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Yes, Jordan Peterson is currently dealing with health issues. According to his daughter, Mikhaila Peterson, he has been diagnosed with Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS), a condition linked to a genetic predisposition that affects the immune system's ability to detoxify mold and bacteria from indoor air. This condition has been causing him significant health problems since 2017, with symptoms worsening recently after exposure to a moldy environment while cleaning out his late grandfather’s house.
As a result, he is taking a break from public engagements, including his podcast and European tour, to focus on recovery. Mikhaila has stated that he is responding well to treatment, though the process is challenging.
Please pray for Jordan to recover quickly. Aside from being one of the most brilliant people in the world, Jordan is the Flagship in the Fleet of Common Sense, and the epinephrine for wokism disease. We need him alive and well. Have mercy, Lord.
Last month, March, the Boeing astronauts were rescued from a week-long stay on a space station that lasted for 9 months because of a faulty Boeing rocket. The rescue was facilitated by Elon Musk's SpaceX program, although he received no credit from mainstream media whatsoever.
Had the media been appropriately appreciative, it might have prevented the burning of a few Teslas, but it seems the media would rather watch Teslas burn than drive the streets. All the while, they pretend to be frantic about climate change.
April's adventures started in Vancouver with an unexplained aborting of a take-off while at high speed of a 737.
WestJet flight aborts takeoff at high speed at Vancouver’s International Airport
A runway at Vancouver International Airport was closed for almost five hours on Monday after a WestJet flight aborted its takeoff at high speed.
The flight, a Boeing 737, operating as Flight 118, was bound for Calgary at the time.
Fire crews were seen spraying down the hot brakes as the aircraft was immobilized on YVR’s north runway.
The aircraft was eventually towed away.
WestJet confirmed that no one was hurt. Passengers were taken back to the terminal by bus.
That flight was cancelled and the runway re-opened late on Monday night.
According to Grok:
April 26, 2025: A British Airways Boeing 777 made an emergency landing at Boston Logan International Airport due to a possible bird strike and fumes in the cabin. The flight, departing from Dulles International Airport and headed to Heathrow, landed safely, and the FAA is investigating.
April 28, 2025: United Airlines Flight 1321, a Boeing 777-200, safely returned to Newark Liberty International Airport due to a mechanical issue. The flight was scheduled to fly to Los Angeles, and the FAA is investigating.
April 28, 2025: United Airlines Flight 1731, a Boeing 777-200, landed safely at San Francisco International Airport after the crew reported an open cargo door indication. The flight had departed from Kona International Airport in Hawaii, and the FAA is investigating.
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From Ravensbrück to freedom: The story of Sweden’s daring ‘White Bus’ rescue
Europe
In April 1945, as Nazi Germany is on the brink of defeat, the Swedish Red Cross launches the largest rescue operation of World War II. The mission – arranged in secret between a Swedish aristocrat and Adolf Hitler’s right-hand man, SS chief Heinrich Himmler – ultimately saves 15,000 prisoners from Nazi camps. One of the destinations is Ravensbrück, the main concentration camp for female prisoners, where thousands of women are evacuated on board Sweden’s now-iconic “White Buses”.
In the spring of 1945, an extraordinary rumour had begun to circulate among the prisoners in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Word was that the Red Cross, which in the past few weeks had negotiated the distribution of food packages and the evacuation of a handful of the camp’s worst-off inmates, planned a much larger rescue operation, potentially bringing hundreds of them to Sweden.
“I walked around and whispered to myself: ‘Lakes and forests, lakes and forests.’ It became like a mantra for me,” Anika Neyssel, a 26-year-old Dutch woman interned for her involvement in the French resistance movement, said in her post-Ravensbrück testimony.
The timing was crucial. It was the final phase of the war, and as the Allies pressed on from the West and Russia’s Red Army from the East, the Nazi camp guards had drastically ramped up their efforts to eliminate any remaining evidence of their systematic atrocities. Ever since October – when camp commander Fritz Suhren had received the order to execute 2,000 prisoners per month – the white, thick smoke billowing from the crematory had become a sickening constant. But now, the ovens were working so hard, the chimneys had begun spitting out big red flames.
“Ravensbrück already had a gas chamber and a crematory, but an additional gas chamber from Auschwitz had been brought in and installed in the camp. We could literally smell the daily executions. The horror was indescribable,” Selma Van de Perre, a Jewish resistance fighter from the Netherlands recalled in her 2020 memoir “My Name Is Selma”.
By then, Van de Perre wrote, she and the other inmates had already come to the same chilling conclusion: “The Germans were panicking and wanted to leave as few witnesses as possible.”
The already poor living conditions in the camp had also worsened. Infectious diseases like Typhus, Diphtheria and Tuberculosis were spreading like wildfire, killing the weak and starved inmates like flies.
But just as the women braced for the worst, dozens of buses from the Swedish Red Cross pulled up outside the camp’s barbed wire fences. For many, rescue had arrived.
Between April 23 and April 25, and in several different convoys that travelled under the guise of night, some 2,500 women – most of them from Belgium, France Poland, the Netherlands and Scandinavia – were brought on the buses past the abandoned trenches and bombed-out remains of Hitler’s “Third Reich” to safety in Sweden.
The last-minute rescue was no coincidence. It was the result of months of secret negotiations between Count Folke Bernadotte, vice president of the Swedish Red Cross and son of Sweden’s Prince Oscar, and Hitler’s right-hand man, SS chief Himmler.
“Most of this happened behind Hitler’s back,” Ulf Zander, a Swedish historian at the University of Lund and expert on World War II, explained.
Himmler had at this point realised the Germans were going to lose the war and had hoped that the premature release of some of the Nazis’ prisoners would buy him goodwill.
“He lived in a complete fantasy world,” Zander explained. “Before he committed suicide [on May 23, 1945, three days after being captured by the British, and two weeks after Germany’s May 8 surrender. eds. note], he still believed he could become Germany’s new leader and negotiate with at least some of the Allies.”
The liberation of Auschwitz: What the Soviets discovered on January 27, 1945
Europe
Eighty years ago on January 27, 1945, soldiers from Russia's Red Army entered the gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland and were the first to discover the horrors of the concentration camp where more than a million people, most of them Jews, had been murdered. They found just a few thousand survivors in a sprawling complex where the SS had tried to erase all traces of their crimes.
In his Holocaust memoir, "The Truce", Italian prisoner Primo Levi recounted his first contact with the Red Army soldiers when Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp was liberated.
“The first Russian patrol came in sight of the camp about midday on 27 January 1945,” he wrote. “They were four young soldiers on horseback, who advanced along the road that marked the limits of the camp, cautiously holding their sten-guns. When they reached the barbed wire, they stopped to look, exchanging a few timid words, and throwing strangely embarrassed glances at the sprawling bodies, at the battered huts and at us few still alive."
Imprisoned since February 1944 in Monowitz, one of the three camps located in the sprawling concentration camp grounds, Levi witnessed the men's unease as they caught sight of a place that has since become a symbol of Nazi brutality.
“They did not greet us, nor did they smile; they seemed oppressed not only by compassion but by a confused restraint, which sealed their lips and bound their eyes to the funeral scene.”
Facing the ‘unimaginable’
On January 27, 1945, these Soviet soldiers witnessed the unimaginable.
“They were contingents from the first Ukrainian front. The Red Army stumbled upon this site by chance. Going into Auschwitz wasn’t a war goal. You can imagine these people's astonishment as they discovered one concentration camp after another,” said historian Alexandre Bande, a Holocaust specialist.
A photo taken in January 1945 showing the entrance to the Birkenau camp and its railroad line, after its liberation by Soviet troops.AFP - -
In his latest book, Auschwitz 1945, Bande has tried to shed light on what happened that historic day and in the weeks that followed.
While many books have focused on the workings of Auschwitz-Birkenau, with its selections and extermination process, Bande chose to look at the gaps in the story of its liberation.
“What happened on this site has left such a profound imprint on people's minds that historians, the general public and eye witnesses have been more interested in what occurred during (the liberation) rather than what happened afterwards.”
On the morning of the liberation at the end of January, the Soviet soldiers encountered fierce resistance from German troops. Intense fighting took place on the outskirts of the camp. Once they had overpowered these enemy soldiers, the Red Army discovered a handful of survivors: some 7,000 to 8,000 people. “They were mainly men, women and children who were deemed too incapacitated to be moved,” Bande said.
‘The snow was red with blood’
Just a few days earlier, on January 17, the Germans had begun evacuating Auschwitz-Birkenau. Hitler had ordered that no prisoner should fall into enemy hands alive. Nearly 60,000 people were dragged off in rags onto the roads in the middle of winter, heading west in what became known as the notorious death marches.
“We left in columns of 500. We walked for practically three days and three nights,” Raphaël Esrail, who was deported by convoy no. 67, told FRANCE 24 in 2020.
“What I remember most, and can't forget, are those men and women on the side of the road who had died. They'd been shot in the head by an SS man, or had to walk barefoot for hours. They had fallen as if in prayer, their legs frozen,” he said, recounting the transfer to the Gross-Rosen camp.
“I never expected this. The death marches were harrowing. The snow was red with blood. We were surrounded every 50 metres by the SS,” Léa Schwartzmann, a prisoner on the same convoy who was evacuated to the Ravensbrück camp, said in an interview in 2016.
Before dragging prisoners onto death marches, the SS tried to destroy as much evidence of their crimes as possible. As early as autumn 1944, Nazi authorities were making preparations to abandon Auschwitz-Birkenau. Pits containing the ashes of victims were liquidated, while the crematoria and gas chambers were demolished. When the Soviets entered the camp, however, much of the physical evidence remained.
“When they arrived at the barracks where the bags full of hair were stored, they understood that these were human remains. But it took them some time to understand the reality of the murders of hundreds of thousands of people,” Bande said.
Reconstructing the past
Evidence of the atrocities was captured in pictures by photographers attached to the Red Army. They photographed or filmed the dying in the barracks, the piled-up corpses and the 40,000 pairs of spectacles and 50,000 hairbrushes in storage.
Women prisoners are pictured in their barracks after the liberation in January 1945 of the Auschwitz concentration camp by Soviet troops.AFP - -
“The first series of images taken in the immediate aftermath were of poor quality, due to the lighting conditions and the equipment used,” Bande explained.
“The second set of images is more recognisable. You can see, for example, prisoners falling into the arms of soldiers, but these are reconstructions. They were made by the Soviets in the weeks that followed. The idea was not to dwell on the suffering of the prisoners, but to highlight the heroism of the soldiers of the glorious Red Army.”
For some survivors, liberation did not end the suffering. As Albert Grinholtz, deported on convoy no. 4, recalled in 1991: “The soldiers, shocked by our starvation and skeletal bodies, immediately prepared soup in a wheelbarrow. (...) Closing my eyes, I remember this scene, the first bit of nourishment after so much deprivation and suffering. It caused many casualties among our comrades, who were unable to resist so much food, it was too rich.”
Survivors took weeks, sometimes months, to return to their home town or country. Of the almost 69,000 people transported from France to Auschwitz-Birkenau, only 3% ever returned home. In the aftermath of the liberation, the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp was repurposed. The Soviets interned German prisoners of war and Poles suspected of collaboration there, while locals scoured the many barracks that were torn down salvaging scraps of timber. Trials and executions were also held at Auschwitz, including that of former camp commander Rudolf Höss.
In 1947, a memorial museum was finally opened to “protect the site and ensure knowledge is passed down of the crimes committed there”. Eighty years on, Auschwitz-Birkenau has become an important place of remembrance, symbolic of the Holocaust. Last year, it welcomed 1.83 million visitors.
“It's a symbol, especially in France, because the majority of Jewish deportees died there, but also because it's one of the best-preserved sites. It's more difficult attracting hundreds of thousands of tourists to a simple monument or memorial,” Bande explained.
“Auschwitz allows us to show the magnitude of the atrocities.”
And in spite of that, the world is gearing up for another holocaust at the hands of Islam - The New Nazi!
Last night the IDF found the six freshly murdered bodies of hostages Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Alexander Lobanov, Almog Sarusi, and Master Sergeant Ori Danino in a tunnel underneath Rafah.
The six were murdered by their Hamas captors just before the IDF soldiers reached the location narrowly missing rescuing them alive. The murder of the six hostages elicited a flood of vitriol against Netanyahu and his government, blaming them for the murders instead of Hamas. Even Defense Minister Yoav Gallant joined in, claiming the government’s decision to keep the IDF along the Philadelphi Corridor led to the hostages being killed.
“The cabinet must gather immediately and reverse the decision made on Thursday. It is too late for the hostages who were murdered in cold blood. We must bring back the hostages that are still being held by Hamas. The State of Israel will pursue all Hamas leaders and murderers,” Gallant said.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said in response to Gallant, “The Cabinet will not allow a surrender deal that would harm Israel’s security. Intelligence and national responsibility must prevail and guide our decision-making.”
Most Israelis have demanded that the IDF be kept along the Gaza-Egypt border to prevent Hamas from rearming.
Despite the obvious security threat any ceasefire would bring to the millions of Israelis that are still alive and not being held captive, the State Department backed protests as well as the opposition leaders that foment the current divisiveness and baseless hatred within the nation have continued to insist that Israel retreat, leaving Hamas in power as well as freeing hundreds of vicious murderers in order to save some of the hostages.
Opposition leader Yair Lapid had the following to say on X: “Netanyahu and the death cabinet decided not to rescue the abductees, I call on the Histadrut, employers and local authorities – shut down the economy!” He continued on another post: “Instead of doing everything to bring them home, Netanyahu is doing everything to stay in power. The government of disasters is burying the State of Israel.”
It sounds like Lapid is the one playing politics.
Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli came out against those seeking to blame Netanyahu :
“I see and hear the voices that channel the feelings of anger and guilt for this horrible and vile murder towards the Prime Minister and the opponents of the withdrawal from the Philadephi Corridor.”
“This is a grave mistake not only because it is completely disconnected from the reality known to all of us, but because it strengthens the vile murderers and makes it difficult for us to direct our forces to the most important goal of all – victory in this war, a war that we did not choose, but we have no choice but to win it decisively, otherwise the events of October 7th will repeat themselves.”
“At this difficult time, I would like to strengthen the hands of the Prime Minister in his firm stance. We must not give in to Hamas’s demands. Such surrender and the abandonment of the Philadelphia Corridor which Hamas’s oxygen artery means erasing the IDF’s achievements in the war that were achieved at a heavy price in blood and crying for generations.”
Prime Minister Netanyahu said the following regarding the murder of the six hostages in a televised announcement: “Those who murder our hostages do not want a deal.”
The storm against Netanyahu from the hard left and Biden backed provocateurs appears to be backfiring as it is causing the majority of the country to rally behind the Prime Minister’s stances, with Defense Minister Gallant increasingly isolated in the cabinet. Despite the media’s spin, Netanyahu remains in a strong position with an increasing control over the levers of power and decision making through his military secretary, Maj. Gen. Roman Gofman.
The real responsible party behind the murders of the six hostages is Hamas along with their international enablers like the Biden-Harris administration and those Israeli politicians who have demanded surrendering to Hamas instead of taking Rafah months earlier.
Israelis who are protesting on the streets against the current government would be far more justified in turning on their puppet masters in the leftist deep state media as well as political has bins like Ehud Barak, Ehud Omert, and Yair Lapid along with former and current defense leaders like Gantz, Eisenkot, and current DM Yoav Gallant rather than Netanyahu and the majority of his government which has had to hold external and internal pressures while leading a stubborn IDF leadership to victory in the war against the Jihadist hordes in Gaza.
As Hamas continues to collapse within Gaza, many more of these summary executions will unfortunately take place. Israel is fighting a death cult and must finish them off militarily. Afterwards Israel needs to transfer the “civilian” population in Gaza which is a breeding ground for more Jihadists to likeminded countries such as Qatar in order to permanently clean out the Gaza coast.
Unfortunately, the biggest obstacle to achieving a lasting peace is not the rightwing in Israel as many on the left would have everyone believe, but it is the left themselves who 19 years earlier advocated for the ethnic cleansing of their Jewish brothers and sisters from Gaza bringing upon Israel the current crisis.
In 2005, the Israeli military pulled out of Gaza, and the very next year Hamas pulled in. In 2009, there were about 3,000 Christians in Gaza, but by 2022, they were down to 1,100. It's likely there were several thousand in Gaza when 2005 began. Who is doing the ethnic cleansing?
A sign that says 'Extreme Heat Danger' is seen near the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes in Death Valley, Calif., on June 6, 2024. A tourist was recently rescued from Death Valley after he suffered third-degree burns on his feet while walking on the sand dunes. Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images A European tourist was rescued fromDeath ValleyNational Park in California after suffering third-degree burns on his feet, theNational Park Service said last week.
The tourist, a 42-year-old man from Belgium, was taking a walk on the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes when he lost his flip-flops.
“People think it’s going to be like the beach where you can get out there with flip-flops or sandals, but because of the extreme temperatures, those dunes heat up just as much as the pavement does,” Death Valley National Park Service ranger Gia Ponce said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times.
The air temperature that day, July 20, was upwards of 50 C, park officials wrote in their release. That’s already scorching, but the temperature of the sand dunes themselves “would have been much hotter” than the air temperature.
“The ground can be much hotter — 170, 180 (F). Sometimes up into the 200 range,” Ponce said. In Celsius, that temperature range is around 76 to 93 degrees.
After losing his flip-flops, the tourist would have been in excruciating pain trying to walk out of the sand dunes. The man’s family ended up calling for help and recruiting other park visitors to help carry him out to the parking lot.
“The skin was melted off his foot,” Ponce said.
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Why hot, humid weather extremes are causing growing health risks
When park rangers arrived, they had challenges communicating with the Belgian man and his family but it was clear the tourist needed to be “transported to a hospital quickly due to his burns and pain level,” officials wrote.
Unfortunately, rangers weren’t able to airlift the man because helicopters can’t generate enough lift to fly in extreme heat due to the air being less dense. In the end, he was loaded into an ambulance and driven to a helicopter pad at a higher elevation where the air temperature was a cooler 42 C.
A Mercy Air helicopter transported the man to University Medical Center in Las Vegas.
The man suffered third-degree burns, sometimes called full-thickness burns, because these wounds destroy all layers of the skin, the epidermis and the dermis, and can also damage one’s underlying bones, muscles and tendons.
Third-degree burns often require skin grafts to replace the damaged tissue with healthy skin from another part of the victim’s body.
Officials did not give an update on the man’s condition after he was taken to the hospital.
It’s unclear if the man lost his flip-flops in the sand or if they broke. Rangers were unable to determine details due to the language barrier.
Death Valley rangers recommend that travellers coming in the hot summer months always stay within a 10-minute walk of an air-conditioned vehicle, drink plenty of water, eat salty snacks, wear a hat and sunscreen and not hike after 10 a.m. to stay out of the afternoon sun.
