Historian, author, ailurophile, ex-army, interested in military & Byzantine history; archaeology; cinema; bee keeping. Pro Ukraine, West Papua; Iran; anti-CCP

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🇨🇳 The most important video you'll ever see about Chinese communism. Historian Sarah Paine explains how Mao killed more people than ALL combined deaths in World War II. Yes, communism is really that evil. It was all done on purpose too. There was no mistake. Mao did this and the CCP never paid a price. x.com/harukaawake/status/198…
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The Islamist revolution that seized Iran was organized from France in 1978, and after nearly 50 years of appeasing Islamism and the far left, the consequences have returned to France with a vengeance. France gave Ruhollah Khomeini sanctuary in Neauphle-le-Château, where he recorded revolutionary messages, coordinated with supporters and prepared his return to Iran. He then flew to Tehran aboard an Air France aircraft and established the Islamic Republic. France did not invent Islamism, but it gave Khomeini a protected platform at the decisive moment when he transformed revolutionary Islamism into state power. His regime then exported that ideology across the Middle East through terrorism, proxy armies, religious radicalization and perpetual war. Now Macron is blaming the Persian Gulf conflict for France’s riots instead of confronting his government’s failed migration and integration policies and the violence of the far left. After protests over fuel prices and living costs descended into rioting, looting and arson, Macron claimed that public anger originated in a conflict France did not start and is now being forced to suffer from. That explanation is politically convenient and historically blind. The Islamic Republic is not a passive victim of war. For decades, it has threatened shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, armed proxies that attack energy infrastructure and treated global oil supplies as leverage against its enemies. The regime helped create the instability now raising fuel prices. Macron reduces that record to a vague “conflict,” erasing the Islamic Republic’s responsibility for weaponizing the Persian Gulf and holding international commerce hostage. There is a grim poetic justice in France now suffering the consequences of the political forces it spent decades excusing. French governments repeatedly underestimated Islamism, failed to integrate large migrant communities and allowed parallel societies and ideological radicalization to deepen. At the same time, parts of the far left normalized political violence and formed opportunistic alliances with Islamist movements under the language of anti-imperialism and resistance. Expensive fuel may explain public anger, but it does not explain organized looting, arson or attacks on public property. A conflict in the Persian Gulf did not create France’s domestic fractures. It exposed them. Macron’s argument also carries an ugly implication for Iranians. If confronting the Islamic Republic raises European fuel prices, then Iranians are expected to remain trapped under a theocracy so Europeans can preserve cheap energy and political comfort. France once sheltered the man who helped place revolutionary Islamism at the centre of Middle Eastern politics. Almost 50 years later, the regime he founded is destabilizing energy markets abroad while the ideological forces France failed to confront are helping tear at the country from within. That is not simply historical irony. It is the bill for decades of denial finally coming due.
BREAKING: Macron blames the protests in France on high fuel prices caused by the US-Iran War
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China's timber imports from post-coup Myanmar skyrocketed from 25.5% to a mind-blowing 228.7% through the Yunnan border, making Beijing the top buyer. Honestly explains why China loves keeping a broken Myanmar weak. It's just too easy to loot their resources.
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Der französische Journalist Paul Amar: »Sie kamen vorbereitet. Sie hatten die Adressen der Rathäuser. Sie hatten Adressen jüdischer Ladenbesitzer. In einer Straße in Marseille wurden alle Geschäfte, die Juden gehörten, angezündet. Geschäfte, die von Muslimen geführt wurden, nicht.« @visegrad24 x.com/JeremBenhaim/status/21…
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So far from home. The grave of a trooper of he King's own Hussars, CWG Cemetery, Ambon, Indonesia
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🚨 HAPPENING NOW: Italian PATRIOTS are taking matters in their own hands by chasing down thugs with Batons Police are fragile and weak and won’t do anything I STAND WITH ITALIAN PATRIOTS
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BREAKING: THE BIGGEST CLIMATE SCANDAL IN AUSTRALIAN HISTORY The Albanese Labor Government has just been caught red handed. New forensic evidence suggests they are using a compromised Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) to fabricate a climate crisis that simply does not exist. A explosive forensic audit led by investigator Tom Berger and retired scientist Geoff Sherrington has uncovered widespread, systematic errors and fake readings within the BOM’s raw climate data. We aren't talking about minor glitches, we are talking about copy and pasted data designed to make the past look cooler and the present look warmer. The audit exposed blatant data manipulation at the Sydney Observatory: •The Fabricated Data: Minimum temperatures from August 1907 were found completely duplicated and inserted into the August 1867 record. •The Cover-Up: The Australian fact-checked the National Archives and confirmed this "double-up" does not exist in the original handwritten records. The online data used to justify sweeping climate policies is completely wrong. For years, the BOM has operated on a “trust us” basis. Dr David Evans, the scientist who built Australia’s carbon accounting software, warns that this “secret climate business” mirrors the worst days of fraudulent medical drug trials, where researchers were under immense pressure to exaggerate results to fit a narrative. Labor is terrified of an independent audit because they know their Net Zero house of cards will collapse if the public sees the real numbers. Dr Jennifer Marohasy confirmed that outside of Adelaide, there has been no proper audit of Australia's weather stations. If our historical data is corrupted with fake inputs, the AI forecasting models used for future planning become entirely useless. The Albanese Government doesn't want the data audited because the data doesn't support their narrative. They are destroying our economy, killing our energy grid, and forcing Net Zero targets on regular Australians based on copy and pasted climate fiction. The question is simple, if the records are sound, why is Labor so opposed to an independent audit?
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China has added more than $43 trillion in debt since Xi Jinping took power. That’s not a typo. The Wall Street Journal’s latest reporting lays out the math: China’s total debt to GDP blew past 300% in 2025, up 60 points since 2019, now higher than the United States. Most of that growth didn’t come from Beijing’s own books, the central government’s debt stays relatively modest at around 30% of GDP. It came from local governments, through murky financing vehicles cities and provinces used to hit growth targets, many of them pouring money into real estate that then collapsed. A broader IMF measure that counts both official local debt and those shadow vehicles puts China’s real government debt load at 127% of GDP, up from 98% just five years ago. Here’s where the money went: factories and apartments nobody needed enough of. That mismatch triggered price wars, squeezed profits and wages, and now feeds directly into deflation and weak demand at home. And it doesn’t stay home. Chinese companies carrying all that debt keep producing more cars, solar panels, and electronics than China itself can absorb. The surplus gets exported, undercutting prices everywhere else and fueling the trade fights now playing out with country after country. Economists call this the real signature of the Xi era: investment-driven growth long after the investments stopped paying off. The capital controls and state-run banks mean China probably avoids a sudden collapse. What it doesn’t avoid is a slow bleed, years of suppressed returns and weaker growth, while everyone downstream absorbs the overflow.
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BREAKING: Ukraine has launched a large-scale drone attack on St. Petersburg, Russia with explosions across parts of the city. According to reports, drones targeted the St. Petersburg oil terminal and a data center. The St. Petersburg oil terminal is a major liquid-product transshipment and storage complex in the Baltic region, handling large volumes of petroleum products.
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BREAKING: Belgium will supply Ukraine with 10 F-16 fighter jets by the end of the year.
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I genuinely don't understand how tens of thousands of Christians are being massacred in Africa by Islamists and nobody seems to care.
BREAKING: A three-year-old child was one of eleven Christians butchered in Nigeria by Islamists this week. His father stated, “I saw more than 15 heavily armed men moving from house to house and chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’ while macheting our people.” Where is the outrage?
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To every American, and to everyone watching France burn from abroad: Do not blame the French people for this. We never asked for it. We never voted for it. And the one time we were clearly asked, we said no. Here are the numbers your media won't show you. 70% of the French say there are too many immigrants in France today. 79% want a tougher immigration policy. 77% disapprove of the government's record on immigration. 83% want foreign criminals and long-term unemployed foreigners sent home. And no, it's not just the old. 69% of French 18 to 24 year olds support suspending legal immigration for three years. This is not a fringe. This is the French people. In 2005, we were asked if we wanted the European Constitution. 55% voted no. Three years later, our politicians passed the same text under another name, through parliament, without ever asking us again. That is modern France in one sentence. The people say no. The elites do it anyway. So who is responsible? The politicians who lied to us. A class of leaders formed in the same schools, the same forums, the same networks, loyal to each other before they are loyal to their nations. In 2017, at Harvard, Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, bragged about his Young Global Leaders program in four words: "We penetrate the cabinets." He added that it was true in France. Emmanuel Macron was one of his Young Global Leaders. It's the same project in Brussels with Ursula von der Leyen and in Paris with Macron. Borders treated as an obstacle. Nations treated as relics. The people treated as a problem to be managed. What you are watching in France is not the French people failing. It is the end of the globalist project, an abject, quasi-communist dream of a world run by unelected planners. It is collapsing everywhere in Europe at once, and the West has to cut this cancer out before it takes the rest of the body with it. The peoples of Europe don't want this. They never did. So when you see our town halls burning, don't say "the French chose this." The French never chose this. They were forced into it. If you're French and you agree, repost this so the world hears it from us. If you're American, look at us carefully. Then choose differently on November 3rd. x.com/MisterKraKra/status/21…
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Galeries Lafayette in Paris is being looted tonight. It’s the French equivalent of Harrods in London or Bergdorf Goodman in NYC
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🇷🇺🇺🇦‼️ BIG | Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered that all major Ukrainian cities be made uninhabitable, The Guardian reports. ♦️ According to reports, intelligence agencies have obtained a Russian document outlining a plan to destroy electricity supplies, heating, water supply, and sewage systems in Ukraine’s major cities. ♦️ According to the document, Russia’s objective is to deteriorate living conditions in these cities to such an extent that remaining there becomes practically impossible for residents. ♦️ The Russian side has calculated in advance how many missiles and drones would be needed to destroy specific critical infrastructure facilities. ♦️ Particular attention is being paid to Kyiv. Under the worst-case scenario, the Ukrainian capital could be left without electricity for up to 20 hours a day. It is worth recalling that Putin gained the ability to pursue such objectives after U.S. President Donald Trump deliberately cut off the supply of Patriot interceptor missiles to Ukraine to help Russia, while also restricting Ukraine’s access to intelligence information and satellite internet.
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Five cronies linked to the coup junta have been released from U.S. sanctions. Among them are arms dealers and business cronies of the military leaders' families. US is slowly normalizing relations with the Junta regime. Sad state of affairs indeed
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