Photos from nature – Fotografije iz prirode – Myrela

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Source: Photos from nature – Fotografije iz prirode – Myrela

MAGA Church Plans to Raffle a Trump AR-15 at Second Amendment Rally – Mother Jones

The Rod of Iron Ministries was founded by Hyung Jin ”Sean” Moon as a militant breakaway from the Unification Church founded by his father, the late Sun Myung Moon. A graduate of Harvard Divinity School, Pastor Sean Moon’s sermons and social media videos espouse a particular End Times theology that predicts a future overthrow of the American government. He believes the AR-15 is an instrument of God’s divine justice—the “rod of iron” invoked in Revelation 2:27.

Moon often wears a crown of bullets, carries a gold-plated assault weapon, and rides a Harley in a helmet with a creepy skeleton facemask. (Moon also seems to have musical aspirations: He raps under the name King Bullethead and will also perform at this weekend’s Freedom Fest.)

Source: MAGA Church Plans to Raffle a Trump AR-15 at Second Amendment Rally – Mother Jones

Ursula von der Leyen attacks Viktor Orbán over pro-Russia stance | Ursula von der Leyen | The Guardian

Ursula von der Leyen has accused Viktor Orbán of a historic failure to support Ukraine, economic mismanagement and making his country a “back door for foreign interference” in her sharpest public rebuke yet to Hungary’s strongman leader.

Standing a few metres away from Orbán in the European parliament in Strasbourg, the European Commission president pointedly criticised Orbán’s stance on Ukraine by contrasting his record with that of Hungarian freedom fighters of 1956, who rose against Soviet oppression but were ultimately defeated by the Red Army.

Ursula von der Leyen

Without naming Orbán directly, she said: “There are still some who blame this war not on Putin’s lust for power but on Ukraine’s thirst for freedom, so I want to ask them: would they ever blame the Hungarians for the Soviet invasion in 1956?”

She added: “There is no European language where peace is synonymous with surrender and sovereignty is synonymous with occupation.”

Von der Leyen was speaking after Orbán set out the priorities for Hungary’s six-month EU presidency, in an address where he sometimes offered a fairly conventional script calling for less regulation and efforts to bolster the EU’s single market.

This usually routine moment in the EU calendar became a boisterous session, with singing and personal insults. Orbán’s MEPs in the far-right Patriots for Europe group applauded him, while the mainstream pro-European parties clapped for von der Leyen. The Hungarian leader also had to listen to a rowdy rendition of the anti-fascist song Bella Ciao from a small group, prompting the speaker, Roberta Metsola, to intervene to bring order: “This is not Eurovision.”

Source: Ursula von der Leyen attacks Viktor Orbán over pro-Russia stance | Ursula von der Leyen | The Guardian

(30) Why can’t we stop hurricanes? From dry ice to cloud seeding, nothing has worked • FRANCE 24 – YouTube

While Florida is still reeling from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene less than two weeks ago, Hurricane Milton is set to make landfall in Tampa Bay early on Wednesday night local time. While fluctuations in intensity are expected, Milton is forecast to remain an extremely dangerous hurricane, perhaps the fourth most powerful hurricane ever observed in the Atlantic. From cloud seeding and dry ice to giant funnels and lasers, scientists have tried to find a ways to stop or deviate hurricanes since the 1940s. But nothing has effectively worked.

Dead Of Night | beetleypete

So for sixty years of my life lived in London, I never experienced that dead of night feeling, except on an occasional holiday in the countryside. Living in Beetley, you soon get used to the darkness, the stillness, and the very real sense of the dead of night that comes around 2am and lasts until the first hint of dawn.

Cars almost never drive down our street after midnight. Nobody walks past the house much later than 9pm. In truth, you don’t really have to wait very long here for the dead of night, as it usually starts seconds after midnight.

When you are lying awake for some reason, (as I have been on and off since being unwell) there are sounds to hear of course. Owls calling, the scrabbling of hedgehogs in fallen leaves, pet cats indulging in nocturnal activities in back gardens. Acorns and small branches falling from the oak trees onto the house, raindrops splashing onto the cover of the patio furniture.

If you really concentrate, you will become aware that the house itself is making noises. Strange clicks and creaks that at first seem worrying. Then nothing dramatic happens, so you accept that it is just what houses do during the night.

I wouldn’t want to go back to the emergency sirens, the car alarms, the noise of helicopters and all-night traffic that you will hear in London.

It seems I am suited to the dead of night as it should be experienced.

Source: Dead Of Night | beetleypete

♫ Where Did Our Love Go ♫ (Redux) | Filosofa’s Word

The song was released and flew up the charts to . From then on, one hit followed another. It was the first of 13 consecutive we did on the Supremes. The next time the Hollands and I saw the girls was at the airport. They were getting off a plane with their Yorkshire terriers, in mink stoles. We started laughing. It was so funny to see them turn into stars overnight.”

This charted at in the U.S. and Canada, and in the UK.

Where Did Our Love Go
The Supremes

Source: ♫ Where Did Our Love Go ♫ (Redux) | Filosofa’s Word

GOP Rep. Chuck Edwards: Helene ‘was NOT geoengineered by the government’

Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-N.C.) tried to debunk some of the misinformation that has proliferated on social media following the government’s response to Hurricane Helene in the southeastern U.S., saying the tropical cyclone was “NOT geoengineered by the government.”  “Over the past 10 days, I have been proud of how our mountain communities have come together…
— Read on thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4923597-north-carolina-chuck-edwards-hurricane-helene-misinformation/