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In the darkest icy abyss, the largest predators, Sperm whales, hunt the biggest prey, Colossal squids. The battles are legendary. The winners take all. Welcome to the Sperm’s… Read More
Warning: I am not endorsing Donald Trump for any political position.
Some Democrats have weaponized the law, with the trial of former president Donald Trump. Federal officials declined fr… Read More
VICTORIA—Despite agreeing to protect trees over 400 years old, British Columbia Timber Sales, a government agency, greenlit the destruction of rare thousand-year-old western… Read More
From Edmonton, Alberta, to Burnaby, British Columbia, 890,000 barrels of oil per day are now flowing through the Trans Mountain Pipeline and off-loading onto tanker vessels docked… Read More
SAN FRANCISCO, June 11 – Iceland’s government issued a licence to the North Atlantic nation’s last whaling company, Hvalur hf, to brutally slay 128 fin whales… Read More
Leaves roots trunk barkInterweaving humankind,Our collective medicine chest,Our lungsOur regulatory systemOur climateOur oceans.
Grandest shrinesGracing planetary mantle,Health wellbe… Read More
In an April 22, 2024 article in The Wall Street Journal, Allysia Finley described the mentality of college students. If you give “safe spaces’ to college students, soon they will… Read More
Corporate hypocrisy is a masterclass in deceit, where companies promote their so-called social responsibility, while their actions tell a completely different story. This chasm between spark… Read More
Imagine that planet Earth is a corporation with many indispensable branches called Earth Inc. After completing a pro forma balance sheet for the Earth Inc, I mulled over what might be said t… Read More
So far this year, British Columbia has slaughtered 248 wolves bringing the nine-year running total to 8084 gruesome canine deaths. The provincial government has committed… Read More
In 1916, part of the federal tax code included an “oil depletion allowance” which “in American (US) tax law is an allowance claimable by anyone with an economic interest in… Read More
Forestry’s highway to hell is simplifying self-organising networks of cooperative biological communities to extinction. Hideous monoculture palm oil plantations are plaguing the planet… Read More
Now that Sam Bankman-Fried can cause no further damage for at least the next two decades, or, if you wish, one score plus five, it might be interesting to evaluate his philosophical position… Read More
Presidents have ignored rulings by the Supreme Court of the United States for quite some time. In order that you understand the context of events, the following paragraphs offer some perspec… Read More
DRAX United Kingdom,Subsidised Mother Earth destroyer,Complicit bedpartnerGolden State Natural Resources,Marvellous Californian old-growthInto one million wood pellet tonnes,Annual billowing… Read More
In recent years, the truth became subjective, and that was a justification for many rationalizations. You might need some years to understand this, but the truth you know at fourteen is not… Read More
Buds breaking,Unhurried unpacking,Potent phytoncides,Glorious grandness,Joyous jubilation!
© 2024 Reese Halter
Refuse. Reduce. Repurpose
Reese Halter is a bees/trees/s… Read More
Arizona lawmaker Alex Kolodin cosponsored SB1291, a critical piece of legislation that was signed into law last year in the state, which improved constitutional protections for probate victi… Read More
South America’s other species-rich tropical assemblage, the Atlantic Rainforest, is in dire shape.
This priceless hotbed of life has mostly been razed, four out of every five t… Read More
by Marilyn W. Thompson, with research contributions from Ryann Grochowski Jones.ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom.
In Washington and other states, independent… Read More
Nesting seasonSnooze specialists,Chinstrap penguinsKing George IslandAntarctica,Mysterious micro-sleepers!
Eleven hoursDaily rest,Four second dozes,Ten thousand timesDay and night,Eve… Read More
Many of the “Progressives” in the U.S. were the protestors of the 1960s. The Baby Boomers, numbering 76 million, as identified in demographics from 1946 to 1964, were quite vocal… Read More
Majesties of abyss,Cachalot confabs,Clicking coda chains,Pitch, a- i-vowels, diphthongs
(One vowel morphs another),Upward downward frequenciesEnthusiastically exchanged,Enthralling ea… Read More
Eight hundredCranium scans:Rhythmic chainsTheta waves,Relax’d alertness,Daydreaming!
Magnetising heartbeatsBrain coherency,Synchronising hemispheres,Large amplitudeAlpha wave… Read More
Hey SleepwalkersCOP28 furnace goers!Fossil fuel HEATDiscombobulator,Wreck’d Mother’s clock,Seasonal untimedness,Plants rousingFour times faster,Insect pollinators sleeping in… Read More
Dead windowsill housefly,Ghostly haloTiny white spores,Death trap!Insect invaded,Brain co-optedHighest perch possible,Sporerific launching pad,“Come one, come all,”Delectable fli… Read More
In a November 6, 2023 article at the Wired website, writer Jason Parham has finally realized something. Millennials are finally “getting it.” To quote the article: “This is… Read More
Tidal breaths,Bidirectional mammals,Inhale airBacktracking exhale.Like car dead-ending,Up-street reversing.
Birds differently,Inhale air,Circuit travelling,Into lungsAway it goes,U… Read More
Twenty twenty-twoLate-SeptemberTimor-Leste coastline,Royal Blue HighnessesScrawny starvin’,Newbornless pods.
Twenty twenty-threeMid-November,No Regal Blue pods,Phenological pulv… Read More
Red Gold FeverConsequences be damn’d,Soulless Charles HurwitzRough sawn raider,Drexel Burnham Lambert junk bondsHostile Maxxam Corp brute,Easy pickens Ma/Pa Pacific Lumber,Pension fund… Read More
It seems that almost a month doesn’t go by that the media will invent a new term. Generally, the new terms are part of a lexicon used to describe events or people in society. One of th… Read More
Sea of SiracusaDolphin signall’d distress,Carers Rossana/Enzo MaiorcaTraced twelve metres,Gash’d fishery net,Trapped kith freed!
Dolphins surfacedHuman-like cry hea… Read More
Red Gold FeverConsequences be damn’d,Soulless Charles HurwitzRough sawn raider,Drexel Burnham Lambert junk bondsHostile Maxxam Corp brute,Easy pickens Ma/Pa Pacific Lumber,Pension fund… Read More
Meteorologist Guy WaltonNaming/shaming commenc’d,Heat will kill YOU,Comatose categories,Fossil-fuellers finger’d!
First two spring/summer:Heatwave AmocoHeatwave BP,July… Read More
Victorian-era diseases,Two hundred fifty thousandHungry children,Forty per cent familiesFood insecure,Bloated Commonwealth Banks!
Climate emergency,Fossil fuel profiteering,Mortgage r… Read More
VulnerableEndangeredCritically endanger’d,Marvellous masterpiecesMother’s unnegotiables,Sharks, rays!
Ocean fish keepers:Long lifersSlow low reproducersPopulation regulatorsFi… Read More
According to Statista.com, the median age of the U.S. population on in 1960 was 29.5. That average has moved up to 38.8 as of 2021. As the numbers indicate, America is getting old, and… Read More
Broiling ArcticAvarice bankers,O’ Great Ones,Climate firestormsMarine bottom heatwavesSea ice, krill, crustaceansGoing, going, gone!
Twelve thousand five-hundredNorth Pacifics decea… Read More
In order that my readers do not think I am some conspiracy theorist, I like to cite reliable sources. From Statista, as of April 26, 2023, COVID-19 killed 1,130,662 in the United State… Read More
Psychopathic Whalers, IcelandersBarbaric bastards,Bully brutes,Finest Fins,Bluest Blues,Hvalur hf hoodlumsHideously harpooning!
Five hours spear’d,Torturous torment,Excruciating… Read More
‘O mighty mushrooms,Wind-makers!Forest colonisers,Temperature regulators,Marvellous Ones!
Airborne spore tonsCloud seeders,Righteous rain-makersWater table lifters,Rainforest rejoic… Read More
Edinburgh Mountain’sRoyal Majesties,Colossals unprotect’d,Teal Jones, Pacheedaht,Extinction-makers!
Fairy Creek in peril,Self-organised networksCooperative biological… Read More
Another rort!Dumping carbon,Undoing seabedsMother’s sacredness,Planetary safeguarders.
Appeasing pollutersFossil fuel corporations,Sea dumpers,Combustion greenwashers,More su… Read More
It had to happen. There are giant corporations who are playing the weak and the chumps in order to line their pockets. Sound familiar? Some two-hundred school boards so far have joined toget… Read More
Hideous heat domes,Desiccating droughts,Gasping globe,Forever firestorms,Cremated creatures,Still secrecy!
Breadbaskets barren,Oily coffers overflowing,AI awaiting,Lotta SpaceX lau… Read More
Climate Chaos,Hotter, longer, unlivable,Four synchronised heat domes:Northwestern China{52.2C Xinjiang},North Africa{50C Northern Algeria},North Atlantic Ocean{5C marine heatwave},Southweste… Read More
What’s life’s point?Not about job,Not about career,Not physical life,Aspects of life,Not life’s point.
Point of life:ExperienceExpressDemonstrateFulfilMy true identi… Read More
Imagine cruising down a scenic highway after a hard day at work, enjoying the beautiful landscapes (better with the Janwold 4K Dash Cam Front and Rear) and the thrill of the open road. For… Read More
True ice whales,Colossal crowns,Perfect strainers,Seventeen grand metresSixty-four big tonnes,Your Highnesses!
One day tonneFood snackers,Plump blubbers!Slow swimmers,Easy targets:… Read More
One of the best ways of shoving something nasty down another person’s throat is to explain “things have changed.” Well, of course they have changed. If you look closely out… Read More
Hallelujah fish!Glorious gratitude,Fecund feeders,Diligent digesters,Alkaline-stomach’d,Diamond defecatorsCalcite crystals,Cracking carbonates!
Risin’ resuscitatorsCoun… Read More
Forever seekingLife’s clues,ExperiencesRealitiesResonances,Inner most being.
Mind’s questHeart knows,Precious here and now!Societal trappingsFalse flags.Profound meanin… Read More
Age of AgonyCaterwauling chainsawsBurly brutesRoughneck RCMPs*,Evict’d eagles!
Salmon Nation Rainforest,Unrepeatable uniquenessColossal cedarsDivine DouglasesHumongous hemlocksWo… Read More
Your half-tonHighnesses’ hearts,Fiendish fisheries,Simmering seas,Horrendous Homo sapiens,A thousand pardons!
Thirty-threeMesmerising metres,Two hundredTitanic tonnes,Bo… Read More
Seventy-one yearsStewing northern Alberta,Oily subsidised trillions,Sticky sicknessAthabasca to Mackenzie RiversCramm’d carcinogens,Nauseated North Pole!
Climate HELLFIRESSuf… Read More
Mother Earth be damn’d:Australian Prime MinisterAnthony Albanese, neoliberal,Fossil fuel subsidiserCoal mine, LNG* green-lighter,Wolseley Road, Point PiperManservant!
Is… Read More
Conspiracy theorists wake up, it is all here. While watching Bill Maher a few days ago, he showed some statistics about colleges, one being that tenured professors have fallen drastically, a… Read More
Restoring Nature,Impossible!One constant processUniversal change,The External Becoming,Nothing is reversible!
*Thank you, Chris Maser
Something mendedFunction repair’d,Cha… Read More
Twenty-one year old Jack Teixeira, a guardsman in the Massachusetts Air National Guard, has been arrested and accused of revealing classified national defense information. According to The G… Read More
I don’t get the whole ‘trans’ thing. But then, I don’t need to. My attitude toward it is the same as for a lot of other things: Do what you want and… Read More
More frackingSeismics, drillingPiping, poisoningGulf of Mexico,Marine lifeClimate, NAH!
Deepwater debacleYesterday’s yawns,Sicken sealifeDavy Jones’s locker,Drill Baby… Read More
The vaquita is the world’s most endangered marine mammal. Studies estimate there may be as few as eight vaquitas remaining in the Gulf of California, the only place they exist an… Read More
The recent crypto market crash has the markings of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis and had FTX fallout written all over it.
So, what role did FTX have in the 2022 crypto crash?
FTX&rs… Read More
Money and Banking is a required economics course in most business colleges. Banks were a large problem with the Great Depression (1929 to 1938 to those of you who didn’t pa… Read More
Let’s face it; everything we do is interconnected with our email and digital identity in 2023. The cost of email loss can vary depending on several factors, i.e. the specific typ… Read More
In August 2022, California Air Resources Board passed the Advanced Clean Cars II rule that fast-tracks the state to zero-emission transportation. This new rule establishes a roadmap that gra… Read More
The United States has been described as “the melting pot” because between 1820 and 1920, 80 million people emigrated to the U.S. and became citizens. Certain prejudices are begin… Read More
Price drops of as much as 20% have come to Tesla in a bid to undercut rivals in the increasingly crowded market. The aggressive pricing strategy is in the light of missed delivery t… Read More
Genial Giants,Magnificent meadowsGrazing Gentles,Floridian figureheadsCastaway casualties,Dreadfully doomed!
Starvin’EmaciatedGlyphosatedFertilisedAlgal bloom’dDegraded… Read More
Truth to power,Defending Mother’sSacred family,Threatened, endangeredFauna, flora, ecosystems.
Physical interventionNon-violent aggressionCivil disobedience,Corporate, govern… Read More
Beware poisons,Seven millionSalish souls,Sea guardiansDeliver death!
Hideous man-madeMalignant madnesses,4-nonylphenolPacific pump’d pulpWashingtonBritish Columbia (BC)Alaska… Read More
This we know,Levelling forestsCollapse assured,Every civilisationEarthly existence!
British behemothForest flattenerDRAX Group,Mother mayhemers,Treasured templesComplex cooper… Read More
Twenty twenty-three,Fossil fuel’d heatwavesDecember thru FebruaryEndlessly,Fossil fuel’d droughtsFossil fuel’d hellfires,Chile SOS!
Shell boasts record$40bn yearl… Read More
As the housing market begins to melt a bit, you may find yourself in the market to hire a real estate agent. Beware! There is a new predator slithering along the real estate… Read More
Internal combustion engines started way back in 1833. By 1860, functional internal combustion engines were being experimented with, and by 1872, the principles of intake, compressi… Read More
Another weekend of NFL football, another weekend filled with questionable officiating. Another weekend of one team being convinced that they got screwed and another team accepting a wi… Read More
Bahamas to California,CrispSweetTangySun-kiss’d,Dorsett goldens!Righteous roots,
Bold beautiesDainty divines,Precocious pinknessesHeady heavenliness!
Buzzi… Read More
‘O Regal OnesPrithee, don’t leave!Since Two thousand sixteen,One hundred seventy-eightPerishedMajesties,Forcibly disgorged,Thirteen Atlantic states.
Ship strikes,Plas… Read More
Samaria brutesInflicting agonyMercilessly murderingPeaceful Gigantics,Royal Majesties!
Tokyo terriblesMarketing maniacsHundred-year-oldWhale meatVending machines,For all thatMiniscule… Read More
Days oldNorth Atlantic Right,An eye blink,Gaunt “Sea of Darkness”Big Oil’sEar-splitting cannons,Horror-struckDoomed whales!
Petroleum’sCauldron ocean heat,Miss… Read More
Twenty twenty-two,Carbon ignitionFossil fuel, wood pellet, palm oilRecord burning,Oceans stockpiling HEAT!
Each ocean second,Twelve point fiveHiroshima atom bombs,Combustion HOTNESS(T… Read More
Her Royal Highness,YouthfulInnocent PlayfulCuriousHungryEntangled, Rodanthe, North Carolina.
Offshore enmeshed,Bone cutting KevlarMouthTail,Trailing line too,Agonising murde… Read More
Seeing as how it is January of a new year (2023), the winter sports are winding down, and the summer sports are just getting started with training camp. With a substantial percentage of the… Read More
‘O Enigmatic One,PodlessIsolatedShocked Lifeless,Palm Coast, Florida.
Perpetually poisonedPlasticised planetDinning dieseled drowning,Fossil fuelled Seismically&n… Read More
Intelligent, self-awarePlayful, empathetic Curious, sadSophisticated speakers, Joyous, compassionate Loving grievers, Breathtaking radarEcholocationers,Incomparable clim… Read More
Horrible heatwave Ten to twentyCelsius Beyond record-keepers,Animals, treesDazed!
Mediterranean Steamy SeaFossil fuel stoked,Unfathomable Evilness,Scientists shush&rsqu… Read More
Some liars make themselves famous for the wrong reasons, and all of the exposed liars make 2022 an annus mirabilis. Sunny Balwani is getting thirteen years in federal prison for misleading i… Read More
Dearest brothers, sistersCrab-eating macaques(SE Asian monkeys),Matriarchal society,Tool-makers,Sacred mammals!
Our AgesSide by side,IntelligentSocialCalmStrongIndependent thinkersTra… Read More
Atlantic blue crushUnequalled Amazon ReefHard red algaeSupreme low-lightOxygen-makers!
World’s largest RiverTwelve billion yearlyVrooming silt tons,Muddy magicTwo hundred twenty… Read More
From the moment it was announced that Jeff Saturday would serve as the interim coach of the Colts, everyone – and I mean EVERYONE – in the media has been on his case. &ldqu… Read More
Doom’d humpback, Mighty MoonLone travellerBritish Columbia to Maui,Pure grit!
Stuff brimming,Wretch’d hurrying vesselSmash’d her spine,Five thousandAgonising kilometres… Read More
Ripping up MotherGold extracting,Canadian Belo Sun Mining,Largest open-pit goldfieldHeart of rainforest,‘O Amazon!
Sodium cyanideGruesome gold garrottingsMassive fish kills,Arse… Read More
It seemed to start with Steve Jobs. Jobs wore black turtlenecks when he was presenting new ideas to the Apple bureaucracy, as well as the general public. Many a medical expert has claimed th… Read More
Mysterious friendsFlightless seabirdsLeaping swimmersSardine squid krill fishersCold expertsTwenty sun orbits,Full lives.
African penguinsPink eye gland beauts,Twenty-first century… Read More
Glorious Victorian Alps‘O Mount Stirling,Thank theeSnow gums,Ageless secretsRevealed,Numen!
Currawong callsCockatoo gangsElegant flaming robins(My BFFs!),Spring snow gum flushingReg… Read More
Mortimer J. Buckley,Vanguard Group CEO,Wants MORE,$7 trillionAin’t enough,Obscene evilness!
VanguardBankingOnBig OilingBulldozingLoggingFrackingMiningGlyphosatingNeonicotinoidin… Read More
Feisty Mother mindersBob Brown Foundation,“We’re here to protectThe forests,Not our furniture.”
“If they thinkWe’re going to beIntimidatedBy legal threat… Read More
Breathtaking thirty-four metresMesmerising one hundred-ninetyGloried tonnes!Regal baleen whales,Largest-ever livingVenerable kinsfolk,Hat tip powerhouse krill,Blue whale stokers!
Moth… Read More
The Covid pandemic created a lot of economic changes. Privileged employees who taunt their employers and claim they will never return to their office. Wages moved up because of a lack of tal… Read More