Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

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April 11, 1814: Napoleon Bonaparte was forced to abdicate as French Emperor and under the Treaty of Fontainebleau was banished to exile on island of Elba. He escaped in 1815 and returned to power for his last "100 Days" which ended in defeat at the Battle of Waterloo.


In 2005, two Americans, former history professor John William Rooney (then aged 74) and Marshall Lawrence Pierce (then aged 44), were charged by a French court for stealing a copy of the Treaty of Fontainebleau from the French National Archives between 1974 and 1988. The theft came to light in 1996, when a curator of the French National Archives discovered that Pierce had put the document up for sale at Sotheby's. Rooney and Pierce pleaded guilty in the United States and were fined ($1,000 for Rooney and $10,000 for Pierce). However, they were not extradited to France to stand trial there. The copy of the treaty and a number of other documents (including letters from King Louis XVIII of France) that were checked out from the French National Archives by Rooney and Pierce were returned to France by the United States in 2002.



On the topic of Brainwashing this is possibly the first person that made a connection to fluoride was a Holocaust denier named W. D. Herrstrom, who claimed in late 1951 that Russians fed it to babies to make them "more amenable to dictatorship when they grow up." Herrstrom was a nutcase even by the lofty standards of the fringe right: he believed the Holocaust was a cover story for mass immigration.



The above is from the Journal of the American Dental Association
Comments on the Opponents of Fluoridation and from the book Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory (1993)


Bold or stupid move?


Estonian navy detains Russia-bound oil tanker in Baltic Sea


Anything goes in these crazy days...


Hamas urges UK court to remove terror label, claims it is battling ‘genocide’

Hamas Statement to British Sec of State (11-page PDF)

That war is going to be in the quad digits before it finally ends, or rather pauses for a while. Oct 7th would be legit by pre-modern standards, ie the Mongol invasions, the Roman destruction of Carthage, the enslavement of Helots, the African slave trade, the Spanish conquest of the Americas. And by those rules Israel's actions would be legit too.

Ten thousand years ago there were no rules. What archaeologists found in Kenya...

Evidence of a prehistoric massacre extends the history of warfare

Seven thousand years ago there were no rules in Europe.

German mass grave records prehistoric warfare

In pre-Columbian America there were no rules.

Crow Creek massacre
The only natural laws of war are the laws of physics. Everything else is a product of civilization.


Next conquest...


Inside Trump’s Plan to ‘Get’ Greenland: Persuasion, Not Invasion

The True Size of Countries


Meanwhile, SecDef Hegseth says Greenland Commander has got to go...


Space Force commander fired after email the DOD says ‘undermined’ JD Vance



British propaganda is not what it used to be...




The 4.5 hour long meeting between President Vladimir Putin and Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff in St. Petersburg is now over. Is there any news on how it went?


Trump envoy's embrace of Russian demands worries Republicans, U.S. allies

Steve Witkoff’s visit to Petersburg today: what do we know?

The number two news item this evening was the visit of Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s personal envoy charged with negotiating a cease-fire in Ukraine.  I call out the order of reporting, because at this level nothing is left to chance. Everything has symbolic value.

Nonetheless, it was reported on state television for perhaps ten minutes, while tidbits of further information about the Witkoff visit appeared on Dzen and various other internet sites.

Let’s for a moment look at the tidbits, because they are also indicative of what is afoot.

We know that following his arrival in Petersburg, Witkoff was met by Kirill Dmitriev, the head of the Russia Foreign Investment Fund with whom he had met a week ago in Washington. Dmitriev is Vladimir Putin’s personal envoy to the talks on ending the Ukraine war and is thus Witkoff’s direct counterpart. The business part of their talks was held in the Grand Hotel Europe, which has been the most distinguished hotel in the city for the past hundred and thirty or more years. It is where Piotr Tchaikowsky spent his first nights in Petersburg when arriving by train from abroad. I can only see in this choice that the Russian hosts wanted to give a personal touch to the visit and to ensure that his time would be concentrated in a very few city blocks in the center.

We also know that Witkoff was accompanied on this trip by his wife and they both, in the company of Dmitriev, did some high level tourism:  they went to the Grand Choral Synagogue and to the St Isaac’s Cathedral.

The logic of visiting the Synagogue was that tomorrow is the first day of Passover, and as a practicing Jew, Witkoff would surely have been interested in seeing the best and largest synagogue from the days of the tsars, when it stood at the center of the Jewish community of the capital. Not in a bad location, by the way: the Grand Choral Synagogue is just a five-minute walk from the Mariinsky Theater from where it recruited its cantors. Moreover, this synagogue was largely renovated with financial assistance from American philanthropists early in the new millennium.  Of course, the only actual Jews Witkoff is likely to have seen there apart from the chief rabbi would be members of the Israeli diplomatic community for whom it is a home away from home.

The visit to St Isaac’s needs no special explanation. It is the most beautiful church in Petersburg and a defining edifice in the city’s skyline.  It also has on its outer facade scars from the shelling of the city by the Hitlerite Germans during the Siege, a useful reminder of who was who that Messrs Merz and Pistorius would rather have us all forget.

I must ask myself whether Witkoff’s bringing his wife is an indication of the growing warmth of relations and good prospects for the war’s coming to an end with a nudge from Donald Trump. Or is it a premonition that this will be her last opportunity to see the sights of Petersburg before the Wall comes down again?

As of 20.00 o’clock tonight Witkoff was in a meeting with Vladimir Putin in downtown Petersburg. The venue is the Presidential Library (full name: Yeltsin Presidential Library), a place that is virtually never used for high level meetings.  Normally, such a meeting would be held outside the city at the glorious Constantine Palace on the Gulf of Finland.  But perhaps because the Witkoff visit is under time pressure in the hope of its being followed immediately by a direct telephone call between Putin and Trump, it was decided to meet downtown, just near the Admiralty buildings where Putin had had his conference with the naval officials.

Russian journalists assume that the talks between Witkoff and Dmitriev, like the ones between Witkoff and Putin, cover many subjects beyond the confines of the Ukraine war.  They mention, for example, the likelihood that they discussed the situation with respect to Iran and its nuclear program. This, of course, is another of Witkoff’s briefs, and it is an area in which the Russians are doing what they can to calm things down, not least of which by arranging the meeting that Witkoff has tomorrow in Oman with his Iranian counterpart.
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Given the paucity of information released by the parties so far, any prediction of what comes next in the American-Russian rapprochement is highly risky.  But there is reason to think that Washington and Moscow now have agreed on the general contours of a peace settlement.  It was remarked on Russian television that the meeting of the representatives of both sides in Istanbul last week made good progress on normalization of diplomatic relations.  It now appears that there is a tentative understanding on the return to Russia of its six diplomatic properties that were illegally seized in the waning days of the Obama administration and early in the Trump 1.0 administration.  The Russians will now be allowed to visit the properties to ascertain what damage may have been done to them. If this report is true, it is a very good token of good will from the American side.

Gilbert Doctorow, International relations, Russian affairs

TGIF words...



We need a modern day Botany Bay to drop all these swamp creatures from Washington DC, City of London, and Brussels.


3 minutes of pure LOL! Think of it as the Dems vs Trump.