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Wow, this is what Yemen looked like in the 1960s under British rule. That was over half a century ago, but it looked decades more advanced than Yemen does today.
It’s almost unbelievable compared to what the country has become. And it’s a testament to how quickly a country can collapse once Islam reigns supreme.
Monstruous
We now see the full extent of preplanning and empire-building that went into the United Nations' global warming campaign.
It was all behind the scenes. Today, the UN has a workforce of roughly 190,000 and an annual budget of $3.45 billion. It has become a vast self-managing, self perpetuating bureaucracy - arguably the largest non-governmental network in the world. The UN had been laying the groundwork for an environmental crisis for decades before it was finally announced in 1988.
The UN took control of the World Meteorological Organization in 1951, transforming it into a specialised UN agency. The WMO operates with an annual budget of approximately $138.7 million and has a staff of 350 to 400.
The WMO bridges the gap between raw meteorological data, international political agendas and global news media - linking thousands of land stations, ocean buoys, aircraft and satellites. While its stated role is to share critical weather and water data, this massive infrastructure has been effectively co-opted into a public relations framework.
Consequently, the world has been bombarded with weather hysteria for almost 40 years. Mainstream news outlets routinely prioritise speculative, worst-case climate models over empirical observations - like 'rain bombs' - maintaining a permanent state of crisis designed to shape public compliance.
The information gathering agency, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, runs the scientific arm. It operates with a core secretariat of just 15 staff members and an annual budget of roughly $12.5 million. The IPCC was established 38 years ago, ostensibly as a neutral body to gather objective scientific information on climate.
In reality, the IPCC became the driving force behind the greatest environmental and social upheaval in modern history. Highly politicised from its inception, it was founded entirely by UN agencies - the WMO and the UN Environment Programme. This gave the UN absolute control over the global climate agenda and funded what has become the largest propaganda campaign in history.
The UN has also run annual fund raising COP summits around the world for 30 years. They have become junkets for the rich and privileged.
The IPCC did not recruit independent scientific staff; instead, its administrative apparatus actively sponsors and selects studies that supported the carbon dioxide hypothesis. Research raising questions or doubts are minimised or discarded. Critics find their studies starved of funding and publishers, while some even faced threats to their academic tenures.
Local weather outlets and national agencies now operate inside an ecosystem heavily influenced by these overarching, high-alarm targets, broadcasting continuous warnings of 'global boiling', catastrophic sea-level rise, and 'Code Red for Humanity' - with UN leadership acting as the chief amplifier. This environment birthed foundational, highly charged studies designed to lock in future warming projections.
For decades, the UN promoted only extreme scenarios. A prime example is the IPCC's reliance on high-end warming trajectories - such as projections warning of up to a 5.5-degree temperature rise - predictions so extreme that even mainstream scientists have increasingly conceded they are implausible.
Armed with a crisis of its own making, the UN called for the rapid dismantling of hydrocarbon fuels - coal, oil, and natural gas - the very energy sources that lifted humanity out of stagnation and powered the Industrial Revolution. Almost every aspect of modern civilisation, from transport networks to industrial manufacturing, relies entirely on these dense, inexpensive and reliable energy sources.
Climate management bears no relation to the UN’s foundational charter of resolving international conflict; it's a textbook case of bureaucratic mission creep.
The sheer complexity of this UN machinery, combined with an aura of technical authority, is precisely what insulates it from public scrutiny.
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A battalion of riflemen, dug in at a lonely desert outpost with a handful of little anti-tank guns, found itself in the path of the massed German and Italian armor at El Alamein, and over one furious day it wrecked more than fifty tanks. When one gun's crew was shot down to two men, the battalion's colonel knelt and served as the loader himself. Lieutenant-Colonel Victor Turner won the Victoria Cross at the defense of Outpost Snipe.
It was part of the great battle I told you about yesterday, Montgomery's offensive at El Alamein. On the 27th of October 1942, Turner's battalion of the Rifle Brigade, with its six-pounder anti-tank guns, had pushed forward in the dark to seize a desert position codenamed Snipe, a shallow depression out ahead of the British lines, in the area of the fighting around the Kidney feature. When dawn came they found themselves horribly exposed, isolated out in front, and right in the path of the German and Italian counterattacks, as Axis tanks tried to drive back the British advance.
What followed was one of the classic anti-tank actions of the war. All day the German and Italian armor came at them, wave after wave, and all day Turner's gunners fought them off. The six-pounder was a new and effective gun, and the riflemen used it brilliantly, holding their fire until the tanks were close, then knocking them out, gun duels at short range across the desert, the little outpost wreathed in smoke and dust, ammunition running low, guns and crews being knocked out one by one. The battalion beat off counterattack after counterattack by something like ninety tanks, destroying or crippling more than fifty of them over the course of the day, a staggering toll.
Turner was everywhere through it, moving from gun to gun under fire, directing the defense, steadying his men, redistributing the dwindling ammunition. At one point a six-pounder crew was shot down until only an officer and a sergeant were left to work it, and Turner himself knelt in beside them and acted as the loader, and the three of them together knocked out five more tanks. He was wounded in the head during the fighting but kept on directing the battle.
The stand at Snipe was a small epic of the desert war, a single battalion holding an exposed outpost and gutting the enemy armor sent to crush it, exactly the kind of attrition that was breaking Rommel's tank strength day by day in the larger battle. Turner's Victoria Cross recognized a commander who held an impossible position through a day of massed tank assault and got down to load a gun himself when the crews were gone. He survived his wounds and the war. Outpost Snipe became one of the proud names of El Alamein, the place where the riflemen stood and the tanks burned.
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Young lads up here can't get a start. Shipyards gone, pits long gone, apprenticeships like gold dust. And Burnham's answer is free movement for 450 million people chasing the same jobs. Train our own fucking kids first.
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Westerners created IQ tests to demonstrate their racial superiority, so they designed tests that favor them so much that they ended up scoring lower than East Asian populations.
A very credible left-wing conspiracy theory.
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Reminder:
The Coolidge Effect is the observation that males have greater sexual responsiveness to and lower sexual refractory periods with multiple females.
The name comes from an old joke:
President Coolidge and his wife were being separately toured around a government farm. Mrs. Coolidge was brought to the chicken yard. She noticed that a rooster was having a lot of sex. She asked the farmhand how often he had sex and the farmhand said "Dozens of times each and every day." Mrs. Coolidge remarked "Tell that to the President when he comes by."
Upon being told about this rooster's prodigious copulation, the President asked, "Same hen every time?"
"Oh, no, Mr. President, a different hen every time."
"Tell that to Mrs. Coolidge."
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The Muslim religion is the fastest growing religion per capita in the United States, especially in the minority races.
Last month, my friend attended a training. During the training session there was a presentation by three speakers representing the Roman Catholic, Protestant and Muslim faiths, who each explained their beliefs.
She was particularly interested in what the Islamic Imam had to say. The Muslim gave a great presentation of the basics of Islam, complete with a video.
After the presentations, time was provided for questions and answers. When it was her turn, she directed her question to the Muslim and asked:
'Please, correct me if I'm wrong, but I understand that most Imams and clerics of Islam have declared a holy jihad [Holy war] against the infidels of the world and, that by unaliving an infidel, (which is a command to all Muslims) they are assured of a place in heaven. If that's the case, can you give me the definition of an infidel?'
There was no disagreement with my statements and, without hesitation, he replied, " Nonbelievers"
She responded, 'So, let me make sure I have this straight. All followers of Allah have been commanded to unalive everyone who is not of your faith so they can have a place in heaven. Is that correct?'
The expression on his face changed from one of authority and command to that of a little boy who had just been caught with his hand in the cookie jar.'
He sheepishly replied, 'Yes.'
She then stated, 'Well, sir, I have a real problem trying to imagine The Pope commanding all Catholics to unalive those of your faith or Dr. Stanley ordering all Protestants to do the same in order to guarantee them a place in heaven!'
The Muslim was speechless.
She continued, 'I also have a problem with being your friend when you and your brother clerics are telling your followers to unalive me! Let me ask you a question:
Would you rather have your Allah, who tells you to unalive me in order for you to go to heaven, or my Jesus who tells me to love you because I am going to heaven and He wants you to be there with me?'
You could have heard a pin drop.
Needless to say, the organizers and/or promoters of the 'Diversification' training seminar were not happy with my way of dealing with the Islamic Imam, and exposing the truth about the Muslims' beliefs.
In twenty years there will be enough Muslim voters in the US. to elect the President.
I think everyone in the U.S. should be required to read this, but with the ACLU, there is no way this will be widely publicized, unless each of us sends it on! This is your chance to make a difference.
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🚨 NEW: Two men found guilty over killing of good Samaritan in Sheffield after he stepped in to defend a 17-year-old they were assaulting.
• Louis James, 50, has been convicted of murder for a second time, while Dereck Owusu, 43, has been found guilty of manslaughter rather than murder following a retrial at Leeds Crown Court.
• Reece Radford, 26, was fatally stabbed after he intervened when he saw a 17-year-old girl being assaulted by Owusu on Arundel Gate in Sheffield city centre on 29 September 2022.
• Radford died in hospital six days later. The pair were originally convicted of murder in 2023, but their convictions were overturned on appeal, leading to the retrial.
• South Yorkshire Police said the family had to endure a second trial after thinking justice had been served.
• Both men will be re-sentenced at a later date.
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With Rommel away sick in Germany, the man left holding the desert front when the great British offensive crashed down on it was General Georg Stumme, and the battle killed him on its very first day, in a strange and sudden way. He died on the 24th of October 1942, at the opening of El Alamein, holding the Knight's Cross he had earned earlier in the war.
Stumme was an experienced panzer commander, a veteran of the campaigns in Poland, France, and the Soviet Union, where he had led armored corps, a capable and energetic officer known for his drive. When Rommel, worn down and ill, went home to recuperate in the autumn of 1942, Stumme was sent to the desert to stand in for him in command of the Panzer Army, on the understanding, everyone hoped, that the British would not attack while the famous Rommel was away.
The British attacked anyway. On the night of the 23rd, Montgomery opened the battle with that colossal artillery barrage, and the offensive came in hard. Stumme, suddenly running a desperate defensive battle in Rommel's place, was hampered by the confusion of the opening blows, by communication breakdowns, and by shortages, above all of fuel, that pinned his armor. And he was handicapped by orders, because strict instructions limited the use of the precious artillery ammunition in the crucial opening bombardment, so the German guns could not fully answer the British.
On the 24th, trying to find out what was actually happening at a front shrouded in dust and smoke and cut off by broken communications, Stumme did what many aggressive commanders do: he drove forward himself to see with his own eyes. Near the front his car came under fire. In the chaos, accounts differ as to exactly what happened, whether he was killed outright in the fighting or suffered a sudden heart attack under the stress and the fire, but the result was the same. Stumme fell from or out of the vehicle and died, and for a time his army did not even know where its commander was; he was simply missing, his body found later.
His death threw the German command into disarray at the worst possible moment, in the opening crisis of the battle, until Rommel could be rushed back from Germany to resume command on the 26th. By then the British offensive was well under way and grinding forward, and even Rommel, returning to a battle already going badly and an army starved of fuel, could not turn it around.
Stumme is one of the lesser-remembered figures of El Alamein, overshadowed by Rommel and Montgomery, but his sudden death on the first full day of the battle is part of its story, the stand-in commander who was handed a desperate defensive fight not of his making and died on it within hours, going forward to see the front for himself when the whole position was coming apart around him.
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China consumed more coal in the last four years (2022–2025) than the entire world consumed throughout the 19th century.
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I agree with Niall Ferguson: this Bill Maher item is a gem xitter.cf/billmaher/status/21138…
The original communists told us we were heading for class warfare. What we're speeding towards right now looks more like age warfare.
Might it get ugly -- uglier than in France today? In Aldous Huxley's novel BRAVE NEW WORLD (if I remember it right), citizens who reached the age of 60 were hustled off to a euthanasia facility. Might that policy soon be a vote-getter? (NB: I'm 81.)
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中国花2000万买了个航母空壳?乌克兰专家:光是4个发动机就超过两千万。
一开始乌克兰给这艘未完工的航母开出了4亿美元的报价,连续挂牌五年都无人问津,直到九十年代末,财政窘迫的乌克兰才把价格压到了2000万美元,几乎等同于一堆优质特种钢材的废铁价。
当时西方媒体集体嘲讽,说中国人花2000万美元买了一堆毫无用处的海上废铁,完全是当了冤大头。
可熟悉这艘航母建造全过程的乌克兰工程师却在旁边心疼得直咂嘴:这艘舰上原装的4台TB-12蒸汽轮机,光是出厂时的造价,单台就超过500万美元,四台加起来的价值早就超过了2000万美元。
这四台动力系统,是苏联当年为了对抗美国尼米兹级航母专门研发的核心装备,单台功率高达4.5万马力,四台同时输出能让6万多吨的航母跑出30节以上的最高航速。
整套动力系统的耐高温、抗冲击性能,在当时全球范围内都属于顶尖水平,哪怕放在20多年后的今天,依然是重型航母动力体系里的第一梯队产品。
乌克兰专家心里比谁都清楚,这四台几乎全新的蒸汽轮机,本身的价值就已经远超2000万美元的总成交价,更别说舰体上采用的特种甲板钢、大型舰体结构件,这些东西的总造价,在苏联时期就已经超过了20亿美元。
但当时的西方势力根本不可能让中国完整拿到这套核心装备,在美国的强硬施压下,乌克兰方面被迫对航母进行了“剥皮式”的拆解:舰上所有的武器系统、雷达控制系统、管路线束全部被炸毁切割。
唯独这套安装在舰体最深处、体积巨大难以拆解的蒸汽轮机和配套轴系,被保留了下来。
西方的评估报告里笃定地认为,哪怕留下了动力系统,没有配套的控制系统,中国人也根本不可能让这艘6万吨的巨舰重新动起来,最终只能把它拆成废钢铁卖掉。
当年以2000万美元拍下这艘航母的徐增平,也没有只盯着船壳本身,他在谈判桌上咬死了一个旁人都觉得多余的条件:必须把全套完整的设计图纸一起交付。
最终乌方妥协,整整装了8辆大卡车、总重四五十吨的全套设计图纸,和航母一起交付给了中方,这些图纸里详细标注了每一个舱室的结构、动力系统的安装参数、舰体的应力分布数据,这些资料的价值,根本不是2000万美元能衡量的。
后续的归国之路更是走得无比艰难,瓦良格号1999年从黑海造船厂出发,在土耳其博斯普鲁斯海峡被无理阻拦了整整506天。
光是滞留期间的拖船费、停泊费就烧掉了近千万美元,之后又因为苏伊士运河不让无动力船只通行,只能绕非洲南端的好望角兜了大半个地球,整整走了四年零八个月,才终于在2002年抵达大连港。
算上沿途的所有通行成本、协调开销,整个项目的实际投入,早就远远超过了最初的2000万美元。
后来中国的造船团队接手这艘航母之后,依托完整的设计图纸和几乎完好的原装动力系统,用了7年时间完成了全部改装工作。
2012年,这艘被重新命名为“辽宁舰”的航母正式交付中国海军,中国终于拥有了自己的第一艘航空母舰。
当年乌克兰专家口中“4台发动机就超过两千万”的判断,后来被完全印证了:这套原装的蒸汽轮机,为中国航母动力体系的研发节省了至少十几年的摸索时间,后来国产航母山东舰的动力系统,正是在这套技术的基础上完成了国产化自主生产。
信息来源:环球网《瓦良格号航母刚到中国时满是淤泥破败不堪》
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I just had a very disturbing conversation with a young man in the sauna at my local gym.
After exchanging some basic pleasantries, the conversation quickly moved to his family roots in Qatar. He told me about his father being mistreated there, despite "building much of the country's infrastructure." Without prompting, he made several remarks regarding the state of the Middle East, and before I knew it, we were talking about Israel.
He explained to me that global terrorism, and especially terrorism in Israel, was natural. "It's because people are trying to break out of prisons," he said. "Gaza is a concentration camp." While I repeatedly disagreed with him in a polite and measured tone, he grew more and more excited. "The only sovereign nation in the Middle East is Iran!" he told me. "How's that working out for them?" I asked. He also explained to me that "Israel has killed more children than any other country." I asked him about the horrific deaths of children in other wars, to which he had no answer. I asked him about Hamas using the people of Gaza as human shields. He refuted that, as well, suggesting that Hamas wouldn't harm children.
He then went on to explain that eventually, the Jews will be outnumbered — and that in time — Israel will be overrun and undone. He seemed exhilarated by the thought of it. "It's getting too hot in here," he said — before abruptly leaving. I just stood there stunned. By all accounts, a normal, probably well-educated young man in Canada, defending terrorism, celebrating the strength of the Iranian regime, and openly predicting Israel's destruction.
As I got changed and headed home, I couldn't stop thinking about our talk. There was no green bandana or inverted red triangle — but it was clear how he felt about the situation. How he viewed the world. There are thousands and thousands of young people like this here in Canada, and throughout the West — and in time — we're going to pay a civilizational cost for not addressing this problem when we had the chance.
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.@HeterodoxCentre research fellow Neema Parvini (aka Academic Agent) ragequits his talk at @OxUniRFMSoc to protest my invitation.
Fun fact: I was inspired to write "Why We Need to Talk about the Right's Stupidity Problem" by an interaction with Parvini.
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The cheap green lie
You are told that solar and wind are cheap
But you need near-100% backup when no sun or wind, paying for two systems
Data for 2025 shows that
cramming in more solar and wind makes electricity overall more and more costly
Sources:
Electricity prices, households and industry, 2025
iea.org/data-and-statistics/…
Solar and wind generation, electricity use and consumption weights
iea.org/data-and-statistics/…
Solar and wind for countries without IEA 2025 data
ember-energy.org/data
Electricity trade partners, plus industry prices for Norway, Albania, Iceland and Kosovo
ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/en…
US industry price
eia.gov/electricity/annual
Australia, IEA 2021 prices updated with official price indices
abs.gov.au/statistics/econom…
South Africa industry price
eskom.co.za/wp-content/uploa…
Taiwan industry tariff
taipower.com.tw
Egypt industry tariff
egyptera.org/en/TarrifAug202…
Tunisia tariffs (archived copy, the STEG site is unreachable)
web.archive.org/web/20250614…
Azerbaijan industry tariff
regulator.gov.az/en/istehlak…
2025 tariff changes applied to IEA 2024 prices
Pakistan: nepra.org.pk
Thailand: erc.or.th
Ghana: purc.com.gh
Paraguay: ande.gov.py
Kazakhstan: stat.gov.kz/en/industries/ec…
GlobalPetrolPrices 2025 averages for 18 countries, read from archived 2025 pages
globalpetrolprices.com/elect…
web.archive.org
Sri Lanka 2025 tariff changes
pucsl.gov.lk/end-user-tariff…
Indonesia solar and wind estimated from official 2025 capacity
esdm.go.id/id/media-center/a…
Statista 2025 averages for China, Mexico, Brazil, Russia, Singapore, Peru, Argentina and South Africa (data from GlobalPetrolPrices)
statista.com/statistics/1369… (business prices worldwide)
statista.com/statistics/1461… (household prices worldwide)
statista.com/statistics/1173… (Latin America business)
statista.com/statistics/1123… (Latin America households)
statista.com/statistics/1373… (China business)
statista.com/statistics/1372… (Mexico business)
statista.com/statistics/1372… (Mexico households)
statista.com/statistics/1617… (South Africa households)
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In 1826, a poor 24-year-old from Norway named Niels Abel walked into the Paris Academy with what he believed was his greatest work. Cauchy, one of the most famous mathematicians alive and one of its two referees, barely looked at it, and the paper disappeared.
Abel went home broke and sick. Thinking it was lost forever, he wrote its main idea out again from memory in just two pages and called it simply "A Theorem." He died at 26.
Two days later a letter arrived offering him a professorship in Berlin.
His idea was that sums of certain integrals over a curve always collapse to a fixed number of them, and that number measures the shape of the curve. Riemann turned this into the idea of a surface's genus, its number of holes.
For the simplest curved case, elliptic curves, it means points on the curve can be added like numbers. That addition is behind Wiles' proof of Fermat's Last Theorem and the cryptography that keeps your phone and bank cards secure today.
The lost paper was found after his death, then lost again until 1952 in Florence.
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This paper answers why can’t you remember being a baby?
For over a century, science said you can't remember being a baby because your infant brain was just too "immature" to record anything. researchers assumed your hard drive was basically turned off for the first two years of life.
But this wild paper from Yale completely rewrites how we understand human memory..
Researchers literally put awake babies (between 4 and 25 months old) into an fMRI scanner to watch their brains process new visual experiences in real-time.
and what they found is mindblowing..
the infant hippocampus isn't turned off at all. it is actively firing, capturing, and encoding episodic memories. they proved that babies with higher hippocampal activity during a new experience formed a highly stable memory trace.
the babies are recording the data. the memory of your first birthday, your first steps, the exact layout of the room you slept in.. it was all successfully saved to your brain.
so why can't you remember it?
the paper concludes that infantile amnesia isn't an "encoding" problem.. it is a "retrieval" problem.
your brain recorded everything perfectly. but as you grew, your brain underwent massive developmental shifts, like explosive neurogenesis (the rapid birth of new neurons), which completely restructured your neural networks. the pathways to access those early files got buried or locked away.
you didn't fail to make the memories.. you just lost the encryption key to open them.
somewhere deep in your hippocampus, the exact first-person memory of being a 1-year-old might still be sitting there. you just can't access the file anymore..
the human brain is terrifyingly beautiful.



































