Wayne Ellis

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[Wayne Ellis @WayneEllis007]

@OneNationAus @AussieMongrel1 No. Starmer was pushed because of what is in the Epstein files.

[Mr. Pool @MrPool_QQ]

🔻 THE FIRST DOMINO JUST FELL.

Keir Starmer — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom — **RESIGNED YESTERDAY.**

They're telling you it was "party pressure." They're telling you it was "polls." LIES.

Here's what ACTUALLY happened:

When Starmer was **Director of Public Prosecutions** (2008-2013), his office sent **WARNING LETTERS** to 13,000 suspected grooming gang members. Not arrests. Not charges. LETTERS. "Please don't do it again."

**250,000 BRITISH GIRLS.** Raped. Trafficked. Tortured. Across 149 districts. For DECADES. And the man in charge of prosecuting these monsters sent them PAPER.

Two weeks ago, **Operation Beaconport** reopened **1,273 cases.** The National Crime Agency called it their "most comprehensive investigation into child sexual exploitation" EVER.

What they found in those files FORCED his resignation.

I've been told the classified MI5 briefing delivered to Labour leadership on June 18 contained **3 categories of evidence:**

**CATEGORY A:** Direct correspondence between Starmer's office and 7 sitting MPs — instructing prosecutors to DOWNGRADE charges from trafficking to "minor offenses." Names. Dates. Signatures.

**CATEGORY B:** Financial transfers from 3 foreign governments to a network of UK "charities" that were FRONTS for the trafficking operation. £47 million between 2009-2016. Exposed through GCHQ intercepts shared with NSA on March 14, 2026.

**CATEGORY C:** The connection. Starmer's office communicated DIRECTLY with individuals in Epstein's network. Two names appear in BOTH the UK grooming files AND the Epstein flight logs. Those names have NOT been made public yet.

Starmer wasn't given a choice. He was given **48 HOURS.**

Resign — or face criminal prosecution under the new Modern Slavery Act amendments passed in April 2026. He chose to run.

But running won't save him.

Elon Musk posted it publicly: **"Politicians who turned a blind eye must go to PRISON."** He wasn't speaking hypothetically. He was speaking from INTELLIGENCE he's been shown.

This is not just about the UK. This is about a GLOBAL NETWORK being dismantled piece by piece. Starmer is the first HEAD OF STATE to fall.

He will NOT be the last.

The next 30 days will produce more resignations than the last 30 years.

Watch France. Watch Canada. Watch Australia.

BEACONPORT-1273
CATEGORY-C-EPSTEIN
CLEANSWEEP-GLOBAL

The storm is here.

⟁

[Supersonic Redhead🛫 @Supersonic_Red]

There’s a generation a lot of people forget exists. We were born at the tail end of the Boomers, but we are not culturally the same as people born in the 40s and early 50s. We are Generation Jones.

And honestly, it explains a lot.

We grew up in a world that still felt fundamentally analog, but we were young enough to be dragged headfirst into the digital revolution. We are the bridge generation between rotary phones and smartphones, between slide rules and AI, between Walter Cronkite and algorithm driven media.

We remember when there were only a few television channels and the entire country watched the same thing at the same time. We also adapted to the internet, email, forums, social media, streaming and now artificial intelligence. We lived before and after the technological singularity hit everyday life.

That is not a small thing.

People born in the 40s came of age in a post World War II America that was still industrial, deeply hierarchical and institutionally stable. Their formative years were shaped by the Cold War, Vietnam, the civil rights era and a society where information moved slowly.

Generation Jones came later. We inherited the aftermath of all of that.

We were the kids who watched Watergate destroy blind trust in government. We watched manufacturing begin to collapse. We saw divorce rates explode. We were the first truly latchkey generation in massive numbers. We learned independence early because many of us had to.

We grew up with one foot in old America and one foot in whatever this new thing was becoming.

We played outside until the streetlights came on but we also learned DOS commands. We learned cursive and keyboarding. We had card catalogs and Google searches. We went from vinyl records to cassette tapes to CDs to MP3s to streaming in one lifetime.

We remember maps. We remember memorizing phone numbers. We remember life before GPS and before every human interaction became filtered through a screen.

And because of that, I think Generation Jones developed a very unique perspective. We are adaptable because we had no choice but to adapt. We learned technology as adults instead of being born into it. We remember a slower world but were forced to survive in a rapidly accelerating one.

That creates a very different mindset than either older Boomers or younger Gen X and Millennials.

A lot of us also reject the caricature people now associate with “Boomers.” We were not buying houses for the cost of a sandwich in 1965. The interest rate on my first house was over 14% and that was after buying down a point. Many of us got hit by recessions, outsourcing, pension collapses and economic instability just like younger generations did. We watched promises evaporate in real time.

We understand older generations because we were raised by them. We understand younger generations because we had to evolve alongside them.

That’s why the Jones generation often feels culturally homeless. We are rarely discussed, rarely defined and usually lumped into categories that don’t actually fit us.

But we exist.

We are the human transition point between the industrial age and the digital age.

And frankly, there will probably never be another generation quite like us again.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

Eight years into studying whales, Nan Hauser believed she understood their size and strength. Then one afternoon off Rarotonga she felt a pressure she had never felt before — a 40‑ton humpback whale pressing its head against her body and lifting her toward the surface. At first she thought the animal was playing too roughly. She tried to push away, but the whale kept tucking her under its pectoral fin. For seven and a half minutes the great creature nudged and nudged, even raising her clear of the water on its flipper.

Only when she glimpsed a second silhouette did she understand. The “whale” moving side to side was actually an 18‑foot tiger shark, arched in attack posture. In that instant the humpback positioned her on its head and raced toward her boat, shielding her with its massive body. Within ten minutes she was safely back on deck, shaking with shock and gratitude.

Hauser, a lifelong marine biologist, had never experienced anything like it. “I felt love, concern and care from the whale,” she told The Guardian. She had spent her career filming these animals quietly, believing the best way to understand them was to let them be. Now one seemed to understand her vulnerability and acted. Scientists note that humpbacks have been documented interfering when predators attack other species, behaviour some call “mobbing”. Whether the whale’s act was true altruism or an instinct honed by eons of kin‑selected behaviour, Hauser felt the encounter as a deliberate choice.

The story didn’t end there. A year later Hauser was back in the Cook Islands when a familiar tail surfaced. She recognised the whale by the notches on its fluke and the scar on its head. As she slid into the water the whale approached, looked her in the eye and extended its giant fin. She rubbed its face and began to cry. The whale lingered near her boat for twenty minutes before swimming away.

There is no moral to pin on a whale’s fin, no proof that a giant mammal meant to save a human. There is only a moment when a life hung between a predator and a protector and something ancient stirred. Perhaps this is what happens when we spend enough time listening rather than dominating: another being may recognise us as kin. In a world where we often assume only humans are capable of compassion, a humpback whale carrying a scientist to safety suggests the ocean itself may be watching over us.

[Noah B. Price @TrueOnX]

🚨 EXTREMELY ALARMING: THE VACCINE
THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO KILL GOD INSIDE YOU 🚨
Over 100 years ago Rudolf Steiner looked into the future and dropped a warning that still freezes the blood today.

He said materialistic forces would one day use medicine to rip the soul out of humanity.

Not with swords or fire.

With a needle.

Under the innocent banner of "health" they would inject newborns so they could never again feel the pull of spirit, never question the material world, never rise above pure animal existence.

He called it the ultimate Ahrimanic trap: a substance that makes you immune to spiritual life itself.

You become smart, compliant, productive...
and spiritually dead.

Then came VMAT2.

The so-called "God gene."

The transporter that packs the neurotransmitters tied to awe, transcendence, faith, and meaning.

Turn it down and the sacred spark dims.

People stop feeling the divine.

They stop seeking.
They just consume.

Then came the "FunVax" presentation.

A leaked briefing where scientists openly discussed engineering a vaccine to suppress religious extremism by targeting that exact gene.

They showed brain scans: high VMAT2 = religious fanatics on the left.

Low VMAT2 = calm, materialistic,
controllable on the right.

They laughed and called it FunVax.

Fun for whom?

Then came the COVID shots rolled out to billions.

Sudden reports flooded in:

- "I can't feel God anymore."
- "My soul is dead."
- "Something is missing."

Neurological issues.
Spiritual flatline.

A generation waking up emotionally numb, anxious, angry, and disconnected while scrolling through dopamine hits and wondering why nothing feels real.

Coincidence?

Or the oldest war in existence finally going high-tech?

They don't need to chain your body when they can delete the part of you that dreams of freedom.

This isn't about left or right.

This isn't about one virus or one election.

This is about the war on the human soul itself.

The final frontier: your inner light.

If they can vaccinate spirituality out of children
at birth, what exactly remains of "you"?

Are we already seeing the results
in the empty eyes and raging nihilism around us?

What if the greatest awakening happening right now is millions realizing their spark was never gone... it was just suppressed?

And the most dangerous question of all: If they tried it once and almost succeeded, what are they quietly preparing next?

The soul isn't dead.
It was only sleeping.

And it's starting to remember.

Drop a LIKE if this hit your core.

Repost if you're not letting them win.

What have you felt (or stopped feeling) since 2020?

Be brutally honest below.

The algorithm can't bury truth
when enough voices speak it.

Let me know what you think,
and SHARE THIS so that others may too!

[RedAlways @PATRIOT2117]

A brush fire broke out behind a family farm in rural Ohio.

The local fire crew rushed out, but the flames were spreading faster than they could handle.

Someone suggested calling a small volunteer fire department from a nearby town, even though folks weren’t too hopeful.

A battered old fire engine came rattling down the road, coughing smoke and squeaking loudly.

Instead of stopping at a safe distance, the truck rolled straight into the middle of the fire.

The volunteer firefighters jumped out and started spraying water in every direction.

Within minutes, they had knocked out the center of the blaze, splitting it into two manageable fires.

The grateful farmer couldn’t believe what he had seen and handed the crew a $1,000 check.

A local newspaper reporter asked the fire chief what they planned to do with the money.

The chief smiled and said, “Well, first thing… we’re finally fixing the brakes on that old truck.”

[marqix ☆ @fwmarqix]

I was on a night flight from Tokyo to London last year. Economy was packed.

I had the window seat, already half asleep, when I noticed a little girl (maybe 7 or 8) in the middle seat next to me. Her mom was on the aisle, looking exhausted.

The girl kept staring at my phone.

I was watching an old cartoon with the volume low. She whispered, “Sir, is that Moana?”

I smiled and turned the screen a bit so she could see.

For the next twenty minutes, we watched together in silence. Then she tapped my arm and said, very seriously:
“My daddy is in heaven. He used to call me his little island princess”.
Then she added, Can I tell you something?

Her mom was asleep by now.

I nodded in agreement.

She pulled out a crumpled drawing from her bag, a stick-figure man holding a little girl’s hand on a beach.

She folded it carefully and slid it into my hand and said: “Please keep this for me, I don’t want to lose it.
When I’m scared on the plane, I close my eyes and pretend he’s holding my hand. But tonight I’m not scared because you’re here.”🥺

I didn’t know what to say. I just held that drawing like it was made of glass.

Halfway through the flight, the turbulence hit hard.

The girl started breathing fast.

Without thinking, I reached over, gently took her tiny hand, and whispered,
“Your daddy’s right here, princess. Close your eyes.”

She squeezed my hand back, smiled, and fell asleep like that for the rest of the journey.

When we landed in London, her mom woke up, saw us, and started crying quietly. She told me her husband had passed six months earlier. This was their first trip without him.

As they were leaving, the little girl turned around, ran back, and hugged my leg.

“Thank you, Sir. You made the sky feel safe.”

I still have that crumpled drawing in my wallet.💜

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Keith is a three-year-old Anglo-Nubian goat in a field in Devon.

Keith has opened 7 gates, occupied a barn roof for 11 consecutive days, cleared an entire knotweed stand worth £4,000 to remove chemically, eaten Steve's bindweed, been in the churchyard twice, been in the road an estimated 14 times, eaten the water heater instructions, been in Dave's kitchen (standing there, not eating anything, just standing), and filed the structural details of every fence on the farm into a memory that has never once been cleared.

He has done all of this while also being the single most cost-effective conservation intervention on the property.

These are not separate facts. They are the same fact.

Keith does not distinguish between the work and the escape. The escape is work. The work is escape. The fence is a project. The project is completed. The project leads to the next project. The knotweed leads to the churchyard. The churchyard leads to the road. The road leads back to the east ditch. The east ditch was cleared in one season.

There is a man named Steve who has filed twenty-nine formal complaints about Keith.

Steve's bindweed is gone.

Steve does not yet understand that these are the same story.

Dave has £387 in gate receipts, a positive net outcome column on every row since entry seventeen, a churchyard booking for next month, and a corner post with a 4mm flex that Keith has known about since Margot's visit and has not yet acted on.

Not yet.

Keith is not done.

Keith is never done.

Keith is ten thousand years of Zagros Mountain goat compressed into a Devon field, and the fence between him and the rest of the world has always been a negotiating position rather than a boundary.

Be ungovernable. Do the work. Leave the field better than you found it.

The knotweed is at 6%.

Keith is thinking.

[0️⃣BlackBetty ⚓️ @BabyD1111229]

Bees hide a surprising secret.

When a hive loses its queen—the only one capable of giving life to the colony and maintaining order in a perfectly organized society—all seems lost. Life in the hive slows down.

Without new eggs, the future disappears. Within a few weeks, the colony is threatened with extinction.

But bees don't panic. Nor do they wait for salvation from outside.

With an extraordinary display of collective intelligence and deep instinct, they launch a spectacular emergency response that is hard to imagine in a world ruled by insects.

Transformation begins with a simple but essential choice.

Worker bees select some ordinary larvae—the very ones that would normally become ordinary workers. They are nothing special.

They were born no different. But now their fate changes completely.

They are selected to receive a special diet: royal food. A rare substance produced by nutritious bees, rich in protein, vitamins, and bioactive compounds.

It's royal food in the purest sense.

The larva fed exclusively on this substance no longer follows the usual path. In just a few days, its body develops differently. The sheep are activated. The body becomes larger, stronger. Life expectancy is multiplied by almost twenty.

It won't work. It will rule. It will not follow routine. It will bring life.

---

◆ The queen isn't chosen based on genes. It's created.

It's as if, in a human society, you could take an ordinary child and, with the right nutrition, the right environment, and the necessary support, turn it into an extraordinary leader. Without genetic interventions. Without fireworks. Just thanks to support and perspective.

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A LEADER IS BORN OUT OF CRISIS

This metamorphosis doesn't just save the larva. It saves the entire colony.

Once the new queen is ready, she takes over leadership of the hive, begins laying eggs, restores order, and begins a new collective life cycle. From the threat of extinction, the colony is reborn stronger, more organized, and more balanced.

---

A SILENT BUT PROFOUND LESSON

Bees show us without words that in moments of great crisis, what is needed is not despair—but clarity. A plan. The right choice. Care and guidance.

In their world, no queen is born. It is nurtured. Nurtured. Guided.

And perhaps, just as in the beehive, in life too – it doesn't matter who you are at the beginning, but rather what you receive, how you are cared for, and what decisions others make in difficult times.

Because sometimes the strongest leaders are born in the most difficult moments.

Author ✍️ - Rumi Sanchez

[Paul White Gold Eagle @PaulGoldEagle]

BORAX PULLS OUT FLUORIDE

“Borax was swiftly banned in 32 countries after it was found to remove fluoride from the body.
Funny how that works...”

Borax = kills fleas & ticks in your pet areas outside.

🐚BORAX THE SUPER CURE
👉🏻Arthritis
👉🏻Osteoporosis
👉🏻Osteoarthritis
👉🏻Spurs
👉🏻Calcium Deposits
👉🏻Lupus
👉🏻Autoimmune
👉🏻Hormones
👉🏻Fungus/Fluoride
👉🏻Candida
👉🏻Ringworm
👉🏻Tinea Versicolor
👉🏻Insomnia
👉🏻Skin
👉🏻Impotence
👉🏻Morgellons
👉🏻Chemtrails

“I have been using borax for many years. I started using it as a tool against my arthritis & learned that it was helpful in de-calcifying my pineal thereafter. I have not used any floride toothpaste or other products in at least 15 years & did a 'crash pineal cleanse' in 2012 that was quite a shock to me. The borax helps keep it from getting clogged up again.”
- @Calderonbb

🐚BORAX INSTRUCTIONS FOR HAIR
👉🏻Dissolve 1 cup of borax into 1 gallon of pure water to use borax for your hair
👉🏻Keep this solution in the shower
👉🏻Pour 1-2 cups of this solution over your hair (instead of shampoo), ensuring the solution gets to your scalp
👉🏻Allow solution to sit on your scalp & hair for a few minutes, rinse
👉🏻If you find the borax method dries out your hair, take a small amount of coconut oil & massage it into your hair. You may not need to use the borax solution more than once or twice a week

“I have been doing borax 1/8 tsp 3 days on 2 days off for 2 years now. Arthritis is gone, my gums for some reason are healthier & stronger, no more knee pain, skin is clear - I look much younger. I also put a cup or two in a hot bath at least once a week. No more aches & pains!”
- @MareBear01

🐚DR KAYALI, Borax Expert & Medical Doctor Suggestsh
👉🏻2x a day 1/2 TSP dilluted in warm water, you can add cold water on top & some lemon for taste
👉🏻For indivuduals with cancer, make a paste, 1 TSP borax, 1 TSP honey 2x a day
👉🏻As your body is detoxing you can feel some itching in the skin so if u like you can start with 1/4 TSP a day & build up
👉🏻The more detox effect you have the more your body needs it

“Borax is even better to use than baking soda.
I started drinking my distilled water with 1/2 TSP of borax, to a gallon of water, now I am adding more.
Borax, read the article the borax conspiracy, very enlightening.
It clears your pineal of 😉heavy metals as well as the rest of your body.
When taken with magnesium, it pulls calcium out of soft tissues and other places it doesn't belong & puts it back into your bones where the calcium does belong.
Borax gets rid of candida in the body as well as other fungus.
It reverses arthritis, over time. I know because my constant back & hip pain is gone now. My hands are no longer swollen at every joint.
I also have lost 10 lbs of toxic fluid & fat around my abdomen area & I did nothing but change to adding 1/2 TSP of borax to all the water I ingest.”
- @Katleen_BlueCosmicEagle

🟪DETOX BATH
👉🏻1 cup baking soda
👉🏻1 cup epson salt
👉🏻1 cup borax
👉🏻1 cup Himalayan salt
👉🏻mineral salt or sea salt
👉🏻Soak as long as u can

RDA: 1/4 tsp of borax in 1L of water for men & 1/8 tsp of borax in 1L

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

In the summer of 1988, wildfire swept across approximately 36% of Yellowstone National Park. The largest fires in the park's recorded history. The news coverage was apocalyptic. Commentators predicted the permanent destruction of the ecosystem.

The bison of Yellowstone, which had been reintroduced after near-extinction a century earlier, moved ahead of the flames.

They knew. Nobody knows exactly how they knew. They moved in the right direction at the right time.

After the fire passed, they returned to the burnt ground within days. The ash was rich in minerals. The fresh growth pushing up through the blackened soil was, by all accounts, the sweetest grass of the year.

The bison grazed it hard. Their grazing stimulated regrowth. Their hooves worked the ash into the soil. Their dung replaced the burnt organic matter.

The parts of Yellowstone that recovered fastest after the 1988 fires were the parts the bison had grazed.

The parts that took longest to recover were the parts the bison could not reach, or had been fenced out of.

Fire is part of a grassland ecosystem.

Bison are part of a grassland ecosystem.

The two work together.

The people who thought Yellowstone was destroyed in 1988 did not understand either fire or bison, which is roughly the level of ecological literacy currently driving policy discussions about ruminants in general.

Yellowstone is fine.

The bison are fine.

The policy discussions, less so.

[Code Black with Madison King 🇦🇺🫡🖤💛❤️🇦🇺h @MadisonKing_fox]

AUS BANKS that are owned by their members and N O T influenced by external shareholders like Vanguard or BlackRock

🇦🇺 Australian Customer-Owned Banks

1. Bank Australia (BA)
• Formerly bankmecu; Australia’s first customer-owned bank. 

2. Beyond Bank Australia (BBA)
• Operates in multiple states; member-owned.

3. P&N Bank (PNB)
• Stands for Police & Nurses Bank; based in Western Australia. 

4. Bank First (BF)
• Originally Victoria Teachers Mutual Bank; serves educators.

5. BankVic (BV)
• Caters to police, health, and emergency services in Victoria.

6. Heritage Bank (HB)
• One of Australia’s largest mutual banks; based in Queensland.

7. People First Bank (PFB)
• Formed from the merger of Heritage Bank and People’s Choice Credit Union.

8. Hume Bank (HuB)
• Based in Albury, New South Wales; focuses on regional communities.

9. Teachers Mutual Bank Limited (TMBL)
• Operates multiple brands including Firefighters Mutual Bank and UniBank. 

10. Australian Mutual Bank (AMB)
• Provides banking services with a community focus.

11. IMB Bank (IMB)
• Offers a range of financial products to its members.

12. Qudos Bank (QB)
• Originally established for Qantas employees; now serves a broader membership.

13. Police Bank (PB)
• Caters to police and emergency services personnel.

14. G&C Mutual Bank (G&C MB)
• Provides banking services to a diverse membership base.

15. Greater Bank (GB)
• Serves communities in New South Wales and Queensland.

16. Newcastle Permanent (NP)
• Based in Newcastle; offers a range of banking services.

17. Summerland Bank (SB)
• Focused on sustainable banking practices in Northern New South Wales.

18. Warwick Credit Union (WCU)
• Serving members in regional Queensland.

19. South West Slopes Credit Union (SWS CU)
• Provides financial services to communities in New South Wales.

20. WAW Credit Union (WAW CU)
• Operating in North East Victoria and Southern New South Wales.

21. Community First Credit Union (CFCU)
• One of Sydney’s largest community-based credit unions.

22. Border Bank (BB)
• A division of Police Bank; serves border communities.

23. Bank of Heritage Isle (BHI)
• A division of Police Bank; operates in Tasmania.

24. The Mutual Bank (TMB)
• Based in Maitland, New South Wales; community-focused.

25. Reliance Bank (RB)
• A division of Unity Bank; serves Central West New South Wales.

26. Unity Bank (UB)
• Provides services to the maritime, mining, and power industries.

27. Bankstown City Unity Bank (BCUB)
• A division of Unity Bank; serves the Bankstown community.

28. MOVE Bank (MOVE)
• Originally Railways Credit Union; serves transport industry employees.

29. QBANK (QBANK)
• Caters to Queensland police, emergency services, and public sector employees.

30. Defence Bank (DB)
• Serves Australian Defence Force personnel and their families.

[Farm Girl Carrie™️👩‍🌾 @FarmGirlCarrie]

This is an excellent summation by @sjkokinda of @PrometheanActn re: British control over Australia and what President Trump is doing to exert economic freedom from the Crown for Australia & other sovereign nations that have had their growth stifled for centuries.

[diane mckenzie @dianemc34717099]

Dear Australian media and the general public, it's time for an ANZAC Day education. Below is a list of things that current, and former members, of the Australian and New Zealand Defence Force, would like to point out prior to ANZAC Day:

1. ANZAC Day marks the anniversary of the Gallipoli Campaign of WWI. ANZAC is an acronym for Australia and New Zealand Army Corps. It’s written as ANZAC, not Anzac.
2. Each year on the 25th of April we reflect on all Defence Force personnel, past and present, and the sacrifices they’ve made. It is a solemn day.
3. ANZAC Day is one of Australia’s most important national occasions. It marks the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during WWI.
4. Traditionally, Rosemary is worn on ANZAC Day. Rosemary is found growing wild on the Gallipoli peninsula. That’s why it’s significant.
5. The RED Poppy symbolises peace, death and sleep of the fallen servicemen/woman. While the PURPLE Poppy represents remembrance of the animal victims of war. The ORANGE Poppy represents the acknowledgement of the Service families, and also acknowledges the families’ loss due to veteran suicide. The WHITE Poppy worn between 1918 - 1939 symbolises the wearers’ commitment to peace.
6. We commemorate ANZAC Day, not celebrate it.
7. At dawn on the 25th of April 1915, soldiers landed, rowed ashore by sailors in boats called ‘lighters’ during the Gallipoli landings, under fire and without outboards motors.
8. It's a bugle, not a trumpet. The Last Post is sounded, not played.
9. Not every serviceman/woman were 'soldiers'. Some were Sailors and Airmen. Please take the time to ascertain what Service they served in, and use the correct terminology.
10. They’re medals, not badges. They’re citations, not pins.
11. Medal recipients BOTH Men AND Women, wear their medals on the left side of their chest covering their heart; family members/descendants wear the medals on the right side of their chest.
12. No, I am not wearing my father’s or grandfather’s medals, they are mine. I earned them during my Service.
13. Medals, ribbons and Unit Citations are EARNED, not WON. They are awarded to the recipient, not given to them.
14. Yes, I am allowed to wear my 'Return From Active Service' badge on any day of the year that I choose to wear it. And no, it’s not a Medal.
15. Australian and New Zealand soldiers did not retreat from Gallipoli, they withdrew.
16. It really doesn't matter which side you wear your Rosemary Poppy on, as long as it's worn with pride. Traditionally, men on the left breast and women on the right breast.
17. Please, don't try to draw comparisons between sports players and war veterans. I've never seen a sports player perform acts of heroism whilst under fire, to protect their fellow Service personnel, flag and Country.
18. Having a few drinks and playing ‘2 up’ is an ANZAC Day tradition. Getting shit faced, picking fights and acting like a yobbo isn’t.
20. 'Lest We Forget' isn't a throwaway line, it actually has meaning: it's an expression of remembrance, par excellence. It has dignified origins, a rich history.
The Ode is recited not read.
21. The 'Ode' comes from the poem "For the Fallen", written by Laurence Binyon. The verse, which is commonly known as 'The Ode Of Remembrance', is as follows:
"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them."
Lest we forget

[Truth Awakening @TruthAwakeningX]

Sounds right to me.

[Orvo ☭☰ @MechaOrvo]

BREAKING: White smoke in Tel Aviv indicates that Israel has chosen a new OnlyFans CEO

[ALLATRA @allatra_org]

Research shows: the more plastic we produce, the faster human IQ drops. Micro- and nanoplastics affect our brains, fueling anxiety, memory loss, and poor focus. Sound familiar?

Learn more by clicking the link

[Dave † 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇸🇮🇪🎸🎶 @daveguitarjones]

A tourist is asked by the officer in passport control at Athens airport:

'What is your nationality?'

He replied 'German.' The officer then asks:
'Occupation?'

The tourist replies: 'No,only visiting.'

[Earth_Wanderer @earth_tracker]

Northern White Rhino: officially extinct in the wild.
Last male dead. Only 2 females remain

A creature that endured 55 million years—ice ages, asteroids, entire epochs—wiped out by human greed, poaching, and destroyed habitats.

We failed them. 💔🦏

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The Merino sheep changed world history.

Originating in Spain, developed through centuries of selective breeding into an animal producing wool so fine, fibres measuring 15-24 microns in diameter, compared to 30+ for most wool, that it feels like cashmere against skin, wicks moisture more efficiently than synthetic alternatives, and regulates temperature in both cold and heat.

Spain recognised what it had. For three centuries, exporting live Merinos was a capital offence. The wool trade was state-controlled. The Mesta, the sheep farmers' guild, had legal powers exceeding those of most institutions. The Merino was a strategic national asset.

When the ban eventually broke down in the 18th century and Merinos spread to Australia, the Australian wool industry that developed became the economic foundation of the country. The phrase "Australia rode on the sheep's back" described two centuries of export income that built the infrastructure of a nation.

One breed of sheep.

Capital offence to export.

Built a country.

The Merino is currently on a hillside somewhere converting grass into fibre that surgeons use in operating theatres, that aerospace engineers use in thermal management applications, and that is quietly superior to every synthetic alternative anyone has produced.

Nobody has made a documentary about the Merino.

The Merino does not require a documentary.

The Merino has the wool.