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TIL that during the Cold War, a technique called "Zersetzung" (German for "decomposition") was employed to undermine stability of dissidents, and included things like moving furniture and rearranging personal items in people's homes or offices to make them question their memory and sanity
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I despise the shallow idiots who stroke the egos of private-jet-flying eco-messiahs.
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Hans G. Schantz (@aetherczar)
No we don’t need more people like this. Putting loggers out of work, driving lumber costs up, and pricing families out of homes isn’t saving the planet. It’s vanity disguising itself as virtue.
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An Early Christian silver ring from the territory of the Roman Empire.
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"Adelard of Bath travelled extensively throughout Greece, Sicily, Spain, Anatolia, Syria and potentially Palestine, always seeking information and manunoscripts and knowledge. And that is the only reason why the astronomical work of Al-Khwarizmi survives at all – the book is lost in the Arabic original, and every subsequent copy derives from Adelard’s Latin-language translation; the same applies to Al-Khwarizmi’s work on Indian arithmetic, only surviving in other, contemporary Latin translations, or to the large majority of the work by the philosopher Averroes (1126-1198), entirely lost in the original Arabic."
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Quick Take: How the Christians Saved Islamic Scholarship
It wasn't enlightened Medieval Muslims who saved Western scholarship: it actually was the other way around
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China Warns the USA
China is no longer content to permit the USA to throw its economic weight around without consequences. Beijing has made it clear that it won’t yield to Washington’s latest tariff threats, urging the United States to seek a negotiated settlement instead of escalating tensions. The warning came as part of an official statement released by […]
https://voxday.net/2025/10/12/china-warns-the-usa/
China is no longer content to permit the USA to throw its economic weight around without consequences. Beijing has made it clear that it won’t yield to Washington’s latest tariff threats, urging the United States to seek a negotiated settlement instead of escalating tensions. The warning came as part of an official statement released by […]
https://voxday.net/2025/10/12/china-warns-the-usa/
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TIL Emperor Justin of the Eastern Roman Empire was an illiterate peasant before becoming Emperor and his wife Lupicina was a freed slave. His nephew and future emperor Justinian was also a peasant and his wife Theodora was a former child prostitute. Justinian’s reign is considered a golden age.
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The Tomahawk issue is causing extreme concern in Moscow, as President Putin has already stated, according to his press secretary, Dmitry Peskov.
Other statements:
▫️ Tomahawks are a serious weapon, but they will not change the situation on the front lines.
▫️ The issue of a settlement in Ukraine is at a very dramatic juncture, with tensions escalating on all sides.
▫️ Russia is ready for a peaceful settlement, and Trump is also calling for negotiations, but the EU and Kyiv are unwilling to act.
Other statements:
▫️ Tomahawks are a serious weapon, but they will not change the situation on the front lines.
▫️ The issue of a settlement in Ukraine is at a very dramatic juncture, with tensions escalating on all sides.
▫️ Russia is ready for a peaceful settlement, and Trump is also calling for negotiations, but the EU and Kyiv are unwilling to act.
There were some requests for a trannoscript of my lecture from last week. I copied the trannoscript and edited in the slides. This is a top-level overview of much of the material that will be in my three-volume Fields & Energy book.
https://aetherczar.substack.com/p/fixing-physics-with-fields-and-energy
I’m going to begin by talking about... a little bit of history and background on the origins of electromagnetic science. I’ll talk about some of the different models we have for how electricity and magnetism work. I’ll discuss what went wrong in science going into the modern physics era. And I’ll talk finally about how fields and energy have the potential to fix some of the problems with our understanding of physics.
https://aetherczar.substack.com/p/fixing-physics-with-fields-and-energy
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Fixing Physics with Fields [& Energy]
Trannoscript of my RTF Lecture
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🇮🇱🇵🇸🇵🇸 - IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir declared Israel's victory over Hamas, saying that the military pressure applied on the group over the past two years, together with a 'complementary diplomatic effort', has brought about victory.
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Did he have a stroke or didn’t he? Only Xi Jinping’s doctors know for sure
The rumors started swirling on Thursday: Xi Jinping, China’s dictator, had a stroke. They’re still rumors at this point, but they got a boost on Friday when President Trump stated that “very strange things are happening in China&rdq...
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☕️DIZZYING DICHOTOMIES ☙ Saturday, October 11, 2025 ☙ C&C NEWS🦠
It's another "Good News" roundup in today's weekend edition, with tons of progress toward fixing things the media swears aren't happening. That and much more.
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/dizzying-dichotomies-saturday-october
It's another "Good News" roundup in today's weekend edition, with tons of progress toward fixing things the media swears aren't happening. That and much more.
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/dizzying-dichotomies-saturday-october
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☕️ DIZZYING DICHOTOMIES ☙ Saturday, October 11, 2025 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠
Florida’s anti-chemtrail law grounds “nonexistent” planes; Trump reignites tariff war with Chyna; SCOTUS eyes 2020 fix; Bolton roasts; CNN flails; NYT baffles; ivermectin shines in cancer study; more.
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According to local journalists, these are loaded with "bananas + peaches + avocados + garlic + onions + potatoes + mangoes and other goods.
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Definitely Fake, Usually Gay
When Clown World and its manufactured talking heads are dismissed as fake and gay, this is not metaphorical rhetoric. In many cases, it is the literal truth. Conservative Host Leaves Longtime Wife to Marry Gay Lover Robby Soave, a well-known political commentator and co-host of The Hill’s Rising, has become the latest subject of D.C. […]
https://voxday.net/2025/10/12/definitely-fake-usually-gay/
When Clown World and its manufactured talking heads are dismissed as fake and gay, this is not metaphorical rhetoric. In many cases, it is the literal truth. Conservative Host Leaves Longtime Wife to Marry Gay Lover Robby Soave, a well-known political commentator and co-host of The Hill’s Rising, has become the latest subject of D.C. […]
https://voxday.net/2025/10/12/definitely-fake-usually-gay/
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Tensegrity: The Art and Science of Balance
Tensegrity is a fascinating design principle where rigid rods carry compression while cables handle tension. What makes it truly striking is that the rods never touch each other — instead, they seem to “float” in space, held together only by the balance of stretched cables.
This concept began to take shape in the early 20th century. American architect Buckminster Fuller coined the term “tensegrity”, and it quickly became a symbol of futuristic design and structural innovation.
In the video, you’ll see a famous example — the so-called floating table, a mesmerizing object that brings this principle to life. 🛋️✨
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Tensegrity is a fascinating design principle where rigid rods carry compression while cables handle tension. What makes it truly striking is that the rods never touch each other — instead, they seem to “float” in space, held together only by the balance of stretched cables.
This concept began to take shape in the early 20th century. American architect Buckminster Fuller coined the term “tensegrity”, and it quickly became a symbol of futuristic design and structural innovation.
In the video, you’ll see a famous example — the so-called floating table, a mesmerizing object that brings this principle to life. 🛋️✨
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Don’t worry about China, it will all be fine! Highly respected President Xi just had a bad moment. He doesn’t want Depression for his country, and neither do I. The U.S.A. wants to help China, not hurt it!!! President DJT
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