Terrence Reed

Moving onward and forward.

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

🇷🇺 NEW: Russia launches third Project 22800 Karakurt-class missile ship.

[History Nerd @_HistoryNerd]

Major Frank Prentice was 18 years old when he dropped over a hundred feet off the stern of the Titanic into a sea full of ice.

He survived. This is what he saw.

Prentice worked in the Purser's office.

He was in his cabin at midships when the collision happened. He describes no chaos, no impact, nothing dramatic:

"It was just like jamming your brakes on my car. There was no great impact you couldn't feel. Just a bit of a shudder and she stopped."

That quiet did not last.

As the ship began to sink, Prentice moved through it.

He helped stewardesses into lifeboats who did not know where to go. He helped a woman named Mrs. Clark with her lifejacket. She did not want to leave her husband. He told her the husband would follow on later.

He would not.

On his way back from the lifeboats, Prentice heard the band. They were playing "Nearer My God to Thee" and singing.

He kept walking.

When the end came, he made his way to the stern. He describes it as quiet up there.

By the time he let go, the ship was nearly vertical. He had been hanging onto a board that read "Keep Clear of Propeller Blades."

At the very last moment, he let go and fell.

"I just missed the propellers on the way down."

The drop was over a hundred feet. The water was packed with ice and chunks of berg.

His watch stopped at 2:20 am.

He was not alone in the water at first. Then he was.

"I gave it a long thought when I was on my own and everybody else seemed to be dead round me."

He had two life jackets and a cushion.

He paddled toward a light he could still see from the rockets the bridge had fired. He reached a lifeboat and climbed in.

Mrs. Clark was already there. She wrapped a blanket around him and tried to keep him warm.

Her husband had drowned.

When asked who was responsible for the disaster, Prentice did not hesitate.

He blamed the bridge. He blamed Bruce Ismay, chairman of the shipping line, for pushing Captain Smith to maintain speed through waters they had been warned were full of ice.

"We had warnings that there was ice. We had it from ships and shore, and we went straight ahead as if there was nothing there in our way."

His verdict was simple:

That ship was thrown away.

Prentice was interviewed decades later.

Asked if the memory still haunted him, he said:

"When I'm alone tonight, I still think a lot about it. Can't help it, can you?"

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Source: @BBCArchive – The Great Liners (1979)

[Terrence Reed @tlreed]

@RT_com Wanted for Crimes Against Humanity

[Terrence Reed @tlreed]

@hanaamurakami I am too tall and too quiet, they feel intimidated.

[RT @RT_com]

ISRAEL RETURNS to Venezuela for the FIRST TIME since Hugo Chávez cut diplomatic ties in 2009 over 'HOLOCAUST in Gaza'

Acting Pres Rodríguez RECEIVES DELEGATION as Maduro awaits TRIAL in US CUSTODY

[Dmitry Medvedev @MedvedevRussiaE]

Finland has lifted its ban on hosting nuclear weapons. What does that change for the Finns? Just one minor thing: their country is now on Russia's nuclear target list. Rejoice, Finland, you’ve reached peak security!

[Richard @ricwe123]

That revealing moment in 2016 when Victoria Nuland was bragging to the US Congress about how thoroughly Washington had taken over Ukraine after the 2014 coup.

She spelled it out without shame:

🔴 US operatives embedded in a dozen Ukrainian ministries.

🔴 US-trained cops patrolling 18 cities.

🔴 US Treasury gutting 60 Ukrainian banks while sparing depositors to keep people quiet.

🔴Hundreds of millions of dollars funneled into molding Ukraine’s military.

This wasn’t "assistance", it was a takeover dressed up as aid....

[RT @RT_com]

Tucker Carlson says he’s ‘NOT INTERESTED’ in talking to Trump

‘I feel sorry for him. He’s not a man in charge of his own life at this point’

‘I feel sorry for anybody who’s ENSLAVED, including him’

[Richard @ricwe123]

When the illusion finally shatters, what’s left isn’t just disappointment,it is total embarrassment.
The man you invested your faith in wasn’t a savior at all.
He is just an empty act stitched together with arrogance, noise, and relentless self-promotion.
All that confidence, all those grand promises, all the swagger, it all collapses into something painfully small the moment it is tested against reality.

There’s no hidden genius, no bold disruptor underneath it all.
Just a loud, impulsive figure flailing through responsibilities he clearly wasn’t equipped to handle, drowning incompetence in a flood of bluster.

In the end, what once looked like strength turns out to be nothing more than cheap theatrics.
Not leadership, just a gaudy performance.

-A caricature.
-A spectacle.

And the real sting isn’t that it was absurd,it’s realizing how long it took to admit you were taken in by all his bullshit....

[Mitch Presnick 柏力 @mitchpresnick]

"We have no chance against this.”
- Toshihiro Mibe, Honda CEO

Western carmakers are "in a fight for our lives"
- Jim Farley, Ford CEO

"The biggest mistake that the developed world is making is believing that the transition is only about electric cars. It's about who will lead the next generation of mobility technology."
- Bill Russo, China auto analyst

The Owl View 🦉:

Unless Washington policymakers recognize that the greater strategic risk is being locked out of the global automotive manufacturing ecosystem—not allowing Chinese firms to enter the U.S. through 50–50 Sino-U.S. joint ventures or licensing agreements on American soil—the U.S. auto industry risks becoming the Soviet Lada: protected, isolated, technologically inferior, and globally uncompetitive.

https://t.co/ynf0z69lfw

[Richard @ricwe123]

That particular moment when retired US diplomat, Robert Ford, admitted that he and British MI6 helped rebranding
Abu Mohammad al-Julani, the former
Al Queda headchopper, now Syrian President......

[𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 @OopsGuess]

Japan and the Philippines really thought they could bypass China and divide Chinese waters like two colonial pets playing with crayons.

So China made the answer simple:

You draw maps.
China patrols.

They learned nothing from Pelosi’s Taiwan stunt.

Washington still regrets letting one old politician’s ego-trip give Beijing the perfect justification to permanently recalibrate the Taiwan Strait.

Now Tokyo and Manila are repeating the same stupidity in the South China Sea.

They think provocation corners China.

No.

Provocation gives China the reason to normalize what was once occasional, expand what was once limited, and turn paper disputes into water-level reality.

Client states perform.
Great powers patrol.

That is the lesson.

[Terrence Reed @tlreed]

@ApexSeeker_ お元気ですか politely asks, "Are you well?" or "How have you been?"
How to Respond:
"Hai, genki desu." (はい、元気です。) — "Yes, I am fine."
"Okage-sama de, genki desu." (おかげさまで、元気です。) — "Thanks to you, I'm doing well." (A polite, traditional response).

[Terrence Reed @tlreed]

@ApexSeeker_ Or an airsoft gun.

[The Halfway Post @HalfwayPost]

BREAKING: Donald Trump is reportedly pissed that the White House has now been labeled as a rapist’s house on major sex offender map apps, and he can’t sue to force them to remove that designation because it’s legally official.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

"La democracia que nos ofrecen desde Occidente es la que impusieron en Libia, donde antes tenían agua gratuita, ayudas sociales... y ahora en la Libia democrática andan con bidones para conseguir agua, ¿cuantos cientos de niños han muerto por su democracia?".

Ibrahim Traoré, lider anti-imperialista de Burkina Faso, sobre la "democracia" occidental que imponen en África.

[Jewish Voice @jewishvoicelive]

Iran is never an enemy of the Jews; the Jews have only one enemy, and that is the depraved, genocidal Israel.

There are hundreds of thousands of Jews in the Islamic Republic of Iran; they live in safety.

However, murderous Israel is trying to destroy this secure environment; by bombing synagogues belonging to Jews in Iran, Israel has openly proven itself to be an enemy of the Jews.

Zionism and Israel are enemies of the Jews.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Neuralink has solved through-dura electrode implantation!

This is a very big deal, as it greatly improves the safety and ease of interfacing with the brain.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Tesla's begun testing Cybercabs with no steering wheel or pedals

This looks so wild

Writer: Ian

[Johnny miller @johnnyjmils]

"If all this can happen to me. Imagine what can happen to others."

I interviewed George Galloway and his wonderful wife Gayatri in Moscow this week. About their exile in Russia. And its so crazy. British police even interrogated Gayatri about the Palestine flag painted on her fingernail!

"Essentially the government will be able to designate any individual or organization as acting against the British state." And he's scared of getting that 4am knock on the door. So one of Britains most famous political figures went into exile.

And what has he done? Promoted peace with Russia. Well, that's in British interests. Promoted peace with Iran. Well, that's in British interests. Its not in British interests what Isreal is doing in Gaza either. And so how has he damaged British interests?

The British security state is out of control. Britain in not sovreign. Those in charge are acting in foreign interests. And everyone knows it. That is the problem. @georgegalloway @GayatriGalloway