A Brief History of the Netanyahu-Hamas Alliance

"For 14 years, Netanyahu's policy was to keep Hamas in power; the pogrom of October 7, 2023, helps the Israeli prime minister preserve his own rule"

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-20/ty-article-opinion/.premium/a-brief-history-of-the-netanyahu-hamas-alliance/0000018b-47d9-d242-abef-57ff1be90000

Laura is probably right. Things are rarely as neat as they seem. That said, at least Robinson has gotten some Brits off their duffs and I don’t see where that’s bad. Conflict is inevitable, and the longer they wait the less opportunity there is for it to be fixed at a government level. And the alternative is a shit show for everyone.

I am not fooled by Tommy Robinson, he is simply using British patriots for his own agenda, which is Israel’s agenda…

Under the guise of uniting the country he is creating division to fuel anger and make people focus on the ‘Islam threat’ whilst ignoring the ‘Israel threat’ who are actually the engineers of the Islamic threat.

If you look into who is aiding and abetting the invasion of Islamic immigrants into Europe you will find it’s Jewish NGOs…

GEORGE SOROS:
“OUR plan treats the protection
of refugees as the objective and
national borders as the obstacle."

“Europe has to accept at least
a million asylum-seekers annually
for the foreseeable future."

“The E.U. ought to borrow money to pay for surge funding
for refugees.”

Barbara Lerner Spectre —
Founder of the European
Institute for Jewish Studies
in Sweden:

“Europe is not going to be the
monolithic society they once
were in the last century, JEWS
are going to be at the center
of that."

"Europe is now going into a
multicultural mode, and Jews
will be resented because of
OUR leading role.”

They couldn’t say it more clearly…

This is probably not good. But local people have to defend their territories. If the autocrats are going to be removed - as they should be - then locals have to stand up for themselves.

It’s a bummer but the time investment is probably needed. All the more reason for me to leave my current area, as my local peers who’d even care about things like watersheds are so blind with TDS that they’ll never act in time.

The EPA is rolling back limits on toxic heavy metals from coal plants entering streams and rivers as part of the Trump admin’s push to expand fossil fuels to power AI data centers.

fact or fiction ??

An idea:

There’s something called being “solar ready”. It might be worth looking into.

I used to work for a solar system design firm. One of the things we had to do before a solar system could be sold was verify whether or not the home/site was “solar ready”.

That involved evaluating the current electrical hook up, condition and size of the roof, solar exposure, baseline wattage needs of the house; peak household usage (and new plan for off grid if that was the goal - which meant appliance listings and evaluations and sometimes change outs) - local utility and zoning hookup requirements; etc.

Sometimes a client had several months of work and many thousands of dollars to spend just prepping for fill their solar system. So the term “solar ready” was born.

But it should actually be “decentralized power ready” - ie do you understand completely your power use; your connections; your loads; your needs…

Most people don’t. They’re capable of it, they just haven’t got around to it yet.

Well, if we’re on the edge of new decentralized energy systems, maybe we want to think about getting ready for new energy.

“New Energy Ready”

Wouldn’t that be fun?

Tonight’s discovery:

Chocolate Brownies and a buttery California Chardonnay go very well together.

Thanks. For those of you exploring Ai power calcs is an excellent use of the tool.

Another interesting way to think through your usage that I needed to do for my emergency plan (using a generator) is analyze everything on your house or shop breaker box.

Often “figuring out what circuits power what” is on the to do list but it never gets done.

Once you map which breakers go to which outlet sets (the legs), then you can figure out what appliances are on those legs and move things around if you want - either in advance if it works or with cords during an emergency.

If you need to run a generator (or a decentralized power unit) and you know all of that, you can do a couple of helpful things:

*Know exactly what things need to/can (watt draws are very limited with the average generator) run off your generator during a blackout and hook those up quickly (might involve having a special cord - length/thickness of cord has to match appliance draw).

*If you’re solar ready then you’ve got a grid-tied power system (includes inverter and special controls to prevent unwanted flows between the house and city systems) which is super helpful because it lets you use the wires in your walls BUT you need to have already isolated the loads on the legs so you know where all the draws are and can shut nonessentials down at the breaker. (Keeps teenage daughter from plugging in the hairdryer and blowing the house)

This is the main decentralized power readiness I’m thinking about:

Imagine you get a mini-power device (free energy) that supplies 3-5k continuous Watts (10k is what I’ve seen most commonly mentioned for a free standing home device). Thats more than enough to rotate some refrigeration and cooking through easily IF you know what’s on your legs already.

And if you’ve got a solar system for low wattage lights and electronics running a couple of other legs you’re really well set as long as you’ve got a box on the house side of the breaker that can accept power from multiple sources (ie battery storage, live panel, micro free energy device).

But this involves some fancy footwork on either side of your breaker box: regulated power management controls between your box and the public utility (called grid tied power) AND options for different legs to be fed by different power sources between the breaker box and your house.

It’s not something you can do in an emergency; it takes a bit of prep and a few stages require a licensed electrician. And anything between your breaker and the utility requires the utility’s permits and inspections.

But if we’re truly on the edge of decentralized household power and you think your house is good for another 10+ years, getting ready for new energy is 1) smart and 2) not being discussed that I’ve seen.

This - being alternative power ready at the breaker - is one of the investments I’m making in my business and it will be a great selling point down the road (and figuring it out is just plain fun).

An idea:

There’s something called being “solar ready”. It might be worth looking into.

I used to work for a solar system design firm. One of the things we had to do before a solar system could be sold was verify whether or not the home/site was “solar ready”.

That involved evaluating the current electrical hook up, condition and size of the roof, solar exposure, baseline wattage needs of the house; peak household usage (and new plan for off grid if that was the goal - which meant appliance listings and evaluations and sometimes change outs) - local utility and zoning hookup requirements; etc.

Sometimes a client had several months of work and many thousands of dollars to spend just prepping for fill their solar system. So the term “solar ready” was born.

But it should actually be “decentralized power ready” - ie do you understand completely your power use; your connections; your loads; your needs…

Most people don’t. They’re capable of it, they just haven’t got around to it yet.

Well, if we’re on the edge of new decentralized energy systems, maybe we want to think about getting ready for new energy.

“New Energy Ready”

Wouldn’t that be fun?

Luckily you CAN contact a solar company to do a site evaluation. Many do a general one for free and then -for a generally reasonable consulting fee, considering what you’re getting - they will talk you through everything needed for both sides of the breaker box to do what you want to do.

I believe that a small to medium solar array and a portable power unit can sit comfortably side by side as independent inputs to your household system, and a solar engineer is the professional currently suited to make your building ready for it.

There’s a generation a lot of people forget exists. We were born at the tail end of the Boomers, but we are not culturally the same as people born in the 40s and early 50s. We are Generation Jones.

And honestly, it explains a lot.

We grew up in a world that still felt fundamentally analog, but we were young enough to be dragged headfirst into the digital revolution. We are the bridge generation between rotary phones and smartphones, between slide rules and AI, between Walter Cronkite and algorithm driven media.

We remember when there were only a few television channels and the entire country watched the same thing at the same time. We also adapted to the internet, email, forums, social media, streaming and now artificial intelligence. We lived before and after the technological singularity hit everyday life.

That is not a small thing.

People born in the 40s came of age in a post World War II America that was still industrial, deeply hierarchical and institutionally stable. Their formative years were shaped by the Cold War, Vietnam, the civil rights era and a society where information moved slowly.

Generation Jones came later. We inherited the aftermath of all of that.

We were the kids who watched Watergate destroy blind trust in government. We watched manufacturing begin to collapse. We saw divorce rates explode. We were the first truly latchkey generation in massive numbers. We learned independence early because many of us had to.

We grew up with one foot in old America and one foot in whatever this new thing was becoming.

We played outside until the streetlights came on but we also learned DOS commands. We learned cursive and keyboarding. We had card catalogs and Google searches. We went from vinyl records to cassette tapes to CDs to MP3s to streaming in one lifetime.

We remember maps. We remember memorizing phone numbers. We remember life before GPS and before every human interaction became filtered through a screen.

And because of that, I think Generation Jones developed a very unique perspective. We are adaptable because we had no choice but to adapt. We learned technology as adults instead of being born into it. We remember a slower world but were forced to survive in a rapidly accelerating one.

That creates a very different mindset than either older Boomers or younger Gen X and Millennials.

A lot of us also reject the caricature people now associate with “Boomers.” We were not buying houses for the cost of a sandwich in 1965. The interest rate on my first house was over 14% and that was after buying down a point. Many of us got hit by recessions, outsourcing, pension collapses and economic instability just like younger generations did. We watched promises evaporate in real time.

We understand older generations because we were raised by them. We understand younger generations because we had to evolve alongside them.

That’s why the Jones generation often feels culturally homeless. We are rarely discussed, rarely defined and usually lumped into categories that don’t actually fit us.

But we exist.

We are the human transition point between the industrial age and the digital age.

And frankly, there will probably never be another generation quite like us again.

5:39 AM · May 19, 2026

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I can relate...anyone else?
How about Keypunch...anyone remember learning that in high school?

I too sometimes miss the way I used to view the world; when ignorance felt like innocence, when I believed things were simpler, safer, more honest. But that was never reality. It was a projection, a false perception carefully built for us to inhabit.

We were deceived. We believed the narratives, the history books, the promises of leaders, the systems around us. We thought the world was one thing, when in truth it was something entirely different.

And so what we really miss is not the world itself, it never actually existed as we imagined it, but the feeling of living inside that illusion.

We must now replace that nostalgia with vision. Instead of yearning for a false world that never truly was, we must begin to dream of the real world that can be.

A world based on truth and reality, a world that serves humanity rather than enslaves it. A world where we grow into a more evolved version of ourselves, more aware, more compassionate toward one another, and guided by a greater morality. Because freedom can only survive in a society that chooses to hold itself to higher standards of morality and responsibility. Without that foundation, freedom collapses.

So perhaps what we miss is not gone forever, it is simply waiting for us on the other side of this journey. Not the illusion we lost, but the truth we are destined to build. And it begins with us daring to dream it into being, together.


https://t.me/LauraAbolichannel

The current setup of chip manufacturing is the geopolitical version of storing every gold bar on earth in one glass-walled bank vault that sits sixty miles from a guy with a sledgehammer who has been saying for decades he wants the gold.

That metaphorical bank is Taiwan, and Trump just told them that they're not getting the 12 billions in weapons to defend themselves against China, and that it's time to pack up. And FAST.

Brookings is calling Trump's move a dangerous gamble, the chronically TDS are calling it abandonment, and just a handful of us have bothered to read the trade deal.

What he's actually doing is making it scarier for Taiwan to keep their chip factories sitting on that island than to pack them onto a boat and ship them to Arizona.

(Which is in itself harder than everyone thinks)

For thirty years Taiwan has been using their chip manufacturing hegemony the "silicon shield." If Taiwan gets invaded, the world loses its chips, so the world has to defend Taiwan.

So, Trump looked at the sledgehammer, saw the glass walls, saw that the bank is a long ass trip away from Washington, and ultimately told Taipei to start moving the gold.

His own advisers told Axios this week that the odds of China moving on Taiwan within five years went up, not down, after the Beijing summit.

Lutnick wants 50/50 production. Taiwan disagreed. TSMC has already pledged 165 billion dollars to Arizona's factories. That's Billions with a B.

Also, Taipei has committed 500 billions in semiconductor investment, but in all cases, the February trade deal literally ties chip tariffs to how fast that money lands.

So the arms package to defend themselves against the dude with the sledgehammer will collect dust for a while. That's Trump's bargaining chip (pun intended)

If you think about it, this is the most coherent industrial policy a US president has run in fifty years, and the only people pretending not to understand it are the ones whose careers depend on Trump looking chaotic.

Is Trump bluffing? that's indeed 50/50. But the silicon shield only works if China believes the world will fight to defend Taiwan. Since it seems that he world won't, the second-best move is to move the crystal-walled bank to America.

And Trump is giving Taiwan a good incentive to do so.

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My reply to the above