DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

The Foundry.

Oh, ya think?

Jewish Telegraph Agency.

An annual festival in Andorra drew condemnation from the country’s small Jewish community after an effigy bearing the Israeli flag was staged in a mock trial and then hung and shot.

The incident was part of the traditional Catalan festival Carnestoltes, which occurs yearly before Lent, the 40-day period that precedes Easter. At Monday’s festival in Andorra, where a mock king is typically tried and burned, organizers instead used an effigy wearing blue with the Israeli flag painted on its face.

During the festivities, the Israeli effigy was symbolically tried, hung, shot and burned, according to social media posts and a report in the Israeli outlet YNet.

So far has the rot spread.

Jewish Telegraph Agency.

The news here is, of course, not that she did it, but that she was called to account for it.

Jewish Telegraph Agency.

Since assuming office last year, Florida Jewish Rep. Randy Fine has ignited pushback on a regular basis over his comments about Muslims and Palestinians.

This week anger over a new tweet from the GOP Congressman spilled over even further, igniting a wide rebuke from Jews and pro-Israel figures on the other side of the aisle — some of whom are now calling for Fine’s censure or resignation.

The blowback followed Fine’s tweet on Sunday in which he stated, “If they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one.”

Of course, if the headline had reas “Muslim Democrat X Draws Sharp Criticism After Suggesting He Prefers Dogs to Christians”, (a) nobody would believe it because nobody ‘respectable’ would criticize it, and (b) nobody would believe it because it wouldn’t be news. Muslims say that sort of shit all the time and nobody blinks because it’s so common.

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My, what a surprise.

Nothing is more inevitable than the formula “Elect a socialist => Taxes get raised”.

No socialist ever lowered taxes.

No socialist ever lowered government spending.

UPDATE: New Yorkers Report Warmth Of Collectivism Feels Strangely Like Crushing Tax Hike (Babyulon Bee)

UPDATE: Mamdani says tax hike is needed to stop ‘fiscal crisis.’ Critics aren’t buying it.

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It was the image that launched a cultural icon. In 1967, in the northern Californian woods, a seven foot tall, ape-like creature covered in black fur and walking upright was captured on camera, at one point turning around to look straight down the lens. The image is endlessly copied in popular culture – it’s even become an emoji. But what was it? A hoax? A bear? Or a real-life example of a mysterious species called the Bigfoot?

The film has been analysed and re-analysed countless times. Although most people believe it was some sort of hoax, there are some who argue that it’s never been definitively debunked. One group of people, dubbed Bigfooters, are so intrigued that they have taken to the forests of Washington, California, Oregon, Ohio, Florida and beyond to look for evidence of the mythical creature.

But why? That’s what sociologists Jamie Lewis and Andrew Bartlett wanted to uncover. They were itching to understand what prompts this community to spend valuable time and resources looking for a beast that is highly unlikely to even exist. During lockdown, Lewis started interviewing more than 130 Bigfooters (and a few academics) about their views, experiences and practices, culminating in the duo’s recent book Bigfooters and Scientific Inquiry: on the borderlands of legitimate science.

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While Republicans are catching up or holding their own in some states, they are still losing elections in places where they should be winning, like Virginia, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere.

As a full-time political operative back in the 1980s and early 90s, I remember Colorado being a reliable, even sleepy, Republican state. The GOP controlled the governorship, both US Senate seats, and five of the state’s then-seven congressional districts (they now have eight).

That was true up until 2004. Then something happened. Within four years, it had practically reversed. Beginning that year, Colorado Democrats began to reverse their fortunes. And in doing so, created a model that has been exported to dozens of other states, including Virginia. This was documented in the book “The Blueprint” by Adam Schrager, an Emmy Award-winning journalist from Wisconsin, and Rob Witwer, an attorney, former counsel to the Colorado GOP, a former Republican member of the Colorado House of Representatives, and a Denver attorney.

I hear you asking, “Why are you reviewing a nearly 16-year-old book?” Perhaps you’re asking, even as someone who is politically attuned and active, “Why should I care?” Because it remains as relevant as ever, and Republicans everywhere have, with a few exceptions, failed to heed its lessons, no more so than in Virginia in their disastrous 2025 election.

The Guardian, a Voice of the Crust.

Wealthy Americans are dominating applications for New Zealand’s “golden visa”, driven by a love for the country’s natural beauty and entrepreneurial spirit, as well a desire to escape Trump’s administration.

More likely they just want to escape the U.S.’s oppressive tax system.

The most recent data released by the government showed that investors from the US made up nearly 40% of applicants, followed by China and Hong Kong. Since August 2025, the number of applications from China more than doubled, from 45 to 95.

The Telegraph (UK).

The rise is partly down to the increasing number of families securing exemptions from the household benefits cap, which is supposed to prevent them taking more home in welfare payments than they can get by working.

However, there are 16 different benefits which are not limited. These include Personal Independence Payments (PIPs) for long-term physical and mental disabilities and Disability Living Allowance (DLA).

The number of people in England and Wales claiming these two benefits has risen from almost 3.2 million in 2010-11 to about 4.4 million in 2023-24. The Government expects it to reach 6.7 million by 2030.

People will game any system that can be gamed.

The Telegraph (UK).

A jazz lecturer whose lessons were boycotted after he questioned critical race theory is not a racist, a leading conservatoire has admitted.

Martin Speake, 67, said his life was “destroyed” after students at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in Greenwich, south-east London, avoided his lessons because of his views.

The internationally renowned saxophonist was “cancelled” for claiming there was no “systemic” racial inequality in British jazz and that critical race theory was “very dangerous”.

The Telegraph (UK).

In an operation room in Charing Cross Police Station, a dozen or so officers are hunched over terminals, relaying a constant stream of information and instructions to their colleagues on the ground.

Huge, high definition screens on the wall display live CCTV images from vantage points across London’s West End. A crackle of energy fills the room as word filters through of an incident on Vauxhall Bridge Road, close to Victoria.

A suspicious looking moped has been spotted and Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras suggest it does not have valid insurance. When challenged by officers on the ground, the rider refuses to stop, making off at high speed.

The Teleraph (UK).

Iran has partially closed the Strait of Hormuz for the first time since the 1980s amid a US military build-up in the Arabian Sea.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced on Tuesday that sections of the strategic waterway would be closed for several hours for live-fire naval drills.

Iran’s supreme leader also threatened to send US aircraft carriers to the “bottom of the sea”, despite diplomatic efforts continuing in Geneva.

The U.S. ought to station a carrier off Iran’s coast and tell them “Give it your best shot”. They literally don’t have the capability to sink a modern carrier.

The Telegraph (UK).

Reform UK would repeal the Equality Act on “day one” of government if it wins the next general election, Suella Braverman has said.

Ms Braverman, who defected to Reform from the Tories last month, said Britain was being “ripped apart by diversity, equality and inclusion” policies.

Speaking at an event in London where she was unveiled as Reform’s new shadow education, skills and equalities secretary, Ms Braverman said her first act in government would be to abolish the equalities part of her brief.

She said: “Why does no one in this Government seem to care that it’s white working-class boys who have the worst educational outcomes in our country today?

Trump Honors Hillary Clinton With New Federal Holiday ‘Almost Presidents Day’ (Babylon Bee)

Democrats Warn Voter ID Will Disenfranchise Key Voting Demographic Of People Too Stupid To Get An ID (Bablyon Bee).

Fearing Trump interference in midterms, NY Democrats push voting rights package  Preserving Democrat dominance is what Democrats are all about.

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Does Islam owe its existence to rape? Its founder had only a handful of followers until he declared that there was a divine imperative to raid, rape and enslave after which young men from raiding tribal cultures flocked to the new movement. He expressly urged young Arab men to go after “yellow-eyed” (apparently some reference to blond Byzantine women) as a religiously endorsed mission. As the expanding Islamic empire entered its third century, the pagan Vikings had established a thriving business of taking captured fair-complexion Slavic women down river to the satisfy the insatiable demands of Muslim slave markets.

If anyone thinks this is an abandoned archaic practice or value, I would invite a look at the attitudes and behaviors of young Muslim men in Rotherham, UK, Germany or in Sweden. Islam does not evolve or grow out of attitudes or practices. It is bound by the literally misogynistic directives of its founder who also once declared that the majority of denizens of hell were women condemned due to ingratitude and general bitchiness. Men may have four wives (Mohammed later received a divine directive to exempt himself from any such limitation) but an unlimited number of infidel female captives.

Famous heretic Salman Rushdie once opined that Mohammed was making it up as he went along with no clear plan other than establishing rules of deference to himself. Seemingly as a result of that ad hoc pattern there is weirdly disjointed quality in shariah law in which early Muslim clerics tried to base the system on the “perfect example” of their Prophet.

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A Palestinian woman has won a landmark legal battle to move to Britain in a decision that could set a precedent for more Gazan refugees to follow.

The ruling was based on Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), which protects the right to private and family life. An upper immigration tribunal concluded that blocking the woman from joining her children in the UK would result in “unjustifiably harsh consequences.”

The mother had been living in Egypt after fleeing Gaza. Despite a long separation, the court found she maintained a “close, emotionally interdependent bond” with her daughter, a British citizen, and her son, a refugee.

The ruling was issued despite British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood winning a Court of Appeal case in November that limited the ability of Palestinians fleeing Gaza to use Article 8.

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Nearly 80% of the 2017 and 2018 Truman Scholars—a taxpayer-funded scholarship program—now have “a clear connection to liberal politics, such as working for Democratic members of Congress, advocating for progressive causes, or teaching classes with a liberal focus,” reports The College Fix.

Jennifer Kabbany, editor-in-chief of The College Fix, joins Jack Fowler on this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” for an in-depth discussion on DEI programs, higher education challenges, and jaw-dropping campus stories.

Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes.

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has chosen to prioritize the installation of massive Ramadan decorations in the city center.

This controversial practice first began in 2024, when Frankfurt became the first German city to install such lighting. For the third time, crescents, stars, and Fanoos lanterns alongside “Happy Ramadan” signs hang in the center, thanks to a resolution from the Greens, SPD, FDP, and Volt.

The project carries a significant price tag for taxpayers, with €75,000 spent on bulbs and a total budget reaching €100,000. Green Mayor Nargess Eskandari-Grünberg defended the move, stating the lighting makes Muslim life a “self-evident part” of Frankfurt.

However, this state-sponsored promotion of Islam has moved beyond public squares and into the classrooms, with alarming incidents also surfacing in 2024. In the Frankfurt metropolitan area, reports emerged of primary school teachers unilaterally imposing Islamic practices on pre-teen students. During the holy month of Ramadan that year, a pair of teachers reportedly prohibited fifth-grade students from drinking water in class out of consideration for a few fasting Muslim pupils.

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If you’ve been following the news feed over the last few days, you’ll be aware that a young French identitarian named Quentin was severely beaten by Antifa thugs in Lyon, and eventually died from his wounds.

Hard-left militants attacked 23-year-old Quentin Deranque after a peaceful demonstration organized by the right-wing feminist organization Collectif Némésis during a conference hosted by Rima Hassan. Mr. Deranque was helping to provide security for the women of Collectif Némésis, protecting them from the same people who eventually killed him. He was attacked by at least six thugs, and a disturbing video shows the vicious final kick in the head that he received.

Ms. Hassan is an activist of Palestinian descent who was born in Syria and moved to France as a child. In 2023 she founded the “Action Palestine France” collective and joined La France Insoumise, a far-left political party founded by Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

This is one of those rare instances when the media and political leaders (including Justice Minister Gerald Darmanin) have referred to the “far left” when discussing the murder of Quentin Deranque in Lyon.

Below is a brief news video about the attack on Quentin Deranque.

UPDATE: France Still in Shock After Murder of Young Patriot by Far-Left Mob

The Foundry.

A Minnesota activist group encouraging protests against immigration enforcement will host a training to teach attendees to let guilty criminals walk.

Defend the 612 will instruct viewers of the Feb. 23 virtual “Jury Nullification Training” on how to use false jury verdicts to fight “unjust laws and political persecution,” according to an event description on its website first reported by Alpha News.

The Trump administration has charged hundreds of people with impeding Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations around the country, including at Minneapolis protests during ICE’s enforcement surge in the Twin Cities that is now winding down after weeks of immigration arrests.

Defend the 612 did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

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Last October, we reported that Britain had “narrowly avoided blasphemy laws in disguise.” Now, they are very much back on the cards, and could be introduced as soon as this Tuesday.

This is due to the case of Hamit Coskun, a Turkish asylum seeker who burned a copy of the Quran outside his country’s London embassy while shouting, “Islam is a religion of terrorism.” A Muslim man slashed Coskun with a knife and shouted, “I’m going to kill you,” but was spared jail.

Coskun was initially convicted last June of a breach of the Public Order Act, despite supporters noting that “he hurt no one” and “he threatened no one.” The conviction was later overturned on appeal, with Justice Joel Bennathan affirming that there is no offence of blasphemy in UK law, and upholding the “right to offend.”

Governance Cybernetics.

Everyone who reads this publication knows what needs to get built. More grid transmission. More nuclear plants. More housing. More automated industrial capacity. The policy conversation has gotten good at identifying the demand side: permitting reform, regulatory overhaul, federal lending, emergency declarations. All essential, all should continue.

What almost nobody talks about is the supply side of capital. Scratch that, a lot of critics keeps talking about how YIMBYs, industrial policy wonks, and the rest don’t have a clue how to finance their proposals (despite the mountain of literature saying otherwise). That capital exists. There is roughly $6 trillion of it, sitting in American public pension funds, currently being allocated in a way that serves nobody.

Oren Cass’s recent New York Times column describes an American financial sector that has stopped fueling the real economy and started consuming it. Dean Baker, writing at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, endorsed Cass’s diagnosis and added a complementary set of regulatory reform proposals. Both focus on constraining finance: transaction taxes, bankruptcy reform, cultural stigma. Neither addresses where the capital should go instead, or why the largest pool of patient capital in the American economy is the right place to start.

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• Sense of touch despite thick elephant skin: Researchers have discovered that the hairs on elephants’ trunks are responsible for their extraordinary sense of touch.
• Special material properties: Elephant sensory hairs have a stiff base and a soft tip, which enables them to precisely feel objects and recognize where contact is made. These properties are similar to the whiskers of cats and differ from the completely stiff sensory hairs of rats and mice.
• Interdisciplinary collaboration: The research team at the Department of Haptic Intelligence at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems was joined by researchers from the fields of neuroscience and materials science.
• Applications in robotics: The findings will be used in the development of robot-assisted sensor technologies that mimic the stiffness gradient of elephant tactile hairs.

Stratechery.

If you wanted to make a case for thin clients, you could argue that mobile devices are a hybrid; after all, the rise of mobile benefited from and drove the rise of the cloud: nearly every app on a phone connects to a server somewhere. Ultimately, however, mobile devices are themselves thick clients: they are very capable computers in their own right, that certainly benefit from being connected to a server, but are useful without it. Critically, the server component is just data: the actual interface is entirely local.

You can make the same argument about SaaS apps: on one hand, yes, they operate in the cloud and are usually accessed via a browser; on the other hand, the modern browser is basically an operating system in its own right, and the innovations that made SaaS apps possible were the fact that interactive web apps could be downloaded and run locally. Granted, this isn’t far off from Sun’s vision (although the language ended up being JavaScript, not Java), but you still need a lot of local compute to make these apps work.

Ben Thompson’s STRATECHERY is one of the best technology sites around. If you have any interest in what’s going on in tech, this is the place to go.

The Hill, a Voice of the Crust.

On today’s college campuses, students are not maturing — they’re managing. Beneath a facade of progressive slogans and institutional virtue-signaling lies a quiet psychological crisis, driven by the demands of ideological conformity.

Between 2023 and 2025, we conducted 1,452 confidential interviews with undergraduates at Northwestern University and the University of Michigan. We were not studying politics — we were studying development. Our question was clinical, not political: “What happens to identity formation when belief is replaced by adherence to orthodoxy?”

We asked: Have you ever pretended to hold more progressive views than you truly endorse to succeed socially or academically? An astounding 88 percent said yes.

These students were not cynical, but adaptive. In a campus environment where grades, leadership, and peer belonging often hinge on fluency in performative morality, young adults quickly learn to rehearse what is safe.

The result is not conviction but compliance. And beneath that compliance, something vital is lost.

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Three of America’s largest banks filed 7,474 Labor Condition Applications for foreign workers. Public records expose the playbook: file at scale, pay the legal minimum, and lock workers in with green card sponsorship.

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

The Telegraph (UK).s

A gunman who identified as a woman killed two people and injured three others at a high school hockey match in Rhode Island on Monday.

The 56-year-old, thought to have been the father of one of the hockey players, shot a woman and her child in the stands at the Dennis M. Lynch Arena before turning the gun on himself.

Tina Goncalves, the Pawtucket police chief, told a press conference on Monday night that the gunman used the name Roberta Esposito.

“We have identified the person, the suspect, by a birth name. The birth name was Robert Dorgan,” said Ms Goncalves. “We have also learned that the person does go by the name of Roberta and also uses the last name of Esposito.”

‘Trans’ people are crazy. Crazy people are dangerous. Avoid crazy people.

Tim Pool covers it.

The Telegraph (UK).

I know the feeling.

The Price of the Epstein Frenzy

The Trump Administration Is Now a Threat to Our Lives, and Not Just from Street Executions

After Melting Down over Vance, Sunday Shows OMIT Rubio’s Munich Speech

The key to defeating Trump? Mass non-cooperation (The Guardian)

Vanity Fair: ‘Epstein’s Ghost’ Haunts Trump’s Every Move, Despite a Lack of Evidence  The ‘ghost’ in question is that of the dead Epstein horse that the Narrative Media keep hoping they can beat into life.

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You’d think they’d figure this out and do something about is. But no. Busness As Usual, until Arlington disappears in nuclear fire and the finger-pointing starts.

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A few presidencies ago, Washington politicians used boundless political and intellectual chicanery to drag America into a ruinous war. Thousands of Americans died and scores of thousands of Iraqis perished due to the official myth of Saddam Hussein as the twentieth hijacker.

Last November, Axios published new damning information on the role of Saudi government officials in bankrolling the 9/11 attacks on New York City and the Pentagon. Private lawsuits against the Saudi regime “unearthed evidence showing one Saudi official—who acknowledges aiding two men who became hijackers—made a drawing of a plane and a mathematical formula that allegedly could have been used to fly into the World Trade Center.” That was only the latest stunning revelation in a coverup that will celebrate its twenty-fifth birthday this year.

In 2002 and early 2003, the W. Bush administration rushed to exploit 9/11 to justify invading Iraq. But there was a problem with that con job. A 2002 FBI memo stated that there was “incontrovertible evidence that there is support for these [9/11 hijacker] terrorists within the Saudi Government.” A joint House-Senate congressional investigation found extensive evidence that the Saudi government, not Saddam Hussein, propelled the hijackers. The Bush administration succeeded in suppressing the key twenty-eight pages of that congressional report on the Saudi role on 9/11.

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The chaos caused by millions of illegal immigrants flooding across the southwest border under the Biden administration left scars on this border town.

?The constant high-speed chases, buzzing helicopters, screaming emergency sirens, hurried school lockdowns, torn barbed-wire fences, and decomposing bodies on ranches and along the Rio Grande all took their toll on Texas towns near the Mexican border.

?The border crisis drained resources and changed the lifestyle of Brackettville, a little town with two traffic light intersections in Kinney County. Residents of the county and beyond said the madness stopped almost overnight after President Donald Trump took office.?

The Other McCain.

The headline probably seems like common sense to anyone who knows anything about St. Louis. If you’re from Missouri or the part of western Illinois near St. Louis, you probably don’t need any warnings, because the city is notorious dangerous, and folks in the immediate vicinity know to avoid it. “Well, Stacy, how dangerous is St. Louis?” you ask.

IT’S WORSE THAN BALTIMORE!

This is a Third World category of danger found in very few places in the United States. In 2023, only two cities — New Orleans, with a homicide rate of 46 per 100,000 residents, and Memphis, at 41 per 100,000 residents — exceeded the rate in St. Louis which, at 38 homicides per 100,000 residents, was worse than either Baltimore or Washington, D.C., which tied for fourth place that year. My friend Dana Pico likes to joke about “Killadelphia,” but the homicide rate there was just 26 per 100,000. And there were twice as many homicides per capita in St. Louis than in either Cleveland or Detroit. That’s pretty doggone bad.

Did I mention that the population of St. Louis has seen a drastic decline in recent decades? There are currently fewer than 300,000 residents in the city, down more than 50% since 1970, but not all of the lost population was murdered. Most of them escaped to the suburbs, or left the area entirely, as rampant crime turned St. Louis into a nightmare of violence and thievery. Did I mention that St. Louis is a stronghold of the Democratic Party? The city is part of Missouri’s 1st Congressional District, which is rated D+29 in the Cook Partisan Voting Index and was formerly represented by “Squad” member Cori Bush, before she lost the 2024 Democratic primary to Wesley Bell. (Who to blame? The Jews!)

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There are growing calls in France for violent left-wing activists to be classified as terrorists following the death of 23-year-old Quentin, who died from his injuries caused by a brutal attack in Lyon on Thursday.

The political world in France and beyond has been left horrified by this act of violence. Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said the “far left” was “clearly” behind the attack and pointed to the possible involvement of the ‘antifascist’ La Jeune Garde group, founded by leftist MP Raphaël Arnault.

The Antiplanner.

One argument against rail transit is that rail vehicles cost a lot more than buses, even when adjusting for numbers of seats and vehicle lifespans. The transit industry is trying to fix that — by spending more on buses. As shown in the table below, table 24 of the American Public Transportation Association’s vehicle database says that an intercity bus costs less than $300,000, but in 2023 and 2024 transit agencies spent an average of more than $1.1 million for 40-foot buses to use for bus rapid transit.

Politicians (especially Democrat politicians) love to spend money (your money, not their own money).

And … they love having juicy contracts to pass out among … friends, let us say.

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The image is difficult to reconcile with a consolidated democracy: a Christian pastor handcuffed in the centre of Bristol after answering a question about Muhammad during a public preaching. Yet that is exactly what happened to Dia Moodley.

Quillette.

When news of the tragedy was first reported to Canadians on the afternoon of 10 February, it appeared to include a striking anomaly: The killer, we were told, was a “woman.” There are scattered examples of female killers in the annals of Canadian crime. But this would be the first time in the recorded history of Canada and its colonial antecedents—going back more than 400 years, to the early seventeenth century—that a woman had gone on this kind of murderous rampage.

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It soon became clear, however, that Van Rootselaar wasn’t a woman. He was an eighteen-year-old man—a gun-obsessed, middle-school dropout whose many mental-health afflictions happened to include gender dysphoria. The mass murderer called himself a woman. But that doesn’t mean he was, or that the rest of us have to live in the imaginary universe he (literally) built for himself.

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Aluminum foil is made by rolling sheets of 98.5 percent pure aluminum metal between pairs of polished, lubricated steel rollers.

Successive passes through the rollers squeeze the foil thinner.

Household aluminum foil is so thin (0.0005 of an inch) that the rollers can’t handle it without tearing it.

The final rolling is therefore done on a sandwich of two sheets, face to face.

The outer surfaces emerge with a finish as smooth as the rollers, while the two face-to-face inner surfaces emerge with a matte finish.

The two sheets are then separated.

Hence, a shiny side and a duller side.

When you use the foil, it makes no difference which side is up, down or sideways.

I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

Never say we don’t have useful stuff here.

Joel 1: 1-5:

1 The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.

2 Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?

3 Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

4 That which the palmerworm [politicians] hath left hath the locust [welfare cheats] eaten; and that which the locust [welfare cheats] hath left hath the cankerworm [race hustlers] eaten; and that which the cankerworm  [race hustlers] hath left hath the caterpiller [fraudsters and scammers] eaten.

5 Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

From the Telegraph (UK):

Police officer sacked for striking violent suspect as he resisted arrest

Headteacher left in wheelchair after attack by special needs student

Small-boat migrants awarded £210k after border agents seized their phones  (Note: These are illegal immigrants.”Confiscating mobiles and SIM cards was a breach of human rights, High Court judges ruled”)

Democracy ‘denied to 15 million’ if elections delayed again

The Birmingham ward where a convicted terrorist is running for office

The Telegraph (UK).

Or get you institutionalized for Obsexxive Compulsive Disorder. (Why take a chance?)

The Telegraph (UK).

An imam sexually abused young girls and then threatened them with black magic if they spoke out, a court heard.

Abdul Halim Khan, 54, abused victims as young as 12 after persuading them to meet him in isolated places between 2004 and 2015.

Khan told his victims they would be possessed by a jinn, a supernatural spirit in Islam, Snaresbrook Crown Court in east London was told.

He also threatened them with “black magic” if they told friends or family what he had done.

The imam was finally arrested after his youngest victim reported him to a teacher at her school in 2017.

Although not stated in the story, it’s pretty clear that the girls were themselves Muslim.

The Telegraph (UK).

Vladimir Putin is moving nuclear missiles to the border of the European Union, Belarus’s exiled opposition leader has warned.

In an interview with The Telegraph, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya said Belarus was helping Russia to escalate its war in Ukraine and told Europe to pay “more attention to what is happening” in the territory.

She said Alexander Lukashenko, Putin’s ally and strongman in Belarus, was facilitating the Russian leader’s aggression in Ukraine by allowing him to intensify Russia’s military presence in the country.

“We see how on Belarusian territory, Mr Lukashenko’s regime intensifies the presence of Russia. They are about to deploy nuclear weapons [to Belarus], Russian missiles,” Ms Tsikhanouskaya said.

Thank you, Barack Hussein Obama. Your ‘red lines’ in Syria that were crossed with impunity by Russia led to the invasion of Ukraine under Sleepy Joe Biden, with the results that we see now.

Oh, and by the way: Poland considers building nuclear weapons (The Telegraph [UK]). Only Britain and France, in the E.U., have nuclear weapons, and God alone know whether they are actually operable.

The Telegraph (UK).

The Trump administration is in talks to accept a man who burnt a Koran as a refugee from Britain.

Not from Turkey. Not from Pakistan. Not from Saudi Arabia. Not from Iran. Not from Egypt. From Britain.

State department officials are preparing to help Hamit Coskun flee the UK if he loses a “blasphemy case” this week.

Would the prosecute someone who burned the Bible for ‘blasphemy’? Of course not. (In Britain!).

The potential intervention is likely to escalate transatlantic tensions over free speech, which critics have claimed is being eroded under Sir Keir Starmer’s Government.

‘Eroded’? ‘Eroded‘? How about ‘trashed’?

Mr Coskun sought asylum in the UK from his home country of Turkey, saying Islamic terrorists had destroyed his family’s life. He told The Telegraph that, if he did lose his case, he may be forced “to flee” and seek protection in the US.

“For me, as the victim of Islamic terrorism, I cannot remain silent. I may be forced to flee the UK and move to the USA, where President Trump has stood for free speech and against Islamic extremism,” he said.

“If I have to do so, then, to me, the UK will have effectively fallen to Islamism and the speech codes that it wishes to impose on the non-Muslim world.”

Successfully, it would appear. Words fail me….

The War Zone.

Looking like a scene in a sci-fi movie, and in what is clearly a unique mission, dubbed Operation Windlord, USAF C-17s have been tasked with transporting a micro nuclear reactor. The U.S. military’s role is to transport the elements of the Ward250 reactor, made by Valar Atomics, from March Air Reserve Base in Southern California to Hill Air Force Base in Utah. Once on the ground in Utah, it will be moved to Utah San Rafael Energy Lab (USREL) in Orangeville for extensive testing. Beyond its direct utility, this operation may very well serve as a glimpse of what’s to come as the Department of Defense looks to integrate micro nuclear reactors into the power grids of critical installations.

A total of three C-17s will bring the components of the Ward250, eight modules in total, to Utah. This is said to be the first time a nuclear reactor has been moved via Globemaster III. The delivery of the Ward250 to USREL is part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Nuclear Reactor Pilot Program, established in response to President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14301 last year.