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Thursday, December 03, 2009

Fabric is Torn
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural

It was a strange Fabric
a sort of blue
loosely woven
yet with deliberate slits
at intervals
that's why it was confusing
to understand
when I discovered the holes
in the fabric,
how or why
these holes would

make it more difficult to
keep the outside out
and the inside in
but, alas, that is what
had happened
the holes in the fabric
need to be mended
to keep the cold, wind
and smoke out
and the warmth in
so he would not
perish...

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Thursday, December 03, 2009

Learning Curves keep Curving
Category: Life

Yep, keep going back out on the road. Out on the I-way of tangled webs, sometimes it's like a maze, and if you forget the rules of the maze, you just get trapped going round and round with no way out.

But today, well, I followed the maze rules and somehow ended up back in time which threw me a curve ball, but I was able to hit the ball and make a home run. That's right, I ran all the way back to my home town on the I-way...and what did I find back in time?

Wow, blew me away, though I know there is more to the story, like what do the numbers on the bricks mean, other than Rads, what was the old smoke stack pouring out....hmmmm, they (EPA) know that we know they know, but they still can't or won't admit the truth, they still can't or won't utter the words "responsible" or "accountable." So, I'll share this little tidbit of what I learned today, heaven knows, I still have more to learn. But, this was so good, better than reading a fiction novel... reality sometimes drops my jaws, raises my eyebrows and makes me utter a few swear words of exclamation here and there.....Prairy

Excerpt From Major Jordan's Diary Chapter 6:

My diary later showed* that Vasilenko flew from Great Falls in a special
plane carrying about 4,000 pounds of "diplomatic mail." He and the cargo were
protected by three Russian guards, whom I recorded as Leonid Rykounin, Engeny
Kojevnicov and Georges Nicolaiev.[ *See pages 158,159.]

After Vasilenko's arrival from Washington, Colonel Kotikov led him to an
Airacobra standing about one city block's distance from the nearest building,
with an open view on every side. They spread the papers out on one of the
wings of the plane, and the two men discussed them for an hour.

This precaution was due to the Colonel's pet bogy, dictagraphs. There were no
dictagraphs on the field, but that did not stop him and his aides from
searching for them every day in lamp fixtures and telephone books, and behind
calendars and pictures. They even sounded the walls. I gathered it was not
American spies that he feared but Soviet police agents.

One morning in April, 1943, Colonel Kotikov asked whether I could And space
for an important consignment of nearly 2,000 pounds. I said: "No, we have a
quarter of a million pounds' backlog already." He directed me to put through
a call to Washington for him, and spoke for a while in his own tongue. Then
he put a hand over the mouthpiece and confided to me in English: "Very
special shipmentóexperimental chemicals-going through soon."

There was an interval of Slavic gutturals, and he turned to me again. "Mr.
Hopkins-coming on now," he reported. Then he gave me the surprise of my life.
He handed me the phone and announced: "Big boss, Mr. Hopkins, wants you."

It was quite a moment. I was about to speak for the first time with a
legendary figure of the day, the top man in the world of Lend-Lease in which
I lived. I have been careful to keep the following account as accurate in
substance and language as I can. My memory, normally good, was stimulated by
the thrill of the occasion. Moreover, the incident was stamped on my mind
because it was unique in my experience of almost 25 months at Newark and
Great Falls.

A bit in awe, I stammered: "Jordan speaking." A male voice began at once:
"This is Mr. Hopkins. Are you my expediter out there?" I answered that I was
the United Nations Representative at Great Falls, working with Colonel
Kotikov.

Under the circumstances, who could have doubted that the speaker was Harry
Hopkins? Friends have since asked me whether it might not have been a Soviet
agent who was an American. I doubt this, because his next remark brought up a
subject which only Mr. Hopkins and myself could have known. He asked: "Did
you get those pilots I sent you?"

"Oh yes, sir," I responded. "They were very much appre. ciated, and helped us
in unblocking the jam in the Pipeline. We were accused of going out of
channels, and got the dickens for it."

Mr. Hopkins let that one go by, and moved on to the heart of things. "Now,
Jordan," he said, "there's a certain shipment of chemicals going through that
I want you to expedite. This is something very special."

"Shall I take it up," I asked, "with the Commanding Colonel?"

"I don't want you to discuss this with anyone," Mr. Hopkins ordered, "and it
is not to go on the records. Don't make a big production of it, but just send
it through quietly, in a hurry."

I asked how I was to identify the shipment when it arrived. He turned from
the phone, and I could hear his voice: "How will Jordan know the shipment
when it gets there?" He came back on the line and said: "The Russian Colonel
out there will designate it for you. Now send this through as speedily as
possible, and be sure you leave it off the records!"

Then a Russian voice broke in with a demand for Colonel Kotikov. I was full
of curiosity when Kotikov had finished, and I wanted to know what it was all
about and where the shipment was coming from. He said there would be more
chemicals and that they would arrive from Canada.

"I show you," he announced. Presumably, after the talk with Mr. Hopkins, I
had been accepted as a member of the "lodge." From his bundle on war
chemicals the Colonel took the folder called "Bomb Powder." He drew out a
paper sheet and set a finger against one entry. For a second time my eyes
encountered the word "uranium." I repeat that in 1943 it meant as little to
me as to most Americans, which was nothing.

This shipment was the one and only cash item to pass through my hands, except
for private Russian purchases of clothing and liquor. It was the only one,
out of a tremendous multitude of consignments, that I was ordered not to
enter on my tally sheets. It was the only one I was forbidden to discuss with
my superiors, and the only one I was directed to keep secret from everybody.

Despite Mr. Hopkins' urgency, there was a delay of five. weeks. On the
morning of June 10th, I caught sight of a loaded C-47 which was idling on the
runway. I went over and asked the pilot what was holding him up. He said he
understood some kind of special shipment was still to come. Seven years
afterward the pilot identified himself to the press as Air Forces Lieutenant
Ben L. Brown, of Cincinnati.

I asked Colonel Kotikov about the plane, and he told me the shipment Mr.
Hopkins was interested in had just arrived at the railroad yards, and that I
should send a truck to pick it up. The consignment was escorted by a Russian
guard from Toronto. I set down his name, and copied it later in my diary. It
was Vladimir Anoufriev. I identified him with the initials "C.C." for
"Canadian Courier."

Fifteen wooden cases were put aboard the transport, Which took off for Moscow
by way of Alaska. At Fairbanks, Lieutenant Brown has related, one box fell
from the plane, smashing a corner and spilling a small quantity of
chocolatebrown powder. Out of curiosity, he picked up a handful of the
unfamiliar grains, with a notion of asking somebody what they were. A Soviet
officer slapped the crystals from his palm and explained nervously: "No,
noóburn hands!"

Not until the latter part of 1949 was it definitely proved, from responsible
records, that during the war Federal agencies delivered to Russia at least
three consignments of uranium chemicals, totaling 1,465 pounds, or nearly
threequarters of a ton. Confirmed also was the shipment of one kilogram, or
2.2 pounds, of uranium metal at a time when the total American stock was 4.5
pounds.

Implicated by name were the Lend-Lease Administration, the Department of
Commerce, the Procurement Division of the Treasury, and the Board of Economic
Warfare. The State Department became involved to the extent of refusing
access to files of Lend-Lease and its successor, the Foreign Economic
Administration.

The first two uranium shipments traveled through Great Falls, by air. The
third was dispatched by truck and railway from Rochester, N. Y., to Portland,
Ore., and then by ship to Vladivostok. The dates were March and June, 1943,
and July, 1944. No doubt was left that the transaction discussed by Mr.
Hopkins and myself was the one of June, 1943.

This was not merely the largest of our known uranium deals with the Soviet
Union, it was also the most shocking. There seemed to be no lengths to which
some American officials would not go in aiding Russia to master the secret of
nuclear fission. For four years monopoly of the A-bomb was the cornerstone of
our military and overseas policy, yet on September 23, 1949, long in advance
of Washington estimates, President Truman announced that an atomic explosion
had occurred in the Soviet Union.

In behalf of national security, the Manhattan Project during the spring of
1943 clapped an embargo on American exports of uranium compounds. But zealots
in Washington appear to have resolved that Russia must have at all costs the
ingredients for atomic experiment. The intensely pro-Soviet mood of that time
may be judged from echoes in later years.

For example, there was Joseph E. Davies, Ambassador to the Soviet Union in
1936-39, and author of a book and movie of flagrant propaganda, Mission to
Moscow. In an interview with the Times-Herald of Washington for Feb. 18,
1946, he was quoted as saying: "Russia, in self-defense, has every moral
right to seek atomic bomb secrets through military espionage if excluded from
such information by her former fighting allies!" There also was Professor
Harold C. Urey, American scientist, who sat in the innermost circle of the
Manhattan Project. Yet on Dec. 14, 1949, in a report of the Atlantic Union
Committee, Dr. Urey said that Major Jordan should be court-martialed if he
had removed anything from planes bound for Russia.

When American supplies were cut off, the device of outmaneuvering General
Groves was to procure the materials clandestinely from Canada.* Not until
1946 did the commander of the Manhattan Project learn from the Un-American
Activities Committee that his stockade had been undermined.[ * The government
of Canada frowned on uranium sales, but thought the U.S. has the right to
determine whether Russia should have the precious product. in fact, it would
appear that Canada's alertness rather than ours prevented further shipments.]

My share in the revelation was testimony under oath leading to one conclusion
onlyóthat the Canadian by-pass was aided by Mr. Hopkins. At his direction,
Lend-Lease issued a certificate of release without which the consignment
could not have moved. Lend-Lease channels of transportation and Lend-Lease
personnel, such as myself, were used. Traces of the scheme were kept off
Lend-Lease books by making it a "cash" transaction. The shipment was paid for
with a check of the Amtorg Trading Corporation.

Because the initial branch of the airlift to Moscow was under American
control, passage of the chemicals across United States territory could not be
avoided, in Alaska if not Montana. On account of that fact, the cash nature
of the project, it was necessary to obtain an export license from the Board
of Economic Warfare. Such a document, covering a shipment of American origin,
was first prepared. It was altered, to comply with the Canadian maneuver, by
some BEW official whose identity has been concealed by the State Department.
As amended, the license was issued on April 29, 1943. Its serial number was
C-1643180.

But two facts were forgotten: (a) public carriers use invoices, and (b) the
Air Forces kept tallies not only at Great Falls but Fairbanks.

By diligent searching, freight and airway bills yielded incontestable proof
that 15 boxes of uranium chemicals were delivered at Great Falls on June 9,
1943, and were dispatched immediately, in a Lend-Lease plane, to the Soviet
Union.

The shipment originated at Eldorado Mining & Refining, Ltd. of Great Bear
Lake, and was sent through Port Hope, Ontario. It was authorized by a
Canadian arms export permit, No. OF1666. The carrier was the Chicago,
Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railway. Listed as consignee was Colonel A- N.
Kotikov, resident agent of the Soviet Government Purchasing Commission at
Gore Field, Great Falls.

The story behind the story is as follows: On Feb.1, 1943, Hermann H.
Rosenberg of Chematar, Inc., New York City, received the first inquiry about
uranium ever to reach his office. The applicant was the Soviet Purchasing
Commission, which desired 220 pounds of uranium oxide, 220 pounds of uranium
nitrate, and 25 pounds of uranium metal. At that date Oak Ridge was under
construction, but would not be in operation for another year.

Six days earlier the War Production Board had issued General Reference Order
M-285, controlling the distribution of uranium compounds among domestic
industries like glass, pottery and ceramics. A loophole was left by
overlooking the export of such materials for war purposes. The Russians
claimed that they had urgent military need for uranium nitrate in medicinal
research and for uranium oxide and metal as alloys in hardening gunbarrel
steel. There was nothing for the U.S. to do but grant an OK, since we did not
want to imply that we were suspicious of Russia's request.

Uranium metal was unavailable. On March 23, at Rosenberg's instance, the S.
W. Shattuck Chemical Co. of Denver shipped four crates, weighing 691 pounds,
to Colonel Kotikov at Great Falls. The Burlington railroad's bill of lading
described the contents merely as "chemicals," but it was accompanied by a
letter from Rosenberg to Kotikov designating the contents as 220 pounds of
uranium nitrate and 200 (not 220) pounds of uranium oxide. Since it was a
LendLease transaction, defrayed with American funds, no export license was
required. The cargo was dispatched without friction along the Pipeline.

But the War Production Board, from which clearance had been sought, alerted
the Manhattan Project. It was too late to halt the Shattuck sale. General
Groves reluctantly approved it on the ground that it would be unwise to "tip
off" Russia as to the importance of uranium chemicalsóa fact with which
Moscow was only too familiar.

During the investigation, I was embarrassed by questions as to why tables of
exports to the Soviet Union contained no mention of uranium. The Shattuck
consignment was legitimate. It had been authorized by Lend-Lease, the War
Production Board, and the Manhattan Project.

Some months later I ran into John F. Moynihan, formerly of the Newark News
editorial staff......

"I beard you floundering about," be said, "and wished I could tell you
something you didn't know. I was sent to Denver to hush up the records in the
Shattuck matter. it was hidden under the phrase, 'salts and compounds,' in an
entry covering a different metal."

General Groves moved rapidly to stop the leak through which the Shattuck
boxes had slipped. By early April he had formed a nationwide embargo by means
of voluntary contracts with chemical brokers. They promised to grant the
United States first right to purchase all uranium oxide, uranium nitrate and
sodium uranate received by the contractors.

The uranium black-out was discovered by Rosenberg when he tried to fill
another order from the Soviet Purchasing Commission, for 500 pounds each of
uranium nitrate and uranium oxide. On April 23, 1943, Rosenberg was in touch
with the Canadian Radium & Uranium Corp. of New York, which was exclusive
sales agent for Eldorado Mining & Refining, Ltd., a producer of uranium at
Great Bear Lake.

An agreement to fill the Soviet order was negotiated with such dispatch that
in four days Rosenberg was able to report victory to the Purchasing
Commission. The shipment from Ontario to Great Falls and Moscow followed in
due course.

Ile Port Hope machination had the advantage, among other things, of
by-passing the War Production Board, which was sure to warn the Manhattan
Project if it knew the facts, but could be kept in ignorance because its
jurisdiction ran only south of the border.

General Groves was advised at once of the Soviet application for 1,000 pounds
of uranium salts. He was not disturbed, being confident the embargo would
stand. After declining to endorse the application, he approved it later in
the hope of detecting whether the Russians would unearth uranium stocks which
the Manhattan Project had overlooked. American industries were consuming
annually, before the war, upwards of 200 tons of uranium chemicals.

"We had no expectation," General Groves testified December 7, 1949, "of
permitting that material to go out of this country. It would have been
stopped."[1] So far as the United States was concerned, the embargo held
fast. The truth that it had been side-stepped by means of resort to Canadian
sources did not come to the General's knowledge until three years later.

Another violation of atomic security was represented by the third known
delivery to Russia, in 1944. It proved to be uranium nitrate. During May of
that year, Colonel Kotikov showed me a warning from the Soviet Purchasing
Commission to look out for a shipment of uranium, weighing 500 pounds, which
was to have travel priority. The Colonel was soon. returning home. As the
climax of his American mission, he proposed to fly the precious stuff to
Moscow with his own hands.

Disguised as a "commercial transaction" within American territory, the deal
was managed by Lend-Lease. Chematar and Canadian Radium & Uranium were
abandoned in favor of the Procurement Division of the Treasury Department,
although the Treasury, under regulations, had no authority to make uranium
products available to the Soviet Union.

Contractors were asked to bid, and the winner was the Eastman Kodak Company.
Somewhere in this process, the expected 500 pounds shrank to 45. Eastman
Kodak reported the order to the War Production Board as a domestic commercial
item.

Whatever the motive, it was determined not to send the compound by air. After
a Treasury inspection in Rochester, the MacDaniel Trucking Company drove it
to the Army Ordnance Depot at Terre Haute, Ind., arriving July 24.* The
shipment turned up in freight car No. 97352 of the Erie Railroad, and got to
North Portland, Ore., on Aug. 11. By means of shifts not yet divulged, the
uranium nitrate found itself aboard a Russian steamship, Kashirstroi, which
left for Vladivostok on Oct. 3. Colonel Kotikov, who had planned a triumphal
entry into Moscow with a quarter-ton of "bomb powder" as a trophy, gave up
the project in disgust on learning that the shipment would be only 45
pounds.[ * From the hearings of the Un-American Activities Committee, Dec. 5,
1949, p. 932: "MR. TAVENNER: Were there shipments of uranium passing through
your field which originated at places other than Canada after you received
the Canadian shipments? MR. JORDAN: I believe the other shipments came from
Army Ordnance'']

In charge of uranium purchases for the Manhattan Project in 1944 was Dr.
Phillip L. Merritt. Appearing January 24, 1950, before the Un-American
Activities Committee, Dr. Merritt swore he was taken by surprise, a day
earlier, on discovering for the first time that the Eastman Kodak order had
been shipped to Russia by way of Army Ordnance.

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Tuesday, December 01, 2009

A Dream of Freedom for Catalonia
Category: News and Politics

Good Luck on December 13 my Catalonian Friends! Many blessings of freedom and Independence be to You, Prairy

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Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Okawita Paha National Monument - Update
Category: News and Politics

A message to all members of Friends of the Norbeck

The Forest Service is proposing a sanitation logging and thinning project "to reduce mountain pine beetle activity" in a portion of the proposed Okawita Paha National Monument.

Comments are needed demanding a full Environmental Impact Statement for this proposal.

The use of a Categorical Exclusion to reduce the needed NEPA analysis is inappropriate: the proposed National Monument and sacred landscape designation creates extraordinary circumstances that require a comprehensive environmental analysis.

The background on the Quincy Bug Project and comment submission link can be found here.

Please forward this message to your contacts concerned with the Okawita Paha National Monument.

-- brian

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Sunday, November 29, 2009

Memories in a Shoebox
Category: Life

Memories in a Shoebox

Cleaning out my Life
Making room for generations to come
Oh my God, memories in a Shoebox,
and my reslove has come undone...
Put it all back, close the lid
My Heart knows, Peace has won....

Prairy 11282009

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Saturday, November 28, 2009

Old Oak Tracks
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural

"They" Killed the Old Oaks

and Felled them across

the Rail Road tracks

so the Trains would Wreck...

but "who" is "They"

and "why" did "Who"

want to kill...

Old Oaks

and "Main Steam Stream Dreams?"

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Saturday, November 28, 2009

ANDROGYNESIS
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural

dreaming n dreaming
and this one is strange....:

ANDROGYN

is not a man...

nor a woman...

...never has been

...never will it be

that's Androgyn's plan

ANDROGYNESIS

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Thursday, November 26, 2009

Okawita Paha
Category: News and Politics

Defenders of the Black Hills P. O. Box 2003, Rapid City, SD 57709 Phone: (605) 399 -1868 Nov. 24, 2009 PRESS RELEASE “Group seeks designation of Sacred Landscape” “Promotes Okawita Paha National Monument in the Black Hills” The Black Hills for millennia have been considered sacred by more than thirty Native American nations from North America. The sacred peak, Opahata I, also known as Harney Peak, is considered to be the “center of all that is” to many Native American nations. The surrounding Okawita Paha area, literally “Gathering Place”, is considered a sacred landscape that was used for thousands of years in traditional Native American spiritual and cultural practices. Prior to the incursion of Euro-Americans, people of the Great Sioux Nation gathered at Okawita Paha at the beginning of every new year which is the first day of Spring. They gathered to welcome back the Thunder Nation and gave thanks for the renewal of all life: plants, animals, birds, insects, all living beings. Their prayers were for all of creation and reminded everyone of the relatedness of everything. The people of the Great Sioux Nation must preserve these spiritual traditions and cultural identities, and complete these practices in their rightful places. The Okawita Paha sacred landscape provides a place for traditional Native American spirituality and is unsuited for commercial and secular activities such as logging, prescribed burning, and building of roads. The Okawita Paha sacred landscape, part of which is the Black Elk Wilderness, is the last place in the Black Hills that provides protection and sanctuary for wildlife. Defenders of the Black Hills hereby publicly endorses the designation of the roughly 40,000 acres of National Forest System lands shown on the accompanying map as the Okawita Paha National Monument. We support transfer of these lands to management by the National Park Service with a vigorous training program for Native American personnel to be managed as a sacred landscape and wildlife sanctuary. As a sacred landscape, traditional Native American spiritual practices may be freely exercised, spiritual practices that are once again resurfacing after nearly 100 years of suppression. A “sacred landscape” is a natural landscape where the Creator’s creation is recognized in all the rocks, water, and wildlife that are present on the land. Providing a place for traditional spiritual practices of reverence and respect towards the land is an integral part of such a sacred landscape designation. Protecting wildlife from disturbance, harassment, and trespass is consistent with a sacred landscape designation, as is providing a secure breeding place. Impacts on wildlife, other than those in harmony with traditional spiritual practices, would be subject to the fines and penalties already established in the Norbeck Organic Act of 1920 and updated relative to inflation. The restrictions imposed by a Wilderness designation are consistent with a sacred landscape designation. However, management in a sacred landscape would be restricted to natural fire which is more in tune with a “natural” designation than current Wilderness landscape management practices. The proposed Okawita Paha National Monument would comprise roughly 40,000 acres of current National Forest System (NFS) lands in the Black Hills of South Dakota with management by the National Park Service. Non-NFS lands such as private inholdings, Custer State Park lands, and Mount Rushmore National Memorial are not included in this proposal and will not be subject to the management restrictions proposed for the Okawita Paha National Monument. Defenders of the Black Hills strongly supports the designation of these lands as the Okawita Paha National Monument to be jointly managed by the United States and the Great Sioux Nation in recognition of the peace promised in the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, and in the spirit of reconciliation as proposed by late SD Governor George Mickelson. In addition, such a designation would finally uphold the true essence of the Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978. #### For more information contact: Charmaine White Face, Coordinator at 605-343-5387 or Brian Brademeyer at 605-574-4152. Defenders of the Black Hills is a non-profit organization composed of Native and non-Native American people who are concerned about the restoration and preservation of the natural environment of the Black Hills in South Dakota and Wyoming and the surrounding grasslands. To learn more about Defenders go to: www.defendblackhills.org/joomla Okawita Paha National Monument

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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

New World
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural

Everything is moving

Nothing stays the same

I can not easily put into words

what I was shown
and could comprehend.
It was so simple to understand.
I can't get over why it has been overlooked?
I will try....
We are moving into another world
we always have been
we are thinking so three dimensionally
and even if you stand in the zero
it's hard to comprehend,
again
because it's so simple.
we are moving
the earth is moving
the solar system is moving
the cosmos is moving
everything is moving
it can be moving forward
sideways
up or down
and we can't see
nor comprehend
infinity....
yet
it's simply there.
Wish you could have been there
but wait,
you are!
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