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"A sane and normal society is one in which people habitually disagree, because general agreement is relatively rare outside the sphere of instinctive human qualities."
- Carl G. Jung
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450,000 Russian KIA leaked from Russia’s own government agency with all the receipts to verify it online for everyone to see. It’s worse for them than many even estimated , that’s incomprehensible, that’s more than 4X the ENTIRE Vietnam and Korean War US deaths combined
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Hi. Meteorologist here.
Can you please show me the increase in heatwaves on this chart? Looks to me that they're down since 1895.
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Hi. Meteorologist here.
This is nonsense. We have not entered a “new age of climate extremes.”
There is no such thing as a “supersized El Niño” and the planet isn’t being “superheated” by climate change either.
First, the correct meteorological term is “very strong El Niño.”
Second, El Niño a natural part of Earth’s internal weather and climate variability. It is just the positive (warm) phase of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Correspondingly, La Niña is the negative (cool) phase.
The atmospheric circulation component of ENSO in the tropical Pacific is the “Southern Oscillation.” But the resulting warming (cooling) sea surface temperature (SST) response is El Niño (La Niña).
Normally, the thermocline (a transition layer separating warmer mixed water at the surface from cooler water below) in the Pacific Ocean slopes down towards the west. This means that the western Pacific usually has a deep, warm mixed layer of water extending downward from the surface, while the eastern Pacific has a relatively shallow mixed layer. These are “ENSO neutral” conditions.
The sloped nature of the thermocline is maintained by easterly wind stress on the equatorial Pacific ocean surface. The strength of the easterlies is determined by the balance between convection (upward motion) over Indonesia and subsidence (downward motion) in the central and eastern Pacific.
During La Niña, easterlies are stronger than normal because convection is displaced further west. Lower pressure over the Maritime Continent and higher pressure over Tahiti results in a strongly positive SOI index. Higher wind stress pushes even more warm surface water westward, resulting in the formation of an even larger warm pool in the west Pacific near Asia, which steepens the thermocline. This enhances divergence, leading to upwelling of cool, nutrient-rich water in the central and eastern Pacific.
However, if convection moves eastward over the Pacific, the easterlies weaken or even locally reverse (we call these “westerly wind bursts”) and thermocline begins to flatten, allowing warmer water in the west Pacific to slosh eastward, creating a deeper pool of warm water in the central and eastern Pacific. This is El Niño, and this is occurring right now.
The state of ENSO is quantified using the SST anomalies [relative to the most recent 30-year mean; currently, we use 1991–2020] along the equatorial belt. The main area for which SSTAs are monitored is the Niño 3.4 region, which runs from the 120–170th meridians of longitude and 5° north or south of the equator (5°N–5°S, 170°W–120°W). If the three-month averaged SSTA in Niño 3.4 is at least +0.5°C (+0.9°F), then El Niño is declared. If the three-month averaged SSTA is at least −0.5°C (−0.9°F), La Niña is declared.
El Niño (La Niña) events are classified as either being “weak,” “moderate,” “strong,” or “very strong” depending on how far above (below) average SSTs in Niño 3.4 have been for the last three months.
If the three-month averaged SSTA is +0.5–0.99°C (−0.5°C to −0.99°C), then the El Niño (La Niña) is weak.
If it's +1–1.49°C (−1°C to −1.49°C), then the El Niño (La Niña) is moderate.
If it's +1.5–1.99°C (−1.5°C to −1.99°C), then the El Niño (La Niña) is strong.
If it's ≥ +2.0°C (≤ −2.0°), then the El Niño (La Niña) is very strong.
The latest data from CDAS indicate that the Niño 3.4 region is currently +2.9°C (relative to 1991–2020). This means that we are in “very strong El Niño” territory.”
And this has happened several times before. Very Strong El Niños occurred in 1790–93, 1827–28, 1844–45, 1890–91, 1925–26, 1982–83, 1997–98, and 2015–16.
You are nothing but an ignorant, agenda-driven clown.
We've entered a new age of climate extremes:
A supersized El Niño is colliding with a planet already superheated by climate change.
The latest @WMO report shows once again that leaders must get serious by cutting emissions faster, accelerating a just transition from fossil fuels & delivering the finance & protection vulnerable countries need.
wmo.int/news/media-centre/st…
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10 VERDADES SOBRE SALVADOR ALLENDE 🇨🇱
1. Salvador Allende fue, literalmente, el Nicolás Maduro de Chile.
2. Expropió toda la industria del cobre y negó cualquier indemnización a las empresas afectadas.
3. Además del cobre, expropió más de 1000 empresas de todos los sectores de la economía.
4. Impulsó una reforma agraria con la cual expropió millones de hectáreas de tierra, y la mayor parte no fueron entregadas a los campesinos, sino que se las quedó el Estado.
5. Controló precios y racionó comida.
6. Provocó una hiperinflación mediante una emisión monetaria masiva.
7. Expropió todo el sistema bancario.
8. Facilitó masivas ocupaciones ilegales de terrenos.
9. Persiguió con dureza a opositores y a la prensa.
10. Expandió el gasto público como pocas veces se hizo en la historia del continente.
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In 1968, teenage Red Guards were beating their professors to death with clubs in Beijing courtyards.
Meanwhile, Jean-Paul Sartre sat in Paris calling Mao's Cultural Revolution a model of revolutionary democracy. The most celebrated intellectual in France looked at a country burning its own libraries and saw liberation. He sold the Maoist newspaper La Cause du Peuple on French street corners himself, holding it aloft like a sacrament.
Between 1966 and 1976, the Cultural Revolution killed between 500,000 and two million people. Schools shut down across the entire country. Students dragged teachers onto stages, hung placards around their necks, forced them to kneel on broken glass, then murdered them. The historian Bian Zhongyun, vice-principal of a girls' school in Beijing, died on August 5, 1966, beaten by her own students with nail-studded clubs.
Sartre swooned at this, calling it the people governing themselves. Why did a man this intelligent get it this wrong? Sartre believed knowledge served power, that truth was whatever the revolution required, that the individual existed to be dissolved into the collective will.
So when Mao abolished the distinction between teacher and student, between expert and mob, Sartre cheered. He had spent decades arguing that bourgeois reason was a class weapon. Here was a regime taking him at his word and clubbing the reasoners to death. This is what economic illiteracy gets you.
Mises had already explained the calculation problem in 1920. Hayek explained dispersed knowledge in 1945. Sartre had access to both and chose the dunce cap of the collective instead, then handed out its propaganda on the Rue de Rennes.
He died in 1980, mourned by 50,000 followers, never having retracted a word about Mao. The professors of Beijing got no such funeral, only a philosopher in Paris explaining that their murder was freedom.
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As a black man who was a liberal way back when, I’ve discovered two things:
Conservatives will hate your opinion. It really won’t go beyond that. If you’re black, your race won’t be much of a factor for them.
Liberals will hate your opinion, you, your family, and will try to ruin you if they can. If you’re black, racism will be allowed against you. Black liberals will give the nod to white liberals, who will then unleash every racist tirade they’ve been saving up until this moment. It’s like a limp-twisted purge for them.
I’m not wrong.
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Update to today's terrorist attack in Poland.
The shooter has been identified as Michał Oksiński from Ostrowiec.
An additional victim of the nass shooting has died, bringing the death toll to six and the reported number of injured to an additional 16 people.
Kamil Kosin was one of the responding policemen and is the policeman in the video that was posted this afternoon. He sustained three gunshot wounds from an automatic weapon.
Despite being shot, Kosin still neutralized the attacker. The attacker had an automatic weapon, a helmet, and a vest.
The parents and sister of Oksiński were found dead in the apartment where the shooter lived with them.
Oksiński's social media posts are inconsistent. They seem to have included anti-Catholic and pro-Communist posts, as well as manga and animé type posts, as well as Falanga imagery.
He allegedly attended the 2020 pro-abortion protests in Poland, the "All-Poland Women’s Strike."
In one of the images pulled from his Facebook account before it was deleted his caption was, "A photo bathed in the red light of communism-simply delightful."
Kanał Zero, a Polish news channel interviewed a couple of people who knew the killer from school and alleged that he had worn all kinds of masks, dressed strangely, and painted his nails black.
Reports about the shooter and the victims are prelimary at the moment, as the story continues to evolve with updates.
Links in comments.
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Today we launched the Vulcănești–Chișinău power line, linking Moldova to Romania and the European grid. For decades, Moscow used energy to blackmail us. No more: Moldova buys zero Russian gas, and two more power lines to Romania are on the way. Thanks to all who made it happen.
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🇵🇱 | В Польше только что выяснилось, что нападавший в Кракове Михал Оксиньский был радикальным левым активистом, антифашистом и анархокоммунистом, который открыто высмеивал христианство.
Правительство Туска и СМИ пытались связать его с правыми группировками, однако сегодня стало известно, что это не соответствует действительности.
Всё просочилось из аккаунтов Оксиньского, которые теперь удалены. Возникает вопрос: кто удалил два аккаунта нападавшего в Facebook, если его родителей и сестру нашли мёртвыми в их жилище?
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🇮🇹🇺🇦 WOW! WHAT A SPEECH! WHAT POWERFUL WORDS FROM ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER GIORGIA MELONI!
Here is the full five-minute excerpt of her speech devoted to Ukraine and Donald Trump.
“Russia has launched a new autumn campaign against Ukraine.
Unable to advance on the battlefield, Moscow has increasingly turned its attacks against civilians: power plants, residential buildings, hospitals, and even buses carrying people to work, as in the horrific massacre in Kramatorsk.
This is a strategy through which Russia seeks to subjugate Ukraine with terror, cold, and darkness, simply because it has failed to conquer it on the battlefield.
The facts contradict Kremlin propaganda and those who spread it here.
Since the beginning of the year, Russia has captured very little territory, and in September it lost much of what it had previously seized.
This halt did not happen by chance. It was achieved through Ukraine’s courage and Western support, including that of Italy.
This resistance is the only effective instrument for bringing Russia to the negotiating table.
I respect and understand the passionate debate on this issue, including within this chamber, because nobody here wants war.
We all want peace.
The difference lies in how we intend to achieve it.
As I see it, supporting Ukraine is not an alternative to peace. It is what makes peace possible.
Because if an aggressor expects its opponent to surrender, why would it negotiate?
Surrender is not peace. It is conquest.
If Ukraine stopped defending itself tomorrow, as many suggest, we would not have peace.
We would be discussing the occupation of a European nation and the return of Soviet imperialism.
Personally, I do not miss those times. I do not miss Russian tanks crushing uprisings in Prague and Budapest.
I do not miss the Berlin Wall.
And nobody will ever convince me that the surrender of those defending their freedom can be called ‘peace.’
The peace we want, and the peace we are working toward, even at the cost of concessions, is a just peace, because only a just peace can endure.
Only a just peace can protect Europe and our interests.
That is why our government's position remains unchanged: support for Ukraine, with particular attention to civilians, pressure on Moscow, and Euro-Atlantic unity remain the pillars of our actions.
In this context, we must address Donald Trump's diesel agreement with Russia.
This is a decision I consider extremely risky.
Of course, we all recognize the need to contain fuel prices, which place a heavy burden on families, including Italian families.
But we must understand that rising prices are primarily linked to the war in Iran, not Ukraine.
Legitimizing Moscow, whose bombs continue to fall on Ukrainian cities, providing new revenues to finance the war, and weakening sanctions are all factors we cannot ignore.
And they contradict everything Western nations, including the United States, have done to force Putin to the negotiating table.
An energy ceasefire is a different matter, one that Italy supports, and we are grateful to President Zelenskyy for Ukraine's immediate willingness to agree to it.
Now we expect Russia to stop attacking Ukraine's energy infrastructure.
Finally, at such a difficult moment, when so many variables are beyond our control, there is at least one thing that depends on us:
We must ensure that Europe does not simply stand by and watch, because the terms of peace will affect our continent and our security.”
— Giorgia Meloni, Prime Minister of Italy
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Some interesting comparison maps I made.
These compare the Russian and Ukrainian MoD maps (Deepstate is pretty much the de facto Ukrainian MoD map now), as well as two independent neutral mappers (Suriyak and I) on the Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, and Donbas axes.
Each line represents the forward zone of Russian control shown by each map.
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"Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual." - Walter E. Williams
Hackers Cyber Partisans and Silent Crow leaked Rosstat death certificate data showing 450,100 Russian military fatalities by late August 2026, derived from data codes for war operations plus estimates for unstated causes.
Numbers align with other estimates from Mediazona/BBC etc.
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🚨 La Suède vient de réaliser son objectif : revenir à 35% de dette publique sur PIB.
Quel exploit.
En 1995, la dette 🇸🇪 était à 85%. 💀
2 ans plus tôt, le pays avait perdu son AAA.
11,2% de déficit au creux de la crise.
Une des raisons (au-delà des dépenses sociales) : l'État avait FORCÉ les banques à accorder des prêts pour que "les personnes défavorisées puissent devenir propriétaire".
Résultat, le secteur bancaire s'était effondré.
😅
Ce que la Suède a fait pour s'en sortir :
→ Laisser le secteur privé tranquille
→ Couper dans ses dépenses
→ Réformer
→ Offrir plus de liberté aux entreprises
→ Supprimer les impôts démagogiques qui appauvrissaient le pays en faisant fuir la richesse (taxe sur les transactions financières, la taxe héritage à 90%...)
La Suède nous a montré le chemin.
Arrêtons d'écouter ceux qui veulent TOUJOURS relancer l'économie par l'augmentation de la dépense publique (ou la taxation des riches/whatever) alors que notre dette est à 119%.
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Today is the National Day for the Victims of Communism. Communism killed more than 100 million people in the 20th century.
This memorial, The Memorial to the Victims of Communism in Prague, powerfully captures what communism does to the human person.
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Friedrich Hayek’s seminal book The Road to Serfdom is a warning against the dangers of government central planning, collectivism, and state control. It is a foundational text for modern libertarianism, but it also captured the imaginations of politicians and rival intellectuals.
John Maynard Keynes, Hayek’s chief macroeconomic rival, read the book while traveling to the Bretton Woods conference. Surprisingly, Keynes praised it as "a grand book," writing to Hayek that "morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it."
Milton Friedman championed the book as a masterpiece of political philosophy. He frequently wrote introductions for its anniversaries, noting that The Road to Serfdom was essential for demonstrating that economic freedom is an indispensable prerequisite for political freedom.
Margaret Thatcher viewed the text as a moral awakening during her university days. It provided her with the philosophical ammunition needed to challenge the British post-war socialist consensus, ultimately defining her premiership's commitment to privatization and deregulation.
George Orwell also famously reviewed the book, offering unique praise. Orwell agreed with Hayek's thesis that state collectivism naturally breeds tyranny, noting that central planning gives "a small minority of bureaucrats" unprecedented power.
Hayek’s central message transcends ideological boundaries: even when well-intentioned, government planning sets a society on a path toward totalitarianism, tyranny, and the destruction of personal liberty.
