TACO Tuesday America….the world moves away

From the brink…with a wink…

2 weeks of tolls for ships floating through the Hormuz

Money straight to the bank …Iran wins….

Who knew we would all be cheering for Iran….

Soak up the sun on the Strait Beach, some R n R for the troops

Next thing to do….we gotta impeach…..although we will miss his speech.

There has never been a US President who has made such a statement. This is either bluster as a negotiating technique or pure insanity or a heaping serving of BOTH.

Went to bed last night with news of Kharg Island, the petrochemical hub of Iran, being hit by military strikes. The news was saying they were not hitting the actual industry, but military targets. Who the hell knows what was hit.

My stomach felt tight, my mind needed to shut off, so I wrapped the heavy industrial-strength doona around our bodies and fell into a deep sleep.

Waking at 730 to feed Jazz, the 14-year-old kelpie, I glanced at my phone.

“Good Morning, have they dropped the bomb yet? I hear helicopters.”

Looking out over the paddock, I knew there was no way I could tell from here if anything had been dropped except another load of cow dung. Since there was black humour in the text, I was pretty sure the Iranian civilisation was still intact….for now.

If a civilisation had been wiped out in my sleep, I am sure I would have had more than one text from a portion of the world that did not sleep through it.

The above is where we stood 2 minutes ago.

As you can see from the below, Trump has backed down.

America, you cannot back down. Talk to your represetatives, bombard the White House with emails and phone calls and Impeach The President.

Tom Petty would not.

Thankfully, we have another TACO Moment.

The video above is just one moment in MANY where the sitting President of the United States proved, without a doubt, that he is OUT OF HIS FUCKING MIND.

This all took place today, Easter Roll Day, at the corrupt White House.

His description in that video is how Iran and the United States were negotiating. Were they having notes passed to them by children? Can we get a video of THAT???

As was reported on MSNOW today, why is NO ONE in the media reporting this as THE MAIN STORY every day? If this were Britney Spears, it would be HEADLINE NEWS…

Alex Jones and Marjorie Taylor Greene are calling him INSANE and UNHINGED.

The Demented Orange Cuckoo Bird has now given Iran 24 hours before he plans to blow up power plants, bridges….public infrastructure….to send them back to the ‘stone ages’.

He stated in a news conference today that he would have his military commit war crimes.

Will the military follow his unethical orders?

Below is the information on the 25th Amendment. He needs to be REMOVED. NOW.

Before he takes the world into a conflict that could have repercussions for decades.

The 25th Amendment, added to the U.S. Constitution in 1967, sought to resolve several thorny issues of presidential and vice presidential continuity. It provides for filling a presidential or vice presidential vacancy.

It also allows the president to declare himself unable to fulfill his duties and transfer power to the vice president.

Section four authorizes the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet, or the vice president and a majority of an “other body” created by Congress, to declare a president “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.” Doing so would elevate the vice president to acting president. (PBS)

Twenty-Fifth Amendment

Section 1

In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.

Section 2

Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.

Section 3

Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.

Section 4

Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.

“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran,” the president warned in a Truth Social post on Sunday. “There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP,” he added

What will happen in the next 24 hours? Oh yeah, in his press conference today, he called the Iranian government ‘bullshit artists’. Excellent way to push towards peace.

Where are the children with the negotiator’s notes?

“The Iranian people when they don’t hear bombs go off, they are upset”-War Of Choice Trump

I have yet to watch his news conference today. I don’t know if I can handle the bullshit that will pour out of this broken down fools hamburger hole. He will oooze yellow cheese and ketchup.

Today is the Easter Egg Roll Day at The White House.

What country allows not only a pedophile to BECOME PRESIDENT….but then allows him to commune with children on the White House Lawn? (Note: Alleged…for now…pedo).

Not only that… he took the time on a day of fun and games and chocolate and a demented-looking Easter Bunny…to talk about WAR.

And Melania the Robot… you can’t make this shit up.

How many more weeks do we have?
Vibrations are not positive.
A fighter jet has been shot down over Iran, and the pilot may be a Prisoner Of War.

As we are already at war, this is to be expected.

How many more weeks do we have to put up with an Insane Orange Clown in charge of America?
The poetic bullshit rhetoric of the war dude Hegseth and the Orange Commando in Insanity tells us the skies over Tehran are free for the US to do as they please.
Considering we have killed hundreds in this unnecessary “excursion”, this fighter jet and the pilot are small potatoes in the human loss taking place.

I am sure the pilot and his family and friends would disagree.

He is not a King of Anything.
Unfortunately, we have a President who has lost his mind.
He is losing his mind on TV and social media right in front of us.
Take, for example, #1 , this insane Truth Social post from the last 24 hours.

There is a war going on and this sad excuse for a Leader is suffering from dementia for the world to see. RIGHT ON TV and online. This is historic and sad and very, very frightening. He may be trolling Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett in the middle of the night, but he is truly not acting like an adult.

We know this is not leadership.

How many more days do WE have before something else goes horribly wrong because of his actions?

Look, the world economy and supply chain are already screwed up for no reason but his decision to screw up the Middle East with his fellow criminal Bibi the Zionist Creep.

But of course, Paula White and the White House Faith Office are looking after our spiritual matters and the soul of the Orange Devil:

Example number 2 of his insanity was the speech he made to the American public regarding HIS War of Choice on April Fools Day.
He told America NOTHING.
19 minutes of total nonsense. You would have been better off watching a TV show. Many of you were watching something else because you have had enough of him.

Besides these minutes illustrating his disintegration on national TV, he illuminated nothing of his plans for the Strait Of Hormuz or Iran.

What do the real ‘bosses’ of the World Economy have in store for us, as humanity, on this planet? Things are breaking down, and it is more than the hands, cankles, and brain of the President.

Example # 3 is this view this evil motherfucker has for America.

" It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things. They can do it on a state basis," Trump said during a private Easter luncheon at the White House on Wednesday (1 April).

This evil, demented loser would much rather fund HIS WAR than look after Americans.

It’s Easter and Passover, and Trump is lost in the 50s …his childhood.
You can imagine the fool on Capitol Hill putting on his coonskin MAGA hat and saying :
“You may all go to hell and I will go to Mar A Lago”!

The world is going through hell because of this madman.

An Ayatollah is dead. He keeps saying all of Iran’s leaders are dead. The military is standing by in the Middle East.

A madman is on the loose, and he is wearing a USA Baseball Cap….like a child.

I don’t like the plot of this movie we are living.

This is not a Walt Disney film.

Fess Parker will take us out on another day of insanity. I am sure someone is about to rewrite the lyrics to this song. Welles, or someone, will have it done by the time I awake again.

Born in a hospital in Jamaica, New York

Son of a slumlord who followed his Dad

Screwed up his businesses and the lives of little girls

Never had a friend he didn’t have to pay

Donald….Donald….Trump….

(You get the idea….)

Born on a mountain top in Tennessee,
Greenest state in the land of the free.
Raised in the woods so's he knew every tree,
Kilt him a bar' when he was only three
Davy, Davy Crockett King of the Wild Frontier.

He fought single handed through the Injun war,
Till the Creeks was whipped and peace was restored.
And while he was handling this risky chore,
Made himself a legend, forevermore.
Davy, Davy Crockett the man who don't know fear.

When he lost his love, and his grief was gall,
In his heart he wanted to leave it all,
And lose himself in the forest tall,
But he answered instead, his country's call.
Davy, Davy Crockett, the choice of the whole frontier

He went off to Congress and served a spell
Fixin' up the government and laws as well.
Took over Washington, so we hear tell,
And patched up the crack in the Liberty Bell.
Davy, Davy Crockett, seein' his duty clear. (Serving his country well)

When he come home, his politickin' done,
The western march had just begun.
So he packed his gear, and his trusty gun
And lit out a grinnin' to follow the sun.
Davy, Davy Crockett, Leadin the Pioneers.

His land is biggest, and his land is best
From grassy plains to the mountain crest
He's ahead of us all in meeting the test
Followin' his legend right into the West
Davy, Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier
King of the Wild Frontier.

source: https://www.lyricsondemand.com/tvthemes/davycrockettlyrics.html

Downwind of Truth with Kait Justice

Is the Barr Family Blocking The Epstein Investigation Because It Would Expose What's Being Built Right Now?

I want to start with what is happening today, because I think if you understand today first, everything I am about to show you from fifty years ago will make so much more sense than it would if I started at the beginning with things that don’t app…

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My initial thought was to send this piece to a few of my big-brained, politically minded friends, just to get their views.

Forget about that.

Everyone should be reading this, as this woman and a few other people in Independent Journalism Land are putting this evil jigsaw together.

Tina, my partner, will vouch for my constant barrage of commentary, saying the Epstein Files are just the tip of the iceberg. They are the doorway to the evil people who run the world through technology, money, power, etc.

As George Carlin said 21 years ago….still stands today. They got you by the balls.

'It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.'

Other people to pay attention to on Substack who are doing great work on what is going down with the power and corruption that is rife on our planet are mentioned below.

Of course, Heather Cox Richardson is a must….

Wake up, people….

And if you never heard these 2 wonders talk back in 1997….take a moment.

Rebirth and liberation holiday week is on the cards. These religious periods may mean something to you….so celebrate and enjoy in the way you do.

I plead for all of you to continue to stay educated, don’t turn away, make noise, resist.

All we have is each other….because NO ONE in POWER has OUR BACK.

PS-The Orange POS is going to speak to the American People today. He will be speaking to the World.

President Masoud Pezeshkian has penned an open letter to the American public.

I like his style of beating Bumbling Orange Donnie to the pulpit.

IRAN'S FULL "OPEN LETTER" TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE:

"To the people of the United States of America, and to all those who, amid a flood of distortions and manufactured narratives, continue to seek the truth and aspire to a better life:

Iran—by this very name, character, and identity—is one of the oldest continuous civilizations in human history. Despite its historical and geographical advantages at various times, Iran has never, in its modern history, chosen the path of aggression, expansion, colonialism, or domination. Even after enduring occupation, invasion, and sustained pressure from global powers—and despite possessing military superiority over many of its neighbors—Iran has never initiated a war. Yet it has resolutely and bravely repelled those who have attacked it.

The Iranian people harbor no enmity toward other nations, including the people of America, Europe, or neighboring countries. Even in the face of repeated foreign interventions and pressures throughout their proud history, Iranians have consistently drawn a clear distinction between governments and the peoples they govern. This is a deeply rooted principle in Iranian culture and collective consciousness—not a temporary political stance.

For this reason, portraying Iran as a threat is neither consistent with historical reality nor with present-day observable facts. Such a perception is the product of political and economic whims of the powerful— the need to manufacture an enemy in order to justify pressure, maintain military dominance, sustain the arms industry, and control strategic markets. In such an environment, if a threat does not exist, it is invented.

Within this same framework, the United States has concentrated the largest number of its forces, bases, and military capabilities around Iran—a country that, at least since the founding of the United States, has never initiated a war. Recent American aggressions launched from these very bases have demonstrated how threatening such a military presence truly is. Naturally, no country confronted with such conditions would forgo strengthening its defensive capabilities. What Iran has done—and continues to do—is a measured response grounded in legitimate self-defense, and by no means an initiation of war or aggression.

Relations between Iran and the United States were not originally hostile, and early interactions between the Iranian and American people were not marred with hostility or tension. The turning point, however, was the 1953 coup d’état—an illegal American intervention aimed at preventing the nationalization of Iran’s own resources. That coup disrupted Iran’s democratic process, reinstated dictatorship, and sowed deep distrust among Iranians toward U.S. policies. This distrust deepened further with America’s support for the Shah’s regime, its backing of Saddam Hussein during the imposed war of the 1980s, the imposition of the longest and most comprehensive sanctions in modern history, and ultimately, unprovoked military aggression—twice, in the midst of negotiations—against Iran.

Yet all these pressures have failed to weaken Iran. On the contrary, the country has grown stronger in many areas: literacy rates have tripled—from roughly 30% before the Islamic Revolution to over 90% today; higher education has expanded dramatically; significant advances have been achieved in modern technology; healthcare services have improved; and infrastructure has developed at a pace and scale incomparable to the past. These are measurable, observable realities that stand independent of fabricated narratives.

At the same time, the destructive and inhumane impact of sanctions, war, and aggression on the lives of the resilient Iranian people must not be underestimated. The continuation of military aggression and recent bombings profoundly affect people’s lives, attitudes, and perspectives. This reflects a fundamental human truth: when war inflicts irreparable harm on lives, homes, cities, and futures, people will not remain indifferent toward those responsible.

This raises a fundamental question: Exactly which of the American people’s interests are truly being served by this war? Was there any objective threat from Iran to justify such behavior? Does the massacre of innocent children, the destruction of cancer-treatment pharmaceutical facilities, or boasting about bombing a country “back to the stone ages” serve any purpose other than further damaging the United States’ global standing?
Iran pursued negotiations, reached an agreement, and fulfilled all its commitments. The decision to withdraw from that agreement, escalate toward confrontation, and launch two acts of aggression in the midst of negotiations were destructive choices made by the U.S. government—choices that served the delusions of a foreign aggressor.

Attacking Iran’s vital infrastructure—including energy and industrial facilities—directly targets the Iranian people. Beyond constituting a war crime, such actions carry consequences that extend far beyond Iran’s borders. They generate instability, increase human and economic costs, and perpetuate cycles of tension, planting seeds of resentment that will endure for years. This is not a demonstration of strength; it is a sign of strategic bewilderment and an inability to achieve a sustainable solution.

Is it not also the case that America has entered this aggression as a proxy for Israel, influenced and manipulated by that regime? Is it not true that Israel, by manufacturing an Iranian threat, seeks to divert global attention away from its crimes toward the Palestinians? Is it not evident that Israel now aims to fight Iran to the last American soldier and the last American taxpayer dollar—shifting the burden of its delusions onto Iran, the region, and the United States itself in pursuit of illegitimate interests?

Is “America First” truly among the priorities of the U.S. government today?

I invite you to look beyond the machinery of misinformation—an integral part of this aggression—and instead speak with those who have visited Iran. Observe the many accomplished Iranian immigrants—educated in Iran—who now teach and conduct research at the world’s most prestigious universities, or contribute to the most advanced technology firms in the West. Do these realities align with the distortions you are being told about Iran and its people?

Today, the world stands at crossroads. Continuing along the path of confrontation is more costly and futile than ever before. The choice between confrontation and engagement is both real and consequential; its outcome will shape the future for generations to come. Throughout its millennia of proud history, Iran has outlasted many aggressors. All that remains of them are tarnished names in history, while Iran endures—resilient, dignified, and proud."

The sun came up this morning.

And over the last few weeks, my mind has been on the machinations, decimation, detonations, and obliterations going on in the Muddled East. The buildup of troops and ships and jets and missiles was the start, the attack of Epic Bullshit came next, and the next chapter is about to begin.

The sun came up this morning.

Sailors and jets, ships and drones. But in the last 24 hours, the US Tripoli has arrived in the waters of the now known combat zone. Here are a few facts:

U.S. Central Command confirmed that the Tripoli Amphibious Ready Group, with the 2,200-strong embarked 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit onboard, had reached its area of responsibility, bringing with it “transport and strike fighter aircraft, as well as amphibious assault and tactical assets.”

A second amphibious ready group carrying Marines is also inbound. The USS Boxer and its supporting ships left San Diego on March 18, carrying roughly 2,500 Marines from the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit. Additionally, elements of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division will deploy to the Middle East, bringing at least 1,000 soldiers. (www.taskandpurpose.com)

The sun came up this morning.

In brief, there are normally 40,000 US troops in the region. There are now 10,000 more. This includes 2,000 paratroopers and the amphibious crews arriving aboard the US Tripoli. The Orange Motherfucker has set a date of 6 April for Iran to capitulate or something will happen.

April 1^st. Just a few days away is my prediction from way down under. Only because it would be a well-suited day for this Fool’s Game. I do believe there will be troops on the ground in Iran before that deadline of the 6^th of April.

I don’t think you send Amphibious Groups and Paratroopers for a garden party.

More death, more death, more death. This war started with over 150 schoolgirls and others being massacred by a US Missile in Minab, Iran. I still shed tears. This was not a misguided missile. This was terrorism.

Please click on the link below.

You will be educated by former intelligence officer Josephine Guilbeau. Pay attention to her words. They will echo deep into your consciousness.

Iran has bombed U.S. bases across the Middle East in retaliation for the U.S.-Israeli war, forcing many American troops to relocate to hotels and office spaces throughout the region, according to military personnel and American officials.

So now much of the land-based military is, in essence, fighting the war while working remotely, with the exception of fighter pilots and crews who operate and maintain warplanes and conduct strikes. (The New York Times 25 March 2026)

Is our military working REMOTELY? You know we are not seeing the entire picture from Drunken Pete Kegseth.

This EXCUSRSION as the Orange So Called Peace President called it over and over, mistaking INCURSION, is killing innocent people. It is not a war to protect America. There was no imminent threat to the mainland of the USA.

As Country Joe asked many decades ago, “Who The Hell Are We Fighting For?”

This is a War that is changing the global landscape.

Fuel shortages

Food shortages

The sun came up this morning….it will continue to do so.

I do not know what it will illuminate as these next few days play out.

Love the ones you’re with.

And resist.

But as you are already aware….the War is coming for you in your homeland, America.

The sun came up this morning.

Don’t you miss the simplicity of Dragnet? Just the facts, ma’am.

What are the facts? Depends on who you listen to. Seriously, how did we get to a place where political leanings in reporting are now called lies or fake news? If the Orange Doofburger does not like the news, he calls it fake. He makes up his own facts, aka lies, and feeds them to us on a daily basis.

DJT uttered over 30,000 falsehoods in his first term. He may be coming close to it already in Term 2 because he cannot finish a sentence.

People are so over it, they don’t even pay attention, and therein lies the problem. If you, yes you, the PEOPLE do not pay attention, THEY will do what they please.

So here is a reminder for all who are in the USA…No Kings March next Sunday. Let’s top 10 million nationwide this time.

I digress. It is hard to keep up. Just this past few weeks, I don’t know if it is a war, an excursion or a little test of US military might.

Or is it the bloody end times? Some people think that. I can almost feel it, like I am watching a bad movie, but it is happening now.

The Peace Prez, The Criminal in Chief, talks about stopping nuclear war. I worry more that he talks about nuclear weapons so much that his little fingers are getting close to the codes.

Sole Authority: The President has the exclusive, unchecked authority to order a nuclear launch without consulting Congress or the Cabinet.

Is the war winding up or winding down? Doodles Donnie Boy says he is winding it down, and then he says if Iran does not open the Strait of Hormuz, he will bomb all of their power generation in Iran in the next 36 hours. Great, so 93 million people will be without power?

Keep your loved ones close and safe. My prayers are for this War to end. This War Of Choice. This War Of A Madman.

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People in Cuba are learning to ride bikes because the USA has cut off Cuba’s oil supply.

The rest of the world had better start learning fast.

As of today, Australia has 38 days of petrol left. We are leading the developed world in fuel price hikes. We are in serious trouble at the bowser.

You thought lockdown was a problem. Everyone will be working from home again. If working at all, if no solution happens. Even if a solution happens next week, it will take months to get the juice running again.

It won’t even just be hard to keep up; it will be hard to go anywhere.

I have been detoxing the daily view of Kimmel/Meyers/Colbert/Maddow/Psaki, etc., as I wake to a thick foggy AM here in Pomborneit.

Remember now
Be here now
As it’s not
Like it was before

The past was
Be here now
As it’s not
What it was before, whoa

Why try to live a life
That isn’t real, no how
A mind that wants to wander
‘Round a corner
Is an unwise mind

Now is
Be here now
And it’s not
What it was before

Remember now
Be here now
As it’s not
Like it was before, whoa-ooh

-Songwriter-George Harrison

This is one weirdly edited messed up address to the Nation.

Trump calls it a War… it is an illegal War. He cannot even muster the strength to get to the White House and deliver an address LIVE to America.
Instead, we get him in a golf cap like he just waled off the course on his way to the 19th hole.

This is America today. 2026. There was no imminent threat to the populous of America. As far as we can tell, Israel called for this attack.
America….you need to speak up….your dictator is showing….

Trumps Deranged Address

A short time ago, the United States military began major combat operations in Iran. Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime. A vicious group of very hard, terrible people. Its menacing activities directly endanger the United States, our troops, our bases overseas, and our allies throughout the world.

For 47 years, the Iranian regime has chanted Death to America and waged an unending campaign of bloodshed and mass murder, targeting the United States, our troops and the innocent people in many, many countries. Among the regime’s very first acts was to back a violent takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, holding dozens of American hostages for 444 days. In 1983, Iran’s proxies carried out the marine barracks bombing in Beirut that killed 241 American military personnel.

In 2000, they knew and were probably involved with the attack on the USS Cole. Many died. Iranian forces killed and maimed hundreds of American service members in Iraq. The regime’s proxies have continued to launch countless attacks against American forces stationed in the Middle East in recent years, as well as U.S. naval and commercial vessels and international shipping lines. It’s been mass terror, and we’re not going to put up with it any longer.

From Lebanon to Yemen and Syria to Iraq, the regime has armed, trained and funded terrorist militias that have soaked the earth with blood and guts. And it was Iran’s proxy, Hamas, that launched the monstrous Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, slaughtering more than 1,000 innocent people, including 46 Americans, while taking 12 of our citizens hostage. It was brutal, something like the world has never seen before.

Iran is the world’s number one state sponsor of terror, and just recently killed tens of thousands of its own citizens on the street as they protested. It has always been the policy of the United States, in particular my administration, that this terrorist regime can never have a nuclear weapon. I’ll say it again, they can never have a nuclear weapon. That is why in Operation Midnight Hammer last June, we obliterated the regime’s nuclear program at Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan. After that attack, we warned them never to resume their malicious pursuit of nuclear weapons, and we sought repeatedly to make a deal. We tried. They wanted to do it. They didn’t want to do it. Again they wanted to do it. They didn’t want to do it. They didn’t know what was happening. They just wanted to practice evil. But Iran refused, just as it has for decades and decades.

They’ve rejected every opportunity to renounce their nuclear ambitions, and we can’t take it anymore. Instead, they attempted to rebuild their nuclear program and to continue developing the long range missiles that can now threaten our very good friends and allies in Europe, our troops stationed overseas, and could soon reach the American homeland. Just imagine how emboldened this regime would be if they ever had, and actually were armed with nuclear weapons as a means to deliver their message.

For these reasons, the United States military is undertaking a massive and ongoing operation to prevent this very wicked, radical dictatorship from threatening America and our core national security interests. We’re going to destroy their missiles and raze their missile industry to the ground. It will be totally again obliterated. We’re going to annihilate their navy. We’re going to ensure that the region’s terrorist proxies can no longer destabilize the region or the world and attack our forces, and no longer use their IEDs, or roadside bombs as they are sometimes called, to so gravely wound and kill thousands and thousands of people, including many Americans. And we will ensure that Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon. It’s a very simple message. They will never have a nuclear weapon.

This regime will soon learn that no one should challenge the strength and might of the United States Armed Forces. I built and rebuilt our military in my first administration and there is no military on earth even close to its power, strength or sophistication. My administration is taking every possible step to minimize the risk to U.S. personnel in the region. Even so, and I do not make this statement lightly, the Iranian regime seeks to kill. The lives of courageous American heroes may be lost, and we may have casualties. That often happens in war. But we’re doing this not for now. We’re doing this for the future. And it is a noble mission. We pray for every service member as they selflessly risk their lives to ensure that Americans and our children will never be threatened by a nuclear-armed Iran. We ask God to protect all of our heroes in harm’s way. And we trust that with his help, the men and women of the armed forces will prevail. We have the greatest in the world, and they will prevail.

To the members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, the armed forces and all of the police, I say tonight that you must lay down your weapons and have complete immunity. Or in the alternative, face certain death. So, lay down your arms. You will be treated fairly with total immunity, or you will face certain death. Finally, to the great proud people of Iran, I say tonight that the hour of your freedom is at hand. Stay sheltered. Don’t leave your home. It’s very dangerous outside. Bombs will be dropping everywhere. When we are finished, take over your government. It will be yours to take. This will be probably your only chance for generations.

For many years, you have asked for America’s help. But you never got it. No president was willing to do what I am willing to do tonight. Now you have a president who is giving you what you want. So let’s see how you respond. America is backing you with overwhelming strength and devastating force. Now is the time to seize control of your destiny, and to unleash the prosperous and glorious future that is close within your reach. This is the moment for action. Do not let it pass.

May God bless the brave men and women of America’s armed forces. May God bless the United States of America. May God bless you all. Thank you.

Wish I had something interesting or more to add to the State Of The Union 2026.
Really, it was a bloody parade of live memes and Trumpian bullshit. Lies and more lies. Bloody being the operative word as the fool talked about violence and murder.

There was no unity being displayed by the demented tool.

See, that was nothing new.

There was nothing positive about watching, or semi-watching, 1/2 listening to the stream of bullshit, racism, name-calling nonsense coming out of that Orange Criminal’s pie hole.

We never stopped and paid too much attention to the State Of The Union message in years gone by. It was usually a self-congratulatory hand job. Policy was usually mentioned or introduced. There was little of that on display yesterday. Well, the hand job was in full display.

The Democratic reply was succinct and on-point. But they should have mentioned the Ugly Epstein Files.

But affordability, you know that word, like those special words like tariffs and groceries that the Trumpian Orc tries to tell us are either good for us or have decreased in price.

More representatives should have shouted and walked out on the Big Orange Turdola.

Right On, Al Green. Take Me To The River….oh, wrong, Al.

Meanwhile, we have a present who mumbles and thinks Coal is beautiful and clean.

Bring On The Midterms and the investigation of this Criminal Regime.

My eldest brother said something to me when I was a teenager and still living in America. He had migrated here in 1972 when teachers were needed.

“Australia is like 15 years behind America. Things that happen in the USA will get here.”

Now I have been living in Australia for over 40 years, and I believe that experience, but today I have to disagree with the math. With the interconnectedness of the world today, things don’t take as long as they used to so that time frame is off.

Susan Ley led the Opposition Party (Liberal Party) from May 2025 until February 2026. Taking control of the Liberal Party after the beating they took in the 2025 election was not going to be an easy bronco to ride. She became the first female leader of the party. It was a short, tumultuous ride.

The Coalition in Australia is a long-standing partnership between the Liberal Party of Australia and the National Party of Australia, which generally acts as a single entity in federal politics to oppose the Labour government. Of course, this fractious relationship, recent divorce and reconciliation created unsafe waters for Ms Ley.

With Andrew Hastie and Jacinta Nampijinpa Price stepping down from the Coalition front bench, it certainly seemed that things were beginning to fall apart for Ley.

30 years ago some of us thought this Bimbo would only be around for a moment. She is still with us leading the One Nation Party.

And One Nation is on the rise in Australia….do you feel the racism rising?

We now have a new Opposition Leader and his name is Angus Taylor. Taylor is trying to distance himself from Hanson’s latest comment that there are no good Muslims.

Susan Ley had tabled a Liberal Party Immigration plan just before she was ousted.

From The Guardian:
Sussan Ley’s shadow immigration minister has “serious concerns” over a proposal to ban migrants from specific regions of 13 countries – including from Gaza, Afghanistan and Somalia – outlined in a leaked hardline Liberal immigration plan.

Guardian Australia understands the banned regions, outlined in the policy designed before Ley was ousted as Liberal party leader on Friday, were based on areas where listed terrorist organisations have territorial control.

The 37 specific regions under the proposed ban are in Afghanistan, Algeria, Cameroon, Egypt, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Palestine, the Philippines, Somalia and Yemen.

https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/57929633 Here is the Qobuz Link…HAVE YOU TRASHED SPOTIFY YET? Spotify list below….if yer still using it…

How does Angus Taylor see Immigration for Australia?
The new opposition leader, however, says he supports some elements of the leaked proposal, including deporting migrants who do not share Australia’s “core values”.

“[If they’re] not a citizen and they’re temporarily here in this country and it’s clear that they don’t adopt those core values, they should go,” he said.

“I think the work that needs to be done to make sure the people coming into our country are the right people, and that they’re not going to bring the hate and violence of another place to our shores, needs to be ramped up.

“Our intelligence agencies clearly need to be at the heart of that.

“There will be some higher-risk regions than others, and those principles will be in our immigration policy when we announce it.” (ABC News)

There is a deeper rift in the conservative wing between those who believe the party should emulate the populist strategies of Donald Trump and the UK’s Nigel Farage, and those who believe it should stick to the economic tradition of John Howard and Peter Costello.

How about this for a headline for 2 right-wing members now back in the Front Bench of The Opposition Party?

Take a few minutes to find out more about Mr Hastie in case you don’t know who he is.

And here is another right-wing politician who we can do without….what do you think?

And in the meantime, Angus Taylor says he never saw that Ley Immigration Policy…I do not believe him. Here you can learn more about him….maybe.

Let’s see how the rest of 2026 plays out for all of us here in Australia.

The news cycle is on spin. Spinning so fast you can’t even take it in. Most of it has to do with Bad Bunny and Venezuela and Iran….no, it is all about THE EPSTEIN FILES.

Of course, there is quite a bit about racism and the orange donkey in the White House. I hope that is not a slight on donkeys, and if it is, we will just call him an ass.

Read all about it:

TRUMP IS AN ASS, and in case you have been sleeping, a RACIST PIG.

Donnie is mentioned 1 million, count ‘em, one million times in the unredacted-redacted radioactive Epstein documents. Only 1/2 of the documents have been released, and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche says no more will be released. You better believe they will be released at some point. Even if we have to wait until the Democrats are in control of Congress.

Note that this is, of course, if there are midterms due to either election meddling or a nuclear war of some sort.

America ….are you going to let them hide even more documents? America, do you see that what this regime is doing is against the law. But most importantly, who is being protected by the redactions and the hiding of 3 million more files? I will give you 3 million guesses….

Maybe one of them is Howard Lutnick, the Secretary of Commerce, who has lied through his teeth. Just watch this video and see this little Jericho, Long Island jerk squirm. Lutnick should have been in the World Trade Center on that day in September. He should resign and be investigated throrougly and hopefully tossed into a jail cell.

(In case you just want some music…below is the Qobuz link…and the Spotify Playlist….make your choice…but I advise you to move to Q!) Not -Anon!

https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/56867607

Howard took his wife, four kids and nanny to Epstein Island for lunch many years after he said he would never want anything to do with his neighbour Jeffy again. As a Dad, I can not understand why he would take his family to Epstein Island when Howie knew Jeff had been convicted of soliciting a minor for prostitution.

Guess it just slipped his mind.

Howie also said, “I looked through all the Epstein files, LIKE EVERYONE ELSE, to see if my name was in there”. Howie…..you do have something to hide. Hook this bastard up to a polygraph machine. I don't think EVERYONE else was looking for their name in the files, you jerk.

Howie and his kids and wife came in on a boat in 2012, had lunch for an hour, and he cannot recall why he went there for lunch. Come on, dude, you are a liar. Resign now, Howie.

Look at the pregnant propaganda witch Leavitt advise America that the Trump regime is moving on. She also makes a sweeping statement that the “President has always remained consistent”. He is a consistent liar. In his first term in the Oval Office, the Liar in Chief made over 30,573 false or misleading claims.

Let’s do a wee bit of math. 4 years in office equals 1460 days. That averages out to 21 lies a day. This Olympian ability to bullshit is one of a kind.

That is consistency. Karoline was correct about consistency.

Attorney General Pam Bondi will appear before the House Judiciary Committee on Feb. 11 in just about 6 hours. You want to see some world-class bullshitting, make sure you tune in.

Bill and Hillary Clinton are going to testify before US lawmakers regarding their knowledge of Epstein. Bill has already said to make all the documents available, so he sounds like he has nothing to hide. I doubt he has anything on the alleged Orange Pedomeister, but would it not be fabulous if he did?

These hearings are not going to stop. Hopefully, as soon as the Democrats take over Congress, the hearings will gather steam and people will be impeached and jailed. Please note, as mentioned above, World War III, a pandemic of measles or alien invasions could possibly interfere.

We hope democracy survives and stands its ground.

Consistent….bing…bing…bing….

Convict the pedophiles….wherever they are.

Impeach The Mofo in the White House. He is making it and all of America smell.

Sorry….I am a bit pissed off today.

Back to whatever else you were doing…

The shooting deaths of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Preeti are a Kent State moment for these times.

There’s something happening here
What it is ain’t exactly clear
There’s a man with a gun over there
A-telling me I got to beware

I think it’s time we stop
Children, what’s that sound?
Everybody look what’s going down

There’s battle lines being drawn
Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Are getting so much resistance from behind

Time we stop
Hey, what’s that sound?
Everybody look what’s going down

What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and a-carrying signs
Mostly say hooray for our side

It’s time we stop
Hey, what’s that sound?
Everybody look what’s going down

Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you’re always afraid
Step out of line, the man come and take you away

We better stop
Hey, what’s that sound?
Everybody look what’s going down
We better stop
Hey, what’s that sound?
Everybody look what’s going down
We better stop now
What’s that sound?
Everybody look what’s going down
We better stop
Children, what’s that sound?
Everybody look what’s going down-Stephen Stills

I’ll take Stills over Miller anyday.

Pretti’s family released a statement Saturday evening saying they are “heartbroken but also very angry” and calling him a kindhearted soul who wanted to make a difference in the world through his work as a nurse.

“The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper sprayed,” the statement said.

“Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.”

Renee Nicole Good had just dropped her son off at school. He is now an orphan at 6 years old.

Say their names: Renee Nicole Good. Alex Preeti.

Stephen Miller is running policy at the White House. Stephen Miller is a racist of the highest order. He has been with Trump since his first term. He made sure that every person in the Cabinet for the second term was an ass-kissing sycophant.

There would be no balking at anything Trump announced Miller wanted done. It would come from the mouth of the Orange So-called Leader. Project 2025 was/is the map they have followed.

In case you need to know who Miller is, in depth, read this piece from the SPLC (Southern Poverty Law Center).

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/stephen-millers-affinity-white-nationalism-revealed-leaked-emails/

The Orange Orc will continue hurting people. He will continue to be the puppet of Stephen Miller.

America is a country of immigrants and the procedures that ICE are following are inhumane and illegal.

It’s time to stand up, America. Actually, it is WAY WAY past time. Time is running out.

Pay attention to your leaders and make sure they know you will not vote for them if they do not take a stand.

Corporations that are not taking a side against the Trump regime are complicit in the destruction of democracy and human rights in America.

Vote with your wallet.

Call and write your Reps in Congress. Call and write The White House. I write an e-mail a week to Donald Trump via this page:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

I am an American Citizen living abroad….but I still make whatever noise I can.

I feel a change coming. There will be more pain. But all of America cannot wait until the midterms in November. Americans need to make noise and act now.

Trump is physically disintegrating in front of our eyes. It is Tuesday in America and he has not appeared on TV since Friday. That’s a long run for Donnie Boy. Today, he goes to Iowa to discuss affordability… not a word he invented. Protesters are on the streets in Clive, Iowa, where the demented moron will talk about windmills and the price of eggs, chanting “STOP THE EXECUTIONS”.

Fire Miller.

Impeach Noem.

Impeach Trump.

And just to review, class, the link below explains what Project 2025 is, in case you did not pay attention before the 2024 election.

WE ARE LIVING THIS INSANITY NOW.

https://www.aclu.org/project-2025-explained

People get ready, there’s a train a-comin’

You don’t need no baggage, you just get on board

All you need is faith to hear the diesels hummin’

Don’t need no ticket, you just thank the Lord

GET OUT AND MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD….See you in NAARM!

Don’t need no ticket, you just thank the Lord. Invasion Day, also known as Survival Day, is commemorated annually on the 26th of January, the same day that many Australians celebrate as ‘Australia Day’.

It is a day that honours those who have lost their lives as a result of invasion, remembers how hard our people fought to protect Country and celebrates the fact that despite invasion, colonisation and the resulting trauma on our people – we have survived.

The 1938 Day of Mourning marked the beginning of the annual marches, protests and celebrations of our culture, history and people. Around the country marches and protests are held – especially in the major cities with thousands of people from all different communities coming together to march through the streets which is often followed by celebrations in the park with music, food and games.

Blackfella, Whitefella
It doesn’t matter what your color
As long as you a true fella
As long as you a real fella
All the people of different races
With different lives in different places
It doesn’t matter what your name is
We got to have lots of changes
We need more brothers if we’re to make it
We need more sisters if we’re to save it

Are you the one who’s gonna stand up and be counted?
Are you the one who’s gonna be there when we shout it?
Are you the one who’s always ready with a helping hand?
Are you the one who understands this family plan?

Blackfella, Whitefella, Yellowfella, anyfella
It doesn’t matter what your color
As long as you a true fella
All the people of different races
With different lives in different places
It doesn’t matter which religion
It’s all the same when the ship is sinking
We need more brothers if we’re to make it
We need more sisters if we’re to save it

Are you the one who’s gonna stand up and be counted?
Are you the one who’s gonna be there when we shout it?
Are you the one who’s always ready with a helping hand?
Are you the one who understands this family plan?

Stand up, stand up and be counted
Stand up, stand up and be counted
Are you the one who’s always ready with a helping hand?
Are you the one who understands this family plan?

America needs to pay attention. Things are about to change this year, but things will get darker. The ugly forces of the Trump regime are holding on for dear life, and they are trying to take America down with them. They do not care about America. You can see that every day. I do believe jail time awaits many of them.

Today…take a moment to read and/or listen to this speech. Take it in. These words mean as much today as they did on the 3rd of April 1968.

On April 4th, 1968, the day after this speech, Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated.

Resistance. Resistance. Resistance.

Teach me to live, that I may dread the grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die, that so I may rise glorious at the judgment day.-Thomas Hardy

Thank you very kindly, my friends. As I listened to Ralph Abernathy and his eloquent and generous introduction and then thought about myself, I wondered who he was talking about. It’s always good to have your closest friend and associate to say something good about you. And Ralph Abernathy is the best friend that I have in the world. I’m delighted to see each of you here tonight in spite of a storm warning. You reveal that you are determined to go on anyhow.

Something is happening in Memphis; something is happening in our world. And you know, if I were standing at the beginning of time, with the possibility of taking a kind of general and panoramic view of the whole of human history up to now, and the Almighty said to me, “Martin Luther King, which age would you like to live in?” I would take my mental flight by Egypt and I would watch God’s children in their magnificent trek from the dark dungeons of Egypt through, or rather across the Red Sea, through the wilderness on toward the promised land. And in spite of its magnificence, I wouldn’t stop there.

I would move on by Greece and take my mind to Mount Olympus. And I would see Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Euripides and Aristophanes assembled around the Parthenon. And I would watch them around the Parthenon as they discussed the great and eternal issues of reality. But I wouldn’t stop there.

I would go on, even to the great heyday of the Roman Empire. And I would see developments around there, through various emperors and leaders. But I wouldn’t stop there.

I would even come up to the day of the Renaissance, and get a quick picture of all that the Renaissance did for the cultural and aesthetic life of man. But I wouldn’t stop there.

I would even go by the way that the man for whom I am named had his habitat. And I would watch Martin Luther as he tacked his ninety-five theses on the door at the church of Wittenberg. But I wouldn’t stop there.

I would come on up even to 1863, and watch a vacillating President by the name of Abraham Lincoln finally come to the conclusion that he had to sign the Emancipation Proclamation. But I wouldn’t stop there.

I would even come up to the early thirties, and see a man grappling with the problems of the bankruptcy of his nation. And come with an eloquent cry that we have nothing to fear but “fear itself.” But I wouldn’t stop there.

Strangely enough, I would turn to the Almighty, and say, “If you allow me to live just a few years in the second half of the 20th century, I will be happy.”

Now that’s a strange statement to make, because the world is all messed up. The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land; confusion all around. That’s a strange statement. But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. And I see God working in this period of the twentieth century in a way that men, in some strange way, are responding.

Something is happening in our world. The masses of people are rising up. And wherever they are assembled today, whether they are in Johannesburg, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya; Accra, Ghana; New York City; Atlanta, Georgia; Jackson, Mississippi; or Memphis, Tennessee -- the cry is always the same: “We want to be free.”

And another reason that I’m happy to live in this period is that we have been forced to a point where we are going to have to grapple with the problems that men have been trying to grapple with through history, but the demands didn’t force them to do it. Survival demands that we grapple with them. Men, for years now, have been talking about war and peace. But now, no longer can they just talk about it. It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it’s nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today.

And also in the human rights revolution, if something isn’t done, and done in a hurry, to bring the colored peoples of the world out of their long years of poverty, their long years of hurt and neglect, the whole world is doomed. Now, I’m just happy that God has allowed me to live in this period to see what is unfolding. And I’m happy that He’s allowed me to be in Memphis.

I can remember -- I can remember when Negroes were just going around as Ralph has said, so often, scratching where they didn’t itch, and laughing when they were not tickled. But that day is all over. We mean business now, and we are determined to gain our rightful place in God’s world.

And that’s all this whole thing is about. We aren’t engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with anybody. We are saying that we are determined to be men. We are determined to be people. We are saying -- We are saying that we are God’s children. And that we are God’s children, we don’t have to live like we are forced to live.

Now, what does all of this mean in this great period of history? It means that we’ve got to stay together. We’ve got to stay together and maintain unity. You know, whenever Pharaoh wanted to prolong the period of slavery in Egypt, he had a favorite, favorite formula for doing it. What was that? He kept the slaves fighting among themselves. But whenever the slaves get together, something happens in Pharaoh’s court, and he cannot hold the slaves in slavery. When the slaves get together, that’s the beginning of getting out of slavery. Now let us maintain unity.

Secondly, let us keep the issues where they are. The issue is injustice. The issue is the refusal of Memphis to be fair and honest in its dealings with its public servants, who happen to be sanitation workers. Now, we’ve got to keep attention on that. That’s always the problem with a little violence. You know what happened the other day, and the press dealt only with the window-breaking. I read the articles. They very seldom got around to mentioning the fact that one thousand, three hundred sanitation workers are on strike, and that Memphis is not being fair to them, and that Mayor Loeb is in dire need of a doctor. They didn’t get around to that.

Now we’re going to march again, and we’ve got to march again, in order to put the issue where it is supposed to be -- and force everybody to see that there are thirteen hundred of God’s children here suffering, sometimes going hungry, going through dark and dreary nights wondering how this thing is going to come out. That’s the issue. And we’ve got to say to the nation: We know how it’s coming out. For when people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.

We aren’t going to let any mace stop us. We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don’t know what to do. I’ve seen them so often. I remember in Birmingham, Alabama, when we were in that majestic struggle there, we would move out of the 16th Street Baptist Church day after day; by the hundreds we would move out. And Bull Connor would tell them to send the dogs forth, and they did come; but we just went before the dogs singing, “Ain’t gonna let nobody turn me around.”

Bull Connor next would say, “Turn the fire hoses on.” And as I said to you the other night, Bull Connor didn’t know history. He knew a kind of physics that somehow didn’t relate to the transphysics that we knew about. And that was the fact that there was a certain kind of fire that no water could put out. And we went before the fire hoses; we had known water. If we were Baptist or some other denominations, we had been immersed. If we were Methodist, and some others, we had been sprinkled, but we knew water. That couldn’t stop us.

And we just went on before the dogs and we would look at them; and we’d go on before the water hoses and we would look at it, and we’d just go on singing “Over my head I see freedom in the air.” And then we would be thrown in the paddy wagons, and sometimes we were stacked in there like sardines in a can. And they would throw us in, and old Bull would say, “Take ‘em off,” and they did; and we would just go in the paddy wagon singing, “We Shall Overcome.” And every now and then we’d get in jail, and we’d see the jailers looking through the windows being moved by our prayers, and being moved by our words and our songs. And there was a power there which Bull Connor couldn’t adjust to; and so we ended up transforming Bull into a steer, and we won our struggle in Birmingham. Now we’ve got to go on in Memphis just like that. I call upon you to be with us when we go out Monday.

Now about injunctions: We have an injunction and we’re going into court tomorrow morning to fight this illegal, unconstitutional injunction. All we say to America is, “Be true to what you said on paper.” If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, maybe I could understand some of these illegal injunctions. Maybe I could understand the denial of certain basic First Amendment privileges, because they hadn’t committed themselves to that over there. But somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom of press. Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for right.¹ And so just as I say, we aren’t going to let dogs or water hoses turn us around, we aren’t going to let any injunction turn us around. We are going on.

We need all of you. And you know what’s beautiful to me is to see all of these ministers of the Gospel. It’s a marvelous picture. Who is it that is supposed to articulate the longings and aspirations of the people more than the preacher? Somehow the preacher must have a kind of fire shut up in his bones. And whenever injustice is around he tell it. Somehow the preacher must be an Amos, and saith, “When God speaks who can but prophesy?” Again with Amos, “Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.” Somehow the preacher must say with Jesus, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me,” and he’s anointed me to deal with the problems of the poor.”

And I want to commend the preachers, under the leadership of these noble men: James Lawson, one who has been in this struggle for many years; he’s been to jail for struggling; he’s been kicked out of Vanderbilt University for this struggle, but he’s still going on, fighting for the rights of his people. Reverend Ralph Jackson, Billy Kiles; I could just go right on down the list, but time will not permit. But I want to thank all of them. And I want you to thank them, because so often, preachers aren’t concerned about anything but themselves. And I’m always happy to see a relevant ministry.

It’s all right to talk about “long white robes over yonder,” in all of its symbolism. But ultimately people want some suits and dresses and shoes to wear down here! It’s all right to talk about “streets flowing with milk and honey,” but God has commanded us to be concerned about the slums down here, and his children who can’t eat three square meals a day. It’s all right to talk about the new Jerusalem, but one day, God’s preacher must talk about the new New York, the new Atlanta, the new Philadelphia, the new Los Angeles, the new Memphis, Tennessee. This is what we have to do.

Now the other thing we’ll have to do is this: Always anchor our external direct action with the power of economic withdrawal. Now, we are poor people. Individually, we are poor when you compare us with white society in America. We are poor. Never stop and forget that collectively -- that means all of us together -- collectively we are richer than all the nations in the world, with the exception of nine. Did you ever think about that? After you leave the United States, Soviet Russia, Great Britain, West Germany, France, and I could name the others, the American Negro collectively is richer than most nations of the world. We have an annual income of more than thirty billion dollars a year, which is more than all of the exports of the United States, and more than the national budget of Canada. Did you know that? That’s power right there, if we know how to pool it.

We don’t have to argue with anybody. We don’t have to curse and go around acting bad with our words. We don’t need any bricks and bottles. We don’t need any Molotov cocktails. We just need to go around to these stores, and to these massive industries in our country, and say,

“God sent us by here, to say to you that you’re not treating his children right. And we’ve come by here to ask you to make the first item on your agenda fair treatment, where God’s children are concerned. Now, if you are not prepared to do that, we do have an agenda that we must follow. And our agenda calls for withdrawing economic support from you.”

And so, as a result of this, we are asking you tonight, to go out and tell your neighbors not to buy Coca-Cola in Memphis. Go by and tell them not to buy Sealtest milk. Tell them not to buy -- what is the other bread? -- Wonder Bread. And what is the other bread company, Jesse? Tell them not to buy Hart’s bread. As Jesse Jackson has said, up to now, only the garbage men have been feeling pain; now we must kind of redistribute the pain. We are choosing these companies because they haven’t been fair in their hiring policies; and we are choosing them because they can begin the process of saying they are going to support the needs and the rights of these men who are on strike. And then they can move on town -- downtown and tell Mayor Loeb to do what is right.

But not only that, we’ve got to strengthen black institutions. I call upon you to take your money out of the banks downtown and deposit your money in Tri-State Bank. We want a “bank-in” movement in Memphis. Go by the savings and loan association. I’m not asking you something that we don’t do ourselves at SCLC. Judge Hooks and others will tell you that we have an account here in the savings and loan association from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. We are telling you to follow what we are doing. Put your money there. You have six or seven black insurance companies here in the city of Memphis. Take out your insurance there. We want to have an “insurance-in.”

Now these are some practical things that we can do. We begin the process of building a greater economic base. And at the same time, we are putting pressure where it really hurts. I ask you to follow through here.

Now, let me say as I move to my conclusion that we’ve got to give ourselves to this struggle until the end. Nothing would be more tragic than to stop at this point in Memphis. We’ve got to see it through. And when we have our march, you need to be there. If it means leaving work, if it means leaving school -- be there. Be concerned about your brother. You may not be on strike. But either we go up together, or we go down together.

Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness. One day a man came to Jesus, and he wanted to raise some questions about some vital matters of life. At points he wanted to trick Jesus, and show him that he knew a little more than Jesus knew and throw him off base....

Now that question could have easily ended up in a philosophical and theological debate. But Jesus immediately pulled that question from mid-air, and placed it on a dangerous curve between Jerusalem and Jericho. And he talked about a certain man, who fell among thieves. You remember that a Levite and a priest passed by on the other side. They didn’t stop to help him. And finally a man of another race came by. He got down from his beast, decided not to be compassionate by proxy. But he got down with him, administered first aid, and helped the man in need. Jesus ended up saying, this was the good man, this was the great man, because he had the capacity to project the “I” into the “thou,” and to be concerned about his brother.

Now you know, we use our imagination a great deal to try to determine why the priest and the Levite didn’t stop. At times we say they were busy going to a church meeting, an ecclesiastical gathering, and they had to get on down to Jerusalem so they wouldn’t be late for their meeting. At other times we would speculate that there was a religious law that “One who was engaged in religious ceremonials was not to touch a human body twenty-four hours before the ceremony.” And every now and then we begin to wonder whether maybe they were not going down to Jerusalem -- or down to Jericho, rather to organize a “Jericho Road Improvement Association.” That’s a possibility. Maybe they felt that it was better to deal with the problem from the causal root, rather than to get bogged down with an individual effect.

But I’m going to tell you what my imagination tells me. It’s possible that those men were afraid. You see, the Jericho road is a dangerous road. I remember when Mrs. King and I were first in Jerusalem. We rented a car and drove from Jerusalem down to Jericho. And as soon as we got on that road, I said to my wife, “I can see why Jesus used this as the setting for his parable.” It’s a winding, meandering road. It’s really conducive for ambushing. You start out in Jerusalem, which is about 1200 miles -- or rather 1200 feet above sea level. And by the time you get down to Jericho, fifteen or twenty minutes later, you’re about 2200 feet below sea level. That’s a dangerous road. In the days of Jesus it came to be known as the “Bloody Pass.” And you know, it’s possible that the priest and the Levite looked over that man on the ground and wondered if the robbers were still around. Or it’s possible that they felt that the man on the ground was merely faking. And he was acting like he had been robbed and hurt, in order to seize them over there, lure them there for quick and easy seizure. And so the first question that the priest asked -- the first question that the Levite asked was, “If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?” But then the Good Samaritan came by. And he reversed the question: “If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?”

That’s the question before you tonight. Not, “If I stop to help the sanitation workers, what will happen to my job. Not, “If I stop to help the sanitation workers what will happen to all of the hours that I usually spend in my office every day and every week as a pastor?” The question is not, “If I stop to help this man in need, what will happen to me?” The question is, “If I do not stop to help the sanitation workers, what will happen to them?” That’s the question.

Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in these powerful days, these days of challenge to make America what it ought to be. We have an opportunity to make America a better nation. And I want to thank God, once more, for allowing me to be here with you.

You know, several years ago, I was in New York City autographing the first book that I had written. And while sitting there autographing books, a demented black woman came up. The only question I heard from her was, “Are you Martin Luther King?” And I was looking down writing, and I said, “Yes.” And the next minute I felt something beating on my chest. Before I knew it I had been stabbed by this demented woman. I was rushed to Harlem Hospital. It was a dark Saturday afternoon. And that blade had gone through, and the X-rays revealed that the tip of the blade was on the edge of my aorta, the main artery. And once that’s punctured, your drowned in your own blood -- that’s the end of you.

It came out in the New York Times the next morning, that if I had merely sneezed, I would have died. Well, about four days later, they allowed me, after the operation, after my chest had been opened, and the blade had been taken out, to move around in the wheel chair in the hospital. They allowed me to read some of the mail that came in, and from all over the states and the world, kind letters came in. I read a few, but one of them I will never forget. I had received one from the President and the Vice-President. I’ve forgotten what those telegrams said. I’d received a visit and a letter from the Governor of New York, but I’ve forgotten what that letter said. But there was another letter that came from a little girl, a young girl who was a student at the White Plains High School. And I looked at that letter, and I’ll never forget it. It said simply,

“Dear Dr. King,

I am a ninth-grade student at the White Plains High School.”

And she said,

“While it should not matter, I would like to mention that I’m a white girl. I read in the paper of your misfortune, and of your suffering. And I read that if you had sneezed, you would have died. And I’m simply writing you to say that I’m so happy that you didn’t sneeze.”

And I want to say tonight -- I want to say tonight that I too am happy that I didn’t sneeze. Because if I had sneezed, I wouldn’t have been around here in 1960, when students all over the South started sitting-in at lunch counters. And I knew that as they were sitting in, they were really standing up for the best in the American dream, and taking the whole nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the Founding Fathers in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

If I had sneezed, I wouldn’t have been around here in 1961, when we decided to take a ride for freedom and ended segregation in inter-state travel.

If I had sneezed, I wouldn’t have been around here in 1962, when Negroes in Albany, Georgia, decided to straighten their backs up. And whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can’t ride your back unless it is bent.

If I had sneezed -- If I had sneezed I wouldn’t have been here in 1963, when the black people of Birmingham, Alabama, aroused the conscience of this nation, and brought into being the Civil Rights Bill.

If I had sneezed, I wouldn’t have had a chance later that year, in August, to try to tell America about a dream that I had had.

If I had sneezed, I wouldn’t have been down in Selma, Alabama, to see the great Movement there.

If I had sneezed, I wouldn’t have been in Memphis to see a community rally around those brothers and sisters who are suffering.

I’m so happy that I didn’t sneeze.

And they were telling me --. Now, it doesn’t matter, now. It really doesn’t matter what happens now. I left Atlanta this morning, and as we got started on the plane, there were six of us. The pilot said over the public address system, “We are sorry for the delay, but we have Dr. Martin Luther King on the plane. And to be sure that all of the bags were checked, and to be sure that nothing would be wrong with on the plane, we had to check out everything carefully. And we’ve had the plane protected and guarded all night.”

And then I got into Memphis. And some began to say the threats, or talk about the threats that were out. What would happen to me from some of our sick white brothers?

Well, I don’t know what will happen now. We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn’t matter with me now, because I’ve been to the mountaintop.

And I don’t mind.

Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I’m not concerned about that now. I just want to do God’s will. And He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over. And I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land!

And so I’m happy, tonight.

I’m not worried about anything.

I’m not fearing any man!

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!!

“THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN GET AMERICANS TO NOTICE ANYTHING IS TO TAX THEM OR DRAFT THEM OR KILL THEM,” Owen said. He said that once—when Hester proposed abolishing the draft. “IF YOU ABOLISH THE DRAFT,” said Owen Meany, “MOST AMERICANS WILL SIMPLY STOP CARING ABOUT WHAT WE’RE DOING IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD”-Prayer For Owen Meany

Re-reading this book from 1989, 37 years later, and my mantra of ‘nothing much has changed’ certainly does echo through my head. If you have not read John Irving’s book, and you have an interest in American history, this book should be put on your list for 2026. Although not a history book, it is a novel; you can draw the lines to where we are today.

Irving has captured the scars of Vietnam, the illegality, immorality, and lies of the Reagan Administration, and more, within this small-town tale of a small-town boy from a granite quarry. The relationships between the characters and the love and the loss they experience are juxtaposed with the insanity of the “American War”.

What do Americans know about morality? They don’t want their presidents to have penises but they don’t mind if their presidents covertly arrange to support the Nicaraguan rebel forces after Congress has restricted such aid; they don’t want their presidents to deceive their wives but they don’t mind if their presidents deceive Congress – lie to the people and violate the people’s constitution!-Prayer For Owen Meany

Regan invaded Grenada in 1983, citing a Soviet-Cuban military buildup as his reasoning. Sound familiar?

Regan sold missiles to Iran without Congressional Approval to fund the Contras, who were battling the freedom-fighting Sandinistas in Nicaragua. In 1983, the Beirut Bombings took place, where over 300 people were killed, including 241 military personnel. Iran was not implicated at that time, but in 2003, 20 years later, it was found legally responsible for providing Hezbollah with money and logistical aid.

Regan had his own War On Drugs.

Every American should be forced to live outside the United States for a year or two. Americans should be forced to see how ridiculous they appear to the rest of the world! They should listen to someone else’s version of themselves – to anyone else’s version! Every country knows more about America than Americans know about themselves! And Americans know absolutely nothing about any other country!’-Prayer For Owen Meany

Look at what we are living through today. America’s war on drugs today was the supposed reason we toppled the regime in Venezuela, we obliterated Iran’s nuclear capabilities, and now we want to assist in the overthrow of their regime, and we continue to support the genocide in Gaza. The only thing we are missing today is KNOWN boots on the ground. I am 100% certain that we have CIA operatives on the ground in many places, taking part in activities we will find out about later.

https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/52526569-Here is the Qobuz link…please leave Spotify…but here is the Spotify playlist also….I do not pay them for this!

Here is another excerpt from Irving’s novel:
Reagan Declares Firmness on Gulf; Plans Are Unclear Isn’t that a classic? I don’t mean the semicolon; I mean, isn’t that just what the world needs? Unclear firmness! That is typical American policy: don’t be clear, but be firm!-Prayer For Owen Meany

Reagan called it Peace Through Strength. The Orange Demented Citizen Killer Trump calls it Peace Through Might. Mmmm….6-7. Of course he has used the ‘strength’ word too. He uses many words. Too many.

Reagan was not killing citizens on the street. He had not sunk that low. How much further can America sink? (Note: Ronnie was slow responding to the AIDS Epidemic….so he does have some American blood on his hands)

How long will America listen to this Homeland Security Barbie’s Bullshit? She needs to be impeached.

Will the murder of Renee Good be a catalyst, or will this simply be another blip on the media barrage that hits us every day? Will the citizens of America unite and protest like the Iranian public is doing today against their violent regime? Wake Up America, people are disappearing and being killed on your streets. First they came for…..

My heart and soul hope that this might be the case. Living 10,000 miles away, I keep my finger on the pulse from afar, and it is not distance that makes me observe how weak it is. The heartbeat of democracy is failing.

Have a gander at this Irving excerpt and tell me things have improved:
But it doesn’t surprise me that the president is ‘not affected’ by the congressional hearings; he hasn’t been too ‘affected’ by what the Congress tells him he can and can’t do, either. I doubt that these hearings are going to ‘affect’ him very greatly. Who cares if he ‘knew’ – exactly, or inexactly – that money raised by secret arms sales to Iran was being diverted to the support of the Nicaraguan rebels? I don’t think most Americans care. Americans got bored with hearing about Vietnam before they got out of Vietnam; Americans got bored with hearing about Watergate, and what Nixon did or didn’t do – even before the evidence was all in. Americans are already bored with Nicaragua; by the time these congressional hearings on the Iran-contra affair are over, Americans won’t know (or care) what they think – except that they’ll be sick and tired of it. After a while, they’ll be tired of the Persian Gulf, too. They’re already sick to death of Iran.-Prayer For Owen Meany

We are living in deja vu all over again, as Yogi Berra once said.

Make some noise. Make some phone calls. Take it to the streets.

Wake up before it is too late.

PS-Speaking of Presidents and Penises….Release The Epstein Files…NOW!

https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/watch/?page=1&pageSize=9&pageSizeM=3&sorting=10

Victoria will take an important step towards addressing past injustices towards Aboriginal people and building a stronger, united future, with an apology to First Peoples to be made in the Victorian Parliament.

Premier Jacinta Allan will make a formal apology in Parliament House on Tuesday, 9 December 2025.

The apology is a key recommendation of Victoria’s nation-leading Yoorrook Justice Commission and was committed to in the first Treaty, following the Statewide Treaty Act 2025 becoming law.

The Commission heard evidence that the colonisation of Victoria was marked by dispossession, displacement and violence towards First Peoples.

The final report of the Yoorrook Justice Commission recommended an acknowledgement of the responsibility of predecessors for laws, policies and practices that contributed to injustices against First Peoples in Victoria.

The Victorian Government has worked with the First Peoples’ Assembly to deliver the apology through the Treaty process.

This apology, along with Victoria’s Treaty is a chance for all Victorians to move forward together. It’s a pathway to acknowledging the past and making real, practical changes to achieve better outcomes for First Peoples and close the gap.

The apology can be viewed by the public at Parliament House. It will also be live-streamed on the Parliament of Victoria website at parliament.vic.gov.au.

Support is available through Lifeline (13 11 14), Yarning SafeNStrong (1800 959 563) or Beyond Blue (1300 22 46 36).

Quote attributable to Premier Jacinta Allan

“We are addressing the injustices of the past to build a better future for all Victorians, grounded in mutual respect and understanding.”

Quote attributable to Minister for Treaty and First Peoples Natalie Hutchins

“Yoorrook has laid bare the impacts of the past on First Peoples - it’s important that we apologise for injustices and acknowledge their enduring strength.”

Back in late September, this war-mongering alcoholic (above) had this to say:
“We are preparing every day. We have to be prepared for war, not for defense. We’re training warriors, not defenders. We fight wars to win, not to defend. Defense is something you do all the time. It’s inherently reactionary, and can lead to overuse, overreach and mission creep. War is something you do sparingly, on our own terms and with clear aims. We fight to win. We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy.”

The Department of Defense’s Law of War Manual forbids the killing of shipwrecked personnel or targeting enemy combatants who have surrendered or are unable to fight.

The murder of the two so-called narco-terrorists on September 2nd 2025, under the watch of this lost little warrior-boy, is a war crime. If not, it is plain MURDER.

In question is the legality of targeting and killing civilians. I am pretty sure this is not legal and labelling them ‘terrorists’ is a damn stretch.

Back before there was murder on the high seas, boats would be intercepted, boarded, and the US Coast Guard and the US and British Navy would arrest those involved and destroy the boat.

Is America heading into a drug war like the one that took place in the Philippines? President Duterte wanted the proliferation of drugs to stop. Between 2016 and 2022, 12-30,000 civilians were killed in the anti-drug crusade. President Duterte used this to kill innocent people and he paid the police for killings. Duterte urged citizens, the public, to kill drug users and dealers.

Does America want a militia on the streets….oh, right, that is already taking place with ICE.

The Philippines changed Presidents in 2022, and the killing fields of possible drug users/dealers stopped under Bongbong Marcos. He insisted that “killing is not the solution in the drug war” and that drug lords should be arrested while communities affected by the illegal drug trade should be developed instead. Civilians should not be killed.

News-TV5 in the Philippines reported this about Duterte:
From the start, in 2016, Duterte had allegedly carried out a campaign not to eliminate the illegal drug menace but to wipe out a rival drug cartel based on false information, fabricated evidence, and staged executions.

My thoughts have been drifting to this same sort of idea in Latin and South America. Thinking back to the days of Oliver North and the CIA working to overthrow the Sandinistas and how the CIA was invovled with cocaine trafficking. The conspiracy theory back then was that they lit the fuse for crack cocaine in the ghettos of the USA.

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Which leads me to today. Donald is a convicted felon. He appears to be a criminal. He has just pardoned a ‘friend’, Juan Orlando Hernández, former Presidente of Honduras. He had been involved with shipping hundreds of tonnes on the cocaine superhighway between Latin America and the USA.

My theory is that besides regime change in Venezuela, the Orange Pulp Face is friendly with certain cartels and is pulling in money from the illegal drug trade. Of course, all of this is conjecture, and I have no proof of this.

Not too far-fetched, is it?

The War On Drugs is a front. And we all know the bigger the front, THE BIGGER THE BACK.

Lies and more lies, stories that don’t match up, we need a full investigation of what is happening with Operation Southern Spear.

If you are an American, write/call your representatives today.

“America is waiting for a message of some sort or another…"

I haven’t seen any-any-any citizen over there
Stand up and say “Hey, just a second”
No will whatsoever, no will whatsoever
I mean, yeah, well, wha-what are you gonna do?
America is waiting for a message of some sort or another-Byrne/Eno

Rodrigo Duterte was arrested in March of this year. He is facing charges of crimes against humanity. Due to his own fentanyl addiction and other issues, his trial has been delayed due to his declining cognitive abilities. He be fucked up and 80.

Duterte remains in detention at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

We can only hope that we see the Bloated Orange Murderer in an pumpkin jumpsuit someday soon.

Someday soon, before more narco-civilians are murdered.

There is something rotten in the Oval Office…and you are looking at it.

That’s all…..