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Diesel
Fat of the Land
The Prodigy ∆∆usic
JetPens
DoodletmeGO
Soundgarden
Nothing To Say - Live on I-5
Mercer Arena, Seattle/1996
*sigh* …voice like a trumpet∑edia
Electric Light Orchestra
Thunder & Lightning
Out of the Blue, 1977

…came for Mr Blue Sky,
hangin' for The Storm
∑edia
E-Clips
The Wizard of Speed and Time
Cult film starring quint-threat writer/ director/ animator/ effects artist/ actor… Mike Jittlov - his final 1988 classic here. SWAK

You'd catch early clips at film fests, but never better quality than this laserdisc/fps conversion —J–
Siouxsie & The Banshees
Talking Heads
And She Was
Talking Heads (Official Video)[HD]
Animation by Jim Blashfield∑edia
Concrete Blonde
Bloodletting
The Vampire Song
…recurring themes for new traditions∆∆usic
HISTOMAPS

power

myth & lore

Tommy's Podcast
Alex Krainer
Pummel Civilization w/Human Rights
Empathy made a Weapon, from Minnesota to Mexican Cartels
Strategic explaner matching w/Boghossian's PDXreal tactical
The Mithril Bugle
Mostly Peaceful Mordorian Tourists Now Feeling Unsafe
Promethean In-Depth
Promethean Update
Tommy's Podcast
All the Marbles…
Colonel Towers General Holt
EM Burlingame

…not US Civil War II, but The American Resolution
SIGNALS

bio
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Tom Scott
Pinball Preparedness
Tommy's Podcast
Foreign Entanglements
Joe Kent & Joe Oltmann
Respect. Tommy fires on all cylinders: support him.
My initial take holds: his Hero's Journey rallies new Dukes + Cohorts, to deliver words of fresh folk wisdom to a ready King's Court.
The American Resolution™ —J–
Jason Bermas
Can We Come Together and…
Confront Crimes Of Humanity?

Someday, a nerd with gumption will track & decipher those ultra flights running a secret IFF that cross over all borders∑edia
Moconomy
P O P U L A T I O N …
    BOMB  -or-  flash-bang ?
Sorry misanthropes, but your Faith that people-are-useless-eaters was bad Malthusian math that hasn’t Victorian Aged well, here in the XXIst

Reprise Post to beautifully erase Ehrlich's life.
Impeccable production values & one of top dozen decks seen in my professional life. Worthy of Dr Hans Rosling’s timeless statistics. Heartening –J–
Tommy’s PodCast
Peter Boghossian
Boho City transmogs to Dungeon
{fixed link} Angela Todd explains how social sabotage deconstructs America, Portlandia-style

My hometown examples are universal. Your corruption may vary. CA makes noise, but Oregon appears They/Them's legal path for west coast succession as 'Cascadia', first Narco State.  —Jonathan–
Static in the Attic
Petrodollar System Rise & Fall
Shah Outed a Phake-N-Gae Oil Crisis & was Replaced by Mullahs
SCORE!
Denying Garcia-access is first time in my life Britain, City Of London, Lloyds, is not lock-step w/ America 'Special Relationship' —J–
Dr Phoxotic
A Flock of Eagles
Anthem-memes of World War Web

  Twitter is a Munition —J–X
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Archive

myWORD by Jonathan…
a topical word-salve for social rashness §ubstack

Geography for Mackindergarteners
Hinges of World creak & groan, swing into new power alignements…


Persian Delight: Would you like a destroyer-escort with that Lloyds replacement insurance?

Sovereign Alliance just gut-punched City Of London and found rice-paper to our elbows. This was always the Lloyds Risk once Britain outsourced its military, particularly Navy, while running global shipping protection rackets.
For centuries that island demanded premiums & charged expensive Transport Insurance on One-Hand, while operating dark banks full of Pirated stolen treasures & Cartel criminal profits with the Under-Hand.
Is this really just good business?

Denying Garcia-access is the first time in my entire GenX life Britain has not Special Relationship lock-stepped, refused our first request to join, and we see their true natures.
Post WWII-era of insidious British Thunderdome dominations of Master-Blaster cosplay are Done, the virtual empire shown useless when a real Navy controls choke points.

I am certain international commerce becomes cheaper with America looking after safety of seas over another century, or three, of larcenous British extortions like terrorist satrapy Iran played, Yemen, Somalia… anywhere a location-location-location Fatal Funnel scares shippers.
The Shah outed 1970’s phake-n-gae Oil Crisis profits & MI6 replaced him with Mullahs. Look under the beard: it's stamped Product Of City Of London.
How long do you think Iran’s next Designated Survivor wears the Supreme Turbine once Greater Persia sees vast family holdings, in England …financed by Israel?

Next question…
Who Are These Quadrillionaires? Because Presidents, Kings, Bankers, AKA the Epstein-class - are just Middle Management placed to catch & distract ire of angry mobs… while They watch, the real rulers: Praetorian Guards decide Kings, who is elected, what survives.
Who parks vast wealth, art, our history & cultural objects in the dashed-lines between nations?
What sits in secure air conditioned warehouses always and forever In-Transit; uncounted, untaxed?
This is their great legal-dodge and I suspect why so much of lawyer-speak, judge/court wording & merchant-ship language for commerce is word magic re-interpreting common law for their own private permissions to commit crimes we Talking Cows would measure.
I blame Westphalia, but that’s another discussion. Soon
- Jonathan - 3/20/26


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