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India today is the spiritual home of the last remaining Zoroastrians, who once dominated the landscape from Iraq to Afghanistan. Their prosperity in India (and emigres abroad)has also robbed them of a healthy birthrate, compounded by the fact that men and women can't marry outside the faith without being ostracised.

Monotheistic religions, notably Christianity (multiple denominations) and Islam (multiple denominations), in their more competitive medieval avatars, laid to waste many less organized spiritual traditions of the east and the west, as well as other older monotheistic traditions, including Zoroastrianism. Since then, Christianity has been reformed by multiple movements, capitalism has had a sobering affect, but the proselytising zeal very much exists within Islam - countries like the US have taken advantage of this factor, leveraging it to raise non state militias wherever imperial power can't directly reach. The 21st century is likely to see more of this, not less, especially in ...

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Putin Tells Generals Keep Striking Ukraine Russia Takes Dobropilia Key Towns; Trump Waives Sanctions

Putin Tells Generals Keep Striking Ukraine Russia Takes Dobropilia Key Towns; Trump Waives Sanctions

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Putin, Strikes Will Continue; Trump, Sanctions on Hold; Zelensky, 20M Refugees

Putin, Strikes Will Continue; Trump, Sanctions on Hold; Zelensky, 20M Refugees

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October 17, 2026
Russia Hypersonic Dominance. Zelensky Blames Trump For Defeat

Russia Hypersonic Dominance. Zelensky Blames Trump For Defeat

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An excellent piece by Dmitry Orlov. Behind a $1 per month paywall. Ukraine is basically going to become an unsustainable wasteland. Russia will not rebuild it as the USSR did. Europe should expect 10m refugees.

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Riots in France

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A quick commentary on the "Piss Summit"
I might not be able to upload much more or do lives for a while

My Fellow Duranianss.

Yes, it's happened again. I have been assaulted by a vicious Malware Bot Virus or whatever 911 Socks is and this thing is bad ! 

However I wanted to give you a "peace" of my mind concerning the "Piece" or piss, as Elensky calls it, as this thing fell to pieces before it even happened.

Coincidentally on the very SAME DAY  this crap happened Saudi Arabia DROPPED the US Petrodollar as a buying currency and NO ONE absolutely NO ONE is talking about this fact anywhere !!!

 

Hope to see you all asap.

 

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September 29, 2023
Locals Community Private Telegram Messaging

Locals will be sunsetting the private messaging feature throughout the Locals website. In order to keep our private messaging active we have created a private Telegram messaging group called 'The Duran Locals.'

This is a private channel open only to our Locals subscriber community. In the private Telegram group you can send a message to the group or a private message to Alex or Alexander via a direct Telegram message. 

You can access Telegram for web, desktop or mobile here: https://telegram.org/

The link for this Telegram group is below (can be viewed by community subscribers).

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