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Wednesday, April 30, 2025


 

Noem gravel pit Minister

  

"Though the Trump administration admitted that Ábrego García’s deportation was an “administrative error”,  

it has repeatedly cast him as an MS-13 gang member on television – a claim his wife, a US citizen, and his attorneys staunchly reject.  

Ábrego García has no criminal record in the US, according to court documents."  

.


"Oops  oopsie  " who's a bad gurl 


'Cricket was a wirehair pointer, about 14 months old,” the South Dakota governor writes in a new book, adding that the dog, a female, had an “aggressive personality” and needed to be trained to be used for licking pheasant ass for GOP She includes her story about the ill-fated Cricket, she says, to illustrate her craveness, in politics as well as in South Dakota life, to do anything 

Anything, anything, “difficult, messy and ugly” if it simply needs to be done. Fascists.".


By taking Cricket on a pheasant hunt with older dogs, Noem says, she hoped to calm the young dog down and begin to teach her how to behave. Unfortunately, Cricket ruined the hunt, going “out of her mind with excitement, chasing all those birds and having the time of her life”.


Noem describes calling Cricket, then using an electronic collar to attempt to bring her under control. Nothing worked. Then, on the way home after the hunt, as Noem stopped to talk to a local family, 

 Cricket escaped Noem’s truck and attacked the family’s chickens, “grabb[ing] one chicken at a time,  

crunching it to death with one bite, then dropping it to attack another”.

Cricket the untrainable dog, Noem writes, behaved like “a trained assassin" 


Cricket was “the picture of pure joy”.


“I hated that dog,” Noem writes, adding that Cricket had proved herself “untrainable”, “dangerous to anyone she came in contact with” and “less than worthless … as a hunting dog”.


“At that moment,” Noem says, “I realised I had to put her down.”


Noem, who also represented her state in Congress for eight years, got her gun,  

then led Cricket to a gravel pit.". Whistling Dixie off key.

 



Bgood

  

'The Be Good Tanyas formed in 1999 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Samantha Parton had been living on the road as a tree planter and wandering and making music, when she met Jolie Holland"   





Gee it's wood, under the hood

Pine piston seized 

Burl on note knees 


Splinter of life 

Stuck in the ground

Water and sun see what we found

 

B good sweet bee food

No ain't in the mood

I've nuthin to prove

Thought you unnerstood 


Roll or grow moss 

Hills made to be crost 

Take roots as ya roam

Yodel a home 


Once clearing it's said

Planted a bed 

That maple got cred 

As a rosebud sled   


         ***


Cradle did rock  


"Rock a bye baby on the tree top,

When the wind blows the cradle will rock,

When the bough breaks the cradle will fall,

And down will come baby, cradle and all."


The rhyme is believed to have first appeared in print in Mother Goose's Melody (London c. 1765), 

possibly published by John Newbery, and which was reprinted in Boston in 1785. 

No copies of the first edition are extant, but a 1791 edition substitutes "Hush-a-by baby" at the start of the first line

 The rhyme is followed by a note: "This may serve as a warning to the proud and ambitious, who climb so high that they generally fall at last."  



The Tanyas gained US exposure when the Showtime series The L Word selected one of their songs, "In Spite of All the Damage", for inclusion on its soundtrack. A live version of "In My Time of Dying" was also included in the third episode of the third season, in which Ford was featured as a nun and played the song in the opening sequence. 

 The track "The Littlest Birds" was played during the first season of the Showtime series Weeds and was included on the soundtrack. The band's music has also featured in the CTV series The Eleventh Hour and in the film Because of Winn-Dixie. Their cover of Townes Van Zandt's "Waiting Around to Die" was also used in "Bit by a Dead Bee", an episode of AMC's Breaking Bad. Their rendition of "What Are They Doing in Heaven?" was played on the episode "Searchers" of the AMC series Hell on Wheels 


"i maginations have been stretched to give the rhyme significance". They list a variety of claims that have been made, without endorsing any of them


*that the baby represents the Egyptian deity Horus

*that the first line is a corruption of the French "He bas! là le loup!" (Hush! There's the wolf!)

*that it was written by an English Mayflower colonist who observed the way Native American women rocked their babies in birch-bark cradles, suspended from the branches of trees

*that it lampoons the British royal line in the time of James II.

*In Derbyshire, England, one local legend has it that the song relates to a local character in the late 18th century, Betty Kenny (Kate Kenyon), who 

 lived in a huge yew tree in Shining Cliff Woods in the Derwent Valley, where 

 a hollowed-out bough served as a cradle " 


"Rock-a-bye baby and Bye baby bunting come to us from the Indians, as they had a custom of cradling their pappooses among the swaying branches" 




"Cradle Will Rock is a 1999 American historical drama film written, produced and directed by Tim Robbins. The story fictionalizes the true events that surrounded the development of the 1937 musical The Cradle Will Rock by Marc Blitzstein; 

 it adapts history to create an account of the original production, bringing in other stories of the time to produce a social commentary on the role of art and power in the 1930s,  

particularly amidst the struggles of the labor movement at the time and the corresponding appeal of socialism and communism among many intellectuals, 

 artists and working-class people in the same period. " 

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

Starring

Hank Azaria

Rubén Blades

Joan Cusack

John Cusack

Cary Elwes

Philip Baker Hall

Cherry Jones

Angus Macfadyen

Bill Murray

Vanessa Redgrave

Susan Sarandon

John Turturro

Emily Watson 


"At the height 

 of the Great Depression, the Federal Theatre Project, led by Hallie Flanagan, brings low-cost theater to millions across America. .

FTP and other projects of the Works Progress Administration face anti-communist criticism and increasing government pressure led by the new House Committee on Un-American Activities."  



'2010, Frazey Ford released her debut solo album, Obadiah, which featured Klein on guitar. Ford said making the recording allowed her to explore soul music more than she had with the Be Good Tanyas. She also noted that some of the songs reflected her role as a new parent, [and she had enjoyed] "exploring the concepts that are relevant to my life in terms of motherhood and generations" 

"one of the founding members of The Be Good Tanyas. Holland left the band before the release of their debut album, Blue Horse, on which she appears prominently. She returned to San Francisco, where she recorded her first album, 2002's Catalpa. 

 Originally self-released, the album was later picked up and re-released by ANTI-. In 2004 she released her first album for ANTI-, 2004's Escondida.  

ANTI- labelmates Tom Waits and Sage Francis are both outspoken fans of Holland's: Waits nominated her for the Shortlist music prize" 


2016, she reunited with Be Good Tanyas bandmate Samantha Parton and they began touring as a duo, 

releasing the jointly-credited album Wildflower Blues, on Cinquefoil Records


"with Wildflower Blues, they begin a new chapter in their ever-evolving creative relationship. On the album's ten tracks, they weave together influences spanning jazz, blues, country, folk, rock, experimental, and the great wide history of American song, into their own kind of soul music. 

 Wildflower Blues features mostly original tracks written by Holland and Parton, as well as reimagined versions of songs by  

Bob Dylan, Michael Hurley, and Townes Van Zandt." 


5.

Jocko's Lament 03:29 

ABOUT THIS TRACK

C. Michael Hurley 


https://joliehollandofficial.bandcamp.com/album/wildflower-blues 


(Or listen for Free)






Tuesday, April 29, 2025

elemental, DH Lawrence

  

Why don’t people leave off being lovable

Or thinking they are lovable, or wanting to be lovable,

And be a bit elemental instead?


Since man is made up of the elements

Fire, and rain, and air, and live loam

And none of these is lovable

But elemental,

Man is lop-sided on the side of the angels.


I wish men would get back their balance among the elements

And be a bit more fiery, as incapable of telling lies

As fire is.

I wish they’d be true to their own variation, as water is,

Which goes through all the stages of steam and stream and ice

Without losing its head.


I am sick of lovable people,

Somehow they are a lie. 




D.H. Lawrence

1929 



____ however ....


Fire rain air is the stuff

Of poetry, call it love 

Give grace by candle

Light drink or moat the accumulated cloud

Inhale or soon die air 

Join loam or be conscripted 

It sold a chapbook in 1929 money next to 

Alms say grace master surveil 

If your life don't worship dirt

Prepare for plastic worse 

Elemental made too, boom 













Monday, April 28, 2025

Lindhorst


  

"Verden an der Aller  

 called Verden (Aller) or simply Verden,   




is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, on the river Aller.  

It is the district town of the district of Verden in Lower Saxony and an independent municipality (de:Selbständige Gemeinde). The town is located in the middle Weser region on the Aller river immediately before it flows into the Weser.  

As a center of horse breeding and equestrian sports, it bears the nickname "equestrian town". The suffix "Aller" was introduced at a time when the name "Verden" was also common for the French town of Verdun in the German-speaking area.  

The town name comes from "ford" or "ferry". The town was conveniently located at a ford through the Aller river, near an important trade route." 

"Verden is famous for a massacre of Saxons in 782, committed on the orders of Charlemagne (the Massacre of Verden), for its cathedral, and for its horse-breeding." 

 ***

Anna Lindhorst Ludeman

Birth.     30 Jul 1810 


Verden an der Aller, Landkreis Verden, Lower Saxony, Germany 




(Parents and Siblings

Harm Hinrich Lindhorst

1781–1832

Anna Sophie Meyer

1785–1854) 


Death.      2 Aug 1894 (aged 84)

Henry County, Ohio, USA 

Lavinah Elizabeth Potterf Luderman

Birth.    9 Feb 1843

Preble County, Ohio, USa


Death.       20 Feb 1923 (aged 80)

Defiance County, Ohio, USA

Emma Elizabeth Luderman May

Birth.      10 Apr 1882

Defiance County, Ohio, USA 


Death.        17 Feb 1974 (aged 91)

Caddo County, Oklahoma, USA 



"When Henry Lüderman was born on 29 July 1847, in Hanover, Prussia, Germany, his father, Cord Hinrich Lüdemann, was 36 and his mother, Anna Margarethe Lindhorst, was 36. 

 He married Lavinah Elizabeth Potterf on 7 January 1868, in Defiance, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He immigrated to United States in 1865. He died on 17 August 1895, in Adams Township, Defiance, Ohio, United States, at the age of 48, and was buried in Poplar Ridge Cemetery, Adams Township, Defiance, Ohio, United States. "


"Lindhorst is a municipality in the district of Schaumburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 8 km northeast of Stadthagen, and 35 km east of Minden. "

300, 000 square miles for rainforest meat, what's climate change, immigration, earth,

  

"Environmental groups are outraged that the world’s biggest meatpacking company,.

 JBS, which has long been linked to Amazon’s deforestation,  

has received approval from US authorities to list on the New York Stock Exchange.


The decision, announced on Tuesday by the Securities Exchange Commission,.

 follows reports that JBS subsidiary Pilgrim’s  

was the biggest donor.

 to the inauguration committee of Donald Trump. " 


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/24/jbs-nyse-listing-pushback-amazon-deforestation-climate

"The joint listing is expected to raise the value of the multinational, which started as a family business and grew globally with the support of Brazil’s national development bank. 

 Almost half of its revenue now comes from the United States, .

where it sells household brands including Pilgrim’s, Moy Park, Seara and Primo..

 It also has a significant presence in Australia and strong sales in Europe and China." .

'JBS has been linked to deforestation on multiple occasions, and the New York attorney general, Letitia James, filed a lawsuit last year accusing the company of misleading consumers with its climate goals in an effort to increase sales.".


 "By almost every metric, a company like JBS has a detrimental impact on society. 

 Allowing it to list on the world’s largest stock exchange – unlocking vast opportunities for expansion and profit – shows the deep failures of the US financial regulatory system.  

This decision is a disaster for both people and the planet,” said Alexandria Reid of Global Witness, an environmental justice organization."


"recent Federal Election Commission filing revealed JBS subsidiary Pilgrim’s made the largest single donation of  

$5 million to Trump’s inaugural committee for his second term." 


___ 


"JBS USA is based in Greeley, Colorado.

 Its competitors include Hormel Foods, Cargill, Smithfield Foods, National Beef, and Tyson Foods" 

live animals were driven across overhead ramps to the killing floors. Swift processed fresh, smoked, table-ready, canned meats, such as PREM, and baby foods, .

along with soap, lard, shortening, adhesives, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, fertilizers, hides and animal feeds. 

In addition to meatpacking, Swift sold various dairy and grocery items, including Swiftning shortening, Allsweet margarine, Brookfield butter, cheese under the Brookfield, Pauly, and Treasure Cave brands, and Peter Pan peanut butter. .

Swift began selling frozen turkeys under the Butterball brand in 1954. Gustavus Swift also championed the refrigerated railroad car. 


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


"the 1960s, Swift expanded into other fields, including insurance and petroleum,  

and formed the holding company Esmark in 1973. Two years later, Esmark bought International Playtex  

from Meshulam Riklis' Rapid-American Corporation. Esmark sold off  

Globe Life Insurance to the Ryan Insurance Group in 1977.


Esmark left the petroleum business in 1980, selling Vickers Petroleum to Mobil,

 while Swift's fresh-meat business was spun off as a separate company, Swift Independent Packing Company (SIPCO), the same year..

Esmark went on to purchase Norton Simon Inc. in 1983 before being purchased by Beatrice Foods .

the next year. ConAgra purchased 50% of SIPCO in 1987 and the remaining portion in.

 1989, the same year ConAgra bought Beatrice Foods.".


July 12, 2007, JBS purchased Swift & Company in a US$1.5-billion, all-cash deal. The acquisition made the newly consolidated .

JBS Swift Group the largest beef processor in the world. ..


"December 2006, six of the company's meat-packing facilities in Colorado, Nebraska, Texas, Utah, Iowa, and Minnesota were raided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, resulting in the apprehension of 1,282 undocumented immigrants from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Peru, Laos, Sudan, and Ethiopia, and nearly 200 of them were criminally charged " 

The company pledged to eliminate illegal deforestation, including in the threatened Cerrado region, from its supply chains by 2030 



"March 2024, New York Attorney General Letitia James sued JBS USA for violating the state's general business laws on deceptive practices and false advertising. ..


JBS subsidiary Pilgrim’s  

was the biggest donor.

to the inauguration committee of Donald Trump. "  


"2022, JBS agreed to a $52.5 million settlement without admission of wrongdoing in a lawsuit brought by grocers and wholesalers, which .

accused JBS, National Beef, Cargill, and Tyson of  

working together to drive up the price of beef..

 In 2024, McDonald's Corporation sued JBS and the same three other companies along with their subsidiaries for alleged price fixing."..



'JBS benefited from trade tensions with increased sales in China. JBS stated that despite being a foreign company, 

it supports American farmers by creating job opportunities. In May 2019, Representative Rosa DeLauro from Connecticut claimed that President Donald Trump was unaware of the situation." 

____ 


"On 5 June 2022, he and Brazilian Bruno Pereira, an expert on indigenous peoples of Brazil, .

went missing in the remote Javari Valley in the far western part of the state of Amazonas in Brazil,.

 one of the most remote zones in the rainforest. .

On 14 June,

Amarildo da Costa da Oliveira allegedly confessed to shooting and killing Phillips and Pereira and led police to the men's bodies the following day. 


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



"Phillips wrote about politics, poverty and cultural development in Brazil. From 2014 to 2016 he contributed to The Washington Post, where he covered Brazil's preparations for the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics. .

He reported on deforestation in Brazil, leading an investigation by The Guardian and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism of 

Large-scale cattle ranches established on cleared forest land.

 His coverage of illegal deforestation in the Amazon 

 was nominated for the 2020 Gabo Award for Journalistic Coverage and was a finalist for the Vladimir Herzog Prize that same year." 


"Phillips and Brazilian Bruno Pereira, an expert on indigenous peoples of Amazonas,  

received death threats for helping to protect the people from illegal drug traffickers, miners, loggers, and hunters.." 

 

'The Amazon rainforest, spanning an area of 3,000,000 km2 (1,200,000 sq mi), is the world's largest rainforest. .

It encompasses the largest and most biodiverse tropical rainforest on the planet, representing over half of all rainforests. .

The Amazon region includes the territories of nine nations, with Brazil containing the majority (60%), followed by Peru (13%), Colombia (10%), and smaller portions in Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia (6%), Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana.' 


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

_____ 


the year 2022 around 26% of the forest was considered as deforested or highly degraded.According to the Council on Foreign Relations, .

300,000 square miles have been lost.





Cattle ranching in the Brazilian Amazon has been identified as the primary cause of deforestation,.

 accounting for about 80% of all deforestation in the region 



https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/24/jbs-nyse-listing-pushback-amazon-deforestation-climate 


JBS subsidiary Pilgrim’s was the biggest donor to the inauguration committee of Donald Trump. Since taking power, Trump has reduced the independence of the SEC and other agencies, demanding their work be “controlled” by the president.





art of conjecturing maybe

  

"Stochasticity  


"randomly determined; having a random probability distribution or pattern that may be analyzed statistically but may not be predicted precisely." 



 is used in many different fields, including  

image processing, signal processing, computer science, 

information theory, telecommunications,

 chemistry, ecology, neuroscience, physics, and cryptography.  

It is also used in finance (e.g., stochastic oscillator), due to seemingly random changes in the different markets within the financial sector and in 

medicine,  

linguistics, music, media,  

colour theory, botany, manufacturing and geomorphology. "

 


"The word stochastic in English was originally used as an adjective with the definition "pertaining to conjecturing", and stemming from a Greek word meaning  

"to aim at a mark, guess", 

 and the Oxford English Dictionary gives the year 

 1662 as its earliest occurrence." 


"Ars Conjectandi sive Stochastice", which has been translated to "the art of conjecturing or stochastics" 

 


Bike had a flat or did not

Raining or not found or not ten dimes

Caught or missed bus found seat or stood

On spilled or boxed mousetrap game parts

Or tidy spaghetti or a tuba 

Scared/not of elephant/not rode free or paid

Wore earmuffs or van gogh costume

Or both or cyclist gear seriously or not

Picked ear wax with hex or not 

Rode bus or pachyderm to doc or quack

Startled or not placid crushed kinda mousetrap game parts not or fully contrived 

With boob frost or bob road taken only so far or not a jug of slime fix or not 

A week old smoothie costume 

Marks spot or not damned or not

Out bike window a not cloud 

A full empty sky shuffled can can not

Wisp form or not eye hear not monkey do

Or will not connect dot to dot

Fare/not

Fate/not

Was/not 

Round/flat 

Umbrella/gutter 

Fender/founder 

Slowly or otherwise brain assembled 

Probably not a semblance poem 

Joy or not riding 

Potato couch surfing all eyes ingrown and not 






Sunday, April 27, 2025


  


 



ice begora hullo



Tigress finno-ugric soundboard 


Exploitive felting fuddy-duddy 


Ice begora hullo 


Joint pay as you go vive la roi 


Loop millenanerism you're 





12-28-24

dada   



"While the future cannot be predicted with certainty, present understanding in various scientific fields allows for the prediction of some far-future events, if only in the broadest outline.

 These fields include astrophysics, which studies how planets and stars form, interact and die; particle physics, which has revealed how matter behaves at the smallest scales; evolutionary biology, which studies how life evolves over time; plate tectonics, which shows how continents shift over millennia; and sociology, which examines how human societies and cultures evolve." 

*** 

"The Boltzmann brain thought experiment suggests that it might be more likely for a brain to spontaneously form,  

complete with a memory of having existed in our universe, 

 rather than for the entire universe to come about in the manner cosmologists think it actually did.  

Physicists use the Boltzmann brain thought experiment as a reductio ad absurdum argument for evaluating competing scientific theories." 


Over a sufficiently long time, random fluctuations could cause particles to spontaneously form literally any structure of any degree of complexity, including a functioning human brain. 

 The scenario initially involved only a single brain with false memories, but physicist Sean M. Carroll pointed out that, in a fluctuating universe, the scenario works just as well at larger scales, like that of entire bodies or even galaxies.

The idea is named after the physicist  

Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906)  

who published a hypothesis in 1896, prior to the Big Bang Theory, that tried to account for  

the fact that the universe is not as chaotic as the budding field of thermodynamics seemed to predict. " 


"The Boltzmann brain gained new relevance around 2002, when some cosmologists started to become concerned that, in many theories about the universe,  

human brains are vastly more likely to arise from random fluctuations; this leads to the conclusion that, statistically,  

humans are likely to be wrong about their memories of the past and in fact are Boltzmann brains." 


"Boltzmann brain (or body or world) need not fluctuate suddenly into existence, argue Anthony Aguirre, Sean M. Carroll, and Matthew C. Johnson.  

Rather, it would form in a sequence of smaller fluctuations that would look like the brain's decay path run in reverse." 


*rough analogy is how the odds of a single real English word showing up  

when one shakes a box of Scrabble letters are greater than 

 the odds that a whole English sentence or paragraph will form." 


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

 

"The average timescale required for the formation of a Boltzmann brain is vastly greater than the current age of the universe. 

 In modern physics, Boltzmann brains can be formed either by quantum fluctuation, or by a thermal fluctuation generally involving nucleation."  

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

 

___ 


"Adam and Eve, according to the creation myth of the Abrahamic religions, 

 were the first man and woman. They are central to the belief that  

humanity is in essence a single family, 

 with everyone descended from a single pair of original ancestors" 





"Following a laboratory accident, atomic physicist Jon Osterman develops the ability to observe and manipulate matter at a subatomic level. He is later given the tongue-in-cheek moniker Doctor Manhattan by the United States government

In early 1959, he moves to a research base at Gila Flats, where experiments are being performed on the "intrinsic fields" of physical objects which, if tampered with, result in their disintegration " 

the force of the generator tears Jon to pieces.


"A series of strange events and ghostly appearances occur over the next few months, leading researchers to speculate that the area is haunted. After a series of partial bodily appearances, it becomes apparent that  

Jon is progressively re-forming himself. Each time, the appearance lasts for only a few seconds:  

first a disembodied nervous system including the brain and eyes; 

 then a circulatory system; and then a partially muscled skeleton.  

Jon eventually reappears as a tall, muscular, hairless, naked, blue-skinned man, glowing with a "flare of ultraviolet" 


Begora, hullo.  






Friday, April 25, 2025

World's Fascist Dog Show

  

Various tech companies and their leaders pledged donations and services for the inauguration. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said through a spokesperson that he would make a $1 million personal donation. Mark Zuckerberg, the head of Meta and the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, sent $1 million. 

 It was also reported in The Wall Street Journal that Amazon's CEO, Jeff Bezos, offered to stream the ceremony on Amazon Prime Video, and this amounted to a $1 million in-kind donation on top of a $1 million cash donation. 

Apple CEO Tim Cook personally donated $1 million. Uber and its CEO Dara Khosrowshahi each agreed to donate $1 million to the inauguration..

 Alphabet donated $1 million and supported an inauguration livestream with a direct link on the homepage of YouTube. 

 Microsoft, Adobe, and Perplexity also donated $1 million. 

NPR quoted Margaret O'Mara, a Silicon Valley historian at the University of Washington, as saying 

 these donations were due to some of these tech leaders having been in conflict with Trump in the past, 

 in hopes to reduce regulatory pressure on their companies under the incoming administration


Ford Motor Company and General Motors announced that they would donate $1 million each 

 and provide a fleet of vehicles for the inauguration.

 Toyota, Chevron, Hyundai, and Stellantis also donated $1 million. 


Various financial services businesses and their leaders donated at least $1 million, including 

 Goldman Sachs, Bank of America,

 JPMorgan, Kraken, Coinbase, Intuit, 

 Robinhood, Ken Griffin,.

 Ripple, and Ondo Finance.


Major donors from the telecommunications industry included AT&T, Comcast,  

and Charter Communications.


Major donors from the healthcare and pharmaceutical industry included PhRMA, Pfizer, and Him & Hers.


Major donors from the manufacturing and industrial sector included Stanley Black & Decker,  

Pratt Industries, 

Boeing, and  

Lockheed Martin.


Other major donors included Delta Air Lines and McDonald's.[26][29]


In April 2025, it was reported that $239 million was donated to Trump's inaugural committee,  

more than doubling the previous record of $107 million raised for Trump's 2017 inauguration, 

including 29 gifts totaling  

$13 million from subsidiaries of companies based outside the United States. 


Numerous businesspeople including 

Bernard Arnault, Delphine Arnault,.

 Sergey Brin,

 Elon Musk, 

 Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg, among the world's richest "people, "attended the inauguration. 

 They had a prominent role at the event, seated together on the platform alongside other distinguished guests, including Cabinet nominees and elected officials.

 TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew attended the inauguration. 

 Alphabet's Sundar Pichai, 

Apple's Tim Cook, 

OpenAI's Sam Altman,  

Reliance's Mukesh Ambani, .

and Uber's Dara Khosrowshahi .

also attended the event. Las Vegas Sands owner Miriam Adelson also attended the ceremony. 



Thursday, April 24, 2025

Harold Hamm bought government 2024

  Harold Glenn Hamm 

 (born December 11, 1945) is an American business magnate in the oil and gas business. He is known for pioneering fracking of shale oil resources. 

 As of February 4, 2022, Hamm's net worth is estimated to be US$18.5 billion, making him the 63rd wealthiest person in the world. 

 He is the founder and chairman of Continental Resources..


"2012, presidential candidate Mitt Romney named Hamm as his energy advisor, and Hamm was a donor to the Romney campaign.  

Hamm was a fundraiser and donor to Donald Trump's 2016, 2020, 

and 2024 presidential campaigns" 


"Hamm has led a decades-long campaign against renewable energy sources.  

The Harold Hamm Diabetes Center at the University of Oklahoma was named after Hamm, who has type 2 diabetes. " 




"April 2024, Hamm organized an event at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort where oil industry leaders and lobbyists  

were invited to donate one billion dollars 

to Trump's 2024 presidential campaign with the expectation that environmental protections would be curtailed should Trump be re-elected. 

 According to Desmog, Hamm himself gave more than $1.6 million to the Trump campaign, and Continental Resources gave more than $2 million. 

He has been given a seat at Trump's inauguration not far from the dais, next to billionaires  

Rebekah Mercer,  

Steve Wynn,  

Robert Kraft,  

Richard LeFrak,  

Phil Ruffin,. 



 Robert Mercer,  

and Carl Icahn. " 



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




Total downstream total ravenous

 " TotalEnergies SE is a French multinational integrated energy and petroleum company founded in 1924 and 

 is one of the seven supermajor oil companies.  

the 2023 Forbes Global 2000, TotalEnergies was ranked as 

 the 21st largest company in the world. "

 



"After Total's takeover of Petrofina of Belgium in 1999, it became known as Total Fina.  

Afterwards, it also acquired Elf Aquitaine..

 First named TotalFinaElf after the merger in 2000, its name reverted to Total in 2003. During that rebranding, the globe logo was unveiled.


Total's leadership had been aware of the deleterious effects of global warming since at least 1971;  

The company nevertheless openly denied the findings of climate science until the 1990s; Total also pursued a number of strategies to 

 cover up the threat and contribution to climate change." 

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


"As of 11 March 2022, Total was one of the only Western oil companies to continue operating in Russia after the Russian Invasion of Ukraine " 

In October 2023, TotalEnergies sold its Canadian operations to Suncor Energy for C$1.47 billion($1.07 billion). 

 TotalEnergies has agreed to buy liquefied natural gas from Qatar for 27 years, cementing the European nation's commitment to fossil fuels beyond 2050 " 

___ 


'Another expansion of Fina's marketing operations came in 1984, when n

American Petrofina purchased several thousand service stations 

from Oklahoma-based Champlin Refining Company following that firm's closing of its Enid, Oklahoma refinery.  

The Champlin assets were rebranded as Fina stations in several Mid-Continent states including Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa among others." 


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



"Since the Total-Petrofina merger in 1999, all of Fina's former marketing assets and the Big Spring refinery have been owned by Texas-based Alon USA. Alon assets include the former Fina refinery at Big Spring, Texas and the Fina brand name. .

Alon supplies gasoline and other petroleum products to 1,200 Fina stations directly and through distributors in seven Southwestern states including Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Arizona and the southern portion of Colorado. Alon also owns Southwest Convenience Stores, which is 

 the largest franchiser of 7-Eleven convenience stores in the United States." 


____ 

"The richest oil company by market capitalization is Saudi Aramco. As of February 2024, it had a market cap of $1.98 trillion. It is the world's largest oil producer, producing over 10 million barrels of oil per day. " 


In 2003, Total signed for a 30% stake in the gas exploration venture in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) – South Rub' al-Khali joint venture along with Royal Dutch Shell and Saudi Aramco. 

 The stake was later bought out by its partners.


In 2006, Saudi Aramco and Total signed a memorandum of understanding to develop the 

 Jubail Refinery and Petrochemical project in Saudi Arabia which targeted 400,000 barrels per day (bpd). 

Two years later, the two companies officially established a joint venture called Saudi Aramco Total Refining and Petrochemical Company (SATORP)- in which a .

62.5% stake was held by Saudi Aramco and the balance 

 37.5% held by Total." 



 

"On 21 February 2024, TotalEnergies and Airbus entered a strategic partnership to meet emission-reduction goals through the use of 

 sustainable aviation fuels (SAF). 

 TotalEnergies will provide more than 50% of Airbus’ European fuel requirements. 

 Compared to fossil fuels, 

 SAF can reduce CO2 emissions by up to 90%"  


 2016, Total was ranked as the second-best of 92 oil, gas, and mining companies on indigenous rights in the Arctic. 

 According to the CDP Carbon Majors Report 2017, the company was one of the top 100 companies producing carbon emissions globally, 

 responsible for .9% of global emissions from 1998 to 2015.

 In 2021, Total was ranked as the 2nd most environmentally responsible company out of 120 oil, gas, and mining companies.

 involved in resource extraction north of the Arctic Circle in the Arctic Environmental Responsibility Index (AERI)."


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Bigot GOP machine transhumanism slop

  

Trump Administration Texted College Professors’ Personal Phones to Ask If They’re Jewish  

*** 

"During WWII, the company was a supplier for the German war effort manufacturing and supplying flamethrowers" 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escher_Wyss_%26_Cie..



***


'The federal government reaching out to our personal cellphones to identify who is Jewish is incredibly sinister,”.

 said Barnard associate professor Debbie Becher,  

who is Jewish and received the text" 

https://theintercept.com/2025/04/23/trump-eeoc-barnard-columbia-texts-jewish/ 


Elon Musk’s daughter says father’s rally gesture was ‘definitely a Nazi salute’ 


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/20/elon-musk-daughter-vivian-jenna-wilson-salute 


Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner refused to sign memo  

saying Trump was not antisemitic, .

book says  


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/21/donald-trump-ivanka-jared-kushner-michael-wolff-all-or-nothing

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"Schwab has authored or co-authored several books. Some consider him to be "an evangelist" for "stakeholder capitalism". 

 The Fourth Industrial Revolution, the subject of a 2016 book he wrote, is an idea he is credited with popularising. 

In January 2017, Steven Poole in The Guardian criticised Schwab's Fourth Industrial Revolution book, 

pointing out that "the internet of things" would probably be hackable. He also criticised Schwab for showing that.

 future technologies may be used for good or evil, but not taking a position on the issues

 

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/24/wef-launches-investigation-into-founder-klaus-schwab 


"The Financial Times' innovation editor found "the clunking lifelessness of the prose" led him to "suspect this book really was written by humans—ones who inhabit  

a strange twilight world of stakeholders,

 externalities, inflection points 

 and 'developtory sandboxes'. 

 The political scientist Klaus-Gerd Giesen argued that the dominant ideology of the Fourth Industrial Revolution is transhumanism. 


"transhumanists speculate that human beings may eventually be able to transform themselves into beings of such vastly greater abilities as to merit the label of  

posthuman beings.


Another topic of transhumanist research is how to protect humanity against existential risks from artificial general intelligence, asteroid impact, gray goo, high-energy particle collision experiments, natural or synthetic pandemic, and nuclear warfare.

The biologist Julian Huxley popularised the term "transhumanism" in a 1957 essay. 

The contemporary meaning of the term was foreshadowed by one of the first 

professors of futurology,  

a man who changed his name to FM-2030. 


Transhumanism has increasingly been co-opted by anti-democratic movements as a common enemy stereotype. 

 These movements range from Putin sympathizers to radical anti-vaxxers and Christian fundamentalists.  

The propagandistic use of the term "transhumanism" aims to create a comprehensive counter-narrative that unites right-wing extremists, theocratic groups, and liberals 


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

'Klaus Martin Schwab was born on 30 March 1938, to Eugen Wilhelm Schwab and Erika Epprecht 

in Ravensburg.  

His parents had moved from Switzerland to Germany during the Third Reich 

 in order for his father to assume the role of director at 

 Escher Wyss AG, .


an industrial company and contractor for the Nazi regime"  


"During WWII, the company was a supplier for the German war effort manufacturing and supplying flamethrowers.".

*** 



"Elon Musk sells all 20,000 Boring Company 'flamethrowers'


Stunt generates $10m for billionaire’s personal hobby despite warnings from Home Office and US politicians"  


https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/01/elon-musk-sells-out-boring-company-flamethrowers-fire


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


 "Herbert Himmler head of the SS, visiting the IG Farben plant, Auschwitz III, in German-occupied Poland, July 1942. His visit included watching a gassing, while he was inspecting the expansion of Auschwitz II, the extermination camp, and Auschwitz III, an IG Farben (BASF) plant." 




" one man didn’t want to let Standard Oil get away with profiteering from the Third Reich. That man was Nelson A. Rockefeller, the grandson of John D. Rockefeller, one of the founders of Andrews, Clark and Company, which went on to become Standard Oil. Rockefeller couldn’t directly influence any of the corporate board’s policies, so instead he hatched a plan.  

While in the position of Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, Rockefeller created and published a book entitled Sequel to the Apocalypse: How Your Dimes Pay for Hitler’s War..

 Rockefeller arranged for the anonymously written book to be sent to American embassies around the world, thus revealing the relationship Standard Oil had with the Nazis.  

This paved the way for the end of the relationship between IG Farben and Standard Oil, and by the time the United States declared war against the Germans in December 1941, the tryst was well and truly over.  

Standard Oil has since dissolved into Chevron and BP, among other modern-day companies. 

https://listverse.com/2013/10/24/10-big-business-nazi-profiteers/ 



"A draft of proposed cuts to the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), leaked on Wednesday, would also  

eliminate support for people with disabilities 

 in the US,  

including education, research and services." 


https://www.theguardian.com/us- news/2025/apr/24/rfk-jr-autism-disability-services-cuts


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/24/rfk-jr-autism-disability-services-cuts 


"The moves come after Kennedy claimed incorrectly, in his first press conference as health secretary last week, that autistic people do not contribute to society or lead fulfilled lives and that autism “destroys” families." 


The Trump administration has also proposed cuts to the Department of Education, which supports more than 7 million disabled students. 

 Trump has said Kennedy will oversee services for students with disabilities, an unusual switch from the education department to HHS.


“That is going to present a major challenge to special education,” Shore said. “We stand to lose as much as half a century of progress.” The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act was first enacted in 1974. 




Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Linda Mahon jockstrap fascist

  

'While reading the orders to Trump, the White House staff secretary Will Scharf said that the third-party groups that accredit universities have relied on 

 “woke ideology” rather than merit.


Linda McMahon, the education secretary, added during the signing in the Oval Office:  

We should be looking at those who have real merit to get in,  

and we have to look harder at those universities that aren’t enforcing that.” 


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/23/trump-education-diversity-hcbu  


"Linda Marie McMahon   


"On April 8th, 2025, while at ASU+GSV Summit on Education, McMahon referred to Artificial Intelligence as A1,  

prompting the A1 sauce company to reply that  

every school should have access to A1 steak sauce."

(/məkˈmæn/ mək-MAN; née Edwards; born October 4, 1948) is an anti-American politician, business executive, and 

 former professional wrestling promoter" 


McMahon, along with her husband, Vince McMahon, founded sports entertainment company Titan Sports, Inc. (later World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.) where she worked as the president and later CEO from 1980 to 2009.  

On November 19, 2024, McMahon was nominated by Donald Trump to serve as Secretary of Education.  ," 


 

McMahon was confirmed to the office by the United States Senate on March 3, 2025, by a vote of 51–45. 


"We should be looking at those who have real merit to get in,  "  


We.  

____ 


 "was an only child and grew up as a "tomboy" playing basketball and baseball. 

Her parents were both employees at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, a military base. She grew up in a conservative Baptist family, but converted to Roman Catholicism in her later chokehold. " 

"Vince's mother became good friends with the Edwards family, and Vince, who had lived with several abusive stepfathers, enjoyed the feeling of leotard wedgies 

that he felt at their home."  

"Shortly after her hymen-school graduation, Vince asked her to marry him. " 


Moments later, Trump would nominate her to head the Department of Education within his second administration on November 19, 2024. 

Trump previously claimed the department had been infiltrated by "radicals, zealots and Marxist non fake wrestlers" 


***

"Reflecting her respect for books and especially for bookmarks, Brooke Schultz of Education Week wrote that McMahon's "interest in education did appear through her work at WWE. 

 In 2000, she launched 'GET REAL', a campaign aimed at delivering positive messages 

 about education and literacy to young adults through public service announcements,  

posters, and bookmarks featuring WWE stars." 






  


  






 



 



Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Ability to withstand pollution and heat

  


Bloodgood planetree, a selection of the tough London planetree that is widely planted in urban areas, is a large shade tree with a broad open crown and bark that exfoliates to reveal patches that may be creamy white, yellow, or olive-colored.   




The signature ornamental feature of this huge tree is its brown bark, which exfoliates in irregular pieces to reveal creamy white inner bark. .




 'Bloodgood' has dark green foliage and is reported to have some resistance to the problematic anthracnose disease of sycamores.  

Bloodgood planetree (Platanus × acerifolia 'Bloodgood') 


https://www.chicagobotanic.org/plantinfo/tree_alternatives/bloodgood_planetree 



  


Hybrid Origin:

The London planetree ( Platanus x acerifolia) is a hybrid, meaning it resulted from the crossbreeding of two different species: the American sycamore (Platanus occidentalis) and the Oriental planetree (Platanus orientalis). 

Early Hybridization:

The hybridization is thought to have occurred in the 17th century, possibly as early as the 1640s. 

Possible Locations:

While the exact location is uncertain, Spain, southern France, and England have been proposed as potential sites for the initial hybridization. 

Popularity in London:

The London planetree quickly became popular in London and other European cities due to its ability to thrive in urban environments, including those with air pollution. 

Bloodgood Cultivar:

The "Bloodgood" variety is a specific selection of the London planetree, known for its disease resistance, particularly to anthracnose.  


(Try Flushing NY, ai. ) Bloodgood Nurseries. 




"Reputed to be more resistant to anthracnose than the species.  

The naturally shedding bark creates a dappled brown and cream pattern that  

accentuates sunlight filtering through the foliage.  

This is a popular tree for malls, parks and shopping centers." 




  "Bloodgood" London Planetree (Platanus x acerifolia 'Bloodgood') is a popular shade tree known for its exfoliating bark, large maple-like leaves, and fast growth..

 It's a popular choice for urban landscapes due to its tolerance of various soil conditions and 

 its ability to withstand pollution and heat. "


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"'Bloodgood', This is one of the first cultivars to be selected for anthracnose resistance. It is a rounded tree with deep green leaves that turn a poor yellow in fall. The plant tolerates poor cultural conditions, including heat, drought and poor soil. Recent observations indicate susceptibility to ozone." 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_plane#:~:text=The%20species%20was%20formed%20by,in%20the%20mid%2D17th%20century.



'Flushing was the site of the first commercial tree nurseries in North America, .

the most prominent being the Prince, Bloodgood, and Parsons nurseries

 A 14-acre (5.7 ha) tract of Parsons's exotic specimens was preserved on the north side of Kissena Park.

 The nurseries are also commemorated in the names of west–east avenues that intersect Kissena Boulevard; the streets are named after plants and ordered alphabetically from Ash Avenue in the north to Rose Avenue in the south. 

 Flushing also supplied trees to the Greensward Project, now known as.

 Central Park in Manhattan " 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flushing,_Queens


democracy kit anti-venom dollop

  

Open Palms: Indicates sincerity, openness, and a willingness to engage.  


Clenched Fists: Can suggest anger, frustration, or defensiveness.  


Fingers Tapping or Fidgeting: May indicate restlessness, impatience, or nervousness.  


Hands Clasped Behind the Back: Can signify withholding information, attempting to control the conversation, or feeling bored or anxious.  


Hands Clasped Together in Front: May indicate nervousness, hesitation, or a desire for reassurance.  


Hands Steepling: (Palms facing each other with fingers touching) Suggests authority, confidence, and thoughtfulness.  


Rubbing Hands Together: Can indicate anticipation, excitement, or stress, depending on the speed and context.  


Hands in Pockets: Can signal a relaxed attitude, dominance, or even a desire to hide emotions or insecurities.  


Hands Wringing: Indicates nervousness, anxiety, or a lack of confidence.  


Hand Gestures During Speech: Natural and relaxed hand movements can enhance engagement and make a speaker more relatable.  

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Synecdoche (/sɪˈnɛkdəki/ sin-EK-də-kee) 


 is a type of metonymy; it is a figure of speech that uses a term for a part of something to refer to the whole (pars pro toto), or vice versa (totum pro parte). 


The term is derived from Ancient Greek συνεκδοχή (sunekdokhḗ).


 'simultaneous understanding'. 


Common English synecdoches include suits for businessmen, wheels for automobile, and boots for soldiers." 




____ 




"The fallacy of division 


is an informal fallacy that occurs when one reasons that something that is true for a whole


 must also be true of all or some of its parts.




An example:




The second grade in Jefferson Elementary eats a lot of ice cream

Carlos is a second-grader in Jefferson Elementary

Therefore, Carlos eats a lot of ice cream 




The converse of this fallacy is called fallacy of composition,  


which arises when one fallaciously attributes a property of some part of a thing to the thing as a whole.




If a system as a whole has some property that none of its constituents has


 (or perhaps, it has it but not as a result of some constituent's having that property),


 this is sometimes called 


 an emergent property of the system. " 











Monday, April 21, 2025

Dada Procrustes

 Protege self-worth fit

Corner prime honeycomb

Inconsiderate concurrence seahorse 

Minuet caneware cluster 

Sleepy neurosis don't 

Batik Procrustes  

 

(Bibliomancy)

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"The word Procrustean is thus used by analogy to describe, for example, situations where an arbitrary standard is used to measure success, while completely disregarding obvious harm that results from the effort."  

"Procrustes had a stronghold on Mount Korydallos at Erineus, on the sacred way between Athens and Eleusis. 

There he had a bed, in which he invited every passer-by to spend the night, and where he set to work on them with his smith's hammer, to stretch them to fit..

 In later tellings, if the guest proved too tall, Procrustes would amputate the excess length; if the guest was too short Procrustes would stretch them until they died; 

 nobody ever fit the bed exactly 

 Procrustes continued his reign of terror until he was captured by Theseus, travelling to Athens along the sacred way, who "fitted" Procrustes to his own bed" 

"Procrustes was a son of Poseidon" 


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


"literary analysis. Slavoj Žižek draws upon the metaphor to critique poetic form: 

 "The most elementary form of torturing one's language is called poetry—think of what a complex form like a sonnet does to language: it forces the free flow of speech into a Procrustean bed of fixed forms of rhythm and rhyme." 




Lapus Lazuli, Yeats

  

I have heard that hysterical women say

They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow,

Of poets that are always gay,

For everybody knows or else should know

That if nothing drastic is done

Aeroplane and Zeppelin will come out,

Pitch like King Billy bomb-balls in

Until the town lie beaten flat.


All perform their tragic play,

There struts Hamlet, there is Lear,

That's Ophelia, that Cordelia;

Yet they, should the last scene be there,

The great stage curtain about to drop,

If worthy their prominent part in the play,

Do not break up their lines to weep.

They know that Hamlet and Lear are gay;

Gaiety transfiguring all that dread.

All men have aimed at, found and lost;

Black out; Heaven blazing into the head:

Tragedy wrought to its uttermost.

Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages,

And all the drop scenes drop at once

Upon a hundred thousand stages,

It cannot grow by an inch or an ounce.


On their own feet they came, or on shipboard,

Camel-back, horse-back, ass-back, mule-back,

Old civilisations put to the sword.

Then they and their wisdom went to rack:

No handiwork of Callimachus

Who handled marble as if it were bronze,

Made draperies that seemed to rise

When sea-wind swept the corner, stands;

His long lamp chimney shaped like the stem

Of a slender palm, stood but a day;

All things fall and are built again

And those that build them again are gay.


Two Chinamen, behind them a third,

Are carved in Lapis Lazuli,

Over them flies a long-legged bird

A symbol of longevity;

The third, doubtless a serving-man,

Carries a musical instrument.


Every discolouration of the stone,

Every accidental crack or dent

Seems a water-course or an avalanche,

Or lofty slope where it still snows

Though doubtless plum or cherry-branch

Sweetens the little half-way house

Those Chinamen climb towards, and I

Delight to imagine them seated there;

There, on the mountain and the sky,

On all the tragic scene they stare.

One asks for mournful melodies;

Accomplished fingers begin to play.

Their eyes mid many wrinkles, their eyes,

Their ancient, glittering eyes, are gay. 



1938 


https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43297/lapis-lazuli