In town after town after town English cabbies have been entirely replaced by Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi men who are incapable of speaking English. Yet another example of how our society has been entirely transformed by immigration. I am sick of it.

Looking specifically at methane (CH₄) in the red-highlighted band near the infrared spectrum (10µm range), we observe its absorption band in a relatively narrow wavelength region. However, when comparing this with the absorption by water vapor (H₂O) in the cyan-highlighted area, it becomes clear that water vapor absorbs broadly and significantly across much of the infrared spectrum, including wavelengths that overlap methane's absorption range. This means that water vapor is already absorbing the majority of the radiation in these overlapping bands. Water vapor is vastly more abundant in the atmosphere than methane, with concentrations measured in parts per thousand (ppt) compared to methane's parts per billion (ppb). The dominance of water vapor absorption effectively "saturates" these overlapping wavelengths, leaving methane with only a minimal additional impact on the total radiative transfer. This is why slight increases in methane concentrations due to anthropogenic or natural emissions have a negligible effect on Earth's energy balance compared to the influence of water vapor. In summary, while methane is a greenhouse gas on a per-molecule basis, its contribution is limited by the overwhelming and already saturated absorption capabilities of water vapor in the same regions of the spectrum.

Visited London for the first time in quite a while. Harrowing experience… 1. They’re lying about the numbers. The next census is going to be absolutely barbaric reading. 2. Things are far worse than most people outside of London could possibly imagine. The entire city has been turned into a middle Easter bazaar and a sub continental slop market.

I used to review officer-involved shooting reports generated by a D.A. explaining the decision to exonerate officers, and recall often thinking “I mean, could that *really* be how it went down?” I suspected there may be some fog of war or selective memory or post-hoc justification to give the officer a rational justification and paint the victim in a negative, irrational light. But with the post-2020 adoption of body cams, I now believe it all. There is no behavior too insane for a huge number of suspects when confronted with literally any command by an officer requesting some form of compliance. Even I thought body cams would shine a light on some substantial percentage of clear officer abuse, but it’s clearly negligible, while dangerous and erratic behavior by suspects is widespread. It is impossible to overstate how wrong BLM and reform activists were on this count.

For 300 years the Ottoman Turks were stealing Christian kids from their mothers. This was the most brutal thing humanity ever witnessed. They were waiting for women to birth, raise their kids, and then at the age of 8 were collecting them. The devsirme known as "collection of children" or "blood tax" or in Greek as "paidomazoma", was a systematic practice by the Ottoman Empire from the late 14th century until the mid-17th century, that forced the recruitment of young Christian boys, typically aged 8–18, from Balkan provinces as a form of tribute. The Turkish envoy would appear in the villages and demand that all fathers present themselves before him with their sons. From these, he selected the best-built and strongest to become Janissaries. Initially, the Turks took children aged 6-7 years, and only one child per family. Later, however, recruitment extended to ages 8-10, and gradually the number of children per family increased, until it was possible for all male children to be taken. Christians went so far as to marry off their boys at a young age or convert to the faith voluntarily to avoid the child levy. But even this was not always helpful, since the Turks paid little attention to such details. The child levy was perhaps the greatest wound for Christians during Turkish rule. These boys were taken from their families, converted to Islam, and rigorously trained to serve in the empire's military, administrative, and bureaucratic roles. This created a loyal class of elite soldiers and officials who were dependent on the sultan rather than on hereditary Turkish aristocracy. They were separated according to ability and could rise in rank based on merit. The most promising boys known as "inner boys", received elite education in Constantinople's Enderun School, covering warfare, administration, sciences, and Islamic theology. Many became Janissaries, the empire's elite infantry corps, or rose to high positions like grand viziers, provincial governors, admirals, or financial bureaucrats. We estimate the total number of Christian boys taken across the entire Ottoman Empire (primarily Eastern Europe aka Balkans) around 300.000 kids. From those kids at least 180.000 were Greek kids (over 300 years 1362-1648). It means more than the half of the total kids that were stolen were only Greek. For example in 1540, a levy in the regions of Thessaly & Macedonia took 1.000 Greek boys in one season and in Chios (Greek island) 200 boys taken in 1567 alone. The peak was 5.000 kids/annual from Greece. A generational trauma, with thousands of Greek families losing sons every few years for centuries. The system began under Sultan Murad I (1362–1389) and largely ended by 1648. Greeks, as a major Christian population in the Ottoman Balkans, were heavily affected by the devsirme. After the fall of Constantinople in 1453, Ottoman control extended over most Greek lands, making Greek Orthodox families prime targets for recruitment. On 28 February 1395, Archbishop Isidore Glabas of Thessaloniki denounced it in a speech as "paidomazoma" (child-gathering), describing the anguish of parents: "mothers scratching their cheeks in grief and fathers beating their breasts and the violent Islamization of children and their hard training in the use of dogs and falcons." A 1550 Greek poem by Ioannes Axayiolis, appealed to Charles V of Germany to liberate the Christians from the Turks (for liberation from this "sorrow"). The text is found in the Codex Vaticanus Graecus of 1624. In another account, the Roman Catholic bishop of Chios in 1646 writes to the director of the Catholic Greek Gymnasion of Rome asking the latter to accept Pavlos Omeros (lol my name literaly Pavlos Homeros too), a 12-year-old boy from Chios, to save him from the devshirme. Once taken, boys were circumcised, renamed with Muslim names, and forbidden from contact with their families. They were raised as Muslims, effectively erasing their Greek cultural and religious identity to foster loyalty to the sultan. Historical records show Greek-origin devşirme boys rising to prominence, such as Mimar Sinan (chief architect of the Ottomans, possibly Greek) and several grand viziers like Ibrahim Edhem Pasha (from Chios). The devshirme was the greatest wound inflicted on Hellenism during the period of Turkish tyranny. The children who were seized were considered definitively lost. In Epirus, in fact, on the first Sunday after the abduction, their parents would go to church dressed in black, where a funeral service was chanted. In this service, the names of the children were read aloud as if they were dead. Now, I think you understand who the real ancestors of the Muslim Turks are and why they are afraid of DNA tests. Keep in mind that whole villages and cities in Anatolia were wholly Islamized, and they became Ottomans and Muslim Turks (from Christian Greeks, Armenians, etc.) in "one night." This is one of the many reasons Turkey is a paper nation, a sandcastle, a pseudo-nation without historical and genetic continuity. If you want to support me in the effort I’m making, please consider becoming a subscriber to my X account for only $2. I write about the ancient, medieval, and modern history of Greece and what Christians went through because of Islam. Always with primary sources and historical facts. Thanks for reading me and for all the support. - Homer Pavlos

The electorate aren’t goldfish. Our memories are long enough to recall June 2024, when you declared that trans-identified men with penises should be able to use women’s public bathrooms. It took a Supreme Court ruling to force you to uphold women’s rights, and now you pose as our bold champion? Please.

In 1933, a beautiful, young Austrian woman took off her clothes for a movie director. She ran through the woods, naked. She swam in a lake, naked. The most popular movie in 1933 was King Kong. But everyone in Hollywood was talking about that scandalous movie with the gorgeous, young Austrian woman. Louis B. Mayer, of the giant studio MGM, said she was the most beautiful woman in the world. The film was banned practically everywhere, which of course made it even more popular and valuable. Mussolini reportedly refused to sell his copy at any price. The star of the film, called "Ecstasy," was Hedwig Kiesler. She said the secret of her beauty was "to stand there and look stupid." In reality, Kiesler was anything but stupid. At the time she made Ecstasy, Kiesler was married to one of the richest men in Austria. Friedrich Mandl was Austria's leading arms maker. His firm would become a key supplier to the Nazis. Mandl used his beautiful young wife as a showpiece at important business dinners with representatives of the Austrian, Italian, and German fascist forces. One of Mandl's favorite topics at these gatherings - which included meals with Hitler and Mussolini - was the technology surrounding radio-controlled missiles and torpedoes. As a Jew, Kiesler hated the Nazis. She abhorred her husband's business ambitions. Mandl responded to his willful wife by imprisoning her in his castle, Schloss Schwarzenau. In 1937, she managed to escape. She drugged her maid, snuck out of the castle wearing the maid's clothes and sold her jewelry to finance a trip to London. (She got out just in time. In 1938, Germany annexed Austria. The Nazis seized Mandl's factory. He was half Jewish. Mandl fled to Brazil. (Later, he became an adviser to Argentina's iconic populist president, Juan Peron.) In London, Kiesler arranged a meeting with Louis B. Mayer. She signed a long-term contract with him, becoming one of MGM's biggest stars. She appeared in more than 20 films. She was a co-star to Clark Gable, Judy Garland, and even Bob Hope. Each of her first seven MGM movies was a blockbuster. But Kiesler cared far more about fighting the Nazis than about making movies. At the height of her fame, in 1942, she developed a new kind of communications system, optimized for sending coded messages that couldn't be "jammed." She was building a system that would allow torpedoes and guided bombs to always reach their targets. She was building a system to kill Nazis. By the 1940s, both the Nazis and the Allied forces were using the kind of single frequency radio-controlled technology Kiesler's ex-husband had been peddling. Most of you won't recognize the name Kiesler. And no one would remember the name Hedy Markey. But it's a fair bet than anyone reading this post of a certain age, will remember one of the great beauties of Hollywood's golden age - Hedy Lamarr. That's the name

🚨THIS IS JUDGE MAGGIE SCOTT She let child rapist Daniel Cieslak — who pleaded GUILTY to raping a 12-YEAR-OLD girl — WALK FREE from her courtroom with an ABSOLUTE DISCHARGE. No jail. No real punishment. She said there was “no public interest” in punishing him because he thought the girl looked older and “willingly participated.” But wait — it gets worse. This same judge previously sparked outrage by praising Algerian rapist Hamadache Hamza while sentencing him. Hamza brutally raped a woman over an entire weekend. Yet Lady Scott gave him “credit” for overcoming his “very difficult background” in Algeria to settle in Britain and open a hairdressing business. This is what happens when judges care more about a predator’s “background” and “success” than protecting innocent children and women. Judges like this are why victims are re-traumatized and criminals laugh. We need real justice — tough judges who put victims first and predators behind bars where they belong. What do you think should happen to judges who show this kind of leniency?

In the past week alone, Muslims have: 1. Slaughtered 9 Christians during a funeral in Jordan. 2. Beheaded 40 Christians in Nigeria with machetes. 3. Massacred 60 Christians in Ethiopia and burned down their homes. They didn’t get even 1% of the media coverage Gaza gets.

Ik heb voor 8 Europese landen de officiële cijfers over zedendelicten naar herkomst naast elkaar gezet. Steeds hetzelfde patroon: een veelvoud t.o.v. de autochtone bevolking, gecorrigeerd voor leeftijd en geslacht. Gesorteerd op het gemiddelde over alle landen. Bovenaan: Afghanistan ~4,0x Midden-Oosten en Noord-Afrika ~3,8x Irak ~3,5x Syrië, Afrika bezuiden de Sahara, Marokko, Somalië ~3,2 tot 3,4x Onderaan: EU ~1,2x Oost-Azië ~0,85x Westerse landen ~0,7x De patronen: 1. Herkomst bepaalt het beeld, niet het land Over alle 70 datapunten verklaart de herkomstgroep 59% van de verschillen (R² = 0,59). Het land, en daarmee de meetmethode, verklaart maar 23%. Wie zegt “dat komt door de manier van meten” verklaart dus het kleinste deel, het grootste deel is herkomst! 2. Overal dezelfde volgorde In elk land met data zitten dezelfde groepen bovenaan. Meestal 2 tot 7x het autochtone niveau, in Finland bij Irakezen 9,5x. 3. Het is geen “migranten”-effect Oost-Aziaten zitten overal rond of onder de baseline, EU-burgers rond 1 tot 1,9x, westerse migranten in Nederland precies 1,0x. Herkomst maakt het verschil, niet migratie als zodanig. 4. Meetmethode bepaalt de hoogte, niet de richting Landen die op nationaliteit tellen (VK, Duitsland, Finland) komen hoger uit dan landen die op herkomst tellen (Denemarken, Nederland, Noorwegen). Wie naturaliseert verdwijnt uit de groep, wat overblijft zijn vooral recente aankomers. Maar ook met de strengste methode blijft de oververtegenwoordiging staan. 5. Inkomen en opleiding verklaren het niet weg Zweden corrigeert ook voor inkomen en opleiding. Centraal-Azië (vooral Afghanen) zakt dan van 9,4x naar 5,6x. Kleiner, niet weg. 6. Hoe ernstiger het delict, hoe groter het verschil Denemarken, Midden-Oosten en Noord-Afrika: 2,5x bij alle zedendelicten, 4,9x bij verkrachting. Afrika bezuiden de Sahara: 2,5x tegen 7,0x. 7. Waarom ontbreken Frankrijk, Italië en anderen w.o België? Niet weggelaten. Ze publiceren de cijfers niet zo dat je de vergelijking kunt maken. Frankrijk: etnische statistiek wettelijk sterk beperkt, alleen Frans tegenover buitenlands. Buitenlanders zijn 13,5% van de verdachten van zedendelicten, bij circa 7% van de bevolking. Italië: alleen Italiaans tegenover buitenlands. 42% van de verkrachtingsverdachten is buitenlander, bij 8,7% van de bevolking. Zwitserland: nationaliteit alleen voor alle misdrijven samen, niet per delict. Oostenrijk: geen gepubliceerde tabel, alleen losse Kamervragen. België en Ierland: geen nationaliteit van verdachten per delict. Kanttekeningen: dit zijn verdachten, aanklachten of veroordelingen, afhankelijk van het land. Aangiftebereidheid kan per groep verschillen. In absolute aantallen heeft de meerderheid van de daders een autochtone achtergrond. Het gaat om het risico per persoon. En R² beschrijft hoe consistent het patroon is, niet waarom het bestaat. Conclusie: acht landen met één duidelijk patroon. En dat patroon wordt voor het grootste deel verklaard door herkomst. Consequentie: Bij het verlenen van de gunst van een verblijfsvergunning kunnen land bepalen wie daar wel en wie daar niet in aanmerking voor komt. Bronnen: VK: The Economist (okt. 2026), op basis van MoJ/ONS via Migration Observatory Duitsland: BKA, Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik 2024 (T40, T62); Destatis Spanje: INE, Estadística de Condenados 2024-2025; INE, Estadística Continua de Población Finland: Tilastokeskus, StatFin 13yy en 11rg (2021-2025) Zweden: Brå, rapport 2021:9, tabellbilaga 1 (2015-2018) Denemarken: Danmarks Statistik, STRAFNA4, STRAF40, FOLK2 (2021-2025) Nederland: CBS, 81947NED, 37325, 85656NED, 85510NED (2018-2025) Noorwegen: SSB, siktelser og innvandringsbakgrunn (dec. 2024) Frankrijk: SSMSI/INSEE. Italië: ISTAT. Zwitserland: BFS. Oostenrijk: BMI/Parlament. Eigen berekening.

When he looked at what Waugh had written on the paper, it said, “Go away.”

A Budget that amounts to pissing into a westerly gale - tinkering around the edges while the British economy burns, with a treasury packed full of economic arsonists. It is an insult to every taxpayer, every struggling business and every family being bled dry by this rotten economic system. Nothing will change - we continue our uninterrupted plunge into the abyss. The country is drowning in debt. I don’t know how else to say this… We are BANKRUPT. We cannot afford any of this. Nothing. A crushing tax burden remains, small businesses are strangled and as employers we’re punished for creating jobs. For what? To fund millions of scroungers who can’t be arsed to work like the rest of us? Foreigners who turn up and expect housing, benefits, healthcare? When our tax goes up, THAT is what we are funding. Debt is now THREE TRILLION. We can thank lockdown for a large part of that. But please think about it. Three trillion. The scale is just unimaginable. Yet we get another Chancellor fiddling with the numbers while the country goes up in flames. Billions and billions and billions get added every month. It is GROWING. I don’t know how else to say this. The people governing us seem absolutely incapable of understanding one basic principle. Wealth is created by businesses and workers. NOT by politicians spending somebody else's money to win votes. NOT by the state. NOT by the public sector. I detest it. The British people, working mums and dads, are expected to work longer and harder to fund this corrupt charade - all while giant multinationals shift vast profits out of our country on the back of their work and bloated corporates extract outrageous contract profits from the taxpayer thanks to criminal public sector mismanagement. I challenge Healey or Burnham. Go and start a business. A cafe, a contractor, a small shop. Try being a sole contractor on the tools. Experience these taxes, the regulation, the stress. Have their families rely on sporadic invoices. Watch their earnings get siphoned off by a corrupt state. Let’s see how they get on. The system does not need reforming, or conserving - it needs smashing up. We need to rip apart, limb from limb, the failed assumptions that have governed British economic policy for decades. Cut the waste. Shrink the state. Slash the tax burden. Back small British businesses. Reward work. Restore the incentive to invest, build, employ and succeed. Get millions of healthy Brits OFF benefits. Give people a reason to work. BE UNPOPULAR. If healthy scroungers hate me for taking their benefits off them, good. Get used to it. It’s all that, on a scale never seen before, or the country will collapse further into a third world hellhole - only this time we’ll get the hyperinflation and total economic catastrophe in addition to the migrants. I refuse to leave a broken, bankrupt nation to my children and grandchildren. Restore Britain is offering a route out. It will be painful, more than anyone realises. But it is the only way.

So there we have it. Probably the highest day ever in the BM at over £52 million The final number tends to be a bit higher than the trading figure reported by LCP This is what Connect & Manage has done... We spent £52 million because we had to throw away wind in Scotland that we built despite knowing we can't use it Plus NESO not curtailing it before the DA auction meaning instead of gas plant self dispatching it has to be bid on in the BM @Miatsf @mgshanks @AndrewBowie_MP @ClaireCoutinho @harrietc @ColinMoynihanUK @drlukeevans @ashley7fox @TiceRichard @cmackinlay @DavidGHFrost @mattwridley @Iromg @AllisonPearson @MerrynSW @EdConwaySky @afneil @mattotele @jonathan_leake @julietsamuel @energygovuk

At Auschwitz, Josef Mengele stood on the selection ramp and called: “Zwillinge heraus.” Twins, step forward. He pulled roughly 1,500 pairs of children—mostly Jewish and Roma—from the trains. They received slightly better food and a separate barracks. Then the work began. One twin was injected with disease, phenol, or unknown substances. The other served as the living control. Eye drops meant to change color produced blindness and permanent damage. Surgeries occurred without anesthesia. When one child died, the other was frequently killed the same day so both could be dissected side by side. Of the estimated 3,000 children, only about 200 survived. In occupied Manchuria, Japan’s Unit 731 under Shirō Ishii called prisoners “maruta”—logs. Thousands of Chinese civilians, POWs, and others were deliberately infected with plague, anthrax, cholera, or typhoid, then vivisected without anesthesia so researchers could observe the disease in living tissue. Frostbite tests, pressure chambers, limb amputations and reattachments, forced impregnation followed by further experiments. No one is documented to have left the facility alive. Those were secret, lethal experiments on captives under wartime totalitarian regimes, driven by racial ideology or bioweapons development. The doctors recorded their results, shipped organs to institutes, and most escaped full accountability. Decades later, under a different ideology, another cohort of doctors began chemically and surgically altering the healthy developing bodies of minors experiencing gender distress. Puberty blockers (GnRH agonists) followed by cross-sex hormones. The claimed justification: affirmation of an internal identity, reduction of dysphoria, prevention of suicide. The evidence base has not held. The UK’s Cass Review (2024), drawing on systematic reviews by the University of York, concluded the evidence for puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones in adolescents is “remarkably weak” and “wholly inadequate.” No reliable evidence of long-term benefit for dysphoria or mental health. Clear risks to bone density; fertility and sexual function compromised or destroyed; effects on cognitive and psychosexual development unknown. The UK ended routine NHS use of puberty blockers. Sweden, Finland, Norway, and others restricted them to research or exceptional cases, returning to psychosocial approaches first. Historical data showed high desistance rates for childhood-onset dysphoria when left untreated. The post-2010s surge has been overwhelmingly adolescent-onset and female, with elevated rates of autism, trauma, anxiety, and depression. The interventions are irreversible for many: sterility, loss of sexual function, lifelong medical dependence, unknown cognitive impacts. Internal documents from activist medical groups have acknowledged that many minors cannot fully grasp the permanence. Systematic reviews of benefit were weak or absent; dissent was often treated as ideological rather than scientific. When the current ideological framework loses its institutional power, when the evidence is examined without political pressure, and when a full accounting occurs, the chemical and surgical medicalization of healthy minors for gender distress will be viewed by future medical historians as a profound ethical failure—on the same order of horror as the earlier experiments that treated children as material for an unproven theory.

A British government minister should be fired immediately for saying this It means that most of us cannot trust the government any more

Perhaps mathematics attracts guys who found stamp collecting too practical

This is honestly shocking. Three months ago, Hong Wang was awarded the Fields Medal for resolving the Kakeya conjecture in three dimensions. Today, OpenAI released a proposed proof of the conjecture in ALL dimensions. And that’s not all. It also announced a proposed existence proof for quantum chromodynamics and a proposed refutation of the Exponential Time Hypothesis. Experts say that, if confirmed, these would be Nobel prize and Turing award level discoveries respectively. A journalist just asked me: “What remains for humans to do?” I think it’s becoming increasingly clear that more and more problem solving will be automated. But humans will remain crucial in determining the direction of discovery. Deciding which problems are worth solving. Because the value of a discovery depends on our needs, our priorities and the kind of world we want to build. There will be a shift from problem solving to problem setting. I also think there will be huge individual differences. People with strong critical thinking skills, creativity and imagination will be supercharged by AI. People without those skills risk surrendering to it. I’m particularly concerned for children, who may never develop these skills. I think epistemic literacy - how to distinguish information from knowledge - is the single most important skill we should be teaching.

UK: Somalian migrant Dahir Ibrahim has raped so many women at knifepoint in the UK it is almost unbelievable. These women's lives will be changed forever but he has successfully won several court cases now because of human rights laws. He has successfully appealed a prison term after multiple rapes and was given a community order. Within weeks he had raped more women at knifepoint. After being finally sentenced to 10 years he blocked the Home Office's ability to deport him (Kier Starmer might have been his defence). He has now successfully sued the NHS trust since despite being addicted to Codeine has has argued that he was made to take it during Ramadan which goes against his human rights. And he has won. You tell me how fkd up the UK is right now. x.com/LawAndFraud/status/211…

Recently I was talking with a friend about universal geniuses. And something struck me. Florence, 1480–1510. Same city, same moment: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, Botticelli, Pico della Mirandola. Raphael right behind them. They walked the same streets. Europe, 1600–1700. Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Pascal, Huygens, Newton, Leibniz. In two generations, we got calculus, modern mechanics, probability theory, and the scientific method. Athens, 470–320 BC. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, Phidias, Thucydides. One century, one city, and the foundations of Western thought were laid. Europe, 1890–1930. Poincaré, Hilbert, Einstein, Marie Curie, Tesla, Planck, Bohr, then von Neumann. Always the same pattern. In every great era, the West had 15 to 20 minds of this caliber alive at the same time. People who could touch everything and push the frontier of several fields at once. Today we have one. Just one. Elon Musk. And Elon is an anomaly. Not in the sense that he shouldn't exist. In the sense that the world we built is designed so that someone like him never emerges. Statistically, he shouldn't be here. Because what forged Elon was an absolutely insane move. October 2002. eBay buys PayPal. Elon walks away with roughly $180M. Anyone else buys an island and never works another day. He puts $100M into SpaceX, $70M into Tesla, $10M into SolarCity. Almost everything. On rockets and electric cars, two industries no sane person wanted to touch. 2006–2008. The first three Falcon 1 launches fail. Tesla is burning cash, the financial crisis hits, investors run. He has enough left for one last launch. Just one. He borrows money from friends to pay his rent. September 28, 2008. The fourth launch reaches orbit. December 23, 2008. NASA awards SpaceX a $1.6B contract. December 24, 2008. The Tesla round closes at the last possible hour. A few more days and everything collapses. That's what a genius is. Not just IQ. The ability to put everything on the table when the entire world tells you it's impossible, and be right. Now the real question: why do we only have one? Because a genius needs three things. The freedom to try. The right to get massively rich if it works. The right to fail without being destroyed. And that's exactly what the collectivist left and the technocrats have torn down across the West for the past 50 years. They turned success into suspicion. Making a lot of money became a moral failing. Taking risks became irresponsible. Rising above the crowd became an insult to equality. They stacked up norms, committees, permits, regulations written in Brussels by people who have never built anything in their lives. In Europe, Elon would never have been allowed to blow up three rockets. He'd have been stopped at the first form. They want to tax capital before it even exists, cap fortunes, redistribute what others created by risking everything. They replaced excellence with conformity. Our schools produce docile people, not dangerous ones. And a genius, by definition, is someone who disrupts. Their entire system is built to neutralize the people who disrupt. The result: where we should have 15 to 20 universal geniuses alive at the same time, we have one. Just one. And you want to put him in prison. You summon him before judges, you raid his offices, you insult him morning, noon and night, you dream of breaking up his companies. The man who lands rockets vertically and wants to take humanity to Mars. You're disgusting. History won't remember your names. It remembers Galileo, not the inquisitors who tried to silence him.

🇦🇺 She survived the execution of her fellow nurses. Then, for three and a half years, her friends kept that survival a secret. On February 16, 1942, Japanese soldiers ordered 22 Australian nurses into the sea at Radji Beach, on Bangka Island. Two days earlier, the nurses had survived the sinking of the SS Vyner Brooke while fleeing Singapore. Now machine guns opened fire behind them. Vivian Bullwinkel, 26, was hit. She fell into the water and lay motionless until the soldiers left. Of the 22 nurses, she alone survived. For 12 days, she hid with a wounded British soldier, tending him despite her own injury. Eventually, they surrendered. He died soon afterward. In captivity, Vivian found other nurses who had survived the shipwreck. She told them what had happened on the beach. They understood the danger: their captors must never discover that a witness to the massacre was still alive. For the rest of their imprisonment, they never spoke of it. Through hunger, disease, and years of captivity on Bangka and Sumatra, they protected her secret. Eight of the captured Australian nurses died before freedom came. Vivian survived to testify at the Tokyo war crimes tribunal and spent decades honoring her murdered colleagues. She died on July 3, 2000, aged 84. During captivity, silence had helped protect her. Afterward, she made sure the world heard their story. Follow @Vanguard_WW2 for more extraordinary lives behind the history of World War II.