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Charles Hoskinson Hits Back After SBI Chooses Solana Charles Hoskinson (Charles Hoskinson) has pushed back after Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings unveiled a Solana partnership for stablecoins and tokenized assets, sparking backlash across the Cardano community. Some $ADA holders called the move a major setback given Japan's historic role...

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🚨 WARNING: MONDAY WILL BE THE WORST DAY OF 2026!! → Fed confirmed interest rate HIKES. → U.S.-Iran peace deal is CANCELLED. → China and Japan are dumping U.S. Treasuries. → Funds are selling stocks amid AI bubble fears. If you're holding any assets right now, you MUST know this: When markets open next week, this won't be "just another dip." Stocks will dump Metals will dump. Bitcoin and crypto will dump even harder. Large institutions and major funds are already cutting exposure. They're not chasing upside. They're reducing risk and preparing for a market crash. At the same time, pressure is building across the global financial system. The Federal Reserve has made it clear that interest rates are likely to remain higher for longer. Japan has officially stepped into the market with yen intervention. Meanwhile, China and Japan continue reducing their U.S. Treasury holdings, adding even more pressure to the world's largest bond market. When the largest foreign holders of U.S. debt pull back, liquidity starts to disappear. → Interest rates are likely to stay elevated. → Japan is actively supporting the yen. → China and Japan continue reducing U.S. Treasury holdings. → The U.S.-Iran ceasefire is officially cancelled. → Liquidity conditions are tightening across financial markets. → Bond market volatility is continuing to rise. → Funds are reducing equity exposure. → The AI-driven rally is rapidly losing momentum. → Risk appetite is fading across multiple asset classes. This is no longer just a single-market story. Several sources of stress are unfolding at the same time. That's how financial chain reactions begin. As liquidity tightens and capital flows reverse, fear can spread rapidly across every major asset class. This is no longer just about market positioning. It's about systemic pressure building beneath the surface. I have spent decades studying macro cycles, liquidity flows, and systemic market reactions like these. That's how I knew Bitcoin would top out in October 2025 and called the $126K top. I'll share my next call here first. Follow and turn on notifications.

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0xNobler

255,412 views • 4 days ago

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IRELAND DISOWNS HIM: Romanian Fugitive Falsely Labeled "Irish National" Finally Dragged Back to Face Justice for Cowardly Hit-and-Run Murder This despicable coward, a Romanian criminal who somehow got slapped with the label “Irish national”, finally got hauled back to New York to face justice for mowing down and killing a 74-year-old food delivery worker, Be Tran, in a 2022 hit-and-run. Let’s be crystal clear: this individual is NOT Irish. Ireland does not claim him, does not want him, and rejects any association with this fugitive who has spent years slithering across countries committing crimes. Calling him an “Irish national” is an insult to actual Irish people. Be Tran was simply crossing the street after finishing his last DoorDash shift, heading home to feed his dog, when Florin Stoian, 30, smashed into him with a rented BMW and sped off without a second thought. Then, in a move that screams pure evil, Stoian parked the car a mile away, came back hours later, and set it on fire to destroy evidence , causing an explosion that torched nearby vehicles and homes. The family’s words say it all: “You are not human.” They’re right. Any decent person stops after an accident. This monster ran, hid, changed aliases, and kept committing crimes in Michigan, Canada, Ireland, and the Netherlands. He was finally caught in Germany serving time for theft, and only then did NYPD connect him to Be Tran’s death. Now he’s facing manslaughter, arson, leaving the scene, and more. His lawyer claims innocence and offers empty “condolences.” The victim’s nephew saw right through it: “He’s sorry he got caught.” Exactly. There’s zero genuine remorse from this career criminal. Be Tran’s family deserves justice. This cowardly, inhuman fugitive, emphatically NOT Irish, should get every single day the law allows. No leniency, no excuses. Lock him up and throw away the key.

SnDMedia

23,538 views • 6 months ago

🚨 BIG EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT! 🚨 The Snapshot was officially taken at 11:59 PM UTC on March 31st, and we’re now processing the data. A huge thank you to everyone who stayed active, fed their Capybaras, and contributed to this incredible journey! ❤️ But trust us—the best is yet to come! ⸻ 🎉 THE BIG EVENT REVEALED! We’ve been searching for a way to reward our community in a massive way… far beyond the typical $5 airdrops from other SocialFi projects. And we’ve found the perfect solution! 🚀 $500,000+ in Multi-Chain Identities! We’re excited to announce a major partnership with a Web3 infrastructure company specializing in identity management across modular blockchains. Their Modular Naming Service (MNS) allows users to transform complex wallet addresses into simple, recognizable identities usable across multiple blockchains. By securing your unique username through MNS, you can: • Simplify Transactions: Replace complex wallet addresses with a single, easy-to-remember name across multiple blockchains. • Unify Your Identity: Manage a single, recognizable identity across various platforms, enhancing your presence in the Web3 ecosystem. • Assess Your On-Chain Value: Utilize the AI Identity Score feature to evaluate your on-chain activity. A higher score may increase your eligibility for future airdrops and rewards. Who Gets These Identities? ✅ Player Card NFT Holders: • Each identity is valued between $40 and $1,250. • Distribution is based on your Leaderboard position at the time of the Snapshot, considering Player Card NFT holders after adjusting balances for Money Bag multipliers. ✅ All Capybara Users (even without an NFT): • Every participant who has earned at least 100,000 points qualifies for a $10 identity. ⸻ 🤖 COMING SOON: AI-POWERED TWITTER TOOL! We’re developing an AI Twitter Agent designed to help Capybara players enhance their social media presence and engagement and unlock additional rewards. ⸻ 🔥 CAPYBARA COMMUNITY TOKEN LAUNCHING IN Q2! We’re thrilled to announce the upcoming launch of the Capybara Community Token in Q2 to reward our ecosystem with an exciting airdrop! 🎉 —- 📢 More details on the claiming process will be revealed TOMORROW, April 2! Be sure to check back to learn how to claim your identity
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🚨 BIG EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT! 🚨 The Snapshot was officially taken at 11:59 PM UTC on March 31st, and we’re now processing the data. A huge thank you to everyone who stayed active, fed their Capybaras, and contributed to this incredible journey! ❤️ But trust us—the best is yet to come! ⸻ 🎉 THE BIG EVENT REVEALED! We’ve been searching for a way to reward our community in a massive way… far beyond the typical $5 airdrops from other SocialFi projects. And we’ve found the perfect solution! 🚀 $500,000+ in Multi-Chain Identities! We’re excited to announce a major partnership with a Web3 infrastructure company specializing in identity management across modular blockchains. Their Modular Naming Service (MNS) allows users to transform complex wallet addresses into simple, recognizable identities usable across multiple blockchains. By securing your unique username through MNS, you can: • Simplify Transactions: Replace complex wallet addresses with a single, easy-to-remember name across multiple blockchains. • Unify Your Identity: Manage a single, recognizable identity across various platforms, enhancing your presence in the Web3 ecosystem. • Assess Your On-Chain Value: Utilize the AI Identity Score feature to evaluate your on-chain activity. A higher score may increase your eligibility for future airdrops and rewards. Who Gets These Identities? ✅ Player Card NFT Holders: • Each identity is valued between $40 and $1,250. • Distribution is based on your Leaderboard position at the time of the Snapshot, considering Player Card NFT holders after adjusting balances for Money Bag multipliers. ✅ All Capybara Users (even without an NFT): • Every participant who has earned at least 100,000 points qualifies for a $10 identity. ⸻ 🤖 COMING SOON: AI-POWERED TWITTER TOOL! We’re developing an AI Twitter Agent designed to help Capybara players enhance their social media presence and engagement and unlock additional rewards. ⸻ 🔥 CAPYBARA COMMUNITY TOKEN LAUNCHING IN Q2! We’re thrilled to announce the upcoming launch of the Capybara Community Token in Q2 to reward our ecosystem with an exciting airdrop! 🎉 —- 📢 More details on the claiming process will be revealed TOMORROW, April 2! Be sure to check back to learn how to claim your identity

Capybara on Sui

27,276 views • 1 year ago

Good afternoon Crime Watch Zim. I need help. I have been trying to reach out to a lady named Nelia Nyati, who is based in the UK. She sent her two sons to study in Namibia around June or July 2024. Unfortunately, one of the boys, Charles “Taku” Nyati, is mentally unstable and appears to be struggling with untreated childhood trauma 😢. Around July last year, my son found Taku in a park searching for food in bins. People there told him that the boy was from Zimbabwe, so my son called me and I rushed there. After speaking to Taku and gathering some information, I took him to the college where he was supposed to be studying, and that is when I heard a very troubling story. I later managed to get the mother’s number and contacted her. She explained that Taku had gone through very difficult experiences while growing up, but she never mentioned any proper plan or support to help him. When I contacted her, I genuinely hoped the child would finally receive the help he needs. At the time, Taku had already spent about four months living on the streets in a foreign country. I took him into my home, cleaned him up, and stayed with him while waiting for his mother to make a plan. The school also confirmed that he was mentally unstable, and the mother admitted the same. I then suggested that he return to Zimbabwe where there are relatives who could possibly assist him, rather than leaving him stranded in Namibia. The older brother, Shaquille, who also stays in Namibia, does not seem concerned about Taku’s situation. He has accommodation, and their mother sends him money from the UK for school fees and upkeep. I also later discovered that the two boys have different fathers. After staying with Taku for about three weeks, I managed to help him return to school and back into the hostel. It was not easy, and sadly, the mother showed very little concern throughout the process. Unfortunately, things did not last long. Taku was later expelled from the hostel and has been back on the streets since September last year 😢. I have tried reaching out to the mother again, but she no longer even opens my messages. I will attach screenshots of our conversations and her UK number. The boy is not looking well at all, and I fear the worst may happen to him while he is suffering alone in Namibia. From our conversations, she mentioned that the father’s name is Jeffrey Takawira. I will also attach the boy’s photo. Kana pane anokwanisa kubatsira mwana uyu, please do. If anyone knows the mother or any relatives, please pindirai. Thank you for your time.
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Good afternoon Crime Watch Zim. I need help. I have been trying to reach out to a lady named Nelia Nyati, who is based in the UK. She sent her two sons to study in Namibia around June or July 2024. Unfortunately, one of the boys, Charles “Taku” Nyati, is mentally unstable and appears to be struggling with untreated childhood trauma 😢. Around July last year, my son found Taku in a park searching for food in bins. People there told him that the boy was from Zimbabwe, so my son called me and I rushed there. After speaking to Taku and gathering some information, I took him to the college where he was supposed to be studying, and that is when I heard a very troubling story. I later managed to get the mother’s number and contacted her. She explained that Taku had gone through very difficult experiences while growing up, but she never mentioned any proper plan or support to help him. When I contacted her, I genuinely hoped the child would finally receive the help he needs. At the time, Taku had already spent about four months living on the streets in a foreign country. I took him into my home, cleaned him up, and stayed with him while waiting for his mother to make a plan. The school also confirmed that he was mentally unstable, and the mother admitted the same. I then suggested that he return to Zimbabwe where there are relatives who could possibly assist him, rather than leaving him stranded in Namibia. The older brother, Shaquille, who also stays in Namibia, does not seem concerned about Taku’s situation. He has accommodation, and their mother sends him money from the UK for school fees and upkeep. I also later discovered that the two boys have different fathers. After staying with Taku for about three weeks, I managed to help him return to school and back into the hostel. It was not easy, and sadly, the mother showed very little concern throughout the process. Unfortunately, things did not last long. Taku was later expelled from the hostel and has been back on the streets since September last year 😢. I have tried reaching out to the mother again, but she no longer even opens my messages. I will attach screenshots of our conversations and her UK number. The boy is not looking well at all, and I fear the worst may happen to him while he is suffering alone in Namibia. From our conversations, she mentioned that the father’s name is Jeffrey Takawira. I will also attach the boy’s photo. Kana pane anokwanisa kubatsira mwana uyu, please do. If anyone knows the mother or any relatives, please pindirai. Thank you for your time.

𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐙𝐖

39,525 views • 3 months ago

🚨 WARNING: MONDAY WILL BE THE WORST DAY OF 2026!! → Fed confirmed interest rate hikes. → Japan officially began YEN INTERVENTION. → China is nonstop dumping U.S. Treasuries. → Funds are selling stocks as the AI-bubble collapses. If you're holding assets right now, you MUST read this: When markets open next week, this won't be "just another dip." Stocks will dump. Bonds will dump. Metals will dump. Bitcoin and crypto will dump even harder. Insiders and big funds are already selling EVERYTHING. They're not chasing rallies. They're cutting exposure and preparing for increased volatility. At the same time, pressure is building across the global financial system. The Federal Reserve has signaled that higher interest rates are here to stay. Japan has officially entered the market with yen intervention. Meanwhile, both China and Japan continue reducing their U.S. Treasury holdings, putting additional pressure on the world's largest bond market. When the biggest foreign holders of U.S. debt step back, liquidity vanishes. → Interest rates are staying higher for longer. → Japan is actively defending the yen. → China and Japan are nonstop dumping U.S. Treasuries. → Liquidity conditions are tightening across financial markets. → Bond market volatility continues to increase. → Funds are reducing equity exposure. → The AI-driven rally is rapidly losing momentum. → Risk appetite is fading across multiple asset classes. This is no longer a single-market story. Multiple sources of stress are converging at the same time. That's how financial chain reactions begin. As liquidity disappears and capital flows reverse, fear spreads quickly across every major asset class. This is no longer just about positioning. It's about systemic pressure building beneath the surface. When liquidity dries up, markets don't correct gradually. They crash fast. I have spent decades studying macro cycles, liquidity flows, and systemic market reactions like this. That's how I knew Bitcoin would top out in October 2025 and called the $126K top. When the next move becomes clear, I will share it here first. Follow and turn on notifications. By the time mainstream media starts reporting it, it's already too late.
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🚨 WARNING: MONDAY WILL BE THE WORST DAY OF 2026!! → Fed confirmed interest rate hikes. → Japan officially began YEN INTERVENTION. → China is nonstop dumping U.S. Treasuries. → Funds are selling stocks as the AI-bubble collapses. If you're holding assets right now, you MUST read this: When markets open next week, this won't be "just another dip." Stocks will dump. Bonds will dump. Metals will dump. Bitcoin and crypto will dump even harder. Insiders and big funds are already selling EVERYTHING. They're not chasing rallies. They're cutting exposure and preparing for increased volatility. At the same time, pressure is building across the global financial system. The Federal Reserve has signaled that higher interest rates are here to stay. Japan has officially entered the market with yen intervention. Meanwhile, both China and Japan continue reducing their U.S. Treasury holdings, putting additional pressure on the world's largest bond market. When the biggest foreign holders of U.S. debt step back, liquidity vanishes. → Interest rates are staying higher for longer. → Japan is actively defending the yen. → China and Japan are nonstop dumping U.S. Treasuries. → Liquidity conditions are tightening across financial markets. → Bond market volatility continues to increase. → Funds are reducing equity exposure. → The AI-driven rally is rapidly losing momentum. → Risk appetite is fading across multiple asset classes. This is no longer a single-market story. Multiple sources of stress are converging at the same time. That's how financial chain reactions begin. As liquidity disappears and capital flows reverse, fear spreads quickly across every major asset class. This is no longer just about positioning. It's about systemic pressure building beneath the surface. When liquidity dries up, markets don't correct gradually. They crash fast. I have spent decades studying macro cycles, liquidity flows, and systemic market reactions like this. That's how I knew Bitcoin would top out in October 2025 and called the $126K top. When the next move becomes clear, I will share it here first. Follow and turn on notifications. By the time mainstream media starts reporting it, it's already too late.

0xNobler

109,541 views • 1 month ago

Ripple Breaks Ground in the UAE, as RLUSD Becomes the First U.S. 🇺🇸 Stablecoin Approved Under DFSA 🇦🇪Framework Ripple has officially become the first blockchain company to have its stablecoin RLUSD approved by the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) for use within the prestigious Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). This marks a historic inflection point in the evolution of global stablecoin regulation and sets a bold precedent for the industry. For the first time, a U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin is fully licensed under a Gulf state’s comprehensive virtual asset regulatory regime, unlocking real world use cases across the Middle East’s most advanced financial sandbox. RLUSD can now be integrated into Ripple’s DFSA approved payment infrastructure, as well as deployed by banks, fintechs, and asset managers operating in the DIFC. The UAE, particularly Duba, has positioned itself as a forward thinking digital finance hub, balancing innovation with regulatory oversight. With this approval, RLUSD becomes a compliant liquidity vehicle in a region increasingly looking to bypass outdated correspondent banking systems. It can now power real estate tokenization; as seen with the Dubai Land Department, crossborder payments, merchant settlements, and enterprise treasury flows, all while leveraging XRPL Ripple’s regulatory win sends a powerful message to global players “the path forward isn’t through avoidance, it’s through alignment.” As the UAE becomes a proving ground for regulated stablecoin deployment, other jurisdictions may follow suit, especially those seeking to integrate blockchain without surrendering compliance. This raises the bar for all stablecoin issuers. RLUSD isn’t algorithmic, opaque, or dependent on walled off ecosystems, it’s interoperable, regulated in both the U.S. (via NYDFS) and Dubai, and deeply embedded in XRP Ledger infrastructure. It now stands as the gold standard for stablecoins used in institutional grade finance. RLUSD is the on-ramp. XRP is the engine. As RLUSD flows into corridors like UAE - India, UAE - Africa, and UAE - Europe, XRP becomes the bridge asset to handle illiquid pair conversions and global net settlement. Every RLUSD transaction that hits an exotic corridor where the stablecoin lacks liquidity is an invitation for XRP to step in and close the gap via On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) and decentralized market making. As real estate, commodities, and government-backed tokenization schemes roll out across the jurisdiction XRP gains transactional volume, liquidity demand, and regulatory tailwinds. The DeepFreeze amendment and compliance frameworks coming online only reinforce XRPL’s role as the programmable settlement layer for tokenized finance. SMQKE had shown that 5400 currencies have been issued on the XRPL
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Ripple Breaks Ground in the UAE, as RLUSD Becomes the First U.S. 🇺🇸 Stablecoin Approved Under DFSA 🇦🇪Framework Ripple has officially become the first blockchain company to have its stablecoin RLUSD approved by the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) for use within the prestigious Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). This marks a historic inflection point in the evolution of global stablecoin regulation and sets a bold precedent for the industry. For the first time, a U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin is fully licensed under a Gulf state’s comprehensive virtual asset regulatory regime, unlocking real world use cases across the Middle East’s most advanced financial sandbox. RLUSD can now be integrated into Ripple’s DFSA approved payment infrastructure, as well as deployed by banks, fintechs, and asset managers operating in the DIFC. The UAE, particularly Duba, has positioned itself as a forward thinking digital finance hub, balancing innovation with regulatory oversight. With this approval, RLUSD becomes a compliant liquidity vehicle in a region increasingly looking to bypass outdated correspondent banking systems. It can now power real estate tokenization; as seen with the Dubai Land Department, crossborder payments, merchant settlements, and enterprise treasury flows, all while leveraging XRPL Ripple’s regulatory win sends a powerful message to global players “the path forward isn’t through avoidance, it’s through alignment.” As the UAE becomes a proving ground for regulated stablecoin deployment, other jurisdictions may follow suit, especially those seeking to integrate blockchain without surrendering compliance. This raises the bar for all stablecoin issuers. RLUSD isn’t algorithmic, opaque, or dependent on walled off ecosystems, it’s interoperable, regulated in both the U.S. (via NYDFS) and Dubai, and deeply embedded in XRP Ledger infrastructure. It now stands as the gold standard for stablecoins used in institutional grade finance. RLUSD is the on-ramp. XRP is the engine. As RLUSD flows into corridors like UAE - India, UAE - Africa, and UAE - Europe, XRP becomes the bridge asset to handle illiquid pair conversions and global net settlement. Every RLUSD transaction that hits an exotic corridor where the stablecoin lacks liquidity is an invitation for XRP to step in and close the gap via On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) and decentralized market making. As real estate, commodities, and government-backed tokenization schemes roll out across the jurisdiction XRP gains transactional volume, liquidity demand, and regulatory tailwinds. The DeepFreeze amendment and compliance frameworks coming online only reinforce XRPL’s role as the programmable settlement layer for tokenized finance. SMQKE had shown that 5400 currencies have been issued on the XRPL

Mr. Man

86,031 views • 1 year ago

What Will The International Community Say Now? When former President Mohamed Farmaajo engineered parliament’s extension of his term in 2021, he argued that he had not personally extended his mandate — that parliament had given him the extension. Last night, Prez Hassan Sheikh Mohamud made a similar argument in the attached video, stating that parliament, through the constitutional changes he spearheaded, had given themselves — as well as him and his cabinet — an additional year in office. This is despite his earlier public position that his mandate was four years and that even if the constitution were amended to provide for five-year terms, such changes would not apply to him, parliament, or his cabinet, but only to the next government. Below are selected quotes showing how the international community reacted in April 2021 when Farmaajo’s term extension was announced. I am wondering what they will say now, particularly given that U.S. Embassy Mogadishu, Somalia and UK in Somalia🇬🇧🇸🇴 representatives convened and facilitated three days of mediation talks. The African Union Peace and Security Council: “Condemns the actions of 12 April 2021 by the House of the People, which extended the mandate of the President and the Parliament, as effectively delaying the elections, thereby undermining unity and stability of the country, the nascent democratic and constitutional processes, which also threaten the relative peace and security, as well as the important gains that Somalia has made over the years with the support of the AU and other partners with huge sacrifices;” April 2021 — UN Security Council: “called on all parties to reject violence and resume dialogue as a matter of urgency and without precondition. They called on Somalia’s leaders to recognise and build upon the many areas of agreement already reached, to resolve their remaining differences and to put the interests of the people of Somalia first, within a Somali-owned, Somali-led electoral process, and with an agreed timetable, as soon as possible”; April 13, 2021 — European Union: “Yesterday, the Lower House of the Somali Parliament voted to a de-facto extension of the mandate of the President and the Federal Government by two years … This action undermines the longstanding effort, supported by the EU and the international community, to rebuild Somalia through consensus. The international community, including the EU, have repeatedly and publicly expressed that we could under no circumstances accept an extension of the government mandate, or any partial or parallel process related to the elections …The European Union believes that the passage and signing of this resolution will divide Somalia, impose additional delays and constitute a grave threat to the peace and stability of Somalia and its neighbours. It certainly does not serve the interests of the people of Somalia. April 13, 2021 — USA “The United States Opposes Federal Government Term Extensions Press Statement — Secretary of State “The United States is deeply disappointed by the Federal Government of Somalia’s decision to approve a legislative bill that extends the mandates of the president and parliament by two years. We have stressed repeatedly that … the United States does not support mandate extensions … Such actions would be deeply divisive, undermine the federalism process and political reforms that have been at the heart of the country’s progress and partnership with the international community, and divert attention away from countering al-Shabaab.” Also attached is a video and transcript of then-opposition leader imploring Somalia’s international partners to take a firm stand and call a spade a spade: “Friends of Somalia, we will advise them to be part of the solution. They should stand with where the solution lies, and they should tell any individual who is obstructing a solution: stop, you are not contributing to a resolution.” “Problems should not be allowed to drag on and fester…” says the then opposition leader HSM
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What Will The International Community Say Now? When former President Mohamed Farmaajo engineered parliament’s extension of his term in 2021, he argued that he had not personally extended his mandate — that parliament had given him the extension. Last night, Prez Hassan Sheikh Mohamud made a similar argument in the attached video, stating that parliament, through the constitutional changes he spearheaded, had given themselves — as well as him and his cabinet — an additional year in office. This is despite his earlier public position that his mandate was four years and that even if the constitution were amended to provide for five-year terms, such changes would not apply to him, parliament, or his cabinet, but only to the next government. Below are selected quotes showing how the international community reacted in April 2021 when Farmaajo’s term extension was announced. I am wondering what they will say now, particularly given that U.S. Embassy Mogadishu, Somalia and UK in Somalia🇬🇧🇸🇴 representatives convened and facilitated three days of mediation talks. The African Union Peace and Security Council: “Condemns the actions of 12 April 2021 by the House of the People, which extended the mandate of the President and the Parliament, as effectively delaying the elections, thereby undermining unity and stability of the country, the nascent democratic and constitutional processes, which also threaten the relative peace and security, as well as the important gains that Somalia has made over the years with the support of the AU and other partners with huge sacrifices;” April 2021 — UN Security Council: “called on all parties to reject violence and resume dialogue as a matter of urgency and without precondition. They called on Somalia’s leaders to recognise and build upon the many areas of agreement already reached, to resolve their remaining differences and to put the interests of the people of Somalia first, within a Somali-owned, Somali-led electoral process, and with an agreed timetable, as soon as possible”; April 13, 2021 — European Union: “Yesterday, the Lower House of the Somali Parliament voted to a de-facto extension of the mandate of the President and the Federal Government by two years … This action undermines the longstanding effort, supported by the EU and the international community, to rebuild Somalia through consensus. The international community, including the EU, have repeatedly and publicly expressed that we could under no circumstances accept an extension of the government mandate, or any partial or parallel process related to the elections …The European Union believes that the passage and signing of this resolution will divide Somalia, impose additional delays and constitute a grave threat to the peace and stability of Somalia and its neighbours. It certainly does not serve the interests of the people of Somalia. April 13, 2021 — USA “The United States Opposes Federal Government Term Extensions Press Statement — Secretary of State “The United States is deeply disappointed by the Federal Government of Somalia’s decision to approve a legislative bill that extends the mandates of the president and parliament by two years. We have stressed repeatedly that … the United States does not support mandate extensions … Such actions would be deeply divisive, undermine the federalism process and political reforms that have been at the heart of the country’s progress and partnership with the international community, and divert attention away from countering al-Shabaab.” Also attached is a video and transcript of then-opposition leader imploring Somalia’s international partners to take a firm stand and call a spade a spade: “Friends of Somalia, we will advise them to be part of the solution. They should stand with where the solution lies, and they should tell any individual who is obstructing a solution: stop, you are not contributing to a resolution.” “Problems should not be allowed to drag on and fester…” says the then opposition leader HSM

Abdirashid Hashi

13,537 views • 3 months ago

"A little boy on a filthy mattress had already learned to fear footsteps in the dark. By the time Deputy Mason Cole reached the back room, the child was clutching a dirty stuffed animal so tightly it looked like the toy was the only thing keeping him together. Neighbors had called after hearing a child crying inside a house that was supposed to be empty. The property had been in foreclosure for months, the power was cut, and the windows were boarded over. When Mason forced the door open, the smell hit him first. Trash covered the floor, and somewhere deeper in the house a thin, broken whimper kept rising through the silence. That sound led him down a narrow hallway to a cluttered bedroom in the back. Sitting on a stained mattress surrounded by snack wrappers was a 3 year old boy named Eli, his face streaked with dirt, his hair matted, and his whole body curled around that stuffed animal like it was a shield. One look at him told Mason this wasn't a child who had been left alone for an hour. Fear had sunk too deeply into him, and hunger had already pulled the strength out of his face. Later, the truth came together piece by piece. Eli’s mother was a severe addict who had broken into the empty house to squat, then walked out 3 days earlier to drink and get high and never came back. Mason didn't stay in the doorway and manage the room from a distance. He stepped across the mess on the floor, climbed onto the dirty mattress, and lowered himself beside the trembling boy so he wouldn't feel another adult towering over him. “Hey. Hey. You’re okay.” Eli flinched at first and pulled the stuffed animal tighter against his chest. Tears filled his eyes when he looked up, and the words that came out were barely louder than a whisper. “I was scared.” Mason’s voice dropped even softer. “I know that. You’re safe now.” No answer came right away. Every muscle in the boy’s body stayed tight for another second, like he was waiting to find out whether those words were true. Mason wrapped an arm around him carefully and stayed still. “Believe me,” he said. “I’m not leaving.” Something shifted in that moment. Eli stopped curling away and leaned into the deputy’s chest instead, the fear finally breaking loose in a hard, shaking sob. A partner standing nearby caught the quiet scene for a second before they carried the boy out of the dark house and into the warm patrol car. Mason kept talking to him the whole time. “We’re going to get you warm. Get you something to eat. It’s okay.” A long breath caught in the boy’s throat before he cried again, smaller this time. Mason held him close and gave him the one thing that had been missing from that house for days. “You don’t have to be scared anymore.” By the time they reached the car, Eli wasn't clutching the stuffed animal quite as hard. His head was resting against Mason’s uniform, and for the first time since anyone had found him, he looked like a child who believed help had really come. Today, Eli is in a safe foster home where he has clean clothes, regular meals, and a bed that doesn’t smell like garbage and rot. Mason still checks on him, making sure the little boy who was found crying in the dark knows somebody did come back for him after all.
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"A little boy on a filthy mattress had already learned to fear footsteps in the dark. By the time Deputy Mason Cole reached the back room, the child was clutching a dirty stuffed animal so tightly it looked like the toy was the only thing keeping him together. Neighbors had called after hearing a child crying inside a house that was supposed to be empty. The property had been in foreclosure for months, the power was cut, and the windows were boarded over. When Mason forced the door open, the smell hit him first. Trash covered the floor, and somewhere deeper in the house a thin, broken whimper kept rising through the silence. That sound led him down a narrow hallway to a cluttered bedroom in the back. Sitting on a stained mattress surrounded by snack wrappers was a 3 year old boy named Eli, his face streaked with dirt, his hair matted, and his whole body curled around that stuffed animal like it was a shield. One look at him told Mason this wasn't a child who had been left alone for an hour. Fear had sunk too deeply into him, and hunger had already pulled the strength out of his face. Later, the truth came together piece by piece. Eli’s mother was a severe addict who had broken into the empty house to squat, then walked out 3 days earlier to drink and get high and never came back. Mason didn't stay in the doorway and manage the room from a distance. He stepped across the mess on the floor, climbed onto the dirty mattress, and lowered himself beside the trembling boy so he wouldn't feel another adult towering over him. “Hey. Hey. You’re okay.” Eli flinched at first and pulled the stuffed animal tighter against his chest. Tears filled his eyes when he looked up, and the words that came out were barely louder than a whisper. “I was scared.” Mason’s voice dropped even softer. “I know that. You’re safe now.” No answer came right away. Every muscle in the boy’s body stayed tight for another second, like he was waiting to find out whether those words were true. Mason wrapped an arm around him carefully and stayed still. “Believe me,” he said. “I’m not leaving.” Something shifted in that moment. Eli stopped curling away and leaned into the deputy’s chest instead, the fear finally breaking loose in a hard, shaking sob. A partner standing nearby caught the quiet scene for a second before they carried the boy out of the dark house and into the warm patrol car. Mason kept talking to him the whole time. “We’re going to get you warm. Get you something to eat. It’s okay.” A long breath caught in the boy’s throat before he cried again, smaller this time. Mason held him close and gave him the one thing that had been missing from that house for days. “You don’t have to be scared anymore.” By the time they reached the car, Eli wasn't clutching the stuffed animal quite as hard. His head was resting against Mason’s uniform, and for the first time since anyone had found him, he looked like a child who believed help had really come. Today, Eli is in a safe foster home where he has clean clothes, regular meals, and a bed that doesn’t smell like garbage and rot. Mason still checks on him, making sure the little boy who was found crying in the dark knows somebody did come back for him after all.

Crazy Moments

642,377 views • 1 month ago

🚨 WARNING: TOMORROW WILL BE THE WORST DAY OF 2026!! Japan just hit the panic button. They're currently sitting on ¥15.1 TRILLION in bond losses. Next week, they will dump $6 TRILLION of U.S. Treasuries to cover the damage. If you hold any assets today, you MUST know this: The BOJ is pushing capital back into Japan. And the biggest carry trade in history is starting to unwind. This is NOT normal. Here's what's really happening: For decades, Japan kept interest rates near zero. That turned the yen into the world's cheapest funding currency. Investors borrowed trillions of yen. Then they poured that money into U.S. Treasuries, stocks, real estate, crypto, and markets around the world. That trade is now breaking apart. Japan is facing soaring government debt. A rapidly aging population. Massive pension obligations. And years of pressure from a weak yen. Now policymakers want that capital back home. By any means necessary. The BOJ just ordered pension funds to make substantially larger investments in Japanese assets instead of foreign ones. GPIF, the world's largest pension fund, manages OVER $1.8 TRILLION. Hundreds of billions of dollars are now at the center of this shift. Japanese investors have already sold tens of billions of dollars worth of U.S. Treasuries this year. And the Bank of Japan's latest rate hike gives investors another reason to keep their money inside Japan. This is the Reverse Carry Trade. And it's becoming one of the biggest liquidity risks in the world. Because when Japanese money comes home... Someone else has to buy what Japan is selling. → More Treasuries hit the market → Bond yields move higher → Liquidity dries up And financial conditions tighten everywhere. That's how market stress spreads. Quietly at first. Then all at once. Pay attention. Most people won't understand why markets are collapsing until it's already happening. I’ve studied markets for over a decade and called nearly every major top and bottom. If you want to survive the 2026 cycle, follow and turn notifications on. I warned you before. And I'll warn you again soon. A lot of people will wish they paid attention earlier.
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🚨 WARNING: TOMORROW WILL BE THE WORST DAY OF 2026!! Japan just hit the panic button. They're currently sitting on ¥15.1 TRILLION in bond losses. Next week, they will dump $6 TRILLION of U.S. Treasuries to cover the damage. If you hold any assets today, you MUST know this: The BOJ is pushing capital back into Japan. And the biggest carry trade in history is starting to unwind. This is NOT normal. Here's what's really happening: For decades, Japan kept interest rates near zero. That turned the yen into the world's cheapest funding currency. Investors borrowed trillions of yen. Then they poured that money into U.S. Treasuries, stocks, real estate, crypto, and markets around the world. That trade is now breaking apart. Japan is facing soaring government debt. A rapidly aging population. Massive pension obligations. And years of pressure from a weak yen. Now policymakers want that capital back home. By any means necessary. The BOJ just ordered pension funds to make substantially larger investments in Japanese assets instead of foreign ones. GPIF, the world's largest pension fund, manages OVER $1.8 TRILLION. Hundreds of billions of dollars are now at the center of this shift. Japanese investors have already sold tens of billions of dollars worth of U.S. Treasuries this year. And the Bank of Japan's latest rate hike gives investors another reason to keep their money inside Japan. This is the Reverse Carry Trade. And it's becoming one of the biggest liquidity risks in the world. Because when Japanese money comes home... Someone else has to buy what Japan is selling. → More Treasuries hit the market → Bond yields move higher → Liquidity dries up And financial conditions tighten everywhere. That's how market stress spreads. Quietly at first. Then all at once. Pay attention. Most people won't understand why markets are collapsing until it's already happening. I’ve studied markets for over a decade and called nearly every major top and bottom. If you want to survive the 2026 cycle, follow and turn notifications on. I warned you before. And I'll warn you again soon. A lot of people will wish they paid attention earlier.

0xNobler

525,797 views • 10 days ago

The US Treasury bought yen on Friday and paid for it in euros. Then it pointed Tokyo at a Federal Reserve facility that turns US Treasuries into dollars without selling them. The bond Washington feared Japan might dump is now the collateral for not dumping it. The Fed wrote that purpose down in 2020. Three dates. July 23rd. The Japanese yen hits 163.99 per American dollar, weakest since 1986. July 29th. The Fed holds at 3.50 to 3.75 percent, three officials dissent for a hike, and the 30-year Treasury closes at 5.21 percent, highest since 2007. July 31st. The New York Fed sells euros and buys yen for the Treasury through Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, per the Financial Times. A notepad in front of Scott Bessent at Camp David is photographed at 11.33 that morning reading buy Japanese yen 5 to 10 billion. First US operation to strengthen the yen since 1998. August 3rd. Tokyo confirms, and says it will tap the Fed's FIMA repo facility. Long yields fall. Paying in euros was the tell. Selling American dollars to buy Japanese Yen would have broadcast a weak dollar policy with US core inflation at 3.3 percent. Washington sold its own euro reserves instead and bought the yen support without the signal. The facility is the real story here folks! FIMA lets an approved foreign central bank hand Treasuries to the Fed for dollars, up to 60 billion outstanding per counterparty, on terms out to seven days, then take them back. When the Fed extended it in July 2020 it said in writing that the facility would support the Treasury market by supplying dollars "other than sales of securities in the open market." That machine was built 6 years ago for exactly this situation. Last week it was aimed for the first time. Follow the loop very carefully. A weak yen forces Tokyo to buy yen. Buying yen burns dollar reserves, and Japan's reserves have already fallen from 1.41 trillion in February to 1.31 trillion at the end of May, 77 billion of it in May alone. Rebuilding them by selling Treasuries lifts US yields. FIMA lends dollars against those same Treasuries instead, and the bonds never reach the market. One security, three roles. The asset at risk. The collateral the Fed accepts. The funding for the currency defense. Now the part that decides everything. FIMA is open to central banks and official institutions. It is closed to Japanese banks, insurers, pension funds, and every leveraged carry book on earth. The trillion plus of Treasuries attributed to Japan in US data is a country total covering all Japanese holders, not a government portfolio.... Washington has built a firewall around the official seller. There is none around the private one. The Bank of Japan held at 1%, 8 to 1, one member pushing 1.25%. Headline core inflation reads 1.6 percent while the bank forecasts core clearly above 2 percent in the second half of the fiscal year, citing wages, oil and the weak yen. September is live and nothing is promised. The Fed sits at 3.50 to 3.75. The gap runs 2.5 points at its narrowest. US jobs land Friday. Washington can repo away a government's need to sell. It cannot repo away everyone else's decision to.
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The US Treasury bought yen on Friday and paid for it in euros. Then it pointed Tokyo at a Federal Reserve facility that turns US Treasuries into dollars without selling them. The bond Washington feared Japan might dump is now the collateral for not dumping it. The Fed wrote that purpose down in 2020. Three dates. July 23rd. The Japanese yen hits 163.99 per American dollar, weakest since 1986. July 29th. The Fed holds at 3.50 to 3.75 percent, three officials dissent for a hike, and the 30-year Treasury closes at 5.21 percent, highest since 2007. July 31st. The New York Fed sells euros and buys yen for the Treasury through Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, per the Financial Times. A notepad in front of Scott Bessent at Camp David is photographed at 11.33 that morning reading buy Japanese yen 5 to 10 billion. First US operation to strengthen the yen since 1998. August 3rd. Tokyo confirms, and says it will tap the Fed's FIMA repo facility. Long yields fall. Paying in euros was the tell. Selling American dollars to buy Japanese Yen would have broadcast a weak dollar policy with US core inflation at 3.3 percent. Washington sold its own euro reserves instead and bought the yen support without the signal. The facility is the real story here folks! FIMA lets an approved foreign central bank hand Treasuries to the Fed for dollars, up to 60 billion outstanding per counterparty, on terms out to seven days, then take them back. When the Fed extended it in July 2020 it said in writing that the facility would support the Treasury market by supplying dollars "other than sales of securities in the open market." That machine was built 6 years ago for exactly this situation. Last week it was aimed for the first time. Follow the loop very carefully. A weak yen forces Tokyo to buy yen. Buying yen burns dollar reserves, and Japan's reserves have already fallen from 1.41 trillion in February to 1.31 trillion at the end of May, 77 billion of it in May alone. Rebuilding them by selling Treasuries lifts US yields. FIMA lends dollars against those same Treasuries instead, and the bonds never reach the market. One security, three roles. The asset at risk. The collateral the Fed accepts. The funding for the currency defense. Now the part that decides everything. FIMA is open to central banks and official institutions. It is closed to Japanese banks, insurers, pension funds, and every leveraged carry book on earth. The trillion plus of Treasuries attributed to Japan in US data is a country total covering all Japanese holders, not a government portfolio.... Washington has built a firewall around the official seller. There is none around the private one. The Bank of Japan held at 1%, 8 to 1, one member pushing 1.25%. Headline core inflation reads 1.6 percent while the bank forecasts core clearly above 2 percent in the second half of the fiscal year, citing wages, oil and the weak yen. September is live and nothing is promised. The Fed sits at 3.50 to 3.75. The gap runs 2.5 points at its narrowest. US jobs land Friday. Washington can repo away a government's need to sell. It cannot repo away everyone else's decision to.

Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡

228,038 views • 15 days ago

Lads. Sit down and give me your ear a while, for I have watched from the water long enough and the hour is upon us whether we have the stomach for it or not. You remember. Or your fathers told you, or their fathers did, and the knowledge of it is in the marrow of you whether you drew breath in those days or not. The moors in the grey hour before dawn. Wet heather soft under the boot. Peat smoke rising from a low stone chimney a mile out across the bog, thin as a prayer. A sky the colour of a gun barrel and the gulls lamenting above the headland. The smell of turf burning, and wet wool, and the ferrous tang of the sea when the wind swung around out of the Atlantic and put the taste of iron on your tongue. A man could walk that land and know every stone of it was his by inheritance, because his grandfather had broken his back upon it, and his grandfather before him, back through the generations until you reach men whose names are lost and whose bones are in the soil you are standing on. The potato fields. God be good to us, the potato fields. Lazy beds cut straight as a gunwale, the ridges black and shining after a night of rain, women bent double with creels lashed to their backs and the children at their skirts, drawing the crop up by the hand for there was never any other means devised nor wanted. Hands split open at the knuckles and never entirely healed in this life. Hunger within living memory. Grandmothers who had seen the blight with their own eyes and would not speak of it from the year of it until the day they were laid down, save that a crust was kept always on the dresser which no soul in that house was permitted to touch. Not ever. Not for any reason under heaven. And the chimney sweeps. Wee lads no heavier than a sack of meal, black to the bone with soot, their lungs ruined before they were old enough to marry and old men entirely by thirty. Up the flues at first light, the skin worn off them by the brick, eyes crimson at the rim, breathing the black in with every draw of air. And the coal miners a half mile beneath our feet, down in the wet dark, the roof of the world muttering over their heads, the canary gone silent, a man's whole existence measured out in the shilling a ton and the dust he carried home in his chest to cough up of a Sunday morning into a rag. Fathers who descended and were never hauled up again. Widows at the pit head with the shawl drawn over the head and no tears remaining in them for they had spent those long ago. That was the tariff paid to keep the hearth lit. That was the reckoning of being warm in winter in the Ireland that was. And after the labouring week, Friday evening, and a man had earned the peace of what followed. Home first. Peeled the day off him in the yard. A shower of ice cold moor river water out of a tin bucket punctured with holes, hung on a nail on the gable wall, the water running clean down the back of him and carrying the week's dust and sweat away into the drain. Scrubbed till the skin was pink beneath the grime. Clean shirt laid out by the wife. The hair combed down with a drop of water. Then, and only then, did a man set himself to the table. A meat pie from the baker, tenpence if he was known to you, a shilling and no change if he was not, put down upon a proper plate. Fish and chips for threepence, the salt and vinegar soaked through the newspaper, but carried home and ate slowly at your own table with your people around you, not walked with through the streets like some vagrant tinker off the road. A man ate as a man who had earned his portion, for he had. And later, with the dishes cleared and the kettle set, down the road to the tavern. Low beams black with a century of smoke. A turf fire muttering in the grate. The air thick with pipe smoke and the vapour of wet overcoats steaming themselves dry on the backs of chairs. A pint of stout, cold and black as a cove at midnight, elevenpence laid down on the counter, a head on it thick enough to strike a match upon. A second one because you had it coming to you and no man present would dispute it. A fiddle starting up in the corner of its own accord. The old men in the snug who remembered matters the history books had long since mislaid. A song before the bolt was thrown on the door. The walk home beneath a firmament crowded with stars, the stout warm in the gut of you, the week behind you, and your own door waiting with the latch unlocked for you had no enemies in that parish. That was the country. That was the covenant. Honest labour, plain food, a cold wash, a hot meal, a cold pint, your own tongue in your own mouth, your own soil beneath your boots, and no man standing above you save the Almighty Himself. Now regard her. Regard her close. The fields disposed of to men who have never set foot upon them and never shall. The harbours signed away by the stroke of a pen in a room you were not admitted to, and foreign keels dragging out of our waters the living that sustained this island for a thousand years, while our own boats rot at their moorings for want of a quota. The tradesmen undercut by imported labour and imported goods. The shops shuttered along every main street from Donegal to Cork. The young ones scattered to London and Sydney and Boston and the Gulf because there is nothing remaining for them beneath their own roof. And the entirety of this rotten arrangement dressed up in the soft mannerly language of progress by men in towers of glass who could not tell a lazy bed from a grave, nor a trawler from a tugboat, nor an honest day's work from a pension plan. And now they arrive with the next imposition. A digital identity. A number assigned to each soul. A card required to buy your bread. A code required to draw your own earnings out of your own account. A file kept on every man, woman and child from the cradle forward. Permission asked to move. Permission asked to speak. Permission asked to earn. A levy upon every breath drawn and a regulation upon every step taken. No. And no again. And no for a third time so there is no misunderstanding of it. We do not require your digital identity. We did not request it. We did not vote upon it. We do not consent to it. We do not need your permission to exist upon the soil our forefathers are buried in. We are a free people. We have carried ourselves this far upon our own two backs. Through famine and empire and civil war and black lung and blight and the emigrant ship out of Cobh, we have come this distance under our own steam, and the arrangement appears to be serving us well enough without your intervention. We buried our own. We fed our own. We raised our own roofs and took our own fish and reared our own children in our own tongue. We are in your debt for nothing. Not a signature. Not a biometric scan. Not a single solitary inch. And while we are upon the subject, let us speak plainly of the tax man, for he has gone too long without proper introduction. The tax collector and the tax man are the one article under two names, and the article is a parasite. There is no dressing it up finer than that. A man who produces nothing, who grows nothing, who catches nothing, who builds nothing, who mends nothing, who has never in his professional life lifted anything heavier than a pen, and who arrives at your door with the full apparatus of the state at his back to carry off the fruits of labour he did not perform. He is a middleman between your sweat and some scheme dreamt up in a committee room by his own kind, and the great majority of what he takes is consumed by the machinery of the taking itself before ever a penny of it reaches the road or the hospital or the schoolhouse he claims to be funding. And I will go further while I have the floor. Finance itself, the whole apparatus of it, money breeding money in the dark without a hand laid upon a tool or a spade turned in the earth, is slavery dressed in a good suit. It is the oldest swindle known to man and it has never been anything other. A man who produces nothing yet lives off the productive labour of others through the charging of interest upon money conjured out of nothing is a parasite of a rarer and more refined order than the tax man, but a parasite all the same, and between the pair of them they have the working people of this island bled white and lectured at for the pleasure. A man who will not work with his hands, nor with his back, nor with his mind at some honest problem of the real physical world, is no man that I recognise. He is a ledger entry in a suit. The country was not built by ledger entries. The country was built by farmers and fishermen and masons and smiths and sweeps and miners and shipwrights and midwives and mothers, and those are the people whose say should carry in her councils, and no other. Here is what I put to you. Let each man and woman of this island direct the first tenth of their earnings themselves, by their own judgement, to the purpose they see as worthy. The school down the road. The lifeboat station. The hospice. The widow on the corner. The roof of the chapel. The harbour wall. Whatever it may be. Let the people who earned the money decide where the money travels. You will find the roads mended and the ports dredged and the schools standing and the old ones cared for inside of five years, and done better and for less, because the hand that earned the coin knows the weight of it and will not squander it upon consultants and committees. And let us have done with the paper currency and the numbers in a screen that can be frozen at the whim of a clerk in a tower. Bring back the coin. Gold for the great transactions. Silver for the weekly commerce of a working life. Copper for the small change of the day. Metal you can bite. Metal you can weigh. Metal that cannot be conjured out of nothing by a keystroke, nor erased out of existence by another. Real money for real labour. A coin in the hand is a free man's wage. A number in a database is a collar around a free man's neck, and they are fitting that collar now while we stand arguing over the colour of it. Feel it in your gut. That is not nothing. That is your blood relating to you what your ears will not hear. That is every forebear who starved and fought and coughed the black dust into a rag and descended the shaft regardless, standing at your shoulder and saying no further. Not one more field. Not one more harbour. Not one more son upon a plane. Not one more free man converted into a number in a ledger for the convenience of the parasites. This is the hour. Make no error about it. Ireland is redeemed in this generation or she is lost beyond recovery, and every true son and daughter of her knows it in the marrow. There is no middle ground remaining. There is no waiting it out. There is standing now, upon your own two feet, or there is watching her go under the waves for the last and final time. So stand. Stand with your farmers. Stand with your fishermen. Stand with your tradesmen and your miners and your sweeps and your mothers and your old ones. Raise the tricolour. Speak the tongue. Walk the land. Hold the line in the streets of every town and city and do not break it, for they are relying upon you to break and to go home and to forget by Tuesday. She is calling her children home. Every stone of her, every breaker on her western shore, every acre of wet heather and every coal in every hearth the length and breadth of her is calling. Answer her. Take her back. Every field, every harbour, every last inch of her. Take her back, or lose her entirely. There is no third road open to us.
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Lads. Sit down and give me your ear a while, for I have watched from the water long enough and the hour is upon us whether we have the stomach for it or not. You remember. Or your fathers told you, or their fathers did, and the knowledge of it is in the marrow of you whether you drew breath in those days or not. The moors in the grey hour before dawn. Wet heather soft under the boot. Peat smoke rising from a low stone chimney a mile out across the bog, thin as a prayer. A sky the colour of a gun barrel and the gulls lamenting above the headland. The smell of turf burning, and wet wool, and the ferrous tang of the sea when the wind swung around out of the Atlantic and put the taste of iron on your tongue. A man could walk that land and know every stone of it was his by inheritance, because his grandfather had broken his back upon it, and his grandfather before him, back through the generations until you reach men whose names are lost and whose bones are in the soil you are standing on. The potato fields. God be good to us, the potato fields. Lazy beds cut straight as a gunwale, the ridges black and shining after a night of rain, women bent double with creels lashed to their backs and the children at their skirts, drawing the crop up by the hand for there was never any other means devised nor wanted. Hands split open at the knuckles and never entirely healed in this life. Hunger within living memory. Grandmothers who had seen the blight with their own eyes and would not speak of it from the year of it until the day they were laid down, save that a crust was kept always on the dresser which no soul in that house was permitted to touch. Not ever. Not for any reason under heaven. And the chimney sweeps. Wee lads no heavier than a sack of meal, black to the bone with soot, their lungs ruined before they were old enough to marry and old men entirely by thirty. Up the flues at first light, the skin worn off them by the brick, eyes crimson at the rim, breathing the black in with every draw of air. And the coal miners a half mile beneath our feet, down in the wet dark, the roof of the world muttering over their heads, the canary gone silent, a man's whole existence measured out in the shilling a ton and the dust he carried home in his chest to cough up of a Sunday morning into a rag. Fathers who descended and were never hauled up again. Widows at the pit head with the shawl drawn over the head and no tears remaining in them for they had spent those long ago. That was the tariff paid to keep the hearth lit. That was the reckoning of being warm in winter in the Ireland that was. And after the labouring week, Friday evening, and a man had earned the peace of what followed. Home first. Peeled the day off him in the yard. A shower of ice cold moor river water out of a tin bucket punctured with holes, hung on a nail on the gable wall, the water running clean down the back of him and carrying the week's dust and sweat away into the drain. Scrubbed till the skin was pink beneath the grime. Clean shirt laid out by the wife. The hair combed down with a drop of water. Then, and only then, did a man set himself to the table. A meat pie from the baker, tenpence if he was known to you, a shilling and no change if he was not, put down upon a proper plate. Fish and chips for threepence, the salt and vinegar soaked through the newspaper, but carried home and ate slowly at your own table with your people around you, not walked with through the streets like some vagrant tinker off the road. A man ate as a man who had earned his portion, for he had. And later, with the dishes cleared and the kettle set, down the road to the tavern. Low beams black with a century of smoke. A turf fire muttering in the grate. The air thick with pipe smoke and the vapour of wet overcoats steaming themselves dry on the backs of chairs. A pint of stout, cold and black as a cove at midnight, elevenpence laid down on the counter, a head on it thick enough to strike a match upon. A second one because you had it coming to you and no man present would dispute it. A fiddle starting up in the corner of its own accord. The old men in the snug who remembered matters the history books had long since mislaid. A song before the bolt was thrown on the door. The walk home beneath a firmament crowded with stars, the stout warm in the gut of you, the week behind you, and your own door waiting with the latch unlocked for you had no enemies in that parish. That was the country. That was the covenant. Honest labour, plain food, a cold wash, a hot meal, a cold pint, your own tongue in your own mouth, your own soil beneath your boots, and no man standing above you save the Almighty Himself. Now regard her. Regard her close. The fields disposed of to men who have never set foot upon them and never shall. The harbours signed away by the stroke of a pen in a room you were not admitted to, and foreign keels dragging out of our waters the living that sustained this island for a thousand years, while our own boats rot at their moorings for want of a quota. The tradesmen undercut by imported labour and imported goods. The shops shuttered along every main street from Donegal to Cork. The young ones scattered to London and Sydney and Boston and the Gulf because there is nothing remaining for them beneath their own roof. And the entirety of this rotten arrangement dressed up in the soft mannerly language of progress by men in towers of glass who could not tell a lazy bed from a grave, nor a trawler from a tugboat, nor an honest day's work from a pension plan. And now they arrive with the next imposition. A digital identity. A number assigned to each soul. A card required to buy your bread. A code required to draw your own earnings out of your own account. A file kept on every man, woman and child from the cradle forward. Permission asked to move. Permission asked to speak. Permission asked to earn. A levy upon every breath drawn and a regulation upon every step taken. No. And no again. And no for a third time so there is no misunderstanding of it. We do not require your digital identity. We did not request it. We did not vote upon it. We do not consent to it. We do not need your permission to exist upon the soil our forefathers are buried in. We are a free people. We have carried ourselves this far upon our own two backs. Through famine and empire and civil war and black lung and blight and the emigrant ship out of Cobh, we have come this distance under our own steam, and the arrangement appears to be serving us well enough without your intervention. We buried our own. We fed our own. We raised our own roofs and took our own fish and reared our own children in our own tongue. We are in your debt for nothing. Not a signature. Not a biometric scan. Not a single solitary inch. And while we are upon the subject, let us speak plainly of the tax man, for he has gone too long without proper introduction. The tax collector and the tax man are the one article under two names, and the article is a parasite. There is no dressing it up finer than that. A man who produces nothing, who grows nothing, who catches nothing, who builds nothing, who mends nothing, who has never in his professional life lifted anything heavier than a pen, and who arrives at your door with the full apparatus of the state at his back to carry off the fruits of labour he did not perform. He is a middleman between your sweat and some scheme dreamt up in a committee room by his own kind, and the great majority of what he takes is consumed by the machinery of the taking itself before ever a penny of it reaches the road or the hospital or the schoolhouse he claims to be funding. And I will go further while I have the floor. Finance itself, the whole apparatus of it, money breeding money in the dark without a hand laid upon a tool or a spade turned in the earth, is slavery dressed in a good suit. It is the oldest swindle known to man and it has never been anything other. A man who produces nothing yet lives off the productive labour of others through the charging of interest upon money conjured out of nothing is a parasite of a rarer and more refined order than the tax man, but a parasite all the same, and between the pair of them they have the working people of this island bled white and lectured at for the pleasure. A man who will not work with his hands, nor with his back, nor with his mind at some honest problem of the real physical world, is no man that I recognise. He is a ledger entry in a suit. The country was not built by ledger entries. The country was built by farmers and fishermen and masons and smiths and sweeps and miners and shipwrights and midwives and mothers, and those are the people whose say should carry in her councils, and no other. Here is what I put to you. Let each man and woman of this island direct the first tenth of their earnings themselves, by their own judgement, to the purpose they see as worthy. The school down the road. The lifeboat station. The hospice. The widow on the corner. The roof of the chapel. The harbour wall. Whatever it may be. Let the people who earned the money decide where the money travels. You will find the roads mended and the ports dredged and the schools standing and the old ones cared for inside of five years, and done better and for less, because the hand that earned the coin knows the weight of it and will not squander it upon consultants and committees. And let us have done with the paper currency and the numbers in a screen that can be frozen at the whim of a clerk in a tower. Bring back the coin. Gold for the great transactions. Silver for the weekly commerce of a working life. Copper for the small change of the day. Metal you can bite. Metal you can weigh. Metal that cannot be conjured out of nothing by a keystroke, nor erased out of existence by another. Real money for real labour. A coin in the hand is a free man's wage. A number in a database is a collar around a free man's neck, and they are fitting that collar now while we stand arguing over the colour of it. Feel it in your gut. That is not nothing. That is your blood relating to you what your ears will not hear. That is every forebear who starved and fought and coughed the black dust into a rag and descended the shaft regardless, standing at your shoulder and saying no further. Not one more field. Not one more harbour. Not one more son upon a plane. Not one more free man converted into a number in a ledger for the convenience of the parasites. This is the hour. Make no error about it. Ireland is redeemed in this generation or she is lost beyond recovery, and every true son and daughter of her knows it in the marrow. There is no middle ground remaining. There is no waiting it out. There is standing now, upon your own two feet, or there is watching her go under the waves for the last and final time. So stand. Stand with your farmers. Stand with your fishermen. Stand with your tradesmen and your miners and your sweeps and your mothers and your old ones. Raise the tricolour. Speak the tongue. Walk the land. Hold the line in the streets of every town and city and do not break it, for they are relying upon you to break and to go home and to forget by Tuesday. She is calling her children home. Every stone of her, every breaker on her western shore, every acre of wet heather and every coal in every hearth the length and breadth of her is calling. Answer her. Take her back. Every field, every harbour, every last inch of her. Take her back, or lose her entirely. There is no third road open to us.

SiriusB

15,437 views • 4 months ago

Almost 30 years ago my parents moved their young family oversees to help support pastors starting churches. They moved half way across the world and found themselves without a pastor to support. The church in this area was almost nowhere to be found. Rituals replaced relationships and the need for pastors was huge. So Mom and Dad decided to do what they said they wouldn’t do, they started a church. It was just our family at first. Felt kinda silly if I’m being honest. Just the five of us in our living room. “Why move across the world for this?” We wondered. Then, as we built relationships, the church began to grow. It was slow at first. It was also hard and lonely. But Dad was bent on building something that would train leaders and would grow without him. He always said our job was to work ourselves out of a job. The goal was to leave the leadership in the hands of the people there as quickly as possible. My parents had to move back to the States rather suddenly a few years ago after my Mom suffered a major stroke during a serious illness. The church was strong and Dad spent years discipline and training leaders. Yet, it was still sudden. We wondered, Would the church continue growing without them or begin to dwindle? Recently I decided to go back home to Northern Chile with my 3 kids to see how the church my parents started in our living room was doing. And look what I found! It’s a church of well over 500 but that’s not the impressive part. The church has planted 11 other churches, runs two children’s homes, a rehab center, a seminary training hundreds of pastors, and sends people all over the world to work in ministry. It’s been a rock in the community during earthquakes, tidal waves and civil unrest. I was able to return home and tell Dad, “Dad, your church sends their greetings”
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Almost 30 years ago my parents moved their young family oversees to help support pastors starting churches. They moved half way across the world and found themselves without a pastor to support. The church in this area was almost nowhere to be found. Rituals replaced relationships and the need for pastors was huge. So Mom and Dad decided to do what they said they wouldn’t do, they started a church. It was just our family at first. Felt kinda silly if I’m being honest. Just the five of us in our living room. “Why move across the world for this?” We wondered. Then, as we built relationships, the church began to grow. It was slow at first. It was also hard and lonely. But Dad was bent on building something that would train leaders and would grow without him. He always said our job was to work ourselves out of a job. The goal was to leave the leadership in the hands of the people there as quickly as possible. My parents had to move back to the States rather suddenly a few years ago after my Mom suffered a major stroke during a serious illness. The church was strong and Dad spent years discipline and training leaders. Yet, it was still sudden. We wondered, Would the church continue growing without them or begin to dwindle? Recently I decided to go back home to Northern Chile with my 3 kids to see how the church my parents started in our living room was doing. And look what I found! It’s a church of well over 500 but that’s not the impressive part. The church has planted 11 other churches, runs two children’s homes, a rehab center, a seminary training hundreds of pastors, and sends people all over the world to work in ministry. It’s been a rock in the community during earthquakes, tidal waves and civil unrest. I was able to return home and tell Dad, “Dad, your church sends their greetings”

Bethany | Commercial Real Estate

27,587 views • 1 year ago

Another major environmental catastrophe that impacts on climate and world trade, but it is not on the radar. The following link is a good video of the Sargassum problem, a pelagic seaweed floating on the surface of the ocean. When we sailed across the Atlantic Ocean, we got stuck three times in giant mats of Sargassum. The video gives a good explanation of what happens in the Caribbean when it washes ashore, but it misses the major environmental and economic implications that have a profound impact on world trade and marine life in an entire ocean. The Sargassum starts off from the coast of Brazil; it picks up nutrients from the Amazon and grows at an accelerated rate. It can double in biomass every 10 days. The weed crosses the South Atlantic to Africa and flows up the west coast, picking up more nutrients from the Congo and Gambia as well as agricultural run-off. By the time it reaches North Africa, Cape Verde, it takes a left turn and starts heading back across the Atlantic to the Caribbean. There should only be 1 million tonnes of the weed in the Atlantic, but there are now 40 million, and it is expanding year on year. Sargassum is a plant, and like all plants, it requires nutrients such as phosphate. However, the massive amount of weed uses up all the phosphate and then biochemically defaults to absorbing arsenic, which sits below phosphate in the periodic table. The Equatorial Atlantic is now devoid of phosphate, which means there is almost no phytoplankton, zooplankton or fish. When we conducted our citizen science project, 5000 samples were collected by 25 yachts at around 15 deg. North, and the results all confirmed that the Equatorial Atlantic was effectively dead. The results were not ignored by the academics; instead, they attacked the Citizen Science project, this has become the subject of a reports by Given the phytoplankton, such as coccolithophores and diatoms, have exhibited a regime shift, it also means the SML oil surfactant layer is gone, which means evaporation across the air-water interface has increased and aerosol/cloud formation has decreased. Satellite. Imagery confirms a 10%+ increase in humidity and a 10%+ decrease in cloud formation and rain. This is climate change TICC, the consequences. Impact on Central America, the survival of the tropical rainforests, mangroves, coral reefs, 25% of all marine life in the Atlantic and water supply for the Panama Canal. 6% of world trade and 40% of USA trade pass through the canal, and it has been totally missed as a major economic and environmental catastrophe. GOES centre for marine research: The video below was taken in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean from our sailing vessel Copepod. Via Howard Dryden
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Another major environmental catastrophe that impacts on climate and world trade, but it is not on the radar. The following link is a good video of the Sargassum problem, a pelagic seaweed floating on the surface of the ocean. When we sailed across the Atlantic Ocean, we got stuck three times in giant mats of Sargassum. The video gives a good explanation of what happens in the Caribbean when it washes ashore, but it misses the major environmental and economic implications that have a profound impact on world trade and marine life in an entire ocean. The Sargassum starts off from the coast of Brazil; it picks up nutrients from the Amazon and grows at an accelerated rate. It can double in biomass every 10 days. The weed crosses the South Atlantic to Africa and flows up the west coast, picking up more nutrients from the Congo and Gambia as well as agricultural run-off. By the time it reaches North Africa, Cape Verde, it takes a left turn and starts heading back across the Atlantic to the Caribbean. There should only be 1 million tonnes of the weed in the Atlantic, but there are now 40 million, and it is expanding year on year. Sargassum is a plant, and like all plants, it requires nutrients such as phosphate. However, the massive amount of weed uses up all the phosphate and then biochemically defaults to absorbing arsenic, which sits below phosphate in the periodic table. The Equatorial Atlantic is now devoid of phosphate, which means there is almost no phytoplankton, zooplankton or fish. When we conducted our citizen science project, 5000 samples were collected by 25 yachts at around 15 deg. North, and the results all confirmed that the Equatorial Atlantic was effectively dead. The results were not ignored by the academics; instead, they attacked the Citizen Science project, this has become the subject of a reports by Given the phytoplankton, such as coccolithophores and diatoms, have exhibited a regime shift, it also means the SML oil surfactant layer is gone, which means evaporation across the air-water interface has increased and aerosol/cloud formation has decreased. Satellite. Imagery confirms a 10%+ increase in humidity and a 10%+ decrease in cloud formation and rain. This is climate change TICC, the consequences. Impact on Central America, the survival of the tropical rainforests, mangroves, coral reefs, 25% of all marine life in the Atlantic and water supply for the Panama Canal. 6% of world trade and 40% of USA trade pass through the canal, and it has been totally missed as a major economic and environmental catastrophe. GOES centre for marine research: The video below was taken in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean from our sailing vessel Copepod. Via Howard Dryden

Thomas Reis

68,631 views • 2 months ago

Good Morning World ☀️😎 Let me give you a real world example of what using vooi feels like. Imagine you're at a bustling café in Lisbon. Your friend just texted you: SOL is pumping,should I buy? You open your phone, tap one app, and within ten seconds you're long SOL, no wallet popups, no gas fees, no bridge first, pray later. That app is VOOI (vooi), and it feels less like crypto engineering and more like ordering an espresso. VOOI is a noncustodial perpetual and spot aggregator that hides every blockchain headache behind a single, friendly screen. It speaks Ethereum, Solana, BNB, and half a dozen other chains fluently, so you never have to. You log in with an email or a Twitter account, see one balance in dollars, and trade anything,crypto, tokenized Apple shares, perpetual futures,without ever touching native gas tokens. The protocol pays the gas for you, then quietly settles everything onchain while you sip your coffee. How is that even possible? Three quiet revolutions: 1️⃣Intent based routing. Instead of signing a transaction on every chain, you sign a single intent (e.g., 'I want 0.5 SOL'). VOOI's engine scans liquidity across multiple decentralized exchanges, stitches together the cheapest path, and executes the trade behind the scenes.. 2️⃣ Account abstraction. Your identity is tied to a smart wallet that lives in the cloud, protected by the same login you already trust. You still control the keys,VOOI never sees them,but you don't need to remember seed phrases or browser extensions. 3️⃣ A weekly 6millionpoint rewards pool. Every trade you make drips points into your account. Redeem them for fee rebates, USDC cashback, or simply bragging rights. It turns active trading into a loyalty program you actually want to use. Real people are already living this. Take Leila, a freelance designer in Dubai. She keeps a modest USDC balance on VOOI. Last Tuesday, between client calls, she shorted SOL for two hours, closed in profit, and never once thought about gas or bridges. The trade settled instantly, her points balance ticked up, and she went back to her mockups. Or Carlos in Sao Paulo, who wants exposure to Tesla but hates local broker fees. He bought tokenized TSLA on VOOI with the same swipe he uses for USDT. The token lives in his smart wallet; if Tesla rallies, he sells directly back to USDC, no brokerage account, no paperwork. Even David, a fulltime degen, runs tiny arbitrage loops between Ethereum and Solana. Before VOOI, each roundtrip cost him $8 in gas. Now the protocol covers the fees, so his edges stay intact and his profit margins widen. Behind the curtain, VOOI raised $1.25 million in its March 2025 ICO and counts YZi Labs (formerly Binance Labs) as a strategic backer. Liquidity partnerships already pull depth from the biggest DEXs on every major chain. The community on X has ballooned past 190 k followers, not because of flashy marketing, but because the product simply works. The takeaway is simple: VOOI turns the multichain maze into one smooth sidewalk. Whether you're a firsttime buyer who still calls Bitcoin magic internet money or a seasoned trader hunting basis points, you get the same experience,open app, pick market, swipe, done. No gas, no bridges, no custody risk. Just trading that finally feels like the internet we were promised.
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Good Morning World ☀️😎 Let me give you a real world example of what using vooi feels like. Imagine you're at a bustling café in Lisbon. Your friend just texted you: SOL is pumping,should I buy? You open your phone, tap one app, and within ten seconds you're long SOL, no wallet popups, no gas fees, no bridge first, pray later. That app is VOOI (vooi), and it feels less like crypto engineering and more like ordering an espresso. VOOI is a noncustodial perpetual and spot aggregator that hides every blockchain headache behind a single, friendly screen. It speaks Ethereum, Solana, BNB, and half a dozen other chains fluently, so you never have to. You log in with an email or a Twitter account, see one balance in dollars, and trade anything,crypto, tokenized Apple shares, perpetual futures,without ever touching native gas tokens. The protocol pays the gas for you, then quietly settles everything onchain while you sip your coffee. How is that even possible? Three quiet revolutions: 1️⃣Intent based routing. Instead of signing a transaction on every chain, you sign a single intent (e.g., 'I want 0.5 SOL'). VOOI's engine scans liquidity across multiple decentralized exchanges, stitches together the cheapest path, and executes the trade behind the scenes.. 2️⃣ Account abstraction. Your identity is tied to a smart wallet that lives in the cloud, protected by the same login you already trust. You still control the keys,VOOI never sees them,but you don't need to remember seed phrases or browser extensions. 3️⃣ A weekly 6millionpoint rewards pool. Every trade you make drips points into your account. Redeem them for fee rebates, USDC cashback, or simply bragging rights. It turns active trading into a loyalty program you actually want to use. Real people are already living this. Take Leila, a freelance designer in Dubai. She keeps a modest USDC balance on VOOI. Last Tuesday, between client calls, she shorted SOL for two hours, closed in profit, and never once thought about gas or bridges. The trade settled instantly, her points balance ticked up, and she went back to her mockups. Or Carlos in Sao Paulo, who wants exposure to Tesla but hates local broker fees. He bought tokenized TSLA on VOOI with the same swipe he uses for USDT. The token lives in his smart wallet; if Tesla rallies, he sells directly back to USDC, no brokerage account, no paperwork. Even David, a fulltime degen, runs tiny arbitrage loops between Ethereum and Solana. Before VOOI, each roundtrip cost him $8 in gas. Now the protocol covers the fees, so his edges stay intact and his profit margins widen. Behind the curtain, VOOI raised $1.25 million in its March 2025 ICO and counts YZi Labs (formerly Binance Labs) as a strategic backer. Liquidity partnerships already pull depth from the biggest DEXs on every major chain. The community on X has ballooned past 190 k followers, not because of flashy marketing, but because the product simply works. The takeaway is simple: VOOI turns the multichain maze into one smooth sidewalk. Whether you're a firsttime buyer who still calls Bitcoin magic internet money or a seasoned trader hunting basis points, you get the same experience,open app, pick market, swipe, done. No gas, no bridges, no custody risk. Just trading that finally feels like the internet we were promised.

Crypto Sinan

17,410 views • 11 months ago