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Integral Views
White House
National Security Strategy
Policy outline for America: Strategic Interests driving Trump administration
I waited my adult life never expecting this would ever be said. Working through my second reading…
a tour-de-force —J–
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ADDENDUM melts my GenX heart reading White House headlines in the custom-narrowed, stem & wieght-corrected, font Apple Garamond - stirring 80-90's optimism by itself
CREATION

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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
Miracle Aligner
Ambient Lad
Borderlands 2 - Relaxing Music
Video postcards from Future, with hour long soundtrack
ƒig. Coffee Mug decal for themed promo campaign —J– ∆∆
BLUME
Seduced
Beautiful chill mix, misc artists
Some calm 'tween storms∆∆
Johnny Cash
Long Now Foundation
Lost Landscapes of SF
I enjoy old found footage set to random music…

Quixotic feelings here; watching snappy crowds on timeless streets, I lived on, now ragged human debris. Catch glimpses of golden West Coast goddess… now Pelosi-hunched street-hag. I dispise my Silicon Valley peeps; here relaxed, prêt-à-porter smug, nostalgic art night out, as City twitches w/shakes outside their North Beach clubhouse
—Jonathan–
Chyrosran22
Selectric-most Model F122 repro of IBM keyboard
I enjoy clacky QwerkyWriter, but THIS …so jelly —J–
Motÿÿrhead
Enter Sandman - rare cover
Dedicated to daydreaming Oregonians, sleepwalking to ruin-Nation∆∆usic
Sisters of Mercy
Inky Rocks
Wild Things at the Tokyo Pen Show : recap of more unusual items @ TIPS 25 (Tokyo Intl Pen Show)
Japanese show of gorgeous bespoke & small-run ink pens ∑edia
HISTOMAPS

power

myth & lore

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
Intercollegiate Studies
Post Baby Boom World
My parents were last generation Trivium educated; Latin, German, French, Debate & Logic
The Duke Report
SIGNALS

bio
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eco

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–
Peter Boghossian
Boho City transmogs to Dungeon
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–
Dr Phoxotic
A Flock of Eagles
Anthem-memes of World War Web

  Twitter is a Munition —J–X
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–
Ashton Forbes
Tommy's PodCast
Western Energy-Famine Imminent
Wake Up: West Coast energy systems collapsing now across WA, OR & CA, w/General Holt & Mike Ariza

I married & lived in Benicia a decade+ in shadow of Valero, now watch frame-by-frame societal train-wreck —J–
www . GASCRISIS . org
Promethean Overviews
Michael Yon
Make Conspiracies Great Again!
Masako with Catherine Austin Fitts enjoying an overdue Victory Lap before back to work

What A Ride: followed her in 1990’s teaching scale of Fed Crimes on lefty/indie Guns & Butter @KPFA radio… Wee-e-e!
Nuxanor
Red+White+Blue
…along the Spectrum


Oxymorons amongst us


A guilty pleasure. Tap for freshly filtered youthful pixels
RT
Straight Shooter
“ …where does QAnon go for an Apology?” - Bill Maher
Ahem, there is Q,
…and there are Anons X
Jason Bermas
Watch Video Before Judging:
Like it, or not, Renee was crazy
Attune, adjust for strong signal

Here's We Are: decades of Super Heroine movies where Lady Demigods spin pirouettes & leave marine squads in heaps…
'Unburdend' by reality —J–
Duke Report
WHICH America IS First :
Anglo-America Empire?
American Republic?
Citizens?


January-Sixth pre+post photo-journalist eye witness PoV


Or, is this Vivek's world of 8 billion Illegal Americans waiting to enter US Job Mart?
APT
“We Won’t Pay Our Taxes”
Chicago Resident Demands Forensic Audit @ Fiery Board

Every Oregon corruption, trafficking, ICE story I comment; Demanding Federal Audits under extreme forensic accounting protocols at Portland & Salem mis-leadership
Aarvoll
Vivek: Make America Last!
Attacks Heritage Americans
Normalizing British-flavored class strata w/ cultural bias
Tom Nelson
Open Old Doors to New Age
Bob Greenyer details his 13-year journey as a researcher of Low Energy Nuclear Reactions, emphasizing importance of energy beyond solar & wind.
Bob is the very model of XXIst crowd-funded scientist. Ready to sing a ditty, restore hidden manuscripts, or relay his great fun exploring nanoscale crevices to find greater cosmos.
Dan Bongino, FBI
'It’s been a year …not over'
300K Biden Kids missing
6,000 youth rescued +22%
1,700 predators jailed +10%
300+ traffickers Up +15%
764 arrests on 764 trafficking cases UP +18%

Promising, a bookmark, placeholder of atonement, that FBI may-yet reform & be worthy of redemption.
To Be Determined —J–
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BIBLOS

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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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