[Wunderground] link goes to an infrared satellite loop
Computer models predict some light rain in Mashhad 2 December with a system late on 1 Dec over central Iraq and some light rain in Tehran by 8 December from the system stretching from West Africa to Libya.
Nowhere near enough rain to do much except delay the inevitable zero water day (which Mullahs are planning to blame on women not wearing hijab and whatever else they can think of)
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[Breitbart] Two sailors have been found dead on a yacht off the coast of South Africa after an incident that may have involved pirates.
The victims were identified as seasoned sailors Deirdre “Cookie” Sibly of Australia and Frenchman Pascal Mahe whom news.com.au reported Sunday were sailing near Madagascar.
The pair issued a distress signal on Thursday but were found dead once officials made it to the yacht. The pair were going down the Mozambique Channel on their way to Durban.
According to a report from the Sun, “Sibly’s family fear the culprits may have been pirates due to them being known to operate in the area where a distress signal was first made.”
The outlet said the channel is a notoriously dangerous area due to sea conditions and possible cyclones. Their bodies were found inside the yacht and investigators are still working to determine their causes of death.
“The Department of Foreign Affairs is yet to link the deaths to pirates,” the Sun article noted.
Sibly’s sister, Sue Good, told abc.net.au said her sibling was a wonderful person who loved adventure.
“She would have been sailing for about 40 years. She was just a lovely, friendly, kind-hearted person. She lived life to the fullest,” she commented.
According to INTERPOL, maritime crimes can have a significant impact on economies and the human cost can be immense:
Maritime crime affects many different countries on all continents and requires a comprehensive response from multiple agencies and sectors.
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Current statistics show that the Gulf of Guinea is the primary hotspot for maritime piracy, with incidents also occurring in the waters off the Horn of Africa, Southeast Asia, and South America and the Caribbean.
Pirate groups collect millions of dollars in ransom payments every year. These payments are divided between the pirates, their leaders and those who finance them.
When speaking of her sister, Good said, “We’re just devastated; she’d been away sailing with Pascal since early June … she was so happy.”
#Haiti 🇭🇹: Haitian Gang "Taliban" members reportedly moving to the #Laskawobas (#Lascahobas) in Centre Department.
The #Taliban Gang members are seemingly carrying several #USA-made 🇺🇸 Colt M16A1 (Model 603) assault rifles and several AK-47 platform civilian rifles / carbines. pic.twitter.com/NJxCuhB2G4
The attacks were launched by two gangs, 400 Mawozo and the Canaan gang, which also refers to itself as “Taliban.” Both are part of the powerful Viv Ansanm gang coalition, which now controls up to 90% of metropolitan Port-au-Prince and on Wednesday killed several members of Haiti’s security forces and of a self-defense brigade during gangs’ attempt to gain control of two new capital neighborhoods.
[FinCenGov] Immediate Release
November 28, 2025
WASHINGTON —Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is issuing an Alert as part of Treasury’s effort to prevent the exploitation of the U.S. financial system by illegal aliens in the United States seeking to move illicitly obtained funds. Annually over the past several years, the United States has witnessed a significant volume of cross-border funds transfers, including remittances from individuals located in the United States, and has taken multiple steps this year to highlight risks presented by cross-border financial activity.
“Money services businesses should be vigilant in identifying suspicious financial activity involving illegal aliens who present significant threats to national security and public safety,” said Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence John K. Hurley. “At Treasury, we will continue to protect the American people by faithfully upholding the laws of the United States.”
This Alert is consistent with Executive Order 14159, Protecting the American People Against Invasion. Money services businesses (MSBs) are generally required to file a suspicious activity report for a transaction that involves at least $2,000 and that the MSBs know, suspect, or have reason to suspect is relevant to a possible violation of law or regulation. This includes the cross-border transfer of funds derived from unlawful employment or otherwise derived from funds the MSB knows, suspects, or has reason to suspect were illicitly obtained in the United States.
The full Alert is available at: https://www.fincen.gov/system/files/FinCEN_Alert_Cross_Border_FINAL508.pdf
[Facebook] The consanguinity–IQ trend looks dramatic only when you mix the West with the Muslim world. Inside the Muslim-majority countries themselves, the regression line is almost flat. That tells you something important.
The real signal may not be the cousin marriage rates alone. It may be the entire civilizational package: the endogamy, the closed kin networks, the suppression of dissent, the absence of open inquiry, and the religious legal framework that locks all of it in place.
In other words, the biology contributes, but the cultural software dominates. When you place modern Western societies next to traditional Islamic ones, the slope appears steep. When you look only within the Islamic world, you see stagnation across the board.
The ceiling is cultural. The floor may be biological. The pattern is civilizational.
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Basically, they are inflamed by desire by little boys dancing and settle for their cousins.
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Forget where I read it but what I read said that between high unemployment rates and the rich/powerful taking multiple brides, that many young Muslim men stand no chance of getting a decent job or finding a woman to marry. It makes them easy to manipulate and recruit by terrorist groups.
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Study on inbreeding shows it leads to shorter height, lower IQ and less educational attainment and higher rates of retardation.
Cousin marriage is high not only in Arab countries but also Mauritania, Sudan, Bissau Guinea, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India (which has a large Muslim population) and, in Oceania, it's most prevalent in Malaysia, none of which are Arab.
What all those cultures have in common is large Muslim population. So it's more a religious cultural thing, as opposed to a regional cultural thing - except for India where it is both.
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many young Muslim men stand no chance of getting a decent job or finding a woman to marry.
I’ve read that, too, Chantry.
Were one Facebook enabled.
Which is why we make our sources blatantly obvious, and give enough information to find the thing elsewhere, Skidmark. I didn’t do Twitter for a long time, and still don’t do Instagram and the more exotic things — we all have chosen limits.
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[Regnum] A powerful, high-class X-ray solar flare was detected early this morning. This was reported on December 1 by Mikhail Leus, chief specialist at the Phobos weather center.
"In the early morning hours, a powerful solar flare of the highest X-class was recorded. According to preliminary data, its intensity was X1.95," Leus wrote on his Telegram channel.
The peak of solar activity occurred at 5:49 AM Moscow time. According to the specialist, this flare was among the five most powerful since the beginning of 2025. However, the flare's source—a sunspot group—is located far from the Sun-Earth line, making the likelihood of the plasma ejection impacting our planet virtually nonexistent, Leus clarified.
On November 29, scientists detected five solar flares of the penultimate power class (M). All flares occurred in the region 4294 and were recorded in X-rays.
Earlier, specialists from the Solar Astronomy Laboratory at the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences reported three powerful solar flares. The scientists noted that the flares themselves were not unexpected, but what was noteworthy was that the Sun only reached this level more than 12 hours after the initial increase in activity.
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[Regnum] On the night of December 4-5, residents of Earth will be able to observe the third supermoon of 2025. This time, the Moon will reach its greatest height above the horizon. This was announced on December 1 by Vladilen Sanakoev, an engineer at the Ural Federal University's Educational Astronomical Observatory.
"The most spectacular supermoon of the year will occur on the night of December 4-5. The distance between Earth and the Moon will be less than 360,000 km. The maximum possible illumination of the nightscape from Earth's natural satellite will be enhanced by the snowfall," TASS reports Sanakoyev as saying.
According to the expert, on the evening of December 1, Earth's inhabitants will be able to see a bright object in the southern sky, comparable in brightness to the brightest stars—the planet Saturn. As the planet moves in its orbit, its rings will be visible from Earth.
"With an optical instrument with a lens diameter of 100 mm or larger, you can observe Saturn's largest moon, Titan, approaching its disk on December 8 and 24. Observing Titan's direct transit across Saturn's disk will require a larger instrument and ideal observing conditions," the scientist added.
On the night of December 13-14, viewers will be able to observe the second-brightest meteor shower of the year, the Geminids. Its zenith rate is expected to be between 100 and 150 meteors per hour, allowing for approximately 10-15 meteors per hour to be seen outside of cities. Glowing trails from burning meteoroids, ranging in length from a few to tens of degrees, will also appear in the sky for a split second.
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[Regnum] On December 1, Roscosmos released a satellite image of the world's largest iceberg drifting in the Atlantic Ocean.
Iceberg A23a broke into pieces, the Roscosmos press service noted on its Telegram channel.
The image was taken near St. George's Island by the Condor-FKA radar satellite.
In September, the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute reported that the world's largest iceberg had shrunk by nearly 1,000 square kilometers over the summer. While at the beginning of June, its area (2,730 square kilometers) was comparable to the size of Moscow, by the end of August it had shrunk to 1,750 square kilometers, comparable to the size of St. Petersburg.
The iceberg broke off from the outer edge of the Filchner Ice Shelf in 1986. It remained aground for over 30 years, but began drifting again in November 2023. Scientists have noted that over time, A23a will break up into smaller pieces under the influence of warm ocean water. The iceberg could impact the environment, as the nutrients released by its melting could increase food availability for the entire regional ecosystem.
It might even be true. But what does it translate to in refined bullion?
[IsraelTimes] Iran has announced the discovery of a major gold deposit at one of the country’s biggest mines for the precious metal, local media reports.
The new vein structure was found at the privately owned Shadan gold mine in the eastern province of South Khorasan, which the government-affiliated Fars news agency describes as “among the country’s most important.”
The agency says the new reserves have been officially validated by the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Trade. It added that the vein holds some “7.95 million tons of oxide gold ore and 53.1 million tons of sulphide gold ore.”
The former is usually significantly easier and cheaper to mine.
Iran has not officially disclosed the amount of its national gold reserves but claims to have significantly increased its purchases in recent years.
In September, Iran’s Central Bank governor Mohammadreza Farzin said the bank was one of the world’s top five gold-buying central banks in 2023-2024, according to ISNA news agency.
Local media also quotes central bank official Yekta Ashrafi as saying that boosting the gold reserves would help bolster the country’s economy under the weight of international sanctions.
Iran has 15 gold mines, with the largest being the Zarshouran mine located in the country’s northwest. Great. Now we know where the next bunker busters should go.
Iran’s economy has been crippled by sanctions imposed after the United States and Western capitals accused Tehran of seeking to weaponize its nuclear program — an allegation Tehran consistently denies.
The country’s economy has come under further strain since the 12-day war between Israel and Iran, during which the United States struck Iranian nuclear facilities.
Gold is also a safe haven for many Iranians whose purchasing power continues to erode due to soaring inflation and the chronic depreciation of the rial against the dollar.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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