"Originally promoted by an X account that goes by Librarian Mama, Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey came to the internet’s attention with a viral post. The account posted, “‘Oh, you've never read The Odyssey???’ Your timing is perfect. Emily Wilson's translation is the best one in literally ages, has that sweet iambic pentameter to give it a ‘bouncy’ feel, & makes dudebros cry that the classic has ‘gone woke’.”"
https://fandompulse.substack.com/p/emily-wilsons-translation-of-homers#:~:text=Originally%20promoted%20by,has%20%E2%80%98gone%20woke%E2%80%99.%E2%80%9D

⚡️🇺🇸 Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter dies at 100

President Jimmy Carter, the only Georgian to ever occupy the White House, died yesterday, Dec. 29, 2024, after spending over a year in hospice care.

Carter, who turned 100 on Oct. 1 and is the longest-lived president in American history, died at his home in Plains Sunday surrounded by family, according to the Carter Center.

@worldpravda

"This is pure religion, of the bad kind. Not one word of it is true. What is true is that young minds have been addled and punished by decades of idiot propaganda screaming the sky the falling. When asked for evidence of fallen skies, the propagandists screech “Denier!”"

https://wmbriggs.substack.com/p/hot-new-the-science-kids-are-having

Report: Biden Regrets Withdrawing From 2024 Presidential Race, Believes He Could Have Beaten Trump
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/report-biden-regrets-withdrawing-from-2024-presidential-race-believes-he-could-have-beaten-trump/
According to a report, President Joe Biden still regrets withdrawing from the 2024 presidential race.

🇮🇱🏴‍☠️👉🇵🇸 DETAILS OF THE ISRAELI OPERATION TO BLOW UP PAGERS.

Two former officers of the Israeli intelligence service Mossad have revealed details of one of their large-scale special operations against the Hezbollah group in Lebanon. In an interview with the American television channel CBS News, they shared information about how Israeli specialists “embedded” explosives into communication equipment.

According to sources, the key element of the operation was pagers , which began to be developed back in 2022. The design of the device was designed in such a way that a sufficient volume of explosive materials could be placed inside the case.

Israeli intelligence agency Mossad conducted an entire operation to promote pagers capable of carrying explosive devices on the YouTube platform so that Hezbollah would pay attention to them and purchase them:

"It's durable. It's dustproof. It's waterproof. It has a long battery life (...) We made commercials and brochures and put it on the internet. And it becomes the best pager product in the world (...) And we got several inquiries from regular potential customers [including Hezbollah]"

, - said a Mossad representative.

During this period, Mossad managed to sell about 16 thousand such devices through front men.

My advice? Leave him. He deserves a better girlfriend who appreciates him.

"The Dissident Right emerged in the 2020s as both an intellectual subculture and a growing counter-culture. This movement draws on a mix of pre-liberal traditionalism, conservative ideas, and anti-liberal revolutionary movements. Despite being small in number, its cultural influence is disproportionately large. Much of today’s popular internet culture, memes, and references trace back to this group’s shared spaces and forums. The Dissident Right is unique in that it is the only intellectual movement that directly opposes the entire framework of liberalism—whether left or right."
https://fortissax.substack.com/p/maga-and-wokism#:~:text=The%20Dissident%20Right%20emerged,whether%20left%20or%20right.

"I doubt I understood the concepts of honor and loyalty until I had lived in Britain for a year. During that time, someone told me not to exaggerate when promoting the organization I worked for. For the first time, I began to see that people wanted to speak the truth simply for the sake of truth. I had always known the word “truth,” but for the first time, I began to grasp its essence.

"The foundational principle to understanding India is that it is an amoral, irrational society devoid of values. Any values you try to instill will slip off, like water off a duck’s back.

"I have seen a continual worsening of Indian society. Whatever grace and civility Christian missionaries and European colonizers instilled in Indians has been slowly eroding."

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/india-its-worse-you-think

"Despite obvious safety signals including Pfizer’s own pharmacovigilance report showing 1200+ deaths[9] within first 2 month of mass vaccinations, thousands of death reports in VAERS, and millions of reported injuries in other government tracked databases like V-Safe[10], there were no recalls or investigations by the manufacturers or health agencies. Not a single health official “noticed” it, and furthermore, when questioned, mounted a wall of denial in response.

"Historically, a handful of reports of deaths associated with the use of the product is all that’s needed to initiate a pharmacovigilance action – a recall of a batch of product, investigation, or an entire product recall – all these measures are available and have been successfully used in a variety of product contamination and adulteration cases[11]. After thousands of deaths are recorded with the use of a product and no action is taken by anyone – manufacturer, regulators or law enforcement authorities, the situation should be considered intentional. The flat refusal to acknowledge deaths and injuries by the government officials and pharma companies signaled the intent. The intent to harm."

https://open.substack.com/pub/sashalatypova/p/my-research-summarized-for-a-book?r=lp6h7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

"We merge sea-level data with a glacial isostatic adjustmentmodel ensemble and reconstructions of postglacial thermosteric sea-level andmountain glacier evolution to estimate Holocene GMSL and ice volume. Weshow it is likely (probability P = 0.75) GMSL exceeded early industrial levels after7.5ka, reaching 0.24 m (−3.3 to 1.0 m, 90% credible interval) above present by3.2ka..."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-54535-0.epdf

Fascinating technology. Pity it wasn't pursued further. https://youtu.be/JeHY_c13gVA

❗️ The Council of Ulema of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Russia revokes the fatwa permitting religious polygamy

The Council of Ulema of the Russian Muslim Spiritual Directorate announced that it was withdrawing a fatwa permitting polygamy for Muslims due to the "reaction of Russian society" and the Prosecutor General's Office. This was stated by its chairman Shamil Alyautdinov.

Earlier, the RF Prosecutor General's Office warned about the illegality of allowing polygamy for Muslims in Russia and submitted a proposal to eliminate the violation of the law to the Chairman of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Russia. According to the department, such norms violate the Family Code of the Russian Federation. (via Readovka)

Putting this out now ahead of time

"It doesn’t take a genius to think that maybe Elon’s real role is to move money and people (through the 1513 H1-B visas at Tesla alone).

"A closer examination of Elon’s role as a money launderer should begin with his father Errol taking emeralds from Africa and reselling them to gem dealers. Such an analysis would require a careful probe of Greg Kouri who was seemingly some sort of Canadian-Lebanese middleman."
https://substack.com/home/post/p-153768952#:~:text=It%20doesn%E2%80%99t%20take,Canadian%2DLebanese%20middleman.

HORSE VS. AUTOMOBILE.

Anti-car, pro-horse newspaper ad from 1915.

El Salvador will sell or discontinue its bitcoin Chivo as part of a new deal with the International Monetary Fund.
El Salvador, the first country to make bitcoin legal tender, agreed to scale back on its bitcoin-related policies. Under the $1.4B loan deal, the nation will allow businesses to voluntarily accept bitcoin as a means of payment, while ensuring that taxes will continue to be paid exclusively in U.S. dollars, rather than in BTC. For the public sector, participation in bitcoin-related activities, as well as transactions and purchases involving bitcoin, will be restricted, said the IMF.


https://stocks.apple.com/AY0va_D6zRU6Rli0u-Og9pQ

Digital painting of the "Egtved Girl": Discovered in Egtved, Denmark, this Bronze Age teenager lived 3,400 years ago. She was around 16–18 years old, approximately 160 cm (5'3") tall, and wore a short wool skirt with a belt and bronze accessories, suggesting high status. Isotope analysis indicates she traveled extensively, possibly from Southern Germany. Her burial, featuring yarrow flowers, a beer-like drink, and a well-preserved oak coffin, reflects the elaborate rituals and cultural practices of the Nordic Bronze Age.

https://x.com/vikinghistoric/status/1871011925313601813