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Vintage car racing from Goodwood. Sign me up! youtube.com/watch?v=83fgHiOy…
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And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.
⏤Ezekiel 25:17
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I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.
— John Wayne
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The socialist redistribution of migrants across the EU.
BREAKING:
The European Commission announced today which countries are under “migratory pressure” and will be able to send away some of their asylum seekers to other EU states under the “migrant relocation quotas” created by the EU’s new Migration Pact. The countries are:
🇪🇸 Spain
🇮🇹 Italy
🇬🇷 Greece
🇨🇾 Cyprus
These 4 countries will be able to put asylum seekers into a “Solidarity Pool” for 2027 from which migrants will then be relocated in other EU states.
The size of the Solidarity Pool was decided today but the information about it is being kept secret for now.
6 countries were classified as facing a “significant migratory situation” and will be allowed to request from exemptions of receiving quota migrants. Those 6 countries are:
🇵🇱 Poland
🇨🇿 Czechia
🇭🇷 Croatia
🇦🇹 Austria
🇧🇬 Bulgaria
🇪🇪 Estonia
To receive an exemption, the country’s request has to pass a QMV vote (Qualified Majority Voting) in the Council of the European Union.
Countries which are forced to take part in the Solidarity Pool will either have to take in the number of quota migrants assigned to them by the EU, pay EUR 21 000 for every quota migrant they refuse to receive or send significant resources to help the 4 countries under migratory pressure to handle the situation.
Two countries have refused to take part in the entire new migrant relocation system and its fines. Those two countries are:
🇭🇺 Hungary
🇸🇰 Slovakia
For all the trendy ideas about raising kids these days, manners have gone out the window.
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"growth in every postcode" update...
UK loses another 104,000 businesses as SMEs lead decline thetimes.com/business/entrep…
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The left is inherently better at attracting the masses because it appeals to human instincts and emotions, from envy to the desire for comfort and dependence on the state.
The right, by contrast, relies on reason, logic, individual responsibility, and a willingness to take risks.
Because human beings are emotional creatures before they are rational ones, the left enjoys a popular advantage that the right finds difficult to overcome.
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If newly elected politicians follow through on opposition to data centers, there will come a day when they find themselves in the same position as Germany has with regard to opposition of traditional/nuclear energy.
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All Europeans gloating over looming bans on data centres in the US, haven’t quite figured out yet how desperately that undermines Europe’s own capability, security and sovereignty.
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I think we had better march out and die in the open air. I don't like to be hemmed up.
⏤Davy Crockett
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“En la raíz de todas las formas de comunismo está el odio profundo a la excelencia individual, la negación de la superioridad intelectual de unos hombres sobre otros y un deseo de destruir toda individualidad al nivel de un montón de hormigas comunales.”
Murray Rothbard
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The UK is broken.
As a nation, we've become:
Anti-aspiration.
Anti-business.
Anti-growth.
The numbers say it all:
Record 38.6% tax burden.
1% growth.
£3tn debt.
This goes deeper than the current government.
Somewhere over 15 years, a mindset has set in where success is immoral, profit is a dirty word, and employers "aren't working people".
Until that changes:
Our best and brightest will keep leaving.
Businesses will stop investing.
The decline will continue.
What would you change first?
It's a shame some of your followers don't adopt the same attitude. As far as Western Buddhists go, I've found them to be incredibly selfish, rude, unpleasant people.
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The Leopard’s Lair
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Covers, Detective Story, Helpless Women, John A. Coughlin, Magazine, Mystery
The age old story. You offer something of value, people take advantage and twist it round to suit their own purpose.
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一部の最新の貨物船や大型の船は船底から空気の泡を吹き出しながら走っています。
これは「空気潤滑システム」（ALS）と呼ばれる日本の造船・海運業界がリードして実用化させた画期的な省エネ技術です。
船底から泡を吹き出す目的と仕組みは以下の通りです。
1. なぜ泡を吹き出すの？
船が海を進むとき、船体と海水の間に発生する「摩擦抵抗」が大きなブレーキになります。特に平らな底が広い大型の貨物船（コンテナ船やタンカーなど）は、全体の抵抗の大部分がこの摩擦によるものです。
水よりも圧倒的に密度が低くサラサラしている「空気の泡」を船底に流すことで、水との摩擦を減らし、船が滑るように進めるようになります。
2. どんな効果があるの？
• 燃費の向上： 摩擦が減ることで、燃料の消費量を約5%〜10%も削減できます。
• 二酸化炭素（CO2）の削減： 巨大な貨物船は1日に何十トン〜何百トンもの燃料を消費するため、燃費が10%良くなるだけでも莫大な量のCO2排出を抑えることができ、地球温暖化対策として非常に注目されています。
3. どうやって泡を出しているの？
船の中に「ブロワ」と呼ばれる巨大な送風機を積み、船の底にある小さな穴（ノズル）から絶えず空気を送り込んでいます。
ただ空気を出すだけでなく、泡がすぐに逃げてしまわないように細かく均一な泡の膜（カーペット）を作ったり、最近では効率を高めるために泡をポンポンと周期的に間欠出力する技術なども開発されています。
ホバークラフトのように船体を完全に浮かせるわけではありませんが、「空気のクッションを敷いて走るエコな船」として、日本の三菱重工業やナカシマプロペラ、日本郵船などが世界に先駆けて開発し、実際の航路で活躍しています。