AI—Extreme Squeezing: Chimneys in 19th-century Britain were often narrow, measuring just 9 × 14 inches. Children had to climb these dark, angular spaces using only their knees, elbows, and backs against the walls.
Painful “Hardening”: Because the work caused raw, bleeding joints, masters would forcibly rub a child’s elbows and knees with strong brine (saltwater) over hot fires to toughen the skin. 
Getting Stuck: Suffocation, getting disoriented, or getting fatally trapped in twisting flues was a constant threat. If a child froze with terror and hesitated to climb, masters would sometimes light fires beneath them to “encourage” them to move. 

JMH—America is not facing an ordinary downturn, an ordinary war, or an ordinary foreign-policy failure. It is approaching a systemic breaking point in which military overreach, industrial decay, financial fragility, and moral corruption are converging at once. The war against Iran did not create all of these weaknesses, but it has accelerated and exposed them with unusual clarity. What is now visible is not merely a bad policy choice or even a disastrous war. It is the outline of imperial failure.

SIMPLICIUS—Ukraine’s entire production “rear” has been relocated to various countries of the West, where Russia cannot touch the manufacturing lines. The Hornet drone in question is manufactured in California by a company backed by ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and there is an increasing number of “partnerships” between Ukraine and Western nations for drone and missile production constantly being announced. You can see the drones clearly have terminal AI guidance which allows them to hit targets even if jammed. How do we know they use Starlink? You’ll see soon in the next part. That said, these Hornet drones are not infallible. Russia destroys some Ukrainian Drones before they reach target.

RB—France was only pushed out of Morocco and Algeria through liberation struggles. Its elite were not about to set the rest of their colonial conquests truly free. Instead, it constructed a neo-colonial set of structures, such as the CFA Franc monetary system, widespread regional French military bases, and French corporate dominance. Within this neo-colonial empire, known as Francafrique, were the nations of Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo (all West African CFA Franc), Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon (all Central African CFA Franc). With the newly independent countries possessing little of the native administrative and professional ranks required to effectively manage and run a nation. There are plans to replace the Western CFA Franc with a new more independent currency, the Eco, but these have been postponed a number of times.

VB—It is worth remembering that this ritual humiliation of targeted minorities in Syria has always been the hallmark of the various Takfiri mobs, including Jaish Al Islam in Eastern Ghouta who caged Alawite women and children as human shields during the battles to liberate the Damascus suburbs from terrorist occupation.

In conclusion and most importantly, Al Oraydi was a marked man for his opposition to Jolani’s political posturing and geopolitical positioning – these policies are dictated by the US-Zionist bloc and funded by various members of that bloc. The UAE and Kuwait are known to be supportive of “Syrian” cross border operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon. Al Oraydi was also opposed to plans for an intra-Islamic conflict on the Lebanese front. Is this why he was picked off now?

JM—The story that Iran had mined the Strait of Hormuz was taken as truth, without questions or consideration of the contradictions – not just in the media —but in the NSAM – the Not So Alternative Media. To get how pervasive – and persuasive– the “narrative” was, you only needed to check Larry Johnson’s Sonar 21, which provides you with interviews with all the most popular commentators. Everybody who is anybody, went with the mine story – even the excellent Alastair Crooke.