the vietnam habits that never went home. nineteen minutes;

watch........ 

 

 I'm not old. I'm a classic.
And I survived things
that now come with
warning labels.

you? 

 

i also treat my body like a temple, an ancient structure,

long ignored,  desperately in need of repair and of decreasing 

significance to a largely indifferent society

 a well spoken youtube short describing our situation, so make sure you call me an anti-semite;

watch............ 

 its beyond funny for me watching the empire castigate the russians for helping the ukies or persians after spending years watching the empire supply all those who support their goals, in opposing the russians;

 

The Trump administration is getting a hard lesson on the essence of that old adage: Paybacks can be a b—-!

After more than four years of the U.S. funding and supplying Ukraine and using that country as a battering ram to weaken Russia, the regime in Washington has allowed itself to be weakened by Russia in the same way.

While Ukraine is serving the role of America’s proxy against Russia, Iran has emerged as Russia’s proxy against America.............more.......

 the question is, will they travel south and put an end to the crimes of israel; 

 

Turkey is simultaneously dumping US Treasuries, deepening Russia’s energy embrace, rolling out a tax regime to poach capital fleeing the Gulf… and squaring off against an Israeli political class that now speaks openly of Turkey as an enemy. It’s strategic.

Turkey sold nearly all of its US Treasury holdings in March — cutting them from $16 billion to just $1.8 billion in a single month. The official narrative frames this as emergency reserve management amid a weakening lira and inflation running above 32%. But the mechanics of financial stress don’t explain the direction of travel. Nations don’t systematically dump the debt of their allies.

President Erdogan has been explicit. In a recent address he cast Turkey as “one of the shining stars of the new era,” invoking the restoration of Ottoman-era influence across the region. Turkey vehemently opposes Israel’s operations in Gaza, and in Ankara’s strategic calculus, Washington and Tel Aviv are increasingly viewed as a single entity. The Treasury sell-off is as much a political signal as a liquidity operation. The Turkish government has smelt blood in the streets and wants to capitalise on the situation...........more........

 perhaps you're one of those rubes who thinks all current events are unconnected but if you research and think a bit you can deduce things are indeed connected. if you want to make us all reduce to fifteen minute walking cities and all things connected there, food and fuel need ending. what do you see going on now; 

 

I believed — and you probably did too — that the Strait of Hormuz would eventually reopen and be restored to full operation. I believed that the fighting would stop, the tankers would flow again, and the world would return to some semblance of normalcy. But I was wrong, and so was everyone who held onto that hope.

The people in charge don’t want the world to work for human civilization, it turns out. They want collapse, and they are getting it by making sure the Persian Gulf is permanently taken offline.

This isn’t a war that merely got out of hand. It’s a deliberate, engineered dismantling of global energy and food infrastructure. As I detailed in March 2026, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz is not a temporary disruption — it is a geopolitical and financial reality that has already snapped shut ^[1]. The assumption that problems will be solved because they always have been is a dangerous illusion ^[2]. We are watching the greatest crisis in human history unfold, and the very people who caused it may have no real desire to end it.............more..........

 i've been here since blacks were colored or negros. its been a long ride. now after fifty years of most favored race in jobs and much else its becoming obvious that they've misused the position. for much of this time i've supported their reasons and all but i'm fully worn out by it now; 

 

That's once again the case, as the Democratic National Committee endeavors to lay out its sequence of primaries for the 2028 presidential race. As a DNC panel convenes in Washington this week, there's substantial momentum behind the idea of taking the coveted "first in the nation" spot away from 25% black South Carolina, and handing it over to 31% Hispanic Nevada. Party sources tell the New York Times that the black vs brown infighting over the possibility is getting increasingly nasty. 

If the switch happens, South Carolina's tenure in the top slot will have only lasted one election cycle. After a decades-long tradition that had both Republicans and Democrats kicking off their presidential primary balloting in Iowa and New Hampshire, the Biden team maneuvered the DNC into putting South Carolina first in 2024, after the state's black voters played an outsize role in helping Biden win the 2020 nomination. The move was made easier by the fact that, when it was setting the 2024 calendar, the Democratic Party still had a strong, post-2020 case of Black Lives Matter fever, and was fixated on pandering to blacks at every turn. .........more..........