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[EndtheMadnessNow]

July 17, 1936: The Spanish Civil War began as a series of right-wing insurrections within the military, staged against the constitutional government of the five-year-old Second Spanish Republic. Because it was the first major military contest between left-wing forces and fascists, and attracted international involvement on both sides, the Spanish Civil War has sometimes been called the first chapter of World War II. War lasted till April 1, 1939.


The rebels, or Nationalists as they came to be known, were backed by a spectrum of political and social conservatives including the Catholic Church, the fascist Falange Party, and those who wished to restore the Spanish monarchy.


Happy 105th birthday to Group Captain John ‘Paddy’ Hemingway, the last known surviving Battle of Britain pilot. Born in Dublin in 1919, Hemingway joined the RAF in 1938. He flew Hawker Hurricanes during WWII and survived being shot down four times. He served during WWII in the Battle of Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain, the Allied invasion of Italy and the Invasion of Normandy.

Incredibly, after nearly 80 years in the marsh mud, one of the plane’s eight Browning .303 machine guns was still in working order when removed, and had to be deactivated. Paddy's son Brian, has paid a close interest to the restoration of the fighter plane and was recently photographed alongside the rebuild.

Although Hemingway survived the Battle of Britain, it was not the end of his adventure, as war continued to rage and he continued to fly. On 13 May, 1941, he was shot down for a third time, and his parachute failed to open properly, but incredibly, he landed on a large dung heap in the garden of the poet Walter de la Mare in London, which luckily broke his fall and saved his life. In recognition of his bravery, on 29 July 1942, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross from the King, but the RAF flight he took to London to receive the award crashed during take off - naturally, he survived.

Towards the end of the war, Hemingway was posted to Italy with the RAF's 43 Squadron. On 23 April 1945, he was flying a routine reconnaissance mission with three other pilots over German occupied Ferrara, when his Spitfire Mk IX was attacked by anti-aircraft fire. He managed to bail out but his parachute ripped the skin off his legs as he was tumbling through the air. He managed to land alive, behind enemy lines.

Hemingway somehow managed to stumble across a farmhouse and was luckily able to take refuge with the owners, who swapped his uniform for peasant clothes and allowed their young daughter (who Hemingway recalls was 7-8 years old) to take him through woodland paths avoiding German military posts and leading him to safety. Miraculously, the identity of the young girl has recently been revealed.

John "Paddy" Hemingway - The Last of The Few

Luck of the Irish!


WaPo journo Max Boot, deep state war hawk, CFR stooge, writes alot of Op-eds, weird psychotic obsession against Trump, one of the chief purveyors of the "Russian asset" narrative, is married to an unregistered foreign agent? And she has been indicted for selling access, accepting bribes, sharing non-public info with South Korean officials, and facilitating access for South Korean officials in exchange for luxury goods.? Wut?



Reuters | NY Post


LOL...





https://x.com/ClareONeilMP/status/1813390494342476001


In addition to being bizarre...it is also just plain ballistically ignorant.


Mediaite

Translation of Mediaite: "I know nothing about this story, or rifles... or bullets... but if my opinion that has been built on that ignorance is valid, I have many questions."


The Deep State carrying out two assassination attempts in one week. Yikes!



What timeline are we riding on?? We are living in a cartoon matrix.

Sudden case of Covid

Sloped roof

The powers that be have stopped trying to be credible, even minimally credible.

They figure it's their world and the rest of us can get lost while they run it in their own weird way.

But maybe they figure wrong.

Just maybe.


Another blow to the censorship machine...


The Daily Wire


We live in a crazy world.


https://x.com/nexta_tv/status/1813690313250340907


Interesting Mid-Week words...


Aussieness: new Australian English additions to the OED

It was a swullocking chainsawing festival at my house today. My forearms were covered in pitch pine which required turpentine bath followed by scrub down like I received a dose of fallout. All clean now minus hairless arms, lol. And that's the good news. The bad...I'm only about 10% done, but helluva lot more done than our otiose gov't. No wucking furries, I got this. I have several widow makers so will leave those trees for the Axemen boys. According to my local weather boys the tornado was registered as an EF-2. Glad it wasn't any stronger.