Happy Easter B, hope everything goes fine
 
would you suggest a good article on KMT’s leader meeting with Xi?
 
I already posted the central point (for me) of KMT not wishing that Taiwan become an Ukraine by tue sea, but I’m sure you have good sources for a more in depth comment.

Posted by: Newbie | Apr 12 2026 10:27 utc | 3

Posted by: too scents | Apr 12 2026 10:33 utc | 4
 
Interesting, the implied parallel between usa’s softy power through hollywood 40 years ago and china’s through tik tok (my reading, not i video per se)
 
Also the DPP’s connection to the japanese rule comprador class/landed gentry (and how japan’s recent turn to an interventive/imperial past  might be the “best ally” for Xi)
 
 

Posted by: Newbie | Apr 12 2026 11:30 utc | 5

Big day for Hungary today : ELECTIONS : Orban vs. an EU stooge

Posted by: Featherless | Apr 12 2026 13:30 utc | 7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9WwVV1_xyk

Posted by: juliania | Apr 12 2026 14:01 utc | 9

What does the Canadian Jewish establishment have to say about ethnic cleansing, land theft and expansionism? Let’s ask the Israel office director of Canada’s Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs:
 
Israel’s borders must change

ISRAEL’S UPDATED security posture and strategic doctrine also means that the “borders” between it and its failed and/or hostile neighbors must change. What was between Israel and Gaza, Israel and Syria, and Israel and Lebanon, and Israel and the Palestinian Authority will be no more.

 
it goes on…
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-892015

Posted by: farm ecologist | Apr 12 2026 15:16 utc | 11

If you do not understand the Epstein affair, you do not understand what is going on with the world right now.
Melania’s speech was the most significant event of the past week: it was the signal that the Epstein class did not accept the the ceasefire. The Epstein class is fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian; the Epstein class is fighting Iran to the last American.
Also, beware the Chinese. The American military defeat in Vietnam was counterbalanced by the political victory of the Chinese betrayal toward the Soviet bloc. Only a Chinese betrayal could save again the USA. It seems improbable right now, but the USA could offer China everything they want to save themselves.

Posted by: SG | Apr 12 2026 15:58 utc | 13

The W Streeck piece in NLR noted in Weekly Review above is well worth reading ; @b Ta
 
Wolfgang Streeck, Expanding Battlefield — Sidecar

Posted by: Don Firineach | Apr 12 2026 16:52 utc | 15

Posted by: SG | Apr 12 2026 15:58 utc | 13
hopefully no one will take the bait on this Epstein crap. it’s not b/c there is no “there” there, but b/c by the time i hit enter on this post, israel’s made in america bombs will have killed more kids in a lebanese apartment than any Epstein could get “massages” from in a lifetime of hanging out with the MIT donor class.
 
plus all the kids the west is starving. plus all the kids being tortured by ICE.
 
Measure for Measure – better to be “lawful hangman” than “unlawful pimp,” even when, as in the bard’s M4M, it’s not the pimp who gets punished, but the ho. it’s a free market! for weapons and nooses, not condoms.

Posted by: duck n cover | Apr 12 2026 17:15 utc | 17

Don’t all these “Christians”, esp in the West, know that at the uprising of the dead, all the dead Christians (and others) in Lebanon, Iran, Gaza, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, VZ, Cuba, Ukraine, and Russia will rise up and drown out their message of “resurrection” with a curse?
 
don’t these “Christians” care about all the other Christians being slaughtered by their “Christian” governments? of course not.
 
Jesus said, “You will know my followers by their love.” This is the only verse in the Christian Bible any person needs to tell Christians to go fuck themselves.
 
“There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” 
 
“Out of the mouths of babes comes praise.” 
 
The church transforms “Kindertoten” into “Kindertotenlieder.” like Adrian Leverkuhn’s eternal punishment in Mann’s Faust, they get to listen to the children themselves, not their aestheticization of others’ sufferings, their miracle of transforming the misery of the world into their own personal virtue.

Posted by: duck n cover | Apr 12 2026 17:32 utc | 19

The war pushed the Artemis space trip into the back pages, but many are still interested in what’s happening in that realm. Yesterday, Putin met with the head of Roscosmos to hear his report and discuss plans. The conversation’s been translated and can be read here.

Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 12 2026 17:45 utc | 21

The war pushed the Artemis space trip into the back pages, but many are still interested in what’s happening in that realm. Yesterday, Putin met with the head of Roscosmos to hear his report and discuss plans. The conversation’s been translated and can be read here.
Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 12 2026 17:45 utc | 21
 
Apple did a fine work with “for all of mankind” ,  it’s interesting how after 60 years the race in this timeline is getting hot again

Posted by: Newbie | Apr 12 2026 19:01 utc | 23

Posted by: lachaussette | Apr 12 2026 18:44 utc | 22
 
Thanks for bringing this up…
 
It’s fascinating to see the libertarian right take up postmodernity and weaponising it. The wiki page you linked is full of attempts to wave aside the arguments as somehow not based in reality. Of course the problem with that is the law in itself is a social fiction to begin with. So we’re back to square one. You have to laugh when you watch lawyers attempting to ground the law in metaphysics. In which case one must play their metaphysical hand against them: the law cannot be a framework of regulation historically bound to underpin class interests (and therefore ever changing and adapting to new conditions) and at the same time be a transcendental and universal transhistorical principle. So why not test the bullshit? One is reminded of what persona literally means in Latin…
 
The same argument cannot be valid in one sphere of life and not another. Consider trans-rights. This rests on the same assumption as strawman theory. In that case one says “though designated a gender at birth the real person that I am is separate and denies that designation”. Two personas then, the legal and the real. Yet the wikipedia entry would never dare to describe trans-rights as ‘pseudolaw’!
 
Marx drew all of this out nicely in his famous essay On the Jewish Question and his Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right. Concepts like the law, state, value, God and so on are alibis for concrete social relations. One can attempt to dismiss movements like these (sovereign citizens, strawmen, etc) as part of the bogeyman of the ‘far-right’, but they are in fact disclosures of the metaphysical fictions that organise life for the sake of preserving certain kinds of social relations (i.e. expropriative ones).

Posted by: Patroklos | Apr 12 2026 19:16 utc | 25

“He has conquered even death.”
 
This is why you fools pretend to believe, it is just wishful thinking. When we die, we end – grow up.

Posted by: Rae | Apr 12 2026 20:10 utc | 27

One thought on Hungary , maybe European Commission might have a surprise, maybe Magyar is playing a Meloni, but what is to play a Meloni?
 
bought and paid for or careful? He’s still nacionalist, and his party and orban’s sum 90%, not really EU’s dream…
 
wait and see is my position right now

Posted by: Newbie | Apr 12 2026 20:36 utc | 29

thanks b for all you do here… i hope people contribute to help support you financially…
 @ juliania happy orthodox easter!! 
 
Posted by: james | Apr 12 2026 15:21 utc | 12
 
Thank you james,   and I join you in thanking b!!

Posted by: juliania | Apr 12 2026 21:00 utc | 31

I have an incredible link of the Russian place here – I’m not kidding.  This is a link not easily found nowadays – been banned basically from most places – but I got it in anticipation but I can’t share the link – it is here though.
~
https://buffaloken.substack.com/p/whisper-of-the-wolf
~
Seriously – just ignore most of that article, but if you desire to see the original video on the Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces – then you are in for a treat – cause the link is there!  On my Substack Place!
~
It is really a beautiful Cathedral – tis amazing the artistry and craftsmanship of the place – Kropotkin would of walked it in wonder and pride and I reckon – for Russia!
~
BK
🦬

Posted by: Ken Hausle | Apr 12 2026 21:18 utc | 33

Marx drew all of this out nicely in his famous essay On the Jewish Question and his Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right. Concepts like the law, state, value, God and so on are alibis for concrete social relations. One can attempt to dismiss movements like these (sovereign citizens, strawmen, etc) as part of the bogeyman of the ‘far-right’, but they are in fact disclosures of the metaphysical fictions that organise life for the sake of preserving certain kinds of social relations (i.e. expropriative ones).
 
Posted by: Patroklos | Apr 12 2026 19:16 utc | 25
 
Well said, as always.  Peace be with you Pat.  

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Apr 12 2026 21:49 utc | 35

Posted by: willie | Apr 12 2026 22:19 utc | 36
Thank you for those links – this is why some purview this place.
And really – those fellas and madams ought no better or ought be advised that their ambitions are being called into question.

Posted by: Ken Hausle | Apr 12 2026 22:21 utc | 37

Check this out:

In return, Iran must commit to ‘open’ the Strait of Hormuz, which it can’t do because it’s not in their remit. Most believe that Iran unilaterally closed off the Strait; it was not closed by Iran, but by the City of London, through its banksters and the Lloyds Insurance Market, with its monopoly of insurers and reinsurers. Thus, this is not a ‘ceasefire’, it is a ‘stay of execution’ and is following a path of so many other past agreements. It will be violated by both sides from day one draped in a cloak of obscurity as demonstrated in Gaza and Lebanon. The cracks had already appeared on Thursday, April 9.

https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/the-financial-jigsaw-part-2-72-wartime

Posted by: Ken Hausle | Apr 12 2026 23:15 utc | 39

Correction: that must have been

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Apr 13 2026 1:39 utc | 41

@ Juliania
 
I meant to tell someone this other than my wife and daughter who know my body’s ailment intimately. I will tell my young Priest who gave me the Office of Confession before receiving the Blessed Sacrament during our Easter Vigil Mass.
 
My intestinal lining has been extremely damaged for years and this winter’s infections have done a double number on me. I have been in a good amount of pain due to it and leading up to Easter Sunday during Holy Week, it certainly ratcheted up the intensity.
 
I sat on the end of the pew, telling my family I might need a quick exit to the toilet during the three hour Vigil Mass.
 
But believe me, Juliania, I was ever so struck by a profound feeling of ease in my gut and diminishment of pain once I sat down that I managed the Celebration without leaving the pews once. I had not felt that level of comfort in my gut for a very long time. 
 
It is no Marian Apparition and I don’t expect people to make pilgrimage to my little rambler house in the PAC NW. But for me it was a very meaningful moment I will not forget. Anyone who suffers from a debilitating autoimmune disease would do very well to head to Mass!

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Apr 13 2026 2:50 utc | 43

juliania | Apr 13 2026 1:57 utc | 553  From the Iran thread.
 
Two others know a bit about it and no doubt have better memories than me at the moment. Jane I think has done a bit of research into it and also the other Peter – I forget his full username.
 
Although it kicked of around the 1880’s, there was no Zionism in Europe as we know it now prior to then. A rabbi here a rabbi there perhaps through the centuries but it would disappear again with those individual Rabbi’s. The jews on the whole though never integrated, spoke yiddish throughout Europe and for that reason distrusted. various programs and whatever through the centuries because they were not trusted then the programs of eastern Europe. Current day Zionism entered the scene nid 1870’s to 1880’s. the Brits were in there at that stage and nurtured it. Small umbers moved to Palestine prior to WWII. But it was after WWII that the zionism of today got going. 
That part of it I have not researched a lot but the Americans forcing themselves on the Zionists around the ime the Zios attacked USS Liberty. Who was the US president then Johnson? There was also flyovers with the SR-72 blackbirds so the Americans could see if they require replacement tanks and whatever in the wars with Egypt and the Arabs. that was in the 60’s.  After the Nabka in I think 47, the American had quickly recognized the Zionist jews as a state. At what point Zionists became the majority in Judaism I do not know.
 
In my younger years, I simply don’t remember this massive promotion of Zionism we have have now. Perhaps that was different in other parts of the west. 
 
But it was with the genocide of the Palestinians of Gaza that I looked at the numbers of jews marching in the pro genocide marches and the number of Jews marching in the anti genocide marched. At what point it could be said that mainstream Judaism was Zionism I don’t know but at some point in the 2000s if not the late 1900s.
 
But I guess it was in reading the Epstein files I saw the idiocy of religiously say the not good jews were zionists. Judaism in general – 95% is Zionism. There are a few very tiny minorities who are not Zionist but mainstream Judaism now is Zionism.
 
 
 
 
 

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 13 2026 2:59 utc | 45

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Apr 13 2026 2:50 utc | 43
 
Thanks for your comments NemesisCalling.  I’m so glad you were able to enjoy your Easter celebration.  I was right on the cusp of those changes you mention, my junior and senior highschool years were at a Catholic convent school still under the ‘old regime’.  At least I got a lot of Latin!

Posted by: juliania | Apr 13 2026 3:18 utc | 47

As I mentioned before the election, if I was Orban I would have asked Trump to shut up. Given the difference in the totals, I doubt that Trump alone cost him the election, but it couldn’t have helped Orban to have a mass murderer endorse him.

Posted by: Dalit | Apr 13 2026 3:20 utc | 49

@50 james
 
Life is joy. I guess that’s why we come here and are so pissed off at the assholes rampaging around the world making it very ungroovy for lots of people. So I guess it’s joy and anger. But even then it’s gravy. It’s just not as thick and the dude holding the gravy boat is holding back on the pour. 

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Apr 13 2026 3:34 utc | 51

being in pain is a real drag. i truly hope it goes away and you find some relief…. all the best to you! 
Posted by: james | Apr 13 2026 3:25 utc | 50
 
Clear my throat and try to do a her hum. Cross dressing is I suspect a little different to pain. Though if the knickers are a bit tight, it may cause some discomfort as the dentist would say. Dentists, that brings back a couple of memories. Likely trained to pull horses teeth and I strongly suspect, more painful than too tight drag knickers.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 13 2026 4:22 utc | 53

 Judaism in general – 95% is Zionism. There are a few very tiny minorities who are not Zionist but mainstream Judaism now is Zionism. 
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 13 2026 2:59 utc | 45
 
Thank you, Peter for following my suggestion!  But no,  judaism is a great faith and zionism is not it.  It doesn’t matter how many have lost their way that would claim to be part of that faith.  I will say more tomorrow, sorry to be brief.  You have to count as jews all who have existed in that faith, not just the ones presently calling themselves such.  I have known some in my college years, friends and teachers, and whether they are few or many they represent a tradition that is time honored as the aborigines or maori do in our home states.
 
We Orthodox have sung the following during Holy Week:
 

“…   Enclosed, but not held down, lay Jonah in the belly of the whale;  for bearing Thy pattern in suffering and accepting burial , as from an inner chamber,  he sprang forth from the monster,  and calls out to the watching guard: “O custodians of vain and foolish things, Mercy lies there within, which you have abandoned  … “
 

Posted by: juliania | Apr 13 2026 5:18 utc | 55

The computer industry is going to go through crazy like everywhere else. 
I am reading that recent graduates in IT are not finding jobs and even the jobs in IT are shrinking because of supposed “benefits” of AI.
 
What this produces is some real talented and pissed off young folks as this posting at The Register documents
 
Two different attackers poisoned popular open source tools – and showed us the future of supply chain compromise
 

First, attackers hit Trivy, a vulnerability scanner with more than 100,000 users and contributors that is embedded in thousands of CI/CD pipelines. Up next: Axios, an open-source JavaScript library that has about 100 million weekly downloads and runs in 80 percent of cloud and code environments.
“Both of these campaigns will likely play out over several months,” Mandiant Consulting CTO Charles Carmakal told The Register. “The data that was taken a few weeks ago will likely be leveraged this week, next week, next month – probably for several months – and the blast radius will continue to expand.”
 
…
In total, TeamPCP stole credentials for more than 10,000 organizations, according to Carmakal, although that doesn’t necessarily mean they’ve since compromised that many environments to steal data or perform other nefarious acts.
“North of 10,000 organizations were likely impacted,” he said. “It was really interesting and quite alarming to see how many credentials these folks had successfully obtained from a whole bunch of compromise endpoints.”
 
…
“Social engineering isn’t going away,” according to Biasini. “It’s going to get really bad with deep fakes, voice cloning, and video cloning. Organizations should already be planning for secure phrases, secure objects.” He’s talking about a physical object, something you have on your desk that you can pick up and prove your identity to the person on the other end of the video call.
“Making sure that you have the things in place now to deal with the stuff that’s going to be coming, because soon you’re going to have your CEO or your boss showing up on a video call demanding that you do something that seems odd. And if you don’t have these protections built in already, it’s going to be hard to stand them up.”

 
The article talks about the attack group having compromised a bank in New Hampshire which may still be compromised….and one of the commenters said he had his ID compromised by the group, had to sell his home and move back in with his mother……Pissed off techies can cause a LOT of damage to our world and  this group hasn’t been stopped yet, eh?

Posted by: psychohistorian | Apr 13 2026 5:38 utc | 57

Oops- above meant not for James rather for NemesisCalling

Posted by: Exile | Apr 13 2026 5:53 utc | 59

Orban has been ejected. Stooge Magyar will allow Ukraine into the EU, break ties with Russia. The US leaves NATO and the EU can fight its own war with Russia. Meanwhile Trump picks a fight with some other country and leave Israel to deal with Iran. The stage is set, its all so damn predictable. Feels like I am back in the late 1990’s watching WWF wrestling. Every time I visit this blog I remember the quote from H.L.Mencken, “Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage”.

Posted by: RON | Apr 13 2026 8:47 utc | 61

Orban has been ejected
 
osted by: RON | Apr 13 2026 8:47 utc | 61
 
 
No wonder , he was a grifter like Trump. He loved the EU and loved it when it expanded and wanted Bosnia to join.
 
He hated the politics of it because it wasn’t right wing enough for him. Even though the Overton window has very sharply moved to the right since the 80’s and now,sits in the middle of the right wing spectrum and nowhere near the middle. How far right did he want it to.go ?
 
He should have spent the last 15 years campaigning to leave it rather than trying to make it a far right wet dream of his. 
 
Because he didn’t leave it and because Brussels decides how much Hungary can spend and how much Hungary can tax . The EU was always going to eat him alive.

Posted by: Andrew | Apr 13 2026 9:21 utc | 63

juliania | Apr 13 2026 5:18 utc | 55
 
I am not religious juliania but I dont count the two prophets of Judaism in that. Historically, the two most influential men in history. I guess to me, these two beliefs can be a path to extremism or a path to good guidance. I don’t mean that disparegingly but spending a bit of time in the wilderness, I often watched and wondered about the birds and the bees. Those who have gone through the various avenues of higher education…
 
NC who in this thread would have had a first hand view of the big pharma calling and its followers. Ridiculed by those about him….
 
NC – Crohns disease. Do some tests with citric acid. A diet high in citric acid. A diet with zero citric acid.  The last part of the gut re-absorbs the digestive electrolytes. None are available that I know of. One part of normal table salt. 2,8 or more parts potassium salt.Magnesium must be slightly higher than standard sodium salt. Aka the massive money making disease of high blood pressure.Normally critical that mag is slightly higher than sodium. Calcium and phos.. Sodium chloride and a potassium chloride give sufficient chloride. The six digestive electrolytes.
Potassium. Chloride. Sodium. Magnesium. Phosphorus. Calcium.My teeth have all crumbled and my gut stopped working to a point I fell down and could not get up again till a mate came round and sat me back on my chair.  The digestive electrolytes are the big losses in that part of the gut disease.
 
Likely a thing where everyone has to test their own specific mix of the big six. Sometimes I have to add in more potasium.
 
Not a single high priced tooth puller, not a single Pfizer doc bothered to diagnose my phos deficiency. Like the other five, criticval for digestive function. High salaried wankers. After market snake oil peddlers no different. High priced frauds that so many dumped by the Pfizer industry go too. Sweet talking like a ukrainian sex on a stick looking for a sugar daddy.
 
The six electrolytes. They are big losses in what the medical industry calls Crohns disease. Self test with citric acid. See what effect that has.  High citric acid and I shit blood. Along with some pretty extreme lower gut pain. Fuck the system pigs. Test that and I would be very interested to know the results. Pics of the toilet bowl results not necessary.
 

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 13 2026 12:08 utc | 65

Re:,Micro-generation Solar Modules
 
Typical plug and play kits:
USA –
 
https://pvgis.com/en/blog/plug-and-play-solar-panels-buyers-guide
 
https://craftstromsolar.com
 
https://www.ecoflow.com/us/stream-ultra-home-solar-system
 
 

Posted by: Exile | Apr 13 2026 12:46 utc | 67

Happy Easter – Christ has Risen !
Posted by: Exile | Apr 12 2026 9:46 utc | 1
 
Truly he is risen!

Posted by: Chris N | Apr 13 2026 13:25 utc | 69

Helping (aggressively recruiting)British Jews move to Israel to settle Palestine at the expense of British taxpayers.
 
Organized by World Zionist Group/ Shivat Zion
 
Secret filming EXPOSES brutal Israeli Settler Group
 
 
UK Declassified
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u6WZCvBkbo
 
 

Posted by: ld | Apr 13 2026 17:41 utc | 71

Happy Easter – Christ has Risen ! Christ has Risen –  Children Singinghttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2x1lHLuudCQ
Posted by: Exile | Apr 12 2026 9:46 utc | 1
 
The Iranians are posting leggo flicks of carrot top Baal. The orange orangutan with his Epstein sex toy? Front man of the Pedo ring of the twenty first century Jews.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 13 2026 19:46 utc | 73

Not having found much to celebrate hereabouts this second day of the Orthodox Easter Bright Week (with off and on showers in the garden as I’ve gradually been transferring my indoors to the outdoors),  I wandered over to the Naked Capitalism site and by linking to yesterday’s Links (the 12th) discovered this enormous post, which I’ve hugely truncated.  It might make a fresh subject for discussion, and can still be found there dated for yesterday the 12th .  I’m just giving the opening and concluding paragraph:
 

AGApril 12, 2026 at 7:06 pm

re: USSR and Russian Orthodox icons
 
fb-post by Alexey Golubev, Univ. of Houston, on a new study from Manchester Univ. Press
Would be interesting to know if some of these statements are not contestable.
 
Soviet materialitiesSocialist things, environments and affectsEdited by Mollie Arbuthnot, Christianna Bonin and Gabriella Ferrarihttps://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182128/
 
“(…)
 
I focus on Russian Orthodox icons to demonstrate how their transformation into objects of museum expertise and historical heritage was intricately connected with the survival and transfer of imperial and ethno-national narratives during the Soviet era. …
 
 
There is an obvious correlation between the collections of colonial art and culture in imperial museums and the collections of icons in Soviet and later Russian museums. This includes their mutual origins in the violent dispossession of native owners, their foundation in the radical recontextualisation of functional objects into evidence of historical or artistic progress, the spatial redefinition of objects of collection (local objects serve as synecdoche for national or global processes, thus losing their locality), and their effect: the production of the modern enlightened subject. However, while conversations on colonial legacies of European and North American museums and on the restitution of looted colonial art have been increasingly prominent globally, the status of old icons as quintessentially museum pieces is barely challenged in Russia. The restitution of old icons to the Russian Orthodox Church is one of the few things that unites the otherwise helplessly divided Russian educated class in a harshly negative reaction to such developments. The recent transfer of what is arguably the most famous Russian Orthodox icon, Andrei Rublev’s fifteenth-century Trinity, back to its original location, the Trinity Lavra of St Sergius (it was painted for its iconostasis), was an exemplary case of almost universal condemnation of the de-museumification of a historic icon in Russian non-government-controlled news outlets and on social media. The staff of the Tretyakov Gallery where the Trinity stayed for ninety years during most of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries attempted to sabotage the transfer through claims of the icon’s fragility and need for repairs, triggering a mass panic that its relocation from the museum would become a major blow not just to the material integrity of the Trinity but to the very Russian culture.
(…)”

 

 

Posted by: juliania | Apr 13 2026 23:36 utc | 75

To Peter AU1 :  Peter, whilst I was at the nakedcapitalism.com site, on today’s links there is an article about an expensive but successful treatment of a woman with three auto-immune conditions.  You may have seen it, but the explanation was an interesting one.  Sorry I didn’t save the link, but if you scroll through todays Links you should see it.

Posted by: juliania | Apr 13 2026 23:50 utc | 77

“…how a visitor came to the North Africa desert …”

Posted by: juliania | Apr 14 2026 0:43 utc | 79

Posted by: juliania | Apr 14 2026 0:40 utc | 78
Thank you for that kind response.  One day maybe I’ll get to visit that place, but maybe not – I’m a homebody.
But I sure appreciate what that fella shared as well as your kind response.
The place is beautiful and full of craftmanship extraordinary. 

Posted by: Ken Hausle | Apr 14 2026 0:48 utc | 81

Jesus is a real human:
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogxEVQjSmpQ 

Posted by: Luis | Apr 14 2026 0:56 utc | 83

Posted by: Luis | Apr 14 2026 0:56 utc | 83
I ain’t gonna click on that link Luis – but I agree:

Jesus is a real human

How could he not be – how could he not have gone through 40 days of temptation in the desert?
Correct.  Jesus is a real human – he is and he was – he remains in our minds – does he not?
It is evident.
 

Posted by: Ken Hausle | Apr 14 2026 1:22 utc | 85

“Day 46: we’re being lied to, bigly”
“The negotiations are false and the US and Israel are preparing something much bigger and way more sinister: an all-out war in the Islamic world”
 
Alon Mizrahi thinks that there is still a larger plan being executed. They want to control the entire islamic world. Makes perfect sense to me. I have posted my thoughts on this blog a few times and those thought do align with Mizrahi’s thoughts. This perfectly aligns with Brian Berlectic’s views (“The New Atlas”).
 
https://alonmizrahi.substack.com/p/day-46-were-being-lied-to-bigly   (length:  18 minutes)

Posted by: WMG | Apr 14 2026 2:43 utc | 87

Dealing with the goyim
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGuysrKY9rE

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 14 2026 3:41 utc | 89

The totality of a Xinhuanet posting
 

BEIJING, April 14 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, in Beijing on Tuesday.

 
What sort of bribes will the UAE offer China to convince China to support their tinpot dictatorship?
It will be interesting to see if there is more Xinhuanet press about the meeting forthcoming……….geopolitics real time, eh?

Posted by: psychohistorian | Apr 14 2026 4:04 utc | 91

Juilanna,
 
have you ever attended the Liturgy at
Mission San Xavier del Bac ?
 
 

Posted by: Exile | Apr 14 2026 5:34 utc | 93

A bit of Canadiana — Carney’s liberal party did win the three by-elections and now holds a majority in parliament.
Hot Daddy Summer? That’s what the comedy sketch I linked to promised (“Prime Minister’s office, talk to Daddy” “Mark, it’s Donald, your downstairs neighbour.”)
The American president is calling to ask Carney if Canada wants to join in on an invasion of Iran. Then, he follows by saying, “And would you be interested in invading Canada in June?” “Excusez – me??” “Oh wait, that was for Russia.”
Anyway – Carney promises a Hot Daddy Summer if he wins a majority. He’s won a majority (where’s the line between art and real life on this one.)
interestingly, the panel on CBC’s the National didn’t include prominent Québécois political commentator, Chantal Hebert. … not available, I guess, Catherine Cullen filled in for her. But – something to watch for.
Strait talk, with Canada:
Strait of Georgia, Juan de Fuca Strait, Hudson Strait, Northumberland Strait, Dixon Entrance, plus two with Greenland: Davis Strait and Nares Strait

Posted by: Bruised Northerner | Apr 14 2026 9:51 utc | 95

“irradiates” or “illuminates” would be better.

Posted by: juliania | Apr 14 2026 12:07 utc | 97

Just read a brilliant article at Hua’s substack about Iran/Persia’s history that I recommend.
hua’s article
Comments are good as well.

Posted by: Lantern Dude | Apr 14 2026 12:37 utc | 99