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Something the retarded German blondes in the @EU_Commission Green brothel will never acknowledge.
Since the 1980s, the Sahara has shrunk by roughly 8%. Satellite data show widespread greening, a pattern that is playing out across the planet.
Around 50% of Earth's vegetated land has become significantly greener, an area roughly three times the size of the United States.
The dominant driver is not rainfall or land use change, it is rising atmospheric CO2. Higher CO2 lets plants photosynthesize more efficiently, they lose less water, they tolerate heat and dryness better.
The effect is strongest along desert margins - across the Sahel, the Middle East, Australia's interior and the southern edge of the Sahara.
Rising CO2 is making the deserts, and the planet as a whole, greener.
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Our new study reveals how Russia covertly organized interviews with 500+ "useful idiots" across the globe
We confronted them to see how they ended up participating in one of the biggest Russian state info-ops since the end of the Cold War.
This is what we found:
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NATO has become a joke.
Either we remove USA from it or we'll have to build another alliance, not necessarily pure European.
Model IV- Devastating Results: In October, Elon Musk didn't just throttle Ukraine on the ground: SpaceX coordinated with Russia in orbit to freeze ICEYE-X36 so Russia could extract U.S. radar and battery tech, compromising U.S. and NATO satellite sovereignty. Our new 28-page quantitative study, 3-page Executive Brief, and 5-Act orbital animation prove the structural damage across the Western kill chain and global commodity markets. (Pete Hegseth and Emil Michael played direct role. Is the White House complicit? It's hard to see how they are not.)
Since Project CORONA in 1958, Moscow chased U.S. spy satellites for 68 years with zero close-hold successes because Russian radars are blind across 265.1 degrees of Earth. In June 2026, U.S./NATO radar satellite ICEYE-X36 easily escaped a Russian approach in 60.8 minutes.
68 Years in 41 Hours: How Elon Musk Helped Russia Shatter U.S. and NATO Satellite Supremacy 👇
-The Ground Throttle Failed, Triggering the Orbital Brake: Following the Oct 9 Putin-Trump call and Russian diesel waiver (OFAC GL 135), SpaceX capped Ukrainian military Starshield terminals at 101-161 km/h on Oct 13-14 (-22.98% daily drone intercepts, p = 0.0019). Yet autonomous drones guided by U.S. NRO/NATO radar satellite ICEYE-X36 struck Rosneft's Ryazan refinery on Oct 15 AM anyway. Hours later (04:15:44Z), SpaceX posted a misleading 401m Starlink collision alert (internal v1-v4 pass: 1.93-2.00 km) to freeze X36 under FCC Condition 16 (-96.64% maneuver drop) while 31,000 Stargaze cameras tracked Russia's COSMOS 2612 sprinting into a 640m hold for 41.4 to 47.7 hours.
-Tech Extraction, Prague Wipe & Finland's Seizure: At 640m (+57.9 dB / 616,068x flux gain), Russia recorded X36's Title 50 1,200 MHz radar template to track both X36 and twin X37 from 500+ km away (+13.85 to +26.86 dB standoff SNR). On Oct 18, COSMOS 2612 timed Stellar Exploration's shared 8S battery 2-orbit thruster lockout (191.12 min), firing its departure burn +0.67 seconds after X36 recharged. Within 24 hours (Oct 19), Stellar cut U.S. ownership in Prague from 85% to 33% (Notice OV12312900) to block DoD audits, SpaceX onboarded Chinese operators into Space Safety (Oct 6 & 16), and on Nov 5 Finland stripped commercial ICEYE of command over its 3 military radar satellites.
-245 NRO Spy Sats Exposed & The 6.3-Min Hormuz Warning: All 245 classified NRO Starshield satellites (348 active hulls) fly in that exact compromised 525-559 km shell (confirmed Oct 28 by Putin on live TV praising orbital coordination with "Mr. Musk"). Perched 66-99s behind X36 on its descending orbit from Ryazan/Kyiv (~08:02Z) to Qeshm Island/Hormuz (~08:09Z) and Diego Garcia (~08:18Z), Russia now gives Tehran a live 4.6-7.1 min blind-spot warning (corroborated Nov 7 at Qeshm) while locking COSMOS 2611 and 2613 onto twin ICEYE-X37.
-Pentagon Enablement, Depleted Magazines & Two Market Shocks: Handed $11.88B+ in CoCo contracts by Sec Def Hegseth and CTO Emil Michael ($5M-$25M xAI sale 72h before seizing Maven and cutting CENTCOM reviewers 16-to-1), unthrottled spring AI targeting and Iranian salvos left U.S. forces with 3.7-5.5 Patriot raids and forced 74%-86% of 5th Fleet destroyers off-station to reload at Diego Garcia (LTG Sylvia fired Oct 28). Market impact splits into two unpooled shocks: (1) freezing X36 cut Ryazan restrikes 76.4% (p = 0.0000337), restoring +122.15 kb/d for GL 135 until Nov 4-5 restrikes stranded 4 diesel tankers; and (2) 5th Fleet VLS reload lag collapsed unescorted Hormuz clean products 81.2% (-2.923 mb/d), driving LR2 TC20 to $21.86M and 4:3 Gasoil/Brent cracks to $85.14-$89.43/bbl.
5-Act orbital animation and 3-page Companion Executive Brief attached. Link to the full downloadable 28-page Sovereign & Market Risk Exposure Report in reply below.
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V-am spus că habarnistul Chisăliță va face chisăliță sistemul energetic național?
Un papagal Green afon in Energie cu CV de zăbăuc comunist. Nu știe nici ce să-i întrebe pe cei care știu, nici care sunt aceia.
Nicușor, Luca și Chisăliță - trei catastrofe de idioti utili.
Ai cui?
#Chisăliță va face chisălită ce a mai ramas din Sistemul Energetic Național.
E un șobolan Green, după ce a fost șobolan negru la Petrom sub bagheta lui Năstase și Băsescu apoi un fals expert pe lângă soroșiștii V. Popescu si Burduja.
Un habarnist care face pe inteligentul.
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Earth is still in an Ice Age, and almost nobody knows it.
Ice ages don't end when the glaciers melt; they end when all polar ice disappears completely. Right now, ice still covers Antarctica and the Arctic; which means by scientific definition we are still in an Ice Age.
What we are living in - right now - is called an interglacial period, a warm pause, a temporary thaw between glacial advances. The current interglacial - called the Holocene - began about 11,700 years ago. Every human civilisation, that has ever existed - Ancient Egypt, Rome, China - all of it happened inside this single warm pause.
And here is what makes this deeply unsettling; in the last 2.58 million years the Earth has cycled through at least 50 glacial advances. The warm pauses between them typically last 10,000 to 30,000 years. We are already 11,700 years into ours.
The ice cores drilled from Antarctica tells us exactly what happened before. Every interglacial ends; every one! The temperature drops, the glaciers advance, and ice sheets kilometres thick crush everything beneath them.
During the last Glacial Maximum just 20,000 years ago, ice sheets covered most of North America, Northern Europe and Asia. New York City was under a kilometre of ice. And none of that required a catastrophe.
It happened slowly and quietly, driven by wobbles in Earth's orbit around the Sun, called the Milankovitch cycles. The next glacial advance will come; not tomorrow, not in our lifetime. But it will come.
We are not living 'after' the Ice Age: We're living inside it.
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Recently I told you there are two kinds of people in this system: cynics and believers.
Ursula von der Leyen, I put her with the believers. And that's exactly why you need to understand how the machine works.
Because cynics are very rare. Soros, I put him in that category: he knows exactly what he's doing, and he has never hidden it.
He read Popper, he has a theory of change, and he understood early on something the right still hasn't figured out: you don't change a society by winning an election. You change it by funding, for thirty years, the people who will write the reports, train the lawyers, and advise whoever wins the elections.
$24 billion spent by Open Society since its creation. More than 50,000 grants. In 2015, he wrote in plain text that the EU must accept at least a million asylum seekers a year, and mobilize NGOs, churches and businesses to take them in.
All of it is public. That's the most impressive part.
Here's how the system got hacked, in three steps.
Step one: selection.
Nobody recruits idiots. No need. The money does the selecting on its own.
A grant never goes to the person who doubts. It goes to the person who already believes. Repeat that over thirty years and tens of thousands of grants, and you get an entire ecosystem where the free thinker was filtered out at the door. He wasn't fired. He just never got funded.
What's left: people who are sincere, credentialed, conformist, and whose paycheck depends on the cause.
Step two: funding manufactures conviction.
Try explaining something to someone whose paycheck depends on not getting it.
The NGO produces a report. The report gets cited by an expert. The expert testifies before the Commission. The Commission turns it into a directive. And the NGO guy ends up in a cabinet, then goes back to a foundation.
Everyone knows each other, cites each other, funds each other. It's an echo chamber with a budget.
Step three: emotion.
You never debate results. You debate intentions.
One photo beats a thousand statistics. Every objection backed by numbers becomes a moral failing. And when reality contradicts the narrative, the dissonance always gets resolved the same way:
"It's a necessary evil."
"It's collateral damage."
"The real problem is elsewhere."
Immigration is never a problem. The problem is your perception.
The result: the system doesn't produce corrupt people. It produces NPCs. People reciting a script while convinced they wrote it themselves.
Ursula doesn't need to be bought. She has spent her entire career in an environment where every expert, every report, every "civil society" group tells her the same thing. She is convinced she's on the side of good. And that's what makes her immune to facts.
And the best part of the story: Soros isn't even the system's biggest funder anymore.
You are.
Between 2021 and 2023, €7.4 billion in EU funds went to more than 12,000 NGOs. The European Court of Auditors itself says it can't get a reliable picture of who gets what.
The hack worked so well that the machine now runs on your taxes.
This is not a conspiracy. A conspiracy hides. Here, the amounts are public, the op-eds are public, the recipients are public.
It's an incentive system. And you don't fight an incentive system by insulting the believers. You fight it by cutting off the tap and demanding total transparency: who funds whom, to say what.
As long as it stays opaque, they'll keep shipping believers at scale.
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El asesino de Cracovia era tan ultraderechista que se manifestaba a favor de abrir todas las fronteras y dar la bienvenida a todos los extranjeros que quisieran entrar en Polonia. También quería un mundo sin armas y sin fronteras. Extraño ultraderechista que vivía, actuaba, se disfrazaba y pintaba como un izquierdista woke de sexualidad ambigua. Un peligro para todos y sí mismo. Quizás también muy manipulable para perpetrar una barbaridad que sirva al gobierno polaco para sembrar el temor y la alarma ante las manifestaciones del Día de la Independencia que se anuncia ya como una colosal manifestación en defensa de Polonia soberana, del presidente Nawrocki y contra el gobierno de Donald Tusk.
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China now burns more coal than the rest of the world combined. Meanwhile, Britain's wind generation has slumped to barely 1%, and electricity prices are soaring across Europe.
Full breakdown (an more) in today's article: electroverse.substack.com/p/…
Germany invading Poland is not a surprise.
Russia invading Poland as well.
Their government fleeing to Romania would be normal, @donaldtusk speaks Romanian pretty well.😂
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🇨🇳China Telecom, Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable (YOFC), and ZTE deployed the world’s first cross-border commercial hollow-core fiber financial dedicated line linking 🇨🇳Shenzhen and 🇭🇰Hong Kong.
Unlike traditional solid-core glass fiber where light travels through glass, hollow-core fiber guides light through an air/gas-filled core, reducing signal latency by roughly 30%.
Recent expanded long-distance trials using this technology achieved 64 Tbps in each direction simultaneously (128 Tbps total) over a 1,007-kilometre (626-mile) link, with a one-way latency of just 3.43 milliseconds.
The ultra-low-latency infrastructure has been put into commercial service specifically for cross-border financial applications between 🇨🇳Shenzhen and 🇭🇰Hong Kong to accelerate high-frequency trading and data-centre connectivity.
🇨🇳China has also laid hundreds of millions of kilometres of optical fiber, with over 90% of its households connected to fiber broadband and optical fiber accounting for over 90% of its fixed broadband connections.
Lagging behind 🇨🇳China, 🇪🇺EU countries and 🇺🇸US have fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) ratio, reaching roughly between 50% to 60% household coverage depending on the region.
Will 🇪🇺EU or 🇺🇸US ever catch up with 🇨🇳China’s level of the internet infrastructure:
A) Yes;
B) No?
Spain has become a territory, no more a country.
Unfassbar: aktuelles Bildmaterial vom Hafen von Los Cristianos auf Teneriffa: Sie kommen mit berstend gefüllten Boten, es ist die totale Invasion. Und NICHTS dazu in den Medien. Laut Auskunft des Reisepass kontrollierenden Beamten wiederholt sich dieser Vorgang ein bis zwei Mal pro Woche, berichtet mein Freund, der dort urlaubt. Auf seine Frage, ob die Pässe der Afrikaner kontrolliert werden, hat er nur frustriert gelacht. Unter den Menschen nicht eine einzige Frau, kein Kind. Europa begeht Selbstmord. Und sie versuchen ihn mit aller Macht geheim zu halten. Aufwachen!
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This chimpo admits that US and UK are way more corrupt than Romania. Good to know it.
Midterms Betrayal.
The Republicans got roasted last night because their key demo, young men, did not turn up to vote.
And why would they?
The cost of living is out of control. Men can’t afford a family in a world where women love money more than ever.
These men are expected to go and die in a ditch for a war that makes no sense?
And if they have sex with a woman, 10 years later she can randomly MeToo them into oblivion.
You think these men want to go and wait in lines to support a government that offers them this? This is what you offer in return for their support?
Men are second-class citizens in this country, we build the roads and pay the taxes and are endlessly wrecked by the system.
We get wrecked in divorce courts.
Wrecked with MeToo lies.
Wrecked when trying to get access to our kids.
And the good women in the world also see this and agree that the world is a better place when men are treated fairly instead of being second-class citizens.
Like it or not, in 2022 and 2023 Andrew Tate was one of the most famous men on planet earth. The most Googled man alive. And what did I do with this fame?
I poured my heart and soul into combating misandry. The two-tiered society that men are forced to live under.
The endless attack on normal male attitudes and outlooks deemed “Toxic” by an out-of-control feminist establishment who plays victim while destroying men's lives daily.
And I paid the price. The system offered me money and once I declined, it came for me viciously.
Suddenly I was a misogynistic woman-hater in the media.
Believing men have rights doesn’t mean you hate women, but this is how it was spun against me. BOTH men and women are people. BOTH should have rights.
This view made me public enemy number one.
Then came the endless legal attacks accusing me of all sorts of crimes from decades ago, crimes that never took place and I never would have been accused of if I wasn’t sticking up for good, honest, hard-working and law-abiding men.
I was thrown in prison in Romania, locked in my house for years. I was insulted in the media. The British state spent 300 million pounds in schools trying to undo the damage I did to the feminist agenda - then they issued arrest warrants.
All the while I kept my head up, kept fighting the good fight and telling the truth against the largest possible matrix attack. Outgunned with no chance.
And eventually, through sheer will, determination and bravery, with absolutely zero help, I beat one of my cases in Romania - the most corrupt country in Europe btw - and was allowed to travel the world with one more case pending.
I flew to the USA and was instantly attacked when I landed in Miami Florida by Ron DeSantis as a woman hater and a “sex criminal”. I’ve never been convicted of a crime. I’ve never even STOOD TRIAL for a crime, yet this traitor to all men attacked me.
I was ONLY CALLED these things because I stuck up for men. And the “men’ in charge of the state of Florida instantly betrayed their own kind and attacked me.
For a year and a half I traveled the world freely, never bending and never breaking, fighting day after day - until the USA as a whole finally betrayed me.
I was not in the USA as a free man. I am here under Romanian Judicial Control obligations. I must report to Romania once a month and attend the remaining court cases, things I can no longer do since July 18th I've been locked inside the SHU unit of FDC Miami.
This morning there was a court case regarding the return of over 7,000,000 dollars of my assets stolen from me by the Romanian state in 2022, and I could not attend. They will soon rule in my absence. What do you think the ‘honest’ country of Romania will do when I can not attend court?
My flawless track record of victory in Romanian courts is now going to collapse and I will lose every single case in my absence. I may even be sentenced for decades in a Romanian prison because I can not defend myself.
Is this the American way? Is this the America you believe in? Is this what you want men to vote for?
And WHY has the USA put me in jail?
The UK, despite having an agreement for me to be sent there when my Romanian case concluded, told the USA I was dangerous because of 15-year-old MeToos and the Americans threw me in prison.
I was supposed to finish court in Romania and then get sent to the UK. I agreed. It was all agreed. Then the UK jumped the line to set me up to make sure I lose in Romania.
The British state has even said to the DOJ they will NOT TELL THEM the name of these women, yet I remain in jail. No evidence, no pics, no medical records, NO NAMES, yet I rot in jail losing all of my cases in Romania.
If England doesn’t trust the DOJ enough to tell them the girls’ names, then the DOJ shouldn’t trust them enough to LOCK UP AN AMERICAN CITIZEN! Think of how insane this is?
I’m in jail for ghosts?
Why am I in prison? Trump’s DOJ screamed in court that I was a danger to society, despite having no criminal record in my life, and I was denied bail.
And here I sit for my 111th day.
While you read this tweet, my brother and I are in a cockroach-infested prison cell in the SHU unit of FDC Miami, sitting on tiny beds with no pillows and no blankets.
Men across this country are watching me be betrayed, you think they will stand in a line and vote for this? What’s happening to me can happen to any man in the world. We are people too. We have feelings too.
Our politicians will talk about EVERYTHING except the rights of men in America. The rights of farm animals or whales or foreign populations.
When has ANY POLITICIAN ever ONCE unapologetically said that MEN are people too and deserve a good life? They won’t. Because they’re afraid that the same thing will happen to them that happened to me.
“They’re a woman-hater” and their lives destroyed.
Where are men's rights?
Where are my rights?
If I murdered someone I could get bail but I've been denied bail because the Brits accused me but won’t even confirm to the DOJ who my accusers are?
Trump’s DOJ is PUSHING to keep me locked up screaming in court that I’m a misogynist?
THIS is what you expect men to vote for in this country?
I am in jail for being a misogynist? That’s what the DOJ shrieks to the judge? You want men to vote for this?
My kids have not heard my voice in 4 months. I am in the SHU Unit, full lockdown, with 3-inch cockroaches crawling all over me while I sleep. I'm not allowed in the normal general population. I'm in the strictest possible conditions with no phone calls, no yard time.
Why? Why is this being allowed to happen? I was a champion for the good fight. Why can’t I go into General Pop? Why am I being subjected to a cruel and unusual punishment?
I'm a law-abiding citizen and I do not need special favors from the admin. What I need is for my rights to be respected.
Where is my right to bail?
Where is my right to a fair trial in Romania in cases I’ve been fighting for years?
Where is my right to free speech on men's issues without a foreign state inventing crimes because of it?
And if they DO invent crimes, why is AMERICA locking me up on THEIR BEHALF?
I have received thousands of letters since my incarceration from young men across America saying that what is happening to me is disgusting and they will never vote Republican again.
Do you think they’re going to stand in line and vote in the midterms as you destroy the man who fought so hard for their rights in broad daylight?
The ONLY REASON the Brits attacked me is because I STUCK UP FOR MEN IN A WORLD THAT HATES THEM.
Then you put me in jail because the Brits said so, and you expect these men to VOTE for you?
In a few weeks the Trump administration will finally decide if my case is political in nature, if it is, I should NOT be sent to the UK.
"Extradition shall not be granted if the competent authority of the Requested State determines that the request was politically motivated. In the United States, the executive branch is the competent
authority for the purposes of this Article."
66 MPs have sworn to ‘silence me’ for my “vile misogyny”. The prime minister said I deserve jail for my comments. Case closed. It’s political. All proof is here: justicefortate.com
Where’s my right to free speech as an American? The Brits are attacking me for my speech and you are HELPING THEM.
The same Brits who sent staffers over in 2024 to help Kamala win the election by the way.
Funnily, the only credit I’ve ever gotten from the US political class for the work I've done was from Kamala herself. In her book 107 Days, where she discusses her presidential bid, she names me as one of the reasons Trump won. She prints my name as a reason she lost.
Has a single Republican ever thanked me EVER? No. They just let the Romanians and Brits destroy me.
And then even worse, they stopped ignoring them destroying me and decided to start helping them destroy me.
Then they threw me in prison.
I don’t expect to be above the law. I’ll go to court anywhere in the world where I’m accused of a crime and prove my innocence, I simply don’t expect to have FEWER rights than a normal man would.
My father served this country. I was born on Andrews Air Force Base in Washington DC. I am an AMERICAN.
My passport is worth nothing? If mine isn’t. That means every single American's passport is worth nothing.
Any random European nation can accuse you of something from 15 years ago and not even provide a name and you’ll find yourself in the SHU unit of Federal Prison. Is this the land of the free and home of the brave?
I should NOT be in jail at all with such a clearly politically motivated case.
And the government is afraid to make sure my rights are respected because they think “if we make sure Tate is treated fairly, girls might get mad”
MEN OF THIS COUNTRY ARE TIRED OF THEIR LEADERS BEING SCARED OF GIRLS.
MEN OF THIS COUNTRY ARE TIRED OF THEIR LEADERS BEING COWARDS.
Real women love my message. I have thousands of letters from mothers of sons saying what a fantastic role model I’ve been for their sons. Check my prison letters record, every letter is photocopied.
Real women agree that men are second-class citizens and it must end.
And the psycho women who disagree are never going to vote Republican anyway. You’re letting the Tate brothers rot in prison to please people who hate you and always will.
Wake up.
There are MANY reasons young men did not vote in the midterms, but from my disgusting prison cell, the thousands of letters I’ve read gave one of the reasons: Because young men feel betrayed.
My public betrayal is their justification that their feelings are right.
Young men are watching what is happening.
And if my brother and I are sent to Belmarsh Prison in UK, the same place Julian Assange was kept, to be political prisoners for the rest of our lives - young men will remember this when voting in 2028.
I may serve the rest of my life in prison but I will do so with my head held high. Never bowing to the mob, having done the RIGHT thing, betrayed by the country he was trying to help.
Charging at the enemy and being shot in the back by my own team.
So much for America.
You can NOT betray all the men inside a country and expect them to vote for you.
Every man in America is watching the Tate brothers' betrayal and 2028 is only years away.
Women have rights.
Men deserve rights.
And if you want our votes, give them to us.
We would rather the Dems be in charge and know they’re our enemy than someone who pretends to be on our side and sells us out.
Men don’t like being lied to.
Proof I’m being framed is here: justicefortate.com
@marcorubio @JDVance @realDonaldTrump @elonmusk @FBIDirectorKash @RobertKennedyJr
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What started as trade and cooperation turned into unelected commissioners rewriting national law, punishing governments that refuse to line up, and selling every new power grab as "European and democratic values".
The EU is not a union of free countries. It's a TOTALITARIAN system calling itself a democracy.
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Siedem dni to rozpętania piekła w Polsce !!!
W Polsce protesty antyrządowe przed Trybunałem Konstytucyjnym trwają kolejny dzień. Prezydent dał dla premiera Tuska czas do 11 listopada na podanie się do dymisji. Policja odmówiła spacyfikowania protestujących siłą na wezwanie puczystowskiej sędzi Trybunału Konstytucyjnego. Rząd rozpoczął prześladowanie buntujących się policjantów w tym przewodniczącego związku zawodowego Policji. W stolicy pojawiły się patrole z bronią automatyczną a na drogach szybkiego ruchu coraz więcej obcych wojsk.
To wszystko wydarzyło się od wczoraj.
Siedem dni to dnia z ultimatum prezydenta, kiedy rozpęta się piekło. Pilnujcie razem z nami aby nie ukradli nam wolności. Wasze wsparcie jest dla nas bardzo ważne.
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Apparently, $6.70 Diesel Is Where MAGA Draws the Line.
I have spent years watching MAGA supporters tolerate almost anything.
Ukrainian schools bombed. Children buried beneath rubble. Entire cities reduced to dust. Their beloved leader flattering the very dictator responsible for it all.
Not a problem. Apparently, defending freedom was simply too expensive. But then something truly dreadful happened.
Diesel reached $6.70 a gallon.
And suddenly, America’s great patriots discovered outrage. Not over murdered civilians. No. Their enormous pickup trucks had become expensive to feed.
And I find that rather revealing.
Shortly after the Iran war began, I wrote that Tehran had every reason to keep the conflict simmering until the midterms, allowing fuel prices to destroy Trump’s political support.
Now Republicans have lost Congress.
I never imagined MAGA would discover its moral boundaries at a petrol station.
But apparently, that’s where they were hiding all along.
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China operates over half of the world's total coal power capacity, with roughly 1,200 to 1,270 GW of operational capacity spread across more than 2,600 active coal generating units.
The hypocrisy cannot escape anyone. While Western nations aggressively retire aging hydrocarbon assets, new coal-fired power plants entering operation in China have hit sustained multi-year highs.
Beijing is adding tens of gigawatts a year to shore up baseload reliability and energy security, even as its renewable energy rollout breaks all records. China remains on track to permit and build the equivalent of two new coal power plants every week.
By contrast, mid-sized developed nations maintain a fraction of that footprint. Australia, for instance, operates just 18 major coal-fired power stations. Yet all these Western economies are in retreat - all grappling with soaring energy costs while their heavy industries face systemic paralysis.
Globally, the picture is one of stark geographic divergence. Worldwide operational coal capacity sits above 2,000 GW, with China, India and the United States accounting for roughly 75% of the total.
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At 84 years old, Paul McCartney has a very clear idea of the kind of songs that go viral on social media these days
They kill pigs, don't they.
The pig was never banned for the worm. The worm was found in London in 1835. Sit on the throne of a small kingdom in the hills of the Near East around 900 BC and you will find the pig was banned for something you could see from the palace roof.
Your treasury is counted in sheep. The temple's ledgers count them by the ten thousand, and every one of them is a tax you can see walking. A sheep grows a fleece you shear every spring. A sheep gives milk, a sheep gives a lamb, and a sheep goes where the shepherd drives it, in a flock, to the altar, to the army, to the tithe barn, over the hills to the market you own. A sheep needs pasture, and pasture has an owner, and the owner answers to you.
The cow is better still. The ox pulls the plough that grows the grain you tax. The cow gives milk every day and a calf every year, and a bull on the altar is the prestige of the house that offered it. Cattle need land, wide land, the kind only a great house holds, so a man with cattle is a man with a landlord, and his landlord has you.
And then there is the thing in the yard behind every hovel in your kingdom.
It has no wool. It gives no milk you would drink. It will not pull anything. You cannot drive it to the temple in a flock, because it will not be driven, and nobody in your army wants to march to war behind it. It needs no pasture at all. It lives on the household's peelings, the acorns in the wood, the waste behind the house, and it turns the lot into fat. A sow throws ten piglets, twice a year, and they are bacon in six months. A family with a pig behind the house has meat and lard through the winter and has asked nothing of you, your priests, your pasture or your landlords to get it.
That is the problem. The pig is a democratic animal. It is the one source of meat in your kingdom that the ledger cannot see, and a man who can feed himself can afford to be rude.
So you want it gone, and you cannot simply take it, because there are thousands of them and they are in every yard. You need the people to give it up themselves, gladly, and look down on the neighbours who do not.
Which brings you to the second thing you can see from the roof. Down on the coast are the Philistines, the richer people, the ones with the iron and the ports, and they eat pork like Greeks. Their rubbish is a fifth pig bone. Yours is almost none. You did not plan that; the hills were always sheep and goat country. But it is a gift, because the easiest way to make a people is to tell them what they do not eat. Draw the line at the pig and every man in your hills is on your side of it and every man on the coast is on the other. Identity is cheaper than a garrison and it never mutinies.
You still need a reason, because people like a reason. Do not say the pig makes a poor man independent. Say it is unclean. Say the god finds it filthy. Do not explain why the cow, which stands in its own dung and carries a tapeworm of its own, is clean; nobody will ask, because the cow belongs to their betters and they already know better things are cleaner. Write it into the law with the hoof and the cud so it sounds like zoology. Your priests will enforce it for free, because it enlarges them, and in three generations nobody will remember it was ever a decision.
That is how the thing is done, and it was done again and again. In Egypt the swineherds were the one class in the country barred from every temple, and the workmen's villages behind the great building sites are knee-deep in pig bone, because the ledger never fed the men who cut the stone and the pig did. Every state that wanted its people dependent has found the same animal in the same yard and reached the same verdict.
The reason the modern reader has been given is the worm. Trichinella was first seen by a medical student with a microscope at St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1835, two and a half thousand years after the law was written. It is killed by cooking. Beef carries its own worm and was never banned. Goat carries brucellosis and sat on every altar. The hygiene story is a Victorian explanation bolted onto a Bronze Age tax policy, and it has lasted because it is flattering: it makes the ancient lawgiver a sanitary inspector rather than a man who had counted the sheep and could not count the pigs.
From the roof it was never about what the pig carried. It was about what the pig gave, to whom, without asking you first.
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