Yesterday is not forever

January 6, 2016, 10:42 pm

A Syrian man walks past damaged homes following a snow storm in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Tuesday. The conflict in Syria has killed more than 250,000 people and forced millions to flee their homes since it broke out in March 2011.

A Syrian man walks past damaged homes following a snow storm in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Tuesday: photo by Karam Al-Masri/AFP, 5 January 2015

TOPSHOT - Fighters loyal to Yemen's Pres...TOPSHOT - Fighters loyal to Yemen's President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi celebrate after they managed to secure completely and take control of the port of the southern city of Aden, on January 4, 2016. Authorities in Aden imposed a curfew after fierce battles in the port of Aden that killed 17 people, among them nine members of the security forces including a colonel, the security sources said. AFP PHOTO / SALEH AL-OBEIDI / AFP / SALEH AL-OBEIDISALEH AL-OBEIDI/AFP/Getty Images

Fighters loyal to Yemen’s President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi celebrate after they managed to secure completely and take control of the port of the southern city of Aden: photo by Saleh Al-Obeidi/AFP, 5 January 2015

The rubble of the Chamber of Trade and Industry headquarters in Sana, Yemen, on Tuesday after it was hit by airstrikes said to have been carried out by the Saudi-led coalition: photo by Khaled Abdullah/Reuters, 5 January 2015

A Syrian refugee and two children arrive aboard the passenger ferry Ariadne at the port of Piraeus, near Athens, Greece, January 4, 2016.

A Syrian refugee and two children arrive aboard the passenger ferry Ariadne at the port of Piraeus, near Athens, Greece: photo by Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters, 4 January 2015

On the route of a thousand hells: Grande-Synthe camp, Dunkirk

Scenes from refugee settlements in France as rains flood in: #calais #dunkirk: image via Australia for UNHCR @UNrefugees, 5 January 2015

Volunteers try to clean up the camp in Grande-Synthe, Dunkirk. Many refugees are reported to be suffering from scabies and coughing up blood: photo by Jordi Oliver for the Guardian, 5 January 2015

A girl tries on mud-caked boots in the camp: photo by Jordi Oliver for the Guardian, 5 January 2015

Much-needed supplies appear to have been blocked from being delivered to the camp: photo by Jordi Oliver for the Guardian, 5 January 2015

A pool of water in the middle of the camp, which has destroyed large numbers of tents.Hundreds of refugees are living in dangerous, unsanitary conditions after days of heavy rain left their camp in northern France ankle-deep in filthy water, while guards have blocked migrants’ attempts to replace tents and rebuild temporary shelters. Aid agencies working at the camp in Grande-Synthe, Dunkirk, say they are concerned for the health of the refugees due to an apparent ban on building materials, firewood and even blankets being brought into the compound during the cold, damp period. The site, known as France’s “forgotten” camp and which is about 50 miles from Dover, is estimated to hold 3,000 refugees mainly from Syria, Iran and Iraq. After Sunday night’s rain, 200 refugees –- many of them children –- had to leave their sodden tents to keep dry in the distribution shelter. By Monday a huge pool of water stood in the middle of the camp, which has destroyed large numbers of tents. Building rain-proof dry shelters or bringing new tents is forbidden, according to aid workers on the ground.: photo by Jordi Oliver for the Guardian, 5 January 2015

On the route of a thousand hells: In The Jungle, Calais

A Syrian man and his son in the Jungle in Calais: photo by David Levene for The Guardian, 3 November 2015

Karzan, a nurse back in Iraq, with his wife Sharmin and son Hemn in their makeshift shelter in the Jungle in Calais: photo by David Levene for the Guardian, 3 November 2015

The Jungle in Calais -- ‘It is the largest slum in Europe and probably the worst’: photo by David Levene for The Guardian, 3 November 2015

Many people in the camp wear ill-fitting shoes that have been donated by well-wishers: photo by David Levene for The Guardian, 3 November 2015

Some of the refugees waiting, hoping for a chance to get to Britain: photo by David Levene for The Guardian, 3 November 2015

Those with children cannot risk the dangers of trying to jump trains or lorries: photo by David Levene for The Guardian, 3 November 2015

High-energy drinks are a popular item at the camp’s unofficial shops: photo by David Levene for The Guardian, 3 November 2015

Men queue in line for a handout of clothing: photo by David Levene for The Guardian, 3 November 2015

Some of the books in the Jungle’s library, set up by volunteers: photo by David Levene for The Guardian, 3 November 2015

The #jungle camp in #calais: cold, muddy and unwelcoming. @care4calais donations keep refugees warm, dry and fed: image via Sean Hawkey @seanhawkeye, 3 January 2016

The Jungle refugee camp, Calais.‘No sanitation, no healthcare, no security, no refuse collection, and no roads – just tracks of stinking mud full of litter and human detritus.’: photo by Jeff J Mitchell via the Guardian, 10 December 2015

Troopers of The Empire

Camels compete during the Liwa 2016 Moreeb Dune Festival on January 5, 2016, in the Liwa desert, 250 kilometres west of the Gulf emirate of Abu Dhabi. The festival, which attracts participants from around the Gulf region, includes a variety of races (cars, bikes, falcons, camels and horses) or other activities aimed at promoting the country's folklore.

Camels compete during the Liwa 2016 Moreeb Dune Festival on Tuesday, in the Liwa desert, 250 kilometres west of the Gulf emirate of Abu Dhabi: photo by Karim Sahib/AFP, 5 January 2015

Japan sushi boss pays $117,000 for endangered tuna: AFP, 6 January 2015

A Japanese sushi boss paid more than $117,000 Tuesday for a giant bluefin tuna as Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market held its last New Year auction ahead of a much-needed modernisation move.

Bidding stopped at a whopping 14 million yen for the enormous 200-kilogram (440-pound) fish -- a threatened species -- that was caught off Japan's northern coast.

The price was three times higher than last year but still far below a record 155.4 million yen paid by the sushi chain operator in 2013 -- when a Hong Kong restaurant chain weighed in and drove up bidding -- for a slightly larger fish of similar quality.

The New Year auction is a traditional feature at Tsukiji, where bidders pay way over the odds for the prestige of buying the first fish of the year.

But it came as Japan, the world's largest consumer of bluefin tuna, faces growing calls for a trade ban on the species, which environmentalists warn is on its way to extinction.

Kiyoshi Kimura, president of sushi restaurant chain Sushi-Zanmai, paid more than $117,000 for the 200kg bluefin tuna, displayed at his main restaurant near Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market on January 5, 2016: photo by AFP, 5 January 2016

The population of Pacific bluefin tuna is set to keep declining "even if governments ensure existing management measures are fully implemented", Amanda Nickson, director of Global Tuna Conservation at the Pew Charitable Trusts, said in a release.

Bluefin is usually the most expensive fish available at Tsukiji, the biggest fish and wholesale seafood market in the world.

A single piece of "otoro", or the fish's fatty underbelly, can cost up to several thousand yen at high-end Tokyo restaurants.

The growing popularity of Japanese sushi worldwide has stoked demand elsewhere.

Fishmongers inspect frozen bluefin tuna before the first auction of the New Year at Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market, which will end its eight-decade history this year: photo by AFP, 5 January 2016

"Given the already dire state of the population –- decimated to just four percent of unfished levels -- it is of particular concern that the auction price is rising again," Nickson added.

"The international community must let the Japanese government know that additional action is needed to save this species."

Tuesday's auction winner, Kiyoshi Kimura, president of the firm behind the popular Sushi-Zanmai restaurant chain, said he was "glad to make a winning bid in the last New Year auction at Tsukiji."

Kimura has won the bidding every year since 2012.

Tsukiji -- a sprawling complex of tiny stalls and wholesalers popular with tourists -- will end its eight-decade history this year when it is relocated to a modern facility in Toyosu, a few kilometres (miles) away.

Garbage (Higashizu-cho, Shizuoka Prefecture): photo by efo, September 2015

Moviegoers wait before the first showing of the movie "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" in Tokyo...Moviegoers wait before the first showing of the movie "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" outside a movie theater in Tokyo, Japan, December 18, 2015. REUTERS/Issei Kato

Star Wars fans wait for the first showing of the movie “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” outside a cinema in Tokyo: photo by Issei Kato/Reuters, 18 December 2015

Tokyo Invasion: "All your base are belong to US". The Empire sent three Stormtroopers to invade Tokyo. One went off dancing and the other two decided to take some time off instead, seeing the sights at Akihabara, Shibuya, Asakusa and more: photo by Danny Choo, 25 January 2011

Angry single men stage anti-Christmas rally in Tokyo: image via Agence France-Presse @AFP, 19 December 2015

Fries and kebabs [Nishishinjuku 2 Chome, Tokyo]: photo by efo, 2015

Cat with guard, Tokyo [Nishishinjuku 1 Chome, Tokyo]: photo by efo, 7 November 2015

Smile [Higashinippon 4 Chome, Tokyo]: photo by efo, 2015

Yoshimi [Yoshimi-machi, Saitama Prefecture]: photo by efo, 29 September 2015

Touchy Subjects

Wearing makeup to workout: it's a touchy subject: image via New York Times @nytimes, 6 September 2015

This image of Alan's body washed up on a beach in Turkey led to an outpouring of concern for Syrian refugees. Since then, at least 100 more children have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea: photo by Nilufer Demir via Agence France-Presse, 2 September 2015

A Turkish police officer carried the body of Alan Kurdi a young Syrian refugee who drowned off the coast of Turkey’s Bodrum Peninsula on Wednesday: photo by Nilufer Demir/DHA, via Reuters, 2 September 2015

Abdullah Kurdi in the piano bar of a hotel in Erbil, in Iraq's Kurdistan region, less than a month after losing his wife and two sons in an attempt to flee the Syrian conflict by risking the perilous sea journey from Turkey to Greece. “I have become a shadow,” he said..: photo by Bryan Denton for The New York Times, 27 December 2015

Armed activists defy government in #Oregonstandoff: image via Agence France-Presse @AFP, 4 January 2015

Ammon Bundy addresses reporters earlier today. #Oregonstandoff #OregonUnderAttack #OregonOccupation: image via Jason Wilson @jason_a_w 3 January 2015

This is as close as I was allowed to get to the armed militia occupying the Malheur Wildlife Refuge HQ. #burnsoregon: image via Jason Wilson @jason_a_w, 2 January 2015

A few unpublished pics from the trip to the Malheur Refuge today. 1. Ammon Bundy. #Oregonstandoff #burnsoregon: image via Jason Wilson @jason_a_w, 3 January 2015

2. Ammon Bundy and crew: image via Jason Wilson @jason_a_w, 3 January 2015

3. Ammon's bodyguard: image via Jason Wilson @jason_a_w, 3 January 2015

The unnamed bodyguard is Brian David Cavalier, aka Booda. He's a tattoo artist from Arizona. @jason_a_w: image via JJ MacNab @jjmacnab, 3 January 2015

6. Needed a longer lens for this - anyway, the fire observation tower now manned with sentries.: image via Jason Wilson @jason_a_w, 3 January 2015

Larger Than Life

Monster statue of China's founder Mao Zedong built by group of capitalists: image via Agence France-Presse @AFP, 5 January 2015

Ghettovision. Los Angeles, California.: photo by michaelj1998, 2 December2015

Super Girl. Los Angeles, California.: photo by michaelj1998, 28 August2015

The Empire loves itself some Empire: image via Al Seib @AlSeibPhoto, 6 January 2015

Nothing but life itself

Syrians evacuate a wounded man on a stretcher following a reported airstrike by Syrian government forces in Damascus' rebel-held suburb of Zamalka, on January 6, 2016. Government and rebel bombardment killed at least 20 civilians and wounded dozens in the Syrian capital and a nearby opposition bastion, state media and a monitoring group said.

Syrians evacuate a wounded man on a stretcher following an airstrike by Syrian government forces in Damascus’ rebel-held suburb of Zamalka, on Wednesday: photo by Abdul Monam Eassa/AFP, 6 January 2015

A child looks out of a bus window after walking from the Macedonian border into Serbia, in the village of Miratovac, Serbia, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016. Hundreds of migrants continue to arrive daily into Serbia in order to register and continue their journey further north towards Western Europe

A child looks out of a bus window after walking from the Macedonian border into Serbia, in the village of Miratovac, Serbia, Wednesday. Hundreds of migrants continue to arrive daily into Serbia in order to register and continue their journey further north towards Western Europe: photo by Visar Kryeziu/AP, 6 January 2015

Men dance in the icy winter waters of th...Men dance in the icy winter waters of the Tundzha river in the town of Kalofer as part of the Epiphany Day celebrations on January 6, 2016. As a tradition, an Eastern Orthodox priest throws a cross in the river and it is believed that the one who retrieves it will be healthy through the year as well as all those who dance in the icy waters.

Bulgarian men dance in the icy winter waters of the Tundzha river in the town of Kalofer as part of the Epiphany Day celebrations. As a tradition, an Eastern Orthodox priest throws a cross in the river and it is believed that the one who retrieves it will be healthy through the year as well as all those who dance in the icy waters: photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP, 6 January 2015

Turkey finds drowned bodies of 21 migrants, including children: image via Agence France-Presse @AFP, 5 January 2015

#Refugees and #migrants. From #Lesbos to .......: image via Aris Messinis @Aris Messinis, 8 December 2015

21 #Refugees, many of them children, have washed ashore in Turkey photo @dromografos: image via Revolution News @NewsRevo, 5 January 2015

Κατα τ αλλά αν έπεφτε ο φράκτης θα θρηνούσαμε θύματα... #refugeesGr: image via dromografos @dromografos, 5 January 2015

Number of #refugees drowned off #Lesbos rises to 34 - another 10 bodies found off #Turkey coast. (Pics via @HDNER): image via Jon Williams Verified account @WilliamsJon 5 January 2015

Accurate information is a massively unmet need for #refugees #migrants - Nobody knows what's next causing huge anxiety.: image via MSF Sea @MSF_Sea, 2 January 2015

yIn Belgrade, activists appealed for winter clothes as 4 child #migrants were admitted to emergency with hypothermia.: image via Balkan Newsbeat @BalkanNewsbeat 3 January 2015

Bodies of 34 #migrants found on #Turkish coast #migrantcrisis: image via Arab News Verified account @Arab_News, 5 January 2015

The Kid makes a splash

Trash collects on the banks of the Los Angeles River after a heavy rainstorm passed through the area, raising the water levels in the river in Vernon: photo by Abdul Monam Eassa/AFP, 6 January 2015

Today's #ElNiño storm brings more flood danger as it moves slowly over the L.A. area: image via Los Angeles Times Verified account @latimes, 6 January 2015

Homes at Mondo's Beach between the Solimar and Faria Beach communities west of Ventura have their sea walls tested Wednesday morning, as the third storm of this season's El Nino moves in with more rain and heavy surf: photo by Al Seib / Los Angeles Times, 6 January 2015

#ElNino making waves as vehicles navigate flooded lanes on the SB 101 Fwy at California Street in downtown #Ventura: image via Al Seib @AlSeibPhoto, 6 January 2015

Pouring in Vallejo as we talk #ElNino @KQEDForum #cawx: image via voxterra @voxterra, 6 January 2015 Vallejo, CA

Felipe Flores Lopez, 59, loses his homeless encampment to #ElNino: image via Genaro Molina @GenaroMolina47, 5 January 2015

@berkelyside rainbow over the Bay between storms in Berkeley: image via Fred Werner @SustainableFred, 6 January 2015

Deluge

Study for Deluge (portion of sheet): Jacopo Pontormo. c. 1546, red chalk on paper, 419 x 216 mm (whole sheet)(Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence)

The Deluge: Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1508-09, fresco, 280 x 570 cm (Cappella Sistina, Vatican

The Deluge (detail): Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1508-09, fresco (Cappella Sistina, Vatican)

Deluge over a city: Leonardo da Vinci, 1517-18, black chalk on paper, 163 x 210 mm (Royal Library, Windsor)

A Syrian man walks past damaged homes following a snow storm in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Tuesday: photo by Karam Al-Masri/AFP, 5 January 2015

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Through the eyes of a child

January 7, 2016, 9:38 pm

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The cruelty of life through the eyes of a child 5-1-2016: image via baraa al halabi @baraaalhalabi, 7 January 2015

Dark encounter ... Is the new Star Wars movie too scary for kids?: photo by Carlo Allegri/Reuters, 11 December 015

Residents of Madaya, about 25km northwest of Damascus, are suffering from severe malnutrition and have little access to fuel and medical supplies because of the siege by government regime forces since July. Abu Abdul Rahman, a resident in Madaya, told Al Jazeera he had not eaten for four days. Hungry and weakened, Rahman and his family have been trying to limit their movements inside their house in the Syrian town of Madaya, fearing any activity would drain the little energy left in their bodies. "There are no more cats or dogs alive in the town. Even tree leaves that we have been eating have become scarce," he told Al Jazeera over the phone. The Red Cross said people in the town are burning plastic to keep themselves warm. As days pass by, Rahman said that he had little hope he and his family can stay alive. "Describing the situation as tragic is merely airbrushing reality on the ground," he said in a subdued voice. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on Wednesday said at least 23 people, including children, had died in rebel-held Madaya because of the siege. At least 300 children in Madaya are suffering from malnutrition, the UK-based monitoring group said. Local activists said an estimated 40,000 people in Madaya have little access to food and medicines [AJE News]: photo by Al Jazeera, 7 January 2015

Shocking photos of the widespread starvation in the besieged Syrian town of Madaya: image via Reuters Pictures @ReutersPictures, 7 January 2015

Cases of starvation resulting from bombing by Russian aircraft and aircraft of regime forces in #Zabadani and #Madaya -- price of one kilo of rice $117!!: image via Abu Mujahid @Mojahedaboaljod, 4 January 2015

Serbian Orthodox worshipers wait to receive bread as they celebrate Christmas in Belgrade, Serbia: photo by Marko Djurica/Reuters, 7 January 2015

An Eritrean migrant enters a church in Calais, France, to attend an Orthodox Christmas service: photo by Carl Court via The New York Times, 7 January 2015

Ultra-Orthodox Jews in the Israeli settlement of Beitar Illit, in the West Bank, examine guns for sale: photo by Gil Cohen-Magen/Agence France-Presse, 7 January 2015

A tear rolls down President Obama’s cheek at the White House as he discusses recent mass killings in the United States and his plans to expand background checks: photo by Doug Mills/The New York Times, 5 January 2016

Armed French police patrol near the Boulevard de Barbes in the north of Paris on Thursday in Paris, France. French police have shot dead a man as he attempted to gain access to a Paris police station whilst brandishing a knife. The incident comes on the first anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks: photo by Thierry Chesnot via FT Photo Diary, 7 January 2015

Paris police shoot dead knife-wielding man on #CharlieHebdo anniversary: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 7 January 2015

A homeless girl in Mumbai, India, sits on old furniture as she eats a meal. A recent newspaper report found that 9,000 children go hungry in Mumbai every day.: photo by Divyakant Solanki/European Pressphoto Agency, 7 January 2015

$Holdouts Remain In Autodromo Favela Outside Rio Olympic Park...RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - JANUARY 06: Longtime resident Sandra Maria de Sousa poses near her home in front of anti-demolition grafitti in the mostly demolished Vila Autodromo favela community, a former fishing colony, on January 6, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Most residents of the favela community have moved out and had their properties demolished after receiving compensation for their homes which are located directly adjacent to the Olympic Park under construction for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. A small fraction of remaining families from an original 700 or so in Vila Autodromo are resisting the controversial evictions and remain in the community. The favela sprang from an old fishing community and was considered one of the city's safest. Removals and demolitions have occurred in other Rio communities with tangential links to the games. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)$

Longtime resident Sandra Maria de Sousa poses near her home in front of anti-demolition grafitti in the mostly demolished Vila Autodromo favela community in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Most residents of the favela community have moved out and had their properties demolished after receiving compensation for their homes which are located directly adjacent to the Olympic Park. A small fraction of remaining families are resisting the controversial evictions and remain in the community.: photo by Mario Tama via FT Photo Diary, 7 January 2015

$Holdouts Remain In Autodromo Favela Outside Rio Olympic Park...RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - JANUARY 06: Longtime resident Sandra Maria de Sousa poses near her home in front of anti-demolition grafitti in the mostly demolished Vila Autodromo favela community, a former fishing colony, on January 6, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Most residents of the favela community have moved out and had their properties demolished after receiving compensation for their homes which are located directly adjacent to the Olympic Park under construction for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. A small fraction of remaining families from an original 700 or so in Vila Autodromo are resisting the controversial evictions and remain in the community. The favela sprang from an old fishing community and was considered one of the city's safest. Removals and demolitions have occurred in other Rio communities with tangential links to the games. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)$

Longtime resident Sandra Maria de Sousa poses near her home in front of anti-demolition grafitti in the mostly demolished Vila Autodromo favela community in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Most residents of the favela community have moved out and had their properties demolished after receiving compensation for their homes which are located directly adjacent to the Olympic Park. A small fraction of remaining families are resisting the controversial evictions and remain in the community.: photo by Mario Tama via FT Photo Diary, 7 January 2015

Refugees at a train station in Presevo, Serbia. The International Organization for Migration said this week that 1,004,356 migrants and refugees reached Europe in 2015: photo by Armend Nimani/Agence France-Presse, 6 January 2015

A man mourns a dead comrade at a temporary hospital in rebel-held Zamalka, a suburb of Damascus. The man was killed in a clash with Syrian government forces: photo by Abdulmonam Eassa/Agence France-Presse, 6 January 2015

A man carries an injured child in Douma, Syria, after what activists said was shelling by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad: photo by Bassam Khabieh/Reuters, 30 December 2015

Devotees raise their hands next to a replica of the Black Nazarene in Manila ahead of the annual religious procession, during which hundreds of thousands of barefoot Catholic devotees will honour an ebony statue of Jesus Christ, which they believe has miraculous powers: photo byTed Aljibe/AFP, 7 January 2015

Maarat al-Noaman, in northern Syria, after snow fell in the rebel-controlled territory: photo by Khalil Ashawi/Reuters, 5 January 2015

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Joseph Ceravolo: Three Late Poems / Birds of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge

January 9, 2016, 12:16 am

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Song birds enter the morning

Western Meadowlark (Sturnella neglec) 2 of 2 DSC_0099 | by NDomer73

Western Meadowlark (Sturnella neglec), Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon.An abundant and familiar bird of open country across the western two-thirds of the continent, the Western Meadowlark is known for its melodic song. It is frequently seen singing along roadsides in native grassland and agricultural areas. Meadowlarks are common along roadsides nearMalheur National Wildlife Refuge in southeast Oregon.: photo by Dan Dzurisin, 15 April 2007

Joseph Ceravolo: March 1988

Song birds enter the morning

the pre-dawn before the fires

you know, when the night

.......................floats away

like a vapor on a lake.

or like kisses in the woods.

Songs that even God didn't know,

or even the gods learned

..............from their created.

Continuous, threaded, like a

........cherry stuck in

the throat

Joseph Ceravolo (1934-1988): March 1988, from Collected Poems, 2012

Western Meadowlark (Sturnella neglec) 1 of 2 DSC_0098 | by NDomer73

Western Meadowlark (Sturnella neglecta) DSC_0196 | by NDomer73

White-faced Ibis (Plegadis chihi) DSC_0081 | by NDomer73

White-faced Ibis (Plegadis chihi), Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon. The White-faced Ibis, a dark wading bird with a long, down-curved bill, breeds across the western United States northward to Montana, eastward to western Louisiana, and southward to South America. Ibis and other shore birds are numerous during spring migrations at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in southeast Oregon.: photo by Dan Dzurisin, 15 April 2007

White-faced Ibis (Plegadis chihi) DSC_0104 | by NDomer73

Long-billed Curlew (Numenius americanus) DSC_0037 | by NDomer73

Long-billed Curlew, Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon.North America's largest shore bird, the Long-billed Curlew breeds in the grasslands of the Great Plains and Great Basin. Curlews and other shore birds are numerous during spring migrations at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in southeast Oregon.: photo by Dan Dzurisin, 15 April 2007

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Tundra Swans (Cygnus columbianus), Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon. True to its name, the Tundra Swan breeds in the high tundra across the top of North America. It winters in large flocks across both coasts, and is frequently encountered during its migration across the continent, This pair was photographed in the southern part of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in April 2007.: photo by Dan Dzurisin, 15 April 2007

American Avocet (Recurvirostra americana) DSC_0023 | by NDomer73

American Avocet (Recurvirostra americana), Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon. With its elegant profile and striking coloration, the American Avocet is unique among North American birds. In summer it can be found in temporary and unpredictable wetlands across western North America, where it swings its long upturned bill through shallow water to catch small invertebrates.: photo by Dan Dzurisin, 15 April 2007

Ross' Geese (Chen rossii) DSC_0184 | by NDomer73

Ross' Geese (Chen rossii), Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon. A tiny white goose with black wingtips, the Ross' Goose is like a miniature version of the more abundant Snow Goose. The Ross' Goose breeds in the central Arctic and winters in central California. During spring migration, thousands ofRoss' Geese transit Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and flooded agricultural fields nearby.: photo by Dan Dzurisin, 15 April 2007

in a lake risen from a volcano

Indonesia’s Mount Sinabung volcano spews lava and ash during an eruption as it is seen from Tiga Pancur village in Karo, North Sumatra province: photo by Rony Muharrman/Reuters, 8 January 2016

Joseph Ceravolo: March 7, 1988

Swamps and people live in a lake
risen from a volcano
An island bolted from fire
appears out of the sea like
A memory appearing in the shadow
of dark yearnings.
Who can appear to me?

Joseph Ceravolo (1934-1988): March 7, 1988, from Collected Poems, 2012

Shop Keepers And Hundreds Of Years Of Tradition In The Grand Bazaar...ISTANBUL, TURKEY - JANUARY 07: Ekrem Turkmen poses for a portrait in his store selling Ottoman Traditional clothing inside the Istanbul Grand Bazaar on January 7, 2016 in Istanbul, Turkey. Istanbul's Grand Bazaar is one of the oldest covered markets in the world and hosts more than 3,000 stores. It is estimated that more than 250,000 people visit the bazaar each day. Despite an increase in new modern shopping malls, the beauty and tradition of the Grand Bazaar continues to be an advantage, in 2014 it was listed as the world's most visited tourist attraction. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

Ekrem Turkmen poses for a portrait in his store selling Ottoman Traditional clothing inside the Istanbul Grand Bazaar in Istanbul, Turkey. Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar is one of the oldest covered markets in the world and hosts more than 3,000 stores. It is estimated that more than 250,000 people visit the bazaar each day : photo by Chris McGrath via FT Photo Diary, 8 January 2016

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Ekrem Turkmen poses for a portrait in his store selling Ottoman Traditional clothing inside the Istanbul Grand Bazaar in Istanbul, Turkey. Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar is one of the oldest covered markets in the world and hosts more than 3,000 stores. It is estimated that more than 250,000 people visit the bazaar each day : photo by Chris McGrath via FT Photo Diary, 8 January 2015

in the hour of the street

A Palestinian protester walks past burni...A Palestinian protester walks past burning tyres during clashes with Israeli security forces following a demonstration against the expropriation of Palestinian land by Israel, on January 8, 2016, in the village of Kafr Qaddum, near the city of Nablus in the Israeli occupied West Bank. AFP PHOTO / JAAFAR ASHTIYEHJAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP/Getty Images

A Palestinian protester walks past burning tyres during clashes with Israeli security forces following a demonstration against the expropriation of Palestinian land by Israel, on in the village of Kafr Qaddum: photo by Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP, 8 January 2015

Joseph Ceravolo: January 1988

All the stars will be gone,
there is enough emptiness in space
to absorb all dust of stars,
while you and I speak under voice
of birds, sleep, mist
at the hour of the street.

Nobody is loitering, O sensual eyes
just see or connect the dreamers
and as our generation's blood spills,
the water of night is flooding us.
Nobody's holding anybody's wrist
nobody's humming nobody's singing
in the hour of the street.

Joseph Ceravolo (1934-1988): January 1988, from Collected Poems, 2012

Saudi-led airstrikes on Sana'a...epa05092911 A Yemeni inspects a vehicle destroyed by airstrikes allegedly carried out by the Saudi-led coalition in Sanaía, Yemen, 08 January 2016. Airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition have intensified since the humanitarian ceasefire in Yemen ended on 02 January. EPA/YAHYA ARHAB

A Yemeni inspects a vehicle destroyed by airstrikes allegedly carried out by the Saudi-led coalition in Sana’a. Airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition have intensified since the humanitarian ceasefire in Yemen ended: photo by Yahya Arhab/EPA, 8 January 2016

Migrants and refugees walk on Friday after crossing the Macedonian border in the Serbian village of Miratovac. Migrants and refugees are facing deteriorating weather conditions as they make their way to the EU via the Balkans: photo by Armend Nimani/AFP 8 January 2016

Nimr al-Nimr...An Iranian woman holds up a poster showing Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, a prominent opposition Saudi Shiite cleric who was executed last week by Saudi Arabia, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Jan. 4, 2016. Allies of Saudi Arabia followed the kingdom's lead and began scaling back diplomatic ties to Iran on Monday after the ransacking of Saudi diplomatic missions in the Islamic Republic, violence sparked by the Saudi execution of al-Nimr. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

An Iranian woman holds up a poster showing Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, a prominent opposition Saudi Shia cleric who was executed last week by Saudi Arabia, in Tehran, Iran: photo by Vahid Salemi/AP, 4 January 2016

Shia Muslims shout slogans during a protest against the execution of cleric Nimr al-Nimr, who was executed along with others in Saudi Arabia, on the outskirts of Srinagar, India on Friday ended: photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters, 8 January 2016

Iraqi forces secure an area near the Grand Mosque in central Ramadi, the capital of Iraq’s Anbar province, on Friday, after retaking the city from Islamic State (IS) group jihadists: photo by AFP, 8 January 2016

A customer asks for the price of a bittergourd at Duri market on a railway track in Jakarta, on Friday. Indonesia's annual inflation rate cooled to the lowest in six years in December, which might pave the way for the central bank to cut a benchmark rate held at 7.50 percent since February 2015.

A customer asks for the price of a bittergourd at Duri market on a railway track in Jakarta, on Friday: photo by Beawiharta/Reuters, 8 January 2016

Supporters of U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump jeer at protesters during a campaign rally in Burlington, Vermont...Supporters of U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump jeer at protesters during a campaign rally in Burlington, Vermont January 7, 2016. REUTERS/Erin Siegal

Supporters of U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump jeer at protesters during a campaign rally in Burlington, Vermont : photo by Erin Siegal/Reuters, 8 January 2016

Refuge

Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) DSC_0070 | by NDomer73

Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus), male, Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. A bird of the open sagebrush plains, the Greater Sage-Grouse is the largest grouse species in North America. As in many other grouse species, the male plays no role in the raising of the young. Males display on dancing grounds known as leks. Females visit the leks to mate, then go off to raise their brood by themselves. Traditional lekking grounds may be used for decades. Although many male Greater Sage-Grouse may display at a lek, only one or two males get picked by a majority of females for mating. We observed a lek with about 15 males displaying for two females on two consecutive mornings in April: photo by Dan Dzurisin, April 2007

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donner_blitzen_river | by Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife

The Donner and Blitzen River in the Oregon high desert drains the southern portion of Harney Basin, from roughly 20 to 80 miles south-southeast of Burns including the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge: photo by Martyne Reesman, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, 15 March 2012

DEVELOPING: #AmmonBundy militia takeover sparked by Hammonds’ “unconstitutional” sentencing: image via RT Verified account @RT_com, 2 January 2015

What will happen if the Oregon militia gets its demands? Kate Galbraith in San Francisco and Sarah Gilman in Portland for The Guardian, 8 January 2016

Allowing cattle to graze across swathes of federal land in Oregon, as an armed band of militia is demanding, could have devastating consequences for the area’s delicate ecosystem, experts have warned.

Rare species such as the greater sage grouse that does a mating dance on federal land adjacent to the Malheur national wildlife refuge, occupied by the militia, have already been harmed by widespread cattle grazing on high-desert plains across the west.

The armed militia is occupying federal land in Oregon that contains swathes of marshland, an unusual feature amid the high desert of southeastern Oregon.

It offers protection for waterfowl across its 188,000 acres, an area nearly half the size of the sprawling city of Los Angeles.

The militia, a ragtag group whose leader, Ammon Bundy, comes from a Nevada family with a history of defying federal land-use rules, has a hazy wish list that includes the release of two Oregon men, imprisoned and convicted of arson. But one of their broadest demands is to transfer more federal land to private ownership in the area.

Such a change could mean a “scorched-earth” situation for wildlife, said Dale Goble, a professor and land-use expert at the University of Idaho’s College of Law, who had gone birding in the refuge.

“If you’ve driven through the high desert of eastern Oregon, the distinction between private and federal [land] is often strikingly clear,” he said. Were the land to be transferred to private ownership, “the marshes and everything that attracts the migratory bird species -- probably, my guess would be, used for irrigation”.

The armed militia are occupying federal land in Oregon that contains swathes marshland, an unusual feature amid the high desert of southeastern Oregon: photo by Rick Bowmer/AP, 8 January 2016

The simmering tension between ranchers and the federal government is nothing new to the American west. The federal government manages enormous chunks of land, a holdover from the days of westward expansion.

The federal Fish and Wildlife Service, which oversees federal endangered and threatened species, manages the Oregon refuge. Another agency called the Bureau of Land Management is also in the Oregon militia’s sights; it manages enormous western tracts and is the largest landowner in the United States.

In the mid-to-late 20th century, ranchers and other groups began a movement known as the Sagebrush Rebellion to lobby for more federal land to be transferred to state control. That effort continues today, Goble said, in states like Utah and Idaho.

The modern-day rebels have an even more radical wish: to transfer federal lands to private control. How that would happen is unclear, and ordinary ranchers may not have enough money to buy the land in any case, Goble said.

But increased private ownership could have harsh consequences for wildlife across the west, where many plants and animals are already on the federal government’s list of threatened or endangered species.

Dan Morse of the Oregon Natural Desert Association, an environmental group, said that while some species can get by with a network of connected public lands, it’s much harder to protect them when the land is a patchwork of private owners who manage their property mainly for economic gain.

“For me, one of the most concerning notions is the concept that these lands need to be returned to the public,” Morse says. The land, and its benefits, “already are public.”

In Oregon, waves of songbirds, sandhill cranes, long-billed curlews and other waterfowl pass through Malheur, which is a “crown jewel” of the federal refuge system, says Bob Sallinger, conservation director of the Portland Audubon Society. Some 20% of the entire population of white-faced ibises use the refuge’s lakes and waterways, he added.

“Any forage, any grass, any wildflower that cows eat isn’t available for bighorn sheep, deer, elk, pronghorn, sage grouse, butterflies or other native wildlife species,” says Andy Kerr, an environmental consultant who worked on conservation and public land grazing issues near the refuge in the 1990s.

“Twenty percent of all species listed under the Endangered Species Act have livestock as a factor in their decline.”

Rare species such as the greater sage grouse that do a mating dance on federal land adjacent to the Malheur national wildlife refuge, occupied by the militia, have already been harmed by widespread cattle grazing on high-desert plains across the west: photo by Jerret Raffety/AP, 8 January 2016

The Borax Lake chub, an endangered species of fish, is found largely in the Oregon county that contains the refuge.

The federal government’s record on environmental management is far from perfect, but it is considerably better than that of private landowners, Goble said. The US Fish and Wildlife Service, the agency that oversees the refuge, has a clear responsibility to manage its refuges for the sake of wildlife. The service also oversees endangered or threatened species listings, so it has a direct responsibility to protect them.

The Bureau of Land Management, which oversees some 260m acres across the United States, has a less clear-cut connection to threatened wildlife. It has sometimes been known as the “Bureau of Livestock and Mining” because it allows private companies and individuals to use its land for grazing (for a low fee), logging and other extraction activities.

Cliven Bundy, a Nevada rancher and the father of Ammon, led an armed dispute against federal agents last year after he grazed his cattle on BLM land without paying.

The BLM must consult with the wildlife service over endangered or threatened species on its lands, which should ensure at least some protections. Private landowners do not have to do such consultations, though they are prohibited from killing (or contributing to the killing of) endangered species on their property.

Ranchers across the west have a different view: They see themselves as the best stewards of the land, and the federal government as imposing onerous requirements.

Erin Maupin, a rancher near the refuge who visited the occupation this week, said government wildlife officials had no business controlling the land and have done a poor job of caring for the local environment. “More birds come to our ranches than here,” she said.

“Non-use is misuse,” she said. “We need to play an active role in managing this land. What’s best for the species is not to do nothing.”

Harney County sheriff Dave Ward meets with Ammon Bundy outside the wildlife refuge: photo by Beth Nakamura/AP, 6 January 2015

img117 Double-crested Cormorant Nestlings | by Jon. D. Anderson

Albino Dark-crested Cormorant (Phelacrocorax auritus) nestlings, Malheur Lake, Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon: photo by Jon C. Anderson, 16 May 1972

Blackbird, Burns, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 22 April 2014

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January 10, 2016, 8:33 pm

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Ryan Bundy, one of the sons of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, speaks with a reporter at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016, near Burns, Ore. With the takeover entering its fourth day Wednesday, authorities had not removed the group of roughly 20 people from the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oregon's high desert country: photo by Rick Bowmer/Associated Press, 6 January 2016

Oregon militia leader Ryan Bundy compares government to slave master with whip: As It Happens with Carol Off and Jeff Douglas, CBC Radio, 6 January 2016

An armed, self-styled militia group has been occupying a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon since Saturday night. Calling themselves the Citizens for Constitutional Freedom, the group is led by sons of Cliven Bundy, a Nevada rancher who has engaged previously in armed standoffs with the federal government. As It Happens guest-host Helen Mann speaks with one of the group's leaders, the eldest Bundy son, Ryan. Here is part of their interview:

The master, who is the federal government, has got a whip hanging over them. - Ryan Bundy

Helen Mann: How many of you are there right now?

Ryan Bundy: That's not information we let out.

Ryan Bundy talks on the phone at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Ore., Sunday, Jan. 3, 2016. Bundy is one of the protesters occupying the refuge to object to a prison sentence for local ranchers for burning federal land.: photo by Rebecca Boone/AP, 3 January 2016

HM: Are you concerned that the FBI will raid the refuge?

RB: You know, we'll deal with that as it comes, but I don't believe that's really going to happen, no.

HM: When you say you'll "deal with that," what would you do?

RB: We would posture defensively as need be.

HM: You'd be willing to open fire?

RB: Did you not hear me? I answered your question. I said we'd posture defensively as need be.

HM: Well, defence doesn't necessarily mean opening fire. It could just be standing your ground.

RB: That's right, it doesn't, so please don't construe that it does.

The federal government owns 47 percent of all land in the West: photo by Jarod Opperman for The New York Times, 6 January 2016

HM: That's why I was asking you, I didn't want to make an assumption.

RB: You know what? There's some things you just shouldn't ask. It seems like the media, whether it be you, or the mainstream especially, they're always trying to squeeze... always trying to push things to some sort of violent action. It seems like you guys can't wait to see some sort of showdown, you can't wait to see some violence. I just don't understand that. Pay attention to the principles that are being taught here, and what needs to happen, rather than trying to push a fight.

HM: I'm not pushing anything, I just don't want to make any assumptions.

RB: Well then don't ask those questions, then.

HM: It's my job to ask questions, sir. How well armed are you guys?

RB: Again... [prolonged silence].

HM: Sorry, you cut out a little bit. Are you still there?

RB: No, I didn't cut out. If you want to continue this conversation, then I would ask you don't ask those kinds of questions. Let's stick to the principles and the reasons why we're here.

HM: Alright, what are your demands?

RB: [Laughs]. You don't just quit, do you?

A sign referencing Ammon Bundy and his brother, who are the sons of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, hangs on a tree in front of a home Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2016, in Burns, Ore. Ammon Bundy, the leader of a small, armed group that is occupying a remote national wildlife preserve in Oregon said Tuesday that they will go home when a plan is in place to turn over management of federal lands to locals.: photo by Rick Bowmer/AP, 5 January 2016

The interview continues. When asked why Bundy does not have the full support of Harney County locals, he replies:

RB: The reason these people are fearful to come out and support [us] is because they're being treated as though they are slaves. And the master, who is the federal government, has got a whip hanging over them. If they even lift their head, or raise their eyes a little bit, then they're snapped with another strike. And therefore they fear. People of Harney County are coming here and expressing that to us over and over, they express how their neighbours are in fear to do the same.

HM: When do you think you'll leave the refuge?

RB: When we have accomplished the design. Thank you.

Props to the kid reporter interviewing Ryan Bundy for his school newspaper #Oregonstandoff: image via Ian Kullgren Verified account @IanKullgren, 7 January 2016

The Assembling and Provision of the Armies (and this time make sure you patriotic folks out there don't forget the French Vanilla Creamer!)

This guy is now at #Oregonstandoff #MalheurWildlifeRefuge: image via Sam Levin @SamTLevin, 10 January 2016

New group of heavily armed folks arrives at #MalheurWildlifeRefuge as #OregonMilitia insists they are "deescalating": image via Sam Levin @SamTLevin, 9 January 2016

A man stands guard after members of several organizations arrived at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon on Saturday: photo by The Oregonian, 9 January 2016

A man stands guard after members of several organizations arrived at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon on Saturday: photo by Rick Bowmer/AP, 9 January 2016

The Patriots Network guys are out and about Burns. "Keeping things safe," says Brandon Rappola. #Oregonstandoff.: image via Amanda Peacher Verified account @amandapeacher, 10 January 2016

Harney County is nearly twice the size of Connecticut: photo by Jarod Opperman for The New York Times, 6 January 2016

PETA has two deliveries in #Oregon: Chili for #Oregonstandoffwitnesses & this firm message for the ranchers: image via PETA Verified account @peta, 7 January 2016

Not lacking in supplies at #Oregonstandoffone week in: image via Sam Levin @SamTLevin, 10 January 2016

The OR militants have updated their wish list: image via JJ Macnab @jjmacNab, 9 January 2016

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It's Chili Today! PETA delivering #vegan chili to law enforcement, Native Americans, & witnesses at Oregonstandoff: image via PETA Verified account @peta, 7 January 2016

#Oregon: PETA delivers vegan jerky to ranchers at Oregonstandoff urging them to raise crops, NOT cows: image via PETA Verified account @peta, 7 January 2016

What you need to know about the #Oregonstandoff this morning: image via The Oregonian @Oregonian, 10 January 2016

Feel like riding TriMet in your undies? Today's your chance during the No Pants MAX Ride.: image via The Oregonian @Oregonian, 10 January 2016

Duane Ehmer riding his horse, Hellboy, last week at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Ore., where an armed group of antigovernment activists had seized control: photo by Rob Kerr/Agence France-Presse, 10 January 2016

The entrance of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge on Monday. A group calling itself Citizens for Constitutional Freedom has occupied the refuge: photo by Jarod Opperman for The New York Times, 3 January 2016

Such a quiet day in #Burns. Lots of folks at church or shoveling snow. No sign of movement w/#Oregonstandoff.: image via Amanda Peacher Verified account @amandapeacher, 10 January 2016

East-central Oregon near a national wildlife refuge that has been taken over by an armed group: photo by Jarod Opperman for The New York Times, 5 January 2016

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In Whose Hands? (Jess Housty: Cormorant)

January 13, 2016, 12:52 am

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img116 Albino Cormorant Nestling | by Jon. D. Anderson

Albino Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrorax auritus) nestling, Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Harney County, Oregon: photo by Jon. D. Anderson, 16 May 1972

Jess Housty: Cormorant

In the morning:

I will slide your tea into your hands
and your hands into my hands
as the sun awakens clumsily
like a cormorant in the moments
before flight.

ii.

In the tender morning, my dearest,
my dear, in the hushed morning:

your cheek is soft as a cormorant’s breast.

Jess Housty: Cormorant, via Coast, 11 June 2013

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Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrorax auritus): photo by Linda Tanner, 8 April 2011

Double-crested Cormorant | by USFWS Malheur

Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrorax auritus), Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Known to nest in the Refuge. Common in Spring, Summer and fall. (Known to be present, but not every year).: photo by Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, 3 May 2006

Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrorax auritus), Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Harney County, Oregon: photo by naderkhoury, 2 May 2014

Stand with our Paiute relatives: Jess Housty, Coast, 7 January 2016

Recently, I was contacted by a Heiltsuk member living in Oregon for a response to the crisis on Paiute lands. It doesn’t take much digging to familiarize yourself with the conflict: An armed white militia is occupying a federal wildlife sanctuary to protest the US federal government’s “tyranny” and issue a call to arms to “patriots” everywhere.

There are many layers to unpack, but one is not yet getting the attention it deserves.

Let’s start with this question:Who is the victim of land theft here?

The area being occupied by this white militia is sacred to the Paiute people. Paiute leadership has made clear statements that the militia is desecrating their ancestral lands. This is where Paiute people gather medicines, hold ceremony, and live their identity as people who are inseparable from the lands where their people have lived for thousands of years.

Greater Sandhill Crane, Green House Lane, Near Burns, Oregon: photo by Alan D. Wilson, early June 2008

Tell me how this armed standoff, at its heart, is notan issue of colonialism.

Too many people are responding to the Bundy militia by tagging them with joke names or just ignoring the issue because they think it’s unimportant. If you think this is humorous or irrelevant, I can only assume you’ve never suffered the grief of displacement and land theft.

One criticism I keep seeing is that Bundy and his followers benefit from the very federal government they’re protesting in the form of federal loan guarantees. People can’t get enough of the irony. Frankly, I don’t care about that. Let’s talk about how they're also benefitting from colonialism, white supremacy, and the deep pain of Indigenous peoples whose lands were stolen from them by the US federal government.

Migrating bird at Malheur Wetlands: image via Coast, 7 January 2016

To all my Indigenous brothers and sisters, and everyone who purports to stand with us:

The absolute least you could do right now is lift up the voices of Paiute people and recognize that ignoring or undermining the seriousness of this issue is totally antithetical behaviour in anyone who claims to care about Indigenous sovereignty or to practice allyship to Indigenous people and causes.

Bundy, the militia’s leader, is preaching to the Paiute about oppression and co-opting their concerns to spin media for his standoff. How can people stand by while a white militia not only fails to acknowledge how they benefit from a society that oppresses Indigenous people -– but also desecrates Indigenous land and appropriates the messages of Paiute leadership to bolster their own support?

Oregon militia man on his gelding named Hellboy greets reporters: image via Anna King @AnnaKingN3, 11 January 2016

I can tell you right now, if someone did this in Heiltsuk homelands, I’d be the first one lining up to deliver them a big, fat reality check.

This issue is simple. In the words of 11 year old Ashlin Begay, quoted in The Guardian yesterday, “If people are giving away land here, they should give it to us,” she said. “It’s ours. It’s always been ours.”

Stop letting Bundy and everyone like him get away with their oppressive tactics. Lift up the voices of the Paiute people who are tied to this land in every aspect of their being.

This Heiltsuk is standing with our Paiute relatives. I hope you are too.

Jess Housty: Rise and Resist! Stand with the Paiute: photo via Coast, 7 January 2016

"If it goes back to anybody it needs to go back to the Burns Paiute tribe" #Oregonstandoff: image via Dave Killen Verified account @killendave, 11 January 2016

they mean to convey that Nature has no value

Birders And Businesses Fret Over Oregon's Malheur Refuge #MalheurWildlifeRefuge: image via KPLU Public Radio @KPLU, 7 January 2016

We stand with Linda Sue Beck and all scientists who protect our lands. #Oregonstandoff: image via Western Priorities @WstrnPriorities, 12 January 2016

Steens Mountains and Malheur Wetlands: photo by Alan D. Wilson, early June 2008

#Oregonstandoff Update. Took a break from aiming our guns at these Fed Agents. Flirting with these ladies. #Bundy: image via Tea Party Man @TeaPartyOne, 7 January 2016

waiting for the Miracle Whip Man

FedEx delivery was just made to one of the militants occupying the #MalheurNationalWildlifeRefuge #Oregonstandoff: image via Dave Killen Verified account @killendave, 12 January 2016

Some local ranchers have been dropping off real supplies: beef, firewood, hay. Ranchers who provide supplies should lose their BLM permits.: tweet by JJ MacNab @jjmacnab 12 January 2016

haters gonna hate

Watch: #OregonStandoff militant throws tantrum about hate mail: image via The Oregonian Verified account @Oregonian, 12 January 2016

Oregon militant throws tantrum about hate mail: Joseph Rose, The Oregonian, 12 January 2016

The self-styled patriots holed up in Burns sent out a plea for snacks and supplies, and America responded.

But many of the care packages landing at the commandeered Malheur Wildlife Refuge headquarters aren't exactly giving aid and comfort to the armed anti-government protesters.

Certainly, sex toys and a bag of gelatin ... ahem, male body parts weren't what they had in mind. (People: They sent out their wish list, which included the immediate need for French vanilla creamer, Miracle Whip and Menthol 100s.)

Flabbergasted that many of his fellow citizens aren't busy cleaning their rifles, keeping their powder dry and praying the cause, Jon "Daddy Swore an Oath" Ritzheimer took to Facebook to register his displeasure at "an abundance of the hate mail."

"Rather than going out and doing good, they just spend all their money on hate and hate and hate, and hate," Ritzheimer, wearing his signature purple-tinted sunglasses on his shaved head, laments in a video.

He then angrily clears the table of the piled-up boxes containing sarcastic gifts and messages of ridicule directed at the armed occupiers. (This guy must be a real joy when he's losing at Monopoly.)

After the brief display of aggression, Ritzheimer looks at the camera and declares: "We'll continue to do work and do good for our country."

For the rest of "you patriots out there, still twiddling your thumbs, debating whether or not you want to come out," Ritzheimer passes on this message""Now's the time, if you want to be part of history in the making."

Hey, buddy, at least the government mail moving on government roads is still arriving on time in the frozen outback of eastern Oregon.

Here Come The Oath Keepers!

Man says he's speaking for Oath Keepers, they're coming to Burns to join pacific patriots network #Oregonstandoff: image via Dave Killen Verified account @killendave, 12 January 2016

The Oath Keepers are joining the fray. The most dangerous place in Harney County? That space between the news cameras and the Oath Keepers..: tweet by JJ MacNab @jjmacnab 12 January 2016

Here Come The Idaho 3%! Make sure the equipment's insured!

A man standing guard attempts to push a KOIN 6 News videographer aside after members of the "3% of Idaho" group along with several other organizations arrived at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon: photo by Rick Bowmer/AP, 9 January 2016

Let Each Man Be His Own Judge

Public Announcement - new Superior Court Judges of The Continental UNited States of America, Steven Dean Byfield, and Bruce Doucette: posted by arnierosner, Scanned Retina, 25 May 2015:

On May 25, 2015, at 9:45 AM, Steve Curry <cwheileg@gmail.com> wrote:

It is my honor & privilege to introduce to you our two newest Superior Court Judges, Steven Dean Byfield, and Bruce Doucette.

Both of these fine gentlemen are of the highest integrity & caliber, and I am very pleased to have their participation in reforming and restoring our country back to the People!

In Service, Honor & Integrity!

Steven Duane Curry; Judge

Superior Court of the Continental United States of America

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What I need out of every freedom loving citizen is to make short barreled rifle and machine guns legal right now

#Oregonstandoff @jjmacnab @JohnLGCBundy militant arrested on weapons charges warns of effort to break out of jail: image via Gargoyle @Patztense, 12 January 2016

the common law grand jury is now going to convene

There's a man wearing a Cal sweatshirt at the Malheur Refuge. Unacceptable. Go bears.: image via JJ MacNab @jjmacnab 12 January 2016

I heard this off camera, "We're getting security teams as Marshals." They may try to arrest the sheriff, the AUSA, and the Judge shortly: tweet by JJ MacNab @jjmacnab 12 January 2016

"Judge" Curry is interesting bec he was the sovereign citizen guru at Bundy Ranch who put the LV sheriff, NV governors, and others on trial: tweet by JJ MacNab @jjmacnab 12 January 2016

"We have God on our side, and we're going to kick the crap out of Lucifer." -- Pete Santilli on the upcoming common law trial.: tweet by JJ MacNab @jjmacnab 12 January 2016

The people who will be put on trial, the sheriff, the US Attorney, and a local Judge.: tweet by JJ MacNab @jjmacnab 12 January 2016

Doucette was appointed as a "judge" by other self-appointed "judges." None of them have any actual legal authority.: tweet by JJ MacNab @jjmacnab 12 January 2016

When I say "common law" I'm relying on the sovereign citizen definition, not the actual legal definition.: tweet by JJ MacNab @jjmacnab 12 January 2016

"Judge" Doucette is not a real judge, of course.: tweet by JJ MacNab @jjmacnab 12 January 2016

The militants will now put officials like Sheriff Ward on trial for treason.: tweet by JJ MacNab @jjmacnab 12 January 2016

Big announcement from Malheur. "Judge" Doucette has arrived and the common law grand jury is now going to convene.: tweet by JJ MacNab @jjmacnab 12 January 2016

On the road with the patriots' fence breach convoy

Militants will begin taking down fence today, Finicum says at 11am presser #Oregonstandoff: image via Dave Killen Verified account @killendave, 11 January 2016

We're going to take down a section of fence and put in a gate. #burnsoregon: image via Anna King @AnnaKingN3, 11 January 2016

"Our stand here is very clear there are rules we've placed on government ....": image via Anna King @AnnaKingN3, 11 January 2016

"We will not stop until they are out of prison.": image via Anna King @AnnaKingN3, 11 January 2016

#Oregonstandoff fence convoy. At least 8 vehicles -- and a lot of news following. image via Anna King @AnnaKingN3, 11 January 2016

Right now: #Oregonstandoff occupiers on their way to take down a section of fence and install a gate: image via Anna King @AnnaKingN3, 11 January 2016

#Oregonstandoff fence breach convoy has turned off roads into snowy fields: image via Anna King @AnnaKingN3, 11 January 2016

#Oregonstandoff has stopped to unload tractor. #fencebreachconvoy: image via Anna King @AnnaKingN3, 11 January 2016

#Oregonstandoff fence breach convoy. About 15 trucks now.: image via Anna King @AnnaKingN3, 11 January 2016

"Quite a media convoy out here following the militants en route to the fence cutting #Oregonstandoff: image via Dave Killen Verified account @killendave, 11 January 2016

When trucks near cattle think it's hay time. #Oregonstandoff fence breach convoy.: image via Anna King @AnnaKingN3, 11 January 2016

#Oregonstandoff breaches fence between government and private ground: image via Anna King @AnnaKingN3, 11 January 2016

#Oregonstandoff opened a 80-foot gap between government and private ground just now using Malheur cat: image via Anna King @AnnaKingN3, 11 January 2016

Armed militants tear down U.S. Fish and Wildlife fence. #Oregonstandoff: image via Thomas Boyd Verified account @thomasboyd, 11 January 2016

#Oregonstandoff:Bundy and militants destroyed a fence at the federal refuge: image via Luke Hammill @lucashammill, 11 January 2016

Can't be sure but I think the militants are driving gov't vehicles with the logos obscured #Oregonstandoff: image via Dave Killen Verified account @killendave, 11 January 2016

A portion of fence has been cut down #Oregonstandoff: image via Dave Killen Verified account @killendave, 11 January 2016

Truck and trackhoe used in fence cutting are indeed gov't vehicles #Oregonstandoff: image via Dave Killen Verified account @killendave, 11 January 2016

The Malheur sign saga continues. "Ranchers unite, Obama pardon Hammonds" written on now-torn tarp #Oregonstandoff: image via Dave Killen Verified account @killendave, 11 January 2016

Another #MalheurWildifeRefuge sign covered w/ tarp, this one ~5 miles outside of refuge on hwy205 #Oregonstandoff: image via Dave Killen Verified account @killendave, 11 January 2016

Fed up with #malheur militants, @Backcountry_H_A takes down tarp blocking refuge sign: image via Vince Patton @VincePattonPDX, 12 January 2016

Harney County is home to around 7,100 people — and about 100,000 cows.: photo by Jarod Opperman for The New York Times, 6 January 2016

#Oregonstandoff fence breach convoy heads back toward Malheur: image via Thomas Boyd Verified account @thomasboyd, 11 January 2016

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Samuel Johnson: On the Problem of Evil

January 14, 2016, 12:04 am

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Naga Sadhus or Hindu holy men pass on a chillum to smoke inside their makeshift camps ahead of Makar Sankranti festival at Sagar Island

Naga Sadhus or Hindu holy men, smeared with ash, pass on a chillum to smoke inside their makeshift camps near the confluence of the river Ganges and the Bay of Bengal, ahead of the “Makar Sankranti” festival at Sagar Island, south of Kolkata, India: photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters, 13 January 2016

Samuel Johnson: from Reviewof Soame Jenyns, A Free Enquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil,in The Literary Magazine, 17 July 1757

Having thus despatched the consideration of particular evils, he comes, at last, to a general reason, for which evil may be said to be our good. He is of opinion, that there is some inconceivable benefit in pain, abstractedly considered; that pain, however inflicted, or wherever felt, communicates some good to the general system of being, and, that every animal is, some way or other, the better for the pain of every other animal. This opinion he carries so far, as to suppose, that there passes some principle of union through all animal life, as attraction is communicated to all corporeal nature; and, that the evils suffered on this globe, may, by some inconceivable means contribute to the felicity of the inhabitants of the remotest planet.

Israeli soldiers from the home front command unit take part in a drill simulating a non-conventional attack at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in the southern city of Beersheba, Israel on Wednesday: photo by Amir Cohen/Reuters, 13 January 2016

How the origin of evil is brought nearer to human conception, by any inconceivable means, I am not able to discover. We believed, that the present system of creation was right, though we could not explain the adaptation of one part to the other, or account for the whole succession of causes and consequences. Where has this inquirer added to the little knowledge that we had before? He has told us of the benefits of evil, which no man feels, and relations between distant parts of the universe, which he cannot himself conceive. There was enough in this question inconceivable before, and we have little advantage from a new inconceivable solution.

A Nepalese worker demolishes a house that was destroyed during an earthquake at Sankhu, on the outskirt of capital Kathmandu, Nepal. 13 January 2016. The Nepal authority of reconstruction is scheduled its formal function to rebuild Nepal nationwide from 16 January 2016. The International community had pledged $4.1 billion for rebuilding Nepal. On 25 April 2015, a earthquake of 7.9 magnitude left Nepal devastated over half a million houses were completely destroyed affecting millions of Nepalese which has killed over 9,000 people.

A Nepalese worker demolishes a house that was destroyed during an earthquake at Sankhu, on the outskirts of capital Kathmandu, Nepal on Wednesday: photo by Narendra Shrestha/EPA, 13 January 2016

I do not mean to reproach this author for not knowing what is equally hidden from learning and from ignorance. The shame is, to impose words, for ideas, upon ourselves or others. To imagine, that we are going forward, when we are only turning round. To think, that there is any difference between him that gives no reason, and him that gives a reason, which, by his own confession, cannot be conceived.

An Afghan man kisses his daugh...TOPSHOT - An Afghan man kisses his daughter as he walks near an attack from a building close to the Pakistan consulate in Jalalabad on January 13, 2016. A suicide bombing followed by gunfire rocked an area near the Pakistani consulate in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on January 13, killing at least two police officers, officials said. AFP PHOTO / Noorullah Shirzada / AFP / Noorullah ShirzadaNOORULLAH SHIRZADA/AFP/Getty Images

An Afghan man kisses his daughter as he walks near an attack from a building close to the Pakistan consulate in Jalalabad. A suicide bombing followed by gunfire rocked an area near the Pakistani consulate in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Wednesday: photo by Noorullah Shirzada/AFP, 13 January 2016

But, that he may not be thought to conceive nothing but things inconceivable, he has, at last, thought on a way, by which human sufferings may produce good effects. He imagines, that as we have not only animals for food, but choose some for our diversion, the same privilege may be allowed to some beings above us, who may deceive, torment, or destroy us, for the ends, only, of their own pleasure or utility. This he again finds impossible to be conceived, but that impossibility lessens not the probability of the conjecture, which, by analogy, is so strongly confirmed.

A Kashmiri fisherman rows his boat on Dal lake during dense fog in Srinagar: photo byMustafa Tauseef via FT Photo Diary, 13 January 2016

I cannot resist the temptation of contemplating this analogy, which, I think, he might have carried further, very much to the advantage of his argument. He might have shown, that these "hunters, whose game is man," have many sports analogous to our own. As we drown whelps and kittens, they amuse themselves, now and then, with sinking a ship, and stand round the fields of Blenheim, or the walls of Prague, as we encircle a cockpit. As we shoot a bird flying, they take a man in the midst of his business or pleasure, and knock him down with an apoplexy. Some of them, perhaps, are virtuosi, and delight in the operations of an asthma, as a human philosopher in the effects of the air-pump. To swell a man with a tympany is as good sport as to blow a frog. Many a merry bout have these frolick beings at the vicissitudes of an ague, and good sport it is to see a man tumble with an epilepsy, and revive and tumble again, and all this he knows not why. As they are wiser and more powerful than we, they have more exquisite diversions; for we have no way of procuring any sport so brisk and so lasting, as the paroxysms of the gout and stone, which, undoubtedly, must make high mirth, especially if the play be a little diversified with the blunders and puzzles of the blind and deaf. We know not how far their sphere of observation may extend. Perhaps, now and then, a merry being may place himself in such a situation, as to enjoy, at once, all the varieties of an epidemical disease, or amuse his leisure with the tossings and contortions of every possible pain, exhibited together.

People collect their belongings from a heavily damaged building in the aftermath of a car bomb explosion in commercial area of New Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday: photo by Khalid Mohammed/AP, 12 January 2016

One sport the merry malice of these beings has found means of enjoying, to which we have nothing equal or similar. They now and then catch a mortal, proud of his parts, and flattered either by the submission of those who court his kindness, or the notice of those who suffer him to court theirs. A head, thus prepared for the reception of false opinions, and the projection of vain designs, they easily fill with idle notions, till, in time, they make their plaything an author; their first diversion commonly begins with an ode or an epistle, then rises, perhaps, to a political irony, and is, at last, brought to its height, by a treatise of philosophy. Then begins the poor animal to entangle himself in sophisms, and flounder in absurdity, to talk confidently of the scale of being, and to give solutions which himself confesses impossible to be understood. Sometimes, however, it happens, that their pleasure is without much mischief. The author feels no pain, but while they are wondering at the extravagance of his opinion, and pointing him out to one another, as a new example of human folly, he is enjoying his own applause and that of his companions, and, perhaps, is elevated with the hope of standing at the head of a new sect.

A handout image made available by the In...A handout image made available by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)on January 12, 2016 shows a relief convoy carrying aid entering the besieged Syrian town of Madaya. The Syrian Arab Red Crescent said 44 trucks loaded with food and other aid entered the rebel-held town, while 21 other trucks went to the government-controlled towns of Fuaa and Kafraya.

A relief convoy carrying aid entering the besieged Syrian town of Madaya. The Syrian Arab Red Crescent said 44 trucks loaded with food and other aid entered the rebel-held town, while 21 other trucks went to the government-controlled towns of Fuaa and Kafraya on Tuesday: photo by ICRC/AFP, 12 January 2016

Many of the books which now crowd the world, may be justly suspected to be written for the sake of some invisible order of beings, for surely they are of no use to any of the corporeal inhabitants of the world. Of the productions of the last bounteous year, how many can be said to serve any purpose of use or pleasure! The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it; and how will either of those be put more in our power, by him who tells us, that we are puppets, of which some creature, not much wiser than ourselves, manages the wires! That a set of beings, unseen and unheard, are hovering about us, trying experiments upon our sensibility, putting us in agonies, to see our limbs quiver; torturing us to madness, that they may laugh at our vagaries; sometimes obstructing the bile, that they may see how a man looks, when he is yellow; sometimes breaking a traveller's bones, to try how he will get home; sometimes wasting a man to a skeleton, and sometimes killing him fat, for the greater elegance of his hide.

This is an account of natural evil, which though, like the rest, not quite new, is very entertaining, though I know not how much it may contribute to patience. The only reason why we should contemplate evil is, that we may bear it better; and I am afraid nothing is much more placidly endured, for the sake of making others sport.

A Kashmiri fisherman rows his boat on Dal lake during dense fog in Srinagar: photo byMustafa Tauseef via FT Photo Diary, 13 January 2016

A Nepalese worker demolishes a house that was destroyed during an earthquake at Sankhu, on the outskirts of capital Kathmandu, Nepal on Wednesday: photo by Narendra Shrestha/EPA, 13 January 2016

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Vultures on the Watchtower

January 14, 2016, 10:41 pm

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Central Patrol Road, Malheur Wildlife Refuge | by Jennifer Rowan-Henry

Central Patrol Road, Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon: photo by Jennifer Rowan-Henry, 24 September 2015

Vultures on Peter French homestead tower, Central Patrol Road, Malheur Wildlife Refuge, Oregon: photo by Jennifer Rowan-Henry, 24 September 2015

My Midnight Date on the Bundy Militia Sentry Lookout Tower

The refuge's manned watch tower: photo by Rick Bowmer/AP via Vanity Fair, 14 January 2016

I asked where Bundy was, and Payne explained that he was already “racked” for the night, or in bed. It was 10 P.M. Sensing my disappointment, he suggested another activity.

“Want to climb the tower?” he asked.

“Absolutely,” I replied.

The watchtower has been a much-photographed feature of the standoff, both because it can be safely viewed from a distance and [because] it’s a tidy symbol of the insurrection, with a gunman manning it around the clock. It looks like it belongs on an oil field rather than a nature preserve, what with its shaky metal scaffolding exposed to the sleet and freezing wind, but it’s typically used to spot fires. Now it is the militia’s strongest defense asset, offering a clear view for miles from its lofty cab. But first you have to get there. The climb starts on a slippery metal ladder and ascends eight sets of stairs in vertiginous switchbacks. Up top, a trap door opens into a room with windows that swing outward. There, you’ll find yourself in a small enclosure, 150 feet above the ground with two heavily armed men.

When we reached the lookout, Payne opened the window so I could see the view, but the night was cloudy. I got the feeling that this wasn’t working out exactly as he’d hoped. I put my hand on a narrow window ledge where five boxes rested.

“What are these?” I asked reflexively, as I realized they were magazines of ammunition.

“Candy,” Payne said.

There was a rifle in the room, and a piece of equipment that they were trying to hide from me, so I shone my cell phone on it. It was a long-range surveillance scope, engineered to make it possible to see a target from far away -- a sniper setup. “We don’t want to talk about that,” Payne said. “It’s really cool though, right?”

The guard, who went by Captain Moroni (a reference to a military commander in the Book of Mormon), had been in the watchtower for six hours. He had a canister of trail mix, some Windex and paper towels to clean the window, and a radio, which wasn’t working. Payne picked it up and tested it.

“This is Rogue in the tower,” he said and handed the radio back to Moroni.

“Check the channel and make sure it’s on 150,” someone replied.

“I hear you loud and clear. It’s on the right channel. Thank you. Over,” Moroni said politely, only to receive static in return.

The radios were “soup.” Part of the problem, Payne said, was that people were taking them but not recharging them. For now, there wasn’t a functional radio in the tower, which seemed pretty important. Payne said it didn’t really matter. Moroni could just yell -- everyone below would hear him.

-- from That Night I Spent with Ammon Bundy’s Armed Militia: Marnie Hanel, Vanity Fair, 14 January 2016

Central Patrol Road, Malheur Wildlife Refuge, Oregon: photo by Jennifer Rowan-Henry, 24 September 2015

Sanctuary

Sandhill Cranes, Central Patrol Road, Malheur Wildlife Refuge, Oregon: photo by Jennifer Rowan-Henry, 24 September 2015

Sandhill Crane, Central Patrol Road, Malheur Wildlife Refuge, Oregon: photo by Jennifer Rowan-Henry, 24 September 2015

Central Patrol Road, Malheur Wildlife Refuge, Oregon: photo by Jennifer Rowan-Henry, 24 September 2015

Coyote in a hay field, Benson Pond, Central Patrol Road, Malheur Wildlife Refuge, Oregon: photo by Jennifer Rowan-Henry, 24 September 2015

Great Horned Owl, Benson Pond, Central Patrol Road, Malheur Wildlife Refuge, Oregon: photo by Jennifer Rowan-Henry, 24 September 2015

Protected

375576 Traill's Flycatcher Female & Young, Malheur NF 1938 | by Forest Service - Pacific Northwest

Traill's Flycatcher Female and Young, Malheur National Forest, Oregon, 1938: photo by US Forest Service, posted 8 October 2015

375580 Ruffed Grouse on Nest, Malheur NF 1938 | by Forest Service - Pacific Northwest

Ruffed Grouse on Nest, Malheur National Forest, Oregon, 1938: photo by US Forest Service, posted 8 October 2015

CLGR - Malheur NWR-204383 | by arkoptrix

Clark's Grebe with young, Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon: photo by Jim Maloney, 31 May 2011

Black-necked Stilt, Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon: photo by Jim Maloney, 31 May 2011

White-faced Ibis, Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon: photo by Jim Maloney, 31 May 2011

Burrowing Owl,Malheur WRefuge OR-203588 | by arkoptrix

Burrowing Owl, Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon: photo by Jim Maloney, 16 March 2011

Pronghorn Antelope, Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon: photo by Daniel Barton, 2015

Embracing Your Constitutionally Protected Freedom To Toot Your Own Antelope Horn While the Whole Dayyum World Waits for God or Somebody To Intervene

Occupier Brand Thornton blows a antelope horn while reporters wait. "It's for God to intervene." #Oregonstandoff#OregonStandoff: image via Amanda Peacher Verified account @amandapeacher, 13 January 2016

Ammon Bundy - Caricature | by DonkeyHotey

Ammon Bundy caricature: composite image by Donkey Hotey, 14 January 2016

Some guy just sent the Oregon militia 55 gallons of lube to go with those dildos: Image: Mashable composite: Rick Bowmer/Associated Press via Mashable, 14 January 2016

Cornelia Retweeted Mashable: Some guy just sent the Oregon militia 55 gallons of lube to go with those dildos:
Cornelia added,
Oh no! He didn't! Hahahahaha! Americans have got to be the funniest people on Earth! #OregonStandoff #HarneyCounty: image via Cornelia @CorneliaPaladin, 14 January 2016

The Bundys Have A Vision For The West, and You Aren't Included #OregonStandoff: image via Hatewatch @Hatewatch, 14 January 2015

So…everyone in #HarneyCounty who wants Bundy to go home please raise your hands #OregonStandoff: image via Cornelia @PaladinCornelia, 14 January 2016

For all of you who've never been here, just FYI #HarneyCounty is a stunning place. #OregonStandoff: image via Amanda Peacher Verified account @amandapeacher, 14 January 2016

I update a Venn diagram every few months to track which groups are gaining, which are shrinking and a degree of overlap #OregonStandoff: image via JJ MacNab @jjmacnab, 14 January 2016

I sent a 55-gallon drum of personal lubricant to the Oregon Militia: image via Max Temkin @MaxTemkin, 13 January 2016

One time I judged a high school essay contest about the First Amendment for the Sun Times. Some choice quotes: image via Max Temkin @MaxTemkin, 13 January 2016

Community

Pronghorn Antelope, Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon: photo by Daniel Barton, 2015

Indian villagers take part in a community fishing event during the Bhogali Bihu celebrations at Goroimari Lake in Panbari: photo by Biju Boro/AFP, 14 January 2016

Flock to one of these 2016 bird festivals for an unforgettable #WildlifeRefuge experience: image via US Fish and Wildlife @USFWS, 13 January 2016

I'll post a picture of mine of Malheur NWR a day until the illegal occupation ends #supportmalheur @PortlandAudobon: image via Nathan Cooper @Nature_Is_Grand, 13 January 2016

I'll post a picture of mine of Malheur NWR a day until the illegal occupation ends #supportmalheur @PortlandAudobon: image via Nathan Cooper @Nature_Is_Grand, 14 January 2016

Rally to #SupportMalheur and America's #publiclands next week in Portland: image via Center for Bio Div @CenterforBioDiv, 14 January 2016

An armed guard from the Bundy Militia stands watch outside the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge: photo by SIPA/AP via Vanity Fair, 14 January 2016

Maybe the most picturesque scene I've ever experienced. Photo doesn't do it justice. #Oregonstandoff: image via Elliot Njus @enjus, 14 January 2016

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Wild Visitations (Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore: The Sound of Geese Over the House)

January 15, 2016, 2:44 pm

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Ross's Geese (Chen rossii or Anser rossii) DDZ_2295 | by NDomer73

Ross' Geese (Chen rossii) on final landing approach near Burns, Oregon: photo by Dan Dzurisin, 20 May 2008

The sound of geese over the house

and in the house the prayer on the Prophet

The sound of geese over the house

and in the house Allah loves you

The mountains are full of light and their

gigantic shadows are eloquent since they're

leaning against the sky and out into space with their

crags and outcrops

No sound can scale in a dimension commensurate with

the pure expanse of it

The sound of geese over the house

puts a dome of life above us and a

sea of life below us and a

world of life all around us

and a shaft of living Light inside us

............................................................................6/21/07

Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore: The Sound of Geese Over the House, from The Sound of Geese Over the House: poems June 15 - November 4 2007, The Ecstatic Exchange, 2015

Ross' Geese (Chen rossii) DSC_0118 | by NDomer73

Ross' Geese (Chen rossii). Ross' Geese on final approach to a small pond near Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in southeast Oregon.: photo by Dan Dzurisin, 20 May 2008

Ross' Geese (Chen rossii) DSC_0104 | by NDomer73

Ross' Geese (Chen rossii). Ross' Geese in great numbers pause their spring migration near Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in southeast Oregon to rest and feed in flooded agricultural fields and ponds. This group was spooked in flight by a Golden Eagle soaring overhead: photo by Dan Dzurisin, 20 May 2008

Ross' Geese (Chen rossii) DSC_0125 | by NDomer73

Ross' Geese (Chen rossii). Thousands of Ross' Geese were spooked in flight by a Golden Eagle soaring overhead near Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in southeast Oregon.: photo by Dan Dzurisin, 20 May 2008

Ross' Geese (Chen rossii) DSC_0056 | by NDomer73

Ross' Geese (Chen rossii), Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon. A tiny white goose with black wingtips, the Ross' Goose is like a miniature version of the more abundant Snow Goose. It breeds in the central Arctic and winters in central California. During spring migration,Ross' Gese are abundant at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and flooded agricultural fields nearby.: photo by Dan Dzurisin, 15 April 2007

Ross's Geese (Chen rossii) and Greater White-fronted Geese (Anser albifrons) DSC_0098 | by NDomer73

Ross' Geese (Chen rossii) and Greater White-fronted Geese (Anser albifrons) in great numbers pause their spring migration near Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in southeast Oregon to rest and feed in flooded agricultural fields and ponds. photo by Dan Dzurisin, 20 May 2008

Ross' Goose (Chen rossii) and Greater White-fronted Geese (Anser albifrons) DSC_0050 | by NDomer73

Ross' Geese (Chen rossii) and Greater White-fronted Geese (Anser albifrons). During spring migration, both Ross' Geese (Chen rossii) and Greater White-fronted Geese are abundant at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in southeast Oregon. photo by Dan Dzurisin, 20 May 2008

Ross' Geese (Chen rossii) DSC_0122 | by NDomer73

Ross' Geese (Chen rossii). Ross' Geese in great numbers pause their spring migration near Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in southeast Oregon to rest and feed in flooded agricultural fields and ponds. This group was spooked in flight by a golden eagle soaring overhead: photo by Dan Dzurisin, 20 May 2008

Ross' Geese (Chen rossii) DSC_0009 | by NDomer73

The protest at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon has attracted a range of visitors, including a man dressed as a Declaration of Independence signer: photo by Julie Turkewitz/The New York Times, 14 January 2016

Today the #bundymilitia made this road within the refuge. #oregonstandoff: image via Amanda Peacher @amandapeacher, 14 January 2016

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Fire at the Refuge

January 17, 2016, 11:01 pm

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img113 Tundra Swans - Cygnus columbianus | by Jon. D. Anderson

Tundra Swans (Cygnus columbianus), Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Harney County, Oregon.: photo by Jon. D. Anderson, March 1982

Tundra Swans (Cygnus columbianus) with Steens Mountain Backdrop DSC_0204 | by NDomer73

Tundra Swans (Cygnus columbianus), Oregon. True to its name, the Tundra Swan breeds in the high tundra across the top of North America. It winters in large flocks across both coasts, and is frequently encountered during its migration across the continent, This pair, with snow-clad Steens Mountain in the backdrop, was photographed near the small town of French Glen in southeast Oregon in April 2007.: photo by Dan Dzurisin, 15 April 2007

0342_tundra_swan_pair_munsel_odfw | by Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife

Tundra Swan (Cygnus columbianus) pair, Oregon.: photo by Kathy Munsel, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, 19 February 2010

Robinson Jeffers: Love the Wild Swan

“I hate my verses, every line, every word.
Oh pale and brittle pencils ever to try
One grass-blade’s curve, or the throat of one bird
That clings to twig, ruffled against white sky.
Oh cracked and twilight mirrors ever to catch
One color, one glinting flash, of the splendor of things.
Unlucky hunter, Oh bullets of wax,
The lion beauty, the wild-swan wings, the storm of the wings.”
-- This wild swan of a world is no hunter’s game.
Better bullets than yours would miss the white breast,
Better mirrors than yours would crack in the flame.
Does it matter whether you hate your...self? At least
Love your eyes that can see, your mind that can
Hear the music, the thunder of the wings. Love the wild swan.

Robinson Jeffers: Love the Wild Swan, 1933, from Solstice (1935)

Fire and Tundra Swans | by USFWS Pacific

Fire and Tundra Swans (Cygnus columbianus), Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon. Prescribed fire is used at the refuge to maintain ecological processes, specifically: thinning and opening up emergent marsh vegetation, removing decadent material in sagebrush steppe uplands, stimulating herbaceous production, maintaining herbaceous diversity, and improving wildlife habitat and foraging. Prior to this burn, vegetation was very thick and was not being used to optimal level by wildlife. By next year, this area will offer prime habitat for upland birds and waterfowl on the edges of the wetlands adjacent to the marsh.: photo by Carla Burnside, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Pacific Region, 27 February 2014

Members of an armed anti-government group protesting the prosecution of two ranchers stood around a bonfire at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon on Saturday: photo by Wanda Moore/KTVZ, 4 January 2016

Activists at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon gathered around a fire last week. Various factions of the so-called Patriot movement have joined the occupation: photo by Ruth Fremson/The New York Times, 16 January 2016

“It needs to be very clear that these buildings will never, ever return to the federal government,” said LaVoy Finicum, one of the leaders of the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge: photo by Joe Raedle/Washington Post, 16 January 2016

A watchtower is manned at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon: photo by Jim Urquhart/Reuters, 3 January 2016

Armed occupiers take lookout duty in this watchtower at the Malheur refuge near Burns, Oregon: photo by Rick Bowmer/AP, 6 January 2016

Competing Signs

Competing signs at the Oregon wildlife refuge where anti-government protesters were occupying a building: photo by Kirk Johnson/The New York Times, 4 January 2016

Fresh photos of armed occupation of #MalheurRefuge in Oregon: image via High Country News @highcountrynews, 4 January 2016

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Fresh photos of armed occupation of #MalheurRefuge in Oregon: image via High Country News @highcountrynews, 4 January 2016

Lavoy Finicum shows the media a camera taken from a box located on an electric pole that he said was placed there by the FBI to spy on citizens as he and others occupy the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge: photo by Joe Raedle via the Guardian, 16 January 2016

Really? #YallQaeda comes and goes as they please? Why are we not rounding up these clowns?: image via Steve Marmel @Marmel, 16 January 2016

Bundy Militia Spokesperson: Law Enforcement Lets Us Come And Go, No biggie #YallQaeda: image via Jade Helm Commander @Anomaly!00, 16 January 2016

[Ryan] Bundy observing one of the cameras his team took down. They believe the @FBI used it to spy on them. #OregonStandoff.: image via Wanda Moore Amanda Peacher @WandaKTVZamandapeacher, 16 January 2016

Supporters of Bundy take down two cameras they believe to be installed by the @FBI #OregonStandoff.: image via Wanda Moore @WandaKTVZ, 16 January 2016

HAPPENING NOW: Bundy group takes down what they believe to be camera installed by FBI #OregonStandoff.: image via Wanda Moore @WandaKTVZ, 16 January 2016

Anybody missing a camera? Occupiers display cameras they seized. They allege surveillance. #OregonStandoff: image via Amelia Templeton @ameliaOPB, 16 January 2016

Every time I stop by #OregonStandoff kitchen and supply room, there are more and more supplies and deliveries: image via Sam Levin @SamTLevin, 16 January 2016

This man is a refuge caretaker. He's desperate to get in & care for birds who rely on his feeding program.: image via Amanda Peacher @amandapeacher, 15 January 2016

Anti-occupation environmentalists here at #MalheurWildifeRefuge today. #OregonStandoff: image via Sam Levin @SamTLevin, 16 January 2016

.Kierán Suckling, Executive Director, of the Center for Biological Diversity being shouted down #OregonStandoff: image via Conrad Wilson @conradjwilson, 16 January 2016

There's a granny in a bird costume taping bird photos on other #bundymilitia protester signs. #OregonStandoff.: image via Amanda Peacher @amandapeacher, 15 January 2016

Someone finally got arrested at the #OregonStandoff. Ken Medenbach was arrested for driving a stolen gov. vehicle.: image via Brooke Warren @BrooklynDWarren, 16 January 2016

Oregon police have made an arrest in the militia standoff, and it's not his first rodeo: image via Nicky Woolf @NickyWoolf, 16 January 2016

You have the right to remain silent. You do NOT have the right to a Snackwell's. #YallQaeda: image via Steve Marmel @Marmel, 16 January 2016

Japan’s LED and HID parts manufacturer LYZER displays a demo car, the Lamborghini Murcielago finished with pink Swarovski crystals on the whole body, at Tokyo Auto Salon 2016 at Makuhari Messe in Chiba on Friday: photo by Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP, 15 January 2016

In 1979, feds forcibly removed black occupiers from wildlife refuge #OregonStandoff: image via The Oregonian Verified account @Oregonian, 15 January 2016

W2246-0526: What they saw when they they took down the cameras

Artist's impression of the galaxy W2246-0526

Artist impression of W2246-0526, a single galaxy glowing in infrared light as intensely as 350 trillion suns. It is so violently turbulent that it may eventually jettison its entire supply of star-forming gas, according to new observations with ALMA: image by NRAO/AUI/NSF; Dana Berry / SkyWorks; ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) via European Southern Observatory, 15 January 2016

It started to rain

again. The house grew quiet.

The sound of cars splashing

past in the rain was the only sound.

When they took down the cameras

at the Refuge

they learned the truth, too late

for it to be to be of much use --

the galaxy is on the boil

and blowing itself apart

-- and everything was too intense

and too bright

already, even then,

when the universe was young.

Artist’s impression of W2246-0526, a galaxy glowing in infrared light as intensely as approximately 350 trillion suns. It is so violently turbulent that it may eventually jettison its entire supply of star-forming gas, according to new observations with ALMA: image by NRAO/AUI/NSF; Dana Berry / SkyWorks; ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) via Astronomy Now, 15 January 2015

This handout picture released by the the European Southern Observatory on January 14, 2016 shows an artist impression of W2246-0526, a single galaxy glowing in infrared light as intensely as 350 trillion suns. It is so violently turbulent that it may eventually jettison its entire supply of star-forming gas, according to new observations with ALMA.

An artist's impression of W2246-0526, a single galaxy glowing in infrared light as intensely as 350 trillion suns. It is so violently turbulent that it may eventually jettison its entire supply of star-forming gas, according to new observations with ALMA: photo by European Southern Observatory/AFP, 15 January 2015

This artist's rendering shows a galaxy called W2246-0526, the most luminous galaxy known. New research suggests there is turbulent gas across its entirety, the first example of its kind: image by NRAO/AUI/NSF; Dana Berry / SkyWorks; ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) via NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 15 January 2016

Flyway traffic diversity

Flyway traffic at Malheur NWR: photo by Amelia Templeton @ameliaOPB, 16 January 2016

Oregon update. #VanillaISIS #YallQaeda: image via Tyler Schremp @TylerSchremp, 16 January 2016

Tundra Swans (Cygnus columbianus), Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Harney County, Oregon.: photo by Jon. D. Anderson, March 1982

0344_tundra_wing_stroke_munsel_odfw | by Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife

Tundra Swan (Cygnus columbianus) wing stroke, Oregon.: photo by Kathy Munsel, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, 19 February 2010

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Spooked American Coots

January 19, 2016, 11:30 pm

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Western Meadowlark (Sturnella neglecta) with prey DDZ_2247b | by NDomer73

Western Meadowlark (Sturnella neglecta) with prey, along Ruh-Red Road near Burns, Oregon and Malheur National Wildlife Refuge: photo by Dan Dzurisin, 18 September 2012

Spooked American Coots (Fulica americana) DSC_0201 | by NDomer73

Spooked American Coots (Fulica americana). Often mistaken for a duck, the American Coot is a common waterbird: its black body and white chicken-like wings distinguish this swimming rail from real ducks. This group of coots was spooked by traffic along Highway 2015 between Burns, Oregon and Malheur National Wildlife Refuge: photo by Dan Dzurisin, 15 April 2007, posted 6 August 2007

Wetlands at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge: photo by Mathew Foster, 21 October 2009

Buena Vista Overlook, Jeff Sorn | by OregonDOT

Buena Vista Overlook. A view of the Steens Mountains from the Buena Vista Overlook, located in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge: photo by Jeff Sorn / Oregon Department of Transportation, 30 July 2010

E of Burns Junction: Wyoming big sagebrush steppe (mowed or chained) | by Matt Lavin

E of Burns Junction: Wyoming big sagebrush steppe (mowed or chained). The sagebrush steppe in this region of southeast Oregon is sporadically prone to colonization to high levels of cover by Bromus tectorum. This recently mowed sagebrush steppe was associated with high cover of crested wheatgrass: photo by Matt Lavin, 29 August 2013

Twilight over the High Desert, Malheur NWR: image via Conrad Wilson Verified account @conradjwilson, 18 January 2016

White-faced Ibis (Plegadis chihi) DDZ_0006 | by NDomer73

Save the Public Lands from Invasive Species (Peckerwoodus americana subsp. pinheadii)

Center for Biological Diversity says if mining is allowed, land would be fenced off and would not be public #koin6news: image via Jennifer Dowling @JenDowlingKoin6, 19 January 2016

Bundy says his group wants a sawmill built to process lumber harvested from the refuge land #koin6news #Malheur: image via Jennifer Dowling @JenDowlingKoin6, 19 January 2016

Bundy said his militant group is ready to defend ranchers, miners & loggers who want to use the refuge #koin6news #Malheur: image via Jennifer Dowling @JenDowlingKoin6, 19 January 2016

Bad weather has not stopped 00s showing up for the Audubon soc's #Oregonstandoff counter-protest in PDX: image via Jason Wilson @jason_a_w, 19 January 2016

Well then. #Oregonstandoff counter-protest in PDX: image via Jason Wilson @jason_a_w, 19 January 2016

"We can't be shouted down by people with guns, we have to stand up for public lands" #RefugeRally #Oregonstandoff: image via Lauren Dake @Lauren Dake, 19 January 2016

#RefugeRally chant went from "birds not bullies" to "throw the bums in jail" #Oregonstandoff: image via Lauren Dake @Lauren Dake, 19 January 2016

I would rather ask for supplies than go out and loot for them like some other protesters have done in this country recently. #Oregonstandoff: tweet by Ammon Bundy @Ammon_Bundy, 19 January 2016

Environmentalists protesting the militia in #Oregonstandoffcontinue to grow in numbers @KOINNews: image via Andrew Dymburt @DymburtNews, 19 January 2016 BURNS, OR

Hundreds gather in Portland to protest #OregonStandoffoccupation, support public lands: image via The Oregonian Verified account @Oregonian, 19 January 2016

Tribal leader worried about safety of artifacts amid #OregonStandoff via @IndianCountry: image via Wilderness Society Verified account @Wilderness, 19 January 2016

Bundy says they're not going to negotiate with FBI; gives federal agencies "warning" #Oregonstandoff: image via Wanda Moore @WandaKTVZ, 19 January 2016

Hundreds gather in Portland to protest #Oregonstandoff- #LiveOnK2 @ 4 with @ReedKATU: image via KATU News Verified account @KATU News, 19 January 2016

Sportsmen group slams #Oregonstandoffas "the misguided actions of a fringe element": image via Wilderness Society Verified account @Wilderness, 19 January 2016

The Oregon Militia Is Turning Out To Be Its Very Own Worst Enemy... image via ePeak USA @periclesusa, 19 January 2016

Posse Politics

Possible Federal Crimes Numerous at Oregon Refuge Take-over #Oregonstandoff: image via SPLC Verified account @slpcenter, 18 January 2016

Antigovernment Extremists in Oregon Now Plan Their Own Justice System: Bill Morlin, Southern Poverty Law Center, 13 January 2016

Militia and antigovernment extremists illegally occupying a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon are now pledging to form a “citizen’s grand jury” to indict and bring criminal charges against public officials and judges the occupiers accuse of committing crimes and violating the Constitution.

With such “indictments,” the extremists’ doctrine would justify their attempts to make arrests, get judgments or file liens against the targeted public officials.

Bruce Doucette, a self-proclaimed “U.S. Superior Court judge” from Denver, arrived at the occupied Malheur Wildlife Refuge near Burns on Tuesday to “review evidence that public officials may have committed crimes,” the Oregonian reports.

Doucette, a 54-year-old computer repairman, told the newspaper that 25 local residents “would hear testimony and make decisions in private” before deciding whether to bring criminal charges. Those findings “would be put in writing and made public,” the newspaper reports. He didn’t say what would come next.

Ammon Bundy, the son of Cliven Bundy and the leader of the Oregon take-over, as well as his key followers have said they believe federal prosecutors, judges and officials in the Bureau of Land Management broke laws and violated the Constitution in bringing charges against Dwight and Steven Hammond.

The Hammonds’ 20-year battle with federal agencies, culminating with their jury conviction for arson for illegally burning federal land, and their mandatory-minimum prison term of five years ignited the current takeover. Wanting no part of the Bundy’s plan, which was weeks in the planning , the Hammonds reported to federal prison in California on Jan. 4, the third day of the occupation.

Now apparently bored with using federal computers and cutting down BLM fencing at the wildlife refuge, the occupiers -– with supplies and new recruits routinely being shipped in –– seem intent on setting up their own court system and convening their “citizen’s grand jury.”

There is no historical precedent allowing a self-styled judge or a citizen’s grand jury would have any import on the outcome of the Malheur occupiers demands to open public lands, other to than to excite those embracing a fringe view.

Harney County Sheriff Dave Ward has publicly voiced concerns about threats made against him and his deputies and their families, as well as employees of the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The sheriff has urged Bundy and his followers to leave and even offered to escort them out of the county. The antigovernment activists refused the offer. They say they will discuss their “exit strategy” Friday evening at a community meeting in Burns.

The concept of the “citizen’s grand jury” has roots in the Posse Comitatus movement –- a sometimes violent, anti-Semitic, anti-tax, antigovernment brand of extremism. Ironically, the Posse Comitatus movement is generally believed to have started in Oregon.

Henry L. “Mike” Beach, a Portland business man with previous ties to the anti-Semitic, fascist “Silver Shirt” movement, started the Citizen’s Law Enforcement Research Committee in 1969. The sheriff’s Posse Comitatus movement spun out from that.

Beach, who died in 1989, embraced many of the philosophies of William Potter Gale, another Oregon man, whose anti-Semitic views were the springboard for Aryan Nations founder and neo-Nazi leader Richard Butler.

“Beach declared that a county’s citizens, as defined by its laws, could deny state and federal authority to tax, regulate, and govern,” the Oregon Historical Society says in documenting the history of Posse Comitatus in the state.

“Voters elected the sheriff as the principal enforcement official, with the authority to deputize male citizens,” the historical society says. County citizens “reserved the right to establish a grand jury outside the prevailing court system to indict, judge, and punish public officials and private citizen.”

Posse Comitatus cells formed throughout the United States from the 1970’s through the ‘90s. Followers, who sometimes formed their own government entities called “townships,” appointed their owned public officials and believed only the county sheriff -– not federal or state law enforcement -– could enforce laws.

One such group –– the infamous “Montana Freemen” –– formed their “Justus Township” on a 960-acre ranch near remote Jordan, Montana, in 1996. Some of the 16 extremists were wanted for threatening public officials, writing bad checks or tax evasion.

Unlike the Oregon standoff where there is little or no law enforcement presence, the FBI rotated its regional SWAT teams into Jordan, Mont., controlling the perimeter and not allowing anyone in or out. Without a shot fired, the Freeman siege ended after 81 days –- the longest FBI standoff in U.S. history. Those involved were all subsequently convicted and sentenced to lengthy prison terms.

The Posse Comitatus concept embraced by the Montana Freemen is the same anti-federalism being voiced by Bundy and his band.

Federal authorities, including the U.S. Attorney and the U.S. Attorney General, have been silent on their plans for those involved in the Oregon takeover, but the parallel to the Montana Freeman standoff, including the “citizen’s grand jury” development, has to be catching their attention.

LaVoy "Blue Tarp" Finicum waiting for federal authorities at the Malheur Wildlife Refuge: screenshot via Daily Kos, 8 January 2016

Foster children removed from home of Oregon militant, says he's now lost 'main source of income': Jen Hayden, Daily Kos, 18 January 2016

Arizona rancher LaVoy Finicum told Oregon Public Broadcasting that his four current foster children have been removed while he's in Oregon:

Robert “LaVoy” Finicum and his wife Jeanette were foster care parents for troubled boys. Finicum estimates that over the past decade, more than 50 boys came through their ranch near Chino Valley, Arizona. The boys often landed there from mental hospitals, drug rehabs and group homes for emotionally distressed youth.

“My ranch has been a great tool for these boys,” Finicum said. “It has done a lot of good.”

Militant says foster children were pulled from his home: image via Amelia Templeton @ameliaOPB, 16 January 2016

Finicum runs a cattle ranch in Arizona where he says he barely breaks even on the cattle and the loss of 50 extra foster ~~ranch hands~~ children is going to make it financially difficult on the Finicums:

That represents an enormous loss of income for the Finicums. According to a 2010 tax filing, Catholic Charities paid the family $115,343 to foster children in 2009. That year, foster parents were compensated between $22.31 and $37.49 per child, per day, meaning if the Finicums were paid at the maximum rate, they cared for, on average, eight children per day in 2009.

“That was my main source of income,” Finicum said. “My ranch, well, the cows just cover the costs of the ranch. If this means rice and beans for the next few years, so be it. We’re going to stay the course.”

Another member of Y’All Qaeda, Blaine Cooper (also known as Stanley Hicks Cooper), posted a rambling video to Facebook on Friday. After saying he was excited about the prospect of Donald Trump coming to help the ranchers (a rumor they’d heard), he mentioned Child Protective Services had kidnapped his children, then said they were with his brother-in-law.

Landed sentry: Arizona rancher LaVoy Finicum keeps guard at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon: photo by AP, 6 January 2016

HOLY CRAP! When your OWN MOM thinks you're a turd! Blaine Cooper is PROMINENT #bundymilitia member #Orehonstandoff: image via Cornelia @PaladinCornelia, 18 January 2016

Homo Necans with Patriotic Pocket Protector

A copy of the United States Constitution in the pocket of a shirt worn by Ammon Bundy, the leader of an anti-government group occupying buildings at a wildlife refuge in Oregon: photo by Justin Sullivan / New York Times, 6 January 2016

A supporter of US Republican presidentia...A supporter of US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump attends a rally at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, January 18, 2016. / AFP / NICHOLAS KAMMNICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images

A supporter of US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump attends a rally at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia: photo by Nicholas Kamm/AFP, 18 January 2016

Folks are following along: image via Conrad Wilson @conradjwilson, 18 January 2016

"You know how many endangered species we're dealing with on our ranch right now? Zero, because it doesn't matter any more" -- Ryan Bundy.: tweet via Conrad Wilson @conradjwilson, 18 January 2016

Among things @OPB learned at last night's meeting: Bundy says ranchers don't have to follow endangered species act.: tweet via Ryan Haas @ryanjhaas, 19 January 2016

Cliven Bundy's sons urge Oregon ranchers to rip up BLM contracts, graze cattle on federal lands w/o paying: tweet via Amelia Templeton @ameliaOPB, 16 January 2016

Fourth generation Harney County rancher Scott Franklin listens to the Bundy brothers Monday night in Crane, Oregon: photo by Conrad Wilson/OPB, 18 January 2016

Bundys Urge Oregon Ranchers To Tear Up Grazing Contracts: Conrad Wilson and Amelia Templeton in Crane, Oregon for Oregon Public Broadcasting, 19 January 2016

The militants occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge asked Harney County ranchers at a meeting Monday night to cancel their leases with the federal government.

The three-hour meeting took place just outside Crane, Oregon, at a hot springs resort.

Ammon and Ryan Bundy, the leaders of the occupation, said they wanted to make Harney County an example of a place free from the federal government.

“The opportunity is now, and the place is Harney County, and you are the people,” said Ammon Bundy. “They’ll never be an opportunity like this again.”

The start of the meeting was not unlike a pitch for a timeshare.

The lights dimmed and on came a short film with dramatic music.

But rather than white sandy beaches, the projected images depicted dramatic landscapes of the American West.

In the nearly three hours that followed, the Bundys and a few of their core supporters led a room of largely Harney County ranchers through a presentation. At times it took on the tone of a civics lesson — one that included readings from pocket Constitutions distributed beforehand. At other times, speakers seemed to invoke the fiery passions of a preacher delivering a sermon from the pulpit.

The Pitch

Then came the hard sell.

The militants occupying the Refuge asked Harney County ranchers to tear up their leases with the Bureau of Land Management and stop paying the federal government to graze cattle on public land.

“I’ve done it. Cliven Bundy’s done it,” said LaVoy Finicum, an Arizona rancher and the militants’ defacto spokesman. “Now is the day. Now is the time. Are you going to wait for tomorrow? For next week? Next month? Next year? When? When will you stand up if not now?”

Roughly 75 percent of Harney County is federal land. And just more than 10 percent of people who work in the county are employed by the federal government.

Finicum invited the ranchers to cancel their leases with the BLM at a ceremony before the media at the refuge on Saturday. He said two ranchers, one from New Mexico and another from Harney County, are scheduled to void their contracts publicly.

“I promise, that if you stand, others will stand with you,” Finicum said. “If you stand, God will stand with you. But God cannot stand with you if you do not stand.”

The leaders of the armed occupation described how 25 years ago Cliven Bundy stopped communicating with the BLM.

Ryan Bundy's View: Breaking from the Federal Government Will Allow Armed Rednecks To Fuck Up Migratory Patterns of Majestic Animals with Impunity, Just the Way God Planned It

Ryan Bundy went on to emphasize his view that breaking away from the federal government means ranchers wouldn’t have to follow federal laws, like the Endangered Species Act.

Ammon Bundy and members of the Bundy braintrust (l. to r., Ryan Bundy sitting on stove, Ammon Bundy, Ryan Payne sitting on counter) at the meeting in Crane: photo by Conrad Wilson/ OPB, 18 January 2016

“You know how many endangered species we’re dealing with on our ranch right now?” Bundy asked. “Zero, because it doesn’t matter anymore.”

LaVoy and the Bundys also acknowledged their proposition is risky. They said any rancher who joined them would get protection from the armed militants led by Payne.

“We are here temporarily to defend you,” Ammon Bundy said. “Eventually, you’ve got to get unified enough to started defending yourselves.”

Ranchers Skeptical

As the militants announced the meeting was ending, local resident Scott Franklin, stood up and entered a tense exchange with the Bundys.

“I’m a fourth generation rancher,” he said. “I’m going to ask you a question. Are we a nation of laws?”

“No,” said Ryan Bundy.

“We’re not?” Franklin replied. “So, we just break laws all the time, and that’s OK?”

“We are a nation of laws, and this law is the one being broken,” Ryan Bundy said, tapping his pocket-sized copy of the Constitution. “And this law is the supreme law of the land.”

“In the end, who decides what the Constitution says? The Supreme Court,” Franklin said.

That comment was met with a chorus of “Nos” from some audience members.

“I’m saying, I’m not going to fight an uphill battle that’s not going to be won,” Franklin said. “You’re asking us to give up everything for this rebel cause.”

Some ranchers were more receptive to the Bundys’ message. They spoke of their frustration with the environmental regulations on BLM land, and their belief that the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge wants to grow by acquiring ranches.

Buck Taylor runs cattle on about 200,000 acres of land, including private land, BLM allotments and land in the refuge.

After listening to the presentation, Taylor said he was considering the Bundys’ proposition, but thought there should be more meetings to discuss it.

“I am drinking the Kool Aid,” he said. “I haven’t swallowed it yet. I am open to the idea.”

Dwane Schrock, who ranches on private land near Crane, Oregon, also walked away with a positive impression.

“It was good; very informational,” he said. “People need to be educated. If they’re not educated, they’re not going to know what’s going on.”

After the meeting, Franklin, the rancher who’d spoken against the proposition, said he was ready for the Bundys to go. He said he has relatives who work for the BLM, and he was struggling to keep his family calm.

“I know that the refuge is never going to be in private hands,” he said. “Are they going to Yosemite? Are they going to Yellowstone? Where else are they going to do this?”

And on the Eighth Day, God Appointed the Bundy Clan to Fuck Up Pretty Much Everything Alive in His Creation At Will, As the Constitution Sort Of Allows -- and Be Rewarded With Great Snacks

Ammon Bundy. The rancher said God told him to lead the protest in Burns, Oregon: photo via Facebook via The Independent, 6 January 2015

Ammon Bundy talking life, liberty, property before about 30 people in Crane. Feels like a civics class: image via Conrad Wilson @conradjwilson, 18 January 2016

Not only have I been to the mountain top, I plan on still staying up here now that I'm here. #MLKDay #Oregonstandoff: image via Ammon Bundy @AmmonBundy, 18 January 2016

Room shot. Payne talking with Ryan and Ammon (hat) Bundy looking on #Oregonstandoff: image via Conrad Wilson @conradjwilson, 18 January 2016

Refuge

These photos from 1908 convinced Teddy Roosevelt to create the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon (first called the Malheur Lake Reservation). That’s the place currently occupied by anti-federalist militants. Finley and Bohlman’s hand-colored images were provided by Bob Sallinger of The Audobon Society of Portland: portfolio and text via Skunk Bear, 6 January 2016

Great Horned Owl at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge: photo by William Finley and Herman Bohlman/Audubon Society of Portland, 1908 (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Digital Library)

White-faced Ibis at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge: photo by William Finley and Herman Bohlman/Audubon Society of Portland, 1908 (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Digital Library)

Malheur National Wildlife refuge is an essential stop along many bird populations' migratory journey, including that of the American White Pelican: photo by William Finley and Herman Bohlman/Audubon Society of Portland, 1908 (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Digital Library)

Northern Pintail chick at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge: photo by William Finley and Herman Bohlman/Audubon Society of Portland, 1908 (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Digital Library)

Mallard at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge: photo by William Finley and Herman Bohlman/Audubon Society of Portland, 1908 (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Digital Library)

Mallard at Malheur Lake bird nest: photo by William Finley and Herman Bohlman/Audubon Society of Portland, 1908 (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Digital Library)

The coalition behind the Malheur Wildlife National Refuge wants to restore Malheur Lake as a viable habitat for the various bird populations that frequent it.: photo by William Finley and Herman Bohlman/Audubon Society of Portland, 1908 (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Digital Library)

White-faced Ibis at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge: photo by Candace Larson via Audobon Society of Portland, 3 January 2016

A burrowing owl at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge: photo by Candace Larson via Audobon Society of Portland, 6 January 2016

American White Pelican at Malheur Lake: photo by William Finley and Herman Bohlman/Audubon Society of Portland, 1908 (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Digital Library)

Western Meadowlark (Sturnella neglecta) DSC_0037 | by NDomer73

Western Meadowlark (Sturnella neglecta), Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon.An abundant and familiar bird of open country across the western two-thirds of the continent, the Western Meadowlark is known for its melodic song. It is frequently seen singing along roadsides in native grassland and agricultural areas, in this case near Burns, Oregon.: photo by Dan Dzurisin, 11 April 2008

Western Meadowlark (Sturnella neglecta) with prey, along Ruh-Red Road near Burns, Oregon and Malheur National Wildlife Refuge: photo by Dan Dzurisin, 18 September 2012

Ranch land in Harney County, where 7,126 people are spread across an area larger than Massachusetts: photo by Ruth Fremson/The New York Times, 18 January 2016

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Cowboy Isis: 'Liberating' the Native American Cultural Relics

January 21, 2016, 10:35 pm

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Ryan Bundy talks on his mobile phone in front of a large bulldozer at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge Headquarters in Burns, Oregon on January 6, 2016. A small group of armed activists remained holed up at a remote US federal wildlife refuge in Oregon, vowing to leave only if asked by local residents: photo by Rob Kerr / AFP, 6 January 2016

'Bundy Militia' Compared To ISIS For Pawing Through Native American Artifacts, Destroying Sites: Kristina Killgrove, Forbes, 21 January 2016

From the outset of the now weeks-long occupation of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Oregon by the ‘Bundy militia,’ archaeologists as well as members of the Burns Paiute Tribe have been concerned for ancient artifacts and sacred spaces. Their fears were realized this week as news reports discussed bulldozing of land and a video surfaced of armed militants rifling through boxes of artifacts archived at the refuge. And many on Twitter are already making a parallel between the militia and the work of ISIS in destroying world heritage sites.

In online statements and photographs, the Islamic State claimed to have smashed statues from the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra: photo by Agence France-Presse, 3 July 2016

Indian Country Today Media Network (ICTMN) has the best coverage thus far, in a piece by Jacqueline Keeler titled, "Oregon Militia Nuts Hold Paiute History, Artifacts Hostage.." There are thousands of artifacts stored in the building that is being occupied by the militia, and the Burns Paiute are worried. ICTMN reports that “the tribe is demanding federal action under both the Archeological Resources Protection Act of 1979 and a ‘protection against bad men’ provision the tribe signed with the United States in 1868.”

This is not the first time Bundy supporters have damaged or held Native American heritage hostage. In 2014, half a dozen people rode ATVs through Recapture Canyon in Utah, destroying ancient Puebloan home sites. And petroglyphs in Gold Butte, Nevada, may also have been defaced by Bundy supporters. Chairperson Charlotte Rodrique of the Burns Paiute tribe told ICTMN that just a few days ago “they took a bulldozer and built a line around the refuge headquarters.”

A still image from a militant video posted on YouTube on April 3, 2015, shows a militant hammering a wall in Hatra, Iraq: imagevia Associated Press, 20 January 2016

The Bundy folks put out a 3-minute video showing themselves looking through box upon box of Native American artifacts in the basement archive of the refuge.

LaVoy Finicum and others talk repeatedly about how they want to return the artifacts to “their rightful owners.”

They deplore the conditions in which the artifacts are kept: “there’s a rat’s nest in here; this is how we found them. [...] Native artifacts, they just kind of boxed them up and let them rot here.”

Further, they complain that the artifacts have different dates on them, some dating back to the 1980s.

Finicum looks at the camera and feigns concern: “So my question is, Why? Why do they just keep them down here? Why are they locked away here for nobodybut for them to look at whenever they come down here. This needs to be taken care of, and so we’re reaching out to the Paiute people in as sincere a manner as we can. Please, let’s open up a dialogue.”

A 13th-century tomb near Kirkuk in northern Iraq, destroyed by members of the Islamic State: photo by Ihsan Feti / Iraqi Architects Society, 3 July 2015

On the face of it, this doesn’t seem like a bad sentiment. For an organization obsessed with individual rights, it makes sense in a way: Finicum and others may actually be convinced that the Paiute objects need rescuing. But their paternalistic concern for people they perceive as downtrodden by the US government is misplaced. The Paiute agree that the objects need to be rescued -- but rescued from Finicum and the other militia members. Rodrique is further quoted in Daily Kos as saying that “we feel strongly because we have had a good working relationship with the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge” prior to the occupation. “We view them as a protector of our cultural rights in that area.” The Paiute helped archive the artifacts at the refuge in the first place.

Burns Paiute tribe chair Charlotte Rodrique addresses reporters during a press conference in response to the armed occupation of the nearby Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Burns, Ore., Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016. A leader of the Oregon Indian tribe whose ancestral property is being occupied by an armed group opposed to federal land policy said Wednesday that the group is not welcome and needs to leave.: photo by Manuel Valdes / AP, 6 January 2016

The Daily Kos quotes tribal council member Jarvis Kennedy as saying, “They just need to get the hell out of there. They didn’t ask anybody, we don’t want them here.” And the archaeologist for the US Fish and Wildlife Service, Carla Burnside, told ICTMN that militants released photos of themselves in her office rifling through sensitive archaeological files. Fish and Wildlife Service assistant director of external affairs, Jason Holm, further told Oregon Public Broadcasting that the road the occupiers recently bulldozed is “an archaeological site important to the Burns Paiute Tribe.” They also removed a fence that Holm said was “a deterrent to keep fire crews from driving across the archaeological site.”

Today the #bundymilitia made this road within the refuge. #oregonstandoff: image via Amanda Peacher @amandapeacher, 14 January 2016

The actions of the ‘Bundy militia’ almost certainly go against ARPA, in spite of what Finicum and friends seem to think. Legal protections have been put into place over decades in the US to protect Native sites, artifacts, and burials and to help right the wrongs done to Native archaeological remains since Europeans first landed. Finicum may think he is doing the right thing in his misguided attempt to repatriate artifacts that are being stored at the refuge by choice and by design, but the Paiute vehemently disagree. And as it’s their heritage, it’s their right to rebuff Finicum and to bring federal action against the occupants who have no idea how to handle the artifacts or how to safeguard their sacred sites.

Rodrique’s quote in ICTMN sums it up for me, and for many of the people in my Twitter feed outraged by this brash disregard for the opinions of Natives: “I don’t know what these people are doing… if they are doing things to just get a rise or to be a martyr -- all they are doing is making enemies out of the people they professed to support.”

Kristina Killgrove is a bioarcheologist at the University of West Florida

Bundy is talking with the FBI at Burns airport. #OregonStandoff: image via Amanda Peacher @amandapeacher, 21 January 2016

Looting the artifacts and documents

Charlotte Rodrique, tribal chair: "We pray for the winged animals...this group of naughty ppl is down there w/no respect for the land." #OregonStandoff: tweet via Amanda Peacher@amandapeacher, 21 January 2016

LaVoy Finicum posted a video of himself inside a government building looking through cardboard boxes of papers and other items associated with the Paiute tribe. The militiamen stationed at a federal wildlife refuge in eastern Oregon are now rummaging through artifacts and documents of the Paiute tribe, sparking outrage among local Native Americanswhose ancestors originally occupied the land.: photo by Rex/Shutterstock via The Guardian, 21 January 2016

Fresh outrage after militia seen rifling through tribal artifacts at Oregon refuge: Standoff leader posted a video of him looking through artifacts and documents from the Paiute tribe at the Malheur national wildlife refuge, sparking outrage: Sam Levin, The Guardian, 21 January 2016

The militiamen stationed at a federal wildlife refuge in eastern Oregon are now rummaging through artifacts and documents of the Paiute tribe, sparking outrage among local Native Americans whose ancestors originally occupied the land.

LaVoy Finicum, one of the leaders of the armed protesters occupying the Malheur national wildlife refuge, posted a video of himself inside a government building looking through cardboard boxes of papers and other items associated with the local tribe –- and inviting Paiute leaders to meet with the militia and reclaim their belongings.

“We want to make sure these things are returned to their rightful owner,” said Finicum, who recently helped destroy a US Fish and Wildlife Service fence and remove cameras that he claimed the government was using for surveillance.

The rightwing militia, led by Ammon Bundy, took over the headquarters of the wildlife sanctuary on 2 January to protest the government’s land-use regulations in rural Harney County. They have demanded that local ranchers have control of public lands –- not the federal government.

But days after the occupation began, leaders of the federally recognized Paiute Indian tribe in Burns, the town closest to the refuge, decried the armed occupation, pointing out that the out-of-state militiamen were trying to claim sacred lands that are part of the tribe’s ancestral territory.

The new video, posted on Wednesday night, has only further enraged tribal leaders who recently called on law enforcement officials to protect native cultural resources at the refuge and to criminally prosecute the militiamen.

“I feel disrespected that they’re even out there,” said Jarvis Kennedy, the tribal council’s sergeant-at-arms. Kennedy said he was too upset to watch all of Finicum’s video. “It’s like me going through their drawers at their house.”

Tribe leaders and federal officials say the refuge stores confidential documents and thousands of historic artifacts, such as baskets, spears, tools and beads. The refuge is also home to Paiute burial grounds, making the militia’s recent decision to pave a road through the refuge particularly alarming.

“I could go to the Bundys where his grandparents are buried,” Kennedy said. “How would they feel if I drove over their grave and went through their heirlooms?”

In his video, Finicum said that he was showing how the wildlife refuge has done a poor job maintaining the artifacts and keeping storage rooms clean. “This needs to be taken care of, and so we’re reaching out to the Paiute people in the sincerest manner as we can,” he said on camera. “Let’s make sure that we take care of the heritage of the Native American people.”

Added militia member Blaine Cooper: “The rightful owners need to come back and claim their belongings.”

But Kennedy said the tribe has a good relationship with refuge officials and noted that the Paiute people refuse to communicate with militia leaders or visit the occupation.

“I’m not going to give them the satisfaction of meeting with them,” Charlotte Rodrique, chairwoman of the Burns Paiute tribe, told the Guardian last week.

Kennedy noted that the militiamen have had no trouble leaving and returning to the refuge and feared one of them might damage or steal their artifacts and documents. “All the stuff they are doing out there, it’s like a crime scene,” he said. “Once this is done, we’ll see what’s missing.”

Ammon Bundy walks past wall of deputies into heated community meeting. Leaves in silence.: image via Les Zaitz @LesZaitz, 20 January 2016

4,000 artifactsstored at Oregon refuge held by armed group: Rebecca Boone, AP, 15 January 2016

Thousands of archaeological artifacts -- and maps detailing where more can be found -- are kept inside the national wildlife refuge buildings currently being held by an armed group of protestors angry over federal land policy.

Ryan Bundy, one of the leaders of the group occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in southeastern Oregon, says they have no real interest in the antiquities. Still, their access to the artifacts and maps has some worried that looters could take advantage of the situation.

"There's a huge market for artifacts, especially artifacts that have provenance, where you can identify where they came from," said Carla Burnside, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's refuge archeologist.

More than 300 recorded prehistoric sites are scattered across the refuge, including burial grounds, ancient villages and petroglyphs. Some of the artifacts -- including spears, stone tools, woven baskets and beads -- date back 9,800 years.

The artifacts and remains came from ancestors of the Burns Paiute Tribe. Chairwoman Charlotte Rodrique says she feels helpless knowing that her tribe's cultural heritage is now in the hands of the armed group.

"As far as I'm concerned, our history is just another hostage," Rodrique said.

The tribe has sent a letter to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. attorney for Oregon, Billy Williams, asking that members of the armed group be prosecuted if any artifacts or maps are damaged or missing.

WHY AREN'T THE RELICS AT A MUSEUM?

About 7,000 artifacts and samples from the refuge are kept at a museum in Eugene, Oregon. But 4,000 more are kept at the refuge for research.

Only Burnside has a key to the room containing the artifacts and the maps. She's since seen pictures of the occupiers in her office, adjacent to the room where the artifacts are stored. The group has been looking through government files at the site, but it is unclear if they've gone through the room with the artifacts. Bundy told The Associated Press that he's seen the artifacts and lots of maps, but he didn't know what the maps illustrated.

The artifacts and maps are legally protected by the 1979 Archeological Resources Protection Act and other federal laws.

Rodrique said she doesn't know if members of the group have disturbed the artifacts but wants the artifacts and documents catalogued as the occupation continues and once it comes to an end.

"If the occupiers disturb, damage, remove, alter or deface any archaeological resource on the refuge property, the Tribe requests that the United States bring criminal charges," Rodrique wrote in her letter to federal officials.

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WHAT IS THE ARMED GROUP DOING WITH THE ARTIFACTS?

Bundy said they're not interested in the artifacts and would turn them over to the Burns Paiute Tribe, if asked.

"If the Native Americans want those, then we'd be delighted to give them to them," he said.

Rodrique said the tribe is not going to legitimize the armed group's occupation of the refuge by negotiating with them.

"That's our history, our ancestors' possessions and remains," Rodrique said. "It's hard to explain, as a native person, what that means to us. That's the very proof of our existence in this country."

Bundy said he didn't think it was likely that anyone would use the maps to loot the site.

"We haven't really been thinking along those lines," Bundy said.

Removing artifacts from federal property without a permit is illegal.

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WHAT ABOUT THE PREHISTORIC SITES?

Scientists are also worried about unintentional damage that could be done to the prehistoric sites by cattle, vehicles and heavy equipment.

The group at the ranch has driven road graders and other large construction equipment around the refuge headquarters buildings, but Bundy said Thursday they haven't used the machinery to move any earth. He wouldn't rule out that possibility, however.

In 2014, Ryan Bundy and supporters of the Bundy family rode ATVs on federal land closed to motorized vehicles in Utah as part of a protest. Their route took them along an illegal trail that crossed through Native American archeological sites.

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HAVE THE SITES BEEN LOOTED BEFORE?

While well-known petroglyphs or other prehistoric sites are occasionally publicized for public viewing, federal land managers often go to great lengths to keep such locations secret when they can't be safely protected from vandals and looters.

Looting has long been a problem at the refuge, with the first documented instance recorded in 1979, according to the Fish and Wildlife Service's comprehensive conservation plan.

"It's a huge problem in Oregon, especially in the southeast portion of the state," said Dennis Griffin, the state's archaeologist. "More often than not, when they are caught, it's connected to drug running or seeking quick money on eBay."

An online search of "great basin artifacts for sale" yields arrowheads, stone pestles and other items, many priced at hundreds of dollars each.

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WHY DOES IT MATTER?

Burnside said the artifacts are part of the ancestry of the Burns Paiute Tribe and are priceless to science.

"There's so much you can gain from looking at one artifact: Where the stone came from, how far they traveled, how it was used, the skill of the person who made it," she said.

The tribe works extensively with federal officials on the archeology projects. In her letter, Rodrique said the tribe knows it's a difficult time for Burnside and other refuge employees, and thanked the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for its cooperation and help.

"All I want is that our past be respected, that things don't go by the wayside, that they're not destroyed by cattle," Rodrique said in a phone interview.

"Their history is being hijacked by these people," said Donald Grayson, an anthropologist and archeology expert at the University of Washington.

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HOW DOES BUNDY WANT THE ARCHEOLOGICAL SITES HANDLED?

Bundy said people interested in archeology are welcome to explore the refuge, but that cattle ranchers and loggers should have priority when it comes to land use.

"Before white man came, so to speak, there was nothing to keep cattle from tromping on those things," Bundy said.

Though some countries had domesticated cattle 10,000 years ago, the animals came to the United States with European settlers.

"We also recognize that the Native Americans had the claim to the land, but they lost that claim," Bundy said. "There are things to learn from cultures of the past, but the current culture is the most important.""

Bundy sits quietly. Oh, and "Fluffy Unicorn" is back: image via Amanda Peacher, 19 January 2016

The armed occupiers at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge want the federal government to give back their land. This map of Oregon shows who had that land in the first place. Note: No map of pre-conquest America is exact because tribal "borders" were fluid: image via Daily Kos, 7 January 2016

Paiute tribal chair: 'Don't tell me any of these ranchers came across the Bering Strait': Meteor Blades, Daily Kos, 7 January 2016

As the media continue spotlighting the armed extremists occupying the federal headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon, their complaints about federal government “over-reach,” and their demands that the feds “give the land back,” members of another group say that if there were to be any giveback, they ought to be first in line.

Charlotte Rodrique, the chairwoman of the federally recognized Burns Paiute Tribe, talks about the occupation at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon, January 5, 2016. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart - RTX217BM

Charlotte Rodrique, chairwoman of the Burns Paiute Tribe: photo via Daily Kos, 7 January 2016

They are the Burns Paiute Tribe, descendants of the people the U.S. Army under Gen. George Crook starved and murdered into submission in the 1860s in a successful effort to confine them to a 1.8 million-acre reservation. This was later reduced to the 1,000 or so acres where the 420-member tribe is now headquartered. The Paiute leaders are profoundly irked by the occupiers’ demands. Amanda Peacher reports:

“Armed protesters don’t belong here. By their actions, they are endangering one of our sacred sites,” said tribal Chair Charlotte Rodrique.
Rodrique said she told a friend she was offended by the militants’ notion that they could return the refuge lands to their rightful owners.
“I’m sitting here trying to write an acceptance letter for when they return all this land to us,” Rodrique said.

For all too many American Indians, it’s a familiar story.

Chairwoman Rodrique also said, “Don't tell me any of these ranchers came across the Bering Strait and settled here."

The archeological record shows that people populated the land now surrounding the 190,000-acre Malheur preserve at least 6,000 years ago. The Northern Paiute were there at least back as far as 1,300 years ago.

As land-hungry white settlers started flooding into the area in the late 1850s, the Paiutes objected forcefully. That brought calls for the Army to step in and quell resistance. Immediately after the Civil War, it did just that. After nearly half the tribe had been wiped out by starvation and slaughter for defending themselves, Crook’s dictum was “peace or death.” Outnumbered and outgunned, the Paiutes gave in.

In 1868, a treaty was “negotiated” at gunpoint with the Paiutes and other tribes in eastern Oregon. The government promised to prosecute any whites who killed or injured Indians. But the Senate refused to ratify the treaty. This was a common occurrence. Tribes would sign treaties and make land concessions and the government negotiators would agree to certain obligations. But, not unusually, the Senate would either not ratify the treaty or would make deep changes in it, such as reducing annuities, often without informing the tribe. However, the treaty-signing tribe was required to stick to its side of the agreement.

As another tribe’s leader -- the Oglala Lakota chief Red Cloud (Mahpiua Luta) -- would later say: “They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept one; they promised to take our land, and they did."

In 1872, by executive order, President U.S. Grant established the Malheur Reservation. But almost immediately white settlers poured in, and then prospectors found a little gold. Rather than enforce the executive order, the government gave cover to the settlers and gold diggers by opening the boundaries of the reservation. Clashes were inevitable.

Topping that off, as was so often the case elsewhere, the private contractor Washington installed as the government’s agent for the Paiutes was an Indian hater who withheld food and other allotments the tribe was supposed to receive.

In 1876, in response to this encroachment on the reservation lands his people had been guaranteed, Paiute Chief E-He-Gant (Egan) fumed:

"Did the government tell you to come here and drive us off this reservation? Did the Big Father say, go and kill us all off, so you can have our land? Did he tell you to pull our children's ears off, and put handcuffs on them, and carry a pistol to shoot us with? We want to know how the government came by this land. Is the government mightier than our Spirit-Father, or is he our Spirit-Father? Oh, what have we done that he is to take all from us that he has given us? His white children have come and taken all our mountains, and all our valleys, and all our rivers; and now, because he has given us this little place without our asking him for it, he sends you here to tell us to go away. Do you see that high mountain away off there? There is nothing but rocks there. Is that where the Big Father wants me to go? If you scattered your seed and it should fall there, it would not grow, for it is all rocks there."

That wasn’t the end. The Paiutes joined the Bannocks in 1878 and renewed their resistance to encroachment. A brave but hopeless fight. Ultimately, all the Northern Paiutes were moved off the reservation and shipped to Fort Simcoe in Washington state. In the early 1880s, the now-vacated Malheur Reservation was completely opened to homesteaders and miners. Eventually, under the Dawes Act of 1887 that squeezed two-thirds of their remaining land out of Indian hands across the West, just 115 Paiutes were given private allotments of 160 acres each. Most of these were sold off to non-Indians over the years. About 25 of those allotments remain in Paiute hands today.

As noted, this story of theft and murder, of “peace or death,” is not extraordinary. It’s the story of America. One which ranchers, miners and irrigators, including the gunslinging thugs of the Bundy Bunch, still benefit from today.

Oregon standoff leader warns feds: Back off.: image via Les Zaitz @LesZaitz, 20 January 2016

History and Cultural Background of the Burns Paiute Tribe

"Paiute Wadatika Ma-Ni-Pu-Neen"

The Burns Paiute Reservation is located north of Burns, Oregon in Harney County. The current tribal members are primarily the descendants of the "Wadatika" band of Paiute Indians that roamed in central and southern Oregon.

Nine thousand years ago the northern Great Basin, which is now desert, was probably a series of very large lakes. The ancestors of the Burns Paiute people lived in caves near their shores. Horses, camels, mammoths, bison, elk and deer roamed the hills. These people used the fibers of the tule plant, willow, Indian hemp, and sagebrush bark to make woven sandals, coiled and twined baskets, and rope. They also made duck decoys, fish nets, and traps for small game with these fibrous plants. A beautiful soft blanket woven from the furs of rabbits and child's sandals made from sagebrush fibers were found preserved for close to 10,000 years in a cool, dry cave. Archeologists also found clothing made from deer, animal and bird hides. Their diet included a wide variety of items, such as fish (including a great deal of salmon), birds, deer, small animals, plants and seeds.

During the next one to 2,000 years, the climate slowly became drier and warmer. The lakes began drying up and food sources were less readily available. By 7,500 years ago, large mammals such as horses, camels and mammoth were extinct. People began seasonal migrations to take advantage of plants and animals in certain areas. Small family groups would travel separately collecting seeds, berries, roots, hunting small animals, deer, mountain sheep, elk and fish.

These smaller groups came together to harvest, socialize and intermarry with other Paiutes, as well as other Indian tribes. Spring offered roots to be gathered on the sunny hillsides and meadows, and fishing for salmon during the salmon runs. During the summer, berries and fruit were collected as food and stored for winter use. By late summer and early fall, seeds were the main resource to be gathered. Families also came together during this time of the year for communal antelope and rabbit drives. Late fall was the time to collect plant material to make items such as sandals, baskets, and clothing during the long winter months. By November, the families had gathered the cached goods they had put away during the months of harvesting. Materials were then gathered from the area (sagebrush in the desert or tules near the lakes) and they built houses near springs in which to live out the winter. The Paiutes lived in this manner for thousands of years.

The Paiute people believe that the Paiutes have lived in this area since before the Cascade Mountains were formed as they have learned from their stories and legends. Recent researchers, on the other hand, believe that about 1,000 years ago an influx of Paiute-speaking people came from the south and migrated throughout the Great Basin. They brought with them not only their language but also certain types of atlatl and spear points, and brownware pottery. Pottery was not found in the Great Basin before this time. However, the people of the Burns Paiute Tribe were basket makers and did not make pottery. According to the researchers, the language spoken here before the arrival of the Paiute is unknown. This, however, contradicts the Paiute stories and legends that are handed down from generation to generation which tell of the Paiute people living in the Great Basin for thousands and thousands of years.

The Burns Paiute Tribe descended from the Wadatika band, named after the wada seeds they collected near the shores of Malheur Lake to use as food. Bands were usually named after an important food source in their area. The Wadatika's territory included approximately 52,500 square miles between the Cascade Mountain Range in central Oregon and the Payette Valley north of Boise, Idaho, and from southern parts of the Blue Mountains near the headwaters of the Powder River north of John Day, to the desert south of Steens Mountain.

-- via The Burns Paiute Tribe, 17 March 2014

Welcome to Harney County, Oregon | by Ken Lund

Welcome to Harney County, Oregon: photo by Ken Lund, 26 May 2008

Rainbow near Burns: photo by Richard Bauer, 30 August 2014

Old Burns Casino (dead): photo by Richard Bauer, 30 August 2014

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Rock of Cashel Crows. Cashel, County Tipperary: photo by Tony Webster, 13 October 2013

.................................February 4, 1988

Looking at the crow on roof
now on top the wire
wet soaked in January heavy rain,
heavy traffic at crossroad
soaked with desire
in a cottage by an Ireland lake.
Three crows together
in the thunderous rain,
a cat's wide head, swaying,
soaking in rainfall,
in a cottage by a lake in Ireland.
Two crows, one picking its feet,
the other eating something big.
One crow in the integration of cries
by a lake in Ireland in a cottage in the rain,
by a lake, in a loch
in a moment locked up,
mindless, faceless, bottomed out
without motion, speed or sound
in the bottom of the lake of
grief and dreams splintered
by the rising sun.

Joseph Ceravolo (1934-1988): Irish Entry (February 4, 1988), from Collected Poems, 2012

Quirke's cottages, Coomasaharn with Lake and Mountain of Coomasaharn | by National Library of Ireland on The Commons

Quirke's cottages, Coomasaharn, with Lake and Mountain of Coomasaharn [County Kerry]: photo by Richard Gibson, 21 January 1887 (Eblana Photograph Collection, National Library of Ireland)

Hooded Crow (Corvus [corone] cornix), Fr. Corneille mantelée, Bull Island, County Dublin: photo by Eugene Archer, 12 December 2006

Hooded Crow (Corvus [corone] cornix), Fr. Corneille mantelée, Dalkey, County Dublin: photo by Eugene Archer, 12 May 2007

Crows, County Dublin: photo by Jenni, 20 November 2013

Irish Summer (Toor, County Tipperary): photo by final gather, 25 August 2011

Knocknagorravela. This track leads to a pass between Castle Rock and Knocknagorravela, south of Kenmare, on the Beara Peninsula of Ireland: photo by Tony Hall, 25 August 2011

Rainy Ladies View | by Ornickarr Greenbarrow

Rainy Ladies View {County Kerry]: photo by Ornickarr Greenbarrow, 3 May 2013

Black crows {County Kilkenny]: photo by Mr. Patillas, 12 August 2009

February 2, 1924 | by National Library of Ireland on The Commons

Three generations of a family pose before their "home" at Alexander Street, Waterford. A Mrs. E. White paid A.H. Poole photographers to take this photo. Mrs. White was married to Dr. Vincent White, first Sinn Féin mayor of Waterford in 1920.: photo by A.H. Poole, 2 February 1924 (National Library of Ireland)

At Gweedore, Co. Donegal | by National Library of Ireland on The Commons

At Gweedore, County Donegal: photo by Robert French, c. 1880-1900 (Lawrence Photographic Collection, National Library of Ireland)

Gweedore Natives, Gweedore, Co. Donegal | by National Library of Ireland on The Commons

Gweedore natives, Gweedore, County Donegal: photo by Robert French, c. 1865-1914 (Lawrence Photographic Collection, National Library of Ireland)

Vartry Lake, Roundwood, Co. Wicklow | by National Library of Ireland on The Commons

Valtry Lake, Roundwood, County Wicklow: photo by Robert French, c. 1865-1914 (Lawrence Photographic Collection, National Library of Ireland)

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SYRIA - A Syrian boy holds an umbrella in Kafr Batna town on the outskirts of Damascus. By Amer Almohibany: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPPhoto, 9 January 2016

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A migrant wrapped in a blanket to keep warm waits at a registration camp in southern Serbian town of Presevo on January 22, 2016, after crossing the Macedonian border. As refugees continued to flow from Greece through the Balkans on their way to western Europe, aid workers sounded alarms over inadequate shelter from the current freezing temperatures and snowy conditions, particularly for children.

A migrant wrapped in a blanket to keep warm waits at a registration camp in southern Serbian town of Presevo on Friday, after crossing the Macedonian border: photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP, 22 January 2016

Joseph Ceravolo: Starvation

.......................................December 6, 1987

For the new crusaders tired and dusty

from the trek across the Dardanelles

felt diseased and lost

abandoned and tricked

by the Holy of the Empire.

Empire upon empire

death upon death

Lord upon Lord

the holy children wept.

While an ailanthus tree crushes

its way between 2 close buildings

the space between an alley and a dream.

Saints martyred

find their way through dead forests

Holy bridges span the straits

bound for the change

and the chance to begin another life.

Joseph Ceravolo (1934-1988): Starvation (December 6, 1987), excerpt, from Collected Poems, 2013

"Si estuviéramos a salvo en Siria, no estaríamos aquí congelándonos”.: image via El Español @elespanolcom, 22 January 2016

Joseph Ceravolo: December

.......................................December 1, 1987

The trees have no more leaves

except the pin oak, still hanging on

except the evergreens, pines, spruce,

green as shadows behind

the pin oak's brown leaves.

Joseph Ceravolo (1934-1988): December (December 1, 1987), from Collected Poems, 2013

#snow #migrants and refugees cross the Macedonian border into Serbia, near Miratovac. #AFP Photo by @dilkoff: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 19 January 2016

Joseph Ceravolo: ["Resurrect, reserve, resound"]

.......................................November 25, 1987

Resurrect, reserve, resound. Winter ice

is always there. Striations, scratched

down the mountain faces, winds

like torches of burning oil, acetylene

frozen deep in the woods.

Joseph Ceravolo (1934-1988):untitled ["Resurrect, reserve, resound"], from Collected Poems, 2013

'Panic' as Europe faces demise over refugees, top officials say: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 23 January 2016

#migrants wait for a bus at at a registration camp in Presevo #Serbia #AFP Photo by @dilkoff: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 19 January 2016

Austria to cap asylum-seeker claims, deepening EU migrant rift as charities warn of winter: image by AFP news agency @AFP, 20 January 2016

Macedonia closes border with Greece to migrants, police say: image by AFP news agency @AFP, 20 January 2016

Migrants walk through a frozen field after crossing the border from Macedonia, near the village of Miratovac, Serbia. Photographer Marko Djurica said: “Since the beginning of the migrant crisis, my colleagues and I asked ourselves the same question: what will happen when the winter comes? We were thinking of a Balkans winter: -20ºc and wind so strong that you have to walk backwards into it. Snow was falling and I headed to the Serbia-Macedonia border. The wind was so noisy that the migrants weren’t able to talk to each other. Many of them were crying from the cold. I was speechless.”: photo by Marko Djurica/Reuters, 23 January 2016

Another migrant is photographed in Miratovac by Marko Djurica, who added: “A migrant approached me, ‘how much further do we have to walk?’ About 5km, I said. He pointed to a group some 50m behind. ‘That’s my family. The one who is walking in pain is my sister. She broke her leg in Aleppo last year, I am afraid for her.’ I tried to calm him down, saying that there were people here to help. I explained that they had to catch a train to Croatia, then Slovenia and Austria before reaching Germany. ‘Six of us have €60 left. Will it be enough for us to finish our journey?’ I was speechless again.” photo by Marko Djurica/Reuters, 23 January 2016

Vuelve la nieve y el frío a los #Balcanes para miles de niños y niñas #refugiados sin más abrigo que lo puesto.: image via Jesús Gabaldón @jangelgabaldon, 17 January 2016

Eso es el mar

Amanecer en #Lesvos porque, aunque se nos olvide, estamos en una isla griega preciosa: image via Voices on-site @Voicesonsite, 21 January 2016

Desde #Siria, 4 años. Le encantan los perros, reía todo el tiempo. Y aunq el idioma era distinto nos entendimos genial.: image via BCG @BCarilloG, 18 January 2016

Otras dos. Lloviendo, con niebla y frío. Niños llorando, hombres y mujeres conmovidos por el pánico. Eso es el mar.: image via Voices on-site @Voicesonsite, 20 January 2016

Si no hubiese estado @Gfireinfo no sé q hubiese pasado. Zona llena d rocas y con 4 voluntarios. Todos a salvo! Gracias.: image via Voices on-site @Voicesonsite, 20 January 2016

Desde ayer a las 12 d la noche hasta ahora mismo aprox. 14 barcas han llegado. Y siguen.."Buenos días" desde #Lesvos: image via Voices on-site @Voicesonsite, 19 January 2016

Alemanya confisca diners i béns a les refugiades. La policia requisa actius que superen 350€: image via Roger Suso @eurosuso, 21 January 2016

15+ boats arrived today in #Sykamnia with many children.. All safe. #refugeesGR #safepassage (photo Dora Halari): image via Team Platanos @team_platanos, 21 January 2016

122 muertos en 21 días. El Egeo la fosa común de la Europa fortaleza. #WelcomeRefugees #refugeesGr: image via Dabidik @Dabidik, 22 January 2016

We deeply deplore loss of life in the Aegean Sea, as weather worsens. More legal avenues are urgently needed.: image via UNCHR Greece @UNCHR Greece, 23 January 2016

Survivors after a rescue operation on Friday, when two boats of migrants sank near Greek islands in the eastern Aegean Sea: photo by Giorgos Drosos/Kalymnos-News.gr, via Associated Press, 22 January 2016

A problem for which a solution can be found is not a philosophical problem; a philosophical problem is a problem for which no solution can be found

A Yemeni girl watched women protest Saudi airstrikes in front of the office of the United Nations in Sana, the Yemeni capital: photo by Mohammed Huwais/Agence France-Presse, 23 January 2016

Israeli settlers stood by after dozens of Israeli Jews entered two homes in the Palestinian city of Hebron, in the West Bank, setting off violent clashes over claims of ownership: photo by Hazem Bader/Agence France-Presse, 23 January 2016

Relatives mourned at the funeral for Saeed Jawad Hossini, 29, who was killed in a suicide attack on a bus in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday. The attack targeted employees of the media company Tolo TV.: photo by Shah Marai/Agence France-Presse, 23 January 2016

A brother of one of the people killed in the bus bombing in Kabul mourned at a cemetery in the Afghan capital: photo by Ahmad Masood/Reuters, 23 January 2016

Poll: Trump in lead at 40.6 percent. @AFPphoto: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 23 January 2016

El caos

Migrants fled tear gas fired by the police near the Channel Tunnel in Calais, France, where hundreds of migrants are living in a camp: photo by Michel Spingler/Associated Press, 23 January 2016

Camión con madera llega a #Dunkerque. El caos x coger unos trozos y así poder calentarse. Foto: Jordi Oliver #Calais: image via Fotomovimiento @Fotomovimiento, 21 January 2016

A man walks in a makeshift camp known as...A man walks in a makeshift camp known as "the jungle", on January 18, 2016 in Calais. The residents of the camp in the northern French port of Calais are in a desperate race to save their makeshift homes from the bulldozers. Local authorities warned them earlier this week that they had just a few days to clear hundreds of shanties made from wooden planks and tarpaulin from the edge of the road that borders the camp. / AFP / PHILIPPE HUGUENPHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP/Getty Images

A man walks in a makeshift camp known as “the jungle” in Calais. The residents of the camp in the northern French port of Calais are in a desperate race to save their makeshift homes from the bulldozers. Local authorities warned them earlier this week that they had just a few days to clear hundreds of shanties made from wooden planks and tarpaulin from the edge of the road that borders the camp.: photo by Philippe Huguen/AFP, 18 January 2016

Precarity

Syrian refugee Bissan Alabdullah, almost 3, smiles while standing next to her family's laundry outside their tent at an informal tented settlement near the Syrian border on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2016.

Syrian refugee Bissan Alabdullah smiles while standing next to her family’s laundry outside their tent at an informal tented settlement near the Syrian border on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan, Wednesday: photo by Muhammed Muheisen/AP, 20 January 2016

Syrian refugee girls play at an informal settlement on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan. #APPhoto by @Muheisen81 image via AP Images @AP_Images, 22 January 2016

A child from the Abu Sleiman family has a lunch at his house in the Syrian town of Beit Nayem, in the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus: photo by Amer Almohibany/AFP, 14 January 2016

A Syrian woman and her children take shelter on the deserted Greek island of #Pasas. #APPhoto by @PGiannakouris: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 20 January 2016

GREECE-A boy plays football as he waits to cross the Greek Macedonian border near Idomeni. By @SakisMitrolidis #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 14 January 2016

syria aleppo 19-1-2016: image via baraa al halabi @baraaalhalabi, 19 January 2016

Migrants and refugees walk after crossing the Macedonian border into Serbia, near the village of Miratovac. @AFPphoto: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 23 January 2016

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January 26, 2016, 11:46 pm

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#NobodyLikesItWhen You seize public land for the #KochAgenda #bundymilitia: image via Anomaly's Army @edmeyer_able, 25 January 2016

Ammon Bundy sits at a desk he's using at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon on Friday, Jan. 22, 2016. Bundy is the leader of an armed group occupying a national wildlife refuge to protest federal land policies.

Ammon Bundy, leader of an armed group occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, sits at a desk he's commandeered at the Refuge on Friday, toting up the day's bonanza of free stuff: photo by Keith Ridler/AP, 22 January 2016

[untitled]: image via Nemoj Danas Satano @NDSatano, 13 January 2016

[untitled] #monopoly #YeeHawd #YeeHawdists #yokelharem #OregonUnderAttack #oregonstandoff #dicksfordicks #supportmalheur: image via DerekB @punkrockmohawks, 14 January 2016

#hypocrite #YallQaeda #Oregonstandoff#YeeHawd #YeeHawdists #dicksfordicks #supportmalheur: image via DerekB @punkrockmohawks, 19 January 2016

A class act! #YallQaeda #YeeHawd #YeeHawdists #leech #SupportMalheur #dicksfordicks #VanillaIsis: image via DerekB @punkrockmohawks, 19 January 2016

Blaine Cooper playing dress up: image via Daily Kos, 19 January 2016

Melissa Cooper taking her children from a friend or family member

Melissa Coopertaking her children from an unidentified home: image via Daily Kos, 19 January 2016

Melissa Cooper chugs an energy drink while planning the next meal. Cooper is in charge of sorting supplies, cooking, and setting up new arrivals with a place to sleep. "I'm tired. I'm getting four hours of sleep a night," she said.

Melissa Cooper chugs an energy drink purchased by donations from supporters, while planning the next meal for the armed men occupying the Malheur Wildlife Refuge. Cooper is in charge of sorting free donated supplies, cooking, and setting up new militia arrivals with a place to sleep. "I'm tired. I'm getting four hours of sleep a night," she said: photo by Amanda Peacher/OPB, 22 January 2016

Strange War Song in the High Desert

A strange challenge from the occupied Malheur Wildlife Refuge. #Liveon2: screengrab from Kelly Gneitng's You Tube account via KATU News, 25 January 2016

Oregon refuge occupant challenges Chris Christie to sumo wrestling: KATU, 25 January 2016

HARNEY COUNTY, Ore. (KATU) -- One of the men occupying the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Harney County has challenged New Jersey governor and presidential hopeful Chris Christie to 10 sumo matches.

In a video posted to YouTube Saturday, Kelly Gneiting says the group's occupation of the refuge will end if Christie wins the challenge.

Gneiting is a 425-pound, five-time U.S. sumo champion.

Christie has not yet responded to the video.

Gneiting refers to Christie as his "younger brother" several times in the video while issuing his challenge.

The former long-haul trucker turned U.S. sumo wrestler didn't take kindly to Christie's comments about disbanding the Oregon wildlife refuge "militia" turned occupiers.

"Remember when we used to call you 'Little Christie,'" Gneiting says continuing his taunt.

Burns Paiute Tribe to feds: Stop allowing #OregonStandoff's Bundy free passage to refuge: image via The Oregonian Verified account @Oregonian, 25 January 2016

Gov pleads with Obama, Attorney General and FBI Director to intervene in the #OregonStandoff: image via Talking Points Memo Verified account @TPM, 21 January 2016

Man en route to refuge occupation threatens officers, arrested for DUI: image via KATU News @ KATUNews, 25 January 2016

Man arrested after saying he wanted to join Oregon militia to kill federal agent: Video shows Joseph Stetson refusing to hand over his gun, and he threatened to murder police as he was being arrested for driving under the influence: Sam Levin in San Francisco for The Guardian, 26 January 2016

Oregon police have arrested a man after he said he wanted to join Ammon Bundy’s armed militia occupying a wildlife refuge and intended to “help with killing federal agents”.

Joseph Stetson, 54, was armed with a pellet gun and on his way to join the protests at the Malheur national wildlife refuge when Oregon state police stopped him and eventually arrested him for driving under the influence of alcohol, according to local prosecutors.

The Harney County sheriff’s office on Monday night published body camera footage of an Oregon state police trooper questioning and handcuffing Stetson at a gas station about 30 miles away from the wildlife sanctuary that a rightwing militia seized on 2 January to protest the federal government.

Body camera footage released by the Oregon state police showed the trooper questioning and handcuffing Joseph Stetson.

Police had received reports Monday morning that Stetson was armed and had made comments that he wanted to join Bundy’s militia and intended to “help with killing federal agents”, according to the Harney County district attorney.

Stetson told troopers that he wanted to be Bundy’s “personal guard”, officials said.

The video shows Stetson, from Woodburn, Oregon, refusing to hand over his gun and claiming that the smell of alcohol on his breath was from medicine. Once the officer started arresting him –- after he reminded him that police were recording the conversation –- Stetson began threatening to murder law enforcement officials.

“I will kill all of you. You don’t believe me?” the man said on the footage. “If I go to jail, when I come out, I will kill you. … You friggin’ coward sons of bitches! … Are you a real state trooper?” He later screamed: “I’m the last hope! … Let me go, dammit!”

Officials said Stetson also kicked and damaged the police vehicle door.

Stetson has a violent history, according to police. He was convicted in 2009 in a case involving burglary and domestic rampage, the Oregonian reported.

For the past three weeks, commentators across the country have criticized law enforcement for continuing to let people freely enter and exit the Malheur occupation, which has enabled a steady flow of supplies and allowed new groups of armed men to join the protests. Leaders of the militia have even recruited supporters outside of Oregon.

Police have made a handful of other arrests associated with the occupation -- but all have occurred away from the refuge. One militiamen drove a stolen government vehicle off the wildlife sanctuary and into the nearby town of Burns, 30 miles away.

Another man was arrested for a firearms offense while driving outside of the refuge. A third man who had spent time at the occupation crashed his car on an icy road but was only cited for driving without a license, according to police.

It’s unclear how and when the militia leaders intend to end the occupation. Bundy recently spoke with FBI officials but made no commitments about leaving the refuge.

An Oregon state police trooper speaks with Joseph Stetson before his arrest in this screengrab of body camera footage: image by You Tube via The Guardian, 26 January 2016

Not sure how well it'll work to tweet a panorama, but took aside from #oregonstandoff to shoot the Steens yesterday: image via Dave Killen #@killendave, 26 January 2016

Black and White Like Day and Night

Expedition 46 flight engineer Tim Peake ...Expedition 46 flight engineer Tim Peake of the European Space Agency (ESA) shared this stunning nighttime photograph with his social media followers on January 25, 2016, writing, "Beautiful night pass over Italy, Alps and Mediterranean." / AFP / esa/nasa / TIM PEAKE / == RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE / MANDATORY CREDIT: "AFP PHOTO / HANDOUT / ESA/NASA / TIM PEAKE "/ NO MARKETING / NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS / DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS == TIM PEAKE/AFP/Getty Images

Expedition 46 flight engineer Tim Peake of the European Space Agency shared this photograph with his social media followers writing, “Beautiful night pass over Italy, Alps and Mediterranean”: photo by Tim Peake/AFP, 26 January 2016

A sunbeam illuminates the eye of a zebra in the zoo of Frankfurt, central Germany, Tuesday Jan. 26, 2016. Weather forecasts predict rising temperatures for Germany. (Boris Roessler/dpa via AP)

A zebra in the zoo at Frankfurt, Germany: photo by Boris Roessler/AP, 26 January 2016

Migrants Wait For Trains In Sub Zero Temperatures On The Serbian Border...PRESEVO, SERBIA - JANUARY 26: A group of migrant children wait for hot food in sub zero temperatures near the Serbian-Croatian border on January 26, 2016 in Presevo, Serbia. Migrants have been braving sub zero temperatures as they cross the border from Macedonia into Serbia. (Photo by Milos Bicanski/Getty Images)

A group of migrant and refugee children wait for hot food in sub zero temperatures near the Serbian-Croatian border in Presevo, Serbia: photo by Milos Bicanski via FT Photo Diary, 26 January 2016

Palestinian refugee children during cold weather in Gaza City...epa05125781 A Palestinian refugee girl poses for a photograph outside her family's small house during cold weather on a rainy day in Gaza City, the Gaza Strip, 25 January 2016.

A Palestinian refugee girl poses for a photograph outside her family’s small house during cold weather on a rainy day in Gaza City: photo by Mohammed Saber/EPA, 26 January 2016

Expedition 46 On International Space Station...IN SPACE - JANUARY 20: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY) (NO SALES) In this handout image supplied by the European Space Agency (ESA), A photo of an aurora taken by ESA astronaut Tim Peake from on board the International Space Station, January 20, 2016. Expedition 46-47 crewmembers ESA astronaut Tim Peake, NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and Russian cosmonaut commander Yuri Malenchenko were welcomed aboard the International Space Station by Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Korniyenko and Oleg Kononenko, and NASA astronaut Scott Kelly for a six-month mission, as part of Expedition 46. (Photo by Tim Peake / ESA via Getty Images)

An aurora photographed by ESA astronaut Tim Peake from on board the International Space Station: photo by Tim Peake/ESA, 25 January 2016

Gaza daily live...epa05119169 Seven years old Wafa-a (L) and her sister 10 years old Soa-ad Wahdan play next to their family house, which was damaged during Israeli war against Gaza Strip in the summer of 2014 in the east of Beit Hanun town in the northern Gaza Strip, 22 January 2016. EPA/MOHAMMED SABER

Seven year old Wafa-a Wahdan plays next to her family house, which was damaged during the Israeli war against Gaza Strip in the summer of 2014 in the east of Beit Hanun town in the northern Gaza Strip: photo by Mohammed Saber/EPA, 25 January 2016

Children attend a party for children affected by war and in need for psychological support, in the Douma neighborhood of Damascus...Children attend a party for children affected by war and in need for psychological support, in the Douma neighborhood of Damascus, Syria January 24, 2016. The party was organized by the Syrian Arab Red Crescent. Picture taken January 24, 2016. REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh

Children attend a party for children affected by war and in need for psychological support, in the Douma neighborhood of Damascus, Syria.The party was organised by the Syrian Arab Red Crescent: photo by Bassam Khabieh/Reuters, 25 January 2016

A sunbeam illuminates the eye of a zebra in the zoo at Frankfurt, Germany: photo by Boris Roessler/AP, 26 January 2016

An aurora photographed by ESA astronaut Tim Peake from on board the International Space Station: photo by Tim Peake/ESA, 25 January 2016

A new artwork by British artist Banksy opposite the French Embassy, in London. The artwork depicts the young girl from the musical Les Miserables with tears streaming from her eyes as a can of CS gas lies beneath her. The work is criticising the use of teargas in the refugee camp in Calais.: photo by Alastair Grant / AP, 25 January 2016

Occupation / "Settlement" = No Refuge

Palestinian Bedouin boys climb on the remains of their makeshift homes near al-Azariya, on the West Bank. The Israeli army said it demolished the homes as they were built illegally. The illegal Jewish settlement of Maale Adumin is seen in the background.: photo by Ahmad Gharabli/AFP, 26 January 2016

Palestinian Bedouins play around the remains of makeshift homes that were demolished by the Israeli army in the West Bank city of al-Azariya, on January 21, 2016. (AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP/Getty Images)

Palestinian Bedouins play around the remains of makeshift homes that were demolished by the Israeli army in the West Bank city of al-Azariya: photo by Ahmad Gharabli/AFP, 26 January 2016

Ban Ki-moon calls Israeli settlement expansion an 'affront' to the world: Netanyahu says Ban giving ‘tailwind to terror’ as UN chief says violence born of Palestinians’ despair after ‘half-century of occupation and paralysis of peace’: Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem for the Guardian, 26 January 2016

Israel recently confirmed that it would appropriate a large tract of fertile land in the occupied West Bank.

The land is near Jordan, in an area where Israel already has many illegal settlement farms built on land Palestinians seek for a state.

UN secretary general Ban Ki-Moon said he was “deeply troubled” by reports that the Israeli government had approved plans for more than 150 new homes in “illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank”. “These provocative acts are bound to increase the growth of settler populations, further heighten tensions and undermine any prospects for a political road ahead,” Ban told a United Nations security council meeting on the Middle East.

Non stop killing! Between 14-20 January 5 pal civilians killed 23 injured across #WestBank: image via Ray - #Palestine @rayoosheh, 22 January 2016

Danegeld

Denmark to adopt controversial reforms aimed at dissuading asylum seekers: image via Yahoo News @Yahoo News, 26 January 2016

Danish parliament approves plan to seize assets from refugees: New laws allow police to search asylum seekers to secure cash and valuables, along with other measures to deter migration: David Crouch in Copenhagen and Patrick Kingsley in London for The Guardian, 26 January 2016

Denmark has become the latest European state to force refugees to hand over their valuables, with the continent increasingly using scare tactics and physical deterrents to deal with the biggest migration crisis since the second world war.

Following similar moves in Switzerland and southern Germany, Denmark’s parliament voted on Tuesday to allow police to search asylum seekers on arrival in the country and confiscate any non-essential items worth more than 10,000 Danish kroner (about £1,000) that have no sentimental value to their owner.

Danish prime minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen has come under fire for his government's anti-immigration party: photo via The Independent, 26 January 2016

The bill presented by the centre-right minority government of the prime minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, was approved by 81 of the 109 lawmakers present, as members of the opposition Social Democrats backed the measures.

The Danish government says the procedure is to cover the cost of each asylum seeker’s treatment by the state, and mimics treatment of Danish citizens on welfare benefits.

The new measures are aimed at deterring refugees from seeking asylum in Denmark: photo by Johan Nilsson / TT News Agency/PA via ITV News, 26 January 2016

The UN has nevertheless called the move concerning and regrettable, while an opposition party termed it “morally horrible”. An academic specialist confirmed that Danes are expected to use their own income before claiming benefits, but pointed out that except in rare occasions police do not have the right to search Danish welfare claimants.

Rights campaigners have also criticised the laws, which will also prevent refugees from applying to be reunited with their children for three years, and will only give war refugees from Syria a single year of protection.

Mohammed, 19, from Bangladesh, at the refugee camp in Thisted, northern Jutland. Danish politicians have approved a law allowing the state to seize valuables from refugees to cover the cost of their maintenance: photo by Sara Gangsted/EPA, 26 January 2016

Earlier this month, government spokesman Marcus Knuth told the Guardian it was “ludicrous” to compare the new law to the treatment of Jews during the Holocaust, since similar laws apply to Danish citizens on welfare benefits. “We’re simply applying the same rules we apply to Danish citizens who wish to take money from the Danish government,” Knuth said.

But opponents of the law argue that while refugees can in general still expect to be treated humanely in Denmark, the new legislation is ethically unsound. Pernille Skipper, an MP and legal affairs spokesperson for Enhedslisten, a leftwing Danish party, said: “Morally it is a horrible way to treat people fleeing mass crimes, war, rapes. They are fleeing from war and how do we treat them? We take their jewellery.”

Denmark's Minister of Immigration and Integration, Inger Stojberg, listens to the parliamentary debate: photo by Reuters/Mathias Loevgren Bojesen/Scanpix via ITV News, 26 January 2016

Klaus Petersen, professor at the Centre for Welfare State Research at the University of Southern Denmark, confirmed that Danish welfare claimants have to give up their savings before they receive benefits -- but not their valuables, unlike refugees. They will also not be searched except in rare circumstances.

Petersen said: “A Danish citizen could be searched in an extreme case if the municipality has a suspicion of fraud, but you need court permission to do so. For refugees, you would not need a court permission.”

A regional spokesman for the UN refugee agency, Zoran Stevanović, said: “Denmark has traditionally been an inspiration to others for setting human rights standards. However, rather than showing and providing solidarity and sanctuary, Denmark is focusing on developing and implementing individual and restrictive responses. UNHCR regrets that Denmark is introducing restrictions to its asylum policy rather than focusing on building and promoting a fair distribution of asylum seekers within all countries in the EU.

“The law introduces restrictive measures on asylum seekers that increasingly hinder their ability to apply for asylum in Denmark. We are particularly concerned by reduced social benefits and restricted access to family reunification. We are also concerned that refugees with temporary protection are only allowed to reside in Denmark for one year and yet are only able to apply for family reunification after three years.”

Denmark accepted about 20,000 asylum seekers in 2015 -– 2% of the total to arrive in Europe last year.

To further deter future asylum seekers, Denmark also recently introduced more stringent border controls, forcing more potential asylum seekers back to Germany, which took in about 1.1 million migrants last year.

Refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, Eritrea and Iraq seek asylum in Denmark: photo via The Independent, 26 January 2016

Welcome to Europe. Give us your valuables.

OK, this was a nazi achievement, but it seems that #Denmark will catch up shortly: image via Thomas Mavrofides @blacktom1961, 26 January 2016

I honestly just can't wrap my mind around #Denmark's law allowing seizure of refugees' valuables. "Hi, you survived war, now pay for it.": tweet by Rawya Rageh @RawyaRageh, 26 January 2016

Welcome to Europe. Are you: A multinational corporation > don't worry about tax etc A refugee fleeing war > give us your valuables #Denmark: tweet by David Schneider @David Schneider, 26 January 2016

"If you've got any money - you certainly don't go to #Denmark. That's just ridiculous." Immigrant to @BBCWorldTonight: tweet by Bonnie Greer @Bonn1eGreer, 26 January 2016 Brent, London

The European race to the bottom is officially won by #Denmark. Once a humane nation.: tweet by Jan Egeland @NRC_Egeland, 26 January 2016

The Bridge Series 4: a body is found on the bridge. Social Democrats in #Denmark rush there to see if it has a watch they can pawn.: tweet by Gavan Titley @ Gavan Titley, 26 January 2016

Danish police officers stopped asylum seekers from Syria in September at the Padborg train station, near the border with Germany: photo by Mauricio Lima for The New York Times, 26 January 2016

Migrants in Padborg, Denmark, walking to police vans last week after officers checked the identity papers of people on a train arriving from Germany: photo by. Sean Gallup / The New York Times, 13 January 2016

#Denmark's refugee asset grab: The most punitive step yet among EU nations to deter refugees: image via POLITICO Europe Verified account @POLITICOEurope, 26 January 2016

Press release: #Denmark Parliament must reject cruel changes to refugee law #refugeeswelcome: image via Amnesty EU @AmnestyEU, 20 January 2016

Cruel and regressive changes to #Denmark's refugee law MUST be rejected. #refugees: image via Amnesty International Verified account EU @amnesty, 21 January 2016

#Denmark ADOPTS CONTROVERSIAL LAW TO SEIZE ASYLUM SEEKERS' VALUABLES #migrantcrisis: image via Eta Centauri (ηCen) #ECentauri, 26 January 2016

I've carried this coin from a visit with me for years but clearly #Denmark must be desperate so I'm sending it back: image via Pete Taylor @kimondo, 26 January 2016 Wadsworth, London

Tribute for Passage

An aid worker sits in silence next to the body of a young girl as he waits for police to arrive on North Lesvos: image via PositiveAction @PositiveActionH, 26 January 2016

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#Oregonstandoff militants share video of romantic possible last dance, await FBI call/raid: image via Jennifer Hayden @Scout_Finch, 28 January 2016

Definition of a three percenter: someone who only uses 3% of his brain. #Oregonstandoff: image via Cornelia @PaladinCornelia, 28 January 2016

I couldn't get any good shots of the militants as they were leaving, but here's one anyways. #oregonstandoff: image via Gordon Friedman @gordonfriedman, 28 January 2016

@VoodooDoughnut welcomes Ammon Bundy to Portland: image via KGW News @KGWNews, 28 January 2016

Blood in the snow

FBI aerial shows moment LaVoy Finicum reaches for his weapon #Oregonstandoff: image via Thomas Boyd @thomasboyd, 28 January 2016

FBI releases video of shooting death of militant LaVoy Finicum #Oregonstandoff: image via BuzzFeed News @BuzzFeed News, 28 January 2016

I Know a Man

As I sd to my
friend, because I am
always talking -- John, I

sd, which was not his
name, the darkness sur-
rounds us, what

can we do against
it, or else, shall we &
why not, buy a goddamn big car,

drive, he sd, for
christ’s sake, look
out where yr going.

Robert Creeley (1926-2005), I Know a Man, from For Love, 1962

Bundy and four other militia leaders arrested, another killed in violent encounter w/police: image via Talking Points Memo @TPM, 27 January 2017

@Henry McRandall1 All respect to Lavern Finestra! We will NEVER forget you, #Tarpman @Anomaly100 #SnackLivesMatter: image via Jon Hutson @JonHutson, 28 January 2016

Only by blood and suffering and little snacks

Only by Blood and Suffering: Regaining Lost Freedom: A Novel by Lavoy Finicum, 2015 (cover): image via Talking Points Memo, 11 January 2016

"My AR was cradled in my left arm. The chamber was charged and I clicked off the safety. Ann Rafferty [a mayor] was still talking as I walked out onto the floor. I walked towards the table and Ann started stumbling over her train of speech as she as she watched me come. Zackary Williams [a DHS officer] was at the end of the table and I passed to the right side. I did not stop until I had circled behind Zackary. This way my rifle barrel was always pointed in his general direction."

-- from LaVoy Finicum: Only by Blood and Suffering: Freedom Regained (2015)

Lavoy Finicum with long gun and tarp, settling in at the Refuge: image via Talking Points Memo, 11 January 2016

The forlorn hope

WATCH: Live feed from inside the standoff at Oregon wildlife refuge: image via Talking Points Memo @TPM, 27 January 2017

I'm cold, tired, and ready to go home. I can't act tough any longer. This isn't for me. Thanks for all that supported us. #Oregonstandoff: tweet by David Fry @RealDavidFry, 27 January 2015

Video gamer and live streamer David Fry at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge: image via David Fry @RealDavidFry, 27 January 2015

Meet the new leader of the Oregon standoff: image via Talking Points Memo @TPM, 27 January 2017

Oregon occupiers put out call to arms after arrests of militia leaders: image via Talking Points Memo @TPM, 27 January 2016

Oregon #Malheur wildlife refuge holdouts told to go home after one killed: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 27 January 2016

Sun sets on a tense day in #HarneyCounty. Little movement from law enforcement or occupiers. #Oregonstandoff: image via Amanda Peacher @amandapeacher, 27 January 2016

Also FYI Harney County remains beautiful as ever #Oregonstandoff: image via Beth Nakamura @bethnakamura, 27 January 2016

FAA declares no-fly zone over #Oregon bird sanctuary. Military op in works? #Oregonstandoff: image via Kurt Nimmo @kurt_nimmo, 27 January 2016

The End of the Line by Tom Clark, 1980: cover by TC

When an idiot has a say

A construction worker stands in front of a piece of street art portraying prospective U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump, in east London...A construction worker stands in front of a piece of street art portraying prospective U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump, in east London, January 28, 2016. An online petition to bar Trump from entering the United Kingdom recently triggered a debate in Parliament after if was signed by over 500,000 people. REUTERS/Andrew Winning EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVE

A construction worker stands in front of a piece of street art portraying prospective U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump, in east London: photo by Andrew Winning/Reuters, 28 January 2016

Hillary Clinton Holds Get Out The Caucus Event In Iowa...ADEL, IA - JANUARY 27: Democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton greets supporters during a "get out the caucus" event at the Adel Family Fun Center on January 27, 2016 in Adel, Iowa. With less than a week to go before the Iowa caucuses, Hillary Clinton is campaigning throughout Iowa. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton greets supporters during a “get out the caucus” event at the Adel Family Fun Center in Adel, Iowa. With less than a week to go before the Iowa caucuses, Hillary Clinton is campaigning throughout Iowa: photo by Justin Sullivan via FT Photo Diary, 28 January 2016

Vehicles carry coffins draped with Iraqi flags and containing bodies found in a mass grave in Anbar province. Iraqi authorities have uncovered the mass grave in Ramadi containing at least 40 bodies, including women and children, apparently killed by Islamic State insurgents when they seized the city in May: photo by Reuters, 28 January 2016

In this photograph taken on January 27, ...In this photograph taken on January 27, 2016 an Afghan woman walks past a mural that also reads "seeking knowledge is obligatory on every Muslim man and woman" in Herat. AFP PHOTO / Aref KarimiAref Karimi/AFP/Getty Images

An Afghan woman walks past a mural that also reads “seeking knowledge is obligatory on every Muslim man and woman” in Herat: photo by Aref Karimi/AFP, 28 January 2016

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An Afghan woman walks past a mural that also reads “seeking knowledge is obligatory on every Muslim man and woman” in Herat: photo by Aref Karimi/AFP, 28 January 2016

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GAZA - The shadows of Bedouin children are sen behind a fence at their encampment in Khan Yunis By MahmudHams #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardafp, 20 January 2016

"Pepper", humanoid robots from Japan's t..."Pepper", humanoid robots from Japan's telecommunication giant Softbank, dance to attract customers at the "Pepper World" exhibition to promote show applications for corporate use in Tokyo on January 28, 2016. Softbank announced the company will open a pop-up smartphone shop in Tokyo next month as five Peppers will sell the smartphones to display their skills for customer services. AFP PHOTO / Yoshikazu TSUNOYOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images

“Pepper”, humanoid robots from Japan’s telecommunication giant Softbank, dance to attract customers at the Pepper World exhibition: photo by Yoshikazu Tsuno, AFP, 28 January 2016

Models of First Order's Stormtrooper Battle Buddy from the film "Star Wars - The Force Awakens" are displayed in a shop in Shanghai...Models of First Order's Stormtrooper Battle Buddy from the film "Star Wars - The Force Awakens" are displayed in a shop in Shanghai, China, January 19, 2016. REUTERS/Stringer ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. THIS PICTURE IS DISTRIBUTED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS. CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA.

Models of First Order's Stormtrooper Battle Buddy from Star Wars: The Force Awakens are displayed in a shop in in Shanghai, China: photo by Reuters, 19 January 2016

A monkey holds a dice during a performance ahead of the Chinese New Year of the Monkey which falls on February 8, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, January 28, 2016. REUTERS/China Daily TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. THIS PICTURE IS DISTRIBUTED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS. CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA.

A monkey holds a dice during a performance ahead of the Chinese New Year of the Monkey which falls on February 8, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province: photo by China Daily/Reuters, 28 January 2016

US-MILITIA-GOVERNMENT-BUILDING-TAKEOVER

A television truck and a reporter in a car sit along Highway 78 located approximately 4 miles from the Malheur Wildlife Refuge Headquarters near Burns, Oregon on January 27, 2016. The leaders of the Bundy Militia occupation were arrested, one of them shot dead, during a traffic stop. There are still many occupants digging in at the federal wildlife refuge despite the heavy police presence surrounding them. All roads surrounding the facility have been closed and heavily armed by Law Enforcement Agencies: photo by Rob Kerr / AFP, 27 January 2016

Oregon standoff in Harney County

Law enforcement personnel block an access road to the Malheur National Wildlife Refuges: photo by Thomas Boyd/ Associated Press, 27 January 2016

All your base are belong to us

A model for the fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier at the Paris Haute Couture Week Spring/Summer 2016: photo by Landon Nordeman for The New York Times, 27 January 2016

Children of migrants waiting in frigid weather near the Serbian-Croatian border, hoping to cross with their parents into Croatia: photo by Milos Bicanski / The New York Times, 26 January 2016

A Greek man grabbed a bag of tangerines as farmers handed out free produce in Athens to protest government plans to overhaul the pension system: photo by Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters, 27 January 2016

Ultra-Orthodox Jews from the Belz Hasidic dynasty grabbed oranges as they celebrated the feast of Tu Bishvat, or New Year for Trees, in Jerusalem: photo by Abir Sultan/European Pressphoto Agency, 25 January 2016

Common buzzards (Buteo buteo) fighting over food in Pacsmagi-tavak Nature Reserve near Tamasi, Hungary: photo by Attila Kovacs/EPA, 27 January 2016

Devotees offer prayers as they stand on the bank of the Hanumante River during a month-long Swasthani Brata Katha festival in Bhaktapur...Devotees offer prayers as they stand on the bank of the Hanumante River during a month-long Swasthani Brata Katha festival in Bhaktapur, Nepal, January 27, 2016. During the month long festival, devotees recite one chapter of a Hindu tale daily from the 31-chapter sacred Swasthani Brata Katha book that is dedicated to God Madhavnarayan and Goddess Swasthani, alongside various other gods and goddess and the miraculous feats performed by them. The devotees also go on pilgrimages to various temples, perform religious rituals, take a holy bath in the rivers and fast for a month, especially among women who believe fasting helps in their family's well-being or in getting them a good husband. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar

Devotees offer prayers as they stand on the bank of the Hanumante River during a month-long Swasthani Brata Katha festival in Bhaktapur, Nepal: photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters, 27 January 2016

Presidential Candidate Donald Trump Holds Iowa City Campaign Rally...Donald Trump, president and chief executive of Trump Organization Inc. and 2016 Republican presidential candidate, reacts to a protester during an event in Iowa City, Iowa, U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016. Citing unfair treatment by Fox News, Trump will not participate in the Republican presidential debate on Thursday, his campaign manager told reporters. Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg *** Local Caption *** Donald Trump

Donald Trump, president and chief executive of Trump Organization Inc. and 2016 Republican presidential candidate, reacts to a protester during an event in Iowa City, Iowa: photo by Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg, 27 January 2016

The End of the Line

Blood on the Moon (1948): photo by hytam2, 1 April 2014

My prime of youth is but a froste of cares:

My feaste of joy, is but a dishe of payne:

My cropp of corne, is but a field of tares:

And all my good is but vaine hope of gaine:

The daye is gone, and yet I sawe no sonn:

And nowe I live, and nowe my life is donn.

The springe is paste, and yet it hath not sprong,

The fruite is deade, and yet the leaves are greene

My youth is gone, and yet I am but yonge

I sawe the woorld, and yet I was not seene

My threed is cutt, and yet it is not sponn,

And nowe I lyve, and nowe my life is donn.

I saught my death, and founde it in my womb,

I lookt for life, and sawe it was a shade.

I trode the earth, and knewe it was my Tombe

And nowe I die, and nowe I am but made

The glasse is full, and nowe the glass is rune

And nowe I live, and nowe my life is donn.

Chidiock Tichborne (c. 1558-20 September 1586): Tychbornes Elegie, written with his owne hand in the Tower before his Execution (1586)

Véronique et son Cancre (1958): photo by Aka Vetala (omoplata 1), 8 February 2014

Le Amiche (1955): photo by Aka Vetala (omoplata 1), 4 February 2014

Mahanagar (1963): photo by Aka Vetala (omoplata 1), 10 September 2013

Mercy (1970): photo by Aka Vetala (omoplata 1), 22 October 2013

Un Nommé La Rocca (1961): photo by Aka Vetala (omoplata 1), 23 November 2013

Gideon of Scotland Yard (1958): photo by Aka Vetala (omoplata 1), 20 April 2014

The Horror of It All (1964): photo by Aka Vetala (omoplata 1), 13 April 2014

Chikaketsu renzoko reipu (1985): photo by Aka Vetala (omoplata 1), 21 October 2013

Warning Shot (1966): photo by Leo Garcia (LenhillAdvanced), 10 January 2014

El Pico (1983): photo by Aka Vetala (omoplata 1), 1 February 2014

The Sandpiper (1965): photo by Leo Garcia (LenhillAdvanced), 28 January 2014

Dentist on the Job (1961): photo by hytam2, 13 March 2014

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Waiting on Tomorrow

January 30, 2016, 1:30 pm

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Linda Gainer, owner of The Narrows, a restaurant and tavern just outside the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, said she was criticized for serving everyone involved in the standoff, from the F.B.I. to the protesters: photo by Jarod Opperman for The New York Times, 29 January 2016

Not under pressure of a private grief,
Oh for but a few years yet of useful

Life, for all's complete once your rat
Race is run, that's how things go, no one prescribes to

Or gets to presume to order life
Around as though it were a sort of waitress race

Sister Life has better things to do than wait
Around in the wings for the part

You may have written for her

Waitress serving at restaurant counter while wearing Halloween chicken costume, Leroy's Restaurant, Monrovia, California (original caption: "D.K. made fine chicken, but there was something vaguely creepy about ordering eggs..."): photo by Ross Berteig, 31 October 2002

Mason's Cafe: truck driver, sailor and waitress at highway coffee shop on US 90 in Southern Louisiana: photo by John Vachon, 1943 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

Waves crash over the sea wall in Blackpool, as Storm Gertrude is sweeping the country with winds of more than 90mph, leaving thousands of homes without power, buildings damaged and transport disrupted: photo by Peter Byrne/PA, 29 January 2016

Kashmiri Muslim devotees pray outside the shrine of Sufi Saint Syed Abdul Qadir Jilani in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, Jan. 29, 2016. Thousands of devotees thronged to the shrine, where the Kashmiri Muslim head priest displayed the relics of the Sufi Saint. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Kashmiri Muslim devotees pray outside the shrine of Sufi Saint Syed Abdul Qadir Jilani in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir. Thousands of devotees thronged to the shrine, where the Kashmiri Muslim head priest displayed the relics of the Sufi Saint: photo by Dar Yasin/AP, 29 January 2016

TOPSHOT - A fishing boat is seen in the ...TOPSHOT - A fishing boat is seen in the morning general view of the city skyline covered by a smoggy haze in Mumbai on January 29, 2016. AFP PHOTO / PUNIT PARANJPE / AFP / PUNIT PARANJPEPUNIT PARANJPE/AFP/Getty Images

A fishing boat is seen and the city skyline is covered by a smoggy haze in Mumbai: photo by Punit Paranjpe/AFP, 29 January 2016

A volunteer for U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Sanders holds the door open ahead of a campaign rally in Fairfield, Iowa...Billy Hunter, a volunteer for U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, holds a door open while waiting for Sanders to arrive at a campaign rally in Fairfield, Iowa January 28, 2016. REUTERS/Mark Kauzlarich

Billy Hunter, a volunteer for U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, holds a door open while waiting for Sanders to arrive at a campaign rally in Fairfield, Iowa: photo by Mark Kauzlarich/Reuters, 29 January 2016

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Broken Wing Display / Ezra Pound: Learn of the green world

January 31, 2016, 12:26 pm

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Black Tern (Chlidonias niger) near Burns, Oregon: photo by Jon Nelson, 13 May 2015

Killdeer 2. "Broken Wing Act". Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus), near Burns, Oregon. These birds forage for food in fields, mudflats and shores, usually by sight. Their name comes from their frequently heard call. These birds will frequently use evasive action display ("broken wing act") to distract predators from their nests. This involves the bird walking away from its nesting area holding its wing in a position that simulates an injury. and then flapping around on the ground emitting a distress call. The predators then think they have easy prey and are attracted to the seemingly injured bird and away from the nest. If the parent sees that a potential predator is not following along, it will move closer and get louder until it gets the attention of the predator.: photo by Nick Perla, 29 June 2010

Ezra Pound: from Canto LXXXI

The ant’s a centaur in his dragon world.

Pull down thy vanity, it is not man

Made courage, or made order, or made grace,

Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down.

Learn of the green world what can be thy place

In scaled invention or true artistry,

Pull down thy vanity,

Paquin pull down!

The green casque has outdone your elegance.

“Master thyself, then others shall thee beare”

Pull down thy vanity

Thou art a beaten dog beneath the hail,

A swollen magpie in a fitful sun,

Half black half white

Nor knowst’ou wing from tail

Pull down thy vanity

How mean thy hates

Fostered in falsity,

Pull down thy vanity,

Rathe to destroy, niggard in charity,

Pull down thy vanity,

I say pull down.

Ezra Pound (1885-1972): from Canto LXXXI (1945/1948)

Black Terns (Chlidonias niger) near Burns, Oregon: photo by Jon Nelson, 13 May 2015

Black-necked Stilt (Himantopus mexicanus) DSC_0024 | by NDomer73

Black-necked Stilt (Himantopus mexicanus). A striking black-and-white bird with very long, thin legs, the Black-necked Stilt is found along the edges of open water, in this case near the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Harney County, Oregon: photo by Dan Dzurisin, 25 May 2008

Black-necked Stilt (Himantopus mexicanus) DSC_0023 | by NDomer73

Black-necked Stilt (Himantopus mexicanus) DSC_0020 | by NDomer73

Black-necked Stilt (Himantopus mexicanus), feeding in flooded agricultural fields several miles north of Malheur National Willdlife Refuge, Harney County, Oregon: photo by Dan Dzurisin, 1 June 2008

Black-necked Stilt (Himantopus mexicanus) DSC_0034 | by NDomer73

Black-necked Stilt (Himantopus mexicanus), feeding in flooded agricultural fields several miles north of Malheur National Willdlife Refuge, Harney County, Oregon: photo by Dan Dzurisin, 1 June 2008

Black-necked Stilts (Himantopus mexicanus) DSC_0037 | by NDomer73

Black-necked Stilt (Himantopus mexicanus), feeding in flooded agricultural fields several miles north of Malheur National Willdlife Refuge, Harney County, Oregon: photo by Dan Dzurisin, 1 June 2008

American Avocet, near Burns, Oregon: photo by Big Dipper 2, 10 July 2011

It was not man

made beauty or made order or made grace...

The standoff [Portland, Oregon]: photo by Nick Fisher, 3 February 2007

Sittin' around and Constitution learnin #Oregonstandoff: image via Jennifer Hayden @Scout_Finch, 30 January 2016

Anderson describes seeing bald eagles and taking it as a sign of God’s hand. Apparently forgets they are at a bird refuge #Oregonstandoff: tweet via Jennifer Hayden @Scout_Finch, 30 January 2016

This Burns resident is NOT happy about the 3%er rolling rally. #Oregonstandoff: image via Corry Young @photocorry, 30 January 2016

Driving through residential areas at night blaring horns. Way to win hearts and minds, III% #Oregonstandoff: tweet via Shane Roth @apexnerd, 30 January 2016

Revolution Radio can't find locals who are supportive of Rolling Bro-test #Oregonstandoff: tweet via Shane Roth @apexnerd, 30 January 2016

All they want is peace...a piece of Oregon, a piece of Idaho, a piece of Montana, a piece of Arizona, a piece of Wyoming! #Oregonstandoff: tweet via Return Our Refuge @Return Our Refuge 30 January 2016

A Veritable "Who's That" of the Patriot Movement mill about a Rite Aid parking lot #Oregonstandoff: tweet via Shane Roth @apexnerd, 30 January 2016

Crowd getting larger for the 3%ers rolling rally #Oregonstandoff: image via Corry Young @photocorry, 30 January 2016

Burns, Oregon: photo by Richard Bauer, 31 August 2014

Sunset west of Burns, Oregon | by Kurt J

Sunset west of Burns, Oregon: photo by Kurt Johnson, 26 April 2011

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Second Eye Whiteness

February 2, 2016, 1:41 am

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A shot I took of beautiful Malheur National Wildlife Refuge this AM. #LiveOnK2 #Oregonstandoff: image via Mike Warner @MikeKATU, 1 February 2016 Hines, OR

BREAKING: American militia movement stunned and saddened to learn that most Americans don't like them very much. #Oregonstandoff: tweet via David Bates @DavidBWriter, 1 February 2016 Oregon, USA

Pro-law enforcement rally on courthouse steps. Pro-militia folks in street ready for theirs at noon. #Oregonstandoff: image via Lincoln Graves @LincolnGraves, 1 February 2016

2nd protest forms across street. 225 locals, 65 supporters.. #Oregonstandoff: image via Molly Young @mollykyoung, 1 February 2016

3% leaders speak with Sheriff Ward as they leave the courthouse. Told each other to be safe. #Oregonstandoff: image via Molly Young @mollykyoung, 1 February 2016

Sheriff Ward is watching the scene from the 2nd floor. Crowd of 150 outside. #Oregonstandoff: image via Molly Young @mollykyoung, 1 February 2016

Protests continue in Burns. Locals have outside group outnumbered. #Oregonstandoff: image via Tim Gordon @TimGordonKGW, 1 February 2016 Hines, OR

This will be my favorite statement from the entire #Oregonstandoff "Do you speak Paiute": image via rebels mom @anonhumanperson, 1 February 2016

Local calls outside protestors "Tater Tots" (many from ID). Response: "you sage grouse yuppie!" #Oregonstandoff "Do you speak Paiute": image via Martin Kaste @martinkaste, 1 February 2016

The locals are in it for the long haul - they brought coffee. #Oregonstandoff: image via Molly Young @mollykyoung, 1 February 2016

And snacks #Oregonstandoff: image via Molly Young @mollykyoung, 1 February 2016

The protest includes a couple of pocket-protector compact-constitutionalist advocates for that great new American Peckerwood Replacement State, the State of Double-X Jefferson. #Oregonstandoff: image via Amelia Templeton @ameliaOPB, 1 February 2016

Seeing lots of photos of Finicum among protesters. This man came from Redmond.: image via Amanda Peacher @amandapeacher, 1 February 2016 Burns, OR

This man is growing hoarse yelling "go home" to the PPN protesters: image via Amanda Peacher @amandapeacher, 1 February 2016 Burns, OR

#Oregonstandoffpolice step in between Idaho III% militiaman BJ Soper and counter protesters, who are screaming "you're not from here": image via Amelia Templeton @ameliaOPB, 1 February 2016

Protesters tried to approach the courthouse doors; locals backed up to block them. #Oregonstandoff: image via Amanda Peacher @amandapeacher, 1 February 2016 Burns, OR

This man had a slightly different agenda at the protest in Burns today! #Oregonstandoff: image via Mike Warner @MikeKATU, 1 February 2016

Occupation fatigue, day 31. #Oregonstandoff: image via Amanda Peacher @amandapeacher, 1 February 2016 Burns, OR

One thing the folks of Harney County haven't lost in the last month - their sense of humor #Oregonstandoff: image via Mike Warner @MikeKATU, 1 February 2016 Hines, OR

'We're all Americans!' Says he has 200 signatures on petition to recall local officials. #Oregonstandoff: image via Molly Young @mollykyoung, 1 February 2016

Looks like the 3% only got 11 signatures on their petition. #Oregonstandoff: image via Gerald M @nukker3mollykyoung, 1 February 2016

Grant County residents: "We are not all crazy here in John Day!" #Oregonstandoff: image via DJ Rubiconski @ Rubiconski, 31 January 2016

Cliven Bundy holds up a letter claiming possession of a federal wildlife refuge whose name he can't spell ("Malhaur"). ‘What this is saying is that Cliven Bundy is taking control of things,’ Cliven Bundy said of the Oregon standoff in an interview from his ranch in Bunkerville, Nevada.: photo by Sam Levin for the Guardian, 1 February 2016

Meanwhile Cliven Bundy has sent an "Ohfishul Notus" all certified n such, to Sheriff Ward. LMFAO #Oregonstandoff: image via Cat Ballou @Catballou, 1 February 2016

The #Oregonstandoff LAND GRABBERS want #PublicLand for PRIVATE MONEY @Catballou: image via BardOfEarth4Bernie @BardOfEarth. 1 February 2016

Sheesh! If this isn't a Freudian slip, nothing is. Thank you @cadria04! #Oregonstandoff: image via Cornelia @PaladinCornelia, 1 February 2016

Rancher Cliven Bundy poses at his home in Bunkerville, Nevada: photo by Jim Urquhar/Reuters, 2014

My response to Cliven’s certified letter to Sheriff Ward. I’ll send it certified tomorrow. Or not. #OregonStandoff: image via Alan Gardner @alangardner, 1 February 2016

A convoy of unmarked law enforcement vehicles passed along a road lined with media vehicles near the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge outside Burns, Oregon: photo by Rob Kerr/Agence France-Presse, 31 January 2016

Linda Gainer, owner of The Narrows R.V. park and cafe, which is experiencing its busiest January ever: photo by Jarod Opperman for The New York Times, 31 January 2016

Hillary Clinton in Des Moines last month. A study shows that relative wealth makes a difference in how some Democrats think on policies. Can Hillary Clinton represent the interests of working people when she and her husband have taken so much money from Wall Street?: photo by Doug Mills/The New York Times, 1 February 2016

onham's Post-War and Contemporary Art Sale...A woman walks past Untitled (Red Fan) by Kazuo Shiraga, estimated at between £1,500,000 and £2,000,000, during the press preview of Bonham's forthcoming Post-War and Contemporary Art Sale which will be held on February 11 in London. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Monday February 1, 2016. Photo credit should read: Anthony Devlin/PA Wire

A womanlooks at Untitled (Red Fan) by Kazuo Shiraga, estimated to sell between £1,500,000 and £2,000,000 at Bonham's forthcoming Post-War and Contemporary Art Sale which will be held on February 11 in London: photo by Anthony Devlin/PA. 1 February 2016

Former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords looks on as Hillary Clinton addresses supporters at Iowa State University in Ames: photo by Craig Lassig / Associated Press, 31 January 2016

Untitled (Red Fan) by Kazuo Shiraga, estimated to sell between £1,500,000 and £2,000,000 at Bonham's forthcoming Post-War and Contemporary Art Sale which will be held on February 11 in London: photo by Anthony Devlin/PA. 1 February 2016

Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton Holds Iowa Get Out The Caucus Rallies...A supporter waves signs supporting Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, outside a campaign event at Abraham Lincoln High School in Des Moines, Iowa, U.S., on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2016. Hillary Clinton is holding onto a slim lead over Bernie Sanders in Iowa as Democrats prepare for Monday's caucuses, though an outpouring of young voters and those who say the system is rigged could enable Sanders to pull off an upset, according to a new poll. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg

A supporter waves signs supporting Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, outside a campaign event at Abraham Lincoln High School in Des Moines, Iowa: photo by Daniel Acker / Bloomberg, 1 February 2016

"cunt on" sounds like a cool catchphrase for an 80s all-women punk band: image via Julia Carrie Wong @juliacarriew, 1 February 2016

Dominican Air Force personnel fumigate in Santo Domingo against the Aedes aegypti mosquito, vector of the #ZikaVirus: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 31 January 2016

Colombia has more than 2,000 #Zika cases in pregnant women: image via AFPnews agency @AFP, 30 January 2016

Geovane Silva holds his son Gustavo Henrique, who has microcephaly, at the Oswaldo Cruz Hospital in Recife, Brazil. The World Health Organisation has declared the current outbreak of the Zika virus in Latin America as a global health emergency, after a meeting of an expert panel in Geneva.Tens of thousands of Zika cases have been reported since the outbreak began in Brazil, and the virus has been linked with a dramatic spike in babies born with microcephaly, or abnormally small brains. Though symptoms are relatively minor for most victims, the virus also appears to be associated with the rare Guillain-Barré post-viral syndrome, which can lead to paralysis. It has led to recommendations pregnant women don't travel to affected regions.: photo by Reuters, 1 February 2016

A Harvard psychiatrist says three things are the secret to real happiness: image via the Independent @Independent, 1 February 2016

Groundhog dies just days before Groundhog Day: image via the Independent @Independent, 1 February 2016

Consensual fetishes can be a good thing to add to your sex life: photo by Orlando/Three Lions via the Independent, 1 February 2016

Muslim pray as they visit the Hira cave at the Mount Al-Noor during their Umrah Mawlid al-Nabawi in the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia

Muslims pray as they visit the Hira cave at the Mount Al-Noor during their Umrah Mawlid al-Nabawi “Birthday of Prophet Mohammad” in the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia: photo by Amr Abdallah Dalsh / Reuters, 16 January 2016

Afghan girls stand at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan...Afghan girls stand at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan February 1, 2016. Ten people were killed and 20 wounded, most of them civilians in Monday's suicide bomb attack outside a police station in a busy area of western Kabul, Afghan Deputy Interior Minister Ayub Salangi said in a Twitter post. REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail

Afghan girls stand at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan. Ten people were killed and 20 wounded, most of them civilians in Monday’s suicide bomb attack outside a police station in a busy area of western Kabul: photo by Mohammad Ismail/Reuters, 1 February 2016

TOPSHOT - Palestinian members of the Ezz...TOPSHOT - Palestinian members of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, take part in a gathering on January 31, 2016 in Gaza city to pay tribute to their fellow militants who died after a tunnel collapsed in the Gaza Strip. Seven Hamas militants were killed on January 28, 2016 after a tunnel built for fighting Israel collapsed in the Gaza Strip, highlighting concerns that yet another conflict could eventually erupt in the Palestinian enclave. / AFP / MAHMUD HAMSMAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images

Palestinian members of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, take part in a gathering in Gaza city to pay tribute to their fellow militants who died after a tunnel collapsed in the Gaza Strip: photo by Mahmud Hams/AFP, s, 1 February 2016

Deadpool, X-Men: Apocalypse among films to have major presence during the #SuperBowl: image via IGN @IGN, 31 January 2016

The 50th Super Bowl will be the Super Bowl of #surveillance #SuperBowlCity #SuperBowl: image via Steven J. Frisch @stevenjfrisch, 1 February 2016

If You Go Near the Super Bowl, You Will Be Surveilled Hard: photo via Wired, 31 January 2016

This is sooo San Francisco, I'm not even mad. #SuperbOwl: image via Kate Scott @katetscott, 29 January 2016

Hide Your Pets: Fighter jets to buzz Bay Area in anticipation of Super Bowl: image via SFist @SFist, 28 January 2016

Are these Homeland Security devices stationed on SF streets fart detectors or what?: image via SFist @SFist, 27 January 2016

Media, protest, tourists, and the homeless: #SuperBowl50 in San Francisco: image via Julia Carrie Wong @juliacarriew, 30 January 2016

#SuperBowl50 is a civic celebration: image via Julia Carrie Wong @juliacarriew, 30 January 2016

Beleaguered Alamo Square 'Super Bowl 50' Statue Now Salutes 'Superb Owl 50': photo via SF Citizen / Hoodline, 27 January 2016

Super Bowl 50 Statue Removed From Alamo Square After Repeated Vandalism: photo by LZ, 31 January 2016

Good riddance. Toppled twice, now headed for Ed Lee's backyard. #sb50 @hoodline #SFCitizen: image via LZ @lz, 31 January 2016

SF's money-grubbing, lying mayor Ed Lee: When you're repping your city's sports successes, and also are the mayor of that city: photo by Kelley L Cox-USA TODAY Sports via Vice Sports, 29 January 2016

This is embarrassing: image via We Built This City @The RealWBTC 31 January 2016 The Embarcadero, San Francisco

Oh JFC what is this bullshit: image via We Built This City @The RealWBTC 31 January 2016 The Embarcadero, San Francisco

This 3rd grader is going places: image via WORLDSTARHIPHOP @WORLDSTAR, 29 January 2016

Having trouble sleeping? Try this: image via 100 @thei100, 1 February 2016

The more you sleep, the less sexist and racist you become: image via 100 @thei100, 1 February 2016

Positive fantasies about the future linked to depression: image via The Independent @Independent, 1 February 2016

Nouveau naufrage de migrants en mer Egée: au moins 37 morts par @ozannkosee #AFP: image via Agence France-Presse @AFP, 31 January 2016

Cuerpo de un niño ahogado yace en costa de Çanakkale Turquía @ozankosee #refugeeswelcome: image via Nacho Sánchez @nsestratec, 31 January 2016

"What if this baby were mine?", by @ozannkosee: image via Jade Montane @jmontane_AFP, 31 January 2016

@AFPMakingof « Que ferais-je si ce bébé était à moi ? », par @ozannkosee: image via Jade Montane @jmontane_AFP, 31 January 2016

"What if this baby were mine?", by @ozannkosee: image via Jade Montane @jmontane_AFP, 31 January 2016

Devastating day on coast of #Turkey at least 33 #refugees drown trying to reach #Greece photo @ozannkosee @AFPphoto: image via SundayTimesPictures @STPictures, 30 January 2016

Three bodies are seen washed up on a beach after at least 37 migrants and refugees were killed when their boat sank in the Aegean while trying to cross to Greece. Canakkale, Turkey, Jan. 30, 2016.

Three bodies are washed up on a beach after authorities said at least 37 people were killed when their boat capsized in the Aegean Sea while trying to cross to Greece from Canakkale province, Turkey: photo by Ozan Kose/AFP, 30 January 2016

TURKEY - Migrants wait with life vests after being cheated by smugglers in Canakkale. By @ozannkosee #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 29 January 2016

#Migrants and #refugees try to keep warm by a fire as they wait for a train to Croatia. Check @AFPphoto and @afpf: image via Armend Nimani@armend_nimani, 29 January 2016

#Migrants and #refugees trying to keep themselves #warm #migrantcrisis #refugeecrisis: image via Armend Nimani @armend_nimani, 29 January 2016

#Migrants and #refugees try try to keep warm. #presevo #migrantcrisis #refugeecrisis #borders #people #crisis #europe: image via Armend Nimani @armend_nimani, 29 January 2016

#Migrants and #refugees try to keep warm by a fire as they wait for a train to Croatia. Check more on @AFPphoto: image via Armend Nimani @armend_nimani, 29 January 2016

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Observations on Recently Discovered Locus of Possible Intelligent Life (The important thing is, you have to have something important to say about the world)

February 4, 2016, 12:08 am

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Japan’s Kibo laboratory’s robotic arm successfully deploys two combined satellites built built by Texas A&M University students. Photo taken by Expedition 46 flight engineer Tim Peake of ESA aboard the International Space Station: photo by Tim Peake/ESA/Nasa/EPA, 2 February 201

Dominant organisms: large, boxlike, numerous

Behaviour: unpredictable; predilection for ejecting replicas of themselves into the universe, for purposes of colonization

Recommendation: future flight plans should include an advisement to avoid this planet

Senator Ted Cruz spoke in Des Moines after winning the Republican Iowa caucuses: photo by Stephen Crowley/The New York Times, 2 February 2016

Photo: U.S. Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz kisses his wife Heidi Cruz after winning at his Iowa caucus night rally in Des Moines, Iowa, February 1, 2016. REUTERS/Jim Young

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz kisses his wife Heidi Cruz after winning at his Iowa caucus night rally in Des Moines, Iowa: photo by Jim Young/Reuters, 2 February 2016

Cruz relishes Iowa caucuses as a tribute to "conservative grass roots" #Election2016: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 2 February 2016

Donald J. Trump arrived at a caucus site in Clive: photo by Damon Winter/The New York Times, 2 February 2016

Donald Trump, the GOP’s spleen, is ripe for surgery: image via Reuters Opinion @ReutersOpinion, 2 February 2016

Cruz upsets Trump in Iowa, US race turns to New Hampshire. By @JimWatson_AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 2 February 2016

#Trumpertantrum: image via Kate Gaziano @Kate Gaziano, 3 February 2016

Donald J. Trump in Milford, N.H., on Tuesday. After hinting at it for a day, Donald J. Trump on Wednesday bluntly accused Senator Ted Cruz of “stealing” victory in the Iowa caucuses and demanded a do-over: photo by Damon Winter/The New York Times, 3 February 2016

Donald J. Trump at the Hampshire Hills Athletic Club in Milford, N.H., on Tuesday: photo by Damon Winter/The New York Times, 3 February 2016

Cruz pokes fun at Donald's #Trumpertantrum: image via Washington Examiner @dcexaminer, 3 February 2016

LIVE: Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz campaigns in Windham, New Hampshire: image via Reuters Live @ReutersLive, 2 February 2016

Senator Ted Cruz of Texas spoke to members of the local news media on Wednesday after a campaign event at Robie’s Country Store in Hookset, N.H.: photo by Ian Thomas Jansen-Lonnquist for The New York Times, 3 February 2016

#us - Cruz upsets Trump in Iowa, US race turns to New Hampshire. By @miketphoto #AFP #IowaCaucus: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 2 February 2016

LIVE: Hillary Clinton addresses supporters in New Hampshire. image via Reuters Opinion @ReutersOpinion, 2 February 2016

Can Hillary Clinton close the deal? #Election2016: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 2 February 2016

Hillary Clinton in Nashua, N.H., on Tuesday.

Hillary Clinton in Nashua, New Hampshire, on Tuesday: photo by Richard Perry/The New York Times, 2 February 2016

‘The results suggest that Clinton has failed to overcome reservations … She has a lot of work to do between now and the nomination.’: photo by Adrees Latif/Reuters via the Guardian, 3 January 2016

No threat seen, but #SuperBowl security tightens: image via Reuters TV @ReutersTV, 2 February 2016

Sunrise

Another amazing sunrise in Burns this morning. It got up to 8°... can't feel my toes. #LiveOnK2 #oregonstandoff: image via Mike Warner @MikeKATU, 2 February 2016 Hines, OR

It's an 8 deg morning in Harney County. If the final 4 are really camping, brrr. #OregonStandoff: image via Amanda Peacher @amandapeacher, 2 February 2016 Oregon, USA

Sunrise in Burns... so pretty! And cold! #LiveOnK2 OregonStandoff: image via Mike Warner @MikeKATU, 3 February 2016 Hines, OR

Not much happening at roadblock leading to Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. #OregonStandoff #LiveOnK2: image via Lincoln Graves @ LincolnGraves 2 February 2016 Oregon, USA

@oregonstandoff That look, when you know they know you're lying and you're in too deep to stop: image via Chris Giller, 3 February 2016

So, the Gadsden "Don't tread on me" flag is suddenly hanging at BLM HQ outside Burns. OregonStandoff: image via Amanda Peacher @amandapeacher, 2 February 2016 Oregon, USA

Militia groups at the OregonStandoff seem to need some PR help. Luckily, I spent my lunch break on that. CC-BY 4.0: image via Dan Barton @oreothlypis, 2 February 2016

Just landed in SF for #SuperBowl weekend! Don't you wish we hadn't come?!: image via ColourPop Cosmetics @ColourPopCo, 3 February 2016

@DBC_Jozie & @DBC_Faymie have officially hit the ground running in San Francisco!! Wouldn't it be fun to watch them being "accidentally" vaporized by a rogue DHS drone in high-def on Sunday!!! #SB50 #SuperBowlCity #DBCheerSB50: image via Broncos Cheerleaders @BroncosCheer, 3 February 2016

Cam Newton's $849 Versace pants: image via WORLDSTARHIPHOP @WORLDSTAR, 1 February 2016

Broncos safety Ryan Murphy was handcuffed and detained by police in San Jose Tuesday after he was discovered in the passenger seat of a car driven by his brother with an alleged prostitute. The NFL rookie has been sent packing back to Denver to watch the Super Bowl from home.: screenshot via Inside Edition/SFist, 3 February 2016

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Warning message to the tourist coming to the #BayArea for the #SuperBowl: image via WORLDSTARHIPHOP @WORLDSTAR, 1 February 2016

Beyoncé, who will co-feature with Coldplay in the SB 50 halftime show, is seen performing at the Super Bowl in 2013. Hers was a halftime show particularly popular with TV viewers in New York City, judging by how few people went out and hailed taxis while it was taking place: photo by Jed Jacobsohn for The New York Times, 3 February 2016

Kink Enthusiasts To Gather For Super Bowl-themed BDSM 'Fetish Bowl' at SF's Bondage-A-Go-Go Tonight: photo by Bondage-A-Go-Go/Facebook via SFis, 3 February 2016

@ladygaga. Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta. National Anthem. Sunday. The horror. #SB50: image via NFL @NFL, 2 February 2016

The iconic Dame Helen Mirren reaches out with a strong message for drunk drinkers in @budweiser #SuperBowl commercial: image via InStyle @InStyle, 2 February 2016

San Francisco does not care about Bud Light. Not even during the Super Bowl.: image via Kurt Varner @kurtvarner, 3 February 2016 San Francisco CA

Vehicles are seen on a highway as the sun sets near the city of Stara Zagora...Vehicles are seen on a highway as the sun sets near the city of Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, February 3, 2016. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov

Vehicles are seen on a motorway as the sun sets near the city of Stara Zagora, Bulgaria: photo by Stoyan Nenov/Methode, 3 February 2016

The important thing is, you have to have something important to say about the world

The important thing is, you have to have something important to say about the world #migrantcrisis #refugeecrisis: image via Armend Nimani @armend_nimani, 29 January 2016

#migrants and #refugees aftercrossing the Macedonian border into Serbia: image via Armend Nimani @armend_nimani, 29 January 2016

#migrants and #refugees wait for security check after crossing the Macedonian border into Serbia @AFPphoto @afpfr: image via Armend Nimani @armend_nimani, 29 January 2016

HAPPENING NOW IN MIRATOVAC / SERBIA. Check @AFPphoto @afpfr for the latest update on #refugeecrisis#migrantcrisis: image via Armend Nimani @armend_nimani, 29 January 2016

Hundreds of thousands of people have fled the Middle East risking their lives along the way. Check @AFPphoto @afpfr: image via Armend Nimani @armend_nimani, 29 January 2016

A child waits with other #migrants and #refugees for security check after crossing the Macedonian border into Serbia: image via Armend Nimani @armend_nimani, 29 January 2016

Hundreds of thousands of people have fled the Middle East risking their lives along the way. Check @AFPphoto @afpfr: image via Armend Nimani @armend_nimani, 29 January 2016

Europe is experiencing one of the most significant influxes of migrants and refugees in its history @AFPphoto: image via Armend Nimani @armend_nimani, 28 January 2016

Hundreds of thousands of people have fled the Middle East risking their lives along the way. Check @AFPphoto @afpfr: image via Armend Nimani @armend_nimani, 28 January 2016

Demolitions in Firing Zone 918

House demolition, al-Mufaqarah, South Hebron Hills, 24 November 2011. Photo: Nasser Nawaj'ah, B'Tselem.

The region of the South Hebron Hills is in Area C, under full Israeli control. Israel’s policy there threatens the continued existence of some thirty Palestinian villages, home to approximately 4,000 residents, most of whom earn their living by farming and herding. The policy features a near-total ban on construction, repeated demolitions of homes and cisterns, and a lack of law enforcement in the case of violent settlers: photo by Nasser Nawaj'ah/B'tselem, 2 February 2016

A distraught Palestinian family amid the remains of their home after it was demolished by Israelis in Musafir Jenbah: photo by Hazem Bader/AFP, 2 February 2016

Villagers in Khirbet Jenbah rescue furniture following house demolitions. More than 80 villagers lost their homes in a single morning: photo by Peter Beaumont for the Guardian, 2 February 2016

Miriam al-Shehadeh, aged 70, (right) sits in the rubble of her home, one of a dozen destroyed in Khirbet Jenbah on Tuesday: photo by Peter Beaumont for the Guardian, 2 February 2016

House demolition in Khirbet Jenbah. Photo: Nasser Nasser Nawaj'ah, B'Tselem, 2 Feb. 20166

House demolition in Khirbet Jenbah. Photo: Nasser Nasser Nawaj'ah, B'Tselem, 2 Feb. 20166

IDF house demolition in the village of Khirbet Jenbah in the South Hebron Hills: photo by Nasser Nasser Nawaj'ah, B'Tselem, 2 February. 2016

House demolition in Khirbet Jenbah. Photo: Nasser Nasser Nawaj'ah, B'Tselem, 2 Feb. 2016

House demolition in Khirbet Jenbah. Photo: Nasser Nasser Nawaj'ah, B'Tselem, 2 Feb. 2016

House demolition by IDF in the southern West Bank village of Khirbet Jenbah, which is part of what the IDF calls ‘Firing Zone 918’: photo by Nasser Nawaj’ah/B’Tselem, 2 February 2016

החרמת פאנלים סולאריים בח'ירת ג'ינבה. צילום: נסר נוואג'עה, בצלם, 2.2.16

החרמת פאנלים סולאריים בח'ירת ג'ינבה. צילום: נסר נוואג'עה, בצלם, 2.2.16

Confiscation of solar panels by IDF in the southern West Bank village of Khirbet Jenbah, which is part of what the IDF calls ‘Firing Zone 918’: photo by Nasser Nawaj’ah/B’Tselem, 2 February 2016

Palestinian children play in the rubble left after the Israeli military demolished 24 Palestinian structures in Khirbet Jenbah, which is part of what the IDF calls ‘Firing Zone 918’: photo by Nasser Nawaj’ah/B’Tselem, 2 February 2016

Damage to crops caused by military training in fields of Kh. Jenbah, 12 May 2014

Damage to crops caused by IDF military training in the fields of Khirbet Jenbah in the South Hebron Hills: photo by Nasser Nawaj'ah/B'tselem, 12 May 2014

Military training in Kh. Jenbah fields, 13 May 2014

IDF military training in the fields of Khirbet Jenbah: photo by Nasser Nawaj'ah/B'tselem, 12 May 2014

Damage to crops caused by IDF military training in the fields of Khirbet Jenbah: photo by Nasser Nawaj'ah/B'tselem, 13 May 2014

IDF military training in the fields of Khirbet Jenbah: photo by Nasser Nawaj'ah/B'tselem, 13 May 2014

Boy draws water from cistern in the village of Khirbet Jenbah, South Hebron Hills, which is not hooked up to water grid. Photo by Sharon Azran, B’Tselem, 7 August 2012

A boy draws water from cistern in the village of Khirbet Jenbah, South Hebron Hills, which is not hooked up to a water grid: photo by Sharon Azran for B’Tselem, 7 August 2012

Les enfants de l’occupation : grandir en Palestine

Nawal Jabarin, 12, and her brothers, two-month-old Issa and two-year-old Jibril, in the cave which is their home in Khirbet Jenbah in the South Hebron Hills: photo by Quique Kierszenbaum for the Guardian, 8 February 2014

Palestinian resident of Khirbet Jenbah, South Hebron Hills, in residential cave, 7 August 2012. Photo: Sharon Azran, B'Tselem.

Palestinian resident of Khirbet Jenbah, South Hebron Hills, in residential cave: photo by Sharon Azran,/B'Tselem, 7 August 2012

A residential cave in the village of Khirbet Jenbah in South Hebron Hills. Photo: Sharon Azran, B'Tselem, 4 Aug. 2012

A residential cave in the village of Khirbet Jenbah in South Hebron Hills. Photo: Sharon Azran, B'Tselem, 4 Aug. 2012

A residential cave in the village of Khirbet Jenbah in the South Hebron Hills: photo by Sharon Azran/B'Tselem, 4 August 2012

Abd al-Fatah in the cave where he lives on his private land near the village of al-Walajah. The site is part of the area declared Refa’im Stream National Park. On 18 August 2014, Israeli authorities demolished the shed he had built at the entrance to the cave: photo via B'tselem

More people die of gun violence in the United States on Super Bowl Sunday than on any other day of the year

Super Bowl 50 Bespoke Designer Football by Betsey Johnson: photo by CFDA/NFL via Harpers Bazaar, 21 January 2016

Super Bowl 50 Bespoke Designer Football by Cushnie et Ochs: photo by CFDA/NFL via Harpers Bazaar, 21 January 2016

Super Bowl 50 Bespoke Designer Football by Dannijo: photo by CFDA/NFL via Harpers Bazaar, 21 January 2016

Super Bowl 50 Bespoke Designer Football by Edie Parker: photo by CFDA/NFL via Harpers Bazaar, 21 January 2016

Super Bowl 50 Bespoke Designer Football by Illesteva: photo by CFDA/NFL via Harpers Bazaar, 21 January 2016

Super Bowl 50 Bespoke Designer Football by Irene Neuworth: photo by CFDA/NFL via Harpers Bazaar, 21 January 2016

Super Bowl 50 Bespoke Designer Football by Jennifer Fisher: photo by CFDA/NFL via Harpers Bazaar, 21 January 2016

Super Bowl 50 Bespoke Designer Football by Jennifer Meyer: photo by CFDA/NFL via Harpers Bazaar, 21 January 2016

Super Bowl 50 Bespoke Designer Football by Kendra Scott: photo by CFDA/NFL via Harpers Bazaar, 21 January 2016

Super Bowl 50 Bespoke Designer Football by Marchesa: photo by CFDA/NFL via Harpers Bazaar, 21 January 2016

Super Bowl 50 Bespoke Designer Football by Melissa Joy Manning: photo by CFDA/NFL via Harpers Bazaar, 21 January 2016

Super Bowl 50 Bespoke Designer Football by Rebecca Minkoff: photo by CFDA/NFL via Harpers Bazaar, 21 January 2016

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The NFL Experience: "All / the great / ideologies" packed into thirty seconds

February 4, 2016, 10:57 pm

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#SF #TackleHomelessness demo now marching w/ #SFPD escort. Now at Clay and Davis near Embarcadero/Super Bowl City.: image via Alex Emsie @SFNewsReporter, 3 February 2016

All
the great
ideologies
of the
world
are
predicated
on Malthus’
assumption
that
there is
not
enough
to sustain
both
you
and me.

*

The only
people
who will
escape
will be
those
who have
the
seal
of God
on their
foreheads.

*

If
you play
James
Brown’s
“Money
Won’t
Change
You”
in a
bank
the total
environment
is changed.

"All / the great / ideologies..." / "The only / people..." / "If / you play...": from TC: Smack, 1972

A special operations officer from the San Francisco Police Department stood watch this month over Super Bowl City, a temporary 10-acre village at the foot of Market Street: photo by Jim Wilson/The New York Times, 4 February 2016

High visibility #TackleHomelessness protest. Right at Marin ferry stop and #SB50 city : image via Chris Roberts @cbloggy, 3 February 2016

A woman holds up a pair of signs as police look on during a protest to demand city officials do more to help homeless people outside Super Bowl City: photo by Eric Risberg/AP, 4 February 2016

The Associated Press

Dozens protested what they say is San Francisco mayor Ed Lee’s plan to push homeless people out of where Super Bowl festivities are being held: photo by Eric Risberg/AP, 4 February 2016

Homelessness protest next to the Ferry Building, outside Super Bowl City: photo by Joe Kukura/SFist, 3 February 2016

Kamau Bell interviewing people for CNN apparently: photo by Joe Kukura/SFist, 3 February 2016

The juxtaposition bowl: image via Chris Roberts @cbloggy, 3 February 2016

Mars enlisted the advertising agency BBDO New York -- as well as some notable Hollywood actors -- to create a Super Bowl ad for Snickers on the set of a Queens studio last month: photo by Karsten Moran for The New York Times, 4 February 2016

Bay Area mayors, including Edwin M. Lee of San Francisco, second from left, with members of the Super Bowl 50 Host Committee this week: photo by Jim Wilson/The New York Times, 4 February 2016

Santa Clara is getting its Super Bowl bills paid. Why isn't SF? Mayor Ed Lee refuses to say.: image via Chris Roberts @cbloggy, 28 January 2016

No, up YOURS, Twin Peaks Super Bowl sign: image via SFist @SFist, 2 February 2016

Today In Defaced Super Bowl 50 Statuary: 'Up R Bowel' (Twin Peaks): photo by Mike Gaitley/SFist, 3 February 2016

Here's the latest SF Superbowl détournement: "Lee Robs" at the Palace of Fine Arts. @mayoredlee @RosenbergMerc: image via Larry-bob @larrybobsf, 30 January 2016

Breaking: Protest Over Homeless And Super Bowl City Attracts Many Police, Frank Chu: image via SFist @SFist, 2 February 2016

SF hill thwarts Miller Lite truck too, clearly has it out for Super Bowl revelers: image via SFist @SFist, 4 February 2016

Super Bowl parties threatened as Bud Light truck bottoms out on SF street: image via SFist @SFist, 4 February 2016

SF's deal with #SB50 also includes free police escorts for iconic noodle-armed acromegalic allegedly human-growth-hormone-soaked NFL QBs, "without limitation": image via Chris Roberts @cbloggy, 3 February 2016

The NFL takes over the seat of San Francisco city government. Poetic. super bowl city: image via Chris Roberts @cbloggy, 4 February 2016

Hi welcome to the people's palace done up all nice for #SB50 super bowl city: image via Chris Roberts @cbloggy, 4 February 2016

Btw these photos of the Super Bowl trophies got the sheriffs deputies called on me #SB50

thanks guys: image via Chris Roberts @cbloggy, 4 February 2016

Johnny Manziel Buys Nightclub In Dallas #JohnnyManziel: image via Satira Tribune @Satira Tribune, 30 January 2016

A view of part of the set of the commercial: photo by Karsten Moran for The New York Times, 4 February 2016

Eugene Levy is seen in video monitors as he films a scene for a Snickers candy bar commercial to be shown during the Super Bowl: photo by Karsten Moran for The New York Times, 4 February 2016

Julia Rusatsky, who plays half of a Marilyn Monroe character in the ad, laughs as a burst of air from a fan under the stage blows up her dress: photo by Karsten Moran for The New York Times, 4 February 2016

Things get weird in #Snickers' #SB50 commercial with Willem Dafoe: image via UPROXX @UPROXX, 4 February 2016

If #Snickers new packaging was trying to market to PMSing women, they pretty much hit the nail on the head. : image via Kimberly J. Brown @OfficialKJB, 2 February 2016

Snickers bars are readied for shooting: photo by Karsten Moran for The New York Times, 4 February 2016

The back of a painted backdrop on the set of the commercial: photo by Karsten Moran for The New York Times, 4 February 2016

Every time I go to #SuperBowlCity it looks like this: image via Julia Carrie Wong @juliacarriew, 3 February 2016

I'm just not emotionally ready for the Super Bowl, whose every mark seems dire: image via Nellie Bowles @Nellie Bowles, 3 February 2016 San Francisco, CA

After a few days of Super Bowl Sizzle, this Snickers bar says it all! #snickers #BettyWhite #SuperBowl50: image via Gregory Nieto @greg_nieto, 4 February 2016

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