the sign is gone, surreal is back

glacier virus

once upon a bard never had this polodium.
___________

(hold breath
under glaciers
sweat, beowulf disagrees the same story the same
teeth now impregnable dentures
on easter island sue veneers

wadn't itz

Trump says itz in his genius genes
tho he also says his dad was born in Germany
but he wadn't

sycamore wall street tree

The sycamore tree on wall street is my tree
and it wills that it twere xmas

issuing sap sugary apt on the climbing knees
of traders

fleeing what they fleeced
spiked trunk of nature, and all.

Imagine Surgeons Not Wearing Rubber Gloves

"Joseph Colt Bloodgood (1 November 1867 – 22 October 1935) was a prominent surgeon in the United States based in Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.

 He was known for insisting on the use of rubber gloves by the entire surgical team, for advances in methods of identifying and treating benign and malignant cancers, particularly breast and bone cancers, and for advocating education of the public so they would seek routine medical examinations, even before any signs of cancer appeared."




"The Hippocratic Oath is an oath of ethics historically taken by physicians.

 It is one of the most widely known of Greek medical texts. In its original form, it requires a new physician to swear, by a number of healing gods, to uphold specific ethical standards. 

The oath is the earliest expression of medical ethics in the Western world, establishing several principles of medical ethics which remain of paramount significance today.

 These include the principles of medical confidentiality and non-maleficence."


__________

"The Hippocratic Corpus (Latin: Corpus Hippocraticum), or Hippocratic Collection, is a collection of around 60 early Ancient Greek medical works strongly associated with the physician Hippocrates and his teachings. Even though it is considered as a singular corpus that represents Hippocratic medicine, they vary (sometimes significantly) in content, age, style, methods, and views practiced; therefore, authorship is largely unknown.

Hippocrates began society's development of medicine, through a delicate blending of the art of healing and scientific observations.The Hippocratic Corpus became the foundation for which all future medical systems would be built."

_________


"Bloodgood was the first surgeon to demand that everyone involved in an operation wear rubber gloves.

He followed Halstead's advice in taking care to control bleeding during surgery so as to avoid the need for excessive haste. The probability of curing the patient was much higher with a careful and systematic approach to removing all cancerous tissue.

Bloodgood became extremely skilled with microscopic examination and diagnosis. Other surgeons often referred slides to Bloodgood when they were uncertain about the pathology.

He noted that "when cancer becomes a microscopic disease, there must be tissue diagnosis in the operating room".

 He would take many tissue samples during an operation, and would leave an operation while he prepared and examined the frozen sections. He would also temporarily leave one operation to take part in another."

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

germs nonchalance

nonchalance spread his toxic brand
over dilly dallied regulations redacted
in private off the books lunches mostly liquid
as per status quo dictums
adhered to like
germs

elbows up

god gleep

gleeps of death like fountains in rome
squirt from cherub
alabaster hips

from lips mythic our hydra
prevenges sans product placement
el pope coughs into the elbow used for pensive excuses

kiss the ring of dingaling
the first amobea is buttdialing eve-n-atom
do not go gentle into that good gleep

pox blanket donnie, symptom in chief

free and unimpeded the collective will
does not lack speechwriters nor raconteurs
nor horticultural no thumbery

an impulsive society at large is less
period than coma beholden syncophants

thinking da yinyang is a phishing scheme

close range spit and gleeps imprudent
our fear leader loss leading symptom in chief
pox blanket donnie

grave dirt soft his high five spittle strewn crayola
the constitution a play doh
and monopoly as silent as the monocle of a vulture

3-19-20

se Portland

$2.13 Slavery Wage System

 Nunes called on Americans to “go to your local pub” because we don’t want to “hurt the working people in this country that are relying on wages and tips.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/devin-nunes-blames-media-freaks-for-distorting-his-call-for-people-to-go-out-to-restaurants-and-pubs?ref=scroll

___________


 "the federal minimum wage for tipped employees is $2.13 per hour

the tipped minimum wage has remained stagnant since 1991 "

germs of thought

aristocratic
double
parameter

rush hour
double negative
stroke

burn
telephone
slip

working
prepaid
envy

toggle
dew
pitman
_______________

it wouldn't make sense
under any circumstances
as it randomly infected
thousandsmillions then billions 
creating senseless room
for more idiots beyond sense,
aristocratic pitmen

_______________

rollicking
world
biodiversity

momentum
silo
turning point

chit 
pulverize
finish

stagnant
go for broke
rocky

____________

it isn't the point to create sense,
sense exists regardless
common sense says so 
doesn't it not?

__________

bad
flow
tenement

cabin fever
sinology
tantalized

Sanders wins California

"Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has won the California Democratic presidential primary, according to Edison Media Research. There are 415 delegates at stake in California, the largest trove in the nation overall, and Sanders was ahead by some 50 delegates as votes continued to be counted.

 He won more than 50 counties and had a sizable lead over former vice president Joe Biden in Los Angeles County, the state's most populous. The state's popular mail-in voting program allowed ballots received by March 6, and the state may not have final results for weeks."


https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/election-results/california-democratic-primary-live-results/


Senator Sanders winning California with 49% of the Latino vote and Biden at 22%

Senator Sanders winning California with 29% of the Asian vote and Biden at 17%

SANDERS the favorite by far of California voters under 64 years of age

SANDERS winning the California independent voters 46% to Biden's 15%

https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/election-results/california-democratic-primary-live-results/

Born on a Ship from Ireland

My nearest Irish descendents:

John  Finley and Thankful (Doak) Finley

John Finley
Birthdate: December 18, 1706
Birthplace: Dublin, County of Dublin, Leinster, Ireland

Death: June 06, 1773 (66)
Augusta County, Province of Virginia

Thankful Finley (Doak)

Also Known As: "Elizabeth", "Mary", "Thankful Finley"
Birthdate: March 16, 1707
Birthplace: on ship from, North Ireland

Death: September 20, 1791 (84)
Staunton, Augusta County, Virginia, United States

https://www.geni.com/people/John-Finley/6000000011221035727

Even As We Wash Our Hands

"One model from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggested that between 160 million and 210 million Americans could contract the disease over as long as a year. 

Based on mortality data and current hospital capacity, the number of deaths under the CDC's scenarios ranged from 200,000 to as many as 1.7 million. 

Globally, the numbers are even more staggering. Five researchers at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health estimated that between 20 percent and 60 percent of everyone on earth — or between 1.4 billion and 4.2 billion people — could eventually contract the disease.

If the virus only kills 1 percent of those who contract it, somewhere between 14 million and 42 million people are at risk"


https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/487489-worst-case-coronavirus-models-show-massive-us-toll

waffle topped tree

the wish list included a bird feeder outside that window
i aim at when not ensconced by the false sun
of innernut
but better yet tonight
several crows took refuge atop a scraggly ancient
as the tread wheeled off earth's axis
making quite a
waffle

the sardines sigh

trapped in italy where the coughs shake bricks loose
where the marital thump of bedposts
against wall pillars has been known to
deliver pools of oil
trapped in the virus laden furs of milan
surrounded by st peter's pox hued gates
in a venice canal stewed in bloated
ships of luxury vaccines
that nobody wants or needs trapped
in italy the sardines sigh

Perfidy

"In the context of war, perfidy is a form of deception in which one side promises to act in good faith (such as by raising a flag of truce) with the intention of breaking that promise once the unsuspecting enemy is exposed (such as by coming out of cover to attack the enemy coming to take the "surrendering" prisoners into custody). Perfidy constitutes a breach of the laws of war and so is a war crime, as it degrades the protections and mutual restraints developed in the interest of all parties, combatants and civilians."

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

___ 

Also, 

'The agreements Austin scuttled were approved by Susan K. Escallier, a retired one-star Army general and military lawyer whom he selected less than a year ago to oversee the Guantánamo proceedings. 

 The terms stipulated that the three defendants would admit to the murders of 2,976 people in New York, in Pennsylvania and at the Pentagon 

 in exchange for the removal of the death penalty 

 as a possible punishment — effectively ending the most high-profile criminal cases stemming from the 9/11 terrorist attacks" 

(And Testimony about Torture coercion at Gitmo.) 

 

"While the plea deals had been in negotiation for more than two years, Biden administration officials said they were surprised by the announcement and sought to distance themselves from the decision. " 

"said Eugene Fidell, a military justice expert at Yale Law School. Fidell assessed that Austin’s termination of the plea deals after they were approved is “illegal.”

“It was too late,” he said. “The train had left the station because the agreements were finished.” 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/08/13/lloyd-austin-september-11-guantanamo-cases/

Dickinson 185 for Mike Pence

"Faith" is a fine invention
When Gentlemen can see -
But Microscopes are prudent
In an Emergency.


Emily Dickinson 

for Mike Pence

Dickinson 67

                 67


Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.

Not one of all the purple Host
Who took the Flag today
Can tell the definition
So clear of Victory

As he defeated - dying -
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Burst agonized and clear



Emily Dickinson 

______________



Is it about the elections?

Is it about the virus?

Yes!

super swede day

page views 3-4-20



Sweden 368
Italy 76
United States 5
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Switzerland 1
Algeria 1
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South Korea 1
Netherlands 1
Turkmenistan 1

Lily White Iowa?

Jennifer Rubin, opinion writer at the Washington Post, calls Iowa "lily white."


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/06/heres-why-you-shouldnt-write-off-biden/

Especially for a candidate whose strength is nonwhite voters, lily-white Iowa is not friendly turf.
___________


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily-white_movement



"The Lily-White Movement was an anti-African-American movement within the Republican Party in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement was a response to the political and socioeconomic gains made by African-Americans following the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which eliminated slavery. During Reconstruction, black leaders in Texas and around the country gained increasing influence in the Republican Party by organizing blacks as an important voting bloc via Union Leagues and the biracial Black-and-tan faction of the Republicans. Conservative whites attempted to eliminate this influence and recover white voters who had defected to the Democratic Party. The term lily-white movement was coined by Texas Republican leader Norris Wright Cuney, who used the term in an 1888 Republican convention to describe efforts by white conservatives to oust blacks from positions of Texas party leadership and incite riots to divide the party.[1] The term came to be used nationally to describe this ongoing movement as it further developed in the early 20th century."

__________

"this was a guy who lived with a black family and had a black roommate in college so it's not like he has lived in lily white isolation"-----Jennifer Rubin, Twitter

https://twitter.com/jrubinblogger/status/1206595636872781826?lang=en

___________

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/11/sanderss-secret-is-out-he-has-no-movement/#comments-wrapper

Rubin does it again:

"The media took the results of two unrepresentative, lily-white states and the Nevada caucuses (not a primary, which as we saw on Tuesday night leads to wildly different outcomes) as definitive proof of former vice president Joe Biden’s demise"

Apple, BMW, Gap, Huawei, Nike, Samsung, Sony and Volkswagen: forced labor, Uighurs

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-rights-xinjiang/think-tank-report-on-uighur-labor-in-china-lists-global-brands-idUSKBN20P122


“Under conditions that strongly suggest forced labor, Uighurs are working in factories that are in the supply chains of at least 83 well-known global brands in the technology, clothing and automotive sectors, including Apple, BMW, Gap, Huawei, Nike, Samsung, Sony and Volkswagen,” the think-tank said in the introduction to its report.

The ASPI report said the transfers of labor were part of a state-sponsored program.

It says the workers “lead a harsh, segregated life”, are forbidden to practice religion, and are required to participate in mandarin language classes.

Fascist China

https://www.businessinsider.com/china-internet-ban-criticism-could-suppress-coronavirus-news-2020-3

China has enacted a new law that effectively allows people to post only "positive" content about the country on the internet.

The Provisions on the Governance of the Online Information Content Ecosystem, which was announced December 15, came into effect Sunday amid dissent over the novel coronavirus outbreak. 

The law is designed to "create a positive online ecosystem" and "preserve national security and the public interest," the government document said.


The law splits online content into three groups: "encouraged," "negative," and "illegal," according to an unofficial translation by Jeremy Daum, who runs the China Law Translate project.

According to the new law:

Illegal content includes the "dissemination of rumors," "disrupting economic or social order," "subverting the national regime," and "destroying national unity."
Negative content includes "sensationalizing headlines" and any "other content with a negative impact to the online information ecosystem."
Encouraged content includes "spreading and explaining Party doctrine," "spreading economic and social achievement" and "other positive and wholesome content."

It also bars people from spreading rumors and "insulting, threatening, and doxxing people," according to Abacus News, a tech website run by the South China Morning Post.

Chinese citizens criticized the new law on social media, and a hashtag relating to the law was viewed more than 3 million times on Monday alone, The Guardian reported.

"In the future there will be only good news, and no bad news," one person said, according to the newspaper.

is that our hallucination

in the heart of the art of the expose

________



fucktoad fascists
appear less normal under national light
when not sheltered

under the ash of stepped in propaganda,
wonder smashes 
in stoops, cold no food nights

never known by most, right? is that
our hallucination, that America 
can do no better?




flb
22-27-20

Grandfather and Grandmother Bloodgood, New Mexico

Bloomberg Fracks Oklahoma, Causes Cushing Earthquakes

https://www.typeinvestigations.org/investigation/2010/04/20/bloombergs-offshore-millions/


"White Star Petroleum was founded by the late Aubrey McClendon, a controversial billionaire known as the “Fracking King” for his role in pioneering the drilling method.

 McClendon died in a car crash in 2016. 

The company has been accused of producing air pollution, including leaking plumes of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. Residents in Oklahoma have also accused the firm of contributing to a wave of fracking-fueled earthquakes near Cushing."

__________


" 2010, journalist Aram Roston found that Bloomberg’s foundation invested in a series of international funds, including hedge funds based in offshore tax havens and Geotech Oil Services, a Cyprus-based oil services company controlled by Russian oligarch Nikolai Levitsky.

When asked about the offshore investments, Bloomberg dismissed the story. The funds, he noted in 2010, were “fully disclosed and they’re appropriate to maximize the assets which I’m giving away to charities.”



https://theintercept.com/2020/02/24/mike-bloomberg-investment-portfolio/

_____________



How many Fracking Kings are there? Perhaps the first ones are grand poobah?

George Phydias Mitchell (May 21, 1919 – July 26, 2013) was an American businessman, real estate developer and philanthropist from Texas credited with pioneering the economic extraction of shale gas.

__________

"The suit alleges that White Star operates wastewater disposal wells responsible for about 82 percent of the wastewater disposal injections within six miles of the Nov. 7 earthquake. The other four companies contribute the remaining percentage of wastewater, it states.

“By disposing of fracking wastewater deep into the earth, Defendants introduced contaminants into the natural environment that caused an adverse change to it in the form of unnatural seismic activity,” the suit states.

“In other words, due to Defendants’ pollution of the environment, they caused the man-made earthquakes at issue in this case.”


https://www.readfrontier.org/stories/cushing-earthquake-suit/


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

Amazon, Lev Parnas, Jeff Bezos the Washington Post, Brian Ballard

"Amazon has been a top client of Ballard’s for years. In 2018, Amazon paid the firm $280,000 for lobbying services that went beyond trade issues, including business deregulation and infrastructure funding, according to data compiled by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.

Amazon tapped a lobbying firm run by an ally of President Donald Trump to push for government action against vendors selling counterfeit goods – an issue that has come under greater scrutiny during the U.S. trade battle with China.

From July 2018 until March 2019, Amazon has been paying Ballard Partners up to $70,000 each quarter for, in part, lobbying on issues related to “trade and tariff policy,” according to three disclosure reports. However, people familiar with the matter said that the disclosure reports only tell part of the story.

Brian Ballard, a leading fundraiser in Florida for Trump during the 2016 presidential election, has been lobbying members of Trump’s administration and Congress on Amazon’s behalf to fight back against third party vendors who are selling fake products to their customers"

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/04/amazon-paid-a-trump-fundraiser-to-lobby-against-counterfeit-sellers.html

____________

"A prominent Florida lobbying firm, a GOP fundraiser in Tallahassee and a donor to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis were subpoenaed in recent weeks by federal prosecutors in New York investigating two South Florida businessmen whose work for President Donald Trump’s personal attorney has placed them near the center of a congressional impeachment inquiry.

Ballard Partners, a powerhouse firm founded in Tallahassee by Republican lobbyist and Trump confidant Brian Ballard, was subpoenaed recently by prosecutors from the Southern District of New York investigating Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, naturalized citizens accused of funneling illegal foreign money into U.S. campaigns.

Subpoenas also went to South Florida businessman Paul Okoloko and, according to CNN, professional fundraiser Meredith O’Rourke."

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article237629109.html

bloggod

instrument (2017)

instrument


a body of poplar and nerves silver bright,
long cracked and nyet-played, artwork tonight:
   diadem glass bauble: ocean glass smooth,
   gleaming hot fuchsia lozenges: glued:

her guitar persona and curvy appeal
from trash heap i rescued for honor annealed
  a day on the workbench a few bowls of weed
  what once made music, woden child's steed

instrument then, mind relic now,
how similar the human and all time allows:
   re-purposed, our instincts to mechanical sloth
   shackled in process, normality's cloth

tree liked his wood, once it were his own
guitar had a chance, now art has his loan

Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock

“A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.”
— Malcolm X

“We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us.”
— Malcolm X

“My alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
— Malcolm X

“Stumbling is not falling.”
— Malcolm X

“They put your mind right in a bag, and take it wherever they want.”
— Malcolm X

“We didn’t land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on us.”
— Malcolm X

“Concerning nonviolence, it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.”
— Malcolm X

“I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they’ll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.”
— Malcolm X

“If you’re not ready to die for it, put the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.”
— Malcolm X

“I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those that do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the systems of exploitation.”
— Malcolm X


“You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.”
— Malcolm X

“Dr. King wants the same thing I want. Freedom.”
— Malcolm X

“I am not a racist. I am against every form of racism and segregation, every form of discrimination. I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.”
— Malcolm X
_______________________________________


https://www.malcolmx.com/quotes/

antifa, Democratic Party of Oregon, unsolved homicide

October 12-15  2019

What Investigation? It has been 4 months.

"At around 12:15 a.m. Saturday, Portland police responded to reports of gunfire in the area of Northeast 8th Avenue and Davis Street.

Officers found an SUV crashed into the side of a commercial building. There was evidence that gunshots were fired at the vehicle, police said. No one was around when officers arrived.

A short time later, police learned an injured person, identified as Kealiher, was dropped off at a local hospital. He died at the hospital.

In a press release Saturday afternoon, police said Kealiher suffered critical injuries after the crash. Police have not released more information about the crash, or the events leading up to it.

Kealiher was a self-proclaimed anarchist who was involved in protests after the 2016 election.

On Sunday people left candles and flowers outside the building where Kealiher was hit at Northeast 9th Avenue and Everett Street.

It's the building that houses the Democratic Party of Oregon.

The executive director doesn't know any link between the Democratic Party and Kealiher's death."

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/crime/shooting-crash-northeast-portland-building/283-bdb8caca-fb11-4675-96df-3a17a8842a84
___________________________


"The mother of slain antifascist activist Sean Kealiher read a statement today on the sidewalk where her son died early Saturday morning.

Kealiher, 23, was run over by an SUV near the antifascist nightspot Cider Riot, and died from blunt force trauma."

https://www.wweek.com/news/city/2019/10/15/mother-of-slain-antifascist-sean-kealiher-asks-that-no-one-speak-with-media/

"The driver of the SUV crashed into the DPO building after hitting Kealiher. 

Someone fired gunshots into the SUV, police said, and the driver fled the scene.

 No arrests have been made."

Human Rights Campaign spokeswoman uses Kompromat to raise money

Human Rights Campaign spokeswoman uses Kompromat to raise money

"At first, it had nothing to do with politics. Charlotte Clymer, a spokeswoman for the Human Rights Campaign, had mentioned Sunday on Twitter to her 277,000 followers that the finale of a popular television show a few years ago had been terrible and that it still made her mad. She wouldn’t say which show, for fear of hurting the show writers’ feelings.

But her followers wanted to know! So she offered this: If they could raise $10,000 in an hour, she’d reveal the name of the show. Seven hundred people donated $27,000. (It was HBO’s “Girls.”)

But it didn’t stop there. The next night, Clymer said she’d met a U.S. senator, still in office, at an event years ago with whom she had “a terrible interaction because they were awful.” 

If her supporters could raise $100,000 for Warren by midnight Tuesday, she said, she’d disclose who it was. The money started coming in so fast that she upped the number to $200,000. As of 9 a.m. Tuesday, the pledged amount stood at $74,000.

Now Warren supporters are promoting the hashtag #SpilltheTeaforWarren and urging others with big followings on social media to reveal a secret in exchange for donations to the Democratic candidate’s campaign."

By Colby Itkowitz

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/02/25/democratic-debate/

chimera sempiternal

druthers impetus rocker
bring-to-light
daydream tomtom

nowadays chimera sempiternal

gnash 
besotted presentiment torment

frown tomorrow
dimple hop psychotherapy
trackless




*automatic
dada poem
2-22-20

No Ethics/No Work Oracle protest

"About 300 Oracle employees walked off the job on Thursday to protest founder and Executive Chairman Larry Ellison's decision to hold a fundraiser for President Donald Trump the previous evening, Bloomberg reports.

 It was a rare sign of dissent for a company known for its stodgy corporate culture. But the circumstances of the small-scale protest also suggest that Ellison has less reason to worry about future employee revolts than some of his fellow tech moguls.

"The protest, called No Ethics/No Work, involved about 300 employees walking out of their offices or stopping work at remote locations at noon local time and devoting the rest of the day to volunteering or civic engagement," Bloomberg reports. Bloomberg's source asked not to be named for fear of retaliation."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/report-300-oracle-employees-walk-out-over-ceos-trump-fundraiser/

"Oracle also competes with rivals for valuable government cloud-computing contracts. Earlier this month, a federal court granted Amazon's request to stop the Trump administration from moving forward with a massive $10 billion defense cloud-computing contract. Microsoft won the contract, but Amazon alleges that Trump personally and improperly lobbied for runner-up Amazon not to get it.

Trump and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos have a testy relationship in part because Bezos owns The Washington Post, which frequently criticizes the president and breaks unflattering stories about him."

__________



Trashgate

In 2000, Oracle attracted attention from the computer industry and the press after hiring private investigators to dig through the trash of organizations involved in an antitrust trial involving Microsoft.

The Chairman of Oracle Corporation, Larry Ellison, staunchly defended his company's hiring of an East Coast detective agency to investigate groups that supported rival Microsoft Corporation during its antitrust trial, calling the snooping a "public service".

The investigation reportedly included a $1,200 offer to janitors at the Association for Competitive Technology to look through Microsoft's trash.

_________

In 2004, then-United States Attorney General John Ashcroft sued Oracle Corporation to prevent it from acquiring a multibillion-dollar intelligence contract. After Ashcroft's resignation from government, he founded a lobbying firm,

The Ashcroft Group, which Oracle hired in 2005. With the group's help, Oracle went on to acquire the contract

__________


"Oracle Corporation was awarded a contract by the State of Oregon's Oregon Health Authority (OHA) to develop Cover Oregon, the state's healthcare exchange website, as part of the U.S. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

. When the site tried to go live on October 1, 2013, it failed, and registrations had to be taken using paper applications until the site could be fixed.

In August 2014, Oracle Corporation sued Cover Oregon for breach of contract, and then later that month the state of Oregon sued Oracle Corporation, in a civil complaint for breach of contract, fraud, filing false claims and "racketeering".

 In September 2016, the two sides reached a settlement valued at over $100 million to the state, and a six-year agreement for Oracle to continue modernizing state software and IT"

_______


"On August 31, 2011, The Wall Street Journal reported that Oracle was being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for paying bribes to government officials in order to win business in Africa, in contravention of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)."

________


Trump Considering Changing Law That Makes Foreign Bribes Illegal


“It’s just so unfair that American companies aren’t allowed to pay bribes to get business overseas,” Trump is quoted as saying in the new book “A Very Stable Genius.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-illegal-bribe-law-changes_n_5e23ced3c5b673621f773637

wasco county resident

grandmother and her twin

unit

Mahala

"The word Mahala or Mahalla is used in many languages and countries meaning neighborhood or location originated in Arabic محلة(maḥalla), from the root meaning ‘to settle’, ‘to occupy’ derived from the verb halla (to untie), as in untying a pack horse or camel to make a camp.

 In ancient cultures hospitality involved welcoming the stranger at the host location and offering him food, shelter, and safety. This meaning of hospitality centers on the belief that strangers should be assisted and protected while traveling.

Mahala is also a Balkan word for "neighbourhood" or "quarter", a section of a rural or urban settlement, dating to the times of the Ottoman Empire. It was brought to the area through Ottoman Turkish mahalle, but it originates in Arabic محلة (mähallä), from the root meaning "to settle", "to occupy".

 It is rendered as follows in the languages of the region: Bulgarian: махала (makhala); Serbo-Croatian: mahala/ махала; Romanian: mahala; Albanian: mahallë or mahalla, or mëhallë or mëhalla; Greek: μαχαλάς (mahalas); Macedonian: маало (maalo) or маала (maala); Romani: mahala; Aromanian: mãhãlã.

 A mahala was a relatively independent quarter of a larger village or a town, with its own school, religious building or buildings, mayor's representative, etc. Mahalas are often named after the first settler or, when ethnically separate, according to the dominant ethnicity.

n Bulgaria, mahalas were administratively considered a separate type of settlement on some occasions; today, settlements are only divided into towns or villages, and the official division of towns is into quarters. In rural mountainous areas, villages were often scattered and consisted of relatively separate mahalas with badly developed infrastructure.

In Romanian, the word mahala has come to have the strictly negative or pejorative connotations of a slum or ghetto that are not present or at least not as strongly implied in other languages.

In the Bengali language, mahalla (pronounced mo-hol-la) also means an urban neighbourhood. In Iran, mahalla is widely used in the same ways as mentioned above for urban neighborhoods.

In South Africa, Mahala is commonly used as a replacement for the word FREE."

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

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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34586956/lucinda-mahala-miller

a paradigm of big whoop

they say it is president's day big whoop
i'm less than enthralled
going back to my elementary school notions
of who are founding vaders were
and who has filled that office since.
my namesake ancestor
assisted Colve, the governor of New Orange
in handing over the colony
now NY City
back to the british and there were no presidents
only a king overseas
and a slavery system and indebted servitude
and a flushing remonstrance that
enshrined religious freedom in america before
we had a name, there on the hills
above wampum bay and killcreek and split rock
they say presidents need to be celebrated
today, so the essential services
to the populace shut down and kids pledge
allegiance or get spanked
like robert morris, who gave his home to
george washington and if you follow
history's trail of tears and crumbs will discover
the finacier of the american revolution
in the poor house
as a political prisoner who turned down the Presidency
and could have been a witness
about emoluments were such things en vogue
as his son and time eventually married
the daughter of a shoemaker and she like 
old mother hubbard ended up in albany
on the arm of a brawling son of a dutch oligarch
like an ornament on the family tree
the pinnacle on old greensleeves as the pagan
queens and kings faded and our names
morphed, apt as they be in exchange
for the millions with no name but rather
branded by their profession as miller, butler,
smith, potter and the like
with farm tools to fight the bloody british and
their mercenary inscripted hordes
there in manhattan only a stonefruit throw
up to the nation's first plant and tree nurseries
ben franklin and general washington
in their white riding gloves and deerskin aprons
pointing toward what they want 
loaded in their wagons back to estates stretching
an arc of history with a present 
crown on the head of all that is wrong and without
virtue, as critical human errors
long sealed in the foundation now topple imbalanced
and stars do what they like
as cinders pop
from the forge with no lincoln or other burnished
set of principles to hold form in a tophat or wig 
and no reason to tweet self congratulations
in midst of treason's dire remedy
to keep men immune to the wrath of those they decimate
like gravel under monuments to 
false paradigms




2-17-20
portland or

Standard Oil Co. (by Pablo Neruda, Canto General, 1940)

When the drill bored down toward the stony fissures
and plunged its implacable intestine
into the subterranean estates,
and dead years, eyes of the ages,
imprisoned plants’ roots
and scaly systems
became strata of water,
fire shot up through the tubes
transformed into cold liquid,
in the customs house of the heights,
issuing from its world of sinister depth,
it encountered a pale engineer
and a title deed.

However entangled the petroleum’s arteries may be,
however the layers may change their silent site
and move their sovereignty amid the earth’s bowels,
when the fountain gushes its paraffin foliage,
Standard Oil arrived beforehand
with its checks and it guns,
with its governments and its prisoners.

Their obese emperors from New York
are suave smiling assassins
who buy silk, nylon, cigars
petty tyrants and dictators.

They buy countries, people, seas, police, county councils,
distant regions where the poor hoard their corn
like misers their gold:
Standard Oil awakens them,
clothes them in uniforms, designates
which brother is the enemy.
the Paraguayan fights its war,
and the Bolivian wastes away
in the jungle with its machine gun.

A President assassinated for a drop of petroleum,
a million-acre mortgage,
a swift execution on a morning mortal with light, petrified,
a new prison camp for subversives,
in Patagonia, a betrayal, scattered shots
beneath a petroliferous moon,
a subtle change of ministers
in the capital, a whisper
like an oil tide,
and zap, you’ll see
how Standard Oil’s letters shine above the clouds,
above the seas, in your home,
illuminating their dominions.



Standard Oil Co. (by Pablo Neruda, Canto General, 1940)

Unfit Bloomberg

Garrison complaint

89. On April 11, 1995 at approximately 11:20 a.m., Bloomberg was having a photograph taken with two female Company salespeople and a group of N.Y.U. Business School students, in the company snack area. When Bloomberg noticed Garrison standing nearby, he asked, “Why didn’t they ask you to be in the picture? I guess they saw your face.”

 Continuing his penchant for ridiculing recently married women in his employ, Bloomberg asked plaintiff, “How’s married life? You married?” Plaintiff responded that her marriage was great and was going to get better in a few months: that she was pregnant, and the baby was due the following September.

 He responded to her “Kill it!” Plaintiff asked Bloomberg to repeat himself, and again he said, “Kill it!” and muttered, “Great! Number 16!” suggesting to plaintiff his unhappiness that sixteen women in the Company had maternity-related status. Then he walked away.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/politics/michael-bloomberg-women/?itid=hp_hp-top-table-main_bloomberg-9a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans


https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/the-portable-bloomberg-the-wit-wisdom-of-michael-bloomberg/ba5281b4-886d-42dc-a28d-e67eceb60719/


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“I could teach anybody, even people in this room, no offense intended, to be a farmer,” Bloomberg said.

“It’s a process. You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, add water, up comes the corn.

 You could learn that. 

Then we had 300 years of the industrial society.

 You put the piece of metal on the lathe, you turn the crank in the direction of the arrow and you can have a job.

“Now comes the information economy [which is] fundamentally different because it’s built around replacing people with technology and the skill sets that you have to learn are how to think and analyze, and that is a whole degree level different. 

You have to have a different skill set, you have to have a lot more gray matter.”

He continued that it “wasn’t clear” if “students can learn,” even with subsidized housing and education."


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/17/michael-bloomberg-more-past-controversial-remarks

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Bloomberg Wit and Wisdom, decades of misogyny

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/politics/michael-bloomberg-women/?itid=hp_hp-top-table-main_bloomberg-9a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans


Mike Bloomberg for years has battled women’s
allegations of profane, sexist comments
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"A good salesperson is like a man who tries to pick up women at a bar by saying, “Do you want to f---? He gets turned down a lot — but he gets f----- a lot, too!” Bloomberg was quoted in the booklet as saying. Bloomberg also allegedly said that his company’s financial information computers “will do everything, including give you [oral sex]. I guess that puts a lot of you girls out of business.”

At the time, some Bloomberg staffers said, they laughed off the comments in the 32-page booklet, “The Wit and Wisdom of Michael Bloomberg,” as a macho side of one of the nerdiest men on Wall Street."


"The most high-profile case was from a former saleswoman. She sued Bloomberg personally as well as his company, alleging workplace discrimination. 

She alleged Bloomberg told her to “kill it” when he learned she was pregnant.""

bill and shirley and all of us, Freak Mtn Ramblers "It Won't Hurt" 1999 Laurelthirst

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l69cKdLn8iw




freaks 1999 it won't hurt laurelthirst

steam of conscience nest

books and words and stories save
my elemental drive,
my tabula rasa approach
the steamshovel
going down deeper and deeper builds
a ramp to escape
the little house survives
as banks and insurance giants surround
the tree is reduced
to a stump for the old butt to park awhile
the tugboat must
brave the waves to rescue 
his family name
all the blank paper in the world was
once a tree or similar chaff
with a spirit, 
it has elemental drive.

microcosms of forest

sleeping in my arms, my children 
once
held me highest 
going down the slide together
holding hands not just to cross the street
starng
endlessly into one 
another's eyes. every night
i told each daughter
a new story as they grew
and their hair shined. 
boxes cannot contain their art,
the world is too small.
our microcosm
remains, as a water bear,
in glacial retreat
toward the starry ocean. 
my heart has no crass excuse
other than to 
pump the sun into a nice warm ball
which we roll, roll,
roll and laughing chase.

the greatest folk album of the rock era

"Life in a garret
Is great if ya dare it

cherie"


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_Moicy!https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_Moicy!




This collaboration with the Unholy Modal Rounders, Michael Hurley, and Jeffrey Frederick & the Clamtones, was named "the greatest folk album of the rock era" by The Village Voice's Robert Christgau.

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http://digitalarchives.queenslibrary.org/browse/bloodgood-garretson-househttp://digitalarchives.queenslibrary.org/browse/bloodgood-garretson-house

Frans Jansen Bloodgood, Secretary to the Colonies on the Delaware, New Amsterdam

"Bloodgood was made secretary to the Colonies on the Delaware River in 1659. They moved to Flushing, and Bloodgood was appointed Schepen of Flushing in 1673.

 Bloodgood had acquired land, sheep and cattle by the time of his death.

 Frans Bloetgoet and his wife both belonged to the New York Dutch Church, and all but two of their children were baptized there.

 On 24 May 1674 he was made chief officer of the Dutch militia of the settlements of Flushing, Hempstead, Jamaica and Newtown. "

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

Reagan and FDR and the International Lyceum Association, American Platform Guild

"in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest"

Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1807-1882
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This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,
Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight,
Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic,
Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.
Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean
Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest.

This is the forest primeval; but where are the hearts that beneath it
Leaped like the roe, when he hears in the woodland the voice of the huntsman?
Where is the thatch-roofed village, the home of Acadian farmers,--
Men whose lives glided on like rivers that water the woodlands
Darkened by shadows of earth, but reflecting an image of heaven?
Waste are those pleasant farms, and the farmers forever departed!
Scattered like dust and leaves, when the mighty blasts of October
Seize them, and whirl them aloft, and sprinkle them far o'er the ocean
Naught but tradition remains of the beautiful village of Grand-Pré.

Ye who believe in affection that hopes, and endures, and is patient,
Ye who believe in the beauty and strength of woman's devotion,
List to the mournful tradition, still sung by the pines of the forest;
List to a Tale of Love in Acadie, home of the happy.


                             Part the First   Canto I


In the Acadian land, on the shores of the Basin of Minas,
Distant, secluded, still, the little village of Grand-Pré
Lay in the fruitful valley. Vast meadows stretched to the eastward,
Giving the village its name, and pasture to flocks without number.
Dikes, that the hands of the farmers had raised with labor incessant,
Shut out the turbulent tides; but at stated seasons the flood-gates
Opened, and welcomed the sea to wander at will o'er the meadows.

West and south there were fields of flax, and orchards and cornfields
Spreading afar and unfenced o'er the plain; and away to the northward
Blomidon rose, and the forests old, and aloft on the mountains
Sea-fogs pitched their tents, and mists from the mighty Atlantic
Looked on the happy valley, but ne'er from their station descended
There, in the midst of its farms, reposed the Acadian village.
Strongly built were the houses, with frames of oak and of hemlock,
Such as the peasants of Normandy built in the reign of the Henries.
Thatched were the roofs, with dormer-windows; and gables projecting
Over the basement below protected and shaded the doorway.
There in the tranquil evenings of summer, when brightly the sunset
Lighted the village street and gilded the vanes on the chimneys,
Matrons and maidens sat in snow-white caps and in kirtles
Scarlet and blue and green, with distaffs spinning the golden
Flax for the gossiping looms, whose noisy shuttles within doors
Mingled their sound with the whir of the wheels and the songs of the maidens,
Solemnly down the street came the parish priest, and the children
Paused in their play to kiss the hand he extended to bless them.
Reverend walked he among them; and up rose matrons and maidens,
Hailing his slow approach with words of affectionate welcome.
Then came the laborers home from the field, and serenely the sun sank
Down to his rest, and twilight prevailed. Anon from the belfry
Softly the Angelus sounded, and over the roofs of the village
Columns of pale blue smoke, like clouds of incense ascending,
Rose from a hundred hearths, the homes of peace and contentment.
Thus dwelt together in love these simple Acadian farmers,—
Dwelt in the love of God and of man. Alike were they free from
Fear, that reigns with the tyrant, and envy, the vice of republics.

             *** Only a segment of the beautiful poem!

Find it here or elsewhere in your local bookstore.


Neither locks had they to their doors, nor bars to their windows;
But their dwellings were open as day and the hearts of their owners;

There the richest was poor, and the poorest lived in abundance





https://poets.org/poem/evangeline-tale-acadie

extortion, protection payments, Derek Harvey and the Three Amigos

https://www.npr.org/2019/12/28/792065458/gold-star-families-sue-defense-contractors-alleging-they-funded-the-taliban


BLACK & VEATCH SPECIAL PROJECTS
CORPORATION, CENTERRA GROUP, LLC,
DAI GLOBAL LLC, ENVIRONMENTAL
CHEMICAL CORPORATION, G4S HOLDINGS
INTERNATIONAL (AG) LIMITED, G4S RISK
MANAGEMENT LIMITED, JANUS GLOBAL
OPERATIONS LLC, LOUIS BERGER GROUP,
INC., LOUIS BERGER INTERNATIONAL, INC.,
LOUIS BERGER GROUP, INC. / BLACK &
VEATCH SPECIAL PROJECTS CORPORATION
JOINT VENTURE, MTN GROUP LIMITED,
MTN (DUBAI) LIMITED, MTN
AFGHANISTAN, 




NPR reported on these so-called "extortion rackets" in 2010. 

"Resupply convoys navigating the hazardous Afghan highway system frequently have to hire security firms to protect them, and as often, these security firms pay off militias that control key stretches of road," international correspondent Peter Kenyon wrote.

More than 100 Gold Star families are suing several major defense contractors, alleging they made illegal "protection payments" to the Taliban — thereby funding the Taliban's insurgency efforts that killed or wounded thousands of Americans in Afghanistan.

It's illegal under the federal Anti-Terrorism Act to provide material support to the Taliban. The U.S. has warned defense contractors that protection payments are against the law, but according to the lawsuit, the practice has proliferated because defense contractors feel it's a cost of doing business.

"Defendants supported the Taliban for a simple reason: Defendants were all large Western companies with lucrative businesses in post-9/11 Afghanistan, and they all paid the Taliban to refrain from attacking their business interests," the complaint says. "Those protection payments aided and abetted terrorism by directly funding an al-Qaeda-backed Taliban insurgency that killed and injured thousands of Americans."

According to the lawsuit, filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the Taliban in 2005 began systematically approaching international businesses operating in Afghanistan, and offered them a choice: pay up, or else. "Defendants paid the Taliban to leave them alone," the suit alleges. "The payments saved Defendants money: it was cheaper to buy off the Taliban than it would have been to invest in the security necessary to mitigate the terrorists' threats."
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 "According to the Council on Foreign Relations, the U.S. is paying about $16 million dollars a month to members of the Sons of Iraq. Petraeus emphasized during his testimony that the "savings in vehicles not lost because of reduced violence — not to mention the priceless lives saved — have far outweighed the cost of their monthly contracts."

https://www.factcheck.org/2008/08/us-government-paying-former-insurgents/


Roberts: The real purpose of the "surge" was to hide another deception.

The Bush regime is paying Sunni insurgents $800,000 a day not to attack US forces. 

… Allegedly, the Sons of Iraq are now at work fighting al Qaeda. … This is a much cheaper way to fight a war. We can only wonder why Bush didn’t figure it out sooner."

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"Harvey, a former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst with long experience in the Middle East, had been brought in by Flynn, who was fired as national security advisor a month after Trump took office. He is also close to Gen. David Petraeus, who is said to be advising the Trump administration from the sidelines."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/mcmaster-removes-flynn-pick-derek-harvey-national-security-council-n787146


It has also been reported that Harvey grew close to White House chief strategist Steve Bannon.

"I treasure having had the opportunity to support committed and visionary leaders such as Mrs. K.T. McFarland, Mr. Jared Kushner, and Mr. Steve Bannon, and consummate professionals like Mr. Jason Greenblatt and Ms. Dina Powell," Harvey said in his statement"

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Sondland fired

Karma