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Walking in New Zealand's Puketi kauri forest outside of Pahia is like visiting the Earth primeval. The magnificent kauris are of Gondwana provenance, but they're youngsters compared to the tree ferns which evolved in the Carboniferous Period - before conifers & flowering plants. 
The tree ferns reproduce by spores. They pre-date the first dinosaurs by over 100 million years, co-existed with dinosaurs all through the Jurassic, and survived the Cretaceous Extinction. Impressive evolutionary success story.
Kauris and tree ferns and moas and kiwi birds (and kiwifruit) and much much much more are covered in my capacious lecture series on 'The Story of New Zealand'.
The "No Kings" rallies were partially funded by Neville Roy Singham, an American tech tycoon and avowed communist living in Shanghai, according to a Fox Digital News investigation.
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Singham is linked to a network of radical socialist and communist organizations that contributed to the protests, which took place on March 28, 2026, across the U.S. and abroad.
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Key groups tied to Singham’s funding
include:
Party for Socialism and Liberation
People’s Forum in New York
ANSWER Coalition
CodePink, co-founded by Singham’s wife, Jodie Evans
Freedom Road Socialist Organization
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include:
Party for Socialism and Liberation
People’s Forum in New York
ANSWER Coalition
CodePink, co-founded by Singham’s wife, Jodie Evans
Freedom Road Socialist Organization
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1/ Meet Kabir Singh, an Indian scammer who impersonates Apple support and then rips off innocent vulnerable people.
He tried to scam me......but instead of paying him money, I hacked into his laptop and redeemed $10,000 worth of giftcards live on webcam!
He tried to scam me......but instead of paying him money, I hacked into his laptop and redeemed $10,000 worth of giftcards live on webcam!
2/ Kabir runs a classic refund tech support scam out of his apartment complex in New delhi, India.
It starts with a fake invoice (Amazon, PayPal etc) saying you were charged and need to call for a refund. That number goes to scammers who take over your computer and walk you through a fake “refund” to drain your bank account.
It starts with a fake invoice (Amazon, PayPal etc) saying you were charged and need to call for a refund. That number goes to scammers who take over your computer and walk you through a fake “refund” to drain your bank account.
3/ The scammer’s main goal? Convince the victim to buy Google play or Apple giftcards.
But when Kabir tried it on me… I gave him access to my virtual machine and used it to hack into his system instead.
But when Kabir tried it on me… I gave him access to my virtual machine and used it to hack into his system instead.
"some commentators...blame Hezbollah’s military ops against Israel as the root issue undermining Lebanon’s sovereignty. Fundamentally, however, the issue of sovereignty has much more to do with the history of the Lebanese state and the question of who protects Lebanon from...Israeli hegemony and expansionism"
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In one year of 'ceasefire' in Lebanon, "Israel had carried out more than 7,500 airspace violations, around 2,500 ground incursions, and at least 669 strikes on Lebanon. These attacks killed at least 331 people, injured 945, and prevented 65,000 displaced people from returning to their homes...The Lebanese gov failed to effectively challenge these violations — politically or militarily — let alone substantially mitigate their impact on the civilians enduring them."
"There are those who measure the capacity and sovereignty of the Lebanese state against the existence ... of Hezbollah... This constitutes flawed analysis at best, and propaganda at worst. Hezbollah’s military confrontation with Israel emerged in response to the absence of any genuine state-led attempt to expel Israeli occupation and deter Israeli aggression."
We can see what Cardinal Pizzaballa intended very clearly. When one accepts certain risks, one cannot complain about the consequences of one's risk-taking. This was a cynical attempt to place Israel in a no win situation but all religious institutions were closed...
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including the Western Wall & al-Aqsa Mosque for their parishioners safety. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre has no bomb shelter for its faithful. Now, we see who the Pope supports. Notice the Cardinal wears a terrorist keffiyah. This Pope was selected to usher in Chrislam.
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If the Pope wants to protect his flock, he can send the funds to build a bomb shelter. There's no way you can reach the Holy Sepulchre with ambulances or even helicopters in case of an attack.
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Tomorrow is my Twitter anniversary
6 years of taking on .@WHO directly on Twitter about droplet dogma
Of pointing out their failure to tell the world that COVID is airborne
After they published this rubbish
6 years of taking on .@WHO directly on Twitter about droplet dogma
Of pointing out their failure to tell the world that COVID is airborne
After they published this rubbish
I first referenced a freshly published paper w easy to understand, hard to deny, visuals that showed coughs & sneezes produced 'jets' that could travel 8m or more, included a continuum of particle sizes & persisted in the air
This was after spending 2 months trying to convince early Twitter & WHO influencers that Covid was airborne & to pls help warn the world
1/ Recruitment for Russia's drone forces has slumped, despite an intensive recruitment campaign, because potential volunteers fear being forced to become stormtroopers. The situation is so severe that a Russian general has suggested moving drone forces out of the Russian army. ⬇️
2/ Alexey Chadayev, the head of the Ushkuynik Research and Production Centre – a leading Russian drone development organisation – recounts a conversation that he had recently with a Russian lieutenant general about the army's failing UAV pilot recruitment programme:
3/ "Today I had a conversation with a lieutenant general, a longtime acquaintance of mine and, without exaggeration, a senior comrade and mentor. He gave me an idea I'd like to share with the channel.
Thread: There is an increasingly irrational and unhinged quality to both Trump's and Israel's narrative of their war on Iran and Lebanon. The strategic rationality of both Iran's legitimate self-defense against a war of aggression and Hizbullah's resistance to the annexation of southern Lebanon, which the counter-sovereign Lebanese government has been almost desperately trying to hand over to Israel on a silver platter, has become impossible to deny and it explains more about what we are witnessing than any theory about Trump's madness or crude propaganda. 1/5
Trump repeatedly declaring that Iran "has been defeated", while his White House spokesperson insists that "any violence beyond this point will be because Iran refused to understand that they have already been defeated," is too irrational an argument to be taken seriously by anyone of sound mind, given the objective reality of Iran's resounding military successes, and the fact that if Iran was indeed defeated this would obviate the need for the war to continue. 2/5
Neither can anyone take seriously Israel's farcical claim that Ali Choueib — a veteran TV journalist whose face was known across the Arab world for three decades — belonged to Hizbullah's clandestine elite Radwan force. Nor does anyone (including Hizbullah's own domestic rivals) seriously entertain Israel's allegation that Hizbullah uses ambulances to smuggle weapons in order to justify killing scores of paramedics--an allegation all the more stomach-churning given that the Lebanese army confirmed earlier this month that it was Israeli troops who disguised themselves as first responders in their raid on the Bekaa town of Nabi Chit. 3/5
1/8 🧵 Right now, PHANTOM WAKE is showing 16 ships behaving very suspiciously near the underwater cables that carry ~95% of the world's internet traffic. These detections happened in a 19-hour window across 4 different oceans. Clustering here very likely not a coincidence #OSINT
2/8 First, what ARE these cables?
They're fiber-optic cables laid on the seafloor connecting every continent. When you video call someone in Europe from the US, your data travels through one. There are about 500 of them worldwide, and they're shockingly easy to damage
They're fiber-optic cables laid on the seafloor connecting every continent. When you video call someone in Europe from the US, your data travels through one. There are about 500 of them worldwide, and they're shockingly easy to damage
3/8 Here's the dirty secret: Easiest way to cut one is to drag an anchor over it. Slow a ship down to almost zero knots directly above the cable, drop the anchor, and let it scrape. Almost impossible to prove it was intentional! Russia & China have done it repeatedly since 2022
🇬🇪This March, Georgian Dream completes its transition to a legal dictatorship.
Not a coup. Not a crackdown. A methodical dismantling of every check on power, done in plain sight while the West watches and does "nothing".
Georgia has not backslid.
It has crossed a threshold.
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Not a coup. Not a crackdown. A methodical dismantling of every check on power, done in plain sight while the West watches and does "nothing".
Georgia has not backslid.
It has crossed a threshold.
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By March 2026, Georgian Dream will have criminalized dissent, starved civil society, and banned independent election monitoring.
This is an 🇪🇺EU candidate country whose people march for Europe.
The democratic will exists.
The legal space to exercise it is being destroyed.
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This is an 🇪🇺EU candidate country whose people march for Europe.
The democratic will exists.
The legal space to exercise it is being destroyed.
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Georgian Dream's 2026 amendments redefine "grant" to mean any foreign funds or in-kind contribution that may "influence" any part of Georgian society.
A software license. A library subscription. A pro bono session. All potentially criminal.
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A software license. A library subscription. A pro bono session. All potentially criminal.
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In 2003, after a thorough study of the Mahabharata, Giampaolo Thomasetti began work on a large-scale project dedicated to it. After 12 years, he completed his collection of over 20 majestic paintings depicting the main moments of this great spiritual epic. 👇
-Kunti, using mantra given to her by Rishi Durvasa, summons Surya, the sun-god, who ends up placing his energy within her and making her pregnant with Karna, one of the great warriors of the epic.
-The Pandavas enter Hastinapura after being advised by the sages to return to the capital at once: "The time has come for you to take your rightful place as lords of the world."
-Having spent several months in Indraprastha as the guest of the Pandavas, Krishna sets off for Dwaraka, his own city, on his great chariot, driven by Daruka, his pure devotee and eternal charioteer.
-Godly sage Narada watches Krishna and his brother, Balarama, standing on a balcony.
-The Pandavas enter Hastinapura after being advised by the sages to return to the capital at once: "The time has come for you to take your rightful place as lords of the world."
-Having spent several months in Indraprastha as the guest of the Pandavas, Krishna sets off for Dwaraka, his own city, on his great chariot, driven by Daruka, his pure devotee and eternal charioteer.
-Godly sage Narada watches Krishna and his brother, Balarama, standing on a balcony.
-Bhima, guarding the other Pandavas and their mother who were asleep, is approached by the demoness Hidimbi, sent by her brother Hidimba to slay him but instead is struck by desire for him. The hero at first refuses her but after slaying her brother he ends up marrying her.
-Meeting of Kunti and Draupadi, King Drupada's beautiful daughter whose hand Arjuna won in an archery contest. She became a consort of the five Pandava brothers.
-Krishna in Indraprastha, a magnificent city and the capital of the kingdom led by the Pandavas. It was sanctified by Indra and built by Vishvakarma, the celestial architect.
-Arjuna had been in the heavens for almost five years. Soon he would return. The sage Lomasha told the other Pandavas that they should meet Arjuna as he descended from heaven onto the summit of the Gandhamadana mountain. They decided to go there to await Arjuna’s arrival.
-Meeting of Kunti and Draupadi, King Drupada's beautiful daughter whose hand Arjuna won in an archery contest. She became a consort of the five Pandava brothers.
-Krishna in Indraprastha, a magnificent city and the capital of the kingdom led by the Pandavas. It was sanctified by Indra and built by Vishvakarma, the celestial architect.
-Arjuna had been in the heavens for almost five years. Soon he would return. The sage Lomasha told the other Pandavas that they should meet Arjuna as he descended from heaven onto the summit of the Gandhamadana mountain. They decided to go there to await Arjuna’s arrival.
A physicist who spent 30 years studying why massive engineering systems fail realized one terrifying truth:
Optimizing anything other than the primary bottleneck is an absolute waste of time.
His name is Eliyahu M. Goldratt, the man who famously revolutionized modern operations management. He argued that we obsess over making individual teams faster and completely ignore the actual flow of the system.
Here are 4 operational frameworks he used to build elite, hyper-efficient organizations:
Optimizing anything other than the primary bottleneck is an absolute waste of time.
His name is Eliyahu M. Goldratt, the man who famously revolutionized modern operations management. He argued that we obsess over making individual teams faster and completely ignore the actual flow of the system.
Here are 4 operational frameworks he used to build elite, hyper-efficient organizations:
1. The Bottleneck Audit
Situation: Your engineering team is sprinting, but deployments are still taking weeks. You hire more developers, build more features, and push more code, but it only creates a massive pileup of untested work. The chaos multiplies.
System: Stop looking at the overall speed of the department. Map the exact step where work piles up. If your QA team can only test 5 features a week, it does not matter if your developers write 50. The entire company moves at the speed of QA.
Why it works: You stop wasting capital optimizing non-constraints. Hiring more developers when QA is drowning is actively harmful. You focus entirely on the single choke point that dictates your revenue.
Situation: Your engineering team is sprinting, but deployments are still taking weeks. You hire more developers, build more features, and push more code, but it only creates a massive pileup of untested work. The chaos multiplies.
System: Stop looking at the overall speed of the department. Map the exact step where work piles up. If your QA team can only test 5 features a week, it does not matter if your developers write 50. The entire company moves at the speed of QA.
Why it works: You stop wasting capital optimizing non-constraints. Hiring more developers when QA is drowning is actively harmful. You focus entirely on the single choke point that dictates your revenue.
2. The Constraint Protection
Situation: The single senior backend engineer who reviews all the critical database migrations is constantly pulled into pointless alignment meetings, marketing syncs, and HR seminars.
System: Offload every single non-essential task from the bottleneck. Build an absolute fortress around their time. If a specific process or person dictates the speed of the entire company, that resource must never wait, never sit idle, and never attend a status update.
Why it works: You treat your most constrained resource with ruthless protection. An hour lost at the bottleneck is an hour lost for the entire system. You cannot buy that time back.
Situation: The single senior backend engineer who reviews all the critical database migrations is constantly pulled into pointless alignment meetings, marketing syncs, and HR seminars.
System: Offload every single non-essential task from the bottleneck. Build an absolute fortress around their time. If a specific process or person dictates the speed of the entire company, that resource must never wait, never sit idle, and never attend a status update.
Why it works: You treat your most constrained resource with ruthless protection. An hour lost at the bottleneck is an hour lost for the entire system. You cannot buy that time back.
