I wonder why, specifically Mars? Tianwen-1 from China and its rover also spent a year there.
https://www.space.com/the-universe/mars/ancient-beach-on-mars-discovered-by-chinas-zhurong-mars-rover-this-strengthens-the-case-for-past-habitability

Yeah .. I remember that very well.  A lovely video of her and her husband singing a song while travelling,  a la Route 66 – so healthy, the picture of the US soldier full of honor and integrity .. a downplayed, homemade Hollywood.  But people did not look at it properly – a dark horse dirty spy!

But, everyone fell for it.  Everyone and I don’t want to blame here but it was everyone — just for examples not for blame —.  SmoothieX12, Larry Johnson, Col McGregor, Ripper .,. and so on .. aargh, everyone in that circle.  Hope dies last and I feel sorry for them because in the US we have sheer unadulterated ‘friendly looking’ fascism slowly taking root.  Amerika uber alles.

Prof Marandi says …

“Trump seems to be backing down. How can Iran have lessened its support? It’s only been two days since his previous rant. Ansar Allah will humiliate him.”

Is anyone interested in the Kennedy Files? Here they are – all 80 thousand pages: https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/release-2025

Well, it looks not too good out there. Here is Syria pounding Lebanese villages

https://t.me/TheIslanderNews/35951

Get ready .. there is more global stress on the way.  Jeff Brown just sent info ..

What just happened in Taiwan this week portends martial law and a hot war with the PRC.

In addition, Japan is putting up or going to put up missiles that can reach Beijing and North Korea, similar style to the ones in Germany and other European venues.

I’ll get this stuff up and running as soon as I can.  (Today is Sunday eh?  Yikes).

Looking at the pattern and trends early morning at my wake-up time it becomes very clear that the west is preparing for real hot war but by proxy.  Same as what is happening in what we used to call “The Holy Land.”

The South African Ambassador has just been thrown out of Washington and sent home because of race baiting.

I am slowly gathering the oohmph to write about South Africa. First, we need to split the government from the party, the ANC. It was the ANC, not the government that connived with Iran and for payment set up the South African court case of genocide against Netanyahu. In addition, in this pressurised environment on Iran, they are discussion sharing of nuclear technology and proudly posting the pictures. This is not a favor to Iran, neither to BRICS and is very misguided. This is not the government, it is the ANC.

Instead of being clever with Donald Trump, they keep insulting him and his people. We do not see that with any other diplomat. Yeah, there are insults, but nobody is trying to disrespect the office of the President. The ANC has not learned how to do that,and this thick in the head Ambassador made a long speech about Donald Trump and Maga creating a white supremacist movement across the world and South Africa should withstand that. So, race baiting and they threw him out. It is not wise to fight Trump head to head. He can make life very difficult. I expect sanctions on the ANC top dogs.

It was posted by Joel Pollak, the guy that seems to be front running for Ambassador to South Africa. There is a woman currently in the spot, but she quit.

Why BRICS is not helping South Africa, is that they understand the difference between the Government and the ANC. That is what I should write about and tease out. It is easy to say South Africa is part of the War on BRICS, but that is but only one segment of the insanity happening there now and it is still insane.

People are beginning to understand that, and under that banner, the civil societies that went to visit the US and begged them not to drop the free trade agreement Agoa, but rather punish the ANC cadres that are stealing the place blind. South Africa has broken the requirements for this free trade agreement by orders of magnitude and the US is their 2nd highest trading partner. This Ambassador was not spoken to by the US since Trump’s inauguration. The current expectation is only a 3/10 chance for the ANC (40+%) to escape IMF urgent bailout and for South Africa to be in bondage for years to come, as the 2nd attempt at reading a budget also failed just days ago.

I feel better. With much reading and trying to understand WTF, I could make the split between the party (ANC) and the government, which is a coalition, GNU, Government of National Unity and can explain that all now. Let me just say this is not why I fought against apartheid in my day.

I’m going to leave something here for you. This guy is exceedingly rich – he went back to South Africa about seven years ago to see the place and let his children experience what is left, and then stayed to see if he could help save that incredibly beautiful country. He is a hard capitalist, and what he says will make you angry. He does not like the countries we like and I would ask for one time to leave the dogma and ideology behind in order to get the message. His reasons are all wrong, but his numbers and economics are all right. I see a stat that he did not mention, South Africa has the 2nd highest number of embassies in the world, generally accepted to be retirement posts for ANC cadres.

I was so upset about all this, that I threw the country away. But with more studying I can even play some music again. So for the 5th time I threw my article away and feel that with a clearer head I can say what is the War on BRICS and what is internal capture of state resources to the extent that few people can even contemplate. I also see a community beginning to work together because they realize that they are in a complete state of an economically failing country.

I can even play some music again .. Johnny Clegg and Juluka – Woza Friday!