Sports report: Taking the fans to the cleaner$

Buffalo Bills football fans are paying up to $5,000 just to access seats in their new stadium. Then ticket prices are doubling as well.

The stadium is largely taxpayer-funded, but the team is raising prices — and pricing fans out. New York state and the county are paying the bulk of the new stadium costs.

Meanwhile, the Bills owner is worth over $14 billion. 

Bottom line - greedy owners and corrupt politicians leave the loyal working class fans in the lurch.

Welcome to America - the land of 'milk and honey'.  The place where 'greed is good'. It's worshipping at the alter of the devil.

Ugh.....

Update on Buddhist Monk walk to Washington

 

Lovely song along with this video.

Even in the cold and some snow the public is still turning out.

They know what is going on with US non-stop wars, Gaza genocide and the ICE killings and abductions of people around the country. Most feel powerless to do anything about it all.

This walk of courage, determination and true peace gives people a taste of hope and they are really hungry for it.

Will it change anything? Hearts and minds are being touched and time will tell what will come from this long walk.

In the meantime I am tearing up just like everyone else.

My heart is strengthened by these monks who never expected that their walk would draw such a response. I guess that is what is called a leap of faith.

Do the good work, don't have grand expectations, follow your heart.

Press on for the future generations....

Bruce 

PS Here is another beautiful short story about South Carolina doctors who treated the monks. Spreading the love.  

Story of one Cuban killed in U.S. Venezuela attack

Yunio was a Cuban communications specialist in the Ministry of the Interior. A cryptographer. The father of three children.

He was sent to Venezuela on an internationalist mission, which was helping Yunio save money to buy a house. None of his friends and family imagined that he was at risk. Yunio died on January 3, when U.S. military forces killed more than 100 people while abducting Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro.

In this interview, journalist Claudia Rafaela Ortiz remembers her close friend: his work, his deep sense of duty, his dreams, and the moment she learned that he had been killed during the U.S. attack.

“I’m doing this interview because it is my way of fighting against what killed him. I have no desire to remain silent and suffer until it passes, or until at some point I forget that I lost one of my best friends,” said Claudia to Belly of the Beast journalist Liz Oliva Fernández.

Sunday song

Beaten and shot dead in Minneapolis by ICE

 

Alex Pretti never brandished a gun he was legally permitted to carry. 

He was holding his phone. He was beaten by several ICE agents, and then executed. 

Alex was an Intensive Care nurse at the VA (veterans) hospital and union member who touched many lives and sang in the Green Bay Boy Choir for years. 

Presente Alex Pretti!

Boycott Trump's World Cup to be held in the US.

Boycott all US products around the world.

Demand the imperial zionist US and Israel be kicked out of the United Nations! 

See actual video on X here 

It's important to acknowledge the state & local government's complicity in this. Right after the shooting Minnesota state troopers showed up to tear gas and arrest the people trying to stand up and stop this madness. The Democratic party Minnesota governor and the Minneapolis mayor offer nothing but empty words. The only people doing anything to stop this are everyday normal people who live there and just want the chaos to stop.

Important & informative interview with Scott Ritter

Scott Ritter on The Return of Cold War Thinking

Ritter gives one of his most articulate interviews ever on current US imperial moves around the globe. He does an outstanding review of post WW2 US foreign policy. 

He calls it an Alice in Wonderland situation.

'The America that I knew when I as a child no longer exists'.  

the funnies

Gangjeong village on Jeju Island, South Korea before the sacred rocky coast was blasted and cement poured on top for Navy base docks to serve American warships. Buses pick up the sailors and take them to bars where they can drink and raise hell.

Trump behavior rattles global markets

Trump’s tariff threats over Greenland just rattled global markets. 

The dollar slid, stocks fell, and the Swiss franc surged to near-2015 highs. 

Investors are now questioning whether the US is still the world’s ultimate safe haven. With rising debt, weakening fundamentals, and growing geopolitical risk, a structural shift away from dollar dominance may be underway. 

Is the “Sell America” trade back—and is currency multi-polarity accelerating faster than expected?

History lesson by John Pilger: 'Stumbling into something I could never imagine'

John Pilger vividly reveals the brutality and murderous political ambitions of the Pol Pot/Khmer Rouge totalitarian regime which bought genocide and despair to the people of Cambodia. Up to 2 million people from 1975 to 1979, nearly 25% of Cambodia's population were killed. 

Meanwhile neighboring countries, including Australia, shamefully ignored the immense human suffering and unspeakable crimes that bloodied this once beautiful country.