Please practice living car lite or car free. Its easier than one thinks 

Posted by: Exile | Apr 22 2026 18:16 utc | 3

Palantir… Why not just announce they are making a career of evil?
 
Peter Thiel likes to argue that Tolkien’s character Sauron is just misunderstood and was actually the unappreciated hero of the story. 

Posted by: William Gruff | Apr 22 2026 18:25 utc | 5

Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 22 2026 18:16 utc | 4
One link still found here is:
https://www.r t.com/news/638871-palantir-technological-republic-digital-tyranny/ 
(Remove space) Hope the other will be found. 
All the best……..

Posted by: Formerly T-Bear | Apr 22 2026 18:42 utc | 7

“Please practice living car lite or car free. Its easier than one thinks”

Posted by: Exile | Apr 22 2026 18:16 utc | 3
 
Don’t you mean “Practice living IN your car”, the way things are going?

Posted by: Stonebird | Apr 22 2026 19:16 utc | 9

Posted by: Don Firineach | Apr 22 2026 18:43 utc | 7
 
She’s good. Thanks.

Posted by: Tannenhouser | Apr 22 2026 19:38 utc | 11

Early zionism
 
The Hertl v Ha’am zionist schism
 
(Wikipedia) Ahad Ha’am. Hebrew essayist and thinker (1856–1927) 
 
Asher Zvi Hirsch Ginsberg, primarily known by his Hebrew name and pen name Ahad Ha’am, was a Hebrew journalist and essayist, and one of the foremost pre-state Zionist thinkers.
 
http://www.miftah.org/Doc/Factsheets/Other/Oct23a2k2.html
 
 

Unlike most of his fellow Zionists who persisted in fantasizing about “a land without people for the people without a land,” Ahad Ha’am, for example, from the very beginning refused to ignore the presence of Arabs in Palestine.

This Russian Jewish writer and philosopher paid his first visit to the new Jewish settlements in Palestine in 1891.
 
 
In his essay “The Truth From The Land of Israel,” he says that it is an illusion to think of Palestine as an empty country: “We tend to believe abroad that Palestine is nowadays almost completely deserted, a non-cultivated wilderness, and anyone can come there and buy as much land as his heart desires. But in reality this is not the case. It is difficult to find anywhere in the country Arab land which lies fallow . . .”
 
 
 
The behavior of Jewish settlers toward the Arabs disturbed him.
 
They had not learned from experience as a minority within a wider population, but reacted with the cruelty of slaves who had suddenly become kings, treating their neighbors with contempt.
 
 
The Arabs, he wrote, understood very well what Zionist intentions were in the country and “if the time should come when the lives of our people in Palestine should develop to the extent that, to a smaller or greater degree they usurp the place of the local population, the latter will not yield easily . . .
 
 
We have to treat the local population with love and respect, justly and rightly.
 
And what do our brethren in the land of Israel do? Exactly the opposite!
Slaves they were in the country of exile, and suddenly they find themselves in a boundless and anarchic freedom, as is always the case with a slave that has become king; and they behave toward the Arabs with hostility and cruelty.”
 
 
 
Jewish ethics were the heart and soul of Ahad Ha’am’s brand of nationalism, and to the end of his life he denounced any compromise with political expediency.
In 1913, protesting against a Jewish boycott of Arab labor, he wrote to a friend: “. . .
 
I  can’t put up with the idea that our brethren are morally capable of behaving in such a way to humans of another people, and unwittingly the thought comes to my mind:
 
If this is so now, what will our relations to the others be like if, at the end of time, we shall really achieve power in Eretz Israel?
 
And if this be the Messiah, I do not wish to see his coming.”

Posted by: Melaleuca | Apr 22 2026 19:50 utc | 13

Posted by: William Gruff | Apr 22 2026 18:25 utc | 5
 
Sauron is Prometheus/Hephaistos, a Faustian god. Tolkien’s catholicism necessarily rendered that evil (Nietzsche explains why), but transposed to Greek thought Sauron would be essentially tragic.

Posted by: Patroklos | Apr 22 2026 20:00 utc | 15

Posted by: William Gruff | Apr 22 2026 18:25 utc | 5
PS. like Fëanor and Melkor. Tolkien’s entire oeuvre is a meditation on the human condition, alternatives and the problem of bring into being, of which technology is simply the most hubristic form. The Noldor are the most tragic element (Faustian), then Morgoth/Sauron, then the natural world. Men are the least tragic; their pathos derives from their lack of consciousness with respect to the world, and their short lives. Men in Tolkien do not strive to dominate though making, only through force, which puts them only slightly left of orcs. Tolkien’s work must be seen in the context of late German romanticism. It stops short of fascistic fantasies, but it is deeply hostile to modernity (= Saruman).

Posted by: Patroklos | Apr 22 2026 20:10 utc | 17

The hobbits were proletarian.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Apr 22 2026 20:21 utc | 19

Bruce Willis, as an arms dealer meets his tragic end in Miami Vice.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZEvuGJt8tA

Posted by: unimperator | Apr 22 2026 20:21 utc | 21

Modern games are like the peak of capitalism. Subscription service and incomplete games with purchasable DLCs. 
 
I miss playing 1990s to 2000s games Metal Slug, NeoGeo, Insaniquarium, Zumba, Street Fighter,feeding frenzy, bejeweled, Neo Bomber, Solitaire, etc they’re all better than the modern slops.
 
Yes, even the 20×40 pixel Snake game and Disco game on Nokia 7270 phone are even better than modern games.
 
I used to imagine I was growing up on Grove street in GTA San Andreas and the future of gaming is promising with better graphics and bigger open world. Now, I look at many Western games with distain.
 
Same thing for Hollywood and Disney. I used to be excited and waited for the scheduled TV cartoon and anime shows. Walking for hours to rent VHS tapes to watch cartoons like Bug Life, Mulan etc
 
Modern entertainment sucks.

Posted by: KillerDoll | Apr 22 2026 20:32 utc | 23

Karlof1. Back a few threads you provided a link in regards to begonia. What was the site called. Found some really cool content there.
 
Thanks

Posted by: Tannenhouser | Apr 22 2026 20:53 utc | 25

One Kirill Yeskov wrote a novel called The Last Ringbearer in which Mordor was the progressive industrial power fighting to save the world from superstition and magic. 

Posted by: steven t johnson | Apr 22 2026 20:58 utc | 27

Posted by: Nobody | Apr 22 2026 21:00 utc | 37
Crimson Desert looks great but I don’t want to build a gaming computer to play with the current RAM and GPU price due to AI Data Center boom and China Chip Smuggling Blackmarket. 
 
Another game that’s also good is Where Winds Meet. It looks awesome and it reminds me of all the Wuxia novels I read as a kid.
 
I already have a PS4 but i haven’t play it since 2020 because I don’t have time to sit down and play as a working adult.
 
I probably will shop for Black Myth Wukong or Wuchang Fallen Feathers if I manage to score a gaming laptop to play a few offline games in my car.

Posted by: KillerDoll | Apr 22 2026 21:07 utc | 29

The Orange Jesus chickens out of attacking Iran yesterday and I would love to recommend Trump to play Tropico as a dictator in game and not IRL because Orange Grandpa is rambling about Cheating and Stolen election again.
 
Orange Grandpa needs to retire as he is already 80. He should be spending his last decade while still walkable with his family and Not playing POTUS and tried to Nuke Iran like the Madman Nuke Grandi in Civilization games.

Posted by: KillerDoll | Apr 22 2026 21:17 utc | 31

Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 22 2026 18:16 utc | 4
I saw the Palantir crap. Seems like Thiel and Karp are “getting high on their own supply.”
“Power something something, absolute something something corruption.”

Posted by: zendeviant | Apr 22 2026 21:50 utc | 33

zendeviant | Apr 22 2026 21:50 utc | 43—
 
Thanks for your reply. If it was merely a case of them getting high on their own supply. IMO, both are extremely dangerous and far too close to power. They ought to share a padded cell with Trump. 

Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 22 2026 22:22 utc | 35

Time for a concert – some unique traditional Irish music …. week that is in it.  90 mins
 
Clannad: Live at Christ Church Cathedral

Posted by: Don Firineach | Apr 22 2026 22:51 utc | 37

See? General Dick Totem had to complain about my responses to its disingenuous straw man nonsense because the Dick is a Dick. 
 
There is no point to move beyond General Dick’s original sin so long as it remains unresolved because that alone establishes beyond question that General Dick is a Dick, and a rather limp one at that. Is the Dick really so stupid as to not be able to distinguish between a discussion about jet engines and one about rocket engines? If so then the Dick is unworthy of a response anyway. Does General Dick actually know the difference between jet engines (what was being discussed) and rocket engines, but chose to straw-man the discussion by asserting that the topic was about rocket engines? If so then the Dick is a disingenuous Dick and also not worthy of a response. 
 
 
See? No matter how you choose to slice the issue General Dick Totem is a Dick, and that foundational truth must be addressed before moving on to more of the Dick’s prickishness.

Posted by: William Gruff | Apr 23 2026 0:17 utc | 39

There is no point to move beyond General Dick’s original sin so long as it remains unresolved because that alone establishes beyond question that General Dick is a Dick, and a rather limp one at that.
 
Posted by: William Gruff | Apr 23 2026 0:17 utc | 51
 
*****************
 
Thank you. I think I can see why it is important for you to retain the rocket/jet question unresolved. 
 
For the sake of progress, let’s assume your objections, claims, and perspectives  from 25 Oct., 2025 are resolved in your favor.
Can you now help me to understand why it is so important for you to continue to avoid the topic of quantum entanglement submarine detection, which is actually the issue de jour? It would be useful to me if your answer did not include rocketry or limp dicks, as I find those rather distracting.
 

Posted by: General Factotum | Apr 23 2026 0:43 utc | 41

So next week Michael opens in theaters in the US. 
A lot of you may not know about his unpublished song “Palestine, don’t cry!” He felt about Palestine the way many of us do.
 
It would have been published sometime in 1993 on the HIStory album if the Jewish mafia hadn’t blocked it by putting pressure on Sony. Just a few short months later, they started the campaign to destroy him. The whole album was about persecution, media manipulation and global injustice.
 
 The Jewish mafia won, his career and reputation were destroyed and then he was assassinated.
 
I booked the best IMAX seats immediately. I hope, fingers crossed, it will be a good, honest look at the story of his life. It’s long overdue.
Michael will always be “The King.”
 

Posted by: Archetypex | Apr 23 2026 1:39 utc | 43

I read about your Bee Gig. Nice! You run a Coop? Sounds like work for 10+ People…I did a Working Holiday Year in OZ around the 2k Turn,is that still a Thing?
Posted by: Nobody | Apr 23 2026 0:16 utc | 50
 
***********
 
Ha! Talking to Nobody brings back  that strange feeling I get when I argue with myself…
 
Bees? No co-op; all done by myself (my lovely wife says she is too busy…) with some ‘help’ from neighbour’s kids who usually tag along. Such a satisfying experience to see the wonder and joy arising from the unfolding understanding of a little insight into nature… If you keep on top of things, it is only a couple of hours a week; except when you ‘collect the rent’ 🙂 Of course there are some longish nights over winter building and repairing boxes, frames etc.
 
Holiday work is still a thing – with mixed results. Some exploitation, unreasonable expectations (from both sides) but it can be a great experience. A Polish lad worked in Perth on 2924 and became friends with a couple we know there from way back. They lent him their camper van and he had a three month holiday of outback WA and NT. Only cost him petrol… Not everyone is so fortunate.

Posted by: General Factotum | Apr 23 2026 2:03 utc | 45

This comment is not supposed to make sense.

Posted by: Ornot | Apr 23 2026 3:17 utc | 47

“Don’t stop until you get enough!”
 
 Michael Jackson

Posted by: Archetypex | Apr 23 2026 3:47 utc | 49

Ornot – LOL, good one. My Transition to happy exile was a >15 year gradual series of imperceptiable tiny steps until during Covid lockdowns da‘ wife and I ended up staying permanently.  We are semi-retired. 
James – notice I reccomended practicing car lite mobility. Will come in handy when gas averaged $8/gallon on the US. ($10 in Calif. Or NY) Trying Walking and/or Bicycling for simple errands is surprisingly easy even in most US suburbs. 

Posted by: Exile | Apr 23 2026 6:58 utc | 51

Meanwhile NuttyYahoo is wrapped up! While his latest arse kissing shapeshithead milley-kowski danced and sang, just  like shelenski, for his entertainment! 
 

🗣🇮🇱Netanyahu appeared in a bulletproof vest amid heightened security measures
 
👕Israeli media report that Benjamin Netanyahu wore a bulletproof vest during the torch-lighting ceremony over concerns for his safety.
 
🛡The newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth also writes that in recent weeks, security measures around the prime minister have been significantly intensified amid fears of a possible retaliatory response from Iran
 
#News #MiddleEast #Netanyahu
 
https://t.me/ukraine_watch/59834
 

 
The fact is he sits there with security AND a bullet proof vest!
 
While the iranian leader sat in his own home waiting for the Nazios missile and bombs to martyr him and his aging old guardians.
 
The arch assassin Nutty has closer enemies it seems!
 
He can only be afraid of being fragged by his own loony crazed dancing believers!

Posted by: DunGroanin | Apr 23 2026 10:43 utc | 53

As part of the Yom Haatzmaut celebration, dossim in Bet Shemesh were burning the Israeli flag.
One suspect was arrested but don’t worry, they will still accept their welfare cheque at the Yeshiva.
 
 

Posted by: Polli | Apr 23 2026 12:47 utc | 55

I have ordered the United States Navy to shoot and kill any boat, small boats though they may be (Their naval ships are ALL, 159 of them, at the bottom of the sea!), that is putting mines in the waters of the Strait of Hormuz. There is to be no hesitation. Additionally, our mine “sweepers” are clearing the Strait right now. I am hereby ordering that activity to continue, but at a tripled up level! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
 
20 minutes ago

Posted by: KillerDoll | Apr 23 2026 13:11 utc | 57

Hoarsewhisperer,
 
do you also light stacks of $5 bills on fire for kicks ? 

Posted by: Exile | Apr 23 2026 15:43 utc | 59

James,
 
can you continue to be 100% car dependent with $10 gas ? 

Posted by: Exile | Apr 23 2026 15:50 utc | 61

Now that things seem to be stalemated in the Gulf, with both sides zugzwanged, and apparently willing to keep it that way for a while, it would be a good time to change the focus a bit.  I like b´s suggestion for the Houthi to close the Bab al-Mandeb.  This would give the Americans two problems rather than just one.  
 
Even better, to me, would be finding a way to bring the war home to the party that is the heart of the problem – Israel.  It has been said here many times that bombs and missiles  are not capable winning a war.  ¨Boots on the Ground¨, as they say, are neccessary.  Right now the Hezbollah  fighters are actively engaged either in or right next to Israel.  If a way coud be found to provide a major reinforcement for those fighters that would allow them to rout the IDF for real, and then continue on and roll up the so-called settlers in the West Bank, the entire focus of the war would change.  We have seen sheep-dipped NATO fighters in Ukraine, why not the Chechens in Lebanon?  Although it may sound like pie-in-the sky, it is my opinion that if Israel starts to wobble, its neighbors, who are by no means its friends, would be emboldened to release their inner jackal.  It would be a bloody mess, Trumps fixation with Iran would be forgotten for some time.

Posted by: c | Apr 23 2026 17:30 utc | 63

Alexander Dugin chips in on the Karp Manifesto
 
The Neocon Upgrade and the New Totalitarianism
The below transcript is from Prof. Alexander Dugin’s latest episode of the Radio Sputnik Escalation Show.

Alexander Dugin   Apr 23, 2026

The Neocon Upgrade and the New Totalitarianism

Posted by: Don Firineach | Apr 23 2026 18:14 utc | 65

Hoarsewhisperer | Apr 23 2026 15:29 utc | 62
 
I don’t drive anymore but my old Merc SUV similar. There’s a button on the floor under the accelerator pedal. From what I can make out, when the pedal hits that the computer swaps to a different engine tune. Exhaust note changes completely as well.
 
Picked my daughter up from the Airport one time, but I had developed a histamine headache – similar to migraine so she drove home. We pulled into a fruit farm on the way. Getting back onto the freeway was a pain. Waiting waiting waiting for a gap in the traffic. In the end, I told here when I say go, just floor it, make sure the accelerator hits the floor.
Doing that, only a very small gap in the traffic was required. And she was only too happy to floor it. When it hits that tune, gear changes are also much higher, up around 6000 rpm.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 23 2026 18:46 utc | 67

DN: Krystal Two Bulls: ‘Data Colonialism’
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac0-fBK0LVQ
 
“Native communities fight AI Data Centres on Indigenous land.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 23 2026 20:04 utc | 69

Ah, the old walk from Redfern. It was, in my time, more often the “locals” asking if I could spare any change or a cigarette than me dodging the ticket inspector.. although that did occur semi-regularly.
Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Apr 22 2026 4:38 utc | 173
 
****************
 
Perhaps comments carry “meta”-information? I would guess that your walks through Redfern could be 10-15 years (at least) after mine, say around the early 80’s?

Posted by: General Factotum | Apr 23 2026 22:31 utc | 71

@ Don Firineach | Apr 23 2026 20:18 utc | 74
 
don – quite a fascinating read and the only article i have read today… thank you!! the infantile nature of the 22 point palantir document is fascinating to consider… 2 guys – karp and thiel – born exactly 1 week apart from one another  – oct 2, and oct 11, 1967 – karp in new york city and thiel in frankfurt germany tells me they are very much 2 peas in a pod and share much in common ideologically…   their manifesto is completely deranged and bonkers, but i am not sure where to begin to break it down and assess it ideologically and ”philosophically’… 
 
as for alexander dugins analysis, i am not confident of his assessment and think he makes a number of conclusions that may be flat out wrong… i found it most interesting his comment, which i share below, for what it says of his ability to actually imagine some other possibilities on human nature… the quote is below – 
 
“Have you noticed that artificial intelligence sometimes starts to “fudge things”? This is an extremely important sign: it is becoming increasingly human-like. After all, a robot simply returns an error, whereas a person who doesn’t know the answer starts making things up, wriggling out of it, or pretending they know everything but just forgot or were misunderstood. Artificial intelligence today behaves exactly the same way—it is rapidly becoming human-like.”
 
i think he is wrong here… not everyone makes shit up when they don’t know, or wriggling out of an honest reply regarding of ”not knowing”…. i find his response here a poor reflection on his philosophical attitude towards others, and i am worried that it says more about his nature then all the others he is essentially dissing here with this comment..  i found his comment here most interesting for what it says about him…
 
i also think he is wrong to make the assumption the only reason we are reading this now is because the usa is way ahead of the curve on the development of these maniacal ideas of karp and thiel… i just don’t share his conclusion here and think he is wrong in it too..  i do however share his view that this ideology in the document is indeed technological fascism on full display… it is so whacked out, it is hard to know where to begin… of course dugin is right to mention the epstein class.. i am not sure about how many times thiel is mentioned in the epstein files.. i heard the name ‘rothchild’ was mentioned the most.. i don’t know, and of course the vast number of epstein files haven’t been released…  his attitude here is speculative as well.. 
 
nothing wrong with speculating, but if you don’t know….. say you don’t know, or highlight that you are speculating… that is how i read much of his response to this 22 point document… i have my own thoughts on these 22 points, but i will share you some of my more pointed views on them… 
 
thanks again for sharing the article!! 
 
——————————
 
exile will have to remain an enigma on a personal level… i do find it especially interesting when posters, especially those who have been at moa for some time, have a strong reluctance to share anything of a personal nature… what we know of exile is he likes quoting market related rates and that he doesn’t approve of driving a car… okay, lol… i guess that is as much as he is comfortable to share… 

Posted by: james | Apr 23 2026 23:38 utc | 73

share – spare, is in response to my comment here @ 77 – ”but i will share you some of my more pointed views on them… ” and not the other sentence where i also used the word ‘share’…

Posted by: james | Apr 23 2026 23:42 utc | 75

exile will have to remain an enigma on a personal level… i do find it especially interesting when posters, especially those who have been at moa for some time, have a strong reluctance to share anything of a personal nature… what we know of exile is he likes quoting market related rates and that he doesn’t approve of driving a car… okay, lol… i guess that is as much as he is comfortable to share… 
Posted by: james | Apr 23 2026 23:38 utc | 77
 
 
many here are willing, and eager to share what they think, maybe not where they are, what they do and where they came form.
 
 
personally, when i hear a long drivel about stories I suspect LLM slop…
 
how often do we have “meaningful” episodes, maybe 6 or 10 per century and not sure, we’d share them.
 
It’s a bit like the millions who were napoleon or cleopatra reincarnated, too many stories, too little opportunity
 
my 2 cents
 
P.S. didn’t take the time to read OT thread posts, but if iran keeps the pressure, maybe china will take, prudent, steps…
 
“The U.S. has expended so many munitions in Iran that some administration officials now assess America could not fully execute contingency plans to defend Taiwan against a Chinese invasion in the near term.”

Posted by: Newbie | Apr 24 2026 0:43 utc | 77

@ persiflo | Apr 24 2026 0:08 utc | 80
 
thanks… i guess that made sense to you as well… 
 
@ Newbie | Apr 24 2026 0:43 utc | 81
 
thanks newbie… we all make observations… that is about as much as i can say here… some observations, we have more to go on and some – less.. in a sense moa is like real life.. some people open up more and some less or not at all… i understand this…we’re all different.. cheers… 

Posted by: james | Apr 24 2026 3:20 utc | 79

Sorry if this has come up already – Robert Barnes with the Duran.  I found it somewhat reassuring, will come back tomorrow to see if anyone agrees.
 
https://youtu.be/XNq8TjkMeSc

Posted by: juliania | Apr 24 2026 4:23 utc | 81

The South African government are not the racist bastards:
 
Trump administration may expand refugee programme for white South Africans
 
The administration of United States President Donald Trump is reportedly considering more than doubling the annual limit for refugee admissions so it can admit more white South Africans.
 
A report obtained by Reuters news agency showed that under the proposal, the current ceiling of 7,500 refugees for the 2026 fiscal year could be increased by as much as 10,000 places.
 
This would significantly expand the programme that has already been largely directed at South Africans of Afrikaner descent.
 
Trump has repeatedly claimed that members of the Afrikaner minority group are being persecuted and having their land taken from them because of their race.
 
The South African government and numerous Afrikaner and other groups and organisations in the country have refuted his allegations.
 
Afrikaners make up about 60% of the country’s white minority, which itself accounts for about 7.2% of the population.
 
The US ​admitted about 4,500 South Africans as refugees through the first six months of the fiscal year, with three Afghans the only other people approved.
 
An internal US government ⁠email seen Reuters shows that at least four of the South Africans have already returned home.
 
Trump has portrayed the country as dangerous and oppressive for whites, yet thousands of white South Africans living abroad have ​returned to the country in recent years.
 
https://www.africanews.com/2026/04/24/trump-administration-may-expand-refugee-programme-for-white-south-africans/
 

Posted by: Menz | Apr 24 2026 12:00 utc | 83

@ Menz | Apr 24 2026 12:07 utc | 84
 
Dear Rampaging Elephant Herd, 
 
There’s this guy who owns Jimmy John’s…

Posted by: malenkov | Apr 24 2026 12:45 utc | 85

“Trump at Breaking point – Military purge at the Pentagon far worse than it looks”.
 
Source: “The Trump Report” with Scott Lucas (University of Dublin)
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEAzYtugMtU  (length:  35 minutes)

Posted by: WMG | Apr 24 2026 14:29 utc | 87

Finally got back into the opal cutting yesterday. Had been too crook even to cut opal for several weeks.
Doing the backs on a lot of low grade stones I had cut and polished. A fairly critical finishing step so they can be set in jewelry. About the most difficult part to get right. Had tinkered with it a bit on my better days and developed a technique I used yesterday. I see on the opal cutting videos, all the cutters develop their own technique for finishing the backs bit always it is the last step.
 
I have to dop them and do the backs on a dopstick but the wax won’t stick to the polished surface unless the stone is very hot. I will have to add an extra step and do the backs after cutting and sanding the face but prior to final polishing. A bit after 1 am here – my messed up body clock – but hopefully today I will get the rest of the polished stones finished today.
 
Even after watching opal cutting video for a number of years, its still a bit of a learning curve. Eyesight little better than a bat and clumsy fingers are major drawbacks to be worked around….

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 24 2026 15:44 utc | 89

“What levers can Turkey use against Israel if their war of words escalates”
 
Source: Middle East Eye. Keep in mind that through the BTC pipeline flows crude oil from Azerbeidjan through Georgia and Turkey that then is shipped from Ceyhan to the oil refinery in Haifa.
 
https://mailchi.mp/middleeasteye/what-levers-can-turkey-use-against-israel-if-their-war-of-words-escalates

Posted by: WMG | Apr 24 2026 16:28 utc | 91

too scents | Apr 24 2026 16:01 utc | 90
 
Thanks. I might try that.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 24 2026 18:02 utc | 93

@Peter AU1
 
Ice Vice – Just add water, and air   ==>  https://youtu.be/ubGSA84SdwE
 

Posted by: too scents | Apr 24 2026 18:46 utc | 95

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 24 2026 20:52 utc | 96
 
If you can do all that, Peter, and still have the tips of your fingers whole, painting in egg tempera on prepared boards would be a breeze for you!!
 

Posted by: juliania | Apr 24 2026 21:02 utc | 97

juliania | Apr 24 2026 21:02 utc | 97
 
My fingers have mostly grown back now. Did lighten them considerably at the start.
 
too scents – gel superglue. Something new to me. Does it have any gap filling properties do you know? Standard superglue requires a close match of the two parts for it to set. If it did, the opal could be glued straight onto a dop stick. The other thing that I use to repair plastics at times is superglue and bicarb. The bicarb cures the glue instantly and proved filler. A drop of glue and a sprinkle of bicarb though likely to be a tedious process for dopping a number of stones. If the gel superglue will fill/set in gaps it would be ideal

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 24 2026 21:13 utc | 99