran for New York and preparations for deployment to the Pacific Ocean."  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Champlin_(DD-601)

 ____ 

During World War II, the United States increased its oil production from 3.7 million barrels per day in 1940 to 4.7 million barrels per day in 1945. This was a 30% increase and was a key factor in the Allies' victory: 

Oil was a strategic commodity

Oil was essential for fueling and lubricating planes, tanks, and other military machinery. 

The US had an advantage

The US produced 60% of the world's crude oil, while Nazi Germany's domestic oil production was limited. 

The US provided 85% of the Allies' oil

The US produced 6 billion barrels of oil from 1941–1945, while the Allies consumed 7 billion barrels. 

The Permian Basin was a major contributor

The Permian Basin produced nearly a quarter of the world's oil and gas during the war.  

The Big Inch Pipeline was built

The Big Inch Pipeline carried more than 300,000 barrels of crude oil a day from East Texas to Illinois, Pennsylvania, and New York. 

The petrochemical industry boomed

Petroleum refineries produced about 80% of the military's toluene, a key ingredient in TNT.  

___ 

Building of a crude [oil] pipeline from Texas to the East might not be economically sound,” Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes wrote to President Roosevelt in July 1940, “but in the event of an emergency it might be absolutely necessary.”

That emergency arrived quickly. The U.S. entered the war in December 1941, and in the month of February 1942 alone, Nazi submarines sunk 12 U.S. oil tankers along the East Coast.  

To protect the remaining tanker fleet, the government restricted the ships to the trans-Atlantic route, which stretched from the U.S. Northeast to Europe. While still dangerous, this route limited the tankers’ time at sea and allowed them to cross the Atlantic in an easier-to-defend convoy. 

 To make up for the lost tankers, oil from Texas was sent to the Northeast via trains and river barges. But those means of transport could not replace the large volume of petroleum that had been shipped by sea. By one estimate, East Coast refiners had been receiving 300,000 barrels of oil daily by ship. Trains and barges were only able to deliver a combined 140,000 barrels per day, less than half the previous supply. In the battle over oil, the Nazis had struck a decisive blow.

According to historian Michael Gannon in his book Operation Drumbeat: The Dramatic True Story of Germany’s First U-Boat Attacks Along the American Coast in World War II,  

“The U-boat assault on merchant shipping in United States waters during 1942 

 constituted a greater strategic setback for the Allied war effort 

 than the defeat at Pearl Harbor."

To maintain the flow of oil, the government funded the construction of the longest and largest pipeline ever built up to that time.  

Officially named the War Emergency Pipeline, it passed through 10 states and connected Baytown, Texas, on the Gulf of Mexico, with Linden, New Jersey. 

 The War Emergency Pipeline was actually two pipelines running parallel along the same route: A 24-inch (60-centimeter) diameter pipe carried crude oil while a smaller 20-inch (50-centimeter) line  carried refined petroleum products. 

"Without the prodigious delivery of oil from the U.S.,” stated historian Keith Miller, “this global war [WWII], quite frankly, could never have been won.”

"The war was truly won by an Inch." 

https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/big-inch-fueling-americas-wwii-war-effort 

 

"The Champlin Refining Company was a major oil company during World War II with a strong presence in Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, and New Mexico. The company operated service stations and wholesale outlets in twenty midwestern states. " 

"Richie’s clients, included in the digital collection, are Humble Petroleum (Exxon), Gulf Oil, Texas Oil Company (Texaco), Crown Central Petroleum, Texas Gulf Sulfur, Warren Petroleum, Magnolia Petroleum (Mobil), Atlantic Refining Company (Arco), American Oil Company (Amoco, BP), Halliburton, Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco), Ethyl Corporation, Hess Oil, Houston Pipeline Company, Shell Oil, Sinclair Refining, Standard Oil, Sun Oil,  

Champlin Oil,  

IDECO, Keystone Exploration, Quintana Petroleum, the Tom O’Connor oil field, offshore rigs, and more." 

https://blog.smu.edu/smulibraries/2013/09/04/texas-oil-photographs-1936-1970-by-robert-yarnall-richie/  

"The Champlin Refining Company played a role in World War II by helping to discover the West Edmond field. The company held 2,000 acres of leases around the discovery well and would have to conduct a large drilling program to develop them. " 

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 "Champlin operates service stations in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Arkansas, North and South Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota. Credit cards with 119,000 customers, of which 81,000 are considered active, will be canceled."  

Champlin Closing Enid Refinery, Ending Sale of Gasoline

Michael McNutt.  1983

"Shutdown of the refinery that sprang from an oil boom here 67 years ago..." 

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"Despite the RAF and Harris claims regarding the great importance of oil targets,  

Harris had opposed assigning the highest priority to oil targets 

 but acknowledged post-war that the campaign was "a complete success" with the qualifier:  

"I still do not think that it was reasonable, at that time, to expect that the [oil] campaign would succeed; what the Allied strategists did was to bet on an outsider, and it happened to win the race."

"Joint Chiefs of Staff Directive 1067 prohibited German post-war production of oil through July 1947,  

and the United States Army made post-war provisions to rehabilitate and  

use petroleum installations where needed, as well as to dispose of unneeded captured equipment 

After inspections of various plants by the "European technology mission" (Plan for Examination of Oil Industry of Axis Europe)and a report in March 1946,  

the United States Bureau of Mines 

 employed seven Operation Paperclip synthetic fuel scientists  

in a Fischer–Tropsch chemical plant in Louisiana, Missouri. 

n October 1975, Texas A&M University began the German Document Retrieval Project and completed a report on 28 April 1977.  

The report identified final investigations of the German plants and interrogations of German scientists by the British Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee,  

the US Field Information Agency (Technical), and the Combined Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee. " 

"The US strategic bombing survey (USSBS) identified "catastrophic" damage.[16] German industry in and of itself was not significantly affected by attacks on oil targets,  

as coal was its primary source of energy, 

 but in its analysis of strategic bombing as a whole the USSBS identified the 

 consequences of the breakdown of transportation  

resulting from attacks againstu transportation targets 

 as "probably greater than any other single factor" in the final collapse of the German economy." 

"Several prominent German military officers, however, described the oil campaign as critical to the defeat of Nazi Germany. Adolf Galland,[b] wrote in his book "the most important of the combined factors which brought about the collapse of Germany" 

And the Luftwaffe's wartime leader, Hermann Göring, described it as "the utmost in deadliness" 

 Albert Speer, writing in his memoir, said that "It meant the end of German armaments production." 

 It has been stated to have been "effective immediately, and decisive within less than a year". 

Luftwaffe Field Marshal Erhard Milch, referring to the consequences of the oil campaign, claimed that  

"The British left us with deep and bleeding wounds, but the Americans stabbed us in the heart." 

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