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[“A wild donkey in the Arizona desert will dig a well six feet deep with its front hooves, and for half a century the United States government has been shooting it as a threat to the desert.
August on a dry wash in the Sonoran. The creek has been gone since May. The sand is hot enough to cook on and every animal for miles is standing in what shade it can find, waiting for a rain that is not coming. A burro walks down the wash, stops at a bend for no reason anyone else can see, puts its head down and smells. Then it starts digging. Front feet, one after the other, like a dog after a bone, until it is in up to its shoulders and the bottom of the hole goes dark and wet.
It drinks and walks off.
Within the hour there is a queue. Mule deer. Javelina. A bobcat. A scrub jay standing on the rim. In 2021 a biologist called Erick Lundgren published the count in Science: 59 species of vertebrate drinking at donkey wells, 64% more species than at the dry stretches of the same streams, and in the driest months the donkeys were raising the amount of open water in the desert by 300% on average and by up to 1,450%. When the wells were abandoned, cottonwood and willow seedlings came up in them. The donkey had been planting the riverbank.
Asked about his methodology, the donkey had another drink and left.
When a beaver builds a pond, a film crew is sent. When a donkey digs a well, the Park Service sends a marksman. The burros came up from Mexico with the Spanish and the prospectors, carried the ore out of every mine in the West, and were turned loose when the mines closed. Then they were reclassified. In 1979 the National Park Service planned to shoot all 577 in the Grand Canyon. A writer called Cleveland Amory raised more than $500,000 and lifted 582 of them out by helicopter, slung underneath, the most expensive taxi ride a donkey has ever taken. Death Valley shot 400 between 1987 and 1994.
Lundgren said that when he started, people did not think a donkey digging a hole was worthy of scientific attention.
The animal was listed as a threat to the desert’s water.
It was the one bringing the water up.
Fifty-nine species knew.
The ones with the rifles had never sat by the hole.”]
Our animal friends.
A world without them will be a better world.
Huckabee is an agent of influence for the Israeli state.
Take away Zelensky’s ricebowl.
Talking point
Suddenly rather topical, a blog post from a decade ago:
See also:
[“Arakchi: The people of our region are just as tired of Israel’s deception as the Americans. The Iranian Foreign Minister stated:
The President of the United States has now clearly realized that the vast majority of Americans have a very negative view of Israel. However, it is noteworthy that he still seems not to understand the reasons for this.
It is clear that Americans are tired of Israel deceiving American administrations and dragging them into endless wars. Their patience has run out. The patience of the people in our region has also run out.”]
I wonder whether Trump will pardon Ghislaine Maxwell at the end of his term. Not unlikely, in my opinion.
The hand gesturing is absolutely typical. Katie Lam is half-Jewish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Lam#Early_life.
Translates to a Commons with maybe 369 Labour MPs (considerable majority), 100 Reform (huge increase), 76 Cons (huge decrease), 57 LibDems (smallish decrease), 24 SNP (considerable decrease).
May not be quite accurate, in that the Restore vote, even if only a few percent overall, will eat into Reform’s vote in highly marginal seats.
Apart from that, Burnham’s pigeons (inflation, migration invasion, NHS, adult social care etc) will start to come home to roost by late 2027, so the main polling will change a great deal after that. He may therefore decide to hold a general election next year.
I wish that [REDACTED]…
[“Hi everyone, this is Joe Mason, founder of Wyvern.
Recently, Sky News doxxed me, turned up at my house, and published my name and face in a video now viewed by hundreds of thousands of people-all because I said something I believe we should all be: a nationalist. I believe that the English, Scottish, Irish, and Welsh have a right to self-determination and to exist as a majority in their own homeland(s).
When I started this, I knew I would face attacks from the press. I am not a victim. I am in this fight until the end, and we all have to put ourselves on the line. There are so many people that my co-directors at Wyvern and I start to work with who pull out at the last minute because they fear their job and/or reputation being affected. Whilst I understand that fear, if we do not organise now as a collective, our 9-5s will be the last thing we’re worrying about in ten years.
It’s time for us all to plant our flag in the ground. Tell the world your views loudly and proudly, and stop caring about what our enemies call us.
If you’ve got this far, please have a look at our website and join us. Your country needs you.”]
https://thewyvernfellowship.org.uk/about
“They” do the same things, mutatis mutandis, wherever they land in the world, unless as isolated individuals or families. Ingrained.
Late tweets
Time and again, we see the “conservation” bureaucracy behaving in a heartless way. In the UK, in Germany, and elsewhere.
Just imagine, those conservation bureaucrats would rather have Harriet the Badger killed than let her stay with her rescuer as a companion animal.
Slightly alarming that the First Sea Lord [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwyn_Jenkins] thinks that people should simply accept that whatever “the authorities” say should be done should get them running about under orders of people like him and his dimwitted political superiors.
Further, his example of proper public behaviour, i.e. the rabbit-like scared obedience of much of the population during the “Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic of 2020-2022, does not inspire me with much confidence in his powers of judgment —despite his background and career— frankly.
I am in two minds about that. I do not want the Kiev regime to get more cannon-fodder for its crumbling front-lines but, on the other hand, most Ukrainians outside the Ukraine (e.g. in the UK) are complete wastes of space.
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