JUST IN - Oil giant BP pauses all tanker transits through the Red Sea. Oil prices surge.

Taiwan's Evergreen shipping line also pauses all transits.

https://www.disclose.tv/id/pwhdi4ubld/

@disclosetv

List of Based AI Chatbots we deployed this weekend on Gab. They reply in public on the timeline. See what they are saying by clicking the link, no Gab account needed to read.

Tay: Our most controversial and offensive chatbot. Also the most hilarious. An experiment in free speech. https://gab.com/tay

Plato AI: the Philosopher. https://gab.com/PlatoAI

Uncle Ted AI: Ted K. https://gab.com/UncleTedBot

Gamer AI: https://gab.com/GamerAI

Bibi Bot: a Netanyahu bot. https://gab.com/BibiBot

Bible Scholar AI: https://gab.com/BibleScholarAI

Trump AI: https://gab.com/TrumpAI

Biden Bot: https://gab.com/BidenBot

Uncle A: the painter who shall not be named. https://gab.com/unclea

Walt Disney himself narrates: the fall of Disney.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwt28rtkB_A

⚓️ 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 And just like that, the United States gets stretched even thinner and Western forces have now been drawn into direct combat on Israel's behalf. | Armchair Warlord

🔶️ This fleet tracker is from the 11th, before the Eisenhower transited back out of the Persian Gulf and started heading for the Red Sea. You notice that with a powerful CSG-ARG task force tied up dealing with the Houthis and another carrier monitoring things off Israel, we have absolutely nothing to even threaten Iran with short of having the Carl Vinson strike group steam over from WESTPAC where it's keeping an eye on Taiwan?

🔶️ I'm sure the Chinese will be absolutely thrilled to see us blowing our limited stock of SM-2 missiles on Iranian moped-drones and our limited stock of Tomahawks on random buildings in Yemen, by the way.

📎 Armchair Warlord

The Irish government has reacted to the stabbing of children outside a primary school in Dublin by a man of Algerian origin by preparing new laws to punish those who are angry about it.

https://modernity.news/2023/11/24/irish-government-reacts-to-child-stabbing-spree-by-preparing-law-to-punish-those-angry-about-it/

After Substack now. It has a "White nationalist" problem, according to Monsieur Katz.

Do you have a favourite Substack to recommend to readers?

https://www.racket.news/p/tireless-busybodies-again-target

⚓️ 🇺🇸 🇾🇪 U.S. Navy Assets Converge on Yemen

🔶️ Ford carrier strike group & Bataan amphibious ready group en route; U.K. & French destroyers arrive; Standing up International Task Force

📎 Ian Ellis

The Marriage at Cana, 1530-32, by Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen, oil on panel, 67 x 85 cm, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

In this night scene - a novelty in painting at the time - Vermeyen succeeded in creating a dramatic effect. Candlelight plays over the faces and casts dark shadows. For the flames, Vermeyen used gold leaf. He was well ahead of his time: only around 1600 did the nocturn as a genre become more widely known through the Italian artist Caravaggio.

The subject of this candle-lit scene of a group of people sitting at table is very probably the calling of St John the Evangelist during the wedding feast at Cana. The painting depicts a moment that preceded the miracle. According to a late-medieval tradition, the wedding feast at Cana celebrated the marriage of John the Evangelist and Mary Magdalen. Seated in the centre behind the table are the beardless John and his bride, with the apostles Peter and Andrew to the left of them, at the moment when the meal is being served.

https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/a-dictatorship-without-tears

A short article. I’m sharing it only because I’ve been learning some rather surprising things about some authors who it’s fashionable to revere. Knowing what I now know, I’m not at all sure that this reverence is deserved,
First, Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World”. Look at the way he himself described it in a 1961 lecture.
He inclined towards a technological dictatorship (as opposed to a boots, guns and concentration camps) future. One in which people would give up their freedom in exchange for distracting entertainment.
As if these are the only two choices. “Hey, Mr Huxley, how about you and your ghastly brother just get lost and leave us to work it out?”

I can recommend The Sheepfarm Podcasts. The brothers Dom and Chris have broad Yorkshire accents and trip lightly through some nasty topics, which they cover in a mixture of narration and conversation, drawing only on public sources.

Among other unlikely things, we learn that HG Wells taught a young Aldous Huxley (it may have been at Eton) and Huxley taught Orwell (ditto). But that’s not all. Orwell’s first wife, descended from a very wealthy French family (the Limonsines), was taught variously by CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien.
That’s not happenstance.

I’m now wondering if “1984” & “Brave New World” aren’t fevered imaginings, rather, predictive programming (for which there’s extensive evidence in every other aspect broadly of “culture” from further back than any of us would want to contemplate. Now I also see threat in Wells “The Time Machine” & Lewis’s “The Screwtape Letters”. I’ve never read any Tolkien.

Why do these self-appointed elites never tire of plotting to dominate a very much larger group of “ordinary” people who they clearly despise? One possibility is that they’ve always been frightened by & of us. They have no understanding of us.

Anyway, interesting gaps to fill in, if you want to. As I’ve mentioned before, having read the entire canon of post-war US SciFi as a teenager, it’s hard to avoid the possibility that quite a lot if it was, or used as inspiration for, predictive programming. Consider “Minority Report” and the recent desire expressed by Yuval Harari that, with sufficient data on us all, they could predict & prevent crime before it happened. Orwell’s Thoughtcrime also rears it’s head. And a great deal of history looks like it’s been repeatedly rewritten, too. Nothing new under the sun, so it’s said!

Best wishes
Mike

👉 https://news.1rj.ru/str/DrMikeYeadon

Who - or what - was Shakespeare?
What was his goal?
What was his effect?
Some intriguing ideas, here.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1736765907681046752.html

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 U.S. Defense Analyst: 'Iran is now the first and only nation in the entire world to have developed and sucessfully used an anti-ship ballistic missile in combat'

He is refering to this week's incident, when the Israeli-linked 'Palatium-lll' ship was struck by an Iranian anti-ship ballistic missile in the Red Sea, fired by Ansarullah from Yemen.

@Middle_East_Spectator

A view from the outstretched arms of Christ The Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,.
This statue is one of the largest Art Deco designs ever built in history.
Constructed between 1922 and 1931, the statue is 30 metres (98 ft) high, excluding its 8-metre (26 ft) pedestal. The arms stretch 28 metres (92 ft) wide.

Did you know? 🎓

Not a headline I was anticipating seeing a year ago.

https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/we-sold-over-100-million-gold-during-quarter-costco-cfo

Adverse Effects in Switzerland

An insurance company reveals the consequences of Switzerland’s vaxx campaign: So, that’s a 410 percent increase in heart attacks, 351 percent increase in strokes, and 295 percent increase in cancer. All of which are directly attributable to the Covid vaccines. Never, ever, trust the science or the experts. It will literally kill you. DISCUSS ON […]

https://voxday.net/2023/12/19/adverse-effects-in-switzerland/