Monday, January 29, 2024

living on a prayer .... Paroles




Tommy travaillait sur les quais, le syndicat est en grève

Il n'a pas de chance, c'est dur, tellement dur

Gina travaille au restaurant toute la journée, travaillant pour son homme

Elle ramène son salaire, par amour, mmm, par amour

Elle dit : "Nous devons nous accrocher à ce que nous avons

Cela ne fait aucune différence si nous y parvenons ou non

Nous sommes l'un pour l'autre et c'est beaucoup pour l'amour

Bon, essaie donc"

Whoa, nous sommes à mi-chemin

Whoa oh, je vis d'une prière

Prends ma main, nous y arriverons, je le jure

Whoa oh, 

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mmy a ses six cordes au jarret, maintenant il tient le coup

Quand il le faisait parler si fort, ooh, c'est dur

Gina rêve de s'enfuir

Quand elle pleure la nuit, Tommy murmure

"Bébé, ça va, un jour"

Nous devons nous accrocher à ce que nous avons

Cela ne fait aucune différence si nous y parvenons ou non

Nous sommes l'un pour l'autre et c'est beaucoup pour l'amour

Bon, essaie donc

Whoa, nous sommes à mi-chemin

Whoa oh, je vis d'une prière

Prends ma main, nous y arriverons, je le jure

Whoa oh, je vis d'une prière

Vivre sur une prière

Oh, nous devons tenir le coup, prêts ou pas

Tu vis pour le combat alors que c'est tout ce que tu as

Whoa, nous sommes à mi-chemin

Whoa oh, je vis d'une prière

Prends ma main et nous y arriverons, je le jure

Whoa oh, je vis d'une prière

Whoa, nous sommes à mi-chemin

Whoa oh, je vis d'une prière

Prends ma main et nous y arriverons, je le jure

Whoa oh, je vis d'une prière

Whoa, nous sommes à mi-chemin

Whoa oh, je vis d'une prière

Prends ma main et nous y arriverons, je le jure

Waouh oh




Tommy used to work on the docks, union's been on strike

He's down on his luck, it's tough, so tough

Gina works the diner all day, working for her man

She brings home her pay, for love, mmm, for love

She says, "We've gotta hold on to what we've got

It doesn't make a difference if we make it or not

We've got each other and that's a lot for love

We'll give it a shot"

Whoa, we're half way there

Whoa oh, livin' on a prayer

Take my hand, we'll make it, I swear

Whoa oh, livin' on a prayer

Tommy's got his six string in hock, now he's holding in

When he used to make it talk so tough, ooh, it's tough

Gina dreams of running away

When she cries in the night, Tommy whispers

"Baby, it's okay, someday"

We've gotta hold on to what we've got

It doesn't make a difference if we make it or not

We've got each other and that's a lot for love

We'll give it a shot

Whoa, we're half way there

Whoa oh, livin' on a prayer

Take my hand, we'll make it I swear

Whoa oh, livin' on a prayer

Livin' on a prayer

Oh, we've gotta hold on, ready or not

You live for the fight when that's all that you've got

Whoa, we're half way there

Whoa oh, livin' on a prayer

Take my hand and we'll make it, I swear

Whoa oh, livin' on a prayer

Whoa, we're half way there

Whoa oh, livin' on a prayer

Take my hand and we'll make it, I swear

Whoa oh, livin' on a prayer

Whoa, we're half way there

Whoa oh, livin' on a prayer

Take my hand and we'll make it, I swear

Whoa oh

Thursday, January 25, 2024

Sharri Markson, come on down! Superwog of the year, hell yeah!

 https://youtu.be/nJ-bIeJ4zOY?si=GptKW4EBMFsz7MyL


There's an Australian journalist worth going transgender for just in case, unlike Nick Mackenzie. Hell yeah.


Just got a copy of her Wuhan virus book bringing that onto the boat tonight for bedtime reading hell yeah. Adding that to the other book on the boat: When a billion Chinese people jump.


Man I know all about not just being a pretty face believe me. Shut up!


Ok so I'm bouncing into estimada Markson's book, starting in chapter 15, the Scientists who Knew. I have to skim a little as there's some minutiae I'm not necessarily interested in. Clearly it's a very intellectual book from a very intellectual person, also her researcher Luke. Now as this virus came from a bat in Yunnan originally, which bat lady, Shi Zhengli, from the Wuhan institute of virology, with help from Ralph Baric, an American virologist, that was picked up from Nature, ie a bat, around 2011. Becoming tweaked into the modern virus. It reminds Benji of the Benji destiny. When Benji hooks a left on 2 1 and Lewis (or Cullen), coming through Yunnan. It was 2006 around the beginning I think. I think I'd just been in Urumqi then Beijing then Shenzhen but I can't remember precisely when I went to Yunnan but it was Kunming to visit a white American woman there, extremely fluent in Chinese.


'An ineradicable parasite', Friedrich Nietzsche on the future mankind.....

https://youtu.be/5aKjQ_0ci0g?si=giG8wFj8spjfWltH

60 minutes Australia: sex sting?

 Check it out:

https://youtu.be/pa1awAcwEa8?si=KjfLs8fIS4kH082W



Anglo Saxons (and their Scottish buddies) in Australia can run a prostitution ring (see Queensland police force actually doing that). Rub prostitutes into parliament house in Canberra, into the prayer room. Run all kinds of crime through a police force, see NSW police 1980s, criminal cartel.


Then get some moron like this Anglo Saxon supremacist from 60 minutes Australia to make it look like it's not the nasty Anglo Saxon supremacist cluster fuck of corruption that it is, but one Chinese guy's fault. These hookers are super ugly Chinese women over age 40 absolutely ecstatic to make any money from sex. Only the Anglo Saxons of Australia can pervert the truth like that. Hats off to them. Hello anglo Saxon nepotism stupid.


What a spectacle of absolutely full of shit people. The more I see these Anglo Saxons and their Scottish buddies in Australia the lower my opinion of them gets. What a bunch of absolute nepotism and rot. You stink clowns.


To quote an anonymous traditional emerging Aboriginal elder: get farked yer farken shlut yeah ya fuggen shlut, fugg off 

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Team Trump: meet Scrappy Doo😉 Scooby-Doos little puppy dog cousin, wants to splatter everyone

 

Know Sean Hannity? He's always ready to Scrap.with the radical left loons....

https://youtu.be/zuuU2zl_Wjg?si=hgBWn_EHBih9uMg2


Time for Team Trump to start L.I.M.P.... and, action!

https://youtu.be/DOV7mm3zHZ4?si=yg592xXl_9dt9Cel


What if wild animals come to the aid of the GOP?

https://youtu.be/JxcwhQr3MXo?si=X1uRLuW27_NFFejm

Sunday, January 21, 2024

Movie review: Al final del túnel (Spain/Argentina)

 

Check out Rachel Campos from fox news bitching about the weirdos at Davos that are trying to run shit like the corporate elite. Hell yeah she's right. I call them fuggen shluts but some people prefer weirdos, sure.


https://youtube.com/shorts/X1BTBqZVauI?si=H4GGpx8w7MUvAb4C


Anyway some movie from my sometime compatriots has blinked up on the teedee (TV). Some guy called Joaquin confined to a wheelchair. It's a good time to listen and watch. About half an hour after midnight after doing two back to back all nighter bus shifts til 430am.


I like listening to the Spaniards speak as it's a rarity for me. It's a patriotic pro. 

Hey I'm loving Australia too I just got lucky with my back pain going away again. They get a shithot new massage chair in Mona Vale bus depot. Amazeballs.


So this movie it's like Joaquin is stuck in his wheelchair with his dog Casimiro. Then he gets some cute young momma to move in as a roommate with her little daughter. So it just has been on ten minutes but that's the thing. The lady is a stripper so she does a dance for the guy. He smokes a lot.


There's kind of a dopey musical section which ends in the stripper's daughter making friends with the dog. Then montage of stripper mom all done in a way that you're wondering how wheelchair man is coping with his new hot roommate.


Then he starts crying. Still got his cancer stick. Too bad my old man wasn't there to yell at him and call him stupid I guess.


Now he's creeping around listening to the wall, maybe he can spy on hottie roommate. Actually he's listening to his neighbours through the wall with a stethoscope. 


There's a short scene where you see Joaquin and his new live in girlfriend carrying on like a newly minted married couple.


Then Joaquin is working on his computer listening to the neighbours talking about him the whole time like they're spying on him and he's spying on them doing that. It's kind of weird. Think Davos, or candy cane with no stripes just spots. Weird.

Now Joaquin is giving her her marching orders. Man there was the cutest Spanish girl in journalism faculty in Madrid back in the day. She'd be the girl I'd go for if I wanted to get serious about a Spaniard. Holy shit she was pretty and she liked me too.


Man too many Australians talk like fags. Too many dysfunctional people here. Spanish language puts an end to all that, I can tell you. Go get extremely drunk. Ok anyway this movie might be like Argentine or Uruguayan actors but I saw some of the funding companies were from Spain. Uruguayan whatever. They're not all marching to the border with USA like they're happy with their lives.


Ok very interesting plot twist. Joaquin has started filming and spying the strangers on the other side of the wall he discovered. Also Uruguayans or Argentinians based on their accents. Turns out his stripper roommate is in cahoots with these people and they're criminals digging a tunnel (hence the movie name) trying to break into a bank or something. Joaquin is now wise to hus stripper roommate's wiles and her relationship with the criminal boss downstairs on the other side of the wall.


Ok some potential liability amongst the criminals gets his leg stabbed with a screwdriver for being a liability. Then a handpick in the face killing him. Joaquin is watching everything and just as disappointed as Trump with all these Hispanic criminals. Joaquin was pretty shocked with the dramatic moment then next scene he's in another sexy situation with the hotty stripper whose actually with the head criminal guy that just murdered the liability guy are stabbing his leg with a screwdriver.


Ok so Joaquin drugs stripper lady because he wants to disable her, it's part of his plan to counter his new tunnel building crimmo neighbours. Where's ICE when you need them right? And what's with Spanish speakers always digging tunnels to do crime?


It's a pretty good movie pretty ingenious.. you'll just have to watch it.


Man those Argentinians party hard at 2am. I finally realised that one club is all them. Gave a shitload of them a ride on the bus they started singing happy birthday and shit all drunk.


Joaquin has decided to dig his own tunnel and steal some of the money the team of bankrobbing crimmos are plotting to steal. He also showed stripper lady a video he shot of liability guy getting murdered by her boyfriend. That blew her mind. 


There are plenty of shit Spanish language movies but this film is actually ok.


You can't really believe Joaquin tunneled into the criminal group's tunnel and moved and the dirt in like one night without drawing their attention. I wouldn't make my movie looking like that. Or maybe not. I'd say these are very masterful filmmakers. It's Argentine.


Check out Trump singing the Doors, People are Strange.... You don't see Hilary doing that...

https://youtube.com/shorts/Tix9HGWVMfU?si=7AkQvAW0PzJFBQ4s

 

Man I had this teacher from Kentucky in junior year after I returned from Spain and learned Spanish, over in western Sydney. Ms Dempsey. She had us reading Pedro y el Capitán, some plays from Uruguay or Argentina. I don't remember it anymore but it was pretty violent like the climax of this movie. Pretty amazing.

Saturday, January 20, 2024

Benji Batcave presidential race watch: Biden still has cognitive function. Benji Bat swoops left at 2 1 & Lewis and paints the air with a sonar screech

 Hooking a left .... Working it

https://youtu.be/1plPyJdXKIY?si=XuaXTg1e0AiPUAlm


Bat and screech envy....

https://youtu.be/a7ElxL76ZBg?si=dRxmo87uLtovoaod

Friday, January 19, 2024

Benji catches Trump in the Batcave: hitch

 Hitch:

https://youtu.be/kx_Yr4WhyBI?si=V4Wg19TGcQYidyiC


Things for Trump not to ever mention except on a debate stage:


Putin / nuclear weapons/ China licking their chops (we all saw Trump do nothing for Hong Kong).


Just don't mention those things unless you're on the debate stage.


Don't mention 'getting along great with Putin either '. Don't bother saying that. Better off dancing like this fat guy.

Wednesday, January 17, 2024

FBI: International.... Complex as the Grand Cru?

 

FBI: International. Los Angeles California based tv show. in this episode they go to Budapest to catch a heartbreaking hacker called Horvat or something.


Complex like the Grand Cru or just cheap swill?

https://youtu.be/5PeKcWCC-tw?si=J5zGHoimCubVjybe


Pour moi, it's cheap swill. I actually watch hours and hours of real police interviews with murder suspects and the like as well as long documentaries on crime. As one of numerous hobbies. I also learn French as a kind on multilingual thing (beyond bilingual). So this franchise of TV show is cheap swill or a bottle of ketchup. Unlike the Grand Cru.


Speaking of Law and the like. I see Trump appeared on my bat radar for a court case about defamation from some lady Trump assaulted then lied about. If it's any consolation, I saw some Japanese guy in Seoul at my local quickie mart and just crash tackled him into a steel magazine rack because I felt like it. Consider that a swoop around the bat cave. Let's see where we next ping Trump. Oh yeah that Japanese guy was probably a dormitory mate at the hostel I was staying at. I'm pretty sure I didn't like his lounge around all day playing video games attitude. Good news is hopefully he never experienced serious damage. Gee I guess I can cross him off my AA list of folks to say sorry to since I'm not going to advertise on Japanese media for that.

Monday, January 15, 2024

Sunday, January 14, 2024

Australia's SBS channel, 'Secret Past Life's show from last night

 SBS is at times 60% gay...

https://youtu.be/EvuL5jyCHOw?si=l6sRMfsL3kXoM5F3



As the English in Australia realised that they would prefer to follow and emulate America even more than England, most notably during the Vietnam war, immigration to Australia from non English speaking countries skyrocketed seemingly in direct correlation to Australia's considerable war effort in Vietnam (think draft).


In lieu of this new, non English language speaking population, the Special Broadcast Service (SBS) was enacted by a federal government decree/legislation. I could be wrong, this is simply my recollection. Originally with no commercials like the already existing government run ABC (still a communist movement today with no commercials). 


I actually had to write a paper about it (SBS) at journalism, media school in my early years, before my dissertations on mass panic through the media and generally unpleasant events on a massive scale through the media. America providing the only big enough platform for that (sorry guys), consider:

https://youtu.be/-c8DFvQxymY?si=KRMzywbnHHvKtZMm


Anyway the program on SBS was pretty interesting last night, family secrets and all that. I find people open up to me a lot about that stuff and if I do a lot of counselling then it's possible even more so. You never know what challenges people are going through. There's a likeable lady at the sailing club who just opened right up to me one day there in the kitchen while the kids were out on the water taking their sailing lessons. To the point where she said, 'i'm not sure how much I should tell you.' She certainly was open about her private life. Funnily I have only seen her once since then as she has disappeared a little.


Speaking of panic....

https://youtu.be/IPXIgEAGe4U?si=ak3PGTH77CXRbiSa

If you consider who in this video clip is most like an ABC Australia employee?


It's the lady waving at the walker from the office building with a look on her face that says, 'who needs commercials when you have Australian taxpayer money y'all's. Oh yeah (realising suddenly).


Please continue...

https://youtu.be/4c_4MGTCgHY?si=rV0vrW5BhVl64CgQ


It's hard to be woke...

https://youtu.be/uG4y_IQr6fk?si=ewhxMn1YHS6JnTyo

Friday, January 12, 2024

To hear or not to hear

 

Bats can't hear. Apart from gestating the original corona virus that was tweaked in the lab to create covid 19, they have amazing radar skills in lieu of hearing. Consider humans that are deaf, they compensate with sign language, or lip reading. Consider HAL (the letters before IBM) in 2001 Space Odyssey.


Where is Donald on the Benji Bat® campaign trail? Anaheim California, 'a little whiles (yes, with an 's'), ago. By screeching in his bat like way, Benji hopes to lock onto Trump's next location between some new York courtroom and the Anaheim event, not including Iowa.


HAL, a kind of AI predicted for 23 years ago, can read lips, similar to dead humans.

https://youtu.be/XDO8OYnmkNY?si=DgF6YCY8A0pJkg2l


Let me just warm up me (my) bat radar vocal chords, shrieking like the Nazgul winged steeds from Mordor as it were....

https://youtu.be/wDY8xCSTCb8?si=fEgOI8Wh9N6Cx6Lj

https://youtube.com/shorts/Tix9HGWVMfU?si=ZNF4_PORyi37kT0L

Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Shelly from South Park thinks you're a turd, so do I

 

What's up turds? Was just watching the 'fight you or eff you' crew from fox news morning shows after my first bus shift in like a month. 


Somehow work on the buses dried up easing into Xmas which coincided with a very extreme case of lumbar five disc, lower back pain. I had two weeks of intermittent pain. Over the Xmas days I was bedridden three days and it hurt to walk even. I actually had to cut grass on Xmas day so that hurt. Weeding afterwards hurt less. 


Anyway I went to the chiropractor twice and a physiotherapist once and I think I'm almost out of the woods with that. I'll probably have to do more stretches in future. I'm also seeking less counselling from the folks in Colorado for my achey breaky heart. So that's a good sign too.


Gee the water is calm tonight. Proceeded to my boat from the bus depot a little after midnight. Mighty calm. Have a lot of gardening tomorrow. Being in business means no holiday pay no sick pay. My back pains provided the perfect reason for a rest however I really needed to get all the pressure off it so I really slowed down. I feel like the wheels are starting up again, a lot of pain it was. Very painful!


Fox News folks, do you know if you want to fight them or eff them ?

https://youtu.be/58JJkxzcQkY?si=iwt6NLET3Sj_TDLz



Anyone want to watch my dance video? It's like no one's watching it....

https://benjamin-english-the-ossie-spaniard.blogspot.com/2018/05/my-dance-video.html

Friday, January 5, 2024

David Petraeus on DW German news.... Scope of future Ukraine war: la situation a évolué

 

Let me cue that. I don't think General Milly is a good tactician or strategist. But hey, Napoleon couldn't win battles without that kinda royalist guy that handled. all his supply lines. Wasn't there for Waterloo and Napoleon lost that fight. Just went out on Red Herring with my son and 'uncle Phil', kind of a proxy uncle figure for me I guess, one of my neighbour's near my mooring. Swell guy. Great sunny weather.... Let's listen to Petraeus:


https://youtu.be/IlqFJmKgkQ0?si=iJxwcRvMHKsmnNtO


Ok just had dinner with the crew. So with this interview, just skip the first thirteen minutes as it's about the Palestinian situation and we're not looking at that here. So the thing I was thinking after studying the new frontier, like the Russians have triple stacked landmines, a notable sign of strong Russian will. Not just one landmine patchwork but three stacked on each other over and about all over the place. It seems the Russians are happy with that line and even the top Ukrainian military guys are looking at strategies involving shoring that defensive line with their own barriers this winter (the time to dig trenches and stuff). 


Part of this is they're looking at defending possible attacks on other less defended fronts adjoining Belorussia. So why not think about attacking Belorussia at this point? Like if you're afraid you're gonna be attacked by Belorussia just attack Belorussia. I mean the Belorussians voted for some tree hugging America EU loving lesbian do-gooder or whatever right? And she had to flee to Lithuania cause Vlad and the Belorussian president wouldn't have a bar of her. It really shows you the Belorussians are possibly ripe to change sides and get bombed alongside the Ukrainians. It's really something to think about there.


Especially as Holland, Denmark and others are now injecting the F-16 fighter jet into the fight. The first thing to understand is that the F-16 comes plugged into a radar, GPS, targeting system and computer system that is fairly formidable and will change the balance of power in the war. The Russians, when flummoxed by these advents will threaten tactical nuclear strikes however if you consider the MOAB bomb the Pentagon dropped on Pakistan back in late 2017, you don't need to go nuclear to have one big bomb. And the Russians have been using banned sulphur difusing cluster bombs (burns people's skin right off their still breathing frames, harsh). 


Anyway, based on European Union will and possibly being somewhat redundant the American political 'issue' of open southern border. With the predictable change the F-16 will bring, I do not think it's wise for Ukraine to seek to liberate hitherto conquered territory just yet, but rather demonstrate mastery with the F-16 in various forms of its (considerable) potential. A lot of western countries like Denmark and Holland and America are transitioning to the F-35 so they would be spending money to decommission their old toys anyway.


Watch out for Russia bombing immaculate airstrips the F-16 requires and associated hangars. NATO might start stationing F-16 ground support technicians in Ukraine to maintain them. General need for SAM (surface to air missiles) in Ukraine at this point.


Things to watch out for even when shutting off F16's high visibility inboard radar and relying on NATO AWACS: Russia's R-37M air to air high speed missiles, always armed and ready to go at a rate of around six a day.


First ever major war using advanced small drones (ASD) and associated signal jamming technology. Guys sitting around in army fatigues with advanced goggles on a milk crate with Sony Playstation like joysticks and controllers in their hands. Bombing tanks with little tiny drones. Russian tanks with additional slats added, often just glorified fly screens with the ubiquitous trademark Putin letter Z. Just to stop the flying drones from slamming into a turret or guy standing in the turret. Guys walking around with drone jamming technology in their backpacks. An entire Russian line fortified with the aforementioned triple stacked landmines PLUS evenly spaced drone jamming technology.


Finally, a mobilized Russia with civilians abandoning their partner swap nightclubs to build drones for mother Russia and Putin to lecture about morality, ha ha gotta laugh at that.


Pentagon and American military industrial complex caught flat-footed and gaping at the new drone based battlefield and tactics. Future ability to use AI systems to organise drone squadrons to signal jam, reconnaissance, kamikaze bomb, bomb, even to individual soldiers crapping in a stream.

Russians interested in bombing Ukrainian drone building factories/locales.

Drones are cheap, often made with components made in China, costing around $650 u.s. dollars. If only one in three drones is effective, that's still only $2000. Mortars and missiles cost in the tens of thousands. Too expensive.


China changed its drone export rules I think last September to stop Ukraine from getting certain components.

Thursday, January 4, 2024

Battle glance, a number of months war in a heartbeat....

 

Bon Jovi, blaze of glory...

https://youtu.be/ZnYAxc2BCHU?si=Z7S5mCVW1gaYhMeF


What's up, seems like only yesterday we were looking at the Blues Brothers jumping the opening water bridge and Vlad was upping the soldier input recruitment back in mother Russia and the relics of the CCCP and the Russian Federation's friends and allies.


Putin's generals used and discarded that fat bald guy what's his face, the head of Wagner and have figured out how to minimise losses from their main professional army. While the statistics are hard to have. While the Russians may have lost 300,000 soldiers, nowadays, at the dug in situation now occurring, it seems the Russians lose few professional soldiers a month, perhaps less than 10,000 a year. There's still room for the Russians to lose fifty thousand soldiers in a year at this rate but these guys are new recruits from other races outside of Russia, like Kazaks, etc.


Russia is still reliant on dropping mortar shells and has been doing so at a staggering rate since the war began, levelling many Ukrainian towns. Still with the precision weapons the Ukrainians are using, they're dropping a lot of expensive Russian weapons, helicopters, warships, one submarine , etc. Truly Russia is a large nation with many relics from the past, not least in its military. America is the same way, I recall riding in an old yellow truck in Arizona*, must have been from the 1950s. I would think with Russia's new posture, while exclusion from many global markets can hurt, it would mostly hurt their airline industry and ability to maintain jumbo jets, parts and servicing. Maybe the Chinese can help them with that since China runs all modern services effectively well. I think Russia's economy is humming along nicely and Germany is really losing, and the European union, regarding petrol prices.


However I would never underestimate the European union's ability to be socialist and paying ridiculous prices for fuel.


Militarily, it seems while Ukraine is offered sophisticated training and weaponry, they will continue to eradicate Russian tanks, fighter jets, helicopters, warships, etc. Happy to. And kill Kazaks or whoever. Plenty of fight left in them it seems.



*

https://youtu.be/eILf0r4K7k8?si=z0cDrQngAnDX3dJE



Choke point to watch: Danish crackdown on oil shipped out of Russia through Danish straits, uninsured and against EU policy. One for Biden to pick up the phone and call the EU.


Russian patriotism versus denial/corruption. We've all seen denial up close. Many westerners are in denial about the Clintons. I don't mean climate change as it's a too imprecise expression. The equivalent western denial about the Clintons and general pompous virtue signalling, to be very broad and generalised. We see this in Russia with corruption and Putin's patriotism. While Putin has his big palaces and mega mansions, he has the luxury to wax poetic about Russian patriotism. But Russian patriotism never stopped desperately poor or greedy Russians from plundering their military allotments. Putin might believe whatever statistics some people pleasers place under his nose but let's see these Russians get organised. We're still not really seeing it in my opinion.

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Complexities of today's global rice markets; siege warfare, today in Ukraine, yesterday in Lebanon: Alexander's Macedonian siege of the island Tyre....

 

Today's rice markets are complex, affected by politics in India, the shortages of fertilizers brought about by the war in Ukraine, global energy prices, climate change and rainfall patterns....

https://youtu.be/1lVM5zXKmFo?si=om3xEu0aMA7YCTh4

https://youtu.be/8KI4A9UECSA?si=kFRZucQZ3D5z3pqI


The siege of Tyre wasn't an overnight affair but a protracted and drawn out thing. Enjoy Starbucks coffee today on the causeway built by Alexander's troops some 2350 years ago.... Even with rice milk....

https://youtu.be/FaVsRYTNqWc?si=uO-3o5ilVoBcL0PA