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Aug 5, 2026 Dimitri Lascaris speaks with Laith Marouf, Executive Director of Free Palestinian TV, about the manufactured migrant crisis in Ceuta, the Spanish enclave on the southern side of the Strait of Gibraltar. Dimitri and Laith also discuss Israel’s ongoing genocide in southern Lebanon and the Lebanese Prime Minister’s hostile attitude toward the Lebanese resistance. Also …
The hype gets worse and worse. Tennis games are faked, where better players are paid off to lose deliberately, and the emotion of the Philippine diaspora crowd goes through the roof. The commercial world fights like rabid dogs to get Eala as their sponsor and brand icon. Tennis is not played by Filipinos so …
Source, paywall: https://boosty.to/cluborlov/posts/ Back when I was a naïve young blogger getting ready to take up seasteading (living aboard a sailboat and sailing about, that is), I wrote a manifesto. I did it mostly to inspire myself. I called it, rather pompously “The New Age of Sail.” Here is what the newfangled silicon dummy says …
The empire is retreating as Iran, Hezbollah and Yemen all openly fight back and continuously defeat them and their colonists. History is repeating. All the empires of history withdraw from the Middle East eventually. The main aim of the west is propaganda to disguise their military losses. The ‘colonists’ meanwhile suffer one defeat after another. The …
Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/08/jacob-hornberger/why-do-americans-continue-to-hew-to-statism/ One of the things that has fascinated me ever since I founded The Future of Freedom Foundation is why so many Americans continue to hew to statism. After all, just look around us. The statist systems that 20th-century Americans brought into existence have brought us a life of constant chaos, crisis, war, conflict, hostility, …
“If he thinks he’s going down, he’s going to try to take the rest of us down with him.” —Mary Trump (1965- ), American psychologist and Donald Trump’s niece, author of the book ‘Too Much – Never Enough: How my family created the world’s most dangerous man‘. (in a YouTube interview, on November 6, 2020) US …
We traveled to Copenhagen Denmark to see the future of nuclear power. Learn more about Copenhagen Atomics here https://www.copenhagenatomics.com/ The world has an energy problem. Our demand for electricity is infinite. But our supply is limited, expensive, and in some cases even deadly. Now, what if I told you that the key to a sustainable, abundant future for …
Source: https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2026/08/moroccan-invasion-of-ceuda-weaponized.html Take the link to watch the video NeoLiberalism in action They lie…. It’s just cruel to use hope as a weapon of war. Cruel and depraved. Reuters https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/social-media-rumours-economic-hardship-fuel-migrant-surge-into-ceuta-2026-07-31/ Weaponized Mass Migration white paper (PDF) https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/Hot%20Spots/Documents/Immigration/Greenhill-Migration.pdf the case against Israel https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/1/why-did-ceuta-migrant-mayhem-chill-already-frosty-israel-spain-relations
Source: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/08/04/fake-gay-4/#more-421654 Why does everything feel fake? We have a Congress that won’t pass something 83% people want. We have courts that release criminals faster than police can arrest them. We have schools that graduate kids who can’t read. We have colleges that charge $200K for degrees that don’t get you jobs. We have a non-profit system that profits …
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1U75OWw20k Thomas Sheridan is an Author, filmmaker, Alternative Folklorist, and Satirist who has spent a life from Wall Street to the Jungles of South Asia attempting to discover the emerging—often elusive—mythology of modern humans within the present technology-saturated era. Heavily inspired by the work of Carl Jung, Bruno Bettelheim, and Joseph Campbell, Thomas Sheridan …
Source: https://theblueskymaiden1.substack.com/p/considering-the-origins-of-media These creatures may look friendly & colourful to the eye, however that is their camouflage to entice children, affectionate pets, unwary investigators & unsuspecting nature lovers. ALL ARTWORKS BY NUSHI (BSM), as always. – Are they Aliens? There is no simple, single answer to where the …
Saudi Arabia’s aggressive stance hits a brick wall forcing Trump to row back. The two Alexanders sum up the whirlwind of recent events around the Middle East. As does Patrick Henningsen. Scott Ritter sums up the situation militarily. Marandi says one more Iranian strike will demolish the Middle East and end the Trump Presidency. Yet the Zionists are …
Mary and Polly break down the bombshell congressional hearing where Dr. Anthony Fauci pleaded the Fifth Amendment 111 times. Newly released diaries expose Fauci’s private thoughts, obsession with fame, a pulmonary embolism months after his COVID vaccine, and how his public messaging contradicted what he knew internally. https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/shows/good-morning-chd/fauci-hides-behind-fifth-trump-pushes-rfk-jr-on-vaccine-schedule
Aug 5, 2026 Dimitri Lascaris speaks with Laith Marouf, Executive Director of Free Palestinian TV, about the manufactured migrant crisis in Ceuta, the Spanish enclave on the southern side of the Strait of Gibraltar. Dimitri and Laith also discuss Israel’s ongoing genocide in southern Lebanon and the Lebanese Prime Minister’s hostile attitude toward the Lebanese resistance. Also …
Source, paywall: https://boosty.to/cluborlov/posts/ Back when I was a naïve young blogger getting ready to take up seasteading (living aboard a sailboat and sailing about, that is), I wrote a manifesto. I did it mostly to inspire myself. I called it, rather pompously “The New Age of Sail.” Here is what the newfangled silicon dummy says …
Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/08/jacob-hornberger/why-do-americans-continue-to-hew-to-statism/ One of the things that has fascinated me ever since I founded The Future of Freedom Foundation is why so many Americans continue to hew to statism. After all, just look around us. The statist systems that 20th-century Americans brought into existence have brought us a life of constant chaos, crisis, war, conflict, hostility, …
We traveled to Copenhagen Denmark to see the future of nuclear power. Learn more about Copenhagen Atomics here https://www.copenhagenatomics.com/ The world has an energy problem. Our demand for electricity is infinite. But our supply is limited, expensive, and in some cases even deadly. Now, what if I told you that the key to a sustainable, abundant future for …
Source: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/08/04/fake-gay-4/#more-421654 Why does everything feel fake? We have a Congress that won’t pass something 83% people want. We have courts that release criminals faster than police can arrest them. We have schools that graduate kids who can’t read. We have colleges that charge $200K for degrees that don’t get you jobs. We have a non-profit system that profits …
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1U75OWw20k Thomas Sheridan is an Author, filmmaker, Alternative Folklorist, and Satirist who has spent a life from Wall Street to the Jungles of South Asia attempting to discover the emerging—often elusive—mythology of modern humans within the present technology-saturated era. Heavily inspired by the work of Carl Jung, Bruno Bettelheim, and Joseph Campbell, Thomas Sheridan …
Saudi Arabia’s aggressive stance hits a brick wall forcing Trump to row back. The two Alexanders sum up the whirlwind of recent events around the Middle East. As does Patrick Henningsen. Scott Ritter sums up the situation militarily. Marandi says one more Iranian strike will demolish the Middle East and end the Trump Presidency. Yet the Zionists are …
The hype gets worse and worse. Tennis games are faked, where better players are paid off to lose deliberately, and the emotion of the Philippine diaspora crowd goes through the roof. The commercial world fights like rabid dogs to get Eala as their sponsor and brand icon. Tennis is not played by Filipinos so …
The empire is retreating as Iran, Hezbollah and Yemen all openly fight back and continuously defeat them and their colonists. History is repeating. All the empires of history withdraw from the Middle East eventually. The main aim of the west is propaganda to disguise their military losses. The ‘colonists’ meanwhile suffer one defeat after another. The …
“If he thinks he’s going down, he’s going to try to take the rest of us down with him.” —Mary Trump (1965- ), American psychologist and Donald Trump’s niece, author of the book ‘Too Much – Never Enough: How my family created the world’s most dangerous man‘. (in a YouTube interview, on November 6, 2020) US …
Source: https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2026/08/moroccan-invasion-of-ceuda-weaponized.html Take the link to watch the video NeoLiberalism in action They lie…. It’s just cruel to use hope as a weapon of war. Cruel and depraved. Reuters https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/social-media-rumours-economic-hardship-fuel-migrant-surge-into-ceuta-2026-07-31/ Weaponized Mass Migration white paper (PDF) https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/Hot%20Spots/Documents/Immigration/Greenhill-Migration.pdf the case against Israel https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/1/why-did-ceuta-migrant-mayhem-chill-already-frosty-israel-spain-relations
Source: https://theblueskymaiden1.substack.com/p/considering-the-origins-of-media These creatures may look friendly & colourful to the eye, however that is their camouflage to entice children, affectionate pets, unwary investigators & unsuspecting nature lovers. ALL ARTWORKS BY NUSHI (BSM), as always. – Are they Aliens? There is no simple, single answer to where the …
Mary and Polly break down the bombshell congressional hearing where Dr. Anthony Fauci pleaded the Fifth Amendment 111 times. Newly released diaries expose Fauci’s private thoughts, obsession with fame, a pulmonary embolism months after his COVID vaccine, and how his public messaging contradicted what he knew internally. https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/shows/good-morning-chd/fauci-hides-behind-fifth-trump-pushes-rfk-jr-on-vaccine-schedule
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