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So I got this shot of a lilac-breasted roller the other day and honestly, one of the most beautiful birds I’ve ever seen. Never seen one before in my life. It just came to me.

🚨🇪🇺Secret EU email revealed: Brussels coordinated vaccination narratives directly with Big Tech Quote: “EU email reveals: How Brussels organised control over public opinion An internal letter from October 2020 casts a disturbing light on the relationship between the European Commission and the world’s largest tech corporations. The email originates from the cabinet of then EU Vice-President Věra Jourová and is addressed directly to platforms such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and ByteDance. The content is unequivocal: The EU requests confidential assistance from the corporations to combat so-called ‘disinformation’ surrounding Covid vaccinations and tests – explicitly outside of the public eye. They are asked to provide data on narratives, user reactions, trends and forecasts in order to develop a ‘targeted work plan’. The information is not to be shared with the population. Particularly explosive is a passage in which the platforms are asked to disclose changes to their terms of service and moderation practices – explicitly including the promotion and demotion of content, i.e. algorithmic up- or down-ranking. This makes it clear: the aim was not merely an exchange of information, but active steering of visibility and reach of political content. The political dimension is openly acknowledged. The sender assures that she is acting with the approval of the Vice-President and with the knowledge of the Commission President. This is therefore not an individual initiative, but executive-coordinated policy at EU level. The imposed time pressure underscores the operational nature: the platforms were expected to deliver within a few days. What this document reveals is the remodelling of the digital public sphere: state authorities define problem narratives, private corporations implement them via algorithms – without democratic debate, without transparency, without legal oversight. The boundary between regulation and opinion steering becomes blurred. The email confirms what has long been denied: During the pandemic, the EU did not act merely as a provider of information, but as the coordinator of an informal censorship and control network that intervened deeply into citizens’ communication infrastructure. Not through laws – but through backroom arrangements with platform monopolists. This raises a fundamental question: Who controls public opinion in Europe – elected parliaments or executive networks of politics and Big Tech? The document provides a disturbingly clear answer.”






🇺🇸 Most Badass Americans You Don’t Know: #4 Hector Cafferata Hector Cafferata is an American Badass He was a 21-year-old Marine PFC. A screaming Chinese assault turned him into a half-naked, barefoot one-man warrior in 30-below-zero hell. On November 28, 1950, during the savage Battle of Chosin Reservoir in Korea, Cafferata was ripped from his sleeping bag at Fox Hill when over 1,400 fanatical Chinese troops launched a surprise pre-dawn assault on his outnumbered company. No time for boots. No time for his parka. He charged straight into the frozen darkness wearing only socks, underwear, and a thin jacket. When his entire fire team was cut down in minutes, he stood alone in a critical gap in the Marine line. For nearly five brutal hours he fought like a demon — dashing up and down the line under heavy fire, pouring rifle fire into the charging waves, hurling grenade after grenade, and batting incoming enemy grenades away with his entrenching tool like a deranged baseball player. Later he joked that he was terrible at baseball, but must have whacked a dozen grenades that night. When a live Chinese grenade tumbled into the shallow trench right among several wounded Marines, Cafferata dove in, snatched it up with his bare hand, and hurled it back toward the enemy. The blast shredded his right hand and arm, blowing off part of a finger, but his buddies lived. He kept fighting through the pain until the enemy finally broke off the attack at dawn. He annihilated two enemy platoons. When it was all over, they found over 100 dead Chinese soldiers piled in front of the ditch he had defended alone. His one-man stand helped hold the vital Toktong Pass and kept the escape route open for thousands of Marines during the legendary breakout from the Chosin Reservoir. For this extraordinary heroism, Private First Class Hector Cafferata was awarded the Medal of Honor by President Harry S. Truman in 1952. Semper Fi! Hector Cafferata is an American Legend 🇺🇸











Muddy roads, rubble all around, and they built a beautiful white marble palace of a capitol right in the mud.









