Thursday, August 20, 2026
Does The World Need Another Holcaust?
Seems Earth is infested again with saadistic malevolent and down-right EVIL Jews once again. Does the World need another HOLOCAUST to purge humanity of this genetic cultural scourge?
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PS Q; What happenned to Hind Rajab?
PPS - Israeli Jews denied shooting this 4 year old girl for 2 years btw.
On January 29, 2024, Hind Rajab and her family attempted to follow Israeli evacuation orders, fleeing their neighbourhood in Gaza City in a black Kia car driven by her uncle.
Her mother, Wissam Hamada, had been separated from her daughter after leaving the area on foot earlier that fateful day. As they navigated the perilous streets, Israeli forces unleashed a barrage of more than 300 bullets into the vehicle, instantly killing six of her relatives, including her 15-year-old cousin Layan, who had managed to speak to emergency dispatchers before being fatally shot.
Why Does The World Tolerate Israel & Israeli Jews?
Dirty fithy sadistic Jews ...no wonder the Germans wanted them EXTERMINATED and ELIMINATED by gassing them and incinerating their corpse during the Holocaust (2 World Wars) and they are consistanty and constantly HATED WORLDWIDE throghout history
Israel opens criminal probes over killings of 6-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab, Gaza rescue workers - Israeli rights groups say such internal investigations rarely lead to convictions
Thomson Reuters · Posted: Aug 19, 2026 10:07 AM NDT | Last Updated: August 19
A picture of Hind Rajab is held on the red carpet during arrivals for the screening of The Voice of Hind Rajab at the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 3, 2025. (Yara Nardi/Reuters)
Israel's military said on Wednesday that it will open internal investigations over its troops' killings in Gaza of Palestinian girl Hind Rajab in January 2024 and 15 emergency and aid workers in March 2025, although rights groups said such probes rarely lead to convictions.
The military said the investigation decisions followed probes by its Fact-Finding and Assessment Mechanism. It released decisions regarding five incidents involving the deaths of Palestinians.
They included an examination of the killings of seven aid workers with the World Central Kitchen charity in April 2024. On that incident, the military said there was "no reasonable suspicion of criminal misconduct that would justify the opening of a criminal investigation."
"For more than a thousand days, the IDF [Israel Defence Forces] has been conducting intensive combat across numerous fronts, carrying out a wide range of military missions in an exceptionally complex operational reality," the Israeli military said.
"As part of the IDF’s obligations under international law and Israeli domestic law, the IDF examines exceptional incidents that occurred during combat," the military said.
Both the killing of Rajab in February 2024 and the killing of 15 Palestinian medics in May 2025 gained international attention.
Days after she called for help, girl's body found in car in Gaza City, relatives say
At least 350 aid workers killed in 2025, more than half in Gaza: UN
But Israeli rights groups say that criminal misconduct investigations into Israeli troops over the killing of Palestinians rarely lead to convictions.
"Nearly zero indictments are served relative to the number of complaints of soldiers and commanders who commit offences. In rare cases when commanders or soldiers are convicted, they receive ridiculously lenient sentences compared with the severity of the offence," said a spokesperson for the Israeli rights organization Yesh Din.
Rajab's grandmother, also named Hind Rajab, told CBC News freelance videographer Mohamed El Saife that the family was "shocked" by Wednesday's announcement.
She said they don't trust Israel to conduct an investigation and other countries should probe what happened to her granddaughter and to other children in Gaza.
"We demand that the soldiers be held accountable for the killing of an innocent Hind," the grandmother said, adding that "all the children of Gaza are entitled to rights."
UNICEF said last October that at least 64,000 Palestinian children had been killed or injured since the Gaza war began in October 2023.
In June, a United Nations Human Rights Council report said evidence showed that Israeli security forces had "deliberately targeted" and killed Palestinian children in Gaza. Israel rejected the report as "a propaganda piece."
Phone call begging for help
During Israel's offensive in response to the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack, Hind Rajab was pinned down in a car for hours, begging Palestinian medics by mobile phone to send help, while her aunt, uncle and three cousins already lay dead.
When an ambulance arrived, contact with the girl and the rescuers themselves was lost. Twelve days later, the bodies of the girl, her relatives and two ambulance workers were recovered from the area.
A film about Hind Rajab's death, which sparked international outcry, won the Silver Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award.
A destroyed car is seen amidst rubble.
A destroyed car where the body of Palestinian girl Hind Rajab, 6, who begged Gaza rescuers to send help after being trapped by Israeli military fire, was found in Gaza City on Feb. 10, 2024. (Reuters)
In March 2025, 15 emergency and aid workers from the Red Crescent, Palestinian Civil Defense and the United Nations were recovered from a grave in the sand in the south of the Gaza Strip, United Nations officials said at the time.
UN aid chief Tom Fletcher said in a post on X that the bodies were buried near "wrecked & well-marked vehicles," adding: "They were killed by Israeli forces while trying to save lives. We demand answers & justice."
Israeli forces say they have never deliberately targeted civilians in the Gaza war. They say Hamas endangers such people's lives by using them for cover.
The Israeli military did not immediately comment directly on the deaths of the Red Crescent workers at the time. In a later statement to Reuters, it said that it had facilitated the evacuation of the bodies from the area, which it described as an active combat zone. It did not specifically respond to questions about why the bodies were retrieved from beneath the sand or why the vehicles were found crushed.
"More important than opening the investigation is that this should have been prevented," Eid Aziz, media director for the Red Crescent, told Reuters.
"The Palestinian Red Crescent badge is protected by international laws, and the medical staff must be protected, especially as they execute their duties and humanitarian work.”
DOWN WITH ISRAEL ... Jews are suprisingly so bad HOWEVER, ISRAEL IS AN ILLEGAL ARTIFICIAL CONSTRUCT OF A FABRICATED ILLEGAL TERRORIST "STATE" that jeopardises The Jewish People / Race/ Culture and existance worldwide.
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ISRAELI Jews Kills 4 Year Old Girl
Dirty fithy sadistic Jews ...no wonder the Germans wanted them EXTERMINATED and ELIMINATED by gassing them and incinerating their corpse during the Holocaust (2 World Wars) and they are consistanty and constantly HATED WORLDWIDE throghout history
Israel opens criminal probes over killings of 6-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab, Gaza rescue workers - Israeli rights groups say such internal investigations rarely lead to convictions
Thomson Reuters · Posted: Aug 19, 2026 10:07 AM NDT | Last Updated: August 19
A picture of Hind Rajab is held on the red carpet during arrivals for the screening of The Voice of Hind Rajab at the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 3, 2025. (Yara Nardi/Reuters)
Israel's military said on Wednesday that it will open internal investigations over its troops' killings in Gaza of Palestinian girl Hind Rajab in January 2024 and 15 emergency and aid workers in March 2025, although rights groups said such probes rarely lead to convictions.
The military said the investigation decisions followed probes by its Fact-Finding and Assessment Mechanism. It released decisions regarding five incidents involving the deaths of Palestinians.
They included an examination of the killings of seven aid workers with the World Central Kitchen charity in April 2024. On that incident, the military said there was "no reasonable suspicion of criminal misconduct that would justify the opening of a criminal investigation."
"For more than a thousand days, the IDF [Israel Defence Forces] has been conducting intensive combat across numerous fronts, carrying out a wide range of military missions in an exceptionally complex operational reality," the Israeli military said.
"As part of the IDF’s obligations under international law and Israeli domestic law, the IDF examines exceptional incidents that occurred during combat," the military said.
Both the killing of Rajab in February 2024 and the killing of 15 Palestinian medics in May 2025 gained international attention.
Days after she called for help, girl's body found in car in Gaza City, relatives say
At least 350 aid workers killed in 2025, more than half in Gaza: UN
But Israeli rights groups say that criminal misconduct investigations into Israeli troops over the killing of Palestinians rarely lead to convictions.
"Nearly zero indictments are served relative to the number of complaints of soldiers and commanders who commit offences. In rare cases when commanders or soldiers are convicted, they receive ridiculously lenient sentences compared with the severity of the offence," said a spokesperson for the Israeli rights organization Yesh Din.
Rajab's grandmother, also named Hind Rajab, told CBC News freelance videographer Mohamed El Saife that the family was "shocked" by Wednesday's announcement.
She said they don't trust Israel to conduct an investigation and other countries should probe what happened to her granddaughter and to other children in Gaza.
"We demand that the soldiers be held accountable for the killing of an innocent Hind," the grandmother said, adding that "all the children of Gaza are entitled to rights."
UNICEF said last October that at least 64,000 Palestinian children had been killed or injured since the Gaza war began in October 2023.
In June, a United Nations Human Rights Council report said evidence showed that Israeli security forces had "deliberately targeted" and killed Palestinian children in Gaza. Israel rejected the report as "a propaganda piece."
Phone call begging for help
During Israel's offensive in response to the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack, Hind Rajab was pinned down in a car for hours, begging Palestinian medics by mobile phone to send help, while her aunt, uncle and three cousins already lay dead.
When an ambulance arrived, contact with the girl and the rescuers themselves was lost. Twelve days later, the bodies of the girl, her relatives and two ambulance workers were recovered from the area.
A film about Hind Rajab's death, which sparked international outcry, won the Silver Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award.
A destroyed car is seen amidst rubble.
A destroyed car where the body of Palestinian girl Hind Rajab, 6, who begged Gaza rescuers to send help after being trapped by Israeli military fire, was found in Gaza City on Feb. 10, 2024. (Reuters)
In March 2025, 15 emergency and aid workers from the Red Crescent, Palestinian Civil Defense and the United Nations were recovered from a grave in the sand in the south of the Gaza Strip, United Nations officials said at the time.
UN aid chief Tom Fletcher said in a post on X that the bodies were buried near "wrecked & well-marked vehicles," adding: "They were killed by Israeli forces while trying to save lives. We demand answers & justice."
Israeli forces say they have never deliberately targeted civilians in the Gaza war. They say Hamas endangers such people's lives by using them for cover.
The Israeli military did not immediately comment directly on the deaths of the Red Crescent workers at the time. In a later statement to Reuters, it said that it had facilitated the evacuation of the bodies from the area, which it described as an active combat zone. It did not specifically respond to questions about why the bodies were retrieved from beneath the sand or why the vehicles were found crushed.
"More important than opening the investigation is that this should have been prevented," Eid Aziz, media director for the Red Crescent, told Reuters.
"The Palestinian Red Crescent badge is protected by international laws, and the medical staff must be protected, especially as they execute their duties and humanitarian work.”
DOWN WITH ISRAEL ... Jews are suprisingly so bad HOWEVER, ISRAEL IS AN ILLEGAL ARTIFICIAL CONSTRUCT OF A FABRICATED ILLEGAL TERRORIST "STATE" that jeopardises The Jewish People / Race/ Culture and existance worldwide.
PG KO
Eric Swalwell's Wife Allegedly "Blindsided" By Rape Allegations (Post 1)
Hard to believ Swalwell's 2nd Wife knew nothing about such blatant sexual misconduct and multiple affairs . A real PIG;
Eric Swalwell's Wife of 9 Years Feels Blindsided by His 'Double Life' After Sexual Assault Allegations (Exclusive)
A source who knows the couple tells PEOPLE that Brittany Watts is "strong, successful and very capable of leaving" Swalwell after she was spotted without her wedding ring
By Meredith Kile Published on May 14, 2026 05:56PM EDT
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Eric Swalwell and Brittany Watts in January 2026.
Eric Swalwell and Brittany Watts in January 2026.
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NEED TO KNOW
Eric Swalwell's wife of nine years, Brittany Watts, was blindsided by the sexual assault allegations against him, a source tells PEOPLE
"It’s very clear Eric was incredibly strategic at living a double life... He had everyone fooled," the source who knows the couple says
Swalwell suspended his California gubernatorial campaign and resigned from Congress in the wake of the allegations, but maintains his innocence
Eric Swalwell's wife of nine years, Brittany Watts, is trying to take things "day by day" after being blindsided by the accusations of sexual abuse against him.
A source who knows the couple, who wed in 2016, tells PEOPLE that there's "no way" she knew anything about the allegations of sexual misconduct against her husband before they became public last month.
On April 12, former congressman Swalwell, 45, suspended his campaign for governor of California after multiple women accused him of inappropriate behavior ranging from sending lewd, unwanted messages to drugging, raping and choking them.
Though Swallwell has denied the allegations against him, Watts, 41, was recently spotted without her wedding ring, and the source confirms to PEOPLE that the couple are living separately, with Watts staying with their three children: Nelson, 8, Cricket, 7, and Hank, 4.
Watts "would never condone or excuse any of Eric’s behavior in any way," the source says. "She’s focused on protecting her children and navigating this excruciating situation as best she can."
"It’s very clear Eric was incredibly strategic at living a double life — he had everyone fooled," the source continues.
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The initial allegations against Swalwell emerged on April 10, when he was accused of sexual assault by a former staffer, whose identity has not been made public, and three other women. A few days later, two of the accusers — Annika Albrecht and Ally Sammarco — gave a joint interview to CBS News alongside Cheyenne Hunt, a political social media influencer, whose videos about the allegations against Swalwell went viral.
Just a few days after the interview aired, Hunt said she had heard from more than 30 women who claimed to have similar stories of their own experiences with the Democratic lawmaker.
Eric Swalwell looking forward attending an event
Eric Swalwell attends the SEIU-United Service Workers West (SEIU-USWW)'s Gubernatorial Candidate Worker Forum at Meruelo Studios in Los Angeles, California, on January 10, 2026.
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“The whole thing has been deeply devastating," the source tells PEOPLE, saying that Watts has been "taking things day by day and prioritizing stability and privacy for her children above everything else.”
“She had no knowledge of what was happening and is grappling with the same shock, hurt and disbelief that people close to the family are feeling,” the source adds. “She’s been handling this with dignity and discretion — I’m sure for the sake of her children."
The source says Watts "is extremely strong, successful and very capable of leaving him."
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Swalwell apologized to his wife in the statements he released upon suspending his gubernatorial campaign. One day later, he resigned from Congress, where he'd represented California's 14th and 15th districts since 2013.
“To my family, staff, friends, and supporters, I am deeply sorry for mistakes in judgment I've made in my past," he wrote in his X announcement. “I will fight the serious, false allegations that have been made — but that's my fight, not a campaign's."
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His concessions weren't quite enough for Sammarco and the other accusers who had gone public. "He was pushed into a corner, essentially, because they were planning to expel him…so I think he did that to save face a little," she said. "But I also felt very vindicated that he realized it was over for him."
Their CBS News interview also had the effect of motivating a woman named Lonna Drewes to testify with what might be the most damning accusations against Swalwell. In a press conference one day after the interview aired, Drewes came forward and tearfully accused Swalwell of spiking her drink at a hotel in 2018 before taking her up to his room.
"He raped me, and he choked me. And while he was choking me, I lost consciousness, and I thought I died," she claimed.
Albrecht, Sammarco and Hunt didn't identify Drewes by name, but suggested they'd heard similar accusations.
"It was terrifying to get on the phone with those women and hear their stories about how they were drinking with him and suddenly woke up in bed next to him with no recollection of how they got there," Albrecht said.
They've said their goal is not politically motivated. They simply want to protect the women who could have been future victims.
"I think we just prevented another 30 to 40 years, potentially, of him harming people if he were to stay in Congress," Sammarco said. "As governor, he would have had even more power and more authority. And he would have felt vindicated too, you know, that he could run for higher office."
Albrecht agreed, saying, "For me, justice won't be until he can't ever harm a woman ever again, and he has faced the consequences for the women that he has harmed."
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To be continued...
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David Jolly Is An Impressive Candidate
Eric Swalwell ("Accused" - lol) Rapist
Think your having a bad day? imagine being famous and accused of rape @ age 45? I am experiencing massive Schadenfreund atm lol;
Here is Swalwell molesting a woman on a bed with another male at 5am in Las Vegas Hotel
Here are the accusations;
Former U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) faced multiple public accusations of sexual misconduct and rape from multiple women, including a former congressional staffer and former model Lana Drews. Swalwell strongly denied the allegations, calling them false, but withdrew from the California gubernatorial race and resigned from Congress in April 2026.The AllegationsFormer Staffer: A former staffer alleged that Swalwell raped her in a hotel room in 2024 while she was intoxicated, and described nonconsensual sexual contact following heavy drinking in 2019 when she worked for him. She began cooperating with an investigation opened by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.Lana Drews: A former model and business owner publicly accused Swalwell of drugging, choking, and raping her in a Los Angeles hotel room in 2018 after meeting him socially, and filed a police report with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.Other Misconduct: Additional women came forward reporting unsolicited explicit messages and nude photos sent via Snapchat.Investigations and FalloutResignation: Following bipartisan calls for expulsion and condemnation from political leaders, Swalwell resigned from the House of Representatives.Criminal & Federal Probes: The Manhattan District Attorney launched an investigation into the allegations. Federal law enforcement and the FBI subsequently executed search warrants and seized electronic devices from his properties as part of the ongoing probe.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/eric-swalwell-fbi-raid-investigation-b3036474.html?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=editorial-push
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PS https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sqefD0_UWAU
PG's Life Restart Plan Thursday 11:11 am 24 Hillcrest Road Corner Brook NL CAN
PG's Life Restart Plan Thursday 11:11am 24 Hillcrest Road Corner Brook NL CAN
New Name /Alias - Kenneth Jackson "Jack" Richard O'Brien
Bottom Life - KJR O'Brien's "Sober 2nd Life" Restart Plan is initiated today after experiencing multiple non-repose events/seizures alone @ personal residence 24 HIllcrest Road Corner Brook NL CA A2H 1N6;
@ 11:11 August 20, 2026 PG decided to RESTART/ START-OVER LIFE having experienced a Non-Response event alone within last 24 hours @ personal residence 24 Hilcrest Road Corner Brook Nl CA A2H 1N6;
PERSONAL DETAILS;
Eduation;
1. BA, HONS, LL.B.LL.M. Bachelor's in Arts Honors Dalhousie University Halifax Nova Scotia CA 1994
2. Age:
54 years 6 months 9 days
or 654 months 9 days
or 2844 weeks 6 days
or 19,914 days
or 477,936 hours
or 28,676,160 minutes
or 1,720,569,600 seconds
"NEW-LIFE" or "SOBER'2ND'LIFE (SOBER2NDLIFE.COM) GOALS;
1. ID /AVATAR CONCEPT employing 2ndlife.com via NEW ID NAME- KENNETH JACKSON RICHARD O'BRIEN
2. TEE-TOTALER - COMPLETE ABSTINENCE UNTIL SEPTEMBE 11, 2026 and see what happens
3. MEDICATION - adhere to neurological PRESCRIPTION of latest female Dr. a GP wih no expertise in Neurology but is an assigned GP
4. Lifestyle - sobriety, 1 meal daily @ 6pm (evening meal) minimum 5+ L's H20
5. Abstinence - eliminate females from Life
6. Family - Dishown/disinherit children in Finland and sever all contacts with biological family i.e.; father, brother, sister, nephews, in-laws, cousins etc...
7. Estate - Bequest everyting to Mother Anna Dale LeDrew 1 Ingrid Road Corner Brook NL CA
Trump's Latest Girlfriend Natalie Harp
Nowonder you don't see Melania anywhere; Intimate letters written by Donald Trump's personal secretary, in which she confesses to starving herself while working for him, have resurfaced following renewed scrutiny of their relationship.
Natalie Harp, 35, has been one of the President's closest aides for years and is dubbed the 'human printer' as she carries bundles of news articles around for him to read. However, her devotion to Trump has raised the concerns of his top advisers and the Secret Service. Intimate letters written by Donald Trump's personal secretary, in which she confesses to starving herself while working for him, have resurfaced following renewed scrutiny of their relationship.
Natalie Harp, 35, has been one of the President's closest aides for years and is dubbed the 'human printer' as she carries bundles of news articles around for him to read. However, her devotion to Trump has raised the concerns of his top advisers and the Secret Service. Her letter concludes: 'With all my heart, Natalie.'
Harp's determination to remain by Trump's side was also on display in October 2023, when she rode in the trunk of an SUV after being told there was no room for her in the motorcade taking him to a New York court appearance. After staffers told her there was no room in the vehicle, Harp became livid and began screaming at them, insisting that Trump had personally asked her to accompany him, according to CNN.
DJ Trump Cannot Let Iran Make Him Look Like A Loser
Iran has the UPER HAND and should consider tactically Nuking Iran' sOil Facillities ASAP, they areonly Iranian Mulahs after all so nobody wil miss them lol;
President Donald Trump cannot let Iran make him “look like a loser” because his legacy is tied up in the war with the Islamic Republic, a former Fox News personality says.
Political commentator Bill O’Reilly, the former host of The O’Reilly Factor, made the remark on Tuesday night as the six-month anniversary of the start of the war draws closer.
Appearing on NewsNation’s On Balance, O’Reilly began by saying that he believes the U.S. does have a strategy going forward in the conflict with Iran. President Donald Trump cannot let Iran make him “look like a loser” because his legacy is tied up in the war with the Islamic Republic, a former Fox News personality says.
Political commentator Bill O’Reilly, the former host of The O’Reilly Factor, made the remark on Tuesday night as the six-month anniversary of the start of the war draws closer.
Appearing on NewsNation’s On Balance, O’Reilly began by saying that he believes the U.S. does have a strategy going forward in the conflict with Iran. O’Reilly continued, “But Donald Trump’s legacy is involved - personal to him now - can’t let the Iranians make him look like a loser, ok?”
“Because he sees life in terms of winners and losers,” O’Reilly concluded.
The former Fox News host made the remarks after the president lashed out at both the United States’ allies and its enemies earlier this week, threatening to “bomb the s***” out of Oman over its negotiations with Iran.
Also on Monday, the commander-in-chief declared that the Strait of Hormuz was under U.S. control, with Iranian officials later firmly rejecting that claim.
“We control it with the blockade, and I like the idea of declaring it a territory,” he told reporters on Monday. Despite the president’s boasts about the war, O’Reilly told NewsNation that Trump’s decision to launch the war on Iran back on February 28 was a “miscalculation.”
“If Donald Trump had not decided to go in and confront Iran in February, late February, he would be…the odds are that the Republican Party would be well ahead in the midterms,” he claimed. “This was a miscalculation.”
NUKE these BATARDS ASAP before it's too late!!!
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Wednesday, August 19, 2026
The Little Bald Jew Ruining America
Guess who it is? ...
Stephen N. Miller (born August 23, 1985) is an American political advisor serving as White House deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security advisor since 2025. He previously served as senior advisor to the president and director of speechwriting from 2017 to 2021 during the first Trump administration. Considered one of the most influential figures of the Trump administrations and Trumpism movement, his politics have been described as far-right,[1] anti-immigration,[2][3] and white nationalist.[4][5][6]
Miller grew up in Santa Monica, California, and attended Duke University, where he was a columnist for The Chronicle and president of the Duke chapter of Students for Academic Freedom. After graduating in 2007, he worked as press secretary for US representatives Michele Bachmann and John Shadegg. In 2009, he joined the staff of Alabama senator Jeff Sessions, where he worked on immigration policy and helped defeat the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013. As an aide to Sessions, Miller influenced the direction of Breitbart News. He advised both of Trump's presidential campaigns. After Trump's loss in the 2020 election, Miller founded America First Legal, a conservative legal advocacy organization, in 2021.
Miller has been a central figure in the Trump administration's immigration policy, including the family separation policy and Executive Order 13769, which restricted travel from several Muslim-majority countries. As director of speechwriting, he supervised the writing of Trump's inaugural and State of the Union addresses. Miller is on the Southern Poverty Law Center's list of extremists.[7][8][9] His influence and views are the subject of both traditional and independent media.[10]
Family, early life, and education (1985–2007)
Stephen N. Miller[11] was born on August 23, 1985,[12] in the affluent North of Montana neighborhood in Santa Monica, California,[13] the second of three children[14] of Miriam (née Glosser) and Michael Miller.[15][a] Miller is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent.[17] His family's lineage escaped Russian pogroms and the Holocaust.[18]
Miller's mother, Miriam, was a Columbia University graduate and became a social worker.[15] She grew up in a family of New Deal Democrats,[19] but according to biographers, like the majority of the era's Californians,[15] had conservative views.[20] Miller's father, Michael, was a lawyer and worked in the Miller family real estate business.[21] In 1998, when Miller was thirteen, his parents sold their home and bought a smaller home in a less affluent area.[22]
Miller went to Hebrew school at Beth Shir Shalom, where classmates thought of him as a contrarian.[19]
In 1999, he began attending Santa Monica High School.[23] Miller opposed his high school's chapter of the Chicano Student Movement of Aztlán and was described by the chapter founder as having taunted immigrants; he reportedly insisted to other students and teachers that they speak English.[24] Miller called into talk-radio's The Larry Elder Show (1993–2008; 2010–2014) and successfully brought the host to his high school.[25] He later appeared on Elder's show after the September 11 attacks to describe an incident in which a Canadian teacher placed the flag of the United States on the floor and discussed its importance. Although other students remembered otherwise, Miller alleged that the teacher had dragged the flag across the floor and trampled over it.[26] By his count, Miller appeared on the Elder show sixty-nine times and their relationship continued for years.[27]
He was confirmed at the Santa Monica Synagogue, a Reform temple.[19] At Santa Monica, Miller garnered attention and was lampooned in an April Fools' Day issue of the school newspaper, The Samohi. In 2002, he ran for student announcer, giving a speech in which he questioned being told to pick up trash when the school hired custodians. The student body disapproved of Miller's comments and he lost the election. Miller was involved in the school's band program, tennis, religious studies, and political and youth groups.[28] Jean Guerrero writes that his favorite musician was Elvis Presley and favorite film was Martin Scorsese's Casino (1995).[29] Guerrero writes that at times he copied the look of Robert De Niro portraying a mobster,[30] and that he dressed up like the movies for trips to Las Vegas, where he was a skilled craps player.[31] During high school and continuing into university, Miller often wore a suit.[32] He told Elder that he liked to make a good first impression.[33] As an adult, he continued to wear expensive, American-made, bespoke suits.[34]
Conservative writer David Horowitz heard Miller on The Larry Elder Show. Horowitz became another long-term relationship for Miller[35] who invited him to speak at his high school. Horowitz reciprocated, inviting Miller to his home.[36] Miller made several demands in an article on Horowitz's website, FrontPage Magazine. He asked for the school's culture to embrace "inclusive patriotism", in contrast to multiculturalism and that his school institute the Pledge of Allegiance five days a week.[37] The school instituted the pledge, which Miller reported as a "huge victory".[37] He wrote that Santa Monica's principal and its district superintendent blamed Miller for having caused a tax increase initiative to fail. According to Miller's article, the principal distributed a memorandum to teachers, ordering them to discuss the Iraq War in a neutral and balanced manner.[38] In Guerrero's estimation, by his graduation in 2003, Miller had received more publicity than "probably any other student in class".[39]
American Soldiers Are Gaming Addicts
The US Military offers active duty soldiers 4 day passes to play Grand Theft Auto as a re-enlistment bonus;
Some U.S. military members who are itching to play a video game they've anticipated for over a decade can trade a commitment for several more years of their life in uniform for a few days off to play Grand Theft Auto VI. As an incentive to reenlist, a U.S. Army unit in Georgia is offering active duty soldiers a four-day pass to play the popular game when it's released this fall, U.S. officials told CBS News. Over the years, the Army has used various enlistment bonuses — college tuition, choice duty station assignments or access to special training programs where soldiers learn to jump from airplanes or rappel from helicopters to encourage soldiers to enlist or reenlist. The recruitment incentive isn't service-wide; it was proposed exclusively for one battalion. However, it is possible the program could be expanded. Twenty soldiers at Fort Stewart in Georgia in the Army's 9th Brigade Engineering Battalion, part of the 3rd Infantry Division, have already chosen this incentive as part of their reenlistment, an Army spokesperson told CBS News on Wednesday.
"The idea was to have a unique incentives program that connects to what Soldiers are interested in," Lt. Col. Angel Tomko, a spokesperson for the 3rd Infantry Division, said in a statement. "The command team, in conjunction with the career counselor, wanted to get soldiers excited to reenlist."
Anticipation for the next version of the game is strong in certain circles, especially action fans and open-world game enthusiasts.
AI Making Students Stupid
Students across the country are using AI models to complete assignments and write entire essays. Some of this constitutes cheating, but in many cases schools are allowing students to make some use of AI tools.
This is a slippery slop. As some experts argue, any intrusion of automation into the writing process isn’t just threatening students’ composition skills, but their entire ability to think.
“Writing is a technology for thinking,” cognitive psychologist Ronald T. Kellogg told the New York Times in a new essay mulling the consequences of sidestepping the hard work of writing.
Writing, the piece notes, helps develop all sorts of cognitive faculties, including building our working memory, executive planning skills, and our metacognition, or the ability to be aware of your own thinking.
For all the romanticism around writing, it’s also a form of drudgery. Kellogg says that drafting a basic essay is as mentally taxing as digging a ditch is physically exhausting. You have to really rack your brain to find the right word and organize ideas in a way that makes sense to a broader audience. When they’re manifested in the real world, you revise your ideas by going over them yourself or asking for feedback.
KGB Sleeper-Agent Melania Knauss Nowhere In Sight
President Donald Trump’s wife has largely remained out of the public eye during his second term in office, which has raised questions about where she lives most of the time. Melania, 56, has been seen in public since she attended the FIFA World Cup final at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on July 19. She was photographed next to Donald, 80, at the international soccer tournament. However, she has been noticeably absent from high-profile events in recent weeks.
Journalist Michael Wolff — who rose to prominence for authoring four books about Donald’s political career as president — posted an article on his Substack Howl on Monday, August 17, in which he wrote, “Melania Trump does not live in the White House. Other than at ceremonial occasions, or in a strictly official capacity, she has given up the role of wife. Practically speaking, there is no room for her."
Wolff also wrote about how Donald is constantly seen alongside his blonde aide, Natalie Harp, 35, who serves as his executive assistant.
“Trump is, in virtually every instance, attached to Natalie Harp,” Wolff wrote in the post. “A would-be conservative media talking head, her campaign of reach-out and ingratiation with the Trump circle made her, by 2022, one of the Trump go-fetch-it people. Trump’s 2024 comeback campaign transformed Harp into the central presence in his life.”
AI Kills Thoughts
Students across the country are using AI models to complete assignments and write entire essays. Some of this constitutes cheating, but in many cases schools are allowing students to make some use of AI tools.
This is a slippery slop. As some experts argue, any intrusion of automation into the writing process isn’t just threatening students’ composition skills, but their entire ability to think.
“Writing is a technology for thinking,” cognitive psychologist Ronald T. Kellogg told the New York Times in a new essay mulling the consequences of sidestepping the hard work of writing.
Writing, the piece notes, helps develop all sorts of cognitive faculties, including building our working memory, executive planning skills, and our metacognition, or the ability to be aware of your own thinking.
For all the romanticism around writing, it’s also a form of drudgery. Kellogg says that drafting a basic essay is as mentally taxing as digging a ditch is physically exhausting. You have to really rack your brain to find the right word and organize ideas in a way that makes sense to a broader audience. When they’re manifested in the real world, you revise your ideas by going over them yourself or asking for feedback.
Writing, in other words, is inextricable from the labor that goes into it. And so when you bring in a piece of machinery that offers to do the process for you, it’s no longer writing, and by no extension, no longer exercising the brain.
An MIT study earlier this year found that people who used AI while they wrote an essay showed lower brain activity compared to people who didn’t. Moreover, the people who composed with AI struggled to remember a single line from the essays they just produced, with their brain activity staying at a reduced level even when they were later asked to write again without an AI’s help.
As the NYT piece notes, though, few people would willingly dig a ditch, and the same goes for writing. But there’s no part of the writing process than can be offloaded to an AI without some cost, warned Steve Graham, a writing expert and educational psychologist at Arizona State University.
Building off that warning, the NYT‘s Dana Goldstein pondered: “If writing is thinking, then any part of the struggle that is outsourced to technology amounts to relinquishing some freedom to perceive. How will students ever know what they really think of anything — whether it’s ‘The Crucible’ or AI itself — if they ask a machine to spit out an answer for them?”
Schools and colleges are grappling with how to rein in students’ use of the tech. Some are returning to using pencil and paper to write essays and oral exams. Others are banning digital devices in freshman courses, and Ivy League schools like Princeton University have dropped Honor Code traditions that let students take tests and exams unsupervised.
If there’s a silver lining, it’s that many students have to come to realize on their own that using AI to write an analysis of, for example, assigned literature, is robbing them of their own education.
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And Finland is deporting nudocumented migrants:
Since 2023, Finland’s right-wing government has tightened immigration rules, resulting in a surge in deportations and growing fears among undocumented migrants who could face persecution in their home countries. Stricter requirements for asylum, residence permits, and family reunification, along with closer scrutiny of applicants, have resulted in a decline in both work-related immigration and asylum approvals.
Finland's tougher stance on immigration has triggered a surge in deportations, prompting concern among undocumented migrants who risk facing danger if deported to their home countries.
Between January and September 2025, approximately 2,070 foreign nationals were deported, a 30 percent increase compared with the same period in 2024, according to data from Finland’s National Police Board.
Chief Superintendent Janne Lepsu said foreigners' right of residence in Finland is now being "investigated more closely," French news agency AFP reported on November 1.
"If it is found that a foreign national does not have this right, every effort will be made to ensure that they leave Finland or the Schengen area," he said. Estimates suggest there are between 3,500 and 5,000 undocumented people living in Finland in recent years.
Finland Deporting Illegals & Unwanteds
Orpo: Finland to set up removal centres for applicants who have been denied asylum
Finland is set to establish one or more removal centres for asylum seekers whose applications have been turned down, Petteri Orpo (NCP), the Minister of the Interior, has revealed. As many as thousands of asylum applications may be rejected due to the unprecedented influx of asylum seekers into the country. “These people could then be accommodated in the removal centres with tighter controls,” Orpo said on Thursday. Canada should do the same - or is it too late? It seems too late which is why Newfound-Island and Labrador-Land should be a seperate Nation-State / Country like Iceland but bigger.
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Greenland Invasion Has Begun
Power-Pete Hegseth Wants White House
Former Fox News personality and all-round macho-man Pete Hegseth wants to be your next president, according to officials familiar with the self-proclaimed Secretary of War’s thinking.
Those sources, who spoke anonymously in order to be frank about the Trump Cabinet member’s ambitions, told the Washington Post that Hegseth’s trip to Iowa on Monday suggests he may very well have his sights set on the White House. The Defense Secretary, 46, headed out to stump for GOP Rep. Zach Nunn in the battleground state, where presidential hopefuls have historically tested their mettle.
He also stumped for Sen. Darline Graham in the early presidential primary state of South Carolina last week.
He also showed up for congressional candidate Ed Gallrein in his successful primary run against incumbent Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie earlier in May. CBS notes that it’s rare for any sitting defense secretary to head out campaigning for candidates.
Even Hegseth’s alleged “kill-them-all” orders during military strikes on suspected narcotrafficking boats in the Caribbean, slammed by legal experts as crimes against humanity, would likely prove an easier campaign sell than his tireless cheerleading for Trump’s war of choice with Iran.
That campaign, which has included a U.S. airstrike on an Iranian school that killed 165 civilians, dozens of them children, is among the least popular conflicts since the advent of modern polling. A meager 28 percent of voters approve of the war, according to a CNN poll fielded in late July—just seven points below the 35 percent approval the network put Hegseth’s job performance at earlier in April.
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Jew Ossoff Wants White House
Notice how Jewish Americans are pushing for this young Jewish up & comer John Ossoff? 
JewMerica wants him to be its 1st publically notorious Jew-President. Once America starts electing Jews as President it is the end of the USA and we might as well refer to it as the Jewish States of Jewmerica... Jared K(ushner-Jew) is waiting in the wings to be VP.
Stay tned.
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JewMerica's Newest Star
Notice how Jewish Americans are pushing for this young Jewish up & comer?
JewMerica wants him to be its 1st publically notorious Jew-President. Once America starts electing Jews as President it is the end of the USA and we might as well refer to it as the Jewish States of Jewmerica... Jared K(ushner-Jew) is waiting in the wings to be VP.
Stay tned.
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Tuesday, August 18, 2026
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How The Super-Rich Spend
The new AI super-rich are reshaping the market for jets, yachts and cars
Those making fortunes in Silicon Valley are ditching the champagne for premium water while splashing their bitcoin
The rapid growth of AI-focused companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic has created a wave of millionaires and billionaires, and they are starting to spend — with trophy assets near the top of their lists.
The number of billionaires globally rose 13 per cent year-on-year to 3,302 in the 12 months that ended in April, more than a thousand of whom are based in the US, according to UBS.
The first trophy is always a house. There has been a surge in property prices in San Francisco, where the median price for a single-family home jumped to $2.1mn in June, up almost 25 per cent from the same month in 2025, according to real estate brokerage Compass.
But once they have a home, those with fortunes minted in the AI boom are spending big on hyper-personalised and high-performance yachts, jets and cars.
They are spurning the champagne and white-glove service typically associated with luxury travel and instead looking for things that are practical, private and allow them to maintain their healthy lifestyles. They don’t want to wait and they do want to pay with crypto.
“The emergence of the AI super-wealthy has opened up a whole new wave of demand for those companies providing access to private jets, yachts and supercars,” said Paul Charles, a luxury travel consultant. “The notion of the discerning client is rather outdated and so companies now have to adapt to cater to a new generation of luxury-focused traveller, created by this AI wealth.”
Companies that supply such assets are having to learn very quickly about the very particular demands of this new class of wealthy.
Private jets
Flexjet Embraer EMB-505 Phenom 300 with registration N356FX approaching to land at San Diego International Airport.
The AI super-rich are flying private jets ‘for efficiency and discretion’
Few modes of travel are a greater hallmark of vast wealth than a private jet. Flexjet, which allows people to buy fractional ownership of an aircraft, has noted an increase in clients who made money through AI or in other technology flotations. The trend has pushed the average age of its customers down by a decade, said Flexjet’s chief executive Andrew Collins.
That wealth is also spreading to those in businesses adjacent to AI. One of jet charter group FlyVictor’s newest clients is a data centre builder who has been chartering planes in the US and Europe while waiting for his purchase of a new long-range Bombardier jet to go through.
That new breed of buyer, some as young as 25, brings new demands, according to FlyVictor’s co-chief executive Toby Edwards.
As well as wanting to pay in bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies, these digital-native clients typically prefer to book using a company’s app or WhatsApp, bypassing brokers and the “theatre of traditional private aviation”, said Charles Robinson, founder of charter marketplace EnterJet. “If it takes more than a few minutes to get quotes and confirm, many will lose interest.”
Onboard standards have also been updated. “The private aviation golden standard of yesteryears, sipping champagne on crisp linen [tablecloths], has largely gone out the window with this cohort,” said Robinson, adding that they looked for “specific types of water” such as artisanal brand Fiji and Acqua Panna as well as “health-conscious catering”.
“They’re flying privately for efficiency and discretion — not to impress socially,” he added.
Cars
The Urus sport utility vehicle has been a hit with the younger tranche of the AI super-wealthy © Sjoerd van der Wal/Getty Images
The new AI multimillionaires and billionaires prioritise exclusive features and are willing to change vehicles after as little as six months to secure the latest models.
Lamborghini has been particularly successful in attracting the younger generation of AI entrepreneurs, according to brokers, with its Urus sport utility vehicle, which can be hyper-personalised with a choice of more than 150 colours. Beyond the customisation options offered by the carmaker, younger buyers can add aerodynamics and carbon-fibre kits to their Lamborghinis to change the look of the body, perfect for posting on social media.
“This kind of car, at the end of the day, is like a toy. It’s a way to express the personality of a customer,” said Stefano Cossalter, Urus product line director at Lamborghini.
Ferrari, according to people close to the company, has received positive feedback from customers in Silicon Valley for the Luce, its first electric vehicle, which drew backlash among some traditional fans for its polarising design. Benedetto Vigna, the Italian luxury group’s chief executive, has defended it, stressing the importance of widening the brand’s appeal. On the day of the EV’s launch, he pointed to interest he’d received from a technology entrepreneur in San Francisco.
“It’s for sure a good opportunity for us,” Vigna said when asked about the AI-related new wealth creation. “Whenever you have a new flush of money in the market . . . Ferrari is a good source.”
Porsche’s chief executive Michael Leiters also said new customer groups were emerging from the AI boom. “Naturally, we are making every effort to reach these customers and win them over to the Porsche brand,” he added.
EMJ Exclusive, which provides a range of services to wealthy individuals, recently bought a low-mileage Rolls-Royce Cullinan for a LA-based AI entrepreneur in his twenties who had asked for a “one of a kind” vehicle. The company customised the vehicle extensively, including by changing its signature black exterior and interior to a bespoke bright blue and orange.
“I think the thing individuals of AI wealth care about is exclusivity,” said EMJ Exclusive founder Ed Somner Bogard. “Our client is never going to drive somewhere with his Rolls-Royce and someone has the same car.”
Yachts
The Princess Yachts X90 super yacht cruising at speed, creating a large wake in open water.
Princess Yacht’s new 90ft superyacht model X90 © Princess Yachts
Jeff Brown’s San Diego-headquartered yacht dealership has “benefited greatly” from a new wave of San Francisco-based buyers that “became wealthy overnight”, he said. Customers at his branch in Sausalito, just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, include new multimillionaires seeking smaller boats that can take on the rough Pacific Ocean and travel up the winding Napa River.
These buyers — who include employees of and investors in chipmaker Nvidia — are not looking for gin palaces, but rather faster and longer-range expeditionary vessels. “These aren’t luxurious boats. These are very functional machines that can go long distances fast and carry a lot of fun stuff,” he said. They also place a greater premium on privacy measures, such as more heavily tinted windows, than Brown’s traditional clientele.
Wave of AI Wealth
Annie Reed, chief commercial officer of British luxury yacht manufacturer Princess Yachts, said the company was “sending more boats to the west coast of America”, as well as to Florida, and had already sold five units of its new 90ft superyacht model X90, which costs upwards of £10mn, to US buyers ahead of its official launch in September.
Princess has received multiple requests to fit high-end Technogym fitness equipment, including functional and strength-training equipment, onboard its vessels. One customer even asked to install a Peloton bike on their flybridge, the open-air deck on a yacht’s rooftop. The company has also been asked to fit Starlink internet terminals.
Health is also a growing focus in his business, said Brown. His customers are requesting more and fancier “toys” — from scuba diving kits to hydrofoil sailboats — in place of catering and alcohol: “These clients are into fitness and they’re out doing stuff. They’re not sipping a Mai Tai on the beach or deck.”
Cool...
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Age is Just A #
PG'S Exact Age Breakdown
54 years, 6 months and 1 week
Days: 19,912 days alive
Next Birthday: February 11, 2027 (in 5 months and 24 days)
FYI; Brad Pitt wishes he had his 50's back and if he had a chance to do it all over again he would; GO FOR IT!!!
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Putin Will Nuke Ukraine After Trump Invades Greenland
Just watch the obvious play out. Not only are both DICTATORS OLD, ISOLATED, UNPOPULAR AND UNDER LEGAL JEOPARDY, they both are facing Jail time (or worse in Putin's case) when they are out of office. Both Dictators need reasons to stay in office for legal immunity and/or be pardoned from criminal prosecution.
By drilling for oil offshore Greenland(GreenIsland State) America has aready begun its invasion of Greenland and Denmark, Europe, CHINA or anyone else can do anything about it... Putin loves this by the way as it will be the distraction he will need when he Nukes Ukraine...
Watch these Political-Wars play out.
Stay tuned.
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Corner Brook's QUASI-MINI Hospital On A Hill
ATM CB has 2 useless medical care facilites generously referred to as "Hospitals". CB needs a NEW HOSPITAL NOW!!!
How stupid to spend SOOOOOOOO much time, money and opportunity cost on a MICRO-HOSPITAL on a HILL and be forced to use an old mouldy decrepit out of date Hospital for patient over-flow. Pathetic. ONLY IN NEWFEELAND LOL
And nobody held accountable as usual.
Disgustingly shanmeful and nauseating...
Just another Newfee Rip-Off job for all concerned leaving a Quasi-Mini-Hospital on a Hill requiring back-up from an outdated useless derelict unfunctional farce of a Historical Monument of a Hospital. ONLY IN NEWFEELAND - THE ISLAND OF STUPIDITY.
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Corner Brook Needs A REAL HOSPITAL NOW
ATM CB has 2 useless medical care facilites generously referred to as "Hospitals". CB needs a NEW HOSPITAL NOW!!!
How stupid to spend SOOOOOOOO much time, money and opportunity cost on a MICRO-HOSPITAL on a HILL and be forced to use an old mouldy decrepit out of date Hospital for patient over-flow. Pathetic. ONLY IN NEWFEELAND LOL
And nobody held accountable as usual.
Disgustingly shanmeful and nauseating...
Just another Newfee Rip-Off job for all concerned leaving a Quasi-Mini-Hospital on a Hill requiring back-up from an outdated useless derelict unfunctional farce of a Historical Monument of a Hospita;... ONLY IN NEWFEELAND - THE ISLAND OF STUPIDITY.
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Why CORNER BROOK'S Mini Hospital Failed
How stupid to spend soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much money on a MICRO-HOSPITA on a HILL and be forced to use an old out of date Hspital for patient over-flow. Only on The Rock!!! lol
And nobody held accountable. Disgustingly shanmeful and nauseating... Just another Newfee Rip-Off job for all concerned leaving a Quasi-Mini-Hospital on a Hill requiring back-up from an outdated useless derelict unfunctional farce of a Historical Monument of a HospitaL... ONLY IN NEWFEELAND - THE ISLAND OF STUPIDITY. LOL
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Corner Brook's Stupid Mini-Hospital
This 2 year old farce of a "Hospital" was built as an exercise in Energy-Efficciency on an Island replete with any and every kid of ENERGY SOURCE you can imagine. so the whole purpose of the Hospital was FLAWED TO BEGIN WITH as the focus was on saving money through unproven and quirky energy-saving experiments RATHER THAN HEALTH CARE NEEDS OF AN AGING POPULATION!!!
Western Memorial Regional Hospital Sets New Infrastructure Precedent and Receives LEED Silver Certification
The new Western Memorial Regional Hospital in Corner Brook is home to Canada’s largest geothermal system, which has set a precedent for modern infrastructure for both Newfoundland and Labrador and North America. The geothermal field is approximately 600 feet below the hospital’s parking lot, and provides 100 per cent of the ground source geothermal heating for the hospital – the largest solution of its kind for a health care facility in North America.
With efficiency and cost-savings at the forefront, this groundbreaking system provides approximately 12 per cent total cost savings over the life span of 30 years. The geothermal system was also key in eliminating cooling towers at the hospital, saving up to two million gallons of water per year.
The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design® (LEED®) Silver Certification is issued by the Canada Green Building Council, LEED®, an international symbol of sustainability excellence and green building leadership. LEED® certification provides independent, third-party verification that a building project was designed and built, or operated, to achieve high performance in six areas of human and environmental health:
• Location and transportation
• Sustainable site development
• Water savings
• Energy efficiency
• Materials selection
• Indoor environmental quality
Corner Brook Has 2 Useless Hospitals
Only on NewfoudIsland CANADA can the Government Fuck-Up building a new criticlly-needed HOSPITAL!!!
Anyone on the West Coast Corner Brook NewfoundISLAND can look out their windows and SEE 2 USELESS HOSPITALS;
1. one old, out of date and worn-out,
2. the other brand-new but tiny, microscopically small and stupidly placed on top of a hilly hill and hard to get to ...
STUPIDITY @ ITS BEST! ONLY IN NEWFOUNDISLAND CANADA... LOL
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Corner Brook's Mini Hospital
RUSSIA NUKING UKRAINE
If Putin cannot bring Ukraine under control he will NUke Ukraine, anyone who says otherwise is foolish because he has no choice;
The long and the short of it is - "No".
The arguments that Putin won’t use nuclear weapons because doing so would endanger Russians, including himself, are blind to the fact that Putin believes he has the right, possibly the moral obligation, to sacrifice hundreds of thousands or millions of people. The argument that a nuclear strike wouldn’t help Putin achieve his strategic goals mistakes Russia’s strategic goals as anything but inflicting terror on Ukrainians. The losses the Russian military is suffering now can only motivate Putin to create more terror, against more people.
The one credible argument remaining is that Putin may fear repercussions. He is not afraid of nuclear retaliation—because Ukraine doesn’t have its own nuclear weapons and NATO is unlikely to mount a nuclear response against the use of a nuclear weapon inside Ukraine. (And, if NATO did, Putin believes that he would have a totally mobilized, albeit diminished, nation.) What he may fear, however, is an extreme response from NATO using conventional weapons—a series of strikes, for example, that would devastate Russia’s Black Sea Fleet and destroy all its remaining military capability in Ukraine. This would be a blow so humiliating that nothing but a second, more powerful nuclear strike could avenge it. Is that a prospect that Putin is unwilling to contemplate? Possibly not, but it is as close as the West can get to deterrence these days.
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Sprinting Is The Best Exercise
Always knew this. Makes sense as that is how we ran away from enemies in the Primitive Ape-Ages ...
Most people assume more time at the gym means more benefit. A major new study published in Cell Reports Medicine complicates that idea. Three minutes of all-out effort, spread across six 30-second cycling sprints, triggered changes in far more blood proteins than a full 90 minutes of steady, moderate-pace cycling. Whether that bigger internal reaction actually adds up to better long-term health is a separate question the study raises but doesn’t fully answer.
Sprint for Life!
Fuck indoor gyms ...
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Will Russia Nuke Ukraine?
The long and the short of it is - "No".
The arguments that Putin won’t use nuclear weapons because doing so would endanger Russians, including himself, are blind to the fact that Putin believes he has the right, possibly the moral obligation, to sacrifice hundreds of thousands or millions of people. The argument that a nuclear strike wouldn’t help Putin achieve his strategic goals mistakes Russia’s strategic goals as anything but inflicting terror on Ukrainians. The losses the Russian military is suffering now can only motivate Putin to create more terror, against more people.
The one credible argument remaining is that Putin may fear repercussions. He is not afraid of nuclear retaliation—because Ukraine doesn’t have its own nuclear weapons and NATO is unlikely to mount a nuclear response against the use of a nuclear weapon inside Ukraine. (And, if NATO did, Putin believes that he would have a totally mobilized, albeit diminished, nation.) What he may fear, however, is an extreme response from NATO using conventional weapons—a series of strikes, for example, that would devastate Russia’s Black Sea Fleet and destroy all its remaining military capability in Ukraine. This would be a blow so humiliating that nothing but a second, more powerful nuclear strike could avenge it. Is that a prospect that Putin is unwilling to contemplate? Possibly not, but it is as close as the West can get to deterrence these days.
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Putin Nuking Ukraine
Vladimir will Nuke Ukraine rather than lose it to the West. While Russian President Vladimir Putin has not used nuclear weapons in Ukraine, Moscow has engaged in continuous nuclear rhetoric, lowered its formal nuclear threshold, and deployed advanced nuclear-capable delivery systems like the Oreshnik ballistic missile with non-nuclear payloads, actual use of a nuclear weapon has not occurred.Current Context of Russian Nuclear SignalingDoctrines and Threats: Putin has repeatedly revised Russia's nuclear doctrine to explicitly threaten retaliation against conventional attacks backed by Western allies.Advanced Missile Deployments: Russia has test-fired and deployed nuclear-capable intermediate-range systems (such as the Oreshnik) against Ukrainian infrastructure, using conventional warheads as psychological and strategic demonstrations.Joint Drills: Moscow and Belarus have conducted tactical and strategic nuclear readiness exercises to pressure Western nations over long-range military aid to Kyiv.International AssessmentNo Nuclear Detonation: Western intelligence and independent monitoring agencies confirm that no nuclear warheads have been deployed or detonated in the conflict.Deterrence Dynamic: Analysts note that Putin's repeated atomic warnings are designed to deter NATO escalation and restrict the supply of advanced weaponry to Ukraine, rather than signaling an imminent operational nuclear strike, which would carry catastrophic and unpredictable global consequences.
On October 23rd, the Russian defense minister, Sergei Shoigu, made phone calls to the defense ministers of four NATO member countries to tell each of them that Ukraine was planning to detonate a “dirty bomb”—that is, a conventional weapon spiked with radioactive material—on its own territory. Three of the four recipients of this information—France, the United Kingdom, and the United States—responded that day with an unusual joint statement denouncing the claim. (Shoigu’s fourth interlocutor was Turkey.) Russian leaders and propagandists, who covered the phone calls in some detail, don’t necessarily think that anyone, anywhere, will believe that Ukraine would use a radioactive weapon against its own people just so it can blame Russia for the attack. Shoigu’s phone calls were preëmptive, another example of Russia creating information noise, sowing doubt, asserting the fundamental unknowability of the facts of war. On Thursday, Vladimir Putin said that he had personally directed Shoigu to make the calls, and this claim underscored their true meaning: Russia is preparing for a nuclear, or nuclearish, strike in Ukraine.
This was not the first, second, or third time that Moscow had sent this message. Putin has been rattling the nuclear sabre since the start of the full-scale invasion in February, and, indeed, for many years before. In 2014, months after annexing Crimea and at the height of engineering a pro-Russian insurgency war in eastern Ukraine, Russia changed its military doctrine to open up the possibility of a nuclear first strike in response to a threat from NATO. In 2018, Putin first proffered his promise—since reprised, and replayed many times by Russian television—that, in a world-scale nuclear event, Russians will go to heaven while Americans “just croak.” The threat of a nuclear strike has become more apparent—more frequently repeated on Russian propaganda channels—since the Ukrainian counter-offensive began, at the end of the summer.
The more the Kremlin has signalled its readiness to drop a nuclear bomb, the more the rest of the world has sought a reason to believe that it will not. Earlier this month, the U.K.’s defense secretary, Ben Wallace, reassured the audience at a Conservative Party conference that, although Putin’s actions could be “totally irrational,” he wouldn’t use nuclear weapons because he couldn’t risk losing the support of China and India—both of which, Wallace asserted, had put Putin on notice. President Biden has offered a different perspective: Putin, he said, is a “rational actor who has miscalculated significantly” in launching his offensive in Ukraine, and this was the reason he wouldn’t use nuclear arms. (On another occasion, Biden said that a Russian nuclear strike would unleash Armageddon.) Jake Sullivan, the U.S. national-security adviser, has consistently said that the White House takes Putin’s threats seriously and would respond decisively in the case of a nuclear attack. Still, in recent weeks, as Moscow has ramped up its warnings, it has become conventional wisdom, or perhaps just good form, to say that Putin isn’t really going to use nukes. “Russian President Vladimir Putin will probably not drop an atomic bomb on Ukraine,” a September Washington Post editorial began, axiomatically. Bloomberg’s European-affairs columnist Andreas Kluth started a recent column by instructing the reader to “put aside, if you can, the growing anxiety about Russian President Vladimir Putin going nuclear in his barbaric war in Ukraine” because, Kluth asserted, the risk “remains small.”
Such is the feedback loop of propaganda, ambition, and fear that shapes Putin’s perceptions of the world. When Russia invaded Ukraine, Bondarev writes, many of his colleagues “took pride in our increasingly bellicose behavior.” When questioned, “they gestured at our nuclear force.” This was during the very early days of the full-scale war, when Russians and much of the world believed that Ukraine would quickly lose. As the Russian offensive faltered, the deployment of the nuclear threat went from triumphant to menacing. “One official, a respected expert on ballistic missiles, told me that Russia needed to ‘send a nuclear warhead to a suburb of Washington,’ ” Bondarev writes. “He added, ‘Americans will shit their pants and rush to beg us for peace.’ He appeared to be partially joking. But Russians tend to think that Americans are too pampered to risk their lives for anything, so when I pointed out that a nuclear attack would invite catastrophic retaliation, he scoffed: ‘No, it wouldn’t.’ ”
Although it may be evident to a non-Russian military strategist that the use of a nuclear weapon would be strategically disastrous for Russia, Putin sees his mission in grander and less pragmatic terms. He believes that, on the one hand, he is facing down an existential threat to Russia and, on the other, that Western nations don’t have the strength of their convictions to retaliate if it comes to nukes. Any small sign of a crack in the Western consensus—be it French President Emmanuel Macron pressuring Ukraine to enter peace negotiations, or the House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy criticizing what he sees as unconditional aid to Ukraine—bolsters Putin’s certainty. An army of yes-men and the propaganda machine amplify both the threat Russia ostensibly faces and the support it supposedly enjoys.
Last week, Putin hosted his annual Valdai policy conference, an invitation-only junket that has traditionally served as a way for him to broadcast his message to the world. In the past, the audience has consisted largely of Western journalists and Russia scholars. But the crowd at this year’s event was different. The topic was “A Post-Hegemonic World: Justice and Security for All.” Putin delivered a nearly hour-long talk on the need to liberate the non-Western world from the choke hold of “cancel culture” and “the ten different genders” that the West inflicts on countries in place of “traditional values.” For a couple of hours afterward, he fielded questions from representatives of Indonesia, Pakistan, India, Brazil, former Soviet republics in Central Asia and the Caucasus, and others; most speakers began by expressing respect bordering on adulation. “Many countries are tired of living under the rule of external powers,” Putin remarked at one point. “The more they see us pushing back against that pressure, the more they support us. That support will only grow.”
Putin’s world view—in which he, a once-lowly K.G.B. bureaucrat, wields a mighty sword that will save the world from decadence and decay—is the product of his specific background and historical moment, but it also belongs to a recognizable type of thought. Charles Strozier, who founded the Center on Terrorism at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York, has written extensively on what he calls the “fundamentalist mindset,” the kind of thinking that can fuel genocidal violence. And he has recently written about the evidence that suggests Putin, like Adolf Hitler and Osama bin Laden, has it. Strozier told me, “The thing that psychologically infuses the leadership style of someone like Putin, or Hitler, is the certainty that comes with paranoia.”
That Putin is paranoid is an observable fact: he is obsessed with the idea that Russia is surrounded by enemies; he is terrified of all protest and dissent, even though he has long since disabled any levers by which either could influence his regime; his fear of the coronavirus and, possibly, assassination, has driven him into near-total isolation and compels him to hold in-person conversations across giant tables. “The certainty that comes with paranoia is a strength of their leadership style, but, because they are inflexible, they make huge mistakes,” Strozier said.
The fundamentalist mind-set is apocalyptic and millenarian. Hitler had the idea of the “thousand-year Reich,” which positioned him as a successor to Roman and German emperors. Putin’s excursions into history have been similarly grandiose: he views himself as the last of a lineage of Russian emperors, and he explicitly dismisses historical facts—such as the existence of the Ukrainian state—that interfere with this narrative. Snyder, the Yale historian, has written extensively about the apparent influence on Putin of Ivan Ilyin, a twentieth-century Russian émigré philosopher who believed that the world, corrupted by Western-style liberalism and individualism, was ripe for radical renewal at the turn of the new millennium. I think that Snyder may overestimate the primacy of Ilyin’s teachings in Putin’s thinking: Putin uses ideas instrumentally, picking up and wielding them when he needs to say something that affirms his intuition. He has, similarly, used the ideas of the contemporary philosopher Alexander Dugin, another mystical thinker who believes that Russia’s mission is to restore traditional order to a world endangered by chaos coming from the West. The specific words and concepts are less important than Putin’s sense of his own vast historic mission.
In a 1990 book called “The Genocidal Mentality,” Lifton, the psychohistorian, discussed the term “nuclearism,” which he viewed as an ideology akin to Nazism. The politics of deterrence, he argued—the entire school of thought that saw the survival of the world as contingent on a balance between powers capable of annihilating it—activated “a mind-set that includes individual and collective willingness to produce, deploy, and, according to certain standards of necessity, use weapons known to destroy entire human populations.” Both nuclearism and Nazism offered themselves as cures for historical disasters: Nazism for the humiliation Germany supposedly suffered in the aftermath of the First World War and nuclearism for the catastrophe wrought by the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Both Nazism and nuclearism positioned themselves as preventive, as hedges against a greater threat—to the Aryan race by Jews and others, or to all of human life by nuclear holocaust. Both ideologies are peculiarly modern in that they “include near worship of science and technology.” And both feature “vast societal involvement in a genocidal project, creating dangerous forms of bureaucratic momentum that can carry one across the threshold into genocide.”
The threat against which Russia must wield its nuclear shield is the encroachment of the West, framed variously as the expansion of NATO, an assault on traditional values, the advancement of “gender ideology,” and a spreading decadence. All of it adds up to an existential threat to Russia, which in Putin’s view is a besieged island of heterosexuality, whiteness, and truth. Strozier has written that the fundamentalist mind-set involves an overarching mission that justifies all means. “The salvational notion is always present in genocide,” he told me, citing Hitler’s belief that inferior forms of life had to be exterminated to enable the thousand-year Reich. “Large-scale violence, genocide is embarked upon for a moral purpose.”
Putin and his propaganda machine have also framed the war in Ukraine as a struggle that flows directly out of the battles of the Second World War. Over the years, Putin has reminded Russians that they sacrificed the most in the fight against the Nazis—at least twenty six and a half million killed, according to post-Soviet historians. (A disproportionate number of those lost lives were Ukrainian, but Russia lays claim to their legacy, too.) He has also asserted that Russia was “alone” in fighting the Nazi menace and therefore Russia has the right to determine who is a Nazi now. But Russia is not just cosplaying the Second World War—the country is still prosecuting it, fighting to regain the superpower status once achieved by beating back Nazi Germany. This narrative bolsters Putin’s belief that he has the moral right to use nuclear arms. The Americans did it, so the Russians can, too.
Lifton won the National Book Award in 1969 for a book about survivors of the bombing of Hiroshima, in which he described the predicament of the city’s residents as a “lifelong immersion in death.” The phrase can just as well be used to describe the experience of Russians who grew up in the shadow of the Second World War. Putin was born in the first postwar decade, and raised in Leningrad, a city that lost a still uncounted number of civilians—the official toll was six hundred and thirty-two thousand, but estimates range upward of a million—during a nearly nine-hundred-day siege. The siege of Leningrad was, by contemporary standards, a war crime, one that Russian troops have repeated this year in Mariupol and elsewhere in Ukraine. The devastation of the city and the degradation of its residents were total: people died of hunger, but not before they had eaten, pawned, or used as fuel whatever remained of their lives.
After the war, Soviet propaganda glossed over the ugly brutality of the siege while it valorized its victims and survivors. Polina Barskova, a Russian poet, literary scholar, and historian at the University of California, Berkeley, told me, “What distinguished books about the siege that could be published from those that couldn’t was that the former claimed the sacrifice had a purpose. It was Victory with a capital ‘V’ over Enemy with a capital ‘E’ and Evil with a capital ‘E.’ It’s the kind of goal for which you can sacrifice any number of human lives.” For Leningrad natives, this myth is a birthright. For Putin, it is further proof that he has the moral right to kill, or condemn, entire human populations.
Putin’s older brother died, as a toddler, during the siege. His parents survived—barely, miraculously. “No one could survive by living solely off the ration cards issued by the government,” Barskova, whose book of short stories and essays about the siege, “Living Pictures,” was recently published in an English translation, said. “That is just a fact. Every survivor was a miracle, and most acts of surviving were transgressive, criminal.” Survivors had access to state power—nomenklatura rations—or committed crimes to pull through, or both. Putin is now the head of the criminal state that is Russia. He believes that he is exceptional and will survive the nuclear disaster he unleashes. It also helps that he has built a series of bunkers, underground palaces where, he imagines, he can survive the nuclear holocaust in luxury.
In the end, every “rational” case for why Putin won’t use nuclear weapons in Ukraine falls short. He is not afraid of losing support from his current allies, because he misapprehends Russia’s position in the world; he sees Russia as politically, economically, and militarily stronger than it is. Chinese and Indian leaders may express alarm at the use of extreme measures such as nuclear weapons, but to Putin this points to their lack of resolve—their weakness, not the Kremlin’s. And, if need be, he is prepared to make outlandish denials, no matter how implausible. Russian propagandists have argued that the Malaysian airliner shot down over eastern Ukraine in 2015 was packed with corpses by bad actors trying to frame Russia and that the scenes of war crimes in Bucha were “staged.” Indeed, Shoigu’s Sunday phone calls opened the possibility of Russia deflecting blame for a nuclear strike by claiming that it was a Ukrainian false-flag operation.
The arguments that Putin won’t use nuclear weapons because doing so would endanger Russians, including himself, are blind to the fact that Putin believes he has the right, possibly the moral obligation, to sacrifice hundreds of thousands or millions of people. The argument that a nuclear strike wouldn’t help Putin achieve his strategic goals mistakes Russia’s strategic goals as anything but inflicting terror on Ukrainians. The losses the Russian military is suffering now can only motivate Putin to create more terror, against more people.
The one credible argument remaining is that Putin may fear repercussions. He is not afraid of nuclear retaliation—because Ukraine doesn’t have its own nuclear weapons and NATO is unlikely to mount a nuclear response against the use of a nuclear weapon inside Ukraine. (And, if NATO did, Putin believes that he would have a totally mobilized, albeit diminished, nation.) What he may fear, however, is an extreme response from NATO using conventional weapons—a series of strikes, for example, that would devastate Russia’s Black Sea Fleet and destroy all its remaining military capability in Ukraine. This would be a blow so humiliating that nothing but a second, more powerful nuclear strike could avenge it. Is that a prospect that Putin is unwilling to contemplate? Possibly not, but it is as close as the West can get to deterrence these days.
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