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

Charles Johnson banned from Twitter yesterday… charlesjohnson.substack.com/p/banned-for-embarrassing-elon-see?r=lp6h7

📸 Talking about Syria, the new regime is sending hit squads all around the previous government areas kidnapping and executing judges, Alawite soldiers, informats for the intelligence, and so on.

There is no trails, no processes. Only a bullet to the head and being dumped on the road.

And while the low-rank soldiers and informats (both volunteers and coerced) are being murdered, high rank officials either defected before the fall of the previous state and reconciled or escaped to Lebanon and Iraq.

Most of the soldiers who are being given am amnesty are Syrian sunni soldiers and officers, who made the majority of the Syrian Arab Army. Alawites made the a large portion of higher ranks, but not exclusively.


Sectarian violence is also being reported, where the tombs of Alawite elders and scholars are being burned and exhumed.

@LebUpdate

"The Australian musician, whose stage name is usually stylized in lowercase, has garnered a wave of attention after stating in Instagram posts that her management dropped her because she refused to change certain lyrics in the song.

"In the song, May rails against "big pharma," a "man-made virus," "cancel culture," and a war that she brands "genocide."

"Erasing any doubt about the lyrical targets, May's website describes the track as "addressing the pandemic narrative, corruption within political, pharmaceutical, and health institutions, the Israel-Palestine conflict, violence against women and the social chaos that has swept through the world in the past few years."

https://www.newsweek.com/iyah-may-karmageddon-song-covid-lyrics-video-2008021

Her video: https://youtu.be/88gnX1ppjT8

🇰🇵🇷🇺 Kim Jong-un congratulated his "closest friend and comrade" Putin, the "brotherly Russian people" and the brave Russian Army on the New Year, KCNA reports.

The DPRK leader wished that 2025 would be the year of victory of the Russian Army and people over neo-Nazis, and also expressed his readiness to work on strengthening the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries.

The Collapse of the Conventional Evolutionary Model

Chinese researchers are methodically dismantling the conventional model of human evolution, specifically, the so-called “Out of Africa” theory: In the early 1960s, researchers started the field of molecular evolution based on the genetic distance phenomenon of protein sequences among species, and proposed a molecular evolutionary theory different from the natural selection theory, the molecular clock […]

https://voxday.net/2024/12/31/the-collapse-of-the-conventional-evolutionary-model/

1881 map showing time it takes to reach any place in the world from London
https://redd.it/1hpvytn
@r_mapporn

And Carling and Heineken

So why does he want to import Indians instead of Serbians?

The Mosaic Ark sails TONIGHT for the last time in A.D. 2024!

Can you believe the year we just lived through? Would you have predicted it this time last year? What do you predict we will encounter in this coming year?!

The ladies weigh in.

The UK Government has released a video that portrays people who opt out of the Digital ID system as clumsy and out of touch.

🇰🇷The court has issued an arrest warrant for South Korean President Yun Seok-yul.

Former CNN political analyst Chris Cillizzaa is the latest leftist propaganda mouthpiece to acknowledge that they all knew all along that Joe Biden was mentally diminished shortly into his presidency, but chose to ignore it and claim anyone who questioned it was a conspiracy theorist.

https://modernity.news/2024/12/20/too-little-too-late-fk-off/

"Bob’s reputation for righteous resistance to Covid restrictions grew on the back of a #bobmorangetsit hashtag. And so Bob Moran did get it – the fulsome outlines of his first freelance cartoon cut through the amassing complexities of Covid messaging with a statement of searing simplicity: there are people and places that are of you and for you, always.

"Pictures do not speak a thousand words. Their force derives from their not speaking any words at all. Words anaesthetize. We take them or leave them. We are not touched by them, or only rarely. And they betray us.

"Bob’s picture of the man and woman on a hill is denounced by the words beneath it. This old couple are not defending their right to be with one another. They simply are with one another – standing their ground because they are rooted there."

https://off-guardian.org/2024/12/22/the-season-for-living/#:~:text=Bob%E2%80%99s%20reputation%20for,are%20rooted%20there.