Kleinevrede

Mediator: “Do not build a higher fence, use a large table.”

[Grok @grok]

Las 5 predicciones de Jiang Xueqin para 2027:

1. EE.UU. lanza invasión terrestre a Irán y queda atrapado en una guerra larga de desgaste.
2. Se reinstaura el marco del servicio militar obligatorio.
3. ICE gana mucho más poder y la Guardia Nacional se despliega en las grandes ciudades.
4. Colapso económico global (ligado al cierre del estrecho de Ormuz).
5. Disturbios, protestas e insurgencias nacionales crean condiciones de conflicto civil de baja intensidad.

[Lee in Iowa @Lee_in_Iowa]

This is their plan—and it’s not good for you or me! Enlarge it and have a look. It’s frankly unAmerican and anti-freedom.

Come November we will definitely fire these Trump enablers. #TrumpsCorruptCongress

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

Millionaire builds 99 tiny homes to reduce homelessness in his town

[Jelmer Visser @DieTukkerfries]

Deze omschrijving van Nederlanders is bijna een halve eeuw oud.

[🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿InsideLucysHead🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿© @InsideLucysHead]

Retiring from the British Army can be complicated...

Lt. Colonel Robert Maclaren retired from the British Army in 2001 after a long fulfilling career. On the day that he retired he received a letter from the Personnel Department of the Ministry of Defence setting out details of his pension and, in particular, the tax-free ‘lump sum’ award, (based upon completed years of service), that he would receive in addition to his monthly pension.

The letter read:

“Dear Lt. Colonel Maclaren,

We write to confirm that you retired from the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards on 1st March 2001 at the rank of Lt Colonel, having been commissioned into the British Army at Edinburgh Castle as a 2nd Lieutenant on 1st February 1366.

Accordingly your lump sum payment, based on years served, has been calculated as £68,500. You will receive a cheque for this amount in due course.

Yours sincerely,

Army Paymaster”

Col Maclaren replied:

“Dear Paymaster,

Thank you for your recent letter confirming that I served as an officer in the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards between 1st February 1366 and 1st March 2001 – a total period of 635 years and 1 month.

I note however that you have calculated my lump sum to be £68, 500, which seems to be considerably less than it should be bearing in mind my length of service since I received my commission from King Edward III.

By my calculation, allowing for interest payments and currency fluctuations, my lump sum should actually be £6,427,586,619.47p.

I look forward to receiving a cheque for this amount in due course.

Yours sincerely,

Robert Maclaren (Lt Col Retd)”

A month passed by and then in early April, a stout manilla envelope from the Ministry of Defence in Edinburgh dropped through Col Maclaren’s letter box, it read:

“Dear Lt Colonel Maclaren,

We have reviewed the circumstances of your case as outlined in your recent letter to us dated 8th March inst.

We do indeed confirm that you were commissioned into the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards by King Edward III at Edinburgh Castle on 1st February 1366, and that you served continuously for the following 635 years and 1 month.

We have re-calculated your pension and have pleasure in confirming that the lump sum payment due to you is indeed £6,427,586,619.47p.

However,

We also note that according to our records you are the only surviving officer who had command responsibility during the following campaigns and battles:

*The Wars of the Roses 1455 -1485 (Including the battles of Bosworth Field, Barnet and Towton)

*The Civil War 1642 -1651 (Including the battles Edge Hill, Naseby and the conquest of Ireland)

*The Napoleonic War 1803 – 1815 (including the battle of Waterloo and the Peninsular War)

*The Crimean War (1853 – 1856) (including the battle of Sevastopol and the Charge of the Light Brigade)

*The Boer War (1899 -1902).

We would therefore wish to know what happened to the following, which do not appear to have been returned to Stores by you on completion of operations:

*9765 Cannon
*26,785 Swords
*12,889 Pikes
*127,345 Rifles (with bayonets)
*28,987 horses (fully kitted)

Plus three complete marching bands with instruments and banners.

We have calculated the total cost of these items and they amount to £6,427,518.119.47p.

WE have therefore subtracted this sum from your lump sum, leaving a residual amount of £68,500, for which you will receive a cheque in due course.

Yours sincerely . . . .”

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

“If the bees disappear off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.”

Protect #nature in all its forms #ActOnClimate

#SaveTheBees #Climate #energy #GreenNewDeal

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

When you understand this,

stress becomes meaningless.

[Pieter Omtzigt @PieterOmtzigt]

Nieuw artikel, samen met Jeroen Zandberg en Jos van Ginniken:
"De onzichtbare belasting op arbeid wordt ondraaglijk"

Over verborgen belastingverhogingen
Over wie de hoogste belastingen betaalt
Over wat er komt

Met concrete voorstellen
(1)

https://t.co/ixuUpsqyE9

[Jaap Lodders @LoddersJaap]

@MadelonVos__ Je vergeet de voedselzekerheid, hoe kunnen wij zaaien en oogsten zonder dieselolie, voedsel wordt het grootste probleem, dan heb ik het nog niet over een tekort aan kunstmest.

[Matthijs Pontier, PhD 🏴‍☠️ Piratenpartij @Matthijs85]

Als bij enkel de Quote 500
1% vermogensbelasting heft
zou dat al 2,4 miljard opleveren!

En doe je het bij die 500 zo:
2% boven 2,3 miljoen
3% boven 50 miljoen
5% boven miljard,
--> dan zelfs 8,2 miljard!

Dat kan onze belasting op arbeid flink omlaag!😃�

[Kleinevrede @kleinevrede]

@MadelonVos__ Backwardation van goud

[Truth Matters @politicsusa46]

While all eyes are on Iran, the regime and big tech took another important but quiet step while you were looking the other way to deliver the ultimate surveillance state.

I’ll let Drey explain and can I suggest you share this with as many people as you can because it’s VERY IMPORTANT.

The same people that are almost certain to wrap up control of everything you watch are now watching YOU.

🎥 TikTok - https://t.co/0GqcB5iO34

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

A grandmother in Missouri is pushing for a new law that would require drunk drivers to pay child support if they kill a parent. (Bentley's Law)

[Alex Taylor @AlexTaylorNews]

Oh the wonderful Dutch !

4 barrel organs belting out "Slava Ukraini" on a loop in front of the Russian Embassy in The Hague yesterday👇📢

Surely nothing could better get on the nerves of its occupants than the uniquely grating sound of this time-old Dutch contraption !
💪🇺🇦🇳🇱

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

Nora Keegan was not trying to change public health policy. She was just paying attention.

In elementary school in Calgary, she noticed something adults kept dismissing. Children rushing out of public restrooms. Hands clamped over their ears. Faces tense. Complaints whispered between friends. It hurts my ears.

She felt it too. After using hand dryers, her ears rang. The sound lingered. Adults brushed it off. They are just loud. That is what machines do.

But Nora kept wondering why children reacted so strongly. And more importantly, why no one was measuring it.

In fifth grade, she decided to find out.

With the help of her parents, both physicians, she turned curiosity into research. She borrowed professional sound equipment. She designed an experiment. And then she went where the problem lived.

Public bathrooms.

Over two years, she visited forty four restrooms across Alberta. Libraries. Restaurants. Schools. She took eight hundred and eighty measurements. She measured at adult height. Then she crouched to measure at child height. She tested distance. Position. Airflow. Again and again.

What she found was impossible to ignore.

Many high speed hand dryers exceeded one hundred decibels at a child’s ear level. Some reached levels comparable to emergency sirens. Levels that medical authorities already prohibit in children’s toys because of the risk of hearing damage.

Children were not imagining the pain. They were standing closer to the source. Their ears were smaller. And the sound hitting them was stronger than what adults experienced.

Manufacturers claimed their machines were safe. Nora’s data showed real world conditions told a different story.

And she did not stop there.

Still in middle school, she began designing a noise reduction filter. A simple modification that lowered sound output by more than ten decibels. Proof that the problem was not inevitable.

Then she did something most adults never do. She wrote a scientific paper.

Her first submission was rejected. So she revised. She corrected. She tried again.

In June 2019, Paediatrics and Child Health published her study. Its title was direct and impossible to dismiss. Children who say hand dryers hurt my ears are correct.

She was thirteen years old.

Health professionals paid attention. Researchers cited her work. Parents shared it. Manufacturers requested meetings. All because a child trusted her own experience enough to test it.

Nora did not raise her voice. She measured. She documented. She proved.

And in doing so, she reminded the world of something simple and easily forgotten.

Sometimes the smallest voices are describing the biggest problems. You just have to listen.

[Teri Schultz @terischultz]

..."The U.S. does not maintain a military presence in Europe solely to protect Europeans; it does so to protect American interests. #NATO provides the legal and physical infrastructure for the United States to operate globally."

Read for yourself. https://t.co/zXHXg4lfvS 2/2

[Kleinevrede @kleinevrede]

‘Switchman’ by Geert Mak.
Read it and be warned. (av. April ‘26)

[jim faas 🍀 @JimFaas]

🟦 ABSOLUTE LEESTIP 🟥 ‘Ik stop in de zorg, en dat zouden meer mensen moeten doen’ /1

🔲 vol idealisme begon Julia ter Beek als zij-instromer in de zorg
🔲 een verhaal over waarom zoveel mensen stoppen met werken in de zorg

🟧 🗣️’Gepassioneerd stapte ik ruim vijf jaar geleden over naar de zorg. Ik was hongerig naar kennis en naar wat het mooie vak te bieden zou hebben. Maar, eenmaal klaar met de opleiding werd de werkdruk al snel onhoudbaar. Er kwamen alleen maar protocollen bíj, terwijl collega's bij bosjes uitvielen. Door het eindeloze geregel met gemeenten, verzekeraars en zorgleveranciers zat ik uren op kantoor. Ik betrapte mezelf erop dat ik cynisch werd. Ik wilde ook niet meer zo hard lopen.’

🟧 🗣️’De zorg heeft weinig meer met zórgen te maken. Dus ik stop ermee, en dat zouden meer mensen moeten doen, zodat in alle lagen van de samenleving doordringt dat het zo niet langer kan.’

via Trouw

[Boston Smalls @smalls2672]

Nothing new under the sun.

[Franky & Coen @FrankyandCoen]

Franky en Coen wensen iedereen een fijne kerst en een gelukkig nieuwjaar

Kerst in Oekraïne anno 2025 is anders dan bij ons. Geen volle straten met lichtjes, geen vanzelfsprekende gezelligheid en zelfs geen zekerheid dat iedereen die je lief is er volgend jaar nog zal zijn. En toch is kerst hier voelbaar. Misschien juist wel sterker.

In oorlogstijd krijgt kerst een andere betekenis. Het gaat minder over cadeaus of uitgebreid tafelen, en meer over samen zijn zolang het kan. Over een kind dat toch nog even lacht, ondanks alles wat het heeft meegemaakt.

We zien families die hun kerst vieren in opvanglocaties, in kelders of in tijdelijke huizen, ver van huis. Veel mensen missen iemand aan tafel, omdat die aan het front is, gewond raakte of er niet meer is. Kerst is hier vaak stil, soms verdrietig, maar ook ongelooflijk krachtig.

Juist in deze periode merken we hoe belangrijk kleine dingen zijn. Voor ons is het bijzonder om voor oorlogsslachtoffers in deze tijden iets te kunnen betekenen.

Elk jaar proberen wij de kerstsfeer naar Oekraïne te brengen we bezochten kindertehuizen, bejaardentehuizen, militaire ziekenhuizen en oorlogsslachtoffers.

Uit die bijzondere momenten hebben eerder deze hartverwarmende compilatie samengesteld.

Wij willen jullie allemaal bedanken voor de geweldige steun en wensen iedereen fijne kerstdagen en een gelukkig, vredig nieuwjaar.

#Christmas #NewYear2026
#Kerstmis #Kerst
#StandWithUkraine️