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Trump wants to turn Gaza into the Riviera and send all the inhabitants to Egypt and Jordan who quite understandably don’t want them.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14361847/Trumps-Middle-East-Riviera-draws-outrage-critics-claim-Gaza-takeover-lead-bloody-occupation.html
I can’t believe this will progress any further. If it does it will be the cue of countless acts of terror against the US and its allies
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Trump should start by rebuilding US cities and Infrastructure first. Detroit would be a good start.
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Let’s find ways of cutting spending instead of thinking up new ways of flushing $$$ down a drain.
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The unrealized potential of Palestinian oil and gas reserves
Contradicting voice:
https://besacenter.org/the-gaza-oil-myth/
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Trump Gaza –
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/daily-cartoon/image-gallery/2403b703a84c4deb3bbc4247796b447f
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https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary
Whoops. Try this instead.
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If the increased terror threat stops Taylor Swift touring for a while, maybe that is a price we have to pay.
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This is not a source I usually use but this article is spot on
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21373/destroying-europe-the-eu
The EU is highly bureaucratic , over regulated, much too fond of acquiring debt and spending money on social benefits rather than Defence. It is of course also CO2 fixated which explains its high energy prices and its lack of competitiveness.
Despite that here in the UK we still have many of the elite who want to rejoin this failing organisation.
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Solar farms certainly do not promote bio diversity as is claimed
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/02/04/the-shocking-solar-farm-bird-deaths-the-mainstream-media-arent-telling-you-about/
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Korenizatsiya: Stalin’s Soviet DEI Program, a New Discourses podcast with James Lindsey. 2 hours 16 minutes.
I didn’t know that there was a DEI-program or politics in USSR. I listened first 20 minutes or so, but listening complicated topic like this in foreign language is tiresome and I gave up. Luckily I found a summary of the contents of this podcast written in Finnish. I recommend this, it should be interesting.
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An important dynasty change: https://www.reuters.com/world/rahim-al-hussaini-named-ismaili-muslims-new-spiritual-leader-after-fathers-death-2025-02-05/
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I had to laugh!
We get told who to hate each week.
This week it’s apparently Elon.
I don’t know why we’re supposed to hate him, but apparently Elon-hating is a thing now.
Herald Sun: The new EVs for Elon haters
Herald Sun: Not content with wrecking our country, apparently @elonmusk is now coming after me personally…
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Why the Dems Could Not Rig the 2024 Election
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/voting-elections/why-the-dems-could-not-rig-the-2024-election/
“…the current Republican Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, prevented them from playing games with rules as Pelosi did to make sure Biden won.”
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https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/ANNALS-24-01015 – COVID-19 vaccines targeting the XBB.1.5 variant of Omicron were not effective in preventing infection and had relatively low VE against hospitalization and death, which declined rapidly over time.
Current recommendations for an ineffective vaccine: https://www.health.gov.au/our-work/covid-19-vaccines/getting-your-vaccination
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https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/pandemic-censorship-spurs-trump-research
The “Journal of the Academy of Public Health” (JAPH) plans to cover all aspects of public health, and will publish research articles, literature reviews, peer-reviewed studies on the history of public health, and perspectives. The JAPH will also run peer-reviews of prominent studies published in journals that do not practice open peer-review to spur scientific discourse. “The authors of the original article are invited to respond,” the JAPH states.
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Stanford’s Ioannidis said only a handful of the roughly 50,000 journals now on the market pay peer reviewers a small fee, and increasing this to $500 might improve quality. “Peer review currently improves about a third of the submitted papers meaningfully, makes about 5% worse, and leaves most papers largely untouched. Moreover, it can be biased, slow, and driven by non-scientific priorities at times,” he said. “This does not guarantee that any new approach will be better – but it is worth trying.”
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After 80 + years the long over due dismantling of New Deal has finally started. It is a myth that New Deal solved the Great Depression. See this:
https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/do-we-need-a-new-new-deal/
Or that it prevented future recessions. Obviously that didn’t happened. Remember Stagflation?
Several times it was doubled down on. But such programs only really opened up the door to grifters. The biggest of all being CAGW. The Great Society after 60 years has only succeeded in destroying the black family.
However, the latest and greatest doubling down by Obama’s third term failed so spectacularly that the rot was exposed to the core.
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FWIW – for the record
“The Covid Dossier: A Record of Military and Intelligence Coordination of COVID-19
by Debbie Lerman and Sasha Latypova 4 February 2025 11:00 AM”
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/02/04/the-covid-dossier-a-record-of-military-and-intelligence-coordination-of-covid-19/
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FWIW
“Those Aircraft Accidents”
https://www.laughingwolf.net/2025/02/03/those-aircraft-accidents/
Via https://instapundit.com/700613/#disqus_thread
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