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Das wahre Europa. 💝💟

Although Mr Trump is a skilled businessman and applauds the trillion-dollar investments from Qatar, states are more than just companies; countries have souls. Moslems are not the allies of Christians and the West, and Islam aspires to conquer the world and will never stop attempting to destroy the souls of its adversaries.

Qatar blocked an Iron Dome deal, thwarting a major agreement between Israeli Rafael and Volkswagen. Due to the severe crisis facing the automotive industry, Volkswagen decided to convert one of its factories from vehicle production to defense manufacturing. Under the proposed agreement, the factory would have produced components for Iron Dome batteries, creating thousands of jobs for German workers. Qatar, a major shareholder in Volkswagen, reportedly vetoed the deal. This is what happens when a country that bankrolls Hamas is allowed to influence Europe’s strategic industries.

I did not know Lindsey Graham served 33 years in the United States Air Force and retired a colonel earning a bronze star. Love him or hate him, without a doubt Lindsey Graham was a patriot who served America for 3 decades. Then 2 more decades in the senate. Graham loved America, that I can tell. 🇺🇸

Lindsay Graham's net worth was only 1.4M. I hardly call that rich in today's world. He made 174K as a Senator He was no Nancy Pelosi or Marjorie Taylor Greene. He spent 23 years in office. If anyone could have gotten fat rich off defense contracts, it was him. He actually never abused the insider track.

From the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the site of Jesus’s crucifixion, burial and resurrection in Jerusalem, the eternal capital of 🇮🇱, we wish Christians around the world a peaceful Sunday. Did you know? The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is shared by six different Christian denominations, each preserving its own ancient traditions, prayers and ceremonies. Jerusalem is home to this coexistence, where different churches worship side by side at one of Christianity’s holiest sites ✝️🇮🇱

Did you know that Lindsey Graham was only 21 years old when he lost both of his parents? After his mother died of cancer and his father passed away from a heart attack about 15 months later, Lindsey was suddenly left to care for his 13-year-old sister, Darline, while he was still a college student. He later legally adopted her so she could receive military benefits while he served in the Air Force. Whatever your politics, that’s an extraordinary responsibility for someone so young to carry. Please say a prayer for his sister, Darline, as she mourns the loss of the brother who she described as, “kind of like a brother, a father and a mother rolled into one.”

Israel had a problem, and Germany had a solution. Israel needs more manufacturing capacity for Iron Dome components. Volkswagen, having failed to establish itself as a leader in electric vehicles and bleeding market share to Chinese imports, has capacity to spare. So the two problems found each other: Volkswagen’s management board green-lit converting a production line to defense manufacturing under a deal with Israel’s Rafael, saving thousands of German jobs in the process. A win-win. Until the Qataris intervened and sank the deal. Why do the Qataris have a say in what German factories build? Because, according to Bild, the Qatari sovereign wealth fund holds 10.4 percent of Volkswagen’s shares and 17 percent of its voting rights—and it vetoed the deal for one reason: the company slated to manufacture at the plant is Israeli. Qatar spent years funding Israel’s enemies and is now spending its equity blocking Israel from intercepting the missiles it paid for. Volkswagen confirmed that its Qatari shareholders vetoed the cooperation at the Osnabrück plant but said it would keep seeking partnerships to save the site. Good luck to the 2,300 workers employed there—all facing layoffs by the end of 2027. The Qataris had help, of course. Peace activists and opposition parties had criticized the conversion from the start, insisting Volkswagen manufacture only for the civilian market—never mind that everyone in Germany has understood for over a year that tens of thousands of jobs are gone without exactly this kind of reform. The protests intensified once the partner turned out to be Israeli, with radical left-wing activists, backed by the Left Party, declaring it “a deal that the German public cannot accept” given Netanyahu’s military activity across the Middle East. And this is not just about Volkswagen. According to Bild, the $4.2 billion deal for German shipping giant Hapag-Lloyd to acquire Israel’s Zim is also apparently collapsing—and here too, senior Israeli sources point to Gulf money inside the German corporation: the Qatari sovereign wealth fund holds 12.3 percent of Hapag-Lloyd, the Saudi fund another 10.2 percent. Nor is the creeping problem exclusive to Germany. As FDD’s Natalie Ecanow has documented, the state of 330,000 citizens, half the size of New Jersey, has invested some 400 billion dollars in the United States—roughly 1.2 million dollars per Qatari citizen. From defense and energy to basic infrastructure and manufacturing, the Qatari octopus has slipped its tentacles into countless sectors of the U.S. economy. As the Volkswagen case demonstrates, these investments can pay more than one kind of dividend.

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This video wins the internet for today 🤣 Watch till the end

Take the human body apart trait by trait and every piece gives the same testimony. It was built to hunt. Eyes on the front of the skull, not the sides. Forward-facing eyes are predator hardware, for locking onto prey and judging the distance to it. Deer and cattle have eyes on the sides of the head, to watch for things exactly like us. A shoulder that can throw. No other primate can hurl an object with speed and accuracy. Ours evolved specifically for it, and what a hominid throws is a spear. A body that cools itself by sweating through bare skin, letting us run down faster animals across the heat of the day until they drop. The prey has the sprint. We have the whole afternoon. A hand with a precision grip, the thumb meeting the fingers, evolved to make and hold a tool. The grip that now holds a pen was shaped to hold a blade. A stomach acid strong enough to dissolve bone and kill the bacteria in meat that has already turned. Not one of these is the kit of a forager topping up on leaves. Every one is the equipment of an animal that closed the distance, killed something larger than itself, and butchered it on the spot. The body is the crime scene, and the evidence all points one way. You are the predator. The salad was always the alibi.

Made me laugh.

At ninety-eight, Fred Kummerow sued the Food and Drug Administration. He was a biochemist at the University of Illinois, born in Germany, and he had been trying to get someone to listen for a very long time. In 1957 he took samples from the arteries of people who had died of heart attacks and identified what was clogging them: trans fat, the artificial kind made by pumping hydrogen through cheap vegetable oil to turn it solid. The margarine and shortening the new dietary advice was busy recommending in place of butter and lard were full of it. He published the finding in Science. He fed the stuff to pigs and watched the lesions form in their arteries too. And he said so, plainly, for decades, while the food pyramid pointed the other way and the money stayed with the cheap solid fat that never went off on a shelf. The scale of it is worth stating plainly. By the time the ban finally arrived, artificial trans fats were being linked to something on the order of tens of thousands of American deaths a year. Kummerow was heckled by industry men at scientific conferences for daring to say so. Here was one biochemist, armed with a hospital's worth of diseased arteries and a lab full of pigs, up against an entire manufacturing sector whose cheapest and most convenient fat he was trying to condemn, and the sector had the ear of the regulator while he did not. They did not listen. The oil was profitable and convenient and the story had already been sold. So in 2009, aged ninety-four, he filed a formal petition asking the FDA to act. Three years passed and they did not answer it. So in 2013, a few weeks short of ninety-nine, he took the federal government to court for ignoring him. Two years later the FDA finally moved to ban artificial trans fats from the American food supply. Kummerow lived to see it. He died in 2017 at the age of a hundred and two, of the arteriosclerosis he had spent sixty years warning the country about. The fat he identified stayed in the food for another half century after he found it, because taking it out cost money and leaving it in did not. He was right in 1957. They agreed with him in 2015. Nobody has ever explained the years in between.

There was once a lake in California so large that steamships crossed it, carrying freight most of the way from Bakersfield to San Francisco. Almost nobody alive has seen it, because farming drank it dry. Tulare Lake, in the southern San Joaquin Valley, was the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi, over a hundred miles long and thirty across. For thousands of years it fed one of the densest Native American populations north of Mexico, the Tachi Yokut, who called it Pa'ashi. In the late 1800s, California handed out a simple bargain to settlers: drain the wetland, claim the land. So they diverted the four rivers that fed the lake, ran the water off into a lattice of irrigation canals, and by around 1890 the largest lake in the American West had been erased from the map and turned into cotton, tomato and pistachio fields. The tribe was pushed off. The land remembers, though. In 1938, 1969, 1983, 1997 and again spectacularly in 2023, wet winters overwhelmed the canals and the water flowed back down into the old basin, refilling tens of thousands of acres of farmland and drowning roads and homes. They call it the ghost lake, or the lake that will not die. The cotton, the pistachios, the tomatoes off that ground are grown on the drained bed of the greatest lake in the West, a lake so thoroughly deleted that most people never learn it existed. They killed a body of water you could sail across, to grow row crops on its grave, and it still tries to come home.

A local DJ in Bournemouth named Tommy Shrewsbury got attacked by a bunch of migrant men, and Police told him not to talk about it due to "potential backlash". So thank you, Tommy, for talking about it. They CANNOT be allowed to keep hiding all the violence migrant filth brings into our country.

@CapersLocke01 @isaacrrr7 In regards to women, Orwell was spot on! 👇 "1984"

@isaacrrr7 Did the man die or have grievous injuries? I’d say 20 years. What does the law say?

Levanta la mano ✋ si crees que este joven de 23 años, Kamel Hawkins, debería pasar el resto de su vida en prisión por empujar a este hombre de 45 años frente a un tren que se aproximaba (en Nueva York).

Can you believe the size of the holes the 30mm rounds leave as they rip through the sheet metal of that car?

Imagine surviving and even thriving after being strapped into a $1.88 Sears, “hope harness” only to grow up and get blamed for everything by generations after you. #boomers * Sears Catalog, 1961.

This is a toll road in Dallas, Texas The tolls are run on dynamic pricing. The tolls adjust every 5 minutes based on real-time traffic and congestion data Private equity firms got $490 million from taxpayers to build these toll lanes and the whole project cost about $2.6 billion If taxpayers are going to have to pay to drive on toll roads they should not be charged a single cent for their construction

Patient: 'My cholesterol's a touch high. You want me on a statin?' Doctor: 'I'd recommend it. It lowers your risk.' Patient: 'By how much? In actual numbers.' Doctor: 'Trials show around a 30% reduction.' Patient: '30% of what, though. What's my risk now?' Doctor: 'Your ten-year risk is about 5%.' Patient: 'So the 30% takes it to roughly 3.5%.' Doctor: 'About that.' Patient: 'So for a hundred men like me on this pill for years, one or two dodge a heart attack.' Doctor: 'That's a fair way to put it.' Patient: 'And the other ninety-odd take it for nothing.' Doctor: 'We can't say in advance who benefits.' Patient: 'And in my situation, it doesn't help me live any longer?' Doctor: 'For primary prevention, the mortality benefit is... modest.' Patient: 'Modest. Who funded the trials, out of interest?' Doctor: '...' Patient: 'I'll take my chances, and my breakfast, thanks.'