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The post-Soviet financial rape of Russia and subsequent NATO fuckery has cruelled a great European renaissance.
Every geo-political event since the fall of the USSR has been shaped at cementing US hegemony and hobbling Europe.
For the briefest of whiles, Europe succoured on ‘that Russian energy’ but alas, that too has now been lain waste utterly.
Now they’re paying double for the privilege of destroying their remnant industrial base.
Down here at World’s bottom, we hang precariously at the mercy of sub-sanctioned Russian-Hermitage, Indian-smuggled, light-crude. Cheering on our oppressors and paying AUKUS tribute as if we were made of money. Which we were, for a brief decade. Before we determined to piss it all away on ‘windmills for gooses bridles’ and U.S military subsidies.
Why are we so dumb and they are so smart?
The new Sheriff in Europe, that coked-up little Napoleon l’Est - Zelensky, must ask himself the counterpoint every-time he ventures west with his gangsta cabinet entourage - collecting bales of protection money arbitrage.
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In my latest article, I offer the most exhaustive critical analysis to date of the “Russian hybrid war” narrative.
What I show is that many of the most widely publicised cases of supposed Russian “hybrid warfare” — von der Leyen’s jammed plane, the Baltic cable cuts, the DHL crash in Vilnius, the Heathrow fire, the wave of drone sightings that swept Europe in the autumn of 2025, the Romanian TikTok campaign — turned out to be media-amplified speculation that collapsed under basic scrutiny. Yet almost every day, new claims are made – with little or no evidence ever provided.
Ultimately, serious scrutiny of the “Russian hybrid warfare” narrative can only lead to one disquieting conclusion. A “hybrid war” is indeed being waged against Europe — but it is being waged by the EU-NATO establishment itself, against its own population.
Europeans are being subjected to a sustained campaign of cognitive or psychological warfare aimed at conditioning them to believe that Europe is under attack from Russia, and that these hybrid attacks are a prelude to conventional hostilities — a claim for which, by and large, there is little or no proof. What the record points to, in fact, is a deliberate campaign of threat inflation in which governments, media outlets and defence-funded “think tanks” have colluded to instil a permanent sense of fear in the population, through relentless coverage of “incidents”, “attacks”, “sabotages” and “campaigns” that, in most cases, simply do not exist.
Read the article here: thomasfazi.com/p/the-russian…
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Some notes on my situation in Latvia:
What I am observing at the moment is a threat of very severe extrajudicial punishment for speaking my mind and providing original opinions and analysis.
The reason they opt for persona non grata status is the desire to deny me justice in the court system where the case - as senior politicians involved in attacking openly admit - won’t hold water. This is why I interpret the situation as an instance of political persecution.
The threat is accompanied with a character assassination campaign involving far right infowar and fake news outfits which deliberately distort my views on the conflict.
The goal of the attack is to destroy my life and to put a gag on me as a notable voice in public debate on the Russo-Ukranian war.
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Of course, that’s your contention. You’re a first-year machine-learning engineer. You just got finished readin' Attention Is All You Need, probably watched a Karpathy video too. So now you’re convinced everything is just transformers and scaling laws.
That's gonna last until next month when you discover convolution, and then you're gonna be talkin' about inductive biases and locality and how CNNs were actually incredibly compute-efficient for vision.
Then you're gonna read the FlashAttention paper, and suddenly everything's about IO complexity and SRAM and how FLOPs don't matter because the whole goddamn thing is memory-bandwidth bound.
That'll last until somebody shows you an MoE model, and then you're gonna be in here regurgitating DeepSeek, talkin' about expert parallelism and active parameters and how dense models are economically obsolete.
Then six months from now you'll write one shitty Triton kernel, look at an Nsight trace for the first time, and start telling everybody Python isn't actually the bottleneck because the GPU is asynchronous.
And by next year you're gonna be standing right here explaining to me that your 400-billion-parameter model is fast because you turned on CUDA graphs.
Ben Affleck reveals he writes Python, understands convolutional neural networks, worked extensively with GPUs, and used his celebrity status to get private looks at Google and OpenAI’s video models
“I’ve always been kind of into computers since I was young. Then, when film started to move from analog film to digital, I became more interested in that aspect of it. The visual-effects workflow for many years has included machine learning, so I can write pretty shitty Python scripts and stuff like that.
“With convolutional neural networks, which were the precursors to what the transformer can do, which is much more computation simultaneously, you would do things like look at what’s called a tensor. That’s the numerical translation of a visual image in numbers, like the batch number, the frame number and the red, green and blue values of each pixel in each frame. It’s just that simple. That numeric is called a tensor.
“You’d use a convolutional neural network to identify patterns that reveal what’s called edge detection or feature extraction, which is identifying patterns well enough to know, this is where the window ledge is, so we can more easily take the green-screen image out and replace it with something.
“That was familiar to me early on because, prior to Artists Equity, I had a small visual-effects company. I’ve worked with GPUs a lot too. The visual-effects guys said, ‘Hey, you should see. There are a couple: Google and this other company, OpenAI, are doing really interesting stuff with transformers in video.’
“I’ve learned that I can actually just call up and go, ‘Hey, it’s Ben Affleck. Can I come see what you’re doing?’ Sometimes people say yes, to my astonishment.”
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There are still people behaving like this is a proper country. God bless.
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"So do we need very migration levels to fill skills shortages with doctors, nurses, tradies and age care works or do we need them to drive Ubers and work in 7/11s.
Because you can’t have it both ways and say Australians won’t do or can’t either of these things"
Exactly this
So do we need very migration levels to fill skills shortages with doctors, nurses, tradies and age care works or do we need them to drive Ubers and work in 7/11s.
Because you can’t have it both ways and say Australians won’t do or can’t either of these things.
The public won’t buy that and that story doesn’t add up.
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I left school at the end of year 10 and was almost a straight C student!
My favourite comment is in PDHPE "Jacob demonstrates some movement skills" 😂
Reports and parent teacher interviews often had the same statements that I think was true for most boys that were told to sit still and be quiet for 6 hours of the day.
"Jacob talks to much"
"Jacob does well when he applies himself"
"Jacob should be less of a distraction to others"
"Jacob needs to learn to be quiet and keep his hands to himself"
"Jacob is easily distracted"
What took me quite a while to reconcile was that when I entered the workforce most of my traits that had been viewed as negatives became the traits that people complimented me on and encouraged.
For example "Talks too much" became "good public speaker and communicator"
"Easily distracted" became "great self learner"
"Needs to be still and quiet" became "you have so much energy" etc
There is certainly a time and place for discipline and structure, but I encourage my children with the above front and centre in my mind.
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Ex BND chief August Hanning has more Israeli ties than a Tel Aviv haberdashery
Hanning introduced German heiress Christina Block to the Israeli private spying firm CGI Group
Block used the Israelis to abduct her own children from her ex and plant fake images of child abuse on his phone
Hanning, who served on the board of another Israeli spying firm, arranged the operation through former Shin Bet chief Yaakov Peri
BREAKING: Germany has arrested former BND chief August Hanning in a major suspected espionage and treason case involving highly classified intelligence on Iran’s nuclear programme and the Russian military.
According to investigations by WDR, NDR and Süddeutsche Zeitung, the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office is investigating Hanning over suspected treasonous espionage, obtaining state secrets, attempted treason and intelligence-agent activity.
Investigators from the Federal Criminal Police Office reportedly arrested Hanning early this morning at his home in Nordwalde near Münster. A second former senior BND employee, identified as Manfred D. was also arrested in Bavaria. D. allegedly supplied Hanning with highly classified BND information for money until at least 2022.
Around 2,000 classified documents are reportedly believed to have been passed from D. to Hanning. Many were briefings prepared for the “ND Lage” at the Federal Chancellery, where the heads of Germany’s security agencies exchange intelligence. The documents reportedly included extremely sensitive assessments of Iran’s nuclear programme and Russia’s armed forces, as well as intelligence originating from foreign partner services.
Investigators reportedly suspect that Hanning used at least some of the information to prepare a security analysis for a foreign intelligence service. According to WDR, NDR and SZ, the service involved in that case was not Russia. In another case, Hanning is alleged to have used information from classified BND documents in communications with a foreign agent.
The case reportedly came to light after Hamburg investigators searched Hanning’s home and offices in September 2025 during a separate investigation connected to the Christina Block kidnapping case. They allegedly discovered an electronic storage device containing highly classified BND material that Hanning should not have possessed.
The documents reportedly included material dating as recently as June 2022, years after Hanning had left the BND. The Hamburg LKA subsequently handed the material over to federal authorities, and the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office opened a classified investigation in May 2026.
For Germany’s intelligence community, the allegations are extremely serious. The material allegedly included intelligence supplied by foreign partner services. Any unauthorized disclosure of such information could seriously damage trust between the BND and allied intelligence services.
The investigation remains ongoing, and the allegations against Hanning have not been proven in court.
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German media are already reporting that the "foreign power" in question is "not Russia", and Hanning sits on the advisory board of "United Against Nuclear Iran" (chaired by Jeb Bush) as well as Israeli cybersecurity firm WHEN Group, so I'd expect this story to die quickly.
Germany’s former foreign intelligence chief August Hanning has been arrested on suspicion of treason and accused of selling state secrets to a foreign power ft.trib.al/urgwtQt
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🇩🇪 INTERESTING: German spy chief arrested for selling state secrets to a foreign power … which is NOT Russia!
Who is it?
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This makes it 10x funnier.
Apparently bro has been working for Israel by the side.
Ja, im Block-Fall gab es Berichte zu Kontakten Hannings mit israelischen Akteuren. Seine Firma System 360 stand im Verdacht einer früheren Rückholaktion 2022. Er traf David Barkay (Chef der israelischen Sicherheitsfirma bei der Silvester-Aktion, Ex-Geheimdienst), unterzeichnete ein MoU zur Kooperation und wurde von Barkay als in Israel bekannt für enge ND-Kontakte beschrieben. Die Block-Durchsuchungen deckten die BND-Unterlagen auf.
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Began in 1941, the Saint Petersburg Metro opened in 1955. It exhibits many typical Soviet designs and features exquisite decorations and artwork making it one of the most attractive and elegant metros in the world.
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Turgid UK turd-pushing propagandists recycle @JohnKiriakou expose of Mossad’s scatological-coprophiliac modus operandi. #Israel #turdburglars
Russia has been accused of sending secret agents to defecate in the lavatories of Finnish MPs in a bizarre escalation of its hybrid warfare against the West
🔗 telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…
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In the pit pony’s eye burns a beam fit to haft, of fate inchoate - at bottom of shaft. Animus-fixe by burdens long passed, with a snort and a nod - to the idiot-grin - it speaks on behalf.
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Australia is effectively being transformed into a major Southern Hemisphere defense hub, forward logistics base, and manufacturing engine for the US and its allies
A massive US logistics and warehousing facility is being established at the Australian military base in Bandiana(near Albury-Wodonga)
The US Navy allocated tens of millions of dollars specifically because southeastern Australia sits entirely beyond the operational range of most Chinese conventional ballistic missiles. It is designed to hold critical ammunition, weapons, and spare parts so US forces don't have to rely solely on vulnerable Pacific bases like Guam
In the Northern Territory, RAAF Base Tindal (near Katherine) is undergoing a massive multi-hundred-million-dollar expansion heavily funded by Washington
The US is constructing massive aircraft parking aprons, specialised maintenance facilities, and giant hangars built to house up to six US B-52 Stratofortress bombers.
Because B-52s are explicitly strategic, nuclear-capable bombers, this move has turned northern Australia into a crucial rotational launchpad for US global strike capabilities.
South Australia has officially become the centerpiece of the federal government's Multi-Billion Dollar Guided Weapons and Explosive Ordnance (GWEO) enterprise

Port Wakefield Lockheed Martin Australia officially commenced operations at a highly advanced, specialised missile production facility in Port Wakefield, just north of Adelaide. They are actively assembling Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (GMLRS) and advanced munitions right on SA soil
Dublin South Australia
Spearheaded by Leinad Land Developments, this massive build is intentionally zoned to capture the spillover from the nearby Edinburgh Defence Precinct. Because RAAF Base Edinburgh houses major global defense primes like Boeing Defence Australia and Lockheed Martin, the Dublin build is specifically designed to house heavy logistics, component manufacturing, and manufacturing supply chains to feed those aerospace giants.
The country's defense landscape is changing faster right now than it has at any point since World War II.
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