The Epstein class - the center of the US Empire.

https://consortiumnews.com/2026/06/09/hedges-report-epstein-the-russian-mob-maxwell/

This is too painful to read, let alone watch.

One more reminder why I won't be following the FIFA World Cup tournament this year (or likely any other subsequent one).

https://scheerpost.com/2026/06/09/the-most-racist-world-cup-in-history/

Bonus:

https://mondoweiss.net/2026/06/fifa-is-supporting-the-israeli-occupation-by-legitimizing-clubs-that-play-in-illegal-west-bank-settlements/

Human life.

Most people live in this imaginary world of believed mental constructs that offer up all sorts of reasons to feel anxious and afraid and hostile and ashamed. And then clever manipulators use those feelings to get us consenting to wars and injustices and all the self-destructive human behavior we see before us today. And that’s why everything’s as messed up as it is.

The world as it actually exists could not be more different from the world our thoughts describe. Life experienced lucidly is as different from life filtered through thought as any two things could possibly be.

The human organism can function perfectly fine without nonstop mental chatter. Thought can be nothing more than a useful tool that gets picked up when it’s needed and set down when it’s not, with attention resting in the profound wondrousness of the senses instead of mental babbling about made-up nonsense throughout the day.

It can take some work to undo all the interior dysfunction and come to this level of clarity, but it’s not nearly as much work as we’re already exerting in continuously turning the wheels of our insanity and keeping all these fictional worlds happening inside our heads. Bringing clarity to our inner processes and awakening to reality is actually the easy path. It’s just so much more peaceful and enjoyable.

The true face of genocide - is killing with one simply because they exist.

In this case, a 7-month old child - Sam Abu Haikal.

Because he was brown. Because his parents were brown. Because they - along with all the other Palestinians - represent a threat to US Imperialism/Capitalism/Settler-Colonialism, and so on.

https://mondoweiss.net/2026/06/israeli-soldiers-shot-and-killed-this-palestinian-baby-in-the-west-bank/

Israeli soldiers shot and killed this Palestinian baby in the West Bank

Sam Abu Haikal was riding in his parents' car through Hebron when Israeli soldiers opened fire. His mother is in intensive care, and his father, wounded in the hand, buried him alone the next morning. He was only seven months old.

And yet, here in America, people are completely (or nearly completely) delusional, self-absorbed, and too caught up in all the perpetual propaganda to really understand.

This is what holds all of us back. 

Gold is back. And in a big way.

And no, I don't mean in a Saturday Night Live parody of Air Supply.

https://scheerpost.com/2026/06/08/gold-topples-the-dollars-throne-as-the-world-quietly-moves-beyond-u-s-financial-dominance/

Sigh - so ends another vacation.

I didn't get everything I wanted done. But I did get a lot done -

• Wrote some new songs.
• Recorded lots of guitar, bass, drums and keyboard parts for songs.
• New music for future songs.

Wasn't able to get much done with vocals. I have to finally accept that I'll need to set up some sort of acoustically-treated booth of sorts to do that.

Still much more to do. It's a journey. Sometimes I wish I could do more. Sometimes I wish I had started this much sooner (though I remind myself, the technology to do what I can now, didn't exist back then).

Who buys the weapons in your neighborhood?

In your neighborhood?

In your neighborhood ... yeah!

Who buys the weapons in the neighborhood?

The Arab and Euro genociders each day!

Sing it with me!