Following from that meme, note, that Arabic language versions of the book of the National Socialist leader have been found in Gaza and are commonly available in Arab countries.
And don’t forget that during WW2 Mohammed Amin al-Husseini was a guest of the National Socialists and supported their genocidal objectives.
I understand that she has a multi-billionaire unelected climate politician supporting her who modelled the original young Greta on a German youth group.
Dr Fenton warned some of us might get wound up by the ‘softly, softly’ tone of the paper (the link to the original paper seemed to be broken in his substack) – eg. when I see “The Inadvertent Dismissal of Valid Scientific Perspectives as ‘Misinformation’”. I think that this was actually deliberate and planned.
commemoration has become a ‘stage’ in disaster recovery. Commemorative church services and memorials are presented in policy guidance as ways to soothe the reverberation and impact of traumatic events. Their use tames the potential for future public disorder and malcontent, it is suggested. In recent visceral examples of this interconnectedness of commemoration and anticipation, the UK Home Office has begun staging ‘spontaneous’ memorial reactions to terrorist attacks, sending its staff (particularly people of colour) to the Westminster Bridge and Manchester attack sites with pre-organised slogans about unity between British Muslim and White British communities. The government deploys covert ‘spontaneous memorialisation’ to act upon the potential for future disorder.
The US is a shadow of the country it used to be. Can Trump turn things around?
The world is moving away from the dollar as a reserve currency as US debts mount, many of which are owned by China. Other countries have had access to their money blocked by the US and may feel its no longer safe so might move to an alternative system
There are very powerful evil forces working against TRUMP.
But he is the only hope the United States and the West has.
He is doing well so far.
If enough Americans support him and also people in the West, he will succeed.
About 60% of Americans support TRUMP, but unfortunately most Governments of the West such as Western Europe, UK, Canada and Australia do not support his small government, return to traditional moral values and anti-globalist objectives.
No, he can’t turn it around. The DOGE fiasco shows that. As I’ve said, 4 years isn’t remotely enough time to undo a century of damage.
Yes, he loves America, but his attitude finacially and diplomatically is way below the standards he should be exhibiting to run a country. It will all be an upward blip on the perpetual downward trend into the hell of 2028.
Giving large tax cuts to the rich at the expense of the poor will bring social upheaval in its wake. Not to worry, Donnie might resign and call for fresh elections to prevent a bloody revolution.
Today, those in power are once more on a destructive rampage in most countries of the world. We live in a time of neo-feudalism, with the powerful hanging on to their privileges and harvesting new ones by starting wars, announcing health crises, and surveilling the hell out of us. It would be easy to cry doom again and say times are terrible.
Yet even in the midst of horror, it is vital – if we wish to find the hope and courage to fight on – to stop and smell the roses. What good things are happening in the world, and what is still truly good about the West? Settle in for a joyful reckoning that we hope will put a smile on your face.
I was just hanging stuff on my solar dryer (clothesline).
I don’t think there’s another clothesline in my neighborhood.
And I’m the one refusing to believe in the reality of imminent Climate Catastrophe.
I always prefer using a clothesline to a clothes dryer. And clothes seem fresher when air dried. Also, I think clothes are prematurely worn out by all that tumbling in a dryer and some fabrics get “pilled”.
Back in the day (at least in Australia), clothes dryers were not of the tumbling variety. They were like boxes or closets/cupboards you hung or otherwise put clothes into and hot air was blown through. This type were vastly superior to modern tumble types.
Australia is famous for the invention of the “Hills Hoist” clothesline.
The only disadvantage of air drying rather than using a clothes dryer is the inability to contribute to atmospheric CO2 of which we need more.
But I do make up for it in other ways such as driving a 6 litre V8 car and heating my home to what some would regard as an excessive temperature. So, at least I am still doing my bit to contribute to CO2.
We have an old Hills hoist still in use. Washing bakes to a crisp in hot weather in just a few minutes. It’s hard to hang out large items when our local wind is howling up the valley as the wretched thing keeps spinning while one tries to hang things straight. Imagine the sky being a bit ‘blue’ on such occasions! When the weather is still and foggy washing has to be hung on indoor clothes horses. We do have a heated airing cabinet thing but have very rarely used it.
We haven’t had a tumble dryer since 2011 when we lived in Gloucestershire. Even then, it was used as little as possible and we used a long line in the garden, with a make-do clothes prop.
A nearby local on acreage has diversified into running a shanty town. As landlord he noticed his tenants were using the drier rather than hanging clothes under the verandah or on the line.
He looked at his electricity bill and from there to the drier. Drier was evicted.
Yes we too have a solar dryer which was installed by the previous like minded owner and it has served us very well for the last 26 years. Apart from the hoist not working – gears probably all rusted way but it had the good sense to cease working while at a height sufficient for us to walk under – its only other degradation is a slight lean being the result of a yukka branch hitting it when I mis-calculated the angle of descent.
I picked up the practice of turning clothing items inside out to wash and hang out to ensure the sun got a good crack at the arm pits of dresses/tops and crouches of pants from the wife whose grandmother instilled it in her.
At the house design stage, the boss, who is a good engineer in her own right, decided to put the laundry next to bedrooms and use ordinary wall cabinet as dryer.
Re-educated to local double safety standards, I added a heater and an exhaust fan, which have never been switched on – natural drafts and normal house temperature do good enough job.
Clothes dryer?
I’ve NEVER owned one. Or a dishwasher.
Yes, I have very low power bills.😁
A clothes line offers the disinfecting power of the sun, and coupled with a breeze and decent temperatures does the job for free, and no nasty static charge either.
These are averages. Presumably night and day which are very different. Winter and summer, which for most of Australia are very different.
And yet in 150 years the entire slight upward trend would be lucky to be +1C at most. Which is neither large nor rapid. So no problem then.
To attribute this small, slow change to fossil fuel CO2 takes a great leap of faith, not science. So what is the benefit of wrecking the country to prevent a possible +1C rise in the next 150 years? And given that there is no proof that humans can actually change CO2, completely pointless.
So why are politicians of all persuasions in Australia determined on this path of destruction? Net zero in Australia and a few other small countries like the UK and Canada is an accounting concept, not science. And inexplicable, unjustifiable with these figures. The very idea that it makes any sense has never been debated in any forum, let alone parliament.
Atmospheric CO2 is radioactive. Coal is not. A naturally occurring medical tracer Carbon 14 shows that there is only 2.0% fossil fuel CO2 in transit in the air. That’s absolute proof the whole thing is a lie.
And politicians continue to write science fantasy CO2 tax and credit laws. Perhaps because they can finally tax breathing, where CO2 and O2 are exchanged.
The problem is that most politicians are dills, if Victoria’s former Liberal leader John Persutto is an example and have no idea of the periodic table or chemistry or mathematics. If Australia ceased to exist, the impact on CO2 would be zero. And women would be women and men would be men. Except in the bizarro world of politicians. And the gutless CSIRO and Universities refuse to disagree with the politicians who butter their bread.
Well South Australia ex-Liberal leader got himself video’d sniffing cocaine. At least no-one wanted to spend money bailing him out after subsequent court losses.
And WA has how many Liberals in parliament? (Answers in low figures please).
The problem is that most Liberal politicians are dills (carefully chosen but dills).
Not sure about your use of “gutless” TdeF, a bit soft. I suspect “cabalistic” might be better usage as I remember its head refusing to adequately reply to Senator Roberts’ repeated formal requests for the science on which the “CO2 is evil meme” was justified.
Cheers,
Dave B
The IPCC’s Anthro models, which hypothesize that (primarily) CO2 will foment dangerous global warming over the coming decades, woefully overestimated the warming from 1970-2019 by anywhere from 1.8°C [3.2°F] to 2.5°C [4.5°F].
“The errors of forecasts from the anthropogenic models for the era of concern over man-made global warming, starting in 1970, were 1.8°C (AVL), 1.7°C (AVSL), 2.3°C (AVR), and 2.5°C (AVSR) warmer than the measured temperatures.”
Over the 2000 to 2019 period, the Anthro models’ forecast errors were a staggering 16 times greater than the simple benchmark model’s errors.
“Strict, targeted and effective” control of all facilities both legal and illegal, must be executed, the party said, in addition to entry-points to prevent imports.
The kangaroo butchering incident in a parking lot in Dherynia is still being investigated, authorities said on Friday.
It has now been confirmed that the animal had been procured from an animal facility in the vicinity and that it was slaughtered at the scene.
Police have taken a statement from the owner of the enclosure where more kangaroos, as well as other species, are being kept and investigations are ongoing into whether the animals had been correctly registered, Famagusta police spokesman Andreas Konstantinou told the CyBC.
Cargo ship “Morning Midas” transporting thousands of vehicles is adrift 300 miles southwest of Alaska’s Adak Island. The Midas carries 3,000 cars, including around 800 electric vehicles.“Smoke was initially seen emanating from a deck carrying electric vehicles,” a spokesman for the company said.
The
crew reported ‘all safe’, happily.
Zodiac some experience with difficulties.
Hope nobody comes to harm trying to rescue what must be – at even $40,000 a pop – north of $100,000,000-worth of cars.
At $85K – about a quarter-billion …
A large plume of smoke was initially seen at the ship’s stern coming from the deck loaded with electric vehicles Tuesday, according to U.S. Coast Guard photos and a Wednesday statement from the ship’s management company, London-based Zodiac Maritime.
There were no reported injuries among the 22 crew members of the Morning Midas.
Crew members abandoned ship, were evacuated onto a lifeboat and rescued by the crew of a nearby merchant vessel called the Cosco Hellas in the North Pacific, roughly 300 miles (490 kilometers) southwest of Adak Island. Adak is about 1,200 miles (1,930 kilometers) west of Anchorage, the state’s largest city
The crew initiated emergency firefighting procedures with the ship’s onboard fire suppression system. But they were unable bring the flames under control.
The 600-foot (183-meter) Morning Midas, a car and truck carrier, was built in 2006 and sails under a Liberian flag.
The cars left Yantai, China, on May 26, according to the industry site marinetraffic.com. They were being shipped to Lazaro Cardenas, a major Pacific port in Mexico.
Dr John Campbell talks about how when mRNA vaccines have been trialled (in limited trials such as they were) pregnant and lactating women have been specifically included. However, he says that despite no trial data for pregnant women, “authorities” in the UK are to this very day strongly recommending pregnant women (or as one authority calls them, “pregnant people”, are there any other kinds, and they now have a court ruling about that?) get mRNA “vaccine” substances injected into them.
In Australia pregnant women are not recommended to get it but are not dissuaded from doing so either and they can have it if they want to or have risk factors:
Pregnant women who have previously been vaccinated are not routinely recommended to have a further dose of COVID-19 vaccine. However, they can consider a further dose of COVID-19 vaccine based on presence of underlying risk conditions and/or personal preference.
Previously vaccinated pregnant women who have no conditions that increase the risk of severe illness from COVID-19 have a very low risk of severe illness and pregnancy complications from Omicron infection. 28,30,31 However, a dose administered during pregnancy may reduce the risk of COVID-19 infection and hospitalisation in young infants through transplacental passage of antibodies, noting that the risk of severe illness in healthy young infants is extremely low.32-35
Comirnaty JN.1 and Omicron XBB.1.5-based vaccines can be used in pregnancy. Although the latest mRNA COVID-19 vaccines (Comirnaty JN.1 and Omicron XBB.1.5-based vaccines) have not been formally studied in pregnant women, ATAGI considers them suitable and safe for use.
I noticed in a news feed this morning this morning that mRNA vaccines are being introduced for a number of conditions – including HIV. It is a frightening thought and I dont know what can be done. The investment in those new labs in Australia is huge. The evidence of the destructive native of the Covid vaccines is becoming too great for medical authorities to ignore. But it will be a struggle as the investors fight against the evidence.
Every time I turn on my gas stove in Victoriastan, as I just did for breakfast, I appreciate the supply of natural gas knowing that under Australia’s anti-energy policies we soon won’t have it due to both 1) exploration and fracking being mostly illegal in Victoriastan and 2) general government policy against hydrocarbon fuels. Cooking with gas is vastly superior to electric, and professional chefs agree with that..
Maybe the Palestinians should act like human beings and stop attacking Israel with rockets and terrorist attacks plus give the hostages back.
If they gave the hostages back the war would be pretty much over.
Don’t forget, Gaza was already a self-governed entity since 2005 when the Israelis left Gaza (so Gaza has not been “occupied” since that time), naive Westerners have poured billions of dollars into there, and there is pretty much nothing to show for it except terror tunnels and billionaire Hamas leaders.
They could have made the Gaza strip into something and Israel with its technological prowess would have gladly helped them.
A simple example was greenhouses donated them.
In 2005 greenhouses formerly owned by Israelis were donated to the Palestinians and then rather than use them they looted them. Some were already running as a turnkey flower export business to Europe.
They demonstrated no interest in agriculture or export businesses they could have done with the greenhouses. Just an ongoing terror campaign against the Israelis.
A historic declaration was just issued by the major families and clans of southern Gaza.
For the first time, they openly declare:
“Enough is enough. Hamas has brought only blood and ruin. It no longer represents us.”
In this powerful document:
•They hold Hamas fully responsible for the devastation in Gaza.
•They demand an immediate end to Hamas rule and call for a national Palestinian conference to form new leadership.
•They call to hold accountable those who dragged Gaza into this disaster.
•They appeal to Mahmoud Abbas to lead a political transition and rebuild on the basis of unity and law.
•They reject all attempts to legitimize Hamas, describing it as a force of division and destruction.
This is a rare and bold move that shows:
Hamas is not just collapsing militarily — it is losing the people of Gaza.
Hamas surrenders and Fatah wins, this is the problem, if Mahmoud Abbas remains president it will eventually boil over into tribal revolt. They really need someone who is above the factionalism, a man with charismatic qualities.
They demonstrated no interest in agriculture or export businesses they could have done with the greenhouses. Just an ongoing terror campaign against the Israelis.
This comment demonstrates to all that read it that you have no understanding of this situation. Its hard to run a business when you live in the worlds largest outdoor prison or ploughing a field or harvesting olives from your olive grove with a IDF bulldozer churning it over into the ground.
So someone donated green houses to the Palestinians and all they did was loot them what an ungrateful people they are David, but that’s what happens when you are constantly starved by your captives.
When you say self governed you mean trapped, looked up, caged in a camp behind a fence and the only food or materials etc that you obtain comes through an Israeli check point so they control EVERYTHING that goes in and out of the prison, exactly how is that “self governed” David.
As I said yesterday the BS never stops with you, you have no morality, no empathy, no ethics, no understanding of right or wrong.
Total nonsense. They weren’t starved. They had plenty of access to food. And they had plenty of access to supplies to build or procure thousands of rockets and a tunnel network bigger than the London Underground.
you have no morality, no empathy, no ethics, no understanding of right or wrong.
In Australia we call them Aboriginal Enterprises. In the end what was a healthy community ends up duelling over funds to treat the mental health of the wretched creatures that remain in the welfare trap.
Case study: “There was all this inefficiency”
NSW Aboriginal Affairs Minister, Victor Dominello, recounts a visit to a small town that he wouldn’t identify. He met about 20 of the town’s service providers.
”In domestic violence, there were three or four of them doing exactly the same thing, but getting pools of money from different governments and different agencies within governments.
“And guess what? They all had a front office; they were all paying rent. There was all this inefficiency. This was for a population of 2500.
“They only needed one good working unit for domestic violence. The money they saved on the rent could have gone to drug and alcohol services.”
Dominello’s answer was to give more power, not less, to local communities. They know what they need, he argues, and they can best see the duplications. Give them more flexibility on spending, he says, but also demand greater accountability. [21]
A similar problem to Gaza where International Aid destroyed any hope individuals could rise and lead their community into self sufficiency and individual ownership of capital. I remember Thomas Wictor forensically examining how a group of children ended up in hospital in brown blood coated sheets having been collected by ambulance as evidence of an Israeli rocket strike while they were playing soccer on the beach. Wictor examined video from the nearby security cameras and news footage and found the children were members of a family who opposed Hamas. Like the J6 Ashlii Babbit scenario the director of the action had to take action to improve the horror scenario. In this case by racing off to find sheets with fresh blood for the long dead innocents.
In Gaza wwe are watching the same fight over welfare largesse, the difference is that in Gaza they fight with guns and not as in our situation with distant human rights lawyers or in the middle of the night on the frontline with bottles.
To David and Broadie
Firstly I would have to say in all my years of visiting this site I have never seen a more pathetic attempt to justify ones position. Broadie your 15.1.1 comment is staggering in both its silliness and ridiculousness, the way you tried to connect Ashli Babbit and the Aboriginals to Gaza is simply stunning.
In response its not projection just reality, the following 14 countries agree with me as they voted in favour of
A, “immediate, dignified and unconditional release of all hostages held by Hamas and other groups.”
B, In addition to a ceasefire, the draft resolution demanded the “immediate and unconditional lifting of all restrictions” (that means Israel has to stop starving an entire civilian population
C, It reaffirmed the obligation of all parties to comply with international law, including international humanitarian and human rights law.
The draft also expressed concerns about the “catastrophic humanitarian situation”
1, China
2, France
3, Russia
4, UK
5, Algeria
6, Denmark
7, Greece
8, Guyana
9, Pakistan
10, Panama
11, Sierra Leone
12, Slovenia
13, Somalia
14, South Korea
We know of at Least 14 countries that vote at the UN agree with my position but you claim I am projecting?
Projecting what David? What is it that I am projecting? You have no idea of course because once again you and Broadie just write BS and when challenged you respond with gibberish.
This list is the best example of the immoral diplomatic situation world-wide today. Anything, but anything for sale.
Lenin, in his time correctly called those professional politicians “political whores”.
China, indeed !
There is plenty of emotional statements on Internet but just trying to be balanced I asked my favourite AI:
“While the Chinese government doesn’t literally declare that Uyghurs are “mentally ill,” its policies and rhetoric—particularly around the “re-education” camps—do pathologize Uyghur identity and religious practice in a way akin to treating them as mentally deviant or diseased”
Broadie your 15.1.1 comment is staggering in both its silliness and ridiculousness, the way you tried to connect Ashli Babbit and the Aboriginals to Gaza is simply stunning.
Yes I agree. Stunning that we as humans make the same mistake time and again. It is a lesson in history to understand how we as humans give so much to those we believe are in need only to find that the ‘from each according to their ability and to each according to their need’ is captured by carpet baggers. Those that come in and occupy administration of the welfare and reward themselves for their sacrifice.
The Aboriginal Gaza Babbit is the slippery slope that follows when someone asks why with all the resources is the problem just getting worse? They like Trump ask to see the books. Then comes the deflection / the projection / the diversions / the strawman / the guilt by association etc. One such technique is called ‘Appeal to Authority’ Below is a classic example.
We know of at Least 14 countries that vote at the UN agree with my position but you claim I am projecting?
You could have agreed that welfare brings destruction to communities or alternatively you display a superstitious belief similar to the worship of ‘John Frum’ by the people of Tanna. I have substituted your desired Nirvana in brackets.
this John Frum (Crakar24) promised the dawn of a new age in which all White people (Jews), including missionaries (Israelis), would depart the New Hebrides (Palestine), leaving behind their goods and property for the native Melanesians (Hamas)
I have been to Tanna and stood on an old air strip where the planes arrived during WWII. The crew were “John, Frum America”.
Also looked over the edge of the volcano as large lumps of “molten” were booted up into the sky on the other side.
A month later a French sightseer was hit and killed by a lump while climbing up.
The ground shook.
The modern “gimme” mentality is a tragedy that damages those standing around waiting for “John” to arrive with the results of other people’s work and effort.
Total nonsense. They weren’t starved. They had plenty of access to food. They had access to specialist medical treatment in Israel. And they had plenty of access to supplies to build or procure thousands of rockets and other terrorist supplies and build a tunnel network bigger than the London Underground.
And until the October 7th terrorist attack they regularly crossed the border for day jobs in Israel.
And it hardly seems like a genocide. How do they achieve such dramatic population growth in “the world’s largest outdoor prison” and when supposedly being starved and genocided?:
From Goolag AI:
The Palestinian population has significantly increased from 2005 to 2025, with projections showing a population of around 5.58 million in 2025. In 2005, the population was estimated to be around 3.3 million, indicating a growth of over 2.2 million people over the 20-year period.
And:
the BS never stops with you, you have no morality, no empathy, no ethics, no understanding of right or wrong.
That sounds like a projection plus fake virtue signaling. An ad hominem as well.
What the Gazan terrorists did on October 7th was beyond belief in its level of atrocities and the rapes, murder, torture and mutilation of Israeli people plus the ongoing holding of hostages. Anyone who supports that and the monsters who did it are truly the ones who “have no morality, no empathy, no ethics, no understanding of right or wrong”. The terrorists were so proud of what they did they even videoed it and livestreamed it. That’s the type of person you and your kind support.
Call me crazy, but they have the option of making peace with Israel. Ok, not attacking Israel is rather a radical thought. But then maybe some of them can start living on the land they say is so important to them. Like the other Arabs that make up 20% of Israel’s population.
“Former U.S. President Bill Clinton reflects on the Middle East’s past and present, delivering a powerful message about missed opportunities for peace. In this heartfelt discussion, Clinton recounts Yasser Arafat’s rejection of a comprehensive peace deal that included 96% of the West Bank, a capital in East Jerusalem, and land swaps to accommodate settlements. He emphasizes that the Palestinian leadership’s choices closed the door on historic chances for statehood, forever altering the region’s future.”
I’ve heard Clinton speak on this before.
He recounted being woken up in the middle of the night and told ‘Israel has accepted all Palestinian demands’.
He said all the staff were dragged out of bed and into action, and he was thinking, “OMG I’ve achieved peace in the Middle East!’
He said Arafat rejected it.
Saying “my own people will kill me”.
How were they “caged” with coast on the Mediterranean? They do not look malnourished in the photos, in fact the Hamas captives look fat!
If Hamas used aid to build lengthy tunnels and stockpile weapons, how is that good? Why are they relying on overseas aid after 20 years.
Unlike the Israeli hostages who were starved. Remember those three male hostages when they were returned? Others who said they had been given more food prior to their staged release?
I’m sick of all the ‘misinformation’ being published by almost all the media re. Hamas and their ‘statistics’. There’s another more accurate word.
The Gaza flotilla raid was a military operation by Israel against six civilian ships of the “Gaza Freedom Flotilla” on 31 May 2010 in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea. Nine of the flotilla passengers were killed during the raid, with thirty wounded (including one who later died of his wounds).[1][2] Ten Israeli soldiers were wounded, one seriously.
Next thing you will be telling me is a Palestinian can simply grab their passport catch a cab down the to Palestine International Airport, jump on a plane and fly away.
Before Oct 7 they could theoretically come and go through their border with Egypt. So you must blame Egypt equally for the restrictions on movement over the last decade or more. But people like to say Israel created a prison.
At least Israel has a reasonable excuse for controlling movement at their border and insisting all goods move through Israel into Gaza. Preservation of their own existence. Egypt does not have the same concern.
Granted the situation in Gaza is not ideal. But when you choose war you choose an uncomfortable existence.
It’s not really a true statement. E.g. Galileo used reasoning to show that people were wrong to believe that heavier objects should fall faster than lighter ones; Einstein used thought experiments
to show that mass must change with speed. In both cases they were toppling beliefs widely held as axiomatic. And in both cases, people who hadn’t reasoned themselves into those beliefs were reasoned out of them.
Reasoning will never make a Man correct an ill Opinion, which by Reasoning he never acquired: For in the Course of Things, Men always grow vicious before they become Unbelievers…
We can look forward to that from the followers of Mann, Greta, etc.
“1. While most of America remains blissfully uninformed by our establishment press, the world’s two greatest superpowers are being manipulated by Dark Forces inside and outside our government, into a major military confrontation that no country wants, and no sane person would ever want.
2. I have no role in the Trump Administration, but over a long career in the active uniformed military, specifically military intelligence, I have made it a point to cultivate many sources of information around the world. From what I can piece together, I want to share my deep concerns about who is behind this march to war, and my recommendations for how our nation and the West can avoid a major military confrontation with Russia.”
“3. I believe that the American Deep State is staffed by those with a deep, visceral, and irrational hatred for Russia, and these persons have conspired to box in President Trump’s decision making through the Russiagate Hoax.
During the time the Soviet Union was expanding and infiltrating our government, I was an outspoken anti-communist, but, despite the lies told by our Deep State, Russia is not the Soviet Union and Putin is not Stalin.
Even today, years after the Russiagate Hoax has been exposed, President Trump’s efforts to bring peace are met with resistance.
The Establishment Press, deeply influenced and even sometimes controlled by our Deep State, labeled President Trump and those who work for him “Putin’s Puppets” to goad him into taking unwarranted and aggressive steps against Russia.
These voices from the establishment press reflect the views of the Deep State, not the American People, and not the MAGA movement, and should be completely disregarded, if not mocked.”
US Congress is about to pass it’s usual annual omnibus spending perpetuation.
Members never read it and seldom write it.
There is an eternal and obscure staff apparatus that does.
This is one of the more obvious evidences for a ‘Deep State’.
Russia is not the Soviet Union and Putin is not Stalin.
The trouble is, Putin and his cohorts are showing signs that they want to regress back to Soviet Union days – out of their own propaganda no less.
President Trump’s efforts to bring peace are met with resistance.
Trumps way to peace seems to be for Ukraine to capitulate. Ukrainians are not happy. Greenlanders not happy. Canada not happy. Europe not happy. Who is happy? Let’s just say that President Putin is not sad.
Israel says it has become the first country to use a laser-based defense system in a combat setting.
The Israel Defense Forces announced that the technology was used against Hezbollah drones in hostilities against the group along the Lebanese border last year.
The 10kW Lite Beam prototype system that was used is a less powerful version of the Iron Beam laser interceptor, which is set to become operational sometime in 2025.
Both systems were built by Israeli defense tech firm Rafael Advanced Defense Systems.
The Lite Beam system was used against the Hezbollah drones in late October last year, but it’s only now that a ban on reporting on the weapon has been lifted.
It marks the first instance of a laser system being used to shoot down drones in a combat scenario.
The compact laser can be mounted on 4×4 wheeled vehicles, making it suitable for front-line deployment.
The more powerful Iron Beam laser system, first unveiled in 2014, is designed to defeat rockets, artillery shells, mortars, cruise missiles, and UAVs at ranges of hundreds of meters to several kilometers, with future growth to around 10 km (6.2 miles), though fog, heavy rain or sand reduce effective range.
Unlike Israel’s traditional missile interceptor defense systems that can cost between $50,000 and $100,000 per shot, each shot of the Iron Beam laser costs only a few dollars.
It also has an unlimited magazine as long as there is power, and the shots travel at the speed of light.
Rafael Advanced Defense Systems said it would showcase its family of “high-energy laser weapon systems” at the Paris Air Show, set to be held later this month.
The systems included the Iron Beam 450, an upgraded version of the in-development Iron Beam, which is set to be delivered to the Israel Defense Forces by the end of 2025.
Rafael said the Iron Beam 450 is “widely considered the most advanced high-energy laser air defense system in the world,” and is capable of shooting down drones, rockets, and other aerial threats up to distances of 10 kilometers (6 miles).
“These upgrades enable longer-range interceptions, faster engagement cycles and even more precise targeting, while maintaining its unique advantages: speed-of-light threat neutralization, negligible per-intercept cost and wide-area defense against rapid and complex aerial threats,” Rafael said.
The Iron Beam is not meant to replace the Iron Dome or Israel’s other air defense systems, but to supplement and complement them, shooting down smaller projectiles and leaving larger ones for the more robust missile-based batteries such as the David’s Sling and Arrow systems
As long as there is a constant source of energy for the laser, there is no risk of it ever running out of ammunition. Officials have hailed it as a potential “game-changer” in the battle against projectile attacks.
The main downside of a laser system is that it does not function well in low visibility, including heavy cloud cover or other inclement weather.
I note the definition of nexum, nexi:
2. obligation between creditor/debtor
“They” our “creditor” have grown weary of how many of us “debtors” are devaluing this planet by living….. so here’s is a new liquid designed to rebalance the equation.
The effects of grounding (earthing) on inflammation, the immune response, wound healing, and prevention and treatment of chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases
Multi-disciplinary research has revealed that electrically conductive contact of the human body with the surface of the Earth (grounding or earthing) produces intriguing effects on physiology and health. Such effects relate to inflammation, immune responses, wound healing, and prevention and treatment of chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases.
Grounding appears to improve sleep, normalize the day–night cortisol rhythm, reduce pain, reduce stress, shift the autonomic nervous system from sympathetic toward parasympathetic activation, increase heart rate variability, speed wound healing, and reduce blood viscosity. A summary has been published in the Journal of Environmental and Public Health.
Hackers claim massive data breach at American Hospital Dubai
A ransomware gang has claimed that it stole 450 million records from patients of one of Dubai’s most prestigious hospitals, and they’re threatening to leak them.
On June 4th, a ransomware group posted an update on its dark web leak site: it claims to have exfiltrated sensitive data from the American Hospital Dubai (AHD), affecting as many as 450 million patient records.
Seniors pickup line:
“Do you come here often? If so, can you tell me where I am?”
After 50, you’re like an old phone battery. Even when you charge yourself overnight for 10 hours, by 10AM you’re at 60%.
As you get older, you begin to suffer the occasional series of increasingly humiliating micro-injuries.
“How did you hurt yourself?”
I slept wrong.
While I was driving, I happened to yawn while checking my blind spot.
I drank water too hard.
I used to envy people who could do a cartwheel… But now I’m jealous of anyone who can get up off the floor without making grunting noises and holding onto furniture!
I’m young at heart…and slightly older in other places.
My wife was worried about getting older, so before she woke up on her birthday, I cut off all the white hairs she had.
For some reason, she woke up bald and in a bad mood.
You know you’re getting old when your back goes out more than you do.
They say life begins at 40. That’s great, but I’m 60, and I haven’t even finished my appetisers yet!
In the mid-80s New Zealand scientists perfected a single blood test that could confirm if a person over 65 had HIV and/or Alzheimer’s. It was very expensive to run so there was a strict limit of 1 test per person per lifetime.
Unfortunately, a batch of test results and original blood samples were destroyed in a lab accident and the government steadfastly refused to allow a second test. Instead, they advised the partners of those tested to wake them up at 2am in the morning, drive them into the main street of their town/city and leave them there. If they made it home by themselves, they didn’t have Alzheimer’s, but it would probably be a good idea to never have sex with them.
As I sit here in the watery winter sunshine pondering the future of the world I wonder if the “shock and awe” retaliation by Russia is happening. I wonder if Europe is ready to reap the rewards of their constant bear poking to defend a sliver of Ukraine that is mostly Russian speaking anyway. We are surrounded and managed by egotistical clowns of which Zelensky is a front for.
The bear is in the land surrounding your property bellowing in an attempt to frighten you.
You were not frightened so now the bear is in your yard, circling around to see if there is a way in.
Do you stay inside, hoping it will go away?
If the bear stays, do you go outside and try and reason with it? (Bad move as bears do not respond to reason).
Then you call for outside help. Trouble is, the outside help may sympathise with the bear or even be frightened of it.
If all else fails, then you have two choices – run away and surrender your property (and risk being eaten on the way out) or fight to defend it by outsmarting the bear.
Belarus surrendered to the bear and now they are kept inside by the bears’ circling mates.
Ukrainians did not surrender. They are fighting to outsmart the bear.
The bears’ KIA and wounded are approaching 1 million souls – the bear obviously does not care for his pack.
The corpses of his tribe in many cases are still lying where they fell, with the next wave of his tribe expected to go past them and keep attacking.
What a benevolent bear.
On June 3, 2025, a snap presidential election was held in the Republic of Korea in which Democratic candidate Lee Jae-myung won with over 49% of the vote.
Chairman Lee is a striking and controversial figure. During the presidency of the previous Democrat, Lee led an independent faction within the party and was considered an even more leftist populist than Moon. Moon viewed him as a dangerous rival and tried to remove him via a series of criminal cases.
Although he once called himself the ‘Korean Bernie Sanders’ due to his populist slogans and ideas such as universal basic income, his circle now prefers the term ‘Korean Donald Trump’, as both share a flamboyant style and peculiar reputations.
Even before entering the presidential race, Lee was implicated in several criminal cases involving corruption, abuse of power, perjury, election law violations, and even cash smuggling into North Korea. The accusations were serious – several of Lee’s close associates were imprisoned.
On Nov 15, 2024, Lee received a suspended sentence. Although conditional, the verdict threatened his political career. If upheld by the Supreme Court, Lee would be barred from holding public office for five years.
On March 26, 2025, the Seoul appellate court overturned Lee’s conviction, formally reopening his political path.
However, on May 1, 2025, the Supreme Court reversed the acquittal and sent the case for retrial.
Facing threats of impeachment (parliament can impeach any official, including judges), the judiciary made a ‘compromise’ decision: Lee’s retrial and other investigations would resume only after the election.
As for where Lee’s victory will take South Korea, that remains to be seen
In domestic terms, Mr Lee, who has a chequered and controversial record in public life, could be South Korea’s “most left-wing leader in memory”
He wants to shut down all coal-fired power plants, reduce the use of natural gas, move to a four-day working week and expand time allowed for holidays and sick leave. While he says he supports the US alliance (28,500 US troops are stationed in South Korea), he wants to build enhanced relations with the madcap Kim Jong-un regime in North Korea and with China. He also effectively has ruled out any help if Beijing invades Taiwan, asking: “Whatever happens between China and Taiwan, what has that have to do with us?”
That, undoubtedly, is exactly what the Beijing-Pyongyang-Moscow axis wants to hear from the new leader in Seoul, where anti-American sentiment has been boosted by resentment over 25 per cent tariffs imposed by Donald Trump. That resentment is likely to spill into Mr Lee’s decisions as he recalibrates the relationships of one of the most strategically important countries in our region.
“While he says he supports the US alliance”.. and ..”(28,500 US troops are stationed in South Korea)”
I feel the second makes the first compulsory! Same for Japan, Germany, Britain, Australia, half of Europe.. all the places that have Marines stationed in them. They are not there just to look good and they are not there to protect YOUR country from its enemies. They are there to make sure YOUR country never goes against America.
oops- mistake in email address, so wrong icon/picture/avatar thingy..
“Another Attack On The Crimean Bridge
Yesterday, the Ukrainians attacked the Crimean Bridge again (“Crimean Bridge” is the translation of Russia’s official name for the bridge over the Kerch Strait, Крымский мост). When I read about the attack on ZeroHedge, I wondered why the Ukrainians have been so obsessed with it.
If the bridge were mainland Russia’s only link to Crimea, attacking it might make some strategic sense, but mainland Russia now has a land bridge to Crimea. ”
I posted previously about discovering when checking my BP on my home monitor that irregular heart beat (Atrial Fibrillation) began a few months after having the COVID-19 vaccinations, confirmed by tests arranged via my GP and then a heart specialist. I was given a prescription for blood thinning and other BP prescription drug changes.
I am now rarely recording AF and BP has lowered to normal range.
When asked if I wanted the latest influenza vaccine I said no.
I had Atrial Fibrillation for at least 30 years – yes I knew about it and didn’t think it was a problem until I spent time in hospital (completely unrelated). Now I swallow 8 tablets every morning although that includes 3 Vitamin D and one Vitamin K2 which I had been having for 3+ years and avoiding Covid. Doctors are scared of Public Servants who think that pills solve problems although the major gain is that they can say “we gave the patient the best treatment”.
Needless to say Vitamin D + K2 aren’t hospital ideas so I got Covid in hospital – fortunately while I still had some immunity – 7 days quarantine with a stuffed nose for a day.
No, I will not be getting any injections for Covid variants (unless I get stuck in hospital again).
Back in March, The Dark Herald (who blogs at Arkhaven Comics) reviewed Disney’s then-new Snow White movie. The film flopped at the box office (from all accounts, deservedly so).
The review is one of the most devastating, and also funniest, critiques of a film that I’ve ever read. I laughed out loud several times. Here’s an excerpt.”
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What on earth does this woman do to earn a living?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14779605/Israel-threatens-raid-Greta-Thunberg-flotilla-freedom.html
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She is a professional protester with good brand recognition.
Young women with her overall “Nordic” appearance have been used by other evil-doers in the past as was noted in the meme by Dinesh D’Souza:
https://images.app.goo.gl/SFG12RDg7gpiXpSq8
Following from that meme, note, that Arabic language versions of the book of the National Socialist leader have been found in Gaza and are commonly available in Arab countries.
And don’t forget that during WW2 Mohammed Amin al-Husseini was a guest of the National Socialists and supported their genocidal objectives.
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Being a member of any “professional victims association” these days guarantees the sympathetic fake-cause believers will throw money at you.
Look at BLM. Bullsh#t Lies generate Money.
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I understand that she has a multi-billionaire unelected climate politician supporting her who modelled the original young Greta on a German youth group.
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Mismanagement of Covid? Hard to believe I know
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/06/03/global-mismanagement-of-covid-19-pandemic-slammed-in-new-peer-reviewed-paper/
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Thanks for this.
The original paper too: https://www.ssph-journal.org/journals/international-journal-of-public-health/articles/10.3389/ijph.2025.1607727/full
Dr Fenton warned some of us might get wound up by the ‘softly, softly’ tone of the paper (the link to the original paper seemed to be broken in his substack) – eg. when I see “The Inadvertent Dismissal of Valid Scientific Perspectives as ‘Misinformation’”. I think that this was actually deliberate and planned.
We already know that they do this stuff: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-53789-9_4
commemoration has become a ‘stage’ in disaster recovery. Commemorative church services and memorials are presented in policy guidance as ways to soothe the reverberation and impact of traumatic events. Their use tames the potential for future public disorder and malcontent, it is suggested. In recent visceral examples of this interconnectedness of commemoration and anticipation, the UK Home Office has begun staging ‘spontaneous’ memorial reactions to terrorist attacks, sending its staff (particularly people of colour) to the Westminster Bridge and Manchester attack sites with pre-organised slogans about unity between British Muslim and White British communities. The government deploys covert ‘spontaneous memorialisation’ to act upon the potential for future disorder.
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The US is a shadow of the country it used to be. Can Trump turn things around?
The world is moving away from the dollar as a reserve currency as US debts mount, many of which are owned by China. Other countries have had access to their money blocked by the US and may feel its no longer safe so might move to an alternative system
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/chinas-cold-war-with-america/
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There are very powerful evil forces working against TRUMP.
But he is the only hope the United States and the West has.
He is doing well so far.
If enough Americans support him and also people in the West, he will succeed.
About 60% of Americans support TRUMP, but unfortunately most Governments of the West such as Western Europe, UK, Canada and Australia do not support his small government, return to traditional moral values and anti-globalist objectives.
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No, he can’t turn it around. The DOGE fiasco shows that. As I’ve said, 4 years isn’t remotely enough time to undo a century of damage.
Yes, he loves America, but his attitude finacially and diplomatically is way below the standards he should be exhibiting to run a country. It will all be an upward blip on the perpetual downward trend into the hell of 2028.
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Giving large tax cuts to the rich at the expense of the poor will bring social upheaval in its wake. Not to worry, Donnie might resign and call for fresh elections to prevent a bloody revolution.
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el+gordo,
In what way is it at the expense of the poor? You sound like one of those strange people who describe tax deductions as subsidies.
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All Western countries have mixed economies, how much tax is allocated to social services is what governments argue over.
The trickle down effect of the Regan years, make the rich wealthier, how did that turn out?
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Ah, I see. You *are* one of those strange people.
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Can Trump turn things around? No, its going to be a long lame duck session.
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Today, those in power are once more on a destructive rampage in most countries of the world. We live in a time of neo-feudalism, with the powerful hanging on to their privileges and harvesting new ones by starting wars, announcing health crises, and surveilling the hell out of us. It would be easy to cry doom again and say times are terrible.
Yet even in the midst of horror, it is vital – if we wish to find the hope and courage to fight on – to stop and smell the roses. What good things are happening in the world, and what is still truly good about the West? Settle in for a joyful reckoning that we hope will put a smile on your face.
https://www.scienceandfreedom.org/articles/smell-the-roses-positive-trends-and-western-accomplishments/
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Worth a try. I’ll nominate just three:
A hot shower; enabled by
Steam engines; which enabled
Reliable electric power 24/7.
Cheers,
Dave B
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Fed up of cancel culture, wokeism and lobbying, Another bluesy number: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-JEji4N_XM&list=PLl01tTBR-ZDZmk0TpjP1suxwIB9mcavzT&index=4
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I was just hanging stuff on my solar dryer (clothesline).
I don’t think there’s another clothesline in my neighborhood.
And I’m the one refusing to believe in the reality of imminent Climate Catastrophe.
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I always prefer using a clothesline to a clothes dryer. And clothes seem fresher when air dried. Also, I think clothes are prematurely worn out by all that tumbling in a dryer and some fabrics get “pilled”.
Back in the day (at least in Australia), clothes dryers were not of the tumbling variety. They were like boxes or closets/cupboards you hung or otherwise put clothes into and hot air was blown through. This type were vastly superior to modern tumble types.
Australia is famous for the invention of the “Hills Hoist” clothesline.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hills_Hoist?wprov=sfla1
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Yes David, we are still a clothesline household.
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The only disadvantage of air drying rather than using a clothes dryer is the inability to contribute to atmospheric CO2 of which we need more.
But I do make up for it in other ways such as driving a 6 litre V8 car and heating my home to what some would regard as an excessive temperature. So, at least I am still doing my bit to contribute to CO2.
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I have just learned that the reckoning is that old Hills Hoists are better products. I got tapped to overhaul the mast of one being recycle.
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FWIW – probably goes well with Hills Hoists
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlfSuYsMm9rUT7SMLjYB59qG4eW9wrkMTEYuL7Kd_3zimKxM25oOT6kIXF7-ASlKj7XXm2fm6GuWgW2RPd8cOpKFyqV0dFq-MfQ5HfqXqkTIEsei6BV7-vJv2AmD-dK7ZdlYnDCJd_TiqmmA0OiptOj9qy5WnvvuqBrZPfVKm6IDBcnmUc9lFeZZOyIo4/s16000/Pearls%20Before%20Swine%202025-06-01.png
Via https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/06/makes-me-feel-old.html
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We have an old Hills hoist still in use. Washing bakes to a crisp in hot weather in just a few minutes. It’s hard to hang out large items when our local wind is howling up the valley as the wretched thing keeps spinning while one tries to hang things straight. Imagine the sky being a bit ‘blue’ on such occasions! When the weather is still and foggy washing has to be hung on indoor clothes horses. We do have a heated airing cabinet thing but have very rarely used it.
We haven’t had a tumble dryer since 2011 when we lived in Gloucestershire. Even then, it was used as little as possible and we used a long line in the garden, with a make-do clothes prop.
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A nearby local on acreage has diversified into running a shanty town. As landlord he noticed his tenants were using the drier rather than hanging clothes under the verandah or on the line.
He looked at his electricity bill and from there to the drier. Drier was evicted.
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Yes we too have a solar dryer which was installed by the previous like minded owner and it has served us very well for the last 26 years. Apart from the hoist not working – gears probably all rusted way but it had the good sense to cease working while at a height sufficient for us to walk under – its only other degradation is a slight lean being the result of a yukka branch hitting it when I mis-calculated the angle of descent.
I picked up the practice of turning clothing items inside out to wash and hang out to ensure the sun got a good crack at the arm pits of dresses/tops and crouches of pants from the wife whose grandmother instilled it in her.
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At the house design stage, the boss, who is a good engineer in her own right, decided to put the laundry next to bedrooms and use ordinary wall cabinet as dryer.
Re-educated to local double safety standards, I added a heater and an exhaust fan, which have never been switched on – natural drafts and normal house temperature do good enough job.
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Clothes dryer?
I’ve NEVER owned one. Or a dishwasher.
Yes, I have very low power bills.😁
A clothes line offers the disinfecting power of the sun, and coupled with a breeze and decent temperatures does the job for free, and no nasty static charge either.
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https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/health/households-urged-stop-drying-clothes-10103876
UK households have been advised to reconsider drying clothes outside on the washing line, despite the warmer weather.
With hay fever season fully underway, beginning in late March, experts have urged those who suffer with hay fever to continue drying clothes indoors.
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As per usual – no Tassie.
https://showyourstripes.info/c/australasia/australia/all
No NT either.
Just the urban heat sinks…
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These are averages. Presumably night and day which are very different. Winter and summer, which for most of Australia are very different.
And yet in 150 years the entire slight upward trend would be lucky to be +1C at most. Which is neither large nor rapid. So no problem then.
To attribute this small, slow change to fossil fuel CO2 takes a great leap of faith, not science. So what is the benefit of wrecking the country to prevent a possible +1C rise in the next 150 years? And given that there is no proof that humans can actually change CO2, completely pointless.
So why are politicians of all persuasions in Australia determined on this path of destruction? Net zero in Australia and a few other small countries like the UK and Canada is an accounting concept, not science. And inexplicable, unjustifiable with these figures. The very idea that it makes any sense has never been debated in any forum, let alone parliament.
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Atmospheric CO2 is radioactive. Coal is not. A naturally occurring medical tracer Carbon 14 shows that there is only 2.0% fossil fuel CO2 in transit in the air. That’s absolute proof the whole thing is a lie.
And politicians continue to write science fantasy CO2 tax and credit laws. Perhaps because they can finally tax breathing, where CO2 and O2 are exchanged.
The problem is that most politicians are dills, if Victoria’s former Liberal leader John Persutto is an example and have no idea of the periodic table or chemistry or mathematics. If Australia ceased to exist, the impact on CO2 would be zero. And women would be women and men would be men. Except in the bizarro world of politicians. And the gutless CSIRO and Universities refuse to disagree with the politicians who butter their bread.
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Well South Australia ex-Liberal leader got himself video’d sniffing cocaine. At least no-one wanted to spend money bailing him out after subsequent court losses.
And WA has how many Liberals in parliament? (Answers in low figures please).
The problem is that most Liberal politicians are dills (carefully chosen but dills).
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Not sure about your use of “gutless” TdeF, a bit soft. I suspect “cabalistic” might be better usage as I remember its head refusing to adequately reply to Senator Roberts’ repeated formal requests for the science on which the “CO2 is evil meme” was justified.
Cheers,
Dave B
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Warming?
The IPCC’s Anthro models, which hypothesize that (primarily) CO2 will foment dangerous global warming over the coming decades, woefully overestimated the warming from 1970-2019 by anywhere from 1.8°C [3.2°F] to 2.5°C [4.5°F].
“The errors of forecasts from the anthropogenic models for the era of concern over man-made global warming, starting in 1970, were 1.8°C (AVL), 1.7°C (AVSL), 2.3°C (AVR), and 2.5°C (AVSR) warmer than the measured temperatures.”
Over the 2000 to 2019 period, the Anthro models’ forecast errors were a staggering 16 times greater than the simple benchmark model’s errors.
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https://cyprus-mail.com/2025/05/09/supplier-of-kangaroo-slaughtered-in-parking-lot-under-investigation
“Strict, targeted and effective” control of all facilities both legal and illegal, must be executed, the party said, in addition to entry-points to prevent imports.
The kangaroo butchering incident in a parking lot in Dherynia is still being investigated, authorities said on Friday.
It has now been confirmed that the animal had been procured from an animal facility in the vicinity and that it was slaughtered at the scene.
Police have taken a statement from the owner of the enclosure where more kangaroos, as well as other species, are being kept and investigations are ongoing into whether the animals had been correctly registered, Famagusta police spokesman Andreas Konstantinou told the CyBC.
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Gosh! Did we miss a chance to eat kangaroo while we were in Cyprus recently?
We did eat very good trout, moussaka and local salads however.
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Responsible water use for the flood festival…
https://cyprus-mail.com/2025/06/04/limassol-district-govt-calls-for-responsible-water-use-over-kataklysmos-weekend
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Kataklysmos is actually the festival of Pentecost.
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Cargo ship “Morning Midas” transporting thousands of vehicles is adrift 300 miles southwest of Alaska’s Adak Island. The Midas carries 3,000 cars, including around 800 electric vehicles.“Smoke was initially seen emanating from a deck carrying electric vehicles,” a spokesman for the company said.
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Tried to find an appropriate blessing for sailors – a few on the perils of the sea, but not of the cargo.
Prayers for those on board to find the shore safely.
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The
crew reported ‘all safe’, happily.
Zodiac some experience with difficulties.
Hope nobody comes to harm trying to rescue what must be – at even $40,000 a pop – north of $100,000,000-worth of cars.
At $85K – about a quarter-billion …
Auto
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When will they learn.
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22 crew members safe after fire aboard cargo ship carrying vehicles off Alaska
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The crew of a cargo ship carrying 3,000 vehicles to Mexico, including 800 electric vehicles, abandoned ship after they could not control a fire aboard the vessel in waters off Alaska’s Aleutian island chain.
A large plume of smoke was initially seen at the ship’s stern coming from the deck loaded with electric vehicles Tuesday, according to U.S. Coast Guard photos and a Wednesday statement from the ship’s management company, London-based Zodiac Maritime.
There were no reported injuries among the 22 crew members of the Morning Midas.
Crew members abandoned ship, were evacuated onto a lifeboat and rescued by the crew of a nearby merchant vessel called the Cosco Hellas in the North Pacific, roughly 300 miles (490 kilometers) southwest of Adak Island. Adak is about 1,200 miles (1,930 kilometers) west of Anchorage, the state’s largest city
The crew initiated emergency firefighting procedures with the ship’s onboard fire suppression system. But they were unable bring the flames under control.
The 600-foot (183-meter) Morning Midas, a car and truck carrier, was built in 2006 and sails under a Liberian flag.
The cars left Yantai, China, on May 26, according to the industry site marinetraffic.com. They were being shipped to Lazaro Cardenas, a major Pacific port in Mexico.
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New video:
Dr John Campbell talks about how when mRNA vaccines have been trialled (in limited trials such as they were) pregnant and lactating women have been specifically included. However, he says that despite no trial data for pregnant women, “authorities” in the UK are to this very day strongly recommending pregnant women (or as one authority calls them, “pregnant people”, are there any other kinds, and they now have a court ruling about that?) get mRNA “vaccine” substances injected into them.
Video: https://youtu.be/426XoTQLc_Q
Note how the new scary story marketing campaign for the new strain of the WuFlu calls it by the catchy name of “razor blade throat”.
I fully expect a new mRNA campaign in Australia now we have our very own Moderna mRNA factory to produce 100 million dose per year.
https://www.health.gov.au/ministers/the-hon-mark-butler-mp/media/world-leading-moderna-vaccine-facility-opens-in-victoria
In Australia pregnant women are not recommended to get it but are not dissuaded from doing so either and they can have it if they want to or have risk factors:
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Just went through the handbook. Not a jot about your rights to refuse or the illegality of coercion. Crooks.
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My very bad mistake.
That should have read “specifically excluded“.
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I noticed in a news feed this morning this morning that mRNA vaccines are being introduced for a number of conditions – including HIV. It is a frightening thought and I dont know what can be done. The investment in those new labs in Australia is huge. The evidence of the destructive native of the Covid vaccines is becoming too great for medical authorities to ignore. But it will be a struggle as the investors fight against the evidence.
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>razor blade throat
Sounds like Jack the Ripper.
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Every time I turn on my gas stove in Victoriastan, as I just did for breakfast, I appreciate the supply of natural gas knowing that under Australia’s anti-energy policies we soon won’t have it due to both 1) exploration and fracking being mostly illegal in Victoriastan and 2) general government policy against hydrocarbon fuels. Cooking with gas is vastly superior to electric, and professional chefs agree with that..
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Once again the USA stand in the way of the Palestinian people being treated like human beings.
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Maybe the Palestinians should act like human beings and stop attacking Israel with rockets and terrorist attacks plus give the hostages back.
If they gave the hostages back the war would be pretty much over.
Don’t forget, Gaza was already a self-governed entity since 2005 when the Israelis left Gaza (so Gaza has not been “occupied” since that time), naive Westerners have poured billions of dollars into there, and there is pretty much nothing to show for it except terror tunnels and billionaire Hamas leaders.
They could have made the Gaza strip into something and Israel with its technological prowess would have gladly helped them.
A simple example was greenhouses donated them.
In 2005 greenhouses formerly owned by Israelis were donated to the Palestinians and then rather than use them they looted them. Some were already running as a turnkey flower export business to Europe.
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna9331863
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2006/2/13/looters-steal-gaza-greenhouses
They demonstrated no interest in agriculture or export businesses they could have done with the greenhouses. Just an ongoing terror campaign against the Israelis.
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A historic declaration was just issued by the major families and clans of southern Gaza.
For the first time, they openly declare:
“Enough is enough. Hamas has brought only blood and ruin. It no longer represents us.”
In this powerful document:
•They hold Hamas fully responsible for the devastation in Gaza.
•They demand an immediate end to Hamas rule and call for a national Palestinian conference to form new leadership.
•They call to hold accountable those who dragged Gaza into this disaster.
•They appeal to Mahmoud Abbas to lead a political transition and rebuild on the basis of unity and law.
•They reject all attempts to legitimize Hamas, describing it as a force of division and destruction.
This is a rare and bold move that shows:
Hamas is not just collapsing militarily — it is losing the people of Gaza.
Published: June 3, 2025, Gaza Strip
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A vwry brave declaration.
Unfortunately there is huge support among naive Westerners for the Hamas terrorists and the voice of those brave people won’t be heard.
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I have found what is purported to be the original declaration but of course it is in Arabic.
https://www.facebook.com/netre52/photos/a-historic-declaration-was-just-issued-by-the-major-families-and-clans-of-southe/10172078187610392/
AI answer is -ve:
As of my last update, there is no record of a historic declaration issued by the major families and clans of southern Gaza.
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Hamas surrenders and Fatah wins, this is the problem, if Mahmoud Abbas remains president it will eventually boil over into tribal revolt. They really need someone who is above the factionalism, a man with charismatic qualities.
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This comment demonstrates to all that read it that you have no understanding of this situation. Its hard to run a business when you live in the worlds largest outdoor prison or ploughing a field or harvesting olives from your olive grove with a IDF bulldozer churning it over into the ground.
So someone donated green houses to the Palestinians and all they did was loot them what an ungrateful people they are David, but that’s what happens when you are constantly starved by your captives.
When you say self governed you mean trapped, looked up, caged in a camp behind a fence and the only food or materials etc that you obtain comes through an Israeli check point so they control EVERYTHING that goes in and out of the prison, exactly how is that “self governed” David.
As I said yesterday the BS never stops with you, you have no morality, no empathy, no ethics, no understanding of right or wrong.
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Total nonsense. They weren’t starved. They had plenty of access to food. And they had plenty of access to supplies to build or procure thousands of rockets and a tunnel network bigger than the London Underground.
That sounds like a projection.
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Yes David,
It is a bit difficult keeping Crakar away from the mirror, but here goes.
Here is one of many example of in vivo experiments demonstrating how a place like Gaza goes from Greenhouses to dust.
In Australia we call them Aboriginal Enterprises. In the end what was a healthy community ends up duelling over funds to treat the mental health of the wretched creatures that remain in the welfare trap.
A similar problem to Gaza where International Aid destroyed any hope individuals could rise and lead their community into self sufficiency and individual ownership of capital. I remember Thomas Wictor forensically examining how a group of children ended up in hospital in brown blood coated sheets having been collected by ambulance as evidence of an Israeli rocket strike while they were playing soccer on the beach. Wictor examined video from the nearby security cameras and news footage and found the children were members of a family who opposed Hamas. Like the J6 Ashlii Babbit scenario the director of the action had to take action to improve the horror scenario. In this case by racing off to find sheets with fresh blood for the long dead innocents.
In Gaza wwe are watching the same fight over welfare largesse, the difference is that in Gaza they fight with guns and not as in our situation with distant human rights lawyers or in the middle of the night on the frontline with bottles.
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To David and Broadie
Firstly I would have to say in all my years of visiting this site I have never seen a more pathetic attempt to justify ones position. Broadie your 15.1.1 comment is staggering in both its silliness and ridiculousness, the way you tried to connect Ashli Babbit and the Aboriginals to Gaza is simply stunning.
In response its not projection just reality, the following 14 countries agree with me as they voted in favour of
A, “immediate, dignified and unconditional release of all hostages held by Hamas and other groups.”
B, In addition to a ceasefire, the draft resolution demanded the “immediate and unconditional lifting of all restrictions” (that means Israel has to stop starving an entire civilian population
C, It reaffirmed the obligation of all parties to comply with international law, including international humanitarian and human rights law.
The draft also expressed concerns about the “catastrophic humanitarian situation”
1, China
2, France
3, Russia
4, UK
5, Algeria
6, Denmark
7, Greece
8, Guyana
9, Pakistan
10, Panama
11, Sierra Leone
12, Slovenia
13, Somalia
14, South Korea
We know of at Least 14 countries that vote at the UN agree with my position but you claim I am projecting?
Projecting what David? What is it that I am projecting? You have no idea of course because once again you and Broadie just write BS and when challenged you respond with gibberish.
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This list is the best example of the immoral diplomatic situation world-wide today. Anything, but anything for sale.
Lenin, in his time correctly called those professional politicians “political whores”.
China, indeed !
There is plenty of emotional statements on Internet but just trying to be balanced I asked my favourite AI:
“While the Chinese government doesn’t literally declare that Uyghurs are “mentally ill,” its policies and rhetoric—particularly around the “re-education” camps—do pathologize Uyghur identity and religious practice in a way akin to treating them as mentally deviant or diseased”
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Yes I agree. Stunning that we as humans make the same mistake time and again. It is a lesson in history to understand how we as humans give so much to those we believe are in need only to find that the ‘from each according to their ability and to each according to their need’ is captured by carpet baggers. Those that come in and occupy administration of the welfare and reward themselves for their sacrifice.
The Aboriginal Gaza Babbit is the slippery slope that follows when someone asks why with all the resources is the problem just getting worse? They like Trump ask to see the books. Then comes the deflection / the projection / the diversions / the strawman / the guilt by association etc. One such technique is called ‘Appeal to Authority’ Below is a classic example.
You could have agreed that welfare brings destruction to communities or alternatively you display a superstitious belief similar to the worship of ‘John Frum’ by the people of Tanna. I have substituted your desired Nirvana in brackets.
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I have been to Tanna and stood on an old air strip where the planes arrived during WWII. The crew were “John, Frum America”.
Also looked over the edge of the volcano as large lumps of “molten” were booted up into the sky on the other side.
A month later a French sightseer was hit and killed by a lump while climbing up.
The ground shook.
The modern “gimme” mentality is a tragedy that damages those standing around waiting for “John” to arrive with the results of other people’s work and effort.
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Total nonsense. They weren’t starved. They had plenty of access to food. They had access to specialist medical treatment in Israel. And they had plenty of access to supplies to build or procure thousands of rockets and other terrorist supplies and build a tunnel network bigger than the London Underground.
And until the October 7th terrorist attack they regularly crossed the border for day jobs in Israel.
And it hardly seems like a genocide. How do they achieve such dramatic population growth in “the world’s largest outdoor prison” and when supposedly being starved and genocided?:
From Goolag AI:
And:
That sounds like a projection plus fake virtue signaling. An ad hominem as well.
What the Gazan terrorists did on October 7th was beyond belief in its level of atrocities and the rapes, murder, torture and mutilation of Israeli people plus the ongoing holding of hostages. Anyone who supports that and the monsters who did it are truly the ones who “have no morality, no empathy, no ethics, no understanding of right or wrong”. The terrorists were so proud of what they did they even videoed it and livestreamed it. That’s the type of person you and your kind support.
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But how can the Gaźans expand to accommodate their growing population?
The settlers in the Wəst Bank just take more land off the Arabs when they expand.
But the Arabs in Gaźa, though surrounded by land that’s their birthright, can’t use it because it was stolen from them after the Naĸba.
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Call me crazy, but they have the option of making peace with Israel. Ok, not attacking Israel is rather a radical thought. But then maybe some of them can start living on the land they say is so important to them. Like the other Arabs that make up 20% of Israel’s population.
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“but they have the option of making peace with Israel”
Not an option for them.
They would call you crazy.
Clinton BREAKS DOWN the Tragedy of Israel-Palestine Conflict “You Can’t Complain 25 Years Later!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjap2Nx2kSY
Dec 11, 2024
“Former U.S. President Bill Clinton reflects on the Middle East’s past and present, delivering a powerful message about missed opportunities for peace. In this heartfelt discussion, Clinton recounts Yasser Arafat’s rejection of a comprehensive peace deal that included 96% of the West Bank, a capital in East Jerusalem, and land swaps to accommodate settlements. He emphasizes that the Palestinian leadership’s choices closed the door on historic chances for statehood, forever altering the region’s future.”
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I’ve heard Clinton speak on this before.
He recounted being woken up in the middle of the night and told ‘Israel has accepted all Palestinian demands’.
He said all the staff were dragged out of bed and into action, and he was thinking, “OMG I’ve achieved peace in the Middle East!’
He said Arafat rejected it.
Saying “my own people will kill me”.
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An option we know they won’t take is still an option for them.
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I’ll rephrase’, ‘not an option to them’. 🙂
But valid point acknowledged.
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How were they “caged” with coast on the Mediterranean? They do not look malnourished in the photos, in fact the Hamas captives look fat!
If Hamas used aid to build lengthy tunnels and stockpile weapons, how is that good? Why are they relying on overseas aid after 20 years.
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Unlike the Israeli hostages who were starved. Remember those three male hostages when they were returned? Others who said they had been given more food prior to their staged release?
I’m sick of all the ‘misinformation’ being published by almost all the media re. Hamas and their ‘statistics’. There’s another more accurate word.
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Brenda,
Do you think a Palestinian owns a boat? LOL and what do you think would happen if someone sailed a boat to the shores of Gaza?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_flotilla_raid
Next thing you will be telling me is a Palestinian can simply grab their passport catch a cab down the to Palestine International Airport, jump on a plane and fly away.
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Before Oct 7 they could theoretically come and go through their border with Egypt. So you must blame Egypt equally for the restrictions on movement over the last decade or more. But people like to say Israel created a prison.
At least Israel has a reasonable excuse for controlling movement at their border and insisting all goods move through Israel into Gaza. Preservation of their own existence. Egypt does not have the same concern.
Granted the situation in Gaza is not ideal. But when you choose war you choose an uncomfortable existence.
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FWIW – more ideas for “ElBowen”
“How Can You Tell You Live in a Blue City? When They Consider Taxing Your Driveway”
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/06/04/how-can-you-tell-you-live-in-a-blue-city-when-they-consider-taxing-your-driveway-n3803467
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FWIW
“Dr Sherri Tenpenny Gives A Vaccine Lesson To Senators – “Do Your Homework””
Re senatorial committees and Robert Kennedy
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/dr-sherri-tenpenny-gives-vaccine-lesson-senators-do/
And journalists too I guess
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It’s not really a true statement. E.g. Galileo used reasoning to show that people were wrong to believe that heavier objects should fall faster than lighter ones; Einstein used thought experiments
to show that mass must change with speed. In both cases they were toppling beliefs widely held as axiomatic. And in both cases, people who hadn’t reasoned themselves into those beliefs were reasoned out of them.
Apparently it’s also not an accurate quote of Swift. I like the fuller original quote from that article:
We can look forward to that from the followers of Mann, Greta, etc.
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Lt General Michael Flynn Has Strong Advice for President Donald Trump Regarding Russia-Ukraine Conflict
June 4, 2025 – Sundance
It is at moments like this when I wish General Michael Flynn had not comprehensively compromised his ability to provide advice and counsel to President Donald Trump. This is great advice shared via Twitter:
“1. While most of America remains blissfully uninformed by our establishment press, the world’s two greatest superpowers are being manipulated by Dark Forces inside and outside our government, into a major military confrontation that no country wants, and no sane person would ever want.
2. I have no role in the Trump Administration, but over a long career in the active uniformed military, specifically military intelligence, I have made it a point to cultivate many sources of information around the world. From what I can piece together, I want to share my deep concerns about who is behind this march to war, and my recommendations for how our nation and the West can avoid a major military confrontation with Russia.”
“3. I believe that the American Deep State is staffed by those with a deep, visceral, and irrational hatred for Russia, and these persons have conspired to box in President Trump’s decision making through the Russiagate Hoax.
During the time the Soviet Union was expanding and infiltrating our government, I was an outspoken anti-communist, but, despite the lies told by our Deep State, Russia is not the Soviet Union and Putin is not Stalin.
Even today, years after the Russiagate Hoax has been exposed, President Trump’s efforts to bring peace are met with resistance.
The Establishment Press, deeply influenced and even sometimes controlled by our Deep State, labeled President Trump and those who work for him “Putin’s Puppets” to goad him into taking unwarranted and aggressive steps against Russia.
These voices from the establishment press reflect the views of the Deep State, not the American People, and not the MAGA movement, and should be completely disregarded, if not mocked.”
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Where’s the evidence for this Deep State bs ?.
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Apart from everywhere you look with open mind and eyes, nowhere much at all.
Check out General Michael Flynn.
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US Congress is about to pass it’s usual annual omnibus spending perpetuation.
Members never read it and seldom write it.
There is an eternal and obscure staff apparatus that does.
This is one of the more obvious evidences for a ‘Deep State’.
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The trouble is, Putin and his cohorts are showing signs that they want to regress back to Soviet Union days – out of their own propaganda no less.
Trumps way to peace seems to be for Ukraine to capitulate. Ukrainians are not happy. Greenlanders not happy. Canada not happy. Europe not happy. Who is happy? Let’s just say that President Putin is not sad.
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“showing signs that they want to regress back to Soviet Union days ”
There are always those who see reds under every bed.
Tell us about these “signs” that you have seen, and how long you have been having these ‘visions’.
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Try this “vision”. The propaganda is all one-way and from credible sources – Russia itself. Are they joking?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhkIzMcTiIM
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Israel confirms world-first combat use of laser-beam weapon, downs Hezbollah drones
The new laser weapons will complement Iron Dome defenses – May 29, 2025
Israel says it has become the first country to use a laser-based defense system in a combat setting.
The Israel Defense Forces announced that the technology was used against Hezbollah drones in hostilities against the group along the Lebanese border last year.
The 10kW Lite Beam prototype system that was used is a less powerful version of the Iron Beam laser interceptor, which is set to become operational sometime in 2025.
Both systems were built by Israeli defense tech firm Rafael Advanced Defense Systems.
The Lite Beam system was used against the Hezbollah drones in late October last year, but it’s only now that a ban on reporting on the weapon has been lifted.
It marks the first instance of a laser system being used to shoot down drones in a combat scenario.
The compact laser can be mounted on 4×4 wheeled vehicles, making it suitable for front-line deployment.
The more powerful Iron Beam laser system, first unveiled in 2014, is designed to defeat rockets, artillery shells, mortars, cruise missiles, and UAVs at ranges of hundreds of meters to several kilometers, with future growth to around 10 km (6.2 miles), though fog, heavy rain or sand reduce effective range.
Unlike Israel’s traditional missile interceptor defense systems that can cost between $50,000 and $100,000 per shot, each shot of the Iron Beam laser costs only a few dollars.
It also has an unlimited magazine as long as there is power, and the shots travel at the speed of light.
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Rafael unveils new laser interception systems, will showcase them at Paris Air Show
After the Israeli military last week disclosed it had been using a laser interception system to shoot down Hezbollah drones amid the fighting in Lebanon last year, the Rafael defense firm unveiled on Wednesday several new versions of its Iron Beam and other laser systems.
Rafael Advanced Defense Systems said it would showcase its family of “high-energy laser weapon systems” at the Paris Air Show, set to be held later this month.
The systems included the Iron Beam 450, an upgraded version of the in-development Iron Beam, which is set to be delivered to the Israel Defense Forces by the end of 2025.
Rafael said the Iron Beam 450 is “widely considered the most advanced high-energy laser air defense system in the world,” and is capable of shooting down drones, rockets, and other aerial threats up to distances of 10 kilometers (6 miles).
“These upgrades enable longer-range interceptions, faster engagement cycles and even more precise targeting, while maintaining its unique advantages: speed-of-light threat neutralization, negligible per-intercept cost and wide-area defense against rapid and complex aerial threats,” Rafael said.
The Iron Beam is not meant to replace the Iron Dome or Israel’s other air defense systems, but to supplement and complement them, shooting down smaller projectiles and leaving larger ones for the more robust missile-based batteries such as the David’s Sling and Arrow systems
As long as there is a constant source of energy for the laser, there is no risk of it ever running out of ammunition. Officials have hailed it as a potential “game-changer” in the battle against projectile attacks.
The main downside of a laser system is that it does not function well in low visibility, including heavy cloud cover or other inclement weather.
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Cases of SIDS in Japan drop to zero after raising vaxx age to 2
https://twitter.com/chrismartenson/status/1929921273477357719
There’s been a lot of data on this of late.
Don’t vaxx newborns!!
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Very interesting.
I wonder what data pierre Kory is quoting?
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FDA has approved mNEXSPIKE®, a new vaccine against COVID-19, for use in all adults 65 and older
https://x.com/moderna_tx/status/1928679207304892466
NEXSPIKE? Who comes up with these awful names?
What is Nex in Latin?
https://www.latin-dictionary.net/search/latin/nex
Start queuing up sheeple!
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I note the definition of nexum, nexi:
2. obligation between creditor/debtor
“They” our “creditor” have grown weary of how many of us “debtors” are devaluing this planet by living….. so here’s is a new liquid designed to rebalance the equation.
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Note- It also a mRNA type.
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The effects of grounding (earthing) on inflammation, the immune response, wound healing, and prevention and treatment of chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases
Multi-disciplinary research has revealed that electrically conductive contact of the human body with the surface of the Earth (grounding or earthing) produces intriguing effects on physiology and health. Such effects relate to inflammation, immune responses, wound healing, and prevention and treatment of chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases.
Grounding appears to improve sleep, normalize the day–night cortisol rhythm, reduce pain, reduce stress, shift the autonomic nervous system from sympathetic toward parasympathetic activation, increase heart rate variability, speed wound healing, and reduce blood viscosity. A summary has been published in the Journal of Environmental and Public Health.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4378297/
0v for all! 😎
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Cows have long known this and have done it for aeons.
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Hackers claim massive data breach at American Hospital Dubai
A ransomware gang has claimed that it stole 450 million records from patients of one of Dubai’s most prestigious hospitals, and they’re threatening to leak them.
On June 4th, a ransomware group posted an update on its dark web leak site: it claims to have exfiltrated sensitive data from the American Hospital Dubai (AHD), affecting as many as 450 million patient records.
https://cybernews.com/security/gunra-ransomware-american-hospital-dubai-breach/
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Getting old
Seniors pickup line:
“Do you come here often? If so, can you tell me where I am?”
After 50, you’re like an old phone battery. Even when you charge yourself overnight for 10 hours, by 10AM you’re at 60%.
As you get older, you begin to suffer the occasional series of increasingly humiliating micro-injuries.
“How did you hurt yourself?”
I slept wrong.
While I was driving, I happened to yawn while checking my blind spot.
I drank water too hard.
I used to envy people who could do a cartwheel… But now I’m jealous of anyone who can get up off the floor without making grunting noises and holding onto furniture!
I’m young at heart…and slightly older in other places.
My wife was worried about getting older, so before she woke up on her birthday, I cut off all the white hairs she had.
For some reason, she woke up bald and in a bad mood.
You know you’re getting old when your back goes out more than you do.
They say life begins at 40. That’s great, but I’m 60, and I haven’t even finished my appetisers yet!
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In the mid-80s New Zealand scientists perfected a single blood test that could confirm if a person over 65 had HIV and/or Alzheimer’s. It was very expensive to run so there was a strict limit of 1 test per person per lifetime.
Unfortunately, a batch of test results and original blood samples were destroyed in a lab accident and the government steadfastly refused to allow a second test. Instead, they advised the partners of those tested to wake them up at 2am in the morning, drive them into the main street of their town/city and leave them there. If they made it home by themselves, they didn’t have Alzheimer’s, but it would probably be a good idea to never have sex with them.
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FWIW
This goes with that –
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Q87Iwk0ngVxnAaokMl-0MXSeRGT6uhwk3jVLFAX7mEWdBp-l0qlSSjH6NbI_ZW9FzBOgtXRtAKp7QSV6093yQHjsqt4N-yAtF3wMi58X7rNUmnF8kyLvBheBrNmYgLfeASsDSDl4nvB0lVuIPe0cK-FIFu3CvUDZEUluT9uLi-gI2Zk3AQW6yPtDAwE/s645/Meme%20-%20shocked%20disgusted%20joints.png
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As I sit here in the watery winter sunshine pondering the future of the world I wonder if the “shock and awe” retaliation by Russia is happening. I wonder if Europe is ready to reap the rewards of their constant bear poking to defend a sliver of Ukraine that is mostly Russian speaking anyway. We are surrounded and managed by egotistical clowns of which Zelensky is a front for.
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The bear is in the land surrounding your property bellowing in an attempt to frighten you.
You were not frightened so now the bear is in your yard, circling around to see if there is a way in.
Do you stay inside, hoping it will go away?
If the bear stays, do you go outside and try and reason with it? (Bad move as bears do not respond to reason).
Then you call for outside help. Trouble is, the outside help may sympathise with the bear or even be frightened of it.
If all else fails, then you have two choices – run away and surrender your property (and risk being eaten on the way out) or fight to defend it by outsmarting the bear.
Belarus surrendered to the bear and now they are kept inside by the bears’ circling mates.
Ukrainians did not surrender. They are fighting to outsmart the bear.
The bears’ KIA and wounded are approaching 1 million souls – the bear obviously does not care for his pack.
The corpses of his tribe in many cases are still lying where they fell, with the next wave of his tribe expected to go past them and keep attacking.
What a benevolent bear.
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Nothing a 30.06 won’t sort.
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Interesting Interpretation – ‘Korean Donald Trump’ emerges from the chaos in Seoul
The man now in charge of the republic used to style himself after Bernie Sanders but changed his tune – and has won
On June 3, 2025, a snap presidential election was held in the Republic of Korea in which Democratic candidate Lee Jae-myung won with over 49% of the vote.
Chairman Lee is a striking and controversial figure. During the presidency of the previous Democrat, Lee led an independent faction within the party and was considered an even more leftist populist than Moon. Moon viewed him as a dangerous rival and tried to remove him via a series of criminal cases.
Although he once called himself the ‘Korean Bernie Sanders’ due to his populist slogans and ideas such as universal basic income, his circle now prefers the term ‘Korean Donald Trump’, as both share a flamboyant style and peculiar reputations.
Even before entering the presidential race, Lee was implicated in several criminal cases involving corruption, abuse of power, perjury, election law violations, and even cash smuggling into North Korea. The accusations were serious – several of Lee’s close associates were imprisoned.
On Nov 15, 2024, Lee received a suspended sentence. Although conditional, the verdict threatened his political career. If upheld by the Supreme Court, Lee would be barred from holding public office for five years.
On March 26, 2025, the Seoul appellate court overturned Lee’s conviction, formally reopening his political path.
However, on May 1, 2025, the Supreme Court reversed the acquittal and sent the case for retrial.
Facing threats of impeachment (parliament can impeach any official, including judges), the judiciary made a ‘compromise’ decision: Lee’s retrial and other investigations would resume only after the election.
As for where Lee’s victory will take South Korea, that remains to be seen
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South Korea’s new leftward path
It remains to be seen whether opposition leader Lee Jae-myung, 61, who won Tuesday’s presidential election in South Korea, really is, as some American commentators claim, his country’s version of US independent senator Bernie Sanders.
In domestic terms, Mr Lee, who has a chequered and controversial record in public life, could be South Korea’s “most left-wing leader in memory”
He wants to shut down all coal-fired power plants, reduce the use of natural gas, move to a four-day working week and expand time allowed for holidays and sick leave. While he says he supports the US alliance (28,500 US troops are stationed in South Korea), he wants to build enhanced relations with the madcap Kim Jong-un regime in North Korea and with China. He also effectively has ruled out any help if Beijing invades Taiwan, asking: “Whatever happens between China and Taiwan, what has that have to do with us?”
That, undoubtedly, is exactly what the Beijing-Pyongyang-Moscow axis wants to hear from the new leader in Seoul, where anti-American sentiment has been boosted by resentment over 25 per cent tariffs imposed by Donald Trump. That resentment is likely to spill into Mr Lee’s decisions as he recalibrates the relationships of one of the most strategically important countries in our region.
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Good mates with CCCP, just like our own leftards.
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“While he says he supports the US alliance”.. and ..”(28,500 US troops are stationed in South Korea)”
I feel the second makes the first compulsory! Same for Japan, Germany, Britain, Australia, half of Europe.. all the places that have Marines stationed in them. They are not there just to look good and they are not there to protect YOUR country from its enemies. They are there to make sure YOUR country never goes against America.
oops- mistake in email address, so wrong icon/picture/avatar thingy..
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That’s better! CIA man..
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FWIW
“Why They Hate The Crimean Bridge”
“Another Attack On The Crimean Bridge
Yesterday, the Ukrainians attacked the Crimean Bridge again (“Crimean Bridge” is the translation of Russia’s official name for the bridge over the Kerch Strait, Крымский мост). When I read about the attack on ZeroHedge, I wondered why the Ukrainians have been so obsessed with it.
If the bridge were mainland Russia’s only link to Crimea, attacking it might make some strategic sense, but mainland Russia now has a land bridge to Crimea. ”
More at
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2025-06-04/why-they-hate-crimean-bridge
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Strange coincidence.
Two people I know.
Both multiple times covid vaxxed, maybe seven times each. “True Believers” in the covid vax and terrified of the disease.
Both had haematuria (blood in urine).
One had low level bladder tumor removed, hopefully that will be the end of it.
The other is on the way to see urologist and get scans. Hopefully will be OK.
Both incidents within a few weeks.
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I forgot to say, both have had covid multiple times, as seems to be the case of people who have had multiple covid vaxxes.
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I posted previously about discovering when checking my BP on my home monitor that irregular heart beat (Atrial Fibrillation) began a few months after having the COVID-19 vaccinations, confirmed by tests arranged via my GP and then a heart specialist. I was given a prescription for blood thinning and other BP prescription drug changes.
I am now rarely recording AF and BP has lowered to normal range.
When asked if I wanted the latest influenza vaccine I said no.
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I had Atrial Fibrillation for at least 30 years – yes I knew about it and didn’t think it was a problem until I spent time in hospital (completely unrelated). Now I swallow 8 tablets every morning although that includes 3 Vitamin D and one Vitamin K2 which I had been having for 3+ years and avoiding Covid. Doctors are scared of Public Servants who think that pills solve problems although the major gain is that they can say “we gave the patient the best treatment”.
Needless to say Vitamin D + K2 aren’t hospital ideas so I got Covid in hospital – fortunately while I still had some immunity – 7 days quarantine with a stuffed nose for a day.
No, I will not be getting any injections for Covid variants (unless I get stuck in hospital again).
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Latest Kunstler
“The Widening Gyre
“The Caliphate looms; it is inevitable, and the road to its gates is paved with the skulls of English children.” —Peachy Keenan”
https://www.kunstler.com/p/the-widening-gyre
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FWIW
“On a train bound for nowhere”
“Trump’s Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy Releases Report Exposing No Viable Path Forward for California’s High-Speed Rail Boondoggle”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/04/trumps-transportation-secretary-sean-p-duffy-releases-report-exposing-no-viable-path-forward-for-californias-high-speed-rail-boondoggle/
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More on “That Train”
“Where did I put that shocked face?”
https://tomknighton.substack.com/p/where-did-i-put-that-shocked-face
Via https://instapundit.com/723988/#disqus_thread
More hints for “Elbow”
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https://uk.yahoo.com/news/bogus-doctor-faked-degree-trousered-045711513.html
20 years!
Question is, what was she dispensing…?
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FWIW
“The Guardian’s Climate Cult: Fiona Harvey’s Latest Sermon on COP30”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/05/the-guardians-climate-cult-fiona-harveys-latest-sermon-on-cop30/
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I guess that could be called “Wheeling the grease”?
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FWIW
“A review that’s more fun than the movie
Back in March, The Dark Herald (who blogs at Arkhaven Comics) reviewed Disney’s then-new Snow White movie. The film flopped at the box office (from all accounts, deservedly so).
The review is one of the most devastating, and also funniest, critiques of a film that I’ve ever read. I laughed out loud several times. Here’s an excerpt.”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-review-thats-more-fun-than-movie.html
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