Just when you thought the Biden administration couldn’t look any more stupid, it’s beginning to look a lot like at least one of the objects that was shot down by an F22 with a $400,000 sidewinder missile was a hobbyist balloon worth $12.

https://summit.news/2023/02/16/its-looking-a-lot-like-biden-used-a-400000-missile-to-shoot-down-a-12-hobby-balloon/

When the Piranhas of the Serengeti swarm, your only hope for survival is to remain still and pray they don't notice you.

Good morning.

🇮🇷🇨🇳 Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi has arrived in China. Today, he is negotiating with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

China and Iran have signed a strategic partnership agreement for 25 years, trade is constantly growing, China buys a significant part of Iranian oil, and military-technical cooperation is increasing.

Like Russia, China is interested in a stable Iran, which is an important pillar of the One Belt, One Road geostrategic initiative.

TIL that J.R.R. Tolkien was influenced by the following lines from the Old English Advent poem Christ I, c.800 (lines 104-5) which inspired his portrayal the character Eärendil in his legendarium and is one of many examples of the Old English word middangeard which partly inspired Tolkien's fantasy world:

Eálá Earendel engla beorhtast
Ofer middangeard monnum sended.

Hail Earendel brightest of angels,
over Middle Earth sent to men.

Tolkien wrote "There was something very remote and strange and beautiful behind those words, if I could grasp it, far beyond ancient English."

🇷🇺🇺🇦 This is how the calibration of Ukraine from the Black Sea looks like.

In darkest earth the great light glows

🇺🇦 From now on, 17-year—old boys are not allowed abroad in Ukraine - border guards calculate how many months teenagers have left until adulthood

There are fewer and fewer men who are able to hold weapons in Ukraine, and the criminal Kiev regime seems to be ready to take the boys into the meat grinder ahead of time.

🇷🇺⚡11 ships sailed in the Black Sea, including 5 Kalibr launch vehicles. A massive launch on the enemy is expected.

More footage from yesterday's 'Media Is The Virus' protest, which took place in 60 locations (in 10 countries) yesterday. This one was outside the BBC building in Cardiff, Wales.

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An incredible metal structure is made by pouring molten aluminum into a fire ant colony. The resulting cast is huge, weighing 17.9 lbs. and reaching a depth of 18 inches.

[📹 Anthill Art, read more:
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A high-school teacher gets more than he bargained for in this retelling of the Scopes Monkey Trial.

Will he be found guilty of teaching the biology of sex and denying a student's gender?

In today's episode, Senator Castillo argues Judge Connor should uphold the indictment.

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Lest we forget. 😂

The Biden admin let the Chinese Spy Balloon fly over the entire US and complete it's mission before shooting it down but they were very quick to shoot down the balloon from the "Illinois-based club of amateur balloonists" over US airspace in Alaska...

https://twitter.com/dschlopesisback/status/1626827147905040385?s=46&t=M_78vyZA_Oj6Wc2jXwkT2g

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“Words matter,” begins the discreet notice, which sits at the bottom of the copyright page of Puffin’s latest editions of Roald Dahl’s books. “The wonderful words of Roald Dahl can transport you to different worlds and introduce you to the most marvellous characters. This book was written many years ago, and so we regularly review the language to ensure that it can continue to be enjoyed by all today.”

"Put simply: these may not be the words Dahl wrote. The publishers have given themselves licence to edit the writer as they see fit, chopping, altering and adding where necessary to bring his books in line with contemporary sensibilities. By comparing the latest editions with earlier versions of the texts, The Telegraph has found hundreds of changes to Dahl’s stories."

https://archive.is/xl99s