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Saturday quiz
Well, this week a convincing victory over political journalist John Rentoul: he scored only 3/10, whereas my score is 8/10. I did not know the answers to questions 5 and 9.
Interesting CIA story
“A book classified by the CIA for more than 50 years contains a shocking theory about how the world will end.
‘The Adam and Eve Story,’ written by former US Air Force employee, UFO researcher and self-acclaimed psychic Chan Thomas, was written in 1966 but its publication was halted by the agency.
It was quietly declassified in 2013, at least in part, but remained hidden in the CIA’s database — until now.”
[Daily Mail]
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In other words, migrant-invaders from Africa and Asia give Europe nothing, and are a millstone round our collective neck.
Quite impressive; like something in a James Bond film.
That would be very pleasing…
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Ian Robert Millard 
Hello! Very hot weather here, luckily the temperature dropped a bit. We had a couple of days with a max. temperature of 35 degrees. To this we must add a power cut that left us without fans for nearly 12 hours. 🥵🥵
About that fellow who supposedly work for the CIA (so?) I think he was a charlatan; lots of people said/wrote similar things. As far I am concerned we could be wiped out by a meteorite next month; so, why worry about things that may or not happen during our lifetime?
PS: My wife said that your score on the quiz was “not good enough” 😂😂😂
Incidentally, how long this quiz by John Clarke has been going on?
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Claudius:
Ah…Senora Claudius is a hard woman!
I do not know how long that quiz has been being published. I have known of it for several years, because John Rentoul features it, but it has probably been published for longer.
Your weather has certainly been hot. Here, I live in one of the warmer parts of the UK, but today the max temp was 5C, and is now, late in the evening, at 3C, with 2C expected before dawn.
Hope that the weather becomes more tolerable for you and Senora C. soon.
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Thank you for you good wishes. Actually, we have been lucky so far because we had a wonderful December with a max. average of 25 degress, it was like springtime. Usually in December the average max. temperature is 30 with peaks of 34.
How warm does it get where you live? Are you close to the sea?
Yes, my wife has a wicked sense of humour. Perhaps that is why we are still together after 30 years (LOL)
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Claudius:
At present, I live about a mile from the sea. In the last 15 years, since I relocated back to this district in south-coastal England from Finistere-Nord, France, it has snowed several times (mostly briefly), but only been really icy and/or snowy two or three times. Snow, of course, is a phenomenon around freezing point,and the temperature here rarely goes heavily sub-zero. Occasionally, rarely, -4C or so. In the North of England, the higher hills of Wales, and especially Scotland, it is different. There, snow is normal in winter, and temperatures can be (in Scotland, mainly) as low as -15C.
In the summer, there is not usually huge variation north/south, though the south and east are usually warmer than the north and Scotland
The south and midlands of England can get to 30C or higher in July and August. The hottest temperature ever recorded in the UK was in 2022, in Lincolnshire (Eastern Midlands)— 40.3C. The previous record was also in Eastern England, in Cambridgeshire— 38C, in 2019.
England has a fairly humid maritime climate, so when it is very hot or cold, you feel it more than you do in a dry not-humid climate, eg Kazakhstan, where I spent a year long ago.
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Thank you for the information. I would have never thought that it could get so hot in England; for some reason I though that the maximum temperature in the summer would be around 32 degrees.
Unfortunately Buenos Aires was built on a slope facing the River Plate; the estuary is very wide and far from the sea; therefore we do not get any refreshing winds from the south Atlantic. This also means that the climate is fairly humid all year round. For example, today we have 25 degrees (quite low, thanks God!) but the humidity is 80% and there is a lot of rain coming.
Incidentally, as the Spaniards believed the whole continent was very rich in gold and silver they baptised the river as River Plate (Río de la Plata); not only that, but the country became Argentina in 1860 by a presidential decree that took into consideration the name given to these lands by a Portuguese cartographer in 1554: Terra Argentea (Land of Silver). How ironic, we are supposed to be very rich but we are not! 😢😢😢 (LOL)
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Claudius:
“The paradox of natural riches” (whereby mineral-rich countries usually have large numbers in poverty).
UK extreme temperatures are the exception, and usually last only for a few days, or a week or two:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_the_United_Kingdom
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“In other words, migrant-invaders from Africa and Asia give Europe nothing, and are a millstone round our collective neck.”
That has always been the (((intent))) of the migrant invasion.
The (((REDACTEDS))) are intentionally using the muslims and africans as a demographic weapon against White people.
The migrant invasion is a symptom of the (((REDACTED))) disease.
Another metaphor that explains what is happening, is a hand wielding a sword.
The migrants are the sword; the (((REDACTEDS))) are the (((hand))) wielding that sword.
And of course the (((REDACTEDS))) are wielding many other swords too: the news media, the entertainment industry, race-mixing propaganda, anti-White brainwashing, critical race theory, holocaust guilt propaganda, cultural degeneracy, “hate speech” laws, economic control, destruction of the natural environment, and many others.
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Friend of Britain:
I can only agree.
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In other news, Biden has basically admitted that “israel” is committing war crimes and genocide against the Palestinians, by killing innocent civilians:
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