darylbalfour.bsky.social
Former newspaper journalist turned pro wildlife photographer and international safari operator. Wine lover.
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Military Black Hawk flies into a commercial jetliner on finals approach to DC airport? Let’s see what the investigation turns up.
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What is he going to rename Mexico to?
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The International Hydrographic Organization is the only body that can legally name or change international bodies of water. No individual even the President of the USA can unilaterally declare a name change. Why is Google acting complicitly in this illegal manner?
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Just so long as it stays Gulf of Mexico for the rest of the real world.
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Because they are wusses!
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I then questioned whether DeepSeek is being censored…
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So I installed DeepSeek then tested it. “What is the famous picture of a lone man facing a line of military tanks?”
It started answering about Tank Man & Tiananmen Square and suddenly deleted it all and this popped up.
Chinese authorities are definitely censoring!
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Perhaps ICE should investigate him & his family too.
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I’m wary giving data to the Chinese. Living in Africa I see their growing imperialism everywhere on a daily basis. Africa is being colonized.
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Is DeepSeek a “safe” App? I know nothing about it and installed the App after reading briefly about it here, but they want a lot of personal information to set it up, unlike ChatGpt & Copilot. So I have not set up. Advice?
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Until he pardons himself?
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Can they fly the Proud Boys 6MWE flag?
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Sadly, watching from the outside, I think the Democrats brought this on America with their dilly-dallying over candidates etc. They should have got Biden to step down out of the race at least 6 months before he did. At the very least. Kamala was a dead lady walking by the time she was confirmed.
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Damn…and here I thought Trump would have put the fires out by now?
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I know a bunch of Jewish people who voted for Trump. I hope they’re proud of their choice. I’m not going to tiptoe around Jews, Palestinians and Latino men. YOU VOTED FOR THIS. We warned you. Generals, past MAGA administration, house & senate members warned you. You did a deal with the devil.
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So you’d rather that only the bad guys have guns? No way for good people to defend themselves against them? Remember a gun never has to be used, until it’s necessary!
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So history is only what you Hamas terrorist supporters want to use to justify actions like 7 October, and many others? Prior history must be disregarded? Palestinians like to claim the land was stolen from them by the Jews. I was pointing out their occupancy goes back many thousands of years!
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I thought anyone with a modicum of knowledge about politics would know the term MAGA - it’s been around at least 4-5 years. But sorry if you truly did not understand - I thought it was someone taking the piss!
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Well, of course an “anonymous smear” retort means it’s true. Otherwise why not simply say “false”? Oh, because it would be lying.
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Brilliant! No, not Hegseth.
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YIKES! Duckworth asks Hegseth to name a country that's in ASEAN. He names three -- none of which are in ASEAN.
"I suggest you do a little homework," she says.
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Israel will get only 23 live hostages back - in return for 1000 alive Hamas? That’s bad bargaining, no matter how many Gazans = one Israeli.
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Not what Trump is saying…
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Meanwhile Gazans (Hamas) dance in the streets chanting “we won, we won, we will destroy Israel”!
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Many pilgrims were attacked by highwaymen which would later be cited by the Crusaders as a reason to "liberate" Jerusalem from the Muslims.
There’s a helluva lot more history in the region - so to think it all started in 1948 & the so-called Nakbha is erroneous.
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Though Palestine was now under Muslim control, the Christian world's affection for the Holy Land continued to grow. Christian kings made generous donations to Jerusalem's holy sites, and helped facilitate the ever increasing pilgrimage traffic.
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It was thousands of years later between 636 and 640 AD, the Muslim armies of the second Islamic caliph Umar conquered Palestine.
Interestingly throughout this history the Palestinian tribes were creating revolt & anarchy in the region - perhaps why no Arab states even today offer them refuge?