as an older individual i come from a land far away where the things covered in this essay were quite different. and as a quaker i was raised to think differently about these things but evidently, according to this writer, things ain't like the tv wants us to believe;

I was born in 1974 and grew up in a large, white, lower-middle class family. My father worked as a construction project manager and we moved around a lot. Nearly all of our time was spent in the upper Midwest — small towns in Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, and Upper Michigan. Despite the constant moving, it was an idyllic childhood. Most of the towns we lived in were either 100 percent, or nearly 100 percent white.

I saw absolutely no drug use whatsoever during my entire childhood. The only substance use that I saw first-hand was alcohol and tobacco. My family was Protestant Christian, of the gentle Northern European variety, and so I was fed a steady diet of anti-racism and anti-discrimination indoctrination from a very young age. In short, my knowledge of non-whites was entirely theoretical until I enlisted in the US Navy after high school. The day before I left home, I believed everything my schools, churches, and the media had told me about race relations in America.

I was immediately thrust into a totally alien world. Boot camp was a transformative experience for me. Fully 40 percent of my boot camp company was black, another 20 percent was Hispanic. I saw first-hand how different races intentionally, happily, self-segregate. Even though our bunk assignments were almost totally random, during our very limited down time the blacks quickly took the back half of the barracks for themselves, the Hispanics claimed a few next to them, and us whites kept to ourselves near the front.

For the first time in my life, I experienced racism when I naïvely tried to interact with blacks and Hispanics the same way that I did with my white shipmates. It was confusing: I had moved around enough in my childhood that I had learned how to get along with nearly any personality type, but just my appearance and voice seemed to irritate non-whites. As soon as I opened my mouth their eyes would go flat, they’d put on a hostile expression, and they’d either ignore me outright or mock the fact that I enunciated my words and used normal grammar. This was also the first time I witnessed how quickly non-whites can shift from passivity to violence. I saw more fights in ten weeks of boot camp than I had in 18 years of my civilian life.......read more.......

 pcr makes some good points about the syrian war and who benefits and who doesn't here in this essay;

Russia’s Policy of Peace Is Encouraging War

Paul Craig Roberts

On February 25 the election thief ordered a US air attack on Syria that killed 17 Iranians. US and Israeli attacks on Syria have been ongoing for years with no consequences other than Syrian and Russian denunciations of the US and Israeli violations of international law.  Clearly, the US/lsraeli agenda takes priority over international law.  One would think that after all these years, the Kremlin would have noticed that and cease sounding like an ineffective broken record.

After years of hesitation, Russia finally permitted Syria to obtain S-300 missiles, which, if they are permitted to be used, are capable of preventing US and Israeli attacks.  As the missiles are never used, Washington regards them as just another bluff by a cowardly Russian government that won’t fight.

Andrew Korybko, an American Moscow-based political analyst, tries to find a Russian policy in Russia’s protection of US and Israeli attacks on Syria.  He acknowledges that while Russia officially regards Israeli and US attacks on Syrian territory as violations of international law, “it never does anything to stop them.”  He points to “the objectively existing and easily verifiable fact that the S-300s have never even once been used to defend Syria since they were dispatched there in late 2018 for that explicit purpose” as evidence that Moscow is “passively facilitating those strikes.”

Korybko postulates that the Kremlin’s toleration of the strikes is part of a Russian “grand strategic ‘balancing act’ of trying to promote a so-called ‘compromise political solution’ to the country’s conflict, one which envisions the eventual withdrawal of Iranian forces and their allies such as Hezbollah in possible exchange for Israel and the US stopping their conventional aggression against the Arab Republic.” ..........read more......

you hold the remedy in your mind, and actions; 

 this would be one of those prove me wrong images;

 what are you looking for is a question that aught to be asked frequently;

 i don't visit walmart and have only been inside one fewer times than i have fingers. this short video shows some of why i don't go there but its just one of too many reasons to list. i love the customers responses;

https://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/i-didnt-sign-a-contract-with-walmart/282759

 as sherlock holmes would say: the game is afoot. there are stirrings about the edges that presage things you would prefer not to imagine, and while i haven't listened to the podcast yet the copy foretells interesting times on the way;

Fake President Biden, an imposter whose puppetmasters rigged the election to carry out an illegal, criminal coup against America, may be on the verge of being exposed and removed. Many startling anomalies continue to surface, including the fact that US Marines are, at times, no longer stationed outside the Oval Office, even when Jen Psaki claims “President Biden” is working inside.

For over a century, every U.S. President has given a State of the Union address in either January or February, yet there is zero talk of such an address coming from Biden. Given that everything else about Biden has been a staged theatrical production — the fake inauguration, his fake “acceptance” speech, a rigged election, etc. — we must wonder whether the Biden green screen production team will try to pull off some sort of artificial, pre-recorded State of the Union address and claim “covid” is the reason he can’t appear in person.

(Isn’t it amazing how the plandemic gives full cover to the entire theatrical production we’re watching here?)

On top of all that, 36 Democrats are reportedly demanding Biden give up control over the US nuclear codes, further reinforcing the idea that Biden is obviously not “their” president.

In today’s Situation Update, we also delve into the Equality Act, a wholesale attack on Christians, rationality and reason, which would force corporations and hospitals to embrace transgender delusions as if they were biological reality. But there’s a twist in all this that I reveal in the podcast.

Note also that the intolerant, bigoted Left is practically applauding the straight-up torture of a conservative trans activist named Jessica Watkins, who was stripped naked and left in indefinite confinement in a U.S. prison merely for being present at the January 6th capitol events, even though she committed no violence and did nothing to destroy property. Where is the loudmouthed Left when it comes to the trans rights of conservative trans individuals?

Nothing but silence. In truth, the Left doesn’t believe in trans rights at all. They only believe in the obedience of the “left cult,” a dangerous, demented cult of wokeism that demands total obedience and espouses violence against those who reject the cult......read and listen more....