It feels like a society where honest and meaningful ideas stand up to questioning and discussion, but the questioning and discussion rarely takes place. Even for life and death situations, the verbal bumper sticker may be the closest you get to an adult conversation or honest news reporting.
If You Don’t Vote, You Can’t Complain
People pick whatever church they want to attend. They may change their mind over time. They may choose to attend no church at all.
No shaming, no scolding, just a personal choice.
Voting and major political parties taking turns in power has gone on for decades. The current USA 250 version of life is what you get.
We are seeing aggressive marketing and branding related to protein in food products.
Do Americans suffer from a lack of protein? What symptoms would indicate a lack of protein in the diet? Did your recent blood labs reveal a deficiency?
Bumping into one article describing protein Doritos caused us to look for more info and we found many articles that probably would not be recommended by the people who are marketing protein.
Whatever the world wants to put in their shopping cart is OK with me. I have no recommendations or advice to share.
More Big Hype – AI
Good ideas seem to catch on without the big promotions. AI is heavily advertised. The word artificial may describe something people want less of in their lives.
I frequently run across AI images on the web. They are almost always unattractive.
With all this working as an advantage to the US federal government, is there any shortage of meth, fentanyl or any cartel drug between say, Everett and Tacoma?
Has any newsperson ever asked about this?
What part of the drug war is working? What part is failing?
Has any community anywhere in the US downsized or shut down any local drug task force, or narcotics enforcement team due to the success of Dept. of War strikes on suspected narcoterrorist drug boats, ICE crackdowns and designating cartels as terrorist organizations?
Have opioid lawsuits played any role in improving the situation?
How do cartels react to opioid lawsuits?
Any questions from newspeople?
Does the US Dept. of Homeland Security prevent cartel product from entering Seattle? This giant federal agency now has more than two decades of experience and lessons learned in working to prevent cartel product from entering the US.
More overdose deaths now, or before DHS?
If OD numbers are lower, is this because DHS is able to keep cartel product from arriving in US communities, or because drug addicts are now fogged down with Narcan, buprenorphine, Naloxone, etc. to combat overdoses?
Americans were told that they faced a life and death situation after 911. If certain actions were not taken, terrorists could come to America to disrupt our way of life and attempt another 911.
If all this was a life and death situation that required sending the troops to Iraq and Afghanistan, wouldn’t it be important to ask a few public policy questions about what was going on?
Newspeople have a long history of not asking questions in this area.
Open air drug use at 1:44:
Zero reporting on why the store is closing. Comment section reveals possible answers:
Trump collects big cash to maintain the US Dept. of Homeland Security. This giant federal agency now has more than two decades of experience and lessons learned in working to prevent cartel product from entering the US. More overdose deaths now, or before DHS?
ICE agents gun down people at traffic stops and on the street inside the US. This takes place away from border crossings and ports of entry.
Seems like Americans will take what could be an issues-oriented discussion and make it about their most loved or hated political parties and personalities.
It turns out that both major parties are OK with a giant and expensive US Dept. of Homeland Security that fails to keep cartel product out of Seattle:
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This federal agency now has more than two decades of experience and lessons learned in working to prevent cartel product from entering the US.
More overdose deaths now, or before DHS?
Decades after the lessons of Vietnam, the Pentagon seems to specialize in undeclared/unwon wars.
Both major parties seem to be good with it.
Does any major political party have a party platform that advocates for less in the way of undeclared/unwon wars?
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Liberty Vault
The failings of one extreme political party bring on the next extreme political party.
Biden
Old age impacts his abilities.
Biden leaves the borders open.
Biden collects big cash to maintain a giant US Dept. of Homeland Security.
Trump collects big cash to maintain the US Dept. of Homeland Security. This giant federal agency now has more than two decades of experience and lessons learned in working to prevent cartel product from entering the US. More overdose deaths now, or before DHS?
ICE agents gun down people at traffic stops and on the street inside the US. This takes place away from border crossings and ports of entry.
Americans were told they faced a life and death situation after 911. If certain actions were not taken, terrorists could come to America to disrupt our way of life and attempt another 911.
If all this was a life and death situation that required sending the troops to Iraq and Afghanistan, wouldn’t it be important to ask a few public policy questions about what was going on?
Newspeople have a long history of not asking questions in this area.
It feels like a society where honest and meaningful ideas stand up to questioning and discussion, but the questioning and discussion rarely takes place.
Trump collects big cash to maintain the US Dept. of Homeland Security. This giant federal agency now has more than two decades of experience and lessons learned in working to prevent cartel product from entering the US. More overdose deaths now, or before DHS?
ICE agents gun down people at traffic stops and on the street inside the US. This takes place away from border crossings and ports of entry.
Americans were told that they faced a life and death situation after 911. If certain actions were not taken, terrorists could come to America to disrupt our way of life and attempt another 911.
If all this was a life and death situation that required sending the troops to Iraq and Afghanistan, wouldn’t it be important to ask a few public policy questions about what was going on?
Newspeople have a long history of not asking questions in this area.
Is the Seattle fentanyl situation any different today than it was under Biden?
By John J. Duncan Jr.
The Duncan Dispatch
August 6, 2026
“Consider the Pentagon’s recent assassinations of more than 200 people in boats on the high seas near Venezuela Those assassinations are ostensibly based on supposed violations of U.S. drug laws, even though any evidence of incrimination is kept top secret.”
Both major parties have taken turns in power over the past 40 years or so. For sure, there is a chunk of public policy that has become worse, not better.
Whatever happened to the formal congressional declaration of war?
The Department of Defense was established in 1949. What part of DOD history involved US troops sent to locations where the constitution was threatened?
Currently serving four-star officers and high level DOD civilians have been associated with what wars won by the US?
If the CIA (est 1947) serves as an advantage to the US, why does the Department of Defense have such a poor record of winning undeclared wars going back to 1949, the year DOD was established?
Don’t lie to people and maybe they would be more patriotic.
“It promises protection while steadily expanding surveillance, policing, executive discretion and bureaucratic control. It wraps itself in flags. It quotes Scripture. It invokes patriotism. It salutes the troops.”
Americans were told that they faced a life and death situation after 911. If certain actions were not taken, terrorists could come to America to disrupt our way of life and attempt another 911.
If all this was a life and death situation that required sending the troops to Iraq and Afghanistan, wouldn’t it be important to ask a few public policy questions about what was going on?
Newspeople have a long history of not asking questions in this area.
That was before decades of military operations for your freedoms.
In the 60s & 70s I never attended a Veterans Day assembly at school.
There were none.
Probably enough veterans around to remove most of the mystique, or maybe those veterans thought it was all just an average thing and did not want to be seen as a separate part of American society, or get head of the line parking spots over at the grocery store. Maybe the concept of Armistice Day had not gone completely extinct.
Growing up in the 60s & 70s- veterans were all around- church, school, Boy Scout leaders, family, the neighborhood, etc. It was all just an average thing. These folks weren’t seen as a separate part of American society.
People weren’t stepping over to say “Thanks for your service” to my Dad- who did time in the Navy in the 50s- but looked just like anyone else out in public.
These guys weren’t lining up for free dinner promotions marketed by major restaurant chains.
As time goes on, the consumer choices we have are becoming more restricted by a combination of government and big business policies, not Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden or the next bad guy DOD will be going after in distant lands:
Both major parties have taken turns in power over the past 40 years or so. For sure, there is a chunk of public policy that has become worse, not better.
Maybe YouTube needs to be shut down in order to stop discussion of various ideas related to politics.
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Post 911 Airport Security Update:
The post 911 surveillance state (fusion centers, license scanners, Homeland Security grant money, monitoring of e-mails, text messages, & social media sites, no fly/terror watch lists, tracking of cell phones, best advances in REAL ID and AI technologies, etc.) appears to have played no role in preventing the incident reported below:
Americans were told that they faced a life and death situation after 911. If certain actions were not taken, terrorists could come to America to disrupt our way of life and attempt another 911.
If all this was a life and death situation that required sending the troops to Iraq and Afghanistan, wouldn’t it be important to ask a few public policy questions about what was going on?
Newspeople have a long history of not asking questions in this area.
“As was the case the morning after “Shock and Awe” signaled the start of the Iraq war, many are cheering the US military raid on Venezuela and capture of its president, Nicolas Maduro. Overwhelming US military power – and likely some bribed Venezuelan officials – ensured that the operation was swift and dramatic.”
“Warmongering US Senator Lindsey Graham has taken to the television news programs to urge President Trump to continue on to Cuba and then Iran.”
Trade, Travel and Friendship
Some might say trade, travel and friendship (as much as possible) are good for the economy. This approach may help to avoid misunderstandings and wars.
Welcoming Visitors – USA Style – 2026
Friends and family or an exchange student visiting from Canada, Japan or Europe?
You’d like to have a good visit when you travel to see them. Plan to roll out the welcome mat when they visit here next summer.
A trip to a national park might be a chance to leave the pressures of the world behind for a few hours. Now, it will be a stop and ID event? Sort of like trying to enter a military facility.
Step over here and show us your papers before entering the park.
How many passengers are in the vehicle? All US citizens? Please pull over into the inspection lane for a brief interview and REAL ID check.
A giant flag ritual at the next ball game will make it all good.
I am sort of a wait and see kind of a person. I think there is potential for good things to happen.
Group identities, brand names, labels and personalities are things I don’t feel connected with. To me, it’s more about what you believe in.
Briefly listened to some talk radio this morning. The hosts are in the unfortunate position of having to do several hours of content each week. No mater what is going on, they are obligated to deliver their shtick. This is what is expected from the audience, bosses and sponsors.
“…assuming that anyone who advocates a position is culpable for any crimes committed by any other advocate with the same view.”
“This was the tacit doctrine that the Biden administration used to legally scourge peaceful January 6 protestors who merely “paraded without a permit” through or near the US Capitol that day. Because a minority of January 6 protestors became violent, the FBI presumed that “trespassing plus thought crimes equal terrorism,” justifying harsh sentences for anyone at the scene (except for the undercover federal agents and informants).”
JFK speaks about the role of the press and voices of dissent in a free society:
If a right to vote has always been protected by the brave men and women who serve in our Armed Forces, how come women were not allowed full voting rights at the end of WWI?
Why the need for a 1965 Voting Rights Act if overseas military operations somehow secured voting rights?
If a right to vote is protected by the US Armed Forces, what becomes of that right when the US leaves Syria, Lebanon, Somalia, Vietnam, Afghanistan, etc., without a victory?
KIRO appears to allow comments. “No one seems to have shared their thoughts on this topic yet” is what I see over and again.
College-educated people in WA are not able to keep the ferry system running. They are not able to keep drug addicts from camping on the sidewalk. Not too impressive. People want to Say No to more funding? No Means No?
Time to change the rules to keep the cash coming in.
If a right to vote has always been protected by the brave men and women who serve in our Armed Forces, how come women were not allowed full voting rights at the end of WWI?
Why the need for a 1965 Voting Rights Act if overseas military operations somehow secured voting rights?
If a right to vote is protected by the US Armed Forces, what becomes of that right when the US leaves Syria, Lebanon, Somalia, Vietnam, Afghanistan, etc., without a victory?
“Washington has turned into an HOA. I didn’t sign up for this.”
Governments at various levels are now in the habit of setting deadlines for new restrictions, bans and mandates.
As time goes on, the consumer choices we have are becoming more restricted by a combination of government and big business policies, not Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden or the next bad guy DOD will be going after in distant lands.
Not asking about the oath of enlistment. Asking about what happens after the oath has been taken.
Love to see newspeople interview elected officials and let us know how sending US Troops to Syria, Lebanon, Somalia, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia, etc., is somehow defending the constitution.
Look for newspeople and school teachers to ask zero questions in these areas.
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Symbol of a society that can’t stop bragging about freedom, thanking the troops for freedoms, fighting wars for freedoms, staging military jet flyovers at sporting events for freedom, etc.
Imagine stepping away from a career in government service, trying to grasp a feeling of satisfaction and pride in what you did. Before moving on, you are branded as a person who is sort of guilty enough to require top-level forgiveness for whatever your actions may have been.
Many comments are posted with the video above.
More From Alternative Media
Unlike many local newspapers, alternative media is good with maintaining active comment sections.
Both major parties are OK with federal prohibition of alcohol and tobacco for adults age 18-20.
No such thing the day I graduated from high school.
That was before decades of military operations for your freedoms.
Why do elected officials and high level DOD civilians speak of the US Armed Forces as if they function as some sort of giant civil rights organization?
Much talk of group identities in this one. Less of that when I was a young adult in the last century.
Above: No hurry to change – Port Hadlock
Need more cash:
Above: Militarized senior citizens continue to show up in advertising. Is this a reminder that AI creates a better world?
Above created and originally posted by another person, years ago.
