I taught a Wilderness Survival Merit Badge Class this weekend. For my Boy Scouts' final exam, I had them evaluate and critique the gear and preparation of of a hiker whose remains were found in the Tyrol near the Austro-Italian border. They concluded he was well-prepared. Some suggested he would have survived if he'd been following the buddy system, others argued it was probably a buddy who was responsible for his demise.

https://www.iceman.it/en/the-iceman/
https://www.google.com/maps/place/%C3%96tzi+-+Discovery+Point/@46.7036695,10.8616982,39242m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m14!1m7!3m6!1s0x4782d09d7242edf5:0x1120e7374c0bb047!2sOtzi+The+Iceman!8m2!3d46.7789025!4d10.8396922!16s%2Fg%2F11xgsh25b!3m5!1s0x4782d19e183f1b85:0x74336076eebe0425!8m2!3d46.7792338!4d10.840073!16s%2Fg%2F11v79xg5bh?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTAyMy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

I wonder what Sir Isaac Isaacs would think of this decision

If true, then Iran just won the narrative war.

Iran has flipped the noscript. Through Netanyahu, Israel has become the irate zealot state, hellbent on war with its regional enemies, defiant in the face of geopolitical alienation/isolation.

Iran has become the measured actor, who has succeeded in demonstrating its military superiority, without having to kill civilians or destroy infrastructure. They are prepared to walk away from the situation, removing their ego from the equation, and seem more eager to engage in economic relations than kinetic conflict.

Not everyone knows that the US and Russia are actually much closer to each other than normally thought.

Did you know? 🎓

"An Ontario man in his late 40s with a history of mental illness died by euthanasia after his assisted death assessors decided that the most reasonable explanation for his physical decline was a post COVID-19 'vaccination syndrome.'”

https://makismd.substack.com/p/news-canada-starts-euthanizing-the

Even many professional authors don't understand the hidden truth of how typos work.

https://youtube.com/shorts/0UOURmJe9uo

"The most interesting Ukrainian news of the past week was Zelensky’s sudden floating of a ‘compromise’ wherein both Russia and Ukraine would stop attacking each other’s energy grids. What’s most eye-opening about this is it seems to reveal the actual true purpose behind Ukraine’s campaign of the past year or so of striking Russian oil refineries, etc. Rather than aimed at actually crippling Russia’s infrastructure—an unrealistic proposal—it seems the whole time to have been aimed at desperately stopping Russia from crippling Ukraine’s infrastructure and plunging the country into the stone age, as many have expected to happen this coming winter."

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-102624-zelensky-begs-grid

"The real wire pullers in the regime were so blinded by her race, gender, her “beauty” her “eloquence” that they never actually probed her. This sounds impossible, but think about it. How do rich white liberal women act around smart black women?"

https://www.carousel.blog/p/what-the-hell-just-happened

No Foreign Wars

One area where Donald Trump did have an excellent track record was the way he avoided getting the US military involved in any new wars. And he even tried to end some of the various US occupations, although he was undermined by traitors in his administration and the military itself. So his expressed determination to […]

https://voxday.net/2024/10/28/no-foreign-wars/

Why We Thought We Had to go to College

Like me, Uncle John went to a Special Boy College. And like me, he was deeply disenchanted by the experience before he finished his junior year there. The noontide of the boomer had to be experienced to be appreciated. There is no incompatibility between [seeing where it was headed in my late teens] and [not […]

https://voxday.net/2024/10/27/why-we-thought-we-had-to-go-to-college/

"We can’t be certain that Valens was a Delta, but everything we know of him points directly to that idea. He lacked the indomitable vision of his older brother, still considered one of the great emperors of Roman history, and he lacked confidence in his own abilities to rule over other men. The elevation of Valens may have been one of the most spectacular and disastrous examples of the Peter Principle at work; both Valens’s lack of judgment and his failure to execute properly not only cost him his life, but led directly to the eventual sacking of Rome 32 years after his fall at the Battle of Hadrianople.

"This is why a solid understanding of the SSH and an ability to apply it is absolutely vital to anyone running any organization. The consequences of failing to do so are not only significant, but can be catastrophically, even historically, disastrous."

https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/the-limits-of-delta

The narrative architects are busy attempting to discredit concepts like "sigma" and Vox Day's socio-sexual hierarchy by associating them with filth and vulgarity.

"But the reality is that all of the Clown World governments and dozens, if not hundreds, of their media stringers, are actively occupied in suppression of bad thought as well as online hasbara. The continuing success of GamerGate against corruption in gaming and the presidential memewars of 2016 alarmed the clowns who are responsible for the Narrative. So, as ridiculous and paranoid as it sounds, the reader’s suspicion that repeatedly tying these unrelated words together is an oblique attempt to address the virality of the SSH is more likely correct than not."
https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/poisoning-the-well#:~:text=But%20the%20reality,correct%20than%20not.

"Isn’t it interesting how all the top military-intelligence-industrial-complex figures end up running banks? The revolving door between the top elite stratosphere is obvious to see. Last time I had posted the video showing ex-CIA head Mike Pompeo also now runs a bank called Impact Investments (you won’t find any info on it on the web for some reason!) which is buying up Ukrainian telecoms, which puts him on the board as a director of Kyivstar telecom."

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-102624-zelensky-begs-grid

A practically intact arrow has been found on the ground where it landed 1,300 years ago due to melting ice

🇱🇧/🇮🇱❗The IDF is slowly withdrawing its forces from southern Lebanon.

🟣 Areas of operations where the IDF has razed the towns and then left

🔵 Areas of operations where the IDF is still carrying their demolition operations

As the 1st phase of ground operations comes to a gradual stop, the IDF has achieved its limited objectives of destroying border towns and tunnels and establishing a 5km buffer zone to protect the north from ATGM attacks and potential infiltrations into the Galilee.

@LevnonOSINT

Former Democrat Representative Tulsi Gabbard has announced that she will officially join the Republican Party.

https://modernity.news/2024/10/23/tulsi-gabbard-joins-gop/

"We all live a good part of our lives here now, in the dragon-light of the digital-times. This is a major theme in the poem my drakes and I are writing, which is probably why my friends are urging me to participate here.

"But I’m old. I started blogging back in 2008 and kept at it for a good fifteen years, up to the launch of our Kickstarter last year, after which we started a newsletter, also available at the Dragon Common Room.

"And yet, the Internet is still hungry for more.

"You feel it. I feel it. The Internet eats time. It is a dragon, eating our lives, giving back stories in return for our attention. Never sated. Never sleeping. Ancient, yet ever new.

"And here I am, willing to feed it."
https://fencingbearatprayer.substack.com/p/dragon-tour?utm_medium=ios#:~:text=We%20all%20live,to%20feed%20it.