Seahawks win Super Bowl LX.

Good luck navigating 1st Avenue S, thus week.

A very good talk.

And raises a LOT of critical questions.

Well I finally started.

Got my musical equipment at last.

It took awhile (and there's still a ton to learn), but I was able to create something fairly fast, and in the way I want to do it.

Obviously it's going to take some time - as well I'll need a new desk.

More to follow on that soon.

When one asks why the US is attacking Venezuela, is it just because of the oil?

I mean, that is a big part of it, but it's much more.

It's because Venezuela represents a true affront to the neo-liberal capitalist system the US has been since Day One.

It's about enabling their people in a way the United States doesn't want to in any with theirs.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/05/how-venezuela-poses-an-unusual-and-extraordinary-threat-to-the-us-agenda/

The Venezuelan “threat”

When President Hugo Chávez came to power in 1999, a revolutionary process began that would set out to repay the “social debt” owed to the Venezuelan people, beginning by dedicating 75% of national spending to social investment – funds, importantly, generated by the country’s historically predominant oil sector. Through missions that began the year Chávez was elected, the country elevated its population out of poverty and illiteracy, reaching a 100% literacy rate, with more than three million people learning how to read and write (Mission Robinson); training 6,000 professionals in universities and graduating one million high school students (Mission Sucre); granting nearly 5 million homes to families across the country (Mission Vivienda); building health clinics in 320 of Venezuela’s 355 municipalities (Mission Barrio Adentro); and restoring the eyesight of some 300,000 Venezuelans while providing eye surgery to 1 million (Mission Milagro).

President Nicolás Maduro has continued this legacy, despite the duress imposed by the US-led unilateral coercive measures imposed in the years following Chávez’s death, ensuring not only that the country’s resources benefit the well-being of the majority, but also that power is given back to the people through a model of direct democracy. Weeks before he was kidnapped, for instance, Maduro convened the Constitutional Congress of the Working Class, the culmination of 22,110 assemblies in workplaces across the country in which delegates debated and made proposals to the president about the future of the country’s labor sector and productive processes, such as strengthening domestic production of machinery components in order to reduce external technological dependency. Aprobada (“approved”), Maduro told delegate María Alejandra Grimán Rondón as she presented him with the conclusions of the congress in front of a packed auditorium; for another proposal, “the method still needs to be refined”, he replied, outlining next steps for further debate.

What can I say about the Epstein files released that hasn't already been said?

Other than, Israel.

Margaret sums it up best here -> https://www.blackagendareport.com/epstein-files-shows-how-elites-move

Epstein was Jewish, but as documents now tell us, he was also a believer in Jewish supremacy who worked with officials in allegedly democratic nations on behalf of the international ruling class and zionists. Epstein’s ties to Israel are well known to anyone who has been following this story, but his attitudes about people who aren’t Jews, “goyim,” as he often wrote in his emails, is a new revelation. “This is the way the jew make money... and made a fortune in the past ten years, selling short the shipping futures, let the goyim deal in the real world,” is just one of the missives found among Epstein’s emails. When a Hollywood publicist asked if an event would be “100% Jew night,” he replied, “No, goyim in abundance-JPMorgan execs, brilliant WASPs.”

Any discussion of the topic of Jewish financial and political power is usually off limits, a sure means of being labeled anti-semitic. But the damning tranche of files and Epstein’s own words give a space for reporting what is documented.

What has been missing is a deeper dive into the web of relationships with prominent people such as corporate leaders, the Israeli government, and international financiers like Epstein himself. The emphasis on sex trafficking and sexual assaults of minors has quite rightly garnered great attention, but there are many more things we should know about Epstein and what his relationships tell us about how the world actually works. 

The ultimate platitude that describes capitalism.

Capitalism is the democracy of delusion for the powerful, and the illusion of democracy for everyone else.

How's that for a platitude?

Had some issues with the blog template.

You may have noticed some black and white backgrounds, along with some black and white texts, all being messed up.

Anyways, I reverted back to an older and simpler format. We'll see if that works.